Rauan Klassnik

http://rauanklassnik.blogspot.com

author of three collections: Sky Rat (Spork, 2014), The Moon's Jaw (Black Ocean, 2013) and Holy Land (Black Ocean, 2008) ... ----- @klassnik ------

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October 23rd, 2014 / 6:53 pm

HTMLGIANT OBIT — (HTMLEULOGY) —- (by Drew Smith)

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in response to my Twitter calls for HMTLGIANT obits/curses/whatnot I received this reply from Drew Smith:

 

HTMLGIANT is ceasing operations on October 24th. I wish it wasn’t. I’ll miss it.

When I mention how much I love HTMLGIANT, people often react the same way they do when I tell them how much I love Reddit.

Wait, isn’t that a just a bunch of child molesters? Isn’t that a bunch of teenage hackers and trolls? Isn’t that where internet weirdos post nude pics of celebrities?

Well, yeah, it is. And that’s far from the worst of it. But it’s also the place where the “stop smoking” subreddit supported me through my quit. And where someone took the time to teach me how to change the oil on my car. It’s where I get recipes and workouts and shaving lessons and free business advice. It’s just a cross-section of the world at large, where there are almost as many Mother Teresas as there are motherfuckers.

So it is/was/has been with HTMLGIANT, which for the past six years has served as a cross-section—from best to worst—of the world of literature. At least the literature of a big chunk of twenty and thirtysomethings, the ones who aren’t on the Best 20 Under 40 lists, who aren’t publishing in the New Yorker, but who are likely still reading it, half-covetous, half-mocking. READ MORE >

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October 22nd, 2014 / 3:07 pm

SEATED GIANT

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October 21st, 2014 / 9:47 am

Alt Lit at its very best

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This was my first New Hive post from all the way back in August, 2014. I thought it was kind of clever. But I’m sure it’s very offensive.

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October 20th, 2014 / 9:55 pm

what would be a good name for a new literary magazine ???

(i have a “friend” who’d like to know)

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October 19th, 2014 / 10:32 pm

Daniel Shapiro: Why Shld I Read YOUR Book ??

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ok, Daniel, so why should we read YOUR book ???

Why should you read my book? Until recently, I might not have known, but after the death of Robin Williams, something happened: A number of people took to Facebook and Twitter, and some debated the role of popular culture in our society. One person asked, “Why are we so sad about a celebrity when there are more substantial things to worry about?” Another wrote, “I can’t believe this. I remember watching him on ‘Mork and Mindy.’ I was supposed to be in bed, but I would sneak downstairs to the console TV,” etc. Somebody reminded us to talk to someone when we’re depressed, and another chastised that person for suggesting depression could be cured via hotline.

Like my Facebook friends, my recent book of poems, How the Potato Chip Was Invented, wrestles with the concept of fame. Its audience may include people who areHTPCWI obsessed with celebrities, sometimes to the point of emotional fragility, anger, confusion, self-righteousness, elitism, or many more options. Even people who claim to hate celebrities are obsessed with them, too, taking time to criticize others for their celebrity worship. My poems are about this worship, but they don’t take part in it. Some of the poems are imagined scenarios that humanize celebrities more than we’re used to seeing them humanized. Others attack celebrities who have become a nuisance.

I like pop culture poems that are observational. They’re often written in the third person, the way a journalist would write. Poems can use pop culture as a shield or filter from self-referential expressions of feeling. They can be allegories. They may tell universal stories about depression by telling Williams’ story.

Anyhow, when everyone was writing about Williams—and criticizing others for doing so—they seemed to be proving the point of my book, which you should buy.

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October 19th, 2014 / 1:11 am

we need a poetry czar !!! (for Thanksgiving, maybe ???)

also: send me yr “History Sits in a Chair” poems. I’ll publish good/funny/strange.  Ra Ra Ra.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at HTMLGiant (by Dan Coffey)

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after I’d tweeted

happy/sad/elated that htmlgiant’s closing??? … send me obituaries/goodbye notes, etc … i’ll publish most of them (i think)….

Dan Coffey sent me the following poem:

 

Thirteen Ways of Looking at HTMLGiant

 

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Among twenty=seven letters,

The only playable tile

Was the Scrabble blank.

 

II

I was of three heads,

Like a dog

You know which kind and what I guarded.

 

III

The gyre whirled and whirled toward the Jacuzzi.

We all got pantsed.

READ MORE >

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October 15th, 2014 / 9:41 pm

I’m in Mexico. There’s a tree here called “the rain of gold. ” We took the tunnel under Pablo Neruda Blvd. The columns were ancient. Blooms of lust. I finished “The Slave” on the plane. I was in tears. The young woman next to me: “It’s okay. Everything is meant to be.” I just wolfed down some cubes of jicama, watermelon and papaya. I am drifting. My dreams are filled with cows, barbed wire and a lithe warrior maiden. She is the walls of eternity burning on every side.

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October 11th, 2014 / 1:35 pm

…..Birds like planets– all ripped up” (from Ringing)…..

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I’ve been doing a lot on NewHive the last 6 weeks. (Art with sound, movement, etc). And with HTMGLIANT’S “last day” approaching it looks like I might be doing even more!!   ……….    (blah, blah)    xoxoxoxo  (click)

 …………….  p.s.                      you can kiss me if you want to!

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October 7th, 2014 / 5:08 pm