So...what's everyone doing this summer?

You know, if I needed a rest from all the stresses of daily life, I would come to unowriting.blogspot. com. Why, you ask? Because it's clearly the quietest place on Earth.

Seriously....Anyone going to Madrid? Anywhere else? Who graduated? Who's writing what? Whose getting anything published?

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Exhibit looks at Ezra Pound's influence on poetry

Exhibit looks at Ezra Pound's influence on poetry

11:24 a.m., June 5, 2006--“Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond: The Influence of Ezra Pound on 20th-Century Poetry,” an exhibit showcasing several literary works from UD's recently acquired Ezra Pound collection, is on display in the Special Collections Exhibition Gallery in the Morris Library through Friday, June 16.

The display, which showcases books from the collection of Robert A. Wilson, a noted bookseller, author, collector, publisher and bibliographer, was curated by Jesse Rossa, assistant librarian in the Special Collections Department.

Arguably the most important literary figure in the early years of modernism, Ezra Pound, who lived from 1885-1972, was recognized as a poet, critic and indefatigable promoter of the modernist cause during some of the most tumultuous years of the 20th Century.

Perhaps more than any other writer, Pound was responsible for the transformation of literature in the early decades of the last century, and, because of his controversial political views, attracted almost as much criticism as he did accolades. “Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond” provides an in-depth examination of his place in 20th-Century literature.

Robert A. Wilson, whose Pound collection is now owned by the University of Delaware Library, was born in Baltimore in 1922. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1943, he entered the U.S. Army and served in Germany. He eventually moved to New York City and became a noted antiquarian bookseller and owner of the Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village, a legendary literary haven that became one of the most important bookstores of the mid-20th Century.

The show, which is free and open to the public, is accompanied by a printed catalog, which is available upon request. For more information on the exhibit and for current library hours, call (302) 831-BOOK.

Update from the Pacific

Hello everyone. Looking forward to seeing some of you again in Madrid this summer.
I'll be at AWP in Austin, hawking my wares. In other words, there will be a Tinfish book table. If anyone will be there, and has some free moments, I'd like to offer you the fine opportunity to be a Tinfish volunteer to wo/man the table for a while. I'm especially keen for this to happen while I'm on a panel about genre. Of course I don't have at hand when that will be, but still!

In any case, it will be nice to cross paths in Texas.

aloha, Susan

Latest op-ed

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/opinion/13668611.htm

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/20059

Both links are to the same column; two different papers ran it.

Putting the "Creative" in Creative Non-Fiction

I'm wondering what everyone, particularly the non-fiction people, think of this:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html

Still no love from McSweeney's

Rejected. Again. If I was spending more than about three minutes on these things, my ego might actually be suffering.

Here's the list that McSweeney's rejected:

Geographical anomalies in Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues"

1) If he's stuck in a California prison, how exactly does he know the train goes to "San Antone"?

2) Why is he in jail in California and not Nevada if he "shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"?

new tinfish chapbook

poetrypolitics


Greetings from cloudy Hawai`i....

Please distribute this message far and wide!




I'm pleased to announce publication of _When the Plug Gets Unplugged_, by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi. Kim Hyesoon is one of the most prominent poets in South Korea, and Don Mee Choi lives in Seattle where she translates the work of Korean women poets. Chapbook design by Mike Cueva.

These are poems about rats, spoken by rats. From "This Night":

A rat
devours a sleeping white rabbit
Dark blood spills out of the rabbit cage
A rat devours a piglet that has fallen into a pot of porridge

. . .

A rat devours the new baby in the cradle
Mommy has gone to the restaurant to wash dishes
A rat slips in and out of a freshly buried corpse


Anyone who gets this message can buy the chapbook for $8 from Tinfish Press, 47-728 Hui Kelu Street #9, Kaneohe, HI 96744.

Now at the printer is Barbara Jane Reyes's much anticipated volume, _Poeta en San Francisco_, so stay posted.

aloha, Susan, Tinfish Editor

PS Remember that rat books make fine holiday gifts.


Susan M. Schultz
Professor
Department of English
University of Hawai`i-Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822

Rejected by McSweeney's

I got rejected when I submitted this list to them...since I spent all of 10 minutes on this, however, I suppose being too morose over this would be unseemly.

Here's the list:

Rejected Names for IKEA Products

Snöttragg

Asswiipe

Kurt Vonnegut

Eatt Myshörtts

Miilk Kratte

Wett Sppötte

Tupac Shakur

Lazee Böyy

Scuuter Libbie

Barka Loungger

Details

he just walked off the detail, he was a prisoner and not considered violent, but when he walked off the detail he acquired a knife, somewhere between the road, the state park, and the subdivision that borders it, do they grow on trees, broke into a house and raped a woman at knife point, took off, in her car, and now they can’t find him, all this happening in minutes, this man that was not considered a dangerous criminal even though he was in jail and just walked away from the prison guards that took him to the road where he was presumably supposed to pick up trash, and this woman, now, Raped, robbed, she’ll never look at a man or men or her kitchen the same way again, he raped her at knife point after he just walked away from the prison society put him in even though he was not a dangerous criminal. was he or did we make him. what difference does it make. And Plato thought we came out of the cave.


