[Wiki'd! -- well not exactly]

Since it’s spring, and since I’ve moved over to WordPress, I’m trying to make some improvements to ye olde blog, with better links in the sidebar, for example.  One thing I planned to do was link to some reviews I’ve written in the recent past.  You can see them trying to look inconspicuous over on the LEFT (I hope to move the sidebar over to the RIGHT eventually, though, once I feel motivated enough to pay for custom CSS).  You’ll find two reviews published with Zoland Poetry, and one with my former colleagues over at The Black Warrior Review.  Check them out if you get the time, at least for the magazines that host them if not for the reviews themselves.

But I have to say I had a funny surprise as I was pulling up the links to the reviews.  Searching Google for “Jeremy Hawkins Dismal Rock” to jump directly to my review of Davis McCombs’ book, I was startled to see a Wikipedia page appear in the search results, #2 as a matter of fact!  It turns out that the Davis McCombs entry in Wikipedia quotes from my review.  It’s a strange quote to pull, as well, just taking the first three sentences, before I even have much of a chance to say anything substantial.  A later quote might have demonstrated a much more negative view of the book, and would make the other review against which mine is juxtaposed stand in stronger relief. (The quote chosen may also highlight a factual error I made in my review! See if you can find it.)  While I think of it, I should say that McCombs is a fine poet, even if I was highly critical of Dismal Rock; my critique fell more squarely on the nature of the collection itself.

In any case, I’m not so illustrious as to have my own Wikipedia entry, but I’ve made my splash.  I’d say it’s time to pack up and call it quits; what else do I have to acheive after this?!