The Proust Questionnaire + Twitter Grows Up
The Corresponding Society presents Answers to Questions! by Yours Truly~ Your favorite virtue. Your favorite qualities in a man. Your favorite qualities in a woman. Your chief characteristic. What you appreciate the most in your friends. Your main fault. Your favorite occupation. Your idea of happiness. FOR MORE QUESTIONS + THE ANSWERS, VISIT THE CORRESPONDING … Read more
Huffington Post Arts – But Not the Literary Arts?
So The New Yorker publishes poetry, which falls within the domain of the Literary Arts. (I didn’t claim it was always good poetry…) And today, my friend Ben Evans tells me he has now signed on to write about the arts on Huffington Post. Ariana Huffington posted a big note announcing how HuffPo is all-inclusive … Read more
I Wrote on Reading…
WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? “Reading appears passive because it takes place in a chair, on a bed, at the beach, in the tub, etc. Reading is … –Continued at The Laughing Yeti!
What BP Isn’t Doing, But Could
The Secret, 700-Million-Gallon Oil Fix That Worked — and Might Save the Gulf May 13, 2010 at 6:46AM by Mark Warren There’s a potential solution to the Gulf oil spill that neither BP, nor the federal government, nor anyone — save a couple intuitive engineers — seems willing to try. As The Politics Blog reported on … Read more
Not Your Usual Media “Coverage”
Poets for Living Waters – New Statements / Poems I don’t have the answers. I barely have the questions. But I’m not egotistical enough to imagine I can come up with a solution or complete understanding on my own. I also don’t think sitting in front of the TV, feeling angry and impotent, is the … Read more
The Poetry Feminaissance Interview @ Huffington Post
The Poetry Feminaissance by Travis Nichols Are you a poet? Do you feel overwhelmed by negativity? Feel like there’s no hope for a poet in this world? Especially a female poet? Well don’t despair. Spend some time with Amy King. She’s the author of Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox), and, with Ana Bozicevic, she … Read more
LANGUAGE ARM OF BEHAVIOR
NEW REVIEW OF SLAVES TO DO THESE THINGS @ WET ASPHALT — …while ultimately what I think King is concerned with here is the nature of becoming by moving against time as a sort of point of resistance, what she is not interested in is sustaining such artificial constructs as the Master Slave dialectic itself, … Read more
THE UGLY AMERICANS
NEW REVIEW OF SLAVES TO DO THESE THINGS by Bobbi Lurie @ Jacket Magazine” Amy King’s poems are dense and energetically written. They are often fragmented collages of narratives which are in no way narratives in the usual sense. They express a great deal of movement of the mind, written with a strong imagination and … Read more
Not My Pelican!
More Gruesome Shots Here What’s BP Oil doing about the effects of filling the Gulf and Atlantic Oceans with their oil? What two things can you do? 1.) British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, ”Louisana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.” His office number is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com . … Read more
BP Oil Spill, REM & Your Part
“This isn’t a movie we can turn off and walk away from…” Ana Bozicevic and I just drove across the Cuyahoga River in Ohio two days ago, thinking about the water, the oil and this song. More fitting now than ever. Press play, sit back, take it in. Time to own this and do … Read more
