========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 13:12:03 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Two reviews in for !Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes" Comments: To: British Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Two reviews in for !Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes": Depicting a waking, lucid dreamscape, the shifting interior cinema of lost love sets itself against the gathered debris of a recalled former life. Echoes of Hamsun's HUNGER congeal with Patchen's JOURNAL OF ALBION MOONLIGHT in a rich interior monologue, traipsing through the surreal landscape of memory ... "I learned long ago to distinguish between strong memories and whatever the world is ..." Blurring the subjective/reality boundary, this is a phenomenological in-look freighted with the memories of a non-named woman, a love gone sour after a time of many kisses. Now the narrator, an outlaw on the run, hiding in cloisters, in a strange town with assumed name and face, remains sustained by these images of HER, even as the warnings indicate he is still being followed. His days reside in the "dilemma/of the broken hearted"; he begins to lose temporal perspective, a living exile from his past. He falls back to studying the indecipherable clouds ... The collaborative narration weaves us through a shifting time-flux, a moving floor between memory-past and perception-present ... here, the outlaw is looking through a dirty Bowery window, perhaps after a day spent as an insurance clerk poring over columns of actuary tables in some vague city location ... there, we see him drinking the nepenthe of the village locals, full of his thoughts of yet a previous exiled life ... then a shifting retreat back to the actuary tables, which may hold the "traces ... of cyclones/in high northern latitudes ... By the residue of high hope, the narrator prays that "one day you will/experience my love" - by which the shadow of longing transcends the mundanity of being a data entry clerk ... The bold ink drawings by Rich Curtis round out this joint effort by two exemplary poets. Highly recommended reading ... Matt Hill This is a modern book. A current collaboration. Jake Berry and Jeffrey Side have come together, along with the artist Rich Curtis to lead us through a journey of the stratosphere that include algorithms, the dogs of cognizance, actuary tables and a glimpse of 50 worlds passing. The poets write, "I have difficulty believing that I, in another time and form, created them myself." Then a few pages later write, "...and I can see the clouds forming now and a storm brewing." These storms are cyclones like the title suggests. Whirling from the marshes and up into the adrenaline of the clouds. The reader gets caught up in the earth, immigrants in an orchard shrouded by dunes. Cyclones In High Northern Latitudes delivers on the titles suggestion of flight. As John Steinbeck wrote, "The very air here is miraculous." Chris Mansel ================================== 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, 2 May 2010 13:38:42 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Stephen Ellis Subject: New website MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://proposia.blogspot.com=20 EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 1 May 2010 10:08:57 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Vernon Frazer Subject: Re: POET-EDITOR issue up at Otoliths...and Poetry Foundation! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain Happy Anniversary! Vernon =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 3 May 2010 08:18:22 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Allegrezza Subject: Series A in Chicago: Cycholl, Momyer, and Slaviero MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Come to Series A this Wednesday from 7-8. Garin Cycholl, Heather Momyer, and Susan Slaviero will be reading their works. Location: Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell Chicago Easy Parking. Easy Public Transit Access. BYOB For more info, check www.moriapoetry.com/seriesa.html. *The reading starts on time since the HPAC closes at 8. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:26:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ana_Bo=BEi=E8evi=E6?= Subject: Today & tomorrow: Chapbook fair & marathon readings! Comments: To: pussipo@googlegroups.com, dusie-kollektiv@googlegroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Don=E2=80=99t forget to join us! There=E2=80=99s still space in tomorrow=E2= =80=99s free workshops (full schedule at http://www.chapbookfestival.org), the bookfair is open today & tomorrow from 11:30AM-7PM, and the marathon readings start at 2PM! Full lineup is below. MONDAY, MAY 3 2-3 PM River Poets Journal/Lilly Press: Phoebe Wilcox Poinciana Paper Press: Angelique V. Nixon 2nd Ave Poetry: Jill Magi Bateau Press: James Grinwis Belladonna*: E. Tracy Grinnell 3-4 PM BOOK Works: Estha Weiner H_NGM_N: Ben Mirov Cervena Barva Press: Susan Lewis CUNY Lost & Found: Josh Schneiderman&Claudia Pisano 4-5 PM Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs: Brenda Iijima Creature Press: John Harkey Cy Gist Press: Veronica Wong DoubleCross Press: Sarah Green Dusie Kollektiv: Mark Lamoureux&Amanda Deutch 5-6 PM Etched Press: Kevin Dublin Finishing Line Press: Ruth Handel&Melora Walters Forklift, Ohio: Amy King Octopus Books: Emily Pettit Brave Men Press: Brian Foley 6-7 PM Ugly Duckling Presse: Dorothea Lasky Greying Ghost Press: Eric Amling Kissena Park Press: Lana Hechtman Ayers Little Scratch Pad: Douglas Manson Love Among the Ruins: Laura Jaramillo TUESDAY, MAY 4 2-3 PM Flying Guillotine Press: Steven Karl&Angela Veronica Wong Magic Helicopter Books: Carolyn Zaikowski Noemi Press Pen Press: Marcos Wasem&Mercedes Roff=C3=A9 Center for Book Arts: Sharon Dolin 3-4 PM Plan B Press Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press: Zeadryn Meade Rain Taxi Corollary Press: Jason Schwartz Push Press & Friends: Mary Speaker 4-5 PM Slapering Hol Press: Susana H. Case Small Anchor Press: Joseph McElroy Sona Books: Paolo Javier Spire Press: Shelly Reed&Matthew Hittinger The Corresponding Society: David Swesen 5-6 PM Poets Wear Prada: Austin Alexis&Michael Montlack The Physiocrats: Daniel Nohejl BookThug: Cara Benson sunnyoutside: MRB Chelko Tarpaulin Sky Press: Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87 6-7 PM Booklyn: Charmaine Wheatley Instance Press: Kim Lyons Toadlily Press: George Kraus Upset Press: Denise Galang&Amy Lemmon-Bowen X-ing Press/Agriculture Reader: Justin Taylor 7PM PSA Chapbook Fellowship Reading Martin E. Segal Theatre Alice Quinn with judges Mark Doty, Linda Gregg, and Arthur Sze, and winners Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, Haines Eason, Heidi Johannesen Poon, and Stephanie Adams-Santos. Followed by reception. Free and open to the public. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 3 May 2010 10:29:41 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: Camille Martin's Sonnets =?Windows-1252?Q?=96_?= European tour Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Vulcan is cooperating for now, so my reading tour in the UK, Ireland, and P= aris to celebrate the publication of my new book Sonnets by the fabulous Sh= earsman Books is on. A recent review and ordering information follows the i= tinerary below. If you are going to be in any of these places, please come! London, England 7:30 pm, Tuesday, May 4 Shearsman Reading Series Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House / 20/21 Bloomsbury Way Readers: Camille Martin (publisher=92s launch of Sonnets) and Alisdair Pate= rson Bangor, Wales 7:30 pm, Thursday, May 6 Blue Sky Cafe / High Street A triple launch =96 Camille Martin=92s Sonnets, Ian Davidson=92s Into Thick= Hair, and the new issue of Poetry Wales St. Helier, Isle of Jersey 8:00 pm, Saturday, May 8 PoAttic Reading Series The Attic in the Jersey Opera House Cork, Ireland Monday, May 10 6:30 =96 8:00 pm: workshop 9:00 pm: reading =D3 Bh=E9al Reading Series / The Long Valley Salford, England 6:00 =96 8:00 pm, Tuesday, May 11 University of Salford Two-hour session with students in the MA in Creative Writing program Paris, France 7:30 pm, Tuesday, May 18 Ivy Writers Reading Series Le Next / 17 rue Tiqutonne, Paris A recent review of Sonnets by rob mclennan: There are so few that seem to know how to bring something new to an often-u= sed form that when it happens, it=92s worth noting, and such is the case wi= th Toronto poet Camille Martin in her second trade poetry collection, Sonne= ts (Exeter England: Shearsman Books, 2010). Martin, an American relocated n= orth after Hurricane Katrina, writes with the most wonderful sense of clari= ty, thought and play in these poems . . . (read the review here: http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/04/camille-mart= in-sonnets.html See the Shearsman webpage for ordering information: http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/martin.html or go straight to SPD: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781848610705/sonnets.aspx?rf=3D1 =20 Cheers! Camille Martin= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 3 May 2010 14:13:32 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Lisa Janssen Subject: To publishers - ever done an audio book? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear poetics list - have any of you publishers ever produced an audio book? Know anyone who has? I'm looking for lots of general information about recording, etc. Many thanks! Lisa Janssen ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 21:37:45 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sam Ladkin Subject: Cambridge Irish Studies: Trevor Joyce Poetry Reading and Discussion MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting. Here's notice of another notable Cambridge event, this time courtesy of John Kerrigan. Best, Sam CAMBRIDGE GROUP FOR IRISH STUDIES TREVOR JOYCE: POETRY READING AND DISCUSSION Tuesday, 4 May, 8.45 p.m. The Parlour, Magdalene College All welcome Wine and whiskey served Trevor Joyce will read from his own poetry, and that of his contemporaries, then answer questions about his work and the poetry scene in Ireland. Joyce is one of Ireland's leading poets. Associated with modernist traditions that go back to Beckett and the other Joyce, and with poetry in the Irish language (from which he has translated extensively) back to /Buile Suibhne/, he has produced a body of work which is challengingly distinct from the mainstream but which has significant points of contact with poetry across Europe and with experimentalists in Ireland who are now attracting international attention. He has lived and worked in Cork for twenty-five years, for the last twelve of which he has been a director of SoundEye. His books include /with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold/ (New Writers' Press/Shearsman, 2001 & 2003) and /What's in Store/ (NWP/The Gig, 2008). /Courts of Air and Earth/ (Shearsman, 2009) gathers all his workings from middle and early-modern Irish. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, is a member of Aosd=E1na, and is the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow in Cambridge for 2009-10. The session will be chaired by Sinead Garrigan-Mattar, an authority on Irish literature and a Fellow of Girton College. Any questions to jk10023 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 3 May 2010 17:25:37 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Fieled Subject: Apparition Poem Links MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi. I have new Apparition Poems up in two places: http://www.blueyellowdog.weebly.com/adam-fieled.html http://www.pirenesfountain.com/current_issue/fieled.html Many thanks and happy spring! Adam ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 07:16:02 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9CBut_What_About_the_Nipples=3F=E2=80=9D_?= A Nice Conversation (Pt. 1) Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My take on Bl= Conversation I initiated at HTML Giant - Part 1 is up. =0A=0AMy take on Bl= ake Butler's quote that became the title of the convo:=0Ahttp://amyking.wor= dpress.com/2010/05/04/more-brouhaha-part-1/=0A=0AThe actual convo with lots= of comment participants:=0Ahttp://htmlgiant.com/behind-the-scenes/but-what= -about-the-nipples-a-nice-conversation-pt-1/=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, 4 May 2010 12:14:25 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: But What About the Nipples? A Nice Conversation (Pt. 2) Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii http://htmlgiant.com/behind-the-scenes/but-what-about-nipples-a-nice-conversation-pt-2/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 10:53:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Siegell Subject: FRIDAY > Vienna, VA: Tony Mancus & Paul Siegell Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" This Friday, May 7th in Vienna, VA. Join poets Tony Mancus and Paul Siegell, plus musician Daniel Collins, for Poetry Lab at The Soundry (316 Dominion Road, Vienna, VA 22180) http://www.soundry.net/2009/12/the-next-experiment-poetry-lab/ Poetry Lab interviews: http://thepoetrylabvienna.blogspot.com/ facebook invite: http://bit.ly/aR8Qr2 Hope to see you there, Paul=20 http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com - http://amzn.to/1A0fPV =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 4 May 2010 10:22:03 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: cris cheek Subject: reports on post_moot MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 for those curious about what went on in south-west ohio a couple of weekends ago there are two lengthy reports already out there: Barrett Watten http://barrettwatten.net/events/entry-12-relational-poetics/2010/05/#more-777 Laura Moriarty http://atonalistdoc.blogspot.com/2010/05/post-moot-movement-looking-for-start-of.html other materials are appearing (including partial reports due for completion by Bonnie Jones) on the post_moot blog postmoot.com/10 enjoy cris ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:30:21 +0200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Philip Meersman Subject: Re: To publishers - ever done an audio book? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Lisa, I'm also very interested. Since most of my work is performance poetry, I would love to find a publishing house which would want to publish my poetry both on CD or DVD and in a printed form. There are of course several online audio databases and magazines, textsound, toxic poetry, lyrikline, ubuweb,... So looking forward to reading more on that topic too. Philip On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Lisa Janssen wrote: > Dear poetics list - have any of you publishers ever produced an audio book? > Know anyone who has? I'm looking for lots of general information about > recording, etc. > > Many thanks! > > Lisa Janssen > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > -- Philip Meersman !!! New Address Tentoonstellingslaan 418, bus 46 1090 Jette Belgium tel+32 (0)476 576 287 www.myspace.com/spooninmybrain www.facebook.com/spooninmybrain www.youtube.com/spooninmybrain skype: Spooninmybrain philip.meersman@gmail.com www.poetasdelmundo.com/verInfo_europa.asp?ID=4337 05/05/10-09/05/10: Literature festival of Tallinn, Estonia ( http://www.headread.ee/) 21/05/10: BruSlam, GalerY, Bxl, BE (http://bruslam.over-blog.com) 21/07/10: BruSlam, CBK Slam voorronde Gent with special guest Jaan Malin, HotsyTotsy, Ghent, BE (http://bruslam.over-blog.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, 4 May 2010 10:42:19 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: a note on writing the geography of my second novel, missing persons (2009); http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/05/missing-persons-writing-saskatchewan.html rob -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons 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: Tue, 4 May 2010 10:57:57 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "St. Thomasino" Subject: a noun sing Prosaic Suburban Commercial by Keith Higginbotham, an e=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=B7ratio_editions_e=B7chap?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) E=C2=B7 E=C2=B7ratio Editions is pleased to present E=C2=B7ratio Editions = E=C2=B7chap #9: Prosaic Suburban Commercial by Keith Higginbotham. =E2=80=9C . . . bathe deep in / the barely-there / disassembled gallery = / of =20 the everyday . . . =E2=80=9D Two poetic sequences. With illustrations by Keith Higginbotham. Also available: #8. Polylogue by Carey Scott Wilkerson. Poems. =E2=80=9C . . . with = rules =20 and constitutive games, / with paints and gramarye / with some =20 modicum / of my reckless trust . . . =E2=80=9D #7. Bash=C5=8D=E2=80=99s Phonebook. 30 translations by Travis = Macdonald. The =20 great Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bash=C5=8D goes digital. Conceptual =20= poetry. With translator=E2=80=99s notes. #6. Correspondance (a sketchbook) by Joseph F. Keppler. Digital =20 art. With an introduction by Joseph F. Keppler. #5. Six Comets Are Coming by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino. Volume I =20= of the collected works including Go and Go Mirrored, with revised =20 introductions, corrected text and restored original font. #4. The Logoclasody Manifesto. Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino on =20 logoclasody, logoclastics, eidetics and pannarrativity. Addenda =20 include the Crash Course in Logoclastics, Concrete to Eidetic (on =20 visual poetry) and On Mathematical Poetry. #3. Waves by M=C3=A1rton Kopp=C3=A1ny. =E2=80=9CThese works are = minimalist by =20 design, but should we paraphrase the thought channeled therein, the =20 effect would be encyclopedic, ranging through philosophy, psychology, =20= politics, and the human emotions.=E2=80=9D Visual poetry. #2. Mending My Black Sweater and other poems by Mary Ann Sullivan. =20 Poems of making conscious, of acceptance and of self-remembering, and =20= of personal responsibility. #1. Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino joins John M. Bennett In the =20 Bennett Tree. Collaborative poems, images, an introduction and a full-=20= length critical essay pay homage to American poet John M. Bennett. http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/eratioeditions.html http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/ E=C2=B7= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 30 Apr 2010 10:20:59 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Subject: The SPRING SUPPLEMENT OF BIG BRIDGE is on its way!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends of Big Bridge, The Spring Supplement of Big Bridge's New Orleans Tribute Issue is on = it's way. Look for the announcement in your e-mail coming soon!!! And be sure to check out the new 4th Anniversary edition of Otoliths = (#17) feature of ROCKPILE on the road, with poems by Michael Rothenberg = & David Meltzer, photos by Terri Carri=F3n, & an introduction by Larry = Sawyer at=20 http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-rockpile-on-road-poems-by-mi= chael.html See you soon! Michael Rothenberg, Editor=20 Big Bridge Online www.bigbridge.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: Tue, 4 May 2010 08:07:01 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: To publishers - ever done an audio book? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Palm Press and Narrow House. Might want to start at the PennSound "Members" page looking for CD issuers. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Lisa Janssen wrote: > Dear poetics list - have any of you publishers ever produced an audio book? > Know anyone who has? I'm looking for lots of general information about > recording, etc. > > Many thanks! > > Lisa Janssen > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > -- 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: Wed, 5 May 2010 00:42:42 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: EOAGH Reading Series 5/9: JAVIER, LEE, & MARINOVICH MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable EOAGH Reading Series "Where you say one thing but you really mean your mother =92s day reading extravaganza!" Featuring PAOLO JAVIER, SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE, and FILIP MARINOVICH Sunday, May 9 at 2 PM At Unnameable Books 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY FREE PAOLO JAVIER is the author of the forthcoming chapbooks The Feeling Is Actual (creature press, summer 2010) and Megton Gasgan Krakooom (cy gist press, summer 2010). A 2010 Millay Colony Artist-in-Residence, he publishes 2nd Ave Poetry, and lives in Queens. Read =93FORMAL APOLOGY TO MY ASSHOLE,=94 =93Maybe I=92m All Of This=94 and = =93MCCARTHY AT HEART=94 by Paolo Javier in Issue 5: http://www.chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/javier.html Read an excerpt =93from THE ORIGINAL BROWN BOY,=94 Javier=92s collaboration= with Ernest Concepcion, in Issue 3: http://chax.org/eoagh/issue3/issuethree/concepcionjavier.html SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE grew up 3 miles from the CIA. She currently lives in Philadelphia, where she edits Corollary Press, a chapbook series devoted to multi-ethnic innovative writing. Her books include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Books) and Underground National (Factory School). Read =93from in an american mirror=94 by Sueyeun Juliette Lee in Issue 5: http://www.chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/lee.html FILIP MARINOVICH is a poet living in New York, New York. His books are "ZER= O READERSHIP" (Ugly Duckling Presse 2008), and the forthcoming "A TRAVELLING PART" (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). He has published poems in Critiphoria, EOAGH #3 and #5, The Brooklyn Rail, and Aufgabe. Good evening Everybody. Read =93HONORABLE ONE,=94 =93BARETTE,=94 and =93Descriptions Automatique=94= by Filip Marinovich in Issue 3: http://chax.org/eoagh/issue3/issuethree/marinovich.html Read =93AMERICA DEATH IN NEW YORK=94 by Marinovich in Issue 5: http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/marinovich.html * HOW TO GET TO UNNAMEABLE BOOKS: Unnameable Books is conveniently located at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. There are two ways to get there: 1) Take the 2 or 3 train to the Grand Army Plaza stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block around the circle, and turn onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. 2) Take the Q train to the 7th Avenue stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block along Park Pl and make a left onto Vanderbilt Avenu= e heading NE toward the bookstore. * UPCOMING EOAGH READING SERIES EVENTS: Charles Borkhuis and Andrew Levy Sunday, May 23 @2PM E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, and Shelly Taylor Sunday, June 27 @2PM =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 4 May 2010 18:56:54 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: "The Theory of the Avant-Garde and Practice" by Libbie Rifkin at The Argotist Online Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "The Theory of the Avant-Garde and Practice" by Libbie Rifkin at The Argoti= st Online: http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Rifkin%20essay.htm Excerpt: "Enzensberger traces the military roots of the term "avant-garde," breaking= it down into its component parts and pushing each to its aporetic limit. T= he first aporia emerges when the avant-garde moves from the synchrony of th= e battle field to the diachrony of historical progress. Confronting the ene= my up ahead, the "en avant of the avant-garde would, as it were, realize th= e future in the present, anticipate the course of history". In spite of tre= mendous advances in prognostication by the "consciousness industry," this i= s, of course, impossible. And yet the whole system depends on this impossib= ility; the avant-garde is the engine of advancement for the main body of ar= tistic works, but the scene of its reception is, by definition, always just= out of reach. The avant-garde=E2=80=99s value, in fact its very identity,= can only be determined by the future generations for whom it is already pa= ss=C3=A9." =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 5 May 2010 00:51:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: TENDENCIES 5/6: Kimball, Szymaszek, & Conrad MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 TENDENCIES 5/6: Jack Kimball, Stacy Szymaszek, and CAConrad This series of talks by major poets, titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory and pedagogy. The next event features talks by: Jack Kimball Stacy Szymaszek CAConrad ...followed by a discussion/Q&A session. on Thursday, May 6 at 6:30 PM FREE at CUNY Graduate Center in the Skylight Room (9100) 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC Jack Kimball is a self-described after-language poet based in Boston but often identified with New York. A number of his books are published by Potes and Poets Press (Witness Protection, 1997; Quite Vacation, 1998; Frosted, 2001). Terrence Diggory suggests "identification of that press with Language poetry has established a context for the reception of Kimball's work. For instance, in a blurb for Frosted, Tony Towle noted 'mysterious ironies and enjambments, lines that are stunningly odd, and various kinds of oblique narrative that may owe something to "language" influences, but are often also resonant of Jimmy Schuyler.'" Resonating with another New York poet, Kimball set one complex goal, later modified, in recent work, Post~Twyla (published 2006, republished 2010): to keep a sardonic diary, compressing reactions to every page of John Ashbery's masterpiece Flow Chart by way of fake haiku and renga-like short verse and prose commentary. Publisher of Faux Press, Kimball blogs at pantaloons.blogspot.com. He does not twitter. Stacy Szymaszek was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. From 1999 to 2005, she was the Literary Program Manager for the nonprofit literary organization Woodland Pattern Book Center. In 2005 she moved to New York to serve as Program Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. In 2006-07, she served as Monday Night Reading Coordinator. She became Artistic Director in 2007. She is the author of the chapbooks Mutual Aid (gong press, 2004), Some Mariners (Etherdome, 2004), There Were Hostilities (repair, 2005), Pasolini Poems (Cy Press, 2005), from Hyperglossia (Belladonna Books, 2005), Stacy S: Autoportraits (OMG! Press, 2008), Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (Faux Chaps, 2008), from Hyperglossia(Hot Whiskey Press, 2008) and from Hart Island (Albion Books, 2009). Her first full-length book, Emptied of All Ships, was published in 2005 and her second book Hyperglossia in 2009, both with Litmus Press. http://www.litmuspress.org/szymaszek.html (photo by John Sarsgard). CAConrad is the recipient of The Gil Ott Book Award for The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge(Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined(Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. Visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com and with his friends at http://PhillySound.blogspot.com(photo by Stacy Szymaszek). * * * TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice is curated by Tim Peterson (Trace). For additional information, visit the Tendencies blog at http://tendenciespoetics.blogspot.com All events are co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies), The Graduate Center PhD Program in English, and the GC Poetics Group. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 02:34:58 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Some recording from Jazz Lounge gig tonight MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Some recording from Jazz Lounge gig tonight - Well for one thing the other group didn't show and for another, the recording - which I did - turned out largely unusable except for the following excerpts which give a fairly good idea of what went on, with the exception of Azure's songs - these didn't come out at all. What I think happened was that subsonic stage and other floor movements resonated with the corner we played in - a kind of wolf-note effect below the range of human hearing, but not below the range of recorder compression. The result was literally impossible to listen to - lots of thumps and things unheard but sensed, taking out the music. After using graphic equalization, hard limiting, normalization, hiss reduction and editing, the following is what resulted - on it you'll hear Myk Freedman, guitar, and myself, oud and cura cumbus in some fairly weird combinations. Everything else had to be scrapped. But this stuff's good - http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/jl2.mp3 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:41:16 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chris Jones Subject: absolute deviation update Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just to let on I have added to my blog and am getting it together (if I can remember the software) Working with Deleuzian ideas (D&G) for (New) Media Arts, analog/digital interface, from Postscript on Societies of Control, and merger of technical plane and aesthetic plane, from What is Philosophy. Any comments critical ideas are welcome... this email address or here, since I don't have blog commenting stuff together, yet. (Moving too fast and always late.) http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/ and some silver gelatin still lifes at: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/02/and-another-still.html -- have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog weird just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones. Blog: http://abdevpoetics.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, 5 May 2010 14:39:52 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Query: Modern American Poetry syllabi [+ job for Po.Found] Comments: To: Discussion of Women's Poetry List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Recommendations for Modern American Poetry course? Goal: a balanced-listi= ng of poets. No tokens. =0A=0AThanks in advance,=0A=0AAmy=0A =0AFrom Poet= ry Foundation:=0A=0AIt=E2=80=99s more important for this particular job to = have someone who understands the website development process and has a gras= p of emerging technologies, than to have someone who=E2=80=99s completely c= urrent with or even part of the poetry scene.=0A>>=0A>>http://www.poetryfou= ndation.org/jobs#Web-Project-Manager=0A>>=0A_______=0A=0A=0ARecent:=0A=0Aht= tp://galatearesurrection14.blogspot.com/2010/04/slaves-to-do-these-things-b= y-amy-king.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: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:37:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Kimmelman, Burt" Subject: Galatea Resurrects No. 14 Is Now Online MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm posting the below for Eileen Tabios whose eddress is still blocked for = some reason. The new issue of Galatea Resurrects is now available at the li= nk below. (It looks like a great issue!) Burt =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D GALATEA RESURRECTS ANNOUNCEMENT Galatea Resurrects #14 is out with 64 new reviews! You can access the issu= e directly at http://galatearesurrection14.blogspot.com For convenience, t= he Contents are listed below, Eileen Tabios Editor, Galatea Resurrects GR #14 TABLE OF CONTENTS May 5, 2010 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION By Eileen Tabios NEW REVIEWS Crag Hill reviews SHOULDER SEASON by Ange Mlinko Steven Fama reviews MUCH LIKE YOU SHARK by Logan Ryan Smith Patrick James Dunagan reviews FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD by Neeli Cherkovski; = THE PLEROMA by Vincent Ferrini; THIRSTING FOR PEACE IN A RAGING CENTURY: SE= LECTED POEMS 1961-1985 (NEW & REVISED EDITION) by Edward Sanders; LET'S NOT= KEEP FIGHTING THE TROJAN WAR: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1986-2009 by Edward S= anders; BODY CLOCK by Eleni Sikelianos; and LEAVES OF GRASS, 1860: THE 150T= H ANNIVERSARY FACSIMILE EDITION by Walt Whitman, edited by Jason Stacy Kristen Orser reviews THE LAST 4 THINGS by Kate Greenstreet Richard Kostelanetz reviews POESIE DER ENTSCHLEUNIGUNG: EIN LESEBUCH by Rob= ert Lax, Ed. Sigrid Hauff Jim McCrary reviews MONDO CRAMPO by Juliet Cook; SILVERONDA by Lucy Harvest= Clarke; THE CONTORTIONS by Nicole Mauro; GOODNIGHT VOICE by Dana Ward; GUT= TER CATHOLIC LOVE SONG by Joseph Wood; and MY DAY AIMLESSLY WALKING VANCOUV= ER, WASH by James Yeary, illustrated by Nate Orton John Herbert Cunningham reviews SELECTIONS by Andr=E9 Breton, edited and wi= th an introduction by Mark Polizzotti; MARTINIQUE: SNAKE CHARMER by Andr=E9= Breton, translated by David W. Seaman with introduction by Franklin Rosemo= nt; HYPODERMIC LIGHT: THE POETRY OF PHILIP LAMANTIA AND THE QUESTION OF SUR= REALISM by Steven Frattali; and TAU by Philip Lamantia / JOURNEY TO THE END= by John Hoffman, ed. Garrett Caples Tom Beckett reviews BHARAT JIVA by kari edwards and NO GENDER (REFLECTIONS = ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF kari edwards), Edited by Julian Brolaski, erica kau= fman & E. Tracy Grinnell Eileen Tabios engages BHARAT JIVA by kari edwards and NO GENDER (REFLECTION= S ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF kari edwards), Edited by Julian Brolaski, erica k= aufman & E. Tracy Grinnell Fiona Sze-Lorrain reviews NEW EXERCISES by Franck Andr=E9 Jamme, Translated= from the French by Charles Borkhuis Joey Madia reviews GRIEF SUITE by Bobbi Lurie Thomas Fink reviews GENJI MONOGATARI by Mark Young Eileen Tabios engages GENJI MONOGATARI by Mark Young Peg Duthie engages THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS by Bern Mulvey Petra Backonja reviews CATALOGUE OF BURNT TEXT by Timothy David Orme Delia Tramontina reviews MANHATTEN by Sarah Rosenthal Eileen Tabios engages NTST: THE COLLECTED PWOERMDS OF GEOF HUTH John Herbert Cunningham reviews CHARLES BAUDELAIRE by Rosemary Lloyd; THE F= LOWERS OF EVIL by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Keith Waldrop; ARTHUR R= IMBAUD: COMPLETE WORKS, translated by Paul Schmidt; and THE ILLUMINATIONS b= y Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Donald Revell Harry Thorne reviews BOOK MADE OF FOREST by Jared Stanley Jai Arun Ravine reviews POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT by Ronaldo V. Wilson William Allegrezza reviews AS IF FREE by Burt Kimmelman Crag Hill engages TAKE IT by Joshua Beckman Eileen Tabios engages DESTRUCTION MYTH and CREATION MYTHS, both by Mathias = Svalina Peg Duthie engages REFUSING DESPAIR: SELECTED POEMS AND JOURNAL WRITINGS by= Teresa Anderson Meredith Caliman reviews POETRY OF THE LAW: FROM CHAUCER TO THE PRESENT, co= -edited by David Kader and Michael Stanford Fiona Sze-Lorrain reviews AURA: LAST ESSAYS by Gustaf Sobin Eileen Tabios engages EASY EDEN by Micah Ballard and Patrick James Dunagan Emmanuel Sigauke reviews INTWASA POETRY [anthology of 15 Zimbabwean poets] = edited by Jane Morris Derek Coyle reviews NEW SHADOWS by Jon Curley Eileen Tabios engages INSIDES SHE SWALLOWED by Sasha Pimentel Chacon; EASTE= R SUNDAY by Barbara Jane Reyes; and SIMON J. ORTIZ; A POETIC LEGACY OF INDI= GENOUS CONTINUANCE, co-edited by Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez and Evelina Z= uni Lucero Jeff Harrison engages PRAU by Jean Vengua Marianne Villanueva reviews THE TRANSLATOR'S DIARY by Jon Pineda Eileen Tabios engages TIME OF SKY / CASTLES IN THE AIR by Ayane Kawata, Tra= nslated by Sawako Nakayasu Julie T. Ewald reviews TONGUE LIKE A STINGER by Juliet Cook John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews GURLESQUE: THE NEW GRRLY, GROTESQUE, BURLESQ= UE POETICS co-edited by Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg Eileen Tabios engages NINETEEN HOURS (RADIO EDIT) by Jim Wagner Crag Hill reviews GREEN CAMMIE by Crysta Casey Tom Hibbard reviews BLUE MOUNT TO 161 and NIGHTBIRDS, both by Garin Cycholl Kristina Marie Darling reviews FABULOUS ESSENTIAL by Niina Pollari Eileen Tabios engages A MUSICS by Carrie Hunter Julie T. Ewald reviews MAKE BELIEVE by Thom Donovan Eileen Tabios engages THE OTHER BLUEBOOK: ON THE HIGH SEAS OF DISCOVERY by = Reme Grefalda THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS William Allegrezza FOCUS ON POETS Conversation with THOMAS FINK LYNN BEHRENDT: An Interview Featured Poet: ANITA MOHAN FEATURE ARTICLE Herman Hesse's Siddhartha: A Fictional Account of the Life of Siddhartha Ga= utama, the Buddha by Nicholas T. Spatafora FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez reviews POEMS SINGKWENTA'Y CINCO by Alfred A. Yuson Erika Moya reviews SLAVES TO DO THESE THINGS by Amy King 2 ADVERTISEMENTS Hay(na)ku for Haiti--a Haiti Relief Fundraiser Tiny Poetry Books Feeding the World...Literally! BACK COVER Loud Buzzing...and Snores... =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 5 May 2010 14:10:38 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CE Putnam Subject: INTERRUPTURE DOCUMENT #6: Performance Videos from 4/20 performance. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii INTERRUPTURE DOCUMENT #6: Performance Videos from 4/20 performance. INTERRUPTURE is a group of experimental poets that performs text compositions structured as a game. Each piece follows a set of rules that determines who, what, where, when, and how a poet will read their verse as the play of the game unfolds. These rules might encourage silence, polyphony, erasure, repetition, modulation, and so on, making each game a unique event. Team Interrupture lineup for Document #6: Daniel Comiskey, Kreg Hasegawa, Bryant Mason, Annalisa Pesek, and C.E. Putnam. Performance Date / Location: Canoe Social Club, Seattle, Wa - April 20, 2010 Website: http://www.pisor-industries.org/interrupture/ Video links: #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ2JgH3m5AM #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjKX6-AMT-k #3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_cJzJ80C3s #4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCLRH7xA-5Y #5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qemx93cZmAU ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:21:52 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Matthew Landis Subject: Re: Query: Modern American Poetry syllabi [+ job for Po.Found] In-Reply-To: <426006.29185.qm@web83308.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable How Modern are we speaking? Do you want to focus on contemporary writers or are you also looking to include "less-token" modernists/Beats/langpo/san fran rennaissance poets etc? I've found that the Elective Affinities blog is a very useful resource for more contemporary/younger writers. http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/ It's a cooperative anthology of US Poetry run by a friend of mine, Carlos Soto Roman. Here's the poets featured so far: Kevin Varrone Debrah Morkun Bhanu Kapil Kim Gek Lin Short Samantha Giles Jason Zuzga Dana Ward Lauren Ireland Jen Benka Ryan Eckes Rodrigo Toscano Magdalena Zurawski Julian T. Brolaski Jamie Townsend Laura Jaramillo Tyrone Williams Brandon Holmquest David Wolach Frank Sherlock Hailey Higdon Marion Bell Laura Sims Thom Donovan Julia Bloch CAConrad On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:39 PM, amy king wrote: > Recommendations for Modern American Poetry course? Goal: a > balanced-listing of poets. No tokens. > > Thanks in advance, > > Amy > > From Poetry Foundation: > > It=92s more important for this particular job to have someone who underst= ands > the website development process and has a grasp of emerging technologies, > than to have someone who=92s completely current with or even part of the > poetry scene. > >> > >>http://www.poetryfoundation.org/jobs#Web-Project-Manager > >> > _______ > > > Recent: > > > http://galatearesurrection14.blogspot.com/2010/04/slaves-to-do-these-thin= gs-by-amy-king.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, 5 May 2010 19:18:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: Query: Modern American Poetry syllabi [+ job for Po.Found] In-Reply-To: <426006.29185.qm@web83308.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable see paul hoover textbook & supplement it with eliz bishop & anne sexton. On 5/5/10 5:39 PM, "amy king" wrote: > Recommendations for Modern American Poetry course? Goal: a balanced-lis= ting > of poets. No tokens. >=20 > Thanks in advance, >=20 > Amy > =20 > From Poetry Foundation: >=20 > It=B9s more important for this particular job to have someone who understan= ds > the website development process and has a grasp of emerging technologies,= than > to have someone who=B9s completely current with or even part of the poetry > scene. >>>=20 >>> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/jobs#Web-Project-Manager >>>=20 > _______ >=20 >=20 > Recent: >=20 > http://galatearesurrection14.blogspot.com/2010/04/slaves-to-do-these-thin= gs-by > -amy-king.html >=20 >=20 >=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 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, 5 May 2010 16:50:10 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Bowering Subject: Re: Query: Modern American Poetry syllabi [+ job for Po.Found] In-Reply-To: <426006.29185.qm@web83308.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> 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 By "American," do you mean U.S.? gb Or do you include, say, Cuban, Chileno, Mexican poetry? On May 5, 2010, at 2:39 PM, amy king wrote: > Recommendations for Modern American Poetry course? Goal: a =20 > balanced-listing of poets. No tokens. > > Thanks in advance, > > Amy > > =46rom Poetry Foundation: > > It=92s more important for this particular job to have someone who =20 > understands the website development process and has a grasp of =20 > emerging technologies, than to have someone who=92s completely =20 > current with or even part of the poetry scene. >>> >>> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/jobs#Web-Project-Manager >>> > _______ > > > Recent: > > http://galatearesurrection14.blogspot.com/2010/04/slaves-to-do-=20 > these-things-by-amy-king.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 George Bowering, DLitt., Big as all indoors. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 5 May 2010 18:28:52 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: Query: Modern American Poetry syllabi [+ job for Po.Found] In-Reply-To: <426006.29185.qm@web83308.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 how is your institution framing "modern"? what are pre-req, what is post-req? or, this being an area of interest, what course is it replacing -- either on the schedule or for your students? -- 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: Wed, 5 May 2010 21:51:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: TWELVE SOLOISTS Friday Night @ Launch Pad Gallery 8:00 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed TWELVE SOLOISTS Friday, May 7th, 8 P.M. 12 SOLOISTS at Launch Pad Gallery 721 Franklin Ave. Brooklyn (Crown Heights) FREE BYOB Please come! The whole to last roughly until 10:15 or so - Each solo ten minutes in length - Playing in Alphabetic Order (approximate times): 1. Alan Sondheim 2. Avi Fox-Rosen 3. Jacob wick 4. Jason Vance 5. Jay Foote 6. Kenny warren intermission 7. Jesse Gold 8. josh sinton 9. JP Schlegelmilch 10. Mike Kammers 11. Myk Freedman 12. Owen Stewart-Robinson Organized by Myk Freedman - ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:15:23 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "Adam Golaski". Rest of header flushed. From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: May 10: Golaski, Henchey & Karmin in Hartford MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MONDAY= Readings by:=0AAdam Golaski=0AAndrea Henchey =0AJennifer Karmin=0A=0AMONDAY= , MAY 10th @ 7:30 PM=0Aat La Paloma Sabanera=0A405 Capital Avenue =0AHartfo= rd, Connecticut=0Ahttp://lapalomacoffeehouse.com=0A=0AADAM GOLASKI, co-foun= der of Flim Forum Press, is the author of Worse Than Myself (2008) and Colo= r Plates (2010). "Green," his ongoing translation of Sir Gawain & the Green= Knight, is published at Open Letters Monthly, where he is also a contribut= ing editor.=0A=0AANDREA HENCHEY was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raise= d in a nearby suburb. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from St. Micha= el=E2=80=99s College and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Smith College.= =C2=A0 After earning her degrees, Henchey taught high school English for fi= ve years and served as advisor for the school=E2=80=99s literary magazine. = Her work has appeared in Absent Magazine, The Onion River Review, and GHOTI= Magazine. Though her travels have brought her to more exotic locales such = as Nepal, Kenya, and Chile, she currently lives in Connecticut where she co= ordinates =E2=80=9CInescapable Rhythms,=E2=80=9D a poetry reading series, t= rains for marathons with her mutt, Bodhisattva, and bartends full-time. =0A= =0AJENNIFER KARMIN's text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was published by Fli= m Forum Press in 2010. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder o= f the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary project= s have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, a= nd on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the= Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disemb= odying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured o= nline at How2. At home in Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to imm= igrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public s= chools.=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: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:39:31 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Siegell Subject: wild life rifle fire > a new review Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" "A stunningly beautiful work" A huge THANK YOU to GEOF HUTH (dbqp) for his new review of *wild life rifle fire*: http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2010/04/riflefire.html "This is a book examining language, finding the tricks in the language=20= that the language couldn't know it had." Thanks, Geof! Yours, Paul=20 http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com/ _ Friday, May 7th: Join me at The Soundry in Vienna, Virginia=20 w/ TONY MANCUS and DANIEL COLLINS... YES!=20 "E.T. POEM HOME": http://bit.ly/cBSfXV =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 5 May 2010 11:08:59 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Naomi Buck Palagi Subject: a poem on a radio and more.. In-Reply-To: <1273045276.3837.12.camel@chris-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Just hoping to get a little traffic to these sites--=20 =A0 I have a poem posted on a great chicago DJ's blog, and a few more at Blue &= Yellow Dog-- hope you'll visit! =A0 http://wxrt.radio.com/2010/04/29/smell-of-bacon-on-a-woman/ =A0 http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com/naomi-buck-palagi.html =A0 Thanks! Naomi Buck Palagi=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, 6 May 2010 06:38:33 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sarah Rosenthal Subject: A Community Writing Itself is out from Dalkey MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My collection of interviews is out from Dalkey Archive. It's called A Commu= nity Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers or the Bay Area an= d features interviews with Kathleen Fraser, Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Macke= y, Brenda Hillman, Camille Roy, Juliana Spahr, Truong Tran, Barbara Guest, = Stephen Ratcliffe, Robert Gluck, Elizabeth Robinson, and Leslie Scalapino, = as well as an introduction that places the writing within a historical cont= ext of experimentation in Bay Area writing. =0A=0AAvailable at: =0Ahttp://w= ww.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GCOI=3D15647100098560 =0A(and Amazon)=0A=0ABlurb= s:=0ASarah Rosenthal's interviews with some of the most engaging and import= ant American poets of the time, all working in the Bay Area, provide vivid = commentary on the state of the art and some of the most useful commentary a= vailable on the work of each individual writer. =E2=80=93 Charles Bernstein= =0A=C2=A0 =0AAn extraordinary compendium of close engagement with the writi= ng, ethos, and practice of a number of poets who are in situ in the Bay Are= a, one of the most historically fertile grounds for experimental poetry for= a great number of decades. It=E2=80=99s where the Beat literary movement b= urst upon the Culture at large, and the New American Poetry and its legacie= s became a cohesive literary =E2=80=9Coutrider=E2=80=9D force. The current = poetics community is just as radically potent and individually active, forg= ing new syntaxes and a =E2=80=9Cnew company of voices,=E2=80=9D as Michael = Palmer puts it. Considerations of history, politics, psychology, spirituali= ty, identity, gender, media, chance operation, performance, and community k= eep the discourse lively and relevant. This is an invaluable resource of = =E2=80=9Cdeep talk=E2=80=9D for writers, scholars, and fans alike. Hats off= to Sarah Rosenthal who has kept track and asked the provocative questions.= =E2=80=93 Anne Waldman =0A=C2=A0 =0ASarah Rosenthal's teleological study o= f Bay Area poetics, in the form of a liquid, prickly conversation, manages = to delight its reader at the same time that it generates a new set of obses= sions. A poetry "expressed in color." The moment when "what seemed impossib= ly strange becomes less so =E2=80=93 sometimes anyway." How an alphabet mig= ht "unbraid" itself, which isn't "metatext." It's sudden and overwhelming k= nowledge about what "the end of the poem" might bring. See: Agamben via Hoo= doo via a "secret autobiography." In its exploration of intersections of ex= perimental writing community, feminine monstrosity and "horny" form =E2=80= =93 at least, that's where my reading ran a series of red lights =E2=80=93 = Rosenthal's book is a delicious graft of thinking and writing, performed ju= st outside the safety zone of transcription. You can't go wrong with the mo= st intense form of banter: "turning about with," from the Latin root conver= sationem, "others." =E2=80=93 Bhanu Kapil =0A=C2=A0 =0AWhat Steve Abbott an= d Bruce Boone achieved with the Left/Write Unity Conference in early eighti= es San Francisco, bringing together differing groups of poets, Sarah Rosent= hal thankfully reenacts in her collection of interviews with Bay Area write= rs. In A Community Writing Itself twelve poets serving various poetics, fro= m Language writing to New Narrative, are allowed to break consensus regardi= ng the notion of a singular development of shared ambitions. As approaches = to the politics of writing are individually charted, connections and commun= ities unfold. If one is interested in the evolution of American poetry sinc= e 1950, it is necessary to engage these conversations. =E2=80=93 Claudia Ra= nkine=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, 6 May 2010 11:18:03 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Deborah Poe Subject: Zinc Bar, NYC on May 9th: Marcella Durand and Deborah Poe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marcella Durand and Deborah Poe read at Zinc Bar on Sunday, May 9th at 6:30PM. Zinc Bar is located at 82 West 3rd Street, Greenwich Village. * * Marcella Durand=92s recent books are Traffic & Weather, AREA, and The Anatomy of Oil. Her poems and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, NYFA Current, and other journals. She has written and presented on the intersections of poetry with ecology and astronomy, an= d is the 2009 Poetry Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections Elements (Stockport Flats Press 2010) and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008). Deborah=92s writing is forthcoming or has recently appeared in journals suc= h as Sidebrow, Colorado Review, Ploughshares, Filter Literary Journal, A Sing Economy and Denver Quarterly. For more information about Deborah, visit www.deborahpoe.com. Facebook Event page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=3D119495051408548&ref=3Dt= s =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 5 May 2010 23:04:27 +0200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jesse Seldess Subject: Antennae 11 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Antennae 11 is now available. ----------- ----------- ANTENNAE 11 May 2010 $8 Performance texts by Karinne Keithley Poems by Jena Osman / Corey Mead / Laura Moriarty / Kit Robinson & Ted Greenwald / Anthony Madrid / C.J. Martin / Joe Milazzo / Barbara Cully Music scores by Adam Overton A novel excerpt by Pamela Lu Cover by Tobias Kraft ----------- ----------- Ordering options: - Online payment through Antennae website: http://www.antennae-journal.com/antennae11.html - Check to Jesse Seldess 1321 Woodland Lane Riverwoods, IL 60015 ----------- Copies of Antennae 10 are still available as well, and can be ordered same as above: ANTENNAE 10 March 2009 $8 Poems by Frances Richard / Uljana Wolf - tr. Nathaniel Otting / Janice Lee / Eric Lindley / Christian Hawkey with Georg Trakl / Boyer Rickel Music scores by Joseph Kudirka Performance texts by Corina Copp ----------- Also note that free pdf versions of issues 1 - 7 can be downloaded from the issues pages of the website: www.antennae-journal.com Best wishes, Jesse ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 13:43:40 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Exhibit at Boog Fest's Small, Small Press Fair Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, Boog City would like to invite you to exhibit at our 7th annual small, =20= small press fair (with indie records and crafts, too). The fair will once again span two days, Sat. Sept. 25-Sun. Sept. 26, =20 and be held at Brooklyn=92s Unnameable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave.) in =20= their spacious backyard. The fair will take place during the 4th =20 annual Welcome to Boog City poetry and music festival. The fair will open on Saturday with three hours of performances by =20 authors from each of the tablers. Tables are $30 for the fair, $20 dollars if you bring your own bridge =20= table (up to 3=92 x 3=92) with a portion of the proceeds going to help =20= Unnameable Books. Door charge for attendees is by donation. Please email me to reserve your table and schedule your reader. We =20 look forward to the fair once again being a warm gathering with =20 wonderful books, poetry, music, and other items from around our =20 creative community. You can reach me at this email address, editor@boogcity.com. This year=92s fair will feature readings, musical performances, poets in = =20 conversation, and a lively panel. as ever, David P.S. Apologies if you received more than one copy of this email. -- 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) To subscribe free to The December Podcast: = http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=3D3431698= 80 For music from Gilmore boys: http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 6 May 2010 11:56:49 -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 FLASH NO. 56 (2010) Animal Outtakes by Chad Faries Osama | Opposition Dog | Mule Maneuvers | Horse Latitudes Chad Faries has published poems, essays, photographs, interviews, and creative non-fiction in Exquisite Corpse, Mudfish, New American Writing, Barrow Street, The Hawai'i Review, Afterimage, Post Road, and others. The Border Will Be Soon was the winner of the Emergency Press open book competition in 2005. The Book of Knowledge, a poetry collection whose design and contents were inspired by a 1911 children's encyclopedia, is being published by Vulgar Marsala Press. And a memoir, Some Houses: A Faries' Tale, is in manuscript. Faries has been a Fulbright Fellow at Etovos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, and teaches, at present, at Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia. 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: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:42:39 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: 12 or 20 (small press) questions with Jenny Penberthy, on The Capilano Review; http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/05/12-or-20-small-press-questions-jenny.html rob -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons 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: Thu, 6 May 2010 17:23:37 -0400 Reply-To: sanjdoller@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: sandra de 1913 Subject: 1913 a journal of forms' Issue 4 is here! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please check out the newest new issue of 1913 a journal of forms #4...hot off the roller! $13 available for purchase via PayPal on 1913's website or via Small Press Distribution. A faux-bois cover a la Picasso's 1913 papier colle & Duchamp's 1913 bicycle wheel inset hug 300 pages of celebrated new work by: Pierre Albert-Jourdan translated by John Taylor David Annwn Louis Armand Cherise Bacalski Meg Barboza Chris Bolin Jules Boykoff Joel Chace Julia Cohen Kevin Colpean Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch Bruce Covey Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford Catherine Daly Jordan Davis Christopher DeWeese Biswamit Dwibedy Judson Evans Robert Fernandez Brad Flis J A Frazee Arielle Greenberg & Rachel Zucker Barbara Henning Kevin Holden Karla Kelsey Amir Kenan Daniel Khalastchi Adrian Kien & Kelly Packer Kim Koga Erik Leavitt Sandra Liu Megan London Alistair McCartney Aaron McCollough Susan Maxwell Richard Meier Philip Metres Albert Mobilio Sara Mumolo Mel Nichols Linnea Ogden Tom Orange Caryl Pagel Alejandra Pizarnik translated by Jason Stumpf Srikanth Reddy Broc Rossell Shya Scanlon Michael Schiavo Evie Shockley Will Smiley Brian Kim Stefans Adam Strauss Mathias Svalina Jennifer Tatum-Cotamagana Dan Thomas-Glass Edwin Torres Rodrigo Toscano Marina Tsvetaeva translated by James Stotts Sara Veglahn Catherine Wagner Diane Wald Lynn Xu John Yau Karena Youtz -- xs, Sandra 1913. l'editrice de 1913, Sandra Doller (n=E9e Miller) http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/sdoller/sdoller.htm http://omnidawn.wordpress.com/ * Why 1913? Follow us on Twitter 1913 Who? Join us on Facebook * NEW! from 1913: 1913 a journal of forms, Issue 4 "Ozalid" by Biswamit Dwibedy "READ" 1913's annual translation anthology from the Tamaas seminars in Pari= s http://www.journal1913.org * Forthcoming from 1913: "Hg-the liquid" by Ward Tietz Two collaborations by Mendi+Keith Obadike "Home/Birth: A Poemic" by Arielle Greenberg & Rachel Zucker "Wonderbender" by Diane Wald http://www.1913press.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, 6 May 2010 15:26:35 -0300 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Regina Pinto Subject: "Beware of the RaGhost" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable BEWARE OF THE RAGHOST by Regina Pinto, preface by Martha Deed http://arteonline.arq.br/netbooks/ Electronic Nonsense Artist's "Netbook" inspired by Lewis Carroll and by the words: CREAM COLORED BUNGALOW, RAREBIT, GHOST, SCUFF, MOCK, PASTURES, BACKLASH, MIDNIGHT, FLATTENING, FOLIAGE, INVOCATION, BLISTERED, MIRROR, BOISTEROUSLY (suggested by the call done by Millie Niss and Martha Deed / october - 2009 at http://erewhon2.tumblr.com/ ) =A0CONTENTS: MOTS Valise, MOTS NONgame, MOTS Poem, MOTS Sound & MOT X PAROLE Tested on Mozilla Firefox & Google Chrome, screen resolution 1280 x 800 px Have fun, Regina =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 6 May 2010 20:06:49 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Hoa Nguyen Comments: To: rloden@concentric.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 http://sites.google.com/site/kmqptcsh/fsngijn =20 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hot= mail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=3Dmultiaccount&ocid=3DP= ID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 6 May 2010 18:02:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Poetry Project Subject: Events at The Poetry Project 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: =20 Friday, May 7, 10 PM Will Edmiston & Anna Vitale Will Edmiston is a poet and librarian living in Brooklyn. =A0His writing can be found in The Tiny, the Agriculture Reader, EOAGH, The Boog Reader 4, and The Bridge. =A0He serves as the volunteer archivist at The Poetry Project. Anna Vitale is the author of Breaststa, a long poem published by Mondo Bummer (2010). Her writing has appeared in Model Homes, Shifter, and With + Stand, and more is forthcoming in Vanitas and The West Wind Review. A freeform DJ at WCBN-FM Ann Arbor, she also helped start the online audio publication textsound. Monday, May 10, 8 PM Ish Klein & Farid Matuk Ish Klein=B9s book, Union! came out=A0 April=A0 2009 through=A0 the Canarium Press. Her poems have been published in The Canary, Gare du Nord, The Hat magazine= , X-connect,=A0 Bridge, Spork and are online.=A0 She also makes movies and lives in Philadelphia. Farid Matuk is the author of Is it the King? (Effing, 2006).=A0 His poems hav= e appeared most recently in The Boston Review, Barrelhouse, Matchbook, and Bi= g Bridge and are forthcoming in Typesetter. Matuk=B9s translations from Spanish have appeared in Bombay Gin, Translation Review, and Kadar Koli.=A0 His essay= s and reviews have appeared in Cross-Cultural Poetics and Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, among others. =A0His work is also included in the anthology Between Heaven and Texas (University of Texas Press) and will appear in the forthcoming anthology What=B9s Your Exit? (Word Riot Press).=A0 His collection, This Isa Nice Neighborhood, will be released by Letter Machine Editions in the fall of 2010.=A0Matuk lives in Dallas with the poet Susan Briante where together with the nonprofit WordSpace they host readings for traveling authors. =20 Wednesday, May 12, 8 PM Ray DiPalma & Michael Lally Ray DiPalma=B9s recent books include The Ancient Use of Stone (Seismicity Editions, 2009), Pensieri (Echo Park Press, 2009), Further Apocrypha (Pie i= n the Sky Press, 2009), L=B9Usage ancien de la pierre (=C9ditions Gr=E8ges, 2007), Quatre Po=E8mes (=C9ditions Comp=B9Act, 2006) (both books translated into French by Vincent Dussol), and Caper, Volume I. (ML & NLF, 2006). Among his earlie= r collections are Numbers and Tempers, Le Tombeau de Reverdy, Provocations, H=F4tel des Ruines, Gnossiennes, and Letters. He lives in New York City and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Michael Lally has published 27 books, including: March 18, 2003 (Libellum and Charta Presses, with illustrations by Alex Katz); It=B9s Not Nostalgia (winner of an American Book Award) and It Takes One To Know One ( both from Black Sparrow Press);=A0 Cant Be Wrong (Coffee House Press), winner of the 1997 Oakland Pen Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature; Hollywood Magic (Little Caesar); Attitude (Hanging Loose); and the 1970s =B3underground bestseller=B2 Rocky Dies Yellow (Blue Wind Press). Lally has worked at a variety of jobs, from college teacher to limousine driver, reviewing books for The Washington Post and The Village Voice, to screenwriting (e.g. narration for Drugstore Cowboy, co-wrote Fogbound, the Thessalaski International Film Festival award winner for 2003) and TV and film acting (e.g., played an artist on NYPD Blue, a psycho detective on JAG= , a crusty cavalry captain on Deadwood, a detective in Basic Instinct, Sykes in White Fang, the voice of =B3Sparks=B2 in Cool World, et al.) Since 2006, he has hosted a blog called Lally=B9s Alley that has become a popular forum for his eclectic interests=8Bpoetry, music, politics, art, movies, 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: Sat, 8 May 2010 09:30:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dan Wilcox Subject: Walt Whitman Birthday Reading, Albany, NY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Celebrate the Birthday of=20 Walt Whitman at the=20 Robert Burns Statue Washington Park, Albany, NY A reading of =93Song of Myself=94 by local poets & other citizens Monday, May 31, 2010 6:00 PM=20 rain or shine free presented by the Poetry Motel Foundation, the Hudson Valley Writers Guild, & Capital Pride 2010 (Capital Pride 2010 is produced by the Capital District=20 Gay & Lesbian Community Council) (for information call 482-0262)=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, 8 May 2010 08:23:30 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Fieled Subject: Three "Held" Links MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Three links for different sections of "Held," the sequel to my Blazevox book "Chimes." Oranges and Sardines (pp 52-55): http://www.issuu.com/didimenendez/docs/osjune2010. Narrative Discontinuities: http://recycledkarmapress.synthasite.com/resources/NarrativeDiscontinuitiesAnthologyRecycledKarmaPress2010.pdf. Anything Anymore Anywhere (print only): http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/anything-anymore-anywhere-spring-2010/8488141. Many Thanks, Adam ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 03:20:43 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: new chapbook by yuko otomo other books by her upon request MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit a second book by yuko otomo just out on the new creature press a lovely box of poems edition of 50 back channel for info 15 including postage On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:39:01 +0530 steve dalachinsky writes: > there's a lovely little book by artist and poet yuko otomo > on propaganda press - > a sunday afternoon in the isle of museum cover by the author > poems about paintings and photos at the MET - $6 > > availble through the author - back channel or through > alt-current.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: Sat, 8 May 2010 10:25:45 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cara Benson Subject: Pacific Northwest trip MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Readying for a Pacific Northwest trip. Oh, the r= Poets! Listees...=0A=0AReadying for a Pacific Northwest=A0trip.=A0Oh, the r= eal=A0world! =0A=0AMay 11 - 13 in San Francisco.=0AMay 11 at 7pm: Reading a= t City Lights with Kate Durbin and Sarah Louise Green.=A0=0A=A0http://www.c= itylights.com/bookstore/?fa=3Devent&event_id=3D941=0A=0AMay 13,14 in Olympi= a, Washington.=0AMay 13: Reading at David Wolach's amazing Press Series at = Evergreen State College.=0Ahttp://davidwolach.blogspot.com/2010/05/press-ev= ent-cara-benson-evergreen-may.html=A0=0A=A0=A0=0AMay 14=A0- 17 in Portland,= OR.=A0=0AMay 16: Reading at the collectively run=A0Spare Room with David W= olach and Jen Coleman.=0Ahttp://www.flim.com/spareroom/=0A=0AIf you're in t= hose areas on those dates, come out! Say hi. Read me some of your poems on = a streetcorner...=0A=0Acomrade in poems,=0ACara Benson=0A=0A_______________= _________=A0=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com=A0{homepage}=A0=0Ahttp://www.nece= ssetics.com/sousrature.html=A0{journal}=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, 8 May 2010 11:35:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Country Valley Subject: New from Country Valley Press MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes New from Country Valley Press: Empty Hands Broadside #17 - ONE PHASE OF THE HUNT by Andrew Schelling Folded broadside of 16 poems. Limited to 100 copies. $1 or $3 signed, postpaid. Send check or money order to: Country Valley Press Mark Kuniya P.O. Box 1271 Zephyr Cove, NV 89448 Information about past issues or subscriptions to the series can be viewed at http://web.mac.com/countryvalley ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 15:45:53 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: World Listening Day MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You are invited to participate in the first World Listening Day, which happens on Sunday, July 18, 2010. The purposes of World Listening Day = are:=20 =B7 to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the = world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology =B7 to raise awareness about issues related to the World = Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography =B7 to design and implement educational initiatives which = explore these concepts and practices =20 July 18 was chosen as the date for World Listening Day because it is the birthday of the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. Schafer is one of = the founders of the Acoustic Ecology movement. The World Soundscape Project, which he directed, is an important organization which has inspired a lot = of activity in this field, and his book Soundscape: The Tuning of the World helped to define many of the terms and background behind the acoustic ecology movement.=20 =20 Here are some individuals and organizations that have committed to participating in World Listening Day: =20 =20 =20 Organizations American Society for Acoustic Ecology Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology =93Sounds Like Radio=94 (WDBX FM) World Listening Project =20 Individuals and Projects Hasan Abdur-Razzaq (Columbus, OH) Dave Armstrong (Carbondale, IL) Steve Barsotti (Seattle, WA) Rebecca Caines (Guelph, Canada) Chad Clark (Chicago Phonography) Eva Fahle-Clouts (Charmouth, UK) Maile Colbert (Alaska) =96 Auroral Borealis listening group Gerard Cox (Columbus, OH) Bj=F6rn Eriksson (Sweden) Marcos Fernandes (Japan) Dan Godston (Chicago, USA) Bernie Krause (Glen Ellen, CA) Norman Long (Chicago) Michael Noble (Seoul, Korea) John Owens (Miami, FL) Harry Ross (London) =96 Fruit for the Apocalypse Kamal Sabran (Ipoh, Malaysia) Vijayendra Sekhon (India) Heather Spence (Mexico) Carl Stone (Los Angeles) Adam Smith (Columbus, OH) Fereshteh Toosi (Chicago) Sarah Weaver (New York) =85more info TBA =20 Here is how you can participate in World Listening Day:=20 =B7 You can set aside some time when you pay attention to your soundscape.=20 =B7 You can organize a listening party when people play field recordings.=20 =B7 You can organize a soundwalk.=20 =B7 Other possibilities=85 =20 Please email dgodston@gmail.com if you would like to organize or = participate in an event happening on World Listening Day. Updates regarding more = events and participating individuals will be announced soon.=20 =20 Links:=20 http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/=20 http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/wfae/home/ http://mwsae.org/=20 http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.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: Sat, 8 May 2010 16:38:51 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: Ekphrastic Nexus MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ekphrastic Nexus: Visual Art and Creative Writing Friday, June 25 (6 p.m.) at Chicago Urban Art Society You are invited to attend "Ekphrastic Nexus: Visual Art and Creative Writing," which includes a panel discussion, followed by performances. This event is part of the "Studio Chicago" calendar of events. There is a suggested donation, and refreshments will be provided. The panel involves writers and visual artists about text-image collaborations, as well as writers who have gotten inspiration from visual art, and it explores ways writers make connections with art and the visual artistic process, furthering the continuum of the artist's studio as school, gallery, political stance, sanctuary, and muse. Contemporary writers and artists need a clean, well lit room of their own to create. Whether physical as a cabin in the woods or ubiquitous as online presence, the studio matters to Chicago culture makers because of the many out-of-time or out-of-ethics rituals it suggests. Making art doesn't have to be political: this freedom is what makes art radically political. We will discuss details about the spaces in which we work, whether those spaces are separate industrial studio space, home offices, or other kinds of spaces. Also, the nature of the work that happen in those studio spaces relates to how the spaces themselves are set up, whether the work involves what is done in solitude, or with collaborations (in physical and virtual spaces). We will consider how Chicago institutions and colloquia opportunities might support Chicago artists and writers. Participants include Annie Heckman (Owner + Director, StepSister Press), Eric Elshtain (Editor of Beard of Bees), Krista Franklin (writer, artist, and educator, Kathryn Born (editor of Chicago Art Magazine), Valerie Wallace (writer and educator), and Gene Tanta (writer, visual artist, and educator), moderated by Dan Godston (writer, musician, and educator). Chicago Urban Art Society (CUAS) exhibition + creative-use space 2229 South Halsted Street Chicago, IL 60608 Links: Annie Heckman: http://www.annieheckman.com/ Beard of Bees: http://beardofbees.com Borderbend Arts Collective: http://www.borderbend.org Chicago Art Magazine: http://chicagoartmagazine.com/ Chicago Urban Art Society: http://www.chicagourbanartsociety.org/ Gene Tanta: http://genetanta.cgpublisher.com/biography.html Krista Franklin: http://www.kristafranklin.com/ StepSister Press: http://stepsisterpress.com/ Studio Chicago: http://www.studiochicago.org/ Valerie Wallace: http://www.pw.org/content/valerie_wallace ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 02:16:24 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eleni Stecopoulos Subject: May 20: SUBTLE INTELLIGENT BODIES w/ Beth Murray, Bhanu Kapil, Margit Galanter In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable PLEASE FORWARD:=20 The Poetry Center presents SUBTLE INTELLIGENT BODIES Talks/performances by artists and holistic practitioners Margit Galanter Bhanu=20 Kapil Beth Murray with curator Eleni Stecopoulos=20 and in=20 conversation with the audience The Poetics of Healing: Creative=20 Investigations in Art=2C Medicine=2C and Somatic Practice http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/eventCalendar.html#HEALING =95 Thursday=2C May 20=2C 2010 7:00 pm @ Subterranean Arthouse=2C 2179 Bancroft Way=2C Berkeley $10 ($5 low=20 income) All programs free to SFSU students=20 and Poetry Center Members No one turned away for lack of funds http://subterraneanarthouse.org/ We hope to explore: =95 how bodywork or healing practice informs creative practice=2C and vice versa =95 the languages of specific holistic=20 systems =95 diagnosis=2C reading the body=2C reading with the body =95=09 non-verbal poetics and intelligence =95 embodiment and performance =95 inter-species care =95 healing and time Biographies:=20 MARGIT GALANTER is a dance artist=2C Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm= =2C and qigong practitioner. Her fascination with the construction and=20 value of movement has drawn her to embodied research and performance for decades. Margit has presented and taught extensively around the U.S.=20 and has an MA in Movement Research and Practice from NYU. She co-curates and founded SEEDS Festival=2C an international arts and ecology=20 experiment=2C and recently finished co-directing Earthdance=2C a dance=20 retreat center in Western Massachusetts. Margit=92s practice=2C Physical=20 Intelligence Life Art=2C is based in Oakland. Margit looks at how physical poetics effect the live/performance process. For this event=2C she will=20 investigate meridian lines and speak about their relationships to=20 engagement=2C presence=2C and breath=2C inviting the audience to join her i= n=20 movement and in reading the inscriptions created. PI practice:=20 www.physicalintelligence.org // arts site: www.margitg.wordpress.com. BHANU KAPIL is a British-raised Indian writer who lives now in Colorado. She teaches at Naropa University and Goddard College=2C and is the author of=20 four full-length collections of poetry/prose: "The Vertical=20 Interrogation of Strangers" (Kelsey Street Press=2C 2001)=2C "Incubation: a= =20 space for monsters" (Leon Works=2C 2006)=2C "humanimal [a project for futur= e children]" (Kelsey Street Press=2C 2009)=2C and "Schizophrene" (forthcomin= g from Nightboat Books=2C 2011). Since 1998=2C she has maintained a private= =20 practice as an integrative bodyworker=2C combining neuromuscular and=20 Ayurvedic therapies. As a writer=2C she is interested in questions of=20 trans-generational trauma--its processes and treatment--as they unfold=20 for immigrant communities. For this event=2C she will attempt to speak on=20 the role of trance and hallucination in the healing of war-time=20 violence=2C and the violence that comes after that. How might we open the body--in a text as on "the table"-- to a different time? =20 BETH=20 MURRAY has a homeopathy practice for people and animals. About her book The Island=2C published by Second Story Books=2C Laynie Brown wrote=2C "A= s=20 poetic healer=2C Murray is adept at the Doolittle-esque notion of=20 conversing with animals and elements." When Beth got her masters in=20 performance art in the early 90's=2C her pieces examined the intersections of animal and human consciousness. As a homeopath=2C she has continued=20 this focus. In her practice with humans=2C she utilizes a fascinating new=20 method pioneered by Rajan Sankaran that taps the capacity of language=20 and gesture to reveal the "non-human song" of each person's state. Her=20 life work is to develop a method to hear the specific "song" of=20 non-verbal beings. Last week=2C she was lucky enough to have attended the birth of a new eland at the zoo. Her websites are=20 www.myanimalhomeopath.com and www.wholehomeopathy.com. ELENI=20 STECOPOULOS is a poet and independent scholar. She is the author of=20 Armies of Compassion (Palm Press=2C 2010). With the Poetry Center=2C she=20 received a two-year grant from the Creative Work Fund=2C through which she curates the Poetics of Healing series and is writing a=20 creative-critical book that draws upon the series programs as live=20 research. She is at work as well on a book-length poem=2C "Earth Also is a Private Language=2C" which investigates the history and mythology of her=20 grandfather=92s hometown on the island of Evvia (Euboea)=2C its geothermal= =20 springs and hydrotherapy traditions=2C and their relationship to ancient=20 dream incubation. She has taught at several universities in the U.S. and abroad=2C and currently serves on the faculty of the Language and=20 Thinking Program at Bard College.=20 =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inb= ox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 9 May 2010 02:51:09 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "Australian=". Rest of header flushed. From: Jason Nelson Subject: sydney's siberia and other creatures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A newly finished trilogy of digital artworks/poems inspired by=0AAustralian= locales to spread out across the net. And of course I adore=0Athose who cr= itique and/or send to anyone everywhere.=0A=0AT: sydney=E2=80=99s siberia= =0AD: an interactive and infinitely zooming digital poem=0Ahttp://www.secre= ttechnology.com/sydney/=0A=0AT: Birds Still Warm from Flying=0AD: an intera= ctive/re-creatable poetry cube=0Ahttp://www.secrettechnology.com/ausco/poec= ubic2.html=0A=0AT: wittenoom and the cancerous breeze=0AD: digital poem cre= ated from ten sections=0Ahttp://www.secrettechnology.com/wittenoom/starther= e.html=0A=0Aagain and as always you rock and cheers, Jason Nelson=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, 9 May 2010 13:32:14 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Carrie Etter Subject: Infinite Difference appreciatively reviewed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm happy to say that a thoughtful, appreciative review of Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets appears in Stride Magazine, written by Steve Spence: http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag2010/april%202010/Women.spence.htm . Perhaps this will persuade those of you who haven't yet bought the anthology to do so? It's available at SPD here: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781848610996/infinite-difference-other-poetries-by-uk-women-poets.aspx . By the way, regarding the note at the end of the review about Helen Macdonald, she was repeatedly solicited, but never sent any work. Carrie http://carrieetter.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, 9 May 2010 10:14:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Vernon Frazer Subject: NEW VERNON FRAZER VIDEO: IMPROVISATIONS (Sections 1 and 2) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKBLb6wqXNY ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 15:20:19 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cara Benson Subject: Open Letter to Barack Obama MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am tutoring Afghan Women Writers, and put the call to = Dear Buffs,=0A=0AI am tutoring=A0Afghan Women Writers, and put the call to = them to write to Obama. Here is=A0a response:=0A=0A=A0http://www.awwproject= .org/2010/05/dear-president-obama/#comments=0A=A0=0APlease help to spread t= his=A0far and wide.=0A=0AThanks,=0ACara=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=A0=0A=A0= =0A=A0=0A________________________=A0=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com=A0{homepa= ge}=A0=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com/sousrature.html=A0{journal}=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, 9 May 2010 15:26:31 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cara Benson Subject: Re: Open Letter to Barack Obama MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.awwproject.org/2010= Sorry folks, here's the better link:=0A=0A=A0http://www.awwproject.org/2010= /05/dear-president-obama/=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A______________= __________=A0=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com=A0{homepage}=A0=0Ahttp://www.nec= essetics.com/sousrature.html=A0{journal}=0A=A0=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A______________= __________________=0AFrom: Cara Benson =0ATo: poetics@= listserv.buffalo.edu=0ASent: Sun, May 9, 2010 6:20:19 PM=0ASubject: Open Le= tter to Barack Obama=0A=0A=0ADear Buffs,=0A=0AI am tutoring=A0Afghan Women = Writers, and put the call to them to write to Obama. Here is=A0a response:= =0A=0A=A0http://www.awwproject.org/2010/05/dear-president-obama/#comments= =0A=A0=0APlease help to spread this=A0far and wide.=0A=0AThanks,=0ACara=A0= =0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=A0=0A=A0=0A=A0=0A________________________=A0=0Ahtt= p://www.necessetics.com=A0{homepage}=A0=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com/sousra= ture.html=A0{journal}=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, 9 May 2010 21:24:47 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sarah Rosenthal Subject: A Community - Redux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm re-posting this to try to correct the ugly formatting problem that happ= ened the first time around. --Sarah My collection of interviews is out from Dalkey Archive. It's called A Commu= nity Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers or the Bay Area an= d features interviews with Kathleen Fraser, Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Macke= y, Brenda Hillman, Camille Roy, Juliana Spahr, Truong Tran, Barbara Guest, = Stephen Ratcliffe, Robert Gluck, Elizabeth Robinson, and Leslie Scalapino, = as well as an introduction that places the writing within a historical cont= ext of experimentation in Bay Area writing.=20 Available at dalkeyarchive.com and amazon.com Blurbs: Sarah Rosenthal's interviews with some of the most engaging and important A= merican poets of the time, all working in the Bay Area, provide vivid comme= ntary on the state of the art and some of the most useful commentary availa= ble on the work of each individual writer. =E2=80=93 Charles Bernstein =20 An extraordinary compendium of close engagement with the writing, ethos, an= d practice of a number of poets who are in situ in the Bay Area, one of the= most historically fertile grounds for experimental poetry for a great numb= er of decades. It=E2=80=99s where the Beat literary movement burst upon the= Culture at large, and the New American Poetry and its legacies became a co= hesive literary =E2=80=9Coutrider=E2=80=9D force. The current poetics commu= nity is just as radically potent and individually active, forging new synta= xes and a =E2=80=9Cnew company of voices,=E2=80=9D as Michael Palmer puts i= t. Considerations of history, politics, psychology, spirituality, identity,= gender, media, chance operation, performance, and community keep the disco= urse lively and relevant. This is an invaluable resource of =E2=80=9Cdeep t= alk=E2=80=9D for writers, scholars, and fans alike. Hats off to Sarah Rosen= thal who has kept track and asked the provocative questions. =E2=80=93 Anne= Waldman=20 =20 Sarah Rosenthal's teleological study of Bay Area poetics, in the form of a = liquid, prickly conversation, manages to delight its reader at the same tim= e that it generates a new set of obsessions. A poetry "expressed in color."= The moment when "what seemed impossibly strange becomes less so =E2=80=93 = sometimes anyway." How an alphabet might "unbraid" itself, which isn't "met= atext." It's sudden and overwhelming knowledge about what "the end of the p= oem" might bring. See: Agamben via Hoodoo via a "secret autobiography." In = its exploration of intersections of experimental writing community, feminin= e monstrosity and "horny" form =E2=80=93 at least, that's where my reading = ran a series of red lights =E2=80=93 Rosenthal's book is a delicious graft = of thinking and writing, performed just outside the safety zone of transcri= ption. You can't go wrong with the most intense form of banter: "turning ab= out with," from the Latin root conversationem, "others." =E2=80=93 Bhanu Ka= pil=20 =20 What Steve Abbott and Bruce Boone achieved with the Left/Write Unity Confer= ence in early eighties San Francisco, bringing together differing groups of= poets, Sarah Rosenthal thankfully reenacts in her collection of interviews= with Bay Area writers. In A Community Writing Itself twelve poets serving = various poetics, from Language writing to New Narrative, are allowed to bre= ak consensus regarding the notion of a singular development of shared ambit= ions. As approaches to the politics of writing are individually charted, co= nnections and communities unfold. If one is interested in the evolution of = American poetry since 1950, it is necessary to engage these conversations. = =E2=80=93 Claudia Rankine =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 10 May 2010 12:12:21 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: [=?utf-8?Q?=C2=A1_?= POETRY !] PLEASE POST YOUR POEM FOR THE JUNE GOODREADS' CONTEST! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Goodreads and the ¡Poetry! group have partnered to create = =0A=0A=0A=0AGoodreads and the =C2=A1Poetry! group have partnered to create = a contest in order to select a new poem each month for our newsletter. =0A= =0A=0A1. Post your best poem (*one poem per person*) in this folder (as a "= comment")** =0ACLICK HERE to post your poem (do not send it to me!)-- =0Aht= tp://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/332809-please-post-your-poem-for-the-june= -goodreads-newsletter-contest =0A=0A=0A2. Goodreads and our three judges,= Wendy Babiak, Andrew Haley, and Ruth Bavetta, will select six poems as fin= alists to be voted on by the Goodreads community.=0A =0A=0A3. =C2=A1Poetry!= group members will vote for the poem they like best (one vote per member).= The poem with the most votes will be published in the Goodreads=E2=80=99 n= ewsletter =E2=80=93 distributed each month to more than 2.5 million people!= =0A=0A=0A** If you have been a finalist more than three times in a year, y= ou may not enter a poem for one year. =0A=0A=0AGood luck & please post your= best work! =0A=0A=0AThanks, =0A=0A=0AAmy King =0A=C2=A1Poetry! Moderator = =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, 11 May 2010 10:16:26 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: But What About the Nipples? A Nice Conversation (Pt. 3) Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii For those who have followed, the final installment: http://htmlgiant.com/behind-the-scenes/but-what-about-nipples-a-nice-conversation-pt-3/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:26:01 +0200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Philip Meersman Subject: BruSlam invitation: May 21st - David Troch & Angela Rawlings - GalerY (near KK @VUB), Triomflaan, Brussels Comments: To: CULTSTUD@listserv.cc.kuleuven.ac.be Comments: cc: bruslam@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable BruSlam 21/05/2010 David Troch & Angela Rawlings GalerY (near KK @VUB) Triomflaan, Brussels start: 20h inscriptions: 19.30 Waar/ou/where @GalerY Gebouw Y' Campus Etterbeek Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Triomflaan - toegang 6 (near the KultuurKafe) 1050 Brussel Who/Qui/Wie David Troch: David Troch(=B0 Bonheiden, 1977) heeft wel eens een hekel aan hoofdletters; won o.a. de Jules van Campenhoutprijs voor po=EBzie en de Gerard Vermeerschprijs voor monologen; en publiceerde o.a. in Snoecks, Het Liegend Konijn, Po=EBziekrant, De Brakke Hond, Deus Ex Machina en de Amerikaanse bloemlezing A Generation Defining Itself; bracht o.a. laat[avond]taal op papier en o.a. Een doosje dolle dialogen op podiumplanken; werkte mee aan Meander, was redactielid van Gierik & Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift en stond mee aan de wieg van Kluger Hans http://www.davidtroch.be Angela Rawlings: a.rawlings is a Canadian poet and performer. Her first book, Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), received the Alcuin Award for Book Design. She is the recipient of the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing and the Chalmers Arts Fellowship. In 2010, rawlings divides her time between Belgium and Iceland, where she is developing three new manuscripts and working in voice and movement collaboration with Maja Janta= r and the Logos Foundation's robotic orchestra. Free stage / open podium/ scene ouverte --=20 Philip Meersman !!! New Address Tentoonstellingslaan 418, bus 46 1090 Jette Belgium tel+32 (0)476 576 287 www.myspace.com/spooninmybrain www.facebook.com/spooninmybrain www.youtube.com/spooninmybrain skype: Spooninmybrain philip.meersman@gmail.com www.poetasdelmundo.com/verInfo_europa.asp?ID=3D4337 05/05/10-09/05/10: Literature festival of Tallinn, Estonia ( http://www.headread.ee/) 21/05/10: BruSlam, GalerY, Bxl, BE (http://bruslam.over-blog.com) 21/07/10: BruSlam, CBK Slam voorronde Gent with special guest Jaan Malin, HotsyTotsy, Ghent, BE (http://bruslam.over-blog.