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August 29, 2003
CanterburyTales dot org
posted by Laurable on 8/29/2003 09:41:31 AM
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BoweryPoetry dot com is hosting Wordstreet, a new magazine for live poetry and spoken word.
posted by Laurable on 8/29/2003 09:29:09 AM
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Today is the birthday of School of Quietude poet Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809).
posted by Laurable on 8/29/2003 09:19:31 AM
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From yesterday's New York Times; Louise Gluck has been appointed Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. LOC dot gov (listen) hosts a 1988 RealVideo interview/reading with Gluck.
posted by Laurable on 8/29/2003 08:58:17 AM
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August 28, 2003
The Titanic Operas site at the University of Virginia has a large list of poems (info only) written about Emily Dickinson.
posted by Laurable on 8/28/2003 12:58:35 PM
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Remember Jared Carter? Now their is JaredCarter dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/28/2003 09:46:07 AM
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From Poets and Writers Magazine Industry Shorts: Joseph Parisi resigns as executive director of the Poetry Foundation (Modern Poetry Association)
posted by Laurable on 8/28/2003 09:19:59 AM
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Today is the birthday of Rita Dove (1952). Old Dominion University (listen) has RealVideo of Dove reading at their 22nd Annual Literary Festival in October of 1999.
Today is also the birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749).
posted by Laurable on 8/28/2003 09:01:41 AM
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August 27, 2003
A Scott Rahin epidsode on Ftrain dot com, August 25, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 8/27/2003 04:40:58 PM
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On July 16, 2003, NPR dot org's (listen) Talk of the Nation had a segment about Honku: The Zen Antidote to Road Rage.
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Don't forget HeadlineHaikus dot com - All Your News in Seventeen Syllables!
posted by Laurable on 8/27/2003 04:19:09 PM
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If you were going to read an epic poem out loud with five or six other people in the round, what epic would you choose?
posted by Laurable on 8/27/2003 01:44:04 PM
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Word in a Place: poems and short RealVideo segments from six Philadelphia poet (Daisy Fried, Major Jackson, River Huston, Nzadi, Keita, Gil Ott, and Magda Martinez) at WHYY dot org.
posted by Laurable on 8/27/2003 01:09:56 PM
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More School of Quietude from RonSilliman [dot BlogSpot dot com] today.
posted by Laurable on 8/27/2003 11:12:50 AM
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An essay on (triangular) memetic desire and Rene Girard from Cottet dot org.
posted by Laurable on 8/27/2003 10:57:04 AM
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They’re Putting a New Door In by Brian Kim Stefans in this summer's issue of the BostonReview dot net.
posted by Laurable on 8/27/2003 10:51:24 AM
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In today's Guardian dot co dot UK; the obituary of Rollie McKenna, who photographed the portraits of many poets.
posted by Laurable on 8/27/2003 10:07:01 AM
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David Kresh on Langston Hughes; a video webcast from the Library of Congress, or LOC dot gov (listen), (May 2003?).
posted by Laurable on 8/27/2003 09:42:03 AM
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Today is the birthday of jazz saxophonist Lester Young's. Lester Leaps In by Al Young at the FactorySchool dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/27/2003 09:08:19 AM
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August 25, 2003
Carol Muske-Dukes talks about her collection of poetry, Sparrow, on the Leonard Lopate Show from WNYC dot org. [Note: The audio link will be posted when is made available.]
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2003 12:06:03 PM
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If the New Brutalists are in any way related to the New Brutalism school of architecture, does that mean they write concrete poems?
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2003 10:58:21 AM
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Lannan dot org is now hosting (redundantly) the KCRW's Bookworm archives of interviews with poets and writers.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2003 10:29:37 AM
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Check out my guest entries of at Jim Behrle's weblog.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2003 10:25:34 AM
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The NewYorker dot com profiled Stanley Kunitz in their current issue.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2003 10:10:26 AM
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In the Independent dot co dot UK, the PoetrySocietry dot org dot UK says that fewer young poets are being published than ever before, 24 August 2003. Younger is 40.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2003 10:09:49 AM
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Charlotte dot com interviews Lee Ann Brown, August 21, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2003 10:02:06 AM
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Who's Afraid of Sylvia Plath?; an article by the script writer of the new Sylvia Plath movie, staring Gwyneth Paltrow, in the The Guardian dot co dot UK August 22, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 8/25/2003 09:42:53 AM
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August 22, 2003
Today is the birthday of Dorothy Parker (1893).
