========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:32:35 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicholas Karavatos Subject: Re: [edliberation] request for help--seeking bookstores (fwd) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Northtown Books in Arcata=2C CA - but you probably already knew that. Nicholas Karavatos Dept of English American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666 Sharjah United Arab Emirates ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu=2C 26 Mar 2009 20:51:47 -1000 > From: welford@HAWAII.EDU > Subject: [edliberation] request for help--seeking bookstores (fwd) > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > Date: Thu=2C 26 Mar 2009 10:35:03 -0400 > From: Tara Mack=20 > > I am trying to find progressive=2C independent bookstores from anywhere i= n > the country that cater to teachers=2C such as Bank Street Bookstore in Ne= w > York and Busboys and Poets in DC. I want to find out if these bookstores > might be interested in carrying Planning to Change the World=2C the socia= l > justice lesson plan book that the network co-publishes with the New York > Collective of Radical Educators. > > If you can send me the name and location of your favorite bookstore=2C I > would be much obliged. > > Thanks so much for your help! > > Tara > > Tara Mack=2C Director > Education for Liberation Network > http://www.edliberation.org/ > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html _________________________________________________________________ Internet Explorer 8 =96 Get your Hotmail Accelerated. Download free! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/141323790/direct/01/= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:19:30 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Allegrezza Subject: Poetry in Chicago: Series A MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please join us this Wednesday for Series A in Chicago. April 1, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Anna Vitale Brad Flis Marie Buck The reading will take place at the Hyde Park Art Center at 5020 S. Cornell, Chicago. It has parking and is easy to reach via public transportation. BYOB. For more info, visit www.moriapoetry.com/seriesa.html Bill Allegrezza ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 02:31:50 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Boog Events, April-July 2009 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, Here's a rundown of some fun events Boog has coming up over the next =20 four months. Hope to see you there. as ever, David ------------ Two events at Sidewalk Caf=E9 94 Ave. A (at E. 6th St.) East Village (F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave.) Boog City 56 Launch Party Fri., April 24, 9:00 p.m. with readings from Betsy Andrews Matthew Burgess Lauren Russell and music from Dorit Erin Regan --------------------- Douglas Rothschild Book Party and Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense Live Wed., July 15, 7:30 p.m. Doug reading from his new Subpress book, Theogony, plus friends of his reading, and the Talking Heads' classic performed live --------------------- d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press events take place at 6:00 p.m. on last Tuesdays at ACA Galleries (except May 19, which is 3rd Tuesday) ACA Galleries 529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr. (10th/11th aves.) NYC (C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.) April 28 Bird Dog magazine (Seattle) Sarah Mangold, ed. readings from Kate Eichhorn Sandy Florian Kate Greenstreet Laura Sims Nico Vassilakis and music from Stephanie Carlin May 19 Dusie Press (Switzerland) Susana Gardner, ed. June 30 Effing Press (Austin, Texas) Scott Pierce, ed. July 28 P-QUEUE (Buffalo, N.Y.) Andrew Rippeon, ed. --=20 David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 06:15:35 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mary Kasimor Subject: Re: [edliberation] request for help--seeking bookstores (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis,MN.=20 Mary Kasimor --- On Tue, 3/31/09, Nicholas Karavatos wro= te: From: Nicholas Karavatos Subject: Re: [edliberation] request for help--seeking bookstores (fwd) To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 2:32 PM Northtown Books in Arcata, CA - but you probably already knew that. Nicholas Karavatos Dept of English American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666 Sharjah United Arab Emirates ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:51:47 -1000 > From: welford@HAWAII.EDU > Subject: [edliberation] request for help--seeking bookstores (fwd) > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:35:03 -0400 > From: Tara Mack=20 > > I am trying to find progressive, independent bookstores from anywhere in > the country that cater to teachers, such as Bank Street Bookstore in New > York and Busboys and Poets in DC. I want to find out if these bookstores > might be interested in carrying Planning to Change the World, the social > justice lesson plan book that the network co-publishes with the New York > Collective of Radical Educators. > > If you can send me the name and location of your favorite bookstore, I > would be much obliged. > > Thanks so much for your help! > > Tara > > Tara Mack, Director > Education for Liberation Network > http://www.edliberation.org/ > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:49:50 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cara Benson Subject: Sous Rature reading period open MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Reading period is open for 3ssue of Sous Rature. Photos= hey listees...=0A=0AReading period is open for 3ssue of Sous Rature. Photos= , art, images, poems, prose, slip-shod genre busters, trans-genre, ...=0ASe= nd as attachment to Cara Benson at cbenson67[at]yahoo[dot]com. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:52:53 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Skip Fox Subject: Joe Naopra's address In-Reply-To: <20090331062013.E916C15F71@mxC.acsu.buffalo.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Could someone please send me Joe Napora's e-mail or, preferably, his snail- mail address. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:45:54 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eleni Stecopoulos Subject: April 9 & 10 in SF: Chilean poet Raul Zurita & friends/The Poetics of Healing In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable April 9 & 10 2009: The Poetry Center presents Chilean poet Ra=FAl Zurita & = friends Contact: The Poetry Center=2C San Francisco State University Telephone: 415-338-2227 Email: poetry@sfsu.edu Web: www.sfsu.edu/~poetry The Poetry Center San Francisco State University presents The Poetics of Healing: Creative Investigations in Art=2C Medicine=2C and Somatic Practice project curated by ELENI STECOPOULOS supported by the CREATIVE WORK FUND Thursday & Friday APRIL 9=9610=2C 2009 renowned Chilean poet Ra=FAl Zurita with translator William Rowe and Dr. Nuri Gen=E9-Cos Only West Coast Appearances Thursday APRIL 9=2C 3:30 pm a bilingual reading and public conversation=20 @ the Poetry Center 512 Humanities=2C San Francisco State University=2C free Thursday APRIL 9=2C 7:30 pm a bilingual reading=2C with a presentation by Dr. Nuri Gen=E9-Cos=2C and public conversation=20 @ Meridian Gallery 535 Powell Street=2C $5 (park at Sutter=96Stockton Garage=3B walk north from Powell St BART) Friday APRIL 10=2C 12:00 noon a bilingual reading and public conversation=20 @ Nursing Building=2C N225 UC San Francisco School of Medicine=2C 513 Parnassus Avenue=2C free Presented in collaboration with the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine Medical Humanities Initiative The Poetry Center=2C San Francisco State University=2C is very honored to p= resent the first U.S. readings by Chilean poet Ra=FAl Zurita from his recent book INRI= =2C as newly translated from Spanish by Will Rowe=2C together with a public conversation= with the author=2C translator=2C and physician Nuri Gen=E9-Cos. This is the second p= rogram in our two-year project=2C The Poetics of Healing=2C guest-curated by poet and sch= olar Eleni Stecopoulos=2C and supported by the Creative Work Fund. "INRI responds to the need to find a language for an event that was kept hidden and excluded from official records in Chile: the fact that the bodie= s of the disappeared were thrown out of helicopters into the mouths of volcanoes and into the sea. In order to bring this event=2C that was neither seen nor heard=2C into language=2C Zurita invents a form and language capable of bri= nging it into the present. The one place where these unspeakable acts might be registered is in the landscape of Chile: the mountains=2C desert=2C and sea= . There the event might begin to be touched=2C heard=2C and finally seen. When ther= e are no places from which to speak=2C =91the stones cry out=92. Zurita=92s INRI works with long breaths and large blocks of meaning: intensities that overrun the usual measures of speech and syntax. To read i= t is to experience a strange force pulsing through the language=2C breaking a= part its usual channels=2C and opening unseen and unheard zones. Ra=FAl Zurita=2C winner of the Chilean National Poetry Prize=2C is one of t= he best known poets of Latin America. His work is part of a revolution in poetic language=2C that began in the 1970s and sought to find new forms of expression=2C radically different from those of Pablo Neruda. The challenge= was to confront the contemporary epoch=2C with its particular forms of violence= =2C including violence done to language. "INRI is distinctive in that it does not speak out of individual sorrow=2C = though this is not missing from the work=2C but seeks=2C rather=2C a new space=2C = out of which love might be asserted as prime human reality=2C a space which might give birth to a different type of society.=94 (William Rowe) Biographies Ra=FAl Zurita is one of Chile=92s most radical=2C influential=2C and promin= ent poets. Born in Santiago in 1950=2C he studied Civil Engineering at the University of Santa= Mar=EDa in Valpara=EDso. In 1970 together with other artists he created CADA=2C Colectivo de Accione= s de Arte (Collective of Art Actions)=2C dedicated to producing large format public a= rt in resistance to the military dictatorship. Among Latin America=92s most renowned contemporary p= oets=2C he has published many books=2C including Purgatorio (1979=2C translated into Engli= sh as Purgatory)=2C Antepara=EDso (1982=2C translated into English as Anteparadise)=2C El para= =EDso est=E1 vac=EDo (1984)=2C Canto a su amor desaparecido (1985)=2C El amor de Chile (1987)=2C La vida n= ueva (1994)=2C El d=EDa m=E1s blanco (2000)=2C Sobre el amor el sufrimiento y el nuevo milenio (200= 0)=2C Poemas militantes (2000)=2C INRI (2003)=2C Los pa=EDses muertos (2006)=2C Las ciud= ades de agua (2007)=2C and Zurita / In Memoriam (2008). In 1982 he had the poem =91La Vida Nueva=92 wr= itten by airplanes over New York City=3B photographs of the event form part of Anteparadise. I= n 1993=2C he had the phrase =91ni pena ni miedo=92 (=91no pain or fear=92) written by means of e= arth-moving equipment on the Atacama desert so that it can be read from high above=3B a photograph o= f it forms the end of La Vida Nueva. His poem Canto a su amor desaparecido heads the Memorial = to the Disappeared of Chile. He has received Guggenheim and DAAD scholarships and= =2C among others=2C the Pablo Neruda Prize (1989)=2C the Pericles Prize (Italy=2C 199= 5)=2C the National Prize for Literature (Chile=2C 2000)=2C and the Jos=E9 Lezama Lima Prize (Cuba=2C 200= 6). Books and poems of his have been translated into a dozen languages. Currently he is Professor = of Literature at the Diego Portales University=2C Chile=2C and Visiting Professor at Tufts Unive= rsity. Dr. Nuri Gen=E9-Cos holds a Bachelor Degree of Medicine and Surgery. She ha= s been a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 1993=2C and is a trauma = therapist=2C having worked as a psychiatrist for 20=2C specializing in neuropsychiatry. Based i= n London=2C she conducts individual and family therapy work for people with Post Traumatic = Stress Disorder=2C with a special interest in victims of war and violence=2C working with vict= ims who have severe brain injuries as well as psychological conditions. A number of patients sh= e has treated are from Latin America. She is currently completing a PhD. in Psychophysiology = in Anxiety Disorders=2C including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)=2C Panic Disor= der and Non-Epileptic Seizures=2C and has published a number of articles in relation to neuropsyc= hiatric issues=2C bilinguality in relation to psychiatric symptomatology and PTSD. William Rowe=2C poet=2C and translator of Ra=FAl Zurita=92s INRI (Merrick P= ress=2C 2009) is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College=2C University of Londo= n=2C and author of eight books on Latin American literature and culture=2C including Juan Rulf= o: El llano en llamas (London=2C Grant & Cutler Critical Guides=2C 1987)=2C Memory and Modernity:= Popular Culture in Latin America [with Vivian Schelling] (London=2C Verso=2C 1991)=2C Ensayos = arguedianos (Lima=2C Sur and Universidad de San Marcos=2C 1996)=2C and Hacia una po=E9tica radical: = ensayos de hermen=E9utica cultural (Rosario and Lima=2C Beatriz Viterbo and Mosca Azul= =2C 1996)=2C and Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life (Oxford University P= ress=2C 2000). A founding editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesia= =2C he has taught at universities throughout Britain and Latin America=2C and is a specialist in= 20th century poetry and poetics=2C having published widely=2C read=2C and broadcast his transla= tions of Latin American poetry. Hotmail=AE is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. Find out= more. _________________________________________________________________ Quick access to your favorite MSN content and Windows Live with Internet Ex= plorer 8.=20 http://ie8.msn.com/microsoft/internet-explorer-8/en-us/ie8.aspx?ocid=3DB037= MSN55C0701A= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:37:20 -0400 Reply-To: halvard@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Time(s) to Take Action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The NYT is featuring a page where readers can type in a word about their feelings about today's economy. I like as many of us as possible to go to that page and enter the word "insouciant." If enough of us do that, the word will join others (e.g. hopeful, sad, terrified) and scroll across the screen. So, go now (yes, right now!) to this page-- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/30/business/economy/2009-economy-words.html and key in the word "insouciant." Let's not let the Gloomy Guses have their way on this one. --Hal "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." --George Carlin Halvard Johnson ================ halvard@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:42:56 -0700 Reply-To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Help me with my Bertold Brecht homework MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Does anyone on the listserv know where I can unearth any info concerning = the love child of Bertold Brecht and the mysterious countess, Isabelle Calvino?=A0 The tangled web that man left behind. Cold war intrigue, not to mention the cocaine get togethers with Orson Wells and Billy Wilder. T= he man was far more than a fellow traveling playwright.=20 =20 =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:16:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Joel Chace Subject: Fwd: 5_trope In-Reply-To: <659967630903291728y94e9e40m5542fbe9699169c5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The brand new issue of 5_trope is now live! Contributors: caren beilin damian dressick jamba dunn amy king chaz reetz-laiolo tree reisener jason grunebaum robert gibbons jac jemc diane wald travis godsoe dan featherston trevor houser neeli cherkovsky michael loughry john olson joshua ware bill berkson francis raven jeff crouch & diana magallon norman ball nico vassilakis r sima harris kristine snodgrass corey zeller http://5trope.com/25/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:00:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: cris cheek Subject: Translating Cultures this week at Miami of Ohio MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit interesting series of latina/o poetry, fiction readings, panels and performances this week including: Elsa Cross Junoz Diaz Carlos Morton Angie Cruz and Rodrigo Toscano full lineup and schedule etc. here: http://www.muohio.edu/translatingcultures c u xx cc ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:02:02 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: John Roche Subject: Bill Lavender Visit Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable New Orleans Poet and Editor Bill Lavender Visits Rochester Date: Thursday April 16, 2009 Time: 7-8:30: Poetry reading and book signing at Boulder Coffee in the Sout= h Wedge, 100 Alexander St., Rochester (585) 454-7140. =20 Among the books available will be I of the Storm, Bill Lavender=B9s well-received poetic journal of his experience in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. =20 Contacts: John Roche jfrgla@rit.edu Paulette Swartzfager pmsgsla@rit.edu =20 Brief Bio: Bill Lavender is the director of the Low Residency Creative Writing program at the University of New Orleans and Managing Editor of UNO Press. His most recent book of poetry is transfixion, forthcoming in 2009. Sections of this book have previously appeared in such journals as E*Ratio, Fieralingua, YAW= P and Fell Swoop, among others. Books also include I of the Storm (Trembling Pillow 2006), While Sleeping (Chax Press 2004), look the universe is dreaming (Potes and Poets 2002), and Guest Chain (Lavender Ink 1999). He is currently co-editing an issue of Big Bridge on New Orleans poetry. He was a guest-editor of Exquisite Corpse in 2008, and he also edited the anthology, Another South: Experimental Writing in the South, from University of Alabam= a Press (2003).=20 =20 Sponsors: Rochester Institute of Technology English Department and Just Poets (Local poets organization). Funded in part =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:42:14 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jane Sprague Subject: New from Palm Press: Martyrdom by Anne Waldman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Palm Press is pleased to announce the publication of: Martyrdom by Anne Waldman "With no small amount of " investigative rage," Anne Waldman quickens = the nerve fiber by which language so binds us to social action as to = recast victim status and noble death in light of car bombings and global = capital's "free trade of bodies." Martyrdom begins and ends in = present-day Umbria to look back at the Cretaceous-Tertiary event, "the = asteroid or impact that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs." That = doomsday past lends longer historical views to measure the present = delirious life in which we are all married to figures of the terrorist. = An uncompromising assessment of emancipative politics and the doubtful = certainties of poetry-Mansur Al-Hallaj, Santa Teresa of Avila, Ernesto = Cardenal-to ask what desire has "to do with the subject of martyr? / = [when] everyone has a price for suicide."--Roberto Tejada Chapbook, 32 pages ISBN 978-0-9789464-7-4 $15.00 www.palmpress.org =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:07:59 EDT Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ann Bogle Subject: It's snowing: spring at Ana Verse (weblog) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 * =E2=96=BC April (1) =20 * A short draft in feminism=20 * =E2=96=BC March (8) =20 * Sylvia Plath's "I Am Vertical" =20 * Elsewhere on the web for March 2009 =20 * Acceptance is to her a phenomenon =20 * Journey of Man =20 * Citizens: a fragment =20 * One-word Q & A =20 * W'assup with Edward Albee? =20 * On greatness=20 * =E2=96=BC February (3) =20 * Credenza =20 * "I" pronoun-noun-verb succession =20 * Move hand at yes=20 * =E2=96=BC January (1) =20 * Full Moon =20 http://annbogle.blogspot.com **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:50:24 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gabrielle Welford Subject: Re: [edliberation] request for help--seeking bookstores (fwd) In-Reply-To: <413359.21675.qm@web51802.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE dear folks, thanks for the sendings about bookstores. if there are more to come, could you please send to the asker: Tara Mack ta much, gabe On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Mary Kasimor wrote: > Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis,MN. > Mary Kasimor > > --- On Tue, 3/31/09, Nicholas Karavatos w= rote: > > > From: Nicholas Karavatos > Subject: Re: [edliberation] request for help--seeking bookstores (fwd) > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 2:32 PM > > > Northtown Books in Arcata, CA - but you probably already knew that. > > > > Nicholas Karavatos > Dept of English > American University of Sharjah > PO Box 26666 > Sharjah > United Arab Emirates > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:51:47 -1000 > > From: welford@HAWAII.EDU > > Subject: [edliberation] request for help--seeking bookstores (fwd) > > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > > > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:35:03 -0400 > > From: Tara Mack > > > > I am trying to find progressive, independent bookstores from anywhere i= n > > the country that cater to teachers, such as Bank Street Bookstore in Ne= w > > York and Busboys and Poets in DC. I want to find out if these bookstore= s > > might be interested in carrying Planning to Change the World, the socia= l > > justice lesson plan book that the network co-publishes with the New Yor= k > > Collective of Radical Educators. > > > > If you can send me the name and location of your favorite bookstore, I > > would be much obliged. > > > > Thanks so much for your help! > > > > Tara > > > > Tara Mack, Director > > Education for Liberation Network > > http://www.edliberation.org/ > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidel= ines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > _________________________________________________________________ > Internet Explorer 8 =E2=80=93 Get your Hotmail Accelerated.=C2=A0 Downloa= d free! > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/141323790/direct/01/ > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:23:11 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "K. R. Waldrop" Subject: Burning Deck Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed 2 new books of poetry are available from www.spdbooks.org, and in Europe: www.hpress.no 1. Sawako Nakayasu HURRY HOME HONEY: LOVE POEMS 1994-2004 Poetry, 80 pages, offset, smyth-sewn ISBN13: 978-1-886224-98-8, original paperback $14 Poems unusual for their sense of moving between cultures. Love here =20 is now game, sport, speed-time, performance, now contract, conflict, =20 failure, but always a shifting structure of relation. Sawako Nakayasu was born in Japan and has lived mostly in the US =20 since the age of six. She is the author of 2 previous books of poetry =20= and several books of translations, including FOR THE FIGHTING SPIRIT =20 OF THE WALNUT by Hiraide which received the =93Best Translated Book =20 Award=94 2008 from Open Letters. She also edits FACTORIAL magazine. =93An extraordinary voice =97 an ease that thinly covers a swirling =20 anxiety, a well-honed knowledge of how things turn out; and yet an =20 unending romance with the process of romance, only rarely referential =20= (and never explicit) to the act or state of satisfaction, sexual or =20 otherwise. A sense of youth that is marked by a hope, a sense of =20 possibility.=94=97Craig Watson 2. Michael Gizzi NEW DEPTHS OF DEADPAN Poetry, 72 pages, offset, smyth-sewn ISBN13: 978-1-886224-96-4, original paperback $14 Intersection of Tragedy and Comedy? Or the almost reckless =20 declarativeness of a mind=92s weathering both merriment and distress? Michael Gizzi=92s long list of books includes MY TERZA RIMA and NO =20 BOTH from The Figures, as well as CONTINENTAL HARMONY from Roof =20 Books. He has edited LINGO magazine as well as Hard Presss and, with =20 Craig Watson, Qua Books. He is currently teaching at Roger Williams =20 University in Rhode Island. =93Razor sharp but also rich and generously compelling, Michael Gizzi's =20= poetry lambastes as it celebrates=94=97John Ashbery [on NO BOTH] 3. news: YOU ARE THE BUSINESS by Caroline Dubois (trans. Cole =20 Swensen) was a finalist for the =93Best Translated Book Award=94 2008 =20= from Open Letters. =20= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:36:52 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Margaret Konkol Subject: BUFFALO: Small Press in the Archive: ALEX PORCO----Monday, April 6th MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ---- Please mark your calendars for the third Spring 09 "Small Press in the Archive" talk: Monday, April 6th at 3pm, Alex Porco will speak on "Fashionable District: Queen St. Quarterly (1998-2004) and the Production of Canadian Poetry" Currently, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Alessandro Porcois writing his dissertation on the subject of hip-hop poetics, focusing on prosody, rhyme, voice, and affect. He writes a bi-monthly hip-hop column, titled "In Extremis," for Montreal's city magazine, Maisonneuve (available online at www.maisonneuve.org). Most recently, Porco has published an essay on Canadian poet David McGimpsey in Open Letter: A Journal of Writing and Theory; and "Stress Fractals: Hip-Hop, Prosody, and Meaning"=97 a comparative analysis of rhythmic performances by Rakim, MC Lyte, and Ice Cube=97 is forthcoming in the anthology of scholarship Boundaries of Literature (Ed. Clint Burnham and Paul Budra). He regularly reviews new Canadian poetry for publications such as Books in Canada, Canadian Notes and Queries, Arc: Canada's National Poetry Magazine, Essays on Canadian Writing, and Northern Poetry Review. This talk will take place in the Poetry Collection, Capen 420 (North Campus= , SUNY Buffalo) Small Press in the Archive Lecture Series dedicates itself to the study of poetry outside the traditional literary historical plot. The lectures in this series draw on materials in The Poetry Collection, at SUNY Buffalo in order to explore community/discourse formations, the status of ephemera and the making of genre, the conditions of literary production, transatlantic cross-pollinations in and between specific magazines, the careers of poets, the role of book art, and how the little magazine functions in the making of the avant-garde. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:06:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Kelleher Subject: BABEL 2009-2010 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Just Buffalo is pleased to announce the 2009-2010 author lineup for Babel= =21 October 9 A.S. Byatt Book: Possession November 20 Ha Jin Book: Waiting March 5 Azar Nafisi Book: Reading Lolita in Tehran April 16 Salman Rushdie Book: Midnight's Children Subscription Rates EARLY BIRD SUBSCRIPTION SPECIAL=21 Subscription rates are going up for next season, but you can get this years= prices if you purchase your subscription by the date of our next event, Ap= ril 17, 2009. Previous Subscriber: =2475 (=2485 after April 17) New Subscriber: =24100 (=24110 after April 17 These subscriptions include general admission seating at all 4 events. Patron: =24250 (=24275 after April 17 Patron Pair: =24400 (=24450 after April 17) Patron level subscriptions include VIP reserved seating and admission to al= l pre-event author receptions. Purchase subscriptions now http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel or by phone at = 716.832.5400. ___________________________________________________________________________ Literary Buffalo I left two events off the newsletter earlier this week: 04.03.09 Poetics Plus at UB Kevin Killian Talk on poet Jack Spicer Friday, Apr. 3, 3PM UB Poetry Collection 04.05.09 Burchfield Penney Poetry Series Jennifer Campbell and Susan Nusbaum Poetry Reading Sunday, April 3, 2 PM New Burchfield Penney, 1300 Elmwood Ave. ___________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will i= mmediately be removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:55:01 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Heller Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed My apologies for multiple postings. Please reserve April 22nd, 6-9 PM for a Talisman House book party, celebrating my new book Eschaton and other fine new books from the publisher. The party and reception wil be at Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 201. Complete details in a later email. Mike Eschaton (new poems) Talisman House Publishers (2009) available at SPD, Greenfield Distribution (www.gfibooks.com), www. amazon.com and good bookstores. Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The Study (ahadada press 2009) available from SPD, amazon.com and from ahadadpress.com. Speaking The Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen (2008); Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (2005) and Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (2003) available at www.saltpublishing.com, amazon.com and good bookstores. Survey of work at http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson at http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html Recordings at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:48:41 -0700 Reply-To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Olson/Baraka/Waldman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii April 1 Screening of the PBS film "Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place" on WHUT-TV. The documenary includes commentary by Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, John Malkovitch, and Pete Seeger. Wednesday, 8:00 pm Free. WHUT-TV, Channel 32, Washington, DC. April 2 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:25:51 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: David Jones & Charles Olson in Time & Space: A Talk by Charles Alexander MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *David Jones & Charles Olson in Time & Space A Talk by Poet/Bookmaker/Publisher Charles Alexander Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 4 PM (Free & Open to the Public) At the Homer Babbidge Library, Class of '47 Room, University of Connecticut, Storrs* Charles Alexander is the author of several books of poetry and is the director of Chax Press, which recently issued the portfolio *Charles Olson: Language as Physical Fact*. He is a former director of Minnesota Center for Book Arts and now lives in Tucson, AZ. * A special viewing of manuscripts from the Charles Olson Papers at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center will follow the talk. Sponsored by Archives and Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Contact: Melissa Watterworth, Curator of Literary Collections melissa.watterworth@uconn.edu* ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:59:06 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Poetry Project Subject: Events at The Poetry Project April Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi Everyone, Don=B9t come to The Poetry Project next week. It=B9s Holy Week here at the church and time for poets to take a vacation. It=B9s also a good time for people to read The Project Papers: http://poetryproject.org/publications/the-project-papers. The Project Paper= s were originally published in the late 80s and include poems and essays by lots of great poets including Ron Padgett, Nathaniel Mackey, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Erica Hunt, Jim Brodey, Barrett Watten, John Ashbery, Maureen Owen and many others. There=B9s even a transcription of Ted Berrigan=B9= s 1979 Sonnet Workshop talk. And when the holiness is over we will return to host these excellent readings: Monday, April 13, 8 PM Open Reading Sign-in 7:45 PM Wednesday, April 15, 8 PM Ruxandra Ceseraenu & Andrei Codrescu Andrei Codrescu and Ruxandra Ceseraenu read from =B3The Forgiven Submarine=B2 their book-length collaborative poem, published Black Widow Press. This is = a rare opportunity to get these two poets in one place! Ruxandra Ceseraenu is one of Romania=B9s best-known poets, the author, among other books, of Gradina Deliciilor (The Garden of Delights), Zona Vie (Live Zone), Venetia cu vene violete (Venice with Violet Veins), and The Crusader Woman published by Black Widow Press in 2008, translated by the poet with Adam Sorkin and others. She has also written books on politics and art, and is a powerful commentator on her daily blog, mesmeea. Ruxandra lives in Cluj, Transylvania, Romania, and is a professor in the Center for Imagination Studies at Babes-Bolyai University. Andrei Codrescu=B9s most recent books, in addition to =B3The Forgiven Submarine=B2 are Jealous Witness: New Poems (Coffee House Press, with a CD by the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars) and The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess, also just published by Princeton University Press and available at the reading. Andrei is a commentator on NPR and edits Exquisite Corpse, online at corpse.org. He lives in New Orleans and the Ozarks. Friday, April 17, 9:30 PM A Night with Heretical Texts Vol. 4 Heretical Texts is an ongoing Factory School book series published in volumes of five books each. The series aims to test old assumptions about the political efficacies of poetic texts while utilizing the series structure as a framework for documentation and investigation. Since 2005, Factory School has published twenty titles under the Heretical Texts series banner, with future volumes appearing in 2010 and beyond. Volume 4 includes books by Jules Boykoff, Brett Evans, Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle and Frank Sherlock. Please join us for an evening of readings and festivities celebrating Heretical Texts Vol. 4. Participants include Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle, Frank Sherlock and Bill Marsh. Erica Kaufman is the author of Censory Impulse (Factory School 2009) and co-curates Belladonna*. kathryn l. pringle is the author of Right New Biology and lives in Durham, NC. Bill Marsh has co-directed Factory School since its founding in 2000. H= e is the author of Plagiarism (SUNY Press) and, with Steve Carll, Tao Drops, = I Change (Subpress). He lives in Queens, NY. Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individua= l (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitle= d The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School later this year. Become a Poetry Project Member! http://poetryproject.org/become-a-member Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.org/program-calendar The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue New York City 10003 Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. info@poetryproject.org www.poetryproject.org Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $95 or higher will get in FREE to all regular readings). We are wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. For more info call 212-674-0910. If you=B9d like to be unsubscribed from this mailing list, please drop a line at info@poetryproject.org. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 06:50:34 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Tonight -- Amityville -- Horror? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8pm come to PeaceSmiths’ Topic= =0A=0A=0A=0AFriday, April 3, 2009 at 8pm come to PeaceSmiths=E2=80=99 Topic= al,=0AA-Typical Folk Music, Poetry and Whatever Coffeehouse.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A= =0AGot the blues? Come organize. It makes you feel better. We=0Ahave a tabl= e full of info on local music, politics, petitions and community=0Aconcerns= . Come bring some literature and promote your favorite cause (or band!)=0A= =0A=C2=A0=0A=0AThis month, featuring:=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0APoet Amy King: Poet = Laureate of the Blogosphere=0A=0A & Phil Minissale: The Blues Boy of Long=0A Island=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A Plus=E2=80=A6=0A=0AOpen Time - Maybe you!=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AOur PeaceSmiths = coffeehouses are held at:=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AFirst United Methodist=0A Church= in Amityville=0A=0A25 Broadway/rt110 (Southmost end near Merrick Rd/Montau= k=0Ahwy)=0A=0AThis is a short car trip from the Amityville Train Station.= =0A(A little too far for most people to walk.) If you call a day or so in a= dvance,=0Awe can arrange a pick up at the train station: (631) 798-0778, le= ave a message.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A$7 suggested donation=0A=0ALess if necessar= y, more if possible.=0A=0AIncludes healthy munchies.=0A=0A http://peacesmiths.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/april-coffeehouse-amy-king-and-= phil-minnissale/ _______ =0A =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 01:25:13 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: SEGUE SLAM DUNK 4/04/09: SILLIMAN & BARTLETT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *A New Season of the Segue Reading Series Starts this Week, Featuring:* RON SILLIMAN & JENNIFER BARTLETT Saturday, April 4, 2009 ** 4PM SHARP** at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, just north of Houston) $6 admission goes to support the readers hosted by Kristen Gallagher & Tim Peterson Ron Silliman has written and edited over 30 books to date. Silliman was the 2006 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and was a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council as well as a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons Jennifer Bartlett is the author of *Derivative of the Moving Image* (New Mexico Press). She was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with the writer Jim Stewart and their son Jeffrey. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 08:08:43 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Edward Foster Subject: Major Reading MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: base64 QSByZWFkaW5nIGJ5IERvbm5hIGRlIGxhIFBlcnJpw6hyZSAoVHJ1ZSBDcmltZSksIEpvc2VwaCBE b25haHVlIChUZXJyYSANCkx1Y2lkYSksIENhcm1lbiBGaXJhbiAoV29yZHMgYW5kIEZsZXNoKSwg TWljaGFlbCBIZWxsZXIgKEVzY2hhdG9uKSwgDQpUaW1vdGh5IExpdSAoQmVuZGluZyB0aGUgTWlu ZCBBcm91bmQgdGhlIERyZWFt4oCZcyBCbG93biBGdXNlKSwgU2ltb24gDQpQZXR0ZXQgKEhlYXJ0 aCksIGFuZCBBbmRyZXcgWmF3YWNraSAoUGV0YWxzIG9mIFplcm8gUGV0YWxzIG9mIE9uZSkgd2ls bCANCmJlIGhlbGQgV2VkbmVzZGF5LCBBcHJpbCAyMm5kLCA2LTkgUE0gYXQgdGhlIENlcmVzIEdh bGxlcnksIDU0NyBXZXN0IA0KMjd0aCBTdHJlZXQsIFN1aXRlIDIwMS4gTm8gYWRtaXNzaW9uIGNo YXJnZWQuIFJlY2VwdGlvbiBmb2xsb3dzIHRoZSANCnJlYWRpbmcu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:08:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Steve Halle Subject: Amish Trivedi at Seven Corners Comments: To: afarmer@syr.edu, ahewins@mac.com, bfsmith@syr.edu, brandihoman@hotmail.com, carli@caribe.net, caroline.creaghead@gmail.com, casualpirate889er@yahoo.com, ccarney@verahouse.org, ccgibbons@twcny.rr.com, cguile@mail.colgate.edu, chartfan@yahoo.com, connie@arts4ed.org, cramirez@verahouse.org, creaghjh@muohio.edu, cshalle@sbcglobal.net, dbeye@mailbox.syr.edu, dgmckown@gmail.com, dpollard35@gmail.com, egrunze@hotmail.com, elizabeth.twiddy@gmail.com, enginebaby@aol.com, geddy@ulsterpublishing.com, goodoldbill@gmail.com, grinnone@msn.com, hazelwalker11@yahoo.co.uk, ire96@yahoo.com, jcuello@earthlink.net, jen.pashley@gmail.com, jennifer@writingourselveswhole.org, jerosoma@yahoo.com, jessicavancampen@yahoo.com, johnnysacco53@yahoo.com, jsugarmansshs@hotmail.com, julianansell@yahoo.com, kellipenni@yahoo.com, kevbot66@yahoo.com, kphill@gmail.com, ktrokopera@hotmail.com, kurtis.gibbs@hws.edu, latiolai@uci.edu, laura@arts4ed.org, MasterRT@aol.com, maureen@arts4ed.org, mewils01@syr.edu, mhotham@gmail.com, mmditmar@syr.edu, mnsugarman@hotmail.com, natalia@theredhouse.org, oconnell@amnix.com, pahllo31@hotmail.com, patrick@patrickvincitore.com, pbalakian@mail.colgate.edu, Pear3150@aol.com, petralyn@hotmail.com, phil@ymcaarts.org, poetdan77@yahoo.com, rfkuka@wisc.edu, rickyian@verizon.net, rkesey@gmail.com, rsalvatore@ucross.org, rsernett@gmail.com, rzweingarten@hotmail.com, scharwel@syr.edu, sdynak@ucross.org, shellburnet@earthlink.net, syracusejones@gmail.com, Aaron Belz , Adam Fieled , Andrew Lundwall , Anne Waldman , Becky Hilliker , "Biddinger,Mary" , Bill Garvey , Bob Archambeau , "Bowen, Kristy" , chard deNiord , Cheryl Keeler , Chris Goodrich , Dan Pedersen , Daniel Borzutzky , DAVID PAVELICH , ela kotkowska , "f.lord@snhu.edu" , Garin Cycholl , Garrett Brown , Grant Haughton , Ira Sadoff , Jacqueline Gens , James DeFrain , Jay Rubin , Jeffrey Grybash , joel craig , John Beer , John Matthias , JOHN TIPTON , Judith Vollmer , Jules Gibbs , Julianna McCarthy , "K. R." , Kate Doane , Kathleen Rooney , Kent Johnson , Kristin Prevallet , Larry Sawyer , "Lea C. Deschenes" , "lesliesysko@hotmail.com" , "Lina R. Vitkauskas" , Lynda , Malia Hwang-Carlos , Margaret Doane , Marie U , Mark Tardi , MartinD , Michael OLeary , Michael Waters , "Odelius, Kristy L" , "pba1@surewest.net" , Peter Sommers , pomofunk , Professor Michael Theune , Randolph Healy , Ross Gay , Sarah Haberstich , Simone Muench , Stephen Shoup , Tara Reeser , Theresa O'Donnell , Timothy Yu , "White, Jackie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please take a minute to check out new work by *Amish Trivedi* online now at *Seven Corners* ( http://www.sevencornerspoetry.blogspot.com/). Recent poets include Nicol=E1s Mansito III, Simone Muench, and Joanne Diaz. Best, Steve Halle Editor =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:06:46 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: This Sunday - April 5th @ Cakeshop MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Polestar Poetry Series Presents…  Sunda= =0A=0A=0A=0APolestar Poetry Series Presents=E2=80=A6=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ASunda= y, April 5, 2009=0A=0A4 pm (special time)=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AJanice Erlbaum= =0A=0AAmy King=0A=0AJoy Ladin=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ADownstairs at CAKESHOP=0A=0A= 152 Ludlow=0A Street=0A=0A(between Stanton & Rivington)=0A=0AManhattan,=0A= NY=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ATrains to:=0A=0ADelancey-Essex Sts (F, J, M, Z)=0A=0A2= nd Ave-Houston=0A St (F, V)=0A=0AGrand St (B, D)=0A=0A =0A=0A=0A=0AJanice Erlbaum is the author of GIRLBOMB: A Halfway Homeless=0A= Memoir (Villard, March '06), and HAVE YOU FOUND HER: A Memoir (Villard,=0AF= eb.'08). She was a contributor to BUST magazine from 1994 through 2007. She= =0Alives in her native New York City=0Awith her domestic partner, Bill Scur= ry, and their three cats.=0A=0A=C2=A0 =0A=0AAmy King is the author of I'M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU and=0AANTIDOTES F= OR AN ALIBI, and forthcoming, SLAVES TO DO THESE THINGS (Blazevox=0ABooks).= For information on the reading series Amy co-curates, please visit The=0AS= tain of Poetry: A Reading Series (http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/) or= =0Avisit her at http://.amyking.org for more.=0A=0A=C2=A0 =0A=0AJoy Ladin is David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English=0Aat Stern= College of Yeshiva University. Her third book of poetry,=0ATRANSMIGRATION,= is due out soon from Sheep Meadow Press, which also brought out=0Aher firs= t two, ALTERNATIVES TO HISTORY and THE BOOK OF ANNA. Her poems have=0Aappea= red in many publications, including Parnassus,=0Ato which she is a regular = contributor, and have recently been published or are=0Aforthcoming in At-La= rge, Conte, Public-Republic, Segue, The Forward,=0AFutureCycle, Two Hawks Q= uarterly, BAP Quarterly and Terrain. She recently=0Acompleted a book of aut= obiographical essays and another book of poetry.=0A=0A http://www.polestarpoetry.com/ _______ =0A =0A =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:39:29 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: ArtsEdge Residencies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (this is a forward so please don't respond to me. good luck!) ArtsEdge Residencies at The University of Pennsylvania http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/awards/artsedge/ We are pleased to announce we are accepting applications for the second year of the ARTSEDGE RESIDENCY PROJECT at the University of Pennsylvania -- a collaboration of the Kelly Writers House, the Fine Arts Departmen=20 of the School of Design, and Penn's Facilities & Real Estate Services=20 Send in your applications now! The ArtsEdge Residency project is designed to encourage and support the=20 careers of emerging artists and writers. Through ArtsEdge Residencies, we offer two one-year residencies in a live/work space near Penn's campus. ArtsEdge aims to support the creative work of young artists and writers, and create a live/work environment that will inspire interdisciplinary exploration. Residencies last for one year and include a dedicated studio for each writer/artist, living space, and close affiliation with the writing and artistic communities at Penn. During the course of their residencies, writers and artists will develop at least one collaborative project with the Writers House or Fine Arts Department. Qualified applicants may also=20 be considered to teach one course at Penn in the spring semester. Two residencies are available, one for a visual artist and one for a writer. The residences are not intended for current undergraduates. No affiliation with Penn is necessary. TERMS: Each residency includes a one-bedroom apartment with an additional studio space. Subsidized monthly rent on each one-bedroom apartment (for which residents are responsible) is $400. Rent includes all utilities (except phone) and wireless Internet. The Writers House, the Fine Arts Department, and FRES will subsidize remaining rent. MOVE-IN DATE: September 1, 2009 TO APPLY: Send letter of interest, CV, bio or artist statement, and portfolio (minimum: 10 pages of written work or 20 images). Word documents, PDFs, PPTs, CDs, and DVDs are all acceptable. Please include personal contact information and the names and contact information of at least two professional references. If you would like to be considered for a course, please also submit a brief description of your teaching experience or qualifications. Submit application electronically to=20 or by mail (or hand-delivery) to:=20 ArtsEdge Residency c/o Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104 APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 15, 2009=C2=20 http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/awards/artsedge/ =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:31:46 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Book List @ Kaurab & News //Next Kaurab out in a week-- MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Reader The next update of the *Kaurab Translation Archive* is just a week away=85 So is the next issue of *Kaurab Online*=85 in the meanwhile we want to share this with you. We are trying to create a book compilation page at *Kaurab*. Every month. On this page we will try to list all books published/distributed by us in all both languages (Bangla & English) of a single author. Please visit www.kaurab.com and click on =93ei parber kabi=94 (Poet of the Month) or directly click on this link http://www.kaurab.com/books/index-aryanil.html This month we have listed all books by *Aryanil Mukhopadhyay*. Order books at Kaurab and support parallel Bangla literature. Thanks Staff, KAURAB =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:21:27 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eric Elshtain Subject: New Gnoetry! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We are very pleased to present new gnoetic near-sonnets by Gnoetry http://www.beardofbees.com/gnoetry.html and end-user Eric Scovel http://www.beardofbees.com/scovel.html Prepare yourself for polite perversion: "Yes...I lapped out of/scruple." Eric Elshtain Editor Beard of Bees Press http://www.beardofbees.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 14:16:47 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Angeline, Mary" Subject: Re: [BULK] Book List @ Kaurab & News //Next Kaurab out in a week-- In-Reply-To: A MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi All I need to have a look at sample syllabi for a course on prosody at the college sophomore level. Do any of you teach prosody as a separate course? I have found the infamous Donald Justice course but I wonder if there might be more interesting ways to study form and the history of form? Please back channel mary.angeline@unco.edu Thank you=20 -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of David Chirot Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:32 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: [BULK] Book List @ Kaurab & News //Next Kaurab out in a week-- Importance: Low Dear Reader The next update of the *Kaurab Translation Archive* is just a week away... So is the next issue of *Kaurab Online*... in the meanwhile we want to share this with you. We are trying to create a book compilation page at *Kaurab*. Every month. On this page we will try to list all books published/distributed by us in all both languages (Bangla & English) of a single author. Please visit www.kaurab.com and click on "ei parber kabi" (Poet of the Month) or directly click on this link http://www.kaurab.com/books/index-aryanil.html This month we have listed all books by *Aryanil Mukhopadhyay*. Order books at Kaurab and support parallel Bangla literature. Thanks Staff, KAURAB =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 10:24:33 +0200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Anny Ballardini Subject: SPRING MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *Spring.* ** http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D333 With my acknowledgment to the Poets who forwarded their interpretations of this most powerful season. The fragmented anthology was born out of the man= y contributors=92 and my wish to honor Antonio Vivaldi=92s masterpiece:* The = Four Seasons*. *=B7* Editorial: Anny Ballardini *=B7* Lesley Wheeler *=B7* Barry Spacks *=B7* Jerome Rothenberg *=B7* Joseph Duemer *=B7* Frank Parker *=B7* Camille Martin *=B7* David Howard *=B7* Jeff Harrison *=B7* M=E1= rton Kopp=E1ny = *=B7* Pam Brown *=B7* Elizabeth Smither *=B7* Edward Mycue *= =B7* Pierre Joris *= =B7* Dennis Barone *= =B7* Martin J. Walker *=B7* Geof Huth *=B7= * Barbara Crooker *=B7* Silvia Levenson = *=B7* Mark Young *= =B7* Katia Kapovich *=B7* Daniela Gioseffi = *=B7* Jon Corelis *=B7* Edward Mycue (Sec= ond Part) *=B7* Jesse Glass *=B7* Ned Condini *=B7* Wendy Taylor Carlisle *=B7* Tom Savage *=B7* Wendy Vardaman *=B7* Evelyn Posamentier *=B7* Larry Jaffe *=B7* Donna Pecore *=B7* Patricia Valdata *=B7* Jill Jones *=B7* Tad Richards *=B7* Hoshang Merchant *=B7* Tim Mayo * =B7* Karl Young *=B7* David Graham *=B7* Eve Rifkah *=B7* Ren Katherine Powell *=B7* Penelope Schott *=B7* Alexander Jorgensen *=B7* Larissa Shmailo *=B7* Beebe Barksdale-Bruner *=B7* Linda Benninghoff *=B7* Charlotte Mandel *=B7* Katerina Klemer *=B7* Claire Keyes *=B7* Geor= gia Ann Banks-Martin * =B7* Christina Pacosz *=B7* Phibby Venable *=B7* Ada Jill Schneider *=B7* Ann Fisher-Wirth *=B7* Spencer Selby *=B7* Amy Gottlieb *=B7* Fan Ogilvie *=B7* Paul Vangelisti *=B7* Jerry McGuire *=B7* Jim Leftwich *=B7* Wendy Taylor Carlisle *=B7* Jean Vengua *=B7* Dan Waber *=B7* John Bloomberg-Rissman *=B7* Bob Grumman I would also like to invite you to the two previous Seasons with further additions: *Winter: * http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D329 *=B7* Editorial: Anny Ballardini *=B7* Martha King *=B7* Hiram Larew *=B7* James Cervantes *=B7* Laura Kennelly *=B7* Edward Mycue *=B7* Alicia Ostriker *=B7* Geof Huth * =B7* Elizabeth Smither *=B7* Daniel Zimmerman *=B7* Barry Spacks *=B7* Eve Rifkah *=B7* Gertrude Halstaed *=B7* Beverly Matherne *=B7* Donna Pecore *=B7* Jeff Harrison *=B7* Grace Cavalieri *=B7* Diane Lockward *=B7* Camille Martin *=B7* Dennis Barone *=B7* Alan Sondheim *=B7* Alexander Dickow *=B7* Douglas Clark *=B7* David Graham *=B7* Bob Grumman *=B7* Eileen Tabios *=B7* Sarah Menefee *=B7* Pam Brown * =B7* Ray DiPalma *=B7* Jerry McGuire *=B7* Henry Reed *=B7* Paolo Ruffilli *=B7* Allen Bramhall *=B7* J.P. Dancing Bear *=B7* Mark Weiss *=B7* Susan Rich *=B7* Karl Young *=B7* Ruth Fainlight *=B7* Geoffrey Gatza *=B7* Jim Leftwich *=B7* Alan Michael Parker *=B7* Barbara Crooker *=B7* Jerome Rothenberg *=B7* Deborah Humphreys *=B7* Paolo Dalponte *=B7* Susan Edwards *=B7* Jean Lamberty *=B7* Ned Condini *=B7* Jill Jones *=B7* Lois Roma-Deeley *=B7* Fan Ogilvie *=B7* Peter Ciccariello *=B7* Frank Parker *=B7* Jon Corelis *=B7* Tim Mayo *=B7 * Alan Halsey * =B7* Spencer Selby *=B7* M=E1rton Kopp=E1ny *=B7* Wendy Vardaman *=B7* Dan Waber * =B7* Wendy Taylor Carlisle *=B7* Evelyn Posamentier *=B7* Sheila E. Murphy *=B7* Ann Fisher- Wirth *=B7* Bob Holman *=B7* Berty Skuber *=B7* Michael Peverett *=B7* Obododimma Oha *=B7* Richard Dillon *=B7* Diane Kendig *=B7* Jukka-Pekka Kervinen *=B7* Geraldine Monk *=B7* William Allegrezza * =B7* S=E9amas Cain *=B7* Tad Richards *=B7* Bill Morgan *=B7* Hoshang Merchant *=B7* James Finnegan *=B7* Michael Snider *=B7* Yerra Sugarman *=B7* Paul Vangelisti *=B7* Jukka-Pekka Kervinen *Autumn*: http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D318 *=B7* Introduction by Anny Ballardini *=B7* Dirk Vekemans *=B7* Bobbi Lurie *=B7* Anny Ballardini *=B7* Obododimma Oha *=B7* Jeff Harrison *=B7* Cecil Touchon *=B7* Halvard Johnson *=B7* Jill McCabe Johnson *=B7* Ann Neuser Lederer *=B7* Barbara Crooker *=B7* Christina Pacosz *=B7* Penelope Schott *=B7* Georgia Ann Banks-Martin *=B7* Sandra Giedeman *=B7* Joel Weishaus *=B7* Pat Falk *=B7 * Tim Mayo *=B7* Wendy Taylor Carlisle *=B7* Wendy Vardaman *=B7* Bill Morgan *=B7* Eileen Tabios *=B7* Sheila E. Murphy *=B7* Alan Sondheim *=B7* David Graham *=B7* Tad Richards *=B7* Bob Grumman *=B7* Henry Gould *=B7* Jukka-Pekka Kervinen *=B7* Guido Catalano *=B7* Ruth Fainlight *=B7* Ann Fisher-Wirth *=B7* Fan Ogilvie *=B7* Larissa Shmailo *=B7* Geof Huth * =B7* Grace Cavalieri *=B7* Mark Weiss *=B7* Pam Brown * =B7* David Howard *=B7* Edward Mycue *=B7* Elizabeth Smither *=B7* Elena Karina Byrne *=B7* David-Baptiste Chirot *=B7* Nico Vassilakis *=B7* Allen Bramhall *=B7* Dan Waber * =B7* Aaron Belz * =B7* Nicholas Piombino *=B7* Joseph Duemer *=B7* Daniel Zimmerman *=B7* Geoffrey Gatza *=B7* Jon Corelis *=B7* Berty Skuber *=B7* Peter Ciccariello *=B7* Evelyn Posamentier *=B7* Sharon Dolin *=B7* Mark Young *=B7* Charles Martin *=B7* Skip Fox *=B7 * Dianalee Velie *=B7* William Allegrezza *=B7* Karl Young *=B7* Richard Dillon *=B7* Dan Waber * =B7* Geraldine Monk * =B7* Paul Vangelisti *=B7* Jim Leftwich The main index of the Poets=92 Corner: http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent As usual the order of apparition follows the order by which I received the submission. My best wishes, Anny Ballardini --=20 Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 01:27:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Corey Frost Subject: Understanding Afghanistan on April 9th 6-8pm at AAARI Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed From the CUNY GC Poetics list: > > International Gallerie > > Presents > > > > Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009 > > Time: 6PM to 8PM > > Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor > between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan > > Join International Gallerie for the launch of the 23rd issue of > their magazine on, "Understanding Afghanistan," a valuable > collective, brings you features and stories of a country beyond the > north-west frontier province. A country that has become synonymous > with the Taliban. But little is known about its contemporary culture. > > This issue addresses the socio-political and cultural contexts of > Afghanistan while celebrating its contemporary art, music, theatre, > photography, cinema, poetry; the Afghan people and their lives. > > The magazine launch includes a talk by International Gallerie > Editor Bina Sarkar Ellias; poetry reading by Zohra Saed (Hunter > College, CUNY); screening of a docu-film by Shireen Pasha; and a > Q&A with fashion designer Zolaykha Sherzad, and make-up artist > Matin Maulawizada. > > The issue includes a free CD of exquisite Afghan music and a > beautiful docu-DVD of "Slowly Slowly Mud and Lotus", a film tracing > the interface between imagination and reason in the lives of Afghan > artisans. > > Sponsored by > Asian American / Asian Research Institute, CUNY > Asian American Writers' Workshop > International Gallerie > The Association of Iranian American Writers > > > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:43:46 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: peter ganick Subject: blog invitation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit this blog is open for submissions of text. replies usually within a day. http://pganickz.livejournal.com peter ganick ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:21:13 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: blacksox@ATT.NET Subject: Two Central Florida Events in 8 days Bennett, 4/7 Ernie Wormwood 4/15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The birth of Bad Ass Poetry Nights Every 1st Tuesdays=20 Bad Ass Coffee Shop=20 13651 Hunters Oak Drive (Suite 101)=20 Orlando, FL 32837=20 407-855-2019=20 Featuring=20 Dave Bennett=20 April 7 @ 7:00 pm=20 Hosted By Russ Golata=20 blacksox@att.net 407-403-5814=20 Dave Bennett, originally from Ohio, has been a Florida resident for thirtee= n years. Dave has a BA in art and speech/theatre and an MFA in costume, sce= nic and lighting design. He has worked with clients such as former Presiden= t Jimmy Carter and astronaut Wally Scharra. He has been a guest costume des= igner for Rollins College theatre department and the Ice House theatre in M= t. Dora. He is the author of a collection of free verse poetry titled Live = Love, that features 4 distinct voices=20 New Venue (Are You bad enough for it?)=20 http://poetry.meetup....=20 Come listen or share your own voice=20 National Poetry Month Celebration Every 3rd Wednesday@ Austin=E2=80=99s=20 Featuring DC poet and activist=20 Ernie Wormwood=20 Wednesday April 15, @ 8:30pm=20 Austin=E2=80=99s Coffee and Film=20 929 W Fairbanks Ave.=20 Winter Park, Florida 32789=20 Ernie Wormwood of Leonardtown, Maryland has poems in the anthologies Poem R= evised from Marion Street Press, Poetic Voices Without Borders 1 and 2 from= Gival Press, Only the Sea Keeps from Baueux Arts, Inc., and in Primal Sani= ties! A Tribute to Walt Whitman from Allbooks Books. She recently appeared = on Grace Cavalieri=E2=80=99s program for the Library of Congress, The Poet = and the Poem, which can be heard at www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem.html = =20 Special guest from DC Ernie (Eleanor) Wormwood=20 & Austin=E2=80=99s awesome open mic=20 We celebrate poetry every Wednesday=20 Time for you to Come join the fun=20 Hosted by Lilly=E2=80=99s Open Words ,& Russ Golata=20 For directions or comments e-mail me at blacksox@att.net=20 Or phone me at 407-403-5814=20 Or AUSTIN=E2=80=99S at 407-975-3364=20 http://poetry.meetup.com/362/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:07:01 -0700 Reply-To: afieled@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Fieled Subject: PFS Post: Aidan Thompson and Chris McCabe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Check out strong stuff from UK poet Chris McCabe and Aidan Thompson of Alba= ny, NY on PFS Post: =A0 http://www.artrecess.blogspot.com =A0 =A0 =A0 "Chimes" is here: http://www.blazevox.org/bk-af.htm "Chimes" is on Pennsound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Fieled.php Best, Ad=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 13:08:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "steve d. dalachinsky" Subject: Re: from yuko otomo & steve dalachinsky to all the participating artists & poets for TRIBES 12 - CELEBRATION/PARTY/READING!!! - SAT APRIL 11TH MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Spring has sprung & the long awaited Tribes #12 is here! Finally! The magazine safely arrived to us & we are having a celebration & pick-up party very soon. A PARTY AND READING CELEBRATING THE PUBLICATION OF A GATHERING OF THE TRIBES # 12 SAT APRIL 11TH – 5 PM - 10 PM AT TRIBES GALLERY 285 EAST 3RD ST – 2ND FLOOR (BETWEEN AVE C & D) FEATURING STEVE DALACHINSKY, YUKO OTOMO, SUSAN SHERMAN, BRUCE WEBER, CHAVISSA WOODS, JEFFREY WRIGHT *CELEBRATE & PICK-UP YOUR ISSUE* PLEASE BRING GUESTS AND HELP SUPPORT TRIBES BY PURCHASING EXTRA COPIES REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED FUTURE EVENTS INCLUDE BOWERY POETRY CLUB SAT - MAY 17TH – 1:30-3:30 PM (308 BOWERY-BET. HOUSTON & BLEECKER) ____________________________________________________________ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:04:17 +0200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Megan M. Garr" Subject: The term "translocal" in a literary context Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dear POETICS readers, I'm researching contemporary "translocal" literature in Europe and am hoping to find out if or where the term "translocal" has been similarly applied. I first came across its application to literature on the (now defunct) Bordercrossing Berlin's Wiki page, and their once-poetry editor Alistair Noon elaborated somewhat on the term in the final issue, but it was mostly self-referential. I am already aware of its anthropological origins, but am wondering how far the term has reached in its application in/to (contemporary) literature. I'd be curious to know if anyone else(where) has picked up the topic. Please email me directly at megan@wordsinhere.com Thanks, Megan M. Garr Editor, Versal http://versal.wordsinhere.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:50:13 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "D. Wellman" Subject: new book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear all, Amidst all the news of wonderful new books, please note my offering, Prolog Pages from Ahadada. I have attempted here to embody a transcultural poetics. Please take a look! The link leads to some comments: http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/159/42/ Donald Wellman Daniel Webster College http://faculty.dwc.edu/wellman/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:15:55 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alexander Dickow Subject: poetry reading in Paris April 6th In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Friends, Spread the word to all known denizens of France, or find a l= ast-minute plane ticket. Venez nombreux!=0AAmicalement, Alex=0A=A0=0AFRANCE= FULBRIGHT announces=0A=A0=0AMonday=A0April 6th from 6pm to 8pm=A0FULBRIGHT= HAPPY HOUR at the Bistrot Mazarine, 42 rue Mazarine, Paris 6th=A0Arrondiss= ement; Tel. 01 43 29 99 01 (metro St Germain des Pr=E9s, Od=E9on, Mabillon)= =0AAttention!=A0The Bistrot Mazarine is at42 rue Mazarine,=A0and not=A012 = as previously announced.=0ATwo Fulbright Alumni, Alexander Dickow (Fulb.=A0= in France=A02003) author of =AB=A0Caramboles=A0=BB=A0andSophie Maurer (Fulb= . US 2003), author of =AB=A0Asthmes=A0=BB offer us an evening of literary r= eadings and Q&A. =0A=A0=0AFRANCE FULBRIGHT vous propose=0A=A0=0ALundi 6 avr= il=A0de 18 =E0 20 heures HAPPY HOUR FULBRIGHT=A0 au Bistrot Mazarine, 42 ru= e Mazarine, Paris 6=E8me=A0 Tel. 01 43 29 99 01 (m=E9tro St Germain des Pr= =E9s, Od=E9on, Mabillon) =0AAttention=A0! Le Bistrot Mazarine est au42 rue = Mazarine et non 12 comme annonc=E9 pr=E9c=E9demment.=0ADeux anciens, Alexan= der Dickow (Fulb. am=E9ricain 2003) auteur de =AB=A0Caramboles=A0=BB et Sop= hie Maurer (Fulb. 2003), auteur de =AB=A0Asthmes=A0=BB nous proposent une l= ecture po=E9tique et litt=E9raire. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 15:39:13 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Welcome to Boog City 2 Audio Now Online Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, I'm happy to announce that the audio from two days of last year's 2nd =20= annual Welcome to Boog City festival is now online, thanks to the =20 efforts of one Damian Weber. For Friday at the Sidewalk Caf=E9: http://welcometoboogcity.com/audio/wbc2/friday.html For Saturday at Cake Shop: http://welcometoboogcity.com/audio/wbc2/saturday.html The full list of performers for each day is below this note, while =20 links to their individual performances can be found at the above two =20 urls. Thanks to all of you who took part in the festival last year, and =20 we're looking forward to the third annual WBC this September. enjoy, David -------------------- Sidewalk Cafe readings from: Jim Behrle Bob Holman Gillian McCain Daniel Nester Arlo Quint music from: Babs of Queens Dibson T. Hoffweiler The Rabbits Todd Carlstrom and The Clamour and Lou Reed's New York album performed live by: Babs of Queens Liv Carrow Dibson T. Hoffweiler and Preston Spurlock Prewar Yardsale The Rabbits Todd Carlstrom and The Clamour Wakey!Wakey! -------------------- Cake Shop readings and talks from small, small press fair participants: Bowery Books/ Celena Glenn, Marjorie Tesser Cy Gist Press/ Mark Lamoureux Fence and Fence Books/ Ariana Reines Flim Forum Press/ Adam Golaski Graphic Union Press/ Andrew Bishop, Anne Callahan House Press/ Damian Weber Litmus Press/ E. Tracy Grinnell, Virna Teixeira Little Scratch Pad Editions/ Jaye Bartell LOGOChrysalis/ Brant Lyon Octopus Books/ Jeff Downey, Mathias Svalina Other Rooms Press/ Melissa Christine Goodrum Outside Voices/ Ric Royer, Jessica Smith Poets Wear Prada/ Austin Alexis, Roxanne Hoffman Straw Gate Books/ Tom Savage, Phyllis Wat readings from: Jen Benka Todd Colby Ryan Eckes Elise Ficarra Eric Gelsinger Stephanie Gray Bill Kushner Douglas Manson Kristianne Meal Carol Mirakove kathyrn l. pringle Kyle Schlesinger Maureen Thorson music from: A Brief View of the Hudson Heart Parts Oak Orchard Swamp --=20 David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 22:17:52 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Doug Holder Subject: From Doo-Wop to Hip-Hop: Interview with two generation of African-American Poets Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" =46rom Doo-Wop to Hip-Hop: Interview with two generations of African- American Poets: Afaa Michael Weaver and Major Jackson =20 ( Major Jackson) (Afaa Michael Weaver) FROM DOO-WOP TO HIP- HOP: Interview with two generations of African=20 American Poets: Major Jackson and Afaa Michael Weaver. By Doug Holder Afaa Michael Weaver, 58 and Major Jackson, 40 are two major African =96 American poets from two different generations, but they both continually = feed=20 from their shared heritage, and the continuum of the Black experience in=20= America. Weaver, a professor of English at Simmons College in Boston, a=20= recent Pushcart Prize winner, and the author the critically acclaimed poe= try=20 collection: =93 Plum Flower Dance=94 (U/Pitt), and Major Jackson, the aut= hor=20 of =93Hoops,=94 an asst. professor at the University of Vermont and a cor= e faculty=20 member at the Bennington Writing Seminars, met for a filmed discussion at= the=20 Somerville Community Access TV studios. The show was moderated by Gloria=20= Mindock (Cervena Barva Press) and produced by Doug Holder (Ibbetson St.=20= Press). Weaver started off the discussion by going back to his native Baltimore i= n=20 1970. This was a time when he dropped out of the university, got a job at= a=20 steel mill, and started to pen his seminal poems. Later he joined the mil= itary,=20 married his first wife, but was destined to live a radically different li= fe than his=20 early years indicated. Jackson was born in Philadelphia, and studied to be an accountant. He got= an=20 internship in which he was spending up to 80 hours a week with spreadshee= ts.=20 After college he worked at an arts center in the city in the role of fina= nce=20 manager. He said: =94 I was happy when I was fired.=94 He had taken some = poetry=20 courses in college, and he started to program poetry events at the center= . He=20 soon realized it was the arts that touched him spiritually, and he eventu= ally=20 made poetry a part of his everyday life. Weaver talked of his early days in East Baltimore in the 50=92s and 60=92= s. He sort=20 of free- associated about mowing grass with push lawnmowers and the ritua= ls=20 of his youth, like using toothbrushes to clean his shoes before a night o= ut on=20 the town. Weaver said: =93Baltimore was a very Southern city. We weren=92= t=20 allowed to shop in the stores in downtown Baltimore=97the line between bl= ack=20 and white were clearly drawn.=94 Weaver said his father=92s family was from Southern farming stock, and hi= s dad=20 had the philosophy that =93 Children should she be seen not heard.=94 Wea= ver=20 learned to become an =93isolated=94 learner, he recollected. In 1963 he was bused to a white school, which caused a great deal of anxi= ety=20 for the young poet. It was hard to be in a place where he was not welcome= d.=20 He was always glad and relieved to be back on his own side of town. At th= e=20 time his scope of experience was limited. He thought the whole world was=20= Black. Weaver laughed: =93I watched =93 Leave it to Beaver,=94 and though= t that=20 family was just like mine, except they were white.=94 Jackson said even though Philadelphia was north of Baltimore, it still po= ssessed=20 a Southern sensibility. This was confirmed when he spent his summers in=20= Nashville, Tennessee as a boy and he experienced the same =93rhythms=94 a= s the=20 South. Jackson described himself as a hyperaware kid. He was tuned in to the mus= ic=20 and the culture of the time. Hip- Hop started to appear in 1978-82, and d= rugs=20 started appearing in the mix. There was a potent combination of rich cult= ure=20 and tragic lives. He sadly watched the erosion of his neighborhood over t= he=20 years. Jackson=92s work is informed by his observations of people trying to surv= ive=20 under extreme stress. Anything that cuts humans down, be it in an urban o= r=20 rural setting, will find room in his work, he said. All in all Jackson is= grateful to=20 have grown up in Philadelphia. He had an appreciation of the speech, jarg= on,=20 and music of the milieu. Jackson reflected on his neighborhood:=94 People all knew each other. The= guy=20 at the corner drug store and the drug dealer on the corner.=94 Jackson kn= ew=20 who to avoid and who could act as a role model. Weaver brought the discussion back to the pivotal year 1968. This was the= =20 year Martin Luther King was assassinated. Weaver=92s younger siblings wer= e=20 born in 1969 and 1973. He said he was able to see the effect the legacy o= f=20 those years had on them, and how it changed them. Weaver vividly=20 remembers his mother crying like a proverbial baby when MLK was shot. Weaver went further back to the 1965 riots in Baltimore. He remembered th= e=20 intrusion of the National Guard in his neighborhood. He can recall whites= =20 roaming the streets looking for blacks to beat up. He remembers hearing=20= gunfire from his two- story row house. Weaver said:=94 It was horrifying.= The=20 cities never recovered from the 60=92s=97and later they became plagued by= =20 drugs. The post-industrial era brought the loss of blue-collar jobs. Crim= e=20 flooded the community.=94 Weaver reminisced about the downfall of Milton Ave, where he grew up.=20 Blockbusting tactics by real estate developers drove whites out. The patt= erns=20 of parenting changed. There were more divorced parents. The old family=20= structure fell. More men of color were incarcerated. Weaver eventually left the steel mill and worked for Proctor& Gamble.= Once,=20 while driving to work he took a route down Milton Ave. with a friend and = saw a=20 man shot down dead. This really hit home as to how the times had changed.= Jackson said that music had a decided influence on him and his work. On o= ne=20 hand he celebrates the music of Elvis, but realizes the roots of Rock=92n= Roll is=20 with the Blues, which was African-American music. He was introduced to bl= ack=20 history by an aunt who gave him a history book that traced the long list = of=20 accomplishments of the black race through the centuries. He learned about= =20 celebrated African Americans like Robert Hayden, poets Gwendolyn Brooks,=20= Langston Hughes as well others. He also loved the music of the 60=92s lik= e James=20 Brown and his anthem of a song =93I=92m black and I=92m proud.=94 Weaver said the =93big book=94 when he was growing up was the bible. He h= ad a=20 recent discussion with the poet James Tate, who also touted the influence= of=20 the =93good book.=94 Later his mother bought enclyopedias from the superm= arket=20 for 25 cents a piece. As for the Blues, it came naturally. The cadence of= his=20 father=92s speech was very Blues- like, Weaver said. Weaver loved the=20 Temptations, The Supremes, The Impressions and other groups of the era. H= e=20 wore highbrow collars, there was =93 a soundtrack to my life=94 he smiled= . Hip-Hop=20 hit the scene when he was 30 or so, so he was able to appreciate it. Weaver talked about the changes in the culture due to the turmoil in the=20= cities. He said the parlance of the Blackman changed. The language used w= as=20 of the type that would not be tolerated years before. The Civil Rights=20= Movement opened up what was an essentially insular black society. From th= is=20 instability came Gangsta Rap, and the idolization of the drug culture. Jackson, through his elders, was exposed to the music of the 60=92s. He u= sed to=20 listen to a radio show hosted by =93Butterball=94 that played that genre = of music.=20 Books were ubiquitous in his household. His grandmother built a sprawling= =20 library in the home from used books that she bought. Literature was=20 important. His stepfather=92s sister worked at the Philadelphia Museum of= Art,=20 and Jackson recollected: =93 I made it my playground=94 He had the images= of=20 Duchamp, Lichtenstein, and others seared into his nascent consciousness. His grandfather had a deep appreciation for African-American music, and h= is=20 grandmother loved Gospel. He got to see the great vibraphonist Lionel=20 Hampton with his grandfather. He had a piano in his house, and he too had= a=20 soundtrack to his life. Jackson said the avant-garde musician Sun Ra lived a few blocks away in=20= Germantown. He said: =93: You could hear his group play=97unlike anything= I=20 heard before. It was free jazz, a big band sound, way outside the norm.=94= =20 Jackson said he appreciated Sun Ra=92s journey, a man who created this=20= mythology of the musician as an alien being. Both poets agreed that=20 mythology that artists like Sun Ra draped around themselves was a reactio= n=20 to a world that rejected them and made them suffer. Sun Ra, and others of= =20 his ilk didn=92t want to be part of a society such as this, and in effect= divorced=20 themselves from it. Finally both men talked of mentors. And it was clear without mentors thes= e=20 men=92s lives would be quite different. Weaver defines a mentor as=94 A f= riend who=20 reserves the right to tell you what to do.=94 Jackson mentioned Amiri Bar= aka and=20 Sonia Sanchez as well as Weaver, as major influencers in his writing life= .=20 Weaver talked about the poet Lucille Clifton who advised him to read X.J.= =20 Kennedy=92s =93Introduction to Poetry=94 and gently criticized and encour= aged his=20 fledgling attempts at poetry. Both men are now in positions to give somet= hing=20 back, and they do it as teachers, and in other roles. And hopefully, new=20= generations will flow back and forth and nurture each other, like they ha= ve=20 with Afaa Michael Weaver and Major Jackson. Zombie Dance/Tapping The Blood Root=20 =97for Katrina I Buddy Bolden speaks from the insane asylum It don't go that way, upside the wall, down to the woodwork, falling all over where the wood in the floor breaks off from the C note. It's more like this, the way I lean up under the last star on Orion in the first break of spring, under the catcalls of mockingbirds, the belly grunts of air knotted up inside me. Like it was this morning, the sheets full of years of me, the dipper back down in the bucket to wash my dreams until they make sense. Marie=20 Laveau or her familiar comes back=20 again, a voice with no body. Then the roar from the hoodoo and gooba dust, the hammer nailed to the tree on a piece of cloth with dry blood, the valley of full moons like a python belly writhing, full of some still living thing. Jazz, make the water one tongue, rise up, rise up, soprano sorceress, sing to the ancient pain all around me, the chorus of how time began. O water, breathe, so the dead can listen. II Children in superdomes This old lady's hand is weaker than mine, and I ain't used to so many people close to breaking, and everybody is so wet. When I look back to where we used to live, all I see is the way water stand up and be talking to you, stand up like it can dance all over the world. It's so much stuff in here, and I am just a little girl trying to help this white lady in this wheelchair of hers. People get so loud in here I can't hear myself. Tonight, when I go to sleep, I'm gonna count all the things I remember that we had and hope my sister bring them when she come back. She better come back. I am gonna count my handmade dolls the Vietnam lady gave me, plus all the books I had about dolphins because they are the best. Then I'll be sleepy and won't hear nobody crying in here where everything is all piled up, like we all finished and there ain't nothing else to do, forever. -- Afaa Michael Weaver ( Cortland Review) Indian Song=20 Freddie Hubbard=97s playing the cassette deck Forty miles outside Hays and I've looked at This Kansas sunset for three hours now, Almost bristling as big rigs bounce and grumble Along I-70. At this speed cornfields come In splotches, murky yellows and greens abutting The road's shoulder, the flat wealth of the nation whirring by. It's a kind of ornamentation I've gotten used to=97 As in a dream. Espaliered against the sky's blazing=97 Cloud-luffs cascade lace-like darkening whole fields. 30,000 feet above someone is buttering a muffin. Someone stares at a SKYPHONE, and momentarily=97 A baby=97s cry in pressurized air. Through double-paned squares Someone squints: fields cross-hatched by asphalt-strips. It is said C=E9zanne looked at a landscape so long he felt As if his eyes were bleeding. No matter that. I'm heading west. It's all so redolent, this wailing music, by my side you fingering fields of light, sunflowers over earth, miles traveled, a patchwork of goodbyes. --MAJOR JACKSON=20 Urban Renewal=20 ix. To Afaa Michael S. Weaver=20 Bless your gnarled hands, Sir, and their paternal blues. Tonight Kala grazes a palm over a battered face, feeling his new-born features in a Correctional zoo. The shock is permanent like the caged primate who suddenly detects he=97s human. A HOMO ERECTUS=20 stands upright on guard outside his cell. For the record, good friend, tropes are brutal, relentless, miraculous as a son=97s birth. KING KONG=97S=20 memoir gets repeated on the evening news like a horror flick, and everywhere dark men are savagely ambushed. So, when a woman strolls towards a homeless BIGGER, the audience tenses up involuntarily beneath a cone of light. This is the work of blockbusters: Kala=97s groan twisting on a steel cot, and by morning=97s sunlight, your cramped hand. Pages pile to a tome on a kitchen table; its defense is three-fifths human, two-fifths man. I await its world premiere; till then, when the soul hears of black guards who strike harder, the brain goes arthritic, tropes proliferate, and a wide screen blooms with images of heavy-weights whose gloved-hands struggle to balance a pen. --MAJOR JACKSON ( POST ROAD)=20 Posted by Doug at 6:39 PM =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:09:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Bibby, Michael" Subject: Mark Nowak Reading at Shippensburg University MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The John Taggart Reading Series and the Department of English are pleased t= o announce a reading by Mark Nowak at Shippensburg University on Monday, Ap= ril 20, 7:30 pm in the Dauphin Humanities Center 051. Nowak is the author of _Revenants_ and _Shut Up Shut Down_, and his writing= s on new labor poetics have recently appeared in _American Poets in the 21s= t Century_ (Wesleyan UP, 2007), _The Progressive_, and elsewhere. His thir= d book, _Coal Mountain Elementary_ is out from Coffee House Press. More ab= out Nowak and his work can be found at http://coalmountain.wordpress.com/. For further info about his Shippensburg reading, please feel free to contac= t me at mibibb@ship.edu. Michael Bibby Professor, Dept. of English Shippensburg University mibibb@ship.edu =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:24:16 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "=". Rest of header flushed. From: Cara Benson Subject: Fw: Fw: Auckland bookstores MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable here's what i found=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0see below=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A= =0A=0A__________=0A=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com=0A=0Ahttp://www.necessetic= s.com/sousrature.html=0A=0A=0AParsons Bookshop is the bookstore next to the= art gallery so stocks heaps of artbooks and catalogues.