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Features and Lit

The cosmic summer issue including "Lunar Cartography & Q Flux," victims of Neff, "Gaarg Gaarg Gak," a new Kristy Nielsen: "Eating Tomatoes in Heaven," and spring issue bonus!

5T eat your own inscrip- tion issue. Bitter spider- man suitcases make you want to frame those sleepy mapings and dog-customized cowboy hats, and the girls, yes, the girls impatient as a lounge or the Shifu himself searching for some stale feudal maxim.

Del Sol Review: We rifle like wind through bamboo, gone pure to basics, the noumena of the creative Gaia. Our prose and poetry reveal a rustle of trummer- frauen, the charred cigars of archaeology, breath into lips, and Rothko primality.

Facture is a youth on the literary scene but quickly making a name for itself with a strong and impressive collection of some of the most unique new literature being published. Facture is not afraid to experiment, with neo language poetry forms, and beyond.

Synesthesia raises the new media bar. Precious few hypermedia poetry works display such a perfect blend of visual art and poetry. The first Synesthesia features the kinetic art of its founder. The Jung oeuvre will endure.

Columns

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    - East of New York
    - In Dissent
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    - Writer's Friendships
    - Writing From Life

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Books

Clayton Eshleman has trans- lated Vallejo's most difficult book-- TRILCE. This medium- length work of 77 poems, falls somewhere between Joyce's "soup pot as big as Phoenix Park" and Eliot's "food in tins." Vallejo refers to the book as "my succulent snack of unity." Marsilio published Eshleman's translation in 1992, then let it go out of print in 1996. Wesleyan University Press has now reissued the translation, with some revisions..

Creative Writing Programs Project: take the unique opportunity to explore here at WDS a selection of the best university creative writing programs and journals. You'll find information on each program website, but more importantly, selections from the work of their best students. If you are faculty and wish to include your own program see our FAQ page for details.

CWP Programs

- Bowling Green State U
- Goucher College
- Fairleigh Dickinson
- Florida State University
- Ohio State University
- Indiana University
- Spalding University
- University of Oregon
- University of S. Mississippi

University Journals

   - Emerging Voices Online
   - Indiana Review
   - Mississippi Review
   - Mid-American Review
   - Northwest Review
   - Preface
   - Sundog
   - The Journal
   - The Literary Review
   - The Vessel

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Five Points: new issue Mr. Bottoms comes out on top with Robert Bly, Andrea Hollander Budy (wheww!), Gail Godwin, and Lesley Dormen. How much more uppity can a magazine get?

The Witness "Crime in America" web issue: starring Elmore L. himself, Ai, a role call of absorbing sociopaths, and someone with a blackened eye.

Black Warrior Review's web debut features work by Gary Soto, Sandra Kohler, Maurice Manning, Josh Russell, and more. Please welcome this fine tradition to WDS. That Ander is hoppin!

Poet's & Writers News

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Latest wires + articles from UPI, AP, Reuters, SNS and more:

ACLU/WDS Victory ACLU: Thanks to the efforts of the ACLU, WDS, and other plaintiffs, a preliminary injunction was leveled against enforcement or threatened enforcement of 1999 PA 33, Michigan's net censorship act--a law which would have placed all publishers in potential legal jeopardy in federal courts. This means that the "law" will not go into effect, and that the State of Michigan may not enforce it until the lawsuit is concluded. The Judge agreed with us on all of our arguments that the law is unconstitutional. A copy of the decision is available at this address.

Access, Britannica, Netscape: The awards won't stop coming! Britannica just selected WDS a Best of Web for its Britannica Internet Guide, and the following day we were designated a Cool Site in the Netscape Open Directory for Contemporary Poetry. It's getting harder and harder to be humble.

Background jazz on sol menu page WDS entitled Moorea and courtesy of Wade Culbreath at the Virtual Jazz Album site. Please sample other works by Wade at the VJA--an impressive and unique collection.

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5_Trope Reading in NYC to benefit homeless HIV/ AIDS patients. 10/6 7 PM at Housing Works Used Book Caf� in Soho. Starring Jenny Offill, Gary Lutz, Victoria Redel and John Yau. 126 Crosby Street. Be there!

WOW NET: HS CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT!

EONY 3 featuring Ernst Jandl, "Unter Tranen fragend," Gallic Bobos, Henri Michaux, Houellebecq, "Incandenza," Irvine Welsh.net, E-TALIA, + Shanghai Babe, and more.

MEMBERS WANTED FOR WOW TASKFORCE!

Words Work Network Funding Taskforce is looking for members to assist with grants or simply help research for our ambitous new project to reinvigorate creative writing in American high schools: WoW Net. Please mail resumes to the editor. We have high hopes for this one and really could use a hand. Members will become part of the WoW Staff.

