Had the great pleasure of seeing Conor Lovett of the Gare St. Lazare Players perform Beckett’s First Love. I usually nap for the first twenty minutes of any play, but I was riveted by the performance, the language (omg), and the great themes: love, abandonment, loss, death. Heaven, I was in.
Then, as if that weren’t enough, Paul Muldoon on the Colbert Report. Poets, tempting as it may be, do not go on the Report. You are not helping the cause. You will only look shaggy and twee. Unless you’re Mark Strand.
Genius talk show host: 1 Esteemed poet: 0
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Betsy Lerner 
I recently discovered The Forest for the Trees. It’s terrific — the parts on isolation, depression, and perseverence really spoke to me. I am a freelance writer, trying to scratch out a living doing other writing (now with non profits), but I am also an MFA student, and a professor suggested the book to me. I’m linking you from my blog. I am new to this e-business. I hope you don’t mind. The suggestor (a word?) was Ira Sukrungruang, a nonfiction writer at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
I saw Paul Muldoon on the Colbert Report. He didn’t have much of a sense of humor!!