With the events in Asia, I'm anxious to go to Ann Arbor and hear His Holiness the Dalai Lama. But my dear teacher, Gelek Rimpoche, approached the crisis last Sunday in a talk. Let's try to understand the current situation in Tibet. This has been goin… more »

I bet nobody was as shocked as me when this picture was posted from the February poetry reading. The fact that I was standing half naked with a couple of half naked women should have been shock enough. However, for me the shock was that my mind's ey… more »

Yup, that's Tremont! I'm going to start shifting the emphasis of WITB and start pimping the poetry events that I plan on attending or that I think are cool. It wasn't planned, but it seems that WITB has morphed into a poetry blog, so instead of figh… more »

WARNING: This is a rant! Today, on a rare time I read the PD, I saw two items in the business section that got me hot. It wasn't about the writing or editing or dependence on newswire this time. It was on the typical bonehead myopia, squelch filter… more »

There are loads of new and young poets in the northeast Ohio region. We usually only hear about the established and old that have set up local DYI zines and/or got published in the many little chaps or pamphlets. Or maybe they just print out their own… more »

You might have noticed the new big banner in the masthead of this here blog. I make no bones about being a Buddhist of the Tibetan kind. So guess where I'll be next month? [click on the banner for info] For those that have a weak index finger here'… more »