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04.30.08 by Widge @ 5:52 am  Gary Snyder, one of my favorite poets, won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. What does this mean? Established in 1986 and presented annually by the Poetry Foundation, the award is one of the most prestigious given to American poets, and at $100,000 it is one of the nation's largest literary awards. Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine and chair of the selection committee, made the announcement today. The prize will be presented at an evening ceremony at the Arts Club of Chicago on Thursday, May 29.
Yeah. I don't know about Prof. Snyder...maybe he's got a lucrative career on the side that I'm unaware of. But $100K to a poet? A poet? Wow. That's something to any writer, but especially to a poet, when it's hard to get people these days to read, much less read poetry. Well done. If you don't know his work, I would recommend No Nature for a nice primer. Also, if you can lay hands upon the performance of Turtle Island he did with Paul Winter, grab it. It's criminal that it's out of print. And to my knowledge never hit CD. One of my favorite poems reprinted after the jump. Categorized as: Books
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04.28.08 by Widge @ 2:09 am  There's just something irresistible about old paperbacks. Especially the pulp kinds with titles like we've posted before. I love these things. I'll go ahead and tell you I've added Nine and Death Makes Ten to our list of band names. Brilliant. See the full gallery at I'm Learning to Share! Categorized as: Books
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04.07.08 by Widge @ 2:25 am Another quick note. I've got a new project live. It's called Emily & Oscar. I'd appreciate your thoughts on it. To answer the three most popularly asked questions thus far. 1. It's a children's book. 2. It's not for "normal" children, no. 3. There will be pictures, yes. I threw one together of our two heroes because people were asking. Categorized as: Books
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04.01.08 by Widge @ 5:08 am It's April. And you know what that means. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Thomas Stearns Eliot has the floor. Categorized as: Books
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03.30.08 by Cosette @ 10:59 pm   Published by: Thomas Dunne With all of the concern these days about Destroying the Planet, whether through our "carbon footprint" or not recycling, as well as "green" living being the new catchphrase, I was relieved when I read this book. Rather than dwell on how we humans can "kill" our planet, author Alan Weisman sets out to hypothesize what would happen to the Earth if all of us pesky humans just up and disappeared. This is hardly idle speculation, either. About what happens afterwards, I mean. Weisman has consulted with experts in everything from forestry to mortuary science. He asks not only what would happen ten or one thousand years from now if there were no one to man the cooling vats at a nuclear plant, but also what will happen to all of those big heavy boxes in which we've been interring our dead over the last century. He also examines what we can learn from past extinctions and huge climate changes regarding how our planet heals itself over time after catastrophe. Categorized as: Books and Reviews
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