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Not a Bad Haul

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Books I got for Christmas:

  • How to Mow the Lawn by Sam Martin
  • A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems by David Wagoner (hurray!)
  • Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver

Music I got for Christmas:

  • The Crane Wife from The Decemberists
  • Sam’s Town from The Killers

New bands I recently found on the Web

  • Band of Horses
  • The Black Angels
  • Los Campesinos!

I wrote one poem last week. No, you’ll never see one of my poems here (copyright issues).

Meh.

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

I have a cold. Here’s what I’m reading right now:

  • December issue of POETRY.
  • Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber.
  • Selected Poems by W.H. Auden
  • Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia