The last words of John Updike, poet | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/07/2009

 

The last words of John Updike, poet

Endpoint
and Other Poems
By John Updike

Alfred A. Knopf. 112 pp. $25

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Reviewed by Frank Fitzpatrick

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On Dec. 13, 2008, just 45 days before his death, fearful that his recently diagnosed lung cancer had metastasized, John Updike bid a poetic farewell to the tiny Pennsylvania town that had nurtured him and provided a lifetime of literary substance.

The last words of John Updike, poet | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/07/2009

 

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Aspiring Author

To Twitter or Not Twitter - that is the question...


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When is The Tipping Point for an author to go digital? | The Creative Penn

 

When is The Tipping Point for an author to go digital?

An article last week examined whether The Tipping Point has come for the publishing industry.

When is The Tipping Point for an author to go digital? | The Creative Penn

This subject keeps coming up....  the point at which e-books and print-on-demand become viable in the market place.  The Creative Penn link was an interesting find on Twitter. [yes, I bit the dust and started using Twitter]

I already see print-on-demand as having a viable impact.  I really think we are still a couple years away from universal acceptance of e-books.

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In the News

A few poetry items from around the Internet:

• Poetry of Rumi Spans Across Centuries, Cultures.
• Arabic poetry now embraces the humanist sentiment
• Poetry, like sex, is better felt than understood
• Them’s Fighting Verses
• Is there a corner for poetry?

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Bing Search: 20th anniversary of Tienanmen Square protests - 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Protests

Bing Search: 20th anniversary of Tienanmen Square protests - 20th Anniversary of Tienanmen Square Protests


More on Tienanmen Square Anniversary including more iconic pictures of "Tank Man"

Snippets

"I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."- John Ashbery

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Chinese Government Blocks Twitter - Advertising Age - Global News

Chinese Government Blocks Twitter - Advertising Age - Global News: "Chinese Government Blocks Twitter
Run-up to 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Blamed

Posted by Normandy Madden on 06.02.09 @ 02:55 PM



HONG KONG (AdAge.com) -- China's government has pulled the plug on yet another Western website, making Twitter unavailable to most users in mainland China since about 5 p.m. local time (5 a.m. in New York) and infuriating the local Twitterverse, which is already finding ways around the block.
The government has not publicly stated why it is blocking the site and doesn't usually comment on the actions of China's so-called net nanny, but it is widely assumed the government wanted to limit Twitter use before an important and controversial event -- the 20th anniversary of the government crackdown on student protests in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

The authorities are also nervous about the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China coming up on Oct. 1, 2009."