========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:25:44 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: donna Subject: paint po vs. ekphrasis Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed stephen, what you are describing, poems that include text and image or images containing words, letters, text is usually known as visual poetry or vis-po if you must. see craig hills' site, scorecard, he is doing an issue on ekphrasis poetry. its a clunky word, i don't like it all and the two art forms feel very different to me. donna kuhn On Jul 31, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > > Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:51:32 -0700 > From: Stephen Vincent > Subject: Re: Poetry About Paintings > > I give in. I thought the question was aimed more at contemporary > practice i= > n > which the material of the poem is a mix of text and image - one > modifying o= > r > amplifying the vocabulary of the other. Instead of me trying to > come up wit= > h > a term, I suspect it best to ask practitioners - if not "Paint-Po" or > "Po-Paint" as to what they call their acts, if anything yet. (Of > course I > have never met a Language Poet who said what he or she practiced > was "Lang > Po" - as in "I do Lang Po.") > > In any case Ekphrasis is then term in which the poet uses the poem to > interpret or make drama of the painting. Done beautifully by many - > say WCW > with Brueghel. And very tediously by many others. Tedious or great, > I still > suspect it rare that a poet - unless in the context of a critical, > academi= > c > discussion - would use the word "Ekphrasis" as a working term. > Tho I could imagine an art school band calling itself the > "Ekphrasiacs" - > maybe! Or a drug able to produce beautiful combinations of words > and images > called "Ekprhasia." > > Stephen V > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 02:37:03 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Damian Judge Rollison Subject: Re: Poems about Paintings In-Reply-To: <20050801040228.6C69E1F531E@fork7.mail.virginia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Anybody with an interest in ekphrastic literature might enjoy taking a look at my mini-anthology, Painting with Words, where I've paired some ekphrastic works with images of the artworks that inspired them: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djr4r/anthology.html It's really just a little sampler, not a proper anthology, tho it may become one someday. Oh, and the poet Jan Theuninck recently sent me a link to a nice page of "Kunst en Gedichten" from the Netherlands: http://www.boekgrrls.nl/BgDiversen/Onderwerpen/gedichten_over_schilderijen.htm Damian Rollison ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 03:56:15 -0700 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Silliman's Blog Comments: To: Brit Po , Wom Po , Lucifer Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Mismatching the Merchant of Venice A nod to Alan Bramhall & Jeff Harrison (on the problem of direction in blogs) Happy 100th, Stanley Kunitz Jack Gilbert & Laura (Riding) Jackson: Separated at birth? Constructing the tale: Robert Duvall’s Assassination Tango Chicago Review: The one great college literary journal Will the real Christopher Middleton please stand up? Shadowtime: an opera on Walter Benjamin by Charles Bernstein & Brian Ferneyhough 400,000 visitors served – some lessons learned Looking back at a regional anthology 35 years later: 15 Young Poets of the SF Bay Area Harry Potter, Howard Pease & Freddy the Pig PIP goes local: Doug Messerli’s Southern California anthology Reading aloud 2 new CDs with Rod Smith & Robert Creeley – the value of the one-hour reading Editing 20th century American Poetry – How big is Big? http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 07:36:37 -0400 Reply-To: nudel-soho@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: blog... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 'bout sufferin' they were never wrong the Old Masters blog blog blog... mon. morn. QB...drn... ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:10:05 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: Poetry About Paintings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit text and image simply called visual poetry in many cases haiga in japanese ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:01:48 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: Poetry About Paintings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit gotcha ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:33:47 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mary Jo Malo Subject: Re: Poetry about paintings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I seem to recall that Joel Weishaus does it. Forest Park journal? Mary Jo ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:37:38 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Henry A. Lazer" Subject: Rosmarie Waldrop's Dissonance Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Announcing the newest volume in the series Modern and Contemporary Poetics edited by Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer DISSONANCE (if you are interested) Rosmarie Waldrop Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet,=20 translator, and critic. =E2=80=9CThis is a marvelous collection of essays and short pieces by one o= f=20 our very finest poets writing today. Among the poet-critics of her=20 generation, Waldrop is distinguished by the sheer range and depth of=20 her knowledge and experience as a translator of French and German=20 poetries. 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Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:53:15 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Barrett Watten Subject: Carla Harryman's *Mirror Play* in Detroit Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed You are cordially invited to a performance demonstration of Carla Harryman's *Mirror Play* Sunday, August 14, 3:00 PM Susanne Hilberry Gallery 700 Livernois (north of 8 Mile) Ferndale, Michigan The piece will be rehearsed for six days and presented as a performance demonstration with choral speaking voices and music. The performance is free and open to the public, as are open rehearsals on August 10, 11, 12, 13, from 10:30 to 1:30 PM at the gallery. www.performingobjects.com/mp ***** *Mirror Play* is a performance collaboration between San Francisco Bay Area and Metro Detroit musicians and performers, with music by Jon Olson (Wolf Eyes, Detroit) and Jon Raskin (Rova, San Francisco) on jaw harps, electronics, and saxophones; and performances by Abbas Bazzi, Mary Byrnes, Elana Elyce, Walonda Lewis (Detroit), and Roham Shaikhani (San Francisco). Directed by Jim Cave (San Francisco) in collaboration with Carla Harryman, Jon Raskin, John Olson and the ensemble, in consultation with Michael Peter (sound design, Detroit) and Danielle Aubert (visual design, Detroit). Both farce and lament, *Mirror Play* imagines that all of us can fit into one room and that we can all come and go from this room: the door is always open. In the environs of this sound and language experiment, the room mysteriously has been cut away from the rest of the house. Sometimes some of us wonder about or look for the rest of the house and find ourselves in a tomb . . . ***** Produced by Susanne Hilberry Gallery (http://www.susannehilberrygallery.com) and Carla Harryman, with support from The Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts (New York). For more information: www.performingobjects.com/mp or phone 248-541-4700. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:00:26 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: justin sirois Subject: instant political poem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit type "failure" into google and see what you get. http://www.narrowhouserecordings.com/ a record label primarily interested in contemporary writing, poetics and the political __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:16:44 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "St. Thomasino" Subject: ekphrasis poems Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed . My use of the term ekphrasis is not in reference to (or to any=20 specified) painting or sculpture or ut pictura poesis ("as is painting,=20= so is poetry") although I have written poems in that vein -- for=20 instance my "Traveling Circus" . http://www.styluspoetryjournal.com/main/master.asp?id=3D534 . which is after two paintings by Paul Klee (Traveling Circus and The=20 Ventriloquist -- the imagery in my poem is taken from these paintings)=20= -- rather, and as is my wont, I take the word in its most literal=20 sense, being "out of the phrase," and thus, "verbal description" or=20 "verbal depiction."=A0 My ekphrasis is cubist -- (tee) -- although=20 "Traveling Circus" is not, it's just an ekphrasis poem in the ordinary=20= sense. . Here are some cubist ekphrasis poems: http://webdelsol.com/5_trope/16/thomasino.htm http://www.mprsnd.org/04sep/thomasino.htm http://www.pettycoatrelaxer.com/gvst.html (tee) . Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino http://eratio.blogspot.com/ . =A0= ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:37:05 -0400 Reply-To: jUStin!katKO Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: jUStin!katKO Subject: Xerolage 35 | New Issue | Irving Weiss Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Xerolage 35 INFRAPICS by Irving Weiss http://www.xexoxial.org/xerolage/x35.html $6 postpaid, subscription: $20/4 24 pgs, 8.5x11 Backchannel for review copies. Free catalog with order. Send cash, check or money order to the address below.=20 Xexoxial Editions=20 10375 Cty Hway A La Farge, WI 54639 USA=20 - - -=20 INFRAPICS, Xerolage's 35th issue, presents twenty-five visual poems by Irving Weiss, a self-proclaimed "postmodern avant la lettre cultural composite." Weiss's verbo-visual INFRAPICS are a variety of textual and visual poems, detourned cartoons and drawings, each hemmed by a black frame. The resulting visuo-semantic spaces between content, frame, and title in these pieces calls for a close reading into Weiss's ideas on proximity. In "I/T" we see an imposing frame squeezing the title (or reckless content?) out of the poem at large, letter-by-letter. Another piece plays off the formal conventions of the crossword puzzle to engender for a title the list of Across/Down hints that correspond to the puzzle's empty content. Some of the INFRAPICS are pictographic puns and redundancies while others disorder the supposed purpose of framing and naming by placing both conventional title-language AND lettriste fragments in the space of the title-function via the blade of the frame's cutting. What emerges in reading Weiss's INFRAPICS is not merely language or images that emphasize their verbo-visuality but rather a bird's eye meta-visual, a theoretic play of schism-gap-and-presence, a seeming lightness that serves as transparency of depth. Check it out. - jUStin!katKO Dreamtime Village, July 2005 "Infrapics ultimately derive from the presentation of any image, icon, or text with identifying or explanatory words. Historically, the infrapic goes back to the emblem poem of the 16th century whose text referred to the picture above it. More immediately, the infrapic is my version of the modern single-panel cartoon or news photograph with legend (now called caption), quote, explanation, or identification below. I keep to the basic form of the single panel but the content or relation of content to form may be inverted, subverted or involuted. In addition, I consider the infrapic to be a visual poem in the way light verse or parody in verse is a poem." - Irving Weiss, introduction to INFRAPICS, Xerolage 35 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:49:43 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: paint po vs. ekphrasis In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit most say the first ekphrastic poem is not about a painting, but about a Greek shield there are many visual poems which are not mixes of painting and words, like my powerpoint poems in their page incarnation, "In Medias Res" in DaDaDa - there are loads of others, including David Byre's (later!) I love powerpoint... I imagine art school bands calling themselves "The Beatles" and "Talking Heads".... the visual OuLiPonians have all sorts of names while there are a great many visual artists using words as a medium - Claudine Dixon at the UCLA Hammer has curated quite a lot of them, but she's totally unaware of artists coming from the "words" side - something my long-discontinued reading series there was an attempt to cure; there is a "writerly" quality to many writers' visual art, and vice versa, but these qualities aren't generally well-named critically the "Legendary" section of Da3 has quite a few poems about female visual artists, and many of them are about individual artworks by those artists, although many are also collages of biographical and critical material as well All best, Catherine Daly cadaly@pacbell.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:37:39 GMT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "sueandjim5@juno.com" Subject: Re: Black Spring "Lawrence, Kansas" Issue Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Now available from theenk books the "Lawrence,Kansas" issue of Black Spring Magazine edited and published by Steve Tills. Poetics by Lawrence residents Ken Irby, John Moritz, Judith Roitman, Jonathan Mayhew, Caryn Goldberg, Monica Peck, Jim McCrary and Hawkman Critical essays on the above by: David Baptist-Chirot, Stephen Ellis, Robert Grenier, Maryrose Larkin, Susan Smith Nash, Dale Smith and Steve Tills. Illustrations by Lawrence resident and 'First Intensity' publisher Lee Chapman Order by mail by sending $8.00 to: Theenk Books 2048 Learnard Ave. Lawrence, Ks 66046 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:57:28 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: paint po vs. ekphrasis In-Reply-To: <007901c596b0$a30d5e60$6601a8c0@CADALY> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thanks for this, Catherine. (I think you mean, "David Byrne", right? He's got an interesting blog, too.) An interesting turn on the artist approach to the use of language in their work - versus poets such as yourself letting their work emerge and take form within the limits and possibilities of pictorial space(s) - is the work of Richard Tuttle. Which does nor use words as material at all for the most part, but - either as sculpture or drawing - is amazingly 'writerly.' I just saw his retrospective at San Francisco's MOMA yesterday and - if interested - my 'review' is posted up on my blog. Similar to Tuttle I think many improvisatory jazz musicians are often quite 'writerly' as well. I probably have neither the time nor the full critical smarts to say what distinguishes the character of marks (whether they be by artist or musician) that makes those marks 'writerly' and different from other kinds of artistic expression and/or objects given to structural design and/or use. Say in the way one looks at a Joseph Albers and does not associate it with scripture of any sort except its color and tone. Or a Noguchi sculpture. Where the work is essentially responding to the history and vocabulary of its own medium. Stephen V Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com > most say the first ekphrastic poem is not about a painting, but about a > Greek shield > > there are many visual poems which are not mixes of painting and words, > like my powerpoint poems in their page incarnation, "In Medias Res" in > DaDaDa - there are loads of others, including David Byre's (later!) I > love powerpoint... I imagine art school bands calling themselves "The > Beatles" and "Talking Heads".... > > the visual OuLiPonians have all sorts of names > > while there are a great many visual artists using words as a medium - > Claudine Dixon at the UCLA Hammer has curated quite a lot of them, but > she's totally unaware of artists coming from the "words" side - > something my long-discontinued reading series there was an attempt to > cure; there is a "writerly" quality to many writers' visual art, and > vice versa, but these qualities aren't generally well-named critically > > the "Legendary" section of Da3 has quite a few poems about female visual > artists, and many of them are about individual artworks by those > artists, although many are also collages of biographical and critical > material as well > > All best, > Catherine Daly > cadaly@pacbell.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:32:40 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joel Weishaus Subject: Rain Taxi Online Summer 2005 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2005summer/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:39:28 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harriet Zinnes Subject: Re: Rain Taxi Online Summer 2005 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Could not get a response from the Rain Taxi address above. Harriet Zinnes ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:40:50 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Hugh Steinberg Subject: Re: Poetry About Paintings In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I think ekphrasis is a very useful term, because it illuminates the problem of description/depiction -- how words create pictures and pictures create words, especially in how to communicate the beauty/meaning/presence etc. of what is seen to someone who isn't there to see it. Hugh Steinberg --- Stephen Vincent wrote: > I give in. I thought the question was aimed more at contemporary practice in > which the material of the poem is a mix of text and image - one modifying or > amplifying the vocabulary of the other. Instead of me trying to come up with > a term, I suspect it best to ask practitioners - if not "Paint-Po" or > "Po-Paint" as to what they call their acts, if anything yet. (Of course I > have never met a Language Poet who said what he or she practiced was "Lang > Po" - as in "I do Lang Po.") > > In any case Ekphrasis is then term in which the poet uses the poem to > interpret or make drama of the painting. Done beautifully by many - say WCW > with Brueghel. And very tediously by many others. Tedious or great, I still > suspect it rare that a poet - unless in the context of a critical, academic > discussion - would use the word "Ekphrasis" as a working term. > Tho I could imagine an art school band calling itself the "Ekphrasiacs" - > maybe! Or a drug able to produce beautiful combinations of words and images > called "Ekprhasia." > > Stephen V > > > > > > It is my understanding that ekphrastic poetry is > > poetry written in response or in relation to works of > > visual art. Seems highly appropriate to the original > > query. > > > > Sure, we could invent nomenclature to be more > > specific, to talk about poets who aren't moved by > > sculpture (right, Ron?): but if you think you're gonna > > catch me running around and telling people that anyone > > is into "po-paint," well you're just as likely to hear > > me calling myself post-post-lyric. > > > > In the end it's all taxonomy, and like taxidermy, it > > ends up lacking meat. > > > > -jeremy > > > > > > --- Stephen Vincent wrote: > > > >>> ekphrasis is the term you want, I think. > >> > >> Who can say "poetry-painting & ekphrasis' in the > >> same breath? > >> Can't we come up with a quickie, like "Paint-Po" or > >> "Po-Paint" - as > >> "He/she's into Paint-Po" or "Po-Paint"?? > >> > >> I suspect it's important to separate poems 'about' > >> paintings from poems and > >> graphic work in which the two mediums are implicitly > >> or seamlessly of one > >> another. > >> > >> Stephen V > >> Triggers, my poetry ebook from Shearsman Books is > >> at: > >> > > http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/ebooks/ebooks_home.html > >> > > > > > > ____________________________________________ > > > > The essence of the genius of our race, is, in our opinion, > > the reconciliation it effects between the base > > and the beautiful, recognising that they are complementary > > and indispensable to each other. > > > > - Hugh MacDiarmid > > ____________________________________________ > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:43:42 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Derek White Subject: Sleepingfish sneak peak MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Issue 0.75 of Sleepingfish has been all wrapped up and sent to the printers, and is due back in a few weeks. In the meantime, I have put some of the stuff online, including some web-only features and galleries: http://www.sleepingfish.net/075/075_pre.htm enjoy, Derek White www.calamaripress.com www.sleepingfish.net www.5cense.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:10:53 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: lisa jarnot Subject: looking for rare Robert Duncan recording Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dear Poetics List People, I am looking for a recording of the 1978 Robert Duncan/Barrett Watten discussion of Louis Zukofsky in San Francisco. If anyone has a copy of this recording, please email me at jarnot@earthlink.net Thanks, Lisa Jarnot ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 23:08:32 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Cheney Threatens McCain's Balls Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ Cheney Threatens McCain's Balls: Bush Demands He be Called 'Der Furor': White House Aims to Block Legislation Legalizing Torture, Refuses to Share Power With Anyone: Warner Practicing KowTows in the Halls of Congress: By JOSH BOSH & R. JEFFREY FRAGGER ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:28:52 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Sheila Murphy Subject: from Peter Ganick MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The deadline for submission of manuscripts for small chapbooks project's second set of chap- books is postmarked by sept 1, 2005. there are still some openings. all submissions must be on paper. page size will be 5.5" x 8.5", between 24 and 40 pages. more than one text can be submitted, if you have any questions, please write me at: pote2poet@mindspring.com . acceptances and rejections will be sent out around sept 15, 2005. looking forward..... peter ganick small chapbook series 181 edgemont avenue west hartford cd 06110-1005 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:30:43 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jesse Glass Subject: Updates to Jesse Glass site at Sonoloco Reviews MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A Review of the Selected Poems CD, plus visual poetry and conceptual pieces up at http://www.home.swipnet.se/sonoloco18/glass/glass.html If that doesn't get you there, google "Jesse Glass Sonoloco reviews" and click news. Also, a note on Giordano Bruno at http://www.sendecki.com/ahadada/ Jess ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 00:44:14 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Barrett Watten Subject: Tape request Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Me, too. I'd be very interested to hear from anyone with a copy of this tape, or its transcription, since if it exists it was taken from the SF State Poetry Archive and circulated without either my or Duncan's permission. Barrett Watten ***** Dear Poetics List People, I am looking for a recording of the 1978 Robert Duncan/Barrett Watten discussion of Louis Zukofsky in San Francisco. If anyone has a copy of this recording, please email me at jarnot@earthlink.net Thanks, Lisa Jarnot ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 00:55:21 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: ALDON L NIELSEN Subject: Re: Lorenzo Thomas recordings? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain could anyone who has any audio or video recordings of Lorenzo Thomas please contact me backchannel -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Breaking in bright Orthography . . ." --Emily Dickinson Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature The Pennsylvania State University 116 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:43:47 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jesse Glass Subject: Dan Raphael MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hey Dan, Please back-channel me if you're out there. Jess ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:35:03 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Magee Subject: review of my EMANCIPATING PRAGMATISM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey y'all, There's a new review of my book _Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz and Experimental Writing_ up on the VERSE website: http://versemag.blogspot.com/ Thanks to Rodney for the kindnesses... Mike ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:08:21 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Skinner Subject: Ekphrasis Comments: To: "UB Poetics discussion group "@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Perhaps one of the greatest "ekphrastic" poems has to be Neruda's Canto General which--as Hugo Mendez-Ramirez competently argues, in the (amply illustrated) Neruda's Ekphrastic Experience: Mural Art and Canto General--can be read as inspired by and modeled after the midcentury work of the great Mexican muralists (Rivera, Siquieros, Orozco). It is a big mural of the Americas . . . in words. JS ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:13:04 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: PUB: call for submissions--partner abuse magazine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>PUB: call for submissions--partner abuse magazine ============================================== Call For Submissions: Partner Abuse in Activist Communities Zine Have you experienced partner abuse/ domestic violence within an activist community? Want to break the silence and change our communities forever? The Revolution Starts At Home Collective is creating a zine to break the long-held silence about partner abuse in activist communities, building on the groundbreaking work of INCITE/ Women of Color Against Violence. We are a collective of Asian and South Asian activists and writers, women and genderqueer, who believe that it's time to create communities that are true safe zones, where abusers are held accountable and survivors can live without fear. Many conscious folks believe that abuse "doesn't happen here", that people who are fighting oppression just don't hit their partners. But unfortunately, abusers do live and work inside our communities. Even more unfortunately, too many times survivors aren't believed or listened to, and are left to struggle on our own to figure out how to be safe, especially when we feel that going to the cops isn't an option. >From prison justice to trans/genderqueer circles, from hiphop / spoken word scenes to queer women of color land to disability culture: what have your experiences been like? Were you able to successfully kick an abuser out of your group? Was your abusive girlfriend's best friend working on the DV hotline? Did your anti-police brutality group fear retaliation if you went to the cops? Was the "healing circle" a bunch of bullshit? We want to hear about what worked and what didn't, what you learned, what you wish folks had done, what you never want to have happen again. We want to hear about folks' experiences confronting abusers, both by using the cops and courts and by using methods outside the criminal justice system. We want to hear from everyone, but we are prioritizing the stories of people of color and Native folks, queer and trans folks, disabled folks, and stories from many generations. Please send submissions and a short bio both attached and cut and pasted to revolutionathome@riseup.net by October 15, 2005. Writing, poems, visual artwork, sticker designs and stencils are welcome. Please include contact info: name, email and print address. We promise your words will be held in confidence. Anonymous contributions and those using a pseudonym are fine, but please include a name we can reach you under. Both survivors and supporters are welcome to contribute. Peace, The Revolution Starts At Home Collective: Ching-In Chen Dulani Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Sham-e-Ali al-Jamil ############################################# this is e-drum, a listserv providing information of interests to black writers and diverse supporters worldwide. e-drum is moderated by kalamu ya salaam (kalamu@aol.com). ---------------------------------- to subscribe to e-drum send a blank email to: e-drum-subscribe@topica.com Stay Strong\ \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" \ --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as)\ \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation."\ --patrick o'neil\ \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drumbeat-weekend_edition/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 14:17:54 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Re: new CHICAGO REVIEW In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20050728103109.021923e0@pop.uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Josh Email me if you can Regards Ray Bianchi -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Kotin Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:11 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: new CHICAGO REVIEW Importance: High Dear Poetics List --- Elated to announce the publication of Chicago Review 51:1-2 --- Christopher Middleton: Portraits --- The issue includes a special feature on CM along with: POEMS by Gustaf Sobin, Alice Notley, Philip Jenks, Elizabeth Willis, Sarah Mangold, John Wilkinson, Christopher Dewdney, Kevin Connolly, Keston Sutherland, Daniel Borzutzky, Landis Everson, John Kinsella, Danielle Pafunda, Camille Martin, J.S.A. Lowe, Jen Lamb, Tim Earley, Gregory Fraser FICTION by Lisa Jarnot an INTERVIEW with Camille Guthrie (by Eric P. Elshtain) assorted ESSAYS & REVIEWS Please visit our website for information on the issue (and for a preview of forthcoming material --- as well as secure online ordering): http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/ And visit Silliman's Blog for a review of the issue: http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ * * * * As a special offer to list members, we're offering a FREE book from FLOOD EDITIONS with the purchase of a subscription for two-years (or more). Two-year subscriptions start at $32 --- please visit our website to order --- and note your book of choice in the notes / instructions field on the online order form. The books on offer are below --- offer expires August 15th. * * * * new BOOKS from FLOOD EDITIONS [http://www.floodeditions.com/] Merrill Gilfillan, Undanceable With exuberance and economy, Merrill Gilfillan's Undanceable evokes the landscape of the American West through the geographic word. Place names, the texture of speech, and a certain aroma of nature permeate these pages. Ever alert to unforeseen connections, Gilfillan follows both eye and ear, his poems unfolding at the pace of consciousness. A faint breeze in the old swallow dens. A man mounts a mare. And the roughlegs, maculate riders, imperial boreal tilt and tack, wiser than owls, drift disdainfully south. -- Ronald Johnson, Radi os First published in 1977, Ronald Johnson's Radi os revises the first four books of Paradise Lost by excising words, discovering a modern and visionary poem within the seventeenth-century text. As the author explains, "To etch is 'to cut away,' and each page, as in Blake's concept of a book, is a single picture." With God and Satan crossed out, Radi os reduces Milton's Baroque poem to elemental forces. In this retelling of the Fall, song precipitates from chaos, sight from fire: "in the shape / as of / above the / rose / through / rose / rising / the radiant sun." In his afterword, Guy Davenport comments: "Radi os is a meditation, first of all, on grace. It finds in Milton's poems those clusters of words which were originally a molecular intuition of the complex harmony of nature whereby eyesight loops back to its source in the sun, the earth, the tree, our cousin animals, the spiralling galaxies, and mysteriously to the inhuman black of empty space." -- Jennifer Moxley, Often Capital First published as two separate chapbooks in 1995 and 1996, Often Capital explores the tensions between political commitment and personal desire. Moxley draws in part on the love letters of the Polish radical Rosa Luxemburg in searching out a habitable space for resistance. As she writes in an afterword to this volume, "In my researches I mistook my title, Often Capital - a banal dictionary designation - as a description of, to use William Godwin's phrase, 'things as they are.' Yes, often capital I thought, but thankfully not always." Moxley employs techniques of collage and juxtaposition as well as narration to sound her subject. Yet the lean, sonorous lines that result leap out of any categorical dichotomies: "our imagined finish line / is the end of reason, the irresistible tantalization / of presence, lips pressed together open / to eat..." * * * * Yours, Josh Kotin Editor CHICAGO REVIEW 5801 South Kenwood Avenue Chicago IL 60637 http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:52:30 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Field Press of Chicago Comments: cc: ray@fieldpress.org In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20050728103109.021923e0@pop.uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Buffalo Listers; As many of you may know William Allegrezza and I have launched a new press; The Field Press of Chicago, and we are doing two books for 2006. 1) Heartland Prize: For a first or second book of poetry that is innovative and is produced by a poet from the Midwest or South. 2) Field Press Translation Prize: For a book of poetry in translation by a poet who is not well known in the United States, 2005-6 focus language is ITALIAN and the prize will be be judged by Jennifer Scappettone. We are in the process of doing a mailing for submissions and we would like to send our information including a poster and contest details to MFA programs, Literary Organizations, Poetry Groups and other interested parties. If you are interested in getting our material please send me your physical address via email and I will add you to our list. Regards Raymond L Bianchi, Publisher William Allegrezza, Editor in Chief ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:57:49 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: furniture_ press Subject: Re: Field Press of Chicago Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Field Press: Send requests to MA programs also! Yours, Christophe Casamassima ----- Original Message ----- From: "Haas Bianchi" To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Field Press of Chicago Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:52:30 -0500 >=20 > Dear Buffalo Listers; >=20 > As many of you may know William Allegrezza and I have launched a new pres= s; > The Field Press of Chicago, and we are doing two books for 2006. >=20 > 1) Heartland Prize: For a first or second book of poetry that is innovati= ve > and is produced by a poet from the Midwest or South. >=20 > 2) Field Press Translation Prize: For a book of poetry in translation by a > poet who is not well known in the United States, 2005-6 focus language is > ITALIAN and the prize will be be judged by Jennifer Scappettone. >=20 > We are in the process of doing a mailing for submissions and we would like > to send our information including a poster and contest details to MFA > programs, Literary Organizations, Poetry Groups and other interested > parties. If you are interested in getting our material please send me your > physical address via email and I will add you to our list. >=20 > Regards >=20 > Raymond L Bianchi, Publisher > William Allegrezza, Editor in Chief www.towson.edu/~cacasama/furniture/poae baltimorereads.blogspot.com zillionpoems.blogspot.com --=20 _______________________________________________ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Check out our value-added Premium features, such as a 1 GB mailbox for just= US$9.95 per year! Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:27:29 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Bush Finds A Crowd As Ignorant As He Is At Boy Scout Jamboree Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ At Last, Bush Finds A Crowd As Ignorant As He Is At Boy Scout Jamboree: Army, Marine Recruiters Sign Up 18,000 Scouts: Large Pool Of Sexually Abused Boys In Short Pants Tapped For Military Service: Site Of Scout Jamboree Is Military Base Declared A Toxic Waste Dump: Lesions Blamed On Sun, Lack Of Ozone: 16,000 Scouts And 97% Of Scout Masters Test Postive For AIDS; Intravenous Drug Use Epidemic Among Scouts: President's Unholy Visit to Va. Event Was Delayed Twice By Fear Of Infecting More Scouts. By Komma Toes They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical, whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house. One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:47:16 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jane Sprague Subject: TRY LISTEN: Political Cactus Poems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Poetics List, Peek inside the book and sample the sounds of Jonathan Skinner's = Political Cactus Poems at www.palmpress.org and then buy the book! From the website: "Little Dictionary of Sounds: poems written as echoes = to recorded sounds, embedded as media (QuickTime) files in this PDF. = Open in Acrobat 6 and click on the title of each poem to hear the = echoing sound." It's fun.=20 Here's what Robert Grenier had to say about the experience: "This is Very Good (that's WHY I used it when I taught at Mills, his = Little Dictionary Of Sounds--I played the Tape Of The Sounds & GAVE THEM = THE POEMS he had written!--I didn't have to TEACH!!) -- 'VOCABULARY' + = 'STUDY' (somehow) Evidences THE WORLD AT LARGE in ManyWritten = Poems--BRAVO!!" If you're interested in receiving review copies, please write to us at = presspalm@hotmail.org Enjoy! (And feel free to forward this invitation far and wide.) Palm Press ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:31:38 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ward Tietz Subject: Re: Ekphrasis Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I spent some time thinking about ekphrasis a few years back and have remained ambivalent about it ever since. I=B9m glad to hear that Crag Hill and others are attempting to recast it. An important feature of ekphrasis over the centuries has been the way it=B9s allowed the so-called visual and verbal arts to be compared and, consequently, valued for their different, but supposedly complementary capabilities. This seems benign until you consider a secondary effect of such comparisons: a reinforcement of the categories and hierarchies of art that have largely been in place since the Renaissance. Ekphrasis allows Lessing to argue in Laokoon, for example, that "poetry equals art in the description of beauty in an [...] important way: it transforms beauty into attraction. Attraction is beauty in motion [...]. The painter can leave movement only guessed at; indeed his figures are without movement [...]. But in poetry, it remains what it is: a transitory beauty that we want to see repeated. It comes and goes; and there we can b= e reminded of movement all the more easily and with more liveliness than bare forms or colors: so attraction must put us in touch with the same condition= s more strongly than beauty." This argument benefits poetry, since it argues for poetry=B9s superiority ove= r other arts, but I think it also arrests poetry=B9s development. It suggests that poetry should stick to what it does well and not venture into "beauty" or the domains of other aesthetic categories. If you think that poetry should be given a wider reign, it=B9s not clear that ekphrasis, as the term has traditionally been used, advances the cause of poetry. If ekphrasis becomes a synonym for a type of visual poetry, the problem=B9s solved. Ward Tietz ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 21:06:43 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Penton Subject: calls for submissions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 1. BigBridge.org is seeking to greatly expand its Little Mag section, which discusses and promotes small-press magazines, journals, and zines of interest. If you have a magazine, journal or zine currently in print, and would like to be featured, please send a sample copy to me for review. P. O. Box 343, El Paso, TX 79943. We are interested in publications that present new literary or visual art. And if you haven't checked out Michael Rothenberg's BigBridge.org, now would be a great time. 2. UnlikelyStories.org will soon run a special South African issue, guest edited by David Chislett. We're looking for films, music, visual art, poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry by South Africans. We're also looking for essays on South African art, culture, and politics (including reviews) from writers of any nationality. Please send submissions to David at david@dcpm.co.za by October 31st. 3. UnlikelyStories.org is looking for guest reviews of the following three publications: a. "Eight Poets," a spoken word CD featuring eight English poets and produced by Tony Lamb (a.k.a. A. R. Lamb). Please query me for a copy. b. "In the Criminal's Cabinet," the anthology of poetry from NthPosition.com. Please query me for a copy. c. "My Rosy Cross Father," by Robert Sward. This is the first in a series of Internet chapbooks from Blue Beau Presents, and utilizes multimedia aspects of the web. It can be viewed at http://members.cruzio.com/~jjwebb. The reviewer should be familiar with screen resolution and browsers, and mention how the chapbook works in a variety of computer settings. Yours, -- Jonathan Penton Assistant Editor, http://www.bigbridge.org Editor, http://www.unlikelystories.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 16:12:40 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: big brother is being watched Comments: cc: s.stockwell@griffth.edu.au, k.ferres@griffith.edu.au In-Reply-To: <000001c5957c$5291d720$8e00a8c0@qld.bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit An audio essay, rhetoric lives! http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/Staff/Komninos/perspective/bb.html komninos komninos zervos lecturer, convenor of CyberStudies major School of Arts Griffith University Room 3.25 Multimedia Building G23 Gold Coast Campus Parkwood PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre Queensland 9726 Australia Phone 07 5552 8872 Fax 07 5552 8141 homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.9/62 - Release Date: 2/08/05 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:18:34 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Penton Subject: just a shining artifact of the past MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Now appearing at UnlikelyStories.org: Installment one of "My Daughter's Vagina:" Richard Jeffrey Newman's four-part analysis of the gender gap Phil Rockstroh on The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health "Narcissism in the Boardroom" by Sam Vaknin three illustrated flash fiction pieces by Cecelia Chapman more fiction by Carol Novack, Tony Nesca, Tala Bar, Stephan Rose, and Peter Magliocco Charles P. Ries reviews "This Junkyard Heaven" by Peter Magliocco fresh poetry by Skip Fox, Lyn Lifshin, Maurice Oliver, Shane Allison, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Ronan Barbour, J.A. Spahr-Summers, Paul Kavanagh, and Joja and A Sardine on Vacation, Episode Twenty-Nine Take one last look at this sacred heart before it blows, -- Jonathan Penton http://www.unlikelystories.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 23:35:42 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Interactive Futures, Victoria Canada, Jan 26 - Jan 29 2006: AUDIO VISIONS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit INTERACTIVE FUTURES 06: Audio Visions Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival - http://www.vifvf.com Co-sponsored by Open Space Artist-Run Centre - http://www.openspace.ca Parallel event – Digital Art Weeks, Summer 2006, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/Group/Front Conference hotel - Laurel Point Inn - http://www.laurelpoint.com Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Thurs Jan. 26 - Sun. Jan. 29, 2006. CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, PERFORMANCES, & INSTALLATIONS INTERACTIVE FUTURES is a forum for showing recent tendencies in new media art as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology. The theme of this year's event is Audio Visions. IF06 will explore new forms of audio-based media art from a diverse body of artists, theorists, and sound practitioners. Sound poetry, web-based audio and multimedia, mobile audio performance, new forms of music theatre, synaesthetic performance, hybrid forms, sound-based installation, video and sound, and environmental sound are all of interest to Audio Visions. The proliferation of audio technologies, audio-visual collaboration, and hybrid forms of live performance in the new millennium is striking. Audio artists are exploring the areas of mobility, virtuality, performance, and audience interaction from an experimental point-of-view. Audio Visions invites scholars, sound-artists, and performers of all stripes to submit paper, panel, performance or installation proposals in one of the three following categories. 1. "Sound and Vision" lecture and panel series - Scholars, artists, and practitioners working in audio or audio-visual-based new media are encouraged to submit proposals for IF06. We are interested in a broad range of audio including: computational, interactive or generative audio; the creation of digital audio tools; synchronization between sound and visuals; performative art that explores language, voice and body; streaming radio and mobile sound works. Presentations should be, in part, demonstrative. We recognize that sound art is evolving and that categories have become increasingly irrelevant - we encourage proposals that push the boundaries of the traditional conference paper. 2. "Earshot" performance series – "Earshot" is seeking experimental audio-based performances that challenge assumptions about audio forms and performance conventions. Avant-garde, post-avant-garde, techno, electro-acoustic, synaesthetic production, liminal art and hybrid performance are all within our desired range. "Earshot" is primarily interested in new types of electronic audio-visual performance as well as models for audience participation in sound works. "Earshot" will run performances at Open Space for each night of IF06. 3. "Tangible Frequencies" installations – We are interested in audio installation works that consider site, space, vision, volume and perception and how physical location 'matters' to the reception of audio frequencies. IF06 has identified areas within Open Space Gallery to function as controlled locations for sound installations.* We welcome proposals that respond to the particular characteristics of these locations through their acknowledgement of private and/or public space and use. Installations may provide audio continuity to the existing locations, or respond as intervention and critique. INTERACTIVE FUTURES is part of the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival and applicants are encouraged to check the Festival website for more information on the broader program. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS / ARTISTS • Greg Hermanovic of Derivative software is a visionary software-engineer involved in the creation of real-time visual tools. In 2003 he received an Academy Award for the pioneering of modeling in the film industry with PRISMS and Houdini. Greg coordinated the realtime animation at SIGGRAPH 98's Interactive Dance Club, and directed special effects for Michael Snow's Corpus Callosum. Derivative’s Touch software, a range of tactile interfaces, brings advanced realtime animation tools to a diverse cross-section of artists, including Richie Hawtin and Rush. Greg will perform live visuals with Toronto-based DJ Tom Kuo. • Tom Kuo uses a grounding in techno to pursue a varied range of precise electronic strains. Tom was recently named one of Toronto’s Top Ten DJs by NOW magazine. • Atau Tanaka is known for his work in interactive music, including performances with biosignal gesture systems. He has conducted research at IRCAM in Paris and was Artistic Ambassador of Apple Computer Europe. His work with sensor-based musical instruments and network audio installations have received prizes and support from Ars Electronica, the Fraunhofer Institute, the Japan Foundation, and the Daniel Langlois Foundation. His current research at Sony CSL Paris focuses on harnessing collective musical creativity on mobile devices. • Jürg Gutknecht is a computer scientist with a passion for new hybrid art forms. He has actively participated in culturally-oriented "wearable computing" projects, including "Instant Gain in Grace" (motion tracking of a Butoh dancer), "Going Publik" (distributed orchestra based on mobile electronic scoring), and "On the Sixth Day" (multi-channel video system for interactive storytelling). Together with Sound Artist, Art Clay, he organizes the Digital Art Weeks which offers performances and provides courses in the areas of computer-aided art and music. • Art Clay is a specialist in the performance of self-created works with the use of inter-media, and has appeared at international festivals. Recently, his work has focused on large-scale performative music-theater works and public art spectacles using mobile devices. • Jim Andrews publishes www.vispo.com . It is the centre of his work as a visual poet, audio artist, programmer, and critic. His work in interactive audio and word-based web media has been published and shown widely in such venues as turbulence.org, rhizome.org, and the trAce Online Writing Centre. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES INTERACTIVE FUTURES is interested in artistic and theoretical work that relates to audio performance, production and hybrid forms. • Papers, Panels, and Presentations can include DVDs, audio CDs, video tapes, games, web-sites, etc. and should be 45-minutes in length. • Proposed artwork for exhibition may take the form of performances ("Earshot"), installations ("Tangible Frequencies"), or audio-related screenings ("Earshot" or "Tangible Frequencies"). • Applications should not exceed 500 words. Applicants should indicate one of the three festival categories in the subject of the message. Please include a 200 word max bio. • All proposals must be submitted in text only format either as an attachment or within the body of the email message. • Please present examples of your work as a URL to a web-site. • If your presentation requires specific technologies please describe your needs in detail. Proposals should be submitted electronically to ONE of the following persons: • "Sound and Vision" lecture and panel series - Randy Adams runran@runran.net • "Earshot" performance series - Steve Gibson sgibson@finearts.uvic.ca • "Tangible Frequencies" installations - Julie Andreyev lic@telus.net * SPECIAL NOTE FOR INSTALLATION ARTISTS APPLYING TO “TANGIBLE FREQUENCIES”: Open Space has the following areas available to install sound installations: • Parallel gallery (opens onto the street) • Bathrooms (2) • Back Stairs (opens onto the back alley) • Main gallery (low volume or headphones only) A floor plan for Open Space can be downloaded at http://www.openspace.ca/img/floorplan.pdf Please indicate a preference for one of the above areas in your proposal. Artists should keep in mind that Open Space is a shared space and therefore low volume will be required. Other venues may be organized by special arrangement if louder volume is required. FUNDING INTERACTIVE FUTURES does not have funding for travel or accommodation. Presenters and artists are expected to apply for travel funding from their home institutions and/or granting bodies. INTERACTIVE FUTURES is applying for funding for performance and installation artists exhibiting at Open Space. If this funding is obtained, performance and installation artists will receive a modest fee according to CARFAC (http://www.carfac.ca ) regulations. All presenters and artists will be given a pass to all INTERACTIVE FUTURES events and will have access to the “Hospitality Suite” at the Festival hotel (food and drinks). All presenters and artists will be eligible for the conference rate at Festival Hotels (between $40-110 per night). DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: Friday, September 23, 2005. Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before October 7, 2005. EQUIPMENT ACCESS Laurel Point Inn – Presentations The following equipment will be made available for all presenters: • Mac computer with Monitor, keyboard, DVD/CD-ROM drive. • Data/Video Projector. • VHS Player. • Sound system with amp and two speakers. • Wireless high-speed internet access. Open Space – Performances and Installations The following equipment is available for artists at Open Space. Artists should be aware that equipment will have to be shared and therefore should not propose to use all of the below devices simultaneously. Installations and performances should be easy to set-up and take down. Wherever possible artists should apply their own technology. • 2 Data/Video Projectors. • VHS Player. • DVD Player. • 3-4 Macintosh computers. • Sound system with amp, 16-channel mixing board, mics, and four speakers. • Cable modem internet connection. For a full list of resources available at Open Space go to: http://www.openspace.ca/space/resources.htm CONTACTS: Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival Director: Kathy Kay director@vifvf.com INTERACTIVE FUTURES Co-Curators: Steve Gibson sgibson@finearts.uvic.ca Julie Andreyev lic@telus.net INTERACTIVE FUTURES Paper Editor: Randy Adams runran@runran.net OPEN SPACE New Music: Tina Pearson newmusic@openspace.ca Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival: Mailing Address - PO Box 8419, Victoria, BC, V8W3S1, Canada. Office Address - 808 View Street, Victoria, BC, V8W1K2, Canada. Tel: (250)389.0444. Fax: (250)389.0406. E mail: festival@vifvf.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 05:34:19 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis LaCook Subject: colic_blossum Comments: cc: amy , Mindy Bender , Kathryn Dean-Dielman , Michael Kapalin , Mary Kay , mary kay , karen lemley , netbehaviour , rhizome , Tom Suhar , Matt Suleski , matt swarthout , webartery , wryting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Colic Blossum http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/colic_blossum/ Quick Time, 500kb *************************************************************************** No More Movements... Lewis LaCook -->Poet-Programmer|||http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/||| ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:39:18 -0400 Reply-To: Martha Deed Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Martha Deed Subject: Big Bridge is down MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I enjoy Big Bridge very much and hadn't visited for awhile. When I did -- both yesterday and today -- I found this message: "This site has been administratively suspended." I hope someone can get this fixed soon. Martha Deed ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:58:09 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kristen Gallagher Subject: Hello Fellow Worker Writers! In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FOR: Writers both in and out of the academy FROM: Kristen Gallagher and Tim Shaner, former editors of _Rust Talks_ in= =20 Buffalo, NY WHAT: Low-budget mag made very regularly out of materials "acquired"=20 entirely from workplace. DUE: September 15, 2005 (but continuing on for as long as we can gather= =20 materials, hoping eventually to make a nice yearbook based on the results=20 of the gathering of these materials. Here is the call for our New Magazine WIG: PLEASE SEND WORK! _________________________________________________________ W A N T E D : Do you write on the job? Are you worried about getting caught? Does your worry about get- ting caught affect the form of your writing? Does your job affect your poetry=92s content? Has poetry, on your job, influenced your job, your coworkers, or even your field? Have you used your poetic sense to imple- ment changes in the workplace, labor rel- ations, etc.? Have you ever chosen a job be- cause you knew you would get good poetry out of it? Would you consider employing your present job for a poetic good? In 1930, in the New Masses, Michael Gold proposed the following: "...that every writer in the group attach himself to one of the=20 industries. That he spend the next few years in and out of this industry,= =20 studying it from every angle, making himself an expert in it, so that when= =20 he writes of it he will write like an insider, not like a bourgeois=20 intellectual observer." Though we have no proposed =93group=94 in mind, nor any fixed idea what this= =20 project might yield, we find Gold=92s basic idea as compelling today as it= =20 must have been then. Rather than necessarily =93studying=94 work, however,= we=20 encourage poets to re-appropriate work as an engine of poetic=20 in(ter)vention. We are not necessarily motivating people toward any=20 particular political end (though we don=92t, of course, rule that out); nor= =20 do we ask poets to address work necessarily in a Marxian framework, if=20 perchance you should have other inclinations. We simply hope to =93exploit,= =94=20 or rather mobilize, the poetic labor of what Gold terms insiders. Is it=20 time to think of our selves as secret agents? We are happy to let you=20 decide for yourself the form your assignment takes. WANTED, Have you considered working as a collections agent at, say, the Harry Fox Agency, busting kids & rappers for fair use of music samples? Are you interested in doing poetic research on the music industry as it fights to cling to its money-base as (ostensibly) a bunch of teenagers work to circumvent their efforts? Do you believe one is implicated in the larger, indirect, moral and ethi- cal effects of what one does for a living? Can poetic intervention sub- vert that? In Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market, Pierre Bourdieu,= =20 speaking of what he calls =93the insecurity-inducing strategies=94 of=20 transnational corporations, argues that we must reframe our demands=20 regarding labor. We must =93break away from the logic of past struggles,=94= he=20 writes, =93which, being based on the demand for work and for better pay for= =20 work, trap [us] within work and within the exploitation (or flexploitation)= =20 which accompanies it=94 (86). Darwin believed flexibility in the face of=20 chance and constant change was the key to survival. How can we, through=20 poetic actions, bend the laboring society to our own needs, so that we=20 survive not only as poets but as citizens? How can poetry help us rethink= =20 work=92s place in our society and our lives? During the 1930s, writers like Gold made an effort to put poetry and the=20 workplace in dialogue. We often hear comparisons made today between the=20 presidency of Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush. Not since Hoover has a=20 president had a worse job creation record. How might we translate Gold=92s= =20 revolutionary ambitions to our current postindustrial, panoptic milieu? Can= =20 the formal inventiveness of poetry help us re-think work? We find=20 antecedents in the writings of Williams and Stevens, Reznikoff and=20 Niedecker, and more recently Kit Robinson, Rodrigo Toscano, and Juliana=20 Spahr, to name but a few. As poets, how do we respond at the daily level=20 to the globalization of what Hannah Arendt calls =93the laboring society=94? Wanted, Operations. Are you plugged into a system that works on your brain all day as if you are typing and re- sponding to the same codes over and over? Do you some-times feel as if your job is nothing but "filling out forms"? How does this effect the wiring of your brain? How does this effect your writing? Can making non-sense words out of the codes exercise the brain in opposition to fixity? If you have ex- perienced relief through non-sense, please call. Another venue where the worker-writer faces many challenges, making open=20 poetic interventions to the assumed work-place discourse every day, is in=20 Academic English Departments! Ever since Plato kicked the worker-writers=20 out of the city, contemporary writers have faced a range of difficulties in= =20 attempting to employ their historically well-honed abilities to=20 teach. When Plato said =93Poets have ideas like an aviary has birds,=94 he= =20 wasn=92t putting down their poetry; he was attempting to discredit them in= =20 their positions as instructors. Before Plato, all poets were teachers; it= =20 was their role and it was revered. More than that, poets had recognized=20 authority to weave traditional, familiar pieces of the community=92s= language=20 with events and questions of the contemporary. This made poets not merely= =20 transmitters of tradition, but powerful analysts of the=20 contemporary. Plato tried to end the authority of the contemporary. These Platonic forms of writing, like taking the same photograph over and=20 over in homage of the first photograph, make all other images of writing=20 =93outside=94 (see: outskirts of republic). All language becomes=20 argument. One example of this is found regularly in worker-writers trying= =20 to get published in =93juried journals.=94 =93Juried journals=94 refers to= a major=20 obstacle in landing adequate compensation for teaching. As a=20 worker-writer, have you submitted to juried journals? If you have been=20 rejected, what reasons were you given? [My experience=AD=93lacks and= argument=94=20 every time.] Have the =93forms=94 the academy requires you to =93fill out= =94=20 become a patenting of the very process of thinking? As worker-writers of=20 the contemporary, how can we intervene in this? We are soliciting only new work. Submissions can come in whatever form you= =20 feel best exemplifies what the above statements have to do with your=20 situation. Submissions may come in many possible forms: 1) poems created= =20 on, in or around situations as described above, 2) statements, analyses or= =20 narrations of the relationship your work and poetry have had on each other,= =20 3) spoofs on office documents, rejection letters, conferences, 4)=20 confessions of the secret confidential evils of your workplace, 5)=20 documentary facts of worker abuse, worker success, worker surrealism,=20 etc. We hope to receive a wide range of interpretations of our ideas as=20 laid out here. =93=85writers in all sections of the country. We present their story. =85It is a gaunt recital of worker-writers=94 =ADNew Masses 5 (10) March 1930. Submissions +/- Inquiries to: Tim Shaner and Kristen Gallagher =93WIG=94 Project 65 =BD Skillman Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211 _________________________________________ Kristen Gallagher Program Coordinator Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Columbia University Schapiro CEPSR, Room 1001 530 West 120th St. MC 8903 New York, NY 10027 PH: (212) 854-3266 FAX:(212) 854-1909 e-mail: kg2161@columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:22:56 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq Comments: cc: "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics"@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, UK POETRY Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Since I have gotten a few concerned calls this morning, I want to let everyone know that I am not, "Steven Vincent", the free-lance journalist (and I believe once an art reviewer & critic) who was killed yesterday in Iraq. Formally, I am a "Stephen". This morning I am writing safely under the cool protective summer fog in San Francisco. Ironically, in terms of names, my politics on the war in Iraq - were 180 degrees in the opposite direction from Steven Vincent. Rest his soul, Stephen Vincent Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:23:25 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Fw: Big Bridge is down MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks Martha. I checked Big Bridge again. It should be up and running. It's there now. Maybe you need to refresh your browser. It was recently migrated to a new server and so that might be it. Best, Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martha Deed" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:39 AM Subject: Big Bridge is down >I enjoy Big Bridge very much and hadn't visited for awhile. When I did -- > both yesterday and today -- I found this message: "This site has been > administratively suspended." I hope someone can get this fixed soon. > > Martha Deed > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:43:56 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: maxpaul@SFSU.EDU Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Glad to hear you're alive in SF> Best--Maxine Quoting Stephen Vincent : > Since I have gotten a few concerned calls this morning, I want to let > everyone know that I am not, "Steven Vincent", the free-lance journalist > (and I believe once an art reviewer & critic) who was killed yesterday in > Iraq. Formally, I am a "Stephen". This morning I am writing safely under the > cool protective summer fog in San Francisco. > Ironically, in terms of names, my politics on the war in Iraq - were 180 > degrees in the opposite direction from Steven Vincent. > Rest his soul, > > Stephen Vincent > Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:55:38 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Tod Edgerton Subject: Ekphrasis - Erotics - Ethics? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm really intrigued by the visual element in poetry and by the interaction of the visual (and performing) arts in conjunction/collaboration with poetry. Cole Swensen had a great essay in the special feature of American Letters & Commentary #13 (2001), "To Writewithize," where she says that "word and image are working at 'right angles.' They're conceptually perpendicular to each other, and thereby set up a kind of three-dimensionality: we see two dimensions and think three. Another way to state this is to say that the mental and physical worlds do not match; we're forced to undergo two different interpretive practices simultaneously, and their degree of off-set sets up a reverberation. Energy arcs over that gap, and it's practically audible. And it requires an adaptation if not of our senes, at least of our perceptive capacity. In this way, it's the art that's working on us." While my first instinct is to want there to be a productive, mutually-exploring/-expanding--you might even say erotic--relation between the visual and literary texts, which I think also precisely produces a "third dimemsion," I think this "right angle" relation gets equally (or more so) to the strictly ethical in poetry and art (if the erotic ad ethical can even be "srictly" demarcAted...). Maybe? If poetry works on our openness to Otherness at all (which I sometimes like to think it does to keep myself from feeling like a totally self-indulgent ass for embarking on a life-long project of writing and reading and teaching it), does the interaction of seemingly unrelated visual and literary texts open that space? Swensen mentions Berssenbrugge's Spericity as one example I recall offhand, and I would also add Lyn Hejinian and Emily Clark's The Lake and their The Traveler and the Hill; and the Hill. Or Barbara Guest and Laurie Reid's Symbiosis. The relation between the art and th e words in these works have so far seemed wholly opaque to me and, in some cases, the art "simply decorative" (if that's legitimate category...). Looking again at the Swensen essay, I want to go back and try to better see them, to see this third dimension. I wonder, though, if that space can arise out of the mere co-presence of the two parts, or whether there has to be some point of "sameness" for there to be any relation at all? Maybe this just forces you to look harder to find it? Or demands that you suspend your need to recuperate the radically Other into your field of reference/relation, even if only provisionally? What's the relation of two people stuck in an elevator overnight who don't speak a word of one another's language? Is that even a remotely apt analogy? At any rate, the Swensen article is interesting for me, but, as she goes on to elide the difference between visual poetry (e.g. Drucker) and even visual artists who incorporate text into their work, placing them all under a revised and broadened definition of the word ekphrasis, it doesn't answer the question of whether ekphrasis only applies to written responses to other art forms (I would include performing arts, as well, personally) or to all intersections of visual and verbal. For my two cents, I feel that ekphrasis should retain a narrower use; it feels as though there's a different process or stake involved in a writer responding to a visual text irrespective of the artist, on the one hand, and two artists working in conjunction/collaboration/collusion/collision on the the other. Maybe this is not always true. Maybe some art and poetry books are simply ekphrastic works (in the narrower, traditional sense) that include images of the artwork, which themselves happen to be by a living artist. I suppose the next question would be whether you could tell the difference as a reader-viewer and what, then, the implications are for this issue. The one thing I feel totally comfortable asserting is that, at the limit, the discrete divisions and individual integrity of all such categories erode and even dissipate altogether. The question of the function of this "third dimension"--and whether or not poetry can create this on its own--I find much more interesting. So please respond with your thoughts, as I'm newly thinking through this (and giving three weeks of my freshman poetry workshop, which I'm teaching for the first time in the fall, to exploring its various aspects). Thanks, and all best, Tod Ward Tietz wrote: I spent some time thinking about ekphrasis a few years back and have remained ambivalent about it ever since. I¹m glad to hear that Crag Hill and others are attempting to recast it. An important feature of ekphrasis over the centuries has been the way it¹s allowed the so-called visual and verbal arts to be compared and, consequently, valued for their different, but supposedly complementary capabilities. This seems benign until you consider a secondary effect of such comparisons: a reinforcement of the categories and hierarchies of art that have largely been in place since the Renaissance. Ekphrasis allows Lessing to argue in Laokoon, for example, that "poetry equals art in the description of beauty in an [...] important way: it transforms beauty into attraction. Attraction is beauty in motion [...]. The painter can leave movement only guessed at; indeed his figures are without movement [...]. But in poetry, it remains what it is: a transitory beauty that we want to see repeated. It comes and goes; and there we can be reminded of movement all the more easily and with more liveliness than bare forms or colors: so attraction must put us in touch with the same conditions more strongly than beauty." This argument benefits poetry, since it argues for poetry¹s superiority over other arts, but I think it also arrests poetry¹s development. It suggests that poetry should stick to what it does well and not venture into "beauty" or the domains of other aesthetic categories. If you think that poetry should be given a wider reign, it¹s not clear that ekphrasis, as the term has traditionally been used, advances the cause of poetry. If ekphrasis becomes a synonym for a type of visual poetry, the problem¹s solved. Ward Tietz There's the mute probability of a reciprocal lack of understanding. - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:12:15 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mary Jo Malo Subject: Re: bigbridge.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael, I haven't been able to access it either. It won't even give me an option for blocking/allowing cookies. This is the entire message at the site: This site has been administratively suspended. If you are the owner of this website, please contact Data393 customer support. 303-268-1470 or open a Support Dashboard ticket at _https://support.data393.com _ (https://support.data393.com ) Mary Jo Thanks Martha. I checked Big Bridge again. It should be up and running. It's there now. Maybe you need to refresh your browser. It was recently migrated to a new server and so that might be it. Best, Michael >I enjoy Big Bridge very much and hadn't visited for awhile. When I did -- > both yesterday and today -- I found this message: "This site has been > administratively suspended." I hope someone can get this fixed soon. > > Martha Deed ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:14:34 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Julie Kizershot Subject: Urban WORD poetry job NYC FYI In-Reply-To: <1123087436.42f0f44c2d82f@webmail.sfsu.edu> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > From: K~Swift > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:02:01 -0500 (CDT) > To: > Subject: UW hiring Program Director >=20 > Program Director > Urban Word NYC >=20 > About Urban Word NYC: Since 1999, Urban Word NYC (UW) has been at the > forefront of the youth spoken word/poetry/hip-hop movement in New York > City. Urban Word NYC provides thousands of NYC teenagers with free, safe, > ongoing, and uncensored writing and performance opportunities. We believe > teenagers can and must speak for themselves and the key to building > self-confidence, honing critical thinking skills, and developing > imaginative and honest writing is to honor what they say and feel. Every > year, UW offers free on-site workshops in the fall, spring and summer, an= d > collaborates with hundreds of middle and high schools and community-based > organizations around the city to run off-site writing and performance > workshops. Along with our writing programs, UW also hosts a number of ope= n > mics and the only citywide Annual Teen Poetry Slam. For more information > visit: www.urbanwordnyc.org >=20 > Qualifications: This full-time position requires a highly motivated > individual with strong communication, leadership, interpersonal and > management skills. The candidate must be detail oriented and have a track > record of effective management and program organization. The position > requires experience working with school administrators, teens, as well as > knowledge of the non-profit and local spoken word/hip hop/poetry > communities. The candidate will have some teaching experience (in or afte= r > school) and will need to become fluent in UW=B9s pedagogy of progressive an= d > student-centered teaching. Candidates must be computer literate (word, > excel and graphics programs), and preferably tech savvy. > Responsibilities: >=20 > The Program Director will implement all on-site programs, and be > responsible for all aspects of Urban Word programs. This includes: > =80 Setting up, scheduling and oversight of all on-site workshops. > =80 Finding sponsorship and/or maintaining relationships with existing > sponsors of on-site workshops. > =80 Promoting all on-site workshops through schools, community centers,= as > well as email. > =80 Staffing all on-site workshops with adult and youth mentors. This > includes hiring appropriate mentors, scheduling mentors, as well as > making sure mentors are prepared, punctual, and professional. > =80 Securing all supplies and workshop materials. > =80 Oversight of enrollment and retention of students, as well as progr= ess > of workshops. > =80 Payroll for all on-site mentors. >=20 > The Program Director will implement all off-site programs, and be > responsible for all aspects of UW=B9s relationship with the sites. This > includes: > =80 Building UW=B9s off-site programs through outreach and promotion. The > Program Director will be an outspoken advocate for the work we do and > will network with schools, community centers, and funders to promote > programs. > =80 Responding to and following up on all program requests and question= s > from schools and community centers. > =80 Talking to appropriate administrators to set up off-site programs i= n > schools and community centers. This includes: > *Tailoring programs to fit the site=B9s specific needs. > *Negotiating fee-for-service contracts. > *Invoicing school or community centers for contract work. > *Scheduling workshop dates, mentors, and all oversight. > =80 Oversight of all off-site mentors: prepared, punctual and professio= nal. > =80 Maintaining relationships and dialogue with all off-site coordinato= rs > and all mentors. > =80 Oversight of enrollment and retention of students, as well as progr= ess > of workshops, and payroll. >=20 > The Program Director will manage and lead teaching artists and mentors > (adult and youth). This includes: >=20 > providing leadership to the community of adult and youth mentors > being a visible member of our community. > leading (or co-leading) the bi-weekly mentor meetings > providing guidance and support for the staff of over 30 mentors tha= t > work with Urban Word NYC > overseeing the bi-annual mentor trainings which reinvigorate and > reinforce the pedagogy and mission of UW >=20 > The Program Director will work closely with the Executive Director and > Program Coordinator in the planning and implementation of the Annual Teen > Poetry Slam, as well as any other UW-related performances, fundraisers, > and open mic events. >=20 > To apply: If you are a hard worker, with the desire to be a part of a > respected and growing community of artist-educators, poets and visionarie= s > dedicated to the voices of the next generation, please send your resume > with cover letter by July 20th to Michael@urbanwordnyc.org. We are hiring > immediately. >=20 > Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. We are an equal > opportunity employer. >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Peace, Poetry and Progress > K~Swift, Program Coordinator > Urban Word NYC - Where the Next Generation Speaks! > 242 W. 27th Street, Suite 3B > New York, NY 10001 > (212)352-3495 > kswift@urbanwordnyc.org > Visit us on the web @ www.urbanwordnyc.org >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Educators mailing list > Educators@lists.urbanwordnyc.org > http://mailman.obverse.com/mailman/listinfo/educators ------ End of Forwarded Message > From: > Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:43:56 -0700 > To: > Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq >=20 > Glad to hear you're alive in SF> Best--Maxine >=20 > Quoting Stephen Vincent : >=20 >> Since I have gotten a few concerned calls this morning, I want to let >> everyone know that I am not, "Steven Vincent", the free-lance journalist >> (and I believe once an art reviewer & critic) who was killed yesterday i= n >> Iraq. Formally, I am a "Stephen". This morning I am writing safely under= the >> cool protective summer fog in San Francisco. >> Ironically, in terms of names, my politics on the war in Iraq - were 180 >> degrees in the opposite direction from Steven Vincent. >> Rest his soul, >>=20 >> Stephen Vincent >> Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com >>=20 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 19:31:52 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Interviewer needed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Would anyone be interested (or knows anyone who would) in interviewing the Irish poet Medbh McGuckian for The Argotist Online? She has agreed to the interview but the original interviewer has had to pull. Jeff Side argotist@fsmail.