• — With its change to a Web-only feature, Poet’s Choice is evolving. We’ll be asking a different poet each week to share with us a poem he or she has written. Mary Karr, who has been our eloquent columnist since March 2008, starts us off on this new format —
• — Saudi men arrested for seeking female writer’s autograph —
• — Why does Orr find it so hard to slap the shiny foil medallion of Greatness on the next generation? —
• — It may be surprising that there’s been no comprehensive history of women’s writing in America. But Elaine Showalter has now undertaken this daunting venture —
• — SPD Bad Poem Contest: Results —
• — Readers letters re: the NYT “poetry greatness” Orr article —
• — Where Is Our Radical Youth? —
• — National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony To Take Place On March 12, 2009 —
• — By launching this Bottom Line Poetry Contest, we hope to bring more attention to the life-saving value of regular colonoscopies —

Goodbye farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands,

and some opinion on it.

You can read the bill here: H.R. 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009.

And you can send a message to Congress here if you so desire:
Educating Congress: Do Not Supress Organic and Small Farmers and Ranchers; Natural Food Products