I have not been blogging lately. My previous post moaned about not having blogged for a month, and now this post arrives a week later. I’ve been reading a lot of stuff that I want to get out of my inbox (and my browser windows) and share some thoughts about, and I basically need to make more pots. More on that oddball phrase in a minute, but first up on my to-share list, courtesy of MediaBistro’s GalleyCat, is the following interview with poet Eileen Myles, reflecting on the heyday of poetry and punk rock in New York in the 1970s…

That’s something I miss – the sense of poetry as dangerous, vibrant, alive, cutting-edge and some basically serious shit. As Myles notes, it made a comeback for a while in the 90s, but I think we’ve lost it again. I think there’s some technical things we could do to seriously shake that up a bit, but that’s going to take some more thought.