With all due respect, as a bookseller I would amend Robert's remark: <Give me a good durable journal to sit on the table and on the shelf AND COLLECT DUST over time.> Exceptions survive in more meaningful ways in spite of format. CP Robert Kibler wrote: > So it IS an e-journal. I am sure they have their value too, but they flash in the pan. Give me a good durable journal to sit on the table and on the shelf over time. Thanks, Robert > > > The person of excellence understands what is moral. > The petty person understands what is profitable. > "Analects" IV.16, Confucius > > Robert E. Kibler, Ph.D. > English and Humanities > Director, Northern Plains Writing Project > 229 Hartnett Hall West > Minot State University > 500 University Avenue West > Minot, North Dakota 58701 > telephone: 701 858 3876 > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > fax: 701 858 3894 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom White [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 1:03 PM > To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine; Robert Kibler > Subject: Re: Looking for papers etc. > > Have to a little object to Professors Kibler's implication that an > ejournal is not real. I fear it's realer than a paper one, because it > at once comes under the omniverous maw of Google etc. and is > retrievable at will all over the world, it appears without fee. > Imagine how long it would have taken me, if all there were today were > paper journals, to read (note: FREE) Peter Dale Scott's extraordinary > history poem, "A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11." I just googled for > "flashpoint Scott" and got 300,000 hits; Peter's poem in flashpoint > was at the top of the first page. Woweee. Tom White > > > On Nov 20, 2006, at 7:31 AM, Robert Kibler wrote: > > >> Is this an e-journal or a real, paper copy one? Robert Kibler >> >> "The man of excellence understands what is moral. >> The petty man understands what is profitable." >> Confucius, Analects >> >> Robert E. Kibler Associate Professor of English and Humanities >> Director, Northern Plains Writing Project >> Minot State University 229 Hartnett Hall West >> 500 University Avenue West >> Minot, North Dakota 58707 701 858 3876 >> [log in to unmask] >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine on >> behalf of Alphaville >> Sent: Sat 11/18/2006 11:20 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Looking for papers etc. >> >> >> >> FlashPoint Magazine is looking for papers, articles and essays for its >> next issue due up/out in February. >> >> http://flashpointmag.com/ >> >> Are stated goal is the furtherance of the modernist project as >> represented by Pound, Joyce, Olson, Zukofsky, Tolson etc. You can >> peruse >> our first 8 issues through the URL above. There are no length or >> content >> restrictions. We publish everything from work in the spirit of >> Blast to >> your customary academic paper. >> >> We don't pay. And we reject all offers of financial support. If >> interested reply to this email address. Carlo Parcelli, FlashPoint >> Magazine >> > >