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February 18, 2011
In Which I Misspell "Heidegger," etc.
Today I am stealing comments from the middle third of my own Facebook thread. I thought this one particularly interesting because the responses began in some degree of general appreciation and even frivolity (as is the tendency of Facebook--whimsy and teasing abound) before finally coming to the question that I thought would pop up in the first comment. But not until the 31st comment! After these
February 17, 2011
Blogs, Social Media, Hot Water, & Getting Fired, part 2
12 Suggestions for thought, continued7. DISCUSSING PROBLEMS. Teachers and professors: when discussing the people in your life who give you trouble (particularly students and colleagues), be measured and thoughtful and always remember the principal or the dread Dean of Students, floating over your head in a little black dirigible. If you would like a skimpily-paid vacation from the U. S.
February 16, 2011
Blogs, Social Media, Hot Water, & Getting Fired, part 1 of 2
This little post was inspired by several friends who have come to me in some degree of unrest caused by what they had posted on a blog. It covers a number of issues that have occurred to me over a few years of blogging. Part 2 will appear tomorrow.1. CHILDREN. Your blog is a sort of adjunct chamber to your house where people who do not know can visit. In the riot of your imagination, just ponder
February 15, 2011
Vampire-drudges & The Throne of Psyche, etc.
VAMPIRE DRUDGES & OTHER MATTERSI shall have to start the I Interview My Visitors series and the one about publishing and luck and so on in a day or two. I still need to ferment and write some more, and I also need to format the I Interview piece, as it is long (poet and professor Robbi ought to be called Gabby!) and still higgledy-piggledy.Unfortunately I also need to dive into the wreck and
February 14, 2011
Woodrat Podcasts 34
Happy Valentine's DayIn celebration of the day, I've participated in Dave Bonta's round-up podcast of poems about close friendship.Woodrat Podcast 34:Platonic lovePosted on February 14, 2011 by Dave BontaA poetic celebration of non-romantic love and close friendship. Contributors include: Augustine, Brenda Clews, Jason Crane, Risa Denenberg, Ann Drysdale, Kate Fitzpatrick, Stephanie Goehring,
February 11, 2011
Upcoming + Red King + Hometown press
UPCOMING POSTSI INTERVIEW MY VISITORS returns with a 2-part interview. For some reason, the first one of these I ever did is extremely popular and still gets daily hits, all this time later. I can't figure it out (other than the fact that Susanna is a charming woman!) I can understand people still keeping qarrtsiluni-related posts alive, but some of the others are more surprising to me. What's
February 10, 2011
"Fire in the Labyrinth" in CLIVE HICKS-jENKINS
FORTHCOMINGMy gallimaufry of pieces, "Fire in the Labyrinth" (excerpts below), is forthcoming in a marvelous anthology titled Clive Hicks-Jenkins, available from Ashgate/Lund Humphries in conjunction with Grey Mare Press and Clive's 60th-birthday retrospective exhibit of paintings at the National Library of Wales. My contribution tells the story of Clive's withdrawal from the world (after a life
February 9, 2011
Gioia on Bishop
Dana Gioia has an interesting assessment of Elizabeth Bishop in The Wall Street Journal. Here are a few bites:HER ACHIEVEMENTElizabeth Bishop's future reputation will surely fluctuate slightly according to the currents of taste, but she has indisputably won a permanent place in the American literary canon. An independent and honest writer who never chased fashion, joined groups or struck public
February 7, 2011
Philip Lee Williams & The Throne of Psyche
Surprises are tricksy.Sometimes you hold a thing as a surprise-to-come, and then you have to give it unexpectedly after a different, unforeseen surprise comes to pass.On the 5th, writer Philip Lee Williams (come fall, we will have corresponded for a decade) posted a lovely piece about me and the upcoming book, The Throne of Psyche.So I had to tell him that I had dedicated the book to him.When you
February 6, 2011
the 100th "The Book of the Red King" poem
Painting: Graham Ward, "King in Finisterre."*Today I wrote the 100th poem of The Book of the Red King. In the fall, Graham Ward's paintings reminded me of a Red King story I had written a year or so before; Graham also likes fools, and I had fooled with fools before as well. And somehow on October 17th of last year, I started writing madly about the Fool and the Red King and Precious Wentletrap
