Tag: poems

  • Underground Poems On A Rainy Day

    It’s a rainy Saturday and The Best American Poetry blog features a story on Boston introducing poetry into its mass transit system. Subway poetry isn’t new.  From the PERverse to the SUBverse, graffiti poetry has always lit up the underground.  Here in New York, “Poetry In Motion” is the formal approach powered by the Poetry…

  • Visiting Warby Parker

    Ten things I loved about my morning with Neil Blumenthal, co-founder of Warby Parker: – Old school train schedule board showing the day’s eye exam appointments, modeled on Philly’s Penn Station – The sign on the front of Warby Parker’s new Soho store: – Copies of Paris Review on the store’s waiting room coffee table, one…

  • My TED Talk: “The Poetry Of Misunderstanding”

    From the description on TED.com: What you say rarely communicates exactly what you mean — but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Television producer, Ross Martin draws on the principles of poetry to reveal how the ‘magical consequences’ of being misunderstood can drive originality.

  • A Message From My Neighbors About Technology

    My Fatherinlaw bought us a printer today, unsolicited.  Now when he comes to stay, he can print things and not have to look at us like we’re nuts for not having a printer.  Instead, he will look at us like we’re assholes for not having any ink in the printer he bought us. Same day,…

  • A Perfect Morning For Reading W.S. Merwin

    Here’s a love poem to Paula, his wife… Late Spring by W.S. Merwin Coming into the high room again after years after oceans and shadows of hills and the sounds after losses and feet on stairs after looking and mistakes and forgetting turning there thinking to find no one except those I knew finally I…

  • “How To Be Inappropriate” Presents: Grizzly Bear, Michael MacDonald & Daniel Nester

    On a boring conference call at work and don’t know what to do? Try this: 1) Listen to Michael McDonald, 2) …who sings on this track by Grizzly Bear (courtesy of Daniel Nester)… 3) …while you purchase copies of Nester’s “How To Be Inappropriate” from indie bookstores for all your friends.

  • “How To Be Inappropriate”

    Zoo Press published my book of poems, THE COP WHO RIDES ALONE, in 2002. I think like 25 people bought a copy, and that’s ’cause they were just being nice or are in my family. Then they all sold their copies back to The Strand and Amazon. By the way, you can buy this amazing…