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Weekend Reading – This Is Too Hard


The poets of Washington.

Makes my brain hurt.

Just buy a book from them, okay?

Your tool box.

The Poetry Hotel (coming soon – hopefully).

That bloody land.

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Thursday Morning Staff Meeting – Keeping Your Word


Did science fiction break its promises to us?

Poets are the beholders of ideas and the announcers of human experience’s necessary and casual details.

Everybody’s saint.

Why be a nazi?

I’m feeling much better, thank you.

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Weekend Reading – There Are An Infinite Number Of Turtles


Turtles all the way down.

Will the real nights please stand up?

Camus’ desert.

Can coffeeshops overthrow governments? Maybe.

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Thursday Staff Meeting – Reduced Sentences


Redemption through reading.

You’d have to be crazy to collect modern art.

The meaning of a minotaur.

But doesn’t Henry Rollins have a point?

A philosophical boxing match.

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Midweek Staff Meeting – Heroes


Who’s your hero?

Confronting the bulldozer.

An ambassador of poetry.

He’s right. It is the best book ever written about political campaigns.

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Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Public Exposure


Performing acts of public philosophy.

Good definitions can be hard to come by.

Uniquely Canadian.

Christopher Hitchens and George Orwell are still dead, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still read what the one had to say about the other.

Nietzsche’s sister is in hell right now.

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Thursday Morning Staff Meeting – Scalia Haunts My Future


Antonin Scalia: A Play in Three Acts

The dulling of T.S. Eliot.

What really happened with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

A cult poet of the San Francisco Renaissance finally get his book (probably posthumously, though no one’s certain).

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Tuesday Morning Staff Meeting – Unacknowledged Legislators


Does Obama prove the truth of Shelley?

Check out a new French poetry journal online.

When was the last time an historian was so famously controversial in America?

The creative class does too make a difference (says the author of The Rise of the Creative Class)!

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Weekend Reading – ‘Flarf.’ That Is all.


When poetry gets so few column inches, should one use any of those inches on negative reviews?

Emma Goldman on political violence.

Flarf vs conceptual poetics.

The ‘creative class’ doesn’t live up to the hype.

E-books take the lead.