"A good story is like fine Kentucky bourbon: it improves with age and, if you don't use it too much, it will never hurt anyone." - Alben Barkley

"In spite of the Coen brothers’ restraint at the podium, they were actually happy." - David Carr quoting Daniel Battsek on how to interpret Minnesotan (which automatically made me think of M'ris's periodic pointers on that theme, and is not unrelated to a poem I was working on this morning)

A poem I liked: My Poetry Professor's Ashes, by David Bottoms

Another poem I liked: Poultry, by Duane Ackerson

Via the Ploughshares blog: an article in the Independent on books not written, and a pointer to Jonathan Mayhew's comparing two Best American Poetry volumes poem by poem. (Haven't read the whole thing yet, but what I peeked at so far was very entertaining, and also instructive. It would not be a bad exercise to inflict upon one's own work...)

Errands and editing call. Onwards!