November 2011
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W. W. Norton: Feast →
wwnorton:
—Let me taste the kitchen in your skin.
Now that company’s gone & the kids are tucked in, let the real feasting begin.
Let me lay you out on the bed like a spread of bone
china.—Yes, I want a piece of you. Yes, I do.
Give me your garlic, and the sting of your pepper.
The plenty of…
October 2011
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The Hundred Year Starship Public Symposium →
This is real.
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"Looking Up" →
Love, beauty, space and science … the amazing love story of Ann Druyan and Cornell’s own Carl Sagan.
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“To make two bold statements: There’s nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A...”
– William Carlos Williams
“It’s always night, or we wouldn’t need light.”
– Thelonious Monk / Against the Day
July 2011
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May 2011
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“If you go to an American restaurant and say the food is bad, you get a coupon...”
– Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/05/05/rickstevesrickstevestmsarticlecfmid268.DTL#ixzz1LnuZg7k3
April 2011
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454 W 23rd St New York, NY 10011—2157: In 2003,... →
lazenby:
I was referred to Granada House in November 1989. “Referred” is a very polite way to put it. I was a patient in a rehab attached to a well-known mental hospital in Boston°, and a psychiatrist in this rehab had established some credibility with me, and he opined that (1) unless I signed up…
“The prince asked her who she was, and where she came from, and she looked at him...”
– The original Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen
March 2011
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“For the old life is gone, the old love has vanished. Grief is the most humane of...”
– From a Joyce Carol Oates interview on “Why We Write About Grief.”
February 2011
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“With this meager funding, Bates spent eleven happy years of hard work in the...”
– From the great blog, “Species Seekers.”
“Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, certain...”
– Borges, “The Wall and the Books.” Buenos Aires, 1950
“What I really fear is time. That’s the devil: whipping us on when...”
– The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman. So good. If you love journalism or feelings, get it.
January 2011
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Returning to Ithaca after a year away / for the...
When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge. The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops, the angry Poseidon — do not fear them: You will never find such as these on your path, if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine emotion touches your spirit and your body. The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops, the fierce Poseidon you will never...
“i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it...”
– e. e. cummings
When in doubt — ask RMR
You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now (since you have said you want my advice) I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or...