========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 08:39:46 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Announcing Heretical Texts Vol.1.1: Dan Featherston Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed New from Heretical Texts: UNITED STATES by Dan Featherston Factory School. 2005. 72 pages, perfect bound, 6.5x9. $12 / $10 direct order About United States: These poems bear witness to various atrocities at large and domestically, but also to the role that liberal Democratic ideology plays in the atrocities of genocide and cultural imperialism. Poets like Dan Featherston go a long way toward making the reader aware of the artifice of politics and the poetics of ideology. In this way, poets can be more than spectators. Featherston is certainly more than a spectator. It is his lyric vision and the communitarian commitment of his collection that reminds the reader that poetry is, in fact, a public act. Order direct from Factory School: http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/order.html Also available through Small Press Distribution: http://www.spdbooks.org/ The complete first volume of Heretical Texts is available for $40 (direct from publisher) and includes: 1. Dan Featherston, United States 2. Laura Elrick, Fantasies in Permeable Structures 3. Linh Dinh, Borderless Bodies 4. Sarah Menefee, Human Star 5. kari edwards, obedience About Heretical Texts: This series begins with, and intends to investigate, the assumption that poetry is political. Inherent to the Heretical Texts mission is a focused imagining of 'political poetry' as a form of public intervention, invention, and invocation that calls on (and up) language to call out a public, a people. Heretical Texts will appear in four volumes of five books each over the course of two years. Volume Two (spring 2006) will feature work by Steve Carll, Carol Mirakove, Diane Ward, Brian Kim Stefans, and Kristin Prevallet. For more about the Heretical Texts series: http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/heretical/info.html For more about this and other Factory School titles: http://www.factoryschool.org/publications.html Contact: info "at" factoryschool.org [or reply backchannel to this email] Bill Marsh HT series curator ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:53:38 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Elizabeth Block Subject: reading in seattle Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed dear poetics readers, Please join me in Seattle I will be reading at the Elliott Bay Book Company Saturday January 7th, 7:30 p.m. 101 South Main Street Seattle, Washington 98104 for more information: http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/jan06/block.jsp (from Elliott Bay: Poet and filmmaker Elizabeth Block reads [January 7th, 7:30p.m.] from=20 her debut novel, A Gesture Through Time (Spuyten Duyvil), an intriguing=20= take on the ambiguities of identity, desire, and memory. "A Gesture=20 Through Time is a novel for the new millennium. Deft, funny and wise,=20 it examines authorship, narration, technology, love and memory, and=20 asks most playfully what it means to tell a story." - Maxine Chernoff.) thanks! elizabeth block A Gesture Through Time the novel by Elizabeth Block isbn 1-933132-13-2=A0 http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/fiction/agesturethroughtime.htm http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/books/sept05/experiment.html= ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:56:20 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Reb Livingston Subject: The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Now Available Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel http://www.notellmotel.org/bedside Edited by Reb Livingston & Molly Arden ISBN: 1-4116-6591-0 NOW AVAILABLE at Lulu for $12.99 http://www.lulu.com/content/203235 Available Soon at Amazon and B&N for $16.99 Featuring Discretion By: Aaron Anstett * Molly Arden * Robert W. Barnett * Aaron Belz * Jasper Bernes * Remica L. Bingham * Anne Boyer * Elizabeth Bradfield * Gayle Brandeis * Suzanne Burns * Britton Carducci * Laura Carter * Shanna Compton * Bruce Covey * Matt Cox * Laura Cronk * Catherine Daly * Denise Duhamel * Peg Duthie * Jilly Dybka * Jill Alexander Essbaum * Marta Ferguson * Alice B. Fogel * Jeannine Hall Gailey * Amy Gerstler * Jim Goar * Noah Eli Gordon * Anne Gorrick * Carolyn Guinzio * Jennifer Michael Hecht * Shafer Hall * Michael Hoerman * Cynthia Huntington * Charles Jensen * Paul Jones * Kirsten Kaschock * Amy King * Craig Kirchner * David Laskowski * Dorothee Lang * Ann Neuser Lederer * Reb Livingston * Emily Lloyd * Rebecca Loudon * Oliver Luker * Tatjana Lukic * Clay Matthews * Corey Mesler * Charlton Metcalf * Michael Meyerhofer * Andrew Mister * Steve Mueske * Anita Naegeli * William Orem * Eden Osucha * Shin Yu Pai * Cami Park * Karl Parker * Dan Pinkerton * Lance Phillips * P.F. Potvin * Nate Pritts * Francis Raven * Kim Roberts * Anthony Robinson * Ken Rumble * Jenni Russell * Carly Sachs * Christopher Salerno * Standard Schaefer * Zachary Schomburg * Penelope Scambly Schott * Ravi Shankar * Brandon Shimoda * Matthew Shindell * Laurel Snyder * Heidi Lynn Staples * Hugh Steinberg * Matthew Thorburn * Aaron Tieger * Maureen Thorson * Betsy Wheeler * Allyssa Wolf * Christy Zink ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 05:18:04 -0800 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Silliman's Blog: Shift & Switch Comments: To: Brit Po , New Po , Wom Po , Lucifer Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Shift & Switch – Searching for newness in the Canadian north A New Year’s Resolution Looking backward 2005 The 1,001 books mostly often found in libraries Poets I admire whose work is hard to find – thinking of Jerry Estrin Ways to Use Lance by Brett Evans The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan Thomas Merton and Jonathan Greene: the nature of a correspondence Sheila E. Murphy – Toward the Year 2006 A Christmas message from Franz Wright Seth Abramson: questions on the sociology of poetry and the sociology of poetry blogs Reed Bye – Join the Planets What is New York about the New York school? Semezdin Mehmedinovic and Nine Alexandrias – seeing America through Bosnian eyes The actor John Spencer – 1946 – 2005 Paul Hoover on the Chicago Renaissance and the role of the local http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 08:59:16 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tom Beckett Subject: new at e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My interview with Jean Vengua is up at http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com Happy New Year, poetix peeps. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:21:23 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: RaeA100900@AOL.COM Subject: Re: reading in seattle MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear List, I may be in Seattle around March 22-26 or 27, visiting my son. I know it's short notice but I wonder if anyone could suggest a place I might read. Does anyone have email contact info for Elliot Bay Books or Open Books, for instance? Backchannel please. Rae Armantrout ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 13:44:32 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Heretical Texts Vol. 1.2: Laura Elrick Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed New from Heretical Texts: FANTASIES IN PERMEABLE STRUCTURES by Laura Elrick Factory School. 2005. 72 pages, perfect bound, 6.5x9. $12 / $10 direct order About Fantasies in Permeable Structures: This book takes the idea that history is not linear as its starting point. Can "outmoded" discursive forms do more than appear as the junkyard backdrop for the imperatives of capitalist cultural production? What speaks through what is already there? If we can think of the present as the future of its past, is it possible to re-spatialize the present from behind the bulwark of postmodernist procedures? Order direct from Factory School: http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/order.html Also available through Small Press Distribution: http://www.spdbooks.org/ The complete first volume of Heretical Texts is available for $40 (direct from publisher) and includes: 1. Dan Featherston, United States 2. Laura Elrick, Fantasies in Permeable Structures 3. Linh Dinh, Borderless Bodies 4. Sarah Menefee, Human Star 5. kari edwards, obedience About Heretical Texts: This series begins with, and intends to investigate, the assumption that poetry is political. Inherent to the Heretical Texts mission is a focused imagining of 'political poetry' as a form of public intervention, invention, and invocation that calls on (and up) language to call out a public, a people. Heretical Texts will appear in four volumes of five books each over the course of two years. Volume Two (spring 2006) will feature work by Steve Carll, Carol Mirakove, Diane Ward, Brian Kim Stefans, and Kristin Prevallet. For more about the Heretical Texts series: http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/heretical/info.html For more about this and other Factory School titles: http://www.factoryschool.org/publications.html Contact: info "at" factoryschool.org [or reply backchannel to this email] Bill Marsh HT series curator ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:28:53 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Greenwood Enclopeadia (FWD) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry *Five Volumes* edited by Jeffrey Gray , James McCorkle , Mary McAleer Balkun The most comprehensive reference on American poetry ever assembled, this enormous encyclopedia includes more than 900 alphabetically arranged entries by roughly 350 scholars. This encyclopedia surpasses existing works by considering the entire range of American poetry, overviewing major and minor authors, and combining biographical and critical entries with entries on a wide range of topics. Written for students and general readers at a time when poetry is central to the curriculum, the set covers material from the colonial era to the present, devoting special attention to contemporary poets and their works. Multicultural in scope, the encyclopedia provides entries on numerous poets from diverse ethnic backgrounds. It also devotes considerable attention to women poets and to poets just beginning to establish their reputations. In addition, it relates American poetry to its social, historical, political, and cultural contexts. Author Information: JEFFREY GRAY is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall University and author of Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry. His articles and poetry have appeared in such journals as Atlantic Monthly, Callaloo, Contemporary Literature, Profession, and Papers on Language and Literature. JAMES McCORKLE is a poet and essayist. His previous books include The Still Performance (1989), Conversant Essays (1990), Evidences (2003). His work has appeared in such places as The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, and Ploughshares. He has taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Keuka College, New York University, and Pratt Institute. MARY McALEER BALKUN is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall University. She has published in such journals as Walt Whitman Quarterly, Women's Studies, and African American Review, and is the author of the forthcoming The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture. List Price: $599.95 0-313-32381-X Pages: 2012 Publication: 12/30/2005 To order, visit www.greenwood.com, call 1-800-225-5800. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:52:39 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "j. kuszai" Subject: la detenci=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F3n?= del tiempo, revised and expanded e dition Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed New from PS3577 a Factory School book publication series La detenci=F3n del tiempo / Time=92s Arrest By Reina Mar=EDa Rodr=EDguez Translated by Kristin Dykstra Essays by Kristin Dykstra and Roberto Tejada Second Edition, revised and expanded. Factory School. 2005. 74 pages, =20= perfect bound. ISBN 1-60001-996-X $12 ($10 direct incl. shipping from FS) For more information, please go to http://factoryschool.org/reina For more about other Factory School titles: http://www.factoryschool.org/publications.html Order direct from Factory School: http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/order.html Also available through Small Press Distribution: http://www.spdbooks.org/ ---------------------- ABOUT PS3577: Contemporary Literature. PS3577 is curated by the members of the Factory School learning and =20 production collective. Please contact info "at" factoryschool.org [or =20= reply backchannel to this email].= ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:04:39 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ben Doyle Subject: Fwd: 1913 is is is MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 1913 is is is 1913 issue deux is here! ...and what a lovely here it is... *please do check it out--and buy your very own copy--at our website: http://www.journal1913.org & i urge you to urge your university and public libraries to subscribe subscribe subscribe... help keep 1913 alive! *in other news from the year, 1913 will be running 2 new contests: -the 1913 Prize for a series/sequence of work (verbal and/or visual). the winner will receive $100 + featured publication in 1913 issue 3, with a critical introduction. now accepting entries through september 13, 2006 & -the 1913 Rozanova Prize, for a collaborative and/or visual book. now accepting entries through september 13, 2006 *more details regarding both prizes on our website, http://www.journal1913.org *1913 is also happy to announce the forthcoming publication of Seismosis a collaborative book by John Keene & Christopher Stackhouse, featuring texts by Keene in communique with drawings by Stackhouse--keep your eyes & ears perched! *in an effort to raise necessary funds for current & future projects, benefactors may now donate to 1913 online: http://www.journal1913.org thanks for your support of 1913, & with all best wishes to all, l'editrice. http://www.journal1913.org ----- End forwarded message ----- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 01:38:24 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: last overkill reminder happy new year steve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > WORDMUSIC > > Rashied Ali, Yuko Otomo & steve dalachinsky > in conjunction with the m p landis exhibit monk work > > friday january 6, 2006 7pm sharp > > at 55mercer gallery, 55 mercer street > 3rd floor. limited chairs > > suggested contribution > all proceeds go to the artists > > provided. info contact mplandis@gmail.com > or 1212-9255256 /skyplums@juno.com > ____________________________________________________________ > > The Stone (2nd st & ave.c) > > January 7th, 2005 @ 8 pm 1 set only > > Rob Brown alto > Sabir Mateen tenor > Matt lavelle trumpet > Andrew Bemkey piano > Henry Wood drums > William Parker > steve dalachinsky words > > $10 all proceeds go to the artists > > info 1212 -925-5256 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 08:05:28 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Vol. 1 #2: Heretical Texts: Linh Dinh Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed New from Heretical Texts: BORDERLESS BODIES by Linh Dinh Factory School. 2005. 102 pages, perfect bound, 6.5x9. $12 / $10 direct order About Borderless Bodies: Linh Dinh=92s third book of poems, Borderless=20= Bodies is a fierce yet playful investigation into the body as=20 metaphors, with its various processes as allegories. The body as polity=20= and politics is also given a serious patdown. This is perhaps Linh=20 Dinh=92s most ambitious and accomplished book to date. Order direct from Factory School:=20 http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/order.html Also available through Small Press Distribution:=20 http://www.spdbooks.org/ The complete first volume of Heretical Texts is available for $40=20 (direct from publisher) and includes: 1. Dan Featherston, United States 2. Laura Elrick, Fantasies in Permeable Structures 3. Linh Dinh, Borderless Bodies 4. Sarah Menefee, Human Star 5. kari edwards, obedience About Heretical Texts: This series begins with, and intends to=20 investigate, the assumption that poetry is political. Inherent to the=20 Heretical Texts mission is a focused imagining of 'political poetry' as=20= a form of public intervention, invention, and invocation that calls on=20= (and up) language to call out a public, a people. Heretical Texts will=20= appear in four volumes of five books each over the course of two years.=20= Volume Two (spring 2006) will feature work by Steve Carll, Carol=20 Mirakove, Diane Ward, Brian Kim Stefans, and Kristin Prevallet. For more about the Heretical Texts series:=20 http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/heretical/info.html For more about this and other Factory School titles:=20 http://www.factoryschool.org/publications.html Contact: info "at" factoryschool.org [or reply backchannel to this=20 email] Bill Marsh HT series curator ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:58:17 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Recommended Reading (I): Reznikoff and Riding Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975, ed. Seamus Cooney (Boston: Black Sparrow/David Godine), 2005. Reprints the 2-vol 1989 Black Sparrow edition, but the text is reset and repaginated, there are a few corrections, the notes have been revised, there is a new biographical chronology, and Reznikoff's short and key essay, "First, there is the need" has been appended. Full review of this book at: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog * There are several new books of interest by and about Laura Riding: Elizabeth Friedmann, A Mannered Grace: The Life of Laura (Riding) Jackson (New York: Persea, 2005) The Laura (Riding) Jackson Reader, ed. Elizabeth Friedmann, (New York: Persea, 2005): a thoughtfully selected and substantial sampler of the full range of the work, including the full text of The Telling, & about 40 pages of the poems (I would have preferred to see more). Laura (Riding) Jackson, Under the Mind's Watch: Concerning Issue / Of Language, Literature, Life / Of Contemporary Bearing, ed. John Nolan and Alan J. Clarke (Oxford & Bern: Peter Lang, 2005). A collection of unpublished essays from the 60s and 70s, assembled by (Riding) Jackson, the most substantial collection from this period apart from Rational Meaning. Laura Riding, Mindscapes: Poemas, Selected, translated into Portuguese, and introduced by Rodrigo Garicia Lopes (Sao Paulo: Editora Iluminuras, 2004). 150 pages of the poems in bilingual facing pages, followed by a short section of commentary by Samuels, Friedmann, Jacobs, Nolan, Rothenberg/Joris, Clark, Bernstein, Billiterri/Friedlander. Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 10:29:12 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "j. kuszai" Subject: southpaw culture: cara hoffman's wedding Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed New from Southpaw Culture a Factory School book publication series The Wedding and Other Stories By Cara Hoffman Fiction. Factory School. 2006. 116 pages, perfect bound. ISBN 0-9711863-6-7 $13 ($10 direct incl. shipping from FS) About The Wedding and Other Stories: A crime-scene reporter is confronted by a talking dog, prisoners of =20 war are forced to keep bees, mice ponder the ethics of their =20 educational system, and a little girl passes herself off as a retired =20= feather-weight boxer =85 =93In one of Schoenberg=92s compositions is the very evocative line =91I = =20 feel the wind from other planets.=92 Cara Hoffman=92s beautifully = crafted =20 stories bring that back to me. Tales of absence and possibility and =20 other realms, rendered in unique voices. Haunting and excellent. --=20 John Zerzan, author of Elements of Refusal For more information about this and other Factory School titles: http://www.factoryschool.org/publications.html Order direct from Factory School: http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/order.html Also available through Small Press Distribution: http://www.spdbooks.org/ ---------------------- ABOUT SOUTHPAW CULTURE: : poetry to politics, pedagogy to planning : an experiment in motivated fair use : historical antecedents : typological subcultures series curator, J. Kuszai Contact: info "at" factoryschool.org [or reply backchannel to this =20 email] =20= ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 10:56:35 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Haiti: A Place Of U.S. Trained & Financed Fear And Havoc Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/ Haiti: A Place Of U.S. Trained & Financed Fear And Havoc: With The Buffalo Gone, The U.S. Is Back To Shootin' Niggers--- In Haiti; When Did They Ever Stop?: John Bolton Does His Impression Of A Constipated Toilet Brush At The U.N. Again: By LOTTA TAILORED LYIN' They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical, whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house. One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 08:11:05 -0800 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Candy Barr, poet, sex worker, friend of mobsters, dies at 70 Comments: To: Wom Po MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit OBITUARIES Candy Barr, 70; 1950s Stripper and Stag Film Star Personified the Joy and Danger of Sex By Myrna Oliver Times Staff Writer January 3, 2006 Candy Barr, infamous 1950s stripper and stag film star once romantically linked to mobster Mickey Cohen and associated with Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, has died. She was 70. Barr died Friday of pneumonia in an Abilene, Texas, hospital. She had lived quietly in her native south Texas for several years. Born Juanita Dale Slusher in Edna, Texas, on July 6, 1935, Barr forged a life exotic enough in the mid-20th century to inspire a biopic. (One was contemplated but never produced in the late 1980s, with Farrah Fawcett portraying Barr.) Before the dancer's career was derailed in 1960 by a prison term for marijuana, she was earning $2,000 a week in Los Angeles and Las Vegas clubs. It was Barr who trained actress Joan Collins for her role as an exotic dancer in the 1960 movie "Seven Thieves," earning her a credit as technical advisor. "She taught me more about sensuality than I had learned in all my years under contract," Collins wrote in her autobiography, "Past Imperfect." Collins went on to describe Barr as "a down-to-earth girl with an incredibly gorgeous body and an angelic face." Barr became a landmark in the sexual liberation of Texas men in the 1950s, Gary Cartwright wrote in a 1976 Texas Monthly magazine article, the same year the 41-year-old but still shapely Barr posed nude for Oui men's magazine. Cartwright wrote that in her early career, Barr had epitomized "the conflict between sex as joy and sex as danger. The body was perfect, but it was the innocence of the face that lured you on." In 1984, Texas Monthly listed Barr among such luminaries as Lady Bird Johnson as one of history's "perfect Texans." "Of all the small-town bad girls," the magazine said, Barr "was the baddest." And Barr earned her place in the exhaustive 2004 volume published by Oxford University, "Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show." Barr said she began life as "poor white trash." After her mother died when she was 9, she was ignored by her stepmother and sexually abused by a neighbor and a baby-sitter. She fled to Dallas at the age of 13, married a safecracker at 14 and soon fell into exotic dancing and prostitution. Later claiming that she was drugged and forced to perform, she was featured in a 1951 blue movie "Smart Alec." She befriended Ruby, owner of Dallas' Carousel Club, who was subsequently convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President Kennedy. Federal agents questioned Barr after Oswald's killing, but she insisted she knew nothing about Ruby's involvement in any conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination. In the early 1950s, Barr got a job as cigarette girl at Barney Weinstein's Theater Lounge in downtown Dallas. Impressed with her startling beauty, Weinstein's brother, Abe, gave her her stage name, had her bleach her hair and showcased her as a bump-and-grind burlesque queen in his Colony Club. Barr developed her trademark costume — 10-gallon hat, pasties, "scanty panties," a pair of six-shooters and cowboy boots — and quickly became a favorite with fraternity boys, Dallas crime figures, businessmen and political leaders, who booked her for stag parties. Conservative Dallas residents, however, were less impressed and began pressuring police and prosecutors to shut down Barr's act. In 1957, she was arrested for having less than four-fifths of an ounce of marijuana concealed in her bra. She maintained that she was framed by police and was only holding the drug for a friend. "We think we can convince a jury that a woman with her reputation, a woman who has done the things she has done, should go to prison," Assistant Dallas County Dist. Atty. Bill Alexander told the Dallas Morning News after Barr's arrest. "She may be cute," Alexander, who would prosecute Ruby six years later, told the jury in his closing argument, "but under the evidence, she's soiled and dirty." Barr was convicted and, under tough state laws for what would now be a misdemeanor, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The trial garnered national publicity and only enhanced her fame. The judge even asked to be photographed with her in his chambers. Awaiting appeal, Barr was hired to perform in Las Vegas' El Rancho Vegas Hotel and Los Angeles' Club Largo on Sunset Boulevard, drawing $2,000 fees. It was during this period that Barr met and dated Cohen for two months. They publicly said they were engaged, and he crisscrossed the country with her, consulting lawyers in the appeal of her sentence. But neither the romance nor the appeal could go on forever. "It's all over," the dapper ex-bookie told The Times in May 1959. "We're just two different kinds of people. No, we didn't have no fight. It was more like what you might call a discussion." Two years later, Barr revealed Cohen's answer to her drug sentence when she was returned to Los Angeles to testify against him in his trial for income tax invasion, in which he was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Barr testified that although Cohen paid her lawyers $15,000, he also gave her cash and phony identification documents, had her dye her hair and flee to Mexico. She said she got bored and returned to the U.S. shortly before her appeal was denied. "I always wanted a brick house of my own, and it looks like I am going to have one," Barr told an assembled crowd and news media when she finally walked into Goree Farm for Women in Huntsville, Texas, in December 1959. Then-Texas Gov. John B. Connally paroled her in 1963 and pardoned her four years later. During her imprisonment, she took high school courses, worked as a seamstress, sang in the prison choir and played in its band. Barr also wrote a book of poetry, which she published in 1972, titled "A Gentle Mind … Confused." Its title poem stated: Hate the world that strikes you down, A warped lesson quickly learned, Rebellion, a universal sound, Nobody cares … No one's concerned. Fatigued by unyielding strife Self-pity consoles the abused, And the bludgeoning of daily life Leaves a gentle mind … confused." Barr was arrested a second time for possession of marijuana in a 1969 raid on her home, but charges were dropped for lack of evidence. She tried briefly to restart her career as a dancer in 1967 at the age of 32, again at Hollywood's Largo club, performing before a backdrop of prison bars. "Time has been kind to Miss Barr. The onetime fiancee of Mickey Cohen is in good, if slightly gaunt, form and is still an energetic dancer," wrote Times critic Kevin Thomas. "From the audience, she seems a young woman with an aura of sadness and sorrow who is doing the thing she knows best." Barr largely retired to a reclusive life in Texas, surrounded by her pets. "Let the world find someone else to talk about," she told Texas Monthly in 2001. "I like being left alone." Barr married and divorced four husbands. She had a daughter and became a grandmother, but information on survivors was not immediately available. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:40:00 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Kelleher Subject: JUST BUFFALO E-NEWSLETTER 1-03-06 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable JANUARY EVENTS AT JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER NOTE: WE ARE STILL COMPLETING OUR WINTER/SPRING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE AND SHOULD HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT NEXT WEEK. NICKEL CITY POETRY SLAM THIS FRIDAY The Nickel City Poetry Slam Friday, Janaury 6, 2006 8:00pm/7:30 Sign-up Albright-Knox Art Gallery Clifton Hall FREE January's feature: HBO Def Poet Dawn Saylor=21 A poetry slam is a spoken word competition judged by members of the audienc= e. Interested poets, please bring three original pieces, 3 minutes or less, me= morized or on page, any style or content. 10 poets go three rounds, eliminating compet= itors based on score. The top scoring poet wins =2425 and a chance to be on the first t= eam from Buffalo to compete in the National Poetry Slam in Austin, TX=21 Co-sponsored by Just Buffalo and Gusto at the Gallery (at the Albright-Knox= ) INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS, HOSTED BY JOYCE CAROLYN Spotlight on Youth Open Mic/Coffee House Wednesday, January 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Planned Parenthood Meeting Room, 2697 Main St. (Amherst Station subway stop= ) Admission: Free A forum for young people ages 12-21 to share poetry, song, dance, rap, draw= ings or other creative talents. All are welcome and no prior performance experie= nce is necessary. Adults and members of the community are welcome. Sponsored by Ju= st Buffalo Literary Center, Compass House, Fillmore Leroy Area Residents, Gay = & Lesbian Youth Services, Native American Community Services, Planned Parenth= ood, and the YWCA. Angles, Lines, Circles in Time Friday, January 20, 7 p.m. Langston Hughes Institute, 25 High Street Admission: =244 general/=242 members, students, seniors Kenn Morgan's one man Exhibition, 'A Study of Architecture,' will be joined= with poetry for a multi-disciplinary performance featuring spoken word artists Robert D= jed Snead, Lonnie B. Harrell, Howard F. Smith, James J. Cooper, N'Tare Ali Gault, and = Gary Earl Ross. ORBITAL SERIES: GUEST CURATORS Parts of the winter/spring Orbital Series will be curated by guest curators= Forrest Roth (COMMUNIQUE: FLASH FICTION READINGS) and Kevin Thurston (SMALL PRESS POETRY READINGS) COMMUNIQUE: FLASH FICTION Kim Chinquee and Ed Taylor Saturday, January 28, 7 P.M. Big Orbit Gallery, 30d Essex Street, Buffalo Visit http://www.bigorbitgallery.org/bigorbit/alloftheminformation.html for= directions. ADMISSION: Free SPOKEN ARTS RADIO with host Sarah Campbell A joint production of Just Buffalo Literary Center and WBFO 88.7 FM Airs Sundays during Weekend Edition at 8:35 a.m. and Mondays during Morning Edition at 6:35 A.M. & 8:35 a.m. Upcoming Features: January 22 and 23 Kim Chinquee and Flash Fiction OPEN READINGS, HOSTED BY LIVIO FARALLLO Readings begin at 7 p.m. There are ten slots for open readers. (Anyone can be an open reader: just bring something to read out loud for 5 = minutes.) Signups begin at 6:45. All readings are free and open to the public. Carnegie Art Center 240 Goundry St., North Tonawanda (Meets monthly on the second Wednesday) Featured: Russ Golata Wednesday, January 11, 7 P.M. 10 slots for open readers The Book Corner 1801 Main St., Niagara Falls (Meets monthly on the third Thursday) Featured:Christina Wos-Donnelly Thursday, January 19, 7 P.M. 10 slots for open readers Rust Belt Books 202 Allen Street, Buffalo (Meets the monthly on the third Sunday) Featured: Celia White Sunday, January 15, 7 P.M. 10 slots for open readers NEWS FROM JUST BUFFALO BUFFALO ONE OF 10 CITIES CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE IN NATIONAL PROGRAM TO PROMOTE READING National Endowment for the Arts announces =22The Big Read=22 Just Buffalo Literary Center is pleased to announce that it has received a = grant of =2425,000 to participate in The Big Read, a national initiative in partners= hip with The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Arts Midwest. The program will en= courage literary reading by asking communities to come together to read and discuss= one book. Just Buffalo has chosen Fahrenheit 451 =7Cby Ray Bradbury as the com= munity novel for Western New York. The Big Read kicks off May 1, 2005 and will con= tinue throughout the month of May in libraries, theaters. schools, book groups, c= ommunity centers, coffee houses, universities and bookstores throughout Western New = York. Books purchased at Talking Leaves benefit Just Buffalo Literary Center. WINTER/SPRING INTERNSHIPS Just Buffalo is now accepting applications for 3-5 for-credit, unpaid stude= nt internships for the spring semester at both the high school and the college level. Inte= rns work in the Just Buffalo Offices in Downtown Buffalo 10 + hours a week and assist t= he staff with direct mail marketing, telephone communications, public relations, eve= nts staffing, and various other administrative duties. Applicants should love literature,= write and speak well, work hard, and be computer literate. Send applications to: Inte= rnship Program, Just Buffalo Literary Center, 617 Main St., Suite 202A Buffalo, NY= 14203. JUST BUFFALO WRITER'S CRITIQUE GROUP Members of Just Buffalo are welcome to attend a free, bi-monthly writer cri= tique group in CEPA's Flux Gallery. Group meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 7 p.m. Call fo= r details. UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will b= e immediately removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:00:05 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: noah eli gordon Subject: That We Come To A Consensus Comments: To: lucipo@lists.ibiblio.org, subpoetics-l@hawaii.edu, eng-grad@english.umass.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Now available from Ugly Duckling Presse: That We Come To A Consensus a collaboration between Noah Eli Gordon & Sara Veglahn Hear a sample reading from the book here: http://tinyurl.com/czj7b Order the book for $5 here: http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/orders.html Happy New Year! & feel free to forward this note. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:16:00 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: GREIL MARCUS JAN 9th (FREE) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Happy New Year--- My band may be on hiatus for live shows for at least a few more months, but in the meantime, I'm really excited to announce this event: Continuous Peasant singer and writer Chris Stroffolino hosts a talk by GREIL MARCUS (author of many books from MYSTERY TRAIN and LISPTIC TRACES to THE OLD WEIRD AMERICA---or INVISIBLE REPUBLIC---and LIKE A ROLLING STONE; BOB DYLAN AT THE CROSSROADS, among many others) Marcus's talk will focus on Bob Dylan's early song MASTERS OF WAR (oh, think you KNOW that song already? Think you've heard it all before, just wait till Marcus is through with it....) and I bet his talk will touch on many other things as well... There will be a Question and Answer session afterwards-- The event is FREE and open to the so-called "public" and YOU! When: Monday January 9th----7PM--9PM Where---St Mary's College, Moraga, CA (backchannel me if you need directions or BART info, etc.) Feel free to pass this on to others; I'm not contacting journalists or advertising the event-- but just coz I don't have time.... Chris PS---Oh, I should probably mention that my label is running some kind of discount on our albums www.goodforks. com & Feel free to check out PEASANT blog... http://blog.myspace.com/continuouspeasant C ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:07:43 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Del Ray Cross Subject: SHAMPOO 2(00)6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Dear WordWashers, Happy 2006!!! In its honor and yours, the 26th issue of SHAMPOO is now ready for your lov= ely eyes at... www.ShampooPoetry.com ...where you will behold the lush stylings of such starry stars as Andrew S= lattery, Caleb Puckett, Cassie Lewis, Curt Anderson, David Baratier, Diana = Magallon, Eleanor Johnson, Elizabeth Treadwell, Graham Foust, Heather Brink= man, Jamine Ergas, Jon Leon, Jose Luis Peixoto, Josef Kaplan, Kevin Griffit= h, Kirby Wright, Kristen Yawitz, Landis Everson, Leigh Phillips, Lily Logan= Brown, Lisa Radon, Mark Pawlak, Mark Young, Meg Hamill, Melanie Hubbard, M= ichael Sikkema, Michelle Greenblatt, Peter Davis, Rob Stanton, Rositza Piro= nska, Ruth Lepson, Sandy Florian, Sara Adams, Sara Wintz, Sarah Mangold, Sh= ane Allison, Stephen Ratcliffe, Sue Carnahan, Teresa K. Miller, Tiffany Noo= nan, Tim Shaner, and Victor Camillo, along with shamtastic SHAMPOOart by Ti= ffany Noonon. Please also stay tuned for new & improved SHAMPOO. Can it be true? Lather-licious, Del Ray Cross, Editor SHAMPOO clean hair / good poetry www.ShampooPoetry.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:37:48 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis LaCook Subject: big arched rust Comments: To: netbehaviour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Love washes her hands of you eat the telling of it cold in the places we grew up the impotent trees the frightened hard ground--as softly as she can-- big arched rust and all fucked-up as far as the eye can see--two punks on lowriding bikes pedal circles into the intersection--and now this breathless slice--and now we take a silent break http://www.lewislacook.org/xanaxpop/ *************************************************************************** No More Movements... Lewis LaCook -->Poet-Programmer|||http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/||| --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:50:00 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Christine Hamm Subject: New from Little Poem Press MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Salt Daughter, poetry by Christine Hamm Rebecca Loudon has this to say about the book: The Salt Daughter takes us on a journey through the secret kitchen of an American family. This daughter is no shrinking violet. Like Alice in the well, she swims through spoilt milk, soup, wine, rotten eggs and ice cream. She is the dark bud on a head of cabbage, the burnt patch in the pot of soup, the cotton candy under the nails of a fighter. In turning back to see mother, father and siblings, The Salt Daughter is sea water and chloride, cathartic and acid. Hamm's brilliant collection resounds with the force of a fairy tale. Buy it here: Little Poem Press. For more information about Christine Hamm, go here: This is All Your Fault __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:52:15 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Hot Whiskey Press Subject: Hot Whiskey! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hot Whiskey #1 is Out Now Includes work from Jena Osman, Tim Armentrout, Elizabeth Robinson, Christopher Ryan, Linh Dinh, John Sakkis, Jessica Hullman, Farid Matuk, Robert Roley, Julia Hastain, Dale Smith, Leah Hansen, Anselm Parlatore, Tyler Doherty, Jared Hayes, Joseph S. Cooper, Hoa Nguyen, Lisa Jarnot and Andrew K. Peterson. The magazine is 8 1/2 x 7" with silkscreened cover and saddle-stitch hand sewn binding. It is 57 pgs. For information on obtaining a copy or catching up with Hot Whiskey: http://www.hotwhiskeypress.com/litmag.html http://www.hotwhiskeyblog.blogspot.com Hot Whiskey is also taking submissions for issue # 2. Go to http://www.hotwhiskeypress.com/submit.html for details. Best, Michael Koshkin Hot Whiskey Press Boulder, CO -- Hot Whiskey Press www.hotwhiskeyblog.blogspot.com www.hotwhiskeypress.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 03:31:04 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: from abe linkoln MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit here's a cycle of works by abe linkoln. i like abe linkoln's work a lot. he often works with jim punk (france). audio+visual. http://playdamage.org/64.html ja ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 04:24:17 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: from abe linkoln In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit oops, sorry: http://playdamage.org/64.html is by curt cloninger, not abe linkoln. > here's a cycle of works by abe linkoln. i like abe linkoln's work > a lot. he > often works with jim punk (france). > > audio+visual. > http://playdamage.org/64.html > > ja > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:06:29 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Announcing Vol.1 No.4: Heretical Texts: Sarah Menefee Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed New from Heretical Texts: HUMAN STAR by Sarah Menefee Factory School. 2005. 84 pages, perfect bound, 6.5x9. $12 / $10 direct order About Human Star: =46rom the homeless streets and the poor places = rubbled=20 by war, the =91I=92 of these poems is that of the anonymous =91nothing = that=20 is all.=92 The voice of this singular and collective subject is the = music=20 of the fire that rises from the cracks in the old brutal order, as an=20 intimate whisper and a cry of the heart. Order direct from Factory School:=20 http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/order.html Also available through Small Press Distribution:=20 http://www.spdbooks.org/ The complete first volume of Heretical Texts is available for $40=20 (direct from publisher) and includes: 1. Dan Featherston, United States 2. Laura Elrick, Fantasies in Permeable Structures 3. Linh Dinh, Borderless Bodies 4. Sarah Menefee, Human Star 5. kari edwards, obedience About Heretical Texts: This series begins with, and intends to=20 investigate, the assumption that poetry is political. Inherent to the=20 Heretical Texts mission is a focused imagining of 'political poetry' as=20= a form of public intervention, invention, and invocation that calls on=20= (and up) language to call out a public, a people. Heretical Texts will=20= appear in four volumes of five books each over the course of two years.=20= Volume Two (spring 2006) will feature work by Steve Carll, Carol=20 Mirakove, Diane Ward, Brian Kim Stefans, and Kristin Prevallet. For more about the Heretical Texts series:=20 http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/heretical/info.html For more about this and other Factory School titles:=20 http://www.factoryschool.org/publications.html Contact: info "at" factoryschool.org [or reply backchannel to this=20 email] Bill Marsh HT series curator ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:17:20 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Fw: Re: here 's other one Comments: To: wryting-l@listserv.utoronto.ca, companyofpoets@unlikelystories.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Cecil Tayor - Derek Bailey Duo @ Tonic 5/3/00 > > > as if he were playing the music on his skin > > hair tangled wire > > case made orange in black orbit of choices > > sympathetic cord red i cu lous in conjunction with dynamic > > > snap the way wrists refuse to bend > as if my ears were the changes addressed > > > don't make up what's right in front of you hot mustard > salad > BITTER chorus' soured candy broken > heart > not yet thru the sketches & the scribe's already in my BLOOD > > feet of buzzards waiting in head > pounding eyes > saying Come to Me come TO mE (wish i had a > camera > > that could make people real) > > tripping over organic step > having less choice than will/string allows incarnate > rooted in bulb > > keep "I" out of rational choices > because museums allow such a thing > > as if played the mass > your pockets full o' theories > the basic combination of movements > the eventual ride home > sealed walls unhinged > > if i never saw that face again > i would blessit take the juice away (improvise within > the vocabulary > & fleece the sadly rumor > of the particular language > but the time for invention is never gone > you are speaking) > & thrives it like an old tongue > thru an intricate series of bailed canals > > it's a basin in here a self-created cistern of dark was > L i gh t once > a bowl of > delectable condiments > even now with temperaments awash & the whole meal sampled for > FREE. > > > steve dalachinksy nyc @ tonic 5/3/00 -- *** 'You can't always wait for a composer to write the music you want to play.' - Derek Bailey *** Kurt Gottschalk 60 Seaman Ave. 5J NYC NY 10034 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:56:51 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: big arched rust MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit great lewis ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:03:08 -0500 Reply-To: patrick@proximate.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Patrick Herron Organization: proximate.org Subject: I'm lovin' it? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://ibiblio.org/pjones/Mcpoems.jpg (from Paul Jones' blog; pic taken by Chris Salerno somewhere in Raleigh NC) Patrick ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:28:00 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Magee Subject: Erica Hunt contact info? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, Do any of you have good contact info for Erica Hunt, preferably email or phone? Thanks in advance, Mike Magee ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:41:07 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Penton Subject: It finally happened...* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The South African Issue of Unlikely 2.0 is here! Guest edited by David Chislett and located at www.UnlikelyStories.org, it features: Aryan Kaganof's review of /"My Ghost in the Bush of Lies"/ by Paul Wessels Michelle McGrane's reviews of /"Tell Tale"/ by Helge Janssen and "/Laduma/" by A. K. Thembeka a critical analysis of Darryl Accone's /"All Under Heaven: The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa"/ by D. Govinden rock'n'roll by The Dirty Skirts, The Hellphones, and Fuzigish photography by Toast Coetzer, Andrew Bannister, Derek Davies, and Aryan Kaganof fiction by Liesl Jobson, Robert Greig, Clive E. Smith, Gary Cummiskey, and Allan Kolski Horwitz poetry by Allan Kolski Horwitz, Kerryn Potgieter, Joan Metelerkamp, Tania van Schalkwyk, Joel Assaizky, John Makoni, and Abigail George and a short film, "Eugene's Dream," by Anton Krueger Read it, or there will be an international incident! -- Jonathan Penton http://www.unlikelystories.org *Sung to the tune of Freddy Mercury wailing, "I'm going slightly mad," which he sang on his last album before he died, as opposed to the five or six albums he released posthumously. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:03:58 -0500 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rob McLennan Subject: Irving Layton 1912-2006 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I just got an email from Ottawa poet Seymour Mayne that Montreal poet Irving Layton passed away today, two months shy of his 94th birthday. Information on Layton can be found at: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/ http://www.irvinglayton.com/ http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/i_layton.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Layton http://www.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/layton.html http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol2/no26/layton.html rob -- poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...10th coll'n - stone, book one (Palimpsest Press) .... c/o 858 Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:55:34 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: Re: Recommended Riding Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Yeah, I second the Friedmann bio (I wrote a review of it in a Poetry project newsletter last year) The Riding reader is probably not a bad place to start for those who can't find the many out of print texts.... And thanks for letting me know about the "Mind's Watch"---didn't realize it was out. though when I read the phrase, 'the most substantial collection from this period apart from Rational meaning," I still feel The Telling gets slighted Chris ---------- >From: Charles Bernstein >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Recommended Reading (I): Reznikoff and Riding >Date: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 6:58 AM > > The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975, ed. Seamus Cooney (Boston: > Black Sparrow/David Godine), 2005. Reprints the 2-vol 1989 Black > Sparrow edition, but the text is reset and repaginated, there are a > few corrections, the notes have been revised, there is a new > biographical chronology, and Reznikoff's short and key essay, "First, > there is the need" has been appended. Full review of this book at: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog > > * > There are several new books of interest by and about Laura Riding: > > Elizabeth Friedmann, A Mannered Grace: The Life of Laura (Riding) > Jackson (New York: Persea, 2005) > > The Laura (Riding) Jackson Reader, ed. Elizabeth Friedmann, (New > York: Persea, 2005): a thoughtfully selected and substantial sampler > of the full range of the work, including the full text of The > Telling, & about 40 pages of the poems (I would have preferred to see more). > > Laura (Riding) Jackson, Under the Mind's Watch: Concerning Issue / Of > Language, Literature, Life / Of Contemporary Bearing, ed. John Nolan > and Alan J. Clarke (Oxford & Bern: Peter Lang, 2005). A collection of > unpublished essays from the 60s and 70s, assembled by (Riding) > Jackson, the most substantial collection from this period apart from > Rational Meaning. > > Laura Riding, Mindscapes: Poemas, Selected, translated into > Portuguese, and introduced by Rodrigo Garicia Lopes (Sao Paulo: > Editora Iluminuras, 2004). 