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:54:04 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Re: bigbridge.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks Mary Jo, Try refreshing your browser. Vern Frazer has it now. So do I. I spoke to the provider and they say it works for them. Let me know what you know. Best, Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Jo Malo" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 1:12 PM Subject: Re: bigbridge.org > Michael, > > I haven't been able to access it either. It won't even give me an option > for > blocking/allowing cookies. This is the entire message at the site: > > This site has been administratively suspended. > > If you are the owner of this website, please contact Data393 customer > support. > 303-268-1470 or open a Support Dashboard ticket at > _https://support.data393.com _ (https://support.data393.com ) > Mary Jo > > Thanks Martha. I checked Big Bridge again. It should be up and running. > It's > there now. Maybe you need to refresh your browser. It was recently > migrated > to a new server and so that might be it. Best, Michael > >>I enjoy Big Bridge very much and hadn't visited for awhile. When I >>did -- >> both yesterday and today -- I found this message: "This site has been >> administratively suspended." I hope someone can get this fixed soon. >> >> Martha Deed > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:20:16 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Catherine Daly Subject: LA: Rhapsodomancy Aug. 7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rhapsodomancy: A Reading Series Hosted by Wendy C. Ortiz and Andrea Quaid announces the August 7, 2005 Writers EILEEN MYLES ALISTAIR MCCARTNEY CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL ALENE TERZIAN Sunday, August 7, 2005 Doors open at 7:00 - Reading begins at 7:15pm The Good Luck Bar, 1514 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles (east Hollywood/Silver Lake: corner of Hollywood & Hillhurst) $3 suggested donation: part of the proceeds will benefit Gay and Lesbian Elder Housing. Email for directions/info: rhapsodomancyla@yahoo.com RSVP at rhapsodomancyla@yahoo.com About the writers: Eileen Myles has been living in SD for three years, teaching writing at UCSD. She is a part time New Yorker as well. Her most recent books are Skies and on my way, both poetry, 2001 and Cool for You, a novel, 2000. Lately she's been working on a new book of poems and a novel, The Inferno, as well as getting ready for a extended run of Hell, an opera composed by Michael Webster for which she wrote the libretto. Alistair McCartney's writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Fence, The James White Review, Wonderlands (U.W. Press), Aroused (ed. Karen Finley), Mirage #4 Periodical (eds. Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian) and others. His first book, an experimental novel-encyclopedia called The End of the World Book is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press (06-07). He received his MFA from Antioch University LA, where he now teaches creative writing and literature as adjunct faculty in the BA Program. Originally from Australia, he has lived in Los Angeles for the past ten years with his partner Tim Miller. Christopher Russell is an artist and writer who lives and works in Los Angeles. He publishes Bedwetter magazine and has spoken about his work at a number of universities and art colleges. Christopher's visual work has appeared in several American and European exhibitions, including solo shows at the Van Harrison Gallery in Chicago and Acuna Hansen in Los Angeles. He was included in the Harper Collins photo book,Voyeur, read his fiction at the UCLA Hammer Museum and has been collected by the RISD Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. He currently has work on display at Cirrus Gallery in Los Angeles, and a book of subversive photographs titled Landscape will be available in the fall of 2006. Alene Terzian was born in Beirut, Lebanon but was forced to leave her homeland due to war. She immigrated to Canada where her parents owned and operated a gourmet restaurant; thankfully, they impressed upon her the art of cooking. However, no matter how hard she tries, her chicken is never as good as her father's. In 1984, she moved to California where she received an M.A. and an M.F.A. in creative writing. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of English at College of the Canyons. She recently published her first collection of poems called Deep as City's Ache which focuses on the cultural pull of Beirut and the devastating effects of war on both humanity and the natural environment. Her poems have appeared in The Northridge Review, From the Web, and Nerve. She resides in Pasadena, California. Wendy C. 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Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 06:33:30 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jesse Glass Subject: Music Room For August--Sound Work/Poetry/Mans' Wows MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ralph Lictensteiger's Music Room presents an interesting blend of music/sound/spoken word this month, including vocalizations of Mans' Wows. Go to: http://www.lictensteiger.de/musicroom.pls track list :* The Ion Sessions #1 Alan Sondheim 3:25 Hairesis Danilo Girardi 6:09 la mia anima Gruppo Sinestetico 24:30 Signal Leakage Jeremy Hight 3:40 Untitled Soundscape #1 Jeremy Hight 6:29 The Ion Sessions #4 Alan Sondheim 2:19 A crow with scissor wings Jesse Glass 0:41 The Ion Sessions #2 Alan Sondheim 1:43 A good cure for wounds Jesse Glass 1:04 Go ha ha ha Jesse Glass 1:40 The Ion Sessions #3 Alan Sondheim 1:49 He brings the honey Jesse Glass 1:13 Crisi di lamelle meccaniche Danilo Girardi 7:46 Heliotrope Jesse Glass 0:57 How to recover stolen goods Jesse Glass 1:28 Cantolobosolo James Drew 11:25 In ears of crusted flirt Jesse Glass 1:18 In the realm of the mothers Jesse Glass 4:12 montage piece no. 3a Ralph Lichtensteiger 3:00 Skull Seed Jesse Glass 1:23 Jacopos sub-harmonic hymns James Drew 10:39 Swallow wort Jesse Glass 1:42 Almost Stationary James Drew 9:23 interlude no. 4 Ralph Lichtensteiger 0:58 They Jesse Glass 0:45 interlude no. 3 Ralph Lichtensteiger 0:27 To prevent the worst Jesse Glass 1:15 montage piece (no. 7) Ralph Lichtensteiger 7:21 Words to be spoken Jesse Glass 0:38 Majlesi (02) judsoN 3:16 Birdscape Lothar Reitz 4:39 lieu d'emission (no. 1 for J.D.) Ralph Lichtensteiger 17:47 Chomu Lothar Reitz 6:31 Can Ralph Lichtensteiger 1:59 Etude 1 Lothar Reitz 12:13 Monolog (no. 1) Lichtensteiger and Koehler 10:38 Glass Mountain Dances I Lothar Reitz 5:10 d $B!& (Bivation exploration no. 1 Ralph Lichtensteiger 10:18 Glass Mountain Dances II Lothar Reitz 5:40 Glass Mountain Dances III Lothar Reitz 7:53 fLOW Study (July 2005) Ralph Lichtensteiger 9:39 Piano piece Lothar Reitz 7:16 interlude no. 2 Ralph Lichtensteiger 0:25 Yuki Akari Lothar Reitz 10:20 central X Ralph Lichtensteiger 10:53 dissemination no. VI Ralph Lichtensteiger 10:03 Elixir sonore Thanos Chrysakis 5:00 ecriture chiffree I for James Drew Ralph Lichtensteiger 21:21 gloria X Ralph Lichtensteiger 9:33 interlude no. 1 (Cage) Ralph Lichtensteiger 1:00 Klangfarbenmelodien Thanos Chrysakis 5:24 SkyPhase for guitar solo Ralph Lichtensteiger 2:34 Study for guitar and double bass Ralph Lichtensteiger 8:17 Inscapes 1-2 (cnv 16) Thanos Chrysakis 28:09 Study for trumpet, gong & electronics Ralph Lichtensteiger 4:54 Supplement collage Ralph Lichtensteiger 25:59 FourthDegreeSawagashii Rod Stasick 20:34 Electroderesonators Zach Layton 6:48 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:06:55 +0100 Reply-To: Roger Day Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Roger Day Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline It did cross my mind - I saw the "v" but it could easily have been a mispri= nt. Glad you're alive and well. Roger On 8/3/05, Stephen Vincent wrote: > Since I have gotten a few concerned calls this morning, I want to let > everyone know that I am not, "Steven Vincent", the free-lance journalist > (and I believe once an art reviewer & critic) who was killed yesterday in > Iraq. Formally, I am a "Stephen". This morning I am writing safely under = the > cool protective summer fog in San Francisco. > Ironically, in terms of names, my politics on the war in Iraq - were 180 > degrees in the opposite direction from Steven Vincent. > Rest his soul, >=20 > Stephen Vincent > Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com >=20 --=20 http://www.badstep.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 20:07:05 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: travis ortiz Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 air america radio's website (http://airamericaradio.com/) has the name listed with a "p" in their "top stories" section of the homepage: > American Journalist Killed in Iraq > Stephen Vincent, a freelance writer whose work appeared > in the Christian Science Monitor and the National Review, > was abducted and killed near Basra yesterday, 4 days > after he wrote on op-ed in the New York Times criticizing > the brutality of Shi'ite militias and their use as police > in southern Iraq. > > Articles by Stephen Vincent: > Shiites Bring Rigid Piety To Iraq's South > Iraq's FBI on a Shoestring Budget > Back in Basra > Stephen's superb blog "In the Red Zone" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 20:41:22 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: Music Room For August--Sound Work/Poetry/Mans' Wows In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Try lichtensteiger. Hal Today's Special -- Hamilton Stone Review http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr.html Halvard Johnson ================ email: halvard@earthlink.net halvard@gmail.com website: http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard blog: http://entropyandme.blogspot.com On Aug 3, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Jesse Glass wrote: > Ralph Lictensteiger's Music Room presents an interesting blend of > music/sound/spoken word this month, including vocalizations of Mans' > Wows. Go to: > > http://www.lictensteiger.de/musicroom.pls > > > track list :* > > The Ion Sessions #1 Alan Sondheim 3:25 > Hairesis Danilo Girardi 6:09 > la mia anima Gruppo Sinestetico 24:30 > Signal Leakage Jeremy Hight 3:40 > Untitled Soundscape #1 Jeremy Hight 6:29 > The Ion Sessions #4 Alan Sondheim 2:19 > A crow with scissor wings Jesse Glass 0:41 > The Ion Sessions #2 Alan Sondheim 1:43 > A good cure for wounds Jesse Glass 1:04 > Go ha ha ha Jesse Glass 1:40 > The Ion Sessions #3 Alan Sondheim 1:49 > He brings the honey Jesse Glass 1:13 > Crisi di lamelle meccaniche Danilo Girardi 7:46 > Heliotrope Jesse Glass 0:57 > How to recover stolen goods Jesse Glass 1:28 > Cantolobosolo James Drew 11:25 > In ears of crusted flirt Jesse Glass 1:18 > In the realm of the mothers Jesse Glass 4:12 > montage piece no. 3a Ralph Lichtensteiger 3:00 > Skull Seed Jesse Glass 1:23 > Jacopos sub-harmonic hymns James Drew 10:39 > Swallow wort Jesse Glass 1:42 > Almost Stationary James Drew 9:23 > interlude no. 4 Ralph Lichtensteiger 0:58 > They Jesse Glass 0:45 > interlude no. 3 Ralph Lichtensteiger 0:27 > To prevent the worst Jesse Glass 1:15 > montage piece (no. 7) Ralph Lichtensteiger 7:21 > Words to be spoken Jesse Glass 0:38 > Majlesi (02) judsoN 3:16 > Birdscape Lothar Reitz 4:39 > lieu d'emission (no. 1 for J.D.) Ralph Lichtensteiger 17:47 > Chomu Lothar Reitz 6:31 > Can Ralph Lichtensteiger 1:59 > Etude 1 Lothar Reitz 12:13 > Monolog (no. 1) Lichtensteiger and Koehler 10:38 > Glass Mountain Dances I Lothar Reitz 5:10 > d $B!& (Bivation exploration no. 1 Ralph Lichtensteiger 10:18 > Glass Mountain Dances II Lothar Reitz 5:40 > Glass Mountain Dances III Lothar Reitz 7:53 > fLOW Study (July 2005) Ralph Lichtensteiger 9:39 > Piano piece Lothar Reitz 7:16 > interlude no. 2 Ralph Lichtensteiger 0:25 > Yuki Akari Lothar Reitz 10:20 > central X Ralph Lichtensteiger 10:53 > dissemination no. VI Ralph Lichtensteiger 10:03 > Elixir sonore Thanos Chrysakis 5:00 > ecriture chiffree I for James Drew Ralph Lichtensteiger 21:21 > gloria X Ralph Lichtensteiger 9:33 > interlude no. 1 (Cage) Ralph Lichtensteiger 1:00 > Klangfarbenmelodien Thanos Chrysakis 5:24 > SkyPhase for guitar solo Ralph Lichtensteiger 2:34 > Study for guitar and double bass Ralph Lichtensteiger 8:17 > Inscapes 1-2 (cnv 16) Thanos Chrysakis 28:09 > Study for trumpet, gong & electronics Ralph Lichtensteiger 4:54 > Supplement collage Ralph Lichtensteiger 25:59 > FourthDegreeSawagashii Rod Stasick 20:34 > Electroderesonators Zach Layton 6:48 > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:54:57 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jesse Glass Subject: Ovid's Keyholes by Christine and Dave Kennedy Now Available From Ahadada MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Go to http://www.sendecki.com/ahadada/ Other goodies are there as well. Jess ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:15:20 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Skinner Subject: The World Can't Wait (for 2008) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.=A0 Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night Your government =A0is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.=A0 Your government suppresses the science that doesn=B9t fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pa= y a terrible price.=A0 Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion. Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.=20 On November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election", we are organizing a truly massive day of resistance all over this country. People everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US. They will repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement: "NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!" http://www.worldcantwait.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:33:03 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: The World Can't Wait (for 2008) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hey it's yor gov't too ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:11:21 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: JT Chan Subject: Free e-book (Telling Them Apart) Comments: To: Women Poets MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Telling Them Apart, my second collection of poetry, is available as a free e-book at http://www.lulu.com/content/146768 . The theme focuses on the mystical and the heart of engaging in the world of the unseen. Thanks. regards Jill Chan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 07:18:33 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Van Shell Subject: Re: The World Can't Wait (for 2008) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 You forgot to include the destruction of the environment. Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous an= d utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.=20 Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.=20 Your government suppresses the science that doesn=B9t fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pa= y a terrible price.=20 Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion. Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.=20 On November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election", we are organizing a truly massive day of resistance all over this country. People everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US. They will repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement: "NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!" http://www.worldcantwait.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 07:35:41 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas savage Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When I looked in the New York Times today and saw a picture of the journalist Stephen Vincent who died in Iraq, I realized that I knew this man! He lived on the same street where I live in New York City. I also remembered him from art gallery openings years ago. I used to work in co-op art galleries and would see him at the openings. Anyway, not long ago I ran into him in a store called Superior Copy where I went to get my copies because they gave me free copies if I read them a new poem of mine. The day in question, Mr. Vincent or his wife, I'm not sure which though I think it was him, was saying how he couldn't wait to go back to Iraq. Apparently, if I remember correctly, people were trying to talk him out of his determination, apparently without success. I never knew his name. He was someone I noticed in the neighborhood, however, because I remembered him from the art world. I'm sorry nobody succeeded in dissuading him from his recent objective, however, since it lead to his untimely death. For what it's worth, Superior Copy closed down for lack of business, which they blamed on the post-9/11 business slowdown. So here I am at a computer where I can make my own copies. But no copy can be made of Steven Vincent, however, even though there is a poet who shares the same name. Regards, Tom Savage travis ortiz wrote:air america radio's website (http://airamericaradio.com/) has the name listed with a "p" in their "top stories" section of the homepage: > American Journalist Killed in Iraq > Stephen Vincent, a freelance writer whose work appeared > in the Christian Science Monitor and the National Review, > was abducted and killed near Basra yesterday, 4 days > after he wrote on op-ed in the New York Times criticizing > the brutality of Shi'ite militias and their use as police > in southern Iraq. > > Articles by Stephen Vincent: > Shiites Bring Rigid Piety To Iraq's South > Iraq's FBI on a Shoestring Budget > Back in Basra > Stephen's superb blog "In the Red Zone" --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 18:02:17 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Interviewer for McGuckian interview found Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for all your responses. I've now found someone to do the interview. Jeff Side ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:40:35 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit thanks tom that was a wonderful memory-share ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:14:35 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > air america radio's website (http://airamericaradio.com/) has the name > listed with a "p" in their "top stories" section of the homepage: > >> American Journalist Killed in Iraq >> Stephen Vincent, a freelance writer whose work appeared >> in the Christian Science Monitor and the National Review, They is wrong! The man who was killed penned his name as "Steven". Historically, I have never looked at when or where "ph" could become a "v". My own "Stephen" was, perhaps, related to the fact that part of my mother's lineage is Swedish - so, "Steph" was a more prevalent sound and name. I don't think my parents - though educated - were thinking of "Stephen Vincent Benet", a poet, still popular in the forties, who was actually born in the San Francisco Bay Area. But, in this age of the Internet search, unless one has "Search" sophistication, someone looking for me is often confronted with an endless number of URL's connected to work by Stephen Vincent Benet! (There is also a gay folk singer of my name, a soil scientist, and, an actually very good, affordable "Stephen Vincent" series of wines - particular the Merlot, which I enjoy bringing to poet parties; albeit I would be the last person in the world to own a winery - I think folks enjoy the confusion or, is it, "fusion"! As to Mr. Google and the late "Steven Vincent" my blog received about 4,500 hits yesterday. That's a lot of people looking for a dead body, I think. I was tempted to exploit the situation - other than saying "I was not killed in Iraq today" - I thought of using Photoshop to create an image of myself lying naked and dead with fresh poems sticking out of my ribs suggesting to visitors that they might slowly partake of the poems. Talk about "gothic narcissism"! - I let go of that possibility. In fact I did not feel comfortable at all about opportunistically taking advantage of the situation. But, I must say, it has been very weird to be confused with somebody now dead - particularly a person identified once with the arts as a reviewer, and, as a journalist for the National Review, among others, and writing from a conservative position in support of the war in Iraq - one totally contrary to my own. And the way his identity and my own gets twisted together through the engines of the Internet. Bizarre. Who knows - on a positive note - maybe some of those visitors stuck around to read my blog and engage my own commentary on the war, poetry, and the arts. Stephen Vincent Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:29:39 -0400 Reply-To: nudel-soho@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: Where is the Art... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit about 9/11 Steve Vincent 'what's the purpose of these.."transgressive" artworks in a world full of religious zealots plotting "real' trangression with "real' devastating effects... 'having spent decades "transgressing" boundaries & "breaking" taboos, this privileged millieu no longer has the will to defend its own values, or the culture that nurtures them..." 'art that draws boundaries instead of breaks them...." xexox...opera..blog..us...'em...drn... ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:34:31 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: Where is the Art... In-Reply-To: <3567406.1123176580595.JavaMail.root@wamui-cedar.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit HN, I can only assume the G. Bush, D. Cheney, D. Rumsfeld, A. Gonzales, G. Miller and their colleagues have regular sessions with their equally radical Jihadist counterparts during which they celebrate their opposing and mutually devastating "accomplishments". At meetings, anytime, and it's frequent, that anybody says the word "transgressive" they all stand up and shout with joy. These sessions, I understand, are called "blood fondlers" and "torture ticklers." Unfortunately Dante was born to early too encage and visualize the meeting practices and locate them down in one the very low levels of Hell. But Harry, I am sure you can imagine the boys at work. I frankly do not know if Condi Rice shows up - whip in hand - and plays the grand piano to help rev things up. HN - I am sorry - I am sure you are aware of this information and I am sorry that it has to fill both of us with terror. May each of us plot and do something to make the world a little better today. Be well, Stephen V Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com > about 9/11 > > Steve Vincent > > 'what's the purpose of these.."transgressive" > artworks in a world full of religious zealots > plotting "real' trangression with "real' > devastating effects... > > 'having spent decades "transgressing" boundaries > & "breaking" taboos, this privileged millieu no > longer has the will to defend its own values, > or the culture that nurtures them..." > > 'art that draws boundaries instead of > breaks them...." > > > xexox...opera..blog..us...'em...drn... ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:50:59 -0400 Reply-To: h.c@earthlink.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Holly Crawford Subject: AC:Collaborative Summer 2005 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I have posted the first issue of AC:Collaborative. The next issue will have an interview and article on collaboration in contemporary poetry. AC:Collaborative An Online Journal for the Inquiry of Collaborative Art http://www.artcircles.org/id29/html Summer 2005 Table of Contents Papers--History and Theory The Calling of Two Creatures (without images)...Zoe Trodd Articles Utopic Visions...Leah Oates Global Players...Werner von Delmont Snelling and Diaz:Building toward the Future...Victoria Wolfe Interviews Interview with the Rufus Corporation...Jill Connor Learning from Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown...Vladimir Belogolovsky Music Through Conversation...Martin Simon Reviews Co-Conspirators, Chelsea Museum...Barbara Rosenthal Passing Time...Jason Mason Holly Crawford, Ph.D. Editor hc@artcircles.org AC:Collaborative is a peer reviewed online journal http://www.artcircles.org AC:Collaborative 9 E. 8th Avenue # 361 New York, NY 10003 AC:Collaborative © 2005 Holly Crawford www.art-poetry.info/ www.artcircles.org (AC:Collaborative) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:15:52 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: AC:Collaborative Summer 2005 In-Reply-To: <410-22005844185059250@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This address will get you there... http://www.artcircles.org/id29.html On Aug 4, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Holly Crawford wrote: > I have posted the first issue of AC:Collaborative. > > The next issue will have an interview and article on collaboration =20= > in contemporary poetry. > > > > AC:Collaborative > An Online Journal for the Inquiry of Collaborative Art > http://www.artcircles.org/id29/html > > Summer 2005 > > Table of Contents > > Papers--History and Theory > The Calling of Two Creatures (without images)...Zoe Trodd > Articles > Utopic Visions...Leah Oates > Global Players...Werner von Delmont > Snelling and Diaz:Building toward the Future...Victoria Wolfe > Interviews > Interview with the Rufus Corporation...Jill Connor > Learning from Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown...Vladimir =20 > Belogolovsky > Music Through Conversation...Martin Simon > Reviews > Co-Conspirators, Chelsea Museum...Barbara Rosenthal > Passing Time...Jason Mason > > > Holly Crawford, Ph.D. > Editor > hc@artcircles.org > > AC:Collaborative is a peer reviewed online journal > http://www.artcircles.org > > AC:Collaborative > 9 E. 8th Avenue # 361 > New York, NY 10003 > AC:Collaborative =EF=BF=BD 2005 > > > Holly Crawford > www.art-poetry.info/ > www.artcircles.org (AC:Collaborative) > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:04:39 -0400 Reply-To: nudel-soho@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: "..........." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit in case "........" isn't clear... i quoted verbatim steven vincent's words... drn... ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 18:11:12 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Maria Damon Subject: Fwd: Call for Applicants: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Humanities Computing (Victoria, BC) Comments: To: raley@english.ucsb.edu, engrad-l@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, oconn001@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >From: "Ray Siemens" >To: , > >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Aug 2005 21:36:49.0368 (UTC) >FILETIME=[9EF21580:01C5993C] >X-www.datona.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for >more information >X-www.datona.com-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your >Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details >X-MailScanner-From: siemensr@mala.bc.ca >Sender: owner-members@coch-cosh.ca > >Call for Applicants: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Humanities Computing >(Victoria, BC) > >The University of Victoria's Humanities Computing and Media Centre is >looking for a suitably-qualified Post-Doctoral Researcher to join its >work as part of the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) Project >for the 2005/6 academic year. > >Candidates interested in this position will bring established academic >research questions in an area or areas of Humanities Computing to the >position, will have demonstrated capability in implementing solutions to >those questions using the technologies supported by TAPoR at UVic, and >will be prepared to work in a cooperative, collaborative environment >toward achieving goals common to the UVic TAPoR group. This position >may also involve teaching and participating in curriculum development. > >Examples of technologies supported by TAPoR at UVic are: XML, XSLT, and >XSL encoding languages; TEI P4 and P5; XQuery; and eXist XML databases. >In addition, UVic TAPoR project members frequently work with XHTML, >JavaScript and CSS, and web-based SQL database projects using >PostgresSQL and mySQL. > >Salary for this position is competitive, and will be commensurate with >experience. > >Applications including a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and >contact information for three referees, may be sent electronically to > Ray Siemens > Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing > UVic TAPoR Principle Investigator > siemens[at]uvic.ca > >Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. > >== > >About TAPoR: TAPoR is building a unique human and computing >infrastructure for text analysis across the country by establishing six >regional centers (UMcMaster, UMontreal, UAlberta, UNew Brunswick, >UToronto, and UVictoria) to form one national text analysis research >portal. This portal will be a gateway to tools for sophisticated >analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for >experimentation. The local centers will include text research >laboratories with best-of-breed software and full-text servers that are >coordinated into a vertical portal for the study of electronic texts. >Each center will be integrated into its local research culture and, >thus, some variation will exist from center to center. > >TAPoR at the University of Victoria's HCMC has a multimedia laboratory >and server infrastructure suitable for research into a variety of areas >of Humanities Computing, including multimedia enrichment and >acquisition, text representation and text analysis. UVic's newly >appointed CRC Chair in Humanities Computing, and our resident computing >experts, provide guidance and expertise to the 8+ TAPoR-related research >projects currently under development. To learn more about UVic people >and projects, see http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/tapor/index.htm. > >____________ >R.G. Siemens >English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, >Canada. V8W 3W1 >Phone: (250) 721-7272 Fax: (250) 721-6498 >siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:34:48 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ian Randall Wilson Subject: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - List Members Only MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry is completing its 5th issue. Usually we have a few list members represented but for some reason, not this time. Through August 31, open to list members ONLY, we'd like to consider late submissions. Please forward a copy of this call with your poems either as a WORD document attachment or cut and pasted into the document to: t88ajournal@aol.com Please don't send this on to friends who you think might be interested. This call is for list members ONLY. Ian Randall Wilson Managing Editor 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry www.hollyridgepress.com t88ajournal@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 21:07:08 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Peter Ciccariello Subject: Re: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - List Members Only In-Reply-To: <13f.18b84b03.30240018@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Ian, Please consider the following for your call: __________________________________________ Geclyft consumed on this barren cleft this chink this fault this trust of balance on this cantilevered equilibrium this howling detritovore our species bloomed the discarded of us our heterotrophes exponentially bloomed flushed the heat of our discarded our cleft our splayed and broken our beheaded our disemboweled our raped our tortured our layers yes again our layers _________________________________________________ Permission ryder at the stern yearning chugging the atlantic steamer moon stabbing brushed cumulous vertically developed aggregate states of water crystal vapor ache gazing outward siegfried the aesthetic right in front of everyone desire of swiftly placing hands on the railing one quite elegant movement necktie forming a question mark over the shoulder both heels together over the edge into the ocean hearts craning for the last look eddy airlock waterlung cumulous moon churn in broad daylight rushing to the pinioned stern cirrus as if it were a liaison of rhine maidens rail to the wind then at the staten island ferry stern unlike him not to leave something ________________________________________________ Thanks for the consideration, -Peter Ciccariello Providence, Rhode Island, USA _________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Ian Randall Wilson To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sent: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:34:48 EDT Subject: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - List Members Only 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry is completing its 5th issue. Usually we have a few list members represented but for some reason, not this time. Through August 31, open to list members ONLY, we'd like to consider late submissions. Please forward a copy of this call with your poems either as a WORD document attachment or cut and pasted into the document to: t88ajournal@aol.com Please don't send this on to friends who you think might be interested. This call is for list members ONLY. Ian Randall Wilson Managing Editor 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry www.hollyridgepress.com t88ajournal@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 21:09:15 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Peter Ciccariello Subject: Oops...sorry about that post In-Reply-To: <8C7677122EA67E5-E60-5B8F@FWM-R31.sysops.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Wrong address! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 01:47:29 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit are you totally nuts being so self indulgent at the expense of someone else's death who just happened to almost have the same name as you? from another steven alive and well not exactly kickin and surely not brave or crazy enough to do what vicent with a v did and surely vincent with a ph wouldn't have the balls to do either or am i making a bad call here based on your bad taste? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 02:08:31 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press 2005-06 schedule Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi all, Last night we kicked off the third season of our "d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press" series with Mitch Highfill interviewing editors from Ugly Duckling Press and Granary Press, and Major Matt Mason playing some music, all on the occasion of Boog's 14th anniversary. The rest of the season, as we've done in the past, will focus solely on non-N.Y. small presses. Below this note is the schedule, in progress. as ever, David ------------ d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press 2005-06 schedule (all events take place at 6:00 p.m. on first Thursdays--except where noted--at ACA Galleries, 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr., NYC) 2005 Sept. 8-Ducky (Philadelphia), Scott Edward Anderson, Dennis DiClaudio, Tom Hartman, Jason Toogood, eds. (second Thursday) Sept. 29-Chain (Philadelphia; Oakland), Juliana Spahr and Jena Osman, eds. (no Oct. reading) Nov. 3-Aerial Magazine/Edge Books (Washington, D.C.), Rod Smith, ed. Dec. 1-3rd Bed (Lincoln RI), Vincent Standley, ed. 2006 Jan. 5-Antennae (Chicago), Jesse Seldess, ed. and Kenning Editions (Berkeley, Calif.), Patrick Durgin, ed. Feb. 2-Burning Deck Press (Providence, Rhode Island), Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop, eds. March 2-TBD April 6-Bogg (Arlington, VA), John Elsberg, ed. May 4-TBD June 1-TBD July 6-TBD -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W.28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) F: (212) 842-2429 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 02:09:43 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Boog City 27 Now Available Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Please forward --------------- Boog City 27, August 2005 Available featuring: Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring: --Berger on downtown musician, and member of the band Cheese On Bread, Dan Fishback --Where You Should Be picks The Fort at the Sidewalk Cafe Our Printed Matter section, edited for the first time by Jean-Paul Pecqueur= , featuring: --Erica Kaufman on Gary Sullivan's comic Elsewhere --Joshua Corey on the debut issue of the poetry journal The Tiny Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward, features work from: --Bruce Covey --Ange Mlinko --Mark Tardi --Matvei Yankelevich Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Johannah Rodgers of Park Slope, Brooklyn. ----- And thanks to our copy editor, Joe Bates. ----- Please patronize our advertisers: BlazeVOX [books] * www.blazevox.org Bowery Poetry Club * www.bowerypoetry.com Effing Press * www.effingpress.com Litmus Press * www.litmusoress.org Poets for Peace * www.poetsagainstthewar.org ----- Advertising or donation inquiries can be directed to editor@boogcity.com or by calling 212-842-2664 ----- You can pick up Boog City for free at the following locations: East Village Acme Bar and Grill alt.coffee Angelika Film Center and Caf=E9 Anthology Film Archives Bluestockings Bowery Poetry Club Cafe Pick Me Up CBGB's CB's 313 Gallery C-Note Continental Lakeside Lounge Life Cafe The Living Room Mission Cafe Nuyorican Poets Caf=E9 Pianos The Pink Pony St. Mark's Books St. Mark's Church Shakespeare & Co. Sidewalk Caf=E9 Sunshine Theater Tonic Tower Video Trash and Vaudeville Other parts of Manhattan Hotel Chelsea Poets House in Williamsburg Bliss Cafe Clovis Press Earwax Galapagos Northsix Sideshow Gallery Soundfix/Fix Caf=E9 Spoonbill & Sugartown Supercore Cafe -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W.28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) F: (212) 842-2429 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 23:15:03 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq In-Reply-To: <20050805.014749.-190959.10.skyplums@juno.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit "... am i making a bad call ...?" (Steven D.) Not totally surprised, yes, you are! Stephen V Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 01:52:45 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: shameless query MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit if anyone out there has or finds a copy of my 1999 knitting factory cd incomplete directions please pick one up for me preferably sealed but either way will do i seem to have made the error of not keeping any for myself and want at least 3 one of which i would like sealed i will burn a copy for anyone who relinquishes or finds and of course will re-emberse thanks steve dalachinsky ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 07:15:11 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: aaron tieger Subject: CARVE 6 now available MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (Please forward, post, etc anywhere you deem appropriate). I am pleased to announce that CARVE 6 is now available. Featuring: Bill Marsh Clark Coolidge Dorothea Lasky Emma Barnes Yuri Hospodar Mark Lamoureux Cover by Wendy Hyman. 40 pp., $5. You can order via paypal at http://www.carvepoems.org or by sending a check (or cleverly concealed cash) made out to Aaron Tieger at: 221 W. Lincoln #2 Ithaca, NY 14850 Subscriptions: $25/1 year. Please note that as of August 1, 2005 the subscription rate will be increased by five dollars. This reflects the additional cost of my latest endeavor: CARVE Editions, a line of chapbooks featuring the kinds of poets you would expect to see in CARVE. Current plans are to replace the fall issue of the magazine with two of these chapbooks, beginning this year with two offerings from CARVE contributors: Jess Mynes' birds for example, and Christopher Rizzo's Zing. Each chapbook will cost $5 and be available through the usual channels. I'm very excited about this new development, and look forward to bringing you these excellent poems by these excellent poets. Back issues ($5 each): #5, April 2005: Stacy Szymaszek, Jordan Davis, Guillermo Juan Parra, Cheryl Clark, William Corbett on Richard Caddel, Richard Caddel. Cover by Aaron Tieger. 32 pp. #4, January 2005: John Mulrooney, Mairead Byrne, Aaron Kunin, Jane Sprague, Gina Myers, Anthony Robinson, Dan Bouchard interviewed by Michael Carr. Cover by Emily Belz. 36 pp. #3, Summer 2004: Shin Yu Pai, Jess Mynes, Catherine A. Meng, Christopher Rizzo, Sean Cole, Lori Lubeski. Cover by Emily Belz. 40 pp. #2, Winter 2004: kari edwards, John Bradley, Matvei Yankelevich, W. B. Keckler, Andrew Felsinger, Ed Barrett, Alan De Niro, Joel Sloman, Gregory Ford, Ron Starr, Jim Dunn, Mike County, Amanda Cook. Cover by Eric McDade. 34 pp. #1, Summer 2003: Gregory Ford, William Corbett, Joseph Torra, Dorothea Lasky, J. Kates, Sara Veglahn, Eric Baus/Noah Eli Gordon/Nick Moudry/Travis Nichols, Michael Carr, Aaron Belz, Beth Woodcome, Mark Lamoureux, Brenda Iijima, Anna Moschovakis, Aaron Tieger, Christina Strong, Kent Johnson. Cover by Brenda Iijima. 28 pp. Thank you! Aaron Tieger Editor, CARVE "Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate." (Brian Eno) ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:40:23 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Barrett Watten Subject: Site-Specific Poetry / *Over There* Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Two posts on *1-Year Plan*: "Site-Specific Poetry: The Addison Street Project": http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/post18.html "*Over There*: An Episode of *aletheia* (Disclosure) http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/post19.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:54:57 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Peter Quartermain Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq In-Reply-To: <20050805.014749.-190959.10.skyplums@juno.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Bad call? Totally. Idiotic too, as well as ignorant. ================ Peter Quartermain 846 Keefer Street Vancouver BC Canada V6A 1Y7 tel: 604 255 8274 fax: 604 255 8204 quarterm@interchange.ubc.ca ================ -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Dalachinksy Sent: Thursday, 04 August, 2005 10:47 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: "Steven Vincent" - killed in Iraq are you totally nuts being so self indulgent at the expense of someone else's death who just happened to almost have the same name as you? from another steven alive and well not exactly kickin and surely not brave or crazy enough to do what vicent with a v did and surely vincent with a ph wouldn't have the balls to do either or am i making a bad call here based on your bad taste? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 22:41:32 +0200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anny Ballardini Subject: the Poets' Corner In-Reply-To: <000001c599ef$2db95000$c63a5786@winxp0a5920985> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline With my thanks to Ernest Slyman for the Poet's Award I feature on the poetshome of the Poets' Corner: http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome here is a new update: Amy King http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D172 Rachel Dacus http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D173 Eve Rifkah http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D174 Stacy Szymaszek http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D175 Linh Dinh http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D176 With two translations by the Author into Italian, the first of his own work= : Sette Poesie del Corpo http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1229 e 15 indovinelli tradizionali del Vietnam http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1231 Gabriel Gudding http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D177 Charles Martin http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D178 Yerra Sugarman http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D179 Ian Davidson http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D180 Ann Fisher-Wirth http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D181 New Additions: Under the Mother section: Richard Dillon with THERE IT IS http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1186 Kenneth Wolman's FEEDING http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1193 HISTORIOGRAPHY http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1194 MY MOTHER'S FELINE TRANSFORMATION http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1195 Rayn Roberts' For Rose, my Mother =20 http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1208 Stacy Szymaszek's PRAYER TO MY MOTHER http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1224 Under the section: Father Rayn Roberts' Each Morning Begins a Journey Until You Arrive At Who You Are http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1209 The Return http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1210 Seeing In The Dark http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1211 Love Is Not Silent http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1212 Gianmario Lucini's Mio padre lo vedevo fuori posto http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1219 Further single additions to the Poets' pages: Larry Jaffe's Love & Beauty http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1187 And OF WHAT IS FRIENDSHIP MADE http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1188 Clark Douglas' Citadel http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1204 Alan Sondheim's vw http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1205 of the music, an older http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1230 the flush sex-mother-scape http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1275 2 short silent videos http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1276 My Sixty-Five Failures http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1288 Anthracite Casualties http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1290 Frederick Pollack's Lieutenant Frank Detweiler http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1206 Kenneth Wolman's FLED IS THAT MUSIC SO CHANGE THE RECORD http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1207 Anna Marie Guterl's Enchanted http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1253 Ben Mazer's newly reorganized pages http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D52 A new page under New Poetry Mailing List: Why Poetry Exists http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D1289 Under Poets on Poets: Rayn Roberts by Paul Dolinsky reviewing his The Fires of Spring http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pi= d=3D41 A wonderful contribution by Linh Dinh with poems translated into English by Cesare Pavese: http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetsonpoets&pa=3Dlist_pages_c= ategories&cid=3D29 And finally my contribution to the poetry of Tom Beckett, you can find my translation of his Vanishing points of resemblance / Punti evanescenti di somiglianza into Italian, with a brief note of the Author here: http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetsonpoets&pa=3Dlist_pages_c= ategories&cid=3D30 I hope you will enjoy it all as much as I did with my best wishes for a wonderful summer holiday, Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome Non serviam. Ni dieu ni ma=EEtre. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:58:34 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Adam Fieled Subject: Philly Free School @ Bowery Poetry Club MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Philly Free School is proud to present a multi-media performance at NYC's Bowery Poetry Club (Bleecker & Bowery, across from CBGBs) on Saturday, August 13, at 4 pm. Musical performers will include Briana Winter, playing songs from her newly released CD "Under the Snow" (reviewed by Adam Fieled at www.brianawinter.com) , Adam Fieled, debuting songs from his forthcoming album "21st and Race", and Kate Doblick. Literary performers will include Brian Freedman and Mike Land. Adam Fieled might also rock a poem or two. There will be a full bar and a $5 cover charge at the door. For more info, please see the Philly Free School blog, @ www.artrecess.blogspot.com . Questions send to afieled@yahoo.com. Thanks & we'll see ya there! --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 21:12:29 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Site-Specific Poetry / *Over There* In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.2.20050805123417.02e0f7c0@mail.wayne.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > "Site-Specific Poetry: The Addison Street Project": > > http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/post18.html "written on the very firmament". very cool, barrett. written in stone or metal or something like that. not exactly an editable text field. though of course it's san francisco home of the not exactly really firm firmament, geological relatively high refresh rate. still, one wouldn't expect the earth to swallow it for, like, millenia. or until the sidewalk is redone, though presumably longer than that. its ontological status is right in there with historical monuments, tombstones, and hollywood handprints. and, yes, a wonderful way for the people who live there to encounter a bit of the poetry of some of the poets to whom the place also is dear. and your documentation of it on the above web page is an experience. thinking of it in the abstract, i wondered if the experience for the poet would have an element in it of looking at one's tombstone. but looking more carefully at the pictures on your web page, the location on the sidewalk in the city is not really evocative of that sort of association, perhaps. i see that there's a bit of red graffiti by at least one of the plates. fascinating. ja http://vispo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 15:22:27 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Uh Ak Subject: akuh Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline hey hey's mommy said to me=20 you are so hey, your heart's kidding's blat have haver's cover so, I yelled I don;t understand your finger so, his mommy have gotten die fi you have my sound My sky kill me, such time, I nose love My blat jintian hen le, erqie...... this is notnot kidding zenmeyang? ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 15:27:41 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Uh Ak Subject: Re: akuh In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline with my people I'm working. with my icecream I eating my tongue, with your= =20 cheese I think about treeee. sith my sucking I steadly selling my boat. wit= h=20 my bomb with my taste xith my helling yith his sky I am walking. I killed a= =20 big tree's stress.(actually he hasn;t bave his calling) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 08:21:47 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Billy Mills Subject: New from hardPressssed poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Two new titles Matthew Geden Catch: Being Day's Journey Part 2 hardPressed poetry: 2005. An edition of 50 copies. 16 pp. Pamph. Euro 3.50 Mist: Being Day's Journey Part 3 hardPressed poetry: 2005. An edition of 50 copies. 16 pp. Pamph. Euro 3.50 Order from hpp@gofree.indigo.ie ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 10:21:11 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Barrett Watten Subject: Re: site-specific poetry Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Jim-- One of the interests in moving from site on the street to my own site in digital space is to complement any "set in stone" qualities of the piece, to release it into the virtual. (A good urban site that does this here is Lowell Boileau's *Fabulous Ruins of Detroit*). But this seems, as well, the task of the site-specific artist--to de-monumentalize (in that the form of the monument--religious, historical, or necrological--is going to be an element of any site-specific work). The relation of the work to the site is where the play of perspectives might develop. Here, the street itself was doing its work--particularly in the form of a very aggressive meter tender who had everyone on the street scurrying for their quarters and trying to figure out the new, high-tech ticket dispenser. At another hour there might be theater-goes passing over the plaques without noticing, as I've mentioned. And there are time-based amendments to the "set in stone" quality, particularly the Berkeley Public Works Department, who seemed to be digging up the street almost everywhere (what looked like graffiti was in fact their markings for pipes, cables, or what not). That said, I wondered if the plaques themselves would last more than ten to twenty years. Like Smithson's Spiral Jetty, they may need a future moment of recovery. In any event, it does feel like a live, and potential if not virtual, installation. Barrett > "Site-Specific Poetry: The Addison Street Project": > > http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/post18.html "written on the very firmament". very cool, barrett. written in stone or metal or something like that. not exactly an editable text field. though of course it's san francisco home of the not exactly really firm firmament, geological relatively high refresh rate. still, one wouldn't expect the earth to swallow it for, like, millenia. or until the sidewalk is redone, though presumably longer than that. its ontological status is right in there with historical monuments, tombstones, and hollywood handprints. and, yes, a wonderful way for the people who live there to encounter a bit of the poetry of some of the poets to whom the place also is dear. and your documentation of it on the above web page is an experience. thinking of it in the abstract, i wondered if the experience for the poet would have an element in it of looking at one's tombstone. but looking more carefully at the pictures on your web page, the location on the sidewalk in the city is not really evocative of that sort of association, perhaps. i see that there's a bit of red graffiti by at least one of the plates. fascinating. ja http://vispo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 10:42:52 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Skinner Subject: The World Can't Wait (Clarification) Comments: To: "UB Poetics discussion group "@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I just wanted to add that the wording on that missive is not my own: I merely forwarded text from the NION (Not In Our Name) call to action. I'm not sure I like the address of it, either (nor have I considered much of the rather strident NION rhetoric to be particularly effective), but "our" would presume too much as well--not everyone on this list is a U.S. citizen. Though perhaps this is simply a call to U.S. citizens, or at least to the so-called "coalition of the willing." And, yes, of course I'd agree (how could I not) that our so-called "environment" may be the greatest casualty of the "war on terror"; while the human price is terrible, and forever, from the standpoint of each individual, the long-term damage is being wrought as we speak--in a series of upper-court rollbacks of environmental protections put in place over the past thirty years. (Indeed, this is the truest sense in which the "world" CAN'T wait three, even one, more year.) Not to speak of carte blanche for biocidal military construction and operations like active sonar or the militarization of space, in the name of "national security." Or general indifference and acceleration of a suicidal pattern of consumption, as the global warming needle dips into the red. And along with this, the privatization of basic resources such as clean water, clean air, arable soil and (most insidious of all) genetic heritage. But I thought the following sentence, in some respects, covers this: "Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price." More generally, I am interested in the hypothetical question: *what if* everyone--anyone--disgusted by the overt criminality of the current administration (or just afraid of what the future holds in store for their children) simply left work, or their blog or whatever they are doing, and went into the streets on a given day . . . and refused to return to work, or their blog or whatever they normally do, until *some kind* of national debate began to form about the validity of continuing in the current fashion. (*Of course* covert criminality of U.S. gov't goes way back: the point being that, for once, offenses are so patent there might be broader support than usual for this sort of work strike.) *What if* everyone--anyone--disgusted by the overt criminality of the current administration (or just afraid of what the future holds in store for their children) stopped paying war taxes? *What if* everyone--anyone--disgusted by the overt criminality of the current administration (or just afraid of what the future holds in store for their children) refused to drive or buy more gas until the price went *up*? Far enough to reflect the real costs (say, at least $6 a gallon) . . . Or, to shift focus beyond the U.S., *what if* every--any--Londoner joined together, across the Muslim-Christian and brown to white spectrum, and marched into the streets to say enough is enough! no more bombs, no more shots to the head. But perhaps the collective everyone--anyone--no longer exists . . . perhaps, in the face of a lack of assurance of strength in numbers, the isolated everyone--anyone--would rather stay home, and safe, for the short term, and read about, and blog on, the current rise to fascism (or whatever you want to call the new authoritarianism). Happy (60th) Hiroshima Day . . . JS ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:08:39 +0200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anny Ballardini Subject: Re: site-specific poetry In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.2.20050806100637.02ebd2c0@mail.wayne.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Most interesting, I just linked my blog to Leiden, here is a virtual walk if you wish: http://www.muurgedichten.nl/wallpoems.html Anny Ballardini On 8/6/05, Barrett Watten wrote: > Jim-- One of the interests in moving from site on the street to my own si= te > in digital space is to complement any "set in stone" qualities of the > piece, to release it into the virtual. (A good urban site that does this > here is Lowell Boileau's *Fabulous Ruins of Detroit*). But this seems, as > well, the task of the site-specific artist--to de-monumentalize (in that > the form of the monument--religious, historical, or necrological--is goin= g > to be an element of any site-specific work). The relation of the work to > the site is where the play of perspectives might develop. Here, the stree= t > itself was doing its work--particularly in the form of a very aggressive > meter tender who had everyone on the street scurrying for their quarters > and trying to figure out the new, high-tech ticket dispenser. At another > hour there might be theater-goes passing over the plaques without noticin= g, > as I've mentioned. And there are time-based amendments to the "set in > stone" quality, particularly the Berkeley Public Works Department, who > seemed to be digging up the street almost everywhere (what looked like > graffiti was in fact their markings for pipes, cables, or what not). That > said, I wondered if the plaques themselves would last more than ten to > twenty years. Like Smithson's Spiral Jetty, they may need a future moment > of recovery. In any event, it does feel like a live, and potential if not > virtual, installation. >=20 > Barrett >=20 > > "Site-Specific Poetry: The Addison Street Project": > > > > > http://www.en= glish.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/post18.html >=20 >=20 > "written on the very firmament". very cool, barrett. written in stone or > metal or something like that. not exactly an editable text field. though = of > course it's san francisco home of the not exactly really firm firmament, > geological relatively high refresh rate. still, one wouldn't expect the > earth to swallow it for, like, millenia. or until the sidewalk is redone= , > though presumably longer than that. its ontological status is right in th= ere > with historical monuments, tombstones, and hollywood handprints. and, yes= , a > wonderful way for the people who live there to encounter a bit of the poe= try > of some of the poets to whom the place also is dear. and your documentati= on > of it on the above web page is an experience. >=20 >=20 > thinking of it in the abstract, i wondered if the experience for the poet > would have an element in it of looking at one's tombstone. but looking mo= re > carefully at the pictures on your web page, the location on the sidewalk = in > the city is not really evocative of that sort of association, perhaps. >=20 >=20 > i see that there's a bit of red graffiti by at least one of the plates. > fascinating. >=20 >=20 > ja > http://vispo.com > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:18:39 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Gothics News Service blog revival Comments: To: "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics"@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Comments: cc: UK POETRY Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Actually, attention to my blog - which has now brought over 6,000 visits in the last three days (on account of the misidentification of my name with that of the Steven Vincent, the journalist assassinated in Iraq) - has caused me to re-acknowledge my life as a journalist in opposition to the War in Iraq. Ironically, unlike my own position as a journalist, my understanding is that "Steven Vincent" was very much an early enthusiast, indeed a journalistic crusader for the Neocon aim to remove Saddam Hussein and instantly democratize Iraq - though, I believe his recent accounts were beginning to adjust his views into a more realistic focus. Consequently - besieged as my blog is by strangers looking for the remains of a dead man - and where I am still very much against the War, even more so, in view of the grief it has given so many - to serve these folks I am currently using the blog to revive pieces from the morgue of the Gothics News Service. Currently, pieces include: Viet Nam Memorial Wrapped in Protest Tony Blair and George Bush - New Site Sculpture Work Planned for Salt Lake Burning Man Festival Site in Protest Ritual (If you are interested in process, these pieces, by the way, were built as contemporary re-creations of the work and process of various site-specific sculptors). In the spirit of poetry - where the news stays news - I have given the pieces current dates of appearance. I mean, on one level or another, I believe they do they remain true! As always, you remain welcome to visit. http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com Stephen Vincent ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 21:49:04 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Blood and Gravy Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press Blood and Gravy By CHRIS FLOYD ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 07:07:13 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Side Subject: More stuff added to blog Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've added more stuff to my blog: http://jeffreyside.tripod.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 01:26:47 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: FW: RHIZOME_RAW: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - THRESHOLDS - MIT Journal of Architecture and Culture MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - THRESHOLDS 31 - 'EPHEMERA' thresholds, the bi-annual critical journal of architecture, art and media culture of the department of architecture at MIT invites submissions for issue 31 'ephemera' DUE: 31 October 2005 (please see details for submissions below) THRESHOLDS 31 - 'EPHEMERA' We have accelerated into an age in which information is as fleeting as our response to it, and the capacity for its processing the new world currency. The relevance of the moment has become eclipsed by that of its own passage, and absolute position has become an easy sacrifice for the velocity on offer. We have been at last swept by the flux of our times into a time defined by its own flux. Time has become both the axis and the function. thresholds 31 seeks to explore this condition through identifying, suggesting, tracing and questioning the notion of ephemera* through time and cultural relevance. What role does ephemera play within current cultural practice and thought? What are its historical traces and its cultural import? What are the projects in which it has become manifest – deliberately, or not – and why? Are we longing for a future or a past, or neither? Contributions from all fields including, but not limited to, scholarly works are welcome. thresholds 31 will be the first issue to accept both text and time-based media submissions. Time-based media submissions might include but are not limited to, video, sound, animation, etc. and will be published in digital format. * ephemera, n., transf. and fig. One who or something which has a transitory existence. [Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition 1989] SUBMISSIONS thresholds invites submissions, including but not limited to scholarly works, from all fields. thresholds attempts to publish only original material. Materials should be postmarked by October 31, 2005. TEXT: Manuscripts for review should be no more than 2,500 words. Text must be formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style. Spelling should follow American convention and quotations must be translated into English. All submissions must be submitted electronically, via e-mail or disk, and accompanied by hard copies of text and images. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while any accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8" x 9" print size. Figures should be numbered clearly in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author bio must accompany the text. MEDIA: Media submissions below 8MB can be submitted via e-mail to : thd@mit.edu and by disk. Submissions above 8MB must be sent on disk and/or posted on a server for download. Most common file formats will be accepted. Thresholds reserves the right to request reformatting of works for final publication. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for proprietary media use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author bio must accompany the work. submissions due: 31 October 2005 Please send materials or correspondence to: Talia Dorsey, Editor thresholds MIT Department of Architecture Room 7-337 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 USA http://architecture.mit.edu/thresholds/ inquiries: thresh@mit.edu text/image submissions: thresh@mit.edu media submissions (below 8MB): thd@mit.edu + -> post: list@rhizome.org -> questions: info@rhizome.org -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz -> give: http://rhizome.org/support -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members + Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:10:12 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Uh Ak Subject: Timeless age Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hello POETICS aome people don;t hate 'timeless age' and gave me praises which were too=20 much for me. if someone feels pleasure when read 'timeless age', and if the one reads the whole text contains timeless age, i bet he would feel far much pleasure. my works are not so good, but let's say 'timeless age' is a good work, then th= e whole text would be much better. yet, timeless age is the only part that is translated. would someone translated 'the last of text' (which is written in korean) into english? i would be grateful for him. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 13:39:30 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Nick Bredie Subject: Jack Kimball and Tim Peterson @ BPC Tuesday, 6 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Howdy Vacation House Goers, THE SUMMER IS ALMOST OVER. Leases are coming up on rentals in the Hamptons, and for pleibians like you and me, the time has come for the final installment of the best reading series in NYC that has *ever* operated on five days lead time. If the good lord's willing and the creeks don't rise, this will be our wildest show yet. Here's a wee taste from the poets/performers themselves: "Tim and Jack will be reading from their recent collaborations which are kind of post-Foucauldian wallflower-meets-gaybar anamorphoses. Jack will also be reading from his new project, Geoffrey Hell." That's right folks. We're don't know either, and that's why we're so excited. But seriously, Tim and Jack are great poets, so come for Nick and Alex's last poetic happy hour. Details and bios below: WHEN: This Tuesday 8/9 @ 6 pm WHERE: Bowery Poetry Club on Bowery between Bleeker and Houston WHAT: Poetry and 2/1 drinks like you've never seen MOMENT OF ZEN: "Victory light is deregulated/So's sex pez"--Jordan Davis BIOS: Jack Kimball is publisher of Faux Press books and the fauxpress.com/e series. He writes on poetics at , and has critical pieces in Sagetrieb, Jacket, Verse, and the Poetry Project Newsletter for which he now reports on Boston-area poetry events. His books in print include Frosted from Potes and Poets and Art in America from Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs. Tim Peterson, now beginning to learn the regional argot since moving to New York, has a first book forthcoming from Chax Press this fall. He edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts (the next issue of which will feature a tribute to Jackson Mac Low) and is guest-editor for a forthcoming issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac devoted to "New Media Poetry and Poetics." His poetry and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Antennae, artsMEDIA, The Poker, Transgender Tapestry, Five Fingers Review, Harvard Review, and VeRT composed by Alex Young, c/o Nick Bredie ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 13:53:27 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: site-specific poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i've writt3en 1/3 of my work literally on the sidewalk the real cyber space for space cases is out there yours endearingly from inside this safe black box ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 11:47:51 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rodney K Subject: Re: akuh Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Uh Ak, I envy your freedom with English, and I like these writings very much. Please keep posting here. best, Rodney ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 12:20:07 -0700 Reply-To: ishaq1823@telus.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: Words Beats and Life Inc. (WBL): an arts-based hip-hop non-profit organization MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://www.wblinc.org/ Words Beats and Life Inc. (WBL) an arts-based hip-hop non-profit organization 501 (c) (3) located in the District of Columbia. As an organization, WBL is divided into two program areas, and a publication. The program is called the Saturday Arts Academy,(listen to audio from Saturday Academy Open House) and the publication is the WB&L Journal. This website is intended to provide a number of resources to people seeking to learn more about hip-hop culture generally and WBL Inc specifically. http://www.wblinc.org/ We believe that our unique blend of arts based education; community service; edutainment events (education + entertainment) and scholarly journal make WBL an important new member of the DC non-profit community. We give special thanks to the arts based and Hip-Hop focused non-profit organizations that blazed a trail for us to follow: The Midnight Forum, Facilitating Leadership in Youth, Urban Think Tank Inc., Hip-hop Theater Junction, and Groove Gumbo. Special thanks to all of our partner agencies: Provisions Library, Empowered Women International, Candidas World of Books, The Maya Angelou Public Charter School, Soul Vegetarian Café, and the UMD Black Student Union. A special thanks goes out to each of these organizations for helping the Staff of WBL Inc continue to move forward. Mazi Anthony Edoho Mutafa, Executive http://www.wblinc.org/ THE BEAT NEWS LETTER: The Beat “The Beat” is the monthly newsletter designed to update members of the community, WBL Patrons, volunteers and staff updated. It includes information about the Saturday Arts Academy, WB&L Journal; Express Yourself Campaign, Conferences/Festivals, new Patrons, Fundraising events and new publications. This newsletter is filled with information including volunteer opportunities and grants received. It will allow WBL to be transparent about all its activities. Below you will find copies of past newsletters. http://www.wblinc.org/ ___\ Stay Strong\ \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" \ --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as)\ \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation."\ --patrick o'neil\ \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html\ \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date\ \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/\ \ } ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 12:41:27 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: matthew cooperman Subject: Colorado Review MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Poetics List-- Now available, the summer issue of COLORADO REVIEW. This issue includes a special poetry/poetics feature, "Trouble in the Garden," edited by Matthew Cooperman ESSAY by John Kinsella POEMS by Cal Bedient, Richard Deming, Ed Dorn, Mark Halliday & Martin Stannard (flash plays), Fanny Howe, Michael Magee, Sandra Miller, Ethan Paquin, Arthur Rimbaud, Elizabeth Robinson, Martha Ronk, Cole Swensen, Rosmarie Waldrop, Dean Young and others FICTION by Paul Mandelbaum, Ann Hood, Victoria Barrett and Brett Lott COLORADO REVIEW is available widely in bookstores, or go to our website: http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu, or contact editor Stephanie G'Schwind at Stephanie.Gschwind@colostate.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 17:00:15 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Behind Phalanxes Of Security Bush Peeks Out After New Insurgent Threats Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press From Behind Many Isolating Phalanxes Of Security, Bush Peeks Out After New Insurgent Threats: Faux President Peeps The Poorest Along With The Most Ignorant Of U.S. Citizens Will 'Complete the Cheney Oil Heist In Iraq' And Sets No Timetable For Pullout Because What's It To Him: Al-Qaida's deputy leader threatens more attacks on The Empire, according to videotape: The Guy, Zawahiri ,Who Embodies The Reality Of Iraq And The Middle East Has His Account Of That Reality Discounted By Blair: Media, Fearful Of their Crimes And Grasping At Straws, Says al-Zawahri Looks Tired, Could Use 5 Weeks At Crawford: Blair, Cheney Administration Having Had About Enough of Former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Murder Him.: What The World Needs Now Is Mao, More Mao; Chinese Cities And Countryside Rage At the Rich And Powerful; Americans Nap With FOX and Bochko: By JIZBO HIGHHAND They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical, whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house. One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 17:29:10 -0400 Reply-To: tyrone williams Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: tyrone williams Subject: Re: Colorado Review Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Matthew, You don't know me but I actually know some of your work via your sister who teaches at the University of the Pacific-Stockton. I met her a couple of years ago when I was out visiting a colleague/friend who also teaches at the UOP-Stockton. Congratulations too on editing the new CR. Tyrone Williams -----Original Message----- From: matthew cooperman Sent: Aug 7, 2005 3:41 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Colorado Review Dear Poetics List-- Now available, the summer issue of COLORADO REVIEW. This issue includes a special poetry/poetics feature, "Trouble in the Garden," edited by Matthew Cooperman ESSAY by John Kinsella POEMS by Cal Bedient, Richard Deming, Ed Dorn, Mark Halliday & Martin Stannard (flash plays), Fanny Howe, Michael Magee, Sandra Miller, Ethan Paquin, Arthur Rimbaud, Elizabeth Robinson, Martha Ronk, Cole Swensen, Rosmarie Waldrop, Dean Young and others FICTION by Paul Mandelbaum, Ann Hood, Victoria Barrett and Brett Lott COLORADO REVIEW is available widely in bookstores, or go to our website: http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu, or contact editor Stephanie G'Schwind at Stephanie.Gschwind@colostate.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:15:45 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Barrett Watten Subject: public artist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:22:34 -0400 Reply-To: tyrone williams Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: tyrone williams Subject: Re: public artist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mea culpa...my note to Cooperman was supposed to be backchannelled.. Tyrone p.s.--enjoyed the site-specific essay on your one-year-plan site, Barrett.. -----Original Message----- From: Barrett Watten Sent: Aug 7, 2005 6:15 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: public artist http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 20:44:27 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Maria Damon Subject: Re: public artist In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.2.20050807181447.02e0fe68@mail.wayne.