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This blog will go very, very quiet for the next couple of days because something big is happening that we hope you will enjoy. Just type openned.com into your browser once a day for the next week and sometime soon, something magical will happen. Promise.

Including the following text incidents: “NG 6 fla”; “he m”; “the cryptic plot against / the earlobe”; “I’m freezing”; “?”; “clear”; “d rac”; “VVV”; “làm con búp”; “Esso”; “TH 5″; “yes”; “Taha Bidaywi /”; “shi”; “think this”; ” “; “garbage / burger continuity editing”; “…”; “ckfl”; “I don’t want to hear it” and “now for the product placement.” [Actual incidents may vary according to brain].

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via Charles Bernstein

if p then q 4 is at the printers. As a taster click on THIS LINK to sample Allen Fisher’s Proposals 26 & 27. This will be the final issue of if p then q magazine so I can concentrate solely on full length collections – a bumper, fun packed issue to end of with. More soon.

For more if p then q downloads click this LINK

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I am therefore encouraging more manuscripts to be sent. Please see the lowdown at www.ifpthenq.co.uk or more specifically at http://www.ifpthenq.co.uk/contact.html for what the house style is. Replies will be reasonably quick although there is no definite time proposed.

At the moment I only publish around two/three collections a year; so please bear that in mind but I’d love to see stuff.

Writers Forum workshop

Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, EC1

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

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.

• Craig Dworkin
• Michael Haslam

There is also a well-stocked book table.

Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester Science Park, Manchester M15 6AY

Admission is free.

The Other Room will also be running another event for Oxjam:

Sunday 25th October, 1pm

• Stuart Calton
• James Davies
• Tony Trehy

Apotheca, Northern Quarter, Manchester

Read more about Oxjam.

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

We will explore Democracy. To explore the democracy of practise and space. WET INK pitch our practice against the competitive capitalists and their survival-of-the-fittest economic structures; we suggest a new poetic survival.

Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill SW11 5TN

Admission £5 – Tickets

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• Neil Palmer
• Sophie Robinson
• Keston Sutherland

Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton

Admission £3.50

Daniel f. Bradley has opened up a new photocopied zine for visual poetry. It much resembles its predecessor, but it goes under a different name: fmachinery. And it is filled with all manner of generally wordless, boundary-pushing visual poetry, such as Daniel is likely to shed a little light on.

Read the rest of the post here, along with details of how to get hold of a copy of fmachinery.

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

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.