150 pages of the poems in bilingual facing > pages, followed by a short section of commentary by Samuels, > Friedmann, Jacobs, Nolan, Rothenberg/Joris, Clark, Bernstein, > Billiterri/Friedlander. > > > Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:12:28 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Desktop searching/ non-Google Recommendation Comments: cc: "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics"@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, UK POETRY In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit If you are into remembering your own Internet research, Charles Faulhaber, a friend, Scholar and Director of the The Bancroft Library just wrote: Dear Friends, You've probably all heard of Google desktop, but Copernic Desktop Search Google hands down if you want to find stuff fast: http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/ If you're like me, you've got things squirreled away in folders whose names and locations made a lot of sense when you created them three years ago--but now you can't remember what's where. Copernic does. Unsolicited testimonial. - ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:36:24 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Patrick Durgin Subject: tomorrow night -- NYC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press Antennae (Chicago) and Kenning Editions (Berkeley, Calif.) Thurs. Jan. 5, 6 p.m., free ACA Galleries 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr. NYC Event will be hosted by Antennae editor Jesse Seldess Featuring readings from Mark Booth Laura Elrick Andrew Levy Jesse Seldess Rodrigo Toscano Hannah Weiner's Open House, a selection of mostly unpublished works from the Weiner Archive, forthcoming from Kenning Editions With music by Jeff Snyder Jeremy Woodruff There will be wine, cheese, and fruit, too. Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum ------- Mark Booth is a visual artist, sound artist, and writer based in Chicago. His work has been seen, read, and heard in Performance Research, ACM, Jubilat, antennae, Whitewalls, infrathin, In The Eye of the Ear Sound Festival, The Outer Ear Sound Festival, the Immeasurable Distance Series, Performing Arts Chicago, Discrete Series, and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (with Tim Etchells and Matthew Goulish as the Institute of Failure). A recent solo exhibition of paintings, drawings, and audio works, Panda Bear Insemination Team Picnic and Other Thought Formations, appeared at the Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago in June 2005. Laura Elrick's book Fantasies in Permeable Structures is forthcoming from Factory School in 2005 as part of the Heretical Texts series. She is also the author of sKincerity (Krupskaya, 2003) and is one of the featured writers on Women In the Avant Garde, an audio CD produced by Narrow House Recordings in 2004. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Andrew Levy is the author of several books of poetry, including Ashoka (Zasterle Books), Paper Head Last Lyrics (Roof Books), Curve (O Books) and Curve 2 (Potes & Poets Press), and Democracy Assemblages (Innerer Klang). He is editor, with Roberto Harrison, of the arts and poetry journal Crayon. Jesse Seldess recently relocated from Chicago to Berlin. While in Chicago, he co-curated the Discrete Reading and Performance Series with Kerri Sonnenberg. From Berlin, he continues to edit Antennae, a journal of experimental writing, music, and performance. Chapbooks of his poems have been published by Answer Tag Home Press, Bronze Skull Press, and the Chicago Poetry Project. His first full-length book of poems, Who Opens, is forthcoming from Kenning Editions . Jeff Snyder (b.1978) is a composer, electronics performer, and sound artist working in New York City. His works, which characteristically employ combinations of acoustic, electric, and electronic instruments, have been performed by a variety of ensembles. In addition to his concert works, he has frequently collaborated with artists from other mediums, including choreographers, visual artists, and video artists. Jeff received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied with Stephen Dembski and Joel Naumann. As a current doctoral candidate at Columbia University, Jeff continues his compositional studies under the direction of Fred Lerdahl and Joseph Dubiel. Recently, he has joined the Wet Ink composers' collective, presenting concerts of new music in the New York area. When not composing concert music or designing sound installations, Jeff can be seen performing as one-half of the Disembodied Head of Peter Ladefoged and one-third of the experimental electronic trio Jesus Crisco. In addition to his own electronic works, Jeff enjoys remixing other artists and has produced remixes for artists ranging from Public Enemy (working with collaborator Ryan Smith) to TV Pow. Rodrigo Toscano was a 2005 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is the author of To Leveling Swerve (Krupskaya Books, 2004), Platform (Atelos, 2003), The Disparities (Green Integer, 2002) and Partisans (O Books, 1999). Originally from California, Toscano has been living in NYC for the last seven years. Hannah Weiner (1928-1997) was an influential poet and performance artist of the generation of the New American Poetry. Best known for her Clairvoyant Journal project, recently published in full by the UCSD Archive for New Poetry, Weiner's unique "clair-style" writing helped make her a crucial bridge between New York School and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry, as well as demonstrating the lasting influence of the 1960s NYC avant-garde upon contemporary American poetics generally. Interest in her work has only grown in recent years, with unpublished works such as PAGE and Country Girl appearing in print, as well as reiterations of the tri-vocal performance methods instigated by the widely circulated audio recordings of her Clairvoyant Journal texts. Hannah Weiner's Open House, a selection of mostly unpublished works from the Weiner Archive, is forthcoming from Kenning Editions. The book serves to demonstrate the wider range of Weiner's achievement over decades of creative engagement with several forms of poetry and performance. Jeremy Woodruff (1973, Brooklyn, NY) grew up and was educated in Boston before he traveled to London to study with Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music. He then undertook a study of South Indian music and completed a diploma in Non-Western music at the Conservatorium von Amsterdam. He now lives in Berlin with his wife and son. His most recent commissions were by the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and by Ensemberlino Vocale and Martin Krouse, percussionist. -------- Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St. Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues -------- Preview: Hannah Weiner et. al. reading from Clairvoyant Journal HERE . Andrew Levy and Gerry Hemingway (yes, that Gerry Hemingway) performing "CURVE / Black Plateau" HERE . ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:36:52 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Patrick Durgin Subject: Countless Dub (for Tan Lin) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit www.da-crouton.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:31:26 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Small Press Traffic Subject: Traffic magazine, # 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Friends, Small Press Traffic is very pleased to announce the debut of our new magazine, Traffic. The contents are listed below, and copies are available for $10 ppd from the address below (please make checks payable to Small Press Traffic). Happy New Year! Elizabeth Traffic Issue Number One 2005-2006 C O N T E N T S Editor's Note Announcement of Small Press Traffic Awards Poetry & Prose Stephanie Young for Small Press Traffic?s (& her own) 30th Birthday Will Alexander Margaret Christakos Beverly Dahlen Lise Erdrich Lyn Hejinian Mark McMorris Charles Alexander for Jackson Mac Low Essays from our New Experiments Series Identity Theft by Robert Fitterman with David Buuck Anxieties of Information by Carol Mirakove Drama from our Poets Theater Jamboree 2005 The 10 Minute Hollywood by Tanya Brolaski, Brent Cunningham, Dan Fisher, Kelly Holt, and Cynthia Sailers Reviews Sarah Anne Cox on Will Alexander?s Exobiology as Goddess Brent Cunningham on Mark McMorris? The Cafe at Light Steffi Drewes? on Rob Halpern?s Rumored Place and Sabrina Orah Mark's The Babies Aja Couchois Duncan on Mary Burger?s Sonny Anna Eyre on Allison Cobb?s Born2, Christine Hume?s Alaskaphrenia, Pattie McCarthy?s Verso, and Mary Ann Samyn?s Purr Dana Teen Lomax on Beverly Dahlen's A Reading Spicer and 18 Sonnets Rusty Morrison on Noah Eli Gordon?s The Area of Sound Called the Subtone Artist?s Statement Allegra Gibson on her work Contributor?s Notes Membership, Subscription, & Submission Information Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCA 1111 -- 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415.551.9278 http://www.sptraffic.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:45:58 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Catherine Daly Subject: FW: Please Post: Beltway Poetry Quarterly seeks poems about DC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of Women's Poetry List [mailto:WOM-PO@LISTS.USM.MAINE.EDU] On Behalf Of Kim Roberts Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:59 PM To: WOM-PO@LISTS.USM.MAINE.EDU Subject: Please Post: Beltway Poetry Quarterly seeks poems about DC CALL FOR POEMS CELEBRATING WASHINGTON, DC For a special issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly to be published in July 2006, Kim Roberts and guest editor Andrea Carter Brown seek poems celebrating Washington DC. Poems must mention a specific location in the city by name, for example, a street, neighborhood, park, building, or monument. Poets living anywhere in the US are eligible; previously published poems are acceptible if copyright has reverted to the author (author is responsible for obtaining permissions). Poets previously featured in the journal are eligible. There are no entry fees. Send up to 4 poems of any length (maximum 10 pages total) by email only. Include a one-paragraph bio. Poems must be sent in the body of the email; attachments will not be opened. Deadline: February 15, 2006. Send to beltwaypoetryquarterly@gmail.com. About the co-editors: Kim Roberts is the editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly and author of a book of poems, The Wishbone Galaxy. Andrea Carter Brown is managing editor of the Emily Dickinson Review, faculty member at Pomona College, and author of The Disheveled Bed (CavanKerry Press). She lives in Los Angeles, CA. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:58:20 -0800 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Subject: Re: Recommended Laura Riding In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Telling is what thoroughly separates Riding from being only a historical footnote. It also makes clear why comparisons to G. Stein are inept attempts to bring Riding an audience in through the side door of pseudo-similiarity by using writing that can be understood thru contextualization, or through the inferred (intended or not) comparison of "here is the closest female writer" rather than on the strength of her prose. As long as writers stress the modernist importance of The Telling as equal with say Zukovsky's "A" or Olson's oveure, it will survive. With _Lives of Wives_ and _Anarchism is not Enough_ still in print it would seem a reprint of The Telling would be near. After that, and what is of more concern to me, Chris & Charles, is the loss of the wealth of material in various issues of Chelsea, like the only interview she ever gave, or About Story. Has anyone, or is anyone planning to extensively revive, reprint or work with the Chelsea issues? Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus, OH 43206 http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 01:01:22 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Irving Layton 1912-2006 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > I just got an email from Ottawa poet Seymour Mayne that Montreal poet > Irving Layton passed away today, two months shy of his 94th birthday. > > Information on Layton can be found at: > > http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/ > http://www.irvinglayton.com/ > http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/i_layton.htm > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Layton > http://www.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/layton.html > http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol2/no26/layton.html > > rob He was a big influence on many poets in Canada with his unapologetic theatricality and song of himself, the little guy, and the big idea. I met him once. Around 1986. I'd arranged for him to be interviewed by Susan Musgrave when he was in Victoria. He was first into the radio studio and I was doing the tech for the interview. "What's there to do in this town?" he asked, "It seems kind of dead." He was from Montréal. Definitely fun central in Canada. "Yeah, it is. You have to make your own fun here," I replied. "It's a good thing to be able to make your own fun wherever you go," he said. * Thinking of his poetry, I remember his judgement in one poem of a female who professed to love poetry but would not sleep with him. "Her devotion to literature was incomplete." He enjoyed getting into trouble. I think he made his own fun wherever he went. He was a big influence on Leonard Cohen. You can hear it when Cohen says "I taught him how to dress, he taught me how to live forever." He will by now be stirring the abstract entities to a deeper gaze on matters earthly. So long, Irving. He was large. He dreamed big. He was dissatisfied. A wonderful poet, Irving Layton. ja http://vispo.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:28:15 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Waber Subject: 7 by Karl Kempton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The minimalist concrete poetry site at: http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ has been updated with 7 pieces by Karl Kempton. If you imagine that there is a difference between writing some poems and living a life of poetry, a poetry of life, and if you feel it's something you might aspire to, yourself, if you only had an example, come look, come see, come learn. Regards, Dan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 09:40:11 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Riding (Jackson) & Stein Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed *The Telling* (30pp.) is included in the *The Laura (Riding) Jackson Reader*. That work remains of great importance to me too. I don't know about any other plans for other (Riding) Jackson publications. Despite her early connection to (and friendship with) Stein, Riding rightly viewed her work in sharp contrast to Stein's. In some ways it is one of the clearly demarcation of the difference of what I call first- and second-wave modernism; Riding is certainly one of the most striking poets of the second-wave (as indeed are Reznikoff, Zukofsky, and Riding's friend Hart Crane, etc.). Riding (Jackson) first discusses Stein, quite brilliantly, in *Contemporaries and Other Snobs* (1928). Later in her life her comments become more reductive and bitter. One particularly unpleasant example, "The Word Play of Gertrude Stein," is in the new collection of later writings, *Under the Mind's Watch,* where (Riding) Jackson says that Stein's writings "were early products of a pathological condition." Nonetheless, as with all of (Riding) Jackson's work, her "witness for the prosecution" approach is incisive in its delineation of certain philosophical and aesthetic (you might even say theological) fault lines for modernist (and contemporary) poetry. Charles Bernstein http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:36:32 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Al Filreis Subject: PennSound, a year later (from Bernstein & Filreis) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "It must be free & downloadable."--from the PennSound manifesto *New Year's greetings from PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound* PennSound went public exactly a year ago, after 2 years of preparation. In our first year, 2 million free sound files were downloaded. We wish to thank our friends, supporters and listeners, and especially Kenneth Goldsmith (Senior Editor), Chris Mustazza (Managing Director), Michael Ryan (our library partner), and Kun Jia (our most senior technical staff person). PennSound, a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, is funded in part through generous grants from Paul Williams and Tom & Lindy Gallagher. Hundreds of new featured readings and recorded performances have been added since we launched. Here is a mere sampling: H.D. reading "Helen in Egypt": http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/HD.html Cross-Cultural Poetics, series hosted by Leonard Schwartz of KOAS-FM, Olympia, WA: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/XCP.html Vachel Lindsay: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Lindsay.html a John Wieners anthology: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Wieners.html Steve Evans' PennSound recommendations: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/ a Bernadette Mayer celebration at the Kelly Writers House: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Mayer.html Tracie Morris interviewed & in performance: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Morris.html in "PennSound Classics," John Richetti reads Pope & Swift: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Richetti.html Segue at the Bowery Poetry Club: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Segue-BPC.html With best wishes for '06, Al Filreis & Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 09:39:50 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Antennae in New York In-Reply-To: <43BC8628.8040900@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 HEY NEW YORKERS Go see Jesse Seldess and Antennae tonight in New York he will rip your = hair off by the root!