[New-Poetry] new on Behind the Lines

Sat Jul 28 12:59:27 EDT 2007

Folks, if you have any thoughts, any recent web discoveries on poetry and war, poetry and cultural labor, poetry and dissidence, send them along to me.  Thanks: 

New on "Behind the Lines" blog: 

Some Thoughts on "Operation Homecoming" 
Mark Halliday's "Fort Brag"/Why Do "Git 'Er Done" and Vietnam almost rhyme 
World Leader Pretend/"PeaceMaker" Computer Game 
David-Baptiste Chirot's "See Scrawls"/Where Poetry and Visuality Meet 
"Homeland Security" by Halvard Johnson 
"Murder Machine" by Kurt Schwitters 
Edward Dougherty's "Speaking for Myself" 
Re-Thinking the Homefront/"War Zone" by Maggie Hadleigh-West 
Kenneth Koch's "The Pleasures of Peace"/The New York School and War Resistance 
The Lemonheads' "Let's Just Laugh"/Evan Dando Going Political 
Mahmoud Darwish's Return to Haifa/"Identity Card" 
Andrew Epstein's "Poem Beginning with a Line from George Bush.." 
"The End(s) of Russian Poetry: An Interview with Dmitry Prigov 
Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov, Soviet-Era Avant-Garde Poet, RIP 
Halvard Johnson's Call for Poems on the War for BIG BRIGE 
K. Silem Mohammad's "Peace Kittens"/Flarf and its Dissident Contents 

Philip Metres
Associate Professor
Department of English
John Carroll University
20700 N. Park Blvd
University Heights, OH 44118
phone: (216) 397-4528 (work)
fax: (216) 397-1723
http://www.philipmetres.com
http://www.behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com

