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Walking north on Valencia I heard the characteristic snap snap snap of an old manual typewriter’s hammers striking paper on the platen.
I was more than a bit curious about who might still use such a classic machine even before its operator called out to ask if I wanted to buy a poem. Still, it’d [...]
Doug Savage’s take on Frost.
poet, poetry, robot, poet-bot, cartoon, savage chickens, doug savage
It seems common among contemporary artists that a web search might turn up a few pictures of their works, but not much about them or their works. In this case it’s Nina Katchadourian and the work I’m interested in is her Sorted Books Project.
A video interview from the University of Colorado and ResearchChannel.org does offer [...]
A friend forwarded this, from Fleur Adcock:
Things
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,
committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things
than not being able to sleep for thinking about them.
It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in
and stand icily about the bed [...]
Unattributable:
“Poetic justice is a lie. It’s no more real than military inteligence. The entire motivation for poetry is the unjust pain of life.â€
Separately, what’s the appropriate LC classification for Scotch? My first thought was around PR600, but what do I know. Should it go elsewhere? What about other spirits?
poetry, justice, poetic justice, scotch, lc classification, [...]
Jon Link is among the smartest and coolest people I know, so when he decides to start up a press, and then decides to fund his startup with t-shirt sales, I get in line.
jon link, astro dog press, small press, publisher, t-shirts, start up, literature, poetry, art
Tips from a friend:
Center justify the text and write things like “kill me daddy, the robins chirped.â€
tags: bad, bad poetry, bad poets, poet, poetry, poets
