The title of the blog is the title of a poem by Cornelius Eady from his first book of poetry, Kartunes (Warthog Press, 1980). Fittingly, my first blog post will be stymied by my lack of technical know-how: I would post the text of the poem, but I don’t know how to lay it out properly. For now, then, this post is just a hello.
[Edited to add: golly! I think I figgered it out!]
LITERATURE SHOULD MEAN SOMETHING IN
YOUR LIFE
a man
walking down the street
looks up to see
birds
wheeling in the air looks
up to see a billboard plastered
with black letters.
BIRDS LIKE ME
says the billboard, and
a pigeon lights on it.
Literature Should Mean Something in Your Life 