========================================================================= Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:07:16 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eric Hoffman Subject: Big Bridge MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.bigbridge.org/index3= The new Big Bridge is now on-line: =0A=0A=0Ahttp://www.bigbridge.org/index3= .htm=0A=0AAs you can see from the contents below, it's a pretty incredible= =C2=A0body of material, and I'm honored to have the George Oppen special fe= ature included among such a stellar gathering.=0A=C2=A0=C2=A0=0AHope this f= inds you well,=0AEric Hoffman=0A=0A=0A=0ACHAPBOOK: =0AA Time in Fragments= =0APoem by Clark Coolidge; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis =0A=C2=A0 =0A__= ______________________________=0A=0A=C2=A0 =0AFEATURES, 1 =0A=C2=A0 =0ASlow= Poetry =0AEdited by Dale Smith =0AOne of the most refreshing and promising= developments in poetry in recent years, =0ASlow Poetry does not propose an= other sectarian or clique position, but rather methods =0Aof reading and at= titudes toward production which could apply to most genres in the =0Acurren= t scene or likely to emerge in the near future. The approach has a strong b= ase =0Ain concepts and needs made more apparent than ever by current ecolog= ical and =0Aeconomic concerns. =0A=C2=A0 =0ABeauty Came Groveling Forward: = =0ASelected South African Poems and Stories =0Aedited by Gary Cummiskey =0A= This collection was meant to show the diversity and spirited character of c= urrent =0ASouth African writing. It contains work by some celebrated writer= s, and some whose =0Awork has not received wide circulation even in its hom= e country. Without the =0Aproblems caused by canon formation or trying to b= e totally comprehensive, this =0Agroup of poems and stories is free to work= outside the stereotypes and preconceptions =0Aof South Africa and allow th= e participants to show what they can do as individuals. =0A=C2=A0 =0AAll Th= is Strangeness: =0AA Garland for George Oppen=0AEdited by Eric Hoffman =0AC= ommentary on Oppen has grown slowly, unobtrusively, and steadily, until it = now forms =0Aa major body in itself. This collection of essays evaluates th= at body of criticism in less partisan =0Aterms than many of its predecessor= s, seeking to focus on individual poems and prosody in =0Aa broad historica= l context, going beyond the dichotomies that dominated the 20th Century and= =0Amaking room for further types of relevance in current literary and soci= al dispensations. =0A=C2=A0 =0ASephardic Proverbs =0ACollected and translat= ed by Michael Castro =0AProverbs act on many of the same principles as othe= r miniatures, such as haiku. Like stand-alone =0Acouplets and quatrains use= d in everything from toasts to insults, they also include a strong element = of =0Acollaboration and evolution. As a look at a tradition or a type of po= em, this collection can stay with a =0Areader a long time. =0A=C2=A0 =0APos= t-Beat Anthology =0AReprint from the Chinese anthology, with brief intro = =0AEdited by Vernon Frazer =0AHow would you edit a collection of poems with= that title for a Chinese audience? Probably not the =0Asame way Frazer has= . That's one of the things that makes it interesting and refreshing. =0A=C2= =A0 =0Aas per Le Roman de la Rose, for example =0AAn Anthology of Middle Ea= st Genocide Edited by Arpine Konyalian Grenier =0AHow does the cruel and un= usual work for you through art, whether it comes from =0Adirect experience = or direct/indirect memory. Be Genet, for example; lemon to lemonade, =0Afor= example. How does one turn to Le Roman de la Rose (a Middle Ages Poem) whe= n =0Aone is mired in or sorting out or faced with what happened or what is = happening that is =0Acruel and unusual due to human intolerance: racial rel= igious cultural gender related and other. =0A=C2=A0 =0ACharles Olson and th= e Nature of Destructive Humanism =0Aby Craig Stormont =0A=C2=A0 =0AOne Man = Blues: =0ARemembering Thomas Chapin =0AReminiscence by Vernon Frazer =0A=C2= =A0 =0AExcerpt from =0AAutobiography =0Aby David Bromige =0A=C2=A0 =0AThe I= ndia Journals =0Aby John Brandi =0A=C2=A0 =0AGenius and Heroin: =0Aby Micha= el Largo =0AIn this essay, the author reviews his own book. The themes of p= sycho-chemistry may =0Astretch back to pristine civilizations in China, Egy= pt, and Mexico, but they seem inexhaustible. =0APerhaps associate chemicals= with genius is because our brains produce such sophisticated =0Abases to s= tart with, and self-review also finds a base in that phenomenon. =0A=C2=A0 = =0AWAR PAPERS (3) =0APoems and essays against war. =0ASub-features by John = Bradley, Joel Lewis, Philip Metres, Vincent Katz, Francesco Levato, and =0A= Louise Landes Levi, plus reflections from around the world on the election = of Barack Obama, =0Aand, of course, Halvard Johnson's continuing anthology = of anti-war poems. =0A=C2=A0 =0AA Retrospective of the Publication Work of = Karl Young =0A=C2=A0 =0A________________________________=0A=0A=C2=A0 =0AFEA= TURES, 2 &mdash ONGOING: =0AROCKPILE =0AROCKPILE is a collaboration between= David Meltzer =E2=80=94 poet, musician, essayist, =0Aand more =E2=80=94 an= d Michael Rothenberg of Big Bridge Press. David and Michael will =0Ajourney= through eight cities in the U.S. to perform poetry and prose, composed whi= le on the =0Aroad, with local musicians and artists in each city. ROCKPILE = will serve to educate and =0Apreserve as well as to create a history of col= laboration. It will help to reinforce the tradition of =0Athe troubadour of= all generations, central to the cultural upheaval and identity politics th= at =0Areawakened poets, artists, musicians, and songwriters in the mid-1960= s through the 1970s. =0AThe project will end with a final multimedia perfor= mance in San Francisco. =0ACheck out the ROCKPILE Blog for calendar and dis= cussion! =0A=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =0A________________________________=0A=0A=C2=A0 = =0AStill Comming to Big Bridge this Year: =0AFEATURES, 3 =0A=C2=A0 =0ABig B= ridge New Orleans Sturm und Drang Anthology=0Aedited by Dave Brinks and Bil= l Lavender =0AIntroductory notes for work by 30 artists and 90 writers whos= e work will =0Adouble the size of this issue when it appears at the end of = summer. =0A=C2=A0 =0APerfiles de la Noche / Profiles of Night =0AMujeres po= etas de Venezuela/Women Poets of Venezuela=0AA Selection from the Bi-lingua= l Anthology =0AOriginal complete text selected and translated by Rowena Hil= l =0ACo-edited by Pen de Venezuela and bid & co. =0ASelection for online ed= ition by Terri Carrion =0APoetry by =0AMar=C3=ADa Auxiliadora =C3=81lvarez,= Edda Armas, Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva, =0AMar=C3=ADa calca=C3=B1o, Laura Cr= acco, Ida Gramcko, Patricia Guzm=C3=A1n, Veronica Jaffe, =0AMaritza Jim=C3= =A9nez, Rowena Hill, Martha Kornblith, Luz machado, Mar=C3=ADa Isabel Novil= lo, =0ACecilia Ortiz, Hanni Ossott, Yolanda Pantin, Emira Rodr=C3=ADguez, M= argara Russotto, =0AMar=C3=ADa Clara Salas, Elizabeth Sch=C3=B6n, Blanca St= repponi, Ana Enriqueta Ter=C3=A1n, =0AAlicia Torres, Elena Vera, Carmen Ver= de Arocha, Miyo Vestrin =0A=C2=A0 =0AA Tri-lingual Anthology of Galician Wr= iters=0ACompiled, edited, and translated from Galician to Spanish by F.R. L= avandeira. =0ATranslated from Spanish to English by Terri Carrion. =0APoetr= y and Prose by =0AA.Nerium, Mar=C3=ADa do Cebreiro, Est=C3=ADbaliz Espinosa= , Miro Villar, Olga Novo, =0AF.R Lavandeira, Ant=C3=B3n Riveiro Coello, Anx= os Sumai, Diego Ameixeiras, Inma L=C3=B3pez Silva, =0A=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =0A____= ____________________________=0A=0AART=0AEnigmas=0Apaintings by Jim Spitzer = =0AAs a regular contributor to Big Bridge, these paintings, variations on a= n enigmatic =0Atheme, show Spitzer's continuing evolution, as well as being= koan-like meditations =0Ain their own right. =0A=C2=A0 =0AThe Kingdom of M= adison: =0APhotographs from Madison County, North Carolina=0Aby Rob Amberg = =0ASelections from three sets of photos, exploring a still relatively isola= ted place, =0Awhere landscape still has functional meaning. When Amberg arr= ived, not as a tourist, =0Abut as one seeking community "Planting was still= done by the signs of the moon. =0AWater came from springs and heat from fo= rests" and traditional music still part of =0Adaily life. These photos add = to the tradition begun in the WPA projects of the =0AGreat Depression, but = decidedly retain an identity of their own. =0A=C2=A0 =0AThese Are My Angels= =0Aby Tasha Robbins =0ASmall paintings done in Brooklyn on found cardboard = by one of the Post-Katrina =0Adiaspora. Celebrating the C-Train stop at Fra= nklin + Fulton Avenues, as the artist writes, =0Athey "kept my heart, eye += hand moving with a spirit of life close to the timbre and =0Avibration of = the Crescent City, still healing. . . =0A=C2=A0 =0ALectura en Tr=C3=A1nsito= =0AProject Created and Directed by Carmen Gloria Berr=C3=ADos =0ASet based = on combination of public art and poetry from Santiago de Chile. =0APoems tr= anslated by Terri Carrion and Carmen Gloria Berr=C3=ADos. =0A=C2=A0 =0AAnim= al Night Photography=0Aby Felicia Murray; notes by Louise Landes Levi =0ANe= w techniques in photography allow us to make photographic images of phenome= na =0Awe could only imagine in previous eras. We might debate whether the n= ature of cameras =0Aand software brings us any closer to the spiritual worl= d, but these haunting images of =0Aanimals should make us feel less alone, = and more in touch with the continuum of life. =0A=C2=A0 =0A12 Collages=0Aby= John Brandi =0AThese colages can be read as a non-verbal counterpart and e= xtension of his India Journal =0Aand related work. =0A=C2=A0 =0A___________= _____________________=0A=0AFICTION=0A=C2=A0=0AFiction by =0AMel Freilicher,= Eric Beeny, Stefani Christova, Lynda Schor, David Madgalene, =0AStephen-Pa= ul Martin, Mark Wallace, Susan Smith Nash, Kirpal gordon, =0ARichard Martin= , Peter Conners, Ann Bogle, Jeffrey Hansen, Carol Novack =0A=C2=A0 =0A_____= ___________________________=0A=0A=C2=A0=0AREVIEWS=0A=0AReviews of: =0AWanda= Phipps, Lewis Warsh, Simon Pettet, Larissa Shmailo, Bobbie Louise Hawkins,= Ed Sanders, =0ABill Berkson, Colter Jacobsen, Mark Young, John Roche, Phil= ip Gounis, Rich Kruse, Michael Rumaker, =0AAnnie Le Brun, George Kimball, a= nd Ashis Gupta. =0AReviewed by: =0AKirpal Gordon; Svitlana Matviyenko, Garr= y Parrish, Jackie Sheeler, Jim Feast, Allan Graubard, =0ACharles Thorne, Ba= rbara Henning, Tom Hibbard, Steve Elmer, Stephen Lewandowski =0AJoe Wettero= th, Vernon Frazer, Leverett T. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:55:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: Visual art / poetry In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David, Absolutely brilliant post! A few ad hoc reactions: "In a sense, alotof visual poetry has nothing to do with visuality, looking, seeing, movements of the eyes in examining attentively the field and peripheries of the visual as a notation of sonic transmissions from out the cracks as it were of the walls--the sounds of colors, colors of sounds, --al of this is eschewed in much Visual Poetry of the kind Jim is writing about in favor of what is a process not of looking, but of reading." Yes, the visual as a movement of the eye (the seeing itself) where frames disappear, while peripheries become empowered (like in a photograph). Also, yes, the *totality* of seeing (like the cinema). "examining attentively the field and peripheries of the visual as a notation of sonic transmissions from out the cracks as it were of the walls--the sounds of colors, colors of sounds," A kind of Stendhal Syndrome. Visual poetry. Inherently unstable, vertiginous, in constant need of rebuilding itself. "I think the uses of the virtual, of images which are there only via electricity--begins to decay the visual as a seeing, looking, with materials that exist physically, and whose movements in time and through spaces are effected by an immense number of continauly shifting phenomena--the weather being one of them. In the virtual real, the eye does not need to be as developing in looking "into" time and space, because there is less affecting the image, This virtual image becomes as it were "still" In visual poetry what is on the page needs to be independent (as the subject before the lens is independent from the photographer). Did you see the film *Decasia*? "This creates an art which exists in the act of looking's looking--there is no "object" produced, there is no "concept" expressed, there is no "trace" of this other than what exists for Smithson as a reality which is as durable as any sculpture, written poem, machine, etc" The visual creates its own line/motion. ""solidifying" a text within a "stopped time" whose movements are done as "readings" rather than as the art of looking. " The movements of the eyes must be potentially chaotic, creating its own eros. "in a visual poem all the elements are treated as equals in terms of their opening to possiblities--, -that is to say--a color, a line, a dot, a form , the texture of the surfaces," The same as the "democracy" in the looking at a photograph. The dominance of a erratic/chaotic/democratic eye undercuts the previous dominance and the autonomy (illusionary solidity) of words. "visual poetry at least for myself works with things which exits as actual found materials, found letterings, fragments forms--to be involved with the swarming teeming multiplicities which exists "before our very eyes"-- this kind of seeing requires a look /looking of far greater speed and attention than does what one finds in the virtual and digital--where the "framed" and stilled image is demanding instaed a "reading" within a confiement to the aream of textuality--qua "text"--" RuBeings (not correct spelling) are steeped in time. Ciao, Murat On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:17 AM, David Chirot wrote: > One of the problems with this discussion is that there are many kinds of > visual poetry; it is not some "pan-visual-=poetryism"--which can be > dismissed as unsophisticated visually as Jim does. > In the US--written poetry has been most of the base on which the visual > poem is built--it is at the forefront of the examination of what a visual > poem is qua poetry, and so the visual is relegated to a "lesser" realm. It > is "language" which is fore fronted, though not in the more strict and > linguistics/semantics orientations of much of earlier Concrete Poetry, > Many > aspects of Concrete Poetry at one point had much in common with early > structuralism, and so their extensions in theory developed along linguistic > lines, until, as Philadelpho Menezes points to and demonstrates > historically in Poetics and Visuality a Trajectory of Contemporary > Brazilian > Poetry, the visual elements gain in importance as elements themselves, and > these in turn develop into the demand for the deeper inquiry into the > elements of sound, moving towards a "toaltity' of a work which is more akin > to the cinema. > > I think a lot of the "devaluation of the visual" is partly responsible for > the "less sophisticated, less visual, less intersting" aspects of visual > poetry. In a sense, alotof visual poetry has nothing to do with visuality, > looking, seeing, movements of the eyes in examining attentively the field > and peripheries of the visual as a notation of sonic transmissions from out > the cracks as it were of the walls--the sounds of colors, colors of sounds, > --al of this is eschewed in much Visual Poetry of the kind Jim is writing > about in favor of what is a process not of looking, but of reading. > > I think the uses of the virtual, of images which are there only via > electricity--begins to decay the visual as a seeing, looking, with > materials > that exist physically, and whose movements in time and through spaces are > effected by an immense number of continauly shifting phenomena--the weather > being one of them. In the virtual real, the eye does not need to be as > developing in looking "into" time and space, because there is less > affecting > the image, This virtual image becomes as it were "still" in a kind of > "suspended eternity" in which neither the corrosions of time nor the > effects created by the movements of objects in space that interact with > the > materials of the ever changing image exist. > > One of the striking aspects of many types of Visual Poetry is the lack of > interest in the visual which the poetry displays. Instead, the fascination > is strictly of a textual nature, in that the poetry is anchored by its > dependence on letters, words, phrases, as supports for the construction of > a > form of cross word puzzle/scrabble effect and in a playing with the sizes > and fonts of letters i relation to these "impositions of the grid" onto not > what is seen, but what is placed there within a grid, the grid being the > guide to seeing/reading.. > > > > In this realm of discussion, between the uses of text and of the virtual, > what is vacated is the visual. That is the actual "art of looking" of > which > Robert Smithson wrote. Smithson writes that a great artist may create a > work simply by casting a glance. This creates an art which exists in the > act of looking's looking--there is no "object" produced, there is no > "concept" expressed, there is no "trace" of this other than what exists for > Smithson as a reality which is as durable as any sculpture, written poem, > machine, etc > > Visual Poetry ironically then in the US seems to be far less about > visuality > and not even so much re poetry in this sense, as about a form of > "solidifying" a text within a "stopped time" whose movements are done as > "readings" rather than as the art of looking. : > > in a visual poem all the elements are treated as equals in terms of their > opening to possiblities--, -that is to say--a color, a line, a dot, a form > , > the texture of the surfaces, the "indelible imprint of the material > world"--al of these are elements of language just as are morphemes, letter, > syllables, words, phrase-- > in the arrangements of a visual poem al of these elements are > "calling"--speaking--singing-sounding--color itself is a language--and > languages do not have to be written or formalized--a language may be found > expressive in sounding a side walk crack, a shadow, the passage of > footprints through a field, or in snow--these provide a basis, as well as > those things found al around one which are the evidences of time passing in > the effects which are wreaked on materials considered durable-- > > if one examines peeling, fading, cracking painted walls or the cracked > paints on boards oand doors, the movement of lichen and moss in obscuring > the letters on a plaque, the cracking open of metal letters through decades > of extremes of heat, cold, being blasted, being bombed, being burned, al of > these continually present languages of forms and letterings, numbers, in > the process of a negentropy of out of chaos emerging forms and these forms > wearing down, being time affected, and then these themselves are > regenerations of forms out of the new chaos-- > > a teeming swarming wold exists all around one and for the most part hidden > in plain site/sight/cite from the no longer visual eyes of the virtual = > written poetry-- > > if one is to work with visual poetry--then > the visual art of looking needs to be worked at, with, for--as does the > soundings which are elicited by colors,forms, fragments or phrases-- > > a great deal of what is called "visual poetry " by more language influenced > workers is just a carrying on of the "pattern poetry" which dick Higgins > made a book of. as far as visuality is concerned one might say, nice but > weak-=eh--very weak! > > it is a rebranding of things long done, as though they have suddenly become > "new and radical" because the names have been changed-- > > visual poetry at least for myself works with things which exits as actual > found materials, found letterings, fragments forms--to be involved with > the > swarming teeming multiplicities which exists "before our very eyes"-- > this kind of seeing requires a look /looking of far greater speed and > attention than does what one finds in the virtual and digital--where the > "framed" and stilled image is demanding instaed a "reading" within a > confiement to the aream of textuality--qua "text"-- > > the function of the virtual is not to be participant in time--which poetry > is after all, an art of time--but to delete time--to erase--to make > disappear things that were by the touch of the button, by the changing of a > name on line--and --peoples events names forms vanish --forever-deleted-- > > in another way, the virtual offers persons an example of "the new" and a > glimpse of a simulated "eternity" in the virtual not being exposed ot the > effects of time-- > > as long as one has sufficient protection the "textual visual poem" remains > > until one pulls the plug--or bombs the infrastructure, cuts off electricity > due to non payment or as a siege weapon as with Gaza and in Rwanda--then , > while the electricity is off and al communications have gone "dead"--then > peoples events cultures disappear, are deleted--and when the virtual comes > on again--the electricity--there are now completely new names for the > places > which had become for a while black holes in the fabric of controlled > existence which is hthat of the virtual and digital online- > > in that sense in which things today are accepted unquestioningly like > received ideas no one thinks about--"natural" ideas, facts--"known to > all"--there develops what is truly reactionary--the end of questioning and > the entrance into non stop existence of what has long been spurned in > readers of fiction: the willing suspension of disbelief- > > and in the case of Visual Poetry what is abandoned, or has yet to be there > in a real sense in termsof an art of looking--is viusality-- > > working with the found--one is having the experience of what Celan points > towards in writing " Poetry no longer imposes itself, it exposes itself." > > exposing-exposure (to the elements, of a film negative)--the > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:33:01 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aldon Nielsen Subject: Re: PoemTalk #20: Baraka's "Kenyatta Listening to Mozart" In-Reply-To: <940CD70A-6FDF-4BFD-B0A7-63CB781B0C58@writing.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I met Mecca at the Pan African Writers Forum in Ghana last year -- look forward to listening to this episode -- On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Al Filreis wrote: > Today we are releasing episode 20 of the PoemTalk series, a discussion of a > 1963 poem written and performed by Amiri Baraka (as, then, LeRoi Jones), > featuring three first-time PoemTalkers: Herman Beavers, Alan Loney, and > Mecca Sullivan. > > http://www.poemtalk.org > > Al Filreis > http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis > > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > -- Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature The Pennsylvania State University aln10@psu.edu sailing the blogosphere at http://heatstrings.blogspot.com "The practical application of the rule of 'If you read me, I'll read you' is such an important advance for the Republic of Letters that I think it should appear, as a mandatory precept, in the first article of its Constitution" --Juan Goytisolo ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:15:03 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Small Press Traffic Subject: Save the dates and get your checkbook! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends of Small Press Traffic, While somewhat nestled in our foggy beds for the summer, SPT has been working diligently to once again create a season of programming to amaze, mystify, inspire and delight you. As you well know, for over 35 years SPT has been at the heart of where experimentation and community intersect. This season we are excited to present what we're thinking of as a multi-pronged conversation. Components of this conversation include: class/warfare; translation; performance, and the Inverted I (which addresses memoir, lyric, identity). In addition, thi= s season will feature the launch of *Dialogues*, talks and writing laboratories presented by visiting readers. Our hope is that a heightened sense of debate and investigation will ensue. You don=92t want to miss it. Our lineup is planned as follows: Friday, September 11, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. CA Conrad and Frank Sherlock* on Class/Warfare* ** Saturday September 12, 2009 at 1p.m Dialogues with CA Conrad and Frank Sherlock: The New American Hybrid (co-sponsored by Non Site Collective) ** Friday, September 18, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Brandon Brown and David Larsen *on Translation* Saturday September 19, 2009 at 1p.m. *Dialogues* with David Larsen: Translation as Conceptual Writing Practice Friday, September 25, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Anne Tardos and Amina Cain on *the Inverted I* Saturday September 26, 2009 at 1 p.m. *Dialogues* with Anne Tardos: Mono- multi- and neolingual aspects of literary composition Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. THE SMITH FAMILY: a play by Kevin Killian and Craig Goodman *on Performance= * Friday October 16th, at 7:30 p.m. An evening with Renee Gladman *on the Inverted I* Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Kate Greenstreet and Brian Teare on *the Inverted I* Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Mark Nowak, Reid Gomez and Rachel Loden *on Class/Warfare* Friday, November 14, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Norma Cole and John Sakkis *on Translation* Thursday November 19, 2009 *Dialogues* with Gail Scott: A Talk on Narrative and Identity Co-sponsored with University San Francisco Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Gail Scott and Bruce Boone *on the Inverted I* * * Friday, December 4, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Carla Harryman and Alan Bernheimer *on Performance* * * ** Saturday December 5, 2009 at 1p.m. *Dialogues *with Carla Harryman: Language and listening in performance Friday, December 11, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. Fred Moten and Steve Dickison *on Performance* ** Our Fall 2009 season will, of course, will begin after you've been wow-ed b= y the brilliance of Bill Luoma's Oakdish (held before and during an Oakland A= s game at the Oakland Coliseum) on August 22nd, for which there are still spaces. Visit oakdish.blogspot.com for more information or sign up at smallpresstraffic@gmail.com. It should go without saying that there is not better time to become a membe= r of SPT. As we push to make it through another year with it's own set of unique funding challenges, and hear of a different arts organization each day that closes its doors, we are heartened by the fact that it is our community that will sustain us. If you value SPT and the incredible writers we showcase, show your support by becoming a member (or, if you already are, by making an additional donation) today. I am humbled and honored to be a part of Small Press Traffic. I hope you ar= e too. See you soon! Samantha Samantha Giles Executive Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center sptraffic.org smallpresstraffic.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:17:41 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eric Elshtain Subject: Beard of Bees Ghazals MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 QmVhcmQgb2YgQmVlcyBQcmVzcyBpcyBwbGVhc2VkIHRvIHByZXNlbnQgRGF2aWQgSmFsYWpl bCdzIE1vb24gR2hhemFscw0KDQpodHRwOi8vd3d3LmJlYXJkb2ZiZWVzLmNvbS9qYWxhamVs Lmh0bWwNCg0KIkl0IHRha2VzIHNvZnR3YXJlLCBtdXNpYywgYm9va3MsIGFydOKAlCBldmVy eSBleGN1c2UgYXZhaWxhYmxl4oCUDQp0byB0ZWFjaCBhIGNoaWxkIHBhdGllbmNlIGFuZCBw ZXJzaXN0ZW5jZSBpbiB0aGUgbW9vbuKAmXMgZ3Jhdml0eS4iDQoNCg0KRXJpYyBFbHNodGFp bg0KRWRpdG9yDQpCZWFyZCBvZiBCZWVzIFByZXNzDQpodHRwOi8vd3d3LmJlYXJkb2ZiZWVz LmNvbQ0K ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:56:36 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Thomas savage Subject: Re: poet John Wieners 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thank you for posting the Wieners poems on your blog.=A0 I really enjoyed r= eading them very much.=A0 I thought I knew his poetry very well but I don't= remember reading these before.=A0 Regards, Tom Savage --- On Fri, 7/31/09, CA Conrad wrote: From: CA Conrad Subject: poet John Wieners 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 12:49 AM poet John Wieners 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 40 summers ago John Wieners wrote ASYLUM POEMS (Angel Hair Books) click here:=A0 http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html READ WIENERS THIS SUMMER! He's always good for us, CAConrad --=20 PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:35:51 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Visual art / poetry In-Reply-To: <1dec21ae0907300757g4d93f9bel9e71004799a09c22@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > When I say the "visual" in poetry I mean a poetry where the eye is very > important, not as an image; but the way it moves in the experience of the > poem, as in a film or photograph, organizing what it sees into thought. In > other words, the visual is a movement of weaving. > > I do not think "visual poetry," the way it is defined today does anything > of > the sort. It seems to me it often is an exploration of new technological > techniques provided to it. In that sense, it lacks resistance or it has > resistance of a technical rather than intellectual kind. That is why I was > objecting to your expression "not interesting as image." It implied, to > me, > the desire for a complexity impelled by technical openings, prowess, > without > anything else generating it. Of course, I may be wrong or misunderstand > you. yes, of course you're wrong and misunderstanding me, murat. what's interesting to me 'as image' doesn't necessarily depend on new technology. paintings seem to be more interesting to me than photography or film 'as image'. some paintings. though there is some painterly photography and film, also. i'm less interested in the technology of production than in what is finally presented to me. or i like to be. sometimes the technology of production is made to be prominent. as in holopoetry. it's usually a consideration, in any case, mind you, isn't it. when new tech techniques are used, it's rarely just the tech means of production that's of interest, if it is at all. except to technologists, possibly. > The same argument occurred a few months ago when I asked why the special > effects in the film *Blade Runner*, the last film where *no* digital > effects > were used, were much more poweful and resonant than many science fiction > films which followed it. My guess was that, because to create special > effects in *Blade Runner* was so hard and laborious, the creators only > used > what effects were necessary, in other words, which came from the vision of > the film and were integral to it. Otherwise, as most cases afterwards, > special effects are cliches. i saw a documentary some time ago about blade runner. part of the success of the visual dimension of blade runner is that there was a long period of time in production when the film had mostly been shot but no production--except by the people responsible for the visuals--was going on. they had a long time to work on it, and something to say. i'm not sure what you mean by a digital effect, murat. these days, film is typically edited on computers. i've been reading about how bernie made off with billions. and saw the joker pic of him from the cover of the new york mag. and saw pics of various other swindlers. wow quite the run of them recently. there's reaganomics for ya. so have been contemplating a dbcinema series on faces of swindlers. collaging them in ways related to http://vispo.com/dbcinema/olga . capitalism is just so fucked up. i've been reading about madoff and crew all day. very 'american psycho' in the way he just kept going undetected or even when detected nobody did much about it until he confessed. markopolos sketches a sec that just was incapable of such analysis (ponzi scheme analysis fer instance). everybody wants a reason to believe. as in the song. which is a beautiful thing. but the swindlers really work that 'suspension of disbelief'. in any case, i'm hoping i can get something of this out of dbcinema. as a collaging tool. as a cinematic tool. as a langu(im)age processor. as a thing for 'painting' with 'brushes'. ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:46:19 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Hugh Behm-Steinberg Subject: Eleven Eleven #7 In-Reply-To: <126499.77697.qm@web36501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Announcing the release of #7, our summer print issue of Eleven Eleven, a jo= urnal of literature and art published by the graduate writing program at Ca= lifornia College of the Arts.=0A=0AFeaturing dazzling poetry by J. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 12:19:41 -0500 Reply-To: halvard@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: Big Bridge In-Reply-To: <562519.71834.qm@web53203.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sad to say, Eric Hoffman's announcement that the new Big Bridge is online was a trifle premature. Michael Rothenberg tells me it will be a matter of a few days more. Stay tuned. Hal "A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on." --William S. Burroughs Halvard Johnson =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D halvard@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Eric Hoffman wrote= : > http://www.bigbridge.org/index3 > The new Big Bridge is now on-line: > > > http://www.bigbridge.org/index3.htm > > As you can see from the contents below, it's a pretty incredible body of > material, and I'm honored to have the George Oppen special feature includ= ed > among such a stellar gathering. > > Hope this finds you well, > Eric Hoffman > > > > CHAPBOOK: > A Time in Fragments > Poem by Clark Coolidge; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis > > ________________________________ > > > FEATURES, 1 > > Slow Poetry > Edited by Dale Smith > One of the most refreshing and promising developments in poetry in recent > years, > Slow Poetry does not propose another sectarian or clique position, but > rather methods > of reading and attitudes toward production which could apply to most genr= es > in the > current scene or likely to emerge in the near future. The approach has a > strong base > in concepts and needs made more apparent than ever by current ecological > and > economic concerns. > > Beauty Came Groveling Forward: > Selected South African Poems and Stories > edited by Gary Cummiskey > This collection was meant to show the diversity and spirited character of > current > South African writing. It contains work by some celebrated writers, and > some whose > work has not received wide circulation even in its home country. Without > the > problems caused by canon formation or trying to be totally comprehensive, > this > group of poems and stories is free to work outside the stereotypes and > preconceptions > of South Africa and allow the participants to show what they can do as > individuals. > > All This Strangeness: > A Garland for George Oppen > Edited by Eric Hoffman > Commentary on Oppen has grown slowly, unobtrusively, and steadily, until = it > now forms > a major body in itself. This collection of essays evaluates that body of > criticism in less partisan > terms than many of its predecessors, seeking to focus on individual poems > and prosody in > a broad historical context, going beyond the dichotomies that dominated t= he > 20th Century and > making room for further types of relevance in current literary and social > dispensations. > > Sephardic Proverbs > Collected and translated by Michael Castro > Proverbs act on many of the same principles as other miniatures, such as > haiku. Like stand-alone > couplets and quatrains used in everything from toasts to insults, they al= so > include a strong element of > collaboration and evolution. As a look at a tradition or a type of poem, > this collection can stay with a > reader a long time. > > Post-Beat Anthology > Reprint from the Chinese anthology, with brief intro > Edited by Vernon Frazer > How would you edit a collection of poems with that title for a Chinese > audience? Probably not the > same way Frazer has. That's one of the things that makes it interesting a= nd > refreshing. > > as per Le Roman de la Rose, for example > An Anthology of Middle East Genocide Edited by Arpine Konyalian Grenier > How does the cruel and unusual work for you through art, whether it comes > from > direct experience or direct/indirect memory. Be Genet, for example; lemon > to lemonade, > for example. How does one turn to Le Roman de la Rose (a Middle Ages Poem= ) > when > one is mired in or sorting out or faced with what happened or what is > happening that is > cruel and unusual due to human intolerance: racial religious cultural > gender related and other. > > Charles Olson and the Nature of Destructive Humanism > by Craig Stormont > > One Man Blues: > Remembering Thomas Chapin > Reminiscence by Vernon Frazer > > Excerpt from > Autobiography > by David Bromige > > The India Journals > by John Brandi > > Genius and Heroin: > by Michael Largo > In this essay, the author reviews his own book. The themes of > psycho-chemistry may > stretch back to pristine civilizations in China, Egypt, and Mexico, but > they seem inexhaustible. > Perhaps associate chemicals with genius is because our brains produce suc= h > sophisticated > bases to start with, and self-review also finds a base in that phenomenon= . > > WAR PAPERS (3) > Poems and essays against war. > Sub-features by John Bradley, Joel Lewis, Philip Metres, Vincent Katz, > Francesco Levato, and > Louise Landes Levi, plus reflections from around the world on the electio= n > of Barack Obama, > and, of course, Halvard Johnson's continuing anthology of anti-war poems. > > A Retrospective of the Publication Work of Karl Young > > ________________________________ > > > FEATURES, 2 &mdash ONGOING: > ROCKPILE > ROCKPILE is a collaboration between David Meltzer =97 poet, musician, > essayist, > and more =97 and Michael Rothenberg of Big Bridge Press. David and Michae= l > will > journey through eight cities in the U.S. to perform poetry and prose, > composed while on the > road, with local musicians and artists in each city. ROCKPILE will serve = to > educate and > preserve as well as to create a history of collaboration. It will help to > reinforce the tradition of > the troubadour of all generations, central to the cultural upheaval and > identity politics that > reawakened poets, artists, musicians, and songwriters in the mid-1960s > through the 1970s. > The project will end with a final multimedia performance in San Francisco= . > Check out the ROCKPILE Blog for calendar and discussion! > > ________________________________ > > > Still Comming to Big Bridge this Year: > FEATURES, 3 > > Big Bridge New Orleans Sturm und Drang Anthology > edited by Dave Brinks and Bill Lavender > Introductory notes for work by 30 artists and 90 writers whose work will > double the size of this issue when it appears at the end of summer. > > Perfiles de la Noche / Profiles of Night > Mujeres poetas de Venezuela/Women Poets of Venezuela > A Selection from the Bi-lingual Anthology > Original complete text selected and translated by Rowena Hill > Co-edited by Pen de Venezuela and bid & co. > Selection for online edition by Terri Carrion > Poetry by > Mar=EDa Auxiliadora =C1lvarez, Edda Armas, Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva, > Mar=EDa calca=F1o, Laura Cracco, Ida Gramcko, Patricia Guzm=E1n, Veronica= Jaffe, > Maritza Jim=E9nez, Rowena Hill, Martha Kornblith, Luz machado, Mar=EDa Is= abel > Novillo, > Cecilia Ortiz, Hanni Ossott, Yolanda Pantin, Emira Rodr=EDguez, Margara > Russotto, > Mar=EDa Clara Salas, Elizabeth Sch=F6n, Blanca Strepponi, Ana Enriqueta T= er=E1n, > Alicia Torres, Elena Vera, Carmen Verde Arocha, Miyo Vestrin > > A Tri-lingual Anthology of Galician Writers > Compiled, edited, and translated from Galician to Spanish by F.R. > Lavandeira. > Translated from Spanish to English by Terri Carrion. > Poetry and Prose by > A.Nerium, Mar=EDa do Cebreiro, Est=EDbaliz Espinosa, Miro Villar, Olga No= vo, > F.R Lavandeira, Ant=F3n Riveiro Coello, Anxos Sumai, Diego Ameixeiras, In= ma > L=F3pez Silva, > > ________________________________ > > ART > Enigmas > paintings by Jim Spitzer > As a regular contributor to Big Bridge, these paintings, variations on an > enigmatic > theme, show Spitzer's continuing evolution, as well as being koan-like > meditations > in their own right. > > The Kingdom of Madison: > Photographs from Madison County, North Carolina > by Rob Amberg > Selections from three sets of photos, exploring a still relatively isolat= ed > place, > where landscape still has functional meaning. When Amberg arrived, not as= a > tourist, > but as one seeking community "Planting was still done by the signs of the > moon. > Water came from springs and heat from forests" and traditional music stil= l > part of > daily life. These photos add to the tradition begun in the WPA projects o= f > the > Great Depression, but decidedly retain an identity of their own. > > These Are My Angels > by Tasha Robbins > Small paintings done in Brooklyn on found cardboard by one of the > Post-Katrina > diaspora. Celebrating the C-Train stop at Franklin + Fulton Avenues, as t= he > artist writes, > they "kept my heart, eye + hand moving with a spirit of life close to the > timbre and > vibration of the Crescent City, still healing. . . > > Lectura en Tr=E1nsito > Project Created and Directed by Carmen Gloria Berr=EDos > Set based on combination of public art and poetry from Santiago de Chile. > Poems translated by Terri Carrion and Carmen Gloria Berr=EDos. > > Animal Night Photography > by Felicia Murray; notes by Louise Landes Levi > New techniques in photography allow us to make photographic images of > phenomena > we could only imagine in previous eras. We might debate whether the natur= e > of cameras > and software brings us any closer to the spiritual world, but these > haunting images of > animals should make us feel less alone, and more in touch with the > continuum of life. > > 12 Collages > by John Brandi > These colages can be read as a non-verbal counterpart and extension of hi= s > India Journal > and related work. > > ________________________________ > > FICTION > > Fiction by > Mel Freilicher, Eric Beeny, Stefani Christova, Lynda Schor, David > Madgalene, > Stephen-Paul Martin, Mark Wallace, Susan Smith Nash, Kirpal gordon, > Richard Martin, Peter Conners, Ann Bogle, Jeffrey Hansen, Carol Novack > > ________________________________ > > > REVIEWS > > Reviews of: > Wanda Phipps, Lewis Warsh, Simon Pettet, Larissa Shmailo, Bobbie Louise > Hawkins, Ed Sanders, > Bill Berkson, Colter Jacobsen, Mark Young, John Roche, Philip Gounis, Ric= h > Kruse, Michael Rumaker, > Annie Le Brun, George Kimball, and Ashis Gupta. > Reviewed by: > Kirpal Gordon; Svitlana Matviyenko, Garry Parrish, Jackie Sheeler, Jim > Feast, Allan Graubard, > Charles Thorne, Barbara Henning, Tom Hibbard, Steve Elmer, Stephen > Lewandowski > Joe Wetteroth, Vernon Frazer, Leverett T. Smith, and Katherine Hastings. > > ________________________________ > > > LITTLE MAGS > > > Plastic Ocean > Green Dragon > Untamed Ink > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:34:43 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Micah Robbins Subject: New from Interbirth Books Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Interbirth's fourth hand bound book -- Francis Raven's PROVISIONS -- is n= ow available at www.interbirthbooks.org. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:51:40 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: Visual art / poetry In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jim, "paintings seem to be more interesting to me than photography or film 'as image'. some paintings. though there is some painterly photography and film, also. i'm less interested in the technology of production than in what is finally presented to me." You can say that if you look at photography as a kind of painting, doing what painting "used" to do. Photography has very little do do with painting, nor has cinema. But technology peculiar to the medium does affect the limits of what is presentable in it. In some way it creates its dynamic potential. "i saw a documentary some time ago about blade runner. part of the success of the visual dimension of blade runner is that there was a long period of time in production when the film had mostly been shot but no production--except by the people responsible for the visuals--was going on. they had a long time to work on it, and something to say." If you watch that documentary again (I am assuming it is the one attached to the DVD), you will see most everything is dictated by the director's specific vision, almost about every detail of the film. The art in it is a function of bringing it about, is not independent from it. "i'm not sure what you mean by a digital effect, murat. these days, film is typically edited on computers." By you defintion, Jim, almost every poem written today is a digital poem since written on a word processor. "n any case, i'm hoping i can get something of this out of dbcinema. as a collaging tool. as a cinematic tool. as a langu(im)age processor. as a thing for 'painting' with 'brushes'." I was not suggesting that you had no thoughts you are trying to express in your digital work. Ciao, Murat On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jim Andrews wrote: > When I say the "visual" in poetry I mean a poetry where the eye is very >> important, not as an image; but the way it moves in the experience of the >> poem, as in a film or photograph, organizing what it sees into thought. In >> other words, the visual is a movement of weaving. >> >> I do not think "visual poetry," the way it is defined today does anything >> of >> the sort. It seems to me it often is an exploration of new technological >> techniques provided to it. In that sense, it lacks resistance or it has >> resistance of a technical rather than intellectual kind. That is why I was >> objecting to your expression "not interesting as image." It implied, to >> me, >> the desire for a complexity impelled by technical openings, prowess, >> without >> anything else generating it. Of course, I may be wrong or misunderstand >> you. >> > > yes, of course you're wrong and misunderstanding me, murat. what's > interesting to me 'as image' doesn't necessarily depend on new technology. > paintings seem to be more interesting to me than photography or film 'as > image'. some paintings. though there is some painterly photography and film, > also. i'm less interested in the technology of production than in what is > finally presented to me. or i like to be. sometimes the technology of > production is made to be prominent. as in holopoetry. it's usually a > consideration, in any case, mind you, isn't it. > > when new tech techniques are used, it's rarely just the tech means of > production that's of interest, if it is at all. except to technologists, > possibly. > > The same argument occurred a few months ago when I asked why the special >> effects in the film *Blade Runner*, the last film where *no* digital >> effects >> were used, were much more poweful and resonant than many science fiction >> films which followed it. My guess was that, because to create special >> effects in *Blade Runner* was so hard and laborious, the creators only >> used >> what effects were necessary, in other words, which came from the vision of >> the film and were integral to it. Otherwise, as most cases afterwards, >> special effects are cliches. >> > > i saw a documentary some time ago about blade runner. part of the success > of the visual dimension of blade runner is that there was a long period of > time in production when the film had mostly been shot but no > production--except by the people responsible for the visuals--was going on. > they had a long time to work on it, and something to say. > > i'm not sure what you mean by a digital effect, murat. these days, film is > typically edited on computers. > > i've been reading about how bernie made off with billions. and saw the > joker pic of him from the cover of the new york mag. and saw pics of various > other swindlers. wow quite the run of them recently. there's reaganomics for > ya. so have been contemplating a dbcinema series on faces of swindlers. > collaging them in ways related to http://vispo.com/dbcinema/olga . > capitalism is just so fucked up. i've been reading about madoff and crew all > day. very 'american psycho' in the way he just kept going undetected or even > when detected nobody did much about it until he confessed. markopolos > sketches a sec that just was incapable of such analysis (ponzi scheme > analysis fer instance). > > everybody wants a reason to believe. as in the song. which is a beautiful > thing. but the swindlers really work that 'suspension of disbelief'. > > in any case, i'm hoping i can get something of this out of dbcinema. as a > collaging tool. as a cinematic tool. as a langu(im)age processor. as a thing > for 'painting' with 'brushes'. > > ja > http://vispo.com > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 15:42:24 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Slaughter Subject: Notice: Mudlark MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed New and On View: Mudlark No. 38 (2009) The Limbo Suite | Poems and Paintings | Susan Kelly-DeWitt Susan Kelly-DeWitt is the author of The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press) and several chapbook collections including Cassiopeia Above the Banyan Tree, "Poems About Hawaii," also known as Mudlark No. 33 (2007). Her work also appears in a number of anthologies, most recently When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (Autumn House Press) and In Whatever Houses We May Visit: An Anthology of Poems That Have Inspired Physicians (American College of Physicians). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, The North American Review, Yankee, and Nimrod; her interviews, articles and reviews have appeared in The Sacramento Bee, Library Journal, Perihelion, Poetry Flash and Small Press Review, among others. She is currently a contributing editor for Poetry Flash and an instructor for the UC Davis Extension program. Also a visual artist, her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in Northern California galleries for over twenty years. A second full-length collection of poems, Ghostfire, is currently in search of a publisher. You can visit her website at www.susankelly-dewitt.com. Spread the word. Far and wide, William Slaughter MUDLARK An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics Never in and never out of print... E-mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:53:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Epiphany of new video dance/choreography - please give a look - * MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Epiphany of new video - please give a look - * working through choreia, maenadism, nietzchism, kristevology Foofwa d'Imobilite - dance/ < choreography Azure Carter - dance/ < choreography Alan Sondheim - hegelung/ < melodology http://www.alansondheim.org/involdance4.mp4 * some of the preliminary studies or audio tracks have been taken down to make room for this ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:11:45 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: norse memorial reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit live recordings of a norse memorial reading event with lots of folks reading his work http://www.acousticlevitation.org/norse.html On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:56:36 -0700 Thomas savage writes: > Thank you for posting the Wieners poems on your blog. I really > enjoyed reading them very much. I thought I knew his poetry very > well but I don't remember reading these before. Regards, Tom > Savage > > --- On Fri, 7/31/09, CA Conrad wrote: > > > From: CA Conrad > Subject: poet John Wieners 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 12:49 AM > > > poet John Wieners 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION > > 40 summers ago John Wieners wrote ASYLUM POEMS (Angel Hair Books) > click here: > http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html > > READ WIENERS THIS SUMMER! > He's always good for us, > CAConrad > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com > > THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 22:04:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: new on Rogue Embryo's blog In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 New on Rogue Embryo: unarmed to the hilt sixpence Zydeco Gallery #1 Part 1: From Motorcycle to Biopsy: The Messy Desk of the Mind Part 2: =93I hate my birthday!=94=97Or, what do elegies by New York school poets have in common with the story of an Italian anarchist? Larissa Shmailo, =93Jamas Volver=E9=94 http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com Cheers! Camille Martin http://www.camillemartin.ca http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com ________________________________________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 22:52:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: Re: poet John Wieners 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mr. Savage, you're certainly welcome. This summer hit a high watermark reading these Wieners poems! MORE of his books waiting for me at the library, the Notebooks published by Sun & Moon. THE FILTHY USED BOOKSTORE THIEVES want 100 dollars for it! When the newest collection of Spicer came out recently I HOPE it made those book villains SICK in their dingy little basements of money taken from the mouths of poets! Double fisted GOTCHA! NOW THE KIDS CAN BUY SPICER AND HAVE ENOUGH LEFT OVER FOR BEER AND SMOKES! CAConrad -- PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:47:24 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Young Subject: Otoliths #14, southern winter issue MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Issue fourteen of Otoliths has gone live= . As always it's full of variety. There's work by Kirsten Kaschock, Pat Nolan= , M=E1rton Kopp=E1ny, Jim Meirose , Anne Gorrick, Caleb Puckett, Peter Schwar= tz, Fredrick Zydek, Ed Baker, Ross Brighton, Derek Henderson, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Sheila E. Murphy, Raymond Farr, Jill Chan, John Martone, Bob Heman, Philip Byron Oakes, Ric Carfagna, Eileen R. Tabios, Justin Mulrooney, Jeff Harrison, Eric Burke, K. R. Copeland & Jeff Crouch, Crane Giamo, Paula Kolek, Daniel *f* Bradley, Arthur Leung, Joseph Harrington, Iain Britton, Thomas Fink, Tan Lin, Kristine Marie Darling , Joel Chace, Paul Siegell, Mariana Isara, Jay Snodgrass, Bill Drennan, Jill Jones, Stu Hatton, Nicholas Michael Ravnikar, Mara Patricia Hernandez, Felino Soriano, Matt Hetherington, Marcia Arrieta, Charles Freeland, Vernon Frazer, Grzegor= z Wr=F3blewski, Julian Jason Haladyn, Martin Edmond, harry k stammer, Reed Altemus, Randall Brock, Anny Ballardini, sean burn, A. Scott Britton, David-Baptiste Chirot, Joan Harvey, Mary Ellen Derwis, Bobbi Lurie, John Moore Williams, Sarah Ahmad, Scott Metz, Theodoros Chiotis, & Sheila E. Murphy. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 07:40:50 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Katz Subject: Re: Got a used copy of 'A'? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anyways, thanks - and I was able to get a copy, in time and at a good price, as a result of going through this list. I think Hopkins Press shd put out an edition of A 1-23! Be safe, Adam ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:44:03 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: It=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_my_birthday_and_there=E2=80=99s_a_Fog=E2=80=A6?= Comments: To: new-poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable August 3, 2009   --  http://foggedclarity.com/= =0A=0AAugust 3, 2009 =C2=A0=C2=A0--=C2=A0=C2=A0 http://foggedclarity.com/= =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AFICTION=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ACaitlin Horrocks=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0ADylan Br= ock=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0A=0A= =C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0APOETRY=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AScott Hightower=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0AHowie Good=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0AAna Bozicev= ic=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0AAmy King= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0ANiels Ha= v=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0AThax Dou= glas=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0ADawn = Schout=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 = =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0A= =C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AVISUAL=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0APatrick Gunderson=0A=0AAlex= ey Mamochkin=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0 =0A=0ADominik Kruger=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0APOLEMICS=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ARya= n McCarl=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 = =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AAURAL=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AWhite Pines=C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2= =A0=0A=0AINTERVIEWS=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ADanielle Evans=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0AAmy King & Michael Tyrell= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A=0AJo= seph Scott=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =0A= =0A=C2=A0=0A=0Ahttp://foggedclarity.com/ =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A_______ =0A =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:06:12 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dan Glass Subject: With + Stand 4: the Lisa Robertson Issue CFW MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =93As for us, we like a touch of kitsch in each room to juice up or pinken = the clean lines of the possible. This is the d=E9cor that receives futurity as = its own ludic production; this weather is the vestibule to something fountainin= g newly and crucially and yet indiscernibly beyond. Perhaps here we shall be other than the administrators of poverty.=94 =97The Office for Soft Architecture, from =93Introduction to THE WEATHER=94 =93I SPEAK TO JUDGE CRIMES OF FILIATION as hard sky spent cancelled horizon my own mouth barking perhaps I am unmentionable ticking against the dark adjacency of prose lovely home of gods and punctuation I say this against the long and burning hills in the slatey cold of debt=94 =97Lisa Robertson, Debbie: An Epic With + Stand 4: The Lisa Robertson Issue =93Perhaps here we shall be other than the administrators of poverty.=94 With + Stand, out of a deep collective sense of appreciation for and camaraderie with the great poet of systems and subjectivity Lisa Robertson, seeks submissions for its fourth issue, which will be focused on her work. Creative responses to any of her books or poems are especially encouraged. Critical work which seeks to =93pinken the clean lines of the possible=94 i= s likewise welcome. We search for a conversation that says what it says against the =93slatey c= old of debt.=94 We search for the =93indiscernibly beyond.=94 Send Word .docs of 1-15 pages to withplusstand [at] gmail [dot] com by Saturday October 17th, 2009 (the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake). A reading and release party will take place in November, somewhere in the SF Bay Area. http://withplusstand.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:04:17 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Country Valley Subject: Country Valley Press, Summer 2009 Comments: To: CVP@mac.com MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Announcing: Jeffery Beam - AN INVOCATION Limited edition, Japanese style sewn chapbook, 34 pgs. $15 or $20 signed. Please note that I am still binding/sewing and should have more copies ready to ship in a couple of weeks. I did an initial pre-order for friends of the author, so copies are already limited. A PayPal link will on the CVP website soon; however, if you would like to reserve a copy now, please email me and/or send a check/money order for the book plus $3.00 shipping. The Empty Hands Broadside Series A subscription to the series is now $5 for four broadsides a year, postpaid. Current and upcoming issues include: Sabine Miller Serge Gavronsky John Phillips Simon Cutts ON SALE at the press website: Ed Baker - Restoration Poems Joel Chace - Scaffold Country Valley Press http://web.mac.com/countryvalley ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:39:37 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Aug 9: Chicago reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii SUNDAY, AUGUST 9th 7pm James Belflower Jennifer Karmin Tom Orange at MYOPIC BOOKS 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave -- Chicago, IL http://www.myopicbookstore.com free JAMES BELFLOWER's first book of poems, Commuter, is forthcoming from Instance Press in 2009. And Also a Fountain, his collaborative echap with Anne Heide and J. Michael Martinez, is forthcoming from NeOPepper Press in 2009. He was a finalist for the 2007 National Poetry series, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the 2007 Juked Magazine poetry prize. His work appears, or is forthcoming in: Jacket, EOAGH, Denver Quarterly, Octopus, LIT, First Intensity, 580 Split, Konundrum Engine, and Coconut, among others. He runs PotLatchpoetry.org, a website dedicated to the gifting and exchange of poetry resources. JENNIFER KARMIN is the author of the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice (Flim Forum Press, forthcoming 2009). She curates the Red Rover Series and is a founding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented nationally at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets. Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet in Residence for the Chicago Public Schools. New poems are published in the journals Cannot Exist, MoonLit, Otoliths, and anthologized in Come Together: Imagine Peace(Bottom Dog Press), Not A Muse (Haven Books), and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books). TOM ORANGE has taught at literature and writing at Vanderbilt, Georgetown and The George Washington Universities. He currently lives in Cleveland Ohio, where he is active in the local food movement and the music and arts scenes. Slack Buddha Press published his chapbook of conceptual prose, American Dialectics, in 2008, and he is currently revising a book-length manuscript on the early poetry of Clark Coolidge. His recent and forthcoming work can be found in Aquaduck, Big Bridge, English Studies in Canada, The I.E. Reader, Typo, Wheelhouse, and 1913: A Journal of Forms. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 11:33:32 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Kane Subject: ed james and thomas postell? In-Reply-To: <4bd394920908040322h19491188y7588a28a5dad3836@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A musicologist friend of mine (Ben Young) is trying to track down information on two poets...Google has proved equally elusive....these two poets, Ed James and Thomas Postell, are listed as having read with Amiri Baraka, Bobb Hamilton and Cecil Taylor in 1957...see http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22bobb+hamilton%22&scoring=a&hl=en&ned=us&um=1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=1955&as_hdate=1959&lnav=hist1 If anyone knows anything about these two writers, or has contact info for them, it'd be great if you could pass it on to me at djk5474@gmail.com and I'll forward that on to Ben. thanks, --daniel ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:43:21 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: I=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99m_?= at The Living Room but Comments: To: new-poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Seating is limited!   Five sets of music &= =0A=0ASeating is limited!=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AFive sets of music &= two readings:=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ASamantha Farrell=0A=0AStrand of Oaks=0A=0AK= arisa Wilson=0A=0AAmir Darzi=0A=0AMichael Tyrell=0A=0AAmy King=0A=0AJudson = Claiborne=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ASunday, September 13, 2009 @ 9 pm=0A= =0A=C2=A0=0A=0AThe Living Room=0A=0A154 Ludlow St.=0A=0ANew York, NY 10002= =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AINFO -- http://www.livingroomny.com/artist/fo= gged-clarity=0A=0A=0ATICKETS -- http://foggedclarity.com/=C2=A0 =0A=0A=C2= =A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A** I=E2=80=99ll be reading from my new book, Slaves to= do These=0AThings.=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A _______ =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 18:52:24 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chris Jones Subject: Re: Visual art / poetry In-Reply-To: <669945.30025.qm@web34201.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In actual practice I have come across this problem, being both an art photographer and poet. It does seem in practice and the thinking required, the distinction is reactionary, in the technical sense of the word. Gerald Genette's books on the work of art seem to address this problem. Best, Chris Jones. On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 10:32 -0700, nieuwland jeroen wrote: > Thanks Jim, > 'reactionary' wasn't a word my friend used, but I assume he meant that there was a time when a distinction between visual art / poetry made sense ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:08:09 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: Visual art / poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit sure it makes sense i do alot of collage and feel that it's ovvious to me when each is what it is vispo or just vis collages tho all have a poetic sense embedded in them and many with a narrative no matter how abstract or warped On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 18:52:24 +1000 Chris Jones writes: > In actual practice I have come across this problem, being both an > art > photographer and poet. It does seem in practice and the thinking > required, the distinction is reactionary, in the technical sense of > the > word. > > Gerald Genette's books on the work of art seem to address this > problem. > Best, Chris Jones. > > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 10:32 -0700, nieuwland jeroen wrote: > > Thanks Jim, > > 'reactionary' wasn't a word my friend used, but I assume he meant > that there was a time when a distinction between visual art / poetry > made sense > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:56:01 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: { brad brace } Subject: 10ten10 new pleated plaid pamphlets published Comments: To: Art Criticism Discussion Forum , ART-ALL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, WRYTING-L automatic digest -- Theory and Writing , webartery , 7-11@mail.ljudmila.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ten New Pleated Plaid Pamphlets Published over 800 pages good stuff $5 { brad brace } Pleated Plaid Pamphlet Volumes 139-150 Number 2 [accompaniment to insatiable abstraction engine] http://www.bbrace.net/abstraction-engine.html bbrace@eskimo.com brad brace, bbrace, architecture, engineering, biography, memoir, illustration, map, creative, writing, drama, opera, puzzles, games, samizdat, artists' books, poetry, fluxus, contemporary, art, design, fiction,musical 139 Rustic Pipes Rustic Survival Rustic Unease 140 Rusting Rails Rusting Roofs Rusty Barrel Rusty Nails Rusty Sprockets 141 Sacramental Sync Sacred Discontent Sacred Ends 142 Sacred Grove Sacred Oath Sacred Obligations 143 Sacred Statues Sacred Stream Sacred Subjects 144 Sacred Vessels Sacred Vesture Sacred Vision 145 Sacrificial Blaze Sacrificial Fire Sacrificial Service 146 Sacrificial Victims Sacrosanct Castrating Sad Aura 147 Rabbit Raffle Sad Blow Sad Ends 150 Rabbit Tissue Sad Exile Sad Farewell Sad Glance ppp139-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-139-no-2/7489425 ppp140-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-140-no-2/7489492 ppp141-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-141-no-2/7489536 ppp142-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-142-no-2/7489978 ppp143-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-143-no-2/7490038 ppp144-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-144-no-2/7490084 ppp145-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-145-no-2/7490142 ppp146-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-146-no-2/7490190 ppp147-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-147-no-2/7490273 ppp150-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-150-no-2/7490323 /:b ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:20:08 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Stephen Vincent Subject: The Guest of Cindy Sherman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I found this flic to be a wonderful doc or psuedo-doc and a hoot. In many w= ays a hilarious and/or dark foil all the factions, ambitions, posturing, go= od and bad spirited humor that occupies poetry and no doubt parts of most a= rt worlds. Unlike 99% of the poetry world, the mortar in the New York art w= orld (for actually probably a very small percentage of artists) is Cash, bi= g Cash.=A0 "The Guest of Cindy Sherman" is more the world of the 80's & 90'= s (the big boys of that time that are now much gone - but, what big, petent= ious pricks of the era).=A0 (One assumes/knows they have been replaced).=A0= Sherman, by contrast, comes off quite well, a wonderful imaginator & criti= c of kith, kitsch and ken - a little shy and sweet under all those masks!= =20 In San Francisco it's showing at the Roxie. Anywhere else?=20 Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ Now showing "Requiem" - a new, composite haptic =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 18:48:37 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Subject: Part 1 of this year's Big Bridge is now online! Comments: To: Michael Comments: cc: Michael MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Part 1 of this year's Big Bridge is now online! =20 http://www.bigbridge.org/ =20 As usual, it includes balanced presentations of arts and genres, = aesthetic approaches and socio-political statements, compact anthologies = and stand-alone works.=20 =20 The issue opens with a collection of essays and examples of Slow Poetry, = one of the leading contenders for the first major shift in 21st century = art. Not a movement, but rather a means of approaching, rethinking, and = appreciating virtually all modes and genres. A measure of the importance = of this feature is that its URL got passed around before the issue = officially went online. It thus officially appears after being mentioned = in blogs, and even satirized by another group. In one way or another, we = hope our features tend to be similarly ahead of the curve - at times = going so far as to generate response before official publication.=20 =20 We do, however, try to present work that keeps response from distorting = our environment, as we try to reclaim poetry from preconception. This = issue's anthology of poetry and fiction from South Africa, for instance, = makes no attempt to fill in news stories or confirm simplifications of = huge problems and unusual successes, but present a glimpse of the = diversity of a complex nation's poetry and the individuality of its = writers.=20 =20 Standard features such as the continuing group statements in War Papers = and another in the series of paintings by Jim Spitzer, judicious essays = and terse reviews, short fiction and a suggestive sample of current = little magazines published on paper in the digital age continue the = scope of the magazine. A simplified table of contents appears below.=20 =20 This issue differs from its predecessors in several ways. It intersects = with the ROCKPILE program of transcontinental readings lead by David = Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg and including local participants.=20 =20 It also appears several months before the omnibus New Orleans anthology, = which, in itself, is larger than everything else in the issue. Later = this year, we will also add a compact, bi-lingual Anthology of = Venezuelan Women poets, another tri-lingual Anthology of Galician = writers and a few small contributions. We feel that dividing the issue = up this way keeps the New Orleans feature from throwing the issue off = balance and giving our readers some breathing room. Opening ROCKPILE at = this time also gives us a chance to test the interaction of an annual = magazine with an on-going project.=20 =20 Although we are adamant partisans in some areas, such as opposition to = senseless wars in places the U.S. does not understand and where it does = not belong, and in celebration of the history and resurrection of one of = America's greatest cities, we hope to maintain enough diversity to = present some work that will appeal to nearly anyone who looks for = progressive poetry on the web, and perhaps promote interchange between = people with different ideas and orientations.=20 =20 At a time when economic crisis brings out the perennial name for = boondoggles, we'd like to move as far away from being a bridge to = nowhere as we can but rather see how close we can come to being a big = bridge that can act as a focal point for the cyberbridges that lead = everywhere. =20 =20 =20 CHAPBOOK=20 =20 A Time in Fragments Poem by Clark Coolidge; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis =20 =20 =20 FEATURES, 1 =20 Slow Poetry Edited by Dale Smith =20 Beauty Came Groveling Forward: Selected South African Poems and Stories edited by Gary Cummiskey =20 All This Strangeness: A Garland for George Oppen Edited by Eric Hoffman =20 Sephardic Proverbs Collected and translated by Michael Castro =20 Post-Beat Anthology Reprint from the Chinese anthology, with brief intro Edited by Vernon Frazer =20 as per Le Roman de la Rose, for example: An Anthology of Middle East Genocide=20 Edited by Arpine Konyalian Grenier=20 =20 Charles Olson and the Nature of Destructive Humanism by Craig Stormont =20 One Man Blues: Remembering Thomas Chapin Reminiscense by Vernon Frazer =20 Excerpt from Autobiography by David Bromige =20 The India Journals by John Brandi =20 Genius and Heroin: by Michael Largo =20 WAR PAPERS (3) Poems and essays against war. =20 =20 =20 =20 FEATURES, 2 - ONGOING: =20 ROCKPILE =20 ROCKPILE is a collaboration between David Meltzer - poet, musician, = essayist,=20 and more - and Michael Rothenberg, poet, songwriter and editor of Big = Bridge Press. In the tradition of the troubadour and with the spirit of = collaboration, David and Michael will journey through eight U.S. cities = and perform poetry, composed on the road, with local musicians and = artists in each city. ROCKPILE will serve to educate, and preserve and create a history of = collaboration and help to introduce as well as reinforce the tradition = of the troubadour for all generations.=20 The project will end with a final multimedia performance in San = Francisco.=20 Check out the ROCKPILE Website and Blog at = http://bigbridge.org/rockpile/ for complete gig dates, musician bios, on = the road calendar, and ongoing interactive exchange! =20 =20 =20 ART =20 Enigmas paintings by Jim Spitzer =20 The Kingdom of Madison: Photographs from Madison County, North Carolina by Rob Amberg =20 These Are My Angels Paintings by Tasha Robbins =20 Lectura en Transito Project Created and Directed by Carmen Gloria Berrios Set based on combination of public art and poetry from Santiago de Chile =20 Animal Night Photography by Felicia Murray; notes by Louise Landes Levi =20 12 Collages=20 by John Brandi =20 =20 =20 FICTION =20 And=20 =20 REVIEWS =20 =20 =20 =20 LITTLE MAGS =20 Plastic Ocean, Green Dragon and Untamed Ink =20 =20 =20 Still Coming to Big Bridge this Issue: =20 =20 FEATURES, 3 =20 Big Bridge New Orleans Sturm und Drang Anthology edited by Dave Brinks and Bill Lavender Work by 30 artists and 90 writers=20 =20 Perfiles de la Noche / Profiles of Night Mujeres poetas de Venezuela/Women Poets of Venezuela A Selection from the Bi-lingual Anthology Original complete text selected and translated by Rowena Hill Co-edited by Pen de Venezuela and bid & co. Selection for online edition by Terri Carrion =20 A Tri-lingual Anthology of Galician Writers Compiled, edited, and translated from Galician to Spanish by F.R. = Lavandeira. Translated from Spanish to English by Terri Carrion. =20 =20 Continuation of a Retrospective of the Publication Work of Karl Young =20 =20 http://www.bigbridge.org =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:20:03 -0500 Reply-To: halvard@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Fwd: Part 1 of this year's Big Bridge is now online! In-Reply-To: <00e301ca156f$4347c2d0$6401a8c0@LENOVOB39742E2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:48 PM Subject: Part 1 of this year's Big Bridge is now online! To: Michael Cc: Michael *Part 1 of this year=92s Big Bridge is now online!* * * http://www.bigbridge.org/ As usual, it includes balanced presentations of arts and genres, aesthetic approaches and socio-political statements, compact anthologies and stand-alone works. The issue opens with a collection of essays and examples of Slow Poetry, on= e of the leading contenders for the first major shift in 21st century art. No= t a movement, but rather a means of approaching, rethinking, and appreciating virtually all modes and genres. A measure of the importance of this feature is that its URL got passed around before the issue officially went online. It thus officially appears after being mentioned in blogs, and even satirized by another group. In one way or another, we hope our features ten= d to be similarly ahead of the curve - at times going so far as to generate response before official publication. We do, however, try to present work that keeps response from distorting our environment, as we try to reclaim poetry from preconception. This issue=92s anthology of poetry and fiction from South Africa, for instance, makes no attempt to fill in news stories or confirm simplifications of huge problems and unusual successes, but present a glimpse of the diversity of a complex nation=92s poetry and the individuality of its writers. Standard features such as the continuing group statements in War Papers and another in the series of paintings by Jim Spitzer, judicious essays and terse reviews, short fiction and a suggestive sample of current little magazines published on paper in the digital age continue the scope of the magazine. A simplified table of contents appears below. This issue differs from its predecessors in several ways. It intersects wit= h the ROCKPILE program of transcontinental readings lead by David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg and including local participants. It also appears several months before the omnibus New Orleans anthology, which, in itself, is larger than everything else in the issue. Later this year, we will also add a compact, bi-lingual Anthology of Venezuelan Women poets, another tri-lingual Anthology of Galician writers and a few small contributions. We feel that dividing the issue up this way keeps the New Orleans feature from throwing the issue off balance and giving our readers some breathing room. Opening ROCKPILE at this time also gives us a chance t= o test the interaction of an annual magazine with an on-going project. Although we are adamant partisans in some areas, such as opposition to senseless wars in places the U.S. does not understand and where it does not belong, and in celebration of the history and resurrection of one of America=92s greatest cities, we hope to maintain enough diversity to presen= t some work that will appeal to nearly anyone who looks for progressive poetr= y on the web, and perhaps promote interchange between people with different ideas and orientations. At a time when economic crisis brings out the perennial name for boondoggles, we=92d like to move as far away from being a bridge to nowhere= as we can but rather see how close we can come to being a big bridge that can act as a focal point for the cyberbridges that lead everywhere. *CHAPBOOK * *A Time in Fragments* Poem by Clark Coolidge; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis *FEATURES, 1* *Slow Poetry* Edited by Dale Smith *Beauty Came Groveling Forward:* *Selected South African Poems and Stories* edited by Gary Cummiskey *All This Strangeness: A Garland for George Oppen* Edited by Eric Hoffman *Sephardic Proverbs* Collected and translated by Michael Castro * * *Post-Beat Anthology* Reprint from the Chinese anthology, with brief intro Edited by Vernon Frazer *as per Le Roman de la Rose, for example:* *An Anthology of Middle East Genocide* Edited by Arpine Konyalian Grenier * * *Charles Olson and the Nature of Destructive Humanism* by Craig Stormont * * *One Man Blues:* *Remembering Thomas Chapin* Reminiscense by Vernon Frazer * * *Excerpt from Autobiography* by David Bromige *The India Journals* by John Brandi *Genius and Heroin:* by Michael Largo * * *WAR PAPERS (3)* Poems and essays against war. *FEATURES, 2 - ONGOING:* * * *ROCKPILE* *ROCKPILE* is a collaboration between David Meltzer - poet, musician, essayist, and more - and Michael Rothenberg, poet, songwriter and editor of Big Bridg= e Press. In the tradition of the troubadour and with the spirit of collaboration, David and Michael will journey through eight U.S. cities and perform poetry, composed on the road, with local musicians and artists in each city. *ROCKPILE* will serve to educate, and preserve and create a history of collaboration and help to introduce as well as reinforce the tradition of the troubadour for all generations. The project will end with a final multimedia performance in San Francisco. Check out the *ROCKPILE* Website and Blog at http://bigbridge.org/rockpile/for complete gig dates, musician bios, on the road calendar, and ongoing interactive exchange! *ART* *Enigmas* paintings by Jim Spitzer * * *The Kingdom of Madison:* Photographs from Madison County, North Carolina by Rob Amberg * * *These Are My Angels* Paintings by Tasha Robbins *Lectura en Transito* Project Created and Directed by Carmen Gloria Berrios Set based on combination of public art and poetry from Santiago de Chile * * *Animal Night Photography* by Felicia Murray; notes by Louise Landes Levi * * *12 Collages * by John Brandi *FICTION* And *REVIEWS* * * *LITTLE MAGS* *Plastic** Ocean**, Green Dragon* and *Untamed Ink* * * *Still Coming to Big Bridge this Issue:* * * *FEATURES, 3* * * *Big Bridge New Orleans Sturm und Drang Anthology * edited by Dave Brinks and Bill Lavender Work by 30 artists and 90 writers *Perfiles de la Noche / Profiles of Night* Mujeres poetas de Venezuela/Women Poets of Venezuela A Selection from the Bi-lingual Anthology Original complete text selected and translated by Rowena Hill Co-edited by Pen de Venezuela and bid & co. Selection for online edition by Terri Carrion *A Tri-lingual Anthology of Galician Writers* Compiled, edited, and translated from Galician to Spanish by F.R. Lavandeira. Translated from Spanish to English by Terri Carrion. Continuation of a Retrospective of the Publication Work of Karl Young *http://www.bigbridge.org* =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 06:11:49 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Interview at Pirene's Fountain Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" There's an interview with me about magazine editing at Pirene's Fountain:= http://www.pirenesfountain.com/jeffrey-side_interview.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:43:38 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: An Advertising Opportunity for Boog's Festival Issue Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, In five weeks, we'll be putting on our third annual Welcome to Boog City festival, featuring more than 90 poets, musicians, and playwrights performing at three venues, in two boroughs, over five days, from Wed. Sept. 9- Sun. Sept. 13. Here's the online pdf of the schedule: http://www.welcometoboogcity.com/wbc3sked.pdf A week before the event, we'll be putting out the festival issue of Boog City. This issue will feature write-ups on some of the performers and a full schedule, illustrated with images of each of the performers. Advertising in the festival issue of Boog City means Poetic you will reach more than 3,000 readers, poetry lovers, and small press aficionados throughout the East Village, other targeted areas of lower Manhattan; Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn; as well as bonus distribution at Boog City's monthly events. That's an increase of 33.3% over our regular issues for no additional cost. And, since this issue is also a program for the festival, readers will give it a closer read as they check to see who's up later on that day and later on in the festival. Boog City continues to offer our special Small Press Ad Rates. That means when you advertise with us you will save 50% off of our regular display ad rates, making the adjusted Small Press Ad Rates: * Full Page $220 * Half-Page $130 * Quarter-Page $70 * Eighth-Page $40 Here is a link to our full rate card: http://www.welcometoboogcity.com/ad_rates.pdf Please contact us to advertise and with any questions you may have. as ever, David -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:22:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: My new blog address Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" My new blog address is http://jeffrey-side.blogspot.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:51:08 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Does anyone want to link? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Does anyone want to link to my new blog? =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:21:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Linda Thompson Appeal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" I have just heard that Linda Thompson, singer-songwriter and former singi= ng=20 partner to Richard Thompson, is having some difficulty funding her next a= lbum=20 due to various changes in the music industry, which some of us regret. Sh= e=20 has set up an appeal for funding at a site called The Hector Fund (a site= which=20 is something of an innovation in these matters). Her page on the site can= be=20 found here: http://www.thehectorfund.com/about/linda-thompson/ Linda says: =93I=92d like your help. I=92m trying to raise money so I can record the = music, and be=20 able to pay the excellent musicians, engineers and studios a fair wage an= d=20 release the album to the public. So I am asking for financing - not chari= ty=20 (please save that for a more worthy cause) - but a business transaction. = You,=20 the audience, put up some money and I return the favor by sending you the= =20 music and much, much more! I=92m trying to raise $50,000 to cover ALL of the costs associated with=20= independently producing, manufacturing and marketing an album in today=92= s=20 marketplace. When I started playing music in the sixties and seventies, we shared=20 everything=96 perhaps some things we shouldn=92t have. I=92d like to retu= rn to a little=20 bit of that spirit now. You the audience can share in the experience of m= aking=20 my record with me and be the first to hear it when its done - and I get t= o=20 stick it to =93the man=94 (whoever passes for the =91man=92 these days) b= y working=20 outside of the system.=94 Having been a fan of Linda and Richard for many years, I think it is a di= sgrace=20 that someone who has contributed so much musically over the years has to = be=20 put in a position whereby she has to resort to financial help from fans a= nd=20 public alike. It just goes to show the appalling state of the music busin= ess,=20 which even in the folk/country genre is only thinking of the bottom dolla= r.=20 So I hope some of you will help Linda, and, as she says, don=92t think of= it as=20 charity but more as sponsorship.=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:38:30 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: The Guest of Cindy Sherman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit it's not pseodo it's for real he was her boy friend real love there for awhile was on tv sundance channel On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:20:08 -0700 Stephen Vincent writes: > I found this flic to be a wonderful doc or psuedo-doc and a hoot. In > many ways a hilarious and/or dark foil all the factions, ambitions, > posturing, good and bad spirited humor that occupies poetry and no > doubt parts of most art worlds. Unlike 99% of the poetry world, the > mortar in the New York art world (for actually probably a very small > percentage of artists) is Cash, big Cash. "The Guest of Cindy > Sherman" is more the world of the 80's & 90's (the big boys of that > time that are now much gone - but, what big, petentious pricks of > the era). (One assumes/knows they have been replaced). Sherman, by > contrast, comes off quite well, a wonderful imaginator & critic of > kith, kitsch and ken - a little shy and sweet under all those masks! > > > In San Francisco it's showing at the Roxie. Anywhere else? > > Stephen V > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > Now showing "Requiem" - a new, composite haptic > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:26:31 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Tribbey, Hugh R." Subject: CFP: Experimental Writing and Aesthetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Call for Papers: Experimental Writing and Aesthetics =20 Abstract/Proposals by 15 December 2009 (Priority Registration Deadline 11/1/09) =20 Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations' 30th Annual Conference Albuquerque, NM, February 10-13, 2010 Conference Hotel: Hyatt Regency Albuquerque 330 Tijeras Albuquerque, NM 87102 505.842.1234 =20 Panels are now forming on topics related to Experimental Writing and Aesthetics in such areas as=20 =20 ! the aesthetics of experimental writing in any genre or in multi-genre/multi-media works including digital and graphic compositions involving language, =20 ! the poetics of performance of experimental compositions, =20 =20 ! critical studies of experimental writers and/or movements such as Foulipo or conceptual writing,=20 =20 ! fictocritical treatments or extended manifestoes, etc. =20 =20 Creative writers interested in the selective creative writing readings panels should contact Jerry Bradley, Creative Writing Readings Chair, via < http://swtxpca.org/ >. (Creative writing is just as welcome as critical work.) Conference organizers will try to schedule similar sessions together, so tell Dr. Bradley you are an experimental writer to make it easier to attend each other's sessions. =20 Scholars, teachers, professionals, writers not affiliated with academic institutions, undergraduates as well as graduate students, and others interested in experimental writing are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for best graduate papers. Individual presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length. =20 You may organize your own panel, but please recognize the scheduling flexibility of the conference is limited. =20 Send abstracts, papers, or proposals for panels electronically with your email address by 15 December 2009 with "SW/TX PCA Submission" typed in the subject line to: =20 Hugh Tribbey, Area Chair=20 Literature, Experimental Writing and Aesthetics=20 Email: htribbey@ecok.edu =20 =20 Mailing Address: Dr. Hugh Tribbey Department of English and Languages East Central University 1100 E. 14th St. Ada, OK 74820 Phone: 580-559-5524; Fax: 580-436-3329 =20 Conference Website: < http://swtxpca.org/ > (updated regularly) =20 Hugh Tribbey PhD Assistant Professor English & Languages East Central University 1100 E. 14th St. Ada OK 74820 580-559-5524 htribbey@ecok.edu =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:43:41 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: The Guest of Cindy Sherman In-Reply-To: <20090805.163831.3196.5.skyplums@juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sorry, Steve or anyone, if I implied the love between Henry H. and Sherman = was not for real. They were clearly smitten with one another - which makes = it so fine in that Sherman's photo character creations often look so cool a= nd=A0 detached it's hard to imagine them being smitten ever at all.=A0 "Psu= edo-doc" was in relationship to whether or not all the scenes in the movie = were real or not.=A0=20 Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ --- On Wed, 8/5/09, steve dalachinsky wrote: From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: The Guest of Cindy Sherman To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 4:08 AM it's not pseodo it's for real he was her boy friend real love there for awhile was on tv sundance channel On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:20:08 -0700 Stephen Vincent writes: > I found this flic to be a wonderful doc or psuedo-doc and a hoot. In=20 > many ways a hilarious and/or dark foil all the factions, ambitions,=20 > posturing, good and bad spirited humor that occupies poetry and no=20 > doubt parts of most art worlds. Unlike 99% of the poetry world, the=20 > mortar in the New York art world (for actually probably a very small=20 > percentage of artists) is Cash, big Cash.=A0 "The Guest of Cindy=20 > Sherman" is more the world of the 80's & 90's (the big boys of that=20 > time that are now much gone - but, what big, petentious pricks of=20 > the era).=A0 (One assumes/knows they have been replaced).=A0 Sherman, by= =20 > contrast, comes off quite well, a wonderful imaginator & critic of=20 > kith, kitsch and ken - a little shy and sweet under all those masks!=20 >=20 >=20 > In San Francisco it's showing at the Roxie. Anywhere else?=20 >=20 > Stephen V > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > Now showing "Requiem" - a new, composite haptic >=20 >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check=20 > guidelines & sub/unsub info:=20 > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >=20 >=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:48:53 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: The Guest of Cindy Sherman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit no need to apologize seems they were all real he did have that cable tv show etc On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:43:41 -0700 Stephen Vincent writes: > Sorry, Steve or anyone, if I implied the love between Henry H. and > Sherman was not for real. They were clearly smitten with one another > - which makes it so fine in that Sherman's photo character creations > often look so cool and detached it's hard to imagine them being > smitten ever at all. "Psuedo-doc" was in relationship to whether or > not all the scenes in the movie were real or not. > > Stephen V > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > --- On Wed, 8/5/09, steve dalachinsky wrote: > > From: steve dalachinsky > Subject: Re: The Guest of Cindy Sherman > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 4:08 AM > > it's not pseodo it's for real > he was her boy friend > real love there for awhile > was on tv sundance channel > > On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:20:08 -0700 Stephen Vincent > > writes: > > I found this flic to be a wonderful doc or psuedo-doc and a hoot. > In > > many ways a hilarious and/or dark foil all the factions, > ambitions, > > posturing, good and bad spirited humor that occupies poetry and no > > > doubt parts of most art worlds. Unlike 99% of the poetry world, > the > > mortar in the New York art world (for actually probably a very > small > > percentage of artists) is Cash, big Cash. "The Guest of Cindy > > Sherman" is more the world of the 80's & 90's (the big boys of > that > > time that are now much gone - but, what big, petentious pricks of > > > the era). (One assumes/knows they have been replaced). Sherman, > by > > contrast, comes off quite well, a wonderful imaginator & critic of > > > kith, kitsch and ken - a little shy and sweet under all those > masks! > > > > > > In San Francisco it's showing at the Roxie. Anywhere else? > > > > Stephen V > > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > > Now showing "Requiem" - a new, composite haptic > > > > > > ================================== > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > > guidelines & sub/unsub info: > > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:18:59 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Lazer, Hank" Subject: Recession Special - MCP Series books MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Colleague, The University of Alabama Press is proud to offer a RECESSION SPECIAL on many of the titles found in its Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series. Purchase any of the following books at 50% off the regular retail price. (See below for pricing in USD and ISBNs required for ordering.) To purchase a copy of any of these titles at the HALF PRICE discount offer,= good through August 30, 2009, just call our warehouse in Chicago toll-free= at (800) 621-2736 or locally at (773) 702-7000 and mention sales code MCPR= S-01. 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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I'm looking for critical works on homophonic translation--also, trying to build a list of homophonic translations. Many thanks for any information you can offer! Judith Goldman ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:11:47 +0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: Site Citation: Daily Psychoacoustic Quotations Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi, everyone, I've begun a new recordings project. Each day I scout for unique sound envi= ronments and sample from one to 10 minutes of "quotation." I began this pro= ject on Monday. I posted my 4th recording just a few minutes ago. There is = no commentary or context, just headings, which you must click on to listen.= A little box.net window will open up, so please have your pop-up blockers = disabled. Please visit sitecitations.blogspot.com and become a follower. And please leave comments. And check daily in the la= te evening for new updates. Thanks, Christophe Casamassima --=20 Powered By Outblaze =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:19:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Peter Subject: Requiem Haptics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Requiem Haptics are stunning Stephen, as are the other recent entries. http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ Your blog continues to delight, your eye for the culture is superb. What a great way to spend an hour. Best, Peter On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote: -- http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/ http://uncommonvision.blogspot.com/ http://poemsfromprovidence.blogspot.com/ http://uncommon-vision.blogspot.com/ You can find my art and writing updates on Twitter https://twitter.com/ciccariello ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:16:51 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: event to SAVE Giovanni's Room Bookstore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit event to SAVE Giovanni's Room Bookstore the world's largest, and oldest LGBT and feminist bookstore event page with performers' links: http://CAConradEVENTS.blogspot.com This will be a hat-passing benefit with performances by The Absinthe Drinkers, Ish Klein, CAConrad, Leda and the Swans, Medusa Sings the Blues, as well as Heather Henderson THIS IS SPONSORED BY The Monday Night Club AD Amarosi and Needles Jones host MONDAY, AUGUST 10TH starts at 9pm at National Mechanics 22 S. 3rd St. (that's 3rd between Market and Chestnut) PHILADELPHIA IF YOU CAN'T MAKE THE SHOW THEN PLEASE VISIT THE STORE AND SHOP! OR CALL THEM, OR EMAIL THEM TO PLACE AN ORDER! IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE BOOK YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THEY CAN ORDER IT, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS! Visit the store here: http://www.giovannisroom.com THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING GIOVANNI'S ROOM BOOKSTORE! -- PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:35:02 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: what webcam is 4 U ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you HAD TO spend a full day watching a webcam on your computer, what would it be? Maybe you don't want to, but suppose you HAD TO, you're life depended on it. Just for one day though. My favorite, absolute favorite, without a doubt my favorite so far in this lifetime is the one at Elvis' home in Memphis (it's so nice seeing His grass and birds): http://elvis-aron-presley.nl/graceland_incl_webcam.html An Elvis fan I met at Graceland some years ago recently told me that the Graceland webcam is out of date, and that there are webcams which update more than every 60 seconds. Is that true? Well, I don't know for sure, but this one's pretty great anyway. I don't care that everything I'm seeing actually happened 60 seconds ago. Maybe EVERYTHING we do happens on a 60 second delay anyway and we have no idea! It could be true! The last time I was at Graceland I did a special dance with a crazy Beale Street drag queen at the gates to Graceland for all the viewers at home. When I win the lottery my one BIG luxury is going to be a big screen showing THIS webcam 24 hours a day, which will be nice while eating morning oatmeal. But what's your favorite webcam? Am I the only one with a favorite webcam? There's another one I like that an old friend sent me of corn growing in Iowa. That was rather nice seeing Monsanto's finest! CAConrad Advanced ELVIS Course: http://advancedELVIS.blogspot.com -- PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:43:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Can There Ever Be Another High Modernism? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" New blog post: http://jeffrey-side.blogspot.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:24:01 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: recent posts on Tinfish Editor's Blog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Recent posts on: --homophobia, football and poetry --tourism & poetry --guerrilla action at AWP 1 & 2 --the seductions of can't ("I can't write poetry") --travels to the west coast Please pay a visit at http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com aloha, Susan ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:34:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Lars Palm Subject: Susan Maurer from ungovernable press Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Dear All, after a brief break ungovernable press returns with a sweet new book Perfect Dark by Susan Maurer as always freely downloadable for your perusal cheers, lars http://ungovernablepress.weebly.com http://mischievoice.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:40:41 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: { brad brace } Subject: updates: red dwgs - radio station - $2 clunker MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII the red dwgs retail for $1500 (very few exchanges), are getting vibrantly old and brittle (they began with 50 yr old paper), and ideally should be float-framed to show their irregular edges and emphasize their compressed, palimpsest nature; they're delivered under archival wrap [http://www.bbrace.net/reddwgs08/index.html] [300 scanned red drawings: the book http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/300-scanned-red-drawings/7475997] my bbs radio station suffered a fatal hard disk crash yesterday (after several continuous years), but it's back online now -- I was prepared with an even larger new replacement disk --- bbs: brad brace sound --- http://69.64.229.114:8000 --- http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/undisclosed.html Bolt&Lesdema was the first to claim the $2 clunker piece (although it remains to be seen if a US$2 will arrive from the UK); the runner-up is "." > >>> ok, my 20 yr old (faded red subaru justy) car will probably > >>> not last much longer, but here's the deal: a recent recycled > >>> cans receipt (worth 50c but only redeemable at the store > >>> indicated) and all the special stones that I've collected, > >>> that have been rattling back and forth on my dashboard for > >>> these many years, for only $2 (must be a US two-dollar bill > >>> mailed to me in portland oregon) -- first reply gets all > >>> this mailed in an old metal rusty mint tin, to any address! /:b ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 18:01:20 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "joey@newmystics.com" Subject: August update at www.newmystics.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed The August update at www.newmystics.com features: *First-time contributors DAN RAPHAEL and TIM GAZE *Book 5 of ED BAKER=92s Neighbors *More poems from JEAN-MARIE AVRIL=92s Tales of Anarchy *Two new pieces from VERNON FRAZER *A new poem from TONYA MADIA *A one-chapter excerpt from a novel in progress by CHUCK REGAN and *Ten new photographs by CLAIRE SMITH We are also proud to unveil a new feature called EMERGING WRITERS, =20 featuring our first contributor, 14-year-old writer, actor, dancer, =20 and musician JEREMY MADIA. NEWS AND NOTES *It with great excitement that we announce that we will now be known =20 as New Mystics Arts, Inc. Our name change signifies an expansion of =20 both our offerings to communities in both New Jersey and West =20 Virginia as well as a larger regional, national, and international =20 presence through the website and our writing and producing projects. In the coming months we will be providing more details on our planned =20= arts center, new projects in radio, film, and theatre, and new ways =20 that contributors, collaborators, and supporters can become involved. *We are pleased to formally announce that Knight Berman, Jr. has been =20= named Resident Composer at New Mystics Arts. *Our Founding Editor, Joey Madia, has several writing projects =20 debuting in 2009=962010, including three new plays in the Mid-Atlantic =20= and Northeastern states and a short story in the forthcoming Inkermen =20= Press anthology Loss. In addition, his book reviews at =20 newmysticsreviews.blogspot.com continue to introduce new readers to =20 important authors in the small and independent presses as well as =20 bringing new contributors and readers to New Mystics. As always, submissions in literature, music, film, and visual arts =20 are accepted on a rolling basis. Please visit the =93Submissions=94 =20 section for details. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 17:09:00 -0700 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Baratier Subject: final call, Transcontinental Poetry Contest, Sat 8/15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable All c= The Annual Transcontinental Poetry Award by Pavement Saw Press =0A =0AAll c= ontributors receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, t= he entry fee.=0APlease mention this to your friends and all others who migh= t be interested!=0A =0AElectronic and mailed entries must meet these requir= ements:=0A1. The manuscript should be at least 48 pages of poetry and no mo= re than 70 pages of poetry in length. Separations between sections are NOT = a part of the page count.=0A2. A one page cover letter. Include a brief bio= graphy, the book's title, your name, address, and telephone number, and, if= you have e-mail, your e-mail address. This should be followed by a page wh= ich lists publication acknowledgments for the book. For each acknowledgemen= t mention the publisher (journal, anthology, chapbook etc.) and the poem pu= blished. =0A3. The manuscript should be bound with a single clip and begin= with a title page including the book's title, your name, address, and tele= phone number, and, if you have e-mail, your e-mail address. =0A4. The secon= d page should have only the title of the manuscript. There are to be no ack= nowledgments or mention of the author's name from this page forward. Submis= sions to the contest are blind judged. =0A5. There should be no more than o= ne poem on each page. The manuscript can contain pieces longer than one pag= e. =0A6. The manuscript should be paginated, beginning with the first page = of poetry. =0A =0AEach year Pavement Saw Press will publish at least one b= ook of poetry and/or prose poems from manuscripts received during this comp= etition. Selections are chosen through a blind judging process. The competi= tion is open to anyone who has not previously published a volume of poetry = or prose. The author receives $1000 and five percent of the 1000 copy press= run. Previous judges have included Judith Vollmer, David Bromige, Bin Ramk= e and Howard McCord. This year David Baratier will be the judge; past stude= nts, Pavement Saw Press interns and employees are not allowed to submit. Al= l poems must be original, all prose must be original, fiction or translatio= ns are not acceptable. Writers who have had volumes of poetry and/or prose = under 40 pages printed or printed in limited editions of no more than 500 c= opies are eligible. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 23:34:00 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Questions about work and representation - (for upcoming SVA class) - just beginning here - MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Questions about work and representation - (for upcoming SVA class) 1. What is the scientific definition of work? Does it apply to human work? 2. What is the definition of labor? 3. Is all labor work? Is all work labor? 4. What is materialism? (What is idealism?) 5. When we think about representations of labor - what do we mean by "representation"? By "labor"? 6. Does labor traditionally refer to employment by others? 7. Is making art work? Writing a novel? What does "art_work" mean? What is a cultural worker? What forms of contract/payment are applicable to art-making? Are artists self-employed? 8. What are "cottage industries"? Handicrafts? What kinds of work are involved here? 9. Traditional Western representations of labor have focused on class: true or false? 10. What is class? What does class struggle mean? What does class consciousness mean? Do classes struggle? What is endocolonization? 11. What were the classes in feudal society? In Assyria? In biblical cultures? What is the working class? Proletariat? Lumpen-proletariat? Bourgeoisie? Petit-bourgeoisie? What are the stages of production? What is primitive accumulation? 12. What is the paradigm of class? Class struggle? 13. Does class, class struggle, class consciousness, still hold today? 14. Is America a class society, a classless society, or something else altogether? 15. What other forms of labor and labor organizations might exist outside of class? 16. How is class modeled within the network society? What sorts of labor occur within networked society? 17. How is physical labor compartmentalized in networked society? 18. What does alienation mean to you? 19. What is alienated labor? Is all labor alienated? 20. Consider the parabolic trajectory of the handaxe. (to be explained) 21. Consider immersive/definable hierarchies. (to be explained) 22. What is bricolage labor? 23. What is labor in the postmodern city (case in point: Ciudad Juarez)? 24. Resistance: What are local and general strikes? What is history? Does history make us or do we make history? 25. What is active and passive resistance? 26. The role of PLAY in work - is there any? 27. What is play in the work of art? 28. What is play beneath or within the sign of capital? 29. What are base and superstructure? 30. Does play lie within one or the other or both? 31. What is the distinction between use and exchange value? Does it hold today? 32. What is surplus value? How does surplus value operate? 33. How is value calculated in a virtual economy? A physical economy? 34. Are all economies virtual? 35. (Definitions) What is the "dictatorship of the proletariat"? 36. Can communism work? What is communism? 37. What is fetishism? What is fetishization in capitalism? 38. What is consumption? 39. What is conspicuous consumption and does this term apply today? 40. What is reification and how does it operate in contemporary society? 41. What are Fordism and post-Fordism? 42. Can we speak of a post-modern society today? What does that mean, and what does post-modernism mean? 43. What would a post-modern geography be? A postmodern labor-force? 44. See Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat. How does a flat world operate? What sorts of traditional capitalism emerge here? What sorts of labor struggles are possible in a flat world? 45. What are the _constraints_ of the world? The Club of Rome Report, The Limits to Growth? 46. What does it mean to be a "citizen" of a planet with limited resources? 47. And increasing poverty, pollution, gangsterisms, unemployment, terrorisms, fundamentalism, totalitarianisms? 48. How does a networked society play into this? 49. WHAT IS A NETWORK? 50. WHAT IS TO BE DONE? ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:27:30 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: D-B Chirot: 2 Essays on Atomic Blasts & Poetry, Baseball, Radios &Physics, A New Visual Poetry Book, Essay re Visual Poetry & Logos/Logo(s)s MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable D-B Chirot:: IF 6 WAS 9 : Hiroshima & Nagasaki 6 & 9 August 1945- Physics= =2C Poetry and 9 who survived both blasts=20 (Accounts by 9 Men who survived both bombings=2C Leonardo Sciascia=2C Ettor= e Majoranna=2C Werner Heisenberg=2C Charles Olson=2C Call Me Ishmael) http://davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com/2009/08/if-6-was-9-hiroshima-nagasa= ki-6-9.html D-B Chirot: Before =93Curveball=94: The =93After=94 Effects in Poetry o= f Baseball=2C Espionage & the Fire & A-Bombings of Japan (Moe Berg=2C Jack Spicer & Yasusada) http://davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com/2009/08/before-curveball-after-effe= cts-in.html D-B Chirot: Logos & Logo(s) in Visual Poetry: An Essay re Labels & Rebrand= ings (Philadelpho Menezes=2C Chirot and a few Spidertangle members http://davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com/2009/08/d-b-chirot-logos-logos-in-v= isual-poetry.html D-B Chirot: CINEMA OF DISAPPEARANCE--New Visual=20 Poetry Book---Editions de l'heure 2009 http://davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com/2009/08/d-b-chirot-cinema-of-disapp= earance.html _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live=99: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=3DPID23384::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:NF_BR= _sync:082009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:39:38 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: indiebound.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (great resource for locating local independent bookstores) Why shop Indie? http://www.indiebound.org/ When you shop at an independently owned business, your entire community benefits: The Economy * Spend $100 at a local and $68 of that stays in your community. Spend the same $100 at a national chain, and your community only sees $43. * Local businesses create higher-paying jobs for our neighbors. * More of your taxes are reinvested in your community--where they belon= g. 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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CA, No contest: http://www.tappedintoelephants.com/asp/index.php . J. A. Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "CA Conrad" To: Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:35 AM Subject: what webcam is 4 U ? > If you HAD TO spend a full day watching a webcam on your computer, > what would it be? Maybe you don't want to, but suppose you HAD TO, > you're life depended on it. > > Just for one day though. > > My favorite, absolute favorite, without a doubt my favorite so far in > this lifetime is the one at Elvis' home in Memphis (it's so nice > seeing His grass and birds): > http://elvis-aron-presley.nl/graceland_incl_webcam.html > > An Elvis fan I met at Graceland some years ago recently told me that > the Graceland webcam is out of date, and that there are webcams which > update more than every 60 seconds. Is that true? Well, I don't know > for sure, but this one's pretty great anyway. I don't care that > everything I'm seeing actually happened 60 seconds ago. Maybe > EVERYTHING we do happens on a 60 second delay anyway and we have no > idea! It could be true! The last time I was at Graceland I did a > special dance with a crazy Beale Street drag queen at the gates to > Graceland for all the viewers at home. When I win the lottery my one > BIG luxury is going to be a big screen showing THIS webcam 24 hours a > day, which will be nice while eating morning oatmeal. > > But what's your favorite webcam? Am I the only one with a favorite > webcam? There's another one I like that an old friend sent me of corn > growing in Iowa. That was rather nice seeing Monsanto's finest! > > CAConrad > Advanced ELVIS Course: http://advancedELVIS.blogspot.com > > -- > PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com > > THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:40:25 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: richard owens Subject: Re: Critical works on homophonic translation? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii maybe not of relevance or interest, but the brief intro to Steve McCaffery's homolinguistic translation of Stein's Buttons (Every Way Oakley) may be of use: http://www.bookthug.ca/archives.php ........richard owens 810 richmond ave buffalo NY 14222-1167 damn the caesars, the journal damn the caesars, the blog --- On Thu, 8/6/09, judith goldman wrote: From: judith goldman Subject: Critical works on homophonic translation? To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 2:59 PM Hello all, I'm looking for critical works on homophonic translation--also, trying to build a list of homophonic translations. Many thanks for any information you can offer! Judith Goldman ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:25:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: Re: what webcam is 4 U ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HEY, J.A.Lee, that's FANTASTIC! Thanks for sharing that one! CAConrad -- PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:51:29 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Fwd: Critical works on homophonic translation? In-Reply-To: <624866.65794.qm@web33401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit this is not "exactly" homophonic translation (of which i'm guilty of myself) but perhaps more "radical" in the works and conceptions--or at least a lot of fun--("It's fun to have fun if you only know how," as the Cat in the Head says--) (both the below examples i cite have a wealth of critical materials involved with them the best way is to use the various--more than one--search engines at your disposal--)-- So- one finds then- "translation" at the core of a lot of the humor writing in 19th Century America, especially since the "American language of the time, despite the first Webster's Dictionaries, " had not yet settled down and become "fixed" in its spellings, grammar, usages, meanings,(it still hasn't to some degree--) --in other words, it hadn't yet "grown up " and started making rules which grammarians and others liked to break, and so essay "writing badly"--instead of merely mediocerly-- The American tongue of the time was still in wildly wandering flux and wildernesses of its own, so that often commentaries and maps and ideas or phrases get translated into something completely "wrong" but to the persons participating seems "perfectly clear," seems "all correct."---and is so well liked it is taken in and "made to home" and handed a big cool jug of dandelion wine--and "starts to take root in the hearts of the people" and next thing you know has become a truly recognizably American word-- "all correct" for example was turned into "ok" by President Jackson; It is said that in signing documents that met with his approval, the hard fightin, hard drinkin. rough edged Democratic general of a President would sign in large letters --underlined with a flourish to be sure!--the letters/word "*OK*"--which to his mind was the abbreviation of "*all correct"*-which he knew as -*"Ol Kur-ect"* Artemus Ward was the past master of this form of translation humor--the translation usually involving the vast differences, , as with President Jackson, between the spoken and the written word in terms of shape pronunciation meaning and sounds- In one of Ward's stories for ex, two boys are discussing with a third something really amazing that they have read about,in a big grimy book with a title like "This Savage Whirled" --the discovery being no less than an immense snake of the amazon itself a river twisting like a snake and so immense- and exotic--and this exotic snake -a creature of the jungles more vast than any in America as far as they know-- is called by the local inhabitants or at least the supposedly lost scientist adventurer--is called by the mysterious name of a "*Boy Constructor"* The third member of the party is puzzling over how snake could be at the same time a boy who is constructing something--a raft no doubt-- to escape from the snake but----confused he asks to see the actual book with the magical name for the exotic immense snake-- and he reads out loud the words: "*boa constricto*r" of course the adherents of the boy constructor translation are laughing at the down right ridiculousness of such a name for such a grand snake as "boa constrictor"-- while the third boy is hopping mad and in rare Rumpelstiltskin form--pogoing like a deranged punk rocker on the Savage Whirled book and tearing it and pounding it to pieces-- another form of translation is also based on things popular in the 19th century in America, being the democratization of what had been primarily a language game of the elites in Russia and France-- this is the rebus madness that swept the country and was later seized upon by a French Lettriste painter/poet named Gabriel ("l"Ange Gabriel") Pomerand as the method for making of his underground ultra classic and until recently very hard to find book called in English "Saint Ghetto of the Loans." On the left hand side of the book is are the pages with the poet's Prose Poetry about the beloved area of Saint-Germain des Pres where he often performed Sound and Lettriste Poetry in the chichest of chic cafes for the likes of de Beauvoir and Sartre, Boris Vian, Cocteau and al the rest of St Germain' s In Crowd-- On the facing, right hand side of the book are the extremely complex and beautiful rebuses for each at times letter, syllable, word or tiny contraction of two words-that appear in the Prose Poem .