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The Muse in Cyberspace
As I was biking today, a squirrel ran across the road with a big nut in its mouth. Squirreling it away, I thought. Then I thought: sign of autumn. Then I thought: that means packing up for Tucson. Which means (I sighed to myself)....
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Moving Toward 9/11/11
My friend who lost his thirty-four-year old son in the World Trade Center attack will commemorate 9/11/11 as he has each 9/11 for the past ten years: in private grief, trying to hide from the flag-waving public commemorations. When I spoke to him on this anniversary a few years after the attack, he asked rhetorically, with agony in his voice: “Since my son was killed by men from Saudi Arabia, why are we at war in Iraq?” Why indeed....
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Barbies’ Communion
When I first heard of T.S. Poetry Press, I assumed that the T.S. was drawn from Eliot fame. But a visit to their website corrected my impression. Behind the Press’s founding was a game started by some inventive poets called “tweetspeak.” It’s a “Twitter poetry party,” a one-hour bash where everyone tweets a 140-character poem with the hashtag #tspoetry. A prompt is provided by @tspoetry. “You write a few lines of poetry in response to the prompt and then play off the other participants’ lines,” the rules say. So the TSP folks are poets who love fun....
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Internet Brains
The subtitle of Nicholas Carr’s new book, The Shallows, is What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. And what the internet is doing is not good news. According to Carr, citing a host of scientific studies, our daily dependence on the internet is altering the way our brain cells work, re-wiring the brain into a distraction-mode that threatens basic functions that we’ve taken for granted, functions like....
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Inspector Clouseau and Poetic Play
Part of the delight of preparing my new course on Poetry as a Spiritual Practice for the Glen Online has been returning to some favorite interviews with poets in past issues of Image. I enjoy reading what contemporary poets have to say about their art almost as much as I enjoy reading their poems.I love, for instance, that Pattiann Rogers ....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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