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What a surprisingly inspiring essay on creativity after 40:

Galenson, David W. and Joshua Kotin. "It's never too late to create," Los Angeles Times, 30 January 2007.

Labels: creativity

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Rediscovered this essay by Ron Silliman on the long poem.

Silliman, Ron. "'As to Violin Music': Time in the Longpoem," Jacket #27, April 2005.

Labels: long poem, poetry

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Special issue of Rhizomes 13: Drift

Labels: landscape, mapping, psychogeography

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A brief history of, and back-and-forth about, "poets in residence" programs.

Labels: poetry

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Great news for Shea's Long Beach bookstore/arts center, {open}. Say goodbye to the grief of the failed East Village Arts District and hello to the long-running and more visible 4th Street "Antique Row." The new location will be 2226 E. 4th Street (at Junipero) here in beautiful "Bluff Heights" / "Carroll Park" / "Rose Park South." Excellent!

Labels: Long Beach, sound

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PDF Resource Library at Duration Press

Labels: poetry

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"Creative Alchemy," Nathaniel Mackey interviewed by Bill Forman

Labels: poetry

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How much room do we really need?

Little House on a Small Planet
Small House Society
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company

Labels: landscape

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More post-graduate work? Well, after reading here, here, here, here, and here, I'm not so sure . . .

Labels: education

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Related to that Poetry Magazine exchange on the social aspect of poetry, here is a wiki dealing with audience for innovative poetry.

innovativeaudiences

Labels: poetry

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Hannah Weiner's Early and Clairvoyant Journals

Labels: poetry

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Here is a press, edited by Craig Dworkin at University of Utah, with an archive of key texts.

Eclipse

Labels: poetry

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This article inspired me to finally organize all of the interesting things I've collected.

"Does Poetry Have a Social Function," by Stephen Burt, Daisy Fried, Major Jackson, and Emily Warn.

I particularly responded to this by Major Jackson:

Whether as a form of witness, as a medium which dignifies individual speech and thought, as a repository of our cumulative experiences, or as a space where we "purify" language, poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value. . . . one of poetry's chief aims is to illumine the walls of mystery, the inscrutable, the unsayable. I think poetry ought to be taught not as an engine of meaning but as an opportunity to learn to live in doubt and uncertainty, as a means of claiming indeterminancy. Our species is deeply defined by its great surges of reason, but I think it high time we return to elemental awe and wonder. Such a position is necessary to our communal health.

Labels: poetry

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This is where I will keep track of items of interest in poetry, sound, and image.

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