The “spoken word” tour of the blogosphere continues. Here is the poet and provocateur Jim Behrle’s walk around the blog landscape–for poets. You can check Jim’s own blog (as I do, every few hours) at Jim’s Monkey. Jim is master of the revels at the Wordsworth bookstore in Harvard Square, also a Red Sox fan, a skillful writer in many modes, a well-known literary connector. His blog runs from the borderline offensive to the lyrical. It’s always on, often hilarious, plugged in to hundreds of other blogging poets. So he seemed like the right guy to check the pulse of electronic poetry half-hidden behind the bookshelves in the heart of academe.
The atmosphere of poetic blogspace is different from, shall we say, the Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey. It feels, as I said to Jim in conversation, like the back of the classroom in junior high school: the place where the liberated, funny, cool, dangerous, expressive cats hang out rather noisily. But it’s also amazingly populous, energized, connected, confident, full of its own vision. So what is it like living there? 
How can the very deliberate distillations that go into a poem–the deliciously slow transformation of language and life that draw us to poetry in the first place–be delivered and absorbed at hyperlink speed? Or have we started an altogether new game?
There will be more of this tour next week, and you can help me sharpen it up. Eugene Volokh of the esteemed Volokh Conspiracy will walk me through his space on Monday. I told him I want to ask: How is this famous fount of legal opinions to be compared with: a law firm? a law school? a law review? Lawyer’s Weekly? Who do you reach? Who will you reach a year from now? Is there money in it? Are we having fun?
Please email me (chris@christopherlydon.org) if you have your own questions for Eugene Volokh or if you’d like to join the conversation yourself.
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looking forward to more audio from you.
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Chris I hope/trust you won’t be limiting yourself to just bloggers. Jon Krakauer will be doing a book reading on Thurs. July 17. I would love to hear you interview him before, during or after the event.
Chris here is a link to Jon reading at Wardsworth
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I have always been a bit at odds with Chris’ foreign policiy analysis going back for years. I am simply more hard nosed, center-Left and wary of the Far-Left foreign policy worldview.
But this has never stopped me from appreciating Lydons’ amazing talk shows and his rare ability to converse intellectually, passionately and almost musically all at once.
I like the title of this blog-section: “We desperately need more of these conversations.”
This could aptly be reapplied to Chris himself and his widely missed on-air dialogues.
There is a hunger out there in our nation for what Lydon had to offer.
And we desperately need more of his conversations.
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Mike,
I think Chris should keep his blogger concentration, at least until he gets a critical mass and recognition. There are over a million bloggers to choose from, and the blogger/politics connection should last up through the Democratic Convention next year when Chris should be our BlogRadio man-on-the-convention-floor, don’t you think?
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Please email me ( chris at christopherlydon.org) if you have your own questions for Eugene Volokh or if you’d like to join the conversation yourself.
Very poet words…”very deliberate distillations that go into a poem–the deliciously slow transformation of language…”
We are extremely desperate for exquisite and breitling related conversations
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