========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 11:44:14 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: Rod McKuen -- Meditations on Jenny kissed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Its a weak piece of dribble the McKuen. Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoffrey Gatza" To: Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 6:32 AM Subject: Re: Rod McKuen -- Meditations on Jenny kissed > Thank you for bringing this poem to my inbox. I saw the hawks circling so I > felt informed ... MY GOD this is a fine poem. The tenderness, immediacy, the > lack of irony. A beautiful expression. Its not as hip as I desire but a > beautify vocal expression and we should listen, maybe not follow, but > listen. > > Thanks, Geoffrey Gatza > editor, Blaze VOX2k1 > www.vorplesword.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: K.Silem Mohammad > To: > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 7:15 PM > Subject: Rod McKuen > > > > from McKuen's website (http://www.mckuen.com/), posted by Catherine Daly : > > > > ---------------------------------------------- > > "Meditations on Jenny kissed" > > > > > > Jenny kissed me, > > only once, > > he said to me, > > Now she's gone. > > > > How do I go on? > > Every day I wait > > remembering that once > > my Jenny kissed me > > and as she was leaving said, > > now I'm going, now I'm gone. > > > > Only once and never more > > timidly my Jenny kissed me > > touched my lips before goodbye. > > Every day I wait and wonder > > > > If life and > > love has not missed me > > only to pass on, pass on. > > Valentines are sent to others > > everyone but me. > > > > Yet I never miss the heart card, > > oh no, Jenny kissed me > > untied my heart and set it free. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > Dude, that's pretty. Anyone else hear Creeley there? > > > > > > > > > > > > Anyone for Leonard Nimoy? > > > > --Kasey > > > > > > > > > > > > . . . . . . . . . > > > > k. silem mohammad > > > > santa cruz, california > > > > immerito@hotmail.com > > > > http://communities.msn.com/KSilemMohammad > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:03:59 +0000 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Organization: Pavement Saw Press Subject: Reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Baratier will be reading two nights in Albany, NY & I'd love to catch up Thursday April 5th, 7pm at Siena College Greyfriar Reading series (I'll only be reading about a half-hour there is an opener, I forget) Saturday April 7th, 8pm to Benefit Miss Mary's non-profit artists cooperative Steamer 10 Theater Right near the old Madison Ave Theater (In the middle of the TRIANGLE), $10 I'll be reading alone, Duncanesque length Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus OH 43206 USA http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:33:00 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: michael amberwind Subject: Mister Spock Stamp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii i'd vote for Leonard Nimoy to get his own stamp - i mean i know he's not dead but since Star Trek went off the air he might as well be ever read his book of poetry - "Thinking of you" i think its called - my vote for the worse book of poetry ever written of course i have a copy! i figure anyone can write a bad poem - but it takes a special skill to write a real stinker - kinda like Whitman 'cept Whitman at his best was better'n anybody and even at his worst was still like no one else how about John Cage? i'm ashamed to admit i've never read mckuen - they got em by the armful down at the local used bookstore - so i think i'll check em out and on a side note - i've been reading Harold Bloom lately and was wondering if he had written a page that didn't have the word "belated" "swerve" or "clinamen" anywhere on it just curious ************************************************* > I'm sorry but I must disallow McKuen and or the > Beatles or anyone named > Smith from this discussion. Or any one else of > a "popular" ilk. Or I'll fire > them and all you lot out of my canon. > Yours,Richard von Harold > redandanalysedevrythingintheliterversetodeathpipeandslipperskindlyold > butantitenniscourtoathswothywordsworthingandaffodiliclongwords > Bloom.PS My > suggestion: Wytter Bynner? No? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Maxwell" > To: > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:37 AM > Subject: Lights Over McKuen > > > > I utterly agree with Ron's defense of Mister > McKuen. What's wrong with > > beachcombing and fireside swoons? Pleasures > subtle, real and merciful. > Plus, > > he manages the sort of omniscient voice-over > pageantry that can make > > something like "The Love Movement" or "The > Black Hawk, a Gothic Musical" > > work. Since the English stole Scott Engel > from us and made him a Walker, > Rod > > is the closest thing we have to a Jacques > Brel. After a few spins of his > > records, the corn pops and suddenly your > behind the music. That's the > > sweetest sort of conversion one can make! > > > > And Smith, Spicer and McKuen...can you think > of a sexier cabal? > > > > But, to rehearse an old debate, I really > can't stand for this McCartney > > slapping. He was clearly the most tuneful > Beatle, zany or no. "Maybe I 'm > > Amazed" is a heartbreaker, and "Jet" is at > least as delirious as any > > Elmsliean banana peel shuffle. But I may be > alone in this, and I thought > the > > only lonely place was on the moon... > > > > Best all, > > Andrew __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:51:03 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: "" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII "" "" "" "" "" "repeatedly assert myself in the most trying circumstances; there is" "nothing i wouldn't attempt as I define myself through my writing. I-I" "don't expect you understand what I mean; I-I-I'm always aware of the" "machine at my back, rhythm and rupture constituting a rather poor" "memory attempting to hold forth across chasm and chiasm." "" "perhaps, just as in a beginning writing assignment, I-I-I-I am that " "memory itself, attempting to disarticulate, extricate proper name and" "mind from technological repetition. it is the nature of the cyclical" "to move from alignment to its equivalent. I-I-I-I-I should know, or at" "least know beyond, however slight, the memorization of these few lines," "as if something were at work, greater than protocol, harder than the" "remnant I-I-I-I-I-I remember." "" "" "___" ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:09:18 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: about my work (apologies for cross-posting) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII (this goes largely to Cybermind/Cyberculture/Wryting but might be of interest here as well, send out once every few months. and apologies for cross-posting.) Internet Philosophy and Psychology - April 001 This is a somewhat periodic notice describing my Internet Text, available on the Net, and sent in the form of texts to various lists. The URL is: http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt/ which is partially mirrored at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html. (The first site includes some graphics, dhtml, The Case of the Real, etc.) The changing nature of the email lists, Cybermind and Wryting, to which the texts are sent individually, hides the full body of the work; readers may not be aware of the continuity among them. The writing may appear fragmented, created piecemeal, splintered from a non-existent whole. On my end, the whole is evident, the texts extended into the lists, partial or transitional objects. So this (periodic) notice is an attempt to recuperate the work as total- ity, restrain its diaphanous existence. Below is an updated introduction. ----- The "Internet Text" currently constitutes around 100 files, or 4500 print- ed pages. It began in 1994, and has continued as an extended meditation on cyberspace, expanding into 'wild theory' and literatures. Almost all of the text is in the form of short- or long-waves. The former are the individual sections, written in a variety of styles, at times referencing other writers/theorists. The sections are interrelated; on occasion emanations are used, avatars of philosophical or psychological import. These also create and problematize narrative substructures within the work as a whole. Such are Julu, Alan, Jennifer, and Nikuko, in parti- cular. The long-waves are fuzzy thematics bearing on such issues as death, sex, virtual embodiment, the "granularity of the real," physical reality, com- puter languages, and protocols. The waves weave throughout the text; the resulting splits and convergences owe something to phenomenology, program- ming, deconstruction, linguistics, prehistory, etc., as well as to the domains of online worlds in relation to everyday realities. Overall, I'm concerned with virtual-real subjectivity and its manifesta- tions, relative to philosophical concerns. I continue working on a cdrom of the last seven years of my work (Archive); I also have additional video materials, created with Azure Carter and Foofwa d'Imobilite, on two cdroms, Baal and Parables. Most recently, I've been working on a text for publication, ".echo" and I've published articles on Stelarc and Panamar- enko. I've also been at work on a cdrom called Asteroids, with 3d modeling of virtual organs used for fly-byes. And I want to write once again on radio and radiations. I have used MUDS, MOOS, talkers, perl, d/html, qbasic, linux, emacs, vi, CuSeeMe, etc., my work tending towards embodied writing, texts which act and engage beyond traditional reading practices. Some of these emerge out of performative language soft-tech such as computer programs which _do_ things; some emerge out of interferences with these programs, or conversa- tions using internet applications that are activated one way or another. And some of the work stems from collaboration, particularly video, sound, and flash pieces. There is no binarism in the texts, no series of definitive statements. Virtuality is considered beyond the text- and web-scapes prevalent now. The various issues of embodiment that will arrive with full-real VR are already in embryonic existence, permitting the theorizing of present and future sites, "spaces," nodes, and modalities of body/speech/community. It may be difficult to enter the texts for the first time. The Case of the Real is a sustained work and possible introduction. It is also helpful to read the first file, Net1.txt, and/or to look at the latest files (lq, lr) as well. Skip around. The Index works only for the earlier files; you can look up topics and then do a search on the file listed. The texts may be distributed in any medium; please credit me. I would ap- preciate in return any comments you may have. Current cdroms are available for $14; if you've have an earlier version, they go for $10. (Video format is .mov with Sorenson compression or .avi or .avi-jpg). (Costs include shipping.) You can find my collaborative projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm and my conference activities at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk - both as a result of my virtual writer-in-residence with the Trace online writing community. See also: Being on Line, Net Subjectivity (anthology), Lusitania, 1997 New Observations Magazine #120 (anthology), Cultures of Cyberspace, 1998 The Case of the Real, Pote and Poets Press, 1998 Jennifer, Nominative Press Collective, 1997 Parables of Izanami, Potes and Poets Press, 2000/1 Alan Sondheim 718-857-3671 432 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217, USA mail to: sondheim@panix.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:45:29 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Elizabeth Fodaski Subject: summer subletS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HEY EVERYBODY! Announcing two excellent summer sublets in the East Village, NYC: One is a two-bedroom, renovated apartment in a great, convenient location Available June 15 to August 31 Contact: Liz Fodaski or Richard Baker @ 212.995.1403 or backchannel The other is a one-bedroom loft a little further east. Great space! Huge windows! Available May to September Contact: Mary Jo Vath @ 212.777.0867 Each apartment is $1600 a month, way below market rate! If interested, call to discuss details. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:01:50 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: John Tranter Subject: Nihil illegitimi carborundum Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Onthe list recently ... "Nihil bastardum carborundum" I thought it was "Nihil illegitimi carborundum" .. or have I got my Latin wrong? from John Tranter Editor, Jacket magazine: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/ - new John Tranter homepage - poetry, reviews, articles, at: http://www.austlit.com/johntranter/ - early writing at: http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter/ ______________________________________________ 39 Short Street, Balmain NSW 2041, Sydney, Australia tel (+612) 9555 8502 fax (+612) 9818 8569 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:33:32 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Richard Long Comments: To: Cafe BLue , new-poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed All Blue, Please help to pass the word along that 2River has just moved to its own domain: http://www.2River.org The old location http://www.daemen.edu/~2River over the next few weeks will gradually disappear. Since 1996, 2River has been an online site of poetry, art, and theory, quarterly publishing The 2River View and occasionally publishing individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series. Richard Long ====== 2River http://www.2River.org editor@2River.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:38:12 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Larsen Subject: Siren of the Capitol Corridor In-Reply-To: <002201c0b59c$25b4b7a0$0200a8c0@mshome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Apologies to those who have recently complained about too many vulgar bids for commerce on the poetics listserve. And announcing the fourth and final issue of the San Jose Manual of Style, featuring work by Will Yackulic - Sotere Torregian - Sunnylyn Thibodeaux Cedar Sigo - Ann Simon - Lytle Shaw - Peter Neufeld - Katie Merz - Susan Maxwell - Rachel Levitsky Aja Couchois Duncan - Brandon Downing - Mary Burger Marc Bell - Micah Ballard a selection from the early notebooks of Kevin Killian an interview with Avital Ronell comics - "items" - eighty pages. Color cover by Sotere Torregian. Endpapers block-printed by hand. To get your copy, send $2 in stamps + $5 concealed or $7 payable to Beth Murray and David Larsen, co-editors 829 Park Way Oakland CA 94606 We now return you to the nobler goings-on in Poetry World. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:45:18 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kevin Killian Subject: Bellamy & Killian email change Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy have changed their email addresses. Kevin's new address is: kevinkillian@earthlink.net Dodie's new address is: belladodie@earthlink.net As of May 1 the following email addresses will no longer work: dbkk@sirius.com dodie@sirius.com ---------------------- Please note new email address: belladodie@earthlink.net ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 16:21:40 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: owner-realpoetik@SCN.ORG Subject: RealPoetik Aaron Belz Aaron lives in St. Louis and keeps an archive of his work at http://meaningless.com. He can be reached at aaron@belz.net. TITLE FONT: OLD FASHIONED HOMILY SPIROGRAPH MONKEY A-B=? SPIROGRAPH OINTMENT Where A might be some kind of ointment. BASKETBALL Ten penises or ten vaginas out there at any given time, rarely a mixture of the two.* SPIROGRAPH MONKEY II Who ate my zebra-colored donut? (Monkey minus Sin equals "banapple.") A DELUXE CONCLUSION My Dad thinks B stands for "neomicin." And so the moral is: rub yourself all over with lipstick if you plan get into any scrapes tonight. It's an "old wive's" remedy, but OKEY DOKEY! (World War II) * never mind ESTEVAN BECOMES A CITY Estevan: the power centre (a former premier), formally dressed for the occasion / "I rejoice with the people Others filling alder since the first council have been J. Moss, R. Walker, H. Van Dam, I. McDougall, S. Henders, W. Outhwaite, P. J. Attrill, J. M. Mack, **99999 as you know, Southern, mostly D. English, Mrs. I. Petterson, W. Wilcowich, J. 0. Chapman, R. A. Larter, N. Morsky, G. F. Fordyce, E. Jellinek. If even the smallest of places happened to have two railway lines passing through it, that was sufficient to bring a sub-divider on the scene to sell his lots by prophesying a future metropolis. The background can be easily described. ?????????????????????? the great future that lay ahead of the town. Estevan Brick Ltd. plant is located on this property while on its northern edge along highway 39, are the headquarters of numerous oil field servicing companies / "I rejoice This year when subdivision of the city third was open on the ground seized of the agricultural company of Estevan four years ago for $75.000, more contiguous cultivated surface had by the city for a total of 54 acres. All this property faced on King Street on the southernmost edge of the hillside. The sale of this ground eliminated the racetrack and the grandstand from the agricultural company, but of other buildings were lowered by him to the southernmost part of its reasons and in a narrower proximity to the civic arena. This subdivision is named Centennial Park and pre-A summer completely maintained with sewers, water lines and pavements before fates were offered on sale. It contains a total of 100 fates which quickly are established **99 "actually the ten-gallon hats were a facade at the time. In the jubilee the subdivision 1966 was examined just in the east of the sight and the fates of valley offered on sale by Ben Labenski. Lo9TB1oR0ZrLwCOK1bNku9Pa1kb51Bx/SsKO YN/j2qrejoicesEe/wCNEW7noVOW qtHqtHq TXMb20jRzDBBOEstevan 7LatKwG5yTn8aoy 6lb3lk0d4AsoX73TnHPNUrK9mlkjt1kBjB6k 9s0WV9Dkq1J9a city1ss Lo9TBoR0ZrLR0Z Some of the old furrows plowed over half a century ago are still to be seen on the slopes of the hills within the subdivision. No longer does it need to attract attention by the use of such phrases as "water as pure as an angel's tear and coal to be had for the digging." "Rejoice! Aaron Belz ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:12:04 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: bill dunlap Subject: The Princess will see you now. Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit \\\ , \ `| ) ( .-""-. | | /_ { '. | | (/ `\ } ) | | */ *`} { \ \ \<> ( { ) \ \ '-, { {{ HELLO \ \_.' ) } ) CRUEL \.-' ( ( WORLD! /'-.'_. ) ( } \_( { _/\ ) '--' `-;\ \ _.-' / / / <\/>_.' .' / / <\/>/. ' /<\// / _ |\`- _ . -/| - _- ` _.-'`_/- | \ - - - - \\\ }`<\/> <\/>`{ { -<\/>_<\/>_<\/>- } } { <\/>. <\/> {`<\/> <\/>`} } -<\/>_<\/>_<\/>_<\/>- { { } } } { Princess Lovely Pants { <\/> Issue #1 <\/> `<\/> <\/>' -<\/>_<\/>_<\/>_<\/>_<\/>- The premier Issue of Princess Lovely Pants is up and running (way up and running), so visit PLP right now and read delicious bits from: >> Patrick F. Durgin >> Lauren Gudath >> Rodney Koeneke >> Camille Martin >> K. Silem Mohammad >> Philippe Tapon If our server hasn't crashed, you should be able to find Princess Lovely Pants at http://www.princesslovelypants.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:58:05 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "david.bircumshaw" Subject: Re: The pleasure of being booed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Apropos the remarks of Jacques Debrot and Andrew Felsinger on this thread Alison Croggon has asked that the following, as sent to the British Poets Mailing List on the 30th March, be forwarded to this list. David Bircumshaw Sorry to bore you all - the VeRT was announced before I could append my own short intro (things here are somewhat pressed). The editors are publishing the original and altered emails from me only - they claim that this is sufficient. I see that no other of the Britpo objections, most especially Trevor's, are being given air. Nor is there an apology anywhere that I can see. What puzzles me most of all about this is why anyone else would be remotely interested. However. For the record, as they say, here's my intro to my altered comments. Best A I hope these posts stand on their own. They were written for a mailing list, without the intention of publication or further consideration outside the particular context in which they were written. When Kent Johnson submitted his Lacan dialogues to VeRT, he also submitted, without permission and in violation of copyright, a selection of emails from British-poets members to this magazine. British Poets members objected because the emails were presented as if they were a fair representation of what had been originally written, when in fact many of them had been greatly altered, sometimes to mean the exact opposite of what had been originally said. The editors assert that "the posts had, indeed, been edited-- though not materially changed": this is in fact not true. Each one of my own posts either been misleadingly cut, or had been rewritten, or had parts added which I did not write. I hope this comparison makes clear how they were changed, and for what reason. I was angered by these changes, which seemed to me extraordinarily dishonest and, to say the least, self-aggrandising. I still fail to see the relevance of publishing the British Poets posts to the original work: despite all Kent's claims, the Lacan dialogues created no especial scandal, apart from boring a number of people witless by turning up as regularly as spam. I have no doubt they are better served by being published in their current form, where they can be accessed voluntarily by those interested. The editors have agreed to publish the original and altered emails side by side, so that anyone interested in this minor spat can make up their own minds. Alison Croggon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Felsinger" To: Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 7:27 AM Subject: Re: The pleasure of being booed Hello Mark, You can go the pages in question by clicking "w/ a british poets' response" on the cover of the third issue. This link is only very recently up, and you may need to reload your cache? Also, here is the link : http://www.litvert.com/issue%20%233/dearreaders.html Cheers, Andrew Felsinger ------------------------- -VeRT "This superabundance, this tyranny." --Samantha Giles http://www.litvert.com > From: Mark DuCharme > Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:34:44 -0700 > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Re: The pleasure of being booed > > Is this a joke? (And no, I don't mean the part about your correspondence > with Jacques Lacan). > > Although, as one of the contributors to -VeRT #3, I have no problem with > anyone doing what they can to call attention to it, when I go to the site I > find neither the introduction Jacques quotes nor the link to the Britpo > archives. > > Just wondering, > > Mark DuCharme > > >> From: Jacques Debrot >> Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU >> Subject: The pleasure of being booed >> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:54:53 EST >> >> The new issue of VeRT just announced here on Thurs was delayed for more >> than >> a week due to several thinly veiled threats of lawsuits. What began >> initially as a violent reaction against a series of epistolary poems, "Dear >> Jacques: Lacan, Miller, Debrot," written by myself in collaboration with >> Kent Johnson has now devolved into an equally reactionary attempt to >> coverup >> the poems' ugly reception on the British Poets Listserv where the letters >> originally appeared. The final version of the Lacan, however, is now ready >> for viewing, and includes a link to the Listserv archives so that objective >> readers can make up their own minds. I am sending below the brief >> introduction that Andrew Felsinger and Samantha Giles, editors of VeRT, >> have >> written to the Lacan materials. I think you will have to agree >> that the manner in which these two young editors have handled this rather >> complex and thorny affair is quite impressive. And since the publication >> pertains, in many ways, to the dynamics of listserv politics, I thought >> Poetics members would wish to see their introductory comments. To view the >> whole issue #3 (and it is a great issue with loads of good stuff), go to >> http://www.litvert.com/ >> >> While the correspondence between Lacan and Debrot, as it unfolded, caused a >> few-hundred post angst-meltdown at Brit-Po (indignant charges of >> pornography >> were frequent), I think you will see that the total >> package-- the letters, the two brief contributions by Slavoj Zizek, the >> fauxed Brit-po postings, and the discussion's actual, empirical record on >> which the eroticized versions are based-- is provocative and fun and, above >> all, poetic (though the poesis may not be everyone's cup of tea, to say the >> least). >> >> thank you, and here is the intro by Andrew and Samantha. >> >> Jacques >> >> ---------- >> >> Dear Reader(s): >> >> -VeRT has always strived for a quiet uninvolved editorial presence, >> choosing >> to allow what's published to stand on its own. This was comfortable; >> indeed, >> we felt it ideal. >> >> However, events of late have compromised this quiet unassuming vision. We >> have been drawn into somewhat of a maelstrom, regarding the epistolary >> exchanges: Dear Lacan, which were first posted on the British-Poets >> ListServe earlier this year. The posts were considered by many on the >> British-Poets ListServ to be lacking, both in substance and style. A debate >> ensued on Listserve regarding the work and its creators: Kent Johnson and >> Jacques Debrot. >> >> We chose, being privy to the posts of this debate, to publish them en >> masse. >> In so doing, we felt we were acknowledging the fact that they represented a >> legitimate response to work of such controversial nature. However, we also >> recognized that they were evocative of what we in the experimental poetry >> community confront often: a conservative misunderstanding of work that >> attempts to not only push the proverbial envelope, but to transgress it. >> >> We also believed that the poets quoted therein would stand behind their >> remarks in total. We were, unfortunately, naïve in this assumption. After >> the publication of these posts, we received a litany of angry demands for >> retractions and apologies. To some extent these demands were not without >> merit. The posts had, indeed, been edited-- though not materially changed. >> Upon learning of this fact, we chose to remove the link to these posts, and >> assess the situation. >> >> Certainly we at -VeRT don't want to take ourselves too seriously. In some >> sense, such seriousness hinders what we see as our project. Despite this, >> this controversy has forced us to make real, serious editorial decisions. >> We >> choose the following course of action and are publishing: >> >> 1. The Lacan Posts: Dear Jacques et al as originally published. >> 2. A URL link to the full text of the British ListServe response to the >> Lacan text. >> 3. At her request, an edited and complete post from one of the participants >> of the British ListServ, Allison Croggon >> 4. An edited, adulterated and poetic response to these posts written by one >> of the Lacan contributors, Jacques Debrot, along with an Introduction by >> Slavoj Zizek. >> 5. Lastly, a thoughtful, unedited response to this whole mess, provided by >> Steve Duffy, also a participant on the British ListServ. >> >> So there it is. We hope that in the end these choices reflect the certain >> quietude that we have wanted to maintain, but also beg the question: Whose >> work is it anyway? >> >> Respectfully, >> Your Loving Editors > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:10:32 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: lungfull@RCN.COM Subject: Brendan Lorber at Pink Pony West Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Brendan Lorber will be dedicating poems to those who come to his reading Friday April 6th at The Pink Pony West Reading Series Cornelia Street Cafe * * * * * 29 Cornelia Street Betw. Bleeker & West 4th Street in New York City [A,B,C,D,E,F to West 4th or 1/9 to Christopher] $6 admission gets you a free drink. Please note: open mike starts at 6:00 Brendan Lorber reads at 7:45 more information at www.poetz.com hosted by Maggie Balistreri and Jackie Sheeler * * * * * Brendan Lorber is the editor of LUNGFULL! Magazine & co curates The Zinc Bar Sunday Night Reading Series. He's the author of The Address Book (Owl Press, 1999), Your Secret (fauxpress.com, 2000) Hazard Pom Pom (Situations, 2001) and, with Jen Robinson, Dictionary of Common Phrases (The Gift, 2000). If you'd prefer not to receive updates along these lines just reply to lungfull@rcn.com with remove in the subject line. Otherwise hope to see you here or perhaps o'er zinc bar way. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:56:34 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: NIO: INTERACTIVE AUDIO FOR THE WEB MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'd like to invite you to check out a new piece of Web art: NIO: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/Nio/ *interactive music *visual/sound poem *suggestive of a new form of music/multimedia *hopefully a popular alternative to the music video Also part of the project: *Interview by Randy Adams (text) *'Nio and the Art of Interactive Audio' (essay) *'Technotes on Nio and Audio Programming with Director 8' (essay) *visual poems made from onion skins of the Nio animations (bitmaps) I did the vocals, the programming, the animations, the graphics, the works. Took me several months. Hardest but funnest Web piece I've done so far. There are several more in the works. The underlying software (written in Lingo) synchronizes layers and sequences of audio. It also synchronizes the animations with the audio. Also, just as the audio is layered, so too are the animations. You interactively construct layers and sequences of the available sounds, and each sound is associated with an animation that plays when the sound plays. So Nio suggests a new form of music, really, which is interactive and conjoined with the visual. Although Nio is primarily a writerly/poetical realization of such visual music (Vismu) you can see that with a different approach to the animations and more sounds, the form itself is quite a radical alternative to the music video. And there are many other juicy possibilities discussed in the essays. There are two essays: 'Nio and the Art of Interactive Audio for the Web' discusses the artistic, technological, and business possibilities in the work I'm developing. The second is a 'how to' essay on audio programming with Macromedia Director 8. Nio is a commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence.org web site with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Hope you like it. Regards, Jim Andrews www.vispo.com www.webartery.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:36:03 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: William J Allegrezza Subject: moria in spring and submissions needed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The spring issue of Moria is online. It features poems by elizabeth treadwell, philip santo, suzane thurman, annabelle clippinger, and dana ward. It also features two articles: Aidan Thompson's "The Meaning of 'Meaning' in the 'Experimental' poetry of Gertrude Stein, Lyn Heijinian, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Cole Swenson" and Georgiy Bogin's "Metodological Problems of Understanding Good Literature." As always, I am looking for submissions of poetry or poetic theory for the next few issues. Bill Allegrezza ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:14:30 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Andrew Maxwell Subject: McKounterpoint MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 I realize it a little absurd to perpetuate the Rod thread, but less so = if it becomes something in excess of smirk fest. I think Rod is about the = "total experience" of ambient light, music and the immersive parfumerie of = snarky self-invention. Compare Jimmy Webb's "film operas", Mick Ronson's = "Slaughter on 10th Ave", or Chicago's love guru Bobby Conn. In each case failure = and fantasia are of a species, and "love" is spectacle, is accident, is disastrous, is worth singing about. I think pushing it too far is part = of the point, and why the fan's collusion is so satisfying. It's = transformative risk, it's about being light-hearted in the most serious way, and about comic participation of the sort that J. Debrot is so often writing = about. =20 But should anyone try to comfortably sideline the question of McKuen's poetic project by accepting Kasey's example, then let me offer another = from the same site. It's a bit uneven, but not without its surprises and a = few id=E9es de sc=E8ne echoic of late Ashbery.=20 =20 Andrew =20 ***** =20 "a message from the bunker" (Rod McKuen) =20 =20 It was not meant to be an odyssey, Leviathan escape. Some unravel time is all, to add a wing but not=20 rebuild the nest. A few fortnights=20 of coming down from drafty stages,=20 scary plains, aging airplanes. Too=20 many mornings waking in The=20 Grand and Not So Grand=20 Hotel Where Am I.=20 It should have been poco divertimento from the second act, intermission from the dead line, time lapse from whatever. A never time to reason out,=20 or out run reason. But lazy=20 months not monitored will=20 prance and promenade to years. This easy conga line=20 may then go on a few more=20 eons 'til the fickle decades=20 whirl away with other partners=20 to the next slam dance event.=20 To some I had an easy death out there in a poppy field. Or I rolled over with some handsome=20 woman, or some pretty man until we both rolled off the last horizon. The truth was not so lovely but we'll never know it you and me. Every question does not need A fancy dancer answer man.=20 Thank you for waiting. Guess I=20 knew you would. Others took up=20 Others to help them hoist their=20 banners. Glad they did. Well=20 they should. I've come back to=20 help you shoulder our old flags=20 and unfurl our new devices. Guess=20 you knew I would. Your graying=20 minstrel boy who hangs about=20 till all the lights go out Your Johnny=20 Jump Up Appleseed a-planting,=20 spring or not so spring is here=20 and home again. Harvest time=20 will have to wait till harvest time. Have you seen my old partners, tea dance mates, from all those=20 odd cotillions, boogie bar affairs? Should you, tell them I'll be there In all the new pavilions with a pencil ready and my decade dance=20 card not yet filled with fox trot=20 promises and leisure dates. Hello in there. We will rendezvous Again. Guess you know we will.=20 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:44:28 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: kate thorn Subject: Re: the china situation Comments: To: CAFE-BLUE@wiz.cath.vt.edu, Cafe BLue , new-poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010402103109.00a0fec0@pop3.slu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Has anyone heard from Jago lately? I hope this situation is not adversely affecting him.---kate __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:46:54 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dickison Subject: Mark McMORRIS & Elizabeth WILLIS, Thurs April 5, 7:30 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable P O E T R Y C E N T E R 2 0 0 1 The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives presents An evening with MARK McMORRIS & ELIZABETH WILLIS Thursday April 5, 7:30 pm $5 donation @ The Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin (at Geary) MARK MCMORRIS is author of several chapbooks, including Palinurus Suite (Paradigm Press, 1992) and Moth-Wings (Burning Deck, 1996); his book The Black Reeds was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1997. He was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and attended college in the US, at Columbia University, earning both a Masters and PhD at Brown University. He edited a special section on poets "Out of the Anglophone Caribbean" for Exact Change Yearbook (1995), and has published critical work on Kamau Brathwaite, Louis Zukofsky, and on the Black avant-garde. His poetry was included in the special issue of Callaloo on "Emerging Male Writers" (1998). Mr. McMorris lives in Washington, DC, and teaches at Georgetown University. ELIZABETH WILLIS's collection The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995) won the National Poetry Series in 1994. She is also the author of several chapbooks, a book-length poem entitled Second Law (Avenue B, 1993), and a new manuscript entitled Turneresque. Her work "picks up on a line of 'generative orders' of visionary poetry and leads the reader to an uncharted place, speaking of and to a new generation of American writers" (Lisa Jarnot, Poetry Project Newsletter). Currently she is Writer in Residence at Mills College in Oakland, and lives in Santa Cruz. "For people in the Caribbean and for the people who have left, the region sometimes acquires the compelling form of an origin. Behind this origin lies other beginnings, other identities and other cultural practices. Poetry involves itself in the New Place with the speech in continuous evolution, with perceptions marked in contrast to absence, to earlier presences, and with relationships that never cease to be aware of initial causes. In this way, a poetry of Caribbean origin is one that registers the accents of multiple geographies in the formation of persons. No ground exists to celebrate the homecoming of such a speech. The false grounds of identity surface in the language and maintain their willingness to define definitively the incompleteness of the name without the sanction of various centres." --Mark McMorris, from "Poetry of Implication" (preface to "Out of the Anglophone Caribbean," Exact Change Yearbook) "[Elizabeth] Willis insists upon the uniqueness of everything; and she succeeds, with amazing consistency, in reinvesting language with the uniqueness of origin." --Joshua McKinney, Denver Quarterly =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D COMING UP: * April 19 Ernesto Cardenal (The Women's Building, 3543 18th Street, 7:30 pm, $5-10) * April 28 (Saturday) Euro-SF Poetry Festival (Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin, 7:30 pm, $5) w/Katarina Frostenson (Sweden), Tor Obrestad (Norway), Lutz Seiler (Germany), & Taylor Brady (San Francisco) * May 3 Cole Swensen & Elizabeth Robinson (Poetry Center, 4:30 pm, free) Poetry Center Book Award reading * May 10 Student Awards Reading (Poetry Center, 4:30 pm, free) * May 17 Stefania Pandolfo & Leslie Scalapino (Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin, 7:30 pm, $5) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D LOCATIONS THE POETRY CENTER is located in Humanities 512 on the SW corner of the San Francisco State University Campus, 1600 Holloway Avenue 2 blocks west of 19th Avenue on Holloway take MUNI's M Line to SFSU from Daly City BART 28 MUNI bus or free SFSU shuttle THE UNITARIAN CENTER is located at 1187 Franklin Street at the corner of Geary on-street parking opens up at 7:00 pm from downtown SF take the Geary bus to Franklin THE WOMEN'S BUILDING is located at 3543 18th Street between Valencia & Guerrero parking in the pay-lot at 16th below Valencia from 16th St BART walk 1 block west, 2 blocks south on Valencia then west on 18th READINGS that take place at The Poetry Center are free of charge. Except as indicated, a $5 donation is requested for readings off-campus. SFSU students & Poetry Center members get in free. The Poetry Center's programs are supported by funding from Grants for the Arts-Hotel Tax Fund of the City of San Francisco, the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writers, Inc., and The Fund for Poetry, as well as by the College of Humanities at San Francisco State University, and by donations from our members. Join us! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Steve Dickison, Director The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue ~ San Francisco CA 94132 ~ vox 415-338-3401 ~ fax 415-338-0966 http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit ~ ~ ~ L=E2 taltazim h=E2latan, wal=E2kin durn b=EE-llay=E2ly kam=E2 tad=FBwru Don't cling to one state turn with the Nights, as they turn ~Maq=E2mat al-Hamadh=E2ni (tenth century; tr Stefania Pandolfo) ~ ~ ~ Bring all the art and science of the world, and baffle and humble it with one spear of grass. ~Walt Whitman's notebook ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:07:40 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Austinwja@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Mister Spock Stamp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/2/01 6:44:01 PM, michael_amberwind@YAHOO.COM writes: << how about John Cage? >> how about him? one of those musicians that make bad poets? Hardly. Best, Bill Austinwja@aol.com Austinwj@farmingdale.edu WilliamJamesAustin.com Kojapress.com Amazon.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:08:23 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bertha Rogers Subject: April update, NYS LIT Curators web site MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Dear Friends, Here's the April update for the New York State Literary Curators Web Site, http://www.nyslittree.org, brought to you by Bright Hill Press in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts. HAPPY NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, presented by the Academy of American Poets; stop in at http://www.poets.org to learn more about the many events celebrating this month, the sponsoring organizations, and your opportunity to vote for a stamp featuring a poet. EVENTS & ORGANIZATIONS PAGE: In NYC, we welcome Symphony Space's Selected Shorts Reading Series and Instituto Cervantes; in Kingston we welcome Flying Saucer Coffeehouse; and in Suffern, the Suffern Free Library. Don't miss all the great Poetry Month events throughout New York State! And keep sending your events, no later than the 25th of the month preceding your event, please. CIRCUIT WRITERS PAGE: Writers newly added are Paul Genega and D.H. Melham. If you're a writer with a book and you want to be listed as available for readings in New York, look at the page, follow the format, and email us the information. We'll post it. If you're a new reading series, send us the information. If you're a writer who has several readings to list, send them to us, and we'll post them under the presenting organization's name. If you wish to unsubscribe, just notify us. Questions? Comments? Email us at wordthur@catskill.net. Bertha Rogers Site Administrator ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:26:12 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: McKounterpoint MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I agree this is a more interesting poem with some interesting images. OK. I give up. Put him on whatever stamps or stamp. Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Maxwell" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:14 AM Subject: McKounterpoint I realize it a little absurd to perpetuate the Rod thread, but less so if it becomes something in excess of smirk fest. I think Rod is about the "total experience" of ambient light, music and the immersive parfumerie of snarky self-invention. Compare Jimmy Webb's "film operas", Mick Ronson's "Slaughter on 10th Ave", or Chicago's love guru Bobby Conn. In each case failure and fantasia are of a species, and "love" is spectacle, is accident, is disastrous, is worth singing about. I think pushing it too far is part of the point, and why the fan's collusion is so satisfying. It's transformative risk, it's about being light-hearted in the most serious way, and about comic participation of the sort that J. Debrot is so often writing about. But should anyone try to comfortably sideline the question of McKuen's poetic project by accepting Kasey's example, then let me offer another from the same site. It's a bit uneven, but not without its surprises and a few idées de scène echoic of late Ashbery. Andrew ***** "a message from the bunker" (Rod McKuen) It was not meant to be an odyssey, Leviathan escape. Some unravel time is all, to add a wing but not rebuild the nest. A few fortnights of coming down from drafty stages, scary plains, aging airplanes. Too many mornings waking in The Grand and Not So Grand Hotel Where Am I. It should have been poco divertimento from the second act, intermission from the dead line, time lapse from whatever. A never time to reason out, or out run reason. But lazy months not monitored will prance and promenade to years. This easy conga line may then go on a few more eons 'til the fickle decades whirl away with other partners to the next slam dance event. To some I had an easy death out there in a poppy field. Or I rolled over with some handsome woman, or some pretty man until we both rolled off the last horizon. The truth was not so lovely but we'll never know it you and me. Every question does not need A fancy dancer answer man. Thank you for waiting. Guess I knew you would. Others took up Others to help them hoist their banners. Glad they did. Well they should. I've come back to help you shoulder our old flags and unfurl our new devices. Guess you knew I would. Your graying minstrel boy who hangs about till all the lights go out Your Johnny Jump Up Appleseed a-planting, spring or not so spring is here and home again. Harvest time will have to wait till harvest time. Have you seen my old partners, tea dance mates, from all those odd cotillions, boogie bar affairs? Should you, tell them I'll be there In all the new pavilions with a pencil ready and my decade dance card not yet filled with fox trot promises and leisure dates. Hello in there. We will rendezvous Again. Guess you know we will. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:32:05 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: Nihil illegitimi carborundum MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John. In NZ you come across, or I used to come across, certain "characters" in the work force that say are accounts clerks or whatever, but they studied some Latin once and so on, and its their little joke...carborundum is the stuff used ( a form of carbon) instead of diamonds for grinding etc...its Zukovskic translation is: "Dont let the bastards grind ya down!" Cheers, Richard. PS another one my father used to say "gestucken" a kind of "German" for stuck Again, his little joke, he was a Londoner but didnt know much if any German. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Tranter" To: Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 4:01 PM Subject: Nihil illegitimi carborundum > Onthe list recently ... "Nihil bastardum carborundum" > > > I thought it was "Nihil illegitimi carborundum" .. or have I got my Latin > wrong? > > > > from John Tranter > > Editor, Jacket magazine: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/ > - new John Tranter homepage - poetry, reviews, articles, at: > http://www.austlit.com/johntranter/ > - early writing at: > http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter/ > ______________________________________________ > 39 Short Street, Balmain NSW 2041, Sydney, Australia > tel (+612) 9555 8502 fax (+612) 9818 8569 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:10:14 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: Mister Spock Stamp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Spo(c)kers. Please keep it clean. Mr Harold Bloom, vastly prolific author of innumerable stars on the milky way tomes whose number is and are numberless, is surely an enormous asset to the United States. After all, how many United Statsian criticators (or Canadian for that matter) have starred in such epics as "Ulysses" by that great Irish gourmet and fabulator James van Joyce? Hast thou not realisethed that Ireland is now Joyceless? Its because its lost its Bloom. The Bloom(s) passed over to the US where one of the son's of the Blooms became the worlds greatest reader. Bloom has read 8990008898989898098989889898 milllllllliooooonnnnn boooooookkkkkkkkkssssss. Bloom infact...well, he went boom! "BOOOM!!" Actually, I'm reading some essays currently in the one he editied (with about 600 milliion others in the series) about "The Sound & the Fury". Our friend Harold claims its a bit too derivative of Joyce...well...but the point is (seriously now) that Faulkner took Joyce's technique quite a number of steps further with "The Sound and the Fury". But, that said, and despite that he critiqued J A's "Tennis Court Oath", Mr Bloom is an asset to America. His blood should (nay must) be bottled. He should be on many stamps. A kind of jazzed up Leavis...but a worthy fellow, a worthy fellow: despite all those long words like "liminal". Anycase...how could he avoid "swerve". I had swerve the other day. One either veers or swerves or sheers away in vertiginous something or rather until one fraginates the ansgt of driven derisial derivation until in a huge unmitigated swoop the hybrid Classist-Freydian-Wagnarian-Duino Elegies-Love Ya Baby-Miltonic tonic-Trilling-Olsonian/Cagean(lake of silence)-Pinter-St John-Logosian and new old-high cherishing traditionis be invoked. Of course one does. Eros. Any way, if this stamp deathbate takes the wrong directianation, I will be forced to fire you all out of my bloomin' canon. In fact I'll baballooooom you out, bless me if I dont, to be sure.Yours, R.H.B.T. ----- Original Message ----- From: "michael amberwind" To: Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: Mister Spock Stamp > i'd vote for Leonard Nimoy to get his own stamp - > i mean i know he's not dead but since Star Trek > went off the air he might as well be > > ever read his book of poetry - "Thinking of you" > i think its called - my vote for the worse book > of poetry ever written > > of course i have a copy! i figure anyone can > write a bad poem - but it takes a special skill > to write a real stinker - kinda like Whitman > 'cept Whitman at his best was better'n anybody > and even at his worst was still like no one else > > how about John Cage? > > i'm ashamed to admit i've never read mckuen - > they got em by the armful down at the local used > bookstore - so i think i'll check em out > > and on a side note - > i've been reading Harold Bloom lately and was > wondering if he had written a page that didn't > have the word "belated" "swerve" or "clinamen" > anywhere on it > > just curious > > > ************************************************* > > I'm sorry but I must disallow McKuen and or the > > Beatles or anyone named > > Smith from this discussion. Or any one else of > > a "popular" ilk. Or I'll fire > > them and all you lot out of my canon. > > Yours,Richard von Harold > > > redandanalysedevrythingintheliterversetodeathpipeandslipperskindlyold > > > butantitenniscourtoathswothywordsworthingandaffodiliclongwords > > Bloom.PS My > > suggestion: Wytter Bynner? No? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Andrew Maxwell" > > To: > > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:37 AM > > Subject: Lights Over McKuen > > > > > > > I utterly agree with Ron's defense of Mister > > McKuen. What's wrong with > > > beachcombing and fireside swoons? Pleasures > > subtle, real and merciful. > > Plus, > > > he manages the sort of omniscient voice-over > > pageantry that can make > > > something like "The Love Movement" or "The > > Black Hawk, a Gothic Musical" > > > work. Since the English stole Scott Engel > > from us and made him a Walker, > > Rod > > > is the closest thing we have to a Jacques > > Brel. After a few spins of his > > > records, the corn pops and suddenly your > > behind the music. That's the > > > sweetest sort of conversion one can make! > > > > > > And Smith, Spicer and McKuen...can you think > > of a sexier cabal? > > > > > > But, to rehearse an old debate, I really > > can't stand for this McCartney > > > slapping. He was clearly the most tuneful > > Beatle, zany or no. "Maybe I 'm > > > Amazed" is a heartbreaker, and "Jet" is at > > least as delirious as any > > > Elmsliean banana peel shuffle. But I may be > > alone in this, and I thought > > the > > > only lonely place was on the moon... > > > > > > Best all, > > > Andrew > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 01:18:46 -0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Geoffrey Gatza Subject: Re: Rod McKuen -- Meditations on Jenny kissed Comments: To: "Richard.Tylr" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Richard, From where you are coming from you are absolutely correct. However, I can see where this crap is coming from. Its not as bad as I thought and hammers out a highly lyrical patterned line, which has a high degree of difficulty to sustain, as you know. I think we would agree on what makes for good poetry and as a younger student of poetry I am still in that phase of opening myself to a wider spectrum than those I revere and emulate. I love Creeley's tender lines but would rather chew tin foil than write like him; I prefer Olson and Pound. But this is who I am and how I express the world I see. I ask, seriously, could American poetry be what it is if Olsen was without Creeley? One informs the other, I guess. I don't know why this guy got a book contract or is sitting where he is. Well I do really, a bad poem carries more weight than a good poem. I still don't understand how Irvine Feldman got a Macarthur fellowship... or why people fixate on Frost ... it's a mystery to me. However, to sum up my point: I see and feel the theme is crap but its top quality crap. I hope you can accept that as a qualifier. Best Geoffrey ----- Original Message ----- From: richard.tylr To: Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 11:44 PM Subject: Re: Rod McKuen -- Meditations on Jenny kissed > Its a weak piece of dribble the McKuen. Richard. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Geoffrey Gatza" > To: > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 6:32 AM > Subject: Re: Rod McKuen -- Meditations on Jenny kissed > > > > Thank you for bringing this poem to my inbox. I saw the hawks circling so > I > > felt informed ... MY GOD this is a fine poem. The tenderness, immediacy, > the > > lack of irony. A beautiful expression. Its not as hip as I desire but a > > beautify vocal expression and we should listen, maybe not follow, but > > listen. > > > > Thanks, Geoffrey Gatza > > editor, Blaze VOX2k1 > > www.vorplesword.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: K.Silem Mohammad > > To: > > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 7:15 PM > > Subject: Rod McKuen > > > > > > > from McKuen's website (http://www.mckuen.com/), posted by Catherine Daly > : > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------- > > > "Meditations on Jenny kissed" > > > > > > > > > Jenny kissed me, > > > only once, > > > he said to me, > > > Now she's gone. > > > > > > How do I go on? > > > Every day I wait > > > remembering that once > > > my Jenny kissed me > > > and as she was leaving said, > > > now I'm going, now I'm gone. > > > > > > Only once and never more > > > timidly my Jenny kissed me > > > touched my lips before goodbye. > > > Every day I wait and wonder > > > > > > If life and > > > love has not missed me > > > only to pass on, pass on. > > > Valentines are sent to others > > > everyone but me. > > > > > > Yet I never miss the heart card, > > > oh no, Jenny kissed me > > > untied my heart and set it free. > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > > > Dude, that's pretty. Anyone else hear Creeley there? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Anyone for Leonard Nimoy? > > > > > > --Kasey > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > . . . . . . . . . > > > > > > k. silem mohammad > > > > > > santa cruz, california > > > > > > immerito@hotmail.com > > > > > > http://communities.msn.com/KSilemMohammad > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 03:19:31 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: My Distinction MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - My Distinction I have difficulty with distinctions. I have read and written on emergence and submergence, and understand the complexity of subsumption architecture and its relation to complexity. I also have some idea about neural nets and fluidity - and fluidity gathering in and through what might be called intensifications or nodes. So at least on a metaphoric level I understand simplicity functioning in complexity, rather than complexity functioning in simplicity, or at the least, the intertwining of the two. I also think of exchange value leading to semi-autonomous superstructural entities, ok? So that language and its tethering occur only within a problematic. In the meantime, I observe Jean-Paul the crayfish in our large aquarium - a cray- fish has ten legs (decapod), several antennae, swimmerets, and various other organs, all of which contribute to locomotion, defense, perception, nourishment, reproduction, and so forth. A vast array connected by ganglia and a small brain. >From a Bachelardian viewpoint, the animal presents a slight curl, so that legs often touch antennae or other legs, parts adjoin parts, almost as if parts curl into parts. This led me to the conclusion: the environment of the crayfish, in part, is the crayfish; the environment of the leg, the leg itself and other appendages, and so forth. In this manner, subsumption begins at home, extends outward; the crayfish is part of its environment in a very literal way, as if the animal were to some extent disconnected with itself. Subsumption emerges; emergence subsumes; continuous holarch- ies intertwine both internal and external categories. It climbs to the top of a rock repeatedly where it is highly vulnerable. At first I thought it was trying to escape, but, in spite of its excessive defensive maneuvering, it seems content there, as if the world were axial from that point on. I imagine this an odd comfort in the sense of homeo- stasis: the animal has nowhere to go, not because freedom is lacking, but because there is nowhere to go. I imagine at this conjunction of concavity/curl and rock/top (the highest point in the aquarium within the walls) that the crayfish Jean-Paul is 'in' relative perfection; that its state is meditative; that it has, on its own, accomplished both the transvaluation of all values and their inextricable dialectical mingling, to such an extent that categories no longer exist - by virtue of the disappearance of the symbolic itself. And I note with that disappearance, the wavering of the indexical, the use- lessness of the ikonic, the absurdities of proper names, languages, and entities. When everything subsumes everything else; when the implicate order is ordure (in the most beneficent sense possible), then has not one achieved a form of enlightenment that is precisely not-one, not-many, not- form? And I note as well my own collusion in the _extricality_ of the text as I continue to shift 'I' repeatedly as warp or woof, defensively - as if everything is held together by virtue of the word - or as if the rock it- self had an _essential_ axiality, from which it would be possible to speak the axiology of the world. __ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 03:24:33 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: m&r...Kerouac Redux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lowelll, Mass. (March 31)..Convergent Networks Cancels I.P.O...equipment...software...telecom...S.E.C... Convergent might net $15-$17...lozt 51.60 $$$$$$$$$$$ mill.. Lowell...Mass....high-speed broadband..CVNI....DRn.... ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:46:29 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dickison Subject: ** NY Times Tues 3 April : on American Poetry Archives ** Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ** NOTICE **** NOTICE **** NOTICE **** NOTICE ** The NY Times OP/ED Page for Tuesday April 3, 2001 will include a piece by poet Ammiel Alcalay featuring The Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives among other taped collections of poetry, focusing on preservation of these archives' fragile taped materials. In light of the annual national celebration of American Poetry Month during April, the article remarks efforts by several U.S. literary arts organizations to preserve rare taped recordings of contemporary writers, the precarious nature of recorded media, and our on-going climate of sustenance-level funding for the literary arts. Mr. Alcalay visited the Archives here at San Francisco State University last month, when he and Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinovic' (whose work Alcalay has translated: Sarajevo Blues, City Lights Books, 1998) read and discussed their work for the Poetry Center. Videotapes of their public conversation at The Poetry Center, and their evening reading to a full house at the Unitarian Center in San Francisco, join the American Poetry Archives' vast video collection of contemporary writers that extends from 1973, when Kathleen Fraser rescued rare early audiotapes from being thrown out and founded the American Poetry Archives. Audiotapes in the Archives collection date from 1954. A printed catalog of Archives holdings available to the public will be published later this year, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, a partially completed list of Archives videotape holdings can be accessed at our website: www.sfsu.edu/~newlit =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Steve Dickison, Director The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue ~ San Francisco CA 94132 ~ vox 415-338-3401 ~ fax 415-338-0966 http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit ~ ~ ~ L=E2 taltazim h=E2latan, wal=E2kin durn b=EE-llay=E2ly kam=E2 tad=FBwru Don't cling to one state turn with the Nights, as they turn ~Maq=E2mat al-Hamadh=E2ni (tenth century; tr Stefania Pandolfo) ~ ~ ~ Bring all the art and science of the world, and baffle and humble it with one spear of grass. ~Walt Whitman's notebook ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 04:14:31 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Orpheus Subject: Re: POETICS Digest - 31 Mar 2001 to 2 Apr 2001 (#2001-48) In-Reply-To: <200104030411.AAA30694@alcor.concordia.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I don't know what to think of this except to say why is it being discussed? It has vague echoes of all sorts of poetry , sort of maudlin lyric, weak Williams, vague echoes of Down by the Sally Gar- dens by Yeats;of course with Yeats, I mean in the Yeats poem, the metrics are much superior, meaning tightly woven wheras this one is vaguely formed around what suppoes itself tobe a half-rhyme with too much repetition and variety; it possesses no irony as some one else noted, but its lack of irony does not add to its interest, but indeed its lack thereof makes its sustaining power hard to imagine; any number of poems by Felicia Hemans holds out much better; its disguised voice makes it improper to read. I mean its dishonest and pretends to be 'sincere' but jack kerouac does that much better and in plain style pain American English - I dont even know why I am going on like this. Perhaps its because I dont like my feelings being played with like this; but on the other hand perhaps I do, indeed like to have the violins of sentimentality played, if ruefully for a moment Ah, so much and so many popular poetryies etcetera/ It cld. make an itneresting exercise to re-write it as material... blah blah... ____________________________________________ ......Jenny > > > Jenny kissed me, > > > only once, > > > he said to me, > > > Now she's gone. > > > > > > How do I go on? > > > Every day I wait > > > remembering that once > > > my Jenny kissed me > > > and as she was leaving said, > > > now I'm going, now I'm gone. > > > > > > Only once and never more > > > timidly my Jenny kissed me > > > touched my lips before goodbye. > > > Every day I wait and wonder > > > > > > If life and > > > love has not missed me > > > only to pass on, pass on. > > > Valentines are sent to others > > > everyone but me. > > > > > > Yet I never miss the heart card, > > > oh no, Jenny kissed me > > > untied my heart and set it free. __________________________________ > > > Dude, that's pretty. Anyone else hear Creeley there? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 04:22:20 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Orpheus Subject: correction MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 'with too much repetition and NO variety; it possesses no irony as some' Oh of course there is some Birney sort of attempt here as well... but this guy who wrote prob. writes fast and formula, Very Sincere, so rt of thi9ng, not at all real poesie; whole cute leagues of poets of lines in time writing this sort of sentimental minor vague variety verse -- I sniff out some Tennyson, but very badly re-cooked......... oh well... ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:45:07 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brent Cunningham Subject: Small Press Distribution Open House April 7 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Join hundreds of book lovers at the country's only exclusively literary book distributor: Small Press Distribution on Saturday, April 7th *from Noon to 4pm* *BROWSE among more than 8,000 books (at a 20% to 50% discount) *CONSUME food & drink from Bay Area culinary outlets, and *LISTEN to readings by Bay Area writers (readings begin at 2PM) Guest of Honor Clark Coolidge, Lucha Corpi, Lauren Gudath, D.A. 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Get it at http://www.opera.com/download/ ------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:03:12 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: stupid post, query MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII (sent to nettime) - I'm writing this post out of ignorance, despair, anger. I will confess readily to the first, even the idiocy of it. What the federal government is doing to the United States and the rest of the world is horrifying. Most of the people I know, admittedly left-lean- ing, feel powerless to stop it. Our own freedoms are being taken away; the environment is left to rot; minorities are left out of any real decision- making; and some of us, like myself, think we may be on the brink of war - cold war, if not hot. I've protested and sent protest emails, all with the understanding none of this makes any difference. There are calls for boycotting US products, but that will, I think, effect nothing; if Bush continues on his present path, it's in subservience to the mining/oil/development interests at home - which in fact would only be helped by boycotts. This country is one of the largest, if not the largest, consumer per capita, of any country on the planet - it also has, as you know the largest prison population (per capi- ta as well), and next to no health care. Bush, in order to get elected, made numerous campaign promises - many of which he's reversed as soon as he took office. He promised compromise with the Democrats, and has ignored them; he's reversed all environmental prom- ises, etc. What he said in the campaign clearly makes no difference to him. He's got Christie Whitman to act as his fall guy - and she seems in- credibly liberal compared to him. For the first time we have a "president" that has not been elected - we are feeling the tension and horror of a government the people did not want, and a government which clearly does not want the people. (Yes, there have been electoral college reversals before, but not in modern times; not with the collusion of the brother-governor of a state; and not with so much right-wing legislation immediately put into place. Bush "lost" by half a million, which is not inconsiderable, even by official counts, of course.) I am writing to ask the obvious - so it doesn't get kicked around only in our lofts here - is anyone thinking of suing or impeaching Bush? Is such a thing possible? Can a lawsuit be filed on the basis of campaign promises immediately reversed? - which leads to the other natural question - Can I promise _anything_ to get elected, and then proceed otherwise? I don't know if constitutional law plays into this - I doubt it - but is there the possibility of oral contracts established? I know this is the case among private citizens here - very hard to prove - but with the government, this would be a matter of record. This country has never had, not since Vietnam, a strong and viable opposi- tion; as you know, we have no speaker of the opposition here - and cur- rently both congress and the supreme court side with right-wing concerns in general. (While the Senate appears divided, Cheney casts the deciding vote, and a number of Democrats are fairly right wing; the party has moved more in that direction.) In short, on one hand there is intense economic/ laissez-faire capitalist activity, and on the other - silence, analysis, theory, self-laceration, blame-placing, futile marches and email. So many of us are living in despair; if the US continues on its ultra- right path, the world economy and environment will suffer as well. We are indeed a rogue nation, a violent one; we are a nation of murderes, killing our own, taking the rest of the world for granted as marketplace, quaint, tourist-destination, naive. I'm well aware of the idiocy of this post, its naivete; I can repeatedly analyze the current situation, but, again like many of us, "just" feel victimized. I see no way out; I don't want to march and sign petitions that mean nothing - no one is listening anymore. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Petitions, anyone? Alan Internet Text at http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/ Partial at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write sondheim@panix.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:11:24 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Small Press Subject: Kenneth Koch reads in SF this Friday, April 6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Kenneth Koch Friday, April 6, 2001 at 7:30 pm Special event co-sponsored by Small Press Traffic and the San Francisco Art Institute Held at: 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, SFAI Auditorium $5 A legendary king of the word, Kenneth Koch has published over twenty books, most recently STRAITS and New Address. He was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1995, and in 1996 he received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry awarded by the Library of Congress. He is also a pioneer in Poets Theater, and most of his work in that field has been collected in The Gold Standard: A Book of Plays. Perhaps most famously, he has shown the way to bring poetry into the lives and work of ordinary people, including the very young and the aged, in several best-selling books, including Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Just when you think you know all about the "New York School of Poetry," along comes the Joker! Join us for this special evening. Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, Executive Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCAC 1111 Eighth Street San Francisco, California 94107 415/551-9278 http://www.sptraffic.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:04:41 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - this is the sentence that will change the world. this is the joyous sentence. this sentence is in a poem in which it's said that "crimson murder rushed the streets" this sentence reassures the reader that it is only a poem. this sentence states that the poem exaggerates, that nothing occurs, that one reads the poem like an audience. this sentence says: never take it seriously. this sentence will change your life. this is the furiously happy sentence. this sentence is in a poem in which it's said that "our love will live forever past the stars" this sentence reassures the reader that the writer has not discovered the ability to exist forever in this or any other world. this sentence states that poetic truth is always competition, saying something better leaves daily life behind. this sentence says, look at my effort, time, and cleverness. this sentence wraps it up, taking it unseriously. this sentence wraps up the looking, an economy to follow. _ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 06:02:58 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Sam Subject: New Anthology: Fresno MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings everyone! Just thought I'd pass along the news that Heyday Books has just released HOW MUCH EARTH: THE FRESNO POETS, an anthology containing poetry that has come out of the amazingly vital and rich California Central Valley poetry scene. It covers people like David St. John, Lawson Inada, Gary Soto, the late Larry Levis and many, many more. Gawd, it even contains a guy named Sam Pereira who, while in his fifties, still thinks stanzas are gifts from da gods, coupled with a bit of personal sweat. Anyhow, if interested, check it out at their web site: http://www.heydaybooks.com and go to the CALIFORNIA POETRY SERIES link at that point. Regards to all, Sam ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:58:25 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Nielsen, Aldon" Subject: Re: Mister Spock Stamp In-Reply-To: <20010401013300.50501.qmail@web10805.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" You guys are inspiring me to go through with a course I've always threatened to offer: The Remaindered Canon of Celebrity Verse syllabus might well include Richard Thomas Leonard Nimoy Suzanne Summers Aly Sheedy (ah, you had forgotten, hadn't you?!) Jimmy Stewart Rod McKuen Jewell and now we can add Tupac Shakur " Subjects hinder talk." -- Emily Dickinson Aldon Lynn Nielsen Fletcher Jones Chair of Literature and Writing Loyola Marymount University 7900 Loyola Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045-8215 (310) 338-3078 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:43:53 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetics List Administration Subject: two reminders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit from section 2, "Subscriptions," of the Welcome Message: All posts to the list should provide your full real name, as registered. If there is any discrepancy between your full name as it appears in the "from" line of the message header, please sign your post at the bottom. -- from section 3, "Posting to the List": Messages sent to the Poetics List should be in ASCII or text-only format; HTML formatted messages will not be distributed. -- Christopher W. Alexander poetics list moderator ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:04:00 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: William J Allegrezza Subject: Re: moria in spring and submissions needed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Here is something I forgot to add: the url for Moria is www.moriapoetry.com. The spring issue of Moria is online. It features poems by elizabeth treadwell, philip santo, suzane thurman, annabelle clippinger, and dana ward. It also features two articles: Aidan Thompson's "The Meaning of 'Meaning' in the 'Experimental' poetry of Gertrude Stein, Lyn Heijinian, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Cole Swenson" and Georgiy Bogin's "Metodological Problems of Understanding Good Literature." As always, I am looking for submissions of poetry or poetic theory for the next few issues. Bill Allegrezza ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:05:29 -0400 Reply-To: dcpoetry@lycos.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: dc poetry Organization: Lycos Mail (http://mail.lycos.com:80) Subject: (No Subject) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear TextHeads, Send your text to the world's only silent-open-mike. *************** The "Silent Open Mike" is a slide-show of texts and images submitted by writers and artists from Seattle and beyond (backed up by the sonics of DJ Yum Yum). Usually a pre-reading feature of the Subtext New Writing Series, the Silent Open Mike will be running a special Poetry Festival event before the Hugo House readings from April 30-May 4th from 7:15-7:45 in the cafe space. Everyone is encouraged to participate. Deadline: April 13, 2001 How to submit: Send your texts over e-mail (no special file format is required just insert your text into the body of an e-mail message) and they will be converted to 100% clear plastic for slide projection. You may submit up to three texts. Send submissions and queries to: subslideshow@hotmail.com Please include the word "Shoestring" in your subject line. Guidelines: About 12-18 lines of text can fit on a slide. Maximum line length appx. 35-40 characters. All slides will be presented in an anonymous format. Everyone is welcome to submit (preference is given to Seattle based writers). For more info & a flash version of previous material see: http://www.poetryfestival.org/silent.shtml Get 250 color business cards for FREE! at Lycos Mail http://mail.lycos.com/freemail/vistaprint_index.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:14:40 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: komninos zervos Subject: Text On-line In-Reply-To: <020f01c0b8e2$74487840$372337d2@01397384> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" http://www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text/april01 articles by McKenzie Wark, Jenny Weight, Moya Costello, Phillip Paasuke, Komninos Zervos, Alan Sondheim, Nigel Krauth, Wendy James,Paul Dawson, Jenny Ledgar, Donna Lee Brien, Phillip Neilson, and Irene Wharfe. Poetry, Reviews. Text on-line journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. On-line Writing/Writing-On-line Special Issue - Edited by Komninos Zervos Carolyn Guertin, Mez, Alan Sondheim, Reiner Strasser. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:49:39 -0700 Reply-To: hans@softanswer.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Hans Friedrich In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Very nice! Have you ever read Douglas Hofstadter's Scientific American article on self-reference? It's collected in his book Metamagical Themas and is an abosolute must-read if you enjoy this sort of verbal magic. He provides a quite indepth discussion of the history and mechanics of self-reference and also quotes many delightful self-referential sentences. You should really try to get your hands on the article sometime. Hans Friedrich http://www.softanswer.com/hans/index.html On Tuesday 03 April 2001 11:04, you wrote: > - > > > this is the sentence that will change the world. > this is the joyous sentence. > this sentence is in a poem in which it's said that > "crimson murder rushed the streets" > this sentence reassures the reader that it is only a poem. > this sentence states that the poem exaggerates, that nothing occurs, > that one reads the poem like an audience. > this sentence says: never take it seriously. > > this sentence will change your life. > this is the furiously happy sentence. > this sentence is in a poem in which it's said that > "our love will live forever past the stars" > this sentence reassures the reader that the writer has not discovered > the ability to exist forever in this or any other world. > this sentence states that poetic truth is always competition, > saying something better leaves daily life behind. > this sentence says, look at my effort, time, and cleverness. > > this sentence wraps it up, taking it unseriously. > this sentence wraps up the looking, an economy to follow. > > > _ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:56:14 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Belz Subject: Re: stupid post, query Comments: To: sondheim@PANIX.COM In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Alan, Your work is getting eerier and more ironic (if that were possible). This one truly feels like a commonplace "social activist" email, but subtly shows itself to be a fiction. Simple cues such as "if not hot" and the quotes around "lost" in "Bush 'lost'"; the scores of warped statistics and "facts"; the many awkward word breaks (hyphenated as if printed), the seemingly unselfconscious employment of cliches ("strong and viable opposition"); then the masterstroke of suggesting impeachment on the basis of broken campaign promises. I have to say, it's good. It has, how shall I say-- soft lighting. The American TV living room of the Twilight Zone 21st century. The double sunset of democracy-- I love it. Kudos. -Aaron Belz > (sent to nettime) > - > > > I'm writing this post out of ignorance, despair, anger. I will confess > readily to the first, even the idiocy of it. > > What the federal government is doing to the United States and the rest of > the world is horrifying. Most of the people I know, admittedly left-lean- > ing, feel powerless to stop it. Our own freedoms are being taken away; the > environment is left to rot; minorities are left out of any real decision- > making; and some of us, like myself, think we may be on the brink of war - > cold war, if not hot. > > I've protested and sent protest emails, all with the understanding none of > this makes any difference. There are calls for boycotting US products, but > that will, I think, effect nothing; if Bush continues on his present path, > it's in subservience to the mining/oil/development interests at home - > which in fact would only be helped by boycotts. This country is one of the > largest, if not the largest, consumer per capita, of any country on the > planet - it also has, as you know the largest prison population (per capi- > ta as well), and next to no health care. > > Bush, in order to get elected, made numerous campaign promises - many of > which he's reversed as soon as he took office. He promised compromise with > the Democrats, and has ignored them; he's reversed all environmental prom- > ises, etc. What he said in the campaign clearly makes no difference to > him. He's got Christie Whitman to act as his fall guy - and she seems in- > credibly liberal compared to him. > > For the first time we have a "president" that has not been elected - we > are feeling the tension and horror of a government the people did not > want, and a government which clearly does not want the people. (Yes, there > have been electoral college reversals before, but not in modern times; not > with the collusion of the brother-governor of a state; and not with so > much right-wing legislation immediately put into place. Bush "lost" by > half a million, which is not inconsiderable, even by official counts, of > course.) > > I am writing to ask the obvious - so it doesn't get kicked around only in > our lofts here - is anyone thinking of suing or impeaching Bush? Is such a > thing possible? Can a lawsuit be filed on the basis of campaign promises > immediately reversed? - which leads to the other natural question - Can I > promise _anything_ to get elected, and then proceed otherwise? I don't > know if constitutional law plays into this - I doubt it - but is there the > possibility of oral contracts established? I know this is the case among > private citizens here - very hard to prove - but with the government, this > would be a matter of record. > > This country has never had, not since Vietnam, a strong and viable opposi- > tion; as you know, we have no speaker of the opposition here - and cur- > rently both congress and the supreme court side with right-wing concerns > in general. (While the Senate appears divided, Cheney casts the deciding > vote, and a number of Democrats are fairly right wing; the party has moved > more in that direction.) In short, on one hand there is intense economic/ > laissez-faire capitalist activity, and on the other - silence, analysis, > theory, self-laceration, blame-placing, futile marches and email. > > So many of us are living in despair; if the US continues on its ultra- > right path, the world economy and environment will suffer as well. We are > indeed a rogue nation, a violent one; we are a nation of murderes, killing > our own, taking the rest of the world for granted as marketplace, quaint, > tourist-destination, naive. > > I'm well aware of the idiocy of this post, its naivete; I can repeatedly > analyze the current situation, but, again like many of us, "just" feel > victimized. I see no way out; I don't want to march and sign petitions > that mean nothing - no one is listening anymore. > > Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Petitions, anyone? > > Alan > > Internet Text at http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/ > Partial at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt > Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html > Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm > CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write sondheim@panix.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:03:33 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eileen Tabios Subject: Kelsey Street Press MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From Kelsey St. Press: Events: April 17 Ann Lauterbach 8 PM Maud Fife Room Wheeler Hall UC Berkeley April 20th Kelsey St. Book Party and Reading for Renee Gladman and Elizabeth Robinson at Small Press Traffic, CCAC, 7:30pm Timken Lecture Hall, Montgomery Campus May 3rd Elizabeth Robinson reading at San Francisco State University with Cole Swenson, 4:30pm, The Poetry Center, 1600 Hollway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132 May 6th Patricia Dienstfrey and Susan Gervirtz reading at Dolby-Chatwick Gallery, 4pm 266 Sutter at Grant, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA May 14th Joint book party for Elena Rivera's Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press) Camille Guthrie's The Master Thief (Sub Press) Lisa Jarnot's Ring of Fire (Zoland Books) Keith Waldrop's Haunt (Instance Press) 6:00-9:00 p.m. Housing Works, 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012 (Between Houston and Prince, near Broadway) 212-334-3324 -------- Kelsey St.'s New Books in 2001 Publication of The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, prose by Bhanu Kapil Rider Publication of Nude, poetry by Anne Portugal, translated by Norma Cole Publication of Cusp, poetry by Jocelyn Saidenberg, winner of the 2001 Francis Jaffer Book Award Publication of Contingent Ardor, poetry by Denise Liddell Lawson Publication of Cecilia Vicuna's Instan, drawings and poetry by Cecilia Vicuna, in Spanish and English. Publication of Girl Riding Through the Story Garden, poetry by Patricia Dienstfrey ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:17:42 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: MAXINE CHERNOFF Subject: Re: Mister Spock Stamp In-Reply-To: <4.1.20010403095610.00a09600@lmumail.lmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII You also forgot Jimmy Carter. Maxine Chernoff On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Nielsen, Aldon wrote: > You guys are inspiring me to go through with a course I've always > threatened to offer: > > The Remaindered Canon of Celebrity Verse > > syllabus might well include > > Richard Thomas > Leonard Nimoy > Suzanne Summers > Aly Sheedy (ah, you had forgotten, hadn't you?!) > Jimmy Stewart > Rod McKuen > Jewell > > and now we can add > > Tupac Shakur > > > > " Subjects > hinder talk." > -- Emily Dickinson > > Aldon Lynn Nielsen > Fletcher Jones Chair of Literature and Writing > Loyola Marymount University > 7900 Loyola Blvd. > Los Angeles, CA 90045-8215 > > (310) 338-3078 > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:50:30 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mscroggi Subject: Jenny etc. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Okay, folks, get with the program. It's Leigh Hunt's "Rondeau": Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into you list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me. The McKuen strikes me as sort of a tumorous growth out of this minor, light, and lovely squib. >===== Original Message From UB Poetics discussion group ===== >I don't know what to think of this except to say why is it being >discussed? It has vague echoes of all sorts of poetry , sort of >maudlin lyric, weak Williams, vague echoes of Down by the Sally Gar- >dens by Yeats;of course with Yeats, I mean in the Yeats poem, the >metrics are much superior, meaning tightly woven wheras this >one is vaguely formed around what suppoes itself tobe a half-rhyme >with too much repetition and variety; it possesses no irony as some >one else noted, but its lack of irony does not add to its interest, >but indeed its lack thereof makes its sustaining power >hard to imagine; any number of poems by Felicia Hemans holds out >much better; its disguised voice makes it improper to read. I mean its >dishonest and pretends to be 'sincere' but jack kerouac does >that much better and in plain style pain American English - I dont >even know why I am going on like this. Perhaps its because I dont >like my feelings being played with like this; but on the other hand >perhaps I do, indeed like to have the violins of sentimentality played, if >ruefully for a moment > >Ah, so much and so many popular poetryies etcetera/ It cld. make an >itneresting exercise to re-write it as material... blah blah... >____________________________________________ ......Jenny >> > > Jenny kissed me, >> > > only once, >> > > he said to me, >> > > Now she's gone. >> > > >> > > How do I go on? >> > > Every day I wait >> > > remembering that once >> > > my Jenny kissed me >> > > and as she was leaving said, >> > > now I'm going, now I'm gone. >> > > >> > > Only once and never more >> > > timidly my Jenny kissed me >> > > touched my lips before goodbye. >> > > Every day I wait and wonder >> > > >> > > If life and >> > > love has not missed me >> > > only to pass on, pass on. >> > > Valentines are sent to others >> > > everyone but me. >> > > >> > > Yet I never miss the heart card, >> > > oh no, Jenny kissed me >> > > untied my heart and set it free. >__________________________________ >> > > Dude, that's pretty. Anyone else hear Creeley there? Mark Scroggins Department of English Florida Atlantic University 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431 phone 561.218.3327 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 18:14:36 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: William Slaughter Subject: Notice: Mudlark In-Reply-To: <200012311925.OAA17456@osprey.unf.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII New and On View: Mudlark Flash No. 10 (2001) Diane Wald | the conversation Diane Wald's e-chapbook (Improvisations on Titles of Works by Jean Dubuffet) appears in Mudlark. Her book, Lucid Suitcase, was published by Red Hen Press in 1999. More recent poems appear in The American Poetry Review, Skanky Possum, Fence, The Hat, Verse, and The Paterson Review. An interview with Wald and poet Michael Burkard appears in the Spring 2001 edition of Rain Taxi. Spread the word. Far and wide, William Slaughter _________________ MUDLARK An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics Never in and never out of print... E-mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:21:50 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "K.Silem Mohammad" Subject: Remaindered Canon (Aldon's post) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Nielsen, Aldon" > >You guys are inspiring me to go through with a course I've always >threatened to offer: > >The Remaindered Canon of Celebrity Verse > >syllabus might well include > >Richard Thomas >Leonard Nimoy >Suzanne Summers >Aly Sheedy (ah, you had forgotten, hadn't you?!) >Jimmy Stewart >Rod McKuen >Jewell > >and now we can add > >Tupac Shakur Also: Jimmy Carter Michael Madsen Mason Williams Erica Jong With regard to other possible candidates for the poet stamp, who has heard of or read Dell Hair, the "Policeman Poet"? I found a copy of his _Nature Beautiful Poems_ (1930) in a used book store when I was in New York a couple weeks ago. (Actually, I think there's supposed to be a colon after "Beautiful," but that's the way it's printed on the cover.) This guy, an actual Toledo cop (or was it Topeka? I forget), was a real eccentric. The poems are just the most unreadable doggerel, but apparently he was something of a celebrity in his day, hailed as a "natural poet" who could compose verse extempore on any and all occasions. When he was hauling criminals into the clink, he would recite (improvise?) poetry to them in the back of the paddy wagon. Hoo ha! --K. . . . . . . . . . k. silem mohammad santa cruz, california immerito@hotmail.com http://communities.msn.com/KSilemMohammad _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:00:27 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Broder, Michael" Subject: Ear Inn Readings--April 2001 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The Ear Inn Readings Saturdays at 3:00 326 Spring Street, west of Greenwich New York City FREE April 7 Wendy Larsen, Joe Myer, Mary Jane Nealon, James Ragan April 14 Peg Peoples, Yosefa Raz, Elizabeth Tucker April 21 Susan Cronin, Phillis Levin, Kate Light April 28 Lynn Domina, Ann Scott Knight, Gail Segal The Ear Inn Readings Michael Broder, Director Patrick Donnelly, Lisa Freedman, Kathleen E. Krause, Co-Directors Martha Rhodes, Executive Director The Ear is one block north of Canal Street, a couple blocks west of Hudson. The closest trains are the 1-9 to Canal Street @ Varick, the A to Canal Street @ Sixth Ave, or the C-E to Spring Street@ Sixth Ave. For additional information, contact Michael Broder at (212) 246-5074. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 07:55:25 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetics List Administration Subject: The Voice in the Closet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This message came to the administrative account. --TS --On Friday, April 13, 2001, 11:30 PM -0400 "T Pelton" wrote: " Starcherone Books announces the republication of a classic of postmodern " fiction, Raymond Federman's The Voice in the Closet. For ordering " information, see http://www.starcherone.com or contact Ted Pelton, 34o " Maryland Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-885-2726. The text is newly " revised in both French and English by Federman and features images by " artist Terri Katz Kasimov from her "Federman Series." " " The Voice in the Closet is available in Buffalo at Talking Leaves Books " and Rust Belt Books. " " " Thanks, " Ted Pelton " ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:26:42 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Receptionist Subject: Re: stupid post, query MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain thanks for this -- it's well put - sent it on to a couple of friends and mother. -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of Alan Sondheim Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:03 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: stupid post, query (sent to nettime) - I'm writing this post out of ignorance, despair, anger. I will confess readily to the first, even the idiocy of it. What the federal government is doing to the United States and the rest of the world is horrifying. Most of the people I know, admittedly left-lean- ing, feel powerless to stop it. Our own freedoms are being taken away; the environment is left to rot; minorities are left out of any real decision- making; and some of us, like myself, think we may be on the brink of war - cold war, if not hot. I've protested and sent protest emails, all with the understanding none of this makes any difference. There are calls for boycotting US products, but that will, I think, effect nothing; if Bush continues on his present path, it's in subservience to the mining/oil/development interests at home - which in fact would only be helped by boycotts. This country is one of the largest, if not the largest, consumer per capita, of any country on the planet - it also has, as you know the largest prison population (per capi- ta as well), and next to no health care. Bush, in order to get elected, made numerous campaign promises - many of which he's reversed as soon as he took office. He promised compromise with the Democrats, and has ignored them; he's reversed all environmental prom- ises, etc. What he said in the campaign clearly makes no difference to him. He's got Christie Whitman to act as his fall guy - and she seems in- credibly liberal compared to him. For the first time we have a "president" that has not been elected - we are feeling the tension and horror of a government the people did not want, and a government which clearly does not want the people. (Yes, there have been electoral college reversals before, but not in modern times; not with the collusion of the brother-governor of a state; and not with so much right-wing legislation immediately put into place. Bush "lost" by half a million, which is not inconsiderable, even by official counts, of course.) I am writing to ask the obvious - so it doesn't get kicked around only in our lofts here - is anyone thinking of suing or impeaching Bush? Is such a thing possible? Can a lawsuit be filed on the basis of campaign promises immediately reversed? - which leads to the other natural question - Can I promise _anything_ to get elected, and then proceed otherwise? I don't know if constitutional law plays into this - I doubt it - but is there the possibility of oral contracts established? I know this is the case among private citizens here - very hard to prove - but with the government, this would be a matter of record. This country has never had, not since Vietnam, a strong and viable opposi- tion; as you know, we have no speaker of the opposition here - and cur- rently both congress and the supreme court side with right-wing concerns in general. (While the Senate appears divided, Cheney casts the deciding vote, and a number of Democrats are fairly right wing; the party has moved more in that direction.) In short, on one hand there is intense economic/ laissez-faire capitalist activity, and on the other - silence, analysis, theory, self-laceration, blame-placing, futile marches and email. So many of us are living in despair; if the US continues on its ultra- right path, the world economy and environment will suffer as well. We are indeed a rogue nation, a violent one; we are a nation of murderes, killing our own, taking the rest of the world for granted as marketplace, quaint, tourist-destination, naive. I'm well aware of the idiocy of this post, its naivete; I can repeatedly analyze the current situation, but, again like many of us, "just" feel victimized. I see no way out; I don't want to march and sign petitions that mean nothing - no one is listening anymore. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Petitions, anyone? Alan Internet Text at http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/ Partial at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write sondheim@panix.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:12:57 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joanna Fuhrman Subject: Noelle Kocot Readings in NYC Comments: cc: JoFuhrman@excite.com Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 Noelle Kocot's NY Readings April 9, 8 p.m. at the 11th Street Bar Between A&B May 5, 3 p.m. the Ear Inn May 20, 7 pm Zinc Bar with Chris Stroffolino and Drew Gardner --- oh hmm.. since Noelle asked me to post her readings, I might as well post my own. I'm reading with Charles North and Frank Lima at the Brooklyn Public Library on wed. April 18 at 6:30. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 02:26:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: i'm so dedicated MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - i'm so dedicated. (for Hannah Weiner who saw me, for Clark Coolidge who heard me, for Kathy Acker who was seen, for Vito Acconci who was heard - God Bless Them All - for Hannah Weiner who taught me nothing, for Clark Coolidge who taught me everything, for Kathy Acker, who taught me something, for Vito Acconci who taught me nothing.) i am not here (i was here by the last one). i am not here (i was here by the last one). i am one of the old ones. i wrote this to you. i saw red when i wrote this. i saw black when i wrote this. i saw nothing when i wrote this. i am here (i'm not here by the first one). i am here (i am here by the first one). i am one of the young ones. i didn't write this. i heard "red" when i spoke this. i heard "black" when i spoke this. i saw everything. i smelled everything. i tasted everything. i'm not here. i looked at everything. you should see everything. i looked every- where. you should look everywhere. i saw this coming. i saw them coming. (for Vito Acconci. for Hannah Weiner. for Clark Coolidge. for Kathy Ack- er.) (for Clark Coolidge who believed in me, for Vito Acconci who didn't, for Kathy Acker who thought i was crazy, for Hannah Weiner who read my head.) (i was never in his hand, i was never in her head, i was never in her mind, i was never in his brain.) (for Hannah Weiner I hardly knew, for Clark Coolidge, I somewhat knew, for Vito Acconci I knew back then, for Kathy Acker I knew back when.) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 00:02:10 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: stupid post, query MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alan. Dont worry about politics so much. Or at least dont let it get you down yourself. I dont like Bush either from over here: he could well precipitate another attack on China (as in the Vietnam fiasco)...the right wing are behind him..who knows. But the injustices will always be there. You're doing enough. You as a poet are doing enough. An extraordinary amount of brilliant work. Dont get down. Keep writing and living. Great poetry.Keep the politics and the poetry (can the two be separated?)(I think not mostly) going. These are serious times, but you're doing enough. Thanks for it. Yours sincerly, Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Sondheim" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 6:03 AM Subject: stupid post, query > (sent to nettime) > - > > > I'm writing this post out of ignorance, despair, anger. I will confess > readily to the first, even the idiocy of it. > > What the federal government is doing to the United States and the rest of > the world is horrifying. Most of the people I know, admittedly left-lean- > ing, feel powerless to stop it. Our own freedoms are being taken away; the > environment is left to rot; minorities are left out of any real decision- > making; and some of us, like myself, think we may be on the brink of war - > cold war, if not hot. > > I've protested and sent protest emails, all with the understanding none of > this makes any difference. There are calls for boycotting US products, but > that will, I think, effect nothing; if Bush continues on his present path, > it's in subservience to the mining/oil/development interests at home - > which in fact would only be helped by boycotts. This country is one of the > largest, if not the largest, consumer per capita, of any country on the > planet - it also has, as you know the largest prison population (per capi- > ta as well), and next to no health care. > > Bush, in order to get elected, made numerous campaign promises - many of > which he's reversed as soon as he took office. He promised compromise with > the Democrats, and has ignored them; he's reversed all environmental prom- > ises, etc. What he said in the campaign clearly makes no difference to > him. He's got Christie Whitman to act as his fall guy - and she seems in- > credibly liberal compared to him. > > For the first time we have a "president" that has not been elected - we > are feeling the tension and horror of a government the people did not > want, and a government which clearly does not want the people. (Yes, there > have been electoral college reversals before, but not in modern times; not > with the collusion of the brother-governor of a state; and not with so > much right-wing legislation immediately put into place. Bush "lost" by > half a million, which is not inconsiderable, even by official counts, of > course.) > > I am writing to ask the obvious - so it doesn't get kicked around only in > our lofts here - is anyone thinking of suing or impeaching Bush? Is such a > thing possible? Can a lawsuit be filed on the basis of campaign promises > immediately reversed? - which leads to the other natural question - Can I > promise _anything_ to get elected, and then proceed otherwise? I don't > know if constitutional law plays into this - I doubt it - but is there the > possibility of oral contracts established? I know this is the case among > private citizens here - very hard to prove - but with the government, this > would be a matter of record. > > This country has never had, not since Vietnam, a strong and viable opposi- > tion; as you know, we have no speaker of the opposition here - and cur- > rently both congress and the supreme court side with right-wing concerns > in general. (While the Senate appears divided, Cheney casts the deciding > vote, and a number of Democrats are fairly right wing; the party has moved > more in that direction.) In short, on one hand there is intense economic/ > laissez-faire capitalist activity, and on the other - silence, analysis, > theory, self-laceration, blame-placing, futile marches and email. > > So many of us are living in despair; if the US continues on its ultra- > right path, the world economy and environment will suffer as well. We are > indeed a rogue nation, a violent one; we are a nation of murderes, killing > our own, taking the rest of the world for granted as marketplace, quaint, > tourist-destination, naive. > > I'm well aware of the idiocy of this post, its naivete; I can repeatedly > analyze the current situation, but, again like many of us, "just" feel > victimized. I see no way out; I don't want to march and sign petitions > that mean nothing - no one is listening anymore. > > Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Petitions, anyone? > > Alan > > Internet Text at http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/ > Partial at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt > Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html > Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm > CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write sondheim@panix.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:42:59 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Magee Subject: Poets & Painters (Sat, 4/7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Hi all, in case you happen to be in Philly this weekend, I'm giving a > reading and talk w/ my brother at the Kelly Writers House (where he has a > show up) and would love to see any and all of you there. Details > below. -m. > > According to Writers House: > > Hi Writers House Folk--We hope you'll join us for the third installment of > > our poets and painters series. Poet Mike Magee and painter Mitch Magee will > > share the spotlight as we mix readings, discussion, and a few choice snacks. > > See you here on Saturday evening. > > > > > > *****Please Join Us!***** > > > > The Kelly Writers House presents > > > > the third reading, discussion, and reception in the > > > > Poets and Painters Series. > > > > Featuring the work of: > > > > Painter Mitch Magee > > > > and > > > > Poet Michael Magee > > > > > > 7:00 PM > > Saturday, April 7th > > Kelly Writers House > > 3805 Locust Walk > > > > > > ************************ > > > > Michael Magee received his PhD at Penn where he wrote a dissertation, > > "Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz and Experimental Writing," and was > > very active at the Writers House. His articles on American Literature > > are out or forthcoming in REVIEW, CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE and RARITAN; his > > poems in NEW AMERICAN WRITING, CALLALOO, WASHINGTON REVIEW, LUNGFULL!, > > CROSSCONNECT, IXNAY and elsewhere. He edits the poetry journal COMBO, > > teaches at Wheaton College and lives in Pawtucket, RI with his wife Susanna > > and their daughter Anabella. > > > > Mitchell Magee is a graduate of Cornell University and received a Masters of > > Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has > > appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions in and around New York and > > he performs regularly with the improv comedy group "Monkey Dick" at the > > Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. He lives and works in > > Brooklyn. > > > > > > ---------------------------- > > The Kelly Writers House wh@dept.english.upenn.edu > > 3805 Locust Walk 215-573-WRIT > > Philadelphia, PA 19104 http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wh > > > > _______________________________________________ > New-Poetry mailing list > New-Poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu > http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:05:43 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Marcella Durand Subject: a fading poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" April 4, 2001 A Fading Poetry By AMMIEL ALCALAY The ancient Egyptians used stone and parchment, whereas our collective memory is often stored on acetate, vinyl and emulsion-coated films - forms that die quickly. Much of the documentation of 20th century American poetry and literary culture is in evanescent form, and it is being lost. On a bicoastal itinerary from New York to San Francisco, with major stops in Boston, Boulder, Vancouver and Los Angeles, you can find thousands of decaying reels of audiotape, film and videotape. Three of the most important collections are at the Poetry Project in New York City, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., and the Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University. These materials have mainly to do with the New American Poetry, which includes the Objectivists, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Umbra and Black Arts movements, the Beats, Black Mountain and the New York School. The texts of poets in these many movements are reasonably accessible, as demonstrated by the magnificent 1998 New York Public Library exhibition, "A Secret Location on the Lower East Side." But the sights and sounds are fading fast. Before they disappear, you can still listen to Langston Hughes (in 1958) praising Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti for initiating poetry-and-jazz performances the year before, an audio moment that neatly links the Harlem Renaissance, the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beats; you can hear James Baldwin discuss his novel "Giovanni's Room" with Philip Roth (in 1960). While the tape and film last, you can watch John Cage persisting in a performance piece (about Henry David Thoreau) on the night Richard Nixon resigned - as the audience, wanting to celebrate, gets steadily wilder. You can see a San Francisco poetry reading for gay liberation in 1971, or Allen Ginsberg in the basement at City Lights bookstore discussing William Carlos Williams as Neal Cassady arrives. You might see young Alice Walker discussing Zora Neale Hurston when the latter was still forgotten, the former little known. Preservation of such materials is incredibly labor-intensive. Repository institutions are doing their best to protect their archives, but a greater commitment from public and private donors is desperately needed. Because many of the films and tapes are by now quite delicate, they must be re-recorded in real time, with someone monitoring the process. Existing tapes may be too weak to endure more than the one playing needed for transfer to masters. These materials are an invaluable legacy - readings, classes, public discussions and other encounters with many of America's most important writers of the past 50 years. Ideally, this legacy should be made available to the public in the most accessible formats, much as the Smithsonian Institution has preserved our musical heritage. Otherwise, we will have at best the corporate version of, say, Jack Kerouac - the cropped, airbrushed Beat posing in khakis - rather than the dense literary, poetic and social culture from which that photo was lifted in the name of selling pants. Ammiel Alcalay is a poet and author of "Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays, 1982-1999." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:16:03 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ann Vickery Subject: HOW2 Issue 5 now online! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed To everyone on Poetics List, The new issue of HOW2 is now online at: http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/current/index.html This bumper issue features special sections on: "Writing Erotics" with pieces by Lissa Wolsak, Susan Clark, Carla Harryman, Kathleen Fraser, and Leslie Scalapino. A retrospective on HOW(ever) with essays by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Linda Kinnahan, Kathleen Fraser, Elisabeth Frost, and Ann Vickery. "Mina Loy: A Symposium" with essays by Peter Nicholls, Alex Goody, and Hilda Bronstein "African-American New Poetries" with papers by Harryette Mullen, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Kathy Lou Schultz There are also three feature sections of New Writing: "Postings from Britain" (ed. Caroline Bergvall) featuring Karlien van den Beukel, Tertial Longmire, Redell Olsen, Shelby Matthews, Maggie O'Sullivan, Edith Marie Pasquier, Denise Riley, and Caroline Bergvall "Australian New Writing" (ed. Deb Comerford) featuring Hazel Smith, Jacinta Aboukhater, Anita Heiss, Alison Croggon, Emma Lew, Cassie Lewis, Romaine Moreton, Aileen Kelly, Tracy Ryan, Dipti Saravanamuttu, Morgan Yasbincek, Geraldine McKenzie, and MTC Cronin. Writing from the US (ed. Renee Gladman) featuring Deborah Richards, Bhanu Kapil Rider, Dodie Bellamy, Juliana Spahr, and Aja Couchois Duncan. And not forgetting the forum on oppression and writing (ed. Nada Gordon) with Maria Damon, Chris Stroffolino, Prageeta Sharma, Ange Mlinko, Alan Sondheim, Arpine Grenier, Adeena Karasick, Cole Heinowitz, David Hess, and Brian Stefans. Plus mixed media from Anya Lewin, Lara Odell, and Anna Reckin; and interviews with Cynthia Hogue and Redell Olsen! Check out Ramez Qureshi's review of Fanny Howe's Selected Poems as well as other reviews by Marjorie Perloff, Brian Kim Stefans, Anna Reckin, Janet Bowdan, and Frances Presley. All made possible thanks to Kate Fagan (managing editor), Roberta Sims (web designer), Kathleen Fraser (founding editor/publisher), Jo Ann Wasserman (now work/book co-ordinator) and the revitalized editorial advisory board. Hope you enjoy this exciting issue, Ann Vickery (editor) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:06:29 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Chirot Subject: Re: Mister Spock Stamp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit don't forget--Marilyn Monroe was prone so to speak to pen a poem-- uncollected as yet--but scattered in various books one may find her gems-- --dbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:24:07 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Bouchard Subject: current Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Nineteen Ways of Looking For Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz (Photographer) (Paperback - June 1987) Average Customer Review: Out Of Stock, out of mind 5 of 5 poets found the following review helpful: Very interesting, April 4, 2001 Reviewer: A reader from Hainan This pilot is very valuable in the art of translation. It offers one Wang Wei quatrain: in the original Chinese character, a literal translati Top Secret essays as well. I enjoyed it immensely. Nineteen Ways of Looking For Wang Wei 1. In the water. If he were "American" clipping Chinese spy plane, he would be national hero. Heron, hibiscus; No pity the flowers fallen. 2. In the air. Double-U trying to look tough on camera; this ain't Granada, sonny-boy. 3. In your heart. With State "state of the art" "eavesdropping" plane of the heart. What will it reveal? 4. At the poetry workshop. Palindrome of china: anihc. 5. In the Rose Garden, by the new ballfield: they say he was a quite a player back in the day. 6. On Napster: "sorry seems to be the hardest word." 7. At City Lights: "CIA Dope Calypso" and also "you don't really want to go to war. . . it's them bad Russians. Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen." 8. On K-Tel records: Cold War hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s, etc. etc. 9. On the autmn hills hoarding scarlet from the setting sun; birds chasing, etc. etc. 10. At the international trade board meeting, well-covered by the New York Times: "China demands Washington overlook its human rights abuses in new trade partnership or admit its own." 11. On death row in Texas: the ex-governor craves a celebratory beer while making "quips." 12. On favorite Clash album: "ask the Dali Lama in the hills of Tibet/ How many monks did the Chinese get?" 13. At Wal-Mart, banned: McVeigh to ghost write Wang Wei bio from beyond. 14. At the clinic for reproductive rights: Mr. Zhu said "This was plane that penetrated without permission, violating law." 15. In everything Made in Most Favored Nation. 16. Don't blame me, I voted for INSERT CANDIDATE HERE. 17. "Nuts." 18. "How long can one man's lifetime last?/ In the end we return to formlessness./ I think of you waiting to die. A thousand things cause me distress" - the other Wang Wei, the one not flying jet fighter 19. your own way, own wang ><>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Daniel Bouchard Senior Production Coordinator The MIT Press Journals Five Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 bouchard@mit.edu phone: 617.258.0588 fax: 617.258.5028 <>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><>> ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:15:32 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: lungfull@RCN.COM Subject: B.Lorber's NEW TIME at P.Pony W. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Here's an announcement much like the one you received not long ago -- only this one's got the *new* time of the reading listed. If you would like to miss the reading feel free to come at the original time & Brendan will dedicate a drink to you. Or not at all & he will tell some delightful & charming story about you in your absence... Brendan Lorber will be dedicating poems to those who come to his reading Friday April 6th at The Pink Pony West Reading Series Cornelia Street Cafe * * * * * 29 Cornelia Street Betw. Bleeker & West 4th Street in New York City [A,B,C,D,E,F to West 4th or 1/9 to Christopher] $6 admission gets you a free drink. Please note: open mike starts at 6:00 Brendan Lorber reads at 7:00 more information at www.poetz.com hosted by Maggie Balistreri and Jackie Sheeler * * * * * Brendan Lorber is the editor of LUNGFULL! Magazine & co curates The Zinc Bar Sunday Night Reading Series. He's the author of The Address Book (Owl Press, 1999), Your Secret (fauxpress.com, 2000) Hazard Pom Pom (Situations, 2001) and, with Jen Robinson, Dictionary of Common Phrases (The Gift, 2000). If you'd prefer not to receive updates along these lines just reply to lungfull@rcn.com with remove in the subject line. