My chapbook THE MENDICANT FELL BY THE STONE FENCE AT THE HERMITAGE CALLED AURORA is now available for preorder at Ethel Zine. This is a beautiful handmade book. Please help support this wonderful press. ethelzine.com/shop/the-mendi…

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Bloomsday

“We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” by The Animals was recorded 61 years ago today.

Jazz wikiart.org/en/man-ray/jazz

“you cant get on in this world without style” Happy Bloomsday

I'm chopped.

Even Harold Bloom suffered from imposter syndrome (letter to John Hollander, 1976):

I read many announcements of writers winning awards. If that were ever to happen to me, I don’t know, but I’d demand a recount since I’m so accustomed to failure I’d have to question the result or the sanity of those who arrived at it.

Joan as Police Woman (with guest vocals by Iggy Pop) Save Me youtu.be/k6biL0aNBlE?si=yiJU… via @YouTube

heavy metal sunday skirt

“The half-baked Rousseauism in which most of us have been brought up has given us a subconscious notion that the free act is the untrained act. But of course freedom has nothing to do with lack of training. We are not free to move until we have learned to walk; we are not free to express ourselves musically until we have learned music; we are not capable of free thought unless we can think. Similarly, free speech cannot have anything to do with the mumbling and grousing of the ego. Free speech is cultivated and precise speech, which means that there are far too many people who are neither capable of it nor would know if they lost it. A group of individuals, who retain the power and desire of genuine communication, is a society. An aggregate of egos is a mob. A mob can only respond to reflex and cliché; it can only express itself, directly or through a spokesman, in reflex and cliché. A mob always implies some object of resentment, and political leaders who speak for the mob aspect of their society develop a special kind of tantrum style, a style constructed almost entirely out of unexamined clichés.” —Northrop Frye, The Well-Tempered Critic

Tornado & flood watch. Iowa. June.

Hard rain.

Nice new US paperback edition of Aug 9–Fog

I had the privilege to talk with Marshall Allen some years ago when he played with the Arkestra in Iowa City. Wonderful man and tremendous artist!

This is a wonderful memoir by poet Keith Waldrop. Highly recommended. ~ J

A.R. Ammons

No English poet can sustain a poem on a single rhyme like Christina Rossetti:

Aram Saroyan

extract coming soon @MinorLits ...