Summer update: lit'rary 'n otherwise

Currently reading Black birds: Blue horse by Natalie Peeterse (Gold Line Press). Juggling several poetry anthologies for daily reading and meditation, and spending at least thirty minutes playing with language over at Figment in an on-line reboot of my quotidian project.*

Summer family book fun: Hunger Games trilogy, Lego Ninjago, The Children's Book of Myth & Legends, Vampires, Zombies & Werewolves, and The Wonders Inside the Human Body.

Currently strumming: Boil that Cabbage Down

Boating: seaside, Folly Creek and backpaddles

Academic reading: Myers 7th edition, Intro to Psychology, Berman 8th edition of Psychology.

Current feeling 'bout the Sox: brighter days are ahead. Go Ortiz!

Current feeling 'bout the Nats: freakin hey! So much fun to watch this young intense team mix it up every night.

Tunes: new Fiona (*****), new Lionel Ritchie country duets mash-up (****), Dead Download series (****)

* a daily poem, often rushed, harried, hurried, slacked, but sometimes inspired, and surprising (my own definition)

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Summer Poetry Reading in Rehoboth

If anyone's interested in a mid-summer run to Rehoboth's outlet malls, consider Tuesday, July 27th, and stop by the Rehoboth Beach Librar y for the summer poetry series. Besides moi, Denise Clemmons, poet and food critic for the Cape Gazette, and Sherry Chapplle, poet and professor. Excellent company. Books will be for sale afterwards. It's a quality series, and full of surprises. Garry Hanna has done a bang-up job organizing the summer series. Bring a few quarters to ward off the meter maid. Reading starts at 7:00 PM.

Out this week: Thirty Days: Best of the 30/30 Project. Featuring my poem "Love in Reverse"

Marie Gauthier of Tupelo Press selected one of my poems, "Love in Reverse" for Thirty Days : The best of the 30/30 Project Year One. It's one of a few anthologies to feature my work (cue haughty accent, spotlight, espresso, and French cigarettes). Hopefully you'll be hearing more from me over the next few months as projects near completion. Thanks for the support.

Vittorio Carli's work is punk rock #poetry

A Passion for Apathy: The Collected and Rejected Poems of Vittorio Carl i, a small press gem of punk rock poetry, carries poetic traditions in its teeth. Punk rock because of the in-your-face-anti-establishment irony and earnestness in Carli's presentation of his verse, traditional in the homage and muse tradition of poetry. He writes to and for those and that which enlarges his voice. Carli's work reads like a cross between cultural commentary/homage to persons as varied as Lawrence Welk to Woody Allen, to snapshots of socio-political unrest, which are flags of protest. My favorite is the “The Trouble with Librarians (for Andrea)” where Librarians are cast as the progenitors of closed information; they are “all closed books/with a couple of pages missing.” He's a poet, and I imagine him in some stacked room typing madly, or in transit, to and fro Chicago, scribbling on the back of brown paper bags. He works it. He's out there living poetry. Proof. My copy of t...

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