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>   1. Re: Re: American Poets Project (Bob Grumman)
>   2. As I sit writing here (David Graham)
>   3. Re: As I sit writing here (Halvard Johnson)
>   4. Re: As I sit writing here (David Graham)
>   5. Re: As I sit writing here (Halvard Johnson)
>   6. Re: As I sit writing here (TheOldMole)
>   7. Re: As I sit writing here (JforJames at aol.com)
>   8. Re: As I sit writing here (Bob Grumman)
>   9. Happy Birthday J.A.! (Edward Byrne)
>  10. RE: Happy Birthday J.A.! (Sigauke, Emmanuel )
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:42:34 -0500
>From: "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
>Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Re: American Poets Project
>To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;	Views"
>	<new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
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>Thanks for the data, Chris.  One of these days, I'll see about a feed. 
>Could be useful, I see, in a lot of ways: for instance, I could fee the blog 
>entries to myself, which would make them handy when I was offline.
>
>--Bob 
>
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:45:28 -0400
>From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
>Subject: [New-Poetry] As I sit writing here
>To: "NewPoetry &amp; Views" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
>Message-ID: <A4399E82-B03D-4DE2-A097-1EC1A14F9A80 at ripon.edu>
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>As I Sit Writing Here
>
>As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
>Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
>Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
>May filter in my dally songs.
>
>-- Walt Whitman
>
>
>
>========================================
>David Graham
>grahamd at ripon.edu
>
>Home Page:
>http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/About%20Me.html
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>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:52:54 -0500
>From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] As I sit writing here
>To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;	Views"
>	<new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
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>Well, that's one way of looking at it.
>
>Hal
>
>"To emphasize only the beautiful seems to
>me to be like a mathematical system that
>only concerns itself with positive numbers."
>                      --Franz Kafka
>
>Halvard Johnson
>================
>halvard at earthlink.net
>http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
>http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>
>
>
>
>
>On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:45 PM, David Graham wrote:
>
>> As I Sit Writing Here
>>
>> As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
>> Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
>> Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
>> May filter in my dally songs.
>>
>> -- Walt Whitman
>>
>>
>>
>> ========================================
>> David Graham
>> grahamd at ripon.edu
>>
>> Home Page:
>> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/About%20Me.html
>>
>> Poetry Library:
>> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/DGPoLibrary.html
>> ==========================================
>>
>>
>>
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>Message: 4
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:02:26 -0400
>From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
>Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] As I sit writing here
>To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;	Views"
>	<new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
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>On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>> Well, that's one way of looking at it.
>>
>> Hal
>======================
>
>
>Yes.  And here's another:
>
>
>Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising,  
>freshly exuding,
>Scooting obliquely high and low.
>
>Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
>Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
>
>The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their  
>junction,
>The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,
>The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
>
>Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
>If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.
>
>
>========================================
>David Graham
>grahamd at ripon.edu
>
>Home Page:
>http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/About%20Me.html
>
>Poetry Library:
>http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/DGPoLibrary.html
>==========================================
>
>
>
>>
>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:45 PM, David Graham wrote:
>>
>>> As I Sit Writing Here
>>>
>>> As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
>>> Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
>>> Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
>>> May filter in my dally songs.
>>>
>>> -- Walt Whitman
>>>
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>Message: 5
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:23:12 -0500
>From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] As I sit writing here
>To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;	Views"
>	<new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
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>Not bad, David. Here's another--
>
>What Your Doctor Knows
>
>Knowledge you often hate on first hearing,
>coming to love as it grows into you. Perfect
>anecdotes in spite of all your tense
>accusations, while, despite the wallflowers
>
>gang-banging the geraniums, a wild kitten
>careens in your heart, love by second sight.
>The greater the yearning, the greater
>the grief. Impractical accident, with a difference.
>
>
>HJ
>
>"To go is to go farther."
>               --Kenneth Koch
>
>Halvard Johnson
>================
>halvard at earthlink.net
>http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
>http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>
>
>
>On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:02 PM, David Graham wrote:
>
>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>>> Well, that's one way of looking at it.
>>>
>>> Hal
>> ======================
>>
>>
>> Yes.  And here's another:
>>
>>
>> Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising,  
>> freshly exuding,
>> Scooting obliquely high and low.
>>
>> Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
>> Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
>>
>> The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their  
>> junction,
>> The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,
>> The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
>>
>> Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
>> If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.
>>
>>
>> ========================================
>> David Graham
>> grahamd at ripon.edu
>>
>> Home Page:
>> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/About%20Me.html
>>
>> Poetry Library:
>> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/DGPoLibrary.html
>> ==========================================
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:45 PM, David Graham wrote:
>>>
>>>> As I Sit Writing Here
>>>>
>>>> As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
