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Babies Think Like Adults

Mystery insect bugging experts at London museum

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Magazine's 'satirical' cover stirs controversy: Publication shows candidate dressed as a Muslim, his wife as a terrorist -- In case you haven't heard.

Gay tourism ad causes uproar in S. Carolina: State cancels contract, faces investigation after posters plaster London

US Airways cuts movies on domestic flights: Citing fuel costs, carrier to stop in-flight entertainment in November

Dubai detains 79 for indecent beach behavior: Westerners getting too racy on the beaches; police crack down on nudity

update

I have 78 poems that could be sent to markets.

112 pieces pend non-simultaneously at 26 markets.

13 markets (AGNI; Children, Churches & Daddies; Controlled Burn; Etchings; Gulf Stream; MiPOesias; Misunderstandings Magazine; Night Train; qarrtsiluni; The Quirk; Taiga; Weave Magazine; Up the Staircase) have rejected my work in the last three months. Five (Poesia, Third Wednesday, LiteraryMary, Alba & mad swirl) have accepted eight pieces altogether.

I have sent 24 submissions this month to eight markets.

By the way, you can download a pdf copy of the Oldest Profession issue of MiPOesias.

This blew the top of my head off (in a Dickinsonian way)

I read some James Merrill for the first time today.

Wow. Which is to say, damn.

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I'm being very productive today, so I'm rewarding myself: honey teriyaki salmon on a bed of jasmine rice to eat while my three pies bake.

a poem is a machine

"A successful poem is, as Williams said, a machine made out of words; if it is properly constructed it cannot fail to perform its function, which is to control its reader, by its selective and stylized processional means, that the reader 'cannot choose to hear.'" -- Helen Vendler, Contemporary American Poetry (9th ed.), p. 9.

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Asthma risk from too many nuts in pregnancy: Peanut allergens may make child more prone to the disease, study finds