I wrote to correct an error in this story but while the reporter thanked me for the correction and the Times fixed it, they didn’t bother acknowledging the error because of course they didn’t Mary de Rachewiltz, Ezra Pound’s Daughter and Defender, Dies at 101 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Mary de Rachewiltz, Ezra Pound’s Daughter and Defender, Dies at 101

Sent away as a baby, she remained loyal to her famous father, translating his poetry while fighting to distinguish his literary legacy from his fascist politics.

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And to be clear, I am talking about still following Odysseus on social media despite his problematic behavior at Troy.

Adolphus Cooke of Westmeath instructed his servants to genuflect to a turkey, which he believed to be his reincarnated father, once entered into hand-to-hand combat with a bull, and ended his life believing he had been transformed into a screech owl.

Just thought of the best possible name for my press. Unfortunately I don’t have one.

If Tricky D. can be cheerful, why can’t we?

Newish work in the latest Denver Quarterly (v.60 no.3), thanks to Jane Huffman, Ian Cappelli, et al. Here’s the opening three entries (of thirty-one) out of “Notes Written in October.” Part of a manuscript called “Notes for General Circulation.”

Saint Dominic among the flowers, with excellent though skeptical demon behind the chair (knows it cannot bother the saint!), in the Spinola Hours, also by Gerard Horenbout of Ghent. It's his day.

Come for the alka-seltzer, stay for the singin’

The obvious (to me): second from left, back row, Anselm Hollo. Front and center A.G. Who else?

Today our newsletter readers received three pinpoint sharp poems by Javier Salvago, translated from the Spanish by John R. Sesgo. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/good-in-hi...

C.P. Cavafy “Sometimes they speak in our dreams, sometimes the mind hears them.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Voices”, translated by Evan Jones.

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

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and break the furniture and vomit all over the house.’ He added that, in order to protect oneself, ‘a writer needs to be completely unavailable.’”—the Guardian. Peace to your ashes, you mixed up old mummy. (2/2)

He lit the moon for me when I was 16. “Speaking to Penthouse magazine in 1978, Purdy said being published was like ‘throwing a party for friends and all these coarse wicked people come instead (1/2)

PM Edward Heath, Queen Elizabeth, Richard and Pat Nixon at Chequers, Pat looking as usual as if she’s about to cry. (3 October 1970)

Iraq War veteran Hugh Martin ⸻ from the Spring 2013 issue of The Iowa Review

John Loudon Gow, one of my great-grandfathers (and a Civil War veteran) with white hair and cane in Chicago. John lived in Springfield IL and old newspapers say that Lincoln danced around a ball with John on his feet. It could have happened. In any case he was obsessed for the rest of his life.

A little bit of Philip Whalen in the late Keith Kumasen Abbott's terrific caligraphy.

This woman, this (very special) guitar! Shades of John Fahey+++ #JohnFahey #guitar youtu.be/OOaKosc1cq0

After Hours Sessions | Gwenifer Raymond – @GweniferRaymond

YouTube video by Turnstone Guitar Company

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Sea Turtle 🐢 Saturday mood

Join together, Finnish workers! The Worker’s Society of Perälä (my late father-in-law’s home village)

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For some reason I’m obsessed with May Day this year

“Village Scene with Dance around the May Pole” by Pieter Brueghel The Younger

Happy May Day!

Kenneth Koch from _Thank You and Other Poems_ (Grove Press, 1962)

Blue hepatica, one of the first spring flowers in Finland. Used to be called blue anemone (and I still do)