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I like this bit of musing on the poetic line . Ron Silliman says, "[I]t is poetry that has recognized & acknowledged that, even pri...

Transgender men fascinate me. Sorta mystified, sorta intrigued, there's one who lives nearby, Loren Cameron , whose book of photographs ...

The Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code is a real phenomenon. The hold list at the Berkeley Public Library has had about 150 people on it for...

from The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: "The world is full of ... mutually contending bands: totem-, flag-, and part...

Give me a day off work and I go into a funk. What say. Maybe I need a clock on the head with a rolled up movie screen. Without the audience ...

I got letters from the Martins, Michael & Jack (no relation, shared last name purely coincidental, really, I asssure you), and I asked e...

A bio from the back of From the Country of Eight Islands: an anthology of Japanese poetry edited & translated by Hiroaki Sato and Burto...

In my last post I wrote about a poem by David Trinidad, a poem excerpted from a longer work, Phoebe 2002 . The description of the book ...

I haven't paid much attention to the unholing of Saddam Hussein. If it means the US is pulling out of a stable democratic country now, w...

One thing I've wanted to do since I started this blog was to link to poems out there on the web that I liked, a sort of guide (for anyon...

from Madge Mucker's Media Maven column : "Roy Horn, one half of the performing duo of Siegfried & Roy, is recovering in a Lo...

The Mac is in the shop. Rats. So I'm writing this at work, off the clock thank you. Darnit. I was all up to speed on the blog and fe...

Here are a few blogs I visit every day, or The Something Interesting Criterion: Daily Kos Kos is a Democratic Party activist. When I fi...

From Wes "Scoop" Nisker 's "The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: the spiritual experiments of my generation"...

This week two men were sentenced to long prison terms (one received two life terms so he has no possibility of seeing the outside again) fo...

Michael Martin has asked me to be poetry editor for the next issue of Hogtown Creek Review . In an interview with the poet Lola Haskins...

I burned a CD tonight. The 8th of my "CMJ set" series. CMJ is a music magazine that comes with a sampler CD. As with any collecti...

I want to share another dispatch from an email group to which I belong. Schuyler Waynforth writes from England: Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair ca...

More quotes from Ursula K. LeGuin 's "Dancing at the Edge of the World: thoughts on words, women, places": In a generally e...

Just been reading Richard Evan Lee's Edifying Spectacle . Quite an active rich blog. He breaks out his interests into six different and ...