Coming soon on forgodot.com
Issue 1
~4000-page PDF document to be posted within the week, featuring new poems by Nada Gordon, Bryan Newbury, AnnMarie Eldon, Paul Siegell, Doug Ireland, Erin Bertram, Jeff Ward, Jeannie Hoag, Scott Hartwich, John Moore Williams, Monique Trottier, Todd Swift, Saleh Badrah, David Vincenti, Simon DeDeo, Daneen Wardrop, George M Wallace, Sarah Maclay, Danielle Dutton, Maria Benet, Brooke Kaye, Lacey Hunter, Jack Spicer, Ted Greenwald, Andrew Zawacki, John Crowley, Virginia Heatter, Roland Prevost, Lauren Levin, Budd Parr, Laura Moriarty, Adam Clay, Juan J. Morales, Rona Fernandez, Chris Mansel, Bryan Coffelt, Emily Gordon, Bobby Byrd, Kristi Maxwell, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Hermit-Sage Tradition, Brian Strang, Kyle Schlesinger, Bill Peschel, Shelley Powers, Clancy Ratliff, Elizabeth Treadwell, Sam Rasnake, Benito Vergara, Heather O'Neill, Roger Mitchell, Paul Hoover, Rita Degli Esposti, Rob McLennan, Kirby Olson, Bill Borneman, C. Harris Stevens, Curtis Gale Weeks, Spencer Selby, Jeremy James Thompson, Catherine Theis, Weldon Hunter, Bonnie Jean Michalski, Harvey Goldner, Mazie Louise Montgomery, Raina Leon, Lauren Krueger, Litsa Spathi, Don Illich, Rachel Dacus, David H. Thomas, Jeffery Bahr, Larry Smith, Zachary Schomburg, Steven Moore, Ecce Mulier, David Hernandez, Edward Williams, Brent Hendricks, Tom Hopkins, Wes Smiderle, Brent Cunningham, Tony Trigilio, Harvey Bialy, Nicole Steinberg, Dominic Fox, Jessica Schneider, Jennifer Rogers, Alan Sondheim, Barbara Maloutas, Robert Creeley, Lloyd Schwartz, Kyle Stich, Laila Lalami, Andrew Philip, Brian Salchert, Lisa Robertson, Pearl Pirie, Jack Kimball, Lars Amund Vaage, Charles Alexander, Caroline Wilkinson, Debby Florence, Anna Evans, William Allegrezza, Gerald Hausman, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ernesto Priego, Cid Corman, Sumaila Isah Umaisha, Carol Peters, Ed Baker, Joseph Harrington, Peggy Kelley, Sean Whelan, Todd Colby, Reza Shirazi, Julie Carr, David Valentinovia, Donna Strickland, Adam Tobin, Ryan Clifford Daley, Chad Parenteau, Jack Hughes, Irv Muchnick, Heather Christle, Angela Vasquez-Giroux, Vivian Vavassis, Ted Stimpfle, Sean Reagan, Jonathan Jones, Anna Fulford, John Cotter, Jee Leong Koh, Siel, Wendy Wisner, Todd Suomela, Tomas S. Butkus, John Tyson/Kelly Conway, C.S. Carrier, Chris Hamilton-Emery, The Pines, Michael Helsem, Sandra Simonds, Brent Goodman, Matvei Yankelevich, Katia Kapovich, Bill Piety, Rod McKuen, Alice Notley, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Stephen Kirbach, Juan Jose Flores, Janine Pommy Vega, David Prater, Jason Camlot, Pilar Olabarria, Denise Low, Hannah Craig, Catherine Daly, Michael Ford, Brandon Shimoda, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Denise Duhamel, Ken Springtail, Dan Featherston, Robert Wodzinski, Philip Trussell, Travis Jay Morgan, Cheryl Clark, James Cook, Douglas J. Belcher, Jennifer Mulligan, Edward Byrne, Lars Palm, Tom Phillips, Kathleen Rooney, Jackie Sheeler, Mark Granier, Frank Wilson, Michelle Bautista, Patrick Durgin, Logan Ryan Smith, Alli Warren, Tony Trehy, Emma Barnes, Ashraf Osman, Joseph Bradshaw, Yuan Mei, Jan Zwicky, Annie Finch, K. Silem Mohammad, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Helen Losse, Jim Behrle, Jenni Russell, Travis Nichols, Ray