Plans for The Keystone Pipeline inspired by Richard Hugo’s Plans for Altering the River Those who favor our plans for the Keystone Pipeline raise your hand. Thank you for your vote. Last week, you’ll recall, I spoke about how oil never complains. How it runs where you spill it, seemingly at home in oyster beds, [...]
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Plans for the Keystone Pipeline
Posted in Weird Things, tagged favorite poets, Humor, Keystone Pipeline, Politics, Richard Hugo on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
10 Favorite Poetry Books from 2011 Plus Something Else
Posted in Books, Favorite Poets, Lists, tagged 2011, autumn house press, bucks county community, bucks county community college, favorite poets, jill alexander essbaum, martha rhodes on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is the time of year in which people make lists. I’ve already done a few of these Best of … etc. stories for my day job, but here’s my poetry list for 2011. You’ll notice that many of these books are not new, but they were new to me this year, which is good [...]
Reading List: Stanley Plumly
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cancer, favorite poets, reading list, Stanley Plumly, the new yorker, youtube poems on February 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had Plumly’s “Boy on the Step” on my bookshelf since about 1990, but it had been years since I gave it much consideration. My own interests and aesthetic tendency’s have changed a lot since then, so I’ve been recently going back to books I’d abandoned long ago. This book has been one of the [...]
Vote for Your Favorite Author
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged favorite poets, library of congress, ted kooser on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As part its National Book Festival, the Library of Congress is sponsoring an online contest for America’s favorite author. You can cast your vote here. As of this writing Diana Gabaldon is in the lead, with Neil Gaiman coming up second. The first poet on the list is Pulitzer prize winner Rae Armantrout in the [...]
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