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“