A TIP FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA

would be: the next time you have another poetry reading at the White House and are thinking (yet again) of inviting Billy Collins, invite this dude named George Bilgere instead. He’s so good he’s better than Billy in writing those Billy Collins poems. His bio, albeit from a 2010 book, states he teaches at John Carroll University in Cleveland.

And here’s the latest update of my Recently Relished W(h)ine List below. Just blog-filing a quick one in preparation for my Poetry-Read-In-2012 List (I know you’re all agog with anticipation). As ever, please note that in the Publications section, if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects! More info on that HERE.


PUBLICATIONS
THE WHITE MUSEUM, poems by George Bilgere (see above. Except that he’s good enough so that he ends up writing George Bilgere poems)

AN INVOCATION FOR NEW WINTER IN THE YEAR TWENTY-THIRTEEN, poem viz card-broadside by Sheila E. Murphy (lovely annual)

HOMEMADE POEMS by Lorine Niedecker (charming, particularly as reproduced handwritten chap originally made by poet for Cid Corman)

ROUNDING THE HUMAN CORNERS, poems by Linda Hogan (a rewarding read)

* DIADEM: SELECTED POEMS by Marosa Di Giorgio, Trans. by Adam Giannelli

* THUNDERBIRD, poems by Dorothea Lasky

SCARED TEXT, poems by Eric Baus

THE LOST COUNTRY OF SIGHT, poems by Neil Aitken

LANGSTON HUGHES, NANCY CUNARD & LOUSIE THOMPSON: POETRY, POLITICS & FRIENDSHIP IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, correspondence and poetry edited by Anne Donlon

“THE SEA UNDER THE HOUSE” THE SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN WIENERS AND CHARLES OLSON, PART I, correspondence and poetry edited by Michael Seth Stewart

“THE SEA UNDER THE HOUSE” THE SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN WIENERS AND CHARLES OLSON, PART II, correspondence and poetry edited by Michael Seth Stewart

* THE STORY OF MY ACCIDENT IS OURS, novella by Rachel Levitsky (interesting to read this right after THE BUDDHIST—see below. The coincidence resulted in me wishing there was a little of Levitsky’s in THE BUDDHIST and little more of Bellamy’s in THE STORY …)

THE BUDDHIST, memoir/poetry by Dodie Bellamy (see above comment)

EVERYTHING FLOWERS, art monograph by Clare Rojas


WINES
1998 Fox Creek McLaren Vale