=A0 It also has a p= retty good range=A0 of poetry books - esp NZ stuff.=A0 (26 Wellesley Street= East, Central Auckland aka the CBD).=0A=0A=0AUnity Books, 19 High St, CBD.= =0A=0AJason Books, 3 Lorne St, CBD - second hand books.=0A=0APerhaps the bo= okstore on campus too? It's called UBS - Student Commons Building, 2 Alfred= Street, CBD.=0A=0AClassic & such like books in Ponsonby (very close to CBD= ) - has a good range of second hand books, some cool poetry and def lots of= NZ lit and old publications, etc. (201 Ponsonby Road)=0A=0A=0A=A0=0A----- = Forwarded Message ----=0AFrom: Hugh Behm-Steinberg =0ATo: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0ASent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 4:37:= 45 AM=0ASubject: Auckland bookstores=0A=0AHi,=0A=0ARequest from a friend wh= o's traveling to New Zealand: any bookstore recommendations for poetry in A= uckland?=0A=0AMany thanks,=0A=0AHugh Behm-Steinberg=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0AThe Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all po= sts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welc= ome.html=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:55:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Kelleher Subject: Literary Buffalo Newsletter 04.06.09-04.12.09 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII LITERARY BUFFALO 04.06.09-04.012.09 EVENTS THIS WEEK Visit the Literary Buffalo calendar at www.justbuffalo.org for more detaile= d info on these events. All events free and open to the public unless other= wise noted. 04.06.09 BABEL EXTRAS at Betty's Virginia Gutierrez Berner Talk: Mysticism and Chilean Culture Plus discussion of The House of the Spirits Monday, April 6, 7 PM Betty's Restaurant, 370 Virginia St. Wine, refreshments, coffee and snacks, =2410 Free for Babel subscribers and JB Members 04.07.09 Canisius Contemporary Writers Alice McDermott Reading and Talk Tuesday, April 7, 7:00 PM Canisius College, Montante Cultural Center 04.08.09 Rooftop Poetry Club The Practice of Parody: Workshop with David Lampe Wednesday, April 8, 4:30 PM Buffalo State College, E.H. Butler Library International Students Reading Area, 3rd Floor SE Quadrant Talking Leaves...Books Greg Ames Reading/signing for Buffalo Lockjaw Wednesday, April 8, 7:00 PM Talking Leaves...Books, 3158 Main St. 04.11.09 UB English/Just Buffalo/Talking Leaves/Buffalo Library Emily Dickinson Marathon Reading Community Reading of all 1789 Poems=21 Saturday, April 11, 8:00 AM-10:00 PM Karpeles Manuscript Library, 453 Porter Ave __________________________________________________________________________= BABEL CLICK THE LINK TO BUY TICKETS TO ISABEL ALLENDE ON APRIL 17 http://www.justbuffalo.org/index.php?task=3Dview&id=3D65 2009-10 SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE NOW SUBSCRIBE BY APRIL 17 FOR SAVINGS=21 October 9, A.S. Byatt November 20, Ha Jin March 5, Azar Nafisi April 16, Salman Rushdie BABEL EARLY BIRD SUBSCRIPTION Rates go up next season -- get this year's prices if you purchase subscrip= tion by April 17, 2009. Previous Subscriber: =2475 (=2485 after April 17) New Subscriber: =24100 (=24110 after April 17 These subscriptions include general admission seating at all 4 events. Patron: =24250 (=24275 after April 17 Patron Pair: =24400 (=24450 after April 17) Patron level subscriptions include VIP reserved seating and admission to al= l pre-event author receptions. Purchase subscriptions now http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel or by phone at = 716.832.5400. __________________________________________________________________________= WRITER CRITIQUE GROUP The member writer critique group is back on a new night: 1st and 3rd Tuesda= ys at the Market Arcade. Click here for more info: __________________________________________________________________________= WESTERN NEW YORK BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOPS We have some availability in the upcoming workshops April 7, 8 & 14 - Introduction to Letterpress April 11 - Alternative Printmaking April 16 & 17 - Simple Book Structures April 18-19 2009 - Vandercook Maintenance May 3 - Printmaking for Kids May 13 & 14 - Making Fonts To register: http://www.wnybookarts.org/Spring09wkshps.php ___________________________________________________________________________ GALLERY 464 WORKSHOP: SELF-PUBLISHING 4 WEEKS 4/19, 4/26, 5/3, 5/10 To register: http://mindweb.us/Events/Entries/2009/3/27_Upcoming_Events.htm= l ___________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will i= mmediately be removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:52:35 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Maria Damon Subject: Two Exciting Poetry Events in Minneapolis!!! Comments: To: engrad-l@umn.edu, ENGLFAC@LISTS.UMN.EDU, "Dara Z. Strolovitch" , "R. Kunzel" , Margaret Werry , Sonja Kuftinec , Laura Winton , Mark Nowak , Rachel Moritz , Gar Patterson , beato@att.net, Joanna Oconnell , Eric Lorberer , Kelly Everding , Erik Belgum , Cindy Garcia , Lynette Reini-Grandell , Thomas Pepper , Cesare Casarino , Christophe Wall-Romana , Lynn Lukkas , elisabeth , Jeff Hansen , "OPwll@aol.com" , Leslie Morris , Charlotte Melin , spidertangle@yahoogroups.com, Theory and Writing , Jon Spayde , Lisa Fink , Sarah Fox , john colburn , Hoon Song , Stuart McLean , mIEKAL aND MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Two Exciting Poetry Events in Minneapolis!!! please spread the word to interested folks. Thursday April 16 *Poet Kit Robinson* 3:35 pm, Lind Hall 202, UMN-Twin Cities An early member of the San Francisco language poets circle, Robinson has published 18 poetry collections, including his latest /The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems/ (Adventures in Poetry). He will read from his work. Saturday April 25 *Poets Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand read from their work* 7:30 pm, 3440 Park Avenue (Maria Damon's house) snacks at 7:00 BYOB Minneapolis MN 55407 Jules Boykoff is the author of Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States (AK Press, 2007), The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements (Routledge, 2006) and Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space (co-authored with Kaia Sand) (Palm Press, 2008). He is also the author of two collections of poetry: Hegemonic Love Potion (Factory School, 2009) and Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (Edge Books, 2006). Boykoff's critical writing has appeared in scholarly journals like Antipode, Social Movement Studies, and New Political Science as well as popular publications like Common Dreams, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, and the Guardian. He teaches political science and writing at Pacific University in Oregon. Kaia Sand is the author of the poetry collection interval (Edge Books 2004), selected as a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year, and co-author with Jules Boykoff of Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space. Dusie Press published her wee book, lotto, and Sand has participated in the dusie kollektiv for three years, making the chapbooks heart on a tripod and tiny arctic ice. Jim Dine created two artist book based on Sand’s poems, lotto and tiny arctic ice. Kaia has led poetry walks in Portland, and a book that includes these walks, Remember to Wave, is forthcoming with Tinfish Press. Sand is currently working a collection of collages from the NAFTA as well as an investigation of housing foreclosures, Happy Valley. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:03:12 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Small Press Traffic Subject: REMINDER: de la Perriere and Chafee this Friday 4/10! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please come join us for this fantastic night of great readings! Donna de la Perriere and Claire Chafee Friday April 10, 2009 Event begins at 7:30pm California College of the Arts, Timken Hall, San Francisco $5-10 sliding scale/ members and students FREE Donna de la Perri=E8re is the author of True Crime (Talisman House, 2009). = Her poems have appeared in Agni, American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Five Fingers Review, First Intensity, The New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, New American Writing, Parthenon West Review, Talisman, Volt, Xantippe, and other journals, as well as in Faux Press=92s 2006 Bay Poetics anthology. She teaches in the MFA creative writing programs at California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University, co-curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series, and lives near downtown Oakland with poet Joseph Lease and cat Little Sister. Claire Chafee=92s plays include: Whisper from The Book of Etiquette, Why We Have a Body, Even Among These Rocks, 5 Women on a Hill in Spain and Darwin= =92s Finches. Her plays have been produced by The Magic Theatre, The Women=92s Project Off-Broadway and received productions in L.A., Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle. She has received the Dramalogue Award, Critic=92s Circle Award, New York Newsday=92s Oppenheimer Award and a Princess Grace Special Projects Grant. Her plays have been published by Dramatist Publishing, Smith and Krauss, Penguin and Alexandra Street Press, a databas= e of 20th Century Women=92s Drama. She is a graduate of The Drama Studio, Lon= don and holds an MFA from Brown University. Claire has given readings from her own work at A Different Light in NY, Dixon Place and Chaptre Arts in Cardiff, Wales. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:49:45 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: patrick dunagan Subject: Ballard, Joron, Meltzer reading @ City Lights 7p.m. 4/13/09 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable An evening of poetry at City Lights Bookstore *(261 Columbus at Broadway)*: Micah Ballard, Andrew Joron, & David Meltzer Monday, April 13, 2009, 7:00 P.M. *Micah Ballard * reading from *Parish Krewes * published by Bootstrap Press ** *Andrew Joron * reading from The Sound Mirror published by Flood Editions ** *David Meltzer* reading from selected works ** *Micah Ballard* lives in San Francisco. Recent books of his include Absinthian Journal, Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners, In th= e Kindness of Night, Death Race V.S.O.P. (with Cedar Sigo & Will Yackulic), Evangeline Downs, and the recent collection, Parish Krewes. He is co-editor for Auguste Press and currently works for the MFA in Writing Program at USF= . ** *Andrew Joron* has been called "the metaphysician-elect of contemporary American poetry" (Cal Bedient, Boston Review). Joron's latest poetry collection is The Sound Mirror, published by Flood Editions. Joron's work shows the ifluence of surrealism, science fiction, and German Romanticism. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in philosophy of science. After a decade and a half spent writing science-fiction poetry, culminating in his volume Science Fiction (Pantograph Press, 1992), Joron began to elaborate other forms of lyric speculation. This work has been collected in The Removes (Hard Press, 1999) and in Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003). The Cry at Zero, a selection o= f his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. Joron is also the translator, from the German, of the Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch=92s Literary Essays (Stanford University Press, 199= 8). ** *David Meltzer* is poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians" Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology *The New American Poetry* 1945-1960. He is the author of *David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer, **San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets, **The Secret Garden: An Anthology in the Kabbalah*, *Writing Jazz, *and others. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:09:41 -0700 Reply-To: steph484@pacbell.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Berkson, K. Robinson, L. Warsh - New de blog Comments: cc: UK POETRY , "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A haptic/text blog review of Kit Robinson, Lewis Warsh, and Bill Berkson reading for the San Francisco State Poetry Center this past Saturday night. Haptics: The First 100 Days of President Obama (haptics & commentary - sometimes minimal and sometimes expansive) continues. It is now Day 76.=20 Note:Gallery Show: On April 29th, the 100th Day of Obama, the Steven Wolfe Gallery (49 Geary Street, San Francisco), will exhibit all 100 drawings in a 588 square foot grid upon one of the Gallery walls. A book - which will be published by the Gallery on that day - will include 99 of the drawings and edited texts from this blog. On that day, I will sit in the Gallery and make the haptics and texts for the final two empty pages for an edition limited to 35 copies. Subsequently a non-limited edition will be produced with the final haptic and text, If you are interested in either edition, or more information about the show= , please email me: & yes, please feel free to explore the entire blog for prior and ongoing= =A0 Obama entries that precede this one!=20 For those unfamiliar with this project, during these first 100 days of the= Obama regime, I have been making a haptic drawing with reflective commentary - sometimes directly political, sometimes not - on public and personal events of this unique period. What is a haptic? I like to think of the drawings as a kind of script, a p= oetry without words. On a most simple level, the drawings are a combination of the eye and ear in sensual response to whatever may be in the immediate landscape - the news, a basketball game, a poetry reading or musical performance, the s= ounds coming in over the back porch, etc.=20 Stephen Vincenthttp://stephenvincent.net/blog/ =20 =20 =20 =20 --> =09=09 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:32:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Evan Munday Subject: Nicole Brossard in Toronto - April 14 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Anyone in Toronto -- Just a quick announcement that after the Easter weekend, Coach House =20 Books and This Is Not A Reading Series will present the launch of =20 Fences in Breathing, the new novel from the doyenne of experimental =20 Canadian literature, Nicole Brossard. The author of Mauve Desert and =20 Notebook of Roses and Civilization will speak with poet and novelist =20 Margaret Christakos (recently shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award!): APRIL 14 - NICOLE BROSSARD LAUNCHES FENCES IN BREATHING This Is Not A Reading Series presents the legendary francophone author =20= in conversation with Margaret Christakos Is it possible to write a contemporary novel entirely in poetic verse? =20= Can you write in a language other than your own? At the English =20 language premiere of her latest novel Fences In Breathing (translated =20= by Susanne de Lotbini=E8re-Harwood), famed experimental author, poet and = =20 feminist Nicole Brossard will speak with fellow cross-genre writer =20 Margaret Christakos (What Stirs, Sooner) about the relative merits of =20= writing novels and poetry, and what happens when one bleeds into =20 another. FENCES IN BREATHING BOOK LAUNCH with Nicole Brossard and Margaret Christakos Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. West 7:30pm (Doors 7pm) $5 (Free With Book Purchase) Should you be so inclined, you can RSVP to the Facebook event here: = http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/=20 event.php?eid=3D75077215803&ref=3Dts For more on Fences in Breathing, visit = http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/fences_breathing=20 . For media requests and review copies, please contact Evan Munday at = evan@chbooks.com=20 . Best, Evan ------------------------------ Evan Munday Publicist Coach House Books 401 Huron St. (rear) on bpNichol Lane Toronto ON, M5S 2G5 416.979.2217 evan@chbooks.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 00:30:36 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: SEGUE 4/11: Jena Osman & Tan Lin Comments: To: POETICS-L@gc.listserv.cuny.edu, English Department Mailing List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *The Segue Reading Series Presents: * JENA OSMAN & TAN LIN Saturday, April 11, 2009 ** 4PM SHARP** at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, just north of Houston) $6 admission goes to support the readers hosted by Kristen Gallagher & Tim Peterson Jena Osman=92s books include *An Essay in Asterisks* (Roof) and *The Charac= ter * (Beacon). Her book *The Network* is forthcoming from Essay Press. She co-edits the ChainLinks book series with Juliana Spahr and teaches in the graduate Creative Writing program at Temple University. Tan Lin is a writer, artist, and critic. His most recent book is *Heath: Plagiarism/Outsource* from Zasterle, and his new work *Seven Controlled Vocabularies* is forthcoming from WesleyanUniversity Press. His visual and video work has been exhibited at the Yale Art Museum (New Haven), the Sophienholm (Copenhagen), and the Marianne Boesky Gallery (NYC). =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 07:08:10 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Get your Vook now Comments: To: webartery@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is This the Future of the Digital Book? By BRAD STONE Published: April 4, 2009 PLENTY of authors dream of writing the great American novel. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/business/05stream.html Noah Berger for The New York Times Bradley Inman is starting Vook, a platform for e-books that will =20 combine text, video and social networking. Bradley Inman wants to create great fiction, dramatic online video and =20= compelling Twitter stream =97 and then roll them all into a multimedia =20= hybrid that is tailored to the rapidly growing number of digital =20 reading devices. Mr. Inman, a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, calls this =20 digital amalgam a =93Vook,=94 (http://vook.tv) and the fledgling company = =20 he has created with that name just might represent a possible future =20 for the beleaguered book industry. Publishing, of course, is feeling the same chronic pain as other media =20= businesses, with layoffs, corporate restructurings and a general sense =20= of gloom, doom and kaboom settling over name-brand giants like Random =20= House and Simon & Schuster. At the same time, there has been a flurry of optimism and activity =20 around the once-derided idea that people might read books on a digital =20= screen. Just this year, new electronic reading devices have emerged =20 from Amazon, Samsung and Fujitsu, while mobile phones like iPhone from =20= Apple have flowered seemingly overnight into acceptable reading =20 devices for many bookworms. And just as digital media have begun to change the nature of news, =20 music and video, the emergence of e-books is causing various =20 entrepreneurs and technologists to reconsider the kind of experience =20 that books might one day deliver. Mr. Inman is among those reimagining the printed page. As the founder =20= of HomeGain.com, an online real estate company which he sold to a =20 joint venture of newspaper companies in 2005, and TurnHere, a =20 production company that creates author videos for publishers, he has =20 deep ties in the publishing world of New York. Last year, considering the opportunities that e-book devices like the =20= Amazon Kindle might someday create, Mr. Inman wrote his own thriller, =20= =93The Right Way to Do Wrong=94 and got TurnHere to film two dozen short = =20 videos with actors that augment the book=92s main mystery. He recently =20= began showing his Vook prototype to publishers as a way to hook them =20 and their established writers on the idea. =93We think there=92s a real urgency in publishing to innovate with new =20= kinds of content,=94 he says. Vook tries to address a big problem for book publishers as they expand =20= onto digital formats. For all the hype and initial success of devices =20= like the Kindle, they threaten to strip traditional books of much of =20 their transportive appeal. Images on the jacket cover, inviting fonts =20= and the satisfying feel of quality paper are all largely absent, =20 replaced by humdrum pixels on a virtual page. Even worse, on multipurpose reading devices like the iPhone, more =20 immediately gratifying pastimes like video games are a click away for =20= readers with short attention spans. =93Publishers are going to be confronted with the idea that either the =20= words on the page have to be completely compelling on their own, or =20 they have to figure out a way to create new sorts of subliminal draws =20= in the new medium,=94 said Sara Nelson, the former editor of Publishers =20= Weekly and a publishing industry consultant. Ms. Nelson has seen the Vook prototype and says it is intriguing, but =20= the challenge is to avoid feeling gimmicky. =93If you are going to put =20= video in a book, it has to flow so naturally into the story that =20 readers don=92t even realize they are switching mediums,=94 she said. A raft of similar efforts and experiments are under way. WEBook, a =20 venture-backed start-up in New York, allows people to collaborate on =20 writing books and is working on new ways to let readers give writers =20 real-time feedback on their work. Wattpad, based in Toronto, is among several start-ups soliciting the =20 work of unpublished authors, giving them a route around the big book =20 companies and then distributing their writing on the Web and on mobile =20= phones. Wattpad draws its revenue from advertising and, for now at =20 least, does not pay the authors. Last week, Fourth Story Media, a company created by Lisa Holton, a =20 former executive vice president of Scholastic Inc., publisher of the =20 =93Harry Potter=94 franchise, began testing the Web site of what it is =20= calling the Amanda Project, with a limited number of users. The site draws content and themes from Fourth Story=92s series of =20 teenage books (about a girl named Amanda), which HarperCollins will =20 begin publishing this fall. Soon on the site, with a coming iPhone =20 application, readers will be able to create their own characters, =20 upload artwork and follow clues that relate to the books=92 overarching =20= narrative. =93This is a new kind of storytelling for kids who are growing up using =20= technology and being formed by it in ways we can=92t even imagine,=94 = Ms. =20 Holton said. =93We are inviting them to collaborate and participate.=94 ALL of this experimentation is sure to unleash serious debate in =20 literary circles. Tradition-minded readers might resist the notion of =20= stories gussied up with potentially gratuitous video and encumbered =20 with the need for conversations between writer and reader. And they are sure to ask: Would we have classics like =93The Great =20 Gatsby=94 if F. Scott Fitzgerald was distracted by the need to give =20 Gatsby a Twitter account? =93I don=92t think we are compromising the written word,=94 says Mr. = Inman =20 at Vook. =93People will to continue to read, just in new ways. Books are = =20 finally coming online but they are very one-dimensional. I think we =20 can experiment and do this better.=94 =3D!=3D Data Visualization for the Synaptically Inspired http://filevillage.info =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 07:35:50 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cara Benson Subject: call for work MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HEADRUSH: Anthology on Addiction Writing & images. Pr= Call for work:=0A=0AHEADRUSH: Anthology on Addiction=0AWriting & images. Pr= ivate, social, inter.=0AContact cbenson for details.=0A=A0=0ABroadly define= d.=0A=0A=A0It's gonna be a book. thanks.=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A= =0A=0A__________=0A=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com=0A=0Ahttp://www.necessetic= s.com/sousrature.html=0A=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com/necessarypress.html= =0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:45:11 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Subject: ROCKPILE PRE-AMBLE AT BIRD & BECKETT APRIL 12 Comments: To: Michael MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ROCKPILE AT BIRD & BECKETT=20 David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg =20 with the fabulous Bob Malone on piano 4:30, April 12, 2009,=20 Bird & Beckett Books & Records (415-5863733) http://www.bird-beckett.com/ 653 Chenery Street, between Diamond & Castro in Glen Park=20 1-1/2 blocks from Glen Park BART station=20 & MUNI lines 23, 26, 44, 52 & J-Church=20 ROCKPILE an improvisatory performance poetry & music Poets David Meltzer & Michael Rothenberg, together with pianist Bob Malone, will=20 cobble together some of the raw materials=20 that Meltzer & Rothenberg will take along on an 8-city road trip in the fall, troubadors on a meander through some sites central to the cultural upheaval that was America in the 1960s and 1970s, performing their collaboratively-assembled journal of the trip at stops along the way,=20 with artists and musicians local to each spot. This pre-amble workshop for the project=20 is not to be missed!=20 ROCKPILE online = http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=3D72289992264&ref=3Dts ROCKPILE is a collaboration between David Meltzer and Big Bridge, = www.bigbridge.org, made possible by a grant from the Creative Work = Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, supported by grants = from The James Irvine Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett = Foundation. ROCKPILE is Sponsored by Allen Ginsberg's Committee on = Poetry, Inc. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:33:18 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cara Benson Subject: call for work pt. II MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HEADRUSH: Anthology on Addiction. Writing & im= More broadly defined:=0A=0AHEADRUSH: Anthology on Addiction.=0AWriting & im= ages. Private, social, inter.=0A=0A1.=A0oil=0A2.=A0caffeine=0A3. alcohol=0A= 4. computer=0A5.=A0facebook=0A6. listservs=0A7. list making=0A8. cigarettes= =0A9. politics=0A10. polemics=0A11. activism=0A12. capitalism=0A13. s-x=0A1= 4. working=0A15.=A0celebrity (with and w/out magazines)=0A16. religion=0A17= . g-d=0A18. heron=0A19. other white powders (incl. sugar, white flour)=0A20= . isolationism=0A21. people=0A22. relationships=0A23. __________=0A24. ____= ______=0A25. __________=0A=0A=0A=A0interested in hybrid approaches. but not= limited to such.=A0 =0A=0Athanks.=0A=0Acbenson=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A= =A0=0A=0A=0A__________=0A=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com=0A=0Ahttp://www.nece= ssetics.com/sousrature.html=0A=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com/necessarypress.= html=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:54:46 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gabrielle Welford Subject: Re: The term "translocal" in a literary context In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII i'd be glad to see a discussion of this on the list, rather than privately. can? gabe On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Megan M. Garr wrote: > Dear POETICS readers, > > I'm researching contemporary "translocal" literature in Europe and am hoping > to find out if or where the term "translocal" has been similarly applied. I > first came across its application to literature on the (now defunct) > Bordercrossing Berlin's Wiki page, and their once-poetry editor Alistair > Noon elaborated somewhat on the term in the final issue, but it was mostly > self-referential. I am already aware of its anthropological origins, but am > wondering how far the term has reached in its application in/to > (contemporary) literature. I'd be curious to know if anyone else(where) has > picked up the topic. Please email me directly at megan@wordsinhere.com > > Thanks, > > Megan M. Garr > Editor, Versal > http://versal.wordsinhere.com > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 22:23:38 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: twshaner@COMCAST.NET Subject: Fluxus in Eugene, OR MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable New Poetry Series=20 DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway, Eugene=20 Phone: 541.344.3482=20 Web: divacenter.org=20 DIVA's "New Poetry Series" features Fluxus/Performance poets Tony=20 Christy and Marko Whens at 7:30 PM on Saturday, April 11th. Admission:=20 Donation.=20 Fluxus poets often use video and digital technology in their=20 performances resulting in works that include text, images, movement,=20 humor and inherent messiness (resulting from chance).=20 Tony Christy is recognized as a sound poetry performer. For the past=20 few years Tony has been dedicated to redefining what it means to be=20 experimental, avant-garde, bold, and risk taking by being slightly=20 kooky that adds to the enjoyment of his work. His performances have=20 taken him from Portland to Orlando.=20 For eight years Marko Whens has been playing with concepts of language=20 through the means of visual poetry, sound poetry, mail art,=20 installation, performance, video, and photography.=20 Last year his visual poems were exhibited in the SoundVision /=20 VisionSound III show at the Nave Gallery in Somerset, Massachusetts,=20 and in the Land and Language exhibition at The Land/An Art Site in=20 Mountainair, New Mexico, and he performed his =E2=80=9CSign Event=E2=80=9D = in NYC at=20 Times Square.=20 He participated in the Fluxus Festival in Nice, France, in 2003, and=20 had a solo show at the Casa de La Palabra in Guadalajara, Mexico, in=20 2001.=20 Curator of Spare Room's Sound Poetry Festivals in 2003 and 2004, his=20 work has been published recently in the periodicals envelope, fo_a_rm,=20 Ferrum Wheel, flim, and Take Out.=20 For this reading, his poems will be presented via video projection and=20 performance.=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 21:18:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Wanda Phipps Subject: Reading with India Radfar (Hixon) this Saturday in New Paltz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reading at Inquiring Minds Bookstore (The one in New Paltz not in Saugerties) Saturday, April 11, 2009 6:00pm - 8:00pm Inquiring Minds Bookstore 6 Church Street New Paltz, NY Phone: 845-255-8300 Old friends Wanda Phipps and India Radfar reunite to read from their new books! Gratis! Inquiring Minds Bookstore is an independently owned and operated bookstore in the village of New Paltz, New York. They are within walking distance to New Paltz SUNY campus and all the wonderful shops, cafes and restaurants that make Hudson Valley special. ... -- Wanda Phipps Check out my websites: http://www.mindhoney.com and http://www.myspace.com/wandaphippsband My latest book of poetry Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire available at: http://www.blazevox.org/bk-wp.htm And my 1st full-length book of poems Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems available at:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193236031X/ref=rm_item ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:31:00 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Al Filreis Subject: April '09 PoemTalk: Creeley Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We are now releasing episode 16 of PoemTalk, in which Bob Perelman, Randall Couch, and Jessica Lowenthal talk about several of the nine recordings of Robert Creeley reading his "I Know a Man" available on the Creeley PennSound page. http://www.poemtalk.org http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audio.html?show=Poem%20Talk - Al Filreis Al Filreis Kelly Professor Faculty Dir., Kelly Writers House Dir., Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing University of Pennsylvania on the web: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis blog: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/blog PoemTalk: http://www.poemtalk.org get your daily Al: http://bit.ly/1UCfRp ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:59:33 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Anna Vitale Subject: Announcing Issue 3 of textsound MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Look what the winter snow blew in!?!?...A brand new issue of textsound, spring-fresh for your ears and minds. Featuring work by Linh Dinh, Joseph Lease, Cynthia Nelson, Paul DeMarinis, Joe Wenderoth, Kenward Elmslie, Patrick Durgin and many more. Issue 3 has, to name a few, conceptual work, chance operations, barbaric yawps, Danish funk-blues, found trucks, recycled music, stinky gods, and even a poem written by the editors using chance operation. Cue editor Laura Wetherington, who penned this issue's editor's note: "We're still settling in as a group of promulgators in this electrical forest. The conversation continues amongst the collective about the range of our tastes and how they map onto/create the textsound project, but we're doing that hard work of articulating the =93why=94 of what we choose or don't choose, and starting to define some of the ground on which the magazine stands. The tracks we've included in this issue, then, are a reflection of this collage of our (sometimes differing, sometimes overlapping) approaches to the avant-gardes, music, poetry, ideas, and punk approaches to art. You can read more about our individual tastes in the =93about us=94 section." Check out the sounds and the furies at http://www.textsound.org/ Thanks for listening-- The Editors textsound =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 07:41:00 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rodney Koeneke Subject: Reading in Portland this Sat., 4/11: DAN FISHER & RODNEY KOENEKE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Smorg presents SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 7:30 PM RODNEY KOENEKE & DAN FISHER The Waypost, 3120 N. Williams Avenue Portland, OR smorgreadingseries.blogspot.com RODNEY KOENEKE is the author of Musee Mechanique (BlazeVOX, 2006) and Rouge State (Pavement Saw, 2003). A new chapbook, Rules for Drinking Forties, is just out from Cy Press. He lives in Portland, where he curates the Tangent Reading Series with Kaia Sand and Jules Boykoff. This reading will be the Portland launch for Rules for Drinking Forties. DAN FISHER lives on the island in the East Bay. An island that has four bridges and a tunnel. He makes poems and some of them have appeared in Bay Poetics, Viz, Work, Cricket Online Review, Lament, and some other places too. He also makes collages under the name Fish Fishstofferson. He works fo= r Upward Bound at Mills College in Oakland. He=92s never been to Portland. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:49:09 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ken Rumble Subject: HIgh Master! Viking Rock! This Saturday! April 11, 10p, Pinhook! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Friends! Comrades! Acquaintances! Enemies! Vikings Near & Far! Please spread far & wide! http://highmaster.blogspot.com The mightiest, most rockingest, most Vikingest, most bestester, most glorious representation of that most glorious moment in the history of our coldest people, Durham's own *High Master!* will bring its thunderous and glorious noise to *The Pinhook Bar this Saturday Night, April 11, 10 pm!!* With special guests Pink Flag (http://www.reverbnation.com/pinkflag) & Rat Jackson (http://www.reverbnation.com/ratjackson) !! Rejoice & Dress Like a Viking, Durham! Who: High Master!, Pink Flag, Rat Jackson What: Viking Rock Opera that Rivals even Thor's Thunderous Bolts! When: This Saturday, April 11, 10 pm! Where: The Pinhook Bar, 117 W. Main St., Durham, NC! ( http://thepinhook.com/thebardetials.htm) Why: Because you'll only be bludgeoned to death by Viking Rock once!! About HIGH MASTER! Sprung from the hockey & blow torch addled brain of Mr. Chris Huggins (by day, a jr. high science teacher; by night, a rabid fiend of rock goodness), HIGH MASTER! is the true story of the most awesome, most rockingest, most mighty viking to have ever lived! Forget Thor (weakling), forget Odin (sap)= , forget Hercules (okay, he's Greek, but forget that mama's boy anyway), High Master! would have put them all under his thumb with just his pinky! And yet, before he was so great High Master! faced a challenge that he was not sure he could overcome: the dreaded, the evil, the dark, the foul, the stinky, the annoying, the pesky, the dastardly, the criminal, the unkind, the unthrifty, the really just generally bad DARK LORD UNGR (with an umlaut (aka: Paul Overton: crafter-genius & artist relations el capit=E1n)). After an epic battle, Dark Lord Ungr (with an umlaut) froze our hero High Master! deep in the icy clutches of a mighty glacier! and with his mighty evil, dreaded, stinky, annoying, etc. power, stole the sun and ruled the earth and subjected all living beings to the most horrendous music imaginable! It was a dark, dark, dark future.... And then! in the year 2455! the brave and noble and handsome and intelligen= t and admirable and handsome and kind to puppies and fearless and generally awesome DR. SCIENTIST, PH.D (aka: Ken Rumble: poet, marketer, dad, biped) whose shiny green suit gave him enormous powers of power! invented a time machine called the Ship of Sound!! But doomed was all mankind because Dr. Scientist, Ph.D couldn't find a power source strong enough to make the ship go! Until, one day, while wandering amongst the boulders of the wasteland o= f the future he spied--locked in the icy grip of a mighty glacier--HIGH MASTER! Here, of course, was the power source the Scientist had long been searching for! He thawed out High Master!, taught him the fighting art of Kung Future= , put a guitar in his hand, and together, they rocked back thousands of years in time to confront, again, the evil, hideous, etc. etc. DARK LORD UNGR (with an umlaut)!!! And High Master and Dark Lord Ungr (with an umlaut) engaged in a most ferocious battle! Their blows split mountains, their kicks cracked planets, their swords sang out a bloody symphony of rampant destruction!! And after days and days and days of battle, it was still unclear who had won!!! Would it be High Master!?!!???? Would it be (eeek!) the Dark Lord Ungr (with an umlaut)??!!???!! Only the DICE OF FATE! will reveal!!!!! Regardless, the YETIS!! party and dance and party and dance and dance and party!! Why??!! Becuase THEY'RE YETIS!!!! Whooooo! for the YETIS!! Some say (whisper even at times) that High Master and his brave crew encountered other masters of musical mayhem on their adventures -- rumors (scarcely to be believed) include names like Rainbow Pony Squad, Future Corpse, Pep=E9 La Douche, and Def Sentence, heroes, too, in their own right= , but that, my friends, is a story for another day..... --=20 Check out my book Key Bridge: http://www.carolinawrenpress.org/books.html Reviews of Key Bridge: Ron Silliman: http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-know-ken-rumble-originally-from-h= is.html Kevin Killian: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0932112544/ref=3Dcm_cr_dp= _all_top/002-7537401-5750437?ie=3DUTF8&n=3D283155&s=3Dbooks#customerReviews And projects: High Master! (viking rock) http://highmaster.blogspot.com NEXT SHOW! Saturday, April 11, 10pm, Pinhook, 117 W. Main, Durham! Durham Has the Worst Roads in the World with Violet Rumble http://durhamhastheworstroadsintheworld.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:24:20 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Lori Emerson Subject: Fwd: CFP: 4th Biennial &Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts Buffalo, NY October 15-17, 2009 In-Reply-To: <1eba3dda0904091323h12db5d51kbef4cc447d082dfa@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ------------------------------------------ CALL FOR AUTHORS, CALL FOR WORK The 4th Biennial &Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts will be held in Buffalo, NY from October 15-17, 2009. The &Now Festival explores intersections between creative and critical praxes, examines innovative and experimental acts of writing, and advances = a serious inquiry into theories of language. PLEASE SUBMIT=85. Critical papers, criti-fictional presentations, fiction readings, performance pieces (digital, sound, and otherwise), electronic and multimedia projects, and cross genre work of all kinds. Pieces that address linguistic transgressions, the limits of genre, or works that promote interdisciplinary explorations are particularly encouraged. Proposals can b= e for individual readings, critical panels, creative panels, and/or roundtabl= e discussions. Please send proposals by email in the following format: *Title of Proposed Reading/Performance/Presentation *Brief Description (no more than 500 words). *Brief Bio (a few sentences) of all participants *Tech needs (if any) Submit all proposals to: andnow4@gmail.com PROPOSAL DEADLINE: June 1, 2009. Please note: Each session will be approximately 75 minutes. Individual presentations/readings should therefore be limited to 15-20 minutes so that grouped sessions that make thematic sense can be arranged. For more information, visit: http://www.english.buffalo.edu/andnow/ Or contact: Dimitri Anastasopoulos at danastas@buffalo.edu or Christina Milletti at milletti@buffalo.edu ------------------------------------------ --=20 Lori Emerson Assistant Professor | Electropoetics Thread Editor, Electronic Book Review Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226 http://www.colorado.edu/English/faculty/facpages/emerson.shtml http://www.electronicbookreview.com --=20 Lori Emerson Assistant Professor | Electropoetics Thread Editor, Electronic Book Review Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226 http://www.colorado.edu/English/faculty/facpages/emerson.shtml http://www.electronicbookreview.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:06:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: [vel] archiving writers' e-work (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-943349883-1239206767=:25254" This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-943349883-1239206767=:25254 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:58:07 EDT From: FrancesVanScoy@aol.com Subject: [vel] archiving writers' e-work http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i31/31a00102.htm From the issue dated April 10, 2009 Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ana_Bo=BEi=E8evi=E6?= Subject: A Celebration of the Chapbook: April 23-25, NYC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable April 2009 For Immediate Release We are excited to announce a wonderful event upcoming on April 23-25 in New York: A Celebration of the Chapbook, a three-day festival featuring panels, workshops and a bookfair. For a full schedule of events, visit http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/festival . This festival celebrates the chapbook and highlights its rich history, as well as its essential place in poetry publishing today, as a vehicle for alternative poetry projects and for emerging authors and editors to gain entry into the literary marketplace. The festival hopes to forge a new platform for the study of the chapbook inside and outside the academy. We invite you to visit the fair and attend the panels and workshops, all of which are free of charge. Please note that the workshops require registration, and will fill up fast, so reserve your seat now. Visit http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/festival for instructions on how to register. We are seeking volunteers for the festival, and there are still a few spots available in the bookfair. If you=92re interested in volunteering, or if you are a chapbook publisher and want to participate in the bookfair, please e-mail abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu . Join us for A Celebration of the Chapbook =96 we hope to see you there! The Asian American Writers=92 Workshop The Center for Book Arts The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, The Office of Academic Affairs, and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York Poetry Society of America A CELEBRATION OF THE CHAPBOOK Thursday April 23rd, 2009 - Saturday April 25th, 2009 ~ Thursday, April 23 at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue & 34th St Chapbook Fair 10:00am-6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall Lobby Brief History of Chapbooks 3:00-4:30pm, The Elebash Recital Hall With Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of the New York Public Library=92s Berg Collection; Eric Lorberer, Editor of Rain Taxi; and Michael Ryan, Director of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University. Moderated by Richard Kaye, Hunter College, CUNY Chapbooks in the 20th and 21st Centuries 4:30-6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall With Michael Basinski, Assistant Curator of the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY at Buffalo; Anne Waldman, Chair and Artistic Director of Naropa University=92s Summer Writing Program; and Kevin Young, Emory University. Moderated by Ammiel Alcalay, Queens College, CUNY. Keynote Reading 6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall Readings by Lytton Smith, Gerald Stern, Judith Vollmer, Kevin Young and others, with an introduction by Kimiko Hahn. ~ Friday, April 24 at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue & 34th St Chapbook Fair 10:00am-4:00pm, Rooms 8301/8304 Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks A Workshop for Poets 10:00-11:30am, Room 8400 With Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*); Sharon Dolin (The Center for Book Arts); and Ryan Murphy (North Beach Yacht Club). Moderated by Alice Quinn (Poetry Society of America). To register, call (212) 817-2005 or e-mail abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu =96 registration is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks A Workshop for Publishers 11:30am-1:00pm, Room 8402 With Jen Benka (Booklyn); Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse); and Brenda Iijima (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Moderated by Rob Casper (Poetry Society of America). To register, call (212) 817-2005 or e-mail abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu =96 registration is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Friday, April 24 at The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor Bookmaking for Writers: A Studio Workshop With Susan Mills and Karen Randall 2:00-5:00pm To register, call (212) 481-0295 or e-mailinfo@centerforbookarts.org =96 registration is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. There's a $20 materials fee for each workshop. Bookmaking for Publishers: A Studio Workshop With Susan Mills and Karen Randall 2:00-5:00pm To register, call (212) 481-0295 or e-mailinfo@centerforbookarts.org =96 registration is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. There's a $20 materials fee for each workshop. RECEPTION at The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor 6:00 pm All are welcome! Visit the exhibitions at The Center for Book Arts: \=92fl \:art, text, new media, Roni Gross: Zitouna at 20, and Spotlight: 2008 Artists-in-Residence. ~ Saturday, April 25 at The Asian American Writers=92 Workshop, 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A Collector=92s Show-and-Tell: The Secret History of Asian American Literature Patricia Wakida 2:00-3:00pm Publishing from the Margins 4:30-6:00pm With Tan Lin; Dawn Lundy Martin (Third Wave Foundation, Black Took Collective); and Bushra Rehman. Moderated by Ken Chen (The Asian American Writers=92 Workshop). Followed by a brief reading from the Workshop's Postcard Poetry Project. RECEPTION at The Asian American Writers=92 Workshop, 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A 6:00 pm Participating Publishers Achiote Press Belladonna* Booklyn Book Thug Cuneiform Press Dancing Girl Press Diagram/New Michigan Press dusi/e-chap kollektiv Flying Guillotine Press hand*held*editions Interlude Editions Noemi Press North Beach Yacht Club Octopus Books Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs Rain Taxi Sarabande Books Slapering Hol Small Fires Press TinFish Press Toadlily Press Ubu Editions Ugly Duckling Presse Web Del Sol's World Voices X-ing Press and others For more information visit http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/festival =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:17:41 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Protests in Moldova Explode, With Help of Twitter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable to use virtuality to fill the streets --davidbc =20 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/europe/08moldova.html?emc=3Deta1 =09 =20 INTERNATIONAL / EUROPE=20 =20 | April 08=2C 2009 Protests in Moldova Explode=2C With Help of Twitter By ELLEN BARRY A sea of young people used text messages and the Internet to appear out of = nowhere to protest Communist leaders. =20 =09 _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail=AE: Get quick friend updates right in your inbox.=20 http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_= Updates1_042009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:17:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: MESSAGE-ID field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. From: Mark Weiss Subject: help, b/c Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed UC Press, publisher of my forthcoming Cuban Poetry anthology, has asked for "e-mail lists where it might be useful to announce the publication of the book." I only know of three, aside from this one:: Poetryetc, Wompo, and British and Irish Poetry. I truly need other suggestions. The book should be of broad interest among poets and poetry readers. Thanks in advance. Mark ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:17:41 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Weiss Subject: query Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed A friend of mine has been doing some work on poetics and is looking for a list where there's active discussion of same. Any thoughts? Mark ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:20:09 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The Argotist Online is now online again Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" The Argotist Online (www.argotistonline.co.uk) is online again after an=20= unexpected and inconvenient hiatus.=20 I would like to thank Ami Kaye of Pirene=92s Fountain (www.pirenesfountai= n.com)=20 for her support and assistance in my getting the site up and running agai= n. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 07:52:15 -0700 Reply-To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: is it asking too much of Ashberry? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii maybe it's asking too much, but if Ashberry could adopt a more worldy sensibility, and address something social,just once, in the manner of, say, Rod Smith: here's a prose poem from "Deed," Smith's latest -- (line breaks not exact, but still reads well)-- Ted's Head So there's this episode of Mary Tyler Moore where Ted's trying to get a raise & after finagling and shenaniganizing he puts one over on Lou & gets his contract changed to non-exclusive sos he can do commercials which is not cool w/Lou & the gang because Ted's just a brainless gimp & it hurts the image of the news to have the anchorman selling tomato slicers & dogfood so Lou gets despondent because the contract can't be rescinded but then he gets mad & calls Ted into his office & says, "You're going to stop doing commercials, Ted" & Ted says "why would I do that Lou?" & Lou says "Because if you don't I'll punch your face out" & Ted says "I'll have you arrested" & Lou says "It'll be too late, your face will be broken, you're not gonna get too many commercials with a broken face now are you Ted?" & Ted buckles under to force & everybody's happy, except Ted but he's so dumb nobody cares & everybody loves it that Lou's not despondent anymore he's back to his brustling chubby loud loveable whiskey-drinking football-loving ways. Now imagine if Ted were Lou, if Ted were the boss. You know how incredibly fucking brainless Ted is, but let's imagine he understands & is will to use force. That's the situation we're now in as Americans. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:44:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Holly Crawford Subject: Re: Voice Over NYC to Wels In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In her innovative use of Twitters, Holly Crawford will text overheard comments from in and around NYC to O.blaat's TheRoom/Soundleak Project at Medien Kultur Haus, Wels, Austria. Holly Crawford's Voice Over- www.art-poetry.info/id19.html are voyeuristic text fragments of overheard comments, originally from and about art. April 9, 2009 15:00-16:00 EST from NYC to O.blaat's (Keiko Uenishi) TheRoom/Soundleak. Voice Over using twitters will continue at random times until April 24th. TheRoom is a participatory project by O.blaat at MKH in Wels Austria, April 9-April 24. http://www.soundleak.org/theroom/ Holly Crawford's Voice Over {via Twitters} www.arttext.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:38:11 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: video: Mirakove & Sherlock MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One of my favorite readings in a long time! Carol Mirakove & Frank Sherlock reading together on April 2nd, 2009 at The Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, A MARVELOUS EVENING OF POETRY! Catch the video stream here: http://media.sas.upenn.edu/embed_qt.php?x=writershouse/09A/Sherlock-Frank_and_Mirakove-Carol_KWH-Upenn_040209.mov&action=stream CAConrad ELVIS and THE BOOK OF FRANK http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:54:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: DNM means DO NOT MISS this POETRY PROJECT EVENT! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit IF YOU MISS THIS ONE DON'T COME CRYING TO ME! Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle, Frank Sherlock, and Bill Marsh FACTORY SCHOOL'S HERETICAL TEXT SERIES A reading from their brilliant new books! FRIDAY, April 17th @ 9:30pm St. Mark's Poetry Project 131 E. 10th Street NYC *Heretical Texts* is an ongoing Factory School book series that aims to test old assumptions about the political efficacies of poetic texts while utilizing the series structure as a framework for documentation and investigation. Since 2005, Factory School has published twenty titles under the *Heretical Texts *series banner, with future volumes appearing in 2010 and beyond. Volume 4 includes books by Jules Boykoff, Brett Evans, Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle and Frank Sherlock. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 18:30:25 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eric Elshtain Subject: Gnoetry Daily MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Get your daily computational poetics from http://gnoetrydaily.blogspot.com/ Best, Eric Elshtain Editor Beard of Bees Press http://www.beardofbees.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 07:21:09 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Lars Palm Subject: new addresses & ungovernable book Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Dear all, first off. ungovernable press is deeply happy to announce the release of Someone struggles, the new e-chapbook by Jonathan Ball second. ungovernable press has moved. the new site is=20 http://ungovernablepress.weebly.com as usual manuscripts are more than welcome. guidelines are at the site third. a while ago my hotmail account was hi-jacked twice in three days &= amp; used to send spam. i closed thew account & my new email address is larspalmeATgmailDotcom cheers, lars =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:30:47 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: help, b/c In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.1.20090408171358.06bf1ec0@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit goodreads poetry! facebook does anybody use my space anymore -- All best, Catherine Daly c.a.b.daly@gmail.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:28:29 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Bowering Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? Comments: To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <684511.403.qm@web52407.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Isn't his name Smmith? On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:52 AM, steve russell wrote: > maybe it's asking too much, but if Ashberry could adopt a more > worldy sensibility, and address something social,just once, in the > manner of, say, Rod Smith: here's a prose poem from "Deed," Smith's > latest -- (line breaks not exact, but still reads well)-- > > Ted's Head > > So there's this episode of Mary Tyler Moore where Ted's trying to > get a raise & after finagling and shenaniganizing he puts one over > on Lou & gets his contract changed to non-exclusive sos he can do > commercials which is not cool w/Lou & the gang because Ted's just > a brainless gimp & it hurts the image of the news to have the > anchorman selling tomato slicers & dogfood so Lou gets despondent > because the contract can't be rescinded but then he gets mad & > calls Ted into his office & says, "You're going to stop doing > commercials, Ted" & Ted says "why would I do that Lou?" & Lou says > "Because if you don't I'll punch your face out" & Ted says "I'll > have you arrested" & Lou says "It'll be too late, your face will be > broken, you're not gonna get too many commercials with a broken > face now are you Ted?" & Ted buckles under to force & everybody's > happy, except Ted but he's so dumb nobody cares & everybody loves > it that Lou's not despondent anymore he's back to his > brustling chubby loud loveable whiskey-drinking football-loving > ways. Now imagine if Ted were Lou, if Ted were the boss. You know > how incredibly fucking brainless Ted is, but let's imagine he > understands & is will to use force. That's the situation we're now > in as Americans. > > > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ > welcome.html > Bowering, George H. A relatively untravelled Canadian writer. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:41:05 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark DuCharme Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? In-Reply-To: <37871858-8292-401D-9F99-95CC64E99010@sfu.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Isn't there a poet named Jon Ashberrry who does just that? I think he's th= e author of The Days of The Houseboat=2C if memory serves.... All joking aside=2C how does a poet or artist do something *just once* whic= h is so different from a body of work over 50 years in the making? Are you= really asking for this poet=2C whose name is Ashbery incidentally=2C to su= ddenly turn around & write like Rod Smith? That strikes me as just about a= s silly as expecting Smith to write like Ashbery. Mark DuCharme > Date: Thu=2C 9 Apr 2009 17:28:29 -0700 > From: bowering@SFU.CA > Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > Isn't his name Smmith? >=20 >=20 > On Apr 9=2C 2009=2C at 7:52 AM=2C steve russell wrote: >=20 > > maybe it's asking too much=2C but if Ashberry could adopt a more =20 > > worldy sensibility=2C and address something social=2Cjust once=2C in t= he =20 > > manner of=2C say=2C Rod Smith: here's a prose poem from "Deed=2C" Smith= 's =20 > > latest -- (line breaks not exact=2C but still reads well)-- > > > > Ted's Head > > > > So there's this episode of Mary Tyler Moore where Ted's trying to =20 > > get a raise & after finagling and shenaniganizing he puts one over =20 > > on Lou & gets his contract changed to non-exclusive sos he can do =20 > > commercials which is not cool w/Lou & the gang because Ted's just =20 > > a brainless gimp & it hurts the image of the news to have the =20 > > anchorman selling tomato slicers & dogfood so Lou gets despondent =20 > > because the contract can't be rescinded but then he gets mad & =20 > > calls Ted into his office & says=2C "You're going to stop doing =20 > > commercials=2C Ted" & Ted says "why would I do that Lou?" & Lou says =20 > > "Because if you don't I'll punch your face out" & Ted says "I'll =20 > > have you arrested" & Lou says "It'll be too late=2C your face will be = =20 > > broken=2C you're not gonna get too many commercials with a broken =20 > > face now are you Ted?" & Ted buckles under to force & everybody's =20 > > happy=2C except Ted but he's so dumb nobody cares & everybody loves =20 > > it that Lou's not despondent anymore he's back to his > > brustling chubby loud loveable whiskey-drinking football-loving =20 > > ways. Now imagine if Ted were Lou=2C if Ted were the boss. You know =20 > > how incredibly fucking brainless Ted is=2C but let's imagine he =20 > > understands & is will to use force. That's the situation we're now =20 > > in as Americans. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check =20 > > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/=20 > > welcome.html > > >=20 > Bowering=2C George H. > A relatively untravelled Canadian writer. >=20 >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:51:14 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gabrielle Welford Subject: Re: help, b/c In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.1.20090408171358.06bf1ec0@earthlink.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hi mark. i'd think it'd be welcomed in political communities. i'm sure friends of mine in hawai'i would be interested in hearing about it, and people here in california where i am now. but they'd probably rather hear from someone they know than from uc press... best, gabrielle Gabrielle Welford, Ph.D. books: _Too Many Deaths: Decolonizing Western Academic Research on Indigenous Cultures_ http://www.theguildofwriters.com/books/shop.php?action=full&id=317 _Dora_ http://www.theguildofwriters.com/books/shop.php?action=full&id=378 blog: (no longer active but lots of good info on hawai'i) www.greenwom.blogspot.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.412 / Virus Database: 268.18.4/705 - Release Date: 2/27/2007 On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Mark Weiss wrote: > UC Press, publisher of my forthcoming Cuban Poetry anthology, has > asked for "e-mail lists where it might be useful to announce the > publication of the book." I only know of three, aside from this one:: > Poetryetc, Wompo, and British and Irish Poetry. I truly need other > suggestions. The book should be of broad interest among poets and > poetry readers. > > Thanks in advance. > > Mark > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:09:34 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aryanil Mukherjee Organization: KAURAB Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? In-Reply-To: <684511.403.qm@web52407.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit this could be wordly sensibility (of a sort that escapes me perhaps) but "ashberrian"... I don't get how... ----- Original Message ----- From: "steve russell" To: Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:52 AM Subject: is it asking too much of Ashberry? > maybe it's asking too much, but if Ashberry could adopt a more worldy > sensibility, and address something social,just once, in the manner of, > say, Rod Smith: here's a prose poem from "Deed," Smith's latest -- (line > breaks not exact, but still reads well)-- > > Ted's Head > > So there's this episode of Mary Tyler Moore where Ted's trying to get a > raise & after finagling and shenaniganizing he puts one over on Lou & gets > his contract changed to non-exclusive sos he can do commercials which is > not cool w/Lou & the gang because Ted's just a brainless gimp & it hurts > the image of the news to have the anchorman selling tomato slicers & > dogfood so Lou gets despondent because the contract can't be rescinded but > then he gets mad & calls Ted into his office & says, "You're going to stop > doing commercials, Ted" & Ted says "why would I do that Lou?" & Lou says > "Because if you don't I'll punch your face out" & Ted says "I'll have you > arrested" & Lou says "It'll be too late, your face will be broken, you're > not gonna get too many commercials with a broken face now are you Ted?" & > Ted buckles under to force & everybody's happy, except Ted but he's so > dumb nobody cares & everybody loves it that Lou's not despondent anymore > he's back to his > brustling chubby loud loveable whiskey-drinking football-loving ways. Now > imagine if Ted were Lou, if Ted were the boss. You know how incredibly > fucking brainless Ted is, but let's imagine he understands & is will to > use force. That's the situation we're now in as Americans. > > > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 21:01:36 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Andy Gricevich Subject: Re: grammar books MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks to all of you for your recommendations! cheers, Andy ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 21:07:44 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Andy Gricevich Subject: CANNOT EXIST: call for submissions and subscriptions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, all! CANNOT EXIST magazine will continue in 2009, though at half speed: just two= issues, lovingly edited and assembled by hand, instead of four.=A0 The qua= lity will, we think, be even higher, though that's hard to imagine, given t= he astonishing work we got last year.=20 You can subscribe for the 2009 run for a mere $12.50, shipping included.=20 There are still copies of the 2008 issues as well, but #1 and #3, in partic= ular, are in short supply, so get 'em while you can!=A0 Buy all four for ju= st fifteen bucks, and get 200 pages of strange, urgent, and occasionally pe= rfect poetry.=20 Submissions are now open for issue 5, and will remain so through May 15th.= =20 For details, visit http://cannotexist.blogspot.com.=20 all the best, Andy Gricevich editor, Cannot Exist =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:47:40 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: help, b/c In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lucipo Omitapoetics International Exchange for Poetic Invention murat On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Catherine Daly wrote: > goodreads poetry! > facebook > does anybody use my space anymore > > -- > All best, > Catherine Daly > c.a.b.daly@gmail.com > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:37:28 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gareth Farmer Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? Comments: To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <684511.403.qm@web52407.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Steve Nice poem. But, if you're going to have a pop at the man, spell his name right for goodness sake. 2009/4/9 steve russell > maybe it's asking too much, but if Ashberry could adopt a more worldy > sensibility, and address something social,just once, in the manner of, say, > Rod Smith: here's a prose poem from "Deed," Smith's latest -- (line breaks > not exact, but still reads well)-- > > Ted's Head > > So there's this episode of Mary Tyler Moore where Ted's trying to get a > raise & after finagling and shenaniganizing he puts one over on Lou & gets > his contract changed to non-exclusive sos he can do commercials which is not > cool w/Lou & the gang because Ted's just a brainless gimp & it hurts the > image of the news to have the anchorman selling tomato slicers & dogfood so > Lou gets despondent because the contract can't be rescinded but then he gets > mad & calls Ted into his office & says, "You're going to stop doing > commercials, Ted" & Ted says "why would I do that Lou?" & Lou says "Because > if you don't I'll punch your face out" & Ted says "I'll have you arrested" & > Lou says "It'll be too late, your face will be broken, you're not gonna get > too many commercials with a broken face now are you Ted?" & Ted buckles > under to force & everybody's happy, except Ted but he's so dumb nobody cares > & everybody loves it that Lou's not despondent anymore he's back to his > brustling chubby loud loveable whiskey-drinking football-loving ways. Now > imagine if Ted were Lou, if Ted were the boss. You know how incredibly > fucking brainless Ted is, but let's imagine he understands & is will to use > force. That's the situation we're now in as Americans. > > > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:57:18 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: help, b/c In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) I'm having a hard time getting into the good reads network. It seems very one way to me, author's promoting their books & people wanting you to follow them. Discussions also seem flat as well & one dimensional as well. Any secrets to figuring out where the action is? & maybe someone who is more active there could explain what benefits they've derived. ~mIEKAL taunting social media since the beginning of the desktop computer... On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Catherine Daly wrote: > goodreads poetry! > facebook > does anybody use my space anymore > > -- > All best, > Catherine Daly > c.a.b.daly@gmail.com > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =!= Data Visualization for the Synaptically Inspired http://filevillage.info ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:26:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve I'm not getting the comparison/contrast here. There are MANY WAYS Rod Smith is more interesting and frankly more useful to us as a poet than Ashbery ever has been. Although I DO LIKE the extra "r" you put into Ashbery's name, makes him a nice new berry. But WHAT ON EARTH would an Ash-berry taste like? HMMMMMMmmmmMMmmMM? Maybe like a flame-toasted strawberry, or sun-burnt boysenberry? Yes, sun-burnt boysenberry, I think that's about right, MMMMM it's kind of DELICIOUS yes? SUN-BURNT BOYSENBERRY CERAL RAGES! GLAD YOU'RE TALKING UP Deed! Those without Deed in their library SUCK WOMBAT! 'n more! CAConrad ELVIS and THE BOOK OF FRANK http://CAConrad.blogspot.com *"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me." --Sigmund Freud* ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:51:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tarpaulin Sky Press Subject: New from TSky Press: Jeanne Morel's _That Crossing Is Not Automatic_ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Friends & Readers, We are please to announce the publication of TSky Press's latest chapbook: THAT CROSSING IS NOT AUTOMATIC JEANNE MOREL Chapbook. Prose / Poetry 5" x 7", perfectbound, 36 pages April 2009 $10 includes shipping in the US http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Morel/index.html Distilling fragments from her work in Cambodia and in the United States, Jeanne Morel's THAT CROSSING IS NOT AUTOMATIC presents a collage of edges-images moving from refugee camps to American prisons, from airports to taxi cabs, from immigration to deportation-offering us a dictionary, if not an atlas, of sites for our possible crossings. ABOUT JEANNE MOREL Jeanne Morel was born in California and grew up in Seattle. In the mid-1990s she lived in Cambodia and taught at the University of Phnom Penh. She has worked with refugees and immigrants in community based agencies, schools, factories, and prisons. She lives in Seattle and teaches writing at Bellevue Community College. This is her first chapbook. click here to order: http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/catalog.html click here for PDF excerpts from the book: http://tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Morel/That_Crossing_web_prev.pdf ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:07:18 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Visiting Scholar in the Humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii (this is a forward so please don't respond to me. good luck!) VISITING SCHOLAR IN THE HUMANITIES: FIELD OF MEMORY STUDIES/SPACE AND PLACE STUDIES FALL 2009 OR SPRING 2010 GRINNELL COLLEGE'S Center for the Humanities seeks to appoint a visiting scholar actively engaged in research on Place and Memory. Grinnell College is a highly selective liberal arts college which emphasizes close student-faculty interactions and values diversity. The Visiting Scholar will participate in programming (faculty reading groups, symposia, classroom visits) related to the Center's theme of Place and Memory next fall or spring, and will be on campus for a symposium from April 21-23, 2010. The appointment as Visiting Scholar in the Humanities begins August 2009 or January 2010, and is for a one-semester term. Compensation includes a competitive salary plus housing for the semester, and round-trip airfare for participation in the spring symposium if appointment is in the fall. Applications will be accepted until April 25, 2009 or until the position is filled. Please direct any inquiries by email to: HumanitiesSearch@grinnell.edu. 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To Apply: Please submit a letter of application explaining your research in Place and Memory Studies, three letters of recommendation, CV, and transcripts to: Daniel Reynolds Director, Center for the Humanities Associate Professor of German 1205 Park Street Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 50112. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:48:58 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: cris cheek Subject: Re: query In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.1.20090408181650.06c15020@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) ;-) On Apr 8, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Mark Weiss wrote: > A friend of mine has been doing some work on poetics and is looking > for a list where there's active discussion of same. Any thoughts? > > Mark > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:58:20 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: ALDON L NIELSEN Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? Comments: To: Mark DuCharme In-Reply-To: BLU142-W19A99F18305C3AFD4B2810DB800@phx.gbl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Smith wrote like Ashbery one afternoon in 1987, but then thought better of it -- maybe it's me, but I always found Ashbery a worldly poet, and he seemed to me to be addressing the social on nearly every page -- TENNIS COURT OATH anyone? On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 09:41 PM, Mark DuCharme wrote: > Isn't there a poet named Jon Ashberrry who does just that? I think he's the >author of The Days of The Houseboat, if memory serves.... > >All joking aside, how does a poet or artist do something *just once* which is >so different from a body of work over 50 years in the making? Are you really >asking for this poet, whose name is Ashbery incidentally, to suddenly turn >around & write like Rod Smith? That strikes me as just about as silly as >expecting Smith to write like Ashbery. > >Mark DuCharme > > > >> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:28:29 -0700 >> From: bowering@SFU.CA >> Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >> >> Isn't his name Smmith? >> >> >> On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:52 AM, steve russell wrote: >> >> > maybe it's asking too much, but if Ashberry could adopt a more >> > worldy sensibility, and address something social,just once, in the >> > manner of, say, Rod Smith: here's a prose poem from "Deed," >Smith's >> > latest -- (line breaks not exact, but still reads well)-- >> > >> > Ted's Head >> > >> > So there's this episode of Mary Tyler Moore where Ted's trying to >> > get a raise & after finagling and shenaniganizing he puts one >over >> > on Lou & gets his contract changed to non-exclusive sos he can do > >> > commercials which is not cool w/Lou & the gang because Ted's >just >> > a brainless gimp & it hurts the image of the news to have the >> > anchorman selling tomato slicers & dogfood so Lou gets despondent > >> > because the contract can't be rescinded but then he gets mad & >> > calls Ted into his office & says, "You're going to stop >doing >> > commercials, Ted" & Ted says "why would I do that >Lou?" & Lou says >> > "Because if you don't I'll punch your face out" & Ted >says "I'll >> > have you arrested" & Lou says "It'll be too late, your >face will be >> > broken, you're not gonna get too many commercials with a broken >> > face now are you Ted?" & Ted buckles under to force & >everybody's >> > happy, except Ted but he's so dumb nobody cares & everybody loves > >> > it that Lou's not despondent anymore he's back to his >> > brustling chubby loud loveable whiskey-drinking football-loving >> > ways. Now imagine if Ted were Lou, if Ted were the boss. You know >> > how incredibly fucking brainless Ted is, but let's imagine he >> > understands & is will to use force. That's the situation we're >now >> > in as Americans. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ================================== >> > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >> > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ >> > welcome.html >> > >> >> Bowering, George H. >> A relatively untravelled Canadian writer. >> >> >> ================================== >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:19:07 -0700 Reply-To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm simply wish the guy (Ashberrrrrry) would leave his comfort zone, and st= retch his sensibility, not so much write like Rod Smith (I stated all that = rather poorly), but attempt to address issues outside the world of art and = the inner gymnastics of his private horizon (hope the last phrase made sens= e). Maybe he could try something vulgar such as reading the newspaper once = in awhile and address something contemporary. Major poets used to do that s= ort of thing. Yeats/Eliot/Pound, although the later 2, admittedly, were fla= cky, still, they were involved in, ugh, worldy issues. In some ways, Ashber= y strikes me as a daffy, new age kind of Rilke, which ain't bad, and the gu= y is enormously gifted, but I think he could do more with his gifts.=20 --- On Thu, 4/9/09, Mark DuCharme wrote: > From: Mark DuCharme > Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 9:41 PM > Isn't there a poet named Jon Ashberrry who does just > that? I think he's the author of The Days of The > Houseboat, if memory serves.... >=20 > All joking aside, how does a poet or artist do something > *just once* which is so different from a body of work over > 50 years in the making? Are you really asking for this > poet, whose name is Ashbery incidentally, to suddenly turn > around & write like Rod Smith? That strikes me as just > about as silly as expecting Smith to write like Ashbery. >=20 > Mark DuCharme >=20 >=20 >=20 > > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:28:29 -0700 > > From: bowering@SFU.CA > > Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? > > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > >=20 > > Isn't his name Smmith? > >=20 > >=20 > > On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:52 AM, steve russell wrote: > >=20 > > > maybe it's asking too much, but if Ashberry > could adopt a more =20 > > > worldy sensibility, and address something > social,just once, in the =20 > > > manner of, say, Rod Smith: here's a prose > poem from "Deed," Smith's =20 > > > latest -- (line breaks not exact, but still > reads well)-- > > > > > > Ted's Head > > > > > > So there's this episode of Mary Tyler Moore > where Ted's trying to =20 > > > get a raise & after finagling and > shenaniganizing he puts one over =20 > > > on Lou & gets his contract changed to > non-exclusive sos he can do =20 > > > commercials which is not cool w/Lou & the > gang because Ted's just =20 > > > a brainless gimp & it hurts the image of the > news to have the =20 > > > anchorman selling tomato slicers & dogfood so > Lou gets despondent =20 > > > because the contract can't be rescinded but > then he gets mad & =20 > > > calls Ted into his office & says, > "You're going to stop doing =20 > > > commercials, Ted" & Ted says "why > would I do that Lou?" & Lou says =20 > > > "Because if you don't I'll punch > your face out" & Ted says "I'll =20 > > > have you arrested" & Lou says > "It'll be too late, your face will be =20 > > > broken, you're not gonna get too many > commercials with a broken =20 > > > face now are you Ted?" & Ted buckles > under to force & everybody's =20 > > > happy, except Ted but he's so dumb nobody > cares & everybody loves =20 > > > it that Lou's not despondent anymore he's > back to his > > > brustling chubby loud loveable whiskey-drinking > football-loving =20 > > > ways. Now imagine if Ted were Lou, if Ted were > the boss. You know =20 > > > how incredibly fucking brainless Ted is, but > let's imagine he =20 > > > understands & is will to use force. > That's the situation we're now =20 > > > in as Americans. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not > accept all posts. Check =20 > > > guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/=20 > > > welcome.html > > > > >=20 > > Bowering, George H. > > A relatively untravelled Canadian writer. > >=20 > >=20 > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept > all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:22:53 -0700 Reply-To: steph484@pacbell.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Stephen Vincent, One Day Obama Exhibit, Wednesday, April 29th! Comments: cc: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" , UK POETRY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 =20 =20 For those in the San Francisco Bay Area, please mark this event on your cal= enders! Otherwise, =C2=A0there will be a book, limited and unlimited. Contact the Gallery for = details.=20 Stephen Vincent, in progress still with Obama, haptics et al at http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ =20 =20 Stephen Vincent The First 100 Days of Obama One-Day Exhibition Wednesday, April 29, 11am-8pm Opening Reception, 6-8pm Steven Wolf Fine Arts will mark day 100 of the Barack Obama administration with a one-day show of drawings by the artist and poet Stephen Vincent and their publication in a book titled The First 100 Days of Obama. Vincent is making one abstract, black and white ink drawing of the same size each day for the first 100 days of the Obama administration as part of a series he calls haptics, a word that describes how the body sensually responds to and interprets stimuli from the outside world. Each drawing is captioned with the date, location and a brief description of the goings-on around the artist at the time of the drawing. At approximately 10 x 7 inches, the drawings are close variations on a them= e; randomness tangles with predictability, abstraction with the faint hint of a figure or symbol as they take their flat, pillow form. Like a diary of meditations, they form a partial record of Vincent=E2=80=99s thoug= hts and movements on those days, and offer a stark contrast to the political ma= chinations taking place in Washington even as they temporally mirror them. Mounted in a grid at the gallery, the drawings will cover 588 square feet of wall space. The show aspires to a nutty ceremonial numerology in which the diurnal drawing process, the publication of the book and the target day all harmonically converge. In order for Vincent to remain true to the one-a-day drawing schedule and still make that deadline the gallery will have to run a relay race with its digital publisher who must turn around the final design, printing, binding and shipping in under 24 hours=E2=80=94the frenetic busywork another mirror of the activity= in Washington. The first 25 copies of the book will arrive in the gallery with 99 images and one blank page. To draw the project to a close Vincent will work all day in the gallery to create a unique work on page 100 of these volumes. The remaining 75 books will be printed a few days later with the full set of 100 reproductions. The opening will offer Vincent and guests the opportunity to reflect on the changing political landscape and for Vincent to read from texts he created at the time he made the drawings: one day he was on a bench at Dolo= res Park, dogs, trolleys and ambulances in the background; another day he was switching channels from Keith Olberman=E2=80=99s Countdown to NBA basketbal= l; and on yet another he was recalling the night sky over Mercy Hot Springs near Firebaugh, miles away from the world of politics. Vincent is as likely to seek out silence as he is music when he works and the ordinary as often as the unusual. At time these modest drawings bob alongside the rushing political change in Washington like a tiny buoy marking a small personal craft; at other times their zen-master repititiousness underscores perhaps a deeper social and political reality that while the details in Washington change the soap opera stays the same. Steven Wolf Fine Arts 49 Geary Street, Suite 411 San Francisco, CA 94108 415-263-3677 www.stevenwolffinearts.co =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:34:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Weiss Subject: Re: help, b/c In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed If I give UC Press your email, would you pass on the announcement when it comes? At 09:51 PM 4/9/2009, you wrote: >hi mark. i'd think it'd be welcomed in political communities. i'm sure >friends of mine in hawai'i would be interested in hearing about it, and >people here in california where i am now. but they'd probably rather hear >from someone they know than from uc press... best, gabrielle > >Gabrielle Welford, Ph.D. >books: >_Too Many Deaths: Decolonizing Western Academic Research on Indigenous >Cultures_ >http://www.theguildofwriters.com/books/shop.php?action=full&id=317 >_Dora_ >http://www.theguildofwriters.com/books/shop.php?action=full&id=378 >blog: (no longer active but lots of good info on hawai'i) >www.greenwom.blogspot.com > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.412 / Virus Database: 268.18.4/705 - Release Date: 2/27/2007 > >On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Mark Weiss wrote: > > > UC Press, publisher of my forthcoming Cuban Poetry anthology, has > > asked for "e-mail lists where it might be useful to announce the > > publication of the book." I only know of three, aside from this one:: > > Poetryetc, Wompo, and British and Irish Poetry. I truly need other > > suggestions. The book should be of broad interest among poets and > > poetry readers. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Mark > > > > ================================== > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > >================================== >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:43:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Edward Foster Subject: invite MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: base64 VGFsaXNtYW4gSG91c2UsIFB1Ymxpc2hlcnMsIHJlcXVlc3RzDQp0aGUgaG9ub3Igb2YgeW91ciBw cmVzZW5jZSANCmF0IGEgY2VsZWJyYXRpb24NCmZvciBuZXcsIHdvbmRlcmZ1bCBib29rcw0KDQpE b25uYSBkZSBsYSBQZXJyacOocmUsIFRydWUgQ3JpbWUNCkpvc2VwaCBEb25haHVlLCBUZXJyYSBM dWNpZGENCkNhcm1lbiBGaXJhbiwgV29yZHMgYW5kIEZsZXNoDQpNaWNoYWVsIEhlbGxlciwgRXNj aGF0b24NClRpbW90aHkgTGl1LCBCZW5kaW5nIHRoZSBNaW5kIA0KQXJvdW5kIHRoZSBEcmVhbeKA mXMgQmxvd24gRnVzZQ0KU2ltb24gUGV0dGV0LCBIZWFydGgNCkFuZHJldyBaYXdhY2tpLCBQZXRh bHMgb2YgWmVybyBQZXRhbHMgb2YgT25lDQoNClJlYWRpbmdzIGFuZCBib29rIHNpZ25pbmdzIGJ5 IHRoZSBhdXRob3JzDQpHb29kIGZvb2QgYW5kIGJvb2sgam95DQoNCldlZG5lc2RheSwgMjIgQXBy aWwgMjAwOSwgNi05IHBtDQoNCkNlcmVzIEdhbGxlcnkNCjU0NyBXZXN0IDI3dGggU3RyZWV0LCBT dWl0ZSAyMDENCk5ldyBZb3JrLCBOWSAxMDAwMQ== ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:08:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: (The) Only Cosmic Music. (please post) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed (The) Only Cosmic Music. http://www.alansondheim.org/tambura1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/tambura2.mp3 (Please do listen, I am happiest of this of all.) North Indian tambura digitally descending and ascending. Perhaps this is the closest one comes to an image-universe. Artifacts appear and disappear as descent and ascent continues. For example, audio lissajous towards the end of tambura2. Of course these are always there. All music and all sound tends towards this, not towards tambura steady- state. Entanglement with observer and apparatus, intrinsic and extrinsic. What my ears tell me is what is heard. What my eyes show me is what is seen. Loop these for perfection. There are small events among the continuous movement of the fingers. Mind in the fingers, among them. For as not to see after and through eye surgery, the hearing. And trying not to focus and not to focus on trying. For the Natyasastra says nothing about the drone. And the drone is present today with sruti box, melodeon, tambura, electronic software and hardware. And is always present. And is always present and in motion and there is motion in the computer, there is always motion. There is always motion that collapses and motion that contracts. Some motion can't get out, some can't get in. Some motion can't get out, can't get in. Sometimes there are objects and states as if existing and these are somewhere in the background. As if existing for all time, to give existence a meaning. Or huddled-cuddled around themselves, as if there are objects, objects, objects. And now you can hear them, there are no objects at all. As if there were something to hear. What is heard is the hearing of it. What is heard are all the times and spaces of the hearing. Let us call this beauty, untoward. Let us call. http://www.alansondheim.org/tambura1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/tambura2.mp3 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:53:01 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: luke daly Subject: house press chicago reading: Severin, Carr, Borzutzky, Morin. Saturday 4/18 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit P & P 4!!!! SATURDAY APRIL 18th : 8p.m. Spudnik Press 1821 W Hubbard, Suite 308 Chicago, IL 60622 (spudnikpress.com) house press and spudnik press are celebrating the release of string of small machines number four! house press and spudnik press team up to bring you a fourth well-rounded and multi-disciplinary evening of poetry, visual art, and music, not to mention a cheap door ($3 donation), booze and snacks, and a table full of fresh small press books, mags, and other miscellany. this april 18th, the following co-conspirators will be joining us: daniel borzutzky, chicago-based writer and translator, author of the ecstacy of capitulation from blazeVOX [books], 2007 (www.blazevox.org/bk-db.htm; www.danielborzutzky.com) melissa severin, chicago-based writer and managing editor of switchback books; author of brute fact from dancing girl press, 2008 (www.switchbackbooks.com; www.dancinggirlpress.com/brutefact.html) michael carr, cambridge, ma.-based writer and editor of editions louis wain and co-editor with dorothea lasky of katalanche press (editionslouiswain.com; katalanchepress.blogspot.com); co-author of necco face, from editions louis wain, 2009 gustave morin, toronto-based visual artist; author of the much-slept-on a penny dreadful from insomniac press, 2003 (epc.buffalo.edu/authors/morin/; www.mnsi.net/~common/editions_penny/dread.html) music, emcee sick playing rare groove, jazz, soul, funk, etc. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:18:19 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: FREE (Soma)tic POETRY WORKSHOP in Philadelphia .=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit EVENING of Friday, May 8th WORKSHOPPING RIGHT UP TO THE FULL MOON 6:30pm YES IT'S FREE, but limited number of participants this time, so first-come first-serve. SIGN UP A.S.A.P. before all slots are filled. Write to CAConrad13@aol.com (Soma)tic Poetry Exercises are updated monthly at http://somaticpoetryexercises.blogspot.com/ WE WILL BE OUTSIDE IN PHILADELPHIA TO CREATE POETRY TOGETHER WITH THE CITY (Soma)tic Poetics Outline can be seen at http://somaticpoetics.blogspot.com/ AT THE END OF THE WORKSHOP donations will be requested BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY ANYTHING IF YOU CAN'T PAY, donations of $0, $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 will be gratefully accepted ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:41:58 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dan Wilcox Subject: Third Thursday Poetry Night, April 16 - "the Solid Gold McCrackens" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed the Poetry Motel Foundation presents Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY Thursday, April 16 7:00 sign up; 7:30 start Featured Poet: =93The Solid Gold McCrackens=94 Again this year, students in Daniel Nester=92s class on the oral =20 presentation of literature at the College of St. Rose will be the =20 featured poets. What will they do? Who are they? Why would they =20 even want to do this? Come & find out. -- with open mic for community poets before & after the feature: =20 $3.00 donation, suggested; more if you got it, less if you can=92t.=20 Your half-tanned host: Dan Wilcox. =20= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:25:29 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gabriel Gudding Subject: Christopher Smart born 287 years ago today MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Happy Birthday to our perpetual nephew Christopher Smart, April 11 1722. Let the Levites of the Lord take the Beavers of the brook alive into the Ark of the Testimony. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:46:43 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Charles Alexander Subject: events for Charles Alexander Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I'd love to see any of you who might come to one or more of the following events in which I'm presenting in Storrs, Connecticut, New York City, and Buffalo, New York, in the next 9 days. 1. Lecture: David Jones and Charles Olson in Time and Space, by Charles Alexander Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 4pm Homer Babbidge Library Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Sponsored by Archives and Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Univ. of Connecticut Libraries A special viewing of manuscripts from the Charles Olson Papers will follow the talk. 2. Lecture/Talk by Charles Alexander in the "Threads" series, on the aesthetics of the contemporary small press 6:30pm Thursday, April 16, 2009 Granary Books, 168 Mercer Street, 2nd floor, New York City This talk is for R.S.V.P. seating only, and is most likely filled. Contact info@granarybooks.com This talk, like others in the Threads series, will be recorded before a small studio audience and made available later for public listening on PennSound. Eventually the series will be collected and published in book form. 3. Poetry Reading, Segue Series, Charles Alexander with Akilah Oliver 4pm Saturday, April 18, 2009 at the Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, just north of Houston, New York City $6 admission goes to support the readers. 4. POET-PUBLISHERS: A CONTEMPORARY SMALL PRESS SYMPOSIUM with Charles Alexander, Brenda Iijima, Jay MillAr, Anna Moschovakis, Rich Owens, Andrew Rippeon, and Kyle Schlesinger SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program: Poetics Plus Sunday, April 19, 8:00 pm, poetry readings by MillAr, Moschovakis, Owens, & Schlesinger Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 453 Porter Ave., Buffalo, NY Monday, April 20, 10:00am-5:00pm, panels and Keynote address by Charles Alexander Poetry Collection SUNY Buffalo Library, 420 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY Monday, April 20, 8:00pm, poetry readings by Charles Alexander, Brenda Iijima, and Andrew Rippeon Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 53 Porter Ave., Buffalo, NY charles alexander chax press chax@theriver.com 411 N 7th ave, suite 103 tucson arizona 85705 520 620 1626 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:18:45 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Weiss Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? In-Reply-To: <1239397100l.770154l.0l@psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'll second that. And it wouldn't, in any event, hurt to cut him a=20 little slack. He's in his eighties, when folks=20 tend to be less focused on the daily news. Mark At 04:58 PM 4/10/2009, you wrote: >Smith wrote like Ashbery one afternoon in 1987, but then thought better of= it >--=C2 >maybe it's me, but I always found Ashbery a worldly poet, and he seemed to= me >to be addressing the social on nearly every page -- TENNIS COURT OATH= anyone? > >On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 09:41 PM, Mark DuCharme = wrote: > > >Isn't there a poet named Jon Ashberrry who does just that? I think he's= the > >author of The Days of The Houseboat, if memory serves.... > > > >All joking aside, how does a poet or artist do=20 > something *just once* which is > >so different from a body of work over 50 years=20 > in the making? Are you really > >asking for this poet, whose name is Ashbery incidentally, to suddenly= turn > >around & write like Rod Smith? That strikes me as just about as silly as > >expecting Smith to write like Ashbery. > > > >Mark DuCharme > > > > > > > >> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:28:29 -0700 > >> From: bowering@SFU.CA > >> Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? > >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > >> > >> Isn't his name Smmith? > >> > >> > >> On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:52 AM, steve russell wrote: > >> > >> > maybe it's asking too much, but if Ashberry could adopt a more > >> > worldy sensibility, and address something social,just once, in the > >> > manner of, say, Rod Smith: here's a prose poem from "Deed," > >Smith's > >> > latest -- (line breaks not exact, but still reads well)-- > >> > > >> > Ted's Head > >> > > >> > So there's this episode of Mary Tyler Moore where Ted's trying to > >> > get a raise & after finagling and shenaniganizing he puts one > >over > >> > on Lou & gets his contract changed to non-exclusive sos he can do > > > >> > commercials which is not cool w/Lou & the gang because Ted's > >just > >> > a brainless gimp & it hurts the image of the news to have the > >> > anchorman selling tomato slicers & dogfood so Lou gets despondent > > > >> > because the contract can't be rescinded but then he gets mad & > >> > calls Ted into his office & says, "You're going to stop > >doing > >> > commercials, Ted" & Ted says "why would I do that > >Lou?" & Lou says > >> > "Because if you don't I'll punch your face out" & Ted > >says "I'll > >> > have you arrested" & Lou says "It'll be too late, your > >face will be > >> > broken, you're not gonna get too many commercials with a broken > >> > face now are you Ted?" & Ted buckles under to force & > >everybody's > >> > happy, except Ted but he's so dumb nobody cares & everybody loves > > > >> > it that Lou's not despondent anymore he's back to his > >> > brustling chubby loud loveable whiskey-drinking football-loving > >> > ways. Now imagine if Ted were Lou, if Ted were the boss. You know > >> > how incredibly fucking brainless Ted is, but let's imagine he > >> > understands & is will to use force. That's the situation we're > >now > >> > in as Americans. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > >> > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > >> > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ > >> > welcome.html > >> > > >> > >> Bowering, George H. > >> A relatively untravelled Canadian writer. > >> > >> > >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > >guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Rediscover Hotmail=C2=AE: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry > >http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=3DT=20 > XT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Mobile1_042009 > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > >The Poetics List is moderated & does not=20 > accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub=20 > info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > > ><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >"Study the fine art of coming apart." > > --Jerry W. Ward, Jr. > >Sailing the blogosphere at: http://heatstrings.blogspot.com/ > >Aldon L. 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Comments: To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <769565.63946.qm@web52407.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Addressing issues! What an idea! Undressing them would be more to the point. Hal "There is poetry in everything. That is the biggest argument against poetry." --Miroslav Holub Halvard Johnson =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D halvard@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:19 PM, steve russell wrot= e: > I'm simply wish the guy (Ashberrrrrry) would leave his comfort zone, and > stretch his sensibility, not so much write like Rod Smith (I stated all t= hat > rather poorly), but attempt to address issues outside the world of art an= d > the inner gymnastics of his private horizon (hope the last phrase made > sense). Maybe he could try something vulgar such as reading the newspaper > once in awhile and address something contemporary. Major poets used to do > that sort of thing. Yeats/Eliot/Pound, although the later 2, admittedly, > were flacky, still, they were involved in, ugh, worldy issues. In some wa= ys, > Ashbery strikes me as a daffy, new age kind of Rilke, which ain't bad, an= d > the guy is enormously gifted, but I think he could do more with his gifts= . > > > --- On Thu, 4/9/09, Mark DuCharme wrote: > > > From: Mark DuCharme > > Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? > > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 9:41 PM > > Isn't there a poet named Jon Ashberrry who does just > > that? I think he's the author of The Days of The > > Houseboat, if memory serves.... > > > > All joking aside, how does a poet or artist do something > > *just once* which is so different from a body of work over > > 50 years in the making? Are you really asking for this > > poet, whose name is Ashbery incidentally, to suddenly turn > > around & write like Rod Smith? That strikes me as just > > about as silly as expecting Smith to write like Ashbery. > > > > Mark DuCharme > > > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:28:29 -0700 > > > From: bowering@SFU.CA > > > Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? > > > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > > > > > Isn't his name Smmith? > > > > > > > > > On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:52 AM, steve russell wrote: > > > > > > > maybe it's asking too much, but if Ashberry > > could adopt a more > > > > worldy sensibility, and address something > > social,just once, in the > > > > manner of, say, Rod Smith: here's a prose > > poem from "Deed," Smith's > > > > latest -- (line breaks not exact, but still > > reads well)-- > > > > > > > > Ted's Head > > > > > > > > So there's this episode of Mary Tyler Moore > > where Ted's trying to > > > > get a raise & after finagling and > > shenaniganizing he puts one over > > > > on Lou & gets his contract changed to > > non-exclusive sos he can do > > > > commercials which is not cool w/Lou & the > > gang because Ted's just > > > > a brainless gimp & it hurts the image of the > > news to have the > > > > anchorman selling tomato slicers & dogfood so > > Lou gets despondent > > > > because the contract can't be rescinded but > > then he gets mad & > > > > calls Ted into his office & says, > > "You're going to stop doing > > > > commercials, Ted" & Ted says "why > > would I do that Lou?" & Lou says > > > > "Because if you don't I'll punch > > your face out" & Ted says "I'll > > > > have you arrested" & Lou says > > "It'll be too late, your face will be > > > > broken, you're not gonna get too many > > commercials with a broken > > > > face now are you Ted?" & Ted buckles > > under to force & everybody's > > > > happy, except Ted but he's so dumb nobody > > cares & everybody loves > > > > it that Lou's not despondent anymore he's > > back to his > > > > brustling chubby loud loveable whiskey-drinking > > football-loving > > > > ways. Now imagine if Ted were Lou, if Ted were > > the boss. You know > > > > how incredibly fucking brainless Ted is, but > > let's imagine he > > > > understands & is will to use force. > > That's the situation we're now > > > > in as Americans. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not > > accept all posts. Check > > > > guidelines & sub/unsub info: > > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ > > > > welcome.html > > > > > > > > > > Bowering, George H. > > > A relatively untravelled Canadian writer. > > > > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept > > all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:37:28 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Jennifer Burch, Heather Green, Chris Hosea, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Daniel Lin, Barry Schwabsky Comments: To: "ViewsNewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series presents Â= =0A=0A=0A=0AThe Stain=0Aof Poetry:=C2=A0 A Reading Series presents=0A=0A=C2= =A0=0A=0AApril=0A24th @ 7 PM - Stain Bar - Williamsburg, Brooklyn=0A=0A=C2= =A0=0A=0AJennifer=0ABurch, Heather Green, Chris Hosea, Sueyeun Juliette Lee= , Daniel Lin, Barry=0ASchwabsky=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A~~~=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AJenni= fer=0ABurch holds a B.A. in Fine Art from Amherst=0ACollege and an M.A. in = Literature from=0Athe University of Kent in Canterbury,=0A England. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:46:29 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Heller Subject: TALISMAN BOOK PARTY, APRIL 22nd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Talisman House, Publishers, requests >the honor of your presence >at a celebration >for new, wonderful books > >Donna de la Perri=C3=A8re, True Crime >Joseph Donahue, Terra Lucida >Carmen Firan, Words and Flesh >Michael Heller, Eschaton >Timothy Liu, Bending the Mind >Around the Dream=E2=80=99s Blown Fuse >Simon Pettet, Hearth >Andrew Zawacki, Petals of Zero Petals of One > >Readings and book signings by the authors >Good food and book joy > >Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 6-9 pm > >Ceres Gallery >547 West 27th Street, Suite 201 >New York, NY 10001 Eschaton (new poems) Talisman House Publishers=20 (2009) available at SPD, Greenfield Distribution=20 (www.gfibooks.com), www. amazon.com and good=20 bookstores. Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The=20 Study (ahadada press 2009) available from SPD,=20 amazon.com and from ahadadpress.com. Speaking The=20 Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen=20 (2008); Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets,=20 Poetry and Poetics (2005) and Exigent Futures:=20 New and Selected Poems (2003) available at=20 www.saltpublishing.com, amazon.com and good=20 bookstores. Survey of work at=20 http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm=20 Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman=20 Johnson at=20 http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html=20 Recordings at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.html =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:52:15 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jesse Glass Subject: Re: Christopher Smart born 287 years ago today In-Reply-To: <<538784ff0904111425l172d08e0l358593e14c5f9f1a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For my talent is to give an impression upon words by punching, that when the reader casts his eye upon 'em, he takes up the image from the mould which I have made. On 4/11/2009, "Gabriel Gudding" wrote: >Happy Birthday to our perpetual nephew Christopher Smart, April 11 1722. > > >Let the Levites of the Lord take the Beavers of the brook alive into the > >Ark of the Testimony. > >================================== >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:37:20 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: blacksox@ATT.NET Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? In-Reply-To: <1239397100l.770154l.0l@psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The most amazing thing about Ashbery is his appeal. I know there are some on this list that view popularity as being a sell out. Ashbery never compromised the integrity of his art. Yet, if you are lucky enough to hear him read, seventeen year olds and octogenarians all join in and recite his work word for word. His work addresses polital issues by means of immersion That speaks volumes Peace Russ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:38:48 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Sound Seeker by David Jhave Johnston MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SOUND SEEKER David Jhave Johnston (Canada) http://vispo.com/jhave Sound Seeker is a "code-synch beat-match jump-edit txt-tool" written in Actionscript. Jhave says Sound Seeker is "an online real-time beat-synchronized poem animator. Sound drives the rhythm of the words: their speed and style of display can be controlled." The homepage shows twelve experimental video poems produced by Jhave with Sound Seeker. Access the underlying interactive Flash app in the "Method" section. In the "Motivation" section, Jhave discusses remarks by Rudolph Arnheim concerning intermedia. A fascinating poetry, programming, video, audio, 3D animation, and theory/poetics project--and the writing is very lively on its own. A significant project in digital poetry of considerable achievement. You can see more of what Jhave is doing on his site at http://glia.ca ja ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:30:28 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: SEGUE 4/17/09: Akilah Oliver and Charles Alexander MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *The Segue Reading Series presents: AKILAH OLIVER & CHARLES ALEXANDER* *Saturday, April 17, 2009 ** 4PM SHARP*** at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, just north of Houston) $6 admission goes to support the readers hosted by Kristen Gallagher & Tim Peterson Charles Alexander is a Tucson-based poet, publisher, and book artist. He is the director and editor-in-chief of Chax Press. Alexander=92s recent books = of poetry include *Pushing Water: parts one through six* (Standing Stones Press, 1998), *near or random acts* (Singing Horse Press, 2004), and *Certa= in Slants* (Junction Press, 2007). Akilah Oliver is the author of a new book *A Toast in the House of Friends*(Coffee House Press, 2008), and also *the she said dialogues: flesh memory* (Smokeproof/Erudite Fangs, 1999). Sh= e currently makes her home in Brooklyn, NY. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:25:02 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Boog City Staff Updates MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, A quick note to announce some new staffers here at Boog City. Effective this past issue, Paolo Javier has gone from co- to sole =20 printed matter editor. Paolo recently completed a full-length play, =20 Lunatic, and is working on the original brown boy, a long poetry comic =20= with artist Ernest Concepcion. He lives in Queens. You can query him =20 to pm@welcometoboogcity.com about writing reviews or sending in =20 publications for possible review. Joanna Fuhrman is now the poetry editor, effective with the =20 forthcoming Boog City 56. She is the author of three books of poetry =20 published by Hanging Loose Press, most recently Moraine. Her =20 collection Pageant is forthcoming from Alice James Books later this =20 year. She teaches poetry in predictable and unexpected places. You can =20= email her poetry subs to poetry@welcometoboogcity.com, with no more =20 than five poems, all in one attached file with =93My Name Submission=94 = in =20 the subject line and as the name of the file, ie: Walt Whitman =20 Submission. Or mail with an SASE to Joanna Fuhrman, Poetry editor, =20 Boog City, 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H, N.Y., N.Y. 10001-4754. And with issue 57, Cora Lambert will be taking over as art editor. =20 Cora is an artist, curator, and community activist who received a =20 B.F.A from the School of Visual Arts in 2007. She has worked with the =20= Leslie/Lohman Gay Arts Foundation, Umbrage Editions, and is currently =20= curating a quarterly art show called the Think Gallery Affordable Art =20= Series. Cora lives and works in New York where she continues to build =20= community through art education. You can query her to = art@welcometoboogcity.com=20 about possibly having your art featured in Boog City. Much thanks to our outgoing staffers, co-printed matter editor Mark =20 Lamoureux, co-poetry editors Julia Cohen and Mathias Svalina, and art =20= editor Brenda Iijima. Their time, effort, and dedication to Boog City =20= was much appreciated and will be missed. as ever, David --=20 David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:34:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: CORRECTION: SEGUE 4/18/09: Akilah Oliver and Charles Alexander MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable OOPS I got Friday and Saturday mixed up. Akilah and Charles are reading on *Saturday the 18th*, not Friday the 17th. I'll send another reminder later in the week. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Peterson Date: Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:30 AM Subject: SEGUE 4/17/09: Akilah Oliver and Charles Alexander To: Tim Peterson *The Segue Reading Series presents: AKILAH OLIVER & CHARLES ALEXANDER* *Saturday, April 17, 2009 ** 4PM SHARP*** at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, just north of Houston) $6 admission goes to support the readers hosted by Kristen Gallagher & Tim Peterson Charles Alexander is a Tucson-based poet, publisher, and book artist. He is the director and editor-in-chief of Chax Press. Alexander=92s recent books = of poetry include *Pushing Water: parts one through six* (Standing Stones Press, 1998), *near or random acts* (Singing Horse Press, 2004), and *Certa= in Slants* (Junction Press, 2007). Akilah Oliver is the author of a new book *A Toast in the House of Friends*(Coffee House Press, 2008), and also *the she said dialogues: flesh memory* (Smokeproof/Erudite Fangs, 1999). Sh= e currently makes her home in Brooklyn, NY. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:16:21 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Joshua Kotin Subject: *** J.H. Prynne & Keston Sutherland in Chicago *** Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This week in Chicago: *** April 14 *** J.H. Prynne will be delivering a lecture entitled "Mental Ears and Poetic Work." The lecture begins at 5:30 PM in Social Sciences 122 at the University of Chicago. *** April 15 *** William Fuller, J.H. Prynne, & Keston Sutherland will read their poems. The reading begins at 5 pm at the Joan Flasch Artists' Books Collection, 37 S. Wabash Ave, 5th floor. http://www.saic.edu/degrees_resources/departments/writing/index.html#news_events [scroll down] *** April 16 *** J.H. Prynne & Keston Sutherland will read their poems. The reading begins at 5:30 PM in Social Sciences 122 at the University of Chicago. * * * * * * For more information about the U of C events, please visit, http://poetics.uchicago.edu/events.html . Details and event-specific announcements to follow, but mark your calendars now! All events are free. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:22:10 -0700 Reply-To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.1.20090412131730.06d88fd8@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable he's clearly a major talent, enormously gifted. But do poets get to retire,= or put their talents on auto/pilot? I'm thinking of the work Ashbery has p= ublished in the last decade. Yeats wrote some of his best work in his late= r years. & Bloom, I believe, has placed Ashbery in THAT league, with the li= kes of Neruda, Rilke and Yeats... =20 --- On Sun, 4/12/09, Mark Weiss wrote: > From: Mark Weiss > Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 1:18 PM > I'll second that. >=20 > And it wouldn't, in any event, hurt to cut him a=20 > little slack. He's in his eighties, when folks=20 > tend to be less focused on the daily news. >=20 > Mark >=20 > At 04:58 PM 4/10/2009, you wrote: > >Smith wrote like Ashbery one afternoon in 1987, but > then thought better of it > >--=C2 > >maybe it's me, but I always found Ashbery a worldly > poet, and he seemed to me > >to be addressing the social on nearly every page -- > TENNIS COURT OATH anyone? > > > >On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 09:41 PM, Mark DuCharme > wrote: > > > > >Isn't there a poet named Jon Ashberrry who does > just that? I think he's the > > >author of The Days of The Houseboat, if memory > serves.... > > > > > >All joking aside, how does a poet or artist do=20 > > something *just once* which is > > >so different from a body of work over 50 years=20 > > in the making? Are you really > > >asking for this poet, whose name is Ashbery > incidentally, to suddenly turn > > >around & write like Rod Smith? That strikes > me as just about as silly as > > >expecting Smith to write like Ashbery. > > > > > >Mark DuCharme > > > > > > > > > > > >> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:28:29 -0700 > > >> From: bowering@SFU.CA > > >> Subject: Re: is it asking too much of > Ashberry? > > >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > >> > > >> Isn't his name Smmith? > > >> > > >> > > >> On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:52 AM, steve russell > wrote: > > >> > > >> > maybe it's asking too much, but if > Ashberry could adopt a more > > >> > worldy sensibility, and address > something social,just once, in the > > >> > manner of, say, Rod Smith: here's a > prose poem from "Deed," > > >Smith's > > >> > latest -- (line breaks not exact, but > still reads well)-- > > >> > > > >> > Ted's Head > > >> > > > >> > So there's this episode of Mary > Tyler Moore where Ted's trying to > > >> > get a raise & after finagling and > shenaniganizing he puts one > > >over > > >> > on Lou & gets his contract changed > to non-exclusive sos he can do > > > > > >> > commercials which is not cool w/Lou > & the gang because Ted's > > >just > > >> > a brainless gimp & it hurts the > image of the news to have the > > >> > anchorman selling tomato slicers & > dogfood so Lou gets despondent > > > > > >> > because the contract can't be > rescinded but then he gets mad & > > >> > calls Ted into his office & says, > "You're going to stop > > >doing > > >> > commercials, Ted" & Ted says > "why would I do that > > >Lou?" & Lou says > > >> > "Because if you don't I'll > punch your face out" & Ted > > >says "I'll > > >> > have you arrested" & Lou says > "It'll be too late, your > > >face will be > > >> > broken, you're not gonna get too > many commercials with a broken > > >> > face now are you Ted?" & Ted > buckles under to force & > > >everybody's > > >> > happy, except Ted but he's so dumb > nobody cares & everybody loves > > > > > >> > it that Lou's not despondent anymore > he's back to his > > >> > brustling chubby loud loveable > whiskey-drinking football-loving > > >> > ways. Now imagine if Ted were Lou, if > Ted were the boss. You know > > >> > how incredibly fucking brainless Ted is, > but let's imagine he > > >> > understands & is will to use force. > That's the situation we're > > >now > > >> > in as Americans. > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > >> > The Poetics List is moderated & does > not accept all posts. Check > > >> > guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ > > >> > welcome.html > > >> > > > >> > > >> Bowering, George H. > > >> A relatively untravelled Canadian writer. > > >> > > >> > > >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not > accept all posts. 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From: amy king Subject: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book Comments: To: new-poetry-admin@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A couple of months ago, Amazon quietly=0Aunleashed some sort of campaign to= strip certain books of their sales=0Arankings.=C2=A0 Unfortunately (& not = so coincidentally), most of the books targeted fell under the=0A=E2=80=9CGa= y/Lesbian=E2=80=9D category.=C2=A0=C2=A0 Once removed from the sales rankin= gs and=0Aplaced within the =E2=80=9CAdult=E2=80=9D category, these books no= longer show up in=0Asearch engines or in Amazon searches. In other words, = sales death.=C2=A0 How=0Ato kill gay books in one easy step?=C2=A0 Watch wh= ile Amazon quietly removes=0Agay and lesbian titles and renders them invisi= ble.=C2=A0=C2=A0 Censorship at its=0Adeadliest.=C2=A0 Many good people have= already been posting and protesting across the internet,=0Aand though you = may not rely on big name middlemen for your goods, much=0Aof America does.= =C2=A0 Make it your business to send a word of protest=0AAmazon=E2=80=99s w= ay!=C2=A0=20 =0A=0A~~~~ =0A=0AUPDATE =E2=80=93 I just checked.=C2=A0 I=E2=80=99M THE MAN WHO LOVES = YOU,=0Amy book of poems that has less sexual content than the=0Aabstinence-= promoting, Twilight, has been relegated to the =E2=80=9CAdult=E2=80=9D=0Aca= tegory because I happened to have labeled it, myself, Gay and=0ALesbian.=C2= =A0 Go figure.=C2=A0 It ain=E2=80=99t even erotic poetry,peeps!http://www.a= mazon.com/im-man-who-loves-you/dp/1934289337/sr=3D1-43/qid=3D1170862251/ref= =3Dsr_1_43/103-6971696-8767859?ie=3Dutf8&s=3Dbooks Lots of links to folks reactions on my blog:=C2=A0 http://amyking.org/ The Huffington Post -- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-rubysachs/amazon-= censors-gay-books_b_186153.html A Petition -- http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-ad= ult-policy And of course, more seed for the campaign to use places like SPD (Small Pre= ss Distribution), indie bookstores, etc.=C2=A0=20 I'd check your own book if there's any GLBT interest in it -- anyone can la= bel your book as such, which Amazon will have used to remove your book from= their search engines.=20 Best, Amy _______ =0A =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:48:01 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Kelleher Subject: Literary Buffalo Newsletter 04.13.09-04.19.09 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 LITERARY BUFFALO 04.13.09-04.19.09 THE BABEL 2009-2010 EARLY BIRD SUBSCRIPTION RATE EXPIRES THIS FRIDAY AT MID= NIGHT. SUBSCRIBE NOW AT THIS YEAR'S RATES BEFORE THEY GO UP=21 SCROLL DOWN = FOR DETAILS. EVENTS THIS WEEK Visit the Literary Buffalo calendar at www.justbuffalo.org for more detaile= d info on these events. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:59:29 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: Brothers Quay MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit PhillySound poet and filmmaker Ish Klein SCORED a very rare chance to interview the extraordinary twins of uber-otherly-real cinema, The Brothers Quay! To see this interview click http://blip.tv/file/1985256 WAY TO GO ISH! IT'S FANTASTIC! CAConrad -- PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:20:20 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aryanil Mukherjee Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: <041320090337.6462.49E2B3700008E7C50000193E22218675169B0A02D29B9B0EBF98019C050C0E040D@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Great post! I second it. Also, those who think he did nothing beyond TCO, let me ask - how many poets we know who can follow up a savagely experimental book like TCO with something as lyrically honeyed as Rivers and Mountains ? Thematic, topical and formative consistency is a natural expectation for most great poets. I find none as self-effacing as Ashbery. Yet, there IS a consistency. Also, as a man of science, let me say this - 20th century science has made it apparent, especially towards the latter half, that the world we live in cannot quite be explained is a deterministic fashion anymore. Everything is governed by laws of statistics/probability. Even laws are themselves, a function of statistical rules at times. The success of Genome project, for example, contrary to popular belief, only goes to prove that there IS indeterminacy, but a deeper knowledge of that could help us take the chances better. Knowledge-space is a casino we are in, you could just be a better gambler to get a better understanding. Einstein, who had once remarked, "God does not play dice with the universe" (btw, there is an ashbery poem that refers to that statement) reverts it in his later years. Energy is perceived as discreet, discontinuous packets; the whole gamut of Bose-Einstein statistics is born etc. One of the very few poets, in any language, who has successfully gotten closest to this "real" world (of indeterminacy) is Ashbery. His scholars have flaunted the word "uncertainty" so often to discuss this aspect of his poetry (even John seems like the word). I would argue for the word "possibility" instead. aryanil -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of blacksox@ATT.NET Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:37 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? The most amazing thing about Ashbery is his appeal. I know there are some on this list that view popularity as being a sell out. Ashbery never compromised the integrity of his art. Yet, if you are lucky enough to hear him read, seventeen year olds and octogenarians all join in and recite his work word for word. His work addresses polital issues by means of immersion That speaks volumes Peace Russ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:26:48 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD street performance by Jennifer Karmin Sunday, April 19th Chicago, IL 3:30pm in front of the U.S. Army Career Center downtown at Harrison and State Jennifer Karmin has been collecting 4000 WORDS for the 4000 DEAD Americans in Iraq. All words are being used to create a public poem. During street performances, she gives away these words to passing pedestrians. Submissions are ongoing as the Iraq War continues and the number of dead grows. Send 1-10 words with subject 4000 WORDS to jkarmin@yahoo.com. "I want to start with the milestone today of 4,000 dead in Iraq. Americans. And just what effect do you think it has on the country?" -- Martha Raddatz, ABC News' White House correspondent to Dick Cheney Participants include: Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Manan Ahmed, mIEKAL aND, David Baratier, Michael Basinski, Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Laynie Browne, Lee Ann Brown, Amina Cain, Teresa Carmody, Maxine Chernoff, Catherine Daly, Patrick Durgin, Annie Finch, Daniel Godston, Arielle Greenberg, Kate Greenstreet, Roberto Harrison, Carla Harryman, David Hernandez, Jen Hofer, Lisa Janssen, Pierre Joris, John Keene, Matthew Klane, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Joyelle McSweeney, Miranda Mellis, Philip Metres, Vanessa Place, Kristin Prevallet, Lisa Samuels, Susan Schultz, Laura Sims, Juliana Spahr, Christopher Stackhouse, Chuck Stebelton, Stacy Szymaszek, Tony Trigilio, Eric Unger, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Andrew Zawacki, and many more. Sponsored by: The Poetry Bomb http://www.myspace.com/thepoetrybomb Random acts of poetry in the city, suburbs, parks everywhere / anywhere people will hear it pick a location that works best for you contact poetrybomb@gmail.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:42:32 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Softies by David Jhave Johnston MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here's more recent digital video poems by David Jhave Johnston: http://glia.ca/conu/SOFTIES/ I find these absorbingly watchable/readable. As poems. As videos. As net art. ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:31:45 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "J.P. Craig" Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book In-Reply-To: <437313.78862.qm@web83303.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Amy, Thanks for the heads-up. I'll get a protest out somehow between =20 grading tasks. GLBT lit has taken it hard recently. A couple of years ago, oh crap, =20 more now, time flies, I was talking to the head editor at Naiad press =20= in Florida; they used to be the only folks to do a paperback Lifting =20= Belly, and she told me they were having to dump Stein and some other =20 stuff because they were having such a hard time moving it--they end =20 result was they were transitioning their list to all lesbian erotica. =20= I wonder how much of that problem was this sort of ghetto-izing in =20 bookshops? (Won't somebody think of the children! (Except the gay =20 children; leave them behind.)) I'm going to read the articles you provided links for. If one doesn't =20= tell me what it means to "strip sales rankings," could you let me =20 know? I have a fair idea, but I want to know for sure before I fire =20 off my letter to Amazon and begin spreading the news among my =20 students and immediate friends. JP On Apr 13, 2009, at 12:45 PM, amy king wrote: > A couple of months ago, Amazon quietly > unleashed some sort of campaign to strip certain books of their sales > rankings. Unfortunately (& not so coincidentally), most of the =20 > books targeted fell under the > =93Gay/Lesbian=94 category. Once removed from the sales rankings and > placed within the =93Adult=94 category, these books no longer show up = in > search engines or in Amazon searches. In other words, sales death. =20= > How > to kill gay books in one easy step? Watch while Amazon quietly =20 > removes > gay and lesbian titles and renders them invisible. Censorship at its > deadliest. Many good people have already been posting and =20 > protesting across the internet, > and though you may not rely on big name middlemen for your goods, much > of America does. Make it your business to send a word of protest > Amazon=92s way! > > > > > ~~~~ > > > UPDATE =96 I just checked. I=92M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU, > my book of poems that has less sexual content than the > abstinence-promoting, Twilight, has been relegated to the =93Adult=94 > category because I happened to have labeled it, myself, Gay and > Lesbian. Go figure. It ain=92t even erotic poetry,peeps!http://=20 > www.amazon.com/im-man-who-loves-you/dp/1934289337/sr=3D1-43/=20 > qid=3D1170862251/ref=3Dsr_1_43/103-6971696-8767859?ie=3Dutf8&s=3Dbooks > > Lots of links to folks reactions on my blog: http://amyking.org/ > > The Huffington Post -- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-rubysachs/=20= > amazon-censors-gay-books_b_186153.html > > A Petition -- http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-=20 > amazons-new-adult-policy > > And of course, more seed for the campaign to use places like SPD =20 > (Small Press Distribution), indie bookstores, etc. > > I'd check your own book if there's any GLBT interest in it -- =20 > anyone can label your book as such, which Amazon will have used to =20 > remove your book from their search engines. > > Best, > > Amy > > _______ > > > > > > Amy's Alias > > http://amyking.org/ > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check =20 > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/=20 > welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:59:06 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aryanil Mukherjee Subject: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit the last one was hurried. many words got left out. reposting... here is it again. ============= Great post! I second it. Also, those who think he did nothing beyond TCO, let me ask - how many poets we know can follow up a savagely experimental book like TCO with something as lyrically honeyed as Rivers and Mountains ? Thematic, topical and formative consistency is a natural expectation for most great poets. But I find none as self-effacing as Ashbery. And yet, there IS a consistency. Also, as a man of science, let me say this - 20th century science has made it apparent, especially towards the latter half, that the world we live in cannot quite be explained in a deterministic fashion anymore. Everything is governed by laws of statistics/probability. Even laws are themselves, at times, a function of statistical rules. The success of the Genome project, for example, contrary to popular belief, only goes to prove that there IS indeterminacy, but a deeper knowledge of that could help us take the chances better. Knowledge-space is a casino we are all in, you just need to be a better gambler to get a better understanding of the "dicy". Einstein, who had once remarked, "God does not play dice with the universe" (btw, there is an ashbery poem that refers to that statement) reverts it in his later years. Energy is perceived as discreet, discontinuous packets; the whole gamut of Bose-Einstein statistics is born etc. One of the very few poets, in any language, who has successfully gotten closest to this "real" world (of indeterminacy) is Ashbery. His scholars have flaunted the word "uncertainty" so often to discuss this aspect of his poetry (even John seems to like the word). I would argue for the word "possibility" instead. aryanil -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of blacksox@ATT.NET Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:37 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? The most amazing thing about Ashbery is his appeal. I know there are some on this list that view popularity as being a sell out. Ashbery never compromised the integrity of his art. Yet, if you are lucky enough to hear him read, seventeen year olds and octogenarians all join in and recite his work word for word. His work addresses polital issues by means of immersion That speaks volumes Peace Russ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:55:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ryan Daley Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book In-Reply-To: <437313.78862.qm@web83303.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://gawker.com/5210142/why-it-makes-sense-that-a-hackers-behind-amazons-= big-gay-outrage I was taken in too. -Ryan On 4/13/09, amy king wrote: > > A couple of months ago, Amazon quietly > unleashed some sort of campaign to strip certain books of their sales > rankings. Unfortunately (& not so coincidentally), most of the books > targeted fell under the > =93Gay/Lesbian=94 category. Once removed from the sales rankings and > placed within the =93Adult=94 category, these books no longer show up in > search engines or in Amazon searches. In other words, sales death. How > to kill gay books in one easy step? Watch while Amazon quietly removes > gay and lesbian titles and renders them invisible. Censorship at its > deadliest. Many good people have already been posting and protesting > across the internet, > and though you may not rely on big name middlemen for your goods, much > of America does. Make it your business to send a word of protest > Amazon=92s way! > > > > > ~~~~ > > > UPDATE =96 I just checked. I=92M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU, > my book of poems that has less sexual content than the > abstinence-promoting, Twilight, has been relegated to the =93Adult=94 > category because I happened to have labeled it, myself, Gay and > Lesbian. Go figure. It ain=92t even erotic poetry,peeps! > http://www.amazon.com/im-man-who-loves-you/dp/1934289337/sr=3D1-43/qid=3D= 1170862251/ref=3Dsr_1_43/103-6971696-8767859?ie=3Dutf8&s=3Dbooks > > Lots of links to folks reactions on my blog: http://amyking.org/ > > The Huffington Post -- > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-rubysachs/amazon-censors-gay-books_b_1= 86153.html > > A Petition -- > http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy > > And of course, more seed for the campaign to use places like SPD (Small > Press Distribution), indie bookstores, etc. > > I'd check your own book if there's any GLBT interest in it -- anyone can > label your book as such, which Amazon will have used to remove your book > from their search engines. > > Best, > > Amy > > _______ > > > > > > Amy's Alias > > http://amyking.org/ > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:26:41 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Peter Subject: Alt avatar Comments: To: wryting-l@listserv.wvu.edu, "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" , spidertangle@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alt avatar http://ciccariello.viewbook.com/avatar ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:34:36 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Amazon is still responsible.=A0 The whole fiasco has been months in the mak= ing, with warning signs (via=0Aauthor complaints & numerous GLBT books drop= ping from their search=0Aengine), not just a sudden weekend surprise.=A0=20 Whomever is responsible, it is not as though Amazon was in the dark.=A0 Wha= t it does speak volumes about is just how concerned Amazon was regarding a = response to its GLBT customers and authors.=A0 Only when Twitter exploded t= his=0A weekend with calls for action did Amazon move from a standard "It's = our policy" reply to "It's a glitch" excuse.=A0 The situation should have b= een addressed before the Twitter response, both=0Atechnically and publicly.= =A0 =A0=20 To=0Apublicly demand an explanation and expect an apology, saboteur or no,= =0Ais not asking too much.=A0 Debating the merits of whether Amazon did it= =0Aon purpose or not does not dismiss the effect their neglect=0Ahas on a s= pecific part of the population that continues to be denied civil rights,=0A= among other homophobic actions we face on a daily basis.=A0 This=0Aso-calle= d "glitch" carries a lot of public weight and deserves a public=0Aresponse,= esp in today's climate.=A0 The whole debacle, the ability to remove a larg= e number of GLBT books over a few months (with no fallout?), reeks of (& re= inforces) the still-thriving "gay"=0Aequals "pervert" mentality, however "a= ccidental" the censoring was.=A0=20 By the way, the cart may be ahead of the horse here too -- read the comment= s in the Gawker link you sent, Ryan.=A0 This "explanation" isn't enough for= most, and some suspect that Weev is a hired cover-up after the fact.=A0 Ul= timately, it doesn't matter.=A0 What matters is what Amazon allowed to happ= en and what they do next.=A0=20 From GAWKER: The online bookseller now needs to explain why a temporary glitch=0A"recent= ly" discovered has been affecting gay-themed novels going back=0Ato at leas= t early February, when (as we noted previously) former gay=0Astripper Craig= Seymour saw the sales ranking on his memoir disappear=0Aeven as Diablo Cod= y's stripper memoir retained its sales rank. Seymour=0Acomplained at the ti= me and eventually resolved the issue, so it's not=0Alike Amazon didn't have= warnings of the problem before this weekend. ... Former Amazon.com gay and lesbian studies editor Ron Hogan now works at= GalleyCat as senior editor. He raises doubts there=0Aabout Amazon's "glitc= h" excuse, pointing first to Seymour's experience=0Ain February and then to= the fact that Amazon originally called this a=0A"policy" decision (see her= e) before contradicting itself and calling it a "glitch". =0A=0AWhy Amazon Can't Just=0ACall Gay Blacklist a 'Glitch' =0A=0A http://gawker.com/5209381/why-amazon-cant-just-call-gay-blacklist-a-glitch Amy _______ =0A =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/ --- On Mon, 4/13/09, Ryan Daley wrote: From: Ryan Daley Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry b= ook To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 4:55 PM http://gawker.com/5210142/why-it-makes-sense-that-a-hackers-behind-amazons-= big-gay-outrage I was taken in too. -Ryan =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:42:49 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi J.P., It means that you can search my name, or my books' titles, or lesbian poetr= y, and nothing of mine will come up in Amazon's search engine bc it is now = listed as "Adult" aka porn.=A0 Just as Google disallows porn to show up in = its rankings, or tries, Amazon has decided that my work, along with a lot o= f other GLBT books, needs to be censored from their promotional search engi= ne.=A0=20 Hope that helps! Best, Amy _______ =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/ --- On Mon, 4/13/09, J.P. Craig wrote: I'm going to read the articles you provided links for. If one doesn't tell = me what it means to "strip sales rankings," could you let me know? I have a= fair idea, but I want to know for sure before I fire off my letter to Amaz= on and begin spreading the news among my students and immediate friends. JP =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:40:36 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book In-Reply-To: <572435.2948.qm@web83304.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If it were a hack, I'd think it would be more likely to put -- choose your work -- sales rank #1 in certain categories, not to remove sales rank from lots of books. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:34 PM, amy king wrote: > Amazon is still responsible.=A0 The whole fiasco has been months in the m= aking, with warning signs (via > author complaints & numerous GLBT books dropping from their search > engine), not just a sudden weekend surprise. > --=20 All best, Catherine Daly c.a.b.daly@gmail.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:51:36 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Tod Edgerton Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Amy, I just tried out searches for you, Ed White, Alan Hollinghurst, "lesbi= an poetry," "gay porn" and "gay erotica," and I got your Antidotes for an A= libi, titles by the novelists, and a host of anthologies. I hope this means= they've corrected this completely.... Michael Tod Edgerton _______________________ If the challenge of our time is the challenge of empathy, to make an empath= etic relation; that is, to see another person, to feel their pain, story, w= hatever--that--that how can a poetic material making be part of--of that?= =A0=A0=20 ~ Ann Hamilton, in an interview about her installation, Indigo Blue --- On Mon, 4/13/09, amy king wrote: From: amy king Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry b= ook To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 5:42 PM Hi J.P., It means that you can search my name, or my books' titles, or lesbian poetr= y, and nothing of mine will come up in Amazon's search engine bc it is now = listed as "Adult" aka porn.=A0 Just as Google disallows porn to show up in = its rankings, or tries, Amazon has decided that my work, along with a lot o= f other GLBT books, needs to be censored from their promotional search engi= ne.=A0=20 Hope that helps! Best, Amy _______ Amy's Alias http://amyking.org/ --- On Mon, 4/13/09, J.P. Craig wrote: I'm going to read the articles you provided links for. If one doesn't tell = me what it means to "strip sales rankings," could you let me know? I have a= fair idea, but I want to know for sure before I fire off my letter to Amaz= on and begin spreading the news among my students and immediate friends. JP =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:53:22 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ryan Daley Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, it seems it's clearly a hack. Whether or not Amazon has acted in good faith is another story. Does anyone remember a few years back when Amazon Canada (I think it was...) had the problem of authors favorably reviewing their own work/attacking the work of rivals via the "anonymous poster" settings? It took them weeks to figure that one out, too. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Catherine Daly wrote: > If it were a hack, I'd think it would be more likely to put -- choose > your work -- sales rank #1 in certain categories, not to remove sales > rank from lots of books. > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:34 PM, amy king wrote: > > Amazon is still responsible. The whole fiasco has been months in the > making, with warning signs (via > > author complaints & numerous GLBT books dropping from their search > > engine), not just a sudden weekend surprise. > > > > > > -- > All best, > Catherine Daly > c.a.b.daly@gmail.com > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:56:50 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Weiss Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Don't give them ideas, Catherine. The one wouldn't cancel the other. Our best protection from evil may be the limited imaginations of the perps. Mark At 06:40 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote: >If it were a hack, I'd think it would be more likely to put -- choose >your work -- sales rank #1 in certain categories, not to remove sales >rank from lots of books. > >On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:34 PM, amy king wrote: > > Amazon is still responsible. The whole fiasco has been months in > the making, with warning signs (via > > author complaints & numerous GLBT books dropping from their search > > engine), not just a sudden weekend surprise. > > > > > >-- >All best, >Catherine Daly >c.a.b.daly@gmail.com > >================================== >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:33:21 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sharon Dolin Subject: April 22nd Reading Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Wednesday, April 22nd Sharon Dolin, Phillis Levin, Molly Peacock Book Culture 536 W. 112th St. (bet. Broadway & Amsterdam) New York, NY 7 pm, free 212-865-1588 Sharon Dolin sdolin@earthlink.net ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:43:47 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Maria Damon Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book In-Reply-To: <003098D5-C007-4E87-B880-AE378004D139@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit why do you suppose this is happening now, under obama, rather than earlier under bush? is the right taking it to the cyber-streets, as it were? J.P. Craig wrote: > Amy, > Thanks for the heads-up. I'll get a protest out somehow between > grading tasks. > > GLBT lit has taken it hard recently. A couple of years ago, oh crap, > more now, time flies, I was talking to the head editor at Naiad press > in Florida; they used to be the only folks to do a paperback Lifting > Belly, and she told me they were having to dump Stein and some other > stuff because they were having such a hard time moving it--they end > result was they were transitioning their list to all lesbian erotica. > I wonder how much of that problem was this sort of ghetto-izing in > bookshops? (Won't somebody think of the children! (Except the gay > children; leave them behind.)) > > I'm going to read the articles you provided links for. If one doesn't > tell me what it means to "strip sales rankings," could you let me > know? I have a fair idea, but I want to know for sure before I fire > off my letter to Amazon and begin spreading the news among my students > and immediate friends. JP > > On Apr 13, 2009, at 12:45 PM, amy king wrote: > >> A couple of months ago, Amazon quietly >> unleashed some sort of campaign to strip certain books of their sales >> rankings. Unfortunately (& not so coincidentally), most of the books >> targeted fell under the >> “Gay/Lesbian” category. Once removed from the sales rankings and >> placed within the “Adult” category, these books no longer show up in >> search engines or in Amazon searches. In other words, sales death. How >> to kill gay books in one easy step? Watch while Amazon quietly removes >> gay and lesbian titles and renders them invisible. Censorship at its >> deadliest. Many good people have already been posting and protesting >> across the internet, >> and though you may not rely on big name middlemen for your goods, much >> of America does. Make it your business to send a word of protest >> Amazon’s way! >> >> >> >> >> ~~~~ >> >> >> UPDATE – I just checked. I’M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU, >> my book of poems that has less sexual content than the >> abstinence-promoting, Twilight, has been relegated to the “Adult” >> category because I happened to have labeled it, myself, Gay and >> Lesbian. Go figure. It ain’t even erotic >> poetry,peeps!http://www.amazon.com/im-man-who-loves-you/dp/1934289337/sr=1-43/qid=1170862251/ref=sr_1_43/103-6971696-8767859?ie=utf8&s=books >> >> >> Lots of links to folks reactions on my blog: http://amyking.org/ >> >> The Huffington Post -- >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-rubysachs/amazon-censors-gay-books_b_186153.html >> >> >> A Petition -- >> http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy >> >> And of course, more seed for the campaign to use places like SPD >> (Small Press Distribution), indie bookstores, etc. >> >> I'd check your own book if there's any GLBT interest in it -- anyone >> can label your book as such, which Amazon will have used to remove >> your book from their search engines. >> >> Best, >> >> Amy >> >> _______ >> >> >> >> >> >> Amy's Alias >> >> http://amyking.org/ >> >> >> >> >> ================================== >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >> guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:17:32 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Holly Crawford Subject: Re: Nico Vassilakis: 5IVE SEQUENCES AC[Chapel] NYC, Opening Thursday April 16 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We'll be installing Nico Vassilakis work at AC. The opening is this Thursday. April 16 - May 9, 2009 / Opening: Thursday, April 16, 6-8pm Three New Exhibitions: Lemeh42: Sightlines Stephen Day and Sibylle Peretti: Suicide Notes Nico Vassilakis: 5IVE SEQUENCES Nico Vassilakis: 5IVE SEQUENCES 5IVE SEQUENCES, a visual poem by Nico Vassilakis is being exhibited in AC [Chapel] as an installation for the first time since its publication. Enlarged in scale, to 18"x24", from its original chapbook size and offering a rare opportunity to collectively interact with the piece in a public forum, 5IVE SEQUENCES explores the inherent structure and transience of language as a medium. In creating 5IVE SEQUENCES, Vassilakis focused on the individual shapes and constructions of letters within words, referring to it as a kind of "hyper-staring" that allowed him to transform them into images and sculptural forms, free of the bonds of syntax or semantics. For Vassilakis, visual poetry is a tangential literature through which the alphabet is deconstructed into dislocations of meaning and/or the revisioning of letters-changing the viewers perception and experience of them. Within his work, letters or fragments of letters and the environment in which they are placed, become the medium for his compositions. 5IVE SEQUENCES explores a periodic table of language through individual letterforms, exposing and disjointing their order to lose their cohesion, opening up new interpretations and meanings. Nico Vassilakis is a multimedia artist, poet and writer. He is currently the curator for the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle. His visual poetry videos have been shown worldwide at festivals and exhibitions of innovative language arts. Vassilakis' writings have appeared in numerous magazines, including: Ribot, Caliban, Aufgabe, Chain, Talisman, Central Park and Golden Handcuffs Review. His latest publications are TEXT LOSES TIME and most recently a Vispo essay "staReduction," from BookThug Publishers (Toronto, Canada). AC [ Direct ] I / II and AC [ Chapel ] 547 W. 27th Street, 5th floor NY, NY 10001 AC is open Wed-Saturday 1-6 & Thursday until 8 pm AC Chapel is open 6 days a week from 9-6, Monday-Saturday, and until 8 on Thursday. www.artcurrents.org ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:23:24 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: <089E0F50F97C46CC9C2E789AA13D9604@net.plm.eds.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Indeterminacy" can mean many things, depending on the context. But the basic scenario regarding indeterminacy that I think of is this: Suppose we were able to go back five seconds in time right now. And suppose that everything, and I mean *everything*, was as it was before, at that moment, including us, down to the last atom. Could we do anything other than what we did, when time resumes? I don't see how it could be possible, personally. As for Ashbery, he trips the light fantastic where few can go. That's liberating. ja > Also, as a man of science, let me say this - 20th century science has made > it apparent, especially towards the latter half, that the world we live in > cannot quite be explained in a deterministic fashion anymore. Everything > is > governed by laws of statistics/probability. Even laws are themselves, at > times, a function of statistical rules. The success of the Genome project, > for example, contrary to popular belief, only goes to prove that there IS > indeterminacy, but a deeper knowledge of that could help us take the > chances > better. Knowledge-space is a casino we are all in, you just need to be a > better gambler to get a better understanding of the "dicy". Einstein, who > had once remarked, "God does not play dice with the universe" (btw, there > is > an ashbery poem that refers to that statement) reverts it in his later > years. Energy is perceived as discreet, discontinuous packets; the whole > gamut of Bose-Einstein statistics is born etc. > > One of the very few poets, in any language, who has successfully gotten > closest to this "real" world (of indeterminacy) is Ashbery. His scholars > have flaunted the word "uncertainty" so often to discuss this aspect of > his > poetry (even John seems to like the word). I would argue for the word > "possibility" instead. > > aryanil ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:11:02 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The end of unlimited internet Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just received this from a friend. It may be of interest to some of you: "If Time-Warner, Comcast and other large scale internet have their way the days of unlimited internet are over. You will pay for every byte you upload or download. Here is a link to the story as I heard it initially: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103041709 If we do not protest this blatant greed things will change for the worse. We will be looking back at the last 10 years as the golden era of the internet before the big money took control. There are already trials in some cities regardless of the protest. I urge each of you to take action now by emailing your politicians and ISPs. If you need a template, or an example, here is one: 'This email is to voice my strong opposition to caps on internet usage. As you probably know some internet providers are currently changing the way they charge for the internet instead of simply requiring a charge for unlimited usage. The internet works quite well as it is currently structured. It is obvious that this is just another attempt by large corporate providers to take advantage of the consumer. I do not use the internet to download movies or any other high bandwidth demand beyond the occasional streaming video of a news story or video at YouTube. Still I believe that the current structure works, that the price is more than sufficient for a provider to make a substantial profit. If some of the changes that are currently in trial become general practice I will abandon the internet and no longer do business on any level with any company that manipulates its customers in order to boost profit. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely,.....' " ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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From: Alexander Dickow Subject: Soir=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9e_?= Raymond Federman: Tuesday April 21st MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chers amis, chers coll=C3=A8gues,=0AVenez nous rejoindre mardi pour notre h= ommage =C3=A0 Raymond Federman.=0ABien cordialement,=0AAlexander Dickow=0A= =0A=0AUne rencontre=0Aautour de Raymond Federman =C2=BB aura lieu =C3=A0 l= =E2=80=99occasion de sa venue en France et de son livre : =0ARaymond Federm= an hors limites, entretien avec Marie Delvigne,=0A=C3=A9ditions Argol.=0A = =0ARaymond=0AFederman lira quelques uns de ses textes et ses amis l=E2=80= =99entoureront et liront pour=0Alui leurs morceaux choisis dans la po=C3=A9= sie et la litt=C3=A9rature. Soir=C3=A9e amicale=0Asuivie d=E2=80=99un buffe= t=0A =0A=C2=AB En=0Acompagnie de Raymond Federman =C2=BB=0ALe 21 avril 2009= =C3=A0 20 heures=0AReid Hall=0A4, rue de Chevreuse=0A75006=0AParis=0A=0ACo= ntact =E2=80=93 R=C3=A9servations :=0ACatherine Flohic =0Aargol.editions@cl= ub.fr=0A01=0A43 29 96 32 - 06 72 46 25 99 = www.argol-editions.fr = =0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:53:32 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "Join us at the Librairie Shakespeare & Compa=". Rest of header flushed. From: Alexander Dickow Subject: Shakespeare and Company: Poetry reading Monday April 21st MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends and Colleagues,=0AJoin us at the Librairie Shakespeare & Compa= ny in Paris for an Anglophone poetry reading.=0A=0ALecture-Rencontre / Poet= ry Reading at Shakespeare and Company=0AAlexander Dickow & Nicholas Manning= =0A37 rue de la B=FBcherie=0A75005 Paris =0AT=E9l: 01 43 25 40 93=0A=0Alund= i 20 avril / Monday, April 20th=0A19h/ 7pm=0A=0AAlexander Dickow is an Amer= ican poet, translator, and author of Caramboles, a collection of poetry in = French and English published by Argol Editions. He is currently pursuing hi= s doctoral research in Ch=E2tillon.=0A=0ANicholas Manning's first collectio= n Novaless was released from Otoliths Books in 2008. Hi Higher Hyperbole, a= chapbook of new poems, is forthcoming from Ypolita Press. He currently tea= ches comparative poetics at the University of Strasbourg, France.=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:49:48 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Obododimma Oha Subject: Call for Submissions Comments: To: USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com, ederi Comments: cc: Scott Howard MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *Reconfigurations*, a peer-reviewed online journal of Literature & Culture (ISSN 1938 =96 3592), is interested in publishing a couple of critical essa= ys and cultural works (poems, paintings, etc) that address the emergence and applications of non-Western frameworks of knowledge. Essays that engage the politics of locating knowledge production and transnational movements of academic expertise are also welcome. Submissions should be emailed to Obododimma Oha (mmanwu@go.com , udude@full-moon.com ) or to Scott Howard, the editor of Reconfigurations (showard@du.edu ), by 30 April 2009. For mor= e information on the journal, please visit: http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/ --=20 Obododimma Oha http://udude.wordpress.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:43:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Slaughter Subject: Notice: Mudlark MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed New and On View: Mudlark Poster No. 80 (2009) The Black Edge | Christien Gholson Christien Gholson is the author of On the Side of the Crow (Hanging Loose), nominated as one of the top five first books in 2006 by ColdFront Magazine. His work has appeared in Big Bridge, Cimarron Review, Ecotone, Lilliput Review, Mudlark, Poetry New Zealand, Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, and Sentence. 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 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:08:56 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: richard owens Subject: POET PUBLISHERS: A SMALL PRESS SYMPOSIUM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Apologies in advance for cross-posting. All events listed below= =0A=0A=0A=0AApologies in advance for cross-posting. All events listed below= are free and open to the public. The Poetics Program, Department of English at the University at Buffalo pre= sents: POET-PUBLISHERS: A CONTEMPORARY SMALL PRESS SYMPOSIUM, April 19 -20. =C2=A0= =C2=A0 =C2=A0=20 =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0ABringing a diverse range of contempo= rary poet-publishers=0Ainto conversation with one another, this small press= symposium is an event that=0Aseeks to think the poetics of book publishing= . In doing so, we hope to=0Ahistoricize contemporary small press practice a= nd investigate the intersection=0Aof book arts, community, labor and aesthe= tic production. =0A=0A=0A =0ASCHEDULE OF EVENTS:=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ASUNDAY,=0AAPRIL 19=0A=0AKARPELES=0A= MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo)=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A8:00pm:=C2=A0 = =0A=0APoetry=0Areadings by Jay MillAr, Anna Moschovakis, Richard Owens and = Kyle Schlesinger.