2009 Jack Wiler's World 20Bob Thomas January 8, 2010 0 09 John M. 'Jack' Wiler (December 14, 1951 - October 20, 2009) was a American poet and AIDS survivor. Jack grew up in the close knit, quiet, sheltered town of Wenonah, New Jersey. His mother was a librarian who instilled a love of books in her children and his father was a salesman in the petroleum industry. Jack was the eldest of four children. 1 2 Contents First stupid blog 14 Jack's Blog: First stupid blog A Day of Art in Hoboken 15 Ralph Hager Tuesday at Acme 16 Poetry at the Y 17 A day at Acme 18 Fall and Walking Dogs 19 November 2 20 After running Dinner Out New Car & Driving Lessons 21 A Night of Contemporary American Poetry 22 The Mutter Museum and more on poetry in general 23 The Mutter Museum and life and me 24 Thanksgiving Day 26 Poetry in Newton 27 Happy Birthday Christmas at Acme 28 Christmas, New Years, and beyond Gerald Ford and the Seventies 30 The New Years Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club 32 The Plight of Writers 34 3 On Being a Poet 35 Eagles 37 No Fuck the Eagles 38 Fun Being Me & Stuff Up In The Old House 39 Me and Rats 40 Poets and Poetry 41 Todays Post is just a pome 43 Groundhog Day 44 Cold, cold, and then colder more 46 Poetry Magazine John Barr and the World 47 Cornelia Street Reading 48 Wenonah, now and then How Wenonah is Laid Out 49 Wenonah, 1958 50 September, 1958 First Grade, First Day of School 52 Recess; September 1958 53 Reading at the Bowery 54 Weekends and Catholicism 1958 Weekends 1958 55 Weekends at Nonny's 56 Weekends at Nonny's 57 Mrs. Kaufman's 1st Grade Class 1958 58 Who's who in Mrs. Kaufman's class 4 The One Black Girl in Mrs. Kaufman's Class 59 Writing this thing 60 Summer 1959 61 My New Suit/First Holy Communion 62 One foot in One foot out The Architecture of Wenonah Public School and Its Effect on the Young 63 Socialist Revisionism and Wenonah Public Schools 64 A Life in Hell 65 Ruth Felch and the forgotten TB 66 2nd Grade 1959 67 A New Poem 68 First Grade w/Names 70 Thank you's etc 206 W Mantua Avenue (as per Bob) 71 Dr. Seuss 73 Easter in the South 74 Miss Quigley's Second Grade Class (w/3rd Graders) Back From Bluffton Pest Control/Poetry Month 75 Cigarettes, Pipes, and Smoke Miss Quigley's 2nd & 3rd Grade Class w/names 76 The Names of Children 77 Rain and water and steam and pigs 5 Ed Sullivan and life in 2007 79 Cemetery Hill 81 Sleeping Beauty and the Starlight Drive In 82 Television and my world 84 Second Grade and the Lake 85 Third Grade 88 My brothers and I Termites & Decay 89 Mrs Ferrera's Third Grade Class 1960-61 90 Little Men 1960 and News 91 More News 92 Venting Spleen 93 More vented spleen 94 3rd Grade Report Card My Grades 95 Waiting Spleenless in Jersey City 97 1960 JFK Mary Lou and more Third Grade Only One Girl Left Unnamed 99 Ed Campbell Public Men and Women 101 Tommy Woods, Madelaine Pillings, and Me 102 Clay Hill 104 6 Gone Daddy Gone 105 Divina 106 An apology The Glorious Fourth 107 The Bonsal Blues Hobo Band Throw Down Altar Boys, Baseball, and more Fourth Grade 109 Mary Louise Wiler and May of 1961 Final Photo Third Grade; Everyone Id'd 110 Who Looks the Deadest Mr. McIntire's 4 & 5 Grade Class 1961-62 111 Mr. McIntire and Discipline 112 Back to the Blog 113 UV Lights, Madelaine, and Science My 4th Grade Report Card 114 Maps of Flour Salt & Water 115 The Little Red House 116 Comments and Gateway Regional Class of 1970 117 The Twilight Zone, Spelling, and Poetry 118 Death and Football 119 Famous Monsters of Filmland and Comics 121 Grace Paley 123 The Things We Ate Other things we ate; with apologies to Bob Thomas 125 7 Bicycles Cemetery Hill 127 The Music of Fourth Grade 128 Childhood Illness 129 Pets 130 Timmy & Surprise 131 What We Wore 132 Fifth Grade 134 Mrs Fuller's Fifth Grade Class 1962-63 135 Identification Issues 136 Girls Against Boys I Danced Till a Quarter To Three 138 Ruthie Felch and the Man in the Woods 139 JFK and all that 140 Chemistry Sets 141 Money and Children 142 Interiors 144 Secrets 145 Models 146 Happy Thanksgiving 147 Leftovers Smells 148 Interferon and me 149 The Sears Catalog 125150 8 Parker's Lake 151 5th Grade Report Card 152 Interior Decorating 153 Happy Birthdays and Gifts 154 Margie's Luncheonette 155 The Holiday Display 157 2008 and on beyond zebra 158 Back in the world; Sort of Getting Sick in 1960 159 Law Enforcement in Wenonah 160 Volunteer Firemen 161 The Lives of Others 162 GIANTS!!! 