Poetry News for June 27, 2007
Poetry News:
- — Website prods poets to seek their 15 minutes of creativity —
- — Maria Rundell taught her readers how to cook a goose, brew beer, make ink and cure baldness —
- — Novelist, playwright, and poet H. Gregor Lafferty, 41, announced Monday his plan to use water as a metaphor —
- — Asahi Haikuist Network —
- — Consider John Barr, who had a thriving career as financier, all the while publishing books of poetry —
- — 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

Michael Wells responds:
Posted: June 27th, 2007 at 8:29 am →
Hey Jully… Have you requested you “own” file under the Freedom of Information Act?
Jilly Dybka responds:
Posted: June 28th, 2007 at 6:20 pm →
No but I did for my dad & got the run around. Will try again though.