Davis, Brenda Iijima, J.P. Craig, David Kirschenbaum, Joy Hendrickson-Turner, Woody Haut, Scott Inguito, A.M. Correa, Jen Tynes, Sasha Frere Jones, Annie Guthrie, Melanie Miller, Steve Halle, Ian Keenan, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sherry Chandler, Debra Di Blasi, Justin Marks, Lex Camena, Craig Teicher, Amanda Cook, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Craig Perez, Clay Banes, Chelsea Hotel, Tao Lin, A.E. Stallings, Sharon Brogan, Barbara Henning, William Michaelian, Rebecca Loudon, Lisa Lorenz, Katie Acheson, Jess Mynes, Anna L. Conti, George Murray, Jennifer Bartlett, Jean Valentine, Dylan Kinnett, Matina Stamatakis, Brandi Homan, Jessica Lawless, Matt Christie, Birdie Jaworski, Wei Ying-Wu, Miyazawa Kenji, Libby Rosof, Martin Edmond, Jasper Bernes, Michael Gause, Rus Bowden, Wang Ping, Betsy Andrews, David Forbes, David McDuff, John Latta, Daniel Bradley, Marita Dachsel, Richard Lopez, Ron Hogan, Mikey Golightly, Esa Makijarvi, Jozef Imrich, Thomas Basböll, Lesley Yalen, Lloyd Mintern, Nick Piombino, Jessica Tillyer, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Jeff Crouch, Regina Derieva, Daniela Olszewska, Maureen Thorson, Peter Davis, Peli Grietzer, Miia Toivio, Nancy Gandhi, Marco Giovenale, Camille Roy, Peter Fox, Andrew Feindt, Richard Newman, Chinwe Azubuike, Drew Gardner, Sam Golden Rule Jones, Jordan Davis, Katey Nicosia, Billy Jones, Sampson Starkweather, Al Filreis, Jim Leftwich, Avery Burns,Megan Breiseth, Guillermo Parra, Angela Rawlings, Justin Katko, Brother Tom Murphy, Charlotte Runcie, Will Skinker, Mark Wallace, Joseph Mosconi, James Collins, Douglas Messerli, Eric Elshtain, G.M. Palmer, Barrett Watten, Santiago B. Villafania, Nasra al Adawi, Crag Hill, Mendi Obadike, Lyle Daggett, Carol Novack, Karen Wagner, Richard Siken, Nate Pritts, Philip Metres, Christine Hamm, Timothy Liu, Alicia Rabins, Rod Smith, Robert Peake, Charles Stross, Michael Parker, Gherardo Bortolotti, Tino Gomez, Joseph Massey, Rachel Mallino, Tad Richards, John Baker, E. B. Bortz, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Chris Killen, F. James Hartnell, Daniel Brenner, Steve Tills, Richard Barrett, MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick, Rik Roots, A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz, Jane Sprague, Cathleen Miller, Brooks Johnson, Sarojini Sahoo, Arif Khan, Chris Higgs, Glenn Ingersoll, Cherryl Floyd-Miller, Arlene Ang, Philip Jenks, Stan Apps, Steve Langan, Brenda Coultas, John Matthew, Alcoholic Poet, Edward Champion, Matthew Henriksen, Jill Jones, Chris Heilman, Julie Carter, Cathy Eisenhower, Don Wentworth, Lily Brown, Sean Serrell, Jack Collom, John Mcmahon, Alex Cumberbatch, Malcolm Davidson, Wanda O'Connor, Gary Sauer-Thompson, Christina Brown, Lytton Smith, Susan Kaiser Greenland, Gary Sullivan, Didi Menendez, Russell Jaffe, Billy Merrell, Marko Niemi, Sharron Proulx-Turner, Steve Clay, Thomas Devaney, Anne Tardos, Ezra Mark, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Magdalena Zurawski, Lars Haugen, Dust Congress Hackmuth, Sean Burke, Honor Moore, Steven Berlin Johnson, C. Allen Rearick, Trevor Maddock, Lee Herrick, John Phillips, Claire Becker, Diane Lockward, Julia Cohen, Della Watson, Jay Millar, Rick Wiggins, Eileen Tabios, Jan Manzwotz, Geoffrey Gatza, Patricia Storms, Anna Maria Hong, Lisa