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Today I spent several hours in a hospital and used the time to finally read through Versed, Rae Armantrout's Pulitzer Prize winning book of poems. My surroundings were quite appropriate, because of the dark cloud hanging over the book--Armantrout was diagnosed with cancer during the writing of the manuscript.

I'm not sure if I purchased Versed before or after hearing about Rae Armantrout, or if I had already begun my investigations of Language Poetry. For some reason, I did end up ...

Being a Granddad is great.

Suddenly a mundane life is suffused with golden moments - warm memories in the making, that will remain rich and vivid in the years to come. A simple walk in the woods with my granddaughter becomes an experience crammed with landmark moments - we find a fir cone, we crouch down to examine a slug, we pop the swollen seed pods of Himalayan Balsam, we chatter away to each other about trees and leaves and the noise the wind makes. There really is nothing ...

Have you missed me? Might be nice to have been missed, might not. If you have missed me then maybe this entry will get you all excited, hooray Blue’s back, how’s things? And if that’s the case you’ll probably be disappointed.
Why haven’t I blogged? I didn’t want to? Well, most of the time I didn’t. But often I did but, well, there’s lots to say and nothing to say at the same time really.
I’m kind of disappointing.
When I was working, ah so long ago now, I just plain didn’t want ...

Back when I was still in like high school I happened upon this Poetry forum called Arcane Artistry, than after a few years of so the owner decided he no longer wanted poetry to really be his main focus so he was going to close it and start a new forum that would be more of an interactive writing community but because I liked the owner and the over all community I decided to follow over to the new forum and since than he had changed or recreated his forum 2 or 3 times.

Well I started ...

I just found out that I can apply for uni next fall. I am gonna do it in the morning and I'll find out this summer if I get in. the thing is I have to show them what I have been doing and the department I apply for will decide if I can get in, the thing is working for 7 years in a home for the elderly is not exactly compatible with school, or anything concerning literature.

I don't think I'll tell anyone 'till I know how it will go. I do hope I can keep my mouth shut, not exactly ...