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Living in Southern California, we're frequently accused of being citizens of LALA land, a region of delusions where the inhabitants have lost touch with nature because there are no seasons. But there are seasons. Our winters are cold. Those of us with fireplaces use them frequently from January through March.

"There is another way to become famous: Start an aesthetic movement. When you do that, you move literature out of the fiction-world and into the fact-world. Movements can be written about in non-fiction articles, which will interest readers probably even more than the fictive works themselves." "How reliable a guide is fame? Not reliable at all.

Poetry News: --- Who can explain why the practice of poetry has become the object of so much satire and snide dismissal? [link found here thanks] --- --- The Poem as Comic Strip #6 --- --- For this, my farewell "Poet's Choice" column, here are two poems related by a form: the sonnet --- ---