Out & about

Dan Waber has started up a new blog (his term for it) at his Logolalia site. It's called ars poetica, & how it's structured is best described by Dan's own words.

"This is a themed blog (poems about poetry) that will lead to a print anthology. Dan Waber invited five of his favorite poets to send him an ars poetica they'd written along with the names and email addresses of five other poets. He then invited those twenty-five poets to do the same. He then invited those hundred and twenty-five poets to do the same. He then invited...you get the picture."

With only one poem being published per day, this has the potential to make the Guinness Book of Records.

A new issue of Sugar Mule has just gone live. It's an anthology of collaborations, guest-edited by the Divine Miss M. - Sheila E. Murphy, that is, not that Midler person. An enormous collection, testament to just how high the esteem that Sheila is held in is. Geof Huth has a nice review of it over at dbqp.

There's a great interview with my dear friend Ernesto Priego over at Tom Beckett's e-values.

& elsewhere in the ether, I explain in Turkish about my fetish with certain words.

AT: Dergi adı olarak neden “Otoliths”i tercih ettiniz?

MY: Belli sözcükleri severim. Otoliths de bunlardan biri..Otolith, balığın kulağında bulunan ve onun büyüme seyrini gösteren bir kemik, ağaçlardaki yaş halkaları gibi..