Summer—Uh, Fall Reading

Fall Reading, 2012

• The Copper Scroll, Joe Donahue
• The Network, Jenna Osman
• Regular Expressions Cookbook, Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
• Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis
• The Cloud Corporation, Timothy Donnelly
• The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
• Ruby Best Practices, Gregory T. Brown
• Design Patterns in Ruby, Russ Olsen
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Erich Gamma et al.
• The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen
• The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development, Brant Cooper et al.
• The Modern Poetic Sequence, M. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall
• Ordering the Storm: How to Put Together a Book of Poems, Susan Grimm
• Introduction to Algorithms, Thomas Cormen et al.
• Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steven Gary Blank
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter

Suggestions welcome!

Guest Blogging at Ploughshares

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New Poem!

...forthcoming in The Southern Review this spring. Details TK!

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09.21.2011

troy, when the walls fell

— 09.21.2011, 11:08 PM

The walls dissolved. Troy’s citizenry wept.
Achilles’ vengeance canceled out the day.
A man was executed while I slept.

Achilles’ men expected they’d accept
the hollow horse, the camouflaged decay.
Their walls dissolved, Troy’s citizenry wept.

He did not gentle go, and though he kept
beseeching the Achaeans, won no stay.
A man was executed while I slept.

Olympus’ gods were never so inept
as then. Their job’s to know how our hearts weigh.
The walls dissolved. Troy’s citizenry wept.

I would have dreamed through all of this, except
the television woke me up to say
a man was executed while I slept.

Measureless, his heart’s weight as he stepped
into that room. As death was underway
our walls dissolved. Troy’s citizenry wept.
A man was executed while we slept—

Shelley and Byron and Dreams

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