January 18, 2009
Short Takes
A very lovely video: “To the End of a Pencil.” (via Swissmiss) Apparently all that writing qualifies as thinking green. The NamelessleTTer Project is a project to leave a funny […]
January 16, 2009
Giants, Nosebreakers, Dizzy Spells
For certain poets, in the cappuccino-stained Pee-wee’s Playhouse of modern poetry, the Words of the Day will always be proprioceptive and eidolon. No two poets are hard in the same […]
January 15, 2009
To Impassable Bridges
Subtitle: With links to two awesome things I read today, which were on my mind as I wrote this and must have figured in this post besides in the obvious […]
January 15, 2009
2009 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
Must be under 30 years of age at time of submission. Submissions accepted: Feb. 1st-28th Final Judge: Richard Ford Word limit: 1200 words Entry fee: None How do I submit? […]
January 14, 2009
W.D. Snodgrass (1926-2009)
From the Summer 1959 KR, John Thompson’s review, “Two Poets,” which forever linked Heart’s Needle to Life Studies.
January 14, 2009
Your Screen Can’t Stop My Book, It Can Only Hope To Contain It
I was struck this past weekend by the development of a double-screen laptop, as reported by a BBC tech reporter (and with a nod to Smart Mobs). Casting aside the […]
January 11, 2009
Are You Writing This Down?
I was reading the forward to Julia Child’s book MY LIFE IN FRANCE when I came across Child’s gratitude-filled explanation of why she was able to write her memoir: Our […]
January 11, 2009
DRM: Exeunt, pursued by pirates
Question of the week: iTunes are going DRM-free. And Iceberg, the Scroll Motion app for iPhone books, is largely based on Apple’s model. What should publishers do now? There’s a […]
January 10, 2009
Doom’s Whim, Bride’s Trace
Tonight, in St. Louis’s spooky wet midnight wind, I’m reading Brenda Hillman‘s newest book of poems, Pieces of Air in the Epic, and catching up on NASA press releases. The […]
January 9, 2009
Cooperative Observer Snowfall Data, or Keep in Mind a Mind of Winter
Is it snowing where you are? It’s snowing here – drifts and drifts of it – snow & snow & snow. Someone said to me in passing, “8 inches of […]
January 8, 2009
On Ardor and Providence
The only city holier than Los Angeles is Providence. They have angels, we have God. But sometimes even Providence leaves us adrift. We find ourselves looking for communion, for candles […]
January 8, 2009
Was This The Place That Launched A Thousand Ships?
Last week, I went to Troy. (I also made a brief stop at Sodom, but probably the less said about that the better.) I mention this because one of the […]