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	<title>The Beat &#187; Lisa Zaran</title>
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		<title>An Interview with L.Ward Abel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ve had some poets criticize me for being too &#8220;neutral,&#8221; and I suppose that may be true, but to me there is nothing more immediate than what is in front of me, the snap shot in my hand.&#8221;   ~L. Ward Abel, poet, musician, composer.
Would you say that you were a musician first or better stated, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Such a Victim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be startled is one thing.
Dead frightened something else
entirely.  As your attacker
looks on, you must pretend
not to be so afraid.
Though his weight is negotiable
you can bet the knife he&#8217;s holding
isn&#8217;t.  Think of it from his side.
He must be able to outstrength
you, at the same time remove
your clothes while holding a blade
to your throat.
Do you think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott Holstad interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was such a privilege for me to interview and pick the brain of Scott Holstad, a writer I’ve known for many years.  Though we’ve never met, we’ve been in some sort of contact, usually through blogging or email.
Boston born, Scott has lived all over the continent including Tempe, Arizona where I also lived, though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should, Should Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took about five years for me to realize I am not in love with Bob Dylan.
Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I do love him, in fact I&#8217;m completely devoted to his music, his xm radio show, his books, Tarantula and Chronicles.  I&#8217;ve read every biography written about his life.  I own his complete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation with Corey Mesler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Once I gave myself permission to be a novelist, it is all I want to do.&#8221;
Recently, I was lucky enough to begin a correspondence with Corey Mesler. What started out as a &#8220;tete-a-tete&#8221; to quote Mesler himself, bloomed into a full fledged interview.
And what an engaging man he is.
The owner of one of the nations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Try Not To</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love how you look
When the smoke gets in your eyes
And the noise from the crowd
gets in your ears
I love how the harmony
Of your voice strikes
Against my sternum
So close
I can feel my heart quake
in its hole
I love how you move
Like a painter toward his easel
As the nude model waits
I love how you rest
Your finger between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shine It On Quaint Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2005 08:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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Dear Beck,
It is morning again and the sun is shining. I am completely and without a shadow of doubt going to listen to Guero as I drive ten miles per hour in a 65 mile per hour zone through 38 miles of rush hour traffic on my way to a job I hate.
The light in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope And Wine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2005 07:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 11:28 p.m. and I&#8217;m sitting on the patio in the moonlight, sipping wine
and listening to Love And Theft as it drifts out through the open kitchen
window.
I am breathing the music. I am taking it in through my pores. My life at
this very moment is better than anybody else&#8217;s. My mind is just foggy
enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Dylan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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From Your Mouth To My Ear
         ~What are you?  A blue morning songbird?~
The day Bob Dylan sings his last song, the world, by some bold stroke of madness, will slip on its axis. I&#8217;m pretty sure of it. There will be a huge fuss made. Clouds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Me Some Truth Before You Buy Me Another Drink</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were having some sort of discussion
about, I can&#8217;t remember what, a conversation,
something light and sweet perhaps, to compliment
the champagne we were drinking.
Oh, now I remember.
You were saying how women,
in general, not all women, but most,
some! You corrected yourself,
were too caught up in their own selfish vanity
to notice the beauty that surrounds them
in their pigeonholed [...]]]></description>
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