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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7181/6927327877_f91e0b8e2d_o.jpg"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border="0" height="248" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/7z-xgp5Ccd8xKwDMT1mQl6iifRHPwkMi00ucGG-wBjASUKKD8KgZMTIw7ZFnwNKf-gHIU9zoC5-qexrw9zlfOUq5KmSQzyDwjbY3Q1ycUFbXdg%3Ds0-d" width="404"></span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=95000 lumo=5000"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:24.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#C00000'>A reading for Gil Ott</span></b><span style='font-size:20.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:18.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Today<br> </span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>3:00-4:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242; mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=95000 lumo=5000"'><a href="http://www.paintedbride.org/events/reforesting/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=95000 lumo=5000"'>Painted Bride Art Center</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"'>230 Vine Street<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"'>Philadelphia, PA 19106<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>  <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242; mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=95000 lumo=5000"'>Not quite five years ago, I <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/gil-ott-tribute-first-annual-gil-ott.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=95000 lumo=5000"'>wrote</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>More than any other individual, Gil Ott is the person responsible for the strength of the poetry community in <st1:city><st1:place>Philadelphia</st1:place></st1:city> over the past 30 years. His skills as a poet &amp; prose writer, as an editor, publisher &amp; arts administrator, and as a community organizer, proved to be a unique combination. A small &#8220;d&#8221; democrat, Gil led by example, usually denying that he was doing anything other than just being himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>  <p class=Default style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=95000 lumo=5000"'><span style='color:windowtext'>All still true. Gil also used to do these great little prints, such as the one above, that turned into holiday greetings &#8211; I still have one set of four images at the head of the stairs down to my study. I look at it just about every day. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>  <p class=Default style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=95000 lumo=5000"'><span style='color:windowtext'>Gil was the founding editor of the literary journal <i>Paper Air </i>as well as the original publisher of Singing Horse Press. Gil influenced many poets in Philadelphia, across America, and in the English-speaking world, me included. From 1981 to 1995, he worked at the Painted Bride Arts Center, first conducting a capital campaign and assisting its founder Gerry Givnish, and later creating an extensive network of community-based arts and educational collaborations. From the mid 90&#8217;s until his death in 2004, he served as the Director of Development for Liberty Resources, Philadelphia&#8217;s Center for Independent Living, which advocates for the rights of people with disabilities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>  <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=95000 lumo=5000"'>Gerry Givnish will introduce. Julia Blumenreich, Gil&#8217;s widow, will read her suite of poems that sparked Wendy Osterweil to make <i>Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott</i>, an exhibition currently on display in the gallery. Poets will then read from Gil&#8217;s forthcoming <i>Collected Poems</i>. 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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A few quick notes &amp; photos of last <span class=GramE>Sunday&#8217;s</span> reading in memory of Gil Ott &amp; to celebrate the publication of the first winner of the annual Gil Ott poetry award, Tim Peterson. Robin&#8217;s Books, long &amp; thin as it is, isn&#8217;t always the best place for a large reading, and there&#8217;s a real advantage to sitting up front. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><img height="240" id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/d1c4-yQu9zvwLrkoi1bMk3gzyac0UzDIq5GGGzaBVkguCVbFIQg5eXlX36aNv8kQgAb4v7z1TKgPAK_KVeVljWarpI-DR03DtzuID9rV8PzLHA%3Ds0-d" width="180"><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><img height="240" id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/CUH71YsZPNW3eMVL-7SE41DHXb7oZwNR0UzRmO_DT95obfb8MPOMSkO5xkCr0yubc35lJ7D9uhB4R-UBUJml9BzE62YxpYf8sMXZrnxMPDQM3w%3Ds0-d" width="180"><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><img height="240" id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/jikRlpZm4cU07-zYzRw0jnP6U1caTgZcEAzDl-6boOOCYx5GULwMh4H6qWI4uYpHAVevNKjMdcZMpAo8jFhBDNy44Eg339q_oBVUeMfjzOKW0Q%3Ds0-d" width="180"><br>
CA Conrad, Tim Peterson, Eli Goldblatt<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Craig Allen Conrad, whom nobody in Philly calls Craig (it&#8217;s either CA or Conrad) organized this event, not once but twice since a Nor&#8217;easter took out the first day in April. It was raining on Sunday too as another, more modest Nor&#8217;easter barreled through, tropical depression Barry. Conrad got things started by playing a tape of Gil singing. Tim Peterson read from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Since I Moved In, </i>the award winning volume. And Eli Goldblatt, one of Gil&#8217;s closest friends, discussed &#8220;growing up as poets&#8221; with Gil &amp; announced that he&#8217;s part of the team putting together a selected writings, that hopes to include not just the poetry &amp; prose, but correspondence as well. (Anyone with correspondence from Gil should contact Eli at <span class=SpellE>eligold</span> @ temple dot <span class=SpellE>edu</span>.