A note: Monday’s total of 183 visitors to the blog was a record. Since its inception at the end of August, the blog has been visited more than 6,500 times and is currently being accessed roughly 100 times per day. The total number of individual hits is 40 percent higher, indicating that quite a few readers are accessing the archives as well as the top page. I’ve been around the post-avant literary scene for enough years to understand what those numbers imply. So today seems an appropriate moment to take a breather and just say thank you.

 

 

 

& a correction: more than one plant-knowledgeable reader has pointed out that tatarian honeysuckle is not quite the mysterious item I was making it out to be in that John Taggart poem on November 26. Or, as one wit suggests, I’m sleeping with the wrong dictionaries.