Monthly Archives: November 2009
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday…
…Kristy Bowen, Michael Kadela and I will be doing a poetry panel moderated by Don Share at Open Books at 5:00 pm. What is Open Books you say? Glad you asked. They’re a “non-profit social venture that operates an extraordinary bookstore, provides community programs, and mobilizes passionate volunteers to promote literacy in Chicago and beyond.” [...]
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Mairead Case says That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness…
…is “a valentine to friendship” in the latest issue of Make/shift. She also says, “The pieces pinwheel through topics–sex, technology, work–but are all rooted in form, ranging from the Oulipian (beautiful outlaws) to the academic-traditional (ghazals) to the Roonster/Gabbertian (limited freedoms). Most find kaleidescopic-wow ways to rhyme–’puppy chow,’ ‘holier-than-thou’–and others are just biting funny: ‘I look [...]
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Microreview Wednesday?
Normally at the Black Ocean blog, it’s Microreview Monday, but this week it was Microreview Tuesday and I’m posting about it on what I guess can be Microreview Wednesday. Erwin Ponce wrote a very nice review of Don’t ever stay the same; keep changing in which he says, among other things, that our collaborations are [...]
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Three decades of Women & Children First
The Chicago Tribune calls them “more than a bookstore” and I agree. Read the whole story, including quotes from Sara Paretsky, store founders Linda Bubon and Ann Christophersen, and me here. Thanks to reporter Christopher Borrelli for giving me the chance to talk about my favorite feminist bookstore. Also, it’s a long way out, but: [...]
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It’s aliiive.
The latest issue of Otoliths, that is, available here for your post-Halloween delectation, including four Robinson poems by me. Thanks to Mark Young for running this magazine of many e-things.
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