[Newspoetry] Official Press Release

[William Gillespie]

Composed by William, Anne, & Paul...
Paul: please edit & forward to local media....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
THEATER / ENTERTAINMENT column

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newspoetry.com presents

6 O'Clock Newspoetry

Champaign-Urbana's first webcast poetry reading! A live interactive
reading of the year's events in poetry, as performed by the Associated
Poets.

WHAT IS NEWSPOETRY.COM?

>A long-running collaborative writing project intended to generate new
literary works and literary forms, with an eye to contemporary world
events.
>An alternative on-line news source.
>A documentary record of the turn of the American millenium.
>A hypertext composition orchestrated by award-winning hypertext
novelist William Gillespie.

ASSOCIATED POETS INCLUDE:

Anne Bargar: writer, performer and organic gardener at large.
Maiko Covington: Web programming genius, cat-owner, and official
Newspoetry CGI mentor.
Danielle Chynoweth: coordinator of GirlZone community radio project
RadioGirl on WEFT; organizer of the School for Designing Society; and
student of politics.
Joe Futrelle: Senior Research Programmer (www.schneertz.com) and MP3
Recording Artist.
William K. Gillespie: freelance novelist, anti-war activist, and
co-author of the award-winning hypertext novel THE UNKNOWN
(http://www.soa.uc.edu/user/unknown).
Brian Hagy: founding director of Champaign-Urbana's Prompting Theater
and recovering clarinet player.
Paul Kotheimer: fiercely independent songwriter, Waterdog Music
recording artist, and creator of the Hand-Made Record Label
(www.handmaderecords.com).
Mike Lehman: labor rights activist, Socialist Forum member, and
organizer of the Champaign County Living Wage campaign.
Kate McDowell: poet, novelist, and radical children's librarian.
Scott Rettberg: webmaster of the Authors Guide to the Internet
(authors.about.com), Chicago novelist, webmaster and cut-throat
publicist of THE UNKNOWN .
Dirk Stratton:  Cincinnati, leading Ronald Johnson scholar, and
millenial messiah of the hypertext novel, THE UNKNOWN.
Bill Wendling: Linux Evangelist and part-time optimist

TO LEARN MORE:
Simply point your browser to newspoetry.com.  There you'll find 3 years
worth of political poetry spanning the late nineties, and a poem a day
'til Y2K.

WHERE TO FIND US ON OCTOBER 15
Sweet Betsy's
805 South Philo Road
at Washington Street on Urbana's Lower East Side ;)
Friday, October 15 at 6 PM.
Staffed exclusively by artists and other such eccentrics
--AND they make a damn good sandwich.

PUBLICIST/CONTACT:

To arrange an interview, or for more information, please contact
William Gillespie
244-4837
gillespi at uiuc.edu