Why do so many young poets smoke? Given that nearly all the younger writers I know have militant anti-capitalist positions, why do they turn their very own cardiovascular systems over to the most cynical, deadly & addictive strategy the corporations have ever developed? This makes no sense whatsoever.

 

My first impression of Friday night’s Philly Sound reading at La Tazza 108 is Saturday morning’s splitting headache, the result of all that second-hand smoke.

 

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Even sillier than it sounds? Poetry magazine’s new editor, Christian Wiman, is interviewed by Chicago Public Radio here & gives new meaning to the term revenant. I wouldn’t want to substitute revenant for School of Quietude (the latter category is far broader), but I just might substitute it for New Formalism.

 

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On a saner note, I found this somewhat older print interview with Samuel R. Delany.

 

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There is a very nice review of this blog from Daniel Massei en español. Gracias!

 

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Since I’ve begun making changes in my blog format, the number of visitors per day has jumped over twenty percent and the number of pages viewed per visit – which had been virtually static since last fall – has also risen by more than ten percent. Supermarkets shuffle their stock periodically because they know that it leads to a predictable spike – 17 percent on average – in “impulse shopping.”