Dear Lord, read the one for “The Great Gatsby!!!”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisritter16/11-beloved-books-with-shockingly-bad-reviews

Passing this along again today to a few colleagues; Dagda Publishing is seeking reviewers.

http://dagdapublishing.com/2013/08/17/are-you-a-reviewer-wed-like-to-get-in-contact-with-you/

To mark National Poetry Month, I’m sharing my favorite places to find new poetry from up and coming writers.  All three of these communities are great places to meet readers, writers, colleagues and friends:

Dagda Publishing

http://dagdapublishing.co.uk/

Dead Snakes

http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/

Dead Beats Literary Blog

http://www.deadbeats.eu/

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

— from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”

I can’t decide which is my favorite. I am particularly interested in the “poetry on the pavement” and “poetry in an unexpected place” suggestions, because those are the most Joker-esque. (Or maybe Batman-esque, considering the Dark Knight’s burning emblem bridge trick at the end of the third film.)

Rest assured, I will be combining these activities with caffeine abuse, manic episodes, and at least some degree of sociopathy.

If you are not watching NBC’s “Hannibal,” then you don’t know what you’re missing.

That is all.

And a blood-colored moon
sets in the West
Like a round red blade —
its scarlet “C”
meets the trees
before it rests.

(Seriously, folks. Right now. If you live in NY, go look at it!)