Want the latest buzz about what’s going on in poetics online? Tripping the Blogosphere Fantastic maps trends by mining the hot topics appearing in poetry & poetics blogs. Randomly and casually updated from us Ahadadians with the news and views of other poets and blogs.

Now available from Dynamism are these strange, but cool gadgets. From the site: “Never again will you have to choose between having sushi or having a USB memory drive–thanks to the USB sushi drive.”

Which brings us around to Geof Huth’s excellent “dbqp: visualizing poetics” blog. Last week, Geof posted a selection of recent visual poems from Scott Helmes. The haiku-like nature of the pieces prompted responses from Bob Grumman, Michael Harold, Jesse Glass and Geof himself regarding the nature of haiku and the Western fascination with the form. Check out the post here and the comments here.

Over on Silliman’s blog, Ron comments on the “implosion” of the Realpoetik email zine over the weekend and the ensuing frustration, commenters liken it to “road rage”.

Head on over to Kevin’s woodshed and take his quiz based on The American Film Institute’s list of what it considers the top 100 film lines of all time which of course, as Kevin points out, “means lines from U.S. films only.” I like Kevin’s blog — he’s a Canadian transplanted to Japan and writes for an English language paper there.

Don’t you just dig those sushi USB drives?