Three Shirts, Three Poets, Three Points (enhuthiasm, armantrout, sillimander)

Tonight, Joseph Thomas told me that one of his students, one lucky enough to have to study mIEKAL aND's and my book textistence, has extended the idea of pwoermds into an entrepreneurial realm, by opening an online shop to sell them on clothing. (Note that the real cost is for the clothing. The pwoermds are either free or reduce the overall cost of the clothing.)

The clothing comes in styles for men, women, and chidren, along with a selection of accessories and gifts. I might actually need an "enhuthiast" mug sometime, even at these inflated prices. (And this begs the question whether the price for all poetry is inflated.)

The creator of the site (a student, remember, of twenty-first century literature) created pwoermds for three poets: Ron Silliman, Rae Armantrout, and me (but not mIEKAL, maybe because he'd already pwoermded his own name, Michael Anderson, out of existence), so I am in rarefied company. (Looking at these objects, I realize that the book is not the place for pwoermds. Affixed onto objects in the world are where pwoermds should be.)

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