Though why The Telegraph should consider this to be newsworthy is anyone's guess. I've been giving my poems away for free for years - and I'm not the only one at it.
There again, any publicity for Gillian Ferguson’s poem should be welcomed - the poem is large and ambitious and (more often than not) very well executed.
Hat tip thingy to Ron Silliman.
"I was washing outside in the yard..." : poem by Osip Mandelstam (1921)
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A poem by Osip Mandelstam, written in 1921. Russian original, recited (*ochin,
ochin* amateurishly) by me.
2 days ago
It's the 1000-page factor added to the potlatch element that makes it newsworthy. My giving a $20 donation to a nonprofit is not news. Ruth Lilly giving $100 million is.
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