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Alicia <span class=SpellE>Askenase</span>, Joshua Schuster, Frank Sherlock<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alicia <span class=SpellE>Askenase</span> &amp; Josh Schuster read poems dedicated to Gil, <span class=GramE>then</span> read a joint excerpt from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Traffic. </i>Frank Sherlock, looking thinner from his own recent flirtations with the immortal, read from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Maize. </i>Conrad then read a paragraph from the introduction to Harryette Mullen&#8217;s new collection <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Recyclopedia</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i>that discusses Gil, his importance &amp; his process. Conrad remembered the days when the whole central city of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Philadelphia</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> was awash in artists because some landlords deliberately kept their rents affordable. The tree outside &#8211; there are relatively few of these downtown &#8211; brushed against the window with approval. Conrad read from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Amputated Toe. </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Jenn McCreary, Chris McCreary, Linh Dinh<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jenn McCreary read from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Yellow Floor, </i>while I and Chris McCreary read from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Whole Note, </i>the work of Gil&#8217;s I wrote about last Monday. Then Linh Dinh discussed Gil&#8217;s fiction &amp; how it impacted &amp; influenced his own, reading from Gil&#8217;s emails (and I believe one of his own) from correspondence that took place when Linh was back in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Vietnam</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. He read two passages from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Pact. </i>You can tell how the Nor&#8217;easter was doing by the fact that it&#8217;s dark out the window behind the readers already, and it&#8217;s not even </span><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="18"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>six o&#8217;clock</span></st1:time><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Ryan <span class=SpellE>Eckes</span>, Bob Perelman<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ryan <span class=SpellE>Eckes</span> gave an example of Gil&#8217;s mentoring style, describing how Gil prodded him with the question of how was he going to get away from a normative, comfortable upbringing. He then read the short story &#8220;Empathy&#8221; from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Pact. </i>Bob Perelman read his tribute to Gil &#8211; it appears in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Form of Our Uncertainty, </i>the festschrift edited by Kristen Gallagher. Perelman then read some work from the latter part of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Traffic. </i>Tim Peterson re-arose to read Gil&#8217;s poem &#8220;Status.&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Kristen Gallagher, Julia Blumenreich<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:place><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Brooklyn</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s own Kristen Gallagher talked about &#8220;Gil&#8217;s willingness to complain&#8221; and that it was integral to his personality &amp; his politics both. She read from his emails concerning politics and then read the poem &#8220;Heaven,&#8221; a copy of which I just rediscovered in my files of mail from Gil on Tuesday. Julia Blumenreich, Gil&#8217;s widow &amp; a terrific poet in her own right (one of the cofounders of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>6ix</i>), talked about Gil&#8217;s use of systems in his writing and how, since his death, she had been, as she put it, finding Gil in trees. She read from one of the poems she has written out of this process, &#8220;Elm Disease,&#8221; a poem rich with detail, connecting Dutch Elm Disease &amp; its history in North America with <a href="http://www.pathmax.com/dermweb/http:/www.pathmax.com/dermweb/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Nephrogenic</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Fibrosing</span> <span class=SpellE>Dermopathy</span>, NFD</span></a>, one of the extremely unpleasant side effects of kidney disease. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The poem was, as has been all of <span class=SpellE>Blumenreich&#8217;s</span> poetry that I&#8217;ve seen since Gil died, magisterial. The tree brushed against the window with approval.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>CAConrad</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> has written a <span style='color:black'>wonderful <a href="http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html#6935926313811205282"><span style='color:black'>blog note</span></a> expanding</span> on his idea, stated <span class=SpellE>midreading</span>, that Gil was as much an anti-mentor as a mentor. <span class=SpellE>Didi</span> Menendez has put a recording of the event up on the <span class=SpellE>MiPoesias</span> site in three files and they can be <span style='color:black'>accessed <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/miporadio/Ott_Gi-MemorialReading_PHL_06032007.mp3"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a>, and <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/miporadio/Ott_Gi-MemorialReading_PHL_06032007_2.mp3"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a>, and <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/miporadio/Ott_Gi-MemorialReading_PHL_06032007_3.mp3"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>It&#8217;s hard to imagine that it&#8217;s been seventeen years since Gil Ott was the writer in residence at the <a href="http://www.yni.org/hi/index.php"><span style='color:black'>Headlands Institute</span></a> in some old military barracks that you get to through a little tunnel from the outskirts of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Sausalito</span></st1:place></st1:City><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> on what is literally called </span><st1:Street><st1:address><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Bunker Road</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>. I&#8217;d known that Gil had lived in Marin earlier in his life, had in fact