Jarnot, Laurie Clark, Joseph Hutchison, Jessica Smith, Daniel Pritchard, Bill Knott, David Hadbawnik, Yvonne Werkman, Jefferson Navicky, David Christensen, Letitia Trent, Sandy Florian, Weyman Chan, Alex Gildzen, Teresa K. Miller, Soledad De Costa, Jim Goar, Peter Ciccariello, Sharon Mesmer, Charles Shere, Brandon Barr, Bill Sherman, Ann Margaret Bogle, Jed Birmingham, Erik Ehn, Caterina Fake, Katie Haegele, Donald Revell, Steven Waling, Ray Hsu, Adam Aitken, David Graham, Prabhakar Vasan, Russell Ragsdale, C.E. Chaffin, Marcia Roberts, Greg Perry, Paul Ford, Matthew Thorburn, Jon Rolston, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Aaron Belz, Charlie Bertsch, Sheryl Luna, Joseph Ross, Gary McDowell, Michael Reid Busk, Brian Smith, Peter Gizzi, Language Hat, Barbara Jane Reyes, Elizabeth James, Matt Reiter, Kris Hemensley, Marcus McCann, Thurston Moore, Richard Owens, St. Johnnie Walker, Juliet Wilson, Meagan Wilson, Emily Lloyd, Anita Dolman, Dolores Dorantes, Karla Kelsey, Theodore Worozbyt, Jill Chan, Andrew Christ, Gina Franco, Valerie Loveland, Jake Adam York, Christopher Wells, Eric Lochridge, Ivy Alvarez, Anne Haines, Thomas A. Clark, Art Durkee, George Evans, Stephen Nelson, C. Dale Young, D.J. Huppatz, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter, Nadia Halim, Rochita Ruiz, Les Webb, Virginie Poitrasson, Jenny Davidson, Matthew Lafferty, B.J. Love, Larissa Shmailo, Susan Smith Nash, Stephanie Young, Gene Justice, Louise Mathias, Kyle Kaufman, E. Ethelbert Miller, Jamba Dunn, Ed Schenk, K. Lorraine Graham, Deborah Ager, Rob Mackenzie, Robert Wexelblatt, Samuel Amadon, Cedar Sigo, Joanne Underwood, Jennifer K. Dick, Karri Kokko, Mark Lamoureux, Michelle Buchanan, Wilson Lobko, Jeremy Bushnell, Julie Choffel, Jeff Davis, Allan Revich, Jeffrey Side, Katina Papson, Sina Queyras, Steven Shaviro, Irene Latham, Susan Allspaw Pomeroy, Oscar Bermeo, Pierre Joris, Michaela Cooper, Nicholas Rombes, Tom Muir, Laurie Fuhr, Gary Parrish, Kirsten Kaschock, Frank Báez, Tom Raworth, Richard Gorecki, Evgeny Maizel, Kareem Estefan, Monty Reid, Benjamin Parzybok, Ryan Bird, Jodie Childers, Anselm Parlatore, Pejk Malinovski, Mark Woods, Sarah Mangold, Graham Foust, Eric Rosenfield, Evan J. Peterson, Andrew Burke, John Most, Hayden Carruth, Kirthi Nath, Emma Bolden, Veronica Montes, David Lehman, James Moran, Derek Motion, Tony Tost, Peter Pereira, Clair Becker, Del Ray Cross, Deborah Fries, Jenny Boully, Mairead Byrne, Rupert Mallin, Flynne Bracker, Zachary Chartkoff, Mark Peters, Daniel Bailey, Abbey Baker, Henry David Thoreau, Bhanu Kapil, Simone Muench, Katoh Ikuya, Amy Unsworth, Angela Vogel, Colin Herd, Jon Christensen, A.D. Thomas, Geof Huth, Terry Bisson, Carol McCarthy, Nic Sebastian, Jerome Seaton, Jan Oskar Hansen, Matt Mullins, Elizabeth Robinson, Steven Schroeder, Poppy Z. Brite, Francois Luong, Mark Bernstein, Dale Smith, Shann Palmer, Erik Donald France, Steve Roberts, Leonard Kress, Mathias Svalina, Sarah Sarai, Ken Rumble, Dee Rimbaud, Dodie Bellamy, John Keene, Stuart Ross, Carton Tragedy, Clifford Duffy, Clive Thompson, Carlos Rojas, Jessamyn West, Adam Fieled, Charles Olson, Gary Barwin, Bernadette Geyer, David Caddy, D. Antwan Stewart, David McGimpsey, Kerry Shawn Keys, Yuri Hospodar, Paul Guest, Charles Bernstein, Roberta Fallon, Dave