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Aussie, Canadian and Finn ears welcome. Listen to i-outlaw <http://i-outlaw.blogspot.com/> also featuring fine poetry by: - Ren Powell - Luis H. Valadez - Amy Bernier - K. Silem Mohammad - Amber Nelson - Steven Schroeder - Emmy Pérez - Erik Rzepka - Tim Martin - Shanna Compton "One of the pleasures of poetry is inhabiting that world-creating space. Iım not saying there is no real world (but when is the last time you heard anything real?) or that the world is simply a product of our language (please pass the margarine) but rather that the world is colored by our words, shaped by our grammar, valued by our metaphors. But poetry is not an illustration of philosophy and while such ideas as these are relevant (who are you calling an idea?), whatıs necessary about poems is the way they make their own logic, quite different than the logic of philosophical ideas about imitation or representation." I have a poem in "My Way: Speeches and Poems" that touches on this: DONıT BE SO SURE (DONıT BE SAUSSURE) My cup is my cap & my cap is my cup When the coffee is hot It ruins my hat We clap and we slap Have sup with our pap But wonıt someone please Get me a drink - Charles Bernstein from a 1999 interview with Bradford Senning. Spread the word far and wide. Don't forget to enter our contest to win a free book of poetry! Listen to i-outlaw now and find out how... -- Bob Marcacci <http://marcacci.blogspot.com/> Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. - Michel de Montaigne