shared a tree house somewhere in the Bolinas area with </span><st1:place><span class=SpellE><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Kush</span></span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, an anthropologist, poet &amp; later the ubiquitous <span class=SpellE>videographer</span> of poetry readings in &amp; around the City. But I hadn&#8217;t known Gil then &amp; he hadn&#8217;t stayed. He&#8217;d gotten sick &amp; learned that his kidneys were failing. The Gil Ott I first corresponded with in 1978 was living again with his parents in a suburb of Philadelphia called Blue Bell, quite unhappy about that fact, restless really, trying to figure out how he was going to make his way as a poet &amp; a person with a compromised body, making his first real effort with a magazine called <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Paper Air </i>that he&#8217;d started a couple of years before. <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I didn&#8217;t actually meet Gil for another year or two when, one day when I was supposed to be having lunch with Charles Bernstein in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Manhattan</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, Charles showed up with Gil. After lunch Charles had to return to his job as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CETAhttp:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CETA"><span style='color:black'>CETA</span></a>-artist, leaving Gil &amp; I in each other&#8217;s company with a free afternoon ahead of us. Gil wanted to walk, so we did, although it proved to be slow going. He was in need of a kidney transplant he explained &#8211; this was the first I&#8217;d heard of this &#8211; and didn&#8217;t have the stamina to go very fast. In fact, though he was four years my junior, he walked as tho he were in his nineties, slow, deliberate steps that made each block take up to 20 minutes. The amazing thing, in retrospect, was that we walked for hours, down through the Lower East Side, down Hester Street past all the little carts (I hadn&#8217;t known that such scenes still existed in America), back up through Little Italy, all the while Gil expounding on his life, his reading, the scene in Philadelphia (about which I functionally knew nothing), his poetics, what he was trying to accomplish with <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Paper Air, </i>his sense of urgency that American poets, especially progressive poets, needed to be progressive in their politics as well. I know that Gil later professed that it was &#8220;just a walk,&#8221; and to some degree he was preaching to the choir trying to persuade me of positions I&#8217;d already held for some time, but it was the closest thing to an education in one afternoon &#8211; a complete statement of one&#8217;s active poetics &#8211; as I&#8217;d ever heard anyone ever give. More than a quarter of a century later, that&#8217;s still true.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>So when Gil came out to the Bay Area to do a residency as the Headlands Institute in 1990, there was an undercurrent of satisfaction in it for him &#8211; he was poet returning to a previous home as a successful writer. Since Gil often had a disproportionate sense of how much power the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>School</span></st1:PlaceType><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Quietude</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> had &#8211; he never applied, he once told me, for a Pew Fellowship since he already &#8220;knew&#8221; he was going to lose&#185; &#8211; this was an especially sweet moment for him. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Paper Air, </i>Singing Horse Press &amp; his own writing were all successful, Gil was still in his role as the literary director of <a href="http://www.paintedbride.org/"><span style='color:black'>The Painted Bride</span></a>, an arts center on the north side of </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Olde</span></span></st1:PlaceName><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>City</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>While Gil was at the Headlands, he composed the first three-fourths of a work called <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=8487467261"><span style='color:black'>The Whole Note</span></a>, </i>later to be published as a small book by Manuel <span class=SpellE>Brito&#8217;s</span> Zasterle Press on the </span><st1:place><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Canary Islands</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>. For Gil, it&#8217;s a remarkably formal project, brilliantly conceived &amp; executed. The work is composed of four sections, each of which in turn is a sequence of eight passages, or pages. Both in the book &amp; the one anthology excerpt I have around (Dennis <span class=SpellE>Barone</span> &amp; Peter <span class=SpellE>Ganick&#8217;s</span> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Practice of Outside</i>, which contains the one section not written at the Headlands), each passage is according its own page, so I tend to think of them &#8211; and call them &#8211; just that: pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Each page is composed of between four and six smaller sections. In the book, they look like paragraphs, tho only the first begins at the start of a sentence with a capital letter. In the anthology, which uses a page larger than the 4-by-6 inch Zasterle edition, they look more like lines, since the shorter ones down turn back again at the right hand margin. In both places, any line that runs over is printed as tho it were prose. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>What it looks like in the book is that a paragraph, invariably of seven or eight sentences, is divided into these subdivisions, so that each page is thus one &#8220;true&#8221; (if not physical) paragraph. But this isn&#8217;t so much the case in the anthology, where each &#8220;line&#8221; looks more independent. Thus consider the first page of what in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Practice of Outside </i>is called &#8220;Fourth <span class=SpellE>Fourth</span>&#8221;:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.6in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Moving, variant ornithography of those uninitiated<br>
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made into memory by the me briefly incarnate. Full of myself on successive nights dense and alone sings<br>
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you back. Need keeps the book of dying open, the language common after all. Relieved, the task finally changing prompts tapping my reserve<br>
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feeling, now, wise to its edge. Where are you risk any detail of what&#8217;s in me, having been tricked by the image of a man. Softly paint the intuit<br>
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applications under authority of breathing. I drive this one, I get winded<br>
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calendar&#8217;s familiar, speed and abruption.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Now consider the same passage from what is called &#8220;4/4&#8221; in the book, where a tighter page uses justified margins:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.4in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.4in;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Moving, variant ornithography of those uninitiated<br>
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made into memory by the me briefly incarnate. Full of myself on successive nights dense and alone sings<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>      </span><br>
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you back. Need keeps the book of dying open, the language common after all. Relieved, the task finally changing<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>prompts tapping my reserve<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>  </span><br>
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feeling, now, wise to its edge. Where are you risk any detail of what&#8217;s in me, having been tricked by the image of a man. Softly paint the intuit<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>     </span><br>
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applications under authority of breathing. I drive this <span class=GramE>one,</span> I get winded<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>  </span><br>
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calendar&#8217;s familiar, speed and abruption.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Actually, I can&#8217;t quite capture this in HTML since the Zasterle page uses mid-word hyphens to tighten the kerning even further. But you get the idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In the first three sections of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Whole Note, </i>Ott sculpts his phrases &#8211; they sometimes build into sentences, but more often sweep this way &amp; that, reaching a climax rather than a conclusion &#8211; from what he observed at the Headlands &#8211; kestrels appear &#8211; and his reading, which at that moment focused on Santeria &amp; <span class=SpellE>voo</span> <span class=SpellE>doo</span> (the one book he credits by name, in a footnote to a page in &#8220;3/4&#8221; is Louis Mars&#8217; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Crisis of Possession in Voodoo</i>). The fourth section, composed back in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Philadelphia</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, begins first by turning inward, away from landscape. Instead of birds, we get, literally, ornithography, a neologism that combines both birds &amp; moving, associating immanence (<span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>the me</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> briefly incarnate</i>) with <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>memory. </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Much of &#8220;4/4&#8221; brings together  issues implicit in the first three sections, as movement is contrasted with terms like <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>debility </i>and even <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Cripple. </i>A major concern, perceptible but not  tated, is whether one can accept unconditional love if one has issues with oneself. The argument makes perfect sense for a man who would have multiple kidney transplants in his life, every one of which eventually would fail. But a writer&#8217;s presence need not be reduced to or limited by the body, as true for Gil Ott as it was for Larry Eigner. The poem&#8217;s final page is about as close to pure closure as the post-avant Ott would allow himself: <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.4in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.4in;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Prone to the observance, a formal end only, blurred with or without morphine decides to live. I have made a mistake, a meandering <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>    </span><br>
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stasis, down a notch and starting over. Someone else&#8217;s<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>surgery pulled a knot out, left a man handled roughly <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>        </span><br>
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bumped and thrown what dirt brackets. Possessed of this violence, a plea remains. <span class=GramE>Fed on seed here, a small black bird <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>  </span><br>
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far and still admissible.</span> I will build a body of <span class=GramE>utterance, that</span> fooled me. The odor will stay, and I <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>       </span><br>
