catch up

Seems like I've been struggling to keep up with everything lately. Here are some links I've been intending to post . . .

(By the way, it's the one of the coldest, wettest, and windiest nights here in the city in recent memory. It sounds like the whole world is sighing just outside the kitchen door. From the balcony in the back of our apartment we watched the wind push wave after wave of rain across the surface of the tennis courts and globs of orange light drip like lava from the streetlights. I could barely hold on to my umbrella.)

• A wonderful theological quote and discussion on faith in poetry from Laura Carter
  
  
• Nick Piombino on the wearying effects of hierarchical attitudes in poetry (thanks to Pantaloons for the link)
  
  
• That grand old poem called Winter from Henry David Thoreau
  
  
• A poem that Thomas Basbøll hasn't tested. See also his great discussion (it's in 5 parts - that was a link to the first part, here's a link to the last) of flarf and Tony Tost's I Am Not the Pilot
  
  
• A beautiful new prose poem from A New Broom
  
  
• Stuart Greenhouse on difficulty in poetry
  
  
• An arresting diagonal borderland between two fields of fractal letters at self-similar writing
  
  
• The horrors of christmas shopping, spiderman, and exchange-value vs. use-value at The Young Hegelian
  
  
• 131 new parts to Alexander Cumberbatch's long poem