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Wednesday
Dec102008

Deadline: Moria

Late notice at the Buffalo listserv:

If you submit work by Thursday [11th December], I'll consider it for the next massive issue of Moria. (The issue will actually be a combination of three issues, so it will be rather large.) http://www.moriapoetry.com Bill Allegrezza editor [at] moriapoetry [dot] com p.s. i'm really interested in getting more innovative/experimental work from women.
You have 24 hours.

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Wednesday
Dec102008

Imagists on the Web

Al Filreis:

Up at MIT Nick Montfort--embodying the perfect mixture of engineering and literary backgrounds--has his students do some serious web work in (I'm almost tempted to say) the old-fashioned put-it-up-on-the-web mode. One student project has been to make Des Imagistes of 1912, Ezra Pound's gathering of imagists, available for the first time ever on the web. They've done a beautiful job of it. And even the URL - www.desimagistes.com - is elegant.
Damn right its pretty.

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Tuesday
Dec092008

K. Silem Mohammad & Kenneth Goldsmith: "Relevance"

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li4lmd7wSpo&eurl] via ~~ululations~~

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Tuesday
Dec092008

Dean Koontz (Sic)

Dean Koontz speaks to his dead dog on his website. No joke of a lie. See them talk here. via RHUL Creative Writers Weblog

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Monday
Dec082008

M E S H T U B E

M E S H W O R K S is a fantastic resource and a sexy website to boot, but it does not lend itself well to browsing. Its YouTube page does. There's been a burst of activity on it in the last couple of weeks, with videos of Caroline Bergvall, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk, Tom Raworth, Stephen Rodefer (posted on Openned a little while back) and Keston Sutherland finding their way into Google's infomatic knowledgegobbler. Like a Wonka machine except with poets instead of sweets.

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Monday
Dec082008

Cartoon Time

081215_cartoon_3_a13583_p465 © The New Yorker I love these cartoons so much. I'm going to post one every few weeks. The image coupled with the single line is a brilliant form.

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Monday
Dec082008

The "Write" Stuff

Reality writing, The "Write" Stuff (thanks for the speech marks there, just in case we missed it):

Hosted by Conversations Book Club President and Publicist of Shadow Play Entertainment Cyrus A. Webb, 14 candidates from across the country will compete for the chance to have their literary dreams come true! The show will begin to air in Atlanta (GA), Houston (TX) and Jackson (MS) covering over 2 million households beginning in June 2009 as well as online worldwide through a special Youtube channel. Along the way they will be tested, and in the end only one will make it to the top.
Proof that even reality TV shows have to scale according to their markets. Warning: this website also plays bad music. via Silliman

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Sunday
Dec072008

Desperate for Words

We were recently contacted by a lady by the name of Wolfy Jones, who told us about a new reading series in Brighton called Desperate for Words. The first event took place last month, with more planned for the new year, specifically 20th January. She runs the series with two gentlemen called Alan Hay and Gary Goodman. We'll let you know more information about line-ups when we find out ourselves. In the meantime, their blog is in its infancy but there's already a few good posts on there so check it whut.

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Sunday
Dec072008

LONDONSTONE (Extract) Reading

LONDONSTONE (Extract) (MP3, 4.7MB) I am currently working on LONDONSTONE. It's about various things. I recorded a reading of a small extract of it which was read last night through the recording at Steve's house. If you like it, please let me know. If you don't, please let me know also. You can use the Openned e-mail address (see the Contact section) either way. Thanks Alex Davies

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Saturday
Dec062008

Wednesday's Line-Up

Here are some links to some things those reading at Openned on Wednesday are linked to. Worth a click even if you can't make it:

For those who can make it, see you there, it should be a good one.

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