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Sergei Gorodetsky Just got some bad news about my mother last week. She has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She battled the same cancer in the early 80's, and has been in remission ever since, only to come back again after all these years. We have a big fight on our hands.]]> Stephane Mallarme If anyone has an apartment in NYC I could stay in from the 28th of this month to June 3, let me know.]]> Mattie Stepanek Looking for a roofer. Anyone?]]> Sophocles just half-watched ANACONDA (1997). it's super hilarious. J.Lo, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, Randoms, JON VOIGHT. I thot for sure JV'd turn into an anaconda with the look on his face the entire movie (a thousand close-ups) & Ice Cube wearing spotless navy converse high tops the whole way thru. Thumbs up!]]> John McCrae Nothing like gettin' shoved from behind and careening headfirst into the boards... my neck made a barrage of crazy crunching noises. But I made it home and onto Fbk, so I reckon that's a good sign. Tomorrow's inevitable sore neck notwithstanding.]]> Samuel Garth Two years after I abandon the blog, suddenly there's a post that goes viral.]]> Karl May Let's all help out the baby birds. They are falling. Put them in planters and give them stuffed animals and things to cuddle up to.]]> Nikolay Gumilyov How come the water glasses at the Lakeview are so grody?]]> Arthur Machen so excited about our parkdale house of dreams.]]> Louis Fréchette I will read a touch, midst The Institute of Wonder’s first Salon, with launches of… this Saturday May 19th. What lights your imaginative fires? A poem of adoration, a fervent song of infatuation, or the broken shard of a play seething with jealousy and desire? A performance of excandescence or a spicy dish to excite the tastebuds? This Saturday, 7.30 pm. The Institute of Wonder, 243 Jane Street.]]> Anton Martin Slomsek You know I dreamed about you for 29 years before I saw you.]]> Kenneth Koch Music help! What was the last song or album you listened to where you felt like you were discovering something awesome that you never knew existed?]]> Hartley Coleridge Excited for the mes parents to get here with the three fursketeers! Pixie is back on meds but should be fine. Yay!]]> Allen Curnow It's astonishing how little hooky I play, given the job I have.]]> Heinrich Mann we got the 2 bedroom co-op unit!! Aug.1st move in date (although legally we have the place on July 13th). Started packing books last night! Two flights of stairs, but two balconies and a basement and it's just five minutes from where we are now!! Any donation of boxes would be very appreciated!]]> Pierre de Ronsard Once again our heartfelt thanks to all for your amazing posts regarding Elaine's mom. Yesterday was a 13 hour long day. Ruth's hip surgery was a success with the specialist pleased with the hip outcome, however there were complications requiring his to remain in recovery for four hours to stabilize and then having his moved to intensive care, where he remains this morning. She is responding positively to care. We'll know more by this evening.]]> David Gascoyne "Birds build their homes here right above my head."]]> Khalil Gibran passionate, persistent and patient.]]> Max Ernst The double shift blues.]]> Émile Nelligan Planning to show Henry the ocean tomorrow...]]> Sextus Propertius HIGH PARK WRITES! TODAY!!!!!!]]> Shel Silverstein Try this: Write for the pleasure of writing. Don't worry about what it is for, or what it might eventually become. #radical.]]> Stan Rice So, mild social media dickishness about to commence: I haven't really written much publicly for almost a year (Massey Fellowship sabbatical) but for Spacing pieces here and there and etc. but a new writing thing starts tomorrow (or, late this evening cuz of the internetz). Thus concludes my Social Media dickish teasing. Soon then.]]> Cao Cao Ooh Heaven knows, heaven knows Heaven knows, heaven knows Heaven knows Ooh RIP Donna Summer.]]> Sara Teasdale Last full day in the Kootenays. So grateful to the fantastic people in the region who have been so welcoming.]]> David Wayne logs on to FB to check for a message, and finds that Donna Summer died and Rob Ford went to the Pride flagraising. Wow. Lots of stuff goes on in this world while I've got my nose in a trusts textbook.]]> Louis Aragon RAIN! FIRES GOING THE OTHER WAY! ALL ANIMALS ARE HEALTHY! EVEN THIS ONE! SUN IS COMING THROUGH DENVER IN JUNE! AIN'T LIFE GRAND!]]> Aurora de Albornoz At the AGO I got off the elevator at the wrong floor and now I'm at the Portuguese Wine Club's annual tasting.]]> Mary Elizabeth Coleridge finally tried Piola's thin-crust pizza — really good.]]> Erasmus Darwin Gotta love kids and their blunt acceptance: First time kid from school visits our house. They are upstairs playing with the doll house dolls. Here's what I overhear: New kid: Is this the Daddy? My kid: Nope. New Kid: It looks like a boy. My kid: No. It's the Mommy. New Kid: It's the Mommy? My kid: Yes. New Kid: Okay. But Who's this? My kid: The Mumma silly!]]> Elizabeth Bishop Oh my god, seriously. What am I going to DO without Nikki Reimer?]]> Vladimir Mayakovsky Happy hour here I come!]]> Lynda Hull "The vicissitudes of this life are like drowning in a glass pond."]]>

