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  • Dan Barry is Our Domestic John F. Burns

    My fondness for the writing of John F. Burns is not a secret. But he is a foreign correspondent and doesn’t turn his typing to the cares at home. Dan Barry seems to be our domestic Burns. He takes the same warm stare, the same courage at putting the obvious, but painful, things into print.…

  • “We’re the people they need to be coordinating with.”

    Here’s a look at some people who believe in Open Source Emergency Response: Holdouts on Dry Ground Say, ‘Why Leave Now?’ – New York Times. They have a dog to protect them, a car with a full tank of gasoline should they need to leave quickly and a canoe as a last resort. They said…

  • Here’s a Long Poem I Read This Morning

    I am a poet. At least I used to be. I’ve got the books and the performance tapes and the tour posters to prove it. I write lots of stuff every day, but I don’t write a whole lot of poems anymore. I never read books of poetry– I honestly cannot stand what passes for…

  • Why The New York Times is the Best

    The New York Times coverage of Hurricane Katrina shows why they are still head & shoulders above everyone else when it comes to the poetry of the everyday news. Here’s just two magic paragraphs of horror description from Robert D. McFadden: Still officials cautioned that New Orleans faced a long, difficult climb out of the…

  • Thank You, Judith Miller

    Judith Miller went to jail today. “If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press,” she read from a statement as she stood before Judge Hogan. “The right of civil disobedience is based on personal conscience, it is fundamental to our system and it is…