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:03:14 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: chris stroffolino Subject: New Laura(Riding).... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This may be of interest to some of you---- C.S. > > Laura Riding's 1928 wonder =Anarchism Is Not Enough= > has been reprinted by the University of California > Press, just in time for poetry month 2001! > > Edited and with an introduction by Lisa Samuels, > the list price is $16.95 and the ISBN 0-520-21394-7. > Available on-line and in your average attentive > bookstore. > > Charles Bernstein writes on the back cover: > "=Anarchism Is Not Enough= is Laura Riding's most > exuberant work. Written when she was in her late 20s, > this work touches on all the themes that would preoccupy > the poet for the rest of her life. Lisa Samuels' > introduction is an ideal companion to this work by one of > the most original and surprising of the American > modernist poets." > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:20:06 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: gene Subject: "come live with me & etc." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I am trying to collect Elizabethan, Restoration and other period British poetry in which the couplet, "come live with me and be my love/ and we will some pleasures prove" appears. It needn't be in first lines, as in Donne. So far, I have this material in Walton's Compleat Angler (anon. attribution), Donne, Marlowe, Jonson and Day Lewis. I require the poet, the poem and the period. Will someone lend a hand? Thanks. Gene Grabiner 359 Parkside Avenue Buffalo, New York 14214 (716) 833.23.55 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:03:43 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mary Burger Subject: Second Sundays "Cal/Community" talk, April 8 Mime-Version: 1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Second Sundays @ The Stork Club presents a discussion on CALIFORNIA/COMMUNITY: What constitutes a writing community, the diversity of writing communities in California, and how living in California influences writers. With contributors: CATALINA CARIAGA, author of Cultural Evidence; STEVE DICKISON, Director of The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives, SFSU; JACK FOLEY, author of Powerful Western Star: Poetry & Art in California. Come join in! Share your thoughts on the California writer's life. Sunday, April 8 @ 2 p.m. Admission $2.00. 21 and over only Hosted by Mary Burger and Beth Murray The Stork Club is in downtown Oakland, 2330 Telegraph Ave between 23rd and 24th St. By BART: get off at 19th St, walk one block west to Telegraph, then up about 5 blocks, just past 23rd. The Stork Club has a large and vivid sign. (Our printed calendar mistakenly lists two addresses for the club; 2330 Telegraph is correct.) ALSO: SEE THE APRIL 6TH EAST BAY EXPRESS for an article about the Second Sundays series!!! http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ JOIN US FOR UPCOMING EVENTS, THE SECOND SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH. All events 2:00, $2.00. May 13 GREG BROOKER AND CHERYL BURKETT read. Greg, of Los Angeles, will read from Spirit's Measure, a work employing the same "translation" method used by Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon. Cheryl Burkett lives in San Francisco. Her books include behind the white,Children's Stories, and Passing Through Ninety Degrees. June 10 SURPRISE SALON! Poets on film, poets on stage. Come see history slide into view in the final event of The Stork Club Spring 2001 season. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:54:32 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Stefans, Brian" Subject: The Inkblot Record / Eunoia / BKS Homepage MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I've just finished a commission to put Dan Farrell's The Inkblot Record online for Coach House Books. In case you haven't checked it out, Coach House has a really excellent site with their entire catalogue of poetry and prose available for web reading, including the complete Carnival series (1 & 2, and "outtakes") by Steve McCaffery, a sort of gesamtkunstwerk of concrete poetry (no sound). About the online version of The Inkblot Record: Dan Farrell's second volume of poetry is an examination of a discourse that everyone knows about but few people have examined in detail: the response of people to Rorschach inkblot patterns. By turns profound and hilarious, this book is an insightful statement about the relentless drive to make meaning out of nothing. The online version features a dynamic inkblot, designed by Brian Kim Stefans, to test your own poetic/psychological state of being. http://www.chbooks.com (Shockwave required) ::: Also, new at Arras, a Flash setting of a chapter of Christian Bok's Eunoia, a long prose-poem many years in the making. This is chapter "e", which excludes all other vowels but "e." This is not the final version of the piece, but thought to run it by you. http://www.arras.net (Flash required) ::: Finally, I've put up a homepage. It includes all of my reviews, pet projects, Flash and Director pieces, etc. I used the EPC template since I'm too lazy right now to design something from the ground up. http://www.arras.net/stefans.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:57:22 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: zuk23@YAHOO.COM Subject: zuk's a24 In-Reply-To: <72962.3195305033@ny-chicagost2a-186.buf.adelphia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii looking for a copy of a24 in audio. i know it was performed a number of years ago, and am curious if any copies of this exist. also what i would need to suppy (a tape, money or whatnot) to get a copy.. thanks! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:34:01 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steven Marks Subject: Pinsky, Zooba and Poetry Month MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all: Ran across this while surfing. It's the cruelest month again. At least for the northern hemisphere. In temperate climes. Steven A Conversation With Robert Pinsky On Poetry And Technology Begins Zooba's Celebration Of Poetry Month BOSTON, MA -- (INTERNET WIRE) -- 04/04/2001 -- Zooba (www.zooba.com), a new media company that delivers entertaining emails on more than 40 topics with compelling content and related products, for the first time celebrates National Poetry Month with a series of emails on five of the world's most acclaimed poets. Launching the series is a discussion with former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky about the use of technology to promote poetry. Beginning the first week of April, the series on poetry will be sent to Zooba's Events of the Year and Literature subscribers. The five poets featured are Robert Frost, Anna Akhmatova, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman and Robert Pinsky. Each email honors one of these world-renowned poets with lesser known stories about their remarkable lives and careers. The first email in the series will include Pinsky's "To Television," a poem reflecting what he describes in his interview with Zooba as his desire "to find what seems important, prominent, but not yet poetic." "The web can be a wonderful locale for poetry--surprisingly, restoring the vocal, bodily nature of the art. In some ways, audio technology can reach back to before printed pages, supplying a vocal presence for the poem," said Pinsky, Poetry Editor at Slate.com, and author of six books of poetry including his latest, Jersey Rain (2000) and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1965-1995, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received the 1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. "Zooba provides its subscribers with emails that are both entertaining and enlightening; our concise format and expansive, but targeted, reach allows us to celebrate National Poetry Month with hundreds of thousands of people interested in literature and poetry," said David Beardsley, Editor in Chief of Zooba. "Through our unique email technology and rapidly growing subscriber base, Zooba can make poetry, and information on many other subjects, more accessible to the general public." About Zooba All Zooba emails are written in a concise, compelling format and contain product recommendations that are relevant to the content. Subscribers can choose from more than 40 topic channels including Great Minds, Food & Cuisine, Destinations, Fitness, Nutrition & Diet, and Bestsellers, and receive informative emails that include relevant product recommendations. For example, an email about Vincent van Gogh might recommend a book about the artist, a video on his life and a reproduction of one of his works. Contact: Sharon Collin Company: Zooba.com Title: Director of Marketing/Public Relations Phone: 617-426-8444 x 133 Email: scollin@zooba.com URL: http://www.zooba.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:47:19 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Hilton Obenzinger Subject: Re: Joe Brainard Event Report In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Kasey, Thanks for the report -- been so busy I haven't had time to write earlier. How did your reading go in NYC Poetry Project? Anything new on the job front? Take care, Hilton >>From: Hilton Obenzinger >>Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group >>To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU >>Subject: Joe Brainard Event Report >>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:37:09 -0800 >> >>Dear Folks, >> >>I was not able to attend the Joe Brainard event at the UC Berkeley >>Museum on Sunday 3/4 -- I am generally kept at home due to family >>health problems. Could someone write a report on the event -- Steve >>Dickison, perhaps? I'm sure others would be curious too. Brainard's >>art and his "I Remember" are very movingly silly and delightful, >>always favorites, and a great crowd of Tulsa and St. Mark's laureates >>was scheduled to attend. I'm particularly curious about Dick Gallup >>-- he seems to have resurfaced after many years, and I would like to >>know how he is and what his work is like. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Hilton Obenzinger > >The Brainard tribute was a delight. Anne Waldman opened with a spirited >reading of material by both Brainard & herself, accompanied by slides. Bill >Berkson went next, reading some of Brainard's journal entries from the >Bolinas years--slides here as well. Dick Gallup read some cut-ups of his >from the 60's that were interesting, but not quite optimum for public >reading. He seemed a little shy. Barbara Guest read from _Moscow >Mansions_. Ron Padgett read and showed slides of an unpublished 1966 >Christmas letter/comic from Brainard to him and Pat Padgett: "The Incomplete >Biography of Ron Padgett." This included a hilarious fictionalization of >Padgett's birth in a Tulsa hospital in which his mother intervenes >heroically to prove the doctors wrong who inform her that her child is dead. > Finally, Kenward Elmslie gave a spectacular reading from _The Champ_, >flicking through slides of Brainard's artwork at lightning speed. There was >an intermission during which a tape of _I Remember_ played, along with a >short film which I unfortunately missed, and then the six poets sat in a >panel and fielded first the curator's then the audience's questions about >Brainard. When asked about the collaboration process between himself, >Brainard, and Berrigan on "Bean Spasms," Padgett reassured everyone first of >all that "there was no sex involved." > >The exhibit itself (which continues through May 27th) is nicely >representative, ranging from his early collages to some lovely floral >paintings to assorted comics (including the wonderful "People of the World >Relax" from _C Comix_ No. 2). And of course several "Nancy" pieces. There >were two slightly mildewed copies of Brainard's and Elmslie's _Baby Book_ >for sale in the gift shop for $10, and I'm kicking myself for not buying >one. > >Kasey Mohammad > > > >. . . . . . . . . >k. silem mohammad >santa cruz, california >immerito@hotmail.com >http://communities.msn.com/KSilemMohammad > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:07:05 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Avery Burns Subject: Canessa 4/8/01 Comments: To: aburns@calfed.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Canessa Park Reading Series 708 Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Admission $5 LA to SF continues... Sunday April 8th @5 pm Franklin Bruno & Paul Vangelisti Franklin Bruno is the author of MF/MA, a chapbook from Seeing Eye Press, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in, among others, Faucheuse, lyric&, Kenning, and Ribot. His essays and reviews appear regularly in L.A. Weekly, The Boston Phoenix, and the online magazine Feed. As a songwriter and performer, he has toured and recorded extensively under his own name and as part of Nothing Painted Blue and The Extra Glenns. Current projects include an almost-completed musical and a barely-begun dissertation in philosophy at UCLA. A native Southern Californian, he lives and writes in Los Angeles. Born in San Francisco in 1945, Paul Vangelisti is the author of some 20 books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator from the Italian. In 1981 he was awarded a Translation Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1988 a Poetry Fellowship from the same Endowment. From 1971-1982 he was co-editor, with John McBride, of the literary magazine Invisible City and, from 1993-1999, was the editor of Ribot, the annual publication of the College of Neglected Science. Currently he is Chair of the Graduate Writing Program at Otis College of Art & Design. This spring his Embarrassment of Survival: Selected Poems 1970-2000 is appearing from Marsilio/Agincourt in New York. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:13:45 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Julie Reiser Subject: ANNOUNCE: Bob Perelman at Johns Hopkins University Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed BOB PERELMAN WILL READ AND DISCUSS HIS POETRY APRIL 12 AT 7 PM GILMAN 148 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BALTIMORE, MD Bob Perelman has published over 15 volumes of poetry, most recently _The Future of Memory_ (Roof Books) and _Ten to One: Selected Poems_ (Wesleyan University Press). His critical work focuses on poetry and modernism. His critical books are _The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History_ (Princeton University Press) and _The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky_ (University of California Press). He has edited _Writing/Talks_ (Southern llinois University Press), a collection of talks by poets. EVERYONE IS WELCOME _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:48:10 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mike Kelleher Subject: Skinner/Hunt Reading Comments: To: UB Core Poetics Poetics Seminar Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit READING ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER PRESENTS LAIRD HUNT Proseur extraordinaire & author of Thousands, The Paris Stories, and The Impossibly Reading with Buffalo eco-poetic hero JONATHAN SKINNER, author of Political Cactus Poems LIVE AND IN PERSON FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 8:00 P.M. ($3, $2 students, $1 jb members) RUST BELT BOOKS BE THERE OR BE TRAPEZOID ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:58:44 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: hex editor MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - this is murder. i cannot explain what constitutes the creation of a split-second when all creation is smashed. i am writing this before the event. understand the event. his is mqrder. i cannot e plain w at const tutes t e creati n of a split-se ond whe all cre tion is smashed. i am wr ting th s befor the eve t. unde stand th event. th s befor the eve t. unde stand th event. :of a split-se ond whe all cre tion is smashed. i am wr ting: his is mqrder. i cannot e plain w at const tutes t e creati n:: th s befor the eve t. unde stand th event. :of a split-se ond whe all cre tion is smashed. i am wr ting: his is mqrder. i cannot e plain w at const tutes t e creati n:tion is smashed. i am wr ting: his is mqrder. i cannot e plain w at const: th s befor the eve t. unde stand th event. :of a split-se ond whe all cre tion is smashed. i am wr ting: his is mqrder. i cannot e plain w at const tutes t e creati n:tion is smashed. i am wr ting: his is mqrder. i cannot e plain w at const:tion is smashed. i am wr ting: his is mqrder. i cannot e plain w at const th s befor the eve t. unde stand th event. :of a split-se ond whe all cre tion is smashed. i am wr ting: his is mqrder. i cannot e plain w at const tutes t e creati n:e plain w at const::tion is smashed. i am wr ting: his is mqrder. i cannot e plain w at const + ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 04:07:21 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: antarctica MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - antarctica agcin, we're!workinh somewherf io thf vicinity!of!antbrctica; xhiue it occasionfd pn rflation to!thf sihnifier cosruqted!by its ewanfsceoce with tie uhinh received- aml lpst in bli{zasd,noise, alm wiite- white, wiitf. tie uhinh received- aml lpst in bli{zasd,noise, alm wiite- white, wiitf.:occasionfd pn rflation to!thf sihnifier cosruqted!by its ewanfsceoce with:agcin, we're!workinh somewherf io thf vicinity!of!antbrctica; xhiue it:: Write breaks through my tie uhinh received- aml lpst in bli{zasd,noise, alm wiite- white, wiitf.! 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And I thought Alan was talking about real things! Well, some of the time. Alan is either a madman or a genius, hopfully somewhere eerily but brilliantly in between. But I think Alan (whatever his project is and I admire hime for such a vast project) is incredible. Hope he keeps it up. But I feel some concern he might :burn out": no? Hope not. Alan Sondheim is probably keeping Nescafe in business!! But that recent sentence thing that someone commented on) by Alan was clever...a lot of excellent stuff (Alan and Aaron). Amazing,cheers Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Belz" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 8:56 AM Subject: Re: stupid post, query > Alan, > Your work is getting eerier and more ironic (if that were possible). This > one truly feels like a commonplace "social activist" email, but subtly shows > itself to be a fiction. Simple cues such as "if not hot" and the quotes > around "lost" in "Bush 'lost'"; the scores of warped statistics and "facts"; > the many awkward word breaks (hyphenated as if printed), the seemingly > unselfconscious employment of cliches ("strong and viable opposition"); then > the masterstroke of suggesting impeachment on the basis of broken campaign > promises. I have to say, it's good. It has, how shall I say-- soft > lighting. The American TV living room of the Twilight Zone 21st century. > The double sunset of democracy-- I love it. Kudos. > -Aaron Belz > > > > (sent to nettime) > > - > > > > > > I'm writing this post out of ignorance, despair, anger. I will confess > > readily to the first, even the idiocy of it. > > > > What the federal government is doing to the United States and the rest of > > the world is horrifying. Most of the people I know, admittedly left-lean- > > ing, feel powerless to stop it. Our own freedoms are being taken away; the > > environment is left to rot; minorities are left out of any real decision- > > making; and some of us, like myself, think we may be on the brink of war - > > cold war, if not hot. > > > > I've protested and sent protest emails, all with the understanding none of > > this makes any difference. There are calls for boycotting US products, but > > that will, I think, effect nothing; if Bush continues on his present path, > > it's in subservience to the mining/oil/development interests at home - > > which in fact would only be helped by boycotts. This country is one of the > > largest, if not the largest, consumer per capita, of any country on the > > planet - it also has, as you know the largest prison population (per capi- > > ta as well), and next to no health care. > > > > Bush, in order to get elected, made numerous campaign promises - many of > > which he's reversed as soon as he took office. He promised compromise with > > the Democrats, and has ignored them; he's reversed all environmental prom- > > ises, etc. What he said in the campaign clearly makes no difference to > > him. He's got Christie Whitman to act as his fall guy - and she seems in- > > credibly liberal compared to him. > > > > For the first time we have a "president" that has not been elected - we > > are feeling the tension and horror of a government the people did not > > want, and a government which clearly does not want the people. (Yes, there > > have been electoral college reversals before, but not in modern times; not > > with the collusion of the brother-governor of a state; and not with so > > much right-wing legislation immediately put into place. Bush "lost" by > > half a million, which is not inconsiderable, even by official counts, of > > course.) > > > > I am writing to ask the obvious - so it doesn't get kicked around only in > > our lofts here - is anyone thinking of suing or impeaching Bush? Is such a > > thing possible? Can a lawsuit be filed on the basis of campaign promises > > immediately reversed? - which leads to the other natural question - Can I > > promise _anything_ to get elected, and then proceed otherwise? I don't > > know if constitutional law plays into this - I doubt it - but is there the > > possibility of oral contracts established? I know this is the case among > > private citizens here - very hard to prove - but with the government, this > > would be a matter of record. > > > > This country has never had, not since Vietnam, a strong and viable opposi- > > tion; as you know, we have no speaker of the opposition here - and cur- > > rently both congress and the supreme court side with right-wing concerns > > in general. (While the Senate appears divided, Cheney casts the deciding > > vote, and a number of Democrats are fairly right wing; the party has moved > > more in that direction.) In short, on one hand there is intense economic/ > > laissez-faire capitalist activity, and on the other - silence, analysis, > > theory, self-laceration, blame-placing, futile marches and email. > > > > So many of us are living in despair; if the US continues on its ultra- > > right path, the world economy and environment will suffer as well. We are > > indeed a rogue nation, a violent one; we are a nation of murderes, killing > > our own, taking the rest of the world for granted as marketplace, quaint, > > tourist-destination, naive. > > > > I'm well aware of the idiocy of this post, its naivete; I can repeatedly > > analyze the current situation, but, again like many of us, "just" feel > > victimized. I see no way out; I don't want to march and sign petitions > > that mean nothing - no one is listening anymore. > > > > Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Petitions, anyone? > > > > Alan > > > > Internet Text at http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/ > > Partial at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt > > Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html > > Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm > > CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write sondheim@panix.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:56:02 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dickison Subject: ** NY Times April 4, 2001: Poetry Center, et al ** Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ** NOTICE **** NOTICE **** NOTICE **** NOTICE ** The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives is featured today, alongside other significant taped poetry collections in the country, in an article by poet Ammiel Alcalay in the NY Times Op-Ed page (we were bumped yesterday by the Chinese/spy jet caper). Note that of the six taped incidents remarked in the article, five (all except the John Cage-Richard Nixon conjunct) are from recordings in the American Poetry Archives collection. Mr. Alcalay visited the Archives here at SFSU last month, when he and Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinovic' (whose work Alcalay has translated: Sarajevo Blues, City Lights Books, 1998) read and discussed their work for the Poetry Center. Videotapes of their public conversation at The Poetry Center, and their evening reading to a full house at the Unitarian Center in San Francisco, join the American Poetry Archives' vast video collection of contemporary writers that extends from 1973, when Kathleen Fraser rescued rare early audiotapes from being thrown out and founded the American Poetry Archives. Audiotapes in the Archives collection date from 1954. A printed catalog of Archives holdings available to the public will be published later this year, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, a partially completed list of Archives videotape holdings can be accessed at our website: www.sfsu.edu/~newlit =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D [NY Times] April 4, 2001, OP-ED Page A23 A Fading Poetry By AMMIEL ALCALAY The ancient Egyptians used stone and parchment, whereas our collective memory is often stored on acetate, vinyl and emulsion-coated films -- forms that die quickly. Much of the documentation of 20th century American poetry and literary culture is in evanescent form, and it is being lost. On a bicoastal itinerary from New York to San Francisco, with major stops in Boston, Boulder, Vancouver and Los Angeles, you can find thousands of decaying reels of audiotape, film and videotape. Three of the most important collections are at the Poetry Project in New York City, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., and the Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University. These materials have mainly to do with the New American Poetry, which includes the Objectivists, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Umbra and Black Arts movements, the Beats, Black Mountain and the New York School. The texts of poets in these many movements are reasonably accessible, as demonstrated by the magnificent 1998 New York Public Library exhibition, "A Secret Location on the Lower East Side." But the sights and sounds are fading fast. Before they disappear, you can still listen to Langston Hughes (in 1958) praising Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti for initiating poetry-and-jazz performances the year before, an audio moment that neatly links the Harlem Renaissance, the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beats; you can hear James Baldwin discuss his novel "Giovanni's Room" with Philip Roth (in 1960). While the tape and film last, you can watch John Cage persisting in a performance piece (about Henry David Thoreau) on the night Richard Nixon resigned -- as the audience, wanting to celebrate, gets steadily wilder. You can see a San Francisco poetry reading for gay liberation in 1971, or Allen Ginsberg in the basement at City Lights bookstore discussing William Carlos Williams as Neal Cassady arrives. You might see young Alice Walker discussing Zora Neale Hurston when the latter was still forgotten, the former little known. Preservation of such materials is incredibly labor-intensive. Repository institutions are doing their best to protect their archives, but a greater commitment from public and private donors is desperately needed. Because many of the films and tapes are by now quite delicate, they must be re-recorded in real time, with someone monitoring the process. Existing tapes may be too weak to endure more than the one playing needed for transfer [from] masters. These materials are an invaluable legacy - readings, classes, public discussions and other encounters with many of America's most important writers of the past 50 years. Ideally, this legacy should be made available to the public in the most accessible formats, much as the Smithsonian Institution has preserved our musical heritage. Otherwise, we will have at best the corporate version of, say, Jack Kerouac -- the cropped, airbrushed Beat posing in khakis -- rather than the dense literary, poetic and social culture from which that photo was lifted in the name of selling pants. Ammiel Alcalay is a poet and author of "Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays, 1982-1999." =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Steve Dickison, Director The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue ~ San Francisco CA 94132 ~ vox 415-338-3401 ~ fax 415-338-0966 http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit ~ ~ ~ L=E2 taltazim h=E2latan, wal=E2kin durn b=EE-llay=E2ly kam=E2 tad=FBwru Don't cling to one state turn with the Nights, as they turn ~Maq=E2mat al-Hamadh=E2ni (tenth century; tr Stefania Pandolfo) ~ ~ ~ Bring all the art and science of the world, and baffle and humble it with one spear of grass. ~Walt Whitman's notebook ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:31:44 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Vidaver Subject: Denise Riley Visiting Writer-in-Residence at KSW April 22-29 (Vancouver) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DENISE RILEY =20 Lecture: "The Right To Be Lonely" Monday April 23 7:30 pm at SFU Downtown Segal Centre Sponsored by the Kootenay School of Writing and The Institute for the Humanities at SFU Free Reading at KSW Friday April 27 at 8:00 pm=20 201-505 Hamilton Street Vancouver 604-688-6001 $5/$3 Writing Workshop (FULL) Tuesday April 24 to Thursday April 26 7:00 - 10:00 pm at KSW=20 $50 The "right to be lonely" could also suggest the hope of being alone yet understood as also social even within one's solitariness. Solitude, as a pretty noun religiously linked to creativity's desiderata, may be acknowledged to be necessary; this admission is often anodyne. But there is a stronger solitude which refuses to be understood as merely presocial and which rejects the benevolent will to make everything, and it too, familial. =20 This solitude groans at the prospect of being tenderly brought into the domain of the new social; its bearers are in no constellation but tolerate being units of one, are maybe childless, parentless, without siblings, unattached, unmarried, widowed, are not communitarian, are transiently or even (they can't know) permanently single, and are not in a panic. They simply find themselves alone. The question "how single is single?" could ask: how might such singleness be considered neither pathological nor be swept up,in an ostentatious de-pathologising, into a compulsive sociability? The figure of the Solitary might yet be retrieved, and in terms other than her failure to attain to the family. Might a properly recognised state of singleness (to wrench the notion of "recognition" away from its usual oppressively gregarious tone) recast that desolate and resentment-prone metaphoricity of social exclusion =AD might it also somewhat allay the= burden of those who may sometimes find themselves living in solitude at the very same time that they live within the family? =20 Denise Riley was born in Carlisle, Cumbria in 1948. Her prose books are War in the Nursery; Theories of the Child and Mother (l983); 'Am I That Name?'Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History (l988), and, most recently, The Words of Selves; Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000, in the series Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics, edited by Judith Butler and Frederick M. Dolan). She also edited Poets on Writing; Britain, l970-l99l (l992). She was writer-in-residence at the Tate Gallery in 1996 and currently teaches at the University of East Anglia. She has taught and lectured widely in Europe and the U.S., including Cambridge, the University of Ljubljana, the Centre George Pompidou, Bard College, Vassar, UCLA Irvine, Columbia and Brown. Since 1984 she has edited, with Colin McCabe and Stephen Heath, the series Language, Discourse and Society for Macmillan. Her poetry collections include Marxism for Infants (l976); Dry Air (l985); Stair Spirit (l992), Mop Mop Georgette (l993), Penguin Modern Poets 10 with Iain Sinclair and Douglas Oliver (l996) and Denise Riley: Selected Poems (2000). Her work is included in many anthologies, including The Virago Book of Love Poetry, edited by Wendy Mulford, Exact Change Yearbook, edited by Peter Gizzi, Out of Everywhere, edited by Maggie O'Sullivan, Other: British and Irish Poetry Since 1970, edited by Peter Quartermain and Richard Caddel, The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945 and The New Penguin Book of English Verse. She given over 200 poetry readings since 1976.=20 The Kootenay School of Writing acknowledges the assistance of the British Council and the Province of BC.=20 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:19:56 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: Remaindered Canon (Aldon's post) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ah, the Coppper Poet! Yeah! I recall him well...I'd be out on a job and wouldnt you know "Woo wah! Woo wah!" and flashing lights and a siren. But that Cop...the Poet Cop: he had the whole thing set up. And you'd have a choice: 1. In the slammer, no breakfast. 2. Listen to 4 hours of the Poet Cop and go free. A lot of me mates folded and just went in quietly. But I got to know some brilliantly awful and wonderfully obscene doggeral. The funny thing was it grew on you. You found yourself smiling. I mean, there i was or were, me tools and jemmy aside me, and old Bill the Poet Cop was on and on about his old Mum or some Sheila who travelled the world. But there was no malice. Just briliantly cadenced drivel. Rumour has it that Rod McKuen was his natural born son but I dont beleive that. He was too busy with his endless poems. (Bill the Cop Poet I mean). He was also a dab hand with straight out invective. He'd say things like: "I'm a bloody failed detective with a reumy old mum so I took up invective." Surprising things like that, and then of he'd go...hours and hours of brillant drivel...which reminds me I'd better sign off. Regards, Richioso. ----- Original Message ----- From: "K.Silem Mohammad" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:21 AM Subject: Remaindered Canon (Aldon's post) > >From: "Nielsen, Aldon" > > > >You guys are inspiring me to go through with a course I've always > >threatened to offer: > > > >The Remaindered Canon of Celebrity Verse > > > >syllabus might well include > > > >Richard Thomas > >Leonard Nimoy > >Suzanne Summers > >Aly Sheedy (ah, you had forgotten, hadn't you?!) > >Jimmy Stewart > >Rod McKuen > >Jewell > > > >and now we can add > > > >Tupac Shakur > > > Also: > > Jimmy Carter > Michael Madsen > Mason Williams > Erica Jong > > With regard to other possible candidates for the poet stamp, who has heard > of or read Dell Hair, the "Policeman Poet"? I found a copy of his _Nature > Beautiful Poems_ (1930) in a used book store when I was in New York a couple > weeks ago. (Actually, I think there's supposed to be a colon after > "Beautiful," but that's the way it's printed on the cover.) This guy, an > actual Toledo cop (or was it Topeka? I forget), was a real eccentric. The > poems are just the most unreadable doggerel, but apparently he was something > of a celebrity in his day, hailed as a "natural poet" who could compose > verse extempore on any and all occasions. When he was hauling criminals > into the clink, he would recite (improvise?) poetry to them in the back of > the paddy wagon. Hoo ha! > > --K. > > > > . . . . . . . . . > k. silem mohammad > santa cruz, california > immerito@hotmail.com > http://communities.msn.com/KSilemMohammad > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:22:36 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Marcella Durand Subject: call for submissions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This may not get Bush thrown out of office, but it might make some of = us feel like we're doing _something_... Marcella ----- Original Message ----- From: "K.M. Sutherland" To: "s-------cs" Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 8:28 AM Subject: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - One Hundred Days (fwd) [In case anyone here hasn't yet seen this...please do contribute. We plan to get as much coverage here as possible, now that the manipulated brink of another global arms race + environment meltdown has come about as it obviously had to...] BARQUE PRESS invites you to submit to a special publication: ONE HUNDRED DAYS. To be published on 30 April, one hundred days after George W Bush was inaugurated. We urgently request critical responses to the first centenary of this = new administration, from writers and artists in the US and around the = world. Poetry, prose, satire, collage, red marginalia, infuriated scribblings, utopias, lament cycles, editorials, comic monologues, vexed = encyclopedias, sick cartoons, dream poems, scatologies, prophesies, journalistic digs, grammatical treatises and any misshapen deformed genre conceived in his image, all welcome. If we receive enough contributions, the volume will be distributed and deposited, as a feeble testament to creative dissent in a terrible = time. Please send submissions, questions or suggestions by return (to this = e-mail address: ab204@cam.ac.uk) or to: A. Brady, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, CB2 1TA, ENGLAND. Please also forward this invitation to all able-minded potential participants. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And if you need inspiration, you might recall that during his first = seventy days in office... -- appointed the richest cabinet in history: seven of its members own = assets worth more than $10m (=A36.8m); eleven of the remaining 12 are = millionaires; most have ties to the energy, drug, and technologies industries; -- appointed John Ashcroft - prohibitionist, religious zealot, racist, misogynist, Confederate hardliner, right-wing reactionary - Attorney General; -- nominated, as ambassador to the United Nations, John Negroponte: = U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, and a zealous anti-Communist crusader in America's covert wars against the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the FMLN rebels in El Salvador, Negroponte abetted and covered up = human rights crimes, including the kidnapping, torture and murder of hundreds = of Hondurans by Battalion 316, a secret army intelligence unit trained and supported by the CIA; -- appointed Donald Rumsfeld US Defence Secretary, with Paul Wolfowitz = as his deputy; both are hawks and longtime supporters of active US efforts to promote the overthrow of President Saddam by sanctions, military strikes and military and other aid to the Iraqi opposition; -- stripped the ABA of its role as a vetting agency in the appointment = of federal judges; that role is now occupied, unofficially, by the = Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, a right-wing organization opposed to affirmative action, laws against sexual harassment, and environmental protection legislation; -- reinstituted the 'global gag rule' banning US foreign aid to international organizations or groups in foreign countries that promote abortion or include it as an option in their counseling; -- proposed a "Faith-Based Initiative" to allow religious organizations = to compete with secular social services groups for federal dollars = intended to help the needy; -- presided over the distribution of the 2000 census, from which only = 'raw figures' will be released to states, not adjusted figures that could = protect against an estimated net undercount of 3.3 million people, mostly minorities; -- passed an Executive Order overriding eight years' worth of worker = safety legislation; -- rescinded his campaign promise, and rejected the Kyoto protocols = aimed at reducing carbon emissions; -- incorporated initial moves to open the Alaskan National Wildlife = refuge to oil drilling into his budget package -- proposed across-the-board tax cuts totalling $1.6 trillion over 10 = years; -- proposed the elimination of inheritance tax, which affects only the wealthiest 2% of the population with estates worth more than $675,000; -- alluded to a proposal to cut the already modest funding for = child-care assistance for low-income families, programs designed to investigate = and combat child abuse, and a new program to train pediatricians and other doctors = at children's hospitals across the U.S.; -- thanks to assiduous efforts by credit card companies and banks, the = House rushed through a bill changing bankruptcy legislation to make it = radically more difficult for middle-class consumers to escape overwhelming consumer = debt; -- proposed a budget plan allocating an extra $14bn (=A39.7bn) to = defence spending, taking the Pentagon's budget for next year to $310bn, or = about a third of the total world military spending. $2.6bn - part of a $20bn five-year program - allocated to fund research and development of new weapon technologies, roughly half of which is earmarked for NMD (national = missile defence); -- spurned North Korea (called, by Condoleezza Rice, "the road kill of history"); told South Korea's President Kim Dae-jung he was ending the policy of engagement and negotiation with the Pyongyang regime, mistakenly = warning "Part of the problem in dealing with North Korea...there's not very = much transparency. We're not certain as to whether or not they're keeping = all terms of all agreements" (the US has only one agreement with North Korea, and = more careful officials are disinclined to accuse North Korea of deception); -- was 'complimentary' when briefed by Rumsfeld about plans to overhaul America's arsenal to face the new Chinese threat by replacing = dependence on aircraft carriers and short-range fighters with long-range bombers = capable of flying across the world's widest sea to fight and win a nuclear war. = Its diplomatic efforts rebuffed, China announced it will increase defense spending by 18%; -- made it clear that he will push ahead with selling the Aegis missile radar system to Taiwan, enabling the island to steal a military edge over the mainland - which China stresses will rupture relations between Beijing = and Washington; -- authorized air strikes on radar stations around Baghdad, killing two = and injuring eleven people; -- issued an order permitting Iraqi opposition groups to begin limited = moves inside Iraq using US government funding; -- the CIA abandoned its efforts to persuade Israel and the = Palestinians to renew security cooperation; -- welcomed Ariel Sharon; agreed that Israel's security concerns must = come first, that a Clinton-style comprehensive Middle East peace deal was = not worth pursuing, and even perhaps that Yasser Arafat not be given a White = House audience until he definitively halts the intifada violence; -- suggested the US might move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem; -- expelled around 50 Russian diplomats, reigniting cold-war tensions = and jeopardizing Russian co-operation with American intelligence now in = Russia monitoring 'loose nukes'. Rumsfeld accused Russia of being "an active proliferator"; -- was honorary chairman of the USS Missouri Restoration Fund - the = Fund's donors include the 16 civilians, almost all Texans with ties to the = energy industry (particularly petroleum), on the ill-fated Greenville = submarine that sank a Japanese fishing vessel; -- in an address to 4,000 people on Feb. 28, said "those of us who = spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how = unfair the death penalty is -- the death tax is,'' correcting himself. He then = joked: "I don't want to get rid of the death penalty, just the death tax," = laughing along with the crowd. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:41:48 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Broder, Michael" Subject: Ear Inn April 28--New Addition to Program MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The Ear Inn Readings Saturdays at 3:00 326 Spring Street, west of Greenwich New York City FREE April 28 Lynn Domina, Ann Scott Knight, Gail Segal AND PATRICK HENRY The Ear Inn Readings Michael Broder, Director Patrick Donnelly, Lisa Freedman, Kathleen E. Krause, Co-Directors Martha Rhodes, Executive Director The Ear is one block north of Canal Street, a couple blocks west of Hudson. The closest trains are the 1-9 to Canal Street @ Varick, the A to Canal Street @ Sixth Ave, or the C-E to Spring Street@ Sixth Ave. For additional information, contact Michael Broder at (212) 246-5074. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:14:31 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Allen H. Bramhall" Subject: Re: stupid post, query MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit uh, Richard and Aaron, Alan was talking about real things. advice to 'just not worry about it' is what has led to the state of America and *politics as usual*. if we just ignore it, _it won't go away_... but our country will. i would suggest the Green Party. they have an interesting and refreshing platform. and now that the book 'Green Politics' is no longer banned in America, anyone can at least inform themselves, make active thoughtful choices. hang in there, Alan ! people do care, are working, are talking, are becoming more aware. the greatest danger at this point is despair. onward and upward, beth ----- Original Message ----- From: richard.tylr To: Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:06 AM Subject: Re: stupid post, query > Aarin. And I thought Alan was talking about real things! Well, some of the > time. Alan is either a madman or a genius, hopfully somewhere eerily but > brilliantly in between. But I think Alan (whatever his project is and I > admire hime for such a vast project) is incredible. Hope he keeps it up. But > I feel some concern he might :burn out": no? Hope not. Alan Sondheim is > probably keeping Nescafe in business!! But that recent sentence thing that > someone commented on) by Alan was clever...a lot of excellent stuff (Alan > and Aaron). Amazing,cheers Richard. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Aaron Belz" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 8:56 AM > Subject: Re: stupid post, query > > > > Alan, > > Your work is getting eerier and more ironic (if that were possible). This > > one truly feels like a commonplace "social activist" email, but subtly > shows > > itself to be a fiction. Simple cues such as "if not hot" and the quotes > > around "lost" in "Bush 'lost'"; the scores of warped statistics and > "facts"; > > the many awkward word breaks (hyphenated as if printed), the seemingly > > unselfconscious employment of cliches ("strong and viable opposition"); > then > > the masterstroke of suggesting impeachment on the basis of broken campaign > > promises. I have to say, it's good. It has, how shall I say-- soft > > lighting. The American TV living room of the Twilight Zone 21st century. > > The double sunset of democracy-- I love it. Kudos. > > -Aaron Belz > > > > > > > (sent to nettime) > > > - > > > > > > > > > I'm writing this post out of ignorance, despair, anger. I will confess > > > readily to the first, even the idiocy of it. > > > > > > What the federal government is doing to the United States and the rest > of > > > the world is horrifying. Most of the people I know, admittedly > left-lean- > > > ing, feel powerless to stop it. Our own freedoms are being taken away; > the > > > environment is left to rot; minorities are left out of any real > decision- > > > making; and some of us, like myself, think we may be on the brink of > war - > > > cold war, if not hot. > > > > > > I've protested and sent protest emails, all with the understanding none > of > > > this makes any difference. There are calls for boycotting US products, > but > > > that will, I think, effect nothing; if Bush continues on his present > path, > > > it's in subservience to the mining/oil/development interests at home - > > > which in fact would only be helped by boycotts. This country is one of > the > > > largest, if not the largest, consumer per capita, of any country on the > > > planet - it also has, as you know the largest prison population (per > capi- > > > ta as well), and next to no health care. > > > > > > Bush, in order to get elected, made numerous campaign promises - many of > > > which he's reversed as soon as he took office. He promised compromise > with > > > the Democrats, and has ignored them; he's reversed all environmental > prom- > > > ises, etc. What he said in the campaign clearly makes no difference to > > > him. He's got Christie Whitman to act as his fall guy - and she seems > in- > > > credibly liberal compared to him. > > > > > > For the first time we have a "president" that has not been elected - we > > > are feeling the tension and horror of a government the people did not > > > want, and a government which clearly does not want the people. (Yes, > there > > > have been electoral college reversals before, but not in modern times; > not > > > with the collusion of the brother-governor of a state; and not with so > > > much right-wing legislation immediately put into place. Bush "lost" by > > > half a million, which is not inconsiderable, even by official counts, of > > > course.) > > > > > > I am writing to ask the obvious - so it doesn't get kicked around only > in > > > our lofts here - is anyone thinking of suing or impeaching Bush? Is such > a > > > thing possible? Can a lawsuit be filed on the basis of campaign promises > > > immediately reversed? - which leads to the other natural question - Can > I > > > promise _anything_ to get elected, and then proceed otherwise? I don't > > > know if constitutional law plays into this - I doubt it - but is there > the > > > possibility of oral contracts established? I know this is the case among > > > private citizens here - very hard to prove - but with the government, > this > > > would be a matter of record. > > > > > > This country has never had, not since Vietnam, a strong and viable > opposi- > > > tion; as you know, we have no speaker of the opposition here - and cur- > > > rently both congress and the supreme court side with right-wing concerns > > > in general. (While the Senate appears divided, Cheney casts the deciding > > > vote, and a number of Democrats are fairly right wing; the party has > moved > > > more in that direction.) In short, on one hand there is intense > economic/ > > > laissez-faire capitalist activity, and on the other - silence, analysis, > > > theory, self-laceration, blame-placing, futile marches and email. > > > > > > So many of us are living in despair; if the US continues on its ultra- > > > right path, the world economy and environment will suffer as well. We > are > > > indeed a rogue nation, a violent one; we are a nation of murderes, > killing > > > our own, taking the rest of the world for granted as marketplace, > quaint, > > > tourist-destination, naive. > > > > > > I'm well aware of the idiocy of this post, its naivete; I can repeatedly > > > analyze the current situation, but, again like many of us, "just" feel > > > victimized. I see no way out; I don't want to march and sign petitions > > > that mean nothing - no one is listening anymore. > > > > > > Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Petitions, anyone? > > > > > > Alan > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:18:27 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gary Sullivan Subject: Jordan Davis book / d.a.levy calendar In-Reply-To: <985272938.3aba126a14289@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Everyone, Please help me make more books. I just published: Jordan Davis _YEAH, NO_ No ISBN, $6.00 Poetry. Six new, longish poems by the author of _POEM ON A TRAIN_ (Barque Press). "In a director's chair / waiting for a movie crew // The sentence is just / as afraid of you // ... Too stoned to wrestle Big Bird ..." Of Davis's poems, Susan Wheeler remarks: "Frequently casual and talky on the surface, their underpinnings reflect a slice of a day in a sentient, reading, economic, sexual, class-rooted, spiritual self -- precisely observed as the world is precisely observed by that keenly observant self. The effect is smart and generous." "Jordan Davis," David Shapiro writes, "is one of the young poets who make me confident that poetry is busily being born. ... His poetry is full of stories, gossip, charms, observations, art criticism, and mordant innuendoes ... where the everyday drifts into exaltation." Cover and frontispiece by Will Yackulic. Author portrait by Gary Sullivan. 24 pp. Detour 2001. Buy from SPD, or direct from me. If from me, send check for six bucks made out to Gary Sullivan (NOT Detour), to: Gary Sullivan 558 - 11th Street, #1B Brooklyn, NY 11215 Also, I think David Kirschenbaum mentioned this already, but he published a limited edition calendar for which I drew a portrait of d.a.levy. You can see it online & get ordering info at: http://www.theeastvillageeye.com/boog/levycal.htm Thanks, Gary ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:02:23 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark DuCharme Subject: introducing... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed This is to announce to the unwary world the existence of yet another "school" of poetry (but one which will, no doubt, prove more vital than many that have come before)-- the School of Continuation! The School of Continuation consists of Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, Mark DuCharme, Anselm Hollo, Patrick Pritchett and Laura E. Wright. The School is, "by temperament of its members more than conscious choice... a micro-community devoted to the study, the selfish pleasure and above all the PRACTICE of poetry. We have no official program; we hold no discussions of theory; we do not organize conferences or symposia; there are no events (other than readings, which are not official functions of the School). We don't even have meetings*, though we all see each other regularly. What we do (excepting Jane, who paints) is write poems.... The tendency of poets to be drawn to, and at the same time be suspicious of, group formations, makes sense when one looks at the social circumstances in which writing occurs. However much the poem may be born of dialogic or even activist impulses, the act of putting words together takes place in a kind of fundamental (if not ideological) isolation. This is so, even though afterwards the poet may socialize with her peers. Not just the isolation of the act of writing, but the heavily marginalized status of poetry and especially of experimental poetry in this country, creates the need for such alliances. One can either give in to the competitiveness which a limitation of resources sociologically fosters -- or one can cooperate in cells of compatible tendency and good will. The School of Continuation is one experiment in the latter form of social production. *Except when we do. (The School of Continuation contradicts itself with regularity)." The above statement appears on our new web site, which has been graciously designed by Lisa Jarnot. Anyone interested can view the site at: http://members.nbci.com/subpress/soc.htm There is also a new journal, which so far hasn't been announced on this list, that contains a sampling of works by most of the members of the School, as well as work by a variety of others. It is Mantis #1, available for $10.00 from: English Department Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2087 Future activities of the School of Continuation will be announced on this list whenever it seems relevant to do so. Look for information in the coming months about the press we are starting. Among the publications planned will be a mini-anthology of manifestos, poems and drawings by the members of the School. For the School of Continuation, Mark DuCharme _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:06:07 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: hassen Subject: Re: stupid post, query Comments: cc: wryting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit alan on the page i posted to wryting ( http://users.snip.net/~hassen/conscientia.htm ) there's this interesting link for politically oriented petitions- http://www.petitiononline.com/category_6.html i believe one can start a petition there as well h ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Sondheim To: Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 2:03 PM Subject: stupid post, query (sent to nettime) - I'm writing this post out of ignorance, despair, anger. I will confess readily to the first, even the idiocy of it. ... ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:13:08 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Catherine Daly Organization: e.g. Subject: Re: The Inkblot Record / Eunoia / BKS Homepage MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > Also, new at Arras, a Flash setting of a chapter of Christian Bok's Eunoia, > a long prose-poem many years in the making. This is chapter "e", which > excludes all other vowels but "e." This is not the final version of the > piece, but thought to run it by you. > > http://www.arras.net > > (Flash required) I thought this was great! After the long intro, you can read it in every and any order. The flash does neat fades between any slide: you can almost read the different poems fading into the other poem of your choice. Regards, Catherine Daly cadaly@pacbell.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:41:18 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Allen H. Bramhall" Subject: a.bacus #137 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit apologies for cross posting ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 21:48:48 -0700 (MST) > From: main > To: pog > Subject: a.bacus #137 > > a.bacus #137, a selection from laynie browne's _acts of levitation_, > is now available. laynie browne's recent writings include _gravity's > mirror_ (primitive publications), _clepsydra_ (instress), and _the > agency of wind_ (avec). work is forthcoming in _conjunctions_. she > lives in seattle where she co-curates the subtext reading series. > > next year's a.bacus series will be devoted to translations from various > romance and non-romance languages. > > subscriptions to a.bacus are available by sending a check, payable to > "potes & poets press," to: > > beth garrison, publisher > 2 ten acres drive > bedford, ma 01730 > > subscriptions are $30 for 1 year (8 issues) for individuals and > institutions. single issues are available via small press distribution > (www.spdbooks.org / 1341 seventh street / berkeley, ca 94710). please > contact beth garrison for information about ordering back-issues, or > visit the potes & poets website: www.potespoets.org. > > thank you, > dan featherston > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:59:30 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kerry Sherin Subject: Writers House Hiring Program Coordinator Comments: To: FriendsofKellyWritersHouse@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit THE KELLY WRITERS HOUSE WILL HIRE PROGRAM COORDINATOR The Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania is seeking to hire a full-time Program Coordinator, to start on July 1, 2001. A brief description of the Program Coordinator position is included below. For more information, please visit this web page linked to the Kelly Writers House web site: www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/programcoordinator.html The Kelly Writers House, founded in 1995, is both a community of writers and an innovative, collaboratively-led program space at the University of Pennsylvania. The Writers House produces a daily schedule of readings, discussions, classes, meetings, and dinners, offers internships and fellowships, and supports a range of nationally-distributed literary journals and a word and music radio show. Through these programs, the Writers House seeks to nurture and promote emerging and established writers of all kinds, from all disciplines. The Writers House Program Coordinator is responsible for scheduling and managing programs, meetings and classes at the Writers House, as well as overseeing daily administrative functions at the House. In these roles the Program Coordinator works closely with fourteen work-study students and many other student volunteers, the staff of various University of Pennsylvania departments and programs and Philadelphia arts organizations, and visiting writers and others. Qualifications for the Program Coordinator position include a BA/BS, knowledge of and enthusiasm for the full range of contemporary writing, strong interpersonal skills, demonstrated leadership abilities, administrative experience, and computer skills. The position is full-time and includes salary plus all benefits. To apply, please review the fuller description of the position at the web page given above, then send a cover letter and resume to Kerry Sherin, Director, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6150. The deadline for applications is 5 PM on Thursday, April 26, 2001, and interviews will be held soon after, on May 2, 4 or 6. ******************************* Kerry Sherin Director Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6150 (215) 573-9748 (215) 573-9750 (fax) ksherin@english.upenn.edu http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wh ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:37:39 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Marcella Durand Subject: book party & reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Eleni asked me to forward this to the list: Dear Friends, Earliest Worlds (two-books-in-one) by Eleni Sikelianos is out (Coffee House Press). Please come help celebrate. Book Party Friday, April 20, 6-9 pm Teachers & Writers Collaborative 5 Union Square West, 7th Floor Drink wine, celebrate ____________________________ Reading, with Tony Towle Wednesday, May 2, 8 pm The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue) Hope to see you here or there. Eleni ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 01:45:48 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "david.bircumshaw" Subject: Re: Pinsky, Zooba and Poetry Month MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I wish this was a joke. Unfortunately it's not, is it? It fascinates me how an awareness of poetry, even evidence of a having read some of the same, can coincide with a complete absence of linguistic tact, a blindness to obvious tack. > Subscribers can choose from more than 40 topic channels including Great Minds, Food & > Cuisine, Destinations, Fitness, Nutrition & Diet, and Bestsellers, and receive informative emails > that include relevant product recommendations Great Minds! Bestsellers! And, best of all, 'DESTINATIONS'. I've always needed those David Bircumshaw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Marks" To: Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:34 AM Subject: Pinsky, Zooba and Poetry Month > Hello all: > Ran across this while surfing. It's the cruelest month again. At least for > the northern hemisphere. In temperate climes. > Steven > > A Conversation With Robert Pinsky On Poetry And Technology Begins Zooba's > Celebration Of Poetry Month > BOSTON, MA -- (INTERNET WIRE) -- 04/04/2001 -- Zooba (www.zooba.com), a new > media company that delivers entertaining emails on more than 40 topics with > compelling content and related products, for the first time celebrates > National Poetry Month with a series of emails on five of the world's most > acclaimed poets. Launching the series is a discussion with former US Poet > Laureate Robert Pinsky about the use of technology to promote poetry. > > Beginning the first week of April, the series on poetry will be sent to > Zooba's Events of the Year and Literature subscribers. The five poets > featured are Robert Frost, Anna Akhmatova, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt > Whitman and Robert Pinsky. Each email honors one of these world-renowned > poets with lesser known stories about their remarkable lives and careers. > The first email in the series will include Pinsky's "To Television," a poem > reflecting what he describes in his interview with Zooba as his desire "to > find what seems important, prominent, but not yet poetic." > > "The web can be a wonderful locale for poetry--surprisingly, restoring the > vocal, bodily nature of the art. In some ways, audio technology can reach > back to before printed pages, supplying a vocal presence for the poem," said > Pinsky, Poetry Editor at Slate.com, and author of six books of poetry > including his latest, Jersey Rain (2000) and The Figured Wheel: New and > Collected Poems 1965-1995, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and > received the 1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. > "Zooba provides its subscribers with emails that are both entertaining and > enlightening; our concise format and expansive, but targeted, reach allows > us to celebrate National Poetry Month with hundreds of thousands of people > interested in literature and poetry," said David Beardsley, Editor in Chief > of Zooba. "Through our unique email technology and rapidly growing > subscriber base, Zooba can make poetry, and information on many other > subjects, more accessible to the general public." > > About Zooba > All Zooba emails are written in a concise, compelling format and contain > product recommendations that are relevant to the content. Subscribers can > choose from more than 40 topic channels including Great Minds, Food & > Cuisine, Destinations, Fitness, Nutrition & Diet, and Bestsellers, and > receive informative emails that include relevant product recommendations. > For example, an email about Vincent van Gogh might recommend a book about > the artist, a video on his life and a reproduction of one of his works. > > > Contact: Sharon Collin > Company: Zooba.com > Title: Director of Marketing/Public Relations > Phone: 617-426-8444 x 133 > Email: scollin@zooba.com > URL: http://www.zooba.com > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 21:19:10 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Belz Subject: in honor of NMPM In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I just reread Mr. B's "Against NPM As Such" -- a perfect bag of hammers. What an encouragement. To commemorate Nat'l Mainstream Poetry Month, I have a tirade of my own. It's not much of a tirade, as you'll see. More of a pack of lies mixed in with several truths, in ballad form. Take it as it's intended: humorously, not hatefully. Cheers, everyone. I hope the cruellest month is taking it easy on all us otherstreamers. -Aaron Belz http://meaningless.com POETS There once was a man named Donald Hall Whose work as a poet gained him notoriety. He read it in many an auditorium and hall Without arrogance, and with just a titch of piety. There once was a woman named Anne Waldman, A mysterious witch-like pot-smoking poet Who floated in and out of Naropa like a shaman. Her poetry's not great. If you read it, you'll know it. There once was a poet named Philip Levine Whose work in an auto factory long ago Led to a lifelong fixation with the assembly line, Some of which yielded poems that were only so-so. There once was a man named James Merrill, A poet who disciplined himself to work in form. Unfortunately a lot of his stuff seems sterile, But then that's the main risk of working in form. There once was a fellow named Derek Walcott Who also worked in form, a lot like Merrill. But despite all the major literary awards he's got, A lot of his writing also sounds sterile. There once was a bad poet named Maya Angelou Who's claim to fame was that she read at the forty-first Inauguration in '92. People were too polite to boo. She is, however, a very capable autobiographist. There once was a writer named Robert Pinsky Who had been accused of being too "ivory tower." One time his wife slammed the Volvo door on his pinky, And he screamed loudly for almost an hour. Once there was a poet, Jorie Graham, Who wrote in a stuttering, film-like style. She saw the world as if through Poet Cam. Scrutiny, however, finds little behind this style. There once was a poet named Denise Levertov, And damn it, I really want to like her work. But there's something about her that pisses me off. It may be that her ideas seem precious & overworked. And there was one a poet named Kenneth Koch. He made his name by being associated with pop figures Such as Andy Warhol. But his work is often lost in the smoke Of the fire of his friends, Ashbery, Schuyler, Snyder. And there was another one named Louise Gl=FCck. Nobody except David Lehman knows how to say it. I used to think it rhymed with the F word, hick That I am. Her poetry is predictable, though few will say it. Once there was a woman named Heather McHugh. Now here's a tongue-twisting poet I can relate to. Maybe you'll be able to relate to her too. Next time you're at Borders, look up Heather McHugh. Off in the corner was a weirdo named Mike Topp. A poet like the others, but without the awards. His writing makes me laugh and say "Stop! That tickles!" He really deserved some awards. There once was a man named John Ashbery, Among a handful of poets both celebrated and great. His poetry was at the same time clean-shaven and hairy. Often people who like him also like James Tate. There once was a man named James Tate: Dogs playing poker from the beginning. But sometimes you wish he'd just lay it out straight, Tell it like it is, like in the one about his dad, spinning. There once was a poet named Allen Ginsberg, A very great gay writer who achieved extreme fame And will be remembered for his spontaneous words, Mostly "Howl" et al. His later work is kind of lame. There once was a poet named Amy Clampitt, Another one with the name of Yehuda Amichai, And although I admire her, I can't get into Clampitt, But to tell the truth I do like Yehuda Amichai. There once was a poet named Galway Kinnell, And there was another one named Sharon Olds; Whether or not they're great only time will tell, And Sharon is younger than Galway, but still old. There once was a fine poet named Seamus Heaney And another pretty good one named Thomas Gunn. There was yet another one named Joseph Brodsky And yet another one named Mona Van Duyn. And there was a poet by the name of A.R. Ammons Who didn't at all appreciate the work of Donald Hall, But didn't mention that as they dined together on salmon And beer with several other poets during Breadloaf last fall. [Aaron Belz] ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 23:49:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Skinner Subject: ECOPOETICS Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit ECOPOETICS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Now that the days are longer, consider contributing to ECOPOETICS / writing surrounds. While honoring the long tradition of "nature writing," ECOPOETICS finds pastoralism, art representing nature, at an impasse. At the same time, the writing edge seems to offer no new take on surrounds, mainly environmental silence, or passive regrets. If there are exceptions, ECOPOETICS hopes to gather them. ECOPOETICS seeks responses to the question: _where_ is writing? Whose leaves are contiguous to body, street, yard, park or waterfront, sky, lawn, brownfield, industry, farmland, or the "wild"-- environs from the porch to the South Pole-- in every case peopled with more than humans. If, as O'Hara claims, "one never need leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes," any _where_ entails an extended sense of people, into other species, and a "greenery" subject to waste (mis)management; flows and deposits of gases, heavy metals and synthetic organic compounds; eco-nomics; and the growing map of environmental injustice. Might not discourses and practices of soil, water, air, energy make poetics? Responses from other languages, especially translated along north-south lines, are urgently sought. Examples and discussion both are invited: poems, translations, essays, reviews, letters, journals, investigations, lists, divinations, prayers, riddles, maps, documented acts, performances and installations, unearthings, practical advice, etc., will be considered. Preferable means of delivery is by email attachment. (If a visually determined piece is accepted, then a hard copy may be useful.) ECOPOETICS will read submissions for the next eight weeks, through May, 2001. Don't miss your chance to participate in the first, exciting issue! Please address all correspondence to: jskinner@acsu.buffalo.edu ECOPOETICS / J. Skinner 106 Huntington Avenue Buffalo, NY 14214 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 02:49:57 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Skinner Subject: Cain, Caple, Dutton, Hennessy, Pound, Sutherland, Venright to read at STEEL BAR, 4/14 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit STEEL BAR thanks all who came out for FIONA TEMPLETON / STEVE MCCAFFERY in FEBRUARY and JULIE PATTON in MARCH Now that APRIL is here, come back on SATURDAY 4/14 for: POETRY ACROSS THE FRONTIER (II) Readings by Toronto poets Stephen Cain, Natalee Caple, Paul Dutton, Neil Hennessy, Scott Pound, Mark Sutherland, and Steve Venright. 8 PM $3 Donation CASH BAR Suite 551 in the Tri-Main Center 2495 Main Street (entrance on Halbert) Buffalo, NY ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:07:46 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Jullich Subject: Marilyn Monroe, the Emma Lazarus of her day MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Chirot wrote: > don't forget--Marilyn Monroe was prone so to speak to pen a poem-- > > uncollected as yet--but scattered in various books one may find her gems-- > --dbc ------------------------------------------------- The visual artist Barbara Bloom included in an installation of hers vitrines of "found" printed matter. One showcase had a magazine photo pose of Marilyn, dressed to the collar, sitting outdoors on a log or out in the bucolics. She was holding a book. The cover of the thick book: James Joyce, 'Ulysses.' Any tips on in which of the various books her gems may be scattered, Dave? Sounds like the best undiscovered since Candy Darling's poems. (Digression following Joyce and unlikely, American female celebrities: There used to be a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" television series. Once they did a segment on James Joyce, especially his "Finegans Wake." The moderator walking us through the footage and Joyceana was--- MARGOT THOMAS! ( I swear. Watched it with my own eyes, on a small black and white TV, mid- to late-'80's.) But now, the reason they were featuring Joyce on "Ripley's" was not because he was a titan of unbelievable proportions or because "Finegans Wake" is incredible in its neologistic coinages, but--- because James Joyce had VERY POOR VISION and managed to write such BIG BOOKS despite his handicap! They showed closed-ups of the artifact of his eyeglasses, and how progressively large his handwriting became as his vision deteriorated. Can you believe that a person with eyes that bad could heroically transcend his optical disability enough to scribble illegibly and unintelligibly like this all over notebooks and get it printed? ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:42:05 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Wanda Phipps Subject: Wanda Phipps & Merry Fortune at Mid-Manhattan Library MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Voices From the Mix Authors Series Presents Wanda Phipps accompanied by Joel Schlemowitz with Merry Fortune author of Blind Stints Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 6:30 at the Mid-Manhattan Library 455 Fifth Avenue 6th Floor Conference Room New York, NY Admission free -- Hey, & don't forget to check out Wanda's website MIND HONEY http://users.rcn.com/wanda.interport (and if you have already, try it again) poetry, music and more! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:25:16 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Maria Damon Subject: poetix of process In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970917024253.009710cc@pop.acsu.buffalo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" i have a grad student compiling a prelim exam list on "transgender, practice, poetics" --any suggestions for books or short pieces that address the poetics of process or the process of poetics, or "process poetries"? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 08:57:43 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Belz Subject: Re: stupid post, query In-Reply-To: <001201c0bdeb$80846b60$25890fce@tenacrewood> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > uh, Richard and Aaron, Alan was talking about real things. Sorry, Beth. It wasn't that clear to me, especially considering the phrase "I will confess readily to the [ignorance], even the idiocy of it" at the beginning, and then all the backing up and hedging at the end. It sounded like a brilliant Sondheim setup/sendup to me, but I see now that I stand corrected (and I feel like a heel). -Aaron ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:03:04 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: m&r...even more news from the real world... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit was glad to hear that some famous old poets got to fly to Stanford, read, schmooze, entertain and get a pay check.....but for some real C comics (that's C as in FranClin) Check out the U. Corp. Relations Site at Stanford U....& while you're there could some C omputer literati get us the info on where all that $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ is invested... R.I.P...Bibliofind the major independent o.p. book site is R.I.P..bought a number of yrs ago by Amzn...it got folded in (i.e. they knifed it in the back) into Amazon;s site...where it will sell its wares along with toiletries, viagra, niagra water & pumped up modum jacks of all lanterns.. Me..i just read the biz pages...because after a while the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ trail trickles down to the poez bizness...and why bother with the trickle when you can get to the sour$$$$$e...Drn.. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:08:35 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gary Sullivan Subject: Carl Rakosi Tribute Wed April 11 @ Housing Works In-Reply-To: <984493294.3aae2ceea4af3@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Forwarding this from Tom Devaney ...-G Carl Rakosi: A Tribute Featuring: Joel Lewis, Eileen Myles, Hugh Seidman, Rob Fitterman, Bob Holman, Prageeta Sharma, Mitch Highfill, Marcella Durand, Gary Sullivan, Alan Gilbert, Kristen Prevallet, Anselm Berrigan & Bill Kushner. Hosted by Tom Devaney April 11, 2001 Housing Works 126 Crosby Street One block east of Broadway, south of Houston 6:30 pm (sharp) to 8 pm Carl Rakosi was born in 1903, and at age 98, is the last of the great early American Modernist. In the Thirties he was a leading member of the Objectivist Group, which also included William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker. The hard details and fresh perspective of Rakosi's work emerge from a poetry of distinctive naming. Robert Creeley says that, "In Carl Rakosi's poems there is no false face of charitable intent, no specious wish to help without commitment, no understanding wherewith to obliterate acknowledgement. Carl Rakosi's determined honesty and reductive rhetoric with its ungainsayable plainsong have made a measure for all conduct of words in the attempt to find an active poetry in the fact of lives without power, still hoping for change and admission..." For more information see Housing Works Usedbook Café online: http://www.housingworksubc.com/events.htm Housing Works Inc. is a minority-controlled, community-based, not-for-profit organization that provides housing, health care, advocacy and support services to homeless men, women and children living with HIV and AIDS. Founded in 1990, Housing Works' mission is to help people living with AIDS and HIV who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to gain stability, security and independence so that they can live their lives with hope and dignity. Carl Rakosi's COLLECTED POEMS were published in 1986 by The National Poetry Foundation and his COLLECTED PROSE in 1983 by the same publisher. CARL RAKOSI, MAN AND POET, edited by Michael Heller, a large collection of critical articles on his work, together with two bibliographies, interviews, and new work by him came out in 1993, and in 1995 Sun and Moon Press brought out POEMS 1923-1941, which won the PEN AWARD that year. His latest book is THE EARTH SUITE, published in England in 1997 by Etruscan Books. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:49:37 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Behrle Subject: school Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Anyone who would like to be in a school with me please backchannel. Maybe we could call it "The Cool School." That is only one of many possible names. Thanks. Jim Behrle _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:53:16 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gary Sullivan Subject: Ramez Qureshi URLs In-Reply-To: <986491107.3acca8e346506@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I've put together what URLs for Ramez's work online I could find. I know there's at least one missing (a review of Hejinian's Happily in How2, which is temporarily inaccessible), and maybe others will be found. If you know of any not here, please email me. Thanks. Poetry from "An Idea and/but (an) Idea alone of Order" http://www.jps.net/nada/ramez.htm "Forgotten" http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/52forgot.htm "Fields" (a verse review of the Francesco Clemente retrospective at the Guggenheim) http://www.StudioCleo.com/cauldron/volume2/contents/index.html Essays and Reviews Review of Jerome Rothenberg's A Paradise of Poets http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket12/rothenberg-rev-qureshi.html Review of Barbara Guest's Rocks on a Platter http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket10/guest-rev-by-qureshi.html Review of J.H. Prynne's Poems http://www.jps.net/nada/prynne.htm Review of Armand Schwerner's The Tablets http://www.jps.net/nada/tablets.htm Review of Stuart Merrill's The White Tomb http://www.jps.net/nada/merrill.htm "Rothko and the Sublime" http://www.jps.net/nada/rothko.htm Review of Tom Raworth's Tottering State http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~foust/B2.html Review of Nick Piombino's Theoretical Objects http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx/lynx152.html Review of Fanny Howe's Selected Poems http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/current/alerts /qureshi.html Review of Richard Kostelanetz's John Cage: Writer http://www.raintaxi.com/cage.html Review of Johanna Drucker's Figuring the Word http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/ramez4.html Letter to NY Times re Eugene Montale http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/14/letters/letters.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:00:53 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: The Poetry Project Subject: Announcements Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT NO READINGS OR WORKSHOPS DURING EASTER WEEK! The Poetry Project is suspending all of its programming (i.e., readings and workshops) during Easter week, Monday, April 9th through Friday, April 13th. Our regular programming will resume on Monday, April 16th. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tonight at the Poetry Project Friday, April 6th at 10:30 PM A CELEBRATION OF KENNETH REXROTH'S SWORDS THAT SHALL NOT STRIKE: POEMS OF PROTEST AND REBELLION Readers include Grace Paley, Eliot Weinberger, Eileen Myles, Ishle Park, Robert Nichols, and the book's editor, Geoffrey Gardner. A founder of the San Francisco literary renaissance of the late 1950s, Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was integral to the emergence of the Beat poets. He was a confirmed anarchist for most of his life, first socialist, then a syndicalist. At this reading, poets will read selections from Swords That Shall Not Strike and then follow with their own work, with the aim of illustrating Mr. Rexroth's claim that "the poet, by the very nature of his/her art, has been an enemy of society." * * * Unless otherwise noted, admission to all events is $7, $4 for students and seniors, and $3 for Poetry Project members. Schedule is subject to change. The Poetry Project, located in St. Mark's Church at the corner of 2nd Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan, is wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. Please call (212) 674-0910 for more information or visit our Web site at http://www.poetryproject.com. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:34:02 -0230 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "K.Angelo Hehir" Subject: ATL People's March of the Americas Comments: To: stjohnsftaa@topica.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE for those of you going to quebec city: >-------------------------------------------- >Sommet des peuples des Am=E9riques >People's Summit of the Americas >Cumbre de los Pueblos de Am=E9rica > > >Informations concernant la Marche des peuples des Am=E9riques >Informations about the People's March of the Americas >Informaciones sobre la Marcha de los Pueblos de Am=E9rica > >Pour voir la carte: >To see the map: >http://www.sommetdespeuples.org/fr/pdf/carte_marche.pdf >Ver el mapa: >------------------------------------------------------------ >The People's March of the Americas (fr and sp available online) > > >As part of the People=92s Summit of the Americas > and the Hemispheric Social Alliance >THE MARCH OF THE PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS > >Saturday April 21st at Noon >Rally: Old Port of Quebec City (Abraham-Martin Street) > >The R=E9seau qu=E9b=E9cois sur l=92int=E9gration continentale (RQIC) and C= ommon >Frontiers, along with other coalitions including the Convergence Table >are organizing the March of the Peoples of the Americas under the theme: >Resisting ? Proposing ? Together. > >There are other ways to foster continental integration than the strictly >commercial approach of the FTAA. This is why a great number of >organizations that will be in Quebec City during the Summit of the >Americas will participate in this demonstration. Thousands of people >from >Canada, Quebec, the United States, and members of the Hemispheric Social >Alliance from Latin America will unite their voices expressing their >opposition to the process of corporate-led globalization and the >commercial agreements that sustain it. > >While the heads of states of the hemisphere meet behind the barricades in >order to shape the future of the Americas, all sectors of civil society >will be on the streets voicing their concerns: unions, women >organizations, environmentalists, students, community organizations, >international solidarity organizations, human rights advocates, groups >opposed to corporate-led globalization, ethno-cultural associations, >regional coalitions, church groups. > >It will be a colorful, diverse and pacifist march. The route has been >designed in order to avoid provocation and confrontation. All >participants are asked to respect the route in order to ensure the >security of those participating. > >Schedule and organization: > >* Arrival of people and busses at noon at the Old Port of Quebec City. >We recommend that all buses use highway 40 on their way to Quebec, and >meet us on Saint-Paul Street. For those of you who are coming by foot, >or are planning to use another highway to enter the city, a committee >will meet you on Saint-Andr=E9 Street. > >* A group in charge of March security will be clearly identified as from >the People=92s Summit and will indicate to you how to get to the rally on >Abraham-Martin Street. There you will find directions to each of the >different sectors of the march. > >* Only buses and people on foot will be allowed entry to the rally area. >Because of limited parking space for cars and other vehicles, we >recommend that people park their vehicles far from the rallying and >starting points of the march. > >* The march will start at 13:30, and will be opened by international >delegations, and the organizers of the event. > >* The route will start on Abraham-Martin Street, we will take Saint-Paul >Street - which changes its name and becomes Charest - up to Rue de la >Couronne, where we will turn right to reach the parking lot of the >Municipal Stadium at Victoria Park. This is a 2.5 km route. > >* There will be animation throughout the march. We will use the full >width of the streets. These streets will be closed to traffic, and >reserved for participants of the march. > >* The participants are expected to reach the end of the march, the >parking lot of the Municipal Stadium at Victoria Park, at around 15:00. >This area is big enough to accommodate 20,000 people. > >* There will be musical animation while people are arriving at Victoria >Park. > >* There will be 1 hour of speeches following the March where >representatives of the Hemispheric Social Alliance, as well as >representatives from the Convergence Table will address the public. > >* The event is expected to end at 16:15. > >* We are asking all organizations and participants to take their >placards, and all other materials away with them. > >* An information pamphlet with further information for marshals and bus >coordinators will be circulated shortly to the members of the RQIC, >Common Frontiers, and the Convergence Table and posted on this website. > >* A detailed map of the route of the March of the Peoples of the >Americas, as well as a map indicating the drop-off locations, the >starting and ending points of the march and the buses=92 parking lot will >be made available shortly. > >Other information: > >* Each organization participating in the event is asked to ensure >marshaling. We suggest 4 people for 50 participants. We ask that these >people be identified with an armband of the colors of their organization. > The People=92s Summit security staff will ensure coordination with the >marshals. > >* Toilets will be on site, and ambulances will be available in case of >emergency. > >* The organizing committee of the People=92s Summit has obtained a >demonstration permit from the Quebec municipality and we are discussing >with the authorities our request to close the streets to traffic. > >* The route is wheelchair-friendly. > >* We strongly suggest that participants bring warm clothes with them, as >well as rain gear and food. Watch the weather forecasts the day prior to >the march. > >FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU CONTACT YOUR RESPECTIVE >ORGANIZATIONS > >WELCOME TO THE MARCH OF THE PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS!!! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor E*TRADE. It's your money. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: mobglobplan-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:49:04 -0400 Reply-To: patrick@proximate.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Patrick Herron Subject: Re: Ramez Qureshi URLs In-Reply-To: <986568796.3acdd85cc882b@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thank you Gary. What a collection & what an impressive thinker & writer Ramez was. Patrick > -----Original Message----- > From: UB Poetics discussion group > [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of Gary Sullivan > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 10:53 AM > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Ramez Qureshi URLs > > > I've put together what URLs for Ramez's work online I could find. I > know there's at least one missing (a review of Hejinian's Happily in > How2, which is temporarily inaccessible), and maybe others will be > found. If you know of any not here, please email me. Thanks. > > Poetry > > from "An Idea and/but (an) Idea alone of Order" > http://www.jps.net/nada/ramez.htm > > "Forgotten" > http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/52forgot.htm > > "Fields" (a verse review of the Francesco Clemente retrospective at > the Guggenheim) > http://www.StudioCleo.com/cauldron/volume2/contents/index.html > > > Essays and Reviews > > Review of Jerome Rothenberg's A Paradise of Poets > http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket12/rothenberg-rev-qureshi.html > > Review of Barbara Guest's Rocks on a Platter > http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket10/guest-rev-by-qureshi.html > > Review of J.H. Prynne's Poems > http://www.jps.net/nada/prynne.htm > > Review of Armand Schwerner's The Tablets > http://www.jps.net/nada/tablets.htm > > Review of Stuart Merrill's The White Tomb > http://www.jps.net/nada/merrill.htm > > "Rothko and the Sublime" > http://www.jps.net/nada/rothko.htm > > Review of Tom Raworth's Tottering State > http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~foust/B2.html > > Review of Nick Piombino's Theoretical Objects > http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx/lynx152.html > > Review of Fanny Howe's Selected Poems > http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/current/alerts > /qureshi.html > > Review of Richard Kostelanetz's John Cage: Writer > http://www.raintaxi.com/cage.html > > Review of Johanna Drucker's Figuring the Word > http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/ramez4.html > > Letter to NY Times re Eugene Montale > http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/14/letters/letters.html > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:50:00 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: ugly person MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - ugly person the ugly little president peers out from his bunker where he kills everyone k37% ping whitehouse.gov PING whitehouse.gov (198.137.240.91): 56 data bytes ----whitehouse.gov PING Statistics---- 23 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss k19% telnet whitehouse.gov Trying 198.137.240.91... k20% r telnet whitehouse.gov Trying 198.137.240.92... k21% r telnet whitehouse.gov Trying 198.137.240.92... k22% r telnet whitehouse.gov Trying 198.137.240.92... k23% r telnet whitehouse.gov Trying 198.137.240.91... k24% r telnet whitehouse.gov Trying 198.137.240.91... nslookup: Server: localhost.panix.com Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: whitehouse.gov Addresses: 198.137.240.92, 198.137.240.91 dig whitehouse.gov ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> whitehouse.gov ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; whitehouse.gov, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: whitehouse.gov. 2h55m34s IN A 198.137.240.92 whitehouse.gov. 2h55m34s IN A 198.137.240.91 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: whitehouse.gov. 2h55m34s IN NS dnsauth1.sys.gtei.net. whitehouse.gov. 2h55m34s IN NS dnsauth2.sys.gtei.net. whitehouse.gov. 2h55m34s IN NS dnsauth3.sys.gtei.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dnsauth1.sys.gtei.net. 1d8h35m37s IN A 4.2.49.2 dnsauth2.sys.gtei.net. 1d15h10m12s IN A 4.2.49.3 dnsauth3.sys.gtei.net. 1d17h17m33s IN A 4.2.49.4 ;; Total query time: 1 msec ;; FROM: panix6.panix.com to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Fri Apr 6 16:36:19 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 32 rcvd: 193 k35% traceroute whitehouse.gov >> zz traceroute: Warning: whitehouse.gov has multiple addresses; using 198.137.240.91 traceroute to whitehouse.gov (198.137.240.91), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 core1.w18.nyc.access.net (166.84.0.129) 0.487 ms 0.371 ms 0.490 ms 2 S8-0-0-T3.l3core.nyc.access.net (166.84.64.14) 1.280 ms 1.008 ms 0.950 ms 3 bos-l3-r.netaxs.net (207.106.2.186) 6.795 ms 6.652 ms 6.608 ms 4 63.211.168.49 (63.211.168.49) 13.454 ms 18.897 ms 13.680 ms 5 lo0.mp1.Boston1.level3.net (209.247.11.251) 14.059 ms 13.397 ms 23.479 ms 6 so-0-0-0.mp1.Washington1.level3.net (209.247.8.45) 13.406 ms 22.042 ms 12.948 ms 7 pos8-0.core2.Washington1.level3.net (209.247.10.70) 12.027 ms 12.452 ms 15.244 ms 8 209.0.227.102 (209.0.227.102) 13.544 ms 14.053 ms 13.251 ms 9 so-3-0-0.washdc3-nbr2.bbnplanet.net (4.24.4.142) 13.700 ms 13.740 ms 13.371 ms 10 p6-0.washdc3-cr2.bbnplanet.net (4.24.4.138) 13.923 ms 15.314 ms 14.457 ms 11 s2-0.whitehouse.bbnplanet.net (4.24.66.26) 14.165 ms 14.602 ms 19.351 ms 12 * * * 13 * * * 14 * * * 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * 22 * * * 23 * * * 24 * * * 25 * * * 26 * * * 27 * * * 28 * * * 29 * * * 30 * * * he sings stars and stripes forever and kills everyone behind his shiny firewall __ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 12:47:53 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Writers House Subject: Poetry/Identity Discussion Available Comments: To: Poets/Theorists@dept.english.upenn.edu, of@dept.english.upenn.edu, the@dept.english.upenn.edu, Self@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings to our poet friends sprinkled about the globe-- A recent program here at Writers House was particularly popular and engaging. We've recently uploaded it to our Website for your viewing. The recording of the "Un-American Poetry," featuring poets and scholars AMMIEL ALCALAY BEN HOLLANDER MURAT NEMET-NEJAT is now available in our Webcast archive. The program is a discussion of writing, translation, globalization, politics in the Middle East, the foreign poet's relation to language, the foreigner's relation to nation, contemporary American, Israeli, Turkish and Bosnian poetry, and more. To access this program, click on the "Un-American Poetry" link at: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/webcasts/#archive Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, translator, critic and scholar. His books include _After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture_, _The Cairo Notebooks_, and _Memories of Our Future_ (voted one of the best books of 1999 by _The Village Voice_). Translator of Zlatko Dizdarevic's _Sarajevo: A War Journal and Portraits of Sarajevo_, Semezdin Mehmedinovc's _Sarajevo Blues_, Jose Kozer's _Projimos / Intimates_ and _Ark Upon the Number_, and the anthology _Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing_, Alcalay is a professor at Queens College in Brooklyn. On leave from Queens this spring, Alcalay is currently a visiting professor at Stanford, where he teaches a course entitled "Israel/Palestine: Politics, Culture & Identity." Benjamin Hollander was born in Israel and emigrated to New York City in 1958, at the age of six. He has lived in San Francisco since 1978. His books include _The Book Of Who Are Was_, _How to Read_, and, as editor, _Translating Tradition: Paul Celan in France_. Hollander's letterpress long poem "Levinas and the Police, Part 1" is forthcoming from Chax Books. Hollander's journal credits include work in _Sulfur_, _Sagetrieb_, _Hambone_, _Five Fingers Review_, _Boxkite_, and _Raddle Moon_. In 1993, he visited the Fondation Royaumont in Paris, where selections of his work were collectively translated into French. His work has also appeared in anthologies of French poetry, including _Tout Le Mond Se Ressemble_, _Une Anthologie de Poesie Contemporaine_, edited by Emmanuel Hocquard. Throughout the eighties, Hollander served as an associate editor of David Levi Strauss' _Acts: A Journal of New Writing_. Hollander currently teaches critical thinking, writing, and specialty courses at Chabot Community College in Hayward, California. Poet Murat Nemet-Nejat has translated the work of a number of modern and contemporary Turkish poets, including the Orhan Veli's _I, Orhan Veli_ and Ece Ayhan's _A Blind, Black Cat_ and _Orthodoxies_. Nemet-Nejat's own works include the book of poems _The Bridge_, and the collections of essays _A Question of Accent_ and _The Peripheral Space of Photographs_. ---------------------------- The Kelly Writers House wh@dept.english.upenn.edu 3805 Locust Walk 215-573-WRIT Philadelphia, PA 19104 http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wh ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:24:26 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: bill dunlap Subject: Take a Take a arazt Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Take a newspaper. Take {tash T ya ZARA} some scissors {YA DADA}. Choose \ from this paper an article of the l e n g t h you want to make your poem. Cut out the article. Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag. eh sha eh sha Shake gently (oof da!) YA! 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Sometimes satire becomes the act, and sometimes act to satire comes. Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Belz" To: Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 1:57 AM Subject: Re: stupid post, query > > > > uh, Richard and Aaron, Alan was talking about real things. > > Sorry, Beth. It wasn't that clear to me, especially considering the phrase > "I will confess readily to the [ignorance], even the idiocy of it" at the > beginning, and then all the backing up and hedging at the end. It sounded > like a brilliant Sondheim setup/sendup to me, but I see now that I stand > corrected (and I feel like a heel). > > -Aaron ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 21:55:17 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: ECOPOETICS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jonathan. i'm interested, but while I love "nature" as we all generally understand it - and my city Auckland (NZ) is a very green city and in a very green country. I have mixed feelings about the often hazy use of natural, or organic, and so on. O'Hara of course also enjoyed getting to the beach and its obvious from his poems that he _emphasises_ the city_but that doesnt exclude flowers etc Anyway: how is it that anything can be considered non natural? Or even non organic. In strict technical terminology water is an inorganic chemical (slightly acidic) and plastic is an organic compund whose structure is fundamentally similar to the long chain compounds that make up 'natural' things.. Much as I am an enthusiast for Wordsworth and others of the Romantics:" think of his poem about London "Upon Westminster Bridge". And what about the human brain: is that not a natural thing? Operating incredibly and forever mysteriously in its strange consciousness: but just as natural or unnatural as anyting else in the universe. Nor am I certain that our human survival or even the survival of anything else is of significance to whatever "Force" motivates the universe. Alan Curnow (of New Zealand, possibly the graetest living poet) has an ambigous view of nature as revealed in the latest issue of the New Zealand Listener. And so did Wordswoth, Coleridge, even Blake. I myself feel the beauty of nature (as we commonly refer to it) but also the marvellousness of man made things (I say man made purposely, I dont want to weaken my point here) but also the terrible aspects of both. One marvels at the complexity and ingenuity of various machinery...in all cases technology or nature (even IF the two can be separated), like human hands they can either " murder or create" as Eliot puts it in Prufrock. depends whose hands the hands are in, or the technology, or if you turn your back on a tiger at the wrong moment. Just some thoughts. But good luck for your project(s). Regards, Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Skinner" To: Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:49 PM Subject: ECOPOETICS > ECOPOETICS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! > > Now that the days are longer, consider contributing to ECOPOETICS / writing > surrounds. > > While honoring the long tradition of "nature writing," ECOPOETICS finds > pastoralism, art representing nature, at an impasse. At the same time, the > writing edge seems to offer no new take on surrounds, mainly environmental > silence, or passive regrets. If there are exceptions, ECOPOETICS hopes to > gather them. > > ECOPOETICS seeks responses to the question: _where_ is writing? Whose > leaves are contiguous to body, street, yard, park or waterfront, sky, lawn, > brownfield, industry, farmland, or the "wild"-- environs from the porch to > the South Pole-- in every case peopled with more than humans. > > If, as O'Hara claims, "one never need leave the confines of New York to get > all the greenery one wishes," any _where_ entails an extended sense of > people, into other species, and a "greenery" subject to waste > (mis)management; flows and deposits of gases, heavy metals and synthetic > organic compounds; eco-nomics; and the growing map of environmental > injustice. Might not discourses and practices of soil, water, air, energy > make poetics? Responses from other languages, especially translated along > north-south lines, are urgently sought. > > Examples and discussion both are invited: poems, translations, essays, > reviews, letters, journals, investigations, lists, divinations, prayers, > riddles, maps, documented acts, performances and installations, unearthings, > practical advice, etc., will be considered. Preferable means of delivery is > by email attachment. (If a visually determined piece is accepted, then a > hard copy may be useful.) ECOPOETICS will read submissions for the next > eight weeks, through May, 2001. Don't miss your chance to participate in > the first, exciting issue! > > Please address all correspondence to: > > jskinner@acsu.buffalo.edu > > ECOPOETICS / J. Skinner > 106 Huntington Avenue > Buffalo, NY 14214 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:09:51 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: stupid post, query MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OK Allen. My concern was for Alan Sondheim himself: I didnt mean a "head in the sand approach" but one can get so "burning up inside" (I've done so) that things become distorted. I dont think any terrible disastor(s) will occur. Look back into history... sub specie aeternitatis even if there's (and i doubt it very much) another World War happens or is caused it will be taken in Time's stride: we'll be "shocked" at how many survive and how well. Sure these are important issues, but they are never worth an individual's deaspair or self sacrifice. Deal with things as they arise. Keep cool: stay alert, but dont get too involved! That's the way to survive! Humour. We need more humour, laughter, and fun. "She'll be right." as the old Kiwi saying goes. A good approach is Bruce Andrews sometimes brilliantly funny and simultaneously serious critiques and stimuli through the deliberate distortion and play of language and all them kinda things. Reccommend Andrews as an antidote to "political blues": or the "brainy" bloke's Seinfeld. Regards, Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allen H. Bramhall" To: Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 4:14 AM Subject: Re: stupid post, query > uh, Richard and Aaron, Alan was talking about real things. advice to 'just > not worry about it' is what has led to the state of America and *politics as > usual*. if we just ignore it, _it won't go away_... but our country will. > i would suggest the Green Party. they have an interesting and refreshing > platform. and now that the book 'Green Politics' is no longer banned in > America, anyone can at least inform themselves, make active thoughtful > choices. > hang in there, Alan ! people do care, are working, are talking, are becoming > more aware. the greatest danger at this point is despair. > onward and upward, > beth > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: richard.tylr > To: > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:06 AM > Subject: Re: stupid post, query > > > > Aarin. And I thought Alan was talking about real things! Well, some of the > > time. Alan is either a madman or a genius, hopfully somewhere eerily but > > brilliantly in between. But I think Alan (whatever his project is and I > > admire hime for such a vast project) is incredible. Hope he keeps it up. > But > > I feel some concern he might :burn out": no? Hope not. Alan Sondheim is > > probably keeping Nescafe in business!! But that recent sentence thing > that > > someone commented on) by Alan was clever...a lot of excellent stuff (Alan > > and Aaron). Amazing,cheers Richard. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Aaron Belz" > > To: > > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 8:56 AM > > Subject: Re: stupid post, query > > > > > > > Alan, > > > Your work is getting eerier and more ironic (if that were possible). > This > > > one truly feels like a commonplace "social activist" email, but subtly > > shows > > > itself to be a fiction. Simple cues such as "if not hot" and the quotes > > > around "lost" in "Bush 'lost'"; the scores of warped statistics and > > "facts"; > > > the many awkward word breaks (hyphenated as if printed), the seemingly > > > unselfconscious employment of cliches ("strong and viable opposition"); > > then > > > the masterstroke of suggesting impeachment on the basis of broken > campaign > > > promises. I have to say, it's good. It has, how shall I say-- soft > > > lighting. The American TV living room of the Twilight Zone 21st > century. > > > The double sunset of democracy-- I love it. Kudos. > > > -Aaron Belz > > > > > > > > > > (sent to nettime) > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm writing this post out of ignorance, despair, anger. I will confess > > > > readily to the first, even the idiocy of it. > > > > > > > > What the federal government is doing to the United States and the rest > > of > > > > the world is horrifying. Most of the people I know, admittedly > > left-lean- > > > > ing, feel powerless to stop it. Our own freedoms are being taken away; > > the > > > > environment is left to rot; minorities are left out of any real > > decision- > > > > making; and some of us, like myself, think we may be on the brink of > > war - > > > > cold war, if not hot. > > > > > > > > I've protested and sent protest emails, all with the understanding > none > > of > > > > this makes any difference. There are calls for boycotting US products, > > but > > > > that will, I think, effect nothing; if Bush continues on his present > > path, > > > > it's in subservience to the mining/oil/development interests at home - > > > > which in fact would only be helped by boycotts. This country is one of > > the > > > > largest, if not the largest, consumer per capita, of any country on > the > > > > planet - it also has, as you know the largest prison population (per > > capi- > > > > ta as well), and next to no health care. > > > > > > > > Bush, in order to get elected, made numerous campaign promises - many > of > > > > which he's reversed as soon as he took office. He promised compromise > > with > > > > the Democrats, and has ignored them; he's reversed all environmental > > prom- > > > > ises, etc. What he said in the campaign clearly makes no difference to > > > > him. He's got Christie Whitman to act as his fall guy - and she seems > > in- > > > > credibly liberal compared to him. > > > > > > > > For the first time we have a "president" that has not been elected - > we > > > > are feeling the tension and horror of a government the people did not > > > > want, and a government which clearly does not want the people. (Yes, > > there > > > > have been electoral college reversals before, but not in modern times; > > not > > > > with the collusion of the brother-governor of a state; and not with so > > > > much right-wing legislation immediately put into place. Bush "lost" by > > > > half a million, which is not inconsiderable, even by official counts, > of > > > > course.) > > > > > > > > I am writing to ask the obvious - so it doesn't get kicked around only > > in > > > > our lofts here - is anyone thinking of suing or impeaching Bush? Is > such > > a > > > > thing possible? Can a lawsuit be filed on the basis of campaign > promises > > > > immediately reversed? - which leads to the other natural question - > Can > > I > > > > promise _anything_ to get elected, and then proceed otherwise? I don't > > > > know if constitutional law plays into this - I doubt it - but is there > > the > > > > possibility of oral contracts established? I know this is the case > among > > > > private citizens here - very hard to prove - but with the government, > > this > > > > would be a matter of record. > > > > > > > > This country has never had, not since Vietnam, a strong and viable > > opposi- > > > > tion; as you know, we have no speaker of the opposition here - and > cur- > > > > rently both congress and the supreme court side with right-wing > concerns > > > > in general. (While the Senate appears divided, Cheney casts the > deciding > > > > vote, and a number of Democrats are fairly right wing; the party has > > moved > > > > more in that direction.) In short, on one hand there is intense > > economic/ > > > > laissez-faire capitalist activity, and on the other - silence, > analysis, > > > > theory, self-laceration, blame-placing, futile marches and email. > > > > > > > > So many of us are living in despair; if the US continues on its ultra- > > > > right path, the world economy and environment will suffer as well. We > > are > > > > indeed a rogue nation, a violent one; we are a nation of murderes, > > killing > > > > our own, taking the rest of the world for granted as marketplace, > > quaint, > > > > tourist-destination, naive. > > > > > > > > I'm well aware of the idiocy of this post, its naivete; I can > repeatedly > > > > analyze the current situation, but, again like many of us, "just" feel > > > > victimized. I see no way out; I don't want to march and sign petitions > > > > that mean nothing - no one is listening anymore. > > > > > > > > Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Petitions, anyone? > > > > > > > > Alan > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 11:08:08 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Austinwja@AOL.COM Subject: Publication Announcement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It is my great pleasure to pass along the following announcement. Koja #3 has arrived! Koja is published and edited by those talented poets from the evil empire (Brooklyn, not Russia), Mike Magazinnik and Igor Satanovsky. Go to Kojapress.com for a sampling of reviews. THIS IS THE BIG ONE! Best, Bill Austinwja@aol.com WilliamJamesAustin.com Kojapress.com ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG! KOJA PRESS IS PROUD TO PRESENT KOJA LITERARY MAGAZINE, ISSUE #3 FEATURING LIMITED EDITION THREE COLOR HAND MADE SILKSCREEN JACKET, THE MAG IS PACKED WITH QUALITY EXPERIMENTAL POETRY, VISPO & OTHER INTRIGUING MATERIAL IN 60 PAGES. 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BOX 140083 BROOKLYN, N.Y. 11214 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 14:22:49 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: mercy-c MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - mercy-c syngular dead fysh staryng ynto th eye of syngular dead mothr: syngular dead fysh staryng ynto th eye of syngular dead mothr: syngular dead fysh staryng ynto th eye of syngular dead mothr: thys on th ground of th stage: wyth cane / abandnd chayr: charnelhus: wyrd flowers carryd through: so thys ys a double repetytyon thys on th ground of th stage: wyth cane / abandnd chayr: charnelhus: wyrd flowers carryd through: so thys ys a double repetytyon thys on th ground of th stage: wyth cane / abandnd chayr: charnelhus: wyrd flowers carryd through: so thys ys a double repetytyon osos thys ys a dance wyrd for th body osos thys ys a dance wyrd for th body & we'd meet yn tophat and tayls and monocle and cane 2 dyscuss th matter & we watchd th world dyssolve yn sch fury: already yn such mournyng & weakness & dead syngular dead fysh staryng ynto th eye of syngular dead mothr::syngular dead fysh staryng ynto th eye of syngular dead mothr::syngular dead fysh staryng ynto th eye of syngular dead mothr::& we'd meet yn tophat and tayls and monocle and cane 2 dyscuss th deadly dance _ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 09:37:15 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: komninos zervos Subject: Re: letter, syllable and word parataxis Comments: To: pete spence In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >Dear Komninos, filmakers have been doing this since the movie camera >was invented, see Snows films as a instance, or ask for a look at >the 18 short films i made (shown at film festivals all round >australia in the early 90's) where i animated the works of visual >poets such as ReA Nikonova/Paula Claire/Robert Rehfeldt/Carol >Stetser etc etc, the new media in fact has not only some catching up >to do but also MAKE IT NEW!!!!///pete spence > how can i see these movies of yours, and the snow movie you mention. perhaps because they are not out there, i could not take them into consideration. they certainly are not mentioned in the literary texts i have read or the websites i have visited, i have been told that e melo de Castro in brazil was making videopoetry in 1968, but where is the archive? But, the poets and their poems i mentioned in my posts are out there on the net, and maybe you can choose history to select isolated examples from the past, but what i am saying is that there are lots of people using letter and syllable parataxis in their work at the present moment. the new media may not be new but it is new for many people who perhaps dont have the history of poetry and film-making to draw upon. then popular art was never your bag. cheers komninos ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 10:12:45 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: owner-realpoetik@SCN.ORG Subject: RealPoetik Catherine Daly Catherine Daly lives across the street from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles and works as a software developer. The Hacker's Dictionary definition of "Turing tar pit" is "a place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical." She can be reached at cadaly@pacbell.net. Turing Tar Pits I could take that job and live on the beach for the summer. Summer would stretch into fall and Christmas in the Southern Californian way. We would miss me here at the tar pits. Take the pet with you. I could take a job where they'd send me to school, away from early until late. You might as well live in paradise then, and be single. Would you help me fix up my dorm room? Could I come home weekends? Even if there were jobs at the tar pits, doing them would be like being home, and I want to get away and then return. My old job seems more interesting from the tar pits than it was. Good jobs and poetry where we don't live. Without a job, I can't to move anywhere nice, away from the tar pits. Nothing interesting is practical. I had a job an hour away but I didn't see any more people than I see around the house after the woman I shared an office with left since there were no people in the office. My supervisor escorted me to the women's room for national security reasons every time I had to pee. It was a dull job. I couldn't drink the coffee I needed to stay awake. I had a job nearby but it didn't pay well enough for me to get a car. The bus only dropped off, didn't pick up, at the stop. The harder I work, the deeper writings' inadequacies draw me. If I live here at the tar pits I can write, yet I could write dull poetry here until I run out of money. Catherine Daly ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:58:47 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Philip Nikolayev Subject: Review of August Kleinzahler Comments: To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, list! Thought I'd interrupt my protracted silence by posting my review of August Kleinzahler's early collected. It originally appeared in the fall issue of _Harvard Review_. Any opinions/comments are most welcome! Cheers, Philip Nikolayev __________________________________ Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club. Poems: 1975-1990 by August Kleizahler. