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Background: This site for "i"tinerant poetics (www.ipoet.com) grew out of my appreciation for the street poets of Oakland and Berkeley, those hardy eccentric souls who peddle their poetry rather than panhandle, and is organically expanding to include works "by, for, and about" other famous and not-so-famous itinerants: refugees, wandering bards, dharmna bums, beatniks "on the road," and so on. The iPoet hypothesis is that the unique experiences of the itinerant give rise to unique (and uniquely powerful) art and poetry. Yours' Truly, John Henry Linoheart.

Please feel free to comment and enjoy the site, signed: John. 8/22/1999

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• CREDIT: This project receives much assistance. I would especially like to thank my ex-wife who donated a computer table and a chair, and a place to park them (temporarily); Laura Lionnello and Allen Ginsberg, my father, who so generously donated to this project; also kudos to superlative service providers, LanMinds of Berkeley, and Dantor Communications of Detroit. Also to the folks with the super text editor Note Tab^(tm). Also thanks to Larry Richmond of TRO Publishing, NY, and George Arevalo of the Woody Guthrie Archives for their time and expert feedback.
  
  
• NEEDS: Biggest Current Need: Office Space: Share ok: Marin preferred, free or trade.. Other Needs: Money for stuff; and money to help realize Allen Ginsberg's dream to "distribute monies to poor poets and nourish the imaginative genius of the land."

  YOU CAN DONATE TWO WAYS,
  -ONE: iPoet has recently entered into an *association* with online bookseller, Amazon.com. Amazon.com will pay will pay iPoet 5%-15% commission for all book sales attributable to iPoet (through ipoet links to Amazon). Our Amazon commission money ($58 in the second quarter of 2002), while not a great amount so far, goes to paying website expenses and enriching the lifes of the editor and webmaster and their family and friends; and
  -TWO: charge a payment on your credit card through the secure PalPal "donation" button below

  Send any questions or followup mail to: Donations@iPoet.com or write:
  - iPoet.com
  - John Lionheart, Project Director
  - 937 Regal Road (NO USPS - Fed Ex only)
  - Berkeley, CA 94708
  or call 510-526-9149

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Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,
Heaven did a recompense as largely send;
He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear,
He gained from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. Thomas Gray, Elegy, The Epitaph