I side with Poetry and, being human, I probably side particularly with mine.

- Eileen Tabios, taken unfailry out of context from “I side with poetry”

There was a cool pull quote though: “Imagine Portnoy’s Complaint set in the landscape of TV’s South Park.”

- Jon Paul Fiorentino, on a lone negative review of his most recent book Asthmatica, “Losing in front of my hometown”

Somebody wanted us know that we were being watched, just to see what we would do. Yet we were never questioned about our activities in the slightest, tho we reminded each other that should the FBI ever come to the door, we should step outside and close the door behind us, so that they couldn’t come in and claim they were invited. Every activist in the 1960s & ‘70s knew that.

- Ron Silliman, “Amidst the backwash of Alyssa Lappen’s attack“

I found this brief article in the Clarkesville, Tennessee Jeffersonian for November 2nd, 1853, and present it to you as a picture worthy of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

“Seven or eight negroes marched down Franklin Street last Monday, joined together by heavy log chains. Two of them, apparently perfectly contented with their situation, discoursed sweet music from two old dirty looking violins, as they marched along. The spectacle would have delighted Mrs. Uncle Tom Stowe, and drawn tears from the eyes of the tender hearted abolitionist.”

We can almost hear that music.