Nomadics

Here is a press release just in from PEN American Center concerning the Arab scholar Tariq Ramadan to whom the US Government has again refused to issue a visa to come to the U.S.:...

Just in from University of Iowa Press is Joe Amato’s Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture, a seriously hilarious and hilariously serious industrial-strength voco-virtuosic stroll, I mean run, I mean meander, I...

In this week’s Sunday Times, my attention drawn to it not by Ripley’s, but by Nathaniel Tarn. BAE Systems plc (to quote the Wikipedia) “is the world’s fourth largest defence contractor [2] and a...

…at the German American Institute, poezone4 is kicking off, or in, with what looks like an eclectic series of readings and encounters. To have mastered the trick of being in two places at the...

Monday, September 25, 2006 POETS SPEAK LOUD Lark TavernMadison Ave., Albany7:00PMHosted by: Mary Panza and Thom Francis Info: www.albanypoets.com/poetsspeakloud $3.00 Featured Poet: Pierre Joris accompanied byMitch Elrod on guitar

In response to last week’s post on sun as savior, here is what William Prescott sent: Re: Will the Sun come to our rescue,please see:http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/07/the-lure-of-solar-forcing/#more-171 From last year but the argument remains valid. Here’s...

Came across (with the help of John Maas) an interesting site that tries to remedy one of the major lacks in this country, a necessary remedy for a better — or even simply, for...

Today’s Tageszeitung has an interview with Moroccan poet & essayist Abdelwahab Meddeb, whose book on Islam — The Malady of Islam — I co-translated a few years ago. It was published by Basic Books...

“Sometimes, I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know...

Not being a subscriber to the New Scientist these days, I’ll have to wait to find this issue on the newstands. Meanwhile one can also find these tantalizing opening tidbits here. I am wondering...