Read this on Poets and Writers this morning and it made me laugh. Here’s a tidbit:
Penguin U.K. has teamed up with Match.com to introduce a dating Web site for book lovers, or for anyone, according to the publisher, who has “ever wished real life could be as romantic as a novel.” The PenguinDating site, available only to residents in the United Kingdom, hopes to offer readers “a place to meet and indulge in the age-old art of writing love letters.”
How come the Brits get to have all the fun?
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This strikes me as very odd…
Thoughts?
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Here are some links to some new poetry books. I’ve added them to my list. My list is threatening to eat me alive but I continue to feed it. Some people never learn…
The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks, Charles Simic (Ausable Press)
The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology, ed. Edward Hirsch and Eavan
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Brenda Wineapple (Alfred A. Knopf)
100 Essential Modern Poems by Women, ed. Joseph Parisi and Kathleen Welton (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher)
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Poetry Daily posts a poem a day. I try to look at a few a week but this mornings choice struck me. I have yet to really put my finger on it but I think I like it so much because it is full of abstractions.
Brianna Pike 