[A little news story about an incident that partly inspired this site.]
Thursday January 30, 2003 4:50 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - The White House said Wednesday it postponed a poetry symposium because of concerns that the event would be politicized. Some poets had said they wanted to protest military action against Iraq. The symposium on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman was scheduled for Feb. 12. No future date has been announced.
"While Mrs. Bush respects the right of all Americans to express their opinions, she, too, has opinions and believes it would be inappropriate to turn a literary event into a political forum." Noelia Rodriguez, spokeswoman for first lady Laura Bush, said Wednesday.
Mrs. Bush, a former librarian who has made teaching and early childhood development her signature issues, has held a series of White House symposiums to salute America's authors. The gatherings are usually lively affairs with discussions of literature and its societal impact. But the poetry symposium soon inspired a nationwide protest.
Sam Hamill, a poet and founder of the highly regarded Copper Canyon Press, declined the invitation and e-mailed friends asking for anti-war poems or statements. He encouraged those who planned to attend to bring along anti-war poems.
Hamill said he's gotten more than 1,500 contributions, including ones from poets W.S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
"I'm putting in 18-hour days. I'm 60 and I'm tired, but it's pretty wonderful," says Hamill, based in Port Townsend, Wash., and author of such works as "Destination Zero" and "Gratitude."
Marilyn Nelson, Connecticut's poet laureate, said Wednesday that she had accepted the White House invitation and had planned to wear a silk scarf with peace signs that she commissioned.
"I had decided to go because I felt my presence would promote peace," she said.
Posted by Brian Stefans at February 02, 2003 11:04 AMI wasn't sure what you meant by what you said about the other thing.
Posted by: Mr. Arras on February 2, 2003 11:13 AMBut You’re One of Them
At first it is the smell, the sudden rancor and miniature hammer
A blowing asshole kiss, puckered as a dame often squeezes a grin
The rest of it is all madness, being taken with reason
Gulps of gin, glancing deftly at a meltdown,
The flash flood of tears
If it would rain
The blood would stop
Pouring, and our lips would return to their natural color
[Left behind and impossible to identify, again
As if you dated her, took a dip
A sacred explosion, things which lose and take away
The hidden group of summer and bathing
The last of the line in procession
Politeness the cure for the taste of ass
Middle and from the barren utopia of foresight]
What a relief, being back in a meltdown of madness, or something more fun, such as sugary cinnamon buns, overflowing with icing
And the burned part dropped down to the carpeted floor, brown
And the shoe could not grip it being polished wood, and lacquered in some strange hue
The seriousness of which would always come through the wherewithal to greet the days in a gloomy wakefulness caked in fingerprints, the one’s which nail you.
They know who they please. Themselves and the wisdom of blowing it all off,
The knocks at the door resembling the telephone ringing
The melancholy of the erection and the colored faces
Some people get enough sun, the water had tried to dry off
Summer spent herself in trying to stay awake long enough
The superiority of masks and the tyranny of misguided shrugs
The minor fools, major generals, squads of ignorant terror took to the field
Time resembled a lynx, some feline in any event
The drive to go nowhere was somehow in neutral
In the event of some crash you would open the door and flee
Escape the neutrality in someone else’s procured loss and counting the change.
The full belly, the slouch of her musk or pouch of some mama
You will imagine that there are roaches and some exoskeleton menace
Shimmering brown and spiked shell games, the audience to paranoia
Reason to behave as if I knew a snake once a year
Some shrub of some kind, the indecency of exposure
The clime of heavy weather, the felling of trees
Lopping off of dried leaves left for dead.
Very nice blog
Posted by: Jason on November 29, 2003 07:25 AMInside each stack frame is a slew of useful information. It tells the computer what code is currently executing, where to go next, where to go in the case a return statement is found, and a whole lot of other things that are incredible useful to the computer, but not very useful to you most of the time. One of the things that is useful to you is the part of the frame that keeps track of all the variables you're using. So the first place for a variable to live is on the Stack. This is a very nice place to live, in that all the creation and destruction of space is handled for you as Stack Frames are created and destroyed. You seldom have to worry about making space for the variables on the stack. The only problem is that the variables here only live as long as the stack frame does, which is to say the length of the function those variables are declared in. This is often a fine situation, but when you need to store information for longer than a single function, you are instantly out of luck.
Posted by: Dionisius on January 18, 2004 07:24 PM