Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Via HTMLGIANT, Poets for Living Waters has put out a call for submissions. They’re calling it a “poetry action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010,…
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More Effective than Match.com?
Donor 8282 has magic sperm. Or rather, one vial of his sperm has magical properties, in that the possessor of said vial seems to be able to find a mate…
Science Saturday
If you want to follow the oil-cano story, The New Orleans Times-Picayune is a good place to start. Mac McClelland is also on the ground and tweeting about it. Mount…
Harvey Milk Day
Harvey Milk should be celebrating his 80th birthday today. He can’t, but GLBT activists and their allies are going to. “The creation of the first official day of recognition for…
Saturday Morning Links
Picked up a brand new MacBook yesterday morning. Let’s see how it handles. Joshua Baldwin goes to Chinatown and finds some interesting things on the menu. To no one’s surprise,…
Each morning I pack drift around my tongue
“The peculiarities of polar exploration are rich with distinctive details and she uses them to great effect.” Jennifer Jefferson reviews Elizabeth Bradfield’s second collection of poems, Approaching Ice.
Musical Prose and Multiple Perspectives
“It is a family saga of mothers and daughters; a deconstruction of the Little-House-on-the-Veldt romanticism in which noble white settlers tame a hostile land; a massive, wrenching catalog of illness…
Morning Coffee
We just have to keep on trying. In the world I live in you get to pretend to be a commercial pilot for 13 years. The Japanese know how to…
Should We All Commit Facebook Suicide?
“But somewhere in that transition from a social site meant to deepen interpersonal relationships to a self promotional, commercial tool, Facebook lost its appeal. “The various facets of my life…
Children’s Books Written By Adult Authors!
“After years of finding children’s books tucked away in authors’ bibliographies (Graham Greene wrote children’s books!), followed by quick disappointment (how can they be out of print?), I realized that…
New Yorkers, Enter Your Garden State
Dust off your seersucker and sun hats and head out to a garden party. The New York Observer has found a few patches of cultured grass for you to set…