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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey : Before I left home I placed a bag of Ms Vickie's lime and black pepper chips on the kitchen table as a gift for the future returning me. "Know thyself" pays off sometimes! yum.]]>

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Jane Wilde Finally checking out 3030 Dundas. Retro pinball, boardgames, decent beer menu and James Brown on the stereo. We'll see how the food rates.]]> Dylan Thomas lemme ask u guys. if the post offered one exclusive INBOX only column a week written by me to subscribers a) would u sign up and b) what shld it be about?]]>

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Tudor Arghezi I was just reminded how Edith Prickly would have made such a better Black Swan than Natalie Portman.]]> Nesîmî So, there are almost 700 LCBO stores in Ontario. And they all have more or less the same in-store promotions, which are flagged with those little printed cards you see on the shelves (that say "LIMITED TIME OFFER" etc), which are called "shelf talkers." I spent today at LCBO Headquarters sorting shelf talkers into bundles, putting rubber bands around them, and putting them into the store mailbags. I burned through half a pound of rubber bands. SO MANY RUBBER BANDS. I wouldn't want to put rubber bands on things as a full-time job, but it was pretty low-stress, and the people were nice.]]> Joseph von Eichendorff Such a perfect moment in time!]]> John Donne Yeah, yeah. Chilling at the hotel congress, Tucson!]]> Joachim du Bellay The best thing (often the only good thing) about being on-call at the apartment is I just spoke via conference call to a boardroom full of lawyers. Their attire: three piece and wingtips. My attire: boxers, old t-shirt, cheesie stains.]]>

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Robert Calvert violet on lemon zest.]]>

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Trumbull Stickney Liberated.]]>

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John Barbour best ever cochinita pibil and végé-cochinita pibil ever from ESÉ! Matt Rennickyou must have one tomorrow! they are amazing!!!!]]> Louis Aragon I believe in goodness without disguise, faces without masks and doses of patience that move mountains. I believe in affection, family and friendship. I believe in words that heal, in songs that inspire and that ignites a passion in your heart. I believe in free laughs, in unexpected acts of charity, of kindness and compassion. I believe that struggles define us and strengthens our moral fortitude. But above all I believe in perseverance, in following your hopes and dreams, in living a life well lived.]]>

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Chairil Anwar Happy birthdays to Atanas & Ellyn!]]> Robert Lowell "The hurricane does not roar in pentameters."]]> Anacreon Taking my vitamins with beer tonight.]]> Tristan Tzara Hopefully the blackout curtains that I put up tonight will tell my body that midnight to seven-thirty is a good time to sleep.]]>

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Roemer Visscher Topical, in retrospect: new poem on Hudson... http://www.hudsonpoems.net/2012/05/abacus-speaks_18.html.]]>