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press Antennae (Chicago) and Kenning Editions (Berkeley, Calif.) Thurs. Jan. 5, 6 p.m., free ACA Galleries 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr. NYC Event will be hosted by Antennae editor Jesse Seldess Featuring readings from -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] = On Behalf Of Patrick Durgin Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:36 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: tomorrow night -- NYC Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press Antennae (Chicago) and Kenning Editions (Berkeley, Calif.) Thurs. Jan. 5, 6 p.m., free ACA Galleries 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr. NYC Event will be hosted by Antennae editor Jesse Seldess Featuring readings from Mark Booth Laura Elrick Andrew Levy Jesse Seldess Rodrigo Toscano Hannah Weiner's Open House, a selection of mostly unpublished works from = the Weiner Archive, forthcoming from Kenning Editions With music by Jeff Snyder Jeremy Woodruff There will be wine, cheese, and fruit, too. Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum ------- Mark Booth is a visual artist, sound artist, and writer based in = Chicago. His work has been seen, read, and heard in Performance Research, ACM, Jubilat, antennae, Whitewalls, infrathin, In The Eye of the Ear Sound Festival, The Outer Ear Sound Festival, the Immeasurable Distance = Series, Performing Arts Chicago, Discrete Series, and K=FCnstlerhaus Mousonturm = (with Tim Etchells and Matthew Goulish as the Institute of Failure). A recent = solo exhibition of paintings, drawings, and audio works, Panda Bear = Insemination Team Picnic and Other Thought Formations, appeared at the Bodybuilder = and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago in June 2005. Laura Elrick's book Fantasies in Permeable Structures is forthcoming = from Factory School in 2005 as part of the Heretical Texts series. She is = also the author of sKincerity (Krupskaya, 2003) and is one of the featured writers on Women In the Avant Garde, an audio CD produced by Narrow = House Recordings in 2004. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Andrew Levy is the author of several books of poetry, including Ashoka (Zasterle Books), Paper Head Last Lyrics (Roof Books), Curve (O Books) = and Curve 2 (Potes & Poets Press), and Democracy Assemblages (Innerer = Klang). He is editor, with Roberto Harrison, of the arts and poetry journal Crayon. Jesse Seldess recently relocated from Chicago to Berlin. While in = Chicago, he co-curated the Discrete Reading and Performance Series with Kerri Sonnenberg. From Berlin, he continues to edit Antennae, a journal of experimental writing, music, and performance. Chapbooks of his poems = have been published by Answer Tag Home Press, Bronze Skull Press, and the = Chicago Poetry Project. His first full-length book of poems, Who Opens, is forthcoming from Kenning Editions = . Jeff Snyder (b.1978) is a composer, electronics performer, and sound = artist working in New York City. His works, which characteristically employ combinations of acoustic, electric, and electronic instruments, have = been performed by a variety of ensembles. In addition to his concert works, = he has frequently collaborated with artists from other mediums, including choreographers, visual artists, and video artists.=20 Jeff received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied with Stephen Dembski and Joel = Naumann. As a current doctoral candidate at Columbia University, Jeff continues = his compositional studies under the direction of Fred Lerdahl and Joseph = Dubiel. Recently, he has joined the Wet Ink composers'=20 collective, presenting concerts of new music in the New York area. When = not composing concert music or designing sound installations, Jeff can be = seen performing as one-half of the Disembodied Head of Peter Ladefoged and one-third of the experimental electronic trio Jesus Crisco. In addition = to his own electronic works, Jeff enjoys remixing other artists and has produced remixes for artists ranging from Public Enemy (working with collaborator Ryan Smith) to TV Pow. Rodrigo Toscano was a 2005 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation = for the Arts. He is the author of To Leveling Swerve (Krupskaya Books, = 2004), Platform (Atelos, 2003), The Disparities (Green Integer, 2002) and = Partisans (O Books, 1999). Originally from California, Toscano has been living in = NYC for the last seven years. Hannah Weiner (1928-1997) was an influential poet and performance artist = of the generation of the New American Poetry. Best known for her = Clairvoyant Journal project, = recently published in full by the UCSD Archive for New Poetry, Weiner's unique "clair-style" writing helped make her a crucial bridge between New York School and L=3DA=3DN=3DG=3DU=3DA=3DG=3DE poetry, as well as = demonstrating the lasting influence of the 1960s NYC avant-garde upon contemporary American = poetics generally. Interest in her work has only grown in recent years, with unpublished works such as PAGE and Country Girl appearing in print, as = well as reiterations of the tri-vocal performance methods instigated by the widely circulated audio recordings of her Clairvoyant Journal texts. = Hannah Weiner's Open House, a selection of mostly unpublished works from the = Weiner Archive, is forthcoming from Kenning Editions. The book serves to demonstrate the wider range of Weiner's achievement over decades of = creative engagement with several forms of poetry and performance. Jeremy Woodruff (1973, Brooklyn, NY) grew up and was educated in Boston before he traveled to London to study with Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music. He then undertook a study of South Indian music and completed a diploma in Non-Western music at the Conservatorium von Amsterdam. He now lives in Berlin with his wife and son. His most recent commissions were by the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and by = Ensemberlino Vocale and Martin Krouse, percussionist. -------- Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St. Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues -------- Preview: Hannah Weiner et. al. reading from Clairvoyant Journal HERE .=20 Andrew Levy and Gerry Hemingway (yes, that Gerry Hemingway) performing "CURVE / Black Plateau" HERE .=20 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:43:06 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: RaeA100900@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Reading in Seattle MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to all Listers who sent me contact info for Seattle venues. It appears I will read at Open Books on Sunday, March 26th, at 3:30. Thanks again everyone. Rae Armantrout ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:44:42 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gerald Schwartz Subject: Re: Irving Layton 1912-2006 Comments: To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Must be surveying the landscape now with A. M. Klein, mining all the much that's never there. Gerald Schwartz >I just got an email from Ottawa poet Seymour Mayne that Montreal poet > Irving Layton passed away today, two months shy of his 94th birthday. > > Information on Layton can be found at: > > http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/ > http://www.irvinglayton.com/ > http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/i_layton.htm > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Layton > http://www.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/layton.html > http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol2/no26/layton.html > > rob > > > -- > poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics > (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small > press > fair ...10th coll'n - stone, book one (Palimpsest Press) .... c/o 858 > Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:28:05 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kass Fleisher Subject: laura riding Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" one of the funnest, funnest pieces of prose written in the early 20th century is riding's introduction to her collection "progress of stories." bear with the first few pages, as the piece is purposely slow to gather its real stream. then it begins to disintegrate into this fabulous fury at the people who, not understanding her writing, have insulted her by calling her obscure. hilarious. kass fleisher hkfleis@ilstu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:20:52 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Re: PennSound, a year later (from Bernstein & Filreis) In-Reply-To: <43BD3D00.1010100@writing.upenn.edu> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 1/5/06 10:36 AM, Al Filreis at afilreis@WRITING.UPENN.EDU wrote: > PennSound went public exactly a year ago, after 2 years of preparation. > > In our first year, 2 million free sound files were downloaded. congratulations all! wondering if there are stats on who people are downloading more, a top-10 perhaps. best, david ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:35:58 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lori Emerson Subject: Review of Loss Glazier | new @ Postmodern Culture MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Dear all: this just to let you know that my review of Loss Glazier's _Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm_ (Cambridge: Salt Press, 2003),=20 "Demystifying the Digital, Re-animating the Book: A Digital Poetics," is finally up on the latest issue of Postmodern Culture. Please also take a look at David Caplan's response, "Poetic Curiosity," to my review and to Glazier's book. Lori Emerson, "Demystifying the Digital, Re-animating the Book: A Digital Poetics." A review of Loss Glazier, Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm (Cambridge: Salt Press, 2003). http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/16.1emerson.html David Caplan, "On Poetic Curiosity. A response to Lori Emerson, Demystifying the Digital, Re-animating the Book: A Digital Poetics." http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/16.1caplan.html best, Lori ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:45:23 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Heretical Texts Vol 1.5: kari edwards Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed New from Heretical Texts: OBEDIENCE by kari edwards Factory School. 2005. 86 pages, perfect bound, 6.5x9. $12 / $10 direct order About obedience: obedience, the fourth book by kari edwards, offers a rhythmic disruption of the relative real, a progressive troubling of the phenomenal world, from gross material to the infinitesimal. The book's intention is a transformative mantric dismantling of being. Order direct from Factory School: http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/order.html Also available through Small Press Distribution: http://www.spdbooks.org/ The complete first volume of Heretical Texts is available for $40 (direct from publisher) and includes: 1. Dan Featherston, United States 2. Laura Elrick, Fantasies in Permeable Structures 3. Linh Dinh, Borderless Bodies 4. Sarah Menefee, Human Star 5. kari edwards, obedience About Heretical Texts: This series begins with, and intends to investigate, the assumption that poetry is political. Inherent to the Heretical Texts mission is a focused imagining of 'political poetry' as a form of public intervention, invention, and invocation that calls on (and up) language to call out a public, a people. Heretical Texts will appear in four volumes of five books each over the course of two years. Volume Two (spring 2006) will feature work by Steve Carll, Carol Mirakove, Diane Ward, Brian Kim Stefans, and Kristin Prevallet. For more about the Heretical Texts series: http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/heretical/info.html For more about this and other Factory School titles: http://www.factoryschool.org/publications.html Contact: info "at" factoryschool.org [or reply backchannel to this email] Bill Marsh HT series curator ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:38:58 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kristine Leja Subject: 14 Hills: Call for Submission In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 14 Hills: The SFSU Review Call for Submission About 14 Hills: Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills has held an impressive reputation among international literary magazines for publishing the highest quality innovative poetry, fiction, short plays, and literary nonfiction. The semiannual journal is committed to presenting a great diversity of experimental and progressive work by emerging and cross-genre writers, as well as by award winning and established authors. Part of the vibrant literary heritage of the west coast and the San Francisco Bay area, Fourteen Hills is honored to be an active participant in the contemporary creative community. As a non-profit press, its staff, editors, and contributor bring readers of the journal some of the most exciting offering of independent literature and art. From the postmodern to the traditional, Fourteen Hills is a testimony to the fact the independent, innovative, and experimental literature is alive and thriving. We accept submissions of fiction, short-shorts, poetry, short drama, and creative non-fiction in traditional and experimental styles, as well as art. While continuing to publish award-winning and established writers, to encourage emerging writers, each year Fourteen Hills offers the $250 Holmes Award in both poetry and prose. Writers may submit up to five selections of poetry and one selection of prose or drama, up to three if the pieces are short. We have a rolling submissions policy, so you may submit at any time, but the cutoff for inclusion in our Winter/Spring issue is September 1; for Summer/Fall issue, February 1. Response times vary from one to nine months, depending on where your submission falls in the reading period, but we will usually respond within four months. Keep in mind that these response times are only a guideline. Editors strongly suggest that writers interested in submitting familiarize themselves with our editorial style and vision. Manuscripts and artwork should be mailed to the below address, and MUST be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope for notification, in addition to an e-mail or telephone contact. Due to the volume of submissions, manuscripts cannot be returned so please, do not send any originals. We accept simultaneous submissions; however, please be sure to notify us immediately by mail or by email (hills@sfsu.edu) should you need to withdraw submissions due to publication elsewhere. Please note as well that we do not accept unsolicited electronic submissions at this time. Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review Department of Creative Writing San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132-1722 ATTN: Poetry, Fiction, Drama, or Art Editor www.14hills.net --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:51:50 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Karl-Erik Tallmo Subject: stealth/knowledge/divine institutions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Some new things ... Recently published in Ars Interpres: "Of Divine Practices and Institutions" http://www.arsint.com/2005/k_t_4_5.html "Too strong a knowledge": http://www.nisus.se/tallmo/other_poetry/knowledge.html "The stealth mission outfit": http://www.nisus.se/tallmo/other_art/stealth.html /Karl-Erik Tallmo ________________________________________________________________ KARL-ERIK TALLMO, poet, writer, artist, journalist MAGAZINE: http://art-bin.com ARTWORK, WRITINGS etc.: http://www.nisus.se/tallmo/ ________________________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:31:01 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: C Daly Subject: Hammer Poetry Reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hammer Poetry Series =20 HAMMER MUSEUM Kay Ryan Thursday, January 12, 2006, 7 PM =20 Kay Ryan's sixth book of poems, The Niagara River, was released in the = fall of 2005. Her previous books include Elephant Rock and Say Uncle, and Flamingo Watching was a finalist for both the Lamont Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her poems have been included in two = Pushcart Prize anthologies, two volumes of The Best American Poetry, and featured = in The New Yorker, Atlantic, and The Paris Review. Ryan is the recipient of = a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. =20 =20 Parking is available under the Museum for $3. Admission to the event is free. Seating is first come, first served. Please arrive early. = Dedicated to the memory of Doris Curran, this series, which has provided a = stimulating forum for nationally and internationally known poets for thirty-nine = years, is co-sponsored by the Friends of English, the Academy of American = Poets, the W Hotel, the UCLA Office of Cultural and Recreational Affairs, the Office of Instructional Development, and generous anonymous donors. =20 Hammer Web Site: www.hammer.ucla.edu =20 Hammer Information Line: 310.443.7000 =20 1083 Broxton, Los Angeles, CA 90024=20 =20 =20 - ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:39:00 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetry Project Subject: Events at the Poetry Project 1/6 - 1/11 In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends, Happy New Year and thank you to everyone who came to listen, cook, clean, read, sing, play and dance at the marathon last Sunday. We hope you all had fun. Please join us this week for further celebration. Love, The Poetry Project Friday, January 6, 10:30PM Rage of Aquarius=20 =20 Gather and celebrate the birthday day of Desiree Burch, comedian and NY neo-futurist of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. She=B9ll bring Aquarian rebellion with other poets, playwrights and provocateurs Clay McLeod Chapman, Kyle Jarrow, Christine Hamm and Red Metal Mailbox. Monday, January 9, 8:00PM Truong Tran & Mac Wellman =20 Truong Tran=B9s latest collection, dust and conscience, published by Apogee Press, was awarded the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Prize. He recently ventured into the world of children's literature, authoring Going Home Coming Home, published by Children's Book Press. Mac Wellman=B9s recent books of poems are Miniature and Strange Elegies, both from Roof Books. Current theater projects are: =B3Bellagio=B2 (about the long and strange friendship between the Futurist F.T. Marinetti and Italian dictator Mussolini), =B3The Invention of Tragedy,=B2 in progress for a 2006 production a= t the Classic Stage Company, and a new play, =B3Left Glove.=B2 He teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College. Wednesday, January 11, 8:00PM Susan Wheeler & Jordan Davis =20 Susan Wheeler is the author of four collections of poetry, Bag =8Co=B9 Diamonds (1993, University of Georgia Press), Smokes (1998, Four Way Books), Source Codes (2001, Salt Publishing), and Ledger (2005, U of Iowa Press); and of Record Palace, a novel (2005, Graywolf Press). Her work has appeared in eight editions of the Scribner anthology Best American Poetry, as well as i= n The Paris Review, London Review of Books, Verse, Talisman, The New Yorker and many other journals. She is on the creative writing faculties at Princeton University and the New School=B9s graduate program, and has also taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Rutgers, and New Yor= k University. Jordan Davis' new book is The Moon Is Moving: Million Poems Journal II (Faux). He is in the middle of the second season of The Million Poems Show, a monthly poetry talk show he hosts at the Bowery Poetry Club. He is a member of the Subpress Collective, an editor of The Hat, a contributor to Constant Critic, and a daily blogger at equanimity.blogspot.com. From 1992-94 he edited the Poetry Project Newsletter. From 1995-99 he hosted the Poetry City reading series at Teachers & Writers Collaborative. His essays on literary history have appeared in the Village Voice and Vanitas. He worked twelve years as Kennet= h Koch's editorial assistant; he also wrote the introductory essays for The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch (Coffee House) and Some South American Poets: Poets Invented by Kenneth Koch (Faux). He has written one blurb. Winter Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.html 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.com www.poetryproject.com Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $85 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. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:56:46 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ian Randall Wilson Subject: Chapbook Series In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The first Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series is now out in its entirety with chapbooks from: Rick Bursky Richard P. Gabriel Reg Gibbons Matt Hart Tony Hoagland Ann Humphreys Roy Jacobstein Jesse Lee Kercheval Gary Copeland Lilley Sebastian Matthews Eve Wood Ian Randall Wilson It's a diverse series with work ranging from the lyric to the post-avant. All chapbooks are 6"x9", perfect bound. $10. www.hollyridgepress.com Ian Wilson ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:19:59 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: Re: Riding (Jackson) & Stein Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit There's an interesting account of the break between these two writers in A MANNERED GRACE, a break in the friendship (over a misunderstanding and implicit charges of anti-semitism) as well as over different approaches to language and writing. That Riding was drawn in the mid-twenties (and in her mid twenties) to Stein, 26 years older than her, especially the Stein of "C as E", is probably no more relevant to Riding, and (Riding) Jackson's own writing, than her strategic employment of e.e.cummings against such snob modernists as Eliot, Pound, etc. around that time. At best they could provide points of entry for a reader---since Stein, nowadays at least is far more accepted than Riding and (Riding) Jackson. But, in defense of the "reductive and bitter" later comments on Stein, for me part of the point is to challenge a mode of talking about literature that OVERPLAYS that relationship, and literary "affiliations"---like people saying "oh Stein rescued Riding from the stuffy Fugitives" (or anthologists "representing" Riding by "Elegy in a Spider's Web," because it seems most "Stein-like"). From the 1920s up until her death in 1991, (Riding) Jackson took on various sacred cows of various and/or successive literary (among other) establishments, not simply the names or "figures" but also of modes of reading them that have become entrenched. One of these is to stress superficial, or seeming similarities, stylistically. Since both detractors and supporters of Stein had come to stress such similarities with Riding, it became important for (Riding) Jackson, in the service of clarity, and of dialogue (how many "literary" writers have taken the care to respond so in depth and intimately to her detractors as she?-- and then be called a "bitch" for it to boot?), to stress the differences. I think many such comments have to be read in light of (Riding) Jackson's larger challenge to literature, rather than in terms of equally reductive side-takings in a courtroom drama. One doesn't necessarily have to agree that Stein's writings are being SINGLED OUT as especially "products of a pathological condition," to consider from what perspective that would be true, and what, if any, could be an alternative.... What is meant by "witness for the prosecution" in Charles' paragraph? Who is prosecuting whom? What is prosecuting what? And as a courtroom materializes, one could wonders about defendants, juries and judges, and the role playing involved... Chris Stroffolino www.myspace.com/continuouspeasant www.continuouspeasant.com ---------- >From: Charles Bernstein >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Riding (Jackson) & Stein >Date: Thu, Jan 5, 2006, 6:40 AM > > *The Telling* (30pp.) is included in the *The Laura (Riding) Jackson > Reader*. That work remains of great importance to me too. I don't > know about any other plans for other (Riding) Jackson publications. > Despite her early connection to (and friendship with) Stein, Riding > rightly viewed her work in sharp contrast to Stein's. In some ways it > is one of the clearly demarcation of the difference of what I call > first- and second-wave modernism; Riding is certainly one of the most > striking poets of the second-wave (as indeed are Reznikoff, Zukofsky, > and Riding's friend Hart Crane, etc.). Riding (Jackson) first > discusses Stein, quite brilliantly, in *Contemporaries and Other > Snobs* (1928). Later in her life her comments become more reductive > and bitter. One particularly unpleasant example, "The Word Play of > Gertrude Stein," is in the new collection of later writings, *Under > the Mind's Watch,* where (Riding) Jackson says that Stein's writings > "were early products of a pathological condition." Nonetheless, as > with all of (Riding) Jackson's work, her "witness for the > prosecution" approach is incisive in its delineation of certain > philosophical and aesthetic (you might even say theological) fault > lines for modernist (and contemporary) poetry. > > Charles Bernstein > http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog > http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:15:37 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Re: Riding (Jackson) & Stein Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >What is meant by "witness for the prosecution" in Charles' paragraph? >Who is prosecuting whom? What is prosecuting what? For (Riding) Jackson, after 1938, the "crime" would be poetry, or poetic artifice, including her own. There is not greater Prosecutor. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:27:45 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Craig Allen Conrad Subject: have you seen our B. Franklin Basement Tapes yet?------------------------------- MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit have you seen our B. Franklin Basement Tapes yet?------------------------------------------------- Not sure how much longer it will be online, but Frank Sherlock and I have a piece on the NEXUS gallery webpage for Ben's birthday. Open the link below, then click on "MENU" on the pink Ben ipod, it's there you'll find us, with all kinds of fun and wonderful company. Here's the link to NEXUS gallery: _http://www.nexusphiladelphia.org/ben/_ (http://www.nexusphiladelphia.org/ben/) Thanks and Happy New Year, CAConrad _http://PhillySound.blogspot.com_ (http://phillysound.blogspot.com/) "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained...." --William Blake _http://CAConrad.blogspot.com_ (http://caconrad.blogspot.com/) CAConrad's tarot services: _http://LightOfLakshmi.blogspot.com_ (http://lightoflakshmi.blogspot.com/) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:36:42 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Raphael Israel Subject: Kurt Tucholsky's "Eyes in the Big City" [translation] Comments: cc: Indeterminacy In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit friends -- collaborating with the German-based, American-born blogger known as Indeterminancy, I've lately begun presenting fresh renditions from the notable & obscure German poet Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935). We're just at the beginning of this exploration-in-translation, blogging as we go. My rendering of the 2nd poem approached -- "Eyes in the Big City" -- is seen here: http://kirwani.blogspot.com/2006/01/eyes-in-big-city-translation.html -- and that blog-page has a link to the first poem we did (Tucholsky's "Mona Lisa's Smile"). Indeterminacy has also launched a new blog for this project, here: http://kurttucholsky.blogspot.com/ I should be grateful for any Comment responses (on either of those websites). danke & thx, d.i. | david raphael israel | other shore dvd <> washington dc | davidi@wizard.net | new! a blog: http://kirwani.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:14:38 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Ancestor Clock Comments: To: webartery@yahoogroups.com, "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" , spidertangle@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Looking way back. Letters from bone, time grows too old to work the way you expect. Turn the sound on. (353kb) http://www.joglars.org/ancestor_clock/bone_time.html ~mIEKAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ s a m s a r a c o n g e r i e s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "the last 20th century epic about to happen" http://xexoxial.org/samsara_congeries ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:28:54 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charlie Rossiter Subject: documenatary--gulf coast poets MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A friend sent me this notice which she rec'd. I don't know Armando personally, but thought some of you might be interested. Charlie ---- Subject: Gulf Coast Poets? Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:43:44 -0800 From: Armando Ibanez Currently, I'm working on a documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Of course, it's about the event but it's an in depth look at the people who either suffered at the hands of the Hurricane or the volunteers. I'm looking for poets that were impacted by the storm in someway. Do you know of any? I've already interviewed some poets but am looking for more. If necessary, I can send you more detailed information about the project.. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to send these email to your email list. Blessings, Mando P.S. I just read a really neat line -- an adage: "You've got to go out on a limb; there's where the fruit grows." ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 07:13:50 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: justin sirois Subject: narrow house (make over) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit new look for www. narrow house recordings .com and the double.wide: reviews/interviews section * K. Lorraine Graham’s new *chapdisc will be out late this winter hand made inserts inside clear dvd cases CDR limited edition of 100 signed by poet * Garrett Caples coming soon . . . . . . . http://www.narrowhouserecordings.com/ a record label primarily interested in contemporary writing, poetics and the political __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 07:25:55 -0800 Reply-To: klorraine@gmail.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "K. Lorraine Graham" Subject: Moving/Lorraine's new contact Info In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Friends, I'm moving from Washington, DC to the San Diego area. As of January 13, my new address will be: 312 Acacia Avenue Apt. H Carlsbad, CA 92008 Bests, K. Lorraine Graham __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:40:56 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lisa Jarnot Subject: Poet Dennis Brutus in NYC In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello List People, could you please forward this information around? thanks, Lisa Jarnot Join The Haymarket Forum for a unique evening: Poetry and Protest A Celebration of Art and Activism with Dennis Brutus Brutus's new book, "Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader" (http://cbsd.com/detail.aspx?Inventory=18018 ) is being launched at the event by Haymarket Books (http://www.haymarketbooks.org). with special guests: * Dennis Brutus * Deepa Fernades, host of WBAI's Wake Up Call! (http:// wakeupcallradio.org/) * The Bread is Rising Poetry Collective (Carlos Raul Dufflar and Angel Martinez) * Brian Jones, star of Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho (http:// www.marxinsoho.com/) and other special guests.... Saturday January 21, 2006 at 7 PM Free and Open to the Public at: 16 Beaver Group 16 Beaver Street, Fifth Floor NYC Directions: Take the 4/5 to Bowling Green, the N/R to Whitehall, the 1/2 to Wall Street, the J/M to Broad Street, or the A/C to Broadway Sponsored by: Haymarket Books, Center for Economic Research and Social Change, 16 Beaver Group ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:57:38 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis LaCook Subject: to everything that doesn't deserve Comments: To: netbehaviour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Love does not lie to you when war falls over your face like a troubled shaw--interests accrue unseen, and when you think about those small riddled warmths before waking, next to Mary--walked all over this place where the soil no longer speaks--sang truth shut in, sang truth to everything that doesn't deserve her touch--my voice still drying http://www.lewislacook.org/xanaxpop/ *************************************************************************** No More Movements... Lewis LaCook -->Poet-Programmer|||http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/||| --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:00:01 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bruce at Coconut Poetry Subject: whole coconut chapbook series In-Reply-To: <20060106175738.47617.qmail@web35603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Announcing