by Jordan Dotson | Jul 16, 2021 | Good ol' fashioned rant, Uncategorized
There’s a helluva distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. …Dorothy Parker, in The Art of Fiction No. 13 from The Paris Review, which very well might be the funniest thing I’ve read... by Jordan Dotson | Apr 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
For the record: Dany dies in childbirth Jon dies in battle Jamie Kingslayer kills the Night King Arya kills Cersei wearing Littlefinger’s face Sansa becomes Queen in the North The Night King, a Stark, was the first double-duty warg/greenseer The Three-Eyed Raven... by Jordan Dotson | Mar 20, 2016 | Things I wish I'd written, Uncategorized
Beauty, dark goddess, We met and parted As though we parted not. Like two stopped watches In a dusty store window, One golden morning of time. …”In The Street,” by Charles Simic, from The Voice at 3:00AM by Jordan Dotson | Jun 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
No wonder kids don’t like it — it becomes another way to bully them into feeling “compassion” or “tolerance,” part of a curriculum that makes them good citizens but bad readers of poetry. …from the good ol’ Sunday Review in the Times of New York, an... by Jordan Dotson | Jun 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Charles Wright is a master of the meditative, image-driven lyric,” Librarian of Congress James Billington said in an announcement Thursday. “For almost 50 years his poems have reckoned with what he calls ‘language, landscape, and the idea of... by Jordan Dotson | May 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
How old am I again? 70? You’re 80. Quit selling it. Boy do I look good for 70. …hand-holding elderly couple at San Francisco International Airport, 7AM.