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Jena Osman: "The title of this programs is 'Finding the Words.' Every day
I
look in the newspapers. I keep sensing the presence of
what's not being told... 'Help me come up with a strategy to get through
this white noise.' I don't have that strategy,
except to call attention to components of that white noise so we can hear
it for what it is. In the spirit of Marianne
Moore, who often incorporated what she was reading into her poems, I'm
going to read a piece made of words I found when
I read transcripts of press conferences given by Bush, Ridge, Rumsfeld,
and Cheney in the last few days. I read the
transcripts, printed them out, I tore them up, and then I stood on a
chair, and then I bombed my office floor with them
as if they were leaflets and the leaflets told me what to do. So this
piece
is called 'Dropping Leaflets.'"
Jena Osmanhas published six books of poetry:
Jury (Meow Press,
1996), Amblyopia (Avenue B, 1993), The Lab-Book (Poetics
Program at SUNY Buffalo, 1992), Balance (Leave Books, 1992),
Underwater Dive: Version One (Paradigm Press, 1990) and Twelve
Parts of Her (Burning Deck Press, 1989). Her poetry has also been
anthologized in The Art of Practice: Forty-Five Contemporary Poets,
as well as Subliminal Time and Writing From the New Coast:
Presentation. She is the co-editor (with Juliana Spahr) of Chain, a journal that
investigates language in its various presentational frames. Also see her
online works:
Writers House
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