Three Oddest Words
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.
Wislawa Szymborska ‘s birthday today (July 2 1923)
Last year’s terrific birthday post from Issa’s Untidy’s Hut – One Hole in the Nest – (3 more poems by W. S)
Happy birthday Tao Lin 
His second novel is called Richard Yates.
Go Diving with Tao Lin (previous post)
W.S. Merwin is our new US 
Poet Laureate- LAtimes, NYtimes and this one too.
See a video of W.S Merwin here.
Kay Ryan our wonderful sly poet laurete of 2009 here.
Two poems by Kay Ryan