Friday, March 11, 2005
Did anybody else see
Craft Corner Deathmatch on Wednesday? I did. While knitting. Heh.
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Thursday, March 10, 2005
The latest kerfuffle:
this article on poet Ammiel Alcalay. There's a rising tide of blog posts, letters-to-the-editor, etc. coming out of this one, arguing that the article is nothing more than a crass call for censorship, is hyperbolically one-sided, fails to appreciate political and poetical complexity, etc., etc. Perhaps. But its main fault in my view is that . . . it's boring. I mean, the mindblowing revelation that this author feels the need to gift the world with is: "poets sometimes have unpopular, and to some people's minds, perverse, political views." Egad! You don't say! You know what else? The world is round.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
So the Ginormous Collaboration Poetry Fantasia is this Sunday, 7 p.m., at Zinc Bar (90 West Houston). There may be a nominal cover. There may be a man in drag. There will be Shafer Hall, King of Collaborations, Shanna Compton, Jen Knox, Ada Limon, Erica Kaufman, John Cotter, Daniel Nester, and myself. So you should come. It will be glooooorrrriouuss.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005
"There is no place for such things in our life!," sayeth this
random Russian propaganda poster, solemnly inveighing against the diverse terrors of cigarette-pack-shaped man bags, liquorbottle peglegs, outsized hypodermic needles used as flagpoles, and, um, buccaneers.
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Monday, March 07, 2005
WARNING: Self-promotion ahead.
Come on out to Zinc Bar, 90 West Houston, this Sunday and you shall be treated to the Shafer Hall Poetical Collabotron 6000, comprising himself, Shanna Compton, John Cotter, Jamison Driskill, Erica Kaufman, Jennifer L. Knox, Ada Limon, Daniel Nester, yours truly & probably some mystery guests who will be forced to wear paper bags embossed with question marks over their heads.
'Twill all be officiated by Brendan Lorber of Lungfull! and other things. Time? Cover? What? I'll get back to you. For now, plan for eveningish.
If you've got requests, comment away.
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You know what? Painting over a run in your pantyhose with nail polish to keep it from getting bigger really works.
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Sunday, March 06, 2005
If you're looking for something to do this evening that will get you fed and cultured all at once, try the Feast Reading at Camaje (85 MacDougal Street between Houston and Bleecker) at five o'clock. Jen Knox, Shafer Hall, Jordan Davis, and sundry others will be reading post-Oscar poems. Fastiness requires my absence, but those of you not burdened with religious obligations can zealously dine while listening to what promises to be some very awesome work.
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