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Aunt Myra

Parasailing granny does it again (PHOTOS)
May 16, 2011 3:33 PM

Destin Log staff reports
FROM PREVIOUS YEARS:
OH, CHUTE! 92-year-old has a blast with birthday parasail

Myra Morris celebrates her 94th birthday with style in Destin. The South Carolina native has been parasailing with Captain John of Gilligan’s Parasail every year for her birthday for the past seven years.

Morris and her eldest

Blog End

To blog or not to blog? All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. --Faux-Shakespeare + Tolkien

Last week I was contemplating whether I ought to stop blogging--to shut the door on my little house at Blog End, and let the habit sleep... I tend to get a good number of visitors, and lots of comments on facebook links on posts, but I still felt a little unsure about whether

Page for "The Foliate Head"

Tada! Here's a page for  The Foliate Head (UK: Stanza Press, 2012.) The poetry collection, out this month, is a limited edition of 300. If you want a copy, I recommend that you get it soon. I know it's available directly through Stanza Press and also through various Amazon sites, and of course one can always order through your favorite indie bookstore.

It is a special thing--a remarkably

Amis on poetry & a response

from David Wallace-Wells, "New New Yorker Martin Amis talks about terrorism, pornography, idyllic Brooklyn and American in decline"

 Amis: It’s why poetry is in retreat, very generally. What a poem does, what a lyric poem does, is stop the clock. It goes, right—we’re going to look at this moment, this epiphany, this little revelatory meditation on mood and setting. And the clock is going to

Interview at 1:00

Reminder: I'll be on "Off the Page" with Bill Jaker of WSKG (Binghamton region NPR) at 1:00 EST in the afternoon, repeating at 7:00. The talk will be available on the radio or as live stream or afterward on demand here, to the right of Mr. Jaker's article about the book. We'll be talking about A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, as well as The Throne of Psyche and the two upcoming books

Today, yesterday...

I was up till about 2:00 a.m. doing by duty as a judge (that is, reading till my eyes bugged out) and now am going to take the morning to look over A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and The Throne of Psyche for tomorrow's radio interview in Binghamton. And I'll pick out a couple of things from The Foliate Head and Thaliad to read. I have so many other books rattling around in my head that I

"A young, naive invertebrate," or, frolicsome facts about the state of books, c. 2012

“Why is anyone the way they are? That’s kind of hard to answer. Why do some people like cheese and other people hate it? Do you like cheese?” --According to EW.com, that critical powerhouse, this quote refers to Christian Grey's odd preferences. And here I will confess that a. I do like cheese and b. that I have never so much as cracked the spine on 50 Shades. Naughty, but I imagine I'll be

Bill Jaker on A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage

Bill Jaker of WSKG (Binghamton, NY) has written an extended piece on A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage in preparation for our 1:00 talk on "Off the Page" on Tuesday, July 24th.

Aurora. Columbine. Such beautiful words.

Aurora. Columbine. Such beautiful words.

Clive & prints of "Thaliad"

Clive Hicks-Jenkins is having a printmaker create a risograph version of the cover of "Thaliad." This idea sprang from the Artlog and the enthusiasm of Clive's followers for the cover image. The prints will look a bit different from the original but have something of the handmade quality of its collage of painted paper. As Clive has not yet determined on a size for the edition--though he is