Sorry. Something like a blog breakdown over the past week–I dunno, every time I thought about posting my cursor would hover over the link to Blogger and then just slink away. It’s just been a tough week. No personal, political, or poetic spins to be put on it. I still owe you all a report on the Notley reading. I…
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I’ll be there–and it looks like Li will too, so we can meet at last! A veritable blogfest. Oh, and Notley’s pretty good too. *************** ALICE NOTLEY **************** at the University of Chicago Monday, November 10, 5:30 p.m. (Classics 10): Poetry reading Tuesday, November 11, 4:30 p.m. (Wieboldt 408): “My Lines” A reception will follow the reading on Monday. ********************…
Good Lord. Those of you anywhere near Stanford can hear Billy Collins, Robert Creeley, Eavan Boland, Michael Davidson, and Thom Gunn read all in the space of this next week. Tomorrow: Thom Gunn, the Lawrence and Nancy Mohr Visiting Poet, will hold a colloquium, Wednesday November 5, at 11am in the Terrace Room, Fourth Floor, Margaret Jacks Hall, Stanford English…
I missed William Fuller reading up in Winnetka, but when I saw he was reading down here at the University of Chicago I hardly had any excuse. Of course, I always think that 20-minute walk to campus will take about 5, so I left late and spent the whole walk saying to myself, “No poetry reading ever starts on time…”…
Please come to a reading and lecture at the University of Chicago this week by: *************** William Fuller **************** Thursday, October 30, 5:30 p.m. (Classics 10): Poetry reading Friday, October 31, 1:00 p.m. (Classics 10): “Restatement of Trysts” A reception will follow the reading on Thursday. ******************** Drawing equally on Buddhist sutras and country blues, William Fuller’s latest book, Sadly…
Two bleary-eyed blogless days filled with job apps. I don’t recommend that 4:55 p.m. sprint to the post office when you haven’t eaten anything all day, or the frantic run to Office Depot (around the corner, thank god) ten minutes before closing time to rub paper samples looking for the right one to match the stuff you’ve already got. What…
Hey bloggers: go academic… Panel on Weblogs Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Conference at San Antonio, April 7-10, 2004 This panel seeks papers from bloggers either analyzing some aspect of the culture of blogging or presenting critical and informative personal narratives about blogging. Presenters need not be academics, and graduate students are welcome. Please email jchaney@iusb.edu a short abstract…
Gary Sullivan answers my question about flarf and Googlism: There was a brief period on the flarflist when everyone found Googlism and threw in funny searches, like “bad poetry” or “great poetry.” The one I remember best, of course, is: Googlism for: flarf flarf is come festival in florida flarf is officially over for this year flarf is the faery…
Which makes me wonder: how do flarfers feel about Googlism? It seems like there’s something of the same thing going on there, like a tech-geek version–the results, at least, often don’t look that different from my own pale attempts at the genre. Of course, I presume Googlism is the result of some kind of automated process, which flarf flirts with…
Both The Wily Filipino and Gabriel Gudding pointed my attention to Googlism on “choke,” part of which Gudding was kind enough to send to me: Googlism for: choke choke is offered in pressure choke is on you choke is the result of 13 years of continuous research and development choke is on you last aired on choke is a damn…