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Before I Forget...
The Svelte Ms. Spelt brought me back a pin from NPS 2011. It says "Fucking Apply Yourself". He told me Rachel McKibbens was handing these out. Wise words from the matriarch. I try to live by them every day. Here's how I applied myself in 2011:- Launched Hullabaloo: The BC High School Slam Championships along with my festival co-director, RC Weslowski ( Read more... )
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... in bed
lying beside another breathing
throats shudder chests heaving
the night eats away the evening
whose sheets is who stealing?
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On IWPS Playoffs
Last night was Van Slam's Indies Playoffs to determine who reps us at the Individual World Poetry Slam in Cleveland this October and the Canadian Indies right here in Vancouver next April. I thought it could quickly turn into a coronation for much-loved superpoet and Van Slam legend monkeypudding, but because of a somewhat weird change in the scoring rules ( ( Read more... ) -
Stephen Merritt for the win!
Pitchfork: You've spoken a lot about the importance of new technology in pushing music forward. Do you think that new technologies might actually revitalize song craft, by necessitating new techniques of writing and production ( Read more... ) -
30 Helens of Troy Agree
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"Go the Fuck to Sleep" a Nursery Rhyme
A poem by Adam Mansbach, read by Samuel L. Jackson.
Check out the brilliant cover art:
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A Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
~Langston Hughes
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New Word Needed
I've identified a lexical gap in the English language, and I need your help to bridge it.
Fill in your suggestion to the linguistic equation below, if there are enough good answers, I'll put together a poll and we'll vote in a winner.
A lack of literacy is illiteracy.
A lack of orality is ....
My recent focus on these two terms comes from reading ( Read more... ) -
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I’m standing beside the ocean
trying not to check my email.
I’m sitting in an airplane
looking down at the tops of clouds
trying not to check my email.
I’m being lowered into my grave,
arms pinned to my sides,
eyelids sewn shut,
trying not to obsess
over who might
or might not
have responded
to this message. -
Stephen Fry on The History of Light Verse
“Light verse does not need to be comic in intent or witty in nature: it encourages the readers to believe that they and the poet share the same discourse, intelligence and standing, inhabit the same universe of feeling and cultural reference, it does not howl in misunderstood loneliness, wallow in romantic agony or bombard the reader with ( Read more... )
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