I don’t know, you’d be surprised. Sometimes a fossil is younger than you are.

Who owns comments on a blog? Or what is fair use? As some of you may know, a book of selected blog posts from this blog is forthcoming from BookThug. The process of creating the text was intriguing–more complicated than I expected. And what precedent is there for turning a literary blog into a book?...

The day the blood came I was covered in gravel. Sandy in my ears and eyes, all under my jeans where the cuffs rub. Slay and I climbed the rock mounds in the concrete factory and surfed down on cardboard. We got in under the gate where the dogs are chained. Slay threw a bone–not...

What the lyric do: Need I say, well?

Rachel Zolf’s Tolerance Project. Hilarious and pointed account of the typical MFA workshop. Zolf has entered one, in protest really, and has cleverly crafted a conceptual poetry project around the experience. Kathryn Mockler is gathering fabulous materials for those coming to poetry, or those who need a little direction. I guess if you’re Margaret Atwood...

As if the wind could lift story. In the night, very late, a dark hoop around a waistline. She peered in. Not unpleasant. History licking up at her. Not with handles though. No instruction. They come at her, quite insistent, as if waiting for communion, their tongues out, awaiting it, the instruction. No, she admonishes,...

That great New England Growl: cashmere and…well Plath’s birthday. The video isn’t great, but the reading is…

Well for one it’s because the avant-garde always has more fun creating the work than its readers do reading it… In fact it is this sheer attention to joy that should make others suspicious. After all poetry lives in the frayed ends of ropes and lashes while on bent knees–my father preferred to use bricks...

A novel in which the author claims to be telling the real and true account of their life. Usually of interest only when hyphenated by such things as a crack, gambling, or sex addiction, or any of several forms of abuse–although the more graphic (but not disturbingly graphic), the better. If you have had a...

What is your def of good hair?

who are not out dancing tonight…there is, somewhere in the galaxy, a groove going on. Thanks Vanessa