Galatea, Lowell, CIA, Et Al

• Eileen Tabios has announced that Galatea Resurrects Vol. 2 is up. You can read it [here]. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but if it is anything like the first edition, it will be worth the read!

• The Senate Intelligence Committee opens confirmation hearings today on General Michael Hayden's nomination to head the CIA. Members of the committee are listed here. Hayden's Ties to the Pentagon and his defense of the President's domestic surveillance program are reasons to be concerned abut his appointment to head the CIA. I urge you to contact these members and oppose his nomination. Especially if any of the members are from your home state.
  
  Pat Roberts, Kansas Chairman
  
  John D. Rockefeller IVWest Virginia, Vice Chairman
  
  Orrin G. Hatch, Utah
  
  Carl Levin, Michigan
  
  Mike Dewine, Ohio
  
  Dianne Feinstein, California
  
  Christopher S. Bond, Missouri
  
  Ron Wyden, Oregon
  
  Trent Lott, Mississippi
  
  Evan Bayh, Indiana
  
  Olympia J. Snowe, Maine
  
  Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
  
  Chuck Hagel, Nebraska
  
  Russell D. Feingold, Wisconsin
  
  Saxby Chambliss, Georgia

• Dark Familiar, is a collection of poems by Aleda Shirley (Sarabande Books). It touches on the inevitable touchstones of loss and place from the perspective of life's mid-point. [here]

• The poetry of motherhood [here]

• And another quote from the poet AMY LOWELL:

"I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon. "

tags: Writing and poetry Reviews CIA spying Eileen Tabios Amy Lowell Galatea Resurrects