Lovely, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Sven Laasko, Mathew Timmons, Girish Shambu, Christopher Hennessy, Lynn Behrendt, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Lucy Anderton, Brenda Schmidt, Aaron Smith, Nina Svenne, John Deming, Andy Frazee, Chris Stroffolino, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Ange Mlinko, Terry Teachout, Gary Norris, Susan Briante, Franklin Bruno, Lawrence Lessig, Julie Doxsee, John Sullivan, Richard Long, Ren Powell, Ivan Carswell, Michael Peverett, Mackenzie Carignan, Chris Vitiello, Billy Jno Hope, Chris Hutchinson, Alasdair Gray, Ton van't Hof, Scoplaw, Trevor Calvert, John Bailey, Scott David Herman, Daniel J. Vaccaro, Rachel Tompa, Xu Smith, Norman J. Olson, kari edwards, Joel Chace, Jack Morgan, Michael Lally, Owen Smith, Carla Milo, Robert Archambeau, Juliana Spahr, Elisa Gabbert, Brian Spears, Don Share, Faye Driscoll, Aaron Vidaver, Adam Ford, Bronwen Tate, Sharon Mollerus, Troy Lloyd, Michael Bernstein, Jessica Bennett, Here Comes Everybody, Douglas Manson, Lindsay Boldt, Andrew Johnston, Pris Campbell, Johanna Drucker, Beverly Jackson, John Hyland, Rose Kelleher, Thom Donovan, Amy Lemmon, Dan Vera, Levari, Mike Hauser, Tom Matrullo, Noah Eli Gordon, Kent Johnson, Umm Zaid, Sam Beckbessinger, Pamela Mack, Angela Genusa, Evelio Rojas, Dorothea Lasky, Laurel Dodge, Jordan Stempleman, Jules Boykoff, Clare Latremouille, Ron Silliman, Clifford Burke, Neil Gaiman, John Litzenberg, Beth Joselow, Josh Hanson, Hoa Nguyen, Christa Forster, Sandra Beasley, Gregory Vincent St Thomasino, Luc Fierens, Layne Russell, Amanda Watson, Steven Karl, Noah Falck, Monica Mody, Bill Cohen, Jim Warner, Don Cheney, James Koller, Nashi, Loretta Clodfelter, Taylor Mali, Guillermo Juan Parra, Michael Slosek, Patry Francis, January O'Neill, Alan Gilbert, David Raphael Israel, Phil Cordelli, Majena Mafe, Paul Vermeersch, John Sparrow, Kristen Iskandrian, Josh Corey, Jake Berry, Bob Marcacci, Chella Courington, Patrick Culliton, Carrie Etter, Andrew Shields, Brandon Brown, David Patton, Christian Peet, James Bow, Ofelia Hunt, Sarah Fran Wisby, Mark L. Lilleleht, Phil Crippen, Tom Beckett, Claudia Carlson, Gene Tanta, Joyelle McSweeney, Jeff VanderMeer, Reginald Shepherd, Ilya Bernstein, Jonathan Greene, Nancy Friedman, Kariann Burleson, Ahmed Thomas, Laura Heidy, Mel Nichols, Ben Wilkinson, Lindsay Colahan, Brian Kim Stefans, John Perrault, Rachel Phillips, Nathaniel Tarn, Joan Houlihan, Doug Holder, Sam Pink, Ammiel Alcalay, Natalie Lyalin, Paula Grenside, Halvard Johnson, Harry Rutherford, Danuta Kean, Erik Sapin, Ted Burke, Jesse Ferguson, D.A. Powell, Garth Whelan, Bob Garlitz, Natalie Bennett, Robert J. Baumann, Robert Sund, Michael Koshkin, Sharanya Manivannan, Robert Sheppard, David Baptiste Chirot, Kristy Bowen, Jonathan Meakin, Morgan Lucas Schultdt, Simmons B. Buntin, Carson Cistulli, Jean Vengua, Jocelyn Grosse, Chris Ransick, Jessica Savitz, Terryanne Chebet, Kevin Kilroy, Davide Trame, Frank Parker, Jane Dark, Cecilia Ann, Paul Pearson, Jessica Crispin, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Jay Robinson, Mary Biddinger, Jilly Dybka, Sam Heldman, Tony Brown, John Eberhart, Benjamin Kroh, Harry Wilkens, Allen Mozek, Kate Greenstreet, Susana Gardner, Vic Monchego, Leslie Winer, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Zackary Sholem Berger, Tim Yu, Reggie Harris, Guile Canencia, Edward Nudelman, Nadia Nurhussein, Tim Lockridge, Sean Bonney, Iamnasra Oman, Daniel Green, Tim Mcnulty, Karen J. 