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" hey, i just looked at banksy's yesterday. esp the lipstick-at-bergen-belsen piece, the "manifesto." At 6:15 PM -0400 8/7/05, Barrett Watten wrote: >http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:50:14 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: New On PeasantBlog Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Latest posts include--- Was Walt Whitman Unethical? (response to question from CA CONRAD on the phillysound blog) Show "Review": Jonathan Richman at the Make-Out Room: Poet in Performance? CONTEST: WIN a FREE CONTINUOUS PEASANT CD (or a book of poetry) WHY MTV Isn't THE PROBLEM (with an excellent comment by a woman who calls herself, "Socialism: The New Democracy") Also, an earlier post has taken on a little life of its own-- DONNA CASINGHINO On WHY People are TURNED OFF to Poetry-- has now received comments from PAM (Lu?), Heidi C. Normand and also a response to Heidi from Donna.... http://blog.myspace.com/continuouspeasant ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:31:06 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Uh Ak Subject: Re: akuh In-Reply-To: <8ee03bfe1b5f9e42a16ce9ea5c726bd1@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Thanks Rodney, this is just kiddingm, not writings. N someone says to me bellow : (p.s. -- I don't think it's a good idea to send poems to the Poetics List. They recently started a policy of " no poems" -- just announcements and discussion... although your poems were kind of crazy and interesting, you might get in trouble for posting them there.) =20 so I can;t keep posting here. N did you read my another works? in www.xqqqx.com Timeless age is my 'only' works, only translates works. it;s my Ideal. anyway, thanks 2005/8/8, Rodney K :=20 >=20 > Uh Ak, >=20 > I envy your freedom with English, and I like these writings very much. > Please keep posting here. >=20 > best, > Rodney > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 03:53:34 -0700 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Silliman's Blog Comments: To: Brit Po , Wom Po , Lucifer Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS The education of Amiri Baraka Barbara Jane Reyes: Gravities of Center The Manhattan Project in my life Piotr Sommers Continued Melville’s Omoo Breathing Fire 2: Reinventing a Canadian School of Quietude Mismatching the Merchant of Venice A nod to Alan Bramhall & Jeff Harrison (on the problem of direction in blogs) Happy 100th, Stanley Kunitz Jack Gilbert & Laura (Riding) Jackson: Separated at birth? Constructing the tale: Robert Duvall’s Assassination Tango Chicago Review: The one great college literary journal http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 07:16:22 -0400 Reply-To: nudel-soho@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: Blog..LeRoi...Blog... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 'mazin how white folk can tip-toe thru the mind-fields of hypocrisy.... mon morn..qb...drn... ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:40:42 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Waber Subject: minimalist concrete poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Poetics list, I've begun a blog-esque production whose primary emphasis will be on minimalist concrete poetry. I'm not so much interested in a succinct effective definition of it as making a sort of Poincare map that plots areas where it might be. Not so much interested in nailing it down as tying a string to it and tossing up and running and seeing if it flies. The most current entry one I'm willing to "launch" with, and is an overview of a good portion of work by the poet endwar (Andrew Russ), some of which certainly is minimalist concrete poetry, some of which may not be, all of which I found something delightful breathing inside. Lastly, I invite anyone with anything even remotely related (but still somehow related) to the concept of minimalist concrete poetry to contact me for possible inclusion, coverage, review, reference, etc. Please also forward this invitation to anyone you think who might be interested. http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ Enjoy, Dan ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:33:09 +0200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anny Ballardini Subject: Re: minimalist concrete poetry In-Reply-To: <86r7d4k3ed.fsf@argos.fun-fun.prv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Lovely that final _cheer_=20 will go through your blog more carefully, Anny On 8/8/05, Dan Waber wrote: > Poetics list, >=20 > I've begun a blog-esque production whose primary emphasis will be on > minimalist concrete poetry. I'm not so much interested in a succinct > effective definition of it as making a sort of Poincare map that plots > areas where it might be. Not so much interested in nailing it down as > tying a string to it and tossing up and running and seeing if it > flies. >=20 > The most current entry one I'm willing to "launch" with, and is an > overview of a good portion of work by the poet endwar (Andrew Russ), > some of which certainly is minimalist concrete poetry, some of which > may not be, all of which I found something delightful breathing > inside. >=20 > Lastly, I invite anyone with anything even remotely related (but still > somehow related) to the concept of minimalist concrete poetry to > contact me for possible inclusion, coverage, review, reference, > etc. Please also forward this invitation to anyone you think who might > be interested. >=20 > http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ >=20 > Enjoy, > Dan > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:53:51 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gerald Schwartz Subject: Re: The World Can't Wait (for 2008) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Your = Our... by default or otherwise. Gerald S. Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it. Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule. Your government suppresses the science that doesn¹t fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price. Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion. Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance. On November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election", we are organizing a truly massive day of resistance all over this country. People everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US. They will repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement: "NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!" http://www.worldcantwait.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:30:01 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: justin sirois Subject: reading with Linh Dinh, Brian Evenson, Amy King, Lauren Bender (NYC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit New Lights Press and Narrow House Recordings Summer / Anniversary Reading and book release party for Linh Dinh’s AMERICAN TATTS with Linh Dinh Brian Evenson Amy King and Lauren Bender Saturday August 13th at 6pm Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery New York NY 10012 (212) 614 0505 What people say about Linh: There are two kinds of readers in English, those who are passionate fans of the poetry of Linh Dinh and those who have yet to read his writing […]. Linh Dinh looks at the world with the clearest eyes imaginable, a walking example of the role of the real at the heart of the surreal. — Ron Silliman + Reading Linh Dinh is a tonic and a revelation. His poems might have taken off the top of Dickinson’s head, and then some. Linh Dinh raids and reinvents the language with an ardor bordering on delirium. — Rachel Loden ++ Brian Evenson is the author of six books of fiction, including Altmann’s Tongue, Father of Lies, Contagion, and Dark Property. He is the recipient of a NEA Fellowship, an O. Henry Prize, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Third Bed, The Southern Review, and a number of other magazines. He teaches in Brown University’s Creative Writing Program, and is a Senior Editor for Conjunctions. ++ Amy King, author of Antidotes for an Alibi, will be reading from her new manuscript, I'm the Man Who Loves You. Please visit www.amyking.org for more. ++ Lauren Bender is an artist and poet from Baltimore Maryland. She has been published in several chap books by New Lights Press and currently writes for the magazine Radar Review. http://www.narrowhouserecordings.com/ a record label primarily interested in contemporary writing, poetics and the political __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:34:16 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joel Weishaus Subject: "Adam[i]n Paradise" Revision and Addition MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is to announce the next section of "Adam[i]n Paradise," and a = revision of the first section. The project is turning out to be a single scroll, no links to a second = page. As with all such announcements, critique, scholarly or otherwise, is = more than welcome. http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/Adam/text.htm Thanks so much. -Joel ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 12:03:52 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffre Jullic Subject: LOGOPOEIA # 2 now available MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Issue # 2 of LOGOPOEIA is now in print, with poetry by mIEKAL aND RAE ARMANTROUT JOHN M. BENNETT CHARLES BORKHUIS LOUIS CABRI CAROLINE CRUMPACKER JORGE LUCIO de CAMPOS STACY DORIS LAURA ELRICK MICHAEL FARRELL ED FOSTER DREW GARDNER E. TRACY GRINNELL BRENDA IIJIMA PAUL FOSTER JOHNSON ROBERT KOCIK BRENDAN LORBER MICHAEL MAGEE CHRIS MARTIN ANGE MLINKO FRANCIS RAVEN MICHAEL SCHARF LEWIS WARSH 72 pp., perfect-bound,--- For a copy, please send a check for $6.00 made out to "Jeffrey Jullich." Mail to: Jeffrey Jullich/LOGOPOEIA 998 Amsterdam Ave., Apt. D New York, NY 10025-2234 (To view the on-line issue # 1 of LOGOPOEIA, go to http://www.logopoeialogopoeia.da.ru/) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:12:20 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Evans Subject: The Lipstick of Noise Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v728) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed As a way of better acquainting myself with the wonderful resource that is PENNSound, I'll be posting listening notes to poetry soundfiles throughout August at http://www.thirdfactory.net/lipstick.html There's a project note here http://www.thirdfactory.net/lipstick.html#project Considered so far: Erica Hunt's "Ecstasy," Linh Dinh's "Acoustics," and John Wieners's "The Garbos and Dietrichs." ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:23:22 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Shankar, Ravi (English)" Subject: Reminder - One Week Remaining for Drunken Boat's Inaugural PanLiterary Awards - MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DRUNKEN BOAT=92S FIRST ANNUAL PANLITERARY AWARDS=20 Deadline Extended to: August 15th, 2005 Judges: Annie Finch, Sabina Murray, Alexandra Tolstoy, Talan Memmott, = David Hall, and DJ Spooky=20 Drunken Boat, , international online journal = for the arts, announces its First Annual Panliterary Awards in Poetry, = Fiction, Non-Fiction, Web-Art, Photo/Video, Sound. Submit up to three = works, either via email to or via physical = mail to: Drunken Boat, 119 Main St., Chester, CT 06412. A $15 entry fee = must accompany all submissions, either via check or money order, else = submitted electronically at: = . Winners in all categories = will be featured in a subsequent issue of Drunken Boat, and will be = invited to perform at future multimedia events and performances with all = expenses paid. All other entries will be considered for publication. Submissions must be received no later than August 15th, 2005. Awards = will be given in the following genres: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, web = art, photo/video and sound. The judges for the Panliterary Awards are: Poetry=97 Annie Finch, Poet, translator, and librettist and Director of = the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of = Southern Maine, Fiction=97 Sabina Murray, 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner = =A0=20 Non-Fiction=97 Alexandra Tolstoy, Fellow of the Royal Geographical = Society, =20 Web-Art=97 Talan Memmott, 2000 trAce / Alt-X New Media Writing Award = Winner and Creative Director for the literary hypermedia journal, = BeeHive, Photo/Video=97 David Hall, Video art pioneer, TV interventionist, = installation artist, sculptor and filmmaker. = Sound=97 Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Musician, = writer, producer, editor-at-large of Artbyte, and conceptual artist = whose work has appeared in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennial = for Architecture, Works will be accepted as URLs of work online, as attachments (MSWord = files or .jpg/.gif/.zip/.swf/.html/.mp3/.mov/.wav files), or else as = hard copy, disk, or CD/DVD. Please include the phrase Panliterary Awards = in the subject line of any email submission and do not paste text = submissions into the body of the email. Email editor@drunkenboat.com or = shankarr@ccsu.edu for more information. +-+-+ Drunken Boat is a non-profit organization that depends on public = assistance for its sustenance. Please see = to make a tax-deductible = donation.+-+-+ ***************=20 Ravi Shankar=20 Poet-in-Residence=20 Assistant Professor=20 CCSU - English Dept.=20 860-832-2766=20 shankarr@ccsu.edu=20 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:34:40 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: amy king Subject: Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels ... In-Reply-To: <20050808183002.26272.qmail@web51705.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This week they're putting me up at No Tell Motel through Friday --- with new dirt daily ----- > http://www.notellmotel.org/ --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:39:57 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Scott Michael Pierce Subject: Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions to the War, and other effing news... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jim Behrle reviews Kent Johnson's Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions to the War http://thejimside.blog-city.com/lyric_poetry_after_auschwitz.htm At Hotel Point, Kent Johnson responds to Jim Behrle's review http://hotelpoint.blogspot.com/ Jim Behrle responds to Kent Johnson's response http://thejimside.blog-city.com/kent_responds.htm Tennis anyone? There are a few review copies of this book left for anyone with a serious interest. Please send me an email. IN OTHER EFFING NEWS Red Juice by Hoa Nguyen is on the verge of its second printing. For those who have backordered this book it should only be another couple of weeks. This second printing will be as beautiful as the first, if not more so. Also in a couple of weeks, by the grace of g-o-d, we'll see the release of Tony Tost's much awaited effing chapbook World Jelly. It's also a good time to announce that after only 3 issues effing magazine no longer ceases to be. Time and resources will now go toward the publication of more chapbooks and larger book projects. Letters will go out in the mail soon to those who have submitted work in the last several months. Apologies to everyone whose poetry and artwork have been tied up on the effing desk - I certainly hope and encourage you to send your work elsewhere. Thanks to everyone who sent poems and artwork over the last year and a half. I enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for the eyes. Scott Pierce www.effingpress.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:20:28 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Skinner Subject: Site-specific action Comments: To: "UB Poetics discussion group "@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I guess this is something like what I had in mind, when I asked "*what if* everyone--anyone--disgusted by the overt criminality of the current administration (or just afraid of what the future holds in store for their children) simply left work, or their blog or whatever they are doing, and went into the streets on a given day . . . and refused to return to work, or their blog or whatever they normally do, until *some kind* of national debate began to form about the validity of continuing in the current fashion?" Of the Many Deaths in Iraq, One Mother's Loss Becomes a Problem for the President http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/politics/08crawford.html? "Ms. Sheehan has vowed to camp out on the spot until Mr. Bush agrees to meet with her, even if it means spending all of August under a broiling sun by the dusty road. Early on Sunday afternoon, 25 hours after she was turned back as she approached Mr. Bush's ranch, Prairie Chapel, Ms. Sheehan stood red-faced from the heat at the makeshift campsite that she says will be her home until the president relents or leaves to go back to Washington. A reporter from The Associated Press had just finished interviewing her. CBS was taping a segment on her. She had already appeared on CNN, and was scheduled to appear live on ABC on Monday morning. Reporters from across the country were calling her cellphone. 'It's just snowballed,' Ms. Sheehan said beside a small stand of trees and a patch of shade that contained a sleeping bag, some candles, a jar of nuts and a few other supplies. 'We have opened up a debate in the country.' Seeking to head off exactly the situation that now seems to be unfolding, the administration sent two senior officials out from the ranch on Saturday afternoon to meet with her. But Ms. Sheehan said after talking to the officials--Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, and Joe Hagin, a deputy White House chief of staff--that she would not back down in her demand to see the president." Now fold poetry into *that* . . . http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ Cindy is the mother of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, KIA at Sadr City on April 4, 2004, and a co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace. Cindy is at the gates of Bush's ranch in Crawford Texas to demand that he explain to her "face to face" why Casey had to die. Bush is refusing to come out. Cindy says she's staying until Bush talks to her or leaves Texas (see NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, UK Guardian and The Lone Star Iconoclast, Bush's "home-town paper"). We can help Cindy Sheehan turn the heat up on Bush. 1-Email the White House. Send a simple three-word message, "Talk to Cindy!" The address is simply comments@whitehouse.gov 2-Call the White House comment line (202) 456-1111 (9-5, M-F EST), and/or send a postcard to George Bush, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500 with the same three words. 3-Spread the word! Send this appeal to your friends, to email lists, to blogs. Post it on websites. Let's swamp the White House with our simple three word demand: TALK TO CINDY! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:45:07 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Catherine Daly Subject: two job openings at UCLA Extension Writers' Program MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit UCLA EXTENSION WRITERS' PROGRAM HAS TWO JOB OPENINGS! SCREENWRITING REPRESENTATIVE (PROGRAM REPRESENTATIVE II): $2825 - $3300 Monthly Under the direction of the Program Director and the Program Manager, plan, manage implement, and maintain quality control of the programming and operations of approximately 175 courses in screenwriting and 50 courses in online screenwriting. This includes active participation in the program and course planning process; implementation of programs, courses, and services; the marketing of programs internally; advising students; event coordination; office administration; and supervision of the Program Assistant II in screenwriting and online screenwriting. The position is also responsible for marketing the screenwriting program externally, working with organizations, publications and conferences/events to cultivate the existing audience and expose the program to new audiences. To apply, please send cover letter and resume to Roksana Bahram, Job Code 5283, 10995 Le Conte Ave., Suite 629, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Fax: 310-206-4629. Email: resumes@uclaextension.edu PROGRAM ASSISTANT (PROGRAM ASSISTANT II): $2497 Monthly Under the supervision of the Program Representative II, the Program Assistant II provides clerical, administrative, and program support for the Creative Writing Online/Events/Literature areas of the nation's largest university-related writing program. The Program Assistant II is expected to draft and type correspondence, prepare instructor packets for mailing, track the flow of paperwork, order text books, maintain office files, order materials, and provide logistical support for events. Other duties include data entry of course information, proofreading and editing, as well as assistance in the gathering and tracking of course information and historical data. The Program Assistant II will maintain frequent contact with instructors regarding course needs or special requests and respond to these in a timely fashion, advise students with regard to class placement and help plan and prepare special events. Under the supervision of the Program Manager, the Program Assistant II will coordinate marketing material including catalog galleys and other promotional items, as well as assist the Program Manager and Program Director as requested. To apply, please send cover letter and resume to Roksana Bahram, Job Code 5283, 10995 Le Conte Ave., Suite 629, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Fax: 310-206-4629. Email: resumes@uclaextension.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _____ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group "socallitlist " on the web. * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: socallitlist-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. _____ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 00:29:14 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Fw: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CHARLIE_=22BIRD=22_PARKER_BIRTHDAY_CELEBRATIONS?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit CHARLIE “BIRD” PARKER BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS A Gathering of the Tribes (AGOTT) proudly presents its annual Charlie “Bird” Parker Birthday Festival entitled “Birds of a Feather Flock.” This year we are celebrating Parker’s 85th birthday and his inspiring creativity with an art exhibition which is available for viewing starting on August 18th. The opening party for the exhibition on August 25th from 6 to 9pm will feature live cello and piano music by Joel Freedman and Burton Green. The exhibition will continue until the end of the month. The “Birds of a Feather Flock” art exhibit features the work of an amazing line up of 40 artists. This line up includes: Sachiko Akama, Micheal Ricardo- Andreev, Desmond Beach, Randi Bloom, Jason Bryant, Daren Chambers, Seth Cohen, Ryan Compton, Ondine Wolfe Crispin, Andy Eklund, Dora Espinoza, Liz Flyntz, Julio Gonzales, Geoff Grace, Susannah Gust, Silvia Huerta, Nikki Johnson, Vincent Keane, Akiko Kitami, Faye Koo, Ashley Larive, Brian Leo, T. Charnan Lewis, Lara Marcantonio, Billy Martin, Hillary Mazlow, Marcus Morales, Cara Ober, Yuko Otomo, Spoon Popkin, Afshaan Rahman, John Ranard, Cindy Rehm, James Romberger, Lisa Shilling, Judy Simons, Rene Trevino, Allison Turrell, Dan Van Allen, & Susan Whittier. AGOTT will further celebrate Parker’s birthday with a huge “Birds of a Feather Flock” party on August 27th beginning at 12 noon with DJ Poodle Cannon. At 4pm join us for the poetry of Tish Benson, Carmen Bardeguez Brown, Steve Dalachinsky, Merry Fortune, Yuko Otomo, Amy Ouzoonian, Eve Packer, Willie Perdomo & Chavisa Woods. Each poet will read one poem by a prominent poet from Charlie Parker’s era and one of their own poems. At 6pm Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris will conduct a chorus of poets which includes Kimberly Amante, Yascha Janet Bilan, Alexander Bilu, Jessica Eubanks, Merry Fortune, Anyssa Kim, Mark Giering, Nora McCarthy, Amy Ouzoonian, Chanfal Ughi & Faye Victor. At 7pm the musical trio of “A Small Dream in Red” featuring Nora McCarthy, Jorge Sylvester & Juini Booth will perform. And at 9pm musical act Kirpal will conclude the festivities. 500 people have attended this party in the past, so don’t miss it! AGOTT will also be screening “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” upon request throughout the month. Tribes is located at: 285 East 3rd Street, 2nd Floor (between Avenues C and D) F or V train to 2nd Avenue 6 train to Bleecker Street M 9 or M14 bus from Union Square to E. 4th St. phone: (212) 674-3778 • fax: (212) 388-9813 • e-mail: info@tribes.org Check out our web site at www.tribes.org These programs are made possible in part by: The Golden Rule Foundation, Councilwoman Margaret Lopez, Bloomberg LP & Astor Wine & Spirits ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 04:25:36 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Irving Weiss Subject: Re: minimalist concrete poetry In-Reply-To: <86r7d4k3ed.fsf@argos.fun-fun.prv> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Dear Dan Waber, Since you are in touch with both Bob Grumman and Geof Huth, someone must have come up with smallest minimal concrete poem, which is l the vertical line which can be glossed almost unendingly and at its most explicit if followed by three more pages of Roman numerals, all concrete. An adjacent extension of your idea can be found in my Visual Voices (Runawa= y Spoon Press), where I look at Herrick=B9s =B3Delight in Disorder=B2 as a poem in profile: I I I I Etc. all fourteen lines of the poem seen as in profile. Visual Voices has a number of other minimalizings of more or less the same kind. I can send you a copy if this way of looking at your subject seems worth considering. There is another way of considering concrete minimalizing, emphasizing the truly concrete as in writing the word blood in blood. The centerpiece of my Number Poems contains several examples but I=B9ll have to send you the page a= s an attachment backchannel since I still don=B9t know how to get a web page other than my own, which someone else keeps current for me. In any case, your blog page is full of marvelous poemlets. All to the Good, Irving Weiss www.irvingweiss.net On 8/8/05 8:40 AM, "Dan Waber" wrote: > Poetics list, >=20 > I've begun a blog-esque production whose primary emphasis will be on > minimalist concrete poetry. I'm not so much interested in a succinct > effective definition of it as making a sort of Poincare map that plots > areas where it might be. Not so much interested in nailing it down as > tying a string to it and tossing up and running and seeing if it > flies. >=20 > The most current entry one I'm willing to "launch" with, and is an > overview of a good portion of work by the poet endwar (Andrew Russ), > some of which certainly is minimalist concrete poetry, some of which > may not be, all of which I found something delightful breathing > inside. >=20 > Lastly, I invite anyone with anything even remotely related (but still > somehow related) to the concept of minimalist concrete poetry to > contact me for possible inclusion, coverage, review, reference, > etc. Please also forward this invitation to anyone you think who might > be interested. >=20 > http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ >=20 > Enjoy, > Dan ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 04:32:43 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jason Nelson Subject: this is how you will die (needs a home) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit All.....a new creation that needs a home, needs space to forecast people's death. Any ideas for fixing, adjusting or places for it to call a living space for a while are so very much desired. "this is how you will die" A slot machine for death. http://www.secrettechnology.com/death/deathspin.htm love, Jason Nelson ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 07:01:48 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tenney Nathanson Subject: Cushing Street Bar tonight: poetry & fiction reading by JOYCE JENKINS & KATE BRAVERMAN Comments: To: Tenney Nathanson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable WELCOME BACK TO THE CHAX Press / CUSHING STREET POETRY READINGS! after a one-month absence PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS and PLEASE PASS THIS ON to all email lists having anything to do with = poetry, literature, art, etc. and PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS CO-SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA POETRY CENTER, CHAX PRESS, AND CUSHING STREET BAR & RESTAURANT Thank you! CUSHING STREET POETRY presented by Chax Press & Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant a poetry & fiction reading by=20 JOYCE JENKINS & KATE BRAVERMAN 8:00 pm, Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant 198 W. Cushing Street in Tucson, Arizona just south of Tucson Convention Center 1 block east of Main Street admission is FREE Joyce Jenkins's poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Berkeley Poetry Review, = the Bisbee Observer, and other literary journals, and has been anthologized = in Prayers at 3 AM (HarperCollins), and The Berkeley Sidewalk Anthology = edited by Robert Hass and Jessica Fisher. Her collection of poetry, Portal = (1993), was introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn Kizer. Joyce Jenkins is Editor/Publisher/Executive Director of Poetry Flash. = She has been with Poetry Flash, A Poetry Review & Literary Calendar for the West, since 1978. (Poetry Flash magazine was founded by graduate = students at San Francisco State University in 1972; it now has a circulation of = 22,000 quarterly and has grown to a 56-page newspaper from a one-sheet mimeo.) Under her direction, Poetry Flash produces the Poetry Flash @ Cody's = Poetry Series in Berkeley and sponsors the Northern California Book Awards, the Northern California Book Reviewers Association, and the annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival with former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert = Hass. Poetry Flash also produces www.poetryflash.org, a literary online = calendar and archive with over eleven thousand visits a month. She edited the California Poetry Series, a series of eight poetry books published by = Heyday Books in collaboration with Poetry Flash. She received the American Book Award in 1994, and the National Poetry Association's 1995 Award for Distinguished Service to Poets & Poetry. = She was honored in August 1996 by The National Women's Political Caucus, California for her contribution to "the enrichment of our literary and political lives." Poetry Flash received the Special Award in Publishing = from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association in 1998. Kate Braverman is a native of Los Angeles. She was educated at U.C. = Berkeley during the 1960s where she was a political activist in the anti-war and feminist movements. Braverman has published four novels: Lithium for = Medea (1979), Palm Latitudes (1988), Wonders of the West (1993), and The Incantation of Frida K. (2002). Her other books include the poetry collections Milk Run, Lullaby for Sinners, Hurricane Warnings, and = Postcard from August; and collections of short stories, Squandering the Blue and Small Craft Warnings. Her widely anthologized short story, "Tall Tales = from the Mekong Delta," won an O. Henry Award and was included in Best = American Short Stories 1991. Her work has been anthologized in the Norton = Anthology of Short Fiction, the Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, = and the Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories. She has a new book of essays, Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental = Memoir, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in February 2006. The collection was = chosen by Robert Polito as winner of the first annual Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Her other awards and honors include the Raymond Carver Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, and an Isherwood Fellowship. Kate Braverman = lives in San Francisco. charles alexander / chax press fold the book inside the book keep it open always read from the inside out speak then=20 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:09:44 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Petrodollar Warfare -- An Assassinated Press Must Read! Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse: Cheney Calls for Nuclear Strikes on Iran: US Robs France, Russia & China of $1,000,000,000,000 in Oil Lease Contracts: By William R. Clark They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical, whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house. One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:23:35 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Kelleher Subject: JUST BUFFALO E-NEWSLETTER 07-25-05 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable AUGUST OPEN READINGS Carnegie Art Center 240 Goundry St., North Tonawanda, NY (Meets monthly on the second Wednesday) Featured: Liz Mariani Wednesday, Aug 10, 7 P.M. 10 slots for open readers The Book Corner 1801 Main St., Niagara Falls, NY (Meets monthly on the third Thursday) Featured: Carrie Spadter Thursday, August 18, 7 P.M. 10 slots for open readers Rust Belt Books 202 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY (Meets the monthly on the third Sunday) Featured: Dave Lewitzky Sunday, August 21, 7 P.M. 10 slots for open readers. PREVIEW OF FALL WORKSHOPS Lyric Poetry (8 Weeks) Playwriting (6 Weeks) Short Short Fiction (I Session) The Working Writer Seminar Session 1: Writing and Publishing Feature Articles Session 2: Writing and Publishing Personal Essays Session 3: Writing Investigative Essays More details to come as they emerge... FALL READINGS IN THE NEW =22ORBITAL SERIES=22 September 8 International Women's Poetry Reading, featuring: Sally Fiedler, Yuriya Ku= magai, Kandace Lombart, Eva Tihanyi. Kara G. McKenney will accompany some poets on= the keyboards. Ann Peterson will display her photo studies of women from around= the world. 7 p.m., CEPA's Flux Gallery 29 Sesshu Foster and James Thomas Stevens, Fiction and Poetry, 7 p.m., Big = Orbit Gallery October 7 Michael Davidson, Poetry, 7 p.m., CEPA's Flux Galllery 21 John Ashbery, Poetry, 8 p.m., Albright Knox Art Gallery 28 Mark Von Schlegell, Science Fiction, Talking Leaves Books, Main St. Stor= e November 3 Kazim Ali and Ethan Paquin, Poetry, 7 p.m., Big Orbit Gallery 11Charles Blackstone, Fiction, 7 p.m., Talking Leaves, Main St. 17 Robert Fitterman and Eric Gelsiinger, Poetry, 7 p.m., Big Orbit In order to welcome everyone to the new series, all events will be free and= open to the public. Enjoy=21 More to come.... WORLD OF VOICES RESIDENCIES October 31-November 4, Genie Zeiger December 5-9, Nancy Logamarsino IF ALL OF BUFFALO READ THE SAME BOOK This year's title, The Invention of Solitude, by Paul Auster, is available = at Talking Leaves Books. All books purchased at Talking Leaves will benefit Just Buff= alo. Paul Auster will visit Buffalo October 5-6. On October 5, he will read from the = book and answer questions from the audience at Trinity Church at 8 p.m. On October 6= , Just Buffalo and Hallwalls will present a special screening of the film, =22Smok= e,=22 at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center. Paul Auster will introduce the film, w= hich will followed by a screening and discussion about his expereinces as a screenwri= ter and director. A reader's discussion guide of The Invention of Solitude is avai= lable on the Just Buffalo website. If All of Buffalo Read the Same Book is made possible with the generous su= pport of The National Endowment for the Arts, Hodgson Russ LLP, M & T Bank, WBFO 88.= 7 FM, Talking Leaves Books, The Hunt Charitable Foundation and Hunt Real Esta= te, The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Buffalo State College, The = Zemsky Family Foundation, The Simple Gifts Fund, Jeffrey and Shelley Hirshberg, Ha= llwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Penguin International, Harlequin Books and Reid Petroleum. For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Laurie Torrell or = Mike Kelleher at 832-5400. JUST BUFFALO WRITER=E2=80=99S CRITIQUE GROUP Just Buffalo=E2=80=99s member-only writer critique group is on hiatus this = summer while we settle into our new digs. It will begin again on Wednesday, September 7, a= nd will meet in CEPA=E2=80=99s Flux Gallery on the first floor of the Market Arcade. To= attend, all you need to do is join Just Buffalo. Please call 832-5400 for more info. UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will b= e immediately removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:29:53 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: ian davidson Subject: call for submissions Comments: To: BRITISH-POETS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed As a continuation of Skald's exploration of borders and boundaries in poetry, identity, and nationhood, the next issue will feature work that explores relationships between the visual and the verbal. We would welcome any approach to this area, from poetry which emphasises the visual to visual art which incorporates or suggests text. There are physical limitations. Skald, edited by Ian Davidson and Zoe Skoulding, is an A5, 32 pp publication in black and white. Photographs are possible but, while every care is taken, high quality reproduction cannot be guaranteed. Sample copies available at £2 including postage, cheque to Skald, 6 Hill Street, Menai Bridge, Anglesey LL59 5AG. Please send work to this address or by email to submissions@skald.org by September 10 2005. Payement is in copies. Would someone forward this to poetry etc please? still having problems getting through. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:23:49 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Craig Allen Conrad Subject: on c o m p e t i t i o n MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The PhillySound has been having a discussion on poets and competition. Many poets have joined in on the conversation, and if it's something you want to check out, go to the link below. CAConrad _http://PhillySound.blogspot.com_ (http://phillysound.blogspot.com/) "Art, instead of being an object made by one person, is a process set into motion by a group of people. Art's socialized." --John Cage, 1967 "I know the butterfly is my soul grown weak from battle." --John Wieners ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:00:57 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dodie Bellamy Subject: Dodie Bellamy & Janice Lee read in San Diego Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Dodie Bellamy Janice Lee read in Anna Joy Springer's TMI series (Too Much Information) Friday, August 12 7:30 p.m. (really more like 8:00) Arts and Entertainment Center 3026 University Ave. (cross street about 30th) Queer and feminist open mike to follow ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:15:33 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dodie Bellamy Subject: TMI featuring Dodie Bellamy and Janice Lee THIS FRIDAY NIGHT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Here's the official announcement. db ------------------------------------- Superstar literary badass of perverse braingames and bodysongs, Dodie Bellamy, features at TMI this Friday, August 12! With opening reading by rising star of contra-ironic heart-jabbing visual texts, Janice Lee! T.M.I. (too much information) is a literary arts extravaganza and open mic. for feminists and queers, hosted by Anna Joy and Jenny Donovan. Suggested donation is $5 - $7 sliding scale, with no one turned away for lack of funds. At Arts and Entertainment Center at 7:30 PM - 3026 University Ave., San Diego (North Park) - All Ages. Sign up for the open mic. - all original work up to 5 minutes encouraged!!! Come sling your schlock and find your flock! TMI Literary Performances by infamous San Francisco experimental narrative writer, poet, and essayist Dodie Bellamy and local cross-genre artist Janice Lee. Dodie Bellamy's latest collection of writings, Academonia, is forthcoming from Factory School Press. Pink Steam, her collection of stories, memoirs and memoiresque essays, was published in 2004 by San Francisco's Suspect Thoughts Press. Also in 2004, her infamous epistolary vampire novel, The Letters of Mina Harker, was reprinted by the University of Wisconsin Press. Her book Cunt-Ups (Tender Buttons) won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. She is currently working on The Fourth Form, a multi-dimensional sex novel. Janice Lee is studying creative writing, film, and anthropology at UCSD. She writes poetry, she makes films, and she draws cartoons involving strange relationships between monkeys and cacti. She currently edits PULP (an experimental lit mag) with Nancy, Sho, and Prayer, and also a political magazine called Axis. She loves all things avocados, likes hippos, and currently has a strange obsession with red trees. She recently won the Saier Award for Fiction, and her work can be found in Big Toe Review and Zafusy. She'll be reading from: "POWER. or On what happened when the cool cat and his younger brother tried to play God, a novella currently in the works of being rewritten, redrawn, transformed, and extended into a full graphic novel. can be considered as a graphic novel, a play, a picture book with adult content, a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction, and an ethnographic study on power. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:36:14 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Scott Michael Pierce Subject: Semezdin Mehmedinovic on Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Below is an exchange between Ammiel Alcalay and Semezdin Mehmedinovic (Bosn= ian poet, author of Sarajevo Blues; 1998, City Lights; Nine Alexandrias, 20= 03, City Lights; and numerous other books in Bosnian) about Kent Johnson's = Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz; the text was translated from Bosnian into Eng= lish by Ammiel Alcalay. Ammiel, Mon. 08 August I got the copy of Kent's book that you sent today? I read it immediately a= nd was really struck by it: beautiful, humorous, very painful and intellige= nt. I haven't read anything this fresh in a long time: my hope would be tha= t this poetry has some kind of serious effect or, barring that, that it at = least bring back some primary faith in poetry. I'm happy that you're in som= e way present here; I had the feeling while I was reading the book that it = was the direct result of your public work over the past ten years... Sem sem, i'm going to ask you if I can quote you on this because there is a controve= rsy raging on various poetry blogs now about kent's book and what you wrote= here would be perfect... Ammiel: That would make me very happy - by all means quote me if you think that it = is well enough articulated; I think that Kent's book needs to be talked abo= ut as much as possible precisely because it is unsettling; it's unsettling = to the less talented and less courageous (and that, unfortunately, includes= about 90% of the poets in America). I was reading somewhere, that one of t= he mindless assertions (but today typical) written on one of the blogs is t= hat the war in Iraq (the one Kent's book is dealing with) is 'old news.' We= ll, that's a terrifying phrase, not just because the war is ongoing and eve= n more horrendous measures are in preparation but because, let's say, Hiros= hima then is old news and poetry shouldn't try to deal with it, as if poetr= y were some prime time TV show. What must be most unnerving for poets here = is the freshness of Kent's book on all levels - on the formal and every oth= er level, because it's alive, it's speaking of reality, while most American= poets would still rather go on writing about anything and everything excep= t themselves in the world they're in, and certainly not about things that a= re so unsettling; what's more, they've been writing about nothing so long, = that they're not in any position to write about anything concrete; the fres= hness of Kent's book completely overshadows most of what's being written no= w and it doesn't at all surprise me that there would be negative reactions = among "the poets." But this actually really saddens me. Because the book op= ens a dialog with serious problems that all of us on this planet are living with, while a reaction like that m= akes it seem as if all that is at stake here is cleansing relations between= poets and their conscience. But now I'm telling you things you know a lot = more about and better than I do. So, that's it, I just want to say that I'm= not at all indifferent to what is going on, that the whole thing hits very= close to home for me. s. --- www.effingpress.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:00:58 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: TINFISH swims again MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Having just swum in to Kaneohe from Bushcity, USA, and previously form Madrid (where gay marriage is legal and condoms are advertised in the subway) I'd like to announce that the following Tinfishes are now available: Deborah Meadows's _Growing Still_ (see Lance Phillips's review in Jacket 28, along with a review of our Ho Chi Minh poems by someone else--ah, jetlag) Padcha Tantha-obas's _composite diplomacy_ Sherman Souther's _surgical bru ez_ Yunte Huang's _cribs_ As soon as we glue the chum pencils on, Tinfish 15 will be available, as well. See tinfishpress.com for details under New Stuff. Credit cards can be used, or you can send checks to the address listed on our site. http://tinfishpress.com aloha, Susan ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:48:52 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: Re: minimalist concrete poetry In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i a very small minimalist poem komninos zervos homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs |||-----Original Message----- |||From: UB Poetics discussion group = [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] |||On Behalf Of Irving Weiss |||Sent: Tuesday, 9 August 2005 6:26 PM |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU |||Subject: Re: minimalist concrete poetry ||| |||Dear Dan Waber, ||| |||Since you are in touch with both Bob Grumman and Geof Huth, someone = must |||have come up with smallest minimal concrete poem, which is ||| ||| l ||| |||the vertical line which can be glossed almost unendingly and at its = most |||explicit if followed by three more pages of Roman numerals, all = concrete. ||| |||An adjacent extension of your idea can be found in my Visual Voices |||(Runaway |||Spoon Press), where I look at Herrick=B9s =B3Delight in Disorder=B2 = as a poem |||in |||profile: ||| |||I |||I |||I |||I |||Etc. ||| |||all fourteen lines of the poem seen as in profile. Visual Voices = has a |||number of other minimalizings of more or less the same kind. I can = send |||you |||a copy if this way of looking at your subject seems worth = considering. ||| |||There is another way of considering concrete minimalizing, = emphasizing |||the |||truly concrete as in writing the word blood in blood. The centerpiece = of |||my |||Number Poems contains several examples but I=B9ll have to send you = the page |||as |||an attachment backchannel since I still don=B9t know how to get a web = page |||other than my own, which someone else keeps current for me. ||| |||In any case, your blog page is full of marvelous poemlets. ||| ||| |||All to the Good, ||| |||Irving Weiss ||| ||| www.irvingweiss.net ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| |||On 8/8/05 8:40 AM, "Dan Waber" wrote: ||| |||> Poetics list, |||> |||> I've begun a blog-esque production whose primary emphasis will be = on |||> minimalist concrete poetry. I'm not so much interested in a = succinct |||> effective definition of it as making a sort of Poincare map that = plots |||> areas where it might be. Not so much interested in nailing it down = as |||> tying a string to it and tossing up and running and seeing if it |||> flies. |||> |||> The most current entry one I'm willing to "launch" with, and is an |||> overview of a good portion of work by the poet endwar (Andrew = Russ), |||> some of which certainly is minimalist concrete poetry, some of = which |||> may not be, all of which I found something delightful breathing |||> inside. |||> |||> Lastly, I invite anyone with anything even remotely related (but = still |||> somehow related) to the concept of minimalist concrete poetry to |||> contact me for possible inclusion, coverage, review, reference, |||> etc. Please also forward this invitation to anyone you think who = might |||> be interested. |||> |||> http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ |||> |||> Enjoy, |||> Dan ||| |||-- |||No virus found in this incoming message. |||Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. |||Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.5/67 - Release Date: = 9/08/05 ||| --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.5/67 - Release Date: 9/08/05 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 22:56:15 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Now Available: LYRIC POETRY AFTER KENT JOHNSON Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit hi all, i don't know anything about this, jim barely returns my calls anymore, but he asked me to post it and if you buy it he just might take off the blue wig he's taken to wearing at readings so you don't pay attention to what he's saying. LYRIC POETRY AFTER KENT JOHNSON: 11 SUBMISSIONS TO THE BLOG-WAR by Jim Behrle (September 2005, New Erections) at: http://lyricpoetryafterkentjohnson.blogspot.com/ best, david ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:53:04 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "editor@deaddrunkdublin.com" Subject: new writers & poets on deaddrunkdublin, and some familiars too Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed d e a d d r u n k d u b l i n & other imaginal spaces p r e s e n t s new writers: stephen moran cLoco the clown carmencita haverty the silver circle (incl live reading) russell bittner the girl from baku 1 - 6 new poetry: maria pace monica pace christopher locke mairead byrne andrew lundwall l. ward abel michael k. gause darran anderson marissa ranello tom wright d. garcia wahl terri carrion gregorio racadio sonja broderick (live readings) john bryan http://www.deaddrunkdublin.com/?buf to subscribe to our occasional ezine for updates, mail subscribe@deaddrunkdublin.com enjoy! andrew lovatt, editor "it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - antoine de saint-exupery "you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus" - mark twain ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 03:32:13 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: this is how you will die (needs a home) In-Reply-To: <20050809113243.26634.qmail@web30215.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That's quite a charming little machine there, Jason. And I like the concept. ja > "this is how you will die" A slot machine for death. > > http://www.secrettechnology.com/death/deathspin.htm > > love, Jason Nelson ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 04:27:28 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: justin sirois Subject: new issue of rock heals MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit weekly art & poetics from Baltimore and DC:: http://www.rockheals.com/ http://www.narrowhouserecordings.com/ a record label primarily interested in contemporary writing, poetics and the political ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:26:58 +0100 Reply-To: wild honey press Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: wild honey press Subject: Mairead Byrne and Lissa Wolsak: New from Wild Honey Press Comments: To: BRITISH-POETS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, crewrt-l@interversity.org, POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, UKPoetry , WOM-PO@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Apologies if you receive this more than once. Wild Honey Press is delighted to announce the following new publications: Vivas by Mairéad Byrne and A Defence of Being by Lissa Wolsak Vivas by Mairéad Byrne. 14.5x16 cm, 20 pages, 250 gsm white Strata card cover, pale blue endpapers, hand-sewn with azure twist. Cover image, Memoirs of Milk Bottles, Gold Tops 2003, by Tina Lauren Vietmeier. Price euro 5 / USD 5 / STG 3.50 Explore the metaphysics of the eaten bagel as you enter the carnival world of Mairéad Byrne's latest chapbook. Pitch past pitch of passion, over-stuffed sofas, Polar ice shelves, film stars, savings accounts, glorious sights and dairy products are yours as your dreams, or someone else's, come true in a journey sans safety belt across fourteen streaming poems with rainbows inside. A Defence of Being by Lissa Wolsak 14x21 cm, 48 pages, 250 gsm Green Strata card cover, black endpapers, hand sewn with green twist. Colour illustration by Allen Fisher. ISBN 1 903090 42 3 Price: euro 7 / USD 7 / STG 4.50 As George Quasha comments: If I were to argue at this late date of post-culture the view that "poets are born, not made", Lissa Wolsak would be my preferred instance, along with, say, Emily Dickinson or HD - poets through and through, for whom poetry is not so much choice as life-sustaining access to its own intelligible current. Such poets are often outsiders in the sense that their work by its nature is without precedent. That her extraordinary ear for actual speech nuance (however idiolectual) bespeaks the values of a living poetics in the historical context of unconsciously suicidal public discourse; its freshness and always surprising invention of her own revelatory process has no near neighbors. And if she calls a new thinking into play, it is so utterly without dogma and so sensitive to the free movement of mind that its humanness and compassionate nature stand forward. Therein lies her actual politics, alive in the action of what she calls "co-mercy". A hard act to co-opt. More information, including extracts from and images of the chapbooks, can be found by clicking the links at www.wildhoneypress.com Since literature is the best currency, swaps are welcome. best Randolph Randolph Healy www.wildhoneypress.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:10:05 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kerri Sonnenberg Subject: Discrete Series (Chicago) presents Rick Snyder & Chuck Stebelton Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable _________THE DISCRETE SERIES @ 3030__________ presents...poets..:::Rick Snyder:::::::Chuck Stebelton Friday, August 12 9PM / 3030 W. Cortland / $5 suggested donation / BYOB Chuck Stebelton works as Literary Program Manager at Woodland Pattern Book Center, a non-profit arts organization in Milwaukee, and co-curates the Myopic Poetry Series, a weekly series of readings and occasional talks at Myopic Books in Chicago.=A0 He is the author Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005) and Precious, an Answer Tag chapbook.=A0 Newer work appears in recent issues of Antennae, Jubilat, LVNG, Moira, Rust Buckle, and Chain 12: Facts. Rick Snyder is the author of Blueprint (811 Books, 1999), Double Ear (811 Books, 1999), Forecast Memorial (Duration, 2002), and Flown Season (Portabl= e Press, 2004). In 2003, Situations published his translations of Catullus=B9 poems 1-30 as This Charming New Chapbook. He currently lives in Los Angeles and studies comparative literature at the University of Southern California= . =A0 ***This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from an anonymous donor*** 3030 is a former Pentecostal church located at 3030 W. Cortland Ave., one block south of Armitage between Humboldt Blvd. and Kedzie. Parking is easiest on Armitage. The Discrete Series presents an event of poetry/music/performance/something on the second Friday of each month. For more information about this or upcoming events, email kerri@lavamatic.com. Coming up...a smashing September! :::DUE TO THE CLOSURE OF 3030 FUTURE DISCRETE EVENTS WILL BE VENUE-VARIABLE:::: 9/9:::Michael Robins & Elizabeth Robinson @ The Spare Room, 9 p.m. 9/16::Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop @ The Spare Room, 7 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE EARLIER TIME FOR THIS EVENT) **this event partially funded by a grant from Poets&Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from an anonymous donor** 9/17::Goodbye 3030 Bash featuring performances by musicians from the Elastr= o and Thursday Improv Series as well as Discrete readings by: Amina Cain, Jennifer Karmin, John Tipton, Joel Craig and others! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:57:48 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harriet Zinnes Subject: Re: new writers & poets on deaddrunkdublin, and some familiars too MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Staff Please note that my new e-mail address is HZinnes@rcn.com. Thank you. Sincerely Harriet Zinnes ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:39:36 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Secular Jewish Practice / Radical Jewish Poetry -- the video Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed "Secular Jewish Culture / Radical Poetic Practice" a video of the panel is now available at PennSound http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/AJHS.html Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004 Center for Jewish History / American Jewish Historical Society a public forum with Paul Auster, Charles Bernstein (chair/organizer), Kathryn Hellerstein, Stephen Paul Miller, Marjorie Perloff, Jerome Rothenberg ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:34:46 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Catherine Daly Subject: LA: Michael Webster w/ text by Diane Ward at Schindler House 8/26 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit sound. at the SCHINDLER HOUSE _____________________________________________ (the first night of "SCORES COMPOSED FOR THE MOVING IMAGE") Friday, August 26: Michael Webster, known for his work with Sharon Lockhart, Simon Leung and Joe Sola, premiers Fade on Family -- a song without a singer -- with text by Diane Ward. Doors open at 7 p.m. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Advance admission $16; $12 students To view the complete program and/or purchase tickets via SASSAS's soundNet website: www.soundNet.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:41:10 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Irving Weiss Subject: Re: minimalist concrete poetry In-Reply-To: <000001c59d56$0b5698a0$8e00a8c0@qld.bigpond.net.au> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable O Kominos, What a si(gh)te! May the One and the Many, the flea and the elephant, lie down together in the popoetic(s) night ! I have just got a Mac Panther and can finally begin to see what I know you/ve been Doing and Undoing. If Minimal goes to Maximal in one direction, what about Minimal to Redundancy in the other? I=B9ll have to backchannel alas my example. Irving www.irvingweiss.net On 8/9/05 10:48 PM, "K Zervos" wrote: > i >=20 >=20 > a very small minimalist poem > komninos zervos > homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos > broadband experiments: > http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs >=20 >=20 > |||-----Original Message----- > |||From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU= ] > |||On Behalf Of Irving Weiss > |||Sent: Tuesday, 9 August 2005 6:26 PM > |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > |||Subject: Re: minimalist concrete poetry > ||| > |||Dear Dan Waber, > ||| > |||Since you are in touch with both Bob Grumman and Geof Huth, someone mu= st > |||have come up with smallest minimal concrete poem, which is > ||| > ||| l > ||| > |||the vertical line which can be glossed almost unendingly and at its mo= st > |||explicit if followed by three more pages of Roman numerals, all concre= te. > ||| > |||An adjacent extension of your idea can be found in my Visual Voices > |||(Runaway > |||Spoon Press), where I look at Herrick=B9s =B3Delight in Disorder=B2 as a poe= m > |||in > |||profile: > ||| > |||I > |||I > |||I > |||I > |||Etc. > ||| > |||all fourteen lines of the poem seen as in profile. Visual Voices has= a > |||number of other minimalizings of more or less the same kind. I can sen= d > |||you > |||a copy if this way of looking at your subject seems worth considering. > ||| > |||There is another way of considering concrete minimalizing, emphasizing > |||the > |||truly concrete as in writing the word blood in blood. The centerpiece = of > |||my > |||Number Poems contains several examples but I=B9ll have to send you the p= age > |||as > |||an attachment backchannel since I still don=B9t know how to get a web pa= ge > |||other than my own, which someone else keeps current for me. > ||| > |||In any case, your blog page is full of marvelous poemlets. > ||| > ||| > |||All to the Good, > ||| > |||Irving Weiss > ||| > ||| www.irvingweiss.net > ||| > ||| > ||| > ||| > ||| > ||| > |||On 8/8/05 8:40 AM, "Dan Waber" wrote: > ||| > |||> Poetics list, > |||> > |||> I've begun a blog-esque production whose primary emphasis will be on > |||> minimalist concrete poetry. I'm not so much interested in a succinct > |||> effective definition of it as making a sort of Poincare map that plo= ts > |||> areas where it might be. Not so much interested in nailing it down a= s > |||> tying a string to it and tossing up and running and seeing if it > |||> flies. > |||> > |||> The most current entry one I'm willing to "launch" with, and is an > |||> overview of a good portion of work by the poet endwar (Andrew Russ), > |||> some of which certainly is minimalist concrete poetry, some of which > |||> may not be, all of which I found something delightful breathing > |||> inside. > |||> > |||> Lastly, I invite anyone with anything even remotely related (but sti= ll > |||> somehow related) to the concept of minimalist concrete poetry to > |||> contact me for possible inclusion, coverage, review, reference, > |||> etc. Please also forward this invitation to anyone you think who mig= ht > |||> be interested. > |||> > |||> http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ > |||> > |||> Enjoy, > |||> Dan > ||| > |||-- > |||No virus found in this incoming message. > |||Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > |||Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.5/67 - Release Date: 9/08/05 > ||| ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:52:59 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "St. Thomasino" Subject: Logoclasody, Red Barge Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed . Towards a poetics. Logoclasody. ody / ode / aeidein, to sing. Logoclasody at The Argotist Online http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Thomasino%20essay.htm . Red Barge at Aught 14 http://people2.clarityconnect.com/webpages6/ronhenry/stthom14.htm . Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino http://eratio.blogspot.com/ . ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:22:47 +0200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anny Ballardini Subject: Re: Secular Jewish Practice / Radical Jewish Poetry -- the video In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050810123738.02a505d8@writing.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I watched it _ compliments to all.=20 Marjorie Perloff's speech was the most familiar to me since I live in Europe, as a matter of fact in South Tryol, being North Tyrol, Austria. Re.: Franz Joseph, he was a great Emperor, history says, I don't think it was that difficult to love him, and Maria Theresia his mother, an incredibly enlightened lady who introduced compulsory education (1740-1780). Anny Ballardini On 8/10/05, Charles Bernstein wrote: > "Secular Jewish Culture / Radical Poetic Practice" >=20 > a video of the panel is now available at PennSound >=20 > http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/AJHS.html >=20 > Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004 > Center for Jewish History / American Jewish Historical Society > a public forum with Paul Auster, Charles Bernstein (chair/organizer), > Kathryn Hellerstein, > Stephen Paul Miller, Marjorie Perloff, Jerome Rothenberg > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:40:45 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harriet Zinnes Subject: new email address MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Staff Please note that my new email address is Hzinnes@rcn.com. Thank you. Sincerely Harriet Zinnes ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:42:10 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: TINFISHES AND MORE TINFISHES Comments: To: Gary Pak , Geraldine Monk , Ken J Goto , Lesa Griffith , Peter James Gilbertson , galeai@hawaii.edu, gini@dietrichs.net, gman@hawaii.edu, gmott@hearst.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit SUMMER TINFISH CATCH Tinfish continues to publish the best in Pacific region experimental poetry. Don’t miss the boat! Now available for purchase and consumption at http://tinfishpress.com (see “New Stuff” for descriptions, bios, and photos) and “Credit Card” for easy payment: Deborah Meadows, Growing Still, $8 Padcha Tuntha-obas, composite.diplomacy., $9 Sherman Souther, Surgical Bru ez, $10 Yunte Huang, Cribs, $12.95 Tinfish 15, $8 or a subscription for 3 of $20: includes work by Kim Hye-sun, Jacinta Galea`i, Maged Zaher, Rob Wilson, Meredith Quartermain, Leonard Schwartz, Caroline Sinavaiana, Robert Sullivan and many many more. You finish the centerfold with a chum pencil glued onto the cover. All of these publications feature original design work by artists from Hawai`i. And, while you’re at it, order a copy of the University of Alabama’s newest book in its Modern and Contemporary Poetics series, Rosmarie Waldrop’s Dissonance. There’s a 30% discount until September 5. For details, please contact series co-editor Hank Lazer at hlazer@bama.ua.edu More is coming, but this was our biggest harvest of the year. Aloha, Susan M. Schultz Editor Gaye Chan Art Director ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:11:14 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: PHILIP WHALEN COLLECTED MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Everyone, I am working on the Complete Collected poems of Philip Whalen and nearly = done with the job. I would appreciate it if any of you, or your friends, = have poems by Philip Whalen from small magazines, mimeos, letters, that = you think have never been published, please send me a photo copy at: = Michael Rothenberg, 1914 Pierce St., Hollywood, FL 33020. I would = appreciate any help you can give.=20 Best regards,=20 Michael Michael Rothenberg walterblue@bigbridge.org Big Bridge www.bigbridge.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:39:01 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: PHILIP WHALEN COLLECTED MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Everyone, I am working on the Complete Collected poems of Philip Whalen and nearly = done with the job. I would appreciate it if any of you, or your friends, = have poems by Philip Whalen from small magazines, mimeos, letters, that = you think have never been published, please let me know by e-mail, and = send me a photo copy at: Michael Rothenberg, 1914 Pierce St., Hollywood, = FL 33020. I would appreciate any help you can give. =20 Best regards,=20 Michael Michael Rothenberg walterblue@bigbridge.org Big Bridge www.bigbridge.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:16:27 -0400 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Organization: Pavement Saw Press Subject: One of our authors MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just wanted to mention, this week one of our authors is interviewed on Lance Phillips' site, the book is $12 p/p to the US if you are interested-- ------ Hello all, There's a new interview up at Here Comes Everybody (http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com). It's Sofia M. Starnes. I hope you all will have a look. Thanks. Take care, Lance --------- Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus OH 43206 USA http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:50:50 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: James Finnegan Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?DRUNKEN=20BOAT=E2=80=99S=20FIRST=20ANNUAL=20PANLITERAR?= =?UTF-8?Q?Y=20AWARDS=20=20?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DRUNKEN BOAT=E2=80=99S FIRST ANNUAL PANLITERARY AWARDS=20 Deadline Extended to: August 15th, 2005 Judges: Annie Finch, Sabina Murray, Alexandra Tolstoy, Talan Memmott, David=20 Hall, and DJ Spooky=20 Drunken Boat, , international online journal fo= r=20 the arts, announces its First Annual Panliterary Awards in Poetry, Fiction,=20 Non-Fiction, Web-Art, Photo/Video, Sound. Submit up to three works, either v= ia=20 email to or via physical mail to: Drunken Boat= ,=20 119 Main St., Chester, CT 06412. A $15 entry fee must accompany all=20 submissions, either via check or money order, else submitted electronically=20= at:=20 . Winners in all categories will= be=20 featured in a subsequent issue of Drunken Boat, and will be invited to perfo= rm at=20 future multimedia events and performances with all expenses paid. All other=20 entries will be considered for publication. Submissions must be received no later than August 15th, 2005. Awards will be= =20 given in the following genres: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, web art,=20 photo/video and sound. The judges for the Panliterary Awards are: Poetry=E2=80=94 Annie Finch, Poet, translator, and librettist and Director o= f the=20 Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mai= ne,=20 Fiction=E2=80=94 Sabina Murray, 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner=20 =20 Non-Fiction=E2=80=94 Alexandra Tolstoy, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Soc= iety,=20 =20 Web-Art=E2=80=94 Talan Memmott, 2000 trAce / Alt-X New Media Writing Award W= inner and=20 Creative Director for the literary hypermedia journal, BeeHive,=20 Photo/Video=E2=80=94 David Hall, Video art pioneer, TV interventionist, inst= allation=20 artist, sculptor and filmmaker. Sound=E2=80=94 Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Musician,=20= writer,=20 producer, editor-at-large of Artbyte, and conceptual artist whose work has=20 appeared in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennial for Architecture,=20 Works will be accepted as URLs of work online, as attachments (MSWord files=20 or .jpg/.gif/.zip/.swf/.html/.mp3/.mov/.wav files), or else as hard copy, di= sk,=20 or CD/DVD. Please include the phrase Panliterary Awards in the subject line=20 of any email submission and do not paste text submissions into the body of t= he=20 email. Email editor@drunkenboat.com or shankarr@ccsu.edu for more informatio= n. +-+-+ Drunken Boat is a non-profit organization that depends on public=20 assistance for its sustenance. Please see=20 to make a tax-deductible donati= on.+-+-+ _______________________________________________ New-Poetry mailing list New-Poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:30:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: poetics@BUFFALO.EDU Subject: About the Poetics List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Poetics List Sponsored by: The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania) and the Regan Chair (Department of English) & Center for Program in Contemporary Writing (University of Pennsylvania) Poetics List Editorial Board: Charles Bernstein, Lori Emerson, Joel Kuszai, Nick Piombino. 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Your account may become flooded and you may lose Poetics messages as well as other important mail. In such cases, switch your subscription to "nomail" as recommended above. 5. To Unsubscribe To unsubscribe (or change any of your subscription options), again, we strongly encourage you to go to the right-hand side of the screen at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/poetics.html You may also may unsubscribe by sending a one-line email to with no "subject": unsub poetics If you are having difficulty unsubscribing, please note: sometimes your e-mail address may be changed slightly by your system administrator. If this happens you will not be able to send messages to Poetics or to unsubscribe, although you will continue to receive mail from the Poetics List. To avoid this problem, unsub using your old address, then resubscribe with your new email address. 6. Cautions "Flame" messages will not be tolerated on the Poetics List. We define 'flaming' as any post that resembles a personal attack or personal insult to anyone--subscriber or not. This of course includes racial slurs as well as ad hominem arguments in which the person rather than their work is attacked; in other words while critique of a person's work is welcome (critical inquiry is one of the main functions of the list), this critique cannot extend to a critique or criticism of the person. The listserv is intended to be a productive communal space for discussion and announcements; as such, subscribers who do not follow listserv policy on flaming will be removed from the subscription roll. For reasons of basic security, we do not allow pseudonymous subscriptions. All messages intended for the Poetics List should be sent in Text-Only format, without attachments. We do not accept HTML- formatted messages or attached files. As a general rule, keep individual posts to 1,000 words or less. Please do not publish list postings without the express permission of the author. Posting on the list is a form of publication. Copyright for all material posted on Poetics remains with the author; material from this list and its archive may not be reproduced without the author's permission, beyond the standard rights accorded by "fair use" of published materials. All material on the Poetics List remains the property of the authors; before you reproduce this material, in whole or in part, we ask that you get permission (by email is fine) from the authors. If they give permission, then we ask only that you say that the post or posts appeared originally on the Poetics List (http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html) on [give date and say:] Used by permission of the author. As an outside maximum, we will accept no more than 2 messages per day from any one subscriber. Also, given that our goal is a manageable list (manageable both for moderators and subscribers), the list accepts 50 or fewer messages per day. Like all systems, the listserv will sometimes be down: if you feel your message has been delayed or lost, *please wait at least one day to see if it shows up*, then check the archive to be sure the message is not posted there; if you still feel there is a problem, you may wish to contact the editors at . ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:32:14 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: floating bear: a newsletter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If anyone out there has a copy of Floating Bear: a newsletter, published = in 1973, there is a selection of Whalen poems. I don't have this book = and can't find it except on line at very high price. I would really like = to know the titles of the poems in that anthology. Please write me with = titles if you happen to own a copy. Thanks for continued help. Best, Michael Michael Rothenberg walterblue@bigbridge.org Big Bridge www.bigbridge.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:22:10 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Hoerman Subject: poetry news from Mass. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Contemporary Reading Series in Lowell Sabrina Orah Mark and Howard Camner will read on Friday 9/30 at 7PM at the Revolving Museum in Lowell. This is the second event in a reading series that opened with Ilya Kaminsky on 6/3. Revolving Museum, 22 Shattuck St, Lowell, Mass. Reading at Charlestown Navy Yard Major Jackson, Paul Marion, Sabrina Orah Mark and Howard Camner will read on 10/1 at 7PM at the USS Constitution Museum in the Charlestown Navy Yard in conjunction with The Secret Ark of Icon Park, a temporary public art work by Jerry Beck and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Vita Brevis. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:52:06 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Matt Henriksen Subject: Brooklyn New Poets on Friday, August 12th MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Amy King & Justin Marks Friday, August 12th, 7:30 PM @ The Fall Café 307 Smith Street between Union & President F/G to Carroll Street Come celebrate the official release of the first Kitchen Press chapbook, Justin Marks’ You Being You by Proxy. He will be reading with Amy King, who has poems going up all week at No To Motel < http://www.notellmotel.org>. Copies of You Being You By Proxy, as well as the tiny and other small-run magazines will be available for purchase. AMY KING is the author of the poetry collections, Antidotes for an Alibi (Blazvox Books), a Lambda Book Award finalist, and the chapbook, The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press). Her poems have appeared in such publications as The Brooklyn Rail, Milk Magazine, The Mississippi Review, Riding the Meridian, and Shampoo Poetry, and her work is included in the textbook, Accessing Literature (Wadsworth). She teaches full time at Nassau Community College and has taught at Brooklyn College. King holds an M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. Justin Marks has poems in or forthcoming from Typo, Black Warrior Review, The New York Quarterly, Euphony, Redivider and Sidereality. A series of essays, "Three Rooms: The Poetry of Denis Johnson, August Kleinzahler, and Franz Wright," will be in issue 61 of The New York Quarterly. He is editor of LIT magazine and lives in New York City. Amy’s books: http://www.blazevox.org/books/ak.htm http://www.pavementsaw.org/thepeople.htm Amy’s blog: http://www.amyking.org/blog Justin’s books: http://www.kitchenpresschapbooks.blogspot.com Justin’s magazine: http://lit-magazine.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:16:28 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: ALDON L NIELSEN Subject: Re: floating bear: a newsletter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Michael -- I have that book, but it's in Pennsylvania and I'm not -- I head back there the end of the month, so email me then if you don't have an answer yet On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:32:14 +0000, Michael Rothenberg wrote: > If anyone out there has a copy of Floating Bear: a newsletter, published in 1973, there is a selection of Whalen poems. I don't have this book and can't find it except on line at very high price. I would really like to know the titles of the poems in that anthology. Please write me with titles if you happen to own a copy. Thanks for continued help. > Best, Michael > Michael Rothenberg > walterblue@bigbridge.org > Big Bridge > www.bigbridge.org > > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Breaking in bright Orthography . . ." --Emily Dickinson Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature The Pennsylvania State University 116 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:58:17 +0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bob Marcacci Subject: Re: About the Poetics List In-Reply-To: <1123777850.42fb7d3ad2542@mail1.buffalo.edu> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Is your message being posted because the information within has changed? It would be nice to know which information has changed, if any. Is your message being posted because someone breached the etiquette of the list? It would be nice to know which kind of message was in error. Is your message being posted as a gentle reminder of the lists policies only? It would be nice to know that you were simply reminding us. Thanks. -- Bob Marcacci It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. - Henry David Thoreau > From: poetics@BUFFALO.EDU > Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:30:50 -0400 > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: About the Poetics List > > The Poetics List > > Sponsored by: The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of > Pennsylvania) and the Regan Chair (Department of English) & Center for > Program in Contemporary Writing (University of Pennsylvania) > > Poetics List Editorial Board: > Charles Bernstein, Lori Emerson, Joel Kuszai, Nick Piombino. > > Poetics Subscription Registration (required) > poetics@buffalo.edu > > Poetics Subscription Requests: > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/poetics.html > > Poetics Listserv Archive: > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/poetics.html > > C O N T E N T S: > 1. 