[Newspoetry] whither newspoetry

[William Gillespie]

Woo-hoo! It seems to have been a case sensitivity issue with my new 
email set-up. Th details would bore you comatose. Glad to be home, as 
it were. News and poetry and Urbana threatened to fly apart. But this 
morning my coffee maker stopped working, so I haven't ruled out 
conspiracy. I think the Mormons are behind it. Or Bugs Bunny. Hoping to 
break me down until I comply with the academic fashion of 
post-post-meta and linear print criticism of multisequential electronic 
art, which is where the smart money is in English Studies these days. 
My recent newspoems are not worth reposting but I'll keep scratching 
away. And I'll brew espresso instead.

Your obedient Providence correspondent,
Willy G

On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 06:02 PM, Mike Lehman wrote:

> W,
> This one came through, but it looks like this is the first message 
> from you since before you left the fair streets of Urbana for the 
> polluted air of the East.
> Mike
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> William Gillespie wrote:
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>> Dear newspoets,
>> As far as I can tell, nothing I send to the newspoetry list is making 
>> it to the newspoetry list. I get no copies of the messages and they 
>> do not appear in the archives. This, and the disappearance of the 
>> website, and the failure of ISPs to respond to Joe's and my email 
>> requests, is enough to make me want to manufacture an elaborate 
>> conspiracy theory. But it is probably all just computer stuff. 
>> Nevertheless it adds to my loneliness and feeling of alienation, 
>> computer stuff does.
>> This is not a newspoem, though I have sent a couple of those. This is 
>> my way of saying "Testing 123." I have been reading the list with 
>> great enthusiasm this past month, and have even sent messages to say 
>> hello and how I am and so forth, which I don't think anybody got.
>> So if you get this message, or if you got my previous poems and 
>> messages, somebody let me know so I can resume a more natural 
>> newspoetry demeanor. And focus my newspoetry worries on getting the 
>> site back on the web.
>> William
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