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will walk away. <span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I am aware, as I think everyone at the reading on Sunday must have <span class=GramE>been,</span> that Gil Ott is somebody who needs to have his big collected poems out, because there&#8217;s a marvel there that every reader I know could benefit from. <span class=GramE>This body of utterance stands tall &amp; strong.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#185; Pew recipients over the years include Linh Dinh, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Jena Osman, Lamont Steptoe, Bob Perelman, <span class=SpellE>Mytili</span> <span class=SpellE>Jagannathan</span>, Teresa Leo, Homer Jackson, Major Jackson, Molly <span class=SpellE>Russakoff</span> &amp; yours truly, a list that I think suggests that Ott was almost certain to have received a Pew at some point, if only he&#8217;d applied. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:right'><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Drawing of Gil Ott by Christopher Webster courtesy of </span></i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://artvoice.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Artvoice</span></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>.</i></span></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Sunday, June 3, </span></b><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="16"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>4:00 pm</span></b></st1:time><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Rained out by the Nor&#8217;easter on Tax Day, we&#8217;re gonna try this again because it&#8217;s worth doing right. Ken Rumble (</span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>North Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>) &amp; Rachel Blau DuPlessis (</span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Italy</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>) will have to join us in spirit this time around, but Linh Dinh has been added to the roster. This makes me especially happy since Gil is the person who first turned me onto Linh&#8217;s work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>So let me reiterate: more than any other individual, Gil Ott is the person responsible for the strength of the poetry community in </span><st1:city><st1:City><st1:place><span    style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Philadelphia</span></st1:place></st1:City></st1:city><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> over the past 30 years. His skills as a poet &amp; prose writer, as an editor, publisher &amp; arts administrator, as a community organizer, and as a friend, proved to be a unique combination. A small &#8220;d&#8221; democrat, Gil led by example, usually denying that he was doing anything other than just being himself. <u1:p></u1:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>One way to carry on Gil&#8217;s work and his name is to publish a work each year that demonstrates the same principles Gil worked so tirelessly for in life. <a href="http://mappemunde.typepad.com/"><span style='color:black'>Tim Peterson</span></a> is the recipient of the First Annual Gil Ott Book Award for his book <i><a href="http://www.chax.org/poets/peterson.htm"><span style='color:black'>Since I Moved In</span></a> </i>(Chax Press, 2007), selected by series editors Charles Alexander, Eli Goldblatt, Myung Mi Kim and Nathaniel Mackey. <u1:p></u1:p>It is, as I noted <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-was-i-believe-walter-benjamin-who.html"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a>, a great selection. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Alicia <span class=SpellE>Askenase</span><br>
Julia Blumenreich<br>
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Linh Dinh<br>
Ryan <span class=SpellE>Eckes</span><br>
Kristen Gallagher<br>
Eli Goldblatt<br>
Chris McCreary<br>
Jenn McCreary<br>
Bob Perelman<br>
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Frank Sherlock<br>
Ron Silliman<u1:p></u1:p></span></p>

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Click <a href="http://www.chax.org/poets/gallagher.htm"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Form of Our Uncertainty, </i>a festschrift for Gil.<br>
Click <a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Frequency.html#Ott"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for 2 audio clips from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Frequency, </i>including &#8220;The Moon Does Not Run on Gasoline&#8221;<br>
Click <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ott.html"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for audio from a tribute to Gil at Writers House.<br>
Click <a href="http://www.whyy.org/phlproject/gilbio.html"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for a video of Gil.<br>
Click <a href="http://banjopoets.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for Gil's last interview.<br>
Click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Ott"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> at WIKIPEDIA, they're looking for help creating Gil's page.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>More than any other individual, Gil Ott is the person responsible for the strength of the poetry community in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Philadelphia</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> over the past 30 years. His skills as a poet &amp; prose writer, as an editor, publisher &amp; arts administrator, and as a community organizer, proved to be a unique combination. A small &#8220;d&#8221; democrat, Gil led by example, usually denying that he was doing anything other than just being himself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://mappemunde.typepad.com/"><span style='color:black'>Tim Peterson</span></a> is the recipient of the First Annual Gil Ott Book Award for his book <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.chax.org/poets/peterson.htm"><span style='color:black'>Since I Moved In</span></a> </i>(Chax Press, 2007), selected by series editors Charles Alexander, Eli Goldblatt, Myung Mi Kim and Nathaniel Mackey. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Rachel Blau DuPlessis<br>
Ryan <span class=SpellE>Eckes</span><br>
Kristen Gallagher<br>
Eli Goldblatt<br>
Chris McCreary<br>
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Ken Rumble<br>
Joshua Schuster<br>
Frank Sherlock<br>
Ron Silliman<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Click <a href="http://banjopoets.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for Gil's last interview.<br>
Click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Ott"><span  style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> at WIKIPEDIA, they're looking for help creating Gil's page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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