Bloggy Bits

Check out the fancy poet over at No Tell Motel this week. It's Hugh Steinberg, a poet I do not "know" personally, whose work I've never encountered, and with whom I have no affiliation whatsoever. I can't wait to read more, though. Maybe he's writing the sort of post-avant pastoral that Josh Corey is always crowing about.

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I will begin work on a disseration chapter tomorrow. It's on Kenneth Koch. Partly.

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People keep telling me I'm losing weight despite the fact that I'm not. It's very strange. In fact, this morning I weighed in as heavy as I was when I bought the scale several months ago. The skinny: (har har): I'm as heavy now as I've ever been in my life. But people say I look thinner.

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The middle poem in lucky error, "Triskaidekaphobia," has been accepted at Forklift, Ohio. I've been sending this sucka out for awhile, so I was pleased that it finally found a home, especially in such a cool journal.

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I am not jealous of any poets. I thought I'd mention this, as poetry jealousy is a big topic lately on blogs everywhere. In response to Eduardo, I do care what white poets write about, and Chicano poets, and Latino/a poets, and Asian American poets, and African American poets, and experimental poets, and post-avant poets, and avant-garde poets, and rear-guard poets, and women poets, and men poets, and gay poets, and European poets, even Vogon poets. I think the Vogons get an unnecessarily bad rap. The only poets I don't care about particularly are working-class poets, especially those with tenure. Get over yourselves.

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Changes to the blog: new blog-rolling. I've cleaned up links. Let me know if you want to be linked, or if I've forgotten you.

New pic of yours truly. I'm sorta doing my Tony Tost, "here I am standing in my bathroom looking at myself in the mirror" pose, though it's not MY bathroom, but Twemlow-Schiff's old bathroom. I don't know whose bathroom it is today.


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In other good poetry news, the always-brilliant Twemlow has poems in Sonora Review most recently. Or has had them accepted. They're not IN it yet.