A few years back, I read what seems to me now some not so great poems at the Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry Series. Checking the schedule for this year, I’m happy to see one of my former students (from the Charleston School of the Arts) is on the lineup to read, and sorry to see that Robbie’s reading at a time when I’ll be away.
Also, Patrick Sharbaugh reports on the Spoletobuzz blog that Dana Gioia has canceled. Too bad about that one — was really the only lit thing that appealed to me, though the fact that I wouldn’t have been in town for it either makes it a sort of non-loss for me. This blog (so far) is fun reading: Patrick Sharbaugh writes well. What is not fun, however, is the blog’s header image. Maybe the whole idea of progressive is just such an oxymoron here in Charleston, one (the blog designer — and what about the sponsoring City Paper, by the way?) no longer feels like even feigning it? Or maybe I have it all wrong and the two pretty girls with lollipops are actually some festival performers who will be appearing and I’m just not familiar with them? If we are going to be treated to tantalizing visions of the beautiful people we will become — or those we will come into proximity with — by attending Spoleto festivities reading the Spoletobuzz blog about attending the Spoleto festivities, can we at least get images to fuel the fantasies of the some of us who are not similarly compelled by GQ’s look?
Speaking of GQ, the Real Paul Jones reports
Nasdijj can’t stop being other people and making up new stories about himself — and Equire can’t stop buying them.
At least once burned News and Observer Book Page editor, Pater Zane is bitter and confused by Equire, but Equire keeps on the Nasdijj stories as if in an odd uncritical puppy love with him (them?).
Equire? [Esquire] GQ? Can’t believe I confused the two.