Monthly Archives: August 2009
Unsent letter to Poets and Writers magazine, 1999.
To the Editor– I feel compelled to defend the fine art of mispronunciation after reading William Greenway’s article (“Yeets and Kates,” September/October 1999). Any living language, even Greenway’s fictional mummy tongue, needs to be malleable. What the author proposes instead … Continue reading
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Here’s an important quote from Lionel Abel’s "Second Thoughts on Existentialism."
Existentialists have gained prestige by talking of dread, care, anguish, guilt, boredom. Now it is true that they talk about such things; but they talk of them technically. I do not mean this as a reproach. I can see no … Continue reading
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Just up on the Fictionaut Blog: My "Writing Spaces" feature video.
The fine folks at Fictionaut asked me some time ago to contribute to their “Writing Spaces” feature on their blog. Since our still camera is busted, I made a video instead. Check out mine here; a link to all of … Continue reading
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Performance Chart from Martina Pfeiler: American Performing Poets:
Link to the entire book here. From DanielNester.com
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The crank-caller who complained: The beginning of the end of my arts administrative career.
Toward the beginning of my tenure working at NYU–this was from 1998-2000–I was crank-called by a work study student from the Tisch Student Affairs office. It was mid-September, and this person was impersonating a Film & Television student who hadn’t … Continue reading
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