Flogging on a dead horse again ...

Accessibility reared its ugly head again.

If you want a poem to be accessible to all, write it in stick figures.

Or binaries.

I am just kidding about binaries.

I think "sternocleidomastoidian" is a very accessible word.

On the other hand, 肌色 is not. Well, to English readers.

I believe that the poem reader may or may not be as intelligent as the author.

I don't think Billy Collins is very intelligent. And Dana Gioia is a bore.

This week, I am digging Parker Zane Allen, Carol Mirakove, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, Jenny Boully, Josely Vianna Baptista, HD and Basil Bunting.

Oh, and Louis Zukovsky too.

And Boyer's stuff in the latest issue of The Canary is pretty cool too, but this is not this week.

In comic books, I am reading Jessica Abel's La Perdida and Charlie Huston & John Romita Jr.'s The Black Panther.

Give me something to sing about.