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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

A Tostian Meme

Poets Who Excite Me 50 Times More Than Tony Tost
1. Ted Berrigan
2. Kenneth Koch
3. Harryette Mullen
4. James Schuyler

Poets Who Excite Me 20 Times More Than Tony Tost
1. Charles Bernstein

Poets Who Excite Me About The Same As They Excite Tony Tost
1. A.R. Ammons
2. Susan Howe

Poets Who Neither Tony Tost or Mark L. Have Mentioned Who Excite Me Quite a Bit
1. Bob Kaufman
2. Etheridge Knight
3. Edna St. Vincent Millay
4. Brenda Hillman
5. Nicholas Twemlow
6. Robyn Schiff
7. Joshua Edwards
8. Jimmy Santiago Baca
9. E.E. Cummings (still)
10. Ron Padgett
11. Andy Mister

Poets Who Jonathan Likes and So Do I
1. Clark Coolidge
2. David Shapiro


Poets Who Have Lent or Donated Me Money
1. Jeff Bahr
2. Reb Livingston
3. Joshua Edwards

Poets Who I've Eaten or Drank With
1. Joshua Edwards
2. Nick Twemlow
3. Robyn Schiff
4. James Meetze
5. Andy Carter
6. Dorianne Laux
7. Andy Mister
8. Gina Myers
9. Aaron Belz
10. Julie Dill
11. Stefene Russell
12. Laurel Snyder
13. Alex Lemon

Poets To Whom I've Given Advice on the Coooking of Fish
1. Aaron Tieger

11 comments:

CLAY BANES said...

Aaron Tieger needs help with the fish.

Jess Mynes said...

Glad to see someone giving cummings and Millay their due.

andy mr. said...

I was going to add my list of poets that excite me 50 times more than Tony Tost, but it included just about every poet that's ever written anything, including Jewel and Billy Corgan.

A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz said...

Don't forget this:

"Crappy Poet Whose Awesome Fantasy Team Is Currently Kicking The Crap Out Of The Canaries--A. J. P. L."

Mark Lamoureux said...

I almost put Millay on my "more than" list, but decided I hadn't read enough of her to warrant the choice. I also purely arbitrarily omitted anyone I know personally from the lists (with the exception of Homer, who can cook a mean Tilapia).

TT said...

Andy Mister is in the comments field and he is taking no prisoners!

Emily Lloyd said...

What, no "Poets I've Had Sex With"?

Laurel said...

I distinctly remember watching you eat curry!

Anthony Robinson said...

Oh shit, Laurel! You're right. And we drank whiskey too. List to be amended post-haste.

Anthony Robinson said...

I've only had sex with one poet. And nobody has ever heard of her.

andy mr. said...

What about poets you've taken mushrooms with?

Have fun in SF, go to Tu Lan for christ's sake!