Matthew Simmons—
All four issues of Daniel Raeburn’s The Imp are available to download for free at his website. Raeburn was doing some serious, and seriously impressive, study of comics before most of us thought such a thing was possible. (Thanks to Paul for the link.)
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Blake Butler—
Is opening a writer’s archives to the public after his or her death wrong, even if the author’s estate approves?
Mike Young—
esque is a new online journal from Amy King and Ana Bozicevic. The site is Flash, so it takes a minute to load, but it’s worth it:
oetry is the kitchen sink.
Charles Bernstein. Bei Dao. Tamiko Beyer. Jackie Clark. Amy De’Ath. Lidija Dimkovska. Kate Durbin. Steven Karl. Natalie Lyalin. Filip Marinovich. Sharon Mesmer. Miguel Murphy. Ariana Reines. Saeed Jones. Tomaz Salamun. Evie Shockley. Heidi Lynn Staples. Leigh Stein. Cole Swensen. John Tranter. Matvei Yankelevich.ifesto is everything but.
Jennifer Bartlett. Jillian Brall. Ching-In Chen. Ken Chen. Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Jennifer H. Fortin. Molly Gaudry. Roxane Gay. Matt Hart. Brenda Hillman. Dan Hoy. Ron Padgett & Olivier Brossard. Lars Palm. Joan Retallack. Brandon Shimoda. Anne Waldman. Franz Wright. Carolyn Zaikowski.
Sean Lovelace—
Does anyone here give a flying fuck about copyright when they make copies of _______ to teach students?
Reynard Seifert—
Jean-Luc Godard still cannot be reached
about this honorary academy award thing, his.
Slow-running hands rappelling sides of faces,
will he stick it? out. Will he tell them where to?
Blake Butler—
@ Fury.com, a series of conversations between random AOL IM users and a psychoanalyst program named ELIZA, which operates by asking questions based on the previously entered text:
| fiftyeight: Hello, a/s/l |
| AOLiza: hi. what seems to be your problem? |
| fiftyeight: just looking for random people to talk to |
| AOLiza: tell me more about that. |
| fiftyeight: I like to talk to random people from all around it is fun. But enough about me, lets talk about you. |
| AOLiza: tell me more about that. |
| fiftyeight: Lets talk about you… where do you hail from? |
| AOLiza: you’re not really talking about me — are you? |
| fiftyeight: Yes, I am. |
| AOLiza: please go on. |
| fiftyeight: well in order to talk about you tell me about yourself |
| AOLiza: suppose i did tell you — what would that mean? |
| fiftyeight: that would mean that this was a conversation |
| AOLiza: that is interesting. please continue. |
| fiftyeight: conversations are fun |
| AOLiza: what if they were not fun? |
Blake Butler—
New online issues of Action Yes and Gigantic be rippin it like it s’posed to be ripped.