Not Submitting
- calls for change in Islam
» Ayaan Hirsi Ali's weblog English language version
Last Exit
- ponders an exit strategy for the US in Iraq
» George Packer's articles in the New Yorker
Song of My City
and
Bob Holman, poet, curator for the biennial People’s Poetry Gathering, owner of the Bowery Poetry Club, and co-author, Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, forthcoming)
Statue of Poetry
On Saturday, The People's Poetry Gathering features The New New York City Epic Poem and Poems of our Fair (and sometimes Unfair) City. This mornig, we put out a call for poems for the epic at 10:00AM and got 70 entries before the show was over. Here are some we picked to have read on the air:
I am loose electricity.
I am the barren, yet over-run land of East New York
I am Belvedere Castle, weather station,
I am the East River.
I am the corner of East 10th Street where the Second Avenue Deli used to be
Here's one the author couldn't read because his cell phone wouldn't work on the air:
I am the turnstile
Required Reading: May 5, 2006
In which: Zarkawi's videos backfire, WTC memorial costs escalate, Rumsfeld gets heckled by ex-CIA analyst, Tony Blair gives key cabinet members the ax, one of four rebel groups signs Darfur peace agreement
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