Clips are lower-threshold links, words, images, ideas, and hobby-horses from the guy who does 43 Folders.
These are things that got his attention.
Billy Collins - “The Best Cigarette”
Full Text: “The Best Cigarette” by Billy Collins
Interesting side note via wikip:
In 1997, [Collins] recorded The Best Cigarette, a collection of 34 of his poems that would become a bestseller. In 2005, the CD was re-released under a Creative Commons license, allowing free, non-commercial distribution of the recording.
A super classy move for somebody in the word business.
Nicely read by Tom O’Bedlam.
Lowell is one of my favorite 20th century poets, and, late in life, he was the author of a favorite quotation.
Full text: “Skunk Hour” - Poets.org
Frank O’Hara - “Having a Coke with You”
As Brian reminded us a while back, the title of Frank O’Hara’s book, Lunch Poems, came from the fact that he wrote much of his wonderful, breezy verse while on his lunch break while working at MoMA.
Like William Carlos Williams, Richard Hugo, and countless other of my favorite poets, some of O’Hara’s finest work was written when such writing was not his job.
Full text: Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara : Poetry Foundation
