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Dan Tompsett
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Username: db_tompsett

Post Number: 178
Registered: 07-2007
Posted on Saturday, January 03, 2009 - 9:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/nyregion/long-island/04Rpoets.html?_r=1
Fred Longworth
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Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 5228
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Saturday, January 03, 2009 - 10:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Billy Collins was featured about two months ago at D.G. Wills, a bookstore here in San Diego. I attended the reading, and frankly it was the best poetry reading I have ever attended. I was also turned on by Kim Addonizio, about five years ago, however, I must confess to a sexual element in that reaction.

Fred
From Bambi: "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."

From me: "Even consciousness, a pastiche of recycled cans."
Jan Thie
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Username: jantar

Post Number: 19
Registered: 12-2008
Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2009 - 12:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Thanks for posting this. I had missed it somehow. Still, I almost did not read beyond the first sentence. Stupid journalists with their lazy preference for cheap word play and (not really) clever-funny quotes: "Maybe January is the cruelest month."

Give me a break. That's the THIRD frigging time I read that same variation on this old Eliot line in TWO HOURS of online newspaper reading... Sometimes, I think all those lazy journalists should be banished to those wastelands themselves. (Yes, a cheap pun; I know - so sue me.)

Bah. (End of rant.)
Jan.
"The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
(Mark Twain)
Jeffrey S. Lange
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Username: runatyr

Post Number: 1123
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Sunday, January 04, 2009 - 2:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Meh, don't be mad. It's a fun in-joke for readers of poetry, even if you do see it repeated now and again. And I love any reminder of it, as it always brings to mind the recording of Eliot reading his own work, with his bizarre Midwest U.S./English accent.

http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/011894_harp_01_ITH.au
"A-Bear"
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Username: dane

Post Number: 2345
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Monday, January 05, 2009 - 1:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Thanks for the article, Dan. What I found interesting is from where these writers draw their inspiration. It would seem location and solace are the two most important factors to create prolifically and prolifically well. I'm personally in a holding pattern right now (have been for the better part of a year).

I'm pulling up the roots I planted here in Reno (more than 8 years ago) and I’m moving into the vast unknown once again. No place in particular to call home but I now have a few ideas and a better feel for what I should be looking for to break my writer's block. A monastery that offers sabbaticals once a week. A Zen like setting for contemplation. It could work.