tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59363472009-06-28T11:16:05.610-04:00<img src="http://www.shannacompton.com/email.png"> <b><p>Starving trolls since 1994.</b></p>shannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503noreply@blogger.comBlogger2459125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936347.post-6560961035718911102009-06-28T11:14:00.001-04:002009-06-28T11:16:05.618-04:00

Chicago Poetry Calendar Dot OrgAdd it to your links & blogrolls why dontcha? ;)

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...of Poetry: 1) I haven't seen it, but I know many of the flarf poems included therein becuz I'm a privileged cabalist, and 2) Stan's review is funny.Someday, maybe even someday soon, I will write a poem. Possible when the sun stops playing grabass with the clouds.

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do you miss your childhood dog/catdo you miss your grandparents in Floridado you miss your sister in Chicagodo you miss your lover in Louisianado you miss your orthodontist in Arizonado you miss your mountain in Utahdo you miss your best friend in Maineemail EarningForYearning@gmail.comtell them all about it they will buy you a plane ticket for the reunion

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Ah, country living. A snippet from this week's CSA newletter:"This has got to be the craziest warning we have ever had to issue: Due to the wet spring, snapping turtles have been found in and around the farm market area (lSaturday night we found one on our porch stoop!). There have been three sightings in the past three days. PLEASE DO NOT APPROACH A SNAPPING TURTLE AND DO NOT LEAVE CHILDREN

shannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936347.post-8775098697010323482009-06-18T14:15:00.002-04:002009-06-18T14:16:40.899-04:00

Momma will not need chemo or radiation. Just an estrogen inhibitor. (And her new veganish diet.)I can cheer now for real!

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1. Call for work for next issue of Delirious Hem2. Welcome Silas! (He is such a brand new babe he does not yet have a blog. But here is his mom's.)3. Bloof awarded Second Galatea Resurrects Poetry Prize

shannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936347.post-81653590902781219262009-06-09T13:36:00.001-04:002009-06-09T13:37:26.308-04:00

It is more difficult to sustain a fling with language than a romantic might suppose.

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...an unmotivated feeling comes?Cranking and cranking, but I just won't turn over. Perhaps it's because NJ seems not to have realized it's June. Enough with the rain and chilly air!

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Our CSA membership has just started up for the season. The first week our share was a mere 1/2 pint of pick-your-own strawberries and two lettuces--but OH what strawberries and lettuces. Last Friday, our second week, the haul was more substantial. Three beautiful lettuces--one green leaf, one red, and a spiky red-tipped variety--and a full-to-overflowing quart of PYO strawberries. (Not to mention

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...and I have the next four days to spend making an effort.Today all of my emails will begin with "I'm so sorry it's taken me so long...."I'm reading George Sand's Journal Intimé, which I picked up at the I-forgot-to-mention-how-awesome Book Barn, a must-stop indoor/outdoor wonderland for bibliophiles in Niantic, CT.She makes me almost miss my own journal, which I abandoned for love. (Can only

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Well it wasn't all bad, what with this gorgeous weather, some running & hiking, a road trip to a wedding, those lovely betrotheds & friends, & plenty of flowers & pets & a husband who makes breakfast to take out on the patio. But of hospitals I've had enough, and bad news too. It started in April, really. An uncle died, & though I barely knew him it hit Mom hard & only days after her own cancer

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It's been a rough week for the homeboys, and I'm going back. Going back without going there, not revisiting rethinking redoing reliving. An urgent errand. My mom was supposed to come for a visit this week, come to us. But she needs us to go to her instead, amid a tangle of surgeons of cascading procedures the bills in a fat stack. To mow a lawn, to cook a meal, to change a dressing, to put a car

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Got this coming up. This very vegan-friendly restaurant looks fab & the line-up ecclectic. Um, and how can you beat free wine & appetizers? From the organizers:The Inspired WordMONDAY, May 4 @ 7:00 PM Tierra Sana Restaurant100-17 Queens Blvd & 67th RoadForest Hills, QueensNew York City**Free wine tasting! Free appetizers! Awesome ambience and food! A great collection of writers and their work!**

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1. Last weekend I lost my keys somewhere inside a one-million square-foot Costco warehouse store. THEY HAVE JUST BEEN FOUND. 2. Yesterday was my one-year anniversary of going vegan. BEST DECISION EVER. Never felt better, in both body and mind. (More on this later.)3. It's a beautiful day. I am going outside to run.4. I have not yet missed a day in the April poems game. I think this is only the

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...& all we have to show for it is more poems. This kind of wanton abundance must be bad for literature. WE DESTROY CULTURE. Sure, whatever. Danielle's poemsSandra's poemsMy poemsJen's poems (at Ada's blog; check out Ada's & Jason's poem there too)Anne's stuffAnd new podcasts from Edwin Torres, Todd Colby (again), Peter Davis (again), Maureen Thorson here. Plus a bunch more coming up. Things

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An Evening of Contemporary Poetry: Conceptual Writing and The Flarf CollectiveFriday, April 17 7pmConceived and organized by poet Kenneth Goldsmith on the occasion of the exhibition Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECTThis reading presents eight writers associated with two cutting-edge movements in contemporary poetry: Conceptual Writing and The Flarf Collective. The followers of both movements employ

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type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344">More info

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The daily poems & podcasts are humming along over at the Bloof blog. There's so much going on it's actually a little hard to keep up. Here's a linktrail to navigate: Danielle's poemsSandra's poemsMy poemsJen's poems (at Ada's blog; check out Ada's & Jason's poem there too)Anne's poems (but start with the corresponding prose work here)And podcasts so far from Todd Colby, Peter Davis, Reb

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Carmen Gimenez Smith dolls up some language from one of my poems to terrific effect here. Oh, "She will be filthy." (Thank you for the honor, Carmen!)NaPoWriMo already has sprung so many interesting things. But who will be the first to podcast, hmm?

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1. The games have begun.2. An awesome interview with Sharon Mesmer [TOC link; interview is pdf format]3. I have been reading The Golden Age of Paraphernalia by Kevin Davies this week, and am of the opinion that you should also do this, to enrich your life.

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...plus a poem from For Girls (& Others) just warm up the player for next month's festivities. bloofbooks.com/2009/03/bloof-podcast-player.html (Subscribe via RSS reader or iTunes.)& the list of podcasters is shaping up. More soon!

shannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936347.post-80693108468301010982009-03-21T19:49:00.004-04:002009-03-21T22:50:26.616-04:00

20 minutesServes 4Another super simple but tasty odd-and-ends dish into which you can put whatever vegetables you've got on hand. (Just add them in order of hardest to softest, like I've done below.) Spaghetti squash is mildly sweet and sort of lemony, so lemon juice and thyme work well; doesn't really need much else. Here's today's version.1 spaghetti squash2 tsp-1 tbsp olive oil 2-3 cloves

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FYI, we're looking at April as 30 opportunities to stun, amuse, titillate, annoy, confound, flatter, coddle, creep out, harrass, tickle, flay alive, and smooch you. Possibly all at once.

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