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There are still a few minutes left in February 2, 2006, and so I post here a poem for the Bloggers’ (Silent) Poetry Reading. This poem is by Terrance Hayes, who teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and whom I’ve had the joy of hearing read at the Gist Street Reading Series in Pittsburgh. (There will …
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Thanks again to everyone who attended BlogFest 5 last week. It was a swell time. More people attended than ever before, and from what I could tell everyone had a rolicking good time. I had made terrific signs for our fifth get-together, all in black and gold with a racy, forward-angled look, but in the …
You say it’s your birthday! It’s my birthday too, yeah!
Whether you’re participating in NaNoWriMo this year or not, please know that November 4, next Saturday, is NaDruWriNi, National Drunken Writing Night. In other words, it’s your yearly chance to crack open your favorite beverage, type away madly and lushly, and participate in the long heritage of faculty-impaired writers. I did this last year and …
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Pete Townsend has created a blog to release a novella in serial form. He’s named it The Boy Who Heard Music, and he’s up to chapter three so far. So far it has a strong stream-of-consciousness element, sort of like what one might write for NaNoWriMo, with the plot clarity we saw previously in Tommy …
By now you’ve seen all the posts and articles about BlogFest 3: When Bloggers Appear in Public! Here’s one final artifact for everyone: an online copy of the “sign-in sheet” from the event. I know there were at least a few other blogs at the party who aren’t on the sheet. I set it out …