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AMONDAY,=0AAPRIL 20=0A=0APOETRY=0ACOLLECT= ION (420 Capen Hall, SUNY Buffalo North Campus)=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A9:30-10:00= :=0ACoffee=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A10:00-10:45:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0AKEYNOTE:=0ACHARLES ALEXANDER (Editor, Chax Pres= s)=0A=0A=E2=80=9CBetween=0APoetics, the Poetics of Between, Pressing Betwee= n=E2=80=9D=0A=0A=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0A11:00-1:= 00:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A= =0AINTERSTITIAL=0APRACTICES: =C2=A0=0A=0ABUFFALO=0APOET-PUBLISHERS ROUNDTAB= LE=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ARobert=0ADewhurst (Satellite Television),= =0AGeoffrey Gatza (BlazeVOX), David Hadbawnik (Kadar=0AKoli | Hadbenicht Pr= ess), Margaret Konkol (Small Press in the Archive=0ASeries), Aaron Lowinger= (House Press | Just Buffalo Small Press Reading=0ASeries), Edric Mesmer (Y= ellow Edenwald=0AField), Douglas Manson (Little Scratch Pad), Richard Owens= (Damn the Caesars | Punch Press), Andrew=0ARippeon (P-Queue | Queue Editio= ns),=0AJessica Smith (Foursquare | Outside Voices), Andrea Strudensky (Brok= e).=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A1:00-2:00:=0ALunch=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A2:00-2:45:=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 = =0A=0AKEYNOTE: MICHAEL=0ABASINSKI (Curator, UB Poetry Collection)=0A=0A=E2= =80=9CExploration and=0AAcquisition: Collecting All of Small Press Poetry= =E2=80=9D=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A3:00-5:00:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0ARETHINKING=0APOESIS=E2=80= =94MAKING | REMARKING | RESPONDING=0A=0AA PANEL=0ADISCUSSION MODERATED BY S= TEVE McCAFFERY=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A"Five Micro-Ecologies=E2=80=94A=0APresentat= ion of 5 Portable-Press at Yo-Yo Labs Chapbooks," Brenda Iijima=0A(Portable= Press at Yo-Yo Labs)=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=E2=80=9CPublishing Continuity=E2=80= =9D,=0AJay MillAr (Bookthug)=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A"=0Athe temptations of anti-s= ustainability, or wherefore survival?," Anna=0AMoschovakis (Ugly Duckling)= =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A"Ragged=0AEdges," Kyle Schlesinger (Cuneiform Press)=0A= =0A=C2=A0=0A=0AMONDAY=0AEVENING READING =0A=0ATHE=0AKARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUS= EUM (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo)=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A8:00PM:=C2=A0 Poetry reading= s by Charles Alexander, Michael=0ABasinski, Brenda Iijima and Andrew Rippeo= n.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ABIOGRAPHICAL=0ANOTES:=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A[K E= Y N O T E=C2=A0 =C2=A0S P E A=0AK E R S]=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ACHARLES=0AALEXAN= DER is a poet, publisher, and book artist. He is=0Athe director and editor-= in-chief of Chax, one of the only independent presses=0Awhich specializes i= n innovative poetry and the book arts. He learned many fine=0Aarts bookmaki= ng techniques studying with Walter Hamady at the University of=0AWisconsin = Department of Fine Arts in Madison, Wisconsin. Alexander also served=0Aas t= he Director of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts from 1993 to 1995. He is= =0Athe recipient of the 2006 Arizona Arts Award. Alexander's recent books o= f poetry=0Ainclude Etudes: D & D (Quarry=0Apress, 1997), Pushing Water: par= ts one=0Athrough six (Standing Stones Press, 1998), near or random acts (Si= ng Horse Press, 2004), and Certain Slants (Junction Press, 2007).=0AHe is a= lso the editor of Talking the=0ABoundless Book, an important collection of = essays on the book arts that=0Aemanated from the symposium Art &=0ALanguage= : Re-Reading the Boundless Book, that he organized for Minnesota=0ACenter f= or the Book Arts in 1994. In summer 2007 he was chosen to participate=0Ain = the TAMAAS poetry translation seminar in Paris, France. In late 2008 he=0Ap= ublished and printed the fine art portfolio Charles Olson: Language as Phys= ical Fact, and organized a=0Aconference of the same title held at the Unive= rsity of Arizona Poetry Center.=0AHe works primarily independently of major= institutions, although in recent=0Ayears he has taught courses in writing,= literature, and the book arts at the=0AUniversity of Arizona, Pima Communi= ty College, and Naropa University.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AMICHAEL=0ABASINSKI is T= he Curator of The Poetry Collection,=0Athe University at Buffalo. He perfor= ms his work as a solo poet and in ensemble=0Awith BuffFluxus. Among his man= y books of poetry are Of Venus 93 (Little=0AScratch Pad); All My Eggs Are B= roken (BlazeVox); Heka (Factory=0ASchool); Strange Things Begin to Happen W= hen a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona=0ADesert (Burning Press); The Idyllic B= ook (Michel Letko, Houston,=0ATexas); Mool, Mool3Ghosts and Shards of Shamp= oo (Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum); Cnyttan and Heebie-Jeebies (Meow=0APress)= ; By and The Doors (House Press); Un-Nome, Red Rain Two, Abzu=0Aand Flight = to the Moon (Run Away Spoon Press): Poemeserss (Structum=0APress) and many = more. See (or hear): RadioRadio on UBUWEB (see Basinski and=0ABuffFluxus) e= tc.=C2=A0 His poems and other works have appeared in Dandelion,=0ABoxKite, = Antennae, Unbearables Magazine, Open Letter,=0ATorgue, Leopold Bloom, Woode= n Head Review, Basta, Kiosk, Explosive Magazine,=0ADeluxe Rubber Chicken, F= irst Offense, Terrible=0AWork, Juxta, Kenning, Witz, Lungfull, Lvng, Genera= tor, Tinfish, Curicule=0APatterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, First Intensity= , House=0AOrgan, Ferrum Wheel, End Note, Ur Vox, Damn the Caesars, Pilot, 1= 913,=0AFilling Station, Public Illumination, Poetry, and in many others.=0A= =0A=C2=A0=0A=0A[P A N E L I S T S]=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ABRENDA IIJIMA is the au= thor of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus, 2007)=0Aand Around Sea (O Books, 2= 004). Her=0Abook, If Not Metamorphic was runner=0Aup for the Sawtooth Prize= and will be published by Ahsahta Press. revv.you=E2=80=99ll=E2=80=94ution,= is forthcoming from=0ADisplaced Press sometime this year. She is the edito= r of Portable Press at=0AYo-Yo Labs: http://yoyolabs.com/. She is editing a= collection of essays by=0Apoets concerning poetry and ecological ethics ti= tled )((eco=0A(lang)(uage(reader). She is the art editor at Boog City as we= ll as a visual=0Aartist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at Coo= per Union.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A= =0A=C2=A0=0A=0AJAY=0AMillAr is a Toronto poet, editor, publisher, and virtu= al bookseller. He is the=0Aauthor of False Maps for Other Creatures (2005),= Mycological Studies=0A(2002), and The Ghosts of Jay MillAr=0A(2000). His m= ost recent collection is the small blue (Fall 2007). He is=0Aalso the autho= r of many chapbooks and privately published editions such as Woods|Pages=0A= and=C2=A0Lack Lyrics, which tied to win the 2008 bpNichol Chapbook=0AAward.= In 2006 he published Double Helix,=0Aa collaborative "novel" written with = Stephen=0ACain. Millar is the shadowy figure behind BookThug, an independen= t=0Apublishing house dedicated to exploratory edge work by well-known and e= merging=0ANorth American writers, as well as Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, a vi= rtual=0Abookstore that specializes in the books that no one wants to buy. A= long-time=0Afixture of the Toronto writing and publishing=0Ascene, Jay has= participated in such diverse projects as the UNBC/Via Rail=0APoetry Train,= The Scream in High Park, Test=0AReadings Series and Influency: A Poetry Sa= lon. He is also the co-editor (with Mark Truscott) of BafterC,=0Aa small ma= gazine of contemporary writing. Currently Jay teaches creative=0Awriting an= d poetics at George Brown College.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AANNA=0AMOSCHOVAKIS has = been working with UDP since 2002 as an editor, designer,=0Aadministrator, a= nd printer. Book projects she has spearheaded include The=0ADrug of Art (Iv= an Blatny); Iterature, Enter Morris Imposternak=0Aand The Life and Opinions= of DJ Spinoza (Eugene Ostashevsky); The=0AHot Garment of Love Is Insecure = (Elizabeth Reddin); and O New York=0A(Trey Sager); as well as Notes on Conc= eptualisms, Barf Manifesto=0A(Dodie Bellamy), Sleep=E2=80=99s Powers (Jacqu= eline Risset), and all the other=0Atitles in the Dossier=0ASeries. She is a= lso the author a book of poems, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Ever= yone=0A(Turtle Point Press 2006), and of several chapbooks, including The B= lue=0ABook (Phylum Press), Dependence=0ADay Parade (Sysiphus) No Medea (a T= inyside from Big=0AGame Books), and The Human=0AMachine (Dusie). Her transl= ations from the French include texts by=0AHenri Michaux, Claude Cahun, Theo= phile Gauthier, Pierre Alf=C3=A9ri, and Blaise=0ACendrars; her translation = of The Engagement by=0AGeorges Simenon was published in 2006 by NYRB Classi= cs and her translation of The Possession by=0AAnnie Ernaux came out int 200= 8 from Seven Stories Press. She has been a=0Avisiting artist/faculty in Bar= d=E2=80=99s MFA program and at Naropa=E2=80=99s Summer Writing=0AWorkshop. = She taught Comparative Literature at Queens College for=0Athree years and c= urrently teaches Creative Writing at Pratt Institute in=0ABrooklyn.=0A=0A= =C2=A0=0A=0AKYLE=0ASCHLESINGER writes and lectures about topics related to = poetics, artists' books=0Aand the history of visual communication.=0A=0A=C2= =A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A[BUFFALO ROUNDTABLE]=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AJOEL=0ABRENDEN i= s a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. He received his MFA in=0AVisual= Studies from the University at Buffalo SUNY.=0AHe exhibits regionally, and= continues to develop, produce and print Enthusiast, a small press-based=0A= conceptual project. He is active in the printing and poetics communities in= =0ABuffalo, where he currently resides on the second floor.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A= =0AROBERT=0ADEWHURST publishes the magazine Satellite=0ATelephone, and is t= he co-editor, with Sean Reynolds, of Wild Orchids, a journal of affective l= iterary criticism whose first number will appear this=0AJuly.=0A=0A=C2=A0= =0A=0AGEOFFREY=0AGATZA is the editor and publisher of BlazeVOX [books] and = the author of five=0Abooks of poetry; Not So Fast Robespierre=0Ais now avai= lable from Menendez Publishing. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute = of America in Hyde Park, NY (1993) and Daemen College, Amherst, NY=0A(2002)= , and served as a U.S. Marine in the first gulf=0Awar. He lives in Kenmore,= NY with his=0Agirlfriend and two cats.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ADAVID=0AHADBAWNIK = is a poet and performer currently living with his wife in Buffalo, NY. Rece= nt publications include the books Translations From Creeley (Sardines, 2008= ), Ovid in Exile (Interbirth, 2007), and SF Spleen (Skanky=0APossum, 2006).= He is the editor and publisher of Habenicht Press and the=0Ajournal kadar = koli. =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AMARGARET=0AKONKOL is a doctoral student in the Poet= ics=0AProgram at SUNY Buffalo. Her poems have appeared=0Ain Small Press Col= lective, Rude Girl Press, Buffalo=0AVortex, Fusion, and Love Factory. She c= urates the Mildred=0ALockwood Lacey Small Press in the Archive Lecture Seri= es.=0AHer article "Creeley in Age: Negative Poetics in Robert=0ACreeley=E2= =80=99s Late Work" appears in Jacket 31.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AAARON=0ALOWINGER = is a Buffalo poet and writer who is involved in the mighty morphin' House P= ress and the Just Buffalo Small Press Reading=0ASeries.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ADO= UGLAS=0AMANSON is a poet, publisher, grant writer living in Buffalo.=C2=A0= =0AHe believes in democracy. little scratch pad press and its editions are= =0Adedicated to publishing new, emerging and outsider poets, substantiating= their=0Aworks in professionally designed book publications.=C2=A0 lsp chap= books emerge=0Afrom a fully collaborative process and environment, and the = press promotes new=0Apoetry by way of organized readings and exhibitions.= =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AEDRIC=0AMESMER=E2=80=99s poems have appeared in 26, Aufga= be, EOAGH, and BlazeVOX.=0AFrom Buffalo he collates the local journal Yello= w Edenwald Field, publishing=0Apoetry from this city, its borders, and sibl= ing cities.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ARICHARD=0AOWENS edits Punch Press and Damn the= Caesars, a journal of contemporary=0Apoetry and poetics. Delaware Memorand= a, a book-length poem, was published through BlazeVox in 2008.=0A=0A=C2=A0= =0A=0AANDREW=0ARIPPEON edits P-Queue (a journal of=0Apoetry, poetics, and i= nnovative prose) and QUEUE (a chapbook series adjunct to=0Athe journal). He= lives in Buffalo, NY, where he participates in the Poetics=0AProgram at th= e University at Buffalo.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AJESSICA=0ASMITH is the editor of = Outside Voices Press, an imprint of Bootstrap=0AProductions. Her first book= , Organic=0AFurniture Cellar, was published in 2006. She also edits Foursqu= are, a monthly women's poetry=0Amagazine. Much of her work can be read onli= ne at looktouch.com=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AANDREA=0ASTRUDENSKY edits the journal = Broke.=0AOriginally from Montreal, she is currently living in Buffalo study= ing poetry=0A =0A=0A =0A=0ATHIS=0AEVENT IS SPONSORED BY THE JAMES H. MCNULTY CHAIR (DENNIS TEDLO= CK), THE=0ADAVID GRAY CHAIR OF POETRY AND LETTERS (STEVE MCCAFFERY), THE=0A= DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO,=0ATHE= POETRY AND RARE BOOKS COLLECTION, THE MILDRED LOCKWOOD LACEY FUND=0AFOR PO= ETRY & THE KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM. =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:20:19 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Michael, Yep, the books are getting ranked again!=A0 Amazon sent a notice: An Amazon spokesman called the deletions an "embarrassing and=0Aham-fisted = cataloguing error for a company that prides itself on=0Aoffering complete s= election". http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/nationalnews/Amazon-sorry-book-sales-= error/article-899385-detail/article.html Though=0Ait's pretty clear that they addressed the situation only when the= =0Ainternet exploded with a mass campaign, rather than earlier addressing t= he problem based on individual authors' complaints & the dropping of numero= us GLBT titles.=A0 Still, a response!=A0=20 Amy _______ =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/ --- On Mon, 4/13/09, Michael Tod Edgerton = wrote: From: Michael Tod Edgerton Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry b= ook To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 6:51 PM Amy, I just tried out searches for you, Ed White, Alan Hollinghurst, "lesbi= an poetry," "gay porn" and "gay erotica," and I got your Antidotes for an A= libi, titles by the novelists, and a host of anthologies. I hope this means= they've corrected this completely.... =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:31:43 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: KING + SIME + THOMPSON -- Wed, April 22nd - 7:00pm @ Barrette Comments: To: "ViewsNewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable KING + SIME + THOMPSON -- Wednesday, April 22nd -- 7:00pm @ B= =0A=0A=0A=0AKING + SIME + THOMPSON -- Wednesday, April 22nd=0A-- 7:00pm @ B= arrette=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A~~~=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ABarrette will be offering dri= nk specials to attendees ($5=0Awine, $4 pints) and their tasty bar menu wil= l be available as well.=C2=A0 We=0Ahope folks will stick around to drink or= nosh and check out=C2=A0books and=0Abroadsides (made especially for this e= vent) after the reading.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A~~~=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AAMY KING is = the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You and=0AAntidotes for an Alibi, and f= orthcoming, Slaves to do These Things (Blazevox=0ABooks). She teaches Engli= sh and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College,=0Amoderates the Poetic= s and Women's Poetry listserves, and co-curates The Stain=0Aof Poetry: A Re= ading Series (http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/).=0APlease visit her at h= ttp://amyking.org=0Afor more. =0A =0A =0ARICHARD SIME grew up in rural North Dakota, graduated from college in=0A= Minnesota, moved to New York City to attend graduate school at NYU, drifted= =0Ainto publishing, and eventually returned to school at Sarah Lawrence Col= lege,=0Awhere he earned an MFA in fiction writing and where a course on pro= sody planted=0Aa seed. He began to write poetry in workshops at the New=0AS= chool in New York=0A City and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown,=0A= MA, where he returns each summer.=0AHis work has appeared in Barrow=0A St= reet, Provincetown=0AArts, Radical Faerie Digest, and Passager. =0A =0A =0AL.B. THOMPSON received her B.A. from Sarah=0ALawrence College=0Aand her = M.F.A. in Poetry from New=0A York University.=0AHer poetry has been publis= hed in journals including Fence, Pool, Lyric, The=0AWomen's Review of Books= and The New Yorker. She received an award for emerging=0Awomen writers fro= m the Rona Jaffe Foundation in 2002, and won the Center for=0ABook Arts=E2= =80=99 annual chapbook competition in 2003. L.B. teaches English to college= =0Afreshmen, works as a free-lance copyeditor, and lives on the North Fork = of Long=0AIsland.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A~~~ =0A =0ABarette is wheelchair accessible.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AHosts -- Ari Banias &= Danica Colic=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ABarrette=0A=0A601 Vanderbilt=0A Ave (at Ber= gen=0A St, Prospect=0AHeights, Brooklyn)=0A=0A718-230-5170=0A=0ASubway: B,= Q to Seventh=0A Ave; 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A= =0Ahttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=3D81872660752=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2= =A0=0A=0A _______ =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:24:39 -0700 Reply-To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: <6B733DD620D74CDAA9B23959E4FC3838@net.plm.eds.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Rivers & Mountains and Tennis Court Oath -- they're early Ashberry, probably the period of his strongest work. After Wave or maybe Flow Chart, I'm not so sure -- nothing too exciting in the last 10 or 15 years that I'm aware of -- although the collages (some, I hear, were worthy of Joseph Cornell) were interesting. --- On Mon, 4/13/09, Aryanil Mukherjee wrote: > From: Aryanil Mukherjee > Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashbery? > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 2:20 PM > Great post! I second it. > > Also, those who think he did nothing beyond TCO, let me ask > - how many poets > we know who can follow up a savagely experimental book like > TCO with > something as lyrically honeyed as Rivers and Mountains ? > Thematic, topical > and formative consistency is a natural expectation for most > great poets. > I find none as self-effacing as Ashbery. Yet, there IS a > consistency. > > Also, as a man of science, let me say this - 20th century > science has made > it apparent, especially towards the latter half, that the > world we live in > cannot quite be explained is a deterministic fashion > anymore. Everything is > governed by laws of statistics/probability. Even laws are > themselves, a > function of statistical rules at times. The success of > Genome project, for > example, contrary to popular belief, only goes to prove > that there IS > indeterminacy, but a deeper knowledge of that could help us > take the chances > better. Knowledge-space is a casino we are in, you could > just be a better > gambler to get a better understanding. Einstein, who had > once remarked, "God > does not play dice with the universe" (btw, there is > an ashbery poem that > refers to that statement) reverts it in his later years. > Energy is perceived > as discreet, discontinuous packets; the whole gamut of > Bose-Einstein > statistics is born etc. > > One of the very few poets, in any language, who has > successfully gotten > closest to this "real" world (of indeterminacy) > is Ashbery. His scholars > have flaunted the word "uncertainty" so often to > discuss this aspect of his > poetry (even John seems like the word). I would argue for > the word > "possibility" instead. > > aryanil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) > [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On > Behalf Of blacksox@ATT.NET > Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:37 PM > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? > > The most amazing thing about Ashbery is his appeal. I know > there are some on > this list that view popularity as being a sell out. Ashbery > never > compromised the integrity of his art. Yet, if you are lucky > enough to hear > him read, seventeen year olds and octogenarians all join in > and recite his > work word for word. > > His work addresses polital issues by means of immersion > > That speaks volumes > > Peace > Russ > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all > posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all > posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:32:24 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Patrick Dillon Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: <0E862F63443042EB887401066E118170@OwnerPC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jim, Your post reminds me of an essay I read in the NYT about David Foster Wallace's undergraduate thesis. I think it may be of interest so I will quote at length here: The fatalist contends, quite radically, that human actions and decisions have no influence on the future. Your behavior today no more shapes events tomorrow than it shapes events yesterday. Instead, in a seemingly backward way, the fatalist says it is how things are in the future that uniquely constrains what happens right now. What might seem like an open possibility subject to human choice =97 say, whether you fire your handgun =97 is alrea= dy either impossible or absolutely necessary. You are merely going with some cosmic flow. Perhaps most counterintuitively, the fatalist argues that this topsy-turvy doctrine can be established by mere reflection on the simple logic of propositions about the future. If I fire my handgun, one second from now it= s barrel will be hot; if I do not fire, one second from now the barrel will not be hot; but the proposition one second from now the barrel will be hotis right now either true or false. If the proposition is true, then it is the case that I will fire the gun; if it=92s false, then it is the case tha= t I won=92t. Either way, it=92s the state of affairs in the future that dictate= s what I will or won=92t do now. [...] But how to straighten out Taylor=92s fatalism? Wallace proposed that there = was a flaw in Taylor=92s argument, a hidden defect. In essence, Taylor was treating two types of propositions as if they were the same, when in fact they needed to be distinguished and treated differently. Consider the sentences =93It was the case that I couldn=92t fire my handgun=94 and =93It= cannot be the case that I did fire my handgun.=94 At first they may sound similar, but Wallace argued that they involve quite different notions of impossibility. =93It was the case that I couldn=92t fire my handgun=94 refe= rs to a past situation in which discharge is deemed impossible because (let=92s say= ) my gun was broken. =93It cannot be the case that I did fire my handgun=94 r= efers to a present situation in which discharge is deemed impossible because (let=92s say) my gun is still cool to the touch. The first notion involves = an earlier, physical constraint on firing (namely, the broken gun); the other involves the current absence of a necessary consequence of firing (namely, = a hot barrel). An extremely sensitive observer of language, Wallace noted tha= t there is a subtle indicator of this important distinction already at work i= n our language: the fine differentiation in meaning between =93I couldn=92t h= ave done such and so=94 and =93I can=92t have done such and so.=94 Full text available here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14wwln-Wallace-t.html pd On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Jim Andrews wrote: > "Indeterminacy" can mean many things, depending on the context. But the > basic scenario regarding indeterminacy that I think of is this: > > Suppose we were able to go back five seconds in time right now. And suppo= se > that everything, and I mean *everything*, was as it was before, at that > moment, including us, down to the last atom. Could we do anything other t= han > what we did, when time resumes? > > I don't see how it could be possible, personally. > > As for Ashbery, he trips the light fantastic where few can go. That's > liberating. > > ja > > Also, as a man of science, let me say this - 20th century science has ma= de >> it apparent, especially towards the latter half, that the world we live = in >> cannot quite be explained in a deterministic fashion anymore. Everything >> is >> governed by laws of statistics/probability. Even laws are themselves, at >> times, a function of statistical rules. The success of the Genome projec= t, >> for example, contrary to popular belief, only goes to prove that there I= S >> indeterminacy, but a deeper knowledge of that could help us take the >> chances >> better. Knowledge-space is a casino we are all in, you just need to be a >> better gambler to get a better understanding of the "dicy". Einstein, wh= o >> had once remarked, "God does not play dice with the universe" (btw, ther= e >> is >> an ashbery poem that refers to that statement) reverts it in his later >> years. Energy is perceived as discreet, discontinuous packets; the whole >> gamut of Bose-Einstein statistics is born etc. >> >> One of the very few poets, in any language, who has successfully gotten >> closest to this "real" world (of indeterminacy) is Ashbery. His scholars >> have flaunted the word "uncertainty" so often to discuss this aspect of >> his >> poetry (even John seems to like the word). I would argue for the word >> "possibility" instead. >> >> aryanil >> > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:30:58 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Fwd: Kaurab Online 27 is Out In-Reply-To: <6DAB6007DD0849F0AD2C97D4B563F0ED@net.plm.eds.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Staff, KAURAB Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:36 AM Subject: Kaurab Online 27 is Out To: "Staff, KAURAB" Dear Friend Kaurab ONLINE issue 27 is out. The 4th Update of the English Translation Archive is released simultaneously. Please visit www.kaurab.com and click on the cover of the new 27th issue. Directly visit the translation archive at http://www.kaurab.com/english/ The Bangla issue highlights a) New poems by generation 21:0 poets - Anupam Mukhopadhyay, Abhijit Mitra= , Manik Saha, Sabbir Azam and Souva Chattopadhyay. b) Faraway Kitchenspace - A collection of hybrid, intertwined verse-prose/verse-fiction pieces that focus on four poets of the outer Bangla diaspora =96 Mesba Alam Arghya, Subhro Bandopadhyay, Sabyasachi Sanyal & Aryanil Mukhopadhyay c) The =93chhaayaashabda=94 section presents 8 new rubBEINGs by David Bapti= ste Chirot. The series is titled =93Death From This Window=94. Kaurab Online is simultaneously building an ongoing archive of Bangla poetry in English. The archive has a strong international orientation and also includes interviews and book reviews. The 4th update (a link could als= o be found from the homepage) covers -http://www.kaurab.com/english/ 1. Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) =96 50 new translations of Rabi=92s earl= y poetry by Prithwindranath Mukherjee 2. Tyrone Williams interviewed by Brenda Iijima 3. Christian Wiman interviewed by Ankur Saha 4. Hannah Weiner=92s OPEN HOUSE reviewed by Maria Damon 5. Amiya Chakravarty=92s ANOTHER SHORE reviewed by Norman Finkelstein 6. Bangla poetry translation =96 Swadesh Sen 7. Bangla poetry translation =96 Dhiman Chakrabarty Happy reading and please don=92t forget to feed us back. Staff, Kaurab =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:39:04 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Patrick Dillon Subject: Re: The end of unlimited internet In-Reply-To: <23035412.1153611239700262659.JavaMail.www@wwinf3705> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit And, if that is the case, this call and website may be an example of what we have to look forward to: Call to Verizon regarding dubious math in billing: http://imgs.xkcd.com/verizon_billing.mp3 Another person's response and proposed form of payment: http://xkcd.com/verizon/ Full blog on the issue: http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Jeffrey Side wrote: > Just received this from a friend. It may be of interest to some of you: > "If Time-Warner, Comcast and other large scale internet have their way the > days of unlimited internet are over. You will pay for every byte you upload > or download. Here is a link to the story as I heard it initially: > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103041709 > If we do not protest this blatant greed things will change for the worse. > We will be looking back at the last 10 years as the golden era of the > internet before the big money took control. There are already trials in some > cities regardless of the protest. I urge each of you to take action now by > emailing your politicians and ISPs. If you need a template, or an example, > here is one: > 'This email is to voice my strong opposition to caps on internet usage. As > you probably know some internet providers are currently changing the way > they charge for the internet instead of simply requiring a charge for > unlimited usage. The internet works quite well as it is currently > structured. It is obvious that this is just another attempt by large > corporate providers to take advantage of the consumer. I do not use the > internet to download movies or any other high bandwidth demand beyond the > occasional streaming video of a news story or video at YouTube. Still I > believe that the current structure works, that the price is more than > sufficient for a provider to make a substantial profit. If some of the > changes that are currently in trial become general practice I will abandon > the internet and no longer do business on any level with any company that > manipulates its customers in order to boost profit. Thank you for your time > and consideration. Sincerely,.....' " > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:48:32 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eric Weinstein Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book In-Reply-To: <75859.39689.qm@web83306.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is what Publisher's Lunch had to day this morning: Amazon Says Error Affected Over 57,000 Titles, and Has Been Fixed--Or Not Quite Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener said yesterday the company is fixing the "glitch" that removed the sales ranking from what they now say was 57,310 books worldwide. Without explaining the error itself (or the provocative customer service e-mail) any further, Herdener admitted, "This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection." He says that affected books were in "broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing books from Amazon's main product search." PI But in giving the same basic statement to the AP--which mistakenly bills it as an apology--Herdener says they are still working on the problem. "Many books have now been fixed and we're in the process of fixing the remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures to make this kind of accident less likely to occur in the future." A Seattle PI business reporter blogs about the cause of the error, based on a conversation with an "Amazon employee who works closely with the systems involved in the glitch." The source indicates that "Amazon managers found that an employee who happened to work in France had filled out a field incorrectly and more than 50,000 items got flipped over to be flagged as 'adult.' (Technically, the flag for adult content was flipped from 'false' to 'true.')" The source adds, "It's no big policy change, just some field that's been around forever filled out incorrectly." Similar versions of this explanation, less formally sourced, were posted on the internet prior to the PI's blog. If accurate, it also confirms the suspicion that Amazon does indeed have some kind of policy to restrict the listing visibility of an unquantified number of titles considered to contain "adult" content--which would explain the original customer service e-mail posted on the Internet over the weekend. Only time will tell whether the company will acknowledge that policy, how it is implemented, and how many books it covers.Separately, Amazon has been sending a non-apologetic explanation by e-mail to customers who had complained (expressing a policy that would stand at odds with any flagging for "adult" content: "As a retailer, our goal is to provide customers with the broadest selection possible so they can find, discover, and buy any item they might be seeking. That selection includes some items which many people may find objectionable. Therefore, the items offered on our website represent a wide spectrum of opinions on a variety of topics. "Amazon.com believes it is censorship not to sell certain titles because we believe their message is objectionable. Therefore, we'll continue to make controversial works available in the United States and everywhere else, except where they're prohibited by law. We also allow readers, authors, and publishers to express their views freely about these titles and other products we offer on our website." E On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:20 AM, amy king wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Yep, the books are getting ranked again! Amazon sent a notice: > > An Amazon spokesman called the deletions an "embarrassing and > ham-fisted cataloguing error for a company that prides itself on > offering complete selection". > > > http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/nationalnews/Amazon-sorry-book-sales-error/article-899385-detail/article.html > > Though > it's pretty clear that they addressed the situation only when the > internet exploded with a mass campaign, rather than earlier addressing the > problem based on individual authors' complaints & the dropping of numerous > GLBT titles. Still, a response! > > Amy > > > _______ > > > > Amy's Alias > > http://amyking.org/ > > --- On Mon, 4/13/09, Michael Tod Edgerton > wrote: > > From: Michael Tod Edgerton > Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry > book > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 6:51 PM > > Amy, I just tried out searches for you, Ed White, Alan Hollinghurst, > "lesbian poetry," "gay porn" and "gay erotica," and I got your Antidotes for > an Alibi, titles by the novelists, and a host of anthologies. I hope this > means they've corrected this completely.... > > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:34:16 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dana Teen Lomax Subject: LETTERS TO POETS at the SFSU Poetry Center 4/23/09 @ 4:30 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please join us for the Bay Area Celebration of Letters to Poets: Conversati= ons about Poetics=2C Politics=2C and Community Thursday=2C April 23=2C 2009 4:30 pm Free! San Francisco State Poetry Center San Francisco State UniversityHumanities 512 1600 Holloway AvenueSan Francisco=2C CA 94132415 338-2227 Featured guests include: Leslie Scalapino reading from her letter exchanges= with Judith Goldman=2CJennifer Firestone reading from her letter exchanges= with Eileen Myles=2CTraci Gourdine reading from her letter exchanges with = Quincy Troupe=2CPaul Hoover and Albert Flynn DeSilver reading from their le= tters to each other=2Cand Claire Braz-Valentine and Dana Teen Lomax reading= from their letters. About Letters to Poets Cornel West writes: "This courageous and visionary b= ook enacts and embodies a concrete 'relational aesthetics' that gives poeti= c voices an epistolary space=97for linguistic intimacy and soul-sharing. Do= n't miss it!" Edited by Jennifer Firestone and Dana Teen Lomax=2C Letters to Poets=2C is = a collaborative experiment conducted over approximately one year's time=2C = which brought together 28 poets from various backgrounds=2C aesthetics=2C a= nd geographical locations and asked them to write letters to each other. Th= ese letters are uncensored: the only condition was that the writing spoke t= o the poets' most urgent concerns. This event is free and open to the public. See you there! _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail=AE: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_= Mobile1_042009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:39:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "J.P. Craig" Subject: Re: Amazon is Censoring GLBT Literature, including my own poetry book In-Reply-To: <49E3EA53.5040900@umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If this is directed at me, I'm assuming that this is an entirely =20 opportunistic exploitation of a breech in Amazon's "security." The =20 timing is related to the publication of the potential of this exploit =20= on a number of blogs. Given the puerile and misogynistic nature of =20 nerd culture, it's no surprise to me that GLBT material was the =20 target of the exploit. Myself, I'm inclined to regard it as a symptom =20= of an overall attitude more than as an effort directed by Amazon or a =20= right-wing group. Call it asymmetrical idiocy. My assumptions are no more than that, and they're based on what I =20 read on Ars Technica this morning. There's probably more info by now. Frankly, I find my scenario to be more disturbing: a continual =20 festering hate is, to me, worse than a few bloviating toads and their =20= flocks--people who can be judged non-norm. But when the norm is "ha =20 ha that's gay," well, it's a death of a thousand little cutting =20 humiliations. I agree with Amy that Amazon's responses are half-assed and =20 disingenuous. I doubt there was will, malevolent or benevolent. Just =20 a corporate beast slouching toward the bottom line and the lowest =20 common denominator (who, I am sure, share the same basement room of a =20= suburban McMansion). On Apr 13, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Maria Damon wrote: > why do you suppose this is happening now, under obama, rather than =20 > earlier under bush? is the right taking it to the cyber-streets, as =20= > it were? > > J.P. Craig wrote: >> Amy, >> Thanks for the heads-up. I'll get a protest out somehow between =20 >> grading tasks. >> >> GLBT lit has taken it hard recently. A couple of years ago, oh =20 >> crap, more now, time flies, I was talking to the head editor at =20 >> Naiad press in Florida; they used to be the only folks to do a =20 >> paperback Lifting Belly, and she told me they were having to dump =20 >> Stein and some other stuff because they were having such a hard =20 >> time moving it--they end result was they were transitioning their =20 >> list to all lesbian erotica. I wonder how much of that problem was =20= >> this sort of ghetto-izing in bookshops? (Won't somebody think of =20 >> the children! (Except the gay children; leave them behind.)) >> >> I'm going to read the articles you provided links for. If one =20 >> doesn't tell me what it means to "strip sales rankings," could you =20= >> let me know? I have a fair idea, but I want to know for sure =20 >> before I fire off my letter to Amazon and begin spreading the news =20= >> among my students and immediate friends. JP >> >> On Apr 13, 2009, at 12:45 PM, amy king wrote: >> >>> A couple of months ago, Amazon quietly >>> unleashed some sort of campaign to strip certain books of their =20 >>> sales >>> rankings. Unfortunately (& not so coincidentally), most of the =20 >>> books targeted fell under the >>> =93Gay/Lesbian=94 category. Once removed from the sales rankings = and >>> placed within the =93Adult=94 category, these books no longer show = up in >>> search engines or in Amazon searches. In other words, sales =20 >>> death. How >>> to kill gay books in one easy step? Watch while Amazon quietly =20 >>> removes >>> gay and lesbian titles and renders them invisible. Censorship =20 >>> at its >>> deadliest. Many good people have already been posting and =20 >>> protesting across the internet, >>> and though you may not rely on big name middlemen for your goods, =20= >>> much >>> of America does. Make it your business to send a word of protest >>> Amazon=92s way! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ~~~~ >>> >>> >>> UPDATE =96 I just checked. I=92M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU, >>> my book of poems that has less sexual content than the >>> abstinence-promoting, Twilight, has been relegated to the =93Adult=94 >>> category because I happened to have labeled it, myself, Gay and >>> Lesbian. Go figure. It ain=92t even erotic poetry,peeps!http://=20 >>> www.amazon.com/im-man-who-loves-you/dp/1934289337/sr=3D1-43/=20 >>> qid=3D1170862251/ref=3Dsr_1_43/103-6971696-8767859?ie=3Dutf8&s=3Dbooks= >>> >>> Lots of links to folks reactions on my blog: http://amyking.org/ >>> >>> The Huffington Post -- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-=20 >>> rubysachs/amazon-censors-gay-books_b_186153.html >>> >>> A Petition -- http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-=20 >>> amazons-new-adult-policy >>> >>> And of course, more seed for the campaign to use places like SPD =20 >>> (Small Press Distribution), indie bookstores, etc. >>> >>> I'd check your own book if there's any GLBT interest in it -- =20 >>> anyone can label your book as such, which Amazon will have used =20 >>> to remove your book from their search engines. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Amy >>> >>> _______ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Amy's Alias >>> >>> http://amyking.org/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >>> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check =20 >>> guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/=20 >>> welcome.html >> >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check =20 >> guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/=20 >> welcome.html > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check =20 > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/=20 > welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:57:52 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Small Press Traffic Subject: REMINDER: This Saturday:Tan Lin and Chet Wiener! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please excuse our cross-posting but not our enthusiasm for this fantastic reading! Tan Lin & Chet Wiener Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Co-Sponsored with The New Reading Series at 21 Grand At 21 Grand =95 416 25th Street in Oakland *Tan Lin* is the author of Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, BlipSoak01, and Plagiarism/Outsource: Heath. Lin is the recipient of a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant for 2004-2005 and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant to complete a book on the writings of Andy Warhol. He has recently completed a novel, Our Feelings Were Made By Hand. He teaches English at New Jersey City University. *Chet Wiener* writes poetry in English and French. He is the author of a book of poems in French, Devant l=92abondance (P.O.L 2003) and the chapbook WalkDontWalk (Potes and Poets 1999). He has translated F=E9lix Guattari and Pierre Alferi, among others into English, co-edited, with Stacy Doris, the collection of translations: Christophe Tarkos; Ma Langue est Po=E9tique (Ro= of Books, 2000), and his poems, translations and essays on translation have appeared in publications in the United States and France. He is a specialis= t in 16th-century French literature and philosophy, translates for the French Ministries of Culture and European and Foreign Affairs and writes medical filing documents for review by the FDA and other regulatory agencies internationally. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:26:15 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thank you Aryanil for a brilliant letter! I like the way you suggest the word "possibility" rather than "indeterminancy"-- I wondered also why the example from Rod Smith is supposed to be evidence o= f a " more worldy sensibility, and address(es) something social," when it is = a description of an episode of a TV show which is in rerun for over thirty years as being taken by one of the persons in the story to be an image of "America now." Not having read the book from which this is taken, I don't know if the author is writing a parody, or proposing a description of an event among "real" or "fictional" or "stereotypical" persons--as "illustrative" of his idea of a certain American "voice" or "persona"--and "what they might say and think"--or is "in actuality based on a real event in the author's life" etc-- (Or as they say on the Tru Channel: "Not reality. Actuality.") It is a description of a "social occaision" in which a "character" reads a TV rerun as showing the problems of "America now," but how it is "more worldly" and "addressing something social" in ways Ashbery's current writings aren't and do not, one can't really say on the strength of the evidence given. (This itself may be said to be a form of "Indeterminancy" may it not, in its own humble way--"the not being able to say due to the lack of sufficien= t evidence either way"--as a recognition of an Indeterminancy--in that "the matter at hand is Indeterminate at present"--) Actually the idea that past/future actions are not changeable in the presen= t is one daily disproven by some very simple methods. Also the "inevitability" of the progression of the Past to the Present in terms of a Future is also not very hard to demontsrate and create. In many ways in man= y media, this is going on al around one every day-- One does not have to travel into the past of five seconds ago at all--when one has so much more already at one's command right now--write now! For example: there are a number of Israeli State and Pro-Israeli groups whose functions are to continually alter or have deleted any posts, you tube, Google, Face Book, etc which are deemed "critical of Israel." As a Government Minister said, this is a form of Assault analogous to that carried out recently on Gaza. By these means, it is not just references which refer to the present which are "disappeared," but also those which in any way refer to such past incidents as are deemed "detrimental to the image of the State of Israel." The removal or alteration of events, names, ideas makes possible the continual reinvention, revision not only of the Past, but also of the Futur= e as it approaches as "new information" to be eradicated and substituted by information which conforms to the trajectory of a History which proves itself to be as it were Fore Ordained. This is a method long long in use in the world' s newspapers, scrolls, monuments, school texts, history books, and histories of Culture. The difference is simply that the arenas of information/disinformation and censorship have been greatly extended throughout ever more media of communication and "keeping of records." The idea of using these as a form of "Assault" is also very ancient--as is the idea of stating publicly that one is going to undertake these tactics. For this plants doubt ahead of time in all forms of information as to whether or not they have been altere= d yet or not. That doubt is as debilitating as a direct assault in psychological and stress terms. This is a method which in the Present is making the Future"happen now" so that when it does actually happen--it will not be noticed as a "drastic change" but simply as something already long done, a fait accompli. Or, as something long predicted, and thus "not at all surprising" and revelatory once again of the "correctness of the State's thinking." The "Future" has actually "all along existed as the Past," in these terms, so that the sense of a series of events "having happened" is removed and one finds instead those smooth surfaces of Deleuze and Guattari in which the War and State Machines glide along without any resistance or friction whatsoever. "As it It is Now, as it Was and as it Ever Shall be." It is not just the deleting or altering of texts and images which is undertaken, but also that of altering maps on line so that the Palestinian names of refugee camps, villages, hills--are all renamed in Hebrew, giving the impression that these sites are already part of Israel, so that when they are indeed "owned" in actuality via force, no one wil notice this "drastic change," and, if any protests are launched, al one has to do is point to the maps on line, in order to say, these Hebrew-named villages have been there all along. One aspect of the Indeterminacy Principle is that the observer affects what is observed. By altering ahead of time what it is that the Observer will observe, one ha= s the ability to indeed "change the action in the present" of that "in the future" by way of the altering of the Past to conform to both Future and Present. that is, that "ahead of time" the pointsof reference which will b= e used in the making of an Observation will have been altered so that what is now a possible Observation has already been earidicated and substituted by one which "has never happened except in terms of language, by rebarding, etc." That is, a Past which never was, can be used to alter the possiblities of a Future via a reordering in the Present of the range of probabilities, of statistical "outcomes." Language itself is altering time, distorting it, contaminating it and permeating it with particles of corrosive effect, or of the kind that are "rotten before ripe." If one cannot completely control the Observer's observations, at least one has introduced differences into them by way of disinformation which will take them on a "detour" from the actuality of the present "on the ground." This detouring--or "detourning"--"shifts the balance of power, the probabilities of outcomes"-- The term "rebranding" has gained widespread use in recent years for everything from the naming of products to the naming of policies. The latter, after all, from the point of view of Business journals such as the one which declared President Obama their Man of the (Business, Marketing) Year are one and the same. The rebranding by the Obama administration of practically every term from the Bush days to do with the War on Terror (now known as Overseas Contingency Operations; Terrorist Acts, Bombings etc-- ar= e now called Man Made Disasters--) leads people to think that there is indeed "Change" when in fact the same old--and sometimes far worse--policies are i= n use as under Bush. The Present is "Changed" in name only from the Past--leading the citizens t= o think that their Future is "going to be different" than what it would have been previously. "The names may change, but the game remains the same," as the saying goes. The difference between "can not" and "could not" no longer matters, because the Past is altered in the Present to conform with that version of the Future which is not "going to happen," but "already has happened " and awaits only to fulfill its destiny "on the ground." This is the approach utilized by Big Brother in Orwell's 1984, and also one suggested by the terminologies of Imperialism and Colonialism, which posit such "Inevitabilities" linking Past Present and Future in an indissoluable Union as "Manifest Destiny." Because the act of observation plays a part in the event being observed, what is important in terms of language is to "rebrand" perceptions of the observations of how the event was perceived to have been happening at the same time that it was happening. I.E. the" Present" is always just a bit in arrears of the "real time present," and existing already as an "after the fact" Past of what is just to come as its own "Future"--that arrival "after the fact" of a Present which has turned into a Futurity--its own Futurity. ("Deja vu all over again"--"it is new to me, yet not unknown" (the Uncanny)-- A chilling example of these varieties, possibilities, probabilities of modus operandi is found in a sign often hanging in the offices of the State Bureaucracies in charge of the "Health and Human Services" and various others related to Probation and Parole. This sign simply states: "If it is not in writing, it never happened." Thus, "As it is Written, So Shall it Be"-(and "So it Was" and "So it is Now")---is at the heart of the Control via language that a writer/sound and film experimenter like Burroughs, for example, seeks to "Cut Up"--to create "Break through in the Grey Room where the reality Films" are edited. , On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Patrick Dillon w= rote: > Jim, > > Your post reminds me of an essay I read in the NYT about David Foster > Wallace's undergraduate thesis. I think it may be of interest so I will > quote at length here: > > The fatalist contends, quite radically, that human actions and decisions > have no influence on the future. Your behavior today no more shapes event= s > tomorrow than it shapes events yesterday. Instead, in a seemingly backwar= d > way, the fatalist says it is how things are in the future that uniquely > constrains what happens right now. What might seem like an open possibili= ty > subject to human choice =97 say, whether you fire your handgun =97 is alr= eady > either impossible or absolutely necessary. You are merely going with some > cosmic flow. > > Perhaps most counterintuitively, the fatalist argues that this topsy-turv= y > doctrine can be established by mere reflection on the simple logic of > propositions about the future. If I fire my handgun, one second from now > its > barrel will be hot; if I do not fire, one second from now the barrel will > not be hot; but the proposition one second from now the barrel will be > hotis right now either true or false. If the proposition is true, then > it is > the case that I will fire the gun; if it=92s false, then it is the case t= hat > I > won=92t. Either way, it=92s the state of affairs in the future that dicta= tes > what I will or won=92t do now. > > [...] > But how to straighten out Taylor=92s fatalism? Wallace proposed that ther= e > was > a flaw in Taylor=92s argument, a hidden defect. In essence, Taylor was > treating two types of propositions as if they were the same, when in fact > they needed to be distinguished and treated differently. Consider the > sentences =93It was the case that I couldn=92t fire my handgun=94 and =93= It cannot > be the case that I did fire my handgun.=94 At first they may sound simila= r, > but Wallace argued that they involve quite different notions of > impossibility. =93It was the case that I couldn=92t fire my handgun=94 re= fers to > a > past situation in which discharge is deemed impossible because (let=92s s= ay) > my gun was broken. =93It cannot be the case that I did fire my handgun=94 > refers > to a present situation in which discharge is deemed impossible because > (let=92s say) my gun is still cool to the touch. The first notion involve= s an > earlier, physical constraint on firing (namely, the broken gun); the othe= r > involves the current absence of a necessary consequence of firing (namely= , > a > hot barrel). An extremely sensitive observer of language, Wallace noted > that > there is a subtle indicator of this important distinction already at work > in > our language: the fine differentiation in meaning between =93I couldn=92t= have > done such and so=94 and =93I can=92t have done such and so.=94 > > Full text available here: > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14wwln-Wallace-t.html > > pd > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Jim Andrews wrote: > > > "Indeterminacy" can mean many things, depending on the context. But the > > basic scenario regarding indeterminacy that I think of is this: > > > > Suppose we were able to go back five seconds in time right now. And > suppose > > that everything, and I mean *everything*, was as it was before, at that > > moment, including us, down to the last atom. Could we do anything other > than > > what we did, when time resumes? > > > > I don't see how it could be possible, personally. > > > > As for Ashbery, he trips the light fantastic where few can go. That's > > liberating. > > > > ja > > > > Also, as a man of science, let me say this - 20th century science has > made > >> it apparent, especially towards the latter half, that the world we liv= e > in > >> cannot quite be explained in a deterministic fashion anymore. Everythi= ng > >> is > >> governed by laws of statistics/probability. Even laws are themselves, = at > >> times, a function of statistical rules. The success of the Genome > project, > >> for example, contrary to popular belief, only goes to prove that there > IS > >> indeterminacy, but a deeper knowledge of that could help us take the > >> chances > >> better. Knowledge-space is a casino we are all in, you just need to be= a > >> better gambler to get a better understanding of the "dicy". Einstein, > who > >> had once remarked, "God does not play dice with the universe" (btw, > there > >> is > >> an ashbery poem that refers to that statement) reverts it in his later > >> years. Energy is perceived as discreet, discontinuous packets; the who= le > >> gamut of Bose-Einstein statistics is born etc. > >> > >> One of the very few poets, in any language, who has successfully gotte= n > >> closest to this "real" world (of indeterminacy) is Ashbery. His schola= rs > >> have flaunted the word "uncertainty" so often to discuss this aspect o= f > >> his > >> poetry (even John seems to like the word). I would argue for the word > >> "possibility" instead. > >> > >> aryanil > >> > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:23:49 -0700 Reply-To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Schrodinger's cat remains the best scientific hypothesis concerning indeter= minacy. But I also like Foucalt's matter of fact approach, especially as it= concerns sanity or "human nature." Sanity, according to Foucalt, is simply= a matter of power, or who is in control. The insane are locked up by the = sane. As for Ashbery, I always think of Picasso when I try to quantify who is or = isn't a major artist (which maybe ill advised, still...). & Picasso had a v= ery strong ealy period/middle period/and closed well. My only problem with = Ashbery is Late Ashbery. =20 --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Patrick Dillon wrote: > From: Patrick Dillon > Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 12:32 PM > Jim, >=20 > Your post reminds me of an essay I read in the NYT about > David Foster > Wallace's undergraduate thesis. I think it may be of > interest so I will > quote at length here: >=20 > The fatalist contends, quite radically, that human actions > and decisions > have no influence on the future. Your behavior today no > more shapes events > tomorrow than it shapes events yesterday. Instead, in a > seemingly backward > way, the fatalist says it is how things are in the future > that uniquely > constrains what happens right now. What might seem like an > open possibility > subject to human choice =E2=80=94 say, whether you fire your > handgun =E2=80=94 is already > either impossible or absolutely necessary. You are merely > going with some > cosmic flow. >=20 > Perhaps most counterintuitively, the fatalist argues that > this topsy-turvy > doctrine can be established by mere reflection on the > simple logic of > propositions about the future. If I fire my handgun, one > second from now its > barrel will be hot; if I do not fire, one second from now > the barrel will > not be hot; but the proposition one second from now the > barrel will be > hotis right now either true or false. If the proposition is > true, then > it is > the case that I will fire the gun; if it=E2=80=99s false, then it > is the case that I > won=E2=80=99t. Either way, it=E2=80=99s the state of affairs in the > future that dictates > what I will or won=E2=80=99t do now. >=20 > [...] > But how to straighten out Taylor=E2=80=99s fatalism? Wallace > proposed that there was > a flaw in Taylor=E2=80=99s argument, a hidden defect. In essence, > Taylor was > treating two types of propositions as if they were the > same, when in fact > they needed to be distinguished and treated differently. > Consider the > sentences =E2=80=9CIt was the case that I couldn=E2=80=99t fire my > handgun=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CIt cannot > be the case that I did fire my handgun.=E2=80=9D At first they > may sound similar, > but Wallace argued that they involve quite different > notions of > impossibility. =E2=80=9CIt was the case that I couldn=E2=80=99t fire my > handgun=E2=80=9D refers to a > past situation in which discharge is deemed impossible > because (let=E2=80=99s say) > my gun was broken. =E2=80=9CIt cannot be the case that I did fire > my handgun=E2=80=9D refers > to a present situation in which discharge is deemed > impossible because > (let=E2=80=99s say) my gun is still cool to the touch. The first > notion involves an > earlier, physical constraint on firing (namely, the broken > gun); the other > involves the current absence of a necessary consequence of > firing (namely, a > hot barrel). An extremely sensitive observer of language, > Wallace noted that > there is a subtle indicator of this important distinction > already at work in > our language: the fine differentiation in meaning between > =E2=80=9CI couldn=E2=80=99t have > done such and so=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CI can=E2=80=99t have done such and > so.=E2=80=9D >=20 > Full text available here: > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14wwln-Wallace-t.html >=20 > pd >=20 > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Jim Andrews > wrote: >=20 > > "Indeterminacy" can mean many things, > depending on the context. But the > > basic scenario regarding indeterminacy that I think of > is this: > > > > Suppose we were able to go back five seconds in time > right now. And suppose > > that everything, and I mean *everything*, was as it > was before, at that > > moment, including us, down to the last atom. Could we > do anything other than > > what we did, when time resumes? > > > > I don't see how it could be possible, personally. > > > > As for Ashbery, he trips the light fantastic where few > can go. That's > > liberating. > > > > ja > > > > Also, as a man of science, let me say this - 20th > century science has made > >> it apparent, especially towards the latter half, > that the world we live in > >> cannot quite be explained in a deterministic > fashion anymore. Everything > >> is > >> governed by laws of statistics/probability. Even > laws are themselves, at > >> times, a function of statistical rules. The > success of the Genome project, > >> for example, contrary to popular belief, only goes > to prove that there IS > >> indeterminacy, but a deeper knowledge of that > could help us take the > >> chances > >> better. Knowledge-space is a casino we are all in, > you just need to be a > >> better gambler to get a better understanding of > the "dicy". Einstein, who > >> had once remarked, "God does not play dice > with the universe" (btw, there > >> is > >> an ashbery poem that refers to that statement) > reverts it in his later > >> years. Energy is perceived as discreet, > discontinuous packets; the whole > >> gamut of Bose-Einstein statistics is born etc. > >> > >> One of the very few poets, in any language, who > has successfully gotten > >> closest to this "real" world (of > indeterminacy) is Ashbery. His scholars > >> have flaunted the word "uncertainty" so > often to discuss this aspect of > >> his > >> poetry (even John seems to like the word). I would > argue for the word > >> "possibility" instead. > >> > >> aryanil > >> > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept > all posts. Check guidelines > > & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all > posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:39:55 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Weiss Subject: Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards Comments: To: british-irish-poets@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, poneme@lists.receptacle.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For Immediate Release April 14, 2009 www.poetryfou= ndation.org/foundation/announcements.html Media Director: Anne Halsey, 312.799.8016;=20 ahalsey@poetryfoundation.org Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards from Poetry Foundation Howe to receive $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize CHICAGO =AD The Poetry Foundation, publisher of=20 Poetry magazine, is pleased to announce that=20 poets Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko are the winners=20 of its sixth annual Pegasus Awards. Howe is the recipient of the 2009 Ruth Lilly=20 Poetry Prize. Established in 1986 and presented=20 annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living=20 U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant=20 extraordinary recognition, the Ruth Lilly Prize=20 is one of the most prestigious awards given to=20 American poets, and at $100,000 it is one of the=20 nation=92s largest literary prizes. Poet and critic=20 Ange Mlinko is the winner of the Randall Jarrell=20 Award in Poetry Criticism. The prizes will be=20 presented at the Pegasus Awards ceremony at the=20 Arts Club of Chicago on Tuesday, May 19. In announcing the Lilly Prize, Christian Wiman,=20 editor of Poetry magazine, said: =93Fanny Howe is a=20 religious writer whose work makes you more alert=20 and alive to the earth, an experimental writer=20 who can break your heart. Live in her world for a=20 while, and it can change the way you think of yours.=94 =93The selection of Fanny Howe as this year=92s=20 winner of the Lilly Prize does honor to the=20 traditions=ADof excellence, importance, and=20 discovery=ADthat the prize has stood for since it=20 was established over 20 years ago,=94 said John=20 Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation. The Poetry Foundation issued the following=20 statement in making the award: =93Reading Fanny=20 Howe=ADboth the poetry and the prose=ADone has the=20 sense of a life that has been inhabited so=20 intensely and lovingly that even her smallest=20 fragments seem steeped in that experience. Her=20 poetry can be elusive and hermetic, and then=20 abruptly and devastatingly candid; it is marked=20 by the pressures of history and culture, yet=20 defiantly, transcendently lyrical. She is a=20 demanding and deeply rewarding artist, and her=20 body of work seems larger, stranger, and more=20 permanent with each new book she publishes.=94 Fanny Howe, 68, has written many books of poetry,=20 including Gone (University of California Press,=20 2003), Selected Poems (UC Press, 2000), On the=20 Ground (Graywolf Press, 2004), and The Lyrics=20 (Graywolf, 2007). She has also written novels,=20 five of which have been collected in one volume=20 called Radical Love. At age 17 Howe left her home=20 in Boston for California and has since spent her=20 life there and in England, Ireland, and=20 Massachusetts. In recent years she has won the=20 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, a fellowship from=20 the Guggenheim Foundation, and an award from the=20 American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has=20 written two collections of essays, The Wedding=20 Dress (UC Press, 2003) and The Winter Sun=20 (Graywolf, 2009). Howe has three grown children=20 and six little grandchildren; she currently lives on Martha=92s Vineyard. Ange Mlinko is the third recipient of the Randall=20 Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism. The $10,000=20 prize is awarded for poetry criticism that is=20 intelligent and learned as well as lively and=20 enjoyable to read. Mlinko, 39, is the author of=20 two books, Matinees (Zoland Books, 1999) and=20 Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 2005), which=20 was a National Poetry Series winner in 2004 and a=20 finalist for the James Laughlin Award the following year. The Poetry Foundation issued the following=20 statement in announcing Mlinko=92s award: =93From=20 Sappho to the Language poets, from Nicolas of=20 Cusa to The Brady Bunch, Ange Mlinko=92s criticism=20 is brilliantly wide-ranging; it is eclectic and=20 astringent yet always lucid and generous. We are=20 pleased to recognize a young critic whose=20 distinctive sharp wit and formidable power have=20 helped revitalize the art of writing about poetry.=94 Mlinko was born in Philadelphia and currently=20 lives in the lower Hudson Valley, where she=20 raises her two sons. She has an undergraduate=20 degree in philosophy and mathematics from St.=20 John=92s College and an MFA from the Creative=20 Writing Program at Brown University. Her poetry=20 and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in=20 Poetry and the Poetry Foundation website, the=20 London Review of Books, The New Yorker,=20 Bookforum, and The Nation, where she also writes=20 an occasional column on language called Lingo. *** About the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize American poetry has no greater friend than Ruth=20 Lilly. Over many years and in many ways, it has=20 been blessed by her personal generosity. In 1985=20 she endowed the Ruth Lilly Professorship in=20 Poetry at Indiana University. In 1989 she created=20 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships, for $15,000 each,=20 given annually by the Poetry Foundation to=20 undergraduate or graduate students selected=20 through a national competition. In 2002 her=20 lifetime engagement with poetry culminated in a=20 magnificent bequest that will enable the Poetry=20 Foundation to promote, in perpetuity, a vigorous=20 presence for poetry in our culture. The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honors a living U.S.=20 poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant=20 extraordinary recognition. Established in 1986 by=20 Ruth Lilly, the annual prize is sponsored and=20 administered by the Poetry Foundation, publisher=20 of Poetry magazine. Over the last 20 years, the=20 Lilly Prize has awarded more than $1,000,000. The=20 previous recipients are Adrienne Rich, Philip=20 Levine, Anthony Hecht, Mona Van Duyn, Hayden=20 Carruth, David Wagoner, John Ashbery, Charles=20 Wright, Donald Hall, A.R. Ammons, Gerald Stern,=20 William Matthews, W.S. Merwin, Maxine Kumin, Carl=20 Dennis, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Linda=20 Pastan, Kay Ryan, C.K. Williams, Richard Wilbur,=20 Lucille Clifton, and Gary Snyder. About the Pegasus Awards The Poetry Foundation has established a family of=20 prizes with an emphasis on new awards to=20 under-recognized poets and types of poetry.=20 Inaugurated in 2004, the Pegasus Awards are=20 announced annually in the spring. The Poetry=20 Foundation believes that targeted prizes can help=20 redress underappreciated accomplishments,=20 diversify the kinds of poetry being written, and=20 widen the audience for the art form. With this in=20 mind, it may create additional prizes in the years ahead. About the Poetry Foundation The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry=20 magazine and one of the largest literary=20 organizations in the world, exists to discover=20 and celebrate the best poetry and to place it=20 before the largest possible audience. The Poetry=20 Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a=20 receptive climate for poetry by developing new=20 audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and=20 encouraging new kinds of poetry through=20 innovative literary prizes and programs. For more=20 information, please visit=20 www.poetr= yfoundation.org. POETRY FOUNDATION | 444 North Michigan Avenue |=20 Chicago, IL 60611 | 312.787.7070 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:01:57 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit patrick, we could have arrived where we are by various paths. the future does not determine the past. some types of things/events/conditions are such that we can infer things/events/conditions that must have preceded them. but many can have had multiple precedents. causality is not bijective. it is like a function, though, in that each moment is mapped to but one future moment. or so it seems to me. we can imagine various things that we could do next. i could type a j. or i could type a ?. but not both. what is choice, then? certainly we do make our choices. yet in that scenario i outlined in my last e, i said i don't see how it's possible that if we went back in time five seconds, and *everything* was exactly the same as it was, that i could do anything other than i did. if that is true, then what is choice? thanks for that. ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:26:09 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Fluffy Singler Subject: 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This looks amazing! I wish I had the time to organize a version of it here in Minneapolis to coincide. This is the kind of thing that would be great to do in several cities simultaneously. I'm sending it around to as many people as I can, including some friends in Chicago. -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Karmin [mailto:jkarmin@YAHOO.COM] Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 1:27 PM Subject: 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD street performance by Jennifer Karmin Sunday, April 19th Chicago, IL 3:30pm in front of the U.S. Army Career Center downtown at Harrison and State Jennifer Karmin has been collecting 4000 WORDS for the 4000 DEAD Americans in Iraq. All words are being used to create a public poem. During street performances, she gives away these words to passing pedestrians. Submissions are ongoing as the Iraq War continues and the number of dead grows. Send 1-10 words with subject 4000 WORDS to jkarmin@yahoo.com. "I want to start with the milestone today of 4,000 dead in Iraq. Americans. And just what effect do you think it has on the country?" -- Martha Raddatz, ABC News' White House correspondent to Dick Cheney Participants include: Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Manan Ahmed, mIEKAL aND, David Baratier, Michael Basinski, Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Laynie Browne, Lee Ann Brown, Amina Cain, Teresa Carmody, Maxine Chernoff, Catherine Daly, Patrick Durgin, Annie Finch, Daniel Godston, Arielle Greenberg, Kate Greenstreet, Roberto Harrison, Carla Harryman, David Hernandez, Jen Hofer, Lisa Janssen, Pierre Joris, John Keene, Matthew Klane, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Joyelle McSweeney, Miranda Mellis, Philip Metres, Vanessa Place, Kristin Prevallet, Lisa Samuels, Susan Schultz, Laura Sims, Juliana Spahr, Christopher Stackhouse, Chuck Stebelton, Stacy Szymaszek, Tony Trigilio, Eric Unger, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Andrew Zawacki, and many more. Sponsored by: The Poetry Bomb http://www.myspace.com/thepoetrybomb Random acts of poetry in the city, suburbs, parks everywhere / anywhere people will hear it pick a location that works best for you contact poetrybomb@gmail.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:43:58 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Bowering Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashbery? Comments: To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <127268.13802.qm@web52404.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Wasn't the The Tennnis Court Oath? On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:24 AM, steve russell wrote: > Rivers & Mountains and Tennis Court Oath -- they're early Ashberry, > probably the period of his strongest work. After Wave or maybe > Flow Chart, I'm not so sure -- nothing too exciting in the last 10 > or 15 years that I'm aware of -- > although the collages (some, I hear, were worthy of Joseph Cornell) > were interesting. > > > --- On Mon, 4/13/09, Aryanil Mukherjee wrote: > >> From: Aryanil Mukherjee >> Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashbery? >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >> Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 2:20 PM >> Great post! I second it. >> >> Also, those who think he did nothing beyond TCO, let me ask >> - how many poets >> we know who can follow up a savagely experimental book like >> TCO with >> something as lyrically honeyed as Rivers and Mountains ? >> Thematic, topical >> and formative consistency is a natural expectation for most >> great poets. >> I find none as self-effacing as Ashbery. Yet, there IS a >> consistency. >> >> Also, as a man of science, let me say this - 20th century >> science has made >> it apparent, especially towards the latter half, that the >> world we live in >> cannot quite be explained is a deterministic fashion >> anymore. Everything is >> governed by laws of statistics/probability. Even laws are >> themselves, a >> function of statistical rules at times. The success of >> Genome project, for >> example, contrary to popular belief, only goes to prove >> that there IS >> indeterminacy, but a deeper knowledge of that could help us >> take the chances >> better. Knowledge-space is a casino we are in, you could >> just be a better >> gambler to get a better understanding. Einstein, who had >> once remarked, "God >> does not play dice with the universe" (btw, there is >> an ashbery poem that >> refers to that statement) reverts it in his later years. >> Energy is perceived >> as discreet, discontinuous packets; the whole gamut of >> Bose-Einstein >> statistics is born etc. >> >> One of the very few poets, in any language, who has >> successfully gotten >> closest to this "real" world (of indeterminacy) >> is Ashbery. His scholars >> have flaunted the word "uncertainty" so often to >> discuss this aspect of his >> poetry (even John seems like the word). I would argue for >> the word >> "possibility" instead. >> >> aryanil >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) >> [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On >> Behalf Of blacksox@ATT.NET >> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:37 PM >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >> Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? >> >> The most amazing thing about Ashbery is his appeal. I know >> there are some on >> this list that view popularity as being a sell out. Ashbery >> never >> compromised the integrity of his art. Yet, if you are lucky >> enough to hear >> him read, seventeen year olds and octogenarians all join in >> and recite his >> work word for word. >> >> His work addresses polital issues by means of immersion >> >> That speaks volumes >> >> Peace >> Russ >> >> ================================== >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all >> posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:11:27 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: Listening to Our Planet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Listening to Our Planet Monday, April 20, 2009 (10 a.m.-6 p.m.) Conaway Center Columbia College Chicago 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 1st floor Chicago, IL 60605 Listening to Our Planet is a multidisciplinary, multi-departmental event which happens during Earth Week 2009. This event is part of Columbia College Chicago's Critical Encounters calendar of events; "Human / Nature" is the theme for this year's Critical Encounters program. The purposes of Listening to Our Planet are: to celebrate the Earth and its natural beauty and resources; to raise awareness about issues relating to our environment, such as pollution and global warming; and to give opportunities for members of the Columbia College Chicago community (students, faculty, and staff) as well as organizations in the community to present work that relates to these themes. Listening to Our Planet involves poetry and essay readings, audio recordings, video screenings, and other art forms. Faculty and students in The English, Entertainment and Media Management Departments; the New Millennium Studies program; and other Columbia College departments and programs will be involved with Listening to Our Planet. In addition, this event will showcase work by individuals involved with organizations in the community, such as The Center for Community Arts Partnerships, Snow City Arts, the World Listening Project, and Urban Gateways. Listening to Our Planet is free and open to the public. A program will be provided. 