-- The rebus then functions directly as for the most part homophonic translations of the lexical prose poetry into the visual-- (in some ways this process reminds me a bit of playing charades--"Sounds Like" (tugging the ear and then making faces and gestures people think mean something like-- . "i'm deaf and i can't speak either" or there is a white elephant in the room"---etc etc I know these are not directly the recognized standard "homophonic translations" which are very common and usually very easy ones to do -- you can even find them in those games and puzzles books for kids and if you are really lucky maybe someday inside a Crackerjack box! i know homophonic translations are often used as a writing exercise in various writing workshops etc--or so i am told and have seen online these things listed-- so i wd think just search of the words "homphonic translations would lead to some excellent and surprising sources! meanwhile i shall return to my Artemus ward fragments and making rebuses for the spirit that tires of words and craves images-- all very best for your search but a goggle one shd unearth tons of things-- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: richard owens Date: Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Critical works on homophonic translation? To: POETICS@listserv.buffalo.edu maybe not of relevance or interest, but the brief intro to Steve McCaffery's homolinguistic translation of Stein's Buttons (Every Way Oakley) may be of use: http://www.bookthug.ca/archives.php ........richard owens 810 richmond ave buffalo NY 14222-1167 damn the caesars, the journal damn the caesars, the blog --- On Thu, 8/6/09, judith goldman wrote: From: judith goldman Subject: Critical works on homophonic translation? To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 2:59 PM Hello all, I'm looking for critical works on homophonic translation--also, trying to build a list of homophonic translations. Many thanks for any information you can offer! Judith Goldman ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:27:00 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Zamsky, Robert" Subject: Ecopoetics Question In-Reply-To: A MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Jonathan. Thanks for the tip on the bookstore in Paris. Unfortunately, I didn't get there -- we were out in the sticks for a wedding in my wife's family (in the northeast). I'll keep it in mind for next year's trip, though. I have another question for you. I am participating in our Environmental Studies program's Intro to ES course this year, a course that is required of all students new to the program. It is co-taught by faculty from the program, with the goal of introducing students to various approaches to ES from the different disciplines. So, faculty from History, Psychology, Environmental Science, Political Science, and so on, each teach a two week block. I will be doing the "humanities" section, and I basically expect to ground the discussion in the ideas and practices of ecopoetics. You, of course, are far more expert in that than I am, and I was wondering if you had any thoughts/suggestions about how to approach such an opportunity. The students are mostly first or second years who likely have little experience with poetry/lit (the program tends to draw scientists and poli-sci types); I get them for four course meetings of 80minutes/each. Any ideas you might have would be MUCH appreciated. All best, Robert =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:30:29 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: you in your soup MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit is the latest (Soma)tic Poetry up and awaiting our most sensual forms of self actualization see it here: http://somaticpoetryexercises.blogspot.com -- PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:23:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: aaron tieger Subject: PHANTASMAL REPEATS by Guillermo Parra MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Petrichord Books is very pleased to announce the release of Guillermo Parra's second chapbook, PHANTASMAL REPEATS. Spare, abstract, thoughtful, the poems in PHANTASMAL REPEATS move sneakily within an insular, ambient framework. They are self-referential to an extent but still viscerally linked to the world at large. PHANTASMAL REPEATS is available in two eye-catching color schemes: red on curry or red on pool. If you have a preference, please specify when ordering. The price is $6 (incl. s/h). Purchase via paypal at http://petrichord.com/titles.php or send a check made payable to Aaron Tieger to the address on the webpage. Thank you! SAMPLE POEM: I sit alone in the house all day Recurring rhythms make paste My ears hummingbird control An autobiography of loss Forced into spy situations On occasion, the rain clouds gather Graphic proof serial songs I write fitting spaces For the sake of secrecy's map ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:34:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Music from Fire Museum (Mon Music of Burma, Sondheim cds, other info) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mon Music of Burma and Sondheim cds - Fire Museum is a small label and needs your support! I've listed my favorite cd of theirs - Mon Music of Burma - which is wonderfully complex - the kyam solo on track six is incredible. I've also listed my own releases, all of which I like, and all of which have been reviewed here and there online. Please consider ordering any of these, and supporting Fire Museum and its releases, many of which I find amazing. The Fire Museum site, with other listings, is at http://www.museumfire.com/ . And please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks, Alan, info - Music from Fire Museum Records Nai Htaw Paing Ensemble - Mon Music of Burma (FM 02): The rarely recorded traditional music of the Mon people is vanishing and endangered, highly developed, and barely known even to Asian traditional music connoisseurs. Historically the Mon were a dominant, highly cultured, and influential people in Burma more than a thousand years ago. There are several instruments peculiar to the Mon. Most recognizable is the Kyam (crocodile zither), a 3-string long zither with frets that is shaped like a crocodile. Another is the Batt Kine, a row of 14 or so pitched gongs that is upturned at both ends like a crescent. Also, there is the Mon violin, a 3-string fiddle with a western-like body played upright. This is incredible music with an unique character! Recorded in Yangon, Burma by noted musicologist Rick Heizman, the Nai Htaw Paing Ensemble are recognized as masters of traditional Mon music. There is currently an effort by concerned Mon people to revive and preserve Mon culture, language, and identity, and this recording will help further this effort. INSTRUMENTATION: Kyam - The kyam is perhaps the most distinctive Mon instrument. It is often referred as the crocodile zither, and in Burmese language it is called migyaung, mi kyaung or mijaun. A 3-string, long, fretted zither, the body is carved into a crocodile shape. Bat Kine - Another uniquely Mon instrument is the row of gongs known as the Bat Kine. Rather than the circular set of tuned gongs used in Burmese, Thai, Cambodian, and Laotian music, the Bat Kine is shaped like a quarter full moon, upturned steeply on both ends. Pone Pon - Underpinning most Mon (and Burmese) music is a small set of drums played by one player. This set is known as the Hta Bone Pone Pon. It has 4 small drums, a medium drum, and a large drum. Graw - This 'Upright Viola' is an old and rare Mon traditional instrument. It has a western-looking body, but is strung with only 3 strings. Before the British colonizers came there were some traditional 2 or 3 string fiddle instruments, afterwards musicians copied the body stylings of the western violin. Battala - 23-key bamboo xylophone. The keys are soaked for up to three years to elicit the best timbre. Kha dae-Kha bart - In almost all Mon and Burmese music one hears the small cymbals and the wood clacker that serve a time-keeping function. Khanwe - a double reed oboe-like instrument. Talutt - A bamboo flute of various sizes and types of bamboo. BIO OF NAI HTAW PAING: The leader of this ensemble, he currently serves as an assistant lecturer at Yangon Cultural University. He Started studying Mon traditional musical instruments, singing, and dance from his father, Nai Khin Maung Gyi, in 1965. Regularly performs on Mon National Days, Mon State Day, Union Day, and other important receptions. He occasionally teaches the new generation of musicians but has difficulty finding time given the economic situation of the profession. He would like more Mon nationals to be aware of both their own music, Myanmar traditional music and other world musics. He is passionate about rediscovering and preserving the endangered arts of the Mon culture. to order: http://www.museumfire.com/burma.htm Alan Sondheim/Ritual Al 770 - The Songs (FM 04): First ever reissue of "The Songs", the debut recording by Alan Sondheim & Ritual All 770, originally released on Riverboat Records (later recordings appeared on ESP Disk). Recorded in March 1967 and included on the legendary Nurse With Wound list of experimental recordings, on this album Alan Sondheim played Electric Guitar, Violin, Flute, Suling, Xylophone, Alto Saxophone, Classical Guitar, Clarinet, Shenai, Bass Recorder, Mandolin, So-na, Hawaiian Guitar, Koto, Sopranino Recorder, Chimta, Cor Anglais, Sitar and Bansari. Joined by Barry Sugarman (Tabla, Dholak & Naquerra), Chris Mattheson (Bass), Robert Poholek (Trumpet & Cornet), Ruth Ann Hutchinson (Vocals), June Fellows (Vocals) and J.Z. (Jazz Drums); Ritual All 770 were a group of improvisors living in Providence, Rhode Island. (Perhaps they could be considered the sonic forebearers of the Fort Thunder scene...) Rejecting the notion that avant garde music was solely the realm of isolated academia, they delved fearlessly and joyously into their music, creating a work that sounds fresh nearly 40 years later. FROM THE LINER NOTES: This work is a single improvised performance in which one of the performers sings "Oratorio on the end of illusions", although, in my libretto the words were originally "Oratorio on the end of visions". A libretto of eight pages was prepared. The vocalists were not told how to sing it. They could go backward or repeat any section if they wanted to. There was no score. The only instruction given to the instrumentalists was this: no playing behind the koto or classical guitar. I had several rehearsals with each of them, mostly individually. The session lasted through two takes, this is the second. After the master was made, I added reverberation and volume controlling; other than that, all of the music heard here is from the live performance. Dan Wharburton of Paris Transatlantic said of the reissue of The Songs: "an endearingly ramshackle melting pot of free jazz, blues and folk (if Eugene Chadbourne later described his work as "free improvised country & western bebop" then this is "free improvised Hawaiian flamenco gospel blues music theatre).. its influence resonates (indirectly, one imagines, unless there are more copies of the original vinyl in circulation than I imagine) in the free folk of today's New Weird America scene." Now listeners have the opportunity to hear for themselves the present day song form manifestations of this overlooked creative master. to order: http://www.museumfire.com/sondheim.htm xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Alan Sondheim - Ski/nn (FM 07): The return of Alan Sondheim! A recording of solo acoustic guitar and alpine zither songs, this release will delight those familiar with his early Riverboat (reissued as FM 04) and ESP Disc recordings as well as the audience for experimental solo guitar - while creating an audience for experimental solo alpine zither! On this release, Alan performs on the 1927 martin tenor guitar, 19th century parlor guitar, 1920s prime alpine zither and 1860s elegie alpine zither. to order: http://www.museumfire.com/skinn.htm xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Alan Sondheim - Boojum (mm 9): Boojum was our cat, who died recently at 18, and is missed terribly. Most tracks are recorded mono directly from a Yamaha keyboard output. This is the 'pure' sounding of the machine; there's no stereo enhancement or graphic equalization. I determine the state of the machine, that's called playing it. The accompaniment is automated but its figuration is not. The keyboard is touch-sensitive, but as you know, touch on an acoustic keyboard translates not only into volume, but also harmonic structures and envelope. Here touch is volume only. Note that all playing is live. The Cluster track is recorded from a very large Beowulf computer cluster which generates considerable electromagnetic radiation in the radio spectrum. These are recorded acoustically from a Realistic Patrolman SW-60 radio slowly tuned across various SW, VHF, and UHF bands. This is the sound of the machine in air, transformed into audio signals within the range of human hearing. Machine-states and machine exist in the imaginary. Emanents exist within and without the machine.. Think of the true world in all its glory. to order: http://www.majmua.museumfire.com/boojum.htm xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 9/2- Crazy Dreams Band, Hex Nine, Serpents of Wisdom @ Danger Danger Gallery 9/28 - Pekka Airaksinen, Alexei Borisov & Anton Nikkil?, Kotra & Color is Luxury @ The Rotunda more info: http://www.museumfire.com/events | current internet text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qf.txt | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org | sondheim@panix.com, sondheim@gmail.org, tel US 718-813-3285 ! http://www.facebook.com/alan.sondheim ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:55:59 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Katz Subject: Re: Critical works on homophonic translation? In-Reply-To: <624866.65794.qm@web33401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Melnick's Men in Aida is dealt with on page 24 of Perelman's The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:32:35 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ron Starr Subject: Re: Critical works on homophonic translation? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There's an essay by Harry Mathews that might provide a useful starting point in situating homphonic translation within a larger context of translation practices: Mathews, Harry. "Translation and the Oulipo: The Case of the Persevering Maltese." In his _The Case of the Perservering Maltese: Collected Essays_. Dalkey Archive Press, 2003. There's an electronic version at http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/ethno-linguist -- don't know if it differs from the printed version. As far as works, there is, of course, David Melnick's "Men in Aida" conveniently archived on Eclipse (http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/projects/AIDA/aida.html). On a smaller scale, there is my homophonic translation of Martin Luther's explanation of the Ten Commandments from the Small Catechism in my book, _A Map by a Dim Lamp_ (http://www.amazon.com/Map-Dim-Lamp-Ron-Starr/dp/0977616266/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UT F8&s=books&qid=1249971843&sr=1-4). Cheers, Ron -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of judith goldman Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:00 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Critical works on homophonic translation? Hello all, I'm looking for critical works on homophonic translation--also, trying to build a list of homophonic translations. Many thanks for any information you can offer! Judith Goldman ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:58:00 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: UbuWeb Subject: Question about Zukofsky's "A" Index MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Does anyone know why Zukofsky didn't index every instance of "a" or "the" or any number of other words? "a" appears on page 21 and is not listed in the index. And of course there are hundreds of instances of the word "the" beginning on page 1, not only between the pages of 175 and 563 in the 826 page book as indexed. Here's the listings for a: a, 1, 103, 130, 131, 138, 161, 168, 173-175, 177, 185, 186, 196, 199, 203, 212, 226-228, 232, 234, 235, 239, 241, 243, 245-248, 260, 270, 281, 282, 288, 291, 296, 297, 299, 302, 323, 327, 328, 351, 353, 377, 380382, 385, 391-394, 397, 402, 404407, 416, 418, 426, 433, 434, 435, 436, 438, 448, 457, 461, 463, 465, 470, 473, 474, 477-481, 491, 493497, 499, 500, 505, 507, 508-511, 536-539, 560-563 and the listings for the: the, 175, 179, 181, 182, 184, 187, 191193, 196, 199, 202, 203, 205, 206, 208, 211, 215, 217, 221, 224-226. 228, 231, 232, 234, 238, 239, 241, 243, 245-248, 260, 270, 285, 288, 290, 291, 296, 297, 302, 316, 321324, 327, 328, 336, 338, 342, 368, 375, 379, 380, 383-387, 390-397, 402, 404, 406, 407, 412, 416, 426428, 434-436, 440, 441, 463, 465, 468, 470, 473, 474, 476-479, 494, 496, 497, 499, 506-511, 536-539, 560-563 With appreciation and many thanks in advance. UbuWeb http://ubu.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:05:12 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Plath Profiles: Volume 2 now online MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Plath Profiles seeks to represent Sylvia Plath studies on an international = and interdisciplinary scale. We publish biographical and critical essays, P= lath-inspired poetry and fiction, Plath-inspired artwork, youth work, pedag= ogy, book reviews, and discussion topics.=20 http://www.iun.edu/~plath Volume 2 Contributors: Maria Johnston, Toni Saldivar, Nephie Christodoulides, Brittney Moraski, Kr= istina Zimbakova, Dianne M. Hunter, Ralph Didlake, Chetan Deshmane, Kim Bri= dgford, Sheila Hamilton, Christine Walde, Teresa Laye, Jim Long, Jennifer K= armin, Jennifer Yaros, Laurie Eckhout, W. K. Buckley, Smita Agarwal, Ana Os= an, Neil Newton, S. Kivrak, Brittany Scott, Gail Crowther, Peter K. Steinbe= rg, Amanda Golden, George Fitzgerald, Jamie E. Bourne, Kerry Wood, Luke Fer= retter, Isabel P=E9rez Montalv=E1n =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:56:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: new on Rogue Embryo's blog In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 New on Rogue Embryo: Tom Clark: =1B$B!H=1B(BSometimes children get lost . . .=1B$B!I=1B(B =1B$B!H=1B(Byou drift over enormous buildings . . .=1B$B!I=1B(B Adam Zagajewski, =1B$B!H=1B(BFire=1B$B!I=1B(B Zydeco Gallery Two Ray DiPalma, =1B$B!H=1B(BSequel #17=1B$B!m=1B(B Finds at www.collageart.org http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com Cheers! 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Comments: To: WRYTING-L automatic digest -- Theory and Writing , webartery , spidertangle@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 151 Sad Sameness Sad Smile Sadistic Cruelty 152 Sadistic Pleasure Sadly Abridged Sadly Certain 153 Sadly Eroded Stones Sadly Fear Sadly Need Mending 154 Sadly Vitiated Safe Combinations Safe Custody of Names 155 Safe Distance Safe Haven Safe Keeping 156 Safe Place Safe Side Safety Scissors 157 Safetys Sake Sagging Distance Sagging String 158 Sahara Sand Sahelian Savannas Said and Done 159 Said Ceiling Said Establishments Said Nothing 160 Said So Sail Away Sail Forbidden Seas 161 Sailor Sweethearts Smell Sails Were Set Saintly Radiance 162 Salacious Days Salad Fork Salad Plates Salad Sandwiches 163 Salient Parts Salient Points Saline Soils Saline Solution 164 Sallied Out Sallies Forth Salmon Spawning 165 Salon Recitals Salt Lagoons Salt Sea Salt Shakers Salt Sold Salt Whiff 166 Salted Pork Salty Aftertaste Same Ancient 167 Same Defect Same Dull Voice Same Evening Hour Same Extent 168 Same Fate Same Game Same General Make Same Ilk Samittle Squeaks 170 Same Long Regularly Same Mistake Same Nature Sae Image 169 Same Ineffable Smile Same Instant Same Kind Same Lme Peculiar Charm 171 Same Private Cypher Same Reason Same Respite Same Seas Same Section 21 PLEATED PLAID PAMPHLETS PUBLISHED! ppp151-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-151-no-2/7518049 ppp152-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-152-no-2/7518110 ppp153-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-153-no-2/7518154 ppp154-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-154-no-2/7518194 ppp155-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-155-no-2/7518262 ppp156-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-156-no-2/7518316 ppp157-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-157-no-2/7518375 ppp158-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-158-no-2/7518445 ppp159-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-159-no-2/7518493 ppp160-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-160-no-2/7518556 ppp161-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-161-no-2/7518609 ppp162-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-162-no-2/7518663 ppp163-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-163-no-2/7518728 ppp164-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-164-no-2/7518799 ppp165-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-165-no-2/7518852 ppp166-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-166-no-2/7519354 ppp167-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-167-no-2/7519469 ppp168-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-168-no-2/7519535 ppp169-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-169-no-2/7519605 ppp170-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-170-no-2/7519668 ppp171-2 http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/pleated-plaid-pamphlet-vol-171-no-2/7519728 /:b ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:55:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Hadbawnik Subject: satoko abe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello-- I'm looking for contact info on Satoko Abe a Japanese writer who has written on and translated Diane di Prima, for a special feature I'm putting together on di Prima. If anyone has a current e-mail address for Satoko, please back-channel to me. Thanks David Hadbawnik ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:11:41 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: From prison to poetry.... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable WASHINGTON =E2=80=94 R. Dwayne Betts is having coffee at Busboys and Poets,= a coffeehouse/bookstore/neighborhood hangout here in the trendy U Street a= rea. He's talking about his wife, his 20-month-old baby boy, his freshly mi= nted degree from the University of Maryland and his new book,=C2=A0A Questi= on of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival and Coming of Age in Prison(A= very, $23). At 16, Betts was sent to prison for nine years. Now 28, he is living such a= radically different life even he is astonished by how far he has traveled. "I still remember my mom crying in the courtroom when I was sentenced," he = says. "I didn't want that image to be the only thing I remembered the rest = of my life." VIDEO:=C2=A0See Betts read some of his poetry Con't -- http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-08-12-betts-freedom_N= .htm _______ =0A =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:03:04 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Palin, Beck, Limbaugh: The Rabid Responders (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed This stuff is so scary, we should all be aware of it - Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:29:08 -0400 From: moderator@PORTSIDE.ORG To: PORTSIDE@LISTS.PORTSIDE.ORG Subject: Palin, Beck, Limbaugh: The Rabid Responders Over the Top and Beneath Contempt By: Roger Simon Politico.com - August 11, 2009 04:44 AM EST http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25991.html Today, we live in the age of rabid response. Not rapid response. Rapid response was yesterday. Rapid response was the political tactic of responding quickly to all attacks, no matter how outrageous or unbelievable. Those who did not respond rapidly, those who told themselves the public would not believe outright lies, failed to win higher office. (Thus Democrats still blame John Kerry for not responding rapidly enough in 2004 to the attacks of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.) Rabid response is different. The purpose of rabid response is to scorch the earth, to raise the stakes, to go nuclear in the hope that your opponent will be so shellshocked he can make no response at all. The purpose of rabid response is to grab the public by the throat and not let go. Have concerns over Barack Obama's health care plan? I don't doubt it. The plan is very long and very complicated and still a work in progress. But there is one thing we do know about it: It will establish "death panels." These death panels will determine whether you, your baby, your parents or your grandparents will receive health care or be left to die. In the street. Like a dog. How will the death panels operate? Who will be on them? Will they validate parking? We do not know. We know only that the death panels will judge each individual's "level of productivity in society" and render a life or death judgment. So says Sarah Palin on her Facebook page. In olden times, Palin might have made this claim at a speech or during a news conference where reporters might have asked questions like: "What proof do you have?" or "Aren't you just trying to scare people?" But Palin does not risk that. She takes no questions. She has done her duty as a rabid responder. She has rung the tocsin, sounded the alarm, lit the signal fire. Truth? Accuracy? Responsibility? Not her territory. Glenn Beck is a rabid responder on race. "This president, I think, he has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture," Beck says. "This guy is, I believe, a racist." Rush Limbaugh is a rabid responder on Nazis and swastikas. He knows a lot about swastikas. He sees them everywhere. He looks at the Obama health care logo - which incorporates the familiar medical symbol of twin serpents on a staff - and sees it as being "damn close to a Nazi swastika logo." Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi muddied the waters - surprise! - by saying those who oppose Obama's health care plan "are carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care." But Limbaugh had a rabid response for that: "There are far more similarities between Nancy Pelosi and Adolf Hitler than between these people showing up at town halls to protest a Hitler-like policy that's being heralded by a Hitler-like logo." And then, out of left (or right) field, came this: "Ted Kennedy's dad, by the way, Joe Kennedy, sympathetic to Hitler, sympathetic to the Nazis," Limbaugh said. But Limbaugh was not done with the Nazis or Hitler. In the world of rabid response, invoking the ultimate symbols of evil to describe one's political opponents is routine. It doesn't matter what you say, as long as it is over the top and beneath contempt. "Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate," Limbaugh said. "Hitler said he didn't need to meet with his Cabinet; he represented the will of the people. He was called the messiah. He said the people spoke through him." Which means, I guess, if Hitler were alive today, he would be a talk show host. [Roger Simon is POLITICO's chief political columnist.] c 2009 Capitol News Company, LLC _____________________________________________ Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. 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It is the most complete music site I have seen.= A=20 must for all who like music: http://www.scaruffi.com/usmusic.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:06:09 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aaron Vidaver Subject: "Poets in Vancouver" (1963): Tallman on Creeley, Duncan, Olson, Levertov, Whalen, Avison, Ginsberg MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A 2300-word piece from the Warren Tallman fonds, with notes. http://filller.blogspot.com/2009/08/warren-tallman-poets-in-vancouver-1963.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:38:29 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: 2 new chapbooks from above/ground press Veralum by Phil Hall $4 Our / Are Carried Invisibles by Roland Prevost $4 publisht in Ottawa by above/ground press. a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy. To order, add $1 for postage, & in Canadian currency; if sending from outside Canada, send in American, payable to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1R 6R7; above/ground press subscribers receive (honest!) a complimentary copy; calendar year subscriptions available for $40, & include chapbooks, broadsides, STANZAS magazine & The Peter F. Yacht Club. Roland Prevost recieved the 2006 John Newlove Poetry Award (judge: Erin Mour). His poetry has been published in two previous chapbooks: Metafizz, Bywords, 2007; Dragon Verses, Dusty Owl , 2009. He has also appeared in Ottawater 3.0, and Ottawater 5.0, above/ground press, Variations Art Zine, Bywords Quarterly Journal, Peter F. Yacht Club, Angel House Press, among others. He was the managing editor of poetics.ca for two years, and currently acts as the managing editor for 17 seconds, an online journal of poetry & poetics. Late at night, he loves to look at the deep sky through his various telescopes. Phil Hall was born in 1953 & raised on farms in the Kawarthas region of Ontario. He attended the University of Windsor in the 70s, where he received an MA in English & Creative Writing. His first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in Mexico City in 1973. Since then he has published 13 other books of poems, 4 chapbooks, & a cassette of labour songs. He is also a publisher of broadsides & chapbooks under his Flat Singles Press imprint. In the early 80s he was a member of The Vancouver Industrial Writers Union. In the early 90s he was Literary Editor at This Magazine, & also edited a shortlived literary journal called Dont Quit Yr Day-Job.Among his titles are: Homes (1979), Old Enemy Juice (1988), The Unsaid (1992), & HearthedralA Folk-Hermetic (1996). Trouble Sleeping (2000) was nominated for the Governor Generals Award for poetry. In 2005, Brick Books (celebrating 20 years as Halls publisher) brought out An Oak Hunch, which was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2006. Hall has taught writing & literature at the Kootenay School of Writing, York University, Ryerson Polytechnical University, & many colleges.He has been poet-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario, the Sage Hill Writing Experience (Sask.), The Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon, & elsewhere. In 2007, Book Thug published Halls new long poem, White Porcupine, & also issue a revised second edition of his essay/poem, The Bad Sequence. Over the years, Hall has collected two full decks of random playing cards from the streets, numerous albums of found photographs, & too many boxes of paper ephemera. He calls all this junk The Pedestrian Archives. He is learning to play clawhammer banjo. http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/ -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...14th poetry coll'n - gifts (Talon) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:27:03 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jade Hudson Subject: ToxicPoetry.com Exhibition 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Poets, We have just constructed our first exhibition of mp3 poetry. Really, check it out. We'd be downright depressed if you didn't. Plus, it's free. When viewing Exhibition 1, please remember that the table of contents leads you to separate sections of the edition (there are 6 sections altogether). If you want to see artists that are not in 1-1, but in 1-3 or 1-4, etc., you need to click the artist name (in 1-1) to be transported to the section in which the artist is located. We're also including links to each individual section (for additional convenience). Here is a link to Exhibition 1-1 (where the first section as well as the table of contents can be found): http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/bc2498b9#/bc2498b9/1 Here are links to the additional 5 sections Section 2: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/bc25b83d#/bc25b83d/1 Section 3: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0a2b9f9#/b0a2b9f9/1 Section 4: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9020b5eb#/9020b5eb/1 Section 5: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/902494eb#/902494eb/1 Section 6: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b42498b9#/b42498b9/1 If you would like to be advertised in the upcoming issue, e-mail Editors@ToxicPoetry.com and include "advertising" in the subject line. If you would like to crosslink, follow the same e-mail procedure, only include "crosslink" in the subject line. Toxic Toasts, Jade Hudson & Nathan Kinsman Co-Editors of ToxicPoetry.com *P.S. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:40:33 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Joel Weishaus Subject: "The Gateless Gate" Pages 29-30 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends and Colleagues; Here are the next two pages (one screen) of the Gateless Gate: Pages 29-30 http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/Gate/Pgs%2029-30.htm Mirror site: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Gate/Pgs%2029-30.htm Introduction: http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/Gate/Intro.htm Please let me know if you wish to be deleted from these periodic = notices. Comments are always welcome. -Joel =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:36:06 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: walking to Whitman's house with Joey MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I dream'd in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dream'd that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love--it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of men of that city, And in all their looks and words. (from Leaves of Grass) Our good friend Joseph Yearous-Algozin is moving to Buffalo on Monday morning, but today we took a pilgrimage we've been threatening to make for a long time. Walking across the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to Camden in the intense heat was exhausting, so we stopped off at the Walt Whitman Center to hang out on a couch in the air conditioned theater, and to fill our water bottles with the disgusting tap water in the bathroom. NOT that I've ever eaten a urinal cake mind you, but I do believe this water is what it would taste like. The folks working at the center for some reason had no idea that Mickle Boulevard, where Whitman's house sits, no longer exists as Mickle Boulevard. I've walked to this house before over the years and know that it's right across the street from the prison, which is why I was confused standing on Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard CERTAIN that we were in the right place. Joey asked a couple pushing a stroller who told us the boulevard was renamed after King. Maybe the WALT WHITMAN CENTER needs to know this? The walk through the streets of Camden was a sad walk, sadder than I ever remember it being. When we arrived at the house it was closed, but we looked through the mail slot to peer at a portrait of the gray poet on a wall. We decided to sit on the front steps in the shade of a tree, where we were soon joined by men begging for change from anyone who walked past. 20 cents asked for, then 30 cents. "I dream'd in a dream..." There were a dozen plastic beer can rings strewn over the sidewalk in front of the house, and a parade of men with the unmistakable, unsettling glaze of crack-cocaine in their eyes. It's not just in the eyes of course, but in the unsteady gait and a musculature not entirely owned by the men, somewhere, inside the bodies. Few things frighten me more than that jagged, zombie strut. This was the saddest visit I've ever made to Walt Whitman's house. In the past I've witnessed women and children standing in front of his house to motion their homemade sign language to loved ones at the windows of the prison across the street. It was too hot today for sign language, but we saw women and children leaving the prison after their visits. One boy, no more than six, wiping tears from his face with the backs of his fists, trying to push the tears back inside his head or keep them from coming out, or both, and a young woman -- possibly his sister -- texting on her cell phone several paces ahead of him, seemingly unaware of, or uninterested in his overwhelmed state. That little boy was the saddest sight of all, incredibly depressing, and the kind of sight you see and wonder WHAT CAN BE DONE to help people have their needs met? When I say this was the saddest visit I've ever made, it felt more like visiting Dante than the body electric celebrations of gentle Walt. Walt Whitman's dream of a city invincible was either a terribly wrong prediction, or a dream he hoped for his fellow citizens which the future had no intention of honoring. A day among broken, breaking souls for Joey and I, but of course Camden is Camden everyday, and we were just visitors. The boulevard is renamed after Dr. Martin Luther King, the new address for Walt Whitman's house, but changing the name of the street is hardly the answer to anyone's misery. And I'm not saying I have answers, but I am wondering WHY the city's leadership is spending time and energy and money changing maps, and buying all these shiny new boulevard signs when the bail bonds shops are blossoming in the neighborhood, and building after building is boarded up? And drug addicts continue to be somebody's child, brother, father, uncle, lost in such a way it's hard to imagine how to ever bring them back. Camden, were you even the city Whitman dream'd in his dream? Was he dreaming of another city? But the poem is quoted in granite on the tower of Camden's city hall, and again in the train station. The city CLAIMS the poem without apology, towering above all heads are these words, and you don't need to squint to read the massive carved letters. You can see it everyday I DREAMED A CITY INVINCIBLE. It's a pox upon all who attempt to thrive here, endless days of misery, which from my gauge is getting ever more miserable with each visit I make. I'm feeling despair for our world tonight, and cannot listen to the news with all the ASSHOLE Republicans talking about Americans NOT NEEDING proper health care, not needing care, not what? Not what? Not needing? The need is immense, it's almost too painful to examine just how many needs are not being met while these SCUM bargain down the price while bargaining down the 20/20 vision of the world around us, here, everyday in Camden, and elsewhere. I'm sleeping with nightmares of Whitman's house tonight, and all his neighbors awaiting "the quality of robust love." CAConrad -- PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:25:38 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: videogames as literary devices... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit here are a couple of articles i wrote that have not been online as they're published in books. i see today that the articles do appear, however, in books.google.com, so here are the links to the pdfs. 'videogames as literary devices' appears in 'videogames and art' ( http://tinyurl.com/p56ywo ), a book edited by andy clarke and grethe mitchell (intellect books, u of chicago press, 2007). the essay looks at degrees of subordination of game to art in four online art games: Natalie Bookchin's 'The Intruder'; Regina Célia Pinto's 'Viewing Axolotls'; Neil Hennessey's 'Pac Mondrian'; and my 'Arteroids'. another essay of mine, 'language explosion: poetry and entertainment in arteroids' was published in 'gamers' ( http://tinyurl.com/lqbhhy ), a book edited by shanna compton (soft skull press, brooklyn, 2004). the essay is a significant rewrite and tightening up of http://vispo.com/arteroids/onarteroids.htm ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:20:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: susan maurer Subject: FW: PERFECT DARK by Susan Maurer, published by Lar's Palm's Ungovernable Press MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 From: sumaurer@hotmail.com To: listserv@poetics.buffalo.edu Subject: PERFECT DARK by Susan Maurer=2C published by Lar's Palm's Ungovern= able Press Date: Mon=2C 10 Aug 2009 10:04:33 -0400 Thanks to both this listserv and poet. essayist=2C translator and editor La= rs Palm for the publication of PERFECT DARK. Talk about meeting cute. I had= put a note on this listserv that anyone interested in publishing a full le= ngth book mss=2C should backchannel me=2C And Lar's response was terrific. Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail=AE= . Try it now. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live=99: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=3DPID23384::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:NF_BR= _sync:082009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:12:50 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Eathlings/Consider The Lobster/David Foster Wallace/vegan vs. vegetarian ... language MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii for anyone struggling with vegan/vegetarian issues, please rent "Earthlings," perhaps the most powerful expose on animal welfare issues ever ... whenever ... the revolting images are too powerful to ignore, & ignoring the consequences of our actions, as the late David Foster Wallace points out, are an easy, cheap, lazy, and cowerdly ploy (see essay, Consider the Lobster, book, same title.). Concerning language and nonhuman mamals, Wallace writes: The fact that even the most highly evolved nonhuman mamals can't use language to communicate with us about their subjective mental experience is only the first layer of additional complication in trying to extend our reasoning about pain and morality to animals. And everything gets progressively more abstract and convolved as we move farther and farther out from the highertype mammaals into cattle and swine and dogs and cats and rodents, and then birds and fish, and finally invertebrates like lobsters. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:48:27 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?= Subject: ... the art of disappearing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable _______________ Two new books by the Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock, published by CSP (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) will be launched in D=FAn Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland on 29 August 2009 in the Kingston Suite of the Royal Marine Hotel at 7:00 p.m. This event is a part of the Festival of World Cultures in D=FAn Laoghaire. Rosenstock's books are titled "Haiku Enlightenment" & "Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing." They are the poets contemplations & musings about haiku & the form(s) of haiku. Early versions of these texts were serialised in the electronic journal World Haiku Review. Gabriel Rosenstock believes that "there is something going on in the literary & artistic energies at the eastern & western extremes of Europe which have shamanistic/druidic forces as part of their DNA, so to speak, energies that produce a vital poetry that is not a commentary on life, as such, but life itself, the living, breathing spirit ... one of the reasons I love haiku is because it offers an entrance into the pervading spirit of a place, a temenos ..." With this e-announcement, there is a way of getting a 50% reduction for advance orders of these new books by Rosenstock! Though this 50% off will be good only up to the August 29th launch-event in Ireland. To claim the 50% discount on either or both titles, orders can be made online at the CSP (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) web-site ... 1.) "Haiku Enlightenment" http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Haiku-Enlightenment1-4438-0521-1.htm 2.) "The Gentle Art of Disappearing" http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Haiku--The-Gentle-Art-of-Disappearing1-4438-113= 3-5.htm The customer should select the title, add it to the shopping basket, & then use the following: Login: (blank) Password: haiku50% Alternatively, purchases can be made directly through Vlatka Kolic of Cambridge Scholars Publishing at vkolic@c-s-p.org or orders@c-s-p.org Disappearingly, S=E9amas Cain http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain _______________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:44:10 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Justin Katko Subject: Critical Documents Moving Sale In-Reply-To: <3bf622560908130837x76d359fckd13ed914f7a50f70@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear List members: Critical Documents is moving! And before everything gets transported across the North Atlantic, I'm offering a buy one get one free offer. Buy any book in stock and get another book free. The offer is good from now until August 20 (i.e. ONE week). Here is the current stock: Plantarchy 2 (restocked!) cris cheek. The Church=97The School=97The Beer cris cheek. part: short life housing (a box of them just arrived from the The Gig) Plantarchy 4 (restocked!) Keith Tuma. The Paris Hilton Tom Raworth. Let Baby Fall Sara Crangle. wild ascending lisp Just note in your paypal message which other book wish to receive. Note tha= t you can't purchase cheek's Part: Short Life Housing from the site, so that one only works as your free one. Jow's Xena Fan-Fic will be restocked within the next few months (apologies to those of you with outstanding orders for it), and the next book I'll be putting out is Ryan Dobran's DING DING. If you believe that you have an outstanding order, or you didn't receive contributor/subscription copies of anything, please let me know and I'll fix it. School's ever-rolling liquid carpet of bittersweet poisons has continually made it difficult to keep up. And finally, please note the new mailing address, good as of September: Critical Documents c/o Justin Katko Queens' College Cambridge, CB3 9ET United Kingdom Thanks Justin =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:01:55 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: charles alexander Subject: still going for it! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Hi everyone, We're still HUNDREDS away from our goal of one thousand small donors by end of the year. And soon, like right now, would be really good, as we are hoping to get books by Linh Dinh and Jane Sprague to press right away! It's tax deductible and oh so juicy. $5 or $10, please! Smaller is ok, too! We love lots and lots of people -- our readers, supporters, YOU! DO IT at http://chax.org/donate.htm -- or send something to address below! You can also go to chax.org and buy a book or two or three or so. charles alexander chax@theriver.com chax press / poetry & the book arts 411 n seventh ave ste 103 / tucson, az 85705-8388 presenting Norma Cole & Charles Alexander on Sept 17 2009 Linh Dinh, Steph Balzer, and Jonathan Rothschild on Oct 30 2009 Jane Sprague & Kate Greenstreet on Nov 4 2009 Ron Silliman & Marilyn Crispell on Jan 30 2010 DONATE TO CHAX PRESS at http://chax.org/donate.htm ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:09:33 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: rashied ali MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit great drummer (with coltrane etc) firend and human has passed away on aug 12 as did les paul today ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:08:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Boog Festival's Final Sked, 9/9-13 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, =46rom Wed., Sept. 9 through Sun. Sept. 13, we'll be putting on the =20 third annual Welcome to Boog City poetry and music festival. It will =20 feature 55 poets, 23 musical acts, 17 small presses, 11 panelists, and =20= 11 playwrights over the five days. You can visit the below url to view the festival logo and at-a-glance =20= schedule: http://www.welcometoboogcity.com/wbc3sked.pdf Among the festival highlights are: =97a live performance of The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs for its 10th = =20 anniversary by 13 different musical acts; =97a night devoted to South Boston, Mass. small press Rope-a-Dope Press; =97our first Poets' Theater night, featuring performances of eight short = =20 plays =97our 6th annual small, small press fair, with exhibits from 16 =20 different small presses, and readings by their authors; =97a discussion on Thinking Globally and Acting Locally in the Aftermath = =20 of the Global Capital Meltdown; and =97Washington, D.C. small press luminary Buck Downs in conversation with = =20 renowned poet Anselm Berrigan The full schedule for the event is below this note, followed by =20 performer bios and websites. If you need any additional information you can reach me at 212-842-=20 BOOG (2664) or editor@boogcity.com. as ever, 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://www.welcometoboogcity.com T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) F: (212) 842-2429 ------------- 3rd annual Welcome to Boog City 5 Days of Poetry and Music WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 7:00 P.M. For its 10th Anniversary, The Magnetic Fields=92 69 Love Songs album performed live by: Sidewalk Caf=E9 94 Ave. A NYC Free with a two-drink minimum Volume 1 Admiral of the Narrow Sea 1. Absolutely Cuckoo 2. I Don't Believe in the Sun 3. All My Little Words 4. A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off 5. Reno Dakota Kathy Zimmer 6. I Don't Want to Get Over You 7. Come Back from San Francisco 8. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side 9. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits 10. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be Ben Krieger 11. I Think I Need a New Heart 12. The Book of Love 13. Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long 14. How Fucking Romantic 15. The One You Really Love Adam Ferretti 16. Punk Love 17. Parades Go By 18. Boa Constrictor 19. A Pretty Girl Is Like... 20. My Sentimental Melody Sara Lautman and Yoko Kikuchi 21. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing 22. Sweet-Lovin' Man 23. The Things We Did and Didn't Do Volume 2 1. Roses 2. Love Is Like Jazz 3. When My Boy Walks Down the Street Andrew Hoepfner 4. Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old 5. Very Funny 6. Grand Canyon Genan Zilkha 7. No One Will Ever Love You 8. If You Don't Cry 9. You're My Only Home 10. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy 11. My Only Friend 12. Promises of Eternity Stephanie Nilles 13. World Love 14. Washington, D.C. 15. Long-Forgotten Fairytale 16. Kiss Me Like You Mean It 17. Papa Was a Rodeo The Trouble Dolls 18. Epitaph for My Heart 19. Asleep and Dreaming 20. The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing 21. The Way You Say Good-Night 22. Abigail, Belle of Kilronan Maynard and the Musties 23. I Shatter Volume 3 1. Underwear 2. It's a Crime 3. Busby Berkeley Dreams 4. I'm Sorry I Love You OPEN SLOT 5. Acoustic Guitar 6. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure 7. Love in the Shadows 8. Bitter Tears 9. Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget A Brief View of the Hudson 10. Yeah! Oh, Yeah! 11. Experimental Music Love 12. Meaningless 13. Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin 14. Queen of the Savages Gracefully 15. Blue You 16. I Can't Touch You Anymore 17. Two Kinds of People 18. How to Say Goodbye 19. The Night You Can't Remember Andrew Hoepfner 20. For We Are the King of the Boudoir 21. Strange Eyes 22. Xylophone Track 23. Zebra Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave. Venue is at E.6th St. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 7:00 P.M. d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press Rope-a-Dope Press (South Boston, Mass.) ACA Galleries 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr. NYC Free Event will be hosted by Rope-a-Dope editors Robert daVies and poet Mary Walker Graham, eds. featuring readings from Mary Walker Graham Kate Schapira Sampson Starkweather Chris Tonelli and music from Erik Schoster There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too. Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St. Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 7:00 P.M. Sidewalk Caf=E9 94 Ave. A NYC Free with a two-drink minimum 7:00 p.m. Elinor Nauen 7:15 p.m. Sandra Beasley 7:35 p.m. Tara Hack-music 8:15 p.m. The Tet Offensive-music =09 9:10 p.m. Boog Poets=92 Theater, featuring plays by: =09 Charles Bernstein Charles Borkhuis Corina Copp and Dana Ward Mashinka Firunts and Jeremy Thompson Kristen Kosmas Filip Marinovich and Nathaniel Siegel Urayo=E1n Noel Kristen Prevallet =09 11:10 p.m. Dan Machlin 11:25 p.m. Serena Jost-music 11:55 p.m. The Low and the Lonesome-music Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave. Venue is at E.6th St. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 12:00 P.M. Unnameable Books 600 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn Free 6th Annual Small, Small Press Fair Featuring readings from authors of the exhibiting presses 12:00 p.m. Rachel Levitsky, Ugly Duckling Presse =09 12:10 p.m. Wil Hallgren, Stubborn Plant Press 12:20 p.m. Lydia Cortes, Straw Gate Books 12:30 p.m. Jill Magi, 2nd Avenue 12:40 p.m. Ivy Johnson, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs 12:50 p.m. Austin Alexis, Poets Wear Prada 1:00 p.m. Douglas Manson, little scratch pad press 1:10 p.m. Stacy Szymaszek, Litmus Press 1:20 p.m. Mina Pam Dick, Futurepoem 1:30 p.m. Geoffrey Olsen, EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts 1:40 p.m. Norman Lock, Ellipsis Press 1:50 p.m. Christopher Stackhouse, Corollary Press 2:00 p.m. Andrew Hughes, BookThug 2:10 p.m. Jennifer L. Knox, Bloof Books 2:20 p.m. Marcella Durand, Belladonna* 2:30 p.m. Karin Falcone, artICHOKE Press 2:40 p.m. Dan Wilcox, A.P.D. ----------------- 2:50 p.m. Jesse Schoen-music 3:20 p.m. Ammiel Alcalay 3:35 p.m. Danielle Le Gros Georges 3:55 p.m. Ryan Walker 4:15 p.m. Jim Dunn 4:35 p.m. Phoebe Kreutz-music 5:05 p.m. Karen Weiser 5:20 p.m. Katie Yates 5:40 p.m. Dana Ward 6:00 p.m. Anselm Berrigan 6:15 p.m. Anselm Berrigan in conversation with Buck Downs 6:45 p.m. Buck Downs 7:05 p.m. Gracefully-music 7:35 p.m. Jean-Paul Pecqueur 7:50 p.m. Brenda Coultas 8:05 p.m. Mike County 8:25 p.m. Ish Klein Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, C to Clinton-Washington avenues, =20= Q to 7th Ave. Venue is bet. Prospect Pl./St. Marks Ave. SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 12:00 P.M. Unnameable Books 600 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn Free 12:00 p.m. Paul Foster Johnson 12:15 p.m. Eric Gelsinger 12:30 p.m. Joanna Sondheim 12:45 p.m. Tracey McTague 1:00 p.m. Alan Semerdjian-music 1:30 p.m. Martha King 1:45 p.m. Brendan Lorber 2:00 p.m. Dan Wilcox 2:20 p.m. Basil King =09 2:35 p.m.-2:45-break =09 2:45 p.m. Thinking Globally and Acting Locally in the Aftermath of =20= the Global Capital Meltdown Greg Fuchs moderates a discussion on the meaning of community with a =20 group of New York activists, artists, filmmakers, poets, and writers: =20= Antonino D=92Ambrosio, Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Alan Gilbert, Erica Kaufman, = =20 Eileen Myles, Tim Peterson, Marc Andre Robinson, Michele Madigan =20 Somerville, Chris Stackhouse, and Stacy Szymaszek. 4:30 p.m.-4:40-break =09 4:40 p.m. Corina Copp 4:55 p.m. Lewis Warsh 5:10 p.m. Hailey Higdon 5:30 p.m. Shanna Compton 5:45 p.m. Angela Veronica Wong 6:10 p.m. Dorit-music 6:30 p.m. Cristiana Baik 6:50 p.m. Paolo Javier 7:05 p.m. Sara Wintz 7:20 p.m. Ryan Murphy 7:35 p.m. Gary Parrish 7:50 p.m. Justin Marks Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, C to Clinton-Washington avenues, =20= Q to 7th Ave. Venue is bet. Prospect Pl./St. Marks Ave. --------------- **Welcome to Boog City 3 Bios and Websites** *Wednesday **A Brief View of the Hudson http://www.myspace.com/abriefviewofthehudson Nick Nace, Ann Enzminger, and Joel Herzig are the folk/country =20 powerhouse that is A Brief View of the Hudson. **Admiral of the Narrow Sea http://www.myspace.com/admiralofthenarrowsea Admiral of the Narrow Sea is a Staten Island-based performance group. =20= The songs are centered around a ukulele, and based on English and =20 French idioms. The act draws a heavy influence from alternative =20 country, and Staten Island guidos. Their sound is best described as =20 nautical glock pop. **Adam Ferretti http://www.myspace.com/poton Adam Ferretti is currently a full time research biologist, part time =20 cake maker, rock singer, ghost bunny painter, solo artist, and =20 violinist. This is the first time he will step out from behind his =20 post apocalyptic rock band The Rabbits and his solo moniker Poton, to =20= perform under his own name. **Gracefully http://goodbyebetter.com Psychedelic lounge pop from the isle of Manhattan, Gracefully is the =20 butterfly metamorphose from the caterpillar So L=92il. Part of (and oft =20= augmented by) the Goodbye Better Collective (which also includes I =20 feel tractor, Aydin, and Drifting In the Cinema), they just released =20 their first full-length this past May on Goodbye Better. **Andrew Hoepfner http://www.creakyboards.com/ Andrew Hoepfner has done all his New York City songwriting under the =20 moniker Creaky Boards, which is currently in a coma. Andrew plays keys =20= as one of Shilpa Ray=92s Happy Hookers. He takes pride in helping =20 mothers and wives of New York City who are in strife. Andrew has been =20= exploring drawing and meditation this year. **Ben Krieger http://www.benkrieger.com/ Ben Krieger came to New York in 1997 to be a schoolteacher. He brought =20= an electric guitar and a 4-track, too. He has written for The Deli, =20 Block Magazine, Urban Folk, and was the editor at Jezebel Music for =20 two years. He plays a weekly show at the Sidewalk=97the club he books=97at= =20 around 3:00 a.m. each Tuesday. He still works with children (including =20= his own). He is an avid music collector who doesn't believe in guilty =20= pleasures. He=92s antifolk, but not always. **Sara Lautman and Yoko Kikuchi http://www.myspace.com/yokokikuchi http://www.myspace.com/saralautman Sara and Yoko have been playing, writing and singing together as two-=20 thirds of the band Lady Bright since July 2008. Cat owners both, they =20= openly admire their little cats=92 capri pants and low pony, = respectively. **Maynard and the Musties http://www.myspace.com/maynardandthemusties Maynard and the Musties have been playing around the city for about =20 three years now. Their first album-length release, So Many Funerals, =20 is available through amazon.com or itunes. Joe Maynard wrote all songs =20= except for =93Shallow Water Warning,=94 whose lyrics were penned by poet = =20 Helen Adam. Maynard also provides lead vocals and acoustic guitar. The =20= Musties are Mo Botton, lead guitar; Dennis Shealy, bass; Jim Thomas, =20 Drums; and the hottest fiddle this side of the crescent city, Naa =20 Koshie Mills. Our rock star ringer, Ryan Adams, provided lapsteel and =20= piano on the song =93Elvis Museum=94 and co-produced the song =93Rocky & = =20 Bessie.=94 **Stephanie Nilles http://www.myspace.com/stephanienilles Stephanie Nilles is an independent musician constantly on the move. At =20= 17, she was a finalist at the Young Concert Artists=92 International =20 Competition. At 22, she had graduated from the Cleveland Institute of =20= Music with a Bachelor of Music in classical piano performance. These =20 days, she's performing her own politically influenced jazz/folk tunes, =20= described by listeners as =93Ella Fitzgerald on speed beating the shit =20= out of Regina Spektor=94 and =93Tom Waits on helium,=94 in her adopted = home =20 base of New York City and out on the road in a hatchback with a Roland. **The Trouble Dolls http://www.troubledolls.com/a/ http://www.myspace.com/troubledolls The Trouble Dolls are a pop band from Brooklyn. The Trouble Dolls are =20= Cheri, Matty, Chris and sometimes Pam. The Trouble Dolls do not smoke. =20= The Trouble Dolls will release their second album, The Tiniest =20 Entertainers in the World, in 2010. The Trouble Dolls=92 first album, =20= Sticky, is available in finer used CD stores everywhere. **Genan Zilkha http://www.myspace.com/genanisfabulous Genan is currently a (full-time) law student, (part-time) musician, =20 although it is questionable whether she is particularly good at =20 either. She is also the same height as Stephin Merritt, which makes =20 her proud and especially qualified to play this show. **Kathryn Zimmer http://www.kathyzimmermusic.com/ Kathy Zimmer grew up singing folk music with a musical family in rural =20= Nebraska, where some of her first gigs were rodeos, parades, and =20 county fairs. The winding road of her musical exploration eventually =20 led her to classical music, and it is with that layer of influence she =20= now creates music she calls =93cosmopolitan folk=94=97music that is =20 sophisticated yet na=EFve, polished yet quirky. Now a resident of New =20= York City, Kathy performs often with her two backup singers, the Sugar =20= Bowls, and her band, the Sunshine Banned. She has independently =20 released three albums, Under Your Spell, dreamin=92, and Spare Key. *Thursday **Rope-a-Dope Press http://rope-a-dope-press.blogspot.com Founded in the spring of 2007 by painter Robert daVies and poet Mary =20 Walker Graham, Rope-a-Dope Press fosters collaboration between =20 artists, writers, and their communities through the publication of =20 handmade, letterpress printed broadsides, chapbooks, and artist=92s = books. **Mary Walker Graham http://distilleryboston.com Mary Walker Graham was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia =20 and now lives in a restored rum distillery in South Boston. The =20 cofounder and editor of Rope-a-Dope Press, her poems have appeared in =20= Free Verse, OCHO, PFS Post, Poetry Magazine, and Poetry Daily. **Kate Schapira Kate Schapira lives in Providence, R.I. where she writes, teaches, and =20= organizes the Publicly Complex Reading Series. In addition to her =20 chapbooks with Rope-A-Dope Press, Case Fbdy. and The Painting, she's =20 the author of The Saint=92s Notebook (Flying Guillotine Press), Heroes & = =20 Monsters (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and Phoenix Memory (horse =20 less press). Her work has most recently appeared in why are we not in =20= paradise? **Erik Schoster http://www.hecanjog.com/ Erik Schoster (r.) is a composer and sound artist based in Brooklyn by =20= way of Madison, Wisc. Middlemarch, his second full-length record as He =20= Can Jog (entitled) is out now on Audiobulb Records. Earlabs praises it =20= as a =93heartfelt, entertaining, and perplexing flurry of sonic =20 excitement.