Touched By A Monkey

“It burns if you put too much on, or use it other places.” I learned this week that vagina tinting is a thing and something fucked up ha...

The ever-awesome Karyna McGlynn makes sense of AWP for you . As if Karyna has ever had to wonder who to eat lunch with. She's one of th...

This 3-year-old kid reads poetry better than you do. Better than any of us. Though he's not actually reading. He's memorized it. IN ...

Maya Angelou Prank Show sketch from SNL. Super funny stuff.

I know it's been a while since I've updated this blog, but this was worth coming out of hibernation.

Coming to a U.S. Post Office near you in March. Assuming we still have the post office then. Now go mail some shit. Via Axis of Abraxas .

What? Motherfuckers shoved Brenda Hillman and hit Robert Hass ? What the fuck is wrong with this country where the current priority seems t...

They're Frenching. But in a totally platonic, non-icky way. Via Cute Overload .

The lovely and talented Laurie Saurborn Young gave a really great interview to The American Literary Review . It was one of the best poetry-...

Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali has died . He was 80 years old. I saw him read a couple of years ago at UofM and it was one of the best ...

Such a tough choice . Then again, to a lot of kids reading any poem would probably be considered punishment. Alas.

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

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