========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 07:13:57 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Herb Levy Subject: Re: UMM KULTHUM: A Voice Like Egypt 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) One of the best singers EVER; thanks for this. On May 26, 2010, at 12:35 PM, CA Conrad wrote: > (this post is also up at PhillySound with photos and links: > http://PhillySound.blogspot.com) > > > Sometime in the 1980's my friend Maria Fama invited me over to her > South Philly home for dinner. We spent most of our time talking about > poetry, but at one point she brought out a record album and said, "I > really want you to hear this. Listen to this with me." It was Umm > Kulthum. I still remember sitting there with her, exchanging bursts > of surprise with her. The recording PIERCED, it had no other solution > in mind but to grab you by the neck and force its blade into your gut. > As though music is a SOLUTION to the human condition, music and > poetry, Umm and her band of poets PIERCING US ONE AT A TIME! It's > impossible to find one word to express the love for this experience. > > Maria made a cassette tape of the album for me. And while that was > being made she told me of visiting friends in Cairo back in the > 1970's. They said, "Maria we have a surprise, we want to take you to > hear Umm Kulthum sing!" Maria like 90 percent of western culture > didn't know who Umm Kulthum was. She expected to go to a nightclub, > but no, it was an enormous stadium. There were thousands of people. > Umm was frail and old by then, but she still had power in her voice. > The crowd would jump from their seats and scream at the end of a line > of music. > > All the poets of Egypt and the rest of the Arab world wanted to write > for Umm. She remains one of the most celebrated singers in the world. > She remains one of the most recorded voices in history. She still > remains virtually unknown in America. But the day after seeing Maria > I went into a small falafel shop in Philly called BITARS, and I asked > the man behind the counter if he had ever heard of Umm Kulthum. "UMM > KULTHUM? YES YES OF COURSE I KNOW UMM KULTHUM!" It caused so much > excitement! The other man working with him telling him GET THE BAG > GET THE BAG! He pulled an enormous, clear plastic bag out of a large > drawer FILLED with Umm Kulthum cassette tapes. > > All through the early 1990's my friends and I would pour over Umm's > cassette's, share new ones. Then one day Maria Fama called me to tell > me of a documentary coming to Philadelphia about Umm Kulthum. We > went. It was so amazing. It remains one of my favorite movie going > experiences. The director was there to present a Q&A, a marvelous > woman who was Israeli-American who said that she made the film for > many reasons, but one of them being to build a bridge between Israel > and the Arab world. > > Last night, 14 years later, I saw it again at my friend Mary Kalyna's > house with friend Debrah Morkun. It struck me in the very same way. > Goose bumps. Umm CHILLS with excitement and longing, her powerful use > of her voice taking you OUT OF THIS WORLD whether you intended to go > or not. It's bliss. It's ecstasy, Umm is better than any drug I've > ever taken. > > I'm a HUGE Umm Kulthum fan all over again today! > > -- > PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com > > THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 16:43:52 -0700 Reply-To: derek beaulieu Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: derek beaulieu Subject: new from No press: DANDELION COLLABORATION by Bob Cobbing and Lawrence Upton Comments: To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@invalid.domain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No press is proud to announce the (re-issued) publication of DANDELION COLLABORATION by Bob Cobbing & Lawrence Upton published in an edition of 40 hand-sewn copies (of which 20 are for = sale) $5 each (including shipping) Dandelion Collaboration was commissioned from Bob Cobbing and Lawrence = Upton by derek beaulieu. It was made between March and May 2002. It was = the last collaborative poetry the two made, writing and rewriting using = additive and destructive processes-original writing and inscription = collaged with found material, subjected to digital transformation using = several PC graphics packages, and analog transformation by photocopier.=20 for more information, or to order copies, email=20 derek@housepress.ca derek beaulieu 2 - 733 2nd avenue nw calgary alberta canada T2N 0E4 derek@housepress.ca http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/beaulieu/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 15:28:51 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gloria Mindock Subject: Cervena Barva Press Announces A chapbook by Gulnar Ali Balata MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cervena Barva Press Announces a New Chapbook=20 "My Soul Still A Virgin"=20 by Gulnar Ali Balata=20 My Soul Still A Virgin by Gulnar Ali Balata Cover painting by Ghada Habib=20 Gulnar Ali Balata was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1974. She is the author of= two books of poems, Luna and Twelve Months (Hawar Press, 2006) and Song of= the Sad Ruins (Hawar Press, 2008) published in Duhok, Iraq. Gulnar has had= work appear in a number of literary journals, websites and anthologies in = Kurdish and Arabic languages which are her first and second languages. She = is now busy with her first story, a novel, and a third book of poetry.=20 She received an associates degree in English from Duhok, Iraq. She taught E= nglish for three years before she left home in 1996. Gulnar received an ass= ociates degree from Bunker Hill Community College in 2009. She currently is= working on her bachelors degree in art. Her work has been published in new= spapers and magazines in Kurdish and extensively on the Internet.=20 She has been listed as one of the top Kurdish women's voices in modern Kurd= ish poetry. Her poems have a romantic power. She uses a clean and pure voca= bulary.=20 These are poems of exile, torn from the soil of the author's native Kurdist= an. They are poems of the human spirit orphaned. They demand of the reader = the care and compassion any orphan requires to retain hope and nurture the = promise of return.=20 =E2=80=94T. Michael Sullivan, Director William Joiner Center's Writers' Wor= kshop=20 Gulnar's poetry speaks in English the language of her native Kurdistan. The= mountains, streams, and valleys are both harsh and sensitive barriers in t= he mist. The ever present partridge reminds us of the country's beauty and = beyond them and before them lies its sadness. Gulnar Ali Balata is a wonder= ful poet whom it has been my great pleasure to work with for the past sever= al years watching her adapt her Kurdish and Arabic poetry to English.=20 =E2=80=94Tom Hooper, Bunker Hill, Community College=20 My soul still a virgin=20 The night holds its wings=20 Over the side of my expecting heart,=20 leaving wilted roses dew=20 on the morning star's face=20 smiling for the coming morning=20 that follows gulls' cheers.=20 Tears of the sky=20 Flow for the grief of the night=20 And the vanquished body=20 hiding in the corner of the wilderness=20 Picks up his broken pieces=20 And what's left of his tears=20 To seek new.=20 Preoccupied in abhorrent life=20 the maiden spirit with=20 its portable undying thirst,=20 its mystery of existence=20 and sense of its freedom of dreams and hope=20 remain after the confiscation of=20 waking up in the dewy morning,=20 Overlooking from the longing window=20 The chirping of birds.=20 Three-colored autumn leaves=20 Squeezed with tears of grief last night=20 Despite struggling with the wind=20 Despite the rain=20 Adhering with tears on my car window=20 Smile on my face=20 Penetrate my skin=20 Dancing with Nightingale's music=20 Sorrows of the body's reeling roar;=20 and the Spirit is still a virgin=20 which Lies on the lips of glamour=20 Calling the Moon=20 Waiting for the morning star.=20 38 Pages=20 Order online at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/cervenabooks.html=20 My Soul Still A Virgin =09 $7.00=20 Shipping =09 $3.00=20 Total =09 $10.00=20 =C2=A0=20 =09 Send check or money order payable to:=20 Cervena Barva Press=20 P.O. Box 440357,=20 W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222=20 e-mail: editor@cervenabarvapress.com=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= -----------------------------------------=20 Thank you.=20 Gloria Mindock=20 midwesternglo@comcast.net=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 15:31:40 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gloria Mindock Subject: Cervena Barva Press Announces A New Poetry Book by Andrey Gritsman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cervena Barva Press Announces a New Book=20 "Live Landscape"=20 by Andrey Gritsman=20 Live Landscape by Andrey Gritsman Andrey Gritsman is a poet and essayist, born and raised in Russia. He lives= in New York City and works as a physician. He has been widely published in= Russia, including five collections of poetry. Poems, essays and translatio= ns in English have appeared in Manhattan Review, New Orleans Review, Denver= Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, South Carolina Review and many ot= hers and were anthologized in Modern Poetry in Translation (UK), in Crossin= g Centuries (New Generation in Russian Poetry), The Breath of Parted Lips: = Voices from the Robert Frost Place and in Stranger at Home: American Poetry= with an Accent . Collections of poetry and essays Long Fall was published = by Spuyten Duyvil in 2004 and recent poetry collection PISCES by Numina Pre= ss. Andrey=E2=80=99s work was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2005, 200= 6 and 2007 and was on the short list for the Joyce Osterweil/PEN American C= enter Prize in Poetry in 2005. He runs the Intercultural Poetry Series in a= popular literary club Cornelia Street Caf=C3=A9 and edits international po= etry magazine INTERPOEZIA .=20 Andrey Gritsman is quite literally a groundbreaking poet. From Moscow to Ne= w York is a steep distance but Gritsman makes us aware of the threads that = link seemingly disparate occasions. Fresh perceptions create new styles and= Gritsman=E2=80=99s is more than a synthesis of two cultures: it is an art = that probes delusions and pleasures by a poet who has been around some daun= ting blocks.=20 =E2=80=94Baron Wormser, author of Good Trembling and many other collections= of poetry.=20 Andrey Gritsman=E2=80=99s poems are unwavering in their honesty, relentless= in their assessment of contemporary life, and clear-eyed in their approach= to human love and mortality. We instantly recognize the terrain he is nego= tiating. Perhaps only Gritsman, with his unprejudiced immigrant=E2=80=99s e= ye, can describe the empty, arid landscape of the American West. These are = poems that peer into the abyss behind the official public happiness of Amer= ican life, the compulsion to be always hopeful, positive and bubbling over = with good spirits. That is to say: they are real poems, and make no accommo= dation with fanciful dreams. Read =E2=80=98em, and weep.=20 =E2=80=94Kurt Brown, poet, editor of several anthologies, founder, Aspen Wr= iters=E2=80=99 Seminar=20 Gritsman=E2=80=99s poems are tenderness in transit. They fully inhabit thei= r evoked circumstances so that their significance keeps expanding and reson= ating before the quality of attention given over to them. He so quickly is = able to penetrate to the depths in the poems, it is as though working with = a large, oiled, sharp shovel while the rest of us are working with miniatur= e dull and rusty spoons. The use of brevity in some of these poems remind m= e of my beloved Denise Levertov. His poems are =E2=80=9Ctime-flooded=E2=80= =9D and remind me that whether we look backward or forward in time always t= he beloved figures are diminishing, disappearing, and the shadow growing fr= om our own foot soles moves among the company of many other shadows. =E2=80= =9CConstant departure,=E2=80=9D as he says it, is our state, and all we can= do is stand for our count, make our song, and salute each other.=20 =E2=80=94Jeanne Marie Beaumont, author of Curious Conduct (BOA Editions)=20 FOR MY FATHER=20 After you've been gone,=20 I've been flying alone back and forth=20 above the waters and the continents.=20 Both of us: me here and you there=20 know too well that this is a waste of time=20 and space.=20 I may be flying, looking for you=20 for the rest of my life=20 or death, and still never see you.=20 Nothing can be undone,=20 and I can't take it.=20 Nor I can take the fact=20 that every time I see my close ones, I know,=20 it may be the last time I see them.=20 Don't worry about me. While I fly,=20 an angel in uniform attends me,=20 gives me some water and bread,=20 and smiles to me.=20 She takes care of me=20 until it's time to get out,=20 get in line for the luggage=20 and then to disappear into crowd=20 which lives on the exhaust,=20 cyclic persistence=20 and canned expectations.=20 The latter is something=20 I live on myself, expectation=20 melting slowly into waiting=20 as I keep on flying=20 in the space given=20 for the time being.=20 Cover Art: Natasha Gasteva | ISBN: 978-0-9844732-1-2 | 73 pages Order onlin= e at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/cervenabooks.html=20 Live Landscape =09 $15.00=20 Shipping =09 $3.00=20 Total =09 $18.00=20 =C2=A0=20 =09 Send check or money order payable to:=20 Cervena Barva Press=20 P.O. Box 440357,=20 W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222=20 e-mail: editor@cervenabarvapress.com=20 --------------------------------------------------------------=20 Thank you.=20 Gloria Mindock=20 midwesternglo@comcast.net=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 15:33:47 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gloria Mindock Subject: Cervena Barva Press Announces A New Poetry chapbook by Charles P. Ries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cervena Barva Press Announces a New Chapbook=20 "I'd Rather be Mexican"=20 by Charles P. Ries=20 I'd Rather be Mexican by Charles P. Ries Charles P. Ries lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His narrative poems, short s= tories, interviews, and poetry reviews have appeared in over two hundred pr= int and electronic publications. He has received four Pushcart Prize nomina= tions for his writing. He is the author of THE FATHERS WE FIND , a novel ba= sed on memory and five books of poetry. Most recently he was awarded the Wi= sconsin Regional Writers Association "Jade Ring" Award for humorous poetry.= He is the former poetry editor for Word Riot ( www.wordriot.org ) and a fo= rmer member of the board at the Woodland Pattern Book Center. Charles is Co= -Chairman of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission. He will have a book of= poetry published in early 2010: Girl Friend & Other Mysteries of Love that= will be published by Alternating Current Press, Leah Angstman, Editor. He = is a founding member of the Lake Shore Surf Club, the oldest fresh water su= rfing club on the Great Lakes ( www.visitsheboygan.com/dairyland/ ).=20 You may find additional samples of his work by going to: www.literati.net/R= ies/=20 El Latino Blanco=20 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0(The White Latin)=20 I woke up throughout the night=20 as the fleas kept biting my toes.=20 Just my toes =E2=80=93 the rest of me=20 didn t seem to interest them.=20 "El Latino Blanco" the bartender called me as=20 I ordered double shots of tequila throughout the night,=20 one for me and one for my friend the large white rabbit=20 called El Conjito Blanco Grande who sat invisibly next to me,=20 as he has next to the other drunks who have used him as an=20 excuse to order doubles.=20 My dreams that night were ones of desolation and consolation.=20 Always in that order. I remember because the fleas kept me=20 on the edge of real time. Maybe they weren't fleas at all,=20 but insect sized psychic miners, biting me to lucidity and=20 injecting me with some sort of drunken-poet-dream-sex-venom.=20 I'm sure I'm not the first drunken poet to be visited in this way.=20 I'm sure I will not be the last.=20 As the morning came, the fleas went to sleep and I too drifted away=20 into a deep cold river, waking to a pure blue sky, a massive Mexican=20 hangover and the smell of black coffee served to me by a mescal worm named = Little Rico.=20 Order online at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/cervenabooks.html=20 I'd Rather be Mexican =09 $7.00=20 Shipping =09 $3.00=20 Total =09 $10.00=20 =C2=A0=20 =09 Send check or money order payable to:=20 Cervena Barva Press=20 P.O. Box 440357,=20 W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222=20 e-mail: editor@cervenabarvapress.com=20 -----------------------------------------------------=20 Thank you.=20 Glori Mindock=20 midwesternglo@comcast.net=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 11:57:46 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Vernon Frazer Subject: Re: IMPROVISATIONS VIDEO BY VERNON FRAZER ON YOUTUBE//Mallarme/Music & Visual Poetry Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Dear David Once again, thank you for your kind words. I apologize for my delay in = responding; we=92ve had family visiting us this past week. So far, my knowledge of Sound Poetry has been limited to a short clip of = The Four Horsemen. To me, their pieces sounded very much like creative = music (free jazz), and I felt that I could have contributed to the = group, had I lived in Toronto. I=92d like to hear more of their work, = but don=92t know of any available recordings. I=92ve seen samples of = their scores, but have no performances to enable me to follow them. Your points about scoring work are well taken. Contemporary composers = have employed a variety of notational systems. As long as the performers = agree on what the notes, direction or images represent, the system = employed for organizing sounds will work. Cracks in a sidewalk, if = nothing else, could have important rhythmic and textural implications.=20= I=92ve didn=92t read =93Un Coup de Des=94 until 2004. Mallarme=92s use = of fonts creates a three-dimensional work, visually and aurally. If I=92d = read him earlier, he would have been an influence on my work. In my own = reading from that period, I=92ve never seen anything comparable to =93Un = Coup de Des.=94 His language and its movement across the page give me = both the image of a hand shaking the dice and the dice rolling across = the page to stop at a capitalized word, as though the dice are being = thrown even while the throwing hand is shaking them. Movement seems to = happen and remain suspended at the same time. As work on the page, IMPROVISATIONS ultimately creates a very precise = =93musical notation=94 using language. Listening to the playback of what = I consider a less than successful performance from the work at the = Poetry Project in 2005, I discovered that my ear worked; the multiple = lines came together in the kinds of =93verbal dissonance=94 I wanted to = create in certain passages. Unfortunately, the microphones didn=92t pick = up the voices of the other readers very well. In the process of = composing the work, I took the license to employ an =93orchestral=94 = approach, allowing me to =93play against=94 the poem while composing it. = Space is integral to the work. In addition to rendering the=20 referentiality of any word or phrase =93provisional=94 until the next = word or phrase appears, it also allows, in my own =93hearing=94 of the = work as a performance, instrumental interludes, in which the reader=92s silence allows space for musical commentary on = the phrases. In=20 readings in which I haven=92t used other readers I=92ve found other = ways to recite the work so that the =93problems of performance=94 find = resolution. Certain sections of the poem require the readers to choose = how they are going to read the intermingled lines. While I can=92t = recite a five-voice passage =93in harmony=94 during a solo reading, I = can read the passage horizontally or vertically. At the Poetry Project, = I read =93XLVIII=94 unaccompanied and resolved its multi-voiced =93problem= of performance=94 by reading the overlapping passages in one of about = five possible sequences. Although the work is precisely =93notated,=94 = the score does allow room for interpretation. Jim Gardiner, who knows my = work very well, has on several occasions performed the work with several = readers reciting =93cut-ups=94 of my multi-voices passages and pacing = themselves so that however they interpret their lines, all the readers = end at the same time. Concerning my YouTube performance, I think your description of the = =93poet/performer in action,=94 is very accurate in that the poem = already exists and my performance brings out what is =93at once new to = me, and yet not unknown=94 because I take improvisational liberties in = the overdubbed recitation and fill the space between textual passages = with improvised basslines that give the performed work a different = =93meaning=94 than the written text. My performing and presenting the = text as a video does create a work encompassing =93all forms,=94 so to = speak, but even there, it=92s the presentation of all resources = available within the performing situation and could be rendered in many = different ways while working from the core piece. Thank you once again for your kind words and informed commentary. Vernon=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 17:33:26 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) In-Reply-To: <4C0181E6.5080501@bway.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable O I am sorry. She was alive & sweet, so smart & bubbly. She let us escape our preoccupations & use our intelligence more widely. I wish I cd thank he= r now. Told my class she was sick & we read some of her writing this term. On 5/29/10 5:06 PM, "Charles Bernstein" wrote: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/scalapino/obit.html >=20 > =B3Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and > air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.=B2 > =8B Philip Whalen >=20 >=20 > Leslie Scalapino passed away on May 28, 2010 in Berkeley, California. > She was born in Santa Barbara in 1944 and raised in Berkeley, > California. After Berkeley High School, she attended Reed College in > Portland, Oregon and received her B.A. in Literature in 1966. She > received her M.A. in English from the University of California at > Berkeley in 1969, after which she began to focus on writing poetry. > Leslie Scalapino lived with Tom White, her husband and friend of 35 > years, in Oakland, California. >=20 > In childhood, she traveled with her father Robert Scalapino, founder of > UC Berkeley=B9s Institute for Asian Studies, her mother Dee Scalapino, > known for her love of music, and her two sisters, Diane and Lynne, > throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. She and Tom continued these travels > including trips to Tibet, Bhutan, Japan, India, Yemen, Mongolia, Libya > and elsewhere. Her writing was intensely influenced by these travels. > She published her first book O and Other Poems in 1976, and since then > has published thirty books of poetry, prose, inter-genre fiction, plays, > essays, and collaborations. Scalapino=B9s most recent publications include > a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith, The Animal is in the World like > Water in Water (Granary Books), and Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows > (Starcherone Books), and her selected poems It=B9s go in horizontal / > Selected Poems 1974-2006 (UC Press) was published in 2008. In 1988, her > long poem way received the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton > Prize, and the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. > Her plays have been performed in San Francisco at New Langton Arts, The > Lab, Venue 9, and Forum; in New York by The Eye and Ear Theater and at > Barnard College; and in Los Angeles at Beyond Baroque. >=20 > In 1986, Scalapino founded O Books as a publishing outlet for young and > emerging poets, as well as prominent, innovative writers, and the list > of nearly 100 titles includes authors such as Ted Berrigan, Robert > Grenier, Fanny Howe, Tom Raworth, Norma Cole, Will Alexander, Alice > Notley, Norman Fischer, Laura Moriarty, Michael McClure, Judith Goldman > and many others. Scalapino is also the editor of four editions of O > anthologies, as well as the periodicals Enough (with Rick London) and > War and Peace (with Judith Goldman). >=20 > Scalapino taught writing at various institutions, including 16 years in > the MFA program at Bard College, Mills College, the San Francisco Art > Institute, California College of the Arts in San Francisco, San > Francisco State University, UC San Diego, and the Naropa Institute. >=20 > Of her own writing, Scalapino says =B3my sense of a practice of writing > and of action, the apprehension itself that =8Cone is not oneself for even > an instant=B9 =AD should not be,=B9 is to be participation in/is a social act. > That is, the nature of this practice that=B9s to be =8Csocial act=B9 is it is > without formation or custom.=B2 Her writing, unbound by a single format, > her collaborations with artists and other writers, her teaching, and > publishing are evidence of this sense of her own practice, social acts > that were her practice. Her generosity and fiercely engaged intelligence > were everywhere evident to those who had the fortune to know her. >=20 > Scalapino has three books forthcoming in 2010. A book of two plays > published in one volume, Flow-Winged Crocodile and A Pair / Actions Are > Erased / Appear will come out in June 2010 from Chax Press; a new prose > work, The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihredals Zoom will be released this summer > by Post-Apollo Press; and a revised and expanded collection of her > essays and plays, How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (originally published > by Potes & Poets) will be published in the fall by Litmus Press. >=20 > Her play Flow-Winged Crocodile will be performed in New York at Poets > House on June 19th at 2pm and June 20th at 7pm by the performance group > The Relationship, directed by Fiona Templeton and with Katie Brown, > Stephanie Silver, and Julie Troost. Dance by Molissa Fenley, music by > Joan Jeanrenaud, and projected drawings by Eve Biddle. This production > is co-sponsored by Belladonna* and the Poetry Project. >=20 > There will be a memorial event for Scalapino at St. Mark=B9s Poetry > Project on Monday, June 21st. >=20 > A Zen Buddhist funeral ceremony will be conducted by Abbott Norman > Fisher in about a month with the arrangements in a subsequent > announcement. Tom requests that in lieu of flowers, Leslie's friends > consider a charitable donation in her memory to: Poets in Need, PO Box > 5411, Berkeley, CA 94705; Reed College for the Leslie Scalapino > Scholarship, 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR > 97202-8199; The AYCO Charitable Foundation, PO Box 15203, Albany, NY > 12212-5203 for the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund to support innovative > works of poetry, prose and art; or to a charitable organization of their > choice. Condolence cards may be sent to Tom & Leslie=B9s home address, > 5744 Presley Way, Oakland, California 94618-1633. >=20 >=20 >=20 > to make my mind be actions outside only. which they are. > that collapses in >=20 > grey-red bars. actions are life per se only without it. >=20 > (so) events are minute =8B even (voluptuous) >=20 > =AD=ADLeslie Scalapino >=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: Sat, 29 May 2010 14:39:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Peter Quartermain Subject: Re: Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) In-Reply-To: <4C0181E6.5080501@bway.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Oh. Shocking news. Will there ever be a moment in this quarter-century when we will not be dismayed and not weep? ========= 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 Charles Bernstein Sent: 29 May 2010 02:07 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/scalapino/obit.html "Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once." - Philip Whalen Leslie Scalapino passed away on May 28, 2010 in Berkeley, California. She was born in Santa Barbara in 1944 and raised in Berkeley, California. After Berkeley High School, she attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon and received her B.A. in Literature in 1966. She received her M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969, after which she began to focus on writing poetry. Leslie Scalapino lived with Tom White, her husband and friend of 35 years, in Oakland, California. In childhood, she traveled with her father Robert Scalapino, founder of UC Berkeley's Institute for Asian Studies, her mother Dee Scalapino, known for her love of music, and her two sisters, Diane and Lynne, throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. She and Tom continued these travels including trips to Tibet, Bhutan, Japan, India, Yemen, Mongolia, Libya and elsewhere. Her writing was intensely influenced by these travels. She published her first book O and Other Poems in 1976, and since then has published thirty books of poetry, prose, inter-genre fiction, plays, essays, and collaborations. Scalapino's most recent publications include a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith, The Animal is in the World like Water in Water (Granary Books), and Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows (Starcherone Books), and her selected poems It's go in horizontal / Selected Poems 1974-2006 (UC Press) was published in 2008. In 1988, her long poem way received the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her plays have been performed in San Francisco at New Langton Arts, The Lab, Venue 9, and Forum; in New York by The Eye and Ear Theater and at Barnard College; and in Los Angeles at Beyond Baroque. In 1986, Scalapino founded O Books as a publishing outlet for young and emerging poets, as well as prominent, innovative writers, and the list of nearly 100 titles includes authors such as Ted Berrigan, Robert Grenier, Fanny Howe, Tom Raworth, Norma Cole, Will Alexander, Alice Notley, Norman Fischer, Laura Moriarty, Michael McClure, Judith Goldman and many others. Scalapino is also the editor of four editions of O anthologies, as well as the periodicals Enough (with Rick London) and War and Peace (with Judith Goldman). Scalapino taught writing at various institutions, including 16 years in the MFA program at Bard College, Mills College, the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts in San Francisco, San Francisco State University, UC San Diego, and the Naropa Institute. Of her own writing, Scalapino says "my sense of a practice of writing and of action, the apprehension itself that 'one is not oneself for even an instant' - should not be,' is to be participation in/is a social act. That is, the nature of this practice that's to be 'social act' is it is without formation or custom." Her writing, unbound by a single format, her collaborations with artists and other writers, her teaching, and publishing are evidence of this sense of her own practice, social acts that were her practice. Her generosity and fiercely engaged intelligence were everywhere evident to those who had the fortune to know her. Scalapino has three books forthcoming in 2010. A book of two plays published in one volume, Flow-Winged Crocodile and A Pair / Actions Are Erased / Appear will come out in June 2010 from Chax Press; a new prose work, The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihredals Zoom will be released this summer by Post-Apollo Press; and a revised and expanded collection of her essays and plays, How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (originally published by Potes & Poets) will be published in the fall by Litmus Press. Her play Flow-Winged Crocodile will be performed in New York at Poets House on June 19th at 2pm and June 20th at 7pm by the performance group The Relationship, directed by Fiona Templeton and with Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver, and Julie Troost. Dance by Molissa Fenley, music by Joan Jeanrenaud, and projected drawings by Eve Biddle. This production is co-sponsored by Belladonna* and the Poetry Project. There will be a memorial event for Scalapino at St. Mark's Poetry Project on Monday, June 21st. A Zen Buddhist funeral ceremony will be conducted by Abbott Norman Fisher in about a month with the arrangements in a subsequent announcement. Tom requests that in lieu of flowers, Leslie's friends consider a charitable donation in her memory to: Poets in Need, PO Box 5411, Berkeley, CA 94705; Reed College for the Leslie Scalapino Scholarship, 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR 97202-8199; The AYCO Charitable Foundation, PO Box 15203, Albany, NY 12212-5203 for the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund to support innovative works of poetry, prose and art; or to a charitable organization of their choice. Condolence cards may be sent to Tom & Leslie's home address, 5744 Presley Way, Oakland, California 94618-1633. to make my mind be actions outside only. which they are. that collapses in grey-red bars. actions are life per se only without it. (so) events are minute - even (voluptuous) --Leslie Scalapino ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 17:39:49 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Laura Hinton Subject: Re: Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) In-Reply-To: <4C0181E6.5080501@bway.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I am devastated by this news, as I know many of you are. Leslie Scalapino is one of our greatest, most inventive American poets. I can't put that in the past tense. I will write more when I get my wits about me. Thank you, Charles, for your posting. Laura Hinton -- Laura Hinton Professor of English City College of New York 138 at Convent Ave. New York, New York 10031 http://www.mermaidtenementpress.com http://www.chantdelasirene.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 May 2010 01:09:16 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: readings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit June 5 The Brownstone Poets presents: steve dalachinsky and Bruce Webber Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark St. & Pineapple Walk Brooklyn, NY 11201 - 718 – 596 – 5900 Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street, 4, 5, M or R to Court Street, Borough Hall 2:30 P.M. $3 Donation – plus Food/Drink - Open Mic curated by Patricia Carragon _____________________________________________________ june 6 poets in collage opening at tribes gallery 285 e 3rd st ave c manhattan workshop 2-4 pm opening at 4 pm onward - readings by 10 poets in show steve dalachinsky yuko otomo bruce webber(curator), jeff wright, valery oisteaneau (workshop leaders) star black, lewis warsh, bob heman, aaron howard, nicole peyrafitte ___________________________________________ steve reads / June 14 at Local 269 suffolk and houston 7 pm w/ the great loren mazzacane connors on guitar $10 per set - $ 7 senior and students / $15 for 2 - $20 for entire night other sets by other folks to follow at 8, 9 and 10 pm __________________ Sunday June 20 - 2-5pm the Vision Festival presents @ AGathering of Tribes 285 East 3rd St. (between C & D - 2nd floor) donation to Tribes poetry by Jeff Wright Bob Heman Lewis Warsh Poetry & Music Albey Balgochian & Jane Grenier B Barry Wallenstein Yuko Otomo - Shayna Dulberger Jake Marmer / & Alon Nechushtan Aaron Howard w/Gwen Krueger & Tomislav Butkovic Steve Dalachinsky Alexandre Pierrepont Tamara Singh Tsaurah Litsky Steve Ben Israel Musicians / Improvs Ellen Christi Max Johnson bass Andrew Barker drums Charles Waters reeds plus others to be announced $5 donation ______________________ june 27 6-8pm steve dalachinsky and jake marmer read on the roof of the educational alliance on e.bdway $10 includes snacks and all the kosher wine you can drink ================================== 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 May 2010 12:06:29 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Joel Weishaus Subject: "Splitting the Stone - Toward a Lithopoetics." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends and Colleagues; This is a new project, one page, please scroll down: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Splitting/Page.htm -Joel Joel Weishaus Homepage: http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282 On-Line Archive:=20 www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/index.htm =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 10:59:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ward Tietz Subject: wordimage.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) I=92ve got a new website at wordimage.net containing sample views of my =20= word sculpture installations, performances and works on paper. Best, WT= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 May 2010 20:16:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Dowker Subject: Machine Language Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Announcing the publication by BookThug of MACHINE LANGUAGE by David Dowker. "MACHINE LANGUAGE delves the delic, from the 'pataphysical conjunction of archaic paper tape code, a fragment of Sappho and the Gorgon (apparatus) to writing through (over under sideways around) various texts and subtexts of the post-modern North American rhizome, coding the flows of Black Mountain poetics and so-called 'language poetries,' elliptical traces of neo-surrealist tendencies with reconnaissance syntax and pliant iambics, love's number crunched for the age of surveillance." Available at BookThug: http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=201002 & SPD: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781897388518/machine-language.aspx David alterra@rogers.com The Alterran Poetry Assemblage: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/003/008/099/003008-disclaimer.html?orig=/100/202/300/alterran/index.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 May 2010 20:11:18 -0700 Reply-To: derek beaulieu Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: derek beaulieu Subject: new from No press: SERVANTS OF DUST by Gary Barwin Comments: To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@invalid.domain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No press is proud to announce the publication of =20 SERVANTS OF DUST=20 (SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS 1-20) by Gary Barwin =20 With each poem in SERVANTS OF DUST, Barwin strips away all the = characters except the puncutation. Each mark is then typed out, creating = a new sonnet:=20 =20 1 comma inverted comma comma comma colon comma comma inverted comma inverted comma dash comma comma comma period inverted comma =20 comma =20 comma comma = period comma comma inverted comma comma period=20 ** published in an edition of 40 hand-sewn copies (of which 20 are for = sale) $5 each (including shipping) =20 for more information, or to order copies, email=20 derek@housepress.ca =20 derek beaulieu 2 - 733 2nd avenue nw calgary alberta canada T2N 0E4 derek@housepress.ca http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/beaulieu/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 02:08:03 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: more sad news peter orlovsky passed away MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit may 30 age 77 ================================== 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 May 2010 09:17:23 -0400 Reply-To: clwnwr@earthlink.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bob Heman Subject: Collage Show - Tribes - Opening Reception - Sunday June 6 - 4:00 - 6:00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII This Sunday, June 6, from 4:00 to 6:00, will be the "official" opening/reading celebration of: WALTZING IN QUICKSAND: POETS IN COLLAGE Star Black, Steven Dalachinsky, Bob Heman, Aaron Howard, Valery Oisteanu, Yuko Otomo, Nicole Peyrafitte, Lewis Warsh, Bruce Weber, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright Curated by Bruce Weber May 21-June 27, 2010 TRIBES GALLERY 285 East 3rd St. (betw. Aves. C and D), 2nd Floor Gallery Hours: Mon. 11-6, Tues.-Fri. 10-6, Sat. 12-8, Sun., 12-5 preceding the opening, between 2:00 to 4:00 there will be a free collage workshop conducted by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Valery Oisteanu if you can't make it down to Tribes to see the show you can click on this youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwvVZTfnAHE for a silent walk through of the show and on this Twitter link http://www.flickr.com/photos/tribesgalleryphotos/ for more info on the pieces in the show +++ then on Sunday, June 20, three of the collagist poets, Lewis Warsh, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Bob Heman, will be reading at Tribes at 2:00, to start off the afternoon long Visions Festival which will feature poetry and music (a donation for Tribes is requested) +++ Bob Heman clwnwr@earthlink.net ================================== 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 May 2010 16:09:53 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Argotist Ebooks' first publication: "Scratching Face" by Jake Berry Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Argotist Ebooks' first publication "Scratching Face" by Jake Berry Poems by Jake Berry that originally appeared as status updates at Facebook between May and September 2009. Available as a free ebook from Argotist Ebooks: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fStoreID=2845322 ================================== 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 May 2010 07:55:38 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: UbuWeb Subject: Students Needed at the Whitney to Recreate Baldessari's 'I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art' Comments: To: ubuweb@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: WMAA <Alexandra_Nemerov@whitney.org>= =0ADate: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:42:50 -0400=0A=0AConversation: Re-Performance = of 'I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art'=0ASubject: Re-Performance of 'I Wi= ll Not Make Any More Boring Art'=0A=0AAs part of the exhibition =E2=80=98Of= f the Wall: Thirty Performative Actions=E2=80=99 opening June 30th at the W= hitney, the Museum is inviting art students to participate in a re-performa= nce of John Baldessari=E2=80=99s performance =E2=80=98I Will Not Make Any M= ore Boring Art=E2=80=99 (1971). The action will be ongoing in the galleries= for several weeks this summer. Attached is the original letter which the a= rtist wrote to the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design proposing the proj= ect in 1971 as well as photographs documenting the original performance.=0A= =0AThe project entails a number of students coming to the Whitney and writi= ng the sentence =E2=80=9CI will not make any more boring art=E2=80=9D on on= e of the walls of the gallery, in columns. Each student can write as few or= as many phrases as they like. The artist would like two columns to be comp= leted by the time the exhibition opens on June 30th, and the students will = then come in during the day to write on the wall until the wall is complete= ly filled.=0A=0AWe ask that each student who is interested in participating= in this project attend a mandatory orientation session with exhibition cur= ator Chrissie Iles at the Museum on Tuesday, June 1st at 4 pm. Students sho= uld arrive at the Whitney Museum staff entrance at 33 East 74th Street at 3= :45. =C2=A0At this time participants will be able to sign up for their perf= ormance time slots and their portrait will be taken. Please RSVP to Alexandra_Nemerov@whitney.org as soon as possible.= =0A=0AThank you for your interest in participating, and I look forward to m= eeting you at the orientation.=0A=0AAll best,=0AAli Nemerov=0A=0A--=0AAli N= emerov=0AInterpretation and Research Assistant=0AWhitney Museum of American= Art=0A945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street=0ANew York, NY 10021=0A212.671.182= 3=0A=0A=0AUbuWeb=0Ahttp://ubu.com=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 10:38:11 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Re: IMPROVISATIONS VIDEO BY VERNON FRAZER ON YOUTUBE//Mallarme/Music & Visual Poetry In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Vernon and Murat: re the white spaces--i jotted this down in notebook=2C as an other way of t= hinking of "white space" not as "silence"--but as "white noise"-- white spaces in poem-mallarme's "intervals"--in musical/visual composition-= -("Un Coup de des")-- wondering--think of white spaces as "white noise"--background sound of the Big Bang radio-heard in universe--"out of noise arises music"-- neg-entropy of--chaos/white noise--out of which EMERGE--patterns=2C rhythms=2C poems--music----dissolution--decay--disappearance--back into noise-- and over again-- and again=20 and the theme of "emerge/nce" is central to al my works in various media-- this (white noise/chaos)--is just another possibility in considering ways o= f perceiving via al the senses--those areas out of which things emerge-- ("Not to seek=2C but to find"--the element of the uncanny--rather than begi= nning with a preconceived manner of apprehending the emergence=2C what does= emerge--of "placing it"--to be open--to what is found--something which may= be "new to me=2C yet not unknown" as Emerson put it--this is why Mallarme i= s provisional in his text--"a throw of the dice will never abolish chance"-= -which is the unknown as it is found--"by chance"--) a very strange example i just read is--(at once unrelated and related to th= e subject at hand--perhaps a sort of "negative" or "counter" example!!-as G= ombrowicz is indeed a "contrarian"---)-- in Gombrowicz's novel=2C COSMOS=2C--in the continual stream of chaos flowin= g past the narrator--it is repeatedly noted throughout the book--the immedi= ate human "scanning" so to speak--for patterns--for relationships among obj= ects=2C bits of faces=2C stains on a wall--a hanged bird=2C a "hanged" piec= e of wood=2C a hanged cat--and=2C finally--a hanged man-- there is a both a "suspension"-(things=2C beings=2C hanging in the air-)-an= d a "finality" (death)--yet "life goes on"--the narrator goes back home to = continue his war with his father-- (which may be of course be read in many ways Freudian=2C in terms of religi= on=2C etc) > Date: Mon=2C 24 May 2010 15:51:48 -0400 > From: muratnn@GMAIL.COM > Subject: Re: IMPROVISATIONS VIDEO BY VERNON FRAZER ON YOUTUBE//Mallarme/M= usic & Visual Poetry > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > Dear David=2C >=20 > I will have to return to your detailed post=2C but at this moment I would= like > to make two points: >=20 > "one is a system of sounds which > "plays" so to speak=2C on the emotions=3B the other is Music thought of a= s a > system of "pure" relations among the notations and the intervals=2C (the > white spaces of the page in a poem)=2C thus creating a structural system = in > the work=2C which exists without referentiality." >=20 > It is exactly these "white spaces of the page" which create the visual po= em > as a spiritual instrument. It is without referentially because=2C *at the > moment of its emergence*=2Cthis white space does not yet belong to a syst= em=3B > it is emergent. >=20 > I disagree with another point you are making. The double possibility you = are > referring does not lead to "two" performers each doing one. It happens in > the reader/performer himself/herself. Therefore it leads to hesitation=2C= to a > crisis in reading=2C to silence. >=20 > Ciao=2C >=20 > Murat >=20 >=20 > On Sat=2C May 22=2C 2010 at 9:32 PM=2C David Chirot wrote: >=20 > > Dear Vernon: > > > > thank you so much for your response! > > reading it i thought of Mallarme=2C who i have spent some time studying= on my > > own of late=2C in part to find out how he arrived at the composition of= Un > > Coup de des (A throw of the Dice)=2C which is often cited as being the = "first > > modern visual poem." > > > > When i first came across some of your Improvisations a few years ago=2C= i was > > immediately aware of the interrelationships of the visual layouts of th= e > > words=2C phrases=2C lines to the rhythms and sounds of the words. The s= ense of > > the pieces I read reminded me a lot of the improvisations in Free Jazz= =2C > > among other forms of improvisatory music=2C as there is a recurring "th= eme" > > expressed sonically=2C or visually or as a recurring idea--or al three = at > > once--around and in and out of on top and below of--are played the > > improvisations which seize upon a particular note or thought or sensati= on > > and expand it=2C adding color to it=2C dancing with it=2C expanding or = trimming > > it--and tossing it back to the source=2C which brings about another > > improvisation which may go on back and forth for quite some time=2C or = be > > played with for just a brief passage as passage of both time and of a t= ext=2C > > a notation=2C since improvisations are often built up with layers of > > allusions=2C quotations=2C references=2C to works outside the piece its= elf as > > well > > to particulars within the work as it is developing. This density which = can > > be achieved by layerings of quotations and then puns upon them which op= en > > them out into wholly new series of sounds and visual layouts=2C of new > > thoughts which challenge the old which have been quoted=2C perhaps--thi= s > > density can be increased or all of a sudden completely dispensed with i= n a > > flight of pure lyricism-- > > > > Often American performed/improvised poetry with music since the Beats s= ay=2C > > has been very influenced by Jazz--but often the notations themselves of= the > > words read do not look anything different from a conventionally printed > > poem > > which could just as well be read in a non-musical setting. One often fi= nds=2C > > post the Beats=2C poems with visual layouts which seem arbitrary=2C > > disconnected > > from the actual sounds of the words=2C as though tacked on to generate = some > > "sideshow" interest or suggestion of a "look" meant to be "experimental= ." > > What seems to be something very simple actually is quite a bit more > > complex--a good way to study the notations of sound as visual pieces is= to > > study the notations and scores employed by Sound Poets=2C as well as in= some > > cases=2C Visual Poets who use the Visuals to be sounded out as Sound Po= etry. > > Notations in these senses need n0ot even by written as words or even in > > letters=2C but using some other system or some completely arbitrary met= hod. > > Bob Cobbing for example would perform poems by simply feeling a rock in= his > > hands=2C exploring the textures and shapes and expressing sonically wha= t the > > fingers=2C the touch=2C experienced and found. Walking with Bob=2C we = would use > > side walk cracks and shadows of trees on the sidewalk as the notations = for > > performance. There being an underlying structure in the pale cement at = the > > same distances of the lines in a sidewalk=2C not counting the cracks=2C= one has > > already the basis for a theme around which to improvise-- > > > > The experience of your work and of some others led me to wanting to fin= d > > out > > more about the origins of this interrelationship of the Visual layout o= f > > words and punctuation marks on the page with the sounds not only of wor= ds > > as > > words having meanings=2C but of words themselves as simply sounds=2C wo= rking > > and > > flowing together like music-- > > > > This is what led me to Mallarme=2C a poet who i knew someday i would > > encounter=2C so had not previously made conscious effort to study him = other > > than reading his poetry until the right time found me and i found it--a= nd > > this was it-- > > > > I thought to share with you some of the things I found in my rummaging > > about > > in my little collection of the poet's works in French and English > > editions--perhpas it may be of interest and use-- > > > > Mallarme=2C like a great many French poets beginning with Baudelaire=2C= was > > very > > much impressed by the conceptions of Wagner=2C (and wrote a very fascin= ating > > essay on the composer's work)=2C not only with the idea of the > > "gesamtkunstwerke" (total art work or total work of art=3B in which man= y have > > found also the example of a "totalitarian" work of art--)-but also > > examples=2C materials=2C which coincided at various levels with the poe= t's own > > ideas regarding music and poetry. The first expression of these ideas i= s to > > be found in the "poeme critique" "The Book as Spiritual Instrument." "P= oem > > critique" was a new form invented by Mallarme in which the essay and th= e > > prose poem meet=2C thus announcing not only a new style of writing=2C b= ut of > > thinking as well=2C so that style and thought interact with each other = in > > opening up new ways to think and write simultaneously "critically" and > > poetically. Mallarme's essays and poetry=2C reviews and occasional piec= es=2C > > already mocked and attacked by the critics and public of the day=2C wer= e seen > > as going beyond all previous outrage with this new form thus marking to > > this > > day Mallarme as a deliberately "obscure=2C" "perversely difficult and > > decadent" and "both vague & hermetic" writer. Emerson noted that "Perha= ps > > the blank and ruin we see within Nature in is in our eye=3B" similarly= =2C one > > might propose that the obscurity=2C difficult and perversity which the > > readers > > of the time--and many today--find in Mallarme may have been--and be--in > > their own eyes=2C for=2C read on the terms which they set forth=2C Mall= arme's > > poemes critiques and poetry are actually very limpid=2C acutely lucid= =2C and=2C > > in > > the best French tradition=2C quite logical. > > > > For example=2C the poeme critique "The Book as Spiritual Instrument" (a= lso > > translated as "The Book as Intellectual Tool") may be thought of as > > referring to the book both as a tool=2C a device of instrumentality=2C = and as a > > musical instrument. It is in the musical context which Mallarme here f= irst > > envisions the layout of the composition of the musical score which is t= o be > > "Un Coup de des." Mallarme=2C like Verlaine=2C aspired to a sense of la= nguage > > that would attain the heights of "music above all things." However thi= s > > sense of Music=2C in Mallarme=2C has two facets: one is a system of sou= nds > > which > > "plays" so to speak=2C on the emotions=3B the other is Music thought of= as a > > system of "pure" relations among the notations and the intervals=2C (t= he > > white spaces of the page in a poem)=2C thus creating a structural syste= m in > > the work=2C which exists without referentiality. Given what seems the > > contradiction between a non-referential structure and one that provokes= =2C > > elicits=2C emotional responses which have their own referentialities=2C= the > > "resolving" achievement of this mini-gesamtkunstwerke is then achieved > > through the harmonious balance of all the elements within the poem=2C t= hough > > in such a way as to leave them open=2C provisional=2C rather than being= a total > > enclosure without issue for the elements involved. "A throw of the dice > > will > > never abolish chance" as the poem says-- > > > > (The structural aspect is part of the huge sea change in the interest i= n=2C > > study and reputation of=2C Mallarme beginning in the early 1970's as ma= ny of > > Mallarme's ideas and poetics acts=2C works=2C anticipate structuralist = and post > > structuralist literary thought in France. It was at this time that > > Mallarme > > ascended to his position as THE great experimenter=2C innovator=2C poet= -thinker > > of the poem critique of his times=2C knocking Rimbaud off the throne.) > > > > (This relates=2C I think=2C with your sense of improvisations=2C in whi= ch there > > is > > always an opening=2C a series of possibilities=2C of choices that are a= ctively > > present and there to be ignited at any moment by the poet--it also mean= s > > that the poet and the poem in itself can be seen/heard/felt/thought wit= h as > > being two players=2C improvising back and forth=2C rather than the poem= being a > > static set of notations on which the poet improvises--for the real > > challenge > > and meaning of improvisation is that two or more poets/players are > > exchanging ideas=2C references=2C allusions=2C rhythms=2C notes=2C back= and forth=2C > > each one encouraging and pushing the other to continually be expanding = the > > bursts of improvisations playing off of the central theme which runs > > through > > out the poem/music=2C pushing each other to ever greater and more > > exhilarating > > experiments=2C realizations=2C spontaneous illuminations or sudden expr= essions > > of the extreme tension which exists when the balance begins to stray an= d > > the > > theme is on the verge of being lost beneath too much > > "bric-a-brac"--signalling one or the other of poets/players to get a gr= ip > > on > > it and steer the improvisations back towards the "center of gravity" so= to > > speak. By this I mean that in your poems=2C what I find is that the "o= ther" > > poet/player is the poem itself=2C as when you are improvising--it is wi= th the > > challenges presented by the poem as it exists at that very moment--the = poem > > is at once "a part of you" and "apart from you" --it has its own > > independence=2C so to speak=2C as it is playing=2C improvising with you= . In other > > words=2C it is a manifestation of the uncanny of which Emerson said: "= It is > > new to me yet not unknown." > > > > In "The Book as Spiritual Instrument/Intellectual Tool=2C" which appear= ed in > > the June 1895 issue of La Revue blanche=2C 18 months before "Un Coup de= des" > > appeared in the journal Cosmopolis (which employed an English typesette= r > > whose work impressed Mallarme)=2C the poet writes: > > > > "Poetry=2C close to the idea=2C is Music par excellence--doesn't admit > > inferiority . . . Why couldn't a line--a spurt of grandeur=2C a conside= rable > > thought or emotion=2C a sentence in bold type that continues for pages= =2C one > > line per page in graduated placement--keep the reader breathless=2C cal= ling > > upon his powers of enthusiasm=2C for the length of the boo=3B along wit= h little > > groups of secondary importance=2C explanatory or derivative--a sowing o= f > > frills." > > > > Composing the "Editor's Note" himself for the issue of Cosmopolis in wh= ich > > "Un Coup des des" first appeared=2C Mallarme expands and clarifies this= idea: > > > > "In this work which is of an entirely new kind=2C the poet has attempte= d to > > create music using words. A sort of general leitmotif running througho= ut > > the poem provides it with unity. Accessory themes are grouped around i= t. > > The nature of the letters employed and the position of the blank spaces= are > > designed to replace notes and intervals." > > > > You note your thinking of your work in the context of multi-media--here= one > > finds the dream of French poets of the 19th century when first discover= ing > > Wagner and his works=2C his gesamtkunstwerke. Verlaine and Mallarme's > > aspiration to "Music above al else" are close to your own sensibility. > > While Verlaine--who in French is absolutely breathtaking in the sheer m= usic > > of many of his best poems--stayed with the conventional forms of the Fr= ench > > poetry of his day=2C Mallarme saw the way to the Visual layout=2C like = a > > musician composing a score=2C as a means of emphasizing the multi-vocal > > aspects and passages of the poem. The uses of space as an interval=2C = in a > > sense "fills" what seems to be "blank" with the interval of silence=2C > > anticipating Cage's use of silence=2C among others--silence plays a rol= e=2C is > > a > > sonic/visual element and event all its own=2C rather than simply being = a > > bystander at the "action" of the letters and words as is so often the c= ase. > > Silence=2C then=2C enters in also as duration--a new way of "keeping ti= me" > > within the rhythms of the poem--attending to the silence sharpens the e= ar > > to > > the entrance of the sounds=2C themselves also as visual events=2C forms= --the > > entire page becomes a site/sight/cite of activation=2C the prompter of = a > > performance which=2C beginning with the mouth=2C extends to the whole b= ody as > > an > > expressive instrument being played by the poet--thus the desire for a m= ulti > > media performance=2C in which dance=2C gestures=2C acting=2C music=2C b= ackdrops etc > > etc become a part of this activated poem-- > > > > The interrelationships among the Visual and the Sonic being performed l= eads > > to this activation of the body--and to the desire for a kind of multi m= edia > > theatrical space--or simply a performance outdoors=2C improvising with > > sidewalk cracks=2C tree shadows moving in the wind-- > > > > It is not simply a question of the gesamtkunstwerke as a total work of = art=2C > > but of the entire body of the poet/performer as the site/sight/cite of = a > > multi-media of performance score/visual poem/poem=2C of sound making=2C= of > > gesture=2C dance=2C the body itself as a "written character" come to li= fe as a > > form of "character"--the body itself becoming the gesamtkunstwerke-- > > > > In your works one feels and hears and sees in the minds eye and in the > > visual layouts on the page the presence of the body of poet/performer i= n > > action=2C alive and improvising with the poem itself as an other body= =2C an > > other entity=2C "at once new to me=2Cand yet not unknown." > > > > This to me was the great excitement in seeing your videos=2C as they pr= esent > > in action al that the poem is performing on the page=2C the video prese= nts > > the > > realization=2C the activation of al the elements so that one can experi= ence > > fully what is the confirmation of al that the visual layouts on the pag= e so > > vividly represent that it is but a step from the page to the performanc= e=2C > > even before one has seen the performance--so that seeing the performanc= e