10:00 a.m. Introduction Images from the Hyperbolic Coral Reef are shown. Images from Lisa Fedich's and Lindsay Obermeyer's Cool Globes are shown. Lindsay talks about her involvement with Cool Globes. The images and poems seen on Lisa's Cool Globe were created by children and teens who worked with Lisa, through Snow City Arts at Rush Children's Hospital. Chad Clark from Chicago Phonography and the World Listening Project plays field recordings. James Armstrong reads selections of his poetry, via skype. Students from ACT Charter School read selections of their poetry. These poems were written during a Project AIM residency. Project AIM is part of the Center for Community Arts Partnerships. 11:00 a.m. Students in Maureen Ewing's Writing & Rhetoric II class give presentations. Chad Clark plays field recordings. Alpha Bruton talks about work she has done as a master gardener, with urban gardening in Chicago. Betta Broad talks about Earth Day New York, over the telephone. noon-3:00 p.m: The Essay Smash happens. Chad Clark and Jayve Montgomery, from the World Listening Project, play field recordings. 3:00 p.m.: Joyce Jenkins, Editor/Publisher of Poetry Flash, talks about the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, over the telephone. Kurt Brown reads selections of his poetry, over the telephone. Christine Dawson talks about her Floating English Garden project. Steve Scott reads several poems. Jayve Montgomery plays field recordings. Projects created by young Urban Gateways artists are presented. Jayve Montgomery plays field recordings. 4:00 p.m.: Students in Dan Godston's New Millennium Studies class present creative projects. Excerpts from The Soundscape, by R. Murray Schafer, are read. Soundwalkers, a video by Raquel Castro, is screened. Alison Hawthorne Deming reads selections of her poetry, via skype. Wild Sanctuary is introduced. 5:00 p.m.: Bernie Krause and Eric Leonardson in conversation. Allan Johnston reads selections of his poetry. Eric Leonardson, from the World Listening Project, plays field recordings. James Armstrong: http://www.winona.edu/english/faculty/armstrong.htm Kurt Brown: http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/kbrown/ Alpha Bruton: http://www.alphabruton.com/ Chicago Phonography: http://www.chicagophonography.com/ Cool Globes: http://www.coolglobes.com Earth Day New York: http://www.earthdayny.org/ Critical Encounters: http://www.colum.edu/criticalencounters/ Floating English Garden: http://www.oneclimate.net/2009/03/19/floating-english-garden-art-installatio n/ Alison Hawthorne Deming: http://www.alisonhawthornedeming.com/ Hyperbolic Crochet Reef: http://dreamingincrochet.blogspot.com/ Allan Johnston: http://www.poetsencyclopedia.com/allanjohnston.shtml Bernie Krause / Wild Sanctuary: http://www.wildsanctuary.com/ Eric Leonardson: http://www.ericleonardson.org/ Jayve Montgomery: http://jayvejohnmontgomery.com/ Lindsay Obermeyer: http://www.lbostudio.com/ Poetry Flash: http://www.poetryflash.org/ Project AIM: http://www.colum.edu/CCAP/Programs/Project_AIM.php Snow City Arts: http://www.snowcityarts.com/ Urban Gateways: http://www.urbangateways.org/ World Listening Project: http://www.worldlisteningproject.org ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:40:02 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Pierre Joris Subject: Recent Nomadics posts Comments: To: British-Irish List Comments: cc: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Check out these recent posts on Nomadics blog @ = http://pierrejoris.com/blog Unica Z=FCrn: Dark Spring Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009) Two Poems by Goethe Jerome Rothenberg @ Zinc Bar Tengour Reading @ Albany U =85 y mas of the past (week) One busy week=85 Mirror Images: Challenges for Arab & Islamic Studies Leonard Schwartz on Martin Buber & Palestine Enjoy & respond! Pierre =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D "Play what you don't know" -- Sun Ra =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Pierre Joris 244 Elm Street Albany NY 12202-1310 h: 518 426 0433 c: 518 225 7123 o: 518 442 40 71 Euro cell: (011 33) 6 75 43 57 10 email: joris@albany.edu http://pierrejoris.com http://pierrejoris.com/blog/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:19:11 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Katz Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: <127268.13802.qm@web52404.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think, when it's a discussion of - this major poet is doing something, maybe it should broaden to include other things (in this case "ethical" things), we are making an assumption, however unwittingly, that he is a major poet and thus he could perhaps be capable of a political poetry which is effectively political. We wouldn't be complaining that he isn't political enough unless we had already assumed that he possesses some kind of tool (his "gift") which has more inherent political applicability than other tools. I think that, in doing this, we are idealizing. To us, he is 'beyond,' extra-capable compared to our capability, so some of us criticize him, in this case, for not embodying more of what we hold to be beyond ourselves such as a kind of effective ethical praxis, whereas to himself he is only himself and I think it might be dangerous to assume otherwise. Maybe a better question is how can we participate in a unilateral collaborative action which mounts a politically effective intervention with "poetry." And I think we should be thankful that we are lucky enough to live in the time of a "major poet" - perhaps more than one. For me, Ashbery's poetry is a particular and salient definition of intelligence, and I think a negative critique is only productive if it takes the form of, What is an alternative to this? not, What should this have been instead of itself? Someone who doesn't like his last five books is free to find a better resource, but what is the use of dwelling on a dissatisfaction? In this regard, a positive critique, I think, would go more like: How can we apply what is unique here to an absolutely criterion-referenced poetics? Adam ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:29:40 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?= Subject: The death of Franklin Rosemont MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable _______________ Franklin Rosemont, surrealist poet, artist, historian, street speaker, & labor activist, died of an aneurysm on Sunday, April 12th in Chicago, Illinois. He was 65 years old. With his partner & comrade, Penelope Rosemont, & lifelong friend Paul Garon, he co-founded the Chicago Surrealist Group, a remarkable presence in the art & activism landscape of Chicago for forty years. Rosemont did not separate scholarship from art, or art from political & social revolt. His books of poetry include "The morning of a machine gun" (Chicago : Surrealist Editions, 1968); "The apple of the automatic zebra's eye" (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Radical America, 1971); "Lamps hurled at the stunning algebra of ants" (Chicago : Surrealist Editions & Black Swan Press, 1990); & "Penelope" (Chicago : Surrealist Editions, 1997). Rosemont was a leading figure in the reorganization of America=92s oldest labor press, the Charles H. Kerr Company. Under the mantle of the Kerr Company, Franklin edited & printed the work of some of the most interesting & important figures in the development of the political left: C.L.R. James, Martin Glaberman, Staughton Lynd, David Dellinger, Cornelius Castoriadis, Sam Dolgoff, Paul Goodman, Grace Lee Boggs, Paul Avrich, Augustin Souchy, Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, Benjamin P=E9ret, Utah Phillips, Paul Buhle, T-Bone Slim, George Woodcock, and, in a new book released just days before Franklin=92s death, Carl Sandburg. In later years, Franklin Rosemont created & edited the Surrealist Histories series at the University of Texas Press, in addition to continuing his work with the Kerr Company & Black Swan Press. Franklin Rosemont was a friend & valued colleague of such persons as Studs Terkel, Mary Low, the poets Philip Lamantia, Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dennis Brutus, the painter Leonora Carrington, & the historians David Roediger, John Bracey, & Robin D.G. Kelley. I first encountered Franklin Rosemont face-to-face during the Chicago protests of August 1968. Then & since, I found him to be an amazing blend of contradictions, at once cordial yet cantankerous, amiable yet dismissive, spontaneous & enthusiastic yet grim, social yet unmistakably self-absorbed, creative yet singularly overpowering. Indeed, he was a unique personality. My condolences & solidarity to Penelope Rosemont, the Chicago group & its affiliates. S=E9amas Cain http://alazanto.org/seamascain http://seamascain.writernetwork.com http://www.mnartists.org/Seamas_Cain _______________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:45:33 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: What's New at Longhouse Spring 2009 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed=2C 15 Apr 2009 08:44:07 -0400 To:=20 From: poetry@sover.net Subject: What's New at Longhouse Spring 2009 What's New at Longhouse Spring 2009 1. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:56:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: ALDON L NIELSEN Subject: Fanny Howe Wins Ruth Lillty Prize MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 here's a link to the LA TIMES story -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> "Study the fine art of coming apart." --Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Sailing the blogosphere at: http://heatstrings.blogspot.com/ Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature The Pennsylvania State University 116 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:44:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aryanil Mukherjee Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: <4072DAD8432F44CF9B304C9BEE0D418F@OwnerPC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes. But as soon as the time factor comes in (like you say - if we went back in time five seconds...) that element of "indeterminacy" invites itself. The whole idea of going back in time to relocate oneself proposes a fallacy. And to extend it and corollarize - memory doesn't or cannot exactly retrace. Schrodinger's cat, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, George Gamow's "railway uncle" (he has this wonderful story about going to a railway station to meet his highschool buddy's dad - Gamow is in his mid-forties but his buddy's dad, as he gets off the train to meet him, appears much younger than either of them, in his 30s perhaps....Gamow's friend explains, "my dad is a salesman and he has travelled all his life, virtually everyday...in these ("c" speed) trains - i.e trains that run at speeds higher than the speed of light. So the dad didn't age for all those hours he spent in the trains...) are all great examples of what I meant by "indeterminacy". A very recent Asian film by Wong Kar-Wai - "2046" - brilliantly serves as the perfectly obtuse example of how memory and this element of "indeterminacy" could be treated by a creative artist. Ashbery does all that with such plebeianist grace that most often we don't notice it at all. The "weather-talk" for example. I can't recall another poet who talks so incessantly about weather. "The weather, for example"......the most obvious "unpredictable", but we didn't see it until he said so. Our most original ideas are the simplest ones. Then lines like these - How many snakes and lizards shed their skins For time to be passing on like this, Sinking deeper in the sand as it wound toward The conclusion. .... (Vetiver/April Galleons, 1987) Also, if you look at his work from the perspective of the non-English language world, he continues to be one of the most miraculous poets of both the present and the past. Even on the other side of the planet, and in translation. Not much of contemporary English language poetry can claim that - evoke surprisal and lyrical shiver at the same time. In another language, in another land. Aryanil -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Jim Andrews Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:02 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? patrick, we could have arrived where we are by various paths. the future does not determine the past. some types of things/events/conditions are such that we can infer things/events/conditions that must have preceded them. but many can have had multiple precedents. causality is not bijective. it is like a function, though, in that each moment is mapped to but one future moment. or so it seems to me. we can imagine various things that we could do next. i could type a j. or i could type a ?. but not both. what is choice, then? certainly we do make our choices. yet in that scenario i outlined in my last e, i said i don't see how it's possible that if we went back in time five seconds, and *everything* was exactly the same as it was, that i could do anything other than i did. if that is true, then what is choice? thanks for that. ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:51:17 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Patrick Dillon Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: <4072DAD8432F44CF9B304C9BEE0D418F@OwnerPC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jim, Unless I'm misreading something in your email or in the article I cited itself, I do think it speaks directly to your scenario, specifically where you ask COULD I do anything other than I did? I think, quite simply, yes you could have made done something different. You just didn't. So perhaps that goes some way to defining choice. It's that keyword "could" that is so important and, accordingly, gets adequate treatment in the article. pd On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Jim Andrews wrote: > patrick, > > we could have arrived where we are by various paths. the future does not > determine the past. some types of things/events/conditions are such that we > can infer things/events/conditions that must have preceded them. but many > can have had multiple precedents. causality is not bijective. it is like a > function, though, in that each moment is mapped to but one future moment. or > so it seems to me. we can imagine various things that we could do next. i > could type a j. or i could type a ?. but not both. > > what is choice, then? certainly we do make our choices. > > yet in that scenario i outlined in my last e, i said i don't see how it's > possible that if we went back in time five seconds, and *everything* was > exactly the same as it was, that i could do anything other than i did. if > that is true, then what is choice? > > thanks for that. > > ja > http://vispo.com > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:02:09 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aryanil Mukherjee Subject: A Poem by Ashbery MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here's the Ashbery poem I referred to. It is a personal favorite and I have read it several times lately while trying to translate it to Bangla. I hope the listserv admin would let us read it for once in the context of the recent ashbery-thread. For me, this is an example of a poem, which does the many things critics and literary pundits talk about now and then, but at the same time, it explains itself like "weather" - something everyone understands her or his own way everywhere in the world. thanks aryanil mukherjee ====================== Vetiver John Ashbery Ages passed slowly, like a load of hay, As the flowers recited their lines And pike stirred at the bottom of the pond. The pen was cool to the touch. The staircase swept upward Through fragmented garlands, keeping the melancholy Already distilled in letters of the alphabet. It would be time for winter now, its spun-sugar Palaces and also lines of care At the mouth, pink smudges on the forehead and cheeks, The color once known as "ashes of roses." How many snakes and lizards shed their skins For time to be passing on like this, Sinking deeper in the sand as it wound toward The conclusion. It had all been working so well and now, Well, it just kind of came apart in the hand As a change is voiced, sharp As a fishhook in the throat, and decorative tears flowed Past us into a basin called infinity. There was no charge for anything, the gates Had been left open intentionally. Don't follow, you can have whatever it is. And in some room someone examines his youth, Finds it dry and hollow, porous to the touch. O keep me with you, unless the outdoors Embraces both of us, unites us, unless The birdcatchers put away their twigs, The fishermen haul in their sleek empty nets And others become part of the immense crowd Around this bonfire, a situation That has come to mean us to us, and the crying In the leaves is saved, the last silver drops. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:59:44 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Guzzardi Subject: Wag's Revue--Magazine and Contest MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Friends of poetry, I'd like to announce a new online-only literary quarterly, WAG'S REVUE. The first issue contains poems of Ernst Jandl, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, as well a video poem, a hypertext, and several other exciting pieces in the poetry section ; Wag's also publishes fiction, nonfiction and interviews. The second issue (Summer 2009) will include the winners of our inaugural writing contests, in poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Submission fee is $20; poets may include up to 10 pages of poems in one submission. The winning poet will win $500 along with publication in Wag's Revue. Find more details at our contest page . Find contact information for the editorial staff, and join our mailing list, on our contact page . Thanks so much for your consideration. All best, Will Guzzardi Poetry Editor, Wag's Revue ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:50:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: cris cheek Subject: Re: Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.1.20090414173928.039fbbf0@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable c h e e r !!!!! ^^ On Apr 14, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Mark Weiss wrote: > For Immediate Release > April 14, 2009 > announcements.html>www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/=20 > announcements.html > Media Director: Anne Halsey, 312.799.8016; > ahalsey@poetryfoundation.org > > Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards > from Poetry Foundation > Howe to receive $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize > > CHICAGO The Poetry Foundation, publisher of > Poetry magazine, is pleased to announce that > poets Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko are the winners > of its sixth annual Pegasus Awards. > > Howe is the recipient of the 2009 Ruth Lilly > Poetry Prize. Established in 1986 and presented > annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living > U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant > extraordinary recognition, the Ruth Lilly Prize > is one of the most prestigious awards given to > American poets, and at $100,000 it is one of the > nation=92s largest literary prizes. Poet and critic > Ange Mlinko is the winner of the Randall Jarrell > Award in Poetry Criticism. The prizes will be > presented at the Pegasus Awards ceremony at the > Arts Club of Chicago on Tuesday, May 19. > > In announcing the Lilly Prize, Christian Wiman, > editor of Poetry magazine, said: =93Fanny Howe is a > religious writer whose work makes you more alert > and alive to the earth, an experimental writer > who can break your heart. Live in her world for a > while, and it can change the way you think of yours.=94 > > =93The selection of Fanny Howe as this year=92s > winner of the Lilly Prize does honor to the > traditions of excellence, importance, and > discovery that the prize has stood for since it > was established over 20 years ago,=94 said John > Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation. > > The Poetry Foundation issued the following > statement in making the award: =93Reading Fanny > Howe both the poetry and the prose one has the > sense of a life that has been inhabited so > intensely and lovingly that even her smallest > fragments seem steeped in that experience. Her > poetry can be elusive and hermetic, and then > abruptly and devastatingly candid; it is marked > by the pressures of history and culture, yet > defiantly, transcendently lyrical. She is a > demanding and deeply rewarding artist, and her > body of work seems larger, stranger, and more > permanent with each new book she publishes.=94 > > Fanny Howe, 68, has written many books of poetry, > including Gone (University of California Press, > 2003), Selected Poems (UC Press, 2000), On the > Ground (Graywolf Press, 2004), and The Lyrics > (Graywolf, 2007). She has also written novels, > five of which have been collected in one volume > called Radical Love. At age 17 Howe left her home > in Boston for California and has since spent her > life there and in England, Ireland, and > Massachusetts. In recent years she has won the > Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, a fellowship from > the Guggenheim Foundation, and an award from the > American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has > written two collections of essays, The Wedding > Dress (UC Press, 2003) and The Winter Sun > (Graywolf, 2009). Howe has three grown children > and six little grandchildren; she currently lives on Martha=92s =20 > Vineyard. > > Ange Mlinko is the third recipient of the Randall > Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism. The $10,000 > prize is awarded for poetry criticism that is > intelligent and learned as well as lively and > enjoyable to read. Mlinko, 39, is the author of > two books, Matinees (Zoland Books, 1999) and > Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 2005), which > was a National Poetry Series winner in 2004 and a > finalist for the James Laughlin Award the following year. > > The Poetry Foundation issued the following > statement in announcing Mlinko=92s award: =93From > Sappho to the Language poets, from Nicolas of > Cusa to The Brady Bunch, Ange Mlinko=92s criticism > is brilliantly wide-ranging; it is eclectic and > astringent yet always lucid and generous. We are > pleased to recognize a young critic whose > distinctive sharp wit and formidable power have > helped revitalize the art of writing about poetry.=94 > > Mlinko was born in Philadelphia and currently > lives in the lower Hudson Valley, where she > raises her two sons. She has an undergraduate > degree in philosophy and mathematics from St. > John=92s College and an MFA from the Creative > Writing Program at Brown University. Her poetry > and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in > Poetry and the Poetry Foundation website, the > London Review of Books, The New Yorker, > Bookforum, and The Nation, where she also writes > an occasional column on language called Lingo. > > *** > > About the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize > American poetry has no greater friend than Ruth > Lilly. Over many years and in many ways, it has > been blessed by her personal generosity. In 1985 > she endowed the Ruth Lilly Professorship in > Poetry at Indiana University. In 1989 she created > Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships, for $15,000 each, > given annually by the Poetry Foundation to > undergraduate or graduate students selected > through a national competition. In 2002 her > lifetime engagement with poetry culminated in a > magnificent bequest that will enable the Poetry > Foundation to promote, in perpetuity, a vigorous > presence for poetry in our culture. > > The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honors a living U.S. > poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant > extraordinary recognition. Established in 1986 by > Ruth Lilly, the annual prize is sponsored and > administered by the Poetry Foundation, publisher > of Poetry magazine. Over the last 20 years, the > Lilly Prize has awarded more than $1,000,000. The > previous recipients are Adrienne Rich, Philip > Levine, Anthony Hecht, Mona Van Duyn, Hayden > Carruth, David Wagoner, John Ashbery, Charles > Wright, Donald Hall, A.R. Ammons, Gerald Stern, > William Matthews, W.S. Merwin, Maxine Kumin, Carl > Dennis, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Linda > Pastan, Kay Ryan, C.K. Williams, Richard Wilbur, > Lucille Clifton, and Gary Snyder. > > About the Pegasus Awards > The Poetry Foundation has established a family of > prizes with an emphasis on new awards to > under-recognized poets and types of poetry. > Inaugurated in 2004, the Pegasus Awards are > announced annually in the spring. The Poetry > Foundation believes that targeted prizes can help > redress underappreciated accomplishments, > diversify the kinds of poetry being written, and > widen the audience for the art form. With this in > mind, it may create additional prizes in the years ahead. > > About the Poetry Foundation > The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry > magazine and one of the largest literary > organizations in the world, exists to discover > and celebrate the best poetry and to place it > before the largest possible audience. The Poetry > Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a > receptive climate for poetry by developing new > audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and > encouraging new kinds of poetry through > innovative literary prizes and programs. For more > information, please visit > r>www.poetryfoundation.org. > > POETRY FOUNDATION | 444 North Michigan Avenue | > Chicago, IL 60611 | 312.787.7070 > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check =20 > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/=20 > welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:09 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: carol dorf Subject: Re: Fanny Howe Wins Ruth Lillty Prize In-Reply-To: <1239818218l.417800l.0l@psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for the link -- I'm so glad Fanny Howe is getting this mainstream recognition; I appreciate the way she combines experimental form/language with a willingness to engage with the content of daily life, esp. in the realm of mothering. On 4/15/09, ALDON L NIELSEN wrote: > here's a link to the LA TIMES story -- > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > "Study the fine art of coming apart." > > --Jerry W. Ward, Jr. > > Sailing the blogosphere at: http://heatstrings.blogspot.com/ > > Aldon L. Nielsen > Kelly Professor of American Literature > The Pennsylvania State University > 116 Burrowes > University Park, PA 16802-6200 > > (814) 865-0091 > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:26:14 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Woodland Pattern: April 18: Bill Berkson and Kit Robinson In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D SATURDAY=2C APRIL 18: BILL BERKSON & KIT ROBINSON =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Woodland Pattern Book Center and Milwaukee Book Festival present: BILL BERKSON and KIT ROBINSON Saturday=2C April 18=2C 7pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street Milwaukee=2C WI 53212 $8 / $7 / $6 Bill Berkson was born in New York in 1939. He moved to Northern California = in 1970 and during the next decade edited a series of little magazines and = books under the Big Sky imprint. He is a corresponding editor for Art in Am= erica and has contributed to such other journals as Aperture and Artforum. = His recent books include Gloria=2C with etchings by Alex Katz=3B The Sweet= Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings=3B Sudden Address: Selected Lectu= res 1981-2006=3B an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer entitled= What=92s Your Idea of a Good Time?: Interviews & Letters 1977-1985 and a w= ords-and-drawings sequence with Colter Jacobsen called BILL. His Portrait a= nd Dream: New & Selected Poems has just appeared from Coffee House Press. H= e was the 2006 Distinguished Mellon Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Paint= ing and Sculpture and received the 2008 Goldie for Literature from the San = Francisco Bay Guardian. Kit Robinson is celebrating the publication of his new book The Messianic T= rees: Selected Poems=2C 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry=2C 2009). A coautho= r of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography=2C San Fran= cisco=2C 1975-1980 (Mode A=2C ongoing)=2C he is also the author of 9:45 (Th= e Post Apollo Press=2C 2003)=2C The Crave (Atelos=2C 2002) and Democracy Bo= ulevard (Roof=2C 1998). Robinson lives in Berkeley=2C California=2C where h= e works as a communications consultant in the information technology indus= try and plays the Cuban tres guitar in an amateur salsa band. Reading begins at 7:00 p.m. Reception to follow. =20 WORKSHOP Saturday=2C April 18=2C 2pm - 4pm $25 (includes admission to Kit Robinson &= Bill Berkson Reading) Call now to register! 414-263-5001 Time & Materials: Adventures in Diction=2C Syntax=2C Rhythm & Tempo with Ki= t Robinson So you want to write a poem. Where to start? You=92re going to need some wo= rds=2C that=92s for sure. But which ones? Will the mot juste present itself= at the perfect moment? Or why not grab a vocabulary from the nearest books= helf=2C news hour or Google search? OK=2C so you found some words=2C now to= put them together in some kind of order=2C so that they make sense=2C or d= on=92t=2C but sound as if they should=2C your call. OK=2C now that you have= them in order=2C go ahead and replace all the words. How do units of measu= re such as phrase=2C line=2C sentence and stanza overlap? How fast is your = poem? How slow? How do you know? In this workshop=2C we will experiment wit= h several techniques=2C including vocabulary constraints=2C parallel constr= uctions=2C and group collaborations. Please bring a book or two to plunder = for material. GALLERY TALK Woodland Pattern Book Center=20 Sunday=2C April 19=2C 2pm=20 FREE=20 A gallery talk by Bill Berkson to occasion the closing of The Graphic Poem = exhibit. http://www.woodlandpattern.org/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D UPCOMING EVENTS =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D April 2009 Sat. 4/4: Donna Stonecipher Master Class=3B 2-4pm Sat. 4/4: Oni Buchanan & Donna Stonecipher Reading=3B 7pm Sun. 4/5: 3rd Annual Edible Book Show=3B 1-4pm Wed. 4/8: New Prose Series Kass Fleisher=3B 7pm Thu. 4/9: David Sedaris at Riverside Theatre=3B 8pm Fri. 4/17: Redletter Reading Series: James Shea & Caryl Pagel=3B 7pm Sat. 4/18: Kit Robinson Workshop=3B 2-4pm Sat. 4/18: Kit Robinson & Bill Berkson Reading=3B 7pm Sun. 4/19: Gallery Talk with Bill Berkson=3B 2pm Tue. 4/21: C.D. Wright at UWM=3B 7:30pm Wed. 4/22: UW-M Student/Faculty reading with Kimberly Blaeser=3B 7pm Thu. 4/23: Poetry Under the Dome at MPL=3B 6pm Fri. 4/24: The 3rd Annual Milwaukee Slideshow Invitational=3B 7pm Sat. 4/25: WordBlast! A Workshop in Animated Text=3B 1-4pm Sun. 4/26: WordBlast! A Workshop in Animated Text=3B 1-4pm Sun. 4/26: Judith Harway Reading at MIAD=3B 2pm=20 Sun. 4/26: The Lou Mallozzi-Michael Zerang Duo=3B 7pm http://www.woodlandpattern.org/ ____________________________________________________________________ DONATE NOW! and become a member of Woodland Pattern http://www.woodlandpattern.org/membership/index.shtml ____________________________________________________________________ To receive regular messages notifying you of Woodland Pattern events=2C send a message to us at woodlandpattern@sbcglobal.net with "Join E-List" in the subject line. To unsubscribe from these mailings send a reply with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. PLEASE FORWARD! THANKS!!! http://www.woodlandpattern.org/ Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 E. Locust Street Milwaukee=2C WI 53212 phone 414.263.5001 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live=99: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_042009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:49:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Steve's original question (message) was brave in many ways.=A0 In a time when some poets feel poetry isn't strong enough to STAND without the buttresses of philosophy and theory, it's refreshing to hear someone ask WHERE IS YOUR WORLDVIEW AT THESE DAYS? Take YOUR to mean your own. Freud said it best: Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. He said poet.=A0 Poet.=A0 I'm with Freud, at least on this. CAConrad THE BOOK OF FRANK http://CAConrad.blogspot.com PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:18:27 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: Re: 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This really looks amazing, what a great idea. And I hope someone will film it, put it up on the web. It makes me think about my friend who called me this evening EXCITED about some American Idol contestant making it to the next stage of American Idol. Bread & Circus galore. It makes me think too that we know THE EXACT number of American dead. We know their names, their places of birth, their rank and serial numbers. When it comes to the citizens of Iraq however, the state department's numbers and information about THEIR DEAD (OUR dead too, as THEIR dead is on our blood-splattered hands forever!) the numbers range on and off by hundreds of thousands. The estimates from outside sources say over a million. Over a million, and counting, by the day. Obama promises to redistribute troops from one war to the other war. Obama promises a new meat grinder with a different terrain. Do they get American Idol in Afghanistan? Maybe one day? I'm not being glib, I really DO wonder. The horror of the senses we create, and I'm talking about our war(s), not our television show. CAConrad THE BOOK OF FRANK http://CAConrad.blogspot.com PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:29:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Jim, > > Unless I'm misreading something in your email or in the article I cited > itself, I do think it speaks directly to your scenario, specifically where > you ask COULD I do anything other than I did? > > I think, quite simply, yes you could have made done something different. > You > just didn't. So perhaps that goes some way to defining choice. > > It's that keyword "could" that is so important and, accordingly, gets > adequate treatment in the article. > > pd i don't think you're grappling with the problem. it's odd how empty the word "choice" can be, at times. if we go back 5 seconds and *everything* is exactly the same as it was 5 seconds ago, including us, down to the last atom, then any *thoughtful* decision we take will be the same, insofar as it is the result of deliberation, which is the same as it was 5 seconds ago. the only decision that might be different is a random decision but, even then, whatever the mechanism that determines the state of the selection will be the same. all mechanistically determined processes will have exactly the same result as they did previously. i saw an interview last night with leonard cohen. he said "you can read the book of your life but you can't change a word." four quartets: http://www.tristan.icom43.net/quartets/index.html ja ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:31:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: jared schickling Subject: New American Press 2009 chapbook contest MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable New American Press is pleased to announce is spring 2009 chapbook contest. Winner receives $250 and 25 copies. Final judge will be editor of THE JOURNAL and award-winning poet Kathy Fagan. Submission materials may be sent to: Chapbook Contest Attn: Okla Elliott OWU English Dept. 61 S. Sandusky St. Delaware=2C OH 43015 Along with 20-30 pages of your best writing in any genre=2C please include a SASE for contest results and a check for $12 (payable to "NEW AMERICAN PRESS" only=2C please). We read manuscripts blind=2C so please include a separate cover sheet with your name=2C address=2C email=2C and phone number=2C being sure to exclude any identifying information from the ms itself. Multiple submissions in similar or different genres are fine=2C but a reading fee is required for each submission. Postmark deadline: May 15=2C 2009. More information is available at http://newamericanpress.com/contests/curre= nt.php.=20 Questions can be directed to newamericanpress@gmail.com. _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail=AE: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_= Mobile2_042009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:44:34 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: noah eli gordon Subject: Berrigan & Veglahn Chapbooks from LME Comments: To: subpo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Dear Folks=2C =20 Letter Machine Editions=2C a nonprofit publisher of books & chapbooks=2C is= pleased announce the release of our inaugural titles: =20 Anselm Berrigan=92s To Hell With Sleep & Sara Veglahn=92s Another Random He= art =20 These perfect-bound chapbooks are available from our website for $10 each (= postage paid) or together for $16 (postage paid): http://www.lettermachine.= org/purchase.html =20 Look for our future full-length titles=2C including books by Sawako Nakayas= u=2C Travis Nichols=2C Juliana Leslie=2C Farid Matuk=2C Aaron Kunin=2C & ot= hers: http://www.lettermachine.org/catalog.html =20 Also watch for the launch our new journal--Typesetter: http://www.lettermac= hine.org/typesetter.html =20 =20 =20 All Best=2C =20 Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson Letter Machine Editions http://www.lettermachine.org/ =20 =20 ***** =20 on Anselm Berrigan=92s To Hell With Sleep: =20 Anselm Berrigan gives us a fresh dose of his discordant mind music. To Hell= With Sleep was written by the poet in the first months after the birth of = his daughter=2C mostly during brief periods of time when he was half-awake = or less so=2C letting the poetry be unthought within its vehicle of eight s= even-line slanting stanzas per session=2C of which there were nine. The imp= ulse driving the writing was to let sounds-turning-toward-words follow from= the intensified state of consciousness the arrival of this baby initiated.= No prescience=2C reflection=2C computer tricks=2C formal appropriation=2C = or plotting of any kind was used in the in the writing of this work. Joy=2C= fear=2C humor=2C sound=2C bafflement and recognition-in-exchange-for-recog= nition were the instruments =20 ***** on Sara Veglahn=92s Another Random Heart: =20 This prose-poem sequence opens with the following sentence: "Scenes left on= the cutting room floor flower into their own scenery." Such an auspiciousl= y suggestive start functions as a distillation of the book=92s prismatic ec= ho chamber=2C where painterly lyricism and narrative probing converge withi= n each musically astute sentence. This is a symphony of partial happenings= =2C ghostly movements=2C and investigatory ruminations=2C a stroll through = an exhibit of paintings that seem to stare back at the viewer: captivating= =2C gorgeous=2C and just a little bit scary. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live=99: Life without walls. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1b_explore_042009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:50:13 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: noah eli gordon Subject: oops Comments: To: subpo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 there should have been a "to" and an "of" in there=2C huh? _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail=AE: Get e-mail storage that grows with you.=20 http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_= Storage2_042009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:20:10 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Penton Subject: news at UnlikelyStories.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I’d like to begin this announcement by thanking Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, who is leaving us as Art Director. He did a great job for a solid year, but now wishes to spend more time on his own literary projects. We’ll miss him, and we’re actively seeking a new Art Director to choose the visual art and film at Unlikely 2.0. Anyone applying for the position should understand that they’ll be responsible for choosing the art and film in the Unlikely print edition, as well. Oh, yeah. There’s going to be an Unlikely print edition. The team at www.UnlikelyStories.org is now partnering with the overlapping team at www.MakeItNewMedia.com to begin a proper print publishing arm: Unlikely Books. Next year, we’ll be releasing three full-length volumes. We’re going to focus on two authors, bound together in one volume. We don’t know about you, but we’re getting a little sick of the decreasing length of poetry books combined with the increasing price of trade paperbacks. On the other hand, there are some great poets who can put out 80 excellent pages on a few related themes, but 150 pages of poetry by the same author usually involves covering diverse themes that might not go well together. So in the tradition of Henry Rollins’ 2.13.61 Publications, we’re binding two authors together in a single flipbook, styled so that each author gets a “front cover.” The reader gets their money’s worth, and the writer and editor get to work with manageable manuscripts. So we’re very pleased to announce the 2010 publication of /"First Reverse"/ by markk bound with "/Monolith"/ by Anne McMillen (biography notes below). And in keeping with our philosophy that poetry, art, culture, and politics are just one big gooey phenomenon of readability, we’ll be publishing a volume of nonfiction cultural critique: Tom Bradley will bring us "/My Hands Were Clean/," paired with "/Dr. Gonzo"/ by Deb Hoag (even more biography notes below). These authors were selected for both compatibility and friction: we believe that if you enjoy one side of an Unlikely Book, you’ll enjoy the other, despite the fact that we’re presenting four very different authors and perspectives. And the Unlikely print edition. Stupid, contagious, and sure to be imitated, its pages will feature cultural commentary, fiction and creative non-fiction, poetry, interviews, and tons of carefully-reproduced full-color visual art. Make It New Media is a new kind of print fulfillment company, focused on the arts and a personal involvement with each book, and our partnership with them will allow us to enclose both a mix CD and DVD of short films in the Unlikely anthology. The “print edition” will have all the multimedia aspects of the current Unlikely 2.0 web site, and will be a mixture of new material and some classic reprints from eleven years of UnlikelyStories.org. Submissions of essays, reviews, interviews, fiction and creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, film, spoken word and music will open soon, but we need an Art Director first. So apply. Did we mention the poetry chapbooks? Make It New Media has already produced one for us: "/Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights/," a fine-art production by Belinda Subraman featuring visual art by César Ivan. Later in 2009, we’ll be putting out a chapbook by Anne Lombardo Ardolino featuring cover art by Clayton Patterson. And in 2010, we’ll have poetry chapbooks by Lawrence Welsh and Donna Snyder. We couldn’t possibly do this without an enormous book release party. That would be wrong and bad. We’re still working out the time and place, but some unfortunate town in the American Southwest will be selected for live reads, author signings, and other antisocial behavioral patterns sometime next year. Although we will seek unsolicited submissions for the Unlikely anthology, we unfortunately can’t normally accept full-length manuscripts. Our e-zine, UnlikelyStories.org, has a wide-open submissions policy, and having such a policy for Unlikely Books would surely kill us. However, we /will/ be running an annual poetry chapbook contest! We’ll be announcing the 2009 contest in a couple of weeks, and have lots of unusual benefits planned, so watch this space (especially if it’s your inbox). I feel so much Love I want to cut things open, -- Jonathan Penton http://www.unlikelystories.org/ Tom Bradley's latest books are /"Vital Fluid"/ (Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink), /"Even the Dog Won't Touch Me"/ (Ahadada Press), "/Put It Down in a Book/" (The Drill Press), and "/Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch"/ (Dog Horn Publishing). Further curiosity can be indulged at tombradley.org or Wikipedia. Deb Hoag holds a Ph.D. in clinical Psychology from the University of Detroit Mercy. She has been working in the mental health field for sixteen years. Her first novel is /"Crashin' the Real: One woman's search for Truth, Justice . . . and Steven Tyler"/ (Dog Horn Publishing). Mark S. Kuhar (markk) is a editor, publisher, artist, songwriter, and author of three poetry chapbooks. He is the founder of the deep cleveland poetry hour, a live monthly spoken-word event, and the proprietor of Deep Cleveland, LLC, which includes deep cleveland press and the magazine "/deep cleveland junkmail oracle./" Anne McMillen is a 28-year-old writer and artist who currently squats in a foreclosed house in the suburbs of Cleveland. She writes her struggles: with addiction, abuse, poverty, and a world that promotes pain as salvation. Her poetry chapbook, /"When Red Blood Cells Leak/," was published by Unlikely 2.0. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:02:25 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Fwd: [spidertangle] The death of Franklin Rosemont In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: joel lipman Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [spidertangle] Re: [fluxlist] The death of Franklin Rosemont To: spidertangle@yahoogroups.com To add this to the several Franklin Rosemont recollections: In 1968 or 1969, the independent mag, Radical America, published an issue devoted to surrealism. Rosemont=92s aesthetic and fingerprints were all over it [I don=92t know where or how Penelope and Franklin split their efforts, so perhaps it was a duo=92s imprint I=92m recapturing]. For those too young to have lived or participated in the 1960=92s independent litmag culture, it was a killer print moment when cultural, literary & social manifestations fluidly blended in the era=92s counterculture publications. Though the word =93morph=94 didn=92t exist, Radical America =93morphed=94 o= r spun off into Cultural Correspondence, the final issues of which were structurally magnificent & extraordinary in their useful anarchy and grasp of the interconnectiveness of irrational arts practice. CC #10-11 =93Surrealism & its Popular Accomplices=94 had gorgeous & substantial illustrated articles on subjects from the 3 Stooges, Henry Darger, Poetry & Freedom, dance & instinct, and Les Blanc to dance magic and utopian dreams. Franklin Rosemont contributed pieces on H.P. Lovecraft, =93T-Bone Slim & the Phonetic Cabala,=94 =93Mel Blanc =97 the Wizard of Audio,=94 Buster Keaton, Bugs Bunny. He reviewed texts on French and Portuguese surrealist poets and other subjects linking politics, film, music and global poetries. The subsequent 1981 issue of CC [=93Giant last issue! Collectors=92 item!=94] had FR=92s art and polemics, including the wonderful [wonder-full] =93Report on Objective Conditions,=94 which said much of what I sense continues to be the manifesto of many participants on Spidertangle =93...Life is not ours to be eked out =97 it is a question of inspiration or death.=94 FR pushed for constant renewal, ceaseless surreal =93moral vigilance,=94 and =93global scope.=94 Bracketing his report=92s text is an opening and closing Time & Temperature indication, lest one stray from the vital ground realities [8Pm, 31 degrees, wind, barometric pressure], the street and the raw blow off Lake Michigan. JL On 4/16/09 7:50 AM, "John M. Bennett" wrote: A unique passing I only met Franklin Rosemont through the mail, but it was always a fascinating and precious meeting. Last night I dreamed about Franklin Rosemont. =A0I was preparing an envelope to mail him some books, by gluing little strips of torn-up newspaper to it. =A0It is also true that this envelope was one that HE had prepared and sent to me. =A0It was coming and going at the same time. Que viva Franklin Rosemont. John =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:09:35 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Chicago Poetry Festival MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii SUNDAY, APRIL 19 3-6PM free Peter Jones Gallery 1806 W. Cuyler Ave -- Chicago, IL http://www.peterjonesgallery.com Readings by: Bill Allegrezza, Lisa Alvarado, Stella Radulescu, Jennifer Karmin, Rey Escobar, Kevin Blanchard, Nick Demske, Larry O. Dean, Erika Mikkalo, Tara Keogh, Kathy Kubik, Josephine Lipuma, Doree McNulty, Donna Pecore, Paul Martinez Pompa, Cathleen Schandelmeier, Dina Stengel, Sheila Donovan, Roberto Del Rio, Pam Osbey, Mike Puican, PJ Destin, Dred Sista Ren, Anna Husain, Jessica Lane, Adam Shames, Michael H. Brownstein, Maria Fischinger, and more! @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ SATURDAY, APRIL 25 2-4PM free Harold Washington Library 400 S. State St -- Chicago, IL http://www.chipublib.org/eventsprog/programs/poetry_fest.php Presses & Organizations: Young Chicago Authors, Red Rover, A Small Garlic Press, After Hours Press, Dancing Girl Press, Free Lunch, March Abrazo Press, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Poetry Magazine, RHINO, Swan Isle Press, Third World Press, Univ. of Chicago Press / Black Ocean Press, Virtual Artists Collective, EbonyEnergy Publishing, and others. Readings by: Yolanda Nieves, Earlene Strickland, Pennie Holmes-Brinson, Al DeGenova, Patricia McMillen, Tara Stringfellow, Gwendolyn Mitchell, Marek Lugowski, Allison Joseph, Gene McCormick, Lisa Janssen, Irving Miller, James Reiss, Jennifer Karmin, Michael H. Brownstein, Lisa Alvarado, Ned Haggard, Paul Brandon, Stella Radulescu, A.J. Bryson, Roberto Del Rio, Anna Husain, Larry O. Dean, Dred Sista Ren, Erika Mikkalo, Wendy Brown Baez, Sheila A. Donovan, Emily Calvo, Rey Escobar, Sharon L. Powell, Lynn Fitzgerald, Glenn Ferdman, Arlene Zide, Laurie Blum, Joseph Spence, and more! ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:38:00 -0800 Reply-To: Laurie Schneider & Crag Hill Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Laurie Schneider & Crag Hill Subject: Upcomg Jim McCrary Readings and All That MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topeka, Kansas: Top City Spring 2009 Saturday, May 9 with Judith Roitman at Lola's in Topeka, Kansas (10th and Gage) and begin at 7:07--seven minutes after seven. Seattle, WA: June 3 with Paul Nelson at Good Shepherd Center Chapel Performance Space. 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N in Wallingford at 7:30 p.m. Portland, OR: June 4 with James Yeary at Concordia Coffee House 2909 NE Alberta 7:30 All That can be perused and purchased at: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/all-that/4363355 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:18:54 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: PJ Subject: "from east to west" - new issue & submission call MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In ~60 pages of full color, the spring edition of "from east to west" inclu= des featured poets: Mark Hartenbach, Eve Hanninen, Michael Macklin &=0ABart= Solarcyz, featured artists: Jeff Filipski, Eve Hanninen, Cheryl=0ATownsend= , Jenny McGhee Dougherty, & Ron Davis, and=0A"garden" poets: T. Birch, Wend= y Howe, Lois Jones, Neil C. Leach, Jr.,=0ARussell Libby, Tom Moore, Kenneth= Pobo, Bethan Townsend & Lewis=0ATurco. The cover art (and one more at the end of the edition) by Pamela Perkins is= especially fascinating.=A0 She composed these from recycled antique window= s =0Awith East Coast sea glass, stone, wood, shell (mostly from Maine) and = paint.=20 You=0Acan view our issue online, download as a free .pdf, or buy an at-cost= =0Aprint copy from Lulu.=A0 Just follow the links on our web page.=A0 Email= PJ=0ANights at tangerine_reflections@yahoo.com if you have trouble with an= y of these options. Please not our submission call for summer for "found" and "cut-up" poetry a= nd visual artists (deadline, June 1, 2009). Thank you again for your support of our journal! PJ Nights & Ray Sweatman =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:32:05 +0000 Reply-To: editor@fulcrumpoetry.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Fulcrum Annual Subject: Poets Patrick Herron and Stephen Sturgeon in Harvard Square Thu. April 23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Patrick Herron and Stephen Sturgeon Free poetry reading Thursday, April 23, 7 p.m. Pierre Menard Gallery / Lame Duck Books 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA (up Arrow St. from Cafe Pamplona) More info: 617.868.2033 Free wine Patrick Herron is a poet, artist and information scientist residing in Ch= apel Hill, NC. He is the author of The American Godwar Complex (2004, Bla= ze VOX) as well as the chapbooks, Man Eating Rice (Blaze VOX) and Three P= oems (Gateway Songbooks). His poems and essays have appeared in journals = such as Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Talisman, Fulcrum, in the Tokyo Metropo= litan Art Museum, and in the anthology 100 Days (Barque Press). Current w= riting projects include two works of translation, a collection of essays = and criticism, and a book of poetry. Stephen Sturgeon's poems have appeared in Boston Review, Cannibal, Harvar= d Review, Jacket, and other magazines. He is the editor of Fulcrum: an An= nual of Poetry and Aesthetics. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:15:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Poetry Project Subject: Events at The Poetry Project April Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Here=B9s what=B9s coming up at The Poetry Project: Friday, April 17, 9:30 PM A Night with Heretical Texts Vol. 4 Heretical Texts is an ongoing Factory School book series published in volumes of five books each. The series aims to test old assumptions about the political efficacies of poetic texts while utilizing the series structure as a framework for documentation and investigation. Since 2005, Factory School has published twenty titles under the Heretical Texts series banner, with future volumes appearing in 2010 and beyond. Volume 4 includes books by Jules Boykoff, Brett Evans, Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle and Frank Sherlock. Please join us for an evening of readings and festivities celebrating Heretical Texts Vol. 4. Participants include Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle, Frank Sherlock and Bill Marsh. Erica Kaufman is the author of Censory Impulse (Factory School 2009) and co-curates Belladonna*. kathryn l. pringle is the author of Right New Biology and lives in Durham, NC. Bill Marsh has co-directed Factory School since its founding in 2000. H= e is the author of Plagiarism (SUNY Press) and, with Steve Carll, Tao Drops, = I Change (Subpress). He lives in Queens, NY. Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individua= l (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitle= d The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School later this year. Monday, April 20, 8 PM Talk Series =AD Ammiel Alcalay on Writing in Tongues: Plain Language & the Politics of Print In this talk Ammiel Alcalay will explore some of his experiences in the realm of literary and political activism, as a writer, translator, interpreter, and member of various groups and organizations, particularly i= n relation to issues regarding Israel/Palestine and ex-Yugoslavia. His books include After Jews & Arabs, Memories of Our Future, and from the warring factions. A new book of essays, A Little History, is due out from Beyond Baroque, and a major new project to write a republic / The Poetics of Political Memory, is in progress. His translations include work from Arabic= , Bosnian, Hebrew, and Spanish. Wednesday, April 22, 8 PM Bill Berkson & Norma Cole Bill Berkson has been active in the art and literary worlds for nearly fift= y years. He is the author of sixteen books and pamphlets of poetry, including Serenade; Fugue State; a volume of his 1960s collaborations with Frank O=B9Hara entitled Hymns of St. Bridget & Other Writings; and the deluxe portfolio Gloria with etchings by Alex Katz. During the 1960s he was an editorial associate at Artnews and a regular contributor to Art. A selectio= n of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985-2003, appeared from Qua Books in 2004, followed by Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006 from Cuneiform Press. A volume of new and selected poems will appear from Coffee House Press in 2009. He now lives in New York and San Francisco. Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. Among her books are Collective Memory, Do the Monkey, and Spinoza in Her Youth. Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988=8B2008 will appear from City Lights in April 2009. Current translation work includes Danielle Collobert=B9= s Journals, Fouad Gabriel Naffah=B9s The Spirit God and the Properties of Nitrogen and Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France. Cole has been the recipient of a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, Gertrud= e Stein Awards, the Fund for Poetry, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts= . A Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she ha= s lived since 1977. Friday, April 24, 10 PM Lawrence Giffin & Nico Vassilakis Lawrence Giffin is the author of a chapbook, Get the Fuck Back into That Burning Plane, as well as three volumes of Comment Is Free, an ongoing print-on-demand work of social philosophy compiled from newspaper comment streams. As a member of the publishing collective Lil=B9 Norton, Lawrence Giffin is the series editor of the journal The Physical Poets Home Library. A kind of historical novel, Aa, co-produced with Fernando Diaz, is forthcoming from Patrick Lovelace Editions. Nico Vassilakis works in both textual and visual poetry. He is a curator for the Subtext Reading Series i= n Seattle. His vispo videos have been shown in exhibits and festivals of innovative language arts. Nico=B9s recently published Text Loses Time is available from ManyPenny Press. Forthcoming books include Disparate Magnets (BlazeVox) & Protracted Type (White Lion Books). Become a Poetry Project Member! http://poetryproject.org/become-a-member Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.org/program-calendar The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue New York City 10003 Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. info@poetryproject.org www.poetryproject.org Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $95 or higher will get in FREE to all regular readings). We are wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. For more info call 212-674-0910. If you=B9d like to be unsubscribed from this mailing list, please drop a line at info@poetryproject.org. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:58:24 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Bowering Subject: Re: is it asking too much of Ashberry? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Re the Ashberrry question: I would find it more refreshing to hear that question without the "at". gb On Apr 15, 2009, at 8:49 PM, CA Conrad wrote: > Steve's original question (message) was brave in many ways. In a time > when some poets feel poetry isn't strong enough to STAND without the > buttresses of philosophy and theory, it's refreshing to hear someone > ask WHERE IS YOUR WORLDVIEW AT THESE DAYS? > > Take YOUR to mean your own. > > Freud said it best: > Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. > > He said poet. Poet. I'm with Freud, at least on this. > > CAConrad > > THE BOOK OF FRANK http://CAConrad.blogspot.com > PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ > welcome.html > George Bowering Was once corrected by Bob Feller ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:09:05 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "K. R. Waldrop" Subject: 2 more by Keith Waldrop Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Beside SEVERAL GRAVITIES (a book of collages already announced here; www.sigliopress.com; use code GRAVITY before 4/22 for 25% discount) 2 more new books by Keith Waldrop: 1. TRANSCENDENTAL STUDIES: a trilogy of poems (U of CA Press, 200pp. $19.95) 2. A translation of Baudelaire's PARIS SPLEEN: LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE (Wesleyan UP, 124pp, cloth $22.95) ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:26:33 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Justin Katko Subject: Hot Gun! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please note the publication of Hot Gun, which I am posting here at the request of the editor, Josh Stanley. Among other goodies, it includes JH Prynne's review of Keston Sutherland's Hot White Andy. There will be a reading-launch this Friday (today!) in Davenport College, Yale University, at 8:30pm. Myself, Ryan Dobran, and Alex Nemser will read their poetry. Email the editor at address below for more information. Word. - J.K. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: josh stanley Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:06 AM Subject: Hot Gun! #1 Hello, The first issue of Hot Gun!, a new journal of contemporary poetry and criticism, is now out. It includes POEMS by Kyle Storm Beste-Chetwynde, Ryan Dobran, Luke Roberts, Justin Katko+Jow Lindsay, and Marianne Morris + the following PIECES: Trying to Look Correctly at the =93Subjects=94 of Andrea Brady=92s =91Saw F= it=92 =96 Amica Dall =91[D]oubts, Complications and Distractions=92: Rethinking the Role of Wome= n in Language Poetry =96 Emily Critchley Guy Debord=92s _Hurlements En Faveur De Sade_ [Headnote, Translation and Footnotes] =96 Justin Katko Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries : Presentation review =96 Kate Riley Keston Sutherland: _Hot White Andy_ =96 J.H. Prynne Lyric Purity in Keston Sutherland=92s _Hot White Andy_ =96 Neil Pattison It is 96 pages for the desperate day+night. Please email hotgunjournal@gmail.com with questions + please read Hot Gun! with and without with questions. Dear tremors in the present part juicer, what else can we now do. All this for 7 dollars plus postage: 2 dollars for the USA or 6 dollars for the UK + the rest of the world. U can (of course only if u want) order it online at www.hotgunjournal.com . All best, Josh Stanley =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:28:24 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Patrick Dillon Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: <267FE8F9E39349348636E1230E3217B5@OwnerPC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit At first, I thought you were suggesting that our will in the past would be constrained by the physical reality of the present. That if door number 1 were open now, we couldn't do anything else except choose door number 1 five seconds ago. Hence my sending the article, which directly addresses this question. If I understand you correctly then I agree with you. It seems pretty straight forward, but the element of time travel is more distracting for me than helpful. I don't see a difference between a decision made in the present and one made in the past without any knowledge or influence of the future. But I could probably do a better job of educating myself in philosophy. pd On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Jim Andrews wrote: > Jim, >> >> Unless I'm misreading something in your email or in the article I cited >> itself, I do think it speaks directly to your scenario, specifically where >> you ask COULD I do anything other than I did? >> >> I think, quite simply, yes you could have made done something different. >> You >> just didn't. So perhaps that goes some way to defining choice. >> >> It's that keyword "could" that is so important and, accordingly, gets >> adequate treatment in the article. >> >> pd >> > > i don't think you're grappling with the problem. it's odd how empty the > word "choice" can be, at times. > > if we go back 5 seconds and *everything* is exactly the same as it was 5 > seconds ago, including us, down to the last atom, then any *thoughtful* > decision we take will be the same, insofar as it is the result of > deliberation, which is the same as it was 5 seconds ago. the only decision > that might be different is a random decision but, even then, whatever the > mechanism that determines the state of the selection will be the same. all > mechanistically determined processes will have exactly the same result as > they did previously. > > i saw an interview last night with leonard cohen. he said "you can read the > book of your life but you can't change a word." > > four quartets: http://www.tristan.icom43.net/quartets/index.html > > ja > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:16:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: eric unger Subject: Poetry & Prints #4: Borzutzky, Carr, Severin, Morin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *string of small machines* 4 release featuring : daniel borzutzky, chicago-based writer and translator; author of the ecstacy of capitulation from blazeVOX [books], 2007 (www.blazevox.org/bk-db.htm; www.danielborzutzky.com) melissa severin, chicago-based writer and managing editor of switchback books; author of brute fact from dancing girl press, 2008 (www.switchbackbooks.com; www.dancinggirlpress.com/brutefact.html) michael carr, cambridge, ma.-based writer and editor of editions louis wain, and co-editor of katalanche press; co-author of necco face, from editions louis wain, 2009 ( editionslouiswain.com; katalanchepress.blogspot.com); gustave morin, toronto-based visual artist; author of the much-slept-on a penny dreadful from insomniac press, 2003 (epc.buffalo.edu/authors/morin/; www.mnsi.net/~common/editions_penny/dread.html ) and emcee sick playing rare groove, jazz, soul, and funk. SATURDAY APRIL 18th : 8p.m. Spudnik Press 1821 W Hubbard, Suite 308 Chicago, IL 60622 (spudnikpress.com ) ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:39:44 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: SEGUE 4/18: Akilah Oliver & Charles Alexander In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *The Segue Reading Series presents:* *AKILAH OLIVER & CHARLES ALEXANDER* *Saturday, April 18, 2009 ** 4PM SHARP*** at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, just north of Houston) $6 admission goes to support the readers hosted by Kristen Gallagher & Tim Peterson Charles Alexander is a Tucson-based poet, publisher, and book artist. He is the director and editor-in-chief of Chax Press. Alexander=92s recent books = of poetry include *Pushing Water: parts one through six* (Standing Stones Press, 1998), *near or random acts* (Singing Horse Press, 2004), and *Certa= in Slants* (Junction Press, 2007). Akilah Oliver is the author of a new book *A Toast in the House of Friends*(Coffee House Press, 2008), and also *the she said dialogues: flesh memory* (Smokeproof/Erudite Fangs, 1999). Sh= e currently makes her home in Brooklyn, NY. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:13:26 -0400 Reply-To: dbuuck@mindspring.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Buuck Subject: BARGE's "17 Reasons Why" opens April 24 @ Mission17 Gallery Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mission 17's 2009 Visual/Cultural Criticism Resident David Buuck & BARGE (the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-Aesthetics) pres= ent: 17 REASONS WHY: A VISUAL ARCHEOLOGY April 24-May 30, 2009. Opening Reception Friday April 24, 6-9 pm. David Buuck and BARGE present =E2=80=9C17 Reasons Why=E2=80=9D, a site-spec= ific installation and research office that will present a visual archeology= of the Mission and 17th Street environment, as part of an ongoing multi-me= dia investigation into how we see, know, and understand our everyday urban = spaces. As part of Mission 17=E2=80=99s Visual/Cultural Criticism Residency= , BARGE brings its toolkit of aesthetic and critical practices to tackle th= e thorny task of representing a diverse site, with all its historical and c= ultural complexities. With this exhibition and its related public programming, BARGE aims to crea= te a space for reflection on the complex intersections of place and memory,= change and nostalgia, history and its representations. A critical poetics = of visual and cultural criticism will emerge, as maps, photography, writing= , found materials & performance provide the basis for a =E2=80=99sampling= =E2=80=99 of the site and its environs, with the installation space functio= ning as a kind of laboratory for materialist (re)mixing. BARGE will install= a =E2=80=98research office=E2=80=99 in the gallery space, where BARGE will= be conducting investigatory projects throughout the run of the exhibition,= inviting participation in the gallery and online, and expanding the instal= lation and catalog as the residency unfolds. Rather than merely presenting = =E2=80=98finished work=E2=80=99 that sits idly in the gallery, The BARGE re= search office will be an ongoing performative space, foregrounding the cont= ingent, everyday forces and transitions in the Mission, while also making v= isible the methodologies of visual criticism and interpretation at work=E2= =80=94and at play. for more information on public programs & performances see: http://buuckbar= ge.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/barge-mission-17-gallery/=20 MISSION 17 GALLERY 111 Mission Street, Suite 401 San Francisco, CA Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat 1-6 pm 415.861.3144 =E2=80=A8mission17.org davidbuuck.com/barge =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:42:15 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Francesco Levato Subject: "War Rug" - Poetry Film Screening In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit "War Rug," a poetry film based on the long poem of the same name will be screened on April 17th, 2009 at FLATFILE galleries, 217 North Carpenter Street, Chicago IL. The screening will be part of a larger event and will take place around 8:30 - 9 p.m. If you're not in Chicago and would like to preview the film, it will available online for a limited time at the following link: http://www.francescolevato.com/media/War_Rug.htm "War Rug" is a work of documentary poetics in the form of a book length poem. Multiple interwoven narratives explore life within zones of conflict as viewed through the lens of current warfare. The narratives range from passages inspired by journal entries, firsthand accounts, and news reports to poetic constructs collaged from military doctrine, Freedom of Information Act released government documents (like CIA interrogation manuals, and detainee autopsy reports), and numerous other sources. The film collages and juxtaposes archival source material with U.S. Military footage in an exploration of alternative narrative interpretations of the source text. The film screening is part of "The Marriage of Poetry" featuring readings by Danielle Chapman & Dan-Beachy Quick, with live musical performances by Pont des Arts Ensemble & The Jim Barbick Trio. The main event starts at 6 p.m. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:08:17 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Tatsumi's Graphics Autobio//Pekar's Graphics Beat Generation History MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/books/review/Leland-t.html BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW=20 =20 | April 12=2C 2009 The Mad Ones By JOHN LELAND Moving the mythology of the Beat Generation into the comics realm provides a new angle on a familiar story: It gives the hipsters back their body language. BOOKS=20 =20 | April 15=2C 2009 Books of The Times:=20 Manifesto of a Comic-Book Rebel By DWIGHT GARNER Yoshihiro Tatsumi was at the rowdy vanguard of Japan's postwar comics revolution=2C and his outsize graphic autobiography is one of the genre's signal achievements. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/books/15garn.html _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail=AE: Get e-mail storage that grows with you.=20 http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_= Storage2_042009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:25:00 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nate Pritts Subject: H_NGM_N F_ND DR_V_ In-Reply-To: <77e5e8e50904162216k7bc71775tb81cdb5bcc37b198@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The online journal=2C H_NGM_N is embarking upon our semi-regular fund drive= . 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:14:51 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ken Chen Subject: From Jos=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9_Rizal_to_Jos=E9_?= Garcia Villa: An Introduction to Philippine Literary Greats MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable { please distribute widely } The Asian American Writers' Workshop presents *From Jos=E9 Rizal to Jos=E9 Garcia Villa: An Introduction to Philippine Literary Greats * *Celebrate two heroes of Philippine literature and the Philippine-American heritage and experience JOS=C9 RIZAL and JOS=C9 GARCIA VILLA with special guests HAROLD AUGENBRAUM and LUIS H. FRANCIA * Readings & Discussion Light Reception *Monday, April 27 @ 7pm The Workshop* 16 W. 32nd Street, 10th Floor (between Broadway & Fifth Ave) *TICKET PRICING* General Admission: $25 AAWW and AAJA Members: $20 Students: $15 VIP Package: $50 (includes books and AAWW membership) *Jos=E9 Rizal* (1861-1896) penned the great Philippine novel, *Noli Me Tang= ere *. Set during the Spanish occupation,* Noli* is a love story of a young gentleman who returns to the Philippines from Europe after his father's death. This powerful, moving novel and its sequel, *El Filibusterismo*, wer= e banned by Spanish authorities. Rizal was later executed for sedition, rebellion, and conspiracy. Now considered a Philippine national hero, his work helped spark revolutionary movements. Well-known translator and critic *Harold Augenbraum* discusses Rizal's life and reads from his translation of *Noli Me Tangere*, published by Penguin Classics, and from his translation-in-progress of* El Filibusterismo*. Augenbraum currently serves as Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. *** Known as the "Pope of Greenwich Village,"* Jos=E9 Garcia Villa* (1908-1997) was arguably the most important Asian American writer of the mid-twentieth century, as well as a colleague of modern literary giants such as W.H. Aude= n and Tennessee Williams. Edith Sitwell called him "a poet with a great, even an astounding, and perfectly original gift... The best of his poems are among the most beautifully written in our time." Penguin Classics recently reissued *Doveglion: Collected Poems, *a compilation of Villa's work, including rare and previously unpublished material. *Luis H. Francia*, reknowned writer and poet, discusses Villa and reads fro= m *Doveglion*, and will also read from his own* Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago*. Francia's semi-autobiographical account of life straddling American and Philippine culture won the Pen Center Beyond the Margin Award and The Asian American Writers' Workshop Literary Award in 2002. *** An informal discussion will be encouraged after the presentations. Wine and meryenda hors d'oeuvres will be served. *FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFO* Please visit the event page or call 212/494-0061 (https://www.nycharities.org/event/event.asp?CE_ID=3D3746) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:12:08 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > At first, I thought you were suggesting that our will in the past would be > constrained by the physical reality of the present. That if door number 1 > were open now, we couldn't do anything else except choose door number 1 > five > seconds ago. Hence my sending the article, which directly addresses this > question. OK. But that's not what I was saying. > If I understand you correctly then I agree with you. It seems pretty > straight forward, but the element of time travel is more distracting for > me > than helpful. I don't see a difference between a decision made in the > present and one made in the past without any knowledge or influence of the > future. You're right about the element of time travel being not essential to the situation. But it does serve to focus attention on the problem of choice from one moment to the next. In that scenario, if we think that events would have to unfold as they did previously, then any decision any time is questionable. Because if we think that events would have had to unfold as they did previously THAT TIME, then events would have had to unfold as they did ANY TIME. Wouldn't they? Because there was nothing exceptional about THAT TIME. So that when we seek some possibility of anything happening differently than it did, it seems that what might have been is an abstraction remaining a perpetual possibility only in a world of speculation. ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:51:16 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: PJ Subject: WITH THE URL (this time) "from east to west" - new issue & submission call MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm not sure what happened to the link in the email below??!!!=A0 You can f= ind our new issue of "east/west"=A0=A0 and the full submission call here: http://www.geocities.com/pj_nights PJ --- On Thu, 4/16/09, PJ wrote: From: PJ Subject: "from east to west" - new issue & submission call To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 6:18 PM In ~60 pages of full color, the spring edition of "from east to west" inclu= des featured poets: Mark Hartenbach, Eve Hanninen, Michael Macklin & Bart Solarcyz, featured artists: Jeff Filipski, Eve Hanninen, Cheryl Townsend, Jenny McGhee Dougherty, & Ron Davis, and "garden" poets: T. Birch, Wendy Howe, Lois Jones, Neil C. Leach, Jr., Russell Libby, Tom Moore, Kenneth Pobo, Bethan Townsend & Lewis Turco. The cover art (and one more at the end of the edition) by Pamela Perkins is= especially fascinating.=A0 She composed these from recycled antique window= s=20 with East Coast sea glass, stone, wood, shell (mostly from Maine) and paint= .=20 You can view our issue online, download as a free .pdf, or buy an at-cost print copy from Lulu.=A0 Just follow the links on our web page.=A0 Email PJ Nights at tangerine_reflections@yahoo.com if you have trouble with any of t= hese options. Please not our submission call for summer for "found" and "cut-up" poetry a= nd visual artists (deadline, June 1, 2009). Thank you again for your support of our journal! PJ Nights & Ray Sweatman =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:40:51 -0400 Reply-To: patrick@proximate.org Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Patrick Herron Subject: Poets Patrick Herron and Stephen Sturgeon in Harvard Square Thu. April 23 Comments: To: ImitaPo Memebers , Lucifer Poetics Group MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Poets Patrick Herron and Stephen Sturgeon in Harvard Square Thu. April 23 FREE POETRY READING + WINE Thursday, April 23, 7 p.m. Pierre Menard Gallery / Lame Duck Books 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA (up Arrow St. from Cafe Pamplona) Map: http://tr.im/pierremenardmap More info: 617.868.2033 Patrick Herron is a poet, artist and information scientist from Chapel Hill, NC. He is the author of Be Somebody (2008, Effing Press), The American Godwar Complex (2004, Blaze VOX) Man Eating Rice (2002, Blaze VOX) and Three Poems (2005, Gateway Songbooks). His poems and essays have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Talisman, Fulcrum, and in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Patrick is working on a collection of poems that explores the construction of subjectivity through multiple externalities. Stephen Sturgeon's poems have appeared in Boston Review, Cannibal, Harvard Review, Jacket, and other magazines. He is the editor of Fulcrum: an Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=79468771460 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:42:57 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: NYT Review: Two New Translations of Cavafy's Collected & Unfinished Poems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Longenbach-t.html?8bu&emc=3D= bua2 Two New Translations of Cavafy's Collected & Unfinished Poems A Poet=92s Progress James LongenbachPublished April 17=2C 2009 =93A Greek gentleman in a straw hat=2C standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.