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Waldrep, Jude MacDonald, Anny Ballardini, Cassie Lewis, Jonathan Mayhew, Matthew Muldar, Rachel Loden, Jay Rosevear, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Matthew Cheney, Eric Baus, Michael Farrell, Chris Fritton, Ann White, Jeff Newberry, John Sakkis, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Ryan Alexander MacDonald, Nick Bruno, Melissa Benham, Lewis Warsh, Dennis Cooper, Asher Ghaffar, Robert Roley, Kevin Opstedal, Chris Kerr, Frank Sherlock, Julianna Mundim, Paul Rigolle, Sandra Ridley, James Schiller, Patrick Kurp, Jonathan Skinner, Marco Alexandre Oliveira, Andrea Baker, David Harrison Horton, David Weinberger, Donna Kuhn, Alfred Corn, Nathan Logan, Steven May, Berenice Dunford, Stefania Iryne Marthakis, Tim Peterson, Craig Shaffer, Sarah Browning, Stephen Mitchelmore, Aaron Tieger, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Peter Culley, Shafer Hall, Felicia Shenker, Popahna Brandes, Steve Klepetar, Peter Ganickz, Eduardo C. 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Odom, Howard Junker, Maud Newton, Miriam Jones, Dan Silliman, Mark Scroggins, Kyle Gann, Henry Gould, Rob Budde, Matthew Shindell, Philip Nikolayev, Brian Campbell, Stephen Burt, Jim Ryals, Ray Craig, Ishle Yi Park, Ashby Tyler, Jason Gray, Mike Snider, Cheryl Snell, Bethany Wright, Mike Topp, Kristen Orser, Jennifer Manzano, Daniel Nester, Patricia Wellingham Jones, Carrie Hunter, Richard de Nooy, Anthony Metivier, Richard Taylor, Martin Larsen, Louise Waller, Nicholas Lea, Julie Dill, Arnie Hoffman, Tim Botta, Loren Webster, Mike Young, R.J. Anderson, Chris Mansell, Raymond Federman, Edward Pettit, Kristen Yawitz, Jon Frankel, Deborah Patillo, John Hanson, Esmail Yazdanpour, Renee Zepeda, Shanna Compton, Danielle Pafunda, Susie Bright, Christy Church, Greg Rappleye, Scott Keeney, Nathan Ladd, Anne Boyer, Melanie Little, Mark Bibbins, Amy King, Peter Norman, Caryl Pagel, Laura Sells, Suzanna Gig, Raymond Foss, Gabriel Gudding, Chris Piuma, Sarah Weinman, Andy Gricevich, Amanda Auchter, Jan Pollet, Urdu Poetry, Robert Waxman, Farid Matuk, David Koehn, Bob Hazelton, Reyes Cardenas, Joseph Mains, Joshua Ware, Rodrigo Toscano, Harry K Stammer, Insani Kamil, Kayin Wong, Ann M. Fine, Dick Jones, Kristine Danielson, Mike Nicoloff, Joy Garnett, Eric Alterman, William Keckler, Emily Crocker, Miriam Burstein, Tony Green, Lizzie Skurnick, Kaz Maslanka, Blake Butler, Jim McGrath, Ron Slate, Aaron McCollough, Dave Winer, Gerard Van der Luen, Seth Abramson, Christopher Salerno, Bob Arnold, Barbara Smith, David Maney, Jane Holland, Oliver de la Paz, Cara Benson, Zoe Strauss, Nathan Curnow, Sarah O'Brien, Michael Schiavo, Maria Damon, Lance Phillips, Alan de Niro, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Wells, Red Pine, Reb Livingston, J.P. Rangaswami, Pirooz M. Kalayeh, Sherri Wood, Collin Kelley, Christine Stewart, Paul Holman, Kevin Thurston, Ross White, Kara Hearn, Gina Myers, Olde Quietude, Dylan Hock, Tim Martin, Steve Smith, John Findura, David Alexander Davies, Susan M. Schultz, Laura Carter, Nick Carbo, Suzanne Frischkorn, Derek Beaulieu, Cherilyn Ferroggiaro, Carol