I guess the HiH honeymoon’s over. If a social poet is “One who makes an art that transcends or destroys the division between populism and elitism,” then I’m even more convinced that there is no such thing as a social poet, at least in the 20th century. (Spicer: “No one listens to poetry.”) Poetry at least since modernism seems predicated…

Whatever You Want Is What You Want: 21 Responses for Jim Behrle 1. Critic & Poet = Lisa & Bart. 2. The Matrix is the matrix. 3. Rip every page out of every book you read and deface it beyond recognition. 4. John Ashbery and a stripper walk into a bar. The stripper says, “Isn’t it delightful that we’re not…

Slow blog day–I think Long Nose P.B. took a lot out of Stephanie & Kasey. Humanities Center end-of-year picnic. I got an award for “Coolest Shoes.” Then spent two hours at the emergency room with a friend who pulled/tore something in her calf playing frisbee at the picnic. She kept telling the nurses that she was injured trying to catch…