On this date in 1970: Dock Ellis pitches a no-hitter while on LSD.
His biography, Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball, was written with Donald Hall.
Best wishes to him and his family as he awaits a liver transplant.
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June 12, 1970
Poetry News For May 24, 2008
Poetry News:
- — “I wanted to write a series of elegies,” she says. “I wanted the promise of consolation, but consolation never arrives.” —
- — Excerpt: ‘Today: 101 Ghazals’ —
- — Dock Ellis is trying to strike back at a tough foe and another article from the NY Post —
- — Since we started this series of calls for poems by celebrating spring, it seems reasonable to mark the change of season by inviting your summer odes this week —
- — Purdy’s poetry made Canadians re-evaluate their understanding of poetry and their sense of the country and their place in it —
- — Reginald Lockett dies - poet and teacher —
- — A Chicago author kick-starts a new fest —
- — Running a literary journal has always been a bit of a bouquet of barbed wire —
- — Granta asked some highly effective people in literature, journalism and publishing to reveal their web habits —
Poetry News for August 7, 2007
Poetry News:
- — In her poems she dealt with the themes that moved her contemporaries - nationalism, social and feminist issues, honour killings and alienation —
- — Our poet and her drinking companion(s) lift drunken glasses to salute the adventurous relative —
- — The government Monday said it banned the pro-reform daily Shargh (”East”) because on Saturday it published an interview with an expatriate poet who has written about homosexuality —
- — In 1924 Rudyard Kipling, better known for The Jungle Book, wrote a poem titled “Jane’s Marriage” that imagines Austen’s ascension to heaven —
- — Thomas Lynch and Dennis O’Driscoll from Lannan Podcasts by Lannan Foundation [link goes to webpage not MP3] —
Ron Slate, one of those poets-with-a-non-academic-day-job, now has a blog. 
More here, too.
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I got a nice email from someone who hung out with Dock Ellis for a couple days and this person asked Dock if he had read the poem I wrote about him. He hadn’t (go figure hahaha) and … “I just wanted to let you know that I personally read your poem to Dock Ellis, and he LOVED it!” He read it 3 or 4 times.
That is so f-ing awesome. 
Yay for poems on the internet.