Item 1 – How will poetry and e-readers mingle? An interesting article that raises concerns (and features Billy Collins) about how e-readers can display and potentially change poetry.

Item 2 – NPR has posted an interview with incoming US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin. My favorite Merwin trivia – he currently lives on top of a dormant volcano in Hawaii in what used to be a pineapple plantation. Really embracing the poet as isolationist, there.

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