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Also, given that our goal is a manageable list > (manageable both for moderators and subscribers), the list accepts 50 > or fewer messages per day. > > Like all systems, the listserv will sometimes be down: if you feel your > message has been delayed or lost, *please wait at least one day to see > if it shows up*, then check the archive to be sure the message is not > posted there; if you still feel there is a problem, you may wish to > contact the editors at . ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:18:25 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: One of our authors Comments: To: editor@pavementsaw.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi david nice seeing your name up there again ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:40:12 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gregory Betts Subject: Announcing: If Language by Gregory Betts (BookThug 2005) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hi everybody, new book of poems by me. actually, my first 'trade' book: If Language (BookThug 2005). 56 perfect anagrams strung along a bead of possible languages. not available in bookstores yet, excepting the publisher at bookthug.ca if you follow the bookthug links, you will end up at this rather inelegant url: http://www.bookthug.ca/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=BookThug&Product_Code=1026&Category_Code=AA here's the hype thus far: If Language was a short-listed finalist for Rhode Island's Spineless Books Fitzpatrick O’Dinn Award for constraint based writing in 2004. and blurbs: ‘If language can be nihilistic in its wit, if language can be simplistic in its fun – then this book truly uncovers all the ‘abracadabras’ hidden deep a million ages ago within even the most unmagical of all grammatical limitations... Even the most philistine critics admit that this feat appears impossible -- still its delights persist.’ – Christian Bök. 'If Language is not only a unique way of telling but a unique way of listening, as delicate as it is obsessive. Betts disassembles each word gently, with a sensitive and tender ear, listening to the sound of a single paragraph, to the space in it that is both occupied and unoccupied, for omissions and possibilities... While authorship and voice, even meaning and form itself, are uncertain in If Language, these 56 discrete but intimately connected children are entirely original, and entirely essential.' - JC Bellringer. ISBN 0-9737181-6-1; 107pp; perfectbound. a few examples below.... over and out, gregory betts -- "Literature is news that stays news." -- Ezra Pound -- "Everything is screwed up. Wrap yourself in black. Listen to the Cure." -- Better than Ezra If Language (excerpts) 27. He scans the headlines of the morning newspaper for anagrams. He can’t accept their topology and flips back to a more inhibited reading. His pen in hand crosses out all subtle words, adds letters and re-punctuates every telling. With scissors he inserts deletions, insisting all the while it is no violent act, but for his frank type of truth. He turns to the television, forgets the objectivity of [if] language inhibited by its lush sensuality of images. A magical, illogical lump of cartoon authorizes artificiality. He laughs at comic falls, gaming up to logic with implicit affirmation. His climactic sublime disappears, a lunch coffee fouled. 28. A basement leak, the rodents bristle, insects surge compass wire, old men thru puddles passing cautious candle-like glisten. Refractory tho incantatory pass thru puddles difficult hallway, Lascaullion etchings shift in motion cave history, filthier gloom. Threatening to catch bare moon divide the finer flames and sanctuary as that of hell. Strange bohemian figures wait among ochre outlines, signal the whole chamber music in doubting plea. Fighting its fiery feet, guide gazer: it is written violence; it is for poems. Fifty ill felines echo utopia, pout in photoic jails, as if this flash against biblical caves spoilt philosophic tact. 33. The night is video deposits, what we mine of callous clowns in the july concretion. Sibilance embraces the skittish imposition of august. You curtsy Canada’s sallow cities, find an ineffable geologic. Flags fallow, a populace postures to right thoughtless child-thief; enough to appeal a sigh. This flimsily pulsating passion, faithful cities tremble in their transom, mightily uplifted. A delicate maze floods the mechanical, arboreal fluids: a soft pastiche. Here thinking its past is total, static. In another convergence, if empirical bodies harm cultures, vagrants or tilt virgin understanding: the fine layer, the merry dance of ribbons. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:45:35 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joseph Lindsay Subject: Bad Press Version 2.X -- THIS is the closer Mars In-Reply-To: <018001c59e92$3d092330$e6daf7a5@MICHAEL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed NEW FROM BAD PRESS Verfassungspatriotisthmus #1 (Bad Press Serials 2.X) 70+ A5 pp. £3.00 (mere) incl. P&P http://badpress.infinology.net/ With poetry by: John M. Bennett with Jesse Freeman & Steve Dalachinsky Andrea Brady Bob BrueckL Jérôme Game jUStin!katKO Out to Lunch Marianne Morris Richard Price Stephen Rodefer Alan Sondheim Lawrence Upton Mike Wallace-Hadrill Aaron Wells , pornography by: Anonymous & remarks on: Alan Sondheim John M. Bennett jUStin!katKO Peter Manson Certain events Badpress@gmail.com or http://badpress.infinology.net, while stock responses last. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:55:54 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Kelleher Subject: SPOKEN ARTS RADIO RETURNS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable SPOKEN ARTS RADIO Just Buffalo and WBFO 88.7 FM are pleased to announce the (re)premier of o= ur original series, Spoken Arts Radio. New host and producer Sarah Campbell wi= ll conduct a year-long series of interviews with poets and authors. The series= is proudly sponsored by First Niagara Bank, a full service community-oriented bank. Spoken Arts Radio premiers this Sunday and Monday, August 14/15. It will a= ir Sundays during Weekend Edition at 8:35 A.M. and during Morning Edition, Mon= days at 6:35 A.M. and 8:35 A.M. As a program that integrates literature into the mainstream of the NPR news= format, Spoken Arts Radio is distinctive within the realm of National Public Radio= programming. Consequently, the program reaches far more people in Western = New York than other arts-related radio programs, including nationally syndicate= d segments such as Fresh Air and Selected Shorts. August Programs August 14/15 - Literary Buffalo, Part I The launch of a new website www.literarybuffalo.org, a clearinghouse guide = to all of Buffalo's literary events, prompts this reflection upon the city's literary= history and roots, spanning the first 19th century poetry anthologies that collected regional = writing to the local impact of University at Buffalo's nationally renowned English departm= ent of the 1960s into the present. August 28/29 - Literary Buffalo, Part II Spotlights the mission of www.literarybuffalo.org, the first online gatheri= ng of all of the city's literary organizations and created by a consortium of members from M= edaille College, University at Buffalo, Just Buffalo, Rust Belt Books, and Talking = Leaves Books, among others. The site features information on readings, conference= s, workshops, and authors--emphasizing the ongoing vitality of a community in = which literary events occur daily. In Part II, residents reveal that for them, re= ading figures prominently as a private activity which in turn forges communal bonds at bo= ok fairs, book clubs, and public readings. For info on the rest of the fall line-up, visit http://www.justbuffalo.org/= events/sar.shtml About the Host and producer: Sarah Campbell is a writer and sound artist w= hose recent work has appeared in the Golden Handcuffs Review and Kiosk, which in= cluded a CD of the audio piece, =22HAP.=22 She founded and edits the journal P-Qu= eue, which publishes hybrid and innovative poetry and prose. Ms. Campbell teaches wri= ting and is a PhD candidate in University at Buffalo's Poetics Program. Just Buffalo Literary Center's mission is to create and strengthen communit= ies through the literary arts. In addition to literary programming, Just Buffalo is the= only provider of comprehensive writing arts programs in the 8 counties of Western New York. = For more information about Just Buffalo Literary Center, please visit: http://www.justbuffalo.org WBFO 88.7FM, a public service of the University at Buffalo, is Western New = York=E2=80=99s most listened to National Public Radio (NPR) station. It reaches an audienc= e of almost 100,000 people through its main signal in Buffalo and through repeater stat= ions WUBJ 88.1 FM in Jamestown and WOLN 91.3 FM in Olean, NY. For more information about WBFO and the Spoken Arts program, visit: http://www.wbfo.org Established in 1998, the First Niagara Bank Foundation continues a legacy o= f giving. It awards grants to non-profit organizations in four primary areas includin= g education, art and culture, health and human services and community reinvestment. To = date, the foundation has awarded =242.7 million in grants to 121 non-profit organizat= ions. In addition to awarding grants from its foundation, First Niagara contributes = leadership, time, talent and treasure to community-minded agencies through corporate do= nations, sponsorships and volunteerism. First Niagara Bank is a subsidiary of First= Niagara Financial Group, Inc., (Nasdaq: FNFG). It is a full-service, community-ori= ented bank that provides financial services to individuals, families and businesses th= rough 115 banking centers, a loan production office, several financial services subsi= diaries, and 158 ATMs across New York State. For more information about First Niagara, visit http://www.fnfg.com/ UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will b= e immediately removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:50:23 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Catherine Daly Subject: eggcorn MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit found this while looking for "wild hare" or "wild hair" The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5 This site collects unusual spellings of a particular kind, which have come to be called eggcorns. Typical examples include free reign (instead of free rein) or hone in on (instead of home in on), and many more or less common reshapings of words and expressions: a word or part of a word is semantically reanalyzed, and the spelling reflects the new interpretation. The About page offers more information on the history of the term and of this collection. The Eggcorn Database went public on February 15, 2005. New entries and features are being added regularly. http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/ All best, Catherine Daly cadaly@pacbell.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:13:06 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Evans Subject: Jennifer Moxley Page at EPC Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Jennifer Moxley's author page at EPC has been updated: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/moxley/ Lots of new links, a photo gallery, and two new soundfiles via PENNsound. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:58:40 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Vireo Nefer Subject: Re: eggcorn In-Reply-To: <001301c59f55$8d099860$7701a8c0@CADALY> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Wonderful! i'm sure it will peek much interest . . . Vireo On 8/12/05, Catherine Daly wrote: > found this while looking for "wild hare" or "wild hair" >=20 > The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5 --=20 AIM: vireonefer LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=3Dvireoibis VireoNyx Publications: http://www.vireonyxpub.org INK: http://www.inkemetic.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:26:52 +0200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anny Ballardini Subject: Watch your language In-Reply-To: <464e468805081210586d37bc92@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline This article was first sent by Tad Richards to the New Poetry List, I think it is of interest also to this List: Watch your language UK station cancels Keillor feature over questionable content By Jamie Gumbrecht HERALD-LEADER CULTURE WRITER A few weeks after The Boston Globe called The Writer's Almanac radio program "a confection of poetry and history wrapped in the down comforter voice of producer and host Garrison Keillor," WUKY-91.3 FM canceled the daily featurette for what it considered offensive content. The five-minute segments aired on the University of Kentucky's public radio station at 11 a.m. until Aug. 1. It opened with soft piano music and the voice of A Prairie Home Companion's Keillor remembering major moments in writing history. It was a break for history between news broadcasts and pop music, each day ending with a poem and the wish to "be well, do good work and keep in touch." But in a time of Federal Communications Commission crackdowns on radio content, WUKY officials say, the poems Keillor read were too risque for airplay. "I don't question the artistic merit, but I have to question the language," WUKY General Manager Tom Godell said. "It's not that he's behaving like Howard Stern, but the FCC has been so inconsistent, we don't know where we stand. We could no longer risk a fine." Reaction to the cancellation has been minimal so far, Godell said. WUKY managers decided to stop carrying the Almanac after a recent spate of language advisories, although they were tracking the content for about a year, Godell said. The warnings, issued by the program's production company, came about Curse of the Cat Woman by Edward Field, which contained violent themes and the word "breast"; Thinking About the Past by Donald Justice, which also used the word "breast"; and Reunion by Amber Coverdale, which contained the phrase "get high." The poems were scheduled for broadcast between July 23 and Aug. 12. WUKY never heard complaints about The Writer's Almanac because the station always edited potentially offensive language, Godell said. Prairie Home Productions and American Public Media, the segment's producer and distributor, do not edit or select the content. "It's not a terrible burden to edit, but my concern is that something slips through," Godell said. "We have certain standards of decency, and I expect our national producers to do the same thing." The station vigilantly checks song lyrics for offensive content, Godell said, and broadcasts with language advisories are carefully considered. If offensive language clarifies a story, it will be broadcast, especially when listeners can be warned first. But an FCC sanction would be an embarrassment to the station and the university, Godell said. Keillor, who will perform Feb. 21 at Centre College's Norton Center for the Arts, said in an e-mail that stations are within their rights to cancel the Almanac but he's proud of the poems he reads. "There isn't one of them I would hesitate to offer to any high school English class," Keillor wrote. "The fact that someone is troubled by hearing the word 'breast' is interesting, but what are we supposed to do with A Visit >From St. Nicholas and the 'breast of the new fallen snow'? Should it become a shoulder or an elbow? I don't think so." Public broadcasters have long had to edit gratuitous language, but meaningful language is worth a fight, said O. Leonard Press, the retired founding director of Kentucky Educational Television. If stations censor themselves, they might as well become jukeboxes, he said. "The purpose of public broadcasting is not to be safe, but to be useful, good, to give people something to think about, something to grow on," Press said. "Survival is not more important than being useful." Press, an ardent fan of Keillor's writing and performing, called the cancellation an overreaction. "If Garrison Keillor is less desirable on the airwaves than Desperate Housewives," he said, "we've gone a far piece." ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:21:26 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kristine Leja Subject: call for submissions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit SIDEBROW: Call for Submissions SIDEBROW — an online & print journal dedicated to innovation & collaboration — seeks fiction, poetry, art, essay, ephemera, found text, academic inquiries into mathematics, economics, & the sciences, political analysis, and literary, cultural, & art critique for its inaugural issue. In short, engaging material regardless of ilk. Submissions to SIDEBROW are considered both as stand-alone set pieces & as points of departure for collaboration with editors & fellow contributors. Writers whose submissions resonate with other pieces under evaluation will be contacted to participate in communal constructions based on their work. Given its desire to unlock what is common to disparate literary, artistic, & cultural pursuits, SIDEBROW encourages the submission of both partial excerpts and fully formed works. For more information, visit www.sidebrow.net. sidebrow@sidebrow.net p.o. box 170087 san francisco, ca 94117 I've posted this for my friend Jason Snyder who has just started this literary journal. Any and all questions should be directed to the sidebrow email address. Thanks! Kristine Leja --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:03:52 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Hot New Lies Melt Rumsfeld's Polygrip! Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ Consider The Source: Hot New Lies Melt Rumsfeld's Polygrip! Britain And US Warn Shi'ite Iran Over Links with Iraq's Sunni rebels. Yellow Cake, WMD, Iraqi Links To Al-Qaeda Anyone?: Administration Supporters Ordered To Enlist Immediately At Nearest Recruitment Center: 300,000 Volunteers Needed Without Delay To Defend Our Freedoms Against The Iranian Threat Whatever Karl Rove Decides It Is.: "Shit. Iranian Oil Money Spends Just As Good As Iraqi Oil Money," Cackles Dick Cheney From VIP Nuclear Fallout Bunker #640, 5 Miles South Of Death's Door, New Mexico.: By JOHN WHELPY HARDON They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical, whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house. One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:54:54 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: furniture_ press Subject: Re: Hot New Lies Melt Rumsfeld's Polygrip! Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 This evening, in honor of Joe Brennan and the Assassinated Press, Sarah and= I will be baking a yellow cake for our dinner party. If anyone would like to see pics of the fallout go to: www.ieatyellowcaketobolstercivicsupportinthemiddleeastbutidontgivearatsreda= ssaboutiraq.com Chef Christophe Casamassima --=20 _______________________________________________ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Check out our value-added Premium features, such as a 1 GB mailbox for just= US$9.95 per year! Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:58:24 -0600 Reply-To: derek beaulieu Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: derek beaulieu Subject: New MODL Chapbooks - derek beaulieu & Jordan Scott! Comments: To: lexiconjury , UBU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > MODL Press is pleased to announce the publication of 2 new chapbooks > > > chap 08 > > derek beaulieu – ffllj > > Using the raw materials of the English alphabet, derek beaulieu evokes > a non-representational urban landscape of the linguistic that, while > serially forming a fragmented and deterritorialized map of the spaces > we share, also surprises us with the sharp and witty juxtapositions of > the clean lines and random chaos that characterize the typical North > American city. > > derek beaulieu is the author of with wax (Coach House Books, 2003) and > has forthcoming books from Mercury Press (Frogments from the Frag > Pool, w/ Gary Barwin, Shift & Switch ed. w/ Jason Christie & a. > rawlings) and Talon Books (fractal economies - a manuscript of visual > poems). He is the > managing editor of filling Station magazine and administrative > director of The New Gallery. > > Produced in an unnumbered edition of 75 copies. Stop/Go/ATPp.24 cover > printed on red cardstock with green flyleaf. 12pp. 4.25" x 5.5". > $5.00. > > > chap 09 > > Jordan Scott – blert > > On his blog, Jordan Scott says that that typical representations of > the stutter follow one of two patterns: 'the tendency would be (and > has been) to write the stutter either by 1. Naming it: as in "she > stuttered" - "the gulls stuttered under a stubborn moon" or 2. > Graphically representing what a listener would sonically perceive when > confronted with a stutterer: "m-m-m-my n-n-n-ame is J-j-j-j-jordan."' > Eschewing these representations, blert explores the stutter by using > the ruptures in language enacted at the point of the stutter to create > a daisy-chain of linguistic ruptures on the page that successfully > bottleneck language to enact not a stuttering voice, but a stuttering > sense. > > Jordan Scott is the author of Silt (New Star, 2004) and has recently > finished his M.A. in English Literature at the University of Calgary. > He is the General Editor of filling Station magazine. A further > selection from the book-length manuscript blert has been featured as a > chapbook from No. Press. > > Produced in an unnumbered edition of 75. Medical Exam cover printed > in 2 layers on white cardstock with a vellum overlay. Cover Art > gloriously rendered by Sandy Lam. 22 pp. 8.5" x 11". $10.00. > > > If you are interested in either of these titles, please contact ryan > fitzpatrick (rcfmod@gmail.com). ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:33:54 -0700 Reply-To: ishaq1823@telus.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: notes from new palestine: revolutionary suicidal tendencies (the war brought home) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/42933.php Notes from new Palestine: revolutionary suicidal tendencies it has been 6 years since the martyredome of anthony james dawson and the silence remains by all who thought they once meant something to activism as they lay cozy in union jobs. all the deaf, dumb and blind and coopted media run by the sycophants of can west mediocrity, be it the mainstream facist press to the sellout alternia-rags sold out to arrogant bigots with tunnel vision, no imagination and with axes to grind, still hold no sense to know the question – what time is it? notes from new palestine: revolutionary suicidal tendencies (the war brought home) “so how do we save ourselves? we must first admit we are at war, admit who our enemies are and act accordingly.” --junious ricardo stanton "resistance is legitimate at all levels be it religious, intellectual and so on,"—seyyad muqtada as sadr in these times immersed in the absurdity of systemic acts of cruelty and double standards in this messy area , some call the west , which is now embedded in the midst of a treacherous performance piece -- it is only logical that in an illogical world run by bullys, abusers, simpletons and usurpers -- that frustrated valid bruthas will invoke acts of will to power and make you feel the pain they feel. it has been 6 years since the martyredome of anthonay james dawson and the silence remains by all who thought they once meant something to activism as they lay cozy in union jobs. all the deaf, dumb and blind and coopted media run by the sycophants of can west mediocrity, be it the mainstream facist press to the sellout alternia-rags sold out to arrogant bigots with tunnel vision, no imagination and with axes to grind, still hold no sense to know the question – what time is it? when gil scott heron checked the medium to the message he was saying it would be of the mind, of the will to power in an movement of peoples who, having grown into consciousness, hold no respect for the cult lacking in personality who have usurped postions of priviledge on the left in order to parley them into a money scheme using peoples tragedies to do so. that, instead, it would done via the samizdat of urban, rural and street logic. that the people, who are under represented , whose lives are devalued - whose lives are toyed with and told that they they don not mean anything - those flexes and spits and hollas whose “intention is to disrupt the empire, to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks, to make it hard to carry out its bloody functioning against the people” (w.u. prairie) fire will send communiqués out to each other in an underground 411 – “stop sweet-talking him. tell him how you feel. tell him how -- what kind of hell you've been catching, and let him know that if he's ready to clean his house up, if he's not ready to clean his house up, he shouldn't have a house. it should catch on fire and burn down. “-- al hajj malik shabaaz …and so boom we get surprised at the sudden acts of spontaneous resistance. randoms acts of revolution are the key to change be they controlling your world via controlling resources --your world -- to creating your own media to beating human breathes into boxes to flexes and sonics -- this is the revolutionary medicine to cure the sickness of eurocentrick arrogance. this is what will confound the closed sets and minds of the bakraw under qualified of the mainstream media-hypo - crity. “if we want to obtain the man who produces knowledge, we must know what others produce and not on the mere basis of being consumers. if we do not learn about all that is produced by others, we can never reach our aim. nonetheless, we should not simply receive others’ thoughts and fill our minds blindly with it, ...following this logic, i have always advised our youth not to let their aim be their success in their schools and colleges, but rather to build the basis that enable them to be creative.”—ayatollah fadlallah let those of us who still think of Freedome Justice Equality remember those hidden away in the ghettoes on faux multiculturalism, all for the sake of maintaining the orthodoxy of egomaniacal supremacists, who are the last generation of cavemen (fronting as the civilized) who will run things on this planet – let us born the clearity in remembrance of anthony james dawson and all those brushed under the door matt of kkkanadian inactivity. …and with that power of clearity -- no bombs are needed to destroy the power centres stuffed with the dead men/unconscious cave men and women set on pimping their glossy propaganda as reality. "hear me: an unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. and just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too." perhaps this has become a war/a battle for our self esteem—a collective esteem held in our hearts that everyday is a struggle to maintain a principle in the purity of lost lives in everyland which holds a truth. The truth is still with those who have experienced the taunting, the violence, the disrespect, the rapes, the harassment, the murders -- the lies and manipulations. Those who have fallen and have had compadres/conferes/comrades/bruhs and homies lost to the callousness of the system and to the sociopaths what serve it and it’s ministry of social engineering who will try and beat us all down into an unconsciousness of passivity, of comformity and mental death. What of death? is it the blessing? What of it? What of it if comes when you least expect it and were in a condition of forgetfulness because breathing clay is very forgetful? What if it becomes a mental state? This is unforgivable and requires war—mental warfare -- Some griots say they are ‘ready2die’ b.u.t. death or martyrDOME should be a moment of clearity “go and work as hard as you can,” he said to thunderous applause. “wake up howard university, udc (university of the district of columbia) and the black students of georgetown (university). go to the hustler, prostitute and pimp. tell them we’ve come to untie you. the master has need of a pimp, gangbanger and a young brain warrior. i’m counting on you....“the umbrella of the nation of islam will always be there for our brothers and sisters who struggle for the liberation of our people.”-- nisa islam muhammad – on hon mins farrakhan’s youth address “who cares for the young and the masses?” this is for the valid bruthas who are martyred for the “cause of justice and light’. we can only hope that their will and resistance will continue our culture and not only be overstood b.u.t. heard, felt and transformed to make change to this campaign of oppression and abuse of power. 1426 Lawrence Y Braithwaite (aka Lord Patch) New Palestine/Fernwood/The Hood Victoria, BC Mysterious Death of Native Artist: Anthany Dawson http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2004/04/24950.php http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/28178.php http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/27436.php http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/16739.php http://resist.ca/story/2004/6/26/11430/2391 ANTHANY DAWSON FACT SHEET - Rose Henry August 2002 http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2004/01/20251.php http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/28834.php and http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/41547.php and http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/42826.php http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=7983 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drumbeat-weekend_edition/ \ ___\ Stay Strong\ \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as)\ \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil\ \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ } ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:05:52 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: amy king Subject: In two hours, we're celebrating... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://amyking.org/blog/ --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 20:43:53 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Wilcox Subject: Third Thurs. Open Mic, Lark St. Bookshop, Albany, NY Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed the Poetry Motel Foundation presents Third Thursday Open Mic for Poets at theLark Street Bookshop 215 Lark Street, Albany, NY (near State St.) Thursday, August 18 7:00 sign up; 7:30 start Featured Poet:=A0Julie Lomoe $3.00 donation.=A0 Bring a poem to read, bring a friend, browse the books, buy a book. Your host:=A0Dan Wilcox, every Third Thursday.Here=92s a sample poem = from=20 Julie, one of my favorites: Freihofer Jazz By Julie Lomoe =93When will you get your braces off?=94 Thus spake the great Miles Davis, Prince of Darkness, Studying my sixteen-year-old mouth in old Milwaukee. He snubbed his fans, the legend says, And spoke to nearly no one. But they=92re wrong =96 At least on three occasions, he favored me with that Deep and throaty croak I used to find so sexy. That night, my heart leapt as I fantasized the subtext =96 =93You=92ll be a beauty soon, and then I=92ll want you.=94 =93Next year,=94 I said, and then he tromped my dreams By telling me his father was a dentist. That was that. Now, well past sixty, sprawling on the lawn at Saratoga, Baking my aging body in the sun, I remember Miles and other esoteric jazzmen Who awakened unfamiliar cravings. (My classmates lusted after Elvis, but I was far too hip.) Most are long gone now, deified as legends. Musicians less than half my age invoke their names In reverential tones, play anthems to their memories In styles that still have power to shock the young, =A0 But me, I measure deja vue in decades.=A0 I baked a Birthday Cake for Dizzy, Atop the chocolate icing, forty mini marshmallows, One per year, configured like his trademark crooked trumpet. Forty seemed far too old, said Diz, and I agreed. The Coltrane legacy looms large this blistering summer day. Young tenor men spew forth impassioned volleys We once called sheets of sound. One echoes =93Lonely Woman=94 By Ornette. That=92s me today. I=92m lonely in this crowd Of thousands. No one knows my stories. Still, The music wraps me tightly in its winding sheets And keeps me company. =A0 # =A0 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:34:41 -0700 Reply-To: Denise Enck Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Denise Enck Subject: Michael McClure at Cody's in Berkeley, Aug. 27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael McClure jams and reads with Detroit performance poet M.L. Liebler Saturday, August 27, at 7:30 Poetry Flash at Cody's Cody's Books 2454 Telegraph Avenue (at Haste) Berkeley Cody's: 510-845-7852 Poetry Flash: 510-525-5476 just $2 at the door Hope to see you there! Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek www.McClure-Manzarek.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:06:28 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Tuschen, city's longtime poet laureate, dies Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed John Tuschen, city's longtime poet laureate, dies By Ron McCrea August 8, 2005 http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=49786 John Tuschen, a kindly spirit and busy poet, died Friday at his State Street apartment at the age of 56 after an illness. Suni Caylor, a close friend with whom he had a son, Jordan Caylor, 28, said today that former Mayor Paul Soglin will lead a funeral service for Tuschen Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Gunderson Funeral Home, 5203 Monona Drive. In 1977 Soglin named Tuschen Madison's poet laureate, a title he enjoyed for 23 years. An hour visitation will begin at 5 p.m. before the service, and the service may go on for some time as Andrea Musher and other area poets read in honor of Tuschen, Caylor said. Anyone is welcome to join in, she said, and there will be refreshments afterward. Tuschen most recently published the Free State Street Poetry Sheet, which Rod Clark, publisher of the Rockdale-based literary magazine Rosebud, described today as "the most beautiful, concise and efficient literary publication in the United States. One page, yet so rich. A perfect publication of its kind." Advertisement: The sheet consisted of one poem - by Tuschen, or by another local poet, with an advertisement on the back. Tuschen, a native of Chicago, was one of the insurgent artistic figures who emerged amid Madison's political and cultural ferment of the 1960s. Clark said, "The 'revolution' in Madison back then wasn't just about politics, it was about art consciousness and the idea that in each one of us there is a wellspring of creativity." Tuschen's passing comes just weeks after that of another major figure, Broom Street Theater founder Joel Gersmann, who died June 24 at age 62. In the late '60s Tuschen edited The Broom Street Magazine, a poetry magazine associated with the theater. Soglin said today, "When Joel died, Tuschen said there was no one who did more to protect the rights of free speech than Joel. But John probably did more in the last 30 years for the right to public expression - all the little incidents that happened with him when he tried to hand out his poetry sheet." Tuschen published several books of poetry of his own and, with grants from the city and the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, held poetry sessions in public schools and found other ways to promote poetry and local poets, including a series of jazz and poetry performances at the Madison Art Center. In 1982 he brought together Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs for a program called "The Reunion," which was held at the Nitty Gritty restaurant. Soglin said, "I once asked John why in this modern day we didn't see more poets like we did 150 years ago in terms of publishing and children reading modern poetry in schools. And he said to me, 'That's 'cause they're all writing rock and roll.' "The point he was making was, people are always writing great poetry. You just have to know where to find it." ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:27:13 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Craig Allen Conrad Subject: CELEBRATE Jonathan Williams's New & Selected Poems: JUBILANT THICKET (Copper Ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CELEBRATE Jonathan Williams's New & Selected Poems: JUBILANT THICKET (Copper Canyon Press) See JUBILANT THICKET online at: _http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/catalog/dsp_bookDetail.cfm?Book_ID=1218_ (http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/catalog/dsp_bookDetail.cfm?Book_ID=1218) (NOTE: below I've spliced together a few review-blurbs, parts of a letter from Jonathan Williams, as well as three poems to get us up and celebrating, wherever we are! and please forward this e-mail to anyone else you know who cares about poetry. --CAConrad, _http://PhillySound.blogspot.com_ (http://phillysound.blogspot.com/) ) "IF YOU CAN'T CONJOIN THEM, CONFOUND THEM!" --Jonathan Williams "Of all the Black Mountain poets (teachers and disciples alike), Jonathan Williams is the wittiest, the least constrained, the most joyous." --The New York Times FURNITURE MUSIC: "THREE-PIECE SUITE IN THE SHAPE OF A PORRIDGE" we feel ourselves among Poets when entering the rooms of Mackintosh says Deutsche Kunst chocolate eclair chairs for fairies declares Glasgow laird it often seems as if the dream were a personal aim says Deutsche Kunst la chair est triste hissed Red-Hair MacLank Shanks O form divine, O attic, scotch-shaped divanpoetical davenpoet! -- settee, set-to (With the release of his New & Selected Poems: JUBILANT THICKET, Jonathan Williams sent around a letter in which he wrote, "Anyway, many of my readers have died -- just like that. I don't know the hundreds of new names and they clearly don't know mine. Do they know Jack Spicer, or Ronald Johnson or Russell Edson? Or, for that matter, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, Basil Bunting? If these are not odd times, can you think of odder? .... What I am proposing is that everyone organize a little drinks party for 10-15 enthusiasts or 15-20 enthusiasts if you live in a lively spot. Give them decent wine and beer. And have someone read from JUBILANT THICKET for 10 or 15 minutes. Ask the guests to spread the word. I think we cannot count much on the magazines and newspapers. I live too far from the coteries. What we need are copies in hands of people who will take a personal interest. I am counting on these few to be alive and kicking. I remember many political occasions like this in New York State in, say, 1948 and 1949. You would go to someone's house in Nyack. Write a check, and wait for someone like W.E.B. DuBois to arrive. Let me end with a few lines of Pound from 'Tenzone': I beg you my friendly critics, Do not set about to procure me an audience. I mate with my free kind up on the crag... Cheers, Jonathan Williams aka LORD NOSE aka J. JEETER SWAMPWATER aka......." ASK YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE TO STOCK JUBILANT THICKET! (In other words, plant a nice surprise for careful and eager bookshelf browsers.) "This work is a necessary addition to any serious poetry collection." --Library Journal A VULNERARY for Robert Duncan one comes to language from afar, the ear fears for its sound-barriers -- but one "comes"; the language "comes" for The Beckoning Fair One plant you now, dig you later, the plaint stirs winter earth... air in a hornet's nest over the water makes a solid, six-sided music... a few utterly quiet scenes, things are very far away -- "form is emptiness" comely, comely, love trembles and the sweet-shrub "Williams is first and foremost an American poet.... For those who take the time to listen, his is a voice firm enough to scratch, clear enough to shine, and deep enough to vibrate in your mind long after the reading." --The Arts Journal JONATHAN WILLIAMS was born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1929. He has been a poet, essayist, photographer, book designer, and hiker of many long distances. He founded The Jargon Society in 1951 -- a press dedicated to poetry, experimental fiction, photography, and visionary folk art -- and has long championed the underdog, maverick, and outsider in the arts. Visit him online at _http://www.jargonbooks.com_ (http://www.jargonbooks.com/) (Forward this e-mail, buy his new book (also check out his other new-ish book A PALPABLE ELYSIUM _http://jargonbooks.com/pe_note.html_ (http://jargonbooks.com/pe_note.html) ), have your bookstores and libraries stock it. Now, let's end this celebratory message for JUBILANT THICKET with Jonathan Williams taking on fascist senator prick Jesse Helms!) POEM BEGINNING WITH FIVE WORDS BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS glory be to god for jesse helms jesse hates fags jesse hates niggers jesse hates modern art now that one thinks about it jesse's just like most people in north carolina and everywhere else what jesse likes is beauty and beauty's what bites you on the butt and don't leave a hickey on monday morning we must be kind to jesse helms you must brake for senior republican senators from north carolina he has the law on his sidewinder snake in the grass that he is whether he will brake for us poets and artsnakes is another matter thank you jesus thanks a bunch and remember to die ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:36:25 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: 'Bubble Boy' Huddles On Car Floor As Secret Service . . . Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ Crawford 'Bubble Boy' Huddles On Car Floor As Secret Service Does Drive By Of Mother Stupid Enough To Send Her Boy To Iraq On Dick Cheney's Say-So: Parents Cutting Achilles Tendon Of Gullible Teenagers Threatening To Go To Iraq To Avoid Household Curfew: Experts: Vigil for her fallen son won't distract PNAC and help fan the flames for a gathering bombardment and invasion of Iran: "[T]he White House has not avoided snubbing Sheehan personally, and has pointed out she already had one meeting with Bush last year and that a patrician 'bubble boy' like Bush might catch something from a commoner like Sheehan." Ass. Press Poll: Should George Bush wear a helmet at all times to protect him from falls? BY CRAG NEWSGOON They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical, whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house. One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:40:24 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Wilcox Subject: Historic Albany Reading Now Available on Videotape Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Now available from the Poetry Motel Foundation: the one hour, 2-part episodes from the public access TV series, "Poetry=20= Motel", documenting the historic 10th Anniversary Open Mic at the QE2,=20= April 28, 1997.=A0 The QE2 was a rock club in Albany, NY where, from 1987, until the club=20= closed in 1999, Tom Nattell ran a poetry open mic on the last Monday of=20= every month, the "grand-daddy" of Albany's open mics.=A0In additon, over=20= the years, the "Q" was a host to such poets as Allen Ginsberg, Anne=20 Waldman, Jim Carroll, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Herbert Huncke, as=20 well as notable locals. Hosted by Tom Nattell, the program includes Paul Weinman ("White Boy"), Don Levy, Steve Clark, Ed Bablin, Mary=20 Panza, Nancy Brodsky, "The Man", Chris Funkhouser, Anthony Bernini, B.=20= Jackson, Debbie Bump, Margaret Hallenbeck, Mary della Torre, Nick=20 Patti, Beth Nutter, Suzanne Nixon, Ron Paul, Ruth Young, Tom Nattell available only in VHS. For information contact Dan Wilcox at dwlcx@earthlink.net # =A0 =A0 =A0 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:02:41 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: alexander saliby Subject: terry sheehan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "ALL IS WELL!" death...=20 no knelling at the ranch only swelling crowds discontent=20 lies stuck in the Craw(ford) Captain's words .. wasted youth blood spilt to tilt the wealth of nations "All is well!" the Lying Captain cheers the dead they do not hear neither lies nor oil resurrect your sons your fallen daughters slain by arrogance feigning truth a fit-less end for all our slaughtered youth ask this: why no Captain's girls upon that train? =20 "All is Well!" the Captain yells... for yours but not the Captain's kin. =20 ********************************************************* Terry Sheehan needs a Poetics List support team... Alex =20 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:58:44 -0700 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Silliman's Blog Comments: To: Brit Po , Wom Po , Lucifer Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS The uses of opacity: City of God, The Sea Inside & The Woodsman Looking for the lost poem of Phil Whalen The influence of Amiri Baraka Atomic fiction: Sonny by Mary Burger The pure play of language: The Encyclopedia of Scotland by Annie Finch Substitution administration for community: the role of contests in poetry The education of Amiri Baraka Barbara Jane Reyes: Gravities of Center The Manhattan Project in my life Piotr Sommers Continued Omoo by Herman Melville Breathing Fire 2: Reinventing a Canadian School of Quietude http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:20:00 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: terry sheehan In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Except that her name is Cindy Sheehan. Mixing her up with Terry Schiavo? Hal On Aug 15, 2005, at 2:02 AM, alexander saliby wrote: > "ALL IS WELL!" > > death... > no knelling > at the ranch > only > swelling crowds > > discontent > lies > stuck in the Craw(ford) > Captain's words > .. > wasted youth blood spilt > to tilt > the wealth of nations > "All is well!" > the Lying Captain cheers > > the dead they do not hear > neither lies nor oil > resurrect your sons > your fallen daughters > slain > by arrogance feigning truth > a fit-less end > for all our slaughtered youth > > ask this: > why no Captain's girls upon that train? > "All is Well!" the Captain yells... > for yours but not the Captain's kin. > > ********************************************************* > > Terry Sheehan needs a Poetics List support team... > > Alex > > Today's Special Images w/o words http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com/ Hal Halvard Johnson halvard@earthlink.net halvard@gmail.com website: http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard blog: http://entropyandme.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:41:51 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Waber Subject: altered books project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The altered books project at: http://www.logolalia.com/alteredbooks/ has been updated with new work by: Meghan Scott, John M. Bennett, Mike Magazinnik, Nico Vassilakis, Michelle Taransky, Holly Crawford, Marlea J. Waber, Sheila E. Murphy, Jennifer Hill-Kaucher, David-Baptiste Chirot, Tim Martin, and Adeena Karasick. Enjoy, Dan ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:49:46 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Belz Subject: poetry eds- help! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Editors of Poetry Journals-- I am teaching Creative Writing / Poetry at Saint Louis U. this fall, and instead of using a textbook or anthology, I would like to teach from poetry mags. Ideally each of my 15 students will have a stack of (the same) four or five journals to read and discuss throughout the semester. I want to use current practice as a foundatoin for talking about older poetry and forms. Intriguing, eh?! Well if you think so, please email me and we'll see what we can do about using your journal. If you'd like to donate 15 copies, that would be great-- a bit of publicity here, I suppose. If you'd like to sell them, that might work too -- Email me ASAP, Aaron http://belz.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:39:11 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Del Ray Cross Subject: SHAMPOO 5th Anniversary Celebration - Thursday! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Dear SHAMPOO Friend, Here's a quick and friendly reminder that I'll be hosting a 5th Anniversary= SHAMPOO Celebration and Reading this Thursday evening in downtown San Fran= cisco. Details follow: Thursday, August 18 at 6:30pm at GalleryOne San Francisco One Embarcadero Center, Mezzanine Level (same building as Embarcadero Cinema) on the corner of Battery and Clay Streets Expect to hear poetry from Brent Cunningham, Bill Berkson, Kit Robinson, Al= li Warren, Kevin Killian, Ronald Palmer, Leslie Scalapino, Robert Gluck, So= lidad Decosta, Justin Chin, Stephen Vincent, Phil Crippen, Cynthia Sailers,= Cedar Sigo, and Stephanie Young. Please join us if you are in the Bay Area. If you're not able to be here, thanks again for keeping SHAMPOO on the shelves for 5 fantastic years! Kindly spread the word -- and stay tuned for issue 25 coming in September! Suave regards, Del Ray Cross, Editor SHAMPOO clean hair / good poetry www.ShampooPoetry.com (please let me know if you'd like me to remove you from the SHAMPOO e-list) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:27:27 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Re: poetry eds- help! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How about online poetry mags? help yourself to Big Bridge. My treat!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Belz" To: Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 3:49 PM Subject: poetry eds- help! > Dear Editors of Poetry Journals-- > > I am teaching Creative Writing / Poetry at Saint Louis U. this fall, and > instead > of using a textbook or anthology, I would like to teach from poetry mags. > Ideally each of my 15 students will have a stack of (the same) four or > five > journals to read and discuss throughout the semester. I want to use > current > practice as a foundatoin for talking about older poetry and forms. > Intriguing, > eh?! Well if you think so, please email me and we'll see what we can do > about > using your journal. If you'd like to donate 15 copies, that would be > great-- a > bit of publicity here, I suppose. If you'd like to sell them, that might > work > too -- > > Email me ASAP, > > Aaron > http://belz.net > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:23:17 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lawrence Upton Subject: Re: poetry eds- help! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Get The Gig L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Belz" To: Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 8:49 PM Subject: poetry eds- help! > Dear Editors of Poetry Journals-- > > I am teaching Creative Writing / Poetry at Saint Louis U. this fall, and instead > of using a textbook or anthology, I would like to teach from poetry mags. > Ideally each of my 15 students will have a stack of (the same) four or five > journals to read and discuss throughout the semester. I want to use current > practice as a foundatoin for talking about older poetry and forms. Intriguing, > eh?! Well if you think so, please email me and we'll see what we can do about > using your journal. If you'd like to donate 15 copies, that would be great-- a > bit of publicity here, I suppose. If you'd like to sell them, that might work > too -- > > Email me ASAP, > > Aaron > http://belz.net > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:12:29 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: Call for Submissions In-Reply-To: <20050803194504.73950.qmail@web50902.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit do you know abt dispatx.com? You 2 shd be in touch! On 8/3/05 3:45 PM, "ONE LESS" wrote: > One Less: Art on the Range > Call for Submissions > Issue 2: Collections > > > Fellow Writers, Artists, Photographers, Musicians, Collectors, Painters, Mixed > Media Artists, Graphic Artists, and Authors of Performance Texts. > > We welcome your work for the second issue of One Less: Collections. > > Collections: > > The records one keeps/discards. Checks in. Locates. Takes account. Events. > Dreams. The longer range of numbers. Notebooks. The empty line on the back of. > Paperbags. Scraps of receipts. Undeveloped art forms. In the act. The act of > writing in. What keeps these pieces hidden. What is it that we keep. > > If you are interested in sumbitting your work, please send either: > > 3-5 Pages of Poetry > 5-10 Pages of Prose > 1-5 Pages of Artwork (Please be aware that all images will be printed in Black > & White. We accept TIFF files at no less than 300 dpi for photographs or > paintings, etc and 600 dpi for line drawings). > > Send your submissions and cover letter to: > One Less > c/o Nikki Widner > 6 Village Hill Road > Williamsburg, MA 01096 > > or by email: onelessartontherange@yahoo.com > > Deadline is September 1st, 2005. > > Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope if you would like your work > returned. Do not send us originals. > > We read work in October and then reply in early November at the latest. > > Payment to contributors is one free copy of the magazine. > > For more information regarding submissions or purchase of the magazine, please > contact us: onelessartontherange@yahoo.com. > > > Nikki Widner & David Gardner, Editors > One Less > 6 Village Hill Road > Williamsburg, MA 01096 > Check out our New Blog: onelessmag.blogspot.com > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:34:11 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Belz Subject: Belz/ Hsu at Woodland Pattern, Friday 8/19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Aaron Belz (St. Louis) and Ray Hsu (Toronto) will read in the Woodland Pattern series (Milwaukee) this Friday, August 19. If you are within 200 miles of this event, please plan to attend. http://www.woodlandpattern.org/gallery/redletter.shtml Thanks, Aaron Belz ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:16:24 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Marine . . . Should Be Allowed To Shoot Any Americans He Pleases Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ Marine Who Served Tour Assembling Body Parts For Burial Should Be Allowed To Shoot Any Americans He Pleases: 'Marine of Year' Shoots At Drunken Crowd: Will Bush Meet With Daniel Coitnoir? "We don't have a problem with him shooting Americans because they are responsible for his suffering. We just wish he'd be more selective." Americans Bear The Responsibility For Fuckin' Coitnoir Up, So They Should Accept The Consequences And Stop Running To Their Criminal Justice System And Medical Establishment Like 'Girly Men.' JEFFEY LUBE They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical, whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house. One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:37:44 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: poetry eds- help! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Aaron, That's a great approach. Murat ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:19:44 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mairead Byrne Subject: Clark Coolidge Contact Information Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I would like to contact Clark Coolidge and would be grateful to anyone who = can furnish email or phone contact information. With thanks, Mairead Mair=E9ad Byrne Assistant Professor of English Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI 02903 www.wildhoneypress.com www.maireadbyrne.blogspot.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:42:40 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Barrett Watten Subject: Carla Harryman's *Mirror Play* Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed "*Mirror Play*: Digital Stills from Carla Harryman's Performance" http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/post20.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:19:13 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Penton Subject: I was never actually a downtown guy. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Greetings, fellow suburbanites! There's a new multimedia update at www.UnlikelyStories.org, featuring: "Building on the Past," a short film on Creative Commons licensing by Justin Cone "Creative Commons Licensing: How Much, for How Long, Who, and Why?" a detailed explanation by attorney Tim Hadley Three rap songs by Travon Smith Nine surrealistic "paintings" by Brent M. Parker Viva le bourgeois! -- Jonathan Penton http://www.unlikelystories.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:05:02 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: minimalist concrete poetry In-Reply-To: <86r7d4k3ed.fsf@argos.fun-fun.prv> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit How's this? en un fill up pose poesy till end ever at at thee three On 8/8/05 8:40 AM, "Dan Waber" wrote: > Poetics list, > > I've begun a blog-esque production whose primary emphasis will be on > minimalist concrete poetry. I'm not so much interested in a succinct > effective definition of it as making a sort of Poincare map that plots > areas where it might be. Not so much interested in nailing it down as > tying a string to it and tossing up and running and seeing if it > flies. > > The most current entry one I'm willing to "launch" with, and is an > overview of a good portion of work by the poet endwar (Andrew Russ), > some of which certainly is minimalist concrete poetry, some of which > may not be, all of which I found something delightful breathing > inside. > > Lastly, I invite anyone with anything even remotely related (but still > somehow related) to the concept of minimalist concrete poetry to > contact me for possible inclusion, coverage, review, reference, > etc. Please also forward this invitation to anyone you think who might > be interested. > > http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ > > Enjoy, > Dan ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:28:51 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: minimalist concrete poetry In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE a i r = e r r = h e i r ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:40:20 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Magee Subject: Michael Magee and Combo Books have moved MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everyone, I'm still digging out of boxes but wanted to let you know the new contact info for myself and all things COMBO: Michael Magee 7 Old West Wrentham Rd. Cumberland, RI 02864 Combo Magazine: combo1@cox.net Combo Books: combobooks@cox.net Mike Magee: mmagee@risd.edu The 2nd Combo Book, ALSO WITH MY THROAT I SHALL SWALLOW TEN THOUSAND SWORDS: ARAKI YASUSADA'S LETTERS IN ENGLISH, is on its way home from the printers. Formal announcement to follow later this week. Yrs, Mike Magee ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:03:20 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark Weiss Subject: Stephen Vincent and Beverly Dahlen reading Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend: New Brutalism Reading Series Finale with Stephen Vincent & Beverly Dahlen!!! Poets Read Sunday, August 21 7-9 pm @ 21 Grand 416 25th St. Oakland, CA 94612 (note new location behind God's Gym) Beverly Dahlen was born in Portland, Oregon in November, 1935, and raised and educated in various port towns of California and the Pacific Northwest. Her previous book publications include _Out of the Third_ (Momo's Press, 1974), _A Letter at Easter_ (Effie's Press, 1976), and _The Egyptian Poems_ (Hipparchia Press, 1983). In addition, she has published three volumes of _A Reading_, and Instance Press will issue _A Reading_ (18-20) next year. Chax Press published _A Reading Spicer and 18 Sonnets_ in 2004. She was an associate editor of HOW(ever), a critical journal devoted to modernist and current experimental writing by women. Ms. Dahlen resides in San Francisco. Stephen Vincent lives in San Francisco. His most recent books include Walking (Junction Press), A Walk Toward Spicer (Cherry On the Top Press), Sleeping With Sappho (faux ebooks) http:/www.fauxpress.com/e/vincent/and Triggers (Shearsman ebook) http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/ebooks/ebooks_home.html His poems have been published widely in magazines and in pulp. Recent appears have included: Volt, Ecopotics, Boog City, Zyzzyva, Big Bridge, Shampoo, Fascicle Hamilton Stone Review, Black Box. His Blog of poetry, commentary and politics is found at: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com Long time resident of San Francisco, in the nineteen-seventies, Stephen Vincent was founder, publisher and editor of Momo's Press and Shocks (magazine). A publishing house committed to innovative writing by men, women and people of color, among the many writers included first books by Beverly Dahlen and Jessica Hagedorn. Other authors included Victor Hernandez Cruz, Hilton Obenzinger and ntozake shange. He also edited Momo's Press/ Shocks anthologies including, "The Androgyny Issue: Men looking at women, women looking at men, in themselves", "Omens from The Flight of Birds: The First 101 Days of Jimmy Carter" and, with Ellen Zweig, "The Poetry Reading: A Contemporary Compendium on Language and Performance." In the eighties and early nineties, he was the Director of Bedford Arts, Publishers" a publisher of art books. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:18:20 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: Michael Magee and Combo Books have moved MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hey mike what kind of work are you lookingfor ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:56:07 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Robert Hampson interview at The Argotist Online Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There's an interview with Robert Hampson now at The Argotist Online. He talks about the nature of criticism and literary jargon as well as other stuff. http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Hampson%20interview.htm ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:36:25 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: John Krick Subject: Rachel Blau DuPlessis EPC Page Updated MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT All, The Electronic Poetry Center (http://epc.buffalo.edu/) is pleased to announce that its Rachel Blau DuPlessis page (http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/duplessis/) has recently been updated with much new material, including new poems, a new essay on the work of Anne Waldman, and new syllabi of recent classes taught by Ms. DuPlessis. Stop by and have a look. Jack Krick ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:38:58 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: John Krick Subject: Rodrigo Toscano EPC Page Updated MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT All, The Electronic Poetry Center (http://epc.buffalo.edu/) is pleased to announce that its Rodrigo Toscano page (http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/toscano/) has recently been updated with much new material, including new poems, new essays, and new sound files of Mr. Toscano reading his work. Please pay us a visit sometime soon. Jack Krick ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:14:28 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: quick translation help Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed google is failing me, can a live human who knows a bit of german help=20 me with: "Erster Unterricht, =FCber die Wohthaten Gottes." which seems to be something like _first instruction, over the ____ god_ perennially monoglotoid, ~mIEKAL= ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:01:03 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: quick translation help In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Aug 17, 2005, at 12:14 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote: > "Erster Unterricht, =FCber die Wohthaten Gottes." "Gottes" not "Wohthaten" (?) would be the modifier. But "Wohthaten" doesn't seem right to me. Sure about the spelling? Hal =09 Halvard Johnson =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D email: halvard@earthlink.net halvard@gmail.com website: http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard blogs: http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:35:47 +0200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: jorispierre Subject: Re: quick translation help In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable the word is probably "wohltaten" or in older spelling "wohlthaten" =20 i.e. "wohl=3Dgood" "taten/thaten=3Ddeeds, acts" -- Pierre On Aug 17, 2005, at 6:14 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote: > google is failing me, can a live human who knows a bit of german =20 > help me with: > > "Erster Unterricht, =FCber die Wohthaten Gottes." > > > which seems to be something like > > _first instruction, over the ____ god_ > > perennially monoglotoid, > > ~mIEKAL =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D "Lyric poetry has to be exorbitant or not at all." -- Gottfried Benn =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D For updates on readings, etc. check my current events page: http://albany.edu/~joris/CurrentEvents.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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Pierre Joris 244 Elm Street Albany NY 12202 h: 518 426 0433 c: 518 225 7123 o: 518 442 40 85 Euro cell: 011 33 6 79 368 446 email: joris@albany.edu http://www.albany.edu/~joris/ Nomadics blog: http://pjoris.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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:08:32 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: print.google.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://print.google.com should be of interest to those with a double interest in print and the internet, regardless of whether you think it is wise for publishers, libraries et all to participate at all or participate by google's rules etc. there's been a little discussion of this matter on rhizome (a media arts list out of new york); the following urls discussing the above came from rhizome subscribers: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/issue/feature_library.asp http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/12/chilled_by_publisher.html http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/08/15/google_print_is_as_goog le_print_does.php http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/08/15/google_print_library_sh oulda_coulda_woulda.php http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/08/12/siva_vaidhyanathan_goog le_is_right_to_hit_pause_on_library_plans.php http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/08/12/google_sells_out_users_ to_publishers.php http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2005/08/google_print_au.html my own take on it is that market meltdown needn't be in the cards, depending on what google is proposing. for instance, let us suppose that a text is entirely searchable online but that you can only view bitmaps of the text via google. and the whole text is there in bitmaps, but you can only view a specified few of them or something like that. Etc. There are plainly ways to do it in such a way that the book's value is protected and you end up with more sales, not less. i don't think there is a better market for books than those who use the internet regularly. but you have to show them enough of the goods that they deem it worthwhile to purchase. it has to go beyond tease but stop short of the full experience. it has to be generous but not foolhardy. For your amusement, here is a little essay I wrote back in 1995 called "Libraries and Publishing" when I was just contemplating making a Web site: http://vispo.com/writings/essays/lanhamb.htm . Interesting that many of the issues raised have still not really been resolved. However, the print.google.com venture would seem to be a major step in these issues. ja ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:34:34 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Zimmerman Subject: Re: quick translation help MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=response Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Probably "Wohltaten," good deeds, benefactions. ~ Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "mIEKAL aND" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:14 AM Subject: quick translation help google is failing me, can a live human who knows a bit of german help me with: "Erster Unterricht, über die Wohthaten Gottes." which seems to be something like _first instruction, over the ____ god_ perennially monoglotoid, ~mIEKAL ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:28:48 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harrison Jeff Subject: New on Antic View blog Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed new entries on Antic View blog: http://anticview.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:37:43 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: quick translation help In-Reply-To: <008a01c5a317$42bb17a0$3a95c044@MULDER> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable thanks everyone for the quick responses... the text was a german=20 translation of mi'kmaq prayers from the 1880s so I think Pierre was=20 right to say that it was an old form of the word. (and plus in my=20 dyslexia I spelled it wrong... it should have been "Wohlthaten"...) ~mIEKAL On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:34 AM, Daniel Zimmerman wrote: > Probably "Wohltaten," good deeds, benefactions. > > ~ Dan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mIEKAL aND" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:14 AM > Subject: quick translation help > > > google is failing me, can a live human who knows a bit of german help > me with: > > "Erster Unterricht, =FCber die Wohthaten Gottes." > > > which seems to be something like > > _first instruction, over the ____ god_ > > perennially monoglotoid, > > ~mIEKAL > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:34:09 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: kari edwards Subject: Michael Smoler & Mark Tardi - Myopic Books In-Reply-To: <200508170402.j7H42okN003650@c.mx.sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael Smoler & Mark Tardi September 19 Myopic Books 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave. 7PM Chicago ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:40:55 CDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: zavia001 Subject: Re: quick translation help MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Masha Zavialova citing Monika Moyrer: I would say something like: "First lesson (or class, instruction) about god's good deeds"! Hope it helps. On 17 Aug 2005, mIEKAL aND wrote: > thanks everyone for the quick responses... the text was a german=20 > translation of mi'kmaq prayers from the 1880s so I think Pierre was=20 > right to say that it was an old form of the word. (and plus in my=20 > dyslexia I spelled it wrong... it should have been "Wohlthaten"...) > > ~mIEKAL > > On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:34 AM, Daniel Zimmerman wrote: > > > Probably "Wohltaten," good deeds, benefactions. > > > > ~ Dan > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "mIEKAL aND" > > To: > > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:14 AM > > Subject: quick translation help > > > > > > google is failing me, can a live human who knows a bit of german help > > me with: > > > > "Erster Unterricht, =FCber die Wohthaten Gottes." > > > > > > which seems to be something like > > > > _first instruction, over the ____ god_ > > > > perennially monoglotoid, > > > > ~mIEKAL > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:41:53 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: furniture_ press Subject: Furniture Press New Contact and Info Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Furniture Press Moved.=20 304 A7 Stevenson Lane Baltimore MD 21204 Also: I'm making physical catalogues so if anyone would like a copy, send me an a= ddress. 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Sorry to all for the brief delay. www.narrowhouserecordings.com http://www.narrowhouserecordings.com/ a record label primarily interested in contemporary writing, poetics and the political __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:09:08 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jesse Seldess Subject: new address for Antennae Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hello As of 8/20/05, Antennae will have a new address: Jesse Seldess Seumestr. 13 10245 Berlin Germany To those living outside of Europe, I don't want the distance and its accompanying postal costs to discourage submission, so please feel free to send electronically, preferably in word and pdf format. For subscriptions ($6/issue), please send payment to Jesse Seldess 1321 Woodland Lane Riverwoods, IL 60015 Thanks, Jesse ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:13:07 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Peter Quartermain Subject: Zukofsky's Bottom on Shakespeare MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Scholar's Bookshelf [ www.scholarsbookshelf.com ]is selling the = Wesleyan UP reprint (2 vols in one) of Bottom: On Shakespeare (Foreword by Bob = Perelman) at the bargain remainder price of $7.95, plus postage ($5.50) in the US = of A. {Book No 4P47X in their current catalogue). This is quite a saving on = the list price of $34.95 The only snag is that there is a minimum prepaid order of $10.00; one = way to get round this is to buy two copies, and give one to your library or = your, um, well, your Um. Or even sell it. Peter =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Peter Quartermain 846 Keefer Street Vancouver BC Canada V6A 1Y7 =20 tel: 604 255 8274 fax: 604 255 8204 quarterm@interchange.ubc.ca =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:21:25 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Andrew Klobucar Subject: Re: Zukofsky's Bottom on Shakespeare Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline My Um has been looking for this book for quite a few years. Thanks for the tip! ak >>> quarterm@INTERCHANGE.UBC.CA 8/17/2005 2:13:07 PM >>> Scholar's Bookshelf [ www.scholarsbookshelf.com ]is selling the Wesleyan UP reprint (2 vols in one) of Bottom: On Shakespeare (Foreword by Bob Perelman) at the bargain remainder price of $7.95, plus postage ($5.50) in the US of A. {Book No 4P47X in their current catalogue). This is quite a saving on the list price of $34.95 The only snag is that there is a minimum prepaid order of $10.00; one way to get round this is to buy two copies, and give one to your library or your, um, well, your Um. Or even sell it. Peter ================ Peter Quartermain 846 Keefer Street Vancouver BC Canada V6A 1Y7 tel: 604 255 8274 fax: 604 255 8204 quarterm@interchange.ubc.ca ================ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:56:25 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: quick translation help MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i'll pass it on to germany ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:35:49 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: ALDON L NIELSEN Subject: Re: Zukofsky's Bottom on Shakespeare MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain does the repirnt include Celia's music? I've never looked at this later version On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:13:07 +0000, Peter Quartermain wrote: > Scholar's Bookshelf [ www.scholarsbookshelf.com ]is selling the Wesleyan UP > reprint (2 vols in one) of Bottom: On Shakespeare (Foreword by Bob Perelman) > at the bargain remainder price of $7.95, plus postage ($5.50) in the US of > A. {Book No 4P47X in their current catalogue). This is quite a saving on the > list price of $34.95 > > The only snag is that there is a minimum prepaid order of $10.00; one way to > get round this is to buy two copies, and give one to your library or your, > um, well, your Um. Or even sell it. > > Peter > > ================ > Peter Quartermain > 846 Keefer Street > Vancouver BC > Canada V6A 1Y7 > > tel: 604 255 8274 > fax: 604 255 8204 > quarterm@interchange.ubc.ca > ================ > > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Breaking in bright Orthography . . ." --Emily Dickinson Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature The Pennsylvania State University 116 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:37:46 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: charles alexander Subject: Linh Dinh & Patrick Pritchett: two new books Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Announcing: New from Chax Press American Tatts by Linh Dinh Poetry Paperback, 94 pages $16.00 ISBN 0-925904-47-3 Burn: Doxology for Joan of Arc by Patrick Pritchett Poetry Paperback, 112 pages $16.00 ISBN 0-925904-50-3 Please order online after 8/19/05 at our website: http://www.chax.org/ or Please send orders with check enclosed and made out to Chax Press, to Chax Press 101 W. Sixth St., no. 6 Tucson, AZ 85701-1000 For pre-paid mail orders, add $3 for shipping/handling if you order one=20 book. This offer applies only to domestic USA orders. If ordering from=20 another country, please inquire as to shipping possibilities and costs by=20 sending an email to chax@theriver.com. As a special incentive, order both books and pay just $25, and we will pay= =20 shipping to you within the USA. You will need to add appropriate shipping=20 if you are outside the USA, but you can still take advantage of the special= =20 price for the books. This offer is not available online; it is only=20 available to pre-paid, mail-in orders. As a further introduction to Chax Press books, if you order Burn or=20 American Tatts, you may add one or more of the following books for only $7= =20 each (up to 50% savings). If you do so, we will not add any shipping costs= =20 at all to your order if you are in the domestic USA. If you order both=20 Burn and American Tatts, you may add one of the books from the list below=20 for only $5, and any others for just $7 each. We will pay shipping. This=20 offer is also only available for mail-in, pre-paid orders, and not online. Hank Lazer, 3 of 10 Gil Ott, Traffic Eli Goldblatt, Sessions 1-62 Beverly Dahlen, A Reading 8-10 Philip Foss, Chromatic Defacement Lisa Cooper, & Calling It Home Mary Margaret Sloan, The Said Lands, Islands, and Premises Charles Alexander, Hopeful Buildings Nathaniel Tarn, The Architextures Patrick Pritchett is the author of Reside (Dead Metaphor Press, 1999) and=20 Burn =AD Doxology for Joan of Arc (Chax Press, 2005). Critical essays on=20 Ronald Johnson, Lorine Niedecker, and Edgar Allen Poe have appeared or are= =20 forthcoming in scholarly journals and anthologies. Pritchett=92s poems have= =20 appeared in Hambone, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Shiny,=20 Syllogism, Bombay Gin, UrVox, Prairie Schooner, lower limit speech, and=20 Mantis, among many others. He has written over sixty book and film reviews= =20 for such journals as American Book Review, Witz, Jacket, Rain Taxi, and The= =20 Poetry Project Newsletter. He has been a member of the visiting faculty at= =20 Naropa University=92s Summer Writing Program and is currently a Ph.D.=20 candidate in English at the University of Colorado, where he teaches poetry= =20 workshops and courses in modern literature. =93In Burn, Jeanne d=92Arc=92s familiarity swerves radically from= body-in-flame=20 to a restlessly questioning interior life=97a profound and contemporary=20 meditation wherein Patrick Pritchett laminates his own voice to Joan=92s,=20 struggling (for both) with the forcible claims of =91King=92 and obedience= vs.