Outsiderish Newsesque 5/14/09

Outsider Community member, Nathan Tyree, auctions immortality. Bid by May 16th to be a character in a new novel – I like this idea; we’re all ego-driven, right? Let’s get a name in a book | Poetry’s afterlife among the online community, Facebook poets and the friended who love them | The Velvet Burn haiku wars are live and fierce | Steven Johnson‘s (author of the fantastic THE INVENTION OF AIR) in-depth take on the impact of the e-book. I have to admit, I am more excited than I was. | Instant books hits a UK bookshop; I anticipate good things for chapbook publishers. | The New York Poetry Whores read for dirty, dirty money - Lip Dances start at $10 | Barrack Obama maintains his probable legacy of cool by throwing the first White House poetry jam, and the Kenyon Review blog reaction | Great books, meet Twitter’s abbreviated attention span; who would have thought that 140 characters would be a short novel? | Want to be a zinester? Zine World is looking for contributors | Anthoby Zuiker’s LEVEL 26 marks the birth of the digi-novel. I have my doubts.