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I’m leaving tonight to see my folks and my new niece and my sister and brothers. Not looking forward to the flights — I’m on the TSA automatic “selectee” list, so I’m in for a groping and my suitcase will be pawed through & I’ll find a brochure in there. I put my copy of “the rights of man” on top of everything in my suitcase this time haha. [I don't get all the British humor in that video link haha but it was interesting.]

I have to go through the anti-explosives puffer machine if the airport has one, too. WTF? Yeah I’m such a big fat threat. Dumbasses. With a name like “Jill T. Dybka” I doubt they are mistaking me for another “Jill T. Dybka.” Harry ~~Tuttle~~ Buttle. hahaha. It is so idiotic. And totally unconstitutional because there is no due process. Maybe I’ll be surprised and I won’t have S or SS or SSSS on my boarding pass anymore.

Anyway, sorry for the semi-rant. I sincerely do hope you have a Happy Solstice tomorrow and happy holidays. Be careful on New Year’s Eve with all the Craze-Os on the roads. & thanks for reading my blog.

p.s. I almost didn’t schedule auto-posts, which are scheduled from this point until New Year’s. What if my plane crashes and I die and yet my blog keeps posting for a while? That would just be really, really, creepy haha. I’ll take my chances.

p.p.s. What if I schedule auto-posts, then in the last post before I depart, I make a joke about my plane crashing/my blog continuing to post after I’m dead and then my plane REALLY DOES CRASH? That would just be really, really, REALLY creepy haha. I’ll take my chances.

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Poetry News For December 17, 2007

Poetry News:

— Though still a student at Lincoln University, he has already published two books of poems, The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew —

— Prize-Winning Poet Robert Hass On American Poetry, Bob Dylan, Impact of ‘The Big Lebowski’ —

— Singing the songs of love —

— Anne Stevenson: the secret life of a poet —

— Sometimes, as in Jill Rosser’s new collection of poetry, it’s a comic, irritable gesture that recalls the abyss a footstep away —

— While many young people countrywide are venturing into the music industry to earn a living, Mochedisi in Kasane is curving a niche for himself as a praise poet. [more about praise poetry in southern Africa here and over here and some here. —

— For the second year in a row, an Indianapolis writer will have had a work selected for the annual Best American Poetry series —

— From hospital room, Diane Middlebrook recalls meeting Ted Hughes —

— Poet, biographer, feminist Diane Middlebrook dies of cancer at 68 —

— Poetry lovers, put this on your list —

— What a lineup of gallery artists: five Nobel laureates, five poet laureates, and more Pulitzer Prize-winning and National Book Award-winning writers than a curator can count —

— Writer discovers poem on A Prairie Home Companion —

— It is one of the weirder ironies of literary history that the experiment of modernist poetry in English was launched by a pair of Americans living in London who had little but contempt for the complacent, hide-bound literary scene in which they moved —

— I had stumbled upon the underground alliterative tradition of English poetry —

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Poetry News for August 24, 2007

Poetry News:

— Poet and short story writer Grace Paley, a literary eminence and old-fashioned rebel who described herself as a “combative pacifist,” has died (and NYT) —

— Fatwa offers unlimited money to kill Taslima —

— Remembering Liam Rector —

— Out of this has come a small industry in creative writing courses —

— We Need Models of Revision —

— four impressive new collections —

— Langston Hughes was one of the most respected poets in 20th century American literature, though you”™d never know it from Isaac Julien‘ pretentious and monotonous 40-minute hodgepodge —

— the similarities and differences between the “New Gen” poets [of the U.K.] and their U.S. contemporaries —

— Until yesterday, Deboer was one of just two independent distributors operating on the East Coast —

“The next Powerball drawing will be on Saturday, August 25th, 2007 with an estimated Grand Prize of $300,000,000 ($140,300,000 cash).”

Michael G. generously posted some gazpacho recipes in the comments of yesterday’s post. Sounds great — I will be eating that all weekend I think. Over 100F yesterday again.

Sweet baby carrots recalled in six states

FDA officials said the carrots might be contaminated with bacteria (Shigella) that poses a serious health risk from some people, especially the very young or elderly.

The product was sold under two labels — “Los Angeles Salad Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots” and “Trader Joe’s Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots.”

The “Los Angeles Salad Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots” label was distributed by Kroger Co. and King Sooper stores in Tennessee, Kroger Co. and Ralph’s supermarkets in California, Publix supermarkets in Georgia and Florida, and Get Fresh stores in Nevada.

All of the packages were sold in flexible plastic bags in 7- and 8-ounce sizes with a “sell by date” up to and including Aug. 16.

The second label — “Trader Joe’s Genuine Sweet Baby Carrots” — was distributed by Trader Joe’s stores in Arizona and California in 7-ounce flexible plastic bags with a “sell by date” up to and including Aug. 8.

The recall was initiated after it was discovered the same product sold in Canada was contaminated with Shigella.

Consumers with questions can contact Los Angeles Salads at 626-322-9017.