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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2gdrzs"><span style='color:windowtext'>in Austin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Before there was Neal &amp; Jack<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
there was <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2mamtj"><span style='color:black'>Sam &amp; Bill</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Marcel &amp; James<br>
<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2009698,00.html"><span style='color:black'>just said no</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>But did Bill<br> 
<a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/books/16638825.htm"><span style='color:black'>know Fletcher</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2xtqkr"><span style='color:windowtext'>Bidding</span></a><br>
for Kim <span class=SpellE>Addonizio&#8217;s</span><br>
thong<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Interviewing Steve Swallow<br>
<a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=24544"><span style='color:black'>about</span></a><br>
Robert Creeley<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>An interview with<br>
<a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2006winter/gaiman.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Neil <span class=SpellE>Gaiman</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Talking with<br>
<a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/13/DDGI7O2GF41.DTL"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Nate</span></span><span style='color:windowtext'> Mackey</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/070219crbo_books_menand"><span style='color:windowtext'>Quoting</span></a><br>
Louis <span class=SpellE>Menand</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Talking with<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2prnrw"><span style='color:windowtext'>Nikki Giovanni</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Independent Press Association<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2auq9r"><span style='color:windowtext'>has folded</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/295zhl"><span style='color:black'>Modernism</span></a><br>
comes to the Corcoran<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2fnpcr"><span style='color:black'>New music</span></a><br>
and the blogosphere<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n03/disk01_.html"><span  style='color:windowtext'>ontology</span></a> of<br>
<a href="http://www.secondlife.com/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Second Life</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Writers in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Turkey</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
have no choice<br>
but to be<br>
<a  href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/books/10shaf.html?_r=1&amp;oref=login"><span style='color:black'>public intellectuals</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2009518,00.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>the voice of</span></a><br>
British Asian poetry&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Why are there no<br>
great <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2glpeq"><span style='color:black'>Braille</span></a> poets?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ysnk7p"><span style='color:black'>best selling book</span></a><br>
in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
won&#8217;t be published<br>
until July<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Stanley</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Fish<br>
<a href="http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=33"><span style='color:windowtext'>turns on the radio</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://jonathanmayhew.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-discovered-new-snowclone-recently.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Jonathan Mayhew</span></a><br>
gives<br>
good <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone"><span style='color:windowtext'>snowclone</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Of <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2006winter/reyes.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Barbara Jane Reyes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Amanda <span class=SpellE>Nadelberg</span><br>
on <br>
<a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2006winter/lubasch.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext'>Lisa <span class=SpellE>Lubasch</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2006winter/everson.shtml"><span style='color:black'>last hurrah</span></a><br>
of the Berkeley Renaissance<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yvaemq"><span style='color:black'>O&#8217;Dowd against Chick Lit</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Or <a href="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/opinion/13schiff.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>you could try this</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Free the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070219/gillers"><span style='color:windowtext'>Ulysses </span><span style='color:windowtext;font-style:normal'>Two</span></a></i>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/theater/12mono.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Hoohaa</span></span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=222272007"><span style='color:black'>Edwin Morgan</span></a> at 86<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Look at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2or7yb"><span style='color:black'>this article</span></a> in its<br>
&#8221;printable view&#8221;<br>
and the example<br>
doesn&#8217;t look like<br>
&#8221;condensed language&#8221;<br>
in the slightest<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
just a pleonast&#8217;s<br>
sloppy prose<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;Poetry <br>
<a href="http://www.naropa.edu/notenoughnight/fall06/Brown.html"><span style='color:black'>should be as well written</span></a><br>
as prose<span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(Rebecca Brown<br>
quoting Pound)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Why theme-based<br>
anthologies<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3dbbyy"><span style='color:windowtext'>are a joke</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The battle over aesthetics<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/293rt2"><span style='color:black'>sends in the clowns</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Yes<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/arts/12part.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>conservatives <br>
