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Click the Link at the End of This Letter to Combat Generative AI
Sign Our Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders AI models like ChatGPT owe their existence to the countless books, articles, essays, journalism, and other written works that are incorporated in the very fabric of the software. Using these original works in AI technologies without compensation or credit is inherently unfair, and potentially devastating for the writing profession. In response, the Authors Guild is asking members to sign an Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders calling on the CEOs of OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI, and IBM to compensate writers fairly for the use of copyrighted materials in their generative AI programs.Read More
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Freedom to Read … and to Write
First, Nicole Sullivan, owner of The Bookies bookstore in Denver, explains why she’s thankful for the freedom to read and explains why we need to resist weakening our democracy’s commitment to that foundational ideal: https://sullivanic.substack.com/p/thankful-for-the-freedom-to-read Secondly, novelist and educator Janet Burroway details her travails in updating the fourth edition of her durable textbook, Imaginative Writing, to the new fifth edition. Her article is aptly titled “Slouching Toward Sensitivity,” a nod to both Yeats and Joan Didion.Read More
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Join Us for a PRATIK Launch Reading
I’m excited to be joining Yuyutsu RD Sharma, poet of the Himalayas, for the launch of the hot-off-the-press issue of PRATIK. I hope you’ll join us! Yuyutsu is a renowned poet from Nepal who has performed his work for audiences around the world. He is also the editor of PRATIK, a literary journal that has featured poets from dozens of countries, including Ireland, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, and of course Nepal. Poets representing more discrete communities—from Los Angeles and Ottowa to the Basque region of Spain—have also appeared in its pages.Read More
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Gotta Love Tom Gauld
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Hear New Poetry from Cooperman & La Rocca on Saturday, July 1 at The Bookies
Two of my favorite poets will make your night on Saturday, July 1st, at The Bookies Bookstore.Read More
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History Makes Fascist Parents Flip Their Lids
Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the classic graphic novel Maus, continues to inspire panic among the repressive nitwits seeking to ban their children from learning about history.Read More
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Two Excellent Poets Reading from New Collections!
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Check Out This Podcast Interview and Reading
Last summer an American fiction writer living in the UK, Yvonne Battle-Felton, invited me to her podcast—called Bookable Space—for an interview and reading from Under Sleep’s New Moon. (To read a review of Ms. Battle-Felton’s debut novel, Remembered, click here.) Our conversation was great fun, and I’m happy to share it with you.Read More
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Join Me on April 4th for a Free Reading and Conversation with Pattiann Rogers
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