Meet Delaware’s 16th poet laureate.
Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore has been published.
R.I.P. James B. Hall.
A new poetry forum.
Now this (read below) is pure poetry:
If you want to believe that America is a governable country of informed citizens and not a nation of ignorant, Fox News-watching sheep, the single most depressing fact to come out of the Bush years is that vast numbers of Americans continue to believe that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks. According to a 2003 Washington Post poll, nearly 70 percent of Americans believed that. And in a poll taken last September, 33 percent of Americans still believed it — presumably the same 30-odd percent of Americans who will vote for a Republican even if he is running on a platform of sacrificing all the nation’s firstborn children to Beelzebub.
Call it the Dumbshit Factor, the Nobody Home Problem, the Absentee Ballots from Mars Issue. Whatever you call it, it’s the Republicans’ built-in advantage this fall.
That’s just frickin’ rich! ROFLMAO
Ho, hum. Of course, Shakespeare didn’t have to compete with action/adventure films and MP3.
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Finally, listen to “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath: