From BoingBoing:

“Artist Molly Crabapple created this downloadable, printable, stencil-able, remixable poster with an excellent reference to Matt Taibbi’s classic characterization of Wall Street fraudsters: a bunch of vampire squids.”

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The stakes are high, and, in all likelihood, by the time you read this the results will be in (UPDATE: Transtromer wins!). It’s Nobel time, and I hope you’ve placed your bets. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Google’s got your over/under and just about everything else. Save your time and find out what Maurice Sendak thinks about Rushdie right here. Find out if it’s worth betting on Ezra Pound’s letters home. Finally, here’s a great remembrance of W. G. Sebald.

Today we talk with Adam Clay whose work was featured in Issue 12. Adam talks about his favorite poets, writing a poem a day, and balancing family and career.

When did you figure out that you liked writing? How young were you when you first started?

Like a lot of writers, I started in high school. The poems were, of course, terrible, but I still felt driven to write them. Once I ended up in college, I found out you could actually major in creative writing. At the time I had no idea this was even a possibility. I took a fiction course and a poetry course — it became clear (as mentioned below) that poetry just made more sense for me. I was fortunate enough to study with Angela Ball and D.C. Berry at the University of Southern Mississippi. They are both remarkable poets in their own right and very different from one another. I still think a lot about how their influences are in my work today.

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Seth Berg, winner of Dark Sky Magazine’s 2009 Poetry Contest and author of Muted Lines From Someone Else’s Memory will be participating in Oh, Bleek Strategies, an event that includes literary, musical, kinetic, and multidisciplinary performances that creatively play around with and pay homage to Oblique Strategies. Oblique Strategies is a deck of creative strategy cards created in 1975 by Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno. This event is free and open to the public.

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