Choriamb has a couple of lolpoets on this page if you scroll a bit (they thought of it in July… sorry, Matt P.). Here’s my favorite:

this from Travis…

you send, I publish

I’m not a big jazz fan, but I have been sitting here for a while, browsing the web on the new 24″ widescreen monitor I bought a couple of weeks ago, listening to Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain. And it’s pretty amazing. I’ve tried to listen to Miles a few times before, but just never found that it was my thing… I mean, I still listen to Nickelback*, for chrissakes, I’m not nearly refined enough for jazz. And Bitch’s Brew still irritates me some when it finds its way into my iTunes shuffle. But it’s a quiet night in the house, and Sketches of Spain really just hit the right note. “The Pan Piper,” in particular, has me blissed out. (no mp3 to share, but here’s the m4a file)

* Really. But not that often.

swoon swoon swoon

robots? for reals?

swoon

This tidbit by way of Poetry Hut, though I’m mystified as to why it’s there:

The owners of a one-time Clayton gas station built in the 1960’s plan to open a recently-discovered “Mystery Room” they believe has been sealed for nearly fifty years…

Lee said he discovered the room a few months back while doing some plumbing work near the back of the building. At the time, he noticed an extra set of water lines that lead into the walls of the room.

“Who knows, we may find Jimmy Hoffa or Blackbeard’s gold,” he said.

It opens April 4, but prior to that time, they’re asking Johnston County kids to write essays about what could be inside.  link

Very Like a Whale makes the case for a gestation period for your poems.

from Emma Bolden:

The choice quote of my meeting with educators yesterday:

“Collaboration is an acting verb.”

Made by one former student, sent by another.

Need moar.