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Spine has just published a couple of Allen Fisher’s poems from his Proposals project.

via Charles Bernstein

Following on from The Other Room’s interview with P. Inman, they now turn their attention to Tina Darragh.

Now online. Featuring:

• Amy De’Ath
• Johan de Wit
• Daniel Kane
• Chandler Lewis
• Lissa Wolsak

Matt Dalby has posted some excellent sound poetry links on his blog, linking to pieces on Cobbing and resources for bp Nichol and Jörg Piringer.

PennSound is pleased to present four of filmmaker-poet Abigail Child’s films, including one new film from 2006 and three films from her award-winning series Is This What You Were Born For? Please follow the link to Child’s PennSound film page for streaming flash versions of these films. Visit Child’s website for more information on rentals and purchases.

Ron Silliman:

There are a lot of blogs that publish the poetry of the blog owner, but virtually none of the others are by Tom Clark, a man who has been a master of the post-avant lyric for some four decades that I can remember. And if these are mostly current work – they’re mostly not dated unlike, say, much of Larry Eigner’s verse – it represents an intense outpouring at a time in one’s life when many other poets have tended to drift off into silence. Without even getting into the fact that Clark’s the first NY School poet of his generation to make great use of the web (he’s also a major contributor to the Vanitas blog), it’s well worth checking out at least once a week.

You can read Tom Clark’s blog here.

Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia (catena, commentum, gemara, glossa, hypomnema, midrash, peser, pingdian, scholia, tafsir, talkhis, tika, vritti, zend, zhangju, et al). The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work and to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the past, present, and future of this ancient genre of writing. By aligning itself, not with any particular discipline, but with a particular mode of production, Glossator gives expression to the fact that praxis founds theory.

Volume 1 is available to view online and features:

• Nicola Masciandaro
• Erik Butler
• Alan Ramon Clinton
• Bruno Gull
• Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath
• Anna Klosowska
• J. H Prynne
• Daniel C. Remein
• Adam Rosen
• Michael Stone-Richards

via Ryan Dobran

The British Library has put its entire sound archive online, free of charge:

That amounts to roughly 28,000 recordings and, although no one has yet sat down and formally timed it, about 2,000 hours of singing, speaking, yelling, chanting, blowing, banging, tinkling and many other verbs associated with what is a uniquely rich sound archive.

via The Guardian

Clive Thompson has written a piece for Wired Magazine about the Stanford Study of Writing, run by Andrea Lunsford:

Lunsford’s team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across. The modern world of online writing, particularly in chat and on discussion threads, is conversational and public, which makes it closer to the Greek tradition of argument than the asynchronous letter and essay writing of 50 years ago.

Read the rest here.