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Getting Acquainted with A Few Facts
I’m a long-time subscriber to Harper’s, and in each new issue it’s the Harper’s Index I always read first. The June (yes, June) 2011 issue lists these wonderful statistics—as ever, without comment: Average amount NATO spends each week enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya: $1,930,000 Estimated value of arms sent by NATO countries to Muammar Quaddafi since 1969: $10,000,000,000 Minimum amount Qaddafi held in U.S. banks at the time his assets were frozen in February: $29,700,000,000 Seems Qaddafi’s retirement fund was doing quite a bit better than mine.Read More
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On Snobbery
“I am not Jonathan Mayhew.” “A true snob like myself distinguishes himself by a devotion to minor writers that haven’t been discovered by everyone else.” —Jonathan Mayhew One of the things I love about Jonathan Mayhew’s blog is that he speaks without the guile of ten-dollar words. He could have found alternatives for “snob,” for example—but amongst us poor souls with advanced degrees, no other word will do.Read More
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Post-Avant David v. NPR Goliath
Ron “Solo” Silliman endorses Palin’s “poetry” as part of his devastating attack on Garrison Keillor, Commander of the Public Radio Death Star responsible for destroying post-avant planets across the universe.Read More
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The Poetry of Sarah Palin
Oh yes.Read More
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A Legacy of Lies…
I’ve been contemplating the many lies we’ve all been treated to by the McCain/Palin campaign. These continuing and obviously strategic lies remind me of the Nixon years, when the war in Vietnam was raging. In 1970, in response to Vietnam, Robert Bly wrote what is perhaps the greatest anti-war poem in the language, “The Teeth Mother Naked at Last,” and one of main threads in the poem is the culture of lies that surrounded and sustained that war.Read More
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Seeing Through the American Narrative
Linh Dinh has a terrific post on his own blog and over at Harriet on this grim anniversary. I responded to him with this comment: Linh, I’d like to add the books of Peter Dale Scott to those your post will encourage folks to read. His poetic trilogy Seculum, along with his journalistic works, especially The Road to 9/11 and The War Conspiracy, examine the deep politics behind our major post-WWII national tragedies (those we suffered and those we inflicted on others).Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
