Relatively Unemployed, or How To Be A Poet

“Lament for Lorca,” Robert Motherwell (1991)

Oct 2nd

October

redpajamas: It is time to lose your life, Even if it isn’t over. It is time to say goodbye and try...

Oct 2nd

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pterodactyls: Adorable Video #7: The New Pornographers - Mutiny, I Promise You I love this song.

Oct 1st

Okay, who wants to buy this book for me? It just won the St....

Oct 1st

I am making a drinking game with myself

called “Drink every time you hear yourself say ‘And NOW I am really going to...

Oct 1st

Oct 1st

“I don’t know why one can’t chase two rabbits at the same...”
— Chekhov, in a letter to A.S....

Sep 30th

ragbag: chaz babbage’s windows error report ever since i...

Sep 30th

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature: Let’s Bet...

Sep 30th

Sep 29th

“Imagine Lucifer An angel without angelness An apple...”
— Jack Spicer, Imagine Lucifer...

Sep 29th

“[In] the poem which is really a serial poem … you just...”
— Jack Spicer (The House That...

Sep 29th

6:30 a.m. chocolate milk: The world is that much better. ...

Sep 29th

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chriscantwell: Dada - Dizz Knee Land This came on the radio as Elizabeth and I were leaving the...

Sep 29th

This is pretty much how I grade. Except I would add...

Sep 28th

aquabooks: (via freshphotons)

Sep 28th

Ulysses: The "magnum opus of populism"?

Sep 28th

A 16-year-old Walt Disney beside the ambulance he drove in...

Sep 27th

Sep 27th

Absent fathers in pop culture?

Hey tumblr - I’m designing this assignment on absent fathers for my writing class, and I am...

Sep 26th

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It feels like a Flaming Lips day.

Sep 26th

poetbabble: Poetry has an intensity about it, which is one of its loveliest qualities, but that’s...

Sep 26th

Dear Autumn in New Haven, I’m sorry I left you. Visit...

Sep 26th

From "Drop the flower down your blouse,"...

Customer meet the mirror, mirror meet the customer, but before the dark meaninglessness of things...

Sep 25th

austinkleon: Nabokov Edits Kafka’s Metamorphosis I love...

Sep 25th

Woke up early this morning & read the first four stories...

Sep 25th

chriscantwell: “Rise up, O Lord, and may thy enemies be...

Sep 25th

Crocheted breakfast (Kate Jenkins).

Sep 25th

WWI ambulance.

Sep 24th

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sometimesagreatnotion: John Krasinski reads from Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster...

Sep 24th

Things Discussed Today In Class

1) My teacher’s idea for a Biggest Loser porn website, with before & after porn 2)...

Sep 24th

"I am the last . . ." by Charles Simic

I am the last Napoleonic soldier. It’s almost two hundred years later and I am still...

Sep 23rd

wolfandfox: benjaminhilts: Original Winnie the Pooh...

Sep 23rd

Confirmed: Southern California is a burning pile of shit. ...

Sep 23rd

thisrecording: from here I would like to be driven around...

Sep 23rd

“When I was younger I busied myself with imagining and...”
— Aleksandar Hemon, being...

Sep 23rd

“One Morning In 1910,” by Tom Raworth. ...

Sep 22nd

chriscantwell: So much stuff people like is actually just shit in a clever disguise. But, if enough...

Sep 22nd

My Paper for Professor Wilcox on the...

mundy: Girls are rad cause they like stuff and they are people, but different type of people.  You...

Sep 22nd

In the conclusion, he calls women...

I circled this in red and wrote in the margin UGH, I am not a ‘cherished gift’ This...

Sep 21st

“If women are only considered as powerful male-equivalents,...”
— Yet another student paper....

Sep 21st

Sound recordings from the streets of Cairo turned into a...

Sep 21st

aquabooks:chryselephantine: Dustin Harbin (via Hark! A...

Sep 20th

austinkleon: Carl Jung’s “Red Book” “I should advise you...

Sep 20th

All 45 songs. In one sitting.

Sep 20th

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filmosophy2: Alfred Hitchcock suggests a cure for insomnia. - Sarah I’ll keep this in...

Sep 19th

"The Shadows," by Andrei Sen-Senkov

• marlene dietrich removes her teeth to appear more aristocratic. shadows on her face are the same...

Sep 19th

Humblr

It’s like Tumblr, except the people on it all have low self-esteem and only post about how...

Sep 19th

aquabooks: Jules Verne, Scott Campbell I don’t know...

Sep 18th

Rachel McKibbens On Needing A Shitty...

OB: Can you describe your poetic process? How does a Rachel McKibbens poem come together? RM: I...

Sep 18th

Dear Angry Mob, Oak Wood Trail is closed to you. We feel it...

Sep 18th

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It...”
— Roland Barthes

Sep 18th

OK, this needs to come out on DVD now. I want to make my...

Sep 18th

“I’m going to an 18th century reading tomorrow. I’m really...”
— Elizabeth, on her late night...

Sep 18th

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,

Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the...

Sep 17th

How like a god.

southtwelfth: Inspired by Elizabeth Wilcox’s recent-ish essay on Withnail & I, I have...

Sep 16th

“After only a few paragraphs, a basic grammatical howler...”
— Mark Lawson on Dan...

Sep 16th

William Blake's World: A New Heaven Is Begun

Sep 15th

“I start with an image, then I go from the image toward...”
— Dan Chaon (via austinkleon) I...

Sep 15th

Nate Page carves magazines up.

Sep 15th

libraries:felrod:sosexyoutofcontext: Pristina.org |...

Sep 15th

Joel Brouwer gives good advice.

“Maybe if you’re going to write a book of pantoums or a book about the tin mines, you ought to...

Sep 15th

Clarice Lispector: “that rare person who looked like Marlene...

Sep 14th

Sep 14th

“Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.”
— John Proctor, The Crucible...

Sep 13th

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Dancing Cheek to Cheek (your Sunday morning Louis & Ella)

Sep 13th

hey, brb

Sep 12th

Watch

sometimesagreatnotion: Kurt Vonnegut reads from Breakfast of Champions. I love hearing authors (or...

Sep 11th

Jane Campion & Keats

Sep 11th

Plagiarism on the first paper?

Nice, guys, nice. And next time, at least be more creative than Sparknotes … BALL-KICKING...

Sep 11th

From "sweet reader, flanneled and...

Reader unmov’d and Reader unshaken, Reader unseduc’d and unterrified, through the long-loud and the...

Sep 11th

aquabooks: poetrynews:blushing:narcissas:bewitchedstars: ...

Sep 11th

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hipsterdiet: Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule the World (via lilyna)

Sep 11th

(via chriscantwell)

Sep 10th

“Franklin was a 18th century rake who enjoyed his...”
— These are notes my coordinator...

Sep 9th

“There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine....”
— Michel Foucault

Sep 9th

Literary Adaptations Week: The Big Sleep...

My latest offering at filmosophy … because who doesn’t love a tied-up Humphrey Bogart? ...

Sep 9th

Winslow Homer - “Summer Squall”

Sep 8th

walkwhilereading: Humphrey Bogart stars as Philip Marlowe, a...

Sep 8th

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Trailer for Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest book (coming out on Sept. 22nd), Nocturnes: Five Stories...

Sep 8th

attentiondoozers: Closing out the park with Space Mountain ...

Sep 7th

Happy Labor Day!

Sep 7th

Robinson Jeffers' Big Sur

Sep 6th

(via chriscantwell) This is what it looks like when your...

Sep 6th

Sep 5th

Two English Poems

by Jorge Luis Borges II What can I hold you with? I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets,...

Sep 4th

Two English Poems by Jorge Luis Borges I The useless dawn...

Sep 4th

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marginalgloss: The world is one magnificent fucking shop. Richard E. Grant could sell me anything.

Sep 4th

WHO WANTS STAR WARS CHOPSTICKS??? Don’t lie, you know...

Sep 4th

hortenseg: From Animalia by Graeme Base. When I was a...

Sep 4th

cjmeeks: This is HarperCollins’ cover for a new printing of...

Sep 4th

I’ve had this sitting on my DVD player for a few weeks...

Sep 4th

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boggle: stayforthecredits: It’s that time again! I will forever re-tumble this video when I get...

Sep 3rd

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Sometimes it is 5:30 pm and you are just now sitting down and actually checking email and...

Sep 3rd

“Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the...”
— Italo Calvino

Sep 3rd

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thisismyfavoritesong: “Jackson” by Johnny Cash from At Folsom Prison (1968). Watch Johnny Cash...

Sep 2nd

“Media has implemented the buff look as the correct look. On...”
— I love grading papers.

Sep 2nd

Withnail & I (1987)

filmosophy: by Elizabeth Wilcox There’s a certain comfort in watching other peoples’ distress....

Sep 1st