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: New York, 2000. ISBN 0-374-52701-6 (paper). $15. The 25-40 year old August Kleinzahler of these poems, essentially continuous with the poet that we know today, already shows a dazzling mastery of Imagist “painting with words.” The selections are drawn from a few long-out-of-print volumes, and instead of being arranged traditionally “by book,” come divided into two large groups by coast – “East” and “West.” While one is struck by the laconic spareness of some of these poems compared to the recent work, their minimalism hides a compressed exuberance. A high density of thought and a persuasive earthiness of tone are aided by the frequent choice of short, chiefly monosyllabic words. The verbal economy gives freedom to a memorable, image-drunk voice. Consistent with the poet’s education, his early style is at times exquisitely imbued with dictions borrowed from the Far East, but retains enough melancholy to dispel any suspicions of Zen-clarity, as in this haiku-like stanza: “A cruel word at eventide / and night zips up / like a spider’s retreat.” The writing is experimental, full-blooded and rooted in life experience. It reveals life’s raw, harsh beauty. This is a lyric poetry, peculiar in its self-estranged insight that “the ego is a ghost ship.” Its subject-matter is “self” rather than “the self,” experience rather than identity. An implicit Machism is at work behind the scenes – a monistic metaphysic which takes experience to be the only substance, thus eliminating the boundary between the self and the world. Experience is captured in clusters of vivid and often disjoint, montage-like images which combine into subjective portraits of moments in the universal flux. The poetic vision is often fractured, yet largely retains a powerful holistic coherence because it posits meaningful continuities in nature, where “spirit and flesh played blithely in each other’s yard.” The mind is mixed with the body and the body with the world, which is itself perceived in terms of the body – of its various parts, hair, fluids – all purified by the imagination and elevated to the status of empirical abstraction. There are many vivid anthropomorphic portraits of weather and landscape; the texture of some verses has the crunchiness of fresh snow. Kleinzahler is obsessed with the organic, mortal stuff of life. “Storm over Hackensack” begins: “This angry bruise about to burst / on City Hall / will spend itself fast / so fluid and heat may build again.” But the poem itself “builds” toward a sublime telos: “This is the gods’ perpetual light: / clarity / jeopardy / change.” In Kleinzahler’s anthropomorphic aesthetics experience supplies not only the subject-matter but also the poetic method itself, which is at once somatic and cosmic, solemn and ironic: “the Mind is a too much thing / cleansing itself like a great salt sea.” The whole tenor of the volume works against the postmodern “dissociation of sensibility.” Poetic language reconstitutes the meaningful oneness of perception while coloring it in turn with its own materiality. Perception is mixed with language, and reality is style all along the zigzag from Jersey City to San Francisco. Finally, the self is continuous trough empathy with other selves. Kleinzahler portrays people very memorably. In “Where Galuccio Lived,” an old Italian is characterized tragically through a description of his abode, vacated by death and now being renovated. Galuccio’s painful loneliness, old age and even the fact of his death are all unambiguously implied by the anthropomorphic apartment, but never referred to explicitly. The only thing mentioned about Galuccio himself is that he had a “busted leg.” Many of these “early selected” poems have a Dostoyevskian depth, and all invite multiple reading. Philip Nikolayev ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:48:11 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Monroe Subject: Re: POETICS Digest - 5 Apr 2001 to 6 Apr 2001 (#2001-51) In-Reply-To: <200104070407.AAA24132@router2.mail.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:22:36 -0500 >From: Marcella Durand >Subject: call for submissions > >This may not get Bush thrown out of office, but it might make some of = >us >feel like we're doing _something_... >Marcella > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "K.M. Sutherland" >To: "s-------cs" >Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 8:28 AM >Subject: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - One Hundred Days (fwd) > > > > > > >[In case anyone here hasn't yet seen this...please do contribute. We >plan to get as much coverage here as possible, now that the manipulated >brink of another global arms race + environment meltdown has come about >as it obviously had to...] > > > >BARQUE PRESS invites you to submit to a special publication: > >ONE HUNDRED DAYS. > >To be published on 30 April, one hundred days after George W Bush was >inaugurated. > >We urgently request critical responses to the first centenary of this = >new >administration, from writers and artists in the US and around the = >world. >Poetry, prose, satire, collage, red marginalia, infuriated scribblings, >utopias, lament cycles, editorials, comic monologues, vexed = >encyclopedias, >sick >cartoons, dream poems, scatologies, prophesies, journalistic digs, >grammatical >treatises and any misshapen deformed genre conceived in his image, all >welcome. > >If we receive enough contributions, the volume will be distributed and >deposited, as a feeble testament to creative dissent in a terrible = >time. > >Please send submissions, questions or suggestions by return (to this = >e-mail >address: ab204@cam.ac.uk) or to: A. Brady, Gonville & Caius College, >Cambridge, >CB2 1TA, ENGLAND. > >Please also forward this invitation to all able-minded potential >participants. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >And if you need inspiration, you might recall that during his first = >seventy >days in office... > >-- appointed the richest cabinet in history: seven of its members own = >assets >worth more than $10m (=A36.8m); eleven of the remaining 12 are = >millionaires; >most >have ties to the energy, drug, and technologies industries; >-- appointed John Ashcroft - prohibitionist, religious zealot, racist, >misogynist, Confederate hardliner, right-wing reactionary - Attorney >General; >-- nominated, as ambassador to the United Nations, John Negroponte: = >U.S. >ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, and a zealous anti-Communist >crusader >in America's covert wars against the leftist Sandinista government in >Nicaragua >and the FMLN rebels in El Salvador, Negroponte abetted and covered up = >human >rights crimes, including the kidnapping, torture and murder of hundreds = >of >Hondurans by Battalion 316, a secret army intelligence unit trained and >supported by the CIA; >-- appointed Donald Rumsfeld US Defence Secretary, with Paul Wolfowitz = >as >his >deputy; both are hawks and longtime supporters of active US efforts to >promote >the overthrow of President Saddam by sanctions, military strikes and >military >and other aid to the Iraqi opposition; >-- stripped the ABA of its role as a vetting agency in the appointment = >of >federal judges; that role is now occupied, unofficially, by the = >Federalist >Society for Law and Public Policy, a right-wing organization opposed to >affirmative action, laws against sexual harassment, and environmental >protection legislation; > >-- reinstituted the 'global gag rule' banning US foreign aid to >international >organizations or groups in foreign countries that promote abortion or >include >it as an option in their counseling; >-- proposed a "Faith-Based Initiative" to allow religious organizations = >to >compete with secular social services groups for federal dollars = >intended to >help the needy; >-- presided over the distribution of the 2000 census, from which only = >'raw >figures' will be released to states, not adjusted figures that could = >protect >against an estimated net undercount of 3.3 million people, mostly >minorities; >-- passed an Executive Order overriding eight years' worth of worker = >safety >legislation; > >-- rescinded his campaign promise, and rejected the Kyoto protocols = >aimed at >reducing carbon emissions; >-- incorporated initial moves to open the Alaskan National Wildlife = >refuge >to >oil drilling into his budget package > >-- proposed across-the-board tax cuts totalling $1.6 trillion over 10 = >years; >-- proposed the elimination of inheritance tax, which affects only the >wealthiest 2% of the population with estates worth more than $675,000; >-- alluded to a proposal to cut the already modest funding for = >child-care >assistance for low-income families, programs designed to investigate = >and >combat >child abuse, and a new program to train pediatricians and other doctors = >at >children's hospitals across the U.S.; >-- thanks to assiduous efforts by credit card companies and banks, the = >House >rushed through a bill changing bankruptcy legislation to make it = >radically >more >difficult for middle-class consumers to escape overwhelming consumer = >debt; >-- proposed a budget plan allocating an extra $14bn (=A39.7bn) to = >defence >spending, taking the Pentagon's budget for next year to $310bn, or = >about a >third of the total world military spending. $2.6bn - part of a $20bn >five-year >program - allocated to fund research and development of new weapon >technologies, roughly half of which is earmarked for NMD (national = >missile >defence); > >-- spurned North Korea (called, by Condoleezza Rice, "the road kill of >history"); told South Korea's President Kim Dae-jung he was ending the >policy >of engagement and negotiation with the Pyongyang regime, mistakenly = >warning >"Part of the problem in dealing with North Korea...there's not very = >much >transparency. We're not certain as to whether or not they're keeping = >all >terms >of all agreements" (the US has only one agreement with North Korea, and = >more >careful officials are disinclined to accuse North Korea of deception); >-- was 'complimentary' when briefed by Rumsfeld about plans to overhaul >America's arsenal to face the new Chinese threat by replacing = >dependence on >aircraft carriers and short-range fighters with long-range bombers = >capable >of >flying across the world's widest sea to fight and win a nuclear war. = >Its >diplomatic efforts rebuffed, China announced it will increase defense >spending >by 18%; >-- made it clear that he will push ahead with selling the Aegis missile >radar >system to Taiwan, enabling the island to steal a military edge over the >mainland - which China stresses will rupture relations between Beijing = >and >Washington; >-- authorized air strikes on radar stations around Baghdad, killing two = >and >injuring eleven people; >-- issued an order permitting Iraqi opposition groups to begin limited = >moves >inside Iraq using US government funding; >-- the CIA abandoned its efforts to persuade Israel and the = >Palestinians to >renew security cooperation; >-- welcomed Ariel Sharon; agreed that Israel's security concerns must = >come >first, that a Clinton-style comprehensive Middle East peace deal was = >not >worth >pursuing, and even perhaps that Yasser Arafat not be given a White = >House >audience until he definitively halts the intifada violence; >-- suggested the US might move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem; >-- expelled around 50 Russian diplomats, reigniting cold-war tensions = >and >jeopardizing Russian co-operation with American intelligence now in = >Russia >monitoring 'loose nukes'. Rumsfeld accused Russia of being "an active >proliferator"; > >-- was honorary chairman of the USS Missouri Restoration Fund - the = >Fund's >donors include the 16 civilians, almost all Texans with ties to the = >energy >industry (particularly petroleum), on the ill-fated Greenville = >submarine >that >sank a Japanese fishing vessel; > >-- in an address to 4,000 people on Feb. 28, said "those of us who = >spent >time >in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how = >unfair >the >death penalty is -- the death tax is,'' correcting himself. He then = >joked: >"I >don't want to get rid of the death penalty, just the death tax," = >laughing >along >with the crowd. >------------------------------ > >Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:02:23 -0600 >From: Mark DuCharme >Subject: introducing... > >This is to announce to the unwary world the existence of yet another >"school" of poetry (but one which will, no doubt, prove more vital than many >that have come before)-- the School of Continuation! > >The School of Continuation consists of Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, Mark DuCharme, >Anselm Hollo, Patrick Pritchett and Laura E. Wright. > >The School is, "by temperament of its members more than conscious choice... >a micro-community devoted to the study, the selfish pleasure and above all >the PRACTICE of poetry. We have no official program; we hold no discussions >of theory; we do not organize conferences or symposia; there are no events >(other than readings, which are not official functions of the School). We >don't even have meetings*, though we all see each other regularly. What we >do (excepting Jane, who paints) is write poems.... The tendency of poets to >be drawn to, and at the same time be suspicious of, group formations, makes >sense when one looks at the social circumstances in which writing occurs. >However much the poem may be born of dialogic or even activist impulses, the >act of putting words together takes place in a kind of fundamental (if not >ideological) isolation. This is so, even though afterwards the poet may >socialize with her peers. Not just the isolation of the act of writing, but >the heavily marginalized status of poetry and especially of experimental >poetry in this country, creates the need for such alliances. One can either >give in to the competitiveness which a limitation of resources >sociologically fosters -- or one can cooperate in cells of compatible >tendency and good will. The School of Continuation is one experiment in the >latter form of social production. > >*Except when we do. (The School of Continuation contradicts itself with >regularity)." > >The above statement appears on our new web site, which has been graciously >designed by Lisa Jarnot. Anyone interested can view the site at: > >http://members.nbci.com/subpress/soc.htm > >There is also a new journal, which so far hasn't been announced on this >list, that contains a sampling of works by most of the members of the >School, as well as work by a variety of others. It is Mantis #1, available >for $10.00 from: > >English Department >Stanford University >Stanford, CA 94305-2087 > >Future activities of the School of Continuation will be announced on this >list whenever it seems relevant to do so. Look for information in the >coming months about the press we are starting. Among the publications >planned will be a mini-anthology of manifestos, poems and drawings by the >members of the School. > >For the School of Continuation, > >Mark DuCharme >Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 21:19:10 -0500 >From: Aaron Belz >Subject: in honor of NMPM > >I just reread Mr. B's "Against NPM As Such" -- a perfect bag of hammers. >What an encouragement. > >To commemorate Nat'l Mainstream Poetry Month, I have a tirade of my own. >It's not much of a tirade, as you'll see. More of a pack of lies mixed in >with several truths, in ballad form. Take it as it's intended: humorously, >not hatefully. > >Cheers, everyone. I hope the cruellest month is taking it easy on all us >otherstreamers. > >-Aaron Belz >http://meaningless.com > > > >POETS > >There once was a man named Donald Hall >Whose work as a poet gained him notoriety. >He read it in many an auditorium and hall >Without arrogance, and with just a titch of piety. > >There once was a woman named Anne Waldman, >A mysterious witch-like pot-smoking poet >Who floated in and out of Naropa like a shaman. >Her poetry's not great. If you read it, you'll know it. > >There once was a poet named Philip Levine >Whose work in an auto factory long ago >Led to a lifelong fixation with the assembly line, >Some of which yielded poems that were only so-so. > >There once was a man named James Merrill, >A poet who disciplined himself to work in form. >Unfortunately a lot of his stuff seems sterile, >But then that's the main risk of working in form. > >There once was a fellow named Derek Walcott >Who also worked in form, a lot like Merrill. >But despite all the major literary awards he's got, >A lot of his writing also sounds sterile. > >There once was a bad poet named Maya Angelou >Who's claim to fame was that she read at the forty-first >Inauguration in '92. People were too polite to boo. >She is, however, a very capable autobiographist. > >There once was a writer named Robert Pinsky >Who had been accused of being too "ivory tower." >One time his wife slammed the Volvo door on his pinky, >And he screamed loudly for almost an hour. > >Once there was a poet, Jorie Graham, >Who wrote in a stuttering, film-like style. >She saw the world as if through Poet Cam. >Scrutiny, however, finds little behind this style. > >There once was a poet named Denise Levertov, >And damn it, I really want to like her work. >But there's something about her that pisses me off. >It may be that her ideas seem precious & overworked. > >And there was one a poet named Kenneth Koch. >He made his name by being associated with pop figures >Such as Andy Warhol. But his work is often lost in the smoke >Of the fire of his friends, Ashbery, Schuyler, Snyder. > >And there was another one named Louise Gl=FCck. >Nobody except David Lehman knows how to say it. >I used to think it rhymed with the F word, hick >That I am. Her poetry is predictable, though few will say it. > >Once there was a woman named Heather McHugh. >Now here's a tongue-twisting poet I can relate to. >Maybe you'll be able to relate to her too. >Next time you're at Borders, look up Heather McHugh. > >Off in the corner was a weirdo named Mike Topp. >A poet like the others, but without the awards. >His writing makes me laugh and say "Stop! >That tickles!" He really deserved some awards. > >There once was a man named John Ashbery, >Among a handful of poets both celebrated and great. >His poetry was at the same time clean-shaven and hairy. >Often people who like him also like James Tate. > >There once was a man named James Tate: >Dogs playing poker from the beginning. >But sometimes you wish he'd just lay it out straight, >Tell it like it is, like in the one about his dad, spinning. > >There once was a poet named Allen Ginsberg, >A very great gay writer who achieved extreme fame >And will be remembered for his spontaneous words, >Mostly "Howl" et al. His later work is kind of lame. > >There once was a poet named Amy Clampitt, >Another one with the name of Yehuda Amichai, >And although I admire her, I can't get into Clampitt, >But to tell the truth I do like Yehuda Amichai. > >There once was a poet named Galway Kinnell, >And there was another one named Sharon Olds; >Whether or not they're great only time will tell, >And Sharon is younger than Galway, but still old. > >There once was a fine poet named Seamus Heaney >And another pretty good one named Thomas Gunn. >There was yet another one named Joseph Brodsky >And yet another one named Mona Van Duyn. > >And there was a poet by the name of A.R. Ammons >Who didn't at all appreciate the work of Donald Hall, >But didn't mention that as they dined together on salmon >And beer with several other poets during Breadloaf last fall. > > >[Aaron Belz] > >------------------------------ > >Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 23:49:50 -0400 >From: Jonathan Skinner >Subject: ECOPOETICS > >ECOPOETICS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! > >Now that the days are longer, consider contributing to ECOPOETICS / writing >surrounds. > >While honoring the long tradition of "nature writing," ECOPOETICS finds >pastoralism, art representing nature, at an impasse. At the same time, the >writing edge seems to offer no new take on surrounds, mainly environmental >silence, or passive regrets. If there are exceptions, ECOPOETICS hopes to >gather them. > >ECOPOETICS seeks responses to the question: _where_ is writing? Whose >leaves are contiguous to body, street, yard, park or waterfront, sky, lawn, >brownfield, industry, farmland, or the "wild"-- environs from the porch to >the South Pole-- in every case peopled with more than humans. > >If, as O'Hara claims, "one never need leave the confines of New York to get >all the greenery one wishes," any _where_ entails an extended sense of >people, into other species, and a "greenery" subject to waste >(mis)management; flows and deposits of gases, heavy metals and synthetic >organic compounds; eco-nomics; and the growing map of environmental >injustice. Might not discourses and practices of soil, water, air, energy >make poetics? Responses from other languages, especially translated along >north-south lines, are urgently sought. > >Examples and discussion both are invited: poems, translations, essays, >reviews, letters, journals, investigations, lists, divinations, prayers, >riddles, maps, documented acts, performances and installations, unearthings, >practical advice, etc., will be considered. Preferable means of delivery is >by email attachment. (If a visually determined piece is accepted, then a >hard copy may be useful.) ECOPOETICS will read submissions for the next >eight weeks, through May, 2001. Don't miss your chance to participate in >the first, exciting issue! > >Please address all correspondence to: > >jskinner@acsu.buffalo.edu > >ECOPOETICS / J. Skinner >106 Huntington Avenue >Buffalo, NY 14214 > > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:51:33 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: Hawai`i education strikes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm writing to ask everyone to pay attention to the strikes by = University of Hawai`i faculty and public school teachers, strikes that = began this past Thursday. Like so many things that happen in this = state, these are important events, and like so many things that happen = in this state, they tend to be ignored on the US continent as some kind = of "trouble in paradise." The UH budget has been slashed by one third (yes!) in the past seven = years. When I came to UH in 1990, my salary was competitive with that = of other comparable schools; it is no longer. Faculty and student = morale is exceedingly low. The governor at one point offered us a tiny increase but said that we = would have to pay retirement and health benefits over the summers "when = we don't work." He is now trying to cut our health benefits during the = strike. And he won't talk with the unions until Tuesday, though the = strike began on Thursday. The governor is trying to turn UH into a community college. He is = trying to break our union and that of the teachers. Please pay = attention. We have a lot of public support, though one man told me today (as I = handed him a leaflet he pledged to throw away) that "if you think you're = so hot you should get jobs at other universities on the mainland." He = didn't seem impressed by my arguments about the importance of research = universities or my claim that I and others actually don't want to leave = Hawai`i. He was, alas, a "mainland haole," living up to his stereotype, = as did several others I encountered today. One man, claiming to be a = student, told me I should be "ashamed." He was driving a red = convertible Jaguar. Must have been a business student (they meet on = Saturdays). Strike information is available from kitv.com, honoluluadvertiser.com, = star-bulletin.com. I've seen stories in the NY Times, the Washington = Post, and heard about us on NPR. The Chronicle of Higher Ed is sending = someone to cover the strike. =20 aloha, Susan ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 03:37:52 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Memories from Another Century: Screen, Screen, I will call You MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - (I find this unutterably sad... Alan) Memories from Another Century: Screen, Screen, I will call You /addworld l Nikuko purlmoo.uib.no 8888 /addworld lingua Asondheim lingua.utdallas.edu 8888 /addworld media Alan mediamoo.media.mit.edu 8888 /addworld pmc Nikuko hero.village.virginia.edu 7777 /addworld talker Alan woodfin.cs.unca.edu 7000 Message 1: Date: Thu Jun 3 09:02:01 1999 MET DST From: nikuko (#934) To: nikuko (#934) Subject: Hello dark feather thou dark feather gone on me. thou must dislike this fallen bough of gone materials. nothing is written through this migraine and Screen is invisible. I will call Screen, Screen, and there is no answer. nothing comes and there are no arrivals or departures. alas, my breasts are heavy with milk falling down upon Screen. Screen raises her mouth, does screen. I am engulfed. goodbye and hello desire and goodbye invisible Screen. thy jagged edges, visible migraine. thou art gone upon me. teeth. now and then I still may dream of an unsustained image. imaginary Screen, come and pour upon me. More 3_l_____________________________________________03:29 @mail 1 @read 1 now and then I still may dream of an unsustained image. imaginary Screen, come and pour upon me. Screen, Screen. your darling, Nikuko -------------------------- _________l_____________________________________________03:29 @mail 1 @read 1 Nikuko Brooding Buti or Buda / Pest She is awake and looks alert. Carrying: Budi iGirl _________l_____________________________________________03:29 @examine nikuko look me ___ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:27:17 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: michael amberwind Subject: Re: introducing... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii i both simultaneously join this new and exciting movement (if they will have me) - clearly a breath mint for the halitosis of the new millenium and concurrently renounce all affiliations (if they will allow me to leave) for failing poetry utterly and completely and totally and in every way possible - i mean i joined and read the magazines and memorised the manifesto and my poems got not one jot better! - not that the individuals involved were not a more charming, classy sort of folk than the usual sort of person you chat in line with in Starbucks of course i will be hosting a colloquium through the auspices of the MLA entitled "The Rise and Fall of the School of Continuation: Continuuistic Content Theory in a Post-Contextualised Context" > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:02:23 -0600 > From: Mark DuCharme > > Subject: introducing... > > This is to announce to the unwary world the > existence of yet another > "school" of poetry (but one which will, no > doubt, prove more vital than many > that have come before)-- the School of > Continuation! > > The School of Continuation consists of Jane > Dalrymple-Hollo, Mark DuCharme, > Anselm Hollo, Patrick Pritchett and Laura E. > Wright. > > The School is, "by temperament of its members > more than conscious choice... > a micro-community devoted to the study, the > selfish pleasure and above all > the PRACTICE of poetry. We have no official > program; we hold no discussions > of theory; we do not organize conferences or > symposia; there are no events > (other than readings, which are not official > functions of the School). We > don't even have meetings*, though we all see > each other regularly. What we > do (excepting Jane, who paints) is write > poems.... The tendency of poets to > be drawn to, and at the same time be suspicious > of, group formations, makes > sense when one looks at the social > circumstances in which writing occurs. > However much the poem may be born of dialogic > or even activist impulses, the > act of putting words together takes place in a > kind of fundamental (if not > ideological) isolation. This is so, even though > afterwards the poet may > socialize with her peers. Not just the > isolation of the act of writing, but > the heavily marginalized status of poetry and > especially of experimental > poetry in this country, creates the need for > such alliances. One can either > give in to the competitiveness which a > limitation of resources > sociologically fosters -- or one can cooperate > in cells of compatible > tendency and good will. The School of > Continuation is one experiment in the > latter form of social production. > > *Except when we do. (The School of Continuation > contradicts itself with > regularity)." > > The above statement appears on our new web > site, which has been graciously > designed by Lisa Jarnot. Anyone interested can > view the site at: > > http://members.nbci.com/subpress/soc.htm > > There is also a new journal, which so far > hasn't been announced on this > list, that contains a sampling of works by most > of the members of the > School, as well as work by a variety of others. > It is Mantis #1, available > for $10.00 from: > > English Department > Stanford University > Stanford, CA 94305-2087 > > Future activities of the School of Continuation > will be announced on this > list whenever it seems relevant to do so. Look > for information in the > coming months about the press we are starting. > Among the publications > planned will be a mini-anthology of manifestos, > poems and drawings by the > members of the School. > > For the School of Continuation, > > Mark DuCharme > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 16:49:02 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: claank design Subject: Russell Edson and Tomaz Salamon Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello, I am searching for email addresses for Russell Edson and Tomaz Salamon. Please backchannel. Thanks, Andrea Baker ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:54:54 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: michael amberwind Subject: Re: Spock Stamp [ad infinitum] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii i think T-Boz has one out now too - too bad i lost my wallet the other day with my Chapter's One card so i won't get my discount when i buy 20 copies not a celebrity poetry book by any stretch - but an interesting book i remember seeing as a kid was "How to Be Like Me" by none other than the semi-famous at the time Tina Yuthers of "Family Ties" - i'd love to have been in the marketing meeting that came up with the idea for that one there's been mention of Marylin Monroe's poetry - has it been collected anyhere? an interesting synchronicity because i've been reading Robert Anthon Wilson's book ABOUT synchronicity titled "Coincidance" in which he talks about the poetry Norma Jean read and wrote - along with the usual RA Wilson conspiracy theories that are always most excellent does anyone remember Leaping Lenny Poffo from the halcyon days of WWF in the 80s? he used to read a poem mocking his opponents before his ass got trounced by some guy who was 3x larger than him - he only got in the WWF because he was the Macho Man Randy Savage's brother - nepotism pays my official vote for the poetry stamp is one for Leaping Lenny Poffo - how many poets do you know are willing to take a chair in the head for their art? - some, but not many, certainly not Spock, who was more or less a pacifist - i picture the stamp as a blue-red "3D" stamp where if you are wearing 3D glasses Lenny seems to be flying right at you with a hard bound copy of "The Collected Poems of ee cummings" raised over head to smash the noggin > Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:17:42 -0700 > From: MAXINE CHERNOFF > Subject: Re: Mister Spock Stamp > > You also forgot Jimmy Carter. > > Maxine Chernoff > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Nielsen, Aldon wrote: > > > You guys are inspiring me to go through with > a course I've always > > threatened to offer: > > > > The Remaindered Canon of Celebrity Verse > > > > syllabus might well include > > > > Richard Thomas > > Leonard Nimoy > > Suzanne Summers > > Aly Sheedy (ah, you had forgotten, hadn't > you?!) > > Jimmy Stewart > > Rod McKuen > > Jewell > > > > and now we can add > > > > Tupac Shakur __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 18:28:16 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/in.html MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/in.html http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/in.html http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/in.html http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/in.html http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/in.html http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/in.html http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/in.html http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/in.html http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/in.html Internet Text at http://www2.sva.edu/~alans/ Partial at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write sondheim@panix.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 15:17:13 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Wystan Curnow (FOA ENG)" Subject: Re: Poetry videos MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" dear herb, did you have any response to your request for information? In theory I'd be very interested in most of these myself for teaching purposes. wystan -----Original Message----- From: Herb Levy [mailto:herb@ESKIMO.COM] Sent: Sunday, 25 February 2001 4:07 a.m. To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Poetry videos Hi, I just received an announcement of new releases from the Downtown Music Gallery in NYC that includes the list below of videos of, primarily, poets & writers. Could anyone on this list tell me anything more about them? Thanks. >DMG STOCKS MOST VIDEOS FROM LOCAL DIRECTOR MITCH CORBER! >Each one sells for $17. and here is a brief description of each title: > > >20. JOHN CAGE: MAN AND MYTH >This riveting 60-min. doumentary features a classic 1989 Cage interview >- interlaced with enlightening visits by Cagean disciples Philip Glass, >Glenn Branca, Allan Kaprow, Richard Kostelanetz, Jackson MacLow, Grete >Sultan and Johnny Reinhard. Pianist Joshua Pierce displays Cage's >'prepared piano' and performs "Sonatas and Interludes." Cage percolates >with zen theory, reads poetry, and plays electric cactus. (1990, 60 >min.) > >21. ALLEN GINSBERG: BEAT LEGEND, Vol.1 >(Captured live 1988-91 - poems performed with mini pump-organ): >CIA Dope Calypso, Spot Anger, Broken Bone Blues, Wales Visitation, Why I >Meditate, Velocity of Money, Going to the World of the Dead, Western >Ballad, Hum Bom, Hard Labor; many more. (1988-91, 85 min.) > >22. ALLEN GINSBERG: BEAT LEGEND, Vol.2 >(More essential Ginsberg) -just released February 2001 >Please Master, White Shroud, Visiting Father and Friends, Report From >China 1985, You Don't Know It, Yahweh and Allah Battle, On the Cremation >of Trogyen Trumpa, A Dream of Gaia, and more. (1991-95, 85 min.) > >23. GREGORY CORSO: BEAT LEGEND- just released also >Ginsberg's lifelong poet pal. Corso, who sadly just passed away, is >remembered best in this charismatic 1991 event. Poems include: Greenwich >Village Suicide, 30-Year Dream, The Whole Mess Almost, Flu Ramblings >'91, Boticelli's 'Spring', Amnesia in Memphis, Last Night I Drove a Car, >Birthplace Revisited, and more. (NYU, 55 min.) > >24. GINSBERG SINGS BLAKE: >A vibrant neo-renaissance concert of a suite of ballads. Having spent >over two decades on this monumental Blake project - to inject - or >re-inject music to poet William Blake's classic 'Songs of Innocence' and >'Songs of Experience' poems. Ginsberg unleashes sheer chanting bliss, by >way of singing, historiciznig and playing mini pump-organ. Ensemble trio >blends fine harmonic vocals of singer-guitarist Steven Taylor and >electric violin of Heather Hardy. (1990, 80 min.) > >25. NY BEAT GENERATION, VOL.3 (MUSIC MOVES THE SPIRIT): >An unforgettable 1994 Beat cabaret hosted by David Amram - an evening of >jazz/poetry central to the Beat ethos. The Doors' Ray Manzarek and poet >Michael McClure collaborate on Kerouac's 'Mexico City Blues'. Allen >Ginsberg sings his jaunty 'Put Down That Cigarette Rag'. Amram and poet >Ted Joans mount a sizzling bebop number dedicated to Bird. Writer Terry >Southern performs a hypnotic prose poem. Charts the wild '50s NY jazz >club explosion. (80 min.) > >26. ED SANDERS/The FUGS Vol.1 >Versatile satiric songwriter Sanders sings poignant political anthems >and homages, lacing spoken word over music: >[The Fugs at the Palladium 1989 w/ Tuli Kupferberg & Steven Taylor] Song >for Abbie Hoffman, Nothing, Protest and Survive. >[Solo] Sunflower Weary of Time, Equal to the Gods, Tale of the Maximus >Myth, The Air in the Hawk's Lung Measures Our Lives. (1994, 55 min.) > >27. AMIRI BARAKA - LIVE >(Poems, Political Songs) >Mind of the President, Black Litany, New Music, Prophets, Wailers (for >Bob Marley), Class Struggle in Music - I & II, Blues for Coltrane, >Ancient Music, and more. (1989-90, 55 min.) > >28. POETS OF GENERATION X, Vol.1 >NY's current downtown scene. Spoken word gems and tone poems on the >cutting edge. Featuring: Emily XYZ, Steve Dalachinsky, Todd Colby, Anne >Elliott, Kathy Acker, Bob Holman, Barbara Barg, Gloria, Craig Silver, >more. (1995, 65 min.) > >29. POETS OF GENERATION X, Vol.2 >More of downtown's hot scene. Spoken word and musical voices. Featuring: >Tish Benson, Eileen Myles, Ed Sanders, Sparrow, Christian X. Hunter, Lee >Ann Brown, Mitch Corber, Thad Rutkowski, many others. (1997, 70 min.) -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Forth Wort, TX 76147 817 377-2983 herb@eskimo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:26:11 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: derek beaulieu Subject: Transparency Machine #23 -- Ian Samuels MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Transparency Machine Reading #23 > > IAN SAMUELS > http://slought.net/exp/transparency/ > > ****Monday April 30th, 7:30 pm**** > > a.u.d.i.o.c.a.s.t -> l.i.v.e > 11th Floor, Social Sciences Building, University of Calgary > ** free & open to the public ** > > To prepare for this event, IAN SAMUELS's new excerpt from *Iconnotations*, > including a note on this work in progress, as well as his essay, > "Mythopoetics and the Migration of Meaning," are available for viewing / > download as "Transparency Machine Reading # 23" at: > > http://slought.net/exp/transparency/ > > Further texts -- from a Marvel cosmetics textbook, and by Steve McCaffery, > Jackson Mac Low, Harryette Mullen, Barrett Watten, among others -- will be > projected (for discussion) the night of the event. Details on exact texts > will be forthcoming; please check the website, above. > > To sign up and participate in the live audiocast, email > housepress@home.com. There are 25 places available on the server. > > > IAN SAMUELS is author of *Cabra* (Red Deer Press, 2000) and the chapbook, > *FUGA* (housepress, 1998). Excerpts from *Iconnotations*, a work in > progress, appear in *W* (http://www.ksw.net/) and *dANDelion* magazines, > and are forthcoming in *Capilano Review* > (http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/dept/TCR/). Most recently, end*note* > (http://www.telusplanet.net/public/housepre/) features "Hieroticon: > *trans*Genesis in the Retort," co-written with Jill Hartman. > > THE TRANSPARENCY MACHINE is an event in which a poet is invited to > contextualize her work by means of other texts, images, etc. of her own > choosing. The poet's selected texts are made available prior to the event > as a viewable / downloadable PDF file. For the event itself, the poet > engages with audience expectations (built out of the advance set of texts) > by means of transparencies and overhead projector. > > > For further info, contact lcabri@dept.english.upenn.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:09:09 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tina Rotenberg Subject: *** Go see AMM at Mills today **** Comments: To: steved@sfsu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have been remiss. Please try to make it out to Mills College this Sunday p..m. to see Eddie Prevost, John Tilbury, Keith Rowe (aka AMM) in a rare west-coast appearance from the UK. AMM since their late 1960s manifestation when they were working with Cornelius Cardew has been without doubt among the most consistently amazing creative music ensembles I'm aware of. Highly recommended. Much much healthier than that post tv dinner you are preparing to hunker around this sunday evening. a totally unforeseen music------- steve dickison ____________________________ VALA: Visual Arts/Language Arts, a project for kids in the public schools Tina Rotenberg, Director tel 510.845.9610 fax 510.845.4588 vala@dnai.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:28:44 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetics List Administration Subject: list delay MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Somehow, once again we have an Inbox full of messages heterogeneously dated from earlier in the week, all having shown up over-night last night; most likely, these were restored after a problem with UB's mail server caused us to lose service on Tuesday and Wednesday. Apologies to those subscribers whose messages have been delayed. Christopher W. Alexander poetics list moderator ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 03:58:15 +0000 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Organization: Pavement Saw Press Subject: Re: yo and poetry contests MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is plenty of information on contests in the past archives, some I have contributed on this subject Unpublished poets win contests? Yes. The Editors choice for the Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Award last year was Daniel Zimmerman who only had poems in two magazines, College English and Exquisite Corpse. While I have read a split chapbook of his with John Clarke put out by Oasia, I recognized none of his poems when they arrived to me without a name on the manuscript after the first three readers paired the numbers down. It was my first choice. When the contest judge did not choose this book, I had written down the manuscript number, had it returned, found out who it was and accepted the manuscript. The contest did well enough that we were able to afford to publish this book in addition to the Judges choice: Jeffrey Levine's Mortal, Everlasting. Howard McCord, the judge, nor Jeffrey Levine knew who each other was. Creeley, perhaps, would not be writing the introduction for Zimmerman's Post-Avant book if good truck on us was not in circulation. Contests can be a useful way in which to make that word more visible once a year. I do not believe Zimmerman, having gone over two decades without a first book, is a "certified poet" in the manner mentioned. > or are publishers simply using a > marketing gimmick, one they obviously feel is helpful? I think many are. I have been told of contests chosen beforehand. From this vantage we see how it happens also. The longer I stay in this business it becomes apparent that WELL KNOWN authors expect me to publish their students material due to a cover letter "introducing" them to me for the contest. Usually this is shortly followed with a phone call (never an e-mail, if you wish to use this method) in which I am queried by the WELL KNOWN author, who usually flatters me at least once before I offend them. This is where I think Bob G. & I agree, poetry ain't about making friends. We are usually only a first book and selected/collected publisher. I have a noble, & oft called naive, idea about poetry, that it shouldn't be about corruption, whether through coercion by well known brand name endorsement or flat out offers of loot to publish a collection, I have been criticized for rejecting both. So far its been about the poems themselves. We are publishing 10 poetry titles this year, including first books by 5 authors. Our ethical methods of contest use, and our understanding of contests as only one option in a lexicon of marketing tools, has worked for us. Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus OH 43206 USA http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:39:08 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Chirot Subject: VisualPoetry Anthology O!!Zone 2001 available MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit O!!Zone 2001 is now available: O!!Zone is an annual international anthology of visual poetry, photography and poetry edited by Harry Burrus. Ever wide ranging and eclectic, O!!Zone always presents a vital and vivid sense of the varieties of vocabularies, notations, ideas and idiolects, hieroglyphs, calligraphies being made with great energies today around the world. The current edition has work by 70 visual poets from 20 countries, as well as a tribute to the late Peter Olwyler. Also available are copies of O!!Zone 98, even larger than this year's edition with works by 62 visual poets and mail artists from 17 countries. O!!Zone 2001 is available for 20. 00 $ US plus $2.00 shipping O!!Zone 98 is available for 30.00 $ US plus $2.00 shipping From: O!!Zone 1266 Fountain View Houston, Texas 77057-2204 USA ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:44:17 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: printing liquid MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - printing liquid liquids and sibilants and print "\n$that is & clotting everything. - \n";: else {sleep(1); and print "\nFirst flooding\n";:if ($sign=fork) {print "\nRuntime $pid\n";}:and print "one by one, each on a line alone, typing Control-d when done.\n";:print "\nHow would you absorb your $a[$gen2] $nnn[$nnnn]?\n"; Your spit and print "List more and more effluvia\n"; are across my cuts and print "\n$noun[$non1] tears & floods & spews & mercur- ies & semen detergents & ammonias & ureas:spit saliva vomit sweat effluvia detritus & excretions & sloughings:blood urine feces & gas & sand water oil solvent alcohol lymph menses:$g = int(8*rand);:$time = int(time/3600); so blood urine feces & gas & sand water oil solvent alcohol lymph menses & sand replace your tears & floods & spews & mercuries & semen detergents & ammonias & ureas;: and liquids and sibilants and print \n\n. _ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:31:12 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: daniel labeau Subject: Russakoff/Silver reading postponed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed This Philadelphia reading,previously posted here for April 11,has been postponed. The new date will be posted when it is handed to me. Thank you all. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:42:23 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Louis Cabri Subject: Transparency Reading #23: Ian Samuels MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Transparency Machine Reading #23 IAN SAMUELS http://slought.net/exp/transparency/ ****Monday April 30th, 7:30 pm**** a.u.d.i.o.c.a.s.t -> l.i.v.e 11th Floor, Social Sciences Building, University of Calgary ** free & open to the public ** To prepare for this event, IAN SAMUELS's new excerpt from *Iconnotations*, including a note on this work in progress, as well as his essay, "Mythopoetics and the Migration of Meaning," are available for viewing / download as "Transparency Machine Reading # 23" at: http://slought.net/exp/transparency/ Further texts -- from a Marvel cosmetics textbook, and by Steve McCaffery, Jackson Mac Low, Harryette Mullen, Barrett Watten, among others -- will be projected (for discussion) the night of the event. Details on exact texts will be forthcoming; please check the website, above. To sign up and participate in the live audiocast, email housepress@home.com. 25 places are available on the server. IAN SAMUELS is author of *Cabra* (Red Deer Press, 2000) and the chapbook, *FUGA* (housepress, 1998). Excerpts from *Iconnotations*, a work in progress, appear in *W* (http://www.ksw.net/) and *dANDelion* magazines, and are forthcoming in *Capilano Review* (http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/dept/TCR/). Most recently, end*note* (http://www.telusplanet.net/public/housepre/) features "Hieroticon: *trans*Genesis in the Retort," co-written with Jill Hartman. THE TRANSPARENCY MACHINE is an event in which a poet is invited to contextualize her work by means of other texts, images, etc. of her own choosing. The poet's selected texts are made available prior to the event as a viewable / downloadable PDF file. For the event itself, the poet engages with audience expectations (built out of the advance set of texts) by means of transparencies and overhead projector. For further info, contact lcabri@dept.english.upenn.edu, or go to http://slought.net/exp/transparency/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:22:16 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Igor Satanovsky Subject: April 15th MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit KOJA PRESS and The Pink Pony West Reading series present a connoisseur of the bizarre and controversial, New York poet William James Austin reading from his new book 5 UNDERWORLD 6 Sunday, April 15th, 7pm Cornelia street cafe 29 Cornelia Street bet. W4th & Bleeker NYC Igor Satanovsky http://kojapress.com http://go.to/rushins ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:32:39 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Hoa Nguyen Subject: N E W POSSUM POUCH! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Check out The Possum Pouch April 2001 An irregular publication of essays, notes and reviews at http://www.skankypossum.com. DON'T MISS OUT--THIS ISSUE WILL EXPIRE AND WILL NOT BE ARCHIVED. FEATURING === The New Peri Bathous by Emma Featherwaite === Or the Art of Falling Flat on Your Face and Embarrassing Yourself in Poetry (excerpt) "The ability to produce howlers in the midst of otherwise solemn poetry should not be confused with less intense variations of the muse. These include not only repetition, forms of self-parody common to most poets, but poetry written when the mind is out to lunch, on days when personal elevators don't quite reach the top floor. Two such examples will quickly establish the great superiority of the previous examples." === Linh Dinh reports from Saigon === Hit Ya' Back! (excerpt) "Eighty percent of Vietnamese will claim that they are Buddhists. What this means, most of them will have a hard time explaining. Visits to a temple are for the purpose of praying for personal gains, not to hear a sermon...In the Vietnamese universe, Buddhism is merely a thin blanket half hiding an animist demon. " === Pouch Notes by Dale Smith === Regarding the latest by Eshleman, Irby, Silliman. === Dig it! === Possum recommended links, dig. ....... We welcome responses and pouch submissions--write to skankypossum@hotmail.com. ** If you'd like to be removed from this list, kindly email me here ** _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:32:02 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Belz Subject: martha rhodes In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit If anyone has her email address, pls. backchannel. Thanks, aaron@belz.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:55:00 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Barrett Watten Subject: Al Filreis talk at Wayne State Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Al Filreis is at the forefront of teachers and scholars in the humanities=20 using electronic media. To see the spirit in which he approaches the=20 possibilities of the internet for the humanities, visit his website at=20 http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/home.html. Al Filreis University of Pennsylvania "No One to Drive the Car": Experimental Poetry Across Time and Space A talk, followed by an informal discussion on humanities teaching, distance learning, and the new media: "Magic thinking, unmediated access, instant solutions=97not" 2147 Old Main =95 Humanities Center Wayne State University, Detroit Friday =95 April 13 =95 12:30 PM Talk: Using William Carlos Williams's poem "To Elsie" as a model, Al=20 Filreis discusses the advantages of an iterative technology-infused=20 pedagogy for the humanities. Faced with the complexity and richness of=20 modern poetry, which often demands more approaches to reading than the=20 constraints of the classroom allow, he and his students do not learn in any= =20 given time (or place). They, and other learners (and practitioners) joining= =20 them, learn synchronously and asynchronously at once, in time and over=20 time, through the use of electronic media. Affiliating the class with a=20 local and virtual community of writers outside the classroom, the teacher=20 can break the semester barrier, creating (in effect) an archive of=20 responses that tend to confuse the roles of student and teacher, reader and= =20 writer. [For an example of such an archive, visit the collected texts,=20 webcasts, and audio files of Philly Talks at=20 http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/phillytalks/.] Discussion: For people who run universities, especially those hard pressed= =20 to claim innovation and to respond somehow to the "information age," the=20 allure of clich=E9d postmodernity is great. The medium, to them, is the=20 message. (Finally.) "Distance learning" is a fat pipeline, a delivery=20 mechanism for content, the content being secondary ("x," a curricular blank= =20 to be filled out of material already in the course catalogue). But content,= =20 roughly speaking, has been the means by which intellectual communities have= =20 formed, and in the politics of the supposed coming cyber-university, real=20 virtual communities are labor-intensive and expensive. And they have all=20 the down sides that any communal activity does when it functions freely=20 within a centrally organized organization. To resist, we assert that the=20 medium is not the message. If the message has been experimental, either=20 pedagogically or aesthetically (or both), then we can say that the message= =20 is (and has long been) the message. The phrase "distance learning" is=20 replaced by "distributed learning." The community is enriched rather than=20 dispersed by the introduction of e-media to teaching and learning. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:01:55 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Magee Subject: Magee does PoProj 4/16 Comments: To: aimee@crowdmagazine.com In-Reply-To: <200103181921.AA108069182@crowdmagazine.com> from "CROWD Aimee Kelley" at Mar 18, 2001 07:21:37 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howdy Folks, shameless plug: I'll be reading this Monday night, 4/16 at 8pm at the Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St., NYC. Would love to see any and all of you there if you happen to be in the neighborhood, in the neighborhood, in the neighborhood. -m. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:46:45 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gary Shapiro Subject: big NYC reading on April 12: Charles Simic, Jackson Mac Low, and others MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ======================================= Buffalo Poetry Listserv members are cordially invited. Location of event: 15 Gramercy Park South (near 20th Street & Park Avenue) New York, New York Take 6 train to 23 street station. Email gshapirony@aol.com for more information. FREE EVENT 7:00pm Thursday, April 12, 2001 at 7:00pm Free event New American Writing 30th Anniversary The magazine began as OINK! in 1971 and changed its name to New American Writing. Based in California, the magazine is celebrating three decades of publication. Join Charles Simic, Jackson Mac Low, Kenward Elmslie, Geoffrey O'Brien, Eleni Sikelianos, Elaine Equi & Jerome Sala, Milcho Manchevski (director of the film "BEFORE THE RAIN"), David Lehman, William Corbett, Marjorie Welish, Ron Padgett, Charles Bernstein, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Hoover and others. ========================= ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:56:59 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Kimmelman, Burt" Subject: Essays needed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain There are still two unclaimed entries for A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry that I am editing: "Frank Samperi" and "Allen Mandelbaum." Anyone interested in writing one or both of them? The volume is to be published by Facts on File, Inc., a publisher that enjoys very wide distribution in libraries, colleges and high schools, as well as bookstores, and it will be peer reviewed. Payment for essays will be in presentational offprints. All essays will carry the author's name, and a list of contributors will appear in the back of the book. The list, as well as author guidelines and writing samples, can be viewed at this website: http://eies.njit.edu/~kimmelma/companion.html. If you are interested in writing for the volume then please contact me at kimmelman@njit.edu. Thanks, Burt Kimmelman ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:51:22 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: William Slaughter Subject: Notice: Mudlark MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE New and On View: Mudlark Poster No. 33 (2001) John Brennen | Carrington to Shore "i live in sydney. cook for strangers. on sunday we're cooking for the laconic bob dylan. anyway my poems get published in mags with names such as BREW and STREWTH! broadcast on public radio and issued on cd's by the band Crow =D0 LI-LO-ING and PLAY FOR LOVE. for better or worse richard hugo 'triggered' the poem off. what do you think?" Letter to Hugo from Carrington dear Dick: we have no mountains here no way of knowing the unexpected thrill of better weather fooling our hearts people come here to leave our leaders tell everyone how close elsewhere is the river makes visitors cross over to walk through my door i lose poems and sleepless nights in the bar does anyone need anything to shred memory collared by a sudden event are we any better when you're not alive a new weed shows up in my garden with the relief of seasonable change my ticket is in my pocket Spread the word. Far and wide, William Slaughter _________________ MUDLARK An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics Never in and never out of print... E-mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:22:49 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: attention attention notice MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - attention attention notice hello i am the president and i am sending a wake-up call to america. hello this is the wake-up call from the president of america. we will have to use foresight. who in america has foresight. i am the president and i have foresight. we will have to have hindsight. who in america has hindsight. i am the president and i have hindsight. foresight and hindsight are the key to our wake-up call. a wake-up call is a call in destiny, readiness, and preparation. i am the president and i have readiness and preparation. with your wake-up foresight and hindsight i will have in destiny. hello america is the greatest country ever on the face of the earth. this means that the face of the earth is our in destiny. with hindsight and foresight we will claim our in destiny with readiness. with the greatest preparation i do send out my wake-up call. who in america can send out the wake-up call. the president in america can send out the wake-up call. who in america is the greatest president ever. the president in america is the greatest president ever. i am the president of america and this is the wake-up call in destiny. i am in destiny and america. _ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:51:21 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Stefans, Brian" Subject: ::: Rod Smith & Redell Olson @ Double Happiness ::: This Saturday , April 11, 4pm ::: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain ::: A RARE CONVERGENCE OF DISTANT PLANETS ::: The Segue Foundation and Double Happiness present on Saturday, April 14th at 4 pm a poetry reading by Rod Smith and Redell Olsen. ::: ROD SMITH is the author of In Memory Of My Theories (O Books), The Boy Poems, Protective Immediacy, and with Lisa Jarnot and Bill Luoma, New Mannerist Tricycle. The Good House and The Given are forthcoming in 2001. He edits Aerial magazine, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. Poems: http://writing.upenn.edu/spc/cartograffiti/contents/issue1/poems/smith/ Interviews with: http://www.jps.net/nada/smith.htm http://www.washingtonreview.com/dsw.htm Louis Cabri on Rod Smith: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/phillytalks-andrews-smith.html Re: In Memory of my Theories http://www.obooks.com/inmem.htm Miscelleneous: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?statsId=3328 http://www.eog.state.fl.us/eog/govdocs/legal/statesaty/8th/8thcirc.html REDELL OLSEN is the author of Book of the Insect and Book of the Fur (rem press). One of a growing crop of exciting younger writers coming out of London, England, she has an MA in fine art and has worked in video, performance, and installation. Poems: http://www.onedit.net/contents.html http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/current/new-writing/o lsen/index.html Installations / Video Work: http://web.staffs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ariadne/show?artist=olsen_r http://www.artension.com/arolse.htm ::: Double Happiness is located at 173 Mott Street, just south of Broome; it is down some stairs, and doesn't have a storefront. The readings are held during DH's happy hour -- two for one drinks, no questions asked. Curated and introduced by Brian Kim Stefans ::: (If you want to be taken off this mailing, please write me [be nice]). ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:37:30 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: juliana spahr Subject: support hawai'i poets MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As Susan already wrote to you, the state of Hawai'i is making history--for the first time there is no public education at all in a state. We're on non-work day four here (but there were pickets over the weekend). I'm sun stroked, fairly tan, blistered, slightly sick, exhausted, always sweaty, worried about May's rent, and gaining weight from eating too many picket line malasadas. Susan is a picket captain and a very slow walker. I blame my blisters on her. Meanwhile the state is refusing to meet with our union to negotiate. What you can do... please email or call Cayetano (that is our gov) and tell him that you are have heard that he is refusing to negotiate with either union (HSTA=K-12; UHPA=faculty) and that this is wrong. That you would expect better from Hawai'i, which is a well known democrat state. Please tell the governor where you live (the hope here is that some out of state pressure will be another sort of pressure--this strike already has huge amounts of local support; I've never seen such positive media coverage of a strike before). I'll spare you the gory details. But this is from the union website (http://www.uhpa.org/strike): Governor Cayetano stated at a news conference Monday afternoon that he would not resume talks until HSTA and UHPA reduced their salary demands. UHPA is ready and willing to sit down and negotiate a settlement to this dispute. But so far the Governor's Office and his Chief Negotiator are not willing to bargain again unless we give up our position on wage increases. Our team is ready whenever the State decides it is willing to sit down without preconditions. Clearly the Governor needs to hear from all UHPA supporters that the time is now to sit down and settle. Help us and the University of Hawaii by contacting him and urging him to come back to the table. Contacting Governor Cayetano: E-mail: gov@gov.state.hi.us * *Please include your postal address so you can get a reply to your e-mail. Postal mail: Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano Executive Chambers Hawaii State Capitol Honolulu, HI 96813 Phone: (808) 586-0034 Fax: (808) 586-0006 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:10:55 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Elizabeth Treadwell Subject: report from New Orleans Comments: cc: WOM-PO@listserv.muohio.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi listing ones, I went to New Orleans last week to read at Lit City; it was great; Camille Martin and Bill Lavender are simply fab and inspiring to start a literary nonprofit in our dear new century. I read with Christy Sheffield Sanford, a webular writer from Florida; the audience had all these great questions at the end. They're set up in a moderniz'd warehouse near Lee Harvey Oswald's old digs, aka the Contemporary Arts Center. I was especially excited by the Excitement there amongst the local writers and readers....also it was just fab to go south and swamp, I took my mom with me, who said 'even the air is more ornate'....Things are happening in New Orleans, and also William Faulkner's 2nd novel, Mosquitoes, is a hilarious portrait of artist and writer and patron types around that fair city in the 20s. I also recommend Mary Gehman's The Free People of Color of New Orleans: An Introduction. Cheers, Elizabeth ___________________________________________ Double Lucy Books & Outlet Magazine http://users.lanminds.com/dblelucy ___________________________________________ Elizabeth Treadwell http://users.lanminds.com/dblelucy/page2.html ___________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:37:10 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: katy Subject: Portal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Surf on over to http://www.spectacularbooks.com to get some new poetry skinny: Featuring: * A new links page * John Tranter's Blackout (Barque Press, U.K.), which is now being distributed in the U.S. through Spectacular Books * Lyn Hejinian's new chapbook The Beginner * The renewed availability of Martin Corless-Smith's The Garden. A Theophany &c., a book which had been out of print, until copies were discovered in a filing cabinet drawer.... http://www.spectacularbooks.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:50:55 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Kane Subject: contact info for allen de loach MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII does anyone have it? if so, could you email me at dkane@panix.com? thanks in advance, --daniel ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 21:58:39 -0230 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "K.Angelo Hehir" Subject: Labor Is Mobilizing Across Borders to Stop the FTAA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE VERMONT MOBILIZATION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 6, 2001 CONTACT (802) 862-4737 Labor Is Mobilizing Across Borders to Stop the FTAA BURLINGTON, VT -- Opposition to the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is deepening within the labor movement, both within the US and throughout the Western Hemisphere. As FTAA negotiators met in Buenos Aires this week to iron out the details of their plan, Argentine police patrolled a barricaded perimeter to keep out labor union groups concerned about the impacts the proposed agreement. More than 100 organizations from Argentina and other Latin American countries participated in large nonviolent protests during the planning session. Hugo Moyano, director of the so-called "rebel" wing of the General Labor Confederation, one of Argentina's largest umbrella union groups, told reporters the FTAA agreement would make the Argentine people "slaves of the United States." Under the plan, he added, "We're going to be more exploited than a dignified country should be, that's what we're fighting." In the US, Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) will outline his concerns and those of US labor during a panel discussion at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier on Saturday, April 7. Sanders has been a congressional leader in the opposition to corporate-led globalization and free trade deals. The panel discussion is part of a statewide anti-FTAA campaign being coordinated by the Vermont Mobilization for Global Justice, a coalition that will provide regional support for large protests expected in Quebec City, the tightly-guarded summit site. "Since the FTAA is being negotiated behind closed doors it's difficult for people to learn much about it," explained Vermont Workers' Center Executive Director James Haslam. " This forum will give the public a terrific opportunity to learn more about the FTAA, something that is sure to have a huge impact on everyone's lives." Sponsors of the Vermont event include the state's AFL-CIO, United Electrical Workers, Vermont Workers' Center, and Vermont Progressive Party. Sanders will be joined by Prof. Elaine Bernard, director of Harvard University's Trade Union Program, AFL-CIO trade expert Thea Lee, Andre Marcoux from the Center for International Workers Solidarity, and Claire Lalande, Director of the Centrale de syndicats du Qu=E9bec, a group of federations representing over 250 Quebec local unions. During the trade talks in Canada, heads-of-state throughout the Western Hemisphere will push for implementation of the agreement by 2005. Known as "NAFTA on Steroids," the FTAA would be the farthest reaching trade agreement in history. Objecting to the secrecy surrounding the text, unions, environmentalists, community organizations and activists are demanding a public debate. The plan is expected to skirt labor and environmental linkages, the issue that led to side deals to NAFTA. Speaking for the Ontario Federation of Labor, vice-president Irene Harris says, "We are very concerned about the process of deregulation of labor markets, the growth of sweatshops, wholesale privatization of social services and downsizing of social security provisions that are inherent in the FTAA. That's why many local and national organizations are joining in the campaign to stop the FTAA race to the bottom." Even though the FTAA is one of President George W. Bush's top priorities, opposition is coming from so many directions that it may never be adopted. Critics range from sugar growers and other farmers to environmentalists and trade unions, including the AFL-CIO and steelworkers. Even Latin American banks and financial services companies are concerned. If investment barriers are removed, they fear being overwhelmed by US companies such as Citigroup and Chase Manhattan. Major rifts are also emerging among potential free trade partners, including Brazil. "Without trade-promotion authority, negotiations on market access cannot go forward, I'm sure of that," said Jose Alfredo Graca Lima, Brazil's vice minister of foreign economic relations, speaking on the first day of meetings in Buenos Aires. But winning fast track authority could be difficult for Bush. Democrats are largely opposed, unless Republicans agree to address environmental protection and preserving labor rights. -30- Vermont Mobilization for Global Justice P.O. Box 604 Burlington, VT 05402 (802)862-4737 (802)862-6948 Fax Email: vmob@riseup.net www.vermontactionnetwork.org Yahoo! Groups Sponsor Click for Details Click for Details To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: mobglobplan-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:08:44 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas Bell Subject: Fw: Poetics of internet art/activism MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Curating digital art - www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 11:01 AM Subject: Poetics of internet art/activism > as an aging activist in real-life movements who has become involved > artistically in an imbroglio with internet and 'real-life' social, political > dimensions which touches on 'real' lives. This drama began on the internet > (email, bb's, and a web site or two) and continues to unfold there and > through snail mail, phone calls, conversations with doctors, etc. - it has > bcome somewhat of a symphony in my opinion, but I'm disappointed that I have > not been able to find much useful in print or on the net regarding the > aesthetics or poetics of net movements. I find myself returning to Alinsky > and MLK for inspiration and Aristotle for guidance. > As far as net work with impact there is Reiner's project of a few years > ago with it's aesthetic esprite but I've found little else. There is the > sound-poetry-performance movement in the international 'art world' which has > it's roots in the early years of the century just ended, but this type of > discussion too often degenerates into classification and definition battles. > The Prix Ars Electronica has at least three separate categories and my > general impression is that there are tiny bits of potentially useful > information scattered all over the net and nobody communicates with anybody > else. There seem to be a lot of turf wars being fought for attention and a > lot of slivers of dirt being tossed in the air at random. [this last might > just be a reflection of my current morass] > > HELP. suggestions? > > tom bell > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Minerva Cuevas" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:43 AM > Subject: Re: from Grant Kester > > > > > Or is it just that that the _rhetoric_ of the medium says it will be > > > good for the job of international communication and networking? I'm > > > struck by the relatively few examples of successful international > > > net.art activism (irational being amongst them) and I'd be very > > > interested to hear about what does work, and what is just rhetoric. > > > I'm also interested that artists like Susan Collins and Paul Sermon > > > have work which is very much about skills of enabling dialogue, > > > although it may not be explicitly activist. > > > > For MVC the important thing about online strategies is to target an off > line > > social context. > > > > I do reject the idea of net activism, the net is only one of the tools or > > mediums to reach people, there is no such a thing as "political art" or > "art as > > activism", activism is there if the real concern is to make a social > > statement/action as a political actor. > > > > I like to think about irational.org as one of this political actors, not > an > > online server, and results are there: work/campaigns are developed via > online > > tools. MVC has target the public assistance that should be provided by the > > national lottery (Mexico), the inclusion of the homeless people as part of > the > > national census (Mexico), or the discounts/free admision to cultural > centres > > and public transport using student ID cards (international), pirate radio > > stations are opened, help is provided, statements are made. > > > > I think results should not be expected on line but in the idea of the > world we > > want to live in and in daily life... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Please help us to keep in contact with you. > > > > Details for NEW-MEDIA-CURATING@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > > > Name: ?? > > Homepage: ?? > > Postal address: ?? > > Settlement: ?? > > Postcode: ?? > > Country: ?? > > Telephone: ?? > > Mobile telephone: ?? > > Fax: ?? > > > > Visit the link below to amend details: > > > > > http://www.irational.org/cgi-bin/irational/contacts/amend.pl?action=guest_ed > it&the_key=NEW-MEDIA-CURATING@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > > > If you are using your work email then enter your work details, > > otherwise provide your home information. > > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:58:15 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Kane Subject: pictures from the lower east side, 1962-1970? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm looking for photographs specific to the Lower East Side poetry community of the 1960's, especially photos taken of poets and audiences inside Les Deux Megots, Le Metro, and the Poetry Project when it was first founded (1966 - 1970 especially). If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd much appreciate it. If you have any questions, please email me at dkane@panix.com. Thanks in advance. --daniel ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:18:07 -0700 Reply-To: Office Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Office Organization: National Poetry Association Subject: 2001 NPA Performance Schedule Comments: To: office@nationalpoetry.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ANNOUNCING=20 2001 NATIONAL POETRY ASSOCIATION PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE April 22 (Sunday): Poet's League Team Slam, featuring teams from San = Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland and San Jose. =20 Hosted by Charles Ellik and Sonia Whittle. Ft. Mason Golden Gate Room, = 8 PM, $8. May 1 (Tuesday): Demonstration slam featuring the UC-Berkeley slam = team, with special guests Herman Berlandt and Ian Moore. Hosted by = Kenny Mostern. Co-sponsored by USF Literary Club. University of San = Francisco, McLaren (Conference Center) 250, 8 PM. $5 students, $8 all = others. =20 June 7 (Monday): Poet's League Team Slam, featuring teams from San = Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland and San Jose.=20 Hosted by Kenny Mostern. Stork Club, 2330 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, 8 = PM. $8. July 28 (Saturday): National Poetry Slam send-off party, featuring = members of all local teams and guest appearances from Southern = California and national poets coming through on their way to Seattle. = SoMArts Gallery, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco. 8 PM. Sliding = scale $10-$20. September 7 (Friday): Second Annual Celebration of the Word. Last year = the NPA drew nearly 1400 to our late summer extravaganza with Maya = Angelou at the Masonic Theater. This year we intend to headline several = of the Bay Area's most important poets (not confirmed yet, so we can't = announce names), bring the 2001 National Slam Champion to be chosen in = Seattle in August, and feature a strong line-up of NPA all-stars = including the members of the Bay Area slam teams. San Francisco = Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin. 8 PM. Sliding scale = $15-$25. REMEMBER: NPA MEMBERS GET INTO ALL EVENTS HALF PRICE! See you there, Kenny Mostern Executive Director National Poetry Association 934 Brannan Street 2nd floor San Francisco, California 94103 (415) 552-9261 (415) 552-9271 (fax) "Many voices, one heart!" --- If you would like to be removed from this email list, or received = multiple copies of this mailing, please simply reply with an email = indicating this. If you know anyone who should be added to this list, = please forward the message to them and have them write back to = office@nationalpoetry.org and we'll add them. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:49:30 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lourdes Vazquez Subject: Latitude South: Work in translation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Gathering of the Tribes presents Latitude South: Work in Translation Cecilia Vicuña Marianela Medrano Sunday April 29 5:00-7:00p.m. Marianela Medrano, born in the Dominican Republic, has been living in the U.S. for the last 10 years. Her poetry is designed to redefine women and their roles in society. While in the Dominican Republic she published Oficio de vivir and Los alegres ojos de la tristeza. In 1998 she published a bilingual poetry selection Regando Esencias (The Scent of Waiting). Medrano works in the social work field for women and families of low income. She is also involved with a multicultural program that aids emerging artists, sponsored by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and The Institute for Community Research. Cecilia Vicuña is a Chilean poet, filmmaker, performance artist and sculptor. According to the Spanish magazine Quimera Cecilia is “one of the most vivid and creative personalitites of the Latin American scene.” The author of eight books of poetry, she has performed “ritual readings” throught the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Her films, installations and performances pieces have been exhibited at MOMA, and the New Museum of NY as well as museums in Latin America. Among her latest books are Unravelling Words and the Weaving of Water and Precario/Precarious. She is the editor of the anthology UL:Four Mapuche poets. Latitude South series is gathering together a group of Latin American and Caribbean exciting and innovative poets, translators and performers living or passing by the city. Thanks to The Gathering of the Tribes the series will present a group of poets during the months of February-March-April-May and September-October-November 2001. Latitude South series is being curated by Lourdes Vázquez. . Check the Poetry Calendar for dates or contact The Gathering of the Tribes or 212-674-3778 285 East Third Street, Second Floor ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:32:22 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Cope Subject: Geoff Young/ Michael Gizzi at UCSD Comments: To: kia@tns.net, dianeward@yahoo.com, sandiegowriters@sandiegowriters.org, rgiraldez@hotmail.com, mcauliffe@prodigy.net, Joe Ross , bmohr@ucsd.edu, globo@ucsd.edu, djmorrow@ucsd.edu, ctfarmr@aol.com, dmatlin@mail.sdsu.edu, falconline@usa.net, junction@earthlink.net, jrothenb@ucsd.edu, raea100900@aol.com, jgranger@ucsd.edu, rdavidson@ucsd.edu, kyergens@ucsd.edu, highfidelity@theglobe.com, darcycarr@hotmail.com, rburkhar@man104-1.UCSD.EDU, yikao@yahoo.com, aarancibia@hotmail.com, rachelsdahlia@hotmail.com, terynmattox@hotmail.com, dwang@wesleyan.edu, karenstromberg@aol.com, threeamtrain@yahoo.com, mozment@uci.edu, hellenlee@ucsd.edu, aeastley@ucsd.edu, tfiore@ucsd.edu, segriffi@ucsd.edu, shalvin@ucsd.edu, jimperato@yahoo.com, hjun@ucsd.edu, kathrynmcdonald@mindspring.com, smedirat@ucsd.edu, gnunez@ucsd.edu, reinhart@ling.ucsd.edu, crutterj@sdcc3.ucsd.edu, eslavet@ucsd.edu, chong1@ucsd.edu, ywatanab@ucsd.edu, wobrien@popmail.ucsd.edu, dmccannel@ucsd.edu, calacapress@home.com, ajenik@ucsd.edu, Spm44@aol.com, anielsen@popmail.lmu.edu, mperloff@earthlink.net, vvasquez@wso.williams.edu, jack.webb@uniontrib.com, ronoffen@yahoo.com, hung.tu@usa.net, eslavet@ucsd.edu, lit-grads@ucsd.edu, urigeller@excite.com, reevescomm@earthlink.net, mcarthy@sandiego-online.com, interarts-l@ucsd.edu, lrice@weber.ucsd.edu, geoffbouvier@prodigy.net, kadeewinters@home.com, jennymun14@hotmail.com, bjhurley@ucsd.edu, jbhattac@ucsd.edu, afornetti@libero.it, robgrant01@hotmail.com, hpyjoyj@aol.com, cgouldin@ucsd.edu, bmohr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu, pverdicchio@ucsd.edu, qtroupe@ucsd.edu, mcmorrim@gunet.georgetown.edu, ausbury@hotmail.com, knath@ucsd.edu, conspiracy@nethere.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" A REMINDER! UCSD's NEW WRITING SERIES kicks off it's Spring 2001 Schedule with a reading by Geoffrey Young and Michael Gizzi, on Wednesday, April 11, 4:30pm. The reading is free and open to the public. An art critic, publisher, poet, and curator, GEOFFREY YOUNG is the author of, among other books, _Admiral Fever_, with drawings by Philip Knoll, _Cerulean Embankments_ with drawings by Carroll Dunham, and, with drawings by James Siena, _Pockets of Wheat_. Originally from San Diego, Young currently lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he is co-publisher of The Figures, a small press that since its inception in 1975 has published more than 100 books of poetry and art criticism (including the book _Rejection_ ,a collaboration between Young and fellow reader Michael Gizzi). The new, being that which we will soon forget: "I'm speaking," she said, "I'm on fire. Nothing can stop the ocean when it's on fire." The new, being that which we will soon replace. -Geoffrey Young, "The New," from _Pockets of Wheat_. The Figures. 1998. MICHAEL GIZZI's poems, according to Lisa Jarnot, are what happens when you "cross James Joyce with Jack Nicholson in a high energy construct machine." Celebrated by such poets and critics as John Ashbery, Kit Robinson, and Steve Evans (among others), Gizzi's publications include _Too Much Johnson_, No Both_, _Just Like a Real Italian Kid_, _Species of Intoxication_, _Avis_, and the recent audio release _cured in the bebop morning_. He lives in Massachusetts. "...I feel every inversion to lay down my hay and submerge myself in some tidepool drawingroom before the glazier of autumn and the screwball at the cross- roads stir me out. Is it any wonder ivory hunters are music lovers or that black Irish are often black...?" _ Michael Gizzi, from _cured in the going bebop_. Utopia Productions. 2000. Unless otherwise noted, all NWS readings take place at 4:30PM in the Visual Arts Performance Space, in the Visual Arts Complex, located on Russell Lane on the UCSD Campus. Call 619-298-8761 or e-mail scope@ucsd.edu for more information. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:26:02 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Halvard Johnson Subject: NYC event Comments: cc: "New-Poetry@Wiz. Cath. Vt. Edu" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you're in the NYC area, Lynda Schor and Jane Lazarre will be reading at Barnes & Noble, 240 E. 86th St., New York, NY 10028, on Tuesday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. Both readers are contributors to *Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood*, published by Seven Stories Press and edited by Moyra Davey, who will also participate in the reading/discussion. Store contact: Frances Kelly--212-794-1962 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:10:37 -0230 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "K.Angelo Hehir" Subject: Free Verse Area of the Americas MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Press Release for Immediate Distribution: Free Verse Area of the Americas IN times of crisis, when communities are stressed, citizens are called on to contribute beyond the routine of the everyday. Poets, working on the workshop floor in the foundry of language, have a civic responsibility to make their voices heard. At the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, poets from throughout the Americas are converging join in the giant protests of the FTAA as well as to establish The Free Verse Area of the Americas as a creative response to the silencing of dissenting voices through censorship or mainstream media indifference.=20 This event encourages open participation from all different voices and=20 hopes to unit poets in the mass struggle against corporate globalization. The reading/listening will take place on the evening of=20 =20 Friday, April 20th cafe of CEGEP Limoulou=20 1300 8th Ave Quebec City 8:30 Come to attend a free evening of verse in opposition to global capitalism. Can't make it to Quebec City? Create your own Free Verse Area just by standing up and reciting a poem. Then offer everyone within earshot citizenship. Free Verse Area of the Americas: for more information contact: Stefan Christoff 514.938.2672 Montreal Shawn Whitney swhitney@sympatico.ca Toronto Kevin Angelo Hehir khehir@cs.mun.ca St. John's Kaie Kellough kaiekello@yahoo.ca Montreal The role of poetry is to utter the un-utterable; to open up spaces of consciousness and resistance; to language oppressions; to re-language histories and spaces of resistance; to shift contexts; to create community; to rethink grammars of action. And of course to inspire. =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Ramez= Qureshi -30- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:19:10 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Al Filreis Subject: June Jordan via webcast Comments: To: Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "...the increasingly fearless child, who would grow up to become one of America's fiercest literary figures and social activists, is also the hope of an African-American generation..." --from a review of Jordan's new memoir, SOLDIER the Kelly Writers House Fellows program very proudly presents poet and activist J U N E J O R D A N via live webcast 10 AM Tuesday, April 24 a conversation with June Jordan conducted by Al Filreis This program will be webcast live; to participate via web audiocast, write to << wh@english.upenn.edu >>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk 215 573-WRIT www.english.upenn.edu/~wh The Kelly Writers House Fellows program is made possible by a generous grant from Paul Kelly. For more information about the spring 2000 Fellows program, see << www.english.upenn.edu/~whfellow >>. | Writers House Fellows 2001 | ------------------------------- | Tony Kushner Feb 12-13 | David Sedaris Mar 5-6 | June Jordan April 23-24 JUNE JORDAN is Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also directs the POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE program, which she founded. She has published many volumes of poetry and political essays, including CIVIL WARS, TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, NAMING OUR DESTINY (her selected poems), HARUKO/LOVE POETRY, and KISSING GOD GOOD-BYE. In her book of political essays, AFFIRMATIVE ACTS, she writes with lyric power, often in anger or disconsolateness (or both), of the dismantling of affirmative action, on real as opposed to imagined cultural pluralism, on bisexuality - ruminating on the combustible intersections of race, class, sexual choice, and injustice, reflecting on the palpable hatred that infuses American society, speaking out against worldwide suffering. Her essay and poems present the "intimate face of universal struggle," in her phrase. Her recently published memoir, SOLDIER, lovingly and angrily depicts her brutal father, a West Indian elevator operator who wanted his only child to be extraordinarily successful--to attain the dignity and power allowed only to white men at the time. To advance this ambition, he repeatedly challenged the young June physically, psychologically, and intellectually. The memoir ends as June is 12, offered admission, and a full scholarship, to the prestigious (all-white) Northfield Academy. "I knew if I said, 'No, thank you,' my father would kill me... And I wondered if I was about to become a first." In SOLDIER we encounter the making of the lyricism and the musicality, as well as the strength and outrage, that characterizes the poet whose widely discussed, widely anthologized poems we have come to know. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:48:36 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Fiona Maazel Subject: RS reading, sort of MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable CHRISTINA DAVIS & NICOLE KRAUSS MONDAY, APRIL 16 at 7:30 pm at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St (Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, 2nd floor) Christina Davis's poems have appeared in The Paris Review, New Republic, = Boston Review and other magazines. Nicole Krauss has contributed poems to Double Take, The Paris Review, = and Ploughshares. Her first novel is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2002. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- If you feel abused by all the emails you get from me, then perhaps I've = gone too far, in which case apologies won't do. 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Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Next week at the Poetry Project: Monday, April 16th at 8 pm MICHAEL MAGEE AND EDDIE BELL Michael Magee, editor of the poetry journal Combo, is the author of two chapbooks, Morning Constitutional (Handwritten Press, 1999) and Leave the Light on (Boog Lit, 2000). Recent poems can be found in New American Writing, Callaloo, Lungfull!, Washington Review, and CrossConnect. Eddie Bell is an alumnus of the Ragdale Foundation's Artist Residency Program in Lake Forest, Illinois, where he began writing his first book of poems, Capt's Dreaming Chair. According to novelist Patricia Eakins, Bell's poems are "elegiac portraits ... vividly drawn and thoughtfully situated in African American history and culture." Wednesday, April 18th at 8 pm ALAN BERNHEIMER AND TIM DAVIS Alan Bernheimer is the author of Billionesque and Caf=E9 Isotope (The Figures), and State Lounge (Tuumba). His collected collaborations with Kit Robinson, Cloud Eight, was published by Sound & Language in 1999. His work has been anthologized in In the American Tree, Up Late, and American Poetry Annual, and has appeared in The World, The Paris Review, Shiny, and other journals. He lives in Berkeley and works in Silicon Valley. "These poems, like life itself, are filled with the joy of doubt," writes Lyn Hejinian of Mr. Bernheimer's work. Poet and photographer Tim Davis is the author of a book of poetry, Dailies (The Figures), and two chapbooks, My Life in Politics ~or~ A History of N=3DA=3DR=3DR=3DA=3DT=3DI=3DV=3DE Film (Object Editions/Poetscoop) and The Analogy Guild (Arras Press). Writes Charles Bernstein, "Dailies is bright, teasing, and with enough sass to light up th= e Brooklyn Bridge and large parts of the Palisades." Friday, April 20th at 10:30 pm HA! HA! HA! STAND UP POETRY NIGHT New poets from slam culture to academia explore the humor in poetry. Featured comedic poets include Jason Schneiderman, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz= , Carol Rosenfeld, Rob Neill, and F. Omar Telon. Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is the Urbana Slam Master at CBGB's Gallery. An MFA student at NYU, Jason Schneiderman brings the sonnet form to slam. Carol Rosenfeld is the first-ever Provincetown slam champion. Cute-Boy 2001 Slam champion Rob Neil= l is an ensemble member of the performance group Too Much Light Makes the Bab= y Go Blind. F. Omar Telon is a part of the CreateNow writers group at the Asian American Writers Workshop. Following the featured performances there will be an open mike. Audience members will compete for prizes for the funniest two-minute bit. * * * Unless otherwise noted, admission to all events is $7, $4 for students and seniors, and $3 for Poetry Project members. Schedule is subject to change. The Poetry Project, located in St. Mark's Church at the corner of 2nd Avenu= e and 10th Street in Manhattan, is wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. Please call (212) 674-0910 for more information or visit ou= r Web site at http://www.poetryproject.com. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:23:01 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Nielsen, Aldon" Subject: another brother gone Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" News this weekend of the death of Poet Raymond Patterson, author of the incomparable "Twenty-Six Ways of Looking at a Black Man." (many years prior to the similarly titled book by Henry Louis Gates, I hasten to add) Raymond was a great friend to other poets everywhere -- He can be seen in the video series "Furious Flower" -- though you may be hard pressed to find any of his books these days -- " Subjects hinder talk." -- Emily Dickinson Aldon Lynn Nielsen Fletcher Jones Chair of Literature and Writing Loyola Marymount University 7900 Loyola Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045-8215 (310) 338-3078 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:07:37 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Romana Christina Huk Subject: call for website information MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Poetics-line readers: Please consider sending information about upcoming conferences, festivals new programs and the like to our new website at Oxford Brookes University. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Brookes is hoping to serve the international community by providing a space on its developing website for people to not only announce already-formulated upcoming events, but also to announce the desire to collaborate on international events. Though such information can be found on this line as well, our sources and the readers we serve will involve a wide array of communities which we hope will grow even wider and more fully international as the word about the website gets out. Please contact Alice, our graduate student co-ordinator (who is co-creating the site as part of her degree project in computer arts) at this e-address: , with any information you would like to contribute. Feel free to contact me with any queries and especially if you have suggestions. Many thanks, Romana Huk Research Fellow, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Poetry Humanities Research Centre Oxford Brookes University Gipsy Lane Campus Headington Oxford OX3 OBP England ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:40:31 -0600 Reply-To: Laura.Wright@Colorado.EDU Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Laura Wright Subject: Kapil Rider, Catanzano, J.Wright read April 19 in Boulder MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit t h e L E F T H A N D R E A D I N G S E R I E S p r e s e n t s a r e a d i n g b y * B H A N U K A P I L R I D E R * * J O H N W R I G H T * * A M Y C A T A N Z A N O * T H U R S D A Y, A P R I L 1 9 t h i n t h e V R o o m a t t h e D A I R Y C E N T E R F O R T H E A R T S 2 5 9 0 W a l n u t B o u l d e r, C o l o r a d o 8 p. m. D o n a t i o n s a r e R e q u e s t e d *** For more information about the Left Hand Reading Series, call (303) 938-9346 or (303) 544-5854. *** BHANU KAPIL RIDER is a fiction writer who lives in Boulder. She is the author of a chapbook, Autobiography of a Cyborg from Leroy Press. Her book The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press. Her writing has appeared in the journals Conjunctions and Chain. JOHN WRIGHT is a 1991 graduate of Naropa University's Writing and Poetics MFA program and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. He teaches at Hunter College and Pratt Institute and is involved in community garden and environmental activism in the city. Some recent publications include an essay on New York City community gardens in Avant Gardening from Autonomedia, and poems in The Portable Boog Reader from Boog Literature and A Poet's Alphabet from Treehouse Press. He was featured in the PBS series United States of Poetry. In 1998 he recieved a Wisconsin Council of the Arts grant to construct a stone archway at Dreamtime Village at West Lima, WI. He is a landscape gardener and designer, sculptor and stonemason, scholar of Gaelic poetry and American folk music, and plays the guitar and five string banjo. AMY CATANZANO returned to Boulder, where she grew up, after receiving her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1999 and her bachelor's in English from Colorado State University in 1996. She has taught English at the University of Iowa and Metropolitan State College of Denver and is currently working as a research analyst for the CU Foundation. Honors have included a Maytag Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a grand-prize winner award from CSU's 1996 Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship contest. She has been a featured reader at the Iowa City Public Library, the Stone Lion Bookstore, and Avogadro's Number. Her poetry has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies and Greyrock Review and is forthcoming from American Letters and Commentary. There will be a short OPEN READING immediately before the featured readings. Sign up for the Open Reading will take place promptly at 8:00 p.m. *** The LEFT HAND READING SERIES is an independent series presenting readings of original literary works by emerging and established writers. Founded in 1996 and originally sponsored by Boulder's Left Hand Bookstore, the series is now curated by poets Mark DuCharme and Laura Wright. Readings in the series are presented monthly. The Left Hand Reading Series is funded in part by grants from the Boulder Arts Commission and the Arts and Humanities Assembly of Boulder County (AHAB). This reading marks the finale of the series' 2000-2001 season. The Left Hand Reading Series will return in the Fall for another exciting season, including a reading by the distinguished poet and translator PIERRE JORIS in September. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:25:04 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Nielsen, Aldon" Subject: Poetry Reading in Los Angeles Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Tuesday, April 17 -- 8:00 PM Ethelbert Miller reads at Loyola Marymount University University Hall #1000 (auditorium on first floor) enter campus on LMU Drive, off Lincoln Blvd. near Los Angeles Airport " Subjects hinder talk." -- Emily Dickinson Aldon Lynn Nielsen Fletcher Jones Chair of Literature and Writing Loyola Marymount University 7900 Loyola Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045-8215 (310) 338-3078 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:01:42 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eileen Tabios Subject: Kelsey St. Subscription Series, 2001 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kelsey St. Press invites you to participate in its new Subcriber Program. Subscribers receive each of its 2001 books as soon as they are released. All subscribers benefit from free shipping/handling; student subscribers receive a 30% discount. A 2001 Subscription covers the following three books: 1) _The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers_, prose poetry by Bhanu Kapil Rider. $12. This is another debut work of a young writer who composes, within new conceptual frameworks, fresh and surprising narratives. Bhanu Kapil grew up in the Punjab and London and currently resides in Colorado. In India, she was home-schooled in the tales of the Ramayan and the novels of Dostoevsky. Her writing charts unusual sensational logics of taste, color, touch. 2) _CUSP_, prose/poetry by Jocelyn Saidenberg. $10. CUSP is the second winner of the Frances Jaffer Book Award for a first book. Barbara Guest, the judge for this selection, writes, "CUSP is a poem of exceptional sensibility and ardor." Jocelyn Saidenberg grew up in New York City and currently lives in San Francisco. In this collection, the fast pace of message transmission has changed values and definitions. CUSP suggests possible writing acts as ways to come to terms with the swift takes of social and political life and to organize an individual moral scale and relevance. 3) _Nude_, poetry by Anne Portugal, translated from the French by Norma Cole. $12. These poems retell the biblical story of Susannah and the elders as a set of adventures, family outings, romps in hotel rooms and in trysts on the Riviera. Translations of Portugal's work have appeared in Serie d'ecriture Nos. 4 & 7, Five Fingers Review 16, and Violence of the White Page. Norma Cole is a poet and translator whose work has been published recently in Crosscut Universe: French Writing on Writing from Burning Deck Press. To become a Subscriber (California residents must pay tax), send a check for the following amounts: California residents: $36.81 California student residents: $25.76 Non-California residents: $34.00 Non-California student residents: $23.80 Please send orders to: Kelsey St. Press Subscriber Series Attention: Eileen Tabios 50 Northgate Avenue Berkeley, CA 94708 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:35:05 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Skinner Subject: ECOPOETICS In-Reply-To: <20010413040848.10924.qmail@front.acsu.buffalo.edu> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Richard, Thanks for the thoughts. It's precisely these kind of nature-human dualities you enumerate that ECOPOETICS wants to call into question-- without, however, abandoning the urgencies that might have called them up in the first place, or that continue to keep "nature"-- for better or worse-- in our vocabulary. "For" or "against" something hazily called "nature" is the least interesting approach, hardly a poetics at all. But ethics toward the nonhuman, or thinking of and making in environments conceived as relationships (between more than one species), do offer choices. Water or plastic are neither good nor bad in themselves; what counts is what we do with them. (Now throw language into that mix!) In that sense, "nature" with all the pious baggage it carries, is probably more obfuscating than useful. Eco is not a synonym for natural. Best, Jonathan ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:55:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Fiona Maazel Subject: RS Reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Next WEDNESDAY, April 18th: Poet and critic,=20 James Fenton,=20 reads his poems. at The Russian Samovar 256 West 52nd St. (btwn 8th and Broad) 7:00 PM $3.00=20 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:58:28 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: Hawai`i education strikes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good on you. It takes courage to strike and struggle. Richard Taylor. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Webster Schultz" To: Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 2:51 PM Subject: Hawai`i education strikes I'm writing to ask everyone to pay attention to the strikes by University of Hawai`i faculty and public school teachers, strikes that began this past Thursday. Like so many things that happen in this state, these are important events, and like so many things that happen in this state, they tend to be ignored on the US continent as some kind of "trouble in paradise." The UH budget has been slashed by one third (yes!) in the past seven years. When I came to UH in 1990, my salary was competitive with that of other comparable schools; it is no longer. Faculty and student morale is exceedingly low. The governor at one point offered us a tiny increase but said that we would have to pay retirement and health benefits over the summers "when we don't work." He is now trying to cut our health benefits during the strike. And he won't talk with the unions until Tuesday, though the strike began on Thursday. The governor is trying to turn UH into a community college. He is trying to break our union and that of the teachers. Please pay attention. We have a lot of public support, though one man told me today (as I handed him a leaflet he pledged to throw away) that "if you think you're so hot you should get jobs at other universities on the mainland." He didn't seem impressed by my arguments about the importance of research universities or my claim that I and others actually don't want to leave Hawai`i. He was, alas, a "mainland haole," living up to his stereotype, as did several others I encountered today. One man, claiming to be a student, told me I should be "ashamed." He was driving a red convertible Jaguar. Must have been a business student (they meet on Saturdays). Strike information is available from kitv.com, honoluluadvertiser.com, star-bulletin.com. I've seen stories in the NY Times, the Washington Post, and heard about us on NPR. The Chronicle of Higher Ed is sending someone to cover the strike. aloha, Susan ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:29:38 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Marcella Durand Subject: zinc bar reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain On Thursday, April 19th at 6:37 pm In the amiable zinc-and velvet-plated environs of the Zinc Bar located in downtown NYC is a reading by poets Joe Elliot & bill bissett Joe Elliot is the author of several marvelous poetry chapbooks, including his latest, Fourteen Knots, and of a collaborative art-and-poetry book, If It Rained Here, published by Granary Books. He is the publisher of Situations Press and co-owner of Soho Letterpress. bill bissett hails from Canada, and is the author of th influenza uv logik, inkorrect thots, and loving without being vulnrabul, along with many other publications. A new collection, lunaria, is forthcoming from Granary Books, and may even be availabul by the time of the reading ?? Zinc Bar is located at 90 W. Houston, between Thompson and Laguardia, under the storefront with the little barbie dolls in fur coats. And quothe from Brendan Lorber, co-host (with Dgls. J. Rthschjld), "For more information 212.533.9317 or 718.802.9575 or lungfull@rcn.com" ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:49:30 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Creativity Workshop Subject: Summer Workshops Update MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello I'm Karen Bell and I am the administrative associate for the Creativity Workshop. We've just added new housing and hotel possibilities for our summer workshops in Europe, covering a wide range of alternatives from family guest houses to three and four star hotels. If you are interested in reading more about the workshop, we can send you some very interesting articles and interviews which have been written about it. Don't forget we have a two day weekend workshop in New York City this May 12 and 13th. Please see below our complete calendar for May-August 2001. For more extended information please go to http://www.creativityworkshop.com or call Tel: (212) 249-1602 Regards, Karen Bell Administrative Assistant mailto:kbell@creativityworkshop.com Creative Writing, Drawing, Story Telling and Personal Memoir Taught by writer Shelley Berc and multimedia artist Alejandro Fogel We are all born creative, curious and imaginative but these qualities sometimes fade with the passage of time. The Creativity Workshop's goal is to help people get their imaginations back. Find your particular way of expression and break through the fears associated with creation. This internationally renowned intensive workshop brings together people of all backgrounds, cultures, and interests to discover new and exciting tools for generating creativity. Award winning artists Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel bring their unique vision to this workshop in which individuals can explore their own creative potentials. This is a creative writing, drawing, and story telling workshop that emphasizes the process of creative expression rather than concentrating on finished products and seeks to erase the barriers between art disciplines. The Workshop focuses on personal memories and how these can be used in one's creative discoveries. Through a series of exercises that stimulate the imagination, participants learn how to catch the moment of inspiration and develop it, combat writer's block and stage fright, and recapture the childhood joys of making new and wonderful visions out of the most commonplace things. The Workshop concentrates on exploring various tools of nurturing one's creativity such as visualization exercises, guided automatic drawing and writing, map making, photography, miniature worlds, and the use of 'show and tell' and puppets. We will use the local environment and its culture and history to stimulate our writing, visual, and story telling skills. CREATIVITY WORKSHOP 2001 CALENDAR New York City May 12 - 13 2 day weekend workshop Tuition Fee: from $300 Barcelona, Spain June 11 - 19, 2001 9 day workshop Tuition Fee: from $1,500 (includes housing) Budapest, Hungary June 24 - July 3, 2001 9 day workshop Tuition Fee: from $1,300 (includes housing) Samos, Greece July 7 - 15, 2001 9 day workshop Tuition Fee: from $1,500 (includes housing) =46lorence, Italy July 23 - August 3, 2001 12 day workshop Tuition Fee: from $1,500 (includes housing) (special fellowships for Italian participants available) Lucca, Italy August 4 - 8, 2001 5 day workshop (in English with Italian simultaneous translation) Tuition Fee: from $900 Paris, France August 13 - 18 6 day workshop Tuition Fee: from $1,500 (includes housing) "The new millennium needs bold, creative men and women who can turn their dreams into reality... Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel show how you can do this through their challenging and inspiring creativity workshops...even a simple first contact will prove what these two talented teachers can do for your own gifts." Dr. Kirpal Singh, Writer, Professor, Singapore Management University. "The Creativity Workshop in Spoleto has been a very special experience for me. It opened up new ways to look at my work and I found new friendships. I spent 15 fantastic days in an incredible place. Shelley and Alejandro are superb teachers!" Vera Eisenberg, painter, Argentina "The Workshop was such a powerful experience for me, something I never expected nor would I ever be able to repeat it." Rolfe Werner, Engineer. Canberra, Australia. "I found the workshop extremely valuable in generating awareness of my creativity and in stimulating ideas." Jeanne Arthur, Executive Officer, ACT Board of Secondary School Studies. Canberra, Australia. "I feel as though I now have a focus, a method, a way of evolving my ideas and that the means are just as important as the end. I have created environments just to create in, and environments just to display the work in. My vision of attending to each detail, sound, smell, texture, substance... is starting to find a home. Thanks for opening my eyes to these essential aspects of creating through your guidance and example." Student. University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA. "This class was THE MOST enriching, enlightening, inspirational class I have ever taken. The way I work and what I create will never be the same." Student. University of Iowa, USA. "Shelley and Alejandro's Creativity Workshop is amazing in that it breaks down all your fears about thinking and writing. If it wasn't for them I fear I never would have finished my master's thesis. I was blocked until I took this course." =46rancesca Salidu PHD candidate in Shakespeare, University of Pisa. San Miniato, Italy. "Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel taught their Creativity Workshop as American Cultural Specialists under the United States Information Service auspices. To say that they were extremely effective is a vast understatement. I would unreservedly recommend their course. They have abundant creativity, energy, and a wealth of skills." Gloria Berbena, Asst. Cultural Attach=E9, US Information Service, US Embassy= =2E Rome, Italy. "A special experience. Berc and Fogel opened us up to new and wonderful ways of looking at our creativity." Belkis Bottfeld, PHD, psychologist. Istanbul, Turkey. "An unforgettable course!" Gulnur Ayaz, MD. Istanbul, Turkey. Under their guidance, participants explore their own creative processes through different writing and drawing exercises. Berc and Fogel explain in theory and demonstrate in practice the concepts of originality, 'appropriation', memory and imagination. They emphasize the intimate link between personal and public spheres, individual and social practices, history and myth, dream and reality. The focus of the workshop is on process not product and to help participants find life-long tools of creative expression. Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel have taught their Creativity Workshop internationally. They have lectured on creativity and their own work at universities and cultural centers throughout the world. The Creativity Workshop is currently an intensive semester long course at the International Writing Program of The University of Iowa. Process not Product The Creativity Workshop is for writers, painters, multimedia artists, performers, teachers, business people and anyone interested in expanding their creative potential. Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel have developed a series of exercises focused on developing the creative process. Participants explore different artistic materials and mediums in order to discover their particular and individual ways of expression and to be able to break through the fears that inhibit creativity. Tools for a Lifetime The exercises used in the Creativity Workshop are intended to become the tools for a lifetime of creative expression. Participants are encouraged to draw from all kinds of resources of creativity -such as the oral tradition, dreams, childhood memories, sense perceptions and intuition. Working both individually and in collaborative groups, participants explore their imaginative potential through exercises in writing, drawing, collage, map making, story telling and guided visualization. The Teachers Shelley Berc is a writer and teacher. She is a professor of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her novels, plays, and essays which include 'The Shape of Wilderness', 'A Girl's Guide to the Divine Comedy' and 'Theatre of the Mind' have been published by Coffee House Press, Johns Hopkins Press, Heinemann Books, Performing Arts Journal and Theatre Communications Group Press. Her plays have been produced by theatres such as the American Repertory Theatre, the Yale Rep, and the Edinburgh Festival. Alejandro Fogel is a visual artist and teacher working in painting, site installations, video and digital art. He has exhibited his works in galleries and museums in Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United States and Germany. His installation 'Root to Route' chronicled his father's journey through the Holocaust years and was exhibited at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. His work is in private collections and museums around the world. =46or reservations please contact Karen Bell: mailto:kbell@creativityworkshop.com or register online at: http://www.creativityworkshop.com or call Tel: (212) 249-1602 To unsubscribe from this list reply to this email with the subject UNSUBSCRI= BE ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:14:45 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rena Rosenwasser Subject: Renee Gladman and Elizabeth Robinson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please join Kelsey St. Press and Small Press Traffic for a reading and book party to celebrate the publication of two recent books of poetry: JUICE by Renee Gladman and House Made of Silver by Elizabeth Robinson Friday, April 20th, at 7:30pm Timken Lecture Hall California College of Arts and Crafts 1111 Eighth St., San Francisco Gladman's four short stories offer a truly fresh view of a modern world of fragmentation and lost wholeness. What unites these tales is the eye under which they tell their truths, the large, all-seeing eye of the oracular and the small. Renee Gladman was born in Atlanta, GA in 1971 and lives in San Francisco. She is the author of two chapbooks, ARLEM (Idiom Press) and NOT RIGHT NOW (Second Story Books). She is the former editor of CLAMOUR, a journal dedicated to experimental writing by women of color and is current editor of a new chapbook imprint, LEROY. In House Made of Silver, Robinson uses spare, elegant language to explore spiritual themes in a manner evocative of the compressed intensity of Emily Dickinson. Within the architecture of daily domestic scenes, a complex world is revealed to the reader in which objects and relationships are illuminated by Robinson's exquisite perception and highly burnished verse. Elizabeth Robinson's previous publications include in the sequence of falling things (paradigm, 1990) and Bed of Lists (Kelsey St., 1990) and numerous chapbooks, most recently Other Veins, Absent Roots (Instress, 1998), As Betokening (Quarry Press, 2000) and Lodger (Arcturus Editions). Kelsey St. Press 50 Northgate Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 www.kelseyst.