Jerome Sala (Expresso Bongo) on The Critic as Artist and Vice-Versa:Thoughts on Oscar Wilde, Wallace Stevens, and Nick Piombino (July 30)

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Mark Young writes about his father The Victorian Age


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Les Black "The Listeners" Eurozine
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Otoliths Number Eighteen

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The latest issue of Poets and Artists edited by Didi Menendez

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"Wikipedia refers to Sven Birkerts' 1994 study The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in the Electronic Age, and the work of developmental psychologist Maryanne Wolf, who pointed out the loss of "deep reading" capacity. Internet-savvy users, she states, seem to lose the ability to read and enjoy thick novels and comprehensive monographs".

The colonization of real-time and other trends in Web 2.0"

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Looking for Love: Douglas Messerli on Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts Green Integer Blog

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the new books on The Argotist Online:

The Blast Area by John Tranter

Pesticide Drift by F.A.Nettlebeck

Noise Difficulty Flower by J. D. Nelson

Solzhenitzen Jukebox by Ann Bogle
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Fragments of a Broken Poetics by Jennifer Moxley

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Blogging is Dead: :Long Live the Blog by Joshua Corey

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The new book on Argotist Online is A Year of Ordinary Moments by Rich Curtis


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New from Otoliths Expanding The Radius by Mary Ellen Derwis, Joe Balaz

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New Books from Argotist Online by Chris Stroffolino and Evelyn Posamentier


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Norman Fischer interviewed by Hank Lazer on the Argotist Online

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Fiber Optic Tapestry by Ligorano Reese- Kickstarter


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The new book from Argotist Online is


King Amour by Jack Foley

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A Celebration in Poetry and Art for Didi Menendez

50/50 Words and Images for Didi Menendez

High Resolution PDF

Low Resolution PDF


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The Project for Innovative Poetry

Today, Douglas Messerli posted a listing for me on his PIP blog:

THe Project for Innovative Poetry

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--Nico Vassilakis-asemic poetry--"In this episode, the alphabet refuses to be belittled by word logic and takes its revenge by dismantling it".
--from: The Bleed A journal of vital, progressive visual, concrete and experimental poetries

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While all lives end with death, most novels begin with one.



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Everything in the world exists in order to end up looking for a book.