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A page from my notes on Charles Olson's lecture, "Causal Mythology," at the Berkeley Poetry Conference in July '65. This i...

The picture on the right is Rebecca Harding Davis. Is the picture on the left the same woman? (Click to enlarge image) Recently the ...

Self-love conquers all, even that wascally congwess and that unpwesent pwesident.

I was knocked out by this extraordinary little movie. It's a piece of one of the short films from the DVD that'll come with Kate Gre...

Courtesy of Daniel Bouchard: micro cartoon-clips of Tricky on the march!

Carl Spitzweg, "The Poor Poet" (1839) "The poet writes while huddling under his bedcovers and wearing a tattered coat and ni...

Paavo Haavikko, 1966 A Flower Song The fir-trees at play; comes raining down ceaselessly; O you, the wood-c...

Life being short, poverty and wealth &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp are final verdicts, in that poverty and life are of equal...

That place where you throw sand in the air and get to call it rain. Hello, Blackheath NSW and Cleveland OH -- didn't mean to worry anybo...

Weldon Kees Wonder whether I'm the only person whose first thought on being wheeled into an ambulance was "I have to stop blogging....

The phrase "radical stupidity" popped into my head the other day and I'm not sure whether it appeared in order to describe thi...

My copies of Court Green 5 arrived, featuring a Sylvia Plath Dossier. Just starting to read it but this jumped out at me, from Jason Schne...

Dick thinks Susan could have been a little more tactful about his White House years in the comment box over the weekend. But he's grudg...

The above tricksy dicksiness, of course, from the great Pat Oliphant (born in Adelaide, Australia — who knew), a greeting card in my collect...

photo by Timo Ketonen A whelming if not overwhelming time. You'd thin...

Late one October night I read all of Mairéad Byrne's Talk Poetry in one addictive sitting, greedily, as if it were a plate of hot onion...

Woody Allen on the WGA strike, via the union web site . Have been a bit speechless myself, for different reasons. It's amazing how sick ...

photo by Timo Ketonen Season of faxed cremation papers, which one shou...

"Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don’t have to be a hum...

(photo: Timo Ketonen) Taken in the Finnish autumn afternoon, about a week ago. Found Susan Sontag's At The Same Time: Essays And Speech...

The Wayside, Hawthorne's home 1852- 1864 The 1860s, that is. Since I'm in no condition to blog I thought I'd turn things over a...

My brother just called me up and sang this song to me, which (given any expectation I ever had of him) was pretty extraordinary. Our mother ...

Cynthia Ulrich Edelson O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightf...

My mother fell this morning and then had a heart attack, so I'm going to have to put this blog on ice for a few days. Be well, all of yo...

If, as David Bromige says, poetry is the theory of heartbreak , when do we begin to theorize? The person I'm thinking about has never ha...

Nixon and Rumsfeld, circa 1971 "Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest," reads the story , still unconfirmed. " Former US Defen...

Welcome to my world, this week anyway. This surely can't be a "good" picture, technically speaking, though my half-mad subject...

This makes perfect sense. The strumpet proposes a new model for literary prizes and Stephen Colbert immediately takes advantage of it. Evid...