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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Best American Poetry
Congratulations to Gregory Orr — his poem “Weeping, weeping, weeping” has been selected by Heather McHugh to appear in 2007’s Best American Poetry anthology, releasing this fall. For more information on the series (as if anyone might need it), visit their website here.
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Beating Balaam’s Ass
BEATING BALAAM’S ASS
Numbers 22:30
The books are wrong, you know, and the priests—they’re told only
what to tell the children. Look both ways, don’t shit where you eat, that
sort of thing. And the children listen. And I listen. And the priests, they
listen most, their clean heads lowered in great psalms [...]
