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12/30/97 - A Morning For Prisoners
Edwin Torres has got a story to tell, of his trip bringing poetry into St. Thomas Prison: “A lifetime for me, a morning for prisoners.”

12/23/97 - Final Exam
A little year-end true/false quiz.

12/16/97 - Welcome To Cyberia, Attila the Stockbroker
The first cyberpoem from England's one-man revolution in a poem.

12/09/97 - “lately i've been dreaming of bridges”
To conclude our interview with Juliette Torrez, a sampling from her newest work.

12/02/97 - The Art of the Literary Gossip Column
An email interview with Juliette Torrez, editor/instigator/host of the Poetry Channel & Information Network.

11/25/97 - Shatter the Glass Wall: To honor Wei Jing-Sheng
“It's hard to find the news in poetry,” but we're proud to print Russell Leong's new news poem.

11/18/97 - Three Generations in the 70's
Memoir of a Chicago Po-Renaissance: “I lived in the basement of the Whole Earth Store, spending the days reading all the poetry in the store and ordering more.... What Chicago's got is muscular love.”

11/11/97 - Frankfurt Buchmesse.2
“Yes, Yes”... Shona poet Chirikure Chirikure sings “And in Heaven, who knows / Maybe you'll hear 'Yes, yes'.”

11/04/97 - Frankfurt Buchmesse
READING meets up with COMMERCE... The second-hand stalls are the only place where you can buy a book.

10/28/97 - Making the Old Tree Gasp With Life
Edwin Torres' SandHommeNomadNo: The posterboy of the Nu Poetry Move of the early 90s presents us with the self-designed chapbook as fully realized artifact.

10/21/97 - Dennis Downey: Poet Visionary, Stand-Up Philosopher
Through him you can talk with television sets, have a myth for breakfast, get married in the Upanishad Room...

10/14/97 - Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.
A Net-annotated list.

10/07/97 - Lawson Inada's “Eatin' With Sticks”
You Are How You Eat... Sometimes a poem says it all, nutritiously.

09/30/97 - Barnes & Noble Opens New Branch in Siem Reap...
Cambodia... “I do not care if I am executed for being in a book store, as my father and three brothers were in 1979. I am cool and dry.”

09/23/97 - The Authoritative List of Schools of American Poetics
When we ran across Bob Grumman's post on the Language list, we knew we'd stumbled into a major black hole.

09/16/97 - Wm. Blake & 3 Li'l Voids
I love you, the greatest sentence of them all. My best friend has steadfastly refused to say these words his whole life....

09/09/97 - Rise Up and Abandon the Creeping Meatball! (1968.2)
Ed Sanders, a poet who has inspired me, over the years.... To set poetry free to be the news: to investigate. Ed Sanders is the poet/scholar/creator of Investigative Poetics.

09/02/97 - If There Are Only Minds, Who Will Breathe For Us?
“The poem is in the body, see?”

08/26/97 - Drawing the Line: Ed Sanders' 1968
...is Poetry Book of the Year. Mayor Daley's people did not take kindly to Abbie Hoffman's smoking pot in the Mayor's chambers.... Do you get a permit to have a revolution?

08/19/97 - Evander's Ear as written by Dr. Seuss
A found poem from the Web -- it's as if Dr. Seuss had attended the Holyfield/Tyson bout & sent us the ultimate in sports reportage, from beyond the grave!

08/12/97 - Controversy (and Poetry) Reign
As Mouth Almighty wins, Da Boogey Man becomes the first male slam champ: An on-scene report from your intrepid Po-Journalist, Bob Holman, at the 8th Annual National Poetry Slam in Middletown, Connecticut.

08/05/97 - Professor Holman's “Exploding Text” presents...
The Three Tenets of Imagism... “Nay, whatever comes / One hour was sunlit...”

07/29/97 - Joseph Brodsky & the National Poetry Literacy Project
The poet is gone, the poems live on... but “we are glad you are here, dear.”

07/22/97 - Meanwhile, How 'Bout Some Bad Prose?
“The lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains...”

07/15/97 - Direct from the Rotterdam International Poetry Festival
Charles Simic's “Defense of Poetry”: Life would be perfectly pointless if the poets didn't tell you that all your loves and pains are significant and intelligible...

07/08/97 - The Has-Been Poet, for Gaston Neal
“The over-the-hill poet suddenly is not only not over it / But king of it queen of it prince and princess kiss the frog / Royalty of it...”

07/01/97 - Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain
from the Poemfone Poets is the breakthrough anthology of a new poetic Owwww! The first major work to lay out the perf-po/spoken word aesthetic nakedly on the page and say, read for yourself.

06/24/97 - Dialing for Poems: The Phone as a Medium for Poetry
John Giorno, William Burroughs, the lightbulb & the telephone.

06/17/97 - GO! PO! Live!
Galinsky's live weekly netcast “...allows the Free Mind of the Poet to synergize with the Free Medium of the Internet.”

06/10/97 - A Deaf Poetics, Part III
The conclusion of our interview with Cookie Monster Peter Cook, and links.

06/03/97 - A Deaf Poetics, Part II
An interview with Peter Cook, American Sign Language poet of the Flying Words Project.

05/27/97 - A Deaf Poetics, Part I
“The body's speaking now, hush / Listen with ecstatic eyes...”

05/20/97 - A Scrolly
Hold down your scroll down button, and read new now!

05/13/97 - Poetry and the Public Sphere: A Report
“Why can't the progressive agenda of The Nation extend to its poetry section?”

05/13/97 - Adrienne Rich & Eavan Boland at DIA
This reading was a song of, for, and by women, of, for, and by humanity.

05/06/97 - Re: ACCESS
All we are is a poetry Web site with the idea that poetry can change the world, ok?

04/29/97 - WebSter's All New Collegiate Poetry NetZine
ManifeStationary!!
“I proclaim no I! / Language itself weaves the Web...”

04/22/97 - There is a Bad Poetry Explosion
...and you can be part of it! Join Sparrow's Bad Poetry Seminar.

04/14/97 - The Bard His Own Self
Ginsberg says “That's all good night.”

04/02/97 - Hyperlinkage
A short poem extends its arms all over the Net.

03/24/97 - Waka Waka Bang Splat!
The world's first Internet special-characters poem.

03/12/97 - Pass It On
Utah Phillips, Sekou Sundiata, Ani DiFranco, M. Doughty... staking out a glorious new territory for Spoken Word CD's.

02/27/97 - Returning a Borrowed Tongue
The Filipinos are coming and it's feedback time: the rewriting of US pop culture... a scathing deconstruction of the American Dream.

02/12/97 - Word:Life, the First Poetry Concert & Seminar
“Flames and dreams exiting from the tops of their skulls...”



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