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	<title>Among The Jumbled Heap</title>
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	<description>Oh Solitude, if I must with thee dwell...</description>
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		<title>On becoming a famous poet&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to know how to become the most important poet in America over night?  Jim Behrle has the answer: How you can become the most important poet in America overnight.
Here&#8217;s a snippet:
There are many paths through the art. Having enough money to sit in a log cabin all day watching foxes make out, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/03/09/on-becoming-a-famous-poet/</link>
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		<title>Also Read&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend the Hamster unwittingly helped launch this blog.  He was visiting Arkansas and we were sitting together at a chicken shack sharing a pipe and talking about books.  &#8220;You read all these books, but how much time to do you spend thinking about &#8216;em?&#8221;  His challenge was that I write a blurb about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/02/21/also-read/</link>
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		<title>The Yankee South</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
I was born in Flint, Michigan.  My parents still live there.  My grandparents have lived or still live there.  Flint is the quintessential Northern factory town.  It is a city that General Motors built, and when I grew up nearly everyone I knew was connected in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/02/14/the-yankee-south/</link>
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		<title>If a body see a body&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David) 1919-2010
J.D. Salinger and I go way back.  It was he who stuck &#8220;Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a poor sinner&#8221; into my little brain.  Yep, this is that damned Jesus Prayer that drives Franny Glass bonkers in Franny and Zooey.
As much as I hate the man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/01/31/if-a-body-see-a-body/</link>
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		<title>Poetry makes nothing happen&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry
Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still,
For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its making where executives
Would never want to tamper, flows on south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth.
-W.H. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/01/25/poetry-makes-nothing-happen/</link>
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		<title>Blanching at Blanche</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Senator Blanch Lincoln has royally pissed me off.
Yesterday Senator Lincoln announced that she would be a cosponsor of the Murkowski resolution that prevents the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.  (Read the news  here.)
I do not normally wade into politics on the blog.  Most of my political opinions I reserve for friends over a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/01/22/blanching-at-blanche/</link>
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		<title>Bring Out Your Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[R.I.P. Donald and E. Lynn

I am the database jockey for a medium sized library.  My title is Technical Services Supervisor, and my tasks are legion, but one of my primary jobs is to attend to the library&#8217;s catalog.  A library catalog is a giant relational database that connects information about authors, books, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/01/11/bring-out-your-dead/</link>
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		<title>The Last Twelve Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a two pack a day man, smoke like a fiend
Like a burned out bearing in a bad machine
I cayn&#8217;t breath in the mornin&#8217; till I get myself a cigarette lit
Say, Daaaa aaaad Blame, anyways a man cayn&#8217;t quit.
&#8211;Roger Miller
I did not meet her as a teenager, as so many others do.  True, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2010/01/04/the-last-twelve-years/</link>
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		<title>Pamela Ryder &#8211; Correction of Drift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Best Book You&#8217;re Not Reading
Pamela Ryder is a writer&#8217;s writer.
A quick Google blog search proves the point.  Every writer-blogger has something good to say about Ryder.
Ryder&#8217;s story collection Correction of Drift also finds its place on many a young writer&#8217;s short list of recent and influential books.  Lydia Peele, whose story collection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2009/12/23/pamela-ryder-correction-of-drift/</link>
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		<title>Two by Amy Koppelman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Confession:  I troll the internet for youngish writers that I&#8217;ve never heard of.  My Google Reader is chalk full of contemporary fiction blogs.  One of my favorites is the NYTimes Papercuts Blog, and I particularly like their semi-weekly segment Living With Music.  Here they give a writer the chance to list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chadpollock.com/2009/11/07/two-by-amy-koppelman/</link>
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