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"The very existence of poetry should make us laugh. What is it all about? What is it for?"
--Kenneth Koch

“El subtítulo ‘Modelo para armar’ podría llevar a creer que las diferentes partes del relato, separadas por blancos, se proponen como piezas permutables.”

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30 sept 2005

I'd rather write a long poem that ends up being something significant through sheer accumulation or accident. I have no wish to do a pr...

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29 sept 2005

I got the new chapbook by Kate Greenstreet, "Learning the Language." The first poem in there is the one I published over at The D...

28 sept 2005

My confession: I'm not interested in Bob Dylan in the slightest. I can't force myself to watch more than five minutes of a documen...

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27 sept 2005

WORD VERIFICATION EPIGRAM Juuiac, huuacc, mqqrsty, svvnehy! Grryystc um grymmtc, drrvvwwp. Hooxxk crck? Smbbdmm, lsstm.

26 sept 2005

Take Kenneth Koch's "The Art of Poetry." Most of the advice he gives is actually quite sincere and heart-felt, but the tone i...

Here's my stab at irony, discussed over at limetree . Irony is about contradiction. There is a contradiction between two perspectives,...

The Duplications I have David S. at The Duplications today. If all goes well I'll have Tony T. (Towle not Tost) soon. (Of course, ...

25 sept 2005

Pope bans "sexuals" from ordination as priests Applicants with "sexual' tendencies won't be admitted to seminaries Po...

23 sept 2005

The reading went very well. Sitting on the floor room only at the Raven Bookstore, this tiny little store that sells a lot of mystery novel...

Slogans to live by: Cada loco con su tema. La loca en su casa sabe más que la cuerda en casa ajena. No good deed goes unpunished. De mortu...

Come through the torrential rain to see me read at the Raven Bookstore tonight at 7:30. (With a few other co-conspirators: Irby, McCrary, ...

22 sept 2005

Jordan mentioned "A Cloud in Trousers." Here are poems "of a certain length" that I like: Ill Seen Ill Said [not a ...

Sonny Clark. Check it out. Very straightforward post-bebop with clean lines derived from Bud Powell. His trio work with Philly Joe Jones ...

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