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Poetry News:

1. — Website prods poets to seek their 15 minutes of creativity —
2. — Maria Rundell taught her readers how to cook a goose, brew beer, make ink and cure baldness —
3. — Novelist, playwright, and poet H. Gregor Lafferty, 41, announced Monday his plan to use water as a metaphor —
4. — Asahi Haikuist Network —
5. — Consider John Barr, who had a thriving career as financier, all the while publishing books of poetry —
6. — The right-wing Government‘ plans for a new syllabus are being compared to crackdowns under the Nazis and Communists, —

When I heard that the CIA put their family jewels online, I immediately thought of this fascinating post by Lyle Daggett. The CIA website is getting hammered so I didn’t poke around too much because it is very slooow. Some highlights:

CRANKS, NUTS, AND SCREWBALLS (1965)

THE INTELL[I]GENCE OF LITERATURE (1963)

REQUEST FOR POPULAR MARIMBA MUSIC POEMS (1954)

BERLIN CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM; ACTIVITIES OF MELVIN LASKY (W/ATTACHMENT) more here (1950)

p.s. Dear CIA — I hope you don’t mind deep-linking.
Love, Jilly

Q Do you think that the Justice Department can conduct an impartial investigation, considering the political ramifications of the CIA leak, and why wouldn’t a special counsel be better?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Let me just say something about leaks in Washington. There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. There’s leaks at the executive branch; there’s leaks in the legislative branch. There’s just too many leaks. And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of. [more]