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| Rus Bowden
Intermediate Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 485 Registered: 03-2007 |
Dear Poetry Aficionados, IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags It's a terrific week in news for poets and poetry. We have follow-up articles to last week's headlining event from the Nobel people in Sweden. We have more on the life of American poet Hayden Carruth in Poetic Obituaries--and we also have a review by him in Great Regulars and a poem too. Oh, and Thursday coming is not only when we may expect the announcement of the non-American Nobel winner, but it will be National Poetry Day in the UK. We lead off, however, with an article on American poet Billy Collins. And be sure to check the Back Page of News at Eleven. I found that I was part of that story, and you might find yourself or someone you know mentioned too. (And no, it's not the Nobel for Literature. It includes American poets.) Yours, Rus Our links: IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags Poetry & Poets in Rags blog IBPC Home ~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||
| Lazarus
Senior Member Username: lazarus Post Number: 4126 Registered: 10-2005 |
Rus- And be sure to check the Back Page of News at Eleven. I found that I was part of that story, and you might find yourself or someone you know mentioned too. I'm assuming you are indicating the story on the Dodge Poetry Festival? If not, please give us the link OK? I enjoyed the article on Collins. Is it wrong to say that one who makes his career out of skewering what he does is rather an odd sort? -Laz | ||
| Lazarus
Senior Member Username: lazarus Post Number: 4127 Registered: 10-2005 |
Rus, OK I think I found it, in Silliman's Blog off your blog. A web anomaly that is not even a blip on my screen. So, someone copied a few hundred names and claimed to have their work in an anthology. I wonder what the end game is, maybe, most likely, spam? -Laz | ||
| Rus Bowden
Intermediate Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 486 Registered: 03-2007 |
Hey Laz, Good to see you, and it was great to meet you and your husband at the Dodge. On the article. Significantly, though there were over 3000 poets names attached as authors to work they did not write. The end game supposedly was to match computer-generated poetry with real-live poets in order to create this Issue-1. Here is the release announcement link, supplied at Ron Silliman's article: For Godot: Issue 1 Release Announcement. From there, you can click to download a pdf file of the publication. On page 472 of that publication, which has 3,785 pages, there's a poem attributed to me: -- Changing times from trustworthiness Veiling A contract The baffled recesses A lost recess Allowing A time Helpless as a sea-coast -- Many poets are upset. For those of us mentioned it's somewhere between a blip on the screen, as you say, all the way up to a source of outrage at the misrepresentation. Of course, the poem isn't mine, noe mine in a parallel universe. I never would have hyphenated "seacoast" . . . Yours, Rus | ||
| LJ Cohen
Moderator Username: ljc Post Number: 10156 Registered: 07-2002 |
Yeah--there's a "Lisa Cohen" in there too, but since my name is the equivalent of 'John Smith', it doesn't really matter. The producers of this volume have certainly gotten a lot of milage in the blog-o-sphere about this. Probably their intent in the first place. best, ljc Once in a Blue Muse Blog LJCohen |