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, 10 May 2010 19:41:13 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chris Jones Subject: Re: Art games In-Reply-To: <5339AD3C3F814864AD2D85639CD8B440@OwnerPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 16:46 -0800, Jim Andrews wrote: > 'virtuality' doesn't necessarily have anything to do with computers. we all > have our virtual worlds inside our heads and have had for a very long time. > so what happens to the assertion, if you replace the word "programmability" > with "virtuality" is you have an assertion that is false, murat. Jim, I sent a back list query more on interaction. If you wish to discuss openly, okay be me. You have identified something I can't yet be confident about.... best wishes, Chris Jones. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:48:46 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Boog City and Fests Need Intern MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi all, I'm looking for an intern who could assist with two big festivals Boog is a part of in the coming months, a Boston-area poetry marathon from Fri. July 30-Sun. Aug. 1, organized by Jim Behrle, John Mulrooney, and myself, and the fourth annual Welcome to Boog City poetry and music festival, from Fri. Sept. 24-Tues. Sept. 28. If any of you profs might have a student who they think would be game to help with some key organizational duties, please lemme know. thanks! david -- 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) To subscribe free to The December Podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=343169880 For music from Gilmore boys: http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 23:19:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: thinking about Second Life - please comment * MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed * I know the outline's vague - working this into a paper of sorts - please comment if it makes any sense at all to you - thanks, Alan - (thinking about SL, not in terms of RL or extrapolation -if such be possible - a crude, close to useless, outline below) deliberately mistaken ontologies of life-worlds "The SL space is almost always treated as a simulacrum of real life - by the creators as well! But as an abstracted mathematical topology, it's far more than that; others will take it farther in the future, already are. I also want to discuss being-in-mathesis, beyond the SL 'standard' represen- tation." SL: [describe] = 2 [split choice] 0: RL: [explain] = 1 [given] --------------------------------------- 0: neutral 1: obdurate, there is, idiotic real 2: choice / intentionality 0: neitherness, not both A and B, neither A nor B (a priori mathesis) 1: fragility of the good: computer program error, intrinsic 2: error extrinsic, deferment 0: null set 1: universal set 2: split tending towards as-if 1-2: leakages between them problematic metaphor [0/1/2]: numbers as markers of inscriptions, multiplicities, neutralities (the idiotic) RL: 1: immersive, fundamentally dynamic (potential stases) - internal: operated _in_ SL: 2: definable, fundamentally static (real mobility) - external operators: operated _on_ Attacking the metaphor: misplaced quantification and ordering among 'plexa,' misplaced mathesis (plexus, from plico, plicatum, to fold, to knit - Lynd's Class-Book of Etymology, 1861) Intentionality: suturing in RL: cohering subjectivity, harmonic continuity, incoherent and dynamic inscribing suturing in SL: coherent physics, discordant continuity, coherent inscribing (it's inscription that holds it together) Problematic ontology of SL: mathesis/inscription = what is; the world is a world only by virtue of its (visible, sensed) manifestation, information clarified and lost, backup of SL Problematic ontology of RL: virtual particles, information entanglement and conservation, no backup Off the map i - Nagarjuna and Madhyamaka - emptiness and dependent origination / dependent arising Off the map ii - SL: Think of root originations in server farms, permissions and specificies of address RL: Think of fundamental ontologies under erasure, feynman diagram probabilities: what constitutes dependency under probability distributions - Off the map iii - Physical ontology is always abstracted, as-if (SL and anti-conventionalist argument) There is no _fundamental_ physical ontology Off the map iv - Mathesis and Badiou's position - relation to surreal numbers On the map - Thinking of SL as abstracted, split, chosen, programmed: anything that is programmable is possible. Thinking of RL as given, born-into: thought as conceiving. Consider SL _not_ as subset of RL - as fulcrum; consider SL as the visual counterpart of the space of Mathematica. Psychology, psychoanalytics of SL in this case: matrix, borromean knot, meta-level jumping (collocation of constructing, dwelling-in) The body as entangled projections/introjections (jectivity) independent of traditional physical constraint or representation The locus of the body in the physical body (SL as perceptual organ) The traditional/narratological function of SL = equivalent to cinematic diegesis The non-traditional functioning of SL (above) = processes of dynamic suturing ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:37:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Siegell Subject: THURSDAY in PHILLY > Debrah Morkun, Carlos Soto Roman & Paul Siegell Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Thursday, May 13, 2010, 7:30pm - Debrah Morkun, Carlos Soto Rom=E1n and P= aul Siegell read at Head House Books, 619 South 2nd Street.=20 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. DEBRAH MORKUN's first full length book of poetry, Projection Machine, was= recently released by BlazeVox Books. She is currently at work on another project, Hera Calf, that examines the spaces left abandoned by previous U= S generations in an attempt to give them voice. She is a founding member of= The New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to expanding the spaces for= poetry in Philadelphia. View some of her work at http://www.debrahmorkun.= com/. CARLOS SOTO ROMAN was born in Valpara=EDso, Chile. He has published the b= ooks La Marcha de los Quiltros (The Mongrel's March,1999), Haiku Minero (Miner= Haiku, 2007) and Cambio y Fuera (Over and Out, 2009). He has resided in Philadelphia since March 2009 and is a member of The New Philadelphia Poe= ts and the editor of the new cooperative anthology of U.S. poetry, Elective Affinities (http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/). PAUL SIEGELL is the author of three books of poetry: wild life rifle fire= (Otoliths Books, 2010), jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing, 2009) and Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008). He is an editor at Painted Bride= Quarterly, and has contributed to The American Poetry Review, Coconut, NO= =D6, Rattle, SIR! and many other fine journals. He has also been featured in t= wo national music and culture magazines, Paste and Relix, as well as elsewhe= re exciting. Kindly find more of Paul's work at ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL (http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com). MORE INFO: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=3Dlogo#!/event.php?eid=3D112351292137665&= ;index=3D1 we hope you can join us, paul> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 11 May 2010 10:03:05 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: TEST TEST TEST TEST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:36:32 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: May 16: Aaaaaaaaaaalice book release in Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Flim Forum Press presents Aaaaaaaaaaalice by Jennifer Karmin CHICAGO RELEASE PARTY Sunday, May 16th from 6-8pm at Cole's Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee Ave http://coleschicago.blogspot.com free / 21 & over Jennifer Karmin in a live improvisation with guest perfomers: Joel Craig, Kathleen Duffy, Krista Franklin,=20 Chris Glomski, Laura Goldstein, Lisa Janssen & John Keene Aaaaaaaaaaalice 112 pages, 7x9 travelogue in 11 cantos scored for polyvocal improvisation To buy online, read some early reviews & find performance dates: http://www.aaaaaaaaaaalice.blogspot.com JOEL CRAIG is the author of the chapbook Shine Tomorrow (Lost Horse Press) = and has poems published or forthcoming in Lungfull!, A Public Space, the Zo= land Annual, and MoonLit. He is poetry editor for MAKE: A Literary Magazine= , as well as co-founder of the Danny's Reading Series in Chicago. KATHLEEN DUFFY is a writer who co-founded the public art group Anti Gravity= Surprise in 2001 to forge alliances with other artists, activists, communi= ty groups, and the general public. Expanding on collaboration as political = force, Kath initiated the organizing efforts of the Dill Pickle Food Coop i= n late 2005, and is currently serving her second three year term on the boa= rd of directors.=C2=A0 Kathleen earns her keep as the Communications Organi= zer for the Campaign for Better Health Care and is a member of the concert = production staff of the Old Town School of Folk Music. KRISTA FRANKLIN is a poet and visual artist.=C2=A0 Her poetry and mixed med= ium collages have been published in lifestyle and literary journals such as= Copper Nickel, RATTLE, Indiana Review, Clam, Callaloo, and the anthology G= athering Ground. Franklin is a Cave Canem Fellow, and a co-founder of Tres = Colony and 2nd Sun Salon. CHRIS GLOMSKI is the author of The Nineteenth Century, a new poetry manuscr= ipt.=C2=A0 A chapbook, Eidolon, was issued by Answer Tag Home Press in Octo= ber 2008. His first poetry collection, Transparencies Lifted from Noon, was= published in the fall of 2005 by MEB / Spuyten Duyvil Press.=C2=A0 His poe= ms, translations, and critical writings have appeared in Notre Dame Review,= The Octopus, Chicago Review, Jacket, A Public Space, and elsewhere.=C2=A0 = Another chapbook, IL LA, was published by Noemi Press in 2002.=20 LAURA GOLDSTEIN's poetry, reviews and essays can be found in Requited, Litt= le Red Leaves, How2, EAOGH, Text/Sound, Rabbit Light Movies, Otoliths, CutB= ank Reviews, Moria, and The Little Magazine. She has two chapbooks: Ice in = Intervals from Hex Press and Day of Answers from Tir Aux Pigeons and has pe= rformed as part of Poets' Theaters in Chicago and New York.=C2=A0 She curre= ntly teaches Writing and Literature at the School of the Art Institute and = Loyola University. LISA JANSSEN is a writer and archivist.=C2=A0 Her work has appeared most re= cently in WSQ =E2=80=93 Women=E2=80=99s Studies Quarterly, MAKE, and the ch= apbook Riffing on Bird and Other Sad Songs (dusi/e-chap kollektiv). She cur= rently co-edits the literary journal MoonLit.=20 JENNIFER KARMIN curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the publi= c art group Anti Gravity Surprise.=C2=A0 Her multidisciplinary projects hav= e been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on= city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the Dusi= e Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodyin= g Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online= at How2. At home in Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigran= ts at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public school= s. JOHN KEENE is the author of Annotations and, with artist Christopher Stackh= ouse, of Seismosis.=C2=A0 His poetry, fiction, essays, and translations hav= e appeared in a wide array of periodicals and anthologies. Recent work will= appear in Mandorla, A Public Space, and Spirale. He teaches at Northwester= n University. =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, 11 May 2010 10:33:06 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: "Imagining a Bauhaus Poetics" workshop MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Imagining a Bauhaus Poetics" workshop at tonight's Next Objectivists meeting 7 p.m. at the Mess Hall in Chicago We meet to consider the possibility of a Bauhaus Poetics. The Bauhaus, which existed in Germany between the wars, is primarily noted for its influence on modern art, architecture, and design. The participation by Anni and Josef Albers, both associated with the school, in Black Mountain College during Olson's term suggests the possibility of a direct influence on U.S. poets of that school. Less direct influences will also be considered when we gather to ask, "What would a poetry of the Bauhaus be like"? Mess Hall 6932 North Glenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60626 http://messhall.org/ http://nextobjectivists.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, 10 May 2010 09:08:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Hailey Higdon Subject: accepting work from emerging female writers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 WHAT TO US (press) now accepting submissions for all types of work (poetry, fiction or any hybrid in between). Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2010. Work should be 10 pages or less. For this book, it is important that work be: 1. by a woman writer 2. by a writer without a significant number of chapbook publications or without a book publication. Please send a small card with submission telling US something about you. Submissions should be sent in hard copy to: Hailey Higdon @ 2205 E Boston St, Philadelphia, PA 19125 for further info, see: www.whattous.blogspot.com or the original call for work below.... THANKS! hailey higdon WHAT TO US (press) is looking for a new species relationship, ie MUTUALISM. Like a cow and celluose-digesting microbes. (Just like that, actually.) MEANING: WHAT TO US is seeking a new book to make. In this instance, here are the pieces that would make it a whole: WHAT TO US is looking for work... by a WOMAN; by a writer without a significant number of chapbook publications or without a larger book publication; and looking for a smaller work, 10 pages or less. The work can be POETRY, FICTION, or any happy IN BETWEEN you think is worth me working hours to make into a tiny book. Work can be sent in hard copy to Hailey Higdon @ 2205 E Boston Street, Philadelphia, PA 19125. Also, I like little cards. Can you send me a little card telling me something about you? It can be anything you want really, just something. Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2010. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell the celluose-digesting microbes that the cow is eating grass now! ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:28:56 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Thurs., May 13, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Series, featuring Amy King, Ana Bo=?utf-8?Q?=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87_?= , and Rob Schlegel -- Cincinatti, OH Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A Please join us Thurs., May 13, at 7 p.m. for the Bon Mot/ley Reading Se= ries, featuring Amy King, Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87 , and Rob Schlegel. = We will head over to Fries Caf=C3=A9 after the reading and invite all to jo= in us.=0A=0A=0AAmy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You, Antidot= es for an Alibi, and Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox), along with the f= orthcoming I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press). She teaches English and = Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. For information on the r= eading series Amy co-curates in Brooklyn, NY, please visit The Stain of Poe= try: A Reading Series (http://stainofpoetry.com) and http://amyking.org for= more.=0A=0A=0AAna Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87 was born in Zagreb, Croatia in = 1977. She emigrated to NYC in 1997. Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin S= ky Press, 2009) is her first book of poems and is currently a finalist for = the Lambda Literary Awards. Her fifth chapbook, Depth Hoar, will be publish= ed by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, Ana co-curates The Stain o= f Poetry reading series in Brooklyn, and is co-editing an anthology, The Ur= ban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School. She works at the Center for th= e Humanities of The Graduate Center, CUNY.=0A=0A=0ARob Schlegel is the auth= or of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing), winner of the Col= orado Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Handsome,= Octopus, Volt, MAKE issue 8 and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Portl= and, Oregon, and has lived in California, Montana, and Iowa.=0A=0A=0AThe Bo= n Mot/ley Reading Series takes place in the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on= the second Thursday of each month. The CCAC is located at 3711 Clifton Ave= ., and you can learn more about the center here: www.cliftonculturalarts.or= g. Readings are free and open to the public. =0A=0AOur next reading will = be in June, featuring Cynthia Arrieu-King (a UC alum), Jared White, and Far= rah Field. =0A=0AAudio files of previous readings are also available on our= reading series blog: www.bonmotley.blogspot.com.=0A=0AWe hope to see you t= here, and we thank you for your continued support of the series.=0A=0AKindl= y,=0AKristi Maxwell & Michael Rerick=0ASeries Curators=0Ahttp://www.bonmotl= ey.blogspot.com/=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, 11 May 2010 13:51:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: EJOYCE Subject: new Susan Howe book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable New book on Susan Howe's poetry. FORTHCOMING from BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS www.bucknell.edu/universitypress = =93The Small Space of a Pause=94 Susan Howe=92s Poetry and the Spaces Between = This book is about= Susan Howe's poetry from the perspective of space. Howe reshapes cultural= configurations of space through her drive to infiltrate interstitial areas= of "third" spaces: the silences of history, the margins of the page, the= placeless migrants, and the uncharted lands. Nuances, frontiers,= thresholds, edges, fuzzinesses, ambiguities, pauses, singularities,= margins: these are the spaces where her poetry occurs, places that lie= between two states. Rather than absences, therefore, the space of this= poetry is a place of being, of what Gilles Deleuze and F=E9lix Guattari= refer to as becoming. Third space is contested because it must also call= itself into question in reimagining itself; in questioning its condition= and rethinking itself, it contradicts itself repeatedly, setting up the= form of an ever-present yet ever-shifting paradox of self-presencing. This= site is also, however, the place of no frames or boundaries, a place that= is all margins and singularities, that site of displacement, where= migration is eternal and violence is perennial. Nomadism becomes an emblem= in Howe's poetry for the twentieth-century condition as it represents the= continual movement through space of the body, that never-ending,= always-perpetuated sense of loss of place, but that equally charged coming= into being regardless of the space within which that loss/becoming occurs. = About the Author: = Elisabeth W. Joyce is a professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.= She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago and has= received graduate degrees from Temple University, the University of= Delaware, and Carnegie Mellon University. = 2010, 297 pages. $65.00/hardcover. ISBN 0-8387-5762-8 = Jacket Illustration: William Janszoon Blaeu. Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. Royal Geographical= Society, London, UK. = TO ORDER: Associated University Presses =95 aup440@aol.com =95 (609)= 655-4770 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 12 May 2010 09:16:20 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chris Chapman Subject: Re: Art games In-Reply-To: <5339AD3C3F814864AD2D85639CD8B440@OwnerPC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Jim, I wonder if yould care to compare quiddities? How does Lopes' understanding of programmability compare with that of Lev Manevich's ideas about database narrative? The one seems to repeat out ideas of language being a game of radical designation (Lopes) while the other seems based in the idea that language is inherently gnomic (Manevich). (Kripke vs. Frege 2.0?) - curious chris. On 12/21/09, Jim Andrews wrote: > 'virtuality' doesn't necessarily have anything to do with computers. we all > have our virtual worlds inside our heads and have had for a very long time. > so what happens to the assertion, if you replace the word "programmability" > with "virtuality" is you have an assertion that is false, murat. > > lopes doesn't find the "essence of computer art in computer games". he's a > trained philosopher, so the word 'essence' is one he would use carefully. > you are making a lot of assumptions about his work and about what i think, > and you're generally quite far off base with them. he thinks of computer > games as instances of or examples of computer art. his definition of > computer art, as i mention in the review at > http://www.ciac.ca/magazine/compterendu.htm , is > > "An item is a computer art work just in case (1) it's art, (2) it's run on a > computer, (3) it's interactive, and (4) it's interactive because it's run on > a computer" (p. 27) > > so it's a theory of interactive computer art. he's trying to get at the > important characteristics of art in which the computer is crucial as medium. > it isn't a book about art that happens to be digital but could as well > appear in print or whatever. > > there are works, such as harold cohen's aaron, which lopes discusses in his > book, that are not interactive but actually are works of computer art. so > lopes's definition of computer art is too narrrow to include all works of > computer art. but it's a very good book nonetheless because a clear > philosophy of interactive computer art is valuable. it *is* a theory of a > type of computer art, not a theory of work that isn't necessarily computer > art. > > to broaden the definition of 'computer art' to include work such as cohen's > aaron, one needs to look at the role of programming in computer art, because > programmability (not virtuality) is what distinguishes computers from other > machines. > > You say > > "If one assumes, as I think you indirectly are doing, that there is no break > between "human" thought and "computer/machine" thought, that they represent > a continuum -that machines also have their "spiritual lives"- then one must > analyze the "otherness," nature of human thought as it "passes"/ travels > into the algorthmic/computer universe/space." > > I've never met a spirtual machine. Except if you call works of art > 'spiritual'. I don't expect to in my lifetime meet a 'spiritual machine'. We > have been evolving on this planet for 2.5 billion years and the universe > itself is apparently only about 15 billion years old. So we've been evolving > over a significant portion of the entire time of the universe's existence. > Computers have a long way to go, even if their 'evolution' is much faster > than ours. > > But we can think of the current state as holding all the conditions for the > development of 'thought' in computers. They can make decisions. They can > re-write their own code. They can have 'senses'. They can interpret the > information from their 'senses'. They can construct a world view. They are > language machines. And there is no proof, and probably never will be, that > there exist thought processes of which humans are capable and computers are > not. Machine intelligence would undoubtedly be quite different from human > intelligence because the contexts of our existences are quite different. We > have biological bodies and have evolved in ways quite different from how > computers 'evolve'. > > I don't see what is "utopian" about this view, or distopian, for that > matter. I never said they were going to make everything all better, and > neither does Lopes. > > What he does say, and I agree with, is that computer art is a new form of > art. By that I don't mean art that happens to be digital but could as well > appear in print or whatever, but art in which the computer is crucial as > medium. This doesn't make it better than other forms of art. It's different. > It has what many people feel are exciting possibilities both by virtue of > its being relatively unexplored and also by virtue of the radical > possibilities computers offer. > > I'm happy to see a book written by a philosopher about computer art. It's > quite a different sort of book than the other ones I've read about 'digital > art', 'internet art', 'digital poetry', and so on. He isn't looking for the > social or literary (etc) significance of computer art. He's just looking to > describe what it is. Which is valuable. Just the basics. Just the > fundamentals. There is so much anxiety, wild speculation, ranting and raving > about computers and, to a lesser extent, computer art in society. A book > like this, which just looks at what it is in a basic, clear way is valuable > in such a situation. > > ja > http://vispo.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Murat Nemet-Nejat" > To: > Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:51 PM > Subject: Re: Art games > > > Dear Jim, > > I have listened to your Lopes interview and read your review of his book. I > want to unpack -or react to- one short passage from your review: > > "What separates computers from other machines is programmability. > Programmability is what gives computers their radical flexibility, as > machines. Flexibility to the point that there is no proof, and probably > never will be, that there exist thought processes of which humans are > capable and computers are not. Which is to say that programmability provides > flexibility, very likely, to the point of the dynamic fluidity of thought. " > > ""What separates computers from other machines is programmability. > Programmability is what gives computers their radical flexibility, as > machines." > > What happens to this assertion if you replace the word "programmability" > with "virtuality?" After all, the latter is the direct corollary of the > former. One has a conceptual edifice which may disappear like smoke at a > moment's notice; what one has then is -not fragments, nor relics- but a > "program" which may be constant or have its own mysterious cycle of > half-lives. Is this erosion in "substance" peculiar only to computers -the > defining quality of a computer- or is it a reflection of a broader shift in > one's perception of reality. The atom theory of substance is progressively > split into smaller particles -quarks (as in quacks), leptons (as in Lipton), > bosons (as in bisons), neutrinos, muons, tauans, and their antis, etc., etc. > - so that we have a conceptual reality can only be grasped by computers, by > the grasp of its algorithms.- The string theory has the feel and image > structure of a fairy tale, with its secret passages, trap doors, strange > animals, mazes, or of the addictive games in a computer? And, finally, the > grand daddy of this kind of language universe, Alice's descent into the > Wonderland (after all, Alice cries "it's all "virtual"). Despite all its > interconnectedness and "universality," the computer, it seems to me, is a > profoundly subjective, even solipsistic medium, continuously built on, > reinforced by one's wishes -fulfillments- ("choices) -a quality touted as > one of its main virtues but in actuality is one of its most subversive > qualities, a Trojan horse against human freedom. Despite its ocean of > "interconnectivity," isn't this why our world consists of archipelagos of > isolation (heard by no one) and narcissism (wanting to hear no one) fighting > each other? > > If Mr. Lopes wants to develop a theory of computer art, instead of creating > dainty little defintions fitting together like a Chinese puzzle, he should > tackle these broader issues. > > "Flexibility to the point that there is no proof, and probably never will > be, that there exist thought processes of which humans are capable and > computers are not. Which is to say that programmability provides > flexibility, very likely, to the point of the dynamic fluidity of thought." > > If one assumes, as I think you indirectly are doing, that there is no break > between "human" thought and "computer/machine" thought, that they represent > a continuum -that machines also have their "spiritual lives"- then one must > analyze the "otherness," nature of human thought as it "passes"/ travels > into the algorthmic/computer universe/space. It is this absence of a > confrontation with this "otherness" which I find most frustrating in the > nearly Utopian protestations of the computer/digital art enthusiasts. I find > in them a touch of sentimentality. > > Mr. Lopes finds in computer games the essence of computer art. My guess is > that there is a good deal of truth in that. But then then he sees those > games similar to pop entertainment. The truly good ones are much more akin > to fairy tales, full of "real" danger, threat and warnings. > > I would like to salute David Chirot's posts (and recommend his work on line) > which carry on similar arguments to mine from a different perspective. > > Ciao, > > Murat > > ================================== > 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, 12 May 2010 10:13:13 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: paolo javier Subject: P||R||O||J||E||C||T||I||O||N||S, 5/16, 6 pm In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi There We hope this finds you well. We'd like to invite you to the premier event of P||R||O||J||E||C||T||I||O||N||S, our new live film narration series at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery and Bleecker st). This performance series presents an active intersection of moving text and moving image: * 1. text moving sonically through space* * 2. image moving on the surface of a screen* The fundamental scenario presents one or more present persons utilizing words &/or sounds &/or movement to mediate both spatially and conceptually between images on a screen and a live audience. (We have in mind, of course, the Japanese, Korean, Polish, and former USSR traditions as models in spirit.) If you have a Facebook account, please do join our page for updated information, as well as a full description of the series: http://www.facebook.com/group...php?v=info&gid=110234529005546. The premier will feature: * Stephanie Gray Lisa Jarnot Alejandro Crawford * *on Sunday, May 16* *Bowery Poetry Club * *6 pm* * *$6 at the door. Full bar available. You'll find the bios of the performers below. Hope to see you on Sunday! - Paolo Javier & Jeremy James Thompson -- *Stephanie Gray* will perform 15 minutes from a current super 8 film/poetry project: *You know they want to disappear Hell's Kitchen as Clinton.* In mysterious silent insistent shots, she films an inspired letter of sorts to writer E.B. White, author of the mid-century little book *Here is New York*. Stephanie is a poet and experimental filmmaker. Her first collection of poems, *Heart Stoner Bingo*, was published by Straw Gate Books in 2007. In support of her films, she has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a New York State Council on the Arts grant. Her films have screened internationally, including at the Ann Arbor, Oberhausen, Viennale, Chicago Underground, and Madcat film festivals. *Lisa Jarnot* starred in the film *The Time We Killed*by Jennifer Todd Reeves. She is the author of *Night Scenes* (2008), *Iliad XXII: The Death of Hector* (2006), *Black Dog Songs *(2003), *Ring of Fire* (2001), and *Some Other Kind of Mission*(1996), among other books. She is a past editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter, edited *An Anthology of New (American) Poetry* (2007), and lives and works in New York as a freelance horticulturalist. *Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford* is co-inventor of The Benshi Organ, a two-octave midi keyboard that allows the player to compose genre-specific movie dialogue by simply "playing" the instrument. He is an artist, performer, and writer currently studying at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Portugal, the author of Morpheus (BlazeVOX 2009), and his work can be found in magazines like Sous Rature, La Petite Zine, 1913 a journal of Forms, The Physical Poets, as well as on the internet. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 14:56:42 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: Boog City and Fests Need Intern In-Reply-To: <81734A6F-30F6-485C-8A53-6FF40B91E7EF@boogcity.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit hey, david--I will pass this on to students & former students in Boston & NY. ruth On 5/10/10 1:48 PM, "David Kirschenbaum" wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for an intern who could assist with two big festivals Boog > is a part of in the coming months, a Boston-area poetry marathon from > Fri. July 30-Sun. Aug. 1, organized by Jim Behrle, John Mulrooney, and > myself, and the fourth annual Welcome to Boog City poetry and music > festival, from Fri. Sept. 24-Tues. Sept. 28. > > If any of you profs might have a student who they think would be game > to help with some key organizational duties, please lemme know. > > thanks! > david > > -- > 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) > To subscribe free to The December Podcast: > http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=343169880 > For music from Gilmore boys: > http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic > > > ================================== > 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, 11 May 2010 20:56:28 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Ruby, Michael" Subject: The Edge of the Underworld MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable BlazeVOX [books] has just published THE EDGE OF THE UNDERWORLD, my fourth b= ook of poetry, based on a homophonic translation of Virgil (for more, see b= elow). For review-copy PDFs, write: Michael.ruby@wsj.com Here are a book description of THE EDGE OF THE UNDERWORLD, blurbs, order in= formation and my bio: After studying Louis Zukofsky's Rudens in graduate school, I always wanted = to write a homophonic translation. A decade later, I settled on the long o= pening of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, the famous Underworld book, and wrote= "Sic Fatur Lacrimans." Soon afterward, sensing the translation itself nee= ded translation, I decided to derive other poems from the words and phrases= of "Sic Fatur Lacrimans"-poems that would be connected to the long poem an= d to each other, in a sort of literary Rayonism. I saw the book as the ver= bal equivalent of St. Sebastian pierced by arrows, with "Sic Fatur Lacriman= s" as St. Sebastian and the shorter poems as the arrows, crisscrossing each= other. -Michael Ruby "Call it immersion": take Michael Ruby's sibilant heterographic tour of the= underworld's underwords and rediscover in these homophonic burrows that so= nic intersection is ear + imagination. At once "tenebrous children" and a = "jangling ring of skeleton keys," these poems ghost-grasp their father (or = was it patrimony's patter?), then intrafiliate to interlock in lines that h= aunt: we watch these "seals kiss" as "bus urn," to "out vain era...// air a= care...//none inferior" and "still soak to a purpose somewhere." Ruby, ta= ke a golden bow-this work's "[to elicit] a response from littoral folk" and= figural ones, too. -Judith Goldman "Ghostly cooing fills the moist dark places," and the reader and dreamer r= eturns to the Underworld, together, already there, "Circling in an eddy for= the time being." -Christophe Casamassima THE EDGE OF THE UNDERWORLD is available through BlazeVOX's website: http://www.blazevox.org/bk-mruby2.htm Michael Ruby is the author of AT AN INTERSECTION (Alef Books, 2002), WINDOW= ON THE CITY (BlazeVOX [books], 2006), FLEETING MEMORIES (ebook at www.ugly= ducklingpresse.org/WEBBOOK-RUBY/index.html, 2008) and the forthcoming COMPULSIVE WORDS (Bla= zeVOX, 2010). A graduate of Harvard College and Brown University's writing = program, he lives in Brooklyn and works as an editor at The Wall Street Jou= rnal. Best, Michael Ruby =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 8 May 2010 11:47:16 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Subject: Anne Valley-Fox, David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg read at Bird and Beckett MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Anne Valley-Fox, David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg reading 2pm at Bird & Beckett Books 653 Chenery Street in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood, 415-586-3733 -- = www.birdbeckett.com Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear... Sappho, 7th century BC Anne Valley-Fox reads poems at 2 pm, from her new book, How Shadows Are = Bundled (University of New Mexico Press, 2009) with confreres David = Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg. David & Michael, traveling by van = crosscountry last fall in their "Rockpile" odyssey that took them to a = dozen cities and dozens of poetry/music conclaves, hooked up with their = long-lost friend Anne Valley-Fox in Santa Fe, remaking connections first = formed four decades ago in old beat North Beach...=20 Here's what you'll read in Anne's bio if you check out her website: = "Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Anne Valley-Fox was raised in Santa = Monica, California and schooled at University of California at Berkeley = during the Free Speech Movement. There, she began writing poetry in = classrooms with Josephine Miles and visiting poet James Tate; in her = senior year she was awarded the Eisner Prize in Literature. She cut her = poetic teeth on the San Francisco poetry scene for several years before = moving to northern New Mexico with her first-born son, Ezra. Her poetry = books are Sending the Body Out, Fish Drum 15, Point of No Return and How = Shadows Are Bundled. Her nonfiction books are Telling Your Story (with = Sam Keen) and Outlaws and Desperados: A New Mexico Federal Writers = Project Book (with Ann Lacy, co-editor). Paterson... FSM... Miles & Tate... New Mexico... son Ezra! =20 Whatever are we in for??!!=20 Join us to find out... =20 Oh yes, and don't forget that David Meltzer & Michael Rothenberg, = formidable talents both, are along for the ride... Saddle up! check these websites: =20 www.annevalleyfox.com -- www.meltzerville.com -- = www.bigbridge.org/bioroth.htm =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 12 May 2010 12:27:27 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rosalie Calabrese Subject: Fw: Rosalie's Poetry Update MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Featured Readings: two Sundays, May 30 and June 4, 2010 May 30: Phoenix Reading, Hosted by Mike Graves & George Spencer =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Fe= aturing Rosalie Calabrese, Mike Graves, and Erik La Prade =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 5:= 30 - 7:30 PM at Bengal Curry, 65 West Broadway =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (b= etween Murray and Warren;1-1/2 blocks below=0A Chambers) =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 1,= 2,3,A,C or E train to Chambers Street =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 Te= l: 212-571-1122: call if bad weather to be sure the venue=0A is open =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Op= en mic if time allows, at the discretion of the Hosts; $3.00 donation reque= sted =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Ex= cellent Indian Food available for purchase at a very reasonable price June 4:=C2=A0=C2=A0 Paws for Poetry Reading Hosted by Thomas Colicino =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 Featuring Rosalie Calabrese and George Spencer =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 4:00 - 6:00 PM at Animal Haven, 251 Centre Street =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 (Between Broome & Grand) =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 N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6, J, M, Z to Canal Street=C2=A0=C2=A0 [Tel:=0A 212-2= 74-8511] =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 www.animalhavenshelter.org =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 Open mic and refreshments =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 $4 Advance Tickets (available online) http://www.pawsforpoetrynyc.com =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 $7 General Admission (at the door) =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 For further information: pawsforpoetry@gmail.com=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Recently Published Poems: =C2=A0ON SHAVU=E2=80=99OT My grandchild asks what Jewish people believe in. Her parents giving me that wide-eye look that=0A signals =E2=80=9CHELP,=E2=80=9D I jump in and bumble my way through Sunday School platitudes: love, kindness, respect, etc. Each one elicits a jaded silence from the kid. I suspect I=E2=80=99m losing ground but can only think of Pain, prejudice, persecution =E2=80=94 Not what I want to tell a five-year-old who still finds Scary moments in Winnie-The-Pooh. =E2=80=9CC=E2=80=99mon,=E2=80=9D she says. =E2=80=9CLike in the scroll, the= Torah.=E2=80=9D Now that I=E2=80=99ve led her to the place where my roots Lie tangled within a borrowed name, Can I confess I don=E2=80=99t remember, Maybe never even knew? Undone, I tell my son to look for an answer on the Web. {The Mom Egg =E2=80=9CLessons=E2=80=9D Anthology (Vol. 8, 2010) and read at= the Cornelia Street Cafe book launch April 25, 2010} MY NEW FRIEND Both of us American, born in 1938, our stories are filled with similarities =E2=80=93 marriage, children, divorce, erasures too painful to discuss =E2=80=93 but we=0A sense a stronger link. Her photo album sets the landscape to compare notes on foreign countries, other places we have been. In the midst of Germany she flips a batch of pictures all at once, says they came from someone else. Out of curiosity, I turn the pages back. DACHAU . . . blinding in black and white. As I shut my eyes to blot the image out, she gently takes the book and closes it, for neither one of us was there. {Poetica Publishing Co. "L'Mizmor L=E2=80=99David" Anthology, Volume I: "Th= e Shoah", 2010} =C2=A0 THE DRY CLEANER'S WIFE A snappy dresser, I thought the first time I saw her, straight and stiff as a soldier behind the counter. German, maybe Austrian, descended from aristocracy, she took with aplomb the soiled clothes I handed over for cleaning. Her husband, making it clear that he was not to be disturbed, sat at a separate table stooped=0A over an account book like a scholar reading the Talmud in a room without enough light, his identity still revealed by the tattooed=C2=A0 numbers visible below his rolled-up shirt sleeve. As the stolid wife gathered up my bundle and carried it to the back of the store, my attention was drawn to the way she hobbled. Sheathed in nylons, the wooden pegs she wore in place of legs fit perfectly into her unmarred shoes. I cannot imagine him in the camp, but I envision her in a bomb shelter, ten at most back then, blonde hair done up in braids, shoulders squared beneath a school uniform, exhorting her playmates to stay calm each time another blast blew out the lights. {Jewish Currents (Spring 2010)} The following poems appear in 4 by Rosalie Calabrese, a Marymark Press Broa= dside shared with 4 poems by Mark Sonnenfeld: AT THE CROSSROADS Waving her=0A pamphlets with the zeal of a sergeant, a Watchtower woman in the Times Square station roars above the break dancers=E2=80=99 din at the troops geared for rush-hour battle. =E2=80=9CFighting and killing among all nationalities!=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CRight here in the U. S.,=E2=80=9D she warns. But the ear-plugged army in its mad dash to the front lines heeds only the call of an oncoming train. GET THE MESSAGE Sunday morning set aside for newspaper and contemplation, invaded by ghetto-blaster bulletins, the rapper=E2=80=99s unintelligible words thumping like jungle drums telling me there is danger afoot, telling me to read The Times through his eyes and get the message. WAITING FOR A CURE More than anything right now what I want is laughter, the doubled-over-with-a-bellyache jiggle-the-insides kind, a curative with no destructive side effects, but how to find such medicine or, once found, to=0A think that it will work when the whole world =E2=80=93 riddled with greed and fear resulting from hubris of a high order =E2=80=93 seems incurably ill? =E2=80=9CPooh,=E2=80=9D you say, while popping the latest pill prescribed with the government=E2=80=99s blessing, but I say pay attention to the exorbitant price: even a deficiency of irony can be fatal. ON THURSDAY Tomorrow will be Friday No matter what: Even if the world Comes to an end It will be Friday =E2=80=94=C2=A0 =C2=A0 That's my guess. If I should say No more, that's it, finis, It will be Friday Nonetheless; Like it or not, Friday will be tomorrow No matter what. [Some of the poems in this update are reprints. My apologies to those of yo= u who have seen them before, in a couple of cases more than once. If at any= time you wish to be removed form this list, just reply with the word "Remo= ve". No reason need be given.] =C2=A0 *** A special=0A offer from Jewish Currents, a wonderfully interesting maga= zine that bills itself as "A Progressive, Secular Voice": If you are intere= st in having a sample copy of the magazine, you can receive the Spring issu= e - the one with my poem in it - by contacting Jewish Currents via its Web = site: http://jewishcurrents.org or by calling (845) 626-2427.