Mike Snider's Formal Blog and Sonnetarium<br>Poems, mostly metrical, and rants and raves on poetry and the po-biz.Shaken- January 11, 2006 Monday I saw for the first time an F-18 being thrown into the air by a steam catapult. It was awesome and terrible in all the meanings of those two words, and a tremendous physical rush. The noise, just 20 yards away, is not a sound but a world, and the intricate dance of three sailors preparing the plane by attaching a restraining device meant to break at 50,000 pounds of force, choreographed by three other sailors hand-signaling to each other, the pilot, and the men 6 feet from the live...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113501/2006/01/10.html#a619 Spinning Wheels- January 2, 2006 I haven't put a single poem in the mail. It's been hard trying to decide how to put the 44 of them in groups of 3 to 5, and I've been looking at markets. For the first time in 25 years I've thought of sending some to The New Yorker, since twice in that long ago time I got a hand-written rejection, and I've got the first 80 years of the magazine on searchable DVD so I can try to get a sense of what they're printing this century. But the research has been pretty depressing. Take the year 2000...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113501/2006/01/02.html#a618 |