About this site

This site gets it's name from a small volume of poems compiled in 1995, most of which were also written in 1995. You can see that volume of poems on this site along with others. The name was taken as the name for this site, as it was for the name of it's now long defunct predecessor site, for the simple reason that in a way it summarizes something important about the way many, if not most, people feel about poetry in modern times. Or maybe I should say how I feel that they feel about poetry. Of course it is also how I feel on many levels about poetry in general as well. And in fact the people that don't feel that way on at least some level I would tend to view with a bit of suspicion.

A Note About Dates

Some dates are listed as a year alone, others as a month and year, and there may be at some point something with a more precise date than that lurking around. The differences in dates most often merely indicate that I am unsure when the items was written. In most cases that means I know for sure it was written in a given month but not the day, or a given year but not the month. In a few cases though even the year is not known with 100% certainty in which case the date will have an * next to it. If the date has a slash followed by another date like (1971/1980) then that usually indicates something that was written and then modified later.