NaPoWriMo Starts Tomorrow!

Here & elsewhere:

Anne Boyer
Anne Boyer, Shanna Compton, Danielle Pafunda, Sandra Simonds
Catherine Daly
Michelle Detorie
Susana Gardner
K. Lorraine Graham
Kirsten Kaschock
Ada Limon, Jennifer L. Knox
Reb Livingston
Robin Reagler
Carmen Gimenez Smith
Maureen Thorson

The Hat

#8 now available! Feat. * Nico Alvarado-Greenwood * David Blair * Laura Carter * Patrick Culliton * Drew Gardner * Robert Ghiradella * Merrill Gilfillan * Heather Green * Mike Hauser * Martins Iyoboyi * Devin Johnston * Genevieve Kaplan * Becca Klaver * Erik La Prade * David Dodd Lee * Michael Loughran * Hassan Melehy * Ange Mlinko * Andrei Molotiu * Maggie Nelson * Charles North * John Olson * Dawn Pendergast * Andrew Sage * Tomaz Salamun * David Shapiro * David Starkey * Jordan Stempleman * Mathias Svalina * Maureen Thorson * Davide Trame * Geoffrey Young

New! York + Jersey

s'more

Let Me Eat Licorice

in the aeroplane over the sea:



Courtesy R.B.

Big Americanness

You've read some postcards, you've seen the movies -- now it's time to take your Big American Trip.

A. pointed out that UK presses seem to be interested in publishing American writers who explore their own Americanness. What say you, BHo?

Midwestern Vacancy, I Get You

Detroit, MI, circa nowadays. See the full slide show.

Double-Whoa

Thanks, everybunny!

Work It

Daft Punk's Console.

Yummy-Brilliant

Scanwiches.

Party Photos

here.



Thanks to stealth videographer Froski.

Late Night Again, This Time w/ Hanna & Me

Billboard Top 200

This week goes like this:

1. U2, No Line on the Horizon
2. Taylor Swift, Fearless
3. Neko Case, Middle Cyclone

Yes, really.

I'm Not Sure What's Cooler:

The fact that the new international space station room to be attached to its siblings Unity, Harmony, and Destiny might be named "Colbert" thanks to write-in votes, or the fact this room contains "a machine that will turn astronauts' urine into drinking water."

Digital Video Brush

"Magic" Digital Video Brush - video powered by Metacafe

Find An Indie Bookstore Near You

and frequent it, so it doesn't have to shut down.

I Was Going To Tell You

you should go and buy Stephanie Young's new book Picture Palace so you could read the poem "Betty Page We Love You Get Up," but it turns out there is a shortcut.

The Women's Movement Was Poetry

Rich also made the point that it was no accident that women novelists flourished in the nineteenth century—they disguised their real selves in fictional narratives—but now, because women could write openly as themselves, a new women’s poetry was possible. Noting the group readings, Morgan credited the explosion of women’s poetry to the new feminist tribe, linking it to the bardic tradition. What was new, Rich added, was that women were now publicly sharing their work, something that many women of the past could not. “The poetry of many of my male contemporaries,” she continued, “expresses the sense that we’re all doomed to fail somehow. It’s much more interesting to me to explore the condition of connectedness as a woman. Which is something absolutely new, unique historically, and finally so much more life–enhancing.

--Honor Moore, "After Ariel: Celebrating the poetry of the women’s movement"

I Know Humor Isn't Exactly the Point

but here's the first poem on "Starting Today" that made me giggle:

"My Calamine Lotion" by John Beer

Pink Dolphins in Your Reality Tunnel

Courtesy of who else, St. Gyros, who probably had a hand in this.