I don’t apologize for calling him out last night. But since Matthew Olzmann’s name has appeared so recently in this blog, you should read one of his poems.

Hell, while I’m at it, let’s Google-stalk a couple of my other poet-friends:
Ruba Ahmed
Laurie Capps
Maudelle Driskell
Justin Gardiner
Jynne Dilling Martin
Leslie Shipman

Many of my other friends can easily be stalked via the blogroll at left.

Other than my stalkings, I have spent the evening re-shelving and alphabetizing books in my office, in preparation for another semester of working my tail off. I did something I’ve never done last night– wrote a paper using voice recognition software. It was tremendously helpful– I got a lot out, and then did more revision than normal. I think just forcing myself to talk my way through the poem gave me the opportunity to look at my topic– stasis and the moment of binding– a little more thoroughly, and perhaps in a different way than I would have if I’d typed it up. When I type papers, I tend to go very slowly and deliberately, and then just revise once. Last night was wholly different. And cool.