is > > a confirmation of al that one has found made possible on the page-- > > > > many many thanks again Vernon! > > > > > > > > On Thu=2C May 20=2C 2010 at 7:07 AM=2C Vernon Frazer > >wrote: > > > > > David > > > > > > Many=2C many thanks to you in return for your kind words. > > > > > > In 1985=2C when I heard Ted Enslin read=2C I realized that hearing po= ets > > recite > > > their work=2C > > > their rhythms and inflections=2C enabled me to understand it more qui= ckly. > > > > > > I've often felt that my own work needed a mixed-media > > > presentation--recitation=2C music > > > and a readable text-- to enable the reader to relate to my work in th= e > > > fullest way > > > possible. The Poetry Band I had about 20 years ago covered some of th= at > > > ground. After > > > the Poetry Band ended=2C my poetry started to incorporate the contrap= untal > > > and polytonal > > > melodies I used to hear around me when I performed with the band=2C o= nly in > > > the form of > > > language. So I started writing what I've called "orchestrated text." > > > > > > In IMPROVISATIONS I mentioned the late Julius Hemphill's Coon Bidness > > > because many of > > > the multi-voiced lines in teh book seem to come togeher in the way th= e > > > saxophones did > > > on his recording. > > > > > > I'm very pleased that the performance helped you see how my work fits > > > together. > > > Sometimes I think I'm a musician in a writer's body. When Ottone M. > > Riccio > > > did a spin on > > > Pound by saying=2C in effect=2C poetry is music made with language=2C= I began > > to > > > write from > > > that sensibility and poetry came much more easily to me than it had > > before. > > > > > > So=2C when you (or anybody=2C I guess) look at my work=2C knowing tha= t music of > > > some kind is > > > always at its core would (I hope) help "explain" the text. > > > > > > Again=2C I thank you for your praise of my work and for posting this. > > You've > > > certainly made > > > my day. > > > > > > Best=2C > > > > > > Vernon > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Get more from your = inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 08:42:19 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Joel Weishaus Subject: Leslie Scalapino MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Charles: The death of Leslie is a loss to the whole species. I'm very sorry to hear this. Warm Regards, Joel > Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 17:06:46 -0400 > From: Charles Bernstein > Subject: Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) > > http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/scalapino/obit.html > > “Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and > air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.” > — Philip Whalen > > > Leslie Scalapino passed away on May 28, 2010 in Berkeley, California. > She was born in Santa Barbara in 1944 and raised in Berkeley, > California. After Berkeley High School, she attended Reed College in > Portland, Oregon and received her B.A. in Literature in 1966. She > received her M.A. in English from the University of California at > Berkeley in 1969, after which she began to focus on writing poetry. > Leslie Scalapino lived with Tom White, her husband and friend of 35 > years, in Oakland, California. > > In childhood, she traveled with her father Robert Scalapino, founder of > UC Berkeley’s Institute for Asian Studies, her mother Dee Scalapino, > known for her love of music, and her two sisters, Diane and Lynne, > throughout Asia, Africa and Europe. She and Tom continued these travels > including trips to Tibet, Bhutan, Japan, India, Yemen, Mongolia, Libya > and elsewhere. Her writing was intensely influenced by these travels. > She published her first book O and Other Poems in 1976, and since then > has published thirty books of poetry, prose, inter-genre fiction, plays, > essays, and collaborations. Scalapino’s most recent publications include > a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith, The Animal is in the World like > Water in Water (Granary Books), and Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows > (Starcherone Books), and her selected poems It’s go in horizontal / > Selected Poems 1974-2006 (UC Press) was published in 2008. In 1988, her > long poem way received the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton > Prize, and the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. > Her plays have been performed in San Francisco at New Langton Arts, The > Lab, Venue 9, and Forum; in New York by The Eye and Ear Theater and at > Barnard College; and in Los Angeles at Beyond Baroque. > > In 1986, Scalapino founded O Books as a publishing outlet for young and > emerging poets, as well as prominent, innovative writers, and the list > of nearly 100 titles includes authors such as Ted Berrigan, Robert > Grenier, Fanny Howe, Tom Raworth, Norma Cole, Will Alexander, Alice > Notley, Norman Fischer, Laura Moriarty, Michael McClure, Judith Goldman > and many others. Scalapino is also the editor of four editions of O > anthologies, as well as the periodicals Enough (with Rick London) and > War and Peace (with Judith Goldman). > > Scalapino taught writing at various institutions, including 16 years in > the MFA program at Bard College, Mills College, the San Francisco Art > Institute, California College of the Arts in San Francisco, San > Francisco State University, UC San Diego, and the Naropa Institute. > > Of her own writing, Scalapino says “my sense of a practice of writing > and of action, the apprehension itself that ‘one is not oneself for even > an instant’ – should not be,’ is to be participation in/is a social act. > That is, the nature of this practice that’s to be ‘social act’ is it is > without formation or custom.” Her writing, unbound by a single format, > her collaborations with artists and other writers, her teaching, and > publishing are evidence of this sense of her own practice, social acts > that were her practice. Her generosity and fiercely engaged intelligence > were everywhere evident to those who had the fortune to know her. > > Scalapino has three books forthcoming in 2010. A book of two plays > published in one volume, Flow-Winged Crocodile and A Pair / Actions Are > Erased / Appear will come out in June 2010 from Chax Press; a new prose > work, The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihredals Zoom will be released this summer > by Post-Apollo Press; and a revised and expanded collection of her > essays and plays, How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (originally published > by Potes & Poets) will be published in the fall by Litmus Press. > > Her play Flow-Winged Crocodile will be performed in New York at Poets > House on June 19th at 2pm and June 20th at 7pm by the performance group > The Relationship, directed by Fiona Templeton and with Katie Brown, > Stephanie Silver, and Julie Troost. Dance by Molissa Fenley, music by > Joan Jeanrenaud, and projected drawings by Eve Biddle. This production > is co-sponsored by Belladonna* and the Poetry Project. > > There will be a memorial event for Scalapino at St. Mark’s Poetry > Project on Monday, June 21st. > > A Zen Buddhist funeral ceremony will be conducted by Abbott Norman > Fisher in about a month with the arrangements in a subsequent > announcement. Tom requests that in lieu of flowers, Leslie's friends > consider a charitable donation in her memory to: Poets in Need, PO Box > 5411, Berkeley, CA 94705; Reed College for the Leslie Scalapino > Scholarship, 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR > 97202-8199; The AYCO Charitable Foundation, PO Box 15203, Albany, NY > 12212-5203 for the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund to support innovative > works of poetry, prose and art; or to a charitable organization of their > choice. Condolence cards may be sent to Tom & Leslie’s home address, > 5744 Presley Way, Oakland, California 94618-1633. > > > > to make my mind be actions outside only. which they are. > that collapses in > > grey-red bars. actions are life per se only without it. > > (so) events are minute — even (voluptuous) > > ––Leslie Scalapino > > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 12:27:15 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: World Listening Day MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You are invited to participate in the first World Listening Day, which happens on Sunday, July 18, 2010. The purposes of World Listening Day are: . to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology; . to raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography; . and to design and implement educational initiatives which explore these concepts and practices. World Listening Day is being organized by the World Listening Project, in partnership with other organizations. July 18 was chosen as the date for World Listening Day because it is the birthday of the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. Schafer is one of the founders of the Acoustic Ecology movement. The World Soundscape Project, which he directed, is an important organization which has inspired a lot of activity in this field, and his book Soundscape: The Tuning of the World helped to define many of the terms and background behind the acoustic ecology movement. The World Listening Project invites you to participate in World Listening Day. Here are several possibilities -- . You can set aside some time when you pay attention to your soundscape. . You can organize a soundwalk or a listening party when people play field recordings. . You can organize a performance event that involves field recordings and other artistic expressions that explore our soundscape and how we can listen to our sonic environment. . You can facilitate an educational event that relates to acoustic ecology, field recordings, or a similar topic. . You can contact organizations that are participating in World Listening Day, to see if you can get involved that way. World Listening Day includes the following organizations and projects: American Society for Acoustic Ecology Auroral Borealis Listening Group Berg 26 (Berlin) Chicago Phonography Citizen Sound Community Sound [e]Scapes Fruit for the Apocalypse - "The Stepney Soundscape" Hellenic Association for Acoustic Ecology - "A Listening Demonstration-Performance and Sunset Silence Meditation" (Corfu, Greece) Im Namen des Raumes KKWNE (Paris) Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology New England Phonographers Union OISTAT Sound Design Working Group Seattle Phonographers Union SixtySecond Theatre "Sonic Survey of Weymouth seaside" (Dorset, England) Sound Studies / Berlin University of the Arts "Sounds Like Radio" (WDBX FM) Wild Sanctuary World Forum for Acoustic Ecology World Listening Project For more info, please email worldlistening@gmail.com. Updates regarding more participants and projects will be announced soon. Links: http://www.worldlisteningproject.org/?p=667 http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/music/node/26550 ================================== 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 May 2010 13:33:34 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: [amanda@bywords.ca: Bywords June15 deadline] To current and former Ottawa residents, workers and students: June 15, 2010 is the deadline to submit poetry for the July, 2010 issue of Bywords.ca. **Please consult the guidelines on www.bywords.ca** then send poems to submissions@bywords.ca. Judge for this year's John Newlove Poetry Award is Jason Camlot. Send poems! Thanks to everyone who has submitted poems. For poetry, literary events, news, links and hard-to-find poetry collections and chapbooks by Ottawa writers, please go to www.bywords.ca . Amanda Earl Managing Editor www.bywords.ca PO Box 937 Station B Ottawa,On K1P 5P9 -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 17:12:00 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eleni Stecopoulos Subject: ARMIES OF COMPASSION, from Palm Press MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Happy to announce my new book=2C Armies of Compassion (Palm Press=2C 2010)= =2C beautifully designed by Michael Cross.=20 http://www.palmpress.org/armiesofcompassion.html Available from SPD: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780984309900/armies-o= f-compassion.aspx?rf=3D1 This startling work brings something necessary to American poetry: a=20 visceral poetics that transforms diagnosis into a performative linguistic p= robe=20 in the service of the disturbed body. The body politic=92s symptoms and sig= ns are=20 the foundation for Eleni Stecopoulos=92s aversive lyrics=2C whose beauty li= es not in=20 the unbearing of a device but in the bearing of our discomfiture in the wor= ld=20 and the potency of our imaginary realignments. Armies of Compassion is=20 a talisman=2C antidote to what ails=2C spells woven against an engulfing ni= ght.=20 =97=20 Charles Bernstein The poems of Armies of=20 Compassion are riveting=2C threnodic=2C deeply investigative of our=20 "hieroglyphs of breath" and body. They cut to the marrow of kinetics and=20 philology=2C our psyche=92s doubt=2C our cellular breakdowns and theatrical= ities=2C our=20 ironies and euphemisms=2C our endless war=2C pinning evocative Latin and Gr= eek terms=20 to greater mythic dimension and healing ritual. Eleni Stecopoulos is one of= our=20 deepest and most rigorous poets whose ethos and intelligence challenge and = light=20 up the mind. I am thrilled by out of what ruins and darkness and inspired=20 lexical examination come these rare beauties.=20 =97 Anne Waldman "Philosophy never confesses / its=20 delicate condition" writes Eleni Stecopoulos=2C as she takes on the inheren= tly=20 vulnerable role of investigative poet=2C asking whether the body=2C persona= l and=20 politic=2C is irrevocably split off in its systemic afflictions. In this bo= ok=20 Stecopoulos deploys the paradoxical force/fragility of poetry at all too=20 familiar sites of our abjection. She does this with historically aware wisd= om=20 and humor. Can words help=2C not as palliative or consolation=2C but as sou= rce of=20 transfiguring energy? "Levitating girls" hover over "lines gathering / all = the=20 intelligence" of an intellectually astute imagination steeped in=2C among m= any=20 aesthetic legacies=2C that of ancient Greece=2C where=20 the fact "that the god descends on creaking pulleys in no way undermines th= e=20 apparition." This poet has the guts and strategy (persistent courage) of wh= at=20 she calls "choric goals=85waiting in the echo / for a tone=2C" subtending t= owards=20 love.=20 =97 Joan Retallack Eleni Stecopoulos is among a=20 constellation of contemporary U.S. poets effectively correlating=20 somatics (the everyday practices and conditions of bodies) with geopolitics= =2C=20 through a radical and emergent lyricism. In Armies of Compassion=2C the=20 poet's body becomes a site allegorizing disasters of "immunity": the princi= ple=20 disaster being the Hegelian-trap which over-identifies 'self' as 'other' an= d the=20 other as potential outbreak. As the epigraph to =93Autoimmunity=2C=94 from = Antonin=20 Artaud's Theater and Its Double=2C reads: "The Grand-Saint-Antoine=20 did not bring the plague to Marseille. It was already there." Which is to s= ay:=20 what plagues us is not alterity=2C but the dangerous fiction that 'self' an= d=20 'other' are not in fact coconstitutive=2C and that identities rather than=20 relationships persist. Discoursing with both ancient and contemporary heali= ng=20 practices=2C and calling into question the hegemony of modern Western medic= ine=2C=20 Stecopoulos opens the field for what bodies can do liberated from the=20 disciplinary triage of military=2C capital=2C and clinic. Like Artaud=2C Ro= bert=20 Duncan=2C and Hannah Weiner before her=2C language experiment follows from = bodily=20 necessity and contingency. Conditioned by despair=2C there is somehow hope = in=20 "guts." Having guts (courage)=2C but also attending their literal fact (the= =20 innards determining how we act=2C thus will be). =20 =20 =97Thom Donovan =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inb= ox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 20:19:15 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: jwcurry is appealing for relief again. jwcurry is appealing for relief again. Consider buying some of his books so he can live in his apartment! check out this older post, here; http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/09/urgent-note-from-roland-prevost-save.html rob -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 17:24:18 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Samuel Wharton Subject: Fwd: sawbuck 4.2 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 dear readers & contributors~ happy memorial day! also there's a new sawbuck for you to read, with poems from: Adam Shlager A.M. Brant Charles Springer Dean Faulwell Emma Bolden Kiely Sweatt Lisa Cole Mark Neely Rebecca Mertz Scott Abels hope you enjoy & have a great summer! ~samuel wharton, editor ================================== 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 May 2010 21:44:29 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: Tammany, around MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Chief that is, Chief Tammany. Where we will meet. The (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop, details at this link: http://myforehead.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: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:43:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: save jwcurry & Room 302 Books! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Last week jw sent me one of his famous single spaced many many paged lett= ers and talked a bit about his situation-- i think he's one of the great geniuses of poetry=2C publishing=2C critiques= =2C Visual Poetry=2C Sound Poetry & is also engaged in creating the entire = bibliography of bp Nichol some of jw's works will be in a forthcoming web anthology of Visual Poetry = i was invited to curate please help this great artist--! --david baptiste chirot NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS FROM ROB MCLENNAN'S GREAT BLOG An urgent note from Roland Prevost: save jwcurry & Room 302 Books! john curry=2C certainly a world class poet living in our community=2C is pr= esently facing almost certain eviction. Stephen Brockwell alerted me of this precarious situation=2C by phone=2C and asked if I would get the word out=2C most recently at the TREE Reading Series on September 22=2C where we were able to scare up enough to cover one of his 5 months=92 owed rent & save his telephone service. curry=92s been in constant production of his own and hundreds of others=92 work since 1979. he=92s mainly ineligible for grants. His bookstore is mainly an unused resource. His archive documenting the growth of avant-garde writing in Canada is one of the key collections in the country. Nicky Drumb= olis has said: =93curry and his work are the best-kept secret in Canada.=94 Since time is of the essence=2C if curry=92s to avoid eviction=2C there are= a few ways you can help: Start to use his goddamn store! Room 302 Books is the only bookstore in Canada ever to focus specifically on the avant-garde and =93overlooked outsiders=2C=94 specializing in concrete/visual/sound poetries (mainly Canadian) with a stock of over 20=2C000 mainly rare titles=2C including =93elusive ephemera=2C=94 and prob= ably the only source of most of jwcurry=92s various imprints and titles (which number in the thousands). curry=92s current lists finally focus on his own work as artist & publisher=2C virtually the first time everything that= =92s (still) available has been made commonly available. You can purchase bookstore IOUs (or set up an account) today in any amount for those who=92d like to do that. Subscribe to Curvd H&z=2C curry=92s serial imprint. =93donor=94 subscriptions (please indicate) of $100 or more get =BD the stash in a sampling of available titles from various of his imprints immediately=2C the remaining =BD put on account for forthcoming titles. Donate outright.I would like to encourage you to donate something so as to keep this excellent bookstore=2C publisher=2C archive and artist alive=2C and at the same time help prevent curry=92s eviction from his apartment. For those who=92d like to purchase bookstore IOU=92s=2C I=92d ask you to write (#302-880 Somerset Street West= =2C Ottawa Canada K1R 6R7) or call him at (613) 233 0417. Please contribute as you can. =20 The New Busy is not the old busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inbox= . Get started. =20 Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your = inbox. See how. =20 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with H= otmail.=20 http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=3Dmulticalendar&ocid=3D= PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 1 Jun 2010 10:39:43 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Deborah Poe Subject: Fwd: Call for anecdotes for an upcoming Sarabande book In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Forwarding on request (apologies for x-posting) Here's the call: *Call for anecdotes for an upcoming Sarabande book* Jeffrey Skinner and Leslie McGrath are working on a project about the careers of poets and literary prose writers. How do poets and other literary writers move ahead in their careers (other than via their blazing talent?) This is your chance to share the anecdotes you=92ve only told your closest friends. We=92re interested *only* in the stories, not in names and places. We offer anonymity and gratitude in exchange. And, if we use your anecdote, a free copy of the resulting book. ** Please email your anecdotes to mcgrath.leslie@gmail.com by July 1, 2010 under the heading =93Book Anecdote.=94 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 1 Jun 2010 13:08:40 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Allegrezza Subject: Series A: Durgin and Boully this Wednesday MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Come to Series A this Wednesday to hear two great poets. June 2, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Patrick Durgin Jenny Boully At the Hyde Park Art Center. 5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago, IL BYOB. Parking. Public Transit. http://www.moriapoetry.com/seriesa.html **The reading starts on time at 7 since the HPAC closes at 8. Bill Allegrezza ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:40:24 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mary Jo Malo Subject: Gulf waters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My contribution, "DOWN IN THE PARISH,"=A0can be read here: http://thisshiningwound.blogspot.com/ Recently I=92ve discovered the holistic work of physicist-philosopher, David Bohm, and am amazed by the intricate flow and interrelation among all forms of matter. Decades ago he saw the segmented, mechanistic view of reality as a dangerous justification for unrestrained technology. Bohm further realized our entire system of thought is incoherent. He believed fresh perspectives are attainable only through imagination and the potential inherent in an artist=92s inescapable need to create. When working in the energy sector, specifically the heavy electrical apparatus industry, I became aware of studies to determine the effect of electromagnetic radiation on children. I also learned too many utilities recklessly generate electricity using coal, gas, and nuclear power. We must end our reliance on toxic energy supplies and quickly transition to safe, renewable energy, or this planet will be uninhabitable for most species. Reduce, reuse, recycle, bicycle, and use mass transit! I no longer apologize for writing poetry using metaphors drawn from nature. Mary Jo Malo =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 1 Jun 2010 15:04:06 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Will Larsen Subject: This Sunday: Staviana Stanescu Reading, 2pm Comments: To: creative-writing@lists.uchicago.edu, poetics@lists.uchicago.edu, ugrad-english@lists.uchicago.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Renaissance Society presents *Saviana Stanescu =93NY THRU AN IMMIGRANT I or (r)EVOLUTION (Flagstories and other personal histories)=94 Sunday, June 6, 2:00 pm* *You are invited for The Renaissance Society's last event of the year - a reading by Saviana Stanescu, followed by a reception with light refreshment= s in the gallery.* Stanescu was a college student in 1989 when she participated in the Romania= n "revolution" and the so-called "end of communism". Now, after almost 20 years she witnesses the so-called "end of capitalism" in New York. This autobiographical performative lecture explores her immigrant experience in New York through the lens of a personal dichotomy East-West and a permanent negotiation between the old and new set of values. Playwright, poet, screenwriter, teacher, journalist, curator, Stanescu does it all. Her work is often characterized by a black humor and a sense of the absurd that is distinctly Eastern European. She wrote the screenplay for Do= g Luv which is featured in the exhibition Seductiveness of the Interval. She has won numerous awards and her plays have been widely presented internationally and in the US. Recent New York productions include: Aliens with Extraordinary Skills, Waxing West, and YokastaS Redux (co-authored wit= h Richard Schechner). She teaches at New York University. *The reading will take place in Swift Hall room 106, at The University of Chicago, 1025 East 58th Street (on the Main Quadrangle of the University, directly east of Cobb Hall). The reception will be at The Renaissance Society, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, 4th floor, Cobb Hall. FREE* =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 1 Jun 2010 17:45:55 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nic Sebastian Subject: Ten Questions on Poets and Technology: Chris Hamilton-Emery In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The internet=2C Facebook=2C Twitter=2C blogs=2C websites=2C iPad=2C iPod=2C= podcasts=2C digital video=2C computers and who knows what else. What do th= ey all mean for the poet? For Poetry? UK poet Chris Hamilton-Emery responds= this week to Ten Questions on Poets and Technology - http://bit.ly/anbQ7A.= Best wishes=2CNic Sebastianhttp://verylikeawhale.wordpress.com =20 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hot= mail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=3Dmultiaccount&ocid=3DP= ID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 19:59:16 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "V. Joshua Adams" Subject: *** NEW ISSUE OF CHICAGO REVIEW *** Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 *** CHICAGO REVIEW is pleased to announce the publication of issue 55:2, = featuring: POETRY by Simon Jarvis, Jean Valentine, Kristina Jipson, Pierre Joris, = Elizabeth Winder, Susan Stewart, Andrew Zawacki, Rob Halpern, and = St=E9phane Mallarm=E9 (Translated by Peter Manson) FICTION by Gary Lutz, Erika Mikkalo, and Matt Briggs ESSAYS by Jennifer Moxley, Durs Gr=FCnbein and John Wilkinson plus REVIEWS and a NOTE To order or subscribe, visit:=20 http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/ *** CHICAGO REVIEW 5801 S. Kenwood Ave. Chicago, IL 60637= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 1 Jun 2010 22:15:29 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Morse Subject: What happens when a photographer looks at a poet? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Setting the stakes high with a great photographer, Edward Weston, I ask that question in a blog post at http://jonathan-morse.blogspot.com/2010/05/tycoon-classic-studio-pose.html Jonathan Morse University of Hawaii at Manoa ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 07:36:48 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Maryrose ." Subject: Open Call: PolyVocal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Anyone interested in joining us? Contact me or James (below) Dear friends, We at the Spare Room are asking you to participate in an afternoon of poetry for voices Sunday July 18. In our business of bending literary tradition, we are working against the notion of literature as solitary act. We will be spending an afternoon in Portland, Oregon, out of doors, performing and sharing works of poetry composed or arranged for multiple voices. In doing so, we are looking back to the Greek Chorus, Louis Zukofsky's "A"-24, Canada's Four Horseman, and others, but you are as much encouraged to bring your own work, or re-imagine the work of others. This is an open call, do pass it on. Please let us know if you plan on attending, & any other information we might find useful for promoting the event. Thank you. James Yeary, for Spare Room juniorvarsityyardsale@gmail.com (501)352-8242 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:42:07 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Siegell Subject: youtube'd book trailer: wild life rifle fire Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" hello! when you have a moment,=20 and when your speakers are on...=20 wild life rifle fire's up on YouTube: http://bit.ly/aLaNz2 whaddaya think? 1,000 thanks for viewing, paul> http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com (gigantic thanks to those kind enough to post, fwd, embed, etc. - huge!)=20= ...thank you, Reb Livingston: http://wewhoareabouttodie.com/2010/05/30/poetry-attentionbeam-8/ =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, 2 Jun 2010 13:26:22 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: new at Rogue Embryo In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Fresh posts on my blog: 1) Charles Borkhuis=92 =93Write What I Say=94 http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/charles-borkhuis-write-what-i-s= ay/ 2) in-flight collage http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/in-flight-collage/ Cheers! Camille Camille Martin http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/martin.html 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: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:44:34 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Edward Foster Subject: GREAT BOOK EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: base64 UHVibGljYXRpb24gRXZlbnQgZm9yIHRoZSBCcmlsbGlhbnQgTmV3IFRyYW5zbGF0aW9uIG9mIFBh bmFpdCBJc3RyYXRpJ3MgDQpNYXN0ZXJ3b3JrLCBLeXJhIEt5cmFsaW5hIA0KDQpUSFUsIEp1bmUg MTcsIDIwMTAsIDc6MzAgcG0NClJDSU5ZIC0gVEhFIEdBTExFUlkNClJvbWFuaWFuIENvbnN1bGF0 ZQ0KNTczLTU3NyAzcmQgQXZlbnVlIChhdCAzOHRoIFN0LikNCk5ldyBZb3JrLCBOWSAxMDAxNg0K RlJFRSBBRE1JU1NJT04NCg0KDQpQYW5haXQgSXN0cmF0aSDigJxpcyBhIGJvcm4gc3Rvcnl0ZWxs ZXIsIGEgdGVsbGVyIG9mIE9yaWVudGFsIHRhbGVzLCBhbmQgDQpvbmNlIGhlIGxhdW5jaGVzIGlu dG8gYSBzdG9yeSwgbm8gb25lIGtub3dzLCBub3QgZXZlbiBoaW0sIGlmIGl0IHdpbGwgDQpsYXN0 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Subject: new book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 My book Mime Box has been recently published by Chalk Editions at = http://chalkeditions.co.cc =20 Thanks, Hugh Tribbey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 2 Jun 2010 19:36:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: FUCK DEATH! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 for Leslie Scalapino & Peter Orlovsky Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the barve. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. --Edna St. Vincent Millay It makes me angry that we die. I'm on Edna St. Vincent Millay's side with this one! FUCK DEATH! I am not resigned and will not intend to ever be so! Dying is a growing grief for the living. A humiliating and treacherous sadness in piecemeal THIS WORLD! It was very sad to hear of the passing of Leslie Scalapino and Peter Orlovsky. I had the weirdest things happen with both of their works, not weird really because everything we think weird or coincidental will probably be revealed one day as the softest magic imaginable, meaning WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW BIG THE magic faucet roars beyond this world. But I recently stumbled across Leslie Scalapino's AMAZING book Crowd and not evening or light JUST before hearing that she had died. And have since reread it, and loved it all over again. I despise religion which drives customs, which evaporates autonomy, and SCALAPINO also OPENLY felt the same way over and over again in her poems. Like this great stanza: people finding out what they are -- because they don't have any custom any longer -- we don't not from suffering -- though going on or their finding out, the women having been enslaved the men dead -- custom -- suffering made to be that And today I wish I knew Peter Orlovsky's poems as much as I do Scalapino's. I heard him read in Philadelphia many years ago at the Painted Bride Arts Center. It was Lamont Steptoe who brought him here I believe, but I'm not 100 percent sure. The first person who ever mentioned him to me was Molly Russakoff. Today Molly and I went deep into Fairmount Park together. We had a picnic for Peter. She had dated him at Naropa back in the 1970's at the same time that Allen Ginsberg was dating him. We had oranges and wine and dark chocolate and kale and blue corn, and ate, and offered some for Peter under the massive cottonwood tree in the park today. It was beautiful, this. This sharing and being together, being grateful for our lives and WE MUST be grateful for our lives we know. JUST before I found out that Peter died last week I was in the Rittenhouse Library, sitting in front of the poetry section reading from the marvelous anthology OUT OF THIS WORLD (St. Mark's Poetry Project), and a book title's spine jumped out at me: WHEN I WAS COOL. I forget the author, but Molly knew him as well, in fact the book was about going to Naropa, and the author was there when Molly was there. When Peter Orlovsky was teaching there, and Ted Berrigan, and it sounded like a great time. But I opened WHEN I WAS COOL to a page with Orlovsky's picture, and a caption which read something like, "On the first day of class Peter Orlovsky said, 'raise your hand if you think pussy tastes like strawberry jam'" or something like that. WITH LOVE TO THE LIVING. I mind dying, I mind very much! I do not approve, and am not resigned! 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: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:16:11 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Hilary Clark Subject: Re: new from No press: DANDELION COLLABORATION by Bob Cobbing and Lawrence Upton Comments: To: srosssmith@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <009401cafebf$a1412450$4001a8c0@housepress> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Hi, Forwarding message. Hope your spring/summer is going well. H. > No press is proud to announce the (re-issued) publication of > > DANDELION COLLABORATION > by Bob Cobbing & Lawrence Upton > > published in an edition of 40 hand-sewn copies (of which 20 are for sale) > $5 each (including shipping) > > Dandelion Collaboration was commissioned from Bob Cobbing and Lawrence Upton > by derek beaulieu. It was made between March and May 2002. It was the last > collaborative poetry the two made, writing and rewriting using additive and > destructive processes-original writing and inscription collaged with found > material, subjected to digital transformation using several PC graphics > packages, and analog transformation by photocopier. > > > > for more information, or to order copies, email > derek@housepress.ca > > derek beaulieu > 2 - 733 2nd avenue nw > calgary alberta > canada T2N 0E4 > derek@housepress.ca > http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/beaulieu/ > > ================================== > 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, 3 Jun 2010 15:04:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Laura Hinton Subject: Re: Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) In-Reply-To: <000501caff77$73702180$5a506480$@ubc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In mourning Leslie Scalapino's death and in celebrating her multi-genre poetry, I am coordinating a "Streaming / Reading Memorial" on my blog site, Chant de la Sirene. Four pieces have thus far been posted this week. We are looking forward to more: chantdelasirene.com Anyone who wishes to send in a short piece about Leslie, on the topic of reading / re-reading her work, please backchannel me ( laurahinton12@gmail.com). Laura Laura Hinton Professor of English City College of New York 138 at Convent Ave. New York, New York 10031 http://www.mermaidtenementpress.com http://www.chantdelasirene.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, 4 Jun 2010 00:10:13 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: EOAGH Reading Series 6/6: Javier, Lee, and Marinovich MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable EOAGH Reading Series 6/6: PAOLO JAVIER, SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE, and FILIP MARINOVICH Sunday, June 6 at 2 PM At Unnameable Books 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY FREE * PAOLO JAVIER is the author of the forthcoming chapbooks The Feeling Is Actual (creature press, summer 2010) and Megton Gasgan Krakooom (cy gist press, summer 2010). A 2010 Millay Colony Artist-in-Residence, he publishes 2nd Ave Poetry, and lives in Queens. Read =93FORMAL APOLOGY TO MY ASSHOLE,=94 =93Maybe I=92m All Of This=94 and = =93MCCARTHY AT HEART=94 by Paolo Javier in Issue 5: http://www.chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/javier.html Read an excerpt from Javier=92s play "Lunatic" in Issue 4: http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefour/javier.html * SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE grew up 3 miles from the CIA. She currently lives in Philadelphia, where she edits Corollary Press, a chapbook series devoted to multi-ethnic innovative writing. Her books include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Books) and Underground National (Factory School). Read =93from in an american mirror=94 by Sueyeun Juliette Lee in Issue 5: http://www.chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/lee.html * FILIP MARINOVICH is a poet living in New York, New York. His books are "ZER= O READERSHIP" (Ugly Duckling Presse 2008), and the forthcoming "A TRAVELLING PART" (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). He has published poems in Critiphoria, EOAGH #3 and #5, The Brooklyn Rail, and Aufgabe. Good evening Everybody. Read =93HONORABLE ONE,=94 =93BARETTE,=94 and =93Descriptions Automatique=94= by Filip Marinovich in Issue 3: http://chax.org/eoagh/issue3/issuethree/marinovich.html Read =93AMERICA DEATH IN NEW YORK=94 by Marinovich in Issue 5: http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/marinovich.html * HOW TO GET TO UNNAMEABLE BOOKS: Unnameable Books is conveniently located at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. There are two ways to get there: 1) Take the 2 or 3 train to the Grand Army Plaza stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block around the circle, and turn onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. 2) Take the Q train to the 7th Avenue stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block along Park Pl and make a left onto Vanderbilt Avenu= e heading NE toward the bookstore. * UPCOMING EOAGH READING SERIES EVENTS: Susie Timmons and Michael Gottlieb (Faux | Other event) Sunday, June 13 @2PM E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, and Shelly Taylor Sunday, June 27 @2PM =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 10:36:08 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Weeping over this ... Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" , Discussion of Women's Poetry List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I suppose this is the beginning of the "spill" effects (caution: gruesome) -- http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html ~~~ In related news, new poems up at Poets for Living Waters: http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico begun on April 20, 2010, one of the most profound human-made ecological catastrophes in history. The first law of ecology states that everything is connected to everything else. An appreciation of this systemic connectivity suggests a wide range of poetry will offer a meaningful response to the current crisis, including work that harkens back to Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing regional effects. ~~~ 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, 4 Jun 2010 05:58:55 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicholas Karavatos Subject: at Show & Tell Gallery in Portland, OR on Monday, June 7 at 7:00pm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 =20 "3 Friends Mondays: Caffeinated Art" welcomes poets Nicholas Karavatos=2C C= hris Cotrell=2C & Carolyn Brazda to the Show & Tell Gallery in Portland=2C = Oregon on Monday=2C June 7 at 7:00pm. =20 NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology Punk Rock Saved My Ass (Uki= ah: Medusa=92s Muse=2C 2010) and the latest issue of West Wind Review (Univ= ersity of Southern Oregon=2C 2010). In December 2009=2C Amendment Nine publ= ished his first book titled No Asylum (Arcata=2C 2009). =20 David Meltzer wrote on the back cover: =93Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of g= reat range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp = political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it vo= iced with an impressive singularity.=94 =20 CHRIS COTTRELL was born in Portland=2C Oregon but grew up on Maui. His fict= ion=2C reviews and poetry have appeared in The Scene=2C Alchemy=2C Willamet= te Week=2C Portland Review (which he now edits)=2C Clackamas Literary Revie= w=2C Nervy Girl! and Alembic (formerly Mercury). Cottrell has been awarded = the 2009 Shelley Reece award and the PSU/Literary Arts Writers in the Schoo= ls Residency and Internship for 2009-2010. He is the one of the first poetr= y MFAs from Portland State. =20 CAROLYN BRAZDA was the finalist for the 2008 and 2009 Academy of American P= oets Award. She lives and writes in Portland=2C OR. =20 http://showandtellgallery.org/ =20 Monday=2C June 7=2C 2010=20 7:00pm - 9:00pm Show & Tell Gallery=20 201 SE 12th Avenue=20 Portland=2C OR=20 =20 =20 =20 Nicholas Karavatos' next reading/book-signing is sponsored by Tebot Bach at= Golden West College=2C Community Room 102=2C Huntington Beach=2C CA on Fri= day=2C June 25 =20 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inbox= . http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 06:17:22 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Nigerian oil damage (fwd - the US is catching up) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell - Alan == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:09:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Poetry Project Subject: Events at The Poetry Project Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable The Poets Potluck is tomorrow! Friday, June 4, 10 PM Poets Potluck VI Come say goodbye to Ed & Nicole and make mark of the end of their co-Friday Night Series run before the Poetry Project=B9s annual summer-time pause. Brin= g your best gal, or a casual gentleman or two, your ma=B9s macaroni salad, and = a choice tipple, like grandma=B9s punch or grandpa=B9s whiskey, to wash it all down. There will be poems read, songs sung and early summertime romantic merriment for all. See you there, of course.=A0 Also, if you have a new book you should send a copy to Poets House for thei= r showcase: 2010 Poets House Showcase June 28 to July 31 Opening Reception: Monday, June 28, 6:00-8:00pm BE SURE YOUR BOOKS ARE INCLUDED! Book Submission Deadline=8BThursday, June 10, 2010 =A0 If your book was published in April 2009 or later, make sure it is a part o= f the 18th Annual Poets House Showcase, a display of all the poetry books published in the U.S. each year. Send books to Poets House Librarian Maggie Balistreri (10 River Terrace, New York NY, 10282; maggie@poetshouse.org) as soon as possible. For more details about the Showcase, visit www.poetshouse.org/showcase.htm =A0 The Poets House Showcase takes place at @ Poets House, 10 River Terrace (at Murray St.), (212) 431-7920 /www.poetshouse.org Become a Poetry Project Member! http://poetryproject.org/become-a-member Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.org/program-calendar The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery 131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue New York City 10003 Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L. info@poetryproject.org www.poetryproject.org Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $95 or higher will get in FREE to all regular readings). We are wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. For more info call 212-674-0910. If you=B9d like to be unsubscribed from this mailing list, please drop a line at info@poetryproject.org. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 07:45:21 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: conference - video demo - brightens nicely - MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed conference - video demo - brightens nicely - http://www.alansondheim.org/spilt.mp4 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:05:46 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" , Discussion of Women's Poetry List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "= Via Wendy Babiak -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page:=0A=0A"= British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisana isn't t= he only place that has shrimp." =0A=0AHis office number is (713)323-4093 hi= s email is randy.prescott@bp.com . Give him a call or send an email. Tell h= im 'BP isn't the only place that has fuel either!'" =0A=0AOf course, you c= an pressure your senators to pass Obama's new Clean Energy Bill too! =0A= =0AEMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just enter your= Zip Code and send -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301=0A=0A~= ~~=0A=0AWHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the Clean Energy Ac= t=0A=0ADear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The first law of ecolog= y states that everything is connected to everything else. People as well a= s animals depend on a healthy balance of the ecosystem for survival. An ap= preciation of this systemic connectivity requires a meaningful response to = the current crisis. As we watch the recent BP disaster unfold and the effec= ts make their way into our own Atlantic ocean, it is becoming ever-more cle= ar that protected waters are more imperative than ever. The House has pas= sed an energy bill already but legislation has stalled in the Senate. I st= rongly urge you to let your senators know -- right now -- that enough is en= ough! President Obama notes, "The time has come, once and for all, for thi= s nation to fully embrace a clean energy future." Don't give Big Oil and D= irty Coal a bailout. Please support this bill and protect our chance to bui= ld a clean energy future. I=E2=80=99ll leave you with the words of Thomas F= uller, =E2=80=9CWe never know the worth of water till the well is dry.=E2=80=9D = Please help with this project so that future generations don=E2=80=99t reme= mber us for the wrong reasons. Thanks for your time and thoughtfulness=E2= =80=94the clock is not stopping, neither should we. Sincerely,=0Ahttp://w= ww.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301=0A~~~=0AMORE INFO=0APresident Obama= says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fuel dependency -- http://ww= w.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0602/President-Obama-says-US-needs= -energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fuel-dependency=0AObama Points a Finger at = GOP -- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380= 918512.html~~~The energy portions of the law are intended to promote rapid = development of renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in b= uildings, appliances, and other sectors of the economy.=0AThe president sai= d he hoped that the clean-energy-related portions of the bill will inspire = Americans the same way that President Kennedy's goal to put a man on the mo= on did in the 1960s.=0A"I hope this investment will ignite our imagination = once more in science, medicine, energy and make our economy stronger, our n= ation more secure, and our planet safer for our children," Obama said befor= e signing the bill.=0AThe major energy-related portions of the law were lar= gely left intact after Congressional debate. Overall, the plan will more th= an triple the amount of spending on clean-energy programs, said Daniel Weis= s, a fellow at the Center for American Progress.=0AMORE DETAILS HERE -- htt= p://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.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, 4 Jun 2010 11:38:10 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mary Kasimor Subject: Re: Weeping over this ... In-Reply-To: <836275.89725.qm@web83304.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just posted this on Facebook. Yes, I feel like crying, too. These animals= are so vulnerable. =A0 Mary --- On Fri, 6/4/10, amy king wrote: From: amy king Subject: Weeping over this ... To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 12:36 PM I suppose this is the beginning of the "spill" effects (caution:=A0 gruesom= e) -- http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html ~~~ In related news, new poems up at Poets for Living Waters: http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the BP oil disast= er in the Gulf of Mexico begun on April 20, 2010, one of the most profound = human-made ecological catastrophes in history. The first law of ecology states that everything is connected to everything = else. An appreciation of this systemic connectivity suggests a wide range o= f poetry will offer a meaningful response to the current crisis, including = work that harkens back to Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing regional effect= s. ~~~ http://amyking.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 =A0 =A0 =A0=20 =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, 4 Jun 2010 15:37:57 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Johnson Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. In-Reply-To: <637172.4784.qm@web83303.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Source for the quote? Nobody I know has been able to find one. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM, amy king wrote: > " > Via Wendy Babiak -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page: > > "British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisana isn'= t > the only place that has shrimp." > > His office number is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com . > Give him a call or send an email. Tell him 'BP isn't the only place that = has > fuel either!'" > > Of course, you can pressure your senators to pass Obama's new Clean Energ= y > Bill too! > > EMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just enter your > Zip Code and send -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > ~~~ > > WHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the Clean Energy Act > > Dear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The first law of ecology > states that everything is connected to everything else. People as well a= s > animals depend on a healthy balance of the ecosystem for survival. An > appreciation of this systemic connectivity requires a meaningful response= to > the current crisis. As we watch the recent BP disaster unfold and the > effects make their way into our own Atlantic ocean, it is becoming ever-m= ore > clear that protected waters are more imperative than ever. The House ha= s > passed an energy bill already but legislation has stalled in the Senate. = I > strongly urge you to let your senators know -- right now -- that enough i= s > enough! President Obama notes, "The time has come, once and for all, for > this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future." Don't give Big Oil = and > Dirty Coal a bailout. Please support this bill and protect our chance to > build a clean energy future. I=92ll leave you with the words of Thomas Fu= ller, > =93We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.=94 Please hel= p with > this project so that future generations don=92t remember us for the wrong > reasons. Thanks for your time and thoughtfulness=97the clock is not stop= ping, > neither should we. Sincerely, > http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > ~~~ > MORE INFO > President Obama says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fuel > dependency -- > http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0602/President-Obama-sa= ys-US-needs-energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fuel-dependency > Obama Points a Finger at GOP -- > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512= .html~~~Theenergy portions of the law are intended to prom= ote rapid development of > renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in buildings, > appliances, and other sectors of the economy. > The president said he hoped that the clean-energy-related portions of the > bill will inspire Americans the same way that President Kennedy's goal to > put a man on the moon did in the 1960s. > "I hope this investment will ignite our imagination once more in science, > medicine, energy and make our economy stronger, our nation more secure, a= nd > our planet safer for our children," Obama said before signing the bill. > The major energy-related portions of the law were largely left intact aft= er > Congressional debate. Overall, the plan will more than triple the amount = of > spending on clean-energy programs, said Daniel Weiss, a fellow at the Cen= ter > for American Progress. > MORE DETAILS HERE -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.html > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:51:30 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.s= NOLA reported it here:=0A=0Ahttp://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.s= sf/2010/05/give_us_back_the_gulf_and_our.html=0A=0ABut if it's not substant= iated, oh my: I hope we do not inadvertently offend any of BP's representa= tives! =0A=0A~~=0A=0AALIAS -- http://amyking.org=0A=0A=0A=0A______________= __________________=0AFrom: Mark Johnson =0ATo: POET= ICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0ASent: Fri, June 4, 2010 3:37:57 PM=0ASubject: Re= : OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY.=0A=0ASource for the q= uote? Nobody I know has been able to find one.=0A=0A=0AOn Fri, Jun 4, 2010 = at 3:05 PM, amy king wrote:=0A=0A> "=0A> Via Wendy B= abiak -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page:=0A>=0A> "British = Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisana isn't=0A> the o= nly place that has shrimp."=0A>=0A> His office number is (713)323-4093 his = email is randy.prescott@bp.com .=0A> Give him a call or send an email. Tell= him 'BP isn't the only place that has=0A> fuel either!'"=0A>=0A> Of course= , you can pressure your senators to pass Obama's new Clean Energy=0A> Bill = too!=0A>=0A> EMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just = enter your=0A> Zip Code and send -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/1= 5111301=0A>=0A> ~~~=0A>=0A> WHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support= the Clean Energy Act=0A>=0A> Dear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: = The first law of ecology=0A> states that everything is connected to everyth= ing else. People as well as=0A> animals depend on a healthy balance of the= ecosystem for survival. An=0A> appreciation of this systemic connectivity= requires a meaningful response to=0A> the current crisis. As we watch the = recent BP disaster unfold and the=0A> effects make their way into our own A= tlantic ocean, it is becoming ever-more=0A> clear that protected waters are= more imperative than ever. The House has=0A> passed an energy bill alrea= dy but legislation has stalled in the Senate. I=0A> strongly urge you to l= et your senators know -- right now -- that enough is=0A> enough! President= Obama notes, "The time has come, once and for all, for=0A> this nation to = fully embrace a clean energy future." Don't give Big Oil and=0A> Dirty Coa= l a bailout. Please support this bill and protect our chance to=0A> build a= clean energy future. I=E2=80=99ll leave you with the words of Thomas Fulle= r,=0A> =E2=80=9CWe never know the worth of water till the well is dry.=E2= =80=9D Please help with=0A> this project so that future generations don=E2= =80=99t remember us for the wrong=0A> reasons. Thanks for your time and th= oughtfulness=E2=80=94the clock is not stopping,=0A> neither should we. Si= ncerely,=0A> http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301=0A> ~~~=0A> MOR= E INFO=0A> President Obama says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fu= el=0A> dependency --=0A> http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010= /0602/President-Obama-says-US-needs-energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fuel-dep= endency=0A> Obama Points a Finger at GOP --=0A> http://online.wsj.com/artic= le/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512.html~~~Thee= nergy portions of the law are intended to promote rapid development of=0A> = renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in buildings,=0A> a= ppliances, and other sectors of the economy.=0A> The president said he hope= d that the clean-energy-related portions of the=0A> bill will inspire Ameri= cans the same way that President Kennedy's goal to=0A> put a man on the moo= n did in the 1960s.=0A> "I hope this investment will ignite our imagination= once more in science,=0A> medicine, energy and make our economy stronger, = our nation more secure, and=0A> our planet safer for our children," Obama s= aid before signing the bill.=0A> The major energy-related portions of the l= aw were largely left intact after=0A> Congressional debate. Overall, the pl= an will more than triple the amount of=0A> spending on clean-energy program= s, said Daniel Weiss, a fellow at the Center=0A> for American Progress.=0A>= MORE DETAILS HERE -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.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=0A> The Poetics List is moder= ated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines=0A> & sub/unsub info: ht= tp://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=0AThe Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guid= elines & 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, 4 Jun 2010 12:58:38 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. In-Reply-To: <552458.905.qm@web83307.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable And then there's the Chief Executive of BP -- on the record at CNN -- chara= cterizing the fallout, on repeat, as "very, very modest." =0A=0A "I think = the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very= modest ... But everything we can see at the moment suggests that the overa= ll environmental impact will be very, very modest." =0A=0AAhem. =0A=0Ahttp= ://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/18/acd.01.html=0A=0A~~=0A=0AALIAS -- h= ttp://amyking.org=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: amy k= ing =0ATo: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0ASent: Fri, = June 4, 2010 3:51:30 PM=0ASubject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU= CAN DO - EASY.=0A=0Ahttp://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.s=0ANOLA= reported it here:=0A=0Ahttp://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2= 010/05/give_us_back_the_gulf_and_our.html=0A=0ABut if it's not substantiate= d, oh my: I hope we do not inadvertently offend any of BP's representative= s! =0A=0A~~=0A=0AALIAS -- http://amyking.org=0A=0A=0A=0A__________________= ______________=0AFrom: Mark Johnson =0ATo: POETICS@= LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0ASent: Fri, June 4, 2010 3:37:57 PM=0ASubject: Re: OT= : Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY.=0A=0ASource for the quote= ? Nobody I know has been able to find one.=0A=0A=0AOn Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3= :05 PM, amy king wrote:=0A=0A> "=0A> Via Wendy Babia= k -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page:=0A>=0A> "British Petr= oleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisana isn't=0A> the only = place that has shrimp."=0A>=0A> His office number is (713)323-4093 his emai= l is randy.prescott@bp.com .=0A> Give him a call or send an email. Tell him= 'BP isn't the only place that has=0A> fuel either!'"=0A>=0A> Of course, yo= u can pressure your senators to pass Obama's new Clean Energy=0A> Bill too!= =0A>=0A> EMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just ente= r your=0A> Zip Code and send -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111= 301=0A>=0A> ~~~=0A>=0A> WHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the= Clean Energy Act=0A>=0A> Dear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The = first law of ecology=0A> states that everything is connected to everything = else. People as well as=0A> animals depend on a healthy balance of the eco= system for survival. An=0A> appreciation of this systemic connectivity req= uires a meaningful response to=0A> the current crisis. As we watch the rece= nt BP disaster unfold and the=0A> effects make their way into our own Atlan= tic ocean, it is becoming ever-more=0A> clear that protected waters are mor= e imperative than ever. The House has=0A> passed an energy bill already b= ut legislation has stalled in the Senate. I=0A> strongly urge you to let y= our senators know -- right now -- that enough is=0A> enough! President Oba= ma notes, "The time has come, once and for all, for=0A> this nation to full= y embrace a clean energy future." Don't give Big Oil and=0A> Dirty Coal a = bailout. Please support this bill and protect our chance to=0A> build a cle= an energy future. I=E2=80=99ll leave you with the words of Thomas Fuller,= =0A> =E2=80=9CWe never know the worth of water till the well is dry.