Archive for March, 2007
Monday, March 26th, 2007
RATTLE – e.2 – Spring 2007
(download the new e-issue for free here) The new eIssue is out and available for free download, as a 1.2 MB PDF. Sixty pages of poetry and reviews, an essay by Gary Lehmann, and original artwork by Mark Vallen. The issue includes two book features — six poem-excerpts from Laurie Blauner’s All This Could Be [...]
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Quick Note: Accidental Plagiarist II
Ask and you shall receive. The good people at VQR have now posted Erik Campbell’s essay I referred to the other day. It’s a great read. Go check it out, and see why I’m trying to convince him to start his own blog. That thoughtful, full of witty prose, and he lives in the middle [...]
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
Barebones RATTLE.com
We still haven’t been able to figure out the hacker situation. In a wonderful act of kindness, a husband of one of RATTLE’s readers offered to run a vulnerability scan on our web server — he found several major flaws with our web host’s software. When I confronted on it, they swore that it wasn’t [...]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
The Memory of Water
THE MEMORY OF WATER It can be demonstrated with thermo- luminescence: the salt solution retains knowledge of what it once held, though nature, though logic would tell it otherwise. Dumb as a bedpan, the hydrogen bond remembers the lithium, the sodium chloride no matter how long distilled. There is so little purity left in the [...]
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
The Accidental Plagiarist
As I was taking out the trash just now I realized that I had another poetry dream last night, so maybe I should write about it. In the dream I was the contemporary Tim, but placed backward in time about fifteen years to a friend’s garage where we used to hang out. A group of [...]
