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The untiring Poet has a blog: Poems and Poetics.

Feeling rather old these days, for various reasons. We had something of a going-away dinner for a dear colleague last night, a chap who's off to a rather fantastic job at a highly-ranked Texas university, & the course of conversation revealed that he's a solid four years younger than I am – I who seem mired in a kind of career & intellectual doldrums at the moment.

I think that reading is one of the most fruitful activities a poet can undertake, because it is such a varied source of inspiration.  Inspiration can come in many forms, from immersing yourself in your environment to listening to music.  For me, reading other poets has been my greatest source of

This is one of the original "Beat" poets, who lives in the northwest , and has lived in Japan and other places. He is very deserving and not a part of the Po-Biz. His birthday is May 8, 1945 ( I believe). In 1982, I was blessed in attending a reading of anthropologist/poets [poet/anthropologists?] at The New School for Social Research.