Links for Reading Poetry and otherwise

Cape Cod by Kristine Ong Muslim

Bruce Boston's Dark Roads sampler

Thomas M. Disch, Marilyn Hacker and Charles Platt:  Platt du Jour: Two Poets, One Chevelle

The High Cost of Medical Care by Kathleen Ann Goonan

New Yorker: THE BEAR CAME OVER THE MOUNTAIN BY ALICE MUNRO

Reading with your ears:  Selected Shorts

Writers, Writing, Free, Movies, Art, Science, Philosophy and Education

Writers and Writing:

Kristine Ong Muslim sample from her collection, We Bury the Landscape.

• Be one of the annoying cool kids to discover her before everyone else, and you'll say, "Oh, yeah. You mean you haven't read her?"

Submissions Grinder

Daniel Marcus calls for submissions to Geek Haiku

Rudy Rucker on Charles Stross

David Farland on setting accomplishable goals

Free ebooks:

David Farland story

Islamic SF

Movies

Film about writer Jay Lake's life & fight against cancer (Kickstarter/support)

Jay Lake has stage IV cancer and has a fundraiser for new treatment.

Petition to restore missing 25-min to Clive Barker's Nightbreed

Art and Artists (one's a fine writer, too)

Waiter Kevin Fair turns your guest checks into art

Mark Ferrari's art, writing and blog

Science, Philosophy and Education:

Giant squid

Future travelers to Mars may have to have psychological toughness.

Brain implant for depression.

The probable improbable?

Interesting link says, "[M]any students abandon their pursuit of science and engineering majors [because t]heir professors are grading too hard."

Comment: What this link doesn't show (and what I tell students) is that while students may get lower grades here, they may get higher pay/demand outside of college.  

On Social Media (gives partial perspective on where our electronic culture is headed):