I've been reading poetry, but not online. Online I've been reading or downloading to read offline literally megabytes of text, but none of it's poetry. If there're any of you left out there reading this here, you've noticed that I pretty much missed October.
Last weekend I did return, after nearly a year, to reading and posting (but no poetry yet, except a suggested epigram in a private message) at Eratosphere, and a couple of days ago I started reading poetry blogs in a most desultory fashion, so perhaps there's a verse or fourteen brewing somewhere in my backbrain. I'll be glad if it's true. If it is, it will be because of things like these:
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The Dover Intelligent Design trial transcripts. Wonderful lawyerly maneuvering by the plaintiffs, Keystone Cops work by the defense, and, along the way, lots of truly fascinating evolutionary biology.
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Samuel Pepys' diary. One week the guy can't pay his debts, and the next he has £640 and is meeting Charles II at the Hague before he returns to England.
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The New York Times science section. Someone told me how to make permanent links to their stuff, but I've forgotten. Recent articles have titles like "On Gravity, Oreos and a Theory of Everything" and "Closer to the Bone."
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I can't live without Arts & Letters Daily. Make it your home page.
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Bernd Heinrich's Why We Run, because it's the most recent thing I've read. But anything by Bernd Heinrich, and at least Ravens in Winter
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The Origin of Species. I haven't read it in 20 years. I've been stupid.
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Jane Austen.
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Kevin Young's Jelly Roll. He's got some rhythmic tricks I haven't quite sussed out, but even if I never do, it's already changed the way I read poetry.
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Gibbon. Yes, that Gibbon.
This weekend I've got lots of sites to add to that list on the left, and tomorrow I'll maybe have a new poem. So there.
8:13:28 PM 
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