163 Spring et al in Wenonah 164 Hospitals and Fun 165 Athletics in Grade School 167 Boys in Groups 169 Gateway Regional Class of 1970 Reunion 170 Wenonah Wolf Pack Practice Runs; Summer, 1963 171 Summer 1963 173 Summer 1963 6th Grade, September 1963 174 Lull in the Action; Fun Being Me 175 9 Sixth Grade 1963-1964 177 Names in the Photo Play Flyer 178 Fun Being Me...THE PLAY! 179 Day One Redux 180 The Play and the World 181 Sixth Grade September 1963 The Play in Various Forms and Permutations 182 Poetry Derived from Play 183 Newspaper Routes 184 Things we didn't know we'd learn; 1963 186 The Digging Yard 187 Sixth Grade Report Card 188 Little Things 189 Other Stuff to Think About 190 Getting Bigger 191 Waist Deep in the Big Muddy 193 Imps; reimagined 194 Obama, Hillary, et al 196 Hip Boots Hip Boots and Unhip Guys 197 Poetry, Theater, Money and life The End of Days 198 The 4th and all that 199 10 Reunion and all that 200 First Leg 201 The Western Edge 202 Mutant Rats and Me 203 All the World's a Stage and I'm stuck on it 204 Play, Robert Frost, et al Ventura on my Mind 205 Frost Place Walking the Boards 206 Sweet days of summer Bluebird Buses and Me 208 The New Class Struggle 209 The World of Gateway 211 Fall and Gateway Regional 212 Autumn in Wenonah 213 Margie's Luncheonette 215 The 1964 Phillies (a cautionary tale) 216 Miracle in South Philly 217 HO Racing Election 2008 218 President Elect Barack Obama 219 My Name is Jimmy Carl Black and I'm the Indian of the Group Street Football Dance Lessons 221 11 They're Dancing in the Streets 222 Holly, Jolly, Christmas in 1964 223 New Year's Eve 225 So Much Time So little work 226 The Book Report from Hell 227 Fashion and the Sixties 228 Ocean City 1965 229 Boy Scouts of America 232 1965: Year of the World's Best Music 233 Wenonah in the Summer 235 Poetry in the Schools, 60's Style 237 Avalon Hill and the World at War 239 Building a Library Builds Character 240 Paper Route Redux 241 Pedaling for Dollars 243 Me & Mick and Foreign Tongues The Glorious 4th 245 The Trestle & The Pill Factory 246 Crossing the Trestle 247 Pavlov's Jack An Apology 248 APBA Baseball Friendship and it's vagaries 250 The Unseen World 251 12 My Pages 256 13 First stupid blog Saturday, October 07, 2006 Well, I hate blogging and talking about myself but in order to say something nice about someone's poetry I had to create this dumbass blog. Blog. In and of itself an icky term. I spent the day doing things I had to do. Haircut at D&V's barber shop on Washington Street in Hoboken, picked up my meds at my favorite CVS, bought cigars from Gil at the Smoke Shop, and then drank two Margaritas and ate a lousy quesadilla at East LA, easily the worst restaurant in a restaurant deprived town. Finally I picked up a Frederick Church print I had framed and called my friend Teresa who came over and we gabbed about poetry and the Dodge Festival all afternoon. Johanna's in Washington for Miss International so I'm mega lonely and it was nice to talk about words with someone who gives a fuck about them. We talked about being famous in a dumb little world and we talked about how poetry works and how we hate hearing how it works and we drank a lousy Bordeaux and in general had a nice poetical afternoon. All afternoons should be like this. Milo and Cookie barking like idiots and warm fall sun and friends. Not too bad. In two weeks it will be the fifth anniversary of my getting really sick. I hope every afternoon will be like this. Posted by Jack Wiler at 05:46PM (-04:00) Jack's Blog: First stupid blog Thursday, October 12, 2006 Jack's Blog: First stupid blogWell, today I had the good fortune to talk about flying insects. First flies, then mosquitoes. All insects I can't deal with effectively with pesticides which means I have to convince people that other things are more important. Cleaning. Screening. Removing standing water. It's way harder than filling up a B&G with a gallon of one kick ass pesticide and spraying the fuck out of the place.