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I want to recommend this essay by Roger Kimball to all artists and critics. A strong restorative, worth reading and keeping on hand for future doses. modernagejournal.com/notes-toward-t…

My thanks to Tom Jardine for his thoughtful, frank, and flattering review of Kingdom of the Clock, now up on his SS, Poetry & Art Reviews for Honest People.

Not ashamed to admit that Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦’s The Atlantic essay on Andrei Kurkov’s Kyiv Mysteries, the third volume of which I am currently steeped in, moved me to tears. It’s a fleetingly rare privilege—for authors, translators, anyone—to be so well understood. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

It gladdens my heart to see Maya enriching Kingdom of the Clock with her marginalia.

It was high time for us to let someone else have a chance. Hard to let go, though!

The great one liked #rhymed #haiku:

Pleased as pulp to have a little essay in this formidable issue. I propose a genealogy of noir poetry, focusing on Kenneth Fearing, Alfred Hayes, and Weldon Kees.

Prominent noses: historical, fictional, and fantastical; the contrast of Dr. Slop and Walter Shandy vs. Corporal Trim and Uncle Toby; and the benefits of digression—all in this week's episode. Share and enjoy!

As I drive down beautiful LA’s dustiest streets, thinking of the hatred aimed at the city, I remember another poem by Pillin, from 1978, in which a grouchy angel changes our speaker’s perspective: “…reality is random and misleading / unless changed in the eye…”

The mistake being made here is that you need a shelf beside the table to keep the key reference works within reach.

Kingdom of the Clock has been spotted in the wild, if that’s what you’d call The Paper Hound Bookshop which is the finest of fine bookstores!

This is what they do up here.

Spotted in town the other day: relics of a better age.

A little writing about writing about writing; a short essay to introduce a series I'll be writing for New Verse Review this year. Will I make a fool of myself? Almost certainly. newversereview.substack.com/p/writing-abou…

The custom illustrations by Blair Barlow Art are among my favorite parts of every issue! And with work from the likes of Steven Searcy Amit Majmudar Trampoline Poetry Jane Clark Scharl James Matthew Wilson the poetry section becomes a real feast.

Bay Area people!

Very delighted to have this exciting book from Michael Weingrad ; looking forward to reading it next.

Dab hands at gardening we are not; but foxglove season covers over a myriad of faults.

Reminds me of when, after reading this in grade 11, our teacher asked the class whether there was anyone in the school that reminded them of Holden Caufield and the class unanimously named me. Still not sure what to think of that.

We went for a long walk together today, and now I’m in receipt of evidence that everything is going to be ok.