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		<title>Taking the Pledge: Restoring Sanity to Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, faithful readers, it&#8217;s official. I am swearing off Facebook.
I&#8217;ve put everyone on notice&#8211;at least anyone left who hasn&#8217;t blocked my hyperkinetic updates by now&#8211;that I am to be found on this blog. Degrees of real-life closeness shall merit various tiers of e-mail and postal address access.
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1. I have wasted entirely too much time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robinkemp.wordpress.com&blog=2135470&post=254&subd=robinkemp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Pagan Heaven nominated for Pushcart Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pecan Grove Press has nominated This Pagan Heaven (or some poem or poems from it) for the Pushcart Prize. Not sure which one(s) yet. Thank you, Palmer Hall. Other old friends Helen Frost and Nick Carb&#243;, as well as Marian Haddad, Phoebe Reeves, and Francine Witte are also PGP Pushcart nominees.
Palmer is a tireless worker [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robinkemp.wordpress.com&blog=2135470&post=250&subd=robinkemp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OUTRAGEOUS: Police abuse of poet-professors of color</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The prof is lawyering up. Here&#8217;s the latest from Jennifer&#8211;didn&#8217;t want to bury the lead.
Palmer-
He was released after the night watchman from the university positively IDed him. The police never asked Armando for his ID (not giving him a chance by thrusting a gun in his face and ordering him to the floor), nor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robinkemp.wordpress.com&blog=2135470&post=245&subd=robinkemp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Pagan Heaven: Updates and Remembrance on K+4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atlanta InTown calls This Pagan Heaven a &#8220;debut book not to miss&#8221;:
This Pagan Heaven: Poems by Robin Kemp ($8, Pecan Grove Press) New Orleans native and Georgia State professor Robin Kemp’s debut collection of poetry features haunting and lyrical work about her hometown pre- and post-Katrina. DBF Appearance: Saturday, 11:15 a.m. at Java Monkey Coffee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robinkemp.wordpress.com&blog=2135470&post=242&subd=robinkemp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s Dr. Bitch To You: WILA Conference Proposal</title>
		<link>http://robinkemp.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/thats-dr-bitch-to-you-wila-conference-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WILA, women writers, women academics, women poets, pink-collar ghetto, AWP, Ms. Mentor, Jessica Hand, DangerDyke, Bitch Ph.D, Rita Mae Brown, creative writing, composition, women writers, writers, poets, Lucille Clifton, Kay Ryan, Sita Seuss, Theresa Davis, Deborah Tannen, gender, tenure, communication, revolution, Susan Schultz, Tinfish Press<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robinkemp.wordpress.com&blog=2135470&post=236&subd=robinkemp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is my day.</title>
		<link>http://robinkemp.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/book-tour-on-a-shoestring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day I&#8217;ve waited for all my life. My personal copies of This Pagan Heaven were on the doorstep this morning. And there was much rejoicing. 
I&#8217;ve published so many things over the past, what?&#8211;25 years?&#8211;that I can&#8217;t even count them all. Just in the poetry universe, even with my very late start [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robinkemp.wordpress.com&blog=2135470&post=228&subd=robinkemp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Pagan Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book/author page (complete with handy online ordering button!) is live at Pecan Grove Press. I&#8217;m overwhelmed by the response thus far&#8211;my inbox has been exploding with well-wishes, order confirmations, reading requests, and offers to crash with old friends around the country! I&#8217;m really looking forward to seeing so many wonderful folks in the weeks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robinkemp.wordpress.com&blog=2135470&post=225&subd=robinkemp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whitman Throw-Down and &#8220;Form&#8221; Misunderstood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 20:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night&#8217;s marathon reading of &#8220;Song of Myself&#8221; at Composition Gallery was well worth the time. Rupert Fike asked about 25 readers, representing a wide range of poetry in Atlanta, to read a section or two. Some readers asked whether they&#8217;d been assigned particular sections because of the resonances they&#8217;d discovered within the poem. Supposedly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robinkemp.wordpress.com&blog=2135470&post=219&subd=robinkemp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walt Whitman reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 01:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be reading in the Song of Myself marathon at Composition Gallery this Saturday at 8p.m., along with may other fine Atlanta poets:
*Rupert Fike &#8220;I celebrate myself . . . &#8220;
*Tania Rochelle &#8220;I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . &#8220;
*Collin Kelley &#8220;Trippers and askers surround me . . . &#8220;
*Alice Lovelace [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robinkemp.wordpress.com&blog=2135470&post=213&subd=robinkemp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want Fries With That?: The Short-Order Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 01:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from a longer essay I wrote for workshop.
      I am a notoriously slow poet. I revise and revise, and I do so over long stretches of time. I’ve made steady but excruciatingly slow progress at building a body of published work, so I’ve had to come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robinkemp.wordpress.com&blog=2135470&post=205&subd=robinkemp&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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