tee hee, yeah.
& a beauty of a picture, yes--came from a Unicef site, and the text
came from a study done in Norway.
Sharon, thanks so much for the good words.
I'm really looking forward to catching up here very soon--
especially to reading everyone's snaps that i've had to miss for a
couple months :(
more soon...
best,
c
-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Brogan <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:52:38 -0700
Subject: Re: Rebecca Seiferle
so *that's* what that sweet post was about!! Loved the picture.
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:07:45 -0500, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Thanks so much, Anny. I was feeling I'd gone too far in losing touch
> with the list, and should just read for a while to catch up before
> venturing a say on anything. But then I saw your response and it
> brightened me up a bit.
>
> Sorry to hear Rebecca is not on the list anymore (didn't realize that
> last night when I posted the note below--found out by seeing your post
> to Doug today)--and would have liked to have heard from her how the
> trip was, but I can email her to ask. I am just glad to hear it
> happened! & that it was a fine visit with poetry, translation, and all
> kinds of art being shared--wonderful stuff going up on your blog
> recently, yes! The kind of travel/meeting/sharing you've done there
> has to be a real-ideal, especially in the online world where f-2-f
> sharing of ideas seldom happens, or so it is in my experience.
>
> So grateful for your good words and attention to the Tex-show--which
> btw, Y'all: a U.S. conservative academic e-rag, *"The" "American"
> Thinker* website seems to think Tex and a couple of other blogs (Josh
> Corey, Lisa Jarnot) are a great criminal threat to the nation and the
> freedoms of neo-con world-think (this is the result & offshoot of the
> Ammiel Alcalay criticism from them and *Campus Watch*--the Alyssa
> Lappen article whining about leftie U.S. poets who teach (what a tired
> bunch of crap, eh?). Accusations of "Guerrilla" tactics, due to the
> letter writing campaign Jarnot called for, and especially for me,
> "vitriol" and something about distasteful language--& the editor kept
> refering to me as "he." Pronouns! Are! so! ASS!-UMptive, eh?
>
> Anyways, Sheesh, what a compliment to be accused of carrying the huge
> load of corrupting the Republican neo-con purities, eh? :)
>
> But in the end, I've foiled it again today by posting more "vitriol"
> (!) than they are able to handle (apparently): Something about
> referring to their views via the expletive, f***ing. So when they
> linked to it as an offense, I simply replaced the post they linked to
> with an image of a woman breast feeding and text about its benefits,
> along with another image of a 1774 handbill from Boston, something
> about King George's tea party: Mother's milk, or Tea--offerings to the
> NeoCon sensibility.
>
> Basically, tho, I'm sure they are not worth so much trouble (a few
nice
> giggles, tho). Very little thunder in their clouds, I think. Mostly
> because they don't know how to write an argument to save their
behinds.
>
> Well, I am blithering on this evenin'--must get back to all that
> writing that's been keeping me from having fun on lists...
>
> More soon--missing the congeniality here...
>
> best,
> chris murray
>
> http://texfiles.blogspot.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:45:21 +0100
> Subject: Re: Rebecca Seiferle
>
> Thank you Chris, I know you have plenty, at least I have plenty in
> simply
> reading your very _and always_ interesting Blog!
>
> Take care,
>
> Anny Ballardini
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
> admirers.
> Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:41 AM
> Subject: Re: Rebecca Seiferle
>
> > Sorry to be dropping in and out here these last few months,
everyone.
> > Am utterly swamped and limiting online activities.
> >
> > Anny, this is such wonderful news--so happy to hear it.
> >
> > Congratulations, Rebecca!
> >
> > Best,
> > Chris Murray
> > http://texfiles.blogspot.com
> > http://e-po.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:26:58 +0100
> > Subject: Rebecca Seiferle
> >
> > Rebecca Seiferle is here in Bolzano, Italy, for a poetry reading
> and a
> > workshop: _Writing with senses_ at the Language Fair second edition:
> > http://www.fieralingue.it/2005/
> >
> > She had her reading this morning accompanied by the Maestro from
> > Malta, flute improvisation, in a fully booked room (80) people. If
you
> > wish, there is an interesting interview with Rebecca Seiferle here:
> >
> > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=970
> >
> > or on the fieralingue site directly under the Fair,
> > moreover you can read some of her poetry here:
> >
>
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=28
> >
> > or translated into Italian on my blog:
> > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> >
> > She is the publisher and the editor of:
> > http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/seiferle.htm
> >
> > I feel particularly privileged, my best regards,
> >
> > Anny Ballardini
> >
>
--
Sharon Brogan
http://www.sbpoet.com
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