=94 He is writing and recording a new record under his given =20= name for Ian Hawgood's excellent Home Normal imprint. This performance =20= is based in part on that work. More information and mp3s can be found =20= at the above site. **Sampson Starkweather Sampson Starkweather is the author of three chapbooks, The Heart is =20 Green from So Much Waiting forthcoming from Immaculate Disciples, City =20= of Moths a Rope-a-Dope Press production, and The Photograph from horse =20= less press. **Chris Tonelli http://thesteinachoperation.blogspot.com/ Chris Tonelli co-curates The So and So Series and is the author of =20 four chapbooks, most recently No Theater (Brave Men Press) and For =20 People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press). New work =20= can be found in LIT, SIR!, and the Tusculum Review. He teaches at =20 North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives with his =20 wife Allison. *Friday **Sandra Beasley http://www.sandrabeasley.com/ Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the 2009 =20= Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo and forthcoming from =20= W. W. Norton. Her first collection, Theories of Falling, won the 2007 =20= New Issues Poetry Prize judged by Marie Howe. Other awards include the =20= Maureen Egen Exchange Award from Poets & Writers and a Walter E. Dakin =20= Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers=92 Conference. She lives in =20 Washington, D.C., where she writes for The Washington Post Magazine =20 and is working on Don=92t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic = =20 Life, forthcoming from Crown. **Charles Bernstein http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/ The Lenny Paschen monologue, from The Lenny Paschen Show The three librettos I wrote for Ben Yarmolinsky in the early 1990s =20 used vernacular American forms to create contemporary operas with a =20 social and historical address. Blind Witness News (1990) and The Lenny =20= Paschen Show (1992) used the typical format of late-night TV, while =20 The Subject (1991) starts with a psychoanalytic session. Lenny is the final work of the trilogy. Much of the opening monologue, =20= to be presented at this event, was cut, for reasons of length, from =20 the final libretto. In its typical process of canceling sense, television is, of course, =20 the offense to meaning that is addressed in The Lenny Paschen Show. =20 Lenny Paschen is a gladiator in an electronic age=97a hot fighter in a =20= cool medium (and he may also cut against the grain of the lyric =20 impulse within opera). Lenny is trapped from the start, yet his =20 struggle for moral discourse makes this opera a fin de millennia =20 version of Die Meistersinger=97sans masters, sans paradise, all songs. =20= Lenny seems to preach that we can get beyond the puppetry of TV =20 personas, but, as he also insists, he remains a puppet of his own =20 devices. The Lenny Paschen Show uses the tools at hand, especially the =20= tradition of black, often abrasive, comedy to explore the worlds =20 flaunted by, and also hidden within, one of the central formats of =20 commercial TV. Charles Bernstein=92s books include Blind Witness: Three American Operas = =20 (Factory School), new in 2008; Girly Man (University of Chicago =20 Press), now in paperback; Shadowtime (Green Integer), libretto for an =20= opera on Benjamin; Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Sun & Moor Press), =20= Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Northwestern), and Controlling =20 Interests (Roof). He is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and =20 Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. **Charles Borkhuis http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Borkhuis.php Barely There A woman finds herself having retreated into her =93inner cave=94 with = her =20 invisible =93power animal=94 ROAR-SHOCK by her side. It is a little bit = of =20 Paradise where she tries to relax, forget her problems, and just =20 chill. But as an actor, she treats her =93inner cave=94 as a proscenium =20= stage with an attendant audience, for whom she performs herself, =20 trying to win their acceptance and recognition. Yet once performing, =20 she must account for herself. Even though she has no back-story or =20 =93character=94 as such, she keeps peeling away layers of her presence = in =20 an attempt to be remembered before the lights go down. Charles Borkhuis is a playwright, poet, screenwriter, and essayist. =20 His books of poems include Afterimage, Savoir-fear, Alpha Ruins, =20 Proximity (Stolen Arrows), Dinner with Franz, and Hypnogogic Sonnets. =20= Fanny Howe selected Alpha Ruins as a finalist for the William Carlos =20 Williams Book Award. Disappearing Acts is his latest book of poems. =20 His essays on contemporary poetics have appeared in Telling it Slant =20 and We Who Love to Be Astonished (University of Alabama Press). His =20 stage and radio plays have been produced widely, and he is the =20 recipient of a Dramalogue Award. His plays are published in four =20 collections, Mouth of Shadows, The Sound of Fear Clapping, Stage This, =20= and Poets=92 Theater. His CD Black Light contains two radio plays =20 produced for NPR (see above link). He curated poetry readings for the =20= Segue Foundation for 15 years, most recently at The Bowery Poetry Club =20= in New York City. **Corina Copp http://www.fauxpress.com/e/ Corina Copp's short dance-theater text, "A Week of Kindness," was =20 produced in the 2007 Tiny Theater Festival at the Ontological-Hysteric =20= Theater. Recent work has appeared in Aufgabe, Antennae, Puppy Flowers, =20= 6x6, Poets on Painters (Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kan.), Denver =20 Quarterly, Fence, The Germ, and other lovely places. Her e-book, =20 Carpeted, can be found at the above link. She is currently pursuing =20 her M.F.A. in Playwriting with Mac Wellman at Brooklyn College, and is =20= the editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter. **Mashinka Firunts http://www.mashinkafirunts.com/ **Jeremy James Thompson http://www.autotypograph.com/ Extra! V Organza They are inked up. They are hot off the press. Spinning good yarns. =20 Penciling a National Angle. News Items: His Woman Girl of the Fridays =20= Years (1940) (1942) closes the press box; some curtains. Gets in the =20 wired room; word-ringers, face reporters, and gossipmongers gum up the =20= works. The Rumor Mill, an RSS feed, Perez Hilton, and teeny Tweets are =20= seen slurping Manhattan at the Savoy Saturday. This weak head lines: =20 Wild Parties in Pictureland. Weekend Orgies of the Stars of the Silver =20= Sheet! Singed Startlet Warns of Winding Celluloid Road to Ruin! 80 =20 stab and jab beached bodies, the best and worth less of 1990, the =20 Forbes Celebrity 100-2009. There=92s something very important on the =20 teletype, six or seven items back. The Obits read: Bolshevist =20 sweetheart dead, a relation, you knew her. Mashinka Firunts is a graduate student in the Columbia University =20 Modern Art program, and she is concurrently investigating the =20 sustainability of the scholarly spectacle. Jeremy James Thompson is an instructor at New York=92s Center for Book =20= Arts, as well as curator of the reading series TEXTFORM. His work =20 focuses on the process of collaboration, the reinvention of =20 propaganda, and the defining of a practical avant-garde. **Tara Hack http://www.tarahack.com/ Singer-songwriter Tara Hack, a 21-year-old native New Yorker, worked =20 with producers Joe and Jack Napoli of Cloud 9 Recording on her album, =20= See You Soon, available online, on iTunes, and in Penn Station and =20 stores in the Northeast. Her latest single, =93Saya Tidak Bersalah,=94 is about Australian =20 Schapelle Corby who was wrongfully imprisoned. Tara's song has fired =20 the human rights movement to free Schapelle. It's been featured in The =20= Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, 2GB Radio Sydney, The Joey =20 Reynolds Show, and CWA at the University of Colorado. She is in the =20 studio working on her next album. **Serena Jost http://www.myspace.com/serenajost Singer-songwriter and cellist Serena Jost was raised between Michigan =20= and Switzerland. Her debut CD, Closer Than Far, was produced by Brad =20 Albetta (Martha Wainwright) and released to a sold-out show at Joe=92s =20= Pub. Time Out NY noted "she writes gently eccentric songs and sings them in =20= an elegant alto, often accompanying herself on cello, but it isn=92t =20 quite right to call her a singer-songwriter. The term art song=97=20 normally tied to 19th-century concert music=97usefully characterizes =20 Jost=92s carefully arranged pieces and succinct lyrics, neither quite =20= rock nor folk." Formerly of Rasputina, she has collaborated with poet =20= Dan Machlin, dancers, and other artists. **Kristen Kosmas H-O-R-S-E, a text for speaking An imaginary 12-course meal leads to a bus tour, that leads to a =20 seaplane ride, that leads to a party, that leads to a fight, that ends =20= in a rosebush on the way to basketball practice. Kristen Kosmas tries =20= desperately not to tell you all the things she really wants to tell =20 you in H-O-R-S-E. Kristen Kosmas is a playwright and performer. She has had plays =20 commissioned by Performance Space 122, Seattle University's SITE =20 Specific, Dixon Place, and New City Theater. Her plays include This from Cloudland, Hello Failure, Chapter of =20 Accidents, The Mayor of Baltimore, Anthem, and Palomino. She is the writer and performer of four critically acclaimed solo =20 shows, The Scandal!, Slip, Again, and Blah Blah Fuckin Blah, which =20 have been performed at numerous venues in New York, Austin, Boston, =20 Seattle, and Chicago. Forthcoming publications include Hello Failure (Ugly Duckling Presse), =20= This =46rom Cloudland (Play a Journal of Plays), and The Mayor Of =20 Baltimore and Anthem (53rd State). **Dan Machlin http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/page-dearbody.html Dan Machlin was born and raised in New York City and is currently =20 growing cukes, savory, and snap peas in his community garden. His most =20= recent book is Dear Body: (Ugly Duckling Presse). With singer/cellist =20= Serena Jost he has released a full-length CD project Above Islands and =20= set HD, Paul Blackburn, and his own poetic texts to music. His poems =20 and reviews have appeared in Boog Literature, Crayon, Critiphoria, =20 Antennae, Soft Targets, and The Brooklyn Rail. He is the founding =20 editor and publisher of Futurepoem books, and recently joined the =20 conspiracy at Table X: A Publishing Commune. **Filip Marinovich **Nathaniel Siegel Bastille Day 2009 Meditations On Homosexuality is a ritual performed =20 in praise of the gay muse, for everybody. Filip Marinovich is a poet living in New York. Author of Zero =20 Readership (Ugly Duckling Presse), various poems on the web, and plays =20= performed throughout New York. He has performed his poetry in New =20 York, Paris, and San Francisco. He is at work on a new book of poems. Nathaniel Siegel is a gay poet writing from his life experience in New =20= York City. **Elinor Nauen http://www.elinornauen.com/ Elinor Nauen is the author of the poetry collections American Guys and =20= Cars, and editor of Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend: women writers =20 on baseball and Ladies, Start Your Engines: women writers on cars and =20= the road. Her most recent books are the forthcoming So Late Into the =20 Night and Marriage A to Z. She is a freelance journalist for the =20 Saturday Evening Post, AARP.com, and other national publications. She =20= lives in the East Village, where she does daily battle with rats, =20 fleas, and her husband, Johnny Stanton. Check out her latest poetry, =20 articles and adventures at the above site. **Urayo=E1n Noel http://www.myspace.com/urayoannoel The Commonest Many Fester is a team play for As and Bs. It could be a =20= foray: many-festooned. To where poiesis meets polis: as pop lists. The =20= cast is human and non-human (with room for excluded thirds). Less =20 positive than Common, it cures no colds. Kinda polyvocal, sorta =20 glocal, but never lo-cal. A laughtractatus in hi-density politics for =20= many playas. Sorry, no program. Urayo=E1n Noel is the author of Boringk=E9n (Ediciones Callej=F3n/La =20 Tertulia) and Kool Logic/La l=F3gica kool (Bilingual Press), a =20 contributing editor of Mandorla, and a founding member of Spanic =20 Attack. His other works include the artist book Las flores del mall =20 and a CD and DVD of text-sound collaborations with composer Monxo L=F3pez.= He recently presented selections from Hi-Density Politics=97an =20 assemblage of (cheap) digital poetics, (mis) translation, and (pro =20 forma) performance=97at the University of Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary =20= Studies Program, the Latin American Studies Association Conference in =20= Rio de Janeiro, and The Dirty Dirty artspace in Brooklyn. He is =20 completing In One Breath, a book-length study of Nuyorican poetry, on =20= and off the page, from the 1960s to the present. Originally from San =20 Juan, Puerto Rico, he teaches at the University at Albany, SUNY. **Kristin Prevallet = http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/performance/preval= let-burnett.html The Block is a story about love in the paranoid era of Bush's America. =20= Language fails, the muse rebels, the thief enters, and the furniture =20 gets rearranged. Will Lacy and Ben survive? Kristin Prevallet is a poet, essayist, and educator whose most recent =20= book is I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time (Essay Press). She is the =20= editor of A Helen Adam Reader and received a 2007 New York Foundation =20= for the Arts fellowship in poetry. She lives in Brooklyn. **Nathaniel Siegel (see Filip Marinovich) **The Low and the Lonesome http://www.myspace.com/thelowandthelonesome The Low and the Lonesome play country and western music and wail their =20= hearts out down by the Gowanus Canal. They are Donna Lichaw, low and =20 lonesome electric guitar; Lana Carroll, cryin=92 and weepin=92 pedal =20 steel; Jason Bertone, walkin=92 and talkin=92 electric bass; Julian of =20= Nowherr, howlin=92 and yodelin=92, finger-pickin acoustic; and Naomi =20 Clark, bucket and washboard, tambourine and traps. Sounds like dark =20 country comin=92 out a fuzzy radio, on a train, on a boat. **The Tet Offensive http://www.briansamuelrobinson.com/tet.html In January of 2002, David Kirschenbaum approached his friend, =20 classical composer Brian Robinson, to write an arrangement of =93Stay =20= Away=94 for a Nirvana tribute concert at the Knitting Factory in N.Y.C. =20= Brian responded with an arrangement that was as hard and fast as his =20 rock band counterparts, and The Tet Offensive was born. The group =20 counters the traditional lush sound of string ensembles with driving =20 arrangements full of giddy dissonance and moments of thrashing =20 atonality, covering an array of bands from The Bee Gees to Soundgarden. **Jeremy James Thompson (see Mashinka Firunts) **Dana Ward http://www.cypresspoetry.com/ Dana Ward is the author of the Drought (Open 24 Hours), Roseland =20 (Editions Louis Wain), and other scattered books. He lives in =20 Cincinnati where he edits Cy Press and works as an advocate for adult =20= literacy at the Over-the-Rhine Learning Center. *Saturday **Ammiel Alcalay http://www.loggernaut.org/interviews/ammielalcalay/ Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, translator, critic, and scholar. His books =20 include Scrapmetal (Factory School), from the warring factions (Beyond =20= Baroque), After Jews and Arabs (University of Minnesota), the cairo =20 notebooks (Singing Horse), and Memories of Our Future: Selected =20 Essays, 1982-1999 (City Lights). His translations include Sarajevo =20 Blues and Nine Alexandrias by Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinovic; Keys =20= to the Garden: New Israeli Writing; and, with Oz Shelach, Outcast, by =20= Shimon Ballas. The novel Islanders (City Lights) and book of essays A =20= Little History (Beyond Baroque) are forthcoming. **Austin Alexis, Poets Wear Prada http://poetswearpradanj.home.att.net/AustinAlexis.html http://poetswearprada.blogspot.com Austin Alexis=92 poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in a =20 variety of anthologies, journals, magazines, and newspapers, including =20= Barrow Street, The Journal, The Writer, The Pedestal Magazine, and =20 online at Poetz.com. His plays have been performed in New York City, =20 and one was selected for The Samuel French Short Plays Festival. =20 Alexis has taught creative writing at Hunter College=92s continuing =20 education program, and has taught and tutored at various universities =20= and college in New York state. His chapbook Lovers and Drag Queens was =20= released by PWP and a collection of his short stories is due out this =20= fall. He lives in Manhattan and teaches at New York City College of =20 Technology (CUNY) in Brooklyn. Roxanne Hoffman is the founder of Poets Wear Prada, also known as PWP =20= Books, a small press based in Hoboken, N.J. and devoted to introducing =20= new authors through e-books and limited edition, high-quality =20 chapbooks. Her words appear off and on the net, in two print =20 anthologies The Bandana Republic, A Literary Anthology by Gang Members =20= & Their Affiliates (Soft Skull Press) and Love After 70 (Wising Up =20 Press), both released last year, and can be heard in the 2005 indie =20 flic Love and the Vampire, directed and produced by David Gold and =20 starring Rick Poli. A former Wall Street investment banker, she runs =20 the press with her husband Herbert Fuerst, a retired Hollywood agent. =20= Their first offering, released in October 2006, was the 12-page poetry =20= chapbook Your Infidel Eyes by Brant Lyon, host of NYC=92s Hydrogen =20 Jukebox Jazzoetry Series. Since then, they have added 18 additional =20 chapbook titles and their first annual anthology, The Bug Book, will =20 be released this fall. Authors include the well-established New York =20 poets Peter Chelnik, Susan Maurer, and Carol Wierzbicki, as well as =20 promising up and comers like Jee Leong Koh, Laura Vookles, Austin =20 Alexis, and Karen Neuberg. **Anselm Berrigan http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Berrigan-Anselm.php Anselm Berrigan=92s book of poetry Free Cell will be published by City =20= Lights in the fall of =9209. Other books include Zero Star Hotel and =20 Some Notes on My Programming, as well as the slim and recent volume To =20= Hell With Sleep. He is poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, teaches at =20= some places, and used to direct The Poetry Project at St. Mark=92s =20 Church. He has lived much of his life in the East Village, where he =20 was raised and lives currently, and he is in love with poetry come =20 what may. **Lydia Cortes, Straw Gate Books http://www.leafscape.org/strawgatebooks/ Lydia Cortes was raised Puerto Rican in Williamsburg, with Manhattan =20 her longtime home. She has received numerous fellowships and awards =20 for her poetry, fiction, and essays. Works in all these forms have =20 been anthologized. Ten Pell Books published her poetry volume, =93Lust =20= for Lust.=94 Her current book of poems, =93Whose Place,=94 has just come = out =20 from Straw Gate Books. Straw Gate Books is particularly interested in works by women and non-=20= polemical writing with an underlying social content. They also feature =20= new authors and authors whose work is under-served. **Brenda Coultas = http://tsky-reviews.blogspot.com/2008/06/brenda-coultas-marvelous-bones-of= -time.html Brenda Coultas is the author of The Marvelous Bones of Time and A =20 Handmade Museum (both from Coffee House Press), the latter of which =20 won The Norma Farber Award from The Poetry Society of America, and a =20 Greenwall Fund publishing grant from the Academy of American Poets. =20 Her writing can be found in many publications, including Conjunctions, =20= The Brooklyn Rail, Trickhouse, and The Denver Review. Other books =20 include Early Films (Rodent Press) and A Summer Newsreel (Second Story =20= Press). She received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow and was =20= a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council artist-in-residence. **Mike County http://www.myspace.com/flatnineboston Mike County is a musician and poet who lives with his wife Tanya his =20 daughter Lucy, and one on the way, in Boston. He=92s the author of = Three-=20 Deckers, Copper, and, most recently, Another Alley, published by =20 Pressed Wafer. By day he works with adults with developmental =20 disabilities around Boston. At night he plays in Flat 9, a band that =20 sounds like Leonard Cohen had a bastard child with Black Sabbath. **Mina Pam Dick, Futurepoem http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/share_portfolio.cfm?pf=3D1550 http://futurepoem.com/about.html Mina Pam Dick (aka Nico Pam Dick, aka Pam Dick) is a writer, artist, =20 and philosopher living in New York City and the author of Delinquent =20 (Futurepoem books, Fall 2009). She holds an M.F.A. in Painting and an =20= M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and =20= did her undergraduate work at Yale. Her visual art has been exhibited =20= in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and New York City; her sculptural book =20 Babel is part of the Walker Art Center=92s artists=92 books collection. =20= She received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in art and was a two-time =20 Bush Artist Fellowship finalist. Her philosophical work has been =20 published in Vienna in connection with the Austrian Wittgenstein-=20 Symposium (Kirshberg-am-Wechsel) and her work has recently appeared in =20= Tantalum and Bomb. Futurepoem is dedicated to creating a greater public awareness and =20 appreciation of innovative literature. Through their imprint =20 Futurepoem books, they publish innovative poetry, prose, and cross-=20 genre literature by important new and accomplished writers. A unique =20 component of the Futurepoem series is also their communal approach to =20= editorial decision-making. Each year they invite a distinguished guest =20= panel of accomplished writers, artists, and curators to read work =20 submitted as part of an open reading period and select authors for the =20= next publication season. Recent and forthcoming Futurepoem authors include Ronaldo Wilson, Mina =20= Pam Dick, Shanxing Wang, Marcella Durand, Ara Shirinyan, Jill Magi, =20 and Rachel Levitsky. **Buck Downs http://buckdowns.com/ Buck Downs lives and works in Washington D.C. Edge Books has =20 previously published his collections Ladies Love Outlaws and Marijuana =20= Softdrink. Poems have recently appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, =20 Cannibal, and The Columbia Poetry Review. Buck Downs =93has become known = =20 as one of the true risk-takers in small press poetry publishing=94 says =20= the gang at Small Press Distribution. His readings peel paint=97a potent = =20 collage of admonition and delight, delivered in tight packages. **Jim Dunn http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefour.html Bootstrap Productions published Jim Dunn=92s latest book, Soft Launch, =20= last year. His other books of poetry include Convenient Hole (Pressed =20= Wafer) and Insects In Sex (Falling Angels Press). His poems have =20 appeared in Meanie Magazine, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Shampoo, =20 Poetry Motel, Cafe Review, CARVE, and EOAGH. Born in Philadelphia, he =20= now resides on the North Shore outside of Boston. **Marcella Durand, Belladonna* http://translationworkshop.blogspot.com/ http://www.belladonnaseries.org/ Marcella Durand=92s recent books are Traffic & Weather (Futurepoem), =20 AREA (Belladonna), and The Anatomy of Oil (Belladonna). Other books =20 include Western Capital Rhapsodies, City of Ports, and Lapsus Linguae. =20= Her poems and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, The Canary, Denver =20= Quarterly, Chain, The Poker, Verse, NYFA Current, and other journals. =20= She has given talks on the intersections of poetry and ecology at =20 Kelly Writers House, Small Press Traffic, Dactyl Foundation, Stella =20 Adler Studio of Acting, and other venues. Excerpts from her ongoing =20 collaboration with Tina Darragh, based on environmental science, Deep =20= Ecology and Francis Ponge, have appeared in Anomaly, How(2), and =20 Ecopoetics. She was a writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan =20 Cultural Council in 2006, and in 2005 organized a reading and panel on =20= the inter-relations between astronomy and poetry as part of the =20 Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena Conference at the Adler =20 Planetarium in Chicago. She is translating Mich=E8le M=E9tail=92s Les =20= horizons du sol/Earth=92s Horizons, a history of the geological =20 formation of Marseille written within a Oulipian formal constraint; a =20= section of her translation appeared last year in The Nation. She lives =20= in the East Village with her husband Richard O=92Russa and son Ismael =20= Toussaint Durand O=92Russa. She is 2009 Poetry Artist Fellowship =20 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts. This reading is co-=20= sponsored by Artists and Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program. Belladonna is a reading series and small press that promotes the work =20= of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically =20 involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to =20 define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable, and dangerous with =20 language. **Danielle Legros Georges http://www.lesley.edu/gsass/faculty/georges/georges_index.html Danielle Legros Georges is a writer and author of the collection of =20 poems Maroon (Curbstone Press). Her work has appeared widely in =20 literary journals and other publications. She is an associate =20 professor in the creative arts in learning division of Lesley =20 University. **Gracefully (see Wednesday) **Wil Hallgren, Stubborn Plant Press http://wilhallgren.com/ Wil Hallgren was born in Niskayuna, raised in the Town of Ballston, =20 and currently lives in Brooklyn (all in New York state). He attended =20 Union College as an undergraduate and earned an M.F.A. from Brooklyn =20 College, where he was also awarded the Bonnie Perlsweig Mintz Memorial =20= Award. He was one of the founding editors of The National Poetry =20 Magazine of the Lower East Side, and has published his work in Big =20 Bridges, Brooklyn Review, Downtown Brooklyn, Erato, The Rockhurst =20 Review, nycpoetry.com, and BigCity Lit.com, among others. In 2007 he =20 published the collection of poetry Broken Film. He also has three =20 chapbooks in print, Heroache, The Panther, and Bumbling King George=92s =20= Bedtime Book (volume one). He is married to the painter Neddi Heller. =20= In the mid-eighties he started Stubborn Plant Press to accommodate =20 occasional and other works not meant for inclusion in book-length =20 collections. **Andrew Hughes, BookThug http://puppyflowers.com/11/andy.html http://www.bookthug.ca/ Andrew Hughes is the author of Sweethearts of the Great Migration =20 (BookThug) and Rural Radio (Scantily Clad Press), a collaboration with =20= the poet Whit Griffin. His work has appeared in Cannibal, =20 Puppyflowers, String of Small Machines, Spell, and others. His first =20 full-length collection is forthcoming from BookThug. BookThug is an independent literary publisher that operates out of =20 Toronto=92s west end. Founded by Jay MillAr in the mid =9290s, the press = =20 was inspired by the idea that =93if you build it they will come.=94 = Since =20 then poets and writers of all kinds have popped up in the literary =20 landscape through the operations of the press. They and their readers =20= make up what they like to think of as BookThug Nation=97people who scour = =20 bookstores looking for unexpected literature, who desire to =20 participate in a different kind of readership. Poetry, visual =20 literature, conceptual literature, translation, the lyric, critical =20 texts and fiction=97BookThug makes them all available in publications =20= that come in a variety of shapes and sizes and origins, but each one =20 is distinctly BookThug. BookThug is fully aware that their books are =20 not for just anybody. So why not become somebody today? Editio Durus =20 Natio Semper! **Ivy Johnson, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs http://yoyolabs.com/ Ivy Johnson is a recent graduate of Eugene Lang College and is living =20= and working in Brooklyn. Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs publishes poetic works: subtle and =20 intense forms of public exchange and autonomous expressions=97dynamic in = =20 awareness=97luminous in form. Emphasis: diversity and interconnection=97=20= social, cultural, environmental, and aesthetic. **Ish Klein http://unionbook.blogspot.com/ Ish Klein=92s book, Union! came out in April from Canarium Press. Her =20= poems have been published in The Canary, Gare du Nord, The Hat, X-=20 connect, Bridge, and Spork and are also online. She also makes movies =20= and lives in Philadelphia. **Jennifer L. Knox, Bloof Books http://www.jenniferlknox.com/ http://www.bloofbooks.com/ Jennifer L. Knox was born in Lancaster, Calif.=97where absolutely =20 anything can be made into a bong. Her poems have appeared in the =20 anthologies The Best American Poetry (1997, 2003, and 2006), Great =20 American Prose Poems: =46rom Poe to Present, Free Radicals: American =20 Poets Before Their First Books, and The Best American Erotic Poems: =20 =46rom 1800 to the Present. She has taught poetry writing at New York =20= University and Hunter College, and is available for children=92s =20 parties, s=E9ances, and tradeshow booth demonstrations. Bloof Books is a poetry press based in Central New Jersey, publishing =20= perfect-bound paperbacks as well as limited-edition handmade books and =20= chapbooks. Founded in 2007, they have published Jennifer L. Knox, =20 Danielle Pafunda, Sandra Simonds, and Shanna Compton, and have new =20 books from Jennifer L. Knox, Anne Boyer, and Peter Davis in the works =20= for 2009-2010. **Phoebe Kreutz http://www.phoebekreutz.com/ Phoebe Kreutz plays regularly as a performer of her original joke =20 folk. She=92s released four albums and tours hither and yon. Songwriting = =20 credits include Les Freres Corbusier=92s Dance Dance Revolution and =20 Disney=92s Johnny and the Sprites, both with Gary Adler, and the rock =20= opera Gilgamesh!. Her band Urban Barnyard is kickass, as is her dance =20= troupe Unterthrust, which has performed at Carnegie Hall, thank you =20 very much. **Rachel Levitsky, Ugly Duckling Presse http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Levitsky.html http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org Futurepoem books published Rachel Levitsky=92s first full-length volume, = =20 Under the Sun, in 2003. She is the author of five chapbooks of poetry=97=20= Dearly (a+bend), Dearly 356, Cartographies of Error (Leroy), The =20 Adventures of Yaya and Grace (PotesPoets), and 2(1x1)Portraits =20 (Baksun). Levitsky writes poetry plays, three of which (one with =20 Camille Roy) have been performed in New York and San Francisco. Her =20 work is published in publications including The Recluse, Sentence, =20 Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, Global City, The Hat, Skanky Possum, =20 Lungfull! and the anthologies The Portable Boog Reader (vol. I & II), =20= Bowery Women, and 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology. =20 Recently her work was translated into Icelandic for the anthology =20 131.839 Sl=F6g Med Bilum by Eir=EDkur =D6rn Nordahl. Online poetry and =20= critical essays can be found on such sites as Narrativity, Duration =20 Press, How2, and Web Conjunctions. She has taught poetry workshops at =20= Woodland Pattern, Naropa University, Poets House, the Poetry Project, =20= and The Pratt Institute. She is the founder and co-director of =20 Belladonna*, an event and publication series of feminist avant-garde =20 poetics. She serves as the CPW Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice =20 at the University of Pennsylvania. Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit art and publishing collective =20 producing small to mid-size editions of new poetry, translations, lost =20= works, and artists' books. UDP favors emerging, international, and =20 =93forgotten=94 writers with well-defined formal or conceptual projects =20= that are difficult to place at other presses. Its full-length books, =20 chapbooks, artists=92 books, broadsides, magazine, and newspaper all =20 contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history =20= of bookmaking. **Norman Lock, Ellipsis Press http://www.normanlock.com/ http://www.ellipsispress.com/ Norman Lock is the author of The King of Sweden (Ravenna Press), =20 Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press), A History of the Imagination (FC2), =91The =20= Book of Supplemental Diagrams=92 for Marco Knauff=92s Universe (Ravenna =20= Press), The Long Rowing Unto Morning (Ravenna Press), Two Plays for =20 Radio (Triple Press), and=97writing as George Belden=97Land of the Snow =20= Men (Calamari Press). Ellipsis Press was started in 2007 with a mission to publish =20 innovative prose work. They especially like novels that look normal =20 but aren=92t (more than those that look weird but are actually quite =20 normal); those that are successful at bypassing or evolving the =20 seemingly necessary but often tired elements of character and/or plot; =20= and those that respond in some way to the history of the novel as =20 genre and form. **Jill Magi, 2nd Avenue http://sites.google.com/site/jillmagi/ http://2ndavepoetry.com/ Jill Magi works in text and image and is the author of Threads =20 (Futurepoem), Torchwood (Shearsman), Cadastral Map (Portable Press at =20= Yo-Yo Labs), and Poetry Barn Barn! (2nd Avenue). Her writing has been =20= anthologized in Letters to Poets: Conversations on Poetics, Politics, =20= and Community (Saturnalia Books), Fiction from the Brooklyn Rail =20 (Hanging Loose Press), and the forthcoming Eco-language Reader =20 (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Visual work has been exhibited with =20 The Brooklyn Arts Council, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Apex =20= Art, and The International Meeting of Visual Poetry. She teaches at =20 Eugene Lang, City, and Goddard colleges, and runs Sona Books, a =20 chapbook press that is now taking a short sabbatical. Formed in 2002, Second Avenue is a tiny press interested in diverse, =20 innovative, and interdisciplinary language art practices. A publisher =20= of broadsides, online chapbooks, and an online journal, Second Avenue, =20= edited by Paolo Javier, will be launching its inaugural series of =20 print chapbooks by Jill Magi, R. Zamora Linmark, Peter Quartermain, =20 Jeremy Thompson, and Tim Peterson in the fall/winter of =9209. **Douglas Manson, little scratch pad press http://dougfinmanson.blogspot.com/ Douglas Manson is a poet and publisher. His most recent publication is =20= The Table. He has just this minute moved to Brooklyn with his two =20 cats, his chap-caddy, and a song in his heart of the heart. The mission of little scratch pad press is to provide new and emerging =20= poets the opportunity to publish a significant, and often their first, =20= collection of writings. The press began years and years ago, but it =20 wasn=92t a going concern until 2005 with the publication of Aaron =20 Lowinger=92s Autobiography: Perfect Game. The most recent title from the = =20 press is Jonathan Skinner=92s With Naked Foot. **Geoffrey Olsen, EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts http://adishtowel.blogspot.com/ http://chax.org/eoagh Geoffrey Olsen lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is the author of the =20= chapbook End Notebook (Petrichord Press). New work is forthcoming in =20 EOAGH. EOAGH, edited by Tim Peterson, is an online and print journal =20 published yearly. They=92re especially interested in reading as a =20 process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work, acts of =20 attention that explore the close listening inherent not just in =20 writing but also in being written. These are active, embodied =20 experiences (=93Reading is a gymnast=92s act=94) that encourage and = provoke, =20 responses that engage one=92s environment by blending lines between =20 media through ekphrasis, phenomenology, and more. Recent critical =20 articles include a feature on Charles Olson: Language as Physical Fact =20= and a panel on Language Poetry & The Body. Themed issues have included =20= In Remembrance of Jackson Mac Low and Queering Language. **Jean-Paul Pecqueur http://sporkpress.com/4_1/Pieces/Pecqueur.htm Alice James Books published Jean-Paul Pecqueur=92s first book of poetry, = =20 The Case Against Happiness. New poems and reviews have recently =20 appeared in The Hat, Rain Taxi, Cranky, and Gulf Coast. He lives in =20 Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where he teaches writing at the Pratt Institute. **Jesse Schoen http://www.myspace.com/jesseschoen Dystopian sci-fi, inept technicians, and the universe=92s tendency =20 toward chaos inspire Jesse Schoen=92s songs. He lives in Chelsea. **Christopher Stackhouse, Corollary Press http://www.readab.com/cstackhouse.html http://www.corollarypress.blogspot.com Christopher Stackhouse is the author of Slip (Corollary Press), and co-=20= author of Seismosis (1913 Press), a collaboration with writer/=20 professor John Keene that features Stackhouse=92s drawings in dialogue =20= with Keene=92s text. He holds an M.F.A. in Writing/Interdisciplinary =20 Studies from Bard College. His essay =93Everyone=92s Own Color Red,=94 = which =20 compares the poetry of Hart Crane and Bob Kaufman, was published in =20 the Spring 2008 issue of American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of =20= American Poets. Through the program =93New Voices, New York @ Chashama=92s= =20 ABC Gallery=94 in New York City, he co-curates with Kelly Kivland and =20= Alisoun Meehan the current group exhibition =93Contranym,=94 featuring =20= artists Robert Delford Brown, Victoria Fu, Brian Kim Stefans, John =20 Cage, and Stephanie Loveless. In January he performed with John Keene =20= during the month-long writing and performance festival =93When Does It =20= or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation)=94 at the performance space Links =20= Hall in Chicago. He was also a guest faculty member in Naropa =20 University=92s 2009 Summer Writing Program at its Jack Kerouac School of = =20 Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colo. Currently completing a =20 manuscript of poetry, while also doing research for the development of =20= a non-fiction book on poetics, Stackhouse lives and works in Brooklyn. Corollary Press is a small chapbook series devoted to new work by =20 writers of color. Sueyeun Juliette Lee edits the series and =20 specifically seeks out work that challenges the boundaries of suitably =20= =93raced=94 writing, such as Christopher Stackhouse=92s lyric = meditations on =20 the line as a graphic element and structure for thought in Slip, or =20 Summi Kaipa=92s explorations into identity politics and language in The =20= Language Parable. All books are stab-stitched by hand. **Stacy Szymaszek, Litmus Press http://poetryproject.org/ http://www.litmuspress.org/ Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Emptied of All Ships (Litmus) as well =20= as many chapbooks, most recently Orizaba: A Voyage With Hart Crane =20 (Faux) and Stacy S: Autoportraits (OMG!). Hyperglossia was just =20 published by Litmus Press. She is the editor of Gam and the artistic =20 director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark=92s Church. Litmus Press is the publishing program of Ether Sea Projects, a 501(c)=20= (3) non-profit literature and arts organization dedicated to =20 supporting innovative, cross-genre writing, with an emphasis on poetry =20= and international works in translation. We aim to foster local, national, and international dialogue and =20 interaction by presenting original writing from the U.S. alongside =20 translations into English. By supporting translators, poets, and other =20= writers, and by organizing and participating in public events, they =20 hope to illuminate the fundamental common bond between languages and =20 to actualize the potential linguistic, cultural, and political =20 benefits of literary exchange on the international level. We seek to =20 provide continuing and consistently high quality venues for such =20 exchange and discussion to ensure that our poetic communities remain =20 open-minded and vital. **Ryan Walker http://www.bathybius.com/ In spring 2009, Ryan self-published a book of poetry, You Will Own It =20= Permanently. He limited himself to one week to collect, edit, design =20 and release the book. He is working at a more leisurely pace on =20 another edition, due out in Summer/Fall 2009. His work has appeared in =20= Ambit, Anomaly, Submodern Fiction, Phoebe, and in the chapbook Enjoy =20 Potion (The Interrupting Cow). He lives in Washington, D.C. and blogs =20= at the above url. **Dana Ward (see Friday) **Karen Weiser http://www.puppyflowers.com/9/weiser.html Ugly Duckling Presse will release Karen Weiser's first full-length =20 collection, To Light Out, early next year. **Dan Wilcox, A.P.D. http://www.dwlcx.blogspot.com/ apdbooks@earthlink.net Poet and photographer Dan Wilcox is the host of the Third Thursday =20 Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany, N.Y. and is a =20 member of the poetry performance group 3 Guys from Albany. As a =20 photographer, he claims to have the world=92s largest collection of =20 photos of unknown poets. He has been a featured reader at all the =20 important poetry venues in the Capital District and throughout the =20 Hudson Valley, and is an active member of Veterans for Peace. He also =20= publishes poetry under the imprint, A.P.D. (albany=92s poetic device, =20= another pleasant day, etc.). His own poems have been published in Out =20= of the Catskills, Post Traumatic Press 2007, Chronogram, Poetica, and =20= in numerous small press journals and anthologies, on the internet, and =20= in self-published chapbooks. You can read his blog at the above link. A.P.D., under the direction of Wilcox, has been publishing the works =20 of local and regional poets since 1989. Among the works published by =20 A.P.D. are Distant Kinships by Anthony Bernini, Suddenly Sapphires by =20= Dina Pearlman, Three Sides to the Looking Glass by Rachel Zitomer, =20 and, most recently, To the Husband I Have Not Yet Met, by Mary Kathryn =20= Jablonski. **Katie Yates http://homepage.mac.com/kdyates/Personal78.html Katie Yates grew up in French West Africa and lives near New Haven, =20 Conn. with Michael Forstrom (her husband) whom she met in college, =20 Martin and Anna (Michael's children), and her own children little =20 Juliette Claire and the even littler Gabriel Lake. Academic =20 credentials fall under the rubric of poetry mostly with Doctor of =20 Arts, University at Albany, English Studies; M.F.A. Naropa University, =20= Writing and Poetics; and B.A. Carleton College, English Literature. =20 She teaches for CTU Online and is very much taken with virtual works. =20= Most recently she did Morning Stories, a book of poetry and =20 watercolors with Julian Wong. thelemonade (Christopher Funkhouser and =20= Stephen Cope) visited Equinunk, Penn. wherein an incredibly lovely =20 High Watermark Salo(o)n took place (see www.highwatermarksalon.com). Her interests besides writing are meditation and web book building. *Sunday **Cristiana Baik http://pressgangsters.com/ Cristiana Baik resides in Boston, works as an editorial assistant at =20 The Boston Review, and works with Sara Wintz on the ::: the press =20 gang :::. She=92s published one chapbook with Blue Hour Press, The =20 Victory of the Strange Heart Beating, and has been published in =20 several journals. She hopes to one day move to a house, so she can buy =20= a Vandercook and print in her spare time. **Shanna Compton http://www.shannacompton.com/ Shanna Compton is the author of For Girls (& Others) (Bloof), Down =20 Spooky (Winnow), GAMERS (Soft Skull), and several chapbooks. Her poems =20= and essays have appeared in such publications as LIT, Tight, Abraham =20 Lincoln, Coconut, Court Green, and No Tell Motel, as well as the =20 anthologies Best American Poetry 2005, Bowery Women, and Poets =20 Bookshelf II, among others. She lives in Central New Jersey. **Corina Copp (see Friday) **Antonino D=92Ambrosio http://www.lalutta.org/ Antonino D=92Ambrosio is the author Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk =20 Politics of Joe Strummer; the film version will be released in 2010 =20 and features original art and animation by Shepard Fairey and original =20= music from a wide range of today=92s brightest musicians including =20 Antibalas, Saul Williams, Chuck D, and Thievery Corporation. His most =20= recent short film is No Free Lunch, starring comedian Lewis Black. His =20= writing appears in The Progressive, The Believer, and The Nation, =20 among many others. Based in Brooklyn and San Francisco, D=92Ambrosio is =20= the founder/executive director of La Lutta NMC, a new media and =20 production nonprofit picked by The Nation as one of the top =20 independent media groups in the country. Honored by New York =20 University as a Gallatin Lecturer=97an honor bestowed upon a =20 contemporary artist creating innovative and social engaging work=97=20 D=92Ambrosio is the artist-in-residence at the Center for Contemporary =20= Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. **Dorit http://www.myspace.com/sweetdorit Dorit is a performing artist who is a proud native New Yorker. Born =20 and raised in the Bronx, she is first generation American in a very =20 multi-culti family. In 2009 she released her first music video =20 honoring her lifelong obsession with Wonder Woman. As a solo singer/=20 songwriter/musician her influences range from classic Middle Eastern =20 Music to African to Melodic Metal. After a number of years performing =20= solo she is planning to record her original album in the near future. =20= Aside from her solo career, she is starting up a heavy rock band that =20= is in the writing process and is yet to be named. Dorit was the winner =20= of =93Bellydancer of the Universe.=94 She is an internationally = recognized =20 and respected Middle Eastern dancer and teacher. She is grateful to =20 all her students for helping and supporting her in her music and dance =20= careers. **Mariana Ruiz Firmat http://www.alternet.org/authors/9353 Mariana Ruiz Firmat is a union organizer, writer, and editor. She is =20 an organizer with Local 1000 of CSEA/AFSCME, organizing direct care =20 workers, a predominately Caribbean and African-American workforce. =20 Mariana was the Politics section editor for Clamor Magazine for almost =20= three years. She edited and conceptualized some important Clamor =20 issues, most notably the Body Issue which featured a section of =20 stories attacking the labor policies of American Apparel. Committed to =20= the independent and small press movement, she recently began her foray =20= as a publisher with Three Sad Tigers press. Their first chapbook is =20 forthcoming this fall. Mariana=92s poetry has been published in various =20= magazines and presses. Open 24 Hours Press published her chapbook =20 Another Strange Island. Most recently she has contributed to Make/=20 Shift Magazine with her article =93Misdiagnosis-a political memoir=94 =20= about the impacts of environmental justice on women=92s reproductive =20 health. She has also blogged for BBN News. **Greg Fuchs http://www.gregfuchs.com/ Greg Fuchs is the author of Came Like It Went, Metropolitan Transit, =20 New Orleans Xmas, Rolling Papers, and Temporary. He is a member of =20 Subpress publishing collective. With John Coletti, Fuchs co-edits Open =20= 24 Hours, which publishes poetry in the spirit of the mimeo-revolution =20= of the 1960s. He serves as the president of the board of directors of =20= The Poetry Project. **Eric Gelsinger http://www.gelsingers.blogspot.com/ Eric Gelsinger is a member of House Press and the editor of the cheap =20= print snappy prose zine The Happy Generations. You can subscribe to =20 the zine at the above url. It=92s very cheap and very good. **Alan Gilbert http://bostonreview.net/BR34.2/gilbert.php Alan Gilbert is the author of Another Future: Poetry and Art in a =20 Postmodern Twilight. His writings on poetry and art have appeared in a =20= variety of publications, including Artforum, The Believer, and The =20 Village Voice. His poems have appeared in Bomb, Boston Review, and The =20= Nation, among others. He received a 2009 New York Foundation for the =20 Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a 2006 Creative Capital Foundation Award =20= for Innovative Literature. **Hailey Higdon http://www.palinodeproject.blogspot.com/ Hailey Higdon is the author of The Palinode Project, which can be read =20= at the above url. She is originally from Nashville, Tenn. and has =20 lived and worked in many places, including Boston, Madison Wisc., and =20= parts of South Africa. She now lives in Philadelphia, where she =20 teaches pre-kindergarten. Recently she started what to us (press) and =20= released the chapbook The Third Word, by Lewis Freedman this past =20 February. **Paolo Javier http://myspace.com/paolojavier Paolo Javier is the author of LMFAO (OMG!), Goldfish Kisses (Sona =20 Books), 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this =20 writing (Ahadada). He is printed matter editor for Boog City and =20 publishes 2ndavepoetry.com. He lives in New York City. **Paul Foster Johnson http://apostrophebooks.org/books-designs/refrains-unworkings/ Paul Foster Johnson=92s first collection of poetry, Refrains/Unworkings, = =20 was published last year by Apostrophe Books. With E. Tracy Grinnell, =20 he is the author of the g-o-n-g press chapbook Quadriga. His poems =20 have appeared in a number of literary journals, including GAM, EOAGH, =20= Pom2, Fence, The Portable Boog Reader 2, Antennae, Bird Dog, and =20 Octopus. =46rom 2003 to 2006, he curated the Experiments and Disorders =20= reading series at Dixon Place. He is an editor at Litmus Press and =20 lives in the Lower East Side. **Erica Kaufman http://ericajane0808.googlepages.com/ Erica Kaufman is the author of censory impulse (Factory School). **Basil King Basil King attended Black Mountain College as a teenager, and =20 completed apprenticeship as an abstract painter in San Francisco and =20 New York. Although he didn=92t begin to write until 1986, he may be the =20= only living person who studied writing with Charles Olson, Robert =20 Duncan, and Robert Creeley. Some of his paintings can be seen on the =20 web at Spuyten Duyvil, Light & Dust, and Jacket. Recent books include =20= mirage, 77 Beasts: Basil King=92s Beastiary, and two excerpts from his =20= on-going Learning to Draw: Twin Towers and In the Field Where =20 Daffodils Grow. **Martha King Martha King was born Martha Winston Davis in Charlottesville, Va. in =20 1937, attended Black Mountain College as a teenager and married the =20 painter Basil King in 1958. She=92s lived in New York City since then. =20= Her recent books are Imperfect Fit: Selected Poems and North & South, =20= a collection of short stories. She edited a zine, Giants Play Well in =20= the Drizzle, from 1983 to 1993, curates a prose reading series with =20 Elinor Nauen, at the Telephone Bar, and just guest edited Local =20 Knowledge #4 but the Web site isn=92t live yet. **Brendan Lorber http://www.lungfull.org/ Rakish adventurer Brendan Lorber spends his days and nights flying =20 small 1970s=92-era airplanes, rebuilding a ramshackle Revolutionary War-=20= era Brooklyn farmhouse, and allowing his baby daughter Aurora to =20 redefine the very nature of time and endurance. He is not the real =20 father of several other poet-babies born this past year despite the =20 striking array of traits they appear to have inherited from him, =20 traits like immaturity, impatience, mild colic, and tiny bladders. =20 During his recent stint as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter =20 Lorber did his best to destroy the newsletter, The Poetry Project, all =20= poetry forever, and you. He ran the Zinc Talk Reading Series for 10 =20 freewheeeling years. He continues to edit LUNGFULL! Magazine, the =20 horribly named journal that prints people=92s rough drafts in addition =20= to the final versions so you can see the process from beginning to =20 end. Are you still reading this bio? Why? It=92s not exactly Anna =20 Karenina now is it? Lorber is the author of several chapbooks, among =20 them The Address Book, Dash, Your Secret, and Corvid Aurora. His work =20= has appeared in countless journals and anthologies in several =20 languages around the world. He has lectured and taught workshops on =20 writing and participatory economics throughout the country but always =20= returns to his Brooklyn home slung between an old power plant and a =20 much older 500-acre necropolis. **Justin Marks http://justinanselmarks.blogspot.com/ Justin Marks=92 first book is A Million in Prizes (New Issues Press). He = =20 is also the author of several chapbooks, the most recent being Voir =20 Dire (Rope-a-Dope Press). New work can be found in the Harp & Altar, =20 Raleigh Quarterly, and Tusculum Review. He is the founder and editor =20 of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City with his wife =20 and their infant son and daughter. **Tracey McTague Tracey McTague lives at the geographic apex of Brooklyn on Battle Hill =20= where she curates a reading series of the same name. She is also =20 coeditor and consiglieri of Lungfull! Magazine. She is a writer and =20 visual artist whose work includes a number of chapbooks. A longer =20 book, about urban dog mind, will be published this fall by Overlook =20 Press. Tracey is currently at work on a project called Super Natural. =20= She vandalizes private property on a regular basis. **Ryan Murphy http://www.openlooppress.org/interviews/ryan-murphy/ Ryan Murphy is the author of Down with the Ship from Otis Books/=20 Seismicity Editions, as well as the chapbooks The Gales, Ocean Park, =20 and On Violet Street. His second book, The Redcoats, is forthcoming =20 from Krupskaya. He has received awards from Chelsea Magazine and The =20 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as a grant from The Fund =20 for Poetry. He is an editor for Four Way Books and teaches at Pratt =20 Institute. He lives in New York City. **Eileen Myles http://www.eileenmyles.com/ Eileen Myles is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose, =20= including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not Me, and is =20= the coeditor of The New Fuck You, an anthology of lesbian writing. =20 Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San =20= Diego from 2002 to 2007. Most recently, she received a fellowship from =20= the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation. Myles ran for president =20 in 1992. **Gary Parrish http://farfallapress.blogspot.com/ Former 82nd Airborne Paratrooper, Gary Parrish received his bachelor=92s = =20 degree from Naropa University and his master of fine arts from Long =20 Island University, where he won the school=92s Ester Hynaman Award for =20= Poetics. Bowery Arts and Sciences awarded Parrish the 2006 Pedro =20 Pietri Memorial Prize. He cocurated the yearlong Bowery Broadside =20 Reading Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, featuring broadsides with =20 original artwork by George Schneeman. The Meek, a long poem, was =20 translated into Italian by Tiziano Fratus and published in the journal =20= Ludwig (Torino Poesia Press). Two chapbooks, Dwarf Stars (Scantly Clad =20= Press) and Cartoon Logic (Erudite Fangs), are forthcoming this year. =20 Parrish is a cofounder and last man standing at Farfalla Press, =20 McMillan, and Parrish, located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. **Tim Peterson http://www.chax.org/eoagh/ Tim Peterson is a poet, critic, and editor. Peterson is the author of =20= Since I Moved In, which received the Gil Ott Award from Chax Press. =20 Peterson also edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts and curates the =20 Tendencies talks series at CUNY Graduate Center. A new chapbook, =20 Violet Speech, is forthcoming from 2nd Avenue Poetry. **Marc Andre Robinson http://www.lmcc.net/art/residencies/workspace/2008/robinson/index.html Marc Andre Robinson works in sculpture, drawing, video, and =20 interactive public projects that revolve around a psychology of =20 belonging: familial, cultural, and historical. Robinson, whose mother =20= is white South African and father is African-American, imbues his =20 eclectic body of work with a strong sense of temporal and cultural =20 flux. Playing with the dialogue between art and artifact, he collects =20= discarded furniture and transforms it into sculptural assemblages with =20= complex and delicately balanced symbology. Robinson=92s two-dimensional =20= works are often marked by meticulous patterning and repetition, while =20= his public projects have involved creating arenas for members of the =20 community to voice their historical reflections. Born in Los Angeles, Robinson earned a B.F.A. from The Pennsylvania =20 Academy of Fine Arts and an M.F.A. from The Maryland Institute College =20= of Art. He participated in The Whitney Independent Study Program and =20 was artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Lower =20 Manhattan Cultural Council and The Rocktower in Kingston, Jamaica. =20 Robinson has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad at venues =20 including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC; The Contemporary =20= Museum in Baltimore; and The Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. =20= His work has been featured in Art Forum, Art News, Paris Vogue, The =20 New York Times, and other international publications. Robinson was =20 recently awarded an Art Matters grant to travel to South Africa in =20 2010, and he has upcoming exhibitions in NYC, Tokyo, Long Island, =20 Baltimore, and Philadelphia. He lives and works in Brooklyn. **Alan Semerdjian http://www.alansemerdjian.com/ NYC musician and poet Alan Semerdjian=92s work seems to always find its =20= way into the lives of music enthusiasts and creative and interesting =20 people all over the world. With close to a thousand performances and =20 readings, television, film, radio, and CMJ credits, and several studio =20= and live albums over the past 13 years, he may be one of the best =20 singer/songwriters you=92ve never heard of. **Michele Madigan Somerville http://www.michelemadigansomerville.com/ Native New Yorker Michele Madigan Somerville is the author of the book-=20= length poem Wisegal (Ten Pell Books) and Black Irish, her first =20 collection of verse, forthcoming this fall from Plainview Press. Her =20 verse has appeared in Hanging Loose, Mudfish, Pagan Place, Downtown =20 Brooklyn, and Puerto Del Sol. Her essay =93Born Again Catholic in =20 Brooklyn=94 recently appeared in The New York Times online Happy Days =20= series. Somerville won an honorable mention in Dublin, Ireland=92s Eason Books =20= Poetry Competition in 2003, first place in The W.B. Yeats Society =20 poetry competition in 2000, a MacArthur scholarship for poetry at =20 Brooklyn College in 1987, and The Louise B. Goodman Award for Women-=20 Centered writing at Brooklyn College. She has curated readings at The =20= Old Stone House in Park Slope, Ceol Bar in Cobble Hill, and Cornelia =20 Street Caf=E9 in Manhattan. She has given many public performances of =20= her work. Somerville recently completed two collections of verse=97Glamourous Life = =20 and Stations of Light. She is working on two books of prose, a novel, =20= Sucker Punch and a yet untitled memoir about being Catholic. Somerville worked for 14 years s a teacher in New York City elementary =20= and high schools, the City University of New York, and at the State =20 University of New York at Purchase. She lives in Brooklyn with her =20 husband and three children. **Joanna Sondheim http://www.harpandaltar.com/interior.php?t=3Dp&i=3D1&p=3D23&e=3D71 = Joanna =20 Sondheim=92s work has appeared in Unsaid, can we have our ball back, =20 sonaweb, Harp & Altar, The Portable Boog Reader 2, and Bird Dog, among =20= others. Her chapbooks, The Fit and Thaumatrope, were published by Sona =20= Books. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens. **Christopher Stackhouse (see Saturday) **Stacy Szymaszek (see Saturday) **Lewis Warsh http://www.lewiswarsh.org/ Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and =20 autobiography, including Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005, The Origin of =20 the World, Touch of the Whip, A Free Man, Avenue of Escape, and Ted's =20= Favorite Skirt. He is the coeditor of The Angel Hair Anthology, editor =20= and publisher of United Artists Books, and director of the M.F.A. =20 program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn. A =20 new novel, A Place in the Sun, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil this =20= fall. **Dan Wilcox (see Saturday) **Angela Veronica Wong http://smartstuff.blogspot.com Angela Veronica Wong is the author of two recently published =20 chapbooks, All the Little Red Girls on Flying Guillotine Press, and =20 stars do a peculiar thing:/ heat up before cooling down on Cy Gist =20 Press. Her poetry has also appeared in Denver Quarterly, Court Green, =20= and Barrow Street. She is currently working on a YA novel about a =20 character who is neither popular nor unpopular, but supercute. She =20 enjoys ellipses and small, pink Japanese things. **Sara Wintz http://ceptuetics.blogspot.com/2007/11/sara-wintz-on-ceptuetics.html Sara Wintz is cohort of ::: the press gang ::: and lead singer of the =20= pretty panicks press. Other writings can be found in Shampoo Poetry, =20 Cricket Online Review, mid(rib, EOAGH, Ecopoetics, Interrobang?!, The =20= Poetry Project Newsletter, The Portable Boog Reader 3, Tight, and on =20 Ceptuetics, with Kareem Estefan. She lives and learns in Brooklyn. --=20 David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:35:01 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: A Lovely Poetry Action elsewhere & other news around here upcoming ... Comments: To: new-poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lovely poetry action in Warsaw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D3VJ03FBhoy0 ~~~ =0A=0ANew Ben Gibbard Project, "One Fast Move or I'm Gone:=0AKerouac's Big = Sur"=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A http://www.deathcabforcutie.com/news/367/new_ben_gibbard_project,_one_f ~~~ FOGGED CLARITY A Manhattan night out - worth it's weight (plus tickets are moving fast): =0A=0AFive sets of music & two readings:=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ASamantha Farrell= =0A=0AStrand of Oaks=0A=0AKarisa Wilson=0A=0AAmir Darzi=0A=0AMichael Tyrell= =0A=0AAmy King=0A=0AJudson Claiborne=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ASunday, S= eptember 13, 2009 @ 9 pm=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AThe Living Room=0A=0A154 Ludlow S= t.=0A=0ANew York, NY 10002=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AINFO -- http://www.= livingroomny.com/artist/fogged-clarity=0A=0A=0ATICKETS -- http://foggedclar= ity.com/=C2=A0 =0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A** I=E2=80=99ll be reading fro= m my new book, Slaves to do These Things.=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A ~~~~ STAIN OF POETRY=C2=A0=C2=A0=0A=0ASaturday, August 22nd @ 7 p.m.=0A=0A=C2=A0= =0A=0A~ Emily Kendal Frey, Phil Memmer, Jeni =E2=80=9Ctruck darling=E2=80= =9D=0AOlin, Zachary Schomburg, JodiAnn Stevenson & Janaka Stucky=0A=0A=C2= =A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AGoodbye Blue Monday=0A=0A1087 Broadway=0A=0A(corner of= Dodworth St)=0A=0ABrooklyn, NY 11221-3013=0A=0A(718) 453-6343=0A=0A=C2=A0= =0A=0AJ M Z trains to Myrtle Ave=0A=0Aor J train to Kosciusko St=0A=0A=C2= =A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0APour some poems on your steamy late August= with Emily=0AKendal Frey, Phil Memmer, Jeni =E2=80=9Ctruck darling=E2=80= =9D Olin, Zachary Schomburg, JodiAnn=0AStevenson & Janaka Stucky!=0A=0A=C2= =A0=0A=0AEmily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at=0APortl= and Community College. She is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour Press,=0A200= 9).=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0APhilip Memmer is the author of three collections of po= ems:=0ALucifer: A Hagiography, winner of the 2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry; T= hreat of=0APleasure, winner of the 2008 Adirondack Literary Award for Poetr= y, and=0ASweetheart, Baby, Darling. His work has been published in many jou= rnals,=0Aincluding Poetry Magazine, Epoch, and Mid-American Review, and has= been=0Aincluded in several anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary = Poems for=0AEvery Day and Don=E2=80=99t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southe= rn Poetry Review.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ATruck Darling (published as =E2=80=9CJen= i Olin=E2=80=9D) lives in NYC=0Awhere she rages in posh isolation with her = dog named Good Times. Truck received=0Aher BA & MFA from Naropa University.= Her first full-length book BLUE COLLAR=0AHOLIDAY was published by Hanging = Loose in 2005. Her most recent publication is=0Aa chapbook of pharmaceutica= l sonnets about antidepressants titled THE PILL BOOK=0Afrom Faux Press, 200= 8. Her next book called HOLD TIGHT! will be published this=0AApril 2010 by = Hanging Loose.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AZachary Schomburg is the author of Scary, N= o Scary (Black=0AOcean 2009) and The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007), and the c= o-editor of Octopus=0AMagazine and Octopus Books. A collaborative chapbook = with Emily Kendal Frey=0Acalled Team Sad will be published by Cinematheque = Press in the fall. He lives=0Ain Portland, OR.