It turns out our fellow PEA Souper Troy Jollimore has been doing a little non-philosophical dabbling on the side: he just won the National Book Critics Circle poetry prize for his first collection of poems, Tom Thomson in Purgatory. Read all about it here. Congratulations, Troy! Or perhaps I should express my congratulations in the form of the following haiku:
Philosopher rhymes
Syllogizing poem surprize
Jolli-evermore
Congratulations Troy and beautiful writing!
Posted by: Christian Lee | April 17, 2007 at 12:09 PM
Hey, thanks! I love the smell of haiku in the morning . . .
Posted by: Troy Jollimore | April 17, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Troy, the award is really terrific, and so is the poetry. Congratulations!
Posted by: Dan Boisvert | April 17, 2007 at 04:10 PM
Hey, someone just told me that Michael Cholbi also achieved a small measure of fame this evening... Is that right, Michael? But that it didn't go as well as you hoped...
Posted by: Jamie Dreier | April 17, 2007 at 10:46 PM
Is that Cholbi teaser for a story just gonna sit there or is someone gonna deliver the punch line?
And Troy: that is amazing to be both a good philosopher and to be able to write movingly about issues that deeply touch the human condition.
Posted by: David Sobel | April 18, 2007 at 12:57 PM
I'd thought Sobel was going to say that it was amazing both to be able to write movingly about issues that deeply touch the human condition and to be a good poet.
And yes, what is this Cholbi story? I'm getting the vapors all a-tingly in anticipation.
Posted by: David Shoemaker | April 19, 2007 at 11:05 AM
http://tinyurl.com/2zcv3e
But I think the page will only last another day or two, so this comment will become obsolete even faster than my other ones.
Posted by: Jamie Dreier | April 20, 2007 at 12:21 AM
Now that is cool! Mike (or anyone speaking on behalf of Mike), have you been on yet, or are you on tonight (Friday)??
Posted by: Dan Boisvert | April 20, 2007 at 05:22 AM
This moral principle implies that it is always wrong to lie.
What is the categorical imperative?
Posted by: Campbell Brown | April 20, 2007 at 01:28 PM
Two haiku for Michael:
WHY PHILOSOPHERS MAKE SUCH GOOD JEOPARDY CONTESTANTS
Philosophy, it
is said, takes answers and turns
them into questions.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, FROM THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES TO THE PRESENT DAY
Philosophy's dawn:
a wise man in jeopardy.
Now it's Cholbi's turn.
Posted by: Troy Jollimore | April 21, 2007 at 11:25 AM