Some hall in Silver Spring, Deborah. Don't remember exactly.
Hal
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On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, deborah russell <
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> I never met Lyn in Silverspring, but read with a Palestinian poet there. I
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> remember the featured reader? Have her chapbook around somewhere. Where
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> was your reading, Hal?
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> Deborah Russell
> Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
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> > Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:37:26 -0600
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: About Lynn Lifshin
> > To: [log in to unmask]
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> > FYI -- LL has never submitted to anything I was editing. My me, oh Lord?
> > But I did meet her once, after a reading in Silver Spring, Md., at which
> she
> > preceded Henry Taylor and Stanley Plumly, who were visibly disconcerted.
> > She was a hard act to follow, very hard.
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> > Hal
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> > follow this link to The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye, my latest
> > collection --
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> > http://www.scribd.com/people/documents/14481250-chalk-editions
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> > Halvard Johnson
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> > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Douglas Barbour <
> [log in to unmask]>wrote:
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> > > Yes. I have one of her 800 books, Ken, but she sure does seem to have
> > > appeared in every magazine that ever appeared during her lifetime....
> > >
> > > Wicked funny.
> > >
> > > Doug
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> > > On 5-Mar-10, at 8:11 AM, Ken Wolman wrote:
> > >
> > > Ken Wolman wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> CHASING LYNN
> > >>>
> > >>> I wish I could run like a new breed,
> > >>> the Lynn Lifshin Greyhound.
> > >>> Maybe I could catch her. I doubt it.
> > >>> I've been chasing her for 20 years.
> > >>> I'd like to be in one publication
> > >>> before she gets there. Fat chance.
> > >>>
> > >>> If they ever issue a Collected Lifshin
> > >>> it will make the collected Frank O'Hara
> > >>> look like a thin-paper pocket New Testament.
> > >>> Lynn is the not-so-mechanical lure
> > >>> who for 20 years kept me chasing her
> > >>>
> > >>> not for personal conquest but to leave her
> > >>> in my dust, in my ego-driven quest for
> > >>> some sort of loony personal glory.
> > >>> I suppose I try to vanquish time.
> > >>> But we know it's not going to happen. So at last
> > >>> I've quit running, Lynn. I don't care anymore.
> > >>>
> > >>> When I lose the final race the track owners,
> > >>> if they don't shoot me, will adopt me out
> > >>> to some nice family of greeting card writers
> > >>> who will take me on walks on the beach, and
> > >>> let me lay my snout on the couch
> > >>> watching Oprah.
> > >>>
> > >>> KTW/3-5-10
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> Oh. I spelled "Lyn" wrong. Mea culpa.
> > >>
> > >> kw
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> ----------------------------
> > >> Ken Wolman
> > >>
> > >> http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com
> > >> http://opensalon.com/blog/kenneth_wolman
> > >> http://wearethecure.org/friends/cids-memory-p-394.html
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Douglas Barbour
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/<http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/><
> http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/>
> > >
> > > Latest books:
> > > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > > Wednesdays'
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> > >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
> > >
> > > It is ink
> > > on paper love
> > >
> > > Frank O'Hara
> > >
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