<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">From Laila: Notice that the New Yorker has a very droll book review essay this week by Louis Menand of Mark McGurl's <i>The Program Era </i>(Harvard U.P.) about creative writing programs, in which, I would note without comment, McGurl calls the development of academic creative writing programs "the most important event in postwar American literary history." <div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/06/08/090608crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/06/08/090608crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all</span></font></a></div><div><br></div><div>Maurya has a poem (<i>Angels,</i> reprinted from <i>Ghost Orchid</i>) as the lead piece in the current issue of the online journal <i>The American Museum: </i>See below for a link. BTW: The <i>fourth</i> article is a piece by some guy named Obama).</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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(I've a poem in this June edition of it--) There are so many pleasures among its features--political, literary, visual, musical, etc. Enjoy!<br> Maurya<br><br> <br> <blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">Notice from <b><i>The American Museum:</i></b> <br><br> The June, 2009, issue is now online for your reading pleasure at <br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.theamericanmuseum.org/june.09.fifth.html">http://www.theamericanmuseum.org/june.09.fifth.html</a></span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><br><br> In endeavoring to improve the magazine in some small way each month, we've added sound-on-demand capability to one of our pages for this June issue. And what sound it is! In 1996, a collection of scruffy New York jazz players combined with several beautiful and delicate flowers from the classical world to record the music of Paul Miller, a composer who knows cold the theories and rules of musical composition set down through the ages, and while respectful of and often guided by them, is nevertheless gloriously unrestrained by their dictates. Even as you listen carefully to the individual instruments and voices in his pieces, and appreciate the professional skill they manifest, the music as a whole seems to bypass the intellect completely, and moves the soul in some remarkable and indescribable way. <br><br> The country is now undergoing the ritual we periodically suffer through - the political process of selecting and confirming a Supreme Court justice. We'll hear terms thrown about, <i>ad infinitum,</i> such as "brilliant legal mind," "incisive reasoner," and "possessing a judicial temperament," all applied to the hacks under consideration, most of who have never had private clients walk through their office doors and plunk down hard-earned money to have them deal with real legal problems. As a service to readers, we have reprinted an opinion handed down by Chief Justice Murray of the California Supreme Court, an opinion that demonstrates with stark and stinking clarity the "justice" that flows from those with brilliant legal minds and judicial temperaments as they exercise that incisive reasoning.<br><br> We print the text of two commencement addresses, one by Barack Obama to the kids of Notre Dame and another by Paul Hawken to those of the University of Portland. Both speakers used the fact that the sky is currently falling (and it is, by the way) as added incentive for their listeners to go forth and do great things. Perhaps the rest of us will be likewise inspired by these words.<br><br> <br> We have some excellent social and informative commentary: James Hyder's piece examines both the fact of, and the reporting on, the recent refusal of some IMAX movie houses to book certain movies because of their messages that life evolved, and therefore wasn't "created." Karl Walling shares some unclassified insight on the historical, current, and future strategies of America's naval power. Janet Albrechtsen reports, from Down Under, on the shameful betrayal of trust of some Australian politicians who have great profit almost within their grasp.<br><br> We reprint two exquisite poems: "Angels," by Maurya Simon, and the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Neither artist claims to be an incisive reasoner, nor does either possess a brilliant legal mind or judicial temperament. Thank God.<br><br> For the rest of this golf season, we're going to follow the successes and failures of one of our two favorite golfers, Paul Goydos. (Sorry Woodie, you lost the coin flip.) Each month we'll update Paul's record, and hopefully the coverage will inspire him to even greater heights. <br><br> This month, we print two short Letters of the Autobiography of Mathew Carey, in which he speaks of the theater in Dublin, the founding of <b><i>The American Museum,</i></b> some predictions for the future he made around 1790, his early attempts at courtship, and finally of his marriage to Miss Bridget Flahavan.<br><br> As always, we are grateful to May's contributing writers. We hope you enjoy the selections for this month. Please pass the magazine on to anyone who you think would enjoy it.<br><br> Thank you.<br><br> George L. McDowelleditor<b><i>The American Museum</i></b></blockquote><b><i> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep></i></b><i></i><p><i><b> Maurya Simon<br><br> Professor<br> Department of Creative Writing<br> University of California Riverside<br> 900 University Avenue<br> Riverside, CA 92521-0318<br><br> TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)<br><br> FAX: (951) 827-3619 <br> </b></i></p></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>