Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
There will be a memorial gathering for Craig tomorrow, November 1, at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, New York City) from 5-8pm. A brief program of readers will begin…
Other
16052 posts
Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
The MFA Rankings Wars
Last week in my Poetic Lives Online column, I wrote a little about the immediate reaction to the Poets & Writers MFA program rankings. Well, it’s blown up a bit…
The Adderall Diaries Book Tour
Check out the video from Stephen Elliott’s stop in Fort Lauderdale on his book tour. Sorry, no video of the woman “poured into a tight black dress with lace webbing…
Science Saturday
Happy 40th birthday to the internet. Just don’t go buying a Harley to prove you’re still vibrant. In what may be the most counter-intuitive finding in recent years, the internet…
Saturday Morning Links
Happy Halloween! Don’t get arrested for going trick-or-treating dressed as Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen. It may be too late to order this as a last-minute Halloween costume, but I’m sure…
Anything So Dangerous As Blank Paper
I’m reading the recently-published retranslation of the Tin Drum, and this passage from the second page made me smile, despite its ominous note:
Morning Coffee
The number of universes out there may depend on the human brain! Sometimes trees fall into your house, and that is ok. I’m certainly not the biggest fan of car…
The Beauty Of Black Sparrow Books
The love of reading and the love of books, while almost always coinciding are still, in essence two different things. If I loved to read as much as I loved…
Morning Coffee
What does the internet cost around the world? Typewriter people. Walt Whitman’s levi’s commercial. Architects Journal looks at the top 5 comic book cities. Also: Paris as star map.
Letters Home
Writing by hand does remind you, primally, of what this crazy thing we do is made of. The careful spilling of ink on paper, the joints and girders of letters.…
Welcome, Tiny Overlords
Perhaps you have a child. Perhaps you want one. Or perhaps, after reading a few articles at Let’s Panic About Babies!, you’ll be shocked barren. Let’s Panic! is The Onion…