10 January 2001
Newspoetry is the flatulent, uncombed grammar of the electronic masses
Newspoetry is a source of deep embarrassment to both poetry and news
Newspoetry is the accumulated linguistic detritus of the turn of the
American millennium
Newspoetry is so you don't have to get an MFA to have a writing workshop
Newspoetry means you're already in the canon, so get ready for some tough
criticism
Newspoetry is a psychedelic schoolbus full of freaks
Newspoetry is an upsidedown American flag, a cry for help
Newspoetry is the comics section of the soul
Newspoetry is love
Newspoetry is, in the words of a great American composer, ugly beauty
Newspoetry is like a multiply-indexed hypertextual bathroom stall wall
Newspoetry is a revolution beneath literature, a dandelion growing through
a crack in the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry
Newspoetry means never knowing whether Tim Johnson's, George Bush's,
or Ezra Pound's sycophants are going to try to shut you down
But in the end Newspoetry is sticking it to the man, pure and simple
Newspoetry is fun
Newspoetry is you, baby
Newspoetry is you
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