=E2=80= =9D Please help with=0A> this project so that future generations don=E2=80= =99t remember us for the wrong=0A> reasons. Thanks for your time and thoug= htfulness=E2=80=94the clock is not stopping,=0A> neither should we. Since= rely,=0A> http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301=0A> ~~~=0A> MORE = INFO=0A> President Obama says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fuel= =0A> dependency --=0A> http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0= 602/President-Obama-says-US-needs-energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fuel-depen= dency=0A> Obama Points a Finger at GOP --=0A> http://online.wsj.com/article= /SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512.html~~~Theene= rgy portions of the law are intended to promote rapid development of=0A> re= newable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in buildings,=0A> app= liances, and other sectors of the economy.=0A> The president said he hoped = that the clean-energy-related portions of the=0A> bill will inspire America= ns the same way that President Kennedy's goal to=0A> put a man on the moon = did in the 1960s.=0A> "I hope this investment will ignite our imagination o= nce more in science,=0A> medicine, energy and make our economy stronger, ou= r nation more secure, and=0A> our planet safer for our children," Obama sai= d before signing the bill.=0A> The major energy-related portions of the law= were largely left intact after=0A> Congressional debate. Overall, the plan= will more than triple the amount of=0A> spending on clean-energy programs,= said Daniel Weiss, a fellow at the Center=0A> for American Progress.=0A> M= ORE DETAILS HERE -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.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=0A> The Poetics List is moder= ated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines=0A> & sub/unsub info: ht= tp://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=0AThe Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guid= elines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=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=0AThe Poetics List is moderated & d= oes not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buf= falo.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, 4 Jun 2010 15:58:58 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christopher Rizzo Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. In-Reply-To: <552458.905.qm@web83307.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Brett Michael Dykes reported it in Yahoo! News article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100603/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2390 I Googled "Louisana isn't the only place that has shrimp." Google fixed the spelling error and I found the above article in 30 seconds. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, amy king wrote: > http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.s > NOLA reported it here: > > > http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/give_us_back_th= e_gulf_and_our.html > > But if it's not substantiated, oh my: I hope we do not inadvertently > offend any of BP's representatives! > > ~~ > > ALIAS -- http://amyking.org > > > > ________________________________ > From: Mark Johnson > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 3:37:57 PM > Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. > > Source for the quote? Nobody I know has been able to find one. > > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM, amy king wrote: > > > " > > Via Wendy Babiak -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page: > > > > "British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisana > isn't > > the only place that has shrimp." > > > > His office number is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com . > > Give him a call or send an email. Tell him 'BP isn't the only place tha= t > has > > fuel either!'" > > > > Of course, you can pressure your senators to pass Obama's new Clean > Energy > > Bill too! > > > > EMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just enter you= r > > Zip Code and send -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > > > ~~~ > > > > WHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the Clean Energy Act > > > > Dear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The first law of ecology > > states that everything is connected to everything else. People as well > as > > animals depend on a healthy balance of the ecosystem for survival. An > > appreciation of this systemic connectivity requires a meaningful respon= se > to > > the current crisis. As we watch the recent BP disaster unfold and the > > effects make their way into our own Atlantic ocean, it is becoming > ever-more > > clear that protected waters are more imperative than ever. The House > has > > passed an energy bill already but legislation has stalled in the Senate= . > I > > strongly urge you to let your senators know -- right now -- that enough > is > > enough! President Obama notes, "The time has come, once and for all, f= or > > this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future." Don't give Big Oi= l > and > > Dirty Coal a bailout. Please support this bill and protect our chance t= o > > build a clean energy future. I=E2=80=99ll leave you with the words of T= homas > Fuller, > > =E2=80=9CWe never know the worth of water till the well is dry.=E2=80= =9D Please help > with > > this project so that future generations don=E2=80=99t remember us for t= he wrong > > reasons. Thanks for your time and thoughtfulness=E2=80=94the clock is = not > stopping, > > neither should we. Sincerely, > > http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > ~~~ > > MORE INFO > > President Obama says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fuel > > dependency -- > > > http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0602/President-Obama-sa= ys-US-needs-energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fuel-dependency > > Obama Points a Finger at GOP -- > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512= .html~~~The > < > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512= .html%7E%7E%7EThe>energy > portions of the law are intended to promote rapid development of > > renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in buildings, > > appliances, and other sectors of the economy. > > The president said he hoped that the clean-energy-related portions of t= he > > bill will inspire Americans the same way that President Kennedy's goal = to > > put a man on the moon did in the 1960s. > > "I hope this investment will ignite our imagination once more in scienc= e, > > medicine, energy and make our economy stronger, our nation more secure, > and > > our planet safer for our children," Obama said before signing the bill. > > The major energy-related portions of the law were largely left intact > after > > Congressional debate. Overall, the plan will more than triple the amoun= t > of > > spending on clean-energy programs, said Daniel Weiss, a fellow at the > Center > > for American Progress. > > MORE DETAILS HERE -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.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 guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:59:21 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Johnson Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. In-Reply-To: <552458.905.qm@web83307.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Widely quoted this week..." No source. But hey, since the right doesn't fact-check, why should we? On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, amy king wrote: > http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.s > NOLA reported it here: > > > http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/give_us_back_th= e_gulf_and_our.html > > But if it's not substantiated, oh my: I hope we do not inadvertently > offend any of BP's representatives! > > ~~ > > ALIAS -- http://amyking.org > > > > ________________________________ > From: Mark Johnson > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 3:37:57 PM > Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. > > Source for the quote? Nobody I know has been able to find one. > > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM, amy king wrote: > > > " > > Via Wendy Babiak -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page: > > > > "British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisana > isn't > > the only place that has shrimp." > > > > His office number is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com . > > Give him a call or send an email. Tell him 'BP isn't the only place tha= t > has > > fuel either!'" > > > > Of course, you can pressure your senators to pass Obama's new Clean > Energy > > Bill too! > > > > EMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just enter you= r > > Zip Code and send -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > > > ~~~ > > > > WHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the Clean Energy Act > > > > Dear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The first law of ecology > > states that everything is connected to everything else. People as well > as > > animals depend on a healthy balance of the ecosystem for survival. An > > appreciation of this systemic connectivity requires a meaningful respon= se > to > > the current crisis. As we watch the recent BP disaster unfold and the > > effects make their way into our own Atlantic ocean, it is becoming > ever-more > > clear that protected waters are more imperative than ever. The House > has > > passed an energy bill already but legislation has stalled in the Senate= . > I > > strongly urge you to let your senators know -- right now -- that enough > is > > enough! President Obama notes, "The time has come, once and for all, f= or > > this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future." Don't give Big Oi= l > and > > Dirty Coal a bailout. Please support this bill and protect our chance t= o > > build a clean energy future. I=92ll leave you with the words of Thomas > Fuller, > > =93We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.=94 Please h= elp > with > > this project so that future generations don=92t remember us for the wro= ng > > reasons. Thanks for your time and thoughtfulness=97the clock is not > stopping, > > neither should we. Sincerely, > > http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > ~~~ > > MORE INFO > > President Obama says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fuel > > dependency -- > > > http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0602/President-Obama-sa= ys-US-needs-energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fuel-dependency > > Obama Points a Finger at GOP -- > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512= .html~~~The > < > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512= .html%7E%7E%7EThe>energy > portions of the law are intended to promote rapid development of > > renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in buildings, > > appliances, and other sectors of the economy. > > The president said he hoped that the clean-energy-related portions of t= he > > bill will inspire Americans the same way that President Kennedy's goal = to > > put a man on the moon did in the 1960s. > > "I hope this investment will ignite our imagination once more in scienc= e, > > medicine, energy and make our economy stronger, our nation more secure, > and > > our planet safer for our children," Obama said before signing the bill. > > The major energy-related portions of the law were largely left intact > after > > Congressional debate. Overall, the plan will more than triple the amoun= t > of > > spending on clean-energy programs, said Daniel Weiss, a fellow at the > Center > > for American Progress. > > MORE DETAILS HERE -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.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 guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:06:22 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "Thanks, Christopher. Seriously, my bad.". Rest of header flushed. From: amy king Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Good thing Mark posted= =0AThanks, Christopher. Seriously, my bad. =0A=0AGood thing Mark posted= the call to arms! I'm certain he's doing so much more than fact checking = too this poor BP representative's quote - you know, like reacting to the ac= tual spill, calling attention to the effects of it, putting pressure on his= senators to do something, sympathizing with the residents of one of the po= orest states going right now and how they can't sustain a living, the lack = of outrage, etc. =0A=0ACheers,=0A=0AAmy=0A=0A ~~=0A=0AALIAS -- http://amyk= ing.org=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: Christopher = Rizzo =0ATo: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0ASent: Fri, J= une 4, 2010 3:58:58 PM=0ASubject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU = CAN DO - EASY.=0A=0ABrett Michael Dykes reported it in Yahoo! News article:= =0A=0Ahttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100603/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2390=0A=0AI G= oogled "Louisana isn't the only place that has shrimp." Google fixed the=0A= spelling error and I found the above article in 30 seconds.=0A=0AOn Fri, Ju= n 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, amy king wrote:=0A=0A> http://= www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.s=0A> NOLA reported it here:=0A>=0A>= =0A> http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/give_us_back= _the_gulf_and_our.html=0A>=0A> But if it's not substantiated, oh my: I hop= e we do not inadvertently=0A> offend any of BP's representatives!=0A>=0A> ~= ~=0A>=0A> ALIAS -- http://amyking.org=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A> _____________________= ___________=0A> From: Mark Johnson =0A> To: POETICS= @LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0A> Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 3:37:57 PM=0A> Subject: R= e: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY.=0A>=0A> Source for t= he quote? Nobody I know has been able to find one.=0A>=0A>=0A> On Fri, Jun = 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM, amy king wrote:=0A>=0A> > "=0A> = > Via Wendy Babiak -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page:=0A> = >=0A> > "British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisan= a=0A> isn't=0A> > the only place that has shrimp."=0A> >=0A> > His office n= umber is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com .=0A> > Give him = a call or send an email. Tell him 'BP isn't the only place that=0A> has=0A>= > fuel either!'"=0A> >=0A> > Of course, you can pressure your senators to = pass Obama's new Clean=0A> Energy=0A> > Bill too!=0A> >=0A> > EMAIL YOUR SE= NATORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just enter your=0A> > Zip Code = and send -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301=0A> >=0A> > ~~~= =0A> >=0A> > WHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the Clean Ener= gy Act=0A> >=0A> > Dear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The first l= aw of ecology=0A> > states that everything is connected to everything else.= People as well=0A> as=0A> > animals depend on a healthy balance of the ec= osystem for survival. An=0A> > appreciation of this systemic connectivity = requires a meaningful response=0A> to=0A> > the current crisis. As we watch= the recent BP disaster unfold and the=0A> > effects make their way into ou= r own Atlantic ocean, it is becoming=0A> ever-more=0A> > clear that protect= ed waters are more imperative than ever. The House=0A> has=0A> > passed a= n energy bill already but legislation has stalled in the Senate.=0A> I=0A>= > strongly urge you to let your senators know -- right now -- that enough= =0A> is=0A> > enough! President Obama notes, "The time has come, once and = for all, for=0A> > this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future." Do= n't give Big Oil=0A> and=0A> > Dirty Coal a bailout. Please support this bi= ll and protect our chance to=0A> > build a clean energy future. I=E2=80=99l= l leave you with the words of Thomas=0A> Fuller,=0A> > =E2=80=9CWe never k= now the worth of water till the well is dry.=E2=80=9D Please help=0A> with= =0A> > this project so that future generations don=E2=80=99t remember us fo= r the wrong=0A> > reasons. Thanks for your time and thoughtfulness=E2=80= =94the clock is not=0A> stopping,=0A> > neither should we. Sincerely,=0A>= > http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301=0A> > ~~~=0A> > MORE INF= O=0A> > President Obama says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fuel= =0A> > dependency --=0A> >=0A> http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wire= s/2010/0602/President-Obama-says-US-needs-energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fu= el-dependency=0A> > Obama Points a Finger at GOP --=0A> >=0A> http://online= .wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512.html~~~The=0A>= <=0A> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487035616045752825933809= 18512.html%7E%7E%7EThe>energy=0A> portions of the law are intended to promo= te rapid development of=0A> > renewable energy sources and increase energy = efficiency in buildings,=0A> > appliances, and other sectors of the economy= .=0A> > The president said he hoped that the clean-energy-related portions = of the=0A> > bill will inspire Americans the same way that President Kenned= y's goal to=0A> > put a man on the moon did in the 1960s.=0A> > "I hope thi= s investment will ignite our imagination once more in science,=0A> > medici= ne, energy and make our economy stronger, our nation more secure,=0A> and= =0A> > our planet safer for our children," Obama said before signing the bi= ll.=0A> > The major energy-related portions of the law were largely left in= tact=0A> after=0A> > Congressional debate. Overall, the plan will more than= triple the amount=0A> of=0A> > spending on clean-energy programs, said Dan= iel Weiss, a fellow at the=0A> Center=0A> > for American Progress.=0A> > MO= RE DETAILS HERE -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.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=0A> > The Poetics Li= st is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check=0A> guidelines=0A> > & s= ub/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=0A> The Poetics List is moderated & does not ac= cept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:03:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Johnson Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "In the wake of reports..." Sigh. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Christopher Rizzo wrote= : > Brett Michael Dykes reported it in Yahoo! News article: > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100603/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2390 > > I Googled "Louisana isn't the only place that has shrimp." Google fixed t= he > spelling error and I found the above article in 30 seconds. > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, amy king wrote: > > > http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.s > > NOLA reported it here: > > > > > > > http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/give_us_back_th= e_gulf_and_our.html > > > > But if it's not substantiated, oh my: I hope we do not inadvertently > > offend any of BP's representatives! > > > > ~~ > > > > ALIAS -- http://amyking.org > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Mark Johnson > > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 3:37:57 PM > > Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. > > > > Source for the quote? Nobody I know has been able to find one. > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM, amy king wrote: > > > > > " > > > Via Wendy Babiak -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page: > > > > > > "British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisana > > isn't > > > the only place that has shrimp." > > > > > > His office number is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com= . > > > Give him a call or send an email. Tell him 'BP isn't the only place > that > > has > > > fuel either!'" > > > > > > Of course, you can pressure your senators to pass Obama's new Clean > > Energy > > > Bill too! > > > > > > EMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just enter > your > > > Zip Code and send -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > > > > > ~~~ > > > > > > WHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the Clean Energy Act > > > > > > Dear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The first law of ecology > > > states that everything is connected to everything else. People as we= ll > > as > > > animals depend on a healthy balance of the ecosystem for survival. A= n > > > appreciation of this systemic connectivity requires a meaningful > response > > to > > > the current crisis. As we watch the recent BP disaster unfold and the > > > effects make their way into our own Atlantic ocean, it is becoming > > ever-more > > > clear that protected waters are more imperative than ever. The Hous= e > > has > > > passed an energy bill already but legislation has stalled in the > Senate. > > I > > > strongly urge you to let your senators know -- right now -- that enou= gh > > is > > > enough! President Obama notes, "The time has come, once and for all, > for > > > this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future." Don't give Big > Oil > > and > > > Dirty Coal a bailout. Please support this bill and protect our chance > to > > > build a clean energy future. I=92ll leave you with the words of Thoma= s > > Fuller, > > > =93We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.=94 Please= help > > with > > > this project so that future generations don=92t remember us for the w= rong > > > reasons. Thanks for your time and thoughtfulness=97the clock is not > > stopping, > > > neither should we. Sincerely, > > > http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > > ~~~ > > > MORE INFO > > > President Obama says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fuel > > > dependency -- > > > > > > http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0602/President-Obama-sa= ys-US-needs-energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fuel-dependency > > > Obama Points a Finger at GOP -- > > > > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512= .html~~~The > > < > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512= .html%7E%7E%7EThe > >energy > > portions of the law are intended to promote rapid development of > > > renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in buildings, > > > appliances, and other sectors of the economy. > > > The president said he hoped that the clean-energy-related portions of > the > > > bill will inspire Americans the same way that President Kennedy's goa= l > to > > > put a man on the moon did in the 1960s. > > > "I hope this investment will ignite our imagination once more in > science, > > > medicine, energy and make our economy stronger, our nation more secur= e, > > and > > > our planet safer for our children," Obama said before signing the bil= l. > > > The major energy-related portions of the law were largely left intact > > after > > > Congressional debate. Overall, the plan will more than triple the > amount > > of > > > spending on clean-energy programs, said Daniel Weiss, a fellow at the > > Center > > > for American Progress. > > > MORE DETAILS HERE -- > http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.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 > 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 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, 4 Jun 2010 13:10:55 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yes, you're right, Mark. Since that poor BP Executive has been so maliciou= sly maligned, I'm countering the quote about the shrimp with one made by th= e BP Executive himself, all nice and documented at CNN, to further inspire = and re-direct your energy and call to arms:=0A=0A"I think the environmental= impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest ... But e= verything we can see at the moment suggests that the overall environmental = impact will be very, very modest." =0A=0Ahttp://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPT= S/1005/18/acd.01.html=0A=0ADoes that not sufficiently get your goat? Or am= I the only one capable of such a feat?=0A=0AAmy=0A=0A~~=0A=0AALIAS -- http= ://amyking.org=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: Mark Joh= nson =0ATo: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0ASent: Fr= i, June 4, 2010 3:59:21 PM=0ASubject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS = YOU CAN DO - EASY.=0A=0A"Widely quoted this week..." No source.=0A=0ABut he= y, since the right doesn't fact-check, why should we?=0A=0AOn Fri, Jun 4, 2= 010 at 3:51 PM, amy king wrote:=0A=0A> http://www.no= la.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.s=0A> NOLA reported it here:=0A>=0A>=0A> h= ttp://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/give_us_back_the_g= ulf_and_our.html=0A>=0A> But if it's not substantiated, oh my: I hope we d= o not inadvertently=0A> offend any of BP's representatives!=0A>=0A> ~~=0A>= =0A> ALIAS -- http://amyking.org=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A> __________________________= ______=0A> From: Mark Johnson =0A> To: POETICS@LIST= SERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0A> Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 3:37:57 PM=0A> Subject: Re: OT= : Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY.=0A>=0A> Source for the qu= ote? Nobody I know has been able to find one.=0A>=0A>=0A> On Fri, Jun 4, 20= 10 at 3:05 PM, amy king wrote:=0A>=0A> > "=0A> > Via= Wendy Babiak -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page:=0A> >=0A>= > "British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisana=0A>= isn't=0A> > the only place that has shrimp."=0A> >=0A> > His office number= is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com .=0A> > Give him a cal= l or send an email. Tell him 'BP isn't the only place that=0A> has=0A> > fu= el either!'"=0A> >=0A> > Of course, you can pressure your senators to pass = Obama's new Clean=0A> Energy=0A> > Bill too!=0A> >=0A> > EMAIL YOUR SENATOR= S HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just enter your=0A> > Zip Code and s= end -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301=0A> >=0A> > ~~~=0A> >= =0A> > WHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the Clean Energy Act= =0A> >=0A> > Dear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The first law of = ecology=0A> > states that everything is connected to everything else. Peop= le as well=0A> as=0A> > animals depend on a healthy balance of the ecosyste= m for survival. An=0A> > appreciation of this systemic connectivity requir= es a meaningful response=0A> to=0A> > the current crisis. As we watch the r= ecent BP disaster unfold and the=0A> > effects make their way into our own = Atlantic ocean, it is becoming=0A> ever-more=0A> > clear that protected wat= ers are more imperative than ever. The House=0A> has=0A> > passed an ener= gy bill already but legislation has stalled in the Senate.=0A> I=0A> > str= ongly urge you to let your senators know -- right now -- that enough=0A> is= =0A> > enough! President Obama notes, "The time has come, once and for all= , for=0A> > this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future." Don't giv= e Big Oil=0A> and=0A> > Dirty Coal a bailout. Please support this bill and = protect our chance to=0A> > build a clean energy future. I=E2=80=99ll leave= you with the words of Thomas=0A> Fuller,=0A> > =E2=80=9CWe never know the= worth of water till the well is dry.=E2=80=9D Please help=0A> with=0A> > = this project so that future generations don=E2=80=99t remember us for the w= rong=0A> > reasons. Thanks for your time and thoughtfulness=E2=80=94the cl= ock is not=0A> stopping,=0A> > neither should we. Sincerely,=0A> > http:/= /www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301=0A> > ~~~=0A> > MORE INFO=0A> > P= resident Obama says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fuel=0A> > depe= ndency --=0A> >=0A> http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0602= /President-Obama-says-US-needs-energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fuel-dependen= cy=0A> > Obama Points a Finger at GOP --=0A> >=0A> http://online.wsj.com/ar= ticle/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512.html~~~The=0A> <=0A> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487035616045752825= 93380918512.html%7E%7E%7EThe>energy=0A> portions of the law are intended to= promote rapid development of=0A> > renewable energy sources and increase e= nergy efficiency in buildings,=0A> > appliances, and other sectors of the e= conomy.=0A> > The president said he hoped that the clean-energy-related por= tions of the=0A> > bill will inspire Americans the same way that President = Kennedy's goal to=0A> > put a man on the moon did in the 1960s.=0A> > "I ho= pe this investment will ignite our imagination once more in science,=0A> > = medicine, energy and make our economy stronger, our nation more secure,=0A>= and=0A> > our planet safer for our children," Obama said before signing th= e bill.=0A> > The major energy-related portions of the law were largely lef= t intact=0A> after=0A> > Congressional debate. Overall, the plan will more = than triple the amount=0A> of=0A> > spending on clean-energy programs, said= Daniel Weiss, a fellow at the=0A> Center=0A> > for American Progress.=0A> = > MORE DETAILS HERE -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.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=0A> > The Poet= ics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check=0A> guidelines=0A>= > & 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=0A> 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, 4 Jun 2010 13:14:00 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "A Benefit for The Louisiana Buc=". Rest of header flushed. From: amy king Subject: SAVE THE GULF! -- BENEFIT POETRY & MUSIC FESTIVAL -- June 27th -- Petaluma, CA -- Grahn, Meltzer, Doubiago, Cherkovski and More! Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" , Discussion of Women's Poetry List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable SAVE THE GULF -- MUSIC & POETRY FESTIVAL=0AA Benefit for The Louisiana Buc= ket Brigade =0ASUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010 2:00 =E2=80=94 5:00 p.m. The Phoeni= x Theater, 201 Washington St., Petaluma 707-762-3565 http://www.thephoenix= theater.com/ POETS INCLUDE: DAVID MELTZER, JUDY GRAHN, SHARON DOUBIAGO, NE= ELI CHERKOVSKI. =0A=0AAlso: Geri DiGiorno, Terri Carrion, Pat Nolan, Bill= Vartnaw, Katherine Hastings, Michael Rothenberg, Zack Fortune, David Madga= lene and Sonoma County Poet Laureate Gwynn O'Gara =0AMUSIC BY ANNE CAROL a= nd PETALUMA'S FABULOUS HIGH CLASS! ADMISSION: $5 =E2=80=94 $5,000! NO ONE = TURNED AWAY=0AAll proceeds go to The Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a non-profit= 501(C)3 environmental health and justice organization tracking the impact = of the BP oil spill and preventing the impact from being "swept under the r= ug". Donations are tax-deductible. Checks accepted.=0A =0Awww.labucketbri= gade.org =0A=0Ahttp://oilspill.labucketbrigade.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, 4 Jun 2010 16:24:03 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Johnson Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. In-Reply-To: <601940.21549.qm@web83308.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You care more than I do! Now I can rest easy. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:06 PM, amy king wrote: > Good thing Mark posted > > Thanks, Christopher. Seriously, my bad. > > Good thing Mark posted the call to arms! I'm certain he's doing so much > more than fact checking too this poor BP representative's quote - you kno= w, > like reacting to the actual spill, calling attention to the effects of it= , > putting pressure on his senators to do something, sympathizing with the > residents of one of the poorest states going right now and how they can't > sustain a living, the lack of outrage, etc. > > Cheers, > > Amy > > ~~ > > ALIAS -- http://amyking.org > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Christopher Rizzo > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 3:58:58 PM > Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. > > Brett Michael Dykes reported it in Yahoo! News article: > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100603/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2390 > > I Googled "Louisana isn't the only place that has shrimp." Google fixed t= he > spelling error and I found the above article in 30 seconds. > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, amy king wrote: > > > http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.s > > NOLA reported it here: > > > > > > > http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/give_us_back_th= e_gulf_and_our.html > > > > But if it's not substantiated, oh my: I hope we do not inadvertently > > offend any of BP's representatives! > > > > ~~ > > > > ALIAS -- http://amyking.org > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Mark Johnson > > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 3:37:57 PM > > Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. > > > > Source for the quote? Nobody I know has been able to find one. > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM, amy king wrote: > > > > > " > > > Via Wendy Babiak -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page: > > > > > > "British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisana > > isn't > > > the only place that has shrimp." > > > > > > His office number is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com= . > > > Give him a call or send an email. Tell him 'BP isn't the only place > that > > has > > > fuel either!'" > > > > > > Of course, you can pressure your senators to pass Obama's new Clean > > Energy > > > Bill too! > > > > > > EMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just enter > your > > > Zip Code and send -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > > > > > ~~~ > > > > > > WHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the Clean Energy Act > > > > > > Dear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The first law of ecology > > > states that everything is connected to everything else. People as we= ll > > as > > > animals depend on a healthy balance of the ecosystem for survival. A= n > > > appreciation of this systemic connectivity requires a meaningful > response > > to > > > the current crisis. As we watch the recent BP disaster unfold and the > > > effects make their way into our own Atlantic ocean, it is becoming > > ever-more > > > clear that protected waters are more imperative than ever. The Hous= e > > has > > > passed an energy bill already but legislation has stalled in the > Senate. > > I > > > strongly urge you to let your senators know -- right now -- that enou= gh > > is > > > enough! President Obama notes, "The time has come, once and for all, > for > > > this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future." Don't give Big > Oil > > and > > > Dirty Coal a bailout. Please support this bill and protect our chance > to > > > build a clean energy future. I=92ll leave you with the words of Thoma= s > > Fuller, > > > =93We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.=94 Please= help > > with > > > this project so that future generations don=92t remember us for the w= rong > > > reasons. Thanks for your time and thoughtfulness=97the clock is not > > stopping, > > > neither should we. Sincerely, > > > http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > > ~~~ > > > MORE INFO > > > President Obama says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fuel > > > dependency -- > > > > > > http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0602/President-Obama-sa= ys-US-needs-energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fuel-dependency > > > Obama Points a Finger at GOP -- > > > > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512= .html~~~The > > < > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512= .html%7E%7E%7EThe > >energy > > portions of the law are intended to promote rapid development of > > > renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in buildings, > > > appliances, and other sectors of the economy. > > > The president said he hoped that the clean-energy-related portions of > the > > > bill will inspire Americans the same way that President Kennedy's goa= l > to > > > put a man on the moon did in the 1960s. > > > "I hope this investment will ignite our imagination once more in > science, > > > medicine, energy and make our economy stronger, our nation more secur= e, > > and > > > our planet safer for our children," Obama said before signing the bil= l. > > > The major energy-related portions of the law were largely left intact > > after > > > Congressional debate. Overall, the plan will more than triple the > amount > > of > > > spending on clean-energy programs, said Daniel Weiss, a fellow at the > > Center > > > for American Progress. > > > MORE DETAILS HERE -- > http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.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 > 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 guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:49:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Vernon Frazer Subject: Re: IMPROVISATIONS VIDEO BY VERNON FRAZER ON YOUTUBE//Mallarme/Music & Visual Poetry Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain David I like the "white noise" idea. In a sense, it renders the universe more kinetic, always in motion, so th= at even "silence"=20 may not be an absolute silence but a suspension of the kinetic elements t= hat creates spatial=20 and rhythmic tension, and an element of undertainty.=20=20 As I envision "Un Coup de Des," my sense of the hand shaking the dice con= tinuing=20 throughout the poem suggests to me a continuation of energy, not a cessat= ion. In effect,=20=20 the space on the page would fill with the tension and anticipation arouse= d while awaiting the=20 toss. In a universe in constant motion, e.g. from energy to matter and ba= ck, the continual=20 flux of energy and matter would render the outcome of the poem/toss "prov= isional". Vernon =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:32:03 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: Mingus Awareness Project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mingus Awareness Project 2010 a benefit concert for ALS support and research Wednesday, June 23, 2010 (8 p.m.) On June 23, a group of musicians will gather at The Jazz Showcase to celebrate the life and music of Charles Mingus, and to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation. Mingus, an American musical hero who died of ALS, is one of the greatest figures in jazz history. His bass playing, compositions and philosophy have transcended his genre and left indelible marks on music history. MAPtet will perform music by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Eric Dolphy, as well as original compositions -- Jon Hey -- piano Paul Hartsaw -- tenor saxophone Dan Godston -- trumpet Fred Jackson -- alto saxophone Jon Godston -- soprano saxophone Raphael Crawford -- trombone Tom Berg -- baritone saxophone Cory Biggerstaff -- upright bass Brian Jones -- drums Admission: $20 / $15 for students Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a raffle to win items. All proceeds will go to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation. Mingus Awareness Project is organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective, in partnership with the Les Turner ALS Foundation. The Borderbend Arts Collective is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to promote the arts, to create opportunities for artists to explore new directions in and between art forms, and to engage the community. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease for the New York Yankees baseball icon, is a progressive neuromuscular disorder that causes atrophy throughout the body, ultimately leading to total paralysis. Brain cells cease sending messages to muscles, which slowly prohibits patients' movement and their ability to communicate. Onset commonly occurs between ages 35 to 65, and is slightly more prevalent in men. There is currently no cure for ALS, but treatment and interventions can help alleviate some symptoms, improve quality of life and prolong survival by delaying respiratory failure. The clinical progression can vary widely; however, patients typically live with the disease two to five years after the onset of symptoms. ALS knows no racial, cultural or socioeconomic boundaries and follows no pattern. The Les Turner ALS Foundation, founded in 1977 is recognized internationally and is the only independent publicly supported non-profit organization in the Chicago-area devoted solely to the treatment and elimination of ALS. The Foundation is affiliated with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where it supports a large multidisciplinary clinical program and two world-class scientific research laboratories. The Foundation's comprehensive patient services include support group meetings; professional in-home consultation services; communications and durable medical equipment programs; respite care grants; and educational programs. The Jazz Showcase Dearborn Station, in Chicago's historic Printers Row neighborhood 806 S. Plymouth Ct. Chicago, IL 60605 (312) 360-0234 http://www.mingusawarenessproject.org http://www.kintera.org/autogen/home/default.asp?ievent=427785 http://www.borderbend.org http://www.jazzshowcase.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, 4 Jun 2010 14:34:45 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Peter Quartermain Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mark wrote: > But hey, since the right doesn't fact-check, why should we?< Tsk tsk. Since that remark can now be sourced, it can be used against "we" no matter how sardonic or satiric it may have been meant. Whatever you do re this disaster, DON'T shoot from the lip. Careless lips kill wildlife. Careful lips demolish politicians and their cronies. And, as Amy says, ACT. ========= 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 Mark Johnson Sent: 04 June 2010 12:59 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. "Widely quoted this week..." No source. But hey, since the right doesn't fact-check, why should we? On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, amy king wrote: > http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.s > NOLA reported it here: > > > http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/give_us_back_the_g ulf_and_our.html > > But if it's not substantiated, oh my: I hope we do not inadvertently > offend any of BP's representatives! > > ~~ > > ALIAS -- http://amyking.org > > > > ________________________________ > From: Mark Johnson > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Fri, June 4, 2010 3:37:57 PM > Subject: Re: OT: Call to Action -- TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO - EASY. > > Source for the quote? Nobody I know has been able to find one. > > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM, amy king wrote: > > > " > > Via Wendy Babiak -- from Centa Theresa at Michael Rothenberg's page: > > > > "British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisana > isn't > > the only place that has shrimp." > > > > His office number is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com . > > Give him a call or send an email. Tell him 'BP isn't the only place that > has > > fuel either!'" > > > > Of course, you can pressure your senators to pass Obama's new Clean > Energy > > Bill too! > > > > EMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just enter your > > Zip Code and send -- http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > > > ~~~ > > > > WHAT I WROTE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the Clean Energy Act > > > > Dear Representatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The first law of ecology > > states that everything is connected to everything else. People as well > as > > animals depend on a healthy balance of the ecosystem for survival. An > > appreciation of this systemic connectivity requires a meaningful response > to > > the current crisis. As we watch the recent BP disaster unfold and the > > effects make their way into our own Atlantic ocean, it is becoming > ever-more > > clear that protected waters are more imperative than ever. The House > has > > passed an energy bill already but legislation has stalled in the Senate. > I > > strongly urge you to let your senators know -- right now -- that enough > is > > enough! President Obama notes, "The time has come, once and for all, for > > this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future." Don't give Big Oil > and > > Dirty Coal a bailout. Please support this bill and protect our chance to > > build a clean energy future. I'll leave you with the words of Thomas > Fuller, > > "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." Please help > with > > this project so that future generations don't remember us for the wrong > > reasons. Thanks for your time and thoughtfulness-the clock is not > stopping, > > neither should we. Sincerely, > > http://www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301 > > ~~~ > > MORE INFO > > President Obama says US needs energy bill to help end fossil fuel > > dependency -- > > > http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0602/President-Obama-says- US-needs-energy-bill-to-help-end-fossil-fuel-dependency > > Obama Points a Finger at GOP -- > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512.ht ml~~~The > < > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282593380918512.ht ml%7E%7E%7EThe>energy > portions of the law are intended to promote rapid development of > > renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in buildings, > > appliances, and other sectors of the economy. > > The president said he hoped that the clean-energy-related portions of the > > bill will inspire Americans the same way that President Kennedy's goal to > > put a man on the moon did in the 1960s. > > "I hope this investment will ignite our imagination once more in science, > > medicine, energy and make our economy stronger, our nation more secure, > and > > our planet safer for our children," Obama said before signing the bill. > > The major energy-related portions of the law were largely left intact > after > > Congressional debate. Overall, the plan will more than triple the amount > of > > spending on clean-energy programs, said Daniel Weiss, a fellow at the > Center > > for American Progress. > > MORE DETAILS HERE -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10165605-54.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: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 18:28:44 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Rosenberg Subject: For Neda -- A Film by Antony Thomas MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Also --- Jim Rosenberg http://www.well.com/user/jer/ Internet: jr@amanue.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: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 12:22:30 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Two poems in Jacket Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Two poems in Jacket: http://www.jacketmagazine.com/40/side-2-poems.shtml ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:50:28 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jake Marmer Subject: Bernstein, Goldsmith, and Saft Gig this Tuesday MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, I have the honor of curating this gig - please come and spread the word: Jewish Art for the New Millennium: Avant-Garde Poetry and Music Charles Bernstein, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Jamie Saft Curated by Jake Marmer Tue June 8th, 8:00 pm Sixth Street Synagogue 325 East 6th (b/n 1st and 2nd Ave) Cover: $8 (includes a free drink) RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=3D125609840793872 Sixth Street Synagogue, Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Forward present the first in a new series of innovative cultural evenings at Sixth Street Synagogue. The =93Jewish Art for the New Millennium=94 series is aimed to showcase cutting edge Jewish artists, who represent their identity in most original, innovative ways. The first night features three artists who represent different generations, genres and aesthetics. Multi-instrumentalist musician Jamie Saft, poet Charles Bernstein and writer/poet Kenneth Goldsmith team up for an evening of intellectually provocative words and music as each performs separately and then join forces for conversation. Charles Bernstein is a rebel voice in the world of poetry and poetic theory. Author of a number of acclaimed poetry collections including this year=92s =93All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems=94 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). He is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. For this event, he will be reading from Shadowtime (Green Integer, 2005), his libretto in/on/around/about Walter Benjamin, for an opera by Brian Ferneyhough, which was performed in 2005 at the Lincoln Center Festival (CD from NMC & I-Tunes; more info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/shadowtime/. Kenneth Goldsmith=92s writing has been called =93some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry=94 by Publishers Weekly. Goldsmith is the author of ten books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (ubu.com), and the editor of I=92ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, which was the basis for the opera, =93Trans-Warhol=94 the same year that an hour-long documentary on his work, =93Sucking on Words=94 premiered. More about Goldsmith can be found at: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Goldsmith. Jamie Saft is a virtuoso pianist, keyboardist, producer, and composer from New York and a mainstay of the Downtown scene. Saft=92s stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills have been featured with The Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, The B-52=92s, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, John Adams, Donovan, Bobby Previte, Dave Douglas, Antony and the Johnsons, and scores of other artists. See more of his work here: http://www.jamiesaft.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, 7 Jun 2010 06:02:23 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rachel Loden Subject: Chernoff, Loden, de la Perri=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E8re=3A_?= Moe's in Berkeley this Thursday June 10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please come check us out and say hello. . . . =20 THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 7:30 Poetry Flash at Moe's Books MAXINE CHERNOFF, RACHEL LODEN & DONNA de la PERRIERE =20 MOE'S BOOKS, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, (510) 849-2087, = moesbooks.com. Parking at the Durant/Channing Garage, one block north of Moe's, just = west of Telegraph. Poetry Flash: (510) 525-5476, www.poetryflash.org. Maxine Chernoff is both a poet and novelist. The Turning is her newest = book of poems, praised by Aaron Shurin who says, "Maxine Chernoff's poems are born in the ache of the world in need of itself. Amid the false papers = of emptied language, this writing envisions 'a home inside the neutral = gleam,' where the heart of the authentic resides." She's published six books of fiction, including Signs of Devotion, which was a New York Times Book = Review Notable Book. With Paul Hoover she edits New American Writing, and with = him she co-translated Selected Poems of Friedrich H=F6lderlin, which won the = 2009 PEN USA Translation Award. Rachel Loden=92s new book of poems is Dick of the Dead, which was a = finalist for the California Book Award. A poem from the collection was recently featured in the Washington Post=92s =93Poet=92s Choice=94 column, and it = has been called =93oddly sublime=94 and =93intoxicating=94 by the Poetry Project = Newsletter and =93expansive and whimsical=94 by the Brooklyn Rail. Loden=92s first = book, Hotel Imperium, was one of the San Francisco Chronicle=92s ten best = poetry books of the year. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, an &NOW = award, a California Arts Council fellowship, and a grant from the Fund for = Poetry. =20 Donna de la Perri=E8re is the author of True Crime (Talisman House, = 2009) and the forthcoming St. Erasure (Talisman House, 2011). The recipient of a = 2009 Fund for Poetry award, she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at California College of the Arts and San Francisco = State University, and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series at = San Francisco's The Lab gallery and performance space. =20 =20 =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:32:47 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chad Sweeney Subject: My review in Jacket: Michael Farrell's A Raider's Guide MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I thought this was an interesting book, worth checking out, A Raider's Guid= e by Australian poet, Michael Farrell. The review just up at Jacket. =0ACh= eers, CS=0Ahttp://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-farrell-rb-sweeney.shtml=0A=0AFir= st paragraph:=0AMichael Farrell=E2=80=99s A Raiders Guide makes of language= a playground of moving parts, of slides and ladders and radio chatter. Far= rell composes at the level of the phrase, using parataxis and accretion rat= her than subordinated sentence structures to build his sonic textures via j= uxtaposition, non-grammatical fragments, portmanteau, codes, homophonic pla= y, and poliglot disco-balls. The phrases tease at narrative, then refute it= , establishing a dizzying surface texture, an experience in reading that re= wards participation. Sentences swivel at their hinges, or refract at obliqu= e angles, an effect of rupture reminiscent of William Burrough=E2=80=99s cu= tups: =E2=80=9CBefore doing anything too drastic, advertising at the launde= rette, the sheep wasn=E2=80=99t dead yet.=E2=80=9D In tone the poems recall= the flaneuring Frank O=E2=80=99Hara=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CI do this I do that= =E2=80=9D poems, but Farrell=E2=80=99s zones of reference construct languag= e events rather than a mapping of place. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 7 Jun 2010 10:22:14 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "Tuesday, Ju=". Rest of header flushed. From: amy king Subject: TOMORROW -- Poets for Living Waters Action--World Ocean Day -- Tues, June 8th @ Unnameable Books Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Poets for Living Waters Action -- In Honor of WORLD OCEAN DAY=0ATuesday, Ju= ne 8th @ 7 p.m. Unnameable Books =0A600 Vanderbilt Ave (between Dean St & S= t Marks Ave) =0ABrooklyn, NY 11238=0ATrains -- 7th Ave (Q, B) // Grand Arm= y Plaza (2, 3) // Clinton-Washington Aves (C) Readings from Poets for Livi= ng Waters and of work by Leslie Scalapino, Muriel Rukeyser, and Lorine Nied= ecker http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ Poets included are BEYER, BOZICE= VIC, BROLASKI, COOLEY, IIJIMA, KING and MOHABIR ~~~~~ Tamiko Beyer=E2=80=99= s poetry has appeared in The Collagist, Little Red Leaves, Sonora Review, a= nd elsewhere. She serves as the poetry editor of Drunken Boat and leads com= munity writing workshops with the New York Writers Coalition. She is a foun= ding member of Agent 409: a queer, multi-racial writing collective, a Kundi= man Fellow, and an M.F.A candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. F= ind her online at wonderinghome.com and blogging at kenyonreview.org. Ana B= o=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87 was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1977. She emigrated = to NYC in 1997. Her first book of poems is Stars of the Night Commute (Tarp= aulin Sky Press, November 2009), a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her fifth chapbook, Depth Hoar, will be published= by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, Ana co-curates The Stain of = Poetry reading series in Brooklyn. She works at the Center for the Humaniti= es of The Graduate Center, CUNY. Julian T. Brolaski is the recent editor of= NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards with erica kaufm= an and E. Tracy Grinnell (Litmus Press 2009), and author of the chapbook A = Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar 2008/9), gowanus atropolis (forthcoming, Ugl= y Duckling 2011) and Advice for Lovers (forthcoming, City Lights 2011). Bro= laski lives in Brooklyn where xe is an editor at Litmus Press, curates vaud= eville shows and plays country music with The Low & the Lonesome. New work= is on the blog hermofwarsaw and @juandenowherr. Nicole Cooley grew up in N= ew Orleans. These poems are from her collection, Breach, just published by = Louisiana State University Press that focuses on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Her fourth book of poems Milk Dress will appear with Al= ice James Books this November. She has published two other books of poems a= nd a novel. She directs the new MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literar= y Translation at Queens College-City University of New York. Brenda Iijima= =E2=80=99s books include revv. you=E2=80=99ll=E2=80=94ution (Displaced Pres= s), If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Pre= ss) and Around Sea (O Books). At present, she is writing an informal encyc= lopedia on animals used as surrogates by humans. She runs Portable Press at= Yo-Yo Labs (http://yoyolabs.com) from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Amy King= 's most recent book is Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox), and forthcomin= g, I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press). She is currently preparing a bo= ok of interviews with the poet Ron Padgett. She also teaches English and C= reative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. With Ana Bozicevic, King= co-curates the Brooklyn-based reading series, The Stain of Poetry. For more informat= ion, please visit http://amyking.org. Rajiv Mohabir teaches English as a Se= cond Language in Queens, New York, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Crea= tive Writing at Queens College. He is a VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Fo= undation) alumnus. Rajiv's poems have appeared in Trikone, EOAGH, Ghoti, an= d Saw Palm magazines. Pudding House Press named him a "Poet of Note" in the= ir 2009 chapbook competition and published his chapbook nabad-eye me in 201= 0. http://poetsforlivingwaters.com/ http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ PL= EASE FORWARD - Thank you!=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, 7 Jun 2010 18:45:42 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The second ebook from Argotist Ebooks is =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CIron_W=E2=80=9D_?= by Rich Curtis. Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The second ebook from Argotist Ebooks is =E2=80=9CIron W=E2=80=9D by Rich C= urtis. =20 Description: =20 A series of thirty-five poems composed from found text. The found source ma= terial was a copy of the book Ironweed, by William Kennedy, that has been r= ipped in half, with the half that was attached to the spine of the book bei= ng used here. =20 Available as a free ebook here: =20 http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3D36590601 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 7 Jun 2010 16:39:03 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Poets for Living Waters -- New Poems and Eco-Statements Up by .... Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable BROOKS HAXTON ** ANGELA SORBY ** T. CLAYTON WOOD ** RON SILLIMAN ** TAMIKO= BEYER ** JUDITH BARRINGTON ** JAMES WAGNER ** JULIAN T. BROLASKI ** LI= SANNE THOMPSON ** JAN HELLER LEVI ** SAM SCHILD ** ALISON PELEGRIN ** = STEPHANIE STRICKLAND ** CYNTHIA LAWSON JARAMILLO ** PAUL RYAN ** NICO= LE COOLEY ** RODRIGO TOSCANO ** JOSEPH P. WOOD ** GORDON MASSMAN ** = TARA BETTS ** FADY JOUDAH ** PHILIP METRES ** JEFF NEWBERRY ** KIR= STEN KASCHOCK ** PATRICK DURGIN ** ALICIA OSTRIKER ** CARLY SACHS **= KATE SCHAPIRA ** BILL MARSH ** EVIE SHOCKLEY and FRANZ WRIGHT=0A=0A=0A= Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the BP oil disast= er in the Gulf of Mexico begun on April 20, 2010, one of the most profound = human-made ecological catastrophes in history. Former US poet laureate Robe= rt Pinsky describes the popularity of poetry after 9/11 as a turn away from= the disaster=E2=80=99s overwhelming enormity to a more manageable individu= al scale. As we confront the magnitude of this recent tragedy, such a retur= n may well aid us.=0A=0A=0A=0AThe first law of ecology states that everythi= ng is connected to everything else. An appreciation of this systemic conne= ctivity suggests a wide range of poetry will offer a meaningful response to= the current crisis, including work that harkens back to Hurricane Katrina = and the ongoing regional effects.=0A=0A=0AThis online periodical is the fir= st in a planned series of actions. Further actions will include a print an= thology and a public reading in Washington DC.=0A=0A=0AIf you would like to= submit work for consideration, please send 1-3 poems, a short bio, and cre= dits for any previously published submissions to -- poetsforlivingwaters@ya= hoo.com. =0A=0A=0AEditors: Amy King & Heidi Lynn Staples http://poetsgulfco= ast.wordpress.com/=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 04:50:17 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The third ebook from Argotist Ebooks is =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CHow_to_Live_a_Life=E2=80=9D_?= by Martin Stannard. Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The third ebook from Argotist Ebooks is =E2=80=9CHow to Live a Life=E2=80= =9D by Martin Stannard. Description: As may be inferred from the title, this poem by Martin Stannard is publishe= d in the hope that it will assist the complete idiot to understand the basi= c problems of living a life, and also help him or her to overcome them. Available as a free ebook here: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3D36590601 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 7 Jun 2010 18:15:28 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Morse Subject: Jonathan Morse blogs about fur, food, and desire MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit at http://jonathan-morse.blogspot.com/2010/06/aspiration-things-help-us-visualize.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, 8 Jun 2010 02:04:34 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Fluffy Singler Subject: New blogs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm terrible about remembering to do this, but I have been writing my little heart out and I have several new blogs, including: Qwest Bundling: For Misfits and Psychopaths (funny) Gulf Requiem - poem (not funny) BP, Boycotts and the American Lifestyle (not funny) On non-sense poetry and spoken word (semi-sensical and rambling as always) (Unintentionally funny) http://fluffysingler.blogspot.com/ Fluffy ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:01:53 -0400 Reply-To: clwnwr@earthlink.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bob Heman Subject: 11th BIG CLWN WR EVENT - JUNE 18th - Westbeth MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 11th Big CLWN WR Event Friday, June 18, 2010 7:00-10:00 P.M. Westbeth Community Room 155 Bank Street / 57 Bethune St. NYC FREE ADMISSION!!! featuring Basil King & Liza Wolsky with special performances by R. Nemo Hill, Evie Ivy, Judy Kamilhor, Elinor Nauen, Carolyn Ota, Adriana Scopino, Moira T. Smith, George Spencer, Phyllis Wat, Nathan Whiting & Christina Robson & a special treat from Mindy Levokove hosted by Bob Heman, editor of CLWN WR & The Westbeth Artists Residents Council Literary Arts Committee Westbeth is an artists’ housing complex in the far West Village convenient to the 14th St. stop on the A, C and E trains, the West 4th Street stop on the A, C, E, B, D & F trains, and the Christopher St. stop on the 1 train. 57 Bethune St. is mid-block b/w Washington and West Streets, then up steps to inner courtyard. 155 Bank St. is mid-block b/w Washington and West Streets, enter outer courtyard and up ramp to inner courtyard. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 18:45:28 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jared Schickling Subject: poets for poets for living waters? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable apologies for sending twice=2C forgot to sign ---=20 poets for poets for living waters?=20 I=92ve been biting my tongue on this one=2C=20 wondering=97how does this =93poets for living waters=94 project function in relation to the Gulf disaster? (disclaimer=2C I sent poems to the project two weeks ago and haven=92t heard back) How does the project participate in this defining moment of human history=2C to be regarded or remembered or not as such? From all appearances this is a juried=2C refereed=2C and star-studded cast=2C even solicited. I=92ve counted 39 published poets so far=2C =93features=94 and the lesser "open=20 mics." I suspect the response to the call for work has been more than=20 modest=2C with 371 Facebook =93likes=94 already=2C though=2C of course=2C I could be wrong. 3= 9 voices=2C chosen=2C as=2C ostensibly=2C representative=2C appropriate=2C "good=2C" something=97as a poetic project= =2C=20 fine. But as the event itself=2C which in itself is not=2C mmmm=2C poetry=2C but so much more=2C so far beyond? If this poetic project is meant to be an adaptation to it=2C a profound it=2C then why is it forced to occur according to certain=20 standards of certain typical poetic projects? Why is the project so predictable when the enormity of the otherworldly=20 stupidity and all too worldly impacts all bound up with the gaping hole?=20 Whatever thoughts on Poets Against the War=2C for example=2C as an ongoing response=2C it has the virtue of inclusion=20 going for it=2C as do the events necessitating it.=20 The initial print volume was vast and varied to the point of blur and impotence=2C perhaps=2C and the barely selective online venue furthers this pathetic end (I=92m not deriding this here=97its structure seems appropriat= e to the task). To the point that the irony in the title makes sense=97how do you call something like it at a time like=20 it =93poets=94 =93against=94 anything? How pathetic! More accurate=2C and a little less charged=2C then=2C would be =93poetry=94 against=85 =20 I guess=2C my question=2C what will be the actual=20 produce from =93poets for living waters?=94 What opportunity is it truly presenting=2C or realizing=2C "for" whom and for what?=20 Jared =20 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inbox= . http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:24:23 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: poets for poets for living waters? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We've been up and running for exactly two weeks, since May 25th= Jared,=0A=0AWe've been up and running for exactly two weeks, since May 25th= (two Tuesdays ago). Poems continue to be posted daily with no end-date sc= heduled. =0A=0AI'm sorry you don't think writing poetry in response to thi= s disaster is a worthwhile enterprise. Perhaps you could write to your se= nator instead:=0A=0A=0A=0AEMAIL YOUR SENATORS -- ACTION=0A=0APressure your = senators to pass Obama's new Clean Energy Bill too! =0A=0AEMAIL YOUR SENAT= ORS HERE - TAKES LESS THAN TWO MINUTES - Just enter your Zip Code and send = -- http://www.congress.org/ soapbox/alert/15111301=0A=0A~~~=0A=0AWHAT I WRO= TE (Cut and Paste or Edit) -- Support the Clean Energy Act=0A=0ADear Repres= entatives Schumer and Gillibrand: The first law of ecology states that ever= ything is connected to everything else. People as well as animals depend o= n a healthy balance of the ecosystem for survival. An appreciation of this= systemic connectivity requires a meaningful response to the current crisis= . As we watch the recent BP disaster unfold and the effects make their way = into our own Atlantic ocean, it is becoming ever-more clear that protected = waters are more imperative than ever. The House has passed an energy bill= already but legislation has stalled in the Senate. I strongly urge you to= let your senators know -- right now -- that enough is enough! President O= bama notes, "The time has come, once and for all, for this nation to fully = embrace a clean energy future." Don't give Big Oil and Dirty Coal a bailou= t. Please support this bill and protect our chance to build a clean energy = future. I=E2=80=99ll leave you with the words of Thomas Fuller, =E2=80=9CWe never know the worth of water till the well is dry.=E2=80=9D = Please help with this project so that future generations don=E2=80=99t reme= mber us for the wrong reasons. Thanks for your time and thoughtfulness=E2= =80=94the clock is not stopping, neither should we. Sincerely, =0Ahttp://= www.congress.org/soapbox/alert/15111301=0A=0A=0A=0A=0AOR you could attend o= ne of the many readings organized and scheduled for World Ocean Day across = the U.S. today - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Poets-for-Living-Waters/1225= 04444439606=0A=0A=0AFurther, the word "against" is not located in the title= or description:=0A=0A"Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in respon= se to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico begun on April 20, 2010, on= e of the most profound human-made ecological catastrophes in history.=0AThe= first law of ecology states that everything is connected to everything els= e. An appreciation of this systemic connectivity suggests a wide range of p= oetry will offer a meaningful response to the current crisis, including wor= k that harkens back to Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing regional effects.= =0A=0AThis online periodical is the first in a planned series of actions. = Further actions will include a print anthology and a public reading in Wash= ington DC. =0A=0APlease submit 1-3 poems, a short bio, and credits for any = previously published submissions to -- poetsforlivingwaters@yahoo.com"=0A= =0A=0ABest,=0A=0AAmy=0A=0Ahttp://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/=0A=0A=0A = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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From: amy king Subject: TONIGHT -- Poets for Living Waters Action -- World Ocean Day -- Tues, June 8th @ Unnameable Books Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Poets for Living Waters Action -- In Honor of WORLD OCEAN DAY=0ATuesday, Ju= ne 8th @ 7 p.m.=0A=0A=0AUnnameable Books =0A600 Vanderbilt Ave (between Dea= n St & St Marks Ave) =0ABrooklyn, NY 11238=0ATrains -- 7th Ave (Q, B) // G= rand Army Plaza (2, 3) // Clinton-Washington Aves (C)=0A=0A=0AReadings fro= m Poets for Living Waters and of work by Leslie Scalapino, Muriel Rukeyser,= and Lorine Niedecker =0Ahttp://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ =0A=0A=0APo= ets included are BEYER, BOZICEVIC, BROLASKI, COOLEY, IIJIMA, KING, LEVITSKY= and MOHABIR=0A=0A~~~~~=0A=0A=0ATamiko Beyer=E2=80=99s poetry has appeared = in The Collagist, Little Red Leaves, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. She serv= es as the poetry editor of Drunken Boat and leads community writing worksho= ps with the New York Writers Coalition. She is a founding member of Agent 4= 09: a queer, multi-racial writing collective, a Kundiman Fellow, and an M.F= .A candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. Find her online at wond= eringhome.com and blogging at kenyonreview.org.=0A=0A=0AAna Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8D= evi=C4=87 was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1977. She emigrated to NYC in 1997= . Her first book of poems is Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Pres= s, November 2009), a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her fifth chapbook, De= pth Hoar, will be published by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, A= na co-curates The Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn. She works at = the Center for the Humanities of The Graduate Center, CUNY.=0A=0A=0AJulian = T. Brolaski is the recent editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Wo= rk of kari edwards with erica kaufman and E. Tracy Grinnell (Litmus Press 2= 009), and author of the chapbook A Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar 2008/9), = gowanus atropolis (forthcoming, Ugly Duckling 2011) and Advice for Lovers (= forthcoming, City Lights 2011). Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where xe is an e= ditor at Litmus Press, curates vaudeville shows and plays country music wit= h The Low & the Lonesome. New work is on the blog hermofwarsaw and @juande= nowherr.=0A=0A=0ANicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans. These poems are from= her collection, Breach, just published by Louisiana State University Press= that focuses on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Her fourth book of po= ems Milk Dress will appear with Alice James Books this November. She has pu= blished two other books of poems and a novel. She directs the new MFA Progr= am in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College-City Univ= ersity of New York.=0A=0A=0ABrenda Iijima=E2=80=99s books include revv. you= =E2=80=99ll=E2=80=94ution (Displaced Press), If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Pr= ess), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press) and Around Sea (O Books). At = present, she is writing an informal encyclopedia on animals used as surroga= tes by humans. She runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs (http://yoyolabs.com) = from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.=0A=0A=0AAmy King's most recent book is Sla= ves to Do These Things (Blazevox), and forthcoming, I Want to Make You Safe= (Litmus Press). She is currently preparing a book of interviews with the = poet Ron Padgett. She also teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Na= ssau Community College. With Ana Bozicevic, King co-curates the Brooklyn-b= ased reading series, The Stain of Poetry. For more information, please vis= it http://amyking.org.=0A=0A=0ARachel Levitsky is, most recently, the autho= r of the Delete Press chapbook, Renoemos. Her full length book NEIGHBOR, wa= s published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2009. A novel, The Story of My Accid= ent is Ours will soon be published by Futurepoem. Four mini-essays on The P= oetics of Confinement are online at http://poetryproject.org/tag/rachel-lev= itsky. She teaches Writing and Literature at Naropa University=E2=80=99s Su= mmer Writing Program, Bard Prison Initiative and Pratt Institute. She co-cu= rates Belladonna Series--an exploration of feminist avant-garde writing. = =0A=0A=0ARajiv Mohabir teaches English as a Second Language in Queens, New = York, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Queens Colleg= e. He is a VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation) alumnus. Rajiv's po= ems have appeared in Trikone, EOAGH, Ghoti, and Saw Palm magazines. Pudding= House Press named him a "Poet of Note" in their 2009 chapbook competition = and published his chapbook nabad-eye me in 2010.=0A=0A=0Ahttp://poetsforliv= ingwaters.com/ =0Ahttp://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ =0A=0A=0A=0AReadings= in other states listed on our Facebook page -- http://www.facebook.com/pag= es/Poets-for-Living-Waters/122504444439606 =0A=0A=0A=0APLEASE FORWARD - Tha= nk you!=0A=0A=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. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 18:31:51 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Francesco Levato Subject: Redletter Reading Series: Francesco Levato, June 18th In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Redletter Reading Series June 18, 2010, 7pm Featuring a reading of new poetry and translations by Francesco Levato. Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street Milwaukee, WI 53216 Poet, translator, and new media artist Francesco Levato is the author of three books of poetry: "Elegy for Dead Languages;" "War Rug," a book length documentary poem; and "Marginal State." He has translated into English the books of Italian poets Tiziano Fratus, "Creaturing," and Fabiano Alborghetti, "The Opposite Shore." His work has been published internationally in journals and anthologies, both in print and online, including "Drunken Boat," "The Progressive," "Versal," and many others. His cin=E9poetry has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals i= n Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. =20 Redletter is a reading series featuring local and regional poets and writer= s on the third Friday of each month, and is curated by Chuck Stebelton. The program begins at 7pm with an open mic hosted by Melissa Czarnik, followed by one or two featured readers. The cost is $3, or $2 for open mic readers. Directions: http://www.woodlandpattern.org/about_us/where_when.shtml More information: http://www.woodlandpattern.org/gallery/redletter.shtml =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 9 Jun 2010 04:58:50 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nic Sebastian Subject: Ten Questions on Poets and Technology: Cati Porter In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cati Porter responds this week to Ten Questions on Poets and Technology - h= ttp://bit.ly/c0lj5W. Best wishes=2C Nic Sebastianhttp://verylikeawhale.wordpress.com =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your = inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:02:55 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Re: poets for poets for living waters? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Jared & Everyone: still recovering from an operation so am a bit behind on email--though have followed this the last few days-- "poets for living waters"-- i thought immediately also of another assault on "living waters"-- the Israeli commando attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla in International Waters-- when the starving people of Somalia, whose coastline for fishing is toxic, being used as an international waste dump for the powerful-- attack a ship, they are called "pirates"-- their country being of course "linked to terrorism" also in the eyes of the usa-- of course, when humanitarian aid workers are attacked in international Waters by state commandos-- they must be "terrorists" too-- the "living waters"-- whose "living waters?"-- think how each day, "living waters," beings, humans, reefs, plants, ways of life, rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, puddles, rain drops--are killed off by toxic dumping, toxic oil and toxic anti-humanitarianism-- the "living waters" --think on all the "living" and dying waters of the world-- and of how many ways they are made toxic- all the poets of the world need "living waters"-- without "living waters" -- for all-- there won't be "living poets"-- nor poems for "living waters"-- that's my non-poem-- david-bc On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jared Schickling wrot= e: > apologies for sending twice, forgot to sign --- > > poets for poets for living waters? > I=92ve been biting my tongue on this one, > wondering=97how does > this =93poets for living waters=94 project function in relation to the Gu= lf > disaster? (disclaimer, I sent poems to > the project two weeks ago and haven=92t heard back) How > > does the project participate in this defining moment of human > history, to be regarded or remembered or not as such? From > > all appearances this is a juried, > refereed, and star-studded cast, even solicited. I=92ve > > counted 39 published poets so far, =93features=94 and the lesser "open > mics." I suspect the response to the call for work has been more than > modest, with 371 > Facebook =93likes=94 already, though, of course, I could be wrong. 39 vo= ices, > chosen, as, ostensibly, > representative, appropriate, "good," something=97as a poetic project, > fine. But as the event itself, which in itself is > not, mmmm, poetry, but so much more, so far beyond? If > > this poetic project is meant to be an adaptation to it, a > profound it, then why is it forced to occur according to certain > standards of > certain typical poetic projects? Why is > the project so predictable when the enormity of the otherworldly > stupidity and > all too worldly impacts all bound up with the gaping hole? > Whatever thoughts on Poets Against the War, > for example, as an ongoing response, it has the virtue of inclusion > going for > it, as do the events necessitating it. > The initial print volume was vast and varied to the point of blur > and > impotence, perhaps, and the barely selective online venue furthers this > pathetic end (I=92m not deriding this here=97its structure seems appropri= ate > to the > task). To the point that the irony in > the title makes sense=97how do you call something like it at a time like > it > =93poets=94 =93against=94 anything? How > pathetic! More accurate, and a little > less charged, then, would be =93poetry=94 against=85 > > > > I guess, my question, what will be the actual > produce from > =93poets for living waters?=94 What opportunity > is it truly presenting, or realizing, "for" whom and for what? > > Jared > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox= . > > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL= :ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 05:45:08 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Poets for Living Waters - Response from Editor, Heidi Lynn Staples (forward) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In the face of an unprecedented ecological disaster with = Dear Jared,=0A =0AIn the face of an unprecedented ecological disaster with = ongoing likely-to-be-global catastrophic consequences, Amy King and I have = turned to poetry. We have called for people to write poems. Thousands of pe= ople have done just that, and we have published those poems. We have also c= alled for people to organize poetry readings. People around the world have = done just that, and we have too. But 500,000+ gallons of oil a day roil int= o the Gulf of Mexico choking marshes and bays, with coastlines destroyed an= d economies wrecked, and in response--poems? You want to know what the poet= ry will produce. You bring up a reasonable question, and I think you do so = in a fair enough way. You refrain from personal attack. You feel the same o= utrage and genuine concern about the escalating disaster, I think, that mos= t of us feel.=0A =0ALet me decline the opportunity to outline the documente= d relevance of poetry for therapeutic purposes in grief work or assert the = need to shape cultural consciousness through the collection of historical d= ocumentation recording marginalized voices and, instead, explore the possib= ilities of concurring with your implied accusation. In the effort to stop t= he slow and pointless and avoidable (though now increasingly unavoidable) d= eath of a 300 million year old richly diverse ecosystem, a demise perpetrat= ed by an indifferent, corrupt, and even sinister global power, a death with= in a larger systemic crisis already underway in the oceans, the Poets for L= iving Waters project is useless.=0A =0AI embrace this uselessness. It is my= only hope. I think the demand that an activity have a use is endemic to th= e thinking behind our current ecological crisis. The expectation that a poe= m be of use, that a person be of use, that one's life be of use or have a p= urpose--is an expression of the assumption that all the rest of the natural= world is to be of use. This is basically the =E2=80=98instrumental view=E2= =80=99 we have inherited from the Greeks and Judeo-Christian thought=E2=80= =94the instrumental view ecologists pretty much all agree bears fundamental= responsibility for this current mass extinction, this heartbreak era of ec= ocide.=0A =0AAt a candlelight vigil on World Ocean Day, which I attended on= the Gulf of Mexico in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, desperate folks talked ab= out making changes to reduce their carbon footprints=E2=80=94putting timers= on their hot water heaters, carpooling, lobbying for clean energy=E2=80=94= all reasonable enough intentions. But others implied and I would argue the = problem is, at least partly, much more basic. The problem is located in our= assumption of what our lives mean or rather that they mean. We want meanin= gful lives. We strive for bigger, better, more abundant lives full of evide= nce that we have in fact been useful, purposeful, day-planner-packed alive,= have improved on the lots of our forebearers. In this mode, we=E2=80=99ll = keep demanding the energy reserves to get us all those important places we = need to be. And companies will keep drilling to get the energy we buy. What= if instead we accept our lives as meaningless? What if we collectively ask= how we can be radically useless? What if instead of purposeful lives, we simply appreciate, engage= , value, and insist on shared access to the joy offered by a sensorial conv= ersation with our fellow transient creatures in a living world? =0A =0AWe = are ourselves each a living world. Poetry can teach us this. And it is the = news without which many die everyday. We are also ourselves each a world us= ed instrumentally. Poetry can teach us this too. Alice Notley says, =E2=80= =9CI=E2=80=99m, we=E2=80=99re, the flower of suppression. / Much of one is = suppressed / towards being another kind of one / other colors, petal arrang= ements, scents / you can only have one scent.=E2=80=9D I believe Notley is = describing the way in which we literally embody the forces that quantify an= d objectify the world, turning natural processes into human products. =0A = =0ANotley is describing the way in which our entire mind/body system, inclu= ding both our conscious and unconscious minds, are shaped for the purposes = of economic forces. When we are suppressed, our conscious mind is shut off= from our unconscious, in a culture privileging a mode of quantifiably prod= uctive thought for which we receive wages. Most unconscious material is dro= wned out while also being reconstituted by a daily torrent of profit motiva= ted mass media. This torrent keeps us unconsciously motivated to behave in = ways that produce profits for others. Importantly, our unconscious is most = exploitable when its processes are kept hidden through their devaluation an= d through our profound dissociation from sensorial engagement.=0A =0AWe cou= ld perhaps reclaim our lives from the forces that use them as resources for= profit. How much time do we spend consciously conversing with our unconsci= ous, challenging our mind's collection of profit-motive materials, cultivat= ing a healthy consciousness? How often do we bridge the two parts of our m= inds and our bodies? Generally speaking, I=E2=80=99d guess the majority of = US citizens simply do not consciously bridge these two parts on a daily bas= is at all and spend a large chunk of time dissociated from their immediate = surroudings. Gregory Bateson has described poetry as a bridge between the c= onscious and unconscious parts of the mind, helping to give voice to our no= ndirective, nonpurposive modes of thought. What if everyone wasted an hour = a day writing pointless poems?=0A =0APerhaps it's fair to say that a nonpur= posive mode needs much more emphasis in order to stop the work ethic and be= lief in growth that are destroying the planet. Jed Rasula in an interview r= ecently published in Brenda Iijima=E2=80=99s )((eco(lang(uage) (reader)) pr= oposes not attempting activism that aims to take down a monolith like BP bu= t instead thinking of activism as =E2=80=9Ca series of transient occasions.= =E2=80=9D I like this idea. What I understand Rasula to imply is that our v= ery embrace of transience is itself activism. I also think he points to a s= ystemic model of change, suggesting that the local chemical reactions of an= event unfold within the larger system, evolving into changes not perceived= or foreseen by the individuals local to the event. It=E2=80=99s also a pro= foundly nonheroic model.=0A =0AI do think we want to examine what sort of s= ystemic reactions any of our actions might be likely generating. With respe= ct to the online anthology, these poems seem to be facilitating grief work,= and they are arriving in from diverse enough quarters to serve as part of = the historical record. But that work is not the purpose of the site. It is= a generative outgrowth. The larger project claims to =E2=80=98create venue= s for poetry in support of healthy ocean communities=E2=80=99. That is a us= e. The venues function to distribute the poetry. But, to repeat your questi= on, what does all this poetry produce? Even though I would enjoy and likely= learn from exploring how poetry plays a role in the evolution of meaning-m= aking through the creation of new contexts, I'd rather for the moment agree= poetry makes nothing happen. I hope that I=E2=80=99ve suggested that the P= oets for Living Waters project, in part by its promotion of the useless, is= potentially an effective agent for change. =0A =0A All the erring quest,=0A =0AHeidi Lynn Staples=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, 9 Jun 2010 18:55:21 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "Moisture Surges" by Francis Raven. Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "Moisture Surges" by Francis Raven. =20 Description: "Moisture Surges" by Francis Raven is a book of poems about water. There ar= e three main sections divided by two conversations/plays and book-ended by = a prologue and an appendix. The three main sections are: (1) a section on = the metaphysics of water, (2) a section on the biology and life of water an= d (3) a section on human's interaction with water. The prologue is a sonne= t and the appendix includes resources about water. The two conversations/pl= ays that break up the main sections are: (1) a play about the water shortag= e in the west that alludes to Plato's =E2=80=9CApology=E2=80=9D and (2) a r= oundtable conversation with real philosophers on a possible philosophy of w= ater. =20 Available as a free ebook here: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3D36590601 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 9 Jun 2010 13:05:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: POETS FOR LIVING WATERS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 A BIG THANK YOU for inspiring our LORINE NIEDECKER event yesterday in Philadelphia. Details with links and pics are here: http://UrchinPoetry.blogspot.com CAConrad JULY 11th (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop details at: http://myforehead.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: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:10:23 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jared Schickling Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Amy=2C =20 Write to your senators=97and reps=2C state folk=2C convince dad and sis=2C etc and et al=97yes=2C indeed=2C here and elsewhere. =20 Also=2C that there is no =93against=94 in the title or description=97unwritten=2C but heard=97how to be =93for=94 something but no= t against something? =20 Otherwise you=92re misconstruing what I said. Red herring. =93I=92m sorry= you don=92t think writing poetry in response to this disaster is a worthwhile enterprise.=94=20 That=92s not it=2C at all. Factually wrong. (Though=2C I don=92t really begin with whether or not it=92s worthwhile=3B practicing poetry ain=92t my choic= e=2C and poet must respond=3B after that=85) =93An appreciation of this systemic con= nectivity suggests a wide range of poetry will offer a meaningful response to the cur= rent crisis.=94 How does the project constitute a meaningful response? I=92m hard-pressed to see that=97it=92s my honest question=2C not conviction. In= voking the fact of connectivity doesn=92t mean the connected thing is or will be of healthful connection. I mean=2C = I understand the impulse=2C the need for poetry to respond. Yes. My question is=2C how does the structure of the standard submission review curatorial etc. process for a poetry journal lead to something actually useful in response to now=92s material and paradigmatic catastrophe(s)? How does the channeling of the event through (for the sake of?) this aesthetic space turn the necessary attention away=2C finally=2C from poets=2C poetics=2C an= d poems=2C toward the thing itself? Rather=2C does/will the opposite occur? If so what=92s the problem with that? Does the thing present an opportunity for poets=97what is the opportunity=2C choices= ? Are certain familiar approaches to poetic production bound to certain ruinous ways of thinking and living? How do po= etry communities and practitioners increasingly contribute to the increasingly destructive power and inevitabi= lity called capital? My honest question=2C how does Poets For Living Waters=2C in its form=2C not partake of the whole sys= tem of capitalist imperative and production?=20 How is the project=2C beyond what it admirably desires to be=2C =93for=94 water=97or earth=2C air=97and not =93for=94 water-earth-air-for-poems (or w= orse=2C poets)? If the project attempts an honest response to the need and problem of poetry responding=2C then these questions seem more than specialized quibbling over Poetry in the face of (= ). =20 =20 It would be interesting=2C and useful=2C if there were a rubric for measuring the actual long-term impacts of this project=2C and others=2C= against desired outcomes. =20 =20 Sincerely=2C Jared =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inb= ox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:58:04 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: new on Tinfish Editor's Blog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Tinfish Editor's blog has been given over recently to dementia blogging, which is (alas) not without its poetry. See the last three or four entries at http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com best wishes to everyone Susan M. Schultz purveyor ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:56:37 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: New Reviews @ Jacket and @ Wet Asphalt Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A "...ultimately what I think King is concerned with here is the nature o= f becoming by moving against time as a sort of point of resistance, what sh= e is not interested in is sustaining such artificial constructs as the Mast= er Slave dialectic itself, or of the notion of dialectical development alto= gether. Rather, in reading this book, what I have the sense of is an attemp= t to collapse all such structures as inherently stultifying. King repeatedl= y invokes inversions of typical imagery that could be read in such a manner= , for example making "gods from the dust." And she is clearly aware as she = works that there will be those readers who will try to fit her work into su= ch a mode. Some of what she writes even seems like a direct challenge to su= ch an attempt, at one point again returning to the notion of theft and call= ing "language the arm of behavior" again not so much collapsing thesis and = antithesis, but denying that relationship from first principles..."=0A=0A--= Continued at Wet Asphalt=0Ahttp://www.wetasphalt.com/content/happy-fact-amy= -kings-slaves-do-these-things=0A=0A=0A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=0A=0A=0A"Amy King=E2= =80=99s poems are dense and energetically written. They are often fragmente= d collages of narratives which are in no way narratives in the usual sense.= They express a great deal of movement of the mind, written with a strong i= magination and unexpected twists..."=0A=0A--Continued at Jacket Magazine=0A= http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-king-rb-lurie.shtml=0A=0A=0A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~= =0A=0A=0ATHE UGLY AMERICANS=0A=0ALast night I dreamt Maria Santiago=0Adisso= lves when she sweeps and stocks=0Aa Manhattan bodega, her borrowed whisper= =0Alingers on the backs of patrons,=0A=E2=80=A6=0A=0A--Continued at Jacket = Magazine=0Ahttp://jacketmagazine.com/40/king-amy-americans.shtml=0A=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, 9 Jun 2010 14:33:38 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Laura Hinton Subject: Re: Poets for Living Waters - Response from Editor, Heidi Lynn Staples (forward) In-Reply-To: <402849.50794.qm@web83301.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jared writes: *I guess, my question, what will be the actual produce from =93poets for living waters?=94 What opportunity is it truly presenting, or realizing, "for" whom and for what?* I think these are important questions. What do we *produce,* what "produce= " is "made" by our efforts? Does it come down to *form*? Because I also think that what Heidi Lynn Staples implies in her argument below, especially in her reference to Notley's words, effectively suggests that "poetry" -- in its most refreshing and opening up -- of the language o= f the brain? -- can behave like an organism that resists the current world's toxicity, in an ironic turning of the physics and matter involved (now floating in the Gulf of Mexico and perhaps on its way by now up the norther= n Atlantic via the Gulf Stream...). Heidi eloquently writes that all is connected, and (in reference to Notley)= , that poetry is perhaps: *the way in which we literally embody the forces that quantify and objectif= y the world, turning natural processes into human products.* The questioning of use / use value / the capital-corporate model is important in Heidi's written defense of these Poets / Living Waters political-poetic events. Maybe language comes first. Then, the corporation. So -- does it make sense to turn ourselves back to the deep structure of the language? To renew it, reinvigorate it, with new language, new thought -- as means to critique the current culture of damage and greed= ? But do we not, as poets, and or intellectuals, and/or feminists / environmentalists, too often find ourselves relying upon the same language, the same principles, that the corporate-style model is the most overt manifestation of? -- when we host "events" on behalf of what is essentially a consciousness-raising effort but it becomes too exclusive and/or a plug for our own work? By this, I mean in that we kow-tow to the designs of hierarchy, the premise of non-inclusion. I got the call we all got here on Poetics Lists a couple of weeks ago to volunteer to be involved in this particular NYC event; I immediately backchanneled and offered to help. I received no answer back. I would have loved to have been involved in any way possible, including arranging chairs. But I never heard back. Perhaps this is just a blip? Perhaps everyone else who backchanneled was responded to? But I, at least, become a bit concerned when I get the final announcement replete with poet bios, that the event wasn't created out of a sincere, truly collective spirit. Part of the corporate "use" model and promulgated now on Facebook plugs is plugging one's own career. We all can use that model -- we live in the world of "social networking." But when it comes to the Gulf spill, such a horrific tragedy and loss of life (non-homo-sapiens sapiens, but perhaps just at the moment), I agree with Jared: I wonder what this will "produce". To CHANGE that model, we need to reach out -- beyond the comfort of our own shores. And our own small tributaries. Waters expand the globe. Perhaps just a call for everyone to show up would be a better way to build a movement of poets against the war on the environment. A powerful show-up, = a real poetry-protest. I do believe that poetry -- its reading, its teaching, its writing, rereading -- can help us do something different, to heal ourselves and our ways. But we have to *listen.* This is my opinion. Laura --=20 Laura Hinton Professor of English City College of New York 138 at Convent Ave. New York, New York 10031 http://www.mermaidtenementpress.com http://www.chantdelasirene.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, 9 Jun 2010 14:16:26 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Re: Poets for Living Waters - Response from Editor, Heidi Lynn Staples (forward) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Laura, First, I never saw your email to participate! I'm sorry, but it did slip through whatever cracks exist. I did, however, receive a few backchannels of interest that I responded to and added people to the "exclusive" list as they expressed interest to read. You and I have certainly corresponded in the past, and I'm not sure why, when you didn't receive a reply, you didn't simply send a second email expressing your interest directly to me. The announcement also was an invitation. Those who emailed me they were attending were asked to bring something to read. I didn't receive an email from you yesterday or Monday; only this one after the fact today. I was away for a week or so prior but was also checking email on my handheld and threw this "exclusive" list together within the last 48 hours based on those who had expressed interest. Again, I really don't understand this idea that if your email went unreplied to, you assumed you were being ignored instead of simply sending out a second query, especially directly to me since we "virtually" know each other and have corresponded numerous times in the past. You would have been more than welcome to attend, read, organize chairs, hold up signs, heckle, or anything else you felt compelled to do. I recall even forwarded something to Wompo the other day at your bequest, and yet, you didn't mention being "ignored" when you asked me to do that favor. No one "owned" this reading, as is being implied - I simply asked and organized. Heidi spent hours putting together a sheet of suggestions and advice she sent to everyone offering to organize a reading; she also spent hours corresponding online with those volunteers about the tragedy and what she hoped this kind of action might be like. Last night, I read for two minutes and introduced everyone else, who read for about five to ten minutes. During and after the reading, we all talked about what is happening, how we feel, what might be done, etc. It was a gathering, an open gathering. It felt like such - the tone was in implied as well as overt. Of course, nothing was resolved (do any poetry readings ever resolve anything??), but we came together, not before our tv screens, but in person; we listened and we talked. Others in other states, and in the one you and I are in, took the initiative to organize for World Oceans Day (ours was not the only one in NYC yesterday!). No one forbidden; everyone was encouraged. We parted feeling a mix of emotions, which was better than the usual media effect that leaves the majority of us feeling angry and impotent. As for equating such a gathering and our efforts with the site with perpetuating the capitalist model, I don't get it, and yes, am affected by such criticism. It feels like a punch in the gut. Heidi and I are two people reading through submissions for the last two weeks, posting as quickly as we can in between our jobs and family responsibilities. No work has been rejected. We are eager and anxious to post as much as possible during our free time. And we have been on a daily basis, including corresponding with poets sending in work and poets organizing readings elsewhere and announcing their poetry and statements as they go up as best as we can. We feel honored to do this work and are solidly invested in it. We are learning. If others feel like it's not a worthwhile project, they can A) ignore our efforts to give voice and space -- and/or B) create another action according to their own standards. No one owns the license to respond to this tragedy. I've always felt if you don't see something done the way you like, why not do it the way you prefer? I certainly don't rely on the mainstream to give me space and voice; if you see this project that way, why would you? On my end, I find it worthwhile to put some of my efforts into getting folks' poems into the world, especially in the face of a tragedy like this, and I work towards drawing attention to their efforts. That's what we're doing, the best way we can at the moment with the resources, energy and time we have. No one was banned last night from attending any of the readings across the states, and everyone was welcome to honor World Oceans Day as they desired. Many of us did. You could have just "shown up," as you note! Why not?! As for plugging my own work, I have done so unabashedly and without apology for a long time now in specific poetry venues like listservs, on my own blog, my Facebook page, etc, whether I'm working on a separate project like this, editing a journal (as I'm currently doing times two at the moment), running a reading series, taking care of family, or just teaching my classes (my students are never instructed to read my work -- and when they discover it, I discourage their interest until the semester ends). Conflating my efforts here with blatant self promotion seems obvious and divisive, at best. My grandma always encouraged her little southern belle towards modesty ("Pretty is as pretty does"), but I never learned that age old lil' lady lesson and have never apologized for such "selfishness!" Assuming the worst unfortunately seems to be the default setting in this thread. If you want a poetry protest, why not join one of the readings last night? If you see an error, why not offer constructive advice? What model would you use? Are you willing to put something together? Another professor from NYC couldn't attend last night, but wants to organize a reading at her college shortly - you are welcome to do the same! I'd be happy to attend! And for future events, we hope you will participate. If we don't answer the phone, ring again! For the record, everyone is welcome!! Best, Amy ----- Original Message ---- From: Laura Hinton I got the call we all got here on Poetics Lists a couple of weeks ago to volunteer to be involved in this particular NYC event; I immediately backchanneled and offered to help. I received no answer back. I would have loved to have been involved in any way possible, including arranging chairs. But I never heard back. Perhaps this is just a blip? Perhaps everyone else who backchanneled was responded to? But I, at least, become a bit concerned when I get the final announcement replete with poet bios, that the event wasn't created out of a sincere, truly collective spirit. Part of the corporate "use" model and promulgated now on Facebook plugs is plugging one's own career. We all can use that model -- we live in the world of "social networking." But when it comes to the Gulf spill, such a horrific tragedy and loss of life (non-homo-sapiens sapiens, but perhaps just at the moment), I agree with Jared: I wonder what this will "produce". To CHANGE that model, we need to reach out -- beyond the comfort of our own shores. And our own small tributaries. Waters expand the globe. Perhaps just a call for everyone to show up would be a better way to build a movement of poets against the war on the environment. A powerful show-up, a real poetry-protest. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:32:58 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Jared, I appreciate your concern and challenge. = From Heidi:=0A=0ADear Jared,=0A=0AI appreciate your concern and challenge. = I would be genuinely interested in considering specific ideas about how to = make this mobilization of poets in response to the crisis meaningful. I wou= ld love to consider specific, practical ideas related to the form of events= , publication of materials, etc. We are striving to have an open, diverse, = wild space. When considering this request for ideas, please keep in mind th= at as it stands:=0A=0A1. We publish pretty much everything we receive. Even= tually!=0A2. We celebrate and support all responses to calls for organizers= . Anyone who did not hear back probably had their email drop into the ether= , which has happened to numerous people. Folks send their materials and the= n for whatever reason, yahoo drops the mail into the nowhere. If you don't = hear from us PLEASE RESEND! We are very concerned about each person who wri= tes and appreciative of their interest.=0A3. We are not able to give the pr= oject the time its urgency would suggest is appropriate. We are volunteers = with full demanding lives. For example, I'm still getting organized after a= n international move late last fall, am studying for comprehensive exams in= two weeks, and have a three and a half year old and no local family help. = The site receives around 100 emails a week, which add up really fast. Amy w= as out of town for a few days. Some days I just need to study or else I'll = disappear into this disaster and my effort to respond, of which this 'liste= ning', which is how I understand the site, is a part. In my own self intere= st, I shouldn't really even be writing this email. But I recognize the vali= dity of these concerns and am hoping that by pooling together and streaming= apart and flowing together again our resources as a poetry community, we c= an generate many meaningful responses to this crisis.=0A=0AThanks for your = interest and the seriousness with which you take poetry.=0A=0AAll the very = best wishes,=0A=0AHeidi=0A=0A =0A=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0AFro= m: Jared Schickling =0ATo: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.E= DU=0ASent: Wed, June 9, 2010 1:10:23 PM=0ASubject: Re: Poets For Living Wat= ers=0A=0AAmy,=0A=0A=0A=0AWrite to your senators=E2=80=94and reps, state fol= k, convince dad=0Aand sis, etc and et al=E2=80=94yes, indeed, here and else= where.=0A=0A=0A=0AAlso, that there is no =E2=80=9Cagainst=E2=80=9D in the t= itle or=0Adescription=E2=80=94unwritten, but heard=E2=80=94how to be =E2=80= =9Cfor=E2=80=9D something but not against=0Asomething?=0A=0A=0A=0AOtherwise= you=E2=80=99re misconstruing what I said. Red herring. =E2=80=9CI=E2=80= =99m sorry you don=E2=80=99t think writing poetry in response to this=0Adis= aster is a worthwhile enterprise.=E2=80=9D =0AThat=E2=80=99s not it, at all= . Factually=0Awrong. (Though, I don=E2=80=99t really begin=0Awith whether= or not it=E2=80=99s worthwhile; practicing poetry ain=E2=80=99t my choice,= and=0Apoet must respond; after that=E2=80=A6) =E2=80=9CAn appreciation of = this systemic connectivity=0Asuggests a wide range of poetry will offer a m= eaningful response to the current=0Acrisis.=E2=80=9D How does the project= =0Aconstitute a meaningful response? I=E2=80=99m=0Ahard-pressed to see tha= t=E2=80=94it=E2=80=99s my honest question, not conviction. Invoking the fa= ct of connectivity doesn=E2=80=99t=0Amean the connected thing is or will be= of healthful connection. I mean, I understand the impulse, the need=0Afor= poetry to respond. Yes. My question is, how does the structure of=0Athe = standard submission review curatorial etc. process for a poetry journal=0Al= ead to something actually useful in response to now=E2=80=99s material and= =0Aparadigmatic catastrophe(s)? How does=0Athe channeling of the event th= rough (for the sake of?) this aesthetic space=0Aturn the necessary attentio= n away, finally, from poets, poetics, and poems,=0Atoward the thing itself?= Rather,=0Adoes/will the opposite occur? If so=0Awhat=E2=80=99s the probl= em with that? Does the=0Athing present an opportunity for poets=E2=80=94wh= at is the opportunity, choices? Are certain familiar approaches to poetic= =0Aproduction bound to certain ruinous ways of thinking and living? How do= poetry communities and practitioners=0Aincreasingly contribute to the incr= easingly destructive power and inevitability=0Acalled capital? My honest q= uestion, how=0Adoes Poets For Living Waters, in its form, not partake of th= e whole system of=0Acapitalist imperative and production? =0AHow is the pro= ject, beyond what it admirably desires to be, =E2=80=9Cfor=E2=80=9D=0Awater= =E2=80=94or earth, air=E2=80=94and not =E2=80=9Cfor=E2=80=9D water-earth-ai= r-for-poems (or worse,=0Apoets)? If the project attempts an=0Ahonest respo= nse to the need and problem of poetry responding, then these=0Aquestions se= em more than specialized quibbling over Poetry in the face of ( ). = =0A=0A=0A=0A=0AIt would be interesting, and useful, if there were a rubric= =0Afor measuring the actual long-term impacts of this project, and others, = against=0Adesired outcomes. =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, 9 Jun 2010 01:51:04 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Oil, our pasts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Oil, our pasts Our battles and our contemporaries are doomed, in twenty years, we will hardly be memories or pioneers. These animals are instruments of oil, collapsing in the debris of other lives which had given birth to them. Hopeless this technology, despair is hopeless, death hopeless, life hopeless, above all life is hopeless. Hopeless life must be lived until it is no longer present at life, hopeless death, in twenty years or among many pasts. Hopeless the pasts unaccounted for, in ten years who among us shall meet or come into their own among others already forgotten. Our worlds are already gone, gone the battles of pasts, gone the futures, our mouths full of worlds already gone, past lives ... http://www.alansondheim.org/oil.mov On this vista the curtain may be drawn. Neither poet nor seer can look beyond. Nature, who is unconscious in her immorality, entrancing in her beauty, savage in her cruelty, imperial in her prodigiality, and appalling in her convulsions, is not only deaf, but dumb. There is no answer to any appeal. The best we can do, the best that has ever been done, is to recognize the implaca- bility of the laws that rule the universe, and contemplate as calmly as we can the nothingness from which we are come and into which we shall all disappear. The one consolation that we hold, though it is one which may be illusory too, consists in the belief that when death comes, fear and hope are at an end. Then wonder ceases; the insoluble no longer perplexes; space is lost; the infinite is blank; the farce is done.* Their agony, their dying breaths, their inconceivable twisting, in thirty years, none will remember us among emptied halls, what suns, what lights, what glories already gone among them *Edgar Saltus, The Anatomy of Negation, 1889. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:45:34 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Re: Poets for Living Waters - Response from Editor, Heidi Lynn Staples (forward) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From Heidi in response to Laura: Dear Laura, I am so sorry to hear that you requested to help out with the World Ocean Day Action and did not receive a reply. I know there is one note we got late last week about helping out to which we have not yet replied. But I do not even know if it was yours. We have been pretty swamped with the combination of our own very busy lives beyond the Gulf Coast tragedy and getting this project going. If that note was not yours, then I think your communication got lost in the ether. Yahoo has repeatedly let us down, and it's just another detail we have not yet addressed. I am really genuinely sorry. This reading action was impromptu and was planned pretty much at the last minute. Would you be interested in creating an action for another day? Perhaps the summer solistice on the 20th or July 4th--calling for the freedom of the world's waters? I am just brainstorming here. Any ideas you have will be welcome. I Thank you so much for your interest in participating. When you reply, perhaps cc amy and this address--that way we will be sure to get together on this. And thank you for speaking out. I am really sorry to hear that you have felt let down. But I am glad that we have a chance to redress the complaint and now, hopefully, help bring to fruition your ideas for a transformative response to these frightening painful times. All the very best wishes, Heidi heidilstaples@yahoo.ie ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:06:31 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Laura Hinton Subject: Re: Poets for Living Waters - Response from Editor, Heidi Lynn Staples (forward) In-Reply-To: <127422.5125.qm@web83307.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Response to Amy -- Just wanted to put out there that -- with all the wonderful intentions that you and others have had -- the message you are trying to communicate can sometimes get lost. The way an event gets publicized, organized -- again, the form of the event -- is part of what gets "produced" (going back to Jared's original e-mail). I once organized a Poets against the War poetry reading in Harlem, where I teach. This was the week Bush 2 bombed Bagdad. I thought it was a powerful event. Some of my students loved it. Some of my colleagues thought it was terrible to read poetry at a time like that, and refused to attend. Or maybe they were supporting Bush. (Bottom line: you can never please everyone when you organize / activate. But -- is the point to please?) I will say that our flier did not post the names of poets or bios in star-like format. It was "come as you are" -- and read. That, for me, was the power in it. Maybe these "default" e-mails that go to no real person and the Facebook style of organization and the invitations with bios -- they might be part of the failed message. We are all so busy "networking." Those lines between self-promotion and doing the right thing can be misconstrued -- all too easily. And this environmental disaster -- how to respond -- *Do we really know how?* Maybe we should all go to our rivers and oceans, collectively, and wear a gag or gas mask -- and NOT speak, as poets. Amy you do a lot here for us all, and know that you are appreciated. Thank you for your openness to this discussion. You are wonderful, truly. Maybe my critique is more one of the era we are in and how we fashion ourselves and our messages. It's directed, too, at myself. [As I've written this note I see a response from Heidi. The answer is YES. Let's organize something ... And do it, say, on another river here in NYC. The Harlem River? For me, any event will have to be in early September as I go across the oil-splattered ocean soon, following the Gulf Stream. No default e-mails. Open to all poets, artists. But ... will people attend?] Laura ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:34:15 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: June 12 & 13: Performance @ Printers Row Lit Fest MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Reading Experiment in Progress" an interactive performance by Jennifer Karmin at the Printers Row Lit Fest http://www.printersrowbookfair.org on Dearborn Street, between Congress & Polk Chicago, IL Saturday, June 12 1:45-3pm at the Arts & Poetry Stage 4-5pm roving the book fair Sunday, June 13 10am-12pm at the Northwestern University table 2-3pm roving the book fair Aaaaaaaaaaalice published by Flim Forum Press travelogue in 11 cantos scored for polyvocal improvisation To buy online, read some early reviews & find performance dates: http://www.aaaaaaaaaaalice.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, 9 Jun 2010 21:59:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Geer Austin Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters In-Reply-To: <155380.96969.qm@web83302.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Amy and Heidi, While I understand that poetry, especially in electronic form, cannot soak up all the oil in the Gulf, I believe that a poetic response to a crisis, whether environmental, political or military, can have a long lasting effect. Just think - we're still reading anti-war poems about long ago wars. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. - Wilfred Owen Nature poetry, of course, has inspired many generations to value our environment. Unfortunately the BP execs didn't get that message, but who knows - maybe their children will. Regards, Geer Austin ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:28:37 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mitch Taylor Subject: MUTHAFUCKA TWO: NEW POETRY + ART MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The second issue of MUTHAFUCKA, an irregular= Dear Readers + Writers + =0A=0AThe second issue of MUTHAFUCKA, an irregular= , locationless journal of the arts, is now available, here: http://presspre= sspress.blogspot.com/2010/05/muthafuckatwo.html=0A=0AFeaturing poems by Ali= ce Notley, Dot Devota, Phil=0ACordelli, Norma Cole, Quinn Latimer, Matthew = Klane, Hoa Nguyen, Lucas=0AFarrell, Lisa Lightsey, Lewis Warsh, Ron Horning= , Caitie Moore, Thom=0ADonovan, Trey Sager, Brenda Iijima, Youna Kwak, Kare= na Youtz and Etel=0AAdnan. Translations of Angel Escobar (by Kristin Dykstr= a), Mohammed=0AKhair-Eddine (by Pierre Joris), Kazuko Shiraishi (by Tomoyuk= i Endo and=0AForrest Gander), Michel Deguy (by Wilson Baldridge) and Amelia= Rosselli=0A(by Vanja Skoric Dewan and Deborah Woodard). A drum score by Jo= hn=0ANiekrasz. Collages by Sarah Lariviere. A two-channel installation by= =0AAnthony Hawley. Cover art by Sam King. Side-stapled with two-layer trans= parency/cardstock cover. 120 pages. 100 copies. $10. =0A=0AAvailable here: = http://presspresspress.blogspot.com/2010/05/muthafuckatwo.html. The first i= ssue (2009) is here: http://presspresspress.blogspot.com/2009/03/muthafucka= .html. Please join us, and thank you!=0A=0AMitch Taylor=0Aeditor, Muthafuck= a=0AMuthafacebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?52084805= 6=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:35:23 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mike Finley Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Owen had credibility, however. He died in the war he wrote about. Our embrace of him has to do with that. I doubt many of us are willing to lay down our lives for tarballs. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Geer Austin wrote: > Amy and Heidi, > > While I understand that poetry, especially in electronic form, cannot soak > up all the oil in the Gulf, I believe that a poetic response to a crisis, > whether environmental, political or military, can have a long lasting > effect. Just think - we're still reading anti-war poems about long ago > wars. > > Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. > > My subject is War, and the pity of War. > > The Poetry is in the pity. > > Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense > consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That > is why the true Poets must be truthful. > > > > > - Wilfred Owen > > > Nature poetry, of course, has inspired many generations to value our > environment. Unfortunately the BP execs didn't get that message, but who > knows - maybe their children will. > > Regards, > > Geer Austin > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > -- -------------------------- MIKE FINLEY 1841 Dayton Avenue Saint Paul MN 55104 (651) 644-4540 home office (651) 528-0394 cell I am always misplacing mfinley98@gmail.com http://mfinley.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:01:33 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Pierre Joris Subject: New NOMADICS posts Comments: cc: British-Irish List MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Check out these recent NOMADICS posts: Two or Three French Takes Poetry Project Leslie Scalapino Memorial Annoucement Untranslatable WALTZING IN QUICKSAND: POETS IN COLLAGE A Bird on the Beach at East Grand Terre Island, LA Easy, easy Friday morning=85 Roger Manderscheid (1933-2010) Alternate News re Israeli Acts of Piracy in International Water & may your summers be great! Pierre =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D "Lyric poetry has to be exorbitant or not at all." -- Gottfried Benn =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Pierre Joris =20 cell phone: 518 225 7123 = =20 email: jorpierre@gmail.com http://pierrejoris.com Nomadics blog: http://pierrejoris.com/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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 10 Jun 2010 08:18:59 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mike Finley Subject: Re: MUTHAFUCKA TWO: NEW POETRY + ART In-Reply-To: <821328.2125.qm@web24107.mail.ird.