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John Keats "Bright Star" ---> here . Denis Johnson "Heat" ---> here . A movie about Keats came out recently that I did enjoy. It was titled "Bright Star" and paced oddly, slowly, but the movie felt appropriate for its subject-matter: poetry. Keats is a romantic poet from early nineteenth century England. In high school, you may have been made to read his "Ode to a Grecian Urn". This sonnet, also, is rather famous, very romantic and also precise. I like it. Denis Johnson wrote the book of short stories Jesus's Son as well as a few great novels, one which recently one the National Book Award. I have only read Jesus's Son and Already Dead , but I hear the NBA winner, Tree of Smoke , is stellar. Johnson, also, is one of those rare writers who can successfully and without any frustrating overlap write both excellent poetry and excellent fiction. "Heat" is one of my favorites. It's a "sonnet", where "Bright ...

i was published in sawbuck , an online poetry journal. you can read my poems here . you should. then you should tell me they're good and that you're impressed so i feel good about myself. please? or you can tell me they're not good, but you are still proud of me for getting published, cause then at least someone must have liked them. the other day, i did this and felt productive. i need to feel like that again, sooner: