Poetry News:

1. — Psychologists Nathan DeWall of the University of Kentucky and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University ran three experiments to study existential dread in the laboratory —
2. — Three Reasons Why We Don’t Read Poetry —
3. — I guess this collection is about the shadowy presences and outlaw characters who haunt the margins of American, particularly Southern, history —
4. — He is, we are constantly told, a great poet and a big wind-bag, a profound seer and a boisterous humbug —
5. — Jennifer Grotz once wrote poetry like a drunken Patsy Cline, sick on love —
6. — Akron poet Thomas Dukes wins prestigious national book prize; and some thoughts on poetry for profit —

There are a lot of sleep / dream articles up at the NY Times. “Once seen as a blank screen, a metaphor for death, it has emerged as an active, purposeful machine, a secretive intelligence that comes out at night to play and to work during periods of dreaming and during the netherworld chasms known as deep sleep”

Poetry News:

1. — The MacDowell Colony has provided a creative workspace for artists for 100 years —
2. — The poet is the longtime editor of the Pitt Poetry Series of the University of Pittsburgh Press —
3. — For believers in marriage, this poem is for you and should be recited by the best man (or woman) at a wedding —
4. — Poetry project reveals the power of words —
5. — Who wrote “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”? What does it mean? —
6. — Forward Bloc, part of the leftist block supporting the Indian ruling alliance, announced that it would press for Ms. Nasrin’s expulsion from the country —
7. — Poet Grotz Wins $25,000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers”™ Award —

I can’t remember the last time Darryl and I went on vacation. That’s not good. Surely it wasn’t over 10 years ago but I’m afraid it is. We’ll have to remedy that next year. (He met up with me in Hawaii a couple years ago but that didn’t count because I was working.)

A legitimate telecommuting job.

This blog seems to have fallen off the face of Google search, LOL. I was wondering why human being visits have dropped off. Oh well, que sera sera.

…I still haven’t found a PHP developer, so the Word Vine project is on hold.