- — Today on 25 January – though not because of a formal holiday or an official laureateship – Scots (and friends of Scotland) meet to celebrate the life and works of our bard, Robert Burns, at Burns Suppers at home and in far-flung locations across the globe. —
- — Trouble in poetry paradise —
- — On the eve of the next big announcement from Apple, a look at a poem from Gary Snyder, the Beat-era poet who has written about his Macintosh computer. —
- — Prince Honors the Minnesota Vikings in Song —
- — Review For Galatea & I’ll Post Your Pet’s Visage —
- — Ursula Le Guin leads revolt against Google digital book settlement —
- — One of the things I am very proud about in my poems is the use of science and biology as metaphor or image for jumpstarting a poem. I take great pains to do extensive research for my poems and I feel like I owe that truthfulness or “fact” to the readers when I do employ imagery from the natural world. I —
- — read about the supposed demise of poetry readers here —
- — Carol Rumens: This week, the Guardian and the Observer are running a series of seven pamphlets on the Romantic poets. To coincide with it, I’m blogging daily on one of each day’s selected works —
- — National Book Critics Circle Prize Nominees Are Chosen —
- — Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Jewish Poet and Partisan, Dies —
- — What Is Careerism for Poets These Days Anyway? —
- — chapbook sale —
- — Reasons to Fuck Poetry —
- — So, where does a poet like me go from here? —
- — Want to convince? Use abstract rather than concrete language —
- — Drawing connections between poetry, past and present —
- — On Poetry: Poets, writers can offer their words for world peace —
- — Nobel prize winner is looking forward to lessons in poetry —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — DOD Identifies Army Casualty —
- — DOD Identifies Navy Casualty —
- — Parsing the Poetry Best-Seller List —
- — Loved This —
Thanks for voting for Ehlers-Danlos Network Cares in the Chase Community Giving on Facebook. They ended up 23 out of 100, which isn’t bad for something no one has ever heard of. 
I have a pain clinic procedure this afternoon, so no news tomorrow.
