Lint Upon Tweed

La st Thursday we had a huge ice/snow storm rip through Oklahoma.  Schools were still closed today and I only worked 1/2 days on Thursday and Friday.

So how did I spend Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday?  The bookstore of course.

Since I’ve been on this poetry kick lately I’ve been looking for a sort of anthology of some of the greats.  What I found was a perfect book for someone like me who is just beginning to realize the true power of poetry.

This book has everything you could ever want in popular poetry.  If this thing doesn’t get you diggin’ the rhyme, I’m not sure anything will.

The problem is that it’s freakin’ huge!  So here’s the deal.  You know how your granny gets up every day and does her bible reading?  Well, I’m an atheist so I’m not going to read the bible….but I will read my daily dose of poetry.

One poem a day until I dig through the book.

And I promise that I’ll lay off the poetry for a while on this blog.  I actually do read other things.

I’m in the middle of Kings of Infinite Space by James Hynes at the moment.  And, I have a stack a mile high at home of others I need to get through this year.

I’ll give you a little heads up too.  Lisa Lutz has a new book coming out in March called The Spellmans Strike Again.  This is the 4th in the series.  She will also be in Dallas in April and I will be there.

On March 23rd (I think!), Christopher Moore’s next book, Bite Me, is going to be released.  I’m pissed at Chris right now because he’s not coming anywhere near Oklahoma.  But I’m sure the book will rock so I can’t be too mad.  This is the 3rd in his vampire series.  This series is nothing like the Stephanie Meyers Twilight crap!  It’s not great literature but his writing is much better and much more adult.

So I’ll be back in a day or so and update you on the first few poems from the book.  I might skip around or just start from the beginning.  The first poem is In Cabin’d Ships At Sea by Walt Whitman.

Man what a great journey this is going to be!!  2010, the year of education.

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