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Midweek Staff Meeting – No. Seriously. Don’t.


You do not have a book in you, so don’t try.

‘My enemies have been successful in representing me as a poet and a visionary.’

A history of garden hermits.

Paper makes a comeback.

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Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Print Will Never Die


goat_2Have e-books and printed books found their levels?

Richard Dawkins is kind of a jerk.

The top 100 best selling poetry books of the 2010s, in terms of SPD (small press distribution) sales and I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t read a single one of them (which isn’t to say I haven’t bought any poetry in the last few years).

You can hire a herd of goats for only 25 cents per hour, per goat!

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Midweek Staff Meeting – The End Of Randomness


So long, serendipity.

On Peter Sloterdijk.

As a matter of fact, I was at the first Lollapalooza.

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Weekend Reading – Publish Or Perish


Helping protect the intellectual labors of new PhDs.

Poetry’s public.

Abramson’s dichotomies.

it’s piffle.

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Midweek Staff Meeting – Another One Bites The Dust


iPod sound quality sucks.

Attacking outsider art.

The lost art of memorizing poetry.

Tom Friedman is a demented, Ayn Rand wannabe with a veneer pseudo-liberalism.

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Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Retrieval Versus Creation


Writing longhand opens up a different range of skills.

Renaissance murder victims.

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Midweek Staff Meeting – You Could Always Be Wrong


Ex Cathedra and fallibilism.

Study philosophy. Get a decent job. In that order.

Freedom is just another word for French existentialism.

The typewriter and Modernism are behind the very notion of ‘revising your work.’

A new defense of poetry.

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Inside the Printing Studio Where Obsolete Tech Will Never Die


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Midweek Staff Meeting – Congratulations, DC!


Yes! Washington, DC does, in fact, lead the nation in per capita Starbucks! Also in literacy and college education, but still – Starbucks!!!

Isn’t the better question, why don’t we do it?

Whoever you are. No matter how cool you are. Your facebook needs this.