"[...] Is it for miracles
We live? I like it when the morning sun lights up my room
Like a yellow jelly bean, an inner glow. May mutters, 'Why
Ask questions?' or, 'What are the questions you wish to ask?'"

Remembering James Schuyler on his birthday

"The blood jet is poetry.
There is no stopping it."

Remembering Sylvia Plath on her birthday.

What songs are making me swoon today? The new album from Tanita Tikaram, which she considers a successor to her iconic debut album Ancient Heart, is stunning. Expertly produced by Andy Monaghan (of Frightened Rabbit), his arrangements complement Tanita's dusky contralto perfectly, LIAR is superb!

"Words can strip the power from a memory or an event. Words can cut the ropes of an experience. Breaking silence about an experience can break the chains of the code of silence. Describing the once indescribable can dismantle the power of taboo."

Remembering David Wojnarowicz on his birthday.

“The creatures of the forest taught me how to sing,”

Remembering Yma Sumac on her birthday. Her astonishing voice spans octaves and time. #VoiceOfTheXtabay

"she carries a book but it is not
the tome of the ancient wisdom,

the pages, I imagine, are the blank pages
of the unwritten volume of the new

she is Psyche, the butterfly,
out of the cocoon."

Remembering one of my favourite poets, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), on her birthday.

#HildaDoolittle

Deprive him of coffee and confiscate his rump pillow and the Marquis de Sade will use his toilet funnel to incite a revolution to topple your regime!

Happy Bastille Day!

"Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard
But I think 'oh bondage, up yours!'"

Remembering Poly Styrene today on her birthday. Play some X-Ray Spex and play it LOUD!

"...But there is no power more formidable, more
terrible in the world,
Than the poet's prophetic word."

Remembering Anna Akhmatova on her birthday.

"The Goddess who created this passing world
Said Let there be lightbulbs & liquefaction
Life spilled out onto the street, colors whirled
Cars & the variously shod feet were born
And the past & future & I born too"

Saddened to learn of the passing of Alice Notley, one of my favourite poets. RIP.

"Love, if you love me,
lie next to me.
Be for me, like rain,
the getting out

of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-
lust of intentional indifference.
Be wet
with a decent happiness."

Remembering Robert Creeley on his birthday.

"We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break."

Remembering Kathy Acker, one of the greats, on her birthday.

#HappyBirthday #FavoriteWriters #KathyAcker

Grooving to the new CocoRosie album tonight. A welcome return of the Casady sisters. I've missed Bianca's elastic vocals and unique songs.

They are two of my favourites. The self titled debut is flawless.

"We must face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse."

"After one look at this planet, any visitor from outer space would say, 'I want to see the manager!'"

"Storm The Reality Studio. And retake the universe."

Remembering William S. Burroughs on his birthday.

"Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”

Also remembering Sarah Kane today on her birthday.

"Put something down.
Put something down some day.
Put something down some day in.
Put something down some day in my.
In my hand.
In my hand right.
In my hand writing.
Put something down some day in my hand writing. "

Remembering Gertrude Stein on her birthday.

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."

Remembering James Joyce on his birthday.