DorothyParkerNYC dot com has 30 Parker audio poems, on being Resume (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/22/2003 05:46:49 PM
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vapid: \Vap"id\, a. [L. vapidus having lost its lire and spirit, vapid; akin to vappa vapid wine, vapor vapor. See Vapor.] Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.
A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty, appear flat and vapid to their taste. --Burke. -- Vap\"id*ly, adv. -- Vap\"id*ness, n.
posted by Laurable on 8/22/2003 02:07:27 PM
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August 15, 2003, Billy Collins recommends poetry for summer reading on the Next Big Thing (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/22/2003 11:07:15 AM
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A nostalgic morning here at Laurable dot com. Fireland dot com talks about the olden days when we had home pages instead of weblogs.
posted by Laurable on 8/22/2003 10:58:04 AM
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Reblog for the boy next door:
NoMoPoMo!, a letter from the Postmodern Awareness Center at FTrain dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/22/2003 10:25:48 AM
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August 21, 2003
Today is the birthday of X. J. Kennedy (1929).
posted by Laurable on 8/21/2003 08:59:09 AM
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August 20, 2003
Today is the birthday of Heather McHugh (1948). April 15, 1997, McHugh read two poems, The Size of Spokane and What He Thought for NPR's All Things Considered.
posted by Laurable on 8/20/2003 10:45:43 AM
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One-time angry young poet still ticked about C.K. Williams from CNN dot com (AP Paris).
posted by Laurable on 8/20/2003 10:32:00 AM
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facetious a. [Cf. F. fac['e]tieux. See Faceti[ae].]
1. Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
2. Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply. -- Fa*ce\"tious*ly, adv. -- Fa*ce\"tious*ness, n.
posted by Laurable on 8/20/2003 10:10:42 AM
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Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees was reviewed in Sunday's New York Times Book Review.
posted by Laurable on 8/20/2003 09:58:07 AM
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August 18, 2003
Laurable nostaligia link: Tilde Carl @ Freedonia dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/18/2003 12:32:15 PM
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The new issue of Rattle dot com is available with audio interviews with Lucille Clifton and Charles Simic.
posted by Laurable on 8/18/2003 11:53:57 AM
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Here-Now dot org's (listen) Postcard Poetry Challenge results aired last Thursday, August 14th. Listen to Jim Behrle read a few postcards and pine for Sheryl Crow.
[There is a rumor that this might be the last Poetry Challenge.]
An NPR dot org's (listen) Weekend Edition - Saturday had a story on Wyn Cooper's poem Fun which was used by Sheryl Crow as the lyrics for her song, All I Wanna Do, August 3, 2003.
posted by Laurable on 8/18/2003 09:38:43 AM
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August 14, 2003
GOSPLACs: Graduates of small private liberal arts colleges from Sadness After the Condiment War on FTrain dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/14/2003 09:13:15 AM
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August 13, 2003
Can anybody get their hands on a W.H. Auden recording of Refugee Blues? I know it exists (although woefully out of print). Thanks.
posted by Laurable on 8/13/2003 02:06:19 PM
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My Life:
He called the police on me this morning. I explained. They looked very tired.
posted by Laurable on 8/13/2003 01:24:36 PM
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Self Portrait of the Artist as a Cartoon
posted by Laurable on 8/13/2003 12:24:03 PM
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Ding, ding, ding! Its all over folks. 50,003.
Thrilling. Just like when I used to drive a car.
posted by Laurable on 8/13/2003 12:11:25 PM
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49,998!
posted by Laurable on 8/13/2003 12:07:06 PM
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49,987 and counting.
posted by Laurable on 8/13/2003 11:55:13 AM
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RonSilliman [dot BlogSpot dot com] writes a thumbs up review for Million Poems Journal (FauxPress dot com) by Jordan Davis.
posted by Laurable on 8/13/2003 11:03:47 AM
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Today is the birthday of William Caxton (1422), who published his French translation of The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (Bartleby dot com) in 1475, the first book to be printed in English.
posted by Laurable on 8/13/2003 09:06:23 AM
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I feel like Jim Behrle posting at this time of night.
posted by Laurable on 8/13/2003 12:57:47 AM
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August 11, 2003
Link I am embarressed to admit to but am suckered by anyway? RedVsBlue dot com: Blood Gultch. The BBC liked it.
posted by Laurable on 8/11/2003 01:07:57 PM
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Today is the birthday of Louise Bogan (1897).
Saturday was the birthday of Philip Larkin (1922). CartoonBank dot com (the New Yorker) has a cartoon referencing Philip Larkin.
posted by Laurable on 8/11/2003 12:39:45 PM
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I didn't go to the wiffle game last night. I have my excuses. I have a feeling this will bump me off the Jim Behrle Top 10 Poetic Crushes list. Alas.
posted by Laurable on 8/11/2003 12:12:09 PM
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The addition of the comment feature on blogs multiples the amount of time consumed just keeping up as a poetics blog reader. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
This is probably why Silliman's visitors and page views have increased. People who have already read a particular entry are now returning (and returning again and again) to see how the conversation in the comments is progressing. I know I have.
posted by Laurable on 8/11/2003 10:22:39 AM
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August 5th, ChicagoPublicRadio dot org (listen), and WBEZ dot org, broadcast a story on Christian Wiman, the new editor of PoetryMagazine [dot org]. He claims he is going to read all of the poems submitted, which up to now have accumlates to 90,000. Who does one read 90,000 poems?
He also responds to the acqusation that Poetry Magazine doesn't publish enough experimental poetry:
I think if a poet is trying to be experimental, trying to be avante-guard, trying to create the next thing in poetry, then he or she is sort of dead in the water. I just don't think that's how poems get written. You're writing because you have these experiences that you have to write about and you're doing it in the forms that are your, sort of, aural thumbprint. And if that's not happening, if you are thinking about all these other things - Oh my gosh, what's the current, how do I shift the current, am I on the edge? - well, it's not going to work.
posted by Laurable on 8/11/2003 10:14:13 AM
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On Saturday, August 9th, RonSilliman dot BlogSpot dot com examines the New Brutalism via TougherThanBlog dot BlogSpot dot com by James Meetze who later responds. Kasey at LimeTree dot BlogSpot dot com provides commentary with some middle ground.
posted by Laurable on 8/11/2003 09:37:08 AM
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Sparrow has a column, Spam I Am, in today's New York Times Opinion Page.
posted by Laurable on 8/11/2003 09:23:16 AM
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Lay Back the Darkness by Edward Hirsch is reviewed in yesterday's New York Times Book Review.
posted by Laurable on 8/11/2003 09:09:51 AM
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August 8, 2003
Paul Ford of FTrain dot com was on NPR's All Things Considered (listen) yesterday with a commentary on Web Standards.
posted by Laurable on 8/08/2003 02:48:40 PM
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Poet pictures of the past from PictureHistory dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/08/2003 02:32:47 PM
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Yesterday, NPR FreshAir's (listen) resident linguist Geoff Nunberg considered dictionaries today and yesterday.
posted by Laurable on 8/08/2003 12:35:08 PM
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StephanieYoung dot BlogSpot dot com quotes one of my favorite lines from The Singing Detective exclamation point
Trivia question: What does (hospitalized) Marlowe say is the most beautiful word in the English language?
posted by Laurable on 8/08/2003 12:01:17 PM
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Fun fun fun from Nobel dot SE: Play their exciting new game... Tuberculosis!
posted by Laurable on 8/08/2003 10:52:12 AM
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I moved up a couple of notches and am now featured in the number four spot on Jim Behrle's Top Ten Poetic Crushes.
posted by Laurable on 8/08/2003 10:30:16 AM
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Warning! Non Poetry Link: Just a reminder for the upcoming presidential campain and all around political coverage (especially for those folks out there without a TV), CSpan dot org has a large RealVideo archive chock full of important, boring speeches.
posted by Laurable on 8/08/2003 10:26:00 AM
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I thought the Philly Sound: New Poetry Weekend was going to be webcast. Was I wrong? I can't locate it.
posted by Laurable on 8/08/2003 09:32:39 AM
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A rewiew of My Life as a Fake by Peter Craven in the Sydney Morning Herald.
posted by Laurable on 8/08/2003 09:03:13 AM
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August 7, 2003
FTrain dot com is back from summer vacation. With antlers!
