read one new poet a month

Someday, someday, someday this won’t feel like an overindulgence—but not today.

yet still love Jose Marti

all the while

...though I may return to this one soon. I’m feeling goal-congested.

I haven’t really been doing this regularly. But incidentally, I did read a little D.H. Lawrence in class, and revisited Wallace Stevens a few days ago.

Now reading Hunter “Squatting Deer” Prescot IV’s essay at the end ot July August 2006 “Peotry” issue. Yes, the misspelling is intentional, it’s their “humor issue.”

YOu can get the link through University of Iowa’s literary journal. Actually, I think I have a link to an interesting essay in the same:

http://www.uiowa.edu/_{iareview/mainpages/new/july06/intro.html}

Ah, here’s the poem! But the essay is still worth reading.

http://www.uiowa.edu/iareview/tirweb/feature/strickland/vniverse/index.html

I think I’ll read Frost this month. I think he’s underappreciated (because of that damn “Road Less Traveled” poem in all our yearbooks). I’ve also heard that he’s darker than generally believed—there’s one about a woman looking at her child’s grave through a window in her attic…