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

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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.

Video: Stop Gambling on Hunger


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Amiri Baraka interview-- Argotist Online


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Don Share on Ron silliman on W. S. Merwin as Poet Laureate Squandermania

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Poets and Artists Summer 2010 (Didi Menendez, ed)

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Argotist Online E-Books

The two latest ebooks for Argotist Online are by Alan Sondheim and Jeff Harrison. Here is the entire backlist of free ebooks from publisher Jeffrey Side:Argotist Ebooks

The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “Stories Short and Strange” by Bill Drennan.

Description:

“Stories Short and Strange” is the first volume of a unique collection by Bill Drennan. These tales are typically laced with blends of absurdist science fiction, satire, childish cartoonism and black space humour.

Available as a free ebook here:

Stories Short and Strange

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The latest issue of Wig edited by Kristen Gallagher and Tim Shaner just arrived. This issue features watercolors by Steve Benson and writing from Laynie Browne, Del Ray Cross, Thom Donovan, Patrick Durgin, William Fuller, Kristen Gallagher, Judith Goldman, Brandon Holmquist, Rodney Koeneke, Richard Kostelanetz, Bill Marsh, Tim Shaner and Carol Szymanski. $10 to Tim Shaner at 130 E. 49th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97405 gets you 95 pages of exciting new art, poetry and commentary.

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The latest issue of Provincetown Arr Magazine features a cover, interview with Charles Bernstein and an article/essay about artist Mira Schor

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