Literago.org high-fives A.D. Jameson (and recommends you read his entire piece — posted at BIG OTHER, hotlinked below):

I would like to make more money. I’d like to be able to sell my writing. And I want a job that I don’t detest, and that doesn’t make me too exhausted or bitter to then not be able to write. I want to be able to get health care if/when I get sick … If I want to buy something reasonable, I want to be able to do that, too. And I’d like for my work to be available to others—so that if someone wants to buy it, or otherwise get it, they’ll be able to. Money is a means to all these ends.

But not the only means … What I really want, I think, is to be supported: by myself, but also by my culture …

Literago.org congratulates former TriQuarterly editor Ian Morris on his fancypants new blog, Exposition.

Ellen Wadey, ED at the Guild Complex, just published a brilliant blog-in-progress on lit culture in Chicago. Full disclosure: Literago’s mentioned, but we’d post this even if we weren’t. O, that all our bonneted bees were this eloquent.

The Academy of American Poets has re-launched their National Poetry Map. It includes events, poetic histories, and featured poets on a state by state basis. The Illinois page currently features Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Li Young Lee, one of my top-5 favorite poets of all time. You can listen to his poem “The Hour and What Is Dead” on his page.

Hey, thrifty bookworms: in case this isn’t on your radar.

Bookmooch is a site that lets you earn points for giving away your books and use those points for mooching books from others across the globe.