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Thursday, November 30, 2006

What do…

posted by on November 30 at 13:37 PM

…this guy:

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…this ship:

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…this city:

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…this American philosopher:

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…and this mushroom:

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…have to do with 2004 Stranger Genius Award-winning prose poet John Olson?

Find out tonight at the Henry Art Gallery, 7 pm, free. I’m giving a short talk—a footnote—following Olson’s reading. Annie Wagner is footnoting Matt Briggs’s reading with a scientific explication of earwigs, Charles Mudede is footnoting Jonathan Raban’s reading with a short discussion of Philip Larkin, and Jen Graves is intermittently holding forth on matters artistic. Brendan Kiley’s carbuncle, as you may have heard, is emceeing.

Obviously you don’t want to miss this.

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I was especially looking out for the carbuncle; from the description I expected it to have eyelashes and mascara and a beady cow-like gaze. Couldn't see it.

Posted by Fnarf | December 1, 2006 10:19 AM

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