I’m a Runaway Son of the Nuclear A-Bomb
Bobby has made Mailer’s tag his own, but this is an advertisement fa mice elf agin. I’ll be reading my poems at Myopic Books this Saturday, February 20, at 7 pm. Details here. Daniel Borzutzky is also reading, so please stop by if you’re in the neighborhood.
How awesome is it that Sawyer was blasting “Search & Destroy” last night.
I’m reading with Dana Ward at the Bowery Poetry Club on Saturday, February 27 at 4 p.m.
Would that I could be there!
Likewise. Alas, no Chicago for me until… I don’t know what.
Sorry for the diversion, but as of now, real time 8;50 pm eastern standard time, the Hasrriet blog is furiously deleting comments to the most recent post, by Annie Finch, on the PSA exhibit on poets’ childhood photos.
I made so bold as to question (on “negative capability” grounds) the cultural value of such an exhibit. It struck me as institutional narcissism & self-adulation, unbefitting of poetry. Rich Villar countered with a remark that it was important to people of color. I admitted that I was setting aside the whole issue of “equal representation” – because I didn’t think it was worth being represented in, by anybody.
That’s a very rough approximation of the 7-8 comments which suddenly disappeared. “No comment.”
Maybe they’ll come back?
Imagine this happening on a post about “equal representation”. Sort of like 1984. War is Kind. (No, that was Stephen Crane, I think.)
It’s not important, in the grand scheme of things. Nobody reads much anyway. Everybody’s dodging the collapsing roofs, I guess. Telling it slant, really slant.
Seems to have been a computer glitch. I have no way of knowing. They lost some good comments. Sorry for this interruption – back to regular commentation augmentation.
Fair warning: I’m tired of comments about the ins and outs of Harriet’s comment moderation. From this point on, I will delete without notice any future comments about same. I believe that there are whole websites dedicated to criticizing Harriet; I’m sure they’d welcome your complaints there.
What is it with comment threads? Relax. You web publishers want to be heard, but you don’t like backtalk. You’re providing a forum, for which I, for one, am very grateful – yet you get all snippy about the ensuing conversation. Go ahead & “moderate” this, Bobby, if it makes you feel better.
I posted a brief note about my reading. What has that to do with Harriet’s comment policy? Why must every thread become a “conversation” between the same two people about something completely different from the topic at hand? How is it so hard to understand why people would get sick of that?
Hey, have a nice day. Try some o.j. Squirrels are swinging through the trees.
You should appreciate interested & active readers & responders to this blog. You should be patient with the occasional – & I mean it IS occasional – side light such as above. But hey, don’t let anyone stand in the way of your self-advertisements.
btw, Michael, I do wish you a good reading tomorrow. Sorry I’m stuck here in ol’ Podunk. Break a squirrel’s leg. As I noted above, my apologies for intruding on your announcement. Neither moderate nor moderator be, as Zarathustra once said. & I now I retract myself unto my coccoon of mystic silence. Let every thread run straight! Let small rain down shall rain! Let hogs whistle and hamsters make haste! & etc. etc. etc. !!
how can this be the most-read post on de? it doesn’t say anything. it even has a sell-by date.