=94 With this sentence the novelist E. M. Forster introduced the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy to the English-speaking world in 1919. Since then=2C Cavafy=92s distinctive tone = =97 wistfully elegiac but resolutely dry-eyed =97 has captivated English-language poets from W. H. Auden to James Merrill to Louise Gl=FCck. Auden maintained that Cavafy=92s tone seems always to =93survive translation=2C=94 and Daniel Mendelsohn=92s new translations render that tone more pointedly than ever before. Together with =93The Unfinished Poems=94 (the first English translation of poems Cavafy was still drafting when he died in 1933)=2C this =93Collected Poems= =94 not only brings us closer to one of the great poets of the 20th century=3B it also reinvigorates our relationship to the English language. =20 =20 =20 Cavafy Archive C. P. Cavafy=20 =20 COLLECTED POEMS By C. P. Cavafy Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn 547 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $35 THE UNFINISHED POEMS By C. P. Cavafy Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn 121 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30 =20 Related The Cavafy Archive Web Site Daniel Mendelsohn=92s Web Site =20 In what ways did Cavafy stand at an angle to the universe? He was born in Alexandria in 1863 to a family that could trace its lineage back to the nobility of the Byzantine Empire. His father=2C originally from Constantinople=2C was a partner in a successful export business that maintained offices in London and Liverpool as well as several cities in Egypt=3B the young Cavafy lived in England for five years=2C acquiring both a longstanding fascination with English poetry and a slightly British inflection that accented his Greek. But when his father died=2C Cavafy=92s family was plunged into poverty. Socially=2C linguistically=2C personally=2C Cavafy lived on the outskirts. He had his first homo=ADsexual affair around the age of 20. Soon after=2C he found a job in the Irrigation Office of the Ministry of Public Works =97 the =93Third Circle of Irrigation=94 =97 where= he worked for more than 30 years. He wrote consistently but almost never published through traditional means. There is nothing more detrimental to art=2C he maintained=2C than succumbing to =93how the public thinks and what it likes and what it will buy.=94 Today=2C Cavafy is well known for writing what might initially seem like two kinds of poems. Beginning in 1911=2C he wrote poems depicting homosexual desire with an unsensational directness: =93They were slow getting dressed=2C they were sorry to cover / the beauty of their supple nudity / which harmonized so well with the comeliness of their faces.=94 At the same time=2C he wrote poems about Greek history =97 not the well-known glories of the classical era but the long decline that finally concluded with the collapse of the Byzantine Empire: =93He wasn=92t completely wrong=2C poor old Gemistus = / (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like)=2C / in wanting us=2C telling us to become pagan once again.=94=20 But as Mendelsohn argues in his elegant introduction to the poems=2C any division between the erotic and historical poems is facile. Whether Cavafy is describing an ancient political intrigue or an erotic encounter that occurred last week=2C his topic is the passage of time. The lines I=92ve just quoted are in fact from the same unfinished poem=2C =93After the Swim=94: the naked youths=2C dressing on the beach=2C are reve= aled to be students of Gemistus=2C a Byzantine Neo=ADplatonist who was condemned by authorities of the Orthodox Church for proclaiming that Zeus was the supreme god. In Cavafy=92s world=2C everything has already happened. The fortune is spent=2C the pantheon abandoned=2C the body grown old. This overpowering sense of belatedness is what provokes the tone of his poems =97 rueful=2C distanced=2C knowing but never wise. Mendelsohn maintai= ns that=2C given the translatability of Cavafy=92s tone=2C he has focused his attention on =93other aspects of the poetry=94 =97 the exquisite care Cavaf= y took with diction=2C syntax=2C meter and rhyme. But in fact this is not exactly the case. It is only through attention to these minute aspects of poetic language that tone is produced. And Mendelsohn is assiduously attentive. Earlier translators have=2C to varying degrees=2C rightly emphasized the prosaic flatness of Cavafy=92s language=3B the flatness is crucial to the emotional power of the poems=2C since it prevents their irony from seeming caustic=2C their longing from seeming nostalgic. But as Mendelsohn shows=2C Cavafy=92s language was in subtle ways more artificial than we=92ve understood. Most important=2C Cavafy mingled high and low diction=2C employing both vernacular Greek and a literary Greek invented at the turn of the 19th century. Taking advantage of the fact that English contains words descended not only from German but from Latin roots=2C Mendelsohn=92s translations shift similarly between the lofty and the mundane: I ask myself whether in antique times glorious Alexandria possessed a=20 youth more beauteous=2C a kid more perfect than he. This poem=2C =93Days of 1909=2C =9210=2C and =9211=2C=94 extols the beauty of a working-class boy who sells his body to buy expensive clothes. The tensions between high and low are registered in the diction. Following a line dominated by Latinate words (glorious=2C possessed=2C beauteous)=2C the Germanic and colloquial monosyllable in the third line carries an unexpected poignancy: a kid. =20 This shift in diction lets us hear something crucial about Cavafy=92s tone (a directness that is never not elegant)=2C but it also lets Mendelsohn=92s translation exist fully as an English poem. Because of the polyglot nature of the English language=2C the sound of great English poetry is the sound of monosyllabic Germanic words chiming against multisyllabic Latinate words (Shakespeare=92s =93seas incarnadine=94 or Tennyson=92s =93immemorial elms=94). Echoing such effects=2C Mendelsohn makes me wonder if it wasn=92t the deliciously mongrel nature of English=2C which Cavafy spoke and wrote perfectly=2C that first provoked him to forge his own hybridized idiom. The fact that the few poems Cavafy wrote in English contain phrases like =93penetrating eye=94 and =93transcendent star=94 (the Latinate word wedged against the Germanic) suggests that the poet=92s ear for English was at least as acute as his translator=92s. Mendelsohn is a classicist=2C essayist and memoirist=2C the author of =93Th= e Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.=94 His translations of Cavafy=92s poems come trailing commentaries in which an immense amount of learning is gracefully and usefully borne. But Mendelsohn thinks like a poet=2C which is to say he inhabits the meaning of language through its movement. Listen to his translation of the famous concluding lines of =93The God Abandons Antony=94: Like one who=92s long prepared=2C like someone brave=2C as befits a man who=92s been blessed with a city like this=2C go without faltering toward the window and listen with deep emotion=2C but not with the entreaties and the whining of a coward=2C to the sounds =97 a final entertainment =97=20 to the exquisite instruments of that initiate crew=2C and bid farewell to her=2C to Alexandria=2C whom you are losing.=20 The final line embodies the fortitude the poem recommends. While the preceding lines falter=2C breaking the syntax into edgy pieces=2C the final line is syntactically complete. As a result=2C the poem does not pronounce but arrives at its wisdom=2C making it happen to us. It is an event on the page.=20 It=92s easy to translate what a poem says=3B to concoct a verbal mechanism that captures a poem=92s movement=2C its manner of saying=2C requires a combination of skills that very few possess. Like Richard Howard=92s Baudelaire or Robert Pinsky=92s Dante=2C Mendelsohn=92s = Cavafy is itself a work of art. James Longenbach=92s most recent books are =93Draft of a Letter=2C=94 a collectio= n of poems=2C and =93The Art of the Poetic Line=2C=94 essays on poetry. Rediscover Hotmail=AE: Get quick friend updates right in your inbox. Check= it out. _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail=AE: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_= Mobile2_042009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:56:28 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: goosh.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit here is a web-based command line program called goosh: http://goosh.org this lets you perform all sorts of google searches and other ops. for instance, you can do image searches, video searches, news searches, text searches, blog searches, translations, and various other things from this command line program. ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:41:18 -0300 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Regina Pinto Subject: 10 years (cyberliterature) X 50 years (Neoconcrete Movement) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D pintor http://pintor.tumblr.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The White and the Black, Reflections on Fog - 10 years A pionner cyberliterature work, created by Regina Pinto in 1999 http://arteonline.arq.br/cybercircus/choose.html WE CAN NOT JUDGE WHICH DARKNESS - THE BLACK OR THE WHITE - IS WORSE, BECAUSE WE CAN NOT DISTINGUISH ONE FROM ANOTHER (DARK SIMILARITY) The eletronic artist=92s book =93The White and the Black, Reflections on Fog=94, created in 1999, is being re-launched (original version). Now the download is very fast, but in 1999, it was necessary much time to watch it. So, in 2001, it became a cd-rom. How technology develops fast! Will it be that in 2019 it will be possible to see this work yet? =85 How will the internet be in 2019? And the computers? http://pintor.tumblr.com/page/2 (bottom of the page - Date: 2009 21st 03) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Neoconcrete Movement - 50 years in 2009 Do you want to know more about it? pintor's microblog has info on this wonderful Brazilian (carioca) artistic movement. http://pintor.tumblr.com/page/3 Also visit: http://arteonline.arq.br/museu/library_pdf/brazilian_poetry.pdf =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Regina Pinto http://arteonline.arq.br http://pintor.tumblr.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:45:52 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: Edmonton fest, Ottawa fest, rob DONT FORGET; two festivals in two cities start next week; the edmonton poetry festival http://www.edmontonpoetryfestival.com/ the ottawa international writers festival http://www.writersfestival.org/ including Chaudiere Books launching a first poetry collection by Ottawa poet Marcus McCann, Soft where, at the Ottawa festival on April 25 (reading with Jeanette Lynes + Molly Peacock), and me launching a new poetry collection, gifts, as part of Talonnights in both cities, along with Adeena Karasick, bill bissett, Garry Morse, and, in Edmonton only, Kevin Kerr; Edmonton, April 22; Ottawa, April 28th; info on Marcus McCann's Soft where http://www.chaudierebooks.com/books/soft_where.html info on rob's Edmonton/Ottawa (+ Toronto) launches: http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/04/ottawa-toronto-edmonton-book-launches.html Otherwise, here I am in Edmonton, writing & continually writing: http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/04/some-edmonton-thus.html yr wayward pal, -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...13th poetry coll'n - The Ottawa City Project ...novel - white www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:55:10 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gabrielle Welford Subject: for the young poartist who wants MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII dear folks, my 20-yr-old son and his friends are artists and poets living together in lincoln, NE. they are all-but-one unemployed right now. they want to poart together as much as possible and also need to pay rent etc. would you send me what you do to make ends meet? stuff they could think about in a real kind of way. backchannel. blessings, gabe Gabrielle Welford, Ph.D. books: _Too Many Deaths: Decolonizing Western Academic Research on Indigenous Cultures_ http://www.theguildofwriters.com/books/shop.php?action=full&id=317 _Dora_ http://www.theguildofwriters.com/books/shop.php?action=full&id=378 blog: (no longer active but lots of good info on hawai'i) www.greenwom.blogspot.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.412 / Virus Database: 268.18.4/705 - Release Date: 2/27/2007 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:49:08 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Angeline, Mary" Subject: Re: [BULK] "War Rug" - Poetry Film Screening MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Francesco, =20 I have sent "War Rug" on to hundreds of students and friends.=20 Perfect Pitch. Smart. Eerily Transcendental. Nice Work. Thank You Are their others? =20 ________________________________ From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) on behalf of Francesco Levato Sent: Fri 4/17/2009 7:42 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: [BULK] "War Rug" - Poetry Film Screening "War Rug," a poetry film based on the long poem of the same name will be screened on April 17th, 2009 at FLATFILE galleries, 217 North Carpenter Street, Chicago IL. The screening will be part of a larger event and = will take place around 8:30 - 9 p.m. If you're not in Chicago and would like to preview the film, it will available online for a limited time at the following link: http://www.francescolevato.com/media/War_Rug.htm "War Rug" is a work of documentary poetics in the form of a book length poem. Multiple interwoven narratives explore life within zones of = conflict as viewed through the lens of current warfare. The narratives range from passages inspired by journal entries, firsthand accounts, and news = reports to poetic constructs collaged from military doctrine, Freedom of = Information Act released government documents (like CIA interrogation manuals, and detainee autopsy reports), and numerous other sources. The film collages and juxtaposes archival source material with U.S. = Military footage in an exploration of alternative narrative interpretations of = the source text. The film screening is part of "The Marriage of Poetry" featuring = readings by Danielle Chapman & Dan-Beachy Quick, with live musical performances by = Pont des Arts Ensemble & The Jim Barbick Trio. The main event starts at 6 = p.m. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:08:19 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: NYC Fri./ Boog City 56 Launch Party MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Please forward ------------------ Boog City 56 Launch Party in support of the newest issue of the East Village community newspaper This Fri., April 24, 9:00 p.m. $5 suggested donation with a two-drink minimum Sidewalk Caf=E9 94 Ave. A (at E. 6th St.) East Village Featuring readings from Betsy Andrews * Matthew Burgess * Lauren Russell and music from Dorit * Erin Regan Hosted and curated by Boog City poetry editor Joanna Fuhrman and editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave. For further information: 212-842-BOOG (2664), editor@boogcity.com ----- **Boog City http://www.welcometoboogcity.com/ Boog City is a New York City-based small press now in its 18th year =20 and East Village community newspaper of the same name. It has also =20 published 35 volumes of poetry and various magazines, featuring work =20 by Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti among others, and theme =20 issues on baseball, women=92s writing, and Louisville, Ky. It hosts and =20= curates two regular performance series=97d.a. levy lives: celebrating =20= the renegade press, where each month a non-NYC small press and its =20 writers and a musical act of their choosing is hosted at Chelsea=92s ACA = =20 Galleries; and Classic Albums Live, where up to 13 local musical acts =20= perform a classic album live at venues including The Bowery Poetry =20 Club, Cake Shop, CBGB=92s, and The Knitting Factory. Past albums have =20= included Elvis Costello, My Aim is True; Nirvana, Nevermind; and Liz =20 Phair, Exile in Guyville. *Performer Bios* **Betsy Andrews = http://paintedbridequarterly.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/making-place-betsy-a= ndrews%E2%80%99-new-jersey-and-john-hennessy%E2%80%99s-bridge-and-tunnel/ Betsy Andrews is the author of New Jersey, winner of the 2007 =20 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. **Matthew Burgess http://www.twc.org/assets/40-1.pdf Matthew Burgess=92 poems have appeared in various magazines, including =20= Lungfull!, Hanging Loose, Brooklyn Review, and Big City Lit, and he=92s =20= published three chapbooks: Liftoff, Yeah You, and Day After Labor Day, =20= a series of photographs and poems. Burgess teaches creative writing =20 and literature at Brooklyn College, and he is a poet-in-residence in =20 New York City schools with Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He is =20 pursuing his Ph.D. in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. **Dorit http://www.myspace.com/sweetdorit Dorit is obsessed with superheroes. Well one in particular. Her =20 lifelong fascination led to the 2009 release of her original video and =20= song =93Wonder Woman=94 (viewable on her above myspace page). After = years =20 of struggling to produce a record on her own, this video is a huge =20 accomplishment and represents a vision completed. Dorit is a singer songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and Middle Eastern =20= dancer. She has performed internationally with various world music =20 groups and won the title of =93Bellydancer of the Universe=94 in 2005. =20= She is working on her rock/funk album as well as writing music for a =20 new band project. **Erin Regan http://www.myspace.com/erinregan "As inauspicious as the night began, Erin Regan turned everything =20 around in a matter of seconds. If you saw Ghost World and instantly =20 wanted the Thora Birch character for your best friend, Regan is for =20 you. She doesn=92t do the movie=92s almost over-the-top personification = of =20 clinical depression=97she actually smiled and joked a little with the =20= audience. But her songs would do Enid proud. Regan=92s vocal delivery is = =20 deadpan and sullen, with an icy dismissiveness. "Whatever wounds she=92s sustained still seem fresh (probably a simple =20= case of having grown up as a cool kid surrounded by morons=97it=92s a =20= common injury, but it can take years before it=92s safe to look back and = =20 just laugh). Her stage persona may say stay the hell away from me, but =20= her bleak, outsider chronicles are welcoming and inclusive, and will =20 resonate hard with any other cool kids who=92ve been liberated (or long =20= to be liberated) from a stifling environment. =85 Her best number was a =20= snide, bitter look back at a wasted youth spent bumming cigarettes =20 from older kids and stealing things: if only things were simple then, =20= she mused sarcastically. But they=92re not. It might have been just =20 Regan and her acoustic guitar onstage tonight, but she packed a =20 wallop. Add her to your must-see list.=94 =97from Lucid Culture **Lauren Russell http://poetryproject.org/wp-content/uploads/recluse02.pdf Lauren Russell is the author of the chapbook The Empty-Handed =20 Messenger, forthcoming from Goodbye Better, and is a student in the =20 Individualized B.A. program at Goddard College. --=20 David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://www.welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:36:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Hand Held Editions Subject: SERIES 2 LAUNCH - FOUST, KLINK, HUMMEL - APRIL 26TH MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Friends, Please join us for the launch of HH Series 2, featuring readings by the authors of our three new chapbooks: Sunday, April 26th, 4:00pm Graham Foust - On "Sad Songs and Waltzes" Joanna Klink - Wonder of Birds Kristina Hummel - How Void of Miracles A Public Space 323 Dean Street (@ 3rd Ave) Brooklyn Atlantic/Pacific - 2, 3, 4, 5, N, Q, R, B, D, M *** Three chapbooks, one price: $12. These are going to go FAST, so if you can't make the launch you might want to swing by: http://handheldeditions.blogspot.com/ *** Hope to see you there! Or soon. All best, Thomas Hummel Brett Fletcher Lauer -- hand*held*editions thomas hummel & brett fletcher lauer handheldeditions.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:35:51 -0700 Reply-To: afieled@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Fieled Subject: A New Branch of Literary Theory MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For those of you interested in literary theory, I have been developing idea= s towards the creation of a new branch of literary theory. I call it "I.T."= : Internet Theory. This theory, which is still in the formative stages, att= empts to work out the implications, formal characteristics, and inherent pr= operties of "digital text," "digital consciousness," and "Reception Velocit= y," among other things. I have done a solid week of it here: =A0 http://www.adamfieled.blogspot.com =A0 I hope that others will join with me in exploring these ideas. A new contex= t for literature is a new chance to redefine it, as it was, is, and can be. Best, Adam Fieled=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:05:47 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jon Cotner Subject: April 23rd (NYC): David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Lynne Tillman Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain DAVID ANTIN // CHARLES BERNSTEIN // LYNNE TILLMAN The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, between = 34th and 35th=20 Streets) 7 p.m. Thursday, April 23rd free admission + free drinks organized by Jon Cotner + Andy Fitch =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:17:29 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: CFW: Building Bridges, Tehran, London, LA In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DO contact Marjan with any questions; she's very interested in building up her gallery in Iran, in particular. Note that blogging is now illegal inside Tehran; oftentimes snailmail and reading statements, etc. is the way university students have contact with artists. Marjan's previous show, in MOCA Tehran, included works by Bill Viola and Masami Teraoka. I bet works that query ideas of globalization, censorship, women's and minority rights, 1M signatures, etc. are particularly welcome. http://buildingbridges.me/Bulding_Bridges/BuildingBridges2oO9.html Film/ Video Submissions: for a fee of $25 you can include up to 3 films/ videos for our judges to consider. 1. 1. =95Everyone who is accepted will be shown at all three different locations: 1. =95Park-e-Lalaeh - which is where MOCA Tehran is located, 2. =95Tehran University, 3. =95As well as Building Bridges favorite gallery in Tehran- (due to the nature of this exhibition. We are not able to release the name of the gallery/ site of Masami Teraoka=92s solo / the third screening at this time.) 4. =95(These screenings may also travel to other cities such as: Lond= on, Istanbul, Dubai, Los Angeles and NYC.) 2. 1. =95Building Bridges will also include the names, bios, artists statement, links to sites and still frame shots of ALL film or video submitted in our on line catalogue. 1. =95For all Film/ Video Submissions PLEASE make sure to include a still frame shot of your film or video for our catalogue. 2. =95FREE initial Artist Registry included with the Film/ Video Submissions fee. 3. Only Join the Artists=92 Registry for initial fee of $20. Page includes bio= , artists statement, contact info & up to 4 images (additional pages may be added free of charge to include more pix- up to 20 images). Update fee is $10 for adding new images or text. Please make your checks payable to =91BB c/o Marjan Vayghan=92 and mail to: Building Bridges.me 1422 Brockton Ave # 5 Los Angeles, CA, 90025. Please visit www.BuildingBridges.me for more details. Please feel free to contact Marjan if you have any questions: marjan.v@gmail.com www.MarjanVayghan.com --=20 All best, Catherine Daly c.a.b.daly@gmail.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:38:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Liner notes for upcoming video/laptop show at Millennium MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Liner notes for upcoming video/laptop show at Millennium (date to be announced) http://www.alansondheim.org/skysign.mov http://www.alansondheim.org/skysign1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/skysign2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/skysign3.png http://www.alansondheim.org/skysign4.png http://www.alansondheim.org/skysign5.png Adventures in the Sim Trade: Accidental Art and Performance in Second Life June 2008 through March 2009, I worked in an installation/performance space called Odyssey in the virtual world Second Life. I changed the environment daily, reflecting dynamic (moving, shuddering) complex spaces that were narratives in their own right, difficult to navigate, built on phenomenologies of being virtually real, really virtual. I will walk/work my way through these transformations, presenting videos and images of installations (with Azure Carter), dance (with Foofwa d'Imobilite and Sandy Baldwin), and performance (with Sandy Baldwin). This work is unique within and without Second Life. From the original information sheet (all this and more will be explained!) How to view The Accidental Artist exhibition in Second Life The exhibition is quite complex; here's some suggestions when visiting: 1. Try turning the glow off. Go to preferences, graphics, and uncheck basic shading, if it's on. Basic shading seems to use up more resources than anything else with the rendering engine. You can also set things like rendering distance; the lower the distance, the faster the loading. 2. Turn the video media button off. This on the lower right-hand corner of the screen. If you turn it on, the texture-mapping consumes a huge amount of resources. On the other hand, the audio for the parcel (the audio button) runs fairly lean. 3. If you find the space too cluttered to enter, try flying in. 4. If you find flying in too cluttered, fly higher, and drop in. There is a dome in the center of the space which you can enter. 5. Most objects on the ground level (and some beneath the ground, on the seafloor) will flee from you - what looks crowded from a distance might well clear out. 6. If it clears out, look up - you'll see all sorts of things above you. 7. Fly vertically to see the rest of the exhibition. If you can't fly as high as you want, click control-alt-d, which opens up an advanced menu. Open the menu and get rid of camera constraints. You can then move the camera at a great distance from your avatar body - your viewpoint moves independently, and you can move at least to the top of the exhibition, which is maybe a mile or so up, SL measurement. 8. If you get stuck anywhere, teleport back in. 9. Try moving inside the objects; the interior textures are often different from the exterior ones (this is almost always the case with the spheres). 10. You can push objects vertically into the sky by moving beneath them and flying; they flee upwards. 11. You can see the exhibition 'differently' by using the advanced menu, going to render, and then looking for info - clicking on any one of the info options will give you different viewpoints. 12. You can often sit on moving objects, which will whirl you around; if you sit on an object that moves vertically as a result of your proximity, you can ride it up. When you stand up again, you can fall down back into the space. The riding height seems to be around 4117 SL units, but unless you have a flight bracelet or feather, you probably won't go that high. 13. Moving about on the ground level, keep the sound turned on (lower right), and you'll hear a variety of songs about SL and language. These mix with a number of looping sound modules embedded in the space. 14. If you've been moving around SL a lot, go to preferences, and empty your cache; this might speed things up. You'll have to restart SL again. 15. If you see a sign for teleporting, try it. Sometimes it will lead back to the ground level, sometimes to the seabed, sometimes to a skysphere. All of these locations have clickable objects which will take you else- where (or back to the same space but at a slightly different location). You might have to right-click on the object, then click on teleport - or you might just left click - it depends on the object. 16, Try different 'lenses' - click on control-8 to make the image wide- angle, control-9 to return to normal, control-0 for telephoto. Repeated clicks work as well - with control-8 you can create extreme distortions. 17. Try moving into 'small' spaces and look about. You can save snapshots of anything you see, on your hard drive. 18. That's about it. The general idea is to run lean, fly about, teleport back if you're stuck, play with the controls. The architecture is constan- tly changing and deconstructing itself - play with that.... ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:26:19 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Red Rover Series / Experiment #28 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Red Rover Series {readings that play with reading} Experiment #28: It's Voyeuristic SATURDAY, APRIL 25th 7pm Featuring: Carrie Olivia Adams & Andy Gricevich NEW LOCATION at the Orientation Center 2129 N. Rockwell -- Chicago, IL corner of Milwaukee/Rockwell=20 left side of the Congress Theater building http://orientationcenter.wordpress.com suggested donation $4 CARRIE OLIVIA ADAMS lives and works in Chicago, where she also serves as po= etry editor for Black Ocean and Hunger Mountain. Her poems and reviews have= appeared in such journals as Backwards City Review, Cranky, DIAGRAM, Lilie= s and Cannonballs Review, and Verse. She is the author of Intervening Absen= ce, published by Ahsahta Press and the chapbook, =E2=80=9CA Useless Window.= =E2=80=9D=20 ANDY GRICEVICH is uncomfortably writing this in the third person. He's a po= et, actor, theater director and musician whose work occasionally finds the = time to get itself published here and there. He spent much of the last four= years melding political theater and experimental music with the Nonsense C= ompany, and performing satirical cabaret songs with the Prince Myshkins. An= dy edits Cannot Exist, a print poetry magazine put lovingly together in his= living room in Madison, Wisconsin. He very rarely, and with extensive disc= omfort, blogs at ndgwriting.blogspot.com.=20 Red Rover Series is curated by Lisa Janssen and Jennifer Karmin. Each event= is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national,= and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded= in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin. UPCOMING May 9th - Lisa Fishman & Aurora Tabar Email ideas for reading experiments to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com The schedule for upcoming events is listed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:00:49 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: goosh.org In-Reply-To: <4B889035AE4A4D2CB5498A8AEED55AA7@OwnerPC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > here is a web-based command line program called goosh: http://goosh.org > > this lets you perform all sorts of google searches and other ops. > > for instance, you can do image searches, video searches, news searches, > text searches, blog searches, translations, and various other things from > this command line program. a good response would be 'so what?' why would we want to do those things from a command line? it's easier to do them in the google graphic interface. i agree. the significance of goosh.org is what it offers programmers. imagine net art programs that make calls to google image search when they need images (dbcinema does that already, as do various other net art programs); or when ai is required, the programmer might send user text to a web service for analysis. and get a response back very quickly. the era of the net art app is more or less here. as there start to be lots of great web services available, the artistic imagination will do interesting and beautiful things with these services in programs whose bodies are distributed over the net--and hopefully dramatic and useful things also! the of net art: http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/04/15/the-body-of-net-art/ ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:19:06 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Lewis Warsh Subject: Manrique & Waldman at LIU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Friday, April 24, 6 PM The MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University presents JAIME MANRIQUE & ANNE WALDMAN reading new work Long Island University, Humanities Building, 4th floor English Department lounge (Take Q, B or R trains to DeKalb Ave) Jaime Manrique is a poet, novelist, essayist and translator. He is author of the memoir EMINENT MARICONES and the novels LATIN MOON IN MANHATTAN, TWILIGHT AT THE EQUATOR and OUR LIVES ARE THE RIVER. He is currently at work on CERVANTES STREET, a novel about Miguel de Cervantes. He is visiting writer at LIU spring 2009. Anne Waldman is the author of numerous books including OUTRIDER, STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD COMPARED TO A BUBBLE and IN THE ROOM OF NEVER GRIEVE. She is artistic director of The Summer Writing program at Naropa University. Her new book, MANATEE/HUMANITY, will be available at the reading. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:35:15 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Francesco Levato Subject: Re: [BULK] "War Rug" - Poetry Film Screening In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Mary, Thank you for forwarding this on. I would be interested to hear your students=B9 response to the film as well. There are other poetry films on my website at: http://www.francescolevato.com/video.htm and one silent film made for an exhibition at the Kinsey Institute titled =B3Do (not) touch.=B2 which can be viewed from the home page: http://www.francescolevato.com. Again, thanks for your interest, Francesco On 4/19/09 12:49 AM, "Angeline, Mary" wrote: > Francesco, >=20 > I have sent "War Rug" on to hundreds of students and friends. > Perfect Pitch. Smart. Eerily Transcendental. > Nice Work. > Thank You > Are their others? >=20 >=20 > ________________________________ >=20 > From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) on behalf of Francesco Levato > Sent: Fri 4/17/2009 7:42 AM > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: [BULK] "War Rug" - Poetry Film Screening >=20 >=20 >=20 > "War Rug," a poetry film based on the long poem of the same name will be > screened on April 17th, 2009 at FLATFILE galleries, 217 North Carpenter > Street, Chicago IL. The screening will be part of a larger event and will > take place around 8:30 - 9 p.m. >=20 > If you're not in Chicago and would like to preview the film, it will > available online for a limited time at the following link: >=20 > http://www.francescolevato.com/media/War_Rug.htm >=20 >=20 > "War Rug" is a work of documentary poetics in the form of a book length > poem. Multiple interwoven narratives explore life within zones of conflic= t > as viewed through the lens of current warfare. The narratives range from > passages inspired by journal entries, firsthand accounts, and news report= s > to poetic constructs collaged from military doctrine, Freedom of Informat= ion > Act released government documents (like CIA interrogation manuals, and > detainee autopsy reports), and numerous other sources. >=20 > The film collages and juxtaposes archival source material with U.S. Milit= ary > footage in an exploration of alternative narrative interpretations of the > source text. >=20 >=20 > The film screening is part of "The Marriage of Poetry" featuring readings= by > Danielle Chapman & Dan-Beachy Quick, with live musical performances by Po= nt > des Arts Ensemble & The Jim Barbick Trio. The main event starts at 6 p.m. >=20 On 4/19/09 11:01 PM, "POETICS automatic digest system" wrote: > > POETICS Digest - 17 Apr 2009 to 19 Apr 2009 (#2009-86) > Table of contents: > * Tatsumi's Graphics Autobio//Pekar's Graphics Beat Generation History <#= S1> > * H_NGM_N F_ND DR_V_ <#S2> > * From Jos=E9 Rizal to Jos=E9 Garcia Villa: An Introduction to Philippine Lit= erary > Greats <#S3>=20 > * Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? <#S4> > * WITH THE URL (this time) "from east to west" - new issue & submission c= all > <#S5>=20 > * Poets Patrick Herron and Stephen Sturgeon in Harvard Square Thu. April = 23 > <#S6>=20 > * NYT Review: Two New Translations of Cavafy's Collected & Unfinished Poe= ms > <#S7>=20 > * goosh.org <#S8> > * 10 years (cyberliterature) X 50 years (Neoconcrete Movement) <#S9> > * Edmonton fest, Ottawa fest, rob <#S10> > * for the young poartist who wants <#S11> > * [BULK] "War Rug" - Poetry Film Screening <#S12> > * NYC Fri./ Boog City 56 Launch Party <#S13> > * SERIES 2 LAUNCH - FOUST, KLINK, HUMMEL - APRIL 26TH <#S14> > * A New Branch of Literary Theory <#S15> > * April 23rd (NYC): David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Lynne Tillman <#S16> > * CFW: Building Bridges, Tehran, London, LA <#S17> > * Liner notes for upcoming video/laptop show at Millennium <#S18> > 1. Tatsumi's Graphics Autobio//Pekar's Graphics Beat Generation History >> * Tatsumi's Graphics Autobio//Pekar's Graphics Beat Generation History >> (04/17) >> * From: David-Baptiste Chirot > 2. H_NGM_N F_ND DR_V_ >> * H_NGM_N F_ND DR_V_ (04/17) >> * From: Nate Pritts > 3. From Jos=E9 Rizal to Jos=E9 Garcia Villa: An Introduction to Philippine > Literary Greats >> * From Jos=E9 Rizal to Jos=E9 Garcia Villa: An Introduction to Philippine >> Literary Greats (04/17) >> * From: Ken Chen > 4. Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? >> * Re: Reposting: is it asking too much of Ashbery? >> (04/17) >> * From: Jim Andrews > 5. WITH THE URL (this time) "from east to west" - new issue & submission = call >> * WITH THE URL (this time) "from east to west" - new issue & submission = call >> (04/17) >> * From: PJ > 6. Poets Patrick Herron and Stephen Sturgeon in Harvard Square Thu. April= 23 >> * Poets Patrick Herron and Stephen Sturgeon in Harvard Square Thu. April= 23 >> (04/17) >> * From: Patrick Herron > 7. NYT Review: Two New Translations of Cavafy's Collected & Unfinished Po= ems >> * NYT Review: Two New Translations of Cavafy's Collected & Unfinished Po= ems >> (04/17) >> * From: David-Baptiste Chirot > 8. goosh.org >> * goosh.org (04/17) >> * From: Jim Andrews > 9. 10 years (cyberliterature) X 50 years (Neoconcrete Movement) >> * 10 years (cyberliterature) X 50 years (Neoconcrete Movement) >> (04/18) >> * From: Regina Pinto > 10. Edmonton fest, Ottawa fest, rob >> * Edmonton fest, Ottawa fest, rob (04= /18) >> * From: Rob McLennan > 11. for the young poartist who wants >> * for the young poartist who wants (0= 4/18) >> * From: Gabrielle Welford > 12. [BULK] "War Rug" - Poetry Film Screening >> * Re: [BULK] "War Rug" - Poetry Film Screening >> (04/18) >> * From: "Angeline, Mary" > 13. NYC Fri./ Boog City 56 Launch Party >> * NYC Fri./ Boog City 56 Launch Party >> (04/19) >> * From: David Kirschenbaum > 14. SERIES 2 LAUNCH - FOUST, KLINK, HUMMEL - APRIL 26TH >> * SERIES 2 LAUNCH - FOUST, KLINK, HUMMEL - APRIL 26TH >> (04/19) >> * From: Hand Held Editions > 15. A New Branch of Literary Theory >> * A New Branch of Literary Theory (04= /19) >> * From: Adam Fieled > 16. April 23rd (NYC): David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Lynne Tillman >> * April 23rd (NYC): David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Lynne Tillman >> (04/19) >> * From: Jon Cotner > 17. CFW: Building Bridges, Tehran, London, LA >> * CFW: Building Bridges, Tehran, London, LA >> (04/19) >> * From: Catherine Daly > 18. Liner notes for upcoming video/laptop show at Millennium >> * Liner notes for upcoming video/laptop show at Millennium >> (04/19) >> * From: Alan Sondheim >=20 > Browse the POETICS online archives. > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:04:09 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Thomas savage Subject: Reading by Tom Savage Ron Price and Kate Irving MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On April 26 at 7PM, this Sunday, there will be a poetry reading by Tom Sava= ge, Ron Price, and Kate Irving for Tamarind magazine.=A0 It will take place= at ABC No Rio, which is at 156 Rivington St. (between Clinton and Suffolk = Sts.) at 7PM.=A0 Admission is $5. =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:24:54 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Shankar, Ravi (English)" Subject: Drunken Boat: 10th Anniversary Celebration at Real Art Ways this Thursday, 4/23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Drunken Boat: 10th Anniversary at Real Art Ways=20 THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 7 PM Drunken Boat , an international online arts = journal, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a multimedia literary = event. For the last decade, Drunken Boat has been publishing the best of = more traditional forms of representation, such as poetry and prose, = alongside multimedia works of art, such as hypertext, video and sound = art, that could only exist online. REAL ART WAYS 56 Arbor St Hartford, CT 06106 p: 860.232.1006 f: 860.233.6691 e: info@realartways.org Contact: Ravi Shankar =20 BIOS FOR DRUNKEN BOAT PERFORMERS FOR REAL ART WAYS LAUNCH =20 Edmond Chibeau is a performance writer who teaches "Scriptwriting" and = "History of Communication" at Eastern Connecticut State University. = Chibeau believes we are Microchip Aboriginals, living in the Ur = Civilization of the Digital Age. The quantum space between the zeros and = ones of the binary number system allows for a digital ekphrasis of the = scirbal analogue of phonetic space. In other words; the phonetic = alphabet texts us. His play, The Norwich Nine, about civil war soldiers = buried in Norwich, Connecticut, was performed at Eastern Connecticut = State University on April 19th. He will be giving the keynote address = for IMPAC-Connecticut State Wide Ceremony of the Dublin Literary Award = on April 28th. Chibeau=92s work has been performed at Lincoln Center, = The Knitting Factory, NoSeNO, The Ear Inn, and elsewhere. He has worked = with John Cage, Alison Knowles, Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg, & = Charles Bernstein, among others. =20 Composer Anthony Cornicello writes music that blurs distinctions between = performers and electronics, timbre and harmony, composition and = improvisation, and explores the boundaries of what may be considered = post-classical concert music. He has been commissioned to write music = for the Scorchio Electric String Quartet, ModernWorks!, the Auros Group = for New Music, the Prism Saxophone Quartet, the New York New Music = Ensemble, David Holzman, the Group for Contemporary Music, and the = InterEnsemble of Padova, Italy. His work has also been featured on the = Guggenheim Museum=92s =93Works and Process=94 series. Cornicello=92s = works have also been performed by the Chicago Civic Symphony, Parnassus, = ALEA III, Composers Concordance, Madeleine Shapiro, Robert Black, among = others. Cornicello has begun performing on the laptop, using a variety = of interfaces and the Max/MSP program. Those performances, mostly with = EEE!, have had a notable impact on his music, as EEE!=92s music ranges = from hip-hop to experimental noise. EEE! is based at Eastern Connecticut = State University, where Cornicello is an Associate Professor and = Director of the Electronic Music Lab. Jonathan Monroe's contributions are drawn from Demosthenes' Legacy = (Ahadada 2009), a cross-genre work of prose poetry, poetics, and short = fiction. Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative = Literature at Cornell University, he is the author of A Poverty of = Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre (Cornell) and = co-author and editor of Writing and Revising the Disciplines (Cornell), = Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell = (Pittsburgh), Poetry, Community, Movement (Diacritics), and Avant-Garde = Poetries after the Wall (Poetics Today). =20 P. Newland has published short fiction with Chelsea, Mississippi Review, = Daedalus, and Storyglossia, as well as others. One of her stories was = recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She writes in her basement, = coming up occasionally for coffee. The rest of the time, she works as a = adolescent psychotherapist. She recently completed a novel. =20 Charles Rafferty received a 2009 NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing, as = well as a grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. = He is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: The Man on = the Tower ( University of Arkansas Press, 1995), Where the Glories of = April Lead (Mitki/Mitki Press, 2001), During the Beauty Shortage (M2 = Press, 2005), and A Less Fabulous Infinity (Louisiana Literature Press, = 2006). He has placed poems in The Southern Review, Poetry East, Drunken = Boat, TriQuarterly, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, Phoebe: The = George Mason Review, Connecticut Review, DoubleTake, Poems & Plays, and = Louisiana Literature. His work has also appeared in several anthologies, = including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon = University Press), Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology (University = of Evansville Press), and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets (University = of Evansville Press). He currently teaches at Albertus Magnus College = and in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University. By day, = he works as an editor for a technology consulting firm. He lives in = Sandy Hook, Connecticut, with his wife and two daughters.=20 Ram Devineni is the founder of =93Rattapallax=94 magazine and a = filmmaker who made =93Ginsberg=92s Karma=94 about Allen Ginsberg=92s = life in India and recently produced Amir Naderi=92s =93Vegas: Based on a = True Story=94 which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Rattapallax = Films is committed to producing poetic films and documentaries with a = social dimension to them. Their films have appeared in the Cairo = International Film Festival, San Jose Film Festival, Philadelphia = Festival of World Cinema and elsewhere around the world.=20 =20 Spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai has been featured in 300 = performances worldwide at venues including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the = House of Blues, the Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and = three seasons of the award-winning =93Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def = Poetry.=94 The author of Inside Outside Outside Inside (2004) and = Thought Crimes (2005) and the CD Infinity Breaks (2006), Tsai has shared = stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, = Amiri Baraka, and many more. Tsai is the author of three poetry = chapbooks. Her poetry and essays have been widely published and = anthologized. She was awarded an Urban Artists Initiative Fellowship = via the Asian American Arts Alliance in 2007. In 2008, the Idealist = named Tsai as one of their =93New York 40?-- the top New Yorkers who = make a positive impact in the five boroughs. =20 =20 Robin Starbuck is an installation and video artist who lives and works = in New York City. Since receiving her MFA from the Art Institute of = Chicago and a post graduate certificate in film/video production from = NYU she has exhibited her work widely both nationally and = internationally. Starbuck is currently a Visiting Scholar in = experimental film and animation at Sarah Lawrence College and is working = on several parallel film projects involving racial identity and = survivance in Native American communities and the subsequent = retro-romanticizing of these communities by outsiders. The history of = her work includes an investigation of various aspects of American = culture through the lens of Freudian Trauma theory.=20 She will be showing a clip from her video "Bishee" and the video short = "Forest" Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (??????) is a Seoul-based Web art group = consisting of Marc Voge (U.S.A.) and Young-Hae Chang (Korea). Their work = is characterized by text-based animation composed in Macromedia Flash = that is highly synchronized to musical score, typically jazz In 2000, = YHCHI's work was recognized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art = for its contribution to Online Art. In 2001 the group was awarded a = grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:55:44 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Doug Holder Subject: Poetic Healing: As the hospital and its clients have changed, counselor Douglas Holder adds another dimension. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Poetic Healing: As the hospital and its clients have changed, counselor=20= Douglas Holder adds another dimension. =20 * This article came out 9 years ago in The Boston Globe. It was the lead=20= article in the Living/Arts section. I found it in my archives and typed i= t up=20 because it is no longer online. It can be purchased from The Boston Globe= =20 archives. THE BOSTON GLOBE: (Living Arts: Feb. 8, 2000.) Poetic Healing: As the hospital and its clients have changed, counselor=20= Douglas Holder adds another dimension. By Michael Kenney (Globe Staff) SOMERVILLE=97In the fourth collection of poetry of poetry Douglas Holder = has=20 published at his Ibbetson Street Press here, he includes a poem of his ow= n,=20 titled: =93 A Simple Nod.=94 I saw him in Harvard Square, happily walking with a friend. As we passed each other we exchanged a simple, understated nod. Our silence was a friendly conspiracy a reminder of where he once was and where he was now. The where is never stated=97although two words, =93the ward,=94 a few lin= es=20 further on provide a hint. Holder, 44, is a mental health counselor, and = for the=20 past six years he has been conducting poetry workshops at McLean Hospital= =20 for its patients. =93 I=92d been working there 17 years, and I=92d had my poetry published = in small=20 journals,=94 he says. I wanted to add another dimension to my job and hel= p a=20 few folks out.=94 While Holder would not think of ranking himself with Anne Sexton, who won= =20 the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967, he does invoke the legendary poetr= y=20 workshops she conducted at McLean in the late 1960s. Sexton, a patient at= =20 the Belmont hospital in 1973, committed suicide in October 1974. Nor does Holder claim that the hospital today resemble the institution of= those=20 years. =93It=92s not like the old McLean,=94 he says, =93with patrician t= ypes sitting=20 around drinking tea from bone china.=94 That was the McLean of Harvard=20= fullbacks, Porcellian Club members, and =93 Mayflower screwballs.=94 That= was the=20 McLean that Robert Lowell, a frequent patient there in the 1960=92s,=20 memorialized in his poem =93Waking in the Blue,=94 and that writer Susann= a=20 Kaysen, a patient in 1967, recalls in her best-selling memoir =93Girl Int= errupted,=94=20 now a major motion picture. Today, Holder says, the members of his poetry groups are more likely to b= e=20 the homeless =93 coming in with a bit of doggerel.=94 He runs two workshops, one on Thursday afternoons for patients in the=20 hospital=92s open-ward program, which meets in a converted Victorian mans= ion,=20 and other Friday evenings for patients on two locked wards where Holder=20= works. Neither is open to an outside visitor. But whether in the mansion or in the more institutional setting of the lo= cked=20 ward, Holder says, =93 I try to sort of have a coffeehouse atmosphere. We= =92ll=20 have a round of applause when some reads a poem.=94=20 Of course it doesn=92t always work out as planned. Holder remembers reading Allen Ginsberg=92s =93Howl=94 at his very first = workshop. =93I was pretty enthusiastic then, and a bit na=EFve,=94 he says. I thoug= ht they=92d=20 like it. I saw the poem=97with its lament about the =93best minds of his=20= generation lost to madness=94=97as a haunting cry that would be a catalys= t for=20 discussion.=94 And he says with some self-deprecation, =93 I thought they=92d think of m= e as, =93=20 Hey, this guy knows where I am coming from.=94 Instead , =93they were angry and one of them walked out,=94 he says. =93A= nd one=20 of them told me: =93Why do I have to hear this? I live with it.=94 Another time, Holder says, a young woman became hysterical and ran out=20= when he read a poem of his own about a kosher butcher in Brookline. =93It turned out the young woman had a painful experience in her life, wh= ich she=20 associated with chickens, and she couldn=92t take it,=94 Holder says. =93= I had a lot=20 of explaining to do with the clinical staff.=94 =93You never know,=94 he adds, =93when you might hit a vein.=94 The problem is compounded, Holder says, by the fact that today=92s hospit= al=20 stays tend to be shorter=97a week or two instead of several months. =93Yo= u=20 don=92t always know what to expect,=94 he says. It also means that the workshops aren=92t quite they were in Sexton=92s d= ay. =93I get in their face about it,=94 Holder says. =93 I=92ll go around to = the rooms in my=20 wards and ask: =93Are you coming to the poetry group tonight?=92 =93And sometimes, I=92ll have a doctor or another staff person tell me th= at so-and- so is a well-known writer, so I=92ll make a special effort to get them to= come.=94 A number of poems written by patients in these workshops have been=20 published=97usually anonymously in the now defunct Boston Poet and other=20= small poetry magazines. But not in his own magazine, which shares the nam= e=20 of his small press, Holder says, because that would violate hospital poli= cy. Because he believes that poetry can play a healing role, Holder started=20= Ibbetson Street Press, out of house in Somerville=97naming it after the s= treet=20 where he lives with his wife, Dianne Robitaille, a poet and geriatric nur= se. Holder, who got a master=92s degree in literature from Harvard=92s extens= ion school=20 while working at McLean, has been publishing his poetry in small magazine= s=20 and especially Spare Change, the monthly journal for the homeless. =93I w= rite a=20 lot about homelessness and mental health problems.=94 Starting a small press to publish local poets, Holder says, was =93 a way= to get=20 connected.=94 The most recent issue=9738 pages on 81/2 by 11 paper with a paper cover,=20= bound with black slip plastic binder=97sells for $4 and contains 40 poems= ; an=20 interview with Ed Galing, an elderly small press poet; and several review= s. Among the poets are a number of first-time writers and others described=20= as =93mainstays=94 of Holder=92s press. There are also two professors of = literature=97 John Hildebidle, who teaches at MIT, and Robert K. Johnson, who teaches a= t=20 Suffolk University=97as well as Don DiVecchio, the poetry editor of Spare= =20 Change. Ibbetson Street Press has also published a number of chapbooks, and old=20= English term for a small collection of poems or ballads, most recently: P= oems=20 =46rom 42nd Street=94 by Rufus Goodwin, a poet and journalist who lives i= n=20 Boston; and a collection called =93 Poems for the Poet, the Working Man a= nd the=20 Downtrodden,=94 by A.D. Winans, who published a small poetry magazine in = San=20 Francisco. =93What distinguishes our journal,=94 says Holder, =93is that it contains= poems that=20 anyone can read.=94 They deal =93with everyday life. There=92s not a lot = of arcane=20 words or funny verse patterns.=94 Anyone, he adds,=94 can get something o= ut of=20 them.=94 The following is a poem written by an anonymous participant in one of Dou= glas=20 Holder=92s poetry workshops at McLean Hospital: When The Hunter Arrived. When the hunter arrived at the place where it was unfamiliar he became the prey stalked by everything ever unleashed by the conspiracy of creation. to the edge he cantered idols toppling by his sides until at last those that were against him trusted his insight into their essential nature Finally pushing a hole through God=92s left eye past what had separately designed the limitless war streaming beyond infinity. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:03:22 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: NONE OF THE ABOVE: Assembling, Collaborating and Publishing in the Eternal Network Comments: To: Theory and Writing , British & Irish poets , fluxlist@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) NONE OF THE ABOVE: Assembling, Collaborating and Publishing in the Eternal Network CALL FOR PARTICIPATION In an ambitious assembling-style project, Minnesota Center for Book =20 Arts invites any and all to send 125 copies of anything (within reason =20= =96 see below) that will fit into a 9=94 x 12=94 envelope. This project = is =20 in conjunction with MCBA=92s upcoming exhibition None of the Above: =20 Assembling, Collaborating and Publishing in the Eternal Network. An assembling project represents the ultimate in democratic art. =20 Everything submitted will be included in the publication (or series of =20= publications, depending on how many people participate). In return for =20= your efforts, you receive a selection of 89 different works created by =20= others who participate. Who=92s invited? Artists, writers, printmakers, zinesters, poets, =20 photographers, xerographers, pamphleteers, cartoonists, diagrammers, =20 visualists, mail-artists, transitionalists, minimalists, maximalists, =20= pencilers, stencilers, composers, medics, bookleteers, decoders, =20 conceptualists, transcribers, documentarians, historians, =20 storytellers, manifestoans, CDsters, designers, anti-artists, =20 ventriloquists (make the paper sing!), book artists, book artists who =20= are ventriloquists, whoever so chooses and those chosen =96 meaning you! = =20 Plus, you can exercise reckless editorial control or lack thereof by =20 forwarding this invitation to others. What to send? Any means of expression is fine (paper, CDs, stickers, =20 popsicle sticks) but it can be no larger than 8.5=94 x 11=94 (21.6 cm x =20= 27.9 cm) and 1/8=94 thick (.3 cm). It can be folded, stitched, crushed, =20= flattened, etc. Shrunk-via-shrink-ray submissions are okay. If you =20 need a theme, submissions will be compiled in publications titled =20 =93None of the Above.=94 How=92s that for clear direction? How many to send? Submit 125 copies. 89 of these will go to other =20 participants. Additional copies will be archived, distributed to =20 donors/volunteers, and a small number will be sold as a fundraiser for =20= MCBA. What else to send? So that we can send you your copy of the =20 publication, include a sheet of paper with your name and postal =20 address. Also include $5 in U.S. funds =96 checks payable to Minnesota =20= Center for Book Arts =96 to cover the cost of envelopes and postage. Where to send: None of the Above, c/o Minnesota Center for Book Arts, =20= 1011 Washington Ave South, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415 Deadlines: If we receive submissions by August 21, 2009, they will be =20= displayed as part of the associated exhibition. To be included in the =20= publication, submissions must be received no later than October 24, =20 2009. A special collating event will occur at MCBA on Saturday, October 24, =20= 2009. For those who would like to participate, you may bring your 125 =20= copies that evening rather than mailing. There is no fee. Please email =20= Jeff Rathermel, MCBA=92s Artistic Director (jrathermel@mnbookarts.org) =20= by October 16, 2009 if you will be participating. Arrive at 7 pm, =20 assembly lines commence at 7:30 pm. If you have questions about the publication, contact Jeff Rathermel at = jrathermel@mnbookarts.org=20 . To learn more about Minnesota Center for Book Arts, visit = www.mnbookarts.org=20 .=20= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:24:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Skinner Subject: Skinner at Vertical Gardens Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable EARTH DAY Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7-9pm Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue, between 35th and 36th Street NYC =20 Kicking off our SEA Poetry Series, poet Jonathan Skinner will read a selection of his poems and present a talk on =B3third landscapes,=B2 entropoetics, and the coming planetary Pangaea-garden of invasive futures. = Q & A and reception to follow. Conceived and organized by E.J. McAdams, poet and Associate Director of Philanthropy at The Nature Conservancy, New York City. FREE. Cash bar. =20 Jonathan Skinner=B9s poetry collections include With Naked Foot (Little Scratchpad, 2008) and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005). Recent poetry has appeared in onedit #12 < http://www.onedit.net/>. Skinner edits the journal ecopoetics < http://ecopoetics.wordpress.com/>, which features creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology. His essays on the poets Ronald Johnson and Lorine Niedecker appeared recently in volumes published by the National Poetry Foundation and by University of Iowa Press= , respectively. His essay on =B3Boundary Work in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's Pollen= =B2 can be read in the online journal How2 < http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/> and his essay on Bernadette Mayer's Studying Hunger can be read on ThoughtMesh < http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/184.php>. The piece =B3Ethno Plunderphonics: On Some Mockingbird Transcriptions=B2 was included in the journal Intervalles = . Skinner teaches in the Environmental Studies Program, at Bates College in Central Maine, where he makes his home. =20 For more on Exit Art, visit: www.exitart.org The SEA Poetry Series is part of a bigger Exit Art initiative called Social Environmental Aestetics (SEA). For more on SEA, visit: http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/SEA/index.html =20 For more on the current SEA show Vertical Gardens, visit: http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/SEA/vertical_gardens.ht= ml =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:48:16 EDT Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Larissa Shmailo Subject: 2009 New Century Music Awards for Spoken Word Comments: To: POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Comments: cc: poetry.guide@about.com, poetry@newyorker.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Apologies for cross-posting. 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The Third Annual New Century Awards Celebrate May 6 Bleecker street comes alive with vibrant and original sounds on the strip= where innovators Joni Mitchell, Curtis Mayfield and Bob Dylan gave America= something worth listening to that couldn=E2=80=99t be pigeonholed. New Cen= tury dedicates an evening to poetic, funky, soulful and highly individualistic= expression from their contemporary heirs. **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 eas= y steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221621490x1201450102/aol?redir= =3Dhttp:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%2= 6 hmpgID%3D62%26bcd%3DAprilfooter421NO62) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:18:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Nelson Subject: Tiered Internet Pricing Shelved MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2009090513_edita21c= able.html=0A=0ATwo important wins for consumers=0AAngry=0Aconsumers backed = telecommunications giant Time Warner Cable off plans=0Ato test market tiere= d pricing for consumers. A strong consumer=0Aadvocate, Gene Kimmelman, is h= eaded to the Justice Department to track=0Aantitrust issues.=0ASeattle Time= s editorialTELECOMMUNICATIONS=0Agiant Time Warner Cable backed away from ti= ered pricing. A longtime=0Aconsumer advocate heads to the Department of Jus= tice. Two important=0Avictories.=0A=0A=0AAngry, confused and fearful consum= ers howled down Time Warner's plan=0Ato test market metered Internet usage = plans in selected cities in New=0AYork, North Carolina and Texas. Uploads a= nd downloads would be capped,=0Aand tiered units of gigabytes would be pric= ed from $15 to $150 a month.=0A=0ABusy moving and profiting from content it= never produced, the cable=0Acompany was going to make even more money with= bulk rates. Time Warner=0AExecutive Officer Glenn Britt skittered away fro= m consumption-based=0Abilling and earlier talk of Internet brownouts.=0A=0A= This is a fight that is not over. Anyone who did much more than surf=0Athe = Web and send e-mails could have been mugged. As the various=0Aopportunities= to stay connected expand, these toll proposals will be=0Aback. Stay alert.= =0A=0ASuccessful resistance against Time Warner benefitted from the=0Aaddit= ional leverage of two New York congressmen, Rep. Eric Massa and=0ASen. Char= les Schumer. Rallying strong voices matters.=0A=0AAnother key development f= or consumer interests was the report that=0AGene Kimmelman will join the Ju= stice Department's Antitrust Division.=0AThe appointment, first reported on= TheDeal.com,=0Aputs Kimmelman, a vice president at Consumer's Union =E2=80= =94 publishers of=0AConsumer Reports =E2=80=94 working with Assistant Attor= ney General Christine=0AVarney. Both have big reputations on consumer issue= s.=0AKimmelman is especially strong on telecommunications and media=0Aowner= ship. He has been an informed critic of the Federal Communications=0ACommis= sion. He raised protests recently about cable companies fuzzing=0Atheir sal= es pitches to suggest analog TV viewers had to subscribe to=0Amore-expensiv= e cable services to keep any TV signal.=0A=0AConsumer awareness and sympath= etic voices in high places are indispensable in a volatile economy and dyna= mic media environment.=0A=0ACopyright =C2=A9 2009 The Seattle Times Company= =0A=0A Paul E. Nelson =0A=0AGlobal Voices Radio=0ASPLAB!=0AAmerican Sentenc= es=0AOrganic Poetry=0APoetry Postcard Blog=0A=0AIlalqo, WA 253.735.6328 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:38:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Is This Nat'l Poetry Month Or Something? THIS WEDNESDAY *AND* FRIDAY? Comments: To: new-poetry-admin@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So many readings this month!=C2=A0=C2=A0 Just TWO below: THIS WEDNESDAY -- KING + SIME + THOMPSON -- Wednesday, April 22nd=0A-- 7:00pm @ Barrette =0A= =0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~=0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0ABarrette will be offering drink spe= cials to attendees ($5=0Awine, $4 pints) and their tasty bar menu will be a= vailable as well.=C2=A0 We=0Ahope folks will stick around to drink or nosh = and check out=C2=A0books and=0Abroadsides (made especially for this event) = after the reading.=0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~=0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AAMY KING is th= e author of I'm the Man Who Loves You and=0AAntidotes for an Alibi, and for= thcoming, Slaves to do These Things (Blazevox=0ABooks). She teaches English= and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College ,=0Amoderates the Poetics= and Women's Poetry listserves, and co-curates The Stain=0Aof Poetry: A Rea= ding Series (http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/).=0APlease visit her at ht= tp://amyking.org=0Afor more. =0A =0A =0ARICHARD SIME grew up in rural North Dakota, graduated from college in=0A= Minnesota, moved to New York City to attend graduate school at NYU, drifted= =0Ainto publishing, and eventually returned to school at Sarah Lawrence Col= lege,=0Awhere he earned an MFA in fiction writing and where a course on pro= sody planted=0Aa seed. He began to write poetry in workshops at the New =0A= School in New York=0A City and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown ,= =0A MA , where he returns each summer.=0AHis work has appeared in Barrow=0A= Street , Provincetown =0AArts, Radical Faerie Digest, and Passager. =0A =0A =0AL.B. THOMPSON received her B.A. from Sarah =0A Lawrence College =0Aand h= er M.F.A. in Poetry from New=0A York University .=0AHer poetry has been pu= blished in journals including Fence, Pool, Lyric, The=0AWomen's Review of B= ooks and The New Yorker. She received an award for emerging=0Awomen writers= from the Rona Jaffe Foundation in 2002, and won the Center for=0ABook Arts= =E2=80=99 annual chapbook competition in 2003. L.B. teaches English to coll= ege=0Afreshmen, works as a free-lance copyeditor, and lives on the North Fo= rk of Long=0AIsland.=0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A =0ABarette is wheelchair accessible.=0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AHosts -- Ari Banias= & Danica Colic =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0ABarrette=0A=0A 601 Vanderbilt=0A Ave (= at Bergen=0A St , Prospect =0A Heights , Brooklyn ) =0A=0A718-230-5170 =0A= =0ASubway: B, Q to Seventh=0A Ave ; 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza =0A=0A =C2=A0= =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0Ahttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=3D81872660752=0A= =0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A=C2=A0=20 ~~~~~~ THIS FRIDAY -- =0A=0A The Stain=0Aof Poetry:=C2=A0 A Reading Series presents =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A= April=0A24th @ 7 PM - Stain Bar - Williamsburg , Brooklyn =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A= =0AJennifer=0ABurch, Heather Green, Chris Hosea, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Dani= el Lin, Barry=0ASchwabsky =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AJenni= fer=0ABurch holds a B.A. in Fine Art from Amherst =0A College and an M.A. i= n Literature from=0Athe University of Kent in Canterbury ,=0A England . Her= first=0Abook, No Matter, was released by The Winged Way (September 2008). = Jennifer has=0Apublished work in Article, Free Verse, Guernica ,=0ALeft Fac= ing Bird, Sal Mimeo, and Verse, and is included in Green Integer=E2=80=99s= =0Aforthcoming anthology, The Gertrude Stein Awards. Jennifer lives in Broo= klyn , New=0A York , where she writes and teaches yoga. =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A= =0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AHeather=0AGreen=E2=80=99s work has appeared in B= arrow=0A Street , DIAGRAM, The Hat, Lungfull!, Pebble Lake=0AReview, Tarpa= ulin Sky, and other journals. She=E2=80=99s the author of the chapbook The= =0AMatch Array (Dancing Girl Press, 2008) and lives in Boston . =0A=0A =C2= =A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AChris=0AHosea=E2=80=99s poe= ms appear in VOLT, Swerve, Denver Quarterly, Article, Harvard=0AReview, Iow= a Review, and The Literary Review. With Cecily Iddings, he edits The=0ABlue= Letter, a free direct-mail poetry newsletter. He works at the Marymount Sc= hool =0Aand lives in Brooklyn . =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A= =0A =C2=A0 =0A=0ASueyeun=0AJuliette Lee edits Corollary Press, a chapbook s= eries devoted to new work by=0Awriters of color. Recent work has appeared i= n Effing, One Less, and online at=0Acritiphoria.org. Her chapbooks include = Mental Commitment Robots (yo yo labs), Perfect=0AVillagers (Octopus Books) = and Trespass Slightly In (Coconut). Her first=0Afull-length collection, Tha= t Gorgeous Feeling, is out from Coconut Books. She=0Acurrently lives in Phi= ladelphia . =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0ADanie= l=0ALin has a chapbook, TINDER, from Nightboat Books (2004), and has recent= ly=0Apublished poems in Unsplendid and The Jewish Quarterly. He was a N.Y. = Times=0AFellow at NYU and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers= =E2=80=99 Conference. =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0ABarry=0AS= chwabsky is an American poet and art critic living in London . His new coll= ection of poems, Book=0ALeft Open in the Rain, is published imminently by B= lack Square Editions and is=0Aavailable from Small press Distribution. He w= rites reguarly for The Nation and=0AArtforum (where he also co-edits the in= ternational reviews section), among=0Aothers. He is the author of Opera: Po= ems 1981-2002 (Meritage Press) and The=0AWidening Circle: Consequences of M= odernism in Contemporary Art (Cambridge=0AUniversity Press) as well as seve= ral chapbooks of poetry and contributions to=0Adozens of books and exhibiti= on catalogues on contemporary and modern art. =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A= =0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AHosted by=0AAmy King and Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87 =0A= =0A=C2=A0 =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0Astain bar =0A=0A766 grand=0Astreet =0A=0Abroo= klyn,=0Any 11211 =0A=0A(L train=0Ato Grand Street ,=0A1 block west) =0A=0A = =C2=A0 =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0ASITE:=C2=A0 http://stainofpoetry.com =0A=0AVIDEO= :=C2=A0 http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/video/ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A _______ =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:48:26 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Poet Brian Howe's music review of Camera Obscura makes the ABC news MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I often enjoy Brian's insights; in this one, I'm not alone.=A0 Go, Brian!= =A0=20 http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3D7384237 Amy _______ =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:07:32 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Small Press Traffic Subject: REMINDER: Julie Patton and Kit Robinson this Saturday MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We hope you can join us for this fantistic night! Please note this is a Saturday reading! Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Timken Hall, CCA ___________ *Julie Patton* is a sight and sound specific "make-up artist" who mixes words with action, spit, soil, sounds, found texts, leaf melodies and anything else she can get her hands on. A Room for Opal, part of the Olin Art Museum's (Lewiston, Maine) Green Horizons exhibition (see Jonathan Skinner's essay about Patton's project in ON: Contemporary Practice 1, November, 2008) is one of the many text-based "library installations" Julie has created in her practice as an X-Pat..., *Povarty native in the Americas= . Using Blue to Get Black was just released in Crayon on Beauty (Issue 5, October 2008), Notes for Some (Nominally) Awake was published by Yo-Yo Labs in 2007 and )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) is forthcoming. On the "found-sound= " side, Patton has collaborated with musicians Ralph Alessi, Uri Caine, Ravi Coltrane, Henry Grimes, Barnaby McAll, Nasheet Waits, and Paul Van Curen. Patton has been awarded the 2008 Acadia Arts Foundation Grant, the 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. As the Founding Director of the Dandelion Society, Let It Bee Gardens, Green Scouts and NeighborWoods, Julie extends her "pulp poetic practice" into collaborative, civic, and natural spaces with market garden, gleaning, urban prairie initiatives, sustainable artist-housing and green job skills for youth. This spring, *Kit Robinson* is celebrating the publication of The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry) with readings in Lo= s Angeles, Buffalo, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee=85 and = now San Francisco. He is the author of such books as 9:45 (The Post Apollo Press, 2003) and The Crave (Atelos, 2002) and a co-author of the multi-part series The Grand Piano (Mode A, ongoing), a collective memoir of San Francisco in the 70s. His play Creative Floors was directed by Stephanie Young and Alan Bernheimer at SPT=92s Poets Theater Jamboree in January 2008= . Recent work has appeared in 26, Hambone, Model Homes, onedit, Shampoo, The Hat, The Poker and Vanitas. --=20 Samantha Giles Executive Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center sptraffic.org smallpresstraffic.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:52:52 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ana_Bo=BEi=E8evi=E6?= Subject: This week: Chapbook Festival in NYC! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Join us this week for A Celebration of the Chapbook, with wonderful panels, workshops and a bookfair -- all free of charge and open to the public. Find the full schedule at ***http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/festival* and below.** *A Celebration of the Chapbook* Thursday April 23rd, 2009 - Saturday April 25th, 2009 * ~* Thursday, April 23 *at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue & 34th St* *Chapbook Fair* 10:00am-6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall Lobby *Brief History of Chapbooks* 3:00-4:30pm, The Elebash Recital Hall With *Isaac Gewirtz*, Curator of the New York Public Library=92s Berg Collection; *Eric Lorberer*, Editor of *Rain Taxi*; and *Michael Ryan*, Director of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University. Moderated by *Richard Kaye*, Hunter College, CUNY *Chapbooks in the 20th and 21st Centuries* 4:30-6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall With *Michael Basinski*, Assistant Curator of the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY at Buffalo; *Anne Waldman*, Chair and Artistic Director of Naropa University=92s Summer Writing Program= ; and *Kevin Young*, Emory University. Moderated by *Ammiel Alcalay*, Queens College, CUNY. *Keynote Reading* 6:00pm, The Elebash Recital Hall Readings by *Lytton Smith, Gerald Stern, Judith Vollmer, Kevin Young* and others, with an introduction by *Kimiko Hahn*. ~ Friday, April 24 *at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue & 34th St* *Chapbook Fair* 10:00am-4:00pm, Rooms 8301/8304 *Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks* *A Workshop for Poets* 10:00-11:30am, Room 8400 With *Rachel Levitsky* (Belladonna*); *Sharon Dolin* (The Center for Book Arts); and *Ryan Murphy* (North Beach Yacht Club). Moderated by *Alice Quin= n *(Poetry Society of America). *WORKSHOP FULL*** *Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks A Workshop for Publishers* 11:30am-1:00pm, Room 8402 With *Mark Wagner *(Booklyn); *Matvei Yankelevich* (Ugly Duckling Presse); and *Brenda Iijima* (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Moderated by *Rob Casper* (Poetry Society o= f America). *WORKSHOP FULL* Friday, April 24 *at The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor* *Bookmaking for Writers: A Studio Workshop* With *Susan Mills* and *Karen Randall* 2:00-5:00pm *To register, call (212) 481-0295 or e-mailinfo@centerforbookarts.org =96 registration is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. There's a $20 materials fee for each workshop.* *Bookmaking for Publishers: A Studio Workshop* With *Susan Mills *and *Karen Randall* 2:00-5:00pm *To register, call (212) 481-0295 or e-mailinfo@centerforbookarts.org =96 registration is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. There's a $20 materials fee for each workshop.* *RECEPTION* *at The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor* 6:00 pm All are welcome! Visit the exhibitions at The Center for Book Arts: \=92fl \:art, text, new media, Roni Gross: Zitouna at 20, and Spotlight: 2008 Artists-in-Residence. ~ Saturday, April 25 *at The Asian American Writers=92 Workshop, 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A* *Collector=92s Show-and-Tell: The Secret History of Asian American Literature Patricia Wakida* 2:00-3:00pm *Publishing from the Margins* 4:30-6:00pm With *Tan Lin*; *Dawn Lundy Martin* (Third Wave Foundation, Black Took Collective); and *Bushra Rehman*. Moderated by *Ken Chen* (The Asian American Writers=92 Workshop). Followed by a brief reading from the Worksho= p's Postcard Poetry Project. *RECEPTION* *at The Asian American Writers=92 Workshop, 16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A* 6:00 pm *Participating Publishers* Achiote Press Belladonna* Book Thug Cuneiform Press Dancing Girl Press Diagram/New Michigan Press dusie chapbook kollektiv ellectrique press Finishing Line Press Flying Guillotine Press Forklift, Ohio hand*held*editions Interlude Editions NewLights Press Noemi Press North Beach Yacht Club Octopus Books Pilot Books Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs Rain Taxi Sarabande Books Slapering Hol Small Anchor Press Small Fires Press TinFish Press Toadlily Press Ubu Editions Ugly Duckling Presse Web del Sol=92s World Voices X-ing Press *=ADand others* *Sponsored by* *The Asian American Writers=92 Workshop The Center for Book Arts The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, The Office of Academic Affairs, and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York Poetry Society of America* * * *For more information visit http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/festival* =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:13:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Kelleher Subject: Literary Buffalo E-Newsletter 04.21.09-04.26.09 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII LITERARY BUFFALO 04.21.09-04.26.09 BABEL 2009-2010 SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE NOW=21 Scroll down for details Note to Subscribers: We will send out a confirmation email regarding your purchase after we have= processed all of the early bird subscriptions. We intend to send out the = confirmation email no later than 5/22. Please be patient ? if you placed a= n order, you WILL receive confirmation in May and your tickets WILL be mail= ed in September. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:55:45 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Bowering Subject: Re: Is This Nat'l Poetry Month Or Something? THIS WEDNESDAY *AND* FRIDAY? In-Reply-To: <707113.88795.qm@web83307.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > No, it is INTERnational Poetry Month Mr. G.H. Bowering Bids farewell to youth. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:50:06 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Maria Damon Subject: Two events with Jules Boykoff: One Poli-Sci, One Poetry Comments: To: spidertangle@yahoogroups.com, Theory and Writing , Flarf@googlegroups.com, engrad-l@umn.edu, ENGLFAC@LISTS.UMN.EDU, Thomas Pepper , Cesare Casarino , Carol Roos , levi0046@umn.edu, alevine@umn.edu, Kelly Everding , Rachel Moritz , Gar Patterson , beato@att.net, john colburn , Sarah Fox , Jeff Hansen , Ping Wang , Lisa Fink MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit */The Cowles Family endowment for the study of public service presents:/* *Dissent and American Democracy* *Friday, April 24^th 1:00-3:00pm Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota 301 19^th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN* */Following the speakers, an open forum will be moderated by Joe Soss, Cowles Professor for the Study of Public Service/* *“The Intersections of Dissent*”: What is the value of dissent within a democracy, and how is it best promoted and protected? Does the term “dissent” capture the values, rights, and groups that we think need to be protected? Framed as an abstract principle, can the goals of protecting “dissent” be appropriated, deployed, and diluted in ways that lead to the exclusion or suppression of the voices of some marginalized groups? *Dara Strolovitch* will discuss these multiple valences of dissent, focusing in particular on their relationships with the intersecting politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality. *"The Suppression of Dissent":* Over the past century, actors in government and mass media have repeatedly taken steps to silence political dissent in theUnited States. Focusing on surveillance as a critical step in the process of suppression, *Jules Boykoff* will explore the historical and contemporary development of efforts to limit dissent. How do such efforts affect the practice of democracy in the United States? How can activists sidestep these efforts and raise the chances that dissenting voices will be heard? *Dara Z. Strolovitch* (Ph.D. Yale University, 2002) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of /Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics/ (University of Chicago Press 2007). *Jules Boykoff* (Ph.D. American University, 2004) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific University in Oregon. He is the author of /Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States/ (AK Press, 2007). *Saturday April 25 POETRY READING * *Poets Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand read* 7:30 pm, 3440 Park Avenue, Mpls. (Maria Damon's house) Snacks at 7:00 BYOB. *Jules Boykoff *is the author of /Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States/ (AK Press, 2007), /The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements/ (Routledge, 2006) and /Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space/ (co-authored with Kaia Sand) (Palm Press, 2008). He is also the author of two collections of poetry. He teaches political science and writing at Pacific University in Oregon. *Kaia Sand* is the author of the poetry collection /interval/ (Edge Books 2004), selected as a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year. Dusie Press published her wee book, /lotto/. She has led poetry walks in Portland, and a book that includes these walks, /Remember to Wave/, is forthcoming with Tinfish Press. Sand is currently working a collection of collages from the NAFTA as well as an investigation of housing foreclosures. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:46:43 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: LA, CA: Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, The Langston Hughes Project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, The Langston Hughes Project *"Live" at the Huntington Library *Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 7:00p.m. * Featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet The concert will feature the Ron McCurdy Quintet with Eli Bruggemann, piano, Peter Buck, drums, Gabe Noel, bass, *Munyungo, percussion* and Ron McCurdy, trumpet and spoken word. For ticket information contact: The Huntington: http://www.huntington.org/ Call: (626) 405-2100 Address: 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108 This multimedia presentation consists of spoken word, videography, and jazz quintet is Langston Hughes=92 commentary on the struggle for freedom a= nd equality of African Americans and Africans during the 1960s. By way of videography, this concert performance links the words and music of Hughes= =92 poetry to topical images of Ask Your Mama's people, places, and events, and to the works of the visual artists. Langston Hughes admired or collaborated with most closely over the course of his career -- the African-inspired mural designs and cubist > geometries of Aaron Douglas, the blues and jazz-inspired collages of > Romare Bearden, t he macabre grotesques of Meta Warrick Fuller and > the rhythmic sculptural figurines and heads and bas reliefs of > Richmond Barthe, the color blocked cityscapes and black history series > of Palmer Hayden and Jacob Lawrence. Together the words, sounds, and > images recreate a magical moment in our cultural history, which > bridges the Harlem Renaissance, the post World War II Beat writers' > coffeehouse jazz poetry world, and the looming Black Arts performance > explosion of the 1960s. --=20 All best, Catherine Daly c.a.b.daly@gmail.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:21:16 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?= Subject: The poems of Muhammed Iqbal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable _______________ Coisc=E9im & Poetry Ireland invite you to be present when Liam Carson will launch a new book by Gabriel Rosenstock, a Gaelic poet, of translations of the poems of Muhammed Iqbal (1877 =96 1938) a poet & philosopher of Sialkot in Pakistan. Ceol, amhr=E1na=EDocht agus fil=EDocht ... Music, song and poetry ... This event will take place at the Ballsbridge Inn (formerly Jury's Hotel) in Dublin 4, Ireland on Sunday, 26th of April, 2009 at 12 noon. Tickets for this very special event available by e-mail from evayasin@hotmail.com or by phone in Dublin from Mariyam Burki at 086-390-7076 or Rosheen Callender at 087-2551-746. F=E1ilte ro=EDmh ch=E1ch ... S=E9amas Cain http://alazanto.org/seamascain http://seamascain.writernetwork.com http://www.mnartists.org/Seamas_Cain _______________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:54:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eric Elshtain Subject: New Beard of Bees Chapbook MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Time for a little chapter & verse http://www.beardofbees.com/hayes.html Enjoy. Eric Elshtain Editor Beard of Bees Press http://www.beardofbees.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:11:06 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Laura Hinton Subject: Recent posts on Chant de la Sirene MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Announcing several recent posts on Chant de la Sirene, my new blog on performance poetics and the hybrid arts: -- Kit Robinson sound-piece Interview, Parts 1 and 2, completed last week in Berkeley, with commentaries on Robinson's *The Messianic Tress: Selected Poems 1976-2003*, and his new chapbook, *Train I Ride* * *-- A review of the poet's theater piece by Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn: *SOP DOLL! A Jack Noh Play* (March 31st at the Gershwin, New York City) -- A commentary on the recent dance production, *Yessified*, by Sally Silvers (also in New York City) *and* -- a guest blog report from Ann Bogle of Ana Verse, on last week's reading of "Collaborative Artists' Books," at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) Laura Hinton Professor of English City College of New York http://www.mermaidtenementpress.com http://www.chantdelasirene.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:39:01 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Arteroids in Leipzig MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-15"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I wrote a shoot-em-up online poetry game a while ago called Arteroids ( http://vispo.com/arteroids ). It's currently being exhibited in Leipzig, Germany at D21 in a show called LET'S RESTART!!! curated by Michael Arzt. Leipzig is in what was the Communist sector of Germany. The show at D21 features five computer games/works of art. All the games are accessible via the Internet. They are for free public access. Here are some pictures from the opening at D21 in Leipzig: http://vispo.com/arteroids/leipzig . The D21 site is at http://d21-leipzig.de/restart where you can read descriptions of the games, links to the games themselves, and Michael's introduction to the show. ja ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:52:03 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ana_Bo=BEi=E8evi=E6?= Subject: Chapbook festival -- corrected link MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Oy, poetics list, garbling my link. Here's the correct link to the program: http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/festival See you tomorrow & Fri! (I hope!) -- http://nightcommute.org http://stainofpoetry.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:38:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Boog City presents Bird Dog and Stephanie Carlin Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable please forward ------------------ Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press Bird Dog magazine (Seattle) This Tues., April 28, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free ACA Galleries 529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr. NYC Event will be hosted by Bird Dog editor Sarah Mangold Featuring readings from Kate Eichhorn Sandy Florian Kate Greenstreet Laura Sims Nico Vassilakis with music from Stephanie Carlin There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too. Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum ------ **Bird Dog http://www.birddogmagazine.com/ Bird Dog: A dog used to retrieve game birds. To follow a subject on =20 interest with persistent attention. A scout . . . Bird Dog was founded in 2002 by Sarah Mangold. It publishes innovative =20= work from emerging and established writers with a focus on longer =20 sequences, poetics, and visual work. Perfect-bound, every issue =20 features hand-tipped illustrations and art. *Performer Bios* **Stephanie Carlin http://www.stephaniecarlin.com/ http://www.myspace.com/stephaniecarlinrock Stephanie Carlin just released her second EP, "the Agony and Ecstasy =20 of." The CD, captivating the gut-wrenching loves and losses of the =20 human heart, led to her first opportunity to reject a record contract, =20= which involved: Tommy Hilfiger; an aging producer who, based on his =20 awkward mohawk, was dying to be accepted by Hot Topic pre-teens; and =20 participating in multiple slutty modeling shoots in exchange for =20 tasteless ClearChannel marketing. Carlin self-released her first EP at 16, which led to the formation of =20= Long Island sensation Oliver Lankard. For a while, Oliver Lankard was =20= four-piece band, then a seven-piece band, and even a ten-piece band, =20 complete with a three-piece horn section and three doo-wop back-up =20 vocalists. She managed the band while performing as lead vocalist and =20= guitarist. Under her supervision, Oliver Lankard performed over 50 =20 shows at notable venues like The Knitting Factory, Maxwell=92s, and The =20= Crazy Donkey. In their short time together, Oliver Lankard opened for =20= The Hold Steady keyboardist Franz Nicolay and performed alongside =20 Prentiss McNeil of legendary group The Drifters. =46rom violently chastising American democracy to glorifying =20 spontaneous love, her original lyrics are as wildly inventive as her =20 impulsive scat-singing. With influences ranging from Elliott Smith to =20= Ella Fitzgerald, the clarity of her obscurity is quite fascinating. **Kate Eichhorn http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=3D3254 Kate Eichhorn is the author of Fond (BookThug) and the co-editor of =20 Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics (Coach House Books). As =20= a curator, she has worked with reading series and literary festivals =20 to stage multidisciplinary collaborations between poets, visual =20 artists, and composers. She is an assistant professor of culture and =20 media studies at The New School. **Sandy Florian http://boxingthecompass.blogspot.com Sandy Florian is the author of four books=97Telescope (Action Books) and = =20 The Tree of No (Action Books), and the forthcoming On Wonderland & =20 Waste (Sidebrow Press) and Visible Stars (Elixir Press), as well as =20 the chapbook 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky Press). She is the =20 current writer in residence at the New College of Florida in Sarasota. =20= You can visit her blog at the above link. **Kate Greenstreet http://www.kategreenstreet.com Kate Greenstreet=92s first book, case sensitive, was published by =20 Ahsahta Press. Her second, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta =20= in September. This is why I hurt you, her most recent chapbook, is =20 available from Lame House Press. New work is out or forthcoming in =20 jubilat, Court Green, Hotel Amerika, Saltgrass, and Fence. **Laura Sims http://www.laurasims.net Laura Sims is the author of two books of poems: Practice, Restraint =20 (winner of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize), and Stranger (Fence =20 Books). Her book reviews and essays have appeared in Boston Review, =20 New England Review, Rain Taxi, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, =20= and she has recently published poems in the Denver Quarterly, Colorado =20= Review, CAB/NET, and Crayon. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing =20= at Baruch College in Manhattan. **Nico Vassilakis http://www.cnvill.net/mfvassilakis.htm http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~blc35/final/vassilakis.html Nico Vassilakis works in textual and visual poetry. He is a curator =20 for the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle. His vispo videos have been =20= shown in exhibits and festivals of innovative language arts. Nico's =20 recently published Text Loses Time is available from ManyPenny Press. =20= Forthcoming from blazevox is Disparate Magnets and from blue lion =20 books, Protracted Type, a collection of visual poetry. ---- Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St. Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues Next event: Tues. May 19 Dusie Press (Switzerland) http://www.dusie.org/ -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W.28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:47:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jefferson Davis Subject: Re: Chapbook festival -- corrected link In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For Easter's Wordplay, I featured a reading by Jonathan Williams from 1981, the year his collection Get Hot or Get Out appeared. The reading features some work from that book that's grounded in the work of Charles Ives, work that's not been republished. Second generation Jargonaut Jeffery Beam kindly loaned me the tapes of his RainTaxi interview with Jonathan from 2003, so I I included part of that session in the show as well. There's also music by Ives, Monk, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Judy Garland, and the inimitable Mike Harding. (Who? Check out Wikipedia). The production note with the link to the show is right here: http://naturespoetry.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-on-airwaves.html Enjoy, Jeff ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:27:21 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "Tuesday, APRIL 28". Rest of header flushed. From: Cara Benson Subject: Belladonna 4/28--BENSON, CORTEZ, WALDMAN MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cara Benson = Belladonna* Celebrates the Elders =0ATuesday, APRIL 28 =0A=0ACara Benson=0A= =0Ahosts=A0 =0AJayne Cortez & Anne Waldman=0A=0A=A0 =0A7:30PM SHARP! =0A(do= ors at 7PM)=0A@ Dixon Place =0A(161 Chrystie Street between Rivington and D= elancey, NYC) =0AAdmission is $6 at the Door. =0A=A0=0ACara Benson edits th= e online journal Sous Rature. Her first full length collection (made) is fo= rthcoming from BookThug.=A0 Her chapbook "Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manife= st(o)ation" (BookThug) co-won the 2008 bpNichol Prize. Other chaps include = "He Writes" (No Press), "UP" (Dusie Kollectiv), and "Spell/ing ( ) Bound" (= ellectrique press) with Kai Fierle-Hedrick and Kathrin Schaeppi. Benson edi= ted the interdisciplinary book Prediction forthcoming from Chain. She lives= and writes in the analog world of upstate NY. Her online home is http://ww= w.necessetics.com. =0A=A0 =0AJayne Cortez is the author of eleven books of = poetry and performer of her poems with music on nine recordings. Her voice = is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyric= ism, and visceral sound. Cortez has presented her work and ideas at univers= ities, museums, and festivals around the world. Her poems have been transla= ted into many languages and widely published in anthologies, journals, and = magazines. She is a recipient of several awards including: Arts Internation= al, the National Endowment for the Arts, the International African Festival= Award. The Langston Hughes Medal, The American Book Award, and the Thelma = McAndless Distinguished Professorship Award. Her most recent books are The = Beautiful Book (Bola Press) andJazz Fan Looks Back (Hanging Loose Press). H= er latest CDs with the Firespitter Band are Find Your Own Voice, Borders of= Disorderly Time (Bola Press), Taking the Blues Back Home, produced by Harm= olodic and by Verve Records. Cortez is organizer of the international symposium "Slave Routes:= Resistance, Abolition & Creative Progress" (NYU) and director of the film = Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization. She is co-= founder and president of the Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc.,= and can be seen on screen in the films Women In Jazz and Poetry In Motion.= Her most recent book is On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems. = =0A=A0 =0AAnne Waldman is the co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Dise= mbodied Poetics at Naropa University and the Distinguished Professor of Poe= tics, Summer Writing Promgram Chair, and Artistic Director at the Kerouac S= chool. Poet, professor, performer, curator, and cultural activist, she is t= he author of over 40 books and small press editions of poetry and poetics, = including Fast Speaking Woman, the IOVIS project, Vow to Poetry: Essays, In= terviews and Manifestos, Marriage: A Sentence, In the Room of Never Grieve,= Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, Outrider, andNine Nights Medi= tation (with artist Donna Dennis). She is the editor of numerous anthologie= s, including The Beat Book, and co-editor of Disembodied Poetics: Annals of= the Jack Kerouac School, The Angel Hair Anthology, andCivil Disobediences:= Poetics and Politics in Action (with Lisa Birman). Her CDs include Alchemi= cal Elegy, Battery: Live at Naropa, The Eye of the Falcon, andThe Matching Half (the last two with music and production by Ambrose Bye). She is a rec= ipient of the Shelley Memorial Award and has had residences at the Civitell= a Ranieri Center, the Tokyo Woman's Christian University, the Emily Harvey = Foundation in Venice, and the Bellagio Center. She has performed her work o= n stages across the American continent and abroad. Recent conferences and f= estivals have taken her to Wuhan (China), Berlin, Vienna and Dublin. She wo= rks with writer and director Ed Bowes on a number of video/movie projects. = =0A=0A=A0=0A=0Awith readings and events guest-hosted by some of our favorit= e writers who've invited writers who influence and inspire them=A0 =0A=A0= =0AA Short Note AboutThe Elders Series:=0A=0ABelladonna* began as a reading= and salon series at Bluestocking's Women's Bookstore on New York City's Lo= wer East Side, in August 1999. In June 2000, in collaboration with Boog Lit= erature, Belladonna* began to publish commemorative 'chaplets' of the reade= rs work.=A0 This year marks the tenth anniversary of our mission to: promot= e the work of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically = involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, = delicious to talk about, unpredictable, and dangerous with language. Bellad= onna* has by now featured over 150 writers of wildly diverse age and origin= , writers who work in conversation and collaboration in and between multipl= e forms, languages, critical fields. As performance and as printed text the= work collects, gathers over time and space, and forms a kind of conversati= on about the feminist avant-garde, what it is and how it comes to be. Our a= nniversary Elders Series is a continuation of this conversation, which highlights the fact of influence = and continuity of the ideas, poetics, and concerns we circle through. And i= t is a way to honor those without whom we'd be nowhere. =0A=A0 =0AUPCOMING = EVENTS:=A0 =0AJune 9 =0AJane Sprague hosts =0ATina Darragh and Diane Ward = =0A=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A*a reading series and small press that promotes the work = of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, m= ulti-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, delicious t= o talk about, unpredictable, dangerous with language. =0A=A0 =0A*deadly nig= htshade, a cardiac and respiratory stimulant, having purplish-red flowers a= nd black berries =0A=A0=0A=0ABelladonna* readings happen monthly between Se= ptember and June. =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:55:14 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: blacksox@ATT.NET Subject: Peoples Literary Festival in Portsmouth Virginia going on NOW MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For Immediate Release April, 2009 Synnika Lofton presents The People=E2=80=99s Literary Festival, 2009 Synnika Lofton=E2=80=94poet, author, and recording artist=E2=80=94is hostin= g the first annual The People=E2=80=99s Literary Festival. Beginning with an adul= t open mic and poetry concert at Olde Towne Coffee House, Portsmouth, VA, the festival then kicks into high gear with an adult poetry workshop, a teen bo= ok discussion on Storm Warriors, a teen poetry workshop, and culminating with The People=E2=80=99s Open Mic at Greenbrier Library. All are encouraged to participate. The adult open mic and workshop are for those 18 and up. To sign up for the adult open mic on April 25th please contact Synnika Lofton = at poetimmortal@yahoo.com or at 757-339-9152. For all the other events, please contact the Greenbrier Library at (757) 410-7058. April 15: Open Mic 7:00 PM Greenbrier Library 1214 Volvo Pkwy. Chesapeake, VA 23320 (757) 410-7058 April 21: African Mahogany Book Club Featured Book: Letters to a Young Brother by Hill Harper 7:00 PM Greenbrier Library 1214 Volvo Pkwy. Chesapeake, VA 23320 (757) 410-7058 April 25: Open Mic and Poetry Concert 8:00 PM Olde Towne Coffee House 600 Crawford St. Portsmouth, VA 23704 (757) 391-9220 April 27: Adult Poetry Workshop 7:00 PM Greenbrier Library 1214 Volvo Pkwy. Chesapeake, VA 23320 (757) 410-7058 April 28: Storm Warriors: A Teen Book Discussion 7:00 PM Greenbrier Library 1214 Volvo Pkwy. Chesapeake, VA 23320 (757) 410-7058 April 29: Teen Poetry Workshop 7:00 PM Greenbrier Library 1214 Volvo Pkwy. Chesapeake, VA 23320 (757) 410-7058 April 30: The People=E2=80=99s Open Mic 7:00 PM Greenbrier Library 1214 Volvo Pkwy. Chesapeake, VA 23320 (757) 410-7058 Synnika Lofton is a poet/recording artist who has recorded more than thirty albums of poetry, including his highly praised debut, The New Breed. His poems have been published in Experience Reality Magazine, Quay: A Journal of the Arts, and UpStreet: A Literary Magazine. He wrote the poem, "Sacred Drum," for the Goddard College Presidential Inauguration of President Mark Schulman. Through his Global Poetry Project, his poetry has been heard in France, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Haiti, Venezuela, and Israel. His poems, "Guerrilla Ignition" and "Love's Outlaw" appeared in the documentary, Super-Size Me, Too. Lofton received a B.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Peace Russ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:17:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Boog City 56 Print and Online PDF Editions Available Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please forward ------------------- Hi all, The print edition of Boog City 56 will be available tonight. You can =20 read the pdf version now at: http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc56.pdf Thanks, David -------------------- Boog City 56 now available featuring: ***On the Cover*** **Our Printed Matter section, edited by Paolo Javier** =97"Just when I think Forage is too devastating the way my heart stops =20= at =91she must make home up=92 I move out of the =91r=92 section and = into the =20 =91l,=92 softened from growl (necessary) to love (necessary) as desire = we =20 Forage." =97 from Sentenced by Fred Wah and Rita Wong: Foraging Poems In = =20 A New Light; Sentenced to Light by Fred Wah (Talonbooks), reviewed by =20= Tim Yu; and Forage by Rita Wong (Nightwood Editions), reviewed by Jill =20= Magi **And =46rom Our Poetry section, now edited by Joanna Fuhrman** (excerpt below) =97The Upper West Side's Barry Wallenstein with Tony=92s Background Tony sucked at his father=92s tit and it was bitter. Since then things have been a small bit better=97mother=92s passed, but mother=92s mark remains. **And =46rom Our Music section, Urban Folk edited by Jonathan Berger** =97"Why are there dual sports figures to represent the back-to-roots =20 sound of =91Willie Mays?=92 Is one of them shooting himself up?" =97from = =20 Blackened, Bitter, and Beaten; The 47th Problem by Joe Cassady & The =20 West End Sound, reviewed by Berger ***And Inside*** **Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn's Tim Peterson.** **And the Rest of Our Poetry section** (excerpts below) =97Flatbush's Lauren Russell with two poems, Unpacking =93Categorizing can become a spiritual practice,=94 I explained to the potential roommate who remarked on the verbosity of my moving box labels: Lit Journals & Anthologies P-Z, Reference inclu. cookbooks & misc. papers, Wall Decorations: Pictures, Broadsides, Hangings, etc. and Dream-clung, Gone Undertow of dive bar juke unboxed Driving past a rust-red door unjambed Coin-operated groove side-shimmies, unflung A seamlessly upholstered stool=92s unwound =97Park Slope's Matthew Burgess with P&P Synopsis Sestina Not a single heir among five sisters means at least one Bennet must marry exceedingly well, but to marry for love is the eldest=92s dearest wish. A beauty, Jane catches Bingley=92s eye at a ball=97 a man in possession of good fortune. **And the Rest of Our Music section, Urban Folk** =97"Family Records and Engine Room had been granted a showcase at WE =20 Fest XII, a volunteer-run, DIY festival in Wilmington, N.C. Mike =20 Grubbs, leader of Wakey!Wakey!, the great band with an embarrassing =20 name, was one of the acts to travel south for the show. In lieu of a =20 threatened scathing review, Grubbs wrote about his experiences on the =20= road with The Bloodsugars, Derek James, Jay Mankind, Kyle Ervin, and =20 Matt Singer on their five-day tour to the center of the South: What =20 follows is the adventures of 12 sweaty men in a van. May God have =20 mercy on our souls. =97from Disarming and Wonderful: 12 Sweaty Men in a =20= Van by Michael Grubbs =97"=91Building Jumper=92 is song wrapped in silence. How Erin Regan, = Casey =20 Holford, and Sarah Bowman have achieved this quiet effect fascinates =20 me, for I do not know of any song that has ever done it so =20 successfully." =97from Slow Train Silent: Exegesis on Erin Regan=92s =20 "Building Jumper," by J.J. Hayes =97"With cameos from Fat Superman, djembe playing Batman, and black =20 Green Lantern, Dorit shows that there=92s a hero in all of us." from =20 Costello=92s Web on "Wonder Woman" by Dorit, reviewed by Jonathan Berger **And the Rest of Our Printed Matter section** =97"The poems presented in The Darkness Above are chockfull of wit, =20 irony, kosher chicken hearts, Westchester County, astrology, =20 spirituality, that is to say a very wide swath." =97from Collections o=92 = =20 Plenty: Lev and Voices Without Borders; The Darkness Above. Selected =20 Poems: 1968-2002 by Donald Lev (Outloud Books), reviewed by Doug Holder =97"I especially dug Duhamel=92s =93You=92re Looking at the Love = Interest,=94 a =20 nice rambling prose-poem in which she hopes a last ditch car service =20 ride in a pickup truck from Lincoln, Neb. will help her make her plane =20= from Omaha back to Ft. Lauderdale" from Collections o=92 Plenty: Lev and = =20 Voices Without Borders; Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 Edited by =20 Robert L. Giron (Gival Press), reviewed by David A. Kirschenbaum ----- And thanks to our copy editor, Joe Bates. ----- Please patronize our advertisers: Kookstar * http://www.housepress.org/records.html Joe Cassady & The West End Sound * http://www.joecassady.com/ Outloud Books * P.O. 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Query our incoming art editor, Cora Lambert, art@welcometoboogcity.com ----- 2,250 copies of Boog City are distributed among, and available for free at, the following locations: MANHATTAN *THE EAST VILLAGE* Anthology Film Archives Bluestockings Bowery Poetry Club Cake Shop Lakeside Lounge Life Caf=E9 Living Room Mission Caf=E9 Nuyorican Poets Caf=E9 Pianos St. Mark's Books St. Mark's Church Sidewalk Caf=E9 Sunshine Theater Think Coffee (Bleecker/Bowery) Trash and Vaudeville *OTHER PARTS OF MANHATTAN* Acme Underground Angelika Film Center and Caf=E9 Hotel Chelsea McNally Jackson Mercer Street Books Other Music Shakespeare & Co. BROOKLYN *GREENPOINT* Champion Coffee East Coast Aliens Greenpoint Coffee House Matchless Thai Cafe *WILLIAMSBURG* Bliss Caf=E9 Earwax Records Sideshow Gallery Sound Fix Spike Hill Spoonbill & Sugartown Supercore Caf=E9 --=20 David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:16:11 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "of Poetry: A Reading Series presents". Rest of header flushed. From: amy king Subject: Tonight -- Jennifer Burch, Heather Green, Chris Hosea, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Daniel Lin, Barry Schwabsky Comments: To: new-poetry-admin@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable  = The Stain=0Aof Poetry:=C2=A0 A Reading Series presents =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A= April=0A24th @ 7 PM - Stain Bar - Williamsburg , Brooklyn =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A= =0AJennifer=0ABurch, Heather Green, Chris Hosea, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Dani= el Lin, Barry=0ASchwabsky =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AJenni= fer=0ABurch holds a B.A. in Fine Art from Amherst =0A College and an M.A. i= n Literature from=0Athe University of Kent in Canterbury ,=0A England . Her= first=0Abook, No Matter, was released by The Winged Way (September 2008). = Jennifer has=0Apublished work in Article, Free Verse, Guernica ,=0ALeft Fac= ing Bird, Sal Mimeo, and Verse, and is included in Green Integer=E2=80=99s= =0Aforthcoming anthology, The Gertrude Stein Awards. Jennifer lives in Broo= klyn , New=0A York , where she writes and teaches yoga. =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A= =0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AHeather=0AGreen=E2=80=99s work has appeared in B= arrow=0A Street , DIAGRAM, The Hat, Lungfull!, Pebble Lake=0AReview, Tarpa= ulin Sky, and other journals. She=E2=80=99s the author of the chapbook The= =0AMatch Array (Dancing Girl Press, 2008) and lives in Boston . =0A=0A =C2= =A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AChris=0AHosea=E2=80=99s poe= ms appear in VOLT, Swerve, Denver Quarterly, Article, Harvard=0AReview, Iow= a Review, and The Literary Review. With Cecily Iddings, he edits The=0ABlue= Letter, a free direct-mail poetry newsletter. He works at the Marymount Sc= hool =0Aand lives in Brooklyn . =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A= =0A =C2=A0 =0A=0ASueyeun=0AJuliette Lee edits Corollary Press, a chapbook s= eries devoted to new work by=0Awriters of color. Recent work has appeared i= n Effing, One Less, and online at=0Acritiphoria.org. Her chapbooks include = Mental Commitment Robots (yo yo labs), Perfect=0AVillagers (Octopus Books) = and Trespass Slightly In (Coconut). Her first=0Afull-length collection, Tha= t Gorgeous Feeling, is out from Coconut Books. She=0Acurrently lives in Phi= ladelphia . =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0ADanie= l=0ALin has a chapbook, TINDER, from Nightboat Books (2004), and has recent= ly=0Apublished poems in Unsplendid and The Jewish Quarterly. He was a N.Y. = Times=0AFellow at NYU and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers= =E2=80=99 Conference. =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0ABarry=0AS= chwabsky is an American poet and art critic living in London . His new coll= ection of poems, Book=0ALeft Open in the Rain, is published imminently by B= lack Square Editions and is=0Aavailable from Small press Distribution. He w= rites reguarly for The Nation and=0AArtforum (where he also co-edits the in= ternational reviews section), among=0Aothers. He is the author of Opera: Po= ems 1981-2002 (Meritage Press) and The=0AWidening Circle: Consequences of M= odernism in Contemporary Art (Cambridge=0AUniversity Press) as well as seve= ral chapbooks of poetry and contributions to=0Adozens of books and exhibiti= on catalogues on contemporary and modern art. =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A~~~ =0A= =0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AHosted by=0AAmy King and Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87 =0A= =0A=C2=A0 =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0Astain bar =0A=0A766 grand=0Astreet =0A=0Abroo= klyn,=0Any 11211 =0A=0A(L train=0Ato Grand Street ,=0A1 block west) =0A=0A = =C2=A0 =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0ASITE:=C2=A0 http://stainofpoetry.com =0A=0AVIDEO= :=C2=A0 http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/video/ =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0A-- = =0A=0A =C2=A0 =0A=0AAmy's=0AAlias =0A=0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:24:41 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cara Benson Subject: Re: Peoples Literary Festival in Portsmouth Virginia going on NOW In-Reply-To: <042220091855.8691.49EF681200033BD3000021F322243322829B0A02D29B9B0EBF98019C050C0E040D@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For those who haven't heard him perform, Synnika is crazy amazing. Totally = check it out if you can...cb=0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0= =0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=0A__________=0A=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com=C2=A0= {homepage}=0A=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com/sousrature.html=C2=A0{journal}= =0A=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com/necessarypress.html=C2=A0{press}=0A=0A=0A= =0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: "blacksox@ATT.NET" =0ATo: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0ASent: Wednesday, April 22= , 2009 2:55:14 PM=0ASubject: Peoples Literary Festival in Portsmouth Virgin= ia going on NOW=0A=0AFor Immediate Release=0AApril, 2009=0ASynnika Lofton p= resents=0AThe People=E2=80=99s Literary Festival, 2009=0ASynnika Lofton=E2= =80=94poet, author, and recording artist=E2=80=94is hosting the=0Afirst ann= ual The People=E2=80=99s Literary Festival. Beginning with an adult open=0A= mic and poetry concert at Olde Towne Coffee House, Portsmouth, VA, the=0Afe= stival then kicks into high gear with an adult poetry workshop, a teen book= =0Adiscussion on Storm Warriors, a teen poetry workshop, and culminating wi= th=0AThe People=E2=80=99s Open Mic at Greenbrier Library. All are encourage= d to=0Aparticipate. The adult open mic and workshop are for those 18 and up= . To=0Asign up for the adult open mic on April 25th please contact Synnika = Lofton at=0Apoetimmortal@yahoo.com or at 757-339-9152. For all the other ev= ents,=0Aplease contact the Greenbrier Library at (757) 410-7058.=0AApril 15= : Open Mic=0A7:00 PM=0AGreenbrier Library=0A1214 Volvo Pkwy.=0AChesapeake, = VA 23320=0A(757) 410-7058=0AApril 21: African Mahogany Book Club=0AFeatured= Book: Letters to a Young Brother by Hill Harper=0A7:00 PM=0AGreenbrier Lib= rary=0A1214 Volvo Pkwy.=0AChesapeake, VA 23320=0A(757) 410-7058=0AApril 25:= Open Mic and Poetry Concert=0A8:00 PM=0AOlde Towne Coffee House=0A600 Craw= ford St.=0APortsmouth, VA 23704=0A(757) 391-9220=0AApril 27: Adult Poetry W= orkshop=0A7:00 PM=0AGreenbrier Library=0A1214 Volvo Pkwy.=0AChesapeake, VA = 23320=0A(757) 410-7058=0AApril 28: Storm Warriors: A Teen Book Discussion= =0A7:00 PM=0AGreenbrier Library=0A1214 Volvo Pkwy.=0AChesapeake, VA 23320= =0A(757) 410-7058=0AApril 29: Teen Poetry Workshop=0A7:00 PM=0AGreenbrier L= ibrary=0A1214 Volvo Pkwy.=0AChesapeake, VA 23320=0A(757) 410-7058=0AApril 3= 0: The People=E2=80=99s Open Mic=0A7:00 PM=0AGreenbrier Library=0A1214 Volv= o Pkwy.=0AChesapeake, VA 23320=0A(757) 410-7058=0ASynnika Lofton is a poet/= recording artist who has recorded more than thirty=0Aalbums of poetry, incl= uding his highly praised debut, The New Breed. His=0Apoems have been publis= hed in Experience Reality Magazine, Quay: A=0AJournal of the Arts, and UpSt= reet: A Literary Magazine. He wrote the poem,=0A"Sacred Drum," for the Godd= ard College Presidential Inauguration of=0APresident Mark Schulman. Through= his Global Poetry Project, his poetry has=0Abeen heard in France, Norway, = Switzerland, Japan, Haiti, Venezuela, and=0AIsrael. His poems, "Guerrilla I= gnition" and "Love's Outlaw" appeared in the=0Adocumentary, Super-Size Me, = Too. Lofton received a B.A. and M.F.A. in=0ACreative Writing from Goddard C= ollege.=0A=0A=0APeace=0ARuss=0A=0A=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0AThe Poeti= cs List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/un= sub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:00:29 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: SEGUE 4/25: POETRY & ARCHITECTURE Vito Acconci, Bejamin Aranda, Robert Kocik MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Segue Series Presents POETRY & ARCHITECTURE Vito Acconci, Benjamin Aranda and Robert Kocik Saturday, April 25, 2009 ** 4PM SHARP** Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC $6 admission hosted by Kristen Gallagher & Tim Peterson What is the nature of the conversation between poetry and architecture today? In this event for the Segue Reading Series, poets and architects wil= l present works exploring a dialogue between these two disciplines. Vito Acconci will show an image-stream of built & unbuilt spaces & instruments as he reads: 1) about furniture & houses (80's), cities & landscape (90's); 2) from rules for assemblage & incursion (00's); 3) architecture in words only (00's). Benjamin Aranda will present images and talk around the issue of self-assembly, where top-down methods for determining form and making decisions are complicated and sometimes replace= d by bottom-up rules of formation. As in natural systems, the architectural structures up for discussion are not carved or composed in a traditional sense; they are grown through simple interactions to produce complex patterns that are both useful and buildable. Robert Kocik will present a plan for the Prosody Building, a note on mercenary poetry (without which business is biocide), Missing Civic Services, and a few architectural plans made entirely of words. PARTICIPANTS: Vito Acconci's design & architecture comes from another direction, from backgrounds of writing & art. By the late 80's he crossed over & joined wit= h architects to form Acconci Studio. They mix poetry & math, computer-scripting & sentence-structure, narrative & biology as they range from plazas & parks to buildings & interiors to furniture & products to clothing &vehicles. They are currently working on a street through a building in Indianapolis, a building that twists from a courtyard in Milan, a makeover of a former strip-mall in Athens, Georgia. Benjamin Aranda is architect and principal of Aranda\Lasch, New York, NY. Robert Kocik, poet, essayist, artist, design/builder, lives in Brooklyn where he directs the Bureau of Material Behaviors. His architectural works are committed to the realization of 'missing' functions, services, organizations, or agencies. He is currently developing a building based on 'prosody' and poets' imagined importance to our society. With the choreographer Daria Fa=EFn, he has initiated a field of research called The Prosodic Body. His publications include: Overcoming Fitness (Autonomedia, 2001), and Rhrurbarb (Field Books, 2007). =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:44:51 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: { brad brace } Subject: fill_the_mirror MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed fill_the_mirror field-recordings from brad brace http://www.archive.org/details/fill_the_mirror an island (project) interlude -- rhythmic edits all around the horizon (race track with film and shopping scores) http://www.archive.org/details/fill_the_mirror { brad brace } <<<<< bbrace@eskimo.com >>>> ~finger for pgp --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://69.64.229.114:8000 --- ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:49:28 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Obododimma Oha Subject: Submissions to Reconfigurations -- New Deadline Comments: To: USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com, ederi , elsalites@yahoogroups.com Comments: cc: Scott Howard , mmanwu@go.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The deadline for submitting to *Reconfigurations* stimulating critical essays and cultural works (poems, paintings, etc) that address the emergence and applications of non-Western frameworks of knowledge has been shifted to 1 June 2009, to make it possible for those still working on their submissions to be able to complete them. We thank those who have already submitted their works for peer review. As previously announced, essays that engage the politics of locating knowledge production and transnational movements of academic expertise are also welcome. Submissions should be emailed to Obododimma Oha (mmanwu@go.com , udude@full-moon.com ) or to Scott Howard, the editor of *Reconfigurations* (showard@du.edu ). Each submitter should please send a short bio of not more than 200 words. Text files should be on Word, rtf, or PDF (provided the PDF is not locked), while images should be on JPEG format. For more information on the journal, please visit: http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/ -- Obododimma Oha http://udude.wordpress.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:22:25 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jessica Bozek Subject: Monday, 4/27: Noy Holland & Kate Schapira in Cambridge, MA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Small Animal Project will kick off its reading series next Monday, April 27th, at 8pm, with a reading by fiction writer Noy Holland & poet Kate Schapira, at Outpost 186, a gallery/performance space in Inman Square, Cambridge. Details Monday, 4/27/09 Noy Holland & Kate Schapira Outpost 186 186 1/2 Hampshire Street Cambridge, MA 8 pm, free About the readers Noy Hollandis the author of two collections of short fiction, What Begins With Bird(FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body(Knopf), and the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, Open City, New York Tyrant, Denver Quarterly, NOON, and others. She is a Professor in the MFA program for Writers and Poets at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she co-directs the Juniper Initiative. Read an excerpt from Noy's work. Kate Schapiralives in Providence, where she writes, teaches, and runs the Publicly Complex reading series. In addition to making her own chapbooks, she's the author of four chapbooks published by other people, including The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax(Cy Gist Press) and two mini-chaps from Rope-A-Dope Press. She just started working with first graders as a Writer in the Schools. Read an excerpt from Kate's work. Directions Outpost 186 is located on Hampshire Street, between Prospect & Amory streets. See attached map. There's metered parking nearby on both Hampshire & Cambridge streets (should be free by reading time). The closest T stop is Central Square on the red line. Exit station & walk up Prospect 0.5 miles to Hampshire Street (intersection with 7-Eleven & Hess). Take a left onto Hampshire. Take first left onto path just behind 7-Eleven & walk to the brown shingled house behind another (bigger) brown shingled house. The 83 and 91 buses run from Central Square & stop at the intersection of Prospect & Hampshire. The 69 bus runs between Lechmere & Harvard Square, with a stop at the intersection of Cambridge & Hampshire, just in front of 1369 coffee shop. Contact Jessica Bozek at smallanimalproject@gmail.com or706.255.8821 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:52:42 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Skip Fox Subject: Write- in-Residence applications sought In-Reply-To: <19237D11A150405182B696A663AB339D@OwnerPC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The University of Louisiana Lafayette is seeking a writer in residence. Because of the nature of the department, fiction writers with the = request reputation are especially encouraged to apply. Here is the ad as it is posted in MLA: Writer-in-Residence and Professor/Associate Professor of English. Tenure-track position, beginning Fall 2009. Creative Writing-Fiction. Duties: teaching one Creative Writing workshop per academic year, = directing dissertations and theses, working with graduate and undergraduate = students in creative writing, presenting at least one public reading or lecture = each year, and participating in the department and university community. Continued publishing in field and other duties associated with holding a university position. Qualifications: International reputation as a = creative writer as evidenced by awards and publications in prestigious = international venues, extensive publications in creative genres (fiction, poetry, = drama, creative non-fiction), professional experience in teaching advanced = Creative Writing workshops. Salary competitive. Minority candidates are = encouraged to apply. Send application letter, current CV, and names and addresses = of three references to Professor James McDonald, Department Head, = Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, P. O. Box 44691, = Lafayette, LA 70504. UL Lafayette is a selective-admissions, state-supported university located in the heart of Louisiana's Acadian-Creole region. = The department offers the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English, as well as = graduate concentrations in Literary Studies, Rhetoric, Creative Writing, = Folklore, and Linguistics. AA/EEO compliant. http://english.louisiana.edu. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:34:31 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Jeremy Prynne in Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Will there be a video or audio of this reading online? ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:39:03 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rod Smith Subject: New @ Bridge Street: Armantrout, Baudelaire, Berkson, Moxley, Nealon, Doller, Nichols, Fitterman, Robinson, &&& MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii All them new books! Ordering and discount information at the end of this list. Thanks again for supporting Bridge Street. ABRAHAM LINCOLN #4, ed Mohammad & Boyer, 66 pgs, $5. Larsen, Coolidge, Bruno, Halpern, Gallagher, Nichols, Garcia, Graham, Hauser, &&&. VERSED, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan, HC 123 pgs, signed copies, $22.95. "Look -- I'm cooperating! / I can pull myself apart / and still speak" PARISH KREWES, Micah Ballard, Bootstrap, 96 pgs, $12. "The silence/ is not permanent" PARIS SPLEEN: LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE, Charles Baudelaire, trans Keith Waldrop, Wesleyan, 100 pgs, cloth $22.95. "Finally! Alone!" THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL BECKETT 1929-1940, ed Fehsenfeld & Overbeck, Cambridge, 782 pgs, HC $50. "My dear Tom / The discrepancy between mind and body is terrible." POTRAIT AND DREAM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Bill Berkson, Coffee House, 320 pgs, $22. "Now you see it/ no you don't" HEGEMONIC LOVE POTION, Jules Boykoff, Factory School, 104 pgs, $15."Do cops hate puppets?" CHANCE AND CIRCUMSTANCE: TWENTY YEARS WITH CAGE AND CUNNINGHAM, Carolyn Brown, Northwestern, 644 pgs, $26.95. New in paper. CLOSE CALLS WITH NONSENSE: READING NEW POETRY, Stephen Burt, Graywolf, 376 pgs, $19. "Other arguments sound absurd." THE BOOK OF FRANK, C.A. Conrad, Chax, 150 pgs, $16. "they waited to see what Frank would do" THE CAVE, Clark Coolidge & Bernadette Mayer, Adventures in Poetry, 70 pgs, $16. "Geologists say hashish is formed out of high definition." ON EARTH: LAST POEMS AND AN ESSAY, Robert Creeley, U Cal, 90 pgs, $14.95. New in paper. BODY LANGUAGE, Mark Cunningham, Tarpaulin Sky, 120 pgs, signed copies, $14. "Regeneration? It comes and goes." FAQ:, Ben Doller, Ahsata, 84 pgs, $17.50. ""Thank you for your question" DUST, Arkadii Dragomoshenko, trans Pavlov, Epstein, Avagyan, & Lucic, Dalkey Archive, 98 pgs, $10.95. "The light is in the way. A dialogue follows." TRAFFIC & WEATHER, Marcella Durand, Futurepoem, 60 pgs, $15. "The train pulls up and is not there" REASON, FAITH, AND REVOLUTION: REFLECTIONS ON THE GOD DEBATE, Terry Eagleton, Yale, HC 185 pgs, $25. "Knowledge is simply one moment or aspect of our bodily collusion in reality, a moment which modernity falsely abstracts and enshrines." SLOSH MODELS, Brett Evans, Factory School, 88 pgs, "Fishnet phlebotomy, angler smoothie" ROB THE PLAGIARIST, Rob Fitterman, Roof, 112 pgs, $13.95. "What Rob means is that you used to look like a corpse." THE WINTER SUN: NOTES ON A VOCATION, Fanny Howe, Graywolf, 198 pgs, $15. "My father worked for social justice and was eviscerated." WE SAW THE LIGHT: CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN THE NEW AMERICAN CINEMA AND POETRY, Daniel Kane, U Iowa, 270 pgs, HC $39.95. Writers and filmmakers discussed include: Anger, Duncan, Creeley, Brakhage, O'Hara, Leslie, Ginsberg, Chaplin, Frank, Warhol, Malanga, Ashbery, Burckhardt, Jarnot, & Reeves. CENSORY IMPULSE, Erica Kaufman, Factory School, 94 pgs, $15. "time for total reconstruction" UNION!, Ish Klein, Canarium, 86 pgs, $14. "Human High Voltage!" THING OF BEAUTY: NEW AND SELECTED WORKS, Jackson Mac Low, ed Anne Tardos, U Cal, 460 pgs, $21.95. New in paper. POETRY STATE FOREST, Bernadette Mayer, New Directions, 196 pgs, $17.95. "oops, we're in orono!" APOCRYPHAL LORCA: TRANSLATION, PARODY, KITSCH, Jonathan Mayhew, U Chicago, HC 222 pgs, $45. An exploration of Lorca's afterlife in U.S. poetic cultures. Includes examinations of the Lorca in/of Hughes, Blackburn, Creeley, Spicer, O'Hara, Duncan, Koch, Rothenberg, and others. LOVE LESSONS: SELECTED POEMS OF ALDA MERINI, trans Susan Stewart, cloth 130 pgs, $19.95. "There are nights/ that never/ happen." POEMLAND, Chelsea Minnis, Wave, 130 pgs, $14. "This is a chain between your thighs . . ." GIRL SCOUT NATION, Yedda Morrison, Displaced Press, $12.99. "Maybe body?" CLAMPDOWN, Jennifer Moxley, Flood, 90 pgs, $14.95. "Each unconsidered day we live is lost." PLUMMET, Chris Nealon, Edge, 70 pgs, $15."Workers needed!" CATALYTIC EXTERIORIZATION PHENOMENON, Mel Nichols, Edge, 98 pgs, $17. "it is blue there" HEARTH, Simon Pettet, Talisman House, 178 pgs, $17.95. NOTES ON CONCEPTUALISMS, Vanessa Place & Rob Fitterman, Ugly Duckling, 80 pgs, $12. " RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY, Kathryn L. Pringle, Factory School, 78 pgs, $15. "it speaketh a gentle (twice broken neurotik" STYROFOAM, Evelyn Reilly, Roof, 72 pgs, $12.95. "To be anti-pure in the broken dust lingo" THE MESSIANIC TREES: Selected Poems 1976-2003, Kit Robinson, Adventures in Poetry, 306 pgs, $16.95. "It is important to do something meaningless" NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: LIFE AND LABOR IN PRECARIOUS TIMES, Andrew Ross, NYU, HC 264 pgs, $27.95. STRATA, Joe Ross, Dusie, 78 pgs, $15. "In the space that is not margin how begins." THEOGONY, Douglas Rothschild, Subpress, 210 pgs, $16. "Isn't it curious that in literature/ there's a certain decision about / what's good & what's bad." THE LOOP, Jacques Roubaud, Dalkey Archive, 568 pgs, $16.95. "He called these our 'little labors.'" AMERICAN HYBRID: A NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF NEW POETRY, ed Cole Swensen & David St John, Norton, 530 pgs, $25.95. Adnan, Angel, Armantrout, Ashbery, Bang, Beckman, Bedient, Cole, Fraser, Gander, Giscombe, Guest, Hass, Hejinian, Hillman, Hoover, Howe, Lauterbach, Kim, Mackey, McMorris, Mullen, Notley, Rankine, Ratcliffe, Ronk, Shepherd, Smith, Snow, Spahr, Taggart, Vogelsong, Waldrop, Welish, Wheeler, Willis, Yau, &&&&. TRANSCENDENTAL STUDIES: A TRILOGY, Keith Waldrop, U Cal, 208 pgs, $19.95. "There is a problem with trains of thought." THE MUSIC OF THOUGHT IN THE POETRY OF GEORGE OPPEN AND WILLIAM BRONK, Henry Weinfield, Iowa, cloth 240 pgs, $37.50. SOME BESTSELLERS: NIGHT SCENES, Lisa Jarnot, Flood, 70 pgs, $13.95. THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JACK SPICER, ed Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, Wesleyan, HC 465 PGS, $35. COLLECTED POEMS 1956-1987, John Ashbery, Library of America, 1050 pgs, $40. THE ALPHABET, Ron Silliman, U Alabama, 1062 pgs, $39.95. SAGA/CIRCUS, Lyn Hejinian, Omnidawn, 150 pgs, $15.95. BLIND WITNESS: THREE AMERICAN OPERAS, Charles Bernstein (libretti), Ben Yarmolinsky (music), Factory School, 108 pgs, signed copies, $16. RADICAL VERNACULAR: LORRINE NIEDECKER AND THE POETICS OF PLACE, ed Elizabeth Willis, Iowa, cloth 308 pgs, $39.95. COLLAPSIBLE POETICS THEATER, Rodrigo Toscano, Fence, 160 pgs, $19. THE OUTERNATIONALE, Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan, 111 pgs, $13.95. CLEARING WITHOUT REVERSAL, Cathy Eisenhower, Edge, 80 pgs, $14. HUGHSON'S TAVERN, Fred Moten, Leon Works, 88 pgs, $15.95. HAUNTED HOUSE, Pierre Reverdy, trans John Ashbery, Brooklyn Rail/Black Square, 72 pgs, $15. CITY OF CORNERS, John Godfrey, Wave, 96 pgs, $14. ADORNO'S NOISE, Carla Harryman, Essay Press, 182 pgs, $14.95. PICTURE PALACE, Stephanie Young, 114 pgs, ingrimmus, $15. A POWER STRONGER THAN ITSELF: THE AACM AND AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC, George E. Lewis, U Chicago, cloth 678 pgs, $35. THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA, Kevin Davies, Edge, 150 pgs, $16. BICYCLE DAY, Mel Nichols, Slack Buddha, 32 pgs, $6. TO AFTER THAT (TOAF), Renee Gladman, Atelos, 80 pgs, $13.50. CENSORY IMPULSE, Erica Kaufman, Farfalla, 50 pgs, $10. OURS, Cole Swensen, U Cal, 101 pgs, $16.95. THE ROUTE, Patrick Durgin & Jen Hofer, Atelos, 198 pgs, $13.50. LANDSCAPES OF DISSENT, Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand, Palm Press, 128 pgs, $15. RE:EVOLUTION, Kim Rosenield, Les Figues, 98 pgs, $15. ACTION KYLIE, Kevin Killian, ingrimmus, 124 pgs, $15. THE BODY: AN ESSAY, Jenny Boully, Essay Press, 76 pgs, $12.95. MAXIMUM GAGA, Laura Glenum, Action, 112 pgs, $16. ABSOLUTELY EDEN, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, United Artists, 90 pgs, $14. AETHEL, Donato Mancini, New Star, unpaginated, $21. THE BRUISE, Magdalena Zurawski, FC2, 174 pgs, $14.95. BODY CLOCK, Eleni Sikelianos, Coffee House, 150 pgs, $18. FELONIES OF ILLUSION, Mark Wallace, Edge, 138 pgs, $15. PUBLIC DOMAIN, Monica de la Torre, Roof, 100 pgs, $13.95. DEBTS AND OBLIGATIONS, Alicia Cohen, O Books, 80 pgs, $12. 50 YEARS OF RECUPERATION OF THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL, McKenzie Wark, cloth 78 pgs, 30 color illustations, $24.95. MAXIMUM GAGA, Laura Glenum, Action, 112 pgs, $16. THE LETTERS OF ALLEN GINSBERG, Allen Ginsberg, ed Bill Morgan,$30. SICK PLANET, Guy Debord, trans Nicholson-Smith, Seagull, 94 pgs, $16.95. GRAVE OF LIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, Alice Notley, Wesleyan, 366 pgs, $22.95. DEED, Rod Smith, U Iowa, 88 pgs, $16. GERTRUDE STEIN: SELECTIONS, Gertrude Stein, ed Joan Retallack, U Cal Press, 352 pgs, $19.95. THE BOOK OF MARTYRDOM + ARTIFICE: FIRST JOURNALS AND POEMS 1937-1952, Allen Ginsberg, ed Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton & Bill Morgan, Da Capo, 524 pgs, $17.50. IT'S GO IN HORIZONTAL: SELECTED POEMS, 1974-2006, Leslie Scalapino, 248 pgs, U CAL, $16.95. UPCOMING BRIDGE STREET READINGS: Sunday, April 26, 7:00 pm Lynne Dreyer & P. Inman Sunday, May 10, 7:00 pm Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon There are currently two ways to order: 1. E-mail your order to rod@bridgestreetbooks.com or aerialedge@gmail.com with your address & we will bill you with the books. or 2. via credit card-- you may call us at 202 965 5200 or e-mail w/ yr add, order, card #, & expiration date & we will send a receipt with the books. Please remember to include expiration date. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:07:28 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Poetry Project Subject: Events at The Poetry Project April Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Here=B9s what=B9s coming up at The Poetry Project! Friday, April 24, 10 PM Lawrence Giffin & Nico Vassilakis Lawrence Giffin is the author of a chapbook, Get the Fuck Back into That Burning Plane, as well as three volumes of Comment Is Free, an ongoing print-on-demand work of social philosophy compiled from newspaper comment streams. As a member of the publishing collective Lil=B9 Norton, Lawrence Giffin is the series editor of the journal The Physical Poets Home Library. A kind of historical novel, Aa, co-produced with Fernando Diaz, is forthcoming from Patrick Lovelace Editions. Nico Vassilakis works in both textual and visual poetry. He is a curator for the Subtext Reading Series i= n Seattle. His vispo videos have been shown in exhibits and festivals of innovative language arts. Nico=B9s recently published Text Loses Time is available from ManyPenny Press. Forthcoming books include Disparate Magnets (BlazeVox) & Protracted Type (White Lion Books). Monday, April 27, 8 PM Sarah Mangold & Ryan Murphy Sarah Mangold is founder and editor of Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art. Currently working as a Program Coordinator at the University of Washington Extension Program=8Bafter seven years in a private library. BA University of Oklahoma; MFA San Francisco State, 1999. Recipien= t of an Individual Artist Award form the Seattle Arts Commission and residencies at MacDowell and Djerassi. Her books include Household Mechanics, Parlor, Picture of the Basket, and Boxer Rebellion. Ryan Murphy is the author of Down with the Ship from Otis Books / Seismicity Editions a= s well as the chapbooks The Gales, Ocean Park, and On Violet Street. His second book, The Redcoats, is forthcoming from Krupskaya. He has received awards from Chelsea Magazine and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art as well as a grant from The Fund for Poetry. He is an editor for Four Way Book= s and teaches at Pratt Institute. He lives in New York City. Wednesday, April 29, 8 PM 80th Birthday Reading for Kenward Elmslie Help us celebrate the great poet and librettist Kenward Elmslie at 80. Friends and collaborators will assemble to read their favorite Elmslie poems, sing their favorite Elmslie songs and pay tribute to the master showman. With Bill Berkson, Maxine Chernoff, Bill Corbett, Ann Lauterbach, Ron Padgett, Ned Rorem and Michael Silverblatt. Become a Poetry Project Member! http://poetryproject.org/become-a-member Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.org/program-calendar The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue New York City 10003 Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. info@poetryproject.org www.poetryproject.org Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $95 or higher will get in FREE to all regular readings). We are wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. For more info call 212-674-0910. If you=B9d like to be unsubscribed from this mailing list, please drop a line at info@poetryproject.org. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:41:13 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Scott Howard Subject: CFW: RECONFIGURATIONS (volume three) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RECONFIGURATIONS=3A A Journal for Poetics =26 Poetry / Literature =26 Cu= lture = ISSN=3A 1938-3592=2C http=3A//reconfigurations=2Eblogspot=2Ecom/ = Volume 3=3A Immanence / Imminence = Submissions=3A April thru August=2C 2009 = Publication=3A November=2C 2009 = Guidelines=3A Volume three of Reconfigurations=2C http=3A//reconfigurati= ons=2Eblogspot=2Ecom/=2C seeks innovative works concerning immanence / i= mminence=97that is=2C the phenomena of emergence =26 becoming=2C appeara= nce =26 disappearance=97across a wide range of signification=3A matters = inherent or abiding=3B objects intentional or manifest=3B perceptions no= etical or pataphysical=3B actions impending or close-at-hand=3B communit= ies realized or indeterminate=2E Reconfigurations is an electronic=2C p= eer-reviewed=2C international=2C annual journal for poetics and poetry=2C= creative and scholarly writing=2C innovative and traditional concerns w= ith literary arts and cultural studies=2E Reconfigurations publishes un= der a Creative Commons 3=2E0 open-access license=2C is MLA indexed=2C EB= SCO distributed and independently managed=2E Electronic Submissions=3A showard=40du=2Eedu=2E Submissions should be a= ttached as a single =2Edoc=2C =2Ertf=2C or =2Etxt file=2E Visuals shoul= d be attached individually as =2Ejpg=2C =2Egif or =2Ebmp files=2E Pleas= e include the word =93submission=94 in the subject line of your message=2E= /// =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:30:26 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: X-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-1 (1955-1957): http://radiolovers.com/pages/xminus1.htm ja ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:03:36 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: luke daly Subject: House Press: string of small machines issue 4! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hot off of the presses! The issue includes work by Melissa Severin, Carrie Hunter, Daniel Borzutzky, Andrew Hughes, Gustave Morin, Raul Zurita (translated by Anna Deeney), and Brenda Iijima. 200 original covers were printed by Angee Lennard at Spudnik Press. It's available for $5, via pay pal. click here and get it while it lasts! ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:53:49 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Wanda Phipps Subject: Reading in Poetry Electric Series at LaMama Cafe next week MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reading in Poetry Electric Series at LaMama Cafe Guest curator: Dave M. Host: William Electric Black Tuesday, April 28 8pm, $8 Wanda Phipps reading with Stephen B. Antonakos on guitar plus readings by Dave M., Judith Fleishmann, Jeff Allen, Jackie Johnson, Tonya Foster, Randall Horton! LaMama E.T.C. Club 74 East 4th Street New York, NY 212-475-7710 Sorry for cross postings--will be great to see you there! -- Wanda Phipps Check out my websites: http://www.mindhoney.com and http://www.myspace.com/wandaphippsband My latest book of poetry Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire available at: http://www.blazevox.org/bk-wp.htm And my 1st full-length book of poems Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems available at:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193236031X/ref=rm_item ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:51:08 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Charles Alexander Subject: buffalo symposium Comments: To: blogannounce@buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi all, Here's my brief (or not so brief) Poet-Publishers [a small press symposium], held April 19-20 at SUNY Buffalo: http://chax.org/blog.htm and there's another post on that symposium on Kyle Schlesinger's Cuneiform blog. http://cuneiformpress.blogspot.com/ Special thanks to Brenda Iijima for the photos! cheers, Charles charles alexander chax press chax@theriver.com 411 N 7th ave, suite 103 tucson arizona 85705 520 620 1626 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:51:31 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Kate Soto Subject: Re: Jeremy Prynne in Chicago In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) yes, eventually (within a few weeks), it'll be housed on poempresent.uchicago.edu On Apr 23, 2009, at 2:34 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote: > Will there be a video or audio of this reading online? > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html Kate Soto Coordinator The Committee on Creative Writing The Program in Poetry and Poetics University of Chicago Walker Museum 411 // 773.834.8524 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:31:54 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "joey@newmystics.com" Subject: April update at www.newmystics.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed www.newmystics.com, a literary and art site, is proud to announce our April update, featuring: Poems by SAL BUTACCI, YUKO OTOMO, and STEVE DALACHINSKY Book 3 of Neighbors by ED BAKER Part 3 of The Silver Girl Essays by JEAN MARIE AVRIL Photography by CLAIRE SMITH And the fourth film in the 6 Reasons to Say No series: "A Living Wage" produced by New Mystics Theatre Company, Inc. Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis. We also invite you to join www.newmysticscommunity.com, where you can network with other writers and artists, sharing new works, publicizing your work and appearances, and being among an enthusiastic and supportive pool of talent from the United States and Europe. Those who love the Arts in all their forms are encouraged to join as well! We hope to see you there! Joey Madia Founding Editor www.newmystics.com www.newmysticscommunity.com www.newmysticsreviews.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:42:41 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Samurai Critic -William Logan collection reviewed in NYT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Samurai Critic http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/books/review/Ford-t.html?8bu&emc=3Dbua2 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live=99 Hotmail=AE:=85more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_more_042009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:37:46 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: new collages Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Two new collages can be viewed at http://www.camillemartin.ca/index.php?pr=3DCollages_15 Camille= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:41:31 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aryanil Mukherjee Organization: KAURAB Subject: looking for denise duhamel In-Reply-To: <5CA82D628C40AD4E9EB5013ADB6F6A9A0E587DAAD3@artsmail4.ARTSNET.AUCKLAND.AC.NZ> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Could someone please backchannel me with Denise Duhamel's email address ? Thanking in advance. Aryanil ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:09:43 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "steve d. dalachinsky" Subject: poems up MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit www.newmystics.com is proud to announce our April update, featuring:?? Poems by SAL BUTACCI, Yuko Otomo, and Steve Dalachinsky Book 3 of Neighbors by Ed Baker?? Part 3 of The Silver Girl Essays by Jean Marie Avril?? Photography by Claire Smith?? And the fourth film in the 6 Reasons to Say No series: "A Living Wage" produced by New Mystics Theatre Company, Inc.?? Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis. We also invite you to join www.newmysticscommunity.com, where you can network with other writers and artists, sharing new works, publicizing your work and appearances, and being among an enthusiastic and supportive pool of talent from the United States and Europe. Those who love the Arts in all their forms are encouraged to join as well! Joey Madia will be reading from his new novel at several venues in West Virginia and New Jersey in May, June,20and July. Visit www.newmysticscommunity.com for details—new dates are being added weekly.?? We hope to see you there!?? Joey, Tonya, and Dan ? www.newmystics.com? www.newmysticscommunity.com www.newmysticsreviews.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:07:01 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Krystal Languell Subject: Noemi Press reading in NYC, May 2 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Noemi Press Reading @ Stain Bar FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Brooklyn, New York=97April 16, 2009=97Today Noemi Press announced the = May 2 lineup for its inaugural reading at Stain Bar in Brooklyn (766 Grand =20 Street, Brook- lyn, NY 11211 (L to Grand, 1 block west) 718/387-7840). The reading =20 begins at 7pm and features=85 Mark Tursi, the author of Shiftless Days (Noemi Press) and The Impossible Picnic (BlazeVOX Books). He is one of the founding editors of the literary journal Double Room, as well as Apostrophe Books, an innovative press devoted to publishing poetry that inter- sects philosophy and cultural theory. He is Assistant Professor of lit- erature and creative writing at New Jersey City University. Claire Hero published two chapbooks in 2008: Cabinet (danc- ing girl press) and afterpastures, winner of the 2007 Caketrain Chap- book Competition. Noemi Press published her first full-length col- lection, Sing, Mongrel, in 2009. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, How2, Octopus, Coconut, and elsewhere. She lives in up- state New York. Argentinean poet Lila Zemborain has been living in New York since 1985. She is the author of the poetry collections, Abrete s=E9samo debajo del agua (1993), Usted (1998), Guardianes del secre- to (2002) / Guardians of the Secret (Las Cruces: Noemi Press, 2009), Malvas orqu=EDdeas del mar (2004) /Mauve-Sea Orchids (New York: Belladonna Books, 2007), Rasgado (2006) and in collaboration with artist Martin Reyna La couleur de l=92eau / El color del agua (Paris: Virginie Boissiere, 2008). She curates the KJCC Poetry Series at New York University, where she teaches at the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish. In 2007 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Shya Scanlon=92s fiction and poetry have appeared in Missis- sippi Review, Literary Review, New York Quarterly, and elsewhere. His prose poetry collection In This Alone Impulse will be published by Noemi Press in 2009. Shya received his MFA from Brown Univer- sity in 2008, where he won the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. Opium Magazine has a contest named in his honor. Visit him online at www. shyascanlon.com. About Noemi Press: Noemi Press is a small, independent outfit currently publishing high-=20 quality chapbooks of both fiction and poetry. Under the direction of Carmen =20 Smith, Noemi is committed to exposing upcoming, experimental writers of merit as well =20= as showcas- ing preeminent design and artwork. Since 2002 it has existed as a vibrant non-profit organization based =20 in southern New Mexico and is currently edited by Evan Lavender-Smith, a graduate of =20 NMSU=92s MFA program in Creative Writing. Notable authors who have published with =20 Noemi Press include Chris Glomski, Karla Kelsey, Diana George, Mark Tursi and =20 Jenny Boully, as well as many others. Noemi Press has recently added a full-length poetry series to its =20 catalogue, with re- cent releases from Claire Hero and Lila Zemborain marking the first in =20= this new se- ries. Forthcoming projects will feature the work of Rusty Morrison, =20 Norman Lock, Shya Scanlon and others. Please visit www.noemipress.org for more =20 informa- tion. CONTACT: Carmen Gimenez Smith Noemi Press carmen@noemipress.org Who: Mark Tursi, Claire Hero, Lila Zemborain, Shya Scanlon What: Noemi Press Reading When: May 2nd, 2009 7 P.M. Where: Stain Bar in Brooklyn (L to Grand, 1 block west) 718/387-7840 www.noemipress.org= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:25:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "J. Scappettone" Subject: News & Upcoming Events from Litmus Press, Spring 2009 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Litmus Press Spring 2009 News & Upcoming Events :::New Release:::New Release:::New Release:::New Release::: FROM DAME QUICKLY http://www.litmuspress.org/pages/fromdamequickly.html Poetry & graphic stills by Jennifer Scappettone Paperback, 112 pages ISBN: 978-1-933959-06-1 $15.00 Cover art by Rosemarie Fiore *Available now through Small Press Distribution http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781933959061/from-dame-quickly.aspx The work in this wondrous first major book by Jennifer Scappettone has a phenomenal -- an excitatory -- presence, the presence of action, not thing. This book is a matrix of polytemporal energy, a linguistic carnival, ribald and resounding -- "a most implicit maze."... -- Lyn Hejinian LISTEN to Jennifer Scappettone now on PennSound http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Scappettone.html ______________________________________________________________ and don't miss these :::UPCOMING EVENTS::: Thursday, May 7th, 6:30-8:30pm *"Dame Quickly, Unframed" *reading and performance/projection of graphic stills from Jennifer Scappettone's new book! (cover art by Rosemarie Fiore) Organized and hosted by Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Gallery http://www.priskajuschkafineart.com/ Please RSVP to gallery@priskajuschkafineart.com or 212-244-4320. Priska C. Juschka Fine Art 547 W. 27th St. 2nd Floor New York, NY 10001 :::Embargoed Voices::: Poesia Ultima / Italian Poetry Now *FESTIVAL OF ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY POETRY & POETICS* May 26 - May 29 New York & Chicago, IL View all details here http://www.litmuspress.org/pages/events.htm In conjunction with Aufgabe #7 we welcome Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi to New York and Chicago for a series of readings and discussions with translator & guest editor Jennifer Scappettone and translator Carla Billitteri. Events curated by Jennifer Scappettone and co-sponsored by Litmus Press with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Poets House, St. Mark's Poetry Project, UChicago Arts Council, University of Chicago Creative Writing and Romance Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University Department of French and Italian, Chicago Poetry Center, Th!nkArt Gallery, and with promotional support from Columbia University, NYU, and the Art Institute of Chicago. :::AND MORE::: * Saturday, May 30th, 4pm Stacy Szymaszek & Patrick Durgin Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery NYC Segue Series (curated by Tim Peterson & Kristin Gallagher) Friday, June 19th, 8pm BOOK RELEASE PARTY! Celebrate our two newest releases -- and the beginning of summer -- with authors Jennifer Scappettone and Stacy Szymaszek Short readings, snacks and wine will be provided! From Dame Quickly, by Jennifer Scappettone Hyperglossia, by Stacy Szymaszek NYC, details TBA :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: FORTHCOMING JUNE 2009 Hyperglossia Stacy Szymaszek Aufgabe #8 featuring Russian poetry in translation, guest edited by Matvei Yankelevich and there's more on our website http://www.litmuspress.org/index.htm Litmus Press is supported by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. We are a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses and rely on ongoing support and contributions from our members, subscribers and individual donors. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:20:46 -0400 Reply-To: clwnwr@earthlink.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bob Heman Subject: the first full length collection of my prose poems is now available as a free download MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi Folks - this is just to let you all know that the first full-length collection of my prose poems, titled Demographics, or, The Hats They Are Allowed to Wear, has just been published by Gian Lombardo's Quale Press - it's available as a free downloadable e-book that you can read on line or print off or download onto your hard drive - just follow the link to http://www.quale.com/Demographics_BH.html i hope you enjoy it - feel free to pass the word and in case you missed it Quale also did a smaller collection of mine in 2007 which you can find at the end of this link: http://www.quale.com/How_BH.html be well - Bob Bob Heman clwnwr@earthlink.net EarthLink Revolves Around You. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:14:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Peter Subject: Recycled poem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Recycled poem http://ciccariello.viewbook.com/recycled_poem Peter Ciccariello -- http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/ http://uncommonvision.blogspot.com/ http://poemsfromprovidence.blogspot.com/ http://uncommon-vision.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:43:56 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: missing Bern Porter Comments: To: ubuweb@yahoogroups.com, spidertangle@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Today I'm missing everyone's favorite found poet Bern Porter. Here's a rock version of him jamming on Last Acts of Saint Fuck You in the studio with Steltch & Dave from Poop Shovel recorded in 1989. Be sure to crank your stereo before playing. http://xexoxial.org/mp3/Bern_Porter_and_Steltch%20-The_Last_Acts_of_Saint_Fuck_You.mp3 ~mIEKAL =!= Data Visualization for the Synaptically Inspired http://filevillage.info ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:11:15 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: Marcus McCann's soft where (poetry, Chaudiere Books) Last night we launched Ottawa poet and journalist Marcus McCann's first trade poetry collection, soft where, to a rousing crowd at the ottawa international writers festival, with poets Jeanette Lynes and Molly Peacock along for the ride to help, launching titles of their own. Check out the links below for direct information on McCann's book, as well as a link to a report on last night's event. Keep an eye either on our facebook page or blog (chaudierebooks.blogspot.com) for further McCann launches in Toronto and Montreal, as well as information on Fredericton poet Joe Blades forthcoming poetry title. http://www.chaudierebooks.com/books/soft_where.html http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/04/ottawa-international-writers-festival.html Books are available directly from the publisher at the address below. Send a cheque or money order payable to Chaudiere Books. If ordering from within Canada, include $3 S&H for the first book ($2 per book thereafter); if ordering from the continental United States, please include $3 S&H for the first book ($2 per book thereafter) in American funds. If outside, include $4 S&H for the first book ($3 per book thereafter) in American funds. Please be sure to include your return mailing address. Chaudiere Books 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7 613 239 0337 If anyone would like a copy for review, simply send me a note, either through facebook or at az421@freenet.carleton.ca yr wayward publisher, -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...13th poetry coll'n - The Ottawa City Project ...novel - white www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:59:08 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sarah Sarai Subject: Steve Tills' Rugh Stuff reviewed in Jacket Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain http://jacketmagazine.com/37/r-tills-rb-schwartz.shtml That=92s the url for the Jacket review of Steve Tills=92 Rugh Stuff. The= review -- written by=20 Gerard Schwartz -- captures strengths of Tills=92 =93all of a piece=94 bo= ok. =93Tills=92 poetry is=20 pastoral, but cup-up, darting from moment to moment (l e i s u r e l y) i= n a way that might=20 seem at first to preclude the transcendental, coherence and raucous, a la= id back mix of=20 idioms as pungent as anything coming from the void.