As you'd guess I live by Beuys' 'principle that the 'artistic' must cross over into every subject in the curriculum,' and even though several of the best poetry blogs: Silliman's, Linh Dinh's and Lisa Jarnot's, for instance, deal extensively and insightfully with politics and current events, I will attempt the virtual separation of starting a separate blog for politics and write more frequently about poetry here. You could get the impression that I've been holding my theoretical cards close to my chest but, though they are close, they're stacked in a tower beside me... theories always travel better in the form of reproductions. Great care has been taken to assure that I have no idea what I am doing here.