Links: Typography, Poetry (lots!), Gut Instinct Rules, Boys’ Clubs of Today

• Anivers — birth of a typeface | i love typography, the typography blog
  Bueno.
  (tags: design typography)
• Book Review – ‘Selected Poems,’ by Frank O’Hara – Edited by Mark Ford – Review – NYTimes.com
  He began to make poetry from whatever happened around him — today, he might have written a blog. At the time, however, this preoccupation with the trivial, with the nothing of life that is nothing, seemed to jettison everything…
  (tags: poetry frankohara reviews books)
• Scrapple from the Apple: Jazz & Poetry
  As a rhythmic source, jazz provides the illusion of simultaneous spontaneity and inevitability. The velocity of jazz’s rhythms, too, offer progressive and compelling alternatives to iambic meters.
  (tags: jazz poetry writing)
• Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and the Paperback Revolution
  “With all the passion and drama surrounding Howl and Other Poems… consider that the bulk of the cultural weight that it carries comes not from its text but instead from its material form.” Canonical text vs. book as object. Good, if dense, reading.
  (tags: poetry books ideas writing beats)
• Get Out of Your Own Way
  The findings lend credence to researchers who argue that many important decisions may be best made by going with our gut — not by thinking about them too much.
  (tags: psychology science mind brain)
• Phoenix Journal – Nice Spot to Eat After Golf, but Women Are Barred – NYTimes.com
  Mind-boggling: “here in Arizona, where the governor, secretary of state, chief justice and Senate minority leader are women, it has rankled more than a few women that nonmember men have more rights than paying female members at the Phoenix Country Club.”
  (tags: feminism women politics wtf)