Authors@Google: AL YOUNG

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Read the Christian Science Monitor review

New from Penguin Books (hardcover)

Courtesy KenAuletta.com

Author and New Yorker media columnist Ken Auletta

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Moira Gunn of Public Radio’s TechNation & BioTech Nation interviews Googled author Ken Auletta
(26 November 2009)

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Ken Auletta interviewed by Swati Pandey of the Zócalo Public Square website — at Google’s own YouTube

Photo courtesy Mark Knol

New Yorker media columnist Ken Auletta, author of Googled: The End of the World As We Know It, stopped by Zócalo to chat with Swati Pandey about whether Google is evil, whether information should be free, and what it means to be “Googled.”

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Courtesy of California Arts Council

California poet laureate Carol Muske-Dukes

Visit Carol Muske-Dukes’ official website

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The Magic Poetry Bus

Rick Cortes

The Magic Poetry Bus is a source of “pro-active poetry,” a dramatic approach to the teaching of poetry in the classroom and in the community.

The Bus is a vehicle for the imagination — techniques for learning and loving poems (on-line at our website and in the forthcoming Magic Poetry Bus Travel Book, a handbook for poetry bus riders and drivers).

The Magic Poetry Bus is the official project of Carol Muske-Dukes, as Poet Laureate of the state of California — though The Bus, in partnership with Get Lit and the Get Lit Players, reaches audiences throughout the state of California — and beyond!

Contact

Magic Bus at Facebook

Get Lit

Donate

Video Clips

© 2009 Magic Poetry Bus Project. All rights reserved.

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Listen to the CBC Radio 2 series Inside the Music

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Frank Zappa’s album covers in narrative sequence

Ruben & the Jets: “Anything” (vinyl version)

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I am all Day and Night: The Music of Frank Zappa

A 3-part Philip Coulter Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio-documentary on the American iconoclast Frank Zappa

“One of the most ear-opening documentaries on the creative process I have ever experienced.”
— Al Young

© Shore Fire Media

Bebop Tango rehearsal, Sweden, 1973

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Cocaine is not grown in the ghettos,
big drug money not laundered there.
Trees with greenbacks for leaves
decorate streets and alleys.
Carrion birds pluck rotting frames,
smothered grasses wither in dust.
Leached lives teem in these ghettos,
blood siphoned to vases afar.
The yoke on their necks is held tightly
by gold-plated buzzards who soar.

— Adam David Miller

© 2009 Adam David Miller

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Go to the ·:[ Stephen Vincent ]:· original
[Pix & Texts, Poetry, Commentary, Politics, etc.]

© 2009 Stephen Vincent

Homeless Blankets

In and Around Dolores Park, San Francisco —
A Photo Essay

“A photo essay on homeless blankets in and around Dolores Park, San Francisco. A project I have been with a few years. Photos, my way of exploring human imprint when the language comes up way short. A poetry without words but a poetry, nevertheless.”
— Stephen Vincent

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All photographs © 2009 by Stephen Vincent and subject to copyright restrictions. Reproduced with the permission of Stephen Vincent.

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Stephen Vincent — walker, blogger, poet & artist — lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Walking Theory, a book of poems

available from

www.junctionpress.com

Other recent works by Stephen Vincent include the ebooks Sleeping With Sappho (faux press) and Triggers (Shearsman).

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