***=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=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: Wed, 12 May 2010 16:39:58 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: Boog City and Fests Need Intern In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT thanks ruth!! On May 12, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Ruth Lepson wrote: > hey, david--I will pass this on to students & former students in > Boston & > NY. > ruth > > > On 5/10/10 1:48 PM, "David Kirschenbaum" wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm looking for an intern who could assist with two big festivals >> Boog >> is a part of in the coming months, a Boston-area poetry marathon from >> Fri. July 30-Sun. Aug. 1, organized by Jim Behrle, John Mulrooney, >> and >> myself, and the fourth annual Welcome to Boog City poetry and music >> festival, from Fri. Sept. 24-Tues. Sept. 28. >> >> If any of you profs might have a student who they think would be game >> to help with some key organizational duties, please lemme know. >> >> thanks! >> david >> >> -- >> 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) >> To subscribe free to The December Podcast: >> http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=343169880 >> For music from Gilmore boys: >> http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic >> >> >> ================================== >> 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 -- 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) To subscribe free to The December Podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=343169880 For music from Gilmore boys: http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 23:28:19 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nic Sebastian Subject: Ten Questions on Poets and Technology: Amy King In-Reply-To: <31ac8900905301148h6e5731b1l4228a3d45f0db0db@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The internet=2C Facebook=2C Twitter=2C blogs=2C websites=2C iPad=2C iPod=2C= podcasts=2C digital video and who knows what else. What do they all mean f= or the poet? For Poetry? A new Ten Questions series on Poets and Technology= starts this week=2C kicked off by Amy King: http://bit.ly/cL1cvc. Best wishes=2C Nic Sebastian http://verylikeawhale.wordpress.com =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your = inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 13 May 2010 13:30:07 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rosalie Calabrese Subject: Errata MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If you're thinking of attending the Paws for Poetry reading on June 4, please note: June 4th falls on a Friday, not Sunday as previously reported. Also, the Host for the program will be Jason Bogdan. Sorry about that. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:09:59 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Andy Gricevich Subject: FRIDAY: Michael Bernstein, Lewis Freedman and Andy Gricevich read at Quimby's MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yup! Come hear these utterly strange poets read their utterly strange poetry. Wh= oo-hoo! Michael Bernstein is the author of the chapbooks cinderbook (Gold=0AWake Pr= ess, 2009), the rot to light (Gold Wake Press, 2010), 8s=0A(Scantily Clad P= ress, forthcoming 2010), imaginary grace (Recycled=0AKarma Press, 2010) fro= m =E2=80=9Ca heap of swords and mirrors=E2=80=9D (Bedouin Books,=0Aforthcom= ing 2010), the transit illuminate (mud luscious press,=0Aforthcoming 2010),= =C2=A0 nanostars (greying ghost press, forthcoming 2010),=0Aand the Fire Di= strict (Differentia Press, forthcoming 2010) . His poems=0Ahave appeared in= magazines such as Puppy Flowers, milk, Moria,=0ABlazeVOX, and New American= Writing. He currently co-edits the online=0Aliterary arts magazine Pinstri= pe Fedora. Michael lives and writes in=0AWisconsin.=0A Lewis Freedman writes poems. He (as of recently) lives in Madison. A=0Achap= book, The Third Word (2009), was published by what to us(press) and=0Aanoth= er, Catfish Po=E2=80=99 Boys (2009), was published by MinutesBooks. He is= =0Aco-editor of Agnes Fox Press.=0A Andy Gricevich lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he edits Cannot=0AExist m= agazine and, with Lewis Freedman, curates the ________-Shaped Reading Serie= s. His poems have been published=0Ahere and there, most recently in Pinstri= pe Fedora and We Are So Happy=0Ato Know Something. He has toured internatio= nally as a performer of=0Astrange chamber music, theater and satirical caba= ret songs with the=0APrince Myshkins and the Nonsense Company. He is uncomf= ortably writing=0Athis in the third person. Lately he=E2=80=99s been baking= bread and finding the=0Aprevailing forms of irony in our poetic culture to= be utterly=0Ainadequate in every possible way. The bread is getting better= . =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, 13 May 2010 16:17:33 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: { brad brace } Subject: little orange pencils Comments: To: ART-ALL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, WRYTING-L automatic digest -- Theory and Writing , Art Criticism Discussion Forum , fluxlist@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII usually I might make some flux-art from such an odd discovery but no one (except for Janice, and I hate her),) ended-up being very interested in my earlier offer of the 20-yr-old collected seashore pebbles rolling back and forth on my car's dashboard (that I offered to exchange for a US$2 bill),, so I'm thinking the little discarded orange pencils that I inexplicably discover pretty much in the same sidewalk location nearly every day wouldn't be of much interest either... (not really) sorry to have troubled anyone at all: just check the a-for-animosity box on your artworld-ballot (I'll still send you a pencil), and let's finally dispense with all these horrid art-hostage-museums, alright?... long-ago: http://www.bbrace.net/pencil.html /:b ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 20:18:30 -0700 Reply-To: derek beaulieu Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: derek beaulieu Subject: new from No press: NOTES ON WHY CONCEPTUALISM IS BETTER THAN FLARF by Vanessa Place Comments: To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@invalid.domain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No press is proud to announce the publication of NOTES ON WHY CONCEPTUALISM IS BETTER THAN FLARF by Vanessa Place published in an edition of 60 hand-sewn copies (of which 30 are for = sale) $5 each (including shipping) for more information, or to order copies, email=20 derek@housepress.ca derek beaulieu 2 - 733 2nd avenue nw calgary alberta canada T2N 0E4 derek@housepress.ca http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/beaulieu/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 14 May 2010 07:51:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: charles alexander Subject: WHAT A TREAT! Dahlen & Larkin May 22 Comments: To: pog , pogevent , pogdirs Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm thinking back at what Chax Press & POG, either separately or =20 together, have presented to the Tucson community over the last 24 =20 years, and it's nothing short of remarkable. Readings by Robin Blaser, =20= Robert Creeley, Bernadette Mayer, Harryette Mullen, Tom Raworth, Ron =20 Silliman, Alice Notley, Tracie Morris, Charles Bernstein, Eileen =20 Myles, Barbara Henning, Frank Parker, Dan Featherston, Tenney =20 Nathanson, Laynie Browne, Barbara Cully, and oh so many more. =20 Performance of plays by Leslie Scalapino, presentations of video by =20 Victor Masayesva, Paul Metcalf reading from the loft of the old Cafe =20 Magritte, Kit Robinson and Lyn Hejinian in residence together with =20 readings and workshops, Jackson Mac Low reading and giving an =20 inspiring small group workshop, and yes, oh so much more! All of this, yet at this moment I can think of no event that means =20 more than one coming up. It's always the next reading that is your =20 next opportunity to be moved, to hear transformative language, to =20 glimpse possibilities that add to one's sense of the wonder of life =20 and of these arts. I really hope you come to this reading. You will be glad you did. =20 Also, there will be food and drink, so please come a bit early, stay a =20= bit late, talk with us. There will also be question and answer with =20 the poets, a chance to get to know how and why they do what they do, =20 and where it's taking us all. This is one I want to share with all my friends, so please come! BEVERLY DAHLEN & MARYROSE LARKIN A POETRY READING presented by Chax Press at The Drawing Studio 33 S 6th Ave, Tucson (on 6th Ave downtown, between Broadway & Congress) 7pm Saturday, May 22, 2010 FREE ADMISSION ( a donation will be requested ) Selected books available for purchase Refreshment provided Question & Answer Session following the reading Call 520-620-1626 for more information Chax Press events are funded in part by the Tucson Pima Arts Council =20 and by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, with funding from the State =20= of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts. This event is also =20= supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. BEVERLY DAHLEN was born in Portland in November, 1934, attended public =20= schools there, and after the end of World War II, moved with her =20 family to Eureka, California. In 1956, she resettled in San Francisco. =20= Her first collection of poetry, Out of the Third, was published by =20 Momo's Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (Effie's =20 Press) and The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia Press) were followed in 1985 =20= by the publication of A Reading 1-7 (Momo's Press). Since then, three =20= more volumes of A Reading have appeared (including A Reading 8-10 from =20= Chax Press), as well as the chapbook A-reading Spicer & Eighteen =20 Sonnets (Chax Press). Her essay "Beauty: Another Reading" recently =20 appeared in Crayon 5. Ms. Dahlen was a cofounder, with Kathleen Fraser =20= and Frances Jaffer, of the influential avant feminist poetics =20 newsletter (HOW)ever ; in December of 2008 her work was honored by =20 Small Press Traffic with their annual Lifetime Achievement Award. Beverly Dahlen is one of the major reasons I have been a poet, one of =20= the great pleasures I have as a reader, one of the lights that keeps =20 me going as a publisher and human being. Her investigation is into the =20= relation of language and language creation to being human. She is =20 funny, political, deeply psychological. She explores the vast =20 nothingness that exists in the universe, the unending dimensions of =20 time and space. She makes me laugh and cry, she makes me think about =20 what it is to think, what it is to be. She challenges me, and she =20 rewards that challenge immensely. Her readings are an invitation to =20 truly exist, i.e. to be there, listening and thinking, with all that =20 one has to give. That is what she does, and that is what she allows us =20= to do. MARYROSE LARKIN lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a =20 freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books,=20 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. =20= press,2007) and DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009). Larkin is one of the =20 organizers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is =20= co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera =20= poetry press. Her new book, The Name of This Intersection is Frost, is =20= forthcoming from Shearsman Books. Over the last decade, one of the poets who has most grasped my =20 attention, and who has given me delight and depth that is too often =20 missing, is undoubtedly Portland=92s Maryrose Larkin. She shapes =20 language into a universe that parallels and questions our own, in a =20 way that makes use of humor, open-endedness, and bold ideas. Mark =20 Wallace says that her latest book, The Book of Ocean, =93is one of the =20= most significant books of poetry this year. Socially insightful and =20 emotionally resonant, The Book of Ocean develops a sophisticated =20 intellectual framework that shows Larkin to be a genuinely =20 philosophical poet. Central to the book is a sense of the world and =20 human experience in it as a kind of layering, almost a palimpsest like =20= in the work of H.D., in which the peeling away of each layer reveals a =20= further layer of significance. Sharply etched rhythms provide an edgy =20= energy that makes the book=92s intellectual ambitions an aesthetic =20 pleasure as well. . . . What The Book of Ocean finally shows is that writing poems can be a =20 way of engaging the interactive condition of the changeling. The =20 book=92s finely honed rhythms, alternately clipped and wave-like, never =20= let either the repetitions of the ocean or the disconnection of the =20 fragment become dominant modes. The result is a book which enacts =20 processes of change on multiple levels and becomes itself a =20 significant example of its own theories.=94 charles alexander chax@theriver.com chax press / poetry & the book arts 411 n seventh ave ste 103 / tucson, az 85705-8388 teaching at Naropa University, June 13-20, 2010 the Chax Press Summer Intensive in book arts and creative writing, =20 July 6-18, 2010 presenting at the Charles Olson Centenary, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, =20 June 4-6, 2010 DONATE TO CHAX PRESS at http://chax.org/donate.htm Chax Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and your =20 contribution is tax deductible. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 14 May 2010 00:17:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Last Call to Advertise in, Donate to Boog City 63 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please forward ----------------------- Boog City=92s 63rd issue Wants to spread the word about your latest offerings and events and say a great big hello to each and everyone of you So Help Us Help You (and Help Us, too) By Placing a Lovely Advertisement (We're also cool with donations, real cool.) **Deadlines** =97Email to reserve ad space ASAP =97Sat. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 11:48:51 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dan Wilcox Subject: Third Thursday Poetry Night: May 20 -- Colie Collen Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 the Poetry Motel Foundation presents =20 Third Thursday Poetry Night =20 at the Social Justice Center 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY =20 Thursday, May 20 7:00 sign up; 7:30 start =20 Featured Poet: Colie Collen =20 -- with an open mic for community poets before & after the feature: = $3.00 donation, suggested; more if you got it, less if you can=92t. =20 Your peripatetic host: Dan Wilcox. =20 Colie Collen grew up in the suburbs of Albany, before moving westward = and back (twice). She gardens, teaches gardening, and edits the journals = Fence and Tarpaulin Sky. =20 * * * get out from behind me by Colie Collen and then I quit writing, says the old man with the rentable typewriter. I was a tree obscuring the lake He happily twitters his immense joy; his eyes leak. Something is kind of changing. When I blow on it, it moves. Surrounds cars as they move toward the completion of chores. It smells like dog food; a kind of meat with white fat and a bone in it; a keyboard. Like a thing waiting to lap-land. When a Viking woman wanted a man and he died she could throw her body on his pyre and be his wife in Valhalla. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 14 May 2010 00:44:38 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: New Video Release: Okukin (please pass on) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed New Video Release: Okukin Okukin is a short, 9'23" video created from my recent work in Second Life. There is a narrative among objects, slabs, planets, voices, bodies, and images, some old, many new. The objects themselves have been created for Okukin, which is filmed using the Beta 2 Second Life viewer release, in order to take advantage of a number of new features. The video opens on a scenic pouring-forth which changes in a few seconds to planet surfaces and constructions which defy the laws of gravity, opening on occasion to untoward vistas. The rest of the video develops these vistas through symbolism and spoken or sung narrative that tends towards a future anterior. The second video is a short test of emissions that wasn't used in the final production, but is of great interest itself. Perhaps I am becoming too literal; perhaps I am disappearing in these works, which always seem on the verge of emergence, but never quite coalesce into Being. I hope to show this work at the June ELO conference in Providence, and elsewhere of course. Participants, witting and unwitting, include Foofwa d'Imobilite, Blue Carter, Kira Sedlock, and myself. Thanks to Fau Ferdinand as well, for the use of the land in East Odyssey, as well as Lizsolo and a number of people who helped with scripting. http://www.alansondheim.org/Okukin.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/testrelease.mp4 (Please note, because of space limitations, some older work had to be taken down from the website.) ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 17:22:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Poetry Project Subject: Upcoming Events at The Poetry Project 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, May 14, 8 PM Spring Workshop Reading Please join us for a reading by students of the Spring workshops, led by Anselm Berrigan, Daniel Machlin and Sharon Mesmer. Monday, May 17, 8 PM Talk Series: Rachel Zolf The Tolerance Project: A Collaborative MFA Rachel Zolf is working with 84 writers and artists on what could be the first collaborative MFA ever. Reactions to this conceptual writing project have ranged from lauding it as a long overdue Institutional Critique to deriding it as an arrogant violation of the MFA workshop=B9s privacy and sanctity. Zolf will talk about the origins of the project and its challenges, describe how the collaborative poems emerge each week, and reveal some of the traces of poetic DNA collected in The Tolerance Project Archive. Rachel Zolf=B9s fourth full-length book of poetry, Neighbour Procedure, was recently released by Coach House Books. The Tolerance Project lives at thetoleranceproject.blogspot.com. =20 Wednesday, May 19, 8 PM Amiri Baraka & Mark Nowak Amiri Baraka published his first volume of poetry, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, in 1961. His book Blues People: Negro Music in White America, is still regarded as the seminal work on Afro-American music and culture. His reputation as a playwright was established with the production of Dutchman at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1964. The play was revived by the Cherry Lane Theatre in January 2007 and has been reproduced around the world. He has been prolific across four decades, most recently, his book of short stories, Tales of the Out & The Gone (Akashic Books) was published in late 2007, Home, his book of social essays, was re-released by Akashic Books in early 2009 and Digging: The Afro American Soul of Music (Univ. of California) was also published in 2009. Mark Nowak is the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House Press, 2004). For the past severa= l years he has been designing and facilitating =B3poetry dialogues=B2 with Ford autoworkers in the United States and South Africa (through the UAW and NUMSA), striking clerical workers (through AFSCME 3800), Muslim/Somali nurses and healthcare workers (through Rufaidah, and others. Nowak=B9s writings on new labor poetics have recently appeared in Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke, 2007), American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetic= s (Wesleyan, 2007), The Progressive, and elsewhere. A native of Buffalo, New York, he currently works as Director of the=A0Rose O=B9Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Visit his blog at at http://coalmountain.wordpress.com. 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, 14 May 2010 23:26:25 +1000 Reply-To: announcements@tarpaulinsky.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: The Editors Subject: Pretty Much Everything MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (We loathe junkmail, and we certainly don't want to send you any. Nor do we want to send the same email to your multiple addresses . Just click here-- DO NOT EMAIL http://tarpaulinskypress.createsend2.com= /t/r/u/nlhdjy/= jyaiiljt= /--and you won't hear from us again at this address.) Readers, writers, friends, Hola, amigos! In addition to saying thank you for hanging with us last month at AWP, we have a few new goodies to tell you about: 1) new titles; 2) forthcoming titles; 3) a ridiculously huge sale (up to $9 cheaper than Amazon) on every one of our backlist paperbacks; and 4) an update on submissions to Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal, as well as a reminder as to where to follow TSky news/blogs, etc. First, we have not one but four new titles [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/catalog.html] available: Traci O Connor's Recipes for Endangered Species [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Connor/index.html], a collection of short fictions (along with photos and cocktail recipes) that are populated by infanticidal mothers and sentient amputated limbs, but that manage also to be "tender, aching love stories" (Publishers Weekly); Joanna Ruocco's Man's Companions [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Ruocco/index.html], short fictions with a "playful, experimental appeal" (Publishers Weekly), combining "the obsessive music of Lydia Davis and the stripped precision of Muriel Spark" (Brian Evenson)--ultrasmart and rather hilarious meditations on everything from the best iconic buildings from which to hurl oneself, to the myriad penises wandering the isles of a minimart; Kim Gek Lin Short's The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Short/index.html], a "catacomb valentine" (Selah Saterstrom), a surreal and darkly gorgeous necromance--a "twisted" (Joyelle McSweeney) "perverse fairy-tale " (Bhanu Kapil) in the form of a prose-poem-novella that combines "the exactitude of obsessive compulsion" with " the imagery and dimness of an opiate trip sponsored by Lewis Caroll" (New Pages) , and that is quite literally crawling with bugs, thanks to artist Daniel Rhodes; and Shelly Taylor's Black-Eyed Heifer [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Taylor/index.html], a "a mighty anthem to down home local culture" (Brenda Iijima) and a "radically innovative use of language" (Jim Harrison), an avant -Southern hybrid hailing from syntactic hinterlands where the farm meets the backlot of the Piggly Wiggly. All of these titles are available via Amazon [http://www.amazon.com] and other major booksellers, but you'll save a bundle (shipping is always included) by ordering directly from TSky Press [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/catalog.html]. Thanks to our chapbook and full-length manuscript reading periods , 2010 and 2011 will see the publication of books and chapbooks by Lara Glenum, Johannes G=C3=B6ransson, Sarah Goldstein, and James Haug . (We are still hoping to add another full-length title as well, as we have a couple dozen manuscripts which we can neither publish nor bring ourselves to relinquish just yet.) Emily Toder's chapbook is still scheduled for 2010, and 2011 will also see the publication of our second book from Jenny Boully, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them. And, now, the part you've all been waiting for, the Almost-Summer Sale: buy any two or more of our 2006-2009 titles for only $10 each--which includes shipping [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/catalog.html]. Yes, you read that correctly. These books, with shipping, cost $16-$19 at Amazon. Choose from any of our backlist titles, from 2010 Lambda Award Finalist Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87's Stars of the Night Commute,= to the book that started it all, Jenny Boully's one love affair. Choose from SPD Bestsellers, Publishers Weekly and Time Out New York faves--books recommended by the likes of Kate Bernheimer, Rebecca Brown, Laird Hunt, Eileen Myles, and Lance Olsen--books by Mark Cunningham, Danielle Dutton, Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Gordon Massman, Joyelle McSweeney, [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/catalog.html] and Andrew Zornoza. [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/catalog.html] This sale will last through June 20 and then be heard no more (or, at least, not while we're away for the summer :) And last but not least, we'd like to say thank you for your February submissions to Tarpaulin Sky [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com]. Wow! We reduced our reading period to one month only, just to cut down on numbers, and we still received 2,481 submissions! It's going to take our editors a little while to make their way through all of these, but rest assured, they're on the case. As always, you can keep on top of TSky Press's doings via the TSky News & Notes [http://tsky-news.blogspot.com/] blog and the TSky Events [http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/READINGS/index.html] blog, as well as via Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/people/Tarpaulin-Sky-Press/100000209070685] and Twitter [https://twitter.com/TarpaulinSky]. Alrighty, then. That's it! Here's wishing you a happy almost -summer. Cheers, All of us at Tarpaulin Sky Press =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 15 May 2010 10:38:13 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Charles Bernstein Subject: S/N: NewWorldPoetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit S/N: NewWorldPoetics http://www.snnewworldpoetics.com/ is a quarterly journal dedicated to the poetries of the Americas and to South/North [S/N] dialog. In each issue we will publish poetry and poetics in English or Spanish translation, introducing North American readers to Latin American poetry and vice versa. Our commitment is to a poetics of invention and exploration. This also defines our approach to translation, which we see not as an expedient but as an art form in itself. S/N will present work that challenges received conventions about poetry and poetics – but not necessarily in the predictable ways of the avant-garde, bohemian, or dissident. The poetry and poetics we present is meant to open up new understandings of poetic invention and formal exploration, in works that are as wild and unpredictable as Our Americas. S/N: NewWorldPoetics es una revista cuatrimestral dedicada a la poesía y poéticas de las Américas, como asimismo a promover el diálogo entre Sur y Norte [S/N]. En cada número publicaremos poemas y poéticas en traducción al inglés o español, presentando a los lectores de Norte América la poesía de América Latina, y viceversa. Nuestro compromiso es con las poéticas de invención y exploración. Esto también define nuestra concepción de la traducción, a la cual no vemos como una simple mediadora sino como una forma de arte por sí misma. S/N presentará obras que desafían las convenciones pre-existentes sobre la poesía, aunque no necesariamente a la manera predecible de las vanguardias, la bohemia, o la disidencia. La poesía y poéticas que publicaremos están pensadas y concebidas para inaugurar nuevos entendimientos de la invención poética y de la exploración formal, en obras que son tan salvajes e impredecibles como Nuestras Américas. Charles Bernstein & Eduardo Espina, editors Issue One Essays / Ensayos Charles Bernstein Roberto Echavarren Eduardo Espina José Kozer Heriberto Yépez Poetry / Poesía Carlos Germán Belli Régis Bonvicino Robert Creeley Oliverio Girondo Tan Lin Harryette Mullen Tom Raworth Interview / Entrevista Marjorie Perloff Enrique Mallen 116pp., 8x10", color S/N: subscribe: http://www.snnewworldpoetics.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, 15 May 2010 16:22:21 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Red Rover Series / Experiment #36 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 #36: Textual Ecologies & Contaminations SATURDAY, MAY 22 7pm / doors lock 7:30 Featuring: Jennifer Scappettone Asimina Chremos with collaborators Joseph Ravens & Alycia Scott at Outer Space Studio 1474 N. Milwaukee -- Chicago, IL suggested donation $4 **NEW VENUE** near CTA Damen blue line third floor walk up not wheelchair accessible ASIMINA CHREMOS was born in 1966 in Toronto, Canada and is a naturalized US= citizen. Her mother was raised in the state of Virginia in the USA and her= father is a native of Central Greece. Since childhood, Chremos has brought= playful curiosity and incisive intelligence to her exploration of dance as= a creative practice, lifestyle, career and evolving philosophy. Approachin= g dance as art, she creates abstractions, narratives and kinetic sculptural= forms across stages, studios and spaces of all types and sizes. Recent pro= jects include daily dance vlog CircadianDancer; site specific performances = as microgig with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm; and Echo Den, a sound-and-movem= ent duo with vocalist Carol Genetti. In July 2010 Chremos will leave Chicag= o and travel around the country and beyond to create, perform and teach. JOSEPH RAVENS creates time-based art works that encompass text, movement, i= nstallation, technology, costume, and object. Touching on subjects such as = materialism, insatiability, conformity, and alienation, his performances re= flect a struggle to find pattern and purpose within an imposing and random = universe. A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an = MFA in Performance, Ravens has a BFA in Theater and studied audio/visuals a= t Gerrit Reitvelt Acadamie in Amsterdam, Holland. Joseph is committed to pr= esenting his work globally. To learn more, please visit http://www.josephra= vens.com=20 JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE, a poet, translator, and scholar, is the author of Fro= m Dame Quickly (Litmus, 2009), and of several chapbooks. Exit 43=E2=80=94an= archaeology in several media of Superfund sites interrupted by pop-up chor= uses=E2=80=94is in progress for Atelos Press. She edited Belladonna Elders = Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse, featuring her pop-up stills and = prose and new writing by Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna, 2009). Po= p-up scores have been adapted for performance in an evolving collaboration = with choreographer Kathy Westwater as PARK, with an initial in-progress sho= wing at New York=E2=80=99s Dance Theater Workshop last February. Her verse = =E2=80=9Cstills=E2=80=9D have been installed at the Zaoem and Infusoria exh= ibits of visual poetry in Brussels and Ghent, and more are coming to the ma= gazine Speechless.=20 As a translator, she guest-edited the feature section of Aufgabe 7 (2008), = devoted to contemporary Italian =E2=80=9Cpoetry of research,=E2=80=9D and i= s completing an edition of selected works by the poet/musicologist Amelia R= osselli. She is also finishing Modernism in Venice, a book-length study of = the post Romantic city as a crucible for experimental aesthetics in the twe= ntieth century. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writ= ing at the University of Chicago. Readings and talks are archived at her P= ennSound page, http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Scappettone.html ALYCIA SCOTT has performed around the globe in spaces ranging from theaters= in Russia to balconies in Guatemala, a graveyard in Mexico and art galleri= es in the United States. Rooted in performance as a mode of poetically int= ervening with the malaise of socially constructed realities, Alycia uses mo= vement to understand and engage kinesics to connect people, and instigate c= hange. She continually studies ritual movement, from West African Dance and= Butoh, to yoga and daily routines of both the ancient and modern world. As= a curator and arts administrator, she has developed projects and exhibitio= ns that engage communities, both local and global, in addressing socio-poli= tical issues from women=E2=80=99s rights to food production, the state of w= ater and cultural reflections in the body.=20 Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each ev= ent is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, nation= al, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was foun= ded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin. Email ideas for reading experiments to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com The schedule for events is listed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries UPCOMING June - David Emanuel & Jen Hofer=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, 15 May 2010 10:26:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Caroline Crumpacker Subject: MAY 21: Dance Your Funkin' Brass Off-- A Benefit Party for Great Small Works Theater Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1076) FRIDAY MAY 21 2010 from 10 PM Onward... Dance Your Funkin' Brass Off-- A Benefit Party for Great Small Works Theater St. Ann's Warehouse 38 Water St., Brooklyn 10:00-2:00 $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Advance tix get one free drink ticket at the door. Summer's here and it's time to sweat. A Classic DUMBO Warehouse Dance Party with Hungry March Band, Slavic Soul Party!, Spanglish Fly, and Debo Band as well as DJs and surprise performances. St. Ann's Warehouse will be decked out by the artists that bring you the Toy Theater Festival - Great Small Works- and bouncing to the brass- infused beats of amazing bands. Soju Vodka Drink Specials, draught beer, wine, song, dance. Go and get your sweaty dance on! Purchase tix and get info at www.greatsmallworks.org. For more info. email roberto.rossi@yale.edu ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 16:24:18 +0200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Megan M Garr Subject: Spread the word: Versal 8 is in the air Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Versal 8 is now available On May 8th, the eighth edition of Versal, the Netherlands' only international literary journal, was launched at the Sugar Factory club in Amsterdam. This is the largest issue of Versal so far, and arguably the most visually gorgeous, with cover art by renowned American artist Kerri Rosenstein, and, inside its pages, more color artwork than ever before, from artists including Michael Genovese and Kim Holleman. The work of widely celebrated writers, including Laura Mullen, Maureen Seaton, and Selah Saterstrom, sits alongside writing by exciting emerging names such as Karen An-hwei Lee, Brandon Shimoda and Colleen Hollister. As in previous editions, Versal 8's contributor list is resolutely international; writers appearing here in English translation, some for the first time, include renowned poets Carlos Barbarito (Argentina), Chung Ho-Seung (South Korea) and Carlos Pardo (Spain). This issue once again breaks linguistic, national, and cultural borders to bring together the wide range of artistry happening in our contemporary milieu. To order your copy, visit http://www.wordsinhere.com/orderversal.html About Versal Versal is published annually by the Amsterdam-based wordsinhere group, a non-profit, volunteer-run organization for international writers living and working in the Netherlands. Its editors hail from Canada, Russia, the UK, Uruguay, the USA and the Netherlands, and are led by American poet Megan M. Garr. A publication celebrating translocal intersections and cross-cultural dialogue, Versal is internationally renowned for the quality of work published by up-and-coming as well as established writers, and for its strong attention to design and production values. It is sold in major cities around the world and is available via the journal's website, www.wordsinhere.com. For press enquiries and review copies please contact us at versaljournal@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: Fri, 14 May 2010 14:58:24 -0400 Reply-To: sanjdoller@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: sandra de 1913 Subject: OZALID by Biswamit Dwibedy... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ...is HERE from 1913 Press ! Please check out our newest book: Ozalid by Biswamit Dwibedy &/or pass along the good word to a friend. *$9 (nine dollars)*, available *NOW* from 1913or Small Press Distribution About *Ozalid*: "Biswamit=92s poems arrive and depart simultaneously, or at least give an impression of being both a trail ahead and a trail behind a moving figure. This seems to me to be a cosmic figure, in the spirit of Jesus, because of its gleam and disappearance. What is thrown, like wheat or gold, flies, falls, vanishes but leaves marks. The marks are all we have to judge the figure by. I guess that is called a sleight of hand? This is the way I understand them, in any case, and feel their pain as being a suffusion of which there is no more or less than what is written." =97*Fanny Howe* "You=92re holding in your hands an entire book in which nothing is trackable=97from the first page, we=92re in unmapped territory, unmapped be= cause it=92s the language itself, its strangeness, that is constantly creating th= e world that it is simultaneously making necessary. With a marvelous intelligence that is always exceeding itself, Dwibedy manages an emotional intimacy, a tone that talks to the marrow and leaves a shadow in your blood= . It=92s a tour de force=AD=97brilliant and heartbreaking." =97*Cole Swensen* xxxs, sandra/1913. --=20 l'editrice de 1913, Sandra Doller (n=E9e Miller) http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/sdoller/sdoller.htm http://omnidawn.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/poetry-feature-sandra-doller/ * NEW! from 1913: 1913 a journal of forms, Issue 4 "Ozalid" by Biswamit Dwibedy "READ" 1913's annual translation anthology from the Tamaas seminars in Pari= s http://www.journal1913.org * Forthcoming from 1913: "Hg-the liquid" by Ward Tietz Two collaborations by Mendi+Keith Obadike "Home/Birth: A Poemic" by Arielle Greenberg & Rachel Zucker "Wonderbender" by Diane Wald http://www.1913press.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, 16 May 2010 21:27:10 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Justin Katko Subject: CRS 5 - Jow Lindsay-Walton and Posie Rider, Fri 21 May In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For the fifth instalment of the Cambridge Reading Series (England), imaginative works of original poetry and fiction will be read aloud this Friday, 21st May, by Posie Rider (aka Posie Rider) and Joe Walton (aka Jow Lindsay, Frances Crot, Kyle Storm Best-Chetwynde, Lara Buckerton, Amelia Gilmore, Prawn Datasun, Blandrew Potion, etc). Together they are Lorqi Blinkx and any other concrescent id-Entity they can rustle up in the great airplane kitchen of the exolatable Love/Strife plasmata mesoscopia. The reading will take place at 7:30pm in the Judith E. Wilson drama studio, Faculty of English. Free; all welcome; wine served. *************************** POSIE RIDER: I started writing poems as soon as I could write ... I began writing songs, plays, and novels around age 10, and still have many of thos= e things. Although I continued writing novels until I was 15 or so, and I still dabble in prose fiction, I decided at the ripe old age of 12 that I had conquered all forms of writing except poetry and that my major energies would focus on that genre. Find me at ladiesalone.blogspot.com xxx JOE WALTON a grandi en Afrique du Sud avant de s=92installer =E0 =C9dimbour= g o=F9 il travail en tant que secr=E9taire dans la finance. Il anime plusieurs blogs= : Everyone=92s Cup of Tea et Crot of Shit= < http://franciscrot.blogspot.com/>. Son travail poss=E8de des th=E8matiques vari=E9es (amulettes, chagrin etc.). Son prochain livre para=EEtra chez Vee= r et aura pour titre MEL=C9E DANS LE SPERME ET AUTRES CHANSONS ET LES POSITIONS = DU STRESS. Il est l=92un des =E9diteurs de Bad Press < http://badpress.infinology.net/>. *************************** Please direct any queries to Ryan Dobran (rdobran@gmail.com) or see the CRS website: crs0hq.tumblr.com. The Cambridge Reading Series is funded by the Judith E. Wilson Fund and organised by English graduate students Ryan Dobran, Ian Heames, Justin Katko, Laura Kilbride, and Mike Wallace-Hadrill. *************************** And don't miss the final CRS reading of the year! >> Friday 18 June: Sean Bonney & Simon Jarvis =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 17 May 2010 09:52:02 +1200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Lisa Samuels Subject: It's all good - now available MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =91It=92s all good,=92 a track from my developing audio CD of Tomorrowland, is now available here =96 http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/home&away/samuels.asp - on the Home & Away Digital Bridge. Home & Away is a 2010 trans-Tasman poetic interchange conducted by Pam Brown, Martin Edmond, Brian Flaherty and Michele Leggott, with real time meetings in Auckland (April) and Sydney (September), and the Digital Bridge has many fine vehicles on it. For the Tomorrowland CD, I am using voice, musical instruments, and noise chance to form soundscapes that accompany the reading aloud of the book. My thanks to Tim Page for his sound recording, mixing, and editing expertise. Yrs in the transpacific, Lisa Samuels =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 15 May 2010 09:15:00 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ed Friedman Subject: New poem + video in Not Enough Night Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable New poem of mine, =B3The Looks Spell Danger=B2 (plus a Photobooth video of me reading it) in NOT ENOUGH NIGHT. Also there: work by Barbara Henning, Harryette Mullens, Anne Kingsbury, and others. Here=B9s the link: http://www.naropa.edu/notenoughnight/spring10/index_toc.htm With everything, Ed Friedman =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 15 May 2010 22:06:32 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gloria Mindock Subject: "live Landscape" by Andrey Gritsman published by Cervena Barva Press MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cervena Barva Press Announces a New Book=20 "Live Landscape"=20 by Andrey Gritsman=20 Live Landscape by Andrey Gritsman Andrey Gritsman is a poet and essayist, born and raised in Russia. He lives= in New York City and works as a physician. He has been widely published in= Russia, including five collections of poetry. Poems, essays and translatio= ns in English have appeared in Manhattan Review, New Orleans Review, Denver= Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, South Carolina Review and many ot= hers and were anthologized in Modern Poetry in Translation (UK), in Crossin= g Centuries (New Generation in Russian Poetry), The Breath of Parted Lips: = Voices from the Robert Frost Place and in Stranger at Home: American Poetry= with an Accent . Collections of poetry and essays Long Fall was published = by Spuyten Duyvil in 2004 and recent poetry collection PISCES by Numina Pre= ss. Andrey=E2=80=99s work was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2005, 200= 6 and 2007 and was on the short list for the Joyce Osterweil/PEN American C= enter Prize in Poetry in 2005. He runs the Intercultural Poetry Series in a= popular literary club Cornelia Street Caf=C3=A9 and edits international po= etry magazine INTERPOEZIA .=20 Andrey Gritsman is quite literally a groundbreaking poet. From Moscow to Ne= w York is a steep distance but Gritsman makes us aware of the threads that = link seemingly disparate occasions. Fresh perceptions create new styles and= Gritsman=E2=80=99s is more than a synthesis of two cultures: it is an art = that probes delusions and pleasures by a poet who has been around some daun= ting blocks.=20 =E2=80=94Baron Wormser, author of Good Trembling and many other collections= of poetry.