>>>> Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
>>>> Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
>>>> May filter in my dally songs.
>>>>
>>>> -- Walt Whitman
>>>>
>>
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>Message: 6
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:58:38 -0400
>From: TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
>Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] As I sit writing here
>To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;	Views"
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>Ooh, that's good.
>
>Halvard Johnson wrote:
>> Not bad, David. Here's another--
>>
>> What Your Doctor Knows
>>  
>> Knowledge you often hate on first hearing,
>> coming to love as it grows into you. Perfect
>> anecdotes in spite of all your tense
>> accusations, while, despite the wallflowers
>>  
>> gang-banging the geraniums, a wild kitten
>> careens in your heart, love by second sight.
>> The greater the yearning, the greater
>> the grief. Impractical accident, with a difference.
>>
>>
>> HJ
>>
>> "To go is to go farther."
>>               --Kenneth Koch
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
>> ================
>> halvard at earthlink.net <mailto:halvard at earthlink.net>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html 
>> <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ehalvard/index.html>
>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com 
>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:02 PM, David Graham wrote:
>>
>>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>>>> Well, that's one way of looking at it.
>>>>
>>>> Hal
>>> ======================
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.  And here's another:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, 
>>> freshly exuding,
>>> Scooting obliquely high and low.
>>>  
>>> Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
>>> Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
>>>  
>>> The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their 
>>> junction,
>>> The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,
>>> The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
>>>  
>>> Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
>>> If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me. 
>>>
>>>
>>> ========================================
>>> David Graham
>>> grahamd at ripon.edu <mailto:grahamd at ripon.edu>
>>>
>>> Home Page:
>>> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/About%20Me.html
>>>
>>> Poetry Library:
>>> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/DGPoLibrary.html
>>> ==========================================
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:45 PM, David Graham wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> *As I Sit Writing Here*
>>>>>  
>>>>> As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
>>>>> Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
>>>>> Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
>>>>> May filter in my dally songs.
>>>>>  
>>>>> -- Walt Whitman
>>>>>
>>>
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>-- 
>Tad Richards
>http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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>Message: 7
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:46:45 EDT
>From: JforJames at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] As I sit writing here
>To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
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>As I Sit Writing  Here
> 
>As I sit writing here, sick and  sold out,
>Not my least burden is that  dulness of the beers, impotence,
>Ungracious goons, belly  aches, constipation, whimpering pee,
>May filter in my dally  songs.
> 
>-- Chaz  Bukowski
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>Message: 8
>Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:15:56 -0500
>From: "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
>Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] As I sit writing here
>To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;	Views"
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>    As I Sit Writing Here
>     
>    As I sit writing here, sick and sold out,
>    Not my least burden is that dulness of the beers, impotence,
>    Ungracious goons, belly aches, constipation, whimpering pee,
>    May filter in my dally songs.
>     
>    -- Chaz Bukowski
>  Ah, but shouldn't it be, for something by Buk, "filter from?"
>
>  --Bob
>
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>Message: 9
>Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:04:40 -0500
>From: "Edward Byrne" <Edward.Byrne at valpo.edu>
>Subject: [New-Poetry] Happy Birthday J.A.!
>To: <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
>Message-ID: <1185631480-453.00015.01840-smmsdV2.1.6 at mailhub.valpo.edu>
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>
>Today is John Ashbery's 80th birthday.  To celebrate, I have posted a
>piece on my blog containing links to some audio by Ashbery, including
>his rather humorous reading of "My Philosophy of Life." It is at the
>following: http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>
>Edward Byrne
>Department of English
>322 Huegli Hall
>Valparaiso University
>Valparaiso, IN 46383-6493
>
>E-mail: edward.byrne at valpo.edu
>Home Page:
>http://www.valpo.edu/home/faculty/ebyrne/homepage/
>Blog: 
>http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/
>
>Editor, Valparaiso Poetry Review
>E-mail: vpr at valpo.edu
>VPR Web Page: http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/
>Office Phone: (219) 464-5278
>Fax: (219) 464-5511
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>Message: 10
>Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:33:20 -0700
>From: "Sigauke, Emmanuel " <Sigauke at crc.losrios.edu>
>Subject: RE: [New-Poetry] Happy Birthday J.A.!
>To: <edward.byrne at valpo.edu>, "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News
>	&amp;	Views" <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
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>Thanks for the posting Ed. 
> 
>I have a question regarding blogs and poetry. Is it a good idea to create (and post) all my poetry on a blog? I have posted over two hundred pieces on mine, but I am considering removing them. There is something about creating poetry on a blog that seems to make the process less --- something. 
> 
>
>________________________________
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>From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu on behalf of Edward Byrne
>Sent: Sat 7/28/2007 7:04 AM
>To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
>Subject: [New-Poetry] Happy Birthday J.A.!
>
>
>
>
>Today is John Ashbery's 80th birthday.  To celebrate, I have posted a
>piece on my blog containing links to some audio by Ashbery, including
>his rather humorous reading of "My Philosophy of Life." It is at the
>following: http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>
>Edward Byrne
>Department of English
>322 Huegli Hall
>Valparaiso University
>Valparaiso, IN 46383-6493
>
>E-mail: edward.byrne at valpo.edu
>Home Page:
>http://www.valpo.edu/home/faculty/ebyrne/homepage/
>Blog:
>http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/
>
>Editor, Valparaiso Poetry Review
>E-mail: vpr at valpo.edu
>VPR Web Page: http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/
>Office Phone: (219) 464-5278
>Fax: (219) 464-5511
>
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