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Teachers: is this true? And is it also true that most YA fiction is written in the first person?

This is the most exciting reportage I’ve read in ages. Life-or-death stakes! Surprising twists! Mass decapitations! WHO KNEW???

“Watch the syntax fall softly and pool at the ends of the stanzas.”

THE GOOD NEWS: Mr. W’s new passion is couscous. Our pantry contains multitudes. THE BAD NEWS: a neighbor child has acquired some sort of tin whistle or pipe that plays only 3 notes. Said child has been on their patio for hours exploring every permutation and rhythm.

Dear Bono: source, please.

I for one am psyched to do some chair exercises.

GAVIN. A New Fragrance From Hormel.

CHAOS “is nothing more nor less / Than something simple not yet understood”

I have met everyone that master poet Bob Hass mentions here—except for Judy Collins—and I agree with his assessment of Pittsburgh’s INTERNATIONAL POETRY FORUM. The IPF is the strongest poetry forum in the country—and probably the world. Pittsburgh is Paradise for poets.

My poem for today: the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. (The first line is the most real-sounding angel quote of them all.)