*vented hastily, direct to screen, after hearing the news story, in the middle of a Spanish class I was subbing for, at a school where they lost two kids in a month, and near the school where the girl was hung from a tree in her yard a few weeks back. This was where I came to escape the crime wave. Is that ironic.

MFA brilliance

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/mfa.html

Cc Preschool

a four year old boy licked the bottom of my shoe. have you ever seen. rest time. wiggles. no mother. what mother could. junk yard. father who can't read. write his own name. can you do it for me. color my cat. a camel with a camera. the boy. asks. can i please hug you. will you be back. joe licked the bottom of my shoe today.

D an cers

jim is currently asleep outside the library with his head on one fist but maybe not currently
only in a shot but after a fact
now opposed sexes inside each other yet the viewer as both at once
the blinds remain closed
with a number written that no one should remember
and then where to go where to be staying
a group of individuals
a rock in glue
rubrics pouring ice cubes
is chicago is not chicago
the reduction
reduce the us age expanding
distraction from awkward
the first six feet create all sales
aloft goes the beating
what fingers what rods
near far reader red
less home ownership of containers
life
can it say it
tomato soup downside up calling tapeworm
met this girl met this boy met this girl met this
a few leafs through a drawn blind

Everyone use

how to live the address
unpublished and lines crease
where the shadow wont form reminding
starting no circle no in the fiber
not seen marked but spaced stutter
these paws rest touch in
brawl hearted stuck ade draw
leveling jung%anger to in meta
or%article lettered strum eats their
motion read votive refreshed oppose%
table encroach spaced vine a%door%rinse
feel a%mend%in%turning closed to in truck%
gated split stall this the student of
this the prairie horizontal city within
on before hand on of the moment on passing
over on all of the it on then bill%yard felled
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Publishing's Not all Its Cracked Up To Be???

This mini-essay from the New York Times, Publish and Perish, addresses the pitfalls of publishing - and author's unrealistic expectations....

Article to Ponder

Check out this article from the Oct 17th online edition of the New York Times, where they talk about a poet who quit writing for much of his life and has now won an award for writers over fifty publishing their first book... there's some interesting stuff in there, I think, including a thesis about a made up Victorian poet.

Anyone in California?

Got this from Deborah Meadows, a poet who read in Madrid this past summer. Thought if anyone out there was in the neighborhood you might wanna check it out...

Cal Poly Pomona

Poetry and Jazz
at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg Art Gallery

Monday, October 17, 2005

5:00–6:30 p.m.

featuring

Ron Escheté Trio, a consummate master of the seven-string guitar as well as a CSULB Music department faculty will play with Todd Johnson on bass and Kendall Kay on drums.

Diane Ward, poet and author of numerous volumes of poetry including On Duke Ellington’s Birthday, Never Without One, and Portraits and Maps [with art by Michael C. McMillen] (Piacenza, Italy: ML&NLF).

Rodrigo Toscano, a poet whose books include To Leveling Swerve and Platform, works in The Labor Institute in NYC, and is a 2005 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

a conference on katrina

for those who enjoy such things:

----- Original Message -----
From	shahin kachwala
Date	Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:38:08 -0400
To	WMST-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Subject	CFP - A Feminist Response to Hurricane Katrina: A Conference

---

Please spread the word (see attached flyer).

A Feminist Response to Hurricane Katrina
A Conference

Hosted & Organized
by UAlbany Women's Studies Students

- A Call for Papers -

We especially invite undergraduate and graduate students and non-academics
to submit papers and media (such as film, video, photography, paintings,
etc.) that discuss any of the issues surrounding Hurricane Katrina.
Paper topics may include (but are not limited to) any of the following:
(dis)ability, (access to) technology, age, citizenship, classism,
disbursements of funds, education, environmental factors/issues, gender
violence and other kinds of violence, government policy, identity, media
depictions, migration (unplanned, forced), militarization and
criminalization, poverty, racism, residential segregation.

Abstract Submissions Due: October 28, 2005
Presentations on December 2, 2005

Abstracts must be 200 words and submitted to: wstudent@albany.edu or
jhobson@albany.edu




--
Shahin Kachwala
Department of Women's Studies
University at Albany - SUNY
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222

In need of a long nap

Why, you ask? Here's why:

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/17635

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/17664

And then, when the new Bankruptcy law takes effect this Monday and the middle class finds out what this law is about, let the George Bush-led fun really begin.

Alexis's Best Of Piece...

Check out this piece from Alexis Wiggins, fiction student and expat writer living in Madrid, which was chosen by Fresh Yarn, and then picked for one of their Best Of editions... Its pretty damn good!

News from Stan West...

This morning, (Sunday, Oct. 2, 6:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. Chicago time), I featured Prof. Peter Thompson, who taught UNO's translation course this summer, on my WNUA 95.5 FM Chicago radio show "City Voices," a weekly show streaming live that inquires into literature and cinema from the Third World. Today's show focused on the literary, cultural movement of "Negritude," and a the work by Veronique Tadjo, a poet from the Ivory Coast now living in Paris, whose book Thompson translated.

(I believe her new book with Prof. Thompson's translation will hit bookstores this month).