really are like that</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For example<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article2242327.ece"><span style='color:windowtext'>Al Alvarez</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The book as new tech<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjVeRbhtRU"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>ja</span></span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When I was the executive editor of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Socialist Review, </i>back betwixt 1986 &amp; 1989, I found myself reading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Texas Observer, </i>a journal with which <span style='color:black'>we traded free subscriptions, just so I could read this one fantastic columnist they had by the name of <a href="http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins.html?columnsName=miv"><span style='color:black'>Molly</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins"><span style='color:black'>Ivins</span></a>. So I was not at</span> all surprised, in the intervening years, as she went on to become famous as a nationally syndicated columnist, her razor-sharp wit, common sense &amp; basic human decency being a killer combination of skills for anyone in her line of work. She tried to warn the nation about the man she dubbed Shrub, and she was right.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ms. Ivins kept writing right through her three bouts with cancer, tho it cut into her regularity as a columnist &amp; turned her magnificent head of red hair white &amp;, at points, non-existent. Her final column, just three weeks ago, was entitled <a href="http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins/stand-up-against-the-surge.html"><span style='color:black'>&#8220;Stand Up Against the Surge.&#8221;</span></a> One way to say thank you to Molly for all of her decades of work in our behalf today is to join some one million bloggers and blog readers who will call their U.S. Senators to tell them to stop the escalation &amp; bring our troops home <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>now. </i>Follow this link &#8211;<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8211; and the good folks at <span class=SpellE>MoveOn</span> will help with the phone numbers and even show you when the best time to call is &amp;, if you want, send a text message to your cell phone reminding you when that moment has arrived. If anybody asks, tell them Molly sent you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Barbara Guest<br>
Ian Hamilton Finlay<br>
Gilbert Sorrentino<br>
James L. Weil<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Of these, <span class=SpellE>edwards</span> is the one I knew best. I&#8217;ve written of kari <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2004/02/q-how-does-one-pronounce-title-of-kari.html"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a>, and I plan to do more sometime soon. I&#8217;d met Barbara Guest briefly &amp; superficially a few times in the last years I lived in the Bay Area. And I&#8217;d corresponded with Weil in the 1960s, when I was anxious about getting my work around &amp; Elizabeth Press was one of the best small publishing operations going. He was generous to me, but my work lacked the discipline that was the hallmark of what he really liked. That&#8217;s probably still true.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Layton</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> I knew primarily as someone Robert Creeley would mention from time to time. Among Canadian poets, he strikes me as someone who was, how <span class=GramE>shall I</span> put this, prematurely New American, before it became fashionable &amp; common north of the border. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Finlay seemed far away, geographically, historically, aesthetically. My impression is that he wasn&#8217;t the most gregarious of men &amp; my only view of the </span><st1:place><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>British Isles</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> has been from the windows of jets flying over. You can&#8217;t read the signage at <a href="http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/ian_hamilton_finlay.html"><span style='color:black'>Little Sparta</span></a> from those heights. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Sorrentino is somebody I always thought I would meet &amp; never did. I liked his fiction, loved his poetry &amp; was thoroughly inspired by his critical writing &#8211; I&#8217;ve noted before that it is  one of the models I&#8217;ve used in thinking about this weblog. But he was something of a recluse &#8211; when he went to teach at Stanford, which he did for over 20 years, I never saw him at a reading up in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>San Francisco</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, and I&#8217;ve known students of the writing program there who said that he was no more visible on campus. On the other hand, I know people who made the effort to seek him out, so I know that it wasn&#8217;t impossible. This was my failing, and now it&#8217;s something I can never undo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Elsewhere in the field of art, some of the people who have passed include video pioneer Nam Jun Paik, sci-fi masters Stanislaw <span class=SpellE>Lem</span> &amp; Octavia Butler (the latter due to a sad household accident, falling &amp; hitting her head in her garden), and Allan Kaprow, who didn&#8217;t invent happenings, tho he seems to have been destined to work in that form. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>2006 was also the year that </span><st1:Street><st1:address><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Telegraph Avenue</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Berkeley</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> lost Cody&#8217;s, once a great bookstore &amp; a model for so many others, which may yet prove a larger loss than we can now imagine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Friday night&#8217;s MLA offsite reading can be listened to &#8211; or downloaded &#8211; <a href="http://miporadio.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a>. Some photos of the event are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/silliman/sets/72157594448158467/"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2003spring/edwards.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext'>kari <span class=SpellE>edwards</span></span></a> died of heart failure on Saturday. kari was 52. kari and I read together once and I liked the work, which was at once both rough &amp; immediate, with terrific attention to detail plus an ear to language as social. There was one trick to writing about kari &#8211; kari didn&#8217;t like you to use pronouns except to refer to yourself, because pronouns in English invariably register gender and kari&#8217;s position as a gender activist (kari&#8217;s term) was that there was no way to go about this that wasn&#8217;t wrong. Others tended to use the feminine, but when I wrote <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2004/02/q-how-does-one-pronounce-title-of-kari.