I’d also recommend reading my write-up on the Lampman-Scott Reading over at the Ottawa Poetry Newsletter.

The Equinox issue of Womb is now live and I’m in it along with Kate Greenstreet (who we heard at The Factory series earlier this year) and several other women poets – Kelli Russell Agodon, Nicole Cooley, Luisa A. Igloria, Eve Rifkah, Jennifer Karmin + vispo, Nicki Hastie, Raina León, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Arlene Biala, Nava Fader, C Mehrl Bennett, Laura Goldstein, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Kristen Orser, Kathryn Douglas, Angela Veronica Wong, Juliet Cook and Lillian Baker Kennedy.

The poems in Che Guevara’s notebook, his Commonplace book of words that guided him will be published.

Have I mentioned Slice and Dice before?

When you write some utter dreck, paste it into that web page, ask it to be cut into from 3-6 columns and it creates new justapositons that may turn up interesting combinations and if not, at least you have virtually destroyed the piece that annoyed you. Sure one could use paper for that but why?

btw, it may be time for this if bat’leth figures in a poem. Clearly it may already be in trouble at that point.

Still, I rather like “her trust on a bat’leth”.

This round, interesting phrases that came up “if worst comes, it could have been”, “she will outlast segueing”, “hand laden in goldleaf” and “I’m earth rammed so seek me.”

2 renewals and I still haven’t finished either book, keep getting distracted into newer things.

It’s 4 hours until the library opens and neither can’t be renewed with holds placed on both. Now or never crunch. I’m not going to assume I can expand all the way to closing time.

And 6 more titles requested coming in at the same time and one other title received in the mail, and 4 more not yet due from library.

… and somehow the end of the month is looking foreshortened.

How much can I absorb?