Some Indiana poetry news, courtesy of JL Kato's blog:

The 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry series has some Indiana connections. The guest editor is David Wagoner, who grew up in the state. His selections include "The Doctor," by Marianne Boruch (Purdue University), and "Getting Serious," by Alice Friman (formerly of the University of Indianapolis). Other selections include "Freud," by James Cummins (who grew up in Indianapolis), "Houses," by Jerry Harp (grew up in Mount Vernon), and "I shall be released," by Kevin Young (formerly of Indiana University and who explains that the poem was "written in one of those cold Indiana winters where you freeze all the way to your mailbox: good writing weather you could say."

Hey, just like today! And here's a snippet from Guardian's digested read of Going Rogue, Sarah Palin's, um, "book."

My parents moved to Alaska when I was three and I fell in love with the outdoors and killing things. Swearing the Oath of Allegiance in school gave me a sense of civic pride and I vowed to serve America and go to church a lot.
After coming runner-up, and last, in the Miss Alaska pageant, I married Todd Palin, a guy with his own snow mobile who blessed me with five children: Track, "we'd have called him hockey if he'd been born in the winter"; Bristol, "Todd said he hoped she'd have a rack like mine"; Willow, "we misspelled pillow"; Piper, "after our light aircraft"; and Trig, "short for the trigger on our AK47".

How do I make this into my screensaver?


Or maybe it should be this.