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René Char I'm working on the 2nd printing of 'Maidenhead' by Tamara Faith Berger for Coach House Books.]]>

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Kathleen Raine Let the Naysayers neigh, but I like Tusshar Kapoor. I don't think she’s cute, or hot, or John Abraham. To me she’s just a really likeable guy.]]>

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Bettina von Arnim It's my last day at work before starting the new job in Toronto. Pretty sure wearing eye makeup was a bad idea.]]>

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Stephen Crane I foresee beer in my future. Oh yes indeed. There will be beer.]]> Robinson Jeffers ϔɻ ████████████▲ð▲ðⱥ Ӝ'mper'ЎaΛ MᵾᵺɚɍFʬҡkҝאּ.أ.אּⱥᵷᵷɚɍs♥gᴂƴᴚ♥G.o.d.ϟ.ᶦ᷊᷿᷈᷉᷾᷇.ѽ.ᶦ᷊᷿᷈᷉᷾᷇.ϟ.dhogs ⁞ ѿǖѵᵮ ⁞ ѿǖѵᵮ ⁞ ov º▓Ͼ₸ᵿ₸ђ▄ᴗ▄ђḶů(ϣᴽᵿᴽᴥȣѯ) ᵷ∞ᵷlẹ ™ϣOᵺẹr™MūᵺɍFʬҠKҜɚɍʂ▲ð▲██████ ɻϔ.]]> Johannes Secundus The Harper Government™: Flat Earth v. Mother Earth.]]> Charles Sorley In Boston after overnight flight on JetBlue. Managed to find, with no problem, favorite coffee shop near Brandeis. Very large cafe au lait with extra espresso in front in me. Can't check into hotel until afternoon. Beautiful day in Boston area!]]> Ted Hughes Eyewear T-shirts are coming! In Adult small, medium, large and XL. Royal Blue. Fruit of the loom cotton. If you love poetry, books and/or glasses, this is the ideal way to support an indie poetry press and look cool this summer!]]> John Gillespie Magee, Jr. Successfully defended my MEd thesis yesterday!]]>

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Subagio Sastrowardoyo Wow..what a trip...poetry the way it lives best...with love...thank you Atlantis...thank you Barcelona...my heart is deeply moved!]]> Thomas Wyatt Off to Uxbridge for a long weekend of boating on the lake, eating things off the grill, scrabble and vino!]]> Spike Milligan Semester 3. Day 1. Berlin in 3 and a half months and counting.]]> Lawrence Ferlinghetti Important lessons about life and death from a 4-(almost 5-)year-old this morning.]]> John Clare Long Weekend here in Canadia! Happy Birthday Queen Victoria... thanks for the holiday. Wasaga Beach, here we come. :D.]]> Mattie Stepanek If you've already said it once, there is no need to repeat it over and over.]]> Satsvarupa dasa Goswami The rot has officially set in... I have succumbed to my first-ever cavity. Apparently my teeth are to 'groovy' - and here I was thinking I had just been paid a compliment by my hipster dentist.]]>

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Henry King Went on a mom strike here last night and I think it worked.]]> Anna Akhmatova "loose the stop from your throat, / Not words..or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the best..." - Whitman, "Song of Myself," section 5. This morning I really get (and love) this special connotation of "lecture."]]> Guillaume Apollinaire "The bigger the man, the more blood he has."]]> Mário Cesariny inviting Toronto friends to the Skanky Possum house-reading series Saturday night...planning to read some newer work alongside Buffalo-based writers David Hadbawnik and Emily Anderson. When: gathering begins at 7 PM. Reading starts at 8:20 PM sharp... Where: 1055 Logan Avenue M4K 3G2 near Chester Station just south of Mortimer. There will be food, poets, fun and books for sale. It's a reading and a party. Please bring friends, your favorite beverage to drink, and money to buy books. David Hadbawnik is a poet and performer currently living with his wife in Buffalo, NY. In 2011, he edited Jack Spicer’s Beowulf for the CUNY Lost and Found Document series (with Sean Reynolds), and published Field Work (BlazeVOX Books). Other publications include the books Translations From Creeley (Sardines, 2008), Ovid in Exile (Interbirth, 2007), and SF Spleen (Skanky Possum, 2006). He is the editor and publisher of Habenicht Press and the journal kadar koli. He began studying towards his PhD in poetics at SUNY Buffalo in fall 2008, where he directs the Buffalo Poets Theater. Current projects include a chapbook called “Sports” and a book of experimental prose titled The White Album. Emily Anderson writes fiction and poetry and is sometimes unable or unwilling to tell the difference. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications including McSweeney's, Caketrain, the Denver Quarterly, and DIAGRAM. "Re/Press," a collaborative video poem created with photographer Jen Morris, was recently featured at the Brattleboro Literary festival in Vermont.]]> Edward Lear there's a robin singing right outside my office window!]]> Anne Morrow Lindbergh My facebook icons have come back!!! It's a miracle!!!]]> Rae Armantrout You come to the page the way you come to the day; awake and expectant of glories, large and small, ebullient, expansive, dim and dark and shadowed perhaps, but glories nonetheless. You write because of all of them, because of the way they fill you, the teachings in them, adding to the timbre of your own unique and powerful voice…]]> Hart Crane Wanted - Communications help for RHOK Toronto. Please contact me and I will hook you up. danke (rhok.org is June 1 -3, 2012).]]> George Bazeley Scurfield Hooooookay, lower back, I hear ya. Anyone know of a good masseuse for lower back pain? My back's been singing the same song for waaaaay too long.]]> Leandro Fernández de Moratín long weekend of handsomeness, laughter, music, poetry, and islanding.]]> Klaus Mann Hm: Harper has demoted bodies of water; James Moore is afraid of sex; Flaherty is qualified to be finance minister because he drove a cab; Charest semble tout faire pour annuler la démocratie; Tremblay devra dorénavant aller visiter ses amis en prison, à moins qu'il ne s'y retrouve lui-même. Could somebody better be in charge?]]> Joseph Stefan NOW HEAR THIS! (the literacy outreach arm of Descant) is looking for donations to raffle off for their upcoming fundraiser to help support literacy programing in youth justice residencies. Please consider donating a book (one you've published or something else) or tickets to a show, or anything, really. Contact me (fb or email), if you can donate something. Thanks!]]> Subagio Sastrowardoyo On 30 January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of the German Republic. After the Reichstag fire of 28 February 1933, clauses of the Weimar Constitution guaranteeing personal liberty and freedom of speech, of the press, of association and assembly, were suspended. The Reich President was authorized, "if public safety and order in the German Reich are considerably disturbed or endangered," to take steps to suspend "the Fundamental Rights" established in Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153. (Article 48).]]>

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Ali Ahmad Said Badiou: "One should not take for an erratic chaos whatever is given multiple echoes, based on the firm and consecutive encipherment of the One-of-meaning, by those remarkable stampings with which the poem illuminates and extinguishes itself."]]> Hugh Antoine d'Arcy had SUCH a fabulous night at A Great Night in Harlem and fully intend to attend every year to support the Jazz-Foundation America!]]> James Thomson really need to keep a bottle of scotch in my desk for mornings like this. Holy fuck.]]> James Shirley Am I the only person who dislikes the use of "agree" without a preposition? As in, "Iran and the quartet agree a new inspection schedule on eve of summit". Reuters does it as a rule, just feels wrong.]]> Christopher Marlowe Another Jinx sighting. A delivery man saw his on the other side of the ravine this morning.]]> Dživo Gundulić - Giovanni Gondola I'm going to the edge of the world to look over the edge. Maybe toss a penny and make a wish. Maybe jump over the edge into the abyss...]]> Samuel Taylor Coleridge I wish sometimes you had a beginning, middle and end. [Robert Lowell to Ezra Pound].]]> Michael Ende really enjoyed Tess Fragoulis's new novel, The Goodtime Girl. Highly recommended!]]> Stefan George Excited to be heading up to Orillia tomorrow to teach TWO Master classes at the CanWrite conference for the Canadian Authors Association!]]> Jean Garrigue Dear musician friends: Are you thinking of applying to the June 15 OAC Popular Music recording or creation project but haven't gotten started yet? Get in touch and maybe I can help!]]> Li Hou Zhu 10 wonderful years ... Happy Anniversary to my husband and best friend.]]> Bob Kaufman Thanks to Pam Bentley ( who stepped in last minute for Taslim Jaffer who was sick and we hope is feeling better- a big thank you to Pam) and Timothy Shay who hosted Twisted Poets last night. From all accounts Mari-Lou Rowley and Alex Winstanley were great as expected. Sounds like a great night for all. Join us June 7th with features Lisa Shatzky + Robin Susanto. And I will be back to host with Timothy hopefully. Bonnie.]]> Donald Justice "Sometimes a person has to die, to remind us they were ever alive," Eric Wunderman. ... Brilliant.]]> Melville Henry Cane Several recipients, more observant than I, have noted that I forgot to mention the date. So: David Abel and Melville Henry Cane, Wednesday, May 23, 8 PM at The Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th Street & 2nd Avenue, New York.]]> John Forbes You know you'll want something great to read this weekend. On your way to get propane & such, don't forget to make a pit stop at your local indie.]]> Robert Herrick The bad news: after extensive expert examination, it turns out I have to have a new roof put on the house. The good news: the roofers can get it done before my father-in-law arrives for a visit, takes one look from the driveway, and tells me I need a new roof.]]> Kingsley Amis is bypassing the gym today in favour of a long walk in the sunshine.]]>

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Musa Cälil Worst part of my job = working on grammar and organizational issues in my students' essays about domestic abuse.]]> Klaus Mann Happy Birthday to The Baddest Man On The Planet, Sean Orr!]]> Kenneth Patchen Recieved my Russian Business Visa today. Moscow Blankette is coming to town! Bring on the Vodka.]]> Leandro Fernández de Moratín And if I alone in my bedroom put on sequins and dance to my own poems who is to say I am not a total wacko?]]> Naim Frashëri in tears all last night because I finally have a job interview and I have a chipped tooth. Today I think well maybe it is cute?]]> Richard Crashaw is running (late) out the door with miz Christine McNair, leaving our Lemonade in the clutches of miz Carmel Purkis; heading off to Christine's mother's birthday party in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Christine's bridal shower, and then his (most exciting) Toronto book-launch on Tuesday, reading with Nicole Markotic, Mark Goldstein, Margaret Christakos + others! BookThug Spring 2012 Launch.]]> Amy Lowell Loving how the kids incorporate hugs into their play. Balances the swatting!]]> Li Po overheard pointe st. charles conversation between a mother and his [app] 6yr. old daughter: daughter: he took me behind the bush and choked me! mother: well then you kick him between the legs. daughter: well that's a bad thing to do! mother: well it's a bad thing to choke you.]]> Louis Aragon Weird dream. Thanks, Lady Oracle. Yes, you can astral travel, but no, you can't have my pen. Woke up to Serena Ryder singing about his heart dying. Went to Higher Ground where a Jenna Butler book found me from the Book Exchange shelf. It told me, She wishes now they'd gotten to Mexico, stunned into quietude by bougainvillea's brightness, conspirators in the mosaicked heat. It has more to say. Put my lid on wrong, now wearing mocha on my pants. They say black and brown haven't gone together since the 70's; my crotch agrees.]]> Aurora de Albornoz what's the manif version of photobombing?: jazz fest, fet nat, jfl, graduation...]]> Erich Kästner farmwork.]]> Mary Elizabeth Coleridge IT'S OFFICIAL: "After careful consideration, the University of Windsor has decided to join a number of other Canadian post-secondary institutions in making the decision not to sign a license agreement with the copyright collective Access Copyright at this time. " So proud of the University of Windsor.]]> Elizabeth Barrett Back from the market: Fresh steamed Quebec asparagus now, and rhubarb to make koresh rivas later...]]> Josip Murn Aleksandrov Permit this very personal post: I've lived with EDNOS (http://goo.gl/RqQfA), since I was 13 years old. I've had bouts of crazy, therapy, Sheena's Place.... I have to tell you, out of all of it, weightlifting has been one of the most centering things I have experienced for myself. I'm embracing things I thought I'd never come to terms with. Getting stronger & being healthy makes me feel good & balanced. I highly recommend it. If you feel like you can't do something, there's nothing like lifting a few pounds. See where it takes you. Happy Friday.]]> Lucan It just feels sexier to be in Montreal! Writing at Open Da Night watching so many interesting people line up for delicious $2.50 cafe lattes is the best. Sexy men flirting with me...so good!]]>

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Delmore Schwartz Took the day off, so of course this morning I've worked, worked out, then worked some more. I dunno how to take a day off.]]> Muriel Rukeyser The 15 Year Anniversary Issue of Big Bridge is up and ready for viewing, www.bigbridge.org. I think you will like it. Now Terri and I are working on creating over 500 blog pages (1 for every event in the world) for the new 100 Thousand Poets for Change website, www.100tpc.org. I hope it will be ready soon. Like any day now. And we have 20 days left in our 100TPC kickstarter campaign. (Please donate and show your support). Then we hope to put all our energies back to signing up new organizers for September 29. (550 in 100 countries confirmed so far). If you're thinking of organizing and waiting to decide for sure, please decide now and we will create a blog page for you on the 100TPC website. Let's make the fall event unforgettable. There's a new paradigm for poetic action and I hope you will be a part of it. Just let me know.I know there is something else we have to do but, I just can't remember now. Oh yeah, I have to feed the dogs and write a poem!! Woof! Later!]]> Bob Kaufman So...Does this mean "The Social Network" is going to get a sequel?]]> Henry Meyer Misha is going to YORK! I am dancing around the house and all y'all better be good to her, or I am going to get my Detroit on. So Happy!!!!]]> Aleksander Stavre Drenova So long, Hamilton College!]]> Victor Hugo You're going to regret this.]]> Luís de Camões I had this dream last night. I was this arbitrary "every human" of indeterminate age or gender (kind of like a scale figure on an architectural diagram) then the great camera in the sky panned back above me and gave me this telescopic vision where I could see the position of every single bug living on the plot of land where I stood. It was super triply, like my own private NOVA screening.]]> Shmuel off to U of Waterloo to deliver a paper about Lacan and Cotard Delusion at what sounds like a really wicked conference about posthumanism. Pretty excited!]]> Thomas Campbell Gave Tony Tickle copies of The End of Poetry - which I have dedicated to him for his support a key point in my writing career.]]> Phillis Wheatley Charest is almost as big a thug and scumbag as Harper. And that is saying a lot. To paraphrase Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat defiance."]]> Boris Pasternak You're going to Regretsy.]]> Thomas Nashe Question of the day: Presuming it's not a trait unique to us, do animals recognize species closely related to them as "special?"]]> Ivor Gurney Please store your bathchairs in the overhead locker and fasten your seatbelts to c'mon, baby, do the twist.]]>

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Denis Glover ...why would anyone want a milkshake in a yard...?!?...]]> James Shirley Hey, get this kids. I'm reading 'Waiting for the Wave: the Reform Party and Preston Manning'. On p. 178, it talks about our illustrious Stephen Harper, in approximately May 1994, being "elected...to the ethics committee for Reform MPs.' harharharhar.]]> Chairil Anwar YES! via Elizabeth Pickett: 'Breaking: Judge declares 2011 federal election results in Etobicoke Centre null & void.']]> Robert Southey have gained way more from the generosity of people than I have suffered from greed and cruelty.]]> Bettina von Arnim can't believe all the nude Harpers in her feed. If there's a baby boom in Canada 9 months from now, that's it, she's moving.]]> John Gay "get behind me, Satan" seems an invitation for all kinds of unwholesome delights.]]> Thomas Warton In the three years that I've been going to Bela Dubby I've heard incredible music and made incredible friendships that I will carry with me well into the future. Hats off to John and Jill Cirino, Scott Hosner, Ryan Kuehn and everyone who kept a fantastic DIY music and arts laboratory going for five years! BD will be sorely missed, but I am excited about all the opportunities we can continue to realize here in NEOhio and wish the Cirinos best of luck in their new business venture...]]> Henry Newbolt "i want to go and come back before i leave."]]> Stephane Mallarme Going to a Cubs game now. Nice weather and great seats.]]> Benjamin Paul Blood just sent the next issue of Verse to the production gurus. Excerpts from novels by Allison Titus and Alissa Nutting, an interview with Eileen Myles, photos and text by Joshua Edwards, a poem sequence by Francois Luong, and treatments of the 9/11 Commission Report by Travis MacDonald. Yes, we're excited.]]> Juvenal How incredible would an Aimee Mann/Santigold duet be?]]> Francis Ledwidge Gone glamping. Back Monday.]]> Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński off to the woods and waters.]]> can anyone recommend an illustration / drawing 101 course in toronto for not-kids like me?]]> Miguel Hernandez has the poetry of All in the Family at "Poetry & Popular Culture." For verse by "a regular Edgar Allan Poe-lock" -- and a subsequent debate about privacy -- check out http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/.]]> Matthew Arnold Spanske rapporter på Promenaden: http://www.prmndn.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/og-sa-afsted-til-spanien.html http://www.prmndn.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/og-sa-afsted-til-spanien-2.html.]]>

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Charles Wolfe So if the first law of corporations is that the first duty of the board of directors is to serve the interests of shareholders, I can't wait to see what that's going to mean for the user experience of Facebook.]]> Kay Boyle My cats are outside in the sun. They refuse to come in. I'm afraid they will get a furburn!]]> Stephen Hawes Mona Lisa you smile and we wonder at just what it is you understand so well.]]> Francis Ohanyido Graperies liberated himself from the back yard. What did he do on his neighborhood wandering? Peed on every lawn he could get to and rolled around in sewage dripping from the compost truck.]]> Phoebe Hesketh I went for a walk in Trinity-Bellwoods today. It was sad. I had no idea so many guys in Toronto can afford frisbees but, alas, not shirts.]]> Man Ray They tore down a neighborhood of houses to build the mall that is now being torn down in order to build houses.]]>

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Kurt Tucholsky Pool closed boo. Fruity cocktails on the rooftop yay!]]> Veronica Franco Shot Tower Coffee, Italy moment.]]> Clemens von Brentano Laundry, I've never really liked you and you've never really liked me. Can we just agree to disagree and go our seperate ways? Leave the clean sheets and the keys on the counter. It's been a slice.]]> Abraham Regelson Oh, strawberries, how I've missed you! Went to the coop and got ridiculously delicious strawberries today and they taste like ambrosia fruit from heaven. My plan for the weekend: eat strawberries! Someday, I will grow them in my backyard!]]> Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński finished an enormous editing assignment around 2am, slept a little, and commenced the packing and purging. Time to rest his feet....]]> Igo Gruden Il y a des vieilles plaies qui ne prennent pas leur retraite au Québec, @Jeancharest, @Courchernes.]]> Wyndham Lewis everything strikes me as hilarious today. how do i bottle that?]]> Clemens Brentano Need to figure out a Toronto venue to launch Looms after October 2012 - Shearsman can arrange readings for me in the UK, but any suggestions for Toronto?]]> Damaso Alonso in a fit of ennui keyworded kde-4.8.3 on laptop. it works but with same xsessionerrors. going to fetch Lemmy.]]> Andrew Marvell i am looking forward to a quiet, uninterrupted long weekend with Charles...]]> George Wither WeeBoy, on unpacking and arming his Nerf dart/SuperSoaker combo gun: "Now THAT's what I'm talkin bout. Total ERUPTION!"]]> Allen Ginsberg I think I'm going to stop work and bake cookies instead...]]> Erich Mühsam At the request of "good sense" I promise myself a politics-free, work-free Victoria Day Weekend, which is hard because politics is a passion and my work is gratifying.]]> Lorenzo Thomas I love the common typo, 'thee' for 'the.' Adds some gravitas.]]> Li Po Dear Friday afternoon: I like to spend you doing things I am good at. For the next 10 minutes I will eat french fries and type the words "Dave Grohl" into Google image search.]]> Marvin Bell Kafka Museum, Pinchas synagogue and Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. Lunch at Golem Café.]]> Matthew Arnold Great to see Tim kicking cancer's ass and out for a beer!]]> Ernest Dowson You can tell yourself and tell yourself that you don't need an afternoon coffee and you can put it off and try and get around it, but eventually you're going to have to admit that you DO need one, and now it's 4pm and yes, George Murray, yes, now I'll be up all night but you go ahead and make one because there's just no getting around it, it's coffee right now or else highway death when I fall asleep behind the wheel, the end.]]> John Ford My last day of classes this semester (aw), fresh veggies from the garden, and a night of concerts (the kids' choir and then the "Contemporary Ensemble"'s rock performance). Oh and it's finally FRIDAY!]]> Muriel Rukeyser TGIt's Long Weekend Friday!]]>

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Diane Di Prima And always the song draws me forward, rejoicing in the search and the prayer, bored with all but the mad, the strange, the freak, the impossible dare.]]>

57 minutes ago

Eugenio Montale It feels weird to walk out of the rinks into 32 degrees. Time for an Iced Latte!]]>

54 minutes ago

Lawrence Durrell haz no brainz left.]]>

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Shel Silverstein Bill wood's bday party tonight at Graffitis.]]>

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William Saroyan Okay, I've asked this question to two people today and received two wildly different answers that really surprised me so I want to open it up here. If you had a magic sword and it could do anything you wanted, what would that be? Silly answers are fine but I'm much more interested in what you'd actually want.]]>

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Musa Cälil getting off the S-bahn at a station we've never been to before and as i go to head down the stairs abi says " i think it's the next exit... but i always wondered where that stairway goes"... and that's the magic of abi, something happens once and he immediately files it under "always" or "never".]]> Musa Cälil Farewell to Donna Summer, one of the most influential figures in all of dance music.]]>

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Lydia Cabrera Am craving Hog Town Vegan... but every time I go there lately, they are closed :(.]]>

25 minutes ago

Daniel Defoe 98 year old Mother in Law died, Alzheimered, morphined and being sung to by his daughter. Also this weekend, marriage of an 85+ year old uncle. Life's rollercoasters.]]>

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Edward Fitzgerald do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do doot do.]]>

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Erich Kästner A day when all I really want to do is curl up and watch the Gilmore Girls. Preferably somehow under a tree, with an iced tea in hand.]]>

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Karl May Pleased to have written two talks in the last ten days on malls and shopping (one more abstract and literary; one on Calgary's CrossIron Mills). This time of year is so very great!]]>

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Tudor Arghezi “The horlinge of the litill balle with hockie stickes or staves” (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hockey&allowed_in_frame=0 via http://www.facebook.com/theorycentre/posts/356000257801110).]]> Thomas M. Disch I still call it SkyDome.]]>

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Luis Cernuda Ladies, is it sundress weather tonight in TO or am I just tricking myself?]]>

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Hristo Fotev After editing 1111 for five years, doing lots and lots of typesetting finickiness, I've become a lot more easygoing on how my own poems look. I no longer worry that my prose poems aren't perfect squares.]]>