Up all night blogging, exhilarated by world-wide demonstrations against the war, reading about them all over the web, no sleep, who cares, reading selected poems from Sam Hamill's site (now over 8,600 poems and statements of conscience) on Ron Silliman's blog, Sunday New York Times still lying there unread, except for one article on the demonstrations, and a full page ad taken out by Yoko Ono (WAR IS OVER If You Want It).

Thanks to Laurable for the link/Valentine and to Gary Sullivan, Jack KImball, Jonathan Mayhew, David Hess, K.Silem Mohammed, and Heriberto Yepez for links to fait accompli on their sites.

Marianne Shaneen reports that Lytle Shaw and Emilie Clark spent 7 hours in a jail cell for taping up posters in Soho. Writes Marianne Shaneen in her blog:
"It turns out that the people arrested for taping up the pictures were Lytle Shaw and Emilie Clark. While taping a picture to a lamppost in Soho that had many other signs - moving van, apts, etc. - taped to it, two undercover police who had been sitting there in a cab came up to her and asked if she was putting up signs about the protest, and if she was going to the protest on saturday...then they told them they were under arrest. she told them she was 7 months pregnant and they had the nerve to say that she should have thought about that when she decided to put the pictures up! and that she should think about that saturday at the protest (!!) - (as if bombing doesn't endanger childrens lives, but...). when they were brought in all the police at the station were saying 'the liberals are here" - (Lytle held back from saying: hey! that's an insult! you guys are the liberals!)- they were kept in jail (complete with human feces) for 7 hours"- from- http://froth.blogspot.com/

And I had just written Heriberto Yepez telling him I didn't think any poets had been arrested! I wrote to him because he said on his blog he may stop writing in English. I certainly hope he does not do this. His blog writing has quickly become a favorite of mine. Heriberto Yepez has been invited by Lytle Shaw to read with Kim Rosenfield and Rodrigo Toscano on Tuesday, February 25th at 6:30. The Drawing Center is at 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY 10013, tel: 212-219-2166.