Line tamer.
Thursday night Greg and I went to see Margaret Cho in her Sensuous Womanvariety show. It was wonderfully raunchy and has deepened my fascination of the burlesque. Lots of nudity and pasties and subversive behavior (the rap “I’m not a homo-sexual, I’m a sexual homo” will stick in your head all night). Loved Dirty Martini’s America Read More …
On our way to LaGuardia on the M60 we overheard these two women giving hell to a guy: Woman One: “If my man’s a businessman and he has to work late, he should at least call.” Woman Two: “Mm-hmm.” Woman One: “I don’t want to be sittin there in my Gucci. Waitin.” Above them a Read More …
So I joined yet another social site. I think this one is forgivable as it focuses solely on books and gives me a better space to organize my library, plus many of my grad school friends from Michigan are on it, so it’s been a nice way to reconnect with that former community of writers. Read More …
So last night Katy Lederer hosted a little book party at her place to celebrate the publication of three books. As usual, it was an interesting mix of people from work and people from the literary community (and even those categories often cross). Actually, “mix” may not be the right word as the writers were Read More …
Just wanted to post a piece that originally appeard in the June 25, 2006 edition of The Observer, called “Arbitragedy: A Hedge-Fund Poet’s Bittersweet Ballad” written by my colleague Regan Good.
Not that anyone else is probably interested, but every now and then I like to make a list of books I recently read. So here I go: Bernard Cooper’s A Year of Rhymes; Mark Doty’s Dog Years; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass; Cynthia Hogue’s Incognito Body; Brenda Shaughnessy’sInterior with Sudden Joy; Rick Hilles’s Brother Salvage; Aristotle’s Poetics; Kei Read More …
National Poetry Month has begun. There are already more readings than I can attend as friends send me notes informing me that they’ll be reading here, reading there. I’ll hit what I can. And save my mixed feelings about this month for another post. Last night I attended a pre-reading cocktail party at Katy Lederer’s Read More …
I discovered two poets at the Tribute to Carcanet Press event the other night that have me excited. The first is Mimi Khalvati, whose work was adeptly read by Marilyn Hacker. I have some of her books on order and will say more when I’ve had a chance to see and process them on the Read More …
David Yezzi read this poem last night at the PSA’s Tribute to Carcanet Press event. The poem is by Sophie Hannah. It’s a bit of an anthem: If People Disapprove Of You. Make being disapproved of your hobby. Make being disapproved of your aim. Devise new ways of scoring points In the Being Disapproved Of Read More …
Conversations overhead in the elevator: 1. Morning. Two trenchcoated, suit and tie men bemoan the cold. They pause and the one says “I didn’t even do my hair today.” The other says “Because of your hat? You can always fix it in the bathroom.” 2. Afternoon. Two men, different from the first set, discuss their Read More …