Diagram: A MCSWEENEY'S WITH DIAGRAMS!

WDS and Film Redux: WDS is now official partners with NEXTPIX, an indie filmmaker company whose mission it is to support filmmakers, produce and distribute quality film, and assist new filmmakers in financing and marketing their films. WDS and NextPix will shortly be creating a whole new web interface for matching short fiction writers with indie fillmmakers and producers. Keep watching!

ACLU and WDS plus other plantiffs once again have filed against the state of Arizona to roll back yet another Net censorship law, this time effecting chat boards and email. Again, cages and "forced entry" are threats leveled at editors who dare allow a dirty word to be heard. Wish us luck!

RAIN AND SOL: "Poemas/Poems":
by Gerardo Deniz
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From Perihelion's Friendship Series:
"Regarding Rod Thorpe--With a Vengeance"
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POST ROADThe premiere issue contains art, theatre reviews, nonfiction, Mark Bibbins, Gary Lutz, Rocco van Loenen, Larissa Szporluk, "Desperately Seeking Pacino," Sven Birkerts, Hempel, a Czech translation, and this is only the beginning.

3am Magazine. Anti-Naturals, Preethi Woman, plus more than one mugshot of Amerika the Doodie-ful. As Times of London puts it, the "rive gauche quality of the site is wonderfully obvious." Fiction to political satire and music reviews. WDS recommends!

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WEB DEL SOL BEATS OUT ESQUIRE! Believe it! WDS is number 10 in the Writer's Digest Fiction Top 50. This caps a four year climb to the top ten.

NEW WDS INTERVIEW WITH BEN MARCUS
by Sean Singer
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JIM SALLIS REMEMBERS MICHAEL MOORCOCK
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WHERE YOU LEAST EXPECTED IT
by Cooper "The Coop" Renner of In Dissent

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"The RAPE POEMS" Frances Driscoll's collection is featured in the May/June edition of Poets & Writers Magazine in a special section called "Writing as a Healing Art." Her book was turned into a play in San Francisco last summer, and it's about to be presented as an opera by Burton Beerman titled "The Island of the Raped Women."

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MISHA GORDIN FABULISM AT ARTIFACTS | GALLERIES ONE, TWO, AND THREE AT | ARTIFACTS .. ARTIFACTS

NEW WDS INTERVIEW WITH MS. LOUNG UNG
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JORLEY GRAHAMSTEIN

Jim Sallis gives WDS readers the benefit of his many years of experience, from SF writer to columnist to literary fictioneer and back. This column is welcome on the WDS midway.

Split Shot: our new HS journal that frames the literary and artistic talents of students from North Gwinnett High School, as well as other talents from around the web--so welcome.

Our WDS Holiday 2001 issue at Del Sol Review including an interview with Beth Kephart, Jim Sallis essay, plus Nin's "words of my dreaming p(:)).," Barry Silesky, Maxine Chernoff, Jennifer Kelly-DeWitt, Smile of a Neighbor- hood Witch, WaveSon.net8, Facial Sunlight, David Moolten, Meg Tyler, and various literary objects you'll never forget.

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AT LAST: OTHER VOICES WEBSITE ON WDS
KENYON REVIEW ... NOW WEEKLY ON WDS

Potomac Review New Look Our very own backyard seeker of truth and light, Potomac Review's focus is to give room to new and local voices. On their new website, the current issue, "The Nature of Nature," explores the human need to erode what nature has wrought. Someone please send a copy to majority blue whip, Tom DeLay, asap!

HYpeRmEDia DEEP Links As most of us know, hyper- text, or hypermedia, too often appears as a means of simply techno-glitzing poor writing. However, following a good wading, we've managed to select some choice hypermedia well above average from several sources, including Iowa Review Web, Poems That Go, and the new media kid on the Sol block, Artifacts. Please read the capsule introductions in our WDS blurb column on the right. Included are two of our favorites, City of Bits from Iowa Review Web and Anywhere from Poems That Go.

CR#five: KINSELLA AND RICHMOND REVIEW
2001 AWP BOOKFAIR: COME ALL YE PUBS!

Legendary Editor Clayton Eshleman brings Sulfur to WDS. Sulfur is no longer making paper, but Sulfur the web pub has generously agreed to share the best of Sulfur's glorious past with WDS, including Octavio Paz, Andre Breton, Mr. Rilke, Antonin Artaud, and others. Scroll down for selections on the home page, then choose "selected works" for more Sulfur.

"POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA" CELEBS
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COOP DISSENTS BY MEANS OF REVIEWS
KENYON REVIEW ... NOW WEEKLY ON WDS

CYBER RAMBLER #5: RICHMOND REVIEW

ECORPSE: WHITE MEN ON SKAGGY COOCH
- LEVY MAKING GERMANS EAT KABBALAH -

NIN AND HOLLY: TWO PROSE POET CHAPS

REVIEWS AND INTERVIEW ON DEL SOL REVIEW

EPicks 5: Dan Bosch, Fred Marchant, Jane Mead ... The Three Properties of Life, Borges in Indiana, Destiny Measured in Cups, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, The Urgency of Memory.

