[Newspoetry] Re: Newspoetry is...

[gillespie william k]

Where the .com stands for communism, comedy, compassion,
comradeship, community, compost, comma splice, and complimentary
competition-free composition...

> NewsPoetry is brought to you by humans.
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> NewsPoetry is a good reason to make political art.  Daily.
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> NewsPoetry is relevance, audience, conscience--the bridge between the
> utilizable object and ars gratia artis.
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> NewsPoetry is making sense.
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> NewsPoetry is making Urbana even more beautiful.
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> NewsPoetry is the site where the .com stands for "commando."
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> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, The Unknown wrote:
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> > Newspoetry is the flatulent, uncombed grammar of the electronic masses
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> > Newspoetry is a source of deep embarrassment to both poetry and news
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> > Newspoetry is the accumulated linguistic detritus of the turn of the American millennium
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> > Newspoetry is so you don't have to get an MFA to have a writing workshop
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> > Newspoetry means you're already in the canon, so get ready for some tough criticism
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> > Newspoetry is a psychedelic schoolbus full of freaks
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> > Newspoetry is an upsidedown American flag, a cry for help
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> > Newspoetry is the comics section of the soul
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> > Newspoetry is love
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> > Newspoetry is, in the words of a great American composer, ugly beauty
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> > Newspoetry is like a multiply-indexed hypertextual bathroom stall wall
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> > Newspoetry is a revolution beneath literature, a dandelion growing through
> > a crack in the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry
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> > Newspoetry means never knowing whether Tim Johnson's, George Bush's, or 
> > Ezra Pound's sycophants are going to try to shut you down
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> > But in the end
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> > Newspoetry is sticking it to the man, pure and simple
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> > Newspoetry is fun
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> > Newspoetry is you, baby
> > 
> > Newspoetry is you
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