Archive for April, 2007
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Tim on the Mic at Beyond Baroque
Courtesy of Poetry LA, which I hadn’t been familiar with until now. Browse around their website to see other great performances. As we all become more interconnected through technology, it’s nice to see poetry taking advantage.
2 Comments » - Posted in poems by Tim
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Greatest Generation at the North Pole
As I type this, editor-in-chief Alan Fox and his father Fred are crammed into a small plane on their way to the North Pole. At 92, Fred will appear in the Guiness Book of Records as the oldest man ever to set foot on either pole.
The “vacation” is six days round trip. Weather-permitting, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Tim
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
I’m There
TC Boyle Reading at the Mark Taper Forum
Red Hen Press Presents a Reading/Performance by T.C. BOYLE at the Mark Taper ForumMonday, April 16th at 7:30pm
T. C. Boyle is the author of nineteen books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Tim
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Kurt is up in heaven now
REQUIEM
The crucified planet Earth,
should it find a voice
and a sense of irony,
might now well say
of our abuse of it,
“Forgive them, Father,
They know not what they do.”
The irony would be
that we know what
we are doing.
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Tim
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
New Online Tim Poems
Two poems and a very old photo at Rock Salt Plum Review, in what sadly appears to be their last issue. They’ve been one of my favorite online journals and will be missed.
One poem at Poetic Diversity.
And a question: What’s your favorite online poetry journal?
2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Tim
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
The Baseball Metaphor
When I was in high school I had a t-shirt that said “Baseball Is Life.” Taken literally, even as a teenager, that statement was a little depressing. As a metaphor, I was never quite sure what it meant: That even the best strike out more often than they hit homeruns? That [...]
