A Bit of the Iceberg: Blog Surfing on the Titanic

Jordan Davis may not be a grandson (or granddaughter) of Frank O'Hara, but I think Jordan's blood's running with the O'Hara of Meditations In An Emergency. See his latest, 1082: http://millionpoems.blogspot.com/

Mark Young's wit on As/Is has always delighted. He spreads that wit, all the way from New Zealand, through his blog: pelican dreaming. Here's a sample poem:

Pictures from Brueghel
William
Carlos Williams
would have loved

hay(na)ku.
Spume from
the Passaic Falls

caught
in a
red wheel barrow.

Geoff Huth has done more for the small/large poem than just about anyone I know of (Bob Grumman's running neck and neck with him). His pwoermds are becoming legendary (see "Evidence" on his blog for examples). What I've always been impressed with, as a poet of few (if any) words, a lightning sensitivity, Huth as critic has the ability to glare, to spotlight, to highlight with a thorough astute prose. No one right now is writing visual poetics like Huth.

For someone who obsessively wears squirrel-thong underwear, Tom Beckett writes exquisite searching, reaching, arching, aching poems of burning, churning (sorry, the squirrel made me rhyme) meditation:

I
wish I
were someone else

who
knows what
I know now.

Who
knows what
I know now?

Visit his blog for more poems (and pranks). Man, am I ever looking forward to his new chapbook, due soon from Generator, Vanishing Points of Resemblance.