come hear rae
Rae Armantrout, that is, reading today Tuesday Oct 7 in the Plimpton Room of the Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, on the Harvard campus, at 6pm, for free. (Warning: link above goes to PDF.)
Unforeseen, should-have-been-foreseen problem in deciding to write about 50 sonnets in less than a year: if you begin with the twenty that you know best, of whose shapes and implications you feel most sure, and put off the ones that require new research, your rate of progress will seem rapid at first, then slow greatly as you reach the last fifteen. By “you” I mean “I.”
It’s too bad the Milwaukee Brewers aren’t even more like Barack Obama. And it’s too bad I don’t do personal blogging more often, because then I would have linked to Jordan’s fun piece on that team before the Phillies eliminated them. On the other hand, now I get to link to his latest Slate piece, about probability, gambling and the financial crisis.
I was almost ready to stop worrying so much about the upcoming election, given the latest polls, till I read this. Now I guess I’ll worry for four more weeks. If you click the link, you can worry fruitlessly too!
October 9th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
I’m a smidge hurt that you didn’t regret not blogging about the twins…
November 9th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Yeah Stephen,
I read your article in the magazine n+1 awhile back, and it was what prompted me to buy Rae Armantrout’s “the Pretext”; which then prompted me to buy “Up to Speed,” “Next Life” and to read “EXTREMITIES” electronically published on the website Eclipse. I also have read your article published in the Boston Review “Where Every Eye’s a Guard,” linked to from her Wikipedia page.
My question to you is if Rae ever has readings in New York City.