Monthly Archives: February 2012
Good mail day
Check out what just arrived by way of the U.S. Postal Service in time for the AWP Conference next week–a whole box of Rose Metal Press buttons: Look closely and you will see that there are not one, but two beauteous designs; please come by table N4 at the Bookfair and pick one up for [...]
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Infinite Monkey Theorem
My essay on retail poetry, typewriters, Dose Market, John Ruskin, Before Sunrise and Walter Benjamin–called “Poems While You Wait: The Work of Poetry in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”–is up on the Poetry Foundation website. You can read the whole thing and see the accompanying illustration of four adorable cartoon monkeys typing here.
Remember answering machines?
And how messages left on them had that distant, mechanical quality? That’s how my recording of “Robinson’s Hometown” for the InDigest Poem of the Day podcast turned out, which seems totally appropriate. Thanks to Dustin Luke Nelson for recording me over the phone!
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Three poets + three typewriters…
…equals 73 Poems While You Wait. Thanks to Dose Market for having us back, and to everyone today who commissioned a piece!
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Shelf Unbound…
…interviewed Elisa and me about our collaborations and our book That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness in their latest issue. Laura Dern’s on the cover and we’re on p. 36. Thanks to Margaret Brown for the excellent questions!
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Valentines While You Wait
Technically, it’s still just Poems While You Wait, but since our next appearance will be at Dose Market this Sunday, February 12th, a mere two days before Valentine’s Day, we suspect that a few people might ask us to write them some original love poems. Regardless of what subject you think you might like to [...]
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Word For/Word…
…volume #19 has just been published, and it has new work by Annah Browning, Kristina Marie Darling, Shira Dentz and many more, including two Robinson poems by yours truly. Check the whole thing out here, or here if you prefer to read online things PDF style. Thanks to Jonathan Minton for putting the issue together [...]
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Momus says…
…that on the web, everyone will be famous to fifteen people. There were way more than fifteen people… ….at the DePaul Poets reading at the DePaul Art Museum last night… …and perhaps by posting their pictures here, their internet fame will grow and grow. Dan Stolar emceed the event… …and Chris Green went first, reading [...]
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Good mail day: part two