Happy Saturday everyone.
So Missouri Governor Jay Nixon wants a Poet Laureate for the state who doesn’t have anything in his or her background that might embarrass him. I take it he doesn’t know many poets.
Connecticut is looking for a Poet Laureate too. No word on embarrassment restrictions.
Did you miss the off-site MLA poetry reading? You can get an .mp3 of it here.
Catherine Halley reports from the Key West Literary Seminar, which is experiencing, I’m sad to say, the least Key-Westian weather in recent memory.
And my Twitter follow recommendation this week is the poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart and Apocalyptic Swing. I’ve been interviewing Gabrielle for The Rumpus and Twitter is a big part of it.
