Nomadics

To bypass CNN & the usual US media, one way of getting news from Lebanon is to use the EI (Electronic Intifada) news. Here is this morning’s sending, with relevant urls: _______________________________ UPDATE FROM...

Now down here in Luchon, the central Pyrenees, the only “good” thing about world events is that I can escape their US media versions — watching what is happening in Gaza and Lebanon on...

Clayton Eshleman just sent me these two lines from an early poem by César Vallejo, thinking (rightly so!) that they would fit my Nomadics blog. Here they are: Rise at dawn, poet, nomad,to the...

It doesn’t come as a total surprise. On several occasions I have spoken to the fact that nomad thought (my own version in A Nomad Poetics, or Deleuze & Guattari’s writings in A Thousand...

So what’s new in Paris? Walking the streets, not far from where I stay, I come across a new sign that says: “Square Mehdi Ben Barka.” It is kind of a sad afterthought of...

At breakfast in a Paris café on the rue de Buci (with free WiFi) I’m not yet rid of New York. Reading the Times I came across an interesting, if somewhat glib, article on...

English poet & performance artist cris cheek sent the following email to the British poetry list a couple days ago. Last year I visited the Taxi Project in Cambridge — one of the few...

Been spending much of June recording poems with a range of musicians and recently finished a first mix. The book-cd — to be called, at least, as of now, Routes, not Roots — that...

To blow my own horn first, this morning: The ReadySteadyBook site just published a longish interview with me by Mark Thwaite. Check it out — & take a moment to check out the ReadySteadyBook...

YNET News has the following report on Arab — Moroccan, in this case — activism in favor of Palestinians: Major Israeli websites hacked More than 750 Israeli websites hacked in recent hours. Among them:...