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AJodiAnn Ste= venson makes her home in Bay City, Michigan=0Awhere she is an Assistant Pro= fessor of writing and poetry at Delta College. She=0Afounded Binge Press, t= o showcase women=E2=80=99s work, in 2004 and 27 rue de fleures,=0Aan online= journal of women=E2=80=99s poetries in 2005. Her first collection of poetr= y,=0AThe Procedure, was published in the fall of 2006 by March Street Press= . Her=0Asecond collection of poetry, We, the Emperors was a finalist in the= Gertrude=0APress Chapbook Award in 2008. An excerpt of her Kamikaze Death = Poetry is=0Aforthcoming in the =E2=80=9Cfaux histories=E2=80=9D issue of SP= ECS. Her recent blog project,=0AMs. Fish, the relentless, can be found at:= =0Ahttp://msfishtherelentless.blogspot.com. Some of her visual poetry resid= es at www.bowlofmilk.com.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AJanaka Stucky is practicing the = perfection of effort while=0Aworking on silent relationships with knives, h= airpins, & a history of=0Atentacles. Other passions include whiskey and pug= ilism. He is also the=0APublisher of Black Ocean and its literary magazine,= Handsome. Some of his poems=0Ahave appeared in Cannibal, Denver Quarterly,= Fence, Free Verse, No Tell Motel,=0ANorth American Review, Redivider and V= OLT.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A~=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AGoodbye Blue Monday=0A=0A1087 Broa= dway=0A=0A(corner of Dodworth St)=0A=0ABrooklyn, NY 11221-3013=0A=0A(718) 4= 53-6343=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AJ M Z trains to Myrtle Ave=0A=0Aor J train to Kosc= iusko St=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A~=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AHosted by Amy King and Ana Bo= =C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0AINFO -- http://stainofp= oetry.com/=0A=0A=C2=A0=0A=0ARSVP -- http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid= =3D108933376886=0A=0A=C2=A0 =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A_______ =0A =0A =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:57:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: PLEASE POST YOUR POEM FOR SEPTEMBER'S GOODREADS' CONTEST Comments: To: new-poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii PLEASE POST YOUR POEM FOR SEPTEMBER'S GOODREADS' CONTEST http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/193301-please-post-your-poem-for-september-s-goodreads-contest Amy _______ Amy's Alias http://amyking.org/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:30:20 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: walking to Whitman's house with Joey In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 7A341) Coming to wIlliamstown Museum now. Thank you Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2009, at 5:36 PM, CA Conrad wrote: > I dream'd in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the > whole of the rest of the earth; > I dream'd that was the new City of Friends; > Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love--it led > the rest; > It was seen every hour in the actions of men of that city, > And in all their looks and words. > > (from Leaves of Grass) > > > Our good friend Joseph Yearous-Algozin is moving to Buffalo on Monday > morning, but today we took a pilgrimage we've been threatening to make > for a long time. Walking across the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to Camden > in the intense heat was exhausting, so we stopped off at the Walt > Whitman Center to hang out on a couch in the air conditioned theater, > and to fill our water bottles with the disgusting tap water in the > bathroom. NOT that I've ever eaten a urinal cake mind you, but I do > believe this water is what it would taste like. > > The folks working at the center for some reason had no idea that > Mickle Boulevard, where Whitman's house sits, no longer exists as > Mickle Boulevard. I've walked to this house before over the years and > know that it's right across the street from the prison, which is why I > was confused standing on Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard CERTAIN that > we were in the right place. Joey asked a couple pushing a stroller who > told us the boulevard was renamed after King. Maybe the WALT WHITMAN > CENTER needs to know this? > > The walk through the streets of Camden was a sad walk, sadder than I > ever remember it being. When we arrived at the house it was closed, > but we looked through the mail slot to peer at a portrait of the gray > poet on a wall. > > We decided to sit on the front steps in the shade of a tree, where we > were soon joined by men begging for change from anyone who walked > past. 20 cents asked for, then 30 cents. "I dream'd in a dream..." > There were a dozen plastic beer can rings strewn over the sidewalk in > front of the house, and a parade of men with the unmistakable, > unsettling glaze of crack-cocaine in their eyes. It's not just in the > eyes of course, but in the unsteady gait and a musculature not > entirely owned by the men, somewhere, inside the bodies. Few things > frighten me more than that jagged, zombie strut. > > This was the saddest visit I've ever made to Walt Whitman's house. In > the past I've witnessed women and children standing in front of his > house to motion their homemade sign language to loved ones at the > windows of the prison across the street. It was too hot today for sign > language, but we saw women and children leaving the prison after their > visits. One boy, no more than six, wiping tears from his face with the > backs of his fists, trying to push the tears back inside his head or > keep them from coming out, or both, and a young woman -- possibly his > sister -- texting on her cell phone several paces ahead of him, > seemingly unaware of, or uninterested in his overwhelmed state. That > little boy was the saddest sight of all, incredibly depressing, and > the kind of sight you see and wonder WHAT CAN BE DONE to help people > have their needs met? > > When I say this was the saddest visit I've ever made, it felt more > like visiting Dante than the body electric celebrations of gentle > Walt. > > Walt Whitman's dream of a city invincible was either a terribly wrong > prediction, or a dream he hoped for his fellow citizens which the > future had no intention of honoring. A day among broken, breaking > souls for Joey and I, but of course Camden is Camden everyday, and we > were just visitors. The boulevard is renamed after Dr. Martin Luther > King, the new address for Walt Whitman's house, but changing the name > of the street is hardly the answer to anyone's misery. > > And I'm not saying I have answers, but I am wondering WHY the city's > leadership is spending time and energy and money changing maps, and > buying all these shiny new boulevard signs when the bail bonds shops > are blossoming in the neighborhood, and building after building is > boarded up? And drug addicts continue to be somebody's child, brother, > father, uncle, lost in such a way it's hard to imagine how to ever > bring them back. Camden, were you even the city Whitman dream'd in his > dream? Was he dreaming of another city? But the poem is quoted in > granite on the tower of Camden's city hall, and again in the train > station. > > The city CLAIMS the poem without apology, towering above all heads are > these words, and you don't need to squint to read the massive carved > letters. You can see it everyday I DREAMED A CITY INVINCIBLE. It's a > pox upon all who attempt to thrive here, endless days of misery, which > from my gauge is getting ever more miserable with each visit I make. > I'm feeling despair for our world tonight, and cannot listen to the > news with all the ASSHOLE Republicans talking about Americans NOT > NEEDING proper health care, not needing care, not what? Not what? Not > needing? The need is immense, it's almost too painful to examine just > how many needs are not being met while these SCUM bargain down the > price while bargaining down the 20/20 vision of the world around us, > here, everyday in Camden, and elsewhere. > > I'm sleeping with nightmares of Whitman's house tonight, and all his > neighbors awaiting "the quality of robust love." > CAConrad > > > -- > PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com > > THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:02:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Weiss Subject: Re: History of music website In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Unless they like classical music. Its take is more than a little weird. At 11:05 AM 8/12/2009, you wrote: >I found a website detailing a history of music genres and styles, with album >reviews going back years. It is the most complete music site I have seen. A >must for all who like music: > >http://www.scaruffi.com/usmusic.html > >================================== >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:26:53 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Nelson Subject: Language as critical to a society's health MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear SUNY-Buffaloers, I am working on a project which is in need of some solid scholarship on this point, among others: Skillful use of language is critical to a society's health. Feel free to backchannel me at pen (at) splab (dot) org or let the opinions rip on the list. Looking for something accessible and experiential more than theoretical. Grazie, Paul Nelson Paul E. Nelson Global Voices Radio SPLAB! American Sentences Organic Poetry Poetry Postcard Blog Ilalqo, WA 253.735.6328 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:31:18 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Noah Eli Gordon Subject: Call for book submissions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Last day! See below: =20 =20 Subito Press of the University of Colorado=20 invites submissions to its annual book competition.=20 =20 We will publish two books of innovative writing=2C one each of fiction and = poetry. =20 Submissions will be accepted from June 1 to August 15=2C 2009 (postmark dat= e). =20 Submit manuscripts of up to 70 pages of poetry or up to 100 pages of (doubl= e spaced) fiction along with a $20 reading fee and an SASE for notification= of results.=20 =20 Manuscripts should include two cover sheets: one with title only=2C the oth= er with title=2C author's name=2C address=2C e-mail=2C and phone number.=20 =20 All submissions will be judged anonymously by the creative writing faculty = at the University of Colorado=3B friends=2C relatives=2C and former student= s of University of Colorado creative writing faculty are not eligible. =20 =20 http://www.colorado.edu/English/crw/faculty/index.html =20 Simultaneous submissions are ok=3B please notify Subito immediately if your= ms. is accepted elsewhere.=20 =20 Winners will give a reading at the University of Colorado in the Spring of = 2010.=20 =20 Notification of winners will occur by January of 2010.=20 Send mss. to:=20 Subito Press=20 Department of English=20 226 UCB=20 Boulder=2C Colorado 80309-0226=20 =20 http://www.subitopress.org/ =20 =20 Subito Press is a nonprofit literary publisher based in the Creative Writin= g Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. We look for innovati= ve fiction and poetry that at once reflects and informs the contemporary hu= man condition=2C and we promote new literary voices as well as work from pr= eviously published writers. Subito Press encourages and supports work that = challenges already-accepted literary modes and devices http://www.colorado.edu/English/crw/ =20 =20 Subito Press 2008 Book Competition Winners =20 F-Stein=2C by L.J. Moore Self-Titled Debut=2C by Andrew Farkas _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live=99: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=3DPID23384::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:NF_BR= _sync:082009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:25:12 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Obododimma Oha Subject: Re: History of music website In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Many thanks for this, Jeffrey. It's going to be one of my favorite sites! -- Obododimma. On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Jeffrey Side wrote: > I found a website detailing a history of music genres and styles, with > album > reviews going back years. It is the most complete music site I have seen. A > must for all who like music: > > http://www.scaruffi.com/usmusic.html > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > -- Obododimma Oha http://udude.wordpress.com/ Dept. of English University of Ibadan Nigeria & Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies University of Ibadan Phone: +234 803 333 1330; +234 805 350 6604; +234 808 264 8060. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:06:21 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: { brad brace } Subject: 36 PLEATED PLAID PAMPHLETS PUBLISHED! 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:20:22 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Book of Trembling Comments: To: British & Irish poets Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Book of Trembling Reordering the House of Alphabets to coincide with accidental assumptions one might tender regarding language production & its aftermath. Serifs signal effective infection of the very strokes of letterdom. Another is a progression of MOTIONTEXT, this one after Andrew after Nico. http://filevillage.info/2009/08/07/the-book-of-trembling/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:14:52 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Peter Subject: Gallery Night Providence reception - 'The Virtual Landscape: Pigment Prints by Peter Ciccariello' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On the chance that any of you will be in Providence, RI on August 20th, Please stop by and say hello. *Gallery Night Providence reception* *Thursday, August 20 from 5 to 8:30pm.* BankRI Gallery One Turks Head Place. Providence, RI August 6 - September 2 'The Virtual Landscape: Pigment Prints by Peter Ciccariello' Mark Armstrong will play guitar and refreshments will be served. Best, -- Peter Ciccariello http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/ http://uncommonvision.blogspot.com/ http://poemsfromprovidence.blogspot.com/ http://uncommon-vision.blogspot.com/ You can find my art and writing updates on Twitter https://twitter.com/ciccariello ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:26:03 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dan Wilcox Subject: Third Thursday Poetry Night, August 20, Georgranna Millman Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed the Poetry Motel Foundation presents Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY Thursday, August 20 7:00 sign up; 7:30 start Featured Poet: Georganna Millman Georganna Millman=92s poetry has been published widely in poetry =20 journals and her poetry chapbook, =93Formulary=94 was published this = year =20 by Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press (Stuart, VA). -- with an open mic for community poets before & after the feature: =20 $3.00 donation, suggested; more if you got it, less if you can=92t.=20 Your not-yet-tan host: Dan Wilcox. =20= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:05:54 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Andrew Zawacki Subject: VERSE 26: first portfolio number MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Tm93IGF2YWlsYWJsZToNCg0KVkVSU0UNCg0KVm9sdW1lIDI2DQoNClRoaXMgZmlyc3QgbnVt YmVyIG9mIHRoZSBqb3VybmFsIGluIGl0cyBuZXcsIGFubnVhbCBmb3JtYXQgZmVhdHVyZXMg cG9ydGZvbGlvcyBvZiANCndvcmstLSBwb2VtcywgdHJhbnNsYXRpb25zLCBlc3NheXMsIGlu dGVydmlld3MsIGZpY3Rpb24sIHBob3RvZ3JhcGhzLCANCmVkaXRvcmlhbCBwcm9qZWN0cywg ZGF5Ym9va3MsIGRyYWZ0cywgZXRjLi0tIG9mIHVwIHRvIDMwIHBhZ2VzIGVhY2ggYnkgdGhl IA0KZm9sbG93aW5nIHdyaXRlcnM6DQoNCkFuc2VsbSBCZXJyaWdhbg0KR2FycmV0dCBDYXBs ZXMNCkxpZGlqYSBEaW1rb3Zza2ENClJhY2hlbCBCbGF1IER1UGxlc3Npcw0KTGFuZGlzIEV2 ZXJzb24NCkthdGhsZWVuIEZyYXNlcg0KUGllcnJlIEpvcmlzDQpQaGlsaXAgTGFtYW50aWEN CkfDqXJhcmQgTWFjw6kNCk5hdGhhbmllbCBNYWNrZXkNCkJlcm5hZGV0dGUgTWF5ZXINCkpl bm5pZmVyIE1veGxleQ0KUm9uIFBhZGdldHQNCk1pY2hhZWwgUGFsbWVyDQpTdXNhbiBTdGV3 YXJ0DQpDYXRoZXJpbmUgV2FnbmVyDQoNCkNvcGllcyBhcmUgJDE1LiAgUGxlYXNlIHNlbmQg Y2hlY2tzLCBwYXlhYmxlIHRvIOKAnFZlcnNlLOKAnSB0byBBbmRyZXcgWmF3YWNraSwgDQpE ZXBhcnRtZW50IG9mIEVuZ2xpc2gsIFVuaXZlcnNpdHkgb2YgR2VvcmdpYSwgQXRoZW5zLCBH QSAzMDYwMi4NCg0KRWRpdGVkIGJ5IEJyaWFuIEhlbnJ5IGFuZCBBbmRyZXcgWmF3YWNraQ0K DQp3d3cudmVyc2VtYWcuYmxvZ3Nwb3QuY29tDQoNCkFuZHJldyBaYXdhY2tpDQpEZXBhcnRt ZW50IG9mIEVuZ2xpc2gvIFZFUlNFDQpVbml2ZXJzaXR5IG9mIEdlb3JnaWENCkF0aGVucywg R2VvcmdpYSAzMDYwMg0K ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:23:28 -0500 Reply-To: halvard@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: History of music website In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mostly good for those addicted to lists. Hal "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." --Woody Allen Halvard Johnson ================ halvard@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jeffrey Side wrote: > I found a website detailing a history of music genres and styles, with > album > reviews going back years. It is the most complete music site I have seen. A > must for all who like music: > > http://www.scaruffi.com/usmusic.html > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:39:21 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Loretta Clodfelter Subject: Call for Submissions: There MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There, an online journal focused on poetry/art/essays/activism with a focus on place/location/observation/innovation, is seeking submissions for a new issue. Send work to therejournal@gmail.com. Visit http://www.therejournal.com for more information. Also, There is excited to announce its first full-length book of poetry: Planned by Sarah Trott. (Check out http://www.therejournal.com/ordersarahtrottplanned.html for more information.) P.S. If you=92ve submitted work in the recent past to There and haven=92t h= eard anything, please feel free to resubmit or send a reminder. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:00:31 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Maria Damon Subject: Re: walking to Whitman's house with Joey In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit conrad, this is just beautiful, and heartbreaking. CA Conrad wrote: > I dream'd in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the > whole of the rest of the earth; > I dream'd that was the new City of Friends; > Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love--it led the rest; > It was seen every hour in the actions of men of that city, > And in all their looks and words. > > (from Leaves of Grass) > > > Our good friend Joseph Yearous-Algozin is moving to Buffalo on Monday > morning, but today we took a pilgrimage we've been threatening to make > for a long time. Walking across the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to Camden > in the intense heat was exhausting, so we stopped off at the Walt > Whitman Center to hang out on a couch in the air conditioned theater, > and to fill our water bottles with the disgusting tap water in the > bathroom. NOT that I've ever eaten a urinal cake mind you, but I do > believe this water is what it would taste like. > > The folks working at the center for some reason had no idea that > Mickle Boulevard, where Whitman's house sits, no longer exists as > Mickle Boulevard. I've walked to this house before over the years and > know that it's right across the street from the prison, which is why I > was confused standing on Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard CERTAIN that > we were in the right place. Joey asked a couple pushing a stroller who > told us the boulevard was renamed after King. Maybe the WALT WHITMAN > CENTER needs to know this? > > The walk through the streets of Camden was a sad walk, sadder than I > ever remember it being. When we arrived at the house it was closed, > but we looked through the mail slot to peer at a portrait of the gray > poet on a wall. > > We decided to sit on the front steps in the shade of a tree, where we > were soon joined by men begging for change from anyone who walked > past. 20 cents asked for, then 30 cents. "I dream'd in a dream..." > There were a dozen plastic beer can rings strewn over the sidewalk in > front of the house, and a parade of men with the unmistakable, > unsettling glaze of crack-cocaine in their eyes. It's not just in the > eyes of course, but in the unsteady gait and a musculature not > entirely owned by the men, somewhere, inside the bodies. Few things > frighten me more than that jagged, zombie strut. > > This was the saddest visit I've ever made to Walt Whitman's house. In > the past I've witnessed women and children standing in front of his > house to motion their homemade sign language to loved ones at the > windows of the prison across the street. It was too hot today for sign > language, but we saw women and children leaving the prison after their > visits. One boy, no more than six, wiping tears from his face with the > backs of his fists, trying to push the tears back inside his head or > keep them from coming out, or both, and a young woman -- possibly his > sister -- texting on her cell phone several paces ahead of him, > seemingly unaware of, or uninterested in his overwhelmed state. That > little boy was the saddest sight of all, incredibly depressing, and > the kind of sight you see and wonder WHAT CAN BE DONE to help people > have their needs met? > > When I say this was the saddest visit I've ever made, it felt more > like visiting Dante than the body electric celebrations of gentle > Walt. > > Walt Whitman's dream of a city invincible was either a terribly wrong > prediction, or a dream he hoped for his fellow citizens which the > future had no intention of honoring. A day among broken, breaking > souls for Joey and I, but of course Camden is Camden everyday, and we > were just visitors. The boulevard is renamed after Dr. Martin Luther > King, the new address for Walt Whitman's house, but changing the name > of the street is hardly the answer to anyone's misery. > > And I'm not saying I have answers, but I am wondering WHY the city's > leadership is spending time and energy and money changing maps, and > buying all these shiny new boulevard signs when the bail bonds shops > are blossoming in the neighborhood, and building after building is > boarded up? And drug addicts continue to be somebody's child, brother, > father, uncle, lost in such a way it's hard to imagine how to ever > bring them back. Camden, were you even the city Whitman dream'd in his > dream? Was he dreaming of another city? But the poem is quoted in > granite on the tower of Camden's city hall, and again in the train > station. > > The city CLAIMS the poem without apology, towering above all heads are > these words, and you don't need to squint to read the massive carved > letters. You can see it everyday I DREAMED A CITY INVINCIBLE. It's a > pox upon all who attempt to thrive here, endless days of misery, which > from my gauge is getting ever more miserable with each visit I make. > I'm feeling despair for our world tonight, and cannot listen to the > news with all the ASSHOLE Republicans talking about Americans NOT > NEEDING proper health care, not needing care, not what? Not what? Not > needing? The need is immense, it's almost too painful to examine just > how many needs are not being met while these SCUM bargain down the > price while bargaining down the 20/20 vision of the world around us, > here, everyday in Camden, and elsewhere. > > I'm sleeping with nightmares of Whitman's house tonight, and all his > neighbors awaiting "the quality of robust love." > CAConrad > > > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:05:07 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Cain, Amina" Subject: Poetic Research Bureau reading: Amina Cain and Amar Ravva Comments: cc: "aminamemory@yahoo.com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 The Poetic Research Bureau presents... Amina Cain & Amarnath Ravva Sunday, August 23 2009 at 4:00pm @ The Poetic Research Bureau 3702 San Fernando Blvd Glendale, CA 91206 Doors open at 4:00pm Reading starts at 4:30pm $5 donation requested Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), a= collection of stories that revolve quietly around human relationality, lan= dscape, and emptiness. She is also a curator, most recently for When Does I= t or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation), a month long festival of writing, p= erformance, and video, and a teacher of writing/literature. Her work has ap= peared or is forthcoming in publications such as 3rd Bed, Action Yes, Denve= r Quarterly, Dewclaw, The Encyclopedia Project, La Petite Zine, Sidebrow, a= nd Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Xxperimental Prose by W= omen Writers, and was recently translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS. She= lives in Los Angeles. Amarnath Ravva has performed (as part of the ambient improvisational ensemb= le Ambient Force 3000) at LACMA, Los Angeles; Machine Project, Los Angeles;= and Betalevel, Los Angeles. He has exhibited work at Telic, Los Angeles; A= corn Gallery, Los Angeles; Pond, San Francisco; and Keith & Janet Kellogg U= niversity Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona. In addition to presenting his work = in numerous readings, he has writing online at PennSound, LA-Lit and Drunke= n Boat #10, and work forthcoming in Encyclopedia vol. 2, and Indivisible: A= n Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. He is on the board= of advisors for nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts and is a curator a= t Betalevel. http://www.poeticresearch.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:21:07 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Aug 21: Hudson reading w/ Bernadette Mayer & friends MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 7pm Cara Benson Lee Ann Brown Laynie Browne Jennifer Karmin Bernadette Mayer SPOTTY DOG BOOKS & ALE 440 Warren Street Hudson, New York http://www.thespottydog.com **free** CARA BENSON edits the online journal Sous Rature(http://www.necessetics.com= /sousrature.html). Two poem books, (made) and Protean Parade, are forthcomi= ng from BookThug and Black Radish respectively. Other work includes: "Quant= um Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation" (BookThug), Belladonna Elders Serie= s #7 with Anne Waldman and Jayne Cortez (Belladonna), "UP" (Dusie), and "Sp= ell/ing ( ) Bound" with Kai Fierle-Hedrick and Kathrin Schaeppi (ellectriqu= e press). Benson edited the interdisciplinary book Predictions forthcoming = from Chain. She teaches poetry in a NY State Prison. LEE ANN BROWN is a poet who works with multiple forms including songs and f= ilms. Her books include Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press) and The Sleep That Ch= anged Everything (Wesleyan University Press). She divides her time between= NYC where shes goes to tons of poetry readings, and teaches at St. John's = University, and Marshall, NC where she runs the French Broad Institute (of = Time & the River) with Tony & Miranda Torn. LAYNIE BROWNE is the author of seven collections of poetry and one novel. = Her most recent publications include The Scented Fox, (Wave Books 2007, win= ner of the National Poetry Series), Daily Sonnets (Counterpath Books, 2007)= and Drawing of a Swan Before Memory, (University of Georgia Press, 2005, w= inner of the Contemporary Poetry Series). Two collections are forthcoming:= Roseate, Points of Gold, from Dusie Books and The Desires of Letters, from= Counterpath. She has taught creative writing at The University of Washingt= on, Bothell, at Mills College in Oakland and at the Poetry Center at the Un= iversity of Arizona, where she is currently developing a new a poetry-in-th= e-schools program for K-5 schools.=20 JENNIFER KARMIN=E2=80=99s text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice will be published= by Flim Forum Press in 2009. She curates the Red Rover Series and is a fou= nding member of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidiscip= linary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on= city streets across the U.S. and Japan. At home in Chicago, Karmin teache= s creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet in R= esidence for the public schools. New poems are published in the journals C= annot Exist, Otoliths, Plath Profiles, and anthologized in Come Together: I= magine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Not A Muse (Haven Books), and The City Vis= ible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books). BERNADETTE MAYER is a poet and prose writer. In 1967, she received a BA fro= m New School for Social Research. She has since edited the journal 0 TO 9 w= ith Vito Acconci and the United Artists Press with Lewis Warsh, and worked = as Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project. She is also known for her wonderf= ul dancing. Her latest collection of writing is titled Poetry State Forest= (New Directions). =0A=0A__________________________________________________=0ADo You Yahoo!?= =0ATired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around =0Ahttp:= //mail.yahoo.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:17:01 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Pam Brown Subject: calling a reviewer for jacket magazine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Poeticists, If you would like to write a review of Barbara Henning's new novel 'Thirty Miles To Rosebud' (published by BlazeVOX) please contact me at Jacket magazine p.brown62@gmail.com Thirty Miles To Rosebud depicts a series of imploding families and fast interstates. Barbara Henning's landscapes-- a rust-belt childhood, a nearly forgotten East Village Bohemia and the arid Southwest streaked with the setting sun=97are populated by runaways, lost loves and lifelong betrayals. In this remarkable novel, Henning's eye for detail and her emotional honesty enables the past to loom in the rear-view mirror long after the car has sped by. Further information : http://www.blazevox.org/bk-bh.htm Thanks, Pam Brown ____________________________________ blog : http://thedeletions.blogspot.com website : http://pambrownbooks.blogspot.com/ associate editor : http://jacketmagazine.com/ _____________________________________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:17:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: My publish-on-demand works (please post, thanks) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed My publish-on-demand works My publish-on-demand books from Blue Lion, Fort/Da, Blazevox, and Alt-X - Please consider ordering. The Blue Lion is just now coming out (over 500 pages), and The Accidental Artist appeared a few months ago. These books are the soul of my work (such as it is); I'm close to them and I've been lucky that the publishers gave me free reign over content. Azure, Nature, Digital: Blue Lion Description - two sections: The first, with Sandy Baldwin, is on the phenomenology of the analog/digital, and the second is culled from the entire Internet Text, presenting literary/codework texts with peripheral philosophical content. I'm really happy that Blue Lion gave me the opportunity to do this, since it shows how my work hangs together and actually 'goes somewhere,' says something. Thanks to Peter Ganick and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen. http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/azure-nature-digital/7428344 http://stores.lulu.com/bluelionbooks (download and print) The Accidental Artist: Fort/Da http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-accidental-artist/4965130 http://stores.lulu.com/publicdomaininc This is a short and intense collection of writings around Second Life and the phenomenology of the virtual - I really love these texts, thanks to Robert Cheatham who went over them with me. Vel: Blazevox http://www.blazevox.org/bk-as.htm http://www.blazevox.org/catalog.htm These texts were produced in relation to West Virginia University's Virtual Environments Laboratory, and deal with motion capture, virtual modeling, and scanning. But the texts are codework themselves, and virtuality is embedded within them. Thanks to Geoffrey Gatza for this opportunity. .echo: Alt-X http://www.altx.com/ebooks/echo.html (goes both to download and Print On Demand) This was the first of the POD books, thanks to Ron Sukenick and Mark Amerika. The texts include the entire Nikuko Parable series (Nikuko and others appear throughout the other works as well) and other avatar- oriented texts. Please consider purchasing any of the above. Please note that all of these publishers have amazing publications (including a great book by Sandy Baldwin from Blazevox) and need your support in general. And thanks of course. (Finally, please note I have a paperback, The Wayward, available from Salt, which is beautifully typeset and covers a great deal of ground.) This is the end of the self-promotion material - apologies if I've offended anyone. - Alan ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:58:50 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: susan maurer Subject: Re: Ecopoetics Question In-Reply-To: <846D336ED686FF48943D51955C2C5B23079FD55F@quicksilver.network.ncf.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Assume you know of the journals ISLE and Isotope =2C both of which do ecopo= etics. susaan maurer =20 > Date: Mon=2C 10 Aug 2009 15:27:00 -0400 > From: rzamsky@NCF.EDU > Subject: Ecopoetics Question > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > Hi=2C Jonathan. >=20 > Thanks for the tip on the bookstore in Paris. Unfortunately=2C I didn't > get there -- we were out in the sticks for a wedding in my wife's family > (in the northeast). I'll keep it in mind for next year's trip=2C though. >=20 > I have another question for you. I am participating in our > Environmental Studies program's Intro to ES course this year=2C a course > that is required of all students new to the program. It is co-taught by > faculty from the program=2C with the goal of introducing students to > various approaches to ES from the different disciplines. So=2C faculty > from History=2C Psychology=2C Environmental Science=2C Political Science= =2C and > so on=2C each teach a two week block. I will be doing the "humanities" > section=2C and I basically expect to ground the discussion in the ideas > and practices of ecopoetics. You=2C of course=2C are far more expert in > that than I am=2C and I was wondering if you had any thoughts/suggestions > about how to approach such an opportunity. The students are mostly > first or second years who likely have little experience with poetry/lit > (the program tends to draw scientists and poli-sci types)=3B I get them > for four course meetings of 80minutes/each. >=20 > Any ideas you might have would be MUCH appreciated. >=20 > All best=2C >=20 > Robert >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=3DPID23285::T:WLMTAGL= :ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_online:082009= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:03:29 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Shankar, Ravi (English)" Subject: A call for submissions for an anthology of Flash Fiction stories for teenagers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Edited by Tom Hazuka, Christine Perkins and Mark Budman To be published by Persea Books in 2010. The target audience is students = grades 8 to 12. Stories cover a broad range of topics of interest to = contemporary teens such as growing up, budding sexuality, finding a = place in society, etc. The main criteria for the stories are = literary/artistic values, teen interests and a length of 1000 words or = shorter. Various POVS are acceptable as long as the stories focus on = teens. =20 We are looking for more diverse stories (African American, Asian = American, Native American, LGBT, Jewish, Muslim, etc.), and more stories = about, or at least featuring, current technology (cell phones, = computers, etc.). =20 Previously published stories are fine, but you must hold the rights. =20 Please submit electronically an RTF attachment to Mark Budman at = editor_AT_stny.rr.com and copy Tom Hazuka at hazukaj_AT_ccsu.edu =20 ***************=20 Ravi Shankar=20 Ed., http://www.drunkenboat.com Poet-in-Residence=20 Associate Professor CCSU - English Dept. 860-832-2766=20 shankarr@ccsu.edu=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:52:13 -0400 Reply-To: Aryanil Mukherjee Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aryanil Mukherjee Subject: David Rosenmann-Taub In-Reply-To: <29255702.116561250542136608.JavaMail.root@dom-zbox1.bo3.lycos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Anyone in this listserv has heard about Chilean poet & musician David Rosen= mann-Taub ?=20 Any inputs would be greatly appreciated.=20 I came to hear about=C2=A0David Rosenmann-Taub from younger poets Subhro Ba= ndopadhyay (India) and Violeta=20 Media (Chile) when they met in Kolkata last month. It came to our notice th= at an independent=C2=A0foundation called fundacion Corda, based in NYC, had= taken the responsibility of preserving and promoting the work of his great= Chilean poet, perhaps the finest to come along after Neruda & Mistral.=20 Rosenmann-Taub has lived in the US for the past several decades - a life of= exile - so to speak, during which he had produced=C2=A0a significant =C2= =A0body of work in Spanish but had shown no interest to promote it.=C2=A0En= glish translations of his =C2=A0poetry is not available in book form.=20 Recently the Corda Foundation sent me a packet full of Rosenmann-Taub's wor= k which prompted me to write a brief article in the IEPI blog.=20 http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/=20 Aryanil Mukherjee=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:25:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Asian Cha Subject: Cha: An Asian Literary Journal Issue #8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain Cha: An Asian Literary Journal Issue #8 http://www.asiancha.com=20 =20 =20 We are pleased to announce that the eighth issue of Cha: An Asian Literar= y=20 Journal has now been launched. It features work by the following=20 writers/artists: Steve Ausherman, Nigel Beale, Amy Cheng, Patrick Donnell= y,=20 Viki Holmes, Luisa A. Igloria, Lillian Kwok, Franky Lau, Larry Lefkowitz,= Eva=20 Leung, Pierre Lien, Belle Ling Hoi Ching, Christopher Luppi, Jonathan=20 Mendelsohn, Stephen D. Miller, Nikesh Murali, Ng Yi-Sheng, O Thiam Chin,=20= Divya Rajan, Prashani Rambukwella, Vaughan Rapatahana, Kate Rogers,=20 Steven Schroeder, Rohith Sundararaman, Gillian Sze, Kok-Meng Tan, Anne=20= Tibbitts, David C.E. Tneh, Lynn van der Velden-Elliott and Les Wicks. =20 =20 We would like to thank our guest editor Royston Tester for his fantastic = help=20 putting the issue together. He has also kindly arranged to launch the new= issue=20 in Beijing later this month. If you happen to be in the city, please do a= ttend.=20 More information about this will be posted on the Asian Cha blog:=20 http://www.asiancha.blogspot.com.=20 =20 =20 We would also like to point out that we are continuing to build our Revie= ws=20 section under the leadership of our Reviews Editor Eddie Tay. If you have= a=20 book you would like reviewed or you would like to review a book, please=20= contact Eddie at eddie@asiancha.com. You may also wish to follow us on=20= Twitter @asiancha, where we send updates about literary news from Asia an= d=20 the rest of the world. CHA is still looking for "Lost Teas" to publish. T= hese are=20 previously published works which appeared in journals which have now fold= ed.=20 If you have a piece that is now lost but you would like it to be re-found= , please=20 read our submission guidelines and send it along to=20 submissions@asiancha.com.=20=20 =20 =20 Finally, our second anniversary issue is due out in November of this year= . We=20 are very happy to announce that once again, poet, novelist and historian = Reid=20 Mitchell will lend us his expertise in the role of guest poetry editor an= d Jonathan=20 Mendelsohn will be guest prose editor. The deadline for submissions is Oc= tober=20 1st. If you have a piece you think would be right for CHA, please do not=20= hesitate to submit. =20 =20 We hope that you enjoy the new issue. =20 =20 Tammy Ho & Jeff Zroback Cha: An Asian Literary Journal www.asiancha.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:54:10 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Patrick Dillon Subject: Re: History of music website In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think the All Music Guide website is still more complete, no? www.allmusic.com On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote: > Mostly good for those addicted to lists. > > Hal > > "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? > In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." > > --Woody Allen > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > halvard@gmail.com > http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jeffrey Side > wrote: > > > I found a website detailing a history of music genres and styles, with > > album > > reviews going back years. It is the most complete music site I have seen. > A > > must for all who like music: > > > > http://www.scaruffi.com/usmusic.html > > > > ================================== > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:43:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Lars Palm Subject: Felino A. Soriano from Ungovernable press Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Dear all, ungovernable press is delighted to announce the publication of its 25th b= ook Altered Aesthetics by Felino A. Soriano shall we go for 50? anyway, Felino's ebook is a lovely addition to the ungovernable collection. go read it, as always it's free cheers, lars http://ungovernablepress.weebly.com http://mischievoice.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:35:56 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Poet Does Music, et al Comments: To: new-poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Friend and poet, Brian Howe, gets airplay on ABC News - he reviews bands fo= r Pitchfork and has become Charles Gibson's darling to be featured! You go= , Brian! =0A=0Ahttp://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=3D8348160 -- Stain of Poetry -- This Saturday @ 7 p.m.! Pour some poems on your steamy late August with Emily Kendal Frey, Phil Mem= mer, Jeni =E2=80=9Ctruck darling=E2=80=9D Olin, Zachary Schomburg, JodiAnn = Stevenson & Janaka Stucky! Goodbye Blue Monday 1087 Broadway (corner of Dodworth St) Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343 J M Z trains to Myrtle Ave or J train to Kosciusko St http://stainofpoetry.com ~~~~~ Sun, Sept. 13th @ 9p.m. Samantha Farrell Strand of Oaks Karisa Wilson Amir Darzi Michael Tyrell Amy King Judson Claiborne Three months ago, in an effort to make a large, impersonal stage smaller an= d more intimate, Fogged Clarity began putting together salon-style events. = These events (essentially concerts with poetry readings between sets) featu= re deeply resonant performers from across the continent, cutting themselves= open on stage. INFO -=C2=A0http://www.livingroomny.com/artist/fogged-clarity TICKETS -=C2=A0http://foggedclarity.com/ _______ =0AAmy's Alias =0Ahttp://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:54:42 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Emily Carr Subject: dandelion magazine! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable after nearly a year's haitus, *dandelion *magazine (western canada's oldest literary magazine) is back on-line & looking for "literature & art on the edge" for issues 35.1 & 35.2! past issues have featured work by Sina Queyras, Nicole Brossard, Christine Stewart, Caroline Bergvall, and Erin Mour=E9 alongside emerging Canadian and American writers and visual artists= *. *visit www.dandelionmag.ca for submission deadlines & information on upcoming features... Emily Carr Assistant Editor *dandelion *magazine =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:21:35 -0500 Reply-To: halvard@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: History of music website In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Or put this in your smoke and pipe it: http://www.musicalcriticism.com/ Hal "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." --Woody Allen Halvard Johnson ================ halvard@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Patrick Dillon wrote: > I think the All Music Guide website is still more complete, no? > > www.allmusic.com > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Halvard Johnson > wrote: > > > Mostly good for those addicted to lists. > > > > Hal > > > > "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? > > In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." > > > > --Woody Allen > > > > Halvard Johnson > > ================ > > halvard@gmail.com > > http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home > > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jeffrey Side > > wrote: > > > > > I found a website detailing a history of music genres and styles, with > > > album > > > reviews going back years. It is the most complete music site I have > seen. > > A > > > must for all who like music: > > > > > > http://www.scaruffi.com/usmusic.html > > > > > > ================================== > > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > > guidelines > > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > > ================================== > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:06:45 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Pam Brown Subject: Jacket has a reviewer for Barbara Henning's book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks everyone, We have appointed a reviewer for Barbara Henning's new book. All good wishes, Pam Brown -- ____________________________________ blog : http://thedeletions.blogspot.com website : http://pambrownbooks.blogspot.com/ associate editor : http://jacketmagazine.com/ _____________________________________ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:21:40 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: History of music website In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) If you shop at ubuweb you get a completely other side to the history of music that is rarely covered by by more conventional approaches to the canon. ~mIEKAL =!= Data Visualization for the Synaptically Inspired http://filevillage.info ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:22:55 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jason Nelson Subject: Announcing: NetPoetic digital poetry portal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Announcing a new Electronic Literature/Digital Poetry portal founded by Jason Nelson and Davin Heckman. With over 30 of our best writers, thinkers and artists, NetPoetic is a group conversation, updated near daily with posts, news, theory, artworks and all manner of glorious E-Lit related material. Coming later this year is the first NetPoetic exhibition and a peer reviewed journal. If you want to take part post a few comments and explore the site then contact Jason Nelson. The URL: http://www.netpoetic.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:49:38 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Re: History of music website Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Is this for classical music only? I did a search for Bob Dylan and nothin= g=20 came up? On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:21:35 -0500, Halvard Johnson=20 wrote: >Or put this in your smoke and pipe it: > >http://www.musicalcriticism.com/ > >Hal > >"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? >In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." > >--Woody Allen > >Halvard Johnson >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >halvard@gmail.com >http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home >http://entropyandme.blogspot.com >http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com >http://www.hamiltonstone.org > > > > > >On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Patrick Dillon >wrote: > >> I think the All Music Guide website is still more complete, no? >> >> www.allmusic.com >> >> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Halvard Johnson=20 >> wrote: >> >> > Mostly good for those addicted to lists. >> > >> > Hal >> > >> > "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? >> > In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." >> > >> > --Woody Allen >> > >> > Halvard Johnson >> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> > halvard@gmail.com >> > http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home >> > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com >> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com >> > http://www.hamiltonstone.org >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jeffrey Side=20 >> > wrote: >> > >> > > I found a website detailing a history of music genres and=20 styles, with >> > > album >> > > reviews going back years. It is the most complete music site I=20 have >> seen. >> > A >> > > must for all who like music: >> > > >> > > http://www.scaruffi.com/usmusic.html >> > > >> > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts.=20 Check >> > guidelines >> > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> > > >> > >> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check= >> guidelines >> > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> > >> >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check=20= guidelines >> & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check=20 guidelines & sub/unsub info:=20 http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:52:49 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Re: History of music website Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" I looked on All Music too for Dylan but got only links to song samples,=20= nothing else. On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:54:10 -0500, Patrick Dillon=20 wrote: >I think the All Music Guide website is still more complete, no? > >www.allmusic.com > >On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Halvard Johnson=20 wrote: > >> Mostly good for those addicted to lists. >> >> Hal >> >> "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? >> In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." >> >> --Woody Allen >> >> Halvard Johnson >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> halvard@gmail.com >> http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home >> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com >> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com >> http://www.hamiltonstone.org >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jeffrey Side=20 >> wrote: >> >> > I found a website detailing a history of music genres and styles,=20= with >> > album >> > reviews going back years. It is the most complete music site I=20 have seen. >> A >> > must for all who like music: >> > >> > http://www.scaruffi.com/usmusic.html >> > >> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check= >> guidelines >> > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> > >> >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check=20= guidelines >> & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check=20 guidelines & sub/unsub info:=20 http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:16:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: The brutal truth about America's healthcare (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed These texts should be better distributed; I know they don't apply direc- tly to Poetics, but they do apply to Poets, who are often completely uninsured. We live in a country of slaughter. - Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:00:57 -0400 From: moderator@PORTSIDE.ORG To: PORTSIDE@LISTS.PORTSIDE.ORG Subject: The brutal truth about America's healthcare The brutal truth about America's healthcare An extraordinary report from Guy Adams in Los Angeles at the music arena that has been turned into a makeshift medical centre Saturday, 15 August 2009 The Independent [UK] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-brutal-truth-about-americarsquos-healthcare-1772580.html They came in their thousands, queuing through the night to secure one of the coveted wristbands offering entry into a strange parallel universe where medical care is a free and basic right and not an expensive luxury. Some of these Americans had walked miles simply to have their blood pressure checked, some had slept in their cars in the hope of getting an eye-test or a mammogram, others had brought their children for immunisations that could end up saving their life. In the week that Britain's National Health Service was held aloft by Republicans as an "evil and Orwellian" example of everything that is wrong with free healthcare, these extraordinary scenes in Inglewood, California yesterday provided a sobering reminder of exactly why President Barack Obama is trying to reform the US system. The LA Forum, the arena that once hosted sell-out Madonna concerts, has been transformed - for eight days only - into a vast field hospital. In America, the offer of free healthcare is so rare, that news of the magical medical kingdom spread rapidly and long lines of prospective patients snaked around the venue for the chance of getting everyday treatments that many British people take for granted. In the first two days, more than 1,500 men, women and children received free treatments worth $503,000 (#304,000). Thirty dentists pulled 471 teeth; 320 people were given standard issue spectacles; 80 had mammograms; dozens more had acupuncture, or saw kidney specialists. By the time the makeshift medical centre leaves town on Tuesday, staff expect to have dispensed $2m worth of treatments to 10,000 patients. The gritty district of Inglewood lies just a few miles from the palm-lined streets of Beverly Hills and the bright lights of Hollywood, but is a world away. And the residents who had flocked for the free medical care, courtesy of mobile charity Remote Area Medical, bore testament to the human cost of the healthcare mess that President Obama is attempting to fix. Christine Smith arrived at 3am in the hope of seeing a dentist for the first time since she turned 18. That was almost eight years ago. Her need is obvious and pressing: 17 of her teeth are rotten; some have large visible holes in them. She is living in constant pain and has been unable to eat solid food for several years. "I had a gastric bypass in 2002, but it went wrong, and stomach acid began rotting my teeth. I've had several jobs since, but none with medical insurance, so I've not been able to see a dentist to get it fixed," she told The Independent. "I've not been able to chew food for as long as I can remember. I've been living on soup, and noodles, and blending meals in a food mixer. I'm in constant pain. Normally, it would cost $5,000 to fix it. So if I have to wait a week to get treated for free, I'll do it. This will change my life." Along the hall, Liz Cruise was one of scores of people waiting for a free eye exam. She works for a major supermarket chain but can't afford the $200 a month that would be deducted from her salary for insurance. "It's a simple choice: pay my rent, or pay my healthcare. What am I supposed to do?" she asked. "I'm one of the working poor: people who do work but can't afford healthcare and are ineligible for any free healthcare or assistance. I can't remember the last time I saw a doctor." Although the Americans spend more on medicine than any nation on earth, there are an estimated 50 million with no health insurance at all. Many of those who have jobs can't afford coverage, and even those with standard policies often find it doesn't cover commonplace procedures. California's unemployed - who rely on Medicaid - had their dental care axed last month. Julie Shay was one of the many, waiting to slide into a dentist's chair where teeth were being drilled in full view of passers-by. For years, she has been crossing over the Mexican border to get her teeth done on the cheap in Tijuana. But recently, the US started requiring citizens returning home from Mexico to produce a passport (previously all you needed was a driver's license), and so that route is now closed. Today she has two abscesses and is in so much pain she can barely sleep. "I don't have a passport, and I can't afford one. So my husband and I slept in the car to make sure we got seen by a dentist. It sounds pathetic, but I really am that desperate." "You'd think, with the money in this country, that we'd be able to look after people's health properly," she said. "But the truth is that the rich, and the insurance firms, just don't realise what we are going through, or simply don't care. Look around this room and tell me that America's healthcare don't need fixing." President Obama's healthcare plans had been a central plank of his first-term programme, but his reform package has taken a battering at the hands of Republican opponents in recent weeks. As the Democrats have failed to coalesce around a single, straightforward proposal, their rivals have seized on public hesitancy over "socialised medicine" and now the chance of far-reaching reform is in doubt. Most damaging of all has been the tide of vociferous right-wing opponents whipping up scepticism at town hall meetings that were supposed to soothe doubts. In Pennsylvania this week, Senator Arlen Specter was greeted by a crowd of 1,000 at a venue designed to accommodate only 250, and of the 30 selected speakers at the event, almost all were hostile. The packed bleachers in the LA Forum tell a different story. The mobile clinic has been organised by the remarkable Remote Area Medical. The charity usually focuses on the rural poor, although they worked in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Now they are moving into more urban venues, this week's event in Los Angeles is believed to be the largest free healthcare operation in the country. Doctors, dentists and therapists volunteer their time, and resources to the organisation. To many US medical professionals, it offers a rare opportunity to plug into the public service ethos on which their trade was supposedly founded. "People come here who haven't seen a doctor for years. And we're able to say 'Hey, you have this, you have this, you have this'," said Dr Vincent Anthony, a kidney specialist volunteering five days of his team's time. "It's hard work, but incredibly rewarding. Healthcare needs reform, obviously. There are so many people falling through the cracks, who don't get care. That's why so many are here." Ironically, given this week's transatlantic spat over the NHS, Remote Area Medical was founded by an Englishman: Stan Brock. The 72-year-old former public schoolboy, Taekwondo black belt, and one-time presenter of Wild Kingdom, one of America's most popular animal TV shows, left the celebrity gravy train in 1985 to, as he puts it, "make people better". Today, Brock has no money, no income, and no bank account. He spends 365 days a year at the charity events, sleeping on a small rolled-up mat on the floor and living on a diet made up entirely of porridge and fresh fruit. In some quarters, he has been described, without too much exaggeration, as a living saint. Though anxious not to interfere in the potent healthcare debate, Mr Brock said yesterday that he, and many other professionals, believes the NHS should provide a benchmark for the future of US healthcare. "Back in 1944, the UK government knew there was a serious problem with lack of healthcare for 49.7 million British citizens, of which I was one, so they said 'Hey Mr Nye Bevan, you're the Minister for Health... go fix it'. And so came the NHS. Well, fast forward now 66 years, and we've got about the same number of people, about 49 million people, here in the US, who don't have access to healthcare." "I've been very conservative in my outlook for the whole of my life. I've been described as being about 90,000 miles to the right of Attila the Hun. But I think one reaches the reality that something doesn't work... In this country something has to be done. And as a proud member of the US community but a loyal British subject to the core, I would say that if Britain could fix it in 1944, surely we could fix it here in America. Healthcare compared Health spending as a share of GDP US 16% UK 8.4% Public spending on healthcare (% of total spending on healthcare) US 45% UK 82% Health spending per head US $7,290 UK $2,992 Practising physicians (per 1,000 people) US 2.4 UK 2.5 Nurses (per 1,000 people) US 10.6 UK 10.0 Acute care hospital beds (per 1,000 people) US 2.7 UK 2.6 Life expectancy: US 78 UK 80 Infant mortality (per 1,000 live births) US 6.7 UK 4.8 Source: WHO/OECD Health Data 2009 _____________________________________________ Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:57:07 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Tomorrow Night - Heat and Love ~ Frey, Memmer, Olin, Schomburg, Stevenson & Stucky~ Comments: To: new-poetry@wiz.cath.vt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable STAIN OF POETRY=C2=A0=C2=A0Saturday, August 22nd @ 7 p.m.=C2=A0~ Emily Kend= al Frey, Phil Memmer, Jeni =E2=80=9Ctruck darling=E2=80=9D Olin, Zachary Sc= homburg, JodiAnn Stevenson & Janaka Stucky~=C2=A0=C2=A0Goodbye Blue Monday1= 087 Broadway(corner of Dodworth St)Brooklyn, NY 11221-3013(718) 453-6343=C2= =A0J M Z trains to Myrtle Aveor J train to Kosciusko St=C2=A0=C2=A0Pour som= e poems on your steamy late August with Emily Kendal Frey, Phil Memmer, Jen= i =E2=80=9Ctruck darling=E2=80=9D Olin, Zachary Schomburg, JodiAnn Stevenso= n & Janaka Stucky! =C2=A0Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at=C2=A0Portl= and Community College. She is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour Press, 2009)= .=C2=A0Philip Memmer is the author of three collections of poems: Lucifer: = A Hagiography, winner of the 2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry; Threat of Pleasur= e, winner of the 2008 Adirondack=C2=A0Literary Award=C2=A0for Poetry, and S= weetheart, Baby, Darling. His work has been published in many journals, inc= luding=C2=A0Poetry Magazine, Epoch, and=C2=A0Mid-American Review, and has b= een included in several anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary Poem= s for Every Day and Don=E2=80=99t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poe= try Review.=C2=A0Truck Darling (published as =E2=80=9CJeni Olin=E2=80=9D) l= ives in NYC where she rages in posh isolation with her dog named Good Times= . Truck received her BA & MFA from=C2=A0Naropa University. Her first full-l= ength book BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY was published by Hanging Loose in 2005. Her = most recent publication is a chapbook of pharmaceutical sonnets about antidepressants titled THE PILL BOOK from Fau= x Press, 2008. Her next book called HOLD TIGHT! will be published this Apri= l 2010 by Hanging Loose.=C2=A0Zachary Schomburg is the author of Scary, No = Scary (Black Ocean 2009) and The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007), and the co-ed= itor of Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. A collaborative chapbook with E= mily Kendal Frey called Team Sad will be published by Cinematheque Press in= the fall. He lives in=C2=A0Portland, OR.