Talking Points

* Is it lamer to just be the proprieter of Poetry Snark or to then, on top of it, when outed, first deny it's you and then send mousy backchannel messages around about how you're not Agent Trochee and you really like Sarah Manguso and blah blah. I think it is cool that he once dated someone in my book who is one of the most beautiful people in all the land. And I dig his mullet. The rest of the feedback is that Matt Miller is a straight-up careerist asshole who lacks the talent to back it up. Good luck, Chuckles.

* Pitchers and Catchers and Opening Day should be National Holidays. Are there any Presidents worth celebrating on Presidents Day? No. Shouldn't Veterans and Memorial Day be the same day? There you go. One February holiday and one April. Much better.

* The funniest thing about Iowa is that they create both poetry's imagined ruling class and its toxic waste. Will everyone that doesn't end up a Department Chair become a Neurotic Superfund Site? That's an anthology I want to read: HAWKEYED HACKS: The Most Bitter and Least Talented of the Writers' Workshop.