=94 Rather than me spend time in search of my own perfect description of this= book which I so=20 liked, & admire, I figured I=92d post the url and urge Rugh Stuff, an= antic introspection,=20 Beckett on a golf course, be read. Sarah Sarai =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:25:03 -0700 Reply-To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: Samurai Critic -William Logan collection reviewed in NYT In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable & the NYT article is written by Mark Ford, yes! --- On Fri, 4/24/09, David-Baptiste Chirot wrote= : > From: David-Baptiste Chirot > Subject: Samurai Critic -William Logan collection reviewed in NYT > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Friday, April 24, 2009, 11:42 PM > Samurai Critic > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/books/review/Ford-t.html?8bu&emc=3Dbua2 >=20 >=20 > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live=E2=84=A2 Hotmail=C2=AE:=E2=80=A6more than just e-mail. > http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_more_042009 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all > posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:46:08 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Kyle Schlesinger Subject: TONIGHT IN NYC: SARAH MANGOLD AND RYAN MURPHY READ AT THE POETRY PROJECT Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable SARAH MANGOLD AND RYAN MURPHY READ IN THE MONDAY NIGHTS SERIES AT THE POETRY PROJECT MONDAY APRIL 27 AT 8:00 Sarah Mangold is founder and editor of Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art. Currently working as a Program Coordinator at the University of Washington Extension Program=8Bafter seven years in a private library. BA University of Oklahoma; MFA San Francisco State, 1999. Recipien= t of an Individual Artist Award form the Seattle Arts Commission and residencies at MacDowell and Djerassi. Her books include Household Mechanics, Parlor, Picture of the Basket, and Boxer Rebellion. Ryan Murphy is the author of Down with the Ship from Otis Books / Seismicit= y Editions as well as the chapbooks The Gales, Ocean Park, and On Violet Street. His second book, The Redcoats, is forthcoming from Krupskaya. He ha= s received awards from Chelsea Magazine and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporar= y Art as well as a grant from The Fund for Poetry. He is an editor for Four Way Books and teaches at Pratt Institute. He lives in New York City. Become a Poetry Project Member! http://poetryproject.org/become-a-member Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.org/program-calendar The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue New York City 10003 Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. info@poetryproject.org www.poetryproject.org Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $95 or higher will get in FREE to all regular readings). We are wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. For more info call 212-674-0910. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:47:15 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Stephen Ellis Subject: Re: Steve Tills' Rugh Stuff reviewed in Jacket In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It's all Kentucky Blue. And you don't have to be a Talking Horse to watch = it germinate. Although it helps. And Tills is smart enough not to use bur= lap. Or wear shades. EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me =20 > Date: Sun=2C 26 Apr 2009 16:59:08 -0400 > From: ssarai001@GMAIL.COM > Subject: Steve Tills' Rugh Stuff reviewed in Jacket > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > http://jacketmagazine.com/37/r-tills-rb-schwartz.shtml >=20 > That=92s the url for the Jacket review of Steve Tills=92 Rugh Stuff. The = review -- written by=20 > Gerard Schwartz -- captures strengths of Tills=92 =93all of a piece=94 bo= ok. =93Tills=92 poetry is=20 > pastoral=2C but cup-up=2C darting from moment to moment (l e i s u r e l = y) in a way that might=20 > seem at first to preclude the transcendental=2C coherence and raucous=2C = a laid back mix of=20 > idioms as pungent as anything coming from the void.=94 >=20 > Rather than me spend time in search of my own perfect description of this= book which I so=20 > liked=2C & admire=2C I figured I=92d post the url and urge Rugh Stuff=2C = an antic introspection=2C=20 > Beckett on a golf course=2C be read. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Sarah Sarai >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:24:29 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Kelleher Subject: Literary Buffalo Newsletter 04.27.09-05.03.09 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII LITERARY BUFFALO 04.27.09-05.03.09 ARTVOICE BEST OF BUFFALO TWO JUST BUFFALO SERIES NOMINATED IN THE BEST OF BUFFALO =22SPOKEN WORD SER= IES=22 CATEGORY=21 1. Babel 2. Interdisciplinary Performance Series EVENTS THIS WEEK Visit the Literary Buffalo calendar at www.justbuffalo.org for more detaile= d info on these events. All events free and open to the public unless other= wise noted. 04.30.09 Talking Leaves...Books Literary Raiders of Niagara Reading Series Denise David, Marc Pietrzykowski, & Livio Farallo Thursday, April 30, 7:00 PM Talking Leaves...Books, 3158 Main St. 05.02.08 E. H. Butler Library, Monroe Fordham Regional History Center One Long, Wild Conversation by Fraser Drew and Hank Nuwer Book Launch and Signing Saturday, May 2, 2009 =40 1:00 PM E. H. Butler Library Room 134 Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue Just Buffalo/CEPA Gallery Writing With Light 2009 Opening and Exhibition Student Poems and Photos from Writing With Light Education Program Saturday, May 2 5:30-8 PM CEPA Gallery Passageway (2nd Floor Gallery) Market Arcade Building 617 Main St, Second Floor __________________________________________________________________________= BABEL 2009-10 SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE NOW=21 October 9, A.S. Byatt November 20, Ha Jin March 5, Azar Nafisi April 16, Salman Rushdie Previous Subscriber: =2485 New Subscriber: =24110 These subscriptions include general admission seating at all 4 events. Patron: =24275 Patron Pair: =24450 Patron level subscriptions include VIP reserved seating and admission to al= l pre-event author receptions. Purchase subscriptions now at http://www.justbuffalo.org/babel or by phone = at 716.832.5400. We intend to send out confirmations starting 5/22. Please be patient. If y= ou placed an order, you WILL receive confirmation in May and your tickets W= ILL be mailed in September. __________________________________________________________________________= WRITER CRITIQUE GROUP The member writer critique group is back on a new night: 1st and 3rd Tuesda= ys at the Market Arcade. Click here for more info: http://www.justbuffalo.org/media/pdf/CritiqueGroup0409.pdf __________________________________________________________________________= WESTERN NEW YORK BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOPS We have some availability in the upcoming workshops May 3 - Printmaking for Kids May 13 & 14 - Making Fonts To register: http://www.wnybookarts.org/Spring09wkshps.php ___________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will i= mmediately be removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:21:19 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Small Press Traffic Subject: REMINDER: This Friday: Lau and Vincent MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thank you for understanding about all the cross-posting and our excitement about this upcoming event. Readings by Stephen Vincent and David Lau California College of the Arts, Timken Hall Friday, May 1, 2009 at event begins at 7:30 p.m. Stephen Vincent=92s most recent poetry books include Triggers, a Shearsman ebook (http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/ebooks/ebooks_home.html), a fau= x ebook, Sleeping with Sappho (http://www.fauxpress.com/e/vincent/), and Walking Theory (Junction Press: 2007), the latter of which Ron Silliman wrote: =93... these are the poems Stephen Vincent has been preparing to wri= te his entire life. They definitely pass the =93take the top of your head off= =94 test. I went cover to cover without even sitting up=85=94 Recent poems have appeared in the current issues New American Poetry, Crayon, Jacket and the forthcoming Vanitas. A visual artist, his show Haptics will open at the Braunstein-Quay Gallery from January 22 through February 21, 2009. A noted teacher and publisher, in the 1970=92s and early 80=92s, his Momo= =92s Press published Beverly Dahlen=92s first two books, Out of the Third and A Reading 1 =96 7, as well as early volumes by many other then locals, includ= ing Victor Hernandez Cruz, Jessica Hagedorn, and Hilton Obenzinger, and Shocks, a critical magazine. A longtime San Franciscan, his popular blog of poems, walks, photographs, haptics and occasional political commentary is found at http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ David Lau's first book of poems is Virgil and the Mountain Cat. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Fourteen Hills, Jubilat, Denver Quarterly, Pool, Willdlife, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of Lana Turner: a Journal of Poetry and Opinion. He teaches writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College --=20 Samantha Giles Executive Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center sptraffic.org smallpresstraffic.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:16:45 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: konrad Subject: APR 29, 30 Los Angeles: live poetic film narration MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed NOTE: THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT SHOWS Wednesday, April 29, 8:30 REDCAT Theater Second and Hope Streets Los Angeles http://www.redcat.org/season/0809/fv/cabaret.php THE CINEMA CABARET: Live Film Narration curated by Jen Hofer and Konrad Steiner Sponsored by REDCAT and the Cal Arts Film/Video and the Critical Studies Departments Seven writers and filmmakers from San Francisco and Los Angeles provide live voiceover to films, creating satiric, comic and critical re-readings and narrative mashups. Featuring: Neelanjana Banerjee - Silsila Andrew Choate - The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover Jaime Cortez - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Jen Hofer - On the Beach Douglas Kearney & Nicole McJamerson - Fantasia Lee Anne Schmitt - The Shootist Konrad Steiner - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? * * * Thursday April 30, 7:30 The Machine Project 1200 D North Alvarado Los Angeles http://machineproject.com/events/2009/04/30/neo-benshi-night/ Neo-Benshi Night curated by Neelanjana Banerjee - same deal but with some musicians too - Neelanjana Banerjee - Silsila Coery Fogel (percussion) - ??? Jen Hofer - Kiss Me Deadly Catherine Lamb (viola) - L'Argent Erika Staiti - Woman Under the Influence Amarnath Ravva - Om Shanti Om Konrad Steiner - Minority Report * * * http://www.kino21.org/ ^Z ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:30:08 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Bea Ballard's Tribute JG Ballard--London Times MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 There are many articles=2C obituaries=2C testimonies being written about JG= B at=20 the moment but if you had to read just one=2C I would recommend the moving= =20 testimony of Bea Ballard=2C his daughter:=20 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/art= icle6168386.ece =20 =20 =20 "In the last few years The Atrocity Exhibition seems to be emerging=20 from the dark=2C and I wonder if the widespread use of the Internet has mad= e=20 my experimental novel a great deal more accessible. The short paragraphs an= d=20 discontinuities of the morning's emails=2C the overlapping texts and the ne= ed=20 to switch one's focus between unrelated topics=2C together create a=20 fragmentary world very like the text of The Atrocity Exhibition"=20 (Miracles of Life=2C p. 237) _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live=99 SkyDrive=99: Get 25 GB of free online storage. =20 http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_042009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:56:24 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Nelson Subject: Al Purdy A-Frame Fundraiser MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yesterday th= Al Purdy Bowen Island A-Frame Fundraiser, April 26, 2009=0A =0AYesterday th= ere was a fundraiser for the Al Purdy A-Frame=0ATrust on Bowen Island (Brit= ish Columbia)=0Aat the beautiful home of Heather Haley, a long-time organiz= er of poetry video=0Aconferences and events. Her dogs American Staffordshir= e Terriers Brinda and Sam=0Awere carefully secured away from the guests and= I got on the 2:25 ferry out of Horseshoe Bay to get there on time. Have yo= u ever=0Ataken a ferry from Horseshoe Bay? It is one of the=0Amost remarkab= le places you=E2=80=99ll ever drive your car onto a boat. You see the=0Asno= w-capped North Shore mountains of the=0Amainland to your right, The Lions, = and the verdant islands ahead. =0A=0AAl Purdy may have been the quintessent= ial Canadian poet. He earned most of Canada=E2=80=99s highest honors, inclu= ding,=0Atwo Governor General Awards, The Order of Ontario, and the Order of= Canada.=0ABut, more importantly, his legacy may be the influence he had on= generations of=0ACanadian poets who visited his self-constructed shack in = the woods near Ameliasburgh, Ontario,=0Ato drink and argue through the nigh= t about the poetry, Michael Ondaatje, George=0ABowering, Margaret Atwood an= d Leonard Cohen among them.=0AThat old shack needs some help and Jean Baird= has stepped in=0Ato coordinate a nationwide series of events like the one = on Bowen to raise=0Amoney for the A-Frame and to create greater awareness o= f the Trust, which will=0Aadminister residencies there.=0A =0AHeather asked= me to read first, and I read two poems by Al, =E2=80=9CFuneral=E2=80=9D=0A= and =E2=80=9CThe Dead Poet.=E2=80=9D Other readers included Peter Trower, w= hose asides to=0AGeorge and others about Al and other topics were as engagi= ng as his poems about=0Aworking for two years in the hell of the smelter of= Kitimat, British Columbia.=0A =0AJamie Reid talked about running into Al P= urdy at a bar and=0AAl confused him for Freddy Douglas, who was likely a mu= tual friend, but then=0Asigned a book for Jamie to Freddy! Too funny.=0A = =0ASome say Al Purdy was the unofficial Poet Laureate of=0ACanada. The firs= t official one, George Bowering, read Purdy=E2=80=99s poem "Red=0ALeaves," = which he said was, not his words, but mine, a perfect template to=0Ahow Pur= dy=E2=80=99s poems were constructed:=0A =0ARed Leaves=0A =0A- all over the = earth=0Alittle fires starting up=0Aespecially in Canada=0Asome yellow leave= s too=0Abuttercup and dandelion yellow=0Adancing across the hillside=0AI sa= y to my wife=0A=E2=80=9CWhat=E2=80=99s the yellowest thing there is?=E2=80= =9D=0A=E2=80=9CSchool buses=E2=80=9D=0Aa thousand school buses are double-= =0Aparked on 401 al at once=0A =0AI suppose this is the one thing=0Ayour av= erage level-headed Martian=0Aor Venusian could not imagine=0Aabout Earth:= =0A red leaves=0Aand the way humans attach emotion=0Ato= one little patch of ground=0Aand continually go back there=0Ain the autumn= of our lives=0Ato deal with some of the questions=0Athat have troubled us= =0Aon our leapfrog trip through the Universe=0Afor which there are really n= o answers=0Aexcept at this tranquil season=0Aof falling leaves=0Awatching t= hem a kind of jubilation=0Asometimes mistaken for sadness=0A =0AAURAL Heath= er, a duo led by the poetry of Heather Haley, our=0Ahost and her guitar sid= ekick Roderick Shoolbraid, read a Purdy-inspired piece=0Aas well as Purdy= =E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CWhat Do the Birds Think=E2=80=9D backed by bird sounds = emanating=0Afrom Roderick=E2=80=99s mac.=0A =0AAmong the fundraising items = available were a beautiful=0Abroadside created by Alan Stein, excerpted fro= m Purdy=E2=80=99s poem =E2=80=98In Search of Owen=0ARoblin=E2=80=9D=0A =0AS= o we built a house, my wife and I=0Aour house at a backwater puddle of a la= ke=0Anear Ameliasburg, Ont. spending=0Aour last hard-earned buck to buy sec= ond-hand lumber=0Ato build a second-hand house=0Aand make the down payment = on a lot=0Aso far from anywhere=0Aeven homing pigeons lost their way=0Agett= ing back home to nowhere=0Awe built a house so flagrantly noticeable=0Ait s= eemed an act of despair=0Alike the condemned mans bravado on the gallows=0A= an A-frame house birds mistook for low blue sky=0AJust outside the cloud of= my own black despair=0Awas the small village a mile distant=0Aonce named R= oblin=E2=80=99s Mills=0A =0AOther readers included Lisa Shatsky and the for= mer Mayor of=0ABowen Island, Lisa Barrett.=0A =0AJean Baird is the point pe= rson and the dynamo behind this=0Aeffort and tells me a .pdf of the project= and a website will soon be on-line.=0A =0AFrom the .pdf is this descriptio= n of how the residencies=0Awill work:=0A =0ATo begin, the residency will op= erate for 8=0Amonths, from April 1 to November=0A30. Later the winter month= s may be added. The=0AA-frame will provide time and=0Aa place to work that = is attractive and of=0Ahistoric significance. Writers can apply=0Afor a ter= m of one to three months. The residency=0Awill be open to all writers, but= =0Apreference will be given to poetry and poetry=0Aprojects. The jury will = also consider=0Aproposals for a one month project in critical=0Awriting abo= ut Canadian poetry each=0Ayear and will be open to unusual and creative=0Ai= deas for residencies.=0A =0ATravel to Ameliasburgh will be paid. Those=0Aaw= arded the residency will be=0Agiven a stipend of $2500 dollars a month whil= e=0Aliving in the A-frame, and will be=0Afree to spend their time on their = writing.=0AResidents will be expected to give one=0Apublic reading or lectu= re for each month of=0Atheir stay=E2=80=94presumably in one of the=0Alarger= communities nearby, Picton, Belleville, Kingston=E2=80=94and=0Ato consider= other=0Areasonable requests. All this will be organized=0Ain collaboration= with the Prince=0AEdwardCountyand Quinte Arts councils. The house is somew= hat isolated, but the=0Alocal liaison will be able to help with occasional = rides for those who don=E2=80=99t=0Ahave a car. Residents will be offered a= temporary library card for the=0Aexcellent library at Queen=E2=80=99s Univ= ersity in Kingston, where many of Al Purdy=E2=80=99s papers are=0Aheld. Tho= se awarded a residency will be asked to donate at least one copy of=0Aone o= f their books to the Residency Library. Writers in residence will also be= =0Aencouraged to make themselves known at the Purdy Library in Ameliasburgh= and to=0Adonate a book. They may also wish to discuss with the local liais= on the=0Apossibility of working with local schools.=0A =0AFor a full outlin= e of the residency program=0Aincluding application procedures=0A =0ASalient= links: =0A =0Ahttp://lcpnationalpoetrymonth2009.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/n= ational-al-purdy-day/=0Ahttp://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol1= 0/jones.htm#bk12=0A =0A Paul E. Nelson =0A=0AGlobal Voices Radio=0ASPLAB!= =0AAmerican Sentences=0AOrganic Poetry=0APoetry Postcard Blog=0A=0AIlalqo, = WA 253.735.6328 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:50:41 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dan Wilcox Subject: 3 Guys from Albany, Albany, WY, May 4 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed 3 Guys from Albany, a poetry performance group, will tour Colorado and Wyoming from May 2 through May 8, including a performance in Albany, Wyoming on May 4. The group will also visit Cheyenne, WY, Denver, CO and Loveland, CO. The complete itinerary is listed below. 3 Guys from Albany (Tom Nattell, Charlie Rossiter and Dan Wilcox) have a mission to read their poetry in each of the Albanys in the U.S. They are friends who share the idea that poetry should be a part of society rather than apart from it -- relevant, communicative and, above all, honest. Their poems address social issues such as the homeless, peace and war, and the environment, as well as joyful celebrations of art, love and life. They have toured the United States since 1993 and so far they have read in 11 of the 18 Albanys in the USA. They have released a 60-minute cassette tape and CD of their poetry performance, available at their readings or by mail. Although Tom Nattell died of cancer in January, 2005, Charlie & Dan are continuing the project, along with the ever-present nudging from the spirit of Tom. Charlie Rossiter is a recipient of an NEA fellowship for his poetry and is the host of www.poetrypoetry.com. Dan Wilcox hosts the Third Thursday open mic at the Social Justice Center in Albany, NY & has the world's largest collection of photos of unknown poets. You can find him at dwlcx.blogspot.com Tom Nattell was an international mail artist, environmentalist, poet and peace activist who wrote the "Simple Life" column for Metroland, Albany's entertainment weekly. Look for them at an Albany near you! Sunday, May 3: CCTV 54, Louisville CO -- Talking poetry & reading poems on the Poets Co-op TV show, 7:00 p.m. Monday, May 4: Albany, WY -- exact time & place to be determined, free (if you can find it, show up) Tuesday, May 5: The Albany Restaurant, Bar and Liquor Store, Cheyenne, WY, 7:30, free. Wednesday, May 6: Glovinsky Gallery, 800 W. 8th Ave, #116, Denver, CO (8th & Inca 1 block east of Santa Fe, use Inca St. entrance). A brief open mic will open the evening, followed by 3 Guys from Albany For more info: 303-587-4237, Janet Glovinsky: jglovinsky@yahoo.com free Thursday, May 7: Loveland Museum, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland CO, 7:00 p.m., donation. Check out 3 Guys from Albany on Facebook or email: 3guysfromalbany@earthlink.net ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:01:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: poet JACK SPICER celebrated in PHILLY & NYC ......... YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THESE EVENTS! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable poet JACK SPICER celebrated in PHILLY & NYC ......... YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THESE EVENTS! ALSO POSTED TO PhillySound: new poetry http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html TUESDAY, MAY 12TH, 7PM 13th and Pine Streets, PHILADELPHIA OUTSIDE DIRTY FRANK'S BAR 4 OF CUPS SPICER READING! for THE URCHIN SERIES details here: http://URCHINPOETRY.blogspot.com ------------- FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 6:30PM & 8PM ST. MARK'S POETRY PROJECT 131 E. 10th St., NYC MY VOCABULARY DID THIS TO ME: PANEL & READING FOR THE COLLECTED JACK SPICE= R This special event is to honor seminal West Coast poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965). My Vocabulary Did This to Me (edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian) is a landmark publication of this essential poet=92s life work, and includes poems that have become increasingly hard to find. 6:30pm: Panel in the Parish Hall with Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany, Kevin Killian & Jennifer Moxley. Moderated by Kevin Killian. 8:00pm: Reading in the Sanctuary with Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Julian T. Brolaski, CAConrad, Samuel R. Delany, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian, Basil King, Douglas A. Martin, Deborah Remington, Harris Schiff, Rod Smith, George Stanley, Lewis Warsh & Karen Weiser. Co-presented with Poets House. --=20 PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:41:08 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Charles Alexander Subject: new on blog Comments: To: pog Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed new posts on chaxblog entomology and poetics: a visitor at the Karpeles Manuscript Library in Buffalo not just buffalo: note on other recent travels (Evergreen St Coll, NYC, U of Conn) appreciations1: Lu Xun (first in a series of under-200-word notes on various figures) http://chax.org/blog.htm charles alexander chax press chax@theriver.com 411 N 7th ave, suite 103 tucson arizona 85705 520 620 1626 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:45:55 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Al Purdy A-Frame Fundraiser In-Reply-To: <875400.89215.qm@web111515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit thanks for that, paul. al purdy lived in victoria during the winter, so i got a chance to meet him a few times. he invited me into his house and we drank a rum together. his wife eurithe also was there. i responded to something he said by remarking that, of course, he was a sensitive man. "yes," said eurithe, "a sensitive man with no sensitivity." "a fine distinction, my dear." said al. but she stayed with him till the end. al and i got to talking about poets and poetry and he said "you know, most of the poets i've ever known aren't poets anymore." he was in his eighties at that point, had won all the canadian prizes twice, and his collected poems had just been published a couple of years before this. i organized a couple of readings for him in victoria. they were fun events. and packed. packed houses and al had fun and delivered his poems at length and very well. he really did know how to enjoy living his life, and he surely did. ja ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:55:46 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "Though since we are fundraising including that information =". Rest of header flushed. From: Paul Nelson Subject: Al Purdy A-Frame Fundraiser MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks, Paul.=0AThough since we are fundraising including that information = is always important:=0ACheques to=0AThe Al Purdy A-frame Trust=0A4403 West = 11th Ave.,=0AVancouver BC=0AV6R 2M2=0Atax receipts will be issued for all d= onations over $50=0A=0A=0A=0ABegin forwarded message:=0A=0AFrom: George Bow= ering =0ADate: April 27, 2009 7:21:14 PM PDT=0ATo: Jean Ba= ird =0ASubject: Fwd: Al Purdy A-Frame Fundraiser=0A=0A= =0A=0A=0ABegin forwarded message:=0A=0AFrom: Paul Nelson =0ADate: April 27, 2009 1:56:24 PM PDT (CA)=0ATo: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFAL= O.EDU=0ASubject: Al Purdy A-Frame Fundraiser=0AReply-To: "Poetics List (UPe= nn, UB)" =0A=0AAl Purdy Bowen Island A-Frame = Fundraiser, April 26, 2009=0A=0AYesterday there was a fundraiser for the Al= Purdy A-Frame=0ATrust on Bowen Island (British Columbia)=0Aat the beautifu= l home of Heather Haley, a long-time organizer of poetry video=0Aconference= s and events. Her dogs American Staffordshire Terriers Brinda and Sam=0Awer= e carefully secured away from the guests and I got on the 2:25 ferry out of= Horseshoe Bay to get there on time. Have you ever=0Ataken a ferry from Hor= seshoe Bay? It is one of the=0Amost remarkable places you=E2=80=99ll ever d= rive your car onto a boat. You see the=0Asnow-capped North Shore mountains = of the=0Amainland to your right, The Lions, and the verdant islands ahead. = =0A=0AAl Purdy may have been the quintessential Canadian poet. He earned mo= st of Canada=E2=80=99s highest honors, including,=0Atwo Governor General Aw= ards, The Order of Ontario, and the Order of Canada.=0ABut, more importantl= y, his legacy may be the influence he had on generations of=0ACanadian poet= s who visited his self-constructed shack in the woods near Ameliasburgh, On= tario,=0Ato drink and argue through the night about the poetry, Michael Ond= aatje, George=0ABowering, Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen among them.=0AT= hat old shack needs some help and Jean Baird has stepped in=0Ato coordinate= a nationwide series of events like the one on Bowen to raise=0Amoney for t= he A-Frame and to create greater awareness of the Trust, which will=0Aadmin= ister residencies there.=0A=0AHeather asked me to read first, and I read tw= o poems by Al, =E2=80=9CFuneral=E2=80=9D=0Aand =E2=80=9CThe Dead Poet.=E2= =80=9D Other readers included Peter Trower, whose asides to=0AGeorge and ot= hers about Al and other topics were as engaging as his poems about=0Aworkin= g for two years in the hell of the smelter of Kitimat, British Columbia.=0A= =0AJamie Reid talked about running into Al Purdy at a bar and=0AAl confused= him for Freddy Douglas, who was likely a mutual friend, but then=0Asigned = a book for Jamie to Freddy! Too funny.=0A=0ASome say Al Purdy was the unoff= icial Poet Laureate of=0ACanada. The first official one, George Bowering, r= ead Purdy=E2=80=99s poem "Red=0ALeaves," which he said was, not his words, = but mine, a perfect template to=0Ahow Purdy=E2=80=99s poems were constructe= d:=0A=0ARed Leaves=0A=0A- all over the earth=0Alittle fires starting up=0Ae= specially in Canada=0Asome yellow leaves too=0Abuttercup and dandelion yell= ow=0Adancing across the hillside=0AI say to my wife=0A=E2=80=9CWhat=E2=80= =99s the yellowest thing there is?=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=9CSchool buses=E2=80= =9D=0Aa thousand school buses are double-=0Aparked on 401 al at once=0A=0AI= suppose this is the one thing=0Ayour average level-headed Martian=0Aor Ven= usian could not imagine=0Aabout Earth:=0A red leaves=0A= and the way humans attach emotion=0Ato one little patch of ground=0Aand con= tinually go back there=0Ain the autumn of our lives=0Ato deal with some of = the questions=0Athat have troubled us=0Aon our leapfrog trip through the Un= iverse=0Afor which there are really no answers=0Aexcept at this tranquil se= ason=0Aof falling leaves=0Awatching them a kind of jubilation=0Asometimes m= istaken for sadness=0A=0AAURAL Heather, a duo led by the poetry of Heather = Haley, our=0Ahost and her guitar sidekick Roderick Shoolbraid, read a Purdy= -inspired piece=0Aas well as Purdy=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CWhat Do the Birds Thi= nk=E2=80=9D backed by bird sounds emanating=0Afrom Roderick=E2=80=99s mac.= =0A=0AAmong the fundraising items available were a beautiful=0Abroadside cr= eated by Alan Stein, excerpted from Purdy=E2=80=99s poem =E2=80=98In Search= of Owen=0ARoblin=E2=80=9D=0A=0ASo we built a house, my wife and I=0Aour ho= use at a backwater puddle of a lake=0Anear Ameliasburg, Ont. spending=0Aour= last hard-earned buck to buy second-hand lumber=0Ato build a second-hand h= ouse=0Aand make the down payment on a lot=0Aso far from anywhere=0Aeven hom= ing pigeons lost their way=0Agetting back home to nowhere=0Awe built a hous= e so flagrantly noticeable=0Ait seemed an act of despair=0Alike the condemn= ed mans bravado on the gallows=0Aan A-frame house birds mistook for low blu= e sky=0AJust outside the cloud of my own black despair=0Awas the small vill= age a mile distant=0Aonce named Roblin=E2=80=99s Mills=0A=0AOther readers i= ncluded Lisa Shatsky and the former Mayor of=0ABowen Island, Lisa Barrett.= =0A=0AJean Baird is the point person and the dynamo behind this=0Aeffort an= d tells me a .pdf of the project and a website will soon be on-line.=0A=0AF= rom the .pdf is this description of how the residencies=0Awill work:=0A=0AT= o begin, the residency will operate for 8=0Amonths, from April 1 to Novembe= r=0A30. Later the winter months may be added. The=0AA-frame will provide ti= me and=0Aa place to work that is attractive and of=0Ahistoric significance.= Writers can apply=0Afor a term of one to three months. The residency=0Awil= l be open to all writers, but=0Apreference will be given to poetry and poet= ry=0Aprojects. The jury will also consider=0Aproposals for a one month proj= ect in critical=0Awriting about Canadian poetry each=0Ayear and will be ope= n to unusual and creative=0Aideas for residencies.=0A=0ATravel to Ameliasbu= rgh will be paid. Those=0Aawarded the residency will be=0Agiven a stipend o= f $2500 dollars a month while=0Aliving in the A-frame, and will be=0Afree t= o spend their time on their writing.=0AResidents will be expected to give o= ne=0Apublic reading or lecture for each month of=0Atheir stay=E2=80=94presu= mably in one of the=0Alarger communities nearby, Picton, Belleville, Kingst= on=E2=80=94and=0Ato consider other=0Areasonable requests. All this will be = organized=0Ain collaboration with the Prince=0AEdwardCountyand Quinte Arts = councils. The house is somewhat isolated, but the=0Alocal liaison will be a= ble to help with occasional rides for those who don=E2=80=99t=0Ahave a car.= Residents will be offered a temporary library card for the=0Aexcellent lib= rary at Queen=E2=80=99s University in Kingston, where many of Al Purdy=E2= =80=99s papers are=0Aheld. Those awarded a residency will be asked to donat= e at least one copy of=0Aone of their books to the Residency Library. Write= rs in residence will also be=0Aencouraged to make themselves known at the P= urdy Library in Ameliasburgh and to=0Adonate a book. They may also wish to = discuss with the local liaison the=0Apossibility of working with local scho= ols.=0A=0AFor a full outline of the residency program=0Aincluding applicati= on procedures=0A=0ASalient links: =0A=0Ahttp://lcpnationalpoetrymonth2009.w= ordpress.com/2009/04/21/national-al-purdy-day/=0Ahttp://www.uwo.ca/english/= canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol10/jones.htm#bk12=0A=0A Paul E. Nelson =0A=0AGlobal= Voices Radio=0ASPLAB!=0AAmerican Sentences=0AOrganic Poetry=0APoetry Postc= ard Blog=0A=0AIlalqo, WA 253.735.6328=0A=0A=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0A= The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0AGeorge = Harry Bowering=0ALikes towns with -ver- in them. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:26:58 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Obododimma Oha Subject: Letter Home, Great Thoughts on Home, Diaspora, & Memory Comments: cc: elsalites@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Everyone,Here's a special treat on Home, Diaspora, & Memory -- Afam Akeh's "Letter Home " -- recently published in MTLS: http://www.mtls.ca/issue2/writings-poetry-akeh.html -- Obododimma. -- Obododimma Oha http://udude.wordpress.com/ Dept. of English University of Ibadan Nigeria & Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies University of Ibadan Phone: +234 803 333 1330; +234 805 350 6604; +234 808 264 8060. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:43:36 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Pierre Joris Subject: Recent Posts on Nomadics & Collectages Comments: To: British-Irish List Comments: cc: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Check out these recent posts on NOMADICS (http://pierrejoris.com/blog) Check out also Nicole Peyrafitte's COLLECTAGES blog = (http://Nicolepeyrafitte.com/blog=20 ) =97 she just posted the most informative piece on the Swine Flu =20 epidemic I have yet seen. Before that there was a splendid pancake =20 recipe post. Your pick. 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Pierre =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D "Play what you don't know" -- Sun Ra =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Pierre Joris 244 Elm Street Albany NY 12202-1310 h: 518 426 0433 c: 518 225 7123 o: 518 442 40 71 Euro cell: (011 33) 6 75 43 57 10 email: joris@albany.edu http://pierrejoris.com http://pierrejoris.com/blog/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:16:08 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ram Devineni Subject: TONIGHT: The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit TONIGHT: The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast. Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 7 pm. Instituto Cervantes New York, 211-215 East 49th Street. (b/ 2nd and 3rd Ave.) FREE http://www.pen.org/festival Special guests Bob Holman, D J Kadagian and Ram Devineni FILMS BEING SCREENED: "HOLLYWOOD JEROME" is based on the spoken-word poetry of Malik Yusef and directed by Frey Hoffman. The film depicts an inner-city youth enthralled and bamboozled by pop-culture depictions of gang culture. "METFORMIN" looks at the biology of love through collage and animation. Based on a poem by Helen Clare and directed by Kate Jessop. "UNE LEÇON PARTICULIÈRE" won the Grand prix uniFrance du court-métrage at the Cannes Film Festival and directed by Raphaël Chevènement. While studying the poetry of Victor Hugo, the teenager Cyril tries to convey his love for his teacher, twenty-seven-year-old Éva. . In French with English subtitles. "LUCIA" is told through the voice of little girl who remembers the summer when she fell in love. The stop-motion animated film is directed by Niles Atallah and Cristóbal León and based on the writings of Joaquin Cociña. In Spanish with English subtitles. Two short films by D J Kadagian who reworks classic poems using found video footage. Screening of "STEALING SUGAR FROM THE CASTLE" by Robert Bly and "STANDARD OIL CO." by Pablo Neruda. Special appearance by the D J Kadagian. A chaotic dance film from Israel. "SERPENT" is based on a poem from Iris Erez and T. Carmi and filmed by Avi Dabach. "GINSBERG'S KARMA" is a documentary about the legendary poet Allen Ginsberg and his mythical journey to India in the early 1960s that transformed his perspective on life and his work. Poet Bob Holman traces the two years Ginsberg spent in India by visiting the places where he stayed and talk with the people he met and influenced, as well as, intimate interviews with Beat poets and friends. Special appearance with the filmmakers Ram Devineni and Bob Holman. Please send future emails to devineni@rattapallax.com for press ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:06:34 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chad Sweeney Subject: Three Events in California MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends, I=E2=80=99ll be doing three readings next week for my new boo= k, Arranging the Blaze, and I=E2=80=99d love to see you, while I=E2=80=99m = HOME again, briefly, from Michigan. . . =C2=A0Chad Sweeney May 7 at Moe=E2=80=99s:=C2=A0Poetry Flash=C2=A0presents Chad Sweeney,=C2=A0= Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009),=C2=A0and Farrah Field,=C2=A0Rising,=C2= =A0winner of The Levis Prize, judged by=C2=A0Tony Hoagland=C2=A0@ Moe=E2=80= =99s Books,=C2=A02476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 pm May 8 at Books Inc., Marina:=C2=A0Chad Sweeney and Sharon Doubiagohosted by= =C2=A0Katherine Hastings=C2=A0and Word TempleFriday, May 8, 7:30pmBooks Inc= .,=C2=A0San Francisco, CA=C2=A0@ 2251 Chestnut St. May 9 in=C2=A0Santa Cruz=C2=A0:=C2=A0 Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh MarashiNew Ca= dence Poetry Series at the Felix Kulpa Gallery,=C2=A0107 Elm Street, in San= ta Cruz,=C2=A0Saturday, May 9, 7:30pm with host James Maughn.Chad will read= from=C2=A0Arranging the Blaze, and Mojdeh and Chad will perform their Fars= i translations of the celebrated Iranian poet H.E. Sayeh. Chad Sweeney=C2=A0is the author of three books of poetry,=C2=A0Parable of= =C2=A0Hide and Seek=C2=A0(Alice James, 2010),=C2=A0Arranging the Blaze=C2= =A0(Anhinga, 2009), and An Architecture (2007); and editor of=C2=A0Days I M= oved Through Ordinary Sounds=C2=A0(City Lights, 2009).=C2=A0 His work has a= ppeared in=C2=A0Best American Poetry 2008,=C2=A0New American Writing, Verse= , Volt, Colorado Review,=C2=A0Crazyhorse=C2=A0and elsewhere, and he coedits= Parthenon West Review.=C2=A0 He=E2=80=99s a PhD candidate in literature/po= etry at=C2=A0Western Michigan University. Sharon Doubiago=C2=A0has written two dozen books of poetry and prose.=C2=A0= =C2=A0Love on the Streets,=C2=A0New and Selected Poems,=C2=A0was recently r= eleased from=C2=A0University of Pittsburgh Press.=C2=A0 Her other books inc= lude the epic poem=C2=A0Hard Country(West End Press), the booklength poem= =C2=A0South America=C2=A0Mi Hija=C2=A0(University of Pittsburgh) which was = nominated twice for the=C2=A0National Book Award, and the story collections= ,=C2=A0El Nino=C2=A0(Lost Roads Press), and=C2=A0The Book of Seeing With On= e=E2=80=99s Own Eyes=C2=A0(Graywolf) which in 2005 was selected to the Oreg= on Culture Heritage list,=C2=A0Literary Oregon, 100 Books, 1800-2000.=C2=A0= Her memoir,=C2=A0My Father=E2=80=99s Love/Portrait of the Poet as a Girl=C2= =A0is forthcoming from=C2=A0Red Hen Press. Farrah Field=E2=80=99s=C2=A0first book of poems,=C2=A0Rising (Four Way Book= s), is the winner of the Levis Prize, judged by Tony Hoagland, who says of = it, =E2=80=9CThese poems possess a wonderful combination of irony and soul,= satire and vulnerability, which shines a warmly human light.=E2=80=9D She = has been widely published in such=C2=A0literary journals=C2=A0Margie, Chels= ea,Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Pool,=C2=A0and=C2=A0Typo. Mojdeh Marashi's=C2=A0work is deeply influenced by the ancient and=C2=A0mod= ern history of Iran=C2=A0where she grew up and published her first short st= ory in Today Woman (1977), while still a teenager.=C2=A0 In 1986 she co-fou= nded YALDA, a cultural ogranization, where she taught Farsi language classe= s and co-hosted the weekly radio program =E2=80=9CRang aa Rang (Color to Co= lor)=E2=80=9D on KUSF.=C2=A0=C2=A0Her fiction was chosen to appear in the a= nthology, =E2=80=9CLet Me Tell You Where I=E2=80=99ve Been: Women of the Ir= anian Diaspora=E2=80=9D (University of Arkansas, 2006), and her translation= s (with Chad Sweeney) have appeared in=C2=A0Crazyhorse,=C2=A0Indiana Review= , Poetry International, American Letters & Commentary,=C2=A0Seattle=C2=A0Re= view, Subtropics=C2=A0and=C2=A0Washington Square.=C2=A0=C2=A0She has travel= ed twice to=C2=A0Iran=C2=A0to work with Sayeh directly. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:50:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ken Chen Subject: Ha Jin on Wed the 6th MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.aaww.org/hajin A Night with Award-Winning Author Ha Jin Reading and Cocktail Reception in support of the Asian American Writers' Workshop Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM Home of Virginia Davies and Willard Taylor 299 West 12th Street #PHA New York, New York 10014 off 8th Ave Please join us for an intimate evening with writer Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The Workshop is proud to welcome Jin and to present the public with a rare opportunity to meet the authorat a classic West Village penthouse with wraparound terrace that has hosted Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Yo-Yo Ma. This special event focuses on Jins newest book, Writer as Migrant, published by the University of Chicago Press. In his first work of nonfiction, Jin writes three interconnected essays and tackles issues relating to being a migrant writer. The San Francisco Chronicle finds that "Though the issues are weighty, Jins prose is straightforward and welcoming. . . . In this poignant and provocative book, Jin takes us on this journey [to our envisioned homelands], revealing paths laid by migrant writers before him and perhaps by those who will follow." Ha Jin is the critically renowned author of five novels, including, Waiting and War Trash, as well as three collections of short stories and three books of poetry. His short story collection, The Bridegroom, won the Asian American Literary Award. He currently teaches literature at Boston University. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:59:47 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: JOB: Links Hall MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable JOB OPENING: DIRECTOR, LINKS HALL Chicago, Illionis http://www.linkshall.org Mission: Links hall encourages artistic innovation and public engagement by maintain= ing a facility and providing flexible programming for the research, develop= ment and presentation of new work in the performing arts. Overview: The Director leads the organization, carries primary responsibility for ope= rations and programming and ensures the overall health of the organization,= creatively expanding its ability to carry out its mission. The Director ha= s primary responsibility for fundraising, financial management, staffing an= d program coordination. This is an exciting opportunity for an executive le= ader to sustain and build on a strong infrastructure and on the dynamic growth experienced by Links Hall over the= past five years. The Director works collaboratively with staff, Artists, A= rtistic Associates, Board of Directors and its committees, funders, and national and local colleagues and partners including the Natio= nal Performance Network. Qualified candidates will have the capacity to le= ad the organization with vision, strategic thinking, practicality, creativity and innovation. Important in this role are acute a= cumen in financial and human capital; an understanding of artist and artist= ic development; the ability to develop programs that serve both artist and audience; and a comprehensive knowledge in the workings of = not-for-profit organizations. Qualifications: =EF=82=B7 a minimum of 4 years of progressive, effective and comprehensive = leadership/management experience in the arts; =EF=82=B7 demonstrated success in leadership, management, fundraising, supe= rvision, and strategic direction; =EF=82=B7 exceptional entrepreneurial, organizational development and commu= nications skills; =EF=82=B7 strong team participation and facilitation skills; =EF=82=B7 innovative, creative and strategic thinking skills; =EF=82=B7 the ability to focus on and execute multi-year fundraising strate= gy; and =EF=82=B7 a passionate understanding of and commitment to Links Hall=E2=80= =99s mission and vision Applicable Physical Capabilities: =EF=82=B7 Must be able to operate office computers, telephones, and other o= ffice equipment. =EF=82=B7 Mobility throughout building and city required. =20 Salary: $43,000-48,000 annually with benefits. Applications accepted until the position is filled. Send letter and resume to: Links Hall Search Committee 3435 N. Sheffield 2nd Floor Chicago, IL 60657 LinksHallOpportunities@gmail.com=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:44:22 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Kate Pringle Subject: Publicly Complex Reading in Providence: PRINGLE & TIMBLIN In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable kathryn l. pringle and Dianne Timblin = Hope to see you!=0A=0Akathryn l. pringle=0A=0Aand=0A=0ADianne Timblin=0A=0A= Saturday, May 2nd, at 6 pm=0Aat Ada Books (717 Westminster St., Providence)= =0A=0AAbout them:=0A=0Akathryn=0Al. pringle is a graduate of the MFA progra= m at San Francisco State=0AUniversity. Her first book, RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY, i= s just out from Factory=0ASchool/Heretical Text Series. She is the author o= f The Stills (Duration=0APress) and Temper & Felicity are Lovers (TAXT). He= r poems can be=0Aread in The Denver Quarterly, Fence, 14 hills, 580 Split, = and Sidebrow,=0Aamong others. She is an editor at the literary magazine min= or/american,=0Aand the co-founder of the minor american reading series in D= urham,=0AN.C., now funded by Duke University.=0A=0A=0A=0ADianne Timblin=0Al= ives in Durham, North Carolina. Her work has appeared or is=0Aforthcoming i= n Phoebe, Rivendell, minor/american, Foursquare, Fanzine=0Aand other journa= ls.=0A=0AThey will either cure or exacerbate your spring fever. Whichever y= ou like! Please come!=0A=0A=0AYour organizer,=0A=0AKate Schapira =0A http:/= /kathrynlpringle.blogspot.com/=0A=0A=0Aorder RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY:=0A=0A=0Ahtt= p://www.spdbooks.org/Search/Default.aspx?AuthorName=3Dpringle=0A=0A=0AREADI= NGS:=0A=0A=0A=0A=0AMarch 18th: Durham, NC @ the Pinhook: 7pm=0A=0A=0AApril = 8th : Tulsa OK=0A=0A=0AApril 10th: Fayetteville, AR=0A=0A=0AApril 17th: NY,= NY @ the Poetry Project : 9:30 pm w/ erica kaufman & frank sherlock=0A=0A= =0A5.2.09 w/ Dianne Timblin in Providence, RI=0A=0A=0A5.16.09 w/ Chris Viti= ello & Jusin Marks So-And-So Reading Series @ 8pm=0ARaleigh, NC=0A=0A=0A=0A= =0A________________________________=0AFrom: POETICS automatic digest system= =0ATo: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0ASent:= Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:01:40 AM=0ASubject: POETICS Digest - 27 Apr 2= 009 to 28 Apr 2009 (#2009-95)=0A=0APOETICS Digest - 27 Apr 2009 to 28 Apr 2= 009 (#2009-95) =0A =0A=0APOETICS Digest - 27 Apr 2009 to 28 Apr 2009 (#= 2009-95)=0ATable of contents:=0A=09* 3 Guys from Albany, Albany, WY, May 4 = =0A=09* poet JACK SPICER celebrated in PHILLY & NYC ......... YOU DON'T WAN= T TO MISS THESE EVENTS! =0A=09* new on blog =0A=09* Al Purdy A-Frame Fundra= iser (2) =0A=09* Letter Home, Great Thoughts on Home, Diaspora, & Memory = =0A=09* Recent Posts on Nomadics & Collectages =0A=09* TONIGHT: The Rattapa= llax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast. =0A=091. 3 Guys from Albany, Alb= any, WY, May 4=0A=09* 3 Guys from Albany, Albany, WY, May 4 (04/27)=0AFrom:= Dan Wilcox =0A=092. poet JACK SPICER celebrated in PH= ILLY & NYC ......... YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THESE EVENTS!=0A=09* poet JACK = SPICER celebrated in PHILLY & NYC ......... YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THESE EV= ENTS! (04/27)=0AFrom: CA Conrad =0A=093. new on blog= =0A=09* new on blog (04/27)=0AFrom: Charles Alexander = =0A=094. Al Purdy A-Frame Fundraiser=0A=09* Re: Al Purdy A-Frame Fundraiser= (04/27)=0AFrom: Jim Andrews =0A=09* Al Purdy A-Frame Fundr= aiser (04/27)=0AFrom: Paul Nelson =0A=095. Letter Home,= Great Thoughts on Home, Diaspora, & Memory=0A=09* Letter Home, Great Thoug= hts on Home, Diaspora, & Memory (04/28)=0AFrom: Obododimma Oha =0A=096. Recent Posts on Nomadics & Collectages=0A=09* Recent Posts= on Nomadics & Collectages (04/28)=0AFrom: Pierre Joris =0A=097. TONIGHT: The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast.= =0A=09* TONIGHT: The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast. (04/= 28)=0AFrom: Ram Devineni =0A=0ABrowse the POETICS = online archives. =0A=0A-----Inline Message Follows-----=0A=0A3 Guys from = Albany, a poetry performance group, will tour Colorado and Wyoming from May= 2 through May 8, including a performance in Albany, Wyoming on May 4. The= group will also visit Cheyenne, WY, Denver, CO and Loveland, CO. The com= plete itinerary is listed below.=0A=0A3 Guys from Albany (Tom Nattell, Char= lie Rossiter and Dan Wilcox) have a mission to read their poetry in each of= the Albanys in the U.S. They are friends who share the idea that poetry s= hould be a part of society rather than apart from it -- relevant, communica= tive and, above all, honest. Their poems address social issues such as the= homeless, peace and war, and the environment, as well as joyful celebratio= ns of art, love and life. They have toured the United States since 1993 an= d so far they have read in 11 of the 18 Albanys in the USA. They have rele= ased a 60-minute cassette tape and CD of their poetry performance, availabl= e at their readings or by mail. Although Tom Nattell died of cancer in Jan= uary, 2005, Charlie & Dan are continuing the project, along with the ever-p= resent nudging from the spirit of Tom.=0A=0ACharlie Rossiter is a recipient= of an NEA fellowship for his poetry and is the host of www.poetrypoetry.co= m.=0A=0ADan Wilcox hosts the Third Thursday open mic at the Social Justice = Center in Albany, NY & has the world's largest collection of photos of unkn= own poets. You can find him at dwlcx.blogspot.com=0A=0ATom Nattell was an = international mail artist, environmentalist, poet and peace activist who wr= ote the "Simple Life" column for Metroland, Albany's entertainment weekly.= =0A=0ALook for them at an Albany near you!=0A=0A=0A=0ASunday, May 3: CCTV = 54, Louisville CO -- Talking poetry & reading poems on the Poets Co-op TV s= how, 7:00 p.m.=0A=0AMonday, May 4: Albany, WY -- exact time & place to be d= etermined, free (if you can find it, show up)=0A=0ATuesday, May 5: The Alba= ny Restaurant, Bar and Liquor Store, Cheyenne, WY, 7:30, free.=0A=0AWednesd= ay, May 6: Glovinsky Gallery, 800 W. 8th Ave, #116, Denver, CO (8th & Inca = 1 block east of Santa Fe, use Inca St. entrance).=0AA brief open mic will o= pen the evening, followed by 3 Guys from Albany=0AFor more info: 303-587-42= 37, Janet Glovinsky: jglovinsky@yahoo.com=0Afree=0A=0AThursday, May 7: Love= land Museum, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland CO, 7:00 p.m., donation.=0A=0ACh= eck out 3 Guys from Albany on Facebook or email: 3guysfromalbany@earthlink.= net=0A=0A=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0AThe Poetics List is moderated & does= not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffal= o.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0A=0A-----Inline Message Follows-----=0A=0Apo= et JACK SPICER celebrated in PHILLY & NYC ......... YOU DON'T WANT=0ATO MIS= S THESE EVENTS!=0A=0AALSO POSTED TO PhillySound: new poetry=0Ahttp://philly= sound.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html=0A=0A=0ATUESDAY, MAY 12TH, 7PM= =0A13th and Pine Streets, PHILADELPHIA=0AOUTSIDE DIRTY FRANK'S BAR=0A=0A4 O= F CUPS SPICER READING!=0Afor THE URCHIN SERIES=0Adetails here: http://URCH= INPOETRY.blogspot.com=0A=0A-------------=0A=0AFRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 6:30PM & 8P= M=0AST. MARK'S POETRY PROJECT=0A131 E. 10th St., NYC=0A=0AMY VOCABULARY DID= THIS TO ME: PANEL & READING FOR THE COLLECTED JACK SPICER=0A=0AThis speci= al event is to honor seminal West Coast poet Jack Spicer=0A(1925-1965). My = Vocabulary Did This to Me (edited by Peter Gizzi and=0AKevin Killian) is a = landmark publication of this essential poet=E2=80=99s life=0Awork, and incl= udes poems that have become increasingly hard to find.=0A=0A6:30pm: Panel i= n the Parish Hall with Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany,=0AKevin Killian & J= ennifer Moxley. Moderated by Kevin Killian.=0A=0A8:00pm: Reading in the San= ctuary with Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan,=0AJulian T. Brolaski, CAConrad,= Samuel R. Delany, Peter Gizzi, Kevin=0AKillian, Basil King, Douglas A. Mar= tin, Deborah Remington, Harris=0ASchiff, Rod Smith, George Stanley, Lewis W= arsh & Karen Weiser.=0A=0ACo-presented with Poets House.=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A= =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A-- =0A= PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com=0A=0ATHE BOOK OF FR= ANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com=0A=0A=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=0AThe Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guid= elines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0A= =0A-----Inline Message Follows-----=0A=0Anew posts on chaxblog=0A=0A ent= omology and poetics: a visitor at the Karpeles Manuscript Library in Buffal= o=0A=0A not just buffalo: note on other recent travels (Evergreen St Col= l, NYC, U of Conn)=0A=0A appreciations1: Lu Xun=0A (first in a se= ries of under-200-word notes on various figures)=0A=0Ahttp://chax.org/blog.= htm=0A=0Acharles alexander=0Achax press=0Achax@theriver.com=0A411 N 7th ave= , suite 103=0Atucson arizona 85705=0A520 620 1626=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0AThe Poetics List is moderated & does not accept = all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetic= s/welcome.html=0A=0A=0A-----Inline Message Follows-----=0A=0Athanks for tha= t, paul.=0A=0Aal purdy lived in victoria during the winter, so i got a chan= ce to meet him a few times.=0A=0Ahe invited me into his house and we drank = a rum together. his wife eurithe also was there. i responded to something h= e said by remarking that, of course, he was a sensitive man. "yes," said eu= rithe, "a sensitive man with no sensitivity."=0A=0A"a fine distinction, my = dear." said al.=0A=0Abut she stayed with him till the end.=0A=0Aal and i go= t to talking about poets and poetry and he said "you know, most of the poet= s i've ever known aren't poets anymore."=0A=0Ahe was in his eighties at tha= t point, had won all the canadian prizes twice, and his collected poems had= just been published a couple of years before this.=0A=0Ai organized a coup= le of readings for him in victoria. they were fun events. and packed. packe= d houses and al had fun and delivered his poems at length and very well.=0A= =0Ahe really did know how to enjoy living his life, and he surely did.=0A= =0Aja =0A=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0AThe Poetics List is moderated & does= not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffal= o.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0A=0A-----Inline Message Follows-----=0A=0ATh= anks, Paul.=0AThough since we are fundraising including that information is= always important:=0ACheques to=0AThe Al Purdy A-frame Trust=0A4403 West 11= th Ave.,=0AVancouver BC=0AV6R 2M2=0Atax receipts will be issued for all don= ations over $50=0A=0A=0A=0ABegin forwarded message:=0A=0AFrom: George Bower= ing =0ADate: April 27, 2009 7:21:14 PM PDT=0ATo: Jean Bair= d =0ASubject: Fwd: Al Purdy A-Frame Fundraiser=0A=0A=0A= =0A=0ABegin forwarded message:=0A=0AFrom: Paul Nelson = =0ADate: April 27, 2009 1:56:24 PM PDT (CA)=0ATo: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.= EDU=0ASubject: Al Purdy A-Frame Fundraiser=0AReply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn= , UB)" =0A=0AAl Purdy Bowen Island A-Frame Fu= ndraiser, April 26, 2009=0A=0AYesterday there was a fundraiser for the Al P= urdy A-Frame=0ATrust on Bowen Island (British Columbia)=0Aat the beautiful = home of Heather Haley, a long-time organizer of poetry video=0Aconferences = and events. Her dogs American Staffordshire Terriers Brinda and Sam=0Awere = carefully secured away from the guests and I got on the 2:25 ferry out of H= orseshoe Bay to get there on time. Have you ever=0Ataken a ferry from Horse= shoe Bay? It is one of the=0Amost remarkable places you=E2=80=99ll ever dri= ve your car onto a boat. You see the=0Asnow-capped North Shore mountains of= the=0Amainland to your right, The Lions, and the verdant islands ahead. = =0A=0AAl Purdy may have been the quintessential Canadian poet. He earned mo= st of Canada=E2=80=99s highest honors, including,=0Atwo Governor General Aw= ards, The Order of Ontario, and the Order of Canada.=0ABut, more importantl= y, his legacy may be the influence he had on generations of=0ACanadian poet= s who visited his self-constructed shack in the woods near Ameliasburgh, On= tario,=0Ato drink and argue through the night about the poetry, Michael Ond= aatje, George=0ABowering, Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen among them.=0AT= hat old shack needs some help and Jean Baird has stepped in=0Ato coordinate= a nationwide series of events like the one on Bowen to raise=0Amoney for t= he A-Frame and to create greater awareness of the Trust, which will=0Aadmin= ister residencies there.=0A=0AHeather asked me to read first, and I read tw= o poems by Al, =E2=80=9CFuneral=E2=80=9D=0Aand =E2=80=9CThe Dead Poet.=E2= =80=9D Other readers included Peter Trower, whose asides to=0AGeorge and ot= hers about Al and other topics were as engaging as his poems about=0Aworkin= g for two years in the hell of the smelter of Kitimat, British Columbia.=0A= =0AJamie Reid talked about running into Al Purdy at a bar and=0AAl confused= him for Freddy Douglas, who was likely a mutual friend, but then=0Asigned = a book for Jamie to Freddy! Too funny.=0A=0ASome say Al Purdy was the unoff= icial Poet Laureate of=0ACanada. The first official one, George Bowering, r= ead Purdy=E2=80=99s poem "Red=0ALeaves," which he said was, not his words, = but mine, a perfect template to=0Ahow Purdy=E2=80=99s poems were constructe= d:=0A=0ARed Leaves=0A=0A- all over the earth=0Alittle fires starting up=0Ae= specially in Canada=0Asome yellow leaves too=0Abuttercup and dandelion yell= ow=0Adancing across the hillside=0AI say to my wife=0A=E2=80=9CWhat=E2=80= =99s the yellowest thing there is?=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=9CSchool buses=E2=80= =9D=0Aa thousand school buses are double-=0Aparked on 401 al at once=0A=0AI= suppose this is the one thing=0Ayour average level-headed Martian=0Aor Ven= usian could not imagine=0Aabout Earth:=0A red leaves=0A= and the way humans attach emotion=0Ato one little patch of ground=0Aand con= tinually go back there=0Ain the autumn of our lives=0Ato deal with some of = the questions=0Athat have troubled us=0Aon our leapfrog trip through the Un= iverse=0Afor which there are really no answers=0Aexcept at this tranquil se= ason=0Aof falling leaves=0Awatching them a kind of jubilation=0Asometimes m= istaken for sadness=0A=0AAURAL Heather, a duo led by the poetry of Heather = Haley, our=0Ahost and her guitar sidekick Roderick Shoolbraid, read a Purdy= -inspired piece=0Aas well as Purdy=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CWhat Do the Birds Thi= nk=E2=80=9D backed by bird sounds emanating=0Afrom Roderick=E2=80=99s mac.= =0A=0AAmong the fundraising items available were a beautiful=0Abroadside cr= eated by Alan Stein, excerpted from Purdy=E2=80=99s poem =E2=80=98In Search= of Owen=0ARoblin=E2=80=9D=0A=0ASo we built a house, my wife and I=0Aour ho= use at a backwater puddle of a lake=0Anear Ameliasburg, Ont. spending=0Aour= last hard-earned buck to buy second-hand lumber=0Ato build a second-hand h= ouse=0Aand make the down payment on a lot=0Aso far from anywhere=0Aeven hom= ing pigeons lost their way=0Agetting back home to nowhere=0Awe built a hous= e so flagrantly noticeable=0Ait seemed an act of despair=0Alike the condemn= ed mans bravado on the gallows=0Aan A-frame house birds mistook for low blu= e sky=0AJust outside the cloud of my own black despair=0Awas the small vill= age a mile distant=0Aonce named Roblin=E2=80=99s Mills=0A=0AOther readers i= ncluded Lisa Shatsky and the former Mayor of=0ABowen Island, Lisa Barrett.= =0A=0AJean Baird is the point person and the dynamo behind this=0Aeffort an= d tells me a .pdf of the project and a website will soon be on-line.=0A=0AF= rom the .pdf is this description of how the residencies=0Awill work:=0A=0AT= o begin, the residency will operate for 8=0Amonths, from April 1 to Novembe= r=0A30. Later the winter months may be added. The=0AA-frame will provide ti= me and=0Aa place to work that is attractive and of=0Ahistoric significance.= Writers can apply=0Afor a term of one to three months. The residency=0Awil= l be open to all writers, but=0Apreference will be given to poetry and poet= ry=0Aprojects. The jury will also consider=0Aproposals for a one month proj= ect in critical=0Awriting about Canadian poetry each=0Ayear and will be ope= n to unusual and creative=0Aideas for residencies.=0A=0ATravel to Ameliasbu= rgh will be paid. Those=0Aawarded the residency will be=0Agiven a stipend o= f $2500 dollars a month while=0Aliving in the A-frame, and will be=0Afree t= o spend their time on their writing.=0AResidents will be expected to give o= ne=0Apublic reading or lecture for each month of=0Atheir stay=E2=80=94presu= mably in one of the=0Alarger communities nearby, Picton, Belleville, Kingst= on=E2=80=94and=0Ato consider other=0Areasonable requests. All this will be = organized=0Ain collaboration with the Prince=0AEdwardCountyand Quinte Arts = councils. The house is somewhat isolated, but the=0Alocal liaison will be a= ble to help with occasional rides for those who don=E2=80=99t=0Ahave a car.= Residents will be offered a temporary library card for the=0Aexcellent lib= rary at Queen=E2=80=99s University in Kingston, where many of Al Purdy=E2= =80=99s papers are=0Aheld. Those awarded a residency will be asked to donat= e at least one copy of=0Aone of their books to the Residency Library. Write= rs in residence will also be=0Aencouraged to make themselves known at the P= urdy Library in Ameliasburgh and to=0Adonate a book. They may also wish to = discuss with the local liaison the=0Apossibility of working with local scho= ols.=0A=0AFor a full outline of the residency program=0Aincluding applicati= on procedures=0A=0ASalient links: =0A=0Ahttp://lcpnationalpoetrymonth2009.w= ordpress.com/2009/04/21/national-al-purdy-day/=0Ahttp://www.uwo.ca/english/= canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol10/jones.htm#bk12=0A=0APaul E. Nelson =0A=0AGlobal = Voices Radio=0ASPLAB!=0AAmerican Sentences=0AOrganic Poetry=0APoetry Postca= rd Blog=0A=0AIlalqo, WA 253.735.6328=0A=0A=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0AThe= Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0A=0A----= -Inline Message Follows-----=0A=0ATONIGHT: The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices= Literary=0AFilm Feast.=0A=0ATuesday, April 28, 2009 at 7 pm.=0AInstituto C= ervantes New York,=0A211-215 East 49th Street.=0A(b/ 2nd and 3rd Ave.)=0AFR= EE=0A=0Ahttp://www.pen.org/festival=0A=0ASpecial guests Bob Holman, D J Kad= agian and Ram=0ADevineni=0A=0AFILMS BEING SCREENED:=0A=0A"HOLLYWOOD JEROME"= is based on the spoken-word poetry=0Aof Malik Yusef and directed by Frey H= offman. The film=0Adepicts an inner-city youth enthralled and bamboozled=0A= by pop-culture depictions of gang culture.=0A=0A"METFORMIN" looks at the bi= ology of love through=0Acollage and animation. Based on a poem by Helen Cla= re=0Aand directed by Kate Jessop.=0A=0A"UNE LE=C3=87ON PARTICULI=C3=88RE" w= on the Grand prix uniFrance=0Adu court-m=C3=A9trage at the Cannes Film Fest= ival and=0Adirected by Rapha=C3=ABl Chev=C3=A8nement. While studying the=0A= poetry of Victor Hugo, the teenager Cyril tries to=0Aconvey his love for hi= s teacher, twenty-seven-year-old=0A=C3=89va. . In French with English subti= tles.=0A=0A"LUCIA" is told through the voice of little girl who=0Aremembers= the summer when she fell in love. The=0Astop-motion animated film is direc= ted by Niles Atallah=0Aand Crist=C3=B3bal Le=C3=B3n and based on the writin= gs of=0AJoaquin Coci=C3=B1a. In Spanish with English subtitles.=0A=0ATwo sh= ort films by D J Kadagian who reworks classic=0Apoems using found video foo= tage. Screening of =0A"STEALING SUGAR FROM THE CASTLE" by Robert Bly and=0A= "STANDARD OIL CO." by Pablo Neruda. Special appearance=0Aby the D J Kadagia= n.=0A=0AA chaotic dance film from Israel. "SERPENT" is based=0Aon a poem fr= om Iris Erez and T. Carmi and filmed by=0AAvi Dabach.=0A=0A"GINSBERG'S KARM= A" is a documentary about the=0Alegendary poet Allen Ginsberg and his mythi= cal journey=0Ato India in the early 1960s that transformed his=0Aperspectiv= e on life and his work. Poet Bob Holman=0Atraces the two years Ginsberg spe= nt in India by=0Avisiting the places where he stayed and talk with the=0Ape= ople he met and influenced, as well as, intimate=0Ainterviews with Beat poe= ts and friends. Special=0Aappearance with the filmmakers Ram Devineni and B= ob=0AHolman. =0A=0APlease send future emails to =0Adevineni@rattapallax.com= for press=0A=0A=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0AThe Poetics List is moderat= ed & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://e= pc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:20:42 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Bowering Subject: Re: poet JACK SPICER celebrated in PHILLY & NYC ......... YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THESE EVENTS! In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed That is going to be terrific stuff, and what a lineup for the reading! Especially with George Stanley, maybe jack's best young mobster. I wish I could be there! gb On Apr 27, 2009, at 5:01 PM, CA Conrad wrote: > poet JACK SPICER celebrated in PHILLY & NYC ......... YOU DON'T WANT > TO MISS THESE EVENTS! > > ALSO POSTED TO PhillySound: new poetry > http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html > > > TUESDAY, MAY 12TH, 7PM > 13th and Pine Streets, PHILADELPHIA > OUTSIDE DIRTY FRANK'S BAR > > 4 OF CUPS SPICER READING! > for THE URCHIN SERIES > details here: http://URCHINPOETRY.blogspot.com > > ------------- > > FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 6:30PM & 8PM > ST. MARK'S POETRY PROJECT > 131 E. 10th St., NYC > > MY VOCABULARY DID THIS TO ME: PANEL & READING FOR THE COLLECTED =20 > JACK SPICER > > This special event is to honor seminal West Coast poet Jack Spicer > (1925-1965). My Vocabulary Did This to Me (edited by Peter Gizzi and > Kevin Killian) is a landmark publication of this essential poet=92s = life > work, and includes poems that have become increasingly hard to find. > > 6:30pm: Panel in the Parish Hall with Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany, > Kevin Killian & Jennifer Moxley. Moderated by Kevin Killian. > > 8:00pm: Reading in the Sanctuary with Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, > Julian T. Brolaski, CAConrad, Samuel R. Delany, Peter Gizzi, Kevin > Killian, Basil King, Douglas A. Martin, Deborah Remington, Harris > Schiff, Rod Smith, George Stanley, Lewis Warsh & Karen Weiser. > > Co-presented with Poets House. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --=20 > PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com > > THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check =20 > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/=20 > welcome.html George Bowering, OUH Never on the cover of Vanity Fair =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:43:11 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: blacksox@ATT.NET Subject: Bad Ass Poetry 5/5 Orlando Florida-featuring Kat Norris MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Orlando Poetry Group presents:=20 Bad Ass Poetry Night=20 Every 1st Tuesday=20 Bad Ass Coffee Shop=20 13651 Hunters Oak Drive (Suite 101)=20 Orlando, FL 32837=20 407-855-2019=20 Featuring=20 Kat Norris=20 May 5 @ 7:00 pm=20 Hosted By Russ Golata=20 blacksox@att.net 407-403-5814=20 Kat Norris, AKA Lilly, first burst upon the Orlando Spoken word scene in 20= 05. She has published two books, "Body Map" and "A Dyke, A Priest and A Poe= t", and is working on a third collection, tentatively titled "Monochrome Li= t". In her spare time, she loves to spend time with family, hone up on her = celebrity blog obsession, write poetry and pretend she's on American Idol, = even though she doesn't watch the show. Has been hosting =E2=80=9COpen Word= s=E2=80=9D at Austins since October of 2008, and is as sweet as cotton cand= y and sunshine.=20 Do you have what it takes to be a Bad Ass poet?=20 Open Mic with an attitude=20 http://poetry.meetup.com/362/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:33:15 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jerome Rothenberg Subject: Poems & Poetics: recent postings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've been continuing with my blog-magazine "Poems & Poetics" and posting = poems and comments (new and old) by myself and others at the rate of 2 = or 3 postings a week. Since late February the postings include the = following: (J.R.) El Corno Emplumado: Tribute & Poem=20 Henry Munn: from "The Uniqueness of Mar=EDa Sabina"=20 (J.R.) The Art in Poetry & the Poetry in Art, Part 2: Kurt Schwitters=20 Raymond Federman: from The Carcasses=20 Reconfiguring Romanticism (25): William Everson, on Robert Duncan's = romanticism and modernism, & other matters=20 (J.R.) Shaking the Pumpkin (6): Navajo Correspondences, with commentary=20 Julian Beck: the state will be served even by poets=20 Diane Rothenberg: The Economic Memories of Harry Watt (Seneca Indian, in = three installments)=20 (J.R.) correspondence with Jackson Mac Low: The Light Poems & Other = Matters (Personal, Literary, Political)=20 (J.R.) From The New Delta Interview (Part One): The place of poetry, the = place of religion, the place of rhyme=20 Jos=E9 Kozer: William Blake on his deathbed=20 That Dada Strain, continued: Tristan Tzara's "Chanson Dada" (poem & = performance)=20 (J.R.) From The New Delta Interview (Part Two): Translating, Sequencing, = Performing=20 Picasso's Dream and Lie of Franco: poem and images=20 Clayton Eshleman & the Practice of Translation=20 Clayton Eshleman: A Transmigralation (poem, 2009)=20 Anselm Hollo: Six from Arno Holz's "Phantasus"=20 (J.R.) A Meditation on the Word "Diaspora"=20 Murat Nemet-Nejat: The Idea of "Eda" in Turkish Poetics The address remains poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com. Jerome Rothenberg "Language is Delphi." 1026 San Abella --Novalis Encinitas, CA 92024 (760) 436-9923 jrothenberg@cox.net http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/rothenberg/ new ethnopoetics web site: http://ubu.com/ethno/ j.r. in spanish: http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/rothenberg/esp/ Blog at poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:00:24 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Penton Subject: call for submissions: July 4th Issue MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit UnlikelyStories.org is pleased to open submissions for our 2009 July Fourth Issue, guest edited by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal. We'll be seeking essays on today's U.S.A., as well as visual art, film, music, poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction, interviews with notable American thinkers, and reviews of works on these topics. We seek fierce criticism, intense and beautiful imagery, and harsh but sincere patriotism. We seek reflection, rage, despair and hope. We wish to think about America in new, progressive, and productive ways, and will look for artists and authors who can help us to do so, whether or not they've ever actually been to America. You can learn more about UnlikelyStories.org from our "regular" submission guidelines at http://www.unlikelystories.org/mission.shtml . Submissions to this special issue should be sent to Luis at july4th@unlikelystories.org . **Submissions close on June 15th.** Please send text submissions as .rtf attachments, visual submissions as .gif or .jpgs, and query before sending files more than a megabyte. English and Spanglish accepted. English-language submissions to un-themed issues of Unlikely remain open. Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal is a prolific poet whose works appear widely in literary and counterculture presses. His books include /"Raw Materials"/ and "/Without Peace/." You can learn more about his relationship to the U.S. from his essay in our 2004 Elections Issue at http://www.unlikelystories.org/berriozabal1004.shtml . Because there is joy in Mudville, -- Jonathan Penton http://www.unlikelystories.org/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:52:39 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Help a Fellow Poet -- Scary News About Poet, Craig Arnold - please pass it on. Comments: To: "ViewsNewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Begin forward: Hi all.=A0 I apologize if you are receiving this email in duplicate, as the= re are several of us forwarding this.=A0=A0=A0 I'm writing because a dear friend of mine and an exceptionally talented poe= t,=A0Craig Arnold, whom some of you know, has gone missing on a small volca= nic island in Japan while on a creative exchange fellowship.=A0 Craig, an e= xperienced explorer of volcanoes, never returned to his inn after leaving a= lone to research the island's active volcano for the afternoon.=A0 The auth= orities are on the third day of searching for Craig, and are scouring the s= mall island (of only 160 inhabitants) with dogs and helicopters.=A0 If he i= s not found by the end of the day, the authorities will call off the search= . We need your help to insure that the search will continue.=A0 The island an= d areas surrounding the volcano are small enough that an extended search wi= ll surely lead to Craig's discovery.WE NEED PEOPLE TO CONTACT THEIR LOCAL C= ONGRESSPEOPLE AND SENATORS TO PRESSURE THE JAPANESE STATE DEPARTMENT TO CON= TINUE THE SEARCH.=A0 WE ALSO NEED HELP SPARKING MEDIA ATTENTION FOR THIS ST= ORY, WHICH WE ALSO HOPE MIGHT INCREASE PRESSURE ON JAPANESE AUTHORITIES TO = FIND CRAIG.=A0 I have attached a document with background information about= Craig, as well as information about the details leading up to his disappea= rance as well as about the island itself.=A0 Please feel free to use this a= s reference material. If any of you have ideas or know people who might be able to help, we'd app= reciate hearing from you.=A0 You can contact Rebecca Lindenberg, Craig's gi= rlfriend, at rlindenberg@mac.com.=A0 Please, though, take a minute to conta= ct your senator and congressperson via telephone or even email to explain t= his problem and insist on their help. We are so hoping to find Craig today, God-willing not seriously injured.=A0= If so, this will not be an issue, but we must ensure that if this isn't re= solved today, Craig doesn't end up an unsolved mystery.=A0 He is too import= ant to too many people, not to mention to arts and letter generally, for th= is to happen. We appreciate your help, good wishes and prayers. =0A=0A=0A=0AWrite Your Representative here -- https://writerep.house.gov/wr= iterep/welcome.shtml =0A=0A _______ =0A =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:16:59 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Crane's Bill Books Subject: Fw: Michael Datcher at Outpost, Albuquerque MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 516 ARTSForwarding this for anyone in the area not aware of it. J. A. Lee ----- Original Message -----=20 From: 516 ARTS To: Jeffrey Lee=20 Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 6:20 PM Subject: Michael Datcher at Outpost! 516 ARTS, the UNM M.F.A. in Creative Writing program and Outpost = Performance Space invite you to a literary arts event with special guest MICHAEL DATCHER Award winning Memoirist, Poet, Journalist & Critic Saturday, May 9, 7:30pm at the Outpost Performance Space 210 Yale SE, Albuquerque=20 Michael Datcher is a poet and critically acclaimed journalist from Los = Angeles and author of the New York Times Bestseller Raising Fences, his = memoir about a black man's right to security, family and love. In this = emotionally raw and intimate narrative, Datcher reflects on his = fatherless childhood in inner-city Los Angeles, his attraction to local = gangs, his promiscuity, and, at times, his lack of faith. The film = rights for Raising Fences were optioned by actor Will Smith's Overbrook = Productions, who hired Datcher to write the screenplay. Datcher is = co-editor of Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur. His latest = play Silence was commissioned by and premiered at the Getty Museum. He = has appeared on both news programs Nightline and Dateline as an analyst = and is a frequent commentator on BBC Radio. He is co-host of the weekly = public affairs news magazine Beautiful Struggle on 90.7 FM KPFK. = Datcher's writing has appeared in the Washington Post, LA Times, = Baltimore Sun, The Source, Ladies Home Journal and Vibe among many other = publications. He has curated and/or presented his work at the Brooklyn = Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hammer Museum and other = art institutions. Local African American poets and spoken word artists will open up for = Mr. Datcher, including Maisha Baton, Hakim Bellamy, Idris Goodwin and = Gary Jackson. Virginia Hampton and Stephanie Willis (formerly of Out = ch'Yonda) will perform a spoken word duet about Charles Mingus.=20 This event is in conjunction with West Southwest: ABQ-LA Exchange at 516 = ARTS (April 4 - May 16, 2009), and is organized by Lisa Gill and Richard = Vargas, 516 ARTS literary arts co-coordinators. A visual slideshow about = this LA exchange project, composed by Bryan Konefsky of Basement Films, = accompanies the featured poets.=20 TICKETS: $12 / $10 for students, members of 516 ARTS or Outpost, = available from: 516 ARTS (505-242-1445, info@516arts.org) and Outpost Performance Space = (505-268-0044, www.outpostspace.org) Michael Datcher in Albuquerque is made possible in part by the McCune = Charitable Foundation, the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico Forum for = Youth & Community and the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs. =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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