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damn I can retire now!:P-LJ

2008-10-24T13:48:00.000-04:00

damn I can retire now!
:P
-LJ

Annuschka, expressing disgust for the publication,...

2008-10-07T11:59:00.000-04:00

Annuschka, expressing disgust for the publication, wrote as follows: "It also feels uncomfortably like internet fraud, it tastes like spam, and a Nigerian scam all rolled into one." I am surprised that Annuschuka does not know that scam (or crime generally) has no nationality, and it is nothing short of illiteracy to talk of a "Nigerian scam". There is no American scam, even though people like Al Capone and the whole crowd of mobs that reigned in America taught the whole world some terrible things in conmanship. Very long ago, Daniel Bell published "Crime as an American Way of Life" in Antioch Review. I think Annuschka should start his basic lessons on "Nigerian scam" from there.

i so wish i was a part too

2008-10-07T08:24:00.000-04:00

i so wish i was a part too

I wrote three of the poems in the journal, however...

2008-10-06T12:27:00.000-04:00

I wrote three of the poems in the journal, however, they were not attributed to me. while, indeed, there may be another poet with my name out there, I highly doubt there are three poems exactly as I have written them by someone other than me. becaue I am very unique. in fact, I am one of kind. okay...no more parsing. I am a genius. my poems, also, are genius. at least three of them are.

hi there,this is terribly strange. my name appea...

2008-10-06T10:04:00.000-04:00

hi there,

this is terribly strange. my name appears in the contributor list with a poem I have never written nor do I know who the author. nice poem but not me.

is this some hyper-text performance piece?
what's the reaction you want from these authors?
have we met? was i drunk?

for now, kindly remove my name.

This is fine

2008-10-05T10:39:00.000-04:00

This is fine

our Kultchur?we've , on every level, become a Cult...

2008-10-05T06:59:00.000-04:00

our Kultchur?

we've , on every level, become a Culture of Pimps!

take our Phd's in absolute whoring/pimping

and mostly 'we' are Ignorant, Angry, and Greedy! etc

Ryan had said: "This is justified: creative common...

2008-10-05T06:48:00.000-04:00

Ryan had said: "This is justified: creative commons is all about sharing and caring and making up poems that one clearly didn't write."

Well, Ryan, no it is not justified, you can't get away with dragging in the concept of Creative Commons: CC. involves rights, the rights of an author who has giiven very specific consent to certain (re-)use of their words in an online environment.

Whoever thought up this whole thing needs to know that the internet and open access publishing and creative commons and all that jazz is not a licence to abuse writers.

I really resent having a false poem out there that claims to be mine.

I really resent having my name attached to a bunch of random words that I did not write.

Do you know what? Having someone manipulating strings like this is nothing short of nasty. It is not at all funny to be used in this way, it is not cool, it is not pleasant, and in fact, it feels like a kind of abuse, a kind of identity theft.

It also feels uncomfortably like internet fraud, it tastes like spam, and a Nigerian scam all rolled into one.

It feels to me as though the authors of this whole thing are trying awfully hard to be clever with a postmodern deconstructionist semiotic trick, when what they are really doing is playing with real lives. All this fiddling while Rome burns and people die of real things like hunger and grief and a lack of love... What a waste of TIME.

I suppose you guys will delete my post. The final act of your assertion over my powerlessness will then be complete.

Get a life, get real, get off your computer and go and climb a mountain, go for a walk, watch the dawn sky, the moonlit night: wake up!

This is justified: creative commons is all about s...

2008-10-04T19:11:00.000-04:00

This is justified: creative commons is all about sharing and caring and making up poems that one clearly didn't write.

i think people are getting a bit too worked up abo...

2008-10-04T13:42:00.000-04:00

i think people are getting a bit too worked up about this. i do not mind my name being coopted so much as i mind being part of a project that is pointless and boring. very bland almost-lyrical poems attributed to random writers in an anthology so large as to be unreadable just does not capture the imagination. if anything it shows how formulaic the pseudolyrical impulse is, but we already knew that. perhaps this is a conceptual piece intended to showcase how poets feel tied to their poems, even if they eschew the lyrical, but in this case it would only make sense to select the poets in a very particular fashion and this entire thing just seems random, bland, and dumb.

From what I can tell, the poems in "Issue 1" are a...

2008-10-04T02:47:00.000-04:00

From what I can tell, the poems in "Issue 1" are a lot more interesting than the poems I could find by most of the "enraged" authors in these comment boxes. Most would do well to take some notes...

The buffoonery attributed to me is not my work eit...

2008-10-03T22:23:00.001-04:00

The buffoonery attributed to me is not my work either however; I am not going to get in a huff because I don’t think anyone is taking this stuff seriously. I think it is a big joke played on a part of the poetry community.

Do the hokie pokie and you turn yourself around …
:)

I think the entire project is 'composed' from bits...

2008-10-03T22:23:00.000-04:00

I think the entire project is 'composed' from bits of things we've written, likely collected online, and probably whole poems.

I remember back when BABBLE.EXE was one of the better analyzers one could get. Did you use one of Kurzweil's programs, or make your own (hats off, if you did)? Methinks you've used a Markov chain.

Totally cool, if you ask me. I used to do a lot of storming off machine-gen output. Your project will come in pretty handy. Thank you.

The poem "loving as silver" on page 3656 is NOT by...

2008-10-03T21:19:00.000-04:00

The poem "loving as silver" on page 3656 is NOT by Nicole Peyrafitte. I am Nicole and I never wrote this poem and never I was contacted for work by this publication.
Please remove this text asap and do let me know when it is done.
Thank you

Brilliant ljs!

2008-10-03T11:39:00.000-04:00

Brilliant ljs!

Nick - apparently the House Republicans aren't rea...

2008-10-03T11:31:00.000-04:00

Nick - apparently the House Republicans aren't ready yet to vote on the poetry bailout. They're fearful of the scary socialist repercussions of government intervention in poetry. What if the people starting spelling light lighght?

No news yet on whether Ex-Chairman Gioia is suspending his campaign in order to come to the "rescue."

Hey there!Just curious to know which of my poems w...

2008-10-02T09:47:00.000-04:00

Hey there!

Just curious to know which of my poems will be included.

Thanks,

MaryAnn McCarra-Fitzpatrick

http://mccarra--poetry.blogspot.com

Hi guys! Where's the bar?

2008-10-02T09:28:00.000-04:00

Hi guys! Where's the bar?

There has been talk of a poetry bailout. Is this i...

2008-10-02T03:20:00.000-04:00

There has been talk of a poetry bailout. Is this it?

hey cool, that's the blogs for ya.it's the end of ...

2008-10-01T22:38:00.000-04:00

hey cool, that's the blogs for ya.
it's the end of the world as we know it, all over again. bring it on...

<3<3<3

2008-10-01T21:03:00.000-04:00

<3<3<3

Bill Peschel is my favourite poet!

2008-10-01T18:23:00.000-04:00

Bill Peschel is my favourite poet!

I heartily agree with all of those who embrace thi...

2008-09-30T15:26:00.000-04:00

I heartily agree with all of those who embrace this idea. Come on people - it's not like this work of poetry is making you money! I love it - consumption sans capital.

This is quite comical. Has every living (and dea...

2008-09-30T10:30:00.000-04:00

This is quite comical. Has every living (and dead) poet been accounted for? We need a roll call..."here".

All jokes aside, I don't care if they use/abuse my work. It's there for the pecking.

what?who?I don't know...

2008-09-30T04:11:00.000-04:00

what?

who?

I don't know...