posted by Laurable on 8/07/2003 03:56:08 PM
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The Blogger Library 100 Best Novels
1. Blogger Shrugged
2. The Sound and the Entry
3. Google with the Wind
4. The Age of Internet
5. Blogger’s Choice
6. One Flarfs over the Internet
7. As I Lay Blogging
8. Naked Link
9. Bloggers End
10. Invisible RAM
11. From Here to the Entry
12. A Farewell to ASPs
13. Poster’s Complaint
14. B
15. The Call of the Blog
16. URLysses
17. The Poster Always Pings Twice
18. Fear of Flarfing
19. Blog of Darkness
20. The Anxiety of the Blogger before the Publishing Click
21. RSStime
22. Click-22
23. The Golden Blog
24. The Blogger in the RSS
25. Website’s Children
26. The Blog According to Google
27. Blogweed
28. Sons and Linkers
29. The Blogs of Wrath
30. The Great Entry
31. Go Blog It on the Mainframe
32. The Unbearable Linkage of Blogs
33. Brideshead Reblogged
34. The Lord of the Pings
35. Topic of Blogger
36. A Comment Orange
37. Death Comes for the Blogger
38. Something Wicked this Way Comments
39. Weblog Site 451
40. The Good Blog
41. Post Counter Post
42. Bloggers in Love
43. I, Blogius
44. Stranger in a Strange Link
45. The Pings of the Dove
46. Of Human Bloggage
47. #1984
48. The Blog Also RSS’s
49. Brave New Blog
50. Sometimes a Great Blogspot
posted by Laurable on 8/07/2003 01:15:53 PM
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The very latest The Jim Side series features Improvements at Ron Silliman's Blog.
posted by Laurable on 8/07/2003 09:46:49 AM
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Today in 1933, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that James Joyce's Ulysses be allowed to be imported and sold in the United States; from Oklahoma State University. United States v. One Book Called Ulysses overruled the Hicklin test, upheld between 1879 until the early 1930s, which condemned material as obscene if the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
2Street dot com provides a reprint of United States District Judge John M. Woolsey’s ruling on the case. Some quotes:
Section 3: But in "Ulysses", in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist.
Section 4: In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of his characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring.
Section 6: The meaning of the word "obscene" as legally defined by the Courts is: tending to stir the sex impulses or to lead to sexually impure and lustful thoughts.
Section 6: My considered opinion, after long reflection, is that whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac.
posted by Laurable on 8/07/2003 09:16:01 AM
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W.S. Merwin was on this morning's Morning Edition (audio not available yet) talking about the time he lived in southern France and the Troubadours who resided there 800 years before.
posted by Laurable on 8/07/2003 09:08:23 AM
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NewsDay dot com ran a column August 4th on Derrick Wilson, poet of the A Train Book Club; the A line from Harlem to East New York.
posted by Laurable on 8/07/2003 08:51:44 AM
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August 6, 2003
The Independent dot co dot UK reports that the publication of a novel inspired by the Ern Malley hoax, My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey, is stirring up controversy once again.
The fine folks at JacketMagzine dot com (listen) provide RealAudio of a radio program by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1959 on the Ern Malley Story. A transcript is also available.
posted by Laurable on 8/06/2003 12:32:19 PM
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TheNewBrutalism dot BlogSpot dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/06/2003 10:40:54 AM
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E-Mail Update: I am now receiving incoming mail, but cannot send outgoing mail from Laurable dot com since Verizon blocks this on their SMTP server when using Eudora. The work around for this problem? Use Outlook Express. (I tested this and it did work.) DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!
Anyone know of a work around for Eudora?
posted by Laurable on 8/06/2003 10:27:47 AM
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Suji Kwock Kim, winner of the 2002 Walt Whitman Award, reads Montage with Neon, Bok Choi, Gasoline, Lovers & Strangers on Weekend Edition - Sunday, July 27, 2003 on NPR dot org (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/06/2003 10:11:49 AM
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Today is the birthday of Diane di Prima (1934). Prima was a guest on West Coast Live or WCL dot org (listen) in May of 2001.
posted by Laurable on 8/06/2003 09:42:51 AM
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Ben Jonson died on this day in 1637. Commenting on Jonson, Tennyson said, Reading him is like wading through glue, from Born-Today dot com.
posted by Laurable on 8/06/2003 09:34:18 AM
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Today is the birthday of Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809). The BBC [dot co dot UK] (listen) has an Edison wax cylinder recording of Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1890.
posted by Laurable on 8/06/2003 09:05:05 AM
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August 5, 2003
Today is the birthday of Ron Silliman (1946). The Electronic Poetry Center has a thirty-minute interview with Silliman from their LINEbreak (listen) series.
posted by Laurable on 8/05/2003 07:20:19 PM
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August 4, 2003
God Save My Queen by Daniel Nester is briefly reviewed in yesterday's New York Times Book Review.
posted by Laurable on 8/04/2003 11:35:36 AM
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I can't decide which prose poem to send to ChrisLott dot org. Soon, very soon, I will be e-mailing again.
