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All Things Considered, April 30, 2009 · Poet and professor Craig Arnold is a volcano enthusiast. Three days ago, he went missing on a Japanese island where he had gone to see a local volcano. He has visited many volcanoes around the world and written poems and essays about them. His colleague Peter Parolin talks about Arnold’s life and passions.

Listen to this story at NPR

Facebook page devoted to the search

Professor George Zinkhan is wanted for the triple slay of his wife and two children.

UGA’s professor’s poetry may yield clues to his location

“Another associate, business professor Charles Hofacker, told the paper that he had previously edited Zinkhan’s poetry, which impressed him, ‘You don’t run across poetry that deals with academic subjects. I thought it was kind of unique. It was worthy of publishing.’”

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AP: Ga. professor suspected in shooting seemed distant

Gary Sullivan performs.

By Kenneth Goldsmith. Thanks to Ululations.

This I Believe is a national media project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values and beliefs that guide their daily lives. NPR has aired these three-minute essays for the past four years on All Things Considered, Tell Me More and Weekend Edition Sunday. The essays produced in the series have been nothing short of extraordinary.

On Weekend Edition this week, curator Jay Allison announced the end of the series with a final installment from writer Amy Tan. 

We here at Poegles.com are big fans of the “This I Believe” series- and we’d like to urge NPR to continue broadcasting new essays.  We’ve started a Facebook page to promote the idea of continuing the series.  Check it out here.

Dear Diary

I hate to shop, but sometimes I must. It was a cold morning today. The wind was blowing, the mist was enveloping the cool country-side, and thousands of people were making there way through the streets.

Out of the rain stepped what can only be described as a ‘beautiful’ man, a prolific artist, writer and dreamer. I’m not really sure what drew me to this man; maybe it was the gauntness of his eyes. There was a misery that seemed to be expressed through design.

He wasn’t a shady figure but a man playing his accordion. I’d seen him many times before today. Today I decided to stop and visit.

We talked awhile. Oh what a day this will be. He had a flaming 8 ball tattooed on his arm and he was using an empty whiskey flask as a walkie talkie.

The only thing that seemed to have changed today is that he moved a little slower. Today I met a man. Who threw his arms around me, This man is the real deal. It’s probably not worthy of international news, but It was so amazing to meet such a welcoming person. …

Be disbelieving or be skeptical or believe in it: it is up to you.

The day I met you, I went home and I wrote in my diary: today, I met a man. I met the man I’m going to marry.

Donna in Napoleon, Ohio (search phrase “today I met a man”)

Poetry month goes out with a bang in SF

Dennis Leary’s poetic past

Somebody else loves “Love Flea” as much as me

Glow in the dark beagle

David Pogue announces a twitter-driven book project:

That was it. I knew my mission in life: to compile and edit a whole book of these responses, written by my 200,000 followers.  Excerpt from the article:

Every night for the next few weeks, I’ll pose another question on Twitter. For example:

• What’s your greatest regret?
• Sum up your life story in six words.
• Tell us about your wedding proposal.
• What’s the best toast you ever heard?
• What’s the best Internet joke you ever got emailed?
• Anyone seen any good bumper stickers lately?
• Tell us about a Brush with Greatness (a celebrity encounter).
• What was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?
• Write a haiku about your childhood.
• Send me your best anagram of a current famous person’s name.

Each two-page spread of the book will contain the best of your responses to a single question.

“The World According to Twitter” will be a charming, irresistible, extremely hilarious little book, a book that couldn’t be written in any other way.

Fascinating.

Why Can’t I Forgive You?

Results: One to ten of about three thousand, six hundred and forty.
A Christian reflection, review provided by Thomas More.
When crime shatters a family, sooner or later the survivors go.
Hell. Used out of forever, I decipher the monolith of the condemned past.
After forever, there’s no blame in my life. I’m willing to forgive and forget
The feelings of rage. Will systematic prayer and counseling tell me good news?
Results: 21 to 26, of 26. Imperfection my guide, my strength, my life? No.
Ever aching foes of Adolf Hitler, the price varies for this fire.
Damn when you couldn’t help yourself, ridiculous. Forgiveness and resentment due.

Andy from Chicago (Search phrase: “Why can’t I forgive you”)

From an email newsletter:
www.proteusgowanus.com

543 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Entrance down the alley off Nevins Street

Wednesday, April 29th
6:30-8:30 pm
First Gathering of the Writhing Society
For Friends of Oulipo and All Others

To all those interested in the process of writing with constraints, that is, by following the arbitrary, sometimes mathematical, rules invented by the French group Oulipo and others:

You are invited to attend this first of our weekly meetings of

THE WRITHING SOCIETY

Every Wednesday evening at Proteus Gowanus, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, starting Wednesday, April 29th and extending till the crack of doom.

This is not a class, and no experience is needed. The constraints and procedures to be practiced will be decided, in some cases invented, by the group. Not all the compositions will be exclusively verbal; visual artists, musicians, dancers, mathematicians, and cooks are welcome. The Society’s meetings will not be led, but writers Tom La Farge and/or Wendy Walker will be on hand to offer ideas, examples, and anecdotes.

Tom is the author of Administrative Assemblages, first in a series of pamphlets entitled 13 Writhing Machines, to serve as a manual and discussion of constrained practices. Wendy has completed one full-length visual/verbal constrained book, Blue Fire, (an examination of the 1860 Constance Kent murder case) and is at work on another about the origins of English Gothic fiction in plantation slavery, Sexual Stealing.

Fee: $5 (for the gallery)

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Redefining capitalism

THE FOUND MAGAZINE PARTY – Wednesday May 6th, 2009

Found Magazine, created by Davy Rothbart and Jason Bitner and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and New York City, collects and catalogs found notes, photos, and other interesting items, publishing them in an irregularly-issued magazine, in books, and on its website. Items found and published have ranged from love letters to homework assignments, and they are contributed by people who find them in a variety of public places. 

Venue: Bell House

Found Magazine

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