subscribeAug 22, 2008
Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world’s willingness to receive it – indeed the world’s need of it – these never pass. — Mary Oliver
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- thom donovan’s ‘a wildness’
September 6, 2010 | 2:05 pmThe dark will be a ground we recover in the night / Illegitimate, turning to those other bodies http://bit.ly/aJbaYW
- ca conrad’s #46 your mina loy portal
September 6, 2010 | 1:20 pmNow carry the stone for a week, taking notes while reading the poems of Mina Loy. For nearly a century her poems have been waiting to be used as keys for the map. http://bit.ly/9eOVsZ
- eric larsen’s ‘the recluse and his lightning’
September 4, 2010 | 7:17 pmi took the hose to fill each hole i dug / and drove a Woolworth’s remote control truck / in and out of the water http://bit.ly/bevHjl
- kristen mchenry’s ‘the adulterer’
September 4, 2010 | 7:10 pmGod, my symptoms / are so garish: this slick / pawing, clinging dead-drunk fucking / gulping our shame. http://bit.ly/dcwhCO
- eric larsen’s ‘autumn insulin’ (draft)
July 16, 2010 | 9:09 amonly cremation will do in this altitude / a plastic box of ashes spread white, not always granular / coarser bone shards, slivers of teeth http://bit.ly/djCKNR
- caconrad’s ‘#44 aids snow family’
July 8, 2010 | 7:55 pmIn January gather snow, this is intimate this calling to honor the shock of being alive. http://bit.ly/aXdMUX
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newsblog: issues and oddities
- new diagnostic tool lights up brains impaired by alzheimer’s
June 24, 2010 | 9:07 amDye could enable Alzheimer’s diagnosis and evaluation of treatment efficacy. http://nyti.ms/cknbuq
- reporters, photographers blocked from full coverage of bp spill
June 10, 2010 | 8:54 am“Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials.” http://nyti.ms/cxG2J5
- what john francis learned by not driving, not speaking
June 4, 2010 | 10:46 pmTry not driving for 22 years. And not speaking. John Francis did it. http://bit.ly/cCpUF8
- what social media can teach us and how we can teach social media
June 1, 2010 | 3:38 pmWill Richardson. Social media. Personal learning networks. Connectedness literacies. The classroom. http://bit.ly/anDEIb
- it’s not just on the surface
May 29, 2010 | 11:48 amUndersea plumes are a feature of the BP oil spill. http://nyti.ms/cfRMUP
- free time in the post-tv era
May 25, 2010 | 3:41 pmCognitive surplus, social networks and how we spend our spare time. http://bit.ly/d6TGte
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i can’t be bought
‘Sid Yiddish is turning public bathrooms into alternative spaces for reflection.’
[The bathroom has ALWAYS been a place for reflection, both figuratively and literally]
‘Someone had taken a knife and slashed a big X through his poem … Yiddish took it remarkably well. “It’s quite a compliment,” he says. “If they steal it or make something on it, it inspired the person enough to do something.”…
[ummm, no. As much as Sid would like to believe that, I can safely say that it was vandalism for vandalism’s sake. My love and creation of poetry started just like it did for Sid, the difference with me was that I was a bit of a rough rider, or as I used to call myself, a ‘Warrior Poet’. I can attest first hand, that the statement Sid’s vandal was trying to make was simply to be destructive.
Heh.
Exactly
Heh. Heh.