An Open Letter to the Missing Reader

You checked and checked,
read and read, but only
discovered that I say
the same things over
and over
again, slight shifts in words,
but always the same. You grow
tired of my talk [...]

Thank You for letting me…

This is a poem not by me, but by a blogging pal. You know the ones, people you’ve never met whose blogs you really like to read and who read your blog, too. People who you connect with on the written word plane. I know him as zaphodfreek.
He dedicated this [...]

Review: The Girl in the Cafe

For those of you who do not know, there is a blog out there doing a fascinating social/blogging experiment.  The Girl in the Cafe is both a good move and a fantastic website run by a Londonite named Ingrid.  She has an experiment going where she sends the movie, The Girl in the Cafe, to bloggers [...]

WOW

Everyone should check this out, Revolutionary Sweetheart’s list of the Hundred Greatest American Poems.  I need to do this, now.  It will take a day or two, but I know that Dickenson’s, “There is a certain slant of light”, O’Hara’s “Poem: Lana Turner has collapsed”, and Komunyakka’s “maggots” will be on it.
Other than that, we’ll [...]