=20 the radiant uncertainties of angel, fire and error. Brilliantly circuitous= =20 and exquisitely pitched, these poems unfold the possibility of an=20 unboundary=92d life where uncommonness leads to =91swimming with God.=92=94 =97 Kathleen Fraser =93A stunningly lyrical consideration of Joan of Arc, the intricacies of her= =20 belief and her fate =97 in Patrick Pritchett=92s words, this becomes a=20 meditation on belief itself and its power over fate. His language spirals=20 outward, as its sounds hold it in, and at its center, a marvelous woman=20 comes out of myth to be simple and solid and certain. He resists the drama= =20 and goes straight for the strangeness, for =91the radiant dial of the= skull.=92=94 =97 Cole Swensen =93Patrick Pritchett=92s Burn is an incantation where To be called is to be split apart. The act of invoking is equally the act of dismantling. Hearing the call is= =20 a re-cognition that obliterates first cognizance. Ancient biblical texts=20 describe a form of =93devotion=94 in which a place, its goods, even its=20 population, are given so fervently to God as to be utterly destroyed. In=20 this book, Pritchett practices a kenosis (self-emptying) that resounds of a= =20 devotion =91orphaned/into nomination/beyond all care.=92=94 =97 Elizabeth Robinson Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (2000)=20 and Blood and Soap (2004), and a book of poems, All Around What Empties Out= =20 (2003). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best=20 American Poetry 2004, and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the=20 Present (2003). He edited the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary=20 Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (2001). There are two kinds of readers in English, those who are passionate fans of= =20 the poetry of Linh Dinh and those who have yet to read his writing [=85]=20 These are works without waste, with the driest sense of humor and,=20 throughout, an underlying feel for the pain of living that calls to mind=20 Kathy Acker as much as Kafka. Linh Dinh looks at the world with the=20 clearest eyes imaginable, a walking example of the role of the real at the= =20 heart of the surreal. =97 Ron Silliman Reading Linh Dinh is a tonic and a revelation. His poems might have taken=20 off the top of Dickinson=92s head, and then some. Linh Dinh raids and=20 reinvents the language with an ardor bordering on delirium. =97 Rachel Loden Linh Dinh=92s is a unique voice in contemporary American literature. He=20 writes with the raging wit and the soul of a poet. =97 Jessica Hagedorn send questions to chax@theriver.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:52:43 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: September on CHICAGO POSTMODERNPOETRY.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS ON CHICAGOPOSTMODERNPOETRY.COM Poetic Profiles: Elizabeth Robinson, Kazim Ali, Virna Teixeira Fall Reading Calendar for Chicago Discrete Series Moves to New Venue New South Bend Reading Series New Chicago Red Rover Series Raymond L Bianchi chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/ collagepoetchicago.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:52:15 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Peter Quartermain Subject: Re: Zukofsky's Bottom on Shakespeare In-Reply-To: <200508172235.SAA03649@webmail1.cac.psu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Yes. CZ's music is there. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Peter Quartermain 846 Keefer Street Vancouver BC Canada V6A 1Y7 =20 tel: 604 255 8274 fax: 604 255 8204 quarterm@interchange.ubc.ca =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] = On Behalf Of ALDON L NIELSEN Sent: Wednesday, 17 August, 2005 3:36 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Zukofsky's Bottom on Shakespeare does the repirnt include Celia's music? I've never looked at this later version On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:13:07 +0000, Peter Quartermain wrote: > Scholar's Bookshelf [ www.scholarsbookshelf.com ]is selling the = Wesleyan UP > reprint (2 vols in one) of Bottom: On Shakespeare (Foreword by Bob Perelman) > at the bargain remainder price of $7.95, plus postage ($5.50) in the = US of > A. {Book No 4P47X in their current catalogue). This is quite a saving = on the > list price of $34.95 > > The only snag is that there is a minimum prepaid order of $10.00; one = way to > get round this is to buy two copies, and give one to your library or = your, > um, well, your Um. Or even sell it. > > Peter > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Peter Quartermain > 846 Keefer Street > Vancouver BC > Canada V6A 1Y7 > > tel: 604 255 8274 > fax: 604 255 8204 > quarterm@interchange.ubc.ca > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>= >> "Breaking in bright Orthography . . ." --Emily Dickinson Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature The Pennsylvania State University 116 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:23:21 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jamie Gaughran-Perez Subject: Rock Heals waves bye bye to Kevin Thurston MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I promise not to announce the new issue of Rock Heals every week -- but this one is special to me and many. Kevin Thurston was one of the true treasures of the Charm City (that's Bal'more) scene bringing poetry meets performance meets DAMN! that was an inspiration for me and many. No he's not dead! But he did desert us to return to Buffalo for all kinds of good reasons. We may never forgive, but we will miss him. And heads up Buffalo, he fucking rocks and will be up to all kinds of good things that you'll start hearing about. Believe you me. This week's Rock Heals features work dedicated, about, or concerning the man, the myth that is Kevin Thurston, including: Buck Downs Ric Royer Michael Ball, and Justin Sirois. Enjoi. http://www.rockheals.com PS don't forget submissions -- we want to continue to spread our wings to work from other locales. Save yourself a personal email that contains begging and grovelling, and save some of my dignity at the same time! submissions at rockheals dot com PPS I'll try to only post monthly notices on what's going on over at Rock Heals, I don't want them to become a weekly nuisance ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:01:49 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Waber Subject: 19 by J. Michael Mollohan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Poetics List, The minimalist concrete poetry site has been updated with 19 pieces by J. Michael Mollohan. http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ Enjoy, Dan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:44:54 -0700 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Your work on Google Comments: To: Brit Po , Wom Po , Lucifer Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Google says that it has put its program of scanning and posting searchable texts of books on hiatus until November. However, Google already has scanned in many volumes, mostly of books published by university presses. This includes both critical and creative texts. If you have any concern about this and its impact on the distribution of your work, you should link over to http://print.google.com/ and do a search on your own name. You might then want to look at your contract(s) with your publisher(s) and see if you have already signed away permission for such use. If not, a discussion with your editor might be in order. http://print.google.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:13:11 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: DAVID MELTZER CELEBRATION:EARLY NOTICE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Meltzer Celebration New College of California Cultural Center 766 Valencia St., San = Francisco October 12th, 2005 6:30-9:30 Celebration & Reading for the publication of David Meltzer's David's = Copy, edited by Michael Rothenberg, published by Penguin Books. Special = guests readers include Diane DiPrima, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, = Clark Coolidge, Bill Berkson, Gloria Frym, and Duncan McNaughton. Free admission and refreshments =20 Michael Rothenberg walterblue@bigbridge.org Big Bridge www.bigbridge.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:40:19 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rob McLennan Subject: the ottawa small press book fair Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents the ottawa small press book fair fall edition will be happening Saturday, October 22, 2005 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane). contact rob at rob@track0.com to sign up for a table, etc. General info: the ottawa small press book fair noon to 5pm (opens at 11am for exhibitors) admission free to the public. tables are $15 for exhibitors (payable to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset St W, main floor, Ottawa Ontario K1R 6R7). full tables only. for catalog, exhibitors should send (on paper, not email name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being looked at, & any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). due to the increased demand for table space, exhibitors are asked to confirm far earlier than usual. i.e. -- before, say, the day of the fair. the fair usually contains exhibitors with poetry books, novels, cookbooks, posters, t-shirts, graphic novels, comic books, magazines, scraps of paper, gum-ball machines with poems, 2x4s with text, etc. happens twice a year, started in 1994 by rob mclennan & James Spyker. now run by rob mclennan thru span-o. questions, rob@track0.com or 613 239 0337 more info on span-o at the span-o link of www.track0.com/rob_mclennan span-o: c/o 858 somerset street west, main floor, ottawa ontario canada k1r 6r7 free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. we will not be selling things for folk who cant make it, sorry. also, always looking for volunteers to poster, move tables, that sort of thing. let me know if anyone able to do anything. thanks. for more information, bother rob mclennan at 613 239 0337 or az421@freenet.carleton.ca / or check out the span-o link at www.track0.com/rob_mclennan also, don't forget the toronto small press fair happens this fall on Saturday, October 29th. For more info, email: lindszv@yahoo.ca or check out the link at http://www.torontosmallpressbookfair.org/ & there's a new Hamilton small press fair that takes place on Sunday, November 6th at the Downtown Cultural Centre. For more info, email: hspfgroup@primus.ca ================ -- poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...10th coll'n - stone, book one (Palimpsest Press) .... c/o 858 Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:32:27 -0700 Reply-To: ishaq1823@telus.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: Hip Hop: 8.bliss dRops "A Dragon's Tale" -- free CD download MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/43054.php Hip Hop: 8.bliss dRops "A Dragon's Tale" -- free Cd downloads 8.bliss offers his latest Album, "A Dragon's Tale" is now FREE to DOWNLOAD !! and CDs from his first joint are FREE too...I started making "Sponsor-Me" videos when I was 15… I sent them out to companies and what not… I'd get rejected then I'd keep working on it. I'd add better and better stuff until it was 3 minutes of skateboarding so good, that it took nearly 2 years of my life to compile it. Then I got sponsored by "New School Skateboards". Then when I was 18, I moved out to California… Hip Hop: 8.bliss & A Drag... 8.bliss.jpg, JPG image, 350x350 "A Dragon's Tale", by 8.bliss NEW for 2005... 8.bliss SOPHMORE release... FREE ALBUM DOWNLOAD! "I started making "Sponsor-Me" videos when I was 15… I sent them out to companies and what not… I'd get rejected then I'd keep working on it. I'd add better and better stuff until it was 3 minutes of skateboarding so good, that it took nearly 2 years of my life to compile it. Then I got sponsored by "New School Skateboards". Then when I was 18, I moved out to California…--Hip Hop: ~ 8.bliss Interview with UK's Rago Magazine Contributing Artists: dj eXACTO, Picturetone, & Adamatic On this one, I produced 9 out of the 12 tracks myself. I also stepped up the quality on my mic and pre-amp. Give it a listen. Snippets are streamed in the player, and the Full Length Songs are FREE To DOWNLOAD !! * To Download: Right click (option click) the title below. Zip File: Entire Album and Cover - 61.2 MB * Or Download Single Songs: 1. R.I.P. - 1 MB 2. A Dragon's Tale - 4.9 MB 3. Poverty? - 3.5 MB 4. Puppet - 1 MB 5. The Center - 3.5 MB 6. Divine Poetry - 4.1 MB 7. The Twilight Zone - 4.2 MB 8. After Hours - 6.4 MB 9. A Poetic Search - 12.1 MB 10. Frank Heart - 6.9 MB (Dirty) or (Clean) 11. Presence - 5 MB 12. The End - 2.5 MB * Please leave feedback and spread the word. PRESS: download and review it! DJ's: through 'em on a mix, play 'em in a lounge, play 'em on the radio... FANS: bootleg CD-Rs! trade 'em on Napster!! Give it to your best friend and your worst enemy... You get the deal... Jus' keep me in the loop... Hit me back with radio playlists and review links.... Enjoy the Vibes! ((God Bless)) ~ 8.bliss ~ P.S. Keep your eyes peeled for Exclusive Underground Gems, being released by various Independent Labels, World Wide in 2005. * LABELS - If you want to officially release any of my songs or have me create new work just for you, Hit me UP! Visit 8.bliss Web Site http://omnipresentrecords.com/ see also: I started making "Sponsor-Me" videos when I was 15… I sent them out to companies and what not… I'd get rejected then I'd keep working on it. I'd add better and better stuff until it was 3 minutes of skateboarding so good, that it took nearly 2 years of my life to compile it. Then I got sponsored by "New School Skateboards". Then when I was 18, I moved out to California…--Hip Hop: ~ 8.bliss Interview with UK's Rago Magazine ~ http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/42781.php and see also: "Sk8er/filmmaker/spoken word artist 8.bliss is to hip hop what Jonathan Richman was to rock n roll. On A Train of Events, his debut album, Bliss raps with his dad and splendidly evokes Wagnerian poetics." SLEEPY BRAIN: 8.BLISS -- AUDITORY FILMS FOR THE BLIND http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/16812.php or http://www.sleepybrain.net/bliss.html and The first full length offering from Rev1 is a contemporary protest album in the tradition of conscious hip hop pioneers Public Enemy. Myriad Studios Alternative Hip Hop MP3 Download & Cover CD 'FREE Anti-War MP3s!', by Contributing Artists Listen and Download a FREE Anti-War "Mix Tape". Featuring J-Live, 8.bliss, Saul Williams, Paris, and Rev1. Contributing Artists Ttile: "Unnerstated (Down Pressin)" by Hurricane Angel w/Lord Patch CD 'FREE Dowload: http://omnipresentrecords.com/showcase/artists/artists.php?media_id=8 http://omnipresentrecords.com/8bliss/shop.php?media_id=44 \ ___\ Stay Strong\ \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as)\ \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ } ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:38:22 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: William Slaughter Subject: Notice: Mudlark MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit New and On View: Mudlark Flash No. 32 (2005) Dore Keisselbach Balance | Cellophane Dore Kiesselbach has placed or has work forthcoming in Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, Poetry East, Cimarron Review, Field and many like magazines. Past honors include a U.S. Dept. of Education Javits Fellowship in poetry and an NEH Younger Scholar Award. Spread the word. Far and wide, William Slaughter MUDLARK An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics Never in and never out of print... E-mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:10:51 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Geoffrey Gatza Subject: coming soon from Kent Johnson Comments: To: new-poetry-request@wiz.cath.vt.edu, Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics , epaquin@adelphia.net, Kent Johnson , Ted Pelton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit BlazeVOX [books] is Proud to announce Adventures in Poetry Blogland: Four Letters, Two Conference Reports, One Interview, A Recipe, and a Pair of Plays By Kent Johnson Due out in October this blistering new book from Kent Johnson will surely turn the poetry community on it's ear. www.blazevox.org/bk-kj.htm : : : : Pre order the book NOW! For more Kent on BlazeVOX -- including pieces from his new book www.blazevox.org/media.htm Poem Upon a Typo Found in an Interview of Kenneth Koch, Conducted by David Shapiro Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz, or: ' Get the Hood Back On' poem on the Abu Ghraib prison matter Baghdad [ Flash MP3 ] Basra Exceeds its Object [ MP3 ] August 30, 1926 [ MP3 ] (From: the unpublished letters of Araki Yasusada) http://www.blazevox.org/blog/ Best, Geoffrey Geoffrey Gatza BlazeVOX [books] www.blazevox.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:04:02 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Critical/Negative Poetry Reviews Open Call In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Buffalo Listers: This is an open call from Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com for Negative or Critical reviews. We have been dismayed that so many of the reviews submitted to the site have been nauseatingly positive, even positive on books that we all know are crap- so I am sending out an open call if there is book of poetry or criticism that you want to write a critical or negative review and it is well written and within our guidelines (No Racism, Homophobia, Antisemitic, or Religious Hatred) please do send it to us at editor@chicagopostmodernpoetry.com . Regards Raymond L Bianchi Editor ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:14:47 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Boog City Seeks Printed Matter Reviews MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit a quick note from Boog City's new printed matter editor: Hi all, Boog City, the East Village community newspaper, is seeking reviews of printed matter recently put out by small presses. This material can cover any and everything from indie-comix to lit journals to novels, collections of poems, hybrids, etc. Should you have something you wish to review, or something you think ought to get some press, send a note to jpecqueu@u.washington.edu. thanks, Jean-Paul Pecqueur printed matter editor -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W.28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) F: (212) 842-2429 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:53:51 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Fw: BRASS BELLS -- August 25, - A MINI FESTIVAL OF EROTIC HAIKU - HOWL FESTIVAL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please join us for Brass Bells - a Mini Festival of Erotic Haiku, Thursday August 25, 7 -- 8pm, presented as part of the Howl Festival . featuring: Regie Cabico, Steve Dalachinsky, Erica Fabri, John Farris, Tsaurah Litzky, Eve Packer, Thad Rutkowski, Hal Sirowitz $6, @ Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC 212-641-0505 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 04:36:33 -0700 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Silliman's Blog: off the grid Comments: To: Brit Po , Wom Po , Lucifer Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Off the grid! Google is scanning you Poetry news around the world (Tunisia, Viet Nam, South Africa, Jamaica, Israel, Brazil) Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Baz Luhrmann and Romeo as music video Clayton Eshleman Now The Tiny: A magazine in love with difficult The uses of opacity: City of God, The Sea Inside & The Woodsman Looking for the lost poem of Phil Whalen The influence of Amiri Baraka Atomic fiction: Sonny by Mary Burger The pure play of language: The Encyclopedia of Scotland by Annie Finch Substitution administration for community: the role of contests in poetry The education of Amiri Baraka Barbara Jane Reyes: Gravities of Center The Manhattan Project in my life http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:54:24 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Jack Foley interview Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is an interview with Jack Foley on The Argotist Online at http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Foley%20interview.htm ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:11:11 -0400 Reply-To: az421@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rob McLennan Subject: (date change) the ottawa small press book fair Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT date change (dont ask) span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents the ottawa small press book fair fall edition will be happening Saturday, October 15, 2005 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane). contact rob at rob@track0.com to sign up for a table, etc. General info: the ottawa small press book fair noon to 5pm (opens at 11am for exhibitors) admission free to the public. tables are $15 for exhibitors (payable to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset St W, main floor, Ottawa Ontario K1R 6R7). full tables only. for catalog, exhibitors should send (on paper, not email name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being looked at, & any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). due to the increased demand for table space, exhibitors are asked to confirm far earlier than usual. i.e. -- before, say, the day of the fair. the fair usually contains exhibitors with poetry books, novels, cookbooks, posters, t-shirts, graphic novels, comic books, magazines, scraps of paper, gum-ball machines with poems, 2x4s with text, etc. happens twice a year, started in 1994 by rob mclennan & James Spyker. now run by rob mclennan thru span-o. questions, rob@track0.com or 613 239 0337 more info on span-o at the span-o link of www.track0.com/rob_mclennan span-o: c/o 858 somerset street west, main floor, ottawa ontario canada k1r 6r7 free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. we will not be selling things for folk who cant make it, sorry. also, always looking for volunteers to poster, move tables, that sort of thing. let me know if anyone able to do anything. thanks. for more information, bother rob mclennan at 613 239 0337 or az421@freenet.carleton.ca / or check out the span-o link at www.track0.com/rob_mclennan also, don't forget the toronto small press fair happens this fall on Saturday, October 29th. For more info, email: lindszv@yahoo.ca or check out the link at http://www.torontosmallpressbookfair.org/ & there's a new Hamilton small press fair that takes place on Sunday, November 6th at the Downtown Cultural Centre. For more info, email: hspfgroup@primus.ca ================ -- poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...10th coll'n - stone, book one (Palimpsest Press) .... c/o 858 Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:57:22 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: Critical/Negative Poetry Reviews Open Call MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit that's great it's about time did you say anonymous? ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:04:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: Critical/Negative Poetry Reviews Open Call In-Reply-To: <20050820.135723.-180869.7.skyplums@juno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Aug 20, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Steve Dalachinksy wrote: > that's great it's about time did you say anonymous? I think he said "unanimous"--he wants us to dump on those books "we all know are crap." You begin, Steve. Hal "Way down the deserted street, I thought I saw a bus which, with luck, might get me out of this sentence . . ." --Rosmarie Waldrop Halvard Johnson ================ email: halvard@earthlink.net halvard@gmail.com website: http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard blogs: http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:21:16 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: PUB: anthology--down home: a portrait of the new african american south MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>PUB: anthology--down home: a portrait of the new african american south ============================================================= Down Home: A Portrait of the New African American South (an anthology) Deadline: January 5, 2006 GUIDELINES Seeking well-crafted fiction, creative and academic non-fiction, and photographs for an anthology addressing the historical, geographical, political, and cultural aspects of being black and southern. Subject matter is not limited but must address the general theme. This anthology transcends the boundaries of the southern states to include the rural black experience; being black and $B!F (Bcountry $B!G (B wherever it may be; and/or the Affrilachian experience (being black and Appalachian). FICTION AND NON-FICTION * Each entrant may submit ONE original, unpublished story or essay, double-spaced. Pages must be stapled and contain page numbers. * All submissions must include: name, snail mail address, email address and phone number(s) for contact. * Submit two copies of the work with SASE and e-mail address for notification. * Manuscripts must be typewritten on 8 $B". (B x 11 paper. Please retain copies of the submission. Manuscripts will not be returned. PHOTOGRAPHY/ARTWORK We are accepting a limited number of photographs for this anthology and are open to artwork as well. * Photography/artwork submissions must be thematically based. We are looking for images that depict the above themes that will be compatible with the anthology. We are interested in both portraits of people and landscape and/or interpretive photographs or artwork. * Photography and artwork may be submitted either electronically or through snail mail. Please adhere to the following guidelines: Electronic submissions * Send an email with three attached images/jpgs (sized at under 100K per * image) to crwilkin@indiana.edu OR * Send a website address link to crwilkin@indiana.edu. * Make sure your name and contact information are included in your email. Postal submissions * Send a NON RETURNABLE CD with low resolution images or send NON RETURNABLE proofs or prints no larger than 8.5" x 11" to: * Include a SASE for your submission response. * Make sure your name and contact information are on ALL MATERIALS sent. * DO NOT SEND originals, slides, transparencies or anything of value. * Do not send over-sized materials - nothing larger than 8.5 x 11 inches. * Submit two copies of work with SASE/e-mail address for notification. Manuscripts will not be returned. Send to: Crystal Wilkinson, Department of English, Indiana University, 442 Ballantine Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405 E-mail inquiries can be sent to Crwilkin@indiana.edu No phone inquires please. ############################################# this is e-drum, a listserv providing information of interests to black writers and diverse supporters worldwide. e-drum is moderated by kalamu ya salaam (kalamu@aol.com). Stay Strong\ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil\ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk --^^--------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:27:07 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: Critical/Negative Poetry Reviews Open Call MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit all books are crap shoots most books are crap ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:44:58 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brian Stefans Subject: hard drive crash In-Reply-To: <200508200003.1e6kzt79C3Nl3490@mx-nebolish.atl.sa.earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My hard drive crashed, and though it was under warranty and is now replaced, I've lost a lot of email. If I owe someone out there an email or something, let me know! Brian ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:42:21 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: review of dbcinema MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit here's a little review of dbcinema: http://www.teknemedia.net/magazine/?a=dettagli&magazine_id=672 (italian). ja ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:34:30 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Karl Rove Gets Induces Stroke In Protester's Mother Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ The Legend Grows: Karl Rove Gets Cindy Sheehan Out Of Bush's Face: White House Chief Of Stink Induces Stroke In Protester's Mother: Her Mother Ill, 'Peace Mom' Leaves Camp: Drive Back To L.A. Forces Sheehan Into Bankruptcy: By ANGLING BRAUNNOSE They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical, whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house. One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:45:18 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: hard drive crash MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit not me ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 01:12:19 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Jared Tarbell's online generative art MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here is some unusually good generative visual art available for viewing on the Net: http://www.complexification.net/gallery . This is work by Jared Tarbell of New Mexico. I find this work quite exciting. What I like about it is the fusion of algorithm and art. Of course there is much generative algorithmic visual art, but this work is rather distinguished in its particular fusion. For instance, Box.Fitting.Img is both quite beautiful visually and, also, the work grows from an algorithm that one may easily infer from watching the piece. It starts with 5 boxes. The color of the boxes is determined by the color of the pixel of an underlying, invisible image. Though as the piece grows, one gets other indications of the underlying image. In any case, a box grows until it touches another box. Then it stops growing and other boxes start growing in the interstices remaining. Very simple algorithm. Plain to see. But brilliantly so, really, and unusual in its visual results. And much of his work is this way: the algorithms are evident if you watch closely. Though another wonderful part of the work is that all the source code is available to view, also. It's all done in a language called Processing invented not too long ago by Casey Reas and Ben Fry. Java based. So here we see the strong abstract quality of generative computer visuals. Strong abstract and dynamic properties/mode/process/aesthetic. Also we see the value of the source code to the artist-programmer community. ja http://vispo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 01:28:13 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Jerrold Shiroma [ duration press ]" Subject: Re: Jared Tarbell's online generative art MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i believe he is also behind http://www.levitated.net/ which is also quite wonderful... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Andrews" To: Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:12 AM Subject: Jared Tarbell's online generative art > Here is some unusually good generative visual art available for viewing on > the Net: http://www.complexification.net/gallery . This is work by Jared > Tarbell of New Mexico. I find this work quite exciting. > > What I like about it is the fusion of algorithm and art. Of course there > is > much generative algorithmic visual art, but this work is rather > distinguished in its particular fusion. > > For instance, Box.Fitting.Img is both quite beautiful visually and, also, > the work grows from an algorithm that one may easily infer from watching > the > piece. It starts with 5 boxes. The color of the boxes is determined by the > color of the pixel of an underlying, invisible image. Though as the piece > grows, one gets other indications of the underlying image. In any case, a > box grows until it touches another box. Then it stops growing and other > boxes start growing in the interstices remaining. > > Very simple algorithm. Plain to see. But brilliantly so, really, and > unusual > in its visual results. > > And much of his work is this way: the algorithms are evident if you watch > closely. Though another wonderful part of the work is that all the source > code is available to view, also. It's all done in a language called > Processing invented not too long ago by Casey Reas and Ben Fry. Java > based. > > So here we see the strong abstract quality of generative computer visuals. > Strong abstract and dynamic properties/mode/process/aesthetic. Also we see > the value of the source code to the artist-programmer community. > > ja > http://vispo.com > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:55:39 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Jared Tarbell's online generative art In-Reply-To: <000401c5a62a$4636f050$2602a8c0@owner33041255d> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > i believe he is also behind http://www.levitated.net/ which is also quite > wonderful... yes, he is, and i agree that it also is terrific. a larger and more diverse project. but http://complexification.net is, urm, of a body, more unified as a project, and the algorithms are of a style more perceptibly, possibly more strongly, than in levitated.net, which is an earlier project, isn't it? it's flash, i think, also, isn't it (ie all of it), whereas complexification is in a language that provides better granular control down to the pixel and a faster framerate, so wider possibilities, in some regards. His sense of color and shape is finely drawn. No clumsy grab bag goin on here. The sense of composition is fascinating. Composition within a pseudo-random generative process. Also, the algorithms in complexification.net are often a stronger part of the concept. There is a sense of course in which the visuals grow out of the idea, idea as generative engine, in any generative visual work. But there is even a simple but strong style of approach to the algorithm in the complexification.net pieces. ja ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 12:18:27 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Craig Allen Conrad Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Mehmet=20Tarhan=E2=80=99s=20statement=20at=20his=20tri?= =?UTF-8?Q?al=20Sivas,=204=20August=202005?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 Mehmet Tarhan=E2=80=99s statement at his trial Sivas, 4 August 2005 By declaring my conscientous objection on October 27 2001, I stated that I=20 would not perform military service, that I would not take part in any army=20= or=20 similar hierarchical organization and that I would not serve in the=20 dissemination of militarist culture into social life. Since that date, especially taking into consideration the war frenzy that=20 the world has been swept into since September 11, I become more confident w= ith=20 each passing day that I have made a right decision. Because the terror =20 attacks and the ongoing atrocious wars everywhere in the world, including th= e land=20 we live in, demonstrate that a way of life that excludes violence in its =20 entirety is the only humane solution. Since armies are the tools for using legitimized violence, they are one of=20 the most important obstacles before a world devoid of violence. This is=20 because militaries owe their existence, their power and sustainability to w= ars and=20 to the probability of wars. And militaries are, by nature, institutions tha= t =20 produce wars. For the military, there is no such thing as a state of peace. The periods=20 where there is no armed conflict, are merely intervals where they try to=20 universalize the tyranny they impose onto the society, that is, a time peri= od=20 devoted to preparation for war and fighting against the implementation of =20= peace. As the ruling classes=E2=80=99 apparatus of violence, the military diffuses= the=20 culture of obedience through military service. The individual who becomes=20 accustomed to taking orders and obeying without questions, not only loses h= er/his=20 independence but becomes an enemy to the idea of independence. What=20 differentiates a human being from a machine or a well-trained dog is that h= er/his acts=20 stem from his/her individual will. So obeying without asking any questions,= is=20 far from being humane, to say the least. Expecting unconditional obedience=20 from someone is equivalent to asking her/him to abandon his/her humanity. Because I find it important to lead a humane life and as an indispensible=20 precondition of this I feel that all humans should lead a humane life, I=20 declare once again that I will never take orders and I will never give orde= rs. I=20 believe that discrimination and violence are crimes of humanity and in the=20= name=20 of avoiding to commit this crime, I am determined to not be a part of the=20 military which is an apparatus of violence based on hierarchy that imposes=20= such=20 hierarchical constructions over the society, I am determined to disobey,=20 and refuse to be transformed into a murder machine by taking a training of=20 dying and killing. I find it tragicomical and protest that, in this building that is placed=20 inside a military barracks, persons who carry military ranks see themselves= as=20 having the right to make statements regarding my destiny according to laws=20 that bind them alone. I want the restriction on my freedom to end immediate= ly.=20 =20 For further information and protest letter see Payday's website=20 _http://www.refusingtokill.net/Turkey/ReleaseMehmet.htm_=20 (http://www.refusingtokill.net/Turkey/ReleaseMehmet.htm)=20 =20 ____________________________________ Dichiarazione di Mehmet Tarhan al suo processo Sivas, 4 agosto 2005 Il 27 ottobre 2001, dichiarandomi obiettore di coscienza, ho affermato che=20 non avrei fatto il servizio militare, che non avrei partecipato a nessuna=20 organizzazione militare o gerarchica di tipo analogo, e che non avrei colla= borato=20 con la disseminazione della cultura militare nella vita sociale. =20 Da quella data, specialmente prendendo in considerazione la frenesia=20 guerrafondaia che ha invaso il mondo dall=E2=80=9911 settembre, ogni giorno=20= che passa=20 divento sempre pi=C3=B9 convinto di aver preso la decisione giusta, perch= =C3=A9 gli attacchi=20 terroristici e le continue, atroci guerre in tutte le parti del mondo, =20 compreso il paese in cui viviamo, dimostrano che un modo di vita che esclude= la =20 violenza nel suo complesso =C3=A8 l=E2=80=99unica soluzione umana. Dato che sono gli strumenti per usare violenza legittimata, gli eserciti=20 sono uno degli ostacoli pi=C3=B9 importanti sulla strada di un mondo senza=20= violenza. =20 I militari devono la loro esistenza, il loro potere e la loro sostenibilit= =C3=A0=20 alle guerre e alla probabilit=C3=A0 delle guerre. E i militari sono, per=20= natura,=20 istituzioni che producono guerra. =20 Per i militari una cosa come uno stato di pace non esiste. I periodi in cu= i=20 non ci sono conflitti armati sono semplicemente degli intervalli dove i=20 militari tentano di universalizzare la tirannia che impongono sulla societ= =C3=A0, sono=20 cio=C3=A8 un periodo di tempo dedicato alla preparazione per la guerra e al= la=20 lotta contro la messa in pratica della pace. =20 In quanto apparato di violenza delle classi dominanti, i militari diffondon= o=20 la cultura dell=E2=80=99obbedienza attraverso il servizio militare. L=E2= =80=99individuo=20 che si abitua a prendere ordini e a obbedire senza fare domande, non perde=20= solo=20 la sua indipendenza, ma diventa un nemico dell=E2=80=99idea di indipendenza= . Quello=20 che differenzia un essere umano da una macchina o un cane ben addestrato=20= =C3=A8=20 che le sue azioni derivano dalla sua volont=C3=A0 individuale. Per cui ob= bedire=20 senza fare domande =C3=A8 =E2=80=93 a dir poco - ben lungi da essere una ca= ratteristica =20 umana. Attendersi da qualcuno un=E2=80=99obbedienza incondizionata equival= e a=20 chiederle/gli di abbandonare la sua umanit=C3=A0. =20 Dato che ritengo importante vivere una vita umana e che, come precondizione= =20 indispensabile, penso che tutti gli esseri umani dovrebbero vivere una vita= =20 umana, dichiaro ancora una volta che non prender=C3=B2 mai ordini e non dar= =C3=B2 mai=20 ordini. Credo che la discriminazione e la violenza siano crimini dell=E2= =80=99umanit=C3=A0=20 e, per evitare di commettere tale crimine, sono deciso a non entrare a far=20 parte della struttura militare, un apparato di violenza basato sulla gerarc= hia=20 che impone queste costruzioni gerarchiche sulla societ=C3=A0. Sono deciso=20= a=20 disobbedire, e a rifiutare di essere trasformato in una macchina per uccide= re=20 lasciando che mi addestrino a morire e a uccidere. =20 Penso che sia tragicomico e protesto contro il fatto che, in quest=E2=80= =99edificio=20 che =C3=A8 sistemato all=E2=80=99interno di una caserma militare, delle per= sone che=20 portano i gradi pensino di avere il diritto di fare dichiarazioni sul mio d= estino,=20 secondo leggi che vincolano soltanto loro. Esigo che le restrizioni sulla m= ia=20 libert=C3=A0 cessino immediatamente.=20 Per ulteriori informazioni e indirizzi per lettere di protesta (anche in =20 italiano) vedi il sito web di Payday=20 _http://www.refusingtokill.net/Italian%20RTK/italianindex.htm_=20 (http://www.refusingtokill.net/Italian%20RTK/italianindex.htm) =20 Payday =20 (a network of men working with the Global Women's Strike - una rete di =20 uomini che lavora con lo Sciopero Globale delle Donne)=20 tel +44 20 7209 4751 (English) mobile +44 780 378 9699 (English-Italiano) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:52:07 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Researchers Explore Whether G.W. Bush Has Concept Of Zero Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Click here: The Assassinated Press=20 http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ Researchers Explore Whether G.W. Bush Has Concept Of Zero: Bush may have hit on a concept that has eluded family members for centuries= =E2=80=94 possibly during a temper tantrum: By HAIRY NOODLE=20 They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.=20 ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in=20 the=20 sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful=20 language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or=20 hypocritical,=20 whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating= =20 impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poure= d=20 forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter= =20 house. =20 One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first=20 giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." =20 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:09:12 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Ol’ Country Western Singer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ol’ Country Western Singer We’ll be coke whores once the bowl of cheese runs out, along the cusp where Albright (1) brought flesh new realism. Past the coiling sphincter where the soul’s expunged we’ll sleep no longer able to brutally struggle slumping to the floor at the Russell Hotel Bar. And carrying five--a fist full’f someone else’s emotions --we’ll smoke Silkcuts, filling tumblers with wedges of day our box guitar twanging amid black flies and dung beetles. It’ll be a chaste swill from our hoary mouths! (1) Ivan Albright (Magic Realist Painter, 1897-1983). Quixote’s Windmill That you’ve the brisk gaze of a snow-logged morning? Shoes polished “that dignity be experienced” (said strolling through grit). “Dicked her and I-I loved it!” clutching a laddie book. And with umbrella pressed against the boastful wind of this and last year’s Christmas: STICKINESS beautiful here Ruby Deeeee! onto the face. “Gonna grease your balls stick ‘em in your ass!” That’s what you said (a bit like terror). Quito 28 June 2004: That crucifix I've been carrying, one belonging to Franciscans 150 years old, sure's kept me safe! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:51:58 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charlie Rossiter Subject: Jennifer Bosveld new Featured Poet on www.poetrypoetry.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jennifer Bosveld Featured on www.poetrypoetry.com Our new feature poet on www.poetrypoetry.com is Jenniver Bosveld from Columbus Ohio. Jennifer is publisher of Pudding House Publications which just may be the largest small press in the U.S.A. with 125 publications in 2004. In this interview Ms, Bosveld discusses small press publishing, ekphrastic poetry, and some of her favorite poets and major influences. This interview/reading includes a generous sampling of Jennifer's poetry. In addition to being available on poetrypoetry.com, it has also been added to the ever-expanding mix of poetry on Poetry World Radio which can be accessed by clicking in the box next to Emily Dickinson's portrait on the poetrypoetry homepage. Please pass this info on to interested others. Charlie Rossiter -- The truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it Emily Dickinson www.poetrypoetry.com where you hear poems read by the poets who wrote them ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:51:15 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: Ol’ Country Western Singer In-Reply-To: <20050821200912.94137.qmail@web54405.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm in Beijing, China and wonder if anyone might be able to recommend a graduate program Stateside, multii-disciplinary and non MFA. Also, where's the 'hotspot' for creative convergence, let me say, in North America. I'll be returning in December after 7 years away and you should reckon I'm gonna feel lost. AJ --- Alex Jorgensen wrote: > Ol’ Country Western Singer > > We’ll be coke whores > once the bowl of > cheese runs out, along > the cusp where Albright (1) > brought flesh new realism. > Past the coiling sphincter > where the soul’s expunged > we’ll sleep no longer > able to brutally struggle > slumping to the floor > at the Russell Hotel Bar. > > And carrying five--a fist > full’f someone else’s emotions > --we’ll smoke Silkcuts, filling > tumblers with wedges of day > our box guitar twanging amid > black flies and dung beetles. > > It’ll be a chaste swill > from our hoary mouths! > > > (1) Ivan Albright (Magic Realist Painter, > 1897-1983). > > > Quixote’s Windmill > > That you’ve the brisk gaze > of a snow-logged morning? > Shoes polished > “that dignity be experienced” (said > strolling through grit). “Dicked her and I-I loved > it!” > clutching a laddie book. > And with umbrella pressed against > the boastful wind > of this > and > last year’s > Christmas: STICKINESS > > beautiful > here > Ruby Deeeee! > onto the face. > “Gonna > grease your balls > stick ‘em in your ass!” That’s what you said (a bit > like terror). > > > > Quito > > 28 June 2004: That crucifix I've been > carrying, one belonging to Franciscans > 150 years old, sure's kept me safe! > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:36:47 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: alexander saliby Subject: Re: Ol' Country Western Singer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alex, Great questions! Great lyrics!! To whom should you turn for the music? = Hmmmmmmmm, well, if your political leanings favor the right, consider = the S.E. schools, several of the south Western facilities, and most of = the western entities in AZ, NM, UT, ID, WY, MT, and both eastern Oregon = and eastern Washington. There are still some question about the CA = facilities, and the mix in that state is totally confusing. =20 The most liberal facilities are in the North East (with the possible = exception of southern Maine, some of these folks still think they are = Tories fighting whigs...go figure). The most middle of the road, broadly tolerant sites are in the northern = midwest of Wisconsin, Minnesota, south central Iowa, portions of = Indiana, and of course western Oregon and Western Washington. (notice = I've ignored some of the civil war border states...that's because they = continue to border, and the likes of Kansas and both the Dakotas = continue to confuse even their own voters...although, it is true, Kansas = favors preaching...ooops, my error, teaching creationism, as does our = president.)=20 Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the eastern seaboard coastal states down to the = Carolinas remain perplexed themselves about their leanings...your guess = will be as good as theirs in most cases. Although I suspect with the = latest Ohio governor's news that state is due for a major political = leaning shift...a paradigm of policies, if you will. Could be a great = place to seek education in the near future.=20 Apart from the political spectrum, two points need to be made: 1. all the U's in the nation are worthy of your approval. 2. the tendency of the U faculty to favor left-leaning directions has = been overshadowed in the past 10 years by an ever increasing right-wing = student body criticism that has been drawing wide news coverage. (Of = course, this is in truth part of the media's own "guilt complex" of = favoring the left as criticized by the right, and the media need to over = come that feeling of guilt, quickly.) =20 As I read your lyrics, I make only this recommendation...stay the hell = out of Texas! Alex P.S. unless of course Kinky Friedman wins his bid to be elected = governor, in which case, that will be the best place to go finish your = songs. Kinky is a words and music kind of guy.=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Alex Jorgensen=20 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=20 Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 9:51 PM Subject: Re: Ol' Country Western Singer I'm in Beijing, China and wonder if anyone might be able to recommend a graduate program Stateside, multii-disciplinary and non MFA. Also, where's the 'hotspot' for creative convergence, let me say, in North America. I'll be returning in December after 7 years away and you should reckon I'm gonna feel lost. AJ --- Alex Jorgensen = > wrote: > Ol' Country Western Singer > > We'll be coke whores > once the bowl of > cheese runs out, along > the cusp where Albright (1) > brought flesh new realism. > Past the coiling sphincter > where the soul's expunged > we'll sleep no longer > able to brutally struggle > slumping to the floor > at the Russell Hotel Bar. > > And carrying five--a fist > full'f someone else's emotions > --we'll smoke Silkcuts, filling > tumblers with wedges of day > our box guitar twanging amid > black flies and dung beetles. > > It'll be a chaste swill > from our hoary mouths! > > > (1) Ivan Albright (Magic Realist Painter, > 1897-1983). > > > Quixote's Windmill > > That you've the brisk gaze > of a snow-logged morning? > Shoes polished > "that dignity be experienced" (said > strolling through grit). "Dicked her and I-I loved > it!" > clutching a laddie book. > And with umbrella pressed against > the boastful wind > of this > and > last year's > Christmas: STICKINESS > > beautiful > here > Ruby Deeeee! > onto the face. > "Gonna > grease your balls > stick 'em in your ass!" That's what you said (a bit > like terror). > > > > Quito > > 28 June 2004: That crucifix I've been > carrying, one belonging to Franciscans > 150 years old, sure's kept me safe! > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:41:50 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: Ol' Country Western Singer In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit An Apéritif of Fotbal Lads A beneficent Oscar Wilde XY was pretty as an adolescent girl. He’d modeled in Paris, or so he said, and made his night by making others. A daft little priss he was, prone to wordiness and the occasional gibe-- throaty as those sown by (Tom) Eliot. My life’s a gentlemen’s society XY’d say. Are you a top, or a bottom? --- alexander saliby wrote: > Alex, > Great questions! Great lyrics!! To whom should you > turn for the music? Hmmmmmmmm, well, if your > political leanings favor the right, consider the > S.E. schools, several of the south Western > facilities, and most of the western entities in AZ, > NM, UT, ID, WY, MT, and both eastern Oregon and > eastern Washington. There are still some question > about the CA facilities, and the mix in that state > is totally confusing. > > The most liberal facilities are in the North East > (with the possible exception of southern Maine, some > of these folks still think they are Tories fighting > whigs...go figure). > > The most middle of the road, broadly tolerant sites > are in the northern midwest of Wisconsin, Minnesota, > south central Iowa, portions of Indiana, and of > course western Oregon and Western Washington. > (notice I've ignored some of the civil war border > states...that's because they continue to border, and > the likes of Kansas and both the Dakotas continue to > confuse even their own voters...although, it is > true, Kansas favors preaching...ooops, my error, > teaching creationism, as does our president.) > > Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the eastern seaboard coastal > states down to the Carolinas remain perplexed > themselves about their leanings...your guess will be > as good as theirs in most cases. Although I suspect > with the latest Ohio governor's news that state is > due for a major political leaning shift...a paradigm > of policies, if you will. Could be a great place to > seek education in the near future. > > Apart from the political spectrum, two points need > to be made: > 1. all the U's in the nation are worthy of your > approval. > 2. the tendency of the U faculty to favor > left-leaning directions has been overshadowed in the > past 10 years by an ever increasing right-wing > student body criticism that has been drawing wide > news coverage. (Of course, this is in truth part of > the media's own "guilt complex" of favoring the left > as criticized by the right, and the media need to > over come that feeling of guilt, quickly.) > > As I read your lyrics, I make only this > recommendation...stay the hell out of Texas! > Alex > P.S. unless of course Kinky Friedman wins his bid to > be elected governor, in which case, that will be > the best place to go finish your songs. Kinky is a > words and music kind of guy. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Jorgensen > > To: > POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 9:51 PM > Subject: Re: Ol' Country Western Singer > > > I'm in Beijing, China and wonder if anyone might > be > able to recommend a graduate program Stateside, > multii-disciplinary and non MFA. Also, where's the > 'hotspot' for creative convergence, let me say, in > North America. I'll be returning in December after > 7 > years away and you should reckon I'm gonna feel > lost. > > AJ > > --- Alex Jorgensen > > > wrote: > > > Ol' Country Western Singer > > > > We'll be coke whores > > once the bowl of > > cheese runs out, along > > the cusp where Albright (1) > > brought flesh new realism. > > Past the coiling sphincter > > where the soul's expunged > > we'll sleep no longer > > able to brutally struggle > > slumping to the floor > > at the Russell Hotel Bar. > > > > And carrying five--a fist > > full'f someone else's emotions > > --we'll smoke Silkcuts, filling > > tumblers with wedges of day > > our box guitar twanging amid > > black flies and dung beetles. > > > > It'll be a chaste swill > > from our hoary mouths! > > > > > > (1) Ivan Albright (Magic Realist Painter, > > 1897-1983). > > > > > > Quixote's Windmill > > > > That you've the brisk gaze > > of a snow-logged morning? > > Shoes polished > > "that dignity be experienced" (said > > strolling through grit). "Dicked her and I-I > loved > > it!" > > clutching a laddie book. > > And with umbrella pressed against > > the boastful wind > > of this > > and > > last year's > > Christmas: STICKINESS > > > > beautiful > > here > > Ruby Deeeee! > > onto the face. > > "Gonna > > grease your balls > > stick 'em in your ass!" That's what you said (a > bit > > like terror). > > > > > > > > Quito > > > > 28 June 2004: That crucifix I've been > > carrying, one belonging to Franciscans > > 150 years old, sure's kept me safe! > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home > page > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:44:12 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: And another question. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit And another question. How do you feel the quotes (which is simply stylistic and assists with potential grammar problems, I think?). Apologize for being a bit to endulgent with the junk mail. Not all my work's like this. Like Swallowing Bullets from a Glock Just didn't understand what a son-of-a-bitch I was turning into: box-ah 100 mountain gorillas!? Having wanted elegance to be my motorcade & still cursed the face “as if’d been held this loaded gun.” Among soft-haired girls & rose water, armpits stank-- dirty beer, floppy jeans. --- alexander saliby wrote: > Alex, > Great questions! Great lyrics!! To whom should you > turn for the music? Hmmmmmmmm, well, if your > political leanings favor the right, consider the > S.E. schools, several of the south Western > facilities, and most of the western entities in AZ, > NM, UT, ID, WY, MT, and both eastern Oregon and > eastern Washington. There are still some question > about the CA facilities, and the mix in that state > is totally confusing. > > The most liberal facilities are in the North East > (with the possible exception of southern Maine, some > of these folks still think they are Tories fighting > whigs...go figure). > > The most middle of the road, broadly tolerant sites > are in the northern midwest of Wisconsin, Minnesota, > south central Iowa, portions of Indiana, and of > course western Oregon and Western Washington. > (notice I've ignored some of the civil war border > states...that's because they continue to border, and > the likes of Kansas and both the Dakotas continue to > confuse even their own voters...although, it is > true, Kansas favors preaching...ooops, my error, > teaching creationism, as does our president.) > > Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the eastern seaboard coastal > states down to the Carolinas remain perplexed > themselves about their leanings...your guess will be > as good as theirs in most cases. Although I suspect > with the latest Ohio governor's news that state is > due for a major political leaning shift...a paradigm > of policies, if you will. Could be a great place to > seek education in the near future. > > Apart from the political spectrum, two points need > to be made: > 1. all the U's in the nation are worthy of your > approval. > 2. the tendency of the U faculty to favor > left-leaning directions has been overshadowed in the > past 10 years by an ever increasing right-wing > student body criticism that has been drawing wide > news coverage. (Of course, this is in truth part of > the media's own "guilt complex" of favoring the left > as criticized by the right, and the media need to > over come that feeling of guilt, quickly.) > > As I read your lyrics, I make only this > recommendation...stay the hell out of Texas! > Alex > P.S. unless of course Kinky Friedman wins his bid to > be elected governor, in which case, that will be > the best place to go finish your songs. Kinky is a > words and music kind of guy. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Jorgensen > > To: > POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 9:51 PM > Subject: Re: Ol' Country Western Singer > > > I'm in Beijing, China and wonder if anyone might > be > able to recommend a graduate program Stateside, > multii-disciplinary and non MFA. Also, where's the > 'hotspot' for creative convergence, let me say, in > North America. I'll be returning in December after > 7 > years away and you should reckon I'm gonna feel > lost. > > AJ > > --- Alex Jorgensen > > > wrote: > > > Ol' Country Western Singer > > > > We'll be coke whores > > once the bowl of > > cheese runs out, along > > the cusp where Albright (1) > > brought flesh new realism. > > Past the coiling sphincter > > where the soul's expunged > > we'll sleep no longer > > able to brutally struggle > > slumping to the floor > > at the Russell Hotel Bar. > > > > And carrying five--a fist > > full'f someone else's emotions > > --we'll smoke Silkcuts, filling > > tumblers with wedges of day > > our box guitar twanging amid > > black flies and dung beetles. > > > > It'll be a chaste swill > > from our hoary mouths! > > > > > > (1) Ivan Albright (Magic Realist Painter, > > 1897-1983). > > > > > > Quixote's Windmill > > > > That you've the brisk gaze > > of a snow-logged morning? > > Shoes polished > > "that dignity be experienced" (said > > strolling through grit). "Dicked her and I-I > loved > > it!" > > clutching a laddie book. > > And with umbrella pressed against > > the boastful wind > > of this > > and > > last year's > > Christmas: STICKINESS > > > > beautiful > > here > > Ruby Deeeee! > > onto the face. > > "Gonna > > grease your balls > > stick 'em in your ass!" That's what you said (a > bit > > like terror). > > > > > > > > Quito > > > > 28 June 2004: That crucifix I've been > > carrying, one belonging to Franciscans > > 150 years old, sure's kept me safe! > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home > page > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:04:53 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: alexander saliby Subject: Re: And another question. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alex,=20 Oh....well said, and beautifully asked!!! But you dance the minuet. North America is listening to the waltz. =20 Worse, there are no pick-up trucks in your lyrics real dirty beer drinkers must have pick-up trucks.=20 Again, avoid Texas, only add to that list Oklahoma and Arkansas, unless of course you can sing sweet Jesus songs along with the radio. =20 Alex=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Alex Jorgensen=20 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=20 Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 10:44 PM Subject: And another question. And another question. How do you feel the quotes (which is simply stylistic and assists with potential grammar problems, I think?). Apologize for being a bit to endulgent with the junk mail. Not all my work's like this. Like Swallowing Bullets from a Glock Just didn't understand what a son-of-a-bitch I was turning into: box-ah 100 mountain gorillas!? Having wanted elegance to be my motorcade & still cursed the face "as if'd been held this loaded gun." Among soft-haired girls & rose water, armpits stank-- dirty beer, floppy jeans. --- alexander saliby > wrote: > Alex, > Great questions! Great lyrics!! To whom should you > turn for the music? Hmmmmmmmm, well, if your > political leanings favor the right, consider the > S.E. schools, several of the south Western > facilities, and most of the western entities in AZ, > NM, UT, ID, WY, MT, and both eastern Oregon and > eastern Washington. There are still some question > about the CA facilities, and the mix in that state > is totally confusing. > > The most liberal facilities are in the North East > (with the possible exception of southern Maine, some > of these folks still think they are Tories fighting > whigs...go figure). > > The most middle of the road, broadly tolerant sites > are in the northern midwest of Wisconsin, Minnesota, > south central Iowa, portions of Indiana, and of > course western Oregon and Western Washington. > (notice I've ignored some of the civil war border > states...that's because they continue to border, and > the likes of Kansas and both the Dakotas continue to > confuse even their own voters...although, it is > true, Kansas favors preaching...ooops, my error, > teaching creationism, as does our president.) > > Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the eastern seaboard coastal > states down to the Carolinas remain perplexed > themselves about their leanings...your guess will be > as good as theirs in most cases. Although I suspect > with the latest Ohio governor's news that state is > due for a major political leaning shift...a paradigm > of policies, if you will. Could be a great place to > seek education in the near future. > > Apart from the political spectrum, two points need > to be made: > 1. all the U's in the nation are worthy of your > approval. > 2. the tendency of the U faculty to favor > left-leaning directions has been overshadowed in the > past 10 years by an ever increasing right-wing > student body criticism that has been drawing wide > news coverage. (Of course, this is in truth part of > the media's own "guilt complex" of favoring the left > as criticized by the right, and the media need to > over come that feeling of guilt, quickly.) > > As I read your lyrics, I make only this > recommendation...stay the hell out of Texas! > Alex > P.S. unless of course Kinky Friedman wins his bid to > be elected governor, in which case, that will be > the best place to go finish your songs. Kinky is a > words and music kind of guy. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex = Jorgensen> > > To: > = POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU> > > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 9:51 PM > Subject: Re: Ol' Country Western Singer > > > I'm in Beijing, China and wonder if anyone might > be > able to recommend a graduate program Stateside, > multii-disciplinary and non MFA. Also, where's the > 'hotspot' for creative convergence, let me say, in > North America. I'll be returning in December after > 7 > years away and you should reckon I'm gonna feel > lost. > > AJ > > --- Alex Jorgensen > = >> > wrote: > > > Ol' Country Western Singer > > > > We'll be coke whores > > once the bowl of > > cheese runs out, along > > the cusp where Albright (1) > > brought flesh new realism. > > Past the coiling sphincter > > where the soul's expunged > > we'll sleep no longer > > able to brutally struggle > > slumping to the floor > > at the Russell Hotel Bar. > > > > And carrying five--a fist > > full'f someone else's emotions > > --we'll smoke Silkcuts, filling > > tumblers with wedges of day > > our box guitar twanging amid > > black flies and dung beetles. > > > > It'll be a chaste swill > > from our hoary mouths! > > > > > > (1) Ivan Albright (Magic Realist Painter, > > 1897-1983). > > > > > > Quixote's Windmill > > > > That you've the brisk gaze > > of a snow-logged morning? > > Shoes polished > > "that dignity be experienced" (said > > strolling through grit). "Dicked her and I-I > loved > > it!" > > clutching a laddie book. > > And with umbrella pressed against > > the boastful wind > > of this > > and > > last year's > > Christmas: STICKINESS > > > > beautiful > > here > > Ruby Deeeee! > > onto the face. > > "Gonna > > grease your balls > > stick 'em in your ass!" That's what you said (a > bit > > like terror). > > > > > > > > Quito > > > > 28 June 2004: That crucifix I've been > > carrying, one belonging to Franciscans > > 150 years old, sure's kept me safe! > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > > protection around > > = http://mail.yahoo.com> > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home > page > > = http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs> > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:24:01 -0400 Reply-To: rumblek@bellsouth.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ken Rumble Subject: North Carolina: READING: This Saturday, August 27th: Downs, Eisenhower, Orange, & Good MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello everyone, I'm happy to announce a pre-season treat -- a visit by some of Washington, DC's, best poets. The first "official" Desert City reading won't be until September 17th, but in the meantime, come get your fill of poetry this Saturday at the Skylight Exchange! The details: Who: Buck Downs, author of _Marijuana Softdrink_ and the largest poetry postcard project ever! Who: Cathy Eisenhower, author of _Language of the Dog-Heads_, force behind the interrupting cow press, and curator of the In Your Ear Reading Series! Who: Tom Orange, author of _25 Poems_, _Seedsource_, and _Tethering_ and curator of the In Your Ear Reading Series! Who: Adam Good, associate editor of _Your Black Eye_ and co-curator of the In Your Ear Reading Series! What: Reading poems and making 'em flowem. When: This Saturday, August 27th, 6:00pm, 2005. Where: The Skylight Exchange, 405 1/2 Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, NC, down the little alleyway next to Fuse. Afterwards: Rocking with Randall at the Cabin! (details on that event to follow) Some links: Adam Good: http://www.yourblackeye.org/new_index.htm http://www.fascicle.com (coming soon) Cathy Eisenhower: http://limetree.ksilem.com/archives/000003.html http://www.phylumpress.com/covers/language.htm http://www.wordforword.info/vol5/Eisenhower.htm http://www.yourblackeye.org/Flagpoles_Eisenhower_1Q05.html Tom Orange: http://jacketmagazine.com/13/coolidge-o-a.html http://epc.buffalo.edu/ezines/alyric/orange.html http://epc.buffalo.edu/ezines/alyric/orp.html http://jacketmagazine.com/13/coolidge-iv.html Buck Downs: http://www.dcpoetry.com/history/downs.htm http://home.jps.net/~nada/downs.htm http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_phillysound_archive.html#108868957273764140 Sponsored by the Desert City Poetry Series: http://desertcity.blogspot.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:24:23 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Fwd: DiY Reminder Comments: To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Begin forwarded message: > From: artwankers@c6.org > Date: August 22, 2005 2:21:17 PM CDT > To: dtv@mwt.net > Subject: DiY Reminder > Reply-To: artwankers@c6.org > > =91DIY SURVIVAL=92 (There is no Subculture, only Subversion). > > For everybody out there who has not replied yet but think of doing it: > hurry up! the deadline for submission is 1st September 2005 > > C6 invite submissions for a forthcoming publication on strategies, =20 > methods and techniques of DIY art practices. We are seeking =20 > innovative, critical and radical approaches to diverse art practice =20= > and organization focused on how to produce art unbound by market, =20 > commerce, and whitecubes. The aim is to produce a guide of tactical =20= > means for collective art making. > > We are looking for a wide range of perspectives, essays, case =20 > studies, artworks and interviews to articulate and promote the idea =20= > of self generative cultural events and the collective production of =20= > art. Contributions from artists, activists, cultural producers, and =20= > other related professionals are welcome. > > C6 wish to keep the possible topics vague enough for =20 > interpretation, a starting point may be: > > =95 Ethos, history and politics of DIY art and culture > =95 Occupation of territories > =95 Culture jamming, guerrilla art practices > =95 Strategies of audience engagement > =95 Tales of endurance, invention and uncompromising passion > =95 Resistance and the creation of communities > =95 Question of authorship/ownership in collaborative systems > > Keywords: community, digital, tactical, strategic, interactive, =20 > intervention, pervasive, collective, fine art sausage machine. > > Deadline for submission is 1st September 2005. Entries, comments =20 > and queries can be sent to diy@c6.org > > The book launch event will be on the 29th of October at the c6 show =20= > =91SOLD OUT=92 in Cremer street Shoreditch London. > > We are currently looking at approximately a 60 page book, A5 black =20 > and white with limited graphics, printed in size 6 inches by 9 =20 > perfect bound (like a magazine spine).This edition will be =20 > presented at the c6 show =91SOLD OUT=92 in October. > > The book then will go to Print on demand where a prospective buyer =20 > will order the one copy he or she wants. Price of the book online =20 > will be its cost price that stands at a =A32.50 plus postage. > > The work will be a collection of articles, case studies and how to=20 > \'s about engaging the public using the strategies that are =20 > associated with tactical art. We are limited to the amount of =20 > graphics we can have but will consider them. > > Authors will receive a copy and can also distribute via the web =20 > ordering system that we will set up. This is about disseminating =20 > material via a print medium which we have found to be essential in =20 > reaching some people. > > Thank you for your interest we look forward to your submission. > > DIY ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 07:57:13 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas savage Subject: Howl Festival Garden Reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Poetry Reading by Tom Savage, Bill Kushner, Jeff Wright, Merry Fortune, Steve Dalachinsky, Dorothy Friedman August, Susanna Maio, and others. Garden 11BC 626 E. 11th St. Sunday August 28, 2005 4PM. Free. Curated by Tom Savage __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:04:27 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas savage Subject: Tom Savage's Blog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit New entry on my blog: Construction or deconstruction, which comes first or is more basic to poetic creation? I invite the full spectrum of response including disagreement. --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:20:43 -0400 Reply-To: "J. Michael Mollohan" Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "J. Michael Mollohan" Organization: idea.s Subject: Re: Howl Festival Garden Reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom, Not everyone lives in whatever town you do, nor has everyone on this list been here forever. Your instructions as to where the reading is to take place is of absolutely no use to anyone other than those who have been here long enough to be aware of your location. Additionally, when posting a message about a new entry on your blog, it would be nice to include a URL, so that we of the uninitiated persuasion will know where to look. JMichael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas savage" To: Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 10:57 AM Subject: Howl Festival Garden Reading > Poetry Reading by Tom Savage, Bill Kushner, Jeff Wright, Merry Fortune, > Steve Dalachinsky, Dorothy Friedman August, Susanna Maio, and others. > Garden 11BC 626 E. 11th St. Sunday August 28, 2005 4PM. Free. Curated by > Tom Savage > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:42:18 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Re: Howl Festival Garden Reading In-Reply-To: <00fc01c5a72d$10e531b0$6400a8c0@WebAndGraphics> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Quoting "J. Michael Mollohan" : > Tom, > > Not everyone lives in whatever town you do, nor has everyone on this list > been here forever. Your instructions as to where the reading is to take > place is of absolutely no use to anyone other than those who have been here > long enough to be aware of your location. Additionally, when posting a > message about a new entry on your blog, it would be nice to include a URL, > so that we of the uninitiated persuasion will know where to look. > > JMichael > jm, this happens on the list all the time, people leaving off cities or links, especially with people like tom who're new to posting. when i see something like that take place, i backchannel the post's author a note so they can correct their post to poetics or whatever list i'm on. and if a reading interests me i'll do a quick google for it if i have to. tom's message said "howl festival garden reading." if you google howl festival their site comes up first, so within a few seconds you know the reading is in nyc. hope this finds you well. as ever, david -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W.28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) F: (212) 842-2429 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:41:26 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kristine Leja Subject: Call for Submission-14 Hills MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 14 Hills Call for Submission www.14hills.net Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills has held an impressive reputation among international literary magazines for publishing the highest-quality innovative poetry, fiction, short plays, and literary nonfiction. The semiannual journal is committed to presenting a great diversity of experimental and progressive work by emerging and cross-genre writers, as well as by award-winning and established authors. Part of the vibrant literary heritage of the west coast and the San Francisco Bay area, Fourteen Hills is honored to be an active participant in the contemporary creative community. As a nonprofit press, its staff, editors, and contributors bring readers of the journal some of the most exciting offerings of independent literature. From the postmodern to the traditional, Fourteen Hills is a testimony to the fact that independent, innovative and experimental literature is alive and thriving. We accept submissions of fiction, short-shorts, poetry, short drama, and creative non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles, as well as art. While continuing to publish award-winning and established writers, to encourage emerging writers, each year Fourteen Hills offers the $250 Holmes Award in both poetry and prose. >>> Writers may submit up to five selections of poetry and one selection of prose or drama, up to three if the pieces are short. >> We have a rolling submissions policy, so you may submit at any time, but the cutoff for inclusion in our Winter/Spring issue is September 1; for Summer/Fall issue, February 1. Response time varies from one to nine months, depending on where your submission falls in the reading period, but we will usually respond within four months. Keep in mind that these response times are only a guideline. Editors strongly suggest that writers interested in submitting familiarize themselves with our editorial style and vision. To order a sample copy, navigate to the "subscribe" section. > Manuscripts and artwork MUST be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope for notification, in addition to an e-mail or telephone contact. Due to the volume of submissions, manuscripts cannot be returned so please, do not send any originals. We accept simultaneous submissions; however, please be sure to notify us immediately by mail or by email (hills@sfsu.edu) should you need to withdraw submissions due to publication elsewhere. Please note as well that we do not accept unsolicited electronic submissions at this time. Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review + Department of Creative Writing+ San Francisco State University+ 1600 Holloway Avenue+ San Francisco, CA 94132-1722 www.14hills.net --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:11:55 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Matt Henriksen Subject: Two Brothers, Two Poets, One Weekend (NYC) In-Reply-To: <20050819121447.s8z3ia4bjp4wkogw@boogcity.