William Burroughs shooting William Shakespeare

May 5th, 2010 / 12:12 pm Christopher Higgs—

When I was at U of Nebraska I had a poetry tutorial with Ted Kooser where basically I would bring a handful of poems to his office once a week and he would tell me why I sucked at writing poetry…anyway, one day I got to his office early and he needed to make a phone call so I decided to check out his bookshelves and the art on the walls….it was a pretty good-sized office, as would be the case for any US Poet Laureate, I assume..but anyway, in the back corner of the office hung a framed target from a shooting range with bullet holes in it and written in sloppy ink was a personal message to Ted from Burroughs. I can’t for the life of me remember specifically what it said, but something about them being shooting buddies or something and the very fact that Ted Kooser went shooting with WSB and the implication that they might actually have been friends was crazy enough for me to never forget seeing it.

May 5th, 2010 / 12:17 pm Hank—

Shoulda put an apple on the bard’s head.

May 5th, 2010 / 12:52 pm stephen—

“He’s dead, man.” :)

May 5th, 2010 / 1:55 pm ryanchang—

unbelievably awesome

May 5th, 2010 / 3:23 pm hustlers of the world—

would def rather read about william burroughs than read william burroughs.

May 5th, 2010 / 4:12 pm Christopher Higgs—

When I was at U of Nebraska I had a poetry tutorial with Ted Kooser where basically I would bring a handful of poems to his office once a week and he would tell me why I sucked at writing poetry…anyway, one day I got to his office early and he needed to make a phone call so I decided to check out his bookshelves and the art on the walls….it was a pretty good-sized office, as would be the case for any US Poet Laureate, I assume..but anyway, in the back corner of the office hung a framed target from a shooting range with bullet holes in it and written in sloppy ink was a personal message to Ted from Burroughs. I can’t for the life of me remember specifically what it said, but something about them being shooting buddies or something and the very fact that Ted Kooser went shooting with WSB and the implication that they might actually have been friends was crazy enough for me to never forget seeing it.

May 5th, 2010 / 4:17 pm Hank—

Shoulda put an apple on the bard’s head.

May 5th, 2010 / 4:52 pm stephen—

“He’s dead, man.” :)

May 5th, 2010 / 5:39 pm reynard—

makes sense

not

May 5th, 2010 / 7:07 pm Craig Davis—

Kansas.

May 5th, 2010 / 7:58 pm Nathan Tyree—

I lived In Lawrence the same time W.S.B. did. Met him once.

May 5th, 2010 / 9:45 pm Ridge—