portrait of Maryanne Moore by Richard Avedon, 1958
clavdivs posts in praise of the entirely fascinating human and poet, Marianne Moore, who once wrote When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use. It is time well-used here, if this sort of thing is the sort of thing you like.
167th St. Station. James Baldwin Mural. New York, NY. by KTDrasky (cc by)
to bear witness, as long as breath is in him: "Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare," by James Baldwin
Lying Liars by katmeresin (cc by)
Next you're going to tell me it was actually only a couple of hundred yards to go before he slept? – not_on_display
"the best example in all of American poetry of a wolf in sheep’s cloth" explains how everyone knows Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken" – and how almost everyone gets it wrong (though not everyone: "I wrote a whole commencement speech about this general idea")
Plus a post about Best American Poetry guest editor Sherman Alexie's response re a white male poet who appropriated a Chinese name for submission to the anthology
and in Ask Me, looking for the author who said (something like) "The poet lies ... most especially when writing about himself"
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