Close Readings
This idea is for an online journal focused on Close Readings—Pick a poem, any poem, and go through it with a fine-toothed mental comb and share your understandings/observations/criticism. For an archetypal example of what the online journal would be looking for, please see Charles Alexander’s close reading of Elizabeth Bishop posted to the SUNY-Buffalo Poetics list in April of 2006 at http://tinyurl.com/w3elu.