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Typo and The Burning Chair Readings Present Winters in August Jonah Winter & Max Winter Sunday, August 28th, 8PM @ The Cloister Café 238 East 9th Street Between 2nd & 3rd Avenues New York City Jonah Winter’s second book of poetry, Amnesia, won the Field Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press. His first book of poetry, Maine, was published by Slope Editions in 2003. Jonah is the author of two books about baseball, Fair Ball!: 14 Great Stars from Baseball's Negro Leagues and Beisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends. He is also the author of Diego, a biography of Diego Rivera, and Frida, about artist Frida Kahlo, which was hailed as "a grand accomplishment, worth celebrating" by the New York Times Book Review and named a 2002 Parents' Choice Gold Medal winner. A poet and a painter, Mr. Winter lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. David Young, Editor of Field and author of Six Modernist Moments in Poetry : "Jonah's poems combine great delicacy with great strength. Readers will delight in the inventiveness and wit of these poems, assent to their dark and melancholy hues, and experience wonder at the ways they remind us of the size and variety of the universe we inhabit." Mark Doty, author of Source: "Jonah Winter resides in the Hotel Amnesia, the Hotel of Stars--and though he's a comedian, his room is one along the corridor of the wistful, urbane dreamers: Joseph Cornell, Jean Cocteau. Anais Nin, Charles Simic. At the heart of his method is the list, almost verbless: his marvelous catalogues place unlikely things side by side, creating within the frame of the poem the tantalizing windows of the city of dream." See Jonah’s poems in Slope: http://www.slope.org/archive/issue18/index.php?file=poetry_winter.htm & Typo: http://www.typomag.com/issue02/000028.html Max Winter, winner of the Fifth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest, has poems appearing recently in Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Volt, The Yale Review, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, GutCult, and New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois, 2000). He has published reviews in The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and BOMB. He is a Poetry Editor of Fence. James Tate, author of Return to the City of White Donkeys, on Max Winter’s poems: Max Winter's poems operate in unpredictable ways. They sound as if controlled by some prevailing logic, and yet the reader is hurled forward, line by line, into unknown and unexpected worlds as the poems progress. They mutate seamlessly; they are awash in metaphor. Bold statements melt into one another, constantly changing their terms of play. A reader is tempted to ask, Is it a madman speaking? But no; upon closer examination, we see the reasoning process, however bizarre—the horseshoe turns, the breakaway ride from idea to idea. And yet nothing detracts from the wonder of it all. These are poems of great adventure and discovery, and not just for the reader, I suspect, but for the poet as well. See Max’s poems in Boston Review: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR27.5/winter.html & Typo: http://www.typomag.com/issue04/winter.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:51:38 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Carr Subject: New Katalanche chapbooks by Solomon & Lamoureux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=-------455d36cf35c321cd455d36cf35c321cd Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ---------455d36cf35c321cd455d36cf35c321cd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline ---------455d36cf35c321cd455d36cf35c321cd Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4691_24996359.1124726373674" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline V2UncmUgcGxlYXNlZCB0byBhbm5vdW5jZSB0aGUgYXZhaWxhYmlsaXR5IG9mIHR3byBuZXcg Y2hhcGJvb2tzIGZyb20gCkthdGFsYW5jaGUgUHJlc3M6CiAgTEVUVEVSUyBCWSBXSElDSCBT SVNURVJTIFdJTEwgS05PVyBCUk9USEVSUwpieSBMYXVyYSBTb2xvbW9uCiQ1CiBGcm9tIHRo ZSBjaGFwYm9vazoKIFRoZSBuZXcgYmx1ZSB0aGluZyBpcyBub3QgbGlrZSB0aGUgb2xkIHJl ZCB0aGluZwpJIGtub3cgZmV3IHRoaW5ncyBhbmQgdGhleSBhcmUgbm90CnRoZSBncmVhdCBh bmQgaGFwcHkgdGhpbmdzIEknZCBob3BlZApDYXJzIG92ZXJoZWF0IGluIHN0ZWVwIGRlc2Vy dCBhaXIKQ291cGxlcyBhZ3JlZSBvciBhcmd1ZSBvdmVyIGhvdyBtdWNoCm9yIG5vdCB0aGV5 IGxvdmUgZWFjaCBvdGhlcgpUaGUgcGVyZmVjdCBza3kgaXMgYmx1ZQpUaGUgcGVyZmVjdCBz a3kgaXMgYmxhY2sgd2l0aCBzdGlmZiBzcGVja3MKb2YgZmFyYXdheSB0b21ic3RvbmVzIGZs aWNrZXIgaGVsbG8KSSdtIHN0aWxsIGhlcmUgZG9uJ3Qgc2h1dCB5b3VyIGV5ZXMKd2h5IGRv bid0IGFueSBtb3JlIHlvdSBsb3ZlIG1lCnNvIGxvb2sgYXQgbWUgd2h5IGRvbid0IHlvdSBk b24ndCBpcyB3aHkKQSBwZXJmZWN0IHNreSBidXJpZXMgaXRzIGRlYWQKQSBwZXJmZWN0IGZl ZWxpbmcga25vd3Mgbm8gZWRnZQpidXQgdGhlIGF0bW9zcGhlcmUKZnJvbSB3aGljaCBmZWVs aW5nIGlzIGZpbml0ZQpjb25kaXRpb25hbCB0byB0aGUgaGlzdG9yeSBvZiBibHVlIGFuZCBy ZWQgdGhpbmdzCiAgIEZJTE0gUE9FTVMKYnkgTWFyayBMYW1vdXJldXgKJDYKIEZyb20gdGhl IGludHJvZHVjdGlvbjoKIlRoZXNlIHBvZW1zIHdlcmUgd3JpdHRlbiBpbiB0aGUgZGFya2Vu ZWQgdGhlYXRlci4uLmFuZCBhdHRlbXB0IHRvIAptaW1ldGljYWxseSBzaW11bGF0ZSB0aGUg ZXhwZXJpZW5jZSBvZiB2aWV3aW5nIHRoZSBmaWxtcywgYXMgdGhlIGZpbG0gCnVuZm9sZHMg Zm9yIHRoZSBmaXJzdCB0aW1lLCBzbyBkb2VzIHRoZSBwb2VtOyBjb25zZXF1ZW50bHkgZWFj aCBwb2VtJ3MgCmRlc3RpbmF0aW9uIGlzIHVuY2VydGFpbi4iCiAgU1RBTiBWQU5ERVJCRUVL IJYgIkVVQ0xJREVBTiBJTExVU0lPTlMiCiBCcmlnaHQgc3BvdAogdGhydSBzYWx0CmNyeXN0 YWwKc2hyaWxsCmdlb2Rlc2ljCmdlb2RlCiBzdGFyCiBwb2ludGlsbGlzdCBzcGFjZQpjcnlz dGFsaXplZApmaXJtYW1lbnQgZnVybHMKICAgLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tCiBodHRwOi8va2F0 YWxhbmNoZXByZXNzLmJsb2dzcG90LmNvbQogUGF5bWVudHMgY2FuIGJlIG1hZGUgb24gb3Vy IHdlYnNpdGUgdmlhIHBheXBhbCBieSBjbGlja2luZyBvbiB0aGUgcHJvdmlkZWQgCmxpbmtz LCBvciBieSBjaGVjayAobWFkZSBwYXlhYmxlIHRvIE1pY2hhZWwgQ2Fycikgc2VudCB0byB0 aGUgYWRkcmVzcyBiZWxvdy4gCkFsbCBwcmljZXMgcHBkLgogS2F0YWxhbmNoZSBQcmVzcwpj L28gQ2Fycgo5IE1hbGNvbG0gUm9hZCwgIzEKQ2FtYnJpZGdlLCBNQSAwMjEzOAogIFlvdXJz IHRydWx5LAogTWljaGFlbCAmIERvdHRpZQprYXRhbGFuY2hlcHJlc3NAZ21haWwuY29tCg== ---------455d36cf35c321cd455d36cf35c321cd-- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:10:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Kelleher Subject: JUST BUFFALO E-NEWSLETTER 8-23-05 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable COMMUNITY LITERARY EVENTS SLIPSTREAM 25th Anniversary Celebration _Saturday August 27, 2005 - 6:00 pm The Book Corner, 1801 Main Street, Niagara Falls, NY Marathon Reading Featuring: Gary Earl Ross (Buffalo, NY), Michael Basinski (Buffalo, NY, Alan Catlin (S= chenectady, NY), Leslie Anne Mcilroy (Pittsburgh, PA), Martin Vest (Pocatello, ID), Sea= n Thomas Dougherty (Erie, PA), Gay Baines (East Aurora, NY), E.R. Baxter III (Ransom= ville, NY), Eric Gansworth (Niagara Falls, NY), Karen Lewis (Buffalo, NY), Jane Adam (B= uffalo, NY), Ken Feltges (Buffalo, NY), Don Scheller (Buffalo, NY) _Ron Androla (Er= ie, PA), Sarah Freligh (Rochester, NY), Peter Conners (Rochester, NY), Christina Wos= ' Donnelly (Buffalo, NY), Ed Taylor, Jr. (Buffalo, NY), Heather Holland-Wheat= on (New York, NY), Belinda Subraman (El Paso, TX), Robert Borgatti (Lewiston, NY), = Dan Sicoli (Niagara Falls, NY), Livio Farallo (Niagara Falls, NY) Ran Webber (Buffalo = NY), cover artist for Slipstream 25, will exhibit his artwork. There will be free food= and refreshments. FALL WORKSHOPS The Working Writer Seminar In our most popular series of workshops, writers improve their writing for = publication, learn the ins and outs of getting published, and find ways to earn a living= as writers. Usually taught by Kathryn Radeff, who is taking off from teaching this fall= , we have invited a series of visiting writers to participate in these four one-day w= orkshops. Writers who wish to pay for all four in advance receive a discount. =24175 = for all four workshops, =24140 for members. Session 1: Writing and Publishing Feature Articles, with Lauren Newkirk May= nard Saturday, October 1, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. CEPA's Flux Gallery, Market Arcade Building, 617 Main St., First Floor =2450, =2440 members Session 2: Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, with Paul Beston Saturday, October 29, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. CEPA's Flux Gallery, Market Arcade Building, 617 Main St., First Floor =2450, =2440 members Session 3: Independent Publishing and Print-on-Demand, with Geoffrey Gatza= Saturday, November 12, 12-4 p.m. CEPA's Flux Gallery, Market Arcade Building, 617 Main St., First Floor =2450, =2440 members Session 3: Newsgathering, with Laura Legere Saturday, December 3, 12-4 p.m. CEPA's Flux Gallery, Market Arcade Building, 617 Main St., First Floor =2450, =2440 members Creative Writing Workshops: Let's Be Quick About This: An Intro To Short Short Fiction, with Forrest Ro= th Saturday, September 24, 12 a.m. - 4 p.m. CEPA's Flux Gallery, Market Arcade Building, 617 Main St., First Floor =2450, =2440 members Playing the Fiddle While Rome Burns, or Writing Lyric Poems in the Age of Globalization, with Michael Kelleher 8 Tuesdays, October 11 - November 29, 7 - 9 p.m. CEPA's Flux Gallery, Market Arcade Building, 617 Main St., First Floor =24235, =24200 members. Playwriting Basics, with Kurt Schniderman. Six Sessions. Time and Loc. TBD =24175, =24140 For more info on workshops, please visit our website. ORBITAL SERIES September 8 International Women's Poetry Reading, featuring: Sally Fiedler, Yuriya Ku= magai, Kandace Lombart, Eva Tihanyi, Ann Goldsmith and Diane Cammarata. Kara G. McKenney will accompany some poets on the keyboards. Ann Peterson will disp= lay her photo studies of women from around the world. 7 p.m., CEPA's Flux Gallery 29 Sesshu Foster and James Thomas Stevens, Fiction and Poetry, 7 p.m., Big = Orbit Gallery October 7 Michael Davidson, Poetry, 7 p.m., CEPA's Flux Galllery 21 John Ashbery, Poetry, 8 p.m., Albright Knox Art Gallery 28 Mark Von Schlegell, Science Fiction, Talking Leaves Books, Main St. Stor= e November 3 Kazim Ali and Ethan Paquin, Poetry, 7 p.m., Big Orbit Gallery 11Charles Blackstone, Fiction, 7 p.m., Talking Leaves, Main St. 17 Robert Fitterman and Eric Gelsiinger, Poetry, 7 p.m., Big Orbit In order to welcome everyone to the new series, all events will be free and= open to the public. Enjoy=21 More to come.... WORLD OF VOICES RESIDENCIES October 31-November 4, Genie Zeiger December 5-9, Nancy Logamarsino IF ALL OF BUFFALO READ THE SAME BOOK This year's title, The Invention of Solitude, by Paul Auster, is available = at area bookstores. All books purchased at Talking Leaves Books will benefit Just = Buffalo. Paul Auster will visit Buffalo October 5-6. On October 5, he will read from= the book and answer questions from the audience at Trinity Church at 8 p.m. On October 6= , Just Buffalo and Hallwalls will present a special screening of the film, =22Smok= e,=22 at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center. Paul Auster will introduce the film, w= hich will followed by a screening and discussion about his expereinces as a screenwri= ter and director. A reader's discussion guide of The Invention of Solitude is avai= lable on the Just Buffalo website. If All of Buffalo Read the Same Book is made possible with the generous su= pport of The National Endowment for the Arts, Hodgson Russ LLP, M & T Bank, WBFO 88.= 7 FM, Talking Leaves Books, The Hunt Charitable Foundation and Hunt Real Esta= te, The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Buffalo State College, The = Zemsky Family Foundation, The Simple Gifts Fund, Jeffrey and Shelley Hirshberg, Ha= llwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Penguin International, Harlequin Books and Reid Petroleum. For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Laurie Torrell or = Mike Kelleher at 832-5400. JUST BUFFALO WRITER'S CRITIQUE GROUP Just Buffalo's member-only writer critique group is on hiatus this summer w= hile we settle into our new digs. It will begin again on Wednesday, September 7, a= nd will meet in CEPA's Flux Gallery on the first floor of the Market Arcade. To attend, = all you need to do is join Just Buffalo. Please call 832-5400 for more info. UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will b= e immediately removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:12:24 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gerald Schwartz Subject: Re: Two Brothers, Two Poets, One Weekend (NYC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Wow! Wishing I could be there for that one! From the time I first met up with him (during his high-lonesome stint with Ed's Redeeming Qualities) through his books for us kids and his poetry I always knew Jonah could crack that 'lil blue cup in one fell-swooping! Best of the best wishes for this reading. And hoping for reports, and later recordings... Gerald Schwartz > Typo and The Burning Chair Readings Present > > Winters in August > Jonah Winter & Max Winter > Sunday, August 28th, 8PM > @ The Cloister Café > 238 East 9th Street > Between 2nd & 3rd Avenues > New York City > > Jonah Winter's second book of poetry, Amnesia, won the > Field Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press. His > first book of poetry, Maine, was published by Slope > Editions in 2003. Jonah is the author of two books > about baseball, Fair Ball!: 14 Great Stars from > Baseball's Negro Leagues and Beisbol! Latino Baseball > Pioneers and Legends. He is also the author of Diego, > a biography of Diego Rivera, and Frida, about artist > Frida Kahlo, which was hailed as "a grand > accomplishment, worth celebrating" by the New York > Times Book Review and named a 2002 Parents' Choice > Gold Medal winner. A poet and a painter, Mr. Winter > lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. > > David Young, Editor of Field and author of Six > Modernist Moments in Poetry : > > "Jonah's poems combine great delicacy with great > strength. Readers will delight in the inventiveness > and wit of these poems, assent to their dark and > melancholy hues, and experience wonder at the ways > they remind us of the size and variety of the universe > we inhabit." > > Mark Doty, author of Source: > > "Jonah Winter resides in the Hotel Amnesia, the Hotel > of Stars--and though he's a comedian, his room is one > along the corridor of the wistful, urbane dreamers: > Joseph Cornell, Jean Cocteau. Anais Nin, Charles > Simic. At the heart of his method is the list, almost > verbless: his marvelous catalogues place unlikely > things side by side, creating within the frame of the > poem the tantalizing windows of the city of dream." > > See Jonah's poems > in Slope: > http://www.slope.org/archive/issue18/index.php?file=poetry_winter.htm > & Typo: http://www.typomag.com/issue02/000028.html > > > Max Winter, winner of the Fifth Annual Boston Review > Poetry Contest, has poems appearing recently in > Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Volt, > The Yale Review, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, First > Intensity, GutCult, and New Young American Poets > (Southern Illinois, 2000). He has published reviews in > The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, > Newsday, and BOMB. He is a Poetry Editor of Fence. > > James Tate, author of Return to the City of White > Donkeys, on Max Winter's poems: > > Max Winter's poems operate in unpredictable ways. They > sound as if controlled by some prevailing logic, and > yet the reader is hurled forward, line by line, into > unknown and unexpected worlds as the poems progress. > They mutate seamlessly; they are awash in metaphor. > Bold statements melt into one another, constantly > changing their terms of play. A reader is tempted to > ask, Is it a madman speaking? But no; upon closer > examination, we see the reasoning process, however > bizarre-the horseshoe turns, the breakaway ride from > idea to idea. And yet nothing detracts from the wonder > of it all. These are poems of great adventure and > discovery, and not just for the reader, I suspect, but > for the poet as well. > > See Max's poems > in Boston Review: > http://www.bostonreview.net/BR27.5/winter.html > & Typo: http://www.typomag.com/issue04/winter.html > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:13:33 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark Lamoureux Subject: New Katalanche chapbooks by Solomon & Lamoureux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Apologies for the multiple posting attemts, but Mick could not get the message to post...: We're pleased to announce the availability of two new chapbooks from Katalanche Press: LETTERS BY WHICH SISTERS WILL KNOW BROTHERS by Laura Solomon $5 From the chapbook: The new blue thing is not like the old red thing I know few things and they are not the great and happy things I'd hoped Cars overheat in steep desert air Couples agree or argue over how much or not they love each other The perfect sky is blue The perfect sky is black with stiff specks of faraway tombstones flicker hello I'm still here don't shut your eyes why don't any more you love me so look at me why don't you don't is why A perfect sky buries its dead A perfect feeling knows no edge but the atmosphere from which feeling is finite conditional to the history of blue and red things FILM POEMS by Mark Lamoureux $6 From the introduction: "These poems were written in the darkened theater...and attempt to mimetically simulate the experience of viewing the films, as the film unfolds for the first time, so does the poem; consequently each poem's destination is uncertain." STAN VANDERBEEK – "EUCLIDEAN ILLUSIONS" Bright spot thru salt crystal shrill geodesic geode star pointillist space crystalized firmament furls --------------- http://katalanchepress.blogspot.com Payments can be made on our website via paypal by clicking on the provided links, or by check (made payable to Michael Carr) sent to the address below. All prices ppd. Katalanche Press c/o Carr 9 Malcolm Road, #1 Cambridge, MA 02138 Yours truly, Michael & Dottie katalanchepress@gmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:39:36 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Benjamin Basan Subject: The Iowa Review Web - August 2005 Comments: To: irweb@uiowa.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A journal of New Media and experimental writing and art, The Iowa Review Web is published at the University of Iowa with support from the Graduate College and the Department of English. ************************************* ************************************* New Media Work: John Zuern "Ask Me for the Moon" ************************************* Essay: Kathleen Goonan "Consciousness, Literature, and Science Fiction" ************************************* Review: Mike Chasar on Katherine Gudis' Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape ************************************* ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Also, coming up in 2005 - 2006: New Media Work from Jason Nelson and Lance Olsen Special Guest Edited Issues of TIR Web from Ben Basan, Scott Rettberg, Stuart Moulthrop, Stephanie Strickland & Margorie Luesebrink, Rita Raley, and Talan Memmott ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ End Announcement ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:55:39 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: noah eli gordon Subject: New Address Comments: To: noaheligordon@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hello All, Here is my new mailing address: Noah Eli Gordon 195 Jackson St #35 Denver, CO 80206 Cell: (413) 695-9880 I have been both on the road & away from email for a bit, but will try to respond to everyone shortly. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:32:51 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Matt Henriksen Subject: Re: Two Brothers, Two Poets, One Weekend (NYC) In-Reply-To: <002301c5a745$0cb1fb60$e57ca918@yourae066c3a9b> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit We wish you could be there, too, Gerald. We wish we could all be there. Thanks for the wishes. --- Gerald Schwartz wrote: > Wow! Wishing I could be there for that one! > From the time I first met up with him (during his > high-lonesome stint with Ed's Redeeming Qualities) > through his books for us kids and his poetry I > always knew Jonah could crack that 'lil blue cup > in one fell-swooping! > > Best of the best wishes for this reading. > > And hoping for reports, and later recordings... > > Gerald Schwartz > > > Typo and The Burning Chair Readings Present > > > > Winters in August > > Jonah Winter & Max Winter > > Sunday, August 28th, 8PM > > @ The Cloister Café > > 238 East 9th Street > > Between 2nd & 3rd Avenues > > New York City > > > > Jonah Winter's second book of poetry, Amnesia, won > the > > Field Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press. > His > > first book of poetry, Maine, was published by > Slope > > Editions in 2003. Jonah is the author of two > books > > about baseball, Fair Ball!: 14 Great Stars from > > Baseball's Negro Leagues and Beisbol! Latino > Baseball > > Pioneers and Legends. He is also the author of > Diego, > > a biography of Diego Rivera, and Frida, about > artist > > Frida Kahlo, which was hailed as "a grand > > accomplishment, worth celebrating" by the New York > > Times Book Review and named a 2002 Parents' Choice > > Gold Medal winner. A poet and a painter, Mr. > Winter > > lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. > > > > David Young, Editor of Field and author of Six > > Modernist Moments in Poetry : > > > > "Jonah's poems combine great delicacy with great > > strength. Readers will delight in the > inventiveness > > and wit of these poems, assent to their dark and > > melancholy hues, and experience wonder at the ways > > they remind us of the size and variety of the > universe > > we inhabit." > > > > Mark Doty, author of Source: > > > > "Jonah Winter resides in the Hotel Amnesia, the > Hotel > > of Stars--and though he's a comedian, his room is > one > > along the corridor of the wistful, urbane > dreamers: > > Joseph Cornell, Jean Cocteau. Anais Nin, Charles > > Simic. At the heart of his method is the list, > almost > > verbless: his marvelous catalogues place unlikely > > things side by side, creating within the frame of > the > > poem the tantalizing windows of the city of > dream." > > > > See Jonah's poems > > in Slope: > > > http://www.slope.org/archive/issue18/index.php?file=poetry_winter.htm > > & Typo: http://www.typomag.com/issue02/000028.html > > > > > > Max Winter, winner of the Fifth Annual Boston > Review > > Poetry Contest, has poems appearing recently in > > Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, > Volt, > > The Yale Review, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, > First > > Intensity, GutCult, and New Young American Poets > > (Southern Illinois, 2000). He has published > reviews in > > The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, > > Newsday, and BOMB. He is a Poetry Editor of > Fence. > > > > James Tate, author of Return to the City of White > > Donkeys, on Max Winter's poems: > > > > Max Winter's poems operate in unpredictable ways. > They > > sound as if controlled by some prevailing logic, > and > > yet the reader is hurled forward, line by line, > into > > unknown and unexpected worlds as the poems > progress. > > They mutate seamlessly; they are awash in > metaphor. > > Bold statements melt into one another, constantly > > changing their terms of play. A reader is tempted > to > > ask, Is it a madman speaking? But no; upon closer > > examination, we see the reasoning process, however > > bizarre-the horseshoe turns, the breakaway ride > from > > idea to idea. And yet nothing detracts from the > wonder > > of it all. These are poems of great adventure and > > discovery, and not just for the reader, I suspect, > but > > for the poet as well. > > > > See Max's poems > > in Boston Review: > > http://www.bostonreview.net/BR27.5/winter.html > > & Typo: http://www.typomag.com/issue04/winter.html > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced > search. > > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:42:44 -0700 Reply-To: ishaq1823@telus.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: 'Good Violence. d.u.n.' on the Slam Idol --Lord Patch (Lawrence y braithwaite) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 'Good Violence. d.u.n.' on the Slam Idol --Lord Patch (Lawrence y braithwaite) 'Good Violence. d.u.n.' by Lord Patch (Lawrence y braithwaite) on the Slam Idol available for podcast download and vote. You can listen to the show and hear 'Good Violence. d.u.n.' on the Slam Idol --Lord Patch (Lawrence y braithwaite) on the web-site, at http://slamidol.tripod.com ...GEt ready to start rating the poem sound file when the voting starts... on http://slamidol.tripod.com/ bio: lawrence ytzhak braithwaite (aka lord patch) is the author of the novels wigger, ratz are nice and more at 7:30: notes to new palestine. Braithwaite likes to Dubs his prose like Lee "Scratch" Perry and King Tubby chopped music & voice. Braithwaite has appeared at Lollapalooza, The National Black Arts Festival, Prose Acts: Alternative Fiction Literary Conference (University of Buffalo, New York) shortly after 911 with Dennis Cooper and Kevin Killian and at the Kootney School of Writing. He has written many short stories, some appearing in Fourteen Hills Literary Journal (San Francisco State University), Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art, Bluesprints: Anthology of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (ed. Wayde Compton), Redzone: Victoria's Street People Zine, Fernwood's Sleeping Dragon, Velvet Mafia, Of the Flesh: Dangerous Fiction, nocturnes 3 (re) view of the literary arts 2005 and biting error: writers explore narrative. He lives in the Hood of New Palestine, Fernwood, British Columbia, Canada. http://slamidol.tripod.com/ ___\ Stay Strong\ \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as)\ \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil\ \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ } ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:34:27 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: Howl Festival Garden Reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hey tom i'll try to be there steve ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:24:19 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Fw: chap MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit short-sleeved formarms rest on his lap smiling eyes closed hi everyone i have a new chapbook called water creatures/dream book it 's small only 20 copies were made by avantacular press the brilliant andrew topel editor 13 are for sale at 6 bucks each including postage signed only thru me any one interested let me know steve plus 2 new ones from sysiphus press thadeus rutkowski - baby steps $6 including postage - limited ed. 50 copies anna moschvakis - dependence day parade $6 including postage - limited ed 35 copies send $ in any form to dalachinsky 192 spring st ny ny 10012 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:36:36 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Murray, Christine" Subject: Announcing: Project Big Top--Marfa Theatre Announcing: *The Second Annual New Year?s Poetry Intensive* at Marfa, Texas MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable !!!!!!Project Big Top--Marfa Theatre!!!!!!=20 *The Second Annual New Year=92s Poetry Intensive*=20 with poets !!!!!!Forrest Gander and CD Wright!!!!!!! December 27, 2005-January 1, 2006 Celebrate the New Year in a unique way,=20 writing and studying poetry in the high desert landscape=20 of Marfa, Texas, a small community in far West Texas. Tuition: $475 (includes four full days of workshops,=20 readings, New Year=92s Eve dinner and celebration,=20 and ample time to connect with fellow poets,=20 write and lean into the West Texas sky). Room: $100 (for a cot in the dorms). $250 (for modest rooms in private homes). Campsites and hotels are also available. To apply: send $15 reading fee, 5 pages of poetry,=20 a cover sheet with your name and contact information,=20 and a short paragraph explaining your interest=20 in this workshop to: Dawn Trook, Director, Project Big Top PO Box 231 Marfa, TX 79843 www.projectbigtop.com Application Deadline: November 1, 2005 * Forrest Gander is the author of many books including three new = collections:=20 _Eye Against Eye_ (New Directions, Fall 2005), a book of poems;=20 _Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory, and Transcendence_=20 (Shoemaker & Hoard, Fall 2005), a book of essays;=20 and (with Kent Johnson) _The Night: A Booklength Poem_ by Jaime Saenz=20 (Princeton University Press, 2006), a translation from the Spanish.=20 Gander is the translation editor for an abundant and lively anthology=20 of contemporary Mexican poetry forthcoming from Sarabande Books.=20 A Professor of Comparative Literature, he directs the Graduate Program=20 in Literary Arts at Brown University. * C.D. Wright has published eleven collections of poetry and prose.=20 Wright=92s most recent book is _Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil_. = In December of 2003 she published the ground-breaking,=20 _One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana_=20 a collaboration with prize winning photographer Deborah Luster.=20 _One Big Self_ was awarded the Dorothea Langue-Paul Taylor Prize=20 for a work in progress from the Center for Documentary Studies=20 at Duke University.=20 C.D. Wright's selected and new poems _Steal Away_=20 was published in 2002. Other titles include _Tremble_, and=20 the book-length poems _Deepstep Come Shining_=20 and _Just Whistle_. _String Light_ won the 1992 Poetry Center Book = Award=20 given by San Francisco State University.=20 Wright has composed and published two state literary maps,=20 one for Arkansas, her native state, and=20 one for Rhode Island, her adopted state.=20 Honors include fellowships and awards=20 from the National Endowment for the Arts,=20 the Bunting Institute, the Guggenheim,=20 Wallace, and Lannan Foundations.=20 She is a 2004 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.=20 For over twenty years she co-edited _Lost Roads Publishers_,=20 an independent literary press. Wright is on the faculty of=20 Brown University. She and her husband, poet and translator=20 Forrest Gander, have a son, Brecht.=20 They live outside of Providence, Rhode Island. * Financial Aid for this event: If you require financial aid, please write a brief letter=20 explaining your need and interest. We hope to increase=20 our availability of financial aid over the years. * Teaching Mentorships: Full tuition remission in exchange=20 for leading two workshops for local high school students.=20 Include with your application any experience you have as a teacher. * Merit/Need Scholarships: At least 2 merit/need based, half-scholarships=20 will be available. * Light-Work-Study: At least 2 half-scholarships will be given in exchange = for light work-duty during the intensive program (duties including=20 cleaning and errand running). * For more information about the *New Year=92s Poetry Intensive,*=20 e-mail dawnATprojectbigtopDOTcom=20 or call (432) 729-8140 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:17:33 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Reckon I'll as everyone else's MESSAGE FROM ALEX Comments: To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" In-Reply-To: <000d01c5a7d8$30e95620$b41486d4@o2p8f8> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Quixote’s Windmill That you’ve the brisk gaze of a snow-logged morning? Shoes polished “that dignity be experienced” (said strolling through grit). “Dicked her and I-I loved it!” clutching a laddie book. And with umbrella pressed against the boastful wind of this and last year’s Christmas: STICKINESS beautiful here Ruby Deeeee! onto the face. “Gonna grease your balls stick ‘em in your ass!” That’s what you said (a bit like terror). \ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:22:05 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: aaron tieger Subject: Aaron Tieger interview MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Please check out my interview at the blog of Jess Mynes/Fewer & Further Press: http://fewfur.blogspot.com I mostly talk about the editorial process behind CARVE, and related issues. Thanks, Aaron Tieger "Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate." (Brian Eno) __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:34:33 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: chapbooks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi everyone i have a new chapbook called water creatures/dream book it 's small only 20 copies were made by avantacular press the brilliant andrew topel editor 13 are for sale at 6 bucks each including postage signed only thru me any one interested let me know steve plus 2 new ones from sysiphus press thadeus rutkowski - baby steps $6 including postage - limited ed. 50 copies anna moschovakis - dependence day parade $6 including postage - limited ed 35 copies send $ in any form to dalachinsky 192 spring st ny ny 10012 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:34:43 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas savage Subject: Re: Howl Festival Garden Reading In-Reply-To: <20050822145713.84498.qmail@web31102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Howl Festival Garden Reading takes place in Manhattan, New York City on Sunday August 28th at 4PM. at Garden 11BC at 626 E. 11th St. Readers are Tom Savage, Bill Kushner, Jeff Wright, Merry Fortune, Steve Dalachinsky, Dorothy Friedman August, Susanna Maio, and Susan Maurer. I hope you can come and that this information is now complete enough to allow that to happen. Regards, Tom Savage Thomas savage wrote:Poetry Reading by Tom Savage, Bill Kushner, Jeff Wright, Merry Fortune, Steve Dalachinsky, Dorothy Friedman August, Susanna Maio, and others. Garden 11BC 626 E. 11th St. Sunday August 28, 2005 4PM. Free. Curated by Tom Savage __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:37:45 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: furniture_ press Subject: Re: Howl Festival Garden Reading Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Tom, I'm a little confused. Can you give me precise Longitude/Latitude loca= tion for the Howl Festival? My spaceship doesn't have the geo-agro translat= or function and the last time I tried to get to NYC by 'winging it' I nearl= y slammed into the statue of Liberty. So much for technology! Kudos, Tom, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas savage" To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Howl Festival Garden Reading Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:34:43 -0700 >=20 > The Howl Festival Garden Reading takes place in Manhattan, New York City = on Sunday August 28th=20 > at 4PM. at Garden 11BC at 626 E. 11th St. Readers are Tom Savage, Bill K= ushner, Jeff Wright,=20 > Merry Fortune, Steve Dalachinsky, Dorothy Friedman August, Susanna Maio, = and Susan Maurer. I=20 > hope you can come and that this information is now complete enough to all= ow that to happen.=20 > Regards, Tom Savage >=20 > Thomas savage wrote:Poetry Reading by Tom Savage, = Bill Kushner, Jeff=20 > Wright, Merry Fortune, Steve Dalachinsky, Dorothy Friedman August, Susann= a Maio, and others.=20 > Garden 11BC 626 E. 11th St. Sunday August 28, 2005 4PM. Free. Curated by = Tom Savage >=20 > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >=20 >=20 >=20 > --------------------------------- > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page www.towson.edu/~cacasama/furniture/poae baltimorereads.blogspot.com zillionpoems.blogspot.com --=20 _______________________________________________ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Check out our value-added Premium features, such as a 1 GB mailbox for just= US$9.95 per year! Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:42:04 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas savage Subject: Contact Info for Tom Savage's Blog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As I understand it, the contact information for those interested in reading and/or commenting on my blog is as follows: Shantideva2.blogspot.com. The latest subject added to the posting there is Construction or Deconstruction:which is the most basic step in poetic creation? I look forward to hearing from any and all of you who are interested in this subject.My apologies for leaving the contact info off the original announcement. I am new to blogs, both reading and creating them. Regards, Tom Savage __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:40:58 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Adam Fieled Subject: Adam Fieled's Blog (Philly Free School) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit What's on my blog: reviews of Jennifer Moxley's "Often Capital", Adam Kirsch's "Wounded Surgeon". A new kind of poem-- the BEAM-- its' post-avant & MOR (middle of the road) applications. A persona poem from "Wittgenstein". A "techno-sonnet". A poem dedicated to Philly's own Gil Ott, who died last year. A new key concept-- "Rhetopoeia". Lots more besides. Also check out the fiction of Nick Gruberg & Mike Land. This can all be found at www.artrecess.blogspot.com (click on "Adam Fieled"). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:26:04 -0700 Reply-To: Denise Enck Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Denise Enck Subject: Michael McClure Reading in Berkeley, Sat. Aug. 27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael McClure jams and reads with Detroit performance poet M.L. Liebler Saturday, August 27, at 7:30 Poetry Flash at Cody's Cody's Books 2454 Telegraph Avenue (at Haste) Berkeley Cody's: 510-845-7852 Poetry Flash: 510-525-5476 just $2 at the door Michael will be reading from a new manuscript and a few Ghost Tantras and Plum Stones. Hope to see you there! ---------- Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek www.McClure-Manzarek.com Empty Mirror Books www.emptymirrorbooks.com Quanta Affordable Webdesign for the Arts www.quantawebdesign.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:01:35 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Boyd Spahr Subject: 440 days of order & decorum Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain ++ Starts tomorrow, Wednesday August 24 at www.personnagesobscurs.com ++ First: Barney Frank, D-4 MA (Julia Cohen) ++ Next ten: Michael Michaud, D-2 ME (Steve Benson); Marilyn Musgrave, R-4 C= O (Jasper Bernes); Kenny Hulshof, R-9 MO (Julie Buchsbaum); Wayne Gilchrest, R= -1 MD (Katie Degentesh); John Conyers Jr., D-1 MI (Joanna Fuhrman); Cynthia McKinney, D-4 GA (Amy King); Charles Rangel, D-15 NY (Ange Mlinko); Barbara = Lee, D-9 CA (Jess Mynes); David Hobson, R-7 OH (Carol Szamatowicz); Fortney H. = =93Pete=94 Stark, D-13 CA (Alli Warren) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:21:31 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eileen Tabios Subject: Sean Finney's new poetry book: THE OBEDIENT DOOR MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From Meritage Press: A NEW RELEASE SPECIAL: THE OBEDIENT DOOR by SEAN TUMOANA FINNEY Title: The Obedient Door Author: Sean Tumoana Finney Cover: PAPERBACK Pub Date: 01 Sept 2005 Publisher: Meritage Press (www.meritagepress.com) ISBN: 0-9709179-4-5 Price: $14.95 Pages: 80 Meritage Press is pleased to announce a release special on Sean Tumoana Finney's debut poetry collection. _The Obedient Door_, with original drawings by San Francisco illustrator Ward Schumaker, is available at a significant discount through September 31. Early orders qualify for free shipping, $3 dollars off the cover price, and a guarantee that you'll receive a limited first edition by a writer John Ashbery calls a rule breaker who makes it work. _The Obedient Door_ is an argument for awareness, for seeing and feeling those volumes of our experience not trodden by the shortcuts of social nicety. Finney's first book is also his loneliest, where he speed dates verse in attempts to make lasting combinations. His influences include the New York School, Beckett, Lorca, and Chinese, Japanese, and Islamic poetry. _The Obedient Door_ issues from a desire to know the past and its languages, to find alternatives, new lexicons, other people's boundaries to force words between. Finney's collection has received the following advance praise from John Ashbery: "Sean Finney's cheerfully slipshod poems recycle urban moments that don't quite add up to a time, moods that may be part of a relationship, or not, unclassifiable afternoon afterthoughts and changes in temperature: 'which song brings stone's rise and water's fall / into the bending of wrists and ankles / and broken corners for dust to change light.' These are lines from his poem 'What the Leopards Reject.' We would be wise to reject the leopards' whims and feast on the scraps he has so eloquently assembled for us, which are in fact those of life itself." BIOS Sean Finney is a poet, journalist and copywriter living in San Francisco. He was born farther west, in Hawaii, but he likes to claim that Rome, where he lived as a teenager, is his spiritual home. This is his first book. His website is www.sfinney.com Ward Schumaker is a San Francisco based illustrator who has illustrated two books for the acclaimed Yolla Bolly Press: _Paris France_ by Gertrude Stein, and _Two Kitchens in Provence_ by M.F.K. Fisher. His website is www.warddraw.com RELEASE OFFER Through Meritage Press' release offer, you can obtain The Obedient Door at a 20% discount plus receive free shipping & handling (normally a $3.00 value at Media Rate) if you are a U.S. resident. For each book, please send $12 (checks made out to "Meritage Press") to Eileen Tabios Publisher, Meritage Press 256 North Fork Crystal Springs Road St. Helena, CA 94574 For more information, contact MeritagePress@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:16:30 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: richard owens Subject: Damn the Caesars, a quarterly journal... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit TO WHOM: Damn the Caesars is a hard-copy quarterly literary journal, a lit zine, about to run into its third issue due out toward the end of October. We encourage both subscriptions and submissions. Please visit th DTC blog (a quick fix web source until a web page proper is constructed) by clicking on the following link: http://damnthecaesars.blogspot.com Issue I includes work by Dale Smith, MTC Cronin, Clive Faust, Bob Arnold, Richard Stremme, Jan Bender, Ken Knabb and others. Issue II includes work by Clayton Eshleman, Amiri Baraka, Dale Smith, Roger Snell, MTC Cronin, John Phillips, Attila the Stockbroker, Robert Saxton, Janet Sutherland and others. Issue III will include work by Andrew Schelling, Clayton Eshleman, Rodrigo Toscano, Dale Smith, MTC Cronin, Richard Stremme, Bill Berkson and more. Copies of each issue are $5.00. A year's subscription is $20.00. Orders and submissions can be sent electronically to damnthecaesars@yahoo.com or by conventional post to: Damn the Caesars c/o Richard Owens 810 Richomond Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222-1167 thanks. w/ hope & sincerity... richard owens... --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:02:56 -0700 Reply-To: ishaq1823@telus.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: Harambee Radio: wordcore/author lawrence ytzhak braithwaite & HecOne (welfare poets) hour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 9:00 PM Harambee Radio: author/wordcore lawrence ytzhak braithwaite (lord patch) & mc/activist HecOne (welfare poets) hour Transformations: Harambee's Visionary founder, Award winning book writer, Dalani Aamon takes you deep into your transformation through word and music. Dalani will always discuss our cradle to grave experiences. This weeks show will focus on a discussion and interview with victoria, british columbia author and wordcore artist lawrence ytzhak braithwaite and mc/activist Hector (hecOne) from the nyc based hip hop crew The Welfare Poets. The show will air Live Thursday evening from 9:00 PM EST/ on August 25, 2005. Checkout: http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html http://victoria.indymedia.org (new palestine) 'Good Violence. d.u.n.' http://slamidol.tripod.com http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html and Check out http://www.welfarepoets.com for lyrics, song from new album, pics and video The Harambee Radio Network is the official radio station for the MWM. "Seizing The Time": The Millions More Movement" Hour is a collaborative production of the Harambee Radio Family and can only be heard on the Harambee Radio Network at: http://www.harambeeradio.com The Harambee Radio Network Working Together for Progress Harambee....Harambee....Harambee!!!! Keep It Right There at http://www.harambeeradio.com ___\ Stay Strong\ \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as)\ \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation."\ --patrick o'neil\ \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/\ \ } ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:30:47 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jamie Gaughran-Perez Subject: Bui Chat (tr. Linh Dinh) this week in Rock Heals In-Reply-To: <20050823211630.56523.qmail@web33610.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit We're excited about publishing poems from contemporary Vietnamese poet (under 30 no less) Bui Chat, translated from Vietnamese by Linh Dinh. Bui Chat is part of a group of Vietnamese poets called Mo Mieng [roughly, "Open Mouth"] who are bringing the coarse language of daily life and capture "life's natural colors" in contrast to a somewhat traditional Vietnamese poetic culture. They've been publishing in xerox / samizdat formats mostly to date and have managed to get themselves thrown in jail, had their readings cancelled by the Man, and so on. Come check it out -- yeah this is a culture story and poetic strategy we've witnessed before, but it is about the poems. And these from Bui Chat are worth your time. Don't sleep on it! http://www.rockheals.com PS. Treats for Lauren Bender this week, too. PPS. I know I said I wouldn't announce RH weekly, but when you gotta you gotta. I'll prob. have no poetry next week and won't post here about it! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:18:27 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: INFO: renaissance one london liming MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>INFO: renaissance one london liming =================================== renaissance one: spoken word, literature, poetry renaissance one offers poets, novelists and spoken word artists for readings, performances and workshops. We curate and produce tours, book launches, and literary happenings. Our next events include a reggae and carnival Bank Holiday special at Cargo on Monday 29 August featuring dub poet & reggae sensation Mutabaruka and guests visit www.renaissanceone.com Email: mail@renaissanceone.com Telephone: 020 7987 3111 Address: renaissance one Unit 6 Container Futures 44 Gillender Street London E14 6RP this is e-drum, a listserv providing information of interests to black writers and diverse supporters worldwide. e-drum is moderated by kalamu ya salaam (kalamu@aol.com). ---------------------------------- to subscribe to e-drum send a blank email to: e-drum-subscribe@topica.com ___\ Stay Strong\ \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil\ \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:42:56 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Al Filreis Subject: PennSound MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit PennSound has a new look and many new poetry MP3s, both historical and contemporary, including Bernadette Mayer, H.D., Lydia Davis, Jennifer Moxley, Gil Ott, Vachel Lindsay, Paul Auster, Kit Robinson, Rodrigo Toscano, Ann Waldman & many others. We also have the first two segments of Robert Ashley's video opera series, "Music with Roots in the Aether," featuring Phil Glass and David Behrman. On the new home page, we feature a selection of recommended files. The selection will be updated every few months. It's all here: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound Al Filreis & Charles Bernstein for PennSound ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:05:03 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Chavez Is A Threat To Robertson's Lucrative Scam In Latin America Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ By Feeding The Poor, Healing The Sick And Clothing The Naked, Chavez Is A Threat To Robertson's Lucrative Evangelical Scam In Latin America: Robertson Provides Distraction As Iraqi Charter Proves To Be Recipe For Ratcheting Up The Civil War: Joint Chiefs: "We can't kill the competition fast enough to please the corrupt Iraqi Parliament and their American business partners. By HAIRY TOOLDEL & ALI CORPORATMAN ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:17:28 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Hoerman Subject: Tribute to EE Cummings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sunday, Oct. 16, 2 PM Forsyth Chapel at Forest Hills Cemetery Jamaica Plain, Mass. Poetry in the Chapel Reading Series: A Tribute to E.E. Cummings Charles Coe, Michael Hoerman, Robert K. Johnson, and John Sturm read from Cummings’ poems and their own in tribute to this great American innovator. The reading in Forsyth Chapel will be followed by a walk to the poet’s grave site. http://www.foresthillstrust.org/calendar.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:44:12 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Derek White Subject: SleepingFish 0.75 is stocked and loaded MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello. This is an email to let you know that that new issue of SleepingFish is now available for public consumption. It features a variety of text, art and sometimes strange or unclassifiable literary nonsense by the likes of: Petra Backonja, James Wagner, Michael Boyko, Amy White, David-Baptiste Chirot, Mike Topp, Peter Conners, Eileen Tabios, Chad Davidson & John Poch, Daryl Scroggins, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Selah & Noah Saterstrom, Chris Fritton, Kristin Prevallet, Michael Peters, Geof Huth, Christian Peet, Cheryl Pallant, Sheila E. Murphy, James Grinwis, Claudio Parentela, Henry Mescaline/Henri d'Mescan, Amy Pence, Michael Kimball, Kevin Sampsell, Rebecca Gopoian, Davis Schneiderman, Jessica Fanzo, George Sich, Joshua Cohen, Steve Timm, Chris Casamassima, Sean Mclain Brown, mIEKAL aND, Stephen Hopkins, Kevin White, George Belden (as recovered by Norman Lock) & also a special selection of Mexican Visual poetry including Juan Diaz Infante, Federico Martinez, Damian Walsdorf, Katnira Bello, Victor Sulser with an introduction by Brian Whitener. It has 128 pages. It has an ISBN number. You can look at the cover of this thing called SleepingFish and check out a few samples from the issue by going to www.sleepingfish.net. You can buy it there too for $11. Or you can wait a week or so until it hits places like Powell's. It is published by Calamari Press. There was an article in last week's NY Press about other stuff that Calamari Press has done or will be doing. You can read it here: http://nypress.com/18/32/books/michaelcboyko.cfm If you don't want to buy this SleepingFish, or even if you do, there's some additional freebie webbed stuff posted online like: 6 images by Carlos Luis from the forthcoming ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos 10 color rubBEings by David-Baptiste Chirot not included in the issue some additional rabbit drawings by Victor Sulser that didn't make it to print a few galleries loaded with pictures of street memes & TEXTures from NYC & Mexico Hope it does something for you. To the water, Derek White www.calamaripress.com www.sleepingfish.net www.5cense.com No trees were killed to bring you this message... but billions of electrons were horribly inconvenienced. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:08:05 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Caroline Crumpacker Subject: House sit In-Reply-To: <200508230000.1e7pY55fg3Nl34c0@mx-stork.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We're looking for a housesitter to enjoy our place, feed our cat and water our plants. This would be from September 3 through 30th. Our house is in Rhinebeck, NY (1 1/2 hours north of NYC by train, and the train is five minutes away). It's a two-story 19th C. house with two bedrooms and two office/libraries (second one with double bed/couch), LR, DR, big kitchen, 2 bathrooms, wrap-around porch, small front and big back yard. Not fancy at all at all, but really nice. We're on a quiet block in the village of Rhinebeck, a couple minutes' walk from the stores, restaurants, library etc. 10 minutes from Bard. Amenities: tons of books and CDs, TV w/cable/DVD and VCR, stereo, AC, high-speed Internet. One bedroom is set up for a toddler, with a double futon, toys and books etc. The backyard also has kids' stuff. Baby gates for stairs etc. So, if someone wants to feed our sweet, slightly nutty but totally easy old cat Eartha Kitty, and water our many (maybe 15, quite basic) plants, we would charge only for utilities and such... Rhinebeck: Very beautiful and easy, great movie theater, good bookstore, 5 or 6 good restaurants, yoga studio, organic farmers, etc. etc. We'll charge a small amount to cover utilities/phone/various house expenese. The only drawback is we need someone for the entire time, not just a week or two... Email me at bluesequin@earthlink.net if you're interested... ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:06:19 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Re: Tribute to EE Cummings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit congratulations on this. Cummings was a master. Best, MR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Hoerman" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:17 PM Subject: Tribute to EE Cummings > Sunday, Oct. 16, 2 PM > Forsyth Chapel at Forest Hills Cemetery > Jamaica Plain, Mass. > > Poetry in the Chapel Reading Series: A Tribute to E.E. Cummings > > Charles Coe, Michael Hoerman, Robert K. Johnson, and John Sturm read from > Cummings' poems and their own in tribute to this great American innovator. > The reading in Forsyth Chapel will be followed by a walk to the poet's > grave site. > > http://www.foresthillstrust.org/calendar.html > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 05:02:10 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ram Devineni Subject: Procession at Howl Festival MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Friends, Remember after the elections when you were wondering how to make a difference? Here's your chance to be heard! Be a part of an artistic and political presence at this summer's Howl Festival. This Saturday, August 27th in New York City, join Acts of Art www.actart.org and protest against the Patriot Act at the Howl Festival parade www.howlfestival.org. We will be meeting at 11am in the triangular park near the Cooper Union Building, just South-East of Aster Place. Look for the smashing purple and blue banner. The parade will begin at 12noon and proceed to Tompkin Square Park where the Howl Festival will be in full swing. The procession will be fairly short and the weather's looking good! If you need directions, call 917-903-3383. Acts of Art, is a new group of artists committed to political activism. At the Howl parade we hope to bring attention to the Patriot Acts' infringements on our Constitutional rights. We will have many wonderful, expressive signs for you to carry, but feel free to bring your own creations. Teachers are welcome to bring students! The Howl Parade will be getting a lot of press this year, so let's get together and make our voices heard! Best, Ram Devineni Acts of Art info@rattapallax.com Please send future emails to devineni@rattapallax.com for press devineni@dialoguepoetry.org for UN program ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:32:56 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Waber Subject: 9 by John M. Bennett MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Poetics List, The minimalist concrete poetry site has been updated with 9 pieces by John M. Bennett. A red letter day! Enjoy, Dan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:34:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Waber Subject: the url MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ Sorry about that, Dan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:44:17 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis Lacook Subject: Hey Poeticslistserv ;) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lewis Lacook has invited you to join hi5. By joining hi5, you will be connected to Lewis and all of Lewis's friends. hi5 is the place where friends meet. You can use hi5 for the following purposes: * Find old friends * Meet new people * Browse photos Join Lewis, meet Lewis's friends, and meet people that share your interests now! Click here: http://www.hi5.com/register/B2VVD?inviteId=EF03G6W4OW35341380p0 This invitation was sent to poetics@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu on behalf of Lewis Lacook (llacook@yahoo.com). If you do not wish to receive invitations from hi5 members, click on the link below: http://www.hi5.com/friend/displayBlockInvite.do?inviteId=EF03G6W4OW35341380p0 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:24:20 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: { brad brace } Subject: Global Islands Project In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII (commentary is appreciated!) Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media pdf-ebooks -- Island 1.0 is Ambergris Caye, Belize Island 2.0 is Koh Si Chang, Thailand 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) /:b ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:49:14 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dodie Bellamy Subject: revised line-up Bay Area Poetry Marathon Comments: To: ampersand@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" *** Revised reader line-up for the last Marathon event of the summer! *** Mark your calendar... THE 2005 BAY AREA POETRY MARATHON is DATE: SATURDAY, August 27 TIME: Readings begin at 7pm PLACE: The Lab, 2948 16th Street, San Francisco (16th & Mission BART stop, then one block east on 16th) READERS (listed alphabetically, not in order of appearance): ** Amber DiPietra, Geoffrey Dyer, Thomas Fink, Kevin Killian, Aaron Kiely, Standard Schaefer, Kish Song Bear, Tyrone Williams ** We hope to see you there-- Please forward this announcement to other interested folks! For more info, contact Donna de la Perriere & Joseph Lease at baypoetrymarathon@juno.com. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:55:09 -0400 Reply-To: Fence and Fence Books Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Fence and Fence Books Organization: Fence and Fence Books Subject: Welcome to Fence and Fence Books Content-type: text/plain Hello! Thanks for subscribing. Here's information about Fence and Fence Books that was given by the list owner: An announcement list for all things connected with Fence, the literary journal, and Fence Books. Private Policy: Please feel free to subscribe. We don't give out our list to anyone else. You might want to save this email for future reference. You can unsubscribe anytime from Fence and Fence Books by following this link: http://www.constantcritic.com/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=u&l=fence&e=poetics%40listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu&p=10876 If you have questions regarding this mailing list, you can contact the list owner at: rwolff@angel.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:58:23 -0400 Reply-To: Fence and Fence Books Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Fence and Fence Books Organization: Fence and Fence Books Subject: Fence and Fence Books Unsubscription Content-type: text/plain Unsubscription from list: Fence and Fence Books is successful. If you would like to subscribe to Fence and Fence Books in the future, just click this link: http://www.constantcritic.com/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=n&l=fence&e=poetics%40listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu&p=10876 - rwolff@angel.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:54:14 -0400 Reply-To: az421@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rob McLennan Subject: new(ish) on rob's clever blog Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT new(ish) on rob's clever blog - ongoing notes, late August 2005 (Grant Wilkin's Murderous Signs; Larissa Lai issue, West Coast Line; Bernadette Mayer's Indigo Bunting (Zasterle); produced Daniel f. Bradley's A Boy's First Book of Chlamydia & Gregory Bett's If Language (BookThug); Yunte Huang's Cribs (Tinfish Press); Phil Hall's Flat Singles Press) - interview with Stan Rogal - victoria (poem) - ongoing notes, late July (Bren Simmers Fire Lookout and Fred Wahs Isadora Blue by Maleea Ackers LA MANO IZQUIERDA IMPRESSORA; Jeanette Lynes' Sporting In New Scotland by Mercutio Press; Rachel Loden's The Richard Nixon Snow Globe by Wild Honey Press) - rob budde's A Sleep of Faith (2005, wink books) - West Coast Poetry Festival, Vancouver (coda) - preface (a poem, + the west coast poetry festival) - Corey Frost - from Missing Persons (a work-in-progress, fiction) etc www.robmclennan.blogspot.com + some other new things at ottawa poetry newsletter, www.ottawapoetry.blogspot.com -- poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...10th coll'n - stone, book one (Palimpsest Press) .... c/o 858 Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:57:24 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mary Jo Malo Subject: Company of Poets (Digest) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Company of Poets daily digest, incredibly enough, is now online. The digest is a single Company of Poets e-mail that condenses all of the last day's Company of Poets e-mails. It appears to have picked 1:15pm EDT as the end of its day, but there we go. If you would like to unsubscribe from the regular Company of Poets list, and instead subscribe to the digest, send a message to _majordomo@unlikelystories.org_ (mailto:majordomo@unlikelystories.org) . Use no subject header, and place in the body: "unsubscribe companyofpoets" "subscribe companyofpoets-digest" without the quotation marks. USE OF HTML FORMATTING IN COMPANY OF POETS MESSAGES SCREWS UP THE DIGEST. The first digest is about half-gibberish as a result. If the digest is to work, it is imperative that members of this list stop sending messages in HTML formatting. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thanks, -- Jonathan Penton _http://www.unlikelystories.org_ (http://www.unlikelystories.org) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:05:15 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mary Jo Malo Subject: Company of Poets MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit AOL wouldn't include the address link in my *plain text* copy of Jonathan's memo. Send the subscribe or unsubscribe message for Company of Poets to: _majordomo@unlikelystories.org_ (mailto:majordomo@unlikelystories.org) Mary ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:15:57 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Boyd Spahr Subject: Bernes on Musgrave Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain ++ Tomorrow's poem in the order & decorum series at personnagesobscurs.com: ++ SONNET IN THE KEY OF SODOMY FOR MARILYN MUSGRAVE (R-4, CO) ++ by Jasper Bernes ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:38:30 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Belz Subject: Tune in tonight - Readings @ Schlafly Tap Room MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Friends- Tonight from 7-8 pm CST on http://www.kdhx.org (or FM 88.1 if you're near St. Louis), I'll be discussing the 2005-06 "Readings @" poetry series (http://belz.net/readings/). We'll talk live to our Sept 1 reader Geraldine Kim, winner of the 2005 Fence Modern Poets Series, listen to a jazzy recording of K. Curtis Lyle, hear a recording of Cole Swensen's 11/4/04 reading from _Goest_, and much more. Aaron ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:23:29 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Magee Subject: Combo Books publishes the new Yasusada MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everyone, It is my distinct pleasure to announce the publication of the latest Combo Book, ALSO WITH MY THROAT I SHALL SWALLOW TEN THOUSAND SWORDS: ARAKI YASUSADA'S LETTERS IN ENGLISH. Written under the pseudonym (or hypernym) Tosa Motokiyu, edited by Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez, beautifully and painstakingly designed by Christian Palino and Prototype Syndicate, perfectbound with a gorgeous cover involving UV spot-lamination and other things I don't understand, you must get your hands on this book! It will be available momentarily from Small Press Distribution http://www.spdbooks.org but you can also order it (and put significantly more dough in the Combo Books coffers!) by sending cash or check to: Combo Books c/o Michael Magee 7 Old West Wrentham Rd. Cumberland, RI 02864 The price of the book is 12 dollars. Here are some examples of advance praise for the book and/or the Yasusada project generally: "(The Yasusada Author) has done a brilliant job in inventing a world at once ritualized and yet startlingly modern, timeless yet documentary, archaized yet au courant -- a poetic world that satisfies out hunger for the authentic, even though that autentic world is a perfect simulacrum...Like Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius, the Yasusada notebooks force us to go back to the 'originals' so as to see what they really were and how they have been transformed." --Marjorie Perloff "These pidgin English fantasies of poetic mastery are awful and incredible. Like Frank O'Hara's 'poem in blackface' they give us pause by giving delight. The delight, dear reader, is a ruse.It's the pause that constitutes their gift." --Ben Friedlander "Here in America, where even our best experimental writers seem to be constructing gigantic monuments to their own talents and are eager to lie beside Wordsworth in some canonical garden, (the Yasusada) project, whatever it ultimately is or ends up having been, strikes me as either the most moving, unsettling and important thing going on right now, or as the most egregious and dangerous self-delusion in American letters." --Tony Tost "Joyce and Stein gave us an idea of how the ego talked, Mallarme and Proust the superego. Now, for the first time in our era, an unearthing of Araki Yasusada's shattering letters and sublime poem-fragments...shows us how ego and superego would talk to each other, if only they spoke the same language." --David Rosenberg My own hope is that the book will provoke the intense conversation I think it deserves. Please forward this announcement to other lists and, if you don't mind, post it on you blogs. Yours, Michael Magee ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:01:14 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brian Clements Subject: Brian Clements/Eng/WCSU is out of the office. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I will be out of the office starting 08/26/2005 and will not return until 08/30/2005. If you need to discuss an important issue regarding the MFA in Professional Writing, please contact Laurel Richards (richardsl@wcsu.edu or 203-837-8878). ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:06:17 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Geoffrey Gatza Subject: Re: Combo Books publishes the new Yasusada In-Reply-To: <20050826042329.LGBV23919.eastrmmtao03.cox.net@smtp.east.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Mike, Solidarity ! http://www.blazevox.org/blog/ Best, Geoffrey Geoffrey Gatza BlazeVOX [books] www.blazevox.org -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Magee Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 12:23 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Combo Books publishes the new Yasusada Hi everyone, It is my distinct pleasure to announce the publication of the latest Combo Book, ALSO WITH MY THROAT I SHALL SWALLOW TEN THOUSAND SWORDS: ARAKI YASUSADA'S LETTERS IN ENGLISH. Written under the pseudonym (or hypernym) Tosa Motokiyu, edited by Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez, beautifully and painstakingly designed by Christian Palino and Prototype Syndicate, perfectbound with a gorgeous cover involving UV spot-lamination and other things I don't understand, you must get your hands on this book! It will be available momentarily from Small Press Distribution http://www.spdbooks.org but you can also order it (and put significantly more dough in the Combo Books coffers!) by sending cash or check to: Combo Books c/o Michael Magee 7 Old West Wrentham Rd. Cumberland, RI 02864 The price of the book is 12 dollars. Here are some examples of advance praise for the book and/or the Yasusada project generally: "(The Yasusada Author) has done a brilliant job in inventing a world at once ritualized and yet startlingly modern, timeless yet documentary, archaized yet au courant -- a poetic world that satisfies out hunger for the authentic, even though that autentic world is a perfect simulacrum...Like Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius, the Yasusada notebooks force us to go back to the 'originals' so as to see what they really were and how they have been transformed." --Marjorie Perloff "These pidgin English fantasies of poetic mastery are awful and incredible. Like Frank O'Hara's 'poem in blackface' they give us pause by giving delight. The delight, dear reader, is a ruse.It's the pause that constitutes their gift." --Ben Friedlander "Here in America, where even our best experimental writers seem to be constructing gigantic monuments to their own talents and are eager to lie beside Wordsworth in some canonical garden, (the Yasusada) project, whatever it ultimately is or ends up having been, strikes me as either the most moving, unsettling and important thing going on right now, or as the most egregious and dangerous self-delusion in American letters." --Tony Tost "Joyce and Stein gave us an idea of how the ego talked, Mallarme and Proust the superego. Now, for the first time in our era, an unearthing of Araki Yasusada's shattering letters and sublime poem-fragments...shows us how ego and superego would talk to each other, if only they spoke the same language." --David Rosenberg My own hope is that the book will provoke the intense conversation I think it deserves. Please forward this announcement to other lists and, if you don't mind, post it on you blogs. Yours, Michael Magee ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:44:39 +0100 Reply-To: lisajarnot Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: lisajarnot Subject: intern needed for Robert Duncan biography Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear List Folks, I'm finishing a draft of my Robert Duncan biography and am looking for an intern to do some fact-checking, additional research for me. This would be a good job for an undergrad-- could possibly arrange this as an independent study for credit. roughly 5 hours per week. mostly internet research. I can be reached at jarnot@earthlink.net thanks very much, Lisa Jarnot ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:51:40 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: SleepingFish 0.75 is stocked and loaded In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The problem with democracy and, I would argue, the egalitarian sense of community, is that everyone's given, which is nice, their piece! And so, like the internet, how many pieces of literary waste and shit must I churn through before someone shows me they give a damn. When someone does something important, then please, please send me an e-mail. Before then--FO. AlexJ. p.s. --- Derek White wrote: > Hello. This is an email to let you know that that > new issue of SleepingFish > is now available for public consumption. > > It features a variety of text, art and sometimes > strange or unclassifiable > literary nonsense by the likes of: > > Petra Backonja, James Wagner, Michael Boyko, > Amy White, > David-Baptiste Chirot, > Mike Topp, Peter Conners, Eileen Tabios, > Chad Davidson & John Poch, > Daryl Scroggins, > Alison Hawthorne Deming, Selah & Noah > Saterstrom, Chris Fritton, > Kristin Prevallet, > Michael Peters, Geof Huth, Christian Peet, > Cheryl Pallant, Sheila > E. Murphy, James Grinwis, > Claudio Parentela, Henry Mescaline/Henri > d'Mescan, Amy Pence, > Michael Kimball, > Kevin Sampsell, Rebecca Gopoian, Davis > Schneiderman, Jessica Fanzo, > George Sich, > Joshua Cohen, Steve Timm, Chris Casamassima, > Sean Mclain Brown, > mIEKAL aND, > Stephen Hopkins, Kevin White, George Belden > (as recovered by Norman > Lock) > > & also a special selection of Mexican Visual poetry > including Juan Diaz > Infante, Federico Martinez, > Damian Walsdorf, Katnira Bello, Victor Sulser > with an introduction > by Brian Whitener. > > It has 128 pages. It has an ISBN number. You can > look at the cover of this > thing called SleepingFish and check out a few > samples from the issue by > going to www.sleepingfish.net. > > You can buy it there too for $11. Or you can wait a > week or so until it hits > places like Powell's. > > It is published by Calamari Press. There was an > article in last week's NY > Press about other stuff that Calamari Press has done > or will be doing. You > can read it here: > http://nypress.com/18/32/books/michaelcboyko.cfm > > If you don't want to buy this SleepingFish, or even > if you do, there's some > additional freebie webbed stuff posted online like: > > 6 images by Carlos Luis from the forthcoming > ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos > 10 color rubBEings by David-Baptiste Chirot not > included in the issue > some additional rabbit drawings by Victor Sulser > that didn't make it to > print > a few galleries loaded with pictures of street > memes & TEXTures from NYC > & Mexico > > Hope it does something for you. > > To the water, > > Derek White > www.calamaripress.com > www.sleepingfish.net > www.5cense.com > > No trees were killed to bring you this message... > but billions of electrons were horribly > inconvenienced. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:08:45 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Boog City Classic Albums Live presents Hole's Live Through This Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit please forward --------------- Boog City's Classic Albums Live presents Hole's Live Through This Thursday, Sept. 1, 7:00 p.m., $10 The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery NYC 10 NYC musical acts reinterpret this rock classic--in order, track-by-track. The album will be performed by: Dream Bitches Dan Fishback GynoCult Casey Holford Kansas State Flower Phoebe Kreutz The Leader Chris Maher Pantsuit Genan Zilkha preceded by readings from Betsy Andrews Amy King Gillian McCain We'll also be celebrating Yoko Kikuchi of the Dream Bitches' birthday Hosted by Boog City editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum Directions: F train to Second Avenue, or 6 train to Bleecker Street. Venue is at foot of 1st Street, between Houston and Bleecker streets, across from CBGBs. Call 212-842-BOOG(2664) or email editor@boogcity.com for further information www.dreambitches.org www.danfishback.com www.gynocult.com www.caseyholford.com www.olivejuicemusic.com/kansasstateflower.html www.phoebekreutz.com www.olivejuicemusic.com/theleader.html www.chrismaher.net www.olivejuicemusic.com/pantsuit.html www.amyking.org -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W.28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) F: (212) 842-2429 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:54:45 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: amy king Subject: Re: Boog City Classic Albums Live presents Hole's Live Through This In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Here you go David ---> www.amyking.org/blog xxox mwah! Amy "David A. Kirschenbaum" wrote: please forward --------------- Boog City's Classic Albums Live presents Hole's Live Through This Thursday, Sept. 1, 7:00 p.m., $10 The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery NYC 10 NYC musical acts reinterpret this rock classic--in order, track-by-track. The album will be performed by: Dream Bitches Dan Fishback GynoCult Casey Holford Kansas State Flower Phoebe Kreutz The Leader Chris Maher Pantsuit Genan Zilkha preceded by readings from Betsy Andrews Amy King Gillian McCain We'll also be celebrating Yoko Kikuchi of the Dream Bitches' birthday Hosted by Boog City editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum Directions: F train to Second Avenue, or 6 train to Bleecker Street. Venue is at foot of 1st Street, between Houston and Bleecker streets, across from CBGBs. Call 212-842-BOOG(2664) or email editor@boogcity.com for further information www.dreambitches.org www.danfishback.com www.gynocult.com www.caseyholford.com www.olivejuicemusic.com/kansasstateflower.html www.phoebekreutz.com www.olivejuicemusic.com/theleader.html www.chrismaher.net www.olivejuicemusic.com/pantsuit.html www.amyking.org -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W.28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) F: (212) 842-2429 --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:25:47 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: furniture_ press Subject: Re: SleepingFish 0.75 is stocked and loaded Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 dEFINE: iMPORTANT. lIKE dEFINE: aRBITRARY lOVE cHRISTOPHE cASAMASSIMA (sORRY mIEKAL) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Jorgensen" To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: SleepingFish 0.75 is stocked and loaded Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:51:40 -0700 >=20 > The problem with democracy and, I would argue, the > egalitarian sense of community, is that everyone's > given, which is nice, their piece! And so, like the > internet, how many pieces of literary waste and shit > must I churn through before someone shows me they give > a damn. When someone does something important, then > please, please send me an e-mail. Before then--FO. >=20 > AlexJ. >=20 > p.s. >=20 > --- Derek White wrote: >=20 > > Hello. This is an email to let you know that that > > new issue of SleepingFish > > is now available for public consumption. > > > > It features a variety of text, art and sometimes > > strange or unclassifiable > > literary nonsense by the likes of: > > > > Petra Backonja, James Wagner, Michael Boyko, Amy White, > > David-Baptiste Chirot, > > Mike Topp, Peter Conners, Eileen Tabios, Chad Davidson & John P= och, > > Daryl Scroggins, > > Alison Hawthorne Deming, Selah & Noah > > Saterstrom, Chris Fritton, > > Kristin Prevallet, > > Michael Peters, Geof Huth, Christian Peet, Cheryl Pallant, Sh= eila > > E. Murphy, James Grinwis, > > Claudio Parentela, Henry Mescaline/Henri > > d'Mescan, Amy Pence, > > Michael Kimball, > > Kevin Sampsell, Rebecca Gopoian, Davis > > Schneiderman, Jessica Fanzo, > > George Sich, > > Joshua Cohen, Steve Timm, Chris Casamassima, Sean Mclain Brown, > > mIEKAL aND, > > Stephen Hopkins, Kevin White, George Belden > > (as recovered by Norman > > Lock) > > > > & also a special selection of Mexican Visual poetry > > including Juan Diaz > > Infante, Federico Martinez, > > Damian Walsdorf, Katnira Bello, Victor Sulser > > with an introduction > > by Brian Whitener. > > > > It has 128 pages. It has an ISBN number. You can > > look at the cover of this > > thing called SleepingFish and check out a few > > samples from the issue by > > going to www.sleepingfish.net. > > > > You can buy it there too for $11. Or you can wait a > > week or so until it hits > > places like Powell's. > > > > It is published by Calamari Press. There was an > > article in last week's NY > > Press about other stuff that Calamari Press has done > > or will be doing. You > > can read it here: > > http://nypress.com/18/32/books/michaelcboyko.cfm > > > > If you don't want to buy this SleepingFish, or even > > if you do, there's some > > additional freebie webbed stuff posted online like: > > > > 6 images by Carlos Luis from the forthcoming > > ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos > > 10 color rubBEings by David-Baptiste Chirot not > > included in the issue > > some additional rabbit drawings by Victor Sulser > > that didn't make it to > > print > > a few galleries loaded with pictures of street > > memes & TEXTures from NYC > > & Mexico > > > > Hope it does something for you. > > > > To the water, > > > > Derek White > > www.calamaripress.com > > www.sleepingfish.net > > www.5cense.com > > > > No trees were killed to bring you this message... > > but billions of electrons were horribly > > inconvenienced. > > >=20 >=20 > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com www.towson.edu/~cacasama/furniture/poae baltimorereads.blogspot.com zillionpoems.blogspot.com --=20 _______________________________________________ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Check out our value-added Premium features, such as a 1 GB mailbox for just= US$9.95 per year! Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:32:06 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: William Allegrezza Subject: new issue of _moria_ and cfp In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The new issue of _moria_ (www.moriapoetry.com) has been posted. It contains poetry by: mark young annmarie eldon rob mclennen mary hickman john bennett louis armand amy trussell kubilay akman brian whitener kane x. faucher michael riley lynn stonger camille martin jukka--pekka kervinen & jim leftwich www.moriapoetry.com As usual, I'm looking for poetry, poetry reviews, and poetic theory articles for future editions. I'm also starting an e-book section (with a POD publication add-on). If you have a collection, send it along. Bill Allegrezza www.moriapoetry.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:57:43 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: Black August Event - Poets For Political Prisoners - Fri, 26th MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit UHURU!!!!! (FREEDOM!!!!) Well family, it's here!!! Black August Atlanta.... And we're starting out strong!!!! Tonight, Friday, August 26, 2005, we kick off our Black August Events at the Arts Exchange: 750 Kalb St., Atlanta, GA (for street directions, call 404-215-0467), @ 7pm with: POETS FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS Where Spoken Word collides with the Revolutionary Struggle!!! Hosted By: POCC National Chief Coordinator Kalonji Jama Changa We have a dynamic line-up scheduled including...... Inspirational Words: Mukasa Dada: SNCC Ed Brown: Imam Jamil Al-Amin's Brother Stirring Saxophone Solo: Bilal Sunni-Ali Songstress: Rahaset Featured Poets: Q (Quincy Hall) Coffee Blk Sis. Malikah Hameen (from Florida) Knowledge Yesod (from Connecticut) Keema Deen and friends( from South Carolina) Queen Freedom Speaks M'Wa (from Florida) Plan on coming out and supporting, acknowledging, and honoring Black/African resistance in amerikkka. It's time that we define our own reasons for celebration and honor our real hero's!!! Get the full schedule for Black August Atlanta at http://www.BlackAugust.net or pick up one at the events ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Talking Drum Newsletter Archive: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDrumCollectiveNewsletter/messages "Now is the time for us to come together with one another, to organize, to speak out and speak up on behalf of each other. There is no time to waste, while we debate, define, and discuss; the enemy continues his genocidal plan. We need to bear in mind the Ashanti proverb: 'Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue.' " - Dr. Mutulu Shakur ___\ Stay Strong \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as)\ \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation."\ --patrick o'neil\ \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:16:27 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jane Sprague Subject: The Smell poetry reading: sunday, august 28th MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit from Ara Shirinyan & Stan Apps:: Sunday, August 28: Last Sunday of the Month reading with: Dennis Phillips, Standard Schaefer, and Diane Ward + a short musical performance by fjb: at The Smell, 247 S. Main St., Los Angeles (enter through alley between 2nd and 3rd St.) $5, all ages, should run from approx. 6 - 9 p.m. http://www.thesmell.org Dennis Phillips' eight books of poetry include 20 Questions, Arena, and, most recently, Sand. He has served as director of Beyond Baroque, reviews editor for Sulfur and co-editor of Littoral Books; currently, he is a poetry editor for The New Review of Literature, and teaches at Occidental College and Otis. Standard Schaefer's first book, Nova, was a selection of the National Poetry Series; his second, Water & Power, has just been published by Agincourt Press. He co-founded the magazine Rhizome with Evan Calbi, and later co-edited Ribot with Paul Vangelisti; currently, he is the non-fiction editor of The New Review of Literature. Diane Ward's eleven books of poetry include Never Without One, Relation, Portraits and Maps (with artist Michael C. McMillen) and Portrait As If Through My Own Voice. A key participant in experimental writing communities in Washington D.C., and New York, as well as Los Angeles, she continues to edit Primary Writing with Phyllis Rosenzweig. Franklin Bruno has released 9 albums (solo and as a member of Nothing Painted Blue). He is the author of MF/MA a chapbook of poetry, and Armed Forces, a book of criticism. Poems have appeared in Zyzzyva, The Hat, and Faucheuse; criticism, in Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, and The Believer. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:20:05 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harriet Zinnes Subject: change of email address MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear STaff I believe I did ask that you note my change of email address. My new address is: Hzinnes@rcn.com. Thank you. Harriet Zinnes ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:17:55 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Apple's not soooo bad Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Punky Brewster's New Poet by Charlie Amter Aug 24, 2005, 4:40 PM PT Punky Brewster is all grown up. Soleil Moon Frye, best known for her starring role as the titular spunky moppet in the 1980s NBC sitcom is now a mother, People magazine reports. Frye, now 29, and her husband, Punk'd producer Jason Goldberg, welcomed their first child, Poet Sienna Rose Goldberg, early Wednesday morning in Los Angeles. Poet weighed in at a healthy 7 pounds, 13 ounces. Mother and child are "doing wonderfully," a friend tells People. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:05:49 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Derek White Subject: Re: SleepingFish 0.75 is stocked and loaded In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for the intelligent and encouraging feedback, Alex. I'll be sure to pass it on to all the contributors. Derek ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:51:40 -0700 From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: SleepingFish 0.75 is stocked and loaded The problem with democracy and, I would argue, the egalitarian sense of community, is that everyone's given, which is nice, their piece! And so, like the internet, how many pieces of literary waste and shit must I churn through before someone shows me they give a damn. When someone does something important, then please, please send me an e-mail. Before then--FO. AlexJ. p.s. --- Derek White wrote: > Hello. This is an email to let you know that that > new issue of SleepingFish > is now available for public consumption. > > It features a variety of text, art and sometimes > strange or unclassifiable > literary nonsense by the likes of: > > Petra Backonja, James Wagner, Michael Boyko, > Amy White, > David-Baptiste Chirot, > Mike Topp, Peter Conners, Eileen Tabios, > Chad Davidson & John Poch, > Daryl Scroggins, > Alison Hawthorne Deming, Selah & Noah > Saterstrom, Chris Fritton, > Kristin Prevallet, > Michael Peters, Geof Huth, Christian Peet, > Cheryl Pallant, Sheila > E. Murphy, James Grinwis, > Claudio Parentela, Henry Mescaline/Henri > d'Mescan, Amy Pence, > Michael Kimball, > Kevin Sampsell, Rebecca Gopoian, Davis > Schneiderman, Jessica Fanzo, > George Sich, > Joshua Cohen, Steve Timm, Chris Casamassima, > Sean Mclain Brown, > mIEKAL aND, > Stephen Hopkins, Kevin White, George Belden > (as recovered by Norman > Lock) > > & also a special selection of Mexican Visual poetry > including Juan Diaz > Infante, Federico Martinez, > Damian Walsdorf, Katnira Bello, Victor Sulser > with an introduction > by Brian Whitener. > > It has 128 pages. It has an ISBN number. You can > look at the cover of this > thing called SleepingFish and check out a few > samples from the issue by > going to www.sleepingfish.net. > > You can buy it there too for $11. Or you can wait a > week or so until it hits > places like Powell's. > > It is published by Calamari Press. There was an > article in last week's NY > Press about other stuff that Calamari Press has done > or will be doing. You > can read it here: > http://nypress.com/18/32/books/michaelcboyko.cfm > > If you don't want to buy this SleepingFish, or even > if you do, there's some > additional freebie webbed stuff posted online like: > > 6 images by Carlos Luis from the forthcoming > ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos > 10 color rubBEings by David-Baptiste Chirot not > included in the issue > some additional rabbit drawings by Victor Sulser > that didn't make it to > print > a few galleries loaded with pictures of street > memes & TEXTures from NYC > & Mexico > > Hope it does something for you. > > To the water, > > Derek White > www.calamaripress.com > www.sleepingfish.net > www.5cense.com > > No trees were killed to bring you this message... > but billions of electrons were horribly > inconvenienced. > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:15:21 -0400 Reply-To: rumblek@bellsouth.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ken Rumble Subject: Fascicle, Issue 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The first issue of Fascicle is here: http://www.fascicle.com The first issue features a special portfolio of Poems on Poetry by Hebrew Poets from Spain & Provence (12th – 15th c.) translated by Peter Cole. Also featured are the first two Fascicle chapbooks, Duncan's Spiders by Paul White, and Quasi Flanders, Quasi Extremadura by Andrés Ajens (translated by Erin Mouré). Issue one includes critical prose by Eliot Weinberger, Clayton Eshleman, David Rosenberg, Jon Thompson, Tony Tost, Thomas Basbøll, Graham Foust, Kent Johnson, Mikhail Epstein, and Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz. Also: Jonathan Mayhew on Eshleman's reissued Conductors of the Pit, and Tony Tost on recent releases. Fascicle also has a unique feature, Local Poetry News from 18 different locales/scenes. There are also interviews with Joseph Donahue and Standard Schaefer, as well as an extended dialogue between Dale Smith and Alan Gilbert. Fascicle also features work from: Fernando Pessoa (tr. Daniels), Mary Burger, Joan Perucho (tr. Billitteri/Friedlander), Urmuz (tr. Semilian), Geof Huth, Coral Bracho (tr. Gander), Pamela Lu, Omar Pérez (tr. Dykstra/Tejada), Linh Dinh, Rob Stanton, Kent Johnson, Marcus Slease, Gherasim Luca (tr. Semilian), Ana Cristina Cesar (tr. de la Torre), Du Fu (tr. Klein), Mel Nichols, Ariane Dreyfus (tr. Nolan), Thomas Basbøll, Martha Ronk, Gérard de Nerval (tr. Lamoureux), Sextus Propertius (tr. Johnston), küçük Iskender (tr. Nemet-Nejat), Eric Baus, Adam Good, Stephen Jourdain (tr. K.Waldrop), Joseph Donahue, Sophocles (tr. Tipton), Ece Ayhan (tr. Nemet-Nejat), Ken Rumble, Evelyn Schlag (tr. Leeder), Tim Van Dyke, Daniil Kharms (tr. Ostashevksy), Peter O'Leary, Cesar Vallejo (tr. Eshleman), Ben Lerner, Li Shangyin (tr. Klein), Carla Harryman, Lev Rubinshtein (tr. Metres/Tulchinsky), Evie Shockley, FT Marinetti (tr. Encke), Aaron McCollough, Anise Koltz (tr. Joris), Chris Vitiello, Cheng Hui (tr. Bradley), Simon Pettet, Sappho (tr. Vincent), David Berridge, Valerie Mejer (tr. Giancola), Buck Downs, Astrid Lampe (tr. Nolan), Philip Metres, Andrea Zanzotto (tr. Chambliss), José Martí (tr. Weiss), Todd Sandvik, Dino Campana (tr. Ballardini), Celal Silay (tr. Nemet-Nejat), Adam Clay, Sagawa Chika (tr. Nakayasu), Shimon Ballas (tr. Alcalay/Shelach), Tony Tost, Abe Hinako (tr. Sato), Lara Glenum, César Marañón (tr. Suárez-Araúz), Ulf Stolterfoht (tr. R.Waldrop), Mary Margaret Sloan, Reina María Rodríguez (tr. Dykstra), Judith Goldman, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (tr. Daniels), Edna Sarah Beardsley, José Kozer (tr. Weiss), Jerome Rothenberg, Meredith Quartermain, Henry Parland (tr. Göranssen), K. Silem Mohammad, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (tr. Rothenberg), Standard Schaefer, Wen Yiduo (tr. Klein), M. NourbeSe Philip, Abelardo Núñez de Arce (tr. Suárez-Araúz), Alessandro Niero (tr. Sweet), Brent Cunningham, Takarabe Toriko (tr. Sato), Noah Eli Gordon, Nguyen Dang Thuong (tr. Dinh), Nishiwaki Junzaburô (tr. Hirata), Stacy Szymaszek, Jaime Luis Huenún (tr. Borzutzky), Matthew Henriksen, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboglu (tr. Nemet-Nejat), Carlos A. Aguilera (tr. Gudding), Semezdin Mehmedinovic (tr. Alcalay), Can Yücel (tr. Nemet-Nejat), Tim Peterson, Amalia Iglesias & Lola Velasco (tr. Mayhew), Salvatore Camilleri (tr. Ballitteri/Friedlander). Thanks, Tony Tost, editor Kent Johnson, contributing editor (translations) Chris Vitiello & Ken Rumble, contributing editors ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Lucipo mailing list Lucipo@lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/lucipo ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:52:26 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charlie Rossiter Subject: Two Full Days of Poetry in Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit TWO DAYS. TWO LOCATIONS. OVER SIXTY POETS. ONE HOST. C. J. LAITY. CHECK OUT THIS LINE UP. SATURDAY, August 27, Lincoln Square at Giddings Plaza, 4700 block of N. Lincoln 3:00 Bob Rashkow 3:10 Somara Zwick 3:20 Shermin Izadpanah 3:30 Pam Osbey (okay time) 3:40 Ned Haggard 3:50 Dan Stafford 4:00 Lorraine Harrell 4:10 Lance Eliot Adams 4:20 Vito Carli 4:30 Malaya Macdonald 4:40 Pete Dederick 4:50 Carol Anderson 5:00 Jose Bono (time okay) 5:10 Gene' Stephens Connolly 5:20 Jerome Davis 5:30 Jacqui Wolk 5:40 Wayne Allen Jones 5:50 Maureen Tolman Flannery 6:00 Gregory OToole 6:10 Dave Gecic 6:20 Aricka Epiphany Foreman 6:30 LaShaun phoenix Moore 6:40 Kathy Kubik 6:50 Steven Schroeder 7:00 Stephany Rose 7:10 Joel Brussel 7:20 Diane Williams 7:30 Frank Matagrano 7:40 Kristy Bowen 7:50 Charlie Newman 8:00 Dan Cleary ============================== SUNDAY, August 28, Poetry Block Party, Bloomingdale from Western to Artesian, in front of the Woman Made Gallery 2:00 Dan Scurek 2:10 Ann Wienen Edmonds 2:20 Janet Kuypers 2:30 Anna Husain 2:40 Joe Eldridge 2:50: Edward Waszak 3:00 Lonna Kingsbury 3:10 Lillian E. and Lawrence J. Mitchum 3:20 Latorial Faison 3:30 Kristin Wegner 3:40 Mary Blinn 3:50 Whitney Scott 4:00 Lee Groban 4:10 Ed Layer 4:20 Pamela Miller 4:30 Jim Coppoc 4:40 Jan Bottiglieri 4:50 Bonnie T. Summers (ok time) 5:00 Larry O. Dean 5:10 Nissa Holtkamp 5:20 Ruan Wright 5:30 Charlie Rossiter 5:40 Lynn Fitzgerald 5:50 Thomas Roby and Lem 6:00 Emily Calvo 6:10 Donna Pecore 6:20 Kim Berez 6:30 gordon cc liao 6:40 Yvonne Orr-Richardson 6:50 Quraysh Ali Lansana 7:00 David Hernandez 7:10 Tasha Jones, aka Mocha 7:20 Erika Mikkalo For even more information about The Chicago Poetry Fest, here is a direct link http://chicagopoetry.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=475&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:49:16 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: ** Advertise in Boog City 28** Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Boog City issue 28 is going to press this coming week, and our discount ad rate is here to stay. We are once again offering a 50% discount on our 1/8-page ads, cutting them from $60 to $30. (The discount rate also applies to larger ads.) Advertise your small press's newest publications, your own titles, your band's new album, your label's new releases. 2,000 issues are distributed throughout Manhattan's East Village and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Email as soon as possible to reserve ad space, and ads need to be in by wednesday. (We're also cool with donations, real cool.) Email editor@boogcity.com or call 212-842-BOOG(2664) for more information. 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://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) F: (212) 842-2429 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:33:57 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Craig Allen Conrad Subject: APPEAL FOR CHAX PRESS /\\///\\\\/////\\\\\\///////\\\\\\\\///////// MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 APPEAL FOR CHAX PRESS /\\///\\\\/////\\\\\\///////\\\\\\\\///////// =20 Below is a letter Eli Goldblatt is circulating, CAConrad _http://PhillySound.blogspot.com_ (http://phillysound.blogspot.com/)=20 =20 ------------- =20 Dear Friends, I have been involved with Chax Press, a literary and =20 book arts press, as one of its authors and an interested=20 friend of its various projects. I give my own time and=20 money to Chax Press because I care deeply about=20 what they do.=20 Currently, Chax Pres is experiencing a deep and=20 immediate need for transitional funding. I wouldn=E2=80=99t ask=20 you to help if I did not consider it an urgent matter; you=20 can rest assured that your money will be well spent,=20 and that this press will continue to do wonderful work. I=20 am only asking people who I know can help, and who I =20 can trust with my own deep care for Chax Press. Chax=20 Press has been around for twenty years, and feel sure=20 they will be here for a good while to come. For those twenty years, Chax Press has published=20 literature that crosses boundaries, holds no ground=20 sacred, transgresses =E2=80=94 poetry that, as Emily Dickinson=20 put it, takes one=E2=80=99s head off. These books obliterate=20 distinctions between poetry and prose, language and=20 art, literature and life. The effort Chax has put into=20 support of Gil Ott's work is particularly dear to me. In=20 addition to their fine edition of Traffic and their part in=20 the tribute volume The Form of Our Uncertainty, =20 Charles Alexander and I will be editing a posthumous=20 selected writing to be published by Chax sometime in=20 2007. Chax Press receives support from national and local=20 arts agencies, but the greatest part of its budget comes=20 from individual donors. I ask for your tax-deductible =20 donation of $30 or more, to help the press through a=20 time of need. I urge you to make this contribution=20 immediately =E2=80=93 write a check and put it in today=E2=80=99s or=20 tomorrow=E2=80=99s mail, please. Charles Alexander is offering=20 all who help a significant discount on any of four new or=20 forthcoming books from Chax Press. Thank you for helping to make words and the art made=20 from words matter. Please see the attached form below=20 for more information on new books and how you can=20 send a donation to Chax. Sincerely, Eli ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:31:50 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jamie Gaughran-Perez Subject: Re: SleepingFish 0.75 is stocked and loaded In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Fuck a buncha useless detractors, this thing looks like it is straight up gorgeous. That said, is it in the works for it to come to Bridgestreet books? As you can imagine, I try to keep my buying local to keep my local from going the way of the Barnes & Noble squeeze play that is on in DC, Baltimore and everywhere else. Otherwise, I'll go for the buying online... or convince Rod that he needs to be getting a couple copies in stock... jgp Derek White wrote: > Thanks for the intelligent and encouraging feedback, Alex. I'll be sure to > pass it on to all the contributors. > > Derek > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:51:40 -0700 > From: Alex Jorgensen > Subject: Re: SleepingFish 0.75 is stocked and loaded > > The problem with democracy and, I would argue, the > egalitarian sense of community, is that everyone's > given, which is nice, their piece! And so, like the > internet, how many pieces of literary waste and shit > must I churn through before someone shows me they give > a damn. When someone does something important, then > please, please send me an e-mail. Before then--FO. > > AlexJ. > > p.s. > > --- Derek White wrote: > > >>Hello. This is an email to let you know that that >>new issue of SleepingFish >>is now available for public consumption. >> >>It features a variety of text, art and sometimes >>strange or unclassifiable >>literary nonsense by the likes of: >> >> Petra Backonja, James Wagner, Michael Boyko, >> Amy White, >>David-Baptiste Chirot, >> Mike Topp, Peter Conners, Eileen Tabios, >>Chad Davidson & John Poch, >>Daryl Scroggins, >> Alison Hawthorne Deming, Selah & Noah >>Saterstrom, Chris Fritton, >>Kristin Prevallet, >> Michael Peters, Geof Huth, Christian Peet, >>Cheryl Pallant, Sheila >>E. Murphy, James Grinwis, >> Claudio Parentela, Henry Mescaline/Henri >>d'Mescan, Amy Pence, >>Michael Kimball, >> Kevin Sampsell, Rebecca Gopoian, Davis >>Schneiderman, Jessica Fanzo, >>George Sich, >> Joshua Cohen, Steve Timm, Chris Casamassima, >> Sean Mclain Brown, >>mIEKAL aND, >> Stephen Hopkins, Kevin White, George Belden >>(as recovered by Norman >>Lock) >> >>& also a special selection of Mexican Visual poetry >>including Juan Diaz >>Infante, Federico Martinez, >> Damian Walsdorf, Katnira Bello, Victor Sulser >> with an introduction >>by Brian Whitener. >> >>It has 128 pages. It has an ISBN number. You can >>look at the cover of this >>thing called SleepingFish and check out a few >>samples from the issue by >>going to www.sleepingfish.net. >> >>You can buy it there too for $11. Or you can wait a >>week or so until it hits >>places like Powell's. >> >>It is published by Calamari Press. There was an >>article in last week's NY >>Press about other stuff that Calamari Press has done >>or will be doing. You >>can read it here: >>http://nypress.com/18/32/books/michaelcboyko.cfm >> >>If you don't want to buy this SleepingFish, or even >>if you do, there's some >>additional freebie webbed stuff posted online like: >> >> 6 images by Carlos Luis from the forthcoming >>ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos >> 10 color rubBEings by David-Baptiste Chirot not >>included in the issue >> some additional rabbit drawings by Victor Sulser >>that didn't make it to >>print >> a few galleries loaded with pictures of street >>memes & TEXTures from NYC >>& Mexico >> >>Hope it does something for you. >> >>To the water, >> >>Derek White >>www.calamaripress.com >>www.sleepingfish.net >>www.5cense.com >> >>No trees were killed to bring you this message... >>but billions of electrons were horribly >>inconvenienced. >> > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:58:06 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: d.a. levy and 1960s Lit. Conf. in Cleveland Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit hi all, d.a. levy & the 1960s Literary & Cultural Scene in Cleveland: (a symposium & celebration) Sat. Oct. 29-Sun. Oct. 30, 2005 Cleveland State University Cleveland For complete schedule: http://www.deepcleveland.com/levyfest.html For more information contact: Larry Smith, Lsmithdog@aol.com Mark Kuhar, markk@deepcleveland.com best, david ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:03:32 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Skip Fox Subject: Place to stay In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Camille, Distressed about you, Bill, etc. Want you to know you can stay with me. = My numbers are 337-684-3657 (home) and 337-482-5491. Unfortunately I didn't have your phone # at home and found it on e-mail = when I got to the office. =20 Now I can't call until I get home again (this system is impossible for = me without a calling card . . . maybe that's what I'll do). Seriously, even DAYSSSSS. And room for others as well. We can be a bit uncomfortable and shove in 6-8 with pets.=20 Hope this gets to you. =20 I'm going out to get a card and call you and Bill. skip ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:47:11 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: 'On Lionel Kearns' at computerfinearts.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 'On Lionel Kearns' is up at http://computerfinearts.com/collection/andrews (New York). This is a 2004 project published also on my site vispo.com (Victoria) and turbulence.org (New York). computerfinearts.com is Doron Golan's site that features quite a good collection of net art archived by The Cornell University Library. 'On Lionel Kearns' is a binary meditation on the work of Vancouver poet Lionel Kearns who did some prescient work in the sixties-through-eighties relevant to contemporary digital poetics. Requires Shockwave and Quicktime. About Lionel: http://computerfinearts.com/collection/andrews/about.htm Review by Geof Huth: http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2004/11/on-on-lionel-kearns-jim-andrews-and.html Review by Karen Wagner (Danish): http://www.afsnitp.dk/plog/2/plog13.html#grafiskemeditationer ja ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:40:53 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Nico Vassilakis Subject: too oulipo derived chaps Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed 2 by Nico Vassilakis *SPECIES PIECES a generated overview riff on Perec's 'Species of Spaces and Other Pieces'. "The tribute-extrapolation-excreation of Perec is a delight." Harry Mathews $7 g o n g press 8630 NE Wardwell Rd Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 g-o-n-g@earthlink.com *STAMPOLOGUE afterward by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino grid work from one page of Mathews' story 'The Way Home' turned visual writing/concrete poetry. "It's gorgeous." Kenny G $3 the Runaway Spoon Press Box 495597 Port Charlotte, FL 33949 BobGrumman@Nut-N-But.Net ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:31:55 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis LaCook Subject: homecoming MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ...finally getting my homepage together, kindly hosted by Corporate Performance Artists... http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/ ...Still under construction, but locating and posting older works as we speak...hopefully, this will be a much more complete portal for my work... bliss l *************************************************************************** No More Movements... Lewis LaCook -->Poet-Programmer|||http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/||| __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:37:12 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Unpatriotic Eggheads Shit On Cheney And Rumsfeld Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ Unpatriotic Eggheads Shit On Cheney And Rumsfeld's Canard For Bombing, Invading Iran: No Proof Found of Iran Arms Program: Rumsfeld, Cheney Say They Will Bomb, Invade Iran Anyway Using Lies Left Over From The Invasion Of Iraq, Vietnam: "No bunch of Darwin lovin' pansies is going to derail our plans to invade Iran," Bush declares.: No Matter That Uranium Is Traced to Pakistani Equipment: Turks Begin Troop Buildup Along Border With Iraq In Anticipation Of Iraqi Constitution: By DAFFY DIMMER & HAIRY NOODLE They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical, whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house. One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:39:01 -0400 Reply-To: Jonathan Minton Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Minton Subject: Word For/Word #8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm pleased to announce that Word For/Word #8 is online at http://www.wordforword.info with poetics, prose, visuals, and poetry by: William Allegrezza, Daniel Borzutzky, Julia Cohen, Steve Dalachinsky, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, John Mercuri Dooley, Estela Eaton, Steve Finbow, Sandy Florian, Adam Golaski, Anne Gorrick, Nicholas Grider, Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr., Dustin Hellberg, Erika Howsare, David Laskowski, Jon Leon, Brian Lucas, J. Michael Martinez, Paul McCormick, Zachary Schomburg, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Tony Tost, Gautam Verma, Petra Backonja, John M. Bennett, Alan Halsey, Carol Stetser, Sam Truitt, Irving Weiss, Brian Seabolt, and Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino. Issue #8 also features reviews of Jon Thompson's The Book of the Floating World, Sandra Miller's Oriflamme, Cole Swensen's Goest, and Francisco Aragon's Puerta Del Sol. Best, Jonathan Minton ++++++++++++++from Aporia, by J. Michael Martinez [7] History gathers in the Name we never are You said, An infinity with origin is the speech you foster. I said, I don't speak Spanish, I am Hispanic. You said, Pan hisses in the center, the Gods rise like bread from the noun; our syntax is the bond to the divinity we are. I said, sin taxes the soul, the name; our grammar is a construct of guilt. You said, teach the children to read the sin. I pick up my coat, empty the pockets of lint, pennies. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:09:52 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Esquivalience Comments: To: Writing and Theory across Disciplines , neologisms@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Esquivalience Esquivalience, according to the August 29, 2005 New Yorker article,=20 "Ink: Not a Word" by Henry Alford , is a fake entry in the New Oxford=20 American Dictionary designed and included to protect copyright of the=20 publication. It was leaked that the dictionary had put in a fake word=20 in the "e" section and a private investigator set out to find the word.=20= It was discovered after review of a short list by several experts. When=20= the editor, Erin McKean, was contacted she admitted that it was indeed=20= a fake word and had been in since the first edition, in order to=20 protect the copyright of the cdrom edition. The word is defined to mean: "the willful avoidance of one's official=20 responsibilities." [edit] Other Cases Deliberately false articles included in encyclopedias, whether intended=20= as copyright traps or for humorous effect, are called Nihilartikels,=20 from a German word. The practice dates back at least to the 1880s. The New Yorker article points out that this type of practice is not=20 unheard of with both dictionaries and encyclopedias. For example; in=20 the 1975 edition of the New Columbia Encyclopedia there is an entry for=20= Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, who is described as a former fountain=20 designer and photographer, tragically killed in an explosion while on a=20= photo shoot for the magazine "Combustables". Richard Steins, an editor of the volume was quoted, saying: "It was an=20= old tradition in encyclopedias to put in a fake entry to protect your=20 copyright. If someone copied Lillian, then we'd know they stolen from=20 us." INK NOT A WORD Issue of 2005-08-29 Posted 2005-08-22 http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/050829ta_talk_alford Turn to page 1,850 of the 1975 edition of the New Columbia Encyclopedia=20= and you=92ll find an entry for Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, a fountain=20= designer turned photographer who was celebrated for a collection of=20 photographs of rural American mailboxes titled =93Flags Up!=94 = Mountweazel,=20 the encyclopedia indicates, was born in Bangs, Ohio, in 1942, only to=20 die =93at 31 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles=20 magazine.=94 If Mountweazel is not a household name, even in fountain-designing or=20 mailbox-photography circles, that is because she never existed. =93It = was=20 an old tradition in encyclopedias to put in a fake entry to protect=20 your copyright,=94 Richard Steins, who was one of the volume=92s = editors,=20 said the other day. =93If someone copied Lillian, then we=92d know = they=92d=20 stolen from us.=94 So when word leaked out that the recently published second edition of=20 the New Oxford American Dictionary contains a made-up word that starts=20= with the letter =93e,=94 an independent investigator set himself the = task=20 of sifting through NOAD=92s thirty-one hundred and twenty-eight =93e=94=20= entries in search of the phony. The investigator first removed from=20 contention any word that was easily recognized or that appears in=20 Webster=92s Third New International; the remaining three hundred and=20 sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged. They were: earth loop=97n. Electrical British term for GROUND LOOP. EGD=97n. a technology or system that integrates a computer display with = a=20 pair of eyeglasses . . . abbreviation of eyeglass display. electrofish=97v. [trans.] fish (a stretch of water) using electrocution=20= or a weak electric field. ELSS=97abbr. extravehicular life support system. esquivalience=97n. the willful avoidance of one=92s official=20 responsibilities . . . late 19th cent.: perhaps from French esquiver,=20 =93dodge, slink away.=94 eurocreep=97n. informal the gradual acceptance of the euro in European=20= Union countries that have not yet officially adopted it as their=20 national currency. The six words and their definitions were e-mailed to nine=20 lexicographical authorities. Anne Soukhanov, the U.S. General Editor of=20= Encarta Webster=92s, was the first to weigh in. =93Ess-kwa-val-ee-ohnce=97= I=20 want to pronounce it in the French manner=97is your culprit,=94 she = said.=20 Six other experts also fingered =93esquivalience,=94 citing various=20 rationales. =93It=92s just trying a little too hard,=94 said Wendalyn=20 Nichols, the editor-in-chief of the newsletter =93Copy Editor=94 and a=20= onetime editorial director of Random House Reference. =93If it=92s = derived=20 from esquiver, it wouldn=92t have that ending. Nothing linguistically=20 would give rise to the =91l.=92 =94 The Times=92 crossword-puzzle = editor, Will=20 Shortz, explained, =93I simply can=92t believe such a thing goes back to=20= the nineteenth century.=94 Steve Kleinedler, a senior editor of the=20 American Heritage Dictionary, said, =93The stress pattern is strange.=94=20= The most personal of the rationales belonged to Eli Horowitz, an editor=20= of the literary anthology =93The Future Dictionary of America,=94 who=20 complained, =93I had to read it a few times, and I resent that.=94 There were two dissenters among the experts. =93 =91Esquivalience=92 is = too=20 elaborate,=94 said Sidney Landau, the author of =93Dictionaries: The Art=20= and Craft of Lexicography=94 and the editor of the Cambridge Dictionary=20= of American English. =93If someone made that up, they=92re nuts.=94 = Landau=20 chose =93ELSS,=94 he said, =93for the simple reason that it=92s short. A=20= dictionary wouldn=92t want to waste more than a line or two.=94 = Meanwhile,=20 Garret Thomson, a self-described =93code monkey,=94 or programmer, for=20= Pseudodictionary.com, a site that calls itself =93the dictionary for=20 words that wouldn=92t make it into the dictionaries,=94 picked=20 =93electrofish,=94 calling it =93clunky-sounding.=94 A call was placed to Erin McKean, the editor-in-chief of the second=20 edition of NOAD. Upon being presented with the majority opinion, McKean=20= confirmed that =93esquivalience=94 was a fabricated word. She said that=20= Oxford had included it in NOAD=92s first edition, in 2001, to protect = the=20 copyright of the electronic version of the text that accompanied most=20 copies of the book. =93The editors figured, We=92re all working really=20= hard, so let=92s put in a word that means =91working really hard.=92 = Nothing=20 materialized, so they thought, Let=92s do the opposite.=94 An editor = named=20 Christine Lindberg came up with =93esquivalience.=94 The word has since=20= been spotted on Dictionary.com, which cites Webster=92s New Millennium = as=20 its source. =93It=92s interesting for us that we can see their=20 methodology,=94 McKean said. =93Or lack thereof. It=92s like tagging and=20= releasing giant turtles.=94 As for =93esquivalience=94 =92s excesses, McKean made no apologies. =93Its= =20 inherent fakeitude is fairly obvious,=94 she said. =93We wanted = something=20 highly improbable. We were trying to make a word that could not arise=20 in nature.=94 Indeed, =93esquivalience,=94 like Lillian Virginia = Mountweazel,=20 is something of a maverick. =93There shouldn=92t be an =91l=92 in there. = It=20 should be esquivarience,=94 McKean conceded. =93But that sounds like it=20= would mean =91slight differences between racehorses.=92 =94 =09 =97 Henry Alford 24/7 PROTOMEDIA BREEDING GROUND JOGLARS CROSSMEDIA BROADCAST (collaborative text & media) http://www.joglars.org SPIDERTANGLE International Network of VisPoets http://www.spidertangle.net XEXOXIAL EDITIONS Appropriate Scale Publishing since 1980 http://www.xexoxial.org INTERNALATIONAL DICTIONARY OF NEOLOGISMS research | reference | ongoing collection http://www.neologisms.us Dreamtime Village Hypermedia Permaculture EcoVillage in Southwest Wisconsin http://www.dreamtimevillage.org "The word is the first stereotype." Isidore Isou, 1947.=20= ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:13:57 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Nate Dorward Subject: Re: Esquivalience MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Interesting. I'd already known about copyright traps in maps: see = here-- http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_165.html all best --N Nate Dorward 109 Hounslow Ave, Willowdale, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada ndorward@ndorward.com // web: www.ndorward.com For info on recent publications: www.ndorward.com/poetry/ For the vast archive (updated monthly!) of music reviews: = www.ndorward.com/music/ & yes, there's a blog: www.ndorward.com/blog/ JUST OUT: The Gig 18: Kelvin Corcoran, Jean Day, Andrew Levy, = a.rawlings, Scott Thurston, Ralph Hawkins, Michael Boughn, David Ball, = Douglas Manson, Peter Larkin, Joan Retallack; Peter Middleton on Robert = Creeley; the usual pile of reviews.... ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:01:00 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Derek White Subject: Re: POETICS Digest - 27 Aug 2005 to 28 Aug 2005 (#2005-239) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks Jamie for the encouraging feedback. I probably should have mentioned before, it anyone is interested in actually reading it and reviewing it, let me know directly and I can provide a review copy. As for Bridgestreet books, where are they, DC? If this Rod guy is willing to work directly with the likes of me (I have no distribution), I'll see if I can get them to carry some. I tried atomic books in maryland, but haven't heard back. Surely you will never find sleepingfish in any place like b&n or amazon. The bookstores at the moment that carry sleepingfish (or will very soon) are listed here http://www.calamaripress.com/directorder.htm. If anyone knows of others that might, please let me know. Thanks, Derek White www.5cense.com www.sleepingfish.net www.calamaripress.com -----Original Message----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:31:50 -0400 From: Jamie Gaughran-Perez Subject: Re: SleepingFish 0.75 is stocked and loaded Fuck a buncha useless detractors, this thing looks like it is straight up gorgeous. That said, is it in the works for it to come to Bridgestreet books? As you can imagine, I try to keep my buying local to keep my local from going the way of the Barnes & Noble squeeze play that is on in DC, Baltimore and everywhere else. Otherwise, I'll go for the buying online... or convince Rod that he needs to be getting a couple copies in stock... jgp Derek White wrote: > Thanks for the intelligent and encouraging feedback, Alex. I'll be sure to > pass it on to all the contributors. > > Derek > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:51:40 -0700 > From: Alex Jorgensen > Subject: Re: SleepingFish 0.75 is stocked and loaded > > The problem with democracy and, I would argue, the > egalitarian sense of community, is that everyone's > given, which is nice, their piece! And so, like the > internet, how many pieces of literary waste and shit > must I churn through before someone shows me they give > a damn. When someone does something important, then > please, please send me an e-mail. Before then--FO. > > AlexJ. > > p.s. > > --- Derek White wrote: > > >>Hello. This is an email to let you know that that >>new issue of SleepingFish >>is now available for public consumption. >> >>It features a variety of text, art and sometimes >>strange or unclassifiable >>literary nonsense by the likes of: >> >> Petra Backonja, James Wagner, Michael Boyko, >> Amy White, >>David-Baptiste Chirot, >> Mike Topp, Peter Conners, Eileen Tabios, >>Chad Davidson & John Poch, >>Daryl Scroggins, >> Alison Hawthorne Deming, Selah & Noah >>Saterstrom, Chris Fritton, >>Kristin Prevallet, >> Michael Peters, Geof Huth, Christian Peet, >>Cheryl Pallant, Sheila >>E. Murphy, James Grinwis, >> Claudio Parentela, Henry Mescaline/Henri >>d'Mescan, Amy Pence, >>Michael Kimball, >> Kevin Sampsell, Rebecca Gopoian, Davis >>Schneiderman, Jessica Fanzo, >>George Sich, >> Joshua Cohen, Steve Timm, Chris Casamassima, >> Sean Mclain Brown, >>mIEKAL aND, >> Stephen Hopkins, Kevin White, George Belden >>(as recovered by Norman >>Lock) >> >>& also a special selection of Mexican Visual poetry >>including Juan Diaz >>Infante, Federico Martinez, >> Damian Walsdorf, Katnira Bello, Victor Sulser >> with an introduction >>by Brian Whitener. >> >>It has 128 pages. It has an ISBN number. You can >>look at the cover of this >>thing called SleepingFish and check out a few >>samples from the issue by >>going to www.sleepingfish.net. >> >>You can buy it there too for $11. Or you can wait a >>week or so until it hits >>places like Powell's. >> >>It is published by Calamari Press. There was an >>article in last week's NY >>Press about other stuff that Calamari Press has done >>or will be doing. You >>can read it here: >>http://nypress.com/18/32/books/michaelcboyko.cfm >> >>If you don't want to buy this SleepingFish, or even >>if you do, there's some >>additional freebie webbed stuff posted online like: >> >> 6 images by Carlos Luis from the forthcoming >>ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos >> 10 color rubBEings by David-Baptiste Chirot not >>included in the issue >> some additional rabbit drawings by Victor Sulser >>that didn't make it to >>print >> a few galleries loaded with pictures of street >>memes & TEXTures from NYC >>& Mexico >> >>Hope it does something for you. >> >>To the water, >> >>Derek White >>www.calamaripress.com >>www.sleepingfish.net >>www.5cense.com >> >>No trees were killed to bring you this message... >>but billions of electrons were horribly >>inconvenienced. >> > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:24:50 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Betsy Andrews Subject: Brenda Iijima's email? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Can't find it anywhere. Can someone back-channel it to me? Thanks. Peace, Betsy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:40:30 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: William Allegrezza Subject: moria ebooks--jordan stempleman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The first ebook from moria poetry is now online at http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html. The book is Jordan Stemplman's Their Fields. The ebook version is free; however, if you prefer paper, you can buy a paper copy from the site. In the next few weeks ebooks will come out from writers like Eileen Tabios, Donna Kuhn, and others, so keep watching the site. Bill Allegrezza www.moriapoetry.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:54:35 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jerome Rothenberg Subject: Fw: Book Announcement: Jerome Rothenberg"s Experimental Poetry ... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jerome Rothenberg's Experimental Poetry and Jewish Tradition By Christine A. Meilicke =20 Published by Lehigh University Press Associated University Presses=20 ISBN 0-934223-76-9=20 $59.50 =20 This book examines the Jewish writing of the contemporary experimental = poet Jerome Rothenberg. Exploring the interplay of American poetry and American = Judaism, it demonstrates ways in which he contributes to the creation of an American = Jewish avantgarde poetry and a contemporary Jewish diaspora identity. =20 The two main parts of this book examine Rothenberg's reappropriation of = Jewish tradition with reference to religion and history. The theme of loss and = recovery provides the overall framework for the different chapters. While the first three = chapters deal with the poet's reappropriation of Jewish mysticism, ritual, and magic, the = last three examine his evasion of nostalgia in Poland/1931 and his confrontation with the = Holocaust in Khurbn and "14 Stations." =20 Embracing postmodern experimentation and drawing on heterodox Jewish = sources, Rothenberg constructs a contemporary American Jewish identity that does = not rely on institutionalized Judaism. His poetry invigorates the American and the = American Jewish poetry scene. =20 About the Author: Christine A. Meilicke has studied history and English = literature at the University of T=FCbingen, Jewish studies at Oxford, and American and = comparative literature at the University of Mainz. She has published several articles about = Jewish-Christian relations, kabbalistic poetry, and the Jewish counterculture. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:34:17 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chuck Stebelton Subject: Re: Michael Smoler & Mark Tardi - Myopic Books In-Reply-To: <200508180000.1e5BzL5WP3Nl34j0@mx-austrian.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Dear Kari, Thanks for posting this announcement to Poetics. I just caught the digest and noticed, however, that the date listed is a day late. Should be Sunday, September 18th instead of the 19th. More details here: http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry/poetry.html Yours, Chuck On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:34:09 -0700 > From: kari edwards > Subject: Michael Smoler & Mark Tardi - Myopic Books > > Michael Smoler & Mark Tardi > September 19 > Myopic Books > 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave. > 7PM > Chicago > > ------------------------------ > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:11:38 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: [Copwatch] Urgent! - Rally for Hunger Striking Detainees This THURSDAY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >***PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL LISTS AND CONTACTS!*** >(apologies for duplicate posts) >> > >URGENT ACTION!!! >> >>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>RALLY FOR TWO HUNGER STRIKING SECURITY CERTIFICATE DETAINEES >>THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1 >>@ 5 PM AT VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (ROBSON SIDE) >>Organized by No One is Illegal - Vancouver >>Contact noii-van@resist.ca, call 778-885-0040 >>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >>* ALSO SEE BELOW FOR SAMPLE LETTER * >> >> >>By Thursday September 1, Hassan Almrei will be on Day 71 of his hunger >>strike in a Canadian prison. Emaciated and weakened, he is at imminent >>risk of permanent, severe impairment and, very possibly, of death. Hassan >>Almrei has been imprisoned in solitary confinement without charge since >>October 2001 under a security certificate. A refugee, he is under threat >>of deportation to Syria where he risks torture. Hassan Almrei is demanding >>minimally decent conditions of detention; his main demand is the right to >>one hour a day of exercise outside of his cell. This is his 6th hunger >>strike in 4 years. Government authorities have so far callously refused to >>make the slightest concession. By Monday August 29, Hassan will know >>whether the court will hear his habeas corpus application for bail. >> >>Mohammed Mahjoub will be on Day 56 of a hunger strike, also in a prison in >>Ontario. Majoub, who has been detained for 5 years, is asking for contact >>visits with his wife and children. Mohammed is an Egyptian refugee in >>Canada and is married with two children. Accepted as a refugee in Canada >>in 1996, Mahjoub denies terrorist ties and is fighting deportation on the >>grounds he would again face torture if returned to Egypt, where he was >>convicted and sentenced to 15 years in absentia for terrorism links. After >>the Sept 11th attacks, Mohammed was moved to solitary for seven months. >>Mohammed Mahjboub has only been able to hug his children twice in 5 years. >>His wife, Mona Elfouli, described the impact his detention has had on her >>and their two young children. "It was very, very difficult for me and the >>children," she says. "Are they punishing the children or what? They feel >>sad." >> >>Mohammed and Hassan are two of the five “Secret Trial Five” whose lives >>have been torn apart by accusations that they are not allowed to fight in >>a fair and independent trial. 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Failure >>to act quickly could have grave and irreversible consequences. >> >>Sincerely, >> >> >> >> >>-- >>No One is Illegal-Vancouver >>To subscribe to low-traffic email annoucement list email >>noii-van@resist.ca >> >>web: http://noii-van.resist.ca >>email: noii-van@resist.ca >>(604)682-3269 x 7149 >>Office 714, 207 West Hastings, Vancouver BC V6B 1H7 >> >>The No One is Illegal campaign is in full confrontation with Canadian >>colonial border policies, denouncing and taking action to combat racial >>profiling of immigrants and refugees, detention and deportation policies, >>and wage-slave conditions of migrant workers and non-status people. >> >>We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their >>livelihoods and resist war, occupation and displacement, while building >>alliances and supporting indigenous sisters and brothers also fighting >>theft of land and displacement. _______________________________________________ Copwatch mailing list Copwatch@lists.resist.ca https://lists.resist.ca/mailman/listinfo/copwatch Stay Strong\ \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:39:04 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Small Press Traffic Subject: September & so on at Small Press Traffic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Fall 2005 at Small Press Traffic Entering our Fourth Decade as Your Local Experimental Community Literary Arts Center Friday, September 9, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. The Red and the Green, a new play by Kevin Killian and Karla Milosevich Please arrive early; SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVED; all seats $10 as a benefit for Small Press Traffic. Please join us for an afterparty; details tba the evening of event. We hope to see you here! What are those red strings around the wrists of Madonna, Ashton Kutcher, Stella McCartney, Annie Leibovitz and Stephen Hawking? In London?s Kabbalah Center, a band of celebrities meets to worship and to lead the hedonistic lifestyle their fame guarantees them. They give their children kooky names?Rumour, Scout, Tallulah, Gwyneth, Apple and Rocco. It?s all good. Only one problem?across the street a rival band of celebrities wearing green strings has taken up residence, determined to halt Kabbalah?s domination. The celebrities of the Green Party?Susan Sarandon, Betty Ford, Lindsay Lohan, Ed Ruscha, and San Francisco?s own Barry Bonds and Matt Gonzalez?believe in a strict program of social justice, economic sustainability and sexual abstinence. And naming your children ordinary names like Tom and Michael and Cathy. It?s the war of the worlds all right, and who?s at the center of things, as usual, famed theorist and cultural critic Susan Sontag, whose body in afterlife becomes a contested site of two major religions. Among others, The Red and the Green stars Cliff Hengst as Betty Ford, Tanya Hollis as Nicole Richie, Scott Hewicker as Guy Ritchie, Gerald Corbin as Barry Bonds, Rex Ray as Ed Ruscha, Laurie Reid as Sandra Bernhard, Tanya Milosevich as Stella McCartney, Wayne Smith as Stephen Hawking, Kota Ezawa as Ashton Kutcher, Jocelyn Saidenberg as Lindsay Lohan, John Koch as Annie Leibovitz, and Craig Goodman as Will, Will from Will and Grace. Join us in celebrating Madonna?s 27th birthday, in London, where ordinary people from the USA try to sound more British than the British?bloody posh, mate. Friday, September 16, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. New Experiments: Catherine Wagner on Prelapsarian Poetics Catherine Wagner writes: "Recent works by two poets from the astonishing generation previous to mine -- Leslie Scalapino and Alice Notley -- demonstrate equally radical versions of a prelapsarian poetics: both assert a Fall that their poetry seeks to counter or pre-empt. What are the risks and benefits of a prelapsarian poetics, and what can politically minded younger poets learn from it?" Catherine Wagner is the author of Macular Hole (Fence, 2004), Miss America (Fence, 2001), and many chapbooks. Rae Armantrout calls her work "really strong and brave." Wagner's latest poems are in recent issues of Black Clock, The Hat, American Letters & Commentary, and Shearsman. She gave readings this summer at The Cork International Poetry Festival in Ireland and at England's Sheffield Poetry International. She teaches at Boise State University in Idaho, where she lives with her husband and two-year-old son. Friday, September 23, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. George Albon & Rusty Morrison George Albon's books include Empire Life (Littoral Books, 1998), Thousands Count Out Loud (lyric& press, 2000), and Brief Capital of Disturbances (Omnidawn, 2003), which received a Book of the Year Award from Small Press Traffic. His essay "The Paradise of Meaning" was the George Oppen Memorial Lecture for 2002. He is also a guitarist and songwriter, and has written articles on modern music for Shuffle Boil magazine. A book-length poem, Step, is forthcoming from Post-Apollo. Albon lives in San Francisco. Rusty Morrison'sWhethering won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Gillian Conoley calls her work a "rare, unexpected music." Morrison has also been a recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Robert H. Winner Award and the Five Fingers Review Poetry Award. Her poems and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, New American Writing, and elsewhere. She is co-editor and co-publisher of Omnidawn Publishing as well as a contributing editor for Poetry Flash and 26, a jounral of poetry and poetics. Friday, October 7, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. Lyn Hejinian & Paolo Javier Friday, October 14, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. New Experiments: Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan on the Autré Friday, October 21, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. Sarah Gambito & Stephanie Young Friday, November 4, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. Steven Farmer & Diane Ward Friday, November 18, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. Brandon Brown & Brent Cunningham Friday, December 2, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. Del Ray Cross & Graham Foust Unless otherwise noted, events are $5-10, sliding scale, free to current SPT members and CCA faculty, staff, and students. Unless otherwise noted, our events are presented in Timken Lecture Hall California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco (just off the intersection of 16th & Wisconsin) Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCA 1111 -- 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415.551.9278 http://www.sptraffic.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:42:10 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: Entries needed, Encyclopedia of Beat Literature MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i wanna be in the beat encyclopeadia or at least write an entee uch ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:42:46 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: Entries needed, Encyclopedia of Beat Literature MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit leary tweren't no beat ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:21:25 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: Entries needed, Encyclopedia of Beat Literature In-Reply-To: <20050830.010221.-181535.14.skyplums@juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I could contribute some anecdotes. AJ --- Steve Dalachinksy wrote: > i wanna be in the beat encyclopeadia or at least > write an entee uch > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:05:53 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: derekrogerson Organization: derekrogerson.com Subject: Editor for Literary Journal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Location: flexible The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) invites applications for the position of editor of its journal, Literary Imagination. The ALSC was founded in 1994 to refresh literary scholarship and debate. LI, now in its seventh year, is published triquarterly, with contents ranging from Classical to Modern in the form of scholarly and critical essays, translations, poetry and fiction. It has been edited until now by its founding editor, Sarah Spence, except for one year under the direction of Christopher Ricks. The new editor should have substantial scholarly and literary background, and editorial experience. Location flexible. Terms to be discussed. Send applications with letter, curriculum vitae and references, by October 1, to: Michael Gouin-Hart, Executive Director Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) 650 Beacon Street, Suite 510 Boston, Massachusetts 02215 mailto:alsc@bu.edu We will interview candidates at our conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 3-6. For more information about ALSC, consult the Web site at www.bu.edu/literary. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:05:53 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: derekrogerson Organization: derekrogerson.com Subject: Core Faculty - MFA in Creative Writing Program MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Location: Los Angeles, CA The MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles seeks an outstanding writer who is also an excellent teacher. Primarily creative nonfiction. Additional genres (especially poetry) welcome. Administrative experience is a plus. The new Core Faculty member will join a close-working team of Core Faculty who administer and teach in one of the nation's oldest and most respected low-residency creative writing programs. Requirements: - MFA in Creative Writing and substantial publications (including at least one book) - Familiarity with the low-residency model and online instruction - Experience in a low-residency creative writing program preferred Residence: Core Faculty members are in residence at Antioch L.A. year-round. Each member helps design, plan, and administer a ten-day on-campus MFA Residency in December and another in June. During the Residencies, Core Faculty members teach seminars on literary topics, conduct student orientations, and assist with administrative duties. During the semester-long Project Period that follows each Residency, Core Faculty members mentor students, participate in the recruitment and admissions processes, and help administer various aspects of the MFA Program, including its online component. Hours of Employment: This is a full-time position. A 35-hour per week work schedule will be established in consultation with the supervisor. Compensation and benefits: Salary is dependent on placement in the Antioch Core Faculty Salary Schedule and is determined by qualifications and experience. Benefits include: - medical and dental insurance - paid holidays, sick and vacation - prescription drug card - life insurance, disability option - pension plan - tuition benefit available after one year To apply: A detailed job description can be found at http://www.antiochla.edu/community_employment.shtml If you would like to apply, please submit: - cover letter referencing the job title - curriculum vitae - writing sample and 3 letters of recommendation to: Human Resources MFA Core Faculty Search Committee Antioch University 400 Corporate Pointe Culver City, California 90230 Fax: 310-827-4742 mailto:aulahumanresources@antiochla.edu Start reviewing resumes: November 15, 2005. Anticipated Starting Date: July 1, 2006. EOE ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:23:17 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Nico Vassilakis Subject: Subtext Seattle - WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH POETICS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Subtext continues its monthly series on experimental writing with a presentation and public forum titled WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH POETICS. Free admission, though donations to Subtext Reading Series will be accepted. The event starts at 7:30pm. Members of the community and the Subtext collective will assess and re-assess the how and why, or the whatever of writing: its process, politics & product. What's happened? What's happening? Where are "we" going? What are people thinking / doing? Texts as openings for discussion are available at http://subtext-poetics.blogspot.com/ Or contact miss_bosanquet@yahoo.com for more information. Your participation is encouraged and necessary. Panelists will include Ezra Mark, Jeanne Heuving, Bryant Mason, and Robert Mittenthal. The future Subtext 2005 schedule is: Oct 5, 2005: Steve Collis (Vancouver BC) & Cathleen Shattuck Nov 2, 2005: Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian (both San Francisco) Dec 7, 2005: Rebecca Brown, David McAleavey (DC), Charles Alexander (Arizona) For info on these & other Subtext events, see our website: http://www.speakeasy.org/~subtext Subtext events are co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:16:33 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Skip Fox Subject: New Orleans poets and friends. In-Reply-To: <4313881A.3080707@telus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Camille Martin is staying with her parents in Lafayette, LA, but is = worried about losing her "library" in her 3rd floor attic apartment. Bill Lavender and his companion Nancy Dixon were going to "ride it out," = but I've been unable to contact him since right before the storm got really = bad. He thought he was safe, up off the ground on what south Louisianans call = a ridge. I hear Alex Rawls was out of town with companion. I got a hold of David Brinks' mother, who was going to ride it out on = her arc (she has a zoo), but she's on the north side of the lake. David and = girl friend had already left (Sun. evening). I don't know about many. John Gery? Joel Dailey? Roger Kamenetz and wife? Andrei Codrescu? Anyone know? I'll post as I might hear. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:45:21 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: Re: New Orleans poets and friends. Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit How about Brett Evans and his wife Janine? Chris ---------- >From: Skip Fox >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: New Orleans poets and friends. >Date: Tue, Aug 30, 2005, 9:16 AM > > Camille Martin is staying with her parents in Lafayette, LA, but is worried > about losing her "library" in her 3rd floor attic apartment. > > Bill Lavender and his companion Nancy Dixon were going to "ride it out," but > I've been unable to contact him since right before the storm got really bad. > He thought he was safe, up off the ground on what south Louisianans call a > ridge. > > I hear Alex Rawls was out of town with companion. > > I got a hold of David Brinks' mother, who was going to ride it out on her > arc (she has a zoo), but she's on the north side of the lake. David and girl > friend had already left (Sun. evening). > > I don't know about many. > > John Gery? > > Joel Dailey? > > Roger Kamenetz and wife? > > Andrei Codrescu? > > Anyone know? I'll post as I might hear. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:28:39 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Cynie Cory Subject: Re: New Orleans poets and friends. In-Reply-To: <200508301721.j7UHLUNw044162@pimout4-ext.prodigy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit How about Ken Foster and his dogs? Last I talked to him he had gone up to Hattiesburg with his dogs. I can't get through to Hattiesburg. I know they got hit hard up there. Cynie Cory Chris Stroffolino wrote: How about Brett Evans and his wife Janine? Chris ---------- >From: Skip Fox >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: New Orleans poets and friends. >Date: Tue, Aug 30, 2005, 9:16 AM > > Camille Martin is staying with her parents in Lafayette, LA, but is worried > about losing her "library" in her 3rd floor attic apartment. > > Bill Lavender and his companion Nancy Dixon were going to "ride it out," but > I've been unable to contact him since right before the storm got really bad. > He thought he was safe, up off the ground on what south Louisianans call a > ridge. > > I hear Alex Rawls was out of town with companion. > > I got a hold of David Brinks' mother, who was going to ride it out on her > arc (she has a zoo), but she's on the north side of the lake. David and girl > friend had already left (Sun. evening). > > I don't know about many. > > John Gery? > > Joel Dailey? > > Roger Kamenetz and wife? > > Andrei Codrescu? > > Anyone know? I'll post as I might hear. --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:17:28 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Skip Fox Subject: Re: New Orleans poets and friends. In-Reply-To: <20050830172839.89629.qmail@web30713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I know nothing more than Martin, Brinks, and Rawls (all apparently safe if I understood correctly), but over time all I realize is how many questions more are there, like Joy Lahey, Andy Young, Ralph Adamo, Kalamu ya Salaam . . . etc. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:34:09 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Tod Edgerton Subject: Re: New Orleans poets and friends. In-Reply-To: <000001c5ad86$98385a20$37934682@win.louisiana.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hey, Skip--I'm trying to find some close friends who gut stuck. I think two friends went to Mississippi, but I'm not sure if they went far enough. I have two friends who each just bought houses in Holy Cross where the houses were submerged to the roofs. They've surely lost everything. I can't believe this. What were Bill and Nance thinking "riding it out"?! If you hear anything about them--or Joel or Alex or anyone--please forward to me. Thanks! Tod Skip Fox wrote: Camille Martin is staying with her parents in Lafayette, LA, but is worried about losing her "library" in her 3rd floor attic apartment. Bill Lavender and his companion Nancy Dixon were going to "ride it out," but I've been unable to contact him since right before the storm got really bad. He thought he was safe, up off the ground on what south Louisianans call a ridge. I hear Alex Rawls was out of town with companion. I got a hold of David Brinks' mother, who was going to ride it out on her arc (she has a zoo), but she's on the north side of the lake. David and girl friend had already left (Sun. evening). I don't know about many. John Gery? Joel Dailey? Roger Kamenetz and wife? Andrei Codrescu? Anyone know? I'll post as I might hear. There's the mute probability of a reciprocal lack of understanding. - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:37:27 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aldon Nielsen Subject: Re: New Orleans poets and friends. In-Reply-To: <000001c5ad8f$1a4bc8f0$37934682@win.louisiana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Kalamu was in Houston and doing fine -- At 02:17 PM 8/30/2005, you wrote: >I know nothing more than Martin, Brinks, and Rawls (all apparently safe if I >understood correctly), but over time all I realize is how many questions >more are there, like Joy Lahey, Andy Young, Ralph Adamo, Kalamu ya Salaam . >. . etc. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "and now it's winter in America" --Gil Scott-Heron Aldon Lynn Nielsen George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature Department of English The Pennsylvania State University 116 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091 [office] (814) 863-7285 [Fax] ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:54:51 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gerald Schwartz Subject: Re: New Orleans poets and friends. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit And Nancy Harris? Any word on/of her? >I know nothing more than Martin, Brinks, and Rawls (all apparently safe if >I > understood correctly), but over time all I realize is how many questions > more are there, like Joy Lahey, Andy Young, Ralph Adamo, Kalamu ya Salaam > . > . . etc. > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:50:27 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Euro English Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed (apologies if you've seen this before, I couldn't resist) European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:57:02 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: From Skip Fox--NAWLINS NEWS Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hey I'll try---My allotment may be up for the day. By thr way, my friend Brett lives near St. John's bayou, close to Lavender I think----I have no idea what the extent of the flooding is in that neighborhood---it seems to vary widely from hood to hood.... C ---------- >From: "Skip Fox" >To: >Subject: Chris, Could you post to POETICS list to the effect that Joel Dailey >Date: Tue, Aug 30, 2005, 1:11 PM > > (New Orleans poet and editor of _Fell Swoop_) and wife are safe in Houston. > > > I just heard (from Camille Martin) but have run out of posts for the day. > > Thanks, > > skip ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:48:27 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: tlrelf Subject: Re: Euro English MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gott Sei Dank! Was ist loss mit diese welt?! Deine, Neeze ----- Original Message ----- From: "mIEKAL aND" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: Euro English > (apologies if you've seen this before, I couldn't resist) > > European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English > will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, > which was the other possibility > > As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that > English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a > 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". > > In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will > make the sivil servants jump with joy. > > The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up > konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. > > There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the > troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like > fotograf 20% shorter. > > In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted > to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. > > Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have > always ben a deterent to akurate speling. > > Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag > is disgrasful and it should go away. > > By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" > with "z" and "w" with "v". > > During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining > "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. > > Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu > understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. > > Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in > ze forst plas. > > If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:42:42 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Camille Martin Subject: katrina news (longish report) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Camille Martin here. Thanks to all who emailed me with their concerns, and especially to Skip Fox for his messages about the whereabouts of some of the poets who live in New Orleans. Skip has also been very generous to me since I arrived in Lafayette, Louisiana, to take refuge from the hurricane and its aftermath. I decided to reproduce a narrative that I composed and sent a few hours ago to Carla Harryman and post it to the list, to let people know my experience and to express some of the gravity of the situation, which is, as I write, worsening as levees continue to be breached, flooding the city of New Orleans even more. It has been a stressful few days! New Orleans is facing an incredible catastrophe. The reality of the situation and all the implications for me and many, many others is only now starting to sink in. The irony for my situation is that I am now two weeks from a planned move to Toronto. A couple of weeks ago, I officially "landed" in Canada, becoming a permanent resident, and secured an apartment in Toronto. Since then, I've been making preparations to move, and before Katrina arrived, I had started to pack boxes of my book collection and was close to finishing the poetry section. There's no question about a move at this point, at least until I find out what happened to my apartment. Here's what happened with me during the Katrina catastrophe: Saturday night, I had decided that I was going to stay in New Orleans and ride out the storm. But when Mayor Nagin announced a mandatory evacuation of the city on Sunday morning at 9 am, a little less than 24 hours before landfall was expected, I decided to get the hell out. I wanted to stick around so that i could put buckets in place if the roof started leaking, but then I started thinking about things like the roof blowing off in 150 mph winds, or even the building collapsing in the high winds and floodwaters, & who would help me in that situation in the middle of a severe hurricane? I had to remember that people have died thinking they could ride out the storm. Remember Hurricanes Betsy and Camille! Even though I knew I was possibly saving my life by leaving, it was very stressful to imagine that I might lose almost everything that I own. I went outside and found my landlord Richard boarding up the windows on my third floor apartment. I was concerned that the plywood only covered a portion of the windows, but was grateful that he was doing something, anything, before he, too, left the city. Richard very kindly lent me two large tarps. At that point, I had already packed about 50 boxes of books for my move to Toronto, almost all of the poetry, so I piled many of them on the bed and got the rest off the floor, reassembling bookcases that I had started to take apart for the move. I covered the bed and my desk and computer with the tarps that my landlord lent me. Sadly, I had to leave all of my books and my artwork behind. Then I hunted down Joshu, the cat that I've been taking care of for John Clark, my ex-husband, while he's in Dharamsala, put him in a cardboard cat carrier that a neighbor lent me, grabbed my hard drive, and threw a few essentials in a suitcase. Just before I left, John called me from Dharamsala in response to the urgent emails I had sent him. He didn't seem to quite realize the seriousness of the situation, and was surprised when I offered to go to his house and save his hard drive. Skip Fox, the poet who lives in Lafayette, LA, also called and very generously offered to let me take refuge in his house. Then, around 1:00 pm, I started driving toward Lafayette, about 130 miles to the west, where my parents live. The streets of the city were eerily empty. Very few cars remained parked on the streets, but many were parked on the more elevated "neutral grounds" (medians of the large boulevards). Lafayette is normally less than 3 hours away, but with a city of half a million under evacuation orders, it took me 8 hours of crawl-&-stop traffic to get there. The state had put in effect a "contraflow" system, so that both east and west lanes of I-10 were going in one direction - out of Dodge. Nonetheless, the interstate was more like a parking lot. When traffic halted for long periods of time, people got out, played music, and watched the waves of the swamplands west of New Orleans become stronger, and the feeder bands of storm clouds from the approaching enormous hurricane arrive in advance. I'm afraid there might be many deaths in the city. Some people with no transportation are going to stay in their homes, which is very dangerous, instead of going to the Superdome, the official place of refuge for the city. They could not only drown, but after the storm is over, if they are stuck in their attics trying to escape the high waters, and neglected to bring an axe to chop a hole in their roofs, they could dehydrate and die in the extreme heat. Skip has informed me that the poet Bill Lavender & his wife stayed in their home, and as of the time immediately after the hurricane hit land, were doing ok. Like my apartment, their house is located on a ridge (which is not saying a lot in this below-sea-level bowl of a city). I've heard that around 100,000 people remained in a city that now has no services, no communications system, no electricity, and no drinkable water. It's now Tuesday afternoon. I've been watching the tv reports obsessively, and for a long time, during the height of the hurricane, New Orleans was a black hole. No reports coming out of the city. As of Monday afternoon, it was still too dangerous to fly helicopters. Then on Monday evening, after the winds had died down, tv stations finally got some aerial shots from a helicopter. Incredible devastation! Major flooding and damage almost everywhere. The levee was breached in at least two or three places, spilling water into the city from Lake Pontchartrain and from a large canal. I haven't heard whether the levee of the Mississippi River was breached. Hundreds of people stranded on rooftops. 80% of the city underwater. Whole suburbs flooded to rooftops. It's very sad. It's going to take a very long time for the city to recover from this. It won't ever be the same. No word yet on the death toll in the city. There are unconfirmed reports of bodies floating in the floodwaters. Somewhere in the city, a building was on fire, and firemen were watching helplessly with flat hoses, since there was no water pressure. I have no way of knowing what happened to my apartment. It's on the third floor, so it couldn't have flooded from the rising waters. The building is probably still standing. but there could be water damage from roof leakage. I won't be able to re-enter the city for several days, possibly weeks. And the power will almost certainly not be restored for weeks. The water supply has been breached, so there's a mandatory boiling order in New Orleans and some of the surrounding parishes. The roads are completely impassable. In short, the city is virtually uninhabitable. On a personal level, I don't know what this will do to my plans to move to Toronto. It's very ironic . . . I knew that there was a possibility of this happening, and every couple of days i had been checking the National Hurricane Center to see if any hurricanes were on the way that might interfere with my plans . . . I was trying to beat the clock to escape this very thing, but I had no way of knowing that the inevitable "big one," the one people have been talking about for decades that would devastate New Orleans, was on the horizon . . . Another irony: if my books are a loss, my problem of fitting everything in my smallish Toronto apartment has been solved (grim smile). For some reason, one rather surreal phrase from a report has stuck with me: "little islands of red ants floated in the gasoline-fouled waters through downtown." I hope to know more in the coming days. The difficult thing has been waiting and not knowing . . . I'm emotionally drained. Camille Camille Martin temporary address: 429 E. Pont de Mouton Rd. Lafayette, LA 70507 (337) 235-8374 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:57:30 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Uh Ak Subject: timeless time Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline timeless time is cigar's product name in Korea. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:48:41 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: katrina news (longish report) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Camille, Thank you for this report. Murat In a message dated 8/30/05 10:43:13 PM, cmarti3@LSU.EDU writes: > Camille Martin here. Thanks to all who emailed me with their concerns, and > especially to Skip Fox for his messages about the whereabouts of some of > the poets who live in New Orleans. Skip has also been very generous to me > since I arrived in Lafayette, Louisiana, to take refuge from the hurricane > and its aftermath. > > I decided to reproduce a narrative that I composed and sent a few hours ago > to Carla Harryman and post it to the list, to let people know my experience > and to express some of the gravity of the situation, which is, as I write, > worsening as levees continue to be breached, flooding the city of New > Orleans even more. > > It has been a stressful few days! New Orleans is facing an incredible > catastrophe. The reality of the situation and all the implications for me > and many, many others is only now starting to sink in. The irony for my > situation is that I am now two weeks from a planned move to Toronto. A > couple of weeks ago, I officially "landed" in Canada, becoming a permanent > resident, and secured an apartment in Toronto. Since then, I've been making > preparations to move, and before Katrina arrived, I had started to pack > boxes of my book collection and was close to finishing the poetry section. > There's no question about a move at this point, at least until I find out > what happened to my apartment. Here's what happened with me during the > Katrina catastrophe: > > Saturday night, I had decided that I was going to stay in New Orleans and > ride out the storm. But when Mayor Nagin announced a mandatory evacuation > of the city on Sunday morning at 9 am, a little less than 24 hours before > landfall was expected, I decided to get the hell out. I wanted to stick > around so that i could put buckets in place if the roof started leaking, > but then I started thinking about things like the roof blowing off in 150 > mph winds, or even the building collapsing in the high winds and > floodwaters, & who would help me in that situation in the middle of a > severe hurricane? I had to remember that people have died thinking they > could ride out the storm. Remember Hurricanes Betsy and Camille! Even > though I knew I was possibly saving my life by leaving, it was very > stressful to imagine that I might lose almost everything that I own. > > I went outside and found my landlord Richard boarding up the windows on my > third floor apartment. I was concerned that the plywood only covered a > portion of the windows, but was grateful that he was doing something, > anything, before he, too, left the city. Richard very kindly lent me two > large tarps. > > At that point, I had already packed about 50 boxes of books for my move to > Toronto, almost all of the poetry, so I piled many of them on the bed and > got the rest off the floor, reassembling bookcases that I had started to > take apart for the move. I covered the bed and my desk and computer with > the tarps that my landlord lent me. Sadly, I had to leave all of my books > and my artwork behind. > > Then I hunted down Joshu, the cat that I've been taking care of for John > Clark, my ex-husband, while he's in Dharamsala, put him in a cardboard cat > carrier that a neighbor lent me, grabbed my hard drive, and threw a few > essentials in a suitcase. Just before I left, John called me from > Dharamsala in response to the urgent emails I had sent him. He didn't seem > to quite realize the seriousness of the situation, and was surprised when I > offered to go to his house and save his hard drive. Skip Fox, the poet who > lives in Lafayette, LA, also called and very generously offered to let me > take refuge in his house. Then, around 1:00 pm, I started driving toward > Lafayette, about 130 miles to the west, where my parents live. The streets > of the city were eerily empty. Very few cars remained parked on the > streets, but many were parked on the more elevated "neutral grounds" > (medians of the large boulevards). > > Lafayette is normally less than 3 hours away, but with a city of half a > million under evacuation orders, it took me 8 hours of crawl-&-stop traffic > to get there. The state had put in effect a "contraflow" system, so that > both east and west lanes of I-10 were going in one direction - out of > Dodge. Nonetheless, the interstate was more like a parking lot. When > traffic halted for long periods of time, people got out, played music, and > watched the waves of the swamplands west of New Orleans become stronger, > and the feeder bands of storm clouds from the approaching enormous > hurricane arrive in advance. > > I'm afraid there might be many deaths in the city. Some people with no > transportation are going to stay in their homes, which is very dangerous, > instead of going to the Superdome, the official place of refuge for the > city. They could not only drown, but after the storm is over, if they are > stuck in their attics trying to escape the high waters, and neglected to > bring an axe to chop a hole in their roofs, they could dehydrate and die in > the extreme heat. Skip has informed me that the poet Bill Lavender & his > wife stayed in their home, and as of the time immediately after the > hurricane hit land, were doing ok. Like my apartment, their house is > located on a ridge (which is not saying a lot in this below-sea-level bowl > of a city). I've heard that around 100,000 people remained in a city that > now has no services, no communications system, no electricity, and no > drinkable water. > > It's now Tuesday afternoon. I've been watching the tv reports obsessively, > and for a long time, during the height of the hurricane, New Orleans was a > black hole. No reports coming out of the city. As of Monday afternoon, it > was still too dangerous to fly helicopters. Then on Monday evening, after > the winds had died down, tv stations finally got some aerial shots from a > helicopter. Incredible devastation! Major flooding and damage almost > everywhere. The levee was breached in at least two or three places, > spilling water into the city from Lake Pontchartrain and from a large > canal. I haven't heard whether the levee of the Mississippi River was > breached. Hundreds of people stranded on rooftops. 80% of the city > underwater. Whole suburbs flooded to rooftops. It's very sad. It's going to > take a very long time for the city to recover from this. It won't ever be > the same. No word yet on the death toll in the city. There are unconfirmed > reports of bodies floating in the floodwaters. > > Somewhere in the city, a building was on fire, and firemen were watching > helplessly with flat hoses, since there was no water pressure. > > I have no way of knowing what happened to my apartment. It's on the third > floor, so it couldn't have flooded from the rising waters. The building is > probably still standing. but there could be water damage from roof leakage. > I won't be able to re-enter the city for several days, possibly weeks. And > the power will almost certainly not be restored for weeks. The water supply > has been breached, so there's a mandatory boiling order in New Orleans and > some of the surrounding parishes. The roads are completely impassable. In > short, the city is virtually uninhabitable. > > On a personal level, I don't know what this will do to my plans to move to > Toronto. It's very ironic . . . I knew that there was a possibility of this > happening, and every couple of days i had been checking the National > Hurricane Center to see if any hurricanes were on the way that might > interfere with my plans . . . I was trying to beat the clock to escape this > very thing, but I had no way of knowing that the inevitable "big one," the > one people have been talking about for decades that would devastate New > Orleans, was on the horizon . . . Another irony: if my books are a loss, my > problem of fitting everything in my smallish Toronto apartment has been > solved (grim smile). > > For some reason, one rather surreal phrase from a report has stuck with me: > "little islands of red ants floated in the gasoline-fouled waters through > downtown." > > I hope to know more in the coming days. The difficult thing has been > waiting and not knowing . . . I'm emotionally drained. > > Camille > > Camille Martin > temporary address: > 429 E. Pont de Mouton Rd. > Lafayette, LA 70507 > (337) 235-8374 > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:35:30 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: Re: katrina news (longish report) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Camille----thank you for this.... Chris > >> Camille Martin here. Thanks to all who emailed me with their concerns, and >> especially to Skip Fox for his messages about the whereabouts of some of >> the poets who live in New Orleans. Skip has also been very generous to me >> since I arrived in Lafayette, Louisiana, to take refuge from the hurricane >> and its aftermath. >> >> I decided to reproduce a narrative that I composed and sent a few hours ago >> to Carla Harryman and post it to the list, to let people know my experience >> and to express some of the gravity of the situation, which is, as I write, >> worsening as levees continue to be breached, flooding the city of New >> Orleans even more. >> >> It has been a stressful few days! New Orleans is facing an incredible >> catastrophe. The reality of the situation and all the implications for me >> and many, many others is only now starting to sink in. The irony for my >> situation is that I am now two weeks from a planned move to Toronto. A >> couple of weeks ago, I officially "landed" in Canada, becoming a permanent >> resident, and secured an apartment in Toronto. Since then, I've been making >> preparations to move, and before Katrina arrived, I had started to pack >> boxes of my book collection and was close to finishing the poetry section. >> There's no question about a move at this point, at least until I find out >> what happened to my apartment. Here's what happened with me during the >> Katrina catastrophe: >> >> Saturday night, I had decided that I was going to stay in New Orleans and >> ride out the storm. But when Mayor Nagin announced a mandatory evacuation >> of the city on Sunday morning at 9 am, a little less than 24 hours before >> landfall was expected, I decided to get the hell out. I wanted to stick >> around so that i could put buckets in place if the roof started leaking, >> but then I started thinking about things like the roof blowing off in 150 >> mph winds, or even the building collapsing in the high winds and >> floodwaters, & who would help me in that situation in the middle of a >> severe hurricane? I had to remember that people have died thinking they >> could ride out the storm. Remember Hurricanes Betsy and Camille! Even >> though I knew I was possibly saving my life by leaving, it was very >> stressful to imagine that I might lose almost everything that I own. >> >> I went outside and found my landlord Richard boarding up the windows on my >> third floor apartment. I was concerned that the plywood only covered a >> portion of the windows, but was grateful that he was doing something, >> anything, before he, too, left the city. Richard very kindly lent me two >> large tarps. >> >> At that point, I had already packed about 50 boxes of books for my move to >> Toronto, almost all of the poetry, so I piled many of them on the bed and >> got the rest off the floor, reassembling bookcases that I had started to >> take apart for the move. I covered the bed and my desk and computer with >> the tarps that my landlord lent me. Sadly, I had to leave all of my books >> and my artwork behind. >> >> Then I hunted down Joshu, the cat that I've been taking care of for John >> Clark, my ex-husband, while he's in Dharamsala, put him in a cardboard cat >> carrier that a neighbor lent me, grabbed my hard drive, and threw a few >> essentials in a suitcase. Just before I left, John called me from >> Dharamsala in response to the urgent emails I had sent him. He didn't seem >> to quite realize the seriousness of the situation, and was surprised when I >> offered to go to his house and save his hard drive. Skip Fox, the poet who >> lives in Lafayette, LA, also called and very generously offered to let me >> take refuge in his house. Then, around 1:00 pm, I started driving toward >> Lafayette, about 130 miles to the west, where my parents live. The streets >> of the city were eerily empty. Very few cars remained parked on the >> streets, but many were parked on the more elevated "neutral grounds" >> (medians of the large boulevards). >> >> Lafayette is normally less than 3 hours away, but with a city of half a >> million under evacuation orders, it took me 8 hours of crawl-&-stop traffic >> to get there. The state had put in effect a "contraflow" system, so that >> both east and west lanes of I-10 were going in one direction - out of >> Dodge. Nonetheless, the interstate was more like a parking lot. When >> traffic halted for long periods of time, people got out, played music, and >> watched the waves of the swamplands west of New Orleans become stronger, >> and the feeder bands of storm clouds from the approaching enormous >> hurricane arrive in advance. >> >> I'm afraid there might be many deaths in the city. Some people with no >> transportation are going to stay in their homes, which is very dangerous, >> instead of going to the Superdome, the official place of refuge for the >> city. They could not only drown, but after the storm is over, if they are >> stuck in their attics trying to escape the high waters, and neglected to >> bring an axe to chop a hole in their roofs, they could dehydrate and die in >> the extreme heat. Skip has informed me that the poet Bill Lavender & his >> wife stayed in their home, and as of the time immediately after the >> hurricane hit land, were doing ok. Like my apartment, their house is >> located on a ridge (which is not saying a lot in this below-sea-level bowl >> of a city). I've heard that around 100,000 people remained in a city that >> now has no services, no communications system, no electricity, and no >> drinkable water. >> >> It's now Tuesday afternoon. I've been watching the tv reports obsessively, >> and for a long time, during the height of the hurricane, New Orleans was a >> black hole. No reports coming out of the city. As of Monday afternoon, it >> was still too dangerous to fly helicopters. Then on Monday evening, after >> the winds had died down, tv stations finally got some aerial shots from a >> helicopter. Incredible devastation! Major flooding and damage almost >> everywhere. The levee was breached in at least two or three places, >> spilling water into the city from Lake Pontchartrain and from a large >> canal. I haven't heard whether the levee of the Mississippi River was >> breached. Hundreds of people stranded on rooftops. 80% of the city >> underwater. Whole suburbs flooded to rooftops. It's very sad. It's going to >> take a very long time for the city to recover from this. It won't ever be >> the same. No word yet on the death toll in the city. There are unconfirmed >> reports of bodies floating in the floodwaters. >> >> Somewhere in the city, a building was on fire, and firemen were watching >> helplessly with flat hoses, since there was no water pressure. >> >> I have no way of knowing what happened to my apartment. It's on the third >> floor, so it couldn't have flooded from the rising waters. The building is >> probably still standing. but there could be water damage from roof leakage. >> I won't be able to re-enter the city for several days, possibly weeks. And >> the power will almost certainly not be restored for weeks. The water supply >> has been breached, so there's a mandatory boiling order in New Orleans and >> some of the surrounding parishes. The roads are completely impassable. In >> short, the city is virtually uninhabitable. >> >> On a personal level, I don't know what this will do to my plans to move to >> Toronto. It's very ironic . . . I knew that there was a possibility of this >> happening, and every couple of days i had been checking the National >> Hurricane Center to see if any hurricanes were on the way that might >> interfere with my plans . . . I was trying to beat the clock to escape this >> very thing, but I had no way of knowing that the inevitable "big one," the >> one people have been talking about for decades that would devastate New >> Orleans, was on the horizon . . . Another irony: if my books are a loss, my >> problem of fitting everything in my smallish Toronto apartment has been >> solved (grim smile). >> >> For some reason, one rather surreal phrase from a report has stuck with me: >> "little islands of red ants floated in the gasoline-fouled waters through >> downtown." >> >> I hope to know more in the coming days. The difficult thing has been >> waiting and not knowing . . . I'm emotionally drained. >> >> Camille >> >> Camille Martin >> temporary address: >> 429 E. Pont de Mouton Rd. >> Lafayette, LA 70507 >> (337) 235-8374 >> ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:32:24 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Murray, Christine" Subject: Gulf Coast Hurricane Disaster MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To folks on this list who may need assistance: (I'm on digest-form for reading the poetics listserv=20 so I can't see email addresses to otherwise backchannel=20 people individually about this.) =20 I live in the Dallas area, so, not all that far from=20 the storm-region. I just want to say that I can offer=20 an interim, or stop-over place to stay. =20 I am also willing to drive as far as possible into=20 the region in order to give transport and/or to help=20 collect belongings.=20 =20 email: cmurray@uta.edu or chris.murray.qwerty.gmail.com phone (voicemail): 817.272.2517 Sincerely,=20 Chris Murray =20 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:27:28 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jamie Gaughran-Perez Subject: fw: can you tell the difference? MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Here are two screen shots from a well known purveyor of news photos, taken yesterday -- sent my way by a friend. http://pics.livejournal.com/jadedjade/pic/0006259x http://pics.livejournal.com/jadedjade/pic/00063tpw Unbelievable. Seldom does this kinda thing get through (though not as seldom as I wish). jamie.gp PS: Those pics are on someone's livejournal, so who knows how long they'll be available. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:02:27 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gerald Schwartz Subject: library aid MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reading Camille's sad, anxious report... and thinking about all our others throughout New Orleans, the surrounds and everywhere else along Katrina's path, I was struck by an almost overwhelming urge to Do Something. And, knowing how much many of us are our libraries, I thought that as the waters (somehow, sometime) receed and loss is assesed, maybe those of us who are able will help (as mush as can ever be possible) to rebuld or restore in some way those collections. All my thoughts and wishes to all, especially to nancy, Camille, David, Bill and on nd on... Jerry Schwartz ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:46:14 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: kari edwards Subject: Change email In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Could someone please back channel me on how to change email on this list. thank you kari edwards new email as of 9/20/2005 k.e.terra1@gmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:05:03 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: OED font Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Does anyone know what the main text font for the OED is? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:09:42 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Books for New Orleans Poets In-Reply-To: <200508310711.j7V7BcuM118666@pimout3-ext.prodigy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I Realize that we are all over the world/country but I think it would be a great thing if we as poets would consider After all this disaster is past- to donate books to poets in New Orleans and Miss that have list their libraries. I know that if I lost mine I would be inconsolable. If anyone is interested in doing this, and the idea just came to me this morning, send me an email and let see if we can do it as this would be a way to help to heal our community in a small way. Ray ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:16:47 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Re: OED font In-Reply-To: <18d92c541722c440b4fd0f8fa79effe1@mwt.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I believe it is Garamond -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of mIEKAL aND Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:05 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: OED font Does anyone know what the main text font for the OED is? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:31:04 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brenda Coultas Subject: New Orleans poets MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi All, I heard from Simon Pettet that Andrei Codrescu is okay, and that Dave Brinks and Megan Burns got out on Sunday. Tonya Fostor's mother was in Houston but lost her house and possessions. Brenda Coultas ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:57:27 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Adam Fieled Subject: Adam Fieled's Blog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, New on Adam Fieled's blog (www.artrecess.blogspot.com)... 1) An essay, "Learning from Bukowski". Inspired by architect Robert Venturi's "Learning From Las Vegas", which made the argument that sometimes, in art, low is high & high is low. 2) A review of Jennifer Moxley's "Imagination Verses". This is a follow-up to the mixed review of "Often Capital" I posted. This one I embrace more roundly.. 3) A short review of Mary Walker Graham's poems in September '05 "Poetry". This is MOR at its' best; meet the "anti-epiphanic I". 4) Two more from the BEAM series. I encourage feedback as I'm trying to decide if I should go on with these. OK peoples. See ya in blog-land. Adam Fieled www.artrecess.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:17:50 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Robin Hamilton Subject: Re: OED font MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My CD version (OED2[3]) seems (at least this is what shows in the font label if you load it into Word) to be Plantin OUP. Font size varies from 18 (headword) to 10 (for the citations). But that may not be the font for the hard copy. Might be something anent this on the OED site -- haven't looked. Robin > I believe it is Garamond > > -----Original Message----- > From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On > Behalf Of mIEKAL aND > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:05 AM > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: OED font > > Does anyone know what the main text font for the OED is? > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:19:18 -0400 Reply-To: "J. Michael Mollohan" Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "J. Michael Mollohan" Organization: idea.s Subject: Re: OED font MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Haas may be right, but I don't think so. The only mention of typeface in the prefatory pages to the OED is to the explanatory paragraphs following the articles, and that is in Small Clarendon. The rest of the text looks very similar only larger. I'd wager that it's probably Clarendon Book. ----- Original Message ----- From: "mIEKAL aND" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:05 AM Subject: OED font > Does anyone know what the main text font for the OED is? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:29:48 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Craig Allen Conrad Subject: PhillySound Feature #4: poet BRENDA IIJIMA \\//\\\///\\\\////\\\\\/////\\\\\ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit PhillySound Feature #4: poet BRENDA IIJIMA \\//\\\///\\\\////\\\\\/////\\\\\\//////\\\\\\\/////// ISSUE #4 INCLUDES: new poetry by Brenda Iijima, a short interview with the poet, commentary on her work from Terence Diggory, Erica Kaufman, Leslie Scalapino, Nathaniel Siegel, Stacy Szymaszek, and a collection of links to her online works. TO VIEW ISSUE #4, click on: _http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_phillysound_archive.html_ (http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_phillysound_archive.html) Please enjoy, CAConrad editor of issue #4 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:31:51 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Skip Fox Subject: Re: New Orleans poets In-Reply-To: <8C77C475F290C6E-DAC-BB2@mblk-r28.sysops.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Camille Martin knew that Joel Daily and wife were in Houston. Haven't heard any more. I tried to call Bill Lavender again last night = and actually got a answering matching, into which I dumped my numbers, not realizing he's probably out of juice and unable to get out to anyone (especially as I may have drained the last of his juice, if that's the = way these things work). My last conversation with Bill was so ordinary under the circumstances = that I'm still surprised. He made me feel like an alarmist without saying a = word. He was completely calm, slow and amused in delivery, like always, and = always ready to laugh. I knew there was nothing to do at this point, the storm = just beginning to get damned bad, so we talked and joked. He told me he = thought the swamps were underestimated by the experts for slowing down a storm, = that he was on a ridge (I know how that sounds to many north of here) and = that his house was several feet off the street level. He was talking to Nancy about cracking the windows "so they don't break," and a dog was barking which he told me belonged to Alex Rawls who was with his companion up = north, and he spoke to the dog as well. I told him he could always eat it and = he laughed. Then to take care of himself and Nancy, and we said goodbye. Haven't heard of anyone else. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:26:10 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Belz Subject: Readings @ The Schlafly Tap Room - Schlaifer and Kim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Friends- Thursday night at 8 pm is the kickoff reading for this season's "Readings @" series, held this year in the picturesque Club Room of the Schlafly Tap Room at 2100 Locust. It is FREE and there will be a cash bar available during the reading. The series program is available at http://belz.net/readings/ This month's readers are poets Geraldine Kim, 2005 Fence Modern Poets Series winner, and Stephanie Schlaifer, editor of Delmar. If you'd like more info about the "Readings @" series, look for a feature in this Thursday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch ("Get Out") or email me, aaron@belz.net. Aaron Belz + + + + + + + Geraldine Kim Geraldine Kim was born in 1983 in West Boylston, Massachusetts. A graduate of New York University, she is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction and Poetry at San Francisco State University. Her work has been published in Dicey Brown and Washington Square News and her play, Donning Cheadle, is forthcoming in Fourteen Hills. Her first book, Povel, was the winner of Fence Books' 2005 Modern Poets Series. She enjoys zombie and kung-fu films. Stephanie Schlaifer Stephanie Schlaifer is a sculptor and freelance editor in St. Louis, MO. Her poems have appeared in elevenbulls, Fence and Delmar where she is now the managing editor. She survived both the Iowa Writers' Workshop and two Iowa winters--no small feat for this stubborn-to-the-core Atlanta native. Although she enjoys life in the Meth capital of the U.S., she misses living in a region where people know that pop is something you get for being sassy and soda means Coke. Stephanie is currently working on a series about weather in the South. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:28:44 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Suzanne Burns Subject: Re: katrina news (longish report) In-Reply-To: <200508310711.j7V7BcuM118666@pimout3-ext.prodigy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Camille,=20 Thank you for the report, and I am glad you are safe. We are all thinking about you over here. I can only imagine how stressful= =20 this must be. If there is anything that we can do, please do not hesitate t= o=20 ask!! --Suzanne Burns ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:32:00 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Suzanne Burns Subject: Re: New Orleans poets and friends. In-Reply-To: <000001c5ad86$98385a20$37934682@win.louisiana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 8/30/05, Skip Fox wrote: >=20 > Camille Martin is staying with her parents in Lafayette, LA, but is=20 > worried > about losing her "library" in her 3rd floor attic apartment. I feel her pain. I'm the same way about my books.=20 I rather like the idea of sharing books with folks who have lost theirs. I= =20 am sitting on a vast library that now feels like an embarrassment of riches= .=20 Camille, can I send you something?=20 --Suzanne ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:35:23 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: austinwja@AOL.COM Subject: Re: New Orleans Comments: cc: Spidertangle@yahoogroup.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" My heart hurts. I earned my Masters and Ph.D at Tulane University. I met my wife in New Orleans. Those wonderful memories are now, perhaps, as reflexive as the latest inscrutable poem. Do they reference what is no longer there? One of the torments of aging: one's life sliced off, section by section. For me it was the Twin Towers -- and now this. I pray to God, or the void, or whatever occupies the center, that everyone down south who has been affected by this unfathomable tragedy may recover, may reattach those lost lives to what remains. Best, Bill ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:54:43 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Cynie Cory Subject: Re: katrina news (longish report) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Camille, Stay safe. You're in my thoughts. It was good to hear from you. Thanks. Take care, Cynie Camille Martin wrote: Camille Martin here. Thanks to all who emailed me with their concerns, and especially to Skip Fox for his messages about the whereabouts of some of the poets who live in New Orleans. Skip has also been very generous to me since I arrived in Lafayette, Louisiana, to take refuge from the hurricane and its aftermath. I decided to reproduce a narrative that I composed and sent a few hours ago to Carla Harryman and post it to the list, to let people know my experience and to express some of the gravity of the situation, which is, as I write, worsening as levees continue to be breached, flooding the city of New Orleans even more. It has been a stressful few days! New Orleans is facing an incredible catastrophe. The reality of the situation and all the implications for me and many, many others is only now starting to sink in. The irony for my situation is that I am now two weeks from a planned move to Toronto. A couple of weeks ago, I officially "landed" in Canada, becoming a permanent resident, and secured an apartment in Toronto. Since then, I've been making preparations to move, and before Katrina arrived, I had started to pack boxes of my book collection and was close to finishing the poetry section. There's no question about a move at this point, at least until I find out what happened to my apartment. Here's what happened with me during the Katrina catastrophe: Saturday night, I had decided that I was going to stay in New Orleans and ride out the storm. But when Mayor Nagin announced a mandatory evacuation of the city on Sunday morning at 9 am, a little less than 24 hours before landfall was expected, I decided to get the hell out. I wanted to stick around so that i could put buckets in place if the roof started leaking, but then I started thinking about things like the roof blowing off in 150 mph winds, or even the building collapsing in the high winds and floodwaters, & who would help me in that situation in the middle of a severe hurricane? I had to remember that people have died thinking they could ride out the storm. Remember Hurricanes Betsy and Camille! Even though I knew I was possibly saving my life by leaving, it was very stressful to imagine that I might lose almost everything that I own. I went outside and found my landlord Richard boarding up the windows on my third floor apartment. I was concerned that the plywood only covered a portion of the windows, but was grateful that he was doing something, anything, before he, too, left the city. Richard very kindly lent me two large tarps. At that point, I had already packed about 50 boxes of books for my move to Toronto, almost all of the poetry, so I piled many of them on the bed and got the rest off the floor, reassembling bookcases that I had started to take apart for the move. I covered the bed and my desk and computer with the tarps that my landlord lent me. Sadly, I had to leave all of my books and my artwork behind. Then I hunted down Joshu, the cat that I've been taking care of for John Clark, my ex-husband, while he's in Dharamsala, put him in a cardboard cat carrier that a neighbor lent me, grabbed my hard drive, and threw a few essentials in a suitcase. Just before I left, John called me from Dharamsala in response to the urgent emails I had sent him. He didn't seem to quite realize the seriousness of the situation, and was surprised when I offered to go to his house and save his hard drive. Skip Fox, the poet who lives in Lafayette, LA, also called and very generously offered to let me take refuge in his house. Then, around 1:00 pm, I started driving toward Lafayette, about 130 miles to the west, where my parents live. The streets of the city were eerily empty. Very few cars remained parked on the streets, but many were parked on the more elevated "neutral grounds" (medians of the large boulevards). Lafayette is normally less than 3 hours away, but with a city of half a million under evacuation orders, it took me 8 hours of crawl-&-stop traffic to get there. The state had put in effect a "contraflow" system, so that both east and west lanes of I-10 were going in one direction - out of Dodge. Nonetheless, the interstate was more like a parking lot. When traffic halted for long periods of time, people got out, played music, and watched the waves of the swamplands west of New Orleans become stronger, and the feeder bands of storm clouds from the approaching enormous hurricane arrive in advance. I'm afraid there might be many deaths in the city. Some people with no transportation are going to stay in their homes, which is very dangerous, instead of going to the Superdome, the official place of refuge for the city. They could not only drown, but after the storm is over, if they are stuck in their attics trying to escape the high waters, and neglected to bring an axe to chop a hole in their roofs, they could dehydrate and die in the extreme heat. Skip has informed me that the poet Bill Lavender & his wife stayed in their home, and as of the time immediately after the hurricane hit land, were doing ok. Like my apartment, their house is located on a ridge (which is not saying a lot in this below-sea-level bowl of a city). I've heard that around 100,000 people remained in a city that now has no services, no communications system, no electricity, and no drinkable water. It's now Tuesday afternoon. I've been watching the tv reports obsessively, and for a long time, during the height of the hurricane, New Orleans was a black hole. No reports coming out of the city. As of Monday afternoon, it was still too dangerous to fly helicopters. Then on Monday evening, after the winds had died down, tv stations finally got some aerial shots from a helicopter. Incredible devastation! Major flooding and damage almost everywhere. The levee was breached in at least two or three places, spilling water into the city from Lake Pontchartrain and from a large canal. I haven't heard whether the levee of the Mississippi River was breached. Hundreds of people stranded on rooftops. 80% of the city underwater. Whole suburbs flooded to rooftops. It's very sad. It's going to take a very long time for the city to recover from this. It won't ever be the same. No word yet on the death toll in the city. There are unconfirmed reports of bodies floating in the floodwaters. Somewhere in the city, a building was on fire, and firemen were watching helplessly with flat hoses, since there was no water pressure. I have no way of knowing what happened to my apartment. It's on the third floor, so it couldn't have flooded from the rising waters. The building is probably still standing. but there could be water damage from roof leakage. I won't be able to re-enter the city for several days, possibly weeks. And the power will almost certainly not be restored for weeks. The water supply has been breached, so there's a mandatory boiling order in New Orleans and some of the surrounding parishes. The roads are completely impassable. In short, the city is virtually uninhabitable. On a personal level, I don't know what this will do to my plans to move to Toronto. It's very ironic . . . I knew that there was a possibility of this happening, and every couple of days i had been checking the National Hurricane Center to see if any hurricanes were on the way that might interfere with my plans . . . I was trying to beat the clock to escape this very thing, but I had no way of knowing that the inevitable "big one," the one people have been talking about for decades that would devastate New Orleans, was on the horizon . . . Another irony: if my books are a loss, my problem of fitting everything in my smallish Toronto apartment has been solved (grim smile). For some reason, one rather surreal phrase from a report has stuck with me: "little islands of red ants floated in the gasoline-fouled waters through downtown." I hope to know more in the coming days. The difficult thing has been waiting and not knowing . . . I'm emotionally drained. Camille Camille Martin temporary address: 429 E. Pont de Mouton Rd. Lafayette, LA 70507 (337) 235-8374 --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:38:21 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Elizabeth Treadwell Subject: New Orleans Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Thank you Skip and Camille for your news. My thoughts are with all the New Orleans folk and the rest of you in the area, where I feel so lucky to have spent 2 short, fabulous, mind-opening trips. I went to New Orleans before I ever got to Europe, and those were the most historical buildings I had seen. Elizabeth Treadwell http://elizabethtreadwell.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:40:44 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Elizabeth Treadwell Subject: ps re New Orleans Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed PS Pardon me, I had meant to close by saying I would love to send books or anything else southern poets might need in the next weeks or months. And I'm sending my thoughts. Elizabeth Treadwell http://elizabethtreadwell.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:05:36 EDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eileen Tabios Subject: For those affected by Katrina MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A few months ago, I posted a notice for donations of poetry books for a project I was just starting. I'm sure those generous poets -- some of whom are on this list -- would support making those books available for not just my project but for this offer below (please feel free to forward): TO THOSE AFFECTED BY KATRINA: Our thoughts are with you in these difficult times. As you begin to recover from Katrina's aftermath, if you would like to either rebuild your poetry library -- or start one -- please feel free to let me know if you would be interested in a box of 20 poetry books. These are books donated by various contemporary poets, as well as from those titles published by Meritage Press. This offer is not just open to poets but poetry lovers, and those who might now welcome poetry books into their post-Katrina lives. Some of you may need time to figure out your new address; just know that this offer is open to you whenever you are ready to receive such a package (or I suppose available for as long as my supplies last). Email me at Ertabios@aol.com if you wish to receive this attempt to let you know that we are wishing the best for you in Katrina's aftermath. Sincerely, Eileen Tabios www.meritagepress.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:25:03 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark Weiss Subject: Re: New Orleans In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Aside from concern about people, I'm wondering about the libraries and museums. I assume the library collections are history, but a lot of the art is moveable. No word yet,. I'm also very worried about a wonderful small museum devoted to the work of Walter Anderson, an astonishing original, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The most important work thee is or was a two sets of murals. If the tidal surge got that far there will be nothing left. There are no other major holdings of his work. Mark At 01:38 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote: >Thank you Skip and Camille for your news. My thoughts are with all the New >Orleans folk and the rest of you in the area, where I feel so lucky to >have spent 2 short, fabulous, mind-opening trips. I went to New Orleans >before I ever got to Europe, and those were the most historical buildings >I had seen. > > > >Elizabeth Treadwell > >http://elizabethtreadwell.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:30:50 +0200 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anny Ballardini Subject: Re: New Orleans In-Reply-To: <8C77C58BCFD7A29-DA8-1DD1@MBLK-M40.sysops.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I was also thinking. My two American towns: New York and New Orleans both= =20 hit in such a short time. I spent my first ten years in New York, and about= =20 six, seven years as an adult in New Orleans. As a matter of fact I was all= =20 right there and would have never come to Italy if other events did not=20 interfere that heavily.=20 I am here watching videos and listening to the radio. This is all I can do= =20 at the moment. As Bill said, maybe pray, who knows, it might work somehow= =20 for somebody. My thoughts, Anny On 8/31/05, austinwja@aol.com wrote:=20 >=20 > My heart hurts. I earned my Masters and Ph.D at Tulane University. I met= =20 > my wife in New Orleans. Those wonderful memories are now, perhaps, as=20 > reflexive as the latest inscrutable poem. Do they reference what is no=20 > longer there? >=20 > One of the torments of aging: one's life sliced off, section by section.= =20 > For me it was the Twin Towers -- and now this. >=20 > I pray to God, or the void, or whatever occupies the center, that everyon= e=20 > down south who has been affected by this unfathomable tragedy may recover= ,=20 > may reattach those lost lives to what remains. >=20 > Best, Bill > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:29:57 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eric Hoffman Subject: Re: New Orleans In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.1.20050831142031.04813320@pop.earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Yes, I concur with Mark Weiss' worries. I imagine it will be a significant loss. Mark Weiss wrote:Aside from concern about people, I'm wondering about the libraries and museums. I assume the library collections are history, but a lot of the art is moveable. No word yet,. I'm also very worried about a wonderful small museum devoted to the work of Walter Anderson, an astonishing original, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The most important work thee is or was a two sets of murals. If the tidal surge got that far there will be nothing left. There are no other major holdings of his work. Mark At 01:38 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote: >Thank you Skip and Camille for your news. My thoughts are with all the New >Orleans folk and the rest of you in the area, where I feel so lucky to >have spent 2 short, fabulous, mind-opening trips. I went to New Orleans >before I ever got to Europe, and those were the most historical buildings >I had seen. > > > >Elizabeth Treadwell > >http://elizabethtreadwell.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! 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More info at the Nomados webpage: www.interchange.ubc.ca/quarterm/nomados.htm =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Peter Quartermain 846 Keefer Street Vancouver BC Canada V6A 1Y7 =20 tel: 604 255 8274 fax: 604 255 8204 quarterm@interchange.ubc.ca =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:03:02 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Tod Edgerton Subject: Re: katrina news (longish report) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Camille-- Skip-- is it true that someone talked to Bill and Nancy AFTER the the hurricane and that they ARE indeed ok? I really can't deal with not knowing--and the fact that there may be no communication from people that styaed for weeks!! My friend Utahna today told me that although still unable to get through to cell phones, she did get a voicemail, and was able to send a text message to our friend, Claudia (though no reply yet). This is all just so unthinkable--I can't process it. I know I'm being dramatic because I'm upset, but I feel like the city itself has died and will never be habitable again. I just cannot believe this has actually happened. I'm so glad you're okay, Camille, and being uptown, your stuff is probably mostly safe. Utahna and Gina had houses in the lower 9th ward and have lost everything. I'm still so so worried that something's going to happen to a friend. I feel so helpless here. I wish I could just talk to everyone! This is just horrific. Tod --- Camille Martin wrote: > Camille Martin here. Thanks to all who emailed me > with their concerns, and > especially to Skip Fox for his messages about the > whereabouts of some of > the poets who live in New Orleans. Skip has also > been very generous to me > since I arrived in Lafayette, Louisiana, to take > refuge from the hurricane > and its aftermath. > > I decided to reproduce a narrative that I composed > and sent a few hours ago > to Carla Harryman and post it to the list, to let > people know my experience > and to express some of the gravity of the situation, > which is, as I write, > worsening as levees continue to be breached, > flooding the city of New > Orleans even more. > > It has been a stressful few days! New Orleans is > facing an incredible > catastrophe. The reality of the situation and all > the implications for me > and many, many others is only now starting to sink > in. The irony for my > situation is that I am now two weeks from a planned > move to Toronto. A > couple of weeks ago, I officially "landed" in > Canada, becoming a permanent > resident, and secured an apartment in Toronto. Since > then, I've been making > preparations to move, and before Katrina arrived, I > had started to pack > boxes of my book collection and was close to > finishing the poetry section. > There's no question about a move at this point, at > least until I find out > what happened to my apartment. Here's what happened > with me during the > Katrina catastrophe: > > Saturday night, I had decided that I was going to > stay in New Orleans and > ride out the storm. But when Mayor Nagin announced a > mandatory evacuation > of the city on Sunday morning at 9 am, a little less > than 24 hours before > landfall was expected, I decided to get the hell > out. I wanted to stick > around so that i could put buckets in place if the > roof started leaking, > but then I started thinking about things like the > roof blowing off in 150 > mph winds, or even the building collapsing in the > high winds and > floodwaters, & who would help me in that situation > in the middle of a > severe hurricane? I had to remember that people have > died thinking they > could ride out the storm. Remember Hurricanes Betsy > and Camille! Even > though I knew I was possibly saving my life by > leaving, it was very > stressful to imagine that I might lose almost > everything that I own. > > I went outside and found my landlord Richard > boarding up the windows on my > third floor apartment. I was concerned that the > plywood only covered a > portion of the windows, but was grateful that he was > doing something, > anything, before he, too, left the city. Richard > very kindly lent me two > large tarps. > > At that point, I had already packed about 50 boxes > of books for my move to > Toronto, almost all of the poetry, so I piled many > of them on the bed and > got the rest off the floor, reassembling bookcases > that I had started to > take apart for the move. I covered the bed and my > desk and computer with > the tarps that my landlord lent me. Sadly, I had to > leave all of my books > and my artwork behind. > > Then I hunted down Joshu, the cat that I've been > taking care of for John > Clark, my ex-husband, while he's in Dharamsala, put > him in a cardboard cat > carrier that a neighbor lent me, grabbed my hard > drive, and threw a few > essentials in a suitcase. Just before I left, John > called me from > Dharamsala in response to the urgent emails I had > sent him. He didn't seem > to quite realize the seriousness of the situation, > and was surprised when I > offered to go to his house and save his hard drive. > Skip Fox, the poet who > lives in Lafayette, LA, also called and very > generously offered to let me > take refuge in his house. Then, around 1:00 pm, I > started driving toward > Lafayette, about 130 miles to the west, where my > parents live. The streets > of the city were eerily empty. Very few cars > remained parked on the > streets, but many were parked on the more elevated > "neutral grounds" > (medians of the large boulevards). > > Lafayette is normally less than 3 hours away, but > with a city of half a > million under evacuation orders, it took me 8 hours > of crawl-&-stop traffic > to get there. The state had put in effect a > "contraflow" system, so that > both east and west lanes of I-10 were going in one > direction - out of > Dodge. Nonetheless, the interstate was more like a > parking lot. When > traffic halted for long periods of time, people got > out, played music, and > watched the waves of the swamplands west of New > Orleans become stronger, > and the feeder bands of storm clouds from the > approaching enormous > hurricane arrive in advance. > > I'm afraid there might be many deaths in the city. > Some people with no > transportation are going to stay in their homes, > which is very dangerous, > instead of going to the Superdome, the official > place of refuge for the > city. They could not only drown, but after the storm > is over, if they are > stuck in their attics trying to escape the high > waters, and neglected to > bring an axe to chop a hole in their roofs, they > could dehydrate and die in > the extreme heat. Skip has informed me that the poet > Bill Lavender & his > wife stayed in their home, and as of the time > immediately after the > hurricane hit land, were doing ok. Like my > apartment, their house is > located on a ridge (which is not saying a lot in > this below-sea-level bowl > of a city). I've heard that around 100,000 people > remained in a city that > now has no services, no communications system, no > electricity, and no > drinkable water. > > It's now Tuesday afternoon. I've been watching the > tv reports obsessively, > and for a long time, during the height of the > hurricane, New Orleans was a > black hole. No reports coming out of the city. As of > Monday afternoon, it > was still too dangerous to fly helicopters. Then on > Monday evening, after > the winds had died down, tv stations finally got > some aerial shots from a > helicopter. Incredible devastation! Major flooding > and damage almost > everywhere. The levee was breached in at least two > or three places, > spilling water into the city from Lake Pontchartrain > and from a large > canal. I haven't heard whether the levee of the > Mississippi River was > breached. Hundreds of people stranded on rooftops. > 80% of the city > underwater. Whole suburbs flooded to rooftops. It's > very sad. It's going to > take a very long time for the city to recover from > this. It won't ever be > the same. No word yet on the death toll in the city. > There are unconfirmed > reports of bodies floating in the floodwaters. > > Somewhere in the city, a building was on fire, and > firemen were watching > helplessly with flat hoses, since there was no water > pressure. > > I have no way of knowing what happened to my > apartment. It's on the third > floor, so it couldn't have flooded from the rising > waters. The building is > probably still standing. but there could be water > damage from roof leakage. > I won't be able to re-enter the city for several > days, possibly weeks. And > the power will almost certainly not be restored for > weeks. The water supply > has been breached, so there's a mandatory boiling > order in New Orleans and > some of the surrounding parishes. The roads are > completely impassable. In > short, the city is virtually uninhabitable. > > On a personal level, I don't know what this will do > to my plans to move to > Toronto. It's very ironic . . . I knew that there > was a possibility of this > happening, and every couple of days i had been > checking the National > Hurricane Center to see if any hurricanes were on > the way that might > interfere with my plans . . . I was trying to beat > the clock to escape this > very thing, but I had no way of knowing that the > inevitable "big one," the > one people have been talking about for decades that > would devastate New > Orleans, was on the horizon . . . Another irony: if > my books are a loss, my > problem of fitting everything in my smallish Toronto > apartment has been > solved (grim smile). > > For some reason, one rather surreal phrase from a > report has stuck with me: > "little islands of red ants floated in the > gasoline-fouled waters through > downtown." > > I hope to know more in the coming days. The > difficult thing has been > waiting and not knowing . . . I'm emotionally > drained. > > Camille > > Camille Martin > temporary address: > 429 E. Pont de Mouton Rd. > Lafayette, LA 70507 > (337) 235-8374 > There's the mute probability of a reciprocal lack of understanding. - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:03:28 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: derekrogerson Organization: derekrogerson.com Subject: tenure track positions - creative writing/poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Location: San Francisco Announcement of Positions San Francisco State University Creative Writing - Poetry The Department of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University seeks candidates for two approved tenure-track positions in Creative Writing, Poetry, at the Assistant, Associate, or Full level to begin Fall 2006. Responsibilities: Teaching in the B.A., M.A., and M.F.A. programs; supervising M.A. and M.F.A. theses; reading applications to the graduate programs; contributing to curriculum development; and campus, community, and professional service. Normal teaching load three courses per semester. Minimum Qualifications: M.F.A. or equivalent with a strong commitment to university teaching and book publication. Experience teaching at the university level. Expertise in translation or a second genre (fiction, playwriting, non-fiction) desirable. Rank and Salary: Appointment with tenure possible if the successful candidate is appointed at the Associate or Full level. Salary competitive, commensurate with qualifications. San Francisco State University, as part of the California State University system, provides generous health, retirement, and other benefits, including domestic partner benefits. The Department: The Creative Writing Program at SFSU is one of the nation's oldest and largest. Housed separately from the English Department and containing the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, it has over 700 majors in three degree programs, the B.A., the M.A., and the M.F.A. Poetry, Fiction, and Playwriting are its three major fields of concentration. Further information about the Creative Writing Department available at the following websites: http://www.sfsu.edu/~cwriting/, and http:///www.sfsu.edu~poetry/. The University: San Francisco State University is a multi-purpose institution of higher education in a cosmopolitan urban setting. The University serves a multi-cultural student body of over 29,000 and offers bachelor's degrees in 116 academic areas and master's degrees in 95 fields of study. The mission of the University is to promote an appreciation of scholarship, freedom, and human diversity; foster excellence in instruction and intellectual accomplishment; and provide broadly accessible higher education. Excellence in teaching is primary, although research and service to the community are high priorities. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or religion. To apply: Submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, 3 letters of recommendation, a ten-page writing sample, and evidence of teaching effectiveness. Only semi-finalists will be asked to send copies of their books. Send all materials to: Professor Maxine Chernoff, Chair Creative Writing Department San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 (415) 338-1891 Review of applications will begin November 20, 2005, and continue until suitable candidates are selected. SFSU is an AA/EO employer. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:10:58 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Irving Weiss Subject: Re: Euro English In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Also (apologies if you've seen this before, I couldn't resist). Reminded me to see if I cd find H.J. Chace's 1940 Ladle Rat Rotten Hut made up of English words in the loosest possible fit on the other side of the tight English of Miekal ending his Euro-English report with "If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl." For those of you who've never seen the whole thing , it begins with Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter murder And ends with MURAL: Yonder nor sorgum stenches shut ladle gulls stopper torque wet strainers. Irving Weiss www.irvingweiss.net On 8/30/05 4:50 PM, "mIEKAL aND" wrote: > > European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English > will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, > which was the other possibility > > As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that > English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a > 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". > > In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will > make the sivil servants jump with joy. > > The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up > konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. > > There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the > troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like > fotograf 20% shorter. > > In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted > to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. > > Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have > always ben a deterent to akurate speling. > > Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag > is disgrasful and it should go away. > > By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" > with "z" and "w" with "v". > > During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining > "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. > > Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu > understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. > > Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in > ze forst plas. > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:16:53 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: New Orleans poets and friends. In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit yes, I wd like to contribute, too. ruth l. On 8/31/05 11:32 AM, "Suzanne Burns" wrote: > On 8/30/05, Skip Fox wrote: >> >> Camille Martin is staying with her parents in Lafayette, LA, but is >> worried >> about losing her "library" in her 3rd floor attic apartment. > > > > I feel her pain. I'm the same way about my books. > > I rather like the idea of sharing books with folks who have lost theirs. I > am sitting on a vast library that now feels like an embarrassment of riches. > > > Camille, can I send you something? > > --Suzanne ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:11:20 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Skip Fox Subject: Re: New Orleans poets and friends. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Susan Shultz wrote to the effect that Joseph and Amanda Boyden, both novelists, where elsewhere when the storm hit. Susan also writes "Aaron Belz in St. Louis says he can take in 5-6 = people, so if you know anyone looking to evacuate to St. Louis....he's aaron@belz.net" David Brinks left a message on my machine to the effect that he and his girlfriend are safe in Natchez and that he thought Paul Chasse and his = wife had gone north as well prior to storm. Camille said the city's historical archives were in the basement of the library. Maybe she can update that with you, but as an old researcher, I take this to be a repository primarily of primary records (few of which would have copies probably). Todd. I have not heard of anyone talking to Bill Lavender on this side = of the storm. I called him just before and then was unable to get him = later. Only his mail message (whatever) last night. I gave him numbers and told = him I'd contact anyone he wanted (and this list), but wasn't thinking about = cell phone batteries. I, too, am hanging. Can't stand to think that voice I = heard saying "Please leave a message" is no longer his. But I remember how resourceful Bill is. Former contractor, etc. He's big and smart. Concerning books, many of us who have relatively large libraries find duplicates every time we go through our shelves. Maybe it's a good time = to "read the stacks." ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:40:31 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Penton Subject: New Orleans and book distribution MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I suggest we consider a nearby location to which books can be donated in bulk and/or anonymously and from which books can be distributed to effected poets. Can anyone do this? I'll talk to some east Texans. -- Jonathan Penton http://www.unlikelystories.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:25:34 -0700 Reply-To: kalamu@aol.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: PUB: call for papers--literature for our times MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >>PUB: call for papers--literature for our times ======================================== The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) 14th Triennial Conference August 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Call for Papers Literature for Our Times At the 2005 World Social Forum, held in Porto Allegre, Brazil, Booker-Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy spoke about the function of literature for our times: "Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it… With our art, our music, our literature… —and our ability to tell our own stories." In an article, “The Arduous Conversation Will Continue," published in The Guardian on July 19, 2005, Hanif Kureishi voiced a similar opinion: "…the only patriotism possible is one that refuses the banality of taking either side, and continues the arduous conversation. That is why we have literature, the theatre, newspapers—a culture, in other words." Are there other roles, besides the ones suggested by Kureishi and Roy, that literature has played in the era of colonialism and continues to fulfill now in this young Twenty-First century of ours, amidst the upheavals of regime changes, wars for resources, loss of faith in elected representatives, genocide, suicide bombings, resistance struggles and environmental disasters? Is literature a force for reconciliation and cross-cultural understanding or only an instrument for aesthetic pleasure of the privileged? Does literature provide us, in the famous phrase of Kenneth Burke, with "equipment for living," or does it only obscure reality and deflect resistance? Papers are invited to engage with all aspects of the above theme. They could address, by referring to the literary, critical and other kinds of cultural texts, the following questions: Literature as an institution and ideologies of 'literature' Commonwealth versus Postcolonial versus World literature Literature as resistance Literature as "arduous dialogue" Literature as "equipment for living" Literature as pedagogy; Pedagogy of literature Literature of human survival (including issues of poverty and prosperity) Literature of Human Rights (including the right to access knowledge and resources) Literature of Apocalyptic and Utopic imaginings Literature for promotion of Peace and Justice Literature of real and imagined Ethnicities Literature of cultural affiliations (Race, Gender and/or History) Literature as a world language Literature in a global cultural economy Literature in translation Literature of healing and reconciliation Abstracts of approx. 300 words for papers of 20 minutes duration, and approx. 400 words for three-paper panels (with the names of the panelists) which engage with these and other relevant questions should be e-mailed, with a short bio-note (50 words) and contact address to spierr@sfu.ca no later than August 30, 2006. Address for regular mail: Dr. Paul Matthew St. Pierre ACLALS Secretary-Treasurer Department of English Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC Canada V5A 1S6 ACLALS website: http://www.aclals.org ============================================ From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP@english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://cfp.english.upenn.edu or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj@english.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------- ############################################# this is e-drum, a listserv providing information of interests to black writers and diverse supporters worldwide. e-drum is moderated by kalamu ya salaam (kalamu@aol.com). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drumbeat-weekend_edition/ \ ___\ Stay Strong\ \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as)\ \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil\ \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:07:22 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Richard Flynn Subject: Re: Libraries and Katrina In-Reply-To: <33790.66.85.18.129.1125524431.squirrel@webmail.safepages.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My colleague Michael Joseph sent this to the children's literature listserv I'm on. Thought it might interest you here on the poetics list: *************************************************************** American Libraries has posted a summary of what little news has emerged about libraries in the states affected by Hurricane Katrina. See top news story at www.ala.org/alonline/ (displayed below): since the information is being continually updated, bookmark the site. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina's August 29 landfall on the Gulf Coast, the fate of many of the region's libraries is still uncertain. American Libraries will post news of any library-related damage on an ongoing basis as we learn of it. Watch this site for updates. Vanderbilt Hustler campus newspaper, Nashville, Tennessee, August 31: The severity of the Katrina-related storms in Memphis August 30 flooded the basement of Rhodes College's brand new library, which will remain closed until it is fully repaired. Houston (Tex.) Chronicle, August 31: Craig Nocaise, 21, a police officer, waited out the storm inside the Pass Christian (Miss.) Public Library, a branch of the Harrison County Library System, with 12 other town police. They noticed about a dozen of their police cars circling the building on a current of water. Then one crashed through the front door. Water poured in and rose quickly. When the back glass door wouldn't open, the officers pulled their guns and fired at least 50 rounds into it before it shattered. They each then grabbed a cable line and climbed onto the roof, where they spent the next three hours in 130-mile-an-hour winds. "We lost every patrol car," said Nocaise. "We still haven't found some. They're probably in the Gulf somewhere." Asked more about the experience in the library, Nocaise choked up and walked away. Baltimore (Md.) Sun, August 31: In Gulfport, Mississippi, Katrina chewed up such everyday items as furniture, computers, and a piano and spat them back onto the city's crumbling streets and beaches. In what was once the public library, wet books formed a mound of soggy pulp. Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald, August 29: In Gulfport, windows were blown out and the business district was partially underwater. The damage was described by Fire Chief Pat Sullivan as "massive." Waves were breaking across U.S. 90 and there was water standing in the Gulfport Library. Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald, August 30: Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis home in Biloxi: The bottom floor of the Presidential Library and the home itself were gutted. A Confederate flag, though, still draped over the arm of Davis's statue in the library. Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, August 31: The University of Southern Mississippi, Alcorn State University, and Jackson State University, as well as private Tougaloo College, remained without power and communication access on Tuesday afternoon. On Tuesday at JSU, students slept on makeshift beds in the student union and library, where generators could provide light. "I would say 90 percent of the structures between the beach and the railroad in Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach, and Pass Christian are totally destroyed," Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday. "They're not severely damaged, they're simply not there. . . . I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago." Cincinnati (Ohio) Post, August 31: Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher declared a state of emergency Tuesday afternoon because of the heavy Katrina-related rains. The order triggered implementation of the Kentucky Emergency Management Plan, which coordinates response and relief activities in response to the emergency. The heavy rain exacerbated leaks at the three-year-old Boone County Justice Center in Burlington, Kentucky. "I've never seen anything like it," said Union, Kentucky, attorney Edwin Kagin. There was a leak in the fourth floor men's bathroom, which deputy sheriffs closed down, he said, and a leak in the law library. "I couldn't believe it. I was in the law library and I hear this plunk, and there's a bucket catching water," he said. Tyler (Tex.) Morning Telegraph, August 31: Tyler Public Library sent its bookmobile to the hurricane shelter Tuesday afternoon. It provided books, magazines, and other reading material to evacuees from Louisiana. Other sources: Evacuees from New Orleans are also being sent to the Houston area. The Harris County Public Library in Humble, Texas, north of Houston, has announced that evacuees are being given full residential privileges by the library. Water Damage FAQ: The ALA Library has a fact sheet with some links to sites on the proper steps to take in cleaning up a library after a disaster. Posted August 31, 2005. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:17:56 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: i want to know MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I want to know why there aren't ten thousand helicopters in New Orleans = and area I want to know why the country that can rebuild Iraq can't save it's own = people Don't answer. The answer wouldn't impress me MR Michael Rothenberg walterblue@bigbridge.org Big Bridge www.bigbridge.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:33:35 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: i want to know MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit thank you michael ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:16:38 -0230 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kevin Hehir Subject: Re: i want to know In-Reply-To: <20050831.213355.-184095.12.skyplums@juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Published on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 by the Editor & Publisher Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen? 'Times-Picayune' Had Repeatedly Raised Federal Spending Issues By Will Bunch PHILADELPHIA - Even though Hurricane Katrina has moved well north of the city, the waters may still keep rising in New Orleans late on Tuesday. That's because Lake Pontchartrain continues to pour through a two-block-long break in the main levee, near the city's 17th Street Canal. With much of the Crescent City some 10 feet below sea level, the rising tide may not stop until it's level with the massive lake. New Orleans had long known it was highly vulnerable to flooding and a direct hit from a hurricane. In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials in the region since the late 1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts. When flooding from a massive rainstorm in May 1995 killed six people, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA. Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. But at least $250 million in crucial projects remained, even as hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin increased dramatically and the levees surrounding New Orleans continued to subside. Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars. Newhouse News Service, in an article posted late Tuesday night at The Times-Picayune Web site, reported: "No one can say they didn't see it coming. ... Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the lack of preparation." In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness. On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us." Also that June, with the 2004 hurricane season starting, the Corps' project manager Al Naomi went before a local agency, the East Jefferson Levee Authority, and essentially begged for $2 million for urgent work that Washington was now unable to pay for. From the June 18, 2004 Times-Picayune: "The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. Everything is sinking, and if we don't get the money fast enough to raise them, then we can't stay ahead of the settlement," he said. "The problem that we have isn't that the levee is low, but that the federal funds have dried up so that we can't raise them." The panel authorized that money, and on July 1, 2004, it had to pony up another $250,000 when it learned that stretches of the levee in Metairie had sunk by four feet. The agency had to pay for the work with higher property taxes. The levee board noted in October 2004 that the feds were also now not paying for a hoped-for $15 million project to better shore up the banks of Lake Pontchartrain. The 2004 hurricane season was the worst in decades. In spite of that, the federal government came back this spring with the steepest reduction in hurricane and flood-control funding for New Orleans in history. Because of the proposed cuts, the Corps office there imposed a hiring freeze. Officials said that money targeted for the SELA project -- $10.4 million, down from $36.5 million -- was not enough to start any new jobs. There was, at the same time, a growing recognition that more research was needed to see what New Orleans must do to protect itself from a Category 4 or 5 hurricane. But once again, the money was not there. As the Times-Picayune reported last Sept. 22: "That second study would take about four years to complete and would cost about $4 million, said Army Corps of Engineers project manager Al Naomi. About $300,000 in federal money was proposed for the 2005 fiscal-year budget, and the state had agreed to match that amount. But the cost of the Iraq war forced the Bush administration to order the New Orleans district office not to begin any new studies, and the 2005 budget no longer includes the needed money, he said." The Senate was seeking to restore some of the SELA funding cuts for 2006. But now it's too late. One project that a contractor had been racing to finish this summer: a bridge and levee job right at the 17th Street Canal, site of the main breach on Monday. The Newhouse News Service article published Tuesday night observed, "The Louisiana congressional delegation urged Congress earlier this year to dedicate a stream of federal money to Louisiana's coast, only to be opposed by the White House. ... In its budget, the Bush administration proposed a significant reduction in funding for southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project. Bush proposed $10.4 million, a sixth of what local officials say they need." Local officials are now saying, the article reported, that had Washington heeded their warnings about the dire need for hurricane protection, including building up levees and repairing barrier islands, "the damage might not have been nearly as bad as it turned out to be." Will Bunch (letters@editorandpublisher.com) is senior writer at the Philadelphia Daily News. Much of this article also appears on his blog at that newspaper, Attytood. -- --------------------------------------------------- http://nedaftersnowslides.com/ Hypertext fiction by Don Austin ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:27:06 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eric Hoffman Subject: Oppen and Levinas In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Does anyone out there know of any essays interpreting Oppen via Emmanuel Levinas? I had come across reference to an upcoming article, though I'm not able to remember exactly where. Thanks in advance, Eric Hoffman --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page