John Ashbery did not write "I Don't Believe in Bigfoot"....

Some weird search terms. Hey searcher who searched the Bigfoot string...John Ashbery didn't write that "poem"...I did...not exactly my finest hour but MY Poem! Mine! That was when I was enjoying writing some Jacky Handy (Handey?) meets Joe Brainard type "poems"....

But let's get it CORRECT! okay anonymous person..haha....


wait...3 different people searched that...did ashbery write something with that title too? seems unlikely...doesn't sound like his kind of title but then what is his type of title...maybe it is a coinkidink....

postscriptum: I think I figured it out. I forgot I had written a Jack Handyish poem called "John Ashbery" and it was posted right next to the "Bigfoot" poem so some readers must have remembered that. Yes, it's a tongue-in-cheek poem. I called him a "gateway drug." It's a buccal membrane poem. That doesn't sound as good, the latter.

Oddly enough, Ashbery doesn't get searched much here.

I'm sure he gets a hit a week or so. I don't always read the search terms either. Just certain days.


Joe Wenderoth is still the most searched-poet on my blog...I was amused one search string was "facts about joe wenderoth."

I think Harryette Mullen is a close second.

Okay, if I went back over like a year Hadrian would beat them both. But lately.

Rae Armantrout will get period of multiple searches too.

And what does that say? Readers of my blog have impeccable taste because all three of those poets write kickass books.

I often get "is joe wenderoth gay" as a search term. people are so silly. and why do they talk to search engines like they're alive? maybe that goes back to that time he did an online interview (i think it was for Fence mag) and he started out the IM interview by saying "i'm here. i'm queer."

some people have a sense of humor. and some people are literal i guess. maybe that started it.

he has a lovely family that sometimes appears in his YouTube videos so there's your answer. jeez.

other most searched poets include rimbaud (go rimbaud go!) and celestine frost suddenly (my former publishee and a poet i love), langsten hughes, spoon river anthology, harryette mullen (are people finally realizing how fabu she is?), also robert creeley gets searched a lot, antonio cuadra today, and a handful of others got single hits...

Here are the search terms i found most amusing, odd and/or disturbing...






poem i don't believe in bigfoot by john ashbery


why was i lobotomized?

self portrait suze randall

i thought i was being feminist supporting suze randall back in the day but turns out that is really just a nom de porn right? a man? good stuff anyway. vintage california.

dodgeball soliloque


sissy boy blogspot

lamas in pyjamas


gay coworker in ikea


sissi bird boy GREAT NAME FOR A POETRY COLLECTION..I CLAIM THAT! I HAVE DIBS!


art corbusier you are worthless



you said a mouthful porn


is matt giraud from american idol gay? (WE CAN ONLY HOPE)



i just got fucked by a marsupial (HAHAHA! WHICH ONE? I WOULDN'T THINK THEY ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR PROWESS)

poang chair hemorrhoids (HAHAHA! WHY WOULD ONE CHAIR BE ANY DIFFERENT THAN ANOTHER??)


visual dead girls (A BAND?)


profile counter stopped working (YOU TOO?)

signs of an attention whore