We don’t seem to talk much about the syllabic nature of many of Corman’s poems. #ModPoLive

#ModPoLive This poem brings to mind e e cummings’s “i thank You God for this most amazing / day.” Do we know which came first? Did one influence the other?

#ModPoLive Thanks, Al! Great webcast.

"For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something." 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Saw 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Dome ArcLight Cinemas last night. Is it just me, or does digital projection look flat?

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." Happy birthday W. B. Yeats.

Happy Bloomsday! Audible.com has Ulysses unabridged for $5.95--today only. Check out, too, the Ulysses game app from Word Soup.

The last Crumbs shops close. Next: juice bars.

Summer reading highlights: In the Light of What We Know, The Most Dangerous Book, Wave, and Black Swan Green (audiobook).

Teach us to care and not to care teach us to sit still.

Just saw Interstellar at ArcLight Hollywood in the Dome. Spectacular! Reminds me why we're in this business.

The New Yorker's Anthony Lane on the Oscars: newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

From The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton:

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the dayEBWhite

"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

Do the first two lines suggest Eliot? #modpolive

Is Stein interesting and important primarily because of her influence on others? #ModPoLive

"And I have known the eyes already, known them all-- / The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase" T. S. Eliot #ModPoLive

Bob Dylan? #ModPoLive

JL Austin distinguished "locution", the act of speaking, from "illocution": the thing done in the world by that act.The Economist #ModPoLive