=20 Andrey Gritsman=E2=80=99s poems are unwavering in their honesty, relentless= in their assessment of contemporary life, and clear-eyed in their approach= to human love and mortality. We instantly recognize the terrain he is nego= tiating. Perhaps only Gritsman, with his unprejudiced immigrant=E2=80=99s e= ye, can describe the empty, arid landscape of the American West. These are = poems that peer into the abyss behind the official public happiness of Amer= ican life, the compulsion to be always hopeful, positive and bubbling over = with good spirits. That is to say: they are real poems, and make no accommo= dation with fanciful dreams. Read =E2=80=98em, and weep.=20 =E2=80=94Kurt Brown, poet, editor of several anthologies, founder, Aspen Wr= iters=E2=80=99 Seminar=20 Gritsman=E2=80=99s poems are tenderness in transit. They fully inhabit thei= r evoked circumstances so that their significance keeps expanding and reson= ating before the quality of attention given over to them. He so quickly is = able to penetrate to the depths in the poems, it is as though working with = a large, oiled, sharp shovel while the rest of us are working with miniatur= e dull and rusty spoons. The use of brevity in some of these poems remind m= e of my beloved Denise Levertov. His poems are =E2=80=9Ctime-flooded=E2=80= =9D and remind me that whether we look backward or forward in time always t= he beloved figures are diminishing, disappearing, and the shadow growing fr= om our own foot soles moves among the company of many other shadows. =E2=80= =9CConstant departure,=E2=80=9D as he says it, is our state, and all we can= do is stand for our count, make our song, and salute each other.=20 =E2=80=94Jeanne Marie Beaumont, author of Curious Conduct (BOA Editions)=20 FOR MY FATHER=20 After you've been gone,=20 I've been flying alone back and forth=20 above the waters and the continents.=20 Both of us: me here and you there=20 know too well that this is a waste of time=20 and space.=20 I may be flying, looking for you=20 for the rest of my life=20 or death, and still never see you.=20 Nothing can be undone,=20 and I can't take it.=20 Nor I can take the fact=20 that every time I see my close ones, I know,=20 it may be the last time I see them.=20 Don't worry about me. While I fly,=20 an angel in uniform attends me,=20 gives me some water and bread,=20 and smiles to me.=20 She takes care of me=20 until it's time to get out,=20 get in line for the luggage=20 and then to disappear into crowd=20 which lives on the exhaust,=20 cyclic persistence=20 and canned expectations.=20 The latter is something=20 I live on myself, expectation=20 melting slowly into waiting=20 as I keep on flying=20 in the space given=20 for the time being.=20 Cover Art: Natasha Gasteva | ISBN: 978-0-9844732-1-2 | 73 pages Order onlin= e at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/cervenabooks.html=20 Live Landscape =09 $15.00=20 Shipping =09 $3.00=20 Total =09 $18.00=20 Thank you-=20 Gloria Mindock=20 midwesternglo@comcast.net=20 =C2=A0=20 =09 Send check or money order payable to:=20 Cervena Barva Press=20 P.O. Box 440357,=20 W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222=20 e-mail: editor@cervenabarvapress.com=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, 15 May 2010 22:49:29 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: The Dariens Subject: Steven Manuel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We are very pleased to have been able to publish these fine poems by Steven Manuel. Thank you, the dariens http://thedariens.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, 16 May 2010 14:31:46 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Subject: LONG LIVE NEW ORLEANS!!! BIG BRIDGE TRIBUTE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Complete New Orleans Tribute Issue =20 =20 Dear Friends of Big Bridge,=20 We are pleased to announce the final Supplement of Big Bridge's Epic = Tribute to New Orleans. When we set out to offer this tribute to the = magical and great City of New Orleans we had no idea it would take two = years and three installments. Gratitude to Jack Krick and Mary Sands = Woodbury for webmastering us through this enormity. And thank you for = your patience in allowing this tribute to evolve. There is no shortage = of wonders to be found within! Love to you all! And LONG LIVE NEW ORLEANS!!! BIG BRIDGE http://www.bigbridge.org Complete New Orleans Tribute Issue 2010 SUPPLEMENT FEATURES=20 Photographing the Ninth Ward Images of New Orleans After Katrina by John Rosenthal=20 Diane di Prima A Retrospective Collection of Essays=20 Home Again, Home Again A Memoir by Ron Loewinsohn Perfiles de la Noche / Profiles of Night=20 Mujeres poetas de Venezuela/Women Poets of Venezuela A Selection from the Bi-lingual Anthology=20 Original complete text selected and translated by Rowena Hill=20 Co-edited by Pen de Venezuela and bid & co.=20 Selection for online edition by Terri Carrion Poetry by=20 Mar=EDa Auxiliadora =C1lvarez, Edda Armas, Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva,=20 María calca=F1o, Laura Cracco, Ida Gramcko, Patricia Guzm=E1n, = Veronica Jaffe,=20 Maritza Jim=E9nez, Rowena Hill, Martha Kornblith, Luz machado, Mar=EDa = Isabel Novillo,=20 Cecilia Ortiz, Hanni Ossott, Yolanda Pantin, Emira Rodr=EDguez, Margara = Russotto,=20 Mar=EDa Clara Salas, Elizabeth Sch=F6n, Blanca Strepponi, Ana Enriqueta = Ter=E1n,=20 Alicia Torres, Elena Vera, Carmen Verde Arocha, Miyo Vestrin=20 FEATURE POETS=20 Wendy Babiak Jim Christy Hans Plomp Robert Priest FEATURED ARTISTS Ed Coletti Jeff Crouch Diana Magallon and Jeff Crouch John Martone = Spencer Selby FICTION edited by Vernon Frazer=20 Tom Bradley Seth Phelps Stefani Christova Jordan Zinovich Jefferson Hansen Joe Clifford Christopher Brookhouse Andy Stewart REVIEWS Allan Graubard reviews Gherasim Luca =20 Paul Martinez Pompa reviews Francesco Levato's translation of Tiziano = Fratus Jack Foley reviews Katherine Hastings Roberts French reviews Anne Valley-Fox Art Beck reviews Neeli Cherkovski Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo review Gerald Nicosia Billey Rainey reviews Stephen Bett Wanda Phipps reviews a performance by Delirious Dances An Interview with Choreographer Edisa Weeks Interviewer: Wanda Phipps =20 =20 = 2009 SUPPLEMENT CHAPBOOK:=20 A Time in Fragments Poem by Clark Coolidge; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis FEATURES Big Bridge New Orleans Sturm und Drang Anthology. Edited by Dave Brinks = and Bill Lavender. Introductory notes for work by 30 artists and 90 = writers. Slow Poetry Edited by Dale Smith . One of the most refreshing and = promising developments in poetry in recent years, Slow Poetry does not = propose another sectarian or clique position, but rather methods of = reading and attitudes toward production which could apply to most genres = in the current scene or likely to emerge in the near future. The = approach has a strong base in concepts and needs made more apparent than = ever by current ecological and economic concerns. Beauty Came Groveling Forward: Selected South African Poems and Stories. = Edited by Gary Cummiskey. This collection was meant to show the = diversity and spirited character of current South African writing. It = contains work by some celebrated writers, and some whose work has not = received wide circulation even in its home country. Without the problems = caused by canon formation or trying to be totally comprehensive, this = group of poems and stories is free to work outside the stereotypes and = preconceptions of South Africa and allow the participants to show what = they can do as individuals.=20 All This Strangeness: A Garland for George Oppen. Edited by Eric = Hoffman. Commentary on Oppen has grown slowly, unobtrusively, and = steadily, until it now forms a major body in itself. This collection of = essays evaluates that body of criticism in less partisan terms than many = of its predecessors, seeking to focus on individual poems and prosody in = a broad historical context, going beyond the dichotomies that dominated = the 20th Century and making room for further types of relevance in = current literary and social dispensations. Sephardic Proverbs. Collected and translated by Michael Castro. Proverbs = act on many of the same principles as other miniatures, such as haiku. = Like stand-alone couplets and quatrains used in everything from toasts = to insults, they also include a strong element of collaboration and = evolution. As a look at a tradition or a type of poem, this collection = can stay with a reader a long time. Post-Beat Anthology. Reprint from the Chinese anthology, with brief = intro. Edited by Vernon Frazer. How would you edit a collection of poems = with that title for a Chinese audience? Probably not the same way Frazer = has. That's one of the things that makes it interesting and refreshing.=20 as per Le Roman de la Rose, for example. An Anthology of Middle East = Genocide Edited by Arpine Konyalian Grenier How does the cruel and = unusual work for you through art, whether it comes from direct = experience or direct/indirect memory. Be Genet, for example; lemon to = lemonade, for example. How does one turn to Le Roman de la Rose (a = Middle Ages Poem) when one is mired in or sorting out or faced with what = happened or what is happening that is cruel and unusual due to human = intolerance: racial religious cultural gender related and other.=20 Charles Olson and the Nature of Destructive Humanism by Craig Stormont=20 One Man Blues: Remembering Thomas Chapin. Reminiscence by Vernon Frazer=20 Excerpt from Autobiography by David Bromige=20 The India Journals by John Brandi=20 Genius and Heroin: by Michael Largo. In this essay, the author reviews = his own book. The themes of psycho-chemistry may stretch back to = pristine civilizations in China, Egypt, and Mexico, but they seem = inexhaustible. Perhaps associate chemicals with genius is because our = brains produce such sophisticated bases to start with, and self-review = also finds a base in that phenomenon.=20 WAR PAPERS (3) Poems and essays against war. Sub-features by John Bradley, Joel Lewis, = Philip Metres, Vincent Katz, Francesco Levato, and Louise Landes Levi, = plus reflections from around the world on the election of Barack Obama, = and, of course, Halvard Johnson's continuing anthology of anti-war = poems.=20 A Retrospective of the Publication Work of Karl Young ART Enigmas paintings by Jim Spitzer. As a regular contributor to Big = Bridge, these paintings, variations on an enigmatic theme, show = Spitzer's continuing evolution, as well as being koan-like meditations = in their own right. The Kingdom of Madison: Photographs from Madison County, North Carolina by Rob Amberg. Selections from three sets of photos, exploring a still = relatively isolated place, where landscape still has functional meaning. = When Amberg arrived, not as a tourist, but as one seeking community = "Planting was still done by the signs of the moon. Water came from = springs and heat from forests" and traditional music still part of daily = life. These photos add to the tradition begun in the WPA projects of the = Great Depression, but decidedly retain an identity of their own. These Are My Angels by Tasha Robbins. Small paintings done in Brooklyn = on found cardboard by one of the Post-Katrina diaspora. Celebrating the = C-Train stop at Franklin + Fulton Avenues, as the artist writes, they = "kept my heart, eye + hand moving with a spirit of life close to the = timbre and vibration of the Crescent City, still healing. . . Lectura en Tr=E1nsito. Project Created and Directed by Carmen Gloria = Berr=EDos. Set based on combination of public art and poetry from = Santiago de Chile. Poems translated by Terri Carrion and Carmen Gloria = Berr=EDos.=20 Animal Night Photography by Felicia Murray; notes by Louise Landes Levi. = New techniques in photography allow us to make photographic images of = phenomena we could only imagine in previous eras. We might debate = whether the nature of cameras and software brings us any closer to the = spiritual world, but these haunting images of animals should make us = feel less alone, and more in touch with the continuum of life. 12 Collages by John Brandi. These colages can be read as a non-verbal = counterpart and extension of his India Journal and related work. FICTION Fiction by Mel Freilicher, Eric Beeny, Stefani Christova, Lynda Schor, = David Madgalene, Stephen-Paul Martin, Mark Wallace, Susan Smith Nash, = Richard Martin, Peter Conners, Ann Bogle, Jeffrey Hansen, Carol Novack=20 REVIEWS Reviews of: Wanda Phipps, Lewis Warsh, Simon Pettet, Larissa Shmailo, = Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Ed Sanders, Bill Berkson, Colter Jacobsen, Mark = Young, John Roche, Philip Gounis, Rich Kruse, Michael Rumaker, Annie Le = Brun, George Kimball, and Ashis Gupta. Reviewed by: Kirpal Gordon; = Svitlana Matviyenko, Garry Parrish, Jackie Sheeler, Jim Feast, Allan = Graubard, Charles Thorne, Barbara Henning, Tom Hibbard, Steve Elmer, = Stephen Lewandowski Joe Wetteroth, Vernon Frazer, Leverett T. Smith, and = Katherine Hastings. LITTLE MAGS Plastic Ocean, Green Dragon, Untamed Ink ROCKPILE. ROCKPILE is a collaboration between David Meltzer =97 poet, = musician, essayist, and more =97 and Michael Rothenberg of Big Bridge = Press. David and Michael will journey through eight cities in the U.S. = to perform poetry and prose, composed while on the road, with local = musicians and artists in each city. ROCKPILE will serve to educate and = preserve as well as to create a history of collaboration. It will help = to reinforce the tradition of the troubadour of all generations, central = to the cultural upheaval and identity politics that reawakened poets, = artists, musicians, and songwriters in the mid-1960s through the 1970s. = The project will end with a final multimedia performance in San = Francisco. Check out the ROCKPILE Blog for calendar and discussion! =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, 17 May 2010 13:41:41 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: george spencer Subject: Re: a noun sing Prosaic Suburban Commercial by Keith Higginbotham, an e=?utf-8?Q?=C2=B7ratio_editions_e=C2=B7chap?= In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable does anyone know of basic level classes in hypertexing in new york city? thank george spencer --- On Tue, 5/4/10, St. Thomasino wrote: From: St. Thomasino Subject: a noun sing Prosaic Suburban Commercial by Keith Higginbotham, an = e=C2=B7ratio editions e=C2=B7chap To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 10:57 AM E=C2=B7 E=C2=B7ratio Editions is pleased to present E=C2=B7ratio Editions E=C2=B7ch= ap #9: Prosaic Suburban Commercial by Keith Higginbotham. =E2=80=9C . . . bathe deep in / the barely-there / disassembled gallery / o= f the everyday . . . =E2=80=9D Two poetic sequences.=C2=A0 With illustrations by Keith Higginbotham. Also available: #8.=C2=A0 Polylogue by Carey Scott Wilkerson.=C2=A0 Poems.=C2=A0 =E2=80=9C = . . . with rules and constitutive games, / with paints and gramarye / with = some modicum / of my reckless trust . . . =E2=80=9D #7.=C2=A0 Bash=C5=8D=E2=80=99s Phonebook.=C2=A0 30 translations by Travis M= acdonald.=C2=A0 The great Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bash=C5=8D goes digita= l.=C2=A0 Conceptual poetry.=C2=A0 With translator=E2=80=99s notes. #6.=C2=A0 Correspondance (a sketchbook) by Joseph F. Keppler.=C2=A0 Digital= art.=C2=A0 With an introduction by Joseph F. Keppler. #5.=C2=A0 Six Comets Are Coming by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.=C2=A0 Vol= ume I of the collected works including Go and Go Mirrored, with revised int= roductions, corrected text and restored original font. #4.=C2=A0 The Logoclasody Manifesto.=C2=A0 Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino on= logoclasody, logoclastics, eidetics and pannarrativity.=C2=A0 Addenda incl= ude the Crash Course in Logoclastics, Concrete to Eidetic (on visual poetry= ) and On Mathematical Poetry. #3.=C2=A0 Waves by M=C3=A1rton Kopp=C3=A1ny.=C2=A0 =E2=80=9CThese works are= minimalist by design, but should we paraphrase the thought channeled there= in, the effect would be encyclopedic, ranging through philosophy, psycholog= y, politics, and the human emotions.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0 Visual poetry. #2.=C2=A0 Mending My Black Sweater and other poems by Mary Ann Sullivan.=C2= =A0 Poems of making conscious, of acceptance and of self-remembering, and o= f personal responsibility. #1.=C2=A0 Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino joins John M. Bennett In the Bennet= t Tree.=C2=A0 Collaborative poems, images, an introduction and a full-lengt= h critical essay pay homage to American poet John M. Bennett. http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/eratioeditions.html http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/ E=C2=B7 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 17 May 2010 16:04:44 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: 6 Gallery co-founder dies In-Reply-To: <55C3EBAA930F4D079434C718B62E697C@DELL1525> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/arts/design/16remington.html =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inb= ox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 17 May 2010 14:30:22 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Naomi Buck Palagi Subject: Re: little orange pencils In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii fabulous maze of sites and images to explore! --- On Thu, 5/13/10, { brad brace } wrote: From: { brad brace } Subject: little orange pencils To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 6:17 PM usually I might make some flux-art from such an odd discovery but no one (except for Janice, and I hate her),) ended-up being very interested in my earlier offer of the 20-yr-old collected seashore pebbles rolling back and forth on my car's dashboard (that I offered to exchange for a US$2 bill),, so I'm thinking the little discarded orange pencils that I inexplicably discover pretty much in the same sidewalk location nearly every day wouldn't be of much interest either... (not really) sorry to have troubled anyone at all: just check the a-for-animosity box on your artworld-ballot (I'll still send you a pencil), and let's finally dispense with all these horrid art-hostage-museums, alright?... long-ago: http://www.bbrace.net/pencil.html /:b ================================== 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, 17 May 2010 18:33:00 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Allegrezza Subject: POD and presses MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm trying to come up with a list of small presses that use PODs. If you know of one, please let me know. 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: Tue, 18 May 2010 11:00:42 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Vernon Frazer Subject: IMPROVISATIONS VIDEO BY VERNON FRAZER UPDATED ON YOUTUBE Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello In publishing this poem before, I encountered several production = problems. On a previous revision the text I prepared turned fuzzy whenI = published it to YouTube. I've redone the piece and reformatted the text = so that you can read it clearly during the performance. I apologize for = the frequent posts on this matter and hope you'll enjoy what I hope is = the final take. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DZZmBlA2WiY4 Vernon I= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 18 May 2010 11:13:30 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Prejsnar Subject: in Georgia: Language Harm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable COME SEE Poets Pretend to be People ... = =0A=0A=0A=0A=A0=0A=0ACOME SEE Poets Pretend to be People ...=0A=0A=A0=0A=0A= This month's Language Harm is Wednesday, May 19 =0A=0A=A0=0A=0AThe Atlanta = Poets Group will perform,=A0 starting at 8:00 pm=0A=0A=A0=0A=0AThe theme is= :=A0=0AImpersonation=0A=0A=A0=0A=0A=A0=0A=0ALanguage Harm occurs at: =0A=0A= Eyedrum=0A=0A290 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive=0A=0A(about 3 blocks west of= Oakland Cemetery)Atlanta, GA =0A=0A=A0=0A=0AAdmission is $5=0A=0AFree for Eyedrum members=0A=0A=A0=0A=0A= =A0=0A=0AFor more info on the APG and its work,=0A=0AAnd on Eyedrum gallery= :=0A=0A=A0=0A=0Ahttp://www.eyedrum.org/=0A=0A=A0=0A=0A=A0=0A=0Ahttp://atlan= tapoetsgroup.blogspot.com/=0A=0A=A0=0A=0A=A0=0A=0A=0A=0A--mark=0A=0A=A0=0A= =0A"More and more=0Amankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to= interpret life for us,=0Ato console us, to sustain us.=A0 Without=0Apoetry= , our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us= =0Afor religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry."=0A=0A=A0=0A=0A= =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0= =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=0A= --Matthew Arnold=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, 18 May 2010 17:40:30 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: reading updates yert again MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit May 23- @ Tribes Gallery 285 E. 3rd St (Ave C&D) 2nd Fl . Manhattan 4ish-7 PM Donald Gardner, Yuko Otomo, Steve Dalachinsky plus short open reading - donation ___________________________________________________ > June 5 > The Brownstone Poets presents: > steve dalachinsky and Bruce Webber > Park Plaza Restaurant > 220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. & Pineapple Walk > Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900 > Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street, > 4, 5, M or R to Court Street, Borough Hall > > > 2:30 P.M. $3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open Mic > > > curated by Patricia Carragon > _____________________________________________________ > June 6 - 4-6pm opening for poets in collage show wine etc short readings by steve dalachinsky yuko otomo, bruce weber, valaery oisteaneu, star black, jeff wright, bob heman, aaron howard, lewis warsh, nicole peyrafitte tribes gallery 2nd floor - 285 e 3rd st (ave c and d) manhattan __________________________________________________________ > June 14 at local 269 suffolk and houston 7 pm w/ the great loren mazzacane connors on guitar __________________ Sunday June 20 - 2-5pm the Vision Festival presents @ AGathering of Tribes 285 East 3rd St. (between C & D - 2nd floor) donation to Tribes poetry by Jeff Wright Bob Heman Lewis Warsh Poetry & Music Albey Balgochian & Jane Grenier B Barry Wallenstein Yuko Otomo - Shayna Dulberger Jake Marmer / & Alon Nechushtan Aaron Howard w/Gwen Krueger & Tomislav Butkovic Steve Dalachinsky Alexandre Pierrepont Tamara Singh Tsaurah Litsky Steve Ben Israel Musicians / Improvs Ellen Christi Max Johnson bass Andrew Barker drums Charles Waters reeds plus others to be announced On Sat, 15 May 2010 22:49:29 -0400 The Dariens writes: > We are very pleased to have been able to publish these fine poems by > Steven > Manuel. > > Thank you, > the dariens > http://thedariens.blogspot.com > > ================================== > 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, 18 May 2010 19:35:35 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: EOAGH Book Party 5/23: Andrew Levy and Charles Borkhuis MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 EOAGH Reading Series 5/23: Andrew Levy and Charles Borkhuis A Reading and Book Party Celebrating the Print Release of Andrew Levy's EOAGH book Nothing is in Here A Historic Pairing of Levy & Borkhuis Sunday, May 23 at 2PM at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY FREE ANDREW LEVY is the author of Values Chauffeur You, Democracy Assemblages, Curve, Elephant Surveillance to Thought, Memories of My Father, Cracking Up, and other collections. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines (from Aerial and Conjunctions to The Gig and Kenning to Temblor and Writing) as well as anthologies such as Writing from the New Coast, The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets, The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry, and Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s. Levy's work has been translated into Finnish, French, German, Slovenian, and Spanish. Ashoka, a book length poem, was published in Spain by Zasterle Books in 2002. Andrew Levy has taught journalism at Queensborough-CUNY since 2004. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters. Read "After Such Knowledge: in remembrance of Jackson Mac Low" in EOAGH Issue 2: http://www.chax.org/eoagh/issuetwo/levy.htm Read the e-book version of "Nothing is in Here" in EOAGH Issue 5: http://www.chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/levy.html CHARLES BORKHUIS is a poet, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. His books of poems include: Afterimage, Savoir-fear, Alpha Ruins, Proximity (Stolen Arrows), Dinner with Franz, and Hypnogogic Sonnets. Alpha Ruins was selected by Fanny Howe as a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Book Award. His poetry has appeared in the anthologies: Writing from the New Coast: Technique and Practice, Primary Trouble, The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry, and the Avec Sampler. Disappearing Acts is his latest manuscript of poems. His essays have appeared in two books from the University of Alabama Press: Telling It Slant and We Who Love to Be Astonished. He is the recipient of a Dramalogue Award. His plays are published in four collections: Mouth of Shadows, The Sound of Fear Clapping, Stage This: 3, and Poets' Theater. His CD, Black Light, contains two radio plays produced for NPR http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Borkhuis.php Read "from The Tooth Fairy" in EOAGH Issue 4: http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefour/borkhuis.html HOW TO GET TO UNNAMEABLE BOOKS: Unnameable Books is conveniently located at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. There are two ways to get there: 1) Take the 2 or 3 train to the Grand Army Plaza stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block around the circle, and turn onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. 2) Take the Q train to the 7th Avenue stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block along Park Pl and make a left onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. UPCOMING EOAGH READING SERIES EVENTS: Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Paolo Javier, and Filip Marinovich Sunday, June 6 @2PM Michael Gottlieb and Susie Timmons (Faux Press Event) Sunday, June 20 @2PM E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, and Shelly Taylor Sunday, June 27 @2PM ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 12:05:28 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Melnicove Subject: Bern Porter Lost & Found Blog In-Reply-To: 626966311.29150331273961192585.JavaMail.root@sz0116a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rachael Morrison, MoMA curator of their current Bern Porter Lost & Found= Exhibit, has posted a write-up of the Bern Porter event at Esopus on Ap= ril 22. There's audio of Dan Domench's and Kenneth Goldsmith's performan= ces of and about Bern Porter, and a video excerpt from my new 35-minute = film about Bern, JOY GLOWS WHERE CONFUSION WAS. Mark Melnicove http://www.moma.org/explore/inside=5Fout/2010/05/12/lost-and-found-an-ev= ening-with-bern-porter/#more-6074 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 18 May 2010 17:45:50 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Crane's Bill Books Subject: Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian Poet, 79, Dies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian Poet, 79, Dies By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 4:36 p.m. ET=20 ROME (AP) -- Edoardo Sanguineti, a poet, critic and intellectual whose = playful use of language made him an important neo-avant-garde figure on = Italy's 1960s literary scene, died on Tuesday in a Genoa hospital.=20 Doctors at Villa Scassi hospital said Sanguineti, 79, died there = following emergency surgery for an abdominal aneurysm.=20 In the early 1960s, Sanguineti helped found and influence the so-called = ''Gruppo 63,'' in which experimental poetry explored what he considered = the ''dissolution'' of daily language.=20 In a tribute, President Giorgio Napolitano recalled how he came to know = and appreciate Sanguineti when the two were Communist lawmakers in = Parliament from 1979-1983. State TV said Sanguineti liked to call = himself ''the last Marxist.''=20 Feltrinelli, which published much of his work, hailed him as a = ''stubborn and intelligent critical conscience of our time, a craftsman = of language and formidable poet of provocation and play.''=20 Sanguineti, who was born in Genoa in 1930, was an expert on Dante, = taught literature at several Italian universities, wrote plays and = essays as well as poems.=20 His first book of poetry, ''Laborintus,'' was published in 1956, and he = went on to publish several more volumes, as well as two novels.=20 Culture Minister Sandro Bondi hailed Sanguineti as a ''fundamental voice = of Italian literature in the latter half of the 20th century.'' = Sanguineti often imbued his poetry ''with civil and political = commitment, as in the best 20th century tradition,'' Bondi said.=20 In a recent interview, Sanguineti said the role of the poet is, in some = way, to help explain the world. He was particularly passionate about = class struggle, recently lamenting that ''the political situation is = disastrous, with a mass of proletarians and underclass proletarians in = extreme difficulty, and who no longer are aware that they are.''=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, 18 May 2010 20:02:04 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: POD and presses In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit blazevox.org On 5/17/10 7:33 PM, "William Allegrezza" wrote: > I'm trying to come up with a list of small presses that use PODs. If > you know of one, please let me know. > > Bill Allegrezza > > ================================== > 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, 18 May 2010 16:24:10 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Kate Eichhorn Subject: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Barbara Godard, 1942 =AD 2010 =20 On Sunday evening, literary critic, cultural theorist and translator Dr. Barbara Godard passed away in Toronto. The author of over 200 articles (som= e reprinted in her 2008 book, Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture) and editor of several edited collections, Barbara played a major role in creating new critical approaches to Canadian and Quebecois writing, especially innovative women=B9s writing. Barbara was deepl= y committed to working in collaboration with colleagues and students as well as writers, artists and activists. In 1984, she founded the journal Tessera with Daphne Marlatt, Gail Scott and Kathy Mezei. For many years, she served on the editorial board of Open Letter. In addition to her research and writing, Barbara supervised several generations of Canadian literary critic= s and cultural studies scholars. She will continue to have a tremendous impac= t on Canadian literature and culture, both terrains she helped to write. =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: Wed, 19 May 2010 01:02:26 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Stephen Ellis Subject: Re: little orange pencils In-Reply-To: <169854.13219.qm@web30005.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "little orange pencils"=2C that's GOOOD. I already have the seashells=2C f= rom a girl in Miami. * > Date: Mon=2C 17 May 2010 14:30:22 -0700 > From: enaomib@YAHOO.COM > Subject: Re: little orange pencils > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > fabulous maze of sites and images to explore! >=20 > --- On Thu=2C 5/13/10=2C { brad brace } wrote: >=20 >=20 > From: { brad brace } > Subject: little orange pencils > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Thursday=2C May 13=2C 2010=2C 6:17 PM >=20 >=20 > usually I might make some flux-art from such an odd > discovery but no one (except for Janice=2C and I hate her)=2C) > ended-up being very interested in my earlier offer of the > 20-yr-old collected seashore pebbles rolling back and forth > on my car's dashboard (that I offered to exchange for a US$2 > bill)=2C=2C so I'm thinking the little discarded orange pencils > that I inexplicably discover pretty much in the same > sidewalk location nearly every day wouldn't be of much > interest either... (not really) sorry to have troubled > anyone at all: just check the a-for-animosity box on your > artworld-ballot (I'll still send you a pencil)=2C and let's > finally dispense with all these horrid art-hostage-museums=2C > alright?... >=20 > long-ago: http://www.bbrace.net/pencil.html >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > /:b >=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 >=20 >=20 >=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 guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =20 =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inb= ox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 18 May 2010 18:20:38 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Re: IMPROVISATIONS VIDEO BY VERNON FRAZER UPDATED ON YOUTUBE In-Reply-To: <1F769D5D-BA76-4194-8EAF-BB06D5F8D09E@bellsouth.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Many many thanks Vernon! it's a revelation to hear/see you perform vocally and with the bass the pieces--s it opens up to one the true sense of your notations--which when rading them on my own--i would always wonder in what ways you heard them, and how you saw the relationship between the arrangements of the words and the arrangements-of the msuciality of them, as in all your works music is always so vidily present-- truly, my deepest thanks-- david-bc On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Vernon Frazer wrote: > Hello > > In publishing this poem before, I encountered several production problems. > On a previous revision the text I prepared turned fuzzy whenI published it > to YouTube. I've redone the piece and reformatted the text so that you can > read it clearly during the performance. I apologize for the frequent posts > on this matter and hope you'll enjoy what I hope is the final take. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZmBlA2WiY4 > > > Vernon > > > > > > > > > I > ================================== > 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, 18 May 2010 22:55:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nic Sebastian Subject: Re: Ten Questions on Poets and Technology: Collin Kelley In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The internet=2C Facebook=2C Twitter=2C blogs=2C websites=2C iPad=2C iPod=2C= podcasts=2C digital video=2C computers and who knows what else. What do th= ey all mean for the poet? For Poetry? Collin Kelley responds this week to T= en Questions on Poets and Technology - http://bit.ly/bqCjOR. Best wishes=2C Nic Sebastianhttp://verylikeawhale.wordpress.com =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your = inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 19 May 2010 15:57:17 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Hazel Smith Subject: Clay Conversations Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Some of you may be interested in my collaboration Clay Conversations with British ceramicist Joanna Still up at Scan gallery http://scan.net.au/scan/gallery/works/smith_april10/smith.php. You can just click on the Flash movie to play it, but there is also a Quicktime version. The Quicktime version takes a bit of time to download but gives you a bigger and better screen size. Hazel Prof. Hazel Smith Writing and Society Research Group College of Arts (Bankstown 1.1.163) UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC NSW 1797 tel: 9772 6400 email: hazel.smith@uws.edu.au See also my webpage at www.australysis.com The Erotics of Geography: poetry, performance texts, new media works http://www.tinfishpress.com/erotics.html Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts http://www.eupjournals.com/book/9780748636297 The Writing Experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing http://www.allenandunwin.com/writingexp/book.htm ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 20:35:11 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: recent posts on Tinfish Editor's Blog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been posting on poetry, Alzheimer's, and odd documents (sometimes all at once) recently: * "A little derivative, / but what isn't, these days... [John Beer & Gizelle Gajelonia rewrite TWL] * Odd Doc Tuesday: Charles Bernstein meets the DOE E... [Bernstein & DOE ethnicity form] * Odd Doc Monday: Hawai`i in the Alzheimer's Home * More Final Project Wonders, Spring 2010 * Harvest Time: Chapbooks & Other Marvels, or, Why I... [love my students] * Odd Doc Wednesday [calendar of events from the Alzheimer's home] and more on http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com aloha, Susan M. Schultz ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:22:20 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Playing at Linger Cafe in Brooklyn this Sunday - Come! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed We're playing at Linger Cafe in Brooklyn this Sunday - Come if you can! - Alan, Azure, Myk - The AMA group - Myk Freedman, Alan Sondheim, and Azure Carter - will perform at Linger, May 23rd, at 5 pm. Their music is improvised, drawing on a number of traditions, but emphasizing pushing the instruments to the limit. Carter sings (her own pieces) against a backdrop of free music; Freedman plays lap steel and steel-string guitar, and Sondheim plays electric oud and saz, cura cumbus, hegelung and guitar. http://www.lingercafelounge.com/events.html 533 Atlantic Avenue / Btwn 3rd & 4th Avenues / Brooklyn, NY 11217 / 347-689-4813 Contact: jzpichardo@lingercafelounge.com / Web: www.lingercafelounge.com (You can also contact me for further info - Alan) ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:53:19 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "STAIN OF POETRY with *Melissa Buzzeo, Hugh Behm-Steinb=". Rest of header flushed. From: amy king Subject: This Friday -- STAIN OF POETRY with *Melissa Buzzeo, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Todd Colby, Christie Ann Reynolds, Jared Stanley & Rachel Zolf!* Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Join us on Friday!=0ASTAIN OF POETRY with *Melissa Buzzeo, Hugh Behm-Steinb= erg, Todd Colby, Christie Ann Reynolds, Jared Stanley & Rachel Zolf!* Frida= y, May 21 @ 7 p.m. Goodbye Blue Monday =E2=80=93 Bushwick, Brooklyn (Direct= ions below) Melissa Buzzeo teaches at St. John=E2=80=99s University, and ha= s taught at Brown, Pratt, and The University of Iowa. She is the author of = two perfect bound books (What Began Us, 2007 and Face, 2009), and three cha= pbooks. In addition, her work has been translated into both French and Cata= lan. From NY originally, she holds degrees from both Cornell University and= The University of Iowa=E2=80=99s Writing Workshop. ~ Hugh Behm-Steinberg i= s the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and Sorcery (Dusie Chapboo= k Kollektiv). His poems can be found in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, S= pork, Cue, Slope, Aught, Fence, Swerve, Dirt, Ditch, Zeek and Sweet, as wel= l as some other places with more than one syllable such as New American Wri= ting and foam:e. He teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts, where he e= dits the journal Eleven Eleven. ~ Todd Colby is the author of Tremble & Shi= ne and Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Work, both from Soft Sku= ll Press, and the editor of Heights of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology = (St. Martins Press). He has appeared in numerous poetry anthologies, includ= ing Short Fuse: A World Anthology of Poetry, The Portable Boog Reader, Word= Up: Spoken Word Poetry in Print, Verses That Hurt, Revival: Spoken Word fr= om Lollapalooza, and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Caf=C3=A9. Colb= y has performed his poetry on PBS, MTV, and Canada=E2=80=99s Much Music Net= work. He has produced many collaborative books and paintings with the artis= t David Lantow and was the lyricist and vocalist for the now-legendary New = York band Drunken Boat. ~ Christie Ann Reynolds=E2=80=98 manuscript, idiot = heart was the 2009 winner of The New School Chapbook Competition. She has a= n MFA in Poetry, a BA in English and an MsEd in Secondary Education. Christie Ann i= s a member of The Poetry Brothel and her work can be found or is forthcomin= g in BlazeVox, My Name is Mud, Robot Melon, Sub-Lit, Critiphoria, and other= s. A short collection is forthcoming from Supermachine this summer. ~ Jared= Stanley is the author of Book Made of Forest (Salt 2009) and the chapbooks= I Something Scott Inguito You, The Outer Bay, and In Fortune. With Lauren = Levin and Catherine Meng, he edits Mrs. Maybe. He grew up in the San Franci= sco Bay Area and currently lives in the San Joaquin Valley of California. ~= Rachel Zolf=E2=80=98s fourth full-length book, Neighbour Procedure, was re= cently released by Coach House Books. Previous collections include Human Re= sources (Coach House), which won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry an= d was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Masque (The Mercury Press), S= hoot & Weep (Nomados), from Human Resources (Belladonna books) and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks). Zolf=E2=80=99s work has appeared in= journals throughout North America and in anthologies such as Prismatic Pub= lics: Innovative Canadian Women=E2=80=99s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House) = and a forthcoming anthology of conceptual writing from Les Figues Press. Sh= e was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has edited sev= eral books of poetry.=0AZolf lives in New York. at Goodbye Blue Monday 1087= Broadway=0A(corner of Dodworth St)=0ABrooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-634= 3 J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave=0Aor J train to Kosciusko St ~ Hosted by Amy K= ing and Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87 http://www.stainofpoetry.com -- =0AALI= AS: http://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, 19 May 2010 12:22:24 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Boog City presents Wave Books and I Feel Tractor Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) 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 Wave Books (Seattle) This Tues., May 25, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free ACA Galleries 529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr. NYC Event will be hosted by Wave Books' editor Joshua Beckman Featuring readings from Timothy Donnelly Geoffrey Nutter Matthew Rohrer Rachel Zucker and music from I Feel Tractor Wave One-Night Only Book Sale: All paperbacks for $10 each All limited edition hardcovers for $25 each Any three softcovers together for $24 2010 subscriptions for $75 There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too. Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum ------ **Wave Books http://www.wavepoetry.com/ Wave Books is an independent poetry press based in Seattle. Dedicated =20= to publishing the best in American poetry by new and established =20 authors, Wave Books was founded in 2005, joining forces with already-=20 established publisher Verse Press. Wave Books seeks to build on and =20 expand the mission of Verse Press by publishing strong innovative work =20= while encouraging the expansion and interactivity of poetry through =20 nationwide readings and events, affirming the belief that the audience =20= for poetry is larger and more diverse than commonly thought. Wave titles have received critical acclaim in publications such as The =20= Believer, Bookforum, Boston Review, Details, Harper's, Jacket =20 (Australia), The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Rolling =20 Stone, and The Village Voice, among others. Wave authors have received =20= NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, the National Book Award, the Pulitzer =20= Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, inclusion in the Best American =20= Poetry series, and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the =20 Massachusetts Center for the Book, and The American Poetry Review, =20 among other honors. *Performer Bios* *Timothy Donnelly http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/66 Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books) =20 and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove =20 Press). His work has been translated into German and Italian and has =20 appeared in numerous anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: =20 American Poets of the New Century; Isn=92t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems; =20= Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry; and Poet, =20 Poems, Poetry edited by Helen Vendler. A graduate of Johns Hopkins, =20 Columbia, and Princeton universities, he is a poetry editor for Boston =20= Review and teaches in the writing program at Columbia University=92s =20 School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two =20 daughters. *I Feel Tractor http://www.myspace.com/ifeeltractor http://www.goodbyebetter.com/ Eddie Berrigan is a New York poet and musician who performs under the =20= name I Feel Tractor. His songs are playful retakes of traditional folk =20= and country genres and their subtle, funny lyrics and far-flung =20 imagery create unusual landscapes of physical and emotional territory. =20= I Feel Tractor has released a self-titled 7-inch, Loudmouth =20 Collective, and a full-length recording, Once I Had An Earthquake, on =20= Goodbye Better. *Geoffrey Nutter http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/24 Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, and attended San Francisco =20 State University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is the author of =20 Christopher Sunset (Wave Books), Water's Leaves & Other Poems (Winner =20= of the 2004 Verse Press Prize), and A Summer Evening (Center for =20 Literary Publishing). His poems have appeared in many journals and =20 anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1997, The Iowa =20 Anthology of New American Poetries, and Isn't It Romantic: 100 Poems =20 by Younger American Poets. Geoffrey currently teaches in New York =20 City, where he lives with his wife, daughter, and son. *Matthew Rohrer http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/32 Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling =20 Presse), Rise Up (Wave Books), and A Green Light (Verse Press), which =20= was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the =20 author of Satellite (Verse Press), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, =20= of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press) and the audio CD Adventures While =20 Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches in =20 the undergraduate writing program at N.Y.U. *Rachel Zucker http://www.rachelzucker.net/ Rachel Zucker is the author of Museum of Accidents (Wave Books); and =20 The Bad Wife Handbook, The Last Clear Narrative, and Eating in the =20 Underworld (all three from Wesleyan University); and Annunciation (The =20= Center for Book Arts). She is, with Arielle Greenberg, the co-editor =20 of Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days and Women =20 Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (both from the University =20= of Iowa Press). A graduate of Yale and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, =20 Zucker has taught at several institutions, including N.Y.U. and Yale =20 University. She lives in New York City with her husband and three =20 sons, and is a certified labor doula. ---- Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St. Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues Next event: Tues. June 29 Straw Gate Books http://www.leafscape.org/StrawGateBooks/index.html (Philadelphia) -- 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) To subscribe free to The December Podcast: = http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=3D3431698= 80 For music from Gilmore boys: http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 19 May 2010 12:58:43 -0400 Reply-To: Adam Tobin Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Tobin Subject: Re: Playing at Linger Cafe in Brooklyn this Sunday - Come! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This trio is really something, and more unlike anything you've heard before than all that. Carter's uncanny and beautiful vocals (including, i think, some of Alan's writing you may have seen here, hyper digital text turned uncannily slow and vocal) linger over a first-rate string band -- Sondheim has the fastest hand/mind in the city, and Freedman's studied melodic sense sculpts it all into some kind of perverted song-forms. I've seen them play together now 3 times, and each time I was astonished. -----Original Message----- >From: Alan Sondheim >Sent: May 17, 2010 3:22 PM >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Playing at Linger Cafe in Brooklyn this Sunday - Come! > >We're playing at Linger Cafe in Brooklyn this Sunday - Come if you can! > >- Alan, Azure, Myk - > >The AMA group - Myk Freedman, Alan Sondheim, and Azure Carter - will >perform at Linger, May 23rd, at 5 pm. Their music is improvised, drawing >on a number of traditions, but emphasizing pushing the instruments to the >limit. Carter sings (her own pieces) against a backdrop of free music; >Freedman plays lap steel and steel-string guitar, and Sondheim plays >electric oud and saz, cura cumbus, hegelung and guitar. > >http://www.lingercafelounge.com/events.html > >533 Atlantic Avenue / Btwn 3rd & 4th Avenues / Brooklyn, NY 11217 / >347-689-4813 > >Contact: jzpichardo@lingercafelounge.com / Web: www.lingercafelounge.com > >(You can also contact me for further info - Alan) > >================================== >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. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:24:02 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Tomorrow! *Melissa Buzzeo, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Todd Colby, Christie Ann Reynolds, Jared Stanley & Rachel Zolf!* Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable STAIN OF POETRY with *Melissa Buzzeo, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Todd Colby, Chri= stie Ann Reynolds, Jared Stanley & Rachel Zolf!* Friday, May 21 @ 7 p.m. Go= odbye Blue Monday =E2=80=93 Bushwick, Brooklyn (Directions below) Melissa B= uzzeo teaches at St. John=E2=80=99s University, and has taught at Brown, Pr= att, and The University of Iowa. She is the author of two perfect bound boo= ks (What Began Us, 2007 and Face, 2009), and three chapbooks. In addition, = her work has been translated into both French and Catalan. From NY original= ly, she holds degrees from both Cornell University and The University of Io= wa=E2=80=99s Writing Workshop. ~ Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy G= reen Fields (No Tell Books) and Sorcery (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv). His poe= ms can be found in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Cue, Slope, Aug= ht, Fence, Swerve, Dirt, Ditch, Zeek and Sweet, as well as some other place= s with more than one syllable such as New American Writing and foam:e. He t= eaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts, where he e= dits the journal Eleven Eleven. ~ Todd Colby is the author of Tremble & Shi= ne and Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Work, both from Soft Sku= ll Press, and the editor of Heights of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology = (St. Martins Press). He has appeared in numerous poetry anthologies, includ= ing Short Fuse: A World Anthology of Poetry, The Portable Boog Reader, Word= Up: Spoken Word Poetry in Print, Verses That Hurt, Revival: Spoken Word fr= om Lollapalooza, and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Caf=C3=A9. Colb= y has performed his poetry on PBS, MTV, and Canada=E2=80=99s Much Music Net= work. He has produced many collaborative books and paintings with the artis= t David Lantow and was the lyricist and vocalist for the now-legendary New = York band Drunken Boat. ~ Christie Ann Reynolds=E2=80=98 manuscript, idiot = heart was the 2009 winner of The New School Chapbook Competition. She has a= n MFA in Poetry, a BA in English and an MsEd in Secondary Education. Christie Ann i= s a member of The Poetry Brothel and her work can be found or is forthcomin= g in BlazeVox, My Name is Mud, Robot Melon, Sub-Lit, Critiphoria, and other= s. A short collection is forthcoming from Supermachine this summer. ~ Jared= Stanley is the author of Book Made of Forest (Salt 2009) and the chapbooks= I Something Scott Inguito You, The Outer Bay, and In Fortune. With Lauren = Levin and Catherine Meng, he edits Mrs. Maybe. He grew up in the San Franci= sco Bay Area and currently lives in the San Joaquin Valley of California. ~= Rachel Zolf=E2=80=98s fourth full-length book, Neighbour Procedure, was re= cently released by Coach House Books. Previous collections include Human Re= sources (Coach House), which won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry an= d was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Masque (The Mercury Press), S= hoot & Weep (Nomados), from Human Resources (Belladonna books) and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks). Zolf=E2=80=99s work has appeared in= journals throughout North America and in anthologies such as Prismatic Pub= lics: Innovative Canadian Women=E2=80=99s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House) = and a forthcoming anthology of conceptual writing from Les Figues Press. Sh= e was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has edited sev= eral books of poetry.=0AZolf lives in New York. at Goodbye Blue Monday 1087= Broadway=0A(corner of Dodworth St)=0ABrooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-634= 3 J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave=0Aor J train to Kosciusko St ~ Hosted by Amy K= ing and Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87 http://www.stainofpoetry.com -- =0AALI= AS: http://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: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:16:52 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Got Gulf Oil? Urgent Call : Poets for Living Waters Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the Gulf Oil Disa= ster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-made ecological catast= rophes in history. Former US poet laureate Robert Pinsky describes the popu= larity of poetry after 9/11 as a turn away from the disaster=E2=80=99s over= whelming enormity to a more manageable individual scale. As we confront the= magnitude of this recent tragedy, such a return may well aid us.The first = law of ecology states that everything is connected to everything else. An = appreciation of this systemic connectivity suggests a wide range of poetry = will offer a meaningful response to the current crisis, including work that= harkens back to Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing regional effects. This o= nline periodical is the first in a planned series of actions. Further acti= ons will include a print anthology and a public reading in Washington DC. I= f you would like to submit work for consideration, please send 1-3 poems, a short bio, and credits for any previously published submissions to: po= etsforlivingwaters@yahoo.com Editors: Amy King & Heidi Lynn Staples ~~ If y= ou care, share -- Urgent Call -- http://poetsforlivingwaters.com/ =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: Thu, 20 May 2010 06:14:50 -0400 Reply-To: clwnwr@earthlink.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bob Heman Subject: Mindy Levokove and I this saturday at Gizzi's - plus some other dates to remember MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII o.k. - this saturday, May 22, from 7:00 until 8:45, Mindy Levokove, R. Nemo Hill, Bob Heman, guitarist Matt Hopard and Michelle Slater will be performing in an event organized by Michelle at Gizzi's at 16 W. 8th St (in the Village) between 5th Avenue and McDougal Street - it should be good - Mindy and I will be going on in the first segment, then Nemo in the second and Michelle in the third then on sunday, June 6, from 4:00-6:00, a reception/reading will celebrate the opening of WALTZING IN QUICKSAND: POETS IN COLLAGE, which will display collages by poets Star Black, Steven Dalachinsky, Bob Heman, Aaron Howard, Valery Oisteanu, Yuko Otomo, Nicole Peyrafitte, Lewis Warsh, Bruce Weber, and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright in an exhibition curated by Bruce Weber at the Tribes Gallery at 285 East 3rd Street, 2nd floor (between Avenues C and D) - the reception will be preceded by a collage workshop which will begin at 2:00 then on friday, June 11, i'll be part of Moira T. Smith's next event at Gizzi's - they're always a lot of fun - i'll send more information as i have it also mark your calendars - the 11th Big CLWN WR Event will be held on friday, June 18, at 7:00 in the Community Room at Westbeth - the show is still being put together but the features will be Basil King and Liza Wolsky - plus there will be some singers and lots of poetry and an interesting surprise or two - more info will follow i hope i get to see you at some or all of these events - 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: Thu, 20 May 2010 22:19:03 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Young Subject: Now out from Otoliths =?windows-1252?Q?=97_?= Crag Hill's 7 x 7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It's pure serendipity that the 49th book to bear the Otoliths imprint just happens to have the title that it does..... *7 x 7* Crag Hill 56 pages, Page size 8=BD" x 8=BD" Cover image by Nico Vassilakis Otoliths 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9806025-7-9 $13.45 + p&h URL: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/7-x-7/10899413 Implicitly comparing a book to a deck of cards, and that deck of cards in turn to the world of social violence we=92re dealt, Crag Hill stakes his an= te on the power of poetry to witness and document the multiply-layered, self-inflicted insanity of US daily life in the Bush years. As readers we become participants and are thus empowered to say no to the game of death. = =97 *Maria Damon* One of the most important things I look for in poetry is something I can believe=97something without posturing or postmodern cynicism or post-anythi= ng for that matter: something that stands outside of facile labels, something (disorientingly/ seemingly) simple that makes me *see* and *hear *and *feel*=97and more importantly, makes me believe=97in the world, in poetry, in the proces= s of* poesis. *Crag Hill=92s poems make me believe and listen=97and more importantly=97make me *want *to listen. And best of all, they are far from simple and believe in a chance-laden process. They *make *our world*. *The= se are poems fiercely engaged with/in our current and tragic socio/ political/ecological moment and I am deeply grateful for them, because gratitude is the beginning of understanding. These poems remind me that rag= e and discontent is the genesis of change, that "death is death"=97such a necessary reminder in times of such alienation from it. Let us now go make and change, listening to this poet=92s example. =97*Christopher Arigo* "Scattered parts/now lie about what happened." *7 X 7* parses the dizzying bomb crater sized duplicities of the thoroughly mediated, mediatized and militarized zeitgeist which we have collectively dealt ourselves into. Crag Hill is looking to see where the proverbial chips are falling. And he's playing with a full deck. =97*Tom Beckett* =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 20 May 2010 10:07:44 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Vernon Frazer Subject: Re: IMPROVISATIONS VIDEO BY VERNON FRAZER UPDATED ON YOUTUBE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain David Many, many thanks to you in return for your kind words. In 1985, when I heard Ted Enslin read, I realized that hearing poets reci= te their work,=20 their rhythms and inflections, enabled me to understand it more quickly. I've often felt that my own work needed a mixed-media presentation--recit= ation, music=20 and a readable text-- to enable the reader to relate to my work in the fu= llest way=20 possible. The Poetry Band I had about 20 years ago covered some of that g= round. After=20 the Poetry Band ended, my poetry started to incorporate the contrapuntal = and polytonal=20 melodies I used to hear around me when I performed with the band, only in= the form of=20 language. So I started writing what I've called "orchestrated text." In IMPROVISATIONS I mentioned the late Julius Hemphill's Coon Bidness bec= ause many of=20 the multi-voiced lines in teh book seem to come togeher in the way the sa= xophones did=20 on his recording.=20 I'm very pleased that the performance helped you see how my work fits tog= ether.=20 Sometimes I think I'm a musician in a writer's body. When Ottone M. Ricci= o did a spin on=20 Pound by saying, in effect, poetry is music made with language, I began t= o write from=20 that sensibility and poetry came much more easily to me than it had befor= e. So, when you (or anybody, I guess) look at my work, knowing that music of= some kind is=20 always at its core would (I hope) help "explain" the text.=20 Again, I thank you for your praise of my work and for posting this. You'v= e certainly made=20 my day. Best, Vernon =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 20 May 2010 09:27:33 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "of P=". Rest of header flushed. From: Chad Sweeney Subject: Releasing Issue 7 of PWR MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear friends, we=E2=80=99re happy to announce the release of Issue 7=0Aof P= arthenon West Review with poetry by Pam Brown, Brian Henry, Maxine=0ACherno= ff, Matt Hart, Diane Suess, Bob Hicok, Alison Hawthorne Deming, George=0AKa= lamaras, Patty Seyburn, Lisa Fishman, Russell Dillon, Todd Melicker, Arlene= =0AAng, Camille Dungy, Jennifer Elise Forrester, Hollie Hardy, Lily Brown, = Peter=0AJay Shippy, Laura Sims, Laynie Browne, Thomas Centolella, Daniel O= =E2=80=99Connell,=0ANina Corwin, Leslie Patron, Coralie Reed, Mihaela Mosca= liuc, Gary McDowell,=0AErica Lewis, Jason Tandon, Sarah Sarai, Jordon Stemp= leman, Steffi Drewes, J.=0AMichael Martinez, Rick Cambell, Rick Henry, Idra= Novey, Anhvu Buchanan, L.S.=0AKlatt, Evan Commander=0A =0AAnd translations= from French, Japanese, Hebrew and Romanian:=0AVirginie Lalucq (by Cynthia = Hogue and Sylvain Gallais), Juan-luc Nancy (by=0ACynthia Hogue and Sylvain = Gallais), Yosano Akiko (by Dennis Maloney and Hide=0AOshiro), Shimon Adaf (= by Samantha Weiner), Mircea Cartarescu (by Adam J. Sorkin=0Aand Daniel Mang= u), Remi Froger (by Francois Luong). =0A =0ASend $10 to Parthenon West Revi= ew/ 1808 Russell Street/=0ABerkeley, CA 94703 =0AEditors David Holler and C= had Sweeney=0A =0Awww.parthenonwestreview.com =0AThe website is slow to cat= ch up, but we=E2=80=99ll have issue 7 up=0Asoon enough, =0A =0ACheers, =0AC= had =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 20 May 2010 14:59:42 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: Bardic Sepulchral: Will Edmiston MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Click HERE: http://www.fairiesinamerica.com/bardic-sepulchral/will-edmiston/ for the new issue of Bardic Sepulchral for the AMAZING poems of Will Edmiston, thanks, and have a great day, CAConrad BOMB Magazine interview: http://CAConradinterviews.blogspot.com The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010) http://cityrealandimagined.blogspot.com "The things that individuals can do are helpful. And one of the most helpful is actually a vegetarian diet, that produces much less greenhouse gases than a meat diet." -- Dr. James Hansen, author of STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity http://www.stormsofmygrandchildren.com/ MY BATHTUB POETRY READING: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaOwLpiyegk PhillySound: new poetry: http://PhillySound.blogspot.com I'm on Ish Klein's BOO SHOW!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIJDHmfsAHU ---- "I only know that I love strength in my friends / And greatness" --Jack Spicer -- 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: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:06:02 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Fwd: "LOST" on Manhattan's Upper East Side + $145,000 in Literary Prizes... In-Reply-To: <72215.79592.qm@web111002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 * THE 2011 VILCEK PRIZES IN LITERATURE:* The 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature guidelines and application forms are now available at http://www.vilcek.org/print/prizes_creative_promise.php No entry fee. The awards are for non-American-born writers of poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction who are living and working in the U.S., age 38 and under; one $25,000 prize, + four $5000 prizes. (There is also a $100,000 Vilcek Literature Prize for one non-American-born writer of poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction who is living and working in the U.S., no age restriction, but there is no application process for this prize.) -- 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, 20 May 2010 13:11:00 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Fieled Subject: Apparition Poem Links MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Greetings. I have new Apps up here: http://jacketmagazine.com/40/fieled-from-apparition.shtml http://www.denversyntax.com/issue20/poems/fieled/1497.html http://www.denversyntax.com/issue20/poems/fieled/1473.html http://www.denversyntax.com/issue20/poems/fieled/1343.html Many thanks to the Editors, happy May... Adam ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:31:58 -0500 Reply-To: halvard@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: a noun sing Prosaic Suburban Commercial by Keith Higginbotham, an e=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=B7ratio_editions_e=B7chap?= In-Reply-To: <158281.36341.qm@web58008.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Stand at any corner and raise your hand. Hal Halvard Johnson =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye (downloadable and free) is @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART= -S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets halvard@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:41 PM, george spencer wrote: > does anyone know of basic level classes in hypertexing in new york city? > thank > george spencer > > > --- On Tue, 5/4/10, St. Thomasino wrote: > > > From: St. Thomasino > Subject: a noun sing Prosaic Suburban Commercial by Keith Higginbotham, a= n > e=C2=B7ratio editions e=C2=B7chap > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 10:57 AM > > > E=C2=B7 > > E=C2=B7ratio Editions is pleased to present E=C2=B7ratio Editions E=C2=B7= chap #9: > > Prosaic Suburban Commercial by Keith Higginbotham. > > =E2=80=9C . . . bathe deep in / the barely-there / disassembled gallery /= of the > everyday . . . =E2=80=9D > > Two poetic sequences. With illustrations by Keith Higginbotham. > > Also available: > > #8. Polylogue by Carey Scott Wilkerson. Poems. =E2=80=9C . . . with ru= les and > constitutive games, / with paints and gramarye / with some modicum / of m= y > reckless trust . . . =E2=80=9D > > #7. Bash=C5=8D=E2=80=99s Phonebook. 30 translations by Travis Macdonald= . The great > Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bash=C5=8D goes digital. Conceptual poetry. = With > translator=E2=80=99s notes. > > #6. Correspondance (a sketchbook) by Joseph F. Keppler. Digital art. > With an introduction by Joseph F. Keppler. > > #5. Six Comets Are Coming by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino. Volume I of > the collected works including Go and Go Mirrored, with revised > introductions, corrected text and restored original font. > > #4. The Logoclasody Manifesto. Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino on > logoclasody, logoclastics, eidetics and pannarrativity. Addenda include = the > Crash Course in Logoclastics, Concrete to Eidetic (on visual poetry) and = On > Mathematical Poetry. > > #3. Waves by M=C3=A1rton Kopp=C3=A1ny. =E2=80=9CThese works are minimal= ist by design, but > should we paraphrase the thought channeled therein, the effect would be > encyclopedic, ranging through philosophy, psychology, politics, and the > human emotions.=E2=80=9D Visual poetry. > > #2. Mending My Black Sweater and other poems by Mary Ann Sullivan. Poem= s > of making conscious, of acceptance and of self-remembering, and of person= al > responsibility. > > #1. Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino joins John M. Bennett In the Bennett > Tree. Collaborative poems, images, an introduction and a full-length > critical essay pay homage to American poet John M. Bennett. > > http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/eratioeditions.html > > http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/ > > > > E=C2=B7 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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: Fri, 21 May 2010 01:09:21 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: fantastic new chapbook series out from CUNYthru Amiel Alcalay MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Friend, We are delighted to announce the publication of the inaugural chapbook series in Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Attached and below find the official Press Release and an order form. You may have attended our prepublication party or heard of the project through the grapevine; now the books are available for purchase via mail and online athttp://www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/lostandfound where they are on sale for $10 per issue, $35 per set, and $25 per subscription. On Monday and Tuesday, May 3rd and 4th, 10 a.m.—8 p.m., the set of chapbooks will also be available for purchase at the Center for Humanities’ Annual Chapbook Festival. Look for the Lost & Found table. More information and a schedule for the festival are available at http://www.chapbookfestival.org. Thank you for your support – we hope you enjoy the books! Ammiel Alcalay, General Editor Aoibheann Sweeney, Director of the Center for the Humanities ### PRESS CONTACT: The Center for the Humanities 212.817.2005 abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu April 28, 2010 For Immediate release: Printed in elegant, stapled editions, the inaugural chapbook series of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative activates and puts into wider circulation important but little known texts drawn from personal and institutional archives. An ongoing publication project emerging from archival and textual scholarship done by students, faculty and guest fellows at the Graduate Center, the primary focus of Lost & Found is on writers who fall under the rubric of the New American Poetry. Since enhanced accessibility to a broad spectrum of archival material helps create alternative, divergent and enriched versions of literary and cultural history, the Lost & Found initiative takes the “New American” rubric writ large, including the affiliated and unaffiliated, precursors and followers. The first set includes correspondence, essays, and journal selections: Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn: Selections from the Collected Letters 1959-1960, ed. Claudia Moreno Pisano, includes letters written between 1959 and 1960 and covers a wide-range of discussions, “from quotidian observations of being snowbound without enough heat...to the hashing out of experiences, fears, and anxieties directly related to the socio-political culture of the early 1960s”. The Correspondence of Kenneth Koch & Frank O’Hara 1955-1956, Part I and II, ed. Josh Schneiderman, includes “letters [...] written over an eighteen-month period from1955 to 1956 [that] provide an account of the poets’ important, if often overlooked, friendship. Full of poems, literary gossip, and nods to artistic influences, Koch and O’Hara’s correspondence also chronicles a key moment in what would come to be known as the New York School of poets”. Darwin & The Writers, Muriel Rukeyser, ed. Stefania Heim, is an unpublished essay about Darwin (rejected by The Nation in 1959). “The piece is an exercise in the discovery, collection, and exposition of “meeting-places” between scientific and literary imaginations, extending the intellectual work Rukeyser started in works like Willard Gibbs and The Life of Poetry.” 1957-1977 Selections from the Journals Part I and II, Philip Whalen, ed. Brian Unger, is comprised of entries from Whalen’s Journals from two key periods in his life: the mid to late 1950s following the public recognition of the Beats, and the early 1970s, after his return from Japan and his decision to live in a Zen monastery. The 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference / Robert Creeley’s Contexts of Poetry, with Daphne Marlatt’s Journal Entries, ed. Ammiel Alcalay, is a Creeley lecture and conversation with Allen Ginsberg. Contexts of Poetry is from the landmark 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference, with excerpts from the journals of the prominent Canadian poet Daphne Marlatt, chronicling her attendance as a student. Together, the set marks an auspicious beginning to a project that brings the finest traditions of small press publication and textual scholarship to a broader reading public. We are delighted to announce that the chapbooks are available at bookstores across the nation, from St. Marks Books to City Lights. Books may be ordered online at www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/lostandfound where they are on sale for $10 per issue, $35 per set, and $25 per subscription. On Monday and Tuesday, May 3rd and 4th, 10 a.m.—8 p.m., the set of chapbooks will also be available for purchase at the Center for Humanities’ Annual Chapbook Festival. Look for the Lost & Found table. More information and a schedule for the festival are available at www.chapbookfestival.org. ### LOST & FOUND The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Published by The Center for the Humanities Pub Date: May 2010 www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/lostandfound On Thu, 20 May 2010 10:07:44 -0400 Vernon Frazer writes: > David > > Many, many thanks to you in return for your kind words. > > In 1985, when I heard Ted Enslin read, I realized that hearing poets > recite their work, > their rhythms and inflections, enabled me to understand it more > quickly. > > I've often felt that my own work needed a mixed-media > presentation--recitation, music > and a readable text-- to enable the reader to relate to my work in > the fullest way > possible. The Poetry Band I had about 20 years ago covered some of > that ground. After > the Poetry Band ended, my poetry started to incorporate the > contrapuntal and polytonal > melodies I used to hear around me when I performed with the band, > only in the form of > language. So I started writing what I've called "orchestrated > text." > > In IMPROVISATIONS I mentioned the late Julius Hemphill's Coon > Bidness because many of > the multi-voiced lines in teh book seem to come togeher in the way > the saxophones did > on his recording. > > I'm very pleased that the performance helped you see how my work > fits together. > Sometimes I think I'm a musician in a writer's body. When Ottone M. > Riccio did a spin on > Pound by saying, in effect, poetry is music made with language, I > began to write from > that sensibility and poetry came much more easily to me than it had > before. > > So, when you (or anybody, I guess) look at my work, knowing that > music of some kind is > always at its core would (I hope) help "explain" the text. > > Again, I thank you for your praise of my work and for posting this. > You've certainly made > my day. > > Best, > > Vernon > > ================================== > 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, 21 May 2010 19:50:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Boog City 63 Print and Online PDF Editions Available Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) 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 63 will be available Sunday afternoon. =20= You can read the pdf version now at: http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc63.pdf Thanks, David -------------------- Boog City 63 featuring: ***On the Cover*** **from our printed matter section, edited by Arlo Quint** =97"Card and Weiser have been swapping lines to share between each =20 others=92 work for almost a decade. They note in their =20 =91Acknowledgements=92 that these books are =91companions,=92 and this = is true =20 in all aspects of the word=97they complement each other and speak to =20 each other." =97from Consonance, Compatibility, and Friendship On the =20= Work of Macgregor Card and Karen Weiser; Card's Duties of an English =20 Foreign Secretary (Fence Books) and Weiser's To Light Out (Ugly =20 Duckling Presse), reviewed by Erica Kaufman **And from our poetry section, edited by Joanna Fuhrman** (excerpt below) =97Boerum Hill, Brooklyn's Robert Hershon with Cappuccinos No, not the cappuccinos suburban ladies get frothy mustaches from after dinner I mean the ones at Tosca in North Beach, with brandy and anisette in the coffee and cream, ***And Inside*** **from our printed matter section** =97"His family becomes our family, his grandparents our long-lost =20 grandparents, and his Armenia our Armenia that we too have been exiled =20= from." from Semerdjian Sings Songs of Loss; In the Architecture of =20 Bone (GenPop Books), reviewed by Tom Baier **Jim Behrle delivers "Poetry Project: The Cartoon"** **Art editor Cora Lambert brings us work from Williamsburg, Brooklyn's Thomas Brauer.** **=46rom our music section, Urban Folk, edited by Jonathan Berger** =97"This was not a benefit show, a memorial, nor an exercise in =20 starfucking." from Saluting the Major: Peers Honor AntiFolk Oldie, =20 Olive Juice Music Head, reviewed by Berger. =97"In this economy and environment, we are living like France in the =20= 1860s=97a whole bunch of crazy artists pushing each other to make great =20= art and hanging out, and unfortunately not making a ton of cash." from =20= Making the Scene: A Local Musician=92s Guide to Striving for Some Kind =20= of Success by Jeremiah Birnbaum =97Lach is back! Antihoot now at Webster Hall after 20 month absence. **And the rest of our poetry section** (excerpts below) =97Greenpoint, Brooklyn's Nellie Bridge with "Sticky" Leaves that fall on New York sidewalks stick there if it rains, or if it is moist at all. The light green-gray confetti grows denser and again people ask what those trees are, dropping confetti throughout the city. =97Washington Heights' Paul Belbusti with "I used to be called Lucy" I used to be called Lucy, but now they call me Orchids. Or Pearls. Or =20= Radiant Heirloom Tomatoes. My earlobes glow yellow and red depending on my mood. My screams sound like ancient Gregorian chants. And church bells. =97The West Village's Susan Lewis with "Introduction to Inertia" You say you want to be a conquistador, but what about microbial lag? =20 On the other hand, how will we learn of caramelization or chiaroscuro if we don=92t venture = =20 from our cages? "Introduction to Diplomacy" Authenticity is beside the point, unless judiciously employed as an =20 aesthetic accent=97like salt or mood lighting. Accept and build. All =20 impulses must be properly restrained. =97Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn's Austin LaGrone with "Lunchbreak Yodel for Elkhorn Sanitation" Someone=92s put chicken fingers inside my work gloves as if the jaws of a garbage truck could translate for the hunger of kings. "Epiphany" I=92ve worked these street for years, lingered over blue plates chatting up waitresses, spruced-up three Chevy=92s with dice and chrome ladies, and never, not once, fallen in love. My God, your toe ring with its moonstones and blisters, your lip gloss moving beyond the reasonable borders of mouth, the burn marks around the bathtub where you fall asleep dreaming. It=92s so sexy. "Overtime" That evening the late shift was even later, paid time and a half, kept him upright another three hours sweeping up the plant. With the shimmy of the line silenced, there was only the percussion of his pushbroom and the steady moan of fluorescents for company. =93Times like these,=94 he said aloud, =93a man might start talking to himself.=94 **And thanks to Lauren Russell for copy editing help, and Jesse Schoen =20= for the back page ad design. And thanks to Anselm Berrigan, Jessica =20 Caragliano, Megan Ewing, Yoko Kikuchi, Herb Scher, and TR Smith for =20 their photos. ----- Please patronize our advertisers: GenPop Books * http://www.genpopbooks.com/ Sean T. Hanratty & the Mighty Mighty * http://www.seanthanratty.com/ Green Integer * = http://www.spdbooks.org/Search/Default.aspx?SearchTerm=3DContradicta Ugly Duckling Presse * http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/ ----- Advertise in the Boog City Gay Pride Edition Ad Deadline =97Fri. June 11 3,000 Copies Distributed Pride Weekend =97Sat. 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Query our art editor, Cora Lambert, art@welcometoboogcity.com ----- 2,250 copies of this issue of Boog City are distributed among, and available for free at, the following locations: MANHATTAN East Village Sunshine Theater * 143 E. Houston St. (bet. 1st & 2nd Avenues) Bluestockings * 172 Allen St. (bet. Stanton & Rivington sts.) Pianos * 158 Ludlow St. (bet. Stanton and Rivington sts.) Living Room * 154 Ludlow St. (bet. Stanton and Rivington sts.) Cake Shop * 152 Ludlow St. (bet. Stanton and Rivington sts.) Bowery Poetry Club * 308 Bowery (bet. Houston & Bleecker sts.) Think Coffee * 1 Bleecker St. (@ Bowery) Trash and Vaudeville (upstairs) * 4 St. Mark=92s Pl. (bet. 2nd & 3rd =20= aves.) Mission Caf=E9 * 82 Second Ave. (bet. 4th & 5th sts.) Anthology Film Archives * 32 Second Ave. (bet. 1st & 2nd sts.) Sidewalk Caf=E9 * 94 Avenue A (bet. 6th & 7th sts.) Nuyorican Poets Caf=E9 * 236 E. 3rd St. (bet. Avenues B & C) Lakeside Lounge * 162 Avenue B (bet. 10th & 11th sts.) 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Champion Coffee * 1108 Manhattan Ave. (bet. Clay & DuPont sts.)=09 Williamsburg Sideshow Gallery * 319 Bedford Ave. (bet. S.2nd & S.3rd sts.) Supercore Caf=E9 * 305 Bedford Ave. (bet. S.1st & S.2nd sts.) Spoonbill & Sugartown * 218 Bedford Ave. (bet. N.4th & N.5th sts.) Bliss Caf=E9 * 191 Bedford Ave. (bet. N.6th & N.7th sts.)=09 Spike Hill * 184 Bedford Ave. (bet. N.6th & N.7th sts.)=09 Soundfix/Fix Cafe * 110 Bedford Ave. (at N.11th St.) -- 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) To subscribe free to The December Podcast: = http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=3D3431698= 80 For music from Gilmore boys: http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 24 May 2010 07:58:14 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Ugly Americans, Slaves, Techonology Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The Ugly Americans - http://jacketmagazine.com/40/king-amy-americans.shtml Erika Moya - http://galatearesurrection14.blogspot.com/2010/04/slaves-to-do-these-things-by-amy-king.html Technology - http://verylikeawhale.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/10-questions-on-poets-technology-amy-king/ _______ 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 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 01:09:18 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Joseph Mosconi Subject: Visual Poetry Forum, Abramowitz, Timmons, & More up at Area Sneaks.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've been putting new stuff up on areasneaks.com 1. Visual Poetry Forum with K. Lorraine Graham, Robert Grenier, Jessica Smith, Peter Ciccariello, William R. Howe, derek beaulieu and Johanna Drucker http://areasneaks.com/index.php?id=3D34 2. Excerpts from Sound Noise by Mathew Timmons http://areasneaks.com/index.php?id=3D37 3. Excerpts from Man=92s Wars And Wickedness: A Book of Proposed Remedies and Extreme Formulations for Curing Hostility, Rivalry, And Ill-Will by Harold Abramowitz and Amanda Ackerman http://areasneaks.com/index.php?id=3D39 4. Review Kate Greenstreet's The Last 4 Things reviewed by Sophie Sills http://areasneaks.com/index.php?id=3D40 5. And slowly putting up all the contents from Issue 1 http://areasneaks.com/index.php?id=3D17 http://areasneaks.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, 22 May 2010 14:37:12 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: 'Lou Reed's "Street Hassle" and the Challenge to Post-Modern Poetry' by Adam Fieled at The Argotist Online Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 'Lou Reed's "Street Hassle" and the Challenge to Post-Modern Poetry' by Adam Fieled at The Argotist Online: http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Fieled%20essay%203.htm ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 14:22:34 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: peter ganick Subject: a blog announcement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 experiential-experimental-literature texts that change the parameters of what writers are involved with, which is why these writers have been writing for all along. the many forms of avant- or experimental-literature are welcome. send texts to peter ganick at pganickz@gmail.com, for consideration. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 14:24:41 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: peter ganick Subject: Re: a blog announcement In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 the blog url is: http://ex-ex-lit.blogspot.com thanks On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:22 PM, peter ganick wrote: > experiential-experimental-literature > > texts that change the parameters of what writers are involved with, > > which is why these writers have been writing for all along. > > the many forms of avant- or experimental-literature are welcome. > > send texts to peter ganick at pganickz@gmail.com, for consideration. > > > > -- words: http://chalkeditions.co.cc http://ex-ex-lit.blogspot.com pictures: www.peterganick.com www.pg-artcards.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, 20 May 2010 17:31:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Poetry Project Subject: Upcoming Events at The Poetry Project Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Here=B9s what=B9s happening at The Poetry Project next week. And check out the latest post from guest-blogger Macgregor Card here: http://poetryproject.org/project-blog Monday, May 24, 8 PM Andrew Hughes & Michelle Taransky Andrew Hughes is the author of Sweethearts of the Great Migration (BookThug= , 2008). His first full length collection, Now Lays the Sunshine By, is forthcoming from BookThug. His work has appeared in Forklift, Ohio, Cannibal, Puppyflowers, and others. Michelle Taransky lives in Philadelphia, where she works at Kelly Writers House and teaches poetry at Temple University. Taransky=B9s first book, Barn Burned, Then, was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Wednesday, May 26, 8 PM Robert Fitterman & Matvei Yankelevich Robert Fitterman is the author of 12 books, including war, the musical and Notes On Conceptualisms (with Vanessa Place) and rob the plagiarist. His latest book, Sprawl:Metropolis 30A is the fourth book, and likely the last, of his Metropolis series. He teaches writing and poetry at New York University and in the Bard College, Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies= . Matvei Yankelevich=B9s first book Boris by the Sea is just out from Octopus Books. He=B9s also published several chapbooks including The Present Work (Palm Press). His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook) and received praise from the TLS, The Guardian, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He recently edited a portfolio of Contemporary Russian Poetry an= d Poetics for the magazine Aufgabe (No. 8, Fall 2009). In NYC, he teaches at Hunter College and Columbia University School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn where he edits and designs books for Ugly Duckling Presse. 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, 21 May 2010 02:09:45 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nate Dorward Subject: New chapbook: Buber's Bag Man, by Frederick Farryl Goodwin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (my apologies if you're receiving this multiple times...) The Gig has just published *Buber's Bag Man, *a new chapbook by Frederick Farryl Goodwin, author of *Virgil's Cow *(Miami University Press, 2009). It's 32pp of ecstatic high lyric leaking out of the holes left by typographical damage and Shakespearean/familial psychodrama: a concentrated dose of the ragged sublime. I'll post one poem below; you can find a second one on the website at http://www.ndorward.com/poetry/books/goodwin_bbm.htm. -- all best --N *Iraq* oeuvres of curried monkey ordures of curried monkey hors d'oeuvres of curried monkey savorines of curried monkey choice morsels of curried monkey bonne bouches of curried monkeybonne Olde Catullus w/ his off the cuff riffs & one liners Gaius Valerius Catullus w/ his off the cuff riffs & one liners * 32pp, 7" x 8.5", stapled chapbook. No ISBN. $8 CDN/US (includes postage in North America) =A37/=808 (includes airmail overseas) Make out cheques to Nate Dorward (not "The Gig"). Nate Dorward 109 Hounslow Ave., North York, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 24 May 2010 16:02:15 +0200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Anny Ballardini Subject: the new update of the Poets' Corner MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear All, highlight is given to Alex Cigale=92s translation and introduction of eight poets to outline the New Russian Generation. To follow my chosen Authors for the present update and finally the new poems by already featured Author= s and the additions to *Poets=92 on Poets*. To the contributors, my very spec= ial acknowledgment. * * *Alex Cigale* introduces and translates under Poets on Poets: from *Crossing Centuries, the New Generation in Russian Poetry* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D250 *Ivan Akhmetyev* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D251 *Natalya Chernykh* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D252 *Andrey Gritsman* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D253 *Yuli Gugolev* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D254 *Eduard Kulemin* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D255 *Mikhail Nilin* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D256 *Mikhail Sukhotin* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D257 *Andrey Turkin* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D258 *New Authors on the Corner:* * * *nick-e melville* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D367 *Julie Carr* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D368 *Sam Hamill* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D369 *Thomas Fink* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D370 *Marco Gerbi* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D371 *New Poems by already featured Authors:* * * *Edward Mycue*: LETTER TO JIM WHO MOVED AWAY http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3283 *Nuri Gene-Cos:* Lies as they lied http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3283 GUN http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3308 MEXICAN SIESTA http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3309 Peru I love you http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3319 MALI http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3320 * * *Barry Alpert* GUARD #47 [via Filip Renc] http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3315 DAYS OF BEING WILD [via Wong Kar-Wai] http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3316 FALLEN IDOL [via Carol Reed & Graham Greene] http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3318 MONTAGE (DISTANCE) [via Artavazd Peleshian] http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3326 JAN TROELL TALKS http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3334 *Amy King* THE MEMORY SKIN http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3317 *Eugen Galasso* eugen-poesie http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3323 eugen-poesiole http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3324 poesia-eugen galasso http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3342 eugengalasso: poesiole http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3343 1 raCCONTINO E UNA POESIOLA http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3344 *Under Poets on Poets:* *Malcolm de Chazal* =96 Introduced and translated by *Alexander Dickow* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D248 *Grzegorz Wroblewski* translated by *Adam Zdrodowski* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D249 *Christina Pacosz* translated by me: http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetsonpoets&pa=3Dlist_pages_c= ategories&cid=3D83 The main index of the Poets=92 Corner: http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent Index of Poets on Poets: http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetsonpoets My best wishes, Anny Ballardini --=20 Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078 http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 18:32:06 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Re: IMPROVISATIONS VIDEO BY VERNON FRAZER ON YOUTUBE//Mallarme/Music & Visual Poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Vernon: thank you so much for your response! reading it i thought of Mallarme, who i have spent some time studying on my own of late, in part to find out how he arrived at the composition of Un Coup de des (A throw of the Dice), which is often cited as being the "first modern visual poem." When i first came across some of your Improvisations a few years ago, i was immediately aware of the interrelationships of the visual layouts of the words, phrases, lines to the rhythms and sounds of the words. The sense of the pieces I read reminded me a lot of the improvisations in Free Jazz, among other forms of improvisatory music, as there is a recurring "theme" expressed sonically, or visually or as a recurring idea--or al three at once--around and in and out of on top and below of--are played the improvisations which seize upon a particular note or thought or sensation and expand it, adding color to it, dancing with it, expanding or trimming it--and tossing it back to the source, which brings about another improvisation which may go on back and forth for quite some time, or be played with for just a brief passage as passage of both time and of a text, a notation, since improvisations are often built up with layers of allusions, quotations, references, to works outside the piece itself as well to particulars within the work as it is developing. This density which can be achieved by layerings of quotations and then puns upon them which open them out into wholly new series of sounds and visual layouts, of new thoughts which challenge the old which have been quoted, perhaps--this density can be increased or all of a sudden completely dispensed with in a flight of pure lyricism-- Often American performed/improvised poetry with music since the Beats say, has been very influenced by Jazz--but often the notations themselves of the words read do not look anything different from a conventionally printed poem which could just as well be read in a non-musical setting. One often finds, post the Beats, poems with visual layouts which seem arbitrary, disconnected from the actual sounds of the words, as though tacked on to generate some "sideshow" interest or suggestion of a "look" meant to be "experimental." What seems to be something very simple actually is quite a bit more complex--a good way to study the notations of sound as visual pieces is to study the notations and scores employed by Sound Poets, as well as in some cases, Visual Poets who use the Visuals to be sounded out as Sound Poetry. Notations in these senses need n0ot even by written as words or even in letters, but using some other system or some completely arbitrary method. Bob Cobbing for example would perform poems by simply feeling a rock in his hands, exploring the textures and shapes and expressing sonically what the fingers, the touch, experienced and found. Walking with Bob, we would use side walk cracks and shadows of trees on the sidewalk as the notations for performance. There being an underlying structure in the pale cement at the same distances of the lines in a sidewalk, not counting the cracks, one has already the basis for a theme around which to improvise-- The experience of your work and of some others led me to wanting to find out more about the origins of this interrelationship of the Visual layout of words and punctuation marks on the page with the sounds not only of words as words having meanings, but of words themselves as simply sounds, working and flowing together like music-- This is what led me to Mallarme, a poet who i knew someday i would encounter, so had not previously made conscious effort to study him other than reading his poetry until the right time found me and i found it--and this was it-- I thought to share with you some of the things I found in my rummaging about in my little collection of the poet's works in French and English editions--perhpas it may be of interest and use-- Mallarme, like a great many French poets beginning with Baudelaire, was very much impressed by the conceptions of Wagner, (and wrote a very fascinating essay on the composer's work), not only with the idea of the "gesamtkunstwerke" (total art work or total work of art; in which many have found also the example of a "totalitarian" work of art--)-but also examples, materials, which coincided at various levels with the poet's own ideas regarding music and poetry. The first expression of these ideas is to be found in the "poeme critique" "The Book as Spiritual Instrument." "Poem critique" was a new form invented by Mallarme in which the essay and the prose poem meet, thus announcing not only a new style of writing, but of thinking as well, so that style and thought interact with each other in opening up new ways to think and write simultaneously "critically" and poetically. Mallarme's essays and poetry, reviews and occasional pieces, already mocked and attacked by the critics and public of the day, were seen as going beyond all previous outrage with this new form thus marking to this day Mallarme as a deliberately "obscure," "perversely difficult and decadent" and "both vague & hermetic" writer. Emerson noted that "Perhaps the blank and ruin we see within Nature in is in our eye;" similarly, one might propose that the obscurity, difficult and perversity which the readers of the time--and many today--find in Mallarme may have been--and be--in their own eyes, for, read on the terms which they set forth, Mallarme's poemes critiques and poetry are actually very limpid, acutely lucid, and, in the best French tradition, quite logical. For example, the poeme critique "The Book as Spiritual Instrument" (also translated as "The Book as Intellectual Tool") may be thought of as referring to the book both as a tool, a device of instrumentality, and as a musical instrument. It is in the musical context which Mallarme here first envisions the layout of the composition of the musical score which is to be "Un Coup de des." Mallarme, like Verlaine, aspired to a sense of language that would attain the heights of "music above all things." However this sense of Music, in Mallarme, has two facets: one is a system of sounds which "plays" so to speak, on the emotions; the other is Music thought of as a system of "pure" relations among the notations and the intervals, (the white spaces of the page in a poem), thus creating a structural system in the work, which exists without referentiality. Given what seems the contradiction between a non-referential structure and one that provokes, elicits, emotional responses which have their own referentialities, the "resolving" achievement of this mini-gesamtkunstwerke is then achieved through the harmonious balance of all the elements within the poem, though in such a way as to leave them open, provisional, rather than being a total enclosure without issue for the elements involved. "A throw of the dice will never abolish chance" as the poem says-- (The structural aspect is part of the huge sea change in the interest in, study and reputation of, Mallarme beginning in the early 1970's as many of Mallarme's ideas and poetics acts, works, anticipate structuralist and post structuralist literary thought in France. It was at this time that Mallarme ascended to his position as THE great experimenter, innovator, poet-thinker of the poem critique of his times, knocking Rimbaud off the throne.) (This relates, I think, with your sense of improvisations, in which there is always an opening, a series of possibilities, of choices that are actively present and there to be ignited at any moment by the poet--it also means that the poet and the poem in itself can be seen/heard/felt/thought with as being two players, improvising back and forth, rather than the poem being a static set of notations on which the poet improvises--for the real challenge and meaning of improvisation is that two or more poets/players are exchanging ideas, references, allusions, rhythms, notes, back and forth, each one encouraging and pushing the other to continually be expanding the bursts of improvisations playing off of the central theme which runs through out the poem/music, pushing each other to ever greater and more exhilarating experiments, realizations, spontaneous illuminations or sudden expressions of the extreme tension which exists when the balance begins to stray and the theme is on the verge of being lost beneath too much "bric-a-brac"--signalling one or the other of poets/players to get a grip on it and steer the improvisations back towards the "center of gravity" so to speak. By this I mean that in your poems, what I find is that the "other" poet/player is the poem itself, as when you are improvising--it is with the challenges presented by the poem as it exists at that very moment--the poem is at once "a part of you" and "apart from you" --it has its own independence, so to speak, as it is playing, improvising with you. In other words, it is a manifestation of the uncanny of which Emerson said: "It is new to me yet not unknown." In "The Book as Spiritual Instrument/Intellectual Tool," which appeared in the June 1895 issue of La Revue blanche, 18 months before "Un Coup de des" appeared in the journal Cosmopolis (which employed an English typesetter whose work impressed Mallarme), the poet writes: "Poetry, close to the idea, is Music par excellence--doesn't admit inferiority . . . Why couldn't a line--a spurt of grandeur, a considerable thought or emotion, a sentence in bold type that continues for pages, one line per page in graduated placement--keep the reader breathless, calling upon his powers of enthusiasm, for the length of the boo; along with little groups of secondary importance, explanatory or derivative--a sowing of frills." Composing the "Editor's Note" himself for the issue of Cosmopolis in which "Un Coup des des" first appeared, Mallarme expands and clarifies this idea: "In this work which is of an entirely new kind, the poet has attempted to create music using words. A sort of general leitmotif running throughout the poem provides it with unity. Accessory themes are grouped around it. The nature of the letters employed and the position of the blank spaces are designed to replace notes and intervals." You note your thinking of your work in the context of multi-media--here one finds the dream of French poets of the 19th century when first discovering Wagner and his works, his gesamtkunstwerke. Verlaine and Mallarme's aspiration to "Music above al else" are close to your own sensibility. While Verlaine--who in French is absolutely breathtaking in the sheer music of many of his best poems--stayed with the conventional forms of the French poetry of his day, Mallarme saw the way to the Visual layout, like a musician composing a score, as a means of emphasizing the multi-vocal aspects and passages of the poem. The uses of space as an interval, in a sense "fills" what seems to be "blank" with the interval of silence, anticipating Cage's use of silence, among others--silence plays a role, is a sonic/visual element and event all its own, rather than simply being a bystander at the "action" of the letters and words as is so often the case. Silence, then, enters in also as duration--a new way of "keeping time" within the rhythms of the poem--attending to the silence sharpens the ear to the entrance of the sounds, themselves also as visual events, forms--the entire page becomes a site/sight/cite of activation, the prompter of a performance which, beginning with the mouth, extends to the whole body as an expressive instrument being played by the poet--thus the desire for a multi media performance, in which dance, gestures, acting, music, backdrops etc etc become a part of this activated poem-- The interrelationships among the Visual and the Sonic being performed leads to this activation of the body--and to the desire for a kind of multi media theatrical space--or simply a performance outdoors, improvising with sidewalk cracks, tree shadows moving in the wind-- It is not simply a question of the gesamtkunstwerke as a total work of art, but of the entire body of the poet/performer as the site/sight/cite of a multi-media of performance score/visual poem/poem, of sound making, of gesture, dance, the body itself as a "written character" come to life as a form of "character"--the body itself becoming the gesamtkunstwerke-- In your works one feels and hears and sees in the minds eye and in the visual layouts on the page the presence of the body of poet/performer in action, alive and improvising with the poem itself as an other body, an other entity, "at once new to me,and yet not unknown." This to me was the great excitement in seeing your videos, as they present in action al that the poem is performing on the page, the video presents the realization, the activation of al the elements so that one can experience fully what is the confirmation of al that the visual layouts on the page so vividly represent that it is but a step from the page to the performance, even before one has seen the performance--so that seeing the performance is a confirmation of al that one has found made possible on the page-- many many thanks again Vernon! On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Vernon Frazer wrote: > David > > Many, many thanks to you in return for your kind words. > > In 1985, when I heard Ted Enslin read, I realized that hearing poets recite > their work, > their rhythms and inflections, enabled me to understand it more quickly. > > I've often felt that my own work needed a mixed-media > presentation--recitation, music > and a readable text-- to enable the reader to relate to my work in the > fullest way > possible. The Poetry Band I had about 20 years ago covered some of that > ground. After > the Poetry Band ended, my poetry started to incorporate the contrapuntal > and polytonal > melodies I used to hear around me when I performed with the band, only in > the form of > language. So I started writing what I've called "orchestrated text." > > In IMPROVISATIONS I mentioned the late Julius Hemphill's Coon Bidness > because many of > the multi-voiced lines in teh book seem to come togeher in the way the > saxophones did > on his recording. > > I'm very pleased that the performance helped you see how my work fits > together. > Sometimes I think I'm a musician in a writer's body. When Ottone M. Riccio > did a spin on > Pound by saying, in effect, poetry is music made with language, I began to > write from > that sensibility and poetry came much more easily to me than it had before. > > So, when you (or anybody, I guess) look at my work, knowing that music of > some kind is > always at its core would (I hope) help "explain" the text. > > Again, I thank you for your praise of my work and for posting this. You've > certainly made > my day. > > Best, > > Vernon > > ================================== > 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, 24 May 2010 11:20:41 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Al Filreis Subject: PoemTalk #32: on Howe's Dickinson Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Today we are releasing the 32nd episode of "PoemTalk." In this episode, Marcella Durand, Jennifer Scappettone and Jessica Lowenthal join me in a discussion of Susan Howe's reading of Emily Dickinson's "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun." http://www.poemtalk.org http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.html?id=2204 - Al Filreis Al Filreis Kelly Professor Faculty Dir., Kelly Writers House Dir., Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing University of Pennsylvania blog: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/blog PoemTalk: http://www.poemtalk.org dial 215-746-POEM or 215-746-7636 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 02:22:54 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Three pieces (SL video plus 2 taksim 'of sorts') MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Three pieces The news.mov continues to explore language in SL; I also like the graphics in this version. I've been thinking about theory in relation to this piece but I'm too tired and it will all play out for you in any case. http://www.alansondheim.org/news.mov The taksimmarriage.mp3 is Azure's singing accompanied by cura cumbus, influenced by central Asian music - The taksimrobe.mp3 is Azure's singing accompanied by kamanche, similar influence but honestly I have no idea what to make of it, which is probably good - http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/taksimmarriage.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/taksimrobe.mp3 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 00:34:40 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: music from the linger cafe today, traffic in the background, bad recording, good music MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed really bad recordings of some really good music because what can you expect from atlantic avenue in brooklyn? carter, voice freedman, acoustic guitar sondheim, saz, cura cumbus, oud* http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/linger1.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/linger2.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/linger3.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/linger4.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/linger5.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/linger6.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/linger7.mp3 *there was also kamanche but it was embarrassing ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 17:45:25 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: charles Subject: CHAX POETRY READING: DAHLEN & LARKIN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT BEVERLY DAHLEN & MARYROSE LARKIN A POETRY READING presented by Chax Press at The Drawing Studio 33 S 6th Ave, Tucson (on 6th Ave downtown, between Broadway & Congress) 7pm Saturday, May 22, 2010 FREE ADMISSION ( a donation will be requested ) Selected books available for purchase Refreshment provided Question & Answer Session following the reading Call 520-620-1626 for more information Chax Press events are funded in part by the Tucson Pima Arts Council and by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, with funding from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts. This event is also supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. BEVERLY DAHLEN was born in Portland in November, 1934, attended public schools there, and after the end of World War II, moved with her family to Eureka, California. In 1956, she resettled in San Francisco. Her first collection of poetry, Out of the Third, was published by Momo's Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (Effie's Press) and The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia Press) were followed in 1985 by the publication of A Reading 1-7 (Momo's Press). Since then, three more volumes of A Reading have appeared (including A Reading 8-10 from Chax Press), as well as the chapbook A-reading Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets (Chax Press). Her essay "Beauty: Another Reading" recently appeared in Crayon 5. Ms. Dahlen was a cofounder, with Kathleen Fraser and Frances Jaffer, of the influential avant feminist poetics newsletter (HOW)ever ; in December of 2008 her work was honored by Small Press Traffic with their annual Lifetime Achievement Award. MARYROSE LARKIN lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a freelance researcher. She is the author of Inverse (nine muses books, 2006), Whimsy Daybook 2007 (FLASH+CARD, 2006), The Book of Ocean (i.e. press,2007) and DARC (FLASH+CARD, 2009). Larkin is one of the organizers of Spare Room, a Portland-based writing collective, and is co-editor, with Sarah Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera poetry press. Her new book, The Name of This Intersection is Frost, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 08:17:11 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Update -- Poets for Living Waters: Poems and Statements by Evie Shockley and Franz Wright Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today, please read work by Evie Shockley and Franz Wright at http://p= =0A=0AToday, please read work by Evie Shockley and Franz Wright at http://p= oetsforlivingwaters.com=0A=0A(Or -- http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com )= =0A=0A~~~~~~=0A=0APoets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to= the Gulf Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-made= ecological catastrophes in history.=0A=0AThe first law of ecology states t= hat everything is connected to everything else. An appreciation of this sys= temic connectivity suggests a wide range of poetry will offer a meaningful = response to the current crisis, including work that harkens back to Hurrica= ne Katrina and the ongoing regional effects.=0A=0APlease submit 1-3 poems, = a short bio, and credits for any previously published submissions to: poet= sforlivingwaters@yahoo.com=0A=0AThank you,=0A=0AAmy King and Heidi Lynn Sta= ples=0A=0A~~~~~~=0A=0AIf you care, share: http://poetsforlivingwaters.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: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:01:38 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Siegell Subject: how hot are your pepper people? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" the "hot pepper people" series asks: ...like it spicy? @ DENVER SYNTAX: http://bit.ly/ckFSDZ @ OTOLITHS: http://bit.ly/dlKyzR @ MORIA: http://bit.ly/cwAQNt @ ANTIQUE CHILDREN: http://bit.ly/aUIbkf have a great week! yours, paul> http://paulsiegell.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, 24 May 2010 18:03:50 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicholas Karavatos Subject: at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA on Friday, May 28 at 7:30pm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center welcomes Nicholas Karavatos and Ivan Go= ldman. =20 NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology *Punk Rock Saved My Ass* (U= kiah: Medusa=92s Muse=2C 2010) and the latest issue of *West Wind Review* (= University of Southern Oregon=2C 2010). In December 2009=2C Amendment Nine = published his first book titled *No Asylum* (Arcata=2C 2009). David Meltzer= wrote on the back cover: =93Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of great range an= d clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poe= try in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an = impressive singularity.=94 =20 IVAN G. GOLDMAN will read from his political satire *Exit Blue* (Black Hero= n Press=3B 2010) and discuss how this=2C his third novel came about and ans= wer questions on related matters such as invading Denmark and why maybe it'= s not such a good idea after all to elect imbeciles and crooks to high offi= ce. His previous novel=2C *The Barfighter* (Permanent Press=3B 2009) was no= minated as a 2009 Notable Book by the American Library Foundation. =20 http://www.beyondbaroque.org/=20 =20 Friday=2C May 28=2C 2010=20 7:30pm - 9:30pm=20 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center=20 681 Venice Blvd. Venice=2C CA=20 =20 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. 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This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poe= try in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an = impressive singularity.=94 =20 http://www.venturaartistsunion.org/ http://www.thetuesdaynightpoets.com/ =20 Tuesday=2C June 1=2C 2010=20 7:30pm - 8:30pm=20 Artists=92 Union Gallery=20 330 S. California St.=20 Ventura=2C CA=20 =20 Nicholas Karavatos' next reading/book-signing is in Portland=2C OR on June = 7=2C 2010. =20 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inbox= . http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 24 May 2010 15:51:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: IMPROVISATIONS VIDEO BY VERNON FRAZER ON YOUTUBE//Mallarme/Music & Visual Poetry In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear David, I will have to return to your detailed post, but at this moment I would like to make two points: "one is a system of sounds which "plays" so to speak, on the emotions; the other is Music thought of as a system of "pure" relations among the notations and the intervals, (the white spaces of the page in a poem), thus creating a structural system in the work, which exists without referentiality." It is exactly these "white spaces of the page" which create the visual poem as a spiritual instrument. It is without referentially because, *at the moment of its emergence*,this white space does not yet belong to a system; it is emergent. I disagree with another point you are making. The double possibility you are referring does not lead to "two" performers each doing one. It happens in the reader/performer himself/herself. Therefore it leads to hesitation, to a crisis in reading, to silence. Ciao, Murat On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:32 PM, David Chirot wrote: > Dear Vernon: > > thank you so much for your response! > reading it i thought of Mallarme, who i have spent some time studying on my > own of late, in part to find out how he arrived at the composition of Un > Coup de des (A throw of the Dice), which is often cited as being the "first > modern visual poem." > > When i first came across some of your Improvisations a few years ago, i was > immediately aware of the interrelationships of the visual layouts of the > words, phrases, lines to the rhythms and sounds of the words. The sense of > the pieces I read reminded me a lot of the improvisations in Free Jazz, > among other forms of improvisatory music, as there is a recurring "theme" > expressed sonically, or visually or as a recurring idea--or al three at > once--around and in and out of on top and below of--are played the > improvisations which seize upon a particular note or thought or sensation > and expand it, adding color to it, dancing with it, expanding or trimming > it--and tossing it back to the source, which brings about another > improvisation which may go on back and forth for quite some time, or be > played with for just a brief passage as passage of both time and of a text, > a notation, since improvisations are often built up with layers of > allusions, quotations, references, to works outside the piece itself as > well > to particulars within the work as it is developing. This density which can > be achieved by layerings of quotations and then puns upon them which open > them out into wholly new series of sounds and visual layouts, of new > thoughts which challenge the old which have been quoted, perhaps--this > density can be increased or all of a sudden completely dispensed with in a > flight of pure lyricism-- > > Often American performed/improvised poetry with music since the Beats say, > has been very influenced by Jazz--but often the notations themselves of the > words read do not look anything different from a conventionally printed > poem > which could just as well be read in a non-musical setting. One often finds, > post the Beats, poems with visual layouts which seem arbitrary, > disconnected > from the actual sounds of the words, as though tacked on to generate some > "sideshow" interest or suggestion of a "look" meant to be "experimental." > What seems to be something very simple actually is quite a bit more > complex--a good way to study the notations of sound as visual pieces is to > study the notations and scores employed by Sound Poets, as well as in some > cases, Visual Poets who use the Visuals to be sounded out as Sound Poetry. > Notations in these senses need n0ot even by written as words or even in > letters, but using some other system or some completely arbitrary method. > Bob Cobbing for example would perform poems by simply feeling a rock in his > hands, exploring the textures and shapes and expressing sonically what the > fingers, the touch, experienced and found. Walking with Bob, we would use > side walk cracks and shadows of trees on the sidewalk as the notations for > performance. There being an underlying structure in the pale cement at the > same distances of the lines in a sidewalk, not counting the cracks, one has > already the basis for a theme around which to improvise-- > > The experience of your work and of some others led me to wanting to find > out > more about the origins of this interrelationship of the Visual layout of > words and punctuation marks on the page with the sounds not only of words > as > words having meanings, but of words themselves as simply sounds, working > and > flowing together like music-- > > This is what led me to Mallarme, a poet who i knew someday i would > encounter, so had not previously made conscious effort to study him other > than reading his poetry until the right time found me and i found it--and > this was it-- > > I thought to share with you some of the things I found in my rummaging > about > in my little collection of the poet's works in French and English > editions--perhpas it may be of interest and use-- > > Mallarme, like a great many French poets beginning with Baudelaire, was > very > much impressed by the conceptions of Wagner, (and wrote a very fascinating > essay on the composer's work), not only with the idea of the > "gesamtkunstwerke" (total art work or total work of art; in which many have > found also the example of a "totalitarian" work of art--)-but also > examples, materials, which coincided at various levels with the poet's own > ideas regarding music and poetry. The first expression of these ideas is to > be found in the "poeme critique" "The Book as Spiritual Instrument." "Poem > critique" was a new form invented by Mallarme in which the essay and the > prose poem meet, thus announcing not only a new style of writing, but of > thinking as well, so that style and thought interact with each other in > opening up new ways to think and write simultaneously "critically" and > poetically. Mallarme's essays and poetry, reviews and occasional pieces, > already mocked and attacked by the critics and public of the day, were seen > as going beyond all previous outrage with this new form thus marking to > this > day Mallarme as a deliberately "obscure," "perversely difficult and > decadent" and "both vague & hermetic" writer. Emerson noted that "Perhaps > the blank and ruin we see within Nature in is in our eye;" similarly, one > might propose that the obscurity, difficult and perversity which the > readers > of the time--and many today--find in Mallarme may have been--and be--in > their own eyes, for, read on the terms which they set forth, Mallarme's > poemes critiques and poetry are actually very limpid, acutely lucid, and, > in > the best French tradition, quite logical. > > For example, the poeme critique "The Book as Spiritual Instrument" (also > translated as "The Book as Intellectual Tool") may be thought of as > referring to the book both as a tool, a device of instrumentality, and as a > musical instrument. It is in the musical context which Mallarme here first > envisions the layout of the composition of the musical score which is to be > "Un Coup de des." Mallarme, like Verlaine, aspired to a sense of language > that would attain the heights of "music above all things." However this > sense of Music, in Mallarme, has two facets: one is a system of sounds > which > "plays" so to speak, on the emotions; the other is Music thought of as a > system of "pure" relations among the notations and the intervals, (the > white spaces of the page in a poem), thus creating a structural system in > the work, which exists without referentiality. Given what seems the > contradiction between a non-referential structure and one that provokes, > elicits, emotional responses which have their own referentialities, the > "resolving" achievement of this mini-gesamtkunstwerke is then achieved > through the harmonious balance of all the elements within the poem, though > in such a way as to leave them open, provisional, rather than being a total > enclosure without issue for the elements involved. "A throw of the dice > will > never abolish chance" as the poem says-- > > (The structural aspect is part of the huge sea change in the interest in, > study and reputation of, Mallarme beginning in the early 1970's as many of > Mallarme's ideas and poetics acts, works, anticipate structuralist and post > structuralist literary thought in France. It was at this time that > Mallarme > ascended to his position as THE great experimenter, innovator, poet-thinker > of the poem critique of his times, knocking Rimbaud off the throne.) > > (This relates, I think, with your sense of improvisations, in which there > is > always an opening, a series of possibilities, of choices that are actively > present and there to be ignited at any moment by the poet--it also means > that the poet and the poem in itself can be seen/heard/felt/thought with as > being two players, improvising back and forth, rather than the poem being a > static set of notations on which the poet improvises--for the real > challenge > and meaning of improvisation is that two or more poets/players are > exchanging ideas, references, allusions, rhythms, notes, back and forth, > each one encouraging and pushing the other to continually be expanding the > bursts of improvisations playing off of the central theme which runs > through > out the poem/music, pushing each other to ever greater and more > exhilarating > experiments, realizations, spontaneous illuminations or sudden expressions > of the extreme tension which exists when the balance begins to stray and > the > theme is on the verge of being lost beneath too much > "bric-a-brac"--signalling one or the other of poets/players to get a grip > on > it and steer the improvisations back towards the "center of gravity" so to > speak. By this I mean that in your poems, what I find is that the "other" > poet/player is the poem itself, as when you are improvising--it is with the > challenges presented by the poem as it exists at that very moment--the poem > is at once "a part of you" and "apart from you" --it has its own > independence, so to speak, as it is playing, improvising with you. In other > words, it is a manifestation of the uncanny of which Emerson said: "It is > new to me yet not unknown." > > In "The Book as Spiritual Instrument/Intellectual Tool," which appeared in > the June 1895 issue of La Revue blanche, 18 months before "Un Coup de des" > appeared in the journal Cosmopolis (which employed an English typesetter > whose work impressed Mallarme), the poet writes: > > "Poetry, close to the idea, is Music par excellence--doesn't admit > inferiority . . . Why couldn't a line--a spurt of grandeur, a considerable > thought or emotion, a sentence in bold type that continues for pages, one > line per page in graduated placement--keep the reader breathless, calling > upon his powers of enthusiasm, for the length of the boo; along with little > groups of secondary importance, explanatory or derivative--a sowing of > frills." > > Composing the "Editor's Note" himself for the issue of Cosmopolis in which > "Un Coup des des" first appeared, Mallarme expands and clarifies this idea: > > "In this work which is of an entirely new kind, the poet has attempted to > create music using words. A sort of general leitmotif running throughout > the poem provides it with unity. Accessory themes are grouped around it. > The nature of the letters employed and the position of the blank spaces are > designed to replace notes and intervals." > > You note your thinking of your work in the context of multi-media--here one > finds the dream of French poets of the 19th century when first discovering > Wagner and his works, his gesamtkunstwerke. Verlaine and Mallarme's > aspiration to "Music above al else" are close to your own sensibility. > While Verlaine--who in French is absolutely breathtaking in the sheer music > of many of his best poems--stayed with the conventional forms of the French > poetry of his day, Mallarme saw the way to the Visual layout, like a > musician composing a score, as a means of emphasizing the multi-vocal > aspects and passages of the poem. The uses of space as an interval, in a > sense "fills" what seems to be "blank" with the interval of silence, > anticipating Cage's use of silence, among others--silence plays a role, is > a > sonic/visual element and event all its own, rather than simply being a > bystander at the "action" of the letters and words as is so often the case. > Silence, then, enters in also as duration--a new way of "keeping time" > within the rhythms of the poem--attending to the silence sharpens the ear > to > the entrance of the sounds, themselves also as visual events, forms--the > entire page becomes a site/sight/cite of activation, the prompter of a > performance which, beginning with the mouth, extends to the whole body as > an > expressive instrument being played by the poet--thus the desire for a multi > media performance, in which dance, gestures, acting, music, backdrops etc > etc become a part of this activated poem-- > > The interrelationships among the Visual and the Sonic being performed leads > to this activation of the body--and to the desire for a kind of multi media > theatrical space--or simply a performance outdoors, improvising with > sidewalk cracks, tree shadows moving in the wind-- > > It is not simply a question of the gesamtkunstwerke as a total work of art, > but of the entire body of the poet/performer as the site/sight/cite of a > multi-media of performance score/visual poem/poem, of sound making, of > gesture, dance, the body itself as a "written character" come to life as a > form of "character"--the body itself becoming the gesamtkunstwerke-- > > In your works one feels and hears and sees in the minds eye and in the > visual layouts on the page the presence of the body of poet/performer in > action, alive and improvising with the poem itself as an other body, an > other entity, "at once new to me,and yet not unknown." > > This to me was the great excitement in seeing your videos, as they present > in action al that the poem is performing on the page, the video presents > the > realization, the activation of al the elements so that one can experience > fully what is the confirmation of al that the visual layouts on the page so > vividly represent that it is but a step from the page to the performance, > even before one has seen the performance--so that seeing the performance is > a confirmation of al that one has found made possible on the page-- > > many many thanks again Vernon! > > > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Vernon Frazer >wrote: > > > David > > > > Many, many thanks to you in return for your kind words. > > > > In 1985, when I heard Ted Enslin read, I realized that hearing poets > recite > > their work, > > their rhythms and inflections, enabled me to understand it more quickly. > > > > I've often felt that my own work needed a mixed-media > > presentation--recitation, music > > and a readable text-- to enable the reader to relate to my work in the > > fullest way > > possible. The Poetry Band I had about 20 years ago covered some of that > > ground. After > > the Poetry Band ended, my poetry started to incorporate the contrapuntal > > and polytonal > > melodies I used to hear around me when I performed with the band, only in > > the form of > > language. So I started writing what I've called "orchestrated text." > > > > In IMPROVISATIONS I mentioned the late Julius Hemphill's Coon Bidness > > because many of > > the multi-voiced lines in teh book seem to come togeher in the way the > > saxophones did > > on his recording. > > > > I'm very pleased that the performance helped you see how my work fits > > together. > > Sometimes I think I'm a musician in a writer's body. When Ottone M. > Riccio > > did a spin on > > Pound by saying, in effect, poetry is music made with language, I began > to > > write from > > that sensibility and poetry came much more easily to me than it had > before. > > > > So, when you (or anybody, I guess) look at my work, knowing that music of > > some kind is > > always at its core would (I hope) help "explain" the text. > > > > Again, I thank you for your praise of my work and for posting this. > You've > > certainly made > > my day. > > > > Best, > > > > Vernon > > > > ================================== > > 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, 24 May 2010 22:43:43 +0200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Anny Ballardini Subject: Re: the new update of the Poets' Corner In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My apologies, I messed up* *Nuri Gene-Cos's *Lies as they lied* here is the right link: http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3307 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote: > Dear All, > > > > highlight is given to Alex Cigale=92s translation and introduction of eig= ht > poets to outline the New Russian Generation. To follow my chosen Authors > for the present update and finally the new poems by already featured Auth= ors > and the additions to *Poets=92 on Poets*. To the contributors, my very > special acknowledgment. > > * * > > *Alex Cigale* introduces and translates under Poets on Poets: > > from *Crossing Centuries, the New Generation in Russian Poetry* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D250 > > > > *Ivan Akhmetyev* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D251 > > *Natalya Chernykh* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D252 > > *Andrey Gritsman* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D253 > > *Yuli Gugolev* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D254 > > *Eduard Kulemin* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D255 > > *Mikhail Nilin* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D256 > > *Mikhail Sukhotin* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D257 > > *Andrey Turkin* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D258 > > > > *New Authors on the Corner:* > > * * > > *nick-e