<div dir="ltr"><div><div>"...<br>n the last week,
beginning with an announcement at Dispatches that went out to 200 poets and was
picked up and reposted to many more, we responded to the Trump disaster with a
call for contributions to an anthology of poetry of resistance to the new
fascist movement. <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">Within three days</span></span>, we were inundated with positive responses.
Using the speed of the internet, the editorial group has now expanded to a
broad and diverse group of 10 poets, each of whom has reached out to 10-20 of
their friends. The book now has 200+ contributors lined up. We hope to publish
it as an INITIAL act of resistance shortly after Trump’s inauguration. It is
the sudden crystallization of a latent being-in-common that this tool, this
medium, makes possible. We don’t need a central committee because we have the
internet. <span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<span lang="EN-US">That immediacy energizes the being-in-common
in ways that intensify the resistance to the Administration’s professionalized
death formations (see, for instance, The Poetry Foundation website, or The
Great Philadelphia Poetry Warehouse and Media Centre), and creates opportunities
for further proliferation of relation beyond the immediate, not only within the
virtual space, but beyond it in the creation of formations in the rough and
tumble world. The anthology then will become a kind of decentered centre which
will provoke occasions for coming together in the world. At a time when the
Trump Doom looms before us in its authoritarian darkness, such small centres of
life and thinking are what we have to hold on to to keep the light alive and
extend the resistance in more and more networks of being-in-common." (from Michael Boghn's Introductory Statement as a guest contributor in November)<br><br></span></div><span lang="EN-US">I would like to present this announcement for the anthology that Michael is talking about -- an example of words turning into act even though the act itself in words may be:<br><br>"</span><br><p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Spuyten Duyvil Press<span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:corbel,sans-serif">and<span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Dispatches Editions<span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:corbel,sans-serif">announce the
publication of<span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:corbel,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" align="center"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Resist Much /
Obey Little</span></i></strong><i><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif"><span></span></span></i></p>
<p style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" align="center"><strong><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Inaugural Poems
to the Resistance</span></i></strong><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif"><span></span></span></i></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 49.65pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">“</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">To The
States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey
little;<span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 49.65pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; <span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 49.65pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever
afterward resumes its liberty.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">”<span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 92.15pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">– Walt
Whitman<span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 134.7pt;text-indent:15.85pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 49.65pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Edited by</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> <span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 49.65pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 28.55pt 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Michael
Boughn, John Bradley, Brenda Cardenas, Ching-In Chen, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, <span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 28.55pt 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Kass
Fleisher, Roberto Harrison, Kent Johnson, Andrew Levy, Ruben Medina, Philip
Metres, <span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 28.55pt 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:corbel,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Julie
Patton, Margaret Randall, Michael Rothenberg, Anne Waldman, Tyrone Williams<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:corbel,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 28.55pt 8pt 1cm;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Forthcoming early in 2017, to coincide with the
Presidential Inauguration<span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 28.55pt 8pt 1cm;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:corbel,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 28.65pt 6pt 1cm;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Submissions are open until <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">December 7, 2016</span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 28.65pt 6pt 1cm;text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Send yours to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:poetrywardispatch@gmail.com">poetrywardispatch@gmail.com</a><span></span></span></p> <span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">(please send no more than three Word Document pages
total)<br><br></span></div><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:corbel,sans-serif">Ciao,<br>Murat</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Murat Nemet-Nejat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muratnn@gmail.com" target="_blank">muratnn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Renate, I have been using Firefox and gmail. I still had all these problems.<br><br></div>Ciao,<br></div>Murat<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Michael Boughn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mboughn@rogers.com" target="_blank">mboughn@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br><div dir="ltr">Hi Alan -- I don't think it is closed. I have no idea how this thing works and have had a very difficult time getting my statement posted.<div><br></div><div>What would you like me to do? Post it again?</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Alan Sondheim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sondheim@panix.com" target="_blank">sondheim@panix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
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Hi Michael,<br>
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I didn't receive anything about submitting; is it possible to send this out again or is it already closed? I think there are a lot of people on this list who would be interested.<br>
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Thanks, Alan<br>
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(Footnote - does anyone know why it's impossible to quote from a message sent out? are people using attachments? is there an issue with the software? I'm looking forward to a lively discussion, but technicalities seem to get in the way - for example, I just read a post from Murat, but it disappears when I try to quote parts of it. Thanks -)<br>
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