the Whole Coconut Chapbook Series: Free, printable chapbooks that you can also read online. Click here: http://www.coconutpoetry.org/chapbook-cover.html to read Sueyeun Juliette Lee's TRESPASS SLIGHTLY IN & Jon Leon's BOXD TRANSISTOR. Also available from the chapbook section of the Coconut (www.coconutpoetry.org) website. Happy New Year! Bruce Covey Coconut Editor ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:32:13 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: Re: Riding (Jackson) & Stein Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thanks Charles for writing back After 1938, the "crime," however, would not behaving devoted much of say 1922-1938 to the writing of poetry, including her own-- (and in my opinion, there's more there than in many who devote their entire writing life almost exclusively to poetry or verse; it's not like the "renunciation" truly invalidated those accomplishments in an absolute way for her, yet quite a few take the fact of that as an excuse to limit and devalue a "body of work" (in what could be recognized as "poetry" even)---sorry for that awkward term--at least as significant as any in the 20th century (for instance). The "crime" (on perhaps a broader level) could also be ELECTRICITY which she, in a sense, renounced around the same time as she stopped writing "poetry" (the two actions are very related, but the electricity is not talked about so much, at least in "poetry circles") For me at least, despite the so called "official" versions, much of the writing that (Riding) Jackson did since 1938 I turn to for many of the same reasons I turn(ed) to what's called poetry----the feeling and thinking, and it doesn't lack "artifice" though there's a sense of liberation along with rigor. And before 1938, the generic status of "poetry" or what is, and/or should be, called that--is written about variously For those who are not willing to let go of the term poetry as the ultimate writerly good, (Riding) Jackson offers ways to redefine it throughout---to in a sense save it from what it has, institutionally, become. And this is as evident in the writing she, and others, call poetry as much as it is in her writing (both before and after 1938) that is NOT called that... (much more to say, to write...) Chris ---------- >From: Charles Bernstein >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Re: Riding (Jackson) & Stein >Date: Thu, Jan 5, 2006, 6:15 PM > >>What is meant by "witness for the prosecution" in Charles' paragraph? >>Who is prosecuting whom? What is prosecuting what? > > For (Riding) Jackson, after 1938, the "crime" would be poetry, or > poetic artifice, including her own. There is not greater Prosecutor. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:33:56 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: Re: Riding (Jackson) & Stein Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit oops----I'm squandering my second post of the day on noticing a typo in my first line "be having" not "behaving" ---------- >From: Chris Stroffolino >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Re: Riding (Jackson) & Stein >Date: Fri, Jan 6, 2006, 10:32 AM > > Thanks Charles for writing back > > After 1938, the "crime," however, would not behaving devoted much of say > 1922-1938 to the writing of poetry, including her own-- > (and in my opinion, there's more there than in many who devote their entire > writing life almost exclusively to poetry or verse; it's not like the > "renunciation" truly invalidated those accomplishments in an absolute way > for her, yet quite a few take the fact of that as an excuse to limit and > devalue a "body of work" (in what could be recognized as "poetry" > even)---sorry for that awkward term--at least as significant as any in the > 20th century (for instance). > > The "crime" (on perhaps a broader level) could also be ELECTRICITY which > she, in a sense, renounced > around the same time as she stopped writing "poetry" (the two actions are > very related, but the electricity is not talked about so much, at least in > "poetry circles") > > For me at least, despite the so called "official" versions, much of the > writing that (Riding) Jackson did > since 1938 I turn to for many of the same reasons I turn(ed) to what's > called poetry----the feeling and thinking, and it doesn't lack "artifice" > though there's a sense of liberation along with rigor. And before 1938, the > generic status of "poetry" or what is, and/or should be, called that--is > written about variously > > For those who are not willing to let go of the term poetry as the ultimate > writerly good, (Riding) Jackson offers ways to redefine it throughout---to > in a sense save it from what it has, institutionally, become. And this is as > evident in the writing she, and others, call poetry as much > as it is in her writing (both before and after 1938) that is NOT called > that... > > (much more to say, to write...) > > Chris > > ---------- >>From: Charles Bernstein >>To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >>Subject: Re: Riding (Jackson) & Stein >>Date: Thu, Jan 5, 2006, 6:15 PM >> > >>>What is meant by "witness for the prosecution" in Charles' paragraph? >>>Who is prosecuting whom? What is prosecuting what? >> >> For (Riding) Jackson, after 1938, the "crime" would be poetry, or >> poetic artifice, including her own. There is not greater Prosecutor. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:40:11 -0500 Reply-To: queyras@rutgers.edu Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: sina queyras Subject: wade compton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, If anyone has Wade Compton's contact info can they please backchannel. Happy New Year, Sina ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:43:54 CST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: weave049 Subject: call for submissions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Midway, a new on-line literary journal, is seeking submissions of ambitious work that aesthetically or otherwise traverses points and spaces of intersections between different aesthetics and practices. Please send 3 to 5 poems, 1 work of fiction (or 2 works of flash fiction), 1 play, 1 essay (if it transcends its subject matter). Collaborative and multi-genre work enthusiastically encouraged. We are unable to process electronic submissions at this time. All submissions must be postmarked by May 1st, 2006. Please send manuscripts to: PO Box 14499, St. Paul, MN 55114. First issue planned for Aug. 2006. Thanks, Rebecca Weaver/Justin Maxwell/Ralph Pennel/Nathan Thompson, editors ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:46:34 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Didi Menendez Subject: MiPOesias Magazine Volume 20, Issue 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 IAogCldlbGNvbWUgdG8gTWlQT2VzaWFzIE1hZ2F6aW5lLCBWb2x1bWUgMjAsIElzc3VlIDEu ICAKX2h0dHA6Ly93d3cubWlwb2VzaWFzLmNvbV8gKGh0dHA6Ly93d3cubWlwb2VzaWFzLmNv bS8pICAKCkludGVydmlld3MgClNwZW5jZXIgUmVlY2UKQW5zZWxtIEJlcnJpZ2FuCkRhdmlk IFBldHJ1emVsbGkuIAoKTWVtb2lycwpNaWEgTGVvbmluCkRhdmlkICBOZWVkCkdyYWNlIENh dmFsaWVyaSAKClBvZXRyeQpEYXZpZCBQZXRydXplbGxpCk1haXJlYWQgIEJ5cm5lCkFuc2Vs bSBCZXJyaWdhbiAKSm9uYWggV2ludGVyIApKZW5ueSBCb3VsbHkgCk1hdXJlZW4gU2VhdG9u IApKb2huIEtvcm4KSnVzdGluIFBldHJvcG91bG9zClJvbiBBbmRyb2xhIApSZWIgTGl2aW5n c3RvbiAKR2VvcmdlIExvYmVyIApSYW5kYWxsIFdpbGxpYW1zIApHaWFubWFyYyBNYW56aW9u ZSAKUmljaGFyZCBCbGFuY28gCkdlb2ZmcmV5IFBoaWxwIApBbXkgS2luZwpGcml0eiBXYXJk IApTaG9ydHMgCkJpcmRpZSBKYXdvcnNraQpKZW5ueSBCb3VsbHkgClNhcmEgVm9ndCAKQXJ0 aWNsZXMgIApNaWNoYWVsIFBhcmtlciAKRGF2aWQgTmVlZCAKU3RhY2V5IEhhcndvb2QgCkNh ZsOp4oCZIENhZsOp4oCZIEJsb2cgIENvbW11bml0eSBQb2V0cnkKTGVlIEhlcnJpY2sKSmls bCBDaGFuCkx5bGUgIERhZ2dldHQgCkRpZWdvIFF1aXJvcyAKRGF2aWQgQXllcnMgClJ5YW4g V2lsc29uIApBbm5NYXJpZSBFbGRvbgpQcmlzICBDYW1wYmVsbApTaGFyb24gQnJvZ2FuIApF LUNoYXAgIEJvb2sKZnJvbSB0aGUgQmFjayBSb29tIGJ5ICBKb2huIEtvcm4gClZvbHVtZSAy MCwgSXNzdWUgMSBQb2RjYXN0Cl9odHRwOi8vd3d3Lm1pcG9yYWRpby5jb20vdm9sdW1lMjBf aXNzdWUxXyAKKGh0dHA6Ly93d3cubWlwb3JhZGlvLmNvbS92b2x1bWUyMF9pc3N1ZTEpICAK TWlQT+KAmXMgQ292ZXIgR2lybCBpcyBKaWxsaWFuIEFubgpfaHR0cDovL3d3dy5qaWxsaWFu YW5uLmNvbV8gKGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuamlsbGlhbmFubi5jb20vKSAgClRoYW5rIHlvdSwgCkRp ZGkgTWVuZW5kZXogClB1Ymxpc2hlciAKSmVubmkgIFJ1c3NlbGwKRWRpdG9yIApfd3d3Lm1p cG9lc2lhcy5jb21fIChodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm1pcG9lc2lhcy5jb20vKSAgCl93d3cubWlwb3Jh ZGlvLmNvbV8gKGh0dHA6Ly93d3cubWlwb3JhZGlvLmNvbS8pICAKX3d3dy5taXBvcmFkaW8u bmV0XyAoaHR0cDovL3d3dy5taXBvcmFkaW8ubmV0LykgIAoKCg== ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:02:45 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Small Press Traffic Subject: Poets Theater Jamboree begins Jan 13~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Small Press Traffic is pleased to present the first night of our Poets Theater Jamboree 2006 edition....Friday, January 13 at 7:30 pm. All seats are $10 and first come, first served. Hope to see you there!!! POETS THEATER JANUARY 13 "A Play, A Play" by Paolo Javier, directed by Del Ray Cross Entre act: Music by Brumit "The Laureate" written and directed by Michelle Bautista. Performed by Michelle Bautista, Rona Fernandez, Caroline King, Rhett Pascual and Dennis Somera Entre act: Music by Brumit "A Vinculum" by Chris Vitiello, directed by Mary Burger INTERMISSION Scenes from "The Lady Contemplation" (1662) by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, performed by Carol Treadwell & Elizabeth Treadwell Entre act: Music by Brumit "Asphodel In Hell's Despite" by John Wieners, directed by Kevin Killian Entre act: Music by Brumit "Who is the Real JT LeRoy" written & directed by Mattilda (a/k/a Matt Bernstein Sycamore) Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, San Francisco For directions and a map, please see http://www.sptraffic.org/html/fac_dir.html Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCA 1111 -- 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415.551.9278 http://www.sptraffic.org ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:31:46 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Austinwja@AOL.COM Subject: Blackbox accepting submissions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello everyone, The submission period for Blackbox's winter gallery is now open. Submissions will be considered for approximately two weeks. Please be certain to follow the submission guidelines on the Blackbox page, and to send your stuff to Blackboxwja@aol.com. As always, go to WilliamJamesAustin.com and follow the Blackbox link. Best, Bill WilliamJamesAustin.com KojaPress.com Amazon.com BarnesandNobel.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:59:46 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Mira Schor and Susan Bee are pleased to announce M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online with the relaunch of their two digital editions #1 Is Resistance Futile? (2002) #2 Collaborations (2003) http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/ (a PEPC production) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:10:23 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: GOTHICK INSTITUTIONS by Peter Lamborn Wilson Comments: To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" , spidertangle@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed New from Xexoxial Editions=97 GOTHICK INSTITUTIONS by Peter Lamborn Wilson 2005, 76 pages, 6x9, $10 softcover. $25 hardcover. Add $2 postage. ISBN 0-9770049-0-2 | ISBN 978-0-9770049-0-4 http://xexoxial.org/new_releases/gothick_institutions.html "Ostensibly a volume of poems, this dense glossary packs the deep =20 gratification of his best prose. But at its best, Gothick =20 Institutions is neither poetry nor prose while obviously both=97because =20= buried in these pages we find wrinkled love letters from our =20 spiritual ancestors reincarnated as the crinkly cartography of our =20 future utopia." =97Anu Bonobo, Fifth Estate, Winter 2006 from the book: Remote Viewing Imagine an alternate dimension where where dervishes are roaming around America sects of Swedenborgian hobos etc. You're there camping in the graveyard long black hair in tangles, ghostwhite face. Peter Lamborn Wilson founded The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade on =20 Pacifica Radio; taught many years at the Jack Kerouac School of =20 Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University; and is a long-time member =20 of the Autonomedia publishing collective in Brooklyn, New York. =20 Author of Angels: An Illustrated Study (Thames & Hudson); Sacred =20 Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (City Lights); "Shower of =20 Stars": Dream & Book in Sufism & Taoism (Autonomedia); etc. He Lived =20 in Tehran, London and Manhattan before moving to upstate New York at =20 the fin de si=E9cle. more info on PLW: J=E1nos Sug=E1r interviews Peter Lamborn Wilson http://www.hermetic.com/bey/pw-interview.html Online bibliography http://www.sniggle.net/bey.php make checks payable to: Xexoxial Editions 10375 Cty Hway A LaFarge,WI 54639 perspicacity@xexoxial.org ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:56:11 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Hoerman Subject: Lowell, Mass. reading series holds 5th event MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lowell, Mass.--The Contemporary Reading Series held its fifth event on 1/5. Polish Literature: Tradition and Experimentation, developed in conjunction with the city's monthly Destination World festival, featured poet and translator Benjamin Paloff, translator of Dorota Maslowska's SNOW WHITE AND RUSSIAN RED (Grove Press, 2005); Verse Press author and Harvard University Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Peter Richards; Mass. Cultural Council Poetry Fellow Tanya Larkin; Jean Monahan, author of three books, including the recent MAULED ILLUSIONIST (Orchises Press, 2005); Gigi Thibodeau, professor at UMass-Lowell; and Patrick Pierce, a Lowell sculptor. Turnout for the event held at the National Park Service Visitor center was high, including several from Lowell's Polish enclave, and many of the new generation of artists who are moving to Lowell for its affordable housing in acres of once abandoned, now rehabbed factory building along the banks of the Merrimack River, and the seven canals t hat flow through town. A new website with more information on the reading series is now up http://contemporaryreadingseries.blogspot.com Information and pictures from the 9/30 event, featuring Sabrina Orah Mark, is available in the Revolving Museum's November Newsletter http://www.revolvingmuseum.org/NewsLetter/nov05/nov05.htm ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:50:09 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Morgan Schuldt Subject: CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed CUE is published independently twice a year (in the winter and the summer). The editors welcome submissions year-round, but we do not accept work via e-mail. Mail four or more "prose poems" at a time. A cover letter citing publications and awards, if any, is helpful, but please keep it concise. Although we're reluctant to publish the absurdist / parable / fable aesthetic, we will consider anything so long as the work is compelling. Work considered experimental is strongly encouraged. Unsolicited book reviews, translations, and criticism are also considered. The editors are always looking to review new books, so if you have a book you would like us to consider for review, please send it to the above address. That said, we make no promises as to its review or inclusion in a future issue. All manuscripts and correspondence regarding submissions should be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope (S.A.S.E.) for a response; no replies will be given by e-mail. The editors make their decisions on a rolling basis, so expect about one month for a decision. We continue to receive well over three hundred unsolicited manuscripts a month, so if we take a bit longer than one month, please be patient. Do not query us until two months have passed, and if you do, please email us, being sure to indicate the postmark date of submission. Simultaneous submissions are amenable as long as they are indicated as such and we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. We do not reprint previously published work. Payment is two copies upon publication. Submissions CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry PO Box 200 2509 North Campbell Ave. Tucson, AZ 85719 http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mschuldt/CUE.html -Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Editor CUE ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:29:12 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Hoerman Subject: Poetry article in Boston Globe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/?page=full ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:49:23 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: Israeli poet boycotts international poetry festival in Jerusalem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/47599.php Israeli poet boycotts international poetry festival in Jerusalemd d ...I oppose an international poetry festival in a city in which the Arab inhabitants are oppressed systematically and cruelly, imprisoned between walls, deprived of their rights and living spaces, humiliated in checkpoints and the international laws are violated. I think that even poets were not allowed in the past, and not in the present, to ignore persecutions aniscriminations on a racial or national basis. Note: Aharon Shabtai is an Israeli poet and teaching Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University. His letter (below) was sent to the organizers of the 5th international poetry festival in Jerusalem. He has approved wide circulation and publication of his letter. A brief bio of Aharon Shabtai at: http://www.wwnorton.com/nd/BIOs/ShabtaiBIO.htm He is also the husband of the courageous Prof. Tanya Reinhart who has written extensively on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Many of her articles can be found online by typing her name into google. Both are to be applauded for their noble stance against the occupation and the daily abd routine injustices committed against the Palestinian people at the hands of their zionist occupiers. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: fifth international poetry conference in Jerusalem Date: Thursday 05 January 2006 17:08 To Yitzhak Eizenberg Shalom Fifth international poetry festival in Jerusalem Thank you for your invitation to participate in the international poetry festival in Jerusalem in 2006 and the details. I would like to take my name out of the list of participants. I read these days on the barbarism in the Qalandia checkpoint. I oppose an international poetry festival in a city in which the Arab inhabitants are oppressed systematically and cruelly, imprisoned between walls, deprived of their rights and living spaces, humiliated in checkpoints and the international laws are violated. I think that even poets were not allowed in the past, and not in the present, to ignore persecutions and discriminations on a racial or national basis. Yours Aharon Shabati http://www.wwnorton.com/nd/BIOs/ShabtaiBIO.htm ___\ Stay Strong \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil \ "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte \ http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/lbraithwaite-01.html http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ } ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:57:25 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Todd Baron contact? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Does anyone have contact info for Todd? Please backchannel. Thanks, bill ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:36:18 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: maxpaul@SFSU.EDU Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: <010820061929.23736.43C168080006B45A00005CB82205889116020E039D0A0108040A0E080C0703@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about spreading poetry leave me with a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and co. had decided to invade another country to spread democracy? Maxine Chernoff Quoting Michael Hoerman : > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/? page=full > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:42:13 -0500 Reply-To: az421@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rob McLennan Subject: new(ish) on rob's clever blog Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT new(ish) on rob's clever blog -- Ongoing notes: early January 2006 (Rachel Zolf's from Human Resources, belladonna; Lissa Wolsak's A Defence of Being, Wild Honey Press; Sharon Thesen's Weeping Willow, Nomados) -- a brief note on the poetry of Lisa Jarnot -- Irving Layton: 1912-2006 -- Kate Seguin-McLennan -- Gil McElroy -- bill bissett: inkorrect thots -- a brief note on the poetry of Fanny Howe -- bpNichol's Christmas cards -- drinking red wine in glengarry county -- George Bowering's Left Hook: A Sideways Look at Canadian Writing -- CURIO, GROTESQUES AND SATIRES FROM THE ELECTRONIC AGE, Elizabeth Bachinsky (Toronto ON: BookThug, 2005) -- ubu web: Deanna Ferguson -- Juliana Spahr: this connection of everyone with lungs -- from Missing Persons (a work-in-progress) (fiction) -- a note on the poetry of Stan Rogal -- Ongoing notes, December 2005 (home when it moves you, poems by gillian wigmore, Creekstone Press; Arc #55; Stan Dragland's Stormy Weather / Foursomes, Pedlar Press; George Murray's A SET OF DEADLY NEGOTIATIONS, Frog Hollow Press) etc www.robmclennan.blogspot.com + some other new things at ottawa poetry newsletter, www.ottawapoetry.blogspot.com -- poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...10th coll'n - stone, book one (Palimpsest Press) .... c/o 858 Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:36:12 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: <1136752578.43c177c24a1d4@webmail.sfsu.edu> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about spreading poetry leave me with > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and co. had decided to invade > another country to spread democracy? > Maxine Chernoff > To crush out those "sinking feelings" I hear that Poetry In The Schools programs across the country are encouraging poet-teachers to use their Poetry Mag gift subscriptions for "collage exercises". The kids and poets cut up pages from the magazine into all kinds of shapes, then paste them down on to copies of Life, Time, Newsweek, and Vanity Fair. In the process studernts are encouraged to mix words into new lines and juxtapose them with pictures of world events, entertainment stars, etc., etc. Though these poetry exercises have not been reported at all in the media, the classes are apparently very popular. Students previously reported as depressed leave the classroom in a joyous mood, frequently taking digital photographs with their cell phones and reciting the new poems aloud to friends all over town. Maxine, I hope this news comes as some relief! Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:15:30 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Please join McClure-Manzarek Saturday performance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please join us next Saturday night: ((((((((( mcclure & manzarek & kassin ))))))))) "MULE KICK BLUES AND PAINTED DUST" Michael McClure voice + Ray Manzarek keyboard + Larry Kassin flute performing this Saturday in the Noe Valley Music Series Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez Street (at 23rd St.) San Francisco SATURDAY, January 14 door 7:45pm - performance 8:15pm Ray Manzarek, founder and keyboardist of the Doors, and newly formed = Riders on the Storm, joins=20 Michael McClure, Beat & beyond poet, playwright and performer, for an = evening of words & music. =20 Larry Kassin, jazz/fusion flutist will join them. The evening will be = recorded for an upcoming CD. =20 This performance is the first in a series of concerts celebrating the = 25th year of The Noe Valley Music Series=20 (and its presenting, non-profit organization, San Francisco Live Arts) = by bringing back some of the=20 great performers we've had throughout the years!=20 Tickets ($18 advance/$20 door) are available in advance at: Streetlight Records - 3979 24th St., S.F. (415)282-3550 Down Home Music - 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito (510) 525-2129=20 (Please support our free ticket outlets!) Or by mail at: P. O. Box 862, Fairfax, CA 94978 And at all Tickets.com outlets or by phone at (510) 762-2277 or online at www.tickets.com=20 * * *=20 Michael McClure 'light, life, grahhrr...' ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:00:42 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: gfrym@EARTHLINK.NET Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "spreading poetry" as contagion, perhaps epidemic or even pandemic. Then of course, it's to be eradicated. Gloria Frym ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Vincent" To: Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe >> Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about spreading poetry leave me >> with >> a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and co. had decided to >> invade >> another country to spread democracy? >> Maxine Chernoff >> > To crush out those "sinking feelings" I hear that Poetry In The Schools > programs across the country are encouraging poet-teachers to use their > Poetry Mag gift subscriptions for "collage exercises". The kids and poets > cut up pages from the magazine into all kinds of shapes, then paste them > down on to copies of Life, Time, Newsweek, and Vanity Fair. In the process > studernts are encouraged to mix words into new lines and juxtapose them > with > pictures of world events, entertainment stars, etc., etc. > Though these poetry exercises have not been reported at all in the media, > the classes are apparently very popular. Students previously reported as > depressed leave the classroom in a joyous mood, frequently taking digital > photographs with their cell phones and reciting the new poems aloud to > friends all over town. > > Maxine, I hope this news comes as some relief! > > Stephen V > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:26:14 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Matt Henriksen Subject: Cannibal In-Reply-To: <010820061929.23736.43C168080006B45A00005CB82205889116020E039D0A0108040A0E080C0703@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit An aesthetic definition cannot define the hunger. A new print magazine, Cannibal, seeks work for a first issue, due out in April. Small run, handmade, and New York City based, Cannibal wants ferocious poems, literary essays, and criticism that survive by their own instincts. We hope to have a fine collection of poets known, little known, and unknown, all exhibiting the kind of work that makes us hungrier for more. Send poems, prose, or queries in a MS Word attachment or inline text to flesheatingpoems@yahoo.com. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 21:31:08 -0800 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Subject: Re; Riding (Jackson) & Stein In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There is such a huge difference between "The Telling" (30 pg) which has high importance to me and _The Telling_ which is indispensible and a few hundred pages plus depending on whether it's the US or British version. Each chapter delves into a re-telling of the telling in a way Stein or Taggart would be envyable of. And I hate to seem all academic and McGannish but the setting in The Reader seriously influences the interpretation of "The Telling." I also have seen various areas where _The Telling_ seems influential, like the poem "The Circus" by Koch and its companion piece that explains the writing of "The Circus." I always meant to ask him if Riding was the actual connection and this was his send off of it but never remembered to and it is a bit late now like that O'Hara poem from Meditations in an Emergency that someone stole my copy of & I will not search for in the collected because it is probably called poem. Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus, OH 43206 http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:32:27 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Simona Schneider Subject: Re: MiPOesias Magazine Volume 20, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: <256.45427b3.30f05b5a@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline good anselm interview On 1/6/06, Didi Menendez wrote: > > > > Welcome to MiPOesias Magazine, Volume 20, Issue 1. > _http://www.mipoesias.com_ (http://www.mipoesias.com/) > > Interviews > Spencer Reece > Anselm Berrigan > David Petruzelli. > > Memoirs > Mia Leonin > David Need > Grace Cavalieri > > Poetry > David Petruzelli > Mairead Byrne > Anselm Berrigan > Jonah Winter > Jenny Boully > Maureen Seaton > John Korn > Justin Petropoulos > Ron Androla > Reb Livingston > George Lober > Randall Williams > Gianmarc Manzione > Richard Blanco > Geoffrey Philp > Amy King > Fritz Ward > Shorts > Birdie Jaworski > Jenny Boully > Sara Vogt > Articles > Michael Parker > David Need > Stacey Harwood > Caf=E9' Caf=E9' Blog Community Poetry > Lee Herrick > Jill Chan > Lyle Daggett > Diego Quiros > David Ayers > Ryan Wilson > AnnMarie Eldon > Pris Campbell > Sharon Brogan > E-Chap Book > from the Back Room by John Korn > Volume 20, Issue 1 Podcast > _http://www.miporadio.com/volume20_issue1_ > (http://www.miporadio.com/volume20_issue1) > MiPO's Cover Girl is Jillian Ann > _http://www.jillianann.com_ (http://www.jillianann.com/) > Thank you, > Didi Menendez > Publisher > Jenni Russell > Editor > _www.mipoesias.com_ (http://www.mipoesias.com/) > _www.miporadio.com_ (http://www.miporadio.com/) > _www.miporadio.net_ (http://www.miporadio.net/) > > > -- s i m o n a * e v a * s c h n e i d e r http://tangiertelegram.blogspot.com simona.schneider@gmail.com nyc tel: (917) 957-7891 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:12:01 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: <1136752578.43c177c24a1d4@webmail.sfsu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I would argue this is just another by-product of the sorry state of affairs in poetry, where we celebrate a kind of almost fawning diversity and too many disparate communities and the consequent dribble one develops in any incestuous situation lingering deeply in leanings, policed and parochial thought. This is democracy, "THREE CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY" -- and you made it, the hubbub absent of any real discord, discourse, dangerous undermining the established by thoughtful thinkers, where there are no movements and we just ring-a-ding our bells, because we like to -- and cause our ID says poet. Hell, the end result is that we'll all be able to bathe in effluent as interesting as, say, us. C'mon babes, surf the net and see how much sh*t you have to choose from,less, mostly, quality. Mafia MFA's in creative writing? Rock star poet MCs. Hosts who hoist there white flags in form of radical undies. Poets who write computer noise -- as if poetry, me thought, was about peopled humanity. Succession! But that makes people unhappy! I remember telling RC that one would need to repudiate parts of what he helped to make. You better brace, huddle together, make sure you're in there when the house burns down -- aNd I'm talking to only some of you, but I'm serious you politicos. AJ --- maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about > spreading poetry leave me with > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and > co. had decided to invade > another country to spread democracy? > Maxine Chernoff > > Quoting Michael Hoerman > : > > > > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/? > page=full > > > __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:30:42 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: <20060109061201.90250.qmail@web54414.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit secession! I'm a terrible speller when organizing my words in such passionate, well-meaning, sincere and painfully aware thoughts! There are more of those errors, but I'm from that gen of spellcheckers, alas. Off to India, said megaphone jones. AJ --- Alex Jorgensen wrote: > I would argue this is just another by-product of the > sorry state of affairs in poetry, where we celebrate > a > kind of almost fawning diversity and too many > disparate communities and the consequent dribble one > develops in any incestuous situation lingering > deeply > in leanings, policed and parochial thought. This is > democracy, "THREE CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY" -- and you > made it, the hubbub absent of any real discord, > discourse, dangerous undermining the established by > thoughtful thinkers, where there are no movements > and > we just ring-a-ding our bells, because we like to -- > and cause our ID says poet. Hell, the end result is > that we'll all be able to bathe in effluent as > interesting as, say, us. C'mon babes, surf the net > and > see how much sh*t you have to choose from,less, > mostly, quality. Mafia MFA's in creative writing? > Rock > star poet MCs. Hosts who hoist there white flags in > form of radical undies. Poets who write computer > noise > -- as if poetry, me thought, was about peopled > humanity. Succession! But that makes people unhappy! > I > remember telling RC that one would need to repudiate > parts of what he helped to make. You better brace, > huddle together, make sure you're in there when the > house burns down -- aNd I'm talking to only some of > you, but I'm serious you politicos. > > AJ > > > > --- maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > > > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about > > spreading poetry leave me with > > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush > and > > co. had decided to invade > > another country to spread democracy? > > Maxine Chernoff > > > > