Online Poetry: May 2004 Archives

I finally bought a laptop and installed a router to make the house wireless. Now I can browse the web from the comfort of my easy chair. That's much easier than walking upstairs, booting the desktop, and waiting for the computer to connect to DSL from
SBC. The wireless aspect is much more convenient.

One of my first discoveries from the easy chair was the The Poetry Center of Chicago Broadsides: original poems and visual art, letter-pressed onto cotton paper with archival inks in limited editions of fifty to one hundred. The copies of the broadsides are gif images. Otherwise I'd copy and paste Shiloh by James Tate.

I rarely buy impulsively, even when it's easy to do so, even more rarely when the buying is difficult. Nonetheless I just called the Poetry Center in Chicago, had a pleasant conversation with Kenneth, and ordered the Shiloh broadside--30 of 50. There's only a few of the 11X15 broadsides left, and for $99, you're really not doing that much to support poetry. But, nicely framed, you'll have a wonderful poem hanging on the wall.