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>a piece</span></a> that avoided pronouns altogether with regards to <span class=SpellE>edwards</span>, kari noticed &amp; wrote to thank me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>kari always struck me as a classic instance of the person who may have great difficulty fitting into many another social <span class=GramE>context</span>, but for whom the world of poetry offered great possibility. A kin in this regard to such divergent personalities as John Wieners, Jack Spicer, Hannah Weiner, Dan Davidson, Larry Eigner. One of the great things about the post-avant (and the most crucial way in which it differs from the old avant, let alone the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>School</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Q</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>) is how it understands itself <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>as a community</i>, and how open it is to people based on what they can do, not really on anything else. When Gil <span class=SpellE>Ott</span> died a few years back, it was kari who pointed out to me how important a figure he had been when <span class=SpellE>edwards</span> was first thinking seriously about poetry &#8211; Gil&#8217;s idea of poetry as community organizing is a model that kari carried forward. kari&#8217;s &#8220;career&#8221; wasn&#8217;t that long, but it reached a lot of people very quickly and a quick search on <a href="http://www.technorati.com/search/kari%20edwards"><span style='color:windowtext'>Technorati</span></a> or Google&#8217;s <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y8jp3x"><span style='color:windowtext'>blog search</span></a> will give some clue as to just how many (and how different) people today are mourning kari edwards. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Former Congressman Gerry <span class=SpellE>Studds</span> died last week, the victim of a blood clot in his lung. The first out-of-the-closet gay member of Congress, <span class=SpellE>Studds</span> had been in the news of late, as defenders of Mark Foley, the Republican <span class=SpellE>chickenhawk</span> who was playing at <span class=SpellE>cybersex</span> with House pages, pointed out that <span class=SpellE>Studds</span> had himself been in a similar situation back in the 1980s and had been voted back into office several times afterwards. But <span class=SpellE>Studds</span> didn&#8217;t come from the party of homophobia, and therein <span class=GramE>lies</span> a difference. What killed Foley&#8217;s career was not pedophilia, but hypocrisy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If the Foley story is noteworthy primarily because it has helped to reveal what everyone but the Christian right has known since Roy Cohn was an aide to Senator Joe McCarthy, that there are plenty of gay Republicans, then the most interesting thing about the 1,490 stories I was able to find Sunday on <span class=SpellE>Google&#8217;s</span> news tracker concerning <span class=SpellE>Studds</span> is that over 400 were reprints of either the Associated Press or <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New York Times </i>version of his obit, both of which referred to Dean Hara as <span class=SpellE>Studds</span>&#8217; husband.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>So how does change come, finally, in the world? In part, it&#8217;s just in the ordinariness of a noun phrase, as at the end of this opening sentence from </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Damien</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cave</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8217;s piece in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Times:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Depression stole a friend last Friday. One of my favorite co-workers at Gartner, Bruce Caldwell, died after spending more than a year on disability. I first met Bruce a decade ago when he covered service and support for <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>InformationWeek </i>&amp; I was handling marketing and market intelligence for Technology Service Solutions (TSS), an IBM-Kodak joint venture. Gartner hired him to focus on IT outsourcing right about the time that IBM Global Services folded in TSS. When I joined Gartner in 2000, focusing on infrastructure support services, Caldwell &amp; I often found ourselves working together on specific projects. The grumpy demeanor of a skeptical journalist melted away to reveal a delightful, dour wit &amp;, rare thing for Gartner, somebody who was as at least as good at the craft of prose as he was at technology. Bruce had been both a working journalist <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>and </i>a union activist, which meant that our world views were pretty much in step. The only part that I never fully got &#8211; my failing, not his &#8211; was his passion for sailing &amp; the ocean, one reason he was no longer living in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Indianapolis</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>. Bruce may have been at least as amused about my own love of poetry, but he was one of only a couple of co-workers I had with whom I could discuss writing &#8211; poetry included &#8211; intelligently. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.depression.com/"><span style='color:black'>Depression</span></a> is certainly <a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_edpik/b_2.htm"><span style='color:black'>no stranger</span></a> to anyone involved in the world of poetry, and the disease has been a regular visitor to my family tree as well. My grandmother, who pretty much raised me, had a severe case of chronic depression that was never treated during her lifetime, beyond taking one cruise to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Panama</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> in the early 1950s &#8220;to get a rest.