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 You should give us a sample. A list of names gives no idea what to expect,unless the people are famous. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Mitch Taylor wrote: > The second issue of MUTHAFUCKA, an irregular > Dear Readers + Writers + > > The second issue of MUTHAFUCKA, an irregular, locationless journal of the > arts, is now available, here: > http://presspresspress.blogspot.com/2010/05/muthafuckatwo.html > > Featuring poems by Alice Notley, Dot Devota, Phil > Cordelli, Norma Cole, Quinn Latimer, Matthew Klane, Hoa Nguyen, Lucas > Farrell, Lisa Lightsey, Lewis Warsh, Ron Horning, Caitie Moore, Thom > Donovan, Trey Sager, Brenda Iijima, Youna Kwak, Karena Youtz and Etel > Adnan. Translations of Angel Escobar (by Kristin Dykstra), Mohammed > Khair-Eddine (by Pierre Joris), Kazuko Shiraishi (by Tomoyuki Endo and > Forrest Gander), Michel Deguy (by Wilson Baldridge) and Amelia Rosselli > (by Vanja Skoric Dewan and Deborah Woodard). A drum score by John > Niekrasz. Collages by Sarah Lariviere. A two-channel installation by > Anthony Hawley. Cover art by Sam King. Side-stapled with two-layer > transparency/cardstock cover. 120 pages. 100 copies. $10. > > Available here: > http://presspresspress.blogspot.com/2010/05/muthafuckatwo.html. The first > issue (2009) is here: > http://presspresspress.blogspot.com/2009/03/muthafucka.html. Please join > us, and thank you! > > Mitch Taylor > editor, Muthafucka > Muthafacebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?520848056 > > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > -- -------------------------- MIKE FINLEY 1841 Dayton Avenue Saint Paul MN 55104 (651) 644-4540 home office (651) 528-0394 cell I am always misplacing mfinley98@gmail.com http://mfinley.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:59:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Danon Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brenda Hillman is pretty eloquent on all of these matters. It seems to me that we need to demand, now, the equivalent of a Manhattan Project to end the carbon based economy. People familiar with nanotech tell me that the means exist to do this. What does not exist is the will, the commitment, the willingness to be outspoken. This demand should go viral. Regards to all on the list, Ruth Ruth Danon Ph.D, Clinical Professor,Creative and Expository Writing Coordinator, Creative and Expository Writing McGhee Division, New York University ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Finley Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:44 am Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Owen had credibility, however. He died in the war he wrote about. Our > embrace of him has to do with that. I doubt many of us are willing to > lay > down our lives for tarballs. > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Geer Austin wrote: > > > Amy and Heidi, > > > > While I understand that poetry, especially in electronic form, > cannot soak > > up all the oil in the Gulf, I believe that a poetic response to a crisis, > > whether environmental, political or military, can have a long lasting > > effect. Just think - we're still reading anti-war poems about long > ago > > wars. > > > > Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. > > > > My subject is War, and the pity of War. > > > > The Poetry is in the pity. > > > > Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense > > consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is > warn. That > > is why the true Poets must be truthful. > > > > > > > > > > - Wilfred Owen > > > > > > Nature poetry, of course, has inspired many generations to value our > > environment. Unfortunately the BP execs didn't get that message, > but who > > knows - maybe their children will. > > > > Regards, > > > > Geer Austin > > > > > > > > > > ================================== > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > -- > -------------------------- > MIKE FINLEY > 1841 Dayton Avenue > Saint Paul MN 55104 > (651) 644-4540 home office > (651) 528-0394 cell I am always misplacing > mfinley98@gmail.com > http://mfinley.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: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:27:38 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Tobin Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 7D11) Dead people have more credibility than the living? Certainly they are more conisistent, and it is easier to measure their political effectiveness. On Jun 10, 2010, at 6:35 AM, Mike Finley wrote: > Owen had credibility, however. He died in the war he wrote about. Our > embrace of him has to do with that. I doubt many of us are willing > to lay > down our lives for tarballs. > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Geer Austin > wrote: > >> Amy and Heidi, >> >> While I understand that poetry, especially in electronic form, >> cannot soak >> up all the oil in the Gulf, I believe that a poetic response to a >> crisis, >> whether environmental, political or military, can have a long lasting >> effect. Just think - we're still reading anti-war poems about long >> ago >> wars. >> >> Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. >> >> My subject is War, and the pity of War. >> >> The Poetry is in the pity. >> >> Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense >> consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is >> warn. That >> is why the true Poets must be truthful. >> >> >> >> >> - Wilfred Owen >> >> >> Nature poetry, of course, has inspired many generations to value our >> environment. Unfortunately the BP execs didn't get that message, >> but who >> knows - maybe their children will. >> >> Regards, >> >> Geer Austin >> >> >> >> >> ================================== >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >> guidelines >> & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> > > > > -- > -------------------------- > MIKE FINLEY > 1841 Dayton Avenue > Saint Paul MN 55104 > (651) 644-4540 home office > (651) 528-0394 cell I am always misplacing > mfinley98@gmail.com > http://mfinley.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: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:36:53 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mary Kasimor Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am going to a yoga earth healing meditation on Sunday. Through yoga I hav= e learned and am continuing to learn to let go of my ego. This meditation i= s about the Gulf, of course, but I think that we will be meditating on more= than that. The horrendous abuse that our earth has endured is something th= at=A0is hurting=A0all of us.=A0Perhaps if the understanding of the poetry f= orum was enlarged, we might=A0feel more "honest" about it. (I don't=A0know = if that is the right word to describe the ambivalence that some of us feel,= but I will use that word.) =A0 Mary Kasimor --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Mike Finley wrote: From: Mike Finley Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 5:35 AM Owen had credibility, however. He died in the war he wrote about. Our embrace of him has to do with that. I doubt many of us are willing to lay down our lives for tarballs. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Geer Austin wrote: > Amy and Heidi, > > While I understand that poetry, especially in electronic form, cannot soa= k > up all the oil in the Gulf, I believe that a poetic response to a crisis, > whether environmental, political or military, can have a long lasting > effect.=A0 Just think - we're still reading anti-war poems about long ago > wars. > >=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. > >=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 My subject is War, and the pity of War. > >=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 The Poetry is in the pity. > >=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Yet these elegies are to this generation i= n no sense > consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. Th= at > is why the true Poets must be truthful. > > > > >=A0 =A0 - Wilfred Owen > > > Nature poetry, of course, has inspired many generations to value our > environment.=A0 Unfortunately the BP execs didn't get that message, but w= ho > knows - maybe their children will. > > Regards, > > Geer Austin > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 -------------------------- MIKE FINLEY 1841 Dayton Avenue Saint Paul MN 55104 (651) 644-4540 home office (651) 528-0394 cell I am always misplacing mfinley98@gmail.com http://mfinley.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: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:19:02 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jared Schickling Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thread=2C =20 Thank you for the incisive words. One large correction: I=92m not asking w= hat the poetry produces=2C but what the site / forum / journal produces.=20 I won=92t get into the niobium and tantalum and gorilla hand ashtrays inhabiting the tower under the tabletop.=20 That kind of complicity=2C smoking these cigarettes=2C taking this shower= =2C plugging in=2C etc. I don=92t mean to =93punch=94 anyone =93in the gut.=94 My postings risked that. Amy=2C your poetic and public life and arguments=2C activity=2C here and abroad=2C make clear = the good=2C honest work you are doing=2C while the produce from that work=97surely ups = and downs. "One of the angels=2C" as an old Milton professor would say. Even = if I were absolutely correct in my accusations=2C reasons=2C meant to be questions=2C which is s= urely not the case=2C they would still evidence your willingness to risk=2C and I wou= ld be careful to distinguish =93you=94 from whatever =93it.=94 Again=2C it=92s t= he form of the publication as it appears that I=92ve been questioning=2C which Laura keys in on.=20 I=92ve recently quit some problematic publishing projects I=92ve been disap= pointedly hypocritically connected to=2C even after I smelled a rat. C=92est la. = =20 =20 Heidi=2C what you=92re saying reminds me of Leopold=92s =93land ethic=94 and the utility of it=2C an ethic that would do away with the non-= human=92s perceived human value in the way you describe.=20 What you say of =93radical uselessness=94 seems to make sense: =93I believe Notley is describing the way in which we literally embody the forces that quantify and objectify the world=2C turning natural processes into human products.=94 However=2C my question sparking the initial post=97does PFLW represent or embody such a process? = I suppose my reservation comes from seeing this as a momentary response to a precise event and the prioritizing of poe= ts and their poetry=2C palimpsesting the capitalized event. Again=2C it=92s n= ot the practicing of the poetry in response but the form of its public life that instigates my questions. I = hear=2C I think=2C that you=92re intending the project as an ongoing response=2C years and years=2C eager to work behind t= he backdrop=2C in which case=2C it would seem a different animal. And now tha= t you=92ve made clear the agenda of inclusion for the young project=97an aspect of it that *has not been* made = clear to a public=2C until now=2C as Laura mentions. =20 The criticisms=2C =93directed=2C too=2C at myself.=94 Yes=2C a thousand ti= mes=2C every day. =20 =20 I do suspect the argument about the usefulness and potency of uselessness. Or rather=2C I can=92t see the need for regarding humankind as useless without talking the idea=92s utility. I mean=2C who and what=2C today=2C just loves to hear and see artists and thinkers speaking and acting accordi= ngly? Also=2C to what extent is uselessness a practicable mode? How does uselessness fit with an ecocritical sensibility that finds everything interwoven? Ther= e=92s a mouse living inside our stove=2C behind the dials=2C because the stovetop is where we keep the leftover baco= n grease. Webs. =20 I suppose my point in posting was to solicit responses so that I might understand more what the project is hoping to do=97again=2C it= wasn=92t so clear in its presentation. =20 =20 And with that=2C I=92ll stop cluttering everyone=92s mail. =20 Thank you=2C and not to stop the conversation=2C to discourage and support = and encourage and truly and falsely and sincerely=2C and hoping to catch on= e of the readings=2C Jared=20 =20 =20 =20 =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your = inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:05:17 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i whole heartedly am for anything that raises awareness there was a time very recently where i allowed my personal selfishness to interfere we all do what we can as best we can and as they say every little bit helps this crisis is major and devastating i applaud amy's and heidi's efforts and to all those contributing positive responses steve d On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:59:16 -0400 Geer Austin writes: > Amy and Heidi, > > While I understand that poetry, especially in electronic form, > cannot > soak up all the oil in the Gulf, I believe that a poetic response to > a > crisis, whether environmental, political or military, can have a > long > lasting effect. Just think - we're still reading anti-war poems > about > long ago wars. > > Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. > > My subject is War, and the pity of War. > > The Poetry is in the pity. > > Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense > consolatory. > They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is > why > the true Poets must be truthful. > > - > Wilfred Owen > > > Nature poetry, of course, has inspired many generations to value our > > environment. Unfortunately the BP execs didn't get that message, > but > who knows - maybe their children will. > > Regards, > > Geer Austin > > > > > ================================== > 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, 10 Jun 2010 16:39:36 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Poetry Project Subject: A Memorial for Leslie Scalapino Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Monday, June 21, 8 PM Memorial for Leslie Scalapino It is with heavy hearts that we will open the doors of the Parish Hall so that we may all come together in friendship and grief to remember and celebrate the life and work of Leslie Scalapino, one of our greatest poets, who passed away on May 28th. Guests who will speak include Petah Coyne, Simone Fattal, Joan Retallack, Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, Ann Lauterbach= , Susan Howe, Paolo Javier, Molissa Foley, Fiona Templeton, Laura Elrick, Rodrigo Toscano, Steve Clay, Rachel Levitsky, Susan Landers, James Sherry, Brenda Iijima, Pierre Joris, Judith Goldman, E. Tracy Grinnell and Tom White.=20 There will be a wine and cheese reception to follow. We=B9ll have a book tabl= e with titles by Leslie, plus 50 canvas bags that she collaborated on with Kiki Smith. We=B9ll be accepting donations for the bags starting at $25. All proceeds from books and bags will be donated to Poets In Need http://www.poetsinneed.org/. FREE. If you can=B9t attend but would like to honor Leslie Scalapino, please consider a charitable donation in her memory to: Poets in Need, PO Box 5411= , Berkeley, CA 94705; =A0Reed College for the Leslie Scalapino Scholarship, 320= 3 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR 97202-8199; =A0The AYCO Charitabl= e Foundation, PO Box 15203, Albany, NY 12212-5203 for the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund to support innovative works of poetry, prose and art; or to a charitable organization of your choice. The Memorial follows two performances of Scalapino=B9s Noh play Flow=ADWinged Crocodile at Poets House: Saturday, June 19, at 7PM & Sunday, June 20, at 2PM Flow=8BWinged Crocodile: A Noh Play by Leslie Scalapino Directed by Fiona Templeton, with Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver and Julie Troost. =A0Dance by Molissa Fenley. Music by Joan Jeanrenaud. Projected drawings by Eve Biddle. Technical director: Ray Roy III. This Noh play by poet Leslie Scalapino travels between the left and right sides of the brain, with appearances by a reincarnated Patty Hearst in the 1974 SLA bank heist and a green-winged creature that is part crocodile, par= t Michelin man and part charging rhino. The play is performed by The Relationship, a performance group directed by Fiona Templeton that specializes in innovative language and use of site. Leslie Scalapino is the ground-breaking, genre-stretching author of thirty books of poetry, poem-plays, essays, and fiction, including way, which won the American Book Award; Sight, a collaboration with Lyn Hejinian; Zither & Autobiography; The Tango; New Time; and It=B9s go in horizontal: Selected Poems 1974-2006. Cosponsored by Belladonna and The Poetry Project. Poets House is at 10 River Terrace in Battery Park City. $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poetry Project and Poets House Members =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 10 Jun 2010 21:12:40 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mike Finley Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters In-Reply-To: <82375E94-842C-405C-8F5E-703DD574E33F@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Exactly. People who sacrifice have more credibility than people who just talk. It's why Christ was more than a notable teacher. I think there is all the will in the world to stop polluting the Gulf. Emotions run high. Solutions,once the oil gets out, are harder to come by. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Adam Tobin wrote: > Dead people have more credibility than the living? > > Certainly they are more conisistent, and it is easier to measure their > political effectiveness. > > > > > > On Jun 10, 2010, at 6:35 AM, Mike Finley wrote: > > Owen had credibility, however. He died in the war he wrote about. Our >> embrace of him has to do with that. I doubt many of us are willing to lay >> down our lives for tarballs. >> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Geer Austin wrote: >> >> Amy and Heidi, >>> >>> While I understand that poetry, especially in electronic form, cannot >>> soak >>> up all the oil in the Gulf, I believe that a poetic response to a crisis, >>> whether environmental, political or military, can have a long lasting >>> effect. Just think - we're still reading anti-war poems about long ago >>> wars. >>> >>> Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. >>> >>> My subject is War, and the pity of War. >>> >>> The Poetry is in the pity. >>> >>> Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense >>> consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. >>> That >>> is why the true Poets must be truthful. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> - Wilfred Owen >>> >>> >>> Nature poetry, of course, has inspired many generations to value our >>> environment. Unfortunately the BP execs didn't get that message, but who >>> knows - maybe their children will. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Geer Austin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ================================== >>> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >>> guidelines >>> & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> -------------------------- >> MIKE FINLEY >> 1841 Dayton Avenue >> Saint Paul MN 55104 >> (651) 644-4540 home office >> (651) 528-0394 cell I am always misplacing >> mfinley98@gmail.com >> http://mfinley.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 > -- -------------------------- MIKE FINLEY 1841 Dayton Avenue Saint Paul MN 55104 (651) 644-4540 home office (651) 528-0394 cell I am always misplacing mfinley98@gmail.com http://mfinley.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, 11 Jun 2010 10:02:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sharon Mesmer/David Borchart Subject: Re: Poets For Living Waters In-Reply-To: <477463.44858.qm@web51807.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Re: what Mary wrote: > Perhaps if the understanding of the poetry forum was enlarged, we = might feel more "honest" about it. (I don't know if that is the right = word to describe the ambivalence that some of us feel, but I will use = that word.) =20 I think that, at the very least, teaching people to think imaginatively = -- to pay attention -- is a step in the right/write direction. Those of = us who teach poetry (as well as write it) are presented with a good = opportunity to communicate the importance of cultivating imagination. = =46rom there, one would hope, comes the ability to see the = interconnectedness of all these things, and the importance of paying = attention BEFORE the catastrophe happens. You may not be able to teach = someone to actually write poetry (or even appreciate it!), but you can = communicate the power of using imagination in different situations. And = we desperately need to be doing that. =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: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:10:47 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Huffington Post Interview / Idealism / Poetry Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" , Discussion of Women's Poetry List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Perhaps I am too idealistic in my replies - please do weigh in if you are so moved: The Poetry Feminaissance by Travis Nichols Are you a poet? Do you feel overwhelmed by negativity? Feel like there's no hope for a poet in this world? Especially a female poet? Well don't despair. Spend some time with Amy King. She's the author of Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox), and, with Ana Bozicevic, she co-curates the Brooklyn-based reading series, The Stain of Poetry, and, maybe most importantly, she has ideas. Over the past few weeks we've been emailing back and forth about her ideas of what it means to be a poet today. Here's a few slices of the force for your perusal. Enjoy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-nichols/the-poetry-feminaissance_b_607561.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, 11 Jun 2010 19:37:17 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CThe_Ashes_of_Thoreau=E2=80=9D_?= by Chris Mansel Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is =E2=80=9CThe Ashes of Thoreau=E2=80= =9D by Chris Mansel. Description: Chris Mansel writes like a man without a country. Each poem of =E2=80=9CThe= Ashes of Thoreau=E2=80=9D is a labyrinth of fragmentation and resolve. The= projection is dense but difficult to abandon. Like cinema, it will leave y= ou entertained by the time you step back into the light. Available as a free ebook here: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3D36590601 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 11 Jun 2010 14:17:22 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jessie Lendennie Subject: Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" I'm compiling an anthology of poems 'by'/about/for dogs - entitled Dogs Singing. I welcome submissions of poems in any form. The deadline is 12th= July, 2010, for publication in October. Salmon Poetry is based in Co. Cla= re, Ireland, but we have an international list. You can check out our website= http://salmonpoety.com to get an idea of what we do. The royalties from D= ogs Singing will be donated to several dog charities, including The Soi Dog Foundation (Thailand). Please email submissions to jessie@salmonpoetry.co= m. Many Thanks, Jessie =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 11 Jun 2010 20:24:04 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Rockpile Tour Interviews and Feature at The Argotist Online Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rockpile Tour Interviews and Feature at The Argotist Online.=20 This feature relates to ROCKPILE a collaboration between poets David Meltze= r, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion, who travelled 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=E2=80=99s main aim was t= o educate and preserve, as well as to create a history of collaboration. It= is hoped that it has helped to reinforce the tradition of the troubadour, = a tradition that is central to the cultural upheaval and the identity polit= ics that reawakened poets, artists, musicians and songwriters from the mid-= 1960s through to the 1970s. Included in this feature is an interview with David Meltzer and Michael Rot= henberg, an interview with David Meltzer, perspectives from two of the musi= cians involved (Bob Malone and Daniel McNaughton), some reactions from peop= le who were either involved or who saw the tour on the road and an overview= of the tour by Michael Rothenberg.=20 http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Rockpile%20Interviews%20and%20Feature.htm =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:10:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Carfagna, Richard" Subject: New Book from Chalk Editions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, My new book, Symphony No.1 is now available at: http://chalkeditions.co.cc=20 There's also many other wonderful titles. Check them out. Be Well, Ric =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 11 Jun 2010 19:15:06 -0700 Reply-To: derek beaulieu Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: derek beaulieu Subject: new from No press: LOUISE GATE by Bob Cobbing Comments: To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@invalid.domain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No press is proud to announce the publication of LOUISE GATE by Bob Cobbing published in an edition of 50 hand-sewn copies (of which 25are for sale) $3 each (including shipping) for more information, or to order copies, email=20 derek@housepress.ca derek beaulieu 2 - 733 2nd avenue nw calgary alberta canada T2N 0E4 derek@housepress.ca http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/beaulieu/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:39:03 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: new(ish) on rob's clever blog -- 12 or 20 (small press) questions: Dave Proctor on Wooden Rockets Press -- 12 or 20 questions: with Susan Tichy -- Andy Weaver introduction for the TREE Reading Series -- Margaret Christakos, Welling -- Sandra Ridley, Fallout -- 12 or 20 questions: with Billie Livingston -- 12 or 20 (small press) questions: Antonio D'Alfonso on Guernica -- The Griffin Poetry Prize, 2010; -- 12 or 20 questions: with Suzanne Bowness -- Er¡n Moure, O Resplandor -- 12 or 20 questions: with Andrea Brady -- Gerry Shikatani at Ottawa's AB Series, June 3; -- rob mclennan interviewed by David Kosub on editing poetry anthologies -- rob mclennan + Andy Weaver at the TREE Reading Series -- 12 or 20 questions: with Andrew Kaufman -- 12 or 20 questions: with Susan Briscoe -- Pac Man, Ms. (a very short story) -- fwd: Jason Camlot's Ticker Text Project -- 12 or 20 (small press) questions: Christophe Casam... -- 12 or 20 questions: with Keith Kumasen Abbott -- a second review of wild horses; -- Barbara Godard, 1942-2010 -- influency salon second issue now online; -- Rachel Zucker, museum of accidents -- 12 or 20 questions: with Timothy Quinn -- 12 or 20 questions: with Renee Rodin www.robmclennan.blogspot.com + some other new things at ottawa poetry newsletter www.ottawapoetry.blogspot.com + some other new things at the Chaudiere Booksblog www.chaudierebooks.blogspot.com -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:29:06 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: New readings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit steve dalachinsky reads / june 13 at 4 pm bowery poetry club with with albey balgochian's basscentric w/albeybalgochian hill greene and francois grillot ____________________________________________________ June 14 at Local 269 suffolk and houston 7 pm w/ the great loren mazzacane connors on guitar $10 per set - $ 7 senior and students / $15 for 2 - $20 for entire night other sets by other folks to follow at 8, 9 and 10 pm __________________ Sunday June 20 - 2-5pm the Vision Festival presents @ AGathering of Tribes 285 East 3rd St. (between C & D - 2nd floor) donation to Tribes poetry by Jeff Wright Bob Heman Lewis Warsh Poetry & Music Albey Balgochian & Jane Grenier B Barry Wallenstein Yuko Otomo - Shayna Dulberger Jake Marmer / & Alon Nechushtan Aaron Howard w/Gwen Krueger & Tomislav Butkovic Steve Dalachinsky Alexandre Pierrepont Tamara Singh Tsaurah Litsky Steve Ben Israel Musicians / Improvs Ellen Christi Max Johnson bass Andrew Barker drums Charles Waters reeds plus others to be announced $5 donation ______________________ wednesday - june 30 - 6:30 8:30 p.m. on the roof of the educational alliance east broadway (f to east broadway) jake marmer and steve dalachinsky read $10 includes snacks and all the kosher wine you can consume _ On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:10:25 -0400 "Carfagna, Richard" writes: > Hi, > My new book, Symphony No.1 is now available at: > http://chalkeditions.co.cc > > There's also many other wonderful titles. > Check them out. > > Be Well, > Ric > > > ================================== > 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, 12 Jun 2010 07:52:43 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: peter ganick Subject: new drawings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 5 pages of new drawings by peter ganick. posted at jim leftwich's textimagepoetry site. pg/textimagepoetry/11 pg/textimagepoetry/12 pg/textimagepoetry/13 pg/textimagepoetry/14 pg/textimagepoetry/15 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:06:47 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: interview with Steve Dalachinsky MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Recently I interviewed Steve Dalachinsky. Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/2f4qh9r Cheers, Dan ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:28:26 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: Borderbend Arts Collective MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, The Borderbend Arts Collective is a 501(c)(3) organization that helps to put together the Mingus Awareness Project, Chicago Calling Arts Festival, and other projects. New changes have been made with the Borderbend website, including newly uploaded audio from past Bb events and photo galleries. You're invited to visit the Bb website: www.borderbend.org Cheers, Dan ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:31:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: review copies of Camille Martin's Sonnets Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 I have three review copies of Sonnets left. If anyone is interested in revi= ewing it, please backchannel. Review copies are also available at In Galatea's Purse (edited by Eileen Ta= bios): http://grarchives.blogspot.com/ Cheers, Camille http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/martin.html 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: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:52:56 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Les Figues Press: Give A Fig Blog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Les Figues Press creates aesthetic conversations between readers, writers and artists, through the publication of the TrenchArt series and other works, and through events, including Mrs. Porter's Art Salon. Guest writers on the Les Figues Blog, Give A Fig, are sharing their thoughts about books they're reading, events they're planning/attending, pieces they're writing, and collaborations they're working on. RECENT POSTS Barack Obama interviewed by Jennifer Karmin Urs Allemann interviewed by Elizabeth Hall Vanessa Place posts "L'art de la figue" Winners of the "Not Blessed" A Little Story Contest: "Her Not Blessed" by Barbara Maloutas "The first day of spring" by Erin Hinkes "28 DAYS / (from Temporality) by Stephen Radcliffe "Not Blessed, A Collaboration" by Soham Patel, Deborah Marie Poe & Gene Tanta Join the conversation! http://www.lesfigues.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, 13 Jun 2010 16:57:44 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Charlie Rossiter Subject: Submissions sought for Online Oil Spill Crisis anthology MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ChicagoPoetry.com is working on an online poetry anthology in response to the current crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. If you have work about pollution or conservation or about the oil spill, please send your work to chicagopoetry@chicagopoetry.com Help spread the word. This will be an ongoing anthology that will grow larger as more submissions come in. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:40:27 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: Rogue Embryo: Jiri Kolar, Bill Knott, Charles Borkhuis, and more . . . Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 reflecting pond for giant artists in the Place des Vosges (an original Jiri= Kolar!) * a sonnet by Bill Knott (for the fallen of late): =93how unfair, / how unjus= t when all the other fields / get to rest beneath their hypnotic snows . . = .=94 * Charles Borkhuis: =93Write What I Say," Or, =93Write what you think I say w= hen I say what I think I=92m thinking.=94 * plus: new and improved shameless promotion of Sonnets comments welcome: http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com Cheers! Camille Camille Martin http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/martin.html 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: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:26:06 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Subject: An Announcement from Big Bridge- NO MORE OIL! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends of Big Bridge, My apologies for writing you all on issues that are not related to Big = Bridge. But we have come to a moment in our existence as a species in = which "propriety" is less and less meaningful.=20 As you all know Big Bridge has always been vocal on political and social = issues and so the time has come for us to speak out against OIL!=20 Many of our friends living in the Gulf Coast are seeing their lives = destroyed forever. An entire ecosystem appears doomed. The impact is = global.=20 Everyday it seems more certain that we are witnessing the worst man-made = environmental holocaust in history and I feel we must be heroic in our = actions to make something positive out of this horror.=20 Over the last few weeks, I have focused attention to my facebook = communications, posting as many articles and pieces of information on = the "spill" as I can, hoping that the spread of information will make a = difference in how we do things. I have organized three events, = fundraising benefits for The Louisiana Bucket Brigade, = http://www.labucketbrigade.org/ , a non profit environmental health and = justice organization tracking the impact of the BP oil spill and = prevaenting the impact from being "swept under the rug." Two events in = Petaluma, June 27(poetry and music fest) and July 10th (an art = auction), and another event in Pacifica, CA (poetry and music and art = auction) on August 7. For details please contact me.=20 It is time to make a real change. Not just leave it to government to = show us the way. Please, get out in the street, wave signs, write = friends, spread the word, organize!! We are into a new age. Stop Oil! = Stop Global Warming! Stop Corporate Ownership of the Planet! There is no = time left to waste.=20 If you have news that you want to get around please send it to me or = join me on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/michael.rothenberg. If we = are not "friends" yet, I would be happy to add you. Again forgive me for = using Big Bridge mailing list to send this message but I could not hold = back. My sincere best in these sad and terrifying times. Hope lies in real = change not in promises! Yours,=20 Michael Rothenberg Big Bridge, 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: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:53:53 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jesse Glass Subject: Ekleksographia--Boston Issue now up MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/murphy/ Dedicated to the memory of Rane Arroyo. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:20:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Siegell Subject: FISHTOWN, Philly > Tuesday the 15th Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" .=95:*=A8=A8*:=95. TUESDAY, JUNE 15 at 7pm .=95:*=A8=A8*:=95.=20 @ The Slingluff Gallery (11 W. Girard Ave, Phila, PA 19123) The Fishtown Airways Reading Series presents: MICHAEL STEFFEN & PAUL = SIEGELL HOSTED by JIM MANCINELLI =20 MICHAEL STEFFEN's first full-length poetry collection, No Good at Sea, wa= s published by Legible Press in 2002. His second, Heart Murmur, was publis= hed by Bordighera Press in 2009. Michael was granted a 2002 Fellowship from = the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and has had poems appear in a wide varie= ty of journals including Poetry, Potomac Review, The Ledge, Poet Lore, Rhino= and many others. Michael is a Y2K graduate of the MFA in Creative Writin= g Program at Vermont College and currently lives in Roseto, Pennsylvania (http://mnsteffen.com/). PAUL SIEGELL is the author of three books of poetry: wild life rifle fire= (Otoliths Books, 2010), jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing, 2009) and Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008). He is an editor at Painted Bride= Quarterly, and has contributed to The American Poetry Review, Coconut, NO= =D6, Rattle, SIR! and many other fine journals. He has also been featured in t= wo national music and culture magazines, Paste and Relix, as well as elsewhe= re exciting. Kindly find more of Paul's work at "ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL" (http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com). yours, paul> http://bit.ly/aLaNz2 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 14 Jun 2010 09:23:49 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: "Coverage" beyond the Media -- New Statements & Poems @ Poets for Living Waters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable THREE POEMS BY ELIZABETH TWIDDY= http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/=0A=0ATHREE POEMS BY ELIZABETH TWIDDY= =0A=0ATWO POEMS BY CAITLIN PLUNKETT=0A=0AAPORIA BY ROBERT PHILBEN=0A=0AIN E= XTREMIS [+ VIDEO] BY NEIL DE LA FLOR=0A=0ATWO POEMS BY MARTHA SERPAS=0A=0AT= WO POEMS BY FRANK SHERLOCK=0A=0APHILADELPHIA WORLD OCEANS DAY READING!=0A= =0ALICKETY-SPLIT BY ANNE HIGGINS=0A=0AA MOODY STREAM BY STEVE DALACHINSKY= =0A=0ATHE FLOODING THAT WRITES ITSELF BY EILEEN R. TABIOS=0A=0ATWO POEMS BY= MELISSA TUCKEY=0A=0AORIFICE BY MARCELLA DURAND=0A=0ADESCENDING BLUES BY BR= ANDON LAMSON=0A=0AAN ORDINANCE OF POSSESSION BY TONY MANCUS=0A=0ATWO POEMS = BY MOLLY GAUDRY=0A=0ACHANDELEUR SOUND BY MARTHE REED=0A=0ADEEPWATER HORIZON= POEMS BY NICOLE MAURO=0A=0AHONORING WORLD OCEANS DAY =E2=80=94 BROOKLYN AC= TION=0A=0ATEMPUS FIDGET BY GEOFFREY GATZA=0A=0AHONORING WORLD OCEANS DAY=E2= =80=93ALASKAN ACTION=0A=0AFOUR POEMS BY MICHAEL ROBINS=0A=0ASPIRIT BEAR BY = CONRAD DIDIODATO=0A=0AFIVE POEMS BY AMY SARA CARROLLECHOES BY NATHAN HAUKE= =0A=0Ahttp://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:52:29 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: PhillySound poets on The Joe Milford Poetry Show MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On June 13th eight PhillySound poets met at Pattie McCarthy & Kevin Varrone's house in South Philadelphia to each give five minute readings over the telephone with Joe Milford. Click here for the show: http://phillysoundonjoemilford.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, 14 Jun 2010 16:32:49 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: Furniture Press Site Up/Down..... Finally up again! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 If anyone's had trouble with the website, we've had server problems. furniturepressbooks.com But all's well now! Chris McCreary's "Undone: A Fakebook" and Emily Carr's "Directions for Flying" are still available (even though we've practically sold out of the titles already!) A second printing will of the making soon, so hurry! Christophe ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:55:17 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Fieled Subject: "Apparition Poems" out from Blazevox MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Apparition Poem series has appeared in Jacket, on PennSound, in moria, = blue & yellow dog, denver syntax, Tears in the Fence, the Argotist, Great W= orks, diode, PFS Post, Stoning the Devil, Cricket Online Review, Otoliths, = Pirene's Fountain, and elsewhere.=0A=0A"Apparition Poems" has just been rel= eased as a full-length book from Blazevox Press. You can buy it here: http:= //www.blazevox.org/bk-af2.htm. I would like to personally thank Geoffrey Ga= tza and the editors around the world who have made the Apps a success.=0A= =0AHappy Summer!=0AAdam Fieled=A0=A0 =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, 14 Jun 2010 23:05:29 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: A Boston Poet Tea Party, 7/30-8/1/10 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable please forward ------------------- A Boston Poet Tea Party A Summer Poetry Marathon featuring 88 local and visiting poets reading for 8 minutes apiece Friday 7/30, 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Pierre Menard Gallery 10 Arrow St., Harvard Square, Cambridge Saturday 7/31, 12 noon-10:00 p.m. Sunday 8/1, 12 noon-5:00 p.m. OUTPOST 186 186 1/2 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge With readings from: Seth Abramson, Kari Adelaide, Dena Barisano, Kish Song Bear, Jim =20 Behrle, Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87, Oni Buchanan, Mairead Byrne, = Macgregor Card, =20 Mick Carr, Kate Colby, John Coletti, John Cotter, Amanda Cook, James =20 Cook, Mike County, Amy D'Eath, Thom Donovan, Valerie Duff-Strauttman, =20= Jim Dunn, Joe Elliot, Derek Fenner, Annie Finch, Greg Fuchs, Michael =20 Franco, Elisa Gabbert, Michael Gizzi, Peter Gizzi, Kythe Heller, Mitch =20= Highfill, Doug Holder, Fanny Howe, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Andrew =20 Hughes, Geoff Huth, N. F. Huth, Brenda Iijima, Lauren Ireland, Boni =20 Joi, Ellen Kennedy, Aaron Kiely, Jack Kimball, Amy King, David =20 Kirschenbaum, Mark Lamoureux, Gerrit Lansing, Tanya Larkin, Dorothea =20 Lasky, Ruth Lepson, Brendan Lorber, Lori Lubeski, Bridget Madden, =20 Douglas Manson, Fred Marchant, Filip Marinovich, Chris Martin, Joseph =20= Massey, Ben Mazur, Gillian McCain, Suzanne Mercury, Hannah K. Messler, =20= Debrah Morkun, Jason Morris, John Mulrooney, Eileen Myles, Jess Mynes, =20= Amanda Nadelberg, Urayoan Noel, Martha Oatis, Geoffrey Olsen, January =20= O'Neil, Nathaniel Otting, Chad Parenteau, Kate Peebles, David Rivard, =20= Chris Rizzo, Steve Roberts, Carlos Soto Roman, Douglas N. Rothschild, =20= Lauren Russell, Kate Schapira, Alan Semerdijian, Minal Shekhawat, =20 Nathaniel Siegel, Joel Sloman, Kimberly Ann Southwick, Chuck =20 Stebleton, Aaron Tieger, Joe Torra, Dana Ward, Jacqueline Waters, =20 Dustin Williamson, Elizabeth Willis, Rebecca Wolff, Angela Veronica =20 Wong, Jon Woodward, and Elizabeth Marie Young. Organized by Jim Behrle, Michael Carr, David Kirschenbaum, John Mulrooney, and Aaron Tieger A complete schedule is available at = http://www.bostonpoetteaparty.blogspot.com/ For more info contact: bostonpoetryfestival2010@gmail.com -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) To subscribe free to The December Podcast: = http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=3D3431698= 80 For music from Gilmore boys: http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:10:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bill Berkson Subject: What About Auden In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable An Evening at Books & Bookshelves =B3What About W. H. Auden?=B2 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, 2010 99 Sanchez Street, San Francisco, CA (415) 621-376=20 =20 an evening of readings from and talking about W.H. Auden=B9s poetry, prose and his importance as a poet and man of letters with Bill Berkson =AD =B3Mus=E9e des Beaux Arts=B2/ 13 Things/ =B3The Ironist=B2 etc. Steve Dickison -- Iceland Patrick Dunagan =AD intro poem to The Sea and the Mirror Jarrett Earnest =AD re W.H. & Hannah Arendt Garrett Caples =AD Auden intro to Minor British 19th C Poets Amanda Eicher -- =B3In Memory of W.B. Yeats=B2 Norman Fisher =AD =B3As I walked out on evening=8A=B2 & =B3On the Circuit=B2 Susan Gevirtz =AD Homage to Clio Robert Harris =AD Ode from The Orators David Highsmith =AD =B3River Profile=B2 Colter Jacobsen/ Larry Rinder =AD from Letters from Iceland Jason Morris =AD =B3The Poet and the City=B2 Julien Poirier =AD on The Rakes Progress Stephen Ratcliffe =AD preface to Thomas Campion Cedar Sigo =AD prepared text on Auden Michael Wolfe =AD =B3In Praise of Limestone=B2 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 15 Jun 2010 04:22:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: EOAGH presents Hennessey, Prevallet, and Sherlock (6/17) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 EOAGH Reading Series: Michael S. Hennessey, Kristin Prevallet, and Frank Sherlock Thursday, June 17 at 7PM at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY FREE MICHAEL S. HENNESSEY is the managing editor of PennSound and the editor of Jacket2, the new journal that will continue the mission of John Tranter's Jacket starting in 2011. Recent publications include the chapbooks [ static ] (2009) and Last Days in the Bomb Shelter (17 Narrower Poems) (2008), poems in EOAGH and Elective Affinities and on Cross Cultural Poetics, as well as critical writing on Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff, Charles Bernstein, the New York School and Giorno Poetry Systems. Currently, he lives in Cincinnati, where he teaches at the University of Cincinnati and records everything he can. You can hear several recent readings on his PennSound author page Read "Towards No Horizon," "A Loose Association to Departure," and "An Anthology of Lost Hotel Rooms" by Michael S. Hennessey in EOAGH 5: http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/hennessey.html KRISTIN PREVALLET is the editor of A Helen Adam Reader (National Poetry Foundation, 2007). Her most recent book of poetry is I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time. She teaches writing at St. John's University and lives in Brooklyn. Work by Prevallet is forthcoming in EOAGH 6 this summer. FRANK SHERLOCK is the author of OVER HERE (Factory School) and a collaboration with CA Conrad entitled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School). His New Orleans collaboration with Brett Evans is entitled Ready-to-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink). Feast Day Gone & Coming (Cy Gist Press) is a new chapbook forthcoming in June 2010. He is a co-founder of PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension and a native Philadelphian. Read a selection from "Daybook of Perversities and Main Events" by Frank Sherlock in EOAGH 4: http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefour/sherlock.html HOW TO GET TO UNNAMEABLE BOOKS: Unnameable Books is conveniently located at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. There are two ways to get there: 1) Take the 2 or 3 train to the Grand Army Plaza stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block around the circle, and turn onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. 2) Take the Q train to the 7th Avenue stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block along Park Pl and make a left onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. UPCOMING EOAGH READING SERIES EVENTS: Susie Timmons and Michael Gottlieb Sunday, June 20 @4PM (note this time is different) E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, and Shelly Taylor Sunday, June 27 @2PM ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:32:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: Re: FISHTOWN, Philly > Tuesday the 15th In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Paul, Can you get me in touch with Paul Mancinelli? I have friends in Fishtown and just recently heard about this series. Thanks! Christophe Casamassima On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Paul Siegell wrot= e: > .=95:*=A8=A8*:=95. TUESDAY, JUNE 15 at 7pm .=95:*=A8=A8*:=95. > > @ The Slingluff Gallery (11 W. Girard Ave, Phila, PA 19123) > > The Fishtown Airways Reading Series presents: MICHAEL STEFFEN & PAUL SIEG= ELL > > HOSTED by JIM MANCINELLI > > MICHAEL STEFFEN's first full-length poetry collection, No Good at Sea, wa= s > published by Legible Press in 2002. =A0His second, Heart Murmur, was publ= ished > by Bordighera Press in 2009. =A0Michael was granted a 2002 Fellowship fro= m the > Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and has had poems appear in a wide varie= ty > of journals including Poetry, Potomac Review, The Ledge, Poet Lore, Rhino > and many others. =A0Michael is a Y2K graduate of the MFA in Creative Writ= ing > Program at Vermont College and currently lives in Roseto, Pennsylvania > (http://mnsteffen.com/). > > PAUL SIEGELL is the author of three books of poetry: wild life rifle fire > (Otoliths Books, 2010), jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing, 2009) and > Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008). He is an editor at Painted Bride > Quarterly, and has contributed to The American Poetry Review, Coconut, NO= =D6, > Rattle, SIR! and many other fine journals. He has also been featured in t= wo > national music and culture magazines, Paste and Relix, as well as elsewhe= re > exciting. Kindly find more of Paul's work at "ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL" > (http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com). > > yours, > paul> > http://bit.ly/aLaNz2 > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:07:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ana_Bo=BEi=E8evi=E6?= Subject: Announcing the Stain summer calendar! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Stain of Poetry http://stainofpoetry.com Dog days of summer? Why who says so. With a trio of stellar readings lined up for you, Stain is all about the summer in the city! June 25, Friday James Bellflower, Claire Hero, Shelly Taylor, Matthew Thorburn, Kim Gek Lin Short, Wendy Wisner July 30, Friday Amy De=92Ath, Gordon Massman, Tracy O Connor, Kate Schapira, Dustin Williamson, Octavio R. Gonzalez August 27, Friday Jennifer Karmin, Joanna Ruocco, Allison Benis White, Peter Spagnuolo, Eric Lindley, Amina Cain, Amarnath Ravva Stay tuned 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: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:33:47 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicole Mauro Subject: Two New Titles from Black Radish Books Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Black Radish Books is pleased to announce Marthe Reed's Gaze, and David Wolach's Occultations are both now available for purchase via spd (spdbooks.org). If interested in obtaining a review copy, please back-channel me at blackradishbooks@gmail.com. Thank you! Nicole Mauro =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 15 Jun 2010 01:03:04 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Netartery MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Inspired by netpoetic.com, which is a group blog on 'electronic literature', I recently started up a group blog called Netartery at http://netartery.vispo.com . Which looks a bit like a much earlier project of mine called Webartery ( http://vispo.com/defib/pastevents.htm ). There are only a few posts, so far, to Netartery. They're by Gregory Whitehead, Andy Campbell, Jhave Johnston, and myself. Currently 13 people have agreed to post at least 6 times per year. That number will probably increase and decrease and, hopefully, balance out to something steady in terms of semi-regular posts. Netartery is like netpoetic in that the reader and writership will consist probably primarily of writers. But the focus is not so much on 'electronic writing' as a more general 'writers gone wrong' approach. Gregory Whitehead, for instance, is an audio writer. I've been following his work since the 80's and regard him as the best literary audio artist I've encountered. Jhave Johnston ( http://glia.ca ) and Andy Campbell ( http://dreamingmethods.com ) are also involved. Jhave Johnston is a Montréal-based poet-programmer who is producing some of the strongest contemporary poetic net art (such as http://vispo.com/jhave ). And Andy Campbell has been producing digital fiction since the early nineties and continues with his truly outstanding project dreamingmethods.com . The other people involved (and haven't posted yet) are Chris Joseph, Christina Ljungberg, Christine Wilks, Jason Quackenbush, Kedrick James, Leonardo Flores, Marcus Bastos, Michael Harold, and Regina Célia Pinto. Netartery is primarily a place to post about one's new work and new work of interest to the group and its readership, and about related issues. New work, interesting ideas, events, and so on. The people posting to Netartery are media writers and scholars of media writing. They are 'writers gone wrong' in this sense. They might write books, but they are also involved in other forms of artistic writing. These can be vispoetic or performative, programmerly, audio-oriented, and what not. ja http://netartery.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, 15 Jun 2010 12:04:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: EOAGH presents Hennessey, Prevallet, and Sherlock (6/17) In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit love MH's 'pencil-dark' in the EOAGH poem. On 6/15/10 4:22 AM, "Tim Peterson" wrote: > EOAGH Reading Series: > > Michael S. Hennessey, Kristin Prevallet, > > and Frank Sherlock > > > > Thursday, June 17 at 7PM > > at Unnameable Books, > > 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY > > FREE > > > > > > MICHAEL S. HENNESSEY is the managing editor of PennSound and the editor of > Jacket2, the new journal that will continue the mission of John Tranter's > Jacket starting in 2011. Recent publications include the chapbooks [ static > ] (2009) and Last Days in the Bomb Shelter (17 Narrower Poems) (2008), poems > in EOAGH and Elective Affinities and on Cross Cultural Poetics, as well as > critical writing on Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff, Charles Bernstein, the > New York School and Giorno Poetry Systems. Currently, he lives in > Cincinnati, where he teaches at the University of Cincinnati and records > everything he can. You can hear several recent readings on his PennSound > author page > > > > Read "Towards No Horizon," "A Loose Association to Departure," and "An > Anthology of Lost Hotel Rooms" by Michael S. Hennessey in EOAGH 5: > > http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/hennessey.html > > > > > > KRISTIN PREVALLET is the editor of A Helen Adam Reader (National Poetry > Foundation, 2007). Her most recent book of poetry is I, Afterlife: Essay in > Mourning Time. She teaches writing at St. John's University and lives in > Brooklyn. > > > > Work by Prevallet is forthcoming in EOAGH 6 this summer. > > > > > > FRANK SHERLOCK is the author of OVER HERE (Factory School) and a > collaboration with CA Conrad entitled The City Real & Imagined (Factory > School). His New Orleans collaboration with Brett Evans is entitled > Ready-to-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink). Feast Day Gone & Coming (Cy Gist > Press) is a new chapbook forthcoming in June 2010. He is a co-founder of > PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension and a native Philadelphian. > > > > Read a selection from "Daybook of Perversities and Main Events" by Frank > Sherlock in EOAGH 4: > > http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefour/sherlock.html > > HOW TO GET TO UNNAMEABLE BOOKS: > > > > Unnameable Books is conveniently located at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue in > Brooklyn. There are two ways to get there: > > > > 1) Take the 2 or 3 train to the Grand Army Plaza stop in Brooklyn, then get > out of the station, walk one block around the circle, and turn onto > Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. > > > > 2) Take the Q train to the 7th Avenue stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the > station, walk one block along Park Pl and make a left onto Vanderbilt Avenue > heading NE toward the bookstore. > > > > UPCOMING EOAGH READING SERIES EVENTS: > > > > Susie Timmons and Michael Gottlieb > > Sunday, June 20 @4PM (note this time is different) > > > > E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, and Shelly Taylor > > Sunday, June 27 @2PM > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & > sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:27:50 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Tribbey, Hugh R." Subject: Re: New Book from Chalk Editions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cool. ________________________________ From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) on behalf of Carfagna, Richard Sent: Fri 6/11/2010 3:10 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: New Book from Chalk Editions Hi, My new book, Symphony No.1 is now available at: http://chalkeditions.co.cc =20 There's also many other wonderful titles. Check them out. Be Well, Ric =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:28:37 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Siegell Subject: Re: FISHTOWN, Philly > Tuesday the 15th Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Hi Christophe, Jim Mancinelli is at mancinelli51 (at) gmail (dot)com http://www.planbpress.com/events.html Jim Mancinelli hosts and curates Fishtown Airways Poetry Series at the Slingluff Gallery: 11 W. Girard Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125. The 3rd Tuesday of the month. Schedule: June 15: Paul Siegell & Michael Steffen ........TOOOOONIGHT!!! July 20: Joyce Meyers & Liz Abrams-Morley no August reading September 21: Samantha Barrow & Daniel Collins October 19: J.C. Todd & Emari Gregario November 16: Jim Cory & Stephen Potter December 21: THE BRYN MAWR STUDENTS FiSHTOWN ToNIGHT, paul> http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:29:47 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Iris Law Subject: Just Released: LANTERN REVIEW, Issue 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We are pleased to announce the release of the inaugural issue of *Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry, *featuring contributions by: Angela Veronica Wong, Changming Yuan, Melissa Roxas, Frances Won, Vuong Quo= c Vu, Ocean Vuong, Kevin Minh Allen, Maria T. Allocco, Jon Pineda, Subhashini Kaligotla, Eileen R. Tabios, Rachelle Cruz, Sankar Roy, Vanni Taing, Asteri= o Enrico N. Gutierrez, Jai Arun Ravine, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingd=E9, Henry = W. Leung, Luisa A. Igloria, Barbara Jane Reyes, Hsiao-Shih (Raechel) Lee, Stev= e Wing, Rebecca Y.M. Cheung, Elaine Wang, Ray Craig, Craig Santos Perez, Phayvanh Luekhamhan, Tamiko Beyer, Soham Patel, Bushra Rehman, Matthew Olzmann, & Kristine Uyeda. Read it online at: http://www.lanternreview.com/issue1/cover.html Or find out more about us at our main web siteor blog . Many thanks, Iris A. Law, Editor Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Associate Editor =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 15 Jun 2010 13:07:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: paolo javier Subject: P||R||O||J||E||C||T||I||O||N||S #2, June 20, 6 pm @ the BPC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *Sunday, June 20, 6 pm at the Bowery Poetry Club* marks the second event of the *P||R||O||J||E||C||T||I||O||N||S* series, curated by Paolo Javier and Jeremy J F Thompson. Our series presents an active intersection of moving text and moving image: *1. text moving sonically through space* * 2. image moving on the surface of a screen* The fundamental scenario presents one or more present persons utilizing words &/or sounds &/or movement to mediate both spatially and conceptually between images on a screen and a live audience. Performing this Sunday are: *KATE EICHORN*, author of *Fond* (BookThug, 2008) and co-editor of *Prisma= tic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics* (Coach House Books= , 2009). A second collection of poetry, *Fieldnotes: a forensic*, is forthcoming in fall 2010 from BookThug. She teaches writing and cultural theory at The New School. *DANNY SNELSON*, a writer, editor, and archivist recently acclimated to Philadelphia. His online editorial work can be found on UbuWeb, PennSound , and Eclipse. He is the founder of Aphasic Letters (with Phoebe Springstubb) and No Input Books (with James Hoff). Gallery screenings, readings, and performances at Segue Series, Poetry Project, Dispatch Bureau , Ontologic= al Hysteric Theater , Subtext Series, Gallery D21 Leipzig , Capricious Space, CRG Gallery , Lisa Cooley Gallery, and with free103point9 Transmission Arts . Invited lectures at the Sorbonne, Centre Pompidou, &Now SUNY Buffalo, Princeton University and University of Washinton Bothell. Recent writing projects include Simultaneously Agitated Space(Mimeo Mimeo #3), Endless Nameless = (publishing used hard drives as functional archives), my Dear coUntess (an epistolary vlog translation), Equi Nox (a bowdlerized edition of Samuel Delany's classic novel), The Book of Ravelling Women(rewriting an illegitimate Djuna Barnes chapbook), and No-Body Zone (a collaboratively expanded audiobook archive). Currently, he's working around textual conditions, editorial strategies, and media technologies at the University of Pennsylvania. *JAMES COPELAND*, author of the chapbooks *A Constructing Egg* and *Why I Steal*, and co-author of *Whole Milk*. A long work for voice, piano, marimba, and video, entitled *Menhir*, debuted earlier this year. Poems hav= e appeared or are forthcoming in Fence, No Dear, 6x6, and other journals. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is Managing Director at Ugly Duckling Presse. *Sunday, June 20 Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (and Bleecker St) $6 at the door. Full bar available.* Historical practices related to this series: Benshi (Japan), Py=F4nsa (Kore= a), Benzi (Taiwan), Gavrilov Translations (USSR), Lector (Poland). Contemporary practices related to this series: Movietelling, Neo-Benshi, Voiceover, Redubbing, Gag Dub, Resubtitling. In the last 5 years, these practices have emerged in clusters throughout th= e world, owing in part to practitioners=92 frustrations with the limitations = of certain mediums, and in part to the collective social urge to confront and appropriate the onslaught of information and media that now overwhelms us. Our hope is that this series might become a hub, an intersection for practitioners already stretching and breaking the bounds within their own mediums and communities. We will showcase poets, film-makers, musicians, performance artists, scholars, critics, editors, and other producers and managers of meaning and form. Please come, and do pass along this invitation! --=20 http://blog.myspace.com/paolojavier http://www.2ndavepoetry.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, 15 Jun 2010 10:43:22 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cara Benson Subject: Invitation to Celebrate Leslie Scalapino MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We honor her passing and celebrate her not ever = LESLIE SCALAPINO=0A=0AWe honor=C2=A0her passing and celebrate her not ever = passing.=0A=C2=A0 =0A"In making a connection, I'm not proposing that one's = language, sounds, conceptual shapes alter events outside. Rather, writing c= an note that one's/their sounds and conceptual shapes are events=C2=A0-- th= at are also along with events in the outside. A poem may place these togeth= er. As such one's conceptions alter oneself and being, and alter their and = one being outside. The individual (and any individual instance) occurs as r= eading. As: while, alongside, and being (reading is an act)."=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0 -- LS, "Eco-logic in Writing" in=C2=A0EcoLanguage Reader (Brenda Iij= ima, ed)=0A=C2=A0=0A=E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6 =E2=80=98horizontal=E2=80=99 is a wa= y of seeing everything flowing, existing at different times in parallel sim= ultaneous spaces=E2=80=93not permanent, but not ever passing either.=E2=80= =9D -LS in conversation w/Elizabeth Bryant, Dusie #8=0A=0A=C2=A0=0ALeslie S= calapino's writing placed inside/outside=C2=A0events together with/in space= time. Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We honor=C2=A0h= er passing and celebrate her not ever passing. We invite you to write along= side/simultaneously to/of/on=C2=A0her work for a special issue of Delirious= Hem, http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/. =0A=0AWe are especially interested= in critical appreciations and analyses (in any style or format) of passage= s from Leslie Scalapino's work. The Barbara Guest Memory Bank, http://www.a= su.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal//bg_memorybank/bg_memory.html, edited by L= auren Shufran for the Summer 2007 issue of How2, might serve as a model, as= might the Alice Notley Constellation (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprcevents/alic= enotley.html) edited by Carol Watts. Poems, images, personal memorials, and= short essays are also welcome.=0A=0ASince 2006, Delirious Hem has been dev= oted to writing by and about experimental women poets. Topics have included= features on Kundiman, Lucille Clifton, kari edwards, the Dusie kollektiv a= dventskalender, Gurlesque, and the "Numbers Trouble" controversy. Contribut= ors have included Anne Boyer, Bernadette Mayer, Amy King, Alison Roh Park, = Evie Shockley, Lee Ann Brown, Hoa Nguyen, Gloria Anzaldua, Jennifer Bartlet= t, Vanessa Place, Tara Betts, T.A. Noonan, Sharon Mesmer, Naomi Shihab Nye,= Sarah Vap, Rachel Levitsky, Mairead Byrne, Marcella Durand, Myung Mi Kim, = and many others. =0A=0ADeadline: Aug 1 =0A=0AVery best,=0A=0ACara Benson (c= benson67=C2=A0[at] yahoo=C2=A0[dot] com)=0AElizabeth Bryant (miss.elizabeth= .bryant [at] gmail [dot] com)=0ACathy Wagner=C2=A0(cathwagner [at] gmail [d= ot] com)=0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=0A=C2=A0=0A____= ____________________=C2=A0=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com=C2=A0{homepage}=C2= =A0=0Ahttp://www.necessetics.com/sousrature.html=C2=A0{journal}=0A=0A=0A = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:14:32 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Andy Gricevich Subject: THE RECURRENT END LOZENGE-SHAPED READING: Hauser, Karmin, Yearous-Algozin in Madison MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We are all sweatily enthusiastic about the RECURRENT END LOZENGE-SHAPED POETRY READING, featuring the strange, varied = virtuosities and anti-virtuosities of Milwaukee's MIKE HAUSER, Chicago's JE= NNIFER KARMIN and Buffalo's JOEY YEAROUS-ALGOZIN. Them three poets will read on Saturday, June 19th 7 p.m. The Project Lodge 817 E. Johnson St. for a suggested, non-obligatory but heartily encouraged $5-15 donation (or more!) There will be a bit of food and drink. We'll start on time! Expect performativity, silliness, and the opening of the chasm of being. See you there! yourn, Andy & Lewis http://readingshaped.wordpress.com Mike Hauser is from rural Wisconsin and now lives in Milwa= ukee, where he recently edited an issue of Burdock, and with Karl Saffran curates the Salacious Ban= ter Reading Series. He has published some chaps including crets crets c= rets (Rust Buckle Books), Dirty Movies Late At Night (Rust Bu= ckle Books), and most recently Psychic Headset(Mitzvah Chaps). Jennifer Karmin=E2=80=99s text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was pu= blished by Flim Forum Press in 2010. She curates the Red Rover Series and i= s co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise.=C2=A0 Her multi= disciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, = community centers, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A= proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbo= ok Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative = street project, is featured online at How2. At home in Chicago, Jennifer te= aches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-= in-Residence for the public schools. http://aaaaaaaaaaalice.blogspot.com Joey Yearous-Algozin is the author of Kensington Notebook(Lean-To = Press) and BOSTON STREET/TREES (Lean-To Press). He is currently wo= rking towards his PhD at the University at Buffalo. SAMPLE POEMS: They are as storms watching TV, watching Ellen. Their ass is the carbuncle and the static corner of the plaza. Seeing the plaza, my big black cup foretells magical emanations=20 of catholically soft swingset regulation. Lil Debbie as a cornpone Eco-Desk Light Fixture Jenny Diamond O=E2=80=99Dell makes a primitive bomb=20 from Dog Shampoo and simplified sour mash. Cumming is sustained in every municipality Jean Sugg diddled. John Pdornton=E2=80=99s friend, Fabric Softener, did an equipment check. Latest reports are the board will gush hot feathery surplus into our and around it=E2=80=99s edges. =E2=80=9CThis is Vince Grey from Vince Grey Roofing. Walt Partridge told me= to give you a call about the leaks in the church.=E2=80=9D Norfolk Floral Virginia=E2=80=99s Total Joint Center was vibrating like a strobe. Orgies began that we couldn=E2=80=99t finish, waning off-white within it=E2=80=99s walls. We tried to arrange ourselves differently, then= =20 differently, in it=E2=80=99s matrix. Part cum soon. Part cum later. Part came last week. --Mike Hauser wish you were here a and animals background be bison boots boy bright camera cheese comfortabl= e country covered cowboy culture do dollars doritos elk facing fake feather= s food for foreign fought garb garbage girl hat herds history how i in indi= an it know like little mayonnaise moose nature new not now of our outfit ow= n packaging people red relate sandwich see shooting six soda suppressed tom= ahawk ten the they this to tourism used we wearing whole with women Yellows= tone --Jennifer Karmin from DINNER & A MOVIE My Premium Crispy / Grilled Chicken Classic / Club / Ranch BLT Sandwich --Joey Yearous-Algozin=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, 15 Jun 2010 15:47:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Al Filreis Subject: Fellow in Poetics & Poetic Practice at Penn Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear friends: I'm very pleased to announce that Marcella Durand will be the CPCW Fellow in Poetics & Poetic Practice here at Penn for next year. In the spring semester she will teach a creative writing course in eco-poetics. Durand's bio and a brief description of her course are here: http://writing.upenn.edu/projects/poeticsfellow.php - Al Filreis 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 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:51:14 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: Furniture Press Books: McCreary & Carr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm happy to say that Chris' "Undone" and Emily's "Directions for Flying" are down to about 10 copies each. I've set up a second printing of each and should have them by next week. Thanks to everyone who ordered copies. Your donations are appreciated, and gratefully! Cheers, Christophe Casamassima furniturepressbooks.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, 15 Jun 2010 16:59:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: Reviewers needed for Dialogue's End (plus) Baltimore Center for the Emerging Text announcement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Good evening, The Dialogue's End blog (http://dialoguesend.blogspot.com/) is in need of poetry title reviewers. I began the blog ages ago but cannot sustain it without help from writers who might need a venue to share their ideas. The basic premise of the blog is twofold: 1. Review a (newish) book of poetry 2. Develop a dialogue (interview) with the writer of the book In the end, one will have created an inter(re)view of the title and the writer. I'm not sure if something similar has been done before. Perhaps the two acts could be melded into one? I'm open to ideas. Also, this will be part of the Furniture Press Books website, and all reviewers will have free reign to decide with which titles/writers they feel it necessary to create a dialogue, and to persue a format that best suits the task. We're also developing a project called The Baltimore Center for the Emerging Text (B-CET), a multi-facted space and resource center which will include a performance venue, a small press poetry library/electronic catalogue, resources for small presses, bookmakers, writers, librarians, students, teachers, DIYers... the list goes on... Anyone who may be interested in hosting events, workshops, talks, lectures, please backchannel to furniture.press.books@gmail.com. I will anounce a general strategic planning meeting in the weeks to come. Those in Baltimore are urged to come; those outside also, but your eMails will be equally urged, especially if your ideas bring this concept to fruition! In light of that, we're also looking for donations of small and large press poetry books, chapbooks, pamlphets, zines, ephemera, incunabula for our library. The central aspect of the Center is to develop creative literacy skills beyond our status quo, unfortunately lacking education in the poetic arts! Thanks! Christophe ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:54:33 -0700 Reply-To: derek beaulieu Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: derek beaulieu Subject: new from No press: ROTATED ALPHABET by Anatol Knotek Comments: To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@invalid.domain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable No press is proud to announce the publication of =20 ROTATED ALPHABET by Anatol Knotek =20 This beautiful suite of highly rigorous visual poems can be previewed = here: http://is.gd/cQoNj published in an edition of 50 hand-sewn copies (of which 25 are for = sale) $5 each (including shipping) =20 for more information, or to order copies, email=20 derek@housepress.ca =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 16 Jun 2010 13:05:59 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chris Jones Subject: more absolute deviation Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just to let you know I have posted more on my blog; Deleuze's absolute idealism and onto electronic colour comments welcomed http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/ -- have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog weird just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones. Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:10:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Siegell Subject: MEDIA, PA > Thursday the 17th Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" .=95:*=A8=A8*:=95. THURSDAY, JUNE 17 at 7pm .=95:*=A8=A8*:=95.=20 @ The Delaware County Institute of Science (11 Veterans Square, Media, PA= 19063) The Mad Poets Society's "3rd Thursday Readings" present: STEVE BURKE &= ; PAUL SIEGELL (Open mic to follow) =20 STEVE BURKE lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter where he wor= ks as a labor and delivery nurse. Steve has published his poetry in the Pain= ted Bride Quarterly, Look Quick, Asphodel, Spitball, and Mad Poets Review. Hi= s two manuscripts, Thirty-Six Views of Here and Building An Onion, are awaiting publication.=20 PAUL SIEGELL is the author of three books of poetry: wild life rifle fire= (Otoliths Books, 2010), jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing, 2009) and Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008). He is an editor at Painted Bride= Quarterly, and has contributed to The American Poetry Review, Coconut, NO= =D6, Rattle, SIR! and many other fine journals. He has also been featured in t= wo national music and culture magazines, Paste and Relix, as well as elsewhe= re exciting. Kindly find more of Paul's work at "ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL" (http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com). yours, paul> http://bit.ly/aLaNz2 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 16 Jun 2010 18:05:14 -0400 Reply-To: clwnwr@earthlink.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bob Heman Subject: CLWN WR 48 debuts this friday at Westbeth in a celebration of poetry and music and dance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII This Friday, June 18, CLWN WR 48 will debut at the 11th Big CLWN WR Event in the Community Room at Westbeth, during an evening of poetry and music and dance. The new issue contains very small poems by Judy Kamilhor, Bob Holman, Susan Gerardi Bello, Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Philip Rowland, Patrick Cahill, E K Smith, Sparrow, Scott Metz, Steve Dalachinsky, Susan Gangel, Kit Kennedy, Mary Orovan, Susan Maurer, Bob Heman, and Moira T. Smith, and will be given free to all who attend. The Event will run from 7:00-10:00 in the Westbeth Community Room, at 155 Bank Street/57 Bethune St. in the West Village. Admission is free. The featured readers for the evening will be Basil King and Liza Wolsky, who will be joined by singers Carolyn Ota and Moira T. Smith, dancers Nathan Whiting and Christina Robson, and poets R. Nemo Hill, Evie Ivy, Judy Kamilhor, Elinor Nauen, Adriana Scopino, George Spencer, and Phyllis Wat, with a special treat from Mindy Levokove. The reading will be hosted by myself, Bob Heman, and The Westbeth Artists Residents Council Literary Arts Committee. Westbeth is an artists’ housing complex in the far West Village convenient to the 14th St. stop on the A, C and E trains, the West 4th Street stop on the A, C, E, B, D & F trains, and the Christopher St. stop on the 1 train. 57 Bethune St. is mid-block b/w Washington and West Streets, then up steps to inner courtyard. 155 Bank St. is mid-block b/w Washington and West Streets, enter outer courtyard and up ramp to inner courtyard. *** Also this weekend, on Sunday, June 20, at 2:00, I'll be reading with poets Lewis Warsh and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright at Tribes Gallery, on the 2nd floor at 285 East 3rd St. (between Aves. C and D in the East Village), to start off an afternoon of poetry and music as part of the annual multi-venue Visions Festival. A $5 donation for Tribes is requested. Bob Heman clwnwr@earthlink.net ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:15:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Call for Work: Boog Fest's Poets' Theater MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable please forward ------------------- Call for Work: Boog City=92s Poets=92 Theater Sun. Sept. 26, 2010 Curated by Gary Sullivan On Day 3 of the 4th annual Welcome to Boog City Festival Zinc Bar 82 W. 3rd St. New York City Open reading period for submissions of plays. New playwrights encouraged, all welcome. Pieces should be no more than 10 minutes long (up to 7 pages long). Be sure to put title, your name, address, phone, and email on cover =20 sheet. Deadline Thurs. July 18, 2010. email plays (as attachments) and inquiries to: garypsullivan@gmail.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: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:44:12 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sharon Mesmer/David Borchart Subject: Have Fulbright, will travel ... to Russia In-Reply-To: <5F2FF1B2-D361-4E92-98E2-58290EDCB593@writing.upenn.edu> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi everyone, I'll be teaching in Orsk, Russia next spring, as a Fulbright Specialist, = and was wondering if anyone knows any English-speaking poets/poetry-type = people in that region with whom I could make contact while there -- ?? = You can back channel me at shardav@verizon.net. With many thanks, and good thoughts, Sharon Mesmer= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 16 Jun 2010 20:03:54 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Re: poets for living waters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Jared & Everyone: still recovering from an operation so am a bit behind on email--though have followed this the last few days-- i am sending a longer version of a question written last week-- might one not ask-- as some have-- whose "living waters"?-- are poets to write about-- wondering, with others,--is the attention to be on the poets? rather than the "living waters"?-- is this a form of privatized therapy, self help-- carried out in public, dramatized "in real time"-- narcissistic adventures, poses, spoken parts--? "feeling good about oneself" for writing re "living waters" . . . while "living waters" go on dying-- are the "living waters" exclusive? limited to just one area of "living waters"?-- are the "living waters" being exploited?-- for the therapeutic or career values?-- for the "show"-- for sheer accumulation--huge quantities--of poems--piling up-- to "balance the scales"--scales of justice--scales of weights measures values-- fish scales--?-- will the poems do Freud's "work of mourning"--- will the poems function like Reagan's "trickle down economy"-- poem tears and waters trickling down through time to touch --someone-- "poets for living waters"-- are their poets for another assault on "living waters"-- the Israeli commando attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla in International Waters-- are therer poets for the starving people of Somalia, whose coastline for fishing is toxic, being used as an international waste dump for the powerful nations--computer dumps--leaking toxins-- when the starving attack a ship, they are called "pirates"-- "terrorists"--their country being of course "linked to terrorism" in the eyes of the usa-- of course, when humanitarian aid workers are attacked in international Waters by state commandos-- they must be "terrorists" too-- the "living waters"-- whose "living waters?"-- "the living waters" running through Southwestern Indian rezervations, seeping into the soil for decades--toxic from mining, toxic with radioactivity from atomic tests long ago-- "living waters" along the lower Mississippi River--made toxic by chemical wastes dumped in areas where the poorest people live-- "living waters" around Chernobyl, Three Mile Island--producing Ukrainian deformed children--kids with strange complaints near Three Mile island-- "living waters"--tap water-- having to be paid for by communities, their being owned by private corporations--in the USA--and not long ago in Bolivia-- think how each day, "living waters," beings, humans, reefs, plants, ways of life, rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, puddles, rain drops--are killed off by toxic dumping, toxic oil and toxic anti-humanitarianism--the toxins deliberately dumped on Indian lands-- the "living waters" of Gaza which are 93% polluted, raw sewage running in the streets, due to deliberate bombing--due to siege--no parts of any kind allowed in to repair anything- whose "living waters"--entire coastline of Lebanon polluted, toxic for hundreds of years due to targeted "smart" bombing of sewage and chemical plants-- whose "living waters?"--the waters of Iraq--rendered toxic, killing 500,000 children in the 1990's--shocked and awed all over again--since 2003--continually pounded water mains--toxic, polluted, undrinkable-- toxic waters in China, India, the Amazon . . . Alaska-- the "living waters" --think on all the "living" and dying waters of the world-- and of how many ways they are made toxic- all the poets of the world need "living waters"-- without "living waters" -- for all-- there won't be "living poets"-- nor poems for "living waters"-- that's my non-poem-- ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:55:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dan Wilcox Subject: Poets in the Park 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Poets in the Park 2010 Saturdays in July at the Robert Burns statue Washington Park, Albany at Henry Johnson Blvd. & Hudson Ave. July 10, 7PM Donald Wellman Cheryl A. Rice July 17, 7PM Aleathia Drehmer Nickey Black July 24, 7PM Thomas Brinson Tamara Gabbard July 31, 7PM Susan Deer Cloud Guy Reed Free! & open to the public (just like the park) Rain site: the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave. sponsored by the Poetry Motel Foundation & the Hudson Valley Writers Guild for information call 482-0262 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:01:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: Audio Onthology...Calling all Baltimore (Area) Poets - Audio Project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 (Please distribute this call for work to all your colleagues, peers, students and associates) Calling all poets from Baltimore City/County... I'm developing an audio a/onthology (blog, perhaps) associated with the Furniture Press website and as a sister project of the Dialogue's End inter(re)views project. This big county/city is thriving with multifarious poetry projects and I want to document everything that's happening here (as far as one person can). In light of this, and I don't think this is a secret, but the Baltimore Historical Society is collecting works of poetry, in all formats, by Baltimore City poets. My project has no direct correlation to this collection process, but it is parallel. So... What will it entail? I'll be recording individual poets reading from their books, or manuscripts, at the Towson Arts Collective in Towson, or at a location that is suitable for the poet. I'll consider these three platforms: 1. I'll set up an evening where a group of poets can meet for a small, intimate reading session. I'll capture their (short) readings (about 5 minutes), then digitize the readings in mp3 or wav format, then add to the website (with bio, of course). 2. I'll set up a meeting with individual poets where they feel most comfortable reading. I understand some folks can't travel because of medical/physical circumstances. No one will be left out of this project. 3. You can send me a clean 5-minute reading of your poems (in mp3 or wav format) to: Furniture Press Books 406 York Rd. (lower level) Towson, MD 21204 Cheers, Christophe Casamassima ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:27:50 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is NEOLIPIC by John M. Bennett. Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is NEOLIPIC by John M. Bennett. Description: 158 poems (or barely constrained outbursts) written in the Spring of 2009 in which John M. Bennett tries to reformat the world with a swarm of linguistic distortions and formal jiggling, bursting out of the thin shirt of consciousness to reveal what's out there and also what's in there. The poems are textual, visual, aural, multi-lingual (English, Spanish, - or their simulacra - and bits of French and Globbolalia). Unlike anything else written. Available as a free ebook here: http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/neolipic/11386673 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:05:22 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: Re: The Alterran Poetry Assemblage In-Reply-To: <94FB2996-F0A0-4391-B9FD-03D349EF5EBF@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Good to see this available, David! & I look forward to getting your new boo= k from BookThug! Camille ________________________________________ From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of = David Dowker [alterra@ROGERS.COM] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 12:49 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: The Alterran Poetry Assemblage The Alterran Poetry Assemblage can now only be found at Library and Archives Canada: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/003/008/099/003008-disclaimer.html?orig=3D/100/202= /300/alterran/index.html David alterra@rogers.com * MACHINE LANGUAGE is available from BookThug: http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=3D201002 & SPD: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781897388518/machine-language.aspx =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:17:22 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Joel Weishaus Subject: Poetica - Michael McClure's "Mysteriosos" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends and Colleagues: This is the fourth Poetica review, in which I discuss Michael McClure's = latest book of poems, "Mysteriosos": http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Poetica/blog-4.htm -Joel Weishaus Homepage: http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282 On-Line Archive:=20 www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/index.htm =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. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:42:24 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Poetry Project Subject: Leslie Scalapino Memorial Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Monday, June 21, 8 PM Memorial for Leslie Scalapino It is with heavy hearts that we will open the doors of the Parish Hall so that we may all come together in friendship and grief to remember and celebrate the life and work of Leslie Scalapino, one of our greatest poets, who passed away on May 28th. Guests who will speak include Simone Fattal, Joan Retallack, Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, Ann Lauterbach, Susan Howe, Paolo Javier, Fiona Templeton, Laura Elrick, Rodrigo Toscano, Steve Clay, Rachel Levitsky, Susan Landers, James Sherry, Brenda Iijima, Pierre Joris, Judith Goldman, E. Tracy Grinnell and Tom White. There will be a wine and cheese reception to follow. We=B9ll have a book tabl= e with titles by Leslie, plus 50 canvas bags that she collaborated on with Kiki Smith. We=B9ll be accepting donations for the bags starting at $25. All proceeds from books and bags will be donated to Poets In Need http://www.poetsinneed.org/. FREE. If you can=B9t attend but would like to honor Leslie Scalapino, please consider a charitable donation in her memory to: Poets in Need, PO Box 5411= , Berkeley, CA 94705; =A0Reed College for the Leslie Scalapino Scholarship, 320= 3 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR 97202-8199; =A0The AYCO Charitabl= e Foundation, PO Box 15203, Albany, NY 12212-5203 for the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund to support innovative works of poetry, prose and art; or to a charitable organization of your choice. The Memorial follows two performances of Scalapino=B9s Noh play Flow=ADWinged Crocodile at Poets House: Saturday, June 19, at 7PM & Sunday, June 20, at 2PM Flow=8BWinged Crocodile: A Noh Play by Leslie Scalapino Directed by Fiona Templeton, with Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver and Julie Troost. =A0Dance by Molissa Fenley. Music by Joan Jeanrenaud. Projected drawings by Eve Biddle. Technical director: Ray Roy III. This Noh play by poet Leslie Scalapino travels between the left and right sides of the brain, with appearances by a reincarnated Patty Hearst in the 1974 SLA bank heist and a green-winged creature that is part crocodile, par= t Michelin man and part charging rhino. The play is performed by The Relationship, a performance group directed by Fiona Templeton that specializes in innovative language and use of site. Leslie Scalapino is the ground-breaking, genre-stretching author of thirty books of poetry, poem-plays, essays, and fiction, including way, which won the American Book Award; Sight, a collaboration with Lyn Hejinian; Zither & Autobiography; The Tango; New Time; and It=B9s go in horizontal: Selected Poems 1974-2006. Cosponsored by Belladonna and The Poetry Project. Poets House is at 10 River Terrace in Battery Park City. $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poetry Project and Poets House Members =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 18 Jun 2010 09:21:13 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Netartery MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Recently at Netartery: 2 SHORT FILMS FROM ELO ARCHIVE & INNOVATE http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=137 David Jhave Johnston asked 51 people at the recent conference on 'electronic writing' at Brown U what inspired their involvement in 'electronic literature' and videoed the responses. Participants include Landow, Cayley, Stefans, Funkhouser, Sondheim, Howe, Pressman, Luisebrank, M. Bernstein, Rettberg, and Montfort. ON USING TOOLS MADE BY COMRADES http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=146 Chris Funkhouser writes about tools written by digital poets: dbCinema (Jim Andrews); PyProse (Charles O. Hartman); MIDIPoet (Eugenio Tisselli); GTR Language Workbench (David Ayre & Andrew Klobucar). ON PULSATE BY ANDRE MICHELLE http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=192 Jim Andrews looks at an online interactive piece called Pulsate (that keys on kissing circles) by the guru of Flash audio, Belgium's Andre Michelle. ja ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:08:16 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Jos=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9_?= Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Writer, Dies--NY Times MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/books/19saramago.html?nl=3Dbooks&emc=3Dbo= oksupdateemb5 =09 Jos=E9 Saramago=2C Nobel Prize-Winning Writer=2C Dies By FERNANDA EBERSTADT Published: June 18=2C 2010 =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inb= ox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:15:21 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Howe, William R. Dr." Subject: New Slack Buddha Books Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Slack Buddha is happy to announce this season=92s new La Perruque chapbooks= : Sonnagrams 1-20 by K. Silem Mohammad The first installment of K. Silem Mohammad's anagrammatic manipulations= of Shakespeare that tell us, among other things, that "Richard Nixon screw= ed a giant squid," and that there is "a word the OED omits," and "Whoever s= ays it retches, dies, and shits." This one's a killer!=20 Ladybug Laws by Laura Moriarty An imagined society of Ladybugs, you and I--Moriarty takes us into the = realm of the possible where language and civil disobedience are both games = to be played for real. "Some writers to their readers are as spiders / But = you to me as reader are insectivore / Or creature of paradise". Market Freakout by Stan Apps Poetry is like the forces of the market. Adjustment of the forces is li= ke being in love with "Santheripean Kingdies." Apps takes us on a poly-voca= l exploration of the realities of a world run by Wall Street. Alphabet Man by A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz The concrete poems in this volume are produced using all of the letters= of the alphabet each exactly one time. Clean, provocative, and almost scul= ptural, Liszkiewicz plays with a very plastic conception of language. A mus= t for those interested in the visual use of the letter. http://slackbuddha.com/la_perruque.html http://slackbuddha.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, 18 Jun 2010 20:15:55 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Les Figues Press: NOT CONTENT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We are very happy to announce NOT CONTENT, a series of text projects curate= d by Les Figues Press as part of the year-long initiative PUBLIC INTEREST a= t LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). Concentrated in the summer s= eason (June 21-September 30), and extending, to a lesser degree, through th= e fall, winter and spring, NOT CONTENT brings together an international gro= up of writers who will be =E2=80=9Cin-residence=E2=80=9D at LACE.=C2=A0 The= writers will investigate the ways in which language functions within publi= c and private spheres and within the tenuous space between these real and i= magined realms.=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =0A=0APlease join us for the Summer Solstice K= ickoff on Monday, June 21, 2010 from 8-10 PM, featuring work and/or perform= ances by the first three writers-in-residence Douglas Kearney, Vanessa Plac= e, and Divya Victor.=0A=0ALACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)=0A652= 2 Hollywood Blvd.=0ALos Angeles, CA 90028=0A323.957.1777=0Ahttp://www.welco= metolace.org=0A=0ADouglas Kearney: June 21-July 12.=C2=A0 COVERAGE: Drawing= from BOOM, MESS and SPILL, each with its own language, COVERAGE will overf= low and choke, creating its own mess of gulfs.=C2=A0 Maybe you should clean= it up, huh?=C2=A0 Tag, you're it.=C2=A0 What's the story of what just happ= ened here?=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =0A=0APoet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney's f= irst full-length collection of poems Fear, Some, was published in 2006 by R= ed Hen Press.=C2=A0 His second manuscript, The Black Automaton, was chosen = by Catherine Wagner for the National Poetry Series and published by Fence B= ooks in 2009.=C2=A0 In 2008, he was honored with a Whiting Writers Award.= =C2=A0 An Idyllwild and Cave Canem fellow, Kearney has performed his poetry= at the Public Theatre, Orpheum, and The World Stage.=C2=A0 His poems have = appeared in journals such as Callaloo, jubilat, nocturnes, Ninth Letter, Wa= shington Square and Gulf Coast.=C2=A0 Born in Brooklyn, now living in Calif= ornia's San Fernando Valley, he has a BA from Howard University and an MFA = in Writing from the California Institute of the Arts, where he now teaches = courses in African American poetry, myth, hip hop and opera.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0=0A=0Ahttp://www.douglaskearney.com=0A =0AVanessa Place: June 21-July 19= .=C2=A0 STATEMENT OF FACTS: A poetic self-appropriation from Place's legal = appellate briefs, STATEMENT OF FACTS sets forth, in narrative form, the evi= dence of the crime as presented at trial.=C2=A0 What is a fact?=C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =0A=0AOf Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman=E2=80=99s Notes on Conceptu= alisms, Mary Kelly said, =E2=80=9CI learned more about the impact of concep= tualism on artists and writers than I had from reading so-called canonical = works on the subject.=E2=80=9D Place is also author of Dies: A Sentence, La= Medusa, and The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law, based on her work a= s an attorney representing indigent sex offenders on appeal. Place is co-di= rector of Les Figues Press, and a regular contributor to X-TRA Contemporary= Art Quarterly. Her most recent work is forthcoming in French by =C3=A9diti= ons =C3=A8=C2=AEe, as Expos=C3=A9 des Faits, and in English by Blanc Press,= as the triology, Statement of Facts, Statement of the Case, and Argument.= =0A=0Ahttp://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Place=0A=0ADivya Victor: June 21= -July 12.=C2=A0 HELLOCASTS: A re-transcription of Charles Reznikoff=E2=80= =99s book Holocaust, a poetic composition that appropriates the transcripti= ons from the speech of witnesses at the Eichmann and Nuremberg trials, into= the shape of Hello Kitty. Part cartoon cat, part ubiquitous icon of popula= r pleasures, part branding of mouthless feminine forms, part symptom of our= collective enthrallment with the cutely dependent and the seductively sile= nt.=C2=A0=0A =C2=A0 =0ADivya Victor has lived and learned in India, Singapo= re, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Seattle. She has an M.A. in Creative Writin= g=E2=80=94Poetry and is currently working towards her Ph.D. in English at t= he University at Buffalo. Her work has appeared in ambit, XConnect, ixnay, = generator, dusie, and is forthcoming in President=E2=80=99s Choice, broke, = and Drunken Boat.=C2=A0 =0A=0Ahttp://oodpress.net=0A=0AOther writers-in-res= idence for the summer cycle of NOT CONTENT include Jenny Donovan and Gaby T= orres, Maxi Kim, Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin, Mathew Timmons, Yedda Morr= ison, Johanna Drucker, Marco Huerto, Sawako Nakayasu, and Christine Werthei= m.=C2=A0=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: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:44:20 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Friday! James Belflower, Claire Hero, Shelly Taylor, Matthew Thorburn, Kim Gek Lin Short & Wendy Wisner Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable  ~ James Belflower, Claire Hero, Shelly Taylor, M= Stain of Poetry=0A=0A=C2=A0~ James Belflower, Claire Hero, Shelly Taylor, M= atthew Thorburn, Kim Gek Lin Short & Wendy=C2=A0Wisner ~=0A=0A=09=09=09=09= =09=09=09=0AJune 25th, Friday @ Goodbye Blue Monday =E2=80=93 Bushwick, Br= ooklyn=0A=0A=0AJames Belflower is the author of Commuter (Instance Press) a= nd And Also a Fountain, (NeOpepper Press) a collaborative echap with Anne H= eide =0Aand J. Michael Martinez. Commuter was recently voted the 2009 =E2= =80=9CBest Book Length Long Poem/Sequence by ColdFront magazine. He curat= es PotLatchpoetry.org, a website dedicated to the gifting and exchange of = poetry resources. He received a BA in music composition from Arizona State= University before attending the University of Colorado, Boulder, for his = M.A. in Creative Writing. Belflower currently resides in New York and is p= ursuing a PhD in poetics at SUNY Albany.=0A=0A~=0A=0AClaire Hero is the au= thor of Sing, Mongrel(Noemi Press 2009) and two chapbooks: afterpastures, = winner of the 2007 Caketrain Chapbook Competition, and Cabinet (dancing gi= rl press).=C2=A0 She lives in upstate New York.=0A=0A~=0A=0AShelly Taylor i= s the author of two poetry chapbooks, Peaches the Yes-Girl (Portable Press= of Yo-Yo Labs, 2008) & Land Wide to Get a Hold Lost In (Dancing Girl Pres= s, 2009). Black-Eyed Heifer(Tarpaulin Sky Press, May 2010) is her first fu= ll collection. Born in southern Georgia, she currently resides in Tucson, A= rizona.=0A=0A~=0A=0AMatthew Thorburn is the author of a book of poems, Subj= ect to Change, and a chapbook, the long poem Disappears in the Rain. He is= the recipient of a 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congr= ess. Currently, he=E2=80=99s working on two new book projects: Every Possib= le Blue, a collection of poems about artists and their work, and Snow in E= arly Spring, a series of poems set in China, Iceland and Japan. He lives in= The Bronx and works as a marketing manager for an international law firm.= =0A=0A~=0A=0AKim Gek Lin Short is the author of The Bugging Watch & Other = Exhibits and the forthcoming China Cowboy, both from Tarpaulin Sky Press. = Her chapbooks include The Residents (dancing girl press) and Run (Rope-a-Do= pe). She lives in Philadelphia with her family.=0A=0A~=0A=0A=0AWendy Wisner= =E2=80=98s first book of poems, Epicenter, was published by CW Books in 200= 4. Her poems have appeared in The Spoon River Review, Rhino, Natural Bridge= , The Bellevue Literary Review, online at Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Wend= y previously taught writing and literature at Hunter College, and is now an= at-home mom to her two-year-old son. Visit Wendy on the web at www.wendywi= sner.com.=0A=0A=0Aat=0AGoodbye Blue Monday=0A 1087 Broadway=0A(corner of Do= dworth St)=0ABrooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343=0AJ M Z trains to Myrtl= e Ave=0A=0Aor J train to Kosciusko St=0A=0A~=0A=0AHosted by Amy King and An= a Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87=0Ahttp://stainofpoetry.com/=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A***= *****=0AJuice - =0A+ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-nichols/the-poetr= y-feminaissance_b_607561.html =0A+ http://www.pw.org/content/poets_take_act= ion_in_wake_of_gulf_coast_disaster =C2=A0=0A+ http://poetry.about.com/b/201= 0/06/16/poems-for-the-gulf-of-mexico.htm=0A+ http://amyking.org=0A=0A******= **=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: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:04:15 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicholas Karavatos Subject: at Golden West College (Tebot Bach) in Huntington Beach, CA on Friday, June 25 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Tebot Bach welcomes poets Nicholas Karavatos & Kim Noriega to Golden West C= ollege. =20 Date: Friday=2C June 25=2C 2010=20 Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm=20 Location: Golden West College=2C Community Room 102=20 Street: 15744 Goldenwest Street=20 City/Town: Huntington Beach=2C CA=20 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=3D134992643182993 =20 "Tebot Bach welcomes poets Nicholas Karavatos & Kim Noriega to Golden West = College." =20 NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology *Punk Rock Saved My Ass* (U= kiah: Medusa=92s Muse=2C 2010) and the latest issue of *West Wind Review* (= University of Southern Oregon=2C 2010). In December 2009=2C Amendment Nine = published his first book titled *No Asylum* (Arcata=2C 2009). =20 David Meltzer wrote on the back cover: =93Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of g= reat range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp = political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it vo= iced with an impressive singularity.=94 =20 Nicholas Karavatos lives near Dubai=2C teaching at the American University = of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Previously he taught in Muscat=2C S= ultanate of Oman. He is a graduate of New College of California and Humbold= t State University.=20 =20 KIM NORIEGA grew up in a suburb of Cleveland=2C Ohio=2C but in her late 20'= s bought a brand new Camaro=2C and -- with her five-year-old (beautiful!) d= aughter in tow -- drove "as far south and west" as possible without leaving= the country -- to San Diego to be exact -- where they danced together on t= he beach singing Pretenders' songs and made angels of sand instead of snow. =20 Now that her daughter is grown=2C Kim spends her time (when not writing) pu= tting her books in order according to the Dewey Decimal Number Classificati= on System (mostly 800s) and thinking of crafts to make for her day job with= her family literacy kids using yogurt containers. Kim's favorite flower is= the lilac (closely followed by wild violets and black tulips) and her favo= rite color is red -- which is why she wore a red lace wedding gown when she= married her beloved=2C Ernie. =20 Kim=92s poem Heaven=2C 1963=2C first published in Tebot Bach's Blue Arc Wes= t: Anthology of California Poets=2C was featured by former U.S. Poet Laurea= te=2C Ted Kooser=2C in his nationally syndicated column=2C American Life in= Poetry. The title poem of her first book=2C Name Me=2C recently published = by Fortunate Daughter Press=2C was a finalist for the 2009 Joy Harjo prize. =20 http://www.tebotbach.org/=20 =20 Reading & Book-signing with NICHOLAS KARAVATOS in Huntington Beach=2C CA Nicholas Karavatos' next poetry reading/book-signing is in San Francisco=2C= CA on Monday=2C July 5 at Bird & Beckett. =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 Nicholas Karavatos Dept of Language & Literature American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666 Sharjah United Arab Emirates =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inb= ox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:14:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: EOAGH presents Gottlieb and Timmons on 6/20 (Faux | Other Book Launch) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 EOAGH Reading Series: Michael Gottlieb and Susie Timmons ***Faux | Other Book Launch*** celebrating the publication of new books from Faux|Other Sunday, June 20 at 4PM at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY FREE MICHAEL GOTTLIEB is the author of fourteen books including The Likes Of Us, Lost And Found, Gorgeous Plunge, The River Road and New York. In the 1970s he helped edit the magazine Roof. His new book Memoir and Essay from Faux|Other makes available two recent prose works by Gottlieb: "The Empire City" is a moving, eloquent, funny memoir focusing on the early days of Language Poetry - the personalities as well as the work. It also brings to life New York in the 1970s, that grim, foreboding, thrilling place, and what it meant to come of age as a writer then and there. An accompanying essay, "Jobs Of The Poets," asks two questions: what is the job of the poet, and what kind of jobs do poets have to take, so they can do their real job. Read Gottlieb's review of Lydia Davis' Proust translation in EOAGH 4: http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefour/gottlieb.html Read "Jackson in New York," Gottlieb's essay on Jackson Mac Low in EOAGH 2: http://chax.org/eoagh/issuetwo/gottlieb.htm SUSIE TIMMONS lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her most recent book is The New Old Paint, from Faux/Other. Poems by Timmons are forthcoming in EOAGH. HOW TO GET TO UNNAMEABLE BOOKS: Unnameable Books is conveniently located at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. There are two ways to get there: 1) Take the 2 or 3 train to the Grand Army Plaza stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block around the circle, and turn onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. 2) Take the Q train to the 7th Avenue stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block along Park Pl and make a left onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. UPCOMING EOAGH READING SERIES EVENTS: E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, and Shelly Taylor Sunday, June 27 @2PM ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:23:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sarah Sarai Subject: Re: poets for living waters Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" David Chirot: Of course Amy's project is suspect but pretty much any pro= ject=20 is suspect. I say vote with the heart and right now the heart is with th= e Gulf=20 (ocean oceans water waters, hey, no one is saying let's save the Gulf but= =20 screw the Indian Ocean). Poets for Living Waters is offering one opp. for= =20 expression not declaring this is it--write a poem, publish it and the wor= k is=20 done. I remember, in the eighties, hearing a woman (twenty year-old in=20= Seattle) almost *apologizing* for working to end Apartheid, her guilt bei= ng=20 she could be using the same time (she worked with the American Friends=20= Service Committee) to help people locally. That's always a question/issu= e=20 requiring discernment--where to put the energy. But working to end=20 Apartheid was not the equivalent of Angelina adopting little black babies= , and=20 adding to Poets for Living Waters is not a bad thing. If we look too clo= sely at=20 our motives and each others' motives we can only be disappointed.=20=20 David, I hope your recovery goes smoothly. It's always good to see your=20= name on this listserv. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 19 Jun 2010 11:39:45 -0500 Reply-To: halvard@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Hamilton Stone Review #21 (Summer 2010) -- now online MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr.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, 19 Jun 2010 16:03:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Boog City Gay Pride Issue Print and Online PDF Editions Available Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please forward ------------------- Hi all, The print edition of Boog City 64 will be available tonight. You can =20 read the pdf version now at: http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc64.pdf Thanks, David -------------------- Boog City 64: Gay Pride Issue 2010 A quick thanks to all of our editors and their contributors for acting =20= so quickly and to alter their sections on a dime to enable us to get =20 out this solid Gay Pride issue. I'm real grateful. featuring: ***On the Cover*** There=E2=80=99s a Riot Going On: Martin Boyce Remembers Stonewall and = Gay =20 Life Before AIDS, interview by Nathaniel Siegel **And from our poetry section, edited by Joanna Fuhrman** (excerpt below) =E2=80=94Fort Greene, Brooklyn's Julian Brolaski with Sea Aloe Song Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy. -Shakespeare, Sonnet 8.2 Stellar sea cows, svelte manatees embrace And lob their salty aloes each to each While we graze greenly on the filtered rays Fanned from their froth. I beg for you to teach Me all the ways the Romans fucked, and how Juventius, with honeyed eyes, would sit In Catulle=E2=80=99s lap, and lick his salty brow. and fools act so hard what, for a fool to act so hard saying no they will go get the wine leaving notes around like =E2=80=9Clet cash be earned while you=E2=80=99re sleeping or cruising=E2=80= =9D =E2=80=94Huntington, N.Y.'s Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87 with Live a Little Turn the music on, any music. We=E2=80=99re doing this like a school play. First, you=E2=80=99re born in a position of looseness: everyone, stand = in the =20 same position! Hands down your sides, head-loll round: that=E2=80=99s how you do =E2=80=9Cyou.=E2=80=9D OK, next, = =E2=80=9Creligion=E2=80=9D=E2=80=94 What=E2=80=99s the basis of this one? Rigidity. =E2=80=94Chelsea's Bill Kushner with Lili Marlene These streets, these rooms, these soldiers. One guy plays from a dusty accordion, what a gloomy old place. No one dances. I sit on a bench. In a moment, I will ask him, Gunther, to dance with me. There are no women left for us, so why not dance, he and I together, to Lili Marlene? and Mason Mason, of course, drops to his knees, while Kurt, of course, mutters something about never all while standing on one leg like a pink flamingo looking for love online. Does he have a huge thingo for Mr. Postman, or is it hey hey just us? Looking like the cat that just swallowed the canary, Kevin, you know him, comes in and comes in and comes in. **the re-launch of our small press section, now headed by Douglas =20 Manson** =E2=80=94"The idea that a gay book is not just a keyhole into the hidden = =20 world of queerness, but a keyhole into the hidden world of men, is =20 something that I have wanted in gay writing ever since I was a kid." =20 from The Keyhole or the Gate: Rainbow Book Fair Organizer Perry Brass =20= on The Queer Lit Expansion; Straw Gate Books **from our printed matter section, edited by Arlo Quint** =E2=80=94"The poems of The Tolerance Project swerve from meta-chat on =20= violence and feminism and gay dogs, to fragments in a Big-Brother =20 manual discussing the necessary containment of hope." from The =20 Tolerance Project Redefines M.F.A. by Ana Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87 **"It was =E2=80=A6 a great surprise to find that the bar patrons, = Village =20 Voice reporters, and even the cop who led the charge could speak about =20= the dramatic unfolding of events in such vivid, heartfelt terms, as if =20= those nights of 1969 were yesterday." from Beyond Drag-Queen Heroics: =20= New Documentary Expands Perceptions of Stonewall Riots by Stephanie Gray **Art editor Cora Lambert brings us work from Red Hook, Brooklyn's Sophia Wallace.** **=46rom our music section, Urban Folk, edited by Jonathan Berger** =E2=80=94"Like many a hip hop album, Soce, the Elemental Wizard=E2=80=99s = Master of =20 Fine Arts has a storyline running through it. Like most rappers, Soce =20= tries to keep it real, so what kind of adventures does the New =20 Hampshire native relate? Read on." from When Strikes the Wizard: Gay =20 Hip-Hopper Hurls His Hits; Master of Fine Arts, reviewed by Berger **And thanks to our new copy chief, Lauren Russell** ----- Please patronize our advertisers: Howard Cruse * http://www.howardcruse.com/ Friedman Diabetes Institute * 212-420-3450 Litmus Press / Aufgabe * http://www.litmuspress.org/ St. Martin's Press * http://us.macmillan.com/stonewall ----- Advertise in Boog City See our ad rate card http://welcometoboogcity.com/ad_rates.pdf Advertising or donation inquiries can also be directed to editor@boogcity.com or by calling 212-842-BOOG (2664), or you can send money to editor@boogcity.com via https://www.paypal.com/ ----- Poetry Submission Guidelines: Email subs to poetry@welcometoboogcity.com, with no more than five =20 poems, all in one attached file with =E2=80=9CMy Name Submission=E2=80=9D = in the =20 subject line and as the name of the file, ie: Walt Whitman Submission. =20= Or mail with an SASE to Poetry editor, Boog City, 330 W. 28th St., =20 Suite 6H, N.Y., N.Y. 10001-4754. ----- Want to write a review (or be reviewed) in Boog=E2=80=99s Urban Folk music, printed matter, or small press = sections? 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:42:17 -0500 Reply-To: halvard@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Fwd: five new free eBooks at chalk editions In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hal Halvard Johnson ================ The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye (downloadable and free) is @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets halvard@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: peter ganick Date: Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:43 PM Subject: five new free eBooks at chalk editions To: WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu five new texts at http://chalkeditions.co.cc the premier online publisher of free online eBooks. John Crouse - DISMEMBERS Experimental poetry by John Crouse 51 pp Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - t o o L experimental texts by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen 66 pp Jim Leftwich - sef] [po experimental poetry by Jim Leftwich 56 pp Ric Carfagna - Symphony No. 1 Poetry by Ric Carfagna 130 pp Hugh Tribbey - MIME BOX Experimental poetry by Hugh Tribbey 109 pp ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:43:25 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: peter ganick Subject: five new free eBooks at chalk editions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 five new texts at http://chalkeditions.co.cc the premier online publisher of free online eBooks. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:40:45 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: WIEBE URCHIN poetry event MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 WIEBE URCHIN poetry event 7/7/10, 7pm DALLAS WIEBE The Kansas Poems all details at the URCHIN site: http://URCHINpoetry.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, 21 Jun 2010 12:32:00 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Al Filreis Subject: PoemTalk #33: Gordon, Goldsmith & McLaughlin on Sharon Mesmer Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We are pleased to release PoemTalk episode 33 - a discussion of Sharon =20= Mesmer's =93I Accidentally Ate Some Chicken and Now I'm in Love with =20= Harry Whittington" with Nada Gordon, Kenneth Goldsmith and Steve =20 McLaughlin, hosted by me. http://poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com/ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audio.html?show=3DPoem%20Talk 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 dial 215-746-POEM or 215-746-7636 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 21 Jun 2010 09:11:36 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: EOAGH presents Gottlieb and Timmons on 6/20 (Faux | Other Book Launch) In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit a moving & smart review/memoir. On 6/19/10 3:14 AM, "Tim Peterson" wrote: > EOAGH Reading Series: > > Michael Gottlieb and Susie Timmons > > > > ***Faux | Other Book Launch*** > > celebrating the publication of new books from Faux|Other > > > > Sunday, June 20 at 4PM > > at Unnameable Books, > > 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY > > FREE > > > > > > MICHAEL GOTTLIEB is the author of fourteen books including The Likes Of Us, > Lost And Found, Gorgeous Plunge, The River Road and New York. In the 1970s > he helped edit the magazine Roof. His new book Memoir and Essay from > Faux|Other makes available two recent prose works by Gottlieb: "The Empire > City" is a moving, eloquent, funny memoir focusing on the early days of > Language Poetry - the personalities as well as the work. It also brings to > life New York in the 1970s, that grim, foreboding, thrilling place, and what > it meant to come of age as a writer then and there. An accompanying essay, > "Jobs Of The Poets," asks two questions: what is the job of the poet, and > what kind of jobs do poets have to take, so they can do their real job. > > > > Read Gottlieb's review of Lydia Davis' Proust translation in EOAGH 4: > > http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefour/gottlieb.html > > > > Read "Jackson in New York," Gottlieb's essay on Jackson Mac Low in EOAGH 2: > > http://chax.org/eoagh/issuetwo/gottlieb.htm > > > > > > SUSIE TIMMONS lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her most recent book is The New Old > Paint, from Faux/Other. > > > > Poems by Timmons are forthcoming in EOAGH. > > > > > > HOW TO GET TO UNNAMEABLE BOOKS: > > > > Unnameable Books is conveniently located at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue in > Brooklyn. There are two ways to get there: > > > > 1) Take the 2 or 3 train to the Grand Army Plaza stop in Brooklyn, then get > out of the station, walk one block around the circle, and turn onto > Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. > > > > 2) Take the Q train to the 7th Avenue stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the > station, walk one block along Park Pl and make a left onto Vanderbilt Avenue > heading NE toward the bookstore. > > > > > > UPCOMING EOAGH READING SERIES EVENTS: > > > > E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, and Shelly Taylor > > Sunday, June 27 @2PM > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & > sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:49:23 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jack Kimball Subject: ode for now Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Ode to Summer: http://pantaloons.blogspot.com/ 2010_06_01_archive.html#1963943622024039272 (& ff, 6/21). ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:50:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: Furniture Press Chap/Books now available! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Follow the link (http://furniturepressbooks.com/chaps/) to see our recent catalogue of chapbooks. All are hand-made, hand-stitched and hand-printed. Edmund Berrigan, Your Cheatin=92 Heart 34 pages / stitched & screen printed $10 (S &H included) $20 signed, lettered A though Z (S & H included) Catherine Daly, Cocktail 20 pages / stitched $7 (S &H included) Jennifer Hill, Fragmentirety 25 pages / stitched & screen printed $10 (S & H included) Natalie Knight, Xenia 32 pages / stiched $10 (S & H included) Donna Kuhn, Up Bluen 48 pages / saddle stapled & screen printed $10 (S & H included) Elizabeth Robinson, Exequey 10 pages / stitched $6 (S & H included) Dan Waber, Double Acrostics 20 pages / stiched $8 (S & H included) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 21 Jun 2010 14:05:47 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Re: poets for living waters In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Sarah: Thank you always for your thoughtful and considerate letters--I appreciate very much your insights and discernment--and take them to heart-- always with friendship and respect-- david On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Sarah Sarai wrote: > David Chirot: Of course Amy's project is suspect but pretty much any > project > is suspect. I say vote with the heart and right now the heart is with the > Gulf > (ocean oceans water waters, hey, no one is saying let's save the Gulf but > screw the Indian Ocean). Poets for Living Waters is offering one opp. for > expression not declaring this is it--write a poem, publish it and the work > is > done. I remember, in the eighties, hearing a woman (twenty year-old in > Seattle) almost *apologizing* for working to end Apartheid, her guilt being > she could be using the same time (she worked with the American Friends > Service Committee) to help people locally. That's always a question/issue > requiring discernment--where to put the energy. But working to end > Apartheid was not the equivalent of Angelina adopting little black babies, > and > adding to Poets for Living Waters is not a bad thing. If we look too > closely at > our motives and each others' motives we can only be disappointed. > > David, I hope your recovery goes smoothly. It's always good to see your > name on this listserv. > > ================================== > 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, 21 Jun 2010 15:45:28 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dan Glass Subject: Mixtape featuring Frank O'Hara Comments: To: Dan Thomas-Glass MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Friends=97 A mixtape I put together, built around Frank O'Hara's poem "Adieu to Norman= , Bonjour to Joan and John Paul," is featured on my dear friend Brian Ho's Dreams in Audio site. Some music for your summer: http://dreamsinaudio.com/2010/06/21/sometimes-i-think-im-in-love-with-paint= ing/ Dan =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 21 Jun 2010 18:33:33 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jerome Rothenberg Subject: Concealments & Carichos -- new book from Black Widow Press MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The following is from the announcement for my latest book, Concealments = and Caprichos, from Black Widow Press in Cambridge: "Combining two series of poems written since the turn of the century, A = Book of Concealments and 50 Caprichos after Goya, Rothenberg's latest = volume is a two-pronged follow-up to his earlier hundred-poem work, A = Book of Witness, with some notable changes in strategy & composition. "As Rothenberg states in his pre-face: 'In A Book of Witness I was = concentrating on the rescue of the first-person voice as our principal = instrument of witness - not only the personal "I" but the possibilities = of a real if sometimes fictive "I" across a range of experiences, my own = & at choice moments those of others. ... By contrast the poems in A Book = of Concealments suppress or conceal the witnessing "I" but draw from = more distant "romantic" predecessors & from my own accumulated works by = collaging as italicized inserts small fragments of poems already written = & published, while 50 Caprichos, written simultaneously, compensates for = the largely missing "I" by allowing a give-&-take responsive to the = dance of images in Goya's early opening to states of spirit & mind that = many of us would later come to share. ... The writing of these poems at = a time of new wars & new dissimulations - a notable change since the = writing of A Book of Witness - is another circumstance not to be = ignored.'" The book should be available by now in the usual places. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 22 Jun 2010 08:24:29 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eric Elshtain Subject: "Cover Poetry" at Beard of Bees MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Beard of Bees Press releases Michael Leong's album of cover poems today. "The Great Archivist's/Cloudy Quotient: Experiments with N+7" includes such hits as "One Art" and "Seven Seals," as well as a bonus "hidden track"!!! http://www.beardofbees.com/leong.html Eric Elshtain Editor Beard of Bees Press http://www.beardofbees.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, 22 Jun 2010 09:47:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ron Henry Subject: Poetry Reading (Ithaca, NY, 6/24, 6 pm) - Karen Leona Anderson and Theo Hummer at Buffalo St. Books, DeWitt Mall, Ithaca NY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Please join us as Karen Leona Anderson and Theo Hummer read from their poetry this Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. at Buffalo Street Books, in the DeWitt Mall (corner of E. Buffalo and N. Cayuga Sts. in downtown Ithaca, NY). This reading is free and open to the public. KAREN LEONA ANDERSON is the author of Punish Honey, published by Carolina Wren Press. She wrote a dissertation on poetry and science at Cornell University and received her MFA from the University of Iowa. She is currently an assistant professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland. THEO HUMMER is finishing her Cornell University dissertation on performance and segregation in contemporary U.S. poetry. She has taught EFL, creative writing, composition, and cultural studies in a Czech cigarette factory, at two northeastern liberal arts colleges and one Ivy League university, and at the maximum-security men's prison in Auburn, NY. Her poetry has been featured in Vox, Sentence, Equilibrium, The Indiana Review, Best New Poets 2006, and on Verse.com. Karen and Theo are founding members of SOON Productions and we're excited to welcome them back to Ithaca to share some of the writing they have done since leaving Cornell and Ithaca. This event has been made possible in part with grant support from the Community Arts Partnership. SOON Productions is dedicated to bringing innovative poets and writers to Ithaca for readings and talks. Please visit our website at http://soonproductions.org for information about the series. Kindly forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in attending. For more information, contact: Ron Henry SOON Productions Email: ron.henry@gmail.com Web: http://soonproductions.org ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:05:29 -0500 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Daniel Godston Organization: Borderbend Arts Collective Subject: Mingus Awareness Project 2010 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, You're invited to attend the Mingus Awareness Project 2010, which happens at the Jazz Showcase tomorrow night, starting at 8 p.m. Thanks, Dan Mingus Awareness Project 2010 a benefit concert for ALS support and research Wednesday, June 23, 2010 (8 p.m.) ADMISSION: $20 / $15 for students On June 23, a group of musicians will gather at the Jazz Showcase to celebrate the life and music of Charles Mingus, and to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation. Mingus, an American musical hero who died of ALS, is one of the greatest figures in jazz history. His bass playing, compositions and philosophy have transcended his genre and left indelible marks on music history. MAPtet will perform music by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Eric Dolphy, and Jon Hey -- Jon Hey -- piano Paul Hartsaw -- tenor saxophone Dan Godston -- trumpet Fred Jackson -- alto saxophone Jon Godston -- soprano saxophone Raphael Crawford -- trombone Tom Berg -- baritone saxophone Cory Biggerstaff -- upright bass Brian Jones -- drums We will be performing the following compositions by Charles Mingus -- "Jelly Roll," "Peggy's Blue Skylight," "Ecclusiastics," "Better Get Hit in Your Soul," "Fables of Faubus," "Reincarnation of a Lovebird," "Goodbye Porkpie Hat," "Haitian Fight Song," "E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too," and "Nostalgia in Times Square." We will also perform "Fleurette Africaine" by Duke Ellington, "Portrait of Those Beautiful Ladies" by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, "Isfahan" by Billy Strayhorn, "Gazzelloni" by Eric Dolphy, and "Charlies' Arch Isle" by Jon Hey. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a raffle to win items donated by Sue Graham Mingus, Myopic Books, Reckless Records, Dusty Groove America, Peterson Picture Frame Co., and other individuals and organizations. All proceeds will go to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation. Mingus Awareness Project is organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective, in partnership with the Les Turner ALS Foundation. The Borderbend Arts Collective is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to promote the arts, to create opportunities for artists to explore new directions in and between art forms, and to engage the community. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease for the New York Yankees baseball icon, is a progressive neuromuscular disorder that causes atrophy throughout the body, ultimately leading to total paralysis. Brain cells cease sending messages to muscles, which slowly prohibits patients' movement and their ability to communicate. Onset commonly occurs between ages 35 to 65, and is slightly more prevalent in men. There is currently no cure for ALS, but treatment and interventions can help alleviate some symptoms, improve quality of life and prolong survival by delaying respiratory failure. The clinical progression can vary widely; however, patients typically live with the disease two to five years after the onset of symptoms. ALS knows no racial, cultural or socioeconomic boundaries and follows no pattern. The Les Turner ALS Foundation, founded in 1977 is recognized internationally and is the only independent publicly supported non-profit organization in the Chicago area devoted solely to the treatment and elimination of ALS. The Foundation is affiliated with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where it supports a large multidisciplinary clinical program and two world-class scientific research laboratories. The Foundation's comprehensive patient services include support group meetings, professional in-home consultation services, communications and durable medical equipment programs, respite care grants, and educational programs. Jazz Showcase Dearborn Station, in Chicago's historic Printers Row neighborhood 806 S. Plymouth Ct. Chicago, IL 60605 (312) 360-0234 http://www.jazzshowcase.com/ http://www.mingusawarenessproject.org http://www.kintera.org/autogen/home/default.asp?ievent=427785 http://www.borderbend.org ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:23:41 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: colin herd Subject: Contact Info for Molly Weigel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear List, I am trying to reach Molly Weigel, who has translated widely for XUL. If anyone has contact information or can put her in touch with me, my email is colinjherd@googlemail.com. Many thanks, Colin. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:22:08 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Brandon Shimoda Subject: Garrett Caples, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) DEAR FRIENDS & READERS, We are excited to announce the arrival of the inaugural volume in the Wave Books PAMPHLET series: GARRETT CAPLES'S QUINTESSENCE OF THE MINOR: SYMBOLIST POETRY IN ENGLISH: http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/83 -- a 42-page bibliographic essay surveying oft-neglected Symbolist poets, revealing -- with acuity, erudition and blessed candor -- an entire tradition of invaluable and invigorating poetry. QUINTESSENCE OF THE MINOR is available for $5, directly from Wave, as well as a small number of independent bookstores nationwide. For complete information, visit: http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/83. Other pamphlets forthcoming by/on Noelle Kocot, CAConrad, Larry Eigner, and others! QUINTESSENCE is also available as part of Wave's 2010 subscription, featuring new volumes of work by Michael Earl Craig, CAConrad, Timothy Donnelly, Caroline Knox, Noelle Kocot, Dorothea Lasky, Geoffrey Nutter and Mary Ruefle: http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/82 We look forward to sharing this work with you. Thank you for reading! WAVE BOOKS Seattle, Washington http://www.wavepoetry.com *********************************************************************************** Wave Books on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-WA/Wave-Books/325354873993 Wave Books on Twitter: http://twitter.com/wavepoetry ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:40:41 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Answering to Proust + Twitter's Growing Up Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The New Media: Typetrigger debuts [by mid-July] -- today's sneak peak: http://amyking.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/the-proust-questionnaire-twitter-grows-up/ Enjoy, Amy ******** Juice - + http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ travis-nichols/the-poetry- feminaissance_b_607561.html + http://www.pw.org/content/ poets_take_action_in_wake_of_ gulf_coast_disaster + http://poetry.about.com/b/ 2010/06/16/poems-for-the-gulf- of-mexico.htm + 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: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:50:03 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: June 22-26: US Social Forum in Detroit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi poetics friends....hope to see some of you in detroit this week.=C2=A0 s= hould be a fantastic gathering. onwards, jen karmin US Social Forum in Detroit June 22-26, 2010 http://www.ussf2010.org The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a=E2= =80=A8 conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples=E2=80=99 so= lutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most im= portant step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sector= al, inter-generational,=E2=80=A8 diverse, inclusive, internationalist movem= ent that transforms this country and changes history. =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, 23 Jun 2010 11:36:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: Chris McCreary's Undone: A Fakebook on Silliman's Blog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks, Ron. http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/search/label/Chris%20McCreary ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:46:30 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: Ambit: A Journal of Temporary Poetics. Submissions open. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Ambit, a journal of temporary and unstable poetics. Ambit will not elaborate upon a few disparate poems that lack contiguity. Rather, Ambit is a journal that emphasizes the liesurely expansion of an idea, an expansiveness that muddles time and space over the course of space and time. Simply, Ambit is a host to the serialized poem, the long poem. "Poem," of course, is an open idea. Visual elements are also welcome, as well as... Each issue of Ambit will appear as a downloadable PDF, and will feature the work of 9 writers. Each issue of Ambit will also feature the work of one artist, who will design the cover art. To engage in a discussion of length seems inappropiate. Send your work to furniture.press.books@gmail.com, but please follow a few, simple guidelines so that we do not lose your submission in the aether. 1. Please follow this format in your subject line: name/title of work/"Ambit Submission" 1a. If you are submitting artwork for the cover, follow the same format as above, but write "Ambit Cover Submission" instead. 2. Send work as a Word attachment. PDF is also welcome. 3. Add a short cover letter and bio. 4. Allow up to 30 days for reply. In the event that electronic submissions are impossible, we'd be glad to see it come across the USPS. Remember to add all relevant information, and follow this format when sending: Furniture Press Books/Ambit Submission, 406 York Rd. (lower level), Towson, MD 21204. All work that does not follow these guidelines will be used to decorate the walls of our office. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:33:47 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Boog City presents Straw Gate Books and Krista Weaver MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable please forward ------------------ Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press Straw Gate Books (Philadelphia) this Tues., June 29, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free ACA Galleries 529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr. NYC Event will be hosted by Straw Gate Books' editor Phyllis Wat Featuring readings from Valerie Fox Stephanie Gray Bill Kushner David Mills Karin Randolph Tom Savage and music from Krista Weaver There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too. Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum ------ **Straw Gate Books http://www.leafscape.org/StrawGateBooks/index.html Founded by Phyllis Wat in 2005, Straw Gate Books publishes poetry and =20= occasional related texts. They are particularly interested in works by =20= women and non-polemical writing with an underlying social content. =20 Straw Gate also features new authors and authors whose work is under-=20 served. **Valerie Fox Author Valerie Fox=92s most recent book of poems is Bundles of Letters, =20= Including A, V and Epsilon, a compilation written with Arlene Ang and =20= published by Texture Press. Straw Gate published The Rorschach =20 Factory, while Texture Press put out Amnesia, or, Ideas for Movies. =20 Fox was one of the founding editors of 6ix, a Philadelphia-based =20 literary magazine. She teaches writing and poetry in the Department of =20= English and Philosophy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is a =20= founding editor of the magazine Press 1. **Stephanie Gray Author Stephanie Gray is a poet and experimental filmmaker. Straw Gate =20= Books published her first collection of poems, Heart Stoner Bingo. =20 Publications include EOAGH, The Portable Boog Reader, Press 1, and =20 The Recluse. She=92s read at the Welcome to Boog City poetry and music =20= festival, and the Projections, Segue, Zinc, and Poetry Project Friday =20= series. In support of her films, she has received a New York =20 Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a New York State Council on the =20= Arts grant. Her films have screened internationally, including at the =20= Ann Arbor, Oberhausen, Viennale, Chicago Underground, and Madcat film =20= festivals. **Bill Kushner Author Bill Kushner is the writer of Night Fishing, Head, Love Uncut, =20= He Dreams of Rivers, That April, and The Hairy Arms of Whitman, along =20= with In Sunsetland With You from Straw Gate Books. His work has been =20 anthologized in Up Late (4 Walls & Windows) and In Our Time: the Gay =20 and Lesbian Anthology (St. Martin=92s Press), and has appeared in =20 numerous magazines including The World, Mind the Gap, Lungfull!, and =20 Ratapallax. He has been a 1999 and 2005 Fellow of the New York =20 Foundation of the Arts and lives in New York City. **David Mills Author David Mills has received Henry James, Cave Canem and Breadloaf =20= fellowships, as well as New York Foundation of the Arts, Brio, and =20 Hughes/Diop Awards. He also won the inaugural 2008 Pan African =20 Literary Forum Poetry Prize and a Soros grant. David=92s work has =20 appeared in Callaloo, Rattapallax, The Pedestal, Hanging Loose Press, =20= Aloud, and elsewhere. He has recorded his poetry on RCA Records and =20 toured Europe performing his work with jazz bands. His book, The Dream =20= Detective, is a 2010 publication of Straw Gate Books. **Karin Randolph Author Karin Randolph is an ex-painter turned writer. She has had one-=20= person shows of her paintings in Chicago, New York, and Germany. She =20 was the founder and editor of the poetry journal Mind the Gap, which =20 featured British and American poetry. She was a finalist in the 2007 =20 National Poetry Series and won the 2007 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize =20= for her book, Either She Was. With her poem, =93Guilt of the lily, =20 flower of the damned,=94 she has been asked to represent The Red Room: =20= Writings from Press 1, which is a 2010 publication of Straw Gate Books. **Tom Savage Author Tom Savage is the writer of Personalities (Jim Brodey Books), =20 Slow Waltz on a Glass Harmonica (Nalanda U. Press), Filling Spaces =20 (Nalanda U. Press), Housing Preservation & Development (Cheap Review =20 Press), Processed Words (Coffee House Press), Political Conditions/=20 Physical States (United Artists Books), The Brain Surgery Poems =20 (Linear Arts Books), Bamiyan Poems (Sisyphus Press), and Brainlifts =20 (Straw Gate Books). He has taught poetry writing at The Poetry =20 Project. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, Ratapallax, =20 Hanging Loose, Press 1, and many other venues over a 30-year period. **Krista Weaver http://www.kristaweaver.com/ Krista Weaver was born at the Naval Hospital in St. Alban=92s, Queens in = =20 June of 1969. She had a fairly normal suburban New York upbringing, =20 with slow-moving grandparents who lived nearby, a mother who stayed at =20= home, and a father who worked. Her parents divorced when she was nine. =20= She grew up, went to a public high school in Brooklyn, graduated, then =20= left town. She traveled extensively in Europe and across the United =20 States, working as a bar-girl, a donut-slinger, and a ranch-hand. She =20= got married, had children, got divorced. When she took up the guitar in 2004, she baked pies, and did sub work =20= at the local high school to make money. She never listened to the =20 radio and never watched TV. She drove a silver-gray Buick Regal with =20 lavender pinstriping that had belonged to her grandmother. She learned =20= how to play--and recorded her first album (So Long Arlington, Two =20 Stones Music)--on a $100 guitar she borrowed from her brother. Her =20 life hasn't been the same since. ---- Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St. Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues Next event: Tues. July 27 Eleven Eleven http://elevenelevenjournal.com/ (San Francisco) Hugh Behm-Steinberg, faculty ed. -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) To subscribe free to The December Podcast: = http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=3D3431698= 80 For music from Gilmore boys: http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:53:18 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: POETS FOR LIVING WATERS -- NEW POEMS UP Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii POETS FOR LIVING WATERS -- NEW POEMS UP http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ RIDING IT OUT BY GIANMARC MANZIONE TWO POEMS BY AMY WATKINS FORMER SANCTUARY BY PIA SEN TO THE MOTHER OF WATERS, TO WHOM WE NO LONGER PRAY BY MARGOT F. BOYER HAIKU AND TWO HAIBUN BY DONNA FLEISCHER THREE HAIKU BY MAYA PINDYCK TWO POEMS BY PHILIP MATTHEWS TWO POEMS BY MARGARET ROZGA TWO POEMS BY ANNY BALLARDINI THREE POEMS BY AMBER CLARK GLOBAL FUCK IT BY PATRICK JAMES DUNAGAN ENORMOUS MISTAKES BY TASHA COTTER PALLINODE BY WENDY BABIAK TWO POEMS BY JOSEPH HUTCHISON (SOMA)TIC POETRY EXERCISE & POEM BY CACONRAD DEAR SARAH PALIN, BY CAROLYN FOOTE EDELMANN THREE POEMS BY ALANA I. CAPRIA TWO POEMS BY CHRISTOPHER RIZZO TWO POEMS BY JEANNE MURRAY WALKER TWO POEMS BY BRENDA IIJIMA ARCTIC DRILLING BY LAURA ELRICK TWO POEMS BY JARED SCHICKLING TWO POEMS BY CARA BENSON TWO POEMS BY TESS TAYLOR DROWNING POEM BY PETER CICCARIELLO GULF COAST DREAMS BY M.J. FIEVRE AT LEAST 4 GALLONS PER SECOND + REVISION BY KAIA SAND TWO POEMS BY DEBORAH POE THREE POEMS BY MARK YAKICH DEAD ZONES BY MOLLIE DAY GULF WINDS BY LYLE DAGGETT TWO POEMS BY DEDA KAVANAGH SELECTIONS FROM CORSICA INSIDE THE DAUGHTERHOUSE BY PAIGE TAGGART **COMPLETE LIST OF POETS HERE -- http://amyking.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/not-your-usual-media-coverage/ AND OF COURSE, ALL POSTS HERE --- http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ Best, Amy & Heidi ******** Juice - + http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-nichols/the-poetry-feminaissance_b_607561.html + http://www.pw.org/content/poets_take_action_in_wake_of_gulf_coast_disaster + http://poetry.about.com/b/2010/06/16/poems-for-the-gulf-of-mexico.htm + http://amyking.org ******** ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:55:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Gottlieb, Michael" Subject: Remembering Peter Seaton In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 REMEMBERING PETER SEATON Just having returned last night from Leslie Scalapino's memorial at St. Mar= ks - a packed, hot, long, fraught, draining event - one that I have to admi= t I had to leave halfway through. So many people there, so many people for = whom Leslie was so important. Old, young - so many young people. She did so= much for so many, was such an exemplar, mentor, publisher, friend... And = then the next day, today, this news: Peter Seaton, dead. And who is going to organize his memorial? Just how many remember him, how = many remember how powerful, unflinchingly, unerringly, nakedly vital was hi= s work when he burst among us, how many years ago? I don't have his books in front of me now, and I don't have the years - th= e timeline called up - to fix him in our greater calendar but suddenly he w= as there one season: slight, sandy hair, a pack of... of Camels? Luckies? i= n his breast pocket. Bespectacled, a perpetual, canted, slightly sardonic s= mile on his face. One book, two books, three, maybe there were four, and then he was gone. H= e threw himself out of our world, not - at first - going altogether all tha= t far. Off to Coliseum Books in Midtown Manhattan - where he worked for yea= rs and where quite apparently he made another life for himself; and made an= other life with a life partner who we also knew, at least for awhile. But t= hen what happened? He reappeared a few years later, read again at the Ear and was just as powe= rful as ever and it was as if he'd never left - which was a little troublin= g in a way because, and I'm guessing I'm not the only one who thought so - = enough years had gone by that it wasn't unreasonable to expect that things,= he, his work, might be a bit different, but no. It was all the same. Then he was gone, again. And it was clear, it was as clear then as it had b= een clear from the beginning, in the very same way that it remained clear o= ver the years as Peter came to mind, as his name came up in conversation fr= om time to time, that Peter could have, maybe should have, been someone who= se name was always on the tip of all of our tongues. That he could have bee= n someone whose books were bought, whose writing was taught (is it? Does a= nyone teach it now?), he and his poems could have been, should have been th= e subject of seminars and conferences but for whatever reason - he bailed..= . he didn't want to live the life, he couldn't deal with the requirements t= he... the what? The compromises, the blandishments? Whatever. So he took a= walk. And that act in itself was a kind of admonishment to the rest of us. A caut= ion and a remonstrance reminding us, recalling to mind - if we needed any r= eminder - of all the compromises that we have made, we make every day in th= e name of our careers. He wouldn't, I guess, he couldn't. He died without any of us around. That may not be necessarily a bad thing. = But, did he die alone? =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 24 Jun 2010 07:39:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Amanda Earl Subject: new from AngelHousePress Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i am pleased to announce the publication of two AngelHousePress chapbooks: Pearl Pirie's "over my dead corpus" is a feast=20 of sounds, playful and thoughtful poems culled=20 from the corpus of the world. "The main source=20 corpus is over 500 pages of scrap notes that=20 served as fodder for recombinance. Words or=20 phrases were scraped for letter sequences within=20 syllable or that broke across syllable or word.=20 The other corpus is incidental word combinations=20 from scrabble strung in the mind's insistence for=20 meaning or sound." Pearl Pirie $5; Limited Edition of 50 copies. ISBN: 978-1-926786-00-1 in "house : a (tiny) memoir" rob mclennan tells=20 us about his childhood in Glengarry County by way=20 of old family photos, his own memories and recollections from family. "Home is a series of recollections, of distances,=20 as easily remembered as mis-remembered, and a=20 blending of events that can sometimes never be=20 confirmed. =85And why write as a "memoir" instead=20 of calling them "prose poems"? I want these=20 stories not to be misunderstood; I want them to=20 be seen as what I remember, what I believe to be=20 true, from my vantage point of some three decades=20 later, and thousands of miles. It felt like=20 reclaiming something that had been far away for a=20 very long time, but no longer. It felt like=20 bringing out the good out from underneath all the=20 bad that came later, overshadowing so much of=20 what had happened before." rob mclennan $5; Limited Edition of 50 copies. ISBN: 978-0-9783780-7-3 if you are in Ottawa, please attend the launch of=20 "over my dead corpus" on Friday, June 25 at=20 7:00pm at the Carleton Tavern, 223 Armstrong St,=20 upstairs. Pearl will be reading as part of the=20 pre-small press fair reading along with Faizal=20 Deen, Mark Goldstein and Myna Wallin. also, Christine McNair, host of Carleton=20 University radio show, Literary Landscapes, will=20 be speaking to me tonight at 6:30 pm EST about=20 the small press fair and the AHP chapbooks. You=20 can listen to our interview on line at http://www.ckcufm.com. The chapbooks will be available at the small=20 press fair on Saturday or if you can't make it,=20 at www.angelhousepress.com via Paypal or through=20 other means by contacting me directly at amanda@angelhousepress.com Amanda Earl AngelHousePress www.angelhousepress.com the angel is in the house =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, 24 Jun 2010 14:08:17 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "An Archeology of Theory" by Peter Ganick. Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "An Archeology of Theory" by Peter Ganick. Description: What is a text? After John Coltrane's "wall of sound", we have here a "wall of text". What does making sense entail? Is it in the words themselves and/or the sequence of words? In "An Archeology of Theory", Peter Ganick suggests both and neither in true spatial reference. Energy is space is a version here-to-be-read. Available as a free ebook here: http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/an-archaeology-of-theory/11477622 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:00:29 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicholas Karavatos Subject: Re: at Golden West College (Tebot Bach) in Huntington Beach, CA on Friday, June 25 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Golden West College=2C Community Room 102.=20 The entrance closest to the venue is on Gothard near the corner of Gothard = & Edinger in Huntington Beach.=20 DO NOT USE THE MAIN ENTRANCE to the College on Golden West as there will be= a long walk across the campus to find the room.=20 Please ignore the sign directing you to the parking sticker vending machine= .=20 The Tebot Bach audience does not pay for parking. ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sat=2C 19 Jun 2010 04:04:15 +0000 > From: nicholaskaravatos@HOTMAIL.COM > Subject: at Golden West College (Tebot Bach) in Huntington Beach=2C CA on= Friday=2C June 25 > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > Tebot Bach welcomes poets Nicholas Karavatos & Kim Noriega to Golden West= College. > > Date: Friday=2C June 25=2C 2010 > Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm > Location: Golden West College=2C Community Room 102 > Street: 15744 Goldenwest Street > City/Town: Huntington Beach=2C CA > http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=3D134992643182993 > > "Tebot Bach welcomes poets Nicholas Karavatos & Kim Noriega to Golden Wes= t College." > > NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology *Punk Rock Saved My Ass* = (Ukiah: Medusa=92s Muse=2C 2010) and the latest issue of *West Wind Review*= (University of Southern Oregon=2C 2010). In December 2009=2C Amendment Nin= e published his first book titled *No Asylum* (Arcata=2C 2009). > > David Meltzer wrote on the back cover: =93Nicholas Karavatos is a poet of= great range and clarity. This book is an amazing collectanea of smart shar= p political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it = voiced with an impressive singularity.=94 > > Nicholas Karavatos lives near Dubai=2C teaching at the American Universit= y of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Previously he taught in Muscat=2C= Sultanate of Oman. He is a graduate of New College of California and Humbo= ldt State University. > > KIM NORIEGA grew up in a suburb of Cleveland=2C Ohio=2C but in her late 2= 0's bought a brand new Camaro=2C and -- with her five-year-old (beautiful!)= daughter in tow -- drove "as far south and west" as possible without leavi= ng the country -- to San Diego to be exact -- where they danced together on= the beach singing Pretenders' songs and made angels of sand instead of sno= w. > > Now that her daughter is grown=2C Kim spends her time (when not writing) = putting her books in order according to the Dewey Decimal Number Classifica= tion System (mostly 800s) and thinking of crafts to make for her day job wi= th her family literacy kids using yogurt containers. Kim's favorite flower = is the lilac (closely followed by wild violets and black tulips) and her fa= vorite color is red -- which is why she wore a red lace wedding gown when s= he married her beloved=2C Ernie. > > Kim=92s poem Heaven=2C 1963=2C first published in Tebot Bach's Blue Arc W= est: Anthology of California Poets=2C was featured by former U.S. Poet Laur= eate=2C Ted Kooser=2C in his nationally syndicated column=2C American Life = in Poetry. The title poem of her first book=2C Name Me=2C recently publishe= d by Fortunate Daughter Press=2C was a finalist for the 2009 Joy Harjo priz= e. > > http://www.tebotbach.org/ > > Reading & Book-signing with NICHOLAS KARAVATOS in Huntington Beach=2C CA > Nicholas Karavatos' next poetry reading/book-signing is in San Francisco= =2C CA on Monday=2C July 5 at Bird & Beckett. > > > > > > > > > Nicholas Karavatos > Dept of Language & Literature > American University of Sharjah > PO Box 26666 > Sharjah > United Arab Emirates > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your i= nbox. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL= :ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html = =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inb= ox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:52:11 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: R Levitsky Subject: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear Friends, What would you put on a list of significant poetry moments of 1971? Thank you for your help! Rachel Levitsky ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:53:46 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: peter ganick Subject: my new eBook from Argo tist Ebooks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "An Archeology of Theory" by Peter Ganick. Description: What is a text? After John Coltrane's "wall of sound", we have here a "wall of text". What does making sense entail? Is it in the words themselves and/or the sequence of words? In "An Archeology of Theory", Peter Ganick suggests both and neither in true spatial reference. Energy is space is a version here-to-be-read. Available as a free ebook here: http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/an-archaeology-of-theory/11477622 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:59:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ed Friedman Subject: Re: Remembering Peter Seaton Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thanks Michael for your posting on Peter Seaton. I would gladly work with some other folks on a memorial for Peter. Best, Ed Friedman ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:07:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: EOAGH on 6/26 presents Lyons, Lasky, and Levine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 EOAGH Reading Series 6/26 Kimberly Lyons, Dorothea Lasky, and Jake Levine Saturday, June 26 at 2PM At Unnameable Books 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY FREE KIMBERLY LYONS has a new manuscript: Rouge. She's had poems in Aufgabe #8, the most recent issue of New American Writing, the Peepshow.Com poetry website, Supposedly in Effing, but has anyone seen the issue? and forthcoming in Peaches and Bats and in Talisman. She won't be hosting at the Zinc Bar this fall as she has in past years. But come on by any hoo. She is the publisher of a new imprint: Lunar Chandelier which has three books of poetry forthcoming: Homework by Joe Elliot, petals, emblems by Lynn Behrendt and Deliberate Proof by Vyt Bakaitis. Read three poems by Kimberly Lyons in EOAGH 5: http://www.chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/lyons.html DOROTHEA LASKY is the author of Black Life and AWE, both out from Wave Books, as well as an educational text, Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse). She lives in New York City and researches creativity at the University of Pennsylvania. Read two poems by Dorothea Lasky in EOAGH 5: http://www.chax.org/eoagh/issuefive/lasky.html JAKE LEVINE is a recipient of a 2010-2011 Fulbright Scholarship to Lithuania, the author of a chapbook The Threshold of Erasure (2010 Sporkpress), became an editor and is editor at Spork Press under Richard Siken, is on the board of directors at POG (poetry in action Tucson), is editor-in-chief at Sonora Review, has taught, teaches, and will teach poetry for The University of Arizona, Vilnius University, CHAX press, and has lectured and given talks to people in public spaces. He just recently started to eat meat again and generally likes to think of himself as somewhat of a magician or a unicorn when he is not doing poetry or is in a meeting. He also has a brother. He is working on several manuscripts at this time, all of which share the title Future History: The Rhyme and Retrobution. His work is heavily indebted to Fauvism, Abstract Expressionism, Literary Postmodernism, Hedonism, a slew of other isms, but also Leadbelly. Poems by Jake Levine are forthcoming in EOAGH 6 this summer. HOW TO GET TO UNNAMEABLE BOOKS: Unnameable Books is conveniently located at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. There are two ways to get there: 1) Take the 2 or 3 train to the Grand Army Plaza stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block around the circle, and turn onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. 2) Take the Q train to the 7th Avenue stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block along Park Pl and make a left onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. UPCOMING EOAGH READING SERIES EVENTS: E. Tracy Grinnell, Brenda Iijima, and Shelly Taylor Sunday, June 27 @2PM ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:08:41 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Tim Peterson Subject: EOAGH on 6/27 presents Grinnell, Iijima, and Taylor MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable EOAGH Reading Series 6/27 Brenda Iijima, E. Tracy Grinnell, and Shelly Taylor Sunday, June 26 at 2PM At Unnameable Books 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY FREE BRENDA IIJIMA was born in the hilly town of North Adams, Massachusetts. She is the author of Around Sea (O Books), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press), revv. you=92ll=97ution (Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ah= sahta Press) as well as numerous chapbooks and artist=92s books. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL). Currently she is working on a body of work titled Some Simple Things Said by and Abou= t Humans=97a chronicle of how humans have used animals as surrogates. She is also doing research on women who were murdered in North Adams during the 1970=92s when she was growing up there. She is the editor of Portable Press= at Yo-Yo Labs (http://yoyolabs.com/). Iijima's writing and consciousness have been an inspiration for EOAGH from the beginning, and continue to be. E. TRACY GRINNELL is the author of Helen: A Fugue (Belladonna Elder Series #1, 2008), Some Clear Souvenir (O Books, 2006), and Music or Forgetting (O Books, 2001), as well as the limited edition chapbooks Mirrorly, A Window (flynpyntar, 2009), Leukadia (Trafficker Press, 2008), Hell and Lower Evil (Lyre Lyre Pants on Fire, 2008), Humoresque (Blood Pudding/Dusie #3, 2008) Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks, 2006), Of the Frame (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2004), and Harmonics (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 2000). She is the founding editor of Litmus Press and Aufgabe, and she lives in Brooklyn. Read "Beyond Leucadia" by E. Tracy Grinnell in EOAGH 3 (Queering Language): http://chax.org/eoagh/issue3/issuethree/grinnell.html SHELLY TAYLOR is the author of Black-Eyed Heifer (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010), Land Wide to Get a Hold Lost In (Dancing Girl Press, 2009), and Peaches the Yes-Girl (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008). Born in southern Georgia, she currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. Read "In Subtropic" by Shelly Taylor in EOAGH 4: http://chax.org/eoagh/issuefour/taylor.html HOW TO GET TO UNNAMEABLE BOOKS: Unnameable Books is conveniently located at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. There are two ways to get there: 1) Take the 2 or 3 train to the Grand Army Plaza stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block around the circle, and turn onto Vanderbilt Avenue heading NE toward the bookstore. 2) Take the Q train to the 7th Avenue stop in Brooklyn, then get out of the station, walk one block along Park Pl and make a left onto Vanderbilt Avenu= e heading NE toward the bookstore. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 25 Jun 2010 12:05:48 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: TONIGHT -- James Belflower, Claire Hero, Shelly Taylor, Matthew Thorburn, Kim Gek Lin Short & Wendy Wisner Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ~ James Belflower, Claire Hero, Shelly Taylor, Matthe= Stain of Poetry=0A=0A ~ James Belflower, Claire Hero, Shelly Taylor, Matthe= w Thorburn, Kim Gek Lin Short & Wendy Wisner ~=0A=0A = =0AJune 25th, Friday @ Goodbye Blue Monday =E2=80=93 Bushwick, Brookl= yn=0A=0A=0AJames Belflower is the author of Commuter (Instance Press) and A= nd Also a Fountain, (NeOpepper Press) a collaborative echap with Anne Heide= =0Aand J. Michael Martinez. Commuter was recently voted the 2009 =E2=80= =9CBest Book Length Long Poem/Sequence by ColdFront magazine. He curates = PotLatchpoetry.org, a website dedicated to the gifting and exchange of poe= try resources. He received a BA in music composition from Arizona State Un= iversity before attending the University of Colorado, Boulder, for his M.A= . in Creative Writing. Belflower currently resides in New York and is purs= uing a PhD in poetics at SUNY Albany.=0A=0A~=0A=0AClaire Hero is the autho= r of Sing, Mongrel(Noemi Press 2009) and two chapbooks: afterpastures, win= ner of the 2007 Caketrain Chapbook Competition, and Cabinet (dancing girl = press). She lives in upstate New York.=0A=0A~=0A=0AShelly Taylor is the au= thor of two poetry chapbooks, Peaches the Yes-Girl (Portable Press of Yo-Y= o Labs, 2008) & Land Wide to Get a Hold Lost In (Dancing Girl Press, 2009)= . Black-Eyed Heifer(Tarpaulin Sky Press, May 2010) is her first full colle= ction. Born in southern Georgia, she currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.= =0A=0A~=0A=0AMatthew Thorburn is the author of a book of poems, Subject to = Change, and a chapbook, the long poem Disappears in the Rain. He is the re= cipient of a 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. Cu= rrently, he=E2=80=99s working on two new book projects: Every Possible Blue= , a collection of poems about artists and their work, and Snow in Early Sp= ring, a series of poems set in China, Iceland and Japan. He lives in The Br= onx and works as a marketing manager for an international law firm.=0A=0A~= =0A=0AKim Gek Lin Short is the author of The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibit= s and the forthcoming China Cowboy, both from Tarpaulin Sky Press. Her cha= pbooks include The Residents (dancing girl press) and Run (Rope-a-Dope). Sh= e lives in Philadelphia with her family.=0A=0A~=0A=0A=0AWendy Wisner=E2=80= =98s first book of poems, Epicenter, was published by CW Books in 2004. Her= poems have appeared in The Spoon River Review, Rhino, Natural Bridge, The = Bellevue Literary Review, online at Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Wendy prev= iously taught writing and literature at Hunter College, and is now an at-ho= me mom to her two-year-old son. Visit Wendy on the web at www.wendywisner.c= om.=0A=0A=0Aat=0AGoodbye Blue Monday=0A1087 Broadway=0A(corner of Dodworth = St)=0ABrooklyn, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343=0AJ M Z trains to Myrtle Ave= =0A=0Aor J train to Kosciusko St=0A=0A~=0A=0AHosted by Amy King and Ana Bo= =C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87=0Ahttp://stainofpoetry.com/=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A*******= *=0AJuice - =0A+ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-nichols/the-poetry-fe= minaissance_b_607561.html =0A+ http://www.pw.org/content/poets_take_action_= in_wake_of_gulf_coast_disaster =0A+ http://poetry.about.com/b/2010/06/16/p= oems-for-the-gulf-of-mexico.htm=0A+ http://amyking.org=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: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:12:16 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: June Jordan poem up @ Poets for Living Waters Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thought folks might be interested -- Poem for Nana @ http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/poem-for-nana-by-june-jordan/ And David Wolach -- http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/three-poems-by-david-wolach/ Jason Quackenbush -- http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/two-poems-by-jason-quackenbush/ Jules Boykoff -- http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/we-care-about-the-small-people-by-jules-boykoff/ + more @ http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ Best, Amy ******** Juice - + http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ travis-nichols/the-poetry- feminaissance_b_607561.html + http://www.pw.org/content/ poets_take_action_in_wake_of_ gulf_coast_disaster + http://poetry.about.com/b/ 2010/06/16/poems-for-the-gulf- of-mexico.htm + 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: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:45:10 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicholas Piombino Subject: Re: Remembering Peter Seaton In-Reply-To: <6153A509F43E9B4CA5EB2EF91C3BA4A00E08E771@USPHLECCR01.phl.sap.corp> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I received an email from Ron Silliman telling me that Peter Seaton died las= t month. Peter Seaton and I met at City College (CCNY) in 1960 or 1961, when we were freshmen or sophomores. He was probably born in 1942. We spent many, many fascinating hours together discussing literature and reading each others writing throughout our college years. Peter was a terrific marathon one-on-one conversationalist, a mordant, literary wit of the Holden Caulfield variety, an indefatigable reader who loved to endlessly talk and search for books and new ideas. This, combined with the fact that he was among the most private and secretive persons I have ever known, added immeasurably to the quality of mystery that surrounded both his presence an= d his absence. One of his early short stories was of a character obsessed with going out into the city on an inexplicable, lonely search for a certai= n hard to find poster. Our interests and directions concerning poetry and poetics remained parallel after graduation in 1964, often attending reading= s together at St Mark=B9s, reading The World magazine and other poetry magazine= s and discussing them avidly, through to the establishment of This magazine, and L=3DA magazine, up to the early 80=B9s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of Peter Seaton=B9s long prose poems were published, widely read and influential. Peter and I did some writing collaborations an= d even some film experiments together in the late 60=B9s and early 70=B9s (we wer= e then both big fans of Stan Brakhage) although these may now be lost or hard to locate. I may still have one or two letters or postcards that he wrote t= o me when I was living for awhile in Italy and Morocco in the late 60=B9s. It was he that told me that Bernadette Mayer, whose work we both greatly admired, was giving an open workshop at the Poetry Project in 1973. He always encouraged me in my writing and collage productions particularly, explaining to me that he was knowledgeable about this because his mother ha= d once run an art gallery. I am sorry to say that we lost touch with each other in the early 80=B9s. Peter=B9s writing and poetry and his penetrating insights into poetry, culture, technology, language and life were of constant interest to me during our many years of close friendship in the 60's and 70's. On 6/23/10 10:55 PM, "Gottlieb, Michael" wrote: > REMEMBERING PETER SEATON >=20 > Just having returned last night from Leslie Scalapino's memorial at St. M= arks > - a packed, hot, long, fraught, draining event - one that I have to admit= I > had to leave halfway through. So many people there, so many people for wh= om > Leslie was so important. Old, young - so many young people. She did so mu= ch > for so many, was such an exemplar, mentor, publisher, friend... And then= the > next day, today, this news: Peter Seaton, dead. >=20 > And who is going to organize his memorial? Just how many remember him, ho= w > many remember how powerful, unflinchingly, unerringly, nakedly vital was = his > work when he burst among us, how many years ago? >=20 > I don't have his books in front of me now, and I don't have the years - = the > timeline called up - to fix him in our greater calendar but suddenly he w= as > there one season: slight, sandy hair, a pack of... of Camels? Luckies? in= his > breast pocket. Bespectacled, a perpetual, canted, slightly sardonic smile= on > his face. >=20 > One book, two books, three, maybe there were four, and then he was gone. = He > threw himself out of our world, not - at first - going altogether all tha= t > far. Off to Coliseum Books in Midtown Manhattan - where he worked for yea= rs > and where quite apparently he made another life for himself; and made ano= ther > life with a life partner who we also knew, at least for awhile. But then = what > happened? >=20 > He reappeared a few years later, read again at the Ear and was just as > powerful as ever and it was as if he'd never left - which was a little > troubling in a way because, and I'm guessing I'm not the only one who tho= ught > so - enough years had gone by that it wasn't unreasonable to expect that > things, he, his work, might be a bit different, but no. It was all the sa= me. >=20 > Then he was gone, again. And it was clear, it was as clear then as it had= been > clear from the beginning, in the very same way that it remained clear ove= r the > years as Peter came to mind, as his name came up in conversation from tim= e to > time, that Peter could have, maybe should have, been someone whose name w= as > always on the tip of all of our tongues. That he could have been someone = whose > books were bought, whose writing was taught (is it? Does anyone teach it > now?), he and his poems could have been, should have been the subject of > seminars and conferences but for whatever reason - he bailed... he didn't= want > to live the life, he couldn't deal with the requirements the... the what?= The > compromises, the blandishments? Whatever. So he took a walk. >=20 > And that act in itself was a kind of admonishment to the rest of us. A ca= ution > and a remonstrance reminding us, recalling to mind - if we needed any rem= inder > - of all the compromises that we have made, we make every day in the name= of > our careers. He wouldn't, I guess, he couldn't. >=20 > He died without any of us around. That may not be necessarily a bad thing= . > But, did he die alone? >=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, 25 Jun 2010 13:53:32 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Bowering Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 In-Reply-To: <298572.14563.qm@web57512.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed The publication of bpNichol's Monotones. (He published 4 books that year!) On Jun 24, 2010, at 12:52 PM, R Levitsky wrote: > Dear Friends, > What would you put on a list of significant poetry moments of 1971? > Thank you for your help! > Rachel Levitsky > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ > welcome.html > Mr. G.H. Bowering Does not get up immoderately early. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:19:45 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Crane's Bill Books Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rachel, It was the year of both Spicer's Red Wheelbarrow and Sexton's Transformations. Wow! Jeffrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "R Levitsky" To: Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:52 PM Subject: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 > Dear Friends, > What would you put on a list of significant poetry moments of 1971? > Thank you for your help! > Rachel Levitsky > > > > > ================================== > 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, 24 Jun 2010 12:53:14 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: Duse 10: the Canadian issue, ed. rob mclennan, now on-line! Dusie 10: the Canadian issue June 20 (solstice), 2010 Guest-edited by rob mclennan The Swiss online pdf journal Dusie has let me produce an issue of Canadian poetry; an introduction for some, and a further conversation for others. With new writing by: derek beaulieu, Joe Blades, George Bowering, Rob Budde, Emily Carr, Jen Currin, Amanda Earl, Lainna Lane El Jabi, Jesse Patrick Ferguson, Judith Fitzgerald, Asher Ghaffar, Phil Hall, Sharon Harris, Peter Jaeger, Monica Kidd, Anne Le Dressay, Gil McElroy, Barry McKinnon, rob mclennan, Kim Minkus, Pearl Pirie, Monty Reid, Shane Rhodes, Sandra Ridley, Stan Rogal, Natalie Simpson, Christine Stewart, Aaron Tucker and Chris Turnbull. Thanks to Monique Desnoyers for fabulous design. http://www.dusie.org/ -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:28:15 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "Experimental Sex Hospital" by Todd Swift. Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "Experimental Sex Hospital" by Todd S= wift. =20 Description:=20 =20 Todd Swift=E2=80=99s "Experimental Sex Hospital" is the ebook sequel to his= critically acclaimed, "Mainstream Love Hotel". Shadowing that previous wor= k, the poems here deepen and lengthen the poet's exploration of desire and = devotion, and, aesthetically, the tension between innovation and tradition = in contemporary poetic styles. As in all Swift's work, musicality, sense of= form, and wordplay fuse with elevated and street-level tones that create a= zany, risk-taking book-text that interrogates ideas of self-identity and p= oetics, with an earnest eroticism. Barely literature, or literally bare, th= ese are poems that enjoy walking naked with a flamboyant display. =20 Available as a free ebook here: =20 http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/experimental-sex-hospital/11489518 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 26 Jun 2010 08:12:36 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rosalie Calabrese Subject: ROSALIE'S POETRY UPDATE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Next Featured Reading: Sunday,=0A=0A July 18, 3:00 PM 6th Street & Avenue B Garden Free Admission =0A(No Rain Date) To get there: R, V or Lexington Avenue train to 8th=0A St. Walk East or take crosstown bus to Ave. B Or F train to =0ASecond Avenue Or 1st or 2nd=C2=A0 Avenue bus Newly Published Poem: NOT=0A=0A GONE Forget the Holocaust, I tell myself once more. There=E2=80=99s =0Aenough in the news without rehashing. But, as before, I ignore my own=0A advice. History, like shoes stored away in the back of a closet, =0Astands ready=20 to be tried on again from time to time, the pinch =0Aalways a surprise. A tale of years without a dateline, the past =0Anever dies; burial is=0A not an=0A option. [This poem appears in the Poetica Holocaust Web =0Aedition (June 2010). It = can be found at www.poeticamagazine.com]=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =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 The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:25:07 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bill Berkson Subject: FW: What About Auden In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Evening at Books & Bookshelves =B3What About W. H. Auden?=B2 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, 2010 99 Sanchez Street, San Francisco, CA 415-621-376 an evening of readings from and talking about W. H. Auden=B9s poetry, prose and=20 his importance as a poet and man of letters with Bill Berkson, =B3Mus=E9e des Beaux Arts=B2/ 13 Things/ =B3The Ironist=B2 Steve Dickison, Iceland Patrick Dunagan, intro poem to The Sea and the Mirror Jarrett Earnest, re W.H. & Hannah Arendt Garrett Caples, Auden intro to Minor British 19th C Poets Amanda Eicher, =B3In Memory of W.B. Yeats=B2 Norman Fisher, =B3As I walked out on evening=8A=B2 & =B3On the Circuit=B2 Susan Gevirtz, Homage to Clio Robert Harris =AD Ode from The Orators David Highsmith, =B3River Profile=B2 Colter Jacobsen & Larry Rinder, from Letters from Iceland Jason Morris, =B3The Poet and the City=B2 Julien Poirier, on The Rakes Progress Stephen Ratcliffe, preface to Thomas Campion Cedar Sigo, prepared text on Auden Michael Wolfe, =B3In Praise of Limestone=B2 =20 =20 =20 ------ End of Forwarded Message =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 26 Jun 2010 13:23:22 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Advertise in Boog City 65 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Please forward ------------------ Advertise in Boog City 65 **Deadlines** --Space Reservations-Email to reserve ad space ASAP -Fri. July 16-Submit Ad or Ad Materials -Sat. July 24-Distribute Paper This is a quick note to see if you'd like to advertise and reach our readership. (Donations are also cool, way cool.) We'll be distributing 2,250 copies of the issue throughout the East Village and other parts of lower Manhattan; Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn; and at Boog City events. ----- Advertise your small press's newest publications, your own titles or upcoming readings, or maybe salute an author you feel people should be reading, with a few suggested books to buy. And musical acts, advertise your new albums, indie labels your new releases. Take advantage of our indie discount ad rate. We are once again offering a 50% discount on our 1/8-page ads, cutting them from $80 to $40. The discount rate also applies to larger ads. For our full rate card, please visit: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ad_rates.pdf Email editor@boogcity.com or call 212-842-BOOG (2664) for more information. 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: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:38:24 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: New @ Rogue Embryo: Jan Sekal + Mark Goldstein + the fledgling book (on letting go), + more . . . Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 New @ Rogue Embryo * Jan Sekal (Czech photographer living in Paris) * the fledgling book flies the nest (on letting go) * two photographs: "old stove" + "yellow tulip tree leaf" * two new collages: =93a double exposure remembers=94 + =93full circle=94 * Mark Goldstein, from Tracelanguage http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com Cheers! Camille Martin http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/martin.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, 26 Jun 2010 18:51:27 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicholas Piombino Subject: Re: Remembering Peter Seaton In-Reply-To: <6153A509F43E9B4CA5EB2EF91C3BA4A00E08E771@USPHLECCR01.phl.sap.corp> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I received an email from Ron Silliman telling me that Peter Seaton died las= t month. Peter Seaton and I met at City College (CCNY) in 1960 or 1961, when we were freshmen or sophomores. He was probably born in 1942. We spent many, many fascinating hours together discussing literature and reading each others writing throughout our college days. Peter's appearance changed little over the years. He had short, close cropped light brown curly hair, which later became gray. He wore glasses, frequently sunglasses or glasses with clear plastic frames through which you could invariably observe twinkling eyes, often a dark brown henley t-shirt and light tan corduroys, and though short in stature he had a distinctive walk, a rolling gait that sometimes reminde= d me of a sailor. Peter was a terrific marathon one-on-one conversationalist, a mordant, literary wit of the Holden Caulfield variety, an indefatigable reader who loved to endlessly talk and search for books and new ideas. This= , combined with the fact that he was among the most private and secretive persons I have ever known, added immeasurably to the quality of mystery tha= t surrounded both his presence and his absence. Other than the fact that he attended boarding school, he spoke little about his early life. One of his first short stories, perhaps written for a short story class that we attended together at CCNY, was of a character obsessed with going out into the city on an inexplicable, lonely search for a certain hard to find poster. Our interests and directions concerning poetry and poetics remaine= d parallel after graduation in 1964, often attending readings together at St Mark=B9s, reading The World magazine and other poetry magazines and discussin= g them avidly, through to the establishment of This magazine, and L=3DA magazine, up to the early 80=B9s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of Peter Seaton=B9s long prose poems were published, widely read and influential. Peter and I did some writing collaborations an= d even some film experiments together in the late 60=B9s and early 70=B9s (we wer= e then both big fans of Stan Brakhage) although these may now be lost or hard to locate. I may still have one or two letters or postcards that he wrote t= o me when I was living for awhile in Italy and Morocco in the late 60=B9s. It was he that told me that Bernadette Mayer, whose work we both greatly admired, was giving an open workshop at the Poetry Project in 1973. He always encouraged me in my writing and collage productions particularly, explaining to me that he was knowledgeable about this because his mother ha= d once run an art gallery. I am sorry to say that we lost touch with each other in the early 80=B9s. Peter=B9s writing and poetry and his penetrating insights into poetry, culture, technology, language and life were of constant interest to me during our many years of close friendship in the 60's and 70's. * * * Penn Sound Obit * * * Wikipedia page-Peter Seaton * * * On 6/23/10 10:55 PM, "Gottlieb, Michael" wrote: > REMEMBERING PETER SEATON >=20 > Just having returned last night from Leslie Scalapino's memorial at St. M= arks > - a packed, hot, long, fraught, draining event - one that I have to admit= I > had to leave halfway through. So many people there, so many people for wh= om > Leslie was so important. Old, young - so many young people. She did so mu= ch > for so many, was such an exemplar, mentor, publisher, friend... And then= the > next day, today, this news: Peter Seaton, dead. >=20 > And who is going to organize his memorial? Just how many remember him, ho= w > many remember how powerful, unflinchingly, unerringly, nakedly vital was = his > work when he burst among us, how many years ago? >=20 > I don't have his books in front of me now, and I don't have the years - = the > timeline called up - to fix him in our greater calendar but suddenly he w= as > there one season: slight, sandy hair, a pack of... of Camels? Luckies? in= his > breast pocket. Bespectacled, a perpetual, canted, slightly sardonic smile= on > his face. >=20 > One book, two books, three, maybe there were four, and then he was gone. = He > threw himself out of our world, not - at first - going altogether all tha= t > far. Off to Coliseum Books in Midtown Manhattan - where he worked for yea= rs > and where quite apparently he made another life for himself; and made ano= ther > life with a life partner who we also knew, at least for awhile. But then = what > happened? >=20 > He reappeared a few years later, read again at the Ear and was just as > powerful as ever and it was as if he'd never left - which was a little > troubling in a way because, and I'm guessing I'm not the only one who tho= ught > so - enough years had gone by that it wasn't unreasonable to expect that > things, he, his work, might be a bit different, but no. It was all the sa= me. >=20 > Then he was gone, again. And it was clear, it was as clear then as it had= been > clear from the beginning, in the very same way that it remained clear ove= r the > years as Peter came to mind, as his name came up in conversation from tim= e to > time, that Peter could have, maybe should have, been someone whose name w= as > always on the tip of all of our tongues. That he could have been someone = whose > books were bought, whose writing was taught (is it? Does anyone teach it > now?), he and his poems could have been, should have been the subject of > seminars and conferences but for whatever reason - he bailed... he didn't= want > to live the life, he couldn't deal with the requirements the... the what?= The > compromises, the blandishments? Whatever. So he took a walk. >=20 > And that act in itself was a kind of admonishment to the rest of us. A ca= ution > and a remonstrance reminding us, recalling to mind - if we needed any rem= inder > - of all the compromises that we have made, we make every day in the name= of > our careers. He wouldn't, I guess, he couldn't. >=20 > He died without any of us around. That may not be necessarily a bad thing= . > But, did he die alone? >=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: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:53:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Stuart Ross Subject: New chapbook by Loren Goodman! In-Reply-To: <461e0fe0912201134n4ae07303s380a84b2a8b8915a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit PROPER TALES PRESS is proud to present Loren Goodman's first Canadian publication NEW PRODUCTS a 24-page chapbook of new poems by the author of Famous Americans And it's really good. And you can have a copy for only $6 (ppd) in U.S. or Canada, $7 (ppd) elsewhere. Write me or PayPal me at stu_ross@sympatico.ca Holy cow! ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:16:33 +0200 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "Sparagmos Never Mind the Via Negativa" by Jim Leftwich. Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc , Wryting-L MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "Sparagmos Never Mind the Via Negativa" by Jim Leftwich. Description: The word is flesh. Tear it apart, syllable by syllable. Tear the syllables apart, letter by letter. There is no longer any need to begin with the word. We have already torn the letters apart. The word made flesh, theletters made noise... Eat it - raw. Jim Leftwich's "Sparagmos Never Mind the Via Negativa" was written in May 2010 using a Logitech EX 100 keyboard. It is a text, but it is not a text about reading. Available as a free ebook here: http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/sparagmos-never-mind-the-via-negativa/11490698 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:21:49 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon" Subject: New Poetry Chapbook from Sisterhood Press Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain In the Heart of the City=09=09=09=09 Poems by Dina Ripsman Eylon =20 Thornhill, ON: Sisterhood Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9688949-1-0 [Loose-leaf, handmade, limited edition] Book Design by Talia Eylon Email: sisterhoodpress@gmail.com Reviews of Dina Ripsman Eylon=92s Poetry: "Dina takes the reader on a disappointing journey of looking for love and= =20 finding cruelty on =91unworldly roads.=92 Some lines have a genuine music= al feeling=20 and many of these poems have a kind of radiance, despite their sadness."=20= Ellen S. Jaffe, Poet, Author & Teacher =93There are moments, phrases, or particular word choices throughout Eylo= n=92s=20 chapbook that draw me closer to the work. Place names create interest. An= d=20 in the poem Names I Can=92t Pronounce, the voice of the poet seems more a= t=20 ease, and the poem=97primarily two listings of literati and one of potent= ial titles =97is one with which I found a sense of connection. Another poem in the=20= collection, Dead People, spoke to me immediately; not only does the title= and=20 opening line charge the reader with intent and purpose, but the listing o= f those=20 dead the narrative voice can see--grandmother, aunt, uncle, nephew, frien= ds=97 all become more than one-dimensional when the name Pearl Gedola appears.=20= That magical thing that occurs occasionally in poetry happens by the deta= il of=20 a name, and the appearance of Pearl Gedola makes this reader realize more= =20 fully the nameless aunt, uncle, etc. had names and were individuals beyon= d=20 their relationships with the narrator of the poem. The poet furthers this= sense=20 of real people by having those dead =91mumble and chuckle=92 agree and co= ncur.=94=20 Lynn Doiron, Poet, Author & Blogger =93Dina=92s poems are more than merely =91Songs of Love and Misgivings.=92= Her=20 captivating words will penetrate your soul, and leave you craving for mor= e.=94=20 I.B. Iskov, Founder, The Ontario Poetry Society. =93Dina Ripsman Eylon's voice is pure lyricism, individualistic and non- conforming. The speaker's quest for love is absolute. Yet, tender words c= an be=20 cunning, misguiding, the embrace loose (You Who Left), and separation fin= ite.=20 The speaker's seemingly naive stance about the existence of love is often= =20 contrasted by a deep sense of alienation =91In the Heart of the City,=92 = continuing=20 the gloomy traditional theme of Urban literatures.=94 Edith Covensky, Poe= t, and=20 Professor @ Wayne State University =20 To order your copy, send $15 in cheque or money order ($13 + $2 postage=20= and handling) payable to Dina Eylon. Sisterhood Press 1136-3 Centre St., Ste. 246 Thornhill, Ontario L4J 3M8 Email: sisterhoodpress@gmail.com Website: http://sisterhoodpress.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, 26 Jun 2010 12:22:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon" Subject: Writing Competition from Women in Judaism Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain Women in Judaism=92s First Annual Writing Competition www.womeninjudaism.org Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary is now accepting submissions for it= s=20 2010 annual writing competition. The e-journal is looking for unpublished= =20 submissions of short fiction, poetry, and essays on Jewish themes that to= uch=20 the lives and experiences of Jewish women. PRIZES: Short Fiction First Place: $250=20 Second Place: $100=20 Third Place: $50=20 Poetry First Place: $250=20 Second Place: $100=20 Third Place: $50=20 Essays First Place: $250=20 Second Place: $100 Third Place: $50=20 Winning entries will be published in the two yearly issues of the journal= .=20 GENERAL GUIDELINES: We accept only electronic submissions. Send submissions to the journal=92= s=20 editor-in-chief, Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon: dina.eylon@utoronto.ca Submit one short story/poem/essay per entry fee. Multiple submissions are= =20 allowed. All styles and forms are accepted. No simultaneous submissions a= re=20 allowed. Submissions should arrive by email before the set deadline. DEADLINE:=20 September 1, 2010.=20 FORMAT:=20 All entries should be in Word or RTF with author=92s full name, address, = phone=20 number, and email address, appearing on the first page of each entry. ENTRY FEE:=20 $10 (US/CAD) fee for each short story or essay. $5 (US/CAD) for each poem= .=20 Form of payment: Use PayPal on the journal=92s website (see the Donate bu= tton=20 at the bottom of each webpage), or mail a money order payable to Women in= =20 Judaism at the following address: Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal 1136-3 Centre St., Ste. 246 Thornhill, ON L4J 3M8 Canada Contact: Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon Email: dina.eylon@ utoronto.ca =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, 27 Jun 2010 12:44:10 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 In-Reply-To: <3679062D7D4D4D958C125D3B209A8912@userpc> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Rachel, Sexton was my teacher that year at Boston U. Much to say. George Starbuck had left Iowa to become the head of creative writing at BU. I think he hired Anne. And John Malcolm Brinnin, Dylan Thomas' road manager, who wrote a wonderful bio of Stein taught in the program, too. He brought Octavio Paz to our class. Alberto de Lacerda, the Portuguese poet, came to BU also & gave a course on Portuguese & Brazilian poets, some of whom he had known. Don't know if any of this is of interest but here it is. Ruth On 6/25/10 11:19 PM, "Crane's Bill Books" wrote: > Rachel, > It was the year of both Spicer's Red Wheelbarrow and Sexton's > Transformations. Wow! > Jeffrey > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "R Levitsky" > To: > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:52 PM > Subject: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 > > >> Dear Friends, >> What would you put on a list of significant poetry moments of 1971? >> Thank you for your help! >> Rachel Levitsky >> >> >> >> >> ================================== >> 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, 27 Jun 2010 10:27:51 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nicholas Piombino Subject: Re: Remembering Peter Seaton In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sorry for the error on the links for Peter Seaton on Wikipedia and Penn Sound. Here are the correct links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Seaton http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/ On 6/26/10 6:51 PM, "Nick Piombino" wrote: > I received an email from Ron Silliman telling me that Peter Seaton died l= ast > month. >=20 > Peter Seaton and I met at City College (CCNY) in 1960 or 1961, when we we= re > freshmen or sophomores. He was probably born in 1942. We spent many, many > fascinating hours together discussing literature and reading each others > writing throughout our college days. Peter's appearance changed little ov= er > the years. He had short, close cropped light brown curly hair, which late= r > became gray. He wore glasses, frequently sunglasses or glasses with clear > plastic frames through which you could invariably observe twinkling eyes, > often a dark brown henley t-shirt and light tan corduroys, and though sho= rt > in stature he had a distinctive walk, a rolling gait that sometimes remin= ded > me of a sailor. Peter was a terrific marathon one-on-one conversationalis= t, > a mordant, literary wit of the Holden Caulfield variety, an indefatigable > reader who loved to endlessly talk and search for books and new ideas. Th= is, > combined with the fact that he was among the most private and secretive > persons I have ever known, added immeasurably to the quality of mystery t= hat > surrounded both his presence and his absence. Other than the fact that he > attended boarding school, he spoke little about his early life. One of h= is > first short stories, perhaps written for a short story class that we > attended together at CCNY, was of a character obsessed with going out int= o > the city on an inexplicable, lonely search for a certain hard to find > poster. Our interests and directions concerning poetry and poetics remai= ned > parallel after graduation in 1964, often attending readings together at S= t > Mark=B9s, reading The World magazine and other poetry magazines and discuss= ing > them avidly, through to the establishment of This magazine, and L=3DA > magazine, up to the early 80=B9s. During the opening and middle years of > Language poetry many of Peter Seaton=B9s long prose poems were published, > widely read and influential. Peter and I did some writing collaborations = and > even some film experiments together in the late 60=B9s and early 70=B9s (we w= ere > then both big fans of Stan Brakhage) although these may now be lost or ha= rd > to locate. I may still have one or two letters or postcards that he wrote= to > me when I was living for awhile in Italy and Morocco in the late 60=B9s. It > was he that told me that Bernadette Mayer, whose work we both greatly > admired, was giving an open workshop at the Poetry Project in 1973. He > always encouraged me in my writing and collage productions particularly, > explaining to me that he was knowledgeable about this because his mother = had > once run an art gallery. I am sorry to say that we lost touch with each > other in the early 80=B9s. Peter=B9s writing and poetry and his penetrating > insights into poetry, culture, technology, language and life were of > constant interest to me during our many years of close friendship in the > 60's and 70's. >=20 > * * * > Penn Sound Obit >=20 > * * * >=20 > Wikipedia page-Peter > Seaton >=20 > * * * >=20 >=20 > On 6/23/10 10:55 PM, "Gottlieb, Michael" wrote= : >=20 >> REMEMBERING PETER SEATON >>=20 >> Just having returned last night from Leslie Scalapino's memorial at St. = Marks >> - a packed, hot, long, fraught, draining event - one that I have to admi= t I >> had to leave halfway through. So many people there, so many people for w= hom >> Leslie was so important. Old, young - so many young people. She did so m= uch >> for so many, was such an exemplar, mentor, publisher, friend... And the= n the >> next day, today, this news: Peter Seaton, dead. >>=20 >> And who is going to organize his memorial? Just how many remember him, h= ow >> many remember how powerful, unflinchingly, unerringly, nakedly vital was= his >> work when he burst among us, how many years ago? >>=20 >> I don't have his books in front of me now, and I don't have the years - = the >> timeline called up - to fix him in our greater calendar but suddenly he = was >> there one season: slight, sandy hair, a pack of... of Camels? Luckies? i= n his >> breast pocket. Bespectacled, a perpetual, canted, slightly sardonic smil= e on >> his face. >>=20 >> One book, two books, three, maybe there were four, and then he was gone.= He >> threw himself out of our world, not - at first - going altogether all th= at >> far. Off to Coliseum Books in Midtown Manhattan - where he worked for ye= ars >> and where quite apparently he made another life for himself; and made an= other >> life with a life partner who we also knew, at least for awhile. But then= what >> happened? >>=20 >> He reappeared a few years later, read again at the Ear and was just as >> powerful as ever and it was as if he'd never left - which was a little >> troubling in a way because, and I'm guessing I'm not the only one who th= ought >> so - enough years had gone by that it wasn't unreasonable to expect that >> things, he, his work, might be a bit different, but no. It was all the s= ame. >>=20 >> Then he was gone, again. And it was clear, it was as clear then as it ha= d >> been >> clear from the beginning, in the very same way that it remained clear ov= er >> the >> years as Peter came to mind, as his name came up in conversation from ti= me to >> time, that Peter could have, maybe should have, been someone whose name = was >> always on the tip of all of our tongues. That he could have been someone >> whose >> books were bought, whose writing was taught (is it? Does anyone teach i= t >> now?), he and his poems could have been, should have been the subject of >> seminars and conferences but for whatever reason - he bailed... he didn'= t >> want >> to live the life, he couldn't deal with the requirements the... the what= ? >> The >> compromises, the blandishments? Whatever. So he took a walk. >>=20 >> And that act in itself was a kind of admonishment to the rest of us. A >> caution >> and a remonstrance reminding us, recalling to mind - if we needed any >> reminder >> - of all the compromises that we have made, we make every day in the nam= e of >> our careers. He wouldn't, I guess, he couldn't. >>=20 >> He died without any of us around. That may not be necessarily a bad thin= g. >> But, did he die alone? >>=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 guideli= nes & >> 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: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:55:13 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Slaughter Subject: New Mudlark Flash MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="1049347784-282969104-1277693713=:7790" This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --1049347784-282969104-1277693713=:7790 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE New and On View: Mudlark Flash No. 57 (2010) Three Poems from The New Melancholiac's Guide: Should Your Gadget Jam, Postcards from Home, Epidemic by Philip Brooks who grew up in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park "as an aspiring=20 melancholiac. To that end," he attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop as a=20 fiction writer.=C2=A0Several of his stories appeared in Gordon Lish's "defu= nct=20 but really swell" The Quarterly, others in=C2=A0Willow Springs and The Keny= on=20 Review. Some=C2=A0of his poems have appeared in recent postings at Elimae.c= om.=20 He lives in Ohio with his wife, Balinda, and young son, Felix. Spread the word. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:53:11 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Brian Cassidy, Bookseller ABAA" Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I would certainly include the publication of Watten and Grenier's THIS magazine. The first issue appeared in winter 1971. Hope this helps. -bc brian cassidy, bookseller po box 11265 takoma park, md 20913 (301) 244-8868 books@briancassidy.net http://www.briancassidy.net Member: ABAA, ILAB, IOBA >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "R Levitsky" >> To: >> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:52 PM >> Subject: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 >> >> >>> Dear Friends, >>> What would you put on a list of significant poetry moments of 1971? >>> Thank you for your help! >>> Rachel Levitsky ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:40:32 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: The oil hasn't stopped Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii flowing, neither have the poems -- http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ New work up now! Best, Amy ******** Juice - + http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ travis-nichols/the-poetry- feminaissance_b_607561.html + http://www.pw.org/content/ poets_take_action_in_wake_of_ gulf_coast_disaster + http://poetry.about.com/b/ 2010/06/16/poems-for-the-gulf- of-mexico.htm + 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: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:17:59 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Appropriate time for profanity: now. --- Just when we thought the spill couldn't get worse ... Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Just when you thought the spill couldn't get worse - http://www.huliq.com/9990/ocean-floor-gulf-mexico-verge-collapsing Excerpt: BP CUT CORNERS "The cracks on the ocean floor are the direct result of the single string casing used by BP and the failure to apply proper cementing bond logs in addition to only using 6 centralizers instead of the recommended 21." Welcome, newly-possible 150,000 barrels of oil a day! Thanks, BP! Poets for Living Waters -- http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ I would say best, but that's already past, Amy ******** Juice - + http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ travis-nichols/the-poetry- feminaissance_b_607561.html + http://www.pw.org/content/ poets_take_action_in_wake_of_ gulf_coast_disaster + http://poetry.about.com/b/ 2010/06/16/poems-for-the-gulf- of-mexico.htm + 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: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:26:23 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I believe the first issue of Shocks magazine appears in 1971 which included= probably the first ever printed review of a reading by the late Pedro Piet= ri here in San Francisco.=20 You should also check out the publications of the various women's presses i= n the Bay Area - which published Alta, Judy Grahn and Susan Griffin about t= his time.=A0 This was the 'break ground' moment of diversity (gender, racia= l) in new American writing (let alone issues of (anti)war, ecology, prisons= , et al). (I suspect this=A0 happened in the Bay Area because it is a relat= ively "porous" cross talking region, and not as divided (ghettoized)=A0 as = then was New York or Chicago=A0 How all of these movements do or do not (& = why not) get embraced in the formal/critical considerations of "This" and "= L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E" is, I suspect, a critical enigma much worth examining, and= maybe some folks have or are doing that (??).=A0=20 Stephen Vincent --- On Mon, 6/28/10, Brian Cassidy, Bookseller ABAA wrote: From: Brian Cassidy, Bookseller ABAA Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 2:53 AM I would certainly include the publication of Watten and Grenier's THIS magazine. The first issue appeared in winter 1971. Hope this helps. -bc brian cassidy, bookseller po box 11265 takoma park, md 20913 (301) 244-8868 books@briancassidy.net http://www.briancassidy.net Member: ABAA, ILAB, IOBA >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "R Levitsky" >> To: >> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:52 PM >> Subject: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 >> >> >>> Dear Friends, >>> What would you put on a list of significant poetry moments of 1971? >>> Thank you for your help! >>> Rachel Levitsky =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:27:37 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jerome Rothenberg Subject: New posting: David Antin on narrative MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday June 29 I'll be posting on Poems and Poetics the first = installment of a three part essay by David Antin on narrative, a topic = of ongoing concern to Antin, which he addresses in his = characteristically sharp and often surprising way. Other recent postings include Andrew Schelling, Poems from "The = ArapahoSongbook"; Mark Weiss: Six Cuban Poets from The Whole Island: = Robert Duncan's charting of "a symposium of the whole," a key to my own = discussions of ethnopoetics & related matters; and a further installment = of Outsider Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress, this one a series of = "Irish Traveller Narratives from Johnny Cassidy's Tellings." I expect to send out announcements of future postings -- my own and = others -- which have now been scheduled and cued until early or middle = September. And in the meantime suggestions for additions to the anthology of = outsider and subaltern poetry continue to be welcomed. Jerome Rothenberg There is an avant-garde 1026 San Abella that cannot be defeated. Encinitas, CA 92024 -- M. Giroud, in J.R., Autobiography 760-436-9923 jrothenberg@cox.net http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/rothenberg/ ethnopoetics web site: http://ubu.com/ethno/ j.r. in spanish: http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/rothenberg/esp/ blog: poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:29:31 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: ROSALIE'S POETRY UPDATE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > steve dalachinsky and jake marmer > read at educational alliance june 30 630 pm on the roof 197 e. > broadway f train to e.broadway stop > > steve and a host of others read and play music july 1 brooklyn bridge > park 5 pm > to celebrate walt whitman > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:12:36 -0700 Rosalie Calabrese writes: > Next Featured Reading: > > Sunday, > > July 18, 3:00 PM > 6th Street & Avenue B Garden > Free Admission > (No Rain Date) > To get there: > R, V or Lexington Avenue train to 8th > St. > Walk East or take crosstown bus to Ave. B > Or F train to > Second Avenue > Or 1st or 2nd Avenue bus > > Newly Published Poem: > > NOT > > GONE > > Forget the Holocaust, I tell myself once more. > There’s > enough in the news without rehashing. > But, as before, I ignore my own > advice. > History, like shoes stored away > in the back of a closet, > stands ready > to be tried on again from time to time, > the pinch > always a surprise. > A tale of years without a dateline, > the past > never dies; burial is > not an > option. > > > [This poem appears in the Poetica Holocaust Web > edition (June 2010). It can be found at www.poeticamagazine.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, 28 Jun 2010 14:35:40 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Re: OT: Just when we thought the "spill" couldn't get worse ... + Poets for Living Waters Comments: To: Discussion of Women's Poetry List , "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I should have checked the source, but in my panic, I did not. The story is not on the AP at all. I hope that this is just a mere sensationalized story (god do I) with no validity, whatsoever. With possible gleeful (& tail-tucking) apologies, Amy Just when we thought the "spill" couldn't get worse - http://www.huliq.com/9990/ocean-floor-gulf-mexico-verge-collapsing Excerpt: BP CUT CORNERS "The cracks on the ocean floor are the direct result of the single string casing used by BP and the failure to apply proper cementing bond logs in addition to only using 6 centralizers instead of the recommended 21." Welcome, newly-possible 150,000 barrels of oil a day! Thanks, BP! ~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE OIL HASN'T STOPPED FLOWING, and neither have the poems: Poets for Living Waters -- http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/ I would say best, but that's already past, Amy ******** Juice - + http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ travis-nichols/the-poetry- feminaissance_b_607561.html + http://www.pw.org/content/ poets_take_action_in_wake_of_ gulf_coast_disaster + http://poetry.about.com/b/ 2010/06/16/poems-for-the-gulf- of-mexico.htm + 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: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:13:47 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Fiona Templeton Subject: DIY Workshop - The Eavesdroppers' Choir Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" DIY 7: 2010 - Call for Participants - The Eavesdroppers' Choir A found-live-language speaking choir, based on a 3 1/2-day intensive collaborative workshop to explore techniques of gathering, creating forms= with and improvising live with found language. Led by Fiona Templeton in= Bury, Manchester, England, 16-19 September 2010.=20 More info at:=20 http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/prof_dev/diy/diy7_fiona_templeton.html This DIY project is one of the launch activities leading up to the third Text Festival (April-July 2011). www.textfestival.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, 28 Jun 2010 10:03:44 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Subject: SAVE THE GULF-- SAN FRANCISCO-- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!!--JULY 2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable SAN FRANCISCO Save The Gulf Benefit for The Louisiana Bucket Brigade = Rockpile and The Rabbles=20 with David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, Terri Carrion, Clark Coolidge = and Gloria Frym Friday, July 2, 8pm The Counterpulse, 1310 Mission at 9th San Francisco, CA SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 28 Jun 2010 12:03:05 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: dalachinsky POETRY UPDATE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit steve dalachinsky and jake marmer read at educational alliance june 30 630 pm on the roof 197 e. broadway f train to e.broadway stop stev e and a host of others read and play music july 1 brooklyn bridge park 5 pm to celebrate walt whitman ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:17:42 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Kevin Killian Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 In-Reply-To: <298572.14563.qm@web57512.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Rachel, My God, I was 18 then.... I remember living in New York and the following things happened, though most of them I didn't find out about till years later! For me personally the signal arts events of 1971 were seeing Bette Midler at the Continental Bath House.... and Maria Callas working at Juilliard giving the master class to voice students, but anybody could get in just about. But in poetry, you might say 1971 involved.... Birth of Tupac Shakur, Kazim Ali, Jeff Clark, Brigid Pegeen Kelly, Beth Ann Fennelly, Snoop Dogg, Terrance Hayes, Evelyn Lau Patti Smith performs with Lenny Kaye February 10 at the Poetry Project (first collaboration) Ted Berrigan, Train Ride Jack Spicer, The Red Wheelbarrow Anne-Marie Albiach, Etat Sonia Sanchez joins Nation of Islam Linda Nochlin, “Why have there been no great woman artists?” (published) The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara, ed. Donald M. Allen Jose Lezama Lima, Complete Poems (Cuban publication) Adrienne Rich publishes The Will to Change Elizabeth Bishop meets Alice Methfessel Louis Zukofsky, ALL: The Collected Shorter Poems (final version) High point of Bolinas as American poetry capital Pablo Neruda receives Nobel Prize Duncan and Levertov quarrel reaches flash point in Sept—November 1971 Sun Ra, “The Black Man in the Cosmos” (course at UC Berkeley) Philip Whalen, Scenes of Life at the Capital John Lennon releases “Imagine” (autumn) Andy Warhol designs Sticky Fingers cover for the Stones (spring) Jackson Mac Low, Stanzas for Iris Lezak Valerie Eliot publishes Waste Land facsimile from original manuscripts Anne Waldman edits Another World Nam June Paik, TV Cello with Charlotte Moorman Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era Death of Ogden Nash, Jim Morrison, Paul Blackburn, Stevie Smith, Lew Welch Love ya, Kevin K. > Dear Friends, > What would you put on a list of significant poetry moments of 1971? > Thank you for your help! > Rachel Levitsky > > > > > ================================== > 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, 28 Jun 2010 23:06:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Donald Wellman Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 In-Reply-To: <4904.67.102.66.70.1277767062.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In 1971, I left Germany where I was because of Vietnam era military service. I brought back with me a love for Olson and Zukofsky. I had picked up Z. at a bookstore in Covent Garden. My special love was Basil Bunting. My buddy had studied with Kenner in Santa Barbara and could recite "Brigg Flats" by heart. That wowed me and fit with my Anglo-Saxon Studies agenda. It was Old English that drew me to Oregon. Contemporary poetry for me began there with Galway Kinnell and Robert Creeley and necessarily William Stafford whose son was a classmate. Donald Davey came up and promoted Ed Dorn and Thom Gunn. Ralph Salisbury was a poet and a friend. Some of you may know the inimitable Joe Smith whom I later published in O.ARS. I have written a history of my associations with Charles Olson and people like Harvey Brown which is available on the web at http://www.cranberryisles.com/photos/olson_tangents.htm. -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin Killian Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 7:18 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 Dear Rachel, My God, I was 18 then.... I remember living in New York and the following things happened, though most of them I didn't find out about till years later! For me personally the signal arts events of 1971 were seeing Bette Midler at the Continental Bath House.... and Maria Callas working at Juilliard giving the master class to voice students, but anybody could get in just about. But in poetry, you might say 1971 involved.... Birth of Tupac Shakur, Kazim Ali, Jeff Clark, Brigid Pegeen Kelly, Beth Ann Fennelly, Snoop Dogg, Terrance Hayes, Evelyn Lau Patti Smith performs with Lenny Kaye February 10 at the Poetry Project (first collaboration) Ted Berrigan, Train Ride Jack Spicer, The Red Wheelbarrow Anne-Marie Albiach, Etat Sonia Sanchez joins Nation of Islam Linda Nochlin, "Why have there been no great woman artists?" (published) The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, ed. Donald M. Allen Jose Lezama Lima, Complete Poems (Cuban publication) Adrienne Rich publishes The Will to Change Elizabeth Bishop meets Alice Methfessel Louis Zukofsky, ALL: The Collected Shorter Poems (final version) High point of Bolinas as American poetry capital Pablo Neruda receives Nobel Prize Duncan and Levertov quarrel reaches flash point in Sept-November 1971 Sun Ra, "The Black Man in the Cosmos" (course at UC Berkeley) Philip Whalen, Scenes of Life at the Capital John Lennon releases "Imagine" (autumn) Andy Warhol designs Sticky Fingers cover for the Stones (spring) Jackson Mac Low, Stanzas for Iris Lezak Valerie Eliot publishes Waste Land facsimile from original manuscripts Anne Waldman edits Another World Nam June Paik, TV Cello with Charlotte Moorman Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era Death of Ogden Nash, Jim Morrison, Paul Blackburn, Stevie Smith, Lew Welch Love ya, Kevin K. > Dear Friends, > What would you put on a list of significant poetry moments of 1971? > Thank you for your help! > Rachel Levitsky > > > > > ================================== > 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, 28 Jun 2010 21:11:56 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark DuCharme Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 In-Reply-To: <4904.67.102.66.70.1277767062.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Well=2C I think THAT pretty much covers it. Thank you=2C Kevin! One question: is the title of the Adrienne Rich work you're thinking of The= Will to Change (shades of Olson) or Diving into the Wreck? All Best=2C Mark DuCharme > Date: Mon=2C 28 Jun 2010 16:17:42 -0700 > From: kevin@KEVINKILLIAN.COM > Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > Dear Rachel=2C >=20 > My God=2C I was 18 then.... >=20 > I remember living in New York and the following things happened=2C though > most of them I didn't find out about till years later! For me personally > the signal arts events of 1971 were seeing Bette Midler at the Continenta= l > Bath House.... and Maria Callas working at Juilliard giving the master > class to voice students=2C but anybody could get in just about. But in > poetry=2C you might say 1971 involved.... >=20 > Birth of Tupac Shakur=2C Kazim Ali=2C Jeff Clark=2C Brigid Pegeen Kelly= =2C Beth > Ann Fennelly=2C Snoop Dogg=2C Terrance Hayes=2C Evelyn Lau >=20 > Patti Smith performs with Lenny Kaye February 10 at the Poetry Project > (first collaboration) >=20 > Ted Berrigan=2C Train Ride >=20 > Jack Spicer=2C The Red Wheelbarrow >=20 > Anne-Marie Albiach=2C Etat >=20 > Sonia Sanchez joins Nation of Islam >=20 > Linda Nochlin=2C =93Why have there been no great woman artists?=94 (publi= shed) >=20 > The Collected Poems of Frank O=92Hara=2C ed. Donald M. Allen >=20 > Jose Lezama Lima=2C Complete Poems (Cuban publication) >=20 > Adrienne Rich publishes The Will to Change >=20 > Elizabeth Bishop meets Alice Methfessel >=20 > Louis Zukofsky=2C ALL: The Collected Shorter Poems (final version) >=20 > High point of Bolinas as American poetry capital >=20 > Pablo Neruda receives Nobel Prize >=20 > Duncan and Levertov quarrel reaches flash point in Sept=97November 1971 >=20 > Sun Ra=2C =93The Black Man in the Cosmos=94 (course at UC Berkeley) >=20 > Philip Whalen=2C Scenes of Life at the Capital >=20 > John Lennon releases =93Imagine=94 (autumn) >=20 > Andy Warhol designs Sticky Fingers cover for the Stones (spring) >=20 > Jackson Mac Low=2C Stanzas for Iris Lezak >=20 > Valerie Eliot publishes Waste Land facsimile from original manuscripts >=20 > Anne Waldman edits Another World > Nam June Paik=2C TV Cello with Charlotte Moorman >=20 > Hugh Kenner=2C The Pound Era >=20 > Death of Ogden Nash=2C Jim Morrison=2C Paul Blackburn=2C Stevie Smith=2C = Lew Welch >=20 > Love ya=2C Kevin K. >=20 >=20 > > Dear Friends=2C > > What would you put on a list of significant poetry moments of 1971? > > Thank you for your help! > > Rachel Levitsky > > > > > > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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, 28 Jun 2010 22:24:07 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Ben Sonnenberg, Founder of Literary Journal Grand Street, Dies at 73 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ben Sonnenberg=2C Founder of Literary Journal=2C Dies at=20 73 By WILLIAM GRIMES NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/books/26sonnenberg.html?ref=3Dwilliam_gri= mes Ben=20 Sonnenberg=2C whose whims and myriad enthusiasms made Grand=20 Street=2C the quarterly he founded in 1981=2C one of the=20 most revered literary magazines of the postwar era=2C died Thursday in Manh= attan.=20 He was 73.=20 The cause was complications of multiple sclerosis=2C his daughter Emma=20 Snowdon-Jones said.=20 Mr. Sonnenberg funneled the proceeds from the sale of his father=92s=20 five-story town house on Gramercy Park into Grand Street=2C a journal conce= ived in=20 the spirit of high-minded but nonacademic magazines like The Dial and Horiz= on. He edited and published it=20 for nine years=2C working out of the dining room of his apartment on Rivers= ide=20 Drive=2C until health problems forced him to sell the magazine in 1990. It = ceased=20 publication in 2004.=20 =93I thought a magazine would be a good way to give money to=20 individuals whose writing I liked=2C=94 he told Newsday in 1989. =93I wante= d it to be=20 like a European magazine=2C a space where you could expect pleasure and=20 intellectual talk of both politics and art=2C of sex as well as money.=94 A= dandy=2C=20 boulevardier and self-educated litterateur=2C Mr. Sonnenberg consulted only= his=20 own taste=2C backing it with substantial paychecks to his writers=2C some w= ell known=20 and others not. Grand Street was the first to publish the short stories of= =20 Susan Minot=2C for example=2C whom Mr.=20 Sonnenberg hired to work at the magazine.=20 =93It was his work of art=2C in a way=2C=94 Ms. Minot said in a telephone=20 interview on Friday. =93It had an Old World feeling about it. It was not go= ing to=20 be sullied with anything that was not worthwhile. You wanted your work to b= e in=20 those beautiful=2C creamy pages.=94=20 The first issue of Grand Street =97 named after the street on the Lower=20 East Side where Mr. Sonnenberg=92s parents grew up =97 featured excerpts fr= om the=20 novelist Glenway Wescott=92s Paris journals=2C as well as articles=2C stori= es and=20 poems by Ted Hughes=2C Alice Munro=2C James Salter=2C John Hollander=2C Nor= throp Frye and W.=20 S. Merwin.=20 Later issues included political reporting by Amy Wilentz and=20 Christopher Hitchens and the kind of=20 offbeat matchup of writer and subject that Mr. Sonnenberg loved to instigat= e.=20 For example=2C he commissioned the jazz critic Gary Giddins to profile Jack= Benny. The Washington Post=2C=20 surveying the winter 1985 issue=2C described the magazine as =93Hellenic=2C= leftish=2C=20 mandarin=2C impeccable.=94=20 =93Of all those characteristics=2C the one I find hardest to accept is=20 =91impeccable=2C=92 =94 Mr. Sonnenberg told The Boston Globe in 1990.=20 Benjamin Sonnenberg Jr. was born in Manhattan on Dec. 30=2C 1936. His=20 father was one of the most powerful publicists in the United States=2C=20 representing corporate clients like Lever Brothers and Lipton Tea and perso= nal=20 clients like Samuel Goldwyn=2C David O. Selznick and=20 William S. Paley.=20 In =93Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad=20 Boy=94 (1991)=2C Mr. Sonnenberg described a childhood on=20 Gramercy Park =97 surrounded by 18th-century English furniture and a househ= old=20 staff of six =97 where celebrities from the worlds of business=2C film=2C t= heater and=20 publishing mingled at constant dinner parties.=20 It was not a happy childhood. Ben made himself unwelcome at a series=20 of private schools. Precocious=2C pretentious and incorrigible=2C he took=20 Oscar Wilde as his role model and=20 doted on the writings of the Marquis de Sade.=20 =93At 7 years old=2C my favorite form of expression was the epigram=2C=94 h= e=20 wrote in =93Lost Property.=94 At 13=2C inspired by Casanova=2C he began wri= ting his=20 memoirs. He did not manage to finish high school.=20 =93Lost Property=94 paints an unsparing portrait of a self-absorbed cad=2C= =20 =93idle=2C rootless and mischievous.=94 Well supplied with his father=92s m= oney=2C Mr.=20 Sonnenberg spent his 20s traveling around Europe=2C living in London and M= =E1laga=2C=20 Spain=2C and doing sporadic busywork for the C.I.A.=20 He wrote three plays=2C one of which=2C =93Jane Street=2C=94 ran for four=20 nights in an Off Off Broadway production. For a brief time in the early 197= 0s he=20 was the literary manager of the Repertory Theater at Lincoln Center.=20 When not running up enormous bills at expensive shops and seducing a=20 long list of attractive women (dutifully itemized in his memoir)=2C he read= widely=20 and cultivated an impressive circle of friends that included Kenneth Tynan= =2C=20 Elias Canetti=2C Ted Hughes and Virgil Thomson. This heroic time-wasting tu= rned=20 out to be excellent training for his life=92s work.=20 Mr. Sonnenberg=92s first two marriages ended in divorce. In addition to=20 his daughter Emma=2C of Manhattan=2C he is survived by his wife=2C Dorothy = Gallagher=3B=20 a sister=2C Helen Tucker=2C of Manhattan=3B two other daughters=2C Susanna = Sonnenberg of=20 Missoula=2C Mont.=2C and Saidee Brown of Kingston=2C N.Y.=3B and five grand= children.=20 In his mid-30s=2C Mr. Sonnenberg began experiencing the symptoms of=20 multiple sclerosis. He bought a stylish cane=2C but soon needed two. A whee= lchair=20 followed=2C and eventually he was paralyzed from the neck down. His conditi= on did=20 not prevent him from holding court=2C however. After selling the magazine= =2C he held=20 frequent literary gatherings at his apartment.=20 Grand Street gave Mr. Sonnenberg a purpose in life and a position of=20 cultural influence=2C although its circulation never exceeded 5=2C000. He r= an the=20 magazine like a salon=2C inviting the writers he liked to read=2C putting=20 interesting guests together=2C acting as a provocateur if the conversation= =20 flagged.=20 =93He was a very lively reader of material=2C and had not made up his=20 mind ahead of time about anything=2C=94 said the poet and translator Richar= d Howard=2C=20 a frequent contributor. =93He was very open to critical writing=2C especial= ly the=20 kind that includes lots of gossip.=94=20 Mr. Sonnenberg managed to get his hands on one of Samuel Beckett=92s last p= oems=2C persuaded=20 the political writer Alexander Cockburn to reminisce in print about his=20 childhood=2C coaxed imaginative foreign reporting from top writers and indu= lged=20 his taste for Greek politics and culture by editing a special issue on the = poet=20 Constantine P. Cavafy=2C a revelation=20 for most readers.=20 When the money started running out and his health declined=2C Mr.=20 Sonnenberg withdrew from a production he always envisioned as a limited run= . He=20 was happy: =93I printed only what I liked=3B never once did I publish an ed= itorial=20 statement=3B I offered no writers=92 guidelines=3B and I stopped when I cou= ldn=92t turn=20 the pages anymore.=94=20 =20 =20 The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hot= mail. Get busy. =20 _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hot= mail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=3Dmultiaccount&ocid=3DP= ID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:28:58 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Caleb Cluff Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 In-Reply-To: <4904.67.102.66.70.1277767062.squirrel@webmail.sonic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Brigit Kelly was born in 1951. -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Beh= alf Of Kevin Killian Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2010 9:18 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 Dear Rachel, My God, I was 18 then.... I remember living in New York and the following things happened, though most of them I didn't find out about till years later! For me personally the signal arts events of 1971 were seeing Bette Midler at the Continental Bath House.... and Maria Callas working at Juilliard giving the master class to voice students, but anybody could get in just about. But in poetry, you might say 1971 involved.... Birth of Tupac Shakur, Kazim Ali, Jeff Clark, Brigid Pegeen Kelly, Beth Ann Fennelly, Snoop Dogg, Terrance Hayes, Evelyn Lau Patti Smith performs with Lenny Kaye February 10 at the Poetry Project (first collaboration) Ted Berrigan, Train Ride Jack Spicer, The Red Wheelbarrow Anne-Marie Albiach, Etat Sonia Sanchez joins Nation of Islam Linda Nochlin, "Why have there been no great woman artists?" (published) The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, ed. Donald M. Allen Jose Lezama Lima, Complete Poems (Cuban publication) Adrienne Rich publishes The Will to Change Elizabeth Bishop meets Alice Methfessel Louis Zukofsky, ALL: The Collected Shorter Poems (final version) High point of Bolinas as American poetry capital Pablo Neruda receives Nobel Prize Duncan and Levertov quarrel reaches flash point in Sept-November 1971 Sun Ra, "The Black Man in the Cosmos" (course at UC Berkeley) Philip Whalen, Scenes of Life at the Capital John Lennon releases "Imagine" (autumn) Andy Warhol designs Sticky Fingers cover for the Stones (spring) Jackson Mac Low, Stanzas for Iris Lezak Valerie Eliot publishes Waste Land facsimile from original manuscripts Anne Waldman edits Another World Nam June Paik, TV Cello with Charlotte Moorman Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era Death of Ogden Nash, Jim Morrison, Paul Blackburn, Stevie Smith, Lew Welch Love ya, Kevin K. > Dear Friends, > What would you put on a list of significant poetry moments of 1971? > Thank you for your help! > Rachel Levitsky > > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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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Best=2C Nic Nic Sebastianhttp://verylikeawhale.wordpress.com =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your = inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:24:00 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Seaman Subject: Re: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971 In-Reply-To: <000801cb1738$0badad50$230907f0$@net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I must be the elder statesman of 1971. At that point I was interviewing fo= r my next job and Robert Creeley said come to Buffalo, there is money for = your concrete poetry projects. In New York City=EF=BB=BF, when I got there= , Richard Kostelanetz introduced me to Fluxus artists (Dick Higgins) and l= et me know what was going on.=0ADavid=0A=0ADavid W. Seaman, Ph.D.=0Ahttp:/= /personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~dseaman/Welcome.html=0A=0AFollow my Twitter= poetry at dseaman40=0A=0AYouTube video of my Venice Biennale poem: =0Ahtt= p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DJQ5bOuJBN_k=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0AOn 28 Jun, 2010= ,at 11:06 PM, Donald Wellman wrote:=0A=0A> In 19= 71, I left Germany where I was because of Vietnam era military service.=0A= > I brought back with me a love for Olson and Zukofsky. I had picked up Z.= at=0A> a bookstore in Covent Garden. My special love was Basil Bunting. M= y buddy=0A> had studied with Kenner in Santa Barbara and could recite "Bri= gg Flats" by=0A> heart. That wowed me and fit with my Anglo-Saxon Studies = agenda. It was Old=0A> English that drew me to Oregon. Contemporary poetry= for me began there with=0A> Galway Kinnell and Robert Creeley and necessa= rily William Stafford whose son=0A> was a classmate. Donald Davey came up = and promoted Ed Dorn and Thom Gunn.=0A> Ralph Salisbury was a poet and a f= riend. Some of you may know the inimitable=0A> Joe Smith whom I later publ= ished in O.ARS. I have written a history of my=0A> associations with Charl= es Olson and people like Harvey Brown which is=0A> available on the web at= =0A> http://www.cranberryisles.com/photos/olson_tangents.htm.=0A>=0A>=0A> = -----Original Message-----=0A> From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POET= ICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On=0A> Behalf Of Kevin Killian=0A> Sent: Monday,= June 28, 2010 7:18 PM=0A> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=0A> Subject: R= e: Query: Poetry Benchmarks 1971=0A>=0A> Dear Rachel,=0A>=0A> My God, I wa= s 18 then....=0A>=0A> I remember living in New York and the following thin= gs happened, though=0A> most of them I didn't find out about till years la= ter! For me personally=0A> the signal arts events of 1971 were seeing Bett= e Midler at the Continental=0A> Bath House.... and Maria Callas working at= Juilliard giving the master=0A> class to voice students, but anybody coul= d get in just about. But in=0A> poetry, you might say 1971 involved....=0A= >=0A> Birth of Tupac Shakur, Kazim Ali, Jeff Clark, Brigid Pegeen Kelly, B= eth=0A> Ann Fennelly, Snoop Dogg, Terrance Hayes, Evelyn Lau=0A>=0A> Patti= Smith performs with Lenny Kaye February 10 at the Poetry Project=0A> (fir= st collaboration)=0A>=0A> Ted Berrigan, Train Ride=0A>=0A> Jack Spicer, Th= e Red Wheelbarrow=0A>=0A> Anne-Marie Albiach, Etat=0A>=0A> Sonia Sanchez j= oins Nation of Islam=0A>=0A> Linda Nochlin, "Why have there been no great = woman artists?" (published)=0A>=0A> The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, e= d. Donald M. Allen=0A>=0A> Jose Lezama Lima, Complete Poems (Cuban publica= tion)=0A>=0A> Adrienne Rich publishes The Will to Change=0A>=0A> Elizabeth= Bishop meets Alice Methfessel=0A>=0A> Louis Zukofsky, ALL: The Collected = Shorter Poems (final version)=0A>=0A> High point of Bolinas as American po= etry capital=0A>=0A> Pablo Neruda receives Nobel Prize=0A>=0A> Duncan and = Levertov quarrel reaches flash point in Sept-November 1971=0A>=0A> Sun Ra,= "The Black Man in the Cosmos" (course at UC Berkeley)=0A>=0A> Philip Whal= en, Scenes of Life at the Capital=0A>=0A> John Lennon releases "Imagine" (= autumn)=0A>=0A> Andy Warhol designs Sticky Fingers cover for the Stones (s= pring)=0A>=0A> Jackson Mac Low, Stanzas for Iris Lezak=0A>=0A> Valerie Eli= ot publishes Waste Land facsimile from original manuscripts=0A>=0A> Anne W= aldman edits Another World=0A> Nam June Paik, TV Cello with Charlotte Moor= man=0A>=0A> Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era=0A>=0A> Death of Ogden Nash, Jim Mo= rrison, Paul Blackburn, Stevie Smith, Lew Welch=0A>=0A> Love ya, Kevin K.=0A= >=0A>=0A> > Dear Friends,=0A> > What would you put on a list of significan= t poetry moments of 1971?=0A> > Thank you for your help!=0A> > Rachel Levi= tsky=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=0A> > The = Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check=0A> > guideli= nes & 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=0A> The Poetics List is mode= rated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines=0A> & sub/unsub info: = http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=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=0A> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check g= uidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=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, 29 Jun 2010 04:49:51 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Penton Subject: readings in Los Angeles and El Paso, and some Unlikely updates MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Happy Junetime, those with the Summertime Blues and those in Australia! We at www.UnlikelyStories.org would like to announce: Lawrence Welsh, Kim Noriega and Rex Wilder will read on Thursday, July 8 at 8pm at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California ECC 1857, University Hall Lawrence Welsh is the author of Unlikely's latest chapbook, /Carney Takedown/, and he'll have copies of that, and many of his other books, on hand in L.A. Check out /Carney Takedown/ at http://www.unlikelystories.org/10/welsh0410.shtml , and learn more about his collection of works at http://www.lawrencewelsh.com/ then behold: An Unlikely Literary Happening On Friday, July 30 at 8pm at FORUM Arts + Culture in El Paso, Texas 1500 Texas Ave. at Cotton St. We'll be showing the poetry films of León De la Rosa, author of the forthcoming Unlikely Book /Soy solo palabras but wish to be a city/. We'll have a discussion with psychotherapist Deb Hoag, author of the forthcoming Unlikely Book /Dr. Gonzo/. And we'll climax with a live reading featuring Lawrence Welsh, Donna Snyder, Ray Ramos and Jen Shugert, who'll be reading before an actively-mixed video feed from videojockeys Rene Lopez and Tipo. Oh, and we should have a DJ. I should call one. That would be smart. FORUM Arts + Culture is a literary-friendly, non-profit, artist-run gallery with a beautiful, multi-roomed space above a warehouse. The space offers the perfect venue for displaying León's many films in freakish conjunction, and boasts a main stage backed by a northern view of the mountains. We'll be brutally covering that view with acetone for our videojockeys, and let me tell you, if you've never seen a poetry read accompanied by video feed, it's a real different experience, one that you'll take with you in a haze of entrancement, enchantment, and xanax. Also: we'll have wine. $5 suggested donation at the door. Astute readers will notice the lack of updates at www.UnlikelyStories.org recently -- please rest assured we are, nonetheless, working our asses off. The July 30 event is in preparation for our huge book release at this year's Burning Man Arts Festival in Nevada. We will be releasing five full-length books in three volumes: Monolith, poetry by Anne McMillen, bound together with Soy solo palabras but wish to be a city, a graphic longpoem (like a comic book, yo) by León De la Rosa and illustrated by gui.ra.ga7 My Hands Were Clean, nonfiction ranting by Tom Bradley, bound together with Dr. Gonzo, an analysis of the mental health industry by Deb Hoag and /Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind. Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind/ is the physical representation of all things Unlikely, including 110 pages of fiction, 100 pages of essays and reviews, 90 pages of poetry, 40 pages of color visual art, 40 pages of B&W visual art, a CD of music and spoken word and a DVD of assorted literary-themed films. We're making final selections for it now (so if you've been waiting to hear back from us, and would like to confirm that we received your submission, now is the time). Nonetheless, there will be a mini-text issue later this week, featuring the release of the winner of the 2009 WRITE REAL GOOD Poetry Chapbook Contest, /When You Come Again, You Will Never Go/ by Andreas Morgner. There will be a multimedia issue in mid-July, and a full-sized text and multimedia issue in the first half of August. Then it's Burning Man, baby. Maybe we'll see you there. -- Jonathan Penton http://www.unlikelystories.org/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:25:12 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Noah Eli Gordon Subject: Gordon, Klein and Novy read for St. Mark's Bookshop at BAR 82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thursday=2C July 1=2C 2010 Time: 7:30pm - 11:30pm Location: BAR 82: right around the corner from St. Mark's Bookshop=2C at 136 2nd Ave= =2C between St. Mark's Place and 9th Street. THE SAINT MARK'S BOOKSHOP READING SERIES welcomes NOAH ELI GORDON=2C ISH KL= EIN=2C and ADAM NOVY to Bar 82 Thursday=2C July 1st Gordon=2C Klein and Novy will read from and sign their work on Thursday=2C July 1st at 7:30 PM=2C at BAR 82 (Right around the corner from St. Mark's Bookshop=2C at 136 2nd Ave=2C between St. Mark's Place and 9th Street). Copies of his books will be available for sale at the event. All St. Mark's Bookshop events are free to the public. For more information go to http://stmarksbooks.blogspot.com/ contact Greg Purcell at stmarksbooks@gmail.com=2C call 212-260-7853=2C or stop by St. Mark's Bookshop=2C at 31 Third Avenue=2C near Ninth Street. NOAH ELI GORDON is the author of several books=2C including Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial=2C 2007)=2C which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series Open Competition and chosen for the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award. He=92s the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions and an Assistant Professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing at The University of Colorado=96Boulder. He has new books forthcoming from Futurepoem Books (2011) and Ahsahta Press (2013). ISH KLEIN's book=2C Union! came out April 2009 through the Canarium Press. Her second book=2C For the New Manchurians=2C will come out from the Canarium Press in 2011. Her poems have been published in The Canary=2C Gare du Nord=2C The Hat magazine=2C X-connect=2C Bridge=2C Spork and are online. She makes movies and lives in Philadelphia. About ADAM NOVY's debut book=2C The Avian Gospels=2C we are told: "A city without a name is cursed by a plague of birds they probably deserve. But when an angry beggar child and his father learn they have the power to lift the curse=97they =93control=94 birds=97they cannot agree on how to use their gi= ft=2C and end up using it on each other=2C taking out everyone around them=2C especially those they love." Adam Novy's work has appeared in The Believer=2C and he lives in California. =20 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search=2C chat and e-mail from your inb= ox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=3DPID28326::T:WLMTAGL:O= N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:28:28 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Allegrezza Subject: Translators MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm looking for a few poets who can translate Spanish into English. If you are interested in a new project, just e-mail me for details. Bill Allegrezza wallegrezza@gmail.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:18:19 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Laura Hinton Subject: On-line Memorial to Leslie Scalapino is now concluded MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The *Streaming / Reading Memorial to Leslie Scalapino,* which has been running on my blog site this past month since Leslie's death, concluded yesterday, June 28. Thank you to the many wonderful poets who contributed pieces, and to those of you who have been reading. Below is a list of the articles, poems, and/or memoirs, as well as their authors. And anyone can continue to view this work, either on the blog hom= e page or in its May-June Archives, at www.chantdelasirene.com. -- Laura Leslie Scalapino 1944-2010 Laura Hinton -- with reprinted eulogy by Tom White A Few Words about a Late Scalapino/Poem Cynthia Hogue =93I've created this memory track": Scalapino=92s *Autobiography* Ann Bogle In "Mourning Time," Reading *New Time* (for the First Time) Laura Hinton Sewing the Black -- for Leslie Scalapino Millicent Borges Accardi Aeolotropism: A Prose Sequence for Leslie Scalapino Karen An-hwei Lee 'Writing Is Phenomena': Leslie Scalapino and Marina Adams, *The Tango* Elizabeth Frost This is Not =93A Barbie Doll with Horns=94 (Line from *Flow=97Winged Crocod= ile*) Laura Hinton "I feel a Chill=94 =96 and a Desert Memory Barbara Henning Leslie Scalapino=92s Rhythmic Intensities Charles Bernstein (reprinted courtesy of *Sybil*) =93... schooled by the certainty she brought to her radical syntax...=94 Rachel Levitsky =93...Embracing Interplay of Life and Time...=94 Allison A. Hedge Coke She Doesn=92t Belong in a Past Tense Joan Retallack Leslie Loved *Invasion of the Body Snatchers *(or, Note on her "Note on Secret-Life Writing" in *Dahlia's Iris/ Secret Autobiography*)** Laura Hinton =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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