On January 22nd, Alexandra Petri (who, according to her Twitter is a “Daily topical humor blogger”) claimed that “There are about six people who buy new poetry,” in her Washington Post piece, “Is Poetry Dead?” a day Richard Blanco read his poem, “One Today,” at the presidential inauguration. While Petri was supposedly trying to be funny, the 408 comments, and 5.7 thousand Facebook “Likes,” however, showed us people still have a good deal to say about poetry, and that calling the form dead was unfunny and unfounded.
I Could Have Lived two Lifetimes Without an Album Full of Radiohead Covers Driven by Ukulele
Every fucking time I try to let my guard down and have a conversation where I admit that Radiohead isn’t as terrible as I try to make them out to be (I still think Jonny Greenwood is brilliant), somebody has to go and do an album full of covers, and ruin it for me.