Snow, Scott Esposito, Andrew Lundwall, Steve Caratzas, James Finnegan, Ada Limon, Anthony Robinson, Pam Brown, Hillary Gravendyk, Cathy Park Hong, Steve Evans, Stephen Brockwell, Jordan Scott, Danny Snelson, Susan Denning, Alan Baker, Tom McCarthy, Daphne Gottlieb, Luc Simonic, Lucy Ives, Paul Lyons, Sean Casey, Bryson Newhart, Carmen Racovitza, Charles Deemer, Kendra Malone, Robert Chrysler, Sina Fazelpour, Patrick Rosal, F.A. Nettelbeck, Bill Lavender, Jonathan Ball, Lina ramona Vitkauskas, Patrick Lovelace, Alfred Arteaga, Seth Parker, Firoze Shakir, Amy Bernier, David MacDuff, Gary L. McDowell, John Gallaher, Sawako Nakayasu, Jerome Rothenberg, Mike O'Connor, Dorianne Laux, Anne Kellas, Ross Priddle, Franco Beltrametti, Jeff Calhoun, Teresa Ballard, Joseph Duemer, Maryrose Larkin, Allen Taylor, and many more . . . .
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Hey guys, I don't mean to be a dick, but I was just wondering when I sent you work or when you asked for permission to print something of mine, because I don't remember that happening. Thanks\
ryan fitzpatrick
What he said.
yes...what is this exactly?
Same question. I only found out about this through Google alert. What's the story?
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I mean, I don't mind particularly, but . . . . .
I could say something,
however
I am very shy and (mostly) reticent and never offer a comment without a proper introduction
never-the-less:
what of mine are you using and where did you get it?
How funny!
Maybe they are trying to find the statistics of how many poets use Google alerts.
:)
4000 page pdf ... Jeezeus
Some big names included -- I'm sure also without permission. I noticed Jack Spicer and Jean Valentine.
I also require the specifics... I am not necessarily against the idea, however I demand to be contacted prior to my work appearing for publication.
ahhhhh the magic of computer garbage!
these guys appear to be 20 year olds filching internet poetry...
garbage breeds garbage! and rats.. and you can get a degree (credentials) via this crap!
I DO mind not being asked. What's up with this?
Joseph Hutchison
it is 20 year old computer geeks horse shit!
it is symptomatic of where we are with
Poetry and Academia!
Democratization of Literary-our-shit!
let us take out anothe loan and get another post BA degree!
yeah, i think it's mostly just a big joke...
publish away boys, publish away!
i don't care if it's in this bucket or that bucket...
it's all the same bucket!
it is called a "Slop Bucket" or
sometimes a
"Thunder Bucket"
we take ours out and dump the dreck over the fence into our neighbor's yard...
and await a reply!
Yeah. I'd like to know which of my poems you plan to use. I never sent you anything for consideration.
I think this is basically the whole "poetry community". I suppose it's nice to see us "all" in one place.
Of course it's a gag. I think.
It's *sort of* funny.
If they publish the PDF that will be different.
For the moment I'm grinning at them wryly.
Looks like culture jamming to me, and I heartily approve of culture jamming.
Perhaps it's the author's way of using our own "interest" in Google alerts to call our attention here. It worked.
Publish me all the live long day, kids!
P.S.-- I would love to interview any poet named Hermit-Sage Tradition. I can't believe I fell for that.
