March 2012
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B: hey yo the Tory government just totally fucked the NHS!
C: Shoes! iPhone! Facebook!
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“A poet learning TRUST is essential learning. Trusting the world, trusting the...”
– CAConrad, (Soma)tic Poetics
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business-driven idea-free degree mills →
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis, from 'Manifests'
[…] the power to speak as a poet is the power to conceive oneself - literally, a most intimate event of pure oedipal fantasy. One therefore imagines a little poem by the female Robert Creeley:
So I am the Other; well, fuck you, so I am, for you. Fuck. Wherever I fuck, I fucks. Je est une foutre.
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Spring Decoys Festival
David Grundy somehow managed to compress an entire night of creative madness (the closing night of the Cambridge Spring Decoys festival, seven hours, 18 poets, readings, performances, improvised music, whiskey, the occasional nap) into a readable piece of wire-ting. Mega-bravos are in order: as he points out, this kind of thing is not only difficult but PAINFUL. Here is his wire-ting.
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r u s t i c a t u s s u m
A PhD student at Cambridge University has been ‘rusticated’ for reading out a poem in protest at a speech by the higher education minister, David Willetts, last November. RUSTICATED means BANNED from studying for two and a half years. If this makes you mad, there is a petition you can sign. Lazz has text of the original poem.
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“Goldman itself was memorably dubbed “a giant vampire squid” by one...”
– The Independent
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Catherine Wagner: RECENT MALE INTERVENTION →
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Caitlín Doherty & Connie Scozzaro SHOUT from...
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IRAN DOCUMENTS
FRESH POEMS. Trafficker Press have published a selection of texts from my Iran Documents (you can read a few mini-excerpts here). Trafficker’s chaps (gorgeously handmade and letterpressed by Erin Morrill) are here.
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WOMEN VS. DSK: FRI MARCH 9
I WILL BE READING AT THIS INTERNATIONAL RENOWNED MISOGYNIST PARTY THIS FRIDAY. PLEASE COME AND BRING YOUR POEMS I AM SO EXCITED:
On Friday night the CAMBRIDGE UNION will play host to celebrity sex abuser and internationally renowned MISOGYNIST: Dominique Strauss-Kahn. We will march on this event and protest at the Union Society’s collusion with Strauss-Kahn, a man who is in no way...
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TUTU MUSE
Tutu Muse (Fly By Night Press, 2007): FREE LOVE PDF
If nothing but the material object will do, independent London bookseller X Marks the Bökship is sagely guarding the last remaining copies.
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MASTER/SLAVE * GOOGLE
The contradiction here between the objective view that a Google user is a product, and the company view that it is there to serve, makes me feel sticky. Sometimes I think smartphones are secretly eating people’s brainz
“There’s a mantra in certain online communities which says if you’re getting a service for free, you are not that company’s customer – you’re...
