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So, internet-land, thus far our communications have been text-based, and it has been good. But there is so much more available and limiting ourselves to typing is just not taking advantage of all the modern adaptations available on this Web 2.0 deal.
This video includes two sestinas: Sestina for No One and Sestina that I wrote [...]

(from here via notcot)
Make it big, and it’s art. Make it big, and public, and it’s art people talk about.
I wonder if the problem with poetry is that it’s too quiet now. The maddest among us don’t howl so much as froth. I certainly mumble in the background somewhere about the ephemeral. Maybe it just [...]

This isn’t a poem, you know. This is a splash of colour (black) on scraps of dirty paper (suddenly valueless, green, 155.956 × 66.294 mm when we give up the ridiculous imperial measurements [...]

…is the middle ground. Extremes (and complexities) of emotional response are pretty much our stock-in-trade. It might well be the ethos of the middle-brow suburban working stiff to parrot the old-media-spawned desirability of a ‘balanced’ perspective but the unbalanced, unpopular, subversive, perverse, creepy, critical, curious, unconventional and not-always-well-intentioned are just a few of the acceptable [...]

While I assume most people who read these missives I send into the aether are well aware, I just want to put it out there again. Poetry Daily. Today’s is “User’s Guide to Physical Debilitation” by Paul Guest, and I found this snippet amusing:
When not an outright impossibility or form of [...]

I’m in ISSUE 2!!!!! Page 382!
(via Harriet)
Incidentally, since the contents of my site are licensed under a creative commons license, it was totally cool of them to use it. I’m not going to be uppity like some people were (about Issue 1, anyway).

link (via Poetry Hut Blog)
Maybe I’m the only one who isn’t familiar with Lewis Hyde, maybe not. I don’t recall having ever heard of him or his book The Gift. If that NYTimes piece is indicative of his views, I probably should look into it.
Intellectual property is a murky idea. How do you really “own” [...]

Complain loudly enough, and the mountain will move for you (via Poetry Hut Blog).
Or, if not mountains, you can squelch free speech and artistic expression that does not match with your iron-age belief system. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems the “moderate christians” should be with the people standing up against this. If that [...]

This is me not working on my NaNoWriMo project. Video from here about this. Usual caveat that if you see a gray bar, click it.
It didn’t take too much of that talk for me to understand it and realize I’ve been doing it wrong in a lot of my creative endeavors recently. In writing, or [...]