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CALL FOR PAPERS
Twelfth Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture
Friday, March 28, 2008
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
Keynote Address: Dr. Peter Carino, Indiana State University
Luncheon Speaker: Orestes Destrade, ESPN Baseball Tonight commentator
and former MLB and Japanese League player
The Twelfth Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture, is
soliciting 1-2 page proposals for presentations to be given at [...]

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At 1:20pm, 40 years ago today, I was born. Just being here at all is pretty miraculous — I was supposed to arrive in late January. (I weighed 34 ounces when I was born. In 1967. And I’m alive.) I spent about 3 months in an incubator, which I’m sure fcked me up on [...]

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If you have any spare school supplies — notebooks, markers, pencils, pens, crayons, etc. I am gathering them to send them to my family member in Iraq so he can distribute them to kids over there. Hmmm. Maybe not crayons. (What do you think? It’s pretty hot over there.)
Address:
Jilly Dybka
PO Box 81
Kingston Springs TN 37082
USA
No [...]

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Well it appears that the University of Florida loves irony, because this is how they celebrated Constitution Day yesterday. Way to go.
“This week the Senate is going to vote on Leahy-Specter-Dodd’s Restoration of Habeas Corpus Act.
We have a very real chance to rollback the Bush Administration’s assault on the Constitution in a very fundamental way. [...]

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Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program
Fall 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007, 8 p.m., Buttrick 102, poet Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect Affection.
Friday, October 12, 3 p.m., Buttrick 101, Faculty Reading, Alumni Reunion Weekend: poets Beth Bachmann, Kate Daniels, and Mark Jarman, and novelists Tony Earley, Lorraine Lopez, and Alice Randall.
Wednesday, [...]

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Saturday, September 15, 2007 11 a.m. ““ 5 p.m.
First Church Unity, 5125 Franklin Road.
Join us for a day of meditation, teachings, contemplative exercises, music, yoga and more.
Everyone is welcome: the curious, newcomers and experienced practitioners.
Free admission. Rain or shine.
Please join us for our opening ceremony at 11 a.m. There will be a [...]

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Discussion board is open. This is kind of an experiment. If folks don’t use it, spammers abuse it greatly, or people are degenerate, I’ll delete it. I don’t have much time to fool with it so it is just there to sink or swim. That is a cranky way of saying welcome, LOL. Have at [...]

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Poetry News:

— Economy in writing can put garrulous narration or evasive speechifying to shame (congrats c. dale)—

— The American College of Physicians, the nation’s largest medical specialty organization, has published a compilation of stories, essays, and poems by doctors and their patients —

— America’s newest, and foreign-born, poet laureate has traveled a long way —

— [...]

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[Warning -- here be name dropping]
I asked Chet Atkins one time about Elvis. (Chet produced a lot of his records in Nashville’s legendary RCA Studio B & also played guitar on some, like “Heartbreak Hotel.”) He told me that a.) Elvis was a polite,”nice boy” b.) Elvis loved cheeseburgers and ate Krystals a lot c.) [...]

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The Reanimation of Ted Williams’ Frozen Head
It is almost imperceptible — the twinkle of ice rime thawing
in an interior steel room filled with exaggerated gases,
near a regal super-neuro-unificator machine.
Everything is silent but for a discontinuous tinkling,
which means the enfolding of the field begins,
which is a prognostication of the heft of the bat,
which means science is [...]

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I have a website, www.thewordvine.com, that I hope to launch in September. The Word Vine is going to be a (free) site where DIY publishers, micropresses and the like can sign up and sell their stuff, commiserate, etc. Right now it is just a placeholder website.
I’m still working on it, but each store can sell [...]

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No news tomorrow but please enjoy this preview of the forthcoming Huang Xiang exhibit at the downtown Nashville public library. [more about the exhibit]
The photos are courtesy of Paul and Jill, who I sort of know through local Shambhala training (though the circumstances with my health & situation with my parents has made it hard [...]

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Chinese poet-in-exile and master calligrapher Huang Xiang turns the Fine Art Gallery at the downtown library into a “book” of poetry, inscribing his work on banners and the gallery walls for “A Moment of Eternity: The Art and Expression of Chinese Poetry Calligraphy,” June 23-October 14, at Main Library, 615 Church St. [more: He writes [...]

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