Headlines: April 2, 2009

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• On April 2, 2009 at 1:00 pm Lemon Hound wrote:

  For a little Canadian content check out Seen Reading, in which Julie Wilson will feature a Canadian poet every day this month.

  Yours truly up today as it happens.

  http://www.seenreading.com/30in30/
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• On April 2, 2009 at 1:48 pm Aaron Fagan wrote:

  The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
  Harold Clurman Arts Series

  The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents Martha Rhodes and Aaron Fagan

  Martha Rhodes and Aaron Fagan
  Monday, April 6, 2009 at 7pm
  @ The Stella Adler Studio of Acting
  31 West 27th Street
  This event is free and open to the public

  http://www.stellaadler.com/poetry.html

  http://www.stellaadler.com/pressroom/rhodes.html
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• On April 2, 2009 at 1:51 pm thomas brady wrote:

  Travis,

  I’m glad Lincoln (happy 200th) is mentioned. Lincoln was a reader of Edgar Poe (happy 200th)

  http://lincolnbuff2.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-200th-edgar-allan-poe.html

  Thomas
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• On April 2, 2009 at 2:37 pm Aaron Fagan wrote:

  I guess this might fall under the Poetic Justice category:

  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/us/politics/02web-baker.html?hp
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• On April 6, 2009 at 10:23 am thomas brady wrote:

  Aaron,

  “Redefinition Accomplished” is kind of scary.

  Maybe this is why Plato didn’t trust poets.

  If ‘how we say it’ is the essence of poetry, and ‘how we say it’ distorts the truth, was Socrates not on to something when he said, “whoa, let’s examine this a little bit”?

  The poets’ knee-jerk reaction is usually, “politicians are not poets!! We are the poets, and we are good, if not harmless.”

  Well, not quite…

  Politics is about persuasion…and so is poetry…

  Thomas
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