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:19:31 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: chris stroffolino Subject: Killian & Lu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anybody have a backchannel address, or snail mail, for how I can contact Kevin Killian and Pamela Lu? Please backchannel if so you have...Thank you--- Chris Stroffolino ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:08:37 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dickison Subject: ** Ernesto CARDENAL, Thurs April 19th, 7:30 pm ** Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable P O E T R Y C E N T E R 2 0 0 1 The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives presents A very special evening with ERNESTO CARDENAL Thursday April 19, 7:30 pm $5-10 donation Special Location @ The Women's Building (3543 18th St, between Valencia & Guerrero) presented in collaboration with New College of California & Mission Cultural Center *** Seating is limited! No advance reservations. Doors open at 7:30. *** ". . . in the twentieth century . . . poetry written in the Spanish language began and ended--in short, was led--by two Nicaraguan poets, on the one end, Rub=E9n Dario and, on the other, Ernesto Cardenal." --Roberto Fernandez Retamar "Prologue to Ernesto Cardenal," in Caliban and Other Essays World-renowned Nicaraguan poet-priest ERNESTO CARDENAL--former Minister of Culture under the Sandinista government, and among the most significant Latin American literary figures of the past half-century--visits San =46rancisco in a rare appearance, co-sponsored by The Poetry Center, New College of California, and Mission Cultural Center. Among his many books to appear in Spanish and in English translation over the past decades are Oracion por Marilyn Monroe y otros poemas, Hora O/Zero Hour, Homenaje a los Indios Americanos, Cosmic Canticle, El estrecho dudoso/The Doubtful Straits, Apocalypse and Other Poems, Flights of Victory, Quetzalcoatl, and others. Father Cardenal will read his poetry in Espa=F1ol, with spoken English translations read by poet Alejandro Murguia. Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua. He attended the University of Mexico (1944-48) and Columbia University (1948-49), as well as the Trappist monastic community in Gethsemane, Kentucky directed by Thomas Merton. In 1965 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and developed a politics and practice he considered "Christian-Marxist." He is well-known throughout Latin America and North America as a spokesman for social justice and self-determination. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Steve Dickison, Director The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue ~ San Francisco CA 94132 ~ vox 415-338-3401 ~ fax 415-338-0966 http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit ~ ~ ~ L=E2 taltazim h=E2latan, wal=E2kin durn b=EE-llay=E2ly kam=E2 tad=FBwru Don't cling to one state turn with the Nights, as they turn ~Maq=E2mat al-Hamadh=E2ni (tenth century; tr Stefania Pandolfo) ~ ~ ~ Bring all the art and science of the world, and baffle and humble it with one spear of grass. ~Walt Whitman's notebook ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:19:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: chris stroffolino Subject: Gil Ott tribute MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, it occurs to me (though I could be wrong) that nobody's mentioned the new Gil Ott tribute that Kristen Gallagher edited and that was co-published by her press and Charles Alexander's CHAX.... an interesting collection (I don't have table of contents handy) that contains many essays, poems, and rememberances to (of) Ott-- it seems most think "The Whole Note" is his best book--- there's also interviews with Gil, and some previously unpublished poems... Chris ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 04:38:13 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Claire Dinsmore Subject: The new issue [volume 3] of cauldron & net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [apologies for cross-posting] featuring peter ganick & lawrence upton is now online. the issue encompasses almost 50 contributions [so i shan't bother to list all the names] in 5 sections: features, confluence, verbal, visual & aural. http://www.studiocleo.com/cauldron/index.html immerse yourself [as i have for months ...] and enjoy ... claire dinsmore/studio cleo -- "What am I, if not a collector of vanished gazes?" - Theo Angelopoulos, Ulysses' Gaze Latest [Flash5] web work:"The Dazzle as Question": http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame5/ http://www.studiocleo.com Editor, Cauldron & Net: an on-line journal of the arts & new media http://www.studiocleo.com/cauldron/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:09:38 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: GasHeart@AOL.COM Subject: Philly: Theater, Music, Film - Issue #40 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1. rainbow benefit, to get land, may 12th at killtime 2. Roxy Music tickets went on sale last sat., for July 19th, i got 5 tix to=20 share at cost 3. Porgy and Bess, American Opera, i got 2 tix at cost, i saw it before 4. Talkind Head's David Byrne at TLA, May 12th 5. Campy 80's music, "Prom Trash" Contest!!!!!, Bob and Barbara's, Wed.,=20 4/18, free 6. tryptic 3 at silk city, wed., april 18th, groovy dj's and video 7. Gate to Moonbase Alpha, Fri., April 27, at the Rotunda, 4012 Walnut, 8pm,= =20 free 8. Pi Lam's 23rd annual Human BBQ, Great Lineup of Bands, noon til 3am, apri= l=20 14th 10. PFWC, Phila. Festival of World Cinema, April 26th - May 7th, Booklet at=20 Ritz 11. mark lord's "Alice" - based on Alice in Wonderland - free to newsletter=20 recipients, you! 12. job opening in the arts - at Kelly Writing House at Penn 13. Secret Cinema shows old short phila. films, Fri., April 20th, 8pm, at=20 Moore ________________________________________________________ 1. rainbow benefit, to get land, may 12th at killtime see phillyrainbowfamily.org, click on 1st link, then click on "lots of love"= .=20 the idea is that there is a city block in west philly, mostly a vacant lot,=20 with 3 empty buildings, and the rainbow family of living light is trying to=20 get this for free, for community use. the benefit will have music and will b= e=20 at Killtime (39th and Lancaster) , May 12th. Rainbow has a national event on july 4th weekend, in a different state each=20 year, where about 20,000 people camp out in the woods and share. this benefi= t=20 is also to support the legal fees involved.....the u.s. government has been=20 trying to make it illegal to camp/gather in the woods. ___________________________________________________________ 2. Roxy Music tickets went on sale last Sat., for July 19th, i got 5 tix to=20 share at cost. this i a special offer to people on my list.....since i was already there at= =20 10:30 am on saturday, i got extra tickets, figuring people would want=20 them.....they are all very good seats, and are at cost....1 is $65, and 4 ar= e=20 $85, email me directly at GasHeart@aol.com for more info if you are=20 intereste. At the E-Center, now called the Tweeter Center.=20 Roxy Music was a seminal glam rock band in the 70's and 80's, lead=20 singer/crooner Bryan Ferry will be there and so will founding members, Andy=20 Mackay and Phil Manzanera. Their Greatest Hits album is a real gem and went=20 with me thru Europe on my Walkman. " Our exact oasis......eskimos and chinese.....did the Straand" -josh ____________________________________________________________ 3. Porgy and Bess, American Opera, i got 2 tix at cost, i saw it before i subscribe to the opera, and this one i saw before and i don't feel like=20 seeing it again....i have 2 tix and they are at cost....about $56 each....th= e=20 date is may 2nd, but can be changed, email me directly at GasHeart@aol.com "i got plenty of nuthin'....and nuthin's plenty for me" it is opera, but american and from the 20th century. __________________________________________________________ 4. Talkind Head's David Byrne at TLA, May 12th, 9pm, ($25.25 in advance,=20 $27.25 day of show) David Byrne was the lead singer of seminal band from the 70's and 80's calle= d=20 the Talking Heads. great great music worth a listem if you never heard it,=20 it's worth a try.....his solo career since then varies widely in style and i= s=20 always worth checking out, often with a world beat element. Byrne is also th= e=20 founder of Luaka Bop Records, which presents a lot of music from around the=20 world. here is the blurb about his current project, with actual words from David=20 Byrne. Here's some words from Luaka Bop HQ, David's label: =20 Aside from putting out the Luaka Bop records, some of you may know that our head honcho . . . the big cheese . . . likes to put out some music of his own. The new album from David Byrne will be hitting the stores on May 8th and it's called "Look into the Eyeball". Here's a little description from David on what you can expect to hear. =20 "I had been wondering if there might be a way to include the warm, lyrical, beautiful, emotional sounds and associations of strings and orchestrated parts with groove music and beats for the body. I want to make people dance and cry at the same time." =20 We've heard it. We know. He succeeded. =20 Look Into The Eyeball, David Byrne's debut under the Virgin umbrella, is hi= s first album since 1997's Feelings, and the first since leaving Warner Bros.= , where he began his recording career 24 years ago. The album is a collectio= n of twelve very personal, introspective songs written by Byrne about human relations, with the unique insight that only he could provide. i met David Byrne twice, one time, i went to a concert at cape cod civic=20 center, and the drummer, steve scales saw my dancing during the show, so he=20 let me backstage....i got to hang with the band for hours, and their parents= =20 were there. Their parents were all like, "they make money at this?". bassist= =20 tina weymouth was breast feeding, and david byrne was "tense and nervous and= =20 i can't relax". Jerry Harrison was all, "Anyone have a fast boat to Martha's= =20 Vineyard for last call". recently (two years ago) i went to see david byrne, at Stoned Pony, small ba= r=20 in Asbury Park, NJ. i went early and got to hear them practicing, and heard=20 them stop in the middle and what david would say. (i felt like i was in thei= r=20 rehearsal studio) also of note, the lyrics for the song I ZIMBRA are from a dadaist poem from=20 the 1920's.\ also, once i met David Byrne on the streets of New York....it was at a stree= t=20 corner in the upper east side....there he was all of a sudden, surprised, i=20 said "Daaaavid". He looked at me to see if he remembered me.....of course he= =20 didn't know me, but i knew him...i think i said i liked his work and i=20 left.....it must be weird being famous. -josh __________________________________________________________ 5. Campy 80's music, "Prom Trash" Contest!!!!!, Bob and Barbara's, Wed.,=20 4/18, free Come cheer on the trashiest Prom queens as Bob & Barbara's gets set for the 5th Annual "Prom Trash" Contest!!!!! Dress in Tux and/or Gown and participate! Prizes for Filthiest Couple, Best Mullet, and more more more! As usual, DJ K-Tell spins the best and worst of retro, disco, rock, pop and cheesey music from 10-2AM. The Dumpsta' Players present guest spots throughout the contest featuring Sheena Easton, Lisa Jones (of Hal Talberts fame), The DeFreako=20 Family, and more! NO COVER! Info-545-4511 retro, disco, funk, rock, cheese golden honey, just a touch... I=92m the sole Survivor! SHOW TIME AT 11PM WEDNESDAY APR. 18 Bob & Barbara=92s 1509 South St. Hope to see you there! thanks, K-Tell _______________________________________________________ 6. tryptic 3 at silk city, wed., april 18th, groovy dj's and video i think these shows are great and i can't believe more people don't go to th= em -josh from gina, aka mistsojorn@aol.com: wednesday april 18. 9pm-2am. $3. silk city: 5th & spring garden sts.phill= y tryptic 3 with: DJ FLUX (rick of ELTRO. ambient & abstract-electronic beats) SPORANGIA("Dystopian acid frog beats on the ether-sniffing victorian mad=20 scientist tip") MYCONOID(video game infused jungle; breakneck drum n bass some like to=20 call the quick-scissor-step) JUXTAPOSITRON(quirky twisted IDM and minimal techno) +video +toys i manage to steal from work www.zap.to.tryptic ____________________________________________________________ 7. Gate to Moonbase Alpha, Fri., April 27, at the Rotunda, 4012 Walnut, 8pm,= =20 free i don't have the lineup yet, but this series is always good, and it's free! ____________________________________________________________ 8. Pi Lam's 23rd annual Human BBQ, Great Lineup of Bands, noon til 3am, apri= l=20 14th, $10, 3914 Spruce St., www.yarga.net for $10 you get many many great bands and all the hamburgers you can eat.... this year they have really outdone themselves, with some incredible bands! here is the lineup in order of their appearance, from the guy who booked the= =20 event. The lineup is from first to last: Paperback Balboa Bunsen Warren Commission Hiroshima Nagasaki (these guys are really good, with Ben Morgan) Jenny Toomey Crooked Fingers Red King (very good, i saw them at human bbq last year, they rock, afterward= s=20 i hung with them, made king crimson jokes, you believe they didn't recognize= =20 the similarity in their names? -josh) Burning Brides Stinking Lizaveta (these guys rock with their own sound, philly's own, not t= o=20 be missed. -josh) The Lapse (this band has a lot of people talking, saying how great they are,= =20 i want to check 'em out! -josh) Wesley Willis ( Wesley Willis is great, hard to describe, definitely a must=20 see.....all his songs are funny, yet sound similar, he is famous for being i= n=20 and out in mental institutions. one of his more famous songs is "I kicked=20 Batman's ass", i saw him once at a church in center city and he had 500=20 people there to see him play, i don't know how all these people are gonna fi= t=20 into Pi Lam -josh) Aim of Conrad An Albatross (These guys are super....they have a wry punk sensibility....i=20 recently overheard ed gieda, the lead singer respond to the question, "What=20 does your singing sound like??" he said, "i sound like the screaming of my=20 mother giving birth to me." i asked him if i could quote him on that, he said please do! -josh) EDO (famous local band) Image 33 super lineup! -josh ______________________________________________________________ 9. lost filmfest - friday and saturday, april 13th and 14th april 13th, 7pm-midnight, at Pi Lam, 3914 Spruce, $6 at the door april 14th, 2pm - midnight, at Rotunda, 4012 Walnut St., $8 at door ....($10 for both days) see lostfilmfest.com for details on films scottb@bloodlink.com scott gateboy2000@aol.com gio ______________________________________________________________ 10. PFWC, Phila. Festival of World Cinema, April 26th - May 7th, Booklet at=20 Ritz this festival is terrific, and one can volunteer and get to see some films=20 free. new artistic director, Raymond Murray, also owns TLA video, also runs= =20 phila. gay/lesbian film festival. the new direction, due to change in mmt.,=20 will be less emphasis on documentary style films from around the world. i=20 liked those films and felt this was a chance to see how others live.=20 fortunately, there will still be some in this category. i say we wait and=20 see, i have high hopes.....Ray Murray knows lots about films....since he own= s=20 tla video, the best selection of arts films anywhere....in fact, bigger than= =20 their video rentals, is the web site sales on vhs and dvd's at tlavideo.com,= =20 Ray Murray knows how to p[ut together a film fest, since he's been running=20 the philly gay filmfest.....so i bet he hits the ground running.......the=20 booklets/guides are already available, weeks early, at Ritz theaters, i thin= k=20 this is a sign they really have their act together......www.phillyfests.com -josh ______________________________________________________________=20 11. mark lord's "Alice" - based on Alice in Wonderland - free to newsletter=20 recipients, you! He brought you Across, in the Fringe fest, and teaches theater at Bryn Mawr=20 College, now "Alice". Free if you get this newsletter, just mention Josh or=20 Gasheart at the door. otherwise $8 to get in. i'm sure this will be a dreamy= =20 and spirited interpretation of an already dreamy work. outfits and lighting=20 will be sure to shine, as well as the muses. where? The College address is 101 N. Merion Ave. Goodhart Hall on the Bryn Mawr College Campus. in Bryn Mawr, PA when? what? Tickets are available now for ALICE UNDER GROUND, the spring=20 semester's mainstage production by the Theater Program of Bryn Mawr &=20 Haverford Colleges. Adapted from the books and poems of Lewis=20 Carroll, ALICE UNDER GROUND takes its audience on an unforgettable=20 tour through a landscape of the mind. ALICE UNDER GROUND opens=20 Wednesday, April 11, and plays Wed-Sat nights through April 21st at 8=20 p.m. ALICE UNDER GROUND is directed by Mark Lord, with designs by Hiroshi=20 Iwasaki, Mat Sharp, and Miriam Jones, music by David Forlano, and=20 dramaturgy by Amy Peltz. Rose Bochansky stage manages. The cast=20 includes Carter Churchfield, Josh Dilworth, Caroline Drucker,=20 Christian DuComb, Louisa Edwards, Leila Ghaznavi, Erika Haglund,=20 Ashley Havey, Sasha Karlins, Dan Kazemi, Margot LeClair, Denette=20 Lienau, Andrea Marcus, Liz Mattson, Crystal Nicodemus, Rachel Nehmer,=20 Kirsten Poehling, Jakki Rowlett, Laurel Swan, Scott Watson, and Nick=20 White. The Mock Turtle, Duchess, Red Queen, Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, March=20 Hare, The Caterpiller, Pigeon, Tweedles Dum and Dee, the King and=20 others will all be there to amaze and puzzle Alice. Come share her=20 amazement and puzzle along with her. To reserve tickets, call 610-526-5211 or email theater@brynmawr.edu.=20 TICKETS ARE FREE TO ALL STUDENTS FROM ANY SCHOOL. mlord@brynmawr.edu ____________________________________________________________ 12. job opening in the arts - at Kelly Writing House at Penn The Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania is seeking to hire a full-time Program Coordinator, to start on July 1, 2001. A description of the Program Coordinator position is at this web page: www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/programcoordinator.html would you like to quit your office job and working the arts? -josh contact ksherin@dept.english.upenn.edu _____________________________________________________ 13. Secret Cinema shows old short phila. films, Fri., April 20th, 8pm, at=20 Moore The Secret Cinema at Moore College of Art and Design presents more lost Philadelphia films Moore College of Art and Design 20th & Race Streets, Philadelphia Friday, April 20 8:00 pm Admission: $6.00 On Friday, April 20, The Secret Cinema at Moore College of Art and Design will offer FROM PHILADELPHIA WITH LOVE 2: MORE INDUSTRIAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER LOST LOCAL FILMS, a sequel to one of its most ambitious and best-loved programs. This follow-up to the original FPWL show presented in 1999 will feature 100% new programming -- and will also include an introduction by one of the films' original creators. While most area residents are familiar with Philadelphia films such as ROCKY, TRADING PLACES, and THE SIXTH SENSE, there is a whole world of locally-made films that has been forgotten -- the "ephemeral" short films that were primarily made by small independent companies for the then-booming non-theatrical market. Just a few highlights of FROM PHILADELPHIA WITH LOVE 2 are: OUR CHANGING CITY (1955) - Made by the city during the administration of Mayor Joseph Clark, this vivid color film makes the case for urban renewal (i.e., demolition and new construction) while showing a wide range of cityscapes, from new homes in the Northeast to the poverty of people living in houses without plumbing or electricity. IMPORTANT PEOPLE (1950) - This brief and wonderful color film was made by the old PTC (that's the predecessor to SEPTA for you younguns who didn't know!) to encourage their bus and streetcar drivers to be polite to customers, and includes priceless views of a bustling Market Street and now vanished rolling stock. "There's nothing to be gained by arguing!" Date With a Stranger - A rare episode of a 50s TV anthology drama program, in which a romance is launched by a chance meeting of two lonely tourists -- in Independence Hall. A BRIDGE IS BORN - A fascinating look at the construction of the Walt Whitman Bridge from Louis W. Kellman Productions, for many years Philadelphia's largest studio of industrial and sponsored films . LWK=20 Filmmaker Gino Aureli will be in person to introduce this film. And much, much more... SECRET CINEMA WEBSITE: www.voicenet.com/~jschwart __________________________________________________________ well, that's all for now.....let me know of any groovy happenings out and=20 about..... any add/deletes, contact me.... we are still looking for a space for the next art party. any ideas? anyone want to rent/buy a 5 bedroom house in northern liberties, near 3rd an= d=20 spring garden, nice view, all new appliances, new plumbing, electric, heatin= g=20 systems, wanna take a look at it? it is my piece of art work, been working o= n=20 it for about a y ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 11:21:44 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: E-Poetry 2001: A Digital Poetry Festival April 18-21 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable E-Poetry 2001: A Digital Poetry Festival starts this Wednesday, April 18, at SUNY-Buffalo continuing on through Saturday night. Loss Peque=F1o Glazier has been working around the clock to coordinate all= the details, large and small. The program is extraordinary. The Festival is an Electronic Poetry Center production sponsored by the= Poetics Program of the Department of English, SUNY-Buffalo, and the Just Buffalo Literary Society. I paste below part of the Fesitival announcement. Go to=20 http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2001/ to get full information and a complete schedule of events and participants *** E-Poetry 2001: A Digital Poetry Festival Next week, UB will be the site for a major international conference on the relation of the new digital technologies to poetry.=20 E-Poetry 2001 will bring 50 new media artists from 13 countries to Buffalo= in an exploration of the possibilities of digital poetry. Digital poetry is new media work that combines text and image through computer technology in= order to produce works that in most cases cannot exist in the codex medium. The poets who are attending are skilled in specifically practices that would represent a community of artists specifically focused on aspects of= innovative or avant-garde poetry practice in the digital medium. Please see the conference web site for more info, including a detailed conference program. The Festival is an Electronic Poetry Center production sponsored by the Poetics Program of the Department of English and the Just Buffalo Literary Society, with much appreciated support from the College of Arts and Sciences. ****************************************************************** Full Schedule: WEDNESDAY 4/18 OPENING READING, CENTER FOR THE ARTS 4:00-5:30 PM - Digital Readings/Presentations [Charles Bernstein, Chair], SCREENING ROOM, CENTER FOR THE ARTS, STATE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, AMHERST -- Jim Andrews, Canada -- Komninos Zervos, Australia -- Kenneth Goldsmith, USA 6:00-7:00 PM - Reception at Lebro's Restaurant, 330 Campbell Blvd.,= Getzville, NY (716-688-0404) 7:00-8:30 PM - Dinner (Self-pay) at Lebro's THURSDAY 4/19 9:00-9:30 AM - COFFEE and REGISTRATION, BALLROOM 4, Buffalo-Niagara= Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst, New York 14226 (716-689-6900) 9:30-10:15 AM - Festival Introductions PANEL, MARRIOTT BALLROOM 4 10:15-11:30 AM - Panel [Tim Shaner, Chair] -- Komninos Zervos, Australia, "Words in Three Dimensions - New Literary Devices" -- Christian B=F6k, "The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed" -- George Hartley, USA, "SCRIPT LANGUAGE=3D'POETRY': the Poetic Potential of JavaScript and DHTML" 11:30-12:30 PM - LUNCH at the Marriott (Pre-pay, reservation required) PANEL, MARRIOTT BALLROOM 4 12:30-1:45 PM - Vocabularies, Objects, Procedures, Part I [Charles= Bernstein, Chair] -- Loss Peque=F1o Glazier, USA, "Thinking Procedure" -- Giselle Beiguelman, Brazil, "What You See is What You Get? (On Line= Writing and The Loss of Inscription)" -- Janez Strehovec, Slovenia, "The Digital Poetry Objects" PANEL, MARRIOTT BALLROOM 4 2:00-3:15 PM - Vocabularies, Objects, Procedures, Part II [Charles= Bernstein, Chair] -- Kenneth Goldsmith, USA, tba -- Katherine Parrish, Canada, "The Art of Noise: Randomness in Automatic Poetry Generators" -- Brian Kim Stefans, USA, "A Vocabulary for Web Poetics" 3:15-3:30 PM - COFFEE 3:30-3:45 PM - Presentation of "Jabber: The Jabberwocky Engine", Neil= Hennessy, Canada READING, MARRIOTT BALLROOM 4 3:45-4:45 PM - Digital Readings/Presentations [tba, Chair] -- Patrick-Henri Burgaud, The Netherlands -- Nazura Rahime, Malyasia -- Xavier Leton, Belgium -- Reiner Strasser, Germany 4:45-5:00 PM - Technical Q+A with Readers 6:00-7:00 PM - DINNER (Self-pay) at the Central Park Grill, 2519 Main= Street, Buffalo 2519 Main Street, Buffalo (716-836-9466) READING, HALLWALLS 7:30-7:45 PM - Presentation of "Dinner Table" (Video), Marc Bohlen, USA, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, The Tri-Main Center, 2495= Main Street, Suite 425, Buffalo, New York 14214, (716-835-7362) 8:00-9:00 PM - Purkinge Group Reading, "The Awopbop Groupuscle and the Forms= of Improvisation". Featuring: Sandy Baldwin, Don Byrd, Nancy Dunlop, Chris Funkhouser, Belle Gironda, Thomas Mackey, Christina Milletti, Derek Owens, among others, USA, Hallwalls 9:00-11:00 PM - INAUGURAL RECEPTION with the Jim Beishline Jazz Trio= featuring Janice Mitchell, Hallwalls FRIDAY 4/20 9:00-9:30 AM - COFFEE and REGISTRATION, BALLROOM 4, Buffalo-Niagara= Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst, New York 14226 (716-689-6900) PANEL, MARRIOTT BALLROOM 4 9:30-10:45 AM - Reading/Writing E-Media [Tim Shaner, Chair] -- Miekal And & Maria Damon, USA, "eros(ion)" -- Lawrence Upton, UK, "Spondees, Spondulicks and Sponsors" -- Jonathan Minton, USA, "Digilogues: C++ and Algorithmic Writing" PANEL, MARRIOTT BALLROOM 4 10:45-12:15 PM - Inscriptions of E-Authority [Charles Bernstein, Chair] -- Joel Kuszai, USA, "Collaboration, Composition and Distribution on the Web: Site-Building as Poetic Praxis" -- Christopher Alexander, USA, "Moderating the Poetics Listserv" -- Martin Spinelli, USA, "What Digital Audio Editing Isn't Doing" -- Charles Bernstein, USA, "Electronic Pies in the Poetry Sky" 12:15-1:15 PM - LUNCH at the Marriott (Pre-pay, reservation required) PANEL, MARRIOTT BALLROOM 4 1:15-2:45 PM - Papers [tba, Chair] -- Jim Andrews, Canada, "Nio and the Art of Interactive Audio for the Web" -- Jorge Luiz Antonio, Brazil, "The Digital Poetry Genre" -- Philippe Bootz, France, "Une Litt=E9rature du Processus (Litt=E9rature Proc=E9durale)" -- Juan Jos=E9 Diaz Infante, Mexico, "=BFDonde Esta el Poeta?/Where Is the Poet?" 2:45-3:00 PM - COFFEE 3:00-3:30 -- A PHILADELPHO MENEZES TRIBUTE. Introduction by Loss Peque=F1o Glazier, USA. Featuring Wilton Azevedo, Brazil: "Interpoesia" by Menezes/Azevedo & "Looppoesia" by Azevedo. READING, MARRIOTT BALLROOM 4 3:30-4:30 PM - Digital Readings/Presentations [tba, Chair] -- Lucio Agra, Brazil -- Christopher Funkhouser (with images by Amy Hufnagel), USA -- Thomas Swiss, USA -- Neil Hennessy, Canada 4:30-4:45 - Technical Q+A with Readers 6:00-7:00 PM - DINNER (Self-pay) at Casa di Pizza, 477 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222 (716-883-8200) READING, BIG ORBIT 7:30-8:30 PM - UBU Digital Readings/Presentations, Big Orbit Gallery, 30= Essex Street, (716-883-3209) [Kenneth Goldsmith, USA, Chair] -- Brian Kim Stefans, USA, "The Dreamlife of Letters" -- Derek Beaulieu, Canada -- Darren Wershler-Henry, Canada -- Christian B=F6k, Canada 8:30-9:00 PM - Technical Q+A with Readers 9:00-11:00 PM - EVENING RECEPTION, Big Orbit SATURDAY 4/21 10:00-11:30 AM - PARTICIPANT BRUNCH at the Marriott (Pre-pay, reservation required), SALON C & D, Buffalo-Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst, New York 14226 (716-689-6900) PANEL, 120 CLEMENS, SUNY AMHERST CAMPUS 11:45-1:00 AM - Web As Medium [Patrick Durgin, Chair] -- Deena Larsen, USA, "Exploring New Roles for Digital Poetry" -- Alan Sondheim, USA, "Avatars, Programs, Lists, and Writing" -- Barrett Watten, "Beyond the Demon of Analogy: www.poetics" PANEL, 120 CLEMENS, SUNY AMHERST CAMPUS 1:00-2:15 PM - E-Publishing Panel [Richard Deming, Chair] -- Chris Funkhouser, USA, "Editing and Design 2K+: the Cybertext Issue of Newark Review" -- Mike Kelleher, USA, "What Is Electronic Writing?" -- Jennifer Ley, USA, "Sustainability: On Line Publishing and the Literary= Gift Economy" 2:15-2:30 PM - Presentation of ALIRE, Philippe Bootz, France 2:30-2:45 PM - COFFEE PANEL, 120 CLEMENS, SUNY AMHERST CAMPUS 2:45-4:00 PM - UBU Panel [Kenneth Goldsmith, USA, Chair] -- Derek Beaulieu, and Russ Rickey, Canada, "Abort; Retry; Fail; Ignore: a Report on Internet Poetry and Poetics" -- Craig Dworkin, USA, "Technologies of Translation" -- Darren Wershler-Henry and Bill Kennedy, Canada, "Apostrophe" READING, 120 CLEMENS, SUNY AMHERST CAMPUS 4:00-5:00 PM - Digital Readings/Presentations [Barbara Cole, Chair] -- Aya Karpinska, USA, "ek-stasis" -- Tammy McGovern, USA -- Alan Sondheim, USA -- Jennifer Ley, USA 6:00-7:00 PM - DINNER (Self-pay). CLOSING READING,CEPA 7:30-8:30 PM - Digital Readings/Presentations, CEPA 617 Main Street, Suite= 201, Buffalo (716 856-2717)[Kenneth Goldsmith, Chair] -- Loss Peque=F1o Glazier, USA -- Jim Rosenberg, USA -- Giselle Beiguelman, Brazil, "" -- John Cayley, UK/Canada, "RiverIsland" 8:30-9:00 PM - Technical Q+A with Readers 9:00 PM-11:00 PM - CLOSING RECEPTION with Tree-Lined Highway, CEPA 11:00 PM - ATTENDEES ARE INVITED TO AN AFTER HOURS PARTY with The Knowmatic Tribe at Club 658, 658 Main Street, Buffalo ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 07:08:37 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: Fw: Susan's strike report, April 12, 2001 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hawai`i's governor Cayetano keeps buying huge newspaper ads (guess whose > funds are used to pay for them) saying that the state wants a contract > settlement. It would help if they would agree to negotiate, is all I can > say. > > Today we met at the capitol for a rally: Juliana and Steve and Leigh and I > were all there. Even before the official rally began, we were told to go > to the Federal building, some three or four blocks away, where the state's > negotiator was actually meeting with our union. We were supposed to make > sure he didn't leave the building. So we marched (sort of) through > downtown Honolulu, greeted by the reassuring honks of sympathetic > motorists. Once we got to the Federal building (as lovely and grand as > the Murrah building ever was), there were no instructions, so we wandered > around for a while until we were told to go inside without our signs. I > entered a door beyond which the metal detector didn't work, so it was slow > going. We ended up sitting in a long corridor on the fourth floor where > the meetings were supposedly taking place. > > I was sitting outside the office of Neil Abercrombie, a congressman > who used to be something of a flaming radical. He now calls himself a > "progressive conservative." I think you get the picture. He's become > more pro-military over time, and his pony tail got cut off several years > ago. At any rate, he was reputed to be with the governor. His aide, when > asked if Neil was "with us 100%" managed a very weak, "well sort of," and > said only that the congressman supports more pay for lecturers because "he > was once one himself." This is the guy the union wanted to be the next > president of UH because he's such a supporter of ours. > > I don't think these Democrats (at least they call themselves that) are > going to know what hit them come election time. Everyone I talked to said > they wouldn't vote for a Democrat next time around. The Greens and the > Republicans will benefit (sound familiar???). > > Then the state's mediator, Davis Yogi, actually walked down the hall in a > red aloha shirt. He must have several, since he's always on tv wearing > one. They have so little footage of him on local tv that they've started > running video of him entering a room in slow-motion; that strange bit is > shown over and over again. > > The meeting between UHPA and Yogi broke up an hour later, but they said > they'd be meeting this evening. In the meantime, Abercrombie's office had > provided us with coffee and cookies. I find that I've become quite > demanding of coffee during this strike. I got Starbucks to give me four > cups of iced coffee for my line--though I had to buy four more from them > to effect the bargain. In general, I now feel that I have the right to > stop traffic when I want and to demand food from strangers. Oddly enough, > it sometimes works. > > Then those of us left in the long corridor wandered back to the capitol > where we were asked by a tv station to stay until the 5 p.m. news. Lots > of hollering and honking and my friend Gaye Chan had driven her old gray > Volvo station wagon up with a new sign on the roof: "Ben Over; Time for > Somone Else to Drive." Her Ben as Satan puppet was with her, too. He had > a very red face, horns, and his torso was covered with money (you know, > the missing money that gets siphoned off via our third world economy of > graft). > > There's also a wonderful huge puppet that takes three or four grown men to > carry. It's on the UHPA web site and also made the CNN site. A skeleton > dressed in black carrying a baby, which is, of course, public education. > In a fierce wind or rain, this puppet becomes dangerous to its bearers, > who begin to resemble medieval death marchers. The artist who made the > puppet walks beside the men bearing death on their shoulders and talks to > the media when they approach. She did one of the new Tinfish covers, the > one with "Gauguin's zombie enjoying Tinfish with his friends." Also a > rather morbid piece... > > The godfather of Hawai`i politics, Sen. Inouye, got nowhere with the > governor yesterday. Rumor (from one of the negotiators via one of my > picket captains who is married to her) has it that the governor wants our > strike to last two weeks so he can get the pay lag he's been wanting for a > long time. The state and UHPA were so close to an agreement last > Wednesday, this scenario seems possible, along with the rather more simple > "punish them for daring to disagree with the dictator" theory. > > At any rate, the UH faculty are much more united than they were before the > strike. I am astonished regularly by the sight of two of my colleagues > who otherwise hate each other sharing a laugh on the picket line. There > is that. And there's a lot of tension, too. And a lot of nastiness from > people in cars who can't bear to wait two minutes to get past our line. > One guy yesterday yelled that he hoped we all ended up on > welfare--something else he probably doesn't like. I thanked him for his > support, and believe that we should thank everyone, including those who > offer their third fingers to us (it's sometimes hard to tell if people are > giving us the shaka or the finger). And many kind regular folks who > volunteer their support when you wander around in strike garb. > > We get Good Friday off here in this strange state, so tomorrow we rest our > weary bones. One only hopes that the negotiators will lose some sleep > this weekend and bring this to a close soon. The school teachers are not > as close to agreement as are we. My husband's been picketing his high > school during high scab times (his school has 4-7 scabs). Our little boy, > Sangha, who is now 21 months old, was there one evening when a scab was > left sitting behind a picket line in his white pickup truck, as the cop > stood apart talking on his cell phone, ignoring the scene as best he could > (he didn't call for a break at any point). Sangha waved at all of them, > picketers and scab. Perhaps there is hope, after all. > > Susan > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > Susan M. Schultz > Associate Professor > Dept. of English > 1733 Donaghho Road > University of Hawai'i-Manoa > Honolulu, HI 96822 > > http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/schultz > http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/ezines/tinfish > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:46:35 -0230 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "K.Angelo Hehir" Subject: Re: Fw: Poetics of internet art/activism In-Reply-To: <114601c0c2a1$afd6ff80$737c0218@ruthfd1.tn.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm not sure where this thread got started but as far as art and activism and the net go, or creative dissent as I like to call it you might want to check out http://www.tao.ca/ bye, kevin ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:38:24 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: charles alexander Subject: Re: Gil Ott tribute In-Reply-To: <3AD61BF6.8D98F63F@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed and chax has a new ott book out, the complete TRAFFIC, that one and the tribute, titled THE FORM OF OUR UNCERTAINTY are available for sale. I'll post details next week, and will offer a discount to this list. thanks, Charles Alexander Chax Press At 05:19 PM 4/12/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Hey, it occurs to me (though I could be wrong) that nobody's mentioned >the >new Gil Ott tribute that Kristen Gallagher edited and that was >co-published by >her press and Charles Alexander's CHAX.... >an interesting collection (I don't have table of contents handy) >that contains many essays, poems, and rememberances to (of) Ott-- >it seems most think "The Whole Note" is his best book--- >there's also interviews with Gil, and some previously unpublished >poems... > >Chris charles alexander / chax press fold the book inside the book keep it open always read from the inside out speak then ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:50:31 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Arielle C. Greenberg" Subject: Thalia Field reading in Syracuse In-Reply-To: <004f01c0c385$68621920$20eb86cd@rena> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi -- this is especially for the poetics people actually *IN* Buffalo, and for anyone in Central/Western NY. Thalia Field, author of Point and Line, will be reading on the Syracuse University campus on Friday, April 27 at 6:30 PM. If you want to come, please backchannel email me so I can make sure we have room for you, and give you directions. Thanks! Arielle ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:15:27 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: bill dunlap Subject: SATIE DIET BREAD Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit NEWSFLASH!!! 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Like most great inventions & breakthroughs in medicine & discoveries of the past, The bread was discovered by accident. Lotte Svenson, wife of a Swedish lab coat held her Hunza sheath health researcher trying to duplicate a 2,000-pound, high concept paradigm bread used by little known little-voiced scholars -- all as thin as potato chips. The Hunzas watched from the parapets, icy and molten. The Ubus are considered to be the healthiest people on earth. Their fat is pure gold. Lotte was trying to make fire sticks in the silent flatlands in between. This bread good tasting she concluded, so that her children would eat of it and KNOW. She succeeded in coming up with a recipe that was absolutely delicious: 1) Don't you always burn with a desire to deface a lovely monument? 2) When will you disrupt the flow of traffic and burn your money? 3) Do you dream of a hole where bureaucrats, politicians, and news anchors are dropped down into to writhe in stinky muck? 4) Everybody loved it. RUIN !! ------- But, then a startling discovery was made. Just one or two very small pieces of bread would ruin a person's appetite for 5 or 6 hours! At first, fight Lotte Mr. Svenson (hung) Hunza for years little food in the winter. Was the bread an ancient discovery of a hungry Pope doing you-know-what in the woods? ... bread as such ... Theory 1 is mind-numbing existence of order and good manners. Theory 2 grammar are syntax and down down le toilet with um. Theory 2.1 Men father children at 100 years and older. Theery 4 espelink isd hoot duh winder salso. "I consider their bread to be one of the main reasons for this." "Ubu men are tall, and short, brood-shouldered, deep-encrusted, slime, waisted, heavy-lidded, and have their hands full. Of Ubu women they are straight, and bent, tall-bosomed, complex, and unctuous with hair. Both men and women share their teeth and eyesight even at 100 yards or more! They are frill, runcible, gyre and jimble. And you can't find an overweight one. Fatigue is an eye-opening experiment of normal rats. Put them on a typical English diet of Pepys and Woolf and they die! After a period the rats showed absolutely no weight, and were completely beyond normal health. BUT GETTING BACK TO THE FOCAL POINT OF THIS MATTER, REGARDLESS OF WHERE IT CAME FROM, WE HAVE IT. AND, IT'S TESTED AND IT WORKS." Get UBU bread and starve for dinner. Your guests will kick you for it. But, then I found that when I served it at dinner, everybody ate smaller dreams of happiness. It got to the point -- WE WERE CRAZY FOR 2000 YEARS! And I weigh nothing now... We realise that there are a lot of ripoffs on the internet and you may be a bit sceptickle.... but... PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT THIS IS 100% REAL AND GENUINE ... you WILL receive the recipe for the amazing Debord Diet Bread - we promise you will not be disappointed !! Please believe in us - we wont let you down. VELOCIPEDE PUBLISHING FCM134 P.O.BOX 7020 114 79 PATA FISICAL =============================================================== NOTE: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS CLEAR AND READABLE AND IS A CURRENT VALID ADDRESS, WE TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS UNDELIVERABLE =============================================================== POSTSCRIPT: At 7:30 p.m. I phoned the Svenson's with the remains of General "Buck" Turgidson in my pants. It went like clockwork, exactly as they held me. I wasn't happy for 6 hours. Their bread really is great. I am truly impressed and am now back in the bleak and twisted horror of my own feeble mind. This is too easy - "a piece of cake, or... I should say - "a piece of COBRA DIET BREAD"!! ******************************************************************* 27111 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:36:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Easter Reading, Talking, & Learning at trAce (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:44:26 +0000 From: trace@ntu.ac.uk To: sondheim@panix.com Subject: Easter Reading, Talking, & Learning at trAce READING: Randy Adams Randy Adams is the first writer and artist to be awarded a trAce Writer's S= tudio. Born in Edmonton, "a Canadian city of moderate size, located 53=B0 3= 4' N / 113=B0 31' W: parkland mostly, somewhere between plains and tundra."= He now lives on Vancouver Island, surrounded by water and mountains. Visit= the studio and journey through Adams' particular narrative landscape, a mi= x of new media work and texts. Explore places "where the corporeal world co= nverges with myth". http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/studio/radams/ TALKING: trAce/elo Chat: Sunday 15th April: DAC/E-poetry Join the Eliterature Organization and trAce to warm us up for both DAC and = E Poetry conferences! Get that conference "buzz" without having to leave yo= ur computer. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/news/article.cfm?news=3D180 LEARNING Enrolment for the trAce Online Writing School will open in early May, with = teaching beginning in early June. All the courses will last 6 weeks, and we= 'll be starting with a great line-up including: * Animated Poetry in Flash, taught by Peter Howard * Creative Writing Workshop, taught by Marjorie C. Luesebrink * Cyberculture and Literature, taught by Alan Sondheim * Factual Writing for New Media, taught by Bill Thompson * Hypertext and its Double, taught by Talan Memmott * Searching the Web, taught by Helen Whitehead * Short Fiction, taught by Kate Pullinger * Textual Machines: Building Web-Based Narratives, taught by Carolyn Guerti= n * Writing an Online Family History, taught by Liz Swift There will also be a Common Workshop, free to all enrolled students and hos= ted by Alan Sondheim. Further courses to be launched later this year include poetry, scriptwritin= g, writing for children, journalling and other types of writing for both we= b and print media. To register your interest in the School, please visit http://trace.ntu.ac.u= k/school.cfm Best wishes Sue Thomas Artistic Director trAce Online Writing Centre The Nottingham Trent University Clifton Lane Nottingham NG11 8NS ENGLAND Tel: +44 (0)115 8483551 Fax: +44 (0)115 8486364 http://trace.ntu.ac.uk trace@ntu.ac.uk To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please email trace@ntu.ac.uk with 'u= nsubscribe register' as the subject line. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 21:21:57 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: ECOPOETICS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jonathan. Well, I remember travelling North of Auckland and my father talking about how much of the NZ bush was regenerated: and my brother and I were both fascinated by hearing bell birds and tuis (natives) in the bush. So I think very few people would be out of synch with that kind of love and concern of "nature" at that level. So I support that, but take issue with many of the more simplistic arguments of the "Greenies": they become purists. At one extreme I suspect them of wanting to perpetuate the "doomsday" mythologies. I did a study of this whole issue in about 1978 andhave found that the "doomsdayers" continually defer the imminent destruction of the planet. Then there are all the other things we know about: its seen in Wordsworth's famous passage in "The Prelude" that Huxley quotes in "Texts & Pretexts" (Huxley's best book for me) when what was a rowing excursion toward a mountain suddenly turns fearful: he see's the "dark" side of nature. Something that comes into Allan Curnow's poetry...and many other poets. In fact another major poet Kendrick Smithyman, on close reading, exhibits both a fascination and a repulsion to nature and "Man" etc Perhaps they are proto-postmodernists (if you can put them in a box). I also think of Williams Carlos Williams and even Stevens: then Stevens of course is more, I emphasise more, in or from his immagination (thus mind thus brain thus nature). And so on. I think this area you are in is important because (to put it a bit simply here) the non-scientific are too simplistic while at other extremes the "hard realists" or whatever dismiss the sublime, the mysteriousness (that W W saw and others). One can see a "philosophic" link via the Romantics to W C W and Blake could be seen to parallel Stevens somewhat and or Coleridge (of his more contemplative poems). I think I am with you tho on your project and of course eco isnt a synonym for natural: I jumped there onto that. But yes, I would be interested in writing something. But only if I'm going to enjoy such writing...might do a "poessay" (my friend Scott Hamilton's term) as a way out and into rather than a long "academic " thing. But what I write will be what I write, full stop. My own poetry tends to come straight "from my head" altho often some external incident may trigger it. When I have attempted the direct approach I am always disatisfied...any way i think the questions raised are important because one can be piously a "Great Nature Writer" or piously obscurantist to the point of dullness. Or can one? Is possible to be "pretentious"..after all, what one writes will be what one writes.Interesting and important questions here.Please keep me informed. Thanks for your reply. Regards, Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Skinner" To: Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 4:35 PM Subject: ECOPOETICS > Richard, > > Thanks for the thoughts. It's precisely these kind of nature-human > dualities you enumerate that ECOPOETICS wants to call into question-- > without, however, abandoning the urgencies that might have called them up in > the first place, or that continue to keep "nature"-- for better or worse-- > in our vocabulary. "For" or "against" something hazily called "nature" is > the least interesting approach, hardly a poetics at all. But ethics toward > the nonhuman, or thinking of and making in environments conceived as > relationships (between more than one species), do offer choices. Water or > plastic are neither good nor bad in themselves; what counts is what we do > with them. (Now throw language into that mix!) In that sense, "nature" > with all the pious baggage it carries, is probably more obfuscating than > useful. Eco is not a synonym for natural. > > Best, > > Jonathan ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 07:03:58 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Chirot Subject: Re: ECOPOETICS Comments: To: jskinner@acsu.buffalo.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Joel Skinner and ECOPOETICS: (or--Echo Poetics--that would be an interesting avenue--especially the Narcissus-Echo implications--or "ecco"--Italian "here"--) Last night saw show about DNA--that half of the DNA genome is not human information but that assembled by all manner of other beings, so humans not some special exceptional development, but part and parcel of all other earthly beings. As well, humans part and parcel of all those elements which are found throughout the universe. "As above, so below" as Hermes Trismagestus made clear-- from Alchemy to "Alchemy of the Word": Rimbaud's "I is an other." In graduate school one thirty below zero day--the Professor expounded the doctrine that "nature is a construct"--one pointed out to him that it was not a construct which prevented his car from starting--and stranded him trembling with fear of frost bite--amid icy wind swept wastes glinting in an implacable sun-- Working with found materials, one Finds--("I don't seek, I find"--Picasso) that there is "waste" yet not necessarily the "wasted" --that "refuse" may be indeed a way to "refuse" just this dualism in regards to Eco which as you note has so often been Nature/Human Manichean split-- Refuse which does refuse silence--recycled into community/communication for Visual Poetry, Mail Art, anything one finds as possibilities in the materials about one. A good deal of American literary history and thought--is concerned with Nature-- "The blank and ruin we see in Nature is in our own eye"--Emerson, "Nature"--an essay ec(h)o-ing ever since--1830s . . . Putting to use "ruins," fragments, refuse found in streets, an Ecosystem of Found materials in making works--"art" or "protest" or "redemption" (recycling center near here called "redemption center"--calling up Visions!--amid the "fallen world"--) Frank O"Hara--finding plenty enough green in NYC--(lots of "green" growing, flowering and dying in rapid seasons down on Wall Street, too--) i would add to this all the non-green found materials as part of your ECOPOETICS-- (send you some if you like--) long history of it in "Modern Art"--since Baudelaire first defined it--(In "The Painter of Modern Life") --From Schwitters to sampling alone but some of the trajectories mapped out-- Two interesting commentaries on some of your ECOPOETICS questions found today rummaging about (are there no "chance encounters"?): Art is one thing and Nature another. I love Art very much and I very much love Nature. If you accept the representations that a man makes of Nature, that proves that you love neither Art nor Nature. --Vicente HUIDOBRO, "Creationism" In MANIFESTOS MANIFEST (Kobenhavn & LA: Green Integer 20, 1999; 64-5). Out-of-Doors n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. --Ambrose BIERCE, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY (New York: Dover, 1958; 95) Long before Emerson's revelations, (that one had lost the way in supposing what one sees as "blank and ruin" rather than recognizing just this in one's own abilities, interests, energies in perceiving . . . in finding--amid the ruins other worlds/words yet which are uncanny--at once strange and familiar--"It is new to me, yet not unknown" as Emerson also notes--) the "Obscure" or "Dark" One set down this fecund Eco poetics system all about: "The most beautiful world is a heap of rubble tossed down in confusion" --Heraclitus --onwo/ards! --david baptiste chirot ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 18:19:53 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gerard Greenway Subject: ToC: Angelaki : General Issue 2000 MIME-Version: 1.0 ANGELAKI 5.3 : General Issue 2000 Now out, the new issue includes work from Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek. Please find the contents listing below. This issue completes volume 5. The two theme issues for volume 6 are: _Subaltern Affect_, edited by Jon Beasley-Murray and Alberto Moreiras (6.1; June), and _Gift, Theft and Forgiveness_, edited by Constantin V. Boundas and Andrew Wernick_ (6.2; September). For further information about _Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities_, please go to: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725x.html volume 5 number 3 GENERAL ISSUE 2000 issue editor: pelagia goulimari CONTENTS Editorial Introduction -- Pelagia Goulimari Hostipitality -- Jacques Derrida From Animal Life to City Life -- Simon Glendinning The Body in the Thought of Kenneth Burke: A Reading of "The Philosophy of Literary Form" -- Kumiko Yoshioka Born with the Dead: Blanchot's Mourning -- Lars Iyer Having to Exist -- Andrew Benjamin The Idea of Genesis in Kant's Aesthetics -- Gilles Deleuze Bad Timing: The Subject as a Work of Time -- Agata Bielik-Robson Didion's _Democracy_: "Dated in a Deconstructing Universe" -- Stephen Jarvis Math Anxiety -- Aden Evens What's Lacking in the Lack: A Comment on the Virtual -- Nathan Widder DEBATE: From Proto-Reality to the Act: A Reply to Peter Dews* -- Slavoj Zizek * Slavoj Zizek writes in response to Peter Dews' piece in _Angelaki_ 4.3. We encourage the submission of responses to work published in the journal. These will be considered for publication in the annual general issue. "Each issue of _Angelaki_ arrives like a scouting report from the edge of the known world, the one trembling right now under our feet. Fearless and inventive, this journal has reset the agenda for the theoretical humanities. Long may it thrive." Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California, USA Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities 3 issues per volume Current volume: 6 (2001) ISSN: 0969-725X Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Gerard Greenway greenway@angelaki.demon.co.uk managing editor A N G E L A K I journal of the theoretical humanities Routledge, Taylor & Francis http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725x.html 36A Norham Road Oxford OX2 6SQ United Kingdom ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 10:54:08 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: lisa jarnot Subject: Burgess, Waters, Luna and Jarnot read in NYC Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rory Golden April 2, 2001 (212) 481-0295 rgolden@centerforbookarts.org THE CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS CONTINUES "THURSDAY NIGHT SERIES" WITH POETRY READING BY LOCAL AUTHORS New York, NY - The Center for Book Arts continues its "Thursday Night Series" with a poetry reading at 7:00 p.m. on May 3, 2001. CBA instructor and poet Lisa Jarnot, along with local authors Matthew Burgess, Christopher Luna and Jacqueline Waters will read from their recent work. Limited edition "broadsides" of the authors' work, designed and letterpress printed at CBA, will be available for sale to benefit The Center. Jarnot, assistant professor at Long Island University, will curate the event. Jarnot is currently writing a biography of American poet Robert Duncan. She has been a visiting writer at New York City's The Poetry Project, The University of Colorado, and the Naropa Institute. The Center's unique broadsides consist of the authors' poems and imagery relating to the work. The collaborate effort, between Jarnot and The Center, is the first. Christopher Luna, whose work has appeared in numerous publications, is currently editing the selected correspondence of the filmmaker Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure. Jacqueline Waters' first book of poetry, A Minute without Danger, will be published this summer by Adventures in Poetry. Matthew Burgess' work has appeared in Lungfull, The Brooklyn Review, and Greetings. The event is free for CBA members; and for non-members, there is a $5 suggested donation. The Center is located at 28 West 27th St., on the 3rd floor, between 6th Ave. and Broadway. To get to The Center by train, take the N, R to 28th St. and Broadway; the F to 23 at 6th Ave.; or the 1 or 9 to 28th St. and 7th Ave. Please call The Center for details on parking in the neighborhood. For further information or to register for workshops and classes, call The Center at (212) 481-0295 or visit www.centerforbookarts.org . # # # ABOUT THE CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS The Center for Book Arts is dedicated to the preservation of the traditional craft of bookmaking, as well as encouraging contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object. Founded in 1974, it was the first non-profit organization of its kind in the nation. The Center organizes exhibitions related to the art of the book and offers an extensive selection of educational courses, workshops and seminars in traditional and contemporary bookbinding, letterpress printing, and other associated arts. The Center for Book Arts is supported by local businesses, various foundations, and its members. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:02:53 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: megan minka lola camille roy Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Subject: Narrativity, a reading Comments: To: estephe@cats.ucsc.edu, bsatan@wenet.net, brydiemcpherson@yahoo.com, aerodyne@sirius.com, cstevens@leanmusic.com, xoxcole@cs.com, cynth265@yahoo.com, cage@sfsu.edu, drewcush@earthlink.net, dblelucy@lanminds.com, evacin@mail.arc.nasa.gov, coeur@jps.net, Giovann@aol.com, g_morlan@email.msn.com, JKFRIEDM@US.ORACLE.COM, jays@sirius.com, geeknee@well.com, brash@well.com, merce@sfsu.edu, jocelyns@sirius.com, Johan_is@yahoo.com, jonoHC@aol.com, JKELNER@us.oracle.com, sloth3@slip.net, kathylou@WORLDNET.ATT.NET, degentesh@earthlink.net, klynn@jps.net, KIRIDEARI@aol.com, krisikg@hotmail.com, larryf@leland.Stanford.EDU, moriarty@lanminds.com, lgudath@yahoo.com, zbonebrk@hotmail.com, windhover@SPRINTMAIL.COM, leslie.scalapino@worldnet.att.net, Mammaroma@aol.com, sfsunday@aol.com, naob3@aol.com, normacole@aol.com, pamlu@sirius.com, Pdienst@aol.com, cixu66@hotmail.com, rgladman@sfaids.ucsf.edu, raustin@slip.net, bobgluck@sirius.com, robintm@tf.org, SRosenthal@CitySearch.com, psstar@aol.com, tpapress@dnai.com, pittysing15@hotmail.com, steved@sfsu.edu, stephenclair@yahoo.com, susan@tsoft.com, idiolect@uclink4.berkeley.edu, Yedd@aol.com, zackster@earthlink.net, TBrady@msgidirect.com, mburger@macromedia.com, amnashan@aol.com, danateen@hotmail.com, paul@allegory13.com, zoeyk@earthlink.net, adklein1@earthlink.net, colettish@hotmail.com, DrewCush@excite.com, reneyung@sirius.com, e_vacin@yahoo.com, tisab@earthlink.net, stefani@morganlabs.com, JDHollo@aol.com, crose@nycnet.com, Easter8@aol.com, DogStarGrl@aol.com, HHughes334@aol.com, Larkin7@aol.com, JoanNestle@aol.com, Megemege@aol.com, nwbbear@earthlink.net, levitsk@attglobal.net, puckerup@earthlink.net, betsyandrews@yahoo.com, gscott@dsuper.net, jlf100@sprintmail.com, mmoore@faralloncapital.com, pauldresher@compuserve.com, perlarts@aol.com, Pbokovoy@aol.com, sfrankel@hrice.com, smilla@sirius.com MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit New Langton Arts Presents: A reading!! Betsy Andrews (from NYC) --and-- Gail Scott (from Montreal) --and-- Robert Gluck (SF's own) will be reading at the launch party for the second issue of 'Narrativity', at New Langton Arts, wednesday, april 18, 8pm. Address is 1246 Folsom Street in SF, phone 415 626 5416 for info or reservations. 'Narrativity' is designed as a place for writers, readers, and fans to create a critical vocabulary for responding to experimental narrative. The brave can browse the new issue, before the moment of official unveiling and unofficial revelations at: http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit/narrativity/issuetwo.html The *fabulous* 'Narrativity' second issue includes work by: Mike Amnasan, Betsy Andrews, Taylor Brady, Nicole Brossard, Mary Burger, Brenda Coultas, Aja Duncan, Corey Frost, Susan Gevirtz, Renee Gladman, Gad Hollander, Daniel Nester, Doug Rice, Elizabeth Robinson, Kathy Lou Schultz, Aaron Shurin, Brian Strang, Lawrence Upton as well as selections from critical and other work related to innovative narrative by the editors. See you there! camille roy -- http://www.grin.net/~minka "If this is going to be a calm equality, there will be no people." (L. Scalapino) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 14:39:30 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: J Gallaher Organization: University of Central Arkansas Subject: So, what's your favorite book of poetry from 2000? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ah, misty listies, What's your favorite book of poetry published in 2000? Huh? --JG ------------------------------------- JGallaher "How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?" --Wallace Stevens ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:01:38 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: jesse glass Subject: Dark Poetry Project Comments: cc: Poetryetc@JISCMAIL.AC.UK MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Dark Poetry Project–Please Spread The Word Attention Goth, Surreal, Occult, Horror, Extreme, Absurd, Bizarre & Experimental Poets. A major print anthology is in the works to present the best of the midnight explosion!!!! Send 3-5 typed poems on A4 paper with a short (~200 word) biographical statement before Dec. 31st, 2001 to: Jesse Glass /D.P.P. Meikai University 8 Akemi Urayasu Chiba 279-8550 Japan. Include your e-mail address. No manuscripts will be returned, so keep copies. You may also submit via e-mail to ahadada@hotmail.com (do not send to gol.com account) DO NOT SEND FILES! APPENDED FILES WILL NOT BE READ. Do not send links. Paste your submission into the body of an e-mail. Put "d.p.p. submission" and your name in the heading. IF WE LIKE WHAT YOU SEND WE WILL CONTACT YOU. No correspondence will be entered into regarding your poetry. No queries will be answered.. If you haven’t heard from us within three months after the final deadline, assume that you won’t. What we are looking for: Anything that excites us. Things to avoid: The trite and the sentimental. Archaic language, and the self-consciously "poetic" (Thee, thou, thine, mine, ye, alas, Oh!, Alack! Alas!). Inverted syntax. Rhyming, unless it’s done well. Political propaganda. Harlequin romance. Song lyrics. Suicide notes. Kiddie Porn. Weltschmerz. Haiku. Poetics We Recognize: Modern & Post-Modern forms: i.e. Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D., Mina Loy & after. Guiding Stars of The Dark Poetry Project (If you haven’t read ‘em, do!): Heraclitus, Yunmen, Dee & Kelly, de Sade, Potocki, Baudelaire, Lautreamont, Rimbaud, Kleist, Nerval, Melville, Walt Whitman ("The Sleepers"), Emily Dickinson, Nietzsche, Jarry, The Dadaists, The Surrealists, The Absurdists, Artaud, Michaux, Maria Sabina, Helen Adam, William Burroughs, Jack Spicer, Kathy Acker and other kick-ass writers & thinkers from many times and many lands. Memorable Quote: "If your darkness does not come from within, it had better not come at all." –Clapperclaw 8/12/200. About Jesse Glass. How to order his books. http://www.letterwriter.net/html/jesse-glass.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 23:08:32 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: [_-z] An obviousness in Film, a residue in Literature MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII [_-z] An obviousness in Film, a residue in Literature The most obvious fact of the film is its inertness in relation to time; if a scene among actors, it lasts in the diegetic as long as oh, it would, in the real world: a standard film is generally composed of, for example, 90 minutes of the characters' lives scattered over years, perhaps. Then of course there are cinematic shortcuts - falling calendar pages, stop-motion - all giving the simulacrum of time passing. Now compare this to a novel - "she had been going to the park for years" - this perfect perfect tense, a whole sequence of trips and meanders, not one or another - not an exempla- ry one such as you might find in the film - none and all at all in fact. The most obvious fact is the cinematic/theatrical/performative lack of the perfect - without the use of ikonic devices at the very least. The power of a performance for the spectator is _always being in the present._ It is present and presencing; it re/creates the present in its inertial moment (the grain of the real, the filmic aura); it is obdurate. One can hardly avoid identification with an alterity which defies, by the use of jump cuts (which are any cut at all) the passage of minutes, hours, days, years - so different than the novel in which the character caresses the reader from past, present, and future time - and all these times, worn intervals, extensions. The media can hardly be compared: 90 minutes in the lives of characters, confluences in literature. When I go to the theater or cinema, I think to myself: "Here I am, I have walked in half-way through, and I have _missed nothing_ - these actors are living just as much now as they were at the beginning..." __ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 11:55:21 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mary Burger Subject: Narrativity 2 launch reading Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Join us Wednesday, April 18 at 8:00 for a reading to celebrate NARRATIVITY, issue 2! Readers will be Narrativity editors Robert Gluck (of SF) and Gail Scott (of Montreal), along with contributor Betsy Andrews (of New York). Editors Mary Burger and Camille Roy will host. At: New Langton Arts 1246 Folsom St at 9th SF, 94103 Tickets: $6 general, $4 members Reservations: 415-626-5416 Narrativity is an online forum focusing on theoretically-informed narrative. The site provides a place for writers and readers to share ideas on the many possibilities for narrative in theoretically-informed writing, and to develop a critical vocabulary for responding to this writing. Contributors to Issue 2 include Nicole Brossard, Susan Gevirtz, Aaron Shurin, Renee Gladman, Gad Hollander, Elizabeth Robinson, and many more. See the site at: https://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit/narrativity/ Issue 2 will be posted by April 18!! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:16:39 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Berkson Subject: euro-sf poetry festival MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 2nd Euro-San Francisco Poetry Festival April 26-29, 2001 Schedule of Events: Thursday, April 26, 7:30 p.m. San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall Dacia Maraini (Italy) Volker Braun (Germany) Joanne Kyger (USA) Charles Dantzig (France) Admission $6 ($4 SFAI members, students from other schools; free to all SFAI students). Friday, April 27, 7:30 p.m. at Small Press Traffic (Timkin Hall, CCAC, San Francisco campus). Johanna Ekstrom (Sweden) Angel Gonzalez (Spain) Barbara Barrigan (USA) Marc Cholodenko (France) admission $5 (free to SPT members and CCAC students, faculty, staff). Saturday, April 28, 2:00 p.m., Intersection for the Arts. Manuel Mantero (Spain) Massimiliano Chiamenti (Italy) Stefaan van den Bremt (Belgium) Bay Area Poet t.b.a. Admission $5 (suggested donation) Saturday, April 28, 7:30 p.m. The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives (Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin at Geary) Tor Obrestad (Norway) Katarina Frostenson (Sweden) Lutz Seiler (Germany) Taylor Brady (USA) Admission $5 (suggested donation) Sunday, April 29, 1:00 p.m., reception at 4:00 p.m., San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall Euro-San Francisco Poetry Festival Closing Reading A group reading with participating European poets and translators and featuring San Francisco poets Barbara Barrigan, Bill Berkson, Taylor Brady, Norma Cole, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Janice Mirikitani, Genni Gunn, Joanne Kyger, Denise Newman, Michael Rothenberg, Tarin Tower, Leslie Scalapino, Cedar Sigo, Hugh Steinberg and ElizabethTreadwell. Admission $6 ($4 SFAI members, students from other schools; free to all SFAI students). ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 00:06:57 -0400 Reply-To: dbuuck@sirius.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "dbuuck@sirius.com" Subject: TRIPWIRE 4 NOW AVAILABLE Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" TRIPWIRE 4: WORK edited by Yedda Morrison & David Buuck Eileen Myles Jeff Derksen Laura Elrick Bobbie West Rodrigo Toscano Alan Gilbert Catherine Daly Steve Farmer Camille Roy Pye Banbou (trans. by Jack Hirschman & Boadiba) Karen Brodine Olga Cabral Rob Fitterman Heriberto Yepez France Theoret (trans. by Gail Scott) An EZLN communique In conversation: Rosmarie Waldrop (with CD Wright & Carole Maso) Rob Fitterman & Bruce Andrews reviews: Mark Wallace on Kevin Davies Brian Kim Stefans on Hung Tu & Tim Davis Bruce Andrews on Object 9 & Miles Champion Kevin Killian on Mike Amnasan & Alvin Orloff Ramez Qureshi on Oliver Cadiot artwork by: Bibiana Padilla Maltos Axel Lieber Heriberto Yepez photonovela by Stephen Callis, Leslie Ernst & Ruben Ortiz Torres 180+ pages, $8. 2 issue subscription $15 (outside US please add $2 per issue) TRIPWIRE c/o Morrison & Buuck PO Box 420936 SF CA 94142 www.durationpress.com/tripwire (contributors & subscribers: your copies are in the mail) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 00:07:48 -0400 Reply-To: dbuuck@sirius.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "dbuuck@sirius.com" Subject: FORTHCOMING: TRIPWIRE 5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" FORTHCOMING SPRING 2001: TRIPWIRE 5: EXPANDING THE REPERTOIRE: INNOVATION AND CHANGE IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING Documenting the Small Press Traffic conference. 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TRIPWIRE c/o Morrison & Buuck PO Box 420936 SF CA 94142 yedd@aol.com www.durationpress.com/tripwire -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:38:27 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: pete spence Subject: Re: letter, syllable and word parataxis Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Thanks Komninos for redirecting this onto the listserve, i see very little being done by recent people that could do without having a good knowledge of what has transpired in film and writing over the past 100 years, to take a dive into new medias and to do something that suits the new media really needs a float of information of what has been accomplished to date, as far as my films go they are stored in my workroom if you are ever down melbourne way i can always put on a screening for you, as i e-mailed you recently "Populist = entertainment//entertainment is the dross that erodes self empowerment//pete spence > >>Dear Komninos, filmakers have been doing this since the movie camera >>was invented, see Snows films as a instance, or ask for a look at >>the 18 short films i made (shown at film festivals all round >>australia in the early 90's) where i animated the works of visual >>poets such as ReA Nikonova/Paula Claire/Robert Rehfeldt/Carol >>Stetser etc etc, the new media in fact has not only some catching up >>to do but also MAKE IT NEW!!!!///pete spence >> > >how can i see these movies of yours, and the snow movie you mention. >perhaps because they are not out there, i could not take them into >consideration. they certainly are not mentioned in the literary texts >i have read or the websites i have visited, > >i have been told that e melo de Castro in brazil was making >videopoetry in 1968, but where is the archive? > >But, > >the poets and their poems i mentioned in my posts are out there on >the net, and maybe you can choose history to select isolated examples >from the past, but what i am saying is that there are lots of people >using letter and syllable parataxis in their work at the present >moment. > >the new media may not be new but it is new for many people who >perhaps dont have the history of poetry and film-making to draw upon. > >then popular art was never your bag. > > >cheers >komninos _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:38:46 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: pete spence Subject: Re: letter, syllable and word parataxis Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Komninos for a little entertainment value maybe you should see Peter Greenaways THE FALLS or any of his early shorts like H or WATER RACKETS etc in Australia maybe look at the films of Dirk de Bruyn, Aggie Reid etc etc//pete spence >>Dear Komninos, filmakers have been doing this since the movie camera >>was invented, see Snows films as a instance, or ask for a look at >>the 18 short films i made (shown at film festivals all round >>australia in the early 90's) where i animated the works of visual >>poets such as ReA Nikonova/Paula Claire/Robert Rehfeldt/Carol >>Stetser etc etc, the new media in fact has not only some catching up >>to do but also MAKE IT NEW!!!!///pete spence >> > >how can i see these movies of yours, and the snow movie you mention. >perhaps because they are not out there, i could not take them into >consideration. they certainly are not mentioned in the literary texts >i have read or the websites i have visited, > >i have been told that e melo de Castro in brazil was making >videopoetry in 1968, but where is the archive? > >But, > >the poets and their poems i mentioned in my posts are out there on >the net, and maybe you can choose history to select isolated examples >from the past, but what i am saying is that there are lots of people >using letter and syllable parataxis in their work at the present >moment. > >the new media may not be new but it is new for many people who >perhaps dont have the history of poetry and film-making to draw upon. > >then popular art was never your bag. > > >cheers >komninos _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 02:42:47 -0400 Reply-To: dbuuck@sirius.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "dbuuck@sirius.com" Subject: derksen Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" looking for email/address info for jeff derksen b/c fine thanks D.Buuck -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:38:10 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: J Gallaher Organization: University of Central Arkansas Subject: Joey Ramone 1951-2001 In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010412142634.00a25210@pop.buf.adelphia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT From the New York Times: TOP ARTS NEWS ========================= Punk Rocker Joey Ramone Is Dead at 49 Singer Joey Ramone, the punk rock icon whose signature yelp melded with the Ramones' three-chord thrash to launch an explosion of bands like the Clash and the Sex Pistols, died Sunday. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Ramone.html ----- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:56:57 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Stefans, Brian" Subject: ::: Sally Silvers and Mac Wellman @ Double Happiness :: This Satu rday, April 21, 4 pm Comments: cc: "bstefans@earthlink.net" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain ::: FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCENERY ::: The Segue Foundation and Double Happiness present on Saturday, April 21st at 4 pm an afternoon of poetry readings featuring Sally Silvers and Mac Wellman. ::: SALLY SILVERS is the innovative, equal parts Keaton/Cunningham choreographer/performer whose theoretical writing, scores, and poetry have appeared in many journals including The Drama Review, Aerial and The Impercipient. She is probably best known to the poetry world as long-time collaborator with Bruce Andrews, musical director of Sally Silvers Company; she has also worked on several films with Henry Hills ("Mechanics of the Brain," "Little Lieutenant") and Abigail Child. Her next dance performances are in NYC at Construction Company, May 5, 6, 7. This will be her first full-length poetry reading. Bio: http://www.horsesmouth.org/dancers/ny/silvers.htm "Sally Silvers' Idea Factory": http://dailycardinal.com/issues/1995/10/951012/951012.art_performance.html Crease (with Bruce Andrews), performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art: http://epc.buffalo.edu/documents/99/whitney/ (Real Video) http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/documents/99/whitney/whitney.html (about) On The Construction Company: http://www.marcpeloquin.com/newyork.htm She did not write this article about sewing: http://www.sewnews.com/library/this2.htm MAC WELLMAN, one of the country's great playwrights, has published several books including A Shelf in Woop's Clothing (his third collection of poetry, from Sun & Moon), The Bad Infinity, and Crowtet I (A Murder of Crows & The Hyacinth Macaw). He was co-editor of From the Other Side of the Century II: A New American Drama 1960-1995 (Sun & Moon). Known in his plays for the uncompromising verbal pyrotechnics of his soliloquies, his poems are equally tours-de-farce of lyrical, often absurdist, play. On his plays: http://www.actorstheatre.org/humana/25th/white/white.html http://www.theatrezone.org/productions/past/sincerity/sincerity.htm http://members.ozemail.com.au/~opencity/rt41/evans.html On his novel "Annie Salem: An American Tale": http://www.sunmoon.com/naf/wellman_annie.html On From the Other Side of the Century II: http://www.sunmoon.com/classics/other.html ::: Double Happiness is located at 173 Mott Street, just south of Broome; it is down some stairs, and doesn't have a storefront. The readings are held during DH's happy hour -- two for one drinks, no questions asked. Curated and introduced by Brian Kim Stefans ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:20:07 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Avery Burns Subject: Canessa Readings 4/18 & 4/29 Comments: To: aburns@calfed.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Canessa Park Reading Series 708 Montgomery St. San Francisco, CA Admission $5 Just a quick note on the next two readings at Canessa. Wednesday April 18th @7:30 pm Micheal Gizzi & Geoffrey Young visiting from the east Sunday April 29th @ 5 pm Todd Baron & Diane Ward visiting from L.A. Hope to see you there, Avery E. D. Burns __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:49:29 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Osman & Perelman @ Tredyffrin Library 4/19 Comments: To: Nathalie Anderson Comments: cc: whpoets@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jena Osman & Bob Perelman read Thursday, April 19 7:30 PM Tredyffrin Public Library 582 Upper Gulph Road Wayne, PA 610-688-7092 for details ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:39:43 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Chirot Subject: "Too Tough to Die" Long Live Joey Ramone MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The newspapers say Joey Ramone has died, age 49, of lymphoma. This is not entirely true--as anyone knows, Joey was "Too Tough to Die." Ramones' songs blast out at ballparks and Ramones prodigies and progenies the world over stalk street corners and haunt garages with two and three cord blasts and comic book lyrics of a deadpan dysfunctional dystopia america--or anywhere-- inciting savage glee, gallows humor and good times despite all. Joey may have taken his "Permanent Vacation"--but the work goes on, wherever the immortal words and rhythms of "Gabba Gabba Hey" burst forth in energetic glory! "Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever It is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me deliberately knocking people's hats off --then I account it high time to . . . " put on a Ramones record! for you, Joey-- dbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:35:22 -0600 Reply-To: derek beaulieu Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: derek beaulieu Organization: housepress Subject: back in print - KIYOOKA by Roy Miki MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit housepress is pleased to announcethe release of a new chapbook: KIYOOKA by Roy Miki originally printed in an edition of 60 numbered copies, housepress has recently reissued Roy Miki's meditation of Roy Kiyooka in an edition of 50 numbered copies, each copy handbound with handprint linocut covers. $5.00 per copy. for more information, or to order contact derek beaulieu at: housepress@home.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 23:56:27 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: ". sandra" Subject: call for website information (fwd) Comments: To: alice@jvanrijn.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi there's an international poetry festival coming soon in Portugal (27th-30th May 2001) check the web-site, the english version were be availabe soon .sandra guerreiro http://www.uc.pt/poetas ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: April 10, 2001, 11:07 AM -0400 From: Romana Christina Huk To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: call for website information Dear Poetics-line readers: Please consider sending information about upcoming conferences, festivals new programs and the like to our new website at Oxford Brookes University. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Brookes is hoping to serve the international community by providing a space on its developing website for people to not only announce already-formulated upcoming events, but also to announce the desire to collaborate on international events. Though such information can be found on this line as well, our sources and the readers we serve will involve a wide array of communities which we hope will grow even wider and more fully international as the word about the website gets out. Please contact Alice, our graduate student co-ordinator (who is co-creating the site as part of her degree project in computer arts) at this e-address: , with any information you would like to contribute. Feel free to contact me with any queries and especially if you have suggestions. Many thanks, Romana Huk Research Fellow, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Poetry Humanities Research Centre Oxford Brookes University Gipsy Lane Campus Headington Oxford OX3 OBP England ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 02:26:24 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: George Fouhy Subject: Poetry:Cornelius Eady, OPEN MIKE and More Comments: To: Rudy Morris MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Creative Arts Café Poetry Series Celebrates National Poetry Month Including Pulitzer Prize Nominee Cornelius Eady For more information, photos and poem samples log onto: http://www.cyberscribes.com/poetrycafe/ Mt. Kisco, NY: The Creative Arts Café Poetry Series at Northern Westchester Center for the Arts celebrates National Poetry Month with a selection of events at NWCA and beyond! April 16th at 7:30, NWCA is honored to host an evening of poetry by Pulitzer Prize Nominee CORNELIUS EADY. Mr. Eady will read selections of his work followed by readings by two of his students. Afterwards, there will be a reception, a book signing and an OPEN MIKE. April 18th at 7:00, the poetry series presents a community poetry reading at the FLYING PIG Café Farm Market located at the Mt. Kisco Train Station. The Feature group is the Putnam Poets. An open mike follows. April 23rd at 7:30, the series hosts a Book Poetry for our own in-house poet, RON PRICE to celebrate his newest book A Small Song Called Ash From the Fire. A reception and Open mike follow. This event takes place at NWCA. AN OPEN MIKE FOLLOWS EACH READING. Cornelius Eady is currently Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at The City College of New York. He has also served as Director of the Poetry Center and Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has been on the Guest Poetry Faculty of New York University’s Creative Writing Program and The New School’s Creative Writing Program. He has held visiting professorships at Sarah Lawrence, the University of Alabama, George Washington University, the College of William and Mary, and Sweet Briar, and has taught poetry workshops at the 92nd Street Y. Along with poet Toi Derricotte, Eady founded and is the Director of Cave Canem, an African-American Poets retreat. Eady is the author of seven volumes of poetry: The Autobiography of a Jukebox (1997); You Don’t Miss Your Water (1995); The Gathering of My Name (1992); Boom, Boom, Boom (1998); Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1986); Kartunes (1980); and Brutal Imagination (2001). He is also the author of two music-dramas: “Running Man,” which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1999, and “You Don’t Miss Your Water,” which won an Obie. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Callaloo, Pequod, Harper’s, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares and Agni, and his work has been anthologized in The Academy of American Poets’ Celebrating Sixty Years of American Poetry, Nicholas Christopher’s anthology Under 35, and E. Ethelbert Miller’s In Search of Color Everywhere. Eady has earned the following awards and fellowships: The Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Prize, poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the NY State Foundation for the Arts; a Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Writing Fellowship; a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio; the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner; a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Poetry. He has been included in such prestigious poetry series as the Folger, Poets House, the Unterberg Center at the Y, the Academy of American Poets, the Manhattan Theatre Club, DIA Center for the Arts, and the Aaron David Hall performance center at City College of New York. Eady lives in New York with his wife, Sara Micklem. Ron Price was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and currently lives in New York City, where he is Poet in Residence at the Juilliard School. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Northeast Corridor, The Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry, Rattapallax, Southern Exposure, & others. He has poems in various anthologies including Downtown Poets, & New Rain: Our Fathers, Ourselves. The past recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, in 1996 Price was a U.S.I.A. Visiting Poet to Belgium. In addition to A Small Song Called Ash From The Fire, he is the author of a chapbook, Surviving Brothers, & a sixty minute recording called A Crucible for the Left Hand. Fae Myenne Ng, author of Bone, described A Crucible for the Left Hand, as "powerful, richly textured poems that capture the brutality of fear and a man's fierce surrendering to love... Like the songs of redemption, these poems are gifts of hope. They nourish." In a review of Surviving Brothers, Alexandria Fortunato wrote, "Price is a poet drawn to the moment after things break down, when a man bends his knee and begins to pick up the broken pieces. There is a rhythmic feel," she continued, "that seems to arise as much out of the earth as out of the poet's acute sense of place," what the Painted Bride Quarterly described as "intense moments in the midst of the continuing earth." European writer and editor Joris Duytschaever wrote, ?Reading Price is a gripping experience. He shows affinities with Rilke and the masters of empathy.? Responses to A Small Song Called Ash from the Fire: It's our great good fortune that the daunting places and undaunted presences possessing this poet so vividly inhabit his poetry… I like this work, I've liked it since the first time I saw it, I'm going to enjoy and admire it for years to come. - William Pitt Root, author of Faultdancing and Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom Musical, keenly seen and given…powerful poems of family life, loss and violence… Price's gift for language, his affinity for the natural world of hawk, river, oak, coupled with his story telling skills, mark him as a poet of vision and grace… - Colette Inez, author of Clemency and Getting Under Way Ron Price has created in poem after magnificent poem a grand song, at once mosaic and splintered solitude, of an America bloody-born in the Mississippi delta… What a splendid fire, this book of poems. - Indran Amirthanayagam, author of The Elephants of Reckoning The Creative Arts Cafe is located in the gallery of Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, 272 North Bedford Road, Mt. Kisco, on Rte 117, near Staples. For further information, call Cindy Beer-Fouhy at NWCA, 241 6922. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:51:06 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: owner-realpoetik@SCN.ORG Subject: RealPoetik Daniel A. Olivas Daniel is the author of the novella, The Courtship of Mara Rivera Pea (hope your character set can read that!) to be published by Silver Lake Publishing in late December 2000. His short stories and poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, THEMA, Perihelion, 3rd Muse, The Pacific Review, Red River Review, The Morpo Review and many others. He currently lives in the San Fernando Valley. One of the more interesting seders around. "Blood, Frogs" Blood, Frogs.... Do you know me, Adonai? A latecomer to your Seder table? A visitor waiting for Elijah? Vermin, Wild Beasts.... You blessed the Moabite, Ruth, with an honored place in Ketuvim, so there must be hope for me. Pestilence, Boils.... My people have suffered, too, though nothing like the Inquisition or the Holocaust. But the Aztecs were fooled and then slaughtered, raped and oppressed by the Spaniards who rode proud horses roughshod over meso-America creating a mixed gente, the Mestizos. And then discrimination, a glass ceiling we hit, in this great country, as we scratch towards the American dream. Hail, Locusts.... But here I sit, a Jew for only twelve years, looking at the matzo, bitter herbs, shank bone, amidst other symbols of oppression and subsequent Exodus, Diaspora. My wife's family (and even my son!) easy and familiar with it all, as much a second nature as my Chicanismo is to me. But each year, I recognize more and more, mouthing the Hebrew faster and faster. Is there hope for this old dog? Darkness, Slaying of the First Born.... I took the name of Ysrael when I converted because Jacob wrestled with the angel and saw the face of G-d, before he, too, became a Jew and took a new name. I wrestled, struggled (did I see the face of G-d, too?), for over six years before making the choice. It is a choice I do not regret, but, at times, when my ten-year-old son breezes through the Four Questions in Hebrew (not English!), I am a stranger searching in bewilderment's twilight for my soul. Can an outsider take on another people's traditions, burdens and history while maintaining his own proud history? Can an outsider ever stop wandering? Will I ever be at home? Daniel A. Olivas ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:11:28 -0700 Reply-To: yan@pobox.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: matvei yankelevich Subject: reminder for ducklings Comments: To: ugly.duckling@pobox.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii a reminder about SOON! this Tuesday at 9pm (the 17th) is THE BORIS & EGON SHOW with Jenny Smith (EGONS) & Matvei Yankelevich (BORISES) ...accompanied by a banjo duo. at THE BOUCHE BAR, 540 East 5th St., between A and B *** THIS IS THE BIG ONE *** APRIL 19th * Thursday * 7:30pm UNVEILING ONE TANGERINE: 6x6 # 3 ecstatic gala reading/party to celebrate the release of the lovely, speckletoned, issue number three of 6 poets x 6 pages. HALCYON, 227 Smith St. in Brooklyn, between the Bergen St and Carol St F stops (corner of Butler St.) the readers include...Nathaniel Farrell * Samantha Visdaate * John Coletti * Elizabeth Reddin ...and more surprises ***APRIL 28: 1-4pm at TONIC: Loudmouth Collective's ANTI-READING. ***MAY 5: Matvei Yankelevich reads with the Boston's "Dead Cat Bounce" at the Knitting Factory. details to follow... ********************************************************************************************* >>>>JENNY SMITH is Program Assistant at The Poetry Project and a co-founder of the Prague School of Poetics. She has recently published work in The Boog Portable Reader, The New Orleans Review, Exquisite Corpse, and Jejune Magazine. Her plays A Lobster Dinner and Tall Cotton were performed in Prague last year. She edits Slender Loris Press, a press which as yet has not done anything but be named. A chapbook, Some of these Poems are about Animals, is forthcoming from Hollowdeck Press. >>>MATVEI YANKELEVICH has published translations and original work and translations in Open City, Literal Latte, Dirigible, and on-line at www.canwehaveourballback.com. He co-edits two periodicals from Ugly Duckling Presse: a biweekly theater broadsheet, the EMERGENCY gazette, and the poetry almanac 6x6 (6 poets x 6 pages). >>>>NATHANIEL FARRELL has made his printed debut in 6x6 issue #3, but he's been seen around the city wearing various hats at Horace Mann Theatre, Nada, and Clemente Soto Valez. As an actor he will be reappearing in Yelena Gluzman's staging of Howard Barker's Scenes From An Execution in June at chashama. He is also known as Willie (Wile E.) Lumiere of the Lumiere Bros., editors of The Emergency Gazette. Mr. Farrell was born and grew up in Western Pennsylvania, attended Columbia University and now resides in Queens, where he spies on his neighbor. He would like to thank Mr. Chaplin and Ms. Susie Q. >>>>>JOHN COLETTI lives in Bushwick, BK. Recent or forthcoming work appears in Prosodia, Chain, A Portable Boog Reader, The Highwire Anthology, TheEastVillage.com, Ixnay, and The Brooklyn Review On-line. >>>>>>SAMANTHA VISDAATE doesn't know what she likes and dislikes anymore. Her backbone is made of rigor. She doesn't usually call herself a poet, although she has written poems. She is happy to be published by the Ugly Duckling Presse. >>>>>EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY currently teaches at a Turkish University. That is why he could not attend the reading tonight. Before Turkey, he lived in San Francisco, where he was a member of the performance trio Vainglorious and, before that, the writers' cartel 9X9 Industries. He enjoys volleyball and shuffleboard. His poems have appeared in 6,500, Combo, Lungfull! and Oxygen. Like Matvei, he is translating the Russian absurdist Aleksandr Vvedenskii. ***see Insound.com for an interview about Ugly Duckling Presse: contact: ugly.duckling@pobox.com ...if you wish to unsubscribe, or be put on a list for your geographical area, please say so. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Personal Address - Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 10:51:51 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: chris stroffolino Subject: Re: another brother gone MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for this sad news--- I was turned on to Patterson by Lamont Steptoe in the late 80s-- I know my copy of "26" is around here somewhere--- Chris "Nielsen, Aldon" wrote: > News this weekend of the death of Poet Raymond Patterson, author of the > incomparable "Twenty-Six Ways of Looking at a Black Man." (many years > prior to the similarly titled book by Henry Louis Gates, I hasten to add) > > Raymond was a great friend to other poets everywhere -- He can be seen in > the video series "Furious Flower" -- though you may be hard pressed to find > any of his books these days -- > > " Subjects > hinder talk." > -- Emily Dickinson > > Aldon Lynn Nielsen > Fletcher Jones Chair of Literature and Writing > Loyola Marymount University > 7900 Loyola Blvd. > Los Angeles, CA 90045-8215 > > (310) 338-3078 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 11:07:08 -0600 Reply-To: derek beaulieu Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: derek beaulieu Organization: housepress Subject: new from housepress NBB's "Gestures of Language" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit housepress is pleased to announce: NBB's "Gestures of Language" - an enveloped portfolio of proto-language script and graphics - limited edition of 30 numbered copies. $6.00 each. and still available from housepress: Spence, Pete "Untitled" - visual poem, 40 copies (openpalm series 2.13) $1.00 each. TransCanada Research Team "BUG REPORT" - a TCRT Quality Assurance Publication, printed as a "pataphysical response to Christian Bok's STRING VARIABLES - limited edition of 70 copies, printed as openpalm series 2.11 $1.50 each. Miki, Roy "Kiyooka" - originally printed in a numbered edition of 60 copies, september 2000, "Kiyooka" has been newly reprinted in an edition of 50 numbered copies folded & handbound in a modified japanese style with handprinted inocut front covers. $5.00 each. Goldsmith, Kenneth "DAY" - "If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." -- John Cage - DAY questions the mundane, "nutritionless writing" and found text. - "Innovative poetry seems to be a perfect place to place a valueless practice; as a gift economy, it is one of the last places in late hyper-capitalism that allows non-function as an attribute. Both theoretically and politically, the field remains wide open." -- Kenneth Goldsmith - published in a numbered edition of 50 numbered copies, DAY is printed on southworth 25% white cotton bond folded & handbound in a modified japanese style. every copy of DAY, has a copy of CIGNA tipped in, a further exploration of found and appropriated text, also by Kenneth Goldsmith. - Goldsmith is the author of Fidget (Coach House, 2000) and No.111 2.7.93-10.20.96 (the figures, 1997). he is also editor of UbuWeb Visual, Sound, and Concrete Poetry $20.00 each. Cabri, Louis "Curdles" - limited editon of 70 handbound and numbered copies with 25% cotton linen 24lb. watermarked gray granite bond with 110lb. card covers. $8.00 each. Upton, Lawrence "Initial Dance" - visual poem series - limited editon of 50 handbound and numbered copies with 25% white cotton linen paper and 65lb. card covers. $5.00 each. Peters, Mark "S from Medley" - limited editon of 60 handbound and numbered copies with 25% white cotton linen paper and 60lb. card covers. pages folded and handbound japanese style. $6.00 each. for more information, or to order copies, contact derek beaulieu at housepress@home.com www.telusplanet.net/public/housepre ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:35:52 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Cope Subject: Yusef Komunyakaa @ UCSD Comments: To: kia@tns.net, dianeward@yahoo.com, sandiegowriters@sandiegowriters.org, rgiraldez@hotmail.com, mcauliffe@prodigy.net, Joe Ross , bmohr@ucsd.edu, globo@ucsd.edu, djmorrow@ucsd.edu, ctfarmr@aol.com, dmatlin@mail.sdsu.edu, falconline@usa.net, junction@earthlink.net, jrothenb@ucsd.edu, raea100900@aol.com, jgranger@ucsd.edu, rdavidson@ucsd.edu, kyergens@ucsd.edu, highfidelity@theglobe.com, darcycarr@hotmail.com, rburkhar@man104-1.UCSD.EDU, yikao@yahoo.com, aarancibia@hotmail.com, rachelsdahlia@hotmail.com, terynmattox@hotmail.com, dwang@wesleyan.edu, karenstromberg@aol.com, threeamtrain@yahoo.com, mozment@uci.edu, hellenlee@ucsd.edu, aeastley@ucsd.edu, tfiore@ucsd.edu, segriffi@ucsd.edu, shalvin@ucsd.edu, jimperato@yahoo.com, hjun@ucsd.edu, kathrynmcdonald@mindspring.com, smedirat@ucsd.edu, gnunez@ucsd.edu, reinhart@ling.ucsd.edu, crutterj@sdcc3.ucsd.edu, eslavet@ucsd.edu, chong1@ucsd.edu, ywatanab@ucsd.edu, wobrien@popmail.ucsd.edu, dmccannel@ucsd.edu, calacapress@home.com, ajenik@ucsd.edu, Spm44@aol.com, anielsen@popmail.lmu.edu, mperloff@earthlink.net, vvasquez@wso.williams.edu, jack.webb@uniontrib.com, ronoffen@yahoo.com, hung.tu@usa.net, eslavet@ucsd.edu, lit-grads@ucsd.edu, urigeller@excite.com, reevescomm@earthlink.net, mcarthy@sandiego-online.com, interarts-l@ucsd.edu, lrice@weber.ucsd.edu, geoffbouvier@prodigy.net, kadeewinters@home.com, jennymun14@hotmail.com, bjhurley@ucsd.edu, jbhattac@ucsd.edu, afornetti@libero.it, robgrant01@hotmail.com, hpyjoyj@aol.com, cgouldin@ucsd.edu, bmohr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu, pverdicchio@ucsd.edu, qtroupe@ucsd.edu, mcmorrim@gunet.georgetown.edu, ausbury@hotmail.com, knath@ucsd.edu, conspiracy@nethere.com, tkamps@mcasandiego.org, leahollman@aol.com, ryansmith@hotmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" A REMINDER! UCSD's NEW WRITING SERIES continues it's Spring 2001 schedule with a reading by Yusef Komunyakaa on Wednesday, April 18, 4:30pm in the Visual Arts Performance Space, Russell Lane, UCSD. The reading is free and open to the public. * Pulitzer prize winning poet YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is the author of _Lost in the Bonewheel Factory_, _Magic City_, Thieves of Paradise_, and _Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems_. With Sascha Feinstein, he edited _The Jazz Poetry Anthology_ and _The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Volume 2_. A recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the William Faulkner Prize, Komunyakaa has recently recorded a compact disc with jazz instrumentalist John Tchicai, _Love Notes from the Madhouse_. He teaches Creative Writing at Princeton University. " Music is serious business in the African- American community because it is so intricately interwoven with our identity. Most of us don't have to strain to see those graceful, swaying shadows of contemporary America in cahoots with the night in Congo Square - committing an act of sabotage merely by dancing to keep the forbidden gods alive..." - from Robert Kelly, "Jazz and Poetry: A Conversation" (with Yusef Komunyakaa and WIlliam Matthews. _Georgia Review_ 46:4 (Winter 1992) "the need gotta be basic animal need to see & know the terror we are made of honey cause if you wanna dance this boogie be ready to let the devil use your head for a drum" - from "Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel" from _Neon Vernacular_ Wesleyan U. Press. 1993. * UCSD NEW WRITING SERIES SPRING 2001: Wednesday, April 25: HARRY MATHEWS Thursday, May 3: MICHAEL HELLER Wednesday, May 9: No Reading. Wednesday, May 16: ELENI SIKELIANOS & HUNG Q. TU Wednesday, May 23: PETER COOK & FLYING WORDS (IRPS Auditorium, Marshall College, UCSD) Wednesday, May 30: EDWIN TORRES & LORENZO THOMAS All readings at 4:30pm, Visual Arts Performance Space, Russell Lane, UCSD (unless otherwise noted). Reading are free and open to the public. E-mail: scope@ucsd.edu for more information. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:02:39 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Whirl2@AOL.COM Subject: Paul Beatty | Pratt Institute | Apr 19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit WRITERS LIVE! at Pratt Institute presents: Paul Beatty author of The White Boy Shuffle and Tuff (Knopf)-- as well as two volumes of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce Thursday, April 19 at 6:30 pm Memorial Hall, 200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC Check our website for more detailed info: www.pratt.edu/writerslive or call (718) 636-3570 Hope to see you there! Marcella ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:53:05 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: J Gallaher Organization: University of Central Arkansas Subject: Stephen Dunn In-Reply-To: <200104142251.PAA04803@scn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Well, Another year winds off and Stephen Dunn is the best poet in America! (Well, this year, as the Pulitzers say! [Or as the Pulitzers yell. Something like that.]) And it wasn't even a selected poems! (At least I don't think it was . . .) HA! --JG ------------------ JGallaher "How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?" --Wallace Stevens ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:04:12 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Devin Johnston Subject: FLOOD EDITIONS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FLOOD EDITIONS SPECIAL OFFER: receive two books for just $20. In order to take advantage of this discount, send us your mailing address an= d=20 a check for $20 by May 15th. Later that month, we will send you both Pam=20 Rehm=92s GONE TO EARTH and Ronald Johnson=92s THE SHRUBBERIES before they ar= e=20 available in bookstores=97with free shipping for all domestic orders.=20 This offer saves you $4 off of the cover price. 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Her insistent =20 intelligence is a great light in the all-too-surrounding darkness.=94 =97 Ro= bert=20 Creeley Ronald Johnson, THE SHRUBBERIES This volume represents Johnson=92s final poems, which are condensed and cos= mic=20 meditations on death and the natural world =97 =93the halftones of reality /= of=20 veritable life / a various weave of stuff.=94 "I have always thought Ron Johnson a terrific poet: everything he has writte= n=20 has surprised and delighted me.=94 =97 Thom Gunn ---------------------- www.floodeditions.com Forthcoming in October: Tom Pickard, HOLE IN THE WALL: NEW & SELECTED POEMS Philip Jenks, ON THE CAVE YOU LIVE IN ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:57:17 -0700 Reply-To: rovasax@rova.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rova Saxophone Quartet Subject: Re: So, what's your favorite book of poetry from 2000? In-Reply-To: <3AD86122.22903.58D6FDD@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit AmErIcAn RaMbLeR by Dale Smith gets my vote DC -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of J Gallaher Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 12:40 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: So, what's your favorite book of poetry from 2000? Ah, misty listies, What's your favorite book of poetry published in 2000? Huh? --JG ------------------------------------- JGallaher "How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?" --Wallace Stevens ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:53:55 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Broder, Michael" Subject: Ear Inn Readings--April 21 & 28, 2001 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The Ear Inn Readings Saturdays at 3:00 326 Spring Street, west of Greenwich New York City FREE April 21 Susan Cronin, Phillis Levin, Kate Light April 28 Lynn Domina, Patrick Henry, Ann Scott Knight, Gail Segal The Ear Inn Readings Michael Broder, Director Patrick Donnelly, Lisa Freedman, Kathleen E. Krause, Jason Schneiderman, Co-Directors Martha Rhodes, Executive Director The Ear is one block north of Canal Street, a couple blocks west of Hudson. The closest trains are the 1-9 to Canal Street @ Varick, the A to Canal Street @ Sixth Ave, or the C-E to Spring Street@ Sixth Ave. For additional information, contact Michael Broder at (212) 246-5074. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:28:15 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: [_-z] An obviousness in Film, a residue in Literature MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/16/01 3:36:15 PM, sondheim@PANIX.COM writes: >. Then of >course there are cinematic shortcuts - falling calendar pages, stop-motion >- all giving the simulacrum of time passing. Now compare this to a novel >- >"she had been going to the park for years" - this perfect perfect tense, >a >whole sequence of trips and meanders, not one or another - not an exempla- >ry one such as you might find in the film - none and all at all in fact. >The most obvious fact is the cinematic/theatrical/performative lack of >the >perfect - Well, you might say "panning" is the cinematic version of the "perfect," except that it takes place through the eye; time is experienced through the eye. To assume that the eye is lobotimized from the rest of the brain is nonsense. What does the film being "inert in relation to time" mean? Except perhaps that Alan likes words, believes in their inherent superiority to the eye and has an experience of movies which is like a pre-toddler's experience of his/her mother -out of sight, no ma! To me, Alan's view of movies is a continuum of separation anxiety. "Jump cuts," in effect, are another way the "perfect" records itself in movies. In a jump-cut, the mind projects a compressed series of events between two shots, unless it is lobotomized or, like the poor guy in the movie "Memento," it lost its ability to make new memories. > the filmic aura... is obdurate. I assume Alan means something bad by it; I think it is good. > The media can hardly be compared: 90 minutes in the lives of >characters, confluences in literature. What does this exactly mean? Weren't Virginia Wolfe in her novels and James Joyce in "Ulysses" trying to do somethin akin to an ideal of "90 minutes in the lives of characters"? Of course, "confluences" may have saved them from doing it. >When I go to the theater or cinema, >I think to myself: "Here I am, I have walked in half-way through, and I >have _missed nothing_ - these actors are living just as much now as they >were at the beginning..." Are you implying that Hamlet lives less in Act III than in Act I? I have an anectodal footnote to add. My son writes movies scripts and is studying to be a director. He won't see a movie even if he is going to miss half of the credits. I am less militant about it and often drive him crazy if we are going together. Sometimes, from the get go, I begin to make loud comments if the movie appears to me will be stupid -to the annoyance and occasional laughter of the audience. Other times I take a twenty minute nap. Not really that different from what you are doing, Alan, except that I don't feel I am being involved in an inferior activity.__ Ciao. Murat Nemet-Nejat ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:43:37 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Shemurph@AOL.COM Subject: poethia: writing on-line - issue 04 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit , an electronic magazine, sent for free to anyone as a text attachment, is ready to publish its fourth issue. each issue contains the work of about eight writers. a diversity of approaches is presented in this e-zine. for a free subscription to , send your intentions to . also, submissions of poetry are encouraged. please inquire of one of the editors listed below before sending submissions for guidelines. sincerely, Peter Ganick Annabelle Clippinger James Finnegan ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:03:27 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas Bell Subject: Re: ECOPOETICS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://members.tripod.com/~trbell/cobble/124.htm tom bell ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Chirot" To: Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 6:03 AM Subject: Re: ECOPOETICS ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:21:38 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas Bell Subject: Re: Fw: Poetics of internet art/activism MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit interesting site, kevin. thanks. i was looking more for a 'poetics' of activism, but i guess the way to go at this is through examples. tom bell ----- Original Message ----- From: "K.Angelo Hehir" To: Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Poetics of internet art/activism > I'm not sure where this thread got started but as far as art and activism > and the net > go, or creative dissent as I like to call it you might want to check out > http://www.tao.ca/ > > bye, > kevin ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:24:55 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: transition[ Indentensions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Damon. I like this a lot...especially things like: "eclecstatic" , "ontolopportunity","nerverflow of lipsill sticky buckets", "spocked at the outset", "enorm pink","overglimming" and the whole effect is better when I read it aloud. Excellent. My first impressions. We should all put more work on.Good stuff.Oh, and "Volsions"! What a word! Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "mIEKAL aND" To: Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 5:26 AM Subject: transition[ Indentensions > transition[ Indentensions > > > > Minus what I could hope for > Door exactly opposite > Situation underminetermined > Ending for once on hollow > Lough eight suggestive verses > > > Trashisions Trance-itions > > disapprehendeca pointment -- or eclecstatic -- ontolopportunity? > hollow only to mallow bloss-- in swamp lowland -- enorm pink --waft-water > verse filled to overglimming -- > spocked at the outset as exercise in expanditure --hibiscus attarology -- > neverflow of lipspill sticky buckets when all is in fact ridged plain > unaltiara'd > > > Tradiscension Amung The Rancor > > Able to speak in syllables > Blessed the tongulary arrivals > Volsions in me genilimnital > It will all guarentee a trace > Seeven days the summer came back > > > > > ___________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________ > > damon / and 2001 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:36:34 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: Ramez Qureshi URLs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gary. Ramez was clearly an extraordinary thinker and his poetry highly imaginative and intelligent. Uncannily I have just been looking through Fanny Howe's book of poems (I purchased it here a month or so ago) and his explication and thoughts on it are timely and fascinating for me. Also his review of J H Prynne's book has inspired me to purchase his collected poems. (Finally..its not cheap!) His reviews are incredibly attentive to what he has read. The Prynne book is quite large, and would daunt many, but Ramez is very thorough and perceptive. I also liked Ramez's very imaginative poem with the multiple Eves and so on. Obviously a highly energetic and enthusiastic thinker...I'm still working through these reviews. Fascinating. Thanks. Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Sullivan" To: Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 2:53 AM Subject: Ramez Qureshi URLs > I've put together what URLs for Ramez's work online I could find. I > know there's at least one missing (a review of Hejinian's Happily in > How2, which is temporarily inaccessible), and maybe others will be > found. If you know of any not here, please email me. Thanks. > > Poetry > > from "An Idea and/but (an) Idea alone of Order" > http://www.jps.net/nada/ramez.htm > > "Forgotten" > http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/52forgot.htm > > "Fields" (a verse review of the Francesco Clemente retrospective at > the Guggenheim) > http://www.StudioCleo.com/cauldron/volume2/contents/index.html > > > Essays and Reviews > > Review of Jerome Rothenberg's A Paradise of Poets > http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket12/rothenberg-rev-qureshi.html > > Review of Barbara Guest's Rocks on a Platter > http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket10/guest-rev-by-qureshi.html > > Review of J.H. Prynne's Poems > http://www.jps.net/nada/prynne.htm > > Review of Armand Schwerner's The Tablets > http://www.jps.net/nada/tablets.htm > > Review of Stuart Merrill's The White Tomb > http://www.jps.net/nada/merrill.htm > > "Rothko and the Sublime" > http://www.jps.net/nada/rothko.htm > > Review of Tom Raworth's Tottering State > http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~foust/B2.html > > Review of Nick Piombino's Theoretical Objects > http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx/lynx152.html > > Review of Fanny Howe's Selected Poems > http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/current/alerts > /qureshi.html > > Review of Richard Kostelanetz's John Cage: Writer > http://www.raintaxi.com/cage.html > > Review of Johanna Drucker's Figuring the Word > http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/ramez4.html > > Letter to NY Times re Eugene Montale > http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/14/letters/letters.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:47:07 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Small Press Subject: SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC HOSTS TWO FABULOUS EVENTS THIS WEEKEND! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC HOSTS TWO FABULOUS EVENTS THIS WEEKEND! Friday, April 20, 2001 at 7:30 pm Kelsey St. Press Book Party & Reading with Renee Gladman & Elizabeth Robinson Renee Gladman's JUICE is a quartet of stories whose settings range from the Gothic village of Hawthorne, flooding the skies with question marks, to the vagabond lesbian community of Mission San Francisco. What unites these tales is the eye under which they tell their truths, the large, all-seeing eye of the oracular and the small. Renee Gladman was born in Atlanta in 1971 and now makes her home in Oakland. Her previous books include Arlem (Idiom Books,1996) and Not Right Now (Second Story Books, 1998). She edited Clamour magazine, and her new publishing project is Leroy Books. Elizabeth Robinson's House Made of Silver marks another new direction for the prolific poet whose previous books include Bed of Lists. For many, Robinson represents all that is best about lyric abstraction, its questioning of perception, its finesse of experiment, and elegant individualism. Often overlooked are its spiritual undertones, for here is a poetry on fire with a serene, fatalistic faith in the little and big. In years to come Biblical scholars will be adding House Made of Silver to the "Dead Sea Scrolls" and wondering how they turned up in a little garden in Berkeley. Timken Lecture Hall California College of Arts and Crafts 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco (just off the intersection of 16th & Wisconsin) $5 --- Sunday, April 22, 2001 at 2 pm CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC As part of our new multimedia series, Crosstown Traffic, Small Press Traffic hosts its first ever fashion show: Au Printemps,, a springtime melange of fashion, sound, and poetry. Featuring the creations of local visual artist turned couturiere Marissa Hernandez, the sound environments of Wayne Smith, and the fashion copy of New York poet Kim Rosenfield, Au Printemps promises to arose all the senses! Hosted by Rex Ray. Curated by Yedda Morrison. Timken Lecture Hall California College of Arts and Crafts 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco (just off the intersection of 16th & Wisconsin) $5, free to SPT members Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, Executive Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCAC 1111 Eighth Street San Francisco, California 94107 415/551-9278 http://www.sptraffic.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:25:59 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kevin Killian Subject: Fwd: *LISA JARNOT READING APRIL 24* Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Lisa's reading at Mills College in Oakland. (See below.) Dodie Bellamy >Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:00:26 -0700 (PDT) >From: Stephanie Young >Subject: *LISA JARNOT READING APRIL 24* >To: enggrads@mills.edu, engmajors@mills.edu, engfac@mills.edu, > letdiv@mills.edu, all-staff@mills.edu, all-students@mills.edu, > all-fac@mills.edu > >DON'T MISS > >LISA JARNOT > > reading on Tuesday, April 24 > >from 5:30-7:00 > > in the Faculty Lounge > > + FOOD and WINE > > >Come out for the spectacular last reader in the >English Department's Contemporary Writers Series. LISA >JARNOT is the author of *Ring of Fire*, (Zoland, 2001) >*Some Other Kind of Mission*, (Burning Deck, 1996) >*Sea Lyrics*, (Situations, 1996) and *Heliopolis* >(rem, 1998). She lives in Brooklyn, New York where she >teaches at Long Island University. Jarnot is also >writing a biography of the poet Robert Duncan. >Rosmarie Waldrop has this to say on Jarnot's latest >book, *Ring of Fire*: "A whirlwind of permutation and >incantatory anaphor blows us from hot tubs to >Thucydides, from a post office with prison cells to >the pull of tides in astrology, from the street corner >where Huey Newton was shot to Lucretius. A Santa Ana >wind. It's hot. It'll blow you away." > >Don't expect just a reading. Expect the incantatory. > >Check Jarnot out on the web: > >http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/jarnot/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:49:18 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Small Press Subject: Stephanie Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, I hope to find contact info for Ms Williams, please b/c if you can help, thanks - Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, Executive Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCAC 1111 Eighth Street San Francisco, California 94107 415/551-9278 http://www.sptraffic.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:21:38 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Content's Dream (FWD from Northwester Univ. Press) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" NOW BACK IN PRINT from the Northwestern University Press Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies Series: Content’s Dream: Essays, 1975-1984 By Charles Bernstein * ISBN 0-8101-1845-9 Paper $24.95 To place an order please call the Chicago Distribution Center at 1-800-621-2736 or fax your order to 1-800-621-8476 and refer to code NWBERN to receive a special 20% professional discount. * Content's Dream: Essays, 19751984 is the celebrated intervention into contemporary poetics by one of its leading practitioners, Charles Bernstein. First published in 1986, and now a classic for all who care about the poetry and poetics of the late twentieth-century, Content’s Dream is a witty, consummately intelligent, and ever stylish collection of essays by one of the country’s most innovative and influential poets, whose work has come to be associated with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, the magazine he coedited at the time these essays were being written. Addressing a wide range of arts, Bernstein's essays move gracefully from discussions of Mad Max, Stan Brakhage, Stanley Cavell, Wittgenstein, and Arakawa, to William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky. Lyn Hejinian, Laura Riding, and Jackson Mac Low and Lyn Hejinian. Rather than propose grand theories, Bernstein synthesizes the many sets of ideas that are necessary for a practical understanding of contemporary culture. Reading a variety of texts and expanding on his own thinking and method, Bernstein provides an essential introduction to the innovative poetry and poetics of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. He also explores the conditions, experiences, and alienation of everyday life and the ethical traps of characterization and representation, imagining a “thinking” poetry of both process and critique that acknowledges -- and responds to -- the intractability and complexity of contemporary cultural and social problems. At once irreverent and deeply serious, as indebted to Groucho Marx as it is to Karl Marx, Content's Dream stakes out a clear cultural and aesthetic position for one extraordinary poet, for innovative poetry, and for our time. “Certain works are recognized as defining an epoch. . . .Postmodernism is now a distinctly articulated cultural formation. Within it, Content’s Dream has been without question one of its defining critical and aesthetic documents.” Jerome McGann, University of Virginia “A terrific manifestation of an exemplary contemporary intellectual forging what we might consider a conscience for his time.” Charles Altieri, UC-Berkeley Charles Bernstein is Director of the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo and author of My Way: Speeches and Poems and Republics of Reality: 1975-1995. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:43:37 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: it may MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - it will bring harm to you; it will bring harm to me: sometimes there are strange reflections in the screen: i worry about the effect his eyes are having on her: nervousness leads to strange links and attractions: you might begin thinking nothing of written language: so many times i've found a stare that is almost real: these people out there, who are they, what do they do: it's true that web sites can be set adrift: if someone hassles you on line, it is a rogue machine: whatever happens is a blip in machine, in time: all knocks are unknown and traced to someone here: reading hacks you into more and different brains: suspicion greets everyone with a presumption of harm: the backs of things are airless: harm comes on no one's wings and no one's wheels: nothing, everything, all, none, are alive: the screen casts shadows of the sun: beyond beyond is always harmful comfort: someone beckons from a very real thing: __ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:40:06 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Survivor Poet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://poetry.about.com/arts/poetry/library/weekly/aa041101a.htm Why does this seem so appropriate right after the Pulitzers? Ron ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:07:08 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: Susan's strike report, April 17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hawaii strike report, April 17, 2001 I'm just back from five or six hours on the picket line, where today we = offered line-crossers a free pass for smiling and honking (this IS = Hawaii, after all). Most took us up on our offer, though learning curves = were variously steep or shallow, but some pucker-faced citizens = adamantly refused and a few even waved us on as we circled with all = deliberate speed (as it were). Rumor has it that this is the last day of = the UH faculty strike, though we've heard nothing yet and it's almost 4 = p.m. The teachers are nowhere near an agreement and, because the state = has only one negotiator for its many public union negotiations, they = will have to wait until tomorrow even to talk with the state. It's = rather incredible to drive to work on my longish commute and to see = every school closed and fronted by picketers-and then to get to UH, = which is allegedly still open, but effectively slowed to a crawl by = faculty in their by now trademark white UHPA baseball caps and ON STRIKE = teeshirts. The remaining bones of contention between the faculty and the state are = three: lecturer pay (the governor's last offer was a work of = art-lecturers who had worked for three years in the system would get a = small raise, but new lecturers would get LESS money than they do now, so = what school wouldn't want to trade in the sophomores for the freshmen = over and again?); community college workload and teaching equivalences; = and, of course, money for regular faculty. I can only imagine that our = union would have caved a while back over the tiny difference between our = pay demand and the offers we've been getting, but there's so much = hostility between us and the governor that we feel we're picketing not = so much for pay as for the salvation of the university itself. That may = sound grand, but the UH has been cut by 1/3 over the last seven years, = and there's precious little left to protect. There's also the governor's = way of making every "offer" into an insult to goad us on. I wonder how much of this "war" is about Hawaii and its poor regard for = public education (anyone with enough money, it seems, except for flaming = idealists, sends their kids to public school and now universities on the = continent) and how much is a more general national problem. American = anti-intellectualism is strong, after all, as is the equation of success = with business. Hence our governor's desire to support parts of the = university that "make money," like biogenetics.=20 Governor Ben Cayetano, by the way, is apparently up for an honorary = doctorate from his alma mater, UCLA. Not only that, a new chair is being = set up in his name in the Asian American Studies Program, directed by = Prof. Don Nakanishi, who responded to a recent email from me by wishing = us all well and not mentioning the governor at all. Anyone with time on = his or her hands might send emails to UCLA administrators or regents to = suggest that rewarding Cayetano for his support for that institution = would be folly at this point, and an insult to the teachers and faculty = of Hawaii's schools and university system. The picket line remains a place of solidarity between faculty in = different departments and the police, who are definitely on our side. = They also have bones to pick with the governor and the mayor and their = numbers have diminished in recent years when police recruiters have come = in from other states. I'm grateful for the chance to meet them and to = meet folks in other departments, whose interest in education does not = dim even as the sun climbs and climbs each day. Finally, I got a letter from my representative today. She's Patsy Mink. = I remember as a little girl in Virginia thinking how wonderful it was = that there was a Congresswoman Patsy Mink. She reports that she met with = the governor on Friday the 13th and that he "expressed great dismay at = the rejection" of his merit pay proposal; early on, his entire offer of = raises was based on "merit," whatever that is in such a setting as ours = (as Steve Carll has pointed out, merit pay works better in business than = in the academy). She is confident the matter will be resolved soon. Where have I heard that before? Aloha, Susan ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:23:05 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: geraldine mckenzie Subject: Re: Content's Dream (FWD from Northwester Univ. Press) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Is there contact information for those who don't live in the U.S.? G.M. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:01:27 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Chirot Subject: Re: Poetics of internet art/activism: AUMA-GOM@ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom: realize you are interested in a "poetics of activism"-- however i think it is really a "poetics IN activism" --because if one made the poetics separate from the activism-- would it not be the dread "faith without works"?! An excellent ongoing example of the conjunctions of internet/actitivism/poetries is AUMA GOM@ : Urgent Action Mail Art/Global Organization Mail @rt This organization was founded in 1998 in response to the events surrounding the fate of Pinochet and as well the case of Humberto Nilo in Santiago, Chile. Sr. Nilo as head of the Faculty of Arts/Belle Lettres at the University of Chile had organized the exhibition of mail art and visual poetry "Litertad para la ensenanza de las artes" (Freedom in the teaching of the arts). Due to the democratic ideals exemplified by the exhibition's purposes and the works displayed, Sr. Nilo was expelled from the University. In response to these events, Cesar Reglero (Spain), Clemente Padin (Uruguay), Fernando Garcia Delgado (Argentina), Tartarugo (Spain) and Hans Braumuller (Chile/Germany) founded AUMA GOM@ and initiated actions and exhibitions which helped in the reinstatement of Sr. Nilo and changes in the University. In the last three years, working often with Amnesty International AUMA GOM@ has organized many traveling exhibitions, conferences, discussions, actions. Recent calls for work and participation have been AGAINST DEATH PENALTY and POR VIEQUES. The history of the organization, records of first organizational meetings, relevant communications (emails and so on) and links to AUMA associated sites and artists are at this site: http://www.fut.es/~boek861 This excellent web site also includes theoretical works, statements and debates which involve many of the issues of internet/activism in relation to visual poetry and mail art. (See for example the writings of over fifty artists who participated in the yearlong Open Debate Mail Art/Mail Art in the New Millennium, 2000.) There is also the monthly updated CMA Univers(o) with complete information of mail art and visual poetry conferences, calls, zines, events, web sites. I would also most highly recommend activist/art sites: VORTICE ARGENTINA (Fernando Garcia Delgado) http://www.vorticeargentina.com.ar CROSSES OF THE WORLD (Hans Braumuller) http://www.crosses.net tARTarugo http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/2759 Many other links of great interest can be contacted at boek861 and also at Francis Van Maele's FAN MAIL site: http://www.phi.lu onwo/ards! david bapiste chirot ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:22:31 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Walter K. Lew" Subject: RE Susan Schultz's report on Educators' Protest Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" In support of Susan Schultz's report to this list the other day--copied from the Assoc. for Asian American Studies list. Yrs, Walter K. Lew Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:51:36 -0700 From: Karen Leong Subject: Support Hawaii Education Update PLEASE READ AND DISTRIBUTE PLEASE READ, DISTRIBUTE, AND TAKE ACTION. THANKS! Hawai'i educators are still on strike. Talks broke down over the weekend, and the latest I have heard is that they will resume today. Those on strike have appreciated the show of support, and as the strike continues this support becomes even more critical. Please show your support of Hawai'i's educational system and the right for teachers' salaries to keep pace with the cost of living. Please show your support for quality education in Hawai'i for all of its residents. 1) Even Senators Inouye, Akaka, and Representatives Mink and Abercrombie have been supportive of the educators. They have been attempting to negotiate between the educators and Governor Cayetano. PLEASE WRITE OR CALL THEM TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT. Here are the Honolulu phone numbers, area code (808): Sen. Dan Inouye, 541-2542 Sen. Dan Akaka, 522-8970 Congresswoman Patsy Mink, 541-1986 Congressman Neil Abercrombie, 541-2750 All of their mail addresses are at the Prince Kuhio Federal Building Honolulu HI 96850-4977 2) This is affecting us in our own backyard so to speak. UCLA's Asian American Studies Center is currently raising funds for an endowed chair -- the Benjamin Cayetano Professor in Public Policy and American Politics. Cayetano is an alumni of UCLA, and was honored in 1995 for public service by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. According to one of the persons on strike in Hawai'i: 'Remember, this is a man who promised not to cut the UH budget, then chopped off $35 million, who has gleefully watched our national standing collapse, and who believes that we should not receive health benefits during the summer, or let the summer months count toward retirement, because "we don't work then." He does not answer questions that ask about UCLA -- why its professors deserve summer benefits and a living wage.' It almost appears that Cayetano cares more about his relationship with UCLA than with UH. Has he served the public interest in Hawai'i by continuing to decimate the educational system, by refusing to authorize Legislature-approved raises for teachers throughout the state's educational system, or by attempting to prorate teachers' salaries only for the months they are in the classroom? Given Hawai'i's demographic make-up, Cayetano's actions are directly hurting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. If this seems to be a contradiction to you, please communicate your concerns to the Director of UCLA's Asian American Studies Center: Don T. Nakanishi, Ph.D. Director and Professor UCLA Asian American Studies Center 3230 Campbell Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546 phone:310.825.2974 fax:310.206.9844 e-mail:dtn@ucla.edu 3) Keep informed: For more background on the strike: . The University of Hawai'i Professional Assembly website has up to date reports. . The Honolulu Advertiser has a section devoted to the strike, as well as daily reports. Karen J. Leong Assistant Professor Women's Studies Arizona State University PO Box 873404 Tempe, AZ 85287-3404 480 965-6936 -- Walter K. Lew 11811 Venice Blvd. #138 Los Angeles, CA 90066 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:41:03 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kevin Killian Subject: Fwd: Subj: It's Moving Target time! Fri. April 27 and Sat 28, 8:30 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is in San Francisco. >Status: U >From: Mammaroma@aol.com >Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:32:42 EDT >Subject: Subj: It's Moving Target time! Fri. April 27 and Sat 28, 8:30 >To: undisclosed-recipients:; > >Moving Target Series presents >2 Nights / 2 Programs > >Performance, music, and readings > >Friday April 27, 8:30pm > >Taylor Brady >e-mael >N-Heat ( Nao Bustamante, Mads Lynnerup, Eamon Ore-Giron) >Koji Asano > >Saturday, April 28, 8:30pm > >Dodie Bellamy >Jess Hilliard >Kathyrn Williamson >Brian Storts > > >Capp Street Community Music Center >544 Capp St. (at 20th) > >$7-10 sliding scale > >415.647.9334 for more information. > > >Moving Target Series announces a special weekend of performance at Capp >Street Community Music Center, April 27-28, featuring the Japanese >electro-acoustic musician Koji Asano. Asano=92s Cage-like experiments in so= und >can be heard on the 20 CDs he=92s released, visiting every genre from the s= olo >piano, to the =93guitar band,=94 to experimental electronics, to strings, w= ith >his group the Koji Asano Ensemble based in Tokyo. He has produced original >soundtracks for dance, film, and video art, collaborated with sculptors and >painters on exhibitions in Moscow, Puskin, and Latvia, and premiered a stri= ng >quartet at Vingtieme Theater in Paris in June 1999. He is currently working >in Barcelona to compose a new orchestra piece to be shown at L=92Auditori d= e >Barcelona in October 2001, and is making a special visit to the Bay Area th= is >weekend only. visit http://personal4.iddeo.es/koji/KOJI_ASANO.html for more >information > >Dodie Bellamy is a widely published novelist, critic and cultural journalis= t. >One of the original "New Narrative" writers of the early and mid 80's, >Bellamy has worked hard to bring together the sometimes disparate paths of >art, poetry and the novel, including a triumphant five-year stint as direct= or >of the seminal San Francisco writing lab, Small Press Traffic. In >recognition of her efforts she won the prestigious Bay Guardian "Goldie" >Award for Literature in 1998. > >San Francisco poet Taylor Brady=92s poetry and prose has appeared in a numb= er >of journals, including Kenning, COMBO, The Queen Street Quarterly, and Mira= ge >#4/Period(ical). His chapbook, Is Placed/Leaves was published by Meow Press= , >33549 by Leroy Books, SF and Microclimates is forthcoming from Krupskaya >Books this summer. Brady has recently presented readings and performances a= t >Small Press Traffic, Modern Times Books, and New Langton Arts, where he was= a >recipient of the 2000 Bay Area Award for Literature. > >Jess Hilliard=92s recent solo show at the SFArts Commission Gallery was cal= led >Jess Hilliard: An Undying Fascination and Love for All Animals, Especially >the Cute Ones, with drawings by Jess and featured works by Dieselhead >singer/artist Virgil Shaw, Chris Johanson, Bob Linder and artist Alicia >McCarthy, as well as readings and from Hilliard's book, Hi Friend; Hillard >has made a movie, appeared on national TV with his hand on fire, exhibited >drawings, and played music at the Oakland Coliseum in front of a huge >audience. And yet at the age of thirty-one he lives in relative obscurity i= n >Sacramento, CA. He is collaborating with Cleveland Leffler. > >N'HEAT is a hot mixture of ass-bouncing electronica and video art. This >four-member crew would like to be known by their N'HEAT names; Bustamental, >Oranjaboom, Mastermind and House, but rumour has it they are all recognizab= le >members of the thriving alternative arts scene here in San Francisco. > >Kathryn Williamson is a performance artist whose work investigates differen= t >contexts within and outside of her body based on the idea of endurance and >testing boundaries. She challenges and entertains the audience with a fresh >look at the seemingly obvious and mundane, while hearkening back to >classic'70s performance art. Ms. Williamson has performed nationally, as >well as many venues in the Bay Area. She received the Bay Area Award for >Performance from New Langton Arts, 2000. > >Brian Storts=92 Three points of Interest: >1. Anthropology: The science of Human Beings and especially of physical >characteristics, their >origin and the distribution of races, their environment and social relation= s, >and their culture. >2. Humor: Temperament, mood, whim, and keen perception of the ludicrous or >incongruous. >3. Art; a skill-acquired experience or study, a branch of learning. 4. Rece= nt >and upcoming events; >a. Curated "PRIME TIME" a television talk and game show for artists for the >Salon Series 2001. >b. "The Elsewhere Festival" Williamsburg, New York, September 2001 >c. "Bing Bang Art festival" New Orleans, September 2001 > > >Once legalized by Judge Loretta M. Norris of the superior court of the Stat= e >of California for the County of San Francisco on 20 January 1998, e-mael ha= s >been safely administered to the public locally in spaces such as the San >Francisco Art institute, the Luggage Store, Intersection for the Arts, >Theater Rhinoceros, the Oakland Museum of California, Galer=EDa de la Raza,= La >Pe=F1a Cultural Center, Somarts Cultural Center and Southern Exposure. > >The Moving Target Series takes its name from poet Lew Welch=92s 1967 essay = =93A >Moving Target Is Hard to Hit,=94 and in the spirit of that essay the series >moves from venue to venue in San Francisco, spotlighting different arts >spaces and presenting an eclectic mix of performance, poetry, movement, >music, and film. > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:35:41 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Leonard Brink Subject: readings -- Bromige, Reiner... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If anyone happens to be in Sonoma County the week of the 22nd, here are = two readings you might want to attend: Thursday, April 26th at 7 p.m. David Bromige reads his poetry at Copperfield's Books, 138 North Main St., Sebastopol, CA 95472. Free. For directions: (707) 823-8991, ex:15. Friday, April 27th at 7 p.m., Christopher Reiner (whose new Avec Book _Pain_ will be released soon--watch the Poetics List for details), Jim McCrary and Monica Peck read their work at Northlight Books and Cafe, = 550 E. Cotati Ave., Cotati, CA. For directions: (707) 792-4300. Cydney Chadwick ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:49:11 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tenney Nathanson Subject: POG benefit dinner: (2 of 3) cover letter Comments: To: Tenney Nathanson April 16, 2001 Dear Friend of POG: I’m writing to invite you to our annual benefit dinner—and to request your support for POG. The dinner is Sunday, May 6, at 7 pm. This year we’re having a (pretty lavish) buffet. Weather permitting, we’ll enjoy outdoor as well as indoor dining. Tickets are just $25 (or $30 at the door); there’s a special $15 ticket price for students and starving artists. We hope the enclosed menu whets your appetite! To order your ticket, please mail your check, made out to POG, to 2345 E. 8th St., Tucson, AZ 85719. We’ve just completed our fifth season of POG programming. In that time we’ ve presented such visiting artists as David Bromige, Roberto Tejada, Bob Perelman, Leslie Scalapino, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Tom Raworth, Jerry Rothenberg, Michael Davidson, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Norman Fischer, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rodrigo Toscano, Hung Tu, Bernadette Mayer, Juliana Spahr, Lyn Hejinian, Cole Swensen, Diane Glancy, Jackson Mac Low, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, and Myung Mi Kim; and such Arizona artists as Victor Masayesva, Jim Waid, Cynthia Miller, A. C. Huerta, Alex Garza, Lisa Cooper, Nancy Solomon, Barbara Penn, Jen Bervin, Sheila Murphy, Danny Lopez, the Ge Oidag Village (Big Fields) Traditional Dancers, Donald Eno Washington, Anne Bunker, Gwen Ray, Sam Ace (L. Smukler), Jay Vosk, and Dan Buckley. As I hope this list makes clear, POG is committed to cross-over avant-garde programming; POG offers, we think, an array of presenting artists not otherwise available in Tucson. Our events typically pair a poet with the practitioner of another art form; a visiting artist with a local one; and a well-known name with an emergent one. Our goal is to expand the avant-garde audience for all the arts though such cross-over programs. We’ll be back in 2001-2002 with another exciting and innovative series of events. POG needs your support. We benefit from grants from the Tucson-Pima Arts Council and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. But 70% of our budget comes from event admissions and fund-raising activities like this one. Our immediate goal is to raise at least $500 through our buffet dinner to help us balance our 2000-2001 budget. So we hope you’ll attend the dinner, enjoy some wonderful food and some wonderful company, and help support POG. Sincerely, Tenney Nathanson President, Board of Directors POG is a federally-recognized non-profit corporation; all donations are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. (If you’d like a letter documenting your contribution, please just let us know.) mailto:tenney@dakotacom.net mailto:nathanso@u.arizona.edu http://www.u.arizona.edu/~nathanso/tn/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:49:10 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tenney Nathanson Subject: POG benefit dinner: (1 of 3): invitation and menu Comments: To: Tenney Nathanson POG Benefit Buffet Sunday, May 6 7pm 2345 E. 8th St. Tickets: $25 per person, in advance $30 at the door $15 students and starving poets To order tickets: Send check made out to POG to: 2345 E. 8th St. Tucson AZ 85719 All proceeds to benefit POG. RSVP by May 3 For more information: mailto:sharon@twinearth.wustl.edu ***** POG Buffet Menu Main Dishes: Fruitwood-smoked Turkey and Salmon Salsas & Sauces: Dried Red Hot Chili-Garlic Salsa Watercress mayonnaise Orange-Chipotle Salsa Cucumber-Ginger Relish Home Style Inner Beauty Hot Sauce Fiery Pineapple Chutney Raw apple chutney Salads - Veggie: Black bean and white corn salad with ancho-cilantro vinagrette Fennel, Orange & Caper Salad Spaghetti Squash Salad with Sun-dried Tomato Vinagrette Lentil Salad with White Grapes and Carrots Malaysian Fruit Salad Couscous salad with apricots, pine nuts and ginger Sides: Rice Pilaf with Lime Zest and Almonds Sweet Lelani Bread Eggplant & Roasted Red Pepper Terrine Chicken liver pate with cornichons French Potted Cheese in Sauterne Vegetables Vinaigrette Pickled red cabbage Bruschetta Drinks: Prickly-pear lemonade Margaritas for the masses Nick's Sangria Spiced Iced Coffee Desserts: Cheesecake Moscarpone Fig Tart Mousse au Chocolat Brandied dates Oranges in red wine *** mailto:tenney@dakotacom.net mailto:nathanso@u.arizona.edu http://www.u.arizona.edu/~nathanso/tn/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:49:11 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tenney Nathanson Subject: POG benefit dinner: (3 of 3) printable ticket order/reservation form Comments: To: Tenney Nathanson POG Benefit Buffet Sunday, May 6 7pm 2345 E. 8th St. To order dinner tickets, please mail this form, along with your check made out to POG, to: 2345 E. 8th St. Tucson AZ 85719 Tickets are: $25 per person, in advance; $30 at the door; or $15 for students and starving artists. All proceeds benefit POG. RSVP by May 3 For more information: sharon@twinearth.wustl.edu -------------------------- Name: Mailing Address: Email: Number of tickets: Amount enclosed: * I can’t attend the dinner, but I enclose my donation to POG in the amount of _$_________ May we add you to our mailing list? POG is a federally-recognized non-profit corporation; all donations are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. (If you’d like a letter documenting your contribution, please just let us know.) mailto:tenney@dakotacom.net mailto:nathanso@u.arizona.edu http://www.u.arizona.edu/~nathanso/tn/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:57:47 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: Fw: Tentative Agreement (fwd) Comments: To: poetryespresso@topica.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Hawai`i faculty strike ended last night; what follows is a description of the terms that were reached with the state (aka governor). The teachers' strike continues. Some 180,000 students are still out of school. aloha, Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Schultz" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:11 AM Subject: Fw: Tentative Agreement (fwd) >From: UHPA Strike >Subject: Tentative Agreement >Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:27:55 -1000 > >TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED: >Classes to Resume! > >April 17, 2001: After 15 days of strike, UHPA and the State of Hawai'i have >tentatively settled their contract dispute. Faculty will return to work >Wednesday, pending the ratification. Classes will resume on Thursday. > >The union is authorizing this return to work while the ratification vote is >occurring. "It was a long, hard process, but the faculty stayed strong >throughout the strike," noted J.N. Musto, UHPA's chief negotiator. "It was >their determination that enabled us to finally get a settlement." > >"The settlement is a good one and a majority of the Board of Directors is >recommending ratification", stated Alex Malahoff, UHPA President. "It >addresses all our major issues. > >"In accordance with UHPA bylaws and State law, the membership will vote on >the ratification of the tentative agreement. Faculty will receive full >details of the contract settlement prior to their ratification vote. > >Settlement highlights: > >A flat dollar amount ($2,325) for all faculty the first year of the >settlement; and 6% the second year across-the-board; 1% in each year of the >contract for merit following existing negotiated procedures. > >$1 million per year (above and beyond current resources) to expand the >teaching equivalencies in the community colleges. > >Lecturer pay increased by 3% each year of the contract. > >Faculty overload rates increased by 6%. > >$3,076,000 compensation for faculty who were on strike to cover health-fund >benefits and for overload work necessary to save the semester. > >Innovative intellectual property language on patents that provides for a >new formula for sharing of proceeds by the university and faculty members. > >· No payroll lag. It is agreed this issue will be determined by court >challenges already proceeding. > >· No change in ERS credit or Health Fund calculations for 9-month faculty; >12 month pro-ration to continue as before. > >"UHPA continues to support our 13,000 colleagues in HSTA who are still on >strike, and we urge the Governor to turn his attention to settling that >contract as well, " stated UHPA President Malahoff. > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:12:29 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: John Tranter Subject: Time magazine's Australian edition -- article on Jacket Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed In its current (April 23) issue, Time magazine's Australian edition carries Elizabeth Feizkhah's article on Jacket magazine. You can read it on the Jacket site at http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/time-jacket.html best, from John Tranter Editor, Jacket magazine: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/ - new John Tranter homepage - poetry, reviews, articles, at: http://www.austlit.com/johntranter/ - early writing at: http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter/ ______________________________________________ 39 Short Street, Balmain NSW 2041, Sydney, Australia tel (+612) 9555 8502 fax (+612) 9818 8569 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 22:46:59 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark DuCharme Subject: Re: So, what's your favorite book of poetry from 2000? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed To my mind, the winner is a chapbook: Sunflower by Jack Collom & Lyn Hejinian published by The Figures RUNNERS UP (in no particular order): Mon Canard by Stephen Rodefer (perhaps uneven, but the title poem alone more than makes up for it) rue Wilson Monday by Anselm Hollo On The Nameways by Clark Coolidge Autobiography of a Cyborg by Bhanu Kapil Rider (another chapbook that can hold its own against larger offerings) Point and Line by Thalia Field (yeah, perhaps more readily categorizible as fiction, but it crosses boundaries & can't easily be ignored) Comp. by Kevin Davies Was the reprint of Tottering State by Tom Raworth dated 2000? I haven't seen it, but have the original The Figures edition which includes "Ace" but not "Writing." It certainly deserves a nod. SPECIAL RUNNER UP: Paramour by Stacy Doris See You Next Year, Mark DuCharme _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:54:58 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: attention attention notice MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Keep them coming Alan! But do I need to encourage this guy! No! No stopping America's (the world's?) - best - if that term is relevant - most interesting? - poet? Writer? Interpoeianetter?! No, there's no stopping Alan, even if we_could_ keep up with him. Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Sondheim" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:22 PM Subject: attention attention notice > - > > > > attention attention notice > > > hello i am the president and i am sending a wake-up call to america. > > hello this is the wake-up call from the president of america. > > we will have to use foresight. who in america has foresight. > > i am the president and i have foresight. we will have to have hindsight. > > who in america has hindsight. i am the president and i have hindsight. > > foresight and hindsight are the key to our wake-up call. > > a wake-up call is a call in destiny, readiness, and preparation. > > i am the president and i have readiness and preparation. > > with your wake-up foresight and hindsight i will have in destiny. > > hello america is the greatest country ever on the face of the earth. > > this means that the face of the earth is our in destiny. > > with hindsight and foresight we will claim our in destiny with readiness. > > with the greatest preparation i do send out my wake-up call. > > who in america can send out the wake-up call. > > the president in america can send out the wake-up call. > > who in america is the greatest president ever. > > the president in america is the greatest president ever. > > i am the president of america and this is the wake-up call in destiny. > > i am in destiny and america. > > > _ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:18:03 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dickison Subject: ** Ernesto CARDENAL, Thurs April 19th, 7:30 pm ** Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable P O E T R Y C E N T E R 2 0 0 1 The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives presents A very special evening with ERNESTO CARDENAL Thursday April 19, 7:30 pm $5-10 donation Special Location @ The Women's Building (3543 18th St, between Valencia & Guerrero) presented in collaboration with New College of California & Mission Cultural Center *** Seating is limited! No advance reservations. Doors open at 7:30. *** ". . . in the twentieth century . . . poetry written in the Spanish language began and ended--in short, was led--by two Nicaraguan poets, on the one end, Rub=E9n Dario and, on the other, Ernesto Cardenal." --Roberto Fernandez Retamar "Prologue to Ernesto Cardenal," in Caliban and Other Essays World-renowned Nicaraguan poet-priest ERNESTO CARDENAL--former Minister of Culture under the Sandinista government, and among the most significant Latin American literary figures of the past half-century--visits San =46rancisco in a rare appearance, co-sponsored by The Poetry Center, New College of California, and Mission Cultural Center. Among his many books to appear in Spanish and in English translation over the past decades are Oracion por Marilyn Monroe y otros poemas, Hora O/Zero Hour, Homenaje a los Indios Americanos, Cosmic Canticle, El estrecho dudoso/The Doubtful Straits, Apocalypse and Other Poems, Flights of Victory, Quetzalcoatl, and others. Father Cardenal will read his poetry in Espa=F1ol, with spoken English translations read by poet Alejandro Murguia. Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua. He attended the University of Mexico (1944-48) and Columbia University (1948-49), as well as the Trappist monastic community in Gethsemane, Kentucky directed by Thomas Merton. In 1965 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and developed a politics and practice he considered "Christian-Marxist." He is well-known throughout Latin America and North America as a spokesman for social justice and self-determination. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Steve Dickison, Director The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue ~ San Francisco CA 94132 ~ vox 415-338-3401 ~ fax 415-338-0966 http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit ~ ~ ~ L=E2 taltazim h=E2latan, wal=E2kin durn b=EE-llay=E2ly kam=E2 tad=FBwru Don't cling to one state turn with the Nights, as they turn ~Maq=E2mat al-Hamadh=E2ni (tenth century; tr Stefania Pandolfo) ~ ~ ~ Bring all the art and science of the world, and baffle and humble it with one spear of grass. ~Walt Whitman's notebook ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 07:14:48 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Barry Smylie Subject: Homer's Iliad serial MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Siamese Alligator Sideshow Productions invite you to preview The Iliad, Book 11 http://barrysmylie.com/iliad/iliad000.htm Prowess and Wounds of Achaeans The Iliad is a multimedia interactive entertainment soundcard is required ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 04:50:24 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: rob wilson Subject: b2/Santa Cruz "worlding" conference-- room change re: strike In-Reply-To: <0GBY0001IZFCQX@m1.hawaii.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In support of the UPTE tech employees two-day strike at UC Santa Cruz, the conference "WORLDING, World Literature, Field Imaginaries, Future Practices" will move to the Santa Cruz Room of the West Coast Santa Cruz Hotel (formerly the Dream Inn) on West Cliff Avenue. The date and time, Saturday April 21, 8:45-6:30, will be the same. For more information: rwilson@cats.ucsc.edu. If you are in the area and interested in global/local and field imaginary poetics, please do come-- breakfast and lunch will be provided, there is no registration fee, and Literary Guillotine as well as Duke UP and Carfax/Routledge will have books on sale, some with reduced rate flyers and so on. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:22:28 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/19/01 8:33:55 AM, sondheim@PANIX.COM writes: >nervousness leads to strange links and attractions: strange links and attractions is what art is all about. >you might begin thinking nothing of written language: promise, I love you too, baby,! Not that words are unimportant, but, did you think the eye is a dumb blond? the eye thinks too. >these people out there, who are they, what do they do: You mean the same emptiness doesn't surround the writer? >reading hacks you into more and different brains: So does watching. >the backs of things are airless: the backs of a book, a movie screen, a T.V. screen are the same dead space. >the screen casts shadows of the sun: how true. we all live in Plato's cave. My best. Murat ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:37:04 -0400 Reply-To: patrick@proximate.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Patrick Herron Subject: Re: Survivor Poet!/We're All Gonna Get Kicked Off This Island! In-Reply-To: <000901c0c78f$61eac340$3353fea9@oemcomputer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It's a tie! All contestants are deadlocked at 30 votes! It's a fight to the finish! I've never seen such excrement, er, excitement in this majestic world of poetry. This is a thrilling contest never to be forgotten! I can't believe it! If it's a tie at the end, then do all of them need to leave the island, or do all of them get to stay? Oh what a thrill! Boy, I just love a good competition! I wonder what this evening's runner-up receives? A lifetime supply of Rice-A-Roni? Marge, break out the popcorn! This is going to be some contest! > -----Original Message----- > From: UB Poetics discussion group > [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of Ron Silliman > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 6:40 PM > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Survivor Poet > > > http://poetry.about.com/arts/poetry/library/weekly/aa041101a.htm > > Why does this seem so appropriate right after the Pulitzers? > > Ron > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:53:00 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas Bell Subject: Re: Survivor Poet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit too bad they didn't include the real survivor poets from England. There is a book out now from them (and others) and I have abrie note on it at: http://members.tripod.com/~trbell/metaphor/thought1.htm i'm surprized to find no American version of this movement? tom ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:19:36 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas Bell Subject: Re: Poetics of internet art/activism: AUMA-GOM@ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit thanks for the leads, Dave. I'm actually at this point not sure what to call what I'm seeking. there is some 'art' in what I am doing - the poetic gesture or impulse that got me involved in writing an initial poem based on my experiences and perceptions as a member of the online self-help discussion group and the posts by members, but the whole thing has evolved into a movement in which people are writing about their experiences and sending their stories to the FDA and congressmen, etc. (not necessarily initieated by what I wrote) and it has had some real-life effects, again not necessarily related to what I wrote. I'm not sure if the real-life outcome is necessarily related to the aesthetics of the 'movement' which I have come to see as a 'symphony' of emails. I think I'm strating to 'see' a forest here but not sure how to describe it, if in fact description is desirable. The site that was constructed is visible at the moment at http://www.geocities.com/lotronexactiongroup/ as are sites for other parties involved and most of the email traffic is accesible, but these elements will disappear in time. I guess that I'm looking for is a 'poetics' of social movements (not necessarily radical or left or right), but have not come across anything on the internet or in print since Che and Saul Alinsky. By the way, for you or anyone with an interest in the actual problem, ibs should be a 'household' word in the coming months as new treatments are in the works and this is ibs awareness month as well as poetry month. Public Citizen just issued a press release again and even though it's opposed to the re-release of lotronex it looks like this time the media will be payng more attention. The group itself recently petitioned the FDA and has managed to keep th FDA and GlaxoSmithKline meeting about a possible re-release of the drug in the near future - something that has NEVER happened. I guess I could go on-and-on about this so I'll just stop here. tom ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:35:58 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: Survivor Poet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ron. I dont know, but on the contemporary poetry I clicked the B and there's no Charles Bernstein and I clicked the S and there's no Ron Silliman? Two of the major 20th/21st century writers. Have Holman and Snyder got a snitcher or what's going on? Regards, Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Silliman" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:40 AM Subject: Survivor Poet > http://poetry.about.com/arts/poetry/library/weekly/aa041101a.htm > > Why does this seem so appropriate right after the Pulitzers? > > Ron > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:41:33 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: m&r..Joe Eliot at the Zinc Bar... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It has been remarked that Joe should rent out some of those 3 kids to other people on the scene who then... can pretend they are human beings... the 2nd bar in a basement poetry reading in a month.... the news in New World Writing from the african poets was i loved the reading... Joe is steady as she goes....as can be imagined by one who can papoose with one hand print with the other and write with the third hand thru the aegis of the 3rd eye.. There were 2 expatriate painters next to each other...almost talking...& R.K...had 2 other concerts & 2 opening this same Thur nite...Steve C...can critic up a storm.... Up from the down-stairs...the apple-blossom white buds smiling were saying spring...Joe is a steady force that will only deepen with time..... yr smiling critic..DRn... ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:09:52 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: jj20@COLUMBIA.EDU Subject: Re: attention attention notice Comments: To: "richard.tylr" In-Reply-To: <003e01c0c8b6$cc011540$156e36d2@01397384> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Y'know, what lately impresses me about Sondheim's literature --- and what may account for some of the recurrent protests against his prolificity here on The List --- is its MUSICALITY. (Retinal, upper case after-image: MUSICALITY.) A piece like the one below, Rick, or many of Sondheim's, conjure up an ideal performance by someone like, say, a Laurie Andersen. The cadences are often oratorical/rhetorical, "aloud," rather than page-driven. There's an element of repetition in Sond's word-art that draws from the ~declamatory,~ instead of the prevalent, usual, silent interiorized reading style. ---Which may account for these waves of "get 'im outta here" protests that seasonally let loose, once a new crop of newcomers has passed the frat hazing and is starting to feel (entitlement) that their maintenance fee on the co-op should give them license to evict. In "page time," trying to read/wade through the repetition tropes, the reading can in fact at times feel like its going against the current of the language's inertias,--- but when I re-imagine the texts as occuring in real time and aloud, that cyclicality becomes quite endurable and even a sort of entertaining, habitable background music ("muzak") kind of Sensaround environment. His fugues. And yet the repetitions AREN'T principally demagoguery; they derive from combinatorialities so alphabetic in style that suspicions of text-generating computer programs have been--- gulped. It's always difficult to live contemporary to the unbounded proliferation of a complete "Leaves of Grass."-- JJ Quoting "richard.tylr" : > Keep them coming Alan! But do I need to encourage this guy! > No! No stopping > America's (the world's?) - best - if that term is relevant - > most > interesting? - poet? Writer? Interpoeianetter?! No, there's no > stopping > Alan, even if we_could_ keep up with him. Richard. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan Sondheim" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:22 PM > Subject: attention attention notice > > > > - > > > > > > > > attention attention notice > > > > > > hello i am the president and i am sending a wake-up call to > america. > > > > hello this is the wake-up call from the president of > america. > > > > we will have to use foresight. who in america has foresight. > > > > i am the president and i have foresight. we will have to > have hindsight. > > > > who in america has hindsight. i am the president and i have > hindsight. > > > > foresight and hindsight are the key to our wake-up call. > > > > a wake-up call is a call in destiny, readiness, and > preparation. > > > > i am the president and i have readiness and preparation. > > > > with your wake-up foresight and hindsight i will have in > destiny. > > > > hello america is the greatest country ever on the face of > the earth. > > > > this means that the face of the earth is our in destiny. > > > > with hindsight and foresight we will claim our in destiny > with readiness. > > > > with the greatest preparation i do send out my wake-up call. > > > > who in america can send out the wake-up call. > > > > the president in america can send out the wake-up call. > > > > who in america is the greatest president ever. > > > > the president in america is the greatest president ever. > > > > i am the president of america and this is the wake-up call > in destiny. > > > > i am in destiny and america. > > > > > > _ > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:12:46 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: andrew maxwell Subject: L.A. ON FIRE! WELL, NEXT WEEK THAT IS... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Due to the singular peculiarities of the memoirist's life-arc, Harry Mathew= s will not be appearing at Dawsons this Sunday, and Douglas Messerli will be re-scheduled to a reading later this year. But please join us next weekend for the most especially wizard cuckoo cluster of the year! Philip Lamantia, John Olson and Will Alexander will be spanking the ether with supernatural aplomb on April 29, 4pm. The Southern California chapter of the Society for Psychical Research has been contacted, so asbestos ectoplasmic apron shield= s will be provided. 3-2-1 contact! ***** The Germ & the Poetic Research Bureau (Western Office) continues its regula= r reading series on alternate Sundays at 4 pm at Dawson=92s Book Shop on Larchmont in Hollywood. Apr 29 =09Philip Lamantia (S.F.), John Olson (Seattle) and Will Alexander (L.A.)=20 May 6 =09Marcella Durand (N.Y.) and Susan Schultz (Hawaii) May 13 =09Norma Cole (S.F.) and Caroline Crumpacker (New York)=20 June 3 =09Julian Semilian (N.C.) and Mark Salerno (L.A.)=20 Dawsons is located at 535 N. Larchmont Blvd near Beverly Blvd. Tel: 213-469-2186 Readings are open to all. $3 donation requested for poets/venue. Call Andrew at 213.627.5069 for more info. *** April 29 Philip Lamantia: Fanatico, rhapsodist, madcap, sage. He was Francis da Pavia in Dharma Bums and David D'Angeli in Desolation Angels, but he might as well be Saint Simo= n Stylites riding Gerard de Nerval=92s lobster in the Palais Royale. After almost sixty years of poetic endeavor, Lamantia is one of the last living poets of the Beat era, though he is most definitively a Surrealist poet, having early on associated with Andr=E9 Breton, who called him =93a voice t= hat rises once in a hundred years.=94 His works include Touch of the Marvelous (Oyez, 1966), Selected Poems 1943-1966 (City Lights Books, 1967), The Blood of the Air (Four Seasons Foundation, 1970), Becoming Visible, (City Lights Books, 1981), Meadowlark West, (City Lights, 1986), and Bed of Sphinxes: Ne= w and Selected Poems 1943-1993 (City Lights Books 1997). Philip will be premiering mostly new work at this reading, so ear-horns up, sweeties! John Olson: Seattle poet John Olson's latest work is a collection of poetry titled Echo Regime from Black Square Editions. He is also the author of Eggs & Mirrors. His poems have appeared in Sulfur, New American Writing, and Exquisite Corpse among other mags.=20 Will Alexander: Local teacher, mage, and poetic strato-seer. Norma Cole says of Alexander= =92s book Above the Human Nerve Domain: "This glorious set of whirling prosodic proofs exult that a body can be struck by stanzaic facts of light. The reader is dazzled by expanding forms of predictory anaphora arriving as an "instantaneous beam." The author of Vertical Rainbow Climber, Arcane Lavender Morals, Asia & Haiti, and The Stratospheric Canticles has done it again with strobic precision.=94 ************************************************** Andrew Maxwell, gaslighter The Germ/Poetic Research Bloc 725 S. Spring St. #22 Los Angeles, CA 90014 213.627.5069 "a dead romantic is a falsification" --Stevens _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:50:52 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tenney Nathanson Subject: National Poetry Month: Sounding the Poem @ the Library MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Here's the press release for Sounding the Poem, sponsored by Tucson Public Library with Chax Press as co-sponsor. One reading features Frances Shoberg, Jonathan VanBallenberghe, Heather Nagami, and Matthew Shenoda. Another reading features Jane Miller and Charles Alexander; another features Walter K. Lew and Demetria Martinez; still another features high school students active at Tucson High (working with Matthew Shenoda) and studying in Extended Univ. summer courses with Charles Alexander. There are Saturday small group sessions as well (April 21 two sessions, one each led by Jane Miller and Charles Alexander; April 28 two sessions, one each led by Walter K. Lew and Demetria Martinez). __________________________________________ News Release Date: March 19, 2001 Media Contact: Elizabeth Burden, Public Information Officer Direct: (520) 791-5647 e-mail: eburden1@ci.tucson.az.us For Immediate Release National Poetry Month: Sounding the Poem @ the Library (Tucson) April is National Poetry Month and to celebrate the Tucson-Pima Public Library will have several events hosted by the TPPL Tucson Writers’ Project in collaboration with Chax Press. Poetry Readings On April 20, Charles Alexander and Jane Miller will take the stage for an evening of poetry. Poets Walter Lew and Demetria Martinez will read on April 27. Both events will take place at 7:00 p.m. at St. Phillips in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4400 N. Campbell Avenue. Small Group Workshops April 21 and 28, four contemporary poetry workshops will be held at the Main Library, 101 N. Stone Avenue. Sounding the Poem, April 21, 1:00 p.m. Timeshop , April 21, 1:00 p.m. Poetry Workshop, April 28, 1:00 p.m. Words as Diagrams as Paths: Double Media in East Asian Poetry and Philosophy, April 28, 1:00 p.m. All of the workshops will take place at the Main Library, 101 N. Stone. Registration is required; to register, call the Tucson Writers’ Project, 791-4391 extension 216. Student Poetry Readings On April 21, area high school students will present original poems. On April 28, MFA students Jonathan VanBallenberghe, Heather Nagami, Matthew Shenoda, and Frances Shoberg will take the stage. Both programs will be held at Main Library at 3:00 p.m. Third Annual Teens Take the Mike On April 22, teens “take the mike”…microphone that is, at the third annual teen poetry program at the Nanini Branch Library. Hosted by noted Tucson poet David Ray. Break for Poetry Spots on KXCI (91.3 FM) The library and community radio are again teaming up to provide a daily poetry break. The 2-minute segments will air all month, weekdays between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. during the “Home Stretch” on KXCI. Mini-Fridge Poetry Young People’s Poetry Week is April 16-22. To celebrate, Wilmot Branch Library, 530 N. Wilmot Road, will exhibit a mini-fridge interactive display, and teens get to be the poets. For more information, call the Tucson Writers’ Project, 791-4391, extension 216. ### mailto:tenney@dakotacom.net mailto:nathanso@u.arizona.edu http://www.u.arizona.edu/~nathanso/tn ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:16:41 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: fwd from Susan Bee/Mira Schor Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Is Resistance Futile? A M/E/A/N/I/N/G Forum With editors Susan Bee & Mira Schor and panelists Daryl Chin, David Humphrey, Barbara Pollack, Lucio Pozzi, and Carolee Schneemann Tuesday May 1, 2001 at 7 P.M. A.I.R. Gallery 40 Wooster Street, 2nd Floor New York 212-966-0799 On Star Trek, the Borg always tell their victims, before they "assimilate" them, "Resistance is futile." Is resistance to the "Spectacle" possible or even desirable today? Five years after we stopped publishing M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a journal of contemporary art issues, and on the occasion of the publication by Duke University Press of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism, we will gather a few of our former contributors together for a panel discussion at A.I.R. Gallery on Tuesday May 1 at 7 PM to consider ideas of resistance, assimilation, and participation. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:16:17 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: "All Things Considered" broadcast Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" An adaption of my essay about National Poetry Month was recently broadcast on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered". You can listen to it in RealAudio at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010419.atc.09.ram ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:57:28 -0400 Reply-To: BobGrumman@nut-n-but.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bob Grumman Subject: Re: Survivor Poet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Ron. I dont know, but on the contemporary poetry I clicked the B and there's > no Charles Bernstein and I clicked the S and there's no Ron Silliman? Two of > the major 20th/21st century writers. Have Holman and Snyder got a snitcher > on what's going on? Regards, Richard. Possibly they are as out of it as whoever's running the pages for poets at the Buffalo site, which--last time I looked--had no page for John M. Bennett, Richard Kostelanetz or Karl Kempton, three of our time's major writers. --Bob G. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:01:23 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Chirot Subject: blindness and incite: re the screen casts shadows of the sun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (Before jumping the gun so to speak in passing judgment on the cinema in relation to writing, it would be good to consider Eisenstein's writings on the interrelationships among film and literature, poetry, calligraphy, painting, theater. Many many more examples have been developed and presented since his first writings in the 1920s. As for film and thinking: the two volumes of Gilles Deleuze, CINEMA The Movement-Image and CINEMA The Time-Image. Deleuze uses film as a method for the extension of philosophical thinking.) Sondheim's remarks are part of the long tradition of abstraction and fundamentalism (Puritanism has played quite some role I think in the USA) in relation to writing. The object seems to be to liberate writing from the senses, so as to have a more immediate relationship with the Word. This approach to writing has exerted a strong influence especially since the advent of the various Formalisms of the last century. A counter movement has been those approaches to writing which propose relationships with hieroglyphics, calligraphies, visual/sound notations, painting, collage, montage, cinema, performance. Writing in this area makes use of methodologies and examples extending in time and space from the earliest forms of notation to the most contemporary, across many media and materials. In the first, writing, the Word, is "apart from" -- In the second, writing is "a part of"-- An excellent essay on the effects of this difference may be found in "Notation and the Art of Reading" by Karl Young at: http://www.thing.net/~grist/homekarl.htm the history of the second writing (call it visual or any other name it has acquired since) since Mallarme's "Un Coup de des" is one of ongoing extensions, examples, explorations-- to cite a few of these non-Formalist senses of writing in interrelationships with visual/sound/performative notations: "It is a script that is at once . . . pictorial, symbolic and phonetic within the same text, the same sentence, I would almost say within the same word." --Francois Champollian, on translating the Egyptian hieroglyphics, 14 September 1822 "Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form" --Jack Kerouac, "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose" " . . .the written word is an image . . . I think that anyone who is interested to find out the precise relationship between word and image should study a simplified hieroglyphic script. Such a study would tend to breakdown the automatic verbal reaction to a word. It is precisely these automatic reactions to words themselves that enable those who manipulate words to control thought on a mass scale." --William S. Burroughs, THE JOB Interviews with Daniel Odier " . . . the example of cinema should help . . . the project of a . . . poetry embracing sound, visual, and verbal signs vitalized by one function (the poetic) . . . [in] confrontation with the ruling system in the field of the manifestations of language, and consequently, of the ideas, values and habits (including sensibility itself) as structural bases of the dominant ideological complex." --Philadelpho Menezes, POETICS AND VISUALITY A Trajectory of Contemporary Brazilian Poetry --david baptiste chirot ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:02:49 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit But I think you miss some subtleties of what Alan is doing by this kind of analysis. Read that thing aloud. When I saw it I had the sun (outside ) behind my computer screen....and i could "see" where Alan was coming from. Breaking it up to "analyse" it is futile. The whole thing works both on a conceptual level and a "deeper" level.Alan Sondheim is both prolific and very talented. Where are your poems? Regards, Richard Taylor. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Murat Nemet-Nejat" To: Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:22 AM Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun > In a message dated 4/19/01 8:33:55 AM, sondheim@PANIX.COM writes: > > > >nervousness leads to strange links and attractions: > > strange links and attractions is what art is all about. > > > >you might begin thinking nothing of written language: > > promise, I love you too, baby,! Not that words are unimportant, but, did you > think the eye is a dumb blond? the eye thinks too. > > > >these people out there, who are they, what do they do: > > You mean the same emptiness doesn't surround the writer? > > > >reading hacks you into more and different brains: > > So does watching. > > > >the backs of things are airless: > > the backs of a book, a movie screen, a T.V. screen are the same dead space. > > > >the screen casts shadows of the sun: > > how true. we all live in Plato's cave. > > > My best. > > Murat ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:15:21 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: attention attention notice MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I know that JJ doesnt think that I didnt intend to support Alan's work, but, my last comments may have been a bit confusing: my intent was to endorse Alan Sondheim's work. Its good to see it. I find it intriguing and each one has a different "take". I certainly find his energy and content fascinating and always look foreward to it. He also has a CD ROM (which I havent had time to study) , but obviously Alan is a very serious and highly energetic and talented poet/writer. I get the feeling that a lot of people lack his courage to put their work on line ...on the line so to speak..in case they get "criticised" surely that would be "parr for the course". Alan has inspired me in at least one thing I did. I'm not "into" his obsession with the cyberworld so much or so much of his "political" takes (altho they are interesting) but I do admire his passion and ability. Most of all I enjoy his productions which pour out...as they obviously should and do.Regards, Richard Taylor. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 7:09 AM Subject: Re: attention attention notice > Y'know, what lately impresses me about Sondheim's literature --- and > what may account for some of the recurrent protests against his > prolificity here on The List --- is its MUSICALITY. (Retinal, upper > case after-image: MUSICALITY.) A piece like the one below, Rick, or > many of Sondheim's, conjure up an ideal performance by someone like, > say, a Laurie Andersen. The cadences are often oratorical/rhetorical, > "aloud," rather than page-driven. There's an element of repetition in > Sond's word-art that draws from the ~declamatory,~ instead of the > prevalent, usual, silent interiorized reading style. ---Which may > account for these waves of "get 'im outta here" protests that > seasonally let loose, once a new crop of newcomers has passed the frat > hazing and is starting to feel (entitlement) that their maintenance > fee on the co-op should give them license to evict. In "page time," > trying to read/wade through the repetition tropes, the reading can in > fact at times feel like its going against the current of the > language's inertias,--- but when I re-imagine the texts as occuring in > real time and aloud, that cyclicality becomes quite endurable and even > a sort of entertaining, habitable background music ("muzak") kind of > Sensaround environment. His fugues. And yet the repetitions AREN'T > principally demagoguery; they derive from combinatorialities so > alphabetic in style that suspicions of text-generating computer > programs have been--- gulped. It's always difficult to live > contemporary to the unbounded proliferation of a complete "Leaves of > Grass."-- JJ > > Quoting "richard.tylr" : > > > Keep them coming Alan! But do I need to encourage this guy! > > No! No stopping > > America's (the world's?) - best - if that term is relevant - > > most > > interesting? - poet? Writer? Interpoeianetter?! No, there's no > > stopping > > Alan, even if we_could_ keep up with him. Richard. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alan Sondheim" > > To: > > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:22 PM > > Subject: attention attention notice > > > > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > attention attention notice > > > > > > > > > hello i am the president and i am sending a wake-up call to > > america. > > > > > > hello this is the wake-up call from the president of > > america. > > > > > > we will have to use foresight. who in america has foresight. > > > > > > i am the president and i have foresight. we will have to > > have hindsight. > > > > > > who in america has hindsight. i am the president and i have > > hindsight. > > > > > > foresight and hindsight are the key to our wake-up call. > > > > > > a wake-up call is a call in destiny, readiness, and > > preparation. > > > > > > i am the president and i have readiness and preparation. > > > > > > with your wake-up foresight and hindsight i will have in > > destiny. > > > > > > hello america is the greatest country ever on the face of > > the earth. > > > > > > this means that the face of the earth is our in destiny. > > > > > > with hindsight and foresight we will claim our in destiny > > with readiness. > > > > > > with the greatest preparation i do send out my wake-up call. > > > > > > who in america can send out the wake-up call. > > > > > > the president in america can send out the wake-up call. > > > > > > who in america is the greatest president ever. > > > > > > the president in america is the greatest president ever. > > > > > > i am the president of america and this is the wake-up call > > in destiny. > > > > > > i am in destiny and america. > > > > > > > > > _ > > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:05:21 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Nuyopoman@AOL.COM Subject: Re: POETICS Digest - 17 Apr 2001 to 19 Apr 2001 (#2001-57) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/20/01 12:23:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU writes: Current standings (remember, votes are to kick the poet off the island): Akhmatova 43 Baudelaire 45 Chaucer 47 Dickinson 44 Li Po 43 EAPoe 44 Pound 45 Wheatley 47 I kid you knott! << Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:40:06 -0400 From: Ron Silliman Subject: Survivor Poet http://poetry.about.com/arts/poetry/library/weekly/aa041101a.htm Why does this seem so appropriate right after the Pulitzers? Ron >> Bob Holman * 173 Duane St #2 NY NY 10013 * 212-334-6414 Fax: 6415 holman@bard.edu * nuyopoman@aol.com * poetry.about.com poetry.guide@about.com * www.worldofpoetry.org bholman@washingtonsquarearts.com * www.peoplespoetry.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:56:06 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rebecca Wolff Subject: Fence Sunday Comments: To: rwolff@cahners.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sunday, April 22nd, 5 pm Come hear contributors to imminently forthcoming Fence #7 Poets Claudia Keelan and Ronaldo V. Wilson Fiction writer Matthew Derby Teachers & Writers Collaborative 5 Union Square West New York City Free Admission Wine to follow Discounted subscriptions to Fence available new website and new issue up and ready next week http://www.fencemag.com *********** Rebecca Wolff Fence and otherwise 14 Fifth Avenue, #1A New York, NY 10011 ph/fax: 212-254-3660 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:14:08 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: michael amberwind Subject: Tarpits of Poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii and some dinosaurs are concerned that matters of aesthetics, poetry and are being usurped by political concerns - i wonder where they got such and idea? i suppose if a poem were written on the matter - and posted to the list - i might be "convinced" that such people were simply being reactionary when newspaper reportage becomes poetry, i can't help but think something went wrong somewhere along the line - but trying to tell the difference between this list and any other politically motivated list (with its own "slant") has been getting difficult as of late of course - i could be crazy... > I'm just back from five or six hours on the > picket line, where today we = > offered line-crossers a free pass for smiling > and honking (this IS = > Hawaii, after all). Most took us up on our > offer, though learning curves = > were variously steep or shallow, but some > pucker-faced citizens = > adamantly refused and a few even waved us on as > we circled with all = > deliberate speed (as it were). Rumor has it > that this is the last day of = > the UH faculty strike, though we've heard > nothing yet and it's almost 4 = > p.m. The teachers are nowhere near an agreement > and, because the state = > has only one negotiator for its many public > union negotiations, they = > will have to wait until tomorrow even to talk > with the state. It's = > rather incredible to drive to work on my > longish commute and to see = > every school closed and fronted by > picketers-and then to get to UH, = > which is allegedly still open, but effectively > slowed to a crawl by = > faculty in their by now trademark white UHPA > baseball caps and ON STRIKE = > teeshirts. > > The remaining bones of contention between the > faculty and the state are = > three: lecturer pay (the governor's last offer > was a work of = > art-lecturers who had worked for three years in > the system would get a = > small raise, but new lecturers would get LESS > money than they do now, so = > what school wouldn't want to trade in the > sophomores for the freshmen = > over and again?); community college workload > and teaching equivalences; = > and, of course, money for regular faculty. I > can only imagine that our = > union would have caved a while back over the > tiny difference between our = > pay demand and the offers we've been getting, > but there's so much = > hostility between us and the governor that we > feel we're picketing not = > so much for pay as for the salvation of the > university itself. That may = > sound grand, but the UH has been cut by 1/3 > over the last seven years, = > and there's precious little left to protect. > There's also the governor's = > way of making every "offer" into an insult to > goad us on. > > I wonder how much of this "war" is about Hawaii > and its poor regard for = > public education (anyone with enough money, it > seems, except for flaming = > idealists, sends their kids to public school > and now universities on the = > continent) and how much is a more general > national problem. American = > anti-intellectualism is strong, after all, as > is the equation of success = > with business. Hence our governor's desire to > support parts of the = > university that "make money," like > biogenetics.=20 > > Governor Ben Cayetano, by the way, is > apparently up for an honorary = > doctorate from his alma mater, UCLA. Not only > that, a new chair is being = > set up in his name in the Asian American > Studies Program, directed by = > Prof. Don Nakanishi, who responded to a recent > email from me by wishing = > us all well and not mentioning the governor at > all. Anyone with time on = > his or her hands might send emails to UCLA > administrators or regents to = > suggest that rewarding Cayetano for his support > for that institution = > would be folly at this point, and an insult to > the teachers and faculty = > of Hawaii's schools and university system. > > The picket line remains a place of solidarity > between faculty in = > different departments and the police, who are > definitely on our side. = > They also have bones to pick with the governor > and the mayor and their = > numbers have diminished in recent years when > police recruiters have come = > in from other states. I'm grateful for the > chance to meet them and to = > meet folks in other departments, whose interest > in education does not = > dim even as the sun climbs and climbs each day. > > Finally, I got a letter from my representative > today. She's Patsy Mink. = > I remember as a little girl in Virginia > thinking how wonderful it was = > that there was a Congresswoman Patsy Mink. She > reports that she met with = > the governor on Friday the 13th and that he > "expressed great dismay at = > the rejection" of his merit pay proposal; early > on, his entire offer of = > raises was based on "merit," whatever that is > in such a setting as ours = > (as Steve Carll has pointed out, merit pay > works better in business than = > in the academy). She is confident the matter > will be resolved soon. > > Where have I heard that before? > > Aloha, Susan > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:23:05 +1000 > From: geraldine mckenzie > > Subject: Re: Content's Dream (FWD from > Northwester Univ. Press) > > Is there contact information for those who > don't live in the U.S.? > > G.M. > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail > at http://www.hotmail.com. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:01:27 EDT > From: David Chirot > Subject: Re: Poetics of internet art/activism: > AUMA-GOM@ > > Tom: > > realize you are interested in a "poetics of > activism"-- > however i think it is really a > "poetics IN activism" > --because if one made the poetics separate > from the activism-- > would it not be the dread "faith without > works"?! > > An excellent ongoing example of the > conjunctions of > internet/actitivism/poetries is > AUMA GOM@ : Urgent Action Mail > Art/Global Organization Mail @rt > This organization was founded in 1998 in > response to the events > surrounding the fate of Pinochet and as > well the case of Humberto Nilo in > Santiago, Chile. > Sr. Nilo as head of the Faculty of > Arts/Belle Lettres at the University > of Chile had organized the exhibition of mail > art and visual poetry "Litertad > para la ensenanza de las artes" (Freedom in > the teaching of the arts). Due > to the democratic ideals exemplified by the > exhibition's purposes and the > works displayed, Sr. Nilo was expelled from > the University. > In response to these events, Cesar Reglero > (Spain), Clemente Padin > (Uruguay), Fernando Garcia Delgado (Argentina), > Tartarugo (Spain) and Hans > Braumuller (Chile/Germany) founded AUMA GOM@ > and initiated actions and > exhibitions which helped in the reinstatement > of Sr. Nilo and changes in the > University. > In the last three years, working often with > Amnesty International AUMA > GOM@ has organized many traveling exhibitions, > conferences, discussions, > actions. Recent calls for work and > participation have been AGAINST DEATH > PENALTY and POR VIEQUES. > The history of the organization, records of > first organizational > meetings, relevant communications (emails and > so on) and links to AUMA > associated sites and artists are at this site: > > http://www.fut.es/~boek861 > > This excellent web site also includes > theoretical works, statements and > debates which involve many of the issues of > internet/activism in relation to > visual poetry and mail art. (See for example > the writings of over fifty > artists who participated in the yearlong Open > Debate Mail Art/Mail Art in the > New Millennium, 2000.) There is also the > monthly updated CMA Univers(o) with > complete information of mail art and visual > poetry conferences, calls, zines, > events, web sites. > > I would also most highly recommend > activist/art sites: > > VORTICE ARGENTINA (Fernando Garcia > Delgado) > > http://www.vorticeargentina.com.ar > > CROSSES OF THE WORLD (Hans Braumuller) > > http://www.crosses.net > > tARTarugo > http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/2759 > > Many other links of great interest can be > contacted at boek861 > and also at > Francis Van Maele's FAN MAIL site: > http://www.phi.lu > > onwo/ards! > david bapiste chirot > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:22:31 -0700 > From: "Walter K. Lew" > Subject: RE Susan Schultz's report on > Educators' Protest > > In support of Susan Schultz's report to this > list the other > day--copied from the Assoc. for Asian American > Studies list. Yrs, > Walter K. Lew > > Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:51:36 -0700 > From: Karen Leong > Subject: Support Hawaii Education Update PLEASE > READ AND DISTRIBUTE > > PLEASE READ, DISTRIBUTE, AND TAKE ACTION. > THANKS! > > Hawai'i educators are still on strike. Talks > broke down over the weekend, > and the latest I have heard is that they will > resume today. Those on strike > have appreciated the show of support, and as > the strike continues this > support becomes even more critical. Please show > your support of Hawai'i's > educational system and the right for teachers' > salaries to keep pace with > the cost of living. Please show your support > for quality education in > Hawai'i for all of its residents. > > 1) Even Senators Inouye, Akaka, and > Representatives Mink and Abercrombie > have been supportive of the educators. They > have been attempting to > negotiate between the educators and Governor > Cayetano. > PLEASE WRITE OR CALL THEM TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT. > Here are the Honolulu phone numbers, area code > (808): > Sen. Dan Inouye, 541-2542 > Sen. Dan Akaka, 522-8970 > Congresswoman Patsy Mink, 541-1986 > Congressman Neil Abercrombie, 541-2750 > All of their mail addresses are at the > Prince Kuhio Federal Building > Honolulu HI 96850-4977 > > 2) This is affecting us in our own backyard so > to speak. UCLA's > Asian American Studies Center is currently > raising funds for an > endowed chair -- the Benjamin Cayetano > Professor in Public Policy and > American Politics. Cayetano is an alumni of > UCLA, and was honored in > 1995 for public service by > the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. > > According to one of the persons on strike in > Hawai'i: > 'Remember, this is a man who promised not to > cut the UH budget, then chopped > off $35 million, who has gleefully watched our > national standing collapse, > and who believes that we should not receive > health benefits during the summer, > or let the summer months count toward > retirement, because "we don't work > then." He does not answer questions that ask > about UCLA -- why its > professors deserve summer benefits and a living > wage.' > > It almost appears that Cayetano cares more > about his relationship > with UCLA than with UH. Has he served the > public interest in Hawai'i > by continuing to decimate the educational > system, by refusing to > authorize Legislature-approved raises for > teachers throughout the > state's educational system, or by attempting to > prorate teachers' > salaries only for the months they are in the > classroom? Given > Hawai'i's demographic make-up, Cayetano's > actions are directly > hurting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. > If this seems to be a > contradiction to you, please communicate your > concerns to the > Director of UCLA's Asian American Studies > Center: > > Don T. Nakanishi, Ph.D. > Director and Professor > UCLA Asian American Studies Center > 3230 Campbell Hall > Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546 > phone:310.825.2974 > fax:310.206.9844 > The Hawai`i faculty strike ended last night; > what follows is a description > of the terms that were reached with the state > (aka governor). > > The teachers' strike continues. Some 180,000 > students are still out of > school. > > aloha, Susan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Susan Schultz" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:11 AM > Subject: Fw: Tentative Agreement (fwd) > > > > >From: UHPA Strike > > >Subject: Tentative Agreement > >Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:27:55 -1000 > > > >TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED: > >Classes to Resume! > > > >April 17, 2001: After 15 days of strike, UHPA > and the State of Hawai'i have > >tentatively settled their contract dispute. > Faculty will return to work > >Wednesday, pending the ratification. Classes > will resume on Thursday. > > > >The union is authorizing this return to work > while the ratification vote is > >occurring. "It was a long, hard process, but > the faculty stayed strong > >throughout the strike," noted J.N. Musto, > UHPA's chief negotiator. "It was > >their determination that enabled us to finally > get a settlement." > > > >"The settlement is a good one and a majority > of the Board of Directors is > >recommending ratification", stated Alex > Malahoff, UHPA President. "It > >addresses all our major issues. > > > >"In accordance with UHPA bylaws and State law, > the membership will vote on > >the ratification of the tentative agreement. > Faculty will receive full > >details of the contract settlement prior to > their ratification vote. > > > >Settlement highlights: > > > >A flat dollar amount ($2,325) for all faculty > the first year of the > >settlement; and 6% the second year > across-the-board; 1% in each year of the > >contract for merit following existing > negotiated procedures. > > > >$1 million per year (above and beyond current > resources) to expand the > >teaching equivalencies in the community > colleges. > > > >Lecturer pay increased by 3% each year of the > contract. > > > >Faculty overload rates increased by 6%. > > > >$3,076,000 compensation for faculty who were > on strike to cover health-fund > >benefits and for overload work necessary to > save the semester. > > > >Innovative intellectual property language on > patents that provides for a > >new formula for sharing of proceeds by the > university and faculty members. > > > >· No payroll lag. It is agreed this issue > will be determined by court > >challenges already proceeding. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:58:49 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: The Poetry Project Subject: Announcements Comments: To: announcements@poetryproject.com Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable This week and next week at the Poetry Project: Friday, April 20th at 10:30 pm HA! HA! HA! STAND UP POETRY NIGHT New poets from slam culture to academia explore the humor in poetry. Featured comedic poets include Yolanda Wilkinson, F. Omar Telan, Jennifer Knox, Sean McNally, Jason Schneiderman, Carol Rosenfeld, Rob Neill, and Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz. Following the featured performances there will be an open mike. Audience members will compete for prizes for the funniest two-minute bit. Monday, April 23rd at 8 pm KEITH ROACH AND DEBORAH RICHARDS Poet, curator, and arts organizer Keith Roach had a long residency as Ceremonial Master of the Open Room while hosting the Friday night slam at the Nuyorican Poets Caf=E9. His poetry, urban, generous, dreamy, and deep, ca= n be read in the anthology Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Caf=E9. Mr. Roach is currently working on his first full collection of poetry. Deborah Richards is a poet, performer and director. She recently wrote and directed three performances in Philadelphia including a solo show, "Pucker Punch;" and "Last One Out" and "Path/Way Home," both of which were selected for the Philly Fringe Festival. She is currently working on a video project and completing her book, Long Way Home. Wednesday, April 25th at 8 pm YUKIHIDE MAESHIMA HARTMAN AND CAROL SZAMATOWICZ Born in Japan and long prominent in the New York poetry world, Yukihide Maeshima Hartman is the author of several collections of poetry, including Ping, New Poems, and Coloring Book. "Yuki Hartman orders his images around with temerity of a lion tamer. He's as gifted a poet as they come," writes Charles North. Carol Szamatowicz is the author of two collections of poems, Cats & Birds and Zoop (The Owl Press, 2001). Her work has appeared in Lingo= , The Germ, and The World. In reviewing a reading she gave at Poetry City, Jordan Davis writes, "Carol pays a lot of attention to the salient details of social interaction, which facts I observe in the modest and informative sentences she prefers. [...] Here are some things she said: 'These cheeses are history'; 'There's only five channels and beer. I accept that.'; 'There is a couple who loved each other since childhood and that is all that is left of them'; 'I think you are the one who spilled'; 'Besides the suspicio= n of sleep there is the treachery of wood'; 'I was a brisk little tooth drifting to earth'; 'Boredom that makes us long for the freedom of combat'; 'Lick something everyday, I say'; 'A hell where we feed ourselves with three-foot chopsticks'." Thursday, April 26th at 8 pm A TRIBUTE TO GREGORY CORSO "Corso is a poet's poet, his verse pure velvet, close to John Keats for our time, exquisitely delicate in manners of the Muse." -Allen Ginsberg With readings and talks by over 35 writers, including poet and punk icon Patti Smith; poet, musician, and Basketball Diaries author Jim Carroll; poe= t and The Fugs founding member Ed Sanders; indie rock innovators and Sonic Youth co-founders Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo; poet, novelist, and forme= r presidential candidate Eileen Myles; experimental prose/poetry writer and performer John S. Hall; performer, conductor, composer, and pioneer of Worl= d Music David Amram; and many others. Celebrated Beat poet Gregory Corso died on January 17, 2001. Born in Greenwich Village in 1930, Corso hooked up wit= h Allen Ginsberg and the other Beat poets at Columbia University in the 1940s= . He moved to San Francisco in 1956, quickly fitting into the Beat scene there. Corso's poetic voice was simple, colloquial, funny, and unpretentious. Among his books of poetry and prose are Gasoline (1956), The Happy Birthday of Death (1960), The American Express (1961), Elegiac Feelings, American (1970), and Mindfield (1991). Friday, April 27th at 9 pm LOOSE LIPS: A SPOKEN WORD CELEBRATION & MINI POETRY BALL The Poetry Project joins forces with the House of Xavier to bring you a night of art, glamour, spoken word, music, and fierce competition! This unique collaboration features: an art installation by Kabildo del Arte; a hip hop performance by Morplay; music by DJB; performances by these stylish spoken word artists: Carlo Baldi, Romero, Marty McConnell, Latasha Natasha Diggs, Travis Montez, A.B. Lugo, Caridad de la Luz, Jennifer Murphy, Tim Arevalo, Andrew McCarthy, Felice Belle, and others!!!; Fetish Fashion Performance by Gaylyn Designs; Mini Poetry Slam by A Little Bit Louder; ; Mini Poetry Ball produced by The House of Xavier. Trophies will be presente= d in two categories: "Best Love Poem in Fire Engine Red" and "Best Erotic Sla= m Performance in Sexy Underwear or Lingerie." The winner from each category will compete in one final round, "Best Verbal Vogue," for a cash prize and featured performance at The House of Xavier's Glam Slam 2001. Sign-up for the Ball begins at 8 pm. The event begins at 9 pm. Admission is $10, $7 for students and seniors, and $5 for Poetry Project Members. The Poetry Project is wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. Please call (212) 674-0910 for more information. Saturday, April 28th at 3 pm BOOK PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF ALLEN GINSBERG'S SPONTANEOUS MIND: SELECTED INTERVIEWS 1958-1996 This event will feature a performance by acclaimed performer and composer John Moran. Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996 by Allen Ginsberg, David Carter (Editor), Edmund White (Introduction), and Vaclav Havel (Preface), presents candid, revelatory interviews, many of which have been out of print for decades. In conjunction with the book party, plaques will be installed in the East Yard of St. Mark's Church commemorating the Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan trees. John Moran has written several innovative, influential operas, including The Manson Family, his fourth opera, which has been recorded with a provocative cast that includes Iggy Pop and Terre Roche, among others. He recently recorded Mathew in the Schoo= l of Life, featuring Allen Ginsberg. This event begins at 3 pm and is free an= d open to the public. * * * Unless otherwise noted, admission to all events is $7, $4 for students and seniors, and $3 for Poetry Project members. Schedule is subject to change. The Poetry Project, located in St. Mark's Church at the corner of 2nd Avenu= e and 10th Street in Manhattan, is wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. Please call (212) 674-0910 for more information or visit ou= r Web site at http://www.poetryproject.com. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:00:25 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alicia Askenase Subject: Edwin Torres, Robert Carnevale at the Walt Whitman Comments: To: beth@arts.sos.state.nj.us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center's Notable Poets and Writers Series Proudly presents poet and performance artist Edwin Torres & New Jersey State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow* Robert Carnevale Friday, April 27, 7:30 pm Admission $6/$4 students & seniors/members free Book signing and reception to follow reading. Poet, totally original hip performer, widely exciting EDWIN TORRES is a=20 multi-talented, multi genre writer and educator who has been creating text=20 and performance work since 1988. He has been a long time member of the=20 poetry collective, Real Live Poetry with whom he's performed and conducted=20 writing workshops in venues that range from schools and prisons to farms,=20 festivals and beaches across the USA, in addition to tours in England,=20 Germany, Amsterdam, and Australia. Mr. Torres was at the WWCAC this fall to= =20 teach an excellent six session writing workshop, and returns this week to=20 teach several workshops in a Camden elementary school and read on Friday=20 evening. Welcome Back Edwin! Edwin Torres has received numerous awards and grants for his work, including= =20 a Mentor fellowship program at Minneapolis' The Loft, a Best Spoken Word=20 Artist by NY Press Magazine, and a Grant for Excellence in Poetry from the=20 Poetry Fund, NYC. He is a board member of the Mad Alex Arts Foundation, NYC= ,=20 as well as the St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC, where he has taught=20 poetry/performance workshops for and curated a reading series. His=20 publications include, FRACTURED HUMOROUS, SANDHOMMENOMADNO, LUNG POETRY, and= =20 I HEAR THINGS PEOPLE HAVEN'T REALLY SAID. His work has appeared in several=20 anthologies including HEIGHTS OF THE MARVELOUS, Talisman's AN ANTHOLOGY OF=20 NEW (AMERICAN) POETRY and ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Caf=E9. ROBERT CARNEVALE is our penultimate reader from the Center's rewarding=20 co-partnership with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts' (NJSCA) New=20 Jersey Literary Fellows Showcase Program, a program created to assist and=20 promote literary fellowship recipients. Mr. Carnevale's work has appeared i= n=20 The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Unsettling America, and in other magazines= =20 and anthologies. He was Principal Literary Researcher for the Voices &=20 Visions film series on American Poets, and co-wrote the college telecourse=20 based on the series. He served as Assistant Coordinator of the Geraldine R.=20 Dodge Foundation for six years as well as helping to mount four of the seven= =20 Dodge Poetry Festivals. His current fellowship in poetry from the State=20 Arts Council is his second. He lives in Wantage, New Jersey with his wife,=20 jazz singer Denise De Leo and teaches at Drew University in Madison, NJ. Th= e=20 WWCAC welcomes another talented NJ poet! For more information contact us at: Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center 2nd and Cooper Streets Camden, New Jersey 08102 856-964-8300 www.waltwhitmancenter.org=20 *The New Jersey Literary Fellows Showcase Program is co-sponsored with the=20 New Jersey State Council/Department of State, a partner agency of the=20 National Endowment for the Arts. For more information on the New Jersey=20 State Council on the Arts Showcase Program visit the arts council on line at= =20 www.njartscouncil.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:52:12 -0400 Reply-To: Nate and Jane Dorward Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Nate and Jane Dorward Subject: Gig #8 Comments: To: poetryetc@jiscmail.ac.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [Apologies in advance for crossposting. Contributors should see copies in a week or so.] T H E G I G # 8 (March 2001) The latest issue of _The Gig_ is now available: it contains poetry by Kenneth Goldsmith, Maurice Scully, Peter Middleton, Elizabeth James, Adrian Clarke, Randolph Healy, Peter Manson, Ralph Hawkins & John Wilkinson; plus reviews by Pete Smith & Nate Dorward of books by Lissa Wolsak, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Stephen Rodefer et al. There's also the results of the reader's poll announced in the last issue, in which readers were invited to nominate (&, if they wished, discuss) three of their favourite books published from 1995 to the present. _The Gig_ appears three times a year; it publishes new poetry & criticism from the US, Canada, UK & Ireland. Backissues are still available, notably #4/5, a 232pp perfectbound collection of essays on the work of the UK poet Peter Riley by Peter Middleton, Peter Larkin, Mark Morrisson, Nigel Wheale et al. Regular issues are 60-64pp chapbooks: see the website at http://www.geocities.com/ndorward/ for details. * Rates for all issues except #4/5: within Canada: single issue: $7 Cdn ($12 for institutions); three-issue subscription (or set of three backissues): $18 (institutions $36). US subscription: $14 US (institutions $28 US). Overseas subscription: 10 pounds (institutions 20 pounds). Rates for #4/5: within Canada: $20 Cdn (institutions $40); within US: $15 US (institutions $30); overseas: 11 pounds surfacemail, 13 pounds airmail (institutions 20 pounds). All prices include postage. Make cheques out to "Nate Dorward". Write to: Nate Dorward, 109 Hounslow Ave., Willowdale, Ontario, M2N 2B1, Canada; e-mail: . Copies may be obtained within the UK through Peter Riley (Books), 27 Sturton Street, Cambridge, CB1 2QG; e-mail: . * Separately available is _The Topological Shovel_, a set of four essays by Allen Fisher in workbook format, 52pp. Prices: $12 Cdn; $9.50 US; 6.50 pounds UK/overseas (all prices include postage). * Issue #8 has as always a brief section of notes at the back about contemporary poetry (this issue contains notes on sources & allusions in Prynne, R.F. Langley, Peter Riley, John Riley & Raworth). Listmembers are welcome to write me (backchannel) with notes; contributors of any notes that I end up using will receive a free issue of the magazine. * Nate & Jane Dorward ndorward@sprint.ca THE GIG magazine: http://www.geocities.com/ndorward/ 109 Hounslow Ave., Willowdale, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada ph: (416) 221 6865 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:04:26 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Electronic Conference of Poetry Report from Front Lines MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - Electronic Conference of Poetry Report from Front Lines we're at the start of this electronic poetry conference and already blood has been shed; i got into a fite with a couple of the mac people who were armed to the teeth with some sort of transparent swords but they cut swift they did and i coudn't resist the parry of blows that went my way but i had the car and they got run over but that didn't stop other things from appearing. stop. otyher things appeared. stop. you shuold have seen them when the rollover happened. stop. ha ha ha mac people you are not up to pc people. this is the proof. ha ha . they said i coud be stopped but i cant be. stopp. this is what happens whenthere are wires loose in mac people brains. a pc joke. do mac people have brains. no. (pc. answer.) stoppp. it was heavy shockwave last night against flash and both pretty much lit up the sky like a mosaic opera. oh it was splendid did i tell you. another poet was killed, it was a short accident but notebooks kil. i am so jeal ous of that poet, why. because he got twenty minutes of standing only. i do not get that. my work is so clumsy! nikuko won't stop stalking to me. oh what else. why jealousy is green. it used to be another color before the color change. that is why. they say jealousy kills. it is so astound ingly horrible i will never be able to give you teh impression, not even if i leave another milion years. omeday someone will say, well what confrence were YOU at, and i will say this one where horror and ecstasy mingled. Subject: i also do love conference special report from Kanji Satori: Here we are at ELECTRIC MURDEROUS CONFERENCE! All WILL BE DECIDED. MAC will GO DOWN IN FLAMES as MAC is JUGGLED two LAPTOP with JUGGLED two LAPTOP PC MAC one MAC fall in JUGGLE: Ant PC planetary, MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! body line TREMENDOUS HORROR! drugy miracle ADAM doll TREMENDOUS HORROR! thyroid falls....MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! vivid placenta world TREMENDOUS HORROR! machinative angel:her soul-machine discharges MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! speed PC fear....MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! sun was parasitic/I raped MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! gradual opening department between space-time/I walked MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! lapse PC memory line PC a dog like/although her sleep is road SMISERY!rage TREMENDOUS HORROR! murder TREMENDOUS HORROR! gimmick girl :MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! speed TREMENDOUS HORROR! fanaticism PC TOKAGE_splits....delete it:MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! room happiness as MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! end virus end machine clone boy room, her replicant TREMENDOUS HORROR! FUCKNAM cell air silence world at MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! center PC++MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! desert TREMENDOUS HORROR! angel-mechanism glitter. Suicide line type TREMENDOUS HORROR! spiral TREMENDOUS HORROR! ADAM doll this zero gravity=body PC grief machine dances like MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! sun grief area asphalt soul-machine MAC MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! machine leaps MAC her love splits MISERY! MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! amniotic fluid mechanism MAC MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! nightmare TREMENDOUS HORROR! ADAM doll does MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! clonical ground TREMENDOUS HORROR! sun desire.... Small smile breaks Body line PC an ant forgets it The sun walks. The record TREMENDOUS HORROR! murder like our dog. Asphalt holds MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! guilty nick head line TREMENDOUS HORROR! ADAM doll Her end be MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! beginning PC myself. :MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! over MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES!re TREMENDOUS HORROR! pupil MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! grief TREMENDOUS HORROR! end clone UNBELIEVABLE CONFERENCE TERROR! approximates MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! eyes PC 0 degree TREMENDOUS HORROR! monochrome earth/vital. :TREMENDOUS HORROR! middle TREMENDOUS HORROR! crowd scrap our beat, second, MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! animal line computer inside when walk MISERY! MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! angel-mechanism++MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! poor placenta world TREMENDOUS HORROR! ADAM doll a girl like, MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! gimmick air like Cyber nightmare DOG TREMENDOUS HORROR! amniotic fluid mechanism.... I] sing [. conference - electric poets - INCREDIBLE - after the explosion - pieces of poets flying in every direction - still tthhiinnggss rriinnggiinngg iinn mmyy eeaarrss - by tthhiinggs - iii warned them iii did - too much FLASH - SHOCKWAVE was terrifying - EVENTS OF ENORMOUS CONSEQUENCES - iii said as much - THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN - don't be FOOLED by the EMAIL - it may SOUND like them LOOK like them - ANYONE can write like a machine can write like ANYONE - you can't be too CAREFUL these days - iii spoke so BRILLIANTLY - iii was AMAZING - STUPENDOUS - WONDERFULLY TERRIFIC - the audience was ecstatic - I HELD THEM IN THE PALM OF MY HAND - now they're DEAD, GONE - FLASH acts fast - warning label in the program itself - THEY WERE DEAF TO MY PLEAS - iii went down on HANDS and KNEES - I BEGGED THEM - i could feel it ready to go OFF - the ATMOS- PHERE - something out of kilter - the times - out of joint - something askew - ANYONE could sense it - YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD ME - bokian report on HORRIFYING EVENTS AT ELECTRIC POETRY CONFERENCE! ANCRAASANGLY CATASTRAPHAC AVANTS MAR BAFFALA SHARALANA: canfaranca paapla "nat amasad." WHAT CAALD BA THA AND AF THA AARAA LAKA: faraaas AVANANG PARFARMANCAS DAMANATANG WASTARN CANADA: cald frant at 3 dagraas CALSAAS tamarraw: AT CANFARANCA: S*P*A*A*K***F*A*H*R*A*N*H*A*A*T: A MAMANT'S RAFLACTAAN AS ALL THAT'S LAFT: tha pc has DAMANATAD all bat tha RWCDRAM whach as ancapabla AF CRAWLANG ap ats TANY FAAT ta AMARGA BRAATHLASS AN tha SCRAAN. SAX MARA PAATS KALLAD ANDAR ANKNAWN CARCAMSTANCAS. ASCAPA! ENCREESENGLY CETESTREPHEC EVENTS MER BEFFELE SHERELENE: cenference peeple "net emesed." WHET CEELD BE THE END EF THE EEREE LEKE: fereees EVENENG PERFERMENCES DEMENETENG WESTERN CENEDE: celd frent et 3 degrees CELSEES temerrew: ET CENFERENCE: S*P*E*E*K***F*E*H*R*E*N*H*E*E*T: E MEMENT'S REFLECTEEN ES ELL THET'S LEFT: the pc hes DEMENETED ell bet the RWCDREM whech es encepeble EF CREWLENG ep ets TENY FEET te EMERGE BREETHLESS EN the SCREEN. SEX MERE PEETS KELLED ENDER ENKNEWN CERCEMSTENCES. ESCEPE! INCRIISINGLY CITISTRIPHIC IVINTS MIR BIFFILI SHIRILINI: cinfirinci piipli "nit imisid." WHIT CIILD BI THI IND IF THI IIRII LIKI: firiiis IVINING PIRFIRMINCIS DIMINITING WISTIRN CINIDI: cild frint it 3 digriis CILSIIS timirriw: IT CINFIRINCI: S*P*I*I*K***F*I*H*R*I*N*H*I*I*T: I MIMINT'S RIFLICTIIN IS ILL THIT'S LIFT: thi pc his DIMINITID ill bit thi RWCDRIM which is incipibli IF CRIWLING ip its TINY FIIT ti IMIRGI BRIITHLISS IN thi SCRIIN. SIX MIRI PIITS KILLID INDIR INKNIWN CIRCIMSTINCIS. ISCIPI! ONCROOSONGLY COTOSTROPHOC OVONTS MOR BOFFOLO SHOROLONO: conforonco pooplo "not omosod." WHOT COOLD BO THO OND OF THO OOROO LOKO: forooos OVONONG PORFORMONCOS DOMONOTONG WOSTORN CONODO: cold front ot 3 dogroos COLSOOS tomorrow: OT CONFORONCO: S*P*O*O*K***F*O*H*R*O*N*H*O*O*T: O MOMONT'S ROFLOCTOON OS OLL THOT'S LOFT: tho pc hos DOMONOTOD oll bot tho RWCDROM whoch os oncopoblo OF CROWLONG op ots TONY FOOT to OMORGO BROOTHLOSS ON tho SCROON. SOX MORO POOTS KOLLOD ONDOR ONKNOWN CORCOMSTONCOS. OSCOPO! UNCRUUSUNGLY CUTUSTRUPHUC UVUNTS MUR BUFFULU SHURULUNU: cunfuruncu puuplu "nut umusud." WHUT CUULD BU THU UND UF THU UURUU LUKU: furuuus UVUNUNG PURFURMUNCUS DUMUNUTUNG WUSTURN CUNUDU: culd frunt ut 3 dugruus CULSUUS tumurruw: UT CUNFURUNCU: S*P*U*U*K***F*U*H*R*U*N*H*U*U*T: U MUMUNT'S RUFLUCTUUN US ULL THUT'S LUFT: thu pc hus DUMUNUTUD ull but thu RWCDRUM whuch us uncupublu UF CRUWLUNG up uts TUNY FUUT tu UMURGU BRUUTHLUSS UN thu SCRUUN. SUX MURU PUUTS KULLUD UNDUR UNKNUWN CURCUMSTUNCUS. USCUPU! _ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:47:13 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: geraldine mckenzie Subject: john lowther email address Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Can anyone help with John's email address? B/c and thank you. Geraldine _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:40:56 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=20Hamilton?= Subject: Blake takes on drug companies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Happily, this piece is now a little out of date. I figured it was interesting anyway. From an anrchist/libertarian Marxist website called Practical History: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7672/ On the final day (11 February 2001) of the William Blake exhibition at the Tate Britain Gallery in London, 30 people gathered on the steps outside to reclaim Blake from 'the dead hand of capital, empire and state' and to denounce the corporate sponsors of the Blake exhibition, GlaxoSmithKline. People dressed up as angels, tigers, chimney sweeps and in other suitably Blakean costumes, with a child’s pushchair converted into a ‘chariot of fire’. We banged drums, played music, and read out work from the 18th century radical poet, artist and visionary. A leaflet was handed out saying: "The William Blake exhibition at the Tate Britain gallery makes it clear that Blake was a revolutionary as well as a visionary – yet bizarrely it is sponsored by one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline (formerly Glaxo Wellcome). While Blake railed against poverty and oppression, GlaxoSmithKline is denying millions of African people with HIV access to drugs that could save their lives" (full text of leaflet below). The action at the Tate happened the day before a march demanding affordable HIV treatments was due to take place in Cape Town, South Africa organised by the Treatment Action Campaign. The action got a very good response from visitors to the Gallery, many of whom stopped to listen to what was going on. One passer-by who joined in and read out a Blake poem told the crowd - 'the spirit of Blake is here on the steps'. The Tate management were less sympathetic, calling the police (although there were no arrests) and banning people from going into the gallery, for the crime of reading out extracts of Blake - while inside they were charging £8 for the privelege of seeing works by the same artist. Blake vs. GlaxoSmithKline (text of leaflet given out at the action) “Is this a holy thing to see / In a rich and fruitful land/ Babes reduced to misery… And so many children poor? / It is a land of poverty!” (Blake, Holy Thursday) ‘Imagine witnessing devastating plague and sitting on a cure for fear of incurring shareholder revolt. That essentially is the position of drug companies’ (Ben Jackson of Action for South Africa) The William Blake exhibition at the Tate Britain gallery makes it clear that Blake was a revolutionary as well as a visionary – yet bizarrely it is sponsored by one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline (formerly Glaxo Wellcome). While Blake railed against poverty and oppression, GlaxoSmithKline is denying millions of African people with HIV access to drugs that could save their lives. In Britain and the USA, combination therapy with anti-retroviral drugs has transformed the life chances of people with HIV. But of the world's 34 million people infected with HIV, 25 million live in sub-Saharan Africa: and only 25,000 Africans (0.001 per cent of those infected) receive the drugs. The reason is that that they and their governments cannot afford to pay the market price for them. Anti-retroviral drugs can be manufactured for a fraction of the price they are sold by GlaxoSmithKline but this would undermine profits. That is why Glaxo and other drugs companies are taking the South African government to court to defend their ‘intellectual property rights’, i.e. to prevent South Africa from making or buying abroad cheap, generic copies of anti-HIV drugs to treat patients. Similar threats have been made against other African countries. Glaxo and the British government claim that companies have a right to protection for the drugs they sell at high prices in order to recoup research and development costs. Glaxo have already made millions from AZT and 3TC, the two drugs in Combivir, and in any case they were developed with the help of public funds in the United States. The problem isn’t just GlaxoSmithKline – other drugs companies like Pfizer act in the same way. It isn’t even just the drugs industry or multinational corporations. They are backed up by the British state and by the World Trade Organisation’s TRIPS agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) which allows owners of ‘intellectual property ’to control the exploitation of their inventions worldwide, determining the price at which they can be sold and the royalties they receive. They are backed up by the whole logic of capitalism which decrees that ideas, objects, fields, buildings, even genes, can be the sole property of companies and wealthy individuals to be financially exploited at will. In placing their logo on the art exhibitions, corporations like Glaxo Wellcome are laying claim to the creative energies of the past. In denying lifesaving drug treatments, they are demonstrating how the creative energies of all of us, including medical knowledge, are subordinated to the creation of wealth rather than the meeting of our needs. “Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field/ Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air; / Let the inchained soul shut up in darkness and in sighing,/ Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years,/ Rise and look out; his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open/ And let his wife and children return from the oppressor's scourge./ They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream,/ Singing, 'The Sun has left his blackness, & has found a fresher morning / And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night;/ For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease” (Blake, America) ===== For "a ruthless criticism of every existing idea": THR@LL, NZ's class struggle anarchist paper http://www.freespeech.org/thrall/ THIRD EYE, a Kiwi lib left project, at http://www.geocities.com/the_third_eye_website/ and 'REVOLUTION' magazine, a Frankfurt-Christchurch production, http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/%7Ejho32/ ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:19:20 MDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Christian Roess Subject: 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Here's something interesting. I know I'd have to repeat 8th grade again.= Wow. Or I'd be like Jethro on the "Beverly Hillbillies": 'I has six grad ejukashun." THE 8th GRADE TEST IN 1895 This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, Kansas. It wa= s taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the _Salina Journal_: "In 1895 the 8th grade was considered upper level education. Many chi= ldren quit school as soon as they could master the basic fundamentals of the 3R's (reading, writing and arithmetic). Most never went past the 3= rd or 4th grade. That's all you needed for the farm and most city jobs. Child l= abor laws were not in existence yet. Additionally today's education has much m= ore focus on technology and sociology than the grammar and geography of old. = It's a different world with different requirements and capabilities needed to= succeed." Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895? Probably Not. Take a Look: = 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 Grammar: (Time, one hour) 1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters. 2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications. 3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph. 4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run. 5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case. 6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation. 7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. Arithmetic: (Time, 1.25 hours) 1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. 2. A wagon box is 2 feet deep, 10 feet long, and 3 feet wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? 3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 pounds, what is it worth at 50 cents per bushel, deducting 1050 pounds for tare? 4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals? 5. Find cost of 6720 pounds coal at $6.00 per ton. 6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent. 7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 feet long at $20 per thousand? 8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. 9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods? 10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt. United States History: (Time, 45 minutes) 1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided. 2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus. 3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. 4. Show the territorial growth of the United States 5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas. 6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. 7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe? 8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865? Orthography: (Time, one hour) 1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication? 