JESUS FUCK you put one word behind one word or in front of the other word and it STILL don't mean shit to a tree. That's a poem motherfuckers and in the end no one owns it. I'd rather have your water or pistol or bitch. See you at the ATM.
ooo! new poems from spicer, creeley *&* chaucer! -- can't wait for this!
hasten to add: notable absence, where is LZ?!?!? thot you guys got some words frm him too!?
gorgeous comments box -- black sheepish a daily reader here!
xoxo
j.h c
Sweet. Glad I made the cut.
My work is as important and serious as motorcycle clubs to the future of the United States of America.
I break jaws for poetry.
The wind flies past your legs at break-neck speeds and leaves horizontal scratches
Becket pronounced Godot "God-o"
It's cool with me, daddy-o.
Don't break my nose, Coolio.
America stopped being cool
with the birth of the MFA program.
I am not America.
Poetry stopped being important
when someone seriously looked at someone else and said, "you know what we should call this shit?"
"What?" Someone else said.
"Poetry," Someone said.
"Cool!" Someone else said.
And nothing ever was again.
So shall we go now?
Anne Kellas
I know this anthology will arrive. If not today, then tomorrow. They promised today...or tomorrow.
*
It's like that Google Alert I've created for God. Whenever he appears, I'll be the first to know. I'll be alerted. I'm sure it'll be soon.
He'll be happy to see *my* book.
*
I'm just going to wait here for the anthology in the shade of the PDF-less tree.
waiting waiting waiting under the "shade of that Bodhi Tree" for Go-Dough?
speaking of "god" her she is!
http://edbaker.maikosoft.com/pictures/art030.jpg
Yeah, I use google alerts too. If it's research, it's pretty lame; if it's for real, contact me first before you use anything.
Otherwise, nice typing.
www.chrismansell.com
This is annoying. I am not a poet and have never published any poetry anywhere.
Scrape anything from my site and run it here, and I'll ship a DMCA complaint to Google.
Now, not-so-kindly piss off.
Can all 4,000 of us get together and have a party when it comes out?
pretty funny. can't wait to see what this is.
It is a bit early to praise or condemn this, methinks. However, it is definitely not cool for the editors to not respond to concerns by the authors by refusing to post a clarification of the project.
I'm on the same line w/Annie Finch and K Silem Mohammad; how cool. I have no problem w/culture jamming or what ever else this might be (I sample, so how could I?) but it would be intersting to hear the back story ...
i also do not recall sending work, or anyone asking permissions;
besides, you shouldnt be upper-casing me name; if you'd spoke to me, i woulda told you such;
rob mclennan
Well one positive thing for me is that I have met some interesting poets and seen some interesting work from this ordeal even if it doesn't get published.
Jam on!
Kaz
Well, thank God I was not included. Too goddamn many people, though some of them are really good. Others rate a loud WTF.
Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
Why are all these people so god damned upset by this? Grow a funny bone.
Andy Kaufman as muse? Hucksterism as a haven? Charlatan cantos? Scam sonnets? Geez.
Why learn how to be a writer when you can pull chains and blow whistles without even opening a dictionary?
(Of course, it's a better road to notoriety than shooting up a cnapus.)
I'm with Evan on this. Jam away. Some very interesting company to be in.
what?
who?
I don't know...
This is quite comical. Has every living (and dead) poet been accounted for? We need a roll call..."here".
All jokes aside, I don't care if they use/abuse my work. It's there for the pecking.
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I heartily agree with all of those who embrace this idea. Come on people - it's not like this work of poetry is making you money! I love it - consumption sans capital.
Bill Peschel is my favourite poet!
<3<3<3
hey cool, that's the blogs for ya.
it's the end of the world as we know it, all over again. bring it on...
There has been talk of a poetry bailout. Is this it?
Hi guys! Where's the bar?
Hey there!
Just curious to know which of my poems will be included.
Thanks,
MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick
http://mccarra--poetry.blogspot.com
Nick - apparently the House Republicans aren't ready yet to vote on the poetry bailout. They're fearful of the scary socialist repercussions of government intervention in poetry. What if the people starting spelling light lighght?
No news yet on whether Ex-Chairman Gioia is suspending his campaign in order to come to the "rescue."
Brilliant ljs!
The poem "loving as silver" on page 3656 is NOT by Nicole Peyrafitte. I am Nicole and I never wrote this poem and never I was contacted for work by this publication.
