#ModPoLive Thanks, Al! Great webcast.

#ModPoLive This poem brings to mind e e cummings’s “i thank You God for this most amazing / day.” Do we know which came first? Did one influence the other?

We don’t seem to talk much about the syllabic nature of many of Corman’s poems. #ModPoLive

JL Austin distinguished "locution", the act of speaking, from "illocution": the thing done in the world by that act.The Economist #ModPoLive

Bob Dylan? #ModPoLive

"And I have known the eyes already, known them all-- / The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase" T. S. Eliot #ModPoLive

Is Stein interesting and important primarily because of her influence on others? #ModPoLive

Do the first two lines suggest Eliot? #modpolive

"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the dayEBWhite

From The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton:

The New Yorker's Anthony Lane on the Oscars: newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

Just saw Interstellar at ArcLight Hollywood in the Dome. Spectacular! Reminds me why we're in this business.

Summer reading highlights: In the Light of What We Know, The Most Dangerous Book, Wave, and Black Swan Green (audiobook).

The last Crumbs shops close. Next: juice bars.

Happy Bloomsday! Audible.com has Ulysses unabridged for $5.95--today only. Check out, too, the Ulysses game app from Word Soup.

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." Happy birthday W. B. Yeats.

Saw 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Dome @ArcLightCinemas last night. Is it just me, or does digital projection look flat?

"For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something." 2001: A Space Odyssey.