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This post could also be called "When Elephants Lose Their Teeth, They Die"or a few other gems that I heard from while listening to Ish Klein and Greg Purcell's No Slander podcast.

Episode 5 features many wonderufl things, including talk of Tales from Ovid, by Ted Hughes, the digestive system, and a healing session. There is also a reading from me.The reading is from UMass Amherst's Visitng

"She was one of the great poets of the 20th century," said Sonia I. Ketchian, the author of"The Poetic Craft of Bella Akhmadulina" (1993). "There's Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam and Pasternak — and she's the fifth."





"When a young person comes to ask me, 'Should I, should I not, write poetry?' I say, 'If there's a choice, don't.' " - B. A. 


Akhmadulina passed away last November. I kept

Julie Choffel's Figures In A Surplus is sure to be a beautiful read. Here is what the editors of Antioch Press, who published Choffel's chapbook, had to say about her work:


In this new collection, Choffel's sparse poems present images and actions not as extant material, but as nebulous plans and ideas. She wields the subjunctive mood with aplomb, creating branching futures whose possible

A new GlitterPony (#12).

A new review of Try A Little Time Travel, this one by J. Mae Barizo, in the new issue of Sink Review (thank you!) (Ben Fama's Aquarius Rising is reviewed as well!)

A new venture (it's almost ready).

A new year. Happy (belated) new year!

A new GlitterPony (#12).

A new review of Try A Little Time Travel, this one by J. Mae Barizo, in the new issue of Sink Review (thank you!) (Ben Fama's Aquarius Rising is reviewed as well!)

A new venture (it's almost ready).

A new year. Happy (belated) new year!

Try A Little Time Travel is reviewed in Poetry Project Newsletter and Coldfront. Thank you, Eddie Hopely and Kimberly Steele, for reading and thinking and writing!

Last night was the last NYC stop of the Time Travel through the Cosmos Tour. Ben Fama was charming and awesome as usual. James Copeland mesmerized the place with his poems and visual / musical accompaniment. And before the poems there were two bands -- Gem Club and Holy Spirits, and they were fantastic, reevaluate your life good.

And we won a cement head. The head did the introductions last

Some things that happened in November:
1. New poems in Sixth Finch.
2. Dad turns 55. 
3. Yardmeter reading with Ben Fama and Phil Provance, Chapter and Verse reading with Michelle Taransky and Jacob Russell, Visitng Writers Series reading with Michael Earl Craig (followed by a feast at Dara Wier's house).
4. New Kitten. 

September snipped by. A student said, "You have book called Pink Panther!"
As It Ought To Be featured "Electrocardiogram" and "Small and Private Tragedies" in their Saturday Poetry Series. Today there are poems by Carl Adamshick that are cool gems!
Getting a late but beautiful start is GlitterPony 11. We have two Pettits, Guy and Emily! Also,  *Amy McDaniel, *Andrew Brenza, *Anne Holmes & Lily