Cosmopoetica - Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
via a friend on a mailing list comes this blub by David Kirby for The Ecstacy of Capitulation, a book of poems (unknown to me) by Daniel Borzutzky: “After I first read Daniel Borzutzky’s poems in magazines, I became a hellhound on his trail, pursuing him over the oceans (he was in Turkey at the time) [...]
Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Autism Speaks recently put out what I consider to be a rather irresponsible press release. The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) added a new objective, and Autism Speaks chose to frame it as “ IACC includes vaccine research objective in strategic plan for autism research “. I’ve discussed that already , so I won’t go into more details here. Instead, I want to take a look at how David...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
If elected, Obama promised, he would convene a major national summit on rural issues within 100 days of taking office. Across the country, rural activists held their breath.
Cosmopoetica - Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... do with one another otherwise. Wealth takes many forms, and sometimes it shows up as stanzas." – David Kirby in the New York Times Sunday Book Review
NY's Funniest Rabbi (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
"When I’m asked by fellow air passengers what I do for a living and reply, “I write poems,” the reaction is often a startled smile, as though they’re thinking Homer! Dante! Milton! (At least that’s what I’m thinking they’re thinking.) And then comes the lean-in, the furrowed brow, the voice thick with compassion as my new friend says, “But there...
Touched By A Monkey (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Poet David Kirby reviews Amy Gerstler's new book of poems Dearest Creature in The New York Times . The review begins: "Look, a poem either sends you a bill or writes you a check." It ends: " Dearest Creature is an A.T.M. — the letters standing, in this case, for 'artistic thrill machine.' In Amy Gerstler I trust." There. I just saved you some time. Now go read...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Though it would appear that people can infect pigs with H1N1, it is not clear whether live pigs can infect people. For now, officials are far more worried about the former than the latter.
Framing Science (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Creation is scheduled for a Dec./Jan. release in U.S. Theaters. David Kirby is a geneticist turned science communication scholar who studies the depiction of science in popular film and the role of scientists as technical advisers to entertainment producers. He offers a review of the forthcoming Darwin biopic Creation at the blog Science & Entertainment Exchange. Read the comments...
Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
David Kirby is certainly no friend to my autistic child. I don’t know why I let David Kirby annoy me. It is a pretty safe bet that whenever he blogs he will write something that rubs me the wrong way. Whether it is his clear lack of science acumen or his faux fence sitting [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
On Sunday, Dr. Landis abruptly resigned from the powerful Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), which helps direct hundreds of millions in federal tax dollars to autism research, treatment, care and services.
Poemocracy (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... Not my best work, to be sure, but I'm proud of it as my first publication. Many thanks to David Kirby for encouraging me to send it out when I was still just a wee undergrad. His exact words were, "Evan, I will whack you like a rented mule if you don't send this poem out." I'm delighted generally by any squishy lifeform, especially the deep sea denizens such as this fellow,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
“What is there / like fortitude!” exclaimed in her poem “Nevertheless.” “What sap / went through that little thread / to make the cherry red!” The enthusiasms of Hanna Rosin, Liesl Schillinger, David Kirby and Kate Christensen in the set me to thinking about the daring of reviewers who express unabashed appreciation for the books they’ve read, how clever they need to be to do it, or simply...
2007-2008 Premiership (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been parodied in a film about Liverpool’s comeback from 3-0 down in the 2005 Champions League final.The film, entitled ‘15 Minutes That Shook The World’ was written by Liverpool playright David Kirby and purports to show what happened in the half-time interval when Liverpool were 3-0 down to [...] http://bit.ly/2KgaCR
Premiership Today (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been parodied in a film about Liverpool’s comeback from 3-0 down in the 2005 Champions League final. The film, entitled ‘15 Minutes That Shook The World’ was written by Liverpool playright David Kirby and purports to show what happened in the half-time interval when Liverpool were 3-0 down to [...]
33 1/3 (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
I'm thrilled to announce the publication of David Kirby's effervescent study of Little Richard. We received this lovely pre-publication review from Booklist : In the poem “The House of Blue Light”—whose eponym is where Miss Molly does her rockin’, dontcha know—Kirby says that when he, à la Whitman, hears America singing, it “sounds like...