(Limetree: I know who is hot (or not)).
posted by Laurable on 8/04/2003 11:14:38 AM
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Jim Behrle is going to dedicate a karaoke song to me Tuesday Night at the Bowery Poetry Club. Ah, sucks Jim. See you Tuesday.
posted by Laurable on 8/04/2003 10:59:57 AM
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Slope dot org has poetry audio (mp3s) in their new sellout issue.
posted by Laurable on 8/04/2003 10:54:38 AM
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RonSilliman [dot BlogSpot dot com] now has a commenting application by Squawkbox dot TV. I don't think anyone has posted yet. Let's see some chatter people!
posted by Laurable on 8/04/2003 10:34:29 AM
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Tomorrow is the birthday of Wendell Berry (1934).
Lannan dot org has a reading (listen) and a conversation (listen) with Gary Snyder.
posted by Laurable on 8/04/2003 10:04:17 AM
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The Factory School Press Club - blog style.
posted by Laurable on 8/04/2003 09:50:08 AM
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Today is the birthday of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792) and Robert Hayden (1913).
EaglesWeb dot com has six Shelley poems read by Walter Rufus Eagles.
At FactorySchool dot org (listen) you will find an interview with Robert Hayden when he was Poet Laureate.
posted by Laurable on 8/04/2003 09:23:47 AM
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Olson with two O's.
Two Olsens with one O.
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August 1, 2003
GotPoetry dot com, a [mostly] Slam website, features fifty recordings (audio, video, with music), a very large slam calendar, a slam encyclopedia (no browsing), WSLM with Spoken Word Slam Radio, a twenty four hour live internet radio station and more.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2003 12:57:46 PM
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Introducing the Bowery Poetry Club's Audbile dot com page at Audible dot com / BPC. Note: The sample recording is a generous fifteen minutes.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2003 12:40:15 PM
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Update on Laurable e-mail situation:
Verizon cut off my phone service when they hooked up my DSL, but (after a few days) the situation is now remedied. I have cleaned up all viruses, installed a firewall and am finishing up transferring my e-mails to another program. I should start catching up with replies this weekend, but there are many of them and it will be a long task. If I am terse, my apologies. I will be keeping all these e-mails in a separate folder to possibly reply to when I am less swamped.
Thank you for your patience.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2003 12:20:28 PM
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Here is the Library of Congress Bob Hope joke file (page with examples) that Jordan at Equanimity dot BlogSpot dot com mentioned.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2003 10:56:53 AM
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The Poet and the Poem, originally broadcast on Washington D.C.'s WPFW-FM, is a RealAudio interview series with Poets Laureate and Witter Bynner fellows. Interviews currently available at the Libary of Congress are with Billy Collins, Katia Kapovich, Naomi Shihab Nye, Shelby Stephenson and Joshua Weiner.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2003 10:49:22 AM
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I hate to discourage travel on the Boston/New York circuit, but the NYDailyNews dot com has an article on two fires which are connected to a rivalry between discount Chinatown coach companies. NOTE: The Fung Wah Bus Company is NOT mentioned.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2003 10:35:43 AM
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I am back on the Friday Top 10 Jim Behrle Poetic Crushes occuping the five spot. Apparently, last week I was hoovering at slot number 12.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2003 10:21:29 AM
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The Poet Vision Series, a former television series out of Philadelphia, is available at the Library of Congress, currently with RealVideos of Allen Ginsberg (listen), Louise Glück (listen) and Stanley Kunitz (listen). In the coming months, RealVideo of Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Robert Haas, Sam Hamill, Michael Harper, Etheridge Knight, Kenneth Kraft, Denise Levertov, Cecelia Vicuna, and Robert Penn Warren will become available.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2003 09:35:07 AM
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May 7th, 2003, Billy Collins gave his final reading as U. S. Poet Laureate at LOC dot Gov (listen).
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2003 09:25:11 AM
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Today is the birthday of Herman Melville (1819). Charles Olsen gave a lecture on Melville at Goddard in 1962 and the RealAudio (WMP also available) recording of that lecture is provided by the good people at Slought dot net (listen). Ishmail, an open listserv, is hosted by Hofstra University and Melville dot org.
posted by Laurable on 8/01/2003 09:04:54 AM
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