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Ron Paul

Poetry News:

1. — Wordplay this week: Ed Dorn [I can't find the podcast file though. More here.] —
2. — The battle of the literary endorsements —
3. — An infatuation killed by reality —
4. — Why all this is a recipe for another Futurist revolution —
5. — It’s not every town where you can see your poet laureate coming down the street on a giant shoe —
6. — Jessica Winter reports on the winner of the Poetry Foundation’s first annual Verse Drama Prize —
7. — Literary journalism needs to get better if it is to survive —
8. — Canadian literary champion Robert Weaver dies at the age of 87 —
9. — New Developments for Ghost Road Press, Krysl, Haruf, and Brown —

I’m disappointed that this garment has no visible dotted-lines. (Simply having zippers doesn’t cut it.)

Arlo Guthrie has endorsed Ron Paul. Cool.

Poetry News:

1. — Police close in on Frost suspects and Vandalized Frost house drew a crowd —
2. — Susan Briante, more recently, continues with this approach to poetry as a symbolically active art. —
3. — Snow Falling on Voters By DONALD HALL —
4. — Prozac is all grown up — and all over the arts —
5. — Got a Manuscript? Publishing Now a Snap —
6. — Ted Hughes tops critics’ league table —

Ron Paul’s Remarks on HB 1955 - Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Poetry News:

1. — The Happy Endings Foundation hoax —
2. — Vendor of verse: It’s personal at NYC street ‘poem shop’ —
3. — “Poetry arises out of a mind that feels itself in some way to be cracked” —
4. — Editorial: A Muse Unplugged —
5. — In three books, over eight years, Matthea Harvey has moved to the front of the pack of interesting poets writing in English —
6. — New Tay disaster: William McGonagall faces challenge to title of world’s worst poet —
7. — Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts —
8. — A monument to the outstanding poet Joseph Brodsky will be set up nearby the American Embassy —
9. — Former state poet laureate Grace Paley was remembered in a memorial service —

– Physics Nobel winner(s) will be announced today. This link’ll probably tell you the winners.

– Your cabbage: now with 100% more anti-depressants and oral contraceptives.

– Ron Paul was in Nashville this weekend & I attended. He seems like the only antidote to this, to me. I think our Constitutional Republic has been replaced by a corporate-controlled oligarchy. There are a bunch of videos of the rally at You Tube.