It's been a while now...

More Gladys...this one is from April 2008

He is the very model of a modern major poet...

Blech to the term "major poet," but if the shoe fits anyone it might be this guy.

Speaking of Chrissie Hynde--Debbie an Epic is a rock star poem is it not?

A wee discussion of what is so daunting about Ms. Robertson (once referred to as "the thinking woman's Anne Carson"), over at the Poetry Foundation.

Allen Ginsberg could do what Chrissie Hynde does, though I think rather less around the hips.

Cohen is the obvious exception, but let's not be obvious. Who else?

Eunoia? Bien sur.

Have you heard the Poetry Magazine podcast for the July/August issue? Kenny? Rock star.

And what's the difference between being a poet with bedhead, a poem with bedhead, and a poem that is a rock-out, anthem-like poem?

In other words, which poem is embedded in your psyche?

Another classic

"Brass in Pocket," a huge hit for Chrissie Hynde. Bad footage, but again, awesome. I have always thought of this song as the end of the 70s--at least for me, musically, now I see that in fact it was released the first week of 1980, so it isn't just for me.

Can poetry do this? Should it?

Absolutely Awesome

What a poem can't do:

Been there/done that

NP blog has a piece on "status galleys." Could it be the same old same old is finally being outed for being the same old same old in Can Lit?

Yours truly is still looking for a decent anthology of Canadian fiction. I think I've been through them all...there isn't one.

Unless you have any ideas? Seems I'll have to build my own.

Meanwhile another wee literary spat over Lisa Moore.

like/dislike

Ack.

Hot in the city

It's not quite hot enough. But this reminds me of a summer that certainly was.

Oh my trouble in gay paradise

The penguin version:

A pair of male penguins who have nested together for six years apparently broke up when a female penguin became available, say caretakers at the San Francisco Zoo.

Harry and Pepper, a pair of Magellanic penguins, started nesting together in 2003 and incubated an egg last year.

However, zoo keepers confirmed in early July that Harry has been nesting with a female penguin, Linda, for several months, said a report in the San Francisco Examiner.

Linda and Harry became friendly shortly after her long-term partner, Fig, passed away in the winter. Within a week of Fig's passing, Harry was spotted in Linda's burrow.

Harry and Pepper had a violent confrontation and zookeepers removed Pepper from the penguin colony. He has since been reinstated, but zookeepers say they're concerned the upcoming penguin moulting season in late July could cause upheaval among penguin couples.

Poetry has left the building...

Quick, someone close the door and bolt it shut.

More fun with rubrick's cubes

Because all art must be in earnest. Courtesy of Mr. Bok

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