=C2=A0JodiAnn Stevenson makes her = home in Bay City, Michigan where she is an Assistant Professor of writing a= nd poetry at=C2=A0Delta College. She founded Binge Press, to showcase women= =E2=80=99s work, in 2004 and 27 rue de fleures, an online journal of women= =E2=80=99s poetries in 2005. Her first collection of poetry, The Procedure,= was published in the fall of 2006 by=C2=A0March Street Press. Her second c= ollection of poetry, We, the Emperors was a finalist in the Gertrude Press = Chapbook Award in 2008. An excerpt of her Kamikaze Death Poetry is forthcoming in the =E2=80=9Cfaux h= istories=E2=80=9D issue of SPECS. Her recent blog project, Ms. Fish, the re= lentless, can be found at:=C2=A0http://msfishtherelentless.blogspot.com. So= me of her=C2=A0visual poetry=C2=A0resides atwww.bowlofmilk.com.=C2=A0Janaka= Stucky is practicing the perfection of effort while working on silent rela= tionships with knives, hairpins, & a history of tentacles. Other passions i= nclude whiskey and pugilism. He is also the Publisher of Black Ocean and it= s=C2=A0literary magazine, Handsome. Some of his poems have appeared in Cann= ibal, Denver Quarterly, Fence,=C2=A0Free Verse, No Tell Motel,=C2=A0North A= merican Review, Redivider and VOLT.=C2=A0~=C2=A0Goodbye Blue Monday1087 Bro= adway(corner of Dodworth St)Brooklyn, NY=C2=A011221-3013(718) 453-6343=C2= =A0J M Z trains to Myrtle Aveor J train to Kosciusko St=C2=A0~=C2=A0Hosted = by Amy King and Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87=C2=A0=C2=A0INFO --=C2=A0http:/= /stainofpoetry.com/=C2=A0RSVP --=C2=A0http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid= =3D108933376886=C2=A0 _______ Amy's Alias http://amyking.org/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:57:30 -0500 Reply-To: halvard@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: History of music website In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Seems so. Hal "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." --Woody Allen Halvard Johnson ================ halvard@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Jeffrey Side wrote: > Is this for classical music only? I did a search for Bob Dylan and nothing > came up? > > > > > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:21:35 -0500, Halvard Johnson > wrote: > > >Or put this in your smoke and pipe it: > > > >http://www.musicalcriticism.com/ > > > >Hal > > > >"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? > >In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." > > > >--Woody Allen > > > >Halvard Johnson > >================ > >halvard@gmail.com > >http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home > >http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > >http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > >http://www.hamiltonstone.org > > > > > > > > > > > >On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Patrick Dillon > >wrote: > > > >> I think the All Music Guide website is still more complete, no? > >> > >> www.allmusic.com > >> > >> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Halvard Johnson > > >> wrote: > >> > >> > Mostly good for those addicted to lists. > >> > > >> > Hal > >> > > >> > "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? > >> > In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." > >> > > >> > --Woody Allen > >> > > >> > Halvard Johnson > >> > ================ > >> > halvard@gmail.com > >> > http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home > >> > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > >> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > >> > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jeffrey Side > > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > I found a website detailing a history of music genres and > styles, with > >> > > album > >> > > reviews going back years. It is the most complete music site I > have > >> seen. > >> > A > >> > > must for all who like music: > >> > > > >> > > http://www.scaruffi.com/usmusic.html > >> > > > >> > > ================================== > >> > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. > Check > >> > guidelines > >> > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > >> > > > >> > > >> > ================================== > >> > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > >> guidelines > >> > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > >> > > >> > >> ================================== > >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines > >> & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > >> > > > >================================== > >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:56:27 -0500 Reply-To: halvard@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: History of music website In-Reply-To: <3EF5A621-90A0-423D-A9B0-31CA18B0898B@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Quite right. Hal "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." --Woody Allen Halvard Johnson ================ halvard@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:21 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote: > If you shop at ubuweb you get a completely other side to the history of > music that is rarely covered by by more conventional approaches to the > canon. > > ~mIEKAL > > > =!= > Data Visualization for the Synaptically Inspired > http://filevillage.info > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:23:17 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Patrick Dillon Subject: Re: History of music website In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Here is a link to the allmusic entry on Dylan: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=3Damg&sql=3D11:0ifrxqe5ldhe I'm not sure where you ended up on your search for Dylan. Personally, I prefer to navigate the AllMusic site through Google, as I do with many othe= r sites. If I'm going to do a search for Bob Dylan, I don't go to allmusic an= d then search for "Bob Dylan." I do a Google search for "Bob Dylan allmusic." And that will take me right to the profile.' Make sure to take note of the tabs, especially discography. There are full reviews of most albums and, for Dylan, most songs. I do this particularly with AllMusic because I find that it has slow load times. Here is the text from the Dylan AllMusic Page just cut and pasted into this email: Good bye! Biographyby Stephen Thomas Erlewine Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream of conscious narratives= . As a vocalist, he broke down the notion that a singer must have a conventionally good voice in order to perform, thereby redefining the vocalist's role in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several genres of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. And that just touches on the tip of his achievements. Dylan's force was evident during his height of popularity in the '60s -- the Beatles' shift toward introspective songwriting in the mid-'60s never would have happened without him -- but his influence echoed throughout several ... Rea= d More... ------------------------------ [image: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan] [image: Nashville Skyline] [image: Dylan [2007 3-CD Edition]] [image: Highway 61 Revisited] [image: Biograph] [= image: Blood on the Tracks] [image: Listen Now!] [image: Listen Now!] [image: Listen Now!] [image: Listen Now!] [image: Listen Now!] [image: Listen Now!] ------------------------------ Other Entries - Movie Entry - Classical Music Entry Member Of - The Traveling Wilburys Similar Artists - Van Morrison - Neil Young - John Prine - Joni Mitchell - John Hiatt - George Harrison - Grateful Dead - Fairport Convention - The Byrds - Phil Ochs - Donovan - Ian Hunter - Buffalo Springfield - Tim Hardin - Buffy Sainte-Marie - Leonard Cohen - A.A. Bondy - Fred Neil - The Sir Douglas Quintet - David Blue - Jesse Winchester See Also - Levon Helm - Robbie Robertson - The Band - Joan Baez - Tom Wilson - Brian Blade - The Traveling Wilburys - Ronee Blakley - Johnny Cash - Jakob Dylan - Bob Dylan & the Rolling Thunder Revue - Blind Boy Grunt Influenced By - Rev. Gary Davis - Dave Van Ronk - Elvis Presley - Little Richard - Woody Guthrie - Hank Williams - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Leadbelly Followers - Died Pretty - Dan Fogelberg - John Lennon - The Long Ryders - Leon Russell - Uncle Tupelo - World Party - J.P. Jones - Eddie Vedder - Birddog - The Slip - Will Hoppey - Arlo Leach - Matthew Friedberger - Coque Malla - The Childballads - These United States - Scott Matthews - Sleepy Sun Performed Songs By - Traditional - Jacques Levy - Robert Hunter - Woody Guthrie - Rev. Gary Davis - Booker T. Washington White - Robbie Robertson - Johnny Cash - Henry Thomas - Richard Manuel - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Hank Williams - Sam Shepard - Terry Holmes - Rick Danko - Curtis Mayfield - Jimmie Rodgers - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Frank Warner =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:26:56 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: The Longest Poem in the World Comments: To: ubuweb@yahoogroups.com, webartery@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) The Longest Poem in the World http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:15:49 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicholas Karavatos Subject: JOB - Head of Dept of English at American University of Sharjah, UAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 =20 Department Head for the Department of English http://www.aus.edu/employment/faculty_cas.php#a3 =20 The College of Arts and Sciences seeks candidates for a Head of the Departm= ent (HOD) opening in the Department of English for Spring 2010.The candid= ate should currently be an associate professor or professor=2C have a stron= g history of scholarly publication=2C and have at least three years of adm= inistrative experience=2C preferably as a department head. The candidate sh= ould have experience in dealing with people from diverse cultural and educa= tional backgrounds. The candidate should have the background and experience= necessary to work with the faculty in recruiting majors and strengthening = its curricula. North American teaching experience and a familiarity with th= e Middle East would be helpful. =20 =20 The Department of English consists of eighteen full time faculty=2C twelve = in language=2C five in literature=2C and one in creative writing. The Depar= tment of English offers a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literatu= re (BAELL)=2C a Master of Arts Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Ot= her Languages (MA TESOL) and concentrations and minors in language=2C liter= ature=2C and education. The department also offers ESP courses for engineer= ing and business students. More information can be found at: http://www.au= s.edu/cas/english/=20 The HOD receives a three- year administrative contract=2C renewable at thre= e year increments. However=2C UAE law prohibits people over 65 from receiv= ing multiple year contracts. Contracts for people over 65 are renewed on a= yearly basis. HODs are expected to teach one course per semester=2C and = are responsible for budget development and implementation=2C department pla= nning=2C faculty and staff development=2C personnel evaluations=2C and curr= iculum development and facilitation. A full description of HOD duties may b= e found here:=20 =20 Representative Duties and Responsibilities (please click here)=20 =20 The American University of Sharjah (AUS) is a non-profit=2C coeducational i= nstitution of higher education formed on American models. The university = is licensed in the United Arab Emirates and incorporated in the state of De= laware in the United States. It is accredited by the Commission on Higher E= ducation of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools=2C Philad= elphia=2C Pennsylvania=2C and by the Ministry of Higher Education in the UA= E. All instruction (except languages) is in English=2C and English is widel= y spoken throughout the United Arab Emirates.=20 =20 AUS is located 10 miles from the center of Sharjah City and 15 miles from t= he city of Dubai. The Emirate of Sharjah is situated between the shores of = the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and has beautiful beaches and lovely = varied countryside. The architecturally distinctive campus=2C located on 31= 6 acres=2C includes nine academic buildings=3B administration=2C library an= d athletic structures=3B and accommodations for faculty=2C staff and studen= ts. Academic buildings are equipped with state-of-the art science=2C engine= ering and language laboratories=2C digital studios and computer facilities.= Currently=2C AUS has approximately 5=2C225 students=2C 351 full-time facul= ty and over 400 full-time staff.=20 =20 Send letters of application=2C C.V=2C a two-page statement of the applicant= =92s vision for strengthening the Department of English=2C and names of thr= ee references to Dean William H Heidcamp=2C College of Arts and Sciences=2C= American University of Sharjah via cashr@aus.edu. Application review begi= ns September 1=2C 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.=20 top=20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 Nicholas Karavatos Dept of English American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666 Sharjah United Arab Emirates _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=3DMSHYCB&publ=3DWLHMTAG&crea=3DTEXT_MSHYC= B_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:18:34 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicholas Karavatos Subject: JOB - Head of Dept of Mass Communication at American University of Sharjah, UAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Department Head for the Department of Mass Communication=20 http://www.aus.edu/employment/faculty_cas.php#a4 =20 Desirable Knowledge and Abilities=20 =20 Knowledge of: principles=2C practices and trends related to higher educatio= n and its administration=3B facilities development=3B guidelines and statut= es governing educational development and services=3B student learning and a= ssessment best practices. =20 =20 In addition to a terminal degree in a media-related field=2C the Department= of Mass Communication expects prospective candidates to provide evidence o= f: =20 Extensive professional media experience=2C=20 Familiarity with methodology-based faculty evaluation=2C=20 Extensive administrative experience in a mass communication context=2C and= =20 Evidence of exceptional research ability with significant publications/prod= uctions.=20 Position Summary=20 =20 The department head is the academic and administrative officer of the depar= tment and reports to the college/school dean. The department head is respon= sible for overseeing the activities of the department to ensure accomplishi= ng the university=2C academic affairs=2C college/school=2C and departmental= missions.=20 =20 Scope=20 =20 The department head is responsible for the currency=2C quality=2C and effec= tiveness of academic programs=3B the hiring=2C retention=2C and evaluation = of faculty=3B and the efficient and effective use of personnel=2C fiscal=2C= and physical resources of the department. The department head oversees the= operations at the departmental level=2C and works closely with faculty=2C = administrators=2C staff=2C and students. The department head provides leade= rship for the development of programs and curricula changes=2C and provides= guidance to faculty for improving academic excellence and promotes the use= of innovative teaching methods and scholarly/creative activities.=20 =20 The department head maintains collaborative relationships with a variety of= individuals and entities=2C including: the dean and associate dean=2C fell= ow AUS department heads=2C faculty=2C students and staff=3B emirate and nat= ional government departments involved with higher education=3B representati= ves of local=2C regional and international agencies=2C organizations=2C col= leges=2C and universities. A full description of HOD duties may be found he= re:=20 =20 Representative Duties and Responsibilities (please click here)=20 =20 Send letters of application=2C C.V=2C a two-page statement of the applicant= =92s vision for strengthening the Department of Mass Communication=2C and n= ames of three references to Dean William H Heidcamp=2C College of Arts and = Sciences=2C American University of Sharjah via cashr@aus.edu. Application = review begins September 1=2C 2009 and will continue until the position is f= illed. =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 Nicholas Karavatos Dept of Language & Literature American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666 Sharjah United Arab Emirates _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail=AE is up to 70% faster. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:35:01 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Wanda Phipps Subject: New Review of my book in Big Bridge MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey: Check out Svitlana Matviyenko's excellent review of my book Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire in the online journal Big Bridge: http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/REV-PHIP.HTM Best,Wanda -- Wanda Phipps Check out my websites: http://www.mindhoney.com and http://www.myspace.com/wandaphippsband My latest book of poetry Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire available at: http://www.blazevox.org/bk-wp.htm And my 1st full-length book of poems Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems available at:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193236031X/ref=rm_item ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:05:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Andrew Zawacki Subject: VERSE 26: first portfolio number MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Now available: VERSE Volume 26 This first number of the journal= in its new, annual format features portfolios of = work-- poems, translations, essays, interviews, fiction, photographs, = editorial projects, daybooks, drafts, etc.-- of up to 30 pages each by t= he = following writers: Anselm Berrigan Garrett Caples Lidija Dimkovska Rachel Blau DuPlessis Landis Everson Kathleen Fraser Pierre Joris Ph= ilip Lamantia G=E9rard Mac=E9 Nathaniel Mackey Bernadette Mayer Jenn= ifer Moxley Ron Padgett Michael Palmer Susan Stewart Catherine Wagne= r Copies are $15. Please send checks, payable to "Verse," to Andrew = Zawacki, = Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. Edite= d by Brian Henry and Andrew Zawacki www.versemag.blogspot.com Andr= ew Zawacki Department of English/ VERSE University of Georgia Athens,= Georgia 30602 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:26:12 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Small Press Needed for Nov. 24 in Boog NYC Series Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings, I'm looking for a small press Boog City=92s never hosted before for our =20= =93d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press=94 series here in nyc = =20 to fill our final open slot for season seven (2009-2010). The event =20 will be held on Tues. Nov. 24, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. (FYI, this is two =20 days before Thanksgiving.) Below this note is our invite letter, which spells everything out. Please backchannel any inquiries or suggestions, be they for your own =20= or other presses. Thanks, David ---------- editor@boogcity.com 212-842-BOOG (2664) -------- Hi, David Kirschenbaum here. I=92m the editor and publisher of Boog City, a =20= New York City-based small press and community newspaper now in its =20 19th year. I=92d like to invite you to take part in season seven of our =20= =93d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press=94 series. The series is held at Chelsea=92s ACA Galleries (http://=20 acagalleries.com/), which is owned by the son-in-law and daughter of =20 the poet Simon Perchik. It=92s a nice space, and we fit 100 people, =20 including a nine-piece jazz flash orchestra, in it for Chax Press=92s =20= event, with plenty of room to spare. The gallery provides wine and =20 other beverages, and cheese and crackers and hummus and chips. Once a month I have a different non-NYC press host and feature three =20 or more of their authors to read (we=92ve had as many as 10 for one =20 press and usually have 3-6) for 60 minutes total. We also have a =20 musical act perform two 15-20 minute sets. If the visiting press is =20 able to book the musical act that=92s preferred, so it=92s truly their =20= night, if not I can book one that I think will work well with the =20 night. (Also, once a year we play host to our NYC brethren.) As of this writing, Season 7, our 2009-2010 season will feature: Alice James Books Cannibal Books Eleven Eleven Forklift, Ohio Interbirth Books Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion Peaches and Bats Rope-A-Dope Collaborative Wave Books The series is held on the last Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. If =20 you=92re game to partake, please let me know, in order, your top three =20= date preferences. The following date is available: 2009 Tues. Nov. 24 We started the series in August 2003. In our first six seasons we=92ve =20= hosted (or are about to host): (locations are at the time of the event) **Non-NYC levy lives presses, 2003 to present a+bend press (Davis, Calif.), Jill Stengel, ed. above/ground press (Ottawa, Canada), Rob McLennan, ed. Aerial Magazine/Edge Books (Washington, D.C.), Rod Smith, ed. Ahadada Books (Burlington, Canada), Jesse Glass and Daniel Sendecki, =20 eds. Ahsahta Press (Boise, Idaho), Janet Holmes, ed. Ambit/Furniture Press (Baltimore), Christophe Casamassima, ed. Anchorite Editions (Albany, N.Y.), Chris Rizzo, ed. Antennae (Chicago and Berlin), Jesse Seldess, ed. Atelos Publishing Project (Berkeley, Calif.), Lyn Hejinian and Travis =20= Ortiz, eds. Atticus Finch Chapbooks (Seattle), Michael Cross, ed. Big Game Books (Washington, D.C.), Maureen Thorson, ed. Bird Dog (Seattle), Sarah Mangold, ed. BlazeVOX Books (Kenmore, N.Y.), Geoffrey Gatza, ed. BookThug (Toronto, Canada), Jay Millar, ed. Braincase Press (Northampton, Mass.), Noah Eli Gordon, ed. Burning Deck Press (Providence, R.I.), 45th anniversary party, Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop, eds. The Canary (Kemah, Texas), Joshua Edwards, Anthony Robinson, and Nick Twemlow, eds. Carve (Cambridge, Mass.), Aaron Tieger, ed. Chax Press (Tucson, Ariz.), 20th anniversary party, Charles Alexander, =20= ed. Combo (Providence, R.I.), Michael Magee, ed. Conundrum (Chicago), Kerri Sonnenberg, ed. Corollary Press (Philadelphia), Juliette Lee, ed. Critical Documents/Plantarchy (Oxford, Ohio), Justin Katko, ed. Cy Press (Cincinnati), Dana Ward, ed. Dos Press (Maxwell, Texas), C.J. Martin and Julia Drescher, eds. Ducky (Philadelphia), Scott Edward Anderson, Dennis DiClaudio, Tom =20 Hartman, and Jason Toogood, eds. Duration Press (San Rafael, Calif.), Jerrold Shiroma, ed. Dusie Press (Switzerland), Susana Gardner, ed. Ecopoetics (Lewiston, Maine), Jonathan Skinner, ed. Effing Press (Austin, Texas), Scott Pierce, ed. Fewer & Further Press (Wendell, Mass.), Jess Mynes, ed. Firewheel Editions/Sentence, a magazine (Danbury, Conn.), Brian Clements, ed. Habenicht Press (San Francisco), David Hadbawnik, ed. House Press (Chicago, Buffalo, New York City), Eric Gelsinger, founder. Instance Press (Boulder, Colo.; New York City; Oakland, Calif.), Stacy Szymaszek, co-ed. Ixnay Press (Philadelphia), Chris and Jenn McCreary, eds. Katalanch=E9 Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael Carr and Dorothea Lasky, =20= eds. Kelsey Street Press (Berkeley, Calif.), 30th anniversary party, Patricia Dienstfrey and Rena Rosenwasser, eds. Kenning Editions (Berkeley, Calif.), Patrick Durgin, ed. Meritage Press (San Francisco/St. Helena, Calif.), Eileen Tabios, ed. Minor/American (Durham, N.C.), Elise Ficarra and Kathryn Pringle, eds. Mooncalf Press (Philadelphia), CAConrad, ed. Narrow House Recordings (Gwyn Oak, Md.), Justin Sirois, ed. New American Writing (Mill Valley, Calif.), Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover, eds., O Books (Oakland, Calif.), Leslie Scalapino, ed. One Less Magazine (Williamsburg, Mass.), Nikki Widner and David Gardner, eds. Outside Voices (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jessica Smith, ed. The Owl Press (Woodacre, Calif.), Albert Flynn DeSilver, ed. Palm Press (Long Beach, Calif.), Jane Sprague, ed. Paper Kite Press (Kingston, Penn.), Jennifer Hill-Kaucher and Dan Waber, eds. Pavement Saw Press (Columbus, Ohio), David Baratier, ed. The Poker (Cambridge, Mass.), Dan Bouchard, ed. Punch Press/damn the caesars (Buffalo, N.Y.), Richard Owens, ed. Skanky Possum (Austin, Texas), Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith, eds. Subpress collective, Greg Fuchs, co-ed. Talisman House Press (Jersey City, N.J.), Edward Foster, ed. Talonbooks (Vancouver, Canada). The Tangent (Walla Walla, Wash.), Kaia Sand and Jules Boykoff, eds. 3rd Bed (Lincoln, R.I.), Vincent Standley, ed. Tougher Disguises (Oakland, Calif.), James Meetze, ed. Tripwire (San Francisco), David Buuck, ed. The Wandering Hermit Review (Buffalo, N.Y.), Steve Potter, ed. **NYC levy lives presses, 2003 to present A Rest Press, Ryan Murphy and Patrick Masterson, eds. Beet/Pink Pages, Joe Maynard, ed. Belladonna Books, Erica Kaufman and Rachel Levitsky, eds. Cuneiform Press, Kyle Schlesinger, ed. Cy Gist Press, Mark Lamoureux, ed. Detour Press, Gary Sullivan, ed. Explosive magazine/Spectacular Books, Katy Lederer, ed. Farfalla Press, Gary Parrish, ed. Fence, Charles Valle, co-ed, and Max Winter, poetry ed. Fungo Monographs, Ryan Murphy ed. Futurepoem books, Dan Machlin, ed. Granary Press, Steve Clay, ed. Hanging Loose Press, Bob Hershon, ed. The Hat, Jordan Davis, co-ed. Kitchen Press, editor Justin Marks, ed. Litmus Press/Aufgabe, E. Tracy Grinnell, ed. Lungfull, Brendan Lorber, ed. Open 24 Hours, John Coletti and Greg Fuchs, ed. Pompom, Allison Cobb, Jennifer Coleman, Ethan Fugate, and Susan Landers, eds. Portable Press at YoYo Labs, Brenda Iijima, ed. Sona Books, Jill Magi, ed. Stay Free! magazine, Carrie McLaren, ed. Tender Buttons, Lee Ann Brown, ed. :::the press gang:::, cristiana baik and sara wintz, eds. Ugly Duckling Presse, Anna Moschovakis and Matvei Yankelevich, collective members. United Artists, Lewis Warsh, ed. Urban Folk zine, Dave Cuomo, ed. X-ing Books, Amy Mees and Mark Wagner, eds. 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 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:38:34 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Patrick F. Durgin" Subject: The Danny=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?= Reading Series (8th Anniversary Reading with Chicago Indie Presses!) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Danny’s Reading Series (8th Anniversary Reading with Chicago Indie Presses!) Wednesday, August 26th 7:30 PM The writers: Adam Clay, Kathleen Rooney, Steve Halle, Mary Hamilton, Kristen Orser, and Patrick Durgin with Hannah Weiner The presses: Cinematheque Press, Switchback Books, Cracked Slab Books, Featherproof Books, Dancing Girl Press, and Kenning Editions Eight years in. It’s hard to believe. While we spend a lot of our time hosting poets and writers from elsewhere, as we venture into our ninth season, we thought it appropriate to turn our eye on our hometown. We’d like to celebrate the work of a selection (there are so many more!) of Chicago indie presses and their authors. Diverse in publishing vision, ideals, and execution—all committed to defining quality for themselves, the imagination, to the vast work on the part of the author to bring it to life, and to the vastly detailed work of bringing it to our hands and eyes—we salute and celebrate the necessary parts all of them play in bringing Chicago to life and the world to light. And, as always, celebrating the audience that gives us life and is our light. Joel Craig & Chris Glomski Adam Clay is the author of The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006) and A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming). A new chapbook, In a World of Ideas, I Feel No Particular Loyalty, is now available from Cinematheque Press. He co-edits Typo Magazine and lives in Michigan. Recent poems appear in Ploughshares, The Laurel Review, The Tusculum Review, and elsewhere. (cinemathequepress.com ) Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, and the author, most recently, of the memoir Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object and the poetry collection Oneiromance (an epithalamion), winner of the Gatewood Prize from Switchback Books. Founded in 2006, Switchback is a nonprofit feminist press publishing poetry by women. (switchbackbooks.com ) Steve Halle's first collection of poems, Map of the Hydrogen World was published by Cracked Slab Books in 2008. Halle edits the online journal Seven Corners, which publishes Chicago and Midwestern poets, and he is a staff poetry reviewer for Oranges & Sardines (O&S). He holds an MFA from New England College and is currently a PhD candidate at Illinois State University. (crackedslabbooks.com ) Mary Hamilton has had stories in SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Storyglossia, Thieves Jargon and others, and is the author of Flash Flicker Fire, available from Featherproof Books. She lives in Chicago where she's the co-founder and co-host of the QUICKIES! reading series. Featherproof Books is a young indie publisher based in Chicago, dedicated to the small-press ideals of finding fresh, urban voices. (featherproof.com ) Kristen Orser is the author of Squint, published by Dancing Girl Press. Kristen Orser is anxious. She is probably behind on work and her students are probably wondering what their grades are. She is hoping all clocks will bend backwards and take her somewhere less fast. The Dancing Girl Press Chapbook Series was founded in 2004 to publish and promote the work of women poets and artists through chapbooks, journals, book arts projects, and anthologies. (dancinggirlpress.com ) Patrick Durgin is a poet, critic, editor, publisher, and educator. His latest book is a collaboration with poet and translator Jen Hofer, The Route (Atelos, 2008). He edited the selected works of Hannah Weiner, Hannah Weiner's Open House, for Kenning Editions, of which he is the founder and publisher. Weiner (1928-1997) was an influential poet whose work bridged conceptual, intermedia, New York School, and Language school poetics. Her books include The Fast, We Speak Silent, and PAGE. (kenningeditions.com ) Danny’s Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens (near the intersection of Armitage and Damen). 21+ (please have ID) 773-489-6457 -- Next Month: Wednesday, September 23rd Poetry by Kate Greenstreet and Jared Stanley ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:58:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rosalie Calabrese Subject: Poetry Readings in NYC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rosalie Calabrese will be featured in these three readings this fall: September 13 at 2:00 PM (free) West Side Community Garden entrances at 89th + 90th St. (midway bet. Amsterdam & Columbus Aves.) [1,2, 3 trains to 86th St.; 7 or 104 bus to 89th St.] Group reading; poetry, fiction, whatever No rain date September 20 at 1:00 PM (free) 6th Street & Avenue B Garden R or V train to 8th St.; walk East or take bus to Ave. B No rain date I=E2=80=99ll be reading with Nate Hohauser and possibly others + Open Mic Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 5:30 PM (donation requested) Phoenix Reading Series @ Bengal Curry 65 West Broadway (1-1/2 blocks below Chambers St.) [1, 2, 3, A, C, or E train to Chambers Street] Open Mic=20 Rain or shine =E2=80=9CAnother great experience at Phoenix Reading/Open Mic @ Bengal Curr= y. If you love poetry you will not want to miss it. If you love Indian food= , including the best nan in NYC, you will not want to miss it. If you love = both you will be in Nirvana.=E2=80=9D See Rosalie's poem A PAGE FROM MY DIARY (GOING HOME: NEW YORK CITY, 1989) i= n the current issue of Thema, Summer 2009. Her poem MY NEW FRIEND can be se= en=C2=A0 in the Holocaust Edition of Poetica on line. Another poem, RAP FLA= P, is due to appear in the Helicon Nine Editions anthology In The Black/In = The Red, scheduled for publication Fall =E2=80=9809 =C2=A0=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:53:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: The Dispersive Anatomies special issue of Leonardo is up! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed The Dispersive Anatomies special issue of Leonardo is up! http://www.leonardo.info/LEA/DispersiveAnatomies/DispersiveAnatomies.html Do take a look at this - it has a stunning group of artists, theorists, thinkers of all sorts - we're quite proud of it. Due to editorial changes at MIT, it's been two years in the making, but it's a worthwhile wait! Thanks for your patience, and please check it out! Here's a description of the original call for the issue: ** *Dispersive Anatomies* ** *Guest Editors:* Sandy Baldwin, Alan Sondheim and Mez Breeze ** *Call for papers - LEA Dispersive Anatomies* *------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting papers and artworks that address dispersion - dispersion of bodies, objects, landscapes, networks, virtual and real worlds. A fundamental shift in the way we view the world is underway: the abandonment of discrete objects, and objecthood itself. The world is now plural, and the distinction between real and virtual is becoming increasingly blurred, with troubling consequences within the geopolitical register. This shift is related to a cultural change that emphasizes digital deconstruction over analog construction: a photograph for example can be accessed and transformed, pixel by pixel, cities can be taken apart by gerrymandering or eminent domain, and our social networks are replete with names and images that problematize friendship, sexuality, and culture itself. One issue that emerges here: Are we networking or are we networked? Are we networks ourselves? LEA is interested in texts and works that deal with this fundamental shift in new and illuminating ways. Specifically, anything from essays through multimedia through networks themselves may be considered. We're particularly interested in submissions that deal with the incoherency of the world, and how to address it. *Key topics of interest --------------------------------- *Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to): - Networked warfare in real and virtual worlds. - The wounded/altered body in real and virtual worlds. - Transgressive sexualities across borders, sexualities among body-parts, dismemberments and groups, both real and virtual. - Critical texts on the transformation of classical narrative - from its emphasis on an omniscient narrator and coherent plots/characters, to literatures of incoherency, dispersed narrations, and the jump-cut exigencies of everyday life. - Deleuze/Guattari, TAZ, and other phenomena at the border of networking. - Internet visions and their abandonment or fulfillment. - The haunting of the world by ghosts, virtual beings, dreams and nightmares that never resolve. - The geopolitical collapse of geopolitics. - Military empires as scattershot entrepreneurial corporations. Dispersion has two vectors: the breakup or breakdown of coherent objects; and the subsequent attempt to corral, curtail, or recuperate from this breakdown. How do we deal with networks that are constantly coalescing and disappearing? Where are we in the midst of this? In an era of pre-emptive culture, is guerilla warfare to be accompanied by guerilla culture as the order of the day? *------------------------------------------* ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:58:43 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: "We live in a country of slaughter." Alan Sondheim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Indeed. Although I'm using Sondheim's name to push my propaganda. Bear with me, please. Previously, I had posted something about the animal rights dvd, earthlings. I forgot to mention some of the distinguished names associated with it. Notably, Issac B. Singer, Nobel L. & Princton philosopher, Peter Singer. To paraphrase Peter Singer, "If there's there's one film I could make everyone on the planet watch, it'd be this one." I also recommended the book and essay by David Foster Wallace entitled "Consider the Lobster." I became somewhat overly animated, though. I said, As Foster noted ... cowardly this ... amongst other thing... all of which I infered from reading Foster. Foster's essay was far more nuanced. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:02:32 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: come to our NYC 7 Deadly Sins CABARET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable come to our NYC 7 Deadly Sins CABARET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL DETAILS here on Mongrel Vaudeville Website: http://mongrelvaudeville.blogspot.com/2009/07/seven-deadly-sins-august-27th= -9-pm.html (PSSST! I'M PLAYING AMERICAN GLUTTONY, AHHHHHHHH, HA! HA! HA! BON APPETIT FUCKERS!) THURSDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 9 TO 11PM at Freddy=92s Bar & Backroom 485 Dean St. @ 6th Ave. Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 2, 3 to Bergen, 4, 5, B, Q, D, M, N, R to Atlantic / Pacific --=20 PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:05:57 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World In-Reply-To: <8939E41B-54D8-4666-9E15-5CF6991487B9@gmail.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit no wonder it has the ring of authenticity even tho we're not supposed to say that these days--or maybe we are again On 8/19/09 11:26 PM, "mIEKAL aND" wrote: > The Longest Poem in the World > http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/ > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & > sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:09:00 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: new on Rogue Embryo's blog In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable thank you for this, camille--and do you know steve lacy set inside my head to music? I went to the creeley/clemente collaboration at brandeis--creeley was The Man as always & so sweet but clemente came sweeping in like a prince. On 8/20/09 3:06 AM, "Camille Martin" wrote: > New on Rogue Embryo: >=20 >=20 > Anamorphosis (Creeley/Clemente): Death and the Stuff of Dreams >=20 > black asterisk >=20 > Zydeco Gallery Three >=20 > Square Foot Show, Toronto >=20 > The Sword=B9s Brayer >=20 >=20 >=20 > http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com >=20 >=20 > Cheers! >=20 > Camille Martin > http://www.camillemartin.ca > http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com > ________________________________________ >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & > sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & > sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:28:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: History of music website In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable And I am the Persian rug dealer who sold it to him. Now if today we said business does not exist, it would not be a metaphysica= l statement. Ciao, Murat On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Patrick Dillon w= rote: > Here is a link to the allmusic entry on Dylan: > http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=3Damg&sql=3D11:0ifrxqe5ldhe > > I'm not sure where you ended up on your search for Dylan. Personally, I > prefer to navigate the AllMusic site through Google, as I do with many > other > sites. If I'm going to do a search for Bob Dylan, I don't go to allmusic > and > then search for "Bob Dylan." I do a Google search for "Bob Dylan allmusic= ." > And that will take me right to the profile.' > > Make sure to take note of the tabs, especially discography. There are ful= l > reviews of most albums and, for Dylan, most songs. > > I do this particularly with AllMusic because I find that it has slow load > times. > > Here is the text from the Dylan AllMusic Page just cut and pasted into th= is > email: Good bye! > > > Biographyby Stephen Thomas Erlewine > > Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, = he > pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional > singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream of conscious > narratives. > As a vocalist, he broke down the notion that a singer must have a > conventionally good voice in order to perform, thereby redefining the > vocalist's role in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several genre= s > of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. And that > just touches on the tip of his achievements. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:32:55 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World In-Reply-To: <8939E41B-54D8-4666-9E15-5CF6991487B9@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A Paradox: that constraint based works are so often founded on the principle of producing the most "unconstrained" works--i.e. "Endless," "Longest," maybe even someday the "Loudest" poem, like Blue Cheer's "primitive" (by today's sonic standards) late 60's/early 70's acid hard roc= k concept of "Louder than God." There is also something of the "inevitbale" about these constarint based works: For a moment i thought the Longest Poem might be something like the Burma Shave jingles (many, oddly, very like some of the poetry of Charles Bernstein) which stretched from coast to coast--hence a long poem covering thousands of miles . . . so this project would have as it's "inevitably" the meeting with the Oceans= , something that Lautreamont i a strange way would understand: "O Ocean!" Another form of this inevitblilty that one finds in these lines i the "Longest Poem" is they express both a tritieness and a lack of suprise in resoving by rhyme their dilemans. That is--do they not read i a small way like the Fates terribly at Work? Geleth Burgess in a 1968 Art Magaine article considered the Inevitbale fro= m the point of view of the trite and the Bromide in "Are you a Bromide?" examiniing 48 "genuine cliches," in thre Grand Tradition of Flaubert's Dictionairre des idees recues (Dictionary of Accepted/Rceived ideas.) writes: of,for example, "It's not the moeny, it's the priniple of the thing" that: "Iti s not merely because the remark is trite that itis Bromidic. Ot is because with the Bromide the remark is INEVITABLE." (Note: you can find Flaubert's Dictionary coupled with Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary being "serialized" letter by letter at http://davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com Also being "serialized" is Edward Bernays's classic work from 1928: Propaganda, and a series of poems, tales, etc from H.Chase's 1958 book of homophonic "translations"..I hope to "serialize more such works re language= , writing, words letters etc including more texts re the language of our time= s which is best expressed as the satuartion of it by/with Propaganda/advertising objectives. One of the misunderstaning of Corporate State Fascism as it is devloping in the US's latest formsof Capitalism is that the distinctions between advertsisng and Propaganda have been broken down. A book blurb can be read as an example of this, in which an ideology of writing is combined an ideology of "buy this book"! And why buy it--because it is part and parcel of what is good for one--the delicious fast food delights("You Are What You Eat") of propaganda-ads. Isn't that what this poem is about, "The Longest Poem?" And how about any poem one may read today written in the USA? Is it not saturated by the ideologies of production-consumption-more-more-faster-faster--a bizarre echoing of the terms in Charles Olson's Projective Verse: One sense impression/breath, letter, syllable, word, phrase, line following another, fast , faster, citizen!--etc) II met once a Ukrainian poet who claimed to have written "The World's longest Palindrome," helped by the fact that the Ukrainian language is apparently extraordinarily rich in palindromic possibilities. This "World'= s Longest Palindrome" was either 4 or 8 small pages folded together and done in fine type. (forgive the lapse in memory, what's left of it.) Bob Cobbing, when this pronouncement/announcement of the World's Longest Palindrome was made clear to him became quite vividly and demonstrably antagonistic, saying, no no no!!!! HE had written the world's longest Palindrome because his was just a simple "round" that endless spun around and around as a form of linguistic perpetual motion machine; thus, to be sure, being perpetual, it was "The World's Longest Palindrome." This Palindrome after all, being perpetual, would be the longest in"Eternal Time," while the "mere" Untrained Palindrome was only long in the number of words, so that it's duration in time was far shorter. This conversation itself had a Palindromic quality to it in that a Russian had to translate from Ukrainian to Russian for another Russian who translated from Russian to German which I then translated from German to English for Bob's reply, which then went "backwards" to its "original source," the Ukrainian poet. This project by Mr Gheorghe (a Russian born "1005 Romanian) has also attarateced the attention of CNN, as one may see in the note below from one of Mr Georghe's sites (he is also a radiot/tv star as well as a school teacher in Romania. Constraint based works often are very leaden in their effect, the "concept" being productive of things only too inevitable, like the thudding tautologies say of"Conceptual Poetry" of the contemporary American kind (nothing like Conceptual Poetry in "reality"). I think Mr. Gheorghe's project is an example of the Fun/Funny side of the Constraint based work's put to use to illustarte as it were the Inevitability of the Bromidic running amok! , =93Longest Poem=94 featured on CNN.com The Longest Poem in the World , my experiment that I previously told you aboutwas just featured in an article on CNN Technology. Strangers gather on Web to make collective art . Enjoy :) 6 comentarii Work , Programare web, General On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:26 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote: > The Longest Poem in the World > http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/ > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:14:09 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Red Rover Series / Experiment #32 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Red Rover Series {readings that play with reading} Experiment #32: Our Bodies, Our Devils SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 7pm Featuring: Krista Franklin & Adam Rose NEW LOCATION at the Orientation Center 2129 N. Rockwell -- Chicago, IL corner of Milwaukee/Rockwell left side of the Congress Theater building http://orientationcenter.wordpress.com suggested donation $4 KRISTA FRANKLIN is a poet and visual artist who has most recently been published in RATTLE, Indiana Review, Ecotone, Clam, Callaloo, MiPOesias.com, and the anthology Gathering Ground. Her collages have appeared on the covers of award-winning books, and she has exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, and the co-founder of 2nd Sun Salon, a community meeting space for writers, visual and performance artists, musicians and scholars. http://www.kristafranklin.com ADAM ROSE is a performer and choreographer living and working in Chicago, IL. Adam graduated with a B.A. in Dance/Theater from Antioch College in 2008. He is the Artistic Director of Antibody Dance, a company specializing in movement studies and occult research. He has also performed with Dim Sum Dance, contributed to Lucky Plush's Steal This Dance project, and performs with Girlie-Q Productions as Elena. He is currently a 2009 LinkUp residency artist at Links Hall. http://www.antibodydance.org Red Rover Series is curated by Lisa Janssen and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin. UPCOMING September 26: Kate Greenstreet & Gina Myers Email ideas for reading experiments to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com The schedule for events is listed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:26:26 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Netpoetic.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://netpoetic.com is a communal blog started and run by Jason Nelson about digital poetry. The blog features writing by him and Alan Bigelow, Lori Emerson, Scott Rettberg, Jaka Zeleznikar, Michael Maguire, Sandy Baldwin, Brian Stefans, Hazel Smith, Jim Andrews, Curt Cloninger, Joerg Pringer, Nick Montfort, Edward Picot, and Davin Heckman. ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:17:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: MACRO (Soma)tics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MACRO (Soma)tics here: http://www.nonsitecollective.org/CAConrad/Soma%28tics%29 a taste a taste can be nice a taste just a taste of nearly anyone anything but not anywhere? yes, anywhere -- PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:00:20 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nate Dorward Subject: Upcoming gig: cris cheek in Toronto, Aug 29th MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (Apologies if you get multiple copies of this....) Aug.29 in Toronto: A poetry/sound/multimedia performance-- *cris cheek *(London/US) + *Barnyard Drama *[Christine Duncan/Jean Martin] (Toronto) 8pm, at Somewhere There Live Creative Music in Toronto 340 Dufferin Street - one block South of Queen Street ** entrance from Melbourne Ave. ** www.somewherethere.org $8 cover, or free admission if you purchase cris's new book *part: short life housing *(specially priced for this event at $16!) *ABOUT CRIS CHEEK: *cris cheek is a sound artist, poet, photographer, mixed-media practitioner and interdisciplinary performer, whose works have been commissioned and shown locally and trans-locally, in multiple versions using diverse media for their production and circulation. Born in London in 1955, he lived and worked there until the early 1990s, a performance writer very much a part of what was going on with poetry in that capital city. His musical collaborations include Slant (a trio with Phillip Jeck and Sianed Jones) and Garam Masala; he also collaborated in 1999-2007 with Kirsten Lavers on the cross-disciplinary project Things Not Worth Keeping ( www.thingsnotworthkeeping.com) . He currently lives in the southwest Ohio River Valley. cris=92s most recent book is *part: short life housing *(Toronto: The Gig, 2009), a collection of six texts from the 1980s and 1990s, including =93canning town chronicles,=94 a scathing set of verbal accretions that eme= rged from the wreckage of the Thatcher era; and =93f o g s,=94 a series of typestracts quarried from verbal improvisations recorded during outdoor walks in densely foggy weather. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:12:28 +0200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Les Rencontres Internationales Subject: [Festival 2009-2010] Call for Entries | Appel a' proposition | Convocatoria | Teilnahmeaufruf | FILM, VIDEO, MULTIMEDIA [EN] [FR] [DE] [ES] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit dear all, i send you below an information about our current call for entries. please spread out and forward around you. best + + + + + + + + + + + + + + IN ENGLISH http://www.art-action.org/site/_news/09/call/en.htm AUF DEUTSCH http://www.art-action.org/site/_news/09/call/de.htm EN ESPAÑOL http://www.art-action.org/site/_news/09/call/es.htm EN FRANÇAIS http://www.art-action.org/site/_news/09/call/fr.htm + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ||||||| CALL FOR ENTRIES ||||||| UNTIL SEPTEMBER 5, 2009: WITH REGULAR MAIL SENDING ||||||| UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15, 2009: WITH VIDEO UPLOAD ||||||| http://www.art-action.org/en_index.htm ||||||| RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID ||||||| FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA The call for entries for the next Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid is open until September 5 and 15, 2009. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:01:20 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rachel Loden Subject: Bay Area Poetry Marathon, Saturday, August 29 in SF MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit * DONNA de la PERRIERE * EDWARD FOSTER * C.S. GISCOMBE * PAUL HOOVER * * RACHEL LODEN * MIRANDA MELLIS * JARED STANLEY * and * AL YOUNG * are all reading at the Bay Area Poetry Marathon on Saturday, August 29 at 7:00 p.m. Please come and say hello! Location: The Lab 2948 16th Street (@ Capp) San Francisco, CA http://www.thelab.org/events/369-2009-poetry-marathon.html * DONNA de la PERRIERE is the author of True Crime (Talisman House). Work is forthcoming in Gender Outlaw, a book honoring the late kari edwards. The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry award, she teaches writing at CCA & SFSU. * EDWARD FOSTER's most recent book is Febra Alba, a selection of his poems in Romanian translation. His selected poems were published in 2006. A new collection, The Beginning of Sorrows, will be published this October. * C.S. GISCOMBE's teaches at U.C. Berkeley. His recent poetry books are Prairie Style and Giscome Road. Prairie Style won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; Giscome Road won the Carl Sandburg Award. * PAUL HOOVER's most recent poetry book is Sonnet 56 (Les Figues Press)--book party to be held at Moe's on October 20. Other recent works include Poems in Spanish, Edge and Fold, and translations of Holderlin and Vietnamese poetry. * RACHEL LODEN is the author of Dick of the Dead (Ahsahta Press) and Hotel Imperium (Georgia). Recipient of a grant from the Fund for Poetry, her work is forthcoming in the &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing. * MIRANDA MELLIS is the author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press) and Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs). Her various writing has appeared variously including Tin House, Harper's, The Believer, Fence, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. * JARED STANLEY is the author of Book Made of Forest and three chapbooks, including The Outer Bay. He co-edits Mrs. Maybe with Lauren Levin and Catherine Meng. Recent work is in Mary, Zoland Poetry, and Big Bridge. * AL YOUNG's 22 widely translated books include poetry, fiction and musical memoirs. From 2005- 2008 he served as poet laureate of California. Other honors include NEA, Fulbright, & Guggenheim Fellowships. The Sea, The Sky, And You, And I, a poetry & jazz CD (featuring bassist Dan Robbins) came out this year from Bardo Digital. Detailed information about this Berkeley-based author may be found at www.alyoung.org Contact: baypoetry@gmail.com http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/loden/loden.htm ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:12:02 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Amanda Earl Subject: AngelHousePress Essay # 7 - Marcus McCann Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed the seventh of the AngelHousePress Series is now on line. In the essay, "Notes on The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman: Experiencing Robert Kroetsch's Poetry In A Fever," I discuss my appreciation for the poetry of Robert Kroetsch and the long poem in general and talk about how Kroetsch's poem "the Sad Phoenician" inspired me to write a response poem. Amanda Earl AngelHousePress www.angelhousepress.com the angel is in the house ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:47:40 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Pam Brown Subject: write a review for Jacket magazine? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Poeticists, If you would like to write a review of Nicole Mauro's first collection, 'The Contortions', please contact me on the back channel p.brown62@gmail.com Further information : From the back cover: 'The Contortions' encourages language to pop and pulse down the synaptic hallways of our culture. From Freudian free association to soap opera summaries, from Pangrammic mnemonics to Rimbaud, these poems are not afraid to breach etiquette and "dis-remember" the habits of words. Mauro transmits the fantastical double life of language--what it once was and what it now (happily) can be--with visual and sonic nerve.--Jena Osman Publisher: Dusie Publication Date: August 18, 2009 Pages: 82 Thanks, Best wishes, Pam Brown -- ____________________________________ blog : http://thedeletions.blogspot.com website : http://pambrownbooks.blogspot.com/ associate editor : http://jacketmagazine.com/ _____________________________________ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:00:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: cris cheek Subject: live in Toronto this coming Saturday MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (Hi folks--Apologies if you get multiple copies of this....) i'm forwarding it: * Aug.29 in Toronto: A poetry/sound/multimedia performance-- *cris cheek *(London/US) + *Barnyard Drama *[Christine Duncan/Jean Martin] (Toronto) 8pm, at Somewhere There Live Creative Music in Toronto 340 Dufferin Street - one block South of Queen Street ** entrance from Melbourne Ave. ** www.somewherethere.org $8 cover, or free admission if you purchase cris's new book *part: short life housing *(specially priced for this event at $16!) *ABOUT CRIS CHEEK: *cris cheek is a sound artist, poet, photographer, mixed-media practitioner and interdisciplinary performer, whose works have been commissioned and shown locally and trans-locally, in multiple versions using diverse media for their production and circulation. Born in London in 1955, he lived and worked there until the early 1990s, a performance writer very much a part of what was going on with poetry in that capital city. His musical collaborations include Slant (a trio with Phillip Jeck and Sianed Jones) and Garam Masala; he also collaborated in 1999-2007 with Kirsten Lavers on the cross-disciplinary project Things Not Worth Keeping ( www.thingsnotworthkeeping.com) . He currently lives in the temperate deciduous forests of the southwest Ohio River Valley. cris=92s most recent book is *part: short life housing *(Toronto: The Gig, 2009), a collection of six texts from the 1980s and 1990s, including =93canning town chronicles,=94 a scathing set of verbal accretions that eme= rged from the wreckage of the Thatcher era; and =93f o g s,=94 a series of typestracts quarried from verbal improvisations recorded during outdoor walks in densely foggy weather. For more info contact: Nate Dorward 109 Hounslow Ave., North York, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada nate.dorward@gmail.com - 416 221 6865 * RECENT PUBLICATIONS: cris cheek, PART: SHORT LIFE HOUSING Trevor Joyce, WHAT'S IN STORE ANTIPHONIES: Essays on Women's Experimental Poetries in Canada More information at www.ndorward.com/poetry/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:46:49 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: Figure of Speech: Fluid Dynamics Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 What do you get when you cross edgy poetry with Renaissance music? Find out= at =93Figure of Speech,=94 a collaborative performance of poetry, dance, a= nd music in Toronto. I=92m incredibly honoured to be performing with Gauri Vanarese, a dancer, a= nd John Edwards and Hallie Fishel-Verrette, musicians in the Renaissance an= d Baroque music duo, Musicians in Ordinary, in an evening of artistic colla= boration organized by Tricia Postle. Hallie and John have composed settings for several of my sonnets, using tra= ditional musical forms of the 16th and 17th centuries. Some of these sonnet= s were inspired by English nursery rhymes, and when I heard Hallie and John= perform them at a recent rehearsal, the poetry and music sounded to my ear= s like a perfect blend. And for the occasion I also set several of my poems to music, which John, H= allie, and I will perform in various combinations. In addition, Hallie and John will accompany dancer Gauri Vanarese in two of= her beautiful and evocative choreographed pieces. It will be a memorable evening. If you will be in Toronto this weekend, ple= ase come! * * * * * Majlis Multidiscplinary Arts Presents Figure of Speech: Flud Dynamics a summer night of poetry, dance, and live music in an urban garden Friday, August 28 Saturday, August 29 8:00 pm poetry: Camille Martin dance: Gauri Vanarese music: John Edwards and Hallie Fishel-Verrette 163 Walnut Street / Toronto tickets: $15 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=3D119662751628 http://musiciansinordinary.ca/ * * * * * Camille Martin http://www.camillemartin.ca http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com ________________________________________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:15:13 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Francesco Levato Subject: "War Rug" - Poetry Film Screening in NY In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable "War Rug" - Poetry Film Screening in NY Date: September 5th, 2009 Time: 7:30 =AD 10:30 p.m. Location: Upstairs at Erika's, Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY - for entrance and address you need to call and RSVP up to the event start time at 917/865-4875. "War Rug" is based on a work of documentary poetics in the form of a book length poem. Multiple interwoven narratives explore life within zones of conflict as viewed through the lens of current warfare. The narratives rang= e from passages inspired by journal entries, firsthand accounts, and news reports to poetic constructs collaged from military doctrine, Freedom of Information Act released government documents (like CIA interrogation manuals, and detainee autopsy reports), and numerous other sources. The fil= m collages and juxtaposes archival source material with U.S. Military footage in an exploration of alternative narrative interpretations of the source text. For more information please visit: http://www.francescolevato.com http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3D47598138799 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:21:50 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Al Filreis Subject: PoemTalk #21 on Charles Bernstein now released Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit PoemTalk #21 is a discussion of Charles Bernstein's "In a Restless World Like This Is." The talkers this time are Marcella Durand, Eli Goldblatt, and Hank Lazer. As always, PoemTalk is a 25-minute long audio podcast. http://www.poemtalk.org There are several ways to subscribe to PoemTalk. One is through iTunes: go to your iTunes music store, type "PoemTalk" in the search box, find PoemTalk and click "subscribe." Al Filreis Kelly Professor Faculty Dir., Kelly Writers House Dir., Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing University of Pennsylvania on the web: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis blog: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/blog PoemTalk: http://www.poemtalk.org get your daily Al: http://bit.ly/1UCfRp dial 215-746-POEM or 215-746-7636 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:52:06 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David, I think process/procedure determined digital poems are longest-poems producing machines. Or a poem based on a number series stretching infinitely at both ends. Here a conceptual work leads to a plethora of words -a concept as a word producing machine. Did you think of the connection between longest-poems and machines, which itself a "rationalization" of automatism, this surrealist tool afflicted with cancer. Ciao, Murat On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:32 AM, David Chirot wrote= : > A Paradox: that constraint based works are so often founded on the > principle of producing the most "unconstrained" works--i.e. "Endless," > "Longest," maybe even someday the "Loudest" poem, like Blue Cheer's > "primitive" (by today's sonic standards) late 60's/early 70's acid hard > rock > concept of "Louder than God." > > There is also something of the "inevitbale" about these constarint based > works: > > For a moment i thought the Longest Poem might be something like the Burma > Shave jingles (many, oddly, very like some of the poetry of Charles > Bernstein) which stretched from coast to coast--hence a long poem coverin= g > thousands of miles . . . > so this project would have as it's "inevitably" the meeting with the > Oceans, > something that Lautreamont i a strange way would understand: "O Ocean!" > > Another form of this inevitblilty that one finds in these lines i the > "Longest Poem" is they express both a tritieness and a lack of suprise in > resoving by rhyme their dilemans. > > That is--do they not read i a small way like the Fates terribly at Work? > > Geleth Burgess in a 1968 Art Magaine article considered the Inevitbale > from > the point of view of the trite and the Bromide in "Are you a Bromide?" > examiniing 48 "genuine cliches," in thre Grand Tradition of Flaubert's > Dictionairre des idees recues (Dictionary of Accepted/Rceived ideas.) > writes: of,for example, "It's not the moeny, it's the priniple of the > thing" that: > "Iti s not merely because the remark is trite that itis Bromidic. Ot is > because with the Bromide the remark is INEVITABLE." > > (Note: you can find Flaubert's Dictionary coupled with Ambrose Bierce's > Devil's Dictionary being "serialized" letter by letter at > http://davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com > Also being "serialized" is Edward Bernays's classic work from 1928: > Propaganda, and a series of poems, tales, etc from H.Chase's 1958 book of > homophonic "translations"..I hope to "serialize more such works re > language, > writing, words letters etc including more texts re the language of our > times > which is best expressed as the satuartion of it by/with > Propaganda/advertising objectives. One of the misunderstaning of Corporat= e > State Fascism as it is devloping in the US's latest formsof Capitalism is > that the distinctions between advertsisng and Propaganda have been broken > down. A book blurb can be read as an example of this, in which an ideolo= gy > of writing is combined an ideology of "buy this book"! And why buy > it--because it is part and parcel of what is good for one--the delicious > fast food delights("You Are What You Eat") of propaganda-ads. Isn't that > what this poem is about, "The Longest Poem?" And how about any poem one m= ay > read today written in the USA? Is it not saturated by the ideologies of > production-consumption-more-more-faster-faster--a bizarre echoing of the > terms in Charles Olson's Projective Verse: One sense impression/breath, > letter, syllable, word, phrase, line following another, fast , faster, > citizen!