[Newspoetry] swimsuit issue
William Gillespie
gillespi at uiuc.edu
Thu Feb 24 09:35:58 CST 2000
> 1. Favorite poet
> -Noam Chomsky
> 2. Favorite news source
> - My feelings
> 3. Most recent book read
> - "Cover Up: How DEA incompetence, corruption, and subterfuge lost us the
> biggest battle of the drug war." by Michael Levine
>
> 4. Most recent newspoem read
> - "The Nine-Haiku Blank Verse HyperSonnet" by Paul Kotheimer (!!!!!!!)
>
> 5. Favorite movie
> - "Bob Roberts"
>
> 6. Measurements (of the nearest doorframe)
> - Rectangular.
>
> 7. Biggest newspoetry turn-ons
> - Writing poems at work, animation, arduous formal constraints, paranoia,
> realmeadia, multisequential fiction, profanity and obscenity
> 8. Biggest newspoetry turn-off
> - Gratuitous references to commercial products for purposes of irony
> 9. Favorite quote
> "Advice to struggling writers: stop struggling and write"
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