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	<description>poems, mostly metrical, and rants and raves on poets, poetry, and the po-biz (with 8-string stuff)</description>
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		<title>Linkedin—you&#8217;ve broken your presence on the iPad</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1434</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elsewhere]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, your app sucks. It&#8217;s hard to find anything. Requests for connections don&#8217;t appear at all. And now you&#8217;ve broken the web site on the iPad also, since no matter how trivial an action I perform, the entire screen fills with an invitation to download the app. Used to be, that if I dismissed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Greatness Require Difficulty?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If what one means is that there is always difficult work to do in preparation for doing great work in some field and, sometimes, even more difficulty in the production of some particular great work in that field, I&#8217;m on board. But in a fine essay at The London Review of Books , &#8220;Is Wagner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting All Over</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1205</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not really. I&#8217;ve just started violin lessons. I&#8217;ve owned a decent violin for years, but I never played it much, mostly because you actually have to read music to play the thing. It&#8217;s not like mandolin (which is tuned the same way), where it&#8217;s easy to find tablature which tells you just what fret [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Blame Goodreads</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1168</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arse Poetica]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a long story, but here are two limericks— The truth of those tales of old Sodom Is nothing is there at the bottom Of infinite space, Of faith or of grace— So light &#8216;em up boys, if you got &#8216;em. The cruelty of gods is assured, Though we&#8217;ve become somewhat inured. A moment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1164</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laziness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling guilty because I have not been working very hard for months now—witness this near-barren blog—and doubly guilty becaus of my part in a Linked In discussion started by Anonymous, (not his/her real name) now closed and hidden because of some unkind words (mine weren&#8217;t especially kind), with this topic: &#8220;Why do so many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Cat Is Making You Crazy</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1153</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arse Poetica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonneteer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[formal poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sonnet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got the idea from this article in The Atlantic a few months ago. I probably won&#8217;t keep the title. Crazy Cats So here’s the deal &#8211; T. gondii needs a cat To reproduce, but it can live in us And many other mammals — say, a rat. Now rats, of course, don’t much like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Lee!</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1149</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever you are and whatever you&#8217;re doing, I wish you all the best.]]></description>
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		<title>Another Kind of Ghazanelle</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1139</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ghazanelle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a 2002 letter to Lynx (unfortunately I can&#8217;t link to Lynx, only to specific instances of its pieces), Khizra Aslam describes the form she devised and provides a link to her own ghazanelle in Lynx. It&#8217;s the third poem as you scroll down the page.]]></description>
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		<title>Old Work Newly Revised</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1126</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arse Poetica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonneteer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We Are A Kind Of Map A buzzer-beating three-point shot reveals We&#8217;re born to know our truths about this world, And so is everything: a fly conceals Itself till it&#8217;s grown wings and they&#8217;ve unfurled; A virus has the key for just that cell Where it can multiply; that cell, dying, Creates an army ready [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Ghazanelle</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1114</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arse Poetica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ghazanelle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found the form yesterday, browsing through Lew Turco&#8216;s Book of Forms, and spent my Superbowl Sunday writing one. I&#8217;m not at all sure about the title. No Joke It used to be I&#8217;d wonder at her laughter — I&#8217;d try to tease her secrets from that tone, From how she&#8217;d turn away just moments [...]]]></description>
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