--etc) > II met once a Ukrainian poet who claimed to have written "The World's > longest Palindrome," helped by the fact that the Ukrainian language is > apparently extraordinarily rich in palindromic possibilities. This > "World's > Longest Palindrome" was either 4 or 8 small pages folded together and don= e > in fine type. (forgive the lapse in memory, what's left of it.) > Bob Cobbing, when this pronouncement/announcement of the World's Longest > Palindrome was made clear to him became quite vividly and demonstrably > antagonistic, saying, no no no!!!! HE had written the world's longest > Palindrome because his was just a simple "round" that endless spun around > and around as a form of linguistic perpetual motion machine; thus, to be > sure, being perpetual, it was "The World's Longest Palindrome." > This Palindrome after all, being perpetual, would be the longest in"Etern= al > Time," while the "mere" Untrained Palindrome was only long in the number = of > words, so that it's duration in time was far shorter. > This conversation itself had a Palindromic quality to it in that a Russia= n > had to translate from Ukrainian to Russian for another Russian who > translated from Russian to German which I then translated from German to > English for Bob's reply, which then went "backwards" to its "original > source," the Ukrainian poet. > This project by Mr Gheorghe (a Russian born "1005 Romanian) has also > attarateced the attention of CNN, as one may see in the note below from o= ne > of Mr Georghe's sites (he is also a radiot/tv star as well as a school > teacher in Romania. > Constraint based works often are very leaden in their effect, the "concep= t" > being productive of things only too inevitable, like the thudding > tautologies say of"Conceptual Poetry" of the contemporary American kind > (nothing like Conceptual Poetry in "reality"). > I think Mr. Gheorghe's project is an example of the Fun/Funny side of the > Constraint based work's put to use to illustarte as it were the > Inevitability of the Bromidic running amok! > > > > , > > =93Longest Poem=94 featured on > CNN.com > > The Longest Poem in the World , my > experiment that I previously told you > aboutwas > just featured in an article on > CNN Technology. > > Strangers gather on Web to make collective > art< > http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/19/online.collaborative.art/index.htm= l > > > . > > Enjoy :) > 6 comentarii< > http://www.idevelop.ro/longest-poem-featured-on-cnn.htm#comments> > Work , Programare > web, > General > > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:26 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote= : > > > The Longest Poem in the World > > http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/ > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:20:59 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Crane's Bill Books Subject: William L. Fox and Mark Owens in New Mexico MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (If you're in the area, you might find this tempting, especially if = you're interested in ecopoetics and matters concerning land and = language.) THE LAND/an art site is hosting a limited-seating, salon-style dinner = and conversation with William L. Fox, director of the Nevada Museum of = Art's Center for Art + Environment, on Saturday, September 5, from 6 to = 9 pm at THE LAND/gallery in Albuquerque. Bill is a poet (silence and = license, One Wave Standing, Reading Sand), independent scholar, = lecturer, curator, and author of many books on landscape (including = Driving by Memory, The Void, the Grid and the Sign, Terra Antarctica, = Driving to Mars, and most recently Aereality: On the World from Above, = published this year by Counterpoint). This is a reservations-only, RSPV event, $50 per person, which includes = dinner and wine. THE LAND is a nonprofit organization, so your $50 is = tax-deductible. On Sunday, September 6, beginning at 2 pm, Bill will continue the = conversation at THE LAND's spectacular outdoor environmental art site = near Mountainair, New Mexico. He'll be joined by Mark Owens, a poet and = artist from Portland, OR, who will introduce and discuss a = language-based environmental project he's been working on for THE LAND. = The Sunday event is free. There's more information about THE LAND/an art site at = www.landartsite.org . Please forward this to anyone you think might be = interested. J. A. Lee cranesbill@comcast.net THE LAND/an art site theland@comcast.net www.landartsite.org =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:50:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Re: History of music website Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Thanks, Patrick. I would have normally done something similar, but I=20 wanted to test the site's search capabilities compared to other music=20 sites. On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:23:17 -0500, Patrick Dillon=20 wrote: >Here is a link to the allmusic entry on Dylan: >http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=3Damg&sql=3D11:0ifrxqe5ldhe > >I'm not sure where you ended up on your search for Dylan. Personally,=20= I >prefer to navigate the AllMusic site through Google, as I do with many=20= other >sites. If I'm going to do a search for Bob Dylan, I don't go to allmusic= =20 and >then search for "Bob Dylan." I do a Google search for "Bob Dylan=20 allmusic." >And that will take me right to the profile.' > >Make sure to take note of the tabs, especially discography. There are=20= full >reviews of most albums and, for Dylan, most songs. > >I do this particularly with AllMusic because I find that it has slow loa= d >times. > >Here is the text from the Dylan AllMusic Page just cut and pasted into=20= this >email: Good bye! > > >Biographyby Stephen Thomas Erlewine > >Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a=20 songwriter, he >pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from=20 confessional >singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream of conscious=20 narratives. >As a vocalist, he broke down the notion that a singer must have a >conventionally good voice in order to perform, thereby redefining the >vocalist's role in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several=20 genres >of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. And that= >just touches on the tip of his achievements. Dylan's force was evident >during his height of popularity in the '60s -- the >Beatles' >shift toward introspective songwriting in the mid-'60s never would have >happened without him -- but his influence echoed throughout=20 several ... 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:36:06 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Elizabeth Switaj Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 2009/8/22 David Chirot > A Paradox: that constraint based works are so often founded on the > principle of producing the most "unconstrained" works--i.e. "Endless," > "Longest," maybe even someday the "Loudest" poem, like Blue Cheer's > "primitive" (by today's sonic standards) late 60's/early 70's acid hard > rock > concept of "Louder than God." It's like a balloon filled with sand: push it down in one spot, and it bulges out elsewhere. To be any nameable -est is only to be least constrained in one direction. Then again, work all the sand into a single bulge and there isn't a lot of material left for the rest. Empty latex. Triteness. Elizabeth Kate Switaj www.elizabethkateswitaj.net ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:34:20 +0200 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Anny Ballardini Subject: The Poets' Corner _ a new update MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep. (DK22B1) *Heraclitus*** School and fall, summer is fading away in the heat and with a new update of the Poets=92 Corner for you to read: *Ric Carfagna* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D338 *Vince Gotera* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D341 *Max Richards* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D342 *John Moore Williams* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D343 *harry k stammer* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D344 *Peter Ganick* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D345 *Jennifer Hill* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D346 *Bonnie Roberts* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D347 *Donna Pecore* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D348 *Uche Ogbuji* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D349 *Paolo Dalponte* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D350 *Joanna Preston* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D351 *Dora Malech* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D352 *Rachel Loden* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D354 *Ed Baker* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D355 *New Poems by already featured Authors:* *Merchant Hoshang* Full Fathoms Five http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D2963 *Tad Richards* Episodes http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D67 *Barry Alpert* : http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D17 *=B7* T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G [via Paul Sharits & David Franks] *=B7* FILM ROBERT FRANK *=B7* TALK JAMES BENNING *=B7* THE PRESENT [via Robert Frank] *=B7* KINO-EYE [via Dziga Vertrov] *=B7* OF PETER FORGACS *=B7* LES PLAGES D=92AGNES [via Agnes Varda] *=B7* WARMING UP [for Arturo Ripstein] *=B7* SPARROW [via Johnnie To] *=B7* EYE IN THE SKY [via Yau Na-hoi & Johnnie To] *Sharon Brogan* Talking to the Animals http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3033 *Halvard Johnson* Sonnet Whimsical Children http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3066 *Marton Koppany* Still Life http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3077 *Eugen Galasso* Poesiole e un racconto http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3091 *Helen Ruggieri* FOREIGN LANGUAGES http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3092 *Ruth Fainlight* DIXIT DOMINUS http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3123 *Edward Mycue* the duboce triangle and my life http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid=3D3125 *Under Reviews* *Soffi di Vertigine : Racconti e Poesie di Eugen Galasso =96 nota critica d= i Anny Ballardini* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poemreviews/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid= =3D262 *Ned Condini presentato da Leonardo Franchini* http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poemreviews/corner.php?pa=3Dprintpage&pid= =3D263 As usual the order follows the one by which I received the contributions, with my acknowledgment to all contributing Poets and Artists. You can acces= s the Main Index here: http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent my best wishes, Anny Ballardini --=20 Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078 http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! Friedrich Nietzsche =AB Stulta est clementia, cum tot ubique vatibus occurras, periturae parcere chartae =BB Giovenale =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:41:07 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Pam Brown Subject: thanks - jacket has a reviewer for Nicole mauro's book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Poeticists, Thanks again for your quick response to my reques for a reviewer for Jacket. We have assigned Nicole Mauro's book. Cheerio from the Antipodes, Pam -- ____________________________________ blog : http://thedeletions.blogspot.com website : http://pambrownbooks.blogspot.com/ associate editor : http://jacketmagazine.com/ _____________________________________ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:17:51 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World Comments: cc: Daniel Zimmerman MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=Windows-1252; reply-type=original Another contender for longest poem: http://www.ld4all.com/archive0205/viewtopic.php?t=4716&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:06 am Post subject: Tibetan boy able to recite world's longest poem after dream! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031022/od_afp/china_tibet_offbeat_031022132306 Tibetan boy able to recite world's longest poem after dream BEIJING (AFP) - A 13-year-old Tibetan schoolboy has miraculously memorized large parts of the world's longest poem after having had a mysterious dream. Sitar Doje, a fifth-grader from Qamdo prefecture, had his dream two years ago and can now recite "The Life of King Gesar" for up to six hours on end, the Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.The agency says Tibet has a long tradition of people waking from sleep inexplicably able to recite the poem from memory. Most of these "God-taught Masters", however, are much older than Sitar Doje and are usually illiterate, the agency said.The lengthy 1,000-year old epic is also cherished by Mongolians and has given rise to a whole field of study referred to as "Gesarology", Xinhua said. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Chirot" To: Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:32 AM Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World A Paradox: that constraint based works are so often founded on the principle of producing the most "unconstrained" works--i.e. "Endless," "Longest," maybe even someday the "Loudest" poem, like Blue Cheer's "primitive" (by today's sonic standards) late 60's/early 70's acid hard rock concept of "Louder than God." There is also something of the "inevitbale" about these constarint based works: For a moment i thought the Longest Poem might be something like the Burma Shave jingles (many, oddly, very like some of the poetry of Charles Bernstein) which stretched from coast to coast--hence a long poem covering thousands of miles . . . so this project would have as it's "inevitably" the meeting with the Oceans, something that Lautreamont i a strange way would understand: "O Ocean!" Another form of this inevitblilty that one finds in these lines i the "Longest Poem" is they express both a tritieness and a lack of suprise in resoving by rhyme their dilemans. That is--do they not read i a small way like the Fates terribly at Work? Geleth Burgess in a 1968 Art Magaine article considered the Inevitbale from the point of view of the trite and the Bromide in "Are you a Bromide?" examiniing 48 "genuine cliches," in thre Grand Tradition of Flaubert's Dictionairre des idees recues (Dictionary of Accepted/Rceived ideas.) writes: of,for example, "It's not the moeny, it's the priniple of the thing" that: "Iti s not merely because the remark is trite that itis Bromidic. Ot is because with the Bromide the remark is INEVITABLE." (Note: you can find Flaubert's Dictionary coupled with Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary being "serialized" letter by letter at http://davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com Also being "serialized" is Edward Bernays's classic work from 1928: Propaganda, and a series of poems, tales, etc from H.Chase's 1958 book of homophonic "translations"..I hope to "serialize more such works re language, writing, words letters etc including more texts re the language of our times which is best expressed as the satuartion of it by/with Propaganda/advertising objectives. One of the misunderstaning of Corporate State Fascism as it is devloping in the US's latest formsof Capitalism is that the distinctions between advertsisng and Propaganda have been broken down. A book blurb can be read as an example of this, in which an ideology of writing is combined an ideology of "buy this book"! And why buy it--because it is part and parcel of what is good for one--the delicious fast food delights("You Are What You Eat") of propaganda-ads. Isn't that what this poem is about, "The Longest Poem?" And how about any poem one may read today written in the USA? Is it not saturated by the ideologies of production-consumption-more-more-faster-faster--a bizarre echoing of the terms in Charles Olson's Projective Verse: One sense impression/breath, letter, syllable, word, phrase, line following another, fast , faster, citizen!--etc) II met once a Ukrainian poet who claimed to have written "The World's longest Palindrome," helped by the fact that the Ukrainian language is apparently extraordinarily rich in palindromic possibilities. This "World's Longest Palindrome" was either 4 or 8 small pages folded together and done in fine type. (forgive the lapse in memory, what's left of it.) Bob Cobbing, when this pronouncement/announcement of the World's Longest Palindrome was made clear to him became quite vividly and demonstrably antagonistic, saying, no no no!!!! HE had written the world's longest Palindrome because his was just a simple "round" that endless spun around and around as a form of linguistic perpetual motion machine; thus, to be sure, being perpetual, it was "The World's Longest Palindrome." This Palindrome after all, being perpetual, would be the longest in"Eternal Time," while the "mere" Untrained Palindrome was only long in the number of words, so that it's duration in time was far shorter. This conversation itself had a Palindromic quality to it in that a Russian had to translate from Ukrainian to Russian for another Russian who translated from Russian to German which I then translated from German to English for Bob's reply, which then went "backwards" to its "original source," the Ukrainian poet. This project by Mr Gheorghe (a Russian born "1005 Romanian) has also attarateced the attention of CNN, as one may see in the note below from one of Mr Georghe's sites (he is also a radiot/tv star as well as a school teacher in Romania. Constraint based works often are very leaden in their effect, the "concept" being productive of things only too inevitable, like the thudding tautologies say of"Conceptual Poetry" of the contemporary American kind (nothing like Conceptual Poetry in "reality"). I think Mr. Gheorghe's project is an example of the Fun/Funny side of the Constraint based work's put to use to illustarte as it were the Inevitability of the Bromidic running amok! , “Longest Poem” featured on CNN.com The Longest Poem in the World , my experiment that I previously told you aboutwas just featured in an article on CNN Technology. Strangers gather on Web to make collective art . Enjoy :) 6 comentarii Work , Programare web, General On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:26 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote: > The Longest Poem in the World > http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/ > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:40:31 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: jared schickling Subject: New American Press -- call for work MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Summer 2009 chapbook contest =20 Winner receives $250 and 25 copies (additional copies available at a 30 percent discount). The final judge will be Kelly Cherry= =2C whose fiction=2C poetry=2C and nonfiction have won numerous awards. Some re= cent titles include Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems=3B History=2C Pa= ssion=2C Freedom=2C Death=2C and Hope: Prose about Poetry=3B and the novels In the W= ink of an Eye and We Can Still Be Friends. Her nineteenth book=2C The Retreats of Tho= ught=2C is forthcoming from LSU Press in November 2009. =20 We would also like to congratulate Renee Ashley=2C whose collection of poems=2C The Verbs of Desiring=2C was chosen by final judge K= athy Fagan in the spring 2009 chapbook contest. Her book will be available in wi= nter 2009/10. =20 To submit to the summer contest=2C please send 20-30 pages of your best writing (any genre) to: =20 Chapbook Contest 312 West Clark Street=2C Suite #1 Champaign=2C IL 61820 =20 We read manuscripts blind=2C so please include a separate cover sheet with your name=2C address=2C email=2C and phone number=2C being= sure to exclude any identifying information from the manuscript itself.=20 =20 Please include a check or money order payable to "NEW AMERICAN PRESS" in the amount of $12 for each submission and a SASE for contest results. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:11:51 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Penton Subject: MEZCLA: Art and Writings from the Tumblewords Project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Tumblewords Project is a weekly, non-academic creative writing workshop that's been running in the El Paso/ southern New Mexico area for fourteen years, under the curatorship of Donna Snyder. Their first anthology, /MEZCLA,/ is now on its way, filled with poetry, prose, and visual art! It's currently available for pre-order at http://shop.makeitnewmedia.com/ , but if you're in the area, you'll want to come to the official release: /MEZCLA: Art and Writings from the Tumblewords Project/ Book Release Party and Public Reading Downtown Library, Auditorium 501 Oregon, El Paso Saturday, August 29th, 2-4pm Hope to see you there! And check out /MEZCLA/'s MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/494475713 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:09:15 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit here's my take on LongestPoemInTheWorld.com: http://netpoetic.com/2009/08/longestpoemintheworld-com ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:25:24 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Has British Poetry had any significance since .... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" New blog post: "Has British Poetry had any significance since Wordsworth?" =20 This may seem an outlandish question, but I think it has some force=20 behind it. Of course, the influence of Wordsworth on contemporary=20 British mainstream poetry need hardly be stressed, and I have written=20 extensively about this elsewhere. It is because of this influence that=20= most of the celebrated British poetry of the Twentieth Century tended=20 towards mediocrity when compared to American poetry of the same=20 period..... http://jeffrey-side.blogspot.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:18:37 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: the ottawa small press boko fair, fall edition span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fair fall 2009 edition will be happening Saturday, November 28, 2009 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane). contact rob at az421@freenet.carleton.ca to sign up for a table, etc. "once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan & James Spyker invented a two-day event called the ottawa small press book fair, and held the first one at the National Archives of Canada..." Spyker moved to Toronto soon after the first one, but the fair continues, thanks in part to the help of generous volunteers, various writers and publishers, and the public for coming out to participate with alla their love and their dollars. General info: the ottawa small press book fair noon to 5pm (opens at 11:15am (NOTE NEW TIME) for exhibitors) admission free to the public. $20 for exhibitors, full tables $10 for half-tables (payable to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset St W, main floor, Ottawa Ontario K1R 6R7). note for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables. 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 considered & any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). also, 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, including (at previous events) Bywords, Dusty Owl, Chaudiere Books, above/ground press, Room 302 Books, The Puritan, The Ottawa Arts Review, Buschek Books, The Grunge Papers, Broken Jaw Press, BookThug, Proper Tales Press, and others. happens twice a year, founded in 1994 by rob mclennan & James Spyker. now run by rob mclennan thru span-o. questions, az421@freenet.carleton.ca 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.if you're able/willing to distribute posters/fliers for the fair, send me an email at az421@freenet.carleton.ca http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/08/ottawa-small-press-book-fair-fall-2009.html -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - a compact of words (Salmon) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:42:05 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?= Subject: The Isle of St. Kilda MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable _______________ On the 29th of August 2009, there will be a simultaneous festival of arts & cultural events in communities throughout Scotland. This multi-site festival will celebrate the ancient Gaelic culture of one of the world's truly spectacular places, the Isle of St. Kilda. http://www.stkilda.eu/st-kilda-day-2009/st-kilda-day-09-full-program Events are planned in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Berneray, the Isle of Harris, the Isle of Lewis, Perth, Argyll, Portree, & North Uist as well as South Uist. The Isle of St. Kilda lies 65 kilometres out into the Atlantic to the west of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The Isle of St. Kilda emerged from a huge volcano more than 50 million years ago & its vertical rock cliffs are dizzyingly tall. This festival of the Isle of St. Kilda, sponsored by Gaelic Arts & Pr=F2iseact nan Ealan, celebrates the place & the people of the Isle, their lives & their legacy in poetry & music & song, words & images, storytelling & film. (BBC ALBA will be showing a number of St. Kilda related programmes, so watch out for these in the run up to St. Kilda Day.) www.stkilda.eu Moran taing, S=E9amas Cain http://seamascain.writernetwork.com http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain _______________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:49:02 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: "Has British Poetry had any significance since Wordsworth?" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Not sure if I have already posted this here: New blog post: "Has British Poetry had any significance since Wordsworth?" This may seem an outlandish question, but I think it has some force behind it. Of course, the influence of Wordsworth on contemporary British mainstream poetry need hardly be stressed, and I have written extensively about this elsewhere. It is because of this influence that most of the celebrated British poetry of the Twentieth Century tended towards mediocrity when compared to American poetry of the same period..... http://jeffrey-side.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:31:05 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Subject: TRIBUTE TO DAVID BROMIGE Comments: To: Michael MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable TRIBUTE SHOW to DAVID BROMIGE August 26, 2009 7:00 p.m. Katherine Hastings presents a one-hour tribute to the late poet David = Bromige. The author of dozens of books and the recipient of many = literary honors, David Bromige was also a former Poet Laureate of Sonoma = County, a professor at Sonoma State University, and a mentor to many. = His experimental style and sharp wit translated to a large collection of = work so varied that the poems could easily be mistaken as the work of = many. Born in London in 1933, Bromige died in Sebastopol in June of = this year. Participating in tonight's program will be his wife, Cecelia = Belle, their daughter, Margaret, and others. Recordings of Bromige = reading his work will also be featured. To listen to the program: 1) Tune in to KRCB 91.1 FM 2) Stream live at www.krcb/org 3) iTunes: Go to Radio/Public/KRCB 4) Comcast Cable TV, Santa Rosa, Channel 961 =20 =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:39:03 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: cris cheek Subject: Re: TRIBUTE TO DAVID BROMIGE In-Reply-To: <014401ca24d0$4759b7a0$6401a8c0@LENOVOB39742E2> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cheer!!! On Aug 24, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Michael wrote: > TRIBUTE SHOW to DAVID BROMIGE > > August 26, 2009 7:00 p.m. > > Katherine Hastings presents a one-hour tribute to the late poet > David Bromige. The author of dozens of books and the recipient of > many literary honors, David Bromige was also a former Poet Laureate > of Sonoma County, a professor at Sonoma State University, and a > mentor to many. His experimental style and sharp wit translated to > a large collection of work so varied that the poems could easily be > mistaken as the work of many. Born in London in 1933, Bromige died > in Sebastopol in June of this year. Participating in tonight's > program will be his wife, Cecelia Belle, their daughter, Margaret, > and others. Recordings of Bromige reading his work will also be > featured. > > To listen to the program: > > 1) Tune in to KRCB 91.1 FM > > 2) Stream live at www.krcb/org > > 3) iTunes: Go to Radio/Public/KRCB > > 4) Comcast Cable TV, Santa Rosa, Channel 961 > > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ > welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:26:38 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: joe maneri MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit sad to announce the passing of joe maneri a great friend teacher composer and musician ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:37:10 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World In-Reply-To: <1dec21ae0908240852o6a3a1cb2j4aaf567277fcf5f0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Murat ion an essay on conecptual poetry i wrote that is gigantic production of wo= rds stands in the way of the concept-- to produce at the Paul Bunyesque dimensions of sheer colossal Million Year = Planning Programs (a nice pun in there!) defeats the conceptual by burryin git under masses of word waste . . . over= -production leading to over flowiing of garbage and then the need of barges= and places coerced into storing the endless verbiage . . . i think mr georghe in a sense distances himself fro these actions--or does= he--more than other so called coneptual poets (plus the work is hialrious = at first in the sense of poetry =2C poems now entering the Guinbess Books o= f Records--soon there wil be contest for the most boring poem=2C the worst = poem=2C the most politically correct poem=2C the poe wuith the most allusis= ons to onself=2C the absolutely most avanat poem andetc even the most stone= d or drunk poem! the DWI poem!=20 one of the problems of conceptual art arises here which is there were shows= of it back in the seventies where the verbiage explaining and accompanying= in some constrained manner perhaps--all of this verbiage dwarfed the actua= l object of production consumption and waste ( i can hear freddy fender singing "wasted days and wasted nights" for me an aspect of the conceptual works that are truly so=2C is to think o= f the millions and millions through human history who were a great poet or = artist and because (most primarily gender) were not allowed to write or pai= nt or create their own forms of dance=2C musics-- to me these conceptual works which find one when one is finding ones way al= ong--these are the truly conceptual works because they exist as concepts=2C= never realized and become the opposite of conceptual activity and bury it = in masses of words robert Smithson wrote that a great artists can create ar= t with a glance=2C and so the work is not trapped i an object=2C art object= which has to be judged in terms of value and time--with ignoring the artis= t's time being paramount-i believe in this very much a i various superconst= raining places and situation one is allowed to only make conceptual arts in= their purely conceptual stages there are some serious and interesting issues and ideas in thinking with th= e conceptul in relation to a "work" (in al the punning senses of the word) = of art--becuase the production contradicts the coneptual--one has to find a= different way than the sophistry or jokes bandied about re conceptual poet= ry. oh my God NO i didnt think of automatism the real ineterst in conceptual poertycan be such things as The Literature = of the No=2C to which i i am realting it in various ways-- i do think though every day of some great or just painter poet dancers who= can't work today in their media nor have been beeen bale to across the spa= ns of history this is why an connection with the Literature of the NO is important=2C bec= ause in a way its NO exists as Protest against the suppression=2C the enfor= ced no's-- superporouction is just what it always is -superproduction--leading basialy= to waste and pollution etc > Date: Mon=2C 24 Aug 2009 11:52:06 -0400 > From: muratnn@GMAIL.COM > Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > David=2C >=20 > I think process/procedure determined digital poems are longest-poems > producing machines. > Or a poem based on a number series stretching infinitely at both ends. He= re > a conceptual work leads to a plethora of words -a concept as a word > producing machine. >=20 > Did you think of the connection between longest-poems and machines=2C whi= ch > itself a "rationalization" of automatism=2C this surrealist tool afflicte= d > with cancer. >=20 > Ciao=2C >=20 > Murat >=20 >=20 > On Sat=2C Aug 22=2C 2009 at 7:32 AM=2C David Chirot wrote: >=20 > > A Paradox: that constraint based works are so often founded on the > > principle of producing the most "unconstrained" works--i.e. "Endless=2C= " > > "Longest=2C" maybe even someday the "Loudest" poem=2C like Blue Cheer's > > "primitive" (by today's sonic standards) late 60's/early 70's acid hard > > rock > > concept of "Louder than God." > > > > There is also something of the "inevitbale" about these constarint bas= ed > > works: > > > > For a moment i thought the Longest Poem might be something like the Bur= ma > > Shave jingles (many=2C oddly=2C very like some of the poetry of Charles > > Bernstein) which stretched from coast to coast--hence a long poem cover= ing > > thousands of miles . . . > > so this project would have as it's "inevitably" the meeting with the > > Oceans=2C > > something that Lautreamont i a strange way would understand: "O Ocean!" > > > > Another form of this inevitblilty that one finds in these lines i the > > "Longest Poem" is they express both a tritieness and a lack of suprise = in > > resoving by rhyme their dilemans. > > > > That is--do they not read i a small way like the Fates terribly at Work= ? > > > > Geleth Burgess in a 1968 Art Magaine article considered the Inevitbale > > from > > the point of view of the trite and the Bromide in "Are you a Bromide?" > > examiniing 48 "genuine cliches=2C" in thre Grand Tradition of Flaubert'= s > > Dictionairre des idees recues (Dictionary of Accepted/Rceived ideas.) > > writes: of=2Cfor example=2C "It's not the moeny=2C it's the priniple o= f the > > thing" that: > > "Iti s not merely because the remark is trite that itis Bromidic. Ot i= s > > because with the Bromide the remark is INEVITABLE." > > > > (Note: you can find Flaubert's Dictionary coupled with Ambrose Bierce's > > Devil's Dictionary being "serialized" letter by letter at > > http://davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com > > Also being "serialized" is Edward Bernays's classic work from 1928: > > Propaganda=2C and a series of poems=2C tales=2C etc from H.Chase's 1958= book of > > homophonic "translations"..I hope to "serialize more such works re > > language=2C > > writing=2C words letters etc including more texts re the language of ou= r > > times > > which is best expressed as the satuartion of it by/with > > Propaganda/advertising objectives. One of the misunderstaning of Corpor= ate > > State Fascism as it is devloping in the US's latest formsof Capitalism = is > > that the distinctions between advertsisng and Propaganda have been brok= en > > down. A book blurb can be read as an example of this=2C in which an id= eology > > of writing is combined an ideology of "buy this book"! And why buy > > it--because it is part and parcel of what is good for one--the deliciou= s > > fast food delights("You Are What You Eat") of propaganda-ads. Isn't th= at > > what this poem is about=2C "The Longest Poem?" And how about any poem o= ne may > > read today written in the USA? Is it not saturated by the ideologies o= f > > production-consumption-more-more-faster-faster--a bizarre echoing of th= e > > terms in Charles Olson's Projective Verse: One sense impression/breath= =2C > > letter=2C syllable=2C word=2C phrase=2C line following another=2C fast = =2C faster=2C > > citizen!--etc) > > II met once a Ukrainian poet who claimed to have written "The World's > > longest Palindrome=2C" helped by the fact that the Ukrainian language i= s > > apparently extraordinarily rich in palindromic possibilities. This > > "World's > > Longest Palindrome" was either 4 or 8 small pages folded together and d= one > > in fine type. (forgive the lapse in memory=2C what's left of it.) > > Bob Cobbing=2C when this pronouncement/announcement of the World's Long= est > > Palindrome was made clear to him became quite vividly and demonstrably > > antagonistic=2C saying=2C no no no!!!! HE had written the world's longe= st > > Palindrome because his was just a simple "round" that endless spun arou= nd > > and around as a form of linguistic perpetual motion machine=3B thus=2C = to be > > sure=2C being perpetual=2C it was "The World's Longest Palindrome." > > This Palindrome after all=2C being perpetual=2C would be the longest in= "Eternal > > Time=2C" while the "mere" Untrained Palindrome was only long in the num= ber of > > words=2C so that it's duration in time was far shorter. > > This conversation itself had a Palindromic quality to it in that a Russ= ian > > had to translate from Ukrainian to Russian for another Russian who > > translated from Russian to German which I then translated from German t= o > > English for Bob's reply=2C which then went "backwards" to its "original > > source=2C" the Ukrainian poet. > > This project by Mr Gheorghe (a Russian born "1005 Romanian) has also > > attarateced the attention of CNN=2C as one may see in the note below fr= om one > > of Mr Georghe's sites (he is also a radiot/tv star as well as a school > > teacher in Romania. > > Constraint based works often are very leaden in their effect=2C the "co= ncept" > > being productive of things only too inevitable=2C like the thudding > > tautologies say of"Conceptual Poetry" of the contemporary American kind > > (nothing like Conceptual Poetry in "reality"). > > I think Mr. Gheorghe's project is an example of the Fun/Funny side of t= he > > Constraint based work's put to use to illustarte as it were the > > Inevitability of the Bromidic running amok! > > > > > > > > =2C > > > > =93Longest Poem=94 featured on > > CNN.com > > > > The Longest Poem in the World = =2C my > > experiment that I previously told you > > aboutwas > > just featured in an article on > > CNN Technology. > > > > Strangers gather on Web to make collective > > art< > > http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/19/online.collaborative.art/index.h= tml > > > > > . > > > > Enjoy :) > > 6 comentarii< > > http://www.idevelop.ro/longest-poem-featured-on-cnn.htm#comments> > > Work =2C Programare > > web=2C > > General > > > > > > On Wed=2C Aug 19=2C 2009 at 8:26 PM=2C mIEKAL aND wrote: > > > > > The Longest Poem in the World > > > http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/ > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:25:41 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: The Longes Poem In The World MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Nope, not nearly as fun as the surrealist equisite corpse. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:57:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed rest in peace ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:20:35 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: longestpoemintheworld.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i read some responses to http://longestpoemintheworld.com that seemed to me to be missing its charms. the guy who made longestpoemintheworld.com doesn't even think of it as art, apparently. i think that's a mistake. it doesn't have to be sophocles to be art, mind you. there's all sorts of art from very serious to very silly, from tragic to comic, from high to low, from popular to cultish, from luddite to high-tech, from entertainment to the very hard to bear. in this piece, tweets are selected and pairs of them are selected to form a longer work and we ourselves try out the notion of different speakers amongst the lines. we know there's a different writer from line to line, but part of the interest of the piece is how we find it interesting to suppose otherwise, in some cases. the point being that what is composed here is not like a tweet or like journalism or whatever. it's art: it's made up/together, although the 'material' is the quotidian matter of a large, real-time, incoming database of micro-blog tweets. they guy who made this piece is obviously not particularly sophisticated concerning art or poetry. but he's on to something. don't read it expecting typical poetry. consider the source and the method and the author. it's surprising that it reads so interestingly. like, say, some of kenneth koch's book length rhyming works. he was very playful with his rhyming work. different from koch's work, also, of course, but the language is similarly um 'everyday'--although, as with koch's work, the rhyming is a source of delight and reversal, wonderful justaposition, resolution, and so on--all the magic of what rhyme can do to two lines. longestpoemintheworld.com was not even done by a serious poet. so, you know, don't get yer shirt in a knot. it is a literary piece of net art, though. and a surprisingly good one, all things considered. as i said, he's apparently on to something that the serious poets can learn from and put in their bag of tricks, in some sense. if you read it and all you can discern is the trite, well, that's a trite reading. the tweets are often trite, it's true. and the result of the rhyme amongst trite tweets is trite. but keep in mind that these things that are written via algorithm are such that we expect to 'throw away' stuff and look for the more interesting results. the interesting couplets are often quite poignant. or flashingly humourous. the work sometimes involves real pain, troubles, and situations and just a whole rainbow of attitudes toward them. one of the reasons i have put so much work into dbCinema is i am fascinated with the possibs involved in image search. you type something in and bingo there's a thousand (somehow) related images to what you typed in. images by people from around the world. a kind of a crazy mixed up global langu(im)agical lookup. there's something of the same spirit of that crazy mixed up but all too human collectivity in the method and madness of http://longestpoemintheworld.com . it gives us a strong sense of significance beyond the trite but certainly also involving the trite. don't be too scared of it. be not afraid of these spooky things. they are like wind chimes only not the spirit of the wind but our spirit blowing through the machine. ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:43:02 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: British Poetry Since Wordworth MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I've tried reading Geoffrey Hill. According to some, he's the most significant poet in the English language. But Elliot provided footnotes. Hill seems to think that everyone has a degree from either Cambridge or Oxford, or perhaps his poetry is only meant for those endowed with said degrees. Not that I mind the degree, but really, at least provide the "common" reader with footnotes. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:52:36 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Joel Weishaus Subject: "The Gateless Gate" Pages 31-32 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends and Colleagues: Here are pages 31-32 (one screen) of "The Gateless Gate": http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/Gate/Pgs%2031-32.htm Archive site: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Gate/Pgs%2031-32.htm=20 Introduction: http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/Gate/Intro.htm As always, thank you to those of you who have written to me on this = project.=20 -Joel =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:39:43 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: judith goldman Subject: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear all, Many thanks to those of you who responded to my query about examples of and critical writings on homophonic translation. I'd love to hear further, if any more of you have thoughts. Currently, I'm looking for books, essays, and articles--good, hardcore, worthwhile, useful pedagogically--on the theory of lyric poetry, from any period of history. (No such thing as too well known or obvious--and even poems that theorize the lyric would be great.) Works on contemporary experimental poetry would be especially appreciated, but please treat this request expansively. Anything on the web, too. All best, Judith Goldman ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:25:31 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Fw: Re: British Poetry Since Wordworth MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I once was clueless. I'm now clued in. & to think, a few decades ago I would have remained clueless and bitter, ig= norant without the bliss.=A0=20 --- On Wed, 8/26/09, Jacquilyn Weeks wrote: From: Jacquilyn Weeks Subject: Re: British Poetry Since Wordworth To: "steve russell" Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 3:26 PM The footnotes to Geoffrey Hill are the Oxford English Dictionary. He meant = it when he said "etymology is history."=A0Most of his poetry is based on mu= lti-layered=A0word play, and he always gives you some kind of hint that let= s you into the poem.=0A=0A=A0=0AFor example, the hint words in "September S= ong" are the dates set just below the title and the word "Zyklon." Once you= look that up (it's a cyanide gas invented by a German Jew as a pesticide -= he won the=A0Nobel for it in 1918--=A0used in the Nazi death chambers) the= n the rest of the poem starts popping out at you: "passed over" ("Passover"= ), "just" (meaning "justice," "only," "barely," etc.), flakes of ashes gett= ing into the poet's eye (making him cry?)=0A=0A=A0=0AYou don't really need = a degree, as much as the kind of mind that gets into crossword puzzles. Som= e people find this offputting - if you can think of the whole process as a = game, does that diminish the power of talking about the Holocaust? But Hill= would argue that language tends toward simplicity, and that linguistic ove= rsimplification is=A0a kind of fascism. Struggling through the possible mea= nings is a way of re-sensitizing ourselves to the dangers and possibilities= of language. It trains us not to be seduced or easily swayed by sloagy rhe= toric that simplifies things down to "Axis of Evil Bad, Us Good"=0A=0A=A0= =0AHope that helps,=0AJacqui Weeks=0A=A0=0A University of Notre Dame Department of English Gender Studies Predoctoral Teaching Fellow Internship Advisor/Research Workshop Coordinator Fairy Tale Network List Editor 325 O'Shaughnessy Hall =0ANotre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-8635=20 =0AOn Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:43 PM, steve russell = wrote: =0AI've tried reading Geoffrey Hill. According to some, he's the most signi= ficant poet in the English language. =0ABut Elliot provided footnotes. Hill seems to think that everyone has a degree from either Cambridge or Oxford, or perhaps his poetry is only meant for those endowed with said degrees. Not that I mind the degree, =0Abut really, at least provide the "common" reader with footnotes. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =0A =0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:50:01 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Short shrift skirting Copenhagen courtesy of Netfilmmakers 2009 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Short shrift skirting Copenhagen courtesy of Netfilmmakers 2009 http://www.alansondheim.org/copenhagen.mp4 About eleven minutes from the DVD, fun even with unruly compression ---- When later heard Yusef Lateef it was different, that was Copenhagen. And 1973-1974 I went to Europe with B___; we lived for a month in Copenhagen When later heard Yusef Lateef it was different, that was Copenhagen. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:26:52 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Robert Fernandez Subject: New from Cosa Nostra Editions Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Dear Friends of Cosa Nostra,=20 =20 We're proud to announce the release of Anthony Madrid's The 580 Strophes and Mary Hickman's How to Be Healthy & Heal, in addition to two broadsides: Benjamin Paloff's "Maimonides on Scriptural Passages with Seemingly Purposeless Contents" and Mary Hickman's "[The comets laugh...]." These letter-pressed items are now available at http://www.cosanostra-editions.com/.=20 =20 About the Authors =20 Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:36:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable yes, verbal clutter. verbal mud wrestling. the wicked verb -- to do what ex= actly?=20 the DWI poem.=20 did you mean the DUI poem, Dave? that's my invention. i'll copyright my next... the DUI poem: handcuffs, fingerprints ... how perfectly abstract, yet compl= etely transparant, revealing the very core of the artistic inner-self ... t= he self/help coffee book soon to follow, yes/yes/yes!!!!!!!!!! --- On Tue, 8/25/09, David-Baptiste Chirot wrote= : From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 6:37 PM Dear Murat ion an essay on conecptual poetry i wrote that is gigantic production of wo= rds stands in the way of the concept-- to produce at the Paul Bunyesque dimensions of sheer colossal Million Year = Planning Programs (a nice pun in there!) defeats the conceptual by burryin git under masses of word waste . . . over= -production leading to over flowiing of garbage and then the need of barges= and places coerced into storing the endless verbiage . . . i think mr georghe=C2=A0 in a sense distances himself fro these actions--or= does he--more than other so called coneptual poets (plus the work is hialr= ious at first in the sense of poetry , poems now entering the Guinbess Book= s of Records--soon there wil be contest for the most boring poem, the worst= poem, the most politically correct poem, the poe wuith the most allusisons= to onself, the absolutely most avanat poem andetc even the most stoned or = drunk poem! the DWI poem!=20 one of the problems of conceptual art arises here which is there were shows= of it back in the seventies where the verbiage explaining and accompanying= in some constrained manner perhaps--all of this verbiage dwarfed the actua= l object of production consumption and waste ( i can hear freddy fender singing=C2=A0 "wasted days and wasted nights" for me an aspect of the conceptual works that are truly so, is to think of = the millions and millions through human history who were a great poet or ar= tist and because (most primarily gender) were not allowed to write or paint= or create their own forms of dance, musics-- to me these conceptual works which find one when one is finding ones way al= ong--these are the truly conceptual works because they exist as concepts, n= ever realized and become the opposite of conceptual activity and bury it in= masses of words robert Smithson wrote that a great artists can create art = with a glance, and so the work is not trapped i an object, art object which= has to be judged in terms of value and time--with ignoring the artist's ti= me being paramount-i believe in this very much a i various superconstrainin= g places and situation one is allowed to only make conceptual arts in their= purely conceptual stages there are some serious and interesting issues and ideas in thinking with th= e conceptul in relation to a "work" (in al the punning senses of the word) = of art--becuase the production contradicts the coneptual--one has to find a= different way than the sophistry or jokes bandied about re conceptual poet= ry. oh my God NO i didnt think of automatism the real ineterst in conceptual poertycan be such things as The Literature = of the No, to which i i am realting it in various ways-- i do think though every day=C2=A0 of some great or just painter poet dancer= s who can't work today in their media nor have been beeen bale to across th= e spans of history this is why an connection with the Literature of the NO is important, becau= se in a way its NO exists as Protest against the suppression, the enforced = no's-- superporouction is just what it always is -superproduction--leading basialy= to waste and pollution etc > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:52:06 -0400 > From: muratnn@GMAIL.COM > Subject: Re: The Longest Poem in the World > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > David, >=20 > I think process/procedure determined digital poems are longest-poems > producing machines. > Or a poem based on a number series stretching infinitely at both ends. He= re > a conceptual work leads to a plethora of words -a concept as a word > producing machine. >=20 > Did you think of the connection between longest-poems and machines, which > itself a "rationalization" of automatism, this surrealist tool afflicted > with cancer. >=20 > Ciao, >=20 > Murat >=20 >=20 > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:32 AM, David Chirot wro= te: >=20 > >=C2=A0 A Paradox: that constraint based works are so often founded on th= e > > principle of producing the most "unconstrained" works--i.e. "Endless," > > "Longest," maybe even someday the "Loudest" poem, like Blue Cheer's > > "primitive" (by today's sonic standards) late 60's/early 70's acid hard > > rock > > concept of "Louder than God." > > > > There is also something=C2=A0 of the "inevitbale" about these constarin= t based > > works: > > > > For a moment i thought the Longest Poem might be something like the Bur= ma > > Shave jingles (many, oddly, very like some of the poetry of Charles > > Bernstein) which stretched from coast to coast--hence a long poem cover= ing > > thousands of miles . . . > > so this project would have as it's "inevitably" the meeting with the > > Oceans, > > something that Lautreamont i a strange way would understand: "O Ocean!" > > > > Another form of this inevitblilty that one finds in these lines i the > > "Longest Poem" is they express both a tritieness and a lack of suprise = in > > resoving by rhyme their dilemans. > > > > That is--do they not read i a small way like the Fates terribly at Work= ? > > > > Geleth Burgess in a 1968 Art Magaine=C2=A0 article considered the Inevi= tbale > > from > > the point of view of the trite and the Bromide in "Are you a Bromide?" > > examiniing 48 "genuine cliches," in thre Grand Tradition of Flaubert's > > Dictionairre des idees recues (Dictionary of Accepted/Rceived ideas.) > > writes:=C2=A0 of,for example, "It's not the moeny, it's the priniple of= the > > thing" that: > > "Iti s not merely because the remark is trite that itis Bromidic.=C2=A0= Ot is > > because with the Bromide the remark is INEVITABLE." > > > > (Note: you can find Flaubert's Dictionary coupled with Ambrose Bierce's > > Devil's Dictionary being "serialized" letter by letter at > > http://davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com > > Also being "serialized" is Edward Bernays's classic work from 1928: > > Propaganda, and a series of poems, tales, etc from H.Chase's 1958 book = of > > homophonic "translations"..I hope to "serialize more such works re > > language, > > writing, words letters etc including more texts re the language of our > > times > > which is best expressed as the satuartion of it by/with > > Propaganda/advertising objectives. One of the misunderstaning of Corpor= ate > > State Fascism as it is devloping in the US's latest formsof Capitalism = is > > that the distinctions between advertsisng and Propaganda have been brok= en > > down.=C2=A0 A book blurb can be read as an example of this, in which an= ideology > > of writing is combined an ideology of "buy this book"! And why buy > > it--because it is part and parcel of what is good for one--the deliciou= s > > fast food delights("You Are What You Eat")=C2=A0 of propaganda-ads. Isn= 't that > > what this poem is about, "The Longest Poem?" And how about any poem one= may > > read today written in the USA?=C2=A0 Is it not saturated by the ideolog= ies of > > production-consumption-more-more-faster-faster--a bizarre echoing of th= e > > terms in Charles Olson's Projective Verse:=C2=A0 One sense impression/b= reath, > > letter, syllable, word, phrase, line following another, fast , faster, > > citizen!--etc) > > II met once a Ukrainian poet who claimed to have written "The World's > > longest Palindrome," helped by the fact that the Ukrainian language is > > apparently extraordinarily rich in palindromic possibilities.=C2=A0 Thi= s > > "World's > > Longest Palindrome" was either 4 or 8 small pages folded together and d= one > > in fine type.=C2=A0 (forgive the lapse in memory, what's left of it.) > > Bob Cobbing, when this pronouncement/announcement of the World's Longes= t > > Palindrome was made clear to him became quite vividly and demonstrably > > antagonistic, saying, no no no!!!! HE had written the world's longest > > Palindrome because his was just a simple "round" that endless spun arou= nd > > and around as a form of linguistic perpetual motion machine; thus, to b= e > > sure, being perpetual, it was "The World's Longest Palindrome." > > This Palindrome after all, being perpetual, would be the longest in"Ete= rnal > > Time," while the "mere" Untrained Palindrome was only long in the numbe= r of > > words, so that it's duration in time was far shorter. > > This conversation itself had a Palindromic quality to it in that a Russ= ian > > had to translate from Ukrainian to Russian for another Russian who > > translated from Russian to German which I then translated from German t= o > > English for Bob's reply, which then went "backwards" to its "original > > source," the Ukrainian poet. > > This project by Mr Gheorghe (a Russian born "1005 Romanian) has also > > attarateced the attention of CNN, as one may see in the note below from= one > > of Mr Georghe's sites (he is also a radiot/tv star as well as a school > > teacher in Romania. > > Constraint based works often are very leaden in their effect, the "conc= ept" > > being productive of things only too inevitable, like the thudding > > tautologies say of"Conceptual Poetry" of the contemporary American kind > > (nothing like Conceptual Poetry in "reality"). > > I think Mr. Gheorghe's project is an example of the Fun/Funny side of t= he > > Constraint based work's put to use to illustarte as it were the > > Inevitability of the Bromidic running amok! > > > > > > > > , > > > >=C2=A0 =E2=80=9CLongest Poem=E2=80=9D featured on > > CNN.com > > > > The Longest Poem in the World , = my > > experiment that I previously told you > > aboutwas > > just featured in an article on > > CNN Technology. > > > > Strangers gather on Web to make collective > > art< > > http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/19/online.collaborative.art/index.h= tml > > > > > . > > > > Enjoy :) > > 6 comentarii< > > http://www.idevelop.ro/longest-poem-featured-on-cnn.htm#comments> > > Work , Programare > > web, > > General > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:26 PM, mIEKAL aND wro= te: > > > > > The Longest Poem in the World > > > http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/ > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:10:31 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Maria Damon Subject: Re: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre Comments: To: judith goldman In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I took a wonderful course on this very topic as a grad student, from Prof. David Wellbery. We read a lot of structuralist stuff, Jacobsen and Saussure, Michael Riffaterre, Walter Benjamin (on some motifs in baudelaire), Herder, schiller, the groupe Mu, de Man, Geoffrey Hartmann, i think J. Culler, Karl-Heinz Stierle, Hans-Robert Jauss, etc., Nicholas Greimas, Alexander Baumgarten, etc. I would also suggest the Preface to Lyrical Ballads... not to go too shameless on you, but some of the stuff in /Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader/ is pertinent... or I wonder if Wellbery (now at U-Chicago, your stomping ground) still has a syllabus on hand...it's from the 1980s, before computers, so he may not. judith goldman wrote: > Dear all, > Many thanks to those of you who responded to my query about examples of and > critical writings on homophonic translation. I'd love to hear further, if > any more of you have thoughts. > > Currently, I'm looking for books, essays, and articles--good, hardcore, > worthwhile, useful pedagogically--on the theory of lyric poetry, from any > period of history. (No such thing as too well known or obvious--and even > poems that theorize the lyric would be great.) Works on contemporary > experimental poetry would be especially appreciated, but please treat this > request expansively. Anything on the web, too. > > All best, > > Judith Goldman > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:10:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: John Steen Subject: Re: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Judith, The book I've found most helpful for my understanding of lyric is Allen Grossman's *The Sighted Singer*. The book consists of three parts, of which the first two are interviews between Grossman and his former student (now poet and scholar) Mark Halliday. The book's examples are mainly from the British tradition and the American 20th century, but Grossman derives his theory of lyric with reference to classical models. Grossman's essays in *The Long Schoolroom* and, more recently, *True-Love: Essays on Poetry and Value*, give some examples of the theory at work in the reading of various poets. Another great, and very teachable, article is Jonathan Culler's short piece, "Apostrophe." [Diacritics 7.4 (Winter 1977): 59-69.] Finally,* The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics* article on lyric is a nice overview of lyric poetry's development as a genre from Greece to the present, and I mined its extensive bibliography of works on poetic theory in composing lists for my Ph.D exams. Best, John ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:22:50 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Tod Edgerton Subject: Re: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Judith, I'm composing a list on the theory of the lyric, too, so far only m= odern/contemporary, but interested in all periods, as well. If others can p= lease forward me titles, as well, I'd appreciate it. Here's what I have now= (sorry, it's not in proper bibilographic format):=0A=0A=0ACharles Altieri.= Subjective=0AAgency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and Its Social = =0AImplications =0A =0A________. Self and Sensibility in Contemporary Ameri= can Poetry=0A =0ACharles Bernstein. Content=E2=80=99s Dream: Essays 1975-19= 84=0A =0A________, ed. Close Listening=0A =0AJacob Blevin, ed. Dialogism an= d Lyric Self-Fashioning: Bakhtin and the Voices of a Genre=0A =0AHarold Blo= om. The Anxiety of Influence; Map of Misreading; Agon=0A =0ASharon Cameron.= Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre=0A =0ABrian Conniff. The Lyr= ic and Modern Poetry: Olson, Creeley, Bunting =0A =0AJoseph Conte. Unendi= ng Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry=0A =0AMichael Davidson: Ghostlier= Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word=0A =0ARobert Duncan, Sel= ected Prose=0A =0ARachel Blau DuPlessis, The Pink Guitar: Writing as Femini= st Practice=0A =0ACleanth Brooks. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Stru= cture of Poetry=0A =0AWilliam Empson. Seven Types of Ambiguity=0A =0AForres= t Gander. A Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory, and Transcendence =0A =0AD= ana Gioia, =E2=80=9CCan Poetry Matter?=E2=80=9D (Title chapter of the book = only)=0ALinda Gregerson. Negative=0ACapability: Contemporary American Poetr= y=0ALyn Hejinian. =E2=80=9CBarbarism=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CThe=0ARejection = of Closure,=E2=80=9D The Language of=0AInquiry. =0A =0AChaviva Hosek and Pa= tricia Parker, eds. Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism=0A =0AFanny Howe. Th= e Wedding Dress=0A =0AMark Jeffreys, ed.New Definitions of Lyric: Theory, T= echnology, and Culture=0A =0AW. R. Johnson. The Idea of Lyric: Lyric Modes = in Ancient=0Aand Modern Poetry=0A =0ALinda A. Kinnahan. Lyric Interventions= : Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary =0A Discour= se=0A =0AMelissa Kwasny, ed. Toward the Open Field: Poets on Poetry=0A1800-= 1950=0A=E2=80=A2 William Wordsworth =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CPreface=E2=80=9D to = the second edition of Lyrical Ballads=0A=E2=80=A2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge = =E2=80=93 Chapter 14, Biographia=0ALiteraria=0A=E2=80=A2 =E2=80=9COn Poesie= and Art=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 John Keats =E2=80=93 Selected Letters=0A=E2= =80=A2 Percy Bysshe Shelley =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CA Defense of Poetry=E2=80=9D= =0A=E2=80=A2 Ralph Waldo Emerson =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CThe Poet=E2=80=9D=0A=E2= =80=A2 Walt Whitman =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CPreface=E2=80=9D to the first editio= n of Leaves of Grass=0A=E2=80=A2 Emily Dickinson =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CLetters= to Thomas Wentworth Higginson=0A=E2=80=A2 Gerard Manley Hopkins =E2=80=93 = =E2=80=9CAuthor=E2=80=99s Preface=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 Charles Baudelaire = =E2=80=93 The Painter of=0AModern Life, Parts I-IV=0A=E2=80=A2 Arthur Rimba= ud =E2=80=93 The =E2=80=9CVoyant=E2=80=9D Letter=0A=E2=80=A2 St=C3=A9phan M= allarm=C3=A9 =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CCrisis in Verse=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 Andr= =C3=A9 Breton =E2=80=93 Manifesto of Surrealism=0A=E2=80=A2 Federico Garcia= Lorca =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CTheory and Function of the Duende=E2=80=9D=0A=E2= =80=A2 Paul Val=C3=A9ry =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CPoetry of Abstract Thought=E2=80= =9D=0A=E2=80=A2 Aim=C3=A9 C=C3=A9saire =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CPoetry and Knowle= dge=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 Ezra Pound =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CA Retrospect=E2=80= =9D=0A=E2=80=A2 T.S. Elliot =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CTradition and the Individual= Talent=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 Mina Loy =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CModern Poetry=E2= =80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 Langston Highes =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CThe Negro Artist and = the Racial Mountain=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 Louis Zukofsky =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9C= An Objective=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 Gertrude Stein =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CPoetry = and Grammar=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 Wallace Stevens =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CThe Nob= le Rider and the Sound of Words=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 Marianne Moore =E2=80= =93 =E2=80=9CFeeling and Precision=E2=80=9D=0A=E2=80=A2 William Carlos Will= iams =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CAuthor=E2=80=99s Introduction,=E2=80=9D The Wedge= =0A=E2=80=A2 Charles Olson =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CProjective Verse=E2=80=9D=0A = =0AAnne Lauterbach. =E2=80=9CAs (It) Is:=0AToward a Poetics of the Whole Fr= agment,=E2=80=9D The=0ANight Sky =0A=0A=0AHank Lazer. Lyric & Spirit =0A = =0A_________.Opposing Poetries, Vol. I and Vol. II=0A =0ADenise Levertov. = =E2=80=9CNotes on Organic Form=E2=80=9D=0A =0ANathanial Mackey. Discrepant = Engagements; Paracritical Hinge=0A =0AEva M=C3=BCller-Zettelmann and Margar= ete Rubik, eds. Theory into Poetry: New =0A Approaches to the= Lyric =0A =0ACarrie Noland. Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Chal= lenge of Technology=0A =0AGeorge Oppen. =E2=80=9CThe Mind=E2=80=99s Own Pla= ce=E2=80=9D; Daybooks=0A =0AMichael Palmer. Active Boundaries =0A =0AMarjo= rie Perloff. =E2=80=9CPostmodernism and the Impasse of Lyric,=E2=80=9D Danc= e of the Intellect: Poetry of the Pound Tradition=0A =0A_______.Poetic Lice= nse: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric=0A =0AEzra Pound, ABC of R= eading, =E2=80=9CA Retrospect,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CVorticism=E2=80=9D=0A =0AJ= ed Rasula. Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American = Poetry=0A =0ASusan Rosenbaum. Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry,=0A= Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading=0A =0ALeslie Scalapino. Synta= ctically Impermanence=0A =0AJack Spicer, Vancouver Lectures=0A =0ARon Silli= man. The New Sentence =0A =0AGertrude Stein. How to Write =0A_____________.= Lectures in America=0A =0AWallace Stevens. Necessary Angel=0A =0ASusan Ste= wart. Poetry and the Fate of the Senses =0A =0ADaniel Tiffany. Toy Medium: = Materialism and Modern Lyric =0A =0ANathaniel Tarn. Embattled Lyric=0A =0AH= elen Vendler, The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics=0A =0ARobert= Von Hallberg. Lyric Powers=0A =0AWC Williams. In the American Grain =0A = =0ARosmarie Waldrop. Dissonance (if you please)=0A =0ARosanna Warren. Fable= s of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry=0A =0AWilliam Waters. Poetry=E2=80= =99s Touch: On Lyric Address=0A =0AAndrew Welsh. Roots of Lyric: Primitive = Poetry and Modern Poetics=0AAll best,=0A=0ATod=0A=0A=0A Michael Tod Edgerto= n=0A_______________________=0A=0AIf the challenge of our time is the challe= nge of empathy, to make an empathetic relation; that is, to see another per= son, to feel their pain, story, whatever--that--that how can a poetic mater= ial making be part of--of that? =0A=0A~ Ann Hamilton, in an interview abo= ut her installation, Indigo Blue=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A_________________________= _______=0AFrom: judith goldman =0ATo: POETICS@LIS= TSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0ASent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:39:43 PM=0ASubject: = Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre=0A=0ADear all,=0AMany thanks to th= ose of you who responded to my query about examples of and=0Acritical writi= ngs on homophonic translation. I'd love to hear further, if=0Aany more of = you have thoughts.=0A=0ACurrently, I'm looking for books, essays, and artic= les--good, hardcore,=0Aworthwhile, useful pedagogically--on the theory of l= yric poetry, from any=0Aperiod of history. (No such thing as too well know= n or obvious--and even=0Apoems that theorize the lyric would be great.) Wo= rks on contemporary=0Aexperimental poetry would be especially appreciated, = but please treat this=0Arequest expansively. Anything on the web, too.=0A= =0AAll best,=0A=0AJudith Goldman=0A=0A=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0AThe Po= etics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub= /unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:45:13 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: David Chirot: This Week at New Post Literate : Comments: cc: Michael Jacobson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com this week 's gallery feature the work of david chirot This is a very amazing project of/ Michael Jacobson's' in which each week he features a different Visual Poet, Artist, Poet's pieces made with a sense of conveying their consideration of "what IS the new post literature" and also just what is asemic writing, or the role of asemic writing-- in relation with this? Since everyone may well have different approaches quite various and wide ranging, the way Michael is giving a week each to the works helps present this swarming cosmos of possibilities--as an open one, rather than an apriori categorically divided and defined "New Post Literature" which is instead an area of excavation, investigation divigation and Anarkeyological Expo- and Explosivagation-- ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:07:57 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "@ Howler’s=". Rest of header flushed. From: crystal hoffman Subject: August 30th Poetry Cabaret -- TypewriterGirls Gone Biblical MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable TypewriterGirls Gone Biblical=C2=A0 Sunday August 30th=0A@ Howler=E2=80=99s= Coyote Cafe in Pittsburgh, PA=0A=0A =0AOn Sunday August 30th, The TypewriterGirls Poetry Cabaret=0Awill be feat= uring some of Pittsburgh=E2=80=99s most dedicated and established=0Amembers= of the arts and literary community for an end of summer poetry=0Aand varie= ty show at Bloomfield=E2=80=99s Howler=E2=80=99s Coyote Caf=C3=A9.=0AIn add= ition to the TypewriterGirls=E2=80=99 array of whiskey and typewriter=0Agam= es, the evening will feature an Exquisite Corpse typewriter turned=0ABible = Machine by artist Dave English, magic, classic and punk rock=0Aburlesque da= ncing, and music from the accordion player and avant-garde=0Aperformance ar= tist, Steve Pellegrino, and readings from poets Nancy=0AKrygowski and Sandr= a Beasley and fiction writer Sherrie Flick.=0AThe evening=E2=80=99s theatri= cs will take the=0Aaudience of a whirlwind adventure through the Bible, as = Crystal and=0AMargaret attempt to =E2=80=9Cfix=E2=80=9D some of our favorit= e biblical tales, as well=0Aas some of the more obscure ones. Will the Type= writerGirls succeed in=0Atheir attempts to stop the Jews from declaring a k= ing or Jesus from=0Adamning the fig tree? Either way, the whiskey=E2=80=99s= free.=0AHowler=E2=80=99s Coyote Caf=C3=A9, 4509 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh= , PA=0ASunday, August 30th Doors Open at 7:00pm / Show begin= s at 7:30pm=0ACost: $5.00=0AMore Info: www.typewritergirls.net=0AFeatured P= erformer Bios:=0ASandra Beasley is the author of two poetry collections. I = Was the=0AJukebox was selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the 2009 Barna= rd=0AWomen Poets Prize and will be published in April 2010. Her first=0Acol= lection, Theories of Falling, was selected by Marie Howe as the=0Awinner of= the New Issues Poetry Prize and published in April 2008. Her=0Apoems have = also been featured in Verse Daily and in journals such as=0APOETRY, SLATE, = The Believer, AGNI online, 32 Poems, Blackbird, and=0ABlack Warrior Review.= She lives in Washington, D.C., where she writers=0Aperiodically for the Wa= shington Post Magazine and is at work on Don=E2=80=99t=0AKill the Birthday = Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, forthcoming from=0ACrown. She also serve= s on the Board of the Writer=E2=80=99s Center and as the=0ALiterary Chair f= or the Arts Club of Washington.=0ASherrie Flick is author of the award-winn= ing flash fiction chapbook=0AI CALL THIS FLIRTING (Flume Press, 2004). Anth= ologies include, NEW=0ASUDDEN FICTION (Norton, 2007) and FLASH FICTION FORW= ARD (Norton, 2006).=0AIn 2007 she received a Pennsylvania Council on the Ar= ts individual=0Aartist fellowship. She lives in Pittsburgh where she is a f= reelance=0Awriter/editor and co-founder and artistic director of the Gist S= treet=0AReading Series (www.giststreet.org). In Fall 2009, her first novel,= =0ARECONSIDERING HAPPINESS, will be published by University of Nebraska=0AP= ress.=0ANancy Krygowski=E2=80=99s book of poems, Velocity, won the 2006 Agn= es Lynch=0AStarrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. S= he=E2=80=99s=0Areceived grants from the PA Council on the Arts and from the= Pittsburgh=0AFoundation, plus residencies at the Jentel Foundation and The= Kimmel=0ANelson Harding Center for the Arts. She works as an adult literac= y=0Ainstructor. (krygo.homeip.net)=0AStephen Pellegrino has been creating e= xperimental and=0Ainter-disciplinary performance works since 1975. He has b= een the=0Arecipient of numerous grants, commissions, and residencies. Since= the=0Aearly 80=E2=80=99s he has been engaged in an ongoing multi-sectional= work=0Acalled DRYWALL. The impetus behind this series is the integration o= f=0Ahis bread labor as a plasterer and his shamanistic role as an artist.= =0AAn entire mythos and culture is built on this construction milieu,=0Auti= lizing tools and process as the basis for rituals, music and=0Adance/moveme= nt sections.=0ADave English combines puppetry and low brow art to create=0A= humorous performances and exhibits. He moved back to his home of=0APittsbur= gh, PA from Prague, CZ in 2005 and re-immersed himself as an=0Aartist. Dave= is proud to be a stop on Pittsburgh=E2=80=99s shoestring network=0Aof do-i= t-yourself creative culture.=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:21:11 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Maria Damon Subject: Re: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit another really good piece is eve sedgwick's A Poem is Being Written, which posits the lyric as instrument and representation of bourgeois family discipline, through the word "enjambement" which, in typical brilliant fashion, she sexualizes as straddling and being spanked. judith goldman wrote: > Dear all, > Many thanks to those of you who responded to my query about examples of and > critical writings on homophonic translation. I'd love to hear further, if > any more of you have thoughts. > > Currently, I'm looking for books, essays, and articles--good, hardcore, > worthwhile, useful pedagogically--on the theory of lyric poetry, from any > period of history. (No such thing as too well known or obvious--and even > poems that theorize the lyric would be great.) Works on contemporary > experimental poetry would be especially appreciated, but please treat this > request expansively. Anything on the web, too. > > All best, > > Judith Goldman > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:52:09 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nico Vassilakis Subject: SubText Reading: Martin Corless-Smith & Brandon Shimoda MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 for more info: =20 http://subtextreadingseries.blogspot.com/ =20 wednesday=2C sept 2nd=2C 7:30pm =20 =20 thanks for your time=2C =20 =20 n =20 =20 =20 _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=3DMSHYCB&publ=3DWLHMTAG&crea=3DTEXT_MSHYC= B_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:05:08 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Deborah Poe Subject: for those of you who write fiction, and looking for yoko tawada's email address MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 (Aplogies for x-posting) Hello All, I've joined *Drunken Boat *(http://www.drunkenboat.com/db10/08poe/) as fiction editor. For those of you who write fiction (or know writers who do), we are reopening submissions in September. Also, I would like to email Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. In the off chance that you have her email address, can you pass along to me? I'd be grateful. Kind regards, Deborah Poe http://deborahpoe.com/bio.htm ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:43:52 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Scott Howard Subject: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit _Dialogism and Lyric Self-Fashioning: Bakhtin and the Voices of a Genre_ (Susquehanna UP, 2008) covers the spectrum of lyric poetry/poetics from Sappho to Stevens and Jayne Cortez. /// ----- Original Message ----- From: judith goldman Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:56 am Subject: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Dear all, > Many thanks to those of you who responded to my query about examples > of and > critical writings on homophonic translation. I'd love to hear > further, if > any more of you have thoughts. > > Currently, I'm looking for books, essays, and articles--good, hardcore, > worthwhile, useful pedagogically--on the theory of lyric poetry, from > any > period of history. (No such thing as too well known or obvious--and > even > poems that theorize the lyric would be great.) Works on contemporary > experimental poetry would be especially appreciated, but please treat > this > request expansively. Anything on the web, too. > > All best, > > Judith Goldman > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:05:45 -0700 Reply-To: gfrym@earthlink.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gloria Frym Subject: Re: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Have a look at a study of the lyric by W. R. Johnson, /The Idea of Lyric /(University of California Press, 1982). He's a classics scholar, and such a graceful thinker and writer. There is David Lindley's, /Lyric,/ published by Methuen in 1985, and Adena Rosmarin's /The Power of Genre,/ University of Minnesota Press, 1985. Just noticed how these 3 texts saw publication during the ascendancy of the New Narrative. Don' forget Wordworth's "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads." Best, Gloria Frym judith goldman wrote: > Dear all, > Many thanks to those of you who responded to my query about examples of and > critical writings on homophonic translation. I'd love to hear further, if > any more of you have thoughts. > > Currently, I'm looking for books, essays, and articles--good, hardcore, > worthwhile, useful pedagogically--on the theory of lyric poetry, from any > period of history. (No such thing as too well known or obvious--and even > poems that theorize the lyric would be great.) Works on contemporary > experimental poetry would be especially appreciated, but please treat this > request expansively. Anything on the web, too. > > All best, > > Judith Goldman > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.70/2329 - Release Date: 08/27/09 08:11:00 > > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:43:10 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Hazel Smith Subject: Hello and soundsRite Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dear folks I have just rejoined this list after a lengthy absence. It is good to be back!! Some of you may be interested in the journal soundRite, a journal of new media writing and sound at http://soundsrite.uws.edu.au/ co-edited by Roger Dean and me. Volume One is accumulating and so far includes work by Jason Nelson, Nannette Wylde and Daniel Blinkhorn, and a collaboration by Roger Dean, Anne Brewster and me. See the more extended blurb below. The journal soundsRite, at http://soundsrite.uws.edu.au/, was established in 2009 at the University of Western Sydney and is co-edited by Prof. Hazel Smith (Writing and Society Research Group, UWS) and Prof. Roger Dean (MARCS Auditory Laboratories, UWS). soundsRite is online and open access and publishes selected new media work which includes words or sound or both. It features generative, interactive and multi-channel sound pieces; writing which is kinetic, generative or interactive; and pieces which combine text, sound and image. The soundsRite site also archives an earlier multimedia journal, infLect, founded and edited by Hazel Smith at the University of Canberra (2003-2007). The focus of infLect was new media writing. Prof. Hazel Smith Writing and Society Research Group College of Arts (Bankstown 1.1.163) UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY Locked Bag 1797 Penrith South DC NSW 1797 tel: 9772 6400 email: hazel.smith@uws.edu.au See also my webpage at www.australysis.com The Erotics of Geography: poetry, performance texts, new media works http://www.tinfishpress.com/erotics.html Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts http://www.eupjournals.com/book/9780748636297 The Writing Experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing http://www.allenandunwin.com/writingexp/book.htm ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:27:40 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Richard Jeffrey Newman Subject: Northeast Modern Language Association Call for Papers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I am organizing a panel for the Northeast Modern Language =20 Association's annual conference, April 7-11, 2010, in Montreal. (These =20= are the same dates as AWP, I know, but in the event there's someone on =20= this list who won't be going to AWP, but might have something for =20 NeMLA, I am posting this here. I am just organizing the panel. I will =20= be at AWP.) Here's the call: Non-Western Literatures in Translation The act of literary translation raises by definition the question of =20 how the target culture frames the language and culture of the text to =20= be translated. This issue, often unexamined, can determine not only =20 which texts from which languages are chosen for translation, but also =20= what the relationship between the translation and the original text is =20= understood to be. Nineteenth century British and American translators =20= of classical Iranian poetry, for example, often portrayed themselves =20 quite explicitly as improving on what they understood to be the =20 =93oriental=94 defects of the poets they were working with. This stance =20= finds its roots in British colonial rule of India, where Persian was =20 the language of the Moghul courts, and the idea that, if only the =20 British could understand Persian and the psychology it embodied, they =20= could make themselves more effective colonial rulers. The history of =20 the translation into English of other non-Western literatures--=20 including those we now consider Western, like classical Greek--is =20 fraught with similar kinds of bias, as are contemporary assumptions =20 about the value non-Western literatures hold for us. Keeping in mind =20 the fact that less than 3% of all the books published in the United =20 States in any given year are literary translations, and the fact that =20= publishing at all levels is a business that both creates and responds =20= to its market, this panel seeks to examine the issues confronting the =20= translation of non-Western literatures, from classical to =20 contemporary, into English. While we would like the emphasis to be on =20= languages that are not already commonly translated (Japanese and =20 Chinese, among others), we welcome proposals concerning any non-=20 Western language. We encourage a variety of perspectives--from authors =20= of texts that have been translated (or texts in search of a =20 translation), translators, scholars, publishers--and would prefer to =20 have papers addressing a range of time periods. Topics might include =20 the linguistic and cultural challenges of translating non-Western =20 languages, what we learn from the history of the translation of a =20 given work or body of work, translation success stories, the =20 challenges of publishing literary translations of non-Western =20 languages, or why a given work or body of work deserves more =20 attention--scholarly and otherwise--than it has been given. We also =20 look forward to being surprised by ideas that have not occurred to us. Please respond to me backchannel: richard.newman@ncc.edu Thanks, Rich Newman= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:07:10 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nate Dorward Subject: Reminder: cris cheek/Barnyard Drama, Saturday Aug 29, Toronto MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (Apologies in advance if you get this multiple times....) * Aug.29 in Toronto: A poetry/sound/multimedia performance-- *cris cheek *(London/US) + *Barnyard Drama *[Christine Duncan/Jean Martin] (Toronto) 8pm, at Somewhere There Live Creative Music in Toronto 340 Dufferin Street - one block South of Queen Street ** entrance from Melbourne Ave. ** www.somewherethere.org $8 cover, or free admission if you purchase cris's new book *part: short life housing *(specially priced for this event at $16!) *ABOUT CRIS CHEEK: *cris cheek is a sound artist, poet, photographer, mixed-media practitioner and interdisciplinary performer, whose works have been commissioned and shown locally and trans-locally, in multiple versions using diverse media for their production and circulation. Born in London in 1955, he lived and worked there until the early 1990s, a performance writer very much a part of what was going on with poetry in that capital city. His musical collaborations include Slant (a trio with Phillip Jeck and Sianed Jones) and Garam Masala; he also collaborated in 1999-2007 with Kirsten Lavers on the cross-disciplinary project Things Not Worth Keeping ( www.thingsnotworthkeeping.com) . He currently lives in the southwest Ohio River Valley. cris=92s most recent book is *part: short life housing *(Toronto: The Gig, 2009), a collection of six texts from the 1980s and 1990s, including =93canning town chronicles,=94 a scathing set of verbal accretions that eme= rged from the wreckage of the Thatcher era; and =93f o g s,=94 a series of typestracts quarried from verbal improvisations recorded during outdoor walks in densely foggy weather. For more info contact: Nate Dorward 109 Hounslow Ave., North York, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada nate.dorward@gmail.com - 416 221 6865 * RECENT PUBLICATIONS: cris cheek, PART: SHORT LIFE HOUSING Trevor Joyce, WHAT'S IN STORE ANTIPHONIES: Essays on Women's Experimental Poetries in Canada More information at www.ndorward.com/poetry/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:14:19 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: "Breaking New Ground" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed "Breaking New Ground" 3 new cobza pieces: "Breaking New Ground" http://www.alansondheim.org/cobzamorning.mp3 "Breaking New Ground" http://www.alansondheim.org/cobzanoon.mp3 "Breaking New Ground" http://www.alansondheim.org/cobzanight.mp3 "Breaking New Ground" Hear the cobza "as you have never heard it before" "Breaking New Ground" Note - copenhagen.mp4 will go down in a day ("too large!) ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:07:40 -0700 Reply-To: ceav@ceav.us Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: red slider Organization: Advocates for the 21st Century Subject: Songs from Childhood MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Less than a year after Pearl Harbor and within the first week of entering school, my wife, who grew up in a small village on Big Island, recalls being taught the following school song, The Pearl Harbor Song I remember Pearl Harbor As we go to meet the foe. Let's remember Pearl Harbor As we did the Alamo. We will always remember How they died for liberty. Lets remember Pearl Harbor And go on to victory! She was five-years old at the time. It was sung every morning, right after the Pledge of Allegiance. It has a rather charming , slightly haunting, little melody. If I didn't know better, I would have said it was a Roy Orbison tune ('Crying'? It's 'Over'?.) I wonder if anyone knows, or can find out, the counterpart to these lyrics that was being sung by the school children of Japan at that time? I do know that one group of young Japanese children from the Mie Prefecture had hung an American soldier's uniform from a tree and would throw rocks at it as they passed by on their way to and from school. But, surely, they must have had some 'official' song that they sang each morning under the rising sun (and did they also have a 'Pledge of Allegiance', I don't know?) - thanx in advance, red ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:56:19 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Re: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre In-Reply-To: <4A96CC17.8030005@umn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Judith Goldman: forgive me if these have been mentioned already *Edgar Allan Poe: "Philosophy of Composition"* one of the most influential essays/theories on poetry internationally of the last 150+ years *Vladimir Mayakovsky: How Are Verses Made?* Maaykovsky, a great lyric poet in his Futurist phase, now a Marxist Poet of the Revolution--writes a great first section on the waysin which he composes from an iinitial sound or beat onward, and that material is everywhere--not unlike WC Williams' "a poem can be made of anything" but of course with a different direction in mind than WCW--"a poem to be a poem after all must have a direct"--wcw) the later parts of the book are an attack on thelyricism of Sergei Esenin's suicide poem--by attacking thelyricism Mayakiovsky proovides an excellent guidebook to the lements of lyricism--and completes the work with a poemof his own addressed to Esenin's (ironically to be sure Mayakovksy also committed suicide, for which he had berated Esenin; lyricism won in the end" The Boat of Love has Crashed"--) Kurt Schwitters' short statements re the formof lyricism one finds in his sound poetry and esp "Anna Blue" "We aspire to Birdsong" and a multitude of other pieces on this--by Bob Cobbing--the lyricism of pure sound poetry Henri Chopin's essays & statements--another exploration of the lyric in terms of sound poetry Paul Celan--among his speeches in the 1960's and statements by him, a profound meditation on the lyric poem Also texts by Willis Barnstone and Ann Carson for example on the Greek lyric poetry, especially on Sappho but also re Archilocus--one of the great inventers of Western poetry's history and meters, forms-- The Greeks, after all, invented Lyric poetry--personally i always find Sappho to be the greatest of al lyric poets, even in a translation and infrgaments, there is no voice, no lyric voice that is so piercing,so intense, so specific and of "sweetbitter eros" I don't know specific examples, but there must be some good works re Shakespeare's lyrical poetry in the Sonnets.esp. Also, scattered among the plays one finds some statements of "Shakespeare's" (vis his characters) ideas of the lyric-- I am sure this must have been noted, but Garicia Lorce's essay on"Duende" There are writings in some collections of works in which, by attacking the lyric, Nicanor Parra brings to it a good form of definition and outline, against this impulse, particularly in Spanish Language poetry to which he counters with "Anti-Poetry" A great many poets express ideas and their own examples of lyricism in their works and scattered writings, notes--for examples, Jack Spicer, Stephen Jonas, Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka The importance of the Greeks Rimbaud recognizes in the letter to Izambard in which he says the poerty of the Future wil be like the Greeks, except that in it poetry will precede action, the opposite of Aristotle's formulation, and on the most influentil ideas on poets such as Charles Olson's Projective Verse, in which the poem is to be the action. I believe Rimbaud actually lif=ved this: his poetry and prosepoems describe ahead of time very precisely much of his life after he stopped writing poetry. As Rimbaud told his mother, when she asked him what "Saison en enfer" (A Season in Hell)--meant-- (afte rall, she had the right to this having paid for the book's publication , most of it--) "It means what it says literally and in every sense." An interesting question to pose is, beyond the technical, what are the aspects of lyricism which contemporary American poets are "against"? What is the idea of the lyric? That's why one starts with the Greeks, who invented. The significance among a great many, is that for the first time in Western poetry an actaul specific individual is "giving voice" "aspiring to bird song"-- and which for me is why many forms of Sound Poetry are related with the Lyric-- Also: is the Lyric purely "about a self"? Isn't it far more complex than this? (One may see how complex by the doubts about it by poets such as Parra and Mayakovsky, who are moving aggsint the wieghtof the hegemonioc impulse in their cultures of a certain time period, as the societies themselves are in upheaval--) Are not many poems and poetries with claims to the lyric not really Lyric in the strict sense of this? Doesn't the Lyric have to have a very tensile tactile strength to it that so called lyric poets in vast numbers lack? The real challenge, as celan notes, is to use a language which has undergone an extremity and yet survived, found itself, existing, and then--to work with this surviving an mutable language-- To me Celan's writings are a stark contrast to the statement of Adorno's so often misquoted re that after Auschwitz there can be nor more lyric poetry --or might there not be, after all? ,iI's continued underground existence --the great lyricist Orpheus' journey to the Underworld, land of the dead--during extremities so that it is not dead but endures as Celan writes, as a changed language yet--not incapable of the lyric-- .Celan in some aspects is taking up where perhaps Trakl literally "left off" in his great works of lyricism confronting the insanity of slaughter in the First World War's Eastern Front. also as a question-- why is the Lyric poem the longest continually existing form of poetry in Wester literature since the Greeks? is it in part due to its relationships often with extremities? and that extremities are a good bit of life's living? "Between grief and nothing, I will take grief" --Faulkner, last words of The Wild Palms On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Maria Damon wrote: > I took a wonderful course on this very topic as a grad student, from Prof. > David Wellbery. We read a lot of structuralist stuff, Jacobsen and > Saussure, Michael Riffaterre, Walter Benjamin (on some motifs in > baudelaire), Herder, schiller, the groupe Mu, de Man, Geoffrey Hartmann, i > think J. Culler, Karl-Heinz Stierle, Hans-Robert Jauss, etc., Nicholas > Greimas, Alexander Baumgarten, etc. I would also suggest the Preface to > Lyrical Ballads... > not to go too shameless on you, but some of the stuff in /Poetry and > Cultural Studies: A Reader/ is pertinent... > or I wonder if Wellbery (now at U-Chicago, your stomping ground) still has > a syllabus on hand...it's from the 1980s, before computers, so he may not. > > > judith goldman wrote: > >> Dear all, >> Many thanks to those of you who responded to my query about examples of >> and >> critical writings on homophonic translation. I'd love to hear further, if >> any more of you have thoughts. >> >> Currently, I'm looking for books, essays, and articles--good, hardcore, >> worthwhile, useful pedagogically--on the theory of lyric poetry, from any >> period of history. (No such thing as too well known or obvious--and even >> poems that theorize the lyric would be great.) Works on contemporary >> experimental poetry would be especially appreciated, but please treat this >> request expansively. Anything on the web, too. >> >> All best, >> >> Judith Goldman >> >> ================================== >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >> guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> >> > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:37:30 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: updates with SPC & "Putting Layers on the Onion" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago" is an art installation that has been at the Chicago Cultural Center for the past three months. Parts of the show have traveled to satellite locations throughout Chicago, such as Mess Hall, Faie African Art Gallery, the Hyde Park Art Center, and Myopic Bookstore. SPC will be up at the Cultural Center for another month, and then it will travel to the Columbia College Library and Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center. You are invited to check out SPC, if you haven't done so already! "Putting Layers on the Onion" is the installation piece I made for SPC. It has involved contributions from people who have interacted with this piece, such as these -- Being really young in red overalls and cranking the gadgets at the Science Museum. * * * Remember the alewives along the beaches? I'll take spices any day. * * * underneath a city reflected I was the only red thing * * * Lake Michigan I think of red & pink the colors of sunrise Japanese dishes just regular no stinky onions * * * You are invited to read more about "Putting Layers on the Onion," at http://puttinglayersontheonion.blogspot.com/. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:49:47 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: joe maneri In-Reply-To: <20090825.172638.3812.6.skyplums@juno.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit yes. there will eventually be a memorial for him in boston & possibly one in NY. a humble man inquiring mind. On 8/25/09 7:56 AM, "steve dalachinsky" wrote: > sad to announce the passing of joe maneri a great friend teacher composer > and musician > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & > sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:08:46 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: Announcing: NetPoetic digital poetry portal In-Reply-To: <244126.6702.qm@web30206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit thanks to you & other recent posts for getting me/us up to date On 8/19/09 5:22 AM, "Jason Nelson" wrote: > Announcing a new Electronic Literature/Digital Poetry portal founded by Jason > Nelson and Davin Heckman. > With over 30 of our best writers, thinkers and artists, NetPoetic is a group > conversation, updated near daily > with posts, news, theory, artworks and all manner of glorious E-Lit related > material. Coming later this year > is the first NetPoetic exhibition and a peer reviewed journal. If you want to > take part post a few comments > and explore the site then contact Jason Nelson. > > The URL: http://www.netpoetic.com > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & > sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:07:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mary Newell Subject: Mark Doty reading and Poetics Colloquium Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MARK DOTY will be reading at Centenary College of New Jersey, 400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown NJ on Monday, October 19 from=20 8 -10 p.m. The event is free, but reservation is requested.=20 To register, contact: Tina Tang, tangh@centenarycollege.edu, (908) 852-1400, ext. 2113.=20 Questions: Mary Newell, newellm@centenarycollege.edu, (908) 852-1400, ext= . 2498. Directions: http://www.centenarycollege.edu/. On Tuesday, October 20, Centenary College of New Jersey will host a Poeti= cs Colloquium from 9:30 am =E2=80=93 5:30 pm. Panels and workshops tba. The = colloquium is free, but reservation is requested.=20 Centenary College, 400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown, NJ. (908) 852-1400= . To register or request a full program, Contact Tina Tang,=20 tangh@centenarycollege.edu, (908) 852-1400, ext. 2113.=20 To request the CFP or ask questions, contact Mary Newell, newellm@centenarycollege.edu, (908) 852-1400, ext. 2498. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:40:08 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: THE NYT: FUTURE OF READING Students Get New Assignment: Pick Books You Like MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable THE FUTURE OF READING =09 =09 =09 Students Get New Assignment: Pick Books You Like =09 =09 =09 =09 By MOTOKO RICH =09 The experimental approach is part of a movement to revolutionize the way l= iterature is taught in U.S. schools. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/30reading.html?th&emc=3Dth =09 _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=3DMSHYCB&publ=3DWLHMTAG&crea=3DTEXT_MSHYC= B_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:01:36 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christina E Lovin Subject: Re: Songs from Childhood In-Reply-To: <4A98B79C.1060200@peacemonument.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Red-- Try the Mudcat Discussion Forum (www.mudcat.org) -- there are hundreds of song lyrics posted there by people from all over the world. Best, Christina Lovin -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of red slider Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:08 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Songs from Childhood Less than a year after Pearl Harbor and within the first week of entering school, my wife, who grew up in a small village on Big Island, recalls being taught the following school song, The Pearl Harbor Song I remember Pearl Harbor As we go to meet the foe. Let's remember Pearl Harbor As we did the Alamo. We will always remember How they died for liberty. Lets remember Pearl Harbor And go on to victory! She was five-years old at the time. It was sung every morning, right after the Pledge of Allegiance. It has a rather charming , slightly haunting, little melody. If I didn't know better, I would have said it was a Roy Orbison tune ('Crying'? It's 'Over'?.) I wonder if anyone knows, or can find out, the counterpart to these lyrics that was being sung by the school children of Japan at that time? I do know that one group of young Japanese children from the Mie Prefecture had hung an American soldier's uniform from a tree and would throw rocks at it as they passed by on their way to and from school. But, surely, they must have had some 'official' song that they sang each morning under the rising sun (and did they also have a 'Pledge of Allegiance', I don't know?) - thanx in advance, red ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:09:04 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: new posts on Tinfish Editor's blog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please check out newish blog posts at tinfisheditor.blogspot.com -- "Dissention is Patriotic": Fat Ulu's and Kumu Kahua's _The Statehood Project_ (on the 50th anniversary of Hawai`i statehood) --"My dear times' waste": Shakespeare sonnet XXX, Tortillas, and Dementia --Economy and the Haiku: Basho and the Recession of 2009 --Chant 15 (way after Whitman) --Travels in place: Detroit (and O`ahu) aloha, Susan M. Schultz ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:06:03 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: nerys williams Subject: Re: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-disposition: inline I'm not sure if this of use, but I've been writing on the recent lyri= c and its relationship to error in the poetry and poetics of recent c= ontemporary American poets (Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer, Lyn= =A0Hejinian=A0and Jennier=A0Moxley). =A0Nerys=A0Williams Reading Erro= r: Lyric in Contemporary Poetry (Peter Lang, 2007).=A0 best ----- Original Message ----- =46rom: Scott Howard Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009 12:30 am Subject: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > _Dialogism=A0and Lyric Self-Fashioning: Bakhtin=A0and the Voices of= =20 > a Genre_ (Susquehanna UP, 2008) covers the spectrum of lyric=20 > poetry/poetics from Sappho to Stevens and Jayne=A0Cortez. >=20 > /// >=20 >=20 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: judith=A0goldman=A0 > Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:56 am > Subject: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 >=20 > > Dear all, > >=A0 Many thanks to those of you who responded to my query=20 > about examples=20 > > of and > >=A0 critical writings on homophonic=A0translation.=A0 I'd=20 > love to hear=20 > > further, if > >=A0 any more of you have thoughts. > >=A0=20 > >=A0 Currently, I'm looking for books, essays, and articles-- > good, hardcore, > >=A0 worthwhile, useful pedagogically--on the theory of lyric=20 > poetry, from=20 > > any > >=A0 period of history.=A0 (No such thing as too well=20 > known or obvious--and=20 > > even > >=A0 poems that theorize the lyric would be great.)=A0=20 > Works on contemporary > >=A0 experimental poetry would be especially appreciated, but=20 > please treat=20 > > this > >=A0 request expansively.=A0 Anything on the web, too. > >=A0=20 > >=A0 All best, > >=A0=20 > >=A0 Judith Goldman > >=A0=20 > >=A0 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > >=A0 The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all=20 > posts. Check=20 > > guidelines & sub/unsub info:=20 > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html>=A0=20 >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check= =20 > guidelines & sub/unsub info:=20 > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html Dr Nerys Williams School of English, Drama and Film John Henry Newman Building University College Dublin Belfield=20 Dublin 4 Ireland =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:55:34 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: JOB: Eastern Illinois University MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii (this is a forward so please don't respond to me. good luck!) Tenure-track position in Creative Writing. We seek candidates with expertise in one or more of the following: playwriting and screenwriting, fiction, poetry, nonfiction. Publication in area of specialization and competence in teaching of creative writing at undergraduate and graduate levels required. Successful candidate will be able to contribute to our two-year MA program with concentrations in Creative Writing, Literary Studies, and Professional Writing and to our undergraduate major and General Education curricula. We seek excellent teachers with wide interests and creative promise. PhD by date of appointment. Fall 2010 start. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and dossier (letters of recommendation and official or unofficial transcripts) by November 6, 2009, to Dana Ringuette, Chair, Department of English, Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920-3099. We will interview at the MLA conference. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:01:35 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: PhillySound Feature #7: Garrett Caples MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 PhillySound Feature #7: Garrett Caples We are pleased to bring you the prolific, masterful talent of Garrett Caples as the 7th featured poet on PhillySound, enjoy! This is the link to view the feature: http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html CAConrad editor of #7 -- PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:37:00 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Matt Henriksen Subject: Kathlene Jesme Reviewed on The Burning Chair Blog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable htt= The first of a new series of reviews, kicked off by Maureen Alsop:=0A=0Ahtt= p://www.typomag.com/burningchair=0A=A0=0Ahttp://www.typomag.com/burningchai= r/2009/08/plum-stone-game-by-kathleen-jesme.html=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:38:56 +0800 Reply-To: jpjones@ihug.com.au Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "jpjones@ihug.com.au" Subject: Re: Theory of Lyric, Lyric as Literary Genre Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Worth a look: Denise Riley, 'The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony', Sta= nford University Press, 2000 J ________________________ Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:19:59 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Pam Brown Subject: Geoffrey Hill - last week MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Steve and Jacquilyn. I realise that it was last week ..but .. You might be interested in this essay on Geoffrey Hill in the upcoming issue of Jacket? http://jacketmagazine.com/38/hill-by-saravanamuttu.shtml Best wishes, Pam > Date: =A0 =A0Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:25:31 -0700 > From: =A0 =A0steve russell > Subject: Fw: Re: British Poetry Since Wordworth > > I once was clueless. I'm now clued in. > & to think, a few decades ago I would have remained clueless and bitter, = ig=3D > norant without the bliss.=3DA0=3D20 > > --- On Wed, 8/26/09, Jacquilyn Weeks wrote: > > From: Jacquilyn Weeks > Subject: Re: British Poetry Since Wordworth > To: "steve russell" > Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 3:26 PM > > The footnotes to Geoffrey Hill are the Oxford English Dictionary. He mean= t =3D > it when he said "etymology is history."=3DA0Most of his poetry is based o= n mu=3D > lti-layered=3DA0word play, and he always gives you some kind of hint that= let=3D > s you into the poem.=3D0A=3D0A=3DA0=3D0AFor example, the hint words in "S= eptember S=3D > ong" are the dates set just below the title and the word "Zyklon." Once y= ou=3D > =A0look that up (it's a cyanide gas invented by a German Jew as a pestici= de -=3D > =A0he won the=3DA0Nobel for it in 1918--=3DA0used in the Nazi death chamb= ers) the=3D > n the rest of the poem starts popping out at you: "passed over" ("Passove= r"=3D > ), "just" (meaning "justice," "only," "barely," etc.), flakes of ashes ge= tt=3D > ing into the poet's eye (making him cry?)=3D0A=3D0A=3DA0=3D0AYou don't re= ally need =3D > a degree, as much as the kind of mind that gets into crossword puzzles. S= om=3D > e people find this offputting - if you can think of the whole process as = a =3D > game, does that diminish the power of talking about the Holocaust? But Hi= ll=3D > =A0would argue that language tends toward simplicity, and that linguistic= ove=3D > rsimplification is=3DA0a kind of fascism. Struggling through the possible= mea=3D > nings is a way of re-sensitizing ourselves to the dangers and possibiliti= es=3D > =A0of language. It trains us not to be seduced or easily swayed by sloagy= rhe=3D > toric that simplifies things down to "Axis of Evil Bad, Us Good"=3D0A=3D0= A=3DA0=3D > =3D0AHope that helps,=3D0AJacqui Weeks=3D0A=3DA0=3D0A > University of Notre Dame > Department of English > Gender Studies Predoctoral Teaching Fellow > Internship Advisor/Research Workshop Coordinator > Fairy Tale Network List Editor > 325 O'Shaughnessy Hall > =3D0ANotre Dame, IN 46556 > (574) 631-8635=3D20 > > > > =3D0AOn Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:43 PM, steve russell =3D > =A0wrote: > =3D0AI've tried reading Geoffrey Hill. According to some, he's the most s= igni=3D > ficant poet in the English language. > =3D0ABut Elliot provided footnotes. Hill seems to think that everyone has= a > degree from either Cambridge or Oxford, or perhaps his poetry is only > meant for those endowed with said degrees. Not that I mind the degree, > =3D0Abut really, at least provide the "common" reader with footnotes. > > ____________________________________ blog : http://thedeletions.blogspot.com website : http://pambrownbooks.blogspot.com/ associate editor : http://jacketmagazine.com/ _____________________________________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:55:08 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: lingo of purr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit poetry is in us deep. long before we could even think straight, there was the repetition, on certain occassions, of the same sounds. first it was just when we were in pain. or in pleasure. and that was language. you can see it in cats and dogs. dunno what level of understanding they have--but we were there once. on certain occassions they make the same sounds. and that is communicative to us and amongst themselves, and it is a kind of language, but it hasn't got the sort of consciousness to it we associate with language. but the point is that's where we were with language long ago. and poetry still keeps in touch with that sort of language consciousness. via repetition, sound poetry, the primal orality of some types of language + mouthiness. ja http://vispo.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:53:49 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Allegrezza Subject: Come to Series A this Wednesday in Chicago! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Come to the Series A poetry reading this Wednesday. September 2, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Nina Corwin Michael Bernstein The reading is held at the Hyde Park Art Center. 5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago, IL Easy access to public transportation and a free parking lot. Byob. Bill Allegrezza ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:54:34 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: new on Rogue Embryo's blog In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 New posts on Rogue Embryo: Sonnets Preview Zydeco Gallery Four Majlis Multidisciplinary Arts: Figure of Speech (a collaborative evening of= poetry, dance, and music) The Majlis Collaborative Experience Majlis Multidisciplinary Arts: "Figure of Speech" concert photos http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com Cheers! Camille Martin http://www.camillemartin.ca http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:48:11 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: Geoffrey Hill - last week In-Reply-To: <7ea03fe50908310119s67172459ta79166dd06ca8408@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i didn't expect to see anything else on this topic. but it's welcomed. than= ks. --- On Mon, 8/31/09, Pam Brown wrote: From: Pam Brown Subject: Geoffrey Hill - last week To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 4:19 AM Dear Steve and Jacquilyn. I realise that it was last week ..but .. You might be interested in this essay on Geoffrey Hill in the upcoming issue of Jacket? http://jacketmagazine.com/38/hill-by-saravanamuttu.shtml Best wishes, Pam > Date: =A0 =A0Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:25:31 -0700 > From: =A0 =A0steve russell > Subject: Fw: Re: British Poetry Since Wordworth > > I once was clueless. I'm now clued in. > & to think, a few decades ago I would have remained clueless and bitter, = ig=3D > norant without the bliss.=3DA0=3D20 > > --- On Wed, 8/26/09, Jacquilyn Weeks wrote: > > From: Jacquilyn Weeks > Subject: Re: British Poetry Since Wordworth > To: "steve russell" > Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 3:26 PM > > The footnotes to Geoffrey Hill are the Oxford English Dictionary. He mean= t =3D > it when he said "etymology is history."=3DA0Most of his poetry is based o= n mu=3D > lti-layered=3DA0word play, and he always gives you some kind of hint that= let=3D > s you into the poem.=3D0A=3D0A=3DA0=3D0AFor example, the hint words in "S= eptember S=3D > ong" are the dates set just below the title and the word "Zyklon." Once y= ou=3D > =A0look that up (it's a cyanide gas invented by a German Jew as a pestici= de -=3D > =A0he won the=3DA0Nobel for it in 1918--=3DA0used in the Nazi death chamb= ers) the=3D > n the rest of the poem starts popping out at you: "passed over" ("Passove= r"=3D > ), "just" (meaning "justice," "only," "barely," etc.), flakes of ashes ge= tt=3D > ing into the poet's eye (making him cry?)=3D0A=3D0A=3DA0=3D0AYou don't re= ally need =3D > a degree, as much as the kind of mind that gets into crossword puzzles. S= om=3D > e people find this offputting - if you can think of the whole process as = a =3D > game, does that diminish the power of talking about the Holocaust? But Hi= ll=3D > =A0would argue that language tends toward simplicity, and that linguistic= ove=3D > rsimplification is=3DA0a kind of fascism. Struggling through the possible= mea=3D > nings is a way of re-sensitizing ourselves to the dangers and possibiliti= es=3D > =A0of language. It trains us not to be seduced or easily swayed by sloagy= rhe=3D > toric that simplifies things down to "Axis of Evil Bad, Us Good"=3D0A=3D0= A=3DA0=3D > =3D0AHope that helps,=3D0AJacqui Weeks=3D0A=3DA0=3D0A > University of Notre Dame > Department of English > Gender Studies Predoctoral Teaching Fellow > Internship Advisor/Research Workshop Coordinator > Fairy Tale Network List Editor > 325 O'Shaughnessy Hall > =3D0ANotre Dame, IN 46556 > (574) 631-8635=3D20 > > > > =3D0AOn Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:43 PM, steve russell =3D > =A0wrote: > =3D0AI've tried reading Geoffrey Hill. According to some, he's the most s= igni=3D > ficant poet in the English language. > =3D0ABut Elliot provided footnotes. Hill seems to think that everyone has= a > degree from either Cambridge or Oxford, or perhaps his poetry is only > meant for those endowed with said degrees. Not that I mind the degree, > =3D0Abut really, at least provide the "common" reader with footnotes. > > ____________________________________ blog : http://thedeletions.blogspot.com website : http://pambrownbooks.blogspot.com/ associate editor : http://jacketmagazine.com/ _____________________________________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:07:48 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Peter Quartermain Subject: Re: Question about Zukofsky's "A" Index In-Reply-To: <708647.2552.qm@web110308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 31 August This is an oldie, but no one has replied, so: Hugh Kenner once told me that LZ originally prepared an idex to "A" which listed ONLY instances of "a" and "the" -- whether it listed all of them I know not, but I doubt it -- and Celia said that was totally inadequate as an index -- I think she was the one who then compiled the Index we now have. Maybe Paul Zukofsky knows. Maybe Mark Scroggins knows too. Mark? More interesting, perhaps, would be to follow up the index entries and figure out why those instances were worthy of inclusion while others weren't, but I must say I have better things to do right now. Anyone want to get a PhD doing it? P ========= Peter Quartermain 846 Keefer Street Vancouver BC Canada V6A 1Y7 604 255 8274 (voice and fax) quarterm@interchange.ubc.ca ========= -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of UbuWeb Sent: 11 August 2009 09:58 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Question about Zukofsky's "A" Index Does anyone know why Zukofsky didn't index every instance of "a" or "the" or any number of other words? "a" appears on page 21 and is not listed in the index. And of course there are hundreds of instances of the word "the" beginning on page 1, not only between the pages of 175 and 563 in the 826 page book as indexed. Here's the listings for a: a, 1, 103, 130, 131, 138, 161, 168, 173-175, 177, 185, 186, 196, 199, 203, 212, 226-228, 232, 234, 235, 239, 241, 243, 245-248, 260, 270, 281, 282, 288, 291, 296, 297, 299, 302, 323, 327, 328, 351, 353, 377, 380382, 385, 391-394, 397, 402, 404407, 416, 418, 426, 433, 434, 435, 436, 438, 448, 457, 461, 463, 465, 470, 473, 474, 477-481, 491, 493497, 499, 500, 505, 507, 508-511, 536-539, 560-563 and the listings for the: the, 175, 179, 181, 182, 184, 187, 191193, 196, 199, 202, 203, 205, 206, 208, 211, 215, 217, 221, 224-226. 228, 231, 232, 234, 238, 239, 241, 243, 245-248, 260, 270, 285, 288, 290, 291, 296, 297, 302, 316, 321324, 327, 328, 336, 338, 342, 368, 375, 379, 380, 383-387, 390-397, 402, 404, 406, 407, 412, 416, 426428, 434-436, 440, 441, 463, 465, 468, 470, 473, 474, 476-479, 494, 496, 497, 499, 506-511, 536-539, 560-563 With appreciation and many thanks in advance. 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