Pinups and Rhubarb
My contribution this week is largely derivative. To some extent,
this is because I have work I could do, but don't cotton to it much, so I don't
have enough time to do a proper blog entry, and plenty of time to visit other
blogs and suck the juice out of their respective oranges.
It's been a long time since I visited Simon DeDeo's
rhubarb is susan. Simon
is a astrophysicist and poet, and an amateur poetry reviewer, to boot. No
wonder I like him. In further googling, I ran across this funny
piece of his,
just perfect for Valentine's Day. In addition to his poetic output, he
also collaborated on General Relativistic Constraints on Emission Models of
Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars, which sounds pretty avant garde.
I have also missed visiting The Great American Pinup, particularly their
ranking in January of the best poetry blogs (with numerous criteria that
exclude most poetry blogs as candidates).
From the looks of it, J. Martin of
Immaculate Conniption
(and other suitable anagrams) is a Coloradan. As of last November, he had
16 book
manuscripts out to presses and contests. Why can't I have that kind of
perserverance?
Do you deserve your high school diploma?
Yes, I got 100%.
Steve Evans of (the quite amazing) Third Factory has
compiled
the lists of 2006 favorites of 46 contributors.
Gina's the only person I know who's
had work in both the Georgia Review and Fence. It puts a
dent in my Aesthetic Constellation Hypothesis.
Jeannine got a nice rejection letter from The Atlantic. Wow.
Hey, Henry's back. Or maybe
he never left.
Watch Matthew
write a poem.
Sean conducts a most excellent
interview with
Letitia Trent.
Ron surpassed his millionth
visitor.