Just back from a great weekend in Montreal with our friends. We ate at Chez Cora’s (only competent breakfast for Montreal, but heaven for our Friendly’s-and-Denny’s-abused palettes), at Beijing Restaurant (best Chinese food in Montreal), and at Beauty’s (fun diner with excellent cheese blinzes), and picked up some Fairmount Bakery bagels and Canadian candy (Smarties, [...]

Couldn’t sleep, so I’m up reading through (some of the hundreds of) the poetry posts I missed because of NaPoWriMo, and ran across this from poet (and attorney) Seth Abramson: the movement to stop Derek Walcott’s election as Oxford Professor of Poetry because of his (alleged) history of sexual harassment. The decision will be made [...]