Why yes, that is a pretty good monkey

Toothpaste for Dinner: "haiku format"

"Epistle I" by Sheera Talpaz

A new poem from my friend Sheera at ink node. I especially love the last stanza.

Danielle Steele is "hungry / for your face"

In "The Poetry of Danielle Steel", Lamar Clarkson does a close reading of Danielle Steel's 1984 poetry classic Love.

"Subtract the daring enjambment and add a blinking laptop cursor with a voiceover and you basically have Carrie Bradshaw, 15 years ahead of schedule, but without those annoying egg-white omelets. Our narrator eats real eggs. (We know this because she is always making breakfast for men who may not return.)"

Via The Hairpin.

14 years later

Poetry posted "To You" by Kenneth Koch to their Facebook page this morning. It feels aimed right at me, or, really, from me to my wife, in light of our 14 year anniversary yesterday. Happy Anniversary, Babe! I love you.

This monkey is being kind of a dick to this dog

I know I don't update this much, but this is some quality content right here.

Gibbon vs. Dog from B. Leon (Singhto) Ponsart on Vimeo.

Via Videogum.

Anis Shivani's poetry dump

Anis Shivani shits all over Sharon Olds, Jorie Graham, Louise Glück, and Philip Levine in the Huffington Post. It's like the 2 Girls 1 Cup of poetry essays.

"Curiosity Kills" by Joel Watson

Um, yeah. I can definitely see how curiosity could be a bad thing. Kids should really re-think the whole "monkey as pets" ideal portrayed in the Curious George books.

Philip Levine, please save us

With the current state of the U.S. economy, I can't help but find it sadly ironic that Philip Levine, "the voice of the working man," is now our Poet Laureate. Much deserved, mind you. I'm just feeling pretty pessimistic.

Here's an old interview with Levine that is worth reading.

Blair is gone

Detroit poet David Blair has passed away. I don't have any details as of yet, but I do know that there's a big hole in the world now. He was a friend to many people and a vibrant part of Detroit's poetry community. He will be dearly missed.

Maybe alpha male baboons need to do some yoga

"Fighting off underlings, pursuing females and maintaining one's social status appear to be more stressful for alpha male baboons than researchers had anticipated."

What? Really? That sound like a cake walk to anybody?

"Tea Party, meet your T. S. Eliot."

Wingnut Camper Art Project Shares How-To Secrets For Sexing Obama

Free Neko Case show at the Poetry Foundation Open House

If I was going to be in Chicago June 25 this is definitely where I'd be.

I wish jungle exploration was really like this

Buttersafe – "Exploring the Jungle."

Megan Levad is not a drunken slut

But she is my friend and an awesome poet. Her poem "I’m more the drunken slut kind of feminist, or A Treatise on Political Philosophy at the Apex of American Empire" is online at Granta.com along with an awesome picture of Ms. Levad herself. Hooray, Megan!