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Whose lake? The Devil’s lake.
Which is to say that the Spring 2012 issue of the literary magazine Devil’s Lake has a joke by Elisa and me in it, along with lots of other great stuff.
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Do you pronounce it “Wit” or “White”?
Nobody knows for sure, but any way you say it, the Wit Rabbit Reading Series is not to be missed. It’s at this bar Quenchers that purveys Tater Tot Pizza… …and Volcano Tots among other delights… …and last night, it also had Ashley David… …Catherine Theis… …Lily Brown… …and me… Thanks to the Wit Rabiteers [...]
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“An interstitial space…”
“…that fosters a growing community of writers and listeners in an increasingly isolationist, fragmented age” is what the lovely inter-genre Wit Rabbit Series seeks to create, and they seek to create it the first Tuesday of each month, from 7-9 pm, at Quenchers Saloon at 2401 N. Western Avenue here in Chicago. On Tuesday, May 1st, you can come [...]
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Poets/Artists…
…just released their Chicago Issue, and I–and a lot of other Chicago poets/artists–have work in it. You can check out the online edition here for free, or order the print one here. It looks like this: Thanks to Didi Menendez and Bill Allegrezza for the editorial prowess.
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Eight poems an hour for three hours…
…is the rate of poeming that Dave Landsberger, Eric Plattner, and I were able to keep up during this afternoon’s Poems While You Wait at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library in honor of National Poetry Month. As you can see (sort of) from the sign… …we were strewn among the stacks this time, so that [...]
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Round-up!
Now that National Poetry Month is halfway over, I thought I’d say: the posts I’ve made for Harriet, the Poetry Foundation blog, for April so far can be found here (on “Let People Poems”), here (on how “Type Unread is Dead”), here (on Chuck Jones’ rules for Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons), and [...]
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April is the bloggiest month.
In honor of National Poetry Month, I–and many, many other poets–will be writing for Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation. You can check out my first post, “Steel Cage Poem Death Match,” here. Be sure to visit often.
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The first rule of Write Club…
…is to tell 5-7 friends about Write Club, so here goes: Ian Belknap invented Write Club, literature as bloodsport, here in Chicago. Eric Ruelle, pictured below brought the concept to DePaul: That concept, as it operates in the University setting, is as follows: 4 bouts of 2 opposing writers/2 opposing ideas, 5 minutes apiece (Except for the [...]
The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke…
…is the book that first made Daniel Boone famous back in 1784. If you visit Kentucky these days, as Abby and I did last weekend, on behalf of Rose Metal Press, to attend the second annual independent publishing conference at Berea College, you will find that there are still many business establishments named after him: [...]
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