Nice Marmot

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 As a reader of Bill Knott (his blog and before that his poetry), I have been somewhat unsure how to take his paranoid and self-pitying diatribes against a system that, whether he wants to admit it or not, he is very much apart of.  I mean I assumed he was joking, he has to be, [...]

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Poet Takes Extra 5 Minutes To Vague Up Poem
ANN ARBOR, MI—After completing a poem originally titled “Last Dawnbreak,” local poet Keith Taylor spent five additional minutes removing…
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The following is clipped from Carolina Stompers a website that has given me much entertainment, some of it of the horror variety, the past few days.  Stop in and say hi, just don’t tell them you are a Liberal, or you will probably end up on some list for “re-education and containment”:
As I was pondering his [...]

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 A gaggle of angry Seneca’s is circling the gates of the city.  The lead Indian has a flute on which he is playing the theme from “The Love Boat”.  The city is famous for its exports: Technology, cotton underwear, and melancholy.    This will not have a happy ending.  The walls will come down, there [...]

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McCarthy and the Coens… no need to say more.

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Charles Simic ( bio) has been named the new US Poet Laureate.  Simic has been my one of, if not my most, favored poets for years. He is a poet of immense imagination, humor, and talent.  He has had a profound impact on poetics and language itself, and is  a gracious and commited teacher.  Below are a [...]

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It has been oppressively hot here in the mountains of Western North Carolina, much too hot to blog and with nothing to do but sit around and sweat, I look forward to a weekend of just that.  Pop open a beer, crack open a good book and veg out….Oh, and I am very much looking [...]

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with some exciting new posts coming soon!!! (yeah, right)

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Thanks to Gnostic Minx for providing this valuable and entertaining bit of music history…have a gander for yourselves:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers
 A few samples:

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