Cracking up

My Cousin is a Rock Star: a photo essay

Strix Vega rocked the Starry Plough on March 28th 2009 and the stars, my cousin Andy, were out. The iPhone blurriness captured the twinkles. My only regret: no gong-banging shots!

Effluvia

1) The Canessa Reading was great. W+S is glowing about it. You can tell when you peek into the garage at night.

2) Craig in Australia.

3) Not enough sleep.

Happening: lately & soon

This past weekend was a beast, with the excellent Marxist Working Group's excellent conference Friday/Saturday on Crisis Contradiction and Contestation in Postwar Economy and Culture (that's a mouthful!), Saturday night to Petaloo for Tami's bday bash @ Stephanie's, then Monday (is Monday the weekend?) to the CAIS meeting at Head Royce's ski-lodge of a campus, which felt rather over-steeped in dollars.

So, now back at school thinking toward the week, with much prep work looming for W+S if it's to take shape before Saturday's reading.

And speaking of! W+S goes live and direct, thanks to Erica Lewis and the Canessa Gallery.

Details here.

For the price of a single burrito, so much poetry!

Jacket 36

announces itself.

As ever, the one-stop shop for real discussions of poetry.

My review of doble-Mlinko's there, of course.

Anyway, initial response: can we just call this the Rachel Blau DuPlessis issue? She's present and accounted in articles on Oppen, Guest, Creeley, and herself. That's some serious representation. Late-mid-century, where you at?!

Meanwhile, at other blogspots...

W+S preps the red issue.

BFFs

Me & 2666. When I'm home and not sitting in a cafe procrastinating, I'll post some quotes that have caught my ear/mind. But I just had to say it: we're BFFs. This book rocks my world.