[Newspoetry] Re: Newspoetry is...

Paul Kotheimer herringb at prairienet.org
Thu Jan 11 01:06:20 CST 2001


NewsPoetry is brought to you by humans.

NewsPoetry is a good reason to make political art.  Daily.

NewsPoetry is relevance, audience, conscience--the bridge between the
utilizable object and ars gratia artis.

NewsPoetry is making sense.

NewsPoetry is making Urbana even more beautiful.

NewsPoetry is the site where the .com stands for "commando."




On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, The Unknown wrote:

> 
> Newspoetry is the flatulent, uncombed grammar of the electronic masses
> 
> Newspoetry is a source of deep embarrassment to both poetry and news
> 
> Newspoetry is the accumulated linguistic detritus of the turn of the American millennium
> 
> Newspoetry is so you don't have to get an MFA to have a writing workshop
> 
> Newspoetry means you're already in the canon, so get ready for some tough criticism
> 
> Newspoetry is a psychedelic schoolbus full of freaks
> 
> Newspoetry is an upsidedown American flag, a cry for help
> 
> Newspoetry is the comics section of the soul
> 
> Newspoetry is love
> 
> Newspoetry is, in the words of a great American composer, ugly beauty
> 
> Newspoetry is like a multiply-indexed hypertextual bathroom stall wall
> 
> Newspoetry is a revolution beneath literature, a dandelion growing through
> a crack in the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry
> 
> Newspoetry means never knowing whether Tim Johnson's, George Bush's, or 
> Ezra Pound's sycophants are going to try to shut you down
> 
> But in the end
> 
> Newspoetry is sticking it to the man, pure and simple
> 
> Newspoetry is fun
> 
> Newspoetry is you, baby
> 
> Newspoetry is you
> 

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