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Hypertext: Of Mouse & Man

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Sven Birkerts
I have a friend, R., who is not only an excellent short story writer and philosopher of the art, but who is also a convert to the sorcery of the microchip. R. has had a nibbling interest in hypertext—for some the cutting edge in writing these days—and he had me over to his studio recently so that I could get a look at this latest of revolutionary developments.

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An Interview with Frederick Turner

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Paul Lake
Frederick Turner has written a book on Shakespeare (Shakespeare and the Nature of Time, 1971); a science fiction novel set on Mars (A Double Shadow, 1978); an epic poem set in futuristic America (The New World, 1985); several collections of lyrics (Between Two Lives, 1972; April Wind and Other Poems, 1991); a verse epic about the terraforming and settlement of Mars (Genesis, 1988); a long narrative poem set in Southeast Asia (The Return, 1979); a book of translations (Foamy Sky: the Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti, 1992); and several collections of essays on topics ranging from literature, critical theory, and myth, to time, evolution, economics, and religion (Natural Classicism; The Rebirth of Value; Beauty; Tempest, Flute, & Oz).
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A Tribute to Adrienne Rich

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Marilyn Hacker
Adrienne Rich's work has changed my world. Whatever some may thing, there is no inner circle of feminist poets, or even lesbian poets, who all know each other even better than they know each other's work. Rich and I have barely ever lived in the same city at the same time, have met perhaps four times in twenty years. But her work has been a constant influence on how I look at what's around me, read poetry—and the newspapers—write, examine my own actions and, insofar as I can, choose them, since sometime in 1972.
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AWP & WritersCorps Gain New Staff Members

Gwyn McVay
This June, the Clinton administration announced funding for AmeriCorps, a new federal project in which volunteers work for up to one year providing important community services. WritersCorps, a new literary arts project—the only arts-realated project to be part of AmeriCorps this year—is administered by the Associated Writing Programs in partnership wiht the National Endowment for the Arts and in conjunction with local arts agencies in the Bronx, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
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Poetry and the Moon, 1969

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Edward Lense
On Sunday, July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin set foot on the moon, bringing to a culmination one of the greatest technological feats in history and ruining the moon as an image for poetry. That, at least, was the public consensus of both poets and non-poets during the summer of 1969.
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