Thanks to Lifehacker’s tips and a little more sleep than I used to get, I’m waaaay more productive now than I used to be. Which is one part discipline and one part necessity, since full-time work and full-time grad school requires me to focus if I want to do my third full-time job: being awesome.

Some news: Ellen C. Bush and I will be reading October 13 at 6 PM as a part of the Carrboro Poetry Festival. Given how completely awesome Ellen is, I am jazzed that someone also wanted me!

I have been reading like a fiend, but since I’m now on my way to Linda’s I will tell you only the stuff you need to know:

• A Painted Field - Robin Robertson - good & onomatopoeic
• Against the Evidence: Selected Poems 1934-1994 - David Ignatow - up and down, but the up moments are astonishing… also, it’s missing my favorite Ignatow poem, so what gives with that?
• An Alternate History of the 21st Century - William Shunn - run-of-the-mill sci-fi, with two exceptional short stories
• other stuff - I didn’t enjoy as much
• Field & Stream Magazine - has the best article titles of any magazine ever
• Travels - W.S. Merwin - has a different version of the poem I used in my essay… uh oh