Monthly Archives: March, 2008
Song Writers on Songs
The New York Times has a new blog featured online now called Measure for Measure, featuring an eclectic group of songwriters who will be blogging about their own songwriting processes and what they’re working on. So far, the list of bloggers is very interesting, including Roseanne Cash and Suzanne Vega and I’m really looking forward …
Crunching Poetic Numbers
The Virginia Quarterly Review is a well-respected literary quarterly, but it seems they also have quite the literary funny bone. Ever wonder what titles are most common in poetry these days? How about the most cliched topics that are actually still accepted? I don’t know about you, but I was very happy to see that …
Pseudo-Holiday
This week is my spring break from both my jobs, and while my students take fabulous trips, I will be working! I have three books on my to-read list: refresh myself on the next book in my Facebook class, a book I’m reviewing for Bitch magazine, and a possible summer reading candidate for my day …
Libraries and Histories
This weekend I achieved a lifelong goal– we have a library in our house! When you walk into our house, the first room you see is now our library, wall-to-wall books. It was such a great experience to unpack all my old friends, many of which I hadn’t seen since we moved in almost a …
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