&#8221; I have at least two cousins on my mother&#8217;s side of the family, a half-brother who is self-medicating with alcohol &amp; a son who are struggling with the disease in one form or another. Two friends, one of them a former roommate whose wife was the first person to turn me on to Russian Futurism, the other a sign language interpreter who has translated my writing into ASL, have jumped to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge. And then there are all the poet-suicides, starting (for me at least) with Dan Davidson, but definitely including Lew Welch &amp; Richard Brautigan. When the media says that one in however many Americans <span class=GramE>is</span> currently suffering from a mental illness, depression is the largest single factor, <a href="http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm"><span style='color:black'>hitting nearly 21 million Americans</span></a> each year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Depression is one of those diseases &#8211; schizophrenia &amp; Tourette&#8217;s syndrome are two others &#8211; for which the symptoms are often perceived as social, rather than medical, by casual outsiders. The disease &#8211; or its symptoms &#8211; is an embarrassment. People are told to &#8220;pull it together,&#8221; &#8220;suck it up,&#8221; or &#8220;get over it.&#8221; But that only happens if you are very fortunate with your particular version of the condition &amp; the combination of medications &amp; treatment options. My own experience is that what works for person A almost never seems to be of much use to person B, which I interpret as signaling that what we now call one disease is, in fact, a broad range of different-but-similar conditions, each with their own etiologies. It&#8217;s like ADHD, so-called attention deficit disorder, something you can almost bet won&#8217;t be seen in 100 years the way it is today, but rather as a spectrum of many different things going on, or going wrong, in one&#8217;s system. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>That misperception can, I think, be particularly toxic in the world of poetry. All too often we &#8211; by which I include myself, among others &#8211; tend to engage with somebody trying to pick some fight when what is driving their behavior has little or nothing to do with aesthetic judgments &amp; differences. And we tend to excuse behavior &#8211; substance abuse in particular &#8211; when what is going on is amateur self-medication. Partly this has to do with how open the world of poetry is &#8211; a major psychosis need not stand in the way of success, if handled right (and how many other fields can you say <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>that </i>about?) &#8211; but partly we do it just because it&#8217;s easier to put it all back on the individual who is acting out. There is a certain morbid fascination to it all. At its worst, you see behavior like the &#8220;pool&#8221; George Starbuck once told me about, of folks around the  </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Boston</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> scene betting on when John Berryman would kill himself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>What I want to say is this. If you have a problem, please <a href="http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm"><span style='color:black'>seek help</span></a>. It can be a frustrating, trial-&amp;-error process, but it beats not trying. If you have friends or family with a problem, help them to get help. If you see someone in the comments stream to this (or any) blog who is acting out for reasons that have little to do with the topic at hand, don&#8217;t just jump in &amp; verbally or intellectually rip them to shreds. That&#8217;s not only too easy, it does no good whatsoever. Poetry isn&#8217;t about one-<span class=SpellE>upsmanship</span>, or it shouldn&#8217;t be. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The most expensive reading ticket<br>
I&#8217;ve heard of in some time<br>
promises to be a bargain.<br>
<br>
$60 Canadian<br>
gets you a book-length reading<br>
of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.bookthug.ca/miva/merchant.mvc? Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=apollinaire&amp;Product_Code=1883"><span style='color:black'>The Men</span></a> </i><br>
by Lisa Robertson<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
a three-course dinner<br>
&amp; all male fashion show<br>
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Friday, July 7, in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:City><br>
as part of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><br>
<a href="http://www.thescream.ca/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=6"><span style='color:black'>The Scream</span></a></i><br> 
literary festival<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&amp; for $5 more<br> 
you get the book too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Soft Skull Press is bringing out a new edition of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-933368-15-2"><span style='color:black'>Eunoia</span></a>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I&#8217;ve been getting thank you notes<br>
for shutting down<br>
the comments stream.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>But there has also been a drop-off<br>
in the number of visits per day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Personally, I miss the serious comments<br>
that were on topic.<br>
But toward the end, <br>
that had declined to no more than<br>
ten percent of the comments overall. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>So if &amp; when I reopen that feature<br>
it will be after I have figured out<br>
some way to ensure<br>
that comments stay focused.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>There will be a memorial event for <br>
<a href="http://www.scn.org/realpoetik/talcott95.html"><span style='color:black'>William</span></a> <a href="http://www.scn.org/realpoetik/talcott96.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Talcott</span></span></a><br>
at Moe&#8217;s Books in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:City><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">2476 Telegraph Ave</st1:address></st1:Street>,<br>
Saturday, July 8<br>
at 7:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>One of the great presses <br>
from the 1960s onward<br>
finally has its own web site:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.coyotesjournal.com/"><span style='color:black'>Coyote&#8217;s Journal</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Check out those early journals<br>
&amp; those up-to-the-moment books<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Sunday&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>NY Times Book Review<br>
</i><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/preview/2006/07/02/books/1125012977650.html?8tpw&amp;emc=tpw"><span style='color:black'>looks</span></a> at the collected poems<br>
of Ishmael Reed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The best piece I&#8217;ve read lately<br>
on <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/264"><span style='color:black'>Donald Hall</span></a><br>
is in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=513906"><span style='color:black'>Harvard Crimson</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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