May 18 1925 - May 7 2009 http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Blaser.php

"...created only, not by them, but by the idea of institution itself speaking through them to you. it is a dialogue as old as time....

April 16, 1931 - May 2, 2009 http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/6/augusto_boal_founder_of_the_theater

Here's Tim Peterson's write-up and introduction for SEGUE's "poetry and architecture" event the weekend before last. ...

Kent Johnson has a provocative gallery currently up at MAYDAY magazine concerning the state of contemporary poetry criticism. The gallery i...

Take my wife my life is not my life My wife your life is not your life Taken into these bare hands which make us haptic eyes And evidence wh...

Tom Clark sent me links to his blogs, which are definitely worth spending some quality time with. Especially for their curious play between ...

CANNOT EXIST editor, Andy Gricevich has written a thoughtful note on Andrew Levy's book, Memories of My Father at his blog, otherwise:...

Dorothea Lasky has posted her treatise on why poets should avoid the term "project" as a convenient term to describe their ongoin...

What buttons to push And what peaches how Much would they be Worth when every one Demands a pound of Flesh both gods and Men in the eyes of ...

Here is an interview at Democracy Now about a movement abreast in Montana arguing for Universal Health Care as a Human Right. It is such a ...

This is one of the better art shows I've seen in a long time, especially large group shows/retros. What is especially impressive is how...

I have been enjoying Brandon Brown's conversational blog, HI, which is ever breezy and yet concise (a rare quality in criticism). Here g...

Why is there not a strong and vocal movement abreast to nationallize (dare I say socialize) the banks and auto corporations that have been b...

I wish there was is the name of a site where you c an do a want and perchance it will come true. Sounds marvelous makes n't it? The site...

The plan is not the Body as Creeley once Wrote there is no Plan not even the body Is a plan my body wrote And yours wrote where We becomes o...

I am reading with WE ARE SCIENCE (Jon Lee and Adam Good) this coming Sunday at the DC Arts Center in Washington D.C. Thanks to Tina Darragh ...

Perhaps useful for thinking about recent corporate bail-outs, and changes in "public" opinion about nationalizing healthcare: http...

The end of an era? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103041709 And yet bandwidth prices continue to fall? http://gigaom.c...

I am for the pirates Who take what they want When nothing's left And haven't hijacked The economy and don't Block social welfare...