NEW WORKS FROM PRAIRIE SCHOONER

GOD OF LIT PORTALS, RAIN AND SOL STUFF

AWP Web Fair 2001; AvW; I=N=C=O=H=E=R=E=N=C=E;
Engine Feasting; Hot=Blurbs; Britannica, Netscape Awards; OUR HIGH SCHOOL'S "FREEDOM" ISSUE

"Poetry Society of America" Celebs Marjorie Perloff and Helen Vendler are here, along with Stephen Burt--one of our favorite guys. We just discovered this one, a revealing panel discussion chaired by Susan Wheeler on the topic of "Poetry Criticism: What is it For?" Poetry Society of America introduces us to provocative concepts by poets such as Louise Gl�ck who "argued that some of our most difficult poets are practicing ersatz thought, trying to take credit for grand philosophical gestures and genre-breaking meta-creations when in fact they've run out of things to say." Here at WDS are looking for poets who have something new to say. Please report front and center sans fraudulent meta-creations!

Strange Food For Writer Thought Not since the 7-11 employee was fired for writing down a thief's license plate have we heard tell of a comparable outrage. Elsie Holdren, a security officer working at a courthouse in Viera, Fla., was transferred in August by her boss to a courthouse in nearby Melbourne because the boss thought she was too courteous. "Due to your caring and giving nature," wrote Holdren's supervisor (with Weiser Security Services in Orlando), "you are compromising your position as a security officer. (Being caring and giving) is not a job requirement, nor is it what you are paid to do."

More justice in Texas! A recent New York Times report on a court-appointed "defense lawyer" Ronald G. Mock exposed his shabby and absurd "representation" of a series of now-executed men, including recent executee Gary Graham. Graham's conviction was based on one fleeting, night time eyewitness identification, which Mock neither challenged nor seriously investigated.

Call for Work: In Posse Review

Farewell to a Great Editor Mr. Robley Wilson, a true visionary in the literary arts scene for the past three decades, has retired from his editor--in-chief position at North American Review. The Sol editor was fortunate enough to be able to interview Robley.

Agents Selecting the Best from WDS! We're proud to note that representatives from major literary agencies coast to coast are reading work at WDS and Editor's Picks, making contacts with the writers for possible representation. Among the more prestigious of these agencies are James Levine Communications in NYC, and Amster Literary in LA.

BRAZOS! Arizona needs WDS as a plaintiff to help defeat yet another net censorship law brought by far right forces who seek to make net editors pay with jail time if they publish work the Falwell wannabes consider "offensive" to minors. What are we talking about? The usual, naughty words and sex yadda-yadda, what else? So why can't these biblistic gun stiffs get a life? We'll keep you apprised of developments.

Web Fair 2002 in NO

Associated Writing Programs and WDS are hosting the largest web fair on record. Writers, techs, editors, and hypertext artists are invited to submit proposals for panels and demonstrations. Click here for details. Web Fair 2002 will be the second of a series of Web Fairs to be held at the AWP conference each year.

The Rambler on RR and Kinsella

As the irrepressible Rambler notes, "At RR editorial restraint is matched by the sheer quality of writers like Tim Parks, John Kinsella, and the formidable James Wood." The Rambler skillfully appetizers us into making cyber haste to the realm of RR, then proceeds to examine with his customary thoroughness the weltanschaunng of John Kinsella who asks such questions of us as: Should we eat meat? What is the nature of power? Which gods do we implicate with our money?

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Lit and Blurbs

New Mudlark poster Michael Hettich, plus James Brook's "Weather and Repetition, then R.D. Girard, and stop by the "Clouds and Green Police" by Robert Gregory if you are so inclined ... The wonder of Bill Slaughter!

NAR Rebounds: Work by Yusef, plus Robley's memories, nonfiction writers on a conquering binge, comments on the poetry politic, and the Irish. NAR: Since 1815.

La Petite Zine LPZ frissons forth where no e-pub has thrilled before: The Amazing Randi and Mojo Nixon join the Famous People Haiku Project, plus a Yeti Hunt, Western Manques, and Cherchez La Poire for starters.

In Posse Review: ""Melliflua and the Fauns", "Leaving Baba", "The Problem With Imaginary Food", "The Road to Fez" review, and much more. In Posse is putting on quality pounds with every issue. New staff, new look for IPR.

PBQ Painted Bride Quarterly's third issue creates fear of insur- ance men from 1947 (I'm *still* afraid), plus internationality from the likes of Jacques Roubaud, Yang Lian, and Bob Holman. Hold on, Bob Holman? Elite eclecticism from PBQ!

    - Black Warrior Review
    - Conjunctions
    - Del Sol Review
    - DIAGRAM
    - Facture
    - Five Points
    - 4Walls 8Windows
    - In Posse Review
    - Kenyon Review
    - La Petite Zine
    - Lost Roads
    - Mercersburg Review
    - Mudlark
    - North American Rev
    - Other Voices
    - Painted Bride Qrtly
    - Perihelion
    - Ploughshares
    - Post Road
    - Potomac Review
    - Prairie Schooner
    - Quarterly West
    - The Prose Poem
    - Split Shot
    - Sulfur
    - TLR Chapbooks
    - Witness
    - ZYZZYVA

You're going to need Netscape 5.0 or IE 5.0 for this one, but it's worth it. Mercersberg Review, a publication of first class humor and literary ambition accomplished by the brilliant students of Mercersberg Academy, has made us proud. Read the literary greats of tomorrow in these pages. The site itself is a wild marlin on a thin line.

Add your email here to subscribe to the monthly Electronic Literary Arts Newsletter (ELAN). Pub, film, writer news, blurbs, bytes, and provocations:

Web Del Sol as Portal: discovering the best of the literary, hypermedia, and indie web, so you don't have to!

Anywhere One of Ingrid's best, a classic from Poems That Go. This guy can't drop her off cause she keeps throwing her clothes out the window. Yeah, Mr. choo-choo!

Bobby Fischer The legendary one who shocked the chess world with his mastery. Watch as ego is replaced with poetry and a true sense of awe. You forgive him for everything. From Synesthesia.

WIRED from PTG: a Quicktime stage in the Outer Limits. This electronic embryo-from-hell has just checked in to see what condition his condition is in.

His Father in the Exhaust of Engines Smith and Stricklin team to produce a tragedy of father, words slurred by engine, fate riveted to the block. From Born Magazine

Telescope Mr. Jung's latest blend of poetry and cosmos: convicts seek north pole while amateur astronomers bemoan the electricity of incarceration.

CAR WASH One of the best Flash performances, by Megan Sapnar from a translation by Robert Pinsky. This one helped cement PTG's reputation!

City of Bits: "Most grew out of GETTING HIT on the head by some nut who had stalked her ..." Clever collages of artsy and expertly photographed stills combine with slammesque poetry to create an effect that forces one to see if each new window can possibly top the previous one. A unique gem from Iowa Review Web.

From Artifacts, an new media flash excerpt from Don Stuefloten's novel, "The Wilderness, " entitled The Poet. This unusual piece is an example of a budding new sub-genre of flash known as Dramatic Literary Flash. You'll have to experience to learn the meaning of this. And while you're at it, check out the mouse-activated flash photo gallery of Reiner Strasser--yet another deftly Don-crafted wonder from Artifacts!

M. D. Coverley here again, this time with a visually pleasing and interesting flash piece at Iowa Review Web entitled, "The Universal Resource Locator" from Iowa Review Web. Subtitled, "Maps of the Russian Earth."

Something new for us, and a keeper: LA Books and Talks Peruse the articles, reviews, and general CA lit glitz of this famous LA Times section. It almost makes you want to fly out there to huff some extra carbon.

The Village Voice Literary Supplement is a site we should have blurbed long ago. Features you expect: emerging voices, Susan Faludi charting plunging morale, Martin Amis rehashing of rehash, and this is just a sample. Plunge in!

The best film site we've found for all purpose film stuff, especially reviews: Film.Com FC's "Home Video" picks and DVD picks are a must for renters--no need to bemoan the firing of your favorite video store employee. Also, don't miss their "Best Films You've Never Seen" under Features.

Always Independent Films warehouses a unique collection of film trailers and info at their website. Student films are collected here with sidebar links to feature films, short films, documentaries, digital, and animations. Have fun and browse.

Authors on the Highway from Bookwire gives you a chance to search by city, title, bookstore, author, etc. where and when your favorites will be hitting town. Worth a looksee from time to time.

Ain't It Cool News Page Harry Knowles' super site for insider "gossip" within the industry and bites about upcoming films and projects in development.

Done Deal: A current list of the latest industry script sales.

SCREAMING in the Celluloid Jungle's film industry news. Plus all manner of other madness.

Ne Plus Ultra Newsletter: The ELAN

Years later we've finally gotten around to publishing a monthly newsletter, the Electronic Literary Arts Newsletter (ELAN) to be exact, and it's a hit. ELAN editor, Liana Scalettar, demonstrates how ingeniously you can amuse and provoke while faithfully delivering the latest news on the contemporary literary arts scene. The ELAN pulls no punches and dares to be unique. Take time to add your email to the sub form below.