http://www.accommodatingly.com steve and jessie, boring you with stories about their baby, cats, poetry, politics, basketball, etc. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:40:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Academic parochialism watch, vol. XXVI: this Monday I had a long conversation with a student (one of my senior thesis writers) about the changing job market for receptionists: they're still in demand, but it's not clear where they belong, or what sort of enterprise fits them best. We were talking ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=653 http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=652 http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=651 I'm spending a lot of time here these days. Thank you, obsessive They Might Be Giants fans. http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=650 Quasi-regular posting here could well resume after the election; right now, whenever I look at a computer, I'm either preoccupied with things I actually have to do, or else twitchy and frightened. Yes, we're ahead, we're ahead, but stuff could happen! Some one-day samples are tighter than the previous day's ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=649 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 ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=648 Jessie says Nathan's been reading the development books, just so that he knows what to do. Now more than ever that seems to be true. Downside: he's stunningly contrarian on occasion-- a two-and-a-half year old trying to get in, after a slightly late start, his full quota of one million ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=647 Not political news-- there's enough of that elsewhere, and I have nothing to add to the best of its writers-- but good news anyway: Elixir Press appears to be back in action. This was a good smallish literary press and magazine based in Minneapolis that became hard to contact right ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=646 My Pindar is up at the Poetry Foundation site. (I'm not a classicist-- far from it-- but I play one on the Web.*) The Fresno Bee, paper of record (at least en ingles) for the region where Juan Felipe Herrera grew up, runs a story about him because I reviewed ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=645 We're perhaps halfway through our trawl for great neglected sonnets (preferably, though of course not necessarily, ones in the public domain): the best, yet most frustrating, fruits of such trawls are the fun poems I don't want to write about, nor to anthologize, but simply want to tell other people ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=644 Summer school is over! I'm sure I would teach either class again-- but perhaps not both at once. We wrapped up Intro to Poetry by spending the morning looking at MSS in Houghton Library. Robert Browning's handwriting was small, neat and legible; so was Keats', at least on what looked ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=643 Still sad about our dignified, and now departed, kitty. Nathan reacted (last week) not so much with his own sadness, as by asking, fascinatedly, whether and why Mommy and Daddy were sad. Right now he's playing with his friend W and with one of his teachers from last year, H, ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=642 funny hat Originally uploaded by Jessie and Steve This is my favorite picture of LaBelle. She came to us by way of Helene, a petite French lady who lived downstairs from us in New York. When Helene died, she left us LaBelle in her will, along with a small stipend for her ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=637 As we burrow through our summer, hoping to surface, like prairie dogs, long enough for a loud "yip" and a trip to the beach, I wouldn't want you to overlook some web-available works by some people I like: Marit MacArthur, whom I met in Orono, has a critical assessment of ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=636 Over dinner we listened to the NPR program Studio 360: we turned it on at random and kept it on because the guest was Steve Earle, who played a couple of songs from his new record, including "City of Immigrants," an alt-country love-letter to multicultural New York. As you might ... http://www.accommodatingly.com/?p=635