melville* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_cate= gories&cid=3D367 > > *Julie Carr* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_cate= gories&cid=3D368 > > *Sam Hamill* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_cate= gories&cid=3D369 > > *Thomas Fink* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_cate= gories&cid=3D370 > > *Marco Gerbi* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_cate= gories&cid=3D371 > > > > *New Poems by already featured Authors:* > > * * > > *Edward Mycue*: LETTER TO JIM WHO MOVED AWAY > > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3283 > > > > *Nuri Gene-Cos:* > > Lies as they lied > > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3283 > > GUN > > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3308 > > MEXICAN SIESTA > > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3309 > > Peru I love you > > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3319 > > MALI > > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3320 > > * * > > *Barry Alpert* > > GUARD #47 [via Filip Renc] > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3315 > > DAYS OF BEING WILD [via Wong Kar-Wai] > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3316 > > FALLEN IDOL [via Carol Reed & Graham Greene] > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3318 > > MONTAGE (DISTANCE) [via Artavazd Peleshian] > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3326 > > JAN TROELL TALKS > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3334 > > > > *Amy King* > > THE MEMORY SKIN > > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3317 > > > > *Eugen Galasso* > > eugen-poesie > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3323 > > eugen-poesiole > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3324 > > poesia-eugen galasso > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3342 > > eugengalasso: poesiole > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3343 > > 1 raCCONTINO E UNA POESIOLA > http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3344 > > > > *Under Poets on Poets:* > > > > *Malcolm de Chazal* =96 Introduced and translated by *Alexander Dickow* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D248 > > > > *Grzegorz Wroblewski* translated by *Adam Zdrodowski* > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&= pid=3D249 > > > > *Christina Pacosz* translated by me: > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetsonpoets&pa=3Dlist_pages= _categories&cid=3D83 > > > > The main index of the Poets=92 Corner: > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent > > Index of Poets on Poets: > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetsonpoets > > > > My best wishes, > > Anny Ballardini > > > -- > Anny Ballardini > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome > http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078 > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing > star! > Friedrich Nietzsche > > =AB Stulta est clementia, cum tot ubique > vatibus occurras, periturae parcere chartae =BB > Giovenale > > --=20 Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078 http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! Friedrich Nietzsche =AB Stulta est clementia, cum tot ubique vatibus occurras, periturae parcere chartae =BB Giovenale =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 25 May 2010 03:10:21 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: language, the economy of the imaginary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed language, the economy of the imaginary more work on language embodiment, this time with machinery, amazing sound, and text, as if generated on branes and duals, stills and movements: and everything churning within limited bandwidths controlling both sound and image. welcome to the economy of the imaginary! http://www.alansondheim.org/thinking.mp4 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:34:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Exhibit at Boog Fest's Small, Small Press Fair MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, Boog City would like to invite you to exhibit at our 7th annual small, =20= small press fair (with indie records and crafts, too). The fair will once again span two days, Sat. Sept. 25-Sun. Sept. 26, =20 and be held at Brooklyn=92s Unnameable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave.) in =20= their spacious backyard. The fair will take place during the 4th =20 annual Welcome to Boog City poetry and music festival. The fair will open on Saturday with three hours of performances by =20 authors from each of the tablers. Tables are $30 for the fair, $20 dollars if you bring your own bridge =20= table (up to 3=92 x 3=92) with a portion of the proceeds going to help =20= Unnameable Books. Door charge for attendees is by donation. Please email me to reserve your table and schedule your reader. We =20 look forward to the fair once again being a warm gathering with =20 wonderful books, poetry, music, and other items from around our =20 creative community. You can reach me at this email address, editor@boogcity.com. This year=92s festival will feature: readings from NYC Poets Cara Benson Julian Brolaski Steve Cannon Laura Elrick John Godfrey E. Tracy Grinnell Shafer Hall Ivy Johnson Pierre Joris Erica Kaufman Noelle Kocot Chris Martin Tim Peterson Nicole Peyrafitte Mariana Ruiz David Shapiro Jared White Dustin Williamson and Non-NYC Poets Cathy Eisenhower Brandon Holmquest Ken Jacobs Patti McCarthy Chris McCreary Jenn McCreary Mel Nichols Douglas Rothschild Carlos Soto Rom=E1n Maureen Thorson Joe Torra Kevin Varrone In Conversation, poets David Shapiro and Joanna Fuhrman Music from: The newly expanded I feel tractor performs Tom Waits=92 Bone Machine = live. and sets from Beat Radio Brian Speaker Rorie Kelly Lach The Elastic No-No Band and more Our second annual Poets=92 Theater night, curated and hosted by Gary =20 Sullivan, and featuring performances of many short plays written and =20 performed by local writers and actors. a panel TBD as ever, David P.S. Apologies if you received more than one copy of this email. -- 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) To subscribe free to The December Podcast: = http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=3D3431698= 80 For music from Gilmore boys: http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 25 May 2010 20:22:28 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: jason snyder Subject: June 5: Sidebrow San Francisco Book Launch Party: Florian & Wilkinson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sidebrow and fabric8 Galleries invite you to a launch celebration of Sidebr= ow=92s latest books=2C Sandy Florian=92s On Wonderland & Waste=2C featuring= full-color collages by Alexis Anne Mackenzie=2C and Joshua Marie Wilkinson= =92s Selenography=2C featuring full-color Polaroids by Califone=92s Tim Rut= ili. The event will feature readings by Sandy Florian and Joshua Marie Wilkinson= =2C collages by Alexis Anne Mackenzie=2C street food by culinary cartists T= BA=2C and bathroom bathtub aquatics by the ever popular fabric8 fish. Sidebrow Book Launch: Florian & Wilkinson Saturday=2C June 5=2C 7pm fabric8 Galleries 3318 22nd St. (@ Valencia) San Francisco http://www.sidebrow.net/events/double-book-launch-san-francisco-4556 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + On Wonderland & Waste Sandy Florian Collages by Alexis Anne Mackenzie http://www.sidebrow.net/books/wonderland-amp-waste Selenography Joshua Marie Wilkinson Polaroids by Tim Rutili http://www.sidebrow.net/books/selenography + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Born and raised in Seattle=2C Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of five = books of poetry=2C most recently Selenography. He has also edited two antho= logies for University of Iowa Press=2C including Poets on Teaching=2C due o= ut fall 2010. A tour documentary about the band Califone=2C entitled Made a= Machine by Describing the Landscape=2C is also forthcoming. He teaches at = Loyola University Chicago=2C and divides his time between Chicago and Athen= s=2C GA. Sandy Florian is the author Telescope (Action Books)=2C 32 Pedals & 47 Stop= s (Tarpaulin Sky Press)=2C The Tree of No (Action Books)=2C On Wonderland &= Waste (Sidebrow Books)=2C and Prelude to Air From Water (Elixir Press). Sh= e has been awarded residencies at Caldera Arts=2C Stonehouse=2C and the Ver= mont Studio Center and literary prizes from Elixir Press=2C New Voices=2C a= nd Brown University. She currently lives in San Francisco where she=92s an = affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts. For more information= =2C visit her site at boxingthecompass.blogspot.com. Alexis Anne Mackenzie has exhibited her artwork across the United States=2C= including solo shows in San Francisco=2C Chicago=2C and Los Angeles. She h= olds a B.F.A. from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts=2C an= d her art has appeared in numerous magazines and books=2C including Art for= Obama and The Rest Is Up To You. More of her art can be seen at www.alexis= anne.com. Tim Rutili is a musician=2C filmmaker=2C and visual artist. He is principal= songwriter=2C lyricist=2C and vocalist for Red Red Meat and Califone=2C ba= nds which he founded. He is also a member of Ugly Casanova and Boxhead Ense= mble. Rutili has composed music for documentary and feature films and contr= ibuted to albums by Modest Mouse=2C Sage Francis=2C and many other artists.= He has directed numerous short films and music videos. His feature-film di= rectorial debut All My Friends Are Funeral Singers had its premier at the 2= 010 Sundance film festival. He lives in Los Angeles and Chicago. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Sidebrow Books http://www.sidebrow.net http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sidebrow/68012168356 =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inb= ox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 25 May 2010 17:47:00 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nic Sebastian Subject: Ten Questions on Poets and Technology: Ren Powell In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The internet=2C Facebook=2C Twitter=2C blogs=2C websites=2C iPad=2C iPod=2C= podcasts=2C digital video=2C computers and who knows what else. What do th= ey all mean for the poet? For Poetry? Ren Powell responds this week to Ten = Questions on Poets and Technology - http://bit.ly/b47cmU.Best wishes=2CNic = Sebastianhttp://verylikeawhale.wordpress.com =20 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hot= mail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=3Dmultiaccount&ocid=3DP= ID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 25 May 2010 15:18:18 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Red Rover Series / Experiment #37 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 #37: Public Words - Letters & Interviews Featuring: David Emanuel Jen Hofer Anne Elizabeth Moore PART ONE: THURSDAY, JUNE 3rd 2-8pm at the Damen Ave six-way intersection near the CTA Damen blue line -- Chicago, IL Jen Hofer types letters in either Spanish or English for passers-by,=20 charging $2 for a letter, $3 for a love letter, and $5 for an illicit love = letter.=20 PART TWO: SATURDAY, JUNE 5th 7-9pm at Outer Space Studio -- Chicago, IL 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave, 3rd floor suggested donation $4 David Emanuel asks participants to assemble and write letters onto=20 the pages of their own handbound chapbooks or zines. Materials will be sup= plied. Anne Elizabeth Moore invites Chicagoans down to do a short interview=20 about their city, lives, and what they think about the world. =20 Know someone with a great Chicago story? Bring them or prepare to tell you= rs! DAVID EMANUEL creates text and text-based pieces. He has collaborated with = artists to make performance installations, zines and occasional artifacts. = He has worked as an arts administrator, helping artists make their visions = realities. His critical writing has appeared online in How2 and in print in= Newcity. From time to time, he can be found making letterpress prints, wri= ting Frank O'Hara poems in collaboration with others, and drinking coffee. = He is from Oklahoma, but came to Chicago to go to school. He will be leavin= g Chicago after 11 years this fall in order to go to school in Providence, = RI. JEN HOFER is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, interpreter, teacher, kn= itter, book-maker, public letter-writer, and urban cyclist. Her most recent= books are a series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press, 200= 9); sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes b= y Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008); The Rout= e, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008); lip wolf, a translat= ion of lobo de labio by Laura Sol=C3=B3rzano (Action Books, 2007); and Sin = puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (Uni= versity of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Her forthcomin= g books are a translation of Mexican poet Myriam Moscona=E2=80=99s Ivory Bl= ack (Les Figues Press), a translation of Guatemalan poet Alan Mills=E2=80= =99 S=C3=ADncopes (Piedra Santa), and the poem sequences from the valley of= death (Ponzipo) and Laws (Dusie Books). =20 ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE is the author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfightin= g, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007), and Hey K= idz, Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propagan= da and Artistic Activism for Short People (Soft Skull, 2004). Co-editor and= publisher of now-defunct Punk Planet, founding editor of the Best American= Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches at the School of the Ar= t Institute of Chicago and works with young women in Cambodia on independen= t media projects when she=E2=80=99s not traveling the globe lecturing on fr= eedom of speech issues. Recently, Moore mounted two single-person exhibitio= ns of her conceptual art, has been the subject of two documentary films, an= d her work appeared on the radio program Snap Judgment and in the Boston Ph= oenix, the Progressive, and on Truthout.org.=20 Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each ev= ent is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, nation= al, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was foun= ded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin. Email ideas for reading experiments to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com The schedule for 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: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:07:03 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Ruby, Michael" Subject: Compulsive Words MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable BlazeVOX [books] has just published COMPULSIVE WORDS, my fifth book of poet= ry, based on words that forced themselves on me during composition. Here are a book description of COMPULSIVE WORDS, blurbs and my bio: On January 29, 1999, my older brother was near death in a Boston hospital a= fter emergency surgery for a blood clot in the abdomen. As I sat near the = phone in Brooklyn that morning, trying to type up an old manuscript, it sud= denly occurred to me that I was experiencing an extreme emotion, dread, and= that I should see which words this extreme emotion displaced in my mind. = While writing the poem "Dread," I perceived certain words repeatedly appear= ing, forcing themselves on me, taking over the poem. From then on, during = composition, I noticed the appearance of these "compulsive words," which I = first collected in the poem "Compulsive Words" in 2000, and whose number ha= s continued to grow ever since. -Michael Ruby Reading the poems in Compulsive Words is like taking a hard drug. -Aaron Kiely Michael Ruby's new book is experienced as a kind of sotto voce diction, an = unrelenting mumbling in the back of the mind, which takes two very differen= t forms: as a graphic representation of voices (words presented in diagramm= atic patterns), and as what might be "transcriptions" of those diagrams and= patterns: "O paper placement machines/Blue ladder to family problems" or "= Somnabulist prows to leaven/Healthy escarole..." Or perhaps the diagrams = are transcriptions of the other texts: the tense dialectic between these tw= o poles is one of the things that makes this book well worth contemplating. -John M. Bennett Michael Ruby is the author of AT AN INTERSECTION (Alef Books, 2002), WINDOW= ON THE CITY (BlazeVOX [books], 2006), FLEETING MEMORIES (ebook at www.ugly= ducklingpresse.org/WEBBOOK-RUBY/index.html, 2008) and THE EDGE OF THE UNDERWORLD (BlazeVOX,= 2010). A graduate of Harvard College and Brown University's writing progra= m, he lives in Brooklyn and works as an editor at The Wall Street Journal. COMPULSIVE WORDS is available through BlazeVOX's website: http://www.blazevox.org/bk-mruby.htm For review-copy PDFs, write: Michael.ruby@wsj.com Best, Michael Ruby =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 25 May 2010 22:21:57 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Let me tell you a secret -- public projection project (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 18:26:30 From: Talan Memmott To: sondheim@panix.com Subject: Let me tell you a secret -- public projection project A collaborative student project in one of the classes I teach... A large scale public projection project. (please forward) Let me tell you a secret http://letmetellyouasecret.se/ Let me tell you a secret is a social experiment that will explore an aspect of the sharing-culture in our contemporary media society. Today it is common to use online social media such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs to display details of one?s private life for anyone to see. Our need to share seems insatiable, people write about anything from breakfast-habits to intimate relationship problems. Why is that? Is it perhaps a popularity contest ? competing for who gets the most readers or comments? Is it self-therapy or a quest for fame and recognition? We want to call attention to the generous openness and sometimes bordering on exhibitionistic tendencies of recent generations - the paradoxical phenomenon that is our public, private lives. For this project, we will gather secrets from the public. It will result in a public event in May where these secrets will be displayed anonymously. This project is carried out by the students as part of a course called Special Project in the LCDM program (Literature, Culture and Digital Media) at Blekinge Institute of Technology. You can send in your secrets through the website, or via SMS. Just type your secret in a text-message and send it to +46709685070 (your secret can not be more than 90 characters, including spaces and punctuation). The cost is like a regular text-message. The event will take place on 26 May between 9PM-2AM North side of Fredrikskyrkan in Stortorget, Karlskrona Talan Memmott English / LCDM DSN/KK Campus Gr?svik (Valhallav. 1) Blekinge Tekniska H?gskola 371 79 Karlskrona Sweden ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:42:43 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Seeking Poets for Reading -- Need Organizers Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii World Ocean Day is coming up on June 8th. Heidi Lynn Staples and I are putting out feelers for poets who might be willing to organize a last-minute reading on their shores as part of a Poets for Living Waters Action. We're asking poets to serve as Poets for Living Waters Activists--organizing and publicizing the reading in their community. If you could also document via photos, video or audio - any or all, that would be especially welcome. Ideally the event would take place by a body of water--stream, river, pond, lake, or sea. The poems read by the featured poets would be either from the Poets for Living Waters site ( http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com ), well known published relevant works (say E. Bishop or something), or relevant works by professional published writers. The PLW Activist (you) would be welcome to read. An open mike opportunity would conclude the event. If interested, please backchannel at poetsforlivingwaters@yahoo.com Best, Amy p.s. Today's poems are by FRANZ WRIGHT, EVIE SHOCKLEY, KATE SCHAPIRA and BILL MARSH http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ _______ 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 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:26:30 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Sheila Black and Jennifer Bartlett are putting together an anthology of poets with physical disabilities. Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" , Discussion of Women's Poetry List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: reJennifer Bartlett = =0A=0A----- Forwarded Message ----=0AFrom: reJennifer Bartlett =0A=0A=0A=0A= Sheila Black and Jennifer Bartlett are putting together an anthology of poe= ts with physical disabilities. =0A=0AWe are ideally looking for poets with = physical disabilities, although we are not excluding submissions from abled= -poets writing about a poet with a physical disability. The format will be = 3-5 poems and a short open-ended essay (750- 1000 words). The essay should= address how disability manifests itself (or doesn't) in your work. The ess= ay can also discuss identity or anti-identity poetics. =0A=0APlease send 7-= 10 poems, a short publishing biography (include your book titles) and an on= e paragraph description of an essay you would like to write to rejennifer@g= mail.com AND sheilablack@hotmail.com.=0A=0ADeadline July 1st. Also, email w= ith any questions.=0A=0APlease see the request and description below:=0A=0A= Yet our goal is not to produce a book that is strictly polemical but rathe= r one that looks at poetry first. The spectrum of poets writing on the top= ic, especially today, articulate disability in specific and surprising ways= . While the poets who make up this proposed anthology are poets whose aesth= etic lens has been torqued or shaped by their bodies, the group is eclectic= as fits the topic=E2=80=94for not only is each disability unique, but even= within a single person the experience of disability is a dynamic one. Some= poets we plan to include, while forethinkers in the poetry world, are not = known as =E2=80=9Cdisability poets.=E2=80=9D Rather, they came to have bodi= ly differences later in life. Some are activists and heavily entrenched in = Disability Studies. Others, while not activists, write about their singular= experience, in ways that are formally and philosophically challenging. In = addition, the poets included represent many different modes and movements i= n modern poetry. Part of what is so energizing about considering the current land= scape of disability poetry is the degree to which thinking about disabilit= y enlists or engages viscerally many of the core concerns animating other = poetry movements from the New Formalists to the New Sincerity to the Gurles= que. The mediations on the body and commodification, and on the very natur= e and being of beauty, that drive many of the poets in this collection are = concerns that are not only universal, but also acutely urgent in our times.= =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, 26 May 2010 13:35:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: UMM KULTHUM: A Voice Like Egypt MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 (this post is also up at PhillySound with photos and links: http://PhillySound.blogspot.com) Sometime in the 1980's my friend Maria Fama invited me over to her South Philly home for dinner. We spent most of our time talking about poetry, but at one point she brought out a record album and said, "I really want you to hear this. Listen to this with me." It was Umm Kulthum. I still remember sitting there with her, exchanging bursts of surprise with her. The recording PIERCED, it had no other solution in mind but to grab you by the neck and force its blade into your gut. As though music is a SOLUTION to the human condition, music and poetry, Umm and her band of poets PIERCING US ONE AT A TIME! It's impossible to find one word to express the love for this experience. Maria made a cassette tape of the album for me. And while that was being made she told me of visiting friends in Cairo back in the 1970's. They said, "Maria we have a surprise, we want to take you to hear Umm Kulthum sing!" Maria like 90 percent of western culture didn't know who Umm Kulthum was. She expected to go to a nightclub, but no, it was an enormous stadium. There were thousands of people. Umm was frail and old by then, but she still had power in her voice. The crowd would jump from their seats and scream at the end of a line of music. All the poets of Egypt and the rest of the Arab world wanted to write for Umm. She remains one of the most celebrated singers in the world. She remains one of the most recorded voices in history. She still remains virtually unknown in America. But the day after seeing Maria I went into a small falafel shop in Philly called BITARS, and I asked the man behind the counter if he had ever heard of Umm Kulthum. "UMM KULTHUM? YES YES OF COURSE I KNOW UMM KULTHUM!" It caused so much excitement! The other man working with him telling him GET THE BAG GET THE BAG! He pulled an enormous, clear plastic bag out of a large drawer FILLED with Umm Kulthum cassette tapes. All through the early 1990's my friends and I would pour over Umm's cassette's, share new ones. Then one day Maria Fama called me to tell me of a documentary coming to Philadelphia about Umm Kulthum. We went. It was so amazing. It remains one of my favorite movie going experiences. The director was there to present a Q&A, a marvelous woman who was Israeli-American who said that she made the film for many reasons, but one of them being to build a bridge between Israel and the Arab world. Last night, 14 years later, I saw it again at my friend Mary Kalyna's house with friend Debrah Morkun. It struck me in the very same way. Goose bumps. Umm CHILLS with excitement and longing, her powerful use of her voice taking you OUT OF THIS WORLD whether you intended to go or not. It's bliss. It's ecstasy, Umm is better than any drug I've ever taken. I'm a HUGE Umm Kulthum fan all over again today! -- 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: Wed, 26 May 2010 20:52:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: aslongasittakes Subject: APG at ACAC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For those of you in and around the ATL, the Atlanta Poets Group will be performing with artist David D'Agostino at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center on Thursday, June 3. The performance, titled Alphabet Species/Low Ghosts, will be a set of pieces designed specially for the ACAC space. Here is a blurb: http://www.thecontemporary.org/programming/programs/poetry-alphabet-specieslow-ghosts/ Hope to see folks there. James Sanders ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 07:37:57 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Deborah Poe Subject: Austin Event May 29: Skanky Possum Presents Deborah Poe and Cindy St. John MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Skanky Possum Presents: Deborah Poe and Cindy St. John * A Poetry Reading and Party starting at 7 PM: Saturday! * Homemade food and snacks will be provided; we'll have an ice-chest and wine frig to keep your favorite BYOB cold. Please come and bring friends to hear poetry and hang out with us on the deck. Don't forget money to buy books from the poets! Reading begins at 8:20 PM sharp. *About the Poets* Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections Elements (Stockport Flats Press 2010) and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008). Deborah=92s writing has recently appeared in Colorado Review, Sidebrow, Ploughshares, Filter Literary Journal, Denver Quarterly and the anthology A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008). Cindy St. John is the author of City Poems (Effing Press) and People Who Ar= e in Love Will Read This Book Differently (Dancing Girl Press). She lives in Austin, TX. *Location* Casa Nguyen-Smith 2208 Trailside Drive #A Austin, TX 78704 Hope to see you there... Please feel free to invite friends! This is our facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3D7930692#!/event.php?eid=3D12133992= 4563477&ref=3Dmf Love, Hoa =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 27 May 2010 11:04:04 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: rob mclennan + Andy Weaver at the TREE Reading Series, June 8; Toronto poet Andy Weaver and Ottawa writer rob mclennan feature at the TREE Reading Series, Ottawa on June 8th; 8pm, the library (2nd floor) of the Arts Court Building; the reading will start with a short open set, a 20 minute reading by rob + 20 by Andy, concluding with a short q+a between them (allowing for audience questions, if any). admission free. I might possibly only be reading works-in-progress, including my (potential) third novel, and a suite of poems on Lake Ontario. http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/05/rob-mclennan-andy-weaver-at-tree.html -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons 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: Thu, 27 May 2010 12:12:05 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: Seeking Poets for Reading -- Need Organizers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit this sounds great who deals with ny end ?? 5 boroughs ?? or will there be several folks ?? On Wed, 26 May 2010 10:42:43 -0700 amy king writes: > World Ocean Day is coming up on June 8th. Heidi Lynn Staples > and I are putting out feelers for poets who might be willing to > organize a last-minute reading on their shores as part of a Poets > for > Living Waters Action. We're asking poets to serve as Poets for > Living Waters Activists--organizing and publicizing the reading in > their > community. If you could also document via photos, video or audio - > any or > all, that would be especially welcome. > > Ideally the event would take place by a body of > water--stream, river, pond, lake, or sea. The poems read by the > featured poets > would be either from the Poets for Living Waters site ( > http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com ), well known published relevant > works (say E. > Bishop or something), or relevant works by professional published > writers. The PLW > Activist (you) would be welcome to read. An open mike opportunity > would conclude the event. > > If interested, please backchannel at > poetsforlivingwaters@yahoo.com > > Best, > Amy > > p.s. Today's poems are by FRANZ WRIGHT, EVIE SHOCKLEY, KATE > SCHAPIRA and BILL MARSH > http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ > _______ > > 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 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:28:16 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: the art & the agony of the poetry anthology, with rob mclennan, Todd Swift & Marilyn Bowering, by David Kosub; http://speakingofpoems.blogspot.com/2010/05/ubiquitous-multivalent-ambitious-is.html -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons 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: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:43:22 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: Ekphrastic Nexus MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ekphrastic Nexus Friday, June 25 (6 p.m.) at Chicago Urban Art Society "Ekphrastic Nexus: Visual Art and Creative Writing" includes a panel discussion, followed by performances. This event is part of the "Studio Chicago" calendar of events. There is a suggested donation, and refreshments will be provided. The panel involves writers and visual artists about text-image collaborations, as well as writers who have gotten inspiration from visual art, and it explores ways writers make connections with art and the visual artistic process, furthering the continuum of the artist's studio as school, gallery, political stance, sanctuary, and muse. Contemporary writers and artists need a clean, well lit room of their own to create. Whether physical as a cabin in the woods, or ubiquitous as online presence, the studio matters to Chicago culture makers because of the many out-of-time or out-of-ethics rituals it suggests. Making art doesn't have to be political; this freedom is what makes art radically political. We will discuss details about the spaces in which we work, whether those spaces are separate industrial studio space, home offices, or other kinds of spaces. Also, the nature of the work that happen in those studio spaces relates to how the spaces themselves are set up, whether the work involves what is done in solitude, or with collaborations (in physical and virtual spaces). We will also consider how Chicago institutions and colloquia opportunities might support Chicago artists and writers. Participants include Annie Heckman (Owner + Director, StepSister Press), Krista Franklin (writer, artist, and educator, Kathryn Born (editor of Chicago Art Magazine), Valerie Wallace (writer and educator), Irina Botea (visual artist), and Gene Tanta (writer, visual artist, and educator), moderated by Dan Godston (writer, musician, and educator). Studio Chicago is a yearlong collaborative project that focuses on the artist's studio. Through exhibitions, talks, publications, tours, and research, participating organizations will celebrate the working artist and reveal their sites of creative production from historical and contemporary perspectives. With concepts ranging from the "studio as muse," "virtual studios," "street as studio," and "gallery as studio," Studio Chicago invites participation from artists and the art-curious. Chicago Urban Art Society (CUAS) exhibition + creative-use space 2229 South Halsted Street Chicago, IL 60608 Links: Annie Heckman: http://www.annieheckman.com/ Borderbend Arts Collective: http://www.borderbend.org Chicago Art Magazine: http://chicagoartmagazine.com/ Chicago Urban Art Society: http://www.chicagourbanartsociety.org/ Gene Tanta: http://genetanta.cgpublisher.com/biography.html Irina Botea: www.irinabotea.com Krista Franklin: http://www.kristafranklin.com/ StepSister Press: http://stepsisterpress.com/ Studio Chicago: http://www.studiochicago.org/ Valerie Wallace: http://www.pw.org/content/valerie_wallace ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 05:35:19 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: { brad brace } Subject: Island 6.0 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Island 6.0 is now available online! ==================================== http://bbrace.net/islands/island6/island6.html http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/islands/island6/island6.html Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media pdf-ebooks/field-recordings -- a pastoral, pictorial and phonic elicitation of island parameters. An intensive examination of small islands and their paradigmatic solutions to globalism. Your (Art)world is based on mutual relief at your common corruption. Maybe some cultures are based on even worse. But that wouldn't change the bad faith of it and as years go by, you wake at night in terror of your whole life being an act of bad faith, where everything is self-interest and nothing more, where every human interaction is driven by a silent, even subconscious calculation of some ulterior motive, to the point that a sea of bad faith has taken over your whole life, there's no small island left from which you can even try to build a bridge of good faith, because even that effort becomes suspect, even good faith is nothing but self-interested, even altruism is nothing but solipsistic, even your professed agonizing right here right now is nothing but a gesture, made to the conscience in order to assure it that it exists. http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/id.html http://bbrace.net/id.html Island 1.0 is Ambergris Caye, Belize Island 2.0 is Koh Si Chang, Thailand Island 3.0 is Lamu, Kenya Island 4.0 is Narikel Jingira, Bangladesh Island 5.0 is Isla Mais, Nicaragua Island 6.0 are The Grenadines, West Indies Global Islands Project: Island 1.0 -> http://bbrace.net/islands/island1/island1.html or http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/islands/island1/island1.html -- over 800 images and hour-long audiotrack -- 69mb -- (acrobat 6) Island 2.0 -> http://bbrace.net/islands/island2/island2.html or http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/islands/island2/island2.html -- over 535 images and hour-long audiotrack -- 78mb -- (acrobat 6) -- http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_1.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_2.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_3.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_4.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_5.0 http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_6.0 Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media pdf-books -- a pastoral, pictorial and phonic elicitation of island parameters... http://www.bbrace.net/id.html http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/id.html bbs: brad brace sound http://69.64.229.114:8000 http://www.bbrace.net/undisclosed.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, 27 May 2010 18:10:41 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Poetry Project Subject: Upcoming Events at The Poetry Project Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable The Poetry Project=B9s season is almost over=8B we hope to see you here next week! Wednesday, June 2, 8 PM Reading for the Recluse 6 Please join us to celebrate the publication of issue 6 of The Recluse, the Poetry Project=B9s annual literary magazine. Contributors who will read are: Simone White, Mina Pam Dick, Jo Ann Wasserman, Will Edmiston, Ann Stephenson, Ish Klein and Kostas Anagnopoulos. =20 Friday, June 4, 10 PM Poet=B9s Potluck VI=20 Come say goodbye to Ed & Nicole and make mark of the end of their co-Friday Night Series run before the Poetry Project=B9s annual summer-time pause. Brin= g your best gal, or a casual gentleman or two, your ma=B9s macaroni salad, and = a choice tipple, like grandma=B9s punch or grandpa=B9s whiskey, to wash it all down. There will be poems read, songs sung and early summertime romantic merriment for all. See you there, of course.=A0 And coming up at Poets House: Saturday, June 19, 7PM & Sunday, June 20, 2PM at Poets House Flow=8BWinged Crocodile: A Noh Play by Leslie Scalapino =20 Directed by Fiona Templeton, with Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver and Julie Troost. Dance by Molissa Fenley. Music by Joan Jeanrenaud. Projected drawings by Eve Biddle. Technical director: Ray Roy III. =20 This Noh play by poet Leslie Scalapino travels between the left and right sides of the brain, with appearances by a reincarnated Patty Hearst in the 1974 SLA bank heist and a green-winged creature that is part crocodile, par= t Michelin man and part charging rhino. The play is performed by The Relationship, a performance group directed by Fiona Templeton that specializes in innovative language and use of site. =20 Leslie Scalapino is the ground-breaking, genre-stretching author of thirty books of poetry, poem-plays, essays, and fiction, including way, which won the American Book Award; Sight, a collaboration with Lyn Hejinian; Zither & Autobiography; The Tango; New Time; and It's go in horizontal: Selected Poems 1974-2006.=20 =20 Cosponsored by Belladonna and The Poetry Project. Poets House is located at 10 River Terrace in Battery Park City. =20 $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poetry Project and Poets House Members 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: Sat, 29 May 2010 17:06:46 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/scalapino/obit.html “Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.” — Philip Whalen Leslie Scalapino passed away on May 28, 2010 in Berkeley, California. She was born in Santa Barbara in 1944 and raised in Berkeley, California. After Berkeley High School, she attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon and received her B.A. in Literature in 1966. She received her M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969, after which she began to focus on writing poetry. Leslie Scalapino lived with Tom White, her husband and friend of 35 years, in Oakland, California. In childhood, she traveled with her father Robert Scalapino, founder of UC Berkeley’s Institute for Asian Studies, her mother Dee Scalapino, known for her love of music, and her two sisters, Diane and Lynne, throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. She and Tom continued these travels including trips to Tibet, Bhutan, Japan, India, Yemen, Mongolia, Libya and elsewhere. Her writing was intensely influenced by these travels. She published her first book O and Other Poems in 1976, and since then has published thirty books of poetry, prose, inter-genre fiction, plays, essays, and collaborations. Scalapino’s most recent publications include a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith, The Animal is in the World like Water in Water (Granary Books), and Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows (Starcherone Books), and her selected poems It’s go in horizontal / Selected Poems 1974-2006 (UC Press) was published in 2008. In 1988, her long poem way received the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her plays have been performed in San Francisco at New Langton Arts, The Lab, Venue 9, and Forum; in New York by The Eye and Ear Theater and at Barnard College; and in Los Angeles at Beyond Baroque. In 1986, Scalapino founded O Books as a publishing outlet for young and emerging poets, as well as prominent, innovative writers, and the list of nearly 100 titles includes authors such as Ted Berrigan, Robert Grenier, Fanny Howe, Tom Raworth, Norma Cole, Will Alexander, Alice Notley, Norman Fischer, Laura Moriarty, Michael McClure, Judith Goldman and many others. Scalapino is also the editor of four editions of O anthologies, as well as the periodicals Enough (with Rick London) and War and Peace (with Judith Goldman). Scalapino taught writing at various institutions, including 16 years in the MFA program at Bard College, Mills College, the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts in San Francisco, San Francisco State University, UC San Diego, and the Naropa Institute. Of her own writing, Scalapino says “my sense of a practice of writing and of action, the apprehension itself that ‘one is not oneself for even an instant’ – should not be,’ is to be participation in/is a social act. That is, the nature of this practice that’s to be ‘social act’ is it is without formation or custom.” Her writing, unbound by a single format, her collaborations with artists and other writers, her teaching, and publishing are evidence of this sense of her own practice, social acts that were her practice. Her generosity and fiercely engaged intelligence were everywhere evident to those who had the fortune to know her. Scalapino has three books forthcoming in 2010. A book of two plays published in one volume, Flow-Winged Crocodile and A Pair / Actions Are Erased / Appear will come out in June 2010 from Chax Press; a new prose work, The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihredals Zoom will be released this summer by Post-Apollo Press; and a revised and expanded collection of her essays and plays, How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (originally published by Potes & Poets) will be published in the fall by Litmus Press. Her play Flow-Winged Crocodile will be performed in New York at Poets House on June 19th at 2pm and June 20th at 7pm by the performance group The Relationship, directed by Fiona Templeton and with Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver, and Julie Troost. Dance by Molissa Fenley, music by Joan Jeanrenaud, and projected drawings by Eve Biddle. This production is co-sponsored by Belladonna* and the Poetry Project. There will be a memorial event for Scalapino at St. Mark’s Poetry Project on Monday, June 21st. A Zen Buddhist funeral ceremony will be conducted by Abbott Norman Fisher in about a month with the arrangements in a subsequent announcement. Tom requests that in lieu of flowers, Leslie's friends consider a charitable donation in her memory to: Poets in Need, PO Box 5411, Berkeley, CA 94705; Reed College for the Leslie Scalapino Scholarship, 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR 97202-8199; The AYCO Charitable Foundation, PO Box 15203, Albany, NY 12212-5203 for the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund to support innovative works of poetry, prose and art; or to a charitable organization of their choice. Condolence cards may be sent to Tom & Leslie’s home address, 5744 Presley Way, Oakland, California 94618-1633. to make my mind be actions outside only. which they are. that collapses in grey-red bars. actions are life per se only without it. (so) events are minute — even (voluptuous) ––Leslie Scalapino ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html