poor po

To tweak a line from the Gospels, "The poor po will always be with us."

not numbers that count

Among poets, one’s popularity runs inverse to one’s respect among one’s peers.

counted and found wanting

The Instagram poet with a massive albeit abased audience.

on the down low

Let’s keep poetry our secret. Otherwise the culture will only ruin it for us.

hello, hello, can anyone hear me

The poet must presume an audience because none is assured.

it's alive

For a dead thing, poetry sure is a bulging, brimming, humming, oozing, teeming, squiggling and generally astir thing.

waste land the sequel

“The Waste Land 2” was not quite as compelling. It borrowed some of the glory but lacked the energy of the original.

[See iPad app]

This just in: Many who downloaded the app complained to Apple when they realized "The Waste Land" was not a video game in which zombies and alien lifeforms could be blasted into colorful pixels.

everyone's doing it

Everyone reads fiction but everyone writes poetry.

airport bookstore

Walking into an airport bookstore, behind me hundreds of people streaming in all directions to this or that gate and flight, and I realize how lucky I am to know the classics from the chaff.