Colors and Compositions

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Poetry Projector 2

This week's Poetry Projector features Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, who lives in NYC, teaches Yoga, (hopefully still) dances, and supports great events like the CUNY Chapbook festival. Her chapbook, Lure, was selected by Arthur Sze as a winner of the 2009 PSA chapbook fellowship contest. There are still copies available. You can buy the whole 2009 series for $30 here.
Enjoy.

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Technology as Magic and Love

Hot Potato for today is from J. Franzen, who's novel Freedom doesn't have an ounce of real love in it.

how the extremely cool things that we can do now with these gadgets — like impelling them to action with voice commands, or doing that spreading-the-fingers iPhone thing that makes images get bigger — would have looked, to people a hundred years ago, like a magician’s incantations, a magician’s hand gestures; and how, when we want to describe an erotic relationship that’s working perfectly, we speak, indeed, of magic.

Technology is not Love

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