“When people ask me, ‘Why do you play all of this new music?’ I don’t see why that should be strange in any way; for me, this is normal..." Esa-Pekka Salonen wfmt.com/2018/05/24/esa…

We may have answered the Fermi Paradox: We are alone in the universe qz.com/1314111 via Quartz

One of the perks of being a writer and MFA director is receiving unsolicited but entertaining emails like this.

We asked some of our favorite artists to give us 5 minutes they'd play for a friend to convince him or her to love classical music. Listen to the choices. nyti.ms/2Q8r1AA

My new novel releases this week. Many kind thanks to @MatthewBattles , Kate Christensen and Julia Elliott for your eloquence and generosity.

The @USCAFAM Studies Program is very excited to welcome poet Justin Phillip Reed back to South Carolina for a reading next Wednesday at 6pm. I hope Columbia folks will come out to hear his exceptional work!

New new!!! South Carolina MFA #Poets

This Friday David Bajo will be here to sign his new book THE ENSENADA PUBLIC LIBRARY. buff.ly/2AuZen1

Pandemic days of the week: Someday Noneday Chooseday When?day Blursday Friedday Sadderday

Along a river walk, my first ever Luna moth.

so happy about the re-release of Rhízōma in October with Sono Luminus in a remastered version and a more recent recording of Dreaming 💜 very excited to make this available again - w Iceland Symphony Orchestra , Caput Ensemble & Justin DeHart sonoluminus.com/store/rhizoma

songkick.com/live-stream-co… via Songkick

As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder gizmodo.com/as-if-the-plat… via @gizmodo

This grandiose baroque library in Prague Is a stunning kingdom for books bit.ly/24ZPni6

If you've got $2, you can get a random book from this vintage vending machine bit.ly/1TNYEGi

Ready to roll. #AWP16

Neuroscientists create ‘atlas’ showing how words are organised in the brain gu.com/p/4tka8/stw

Read Samuel Amadon's new poem "Poem in July." poets.org/poetsorg/poem/…