[New-Poetry] Exquisite Corpse

[Suzanne Burns]

Never had the pleasure of meeting him myself, but I have friends who are
from NOLA and have a very high opinion of him as a poet and as a person.  He
apparently has one of those unforgettable expansive warm personalities. I
love his poetry.

Suzanne



On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it>
wrote:

>  Do you know him?
> He is absolutely Great!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Suzanne Burns <atelierjewelweed at gmail.com>
> *To:* NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views<new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:51 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [New-Poetry] Exquisite Corpse
>
> Bill Lavender!!  Yay!
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it>
> wrote:
>
> >  Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >
> > Dear readers:
> >
> > Did you miss us? We missed you. It's only been a brief eon but the
> > idiots have taken over the world, and the internet is seducing us all into
> > trading in our brains for beads. Welcome back to the Post-Katrina
> > Resurrection Corpse, back from a dank hiatus of one year in a
> > formaledehyde-poisoned FEMA trailer. We festered, we raged, we contemplated
> > suicide, and in the end, voted for life because we are a Corpse already and
> > we hate to keep on dying, just like the ideals of the Republic. Our
> > guest-editor for this issue is the formidable poet, publisher, New
> > Orleanian, and homme-du-monde-et-de-lettres, Bill Lavender. Bill has
> > ploughed through the accumulated debris in our trailer, turning over towers
> > of submissions and lovingly removing mold and giving new lustre to tarnished
> > but potent weapons of poesy, crit, and story-time. We will continue to
> > exalt, irritate, surprise, be loving, merciless, and obscene, just like you.
> > Our Bulgarian genius, Plamen Arnaudov, has updated our technology so that
> > the Corpse may flow continually, with updates posted as quickly as the
> > zeitgeist requires. We also welcome Vincent Cellucci, poet and chef to Our
> > Gang, so that we might eat well while we tryst and plunder. Reader, please
> > come back, visit, and, most importantly, re- register to join our raiding
> > parties, and ride with the Resurrected Corpse. You don't need to bring your
> > own horse to the raiding parties because we are planning (secretly) to offer
> > ship cruises to our subscribers. (It costs nothing to subscribe). And let
> > your list know that the Corpse is back: http://www.corpse.org
> >
> >
> >
> > ------ End of Forwarded Message
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Anny Ballardini
> > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
> > star!
> >
> >
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