| Feature Articles, 1997 |
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12/30/97 - A Morning For Prisoners 12/23/97 - Final Exam 12/16/97 - Welcome To Cyberia, Attila the Stockbroker 12/09/97 - “lately i've been dreaming of bridges” 12/02/97 - The Art of the Literary Gossip Column 11/25/97 - Shatter the Glass Wall: To honor Wei Jing-Sheng 11/18/97 - Three Generations in the 70's 11/11/97 - Frankfurt Buchmesse.2 11/04/97 - Frankfurt Buchmesse 10/28/97 - Making the Old Tree Gasp With Life 10/21/97 - Dennis Downey: Poet Visionary, Stand-Up Philosopher 10/14/97 - Poets Laureate of the U.S.A. 10/07/97 - Lawson Inada's “Eatin' With Sticks” 09/30/97 - Barnes & Noble Opens New Branch in Siem Reap... 09/23/97 - The Authoritative List of Schools of American Poetics 09/16/97 - Wm. Blake & 3 Li'l Voids 09/09/97 - Rise Up and Abandon the Creeping Meatball! (1968.2) 09/02/97 - If There Are Only Minds, Who Will Breathe For Us? 08/26/97 - Drawing the Line: Ed Sanders' 1968 08/19/97 - Evander's Ear as written by Dr. Seuss 08/12/97 - Controversy (and Poetry) Reign 08/05/97 - Professor Holman's “Exploding Text” presents... 07/29/97 - Joseph Brodsky & the National Poetry Literacy Project 07/22/97 - Meanwhile, How 'Bout Some Bad Prose? 07/15/97 - Direct from the Rotterdam International Poetry Festival 07/08/97 - The Has-Been Poet, for Gaston Neal 07/01/97 - Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain 06/24/97 - Dialing for Poems: The Phone as a Medium for Poetry 06/17/97 - GO! PO! Live! 06/10/97 - A Deaf Poetics, Part III 06/03/97 - A Deaf Poetics, Part II 05/27/97 - A Deaf Poetics, Part I 05/20/97 - A Scrolly 05/13/97 - Poetry and the Public Sphere: A Report 05/13/97 - Adrienne Rich & Eavan Boland at DIA 05/06/97 - Re: ACCESS 04/29/97 - WebSter's All New Collegiate Poetry NetZine 04/22/97 - There is a Bad Poetry Explosion 04/14/97 - The Bard His Own Self 04/02/97 - Hyperlinkage 03/24/97 - Waka Waka Bang Splat! 03/12/97 - Pass It On 02/27/97 - Returning a Borrowed Tongue 02/12/97 - Word:Life, the First Poetry Concert & Seminar
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.”
A little year-end true/false quiz.
The first cyberpoem from England's one-man revolution in a poem.
To conclude our interview with Juliette Torrez, a sampling from her newest work.
An email interview with Juliette Torrez, editor/instigator/host of the Poetry Channel & Information Network.
“It's hard to find the news in poetry,” but we're proud to print Russell Leong's new news poem.
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.”
“Yes, Yes”... Shona poet Chirikure Chirikure sings “And in Heaven, who knows / Maybe you'll hear 'Yes, yes'.”
READING meets up with COMMERCE... The second-hand stalls are the only place where you can buy a book.
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.
Through him you can talk with television sets, have a myth for breakfast, get married in the Upanishad Room...
A Net-annotated list.
You Are How You Eat... Sometimes a poem says it all, nutritiously.
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.”
When we ran across Bob Grumman's post on the Language list, we knew we'd stumbled into a major black hole.
I love you, the greatest sentence of them all. My best friend has steadfastly refused to say these words his whole life....
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.
“The poem is in the body, see?”
...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?
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!
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.
The Three Tenets of Imagism... “Nay, whatever comes / One hour was sunlit...”
The poet is gone, the poems live on... but “we are glad you are here, dear.”
“The lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains...”
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...
“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...”
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.
John Giorno, William Burroughs, the lightbulb & the telephone.
Galinsky's live weekly netcast “...allows the Free Mind of the Poet to synergize with the Free Medium of the Internet.”
The conclusion of our interview with Cookie Monster Peter Cook, and links.
An interview with Peter Cook, American Sign Language poet of the Flying Words Project.
“The body's speaking now, hush / Listen with ecstatic eyes...”
Hold down your scroll down button, and read new now!
“Why can't the progressive agenda of The Nation extend to its poetry section?”
This reading was a song of, for, and by women, of, for, and by humanity.
All we are is a poetry Web site with the idea that poetry can change the world, ok?
ManifeStationary!!
“I proclaim no I! / Language itself weaves the Web...”
...and you can be part of it! Join Sparrow's Bad Poetry Seminar.
Ginsberg says “That's all good night.”
A short poem extends its arms all over the Net.
The world's first Internet special-characters poem.
Utah Phillips, Sekou Sundiata, Ani DiFranco, M. Doughty... staking out a glorious new territory for Spoken Word CD's.
The Filipinos are coming and it's feedback time: the rewriting of US pop culture... a scathing deconstruction of the American Dream.
“Flames and dreams exiting from the tops of their skulls...”
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