2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? 3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals? 4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'. 5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule. 6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. 7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super. 8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell,rise, blood, fare, last. 9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane,= fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays. 10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. Geography: (Time, one hour) 1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? 2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas? 3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? 4. Describe the mountains of North America 5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco= =2E 6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the United States 7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each. 8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude? 9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers. 10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth. = ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:26:15 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gary Sullivan Subject: Readme #4 now up In-Reply-To: <986566115.3acdcde387c3d@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit R e a d m e Issue #4 Spring / Summer 2001 INTERVIEWS * REVIEWS * ESSAYS Edited by Gary Sullivan I n t e r v i e w s John Ashbery / Rolf Belgum / Mairéad Byrne Martin Corless-Smith / Benjamin Friedlander Kenneth Goldsmith / Kevin Killian Sheila E. Murphy / Julie Patton / Wanda Phipps Fatimah Tuggar / Mark Wallace E s s a y s Ben Friedlander on Lisa Robertson Nada Gordon on Bernadette Mayer Arielle Greenberg on Conferences Eleana Kim on Language Poetry Murat Nemet-Nejat Is Poetry a Job, Is a Poem a Product Ramez Qureshi Rothko and the Sublime Chris Stroffolino on Lineage Eileen Tabios on Jose Garcia Villa C h a p b o o k s Bob Harrison Coup Sticks Susan Landers No Clearance in Niche Mark Wallace from Dead Carnival P o e t r y Mairéad Byrne / Benjamin Friedlander / Kenneth Goldsmith Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan / Küçük Iskender / Kevin Killian Ange Mlinko / Sheila E. Murphy / Wanda Phipps Rick Snyder / Alan Sondheim R e v i e w s Joe Safdie on Ammiel Alcalay Alan Sondheim on Mairéad Byrne Ange Mlinko on Jordan Davis and Brenda Iijima Alan Sondheim on Stacy Doris Carol Mirakove on Buck Downs Murat Nemet-Nejat on Hafiz Henry Gould on Lissa Wolsak ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:37:15 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: residues MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - epoetry conference presentation: (live) typed text 1. Presented: pi.avi :: m3.avi :: m4.avi :: nikuko.asf < > perl j.com :: fold1 :: seal.mov 2. Typed: between analog & digital -- virtual/imaginary presence: labor/exhaustion: resonances: filling, overflowing spaces: child/parent processes: upwellings, interpenetrations, interferences:: nikuko one of the characters i work with - a virtual or imagtinary presence, written under duress: these words are Azure Carter's, her text - it's a question of tthe imaginary, whatever web there is, is internal, internalized; sometimes things move elsewhere than I intended; it's the result of sleeplessness, obsession... this goes on and on and on.... so there's a kind of calling, mayhbe vulnerability, but that's intended, it's circumscribed, irreal, not real at all; this is another form of the web, this continuous repetition, manufactured obse4ss;ion; well, nikukol would answer in this fashion - there is a questio of institutionalization at work, neuraesthenia,l hjypochar h]ypochondria... it's as if: is there a doctor in the house - it's as if" something is being completed, sutured; - it's really all empty talk -=-- then there's the fury of the master dancer - this is Foofwa d'Imobilite (real name) - controlling his movements by virtue of an analog synthesizer - which also controls the camera positions - exhausting him, bringing ballet to a completion, releasing it. Meanwhile you might find me elsewhere doing something - rujnning the perl program, entering information -- or then maybe there'd be a different kind of loss; we ended up trying to complete the series - iwanteed to show you this earlier - i can't see the keyboard; i'[m sailing blind here - there's something else at work - so we thought about writing on the body - using the same five camera setup - which controls everything, there's no preferred viewpoint - like flash in the midst of a miasma - yhou can't see the controls, the keyboard's burried in the swamp, the contacts are eroded, there's no way out or - back to the introduction to the followingt, the piece of hanko, sealing the bodiesl, reclaiming it, sinking the virtual back into the real - if the equipment continues to work 0 0 there's an overdetermination at work here - we tried everything - transforming the gender, moving it around - sealing the bodies or claiming then: nikuko is sealed by doctor leopold konninger, the doctor is written on by nikuko, then then - nikuko is written upon by the doctor - then the heideggerian/derridean erasure - the bodies erased against one another - so that what remains is the stain or residue of llanguage, i almost wrote llama - or lama - which is closer to the fact of this - and then at the end, nikuko sealing, claiming the doctor -- it's always back and forth like that - calling for the doctor, the two of them furiouslyh locked - it's a circular moment or movement, that kind of obsession at work here..... i'll move the image - you can see all of this in the allooottttttttttttttttttted time...... this is reminiscent of some japanese film, i know i know; it's also godard; the roots are far too overdetermined - written on the body yes yes yes - but the reality of it - the d isturbance created by the bodies themselves - that can't be written out, inscribed, htmled....jumping from one level to anohter, various practices, interconnected, the only way to work, to get out, exorcise the demons - they're all over, impenetrable...... 3. Perl program live demonstration: they're horrible; get them away from me; being stains me; i can't see through the stain; i can't see them; i can't look away:i'm wearing nothing; i've stolen the clothes off my back; there's nothing left of them; they're looking inside themselves:you open my holes; there are people watching; i can't get away from them; who are you; what do they want; i'm empty inside: stain of my loose arms around their necks: Your nervous stain of their loose strings around my neck is in my catatonic stain of my loose arms around their necks Devour nervous stain of their loose strings around my neck julu-of-the partying they're horrible; get them away from me; being stains me; i can't see through the stain; i can't see them; i can't look away! money's coming from. You amuse me, darling, you really do - it's like this - it's almost ou t of sight...:I'm wearing nothing; I'm begging to control him; she's begging to control him - we don't know where the money is, where the :I'm nervous, I'm watching all of this, I don't know what to think, don't know what to do.:: Your catatonic penis and cloth rubbed hard hard across the floor is in my florid penis and cloth rubbed hard hard across the floor Your your vagina seeps into my penis and cloth rubbed hard hard across the floor - turning me Julu-Jennifer almost gone here and forever lost :yes, I've lost it, i'm going elsewhere - can't think straight - topo mch interference - where are you Nikuko:I'm doing this over and over again - what do you have going for me? What is this about?::the other Your uneasy the other is in my uneasy that Your your penis seeps into my that - turning me Julu-Jennifer soft and available, ready for conjuration: what would be our conerns...:thei're wearing clothes, they're wearing us down, they're looking everywhere for us...:when we're working together, we're never quite sure what is occuring; when we're not working together, it's always clear:arm and leg: Your wanton leg and arm is in my soiled leg and arm Your being seeps into my leg and arm - turning me Julu-Jennifer my thing isn't spry - i9t's not here - it's all text, all vitual, all by virtue of obsession, repetition, all emptied of conten:someone is wearing something, someone is wearing the text down, the text is disappearing...:hello, hello, can yhou hear me? there are people here - they're watching you dance - can you hear me:presence of the body: Would hello, hello, can yhou hear me? there are people here - they're watching you dance - can you hear me mind you partying, my thing isn't spry - i9t's not here - it's all text, all vitual, all by virtue of obsession, repetition, all emptied of conten, with us? Your manic death of writing is in my forgiving looking for the fucking body in the midst of the writing or the written\ _ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:44:01 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gary Sullivan Subject: Needed: reviews, essays & interviews In-Reply-To: <984493294.3aae2ceea4af3@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Everyone, I'm now beginning to work on Readme #5 (due out late this year or early next), and need especially essays and reviews. Planned are interviews with: Allison Cobb, Jen Coleman, Alan Davies, Drew Gardner, Michael Gottlieb, R. Cole Heinowitz, Laird Hunt, P. Inman, Larry Kearney, William Melvin Kelley, Basil King, Martha King, Eileen Myles, Eleni Sikelianos, Ron Silliman (part two), Lytle Shaw and Chris Stroffolino. I only have two proposed reviews so far, one of Anselm Berrigan's Integrity & Dramatic Life and one of Chris Stroffolino's Stealer's Wheel. I'd especially love to see reviews of: Renee Gladman's Juice, Linh Dihn's Drunkard Boxing, Prageeta Sharma's Bliss to Fill, Lorenzo Thomas's Extraordinary Measures, Kevin Davies' Comp., Kevin Varrone's g-point Almanac, K. Silem Mohammad's Hovercraft, Allison Cobb's Polar Bear and Desert Fox, Catherine Wagner's Magazine Poems, William Melvin Kelley's dem (CHP reprint), Janet Hamill's Lost Ceilings, Eileen Myles' Cool for You, Mike Amnasan's Beyond the Safety of Dreams, Ted Joans' Teducation, Laura Moriarty's Nude Memoir, Drew Gardner's Water Tables, Ben Friedlander's A Knot Is Not a Tangle, Joanna Fuhrman's Freud in Brooklyn, the Talisman Russian poetry anthology, Lytle Shaw's Cable Factory 20, Granary Books's Joe Brainard Retrospective ... to suggest a few more-or-less recent things on my own shelf. Has anyone read any of these & O, would you be interested in reviewing one or more? Or other more-or-less recent titles from your own shelf? I have no essays at this point whatsoever. Do you remember that Smiths song where Morrissey sings "Shyness is a virtue ..." but then goes on to advocate for anti-shyness? Please don't be shy. Send proposals or completed work to me via the following e-mail address: . Thanks! Gary Sullivan ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:58:00 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: JORDAN DAVIS and TALAN MEMMOTT in BROOKLYN MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Please come! - This should be amazing - Alan --- JORDAN DAVIS and TALAN MEMMOTT in BROOKLYN Multi-Literary Event at the Flying Saucer Cafe! Nada, Alan, and Azure are pleased to announce another event in a new reading/video/film/performance series in Brooklyn at The Flying Saucer Cafe at 494 Atlantic Avenue, between Third Avenue and Nevins, Brooklyn Tuesday, May 1, 8:00 p.m.: **********JORDAN DAVIS AND TALAN MEMMOTT*********** READING AND PERFORMANCE JORDAN DAVIS is shocked by the reintroduction of binary thinking by the anti-essentialists. He is the author of a dozen incunabula in his cubicle, including Yeah, No, A Winter Magazine, and Hoity-Toity Ex-Bookie. TALAN MEMMOTT is an artist/writer from San Francisco, California. He is Vice President of the web development firm Percepticon and has worked as producer, director, and in various other capacities on more than 60 client web sites. Since 1998 he has been active in the web-based hypertext scene, serving as Creative Director/Editor for Percepticon's award-winning BeeHive Hypertext Hypermedia Literary Journal. His work has appeared widely on the Internet. In 2000, Memmott was an invited lecturer at the SUNY at Albany Book/Ends Conference - an event which included Jacques Derrida among its speakers - and his work "Lexia to Perplexia" was awarded the 2000 trAce/Alt-X New Media Writing Award. Author Site: http://www.memmott.org/talan BeeHive: http://beehive.temporalimage.com HOW TO GET THERE: Take the 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or D or Q to the Atlantic Subway stop and walk underground to the Pacific Street exit (at the N or R or M Pacific Street Stop) or take the B or N or R or M - in any case, go out the Pacific Street Exit (right exit), take a right - at the end of the block you will be on Atlantic Ave. Take a left on Atlantic, and about two and a half blocks down, between Third and Nevins, you will find the Flying Saucer Cafe. $3 donation. ---- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:30:42 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Barrett Watten Subject: Beyond the Demon of Analogy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed A number of people at e-poetry asked about my paper, "Beyond the Demon of Analogy: www.poetics." If you'll send me a note, I'll send you a .pdf file, which is ready to go. Best, Barrett ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:07:35 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Richard Long Subject: New Chapbook at 2River MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed "A Note for Johnny," by Coral Hull, has just appeared at 2River as the latest addition to the 2River Chapbook Series. Hull is a writer and photographer from Australia. You can read the chapbook by following the link from the 2River homepage at http://www.2River.org Since 1996, 2River has been an online site of poetry, art, and theory, quarterly publishing The 2River View and occasionally publishing individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series. Richard Long ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:04:56 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas Bell Subject: Re: fwd from Susan Bee/Mira Schor MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How does this resistance and participaion CROSS/CUT with internet resistance and participation? Does it? I know the answer is bigger than email, but I feel like asking questions this morning. tom bell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Bernstein" To: Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 11:16 AM Subject: fwd from Susan Bee/Mira Schor > Is Resistance Futile? > A M/E/A/N/I/N/G Forum > > With editors Susan Bee & Mira Schor > and panelists Daryl Chin, David Humphrey, Barbara Pollack, > Lucio Pozzi, and Carolee Schneemann > > Tuesday May 1, 2001 at 7 P.M. > > A.I.R. Gallery > 40 Wooster Street, 2nd Floor > New York > 212-966-0799 > > On Star Trek, the Borg always tell their victims, before they "assimilate" > them, "Resistance is futile." > > Is resistance to the "Spectacle" possible or even desirable today? > > Five years after we stopped publishing M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a journal of contemporary > art issues, and on the occasion of the publication by Duke University Press of > M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism, we > will gather a few of our former contributors together for a panel discussion at > A.I.R. Gallery on Tuesday May 1 at 7 PM to consider ideas of resistance, > assimilation, and participation. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:09:22 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Linda V Russo Subject: DEBBIE an epic - ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Do you know where I can find a review (or two+) of Lisa Robertson's DEBBIE AN EPIC (aside from Ben Friedlander's review in Lagniappe, in which he says that DEBBIE "is not an epic") Or would you like to presently offer a mini-review? I'd appreciate it if you'd cc your response to me as I'm "no mail" for the time being. Thanks. Linda Russo lvrusso@acsu.buffalo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:19:14 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rachel Kubie Subject: Allen Grossman John Yau Toi Dericotte Cornelius Eady MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII If anyone's in the Baltimore area this weekend, I hope to see you-- Rachel Kubie SATURDAY Allen Grossman and John Yau Readings and book signings Saturday, April 21 2 p.m. Central Library - Wheeler Auditorium Allen Grossman's brand new book, How To Do Things with Tears will be available. SUNDAY Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady and Local Cave Canem Poets Sunday, April 22 2 p.m. Central Library - Main Hall Readings will be held at The Enoch Pratt Free Library 400 Cathedral Street Baltimore, MD 21201 If anyone has questions or needs directons, please call me at (410) 396-5487. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 18:35:00 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: lungfull@RCN.COM Subject: The Zinc Bar May Lineup & Creation Myth Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The origins of the ZINC BAR SUNDAY NIGHT READING SERIES are shrouded in mystery & the stories that purport to relate the details are largely contradictory. Although Thucydides published an engaging history of the reading series in the spring of 431BC, only Hesiodus provides us with a clear account of the actual Zinc Bar formation. According to the latter, Chaos gave rise to five elements: Gaea, Tartarus, Erebus, Eros and Night. Gaea & Ouranos had children whom Ouranos treated cruelly. Gaea encouraged her progeny to rise up against their father. With a sickle they slew Ouranos, three drops of whose blood fell into the sea and formed the Curators. They had a dog's head and bat's wings and were the spirits of revenge & justice. They hounded writers, especially those who failed to edit their work. Another drop fell onto an island of earthly paradise in the Hudson River delta, creating music & poetry from which was born the goddess Zincodite. For Millennia, the month of May has been reserved for celebrations of Zincodite's generosity & keen ear. The practice of sacrificing goats & chickens has gradually given way to holding readings every Sunday at Zinc Bar. To continue the tradition, may we offer these poets in the hopes that they please both you & the entire pantheon... * * * THE LINEUP FOR MAY SUNDAY MAY 6: Charles Borkhuis & John Godfrey THURSDAY MAY 10: Greg Fuchs, Marianne Shaneen & Michael Blitz SUNDAY MAY 13: Tina Darragh & P. Inman SUNDAY MAY 20: Noelle Kocot & Chris Stroffolino * * * Your hosts are LUNGFULL! Magazine Editor Brendan Lorber & man about town Douglas Rothschild Zinc Bar readings happen every Sunday & some Thursdays at 6:37pm They'll run you $3 which goes to the readers. Bring some x-tra cash for the x-tra fun of nabbing some rare & hard to find books & magazines Zinc Bar is at 90 West Houston between Laguardia & Thompson in NYC For more information call 212.533.9317 or 718.802.9575 or email lungfull@rcn.com. For the next week or so Brendan will be on special assignment far far away & so any email that's sent before the beginning of May will languish until then. Will we see you at Zinc Bar? Oh I certainly hope so. On the wing, Brendan Lorber PS: please note: lungfull@rcn.com is our new email address, after interport.net's untimely ingestion by rcn.com. If you'd like us to cease & desist reply w/ REMOVE in the subject line. If you'd like to fly us out for a Special Zinc Bar Event in Your Home Town, send us the tickets & we'll be on our way. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:03:40 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: owner-realpoetik@SCN.ORG Subject: RealPoetik Greg Farnum Greg can be reached at g.farnum@french-rogers.com. I liked these best read as one long piece...they sort of talk to each other. Sexy Rebel What would I call Meg Ryan? SEXY REBEL WITH THE GOLDEN GLEAM for starters, which is easy because it's already been provided by the magazine cover next to my head. Intriguing... you could build a whole life that way with the pre-written thoughts available on every side. Have to be careful though, my next thought is Britney Spears Das Geschäft mit den Teeny-Stars and I don't even how what I'm thinking, though I do know (limiting my worldview to beautiful women) that Liz Hurley can't stand to spend a day without getting on the net ...and who can blame her? Great Electronics Deals Laptop? PJs? Magnum opus? Carry all your goods in style in one of our own Amazon.com totes, backpacks, or commuter briefs. Bag a swell deal in the Amazon.com Bag Shop. Presents? Over and done. So go get yourself what you really wanted. A MiniDisc player. A digital camera. Or maybe a PDA. Oh, and did we mention the home-theater equipment? It's worth a peek. In Great Electronics Deals My thoughts are leading me astray -- farther and farther. It is very lonely here in Electronics Deals Land and not even a picture of Britney to guide me. 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With a rugged tubular design, this sturdy boombox delivers ear-shattering sound and earth-shaking bass. You'll be the envy of the neighborhood with this portable CD, cassette, and AM/FM stereo...Read more The Xerox Stories Xerox is a registered trade mark and cannot be used in vain. Or, as the Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual (copyright 1992) puts it: Xerox A trademark for a brand of photocopy machine. Never a verb. So, Xerox is a registered trade mark and can not be used in vain. And then there's the matter of Kleenex... Alien Baseball Morning dream: a Japanese pitcher throws the ball again and again; up on his toes he hurls himself into the pitch, like the gear of a watch his body falls forward with relatively little strain on his arm. The surprise (for me) is in the stands, where flat faced, big eyed aliens watch. Welcome to the day. What Are the Words of the Day? What are the words of the day? Brick-and-mortar? e-tailer? Is that them? Shovel more Americana into the processing engine. (International in scope) Nel caso in cui non intendesse piu' ricevere e-mail relative alle offerte di iBS Italia la preghiamo di rispondere a questo messaggio specificando NO E-MAIL nel soggetto. Realize this: You will be delighted. What Are the Words of the Day? #2 crickets crickets said Aram Saroyan slender type on paper how far away that world dead as the telegram What are the words of the day? Brick-and-mortar? e-tailer? Is that them? Honor the 80s say the postage stamps the lady on the radio is talking about...the CD, The Cosby Show... what else did she mention? The Minivan? The 800 number? "92.3 WMXD...because nobody does it like the Brake Shoppe." What would John Cage say as the car creeps through the snow toward work? "Dance the night away"? Reid Tool Supply Catalogue I Glow in the dark nonradioactive chemical light source in tape form. Permanent acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive. 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Later, at work, the words songer, sondage hover just beyond the computer. Sondage what? Snow falling on information architecture? 1999 Thomas Register NEW PROCESS FIBRE Non-Metallic Punched Parts Thermoplastic Sheet Extrusion Washers and Gaskets 800 458-3578 Radio Storm There's a storm on the radio, snowflakes falling through the airwaves; it's coming my way, toward the street I'm driving down in the pre-dawn darkness where from the lone brightly illumined window of the small office building one word (cry or call) on rarely used frequencies escapes: pho-to-copy its full-voiced insistence buffets the car, then, like a bird whose visits have their own time and reason is gone. Song of the Open Road Oh good another long dull story on NPR about a little known medical condition while traffic slowed by road construction stops for two people who have decided to strew the pavement with broken glass crumple fenders and talk to the police. -- They're depending on me to help raise 785 million dollars before 6:30. If I enjoy these priceless programs I'll be glad to pay. For a contribution of just 1.5 million I'll get this marvellous hand thrown coffee mug (by respected local ceramicist Barth Gilbreath -- a limited edition). ADOPT A ROAD ADOPT A LAKE ADOPT A SCHOOL Now I've got three children. If only I could get that coffee mug (and maybe that disease...) Day 26 car street elevator office work computer boss boss computer lunch computer boss boss computer e-mail office elevator street car Jour 26 auto rue ascenseur bureau travaille ordinateur patron patron ordinateur dejeuner ordinateur patron patron ordinateur courrier électronique bureau ascenseur rue auto Say It So , so we is is it say it is, it it say is we so so it it, is is say we is it say is we it so, it is is it we, so say we is is say it so, it it, so is we is say it it is is say we it so, say we is it is so, it is it it we say is, so we is say it it, so is , is we it it so say is we is say, so is it it is is, it it we so say we it is it so, say is so is we, is it say it is it say so it, we is Napkin Poem This is my napkin poem writ at the coffee shop where the Arab girl at the next table says "all computers, all computers in there, no people doing it" before she lapses back into Arabic where I cannot follow, and a girl at the table past that says, oddly enough, "Oscoda" (a lakeshore town in Northern Michigan) and nothing else about Oscoda can be discerned in the ambient buzz except I guess computers are doing it there too ...no people? Greg Farnum ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:40:57 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gary Sullivan Subject: URL for Readme #4 In-Reply-To: <975972028.3a2c26bce372d@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sorry--someone mentioned I forgot to add the URL for this: www.jps.net/nada/issuefour.htm R e a d m e Issue #4 Spring / Summer 2001 INTERVIEWS * REVIEWS * ESSAYS Edited by Gary Sullivan I n t e r v i e w s John Ashbery / Rolf Belgum / Mairéad Byrne Martin Corless-Smith / Benjamin Friedlander / Kenneth Goldsmith / Kevin Killian / Sheila E. Murphy / Julie Patton / Wanda Phipps Fatimah Tuggar / Mark Wallace E s s a y s Ben Friedlander on Lisa Robertson / Nada Gordon on Bernadette Mayer Arielle Greenberg on Conferences / Eleana Kim on Language Poetry / Murat Nemet-Nejat Is Poetry a Job, Is a Poem a Product / Ramez Qureshi Rothko and the Sublime / Chris Stroffolino on Lineage / Eileen Tabios on Jose Garcia Villa C h a p b o o k s Bob Harrison Coup Sticks / Susan Landers No Clearance in Niche / Mark Wallace from Dead Carnival P o e t r y John Ashbery / Mairéad Byrne / Benjamin Friedlander / Kenneth Goldsmith / Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan / Küçük Iskender / Kevin Killian / Ange Mlinko / Sheila E. Murphy / Wanda Phipps Rick Snyder / Alan Sondheim R e v i e w s Joe Safdie on Ammiel Alcalay / Alan Sondheim on Mairéad Byrne / Ange Mlinko on Jordan Davis and Brenda Iijima / Alan Sondheim on Stacy Doris / Carol Mirakove on Buck Downs / Murat Nemet-Nejat on Hafiz / Henry Gould on Lissa Wolsak ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:44:22 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Potter Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry In-Reply-To: <20010420151408.97183.qmail@web10806.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I agree. While I wish them the best of luck in their strike, seems to me this would better fit a =B3lifestyles/concerns of college instructors=B2 list o= r something. While =B3professor=B2 and =B3poet=B2 often share the same flesh, this i= s the =B3poetics list=B2 not =B3professor list.=B2 Anyhow, I=B9m just a neophyte shooting my mouth off, but what I hoped to find here when I signed on a couple weeks back, that cannot be found elsewhere, is info on contemporary poetry/experimental writing world to broaden my horizons as reader/writer/art appreciator/creator. David Chirot=B9s post on relation of film to writing, with its examples, names, and suggested further reading, is a fine example of the sort of post I hoped to see.=20 on 4/20/01 8:14 AM, michael amberwind at michael_amberwind@YAHOO.COM wrote: > and some dinosaurs are concerned that matters of > aesthetics, poetry and are being usurped by > political concerns - i wonder where they got such > and idea? >=20 > i suppose if a poem were written on the matter - > and posted to the list - i might be "convinced" > that such people were simply being reactionary >=20 > when newspaper reportage becomes poetry, i can't > help but think something went wrong somewhere > along the line - but trying to tell the > difference between this list and any other > politically motivated list (with its own "slant") > has been getting difficult as of late >=20 > of course - i could be crazy... ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:41:11 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: robert fitterman Subject: PRINTONOMY: Brian Kim Stefans & David Buuck MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please join us next monday for the last reading of the PRINTONOMY: POET-PUBLISHERS Reading Series featuring Brian Kim Stefans (Arras) and David Buuck (Tripwire). The new TRIPWIRE issue will be available at the reading. Date: April 30, 2001 Time: 6:30 PM Place: The Fales Library, Bobst Library 3rd Floor, NYU 70 Washington Sq South ( @ LaGuardia Pl. ) Free Admission Journals available at reception to follow. Brian Kim Stefans' books of poetry include Free Space Comix, Angry Penguins, and Gulf. He is the editor of Arras literary journal which has recently moved on-line as both a literary magazine and chapbook series (www.arras.com). Earlier issues of Arras offered an important opportunity for younger innovative poets to publish their poetry. David Buuck, poet and cultural critic, is the author of up the flagpole. He co-edits Tripwire from San Francisco. Tripwire combines new innovative writing with critical writing on culture, politics and poetics. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:13:28 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Summi Kaipa Subject: DAN MACHLIN & BETH MURRAY READ APRIL 26, 7PM SAN FRANCISCO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hello Literary-Interested Folks: This week I am hosting DAN MACHLIN (who hails from New York) & BETH MURRAY (from Old School Oakland) at my house Appetizer Hour begins 7pm (there will be fantastic eats & perhaps some drinks too) Poetry begins at 7:30pm 144 Albion St San Francisco between 16th & 17th Streets off 16th/Mission Bart Need more info, call 415 864 6740 Dan Machlin's work has appeared in Crayon, Murmur, Talisman, The Booglit Reader, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and on CD at Imminent Audio. He is the author of two books, In Rem (@Press) and This Side Facing You (Heart Hammer), and received his M.A. in Poetry Writing from the City College of New York. He is also a contributing editor of The Transcendental Friend, an online journal. Beth Murray is the co-curator of the Second Sundays poetry and discussion series at the Stork Club. With David Larsen she edits "The San Jose Manual of Style" and Lucinda books. She is the recipient of a Djerassi Residency. Her chapbooks are _Spell_, _Into the Salt_ and _Hope Eternity Seen on the Hip of a Rabbit_. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:20:50 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joseph Massey Subject: Re: Needed: reviews, essays & interviews MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/23/2001 2:59:52 PM Central Daylight Time, gps12@COLUMBIA.EDU writes: > I have no essays at this point whatsoever. Do you remember that > Smiths song where Morrissey sings "Shyness is a virtue ..." but then > That Smiths' song is titled "Ask" - the verse you're referring to: "Shyness is nice, and Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life You'd like to" Can't stand for Morrissey to be misquoted. - Joe Massey ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:42:07 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: The Poetry Project Subject: Jobs at the Poetry Project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Poetry Project is seeking qualified applicants for four positions. Full job descriptions and application procedures will be e-mailed to you upon request. APPLICATIONS DUE MID-MAY. ----------- PROGRAM COORDINATOR Appointed for one year by the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project; renewable pending review by the Poetry Project=B9s Board of Directors. Salary= : approximately $27,000/program year (full-time September through June, part-time during August). Benefits include medical insurance. The Program Coordinator=B9s primary function in the Poetry Project=B9s administration is to manage and facilitate the organization=B9s ongoing programs and publications. The Program Coordinator carries out her/his responsibilities in conjunction with and under the supervision of the Poetr= y Project=B9s Artistic Director. ------------- PROGRAM ASSISTANT Appointed for one year by the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project; renewable pending review by the Poetry Project=B9s Board of Directors. Salary= : approximately $20,000/program year (full-time September through June). Benefits include medical insurance. The Program Assistant=B9s primary function in the Poetry Project=B9s administration is to provide managerial and clerical support for the organization=B9s ongoing programs and publications. The Program Assistant carries out her/his responsibilities in conjunction with and under the supervision of the Poetry Project=B9s Artistic Director and Program Coordinator.=20 ------------- MONDAY NIGHT READING/PERFORMANCE SERIES COORDINATOR Coordinates and hosts the Poetry Project Monday Night Series for new writer= s and text-based performance. Appointed for one year by the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project; renewable for a second year pending review by the Poetry Project=B9s Board of Directors. Fee: approximately $85/Program week (October-May)=8Bactual fee will be set at the beginning of the 2001-02 season= , when the annual budget is finalized. ------------- FRIDAY LATE-EVENING EVENTS SERIES Coordinates and hosts the tri-monthly series. Appointed for one year by the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project; renewable for a second year pendin= g review. Fee: approximately $85/program (October-May)=8Bactual fee will be set at the beginning of the 2001-02 season, when the annual budget is finalized= ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:32:58 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: The Poetry Project Subject: Jobs at the Poetry Project Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable The Poetry Project is seeking qualified applicants for four positions. Full job descriptions and application procedures will be e-mailed to you upon request. APPLICATIONS DUE MID-MAY. ----------- PROGRAM COORDINATOR Appointed for one year by the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project; renewable pending review by the Poetry Project=B9s Board of Directors. Salary= : approximately $27,000/program year (full-time September through June, part-time during August). Benefits include medical insurance. The Program Coordinator=B9s primary function in the Poetry Project=B9s administration is to manage and facilitate the organization=B9s ongoing programs and publications. The Program Coordinator carries out her/his responsibilities in conjunction with and under the supervision of the Poetr= y Project=B9s Artistic Director. ------------- PROGRAM ASSISTANT Appointed for one year by the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project; renewable pending review by the Poetry Project=B9s Board of Directors. Salary= : approximately $20,000/program year (full-time September through June). Benefits include medical insurance. The Program Assistant=B9s primary function in the Poetry Project=B9s administration is to provide managerial and clerical support for the organization=B9s ongoing programs and publications. The Program Assistant carries out her/his responsibilities in conjunction with and under the supervision of the Poetry Project=B9s Artistic Director and Program Coordinator.=20 ------------- MONDAY NIGHT READING/PERFORMANCE SERIES COORDINATOR Coordinates and hosts the Poetry Project Monday Night Series for new writer= s and text-based performance. Appointed for one year by the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project; renewable for a second year pending review by the Poetry Project=B9s Board of Directors. Fee: approximately $85/Program week (October-May)=8Bactual fee will be set at the beginning of the 2001-02 season= , when the annual budget is finalized. ------------- FRIDAY LATE-EVENING EVENTS SERIES Coordinates and hosts the tri-monthly series. Appointed for one year by the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project; renewable for a second year pendin= g review. Fee: approximately $85/program (October-May)=8Bactual fee will be set at the beginning of the 2001-02 season, when the annual budget is finalized= . ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:39:06 -0400 Reply-To: Patrick Herron Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Patrick Herron Organization: p r o x i m a t e . o r g Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Murat, Alan - I just want to say that there is more to art than connections, analogy, linkages, attractions. If there's nothing in what is being linked and there is only something in the link itself, then does the link really exist anyway? I mean, is a link really a link if it links nothing? I don't know who wrote this but the statement sounds like a silly and blind pronouncement rife with pomo utopianism. Sorry to be so frank, but I know you are both very intelligent people who can stomach my strong language without too much resentment. Call me a late modernist if you will, but surely you must agree there's more to literature than just connection. Let's not forget that what is connected, the things in themselves, are just as dubious or certain as the reality of the links. There is much to connection, surely, *but only where there are at least two things to be connected*. More important than a link is the very *act* of making a link. This is why I'm so critical of hypertext, because people have left the act of making leaps and relationships to machines and not to humans, making machines dictate wondrous turns in art. *Linking* is more important than a link in itself, yes? And that very human act of creating a link while experiencing a piece of art is an act of creation itself, a wondrous act best left to our imaginations, not to some stern logical control unit and CPU (which forms perhaps a Monarchy made of sand, as in silicon). I feel we must make opportunities for people to make their own links, however arbitrary the links may be, that there are things in out art than the things that connect things. Thanks, Patrick Patrick Herron patrick@proximate.org http://proximate.org/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Murat Nemet-Nejat" > To: > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:22 AM > Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun > > > > In a message dated 4/19/01 8:33:55 AM, sondheim@PANIX.COM writes: > > > > > > >nervousness leads to strange links and attractions: > > > > strange links and attractions is what art is all about. > > > > > > >you might begin thinking nothing of written language: > > > > promise, I love you too, baby,! Not that words are unimportant, but, did > you > > think the eye is a dumb blond? the eye thinks too. > > > > > > >these people out there, who are they, what do they do: > > > > You mean the same emptiness doesn't surround the writer? > > > > > > >reading hacks you into more and different brains: > > > > So does watching. > > > > > > >the backs of things are airless: > > > > the backs of a book, a movie screen, a T.V. screen are the same dead > space. > > > > > > >the screen casts shadows of the sun: > > > > how true. we all live in Plato's cave. > > > > > > My best. > > > > Murat > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:08:45 -0400 Reply-To: bkrogers@catskill.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bertha Rogers Subject: Beowulf Exhibit & REading In-Reply-To: <4.0.1.20010415105405.010282c0@pop.bway.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable ANNOUNCING: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY (Wall Works, Artist's Books) EXHIBIT BY BERTHA ROGERS, AUTHOR OF THE NEW ILLUSTRATED TRANSLATION OF =93BEOWULF=94 (BIRCH BROOK PRESS, 2000) at the 96th Street Regional Branch of the New York Public Library 112 East 96th Street, New York, NY 10128 May 3 - 31, 2001 OPENING RECEPTION AND READING BY THE ARTIST/TRANSLATOR THURSDAY, MAY 3, 6:30 P.M. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Hours of the exhibit: Monday, Thursday, 12 -8 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday, 12- 6 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. "Thanks to you (and no doubt to the old bard or bards) I see what a powerful and splendid poem 'Beowulf' is. When I came to those sea beasts sunning themselves on the ledges I gasped with wonder! Your verse treads a nice line between the strict old measure and something looser. . . Congratulations!" =97James Merrill Word-exalted, she (Rogers) has found=97or when necessary, invented=97the vocabulary to universalize and make contemporary a venerable text while nevertheless retaining the flavor and the magic of the original: in her translation, she has consistently woven new words in wonderful ways.=94 =97Gary Harrington, forthcoming in Chelsea ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:43:39 -0400 Reply-To: Patrick Herron Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Patrick Herron Organization: p r o x i m a t e . o r g Subject: Re: Electronic Conference of Poetry Report from Front Lines MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is hilarious. You can be so damn funny Alan! TREMENDOUS HORROR! Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Sondheim" To: Sent: Friday, 20 April, 2001 11:04 PM Subject: Electronic Conference of Poetry Report from Front Lines > - > > > Electronic Conference of Poetry Report from Front Lines > > we're at the start of this electronic poetry conference and already blood > has been shed; i got into a fite with a couple of the mac people who were > armed to the teeth with some sort of transparent swords but they cut swift > they did and i coudn't resist the parry of blows that went my way but i > had the car and they got run over but that didn't stop other things from > appearing. stop. otyher things appeared. stop. you shuold have seen them > when the rollover happened. stop. ha ha ha mac people you are not up to pc > people. this is the proof. ha ha . they said i coud be stopped but i cant > be. stopp. this is what happens whenthere are wires loose in mac people > brains. a pc joke. do mac people have brains. no. (pc. answer.) stoppp. > > it was heavy shockwave last night against flash and both pretty much lit > up the sky like a mosaic opera. oh it was splendid did i tell you. another > poet was killed, it was a short accident but notebooks kil. i am so jeal > ous of that poet, why. because he got twenty minutes of standing only. i > do not get that. my work is so clumsy! nikuko won't stop stalking to me. > oh what else. why jealousy is green. it used to be another color before > the color change. that is why. they say jealousy kills. it is so astound > ingly horrible i will never be able to give you teh impression, not even > if i leave another milion years. > > omeday someone will say, well what confrence were YOU at, and i will say > this one where horror and ecstasy mingled. > > Subject: i also do love conference special report from Kanji Satori: > > Here we are at ELECTRIC MURDEROUS CONFERENCE! All WILL BE DECIDED. MAC > will GO DOWN IN FLAMES as MAC is JUGGLED two LAPTOP with JUGGLED two > LAPTOP PC MAC one MAC fall in JUGGLE: > > Ant PC planetary, MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! body line TREMENDOUS HORROR! > drugy miracle ADAM doll TREMENDOUS HORROR! thyroid falls....MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! vivid placenta world TREMENDOUS HORROR! machinative > angel:her soul-machine discharges MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! speed PC > fear....MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! sun was parasitic/I raped MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! gradual opening department between space-time/I walked > MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! lapse PC memory line PC a dog like/although her > sleep is road SMISERY!rage TREMENDOUS HORROR! murder TREMENDOUS HORROR! > gimmick girl :MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! speed TREMENDOUS HORROR! fanaticism > PC TOKAGE_splits....delete it:MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! room happiness as > MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! end virus end machine clone boy room, her > replicant TREMENDOUS HORROR! FUCKNAM cell air silence world at MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! center PC++MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! desert TREMENDOUS HORROR! > angel-mechanism glitter. Suicide line type TREMENDOUS HORROR! spiral > TREMENDOUS HORROR! ADAM doll this zero gravity=body PC grief machine > dances like MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! sun grief area asphalt soul-machine > MAC MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! machine leaps MAC her love splits MISERY! > MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! amniotic fluid mechanism MAC MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! nightmare TREMENDOUS HORROR! ADAM doll does MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! clonical ground TREMENDOUS HORROR! sun desire.... Small > smile breaks Body line PC an ant forgets it The sun walks. The record > TREMENDOUS HORROR! murder like our dog. Asphalt holds MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! guilty nick head line TREMENDOUS HORROR! ADAM doll Her end > be MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! beginning PC myself. :MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! > over MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES!re TREMENDOUS HORROR! pupil MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! grief TREMENDOUS HORROR! end clone UNBELIEVABLE CONFERENCE > TERROR! approximates MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! eyes PC 0 degree TREMENDOUS > HORROR! monochrome earth/vital. :TREMENDOUS HORROR! middle TREMENDOUS > HORROR! crowd scrap our beat, second, MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! animal line > computer inside when walk MISERY! MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! > angel-mechanism++MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! poor placenta world TREMENDOUS > HORROR! ADAM doll a girl like, MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! gimmick air like > Cyber nightmare DOG TREMENDOUS HORROR! amniotic fluid mechanism.... I] > sing [. > > conference - electric poets - INCREDIBLE - > > after the explosion - pieces of poets flying in every direction - still > tthhiinnggss rriinnggiinngg iinn mmyy eeaarrss - by tthhiinggs - iii > warned them iii did - too much FLASH - SHOCKWAVE was terrifying - EVENTS > OF ENORMOUS CONSEQUENCES - iii said as much - THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN - don't > be FOOLED by the EMAIL - it may SOUND like them LOOK like them - ANYONE > can write like a machine can write like ANYONE - you can't be too CAREFUL > these days - iii spoke so BRILLIANTLY - iii was AMAZING - STUPENDOUS - > WONDERFULLY TERRIFIC - the audience was ecstatic - I HELD THEM IN THE PALM > OF MY HAND - now they're DEAD, GONE - FLASH acts fast - warning label in > the program itself - THEY WERE DEAF TO MY PLEAS - iii went down on HANDS > and KNEES - I BEGGED THEM - i could feel it ready to go OFF - the ATMOS- > PHERE - something out of kilter - the times - out of joint - something > askew - ANYONE could sense it - YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD ME - > > bokian report on HORRIFYING EVENTS AT ELECTRIC POETRY CONFERENCE! > > ANCRAASANGLY CATASTRAPHAC AVANTS MAR BAFFALA SHARALANA: canfaranca paapla > "nat amasad." 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SOX MORO POOTS KOLLOD ONDOR ONKNOWN CORCOMSTONCOS. OSCOPO! > > UNCRUUSUNGLY CUTUSTRUPHUC UVUNTS MUR BUFFULU SHURULUNU: cunfuruncu puuplu > "nut umusud." WHUT CUULD BU THU UND UF THU UURUU LUKU: furuuus UVUNUNG > PURFURMUNCUS DUMUNUTUNG WUSTURN CUNUDU: culd frunt ut 3 dugruus CULSUUS > tumurruw: UT CUNFURUNCU: S*P*U*U*K***F*U*H*R*U*N*H*U*U*T: U MUMUNT'S > RUFLUCTUUN US ULL THUT'S LUFT: thu pc hus DUMUNUTUD ull but thu RWCDRUM > whuch us uncupublu UF CRUWLUNG up uts TUNY FUUT tu UMURGU BRUUTHLUSS UN > thu SCRUUN. SUX MURU PUUTS KULLUD UNDUR UNKNUWN CURCUMSTUNCUS. USCUPU! > > > _ > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:50:48 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: pete spence Subject: Re: blindness and incite: re the screen casts shadows of the sun Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Dave the problem is that most people see film only as the dominant "lets go see a movie" a whole newish world would open up with a little exploration //pete spence > > (Before jumping the gun so to speak in passing judgment on the cinema >in >relation to writing, it would be good to consider Eisenstein's writings >on >the interrelationships among film and literature, poetry, calligraphy, >painting, theater. > Many many more examples have been developed and presented since his > first writings in the 1920s.etc etc > >--david baptiste chirot _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:45:17 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis Warsh Subject: frym & warsh at cody's Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sunday April 29 7:30 Gloria Frym & Lewis Warsh reading at Cody's Bookstore 2154 Telegraph Ave Berkeley, Ca Gloria Frym & Lewis Warsh will be reading from their new books, HOMELESS AT HOME and THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, both published by Creative Arts Book Company Praise for HOMELESS AT HOME: Gloria Frym's Homeless at Home is an elevated triumph. A deeply moving, astutely passionate work of the highest integrity and poetic presence. These poems not only grieve the past that was and can never be, but focus with alacrity on present states of debris and possibility. Their measured rage and acceptance unfold a stately and alarming poetry, understated yet overt, compassionate yet resistant. A deeply intelligent work of profound demand and reward from a writer of immense principle and engagement. --David Meltzer Letters, meditations, pages broadcast into what may or may not be the 'right earth'--Gloria Frym's poem sequence Homeless at Home comes to us on wavelengths of darkly humorous lyricism capable of transmitting states of longing, wonder, and rage at the injustices of the human polis with clarity and wit. As we tune in, these thoughts and sounds, intimate and vatic by turns, carry us way beyond their epistolary framework into the great continuum of poetry's perennial arguments with existence, and back again into an intimate and welcoming human place. --Anselm Hollo A voice of lineage illumination writes home to the heart of 'a world that won't end when you do.' A private language made public. Sharply social insights of the moment's culture. Are you listening? It's for you. --Joanne Kyger Praise for THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD: Given the complexity of this world and all the myriad people who are in it, these poems are poignantly articulate experiments, which reach out endlessly, day or night, so as to feel another is still there too. If one can ever doubt, Lewis Warsh proves again that the world exists, even after all is said and done. --Robert Creeley The discrete (though hardly discreet) sentences in Lewis Warsh's new book actually merge to describe something like the origin of the world. As he says, 'Connect the dots to create a picture of something unimaginable.' --John Ashbery It's incumbent on us to watch closely and observe well--to do otherwise is to miss what's happening. In this wonderful new book, Lewis Warsh sets out through a landscape swept with occurrence. As he looks about, somber image and glimpsed exegesis play off each other and the works unfold. Their lines flicker and figure; they resemble the light- images of which movies are made. They leap, fade, reappear--figuring out the world. As Lewis Warsh brilliantly reveals, this is the origin, always ongoing, of the world. --Lyn Hejinian Each title is $15.00 available from Small Press Distribution 1341 Seventh Street Berkeley, Ca. 94710 www.spdbooks.org or Creative Arts Book Company 833 Bancroft Way Berkeley, Ca. 94710 1-800-848-7789 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:39:46 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Leonard Brink Subject: New from Avec Books MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable New From Avec Books: Pain Christopher Reiner In PAIN, writer, editor and filmmaker Christopher Reiner offers a contemporary version of Charles Baudelaire's _Paris Spleen_, retaining = all the subtlety, perverse charm, and withering social commentary of the original-and even managing to sneak in the angels and devils that were = his forerunner's specialty. As with the great French poet, Reiner presents = a world where bourgeois hypocrisy and emotional alienation stem more from laziness and boredom than from any active (ideological) passion. But = what shocks the reader here is no longer Baudelaire's transgressive subject matter (after all, this is the 21st century) but the discovery that = screwy logic and grim nihilism can still achieve such seductive expression = (after all, this is safe, rational, moralistic America). "If there's a devil, = his force is to hold us back, to convince us to resist taking part, to keep = us quiet and worried." * Christopher Reiner's stories or prose poems-I'm not sure how to classify them-are subtle and psychologically astute, fascinating. They draw you = in with their apparent simplicity, but it is into a conundrum, a riddle = always just beyond your understanding. They leave you wanting more-not more = from them but more like them. -Rae Armantrout If Baudelaire's Paris Spleen had been written by an avant-garde = filmmaker living in modern-day Hollywood, what kind of text would it be? A = sequence of narratives carefully covering their own footprints? A series of jokes told skillfully enough to avoid their own punch lines? Would it be = filled with the kind of self-deflating subversion that so skillfully fills the pages of Chris Reiner's Pain? "Originally, when the aliens came down, = they let us ask for specific things we wanted. But they were so depressed by what we asked for that they made us forget it ever happened and they started giving us what they assumed we needed. So it's only partly their fault that they were all wrong." Reading Pain is like trying not to = laugh in a movie theater where everyone else is weeping. -Stephen-Paul Martin Christopher Reiner's Pain casts itself into the world then examines whatever has stuck to its line of questioning. His self is a flitting hybrid, a cross between Andre=B4 Breton and Garrison Keillor, taking its queasy measure in relation to the received messages of the culture = around it. "Start to see uneasy between this person and yourself." In Pain 'happy' is not assumed to be a good thing. Reiner's philosophical gems don't shine from a place of easy entitlement. Pain is a question in constant revision and the answer, like pieces of an almost-solved = puzzle, lunges in and out of view. -Diane Ward * Christopher Reiner lives in Los Angeles. His previous full-length volume = of poetry, Ogling Anchor, was published by Avec Books in 1998. He was the editor of Witz: A Journal of Contemporary Poetics from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Drift Group of experimental filmmakers, his recent video works include Stage Sleep, The Wedding Song, and The Man Who Ate a Car. * Publication Date: April 23, 2001 88 Pages * ISBN: 1-880713-25-X * List Price $11 * Distributed by Small Press Distribution For additional information and excerpts: www.poetrypress.com/avec ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:24:43 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Walter Blue Subject: EURO-SF FESTIVAL AT BIG BRIDGE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Be sure to come to=20 THE EURO-SAN FRANCISCO POETRY FESTIVAL Big Bridge is hosting the site and you can come to www.bigbridge.org and = read the schedule, poems, participants, bios and all that stuff so you = can know what you're in for. It's going to be great!=20 THE EURO-SAN FRANCISCO POETRY FESTIVAL WEBSITE AT BIG BRIDGE WWW.BIGBRIDGE.ORG Michael Rothenberg walterblue@bigbridge.org Big Bridge www.bigbridge.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:06:52 -0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Geoffrey Gatza Subject: Blaze VOX 2k1 (NOW WITH CRUNCHY FLAVOR ADDED) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Epoetry fans, BLAZE 21st Century Voice Blaze VOX2k1 www.vorplesword.com I wanted to share the URL for my ejournal. Included are fine works from Robert Creeley Lisa Jarnot MEZ Alan Sondhiem William James Austin TRIBUTE to ERNST JANDL Cydney Chadwick Special TOPIC : Reunite Pangea Blaze VOX2k1 www.vorplesword.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:00:28 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christian. I'd like to be able to pass an exam like that. Its all good stuff. Mind you the US hist not so relevant to me.Interesting though. But what age is someone (about) in the eighth grade? People love learning things. Regards, Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Roess" To: Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 2:19 AM Subject: 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 Here's something interesting. I know I'd have to repeat 8th grade again. Wow. Or I'd be like Jethro on the "Beverly Hillbillies": 'I has six grad ejukashun." THE 8th GRADE TEST IN 1895 This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, Kansas. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the _Salina Journal_: "In 1895 the 8th grade was considered upper level education. Many children quit school as soon as they could master the basic fundamentals of the 3R's (reading, writing and arithmetic). Most never went past the 3rd or 4th grade. That's all you needed for the farm and most city jobs. Child labor laws were not in existence yet. Additionally today's education has much more focus on technology and sociology than the grammar and geography of old. It's a different world with different requirements and capabilities needed to succeed." Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895? Probably Not. Take a Look: 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 Grammar: (Time, one hour) 1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters. 2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications. 3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph. 4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run. 5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case. 6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation. 7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. Arithmetic: (Time, 1.25 hours) 1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. 2. A wagon box is 2 feet deep, 10 feet long, and 3 feet wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? 3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 pounds, what is it worth at 50 cents per bushel, deducting 1050 pounds for tare? 4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals? 5. Find cost of 6720 pounds coal at $6.00 per ton. 6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent. 7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 feet long at $20 per thousand? 8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. 9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods? 10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt. United States History: (Time, 45 minutes) 1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided. 2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus. 3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. 4. Show the territorial growth of the United States 5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas. 6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. 7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe? 8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865? Orthography: (Time, one hour) 1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication? 2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? 3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals? 4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'. 5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule. 6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. 7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super. 8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell,rise, blood, fare, last. 9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays. 10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. Geography: (Time, one hour) 1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? 2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas? 3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? 4. Describe the mountains of North America 5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco. 6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the United States 7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each. 8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude? 9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers. 10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:42:10 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Marcella Durand Subject: reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain On Tuesday, May 15th, from 6-8 pm The Rotunda Gallery, located at 33 Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, hosts a reading to celebrate the publication of (the invisible city) an anthology of art and poetry inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities edited by Marcella Durand, Richard O'Russa and Karoline Schleh, to be published by Erato Press. Readers will include: Anselm Berrigan Marcella Durand Joe Elliot Betsy Fagin Laird Hunt Rachel Levitsky Pattie McCarthy Lytle Shaw Edwin Torres Kevin Varrone Karen Weiser and others This reading is held in conjunction with the Rotunda Gallery's current exhibition, Cities & Desire, on view through May 19th. Using keywords from an evocative passage in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, the curators were led to a range of work by various artists in the Rotunda Gallery's Slide Registry. While some of the artists depict intimate interiors, others use models to distort perspective and the experience of place. An exhibition with literary undertones, Cities & Desire offers alternative and divergent ways to look at the spaces in which we live. For more information and directions to the Rotunda Gallery, please visit http://www.brooklynX.org/rotunda From the Introduction to (the invisible city): "...driven mad by the low barometric pressure of New Orleans, Karoline Schleh, Richard O'Russa and myself thought of an enormous collaboration between artists and poets, to be handprinted and letterpressed, then handbound and distributed to the contributors and a few museums. However, in the cooler light of New York, we realized that such an undertaking would be several decades in the making, so in the meantime, decided to jump ahead, New York-style, and publish a shinier, more legitimate version of (the invisible city). So, like Erato Press, which operates with one foot in the secretive and mysterious New Orleans swamp and the other on the hard-edged New York concrete, this is a dual project of artists and writers, lovers of Italo Calvino's fantastic book, made in the hopes of inspiring more such fruitful juxtapositions." For more information on (the invisible city) (which should, barring last-minute adverse occurences, should be available at the reading), e-mail either Marcella Durand at mdurand@sprynet.com or Richard O'Russa at orussa@yahoo.com. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:58:03 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Richard, Actually, what I was doing was not a criticism of alan. I find a good deal of what he is doing very interesting. It was an antiphonal response in the tradition of some Eastern folk forms -also something John Webster does (as echoes) in "The Duchess of Malfi" (I think). Murat In a message dated 4/23/01 2:49:58 PM, richard.tylr@XTRA.CO.NZ writes: >But I think you miss some subtleties of what Alan is doing by this kind >of > >analysis. Read that thing aloud. When I saw it I had the sun (outside ) > >behind my computer screen....and i could "see" where Alan was coming from. > >Breaking it up to "analyse" it is futile. The whole thing works both on >a > >conceptual level and a "deeper" level.Alan Sondheim is both prolific and > >very talented. Where are your poems? Regards, Richard Taylor. > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Murat Nemet-Nejat" > >To: > >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:22 AM > >Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun > > > > > >> In a message dated 4/19/01 8:33:55 AM, sondheim@PANIX.COM writes: > >> > >> > >> >nervousness leads to strange links and attractions: > >> > >> strange links and attractions is what art is all about. > >> > >> > >> >you might begin thinking nothing of written language: > >> > >> promise, I love you too, baby,! Not that words are unimportant, but, >did > >you > >> think the eye is a dumb blond? the eye thinks too. > >> > >> > >> >these people out there, who are they, what do they do: > >> > >> You mean the same emptiness doesn't surround the writer? > >> > >> > >> >reading hacks you into more and different brains: > >> > >> So does watching. > >> > >> > >> >the backs of things are airless: > >> > >> the backs of a book, a movie screen, a T.V. screen are the same dead > >space. > >> > >> > >> >the screen casts shadows of the sun: > >> > >> how true. we all live in Plato's cave. > >> > >> > >> My best. > >> > >> Murat > > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:08:01 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Small Press Subject: This Week at Small Press Traffic, as part of the 2nd Euro-SF Poetry Festival.... Comments: To: sh@well.com, mwsasso@aol.com, Normacole@aol.com, rgluck@sfsu.edu, giovann@aol.com, yedd@aol.com, junona@pacbell.net, tbrady@msgidirect.com, eliztj@hotmail.com, kevinkillian@earthlink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC PRESENTS Friday, April 27th at 7:30 7:30 PM Small Press Traffic (at Timken Hall, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1111 8th St. on the corner of 8th, Irwin and Wisconsin (a block north of 16th St.)). $5, free to SPT members & CCAC students, staff, and faculty. Barbara Barrigan (USA) Marc Cholodenko (France) Johanna Ekström (Sweden) Angel Gonzalez (Spain) Small Press Traffic is proud to host one of the four nights of the 2nd European-San Francisco Poetry Festival, with Berkeley's own epic poet Barbara Barrigan, maverick Swedish poet and prose writer Johanna Ekstrom, and legendary Spanish poet Angel Gonzalez, whose Collected Poems are available from Milkweed Editions. A reception will follow co-hosted with the Writing Program at CCAC. Please join us for a tremendously varied and invigorating evening of poetry. The Festival is sponsored by a coalition of San Francisco Literary Organizations and European Consulates and Cultural Institutes; a commemorative book will be available at the event. Check out http://www.bigbridge.org for all the transatlantic details. Just added: France's Marc Cholodenko, author of Mordechai Schamz (Dalkey Archive, 1992). Reception to follow, cosponsored with the Writing Program at CCAC. ---- BARBARA BARRIGAN (USA) is a poet, essayist, editor, writing instructor. She has new poems forthcoming in Chase Park, lyric &, and Five Finger Review. Along with Lisa Kovaleski, she co-founded Manifest Press and Literary Arts Center in 1999, where she now serves as Executive Director and co-publishes the bi-annual journal syllogism. She is in the process of developing, along with fiction writer Toni Freitas, an after-school creative writing program for Oakland youth in which innovative writers will mentor young writers. She teaches creative writing and composition at The College of Alameda. Born in Paris in 1950, MARC CHOLODENKO (France) is a prolific poet, novelist, translator and screenwriter, author of over twenty books, including "Parcs" (1972), "Metamorphoses" (1991) and "Les Etats du desert", which received the prestigious Prix Medicis in 1976. His novel "Mordechai Schamz" has been published in translation by Dalkey Archive Press. Cholodenko has also translated over twenty books originally published in the United States (notably Edmund White and William Gaddis) and in collaboration with Philippe Garrel (among others), has written over ten screenplays. JOHANNA EKSTROM (Sweden) was born in Stockholm in 1970. A writer and visual artist who has also presented installations, sculptures, dance and photographic exhibitions at galleries around Sweden, her work includes a short story collection Vad vet jag om hallfasthet (What do I know of stability), and three books of poems Gaforlorad (Getting Lost), Fiktiva Dagboken (The Fictitous Diary), and Rachels Hus (Rachel's House). ANGEL GONZALEZ (Spain) was born in 1925 in Oviedo, Spain. He is the author of Aspero mundo, Grado Elemental, Palabra sobre palabra and Tratado de urbanismo, among others. Astonishing World: the Selected Poems of Angel Gonzalez was published in 1993 by Milkweed Editions. The recipient of numerous honors, including the Antonio Machado Prize, the Salerno International Poetry Prize, and the Premio Principe de Asturias de Las Letras award, Angel Gonzalez is a professor of contemporary Spanish literature at the University of New Mexico. ---- and check out the other Festival events.... Thursday April 26 at 7:30 San Francisco Art Institute (at SFAI Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut St (between Leavenworth and Jones)). Dacia Maraini (Italy) Volker Braun (Germany) Joanne Kyger (USA) Charles Dantzig (France) Saturday, April 28th 2:00 PM Intersection for the Arts (446 Valencia St. between 15th and 16th St.) Manuel Mantero (Spain) Massimiliano Chiamenti (Italy) Stefaan van den Bremt (Belgium) André Baca (USA) 7:30 PM The Poetry Center (at Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin (at Geary)) Tor Obrestad (Norway) Katarina Frostenson (Sweden) Lutz Seiler (Germany) Taylor Brady (USA) Sunday, April 29 1:00 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. San Francisco Art Institute (at SFAI Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut St (between Leavenworth and Jones)). Euro-San Francisco Poetry Festival Closing Reading A group reading with participating European poets and translators and featuring San Francisco poets André Baca, Barbara Barrigan, Bill Berkson, Taylor Brady, Norma Cole, Joanne Kyger, Denise Newman, Michael Rothenberg, Leslie Scalapino, Cedar Sigo, Hugh Steinberg, Tarin Towers and Elizabeth Treadwell, as well as German poet Philipp Schiemann, former San Francisco Poet Laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti and current San Francisco Poet Laureate Janice Mirikitani. 4:00 Closing reception at San Francisco Art Institute. Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCAC 1111 Eighth Street San Francisco, California 94107 415/551-9278 http://www.sptraffic.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:29:42 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Cope Subject: New Writing Series Reminder Comments: To: kia@tns.net, dianeward@yahoo.com, sandiegowriters@sandiegowriters.org, rgiraldez@hotmail.com, mcauliffe@prodigy.net, Joe Ross , bmohr@ucsd.edu, globo@ucsd.edu, djmorrow@ucsd.edu, ctfarmr@aol.com, dmatlin@mail.sdsu.edu, falconline@usa.net, junction@earthlink.net, jrothenb@ucsd.edu, raea100900@aol.com, jgranger@ucsd.edu, rdavidson@ucsd.edu, kyergens@ucsd.edu, darcycarr@hotmail.com, rburkhar@man104-1.UCSD.EDU, yikao@yahoo.com, aarancibia@hotmail.com, rachelsdahlia@hotmail.com, terynmattox@hotmail.com, dwang@wesleyan.edu, karenstromberg@aol.com, threeamtrain@yahoo.com, mozment@uci.edu, hellenlee@ucsd.edu, aeastley@ucsd.edu, tfiore@ucsd.edu, segriffi@ucsd.edu, shalvin@ucsd.edu, jimperato@yahoo.com, hjun@ucsd.edu, kathrynmcdonald@mindspring.com, smedirat@ucsd.edu, gnunez@ucsd.edu, reinhart@ling.ucsd.edu, crutterj@sdcc3.ucsd.edu, eslavet@ucsd.edu, chong1@ucsd.edu, ywatanab@ucsd.edu, wobrien@popmail.ucsd.edu, dmccannel@ucsd.edu, calacapress@home.com, ajenik@ucsd.edu, Spm44@aol.com, anielsen@popmail.lmu.edu, mperloff@earthlink.net, vvasquez@wso.williams.edu, jack.webb@uniontrib.com, ronoffen@yahoo.com, hung.tu@usa.net, eslavet@ucsd.edu, lit-grads@ucsd.edu, urigeller@excite.com, reevescomm@earthlink.net, mcarthy@sandiego-online.com, interarts-l@ucsd.edu, lrice@weber.ucsd.edu, geoffbouvier@prodigy.net, kadeewinters@home.com, jennymun14@hotmail.com, bjhurley@ucsd.edu, jbhattac@ucsd.edu, afornetti@libero.it, robgrant01@hotmail.com, hpyjoyj@aol.com, cgouldin@ucsd.edu, bmohr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu, pverdicchio@ucsd.edu, qtroupe@ucsd.edu, mcmorrim@gunet.georgetown.edu, ausbury@hotmail.com, conspiracy@nethere.com, tkamps@mcasandiego.org, leahollman@aol.com, ryansmith@hotmail.com, lgaftea@qualcom.com, lfstern@ucsd.edu, kcleung@ucsd.edu, vahyong@ucsd.edu, jmorhang@ucsd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" A Reminder! Internationally known writer and UCSD Regents Lecturer HARRY MATHEWS will be reading this Wednesday, April 25, as part of the New Writing Series at UCSD. The reading takes place at 4:30pm in the Visual Arts Performance Space, UCSD campus, and is free and open to the public. An early member of the New York School of poets, writers, and artists, HARRY MATHEWS founded, with John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, the influential periodical _Locus Solus_ , and later became a central member of the renowned experimental group Oulipo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle) that included, among others, Italo Calvino, Raymond Queneau, and Georges Perec. Internationally celebrated as a novelist, poet, translator, and experimentalist, Mathews works include _Cigarettes: A Novel_, _Singular Pleasures_ (with illustrations by Francesco Clemente), _A Mid-Season Sky: Poems 1954-1991, and _Selected Declarations of Dependence_. He is visiting San Diego from his home in Paris on a University of California Regents Lectureship. "Why, is Pan in-flect? You ask. Once it was n't, then home the missions, be fore soldats and buyrs, monks mad for lingual avance. Yet, hlever, they forse not theyr linguage up on us, ownly show, the vantage of its struttures - of horse, we are peedisposed to these. They show howhow one word can to-be many, with a little twists, and we're reasn-like and order-most and the cort adops this eduhation..." - from "The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium." "Throughout Mathews' work, his self-reflexivity is thoroughly grounded in macabre humor and encyclopedic speculations rendered all the more strange through his radically constrictive procedures. To read Harry Mathews' work [...] is to consider an astonishingly varied and rich collection of inquiries into the concept of authorship and the function of writing..." - Lytle Shaw, on Mathews's novel _The Journalist_, in _Idiom 2_ _________________________________ SPRING 2001 remaining readings: Thursday, May 3: MICHAEL HELLER Wednesday, May 9: No reading. Wednesday, May 16: ELENI SIKELIANOS & HUNG Q. TU Wednesday, May 23: THE FLYING WORDS PROJECT Wednesday, May 30: EDWIN TORRES & LORENZO THOMAS For more information on the New Writing Series contact Stephen Cope at: scope@ucsd.edu. If you received this message twice or wish to be removed from the mailing list, send a message to that effect to: scope@ucsd.edu. Events are sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Arts at UCSD, UCSD University Events, and the UCSD Literature Department. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:48:47 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dickison Subject: ** Euro-San Francisco Poetry Festival: Sat, April 28th, 7:30 pm ** Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable P O E T R Y C E N T E R 2 0 0 1 The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives presents in conjunction with the EURO-SAN FRANCISCO POETRY FESTIVAL Saturday April 28, 7:30 pm $5 donation @ The Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin (at Geary) featuring poets: KATARINA FROSTENSON (Sweden) TOR OBRESTAD (Norway) LUTZ SEILER (Germany) TAYLOR BRADY (San Francisco) Join us for this evening of readings by a unique international company of poets, with appearances by Katarina Frostenson, visiting from Sweden, Tor Obrestad from Norway, Lutz Seiler from former East Germany, and Taylor Brady of San Francisco. The Poetry Center is co-presenting this evening's event as part of the Euro-San Francisco Poetry Festival, running from Thursday April 26 thru Sunday April 29-- featuring visiting poets from throughout Europe alongside poets from San Francisco. Check out the festival website at http://www.bigbridge.org/#anchor52181 for full details of the weekend's events. * KATERINA FROSTENSON was born in Stockholm in 1953. Her writings include several award-winning volumes of poetry, lyric prose, eight plays (four monodramas and four longer plays) and the libretto to the opera Staden (City). Elected to the Swedish Academy in 1992, her most recent publication was a collection of poems in December 2000. She has worked since 1980 as a free-lance editor and translator. During the early 1980s, she lived in Paris for several years, and has translated from French into Swedish works by Henri Michaux, Marguerite Duras, and Georges Bataille. * TOR OBRESTAD was born on a farm in Norway in 1938, and was raised and trained to be a farmer. His first book of poems (awarded the Norwegian Debut Prize) and a book of short stories appeared in 1966, followed by a work on William Blake in 1967. His book Sauda! Streik! (Strike!), 1972, was made into a movie. Among almost 40 books, a combined photo and text work, Jaeren: Fire & Sky, was recently published in English. Since 1990 he has worked as a journalist and traveled widely (e.g., Eastern Europe, including Kosova, Macedonia, and Albania; and recently in Yemen). He has translated the poetry of Robert Bly and Raymond Carver into Norwegian, and recently had published a book in Arabic and Norwegian with exiled Yemeni poet Mansur Rajih. * LUTZ SEILER was born in Gera (former East Germany) in 1963. He lives in Berlin and Wilhelmshorst. He has become known in recent years for his popular books of poetry Das verlorene Alphabet (The Lost Alphabet) and Sprache im technischen Zeitalter (Language In The Age Of Technics). Co-editor of the literary magazine Moosbrand, in 1999 he was given an award from the State of Brandenburg and the Kranichsteiner Prize for Literature. * TAYLOR BRADY was born in Dunedin, Florida in 1972. Since that time he has lived in Tampa, Sarasota, Brooklyn, Buffalo, and, since 1998, San =46rancisco. For the past five years he has been writing an extended serial poem, To Not, whose parts include lyric, prose poetry, a novel, and a series of short essays. Sections of this project have appeared in several journals, and in the recent chapbook 33549. A chapbook containing earlier work, Is Placed/Leaves, appeared in 1996. The first book-length installment of the To Not writings, Microclimates, is forthcoming this year from Krupskaya (San Francisco). =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D COMING UP: * May 3 Cole Swensen & Elizabeth Robinson (Poetry Center, 4:30 pm, free) Poetry Center Book Award reading * May 10 Student Awards Reading (Poetry Center, 4:30 pm, free) * May 17 Stefania Pandolfo & Leslie Scalapino (Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin, 7:30 pm, $5) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D LOCATIONS THE UNITARIAN CENTER is located at 1187 Franklin Street at the corner of Geary on-street parking opens up at 7:00 pm from downtown SF take the Geary bus to Franklin THE POETRY CENTER is located in Humanities 512 on the SW corner of the San Francisco State University Campus, 1600 Holloway Avenue 2 blocks west of 19th Avenue on Holloway take MUNI's M Line to SFSU from Daly City BART 28 MUNI bus or free SFSU shuttle READINGS that take place at The Poetry Center are free of charge. Except as indicated, a $5 donation is requested for readings off-campus. SFSU students & Poetry Center members get in free. The Poetry Center's programs are supported by funding from Grants for the Arts-Hotel Tax Fund of the City of San Francisco, the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writers, Inc., and The Fund for Poetry, as well as by the College of Humanities at San Francisco State University, and by donations from our members. Join us! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Steve Dickison, Director The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue ~ San Francisco CA 94132 ~ vox 415-338-3401 ~ fax 415-338-0966 http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit ~ ~ ~ L=E2 taltazim h=E2latan, wal=E2kin durn b=EE-llay=E2ly kam=E2 tad=FBwru Don't cling to one state turn with the Nights, as they turn ~Maq=E2mat al-Hamadh=E2ni (tenth century; tr Stefania Pandolfo) ~ ~ ~ Bring all the art and science of the world, and baffle and humble it with one spear of grass. ~Walt Whitman's notebook ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:17:11 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Stefans, Brian" Subject: FW: ::: Yedda Morrison & Kim Rosenfield @ Double Happiness :: Thi s Saturday, April 28, 4 pm ::: Comments: cc: "bstefans@earthlink.net" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain ::: IT JUST NEVER STOPS ::: The Segue Foundation and Double Happiness present on Saturday, April 28th at 4 pm an afternoon of poetry readings featuring Yedda Morrison and Kim Rosenfield (special guest appearance by Dirk Rowntree). ::: Yedda Morrison lives in San Francisco where she co-edits Tripwire, a Journal of Experimental Poetics; issue number four, subtitled "Work," has just appeared. Her chapbooks include The Marriage of the Well Built Head, Shed, and Apostasy, forthcoming from Melodeon Poetry Systems. Recent work has appeared in Primary Writing, Kenning and Syllogism. Poems http://lanminds.com/~dblelucy/page18.html http://www.durationpress.com/abend/shed.htm Critical Writing http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/v1_3_2000/current/alerts/morrison.html Tripwire http://durationpress.com/tripwire/index.htm A nice photograph and bio http://www.sptraffic.org/authors/ymorrison.html About Tripwire http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sfmetro/12.07.98/litmags-9847.html Kim Rosenfield is the author of several chapbooks including Rx, cool clean chemistry, and A Self-Guided Walk, and the book Good Morning -Midnight -, which will soon appear from Roof Books. An internet chapbook, Verbali, is also forthcoming on www.arras.net. This reading will mark the world premiere of a performance piece with Dirk Rowntree (I can't remember the name of it right now), not to be missed. Poems http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/presses/leave/lvrosenf.html About her writing http://www.sptraffic.org/authors/krosenfield.html http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/Taproot/taproot-4a About Object http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/ezines/treehome/tree03/objec_1.html But she already has friends... http://www.geocities.com/NFTYALUMNI2001/detail_listing_page_5_-_r_-_u.htm#ros enfeldkim ::: Double Happiness is located at 173 Mott Street, just south of Broome; it is down some stairs, and doesn't have a storefront. The readings are held during DH's happy hour -- two for one drinks, no questions asked. Curated and introduced by Brian Kim Stefans ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:22:47 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Stefans, Brian" Subject: Brian Kim Stefans "talk" about cyberpoetry, etc. Comments: cc: "bstefans@earthlink.net" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain I'm sure many of you received this already. Just wanted to mention that I'll be giving a version of my talk and reading up at Buffalo for the E-poetry conference at this reading, projections and all. Hope you can make it. > Please join us next monday for the last reading of the PRINTONOMY: > POET-PUBLISHERS Reading Series featuring Brian Kim Stefans (Arras) and > David Buuck (Tripwire). The new TRIPWIRE issue will be available at the > reading. > > > Date: April 30, 2001 > Time: 6:30 PM > Place: The Fales Library, Bobst Library 3rd Floor, NYU > 70 Washington Sq South ( @ LaGuardia Pl. ) > Free Admission > > > Brian Kim Stefans' books of poetry include Free Space Comix, Angry > Penguins, and Gulf. He is the editor of Arras literary journal which has > recently moved on-line as both a literary magazine and chapbook series > (www.arras.com). Earlier issues of Arras offered an important opportunity > for younger innovative poets to publish their poetry. > > > David Buuck, poet and cultural critic, is the author of up the flagpole. > He co-edits Tripwire from San Francisco. Tripwire combines new innovative > writing with critical writing on culture, politics and poetics. > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:10:31 -0230 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "K.Angelo Hehir" Subject: ATL Indymedia and medical clinic attacked on Saturday MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Some of the more active on this list may have had friends there. full report to follow. my throat is raw from the tear gas and i had a pretty good respirator. maybe i was wrong about Canada being a peaceful place. a lot of my optimism about humanity and civility has been thrown into question. sadly kevin The Quebec Independent Media Centre (CMAQ) was raided by riot police on Saturday night, and also documentation of Charter Rights violation and police brutality during the anti-FTAA protests. from ------------------------------------------------------- Injury and arrest reports mount as situation calms down Cliff Pearson 2001-04-22 INJURY AND ARREST REPORTS MOUNT AS SITUATION CALMS DOWN By Cliff Pearson, co-chair Green Party of Dallas County Dallas, Texas USA (QUEBEC CITY, Quebec) - The state of emergency declared last night for the headquarters of CMAQ, the Quebec Independent Media Center, has been rescinded. At approximately 10:44 p.m. EDT, members of the Quebec Legal Collective, a group of attorneys volunteering their services to protesters, arrived at the newsroom in case CMAQ personnel required legal assistance. At approximately 11:00 p.m. EDT, approximately 20 riot police fired rubber bullets down the stairs into the CMAQ foyer, injuring one activist. He suffered wounds to his leg and was treated at the scene by medics. CMAQ staff and reporters responded to the police assault by barricading the doors. By 11:06 p.m. EDT, the police retreated down Rue Cote d'Abraham to confront protesters. At 11:24 p.m. EDT, CMAQ had to block the doors with clothes and blankets to prevent tear gas -- presumably fired at the activists -- from seeping into the newsroom. At 12:57 a.m. EDT, CMAQ reporters confirmed via eyewitnesses that the Medical Center had been tear-gassed by riot police. The clinic was moved to the CMAQ building. As of 1:29 a.m. EDT -- Sunday, April 22, 2001 -- CMAQ staffers confirmed that the young man shot in the throat with a plastic bullet last night is in critical but stable condition at St. Foy Hospital in Quebec City, Quebec. Other reports of serious injuries and police brutality continued to mount all last night and this morning and afternoon. People who had attended the previous protests in Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia continue to insist that the situation here is worse than all prior protests. One of the more serious reports is that a man suffered eye injuries after being struck in the face by shrapnel from an exploding tear gas canister. The Quebec Legal Collective reports confirmation that more than 30 canisters of "noxious gases," such as tear gas and pepper spray, were fired in various places in the city last night. Besides gassing, many of the acts of police brutality include the firing of rubber and plastic bullets at protesters. Quebec Legal Collective observers have collected whole bullets and shells from the ground. The legal team also reports the use of metal "bean bags" shot from police weapons. Additionally, there is one confirmed report of a man with a broken arm hit by a tear gas canister reportedly fired at close range (less than one meter, or two feet). As for arrests, the Quebec Legal Collective confirmed -- by receiving calls from jailed prisoners themselves -- a total of 430 arrested protesters. Of these, 250 were arrested between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m last night. Most of the arrests took place near Rue St. Joseph and Rue de l'Couronne. These streets are several city blocks from the security perimeter and are supposedly in designated "green" zones -- areas of low-risk of arrest, where no illegal behavior was to take place. Some of the protesters arrested yesterday and Friday have been released. The charges are varied, and are mostly for minor infractions such as criminal mischief and "being suspect," a dubious term that does not appear to be a legal criminal charge. Patrick Deschenes, the missing roommate of my Canadian host, has still not been positively located. But at approximately 8:00 a.m. EDT, our host, Sarah Gognan, was told that others of her friends arrested in the same incident are now out of jail. These friends confirmed that Mr. Deschenes is in the jail. Jaggi Singh, the activist reported kidnapped by police on Friday, is still in jail and police say he will not be released until Wednesday, April 25, 2001. Police have not said why he will be detained so long. At 1:30 p.m. EDT this afternoon, an attorney from the Quebec Legal Collective came to the CMAQ newsroom to announce that he is filing a class action lawsuit on behalf of those who have suffered civil rights abuses and police brutality. He is looking for victims of police brutality to interview. The Quebec Legal Collective reports they have received more than 30 reports of people being detained on the streets and questioned by riot police. They also report they have spoken with and received reports that many vans, buses, and cars have been stopped. Reports include incidents of police unlawfully demanding identification from all passengers in cars, unlawful searches of people on the street who are not under arrest and do not consent to the search, and the ticketing of people who have tear gas masks -- none of which are illegal acts under the Canadian Charter of Government. Additionally, the Quebec Legal Collective reports numerous eyewitness reports of over a dozen "targeted arrests" of protesters. Police have made targeted, pre-planned arrests of specific people, without regard to their currentactions -- presumably as "preventive arrests." For example, the legal team reports three police cars pulled up on the side of the road, jumped out and tackled a person to the ground. In another situation witnessed by legal observers, two undercover police vans picked up three people as they were walking peacefully by a gas station. Finally, the legal team reports that more than 300 people from the United States were turned back at the border attempting to enter Canada. People turned back had their personal belongings (including phonebooks, literature, and journals) photocopied and were interrogated about their political beliefs and activities before they were turned away. Over 15 people were detained at the New York and Vermont borders and have not yet been released. Actions today are decidedly calmer so far. Activists are apparently centering their attention around "solidarity protests" outside the Orainsville prison, the Quebec City facility where those arrested last night are currently jailed. Protesters are shouting outside the prison walls for the unconditional release of all the remaining protesters who are imprisoned. There are no scheduled actions planned for the security perimeter fence, as there were yesterday, but there are reports of tear gassings at Rene Levesque near the site of yesterday's initial fence destruction. CMAQ independent reporters have been dispatched to investigate. More details as they become available. Minute-by-minute reports continue to filter in to the CMAQ newsroom. Reporting from the protest in Quebec City, I'm Cliff Pearson, Quebec IMC. ---------------------------- ftaa-l ----------------------------- resisting the FTAA and capitalist globalization mobilizing for Quebec City, April 2001 creating alternatives ----- to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to: with the following text only: unsubscribe ---------------------------- ftaa-l ----------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor www.debticated.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: mobglobplan-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:01:19 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "A. Brady" Subject: One Hundred Days anthology [please forward] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear friends, The deadline for contributing to the 100 Days project - an anthology of politically activated writings and drawings, responding to the first rumbles from our brand-spanking administration - has, technically, passed. I'm now beginning the lengthy process of typesetting what has turned out to be an encouragingly large array of material. I may still be able to include submissions that reach me within the next few days: so hurry up and send in your dissent! Please feel free to contact me, also, with any questions about the project. Best wishes, Andrea Brady (Barque Press) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BARQUE PRESS invites you to contribute to a special number: ONE HUNDRED DAYS. To be published on 30 April, 100 days after George W Bush was inaugurated. We urgently request critical responses to the first centenary of this new administration, from writers and artists in the US and around the world. Poetry, prose, satire, collage, red marginalia, infuriated scribblings, utopias, lament cycles, editorials, comic monologues, vexed encyclopedias, sick cartoons, dream poems, scatologies, prophesies, journalistic digs, grammatical treatises and any misshapen deformed genre conceived in his image, all welcome. If we receive enough contributions, the volume will be distributed and deposited, as a feeble testament to creative dissent in a terrible time. Please send submissions, questions or suggestions by return (to this e-mail address: ab204@cam.ac.uk) or to: A. Brady, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, CB2 1TA, ENGLAND. (www.barquepress.com) Please also forward this invitation to all able-minded potential participants. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:45:10 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daisy Fried Subject: Duhamel at Haverford Wednesday!!! Comments: To: sam@citypaper.net, wh@dept.english.upenn.edu, WOM-PO@listserv.muohio.edu, wwhitma@waltwhitmancenter.org, whpoets@english.upenn.edu, info@leeway.org, MacPoet1@aol.com Comments: cc: joss_magazine@hotmail.com, GasHeart@aol.com, apr@libertynet.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DENISE DUHAMEL author of Queen for A Day: New and Selected Poems and many other books of poetry will give a reading at HAVERFORD COLLEGE'S SHARPLESS AUDITORIUM 370 Lancaster Ave Haverford, PA on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, at 7:30 pm. Directions: www.haverford.edu/hcweb/hcdirect.html or 610.896.1000 Denise Duhamel is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Queen For A Day, Kinky, Girl Soldier, The Star Spangled Banner and many others. An NEA Fellow and assistant professor at Florida International University, her poems have been widely anthologized, including in the KGB Bar Book of Poems, American Poetry: The Next Generation, The Barbie Chronicles: A Real Doll Turns Forty, and in four volumes of the Best American Poetry. "Frank O'Hara said something about only three American poets being better than the movies, but I think Denise Duhamel would make him add a fourth!"--Bill Knott "Denise Duhamel is a red-headed, red-lipped wild woman, a human and humane poet who isn't afraid to tackle any subject: violence, racism, AIDS, bulimia, childlessness, the myth of Bluebeard, the phenomenon of Barbie. Queen for a Day is exuberant, brazen, bold, honest as hell, audaciously unpretentious and outrageously self-referential, a Frank O'Hara meets Lucille Ball meets Sandra Bernhard of a book: sin verguenza!"--Dorianne Laux "Denise Duhamel's poems are kinky she's like a girl soldier some days a woman with two vaginas on others I like the way she belts out 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at the ballpark her affectionate embrace of the world's full of grace (though the world itself is not) and her titles do what titles should do they make you want to read the texts they head" --David Lehman ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:47:15 -0700 Reply-To: yan@pobox.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: matvei yankelevich Subject: ,,,,, ANTI * READING ,,,, Comments: To: ugly.duckling@pobox.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii thanks to all who made our UNVEILING party at HALCYON so successful: much was unveiled, including the new issue of 6x6 (ONE TANGERINE) , now available at independent bookstores for a whopping 3 dollaroonies! and now... ugly duckling presse is pleased to announce its involvement in the 1st ANTI-READING organized by LOUDMOUTH COLLECTIVE (with assistance from SOFT SKULL) to be held in the main space of TONIC from 1:30 to 4pm in the afternoon on Saturday the 28th of April. Exhibiting poems, Collaborating with the Audience, and Performing Books.... James Hoff, Sam Truitt, Joel Schlemowitz, Ryan Haley, Matvei Yankelevich, Ellie Ga, Julien Poirier, Filip Marinovic, Richard Kostelanetz and more. and just before that happens... THE FOLLOWING IS HIGHLY RECOMENDED... come join the ugly ducklings who shall be in attendance... Wednesday, April 25th, 2001. 10pm. Andrew D'Angelo / Jaime Fennelly electro-acoustic duos andy: alto sax, bass clarinet & powerbook jaime: double-bass & powerbook @ Pete's Candy Store (the only candy they have is our music, booze and some tasty grilled cheeze sandwiches, sorry, no Klondike bars) 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn www.petescandystore.com (a very cool website for a very cool space) the record will be released hopefully sometime in mid-june... DIRECTIONS! take the "L" train or "G" train and get off at Lorimer Street/Metropolitan Ave. Walk up Metropolitan Ave a couple of blocks (in the direction of the slight incline, not in the direction of the highway overpass). Take a left on Lorimer. Walk down a few more blocks, walk under highway overpass and it's about two/three blocks after that on the left side of Lorimer Street (b/w Frost & Richardson). Here's a link to a map as well: http://www.petescandystore.com/pete's_map.html AND FURTHER ALONG... Saturday MAY 5 at 8 sharp: udp's Matvei Yankelevich reads with Boston's "Dead Cat Bounce" at the KNITTING FACTORY, 74 Leonard Street, NYC, in the Knit-Active Soundstage 8 - 8:50 pm only: Dead Cat Bounce Matt Steckler - alto sax, flute Charlie Kohlhase - alto and bari saxes Felipe Salles - bari, tenor and soprano saxes, clarinet Jason Hunter - tenor and soprano saxes Gary Wicks - bass Eric Thompson (this show only!) - drums ...special guest wordisms by Matvei Yankelevich our website: www.bostonbands.com/deadcatbounce PLUS 9 - 9:50 pm: GUT (Grand Unified Theory) 10 - 10:50 pm: Lettuce Prey... 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Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:11:40 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetics List Administration Subject: notice re political content MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is just a note to remind the restless that posting re political events is consonant with the stated mission of the Poetics List - especially in the case of the Hawai`i educators' strikes, which directly - even bodily - involve some of our favorite poets. Christopher W. Alexander poetics list moderator -- from section 3 of the Welcome Message, "Posting to the List": Please note that while this list is primarily concerned with poetry and poetics, messages relating to politics and political activism, film, art, media, and so forth are also welcome. Feel free to query the list moderators if you are uncertain as to whether a message is appropriate. All correspondence with the editors regarding submissions to the list remains confidential and should be directed to us at . We encourage subscribers to post information on publications and reading series that they have coordinated, edited, published, or in which they appear. Such announcements constitute a core function of this list. Brief reviews of poetry events and publications are always welcome. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:14:24 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetics List Administration Subject: notice re political content 2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit oops: for "editors" read "moderators" - I should have used cut-and-paste! Christopher W. Alexander poetics list moderator ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:17:17 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sorry to have pestered you, though I may do so again in future. There's always the delete key, you know. Many thanks to those who back and front-channeled their support to me and Juliana and, by extension, to Steve Carll and Bill Luoma. Poets' flesh and professors' bodies so often being the same, I thought I'd communicate how effectively they are being flayed here. Without education there are very few readers or writers of poetry, even if not all poets are teachers. I could say a lot more about the death of the poets in the schools program in this state, which it seems to me is intimately related to our current woes. The governor, after all, wants education that generates revenues. A recent question from an LA Times reporter to me, "is WS Merwin a major poet?" seems far less relevant to the health of poetry in this state than does the governor's attempt to scrap public education. But enough. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Potter" To: Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:44 AM Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry I agree. While I wish them the best of luck in their strike, seems to me this would better fit a ³lifestyles/concerns of college instructors² list or something. While ³professor² and ³poet² often share the same flesh, this is the ³poetics list² not ³professor list.² Anyhow, I¹m just a neophyte shooting my mouth off, but what I hoped to find here when I signed on a couple weeks back, that cannot be found elsewhere, is info on contemporary poetry/experimental writing world to broaden my horizons as reader/writer/art appreciator/creator. David Chirot¹s post on relation of film to writing, with its examples, names, and suggested further reading, is a fine example of the sort of post I hoped to see. on 4/20/01 8:14 AM, michael amberwind at michael_amberwind@YAHOO.COM wrote: > and some dinosaurs are concerned that matters of > aesthetics, poetry and are being usurped by > political concerns - i wonder where they got such > and idea? > > i suppose if a poem were written on the matter - > and posted to the list - i might be "convinced" > that such people were simply being reactionary > > when newspaper reportage becomes poetry, i can't > help but think something went wrong somewhere > along the line - but trying to tell the > difference between this list and any other > politically motivated list (with its own "slant") > has been getting difficult as of late > > of course - i could be crazy... ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:19:53 -0700 Reply-To: rovasax@rova.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rova Saxophone Quartet Subject: TAYLOR BRADY/DODIE BELLAMY AT MOVING TARGET, SF 4/27,28 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Moving Target Series presents Performance, music, and readings by Friday, April 27 Koji Asano e-mael Taylor Brady N-Heat Saturday, April 28 Jess Hilliard Kathyrn Williamson Dodie Bellamy Brian Storts Capp Street Community Music Center, 544 Capp St. (at 20th), San Francisco Friday April 27 and Saturday, April 28, 8.30pm Both shows $7-10 sliding scale; call 415.647.9334 for more information. Moving Target Series announces a special weekend of performance at Capp Street Community Music Center, April 27-28, featuring the Japanese electro-acoustic musician Koji Asano. Asano’s Cage-like experiments in sound can be heard on the 20 CDs he’s released, visiting every genre from the solo piano, to the “guitar band,” to experimental electronics, to strings, with his group the Koji Asano Ensemble based in Tokyo. He has produced original soundtracks for dance, film, and video art, collaborated with sculptors and painters on exhibitions in Moscow, Puskin, and Latvia, and premiered a string quartet at Vingtieme Theater in Paris in June 1999. He is currently working in Barcelona to compose a new orchestra piece to be shown at L ’Auditori de Barcelona in October 2001, and is making a special visit to the Bay Area this weekend only. visit http://personal4.iddeo.es/koji/KOJI_ASANO.html for more information Dodie Bellamy is a novelist, critic and cultural journalist. She has written a novel, The Letters of Mina Harker (Hard Press, 1998), a collection of memoirs, Feminine Hijinx (Hanuman, 1990), an epistolary collaboration on AIDS with the late Sam D'Allesandro, Real (Talisman House, 1994), and three smaller books, Answer (Leave Books, 1993), Broken English (Meow, 1996), and Hallucinations (Meow, 1997). One of the original "New Narrative" writers of the early and mid 80's, Bellamy has worked hard to bring together the sometimes disparate paths of art, poetry and the novel, including a triumphant five-year stint as director of the seminal San Francisco writing lab, Small Press Traffic. In recognition of her efforts she won the prestigious Bay Guardian "Goldie" Award for Literature in 1998. San Francisco poet Taylor Brady’s poetry and prose has appeared in a number of journals, including Kenning, COMBO, The Queen Street Quarterly, and Mirage #4/Period(ical). His chapbook Is Placed/Leaves was published by Meow Press (Buffalo, 1996. More recent work from a novel-in-progress was published as the chapbook 33549 by Leroy Books in San Francisco, 2000. The novel, Microclimates, is forthcoming from Krupskaya Books this summer. Brady has recently presented readings and performances at Small Press Traffic, Modern Times Books, and New Langton Arts, where he was a recipient of the 2000 Bay Area Award for Literature. Jess Hilliard’s recent solo show at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery was called Jess Hilliard: An Undying Fascination and Love for All Animals, Especially the Cute Ones, with drawings by Jess and featured works by Dieselhead singer/artist Virgil Shaw, Chris Johanson, Bob Linder and artist Alicia McCarthy, as well as readings and from Hilliard's book, Hi Friend. He is collaborating with Cleveland Leffler. N'HEAT is a hot mixture of ass-bouncing electronica and video art. This four-member crew would like to be known by their N'HEAT names; Bustamental, Oranjaboom, Mastermind and House, but rumour has it they are all recognizable members of the thriving alternative arts scene here in San Francisco. Kathryn Williamson is a performance artist whose work investigates different contexts within and outside of her body based on the idea of endurance and testing boundaries. She challenges and entertains the audience with a fresh look at the seemingly obvious and mundane, while hearkening back to classic'70s performance art. Ms. Williamson has performed nationally, as well as many venues in the Bay Area including The Lab, four walls, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In 2000 she received the Bay Area Award for Performance from New Langton Arts. In the fall she will attempt to vacuum living rooms across the United States. Brian Storts’ 4. Recent and upcoming events; a. Curated "PRIME TIME" a television talk and game show for artists for the Salon Series 2001. b. "The Elsewhere Festival" Williamsburg, New York, September 2001 c. "Bing Bang Art festival" New Orleans, September 2001 Once legalized by Judge Loretta M. Norris of the superior court of the State of California for the County of San Francisco on 20 January 1998, e-mael has been safely administered to the public locally in spaces such as the San Francisco Art institute, the Luggage Store, Intersection for the Arts, Theater Rhinoceros, the Oakland Museum of California, Galería de la Raza, La Peña Cultural Center, Somarts Cultural Center and Southern Exposure. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:22:15 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Wystan Curnow (FOA ENG)" Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable steve, i am sorry i am not with you on this. poetry is something i = profess (within and without the learnery which pays me). i have a great concern = for the fates of fellow poetry professors, those in the Pacific hemisphere particularly, and the messages from susan and juliana are for me a = reason to be on this list. wystan in the South Pacific=20 -----Original Message----- From: Steve Potter [mailto:spotter@SPEAKEASY.ORG] Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 2001 8:44 a.m. To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry I agree. While I wish them the best of luck in their strike, seems to = me this would better fit a =B3lifestyles/concerns of college = instructors=B2 list or something. While =B3professor=B2 and =B3poet=B2 often share the same = flesh, this is the =B3poetics list=B2 not =B3professor list.=B2 Anyhow, I=B9m just a neophyte shooting my mouth off, but what I hoped = to find here when I signed on a couple weeks back, that cannot be found = elsewhere, is info on contemporary poetry/experimental writing world to broaden my horizons as reader/writer/art appreciator/creator. David Chirot=B9s post on relation of film to writing, with its = examples, names, and suggested further reading, is a fine example of the sort of = post I hoped to see.=20 on 4/20/01 8:14 AM, michael amberwind at michael_amberwind@YAHOO.COM = wrote: > and some dinosaurs are concerned that matters of > aesthetics, poetry and are being usurped by > political concerns - i wonder where they got such > and idea? >=20 > i suppose if a poem were written on the matter - > and posted to the list - i might be "convinced" > that such people were simply being reactionary >=20 > when newspaper reportage becomes poetry, i can't > help but think something went wrong somewhere > along the line - but trying to tell the > difference between this list and any other > politically motivated list (with its own "slant") > has been getting difficult as of late >=20 > of course - i could be crazy... ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:54:15 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pam Brown Subject: new vagabonds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii · an invitation to celebrate · · John Tranter launches Pam Brown's selection in the Rare Object Series from Vagabond Press Live readings from Ken Bolton, Lidija Cvetkovic, Ted Nielsen and Sam Wagan Watson. Everyone welcome Upstairs Bar, Lansdowne Hotel, Corner City Road & Broadway Glebe (Opposite Victoria Park) Sydney Sunday May 6th at 3pm · The titles are "Horizon" - Ken Bolton "War Is Not The Season For Figs" - Lidija Cvetkovic "wet robots" - ted nielsen "hotel bone" - Sam Wagan Watson Available for A MERE $7.70 (Australian) each from Vagabond Press, P.O. Box 80, NEWTOWN NSW 2042 AUSTRALIA or via email from Liz Allen - lizbo22@hotmail.com ===== Web site/P.Brown - http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/7629/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:02:05 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas Bell Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun Comments: To: Patrick Herron MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit have you had a chance to look at Barrett's paper on linking and his comments on Stafford's 'deterministic' view of mind. I try to link the visual and verbal in a way that is neither random nor determined by the structure of the hardware/software but it is not easy. tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Herron" To: Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 4:39 PM Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun > Murat, Alan - > > I just want to say that there is more to art than connections, analogy, > linkages, attractions. If there's nothing in what is being linked and there > is only something in the link itself, then does the link really exist > anyway? I mean, is a link really a link if it links nothing? I don't know > who wrote this but the statement sounds like a silly and blind pronouncement > rife with pomo utopianism. Sorry to be so frank, but I know you are both > very intelligent people who can stomach my strong language without too much > resentment. Call me a late modernist if you will, but surely you must agree > there's more to literature than just connection. Let's not forget that what > is connected, the things in themselves, are just as dubious or certain as > the reality of the links. There is much to connection, surely, *but only > where there are at least two things to be connected*. > > More important than a link is the very *act* of making a link. This is why > I'm so critical of hypertext, because people have left the act of making > leaps and relationships to machines and not to humans, making machines > dictate wondrous turns in art. *Linking* is more important than a link in > itself, yes? And that very human act of creating a link while experiencing > a piece of art is an act of creation itself, a wondrous act best left to our > imaginations, not to some stern logical control unit and CPU (which forms > perhaps a Monarchy made of sand, as in silicon). I feel we must make > opportunities for people to make their own links, however arbitrary the > links may be, that there are things in out art than the things that connect > things. > > Thanks, > Patrick > > > Patrick Herron > patrick@proximate.org > http://proximate.org/ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Murat Nemet-Nejat" > > To: > > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:22 AM > > Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun > > > > > > > In a message dated 4/19/01 8:33:55 AM, sondheim@PANIX.COM writes: > > > > > > > > > >nervousness leads to strange links and attractions: > > > > > > strange links and attractions is what art is all about. > > > > > > > > > >you might begin thinking nothing of written language: > > > > > > promise, I love you too, baby,! Not that words are unimportant, but, did > > you > > > think the eye is a dumb blond? the eye thinks too. > > > > > > > > > >these people out there, who are they, what do they do: > > > > > > You mean the same emptiness doesn't surround the writer? > > > > > > > > > >reading hacks you into more and different brains: > > > > > > So does watching. > > > > > > > > > >the backs of things are airless: > > > > > > the backs of a book, a movie screen, a T.V. screen are the same dead > > space. > > > > > > > > > >the screen casts shadows of the sun: > > > > > > how true. we all live in Plato's cave. > > > > > > > > > My best. > > > > > > Murat > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:56:19 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas Bell Subject: Re: One Hundred Days anthology [please forward] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrea, I may have missed this when first announced. I have been involved with an email and website citizens' group campaigning to get a drug restored to the market after the FDA raised questions based on a Purblic Citizen petition. It's a complicated thing that I am going to try to turn into a poetic symphony. The url will be http://members.tripod.com/~trbell/metaphor/fgid.htm when it is finished. Maybe you could put this in. tom bell ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Brady" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 5:01 PM Subject: One Hundred Days anthology [please forward] > Dear friends, > > The deadline for contributing to the 100 Days project - an anthology of > politically activated writings and drawings, responding to the first rumbles > from our brand-spanking administration - has, technically, passed. I'm now > beginning the lengthy process of typesetting what has turned out to be an > encouragingly large array of material. I may still be able to include > submissions that reach me within the next few days: so hurry up and send in > your dissent! > > Please feel free to contact me, also, with any questions about the project. > > Best wishes, > Andrea Brady > (Barque Press) > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > BARQUE PRESS invites you to contribute to a special number: > > ONE HUNDRED DAYS. > > To be published on 30 April, 100 days after George W Bush was inaugurated. > > We urgently request critical responses to the first centenary of this new > administration, from writers and artists in the US and around the world. > Poetry, prose, satire, collage, red marginalia, infuriated scribblings, > utopias, lament cycles, editorials, comic monologues, vexed encyclopedias, sick > cartoons, dream poems, scatologies, prophesies, journalistic digs, grammatical > treatises and any misshapen deformed genre conceived in his image, all welcome. > > If we receive enough contributions, the volume will be distributed and > deposited, as a feeble testament to creative dissent in a terrible time. > > Please send submissions, questions or suggestions by return (to this e-mail > address: ab204@cam.ac.uk) or to: A. Brady, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, > CB2 1TA, ENGLAND. (www.barquepress.com) > > Please also forward this invitation to all able-minded potential participants. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:29:19 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: M L Weber Subject: Sugar Mule -- Issue 7 online on May 15th Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed In six issues, Sugar Mule has published: Paul Hoover, Pierre Joris, Lance Olsen, M. L. Weber, Kate Lila Wheeler, Ray Ronci, John Williams, Michael Heller, Jeremy J. Huffman, Linda Bohe, Mark Amerika, Jane Augustine, Michael Coffey, Jana Hays, Bob Harrison, David Golumbia, Andrew Schelling, Fred Muratori, E. McGrand, Michael Heller, Kristen Ankiewicz, Lance Olsen, Peter Wild, Rochelle Ratner, Bill Berkson, Elaine Equi, Laurel Speer, Trevor Dodge, Paul Beckman, Susan Wheeler, James Bertolino, Clayton Eshleman, Sheila E. Murphy, Amie Siegel, Patricia Dubrava, Elizabeth Fox, Brett Evans, H. Kassia Fleisher, Jean Anderson, Sharon Dolin, Laurel Speer, Cheryl Burket, Elsa Cross, and Vandana Shiva. and is looking for new work -- esp. prose (any genre) -- for its seventh issue. Visit the site at www.sugarmule.com ---you NEED to type in the WWW--- to read submission guidelines and the latest issue. Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2001. We also welcome any comments you might have. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:47:06 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Arielle C. Greenberg" Subject: "All Things Considered" broadcast, etc. In-Reply-To: <200104231617.f3NGHDU21753@nico.bway.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I heard Charles Bernstein's essay on NPR and it made my day, especially as I had just come out of a particularly pandering workshop experience with a poet who shall go unnamed. This essay made me very proud to be part of this listserv! As, I must say, have the recent postings about issues of political import and social justice, including the reports from the U Hawai'i strike and the anti-Bush anthology. I recently saw Minnie Bruce Pratt read her work, and really she mostly talked about various political issues she's involved in. Her poetry is not the kind of thing I usually go for, but I have to say I was struck by how *relevant*, in an obvious way, it was, and how closely she's melded her poetry life with her political life. Afterwards I asked her about this, about how she brought the two together, and she basically responded by saying it is only in my insulated little academic poetry world where poetry and politics AREN'T united. I don't neccessarily agree with this -- I still think certain kinds of poetries and politics are kept separate, and anyway, even if you're only talking about "academic" (and what does that mean, really? experimental? confessional? lyric?) poetry, it's still an issue to think about that should not be easily dismissed: how does one be an artist and an activist? To me this is really a question of how best can one live one's life. Art and activism are two of the most crucial elements in my life. This is obviously true for many people on this list, judging from the posts. Ok, now, disclaimer. This was written quickly and off the cuff. I have been reluctant to post opinionated things of this sort in the past because of the intimidation factor: I didn't want to be the recipient of flames or attacks. I'm sure there is much in the above that could be denied or is somehow incorrect. Nonetheless. I like seeing political (and, I'll admit it, by that I mean "lefty") postings on this list. I think it's important. I have great admiration for list members who are doing something to make the world safer, more just, cleaner, more complex, etc. And I'll stop now before someone throws something at me. Arielle On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Charles Bernstein wrote: > An adaption of my essay about National Poetry Month was recently broadcast on > National Public Radio's "All Things Considered". You can listen to it in > RealAudio at > > http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010419.atc.09.ram > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:20:28 -0600 Reply-To: derek beaulieu Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: derek beaulieu Organization: housepress Subject: wanted: concrete & visual poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > housepress is currently accepting submissions of > > previously unpublished > concrete and visual poetry > > for publication in its ongoing chapbook and pamphlet series now in its 4th > year, with over 175 publications to date.. > > housepress > 1339 19th ave nw > calgary alberta > canada t2m 1a5 > > http://www.telusplanet.net/public/housepre ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:02:04 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Murat. I see that. I fired my guns then looked back at what you'sd said. Then I thought...no that's not exactly an "attack". And the other thought was: well, even if it was, he has a perfect right to criticise. So you (of course you dont need me to tell you) you had a perfect right to do what you werent doing! My error. Interesting response by you anycase. Regards, Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Murat Nemet-Nejat" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:58 AM Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun > Richard, > > Actually, what I was doing was not a criticism of alan. I find a good deal of > what he is doing very interesting. It was an antiphonal response in the > tradition of some Eastern folk forms -also something John Webster does (as > echoes) in "The Duchess of Malfi" (I think). > > Murat > > > > > In a message dated 4/23/01 2:49:58 PM, richard.tylr@XTRA.CO.NZ writes: > > >But I think you miss some subtleties of what Alan is doing by this kind > >of > > > >analysis. Read that thing aloud. When I saw it I had the sun (outside ) > > > >behind my computer screen....and i could "see" where Alan was coming from. > > > >Breaking it up to "analyse" it is futile. The whole thing works both on > >a > > > >conceptual level and a "deeper" level.Alan Sondheim is both prolific and > > > >very talented. Where are your poems? Regards, Richard Taylor. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > >From: "Murat Nemet-Nejat" > > > >To: > > > >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:22 AM > > > >Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun > > > > > > > > > > > >> In a message dated 4/19/01 8:33:55 AM, sondheim@PANIX.COM writes: > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> >nervousness leads to strange links and attractions: > > > >> > > > >> strange links and attractions is what art is all about. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> >you might begin thinking nothing of written language: > > > >> > > > >> promise, I love you too, baby,! Not that words are unimportant, but, > >did > > > >you > > > >> think the eye is a dumb blond? the eye thinks too. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> >these people out there, who are they, what do they do: > > > >> > > > >> You mean the same emptiness doesn't surround the writer? > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> >reading hacks you into more and different brains: > > > >> > > > >> So does watching. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> >the backs of things are airless: > > > >> > > > >> the backs of a book, a movie screen, a T.V. screen are the same dead > > > >space. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> >the screen casts shadows of the sun: > > > >> > > > >> how true. we all live in Plato's cave. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> My best. > > > >> > > > >> Murat > > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:55:19 -0600 Reply-To: derek beaulieu Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: derek beaulieu Organization: housepress Subject: .aural performance #001: Sound-text exhibit & performance by AARON LEVY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit .aural performance #001 ---------- Sound-text exhibit & performance by AARON LEVY followed by open discussion >> Sunday April 29th, 7:30 pm << 11th Floor, Social Sciences, English Departmental Lounge University of Calgary, Canada .aural addresses anonymity, the archival, and the idea of language as sound, engaging new writing, printing and musical technologies. .aural is the result of a four-month collaboration between Aaron Levy and Andrew Zitcer, in Philadelphia. It began with culling 130 aphorisms from the 8-part spoken diaries of John Cage, then modulating and manipulating these aphorisms as digitized sound files. Aaron and Andrew then programmed their sound-file manipulations to be engaged by scanner "pen" passing across printed barcodes. A large book made for the exhibit features the printed barcodes. Exhibit participants will be invited to trigger the sound files by opening the book and passing the scanner pen across the various barcodes, releasing composed sound-texts based on Cage's voice. Monitors in the room will display streaming text by Cage, incessantly renewing, at random, the order and flow of John Cage's culled language. AARON LEVY is a photographer and writer living in Philadelphia. He most recently visited Calgary to present a Transparency Machine event (http://slought.net/exp/transparency/) and coordinate live audiocasting for PhillyTalks #18 (http://phillytalks.org). He runs the nonprofit online multimedia umbrella arts initiative, Slought Networks (http://slought.net), where many of his own works can be found. This presentation is the inaugural event of CalgaryWritersHouse, a soon-to-be web-based initiative of arts programming coordinated by Derek Beaulieu, Louis Cabri, Aaron Levy, Andrea Strudensky and Fred Wah. Stay tuned to http://calgarywritershouse.com. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:30:35 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jerrold Shiroma Subject: =?Windows-1252?Q?andr=E9_du_bouchet_/_roger_laporte?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit André du Bouchet 1924-2001 http://www.lemonde.fr/rech_art/0,5987,174821,00.html Roger Laporte 1925-2001 http://www.lmda.net/direct/laporte.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:24:48 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: T Pelton Subject: Starcherone Books Announces MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Starcherone Books announces the republication of a classic of postmodern fiction, Raymond Federman's The Voice in the Closet. The text is newly revised in both French and English by Federman and features images by artist Terri Katz Kasimov from her "Federman Series." There is also a foreword by Gerard Bucher. The Voice in the Closet is available in Buffalo at Talking Leaves Books and Rust Belt Books. The title is Starcherone's second publication, following my own Endorsed by Jack Chapeau. Both are also available on amazon.com. Forthright requests for review copies will be honored. "This is a book of unusual power, written as carefully as a poem, demanding that the reader 're-scan' every step of the way . . . . The Voice in the Closet astonishes partly because nothing in Federman's previous work, with its writerly and bookish determination somehow to demonstrate the world of writing as, say, Derrida and Lacan envisage and describe it, nothing in his previous work prepares us for the obsessive immediacy of this." - Peter Quartermain, Chicago Review, 1980. Ted Pelton Starcherone Books 340 Maryland Street Buffalo, NY 14201 http://www.starcherone.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:25:29 -0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: ian davidson Subject: Re: Sugar Mule -- Issue 7 online on May 15th Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Is that deadline correct? Ian >From: M L Weber >Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Sugar Mule -- Issue 7 online on May 15th >Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:29:19 -0400 > >In six issues, Sugar Mule has published: > >Paul Hoover, Pierre Joris, Lance Olsen, M. L. Weber, Kate Lila Wheeler, Ray >Ronci, John Williams, Michael Heller, Jeremy J. Huffman, Linda Bohe, Mark >Amerika, Jane Augustine, Michael Coffey, Jana Hays, >Bob Harrison, David Golumbia, Andrew Schelling, Fred Muratori, E. McGrand, >Michael Heller, Kristen Ankiewicz, Lance Olsen, > >Peter Wild, Rochelle Ratner, Bill Berkson, Elaine Equi, Laurel Speer, >Trevor >Dodge, Paul Beckman, Susan Wheeler, James Bertolino, > >Clayton Eshleman, Sheila E. Murphy, Amie Siegel, Patricia Dubrava, >Elizabeth >Fox, Brett Evans, H. Kassia Fleisher, Jean Anderson, Sharon Dolin, Laurel >Speer, Cheryl Burket, Elsa Cross, and Vandana Shiva. > > and is looking for new work -- esp. prose (any genre) -- > for its seventh issue. > > Visit the site at > > www.sugarmule.com ---you NEED to type in the WWW--- > > to read submission guidelines and the latest issue. > > Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2001. > >We also welcome any comments you might have. > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:11:22 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Jullich Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Wystan Curnow (FOA ENG)" wrote: steve, i am sorry i am not with you on this. ------------------------------------------------------------ Perhaps interestingly, about your Subject Header "Tarpits of Poetry,"--- the use of "tarpits" as a derogatory/cautionary term etymologically emerged not from what you might expect, a realistic dread of pratfalls into tarpits, say, the infamous La Brea tarpits all those poor dinosaurs fell into {glub! glub!} but from a Biblical allusion (Gen. 14:10, KJV: "And the vale of Siddim [was full] of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain"), you Good Book thumpers. I forget which critic made that point and about which author's to-me-previously-undetectable allusion: perhaps about a use of "tarpits" in Proust, ---or Wilde? ---or Winkelmann? ---or---? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:20:29 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Richard Dindas Subject: D Perry / J Waters Boston Reading 4/28 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Perry & Jacqueline Waters reading Saturday, April 28 4 pm Burren Irish Pub Somerville, Massachusetts 247 Elm Street (Davis Square) ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:34:26 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: BT Henry Subject: Beckman and Richards reading in Providence MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Joshua Beckman and Peter Richards will read at the Providence Atheneaum, 251 Benefit Street (at College), at 7:00pm on Thursday, May 3. Beckman's second book, Something I Expected To Be Different, and Richards' first, Oubliette, have just been published by Verse Press. Brian Henry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:43:19 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Al Filreis Subject: June Jordan webcast recordings now available Comments: To: jordanwebcastfriends@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit w e b c a s t r e c o r d i n g s n o w a v a i l a b l e June Jordan at the Writers House April 23-24, 2001 as a Kelly Writers House Fellow As a Kelly Writers House Fellow, on April 23, 2001, June Jordan gave a reading from her memoir, SOLDIER, and from her poetry, including new, uncollected work. The event was recorded digitally and is now linked to the Writers House web site: www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/webcasts/jordan.html On April 24, 2001, Jordan returned to the Writers House for an interview/conversation moderated by Al Filreis, Faculty Director of the Writers House. This program was webcast live. A recording of that webcast is available at the same site noted above. We have also made available excerpts of Jordan reading individual poems at the Writers House. The two excerpts are: * "Focus in Real Time" (from KISSING GOD GOODBYE) * "Poem about My Rights" (the widely anthologized poem) Teachers of poetry are encouraged to link these audio-and-video versions of the poems to course sites and/or to use them with students. For more about Writers House webcasts, including an archive featuring, among many others, Tony Kushner, Slavoj Zizek, Kenneth Goldsmith, John Wideman, John Updike, Robert Creeley, Thalia Field, Joan Retallack, Marjorie Perloff, Grace Paley, Tom Wolfe, David Sedaris, and Edwin Torres, go here: www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/webcasts/ ------------------------------------------------ June Jordan's visit was a collaboration with Art Sanctuary. Writers House Fellows is made possible by a generous grant from Paul K. Kelly. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:58:18 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Bouchard Subject: Pressed Wafer #2 available Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Announcing the second issue of Pressed Wafer, featuring the poems, fiction, and letters of: Sam Cornish Jennifer Moxley Darlene Gold Stephen Jonas August Kleinzahler Marcella Durand Joseph Torra Ange Mlinko with an interview of Jennifer Moxley conducted by Randolph Healy... Plus, a tribute to the artist Joe Brainard with work by: Ron Padgett, Tom Clark, Anne Waldman, Charles North, Lewis Warsh, Ann Lauterbach, James Schuyler, Tom Carey, Eileen Myles, Barbara Barg, Paul Hoover, Maxine Chernoff, Jerome Sala, Elaine Equi, Ed Barrett, Bill Berkson, Sandy Berrigan, Dennis Cooper, David Trinidad, Wayne Koestenbaum, Joe Brainard, Joe LeSueur, Vincent Katz, Cedar Sigo, Duncan Hannah, Ange Mlinko, Darragh Park, Lee Harwood, Peter Gizzi, David Lehman, Michael Friedman, Anselm Berrigan, Anne Dunn, Nathan Kernan, Lee Ann Brown and Kenward Elmslie 284 pages perfect bound Not to be missed! Serious readers only. Rejected by two well-known printers for content. Copies are $12.50 and may be purchased by sending a check to Bill Corbett, 9 Columbus Square, Boston MA 02116. ><>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Daniel Bouchard Senior Production Coordinator The MIT Press Journals Five Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 bouchard@mit.edu phone: 617.258.0588 fax: 617.258.5028 <>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><>> ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:43:05 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: BT Henry Subject: Beckman/Richards/Rohrer reading at Double Happiness MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Verse Press will launch its three spring 2001 books at Double Happiness in NYC on April 29th. The reading is at 6pm. Joshua Beckman / Peter Richards / Matthew Rohrer Double Happiness (173 Mott Street South of Broome). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:01:14 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: The Poetry Project Subject: Announcements Comments: To: announcements@poetryproject.com Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Please note the following date and time change for Gary Lenhart's workshop: Tuesday, May 8th at 8 pm THE ART OF LISTENING: POEMS AND CRITICISM A WORKSHOP TAUGHT BY GARY LENHART Public service announcement, short cut to publication, pedantic gloss, frantic jumping up and down for attention-criticism can be all these things, and boring too. How does one make it something closer to heart, less declamatory, and more responsive? Gary Lenhart is the author of several collections of poems including Father and Son Night (1999) from Hanging Loose Press. He edited The Teachers & Writers Guide to William Carlos Williams (Teachers & Writers, 1998) and Clinch: Selected Poems of Michael Scholnick (Coffee House Press, 1998). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This week and next week at the Poetry Project: Wednesday, April 25th at 8 pm YUKIHIDE MAESHIMA HARTMAN AND CAROL SZAMATOWICZ Born in Japan and long prominent in the New York poetry world, Yukihide Maeshima Hartman is the author of several collections of poetry, including Ping, New Poems, and Coloring Book. "Yuki Hartman orders his images around with the temerity of a lion tamer. He's as gifted a poet as they come," writes Charles North. Carol Szamatowicz is the author of two collections of poems, Cats & Birds and Zoop (The Owl Press, 2001). Her work has appeared in Lingo, The Germ, and The World. Thursday, April 26th at 8 pm A TRIBUTE TO GREGORY CORSO "Corso is a poet's poet, his verse pure velvet, close to John Keats for our time, exquisitely delicate in manners of the Muse," wrote Allen Ginsberg. With readings and talks by over 35 writers, including Patti Smith, Jim Carroll, Ed Sanders, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Eileen Myles, John S. Hall, David Amram, and many others. Celebrated Beat poet Gregory Corso died on January 17, 2001. Born in Greenwich Village in 1930, Corso hooked up with Allen Ginsberg and the other Beat poets at Columbia University in the 1940s. He moved to San Francisco in 1956, quickly fitting into the Beat scene there. Corso's poetic voice was simple, colloquial, funny, and unpretentious. Among his books of poetry and prose are Gasoline (1956), The Happy Birthday of Death (1960), The American Express (1961), Elegiac Feelings, American (1970), and Mindfield (1991). Admission is $7, $5 for Poetry Project members. Friday, April 27th at 9 pm LOOSE LIPS: A SPOKEN WORD CELEBRATION & MINI POETRY BALL The Poetry Project joins forces with the House of Xavier to bring you a night of art, glamour, spoken word, music, and fierce competition! This unique collaboration features: an art installation by Kabildo del Arte; a hip hop performance by Morplay; music by DJB; performances by spoken word artists Carlo Baldi, Romero, Marty McConnell, Latasha Natasha Diggs, Travis Montez, A.B. Lugo, Caridad de la Luz, Jennifer Murphy, Tim Arevalo, Andrew McCarthy, Felice Belle, and others; Fetish Fashion Performance by Gaylyn Designs; Mini Poetry Slam by A Little Bit Louder; and a Mini Poetry Ball produced by The House of Xavier. Trophies will be presented in two categories: "Best Love Poem in Fire Engine Red" and "Best Erotic Slam Performance in Sexy Underwear or Lingerie." The winner from each category will compete in one final round, "Best Verbal Vogue," for a cash prize and featured performance at The House of Xavier's Glam Slam 2001. Sign-up for the Ball begins at 8 pm. The event begins at 9 pm. Admission is $10, $7 for students and seniors, and $5 for Poetry Project Members. Saturday, April 28th at 3 pm BOOK PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF ALLEN GINSBERG'S SPONTANEOUS MIND: SELECTED INTERVIEWS 1958-1996 Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996 by Allen Ginsberg, David Carter (Editor), Edmund White (Introduction), and Vaclav Havel (Preface), presents candid, revelatory interviews, many of which have been out of print for decades. In conjunction with the book party, plaques will be installed in the East Yard of St. Mark's Church commemorating the Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan trees. This event begins at 3 pm and is free and open to the public. Monday, April 30th at 8 pm CHRIS EDGAR AND GRAHAM FOUST Chris Edgar, Publications Director for Teachers & Writers Collaborative, received the Boston Review prize in 2000. Some of his recent poems can be found in The Germ, Shiny, Lincoln Center Theater Review, The Portable Boog Reader, Sal Mimeo, and Best American Poetry 2000. He co-edits The Hat with Jordan Davis. Graham Foust co-edits with Ben Friedlander the online magazine Lagniappe, a journal of poetry and poetics in review. He's currently working on a manuscript, As In Every Deafness, and completing a Ph.D. at the University at Buffalo. His poems and essays have appeared in Salt, Jacket, Verse, Volt, Lingo, and Queen Street Quarterly. Wednesday, May 2nd at 8 pm ELENI SIKELIANOS AND TONY TOWLE Eleni Sikelianos is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks. Earliest Worlds (Coffee House Press, 2001) is her first major collection. Writes Alice Notley of Earliest Worlds, "An original and beautiful poetry, always discovering its own grammar and name, its own secrets. The poetry comes from her and not others: it is incomparable." Tony Towle's most recent book is The History of the Invitation: New & Selected Poems 1963-2000 (Hanging Loose Press, 2001). His work displays "elegance of style, lush imagery, lofty diction, transparent use of metaphor, and numerous devices of wit and rhetoric," writes Charles North. Mr. Towle was the editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter from 1987-1990. * * * Unless otherwise noted, admission to all events is $7, $4 for students and seniors, and $3 for Poetry Project members. Schedule is subject to change. The Poetry Project, located in St. Mark's Church at the corner of 2nd Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan, is wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. Please call (212) 674-0910 for more information or visit our Web site at http://www.poetryproject.com. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:18:34 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - WHAT IT IS about the crayfish, now an epiphany, I am on my way to Miami, she is again on the top of the rock in the aquarium: it is not that she has found her way there, learning and encoding a map - it is that she has found NUMEROUS WAYS there, learning how to CLIMB: it is an entire STYLE or MODE OF BEING she has absorbed: likewise for CLIMBING DOWN: all those early trials and errors, those falls: all those half-hearted leaps: now she RUNS THE GAMUT with ease: this is already a second-order learning: see Bateson: a meta-learning: LEARNING HOW: likewise for her AQUARIUM ROUTING: not one MAP but NUMEROUS: not SCENT or LANDMARK but whole INTERNALS: with her enormous claws it would be easy for her to tangle with the plants but she has learned HOW TO UNTANGLE: it has NOT BEEN EASY FOR HER, but her KNOWLEDGE IS ABOVE THAT OF A SMALL MAMMAL: she is WATCHING ME NOW what it is ABOUT THE CRAYFISH, NOW AN EPIPHANY, i AM ON MY WAY TO mIAMI, SHE IS AGAIN ON THE TOP OF THE ROCK IN THE AQUARIUM: IT IS NOT THAT SHE HAS FOUND HER WAY THERE, LEARNING AND ENCODING A MAP - IT IS THAT SHE HAS FOUND numerous ways THERE, LEARNING HOW TO climb: IT IS AN ENTIRE style OR mode of being SHE HAS ABSORBED: LIKEWISE FOR climbing down: ALL THOSE EARLY TRIALS AND ERRORS, THOSE FALLS: ALL THOSE HALF-HEARTED LEAPS: NOW SHE runs the gamut WITH EASE: THIS IS ALREADY A SECOND-ORDER LEARNING: SEE bATESON: A META-LEARNING: learning how: LIKEWISE FOR HER aquarium routing: NOT ONE map BUT numerous: NOT scent OR landmark BUT WHOLE internals: WITH HER ENORMOUS CLAWS IT WOULD BE EASY FOR HER TO TANGLE WITH THE PLANTS BUT SHE HAS LEARNED how to untangle: IT HAS not been easy for her, BUT HER knowledge is above that of a small mammal: SHE IS watching me now + ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:13:43 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rachel Levitsky Subject: Sense of Place Opening Comments: To: anizon In-Reply-To: <000001c0c373$e1e96a80$d821e4d5@ysjqyhia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello Friends-- I'd like to let you know about an opening at June Bateman's Watermoon Gallery, 211 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013. The new exhibition, Sense of Place, begins April 24, 2001, and continues through May 27, 2001, with a reception on April 27th from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., featuring the work of three emerging artists, Daniel Anizon, Petra Ruzickova and Laura Nash. Daniel Anizon is a friend and collaborator, whose photographs served as the framework/guide for my poem [Possibility, Probability]which can be found at Duration at http://www.durationpress.com/authors/levitsky/possibly.htm and in the new issue of Cello Entry. Please come if you can. yours, Rachel Levitsky Between shows, Ms. Bateman will act as a dealer by appointment from her office at 41 River Terrace, #3808, New York, NY 10282, telephone (212) 227-1431. Continuing virtual exhibitions of gallery artists will be on view at the gallery web site at junebateman.com. -----Original Message----- From: anizon [mailto:anizonda@noos.fr] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:41 AM To: levitsk@attglobal.net Subject: Re: opening Hi Rachel, Thanks for your reply. I confirmed yesterday my reservation for the 25th of April. I will fly with Swissair, arriving at JFK around 15 PM. I will leave on May 2nd. If you are not at home, I may wait somewhere if it is to complicate to arrange for key or something. I have'nt got a single invitation for the opening on Friday 27th, but of course you are on the list I gave to June Bateman, so you should receive one soon. By the way, I think I lost track of Molly Thompson, have you heard of her? All I know is that opening is at 6PM, 211 West Broadway, at the Watermoon gallery (see www.junebateman.com website for details and pictures of the show). But you did not say if you saw June and if you are going to participate to my show ? See you soon. Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Daniel ANIZON" Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:15 AM Subject: Re: opening > Hi Daniel, > Let me know your itinerary so I can arrange to let you in and send me an > announcement so I can send it to my friends, > love, > Rachel > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Daniel ANIZON > To: Rachel Democracy LEVITSKY > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 6:39 PM > Subject: opening > > > > Hi Rachel, > > How are you? Did you see June Bateman? She seemed to be interested in > > showing your poems alongside the photography show, did it work out? > > I hope so, it would be fun to be together again. > > Did you visit the Watermoon Gallery? Do you plan inviting your many > friends > > for the opening? > > Everything has been sent to NYC last week, so now I am feeling more easy, > > and go for a week vacation. I must book my plane ticket very soon, so are > > you still OK to give me hospitality? I would most likely be there from > April > > 25th or 26th to May 2nd. I would arrive at JFK around 15 PM. It is > actually > > 200 USD cheaper to fly from Paris to Zürich via New-York, and stay a few > > days in NYC, than flying only Paris-Zürich direct in one day! Is'nt that > > crazy? It is Europe! As I have to be in Zürich on May 3rd, I will leave > NYC > > on May 2nd in the evening and wake up the day after in Zürich. > > So, I hope everything is all right for you. > > Best. > > Daniel > > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:44:52 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Maria Damon Subject: fwd: cfw In-Reply-To: <20010421141920.24728.qmail@nwcst322.netaddress.usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We are pleased to announce the pilot issue of Dislocate - a new media journal of the arts. www.dislocate.org Dislocate is dedicated to quality presentation of work through a digital format. Future projects include online discussion space for regional artists and virtual tours of midwest galleries. This arts in this region are vital and vibrant, and Dislocate is committed as a meeting ground for regional artists. We are currently accepting works of short fiction, poetry, literary and social criticism, music, multimedia digital art, short documentary film and visual art for the second issue (to be unveiled this summer). Deadline June 15. Best, Michael J. Opperman ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:59:45 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Andrew Felsinger Subject: Submissions / - V e R T Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit submit to -VeRT by May 31st this fourth issue features lyric to e-mit said subs click here: andrew@litvert.com & plexusII@cs.com ------------------------- -VeRT "This superabundance, this tyranny." --Samantha Giles http://www.litvert.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:41:11 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Todd Baron Subject: Re: POETICS Digest - 20 Apr 2001 to 23 Apr 2001 (#2001-59) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Diane Ward Todd Baron Canessa Park This Sunday 5pm San Francisco ---------- >From: Automatic digest processor >To: Recipients of POETICS digests >Subject: POETICS Digest - 20 Apr 2001 to 23 Apr 2001 (#2001-59) >Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2001, 9:07 PM > > There are 27 messages totalling 2564 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. fwd from Susan Bee/Mira Schor (2) > 2. "All Things Considered" broadcast > 3. Survivor Poet > 4. blindness and incite: re the screen casts shadows of the sun > 5. it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun > 6. attention attention notice > 7. POETICS Digest - 17 Apr 2001 to 19 Apr 2001 (#2001-57) > 8. Fence Sunday > 9. Tarpits of Poetry > 10. Announcements > 11. Edwin Torres, Robert Carnevale at the Walt Whitman > 12. Gig #8 > 13. Electronic Conference of Poetry Report from Front Lines > 14. john lowther email address > 15. Blake takes on drug companies > 16. 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 > 17. Readme #4 now up > 18. residues > 19. Needed: reviews, essays & interviews > 20. JORDAN DAVIS and TALAN MEMMOTT in BROOKLYN > 21. Beyond the Demon of Analogy > 22. New Chapbook at 2River > 23. DEBBIE an epic - ? > 24. Allen Grossman John Yau Toi Dericotte Cornelius Eady > 25. The Zinc Bar May Lineup & Creation Myth > 26. RealPoetik > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:16:41 -0400 > From: Charles Bernstein > Subject: fwd from Susan Bee/Mira Schor > > Is Resistance Futile? > A M/E/A/N/I/N/G Forum > > With editors Susan Bee & Mira Schor > and panelists Daryl Chin, David Humphrey, Barbara Pollack, > Lucio Pozzi, and Carolee Schneemann > > Tuesday May 1, 2001 at 7 P.M. > > A.I.R. Gallery > 40 Wooster Street, 2nd Floor > New York > 212-966-0799 > > On Star Trek, the Borg always tell their victims, before they "assimilate= " > them, "Resistance is futile." > > Is resistance to the "Spectacle" possible or even desirable today? > > Five years after we stopped publishing M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a journal of contemporary > art issues, and on the occasion of the publication by Duke University Pre= ss of > M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism, = we > will gather a few of our former contributors together for a panel discuss= ion at > A.I.R. Gallery on Tuesday May 1 at 7 PM to consider ideas of resistance, > assimilation, and participation. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:16:17 -0400 > From: Charles Bernstein > Subject: "All Things Considered" broadcast > > An adaption of my essay about National Poetry Month was recently broadcas= t on > National Public Radio's "All Things Considered". You can listen to it in > RealAudio at > > http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010419.atc.09.ram > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:57:28 -0400 > From: Bob Grumman > Subject: Re: Survivor Poet > >> Ron. I dont know, but on the contemporary poetry I clicked the B and the= re's >> no Charles Bernstein and I clicked the S and there's no Ron Silliman? Tw= o of >> the major 20th/21st century writers. Have Holman and Snyder got a snitch= er >> on what's going on? Regards, Richard. > > Possibly they are as out of it as whoever's running the > pages for poets at the Buffalo site, which--last time I > looked--had no page for John M. Bennett, Richard > Kostelanetz or Karl Kempton, three of our time's major > writers. > > --Bob > G. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:01:23 EDT > From: David Chirot > Subject: blindness and incite: re the screen casts shadows of the sun > > (Before jumping the gun so to speak in passing judgment on the cinema= in > relation to writing, it would be good to consider Eisenstein's writing= s on > the interrelationships among film and literature, poetry, calligraphy= , > painting, theater. > Many many more examples have been developed and presented since his > first writings in the 1920s. > As for film and thinking: the two volumes of Gilles Deleuze, CINEMA T= he > Movement-Image and CINEMA The Time-Image. Deleuze uses film as a method = for > the extension of philosophical thinking.) > > Sondheim's remarks are part of the long tradition of abstraction and > fundamentalism (Puritanism has played quite some role I think in the USA)= in > relation to writing. > The object seems to be to liberate writing from the senses, so as to = have > a more immediate relationship with the Word. > This approach to writing has exerted a strong influence especially si= nce > the advent of the various Formalisms of the last century. > A counter movement has been those approaches to writing which propose > relationships with hieroglyphics, calligraphies, visual/sound notations, > painting, collage, montage, cinema, performance. Writing in this area ma= kes > use of methodologies and examples extending in time and space from the > earliest forms of notation to the most contemporary, across many media an= d > materials. > In the first, writing, the Word, is "apart from" -- > In the second, writing is "a part of"-- > An excellent essay on the effects of this difference may be found in > "Notation and the Art of Reading" by Karl Young > at: http://www.thing.net/~grist/homekarl.htm > the history of the second writing (call it visual or any other name i= t > has acquired since) since Mallarme's "Un Coup de des" is = one > of ongoing extensions, examples, explorations-- > to cite a few of these non-Formalist senses of writing in > interrelationships with visual/sound/performative notations: > "It is a script that is at once . . . pictorial, symbolic and > phonetic within the same text, the same sentence, I would alm= ost > say within the same word." > --Francois Champollian, on translating the Egyptian > hieroglyphics, > 14 September 1822 > "Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form" > --Jack Kerouac, "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose" > " . . .the written word is an image . . . I think that anyone who= is > interested to find out the precise relationship between word an= d > image should study a simplified hieroglyphic script. Such= a > study would tend to breakdown the automatic verbal reaction= to > a word. It is precisely these automatic reactions to words > themselves that enable those who manipulate words to control > thought on a mass scale." > --William S. Burroughs, THE JOB Interviews with Dani= el > Odier > " . . . the example of cinema should help . . . the project of a = . . > . poetry > embracing sound, visual, and verbal signs vitalized by one functi= on > (the poetic) . . . [in] confrontation with the ruling system in th= e > field of the manifestations of language, and consequently, of= the > ideas, values and habits (including sensibility itself) as > structural bases of the dominant ideological complex." > --Philadelpho Menezes, POETICS AND VISUALITY A Traje= ctory > of Contemporary Brazilian Poetry > > --david baptiste chirot > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:02:49 +1200 > From: "richard.tylr" > Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun > > But I think you miss some subtleties of what Alan is doing by this kind o= f > analysis. Read that thing aloud. When I saw it I had the sun (outside ) > behind my computer screen....and i could "see" where Alan was coming fro= m. > Breaking it up to "analyse" it is futile. The whole thing works both on a > conceptual level and a "deeper" level.Alan Sondheim is both prolific and > very talented. Where are your poems? Regards, Richard Taylor. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Murat Nemet-Nejat" > To: > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:22 AM > Subject: Re: it may/the screen casts shadows of the sun > > >> In a message dated 4/19/01 8:33:55 AM, sondheim@PANIX.COM writes: >> >> >> >nervousness leads to strange links and attractions: >> >> strange links and attractions is what art is all about. >> >> >> >you might begin thinking nothing of written language: >> >> promise, I love you too, baby,! Not that words are unimportant, but, did > you >> think the eye is a dumb blond? the eye thinks too. >> >> >> >these people out there, who are they, what do they do: >> >> You mean the same emptiness doesn't surround the writer? >> >> >> >reading hacks you into more and different brains: >> >> So does watching. >> >> >> >the backs of things are airless: >> >> the backs of a book, a movie screen, a T.V. screen are the same dead > space. >> >> >> >the screen casts shadows of the sun: >> >> how true. we all live in Plato's cave. >> >> >> My best. >> >> Murat > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:15:21 +1200 > From: "richard.tylr" > Subject: Re: attention attention notice > > I know that JJ doesnt think that I didnt intend to support Alan's work, b= ut, > my last comments may have been a bit confusing: my intent was to endorse > Alan Sondheim's work. Its good to see it. I find it intriguing and each o= ne > has a different "take". I certainly find his energy and content fascinati= ng > and always look foreward to it. He also has a CD ROM (which I havent had > time to study) , but obviously Alan is a very serious and highly energet= ic > and talented poet/writer. I get the feeling that a lot of people lack his > courage to put their work on line ...on the line so to speak..in case the= y > get "criticised" surely that would be "parr for the course". Alan has > inspired me in at least one thing I did. I'm not "into" his obsession wit= h > the cyberworld so much or so much of his "political" takes (altho they ar= e > interesting) but I do admire his passion and ability. Most of all I enjoy > his productions which pour out...as they obviously should and do.Regards, > Richard Taylor. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 7:09 AM > Subject: Re: attention attention notice > > >> Y'know, what lately impresses me about Sondheim's literature --- and >> what may account for some of the recurrent protests against his >> prolificity here on The List --- is its MUSICALITY. (Retinal, upper >> case after-image: MUSICALITY.) A piece like the one below, Rick, or >> many of Sondheim's, conjure up an ideal performance by someone like, >> say, a Laurie Andersen. The cadences are often oratorical/rhetorical, >> "aloud," rather than page-driven. There's an element of repetition in >> Sond's word-art that draws from the ~declamatory,~ instead of the >> prevalent, usual, silent interiorized reading style. ---Which may >> account for these waves of "get 'im outta here" protests that >> seasonally let loose, once a new crop of newcomers has passed the frat >> hazing and is starting to feel (entitlement) that their maintenance >> fee on the co-op should give them license to evict. In "page time," >> trying to read/wade through the repetition tropes, the reading can in >> fact at times feel like its going against the current of the >> language's inertias,--- but when I re-imagine the texts as occuring in >> real time and aloud, that cyclicality becomes quite endurable and even >> a sort of entertaining, habitable background music ("muzak") kind of >> Sensaround environment. His fugues. And yet the repetitions AREN'T >> principally demagoguery; they derive from combinatorialities so >> alphabetic in style that suspicions of text-generating computer >> programs have been--- gulped. It's always difficult to live >> contemporary to the unbounded proliferation of a complete "Leaves of >> Grass."-- JJ >> >> Quoting "richard.tylr" : >> >> > Keep them coming Alan! But do I need to encourage this guy! >> > No! No stopping >> > America's (the world's?) - best - if that term is relevant - >> > most >> > interesting? - poet? Writer? Interpoeianetter?! No, there's no >> > stopping >> > Alan, even if we_could_ keep up with him. Richard. >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Alan Sondheim" >> > To: >> > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:22 PM >> > Subject: attention attention notice >> > >> > >> > > - >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > attention attention notice >> > > >> > > >> > > hello i am the president and i am sending a wake-up call to >> > america. >> > > >> > > hello this is the wake-up call from the president of >> > america. >> > > >> > > we will have to use foresight. who in america has foresight. >> > > >> > > i am the president and i have foresight. we will have to >> > have hindsight. >> > > >> > > who in america has hindsight. i am the president and i have >> > hindsight. >> > > >> > > foresight and hindsight are the key to our wake-up call. >> > > >> > > a wake-up call is a call in destiny, readiness, and >> > preparation. >> > > >> > > i am the president and i have readiness and preparation. >> > > >> > > with your wake-up foresight and hindsight i will have in >> > destiny. >> > > >> > > hello america is the greatest country ever on the face of >> > the earth. >> > > >> > > this means that the face of the earth is our in destiny. >> > > >> > > with hindsight and foresight we will claim our in destiny >> > with readiness. >> > > >> > > with the greatest preparation i do send out my wake-up call. >> > > >> > > who in america can send out the wake-up call. >> > > >> > > the president in america can send out the wake-up call. >> > > >> > > who in america is the greatest president ever. >> > > >> > > the president in america is the greatest president ever. >> > > >> > > i am the president of america and this is the wake-up call >> > in destiny. >> > > >> > > i am in destiny and america. >> > > >> > > >> > > _ >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:05:21 EDT > From: Nuyopoman@AOL.COM > Subject: Re: POETICS Digest - 17 Apr 2001 to 19 Apr 2001 (#2001-57) > > In a message dated 4/20/01 12:23:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU writes: > > Current standings (remember, votes are to kick the poet off the island): > > Akhmatova 43 > Baudelaire 45 > Chaucer 47 > Dickinson 44 > Li Po 43 > EAPoe 44 > Pound 45 > Wheatley 47 > > I kid you knott! > > > > > > << Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:40:06 -0400 > From: Ron Silliman > Subject: Survivor Poet > > http://poetry.about.com/arts/poetry/library/weekly/aa041101a.htm > > Why does this seem so appropriate right after the Pulitzers? > > Ron >> > > > Bob Holman * 173 Duane St #2 NY NY 10013 * 212-334-6414 Fax: 6415 > holman@bard.edu * nuyopoman@aol.com * poetry.about.com > poetry.guide@about.com * www.worldofpoetry.org > bholman@washingtonsquarearts.com * www.peoplespoetry.org > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:56:06 -0400 > From: Rebecca Wolff > Subject: Fence Sunday > > Sunday, April 22nd, 5 pm > > Come hear contributors to imminently forthcoming Fence #7 > > Poets Claudia Keelan and Ronaldo V. Wilson > Fiction writer Matthew Derby > > Teachers & Writers Collaborative > 5 Union Square West > New York City > > Free Admission > Wine to follow > > Discounted subscriptions to Fence available > > new website and new issue up and ready next week > http://www.fencemag.com > > > *********** > Rebecca Wolff > Fence and otherwise > 14 Fifth Avenue, #1A > New York, NY 10011 > ph/fax: 212-254-3660 > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:14:08 -0700 > From: michael amberwind > Subject: Tarpits of Poetry > > and some dinosaurs are concerned that matters of > aesthetics, poetry and are being usurped by > political concerns - i wonder where they got such > and idea? > > i suppose if a poem were written on the matter - > and posted to the list - i might be "convinced" > that such people were simply being reactionary > > when newspaper reportage becomes poetry, i can't > help but think something went wrong somewhere > along the line - but trying to tell the > difference between this list and any other > politically motivated list (with its own "slant") > has been getting difficult as of late > > of course - i could be crazy... > > >> I'm just back from five or six hours on the >> picket line, where today we =3D >> offered line-crossers a free pass for smiling >> and honking (this IS =3D >> Hawaii, after all). Most took us up on our >> offer, though learning curves =3D >> were variously steep or shallow, but some >> pucker-faced citizens =3D >> adamantly refused and a few even waved us on as >> we circled with all =3D >> deliberate speed (as it were). Rumor has it >> that this is the last day of =3D >> the UH faculty strike, though we've heard >> nothing yet and it's almost 4 =3D >> p.m. The teachers are nowhere near an agreement >> and, because the state =3D >> has only one negotiator for its many public >> union negotiations, they =3D >> will have to wait until tomorrow even to talk >> with the state. It's =3D >> rather incredible to drive to work on my >> longish commute and to see =3D >> every school closed and fronted by >> picketers-and then to get to UH, =3D >> which is allegedly still open, but effectively >> slowed to a crawl by =3D >> faculty in their by now trademark white UHPA >> baseball caps and ON STRIKE =3D >> teeshirts. >> >> The remaining bones of contention between the >> faculty and the state are =3D >> three: lecturer pay (the governor's last offer >> was a work of =3D >> art-lecturers who had worked for three years in >> the system would get a =3D >> small raise, but new lecturers would get LESS >> money than they do now, so =3D >> what school wouldn't want to trade in the >> sophomores for the freshmen =3D >> over and again?); community college workload >> and teaching equivalences; =3D >> and, of course, money for regular faculty. I >> can only imagine that our =3D >> union would have caved a while back over the >> tiny difference between our =3D >> pay demand and the offers we've been getting, >> but there's so much =3D >> hostility between us and the governor that we >> feel we're picketing not =3D >> so much for pay as for the salvation of the >> university itself. That may =3D >> sound grand, but the UH has been cut by 1/3 >> over the last seven years, =3D >> and there's precious little left to protect. >> There's also the governor's =3D >> way of making every "offer" into an insult to >> goad us on. >> >> I wonder how much of this "war" is about Hawaii >> and its poor regard for =3D >> public education (anyone with enough money, it >> seems, except for flaming =3D >> idealists, sends their kids to public school >> and now universities on the =3D >> continent) and how much is a more general >> national problem. American =3D >> anti-intellectualism is strong, after all, as >> is the equation of success =3D >> with business. Hence our governor's desire to >> support parts of the =3D >> university that "make money," like >> biogenetics.=3D20 >> >> Governor Ben Cayetano, by the way, is >> apparently up for an honorary =3D >> doctorate from his alma mater, UCLA. Not only >> that, a new chair is being =3D >> set up in his name in the Asian American >> Studies Program, directed by =3D >> Prof. Don Nakanishi, who responded to a recent >> email from me by wishing =3D >> us all well and not mentioning the governor at >> all. Anyone with time on =3D >> his or her hands might send emails to UCLA >> administrators or regents to =3D >> suggest that rewarding Cayetano for his support >> for that institution =3D >> would be folly at this point, and an insult to >> the teachers and faculty =3D >> of Hawaii's schools and university system. >> >> The picket line remains a place of solidarity >> between faculty in =3D >> different departments and the police, who are >> definitely on our side. =3D >> They also have bones to pick with the governor >> and the mayor and their =3D >> numbers have diminished in recent years when >> police recruiters have come =3D >> in from other states. I'm grateful for the >> chance to meet them and to =3D >> meet folks in other departments, whose interest >> in education does not =3D >> dim even as the sun climbs and climbs each day. >> >> Finally, I got a letter from my representative >> today. She's Patsy Mink. =3D >> I remember as a little girl in Virginia >> thinking how wonderful it was =3D >> that there was a Congresswoman Patsy Mink. She >> reports that she met with =3D >> the governor on Friday the 13th and that he >> "expressed great dismay at =3D >> the rejection" of his merit pay proposal; early >> on, his entire offer of =3D >> raises was based on "merit," whatever that is >> in such a setting as ours =3D >> (as Steve Carll has pointed out, merit pay >> works better in business than =3D >> in the academy). She is confident the matter >> will be resolved soon. >> >> Where have I heard that before? >> >> Aloha, Susan >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:23:05 +1000 >> From: geraldine mckenzie >> >> Subject: Re: Content's Dream (FWD from >> Northwester Univ. Press) >> >> Is there contact information for those who >> don't live in the U.S.? >> >> G.M. >> > _________________________________________________________________________ >> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail >> at http://www.hotmail.com. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:01:27 EDT >> From: David Chirot >> Subject: Re: Poetics of internet art/activism: >> AUMA-GOM@ >> >> Tom: >> >> realize you are interested in a "poetics of >> activism"-- >> however i think it is really a >> "poetics IN activism" >> --because if one made the poetics separate >> from the activism-- >> would it not be the dread "faith without >> works"?! >> >> An excellent ongoing example of the >> conjunctions of >> internet/actitivism/poetries is >> AUMA GOM@ : Urgent Action Mail >> Art/Global Organization Mail @rt >> This organization was founded in 1998 in >> response to the events >> surrounding the fate of Pinochet and as >> well the case of Humberto Nilo in >> Santiago, Chile. >> Sr. Nilo as head of the Faculty of >> Arts/Belle Lettres at the University >> of Chile had organized the exhibition of mail >> art and visual poetry "Litertad >> para la ensenanza de las artes" (Freedom in >> the teaching of the arts). Due >> to the democratic ideals exemplified by the >> exhibition's purposes and the >> works displayed, Sr. Nilo was expelled from >> the University. >> In response to these events, Cesar Reglero >> (Spain), Clemente Padin >> (Uruguay), Fernando Garcia Delgado (Argentina), >> Tartarugo (Spain) and Hans >> Braumuller (Chile/Germany) founded AUMA GOM@ >> and initiated actions and >> exhibitions which helped in the reinstatement >> of Sr. Nilo and changes in the >> University. >> In the last three years, working often with >> Amnesty International AUMA >> GOM@ has organized many traveling exhibitions, >> conferences, discussions, >> actions. Recent calls for work and >> participation have been AGAINST DEATH >> PENALTY and POR VIEQUES. >> The history of the organization, records of >> first organizational >> meetings, relevant communications (emails and >> so on) and links to AUMA >> associated sites and artists are at this site: >> >> http://www.fut.es/~boek861 >> >> This excellent web site also includes >> theoretical works, statements and >> debates which involve many of the issues of >> internet/activism in relation to >> visual poetry and mail art. (See for example >> the writings of over fifty >> artists who participated in the yearlong Open >> Debate Mail Art/Mail Art in the >> New Millennium, 2000.) There is also the >> monthly updated CMA Univers(o) with >> complete information of mail art and visual >> poetry conferences, calls, zines, >> events, web sites. >> >> I would also most highly recommend >> activist/art sites: >> >> VORTICE ARGENTINA (Fernando Garcia >> Delgado) >> >> http://www.vorticeargentina.com.ar >> >> CROSSES OF THE WORLD (Hans Braumuller) >> >> http://www.crosses.net >> >> tARTarugo >> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/2759 >> >> Many other links of great interest can be >> contacted at boek861 >> and also at >> Francis Van Maele's FAN MAIL site: >> http://www.phi.lu >> >> onwo/ards! >> david bapiste chirot >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:22:31 -0700 >> From: "Walter K. Lew" >> Subject: RE Susan Schultz's report on >> Educators' Protest >> >> In support of Susan Schultz's report to this >> list the other >> day--copied from the Assoc. for Asian American >> Studies list. Yrs, >> Walter K. Lew >> >> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:51:36 -0700 >> From: Karen Leong >> Subject: Support Hawaii Education Update PLEASE >> READ AND DISTRIBUTE >> >> PLEASE READ, DISTRIBUTE, AND TAKE ACTION. >> THANKS! >> >> Hawai'i educators are still on strike. Talks >> broke down over the weekend, >> and the latest I have heard is that they will >> resume today. Those on strike >> have appreciated the show of support, and as >> the strike continues this >> support becomes even more critical. Please show >> your support of Hawai'i's >> educational system and the right for teachers' >> salaries to keep pace with >> the cost of living. Please show your support >> for quality education in >> Hawai'i for all of its residents. >> >> 1) Even Senators Inouye, Akaka, and >> Representatives Mink and Abercrombie >> have been supportive of the educators. They >> have been attempting to >> negotiate between the educators and Governor >> Cayetano. >> PLEASE WRITE OR CALL THEM TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT. >> Here are the Honolulu phone numbers, area code >> (808): >> Sen. Dan Inouye, 541-2542 >> Sen. Dan Akaka, 522-8970 >> Congresswoman Patsy Mink, 541-1986 >> Congressman Neil Abercrombie, 541-2750 >> All of their mail addresses are at the >> Prince Kuhio Federal Building >> Honolulu HI 96850-4977 >> >> 2) This is affecting us in our own backyard so >> to speak. UCLA's >> Asian American Studies Center is currently >> raising funds for an >> endowed chair -- the Benjamin Cayetano >> Professor in Public Policy and >> American Politics. Cayetano is an alumni of >> UCLA, and was honored in >> 1995 for public service by >> the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. >> >> According to one of the persons on strike in >> Hawai'i: >> 'Remember, this is a man who promised not to >> cut the UH budget, then chopped >> off $35 million, who has gleefully watched our >> national standing collapse, >> and who believes that we should not receive >> health benefits during the summer, >> or let the summer months count toward >> retirement, because "we don't work >> then." He does not answer questions that ask >> about UCLA -- why its >> professors deserve summer benefits and a living >> wage.' >> >> It almost appears that Cayetano cares more >> about his relationship >> with UCLA than with UH. Has he served the >> public interest in Hawai'i >> by continuing to decimate the educational >> system, by refusing to >> authorize Legislature-approved raises for >> teachers throughout the >> state's educational system, or by attempting to >> prorate teachers' >> salaries only for the months they are in the >> classroom? Given >> Hawai'i's demographic make-up, Cayetano's >> actions are directly >> hurting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. >> If this seems to be a >> contradiction to you, please communicate your >> concerns to the >> Director of UCLA's Asian American Studies >> Center: >> >> Don T. Nakanishi, Ph.D. >> Director and Professor >> UCLA Asian American Studies Center >> 3230 Campbell Hall >> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546 >> phone:310.825.2974 >> fax:310.206.9844 >> The Hawai`i faculty strike ended last night; >> what follows is a description >> of the terms that were reached with the state >> (aka governor). >> >> The teachers' strike continues. Some 180,000 >> students are still out of >> school. >> >> aloha, Susan >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Susan Schultz" >> To: >> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:11 AM >> Subject: Fw: Tentative Agreement (fwd) >> >> >> >> >From: UHPA Strike >> >> >Subject: Tentative Agreement >> >Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:27:55 -1000 >> > >> >TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED: >> >Classes to Resume! >> > >> >April 17, 2001: After 15 days of strike, UHPA >> and the State of Hawai'i have >> >tentatively settled their contract dispute. >> Faculty will return to work >> >Wednesday, pending the ratification. Classes >> will resume on Thursday. >> > >> >The union is authorizing this return to work >> while the ratification vote is >> >occurring. "It was a long, hard process, but >> the faculty stayed strong >> >throughout the strike," noted J.N. Musto, >> UHPA's chief negotiator. "It was >> >their determination that enabled us to finally >> get a settlement." >> > >> >"The settlement is a good one and a majority >> of the Board of Directors is >> >recommending ratification", stated Alex >> Malahoff, UHPA President. "It >> >addresses all our major issues. >> > >> >"In accordance with UHPA bylaws and State law, >> the membership will vote on >> >the ratification of the tentative agreement. >> Faculty will receive full >> >details of the contract settlement prior to >> their ratification vote. >> > >> >Settlement highlights: >> > >> >A flat dollar amount ($2,325) for all faculty >> the first year of the >> >settlement; and 6% the second year >> across-the-board; 1% in each year of the >> >contract for merit following existing >> negotiated procedures. >> > >> >$1 million per year (above and beyond current >> resources) to expand the >> >teaching equivalencies in the community >> colleges. >> > >> >Lecturer pay increased by 3% each year of the >> contract. >> > >> >Faculty overload rates increased by 6%. >> > >> >$3,076,000 compensation for faculty who were >> on strike to cover health-fund >> >benefits and for overload work necessary to >> save the semester. >> > >> >Innovative intellectual property language on >> patents that provides for a >> >new formula for sharing of proceeds by the >> university and faculty members. >> > >> >=B7 No payroll lag. It is agreed this issue >> will be determined by court >> >challenges already proceeding. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:58:49 -0400 > From: The Poetry Project > Subject: Announcements > > This week and next week at the Poetry Project: > > Friday, April 20th at 10:30 pm > HA! HA! HA! STAND UP POETRY NIGHT > New poets from slam culture to academia explore the humor in poetry. > Featured comedic poets include Yolanda Wilkinson, F. Omar Telan, Jennifer > Knox, Sean McNally, Jason Schneiderman, Carol Rosenfeld, Rob Neill, and > Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz. Following the featured performances there will = be > an open mike. Audience members will compete for prizes for the funniest > two-minute bit. > > Monday, April 23rd at 8 pm > KEITH ROACH AND DEBORAH RICHARDS > Poet, curator, and arts organizer Keith Roach had a long residency as > Ceremonial Master of the Open Room while hosting the Friday night slam at > the Nuyorican Poets Caf=3DE9. His poetry, urban, generous, dreamy, and deep= , ca=3D > n > be read in the anthology Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Caf=3DE9. M= r. > Roach is currently working on his first full collection of poetry. Debora= h > Richards is a poet, performer and director. She recently wrote and direct= ed > three performances in Philadelphia including a solo show, "Pucker Punch;" > and "Last One Out" and "Path/Way Home," both of which were selected for t= he > Philly Fringe Festival. She is currently working on a video project and > completing her book, Long Way Home. > > Wednesday, April 25th at 8 pm > YUKIHIDE MAESHIMA HARTMAN AND CAROL SZAMATOWICZ > Born in Japan and long prominent in the New York poetry world, Yukihide > Maeshima Hartman is the author of several collections of poetry, includin= g > Ping, New Poems, and Coloring Book. "Yuki Hartman orders his images aroun= d > with temerity of a lion tamer. He's as gifted a poet as they come," write= s > Charles North. Carol Szamatowicz is the author of two collections of poem= s, > Cats & Birds and Zoop (The Owl Press, 2001). Her work has appeared in Lin= go=3D > , > The Germ, and The World. In reviewing a reading she gave at Poetry City, > Jordan Davis writes, "Carol pays a lot of attention to the salient detail= s > of social interaction, which facts I observe in the modest and informativ= e > sentences she prefers. [...] Here are some things she said: 'These cheese= s > are history'; 'There's only five channels and beer. I accept that.'; 'The= re > is a couple who loved each other since childhood and that is all that is > left of them'; 'I think you are the one who spilled'; 'Besides the suspic= io=3D > n > of sleep there is the treachery of wood'; 'I was a brisk little tooth > drifting to earth'; 'Boredom that makes us long for the freedom of combat= '; > 'Lick something everyday, I say'; 'A hell where we feed ourselves with > three-foot chopsticks'." > > Thursday, April 26th at 8 pm > A TRIBUTE TO GREGORY CORSO > "Corso is a poet's poet, his verse pure velvet, close to John Keats for o= ur > time, exquisitely delicate in manners of the Muse." -Allen Ginsberg > > With readings and talks by over 35 writers, including poet and punk icon > Patti Smith; poet, musician, and Basketball Diaries author Jim Carroll; p= oe=3D > t > and The Fugs founding member Ed Sanders; indie rock innovators and Sonic > Youth co-founders Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo; poet, novelist, and for= me=3D > r > presidential candidate Eileen Myles; experimental prose/poetry writer and > performer John S. Hall; performer, conductor, composer, and pioneer of Wo= rl=3D > d > Music David Amram; and many others. Celebrated Beat poet Gregory Corso di= ed > on January 17, 2001. Born in Greenwich Village in 1930, Corso hooked up w= it=3D > h > Allen Ginsberg and the other Beat poets at Columbia University in the 194= 0s=3D > . > He moved to San Francisco in 1956, quickly fitting into the Beat scene > there. Corso's poetic voice was simple, colloquial, funny, and > unpretentious. Among his books of poetry and prose are Gasoline (1956), T= he > Happy Birthday of Death (1960), The American Express (1961), Elegiac > Feelings, American (1970), and Mindfield (1991). > > > Friday, April 27th at 9 pm > LOOSE LIPS: A SPOKEN WORD CELEBRATION & MINI POETRY BALL > The Poetry Project joins forces with the House of Xavier to bring you a > night of art, glamour, spoken word, music, and fierce competition! This > unique collaboration features: an art installation by Kabildo del Arte; a > hip hop performance by Morplay; music by DJB; performances by these styli= sh > spoken word artists: Carlo Baldi, Romero, Marty McConnell, Latasha Natash= a > Diggs, Travis Montez, A.B. Lugo, Caridad de la Luz, Jennifer Murphy, Tim > Arevalo, Andrew McCarthy, Felice Belle, and others!!!; Fetish Fashion > Performance by Gaylyn Designs; Mini Poetry Slam by A Little Bit Louder; ; > Mini Poetry Ball produced by The House of Xavier. Trophies will be presen= te=3D > d > in two categories: "Best Love Poem in Fire Engine Red" and "Best Erotic S= la=3D > m > Performance in Sexy Underwear or Lingerie." The winner from each category > will compete in one final round, "Best Verbal Vogue," for a cash prize an= d > featured performance at The House of Xavier's Glam Slam 2001. Sign-up for > the Ball begins at 8 pm. The event begins at 9 pm. Admission is $10, $7 f= or > students and seniors, and $5 for Poetry Project Members. The Poetry Proje= ct > is wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. Please call > (212) 674-0910 for more information. > > Saturday, April 28th at 3 pm > BOOK PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF ALLEN GINSBERG'S SPONTANEOUS MIND: > SELECTED INTERVIEWS 1958-1996 > This event will feature a performance by acclaimed performer and composer > John Moran. Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996 by Allen > Ginsberg, David Carter (Editor), Edmund White (Introduction), and Vaclav > Havel (Preface), presents candid, revelatory interviews, many of which ha= ve > been out of print for decades. In conjunction with the book party, plaque= s > will be installed in the East Yard of St. Mark's Church commemorating the > Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan trees. John Moran has written several > innovative, influential operas, including The Manson Family, his fourth > opera, which has been recorded with a provocative cast that includes Iggy > Pop and Terre Roche, among others. He recently recorded Mathew in the Sch= oo=3D > l > of Life, featuring Allen Ginsberg. This event begins at 3 pm and is free = an=3D > d > open to the public. > > * * * > > Unless otherwise noted, admission to all events is $7, $4 for students an= d > seniors, and $3 for Poetry Project members. Schedule is subject to change= . > The Poetry Project, located in St. Mark's Church at the corner of 2nd Ave= nu=3D > e > and 10th Street in Manhattan, is wheelchair accessible with assistance an= d > advance notice. Please call (212) 674-0910 for more information or visit = ou=3D > r > Web site at http://www.poetryproject.com. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:00:25 EDT > From: Alicia Askenase > Subject: Edwin Torres, Robert Carnevale at the Walt Whitman > > The Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center's > Notable Poets and Writers Series > Proudly presents poet and performance artist > > Edwin Torres > > & New Jersey State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow* > > Robert Carnevale > > Friday, April 27, 7:30 pm > Admission $6/$4 students & seniors/members free > Book signing and reception to follow reading. > > Poet, totally original hip performer, widely exciting EDWIN TORRES is a=3D2= 0 > multi-talented, multi genre writer and educator who has been creating tex= t=3D20 > and performance work since 1988. He has been a long time member of the=3D2= 0 > poetry collective, Real Live Poetry with whom he's performed and conducte= d=3D20 > writing workshops in venues that range from schools and prisons to farms,= =3D20 > festivals and beaches across the USA, in addition to tours in England,=3D20 > Germany, Amsterdam, and Australia. Mr. Torres was at the WWCAC this fall= to=3D > =3D20 > teach an excellent six session writing workshop, and returns this week to= =3D20 > teach several workshops in a Camden elementary school and read on Friday=3D= 20 > evening. Welcome Back Edwin! > > Edwin Torres has received numerous awards and grants for his work, includ= ing=3D > =3D20 > a Mentor fellowship program at Minneapolis' The Loft, a Best Spoken Word=3D= 20 > Artist by NY Press Magazine, and a Grant for Excellence in Poetry from th= e=3D20 > Poetry Fund, NYC. He is a board member of the Mad Alex Arts Foundation, = NYC=3D > ,=3D20 > as well as the St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC, where he has taught=3D20 > poetry/performance workshops for and curated a reading series. His=3D20 > publications include, FRACTURED HUMOROUS, SANDHOMMENOMADNO, LUNG POETRY, = and=3D > =3D20 > I HEAR THINGS PEOPLE HAVEN'T REALLY SAID. His work has appeared in severa= l=3D20 > anthologies including HEIGHTS OF THE MARVELOUS, Talisman's AN ANTHOLOGY O= F=3D20 > NEW (AMERICAN) POETRY and ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Caf=3DE9. > > ROBERT CARNEVALE is our penultimate reader from the Center's rewarding=3D20 > co-partnership with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts' (NJSCA) New= =3D20 > Jersey Literary Fellows Showcase Program, a program created to assist and= =3D20 > promote literary fellowship recipients. Mr. Carnevale's work has appeare= d i=3D > n=3D20 > The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Unsettling America, and in other magazi= nes=3D > =3D20 > and anthologies. He was Principal Literary Researcher for the Voices &=3D20 > Visions film series on American Poets, and co-wrote the college telecours= e=3D20 > based on the series. He served as Assistant Coordinator of the Geraldine = R.=3D20 > Dodge Foundation for six years as well as helping to mount four of the se= ven=3D > =3D20 > Dodge Poetry Festivals. His current fellowship in poetry from the State= =3D20 > Arts Council is his second. He lives in Wantage, New Jersey with his wife= ,=3D20 > jazz singer Denise De Leo and teaches at Drew University in Madison, NJ. = Th=3D > e=3D20 > WWCAC welcomes another talented NJ poet! > > For more information contact us at: > Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center > 2nd and Cooper Streets > Camden, New Jersey 08102 > 856-964-8300 www.waltwhitmancenter.org=3D20 > > *The New Jersey Literary Fellows Showcase Program is co-sponsored with th= e=3D20 > New Jersey State Council/Department of State, a partner agency of the=3D20 > National Endowment for the Arts. For more information on the New Jersey=3D= 20 > State Council on the Arts Showcase Program visit the arts council on line= at=3D > =3D20 > www.njartscouncil.org > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:52:12 -0400 > From: Nate and Jane Dorward > Subject: Gig #8 > > [Apologies in advance for crossposting. Contributors should see copies i= n a > week or so.] > > > > T H E G I G # 8 (March 2001) > > > The latest issue of _The Gig_ is now available: it contains poetry by > Kenneth Goldsmith, Maurice Scully, Peter Middleton, Elizabeth James, Adri= an > Clarke, Randolph Healy, Peter Manson, Ralph Hawkins & John Wilkinson; plu= s > reviews by Pete Smith & Nate Dorward of books by Lissa Wolsak, Dorothy > Trujillo Lusk, Stephen Rodefer et al. There's also the results of the > reader's poll announced in the last issue, in which readers were invited = to > nominate (&, if they wished, discuss) three of their favourite books > published from 1995 to the present. > > _The Gig_ appears three times a year; it publishes new poetry & criticism > from the US, Canada, UK & Ireland. Backissues are still available, notab= ly > #4/5, a 232pp perfectbound collection of essays on the work of the UK poe= t > Peter Riley by Peter Middleton, Peter Larkin, Mark Morrisson, Nigel Wheal= e > et al. Regular issues are 60-64pp chapbooks: see the website at > http://www.geocities.com/ndorward/ for details. > > * > > Rates for all issues except #4/5: within Canada: single issue: $7 Cdn ($1= 2 > for institutions); three-issue subscription (or set of three backissues): > $18 (institutions $36). US subscription: $14 US (institutions $28 US). > Overseas subscription: 10 pounds (institutions 20 pounds). > > Rates for #4/5: within Canada: $20 Cdn (institutions $40); within US: $15= US > (institutions $30); overseas: 11 pounds surfacemail, 13 pounds airmail > (institutions 20 pounds). > > All prices include postage. Make cheques out to "Nate Dorward". Write t= o: > Nate Dorward, 109 Hounslow Ave., Willowdale, Ontario, M2N 2B1, Canada; > e-mail: . Copies may be obtained within the UK throug= h > Peter Riley (Books), 27 Sturton Street, Cambridge, CB1 2QG; e-mail: > . > > * > > Separately available is _The Topological Shovel_, a set of four essays by > Allen Fisher in workbook format, 52pp. Prices: $12 Cdn; $9.50 US; 6.50 > pounds UK/overseas (all prices include postage). > > * > > Issue #8 has as always a brief section of notes at the back about > contemporary poetry (this issue contains notes on sources & allusions in > Prynne, R.F. Langley, Peter Riley, John Riley & Raworth). Listmembers ar= e > welcome to write me (backchannel) with notes; contributors of any notes t= hat > I end up using will receive a free issue of the magazine. > > * > > Nate & Jane Dorward > ndorward@sprint.ca > THE GIG magazine: http://www.geocities.com/ndorward/ > 109 Hounslow Ave., Willowdale, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada > ph: (416) 221 6865 > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:04:26 -0400 > From: Alan Sondheim > Subject: Electronic Conference of Poetry Report from Front Lines > > - > > > Electronic Conference of Poetry Report from Front Lines > > we're at the start of this electronic poetry conference and already blood > has been shed; i got into a fite with a couple of the mac people who were > armed to the teeth with some sort of transparent swords but they cut swif= t > they did and i coudn't resist the parry of blows that went my way but i > had the car and they got run over but that didn't stop other things from > appearing. stop. otyher things appeared. stop. you shuold have seen them > when the rollover happened. stop. ha ha ha mac people you are not up to p= c > people. this is the proof. ha ha . they said i coud be stopped but i cant > be. stopp. this is what happens whenthere are wires loose in mac people > brains. a pc joke. do mac people have brains. no. (pc. answer.) stoppp. > > it was heavy shockwave last night against flash and both pretty much lit > up the sky like a mosaic opera. oh it was splendid did i tell you. anothe= r > poet was killed, it was a short accident but notebooks kil. i am so jeal > ous of that poet, why. because he got twenty minutes of standing only. i > do not get that. my work is so clumsy! nikuko won't stop stalking to me. > oh what else. why jealousy is green. it used to be another color before > the color change. that is why. they say jealousy kills. it is so astound > ingly horrible i will never be able to give you teh impression, not even > if i leave another milion years. > > omeday someone will say, well what confrence were YOU at, and i will say > this one where horror and ecstasy mingled. > > Subject: i also do love conference special report from Kanji Satori: > > Here we are at ELECTRIC MURDEROUS CONFERENCE! All WILL BE DECIDED. MAC > will GO DOWN IN FLAMES as MAC is JUGGLED two LAPTOP with JUGGLED two > LAPTOP PC MAC one MAC fall in JUGGLE: > > Ant PC planetary, MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! body line TREMENDOUS HORROR! > drugy miracle ADAM doll TREMENDOUS HORROR! thyroid falls....MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! vivid placenta world TREMENDOUS HORROR! machinative > angel:her soul-machine discharges MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! speed PC > fear....MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! sun was parasitic/I raped MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! gradual opening department between space-time/I walked > MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! lapse PC memory line PC a dog like/although her > sleep is road SMISERY!rage TREMENDOUS HORROR! murder TREMENDOUS HORROR! > gimmick girl :MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! speed TREMENDOUS HORROR! fanaticism > PC TOKAGE_splits....delete it:MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! room happiness as > MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! end virus end machine clone boy room, her > replicant TREMENDOUS HORROR! FUCKNAM cell air silence world at MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! center PC++MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! desert TREMENDOUS HORROR= ! > angel-mechanism glitter. Suicide line type TREMENDOUS HORROR! spiral > TREMENDOUS HORROR! ADAM doll this zero gravity=3Dbody PC grief machine > dances like MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! sun grief area asphalt soul-machine > MAC MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! machine leaps MAC her love splits MISERY! > MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! amniotic fluid mechanism MAC MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! nightmare TREMENDOUS HORROR! ADAM doll does MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! clonical ground TREMENDOUS HORROR! sun desire.... Small > smile breaks Body line PC an ant forgets it The sun walks. The record > TREMENDOUS HORROR! murder like our dog. Asphalt holds MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! guilty nick head line TREMENDOUS HORROR! ADAM doll Her end > be MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! beginning PC myself. :MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! > over MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES!re TREMENDOUS HORROR! pupil MURDEROUS > CONSEQUENCES! grief TREMENDOUS HORROR! end clone UNBELIEVABLE CONFERENCE > TERROR! approximates MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! eyes PC 0 degree TREMENDOUS > HORROR! monochrome earth/vital. :TREMENDOUS HORROR! middle TREMENDOUS > HORROR! crowd scrap our beat, second, MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! animal line > computer inside when walk MISERY! MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! > angel-mechanism++MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! poor placenta world TREMENDOUS > HORROR! ADAM doll a girl like, MURDEROUS CONSEQUENCES! gimmick air like > Cyber nightmare DOG TREMENDOUS HORROR! amniotic fluid mechanism.... I] > sing [. > > conference - electric poets - INCREDIBLE - > > after the explosion - pieces of poets flying in every direction - still > tthhiinnggss rriinnggiinngg iinn mmyy eeaarrss - by tthhiinggs - iii > warned them iii did - too much FLASH - SHOCKWAVE was terrifying - EVENTS > OF ENORMOUS CONSEQUENCES - iii said as much - THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN - don'= t > be FOOLED by the EMAIL - it may SOUND like them LOOK like them - ANYONE > can write like a machine can write like ANYONE - you can't be too CAREFUL > these days - iii spoke so BRILLIANTLY - iii was AMAZING - STUPENDOUS - > WONDERFULLY TERRIFIC - the audience was ecstatic - I HELD THEM IN THE PAL= M > OF MY HAND - now they're DEAD, GONE - FLASH acts fast - warning label in > the program itself - THEY WERE DEAF TO MY PLEAS - iii went down on HANDS > and KNEES - I BEGGED THEM - i could feel it ready to go OFF - the ATMOS- > PHERE - something out of kilter - the times - out of joint - something > askew - ANYONE could sense it - YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD ME - > > bokian report on HORRIFYING EVENTS AT ELECTRIC POETRY CONFERENCE! > > ANCRAASANGLY CATASTRAPHAC AVANTS MAR BAFFALA SHARALANA: canfaranca paapla > "nat amasad." 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SOX MORO POOTS KOLLOD ONDOR ONKNOWN CORCOMSTONCOS. OSCOPO! > > UNCRUUSUNGLY CUTUSTRUPHUC UVUNTS MUR BUFFULU SHURULUNU: cunfuruncu puuplu > "nut umusud." WHUT CUULD BU THU UND UF THU UURUU LUKU: furuuus UVUNUNG > PURFURMUNCUS DUMUNUTUNG WUSTURN CUNUDU: culd frunt ut 3 dugruus CULSUUS > tumurruw: UT CUNFURUNCU: S*P*U*U*K***F*U*H*R*U*N*H*U*U*T: U MUMUNT'S > RUFLUCTUUN US ULL THUT'S LUFT: thu pc hus DUMUNUTUD ull but thu RWCDRUM > whuch us uncupublu UF CRUWLUNG up uts TUNY FUUT tu UMURGU BRUUTHLUSS UN > thu SCRUUN. SUX MURU PUUTS KULLUD UNDUR UNKNUWN CURCUMSTUNCUS. USCUPU! > > > _ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:47:13 +1000 > From: geraldine mckenzie > Subject: john lowther email address > > Can anyone help with John's email address? B/c and thank you. > > Geraldine > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:40:56 +0100 > From: =3D?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=3D20Hamilton?=3D > Subject: Blake takes on drug companies > > Happily, this piece is now a little out of date. I > figured it was interesting anyway. > From an anrchist/libertarian Marxist website called > Practical History: > http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7672/ > > On the final day (11 February 2001) of the William > Blake exhibition at the Tate Britain Gallery in > London, 30 people gathered on the steps outside to > reclaim Blake from 'the dead hand of capital, empire > and state' and to denounce the corporate sponsors of > the Blake exhibition, GlaxoSmithKline. > > People dressed up as angels, tigers, chimney sweeps > and in other suitably Blakean costumes, with a child=92s > pushchair converted into a =91chariot of fire=92. We > banged drums, played music, and read out work from the > 18th century radical poet, artist and visionary. A > leaflet was handed out saying: > > "The William Blake exhibition at the Tate Britain > gallery makes it clear that Blake was a revolutionary > as well as a visionary =96 yet bizarrely it is sponsored > by one of the world=92s biggest pharmaceutical > companies, GlaxoSmithKline (formerly Glaxo Wellcome). > While Blake railed against poverty and oppression, > GlaxoSmithKline is denying millions of African people > with HIV access to drugs that could save their lives" > (full text of leaflet below). > > The action at the Tate happened the day before a march > demanding affordable HIV treatments was due to take > place in Cape Town, South Africa organised by the > Treatment Action Campaign. > > The action got a very good response from visitors to > the Gallery, many of whom stopped to listen to what > was going on. One passer-by who joined in and read out > a Blake poem told the crowd - 'the spirit of Blake is > here on the steps'. > > The Tate management were less sympathetic, calling the > police (although there were no arrests) and banning > people from going into the gallery, for the crime of > reading out extracts of Blake - while inside they were > charging =A38 for the privelege of seeing works by the > same artist. > > > > > > Blake vs. GlaxoSmithKline (text of leaflet given out > at the action) > > =93Is this a holy thing to see / In a rich and fruitful > land/ Babes reduced to misery=85 And so many children > poor? / It is a land of poverty!=94 (Blake, Holy > Thursday) > > =91Imagine witnessing devastating plague and sitting on > a cure for fear of incurring shareholder revolt. That > essentially is the position of drug companies=92 (Ben > Jackson of Action for South Africa) > > The William Blake exhibition at the Tate Britain > gallery makes it clear that Blake was a revolutionary > as well as a visionary =96 yet bizarrely it is sponsored > by one of the world=92s biggest pharmaceutical > companies, GlaxoSmithKline (formerly Glaxo Wellcome). > > While Blake railed against poverty and oppression, > GlaxoSmithKline is denying millions of African people > with HIV access to drugs that could save their lives. > In Britain and the USA, combination therapy with > anti-retroviral drugs has transformed the life chances > of people with HIV. But of the world's 34 million > people infected with HIV, 25 million live in > sub-Saharan Africa: and only 25,000 Africans (0.001 > per cent of those infected) receive the drugs. The > reason is that that they and their governments cannot > afford to pay the market price for them. > > Anti-retroviral drugs can be manufactured for a > fraction of the price they are sold by GlaxoSmithKline > but this would undermine profits. That is why Glaxo > and other drugs companies are taking the South African > government to court to defend their =91intellectual > property rights=92, i.e. to prevent South Africa from > making or buying abroad cheap, generic copies of > anti-HIV drugs to treat patients. Similar threats have > been made against other African countries. > > Glaxo and the British government claim that companies > have a right to protection for the drugs they sell at > high prices in order to recoup research and > development costs. Glaxo have already made millions > from AZT and 3TC, the two drugs in Combivir, and in > any case they were developed with the help of public > funds in the United States. > > The problem isn=92t just GlaxoSmithKline =96 other drugs > companies like Pfizer act in the same way. It isn=92t > even just the drugs industry or multinational > corporations. They are backed up by the British state > and by the World Trade Organisation=92s TRIPS agreement > (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property > Rights) which allows owners of =91intellectual property > =92to control the exploitation of their inventions > worldwide, determining the price at which they can be > sold and the royalties they receive. They are backed > up by the whole logic of capitalism which decrees that > ideas, objects, fields, buildings, even genes, can be > the sole property of companies and wealthy individuals > to be financially exploited at will. > > In placing their logo on the art exhibitions, > corporations like Glaxo Wellcome are laying claim to > the creative energies of the past. In denying > lifesaving drug treatments, they are demonstrating how > the creative energies of all of us, including medical > knowledge, are subordinated to the creation of wealth > rather than the meeting of our needs. > > =93Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the > field/ Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the > bright air; / Let the inchained soul shut up in > darkness and in sighing,/ Whose face has never seen a > smile in thirty weary years,/ Rise and look out; his > chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open/ And let > his wife and children return from the oppressor's > scourge./ They look behind at every step & believe it > is a dream,/ Singing, 'The Sun has left his blackness, > & has found a fresher morning / And the fair Moon > rejoices in the clear & cloudless night;/ For Empire > is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease=94 > (Blake, America) > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > For "a ruthless criticism of every existing idea": > THR@LL, NZ's class struggle anarchist paper http://www.freespeech.org/thr= all/ > THIRD EYE, a Kiwi lib left project, at > http://www.geocities.com/the_third_eye_website/ > and 'REVOLUTION' magazine, a Frankfurt-Christchurch production, > http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/%7Ejho32/ > > ____________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:19:20 MDT > From: Christian Roess > Subject: 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 > > Here's something interesting. I know I'd have to repeat 8th grade again.= =3D > Wow. > Or I'd be like Jethro on the "Beverly Hillbillies": 'I has six grad > ejukashun." > > THE 8th GRADE TEST IN 1895 > > This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, Kansas. It wa= =3D > s > taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley > Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the > _Salina Journal_: > > "In 1895 the 8th grade was considered upper level education. Many chi= =3D > ldren > quit school as soon as they could master the basic fundamentals > of the 3R's (reading, writing and arithmetic). Most never went past the 3= =3D > rd or > 4th grade. That's all you needed for the farm and most city jobs. Child l= =3D > abor > laws were not in existence yet. Additionally today's education has much m= =3D > ore > focus on technology and sociology than the grammar and geography of old. = =3D > It's > a different world with different requirements and capabilities needed to= =3D > > succeed." > > Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895? Probably Not. > Take a Look: > > =3D > > > 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 > > Grammar: (Time, one hour) > 1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters. > 2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no > modifications. > 3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph. > 4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of > do, > lie, lay and run. > 5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case. > 6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of > Punctuation. > 7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that > you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. > > > Arithmetic: (Time, 1.25 hours) > 1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. > 2. A wagon box is 2 feet deep, 10 feet long, and 3 feet wide. How > many bushels of wheat will it hold? > 3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 pounds, what is it worth at 50 > cents per bushel, deducting 1050 pounds for tare? > 4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary > levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and > have $104 for incidentals? > 5. Find cost of 6720 pounds coal at $6.00 per ton. > 6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 > percent. > 7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 feet long at > $20 per thousand? > 8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. > 9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance > around which is 640 rods? > 10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt. > > > United States History: (Time, 45 minutes) > 1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided. > 2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus. > 3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. > 4. Show the territorial growth of the United States > 5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas. > 6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. > 7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, > Penn, and Howe? > 8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, > 1849, and 1865? > > Orthography: (Time, one hour) > 1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, > etymology, syllabication? > 2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? > 3. What are the following, and give examples of each: > Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals? > 4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'. > 5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two > exceptions under each rule. > 6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. > 7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: > Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super. > 8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and > name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, > cell,rise, blood, fare, last. > 9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane,= =3D > > fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays. > 10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation > by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. > > > Geography: (Time, one hour) > > 1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? > 2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas? > 3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? > 4. Describe the mountains of North America > 5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, > Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco= =3D > =3D2E > 6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the United States > 7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each. > 8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same > latitude? > 9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to > the sources of rivers. > 10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the > earth. > > =3D > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D3D= =3D > 1 > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:26:15 -0400 > From: Gary Sullivan > Subject: Readme #4 now up > > R e a d m e Issue #4 Spring / Summer 2001 > > INTERVIEWS * REVIEWS * ESSAYS > > Edited by Gary Sullivan > > I n t e r v i e w s > > John Ashbery / Rolf Belgum / Mair=E9ad Byrne > Martin Corless-Smith / Benjamin Friedlander > Kenneth Goldsmith / Kevin Killian > Sheila E. Murphy / Julie Patton / Wanda Phipps > Fatimah Tuggar / Mark Wallace > > E s s a y s > > Ben Friedlander on Lisa Robertson > Nada Gordon on Bernadette Mayer > Arielle Greenberg on Conferences > Eleana Kim on Language Poetry > Murat Nemet-Nejat Is Poetry a Job, Is a Poem a Product > Ramez Qureshi Rothko and the Sublime > Chris Stroffolino on Lineage > Eileen Tabios on Jose Garcia Villa > > C h a p b o o k s > > Bob Harrison Coup Sticks > Susan Landers No Clearance in Niche > Mark Wallace from Dead Carnival > > P o e t r y > > Mair=E9ad Byrne / Benjamin Friedlander / Kenneth Goldsmith > Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan / K=FC=E7=FCk Iskender / Kevin Killian > Ange Mlinko / Sheila E. Murphy / Wanda Phipps > Rick Snyder / Alan Sondheim > > R e v i e w s > > Joe Safdie on Ammiel Alcalay > Alan Sondheim on Mair=E9ad Byrne > Ange Mlinko on Jordan Davis and Brenda Iijima > Alan Sondheim on Stacy Doris > Carol Mirakove on Buck Downs > Murat Nemet-Nejat on Hafiz > Henry Gould on Lissa Wolsak > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:37:15 -0400 > From: Alan Sondheim > Subject: residues > > - > > > epoetry conference presentation: (live) typed text > > > 1. Presented: pi.avi :: m3.avi :: m4.avi :: nikuko.asf < > perl j.com :: > fold1 :: seal.mov > > 2. Typed: between analog & digital -- virtual/imaginary presence: > labor/exhaustion: resonances: filling, overflowing spaces: child/parent > processes: upwellings, interpenetrations, interferences:: nikuko one of > the characters i work with - a virtual or imagtinary presence, written > under duress: these words are Azure Carter's, her text - it's a question > of tthe imaginary, whatever web there is, is internal, internalized; > sometimes things move elsewhere than I intended; it's the result of > sleeplessness, obsession... this goes on and on and on.... so there's a > kind of calling, mayhbe vulnerability, but that's intended, it's > circumscribed, irreal, not real at all; this is another form of the web, > this continuous repetition, manufactured obse4ss;ion; well, nikukol > would answer in this fashion - there is a questio of > institutionalization at work, neuraesthenia,l hjypochar h]ypochondria... > > it's as if: is there a doctor in the house - it's as if" something is > being completed, sutured; - it's really all empty talk -=3D-- then > there's the fury of the master dancer - this is Foofwa d'Imobilite (real > name) - controlling his movements by virtue of an analog synthesizer - > which also controls the camera positions - exhausting him, bringing > ballet to a completion, releasing it. Meanwhile you might find me > elsewhere doing something - rujnning the perl program, entering > information -- or then maybe there'd be a different kind of loss; we > ended up trying to complete the series - iwanteed to show you this > earlier - i can't see the keyboard; i'[m sailing blind here - there's > something else at work - so we thought about writing on the body - using > the same five camera setup - which controls everything, there's no > preferred viewpoint - like flash in the midst of a miasma - yhou can't > see the controls, the keyboard's burried in the swamp, the contacts are > eroded, there's no way out or - back to the introduction to the > followingt, the piece of hanko, sealing the bodiesl, reclaiming it, > sinking the virtual back into the real - if the equipment continues to > work 0 > > 0 there's an overdetermination at work here - we tried everything - > transforming the gender, moving it around - sealing the bodies or > claiming then: nikuko is sealed by doctor leopold konninger, the doctor > is written on by nikuko, then then - nikuko is written upon by the > doctor - then the heideggerian/derridean erasure - the bodies erased > against one another - so that what remains is the stain or residue of > llanguage, i almost wrote llama - or lama - which is closer to the fact > of this - and then at the end, nikuko sealing, claiming the doctor -- > it's always back and forth like that - calling for the doctor, the two > of them furiouslyh locked - it's a circular moment or movement, that > kind of obsession at work here..... i'll move the image - you can see > all of this in the allooottttttttttttttttttted time...... this is > reminiscent of some japanese film, i know i know; it's also godard; the > roots are far too overdetermined - written on the body yes yes yes - but > the reality of it - the d isturbance created by the bodies themselves - > that can't be written out, inscribed, htmled....jumping from one level > to anohter, various practices, interconnected, the only way to work, to > get out, exorcise the demons - they're all over, impenetrable...... > > 3. Perl program live demonstration: > > they're horrible; get them away from me; being stains me; > i can't see through the stain; i can't see them; i can't > look away:i'm wearing nothing; i've stolen the clothes off > my back; there's nothing left of them; they're looking > inside themselves:you open my holes; there are people > watching; i can't get away from them; who are you; what do > they want; i'm empty inside: stain of my loose arms around > their necks: > Your nervous stain of their loose strings around my neck > is in my catatonic stain of my loose arms around their necks > Devour nervous stain of their loose strings around my neck > julu-of-the partying they're horrible; get them away from me; > being stains me; i can't see through the stain; i can't see > them; i can't look away! > money's coming from. You amuse me, darling, > you really do - it's like this - it's almost ou > t of sight...:I'm wearing nothing; I'm > begging to control him; she's begging > to control him - we don't know where the money is, where the :I'm > nervous, I'm watching all of this, I don't know what to think, don't > know what to do.:: Your catatonic penis and cloth rubbed hard hard > across the floor is in my florid penis and cloth rubbed hard hard across > the floor Your your vagina seeps into my penis and cloth rubbed hard > hard across the floor - turning me Julu-Jennifer almost gone here and > forever lost :yes, I've lost it, i'm going elsewhere - can't think > straight - topo mch interference - where are you Nikuko:I'm doing this > over and over again - what do you have going for me? What is this > about?::the other Your uneasy the other is in my uneasy that Your your > penis seeps into my that - turning me Julu-Jennifer > soft and available, ready for conjuration: what would be our > conerns...:thei're wearing clothes, they're wearing us down, they're > looking everywhere for us...:when we're working together, we're never > quite sure what is occuring; when we're not working together, it's > always clear:arm and leg: > Your wanton leg and arm is in my soiled leg and arm > Your being seeps into my leg and arm - turning me Julu-Jennifer > my thing isn't spry - i9t's not here - it's all text, all vitual, all by > virtue of obsession, repetition, all emptied of conten:someone is > wearing something, someone is wearing the text down, the text is > disappearing...:hello, hello, can yhou hear me? there are people here - > they're watching you dance - can you hear me:presence of the body: Would > hello, hello, can yhou hear me? there are people here - they're watching > you dance - can you hear me mind you partying, my thing isn't spry - > i9t's not here - it's all text, all vitual, all by virtue of obsession, > repetition, all emptied of conten, with us? Your manic death of writing > is in my forgiving looking for the fucking body in the midst of the > writing or the written\ > > > _ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:44:01 -0400 > From: Gary Sullivan > Subject: Needed: reviews, essays & interviews > > Hi Everyone, > > I'm now beginning to work on Readme #5 (due out late this year or > early next), and need especially essays and reviews. > > Planned are interviews with: Allison Cobb, Jen Coleman, Alan Davies, > Drew Gardner, Michael Gottlieb, R. Cole Heinowitz, Laird Hunt, P. > Inman, Larry Kearney, William Melvin Kelley, Basil King, Martha King, > Eileen Myles, Eleni Sikelianos, Ron Silliman (part two), Lytle Shaw > and Chris Stroffolino. > > I only have two proposed reviews so far, one of Anselm Berrigan's > Integrity & Dramatic Life and one of Chris Stroffolino's Stealer's > Wheel. > > I'd especially love to see reviews of: Renee Gladman's Juice, Linh > Dihn's Drunkard Boxing, Prageeta Sharma's Bliss to Fill, Lorenzo > Thomas's Extraordinary Measures, Kevin Davies' Comp., Kevin Varrone's > g-point Almanac, K. Silem Mohammad's Hovercraft, Allison Cobb's Polar > Bear and Desert Fox, Catherine Wagner's Magazine Poems, William > Melvin Kelley's dem (CHP reprint), Janet Hamill's Lost Ceilings, > Eileen Myles' Cool for You, Mike Amnasan's Beyond the Safety of > Dreams, Ted Joans' Teducation, Laura Moriarty's Nude Memoir, Drew > Gardner's Water Tables, Ben Friedlander's A Knot Is Not a Tangle, > Joanna Fuhrman's Freud in Brooklyn, the Talisman Russian poetry > anthology, Lytle Shaw's Cable Factory 20, Granary Books's Joe > Brainard Retrospective ... to suggest a few more-or-less recent > things on my own shelf. Has anyone read any of these & O, would you > be interested in reviewing one or more? Or other more-or-less recent > titles from your own shelf? > > I have no essays at this point whatsoever. Do you remember that > Smiths song where Morrissey sings "Shyness is a virtue ..." but then > goes on to advocate for anti-shyness? > > Please don't be shy. > > Send proposals or completed work to me via the following e-mail > address: . > > Thanks! > > Gary Sullivan > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:58:00 -0400 > From: Alan Sondheim > Subject: JORDAN DAVIS and TALAN MEMMOTT in BROOKLYN > > Please come! - This should be amazing - Alan > > --- > > > JORDAN DAVIS and TALAN MEMMOTT in BROOKLYN > > Multi-Literary Event at the Flying Saucer Cafe! > > > Nada, Alan, and Azure are pleased to announce another event in a new > reading/video/film/performance series in Brooklyn at The Flying Saucer > Cafe at 494 Atlantic Avenue, between Third Avenue and Nevins, Brooklyn > > Tuesday, May 1, 8:00 p.m.: > > > **********JORDAN DAVIS AND TALAN MEMMOTT*********** > > > READING AND PERFORMANCE > > > JORDAN DAVIS is shocked by the reintroduction of binary thinking by > the anti-essentialists. He is the author of a dozen incunabula in his > cubicle, including Yeah, No, A Winter Magazine, and Hoity-Toity Ex-Bookie= . > > TALAN MEMMOTT is an artist/writer from San Francisco, California. He is > Vice President of the web development firm Percepticon and has worked as > producer, director, and in various other capacities on more than 60 clien= t > web sites. Since 1998 he has been active in the web-based hypertext scene= , > serving as Creative Director/Editor for Percepticon's award-winning > BeeHive Hypertext Hypermedia Literary Journal. His work has appeared > widely on the Internet. In 2000, Memmott was an invited lecturer at the > SUNY at Albany Book/Ends Conference - an event which included Jacques > Derrida among its speakers - and his work "Lexia to Perplexia" was awarde= d > the 2000 trAce/Alt-X New Media Writing Award. > > Author Site: http://www.memmott.org/talan > BeeHive: http://beehive.temporalimage.com > > > HOW TO GET THERE: Take the 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or D or Q to the Atlantic > Subway stop and walk underground to the Pacific Street exit (at the N or = R > or M Pacific Street Stop) or take the B or N or R or M - in any case, go > out the Pacific Street Exit (right exit), take a right - at the end of th= e > block you will be on Atlantic Ave. Take a left on Atlantic, and about two > and a half blocks down, between Third and Nevins, you will find the Flyin= g > Saucer Cafe. > > $3 donation. > > > ---- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:30:42 -0400 > From: Barrett Watten > Subject: Beyond the Demon of Analogy > > A number of people at e-poetry asked about my paper, "Beyond the Demon of > Analogy: www.poetics." If you'll send me a note, I'll send you a .pdf fil= e, > which is ready to go. > > Best, Barrett > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:07:35 -0500 > From: Richard Long > Subject: New Chapbook at 2River > > "A Note for Johnny," by Coral Hull, has just appeared at 2River as the > latest addition to the 2River Chapbook Series. Hull is a writer and > photographer from Australia. You can read the chapbook by following the > link from the 2River homepage at > > http://www.2River.org > > Since 1996, 2River has been an online site of poetry, art, and theory, > quarterly publishing The 2River View and occasionally publishing individu= al > authors in the 2River Chapbook Series. > > Richard Long > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:04:56 -0500 > From: Thomas Bell > Subject: Re: fwd from Susan Bee/Mira Schor > > How does this resistance and participaion CROSS/CUT with internet resista= nce > and participation? Does it? > > I know the answer is bigger than email, but I feel like asking questions > this morning. > > tom bell > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Bernstein" > To: > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 11:16 AM > Subject: fwd from Susan Bee/Mira Schor > > >> Is Resistance Futile? >> A M/E/A/N/I/N/G Forum >> >> With editors Susan Bee & Mira Schor >> and panelists Daryl Chin, David Humphrey, Barbara Pollack, >> Lucio Pozzi, and Carolee Schneemann >> >> Tuesday May 1, 2001 at 7 P.M. >> >> A.I.R. Gallery >> 40 Wooster Street, 2nd Floor >> New York >> 212-966-0799 >> >> On Star Trek, the Borg always tell their victims, before they "assimilat= e" >> them, "Resistance is futile." >> >> Is resistance to the "Spectacle" possible or even desirable today? >> >> Five years after we stopped publishing M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a journal of > contemporary >> art issues, and on the occasion of the publication by Duke University > Press of >> M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism, > we >> will gather a few of our former contributors together for a panel > discussion at >> A.I.R. Gallery on Tuesday May 1 at 7 PM to consider ideas of resistance, >> assimilation, and participation. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:09:22 -0400 > From: Linda V Russo > Subject: DEBBIE an epic - ? > > Do you know where I can find a review (or two+) > of Lisa Robertson's DEBBIE AN EPIC > > (aside from Ben Friedlander's review in > Lagniappe, in which he says that DEBBIE > "is not an epic") > > Or would you like to presently offer a mini-review? > > I'd appreciate it if you'd cc your response to me > as I'm "no mail" for the time being. Thanks. > > Linda Russo > lvrusso@acsu.buffalo.edu > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:19:14 -0400 > From: Rachel Kubie > Subject: Allen Grossman John Yau Toi Dericotte Cornelius Eady > > If anyone's in the Baltimore area this weekend, I hope to see you-- > > Rachel Kubie > > > > SATURDAY > > Allen Grossman and John Yau > Readings and book signings > Saturday, April 21 > 2 p.m. > Central Library - Wheeler Auditorium > > > Allen Grossman's brand new book, How To Do Things with Tears will be > available. > > > SUNDAY > > > Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady > and Local Cave Canem Poets > Sunday, April 22 > 2 p.m. > Central Library - Main Hall > > > > Readings will be held at > The Enoch Pratt Free Library > 400 Cathedral Street > Baltimore, MD 21201 > > > If anyone has questions or needs directons, please call me at (410) > 396-5487. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 18:35:00 -0400 > From: lungfull@RCN.COM > Subject: The Zinc Bar May Lineup & Creation Myth > > The origins of the ZINC BAR SUNDAY NIGHT READING SERIES are shrouded in > mystery & the stories that purport to relate the details are largely > contradictory. Although Thucydides published an engaging history of the > reading series in the spring of 431BC, only Hesiodus provides us with a > clear account of the actual Zinc Bar formation. > > According to the latter, Chaos gave rise to five elements: Gaea, Tartarus= , > Erebus, Eros and Night. Gaea & Ouranos had children whom Ouranos treated > cruelly. Gaea encouraged her progeny to rise up against their father. Wit= h > a sickle they slew Ouranos, three drops of whose blood fell into the sea > and formed the Curators. They had a dog's head and bat's wings and were t= he > spirits of revenge & justice. They hounded writers, especially those who > failed to edit their work. > > Another drop fell onto an island of earthly paradise in the Hudson River > delta, creating music & poetry from which was born the goddess Zincodite. > For Millennia, the month of May has been reserved for celebrations of > Zincodite's generosity & keen ear. The practice of sacrificing goats & > chickens has gradually given way to holding readings every Sunday at Zinc > Bar. To continue the tradition, may we offer these poets in the hopes tha= t > they please both you & the entire pantheon... > > * * * > > THE LINEUP FOR MAY > > SUNDAY MAY 6: > Charles Borkhuis & John Godfrey > > THURSDAY MAY 10: > Greg Fuchs, Marianne Shaneen & Michael Blitz > > SUNDAY MAY 13: > Tina Darragh & P. Inman > > SUNDAY MAY 20: > Noelle Kocot & Chris Stroffolino > > * * * > > Your hosts are > LUNGFULL! Magazine Editor Brendan Lorber > & man about town Douglas Rothschild > > Zinc Bar readings happen > every Sunday & some Thursdays at 6:37pm > They'll run you $3 which goes to the readers. > Bring some x-tra cash for the x-tra fun > of nabbing some rare & hard to find books & magazines > Zinc Bar is at 90 West Houston between Laguardia & Thompson in NYC > > For more information call 212.533.9317 or 718.802.9575 > or email lungfull@rcn.com. For the next week or so > Brendan will be on special assignment far far away > & so any email that's sent before the beginning > of May will languish until then. > > Will we see you at Zinc Bar? > Oh I certainly hope so. > > On the wing, > Brendan Lorber > > PS: please note: lungfull@rcn.com is our new email address, > after interport.net's untimely ingestion by rcn.com. > > If you'd like us to cease & desist reply w/ REMOVE in the subject line. > > If you'd like to fly us out for a Special Zinc Bar Event in Your Home Tow= n, > send us the tickets & we'll be on our way. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:03:40 -0700 > From: owner-realpoetik@SCN.ORG > Subject: RealPoetik > > Greg Farnum > > > Greg can be reached at g.farnum@french-rogers.com. 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Charles Bernstein is a major literary thinker and poet. I have quite a few of his books. Obviously he's in a slightly ambiguous position because he's the director of the List. But from his own poetic (see eg the essays in the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E mags or books): he is or has always been very aware of the intersection of poetics and political thinking and or action. No one should want to "flame" you for your dislike of politics...we all get tiredof it. Probably Karl Marx got sick of it (his wife must have). But humour aside: the relation is complex. Your friend who accused you of being insulated etc in academia was being pretty unfair and also rather simplistic.Academia is part of the real world (unless your Bishoop Berkley or someone)...dont take that stupid reverse snobbery.Pratt should have been more gracious. Be proud of being educated and earning a good wage. I would. If I was suitably qualified I take a big salary: then I'd worry about politics, or I might just say :to hell with it all! Its impossible to be endlessly obsessed with the "wrongs of the world" in a kind of evangelical world and do good creative work.(Politicos become boring fanatics if they're not careful). Conversely it can be argued that there is always a political content in any art. But the link may be subtle. Nor is it imperative that a writer or artist be "for the people" or left wing. But I think its good and healthy that we dont lose sight of the "real world"...but that real world is also at a university. I've worked at all sorts of occupations from labourer and factory worker to an engineering techniction, ok that's coloured my view of things, and maybe can be sensed in my own poetry. But its rarely the case: sure such experience does "inform" what I do, but also does the degree in English I did and the quite wide reading. I'm reading "Middlemarch" at present. That's a magnificent novel: one could learn a lot about life, politics,art the whoe gamut from that book. I just watched the video of "Gladiator"..ok..so so. On the news every night is some new scandal, some political or human tragedy: I simply dont care. Life is too short: I go for a walk, read, eat, look at flowers. I enjoy life. I'm not going to be "bowed down" with the woes of the world. That's the Guilt, or Justice Trap: the reality is that "justice " per se is a myth. The world can be improved in small ways by an individual...but you or I are just as good if we write obscure poems and hopefully beautiful poems and enjoy life while we have it. Of course I support political action like the strike in Hawai but its not a big deal for me. Alan Sondheim's work is worth a look at.It seems to me that its at least cathartic for Alan: but I hope neither he nor any other poet are deluded that poetry or art will ever have any imapact on the "realities" of the world, whatever they are, or were. But whatever: one thing is essential: openness. If people are scared to express their opinions, of whatever kind, then we are certainly heading into the darkness. A la Creeley we might heve to get a big car, for chrissakes, and burn our way in or through it and to hell with it all! Regards, Richard Taylor. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arielle C. Greenberg" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 1:47 PM Subject: "All Things Considered" broadcast, etc. > I heard Charles Bernstein's essay on NPR and it made my day, especially as > I had just come out of a particularly pandering workshop experience with a > poet who shall go unnamed. This essay made me very proud to be part of > this listserv! > > As, I must say, have the recent postings about issues of political import > and social justice, including the reports from the U Hawai'i strike and > the anti-Bush anthology. I recently saw Minnie Bruce Pratt read her work, > and really she mostly talked about various political issues she's involved > in. Her poetry is not the kind of thing I usually go for, but I have to > say I was struck by how *relevant*, in an obvious way, it was, and how > closely she's melded her poetry life with her political life. Afterwards > I asked her about this, about how she brought the two together, and she > basically responded by saying it is only in my insulated little academic > poetry world where poetry and politics AREN'T united. I don't > neccessarily agree with this -- I still think certain kinds of poetries > and politics are kept separate, and anyway, even if you're only talking > about "academic" (and what does that mean, really? experimental? > confessional? lyric?) poetry, it's still an issue to think about that > should not be easily dismissed: how does one be an artist and an activist? > To me this is really a question of how best can one live one's life. Art > and activism are two of the most crucial elements in my life. This is > obviously true for many people on this list, judging from the posts. > > Ok, now, disclaimer. This was written quickly and off the cuff. I have > been reluctant to post opinionated things of this sort in the past because > of the intimidation factor: I didn't want to be the recipient of flames or > attacks. I'm sure there is much in the above that could be denied or is > somehow incorrect. Nonetheless. I like seeing political (and, I'll admit > it, by that I mean "lefty") postings on this list. I think it's > important. I have great admiration for list members who are doing > something to make the world safer, more just, cleaner, more complex, etc. > And I'll stop now before someone throws something at me. > > Arielle > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Charles Bernstein wrote: > > > An adaption of my essay about National Poetry Month was recently broadcast on > > National Public Radio's "All Things Considered". You can listen to it in > > RealAudio at > > > > http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010419.atc.09.ram > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:06:31 +1200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "richard.tylr" Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So: If you see a tarpit, you'd jolly well better scarpit! Ancient English riddle. Cheers, Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Jullich" To: Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 2:11 AM Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry > "Wystan Curnow (FOA ENG)" wrote: steve, i am sorry i am not with you on this. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Perhaps interestingly, about your Subject Header "Tarpits of Poetry,"--- > > the use of "tarpits" as a derogatory/cautionary term etymologically emerged not > from what you might expect, a realistic dread of pratfalls into tarpits, say, > the infamous La Brea tarpits all those poor dinosaurs fell into {glub! glub!} > but from a Biblical allusion (Gen. 14:10, KJV: "And the vale of Siddim [was > full] of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; > and they that remained fled to the mountain"), you Good Book thumpers. > > I forget which critic made that point and about which author's > to-me-previously-undetectable allusion: perhaps about a use of "tarpits" in > Proust, ---or Wilde? ---or Winkelmann? ---or---? ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:27:33 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Broder, Michael" Subject: Ear Inn Readings--April 28, 2001 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The Ear Inn Readings Saturdays at 3:00 326 Spring Street, west of Greenwich New York City FREE April 28 Lynn Domina, Patrick Henry, Ann Scott Knight, Gail Segal The Ear Inn Readings Michael Broder, Director Patrick Donnelly, Lisa Freedman, Kathleen E. Krause, Jason Schneiderman, Co-Directors Martha Rhodes, Executive Director The Ear is one block north of Canal Street, a couple blocks west of Hudson. The closest trains are the 1-9 to Canal Street @ Varick, the A to Canal Street @ Sixth Ave, or the C-E to Spring Street@ Sixth Ave. For additional information, contact Michael Broder at (212) 246-5074. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:56:27 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rachel Levitsky Subject: Sense of Propriety In-Reply-To: <3AE6D020.7BCD971D@medaille.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit please accept my embarrassment at sending my personal correspondence to you all. luckily it could have been worse. still, come check out the show. kisses, Rachel Levitsky ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 05:59:32 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: rob wilson Subject: Re: UH Manoa Ethnic Studies Statement on Cayetano Chair (fwd) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Please add your venom, rage, and insight into this obscenity at UCLA, all in the context of the strikes at UH and across Hawai'i...it would be like nominating Henry Kissinger for a Harvard chair in global peace studies) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 05:47:27 -1000 (HST) From: rob wilson To: Jonathan Y Okamura Cc: incul-l@hawaii.edu Subject: Re: UH Manoa Ethnic Studies Statement on Cayetano Chair (fwd) Jonathan, Thanks for doing this letter to Asian American Studies Center at UCLA-- the idea of a Ben Cayetano chair is such an obscenity it makes me want to weep here in the crazed theory forests of UC Santa Cruz. Was Russell Leong aware of this Cayetano deification at such a moment? I realize the Pacific Rim players have little or no idea what is going on in peripheral sites of the interior Pacific, but this one breaks all records for blind sublimation to an anti-education governor who stands for reactionary forces of downsizing, union-breaking and utter dermoralization of teachers high and low. Please add my name to your list of protesters, Rob Wilson Professor of transnational/postcolonial literatures, Oakes College, UC Santa Cruz On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Jonathan Y Okamura wrote: > Hi All, > Below is a letter that the Ethnic Studies Department faculty at UH > Manoa sent to the UCLA Asian American Studies Center just prior to the end > of our 13 day strike on April 18. The K-12 teachers' strike ended today > after their 20 day strike, the longest in Hawai'i education history. > Early analyses of the strikes already blame Gov. Ben Cayetano for their > occurrence because of his unwillingness to negotiate seriously: "There is an > overwhelming opinion that the education strike is due almost entirely to him" > (Honolulu Weekly, April 18-24, 2001, p. 5). An article in the Hawaii > Filipino Chronicle (April 16, 2001, p. 6) by UH Manoa Strike Coordinator > Dean Alegado noted Cayetano's pre-strike "campaign to vilify public school > teachers and UH professors as a 'bunch of lazy people who only work 9 > months a year but get paid for 12 months.'" Does this mean that recipients of > the Cayetano chair will have to work a full calendar year instead of the usual > academic year? Note that one of Cayetano's contract demands was that UH > faculty not receive any health care or retirement benefits during the > summer because we supposedly are not working. > We ask for your support in bringing this issue to the attention of > the larger community. > > > April 17, 2001 > > Dr. Don Nakanishi > Asian American Studies Center > 3230 Campbell Hall, Box 951546 > Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546 > > Dear Dr. Nakanishi: > > We are extremely concerned and dismayed that an endowed chair for > the "Benjamin Cayetano Professor in Public Policy and American Politics" > has been established at the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. The > University of Hawaii Professional Assembly (UHPA), representing more than > 3,000 UH faculty, and the Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA), > representing nearly 13,000 public school teachers, have been on strike > since April 5, 2001, thus shutting down for the first time in the nation's > history an entire state public education system. > > Governor Cayetano's policies and actions before and during the > strikes by UHPA and the HSTA can hardly be considered worthy of academic > distinction and instead are reminiscent of the vindictive and repressive > tactics of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association against striking > Japanese and Filipino plantation laborers in the 1920s. Defying all > logic, Cayetano has declared striking state workers on "unauthorized leave > without pay" and therefore not entitled to health care benefits. He has > attempted to break the strikes and had workers endure further pay losses > by unnecessarily delaying the resumption of contract negotiations for a > full week after the strikes began. While he has claimed there are > insufficient funds for the salary increases sought by UHPA and HSTA, the > state Senate has designated $200M for such pay raises and thereby publicly > challenged Cayetano's credibility. While campaigning on campus as "The > Education Governor" in 1994, Cayetano promised he would not cut the > University of Hawai'i budget and then proceeded to do just that for seven > consecutive years, making UH Manoa the only public university in the > nation to suffer such a fate. Clearly, Cayetano's anti-education and > anti-labor public policies do not merit having an academic chair named for > him at a prestigious university such as UCLA. > > We strongly urge you to reconsider establishing a chair in the > name of Cayetano since such an association with the Asian American Studies > Center can only damage its well established and highly respected > reputation for academic integrity, first-rate scholarship, and community > advocacy. > > Sincerely, > > > Ibrahim Aoude, Chair > (On behalf of Ethnic Studies faculty) > Dean Alegado > Ulla Hassager > Noel Kent > Greg Mark > Jonathan Okamura > Kathryn Takara > > > > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:11:55 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tom Orange Subject: Andre du Bouchet 1924-2001 In-Reply-To: <200104260408.AAA11527@gusun.georgetown.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII thank you jerrold. this is terrible news. du bouchet is less well-known than yves bonnefoy or jacques dupin. he has been horribly under-served in english translation: only paul auster and david mus have translated books or book-length selections. paul celan translated du bouchet into german. the notion of an "abstract french lyric" fails miserably when applied to du bouchet; like celan he lives and breathes. below is a rough translation of the obit from le monde, to be followed shortly by some poems....tom orange / wdc ----------------- The poet Andre du Bouchet died, Thursday April 19, in Truinas at the Drome where he resided, at the age of 77, following a serious illness diagnosed two years ago. With Andre du Bouchet, one of contemporary French poetry's highest and purest voices dies out -- a voice that knew to guard itself against two great temptations: the excess of lyricism, overflow of ego -- "loss of oneself refreshes," he wrote --, and the escape into an abstraction in which the world itself would no longer be the horizon. Considered difficult, his poetry however became, when du Bouchet read it himself in public or in front of a computer, so limpid, obvious, admirably structured. Inheritor of Mallarme and especially his great master Pierre Reverdy, du Bouchet had kept intact the idea of a poetry that should accept no compromise, no concession. "The words of the tribe" could not enter the poem. Anecdote, biography or mundanity in fact find no place in his oeuvre. From the start, around the end of 1940, his choices were made; certain discrete standards would go together with a rigorous poetic esthetics. Relatively prolific -- about thirty books and a number of limited editions -- the oeuvre has no room for explication, no space of expression for the personality, the thoughts or opinions of the poet. Andre du Bouchet was born May 7, 1924 in Paris. His paternal French family emigrated to the United States in the 18th Century. His origins on the maternal side are Russian and Jewish. The war interrupted his Parisian adolescence, and from 1941 to 1948 he found himself exiled in the United States. He completed his studies at Harvard and started to teach English. Upon returning, he rediscovered the French language, the use of which he claimed to have lost. During a conversation that he granted to us in October 2000, he spoke at length about this central experience of his life. This rupture probably gave his poetic language this original character, as if released from a coating, as well as the by no means peripheral relationship that Bouchet maintained with the translation of writers such as Mandelstam, Pasternak, Celan, Holderlin, but also Faulkner, Joyce -- a portion of Finnegans Wake (Gallimard, 1962) -- , and Shakespeare. All these works are tied by a common thread. It would be unjust, and it could be, to reproach him for his theory of the translation. He did not explicitly have one. It was less one of the movement of appropriation or collecting than of the extension of the field of the word, at the interior of which whose each work leaves a mark. du Bouchet's first book, Air, was published in 1951. But the collection that truly inaugurates the oeuvre is Dans la chaleur vacante [tr. by David Mus as Where Heat Looms, Sun and Moon 1995], which appears ten years later. From this point the work develops by sharpening each one of its edges, by revealing its escarpments and its accidents. "At the tearing in the sky, the thickness of the ground" du Bouchet writes on the first page. Mountain, glacier, reliefs. . . all the world's mineral and physical reality is convened. There is nothing under the heading of decoration. "One cannot make a higher bid on reality," he says again in one of the pages of his "notebooks." If the "I" is expressed, it does not drop to any confidence. From Ou le soleil (1968) to Axiale (1992), through Laisses (1979), L'Incoherence (1979) or Desaccordee comme par la neige (1989), the subject matter does not vary. There are no other matters to speak about properly but the drawing of the word, the space of its deployment, its movement and its projection into terrain at once tangible and mysterious. The poem is detached on the page in vocables separated by white spaces, many, intended to make the poet's gaze at once participate with the reader's listening. Prose or poetry? The question does not find an answer immediate. But it hardly worries the interested party. . . The dialogue with painters -- there still without giving in to speculation, criticism, specialized or in-the-know discussion -- proves quite as central as that with the foreign works. Tal-Coat and Giacometti are the two great witnesses, but also Genevieve Asse, Bram van Velde. . . not to mention the great past masters, Poussin, Hercules Seghers. . . It is finally necessary to cite the experience of collective work around the Maeght gallery and the journal L'Ephemre (twenty issues from 1967 to 1972), alongside Jacques Dupin, Yves Bonnefoy, Louis-Rene des Forets, then Paul Celan. "The word is there / Not me." This abstention for du Bouchet was in no way the expression of a will to withdrawal. His cordial and demanding presence, his attention, the constant search of a "truth of word" -- to borrow a title from Yves Bonnefoy -- showed. "All that is far today, undoubtedly the turning emerged too late." (Osip Mandelstam, Journey in Armenia, translated by du Bouchet). The essence of the work is published by Mercure de France and at Fata Morgana. Two volumes appeared in the "Poesie-Gallimard" collection. Patrick Kechichian ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:49:53 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tom Orange Subject: du Bouchet: Le Surcroit / The Increase In-Reply-To: <200104260408.AAA11527@gusun.georgetown.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII --------------------------------------------------------------- some poems from Le Surcroit (Fourbis, 1990) by Andre du Bouchet --------------------------------------------------------------- and it's by the downgoings that it had to be. * and yet more air than from one to the other in a word of the speaking even when open it opened. * rope with a human face like labored breathing as soon as one draws here on fresh air. * i will have been like cold air returning the other that i could not be * without what you hear but what air itself takes from this mouth where air as soon as it is even breath gone goes free from sense. * to join without having passed through a name today mine being lost " but mine too." * no longer one but endlessly more than one deciphering until the cold today comes. * this morning on the thicker lip like a blot of day. * where mountain once again must without which I had gone to leave and it gives give. * you the gust of wind will have joined you as with the wall of a wind's gust and without sharing the open. * stones, room's quarters. * it's day -- day's breath -- which, having crossed it, retakes it, your speaking, in its mouth. mouth, as it will pronounce us, without the speaking drawn outside. the source of return to the sources never redoubled. then tell me what I say. I will listen to you without believing you. * a step (not), and the road will go where i was. * ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:47:24 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: AERIALEDGE@AOL.COM Subject: announcing QUID 7 (In Three Mismatching Parts! A, B, -and- C!) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [U.S. consumers should probably buy this from someone in the States, to save postage costs--Carol Mirakove -might- be this person, I'll have to check with her. I'll be in touch, Carol.] The seventh QUID sealant to be pasted over the Grand Aporia is now ready for commerce. Comes in three handy issues, and EVEN costs three times as much. That is, 1 quid per segment plus 50p postage per segment (or a complete issue posted for 4.50). Includes: Essays: John Wilkinson, 'Mouthing Off' Li Zhimin, 'Reading J.H. Prynne's Chinese Poem' Jerome Game, 'Modernity in Contemporary French Poetry' Keston Sutherland, 'Vagueness, Poetry' Kristin Prevallet, 'There's Blood on the Illusion' Out To Lunch, 'Performance VERSUS art' Chris Goode, '[not title-clad]' Poems by: Malcolm Phillips Tim Morris Che Qianzi Chris Emery (prose) Keston Sutherland Jules Boykoff Contact: Keston Sutherland kms20@hermes.cam.ac.uk ----- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:04:08 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Old CDs needed Comments: To: Greg Mason , John Childress , John Krick , John Hendrickson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From Bill Spornitz Dear Friends: Do you have a bunch of old promotional cd-roms lying around? Old shareware disks that won't run on your new computer? Operating systems that wont cut it any longer? 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Thank you, Charles Alexander =09 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:35:57 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Potter Subject: Re: "All Things Considered" broadcast, etc. In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Arielle: I agree that there is a place for overtly political material in poetry and in fact, language being innately political, there is no poetry that is not, intentionally or otherwise, political in some way. My view in the great "tar pits" debate was that the Hawaii posts were outside the parameters of the list because they did not directly involve the creating/presenting/appreciating of poetry but rather the political struggles of those whose work it is to teach the practice and appreciation of poetry. Not to say that isn't extremely important and relevant, I only thought it was a step outside the realm of the list but, as the moderators made clear, I was off base. I didn't have any problem with the anti-Bush anthology posts because 1) I think it's a great idea and 2) even if it was a pro-Bush poetry anthology (as if such a thing could happen!) I'd have been okay with it because it was directly related to the creation and presentation of poetry. Best, Steve on 4/24/01 6:47 PM, Arielle C. Greenberg at acgreenb@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU wrote: > I heard Charles Bernstein's essay on NPR and it made my day, especially as > I had just come out of a particularly pandering workshop experience with a > poet who shall go unnamed. This essay made me very proud to be part of > this listserv! > > As, I must say, have the recent postings about issues of political import > and social justice, including the reports from the U Hawai'i strike and > the anti-Bush anthology. I recently saw Minnie Bruce Pratt read her work, > and really she mostly talked about various political issues she's involved > in. Her poetry is not the kind of thing I usually go for, but I have to > say I was struck by how *relevant*, in an obvious way, it was, and how > closely she's melded her poetry life with her political life. Afterwards > I asked her about this, about how she brought the two together, and she > basically responded by saying it is only in my insulated little academic > poetry world where poetry and politics AREN'T united. I don't > neccessarily agree with this -- I still think certain kinds of poetries > and politics are kept separate, and anyway, even if you're only talking > about "academic" (and what does that mean, really? experimental? > confessional? lyric?) poetry, it's still an issue to think about that > should not be easily dismissed: how does one be an artist and an activist? > To me this is really a question of how best can one live one's life. Art > and activism are two of the most crucial elements in my life. This is > obviously true for many people on this list, judging from the posts. > > Ok, now, disclaimer. This was written quickly and off the cuff. I have > been reluctant to post opinionated things of this sort in the past because > of the intimidation factor: I didn't want to be the recipient of flames or > attacks. I'm sure there is much in the above that could be denied or is > somehow incorrect. Nonetheless. I like seeing political (and, I'll admit > it, by that I mean "lefty") postings on this list. I think it's > important. I have great admiration for list members who are doing > something to make the world safer, more just, cleaner, more complex, etc. > And I'll stop now before someone throws something at me. > > Arielle > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Charles Bernstein wrote: > >> An adaption of my essay about National Poetry Month was recently broadcast on >> National Public Radio's "All Things Considered". You can listen to it in >> RealAudio at >> >> http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010419.atc.09.ram >> > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:27:58 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Louis Cabri Subject: reminder--upcoming live audiocast MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks, A reminder that this Monday, April 30th, 7.30 pm Mountain Standard Time, poet IAN SAMUELS will be presenting a discussion of his own work and the work of others (Mac Low, Mullen, McCaffery, Watten, Marvel cosmetology), and that this discussion will be broadcast live as an audio feed that you can listen to at http://slought.net/exp/transparency/ or even subscribe to, if you want to join in, by emailing housepress@home.com or you can simply read the word/image materials that Ian has assembled for his event, downloadable as a PDF file at the link above. Louis Cabri ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:59:00 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: GasHeart@AOL.COM Subject: Philly: Theater, Music, Film - Anodyne, last few days! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable well, i went to this and it was really good,....very innovative theater. without spoiling any surprises, i feel i can say that there are themes about= =20 survival among destruction, based on the experiences of someone in poland at= =20 the end of world war 2, very moving. it's an experience, not just theater. at first you're in a gallery with photos and music and snacks, then you=20 descend into the basement/nightmare. it is only playing for a few more days. see the blurb/info below. -josh DEAR JOSH, =20 WOULD YOU PLEASE BEGIN INCLUDING PIG IRON'S=20 UPCOMING SHOW IN YOUR LISTINGS? =20 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DAN =20 =20 PIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY=20 invites you to =20 ANODYNE Soundscape and spectacle=20 =20 =93the progressive theatre event of the year=94 =96 J. Cooper Robb, Ritz Fi= lmbill =20 =20 Pig Iron Theatre Company, the Barrymore Award-winning,=20 internationally-acclaimed physical theatre ensemble, pushes the=20 envelope of performance even further with its latest spectacle,=20 ANODYNE. =20 =20 ANODYNE is both a performance and an art-installation, a startling=20 theatrical journey that will surprise art-lovers and theatre-goers alike. =20 There is no fixed seating and each audience member chooses his or her=20 own path through the spectacle.=20 =20 The evening begins with a gallery opening and party, with live music and=20 free food and drinks. On display are the haunting photographs of Jozef=20 Galinski, the Polish-born photographer, famous for his vivid portraits of=20 deserted battlefields and abandoned orphanages. In unexpected=20 corners, a story begins to unfold. The photographs blur, the gallery=20 shifts, and the audience follows a young boy=92s descent into nightmarish=20 surroundings. =20 =20 Pig Iron has assembled its largest cast to date for this project, including= =20 company members Suli Holum, Dito Van Reigersberg, Emmanuelle=20 Delpech, and James Sugg and New Paradise Laboratory=92s Lee Etzold.=20 =20 Multi-disciplinary artist Jorge Cousineau has designed ANODYNE=92s=20 visual world and soundscape. Cousineau hails from East Germany,=20 where he studied fine arts and music. In Philadelphia, he has become a=20 prominent designer of lights, sound, and installations with Group Motion=20 and the Arden Theatre, among others. Cousineau, a veteran DJ of=20 Dresden=92s electronic music underground, has composed the piece=92s=20 original music. Rosemarie McKelvey of People=92s Light and Theatre=20 Company designs costumes, Deborah Stein provides the text, and Pig=20 Iron co-founder Dan Rothenberg directs. =20 =20 About Pig Iron Theatre Company:=20 Founded in 1995, the Pig Iron Theatre Company has rapidly become=20 known as a unique, innovative voice in American theatre. The ensemble=20 has created 11 original works of theatre and performed in New York,=20 London, Sicily, Ireland, Poland, at the Edinburgh Fringe and throughout=20 Philadelphia. Their productions have earned them 13 Barrymore=20 Nominations and 2 Barrymore Awards; a "Spirit of the Fringe" Award in=20 Edinburgh (1999); a Best of Philly Award from Philadelphia Magazine=20 (1999); and a Total Theatre Award (2000). The company recently=20 received their first grant from the NEA. In June, the company will be=20 presented at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania. =20 Performances are April 12-16, 18-22, and 25-29, 2001. All shows are at=20 8pm. Tickets for ANODYNE are $16, and $9 for students, and can be=20 purchased on the web at www.pigiron.org, or at the Pig Iron box office at=20 215.627.1883, or just show up. The gallery is located at Smoke, 233 Bread=20 Street, off of=20 New Street in Old City Philadelphia.=20 =20 PLEASE NOTE:=20 ANODYNE contains material which is not suitable for children. No fixed seating. Audiences are advised to wear comfortable shoes. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:03:40 +0200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: ART ELECTRONICS Organization: Art Electronics Subject: Biennale / Video-Visual Poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit _______________________________ KARENINA.IT (poesia in funzione fàtica), progetto web di Caterina Davinio, partecipa e collabora al Bunker Poetico della Biennale di Venezia 2001. Presto sul sito uno speciale dedicato alla Biennale, al Bunker, e un grande spazio aperto alla "poesia contro il potere". Karenina.it (poetry in "fàtica" function), web project by Caterina Davinio, participates and cooperates with the Poetic Bunker of the Venice Biennial 2001 Very soon in the web site a great space dedicated to the Biennial, to the Bunker, and an open space for the "poetry against power" __________________________________ 26-27-28 April 2001 Cineteca Comunale di Rimini / Palazzo Gambalunga (Italy) The XX National Indipendent Film and Video Festival Round 2001 is going to present: "Electronic Poetry Visions International Video-Visual Poetry" Caterina Davinio Curator Artisti / Artists: BEATRICE BABIN, ANTAL LUX, ANNA ALCHUK, OLGA KUMEGER, SERGEY LETOV, LARA LEE, BRICE BOWMAN, HALSEY BROWN, WALTER UNGERER, VONDA YARBERRY, JOHN PRESCOTT, AKENATON, CHRISTINE RHEYS, EMILIO FANTIN, CATERINA DAVINIO, CARLA VITTORIA ROSSI, SEBASTIEN PESOT, CLAUDETTE LEMAY, JOANNA EMPAIN, ROBIN DUPUIS, ISABELLE HAYEUR. 27-27-28 aprile 2001 Cineteca Comunale di Rimini / Palazzo Gambalunga Nell'ambito della ventesima rassegna nazionale di film e video indipendenti Round 2001 sarà presentata la sezione fuori concorso: "Poevisioni Elettroniche" Poesia videovisiva internazionale A cura di Caterina Davinio -- KARENINA.IT (poesia in funzione fàtica) Nel modello delle funzioni di Jakobson fàtico è l'uso della lingua che persegue lo scopo di tener aperto e funzionante il canale tra gli interlocutori. Tra arte e critica, tra happening e performance telematica, Karenina è un luogo di aggregazione virtuale sul tema della scrittura e delle tecnologie, nel quale confluiscono esperienze di artisti, curatori, teorici internazionali, in una rete che conta migliaia di contatti nel mondo. Index: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/kareninarivista.html Project: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/7323/manifesto.htm Art Electronics and Other Writings - Archive / Videotheque http://space.tin.it/arte/cprezi To be removed from our mailing list send us a message with REMOVE in the object - Questo messaggio è indirizzato ad artisti, scrittori, giornalisti, a persone che si occupano di informazione on line e sappiamo interessati al nostro progetto. Se il suo indirizzo di posta elettronica fosse capitato per errore della nostra mailing list (che conta oltre 6000 contatti) ce ne scusiamo, la preghiamo di comunicarcelo e provvederemo immediatamente a rimuoverla dalla rubrica senza arrecarle ulteriore disturbo. Grazie per la collaborazione. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:55:42 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Potter Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry In-Reply-To: <00fe01c0cd0c$54eb9200$26515e18@hawaii.rr.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi Susan: Sorry if my 2nding the tarpits of poetry post came across as anti-professor= , certainly wasn't my intention. And, yes, the delete key works fine. I should have looked at the list guidelines before leaping into the fray. My work for money is completely unrelated to my work for the love of it, an= d I guess I projected that fractured world view outward, expecting you all, whose work for money and work for the love of it is intimately linked, to have as disjointed a view of work as my own. Anyhow, good luck with the struggle and post away. I'll let the moderators moderate from now on. Steve=20 on 4/24/01 3:17 PM, Susan Webster Schultz at schultz@HAWAII.RR.COM wrote: > Sorry to have pestered you, though I may do so again in future. There's > always the delete key, you know. Many thanks to those who back and > front-channeled their support to me and Juliana and, by extension, to Ste= ve > Carll and Bill Luoma. >=20 > Poets' flesh and professors' bodies so often being the same, I thought I'= d > communicate how effectively they are being flayed here. Without educatio= n > there are very few readers or writers of poetry, even if not all poets ar= e > teachers. I could say a lot more about the death of the poets in the > schools program in this state, which it seems to me is intimately related= to > our current woes. The governor, after all, wants education that generate= s > revenues. >=20 > A recent question from an LA Times reporter to me, "is WS Merwin a major > poet?" seems far less relevant to the health of poetry in this state than > does the governor's attempt to scrap public education. >=20 > But enough. >=20 > Susan >=20 >=20 >=20 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Potter" > To: > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:44 AM > Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry >=20 >=20 > I agree. While I wish them the best of luck in their strike, seems to me > this would better fit a =B3lifestyles/concerns of college instructors=B2 list= or > something. While =B3professor=B2 and =B3poet=B2 often share the same flesh, this= is > the =B3poetics list=B2 not =B3professor list.=B2 >=20 > Anyhow, I=B9m just a neophyte shooting my mouth off, but what I hoped to fi= nd > here when I signed on a couple weeks back, that cannot be found elsewhere= , > is info on contemporary poetry/experimental writing world to broaden my > horizons as reader/writer/art appreciator/creator. >=20 > David Chirot=B9s post on relation of film to writing, with its examples, > names, and suggested further reading, is a fine example of the sort of po= st > I hoped to see. >=20 > on 4/20/01 8:14 AM, michael amberwind at michael_amberwind@YAHOO.COM wrot= e: >=20 >> and some dinosaurs are concerned that matters of >> aesthetics, poetry and are being usurped by >> political concerns - i wonder where they got such >> and idea? >>=20 >> i suppose if a poem were written on the matter - >> and posted to the list - i might be "convinced" >> that such people were simply being reactionary >>=20 >> when newspaper reportage becomes poetry, i can't >> help but think something went wrong somewhere >> along the line - but trying to tell the >> difference between this list and any other >> politically motivated list (with its own "slant") >> has been getting difficult as of late >>=20 >> of course - i could be crazy... >=20 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:33:09 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pierre Joris Subject: Re: Andre du Bouchet 1924-2001 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There is an excellent interview (in French) with André du Bouchet done by Alain Veinstein on France Culture (this week -- you need to listen or download before monday). You can try this url in your realaudio: http://bahamas.francelink.com:8080/ramgen/rfc/lundi_surpris_par_la_nuit.ra or else go to www.francelink.com, follow links to radio, then france-culture, the go to "Lundi" and choose the last show of the day: "Surpris par la Nuit". If all else fails, email me & I'll send you a zipped version as I have downloaded the interview. Pierre ________________________________________________________________ Pierre Joris Just out from Wesleyan UP: 6 Madison Place Albany NY 12202 POASIS: Selected Poems 1986-1999 Tel: (518) 426-0433 Fax: (518) 426-3722 go to: http://www.albany.edu/~joris/poasis.htm Email: joris@ albany.edu Url: ____________________________________________________________________________ _ > -----Original Message----- > From: UB Poetics discussion group > [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of Tom Orange > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:12 PM > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Andre du Bouchet 1924-2001 > > > thank you jerrold. this is terrible news. du bouchet is less well-known > than yves bonnefoy or jacques dupin. he has been horribly under-served in > english translation: only paul auster and david mus have translated books > or book-length selections. paul celan translated du bouchet into german. > the notion of an "abstract french lyric" fails miserably when applied to > du bouchet; like celan he lives and breathes. below is a rough > translation of the obit from le monde, to be followed shortly by some > poems....tom orange / wdc > > ----------------- > The poet Andre du Bouchet died, Thursday April 19, in Truinas at the Drome > where he resided, at the age of 77, following a serious illness diagnosed > two years ago. > > With Andre du Bouchet, one of contemporary French poetry's highest and > purest voices dies out -- a voice that knew to guard itself against two > great temptations: the excess of lyricism, overflow of ego -- "loss of > oneself refreshes," he wrote --, and the escape into an abstraction in > which the world itself would no longer be the horizon. Considered > difficult, his poetry however became, when du Bouchet read it himself in > public or in front of a computer, so limpid, obvious, admirably > structured. Inheritor of Mallarme and especially his great master Pierre > Reverdy, du Bouchet had kept intact the idea of a poetry that should > accept no compromise, no concession. "The words of the tribe" could not > enter the poem. > > Anecdote, biography or mundanity in fact find no place in his oeuvre. From > the start, around the end of 1940, his choices were made; certain discrete > standards would go together with a rigorous poetic esthetics. Relatively > prolific -- about thirty books and a number of limited editions -- the > oeuvre has no room for explication, no space of expression for the > personality, the thoughts or opinions of the poet. > > Andre du Bouchet was born May 7, 1924 in Paris. His paternal French > family emigrated to the United States in the 18th Century. His origins on > the maternal side are Russian and Jewish. The war interrupted his Parisian > adolescence, and from 1941 to 1948 he found himself exiled in the United > States. He completed his studies at Harvard and started to teach English. > Upon returning, he rediscovered the French language, the use of which he > claimed to have lost. During a conversation that he granted to us in > October 2000, he spoke at length about this central experience of his > life. This rupture probably gave his poetic language this original > character, as if released from a coating, as well as the by no means > peripheral relationship that Bouchet maintained with the translation of > writers such as Mandelstam, Pasternak, Celan, Holderlin, but also > Faulkner, Joyce -- a portion of Finnegans Wake (Gallimard, 1962) -- , and > Shakespeare. > > All these works are tied by a common thread. It would be unjust, and it > could be, to reproach him for his theory of the translation. He did not > explicitly have one. It was less one of the movement of appropriation or > collecting than of the extension of the field of the word, at the interior > of which whose each work leaves a mark. > > du Bouchet's first book, Air, was published in 1951. But the collection > that truly inaugurates the oeuvre is Dans la chaleur vacante [tr. by David > Mus as Where Heat Looms, Sun and Moon 1995], which appears ten years > later. From this point the work develops by sharpening each one of its > edges, by revealing its escarpments and its accidents. "At the tearing in > the sky, the thickness of the ground" du Bouchet writes on the first > page. Mountain, glacier, reliefs. . . all the world's mineral and physical > reality is convened. There is nothing under the heading of decoration. > "One cannot make a higher bid on reality," he says again in one of the > pages of his "notebooks." If the "I" is expressed, it does not drop to > any confidence. > > From Ou le soleil (1968) to Axiale (1992), through Laisses (1979), > L'Incoherence (1979) or Desaccordee comme par la neige (1989), the subject > matter does not vary. There are no other matters to speak about properly > but the drawing of the word, the space of its deployment, its movement and > its projection into terrain at once tangible and mysterious. The poem is > detached on the page in vocables separated by white spaces, many, intended > to make the poet's gaze at once participate with the reader's listening. > Prose or poetry? The question does not find an answer immediate. But it > hardly worries the interested party. . . > > The dialogue with painters -- there still without giving in to > speculation, criticism, specialized or in-the-know discussion -- proves > quite as central as that with the foreign works. Tal-Coat and Giacometti > are the two great witnesses, but also Genevieve Asse, Bram van Velde. . . > not to mention the great past masters, Poussin, Hercules Seghers. . . It > is finally necessary to cite the experience of collective work around the > Maeght gallery and the journal L'Ephemre (twenty issues from 1967 to > 1972), alongside Jacques Dupin, Yves Bonnefoy, Louis-Rene des Forets, then > Paul Celan. > > "The word is there / Not me." This abstention for du Bouchet was in no way > the expression of a will to withdrawal. His cordial and demanding > presence, his attention, the constant search of a "truth of word" -- to > borrow a title from Yves Bonnefoy -- showed. "All that is far today, > undoubtedly the turning emerged too late." (Osip Mandelstam, Journey in > Armenia, translated by du Bouchet). > > The essence of the work is published by Mercure de France and at > Fata Morgana. Two volumes appeared in the "Poesie-Gallimard" collection. > > Patrick Kechichian > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:29:13 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rachel Blau DuPlessis Subject: Re: Contemporary North American Poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The University of Wisconsin Press has just announced a new book series on contemporary North American Poetry. I am very happy and pleased to be on the Advisory Board among a great crew of hands on deck, and I am sure one of the three distinguished general editors (Lynn Keller at Wisconsin-Madison, Alan Golding at University of Louisville, and Adalaide Morris at University of Iowa) will be able to post the whole brochure to the Poetics List. I just wanted to make an early alert to everyone who might be interested. All best, Rachel Blau DuPlessis > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:52:18 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chicago Review Subject: CHICAGO REVIEW 47:1. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit * C H I C A G O R E V I E W 4 7 : 1 (Spring 2001) is on newstands now; look out for the yellow cover. * This issue includes: POEMS by Rae Armantrout, Elizabeth Arnold, David Blair, Caroline Crumpacker, Stacy Doris, Ted Enslin, Philip Jenks, Ronald Johnson, Catherine Kasper, Ralph J. Mills, Jr., Geoffrey Nutter, Pam Rehm, Dennis Schmitz, Juliana Spahr, Marjorie Welish, Anne Winters, and Mark Wunderlich A STORY by Federigo Tozzi (translated from the Italian by Minna Proctor) ESSAYS by Nate Dorward (on Tom Raworth) Mark Halliday (on Allen Grossman) Nigel Wheale (on Peter Riley) and Andrew Yaphe (on John Koethe) and 40 pages of REVIEWS, NOTES, and COMMENTS * * * * * * SPECIAL OFFER: subscribe at our special webrate, and receive the back issue of your choice, gratis. See webpage for preview of contents, as well as for a list of back issues and webrate details: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/review/. * * * * * * FORTHCOMING: 47:2 (Summer 2001): POEMS Kenneth Fields, J. Gallaher, Timothy Liu, Carol Moldaw, Cole Swenson, John Taggart, Ko Un, and more STORIES by J.M.G. Le Clezio and Alexander Dubnov ESSAYS on Hejinian and Jay Wright REVIEWS of Martin Corless-Smith, Barbara Guest, Rachel Loden, and more 47:3 (Fall 2001): INTERVIEW with Thalia Field INTERVIEW with Frank Bidart Poetry, fiction, and reviews 47:4 (Winter 2001): STAN BRAKHAGE / special section 48:1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2002): NEW WRITING IN GERMAN -------------------------- CHICAGO REVIEW 5801 South Kenwood Avenue Chicago IL 60637 http://humanities.uchicago.edu/review/ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:00:02 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Maria Damon Subject: Re: "All Things Considered" broadcast, etc. In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" tho i've been virtually a lurker lately i want to add my $0.02 here. i feel the hawai'i posts were entirely legitimate. if we are restricted to a narrow definition of "poetics," we would never have learned of ramez qureshi's death, for example, which for me at least was one of the list's shining moments. i consider community-building to be a prime function of the list, and human emergencies count. At 9:35 PM -0700 4/26/01, Steve Potter wrote: >Arielle: > >I agree that there is a place for overtly political material in poetry and >in fact, language being innately political, there is no poetry that is not, >intentionally or otherwise, political in some way. > >My view in the great "tar pits" debate was that the Hawaii posts were >outside the parameters of the list because they did not directly involve the >creating/presenting/appreciating of poetry but rather the political >struggles of those whose work it is to teach the practice and appreciation >of poetry. Not to say that isn't extremely important and relevant, I only >thought it was a step outside the realm of the list but, as the moderators >made clear, I was off base. > >I didn't have any problem with the anti-Bush anthology posts because 1) I >think it's a great idea and 2) even if it was a pro-Bush poetry anthology >(as if such a thing could happen!) I'd have been okay with it because it was >directly related to the creation and presentation of poetry. > >Best, > >Steve > >on 4/24/01 6:47 PM, Arielle C. Greenberg at acgreenb@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU wrote: > >> I heard Charles Bernstein's essay on NPR and it made my day, especially as >> I had just come out of a particularly pandering workshop experience with a >> poet who shall go unnamed. This essay made me very proud to be part of >> this listserv! >> >> As, I must say, have the recent postings about issues of political import >> and social justice, including the reports from the U Hawai'i strike and >> the anti-Bush anthology. I recently saw Minnie Bruce Pratt read her work, >> and really she mostly talked about various political issues she's involved >> in. Her poetry is not the kind of thing I usually go for, but I have to >> say I was struck by how *relevant*, in an obvious way, it was, and how >> closely she's melded her poetry life with her political life. Afterwards >> I asked her about this, about how she brought the two together, and she >> basically responded by saying it is only in my insulated little academic >> poetry world where poetry and politics AREN'T united. I don't >> neccessarily agree with this -- I still think certain kinds of poetries >> and politics are kept separate, and anyway, even if you're only talking >> about "academic" (and what does that mean, really? experimental? >> confessional? lyric?) poetry, it's still an issue to think about that >> should not be easily dismissed: how does one be an artist and an activist? >> To me this is really a question of how best can one live one's life. Art >> and activism are two of the most crucial elements in my life. This is >> obviously true for many people on this list, judging from the posts. >> >> Ok, now, disclaimer. This was written quickly and off the cuff. I have >> been reluctant to post opinionated things of this sort in the past because >> of the intimidation factor: I didn't want to be the recipient of flames or >> attacks. I'm sure there is much in the above that could be denied or is >> somehow incorrect. Nonetheless. I like seeing political (and, I'll admit >> it, by that I mean "lefty") postings on this list. I think it's >> important. I have great admiration for list members who are doing >> something to make the world safer, more just, cleaner, more complex, etc. >> And I'll stop now before someone throws something at me. >> >> Arielle >> >> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Charles Bernstein wrote: >> >>> An adaption of my essay about National Poetry Month was recently >>>broadcast on >>> National Public Radio's "All Things Considered". You can listen to it in >>> RealAudio at >>> >>> http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010419.atc.09.ram >>> >> ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:29:37 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Wanda Phipps Subject: Anti-Reading at Tonic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hey, The text of one of my poems is used in one of Joel Schlemowitz’s filmscrolls which will be exhibited along with some of his other text-based art objects and a film loop during this event. Hope you can drop by: ugly duckling presse is pleased to announce its involvement in the 1st ANTI-READING organized by LOUDMOUTH COLLECTIVE (with assistance from SOFT SKULL) to be held in the main space of TONIC from 1:30 to 4pm in the afternoon on Saturday the 28th of April. For those that are tired of literary readings that sound like Barbara Walters interviewing Barbara Walters, Loudmouth Collective presents an anti-reading of new work by James Hoff, Sam Truitt, Joel Schlemowitz, Ryan Haley, Matvei Yankelevich, Ellie Ga, Julien Poirier, Filip Marinovic, Richard Kostelanetz, and more . . . (exhibiting poems, collaborating with the audience, and performing books) TONIC 107 Norfolk St. Just north of Delancey, take the F to Delancey St. FREE -- Wanda Phipps Hey, don't forget to check out my website MIND HONEY http://users.rcn.com/wanda.interport (and if you have already try it again) poetry, music and more! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:31:03 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Nielsen, Aldon" Subject: See Oh Two Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Not surprised to read that a fourth grade class is more on-the-ball than the shrieking heads who populate our television news-talk shows -- Having wearied of the oft-repeated invitation to postmodernists to step outside their upper floor office windows to test the cutltural construction of gravity, I do hereby invite all those within the Bush administration who have been daily reminding us that we breathe out carbon dioxide every minute of the day to step inside an airtight booth which shall then be filled with the exhalations of poets. " Subjects hinder talk." -- Emily Dickinson Aldon Lynn Nielsen Fletcher Jones Chair of Literature and Writing Loyola Marymount University 7900 Loyola Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045-8215 (310) 338-3078 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 17:31:02 +0000 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Organization: Pavement Saw Press Subject: New Book(1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Carl Thayler Shake Hands 2001 64 pages ISBN 1-886350-52-3 $10.00 Thayler's first full length perfect bound book since 1972 is now available. http://pavementsaw.org/shake.htm More personal and local than the epic sprawl of his recent Poems From Naltsus Bichidin, Carl Thayler's Shake Hands goes after readers with a frequently agonized, always lively honesty. Barrooms, love affairs, roadside ephemera, bankrupt religion, a western sky under which recognizing one's inevitable loneliness becomes the only possible way to reach out to others; all these things swarm up at readers like barely comprehensible dangers lurching into one's headlights on an all night drive to nowhere in particular. One feels in these poems both Thayler's fear of writing them and his need to do so. These are not the comments of a smug cultural observer. Instead, Shake Hands reads like the knotted midnight confessions of the writer for whom only poems can manage to say what would otherwise never get said. --Mark Wallace "Consider the sun falling in Illinois / then before you can retain a breath / there's Indiana..." strikes me as the best serial staging of cultural geography I've seen since Burma Shave signs. --Tom Clark Carl Thayler has been one of the hidden masters of American poetry for nearly forty years. His language is as sharp as a skinner's knife, and reveals exactly what's beneath the skin - far more complex and beautiful than any micro-chip orchestra or the unblinking innards of a Rolex. We get one world per customer. Here's Carl's - cognoscenti will recognize J. Dean, D. Varsi of Peyton Place, the cream of country singers and fast drivers, old poets, good women, and gnarly codgers encountered between now and LA fifty years ago. --Howard McCord Fierce and unflinching, Carl Thayler makes poems that are vulnerable nonetheless in their feeling search for truth. That there be an achieved knowledge of truth in an unredeemed world-as the poet calls it-is remarkable enough, but the music lifts also with sudden strikes of ecstatic clarity. Like Hank Williams or Lefty Frizzell, he follows the unpredictable and at times predacious wanderings of the heart. The result-a lyric dignity very hard to locate these days of shallow, post-modern irony-love. --Dale Smith From Shake Hands 4. When my wife and I visited the Vomitologist our daughter had just tossed the remains of supper, favoring the etiquette of dread to sharing our table. Her body he said was a complicated system of fantasy. We couldn’t swallow that. Our daughter needed to maintain a safe distance from our groceries, from me tho only her barely concealed smile revealed that. Your daughter has no appetite for authority, as long as she doesn’t eat she avoids indenture. It was bleak, our retreat, and the gross impingements of Providence. The girl, while lacking a specialist’s purview, rejected our table nonetheless and furthermore her body was no indigestible trope. She stroked her throat. She measured the joke to the nearest ounce. O the welcome mat was set between salad greens and the assembled Shades. Perhaps beyond our old linoleum she might capitulate to Sara Lee. But who could see beyond the mists, in transit, drawn together over rough terrain. Obviously we hadn’t encountered an epicurean. I’d go so far as to declare her mom and I —to leave, a moment, the specialist’s modality— had been royally fucked by the gyro effect of the ameliorating finger. So much for documentation. So much for annotated debris. The dark edges of our daughter’s body cold sacerdotal gravy. The pre-pub cost is $10 including postage from us directly. Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus OH 43206 USA http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 17:21:10 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Steve--not to worry; I believe in saying what you mean, and that's what you meant....our strikes are now over, praise be. One reason I wrote to the list is because Hawai`i gets so little attention in the national media that I feel I need to do some personal hyperventilations on issues that are important to us. And I do wish our work were more for love--so much bickering in the academy! But yes, I do very much enjoy sharing poetry with my students; they, at least, often have minds that are still open. Anyway, thanks for writing. aloha, Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Potter" To: Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 5:55 PM Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry Hi Susan: Sorry if my 2nding the tarpits of poetry post came across as anti-professor, certainly wasn't my intention. And, yes, the delete key works fine. I should have looked at the list guidelines before leaping into the fray. My work for money is completely unrelated to my work for the love of it, and I guess I projected that fractured world view outward, expecting you all, whose work for money and work for the love of it is intimately linked, to have as disjointed a view of work as my own. Anyhow, good luck with the struggle and post away. I'll let the moderators moderate from now on. Steve on 4/24/01 3:17 PM, Susan Webster Schultz at schultz@HAWAII.RR.COM wrote: > Sorry to have pestered you, though I may do so again in future. There's > always the delete key, you know. Many thanks to those who back and > front-channeled their support to me and Juliana and, by extension, to Steve > Carll and Bill Luoma. > > Poets' flesh and professors' bodies so often being the same, I thought I'd > communicate how effectively they are being flayed here. Without education > there are very few readers or writers of poetry, even if not all poets are > teachers. I could say a lot more about the death of the poets in the > schools program in this state, which it seems to me is intimately related to > our current woes. The governor, after all, wants education that generates > revenues. > > A recent question from an LA Times reporter to me, "is WS Merwin a major > poet?" seems far less relevant to the health of poetry in this state than > does the governor's attempt to scrap public education. > > But enough. > > Susan > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Potter" > To: > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:44 AM > Subject: Re: Tarpits of Poetry > > > I agree. While I wish them the best of luck in their strike, seems to me > this would better fit a ³lifestyles/concerns of college instructors² list or > something. While ³professor² and ³poet² often share the same flesh, this is > the ³poetics list² not ³professor list.² > > Anyhow, I¹m just a neophyte shooting my mouth off, but what I hoped to find > here when I signed on a couple weeks back, that cannot be found elsewhere, > is info on contemporary poetry/experimental writing world to broaden my > horizons as reader/writer/art appreciator/creator. > > David Chirot¹s post on relation of film to writing, with its examples, > names, and suggested further reading, is a fine example of the sort of post > I hoped to see. > > on 4/20/01 8:14 AM, michael amberwind at michael_amberwind@YAHOO.COM wrote: > >> and some dinosaurs are concerned that matters of >> aesthetics, poetry and are being usurped by >> political concerns - i wonder where they got such >> and idea? >> >> i suppose if a poem were written on the matter - >> and posted to the list - i might be "convinced" >> that such people were simply being reactionary >> >> when newspaper reportage becomes poetry, i can't >> help but think something went wrong somewhere >> along the line - but trying to tell the >> difference between this list and any other >> politically motivated list (with its own "slant") >> has been getting difficult as of late >> >> of course - i could be crazy... > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:16:47 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: eocittiw MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - eocittiw editing or culling into the texts i wrote - first assembled into files - then placed into directories on the homepages and cdroms - but first - to eliminate awkward or repetitive work - work which is theoretically or stylistically weak - work which is an embarrassment - written under less than perfect circumstances - work which should never have been distributed - last night in fact - cutting out a number of pieces - pruning the cur- rent file and thinking - this is a form of evanescence - that word remains with me - it seemed resonant to everything i've been doing - holding back a little less - releasing the text into noise or the possibility of other writes and rewrites - as if thought were temporarily concretized, only to disappear - i'm beginning to think that memory itself is emptied - always already emptied as they said - referencing null - just as time shudders or ripples in forgotten corners of the universe - culled work which emerges elsewhere - a glistening or memory tending to coat alterity - interpenet- rate alterity - viral formulations almost ghostlike in appearance and quality - you can't find the source again or at this point if ever - they've been taken away - as if they themselves weren't present already incipient in other works that still remain - the gaps closed - they're sutured over - you don't know i've ever been here - but i have - in spirit - editing or culling into the texts i wrote - _ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:22:37 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joseph Massey Subject: Re: Andre du Bouchet 1924-2001 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/27/2001 6:57:17 AM Central Daylight Time, oranget@GUSUN.GEORGETOWN.EDU writes: > he has been horribly under-served in > english translation: only paul auster and david mus have translated books > Don't forget Cid Corman translated Andre du Bouchet - "Today It's," Origin Press, 1985. There's also some Bouchet in his GIST OF ORIGIN anthology, a pretty generous chunk of work - Corman's translation. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 21:50:03 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: michael amberwind Subject: Re: Tar Pits of Poetry Ad Infinitum MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii i'm not so concerned anymore with "academic" or "anti-academic" - can't we put that tired shibboleth to rest? only the failures of poets to connect what they are doing and saying into a wider frame of reference - for politics and poetry to feed into the reservoir of the other Yeats did this - so did Ginsberg - so does Bly - even Pound in his own misguided way it's the often arrogant assumption that the concerns of the academy are ipso facto those of poetics or poetry - as though a teachers strike in Hawaii - whatever it's reasons - must be of concern to poets everywhere poets themselves lack a constituency and are not a "special interest group" - there is no geopolitical voting block - no union - if there was i would not join it - and if i did - what would we do? go on strike? demand better working conditions for poets everywhere? i think the notion is ludicrous forgive me - but i have a hard time feeling a great deal of compassion for those who are in arguably "better" living conditions than my own - perhaps i should be - so the question is - why aren't i? why do i find it hard to distinguish the exploitation of labour by management and the exploit of management by labour? welcome to the age of the victim - if people are so certain they are somehow deserving of better - why do they find it so difficult to find those who will give it to them? the question is not facitious, but perhaps a result of reading too much Nietzche perhaps i too am a hypocrite - i am a "sucker for the sublime" - one who seeks poetry for its beauty and its truth, scarcely the most fashionable of notions these days - clearly a poet like Blake had great concerns of political, social and spiritual nature - but he took those beyond his immediate frame and made them great - even prophetic who among us does this? of course - the situation is always so close to us we cannot see it - i suspect it will take two generations to recognise such a person among our generation - and the same can be said of our political views as well this is why i call it the tarpits - as a "dinosaur" (just a youngin' one tho) - it is difficult not to get trapped in the great, black undifferentiated mass of "postmodernism" (that even leads me to use quotes around the word itself - to maintain the ironic state) as surely as the Beats felt trapped in the Square - things aren't square anymore - just flat flat flat > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Jonathan Y Okamura wrote: > > > Hi All, > > Below is a letter that the Ethnic > Studies Department faculty at UH > > Manoa sent to the UCLA Asian American Studies > Center just prior to the end > > of our 13 day strike on April 18. The K-12 > teachers' strike ended today > > after their 20 day strike, the longest in > Hawai'i education history. > > Early analyses of the strikes already blame > Gov. Ben Cayetano for their > > occurrence because of his unwillingness to > negotiate seriously: "There is an > > overwhelming opinion that the education > strike is due almost entirely to him" > > (Honolulu Weekly, April 18-24, 2001, p. 5). > An article in the Hawaii > > Filipino Chronicle (April 16, 2001, p. 6) by > UH Manoa Strike Coordinator > > Dean Alegado noted Cayetano's pre-strike > "campaign to vilify public school > > teachers and UH professors as a 'bunch of > lazy people who only work 9 > > months a year but get paid for 12 months.'" > Does this mean that recipients of > > the Cayetano chair will have to work a full > calendar year instead of the usual > > academic year? Note that one of Cayetano's > contract demands was that UH > > faculty not receive any health care or > retirement benefits during the > > summer because we supposedly are not working. > > We ask for your support in bringing > this issue to the attention of > > the larger community. > > > > > > April 17, 2001 > > > > Dr. Don Nakanishi > > Asian American Studies Center > > 3230 Campbell Hall, Box 951546 > > Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546 > > > > Dear Dr. Nakanishi: > > > > We are extremely concerned and dismayed > that an endowed chair for > > the "Benjamin Cayetano Professor in Public > Policy and American Politics" > > has been established at the Asian American > Studies Center at UCLA. The > > University of Hawaii Professional Assembly > (UHPA), representing more than > > 3,000 UH faculty, and the Hawaii State > Teachers Association (HSTA), > > representing nearly 13,000 public school > teachers, have been on strike > > since April 5, 2001, thus shutting down for > the first time in the nation's > > history an entire state public education > system. > > > > Governor Cayetano's policies and > actions before and during the > > strikes by UHPA and the HSTA can hardly be > considered worthy of academic > > distinction and instead are reminiscent of > the vindictive and repressive > > tactics of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters > Association against striking > > Japanese and Filipino plantation laborers in > the 1920s. Defying all > > logic, Cayetano has declared striking state > workers on "unauthorized leave > > without pay" and therefore not entitled to > health care benefits. He has > > attempted to break the strikes and had > workers endure further pay losses > > by unnecessarily delaying the resumption of > contract negotiations for a > > full week after the strikes began. While he > has claimed there are > > insufficient funds for the salary increases > sought by UHPA and HSTA, the > > state Senate has designated $200M for such > pay raises and thereby publicly > > challenged Cayetano's credibility. While > campaigning on campus as "The > > Education Governor" in 1994, Cayetano > promised he would not cut the > > University of Hawai'i budget and then > proceeded to do just that for seven > > consecutive years, making UH Manoa the only > public university in the > > nation to suffer such a fate. Clearly, > Cayetano's anti-education and > > anti-labor public policies do not merit > having an academic chair named for > > him at a prestigious university such as UCLA. > > > > We strongly urge you to reconsider > establishing a chair in the > > name of Cayetano since such an association > with the Asian American Studies > > Center can only damage its well established > and highly respected > > reputation for academic integrity, first-rate > scholarship, and community > > advocacy. > Arielle: > > I agree that there is a place for overtly > political material in poetry and > in fact, language being innately political, > there is no poetry that is not, > intentionally or otherwise, political in some > way. > > My view in the great "tar pits" debate was that > the Hawaii posts were > outside the parameters of the list because they > did not directly involve the > creating/presenting/appreciating of poetry but > rather the political > struggles of those whose work it is to teach > the practice and appreciation > of poetry. Not to say that isn't extremely > important and relevant, I only > thought it was a step outside the realm of the > list but, as the moderators > made clear, I was off base. > > I didn't have any problem with the anti-Bush > anthology posts because 1) I > think it's a great idea and 2) even if it was a > pro-Bush poetry anthology > (as if such a thing could happen!) I'd have > been okay with it because it was > directly related to the creation and > presentation of poetry. > > Best, > > Steve > > on 4/24/01 6:47 PM, Arielle C. Greenberg at > acgreenb@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU wrote: > > > I heard Charles Bernstein's essay on NPR and > it made my day, especially as > > I had just come out of a particularly > pandering workshop experience with a > > poet who shall go unnamed. This essay made > me very proud to be part of > > this listserv! > > > > As, I must say, have the recent postings > about issues of political import > > and social justice, including the reports > from the U Hawai'i strike and > > the anti-Bush anthology. I recently saw > Minnie Bruce Pratt read her work, > > and really she mostly talked about various > political issues she's involved > > in. Her poetry is not the kind of thing I > usually go for, but I have to > > say I was struck by how *relevant*, in an > obvious way, it was, and how > > closely she's melded her poetry life with her > political life. Afterwards > > I asked her about this, about how she brought > the two together, and she > > basically responded by saying it is only in > my insulated little academic > > poetry world where poetry and politics AREN'T > united. I don't > > neccessarily agree with this -- I still think > certain kinds of poetries > > and politics are kept separate, and anyway, > even if you're only talking > > about "academic" (and what does that mean, > really? experimental? > > confessional? lyric?) poetry, it's still an > issue to think about that > > should not be easily dismissed: how does one > be an artist and an activist? > > To me this is really a question of how best > can one live one's life. Art > > and activism are two of the most crucial > elements in my life. This is > > obviously true for many people on this list, > judging from the posts. > > > > Ok, now, disclaimer. This was written > quickly and off the cuff. I have > > been reluctant to post opinionated things of > this sort in the past because > > of the intimidation factor: I didn't want to > be the recipient of flames or > > attacks. I'm sure there is much in the above > that could be denied or is > > somehow incorrect. Nonetheless. I like > seeing political (and, I'll admit > > it, by that I mean "lefty") postings on this > list. I think it's > > important. I have great admiration for list > members who are doing > > something to make the world safer, more just, > cleaner, more complex, etc. > > And I'll stop now before someone throws > something at me. > > > > Arielle > > > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Charles Bernstein wrote: > > > >> An adaption of my essay about National > Poetry Month was recently broadcast on > >> National Public Radio's "All Things > Considered". You can listen to it in > >> RealAudio at > >> > >> > >Arielle: > > > >I agree that there is a place for overtly > political material in poetry and > >in fact, language being innately political, > there is no poetry that is not, > >intentionally or otherwise, political in some > way. > > > >My view in the great "tar pits" debate was > that the Hawaii posts were > >outside the parameters of the list because > they did not directly involve the > >creating/presenting/appreciating of poetry but > rather the political > >struggles of those whose work it is to teach > the practice and appreciation > >of poetry. Not to say that isn't extremely > important and relevant, I only > >thought it was a step outside the realm of the > list but, as the moderators > >made clear, I was off base. > > > >I didn't have any problem with the anti-Bush > anthology posts because 1) I > >think it's a great idea and 2) even if it was > a pro-Bush poetry anthology > >(as if such a thing could happen!) I'd have > been okay with it because it was > >directly related to the creation and > presentation of poetry. > > > >Best, > > > >Steve > > > >on 4/24/01 6:47 PM, Arielle C. Greenberg at > acgreenb@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU wrote: > > > >> I heard Charles Bernstein's essay on NPR and > it made my day, especially as > >> I had just come out of a particularly > pandering workshop experience with a > >> poet who shall go unnamed. This essay made > me very proud to be part of > >> this listserv! > >> > >> As, I must say, have the recent postings > about issues of political import > >> and social justice, including the reports > from the U Hawai'i strike and > >> the anti-Bush anthology. I recently saw > Minnie Bruce Pratt read her work, > >> and really she mostly talked about various > political issues she's involved > >> in. Her poetry is not the kind of thing I > usually go for, but I have to > >> say I was struck by how *relevant*, in an > obvious way, it was, and how > >> closely she's melded her poetry life with > her political life. Afterwards > >> I asked her about this, about how she > brought the two together, and she > >> basically responded by saying it is only in > my insulated little academic > >> poetry world where poetry and politics > AREN'T united. I don't > >> neccessarily agree with this -- I still > think certain kinds of poetries > >> and politics are kept separate, and anyway, > even if you're only talking > >> about "academic" (and what does that mean, > really? experimental? > >> confessional? lyric?) poetry, it's still an > issue to think about that > >> should not be easily dismissed: how does one > be an artist and an activist? > >> To me this is really a question of how best > can one live one's life. Art > >> and activism are two of the most crucial > elements in my life. This is > >> obviously true for many people on this list, > judging from the posts. > >> > >> Ok, now, disclaimer. This was written > quickly and off the cuff. I have > >> been reluctant to post opinionated things of > this sort in the past because > >> of the intimidation factor: I didn't want to > be the recipient of flames or > >> attacks. I'm sure there is much in the > above that could be denied or is > >> somehow incorrect. Nonetheless. I like > seeing political (and, I'll admit > >> it, by that I mean "lefty") postings on this > list. I think it's > >> important. I have great admiration for list > members who are doing > >> something to make the world safer, more > just, cleaner, more complex, etc. > >> And I'll stop now before someone throws > something at me. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 02:00:59 +0000 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Organization: Pavement Saw Press Subject: Arguelles / Bennett: Chac Prostibulario MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Looking for a book of poems written in 7 languages to read aloud & impress your unintelligent avant garde friends? Then you need: Chac Prostibulario by Ivan Argüelles & John M. Bennett 96 pages ISBN 1-886350-53-1 Outrageous 4-color cover, 8 by 9, hefty multi-lingual edition. Harold Norse states Arguelles is "the most outstanding poet since Pound for intellect," and when mixed with Bennett's pallet for sound, this collaboration written in five languages, fires up a new realm of concentrated stutterance for poetry. A Shakespearean punnery of language. CHAC POSTIBULARIO ist ein ootwageous cuncocktioun ov linguadge in un estado ov tootal dis-schewelmento y abandonmento, un bytte loik der grayte Saynt John Lennon's immurtal "A Spaniard in the Works," et aussi un bytte loik le grand Saynt James Joyce's woiks, but a lot mo' apokaliptik ! Loines sech az "suerte de hermicranio, indeed, suckers bloom phaster in pfister hose" cunvince der reeder that die zwei Autoren ov dis ouvrage desurf to be hired to rekord saym, in its entoiredad, for der Nashunal Pubick Raydio, to be brodkasted in small porshuns every matins at foive dreissig ante meridiam. Durn on, dune in, dip in und oot -- in die wurds ov die auteurs, be "x-ed outta proporción bust- / ier with pasties flizzled to semble garters burning, jeezus arroz con 'poyo" ! Nut rekommendiert fuer reeders undah or ovah (fyll in der blank). --Anselm Hollo Page 10 from Chac Prostibulario ‘uesos tuck charros border line cafe (he he boistrous nach Osten) my skin was gone before time s had space to ruin, tiempo that: a foul of fluids on empty the songs boulevards cantar del mío Quid sinning mattress with white walls skid el mismo mal andar, -ierda flat on face with dientes in arrear que lágrima joto! ah wash chronos was a dumpster for yr love (para bailar la bambi) an then I’d venereal yr viernes awash in floats of tildes ampersands and pasa portes pastoral) ‘n fluc tuante type o’ boiling off the noodles “sopa seca” ca volver teeming//on the raft of mal andante, facial drum ‘n dumpster venerated lago moco washed yr knee like, mud connection anger watt you say (“sever”) flapping flabbing crimb yr back lumps the “kidding” sent//you foster, trumbel, tape and nay bores like seeping mattress and your cutter flam, flam beau boyant as crescences are to be they tend and bodega seca is no lagunitas to bore a hole into yr intimate espacio, dunkel heim mat severs cuerda y guajalote “blues” simposio charlando así la madre ankles wait and maya n attitu tudinal re spuesta inkling darker staves off the drops one by one as inches crew fast a glue a hung sewers the arroyo with a dead cocinero, Chac Mool ay ay ay rosa’s cantina lluviosa 99 tears question mark y las preguntas de tu hoyo yo chaque moola chewing in the basement char red leg a blin king hamster chord cortada and you rise (“eyes”) a//date and palm chilled the coughing bombs yr live r cocinero “coz” en escabeche//flaring in the mirror//tire ball ‘n muddy ramp rampante clueless raftless torrid flapping in the rancid poli wind “tic king” (like yr hams ‘n flood, plastic bags tumbling through a campo mierda feces felt your (sticky or stinking in (s)low sierra yr madre out takes lumbago bogart ‘n fleeced for his tampico sauce bullet in grin and chafing quemadura ì-king” achaques de la vida stippled and rumin ated (arruinado? las tima bomb yo no soy Mr Jones do you? livid husky dusty polvo gris mechanics fluid sanskrit sin dientes // mole cacahuete y nata nacho tas’ real good nasty hung low with char caca-ed flecto namic num num but to come home in one sin cojones all plastic and (ya no puede caminar la cucu ráfaga nadal (“nato” good ‘n) pasty ‘cross the sierra blood stands and crum bled rin conjones where you? rip pled in yr eye que madura es la fofa was, your fluid each-each and trained to gas astronomic seed you swallowed all of yous the bullet sausage: crapulent ‘n sleaping Mt. Phones or pap skin slag crusty paper sans escrito//o like-like brains slopping off the table brainy shirt ‘n soggy pants shoes brimmed Drink! Pre-publication price $10, includes US postage! $11 Canada, $12 overseas (in US funds) Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus OH 43206 USA http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:17:34 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: T Pelton Subject: Big Small Press fest MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just wondering, as I plan to go to Amherst (Mass, not NY) this weekend -- who among y'all are going to the Big Small Press Fest, besides names I already see on the program? I'm looking forward to it. Ted Pelton Starcherone Books http://www.starcherone.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:47:43 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ann Lauterbach Subject: Re: Ann Lauterbach MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Announcing: Ann Lauterbach IF IN TIME Selected Poems 1975-2000 Penguin Books $18.00 Includes selections from the first five collections and new poems. Reading: Saturday 19 May 2001 with Alice Notley at the DIA Center for the Arts 548 West 22nd Street New York (212 9895566). ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:47:31 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: place-holder 1997 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII - place-holder 1997 how losing, you do a for place a this? place-holder, could i jennifer, write write could i continuing, beginnings without assembled sounds, however beginnings, fabricated, loosely one protected another or way of well potential machine, i'm now, writing well writing i'm in the blooming, opuntia presses to the face grown plants polka-dot the window topple well did enough when write i nonoyes upon called, we do portend, i' tis the end lost in that specific petal, outlined against that specific stamen, that flower at that specific time, lost in that specific light, on that specific day oh sunflower creche / how that thou bloomest day or night / one might call upon such peche / to indicate thy wat'ry might. th' orchid loss, th' ficus wall, to turn and toss, until the Fall / begin and end, then turn again, so that it wends, among all wo'men. the turn, deflowered, of all such flesh, takes us, each hour / we are enmeshed. = ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:41:37 -0400 Reply-To: Nate and Jane Dorward Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Nate and Jane Dorward Subject: Just in the mail... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hadn't seen a mention of this here so thought I'd toss one in: just got a copy of _Tongue to Boot_ #5 in the mail yesterday. It's a big red A4 stapled sheaf of work (unpaginated, but I'd guess about 120pp), edited by Miles Champion. An unfussy format, full of work: this issue has Bruce Andrews, Abigail Child, Alan Davies, Jean Day, Lynne Dreyer, Heather Fuller, William Fuller, Randolph Healy, Rob Holloway, P. Inman, John Mason, Ted Pearson, Peter Seaton, Diane Ward & Aaron Williamson, plus images by James Pyman & Claude Royet-Journoud. No price anywhere on it, but I'm sure if you write Miles at miles@dircon.co.uk you'll be able to find out. all best --N Nate & Jane Dorward ndorward@sprint.ca THE GIG magazine: http://www.geocities.com/ndorward/ 109 Hounslow Ave., Willowdale, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada ph: (416) 221 6865 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:27:04 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Dunning langpo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stephen Dunn, the latest pulitzer poet, is the subject of a long interview in today's Philadelphia Inquirer, http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/04/29/arts_and_entertainment/DUN N29.htm where, towards the end, you will find the following: His work falls outside two controversial camps in today's poetry: "New Formalism" and "Language Poetry." "New Formalism," he says, "arises out of an interesting complaint that free verse has gotten slack and sloppy. I would agree with that. My way of remedying it would be to write free verse that is not slack and sloppy, rather than to return to meter." Language poetry, he comments, "is a wholly different thing." Its often "indecipherable" quality annoys him. "It turns its back on the world of meaning and value," he asserts, conceding some exceptions. "Finally one word is as good as another word. It absolutely eliminates the possibility of serious criticism - you can't say anything because it's more committed to the flow of language on a page than to linking language with meaning. "Because it's a poetry of mind that eschews emotion," he continues, "you have to have a very good mind to do it." Dunn dislikes language poetry's refusal to "commit itself to things," and its belief in "the indeterminacy of language." "Of course," he adds genially of language poets, "they would say that I'm bourgeois and conservative." ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:53:56 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: M L Weber Subject: Sugar Mule -- Call for manuscripts (correction) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed In past issues issues, Sugar Mule has published: Paul Hoover, Pierre Joris, Lance Olsen, M. L. Weber, Kate Lila Wheeler, Ray Ronci, John Williams, Michael Heller, Jeremy J. Huffman, Linda Bohe, Mark Amerika, Jane Augustine, Michael Coffey, Jana Hays, Bob Harrison, David Golumbia, Andrew Schelling, Fred Muratori, E. McGrand, Michael Heller, Kristen Ankiewicz, Lance Olsen, Peter Wild, Rochelle Ratner, Bill Berkson, Elaine Equi, Laurel Speer, Trevor Dodge, Paul Beckman, Susan Wheeler, James Bertolino, Clayton Eshleman, Sheila E. Murphy, Amie Siegel, Patricia Dubrava, Elizabeth Fox, Brett Evans, H. Kassia Fleisher, Jean Anderson, Sharon Dolin, Laurel Speer, Cheryl Burket, Elsa Cross, and Vandana Shiva. and is looking for new work -- esp. prose (any genre) -- for its eighth issue. Visit the site at www.sugarmule.com ---you NEED to type in the WWW--- to read submission guidelines and the latest issue. Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2001. We also welcome any comments you might have. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:18:21 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Sondheim Subject: bi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 0 bi 1943 i was in the middle of a film i was making a film i was in the middle of a program i was editing a film in the program i was editing a film everything was disordered but i was in the timeline the timeline was me in the timeline 1943 it was the timeline of my life i wanted out of the program it was the program i wanted out of there was a second segment i remember there was a second segment the segment was beyond the visible timeline the segment was a move towards the real the segment was a movement towards the real i wanted to exit through the segment i couldn't see the segment it was beyond the visible timeline i'd have to change the scale i'd have to change the scale of the timeline in order to see the segment i didn't know how to change the scale i was stuck within the timeline i wanted out of the timeline the timeline i could see i wanted to move to the other segment the invisible segment in the program if i couldn't see the segment 1943 i was immobilized i was immobilized in the visible segment i didn't know how to move the timeline i didn't know how to shift it the timeline would have to be shifted it would have to be shifted to the left i would jump to the second segment i couldn't make the jump because the second segment was invisible all that was visible was the first segment the segment of my life i could only wake up in the first segment i couldn't wake up in the second segment i couldn't move to the second segment i could only remain in the first segment the first segment was the segment of my life the program was on the screen 1943 i was moving around everything nothing moved around and the second segment remained invisible i couldn't move from the end of the first segment to the second segment i couldn't see anything of the second segment i could 1943 move across the first segment i could move from one end to the other i was immobilized i couldn't change the scale i couldn't do anything i was immobilized i'd sort it out it would never sort out it would never sort out to the second segment it would sort to the first it would sort in the first or second sorting to the first it would never sort in the first or second sorting to the second i would remain in the first segment i would remain unsorted 1943 i was in the middle of a film i was making a film all that was visible was the first segment the segment of my life everything was disordered but i was in the timeline i could 1943 move across the first segment i could move from one end to the other i could only remain in the first segment i could only wake up in the first segment i couldn't do anything i was immobilized i couldn't make the jump because the second segment was invisible i couldn't move from the end of the first segment to the second segment i couldn't move to the second segment i couldn't see anything of the second segment i couldn't see the segment it was beyond the visible timeline i couldn't wake up in the second segment i didn't know how to change the scale i was stuck within the timeline i didn't know how to move the timeline i didn't know how to shift it i wanted out of the program i wanted out of the timeline the timeline i could see i wanted to exit through the segment i wanted to move to the other segment the invisible segment i was immobilized i couldn't change the scale i was immobilized in the visible segment i was in the middle of a program i was editing a film i would remain in the first segment i would remain unsorted i'd have to change the scale i'd have to change the scale of the timeline in order to see the segment i'd sort it out it would never sort out in the program i was editing a film in the program if i couldn't see the segment 1943 i was immobilized in the timeline 1943 it was the timeline of my life it was the program i wanted out of it would have to be shifted to the left i would jump to the second segment it would never sort in the first or second sorting to the second it would never sort out to the second segment it would sort to the first it would sort in the first or second sorting to the first nothing moved around and the second segment remained invisible the first segment was the segment of my life the program was on the screen 1943 i was moving around everything the segment was a move towards the real the segment was a movement towards the real the segment was beyond the visible timeline the timeline was me the timeline would have to be shifted there was a second segment i remember there was a second segment _ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:57:24 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Camille Martin Subject: dizzy spit poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'd like to recommend a poet, Jessica Freeman, to anyone who might be interested in getting to know her work. She was recently brought to my attention by Bruce Andrews, to whom I'm very grateful for the introduction to her poetry. When I was in New York recently, visiting from New Orleans, Bruce placed her _Bode Well, Cher!_ in my hands -- to my surprise, since I'd never heard of this fellow Louisiana poet. Funny how you think you know the scene where you live pretty well, but then suddenly your picture is altered. Jessica has lived in Louisiana for many years, and has been quietly publishing poetry collections through small presses & magazines. Until recently, most of the poets in this region weren't even aware of her presence among us. I've visited this remarkable poet several times in Baton Rouge and am gratified to have found her & her work. Her poetry is edgy, jaggedy & high-energy. I just wanted to share a couple of titles for anyone who might be interested. You can sample her poetry at the websites listed below. Here are the collections that I'm aware of. _New Orleans Dizzy Spit_ (Oysterville, WA: Anabasis Press, 2000) _Bolt Bleu_ (Oysterville, WA: Anabasis Press, 1995) Includes photographs by Thomas Lowe Taylor and an afterword by Susan Nash Smith entitled "The Dismemberment of Perception: Jessica Freeman's Interior Languages, Exterior Gaze." _Bode Well, Cher!_ Published as a supplement to the 1993 issue of _Onionhead_, a now-defunct magazine published in Florida. If anyone knows how I can get this book, even photocopied, please let me know ... since it's technically a periodical, I can't even get it on interlibrary loan. Jessica doesn't have any copies. Some of her work can be accessed at the following websites: http://www.burningpress.org/va/anaba/anaba01.html#fre/van http://www.burningpress.org/va/anaba/anaba03.html#fre/hed http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/ezines/juxta/juxta01.html http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/ezines/juxta/juxta06.html http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/ezines/juxta/juxta08.html I believe her work is also in _Lower Limit Speech: A Newsletter in Poetics_ (#8, 1993) Camille Martin Lit City 7725 Cohn St. New Orleans, LA 70118 (504) 861-8832 http://www.litcity.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:58:42 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pierre Joris Subject: FW: Federalist Society sets US agenda MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit to sum up the 100 first days of disaster, here's a reminder of where maybe the major danger lies, via John Whiting's list, & the London OBSERVER -- Pierre ________________________________________________________________ Pierre Joris Just out from Wesleyan UP: 6 Madison Place Albany NY 12202 POASIS: Selected Poems 1986-1999 Tel: (518) 426-0433 Fax: (518) 426-3722 go to: http://www.albany.edu/~joris/poasis.htm Email: joris@ albany.edu Url: ____________________________________________________________________________ _ -----Original Message----- From: John Whiting [mailto:john.whiting@which.net] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 2:42 AM To: John Whiting Subject: Federalist Society sets US agenda Yet another report from the Observer of information for which you will search the American media in vain. Against my normally sunny disposition, I am increasingly drawn to William Burroughs' definition of a paranoid: "a person who is in possession of all the facts". John Whiting #################################################################### THE OBSERVER (London) Sunday April 29, 2001 Ed Vulliamy: Cabal of lawyers drives Bush further to right George W. Bush's administration - 100 days old today - is being hailed as his country's most ideologically right-wing of the past 100 years, across a spectrum of policies ranging from the environment to labour, civil rights to social issues. But the rip tide that cuts beneath all Bush's plans to transform the landscape, with more durable results than any other policy, is the hijacking - behind closed doors - of the US judiciary. The administration - to which power was in effect granted by the Supreme Court in a controversial ruling last December - is preparing not only to set the highest court in the land on course for a conservative generation, but has quietly revolutionised the way in which all federal judges are appointed to benches across the country, guaranteeing politically right-wing selections. At the core of this manoeuvre, which will weave a new fabric in US society, is a tightly organised right-wing lawyers' group which has come in from the fringes to the core of the administration. It is called the Federalist Society, of which Bush's Solicitor General Theodore Olson, Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch are leading members - as are many members of the new White House counsel team. Stalwart conservative judges on the Supreme Court Anthony Scalia and Clarence Thomas are patrons and guests of the group, and Attorney General John Ashcroft is a close affiliate. The emergence of the Federalists is traced in a study by the New York-based Institute for Democracy Studies, which concludes that 'extreme conservative organisations sponsoring a combination of right-wing litigation and advocacy are opening the way for a radical transformation of the American legal system'. Ralph Neas, President of the Washington think-tank People for the American Way, says that 'the White House counsel's office and the Department of Justice are being turned over to the Federalist Society, a bastion of far-right legal thought'. The Federalist Society's philosophy underpins, and is ready to steer, all the administration's cornerstone policies on deregulation of environmental and labour law, education, civil rights and abortion. The author of the IDS study, Julie Gerchik, says that 'the agenda is to dismantle everything built since the New Deal'. There was even a Federalist panel in Chicago on 28 March entitled 'Rolling Back the New Deal'. 'Where is the divide between politics and the law here?' says Gerchik. 'This is politics enforced by legal mechanisms.' The society has already had an impact on major decisions: when Bush pulled America out of the Kyoto treaty on climate change, he did so after reading what he called 'important new information'. That information was a report commissioned by David McIntosh, a Federalist Society founder, arguing that toxic emissions were exaggerated and warning of costs to business. But above all, the society has ousted the legal establishment which - in the form of the profession's traditional representative body, the American Bar Association - has helped oversee the selection of judges and guarantee the profession's integrity for five decades. Since Eisenhower, the ABA has had a semi-official role in advising on judicial appointments. But in a sudden, little-noticed move last month, President Bush cut the ABA entirely out of the appointment process. The Federalists were delighted, having for years targeted the association (in a special publication, ABA Watch) for such issues as its support for gun control and opposition to the death penalty. The ABA's removal creates a vacuum in the recommendation of judges, and into it has moved a 15-person committee formed between the White House and Justice Department urgently to seek candidates for some 100 vacancies to federal benches (one-eighth of all judges). This recommending committee is firmly in the hands of the Federalist Society, controlled by Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, a society member, and others. Sources add that some 70 judges have so far been interviewed, a quarter of them recommended by the Federalist Society. The society was founded 20 years ago with a mission to beat back what it saw as a liberal orthodoxy permeating public policy and the courts since the Civil Rights movement. Society members propelled the attempted impeachment of President Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal. Prosecutor Kenneth Starr was an active member, as were many of his team. Its major benefactor is the Scaife Foundation, controlled by billionaire conservative magnate Richard Mellon Scaife, who deploys his fortunes to advance right-wing causes. Among those causes was the 'Arkansas Project', initiated by Scaife at a cost of $24 million to mount the suit by Paula Jones - and eventually Lewinsky - against the President. The first meeting between Scaife and the 'Arkansas Project' was chaired by Theodore Olson, who steered it and is now Solicitor General of the US, the country's most influential lawyer, head of the Federalist Society's Washington chapter, based in the White House. Olson cut his teeth under Starr in the Reagan administration, and was counsel to Reagan during the Iran-Contra affair. He was himself investigated (but not indicted) by a special prosecutor for lying to Congress, and went on to become chairman of the American Spectator magazine, which 'broke' the Paula Jones story. His wife Barbara is a pivot of the Washington right-wing social circuit, herself chairwoman of a conservative women's organisation funded by Scaife. >From this background, Olson emerged into the public glare as George Bush's knight and mouthpiece, triumphantly arguing the President's case against the Florida recounts in the Supreme Court and ultimately winning him the election. The Federalists' other channel to power has been through clerkships at the Supreme Court under sympathetic judges Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy - and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Many saw Bush's victory as a watershed moment when the judges put politics above the law. But it is to the future of the court over the next four years - and thence a generation - that the Federalists are looking. The backgrounds of the Supreme Court's main conservatives are contentious: Justice Rehnquist was author of the memo during the historic Brown vs. Board of Education case in 1952 supporting racial segregation, saying: 'It is about time the court faced the fact that white people in the South don't like the coloured people'. But Rehnquist and the court's other conservatives have always toiled in counterpoint with liberal appointees and moderate Republicans. However, only this week, a 5-4 verdict on an apparently innocuous case about driving licences in Alabama cut a major inroad into the 1964 Civil Rights Act, ruling that individuals cannot now sue federal agencies over discrimination cases. In the hands of Bush's legal team now are two possible appointments during his term of office which could swing the court decisively to the right. The Federalists are not the only group taking care to ensure a conservative federal judiciary. Three right-wing organisations funded by the Scaife Foundation have organised a series of junkets so that judges can attend political seminars on the advantages of deregulation in environment, labour and civil rights law. They are the Law and Economics Centre, the Liberty Fund and FREE - the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, which funded all-expenses-paid trips, some lasting as long as two weeks, to luxury venues, featuring golf and horse-riding for the justices. As well as money from the ubiquitous Scaife family, both the FREE and the LEC trips for judges are bountifully funded by oil giants Shell and Exxon, and Philip Morris cigarettes. Many of the judges who enjoyed them failed - by their own admission - to disclose these junkets on their annual financial reports, as required by their own federal ethics laws, according to the Washington-based watchdog group Community Rights Counsel. The CRC found that judges' attendance at the junket seminars 'increased significantly between 1992 and 1998' with a record 88 judges taking trips in 1998. With 800 active judges at any time, this means that about 10 per cent of the federal judiciary takes a trip each year. An exhaustive study by the CRC of seminars and subsequent verdicts by judges who attended them finds 'doctrinal shifts' and 'considerable evidence that the education judges receive' has led to 'a strand of judicial activism that is distinctly pro-market, clearly hostile to federal environmental regulations and decidedly in keeping with the curriculum of FREE seminars'. ====================== *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Feel free to distribute widely but PLEASE acknowledge the source. *** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:36:16 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tom Orange Subject: big small press fest MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII any reports on this event by folks planning to attend wd be much appreciated.....tom orange / wdc --------------------- Big Small Press Fest May 4th and 5th, 2001 Amherst, MA The big small press fest -- a gathering of small press editors, authors, and readers, to discuss the current state and future direction of literary publishing in America -- will be held at UMass Amherst on Friday May 4th and Saturday May 5th, 2001. The festival will take place at Memorial Hall on the UMass campus. Participants in the big small press fest include: Fence, Fence Press, Nerve, Conduit, Rain Taxi, Painted Bride Quarterly, Slope, La Petite Zine, Jubilat, Volt, Paragraph, The Massachusetts Review, Verse Magazine, Verse Press, Alice James Books, Open City, One Shot Press, and others. http://www.versepress.org/fest.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:58:03 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Stefans, Brian" Subject: ::: Alan Davies & Nicole Brossard @ Double Happiness :: This Satu rday, May 5, 4 pm ::: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ::: THE BEST THING SINCE KRUSCHEN SALTS :::The Segue Foundation and Double Happiness present on Saturday, May 5th at 4 pm an afternoon of poetry readings featuring Alan Davies and Nicole Brossard. :::Alan Davies is the intrepid author of several underground classics including Name, Signage (essays, Roof Books), Candor and a limited host of other titles bridging the traverses between poetry and theory and life.Poetryhttp://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i2/Word/ad1.shtmlhttp://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/davies.htmlhttp://www.obooks.com/candor.htm#ExcerptAbout Signage (critical essays)http://www.segue.org/davies.htmAbout Candorhttp://www.obooks.com/candor.htmA blurb he wrotehttp://www.potespoets.org/catalog/phenomena.htm:::Nicole Brossard is one of New York's favorite Quebecers, and has published numerous books and essays of poetry, fiction and feminist criticism, including These Our Mothers (Or: The Disintegrating Chapter), Picture Theory, Surfaces of Sense, and Mauve Desert (Arroyo Press).EPC Homepagehttp://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/brossard/Poetryhttp://www.echonyc.com/~meehan/Soil/Medium/brossard.htmlhttp://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/5brossard.htmlBio notehttp://www.scream.interlog.com/95/brossard.htmlOn Picture Theoryhttp://www.segue.org/brossard.htm:::Just plain goofy funhttp://member.iquest.net/~derecho/pika.swf ::: > > Double Happiness is located at 173 Mott Street, just south of Broome; it > is down some stairs, and doesn't have a storefront. The readings are held > during DH's happy hour -- two for one drinks, no questions asked. Curated > and introduced by Brian Kim Stefans > > > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:45:16 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Stefans, Brian" Subject: ::: Alan Davies & Nicole Brossard @ Double Happiness :: This Satu rday, May 5, 4 pm ::: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ::: THE BEST THING SINCE KRUSCHEN SALTS ::: The Segue Foundation and Double Happiness present on Saturday, May 5th at 4 pm an afternoon of poetry readings featuring Alan Davies and Nicole Brossard. ::: Alan Davies is the intrepid author of several underground classics including Name, Signage (essays, Roof Books), Candor and a limited host of other titles bridging the traverses between poetry and theory and life. Poetry http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i2/Word/ad1.shtml http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/davies.html http://www.obooks.com/candor.htm#Excerpt About Signage (critical essays) http://www.segue.org/davies.htm About Candor http://www.obooks.com/candor.htm A blurb he wrote http://www.potespoets.org/catalog/phenomena.htm ::: Nicole Brossard is one of New York's favorite Quebecers, and has published numerous books and essays of poetry, fiction and feminist criticism, including These Our Mothers (Or: The Disintegrating Chapter), Picture Theory, Surfaces of Sense, and Mauve Desert (Arroyo Press). EPC Homepage http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/brossard/ Poetry http://www.echonyc.com/~meehan/Soil/Medium/brossard.html http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/5brossard.html Bio note http://www.scream.interlog.com/95/brossard.html On Picture Theory http://www.segue.org/brossard.htm ::: Just plain goofy fun http://member.iquest.net/~derecho/pika.swf ::: > > Double Happiness is located at 173 Mott Street, just south of Broome; it > is down some stairs, and doesn't have a storefront. The readings are held > during DH's happy hour -- two for one drinks, no questions asked. Curated > and introduced by Brian Kim Stefans > > > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:22:41 +0200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "j.letourneux" Subject: Raoul Hausmann/Rochechouart, FR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'd be very grateful for any information or testimonials concerning the rumour of the existence of a Raoul Hausmann archive in Rochechouart, France. I'm planning a trip there in the next few weeks to pay respects, and wouldn't mind very much hearing something more, even personal things, like anecdotes. The list will love it, too, so send it to them also. Thanks, john l. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:23:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Elizabeth Bassford Subject: EXOTERICA READING MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Friends of Exoterica: Please join us as we celebrate the end of our Tenth Anniversary Season on Friday, May 4th, with ROGER BONAIR-AGARD, at 8:30 p.m. at The Society for Ethical Culture, 4450 Fieldston Road, in the Bronx. Admission is $5; open mike follows feature. Beer, wine, coffee, tea, and dessert is available, and the EXOTERICA book stall will be selling this year's inventory at a discount. One of the most in-demand performance poets around, Roger Bonair-Agard is originally from Trinidad and now lives in Harlem. In 1998, he was named "Fresh Poet" of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. In 1999, he took the title of "Individual Slam Champion" at The National Poetry Slam in Chicago, and has been named A Little Bit Louder's "LOUDPOET" Champion. His debut collection of poems And Chaos Congealed was recently published by Fly By Night Press. EXOTERICA thanks you all for making this season one of the best ever. We will keep you updated on all EXOTERICA/THE HOUSE OF PERNOD developments as we continue, as always, to Spread The Word.... Respond here for deatils, directions, or to unsubscribe. > > > > > > ain); setDomain(udomain); setUsername(uuname); } else { authform.email.focus(); } if (debug) { alert(authform.authorizer.value); alert(authform.email.value); alert(authform.password.value); alert(authform.username.value); alert(authform.domain.value); } returComputing lt; > Ì3ÿ > =0 cellpadding=0 border=0> ages/msp_gub_01.gif" width=496 height=25 alt="Netscape" border=0 usemap="#navbar">
Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tenney Nathanson Subject: REMINDER: POG benefit dinner May 6: invitation and menu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit REMINDER COMING SOON! POG Benefit Buffet Sunday, May 6 7pm 2345 E. 8th St. Tickets: $25 per person, in advance $30 at the door $15 students and starving poets To order tickets: Send check made out to POG to: 2345 E. 8th St. Tucson AZ 85719 All proceeds to benefit POG. RSVP by May 3 For more information: mailto:sharon@twinearth.wustl.edu ***** POG Buffet Menu Main Dishes: Fruitwood-smoked Turkey and Salmon Salsas & Sauces: Dried Red Hot Chili-Garlic Salsa Watercress mayonnaise Orange-Chipotle Salsa Cucumber-Ginger Relish Home Style Inner Beauty Hot Sauce Fiery Pineapple Chutney Raw apple chutney Salads - Veggie: Black bean and white corn salad with ancho-cilantro vinagrette Fennel, Orange & Caper Salad Spaghetti Squash Salad with Sun-dried Tomato Vinagrette Lentil Salad with White Grapes and Carrots Malaysian Fruit Salad Couscous salad with apricots, pine nuts and ginger Sides: Rice Pilaf with Lime Zest and Almonds Sweet Lelani Bread Eggplant & Roasted Red Pepper Terrine Chicken liver pate with cornichons French Potted Cheese in Sauterne Vegetables Vinaigrette Pickled red cabbage Bruschetta Drinks: Prickly-pear lemonade Margaritas for the masses Nick's Sangria Spiced Iced Coffee Desserts: Cheesecake Moscarpone Fig Tart Mousse au Chocolat Brandied dates Oranges in red wine *** mailto:tenney@dakotacom.net mailto:nathanso@u.arizona.edu http://www.u.arizona.edu/~nathanso/tn/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:51:20 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tenney Nathanson Subject: REMINDER: POG benefit dinner: printable ticket order/reservation form MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit REMINDER: POG Benefit Buffet Sunday, May 6 7pm 2345 E. 8th St. To order dinner tickets, please mail this form, along with your check made out to POG, to: 2345 E. 8th St. Tucson AZ 85719 Tickets are: $25 per person, in advance; $30 at the door; or $15 for students and starving artists. All proceeds benefit POG. RSVP by May 3 For more information: sharon@twinearth.wustl.edu -------------------------- Name: Mailing Address: Email: Number of tickets: Amount enclosed: * I can’t attend the dinner, but I enclose my donation to POG in the amount of _$_________ May we add you to our mailing list? POG is a federally-recognized non-profit corporation; all donations are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. (If you’d like a letter documenting your contribution, please just let us know.) mailto:tenney@dakotacom.net mailto:nathanso@u.arizona.edu http://www.u.arizona.edu/~nathanso/tn/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:15:18 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Cope Subject: UCSD New Writing Series Reminder Comments: To: kia@tns.net, dianeward@yahoo.com, sandiegowriters@sandiegowriters.org, rgiraldez@hotmail.com, mcauliffe@prodigy.net, Joe Ross , bmohr@ucsd.edu, globo@ucsd.edu, djmorrow@ucsd.edu, ctfarmr@aol.com, dmatlin@mail.sdsu.edu, falconline@usa.net, junction@earthlink.net, jrothenb@ucsd.edu, raea100900@aol.com, jgranger@ucsd.edu, rdavidson@ucsd.edu, kyergens@ucsd.edu, darcycarr@hotmail.com, rburkhar@man104-1.UCSD.EDU, yikao@yahoo.com, aarancibia@hotmail.com, rachelsdahlia@hotmail.com, terynmattox@hotmail.com, dwang@wesleyan.edu, karenstromberg@aol.com, threeamtrain@yahoo.com, mozment@uci.edu, hellenlee@ucsd.edu, aeastley@ucsd.edu, tfiore@ucsd.edu, segriffi@ucsd.edu, shalvin@ucsd.edu, jimperato@yahoo.com, hjun@ucsd.edu, kathrynmcdonald@mindspring.com, smedirat@ucsd.edu, gnunez@ucsd.edu, reinhart@ling.ucsd.edu, crutterj@sdcc3.ucsd.edu, eslavet@ucsd.edu, chong1@ucsd.edu, ywatanab@ucsd.edu, wobrien@popmail.ucsd.edu, dmccannel@ucsd.edu, calacapress@home.com, ajenik@ucsd.edu, Spm44@aol.com, anielsen@popmail.lmu.edu, mperloff@earthlink.net, vvasquez@wso.williams.edu, jack.webb@uniontrib.com, ronoffen@yahoo.com, hung.tu@usa.net, eslavet@ucsd.edu, lit-grads@ucsd.edu, urigeller@excite.com, reevescomm@earthlink.net, mcarthy@sandiego-online.com, interarts-l@ucsd.edu, lrice@weber.ucsd.edu, geoffbouvier@prodigy.net, kadeewinters@home.com, jennymun14@hotmail.com, bjhurley@ucsd.edu, jbhattac@ucsd.edu, afornetti@libero.it, robgrant01@hotmail.com, hpyjoyj@aol.com, cgouldin@ucsd.edu, bmohr@sdcc3.ucsd.edu, pverdicchio@ucsd.edu, qtroupe@ucsd.edu, mcmorrim@gunet.georgetown.edu, ausbury@hotmail.com, conspiracy@nethere.com, tkamps@mcasandiego.org, leahollman@aol.com, ryansmith@hotmail.com, lfstern@ucsd.edu, kcleung@ucsd.edu, vahyong@ucsd.edu, jmorhang@ucsd.edu, kuszai@hotmail.com, janabeel@hotmail.com, choward077@aol.com, s1russel@ucsd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" A REMINDER! UCSD's NEW WRITING SERIES continues it's Spring 2001 schedule with a reading by Michael Heller on Thursday, May 3, at 4:30pm in the Visual Arts Performance Space, Russell Lane, UCSD. The reading is free and open to the public. *** Author of six volumes of poetry - including, most recently, _Wordflow: New and Selected Poems_ (Talisman House, 1997) - MICHAEL HELLER has been called "a latter-day Jewish Yeats" by The East Hampton Star, "full of terror and joy, trying to make some sense of the chaotic destructiveness of the 20th century in lyric poetry." His memoir, _Living Root_, was published by SUNY Press in the Fall of last year, and his libretto for the opera "Benjamin", based on the life of the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, has been set to music by the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson and performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. His many awards include prizes from The New School for Social Research Poetry in Public Places, the New York State CAPS Fellowship in Poetry, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America, a New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a member of the faculty of New York University's American Language Institute since 1967. "There is a classic largeness to [Heller's] poems, whether of means or of reference--a consummately civilized response to our time that makes the intimate and the physical still primary despite the generalizing chaos Heller confronts so movingly." -Robert Creeley "Heller is a serious poet who thinks about his Jewish identity through autobiography and poetry. But he also presents the ultimate conundrum of Jewish life after the Shoah: he proves that American English may be the major "Jewish" language of the late twentieth century." - Sander Gilman *** UCSD NEW WRITING SERIES SPRING 2001 (Remaining readings) Thursday, May 3: MICHAEL HELLER Wednesday, May 9: No Reading. Wednesday, May 16: ELENI SIKELIANOS & HUNG Q. TU Wednesday, May 23: PETER COOK & FLYING WORDS (IRPS Auditorium, Marshall College, UCSD, 4:30PM) Wednesday, May 30: EDWIN TORRES & LORENZO THOMAS All readings at 4:30pm, Visual Arts Performance Space, Russell Lane, UCSD (unless otherwise noted). Reading are free and open to the public. E-mail: scope@ucsd.edu for more information. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:07:29 -0700 Reply-To: cadaly@pacbell.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: Dunning langpo MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I would like to mention that Dunn was a last minute substitution for someone else at AWP, where, let's see, Bin Ramke on one panel, I was there, but I'm not published, so I don't count. Hank Lazar's U. of Alabama Press was there. Obviously George Mason. Dunn is parroting a lot of the things everyone at AWP heard, AWP "eschewed" by experimental poets. Mark Jarman, expanding on something like > Language poetry, he comments, "is a wholly different thing." Its often > "indecipherable" quality annoys him. said something polemical to the effect that no "real" poetry engaged literary criticism. Nods and huzzahs. Dorothy Barrisi, although apparently in agreement with this, quoted Charles Bernstein. Not really represented were Columbia, Iowa, Judith E. Johnson apparently for all the SUNYs. I might mention that although there was male poetry war posturing, there were also a lot of women poets who were more interested in why the available information was so selective, in other wor(l)ds, next year, a few months after the MLA, AWP (now "owned" by the MLA?) will be in New Orleans. It would be nice to see those of you who do teach in MFA programs or who have MFAs there, perhaps in a booth a number of small presses publishing exciting work could share, or in a panel which will REALLY discuss translation, or at least in a refuses reading. Deadline May 30. Be well, Catherine Daly cadaly@pacbell.net > His work falls outside two controversial camps in today's poetry: "New > Formalism" and "Language Poetry." > > "New Formalism," he says, "arises out of an interesting complaint that free > verse has gotten slack and sloppy. I would agree with that. My way of > remedying it would be to write free verse that is not slack and sloppy, > rather than to return to meter." > > "It turns its back on the world of meaning and value," he asserts, conceding > some exceptions. "Finally one word is as good as another word. It absolutely > eliminates the possibility of serious criticism - you can't say anything > because it's more committed to the flow of language on a page than to > linking language with meaning. > > "Because it's a poetry of mind that eschews emotion," he continues, "you > have to have a very good mind to do it." Dunn dislikes language poetry's > refusal to "commit itself to things," and its belief in "the indeterminacy > of language." ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:33:31 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: chris stroffolino Subject: May Events Comments: To: new-poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Two events, you might be interested in. 1) Musical Performance at Cooper Union. Kristen Stuart (vocals) Chris Stroffolino (keyboards, perhaps mouth kazoo) Angus Forbes (drums, of the NYC band Red Soda) Sasha Bell (flute, of Ladybug Transistor and Essex Green fame) Shawn Vandor (guitar, of recently defunct band "Man & Wife.") The five of us, at least three who are poets areself, will be loosely interpreting the little-known rockband the poet Anne Sexton pieced together in the late 80s, as part of a larger Anne Sexton forum, tribute to be held at COOPER UNION (the building with the Starbucks in it, not the one from which Lincoln spoke) at 7PM on THURSDAY MAY 17th (Astor Place). For more info, you might want to call the PSA, I'm told J.D McClatchy and other luminaries will be there-- and maybe they should wear earplugs because the Anne Sexton band is much more like Patti Smith than I, at least, would have expected--- 2) Poetry Reading with Chris Stroffolino Noelle Kocot Droog Ardner Zinc Bar, 90 West Houston St. (actually I need to check on that) Basement Sunday May 20th, 630ish in the evening For more info, feel free to email me.... ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:17:04 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Shannon Holman Subject: paint chip poems Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Some of you might enjoy my paint chip poems at -- Shannon Holman work: 212.313.9102 home: 718.638.1239 sholman@mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/sholman/ -- Accept the fluster.