Bill Moyers gets it right

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/29/moyers/index.html

autumn breeze--
I go to market
in my pajamas

on play, everything

http://swoonrocket.blogspot.com/2009/08/panel-was-called-influence-and.html


(Juliana Spahr)

The Low Anthem

's set at Newport Folk Fest


am very proud of these folks

Three Poems

Have some poems up at the New Yinzer, check it

Thanks Claire!

Music Links

der, i have put some sound stuff on myspace music, under Adam


and then here is some crazy drone metal

"preventive detention"

Well, it's summer again, and maybe I'll try to resurface a bit on the old bloggy-poo. And, after all, it's thing's like Obama's new plan for justifying indefinite, preventive detention of terror suspects that make taking loud public stances on things seem, not obnoxious (as one poet in me may feel), but kinda necessary (as another poet in me is pleading).

Glenn Greenwald makes a clear case here for how unacceptable Obama's speech, and plan, was/is.

I think it's important for all of us to be loudly and articulately opposing Obama's plan in the days/weeks/months to come. And while the whole thing makes me lose plenty of faith in the Obama administration, there's still time to change public perception on this issue----something to which Obama is perhaps more sensitive than his predecessor. The NYtimes (online) headline today reads:

President’s Detention Plan Tests American Legal Tradition

Determining the constitutionality of President Obama’s proposal for “prolonged detention” of terror suspects without trial is likely to require a national look in the mirror.

If a major media news outlet is framing this as questionable from the outset, then there's at least some hope here. Let's be vocal.

R.I.P. Inger Christensen

Inger Christensen, a deeply important poet for many of us-- the kind who managed, somehow, to engage both language and politics with equal force-- has died.

http://greeninteger.blogspot.com/2009/01/danish-it-girl-on-death-of-inger.html

http://www.norddahl.org/english/2009/01/inger-christensen-1935-2009/

http://www.erasmuspc.com/index.php?id=18273&type=article

A New Year...

As Israel continues its offensive/massacre/"retaliation" (the language around this is particularly interesting), major US politicians (Democrat & Republican alike) continue to support, whether explicitly or not, these actions. Another win for ethnocentrism & terror-- as deeply folded into Western democracy and state power as it is more conventionally recognized in the hands of the dispossessed. I thought this article did a good job summing up the political nature and timing of the assault.

In the meanwhile, I return from a three-day New Year's celebration in Atlanta.

Re: Minneapolis

Glenn Greenwald on new military deployment powers given to the head of state

Women against Sarah Palin

Women against Sarah Palin

David Foster Wallace

This interview with David Foster Wallace is crazy and so freaking real-- what a loss.

Links

Merce Cunningham

The Frank Stanford Literary Festival, in Fayetteville, AK, is approaching...

Werner Herzog's Bells From the Deep...the bell ringer

Spread this.

Police & FBI agents in Minneapolis have raided several RNC protest mobilizing sites, in a move that seems deeply unconstitutional.

Minneapolis police raids

Links

Why Obama's economic policy might be better for liberals and conservatives...and just flat out better

a cool podcast

lisa robertson on the weather, sincerity