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I mentioned Spineless Books once before at least. It’s got some interesting things like this: Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E” by Ernest Vincent Wright, written in 1939. It’s a classic Lipgram. Getting into the story proper: Old Bill Simpkins was loud in his antagonism to what was a […]

The reading I mentioned earlier was a full house. Each successive cluster of people coming up the stairs said, oh, it’s full!. And rollicking amid the verbal frolicking. People all seemed to throroughly enjoy each of the readers. Sandra Ridley read first 2 sets of poems, (quiet poems especially in comparison to the volume of […]

The current Ringing of the Bards is now live at Ansari’s. I’ll call out shakir hasnain‘s in particular because I can’t leave a comment there at his interesting koanic sort of piece. How it works: The composite poem for the poetry carnival there will link you to the full poem submitted for each the participating […]

I finally got down to a long sit with Days into Flatspin which is the title of that first attracted me when Marcus read a piece from it at Poetic Desserts how long ago? It has a different tone than the work I read a month ago. Much denser, in a good way. More reporting […]

“I don’t know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That’s where the mind moves, that’s what’s new.” Anne Carson talks to Emma Brockes atThe Guardian [via http://www.thepage.name/] [T]his is a woman who will happily devote 50 pages to discussing 14th-century French mysticism and round it off with a joke about […]