What do you have planned for the last month and a half of the decade? Do you let traveling and holidays distract you? Today is one of the most stressful days of the year in South Korea. At the end of something, it's hard to look backward.

I forgot I had a blog. But the blog didn't forget.

George Lakoff's Conceptual Metaphor WWW Server is really cool. I found it in Heather Christle's Reading Room in the new incarnation of Slope (The Collected Issues--click on 26).

Here's a sample from the first thing:

A Problem Is A Body Of Water

Source Domain
body of water
Target Domain
problem
Note:

Investigating Problem Is Exploring Water

-- 1 He dived right into the problem.

-- 2 He really immersed himself in the problem.

Difficulty In Solving Is Difficulty In Exploring Water

-- 1 The problem itself is murky.

-- 2 The murky waters of the investigation frustrated him.

Trying To Solve Is Looking For Object In Water

-- 1 He'd been fishing for the answer for weeks.

-- 2 He kept coming up empty.

Solving Is Finding Object In Water

-- 1 Finally the answer surfaced.

The Solution Is An Object In Water

-- 1 The answer's just floating around out there.

Jane Espenson

Poems of leaving and staring at The Poetry Project: 5 Poems by Claire Becker

Place I've never been to for a reading:
Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts
It doesn't say they carry poetry on their website, but maybe that falls into the category of "renowned local authors."
Poetry reading by Joshua Beckman and Graham Foust
2904 College Ave.
Berkeley, CA
Thursday, October 22, 7:30 p.m.
Is this real?

Graham Foust

Poemas

(Traducción de Claire Becker)

(Mandorla #12 appears to be out.)

The wonderful people at Octopus Books are going to put out my first book. Look out in fall 2010 for the book, probably called Where We Think It Should Go. It's raining in Oakland. It's practically winter. It's practically the end of the decade. Welcome new decade! Love you already.

Part of a poem for my sister. Happy birthday LCB!!

Wasn't it done then undone, by
us and to us, enveloped, sid-
erated in a starship, listing
with liquids, helpless letters–
what else–pouring from that box,
little gaps, rattles and slants

Like mountains, pretty much worn down

-Michael Palmer, from "Letters to Zanzotto"

GET YOU

My e-chap Get You is now available at Duration Press.

Check out Lauren Levin's Flaming Telepaths in H_NGM_N #8!

Not Thirty Yet

Ann Arbor is practically Detroit, which you can get to from Chicago, and isn't that far from Canada, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, or Grand Rapids. But don't be fooled. It's all very far.