I Need It, Bad

I Need It, Bad

Posted by btodt on April 5, 2013 in Blog |No Comments

Not too long ago I saw James Franco portray Allen Ginsberg in Howl (available, streaming, from Netflix).  Apparently, according to Franco’s November 2012 post on Huffington Post (yes, I know I’m behind the times), he led a group of NYU students in a collaborative film called Tar, based on C.K. Williams’s poems. Last night my NYU graduate […]

Opening Day!

Posted by btodt on April 1, 2013 in Blog |No Comments

In the spirit of peaceful cohabitation in light of irreconcilable differences (Cubs v. Cardinals: Talk about intersection!)… and also in the spirit of Opening Day, here’s a photo for you. My wife and I have been together for eight years now.  She’s a Cubs fan (ech, blergh, vomit) and I’m a Cardinals fan.  Somehow, we’ve […]

Blog to Blog – Jon Cone, “Sixty-Eight Statements About Poetry”

Blog to Blog – Jon Cone, “Sixty-Eight Statements About Poetry”

You may have heard: 1)  It’s hardest to write on a blank page.  (Right now our blog is a blank page.) 2)  Good artists borrow.  Great artists steal. In the spirit of both of these statements, we figured our first blog post wouldn’t be our first blog post at all.  Instead, we’re going to lean […]