Please remove this text asap and do let me know when it is done.
Thank you
I think the entire project is 'composed' from bits of things we've written, likely collected online, and probably whole poems.
I remember back when BABBLE.EXE was one of the better analyzers one could get. Did you use one of Kurzweil's programs, or make your own (hats off, if you did)? Methinks you've used a Markov chain.
Totally cool, if you ask me. I used to do a lot of storming off machine-gen output. Your project will come in pretty handy. Thank you.
The buffoonery attributed to me is not my work either however; I am not going to get in a huff because I don’t think anyone is taking this stuff seriously. I think it is a big joke played on a part of the poetry community.
Do the hokie pokie and you turn yourself around …
:)
From what I can tell, the poems in "Issue 1" are a lot more interesting than the poems I could find by most of the "enraged" authors in these comment boxes. Most would do well to take some notes...
i think people are getting a bit too worked up about this. i do not mind my name being coopted so much as i mind being part of a project that is pointless and boring. very bland almost-lyrical poems attributed to random writers in an anthology so large as to be unreadable just does not capture the imagination. if anything it shows how formulaic the pseudolyrical impulse is, but we already knew that. perhaps this is a conceptual piece intended to showcase how poets feel tied to their poems, even if they eschew the lyrical, but in this case it would only make sense to select the poets in a very particular fashion and this entire thing just seems random, bland, and dumb.
This is justified: creative commons is all about sharing and caring and making up poems that one clearly didn't write.
Ryan had said: "This is justified: creative commons is all about sharing and caring and making up poems that one clearly didn't write."
Well, Ryan, no it is not justified, you can't get away with dragging in the concept of Creative Commons: CC. involves rights, the rights of an author who has giiven very specific consent to certain (re-)use of their words in an online environment.
Whoever thought up this whole thing needs to know that the internet and open access publishing and creative commons and all that jazz is not a licence to abuse writers.
I really resent having a false poem out there that claims to be mine.
I really resent having my name attached to a bunch of random words that I did not write.
Do you know what? Having someone manipulating strings like this is nothing short of nasty. It is not at all funny to be used in this way, it is not cool, it is not pleasant, and in fact, it feels like a kind of abuse, a kind of identity theft.
It also feels uncomfortably like internet fraud, it tastes like spam, and a Nigerian scam all rolled into one.
It feels to me as though the authors of this whole thing are trying awfully hard to be clever with a postmodern deconstructionist semiotic trick, when what they are really doing is playing with real lives. All this fiddling while Rome burns and people die of real things like hunger and grief and a lack of love... What a waste of TIME.
I suppose you guys will delete my post. The final act of your assertion over my powerlessness will then be complete.
Get a life, get real, get off your computer and go and climb a mountain, go for a walk, watch the dawn sky, the moonlit night: wake up!
our Kultchur?
we've , on every level, become a Culture of Pimps!
take our Phd's in absolute whoring/pimping
and mostly 'we' are Ignorant, Angry, and Greedy! etc
This is fine
hi there,
this is terribly strange. my name appears in the contributor list with a poem I have never written nor do I know who the author. nice poem but not me.
is this some hyper-text performance piece?
what's the reaction you want from these authors?
have we met? was i drunk?
for now, kindly remove my name.
I wrote three of the poems in the journal, however, they were not attributed to me. while, indeed, there may be another poet with my name out there, I highly doubt there are three poems exactly as I have written them by someone other than me. becaue I am very unique. in fact, I am one of kind. okay...no more parsing. I am a genius. my poems, also, are genius. at least three of them are.
i so wish i was a part too
Annuschka, expressing disgust for the publication, wrote as follows: "It also feels uncomfortably like internet fraud, it tastes like spam, and a Nigerian scam all rolled into one." I am surprised that Annuschuka does not know that scam (or crime generally) has no nationality, and it is nothing short of illiteracy to talk of a "Nigerian scam". There is no American scam, even though people like Al Capone and the whole crowd of mobs that reigned in America taught the whole world some terrible things in conmanship. Very long ago, Daniel Bell published "Crime as an American Way of Life" in Antioch Review. I think Annuschka should start his basic lessons on "Nigerian scam" from there.
damn I can retire now!
:P
-LJ
Evidently, Worozbyt doesn't care if you pirate his hogwash.
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