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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
February 3, 2011
The Throne of Psyche: pre-order discounts
If you are an Amazon buyer rather than a local shopper, links are now up with pre-order discounts. The paperback is discounted 32% and the hardcover 34%. Can we say, dirt cheap?Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Throne-Psyche-P... http://www.amazon.com/Throne-Psyche-P...
February 2, 2011
Boot Scoot Snow Charm
The secret to nabbing a snow day when the weather turns out to be not nearly as history-making as the weather mavens declare: wear your pajamas inside-out in the accepted snow-day-wish fashion and do the boot scootin' boogie for your snow dance. Now you know.
