Vote Obama

Two weeks from today, we have the opportunity to rescue the United States from the most incompetent & malevolent regime in the nation’s history, and to prevent it from being carried forward by a McCain-Palinadministration that, if anything, promises to be worse.

If I was American I would be campaigning right now, not because I think Obama is the second coming, but because I think a McCain presidency would be catastrophically damaging. Read more on Silliman's Blog.

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Sparrow on Godot

I feel there is no such luxury with this piece of ‘flarf’, whose presence automatically implicates the work of other poets from a huge variety of backgrounds. The presence of this as online product is significant - it has, in a relatively short space of time, been picked up by the Google bots, whose indiscriminate acceptance of linguistic stuff has cemented these poets’ ‘works’ firmly into your searchnodes.

Full piece here.

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Cannibal Spices No. 2

edited by Stephen Willey, Alex Davies Published: Oct 08 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: PDF (1.6MB) Poets featured in this publication:

• Sean Bonney
• Josh Stanley
• Anna Ticehurst

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Reminder: Openned, 21st October

[wpvideo xvSMlVKh] A reminder that the next Openned night takes place tomorrow. To whet your appetite, here is a video of Allen Fisher performing at a previous Openned. We will be showing an extract of a video interview we conducted with Allen. The full video will be show on Openned.com in the near future.

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noology by Tim Gaze

That Crg Hill is a savvy one. I shall post twice about stuff he has posted about, because that is what the web is for. Here is a link to noology by Tim Gaze, which can be viewed for free on or off Lulu.

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Xexoxial Editions

Crg Hill:

To keep the entire catalogue in print, to redesign, reissue, revive the Xexoxial Catalogue (over 130 titles in 25-some years). Can't think of any other small press publisher with the such a long list with the generosity and energy to do so.

Go to Xexoxial.

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Cannot Exist: Call for Cover Art

Cannot Exist #4 will come out (I hope) sometime in December. We're seeking cover art in accordance with the following idea: There will be 100 copies of the fourth issue of Cannot Exist. Each of at least 50 will feature a unique cover, an original work of art not to be found anywhere else. If you make drawings, paintings, photographs, collages, visual poems, etc., either habitually or only for the purposes of such proposals, and you're interested in contributing a single cover, we'd love to hear from you. This proposal isn't restricted to professionals. We're interested in everything from happy accidents to single marks to virtuosic productions. 

More details here.

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Blue Bus

Wednesday 29th October, 7.30 pm

• Jose Solis Aguirre
• Allison Boast
• Kevin Doran
• Juliet Troy

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, WC1 £5/£3 conc.

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We promise to leave it alone...

It's been a nightmarish couple of weeks trying to get Openned back to what it was. We think we've cracked it. All Openned content can now be found on this one blog - use the categories and the search box if you need to find a particular author or piece of work. Now to important matters. [polldaddy poll=1016023]

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Salty Cyclone

We’ve been busy at Salt developing an idea to make systematic use of virtual book tours, something that many authors and bloggers have been doing extremely well for some time. There are scores of blogs, YouTube videos, books and ebooks about running virtual book tours, but rather than create a guide ourselves, we’ve just gone ahead and created a system for authors and bloggers. Salt virtual book tours are a way to harvest the power of the Web to build word-of-mouth for your book. By using the best literary blogs you can reach many more people than a physical book tour, and each virtual book tour has the virtue of persistence on the Web. Anyone wanting to trace the tour can use our directory at Cyclone to discover more about you and your work.

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