Close Calls With Nonsense

I’m reading some poetry at the New England Art Institute this Wednesday July 1 with the inspiring Jessica Bozek: you can read Jessica’s vivid recent poems in Shampoo magazine, and also here, and also here.

There are pianos all over the place in central London. I’d play them; would you?

If you didn’t catch Paul Muldoon on the Colbert Report, you can watch the segment right here:

And if that doesn’t work, you can click here. I’m interested in the dissonance between what he says in conversation (poetry helps us make sense of the world) and what the poem he finally reads implies (it can’t, it won’t). And I’m delighted to think that Colbert reads serious poetry for fun: Muldoon isn’t on the show just because he’s a New Yorker figure now, is he? Or is he? And did you know about his other other job?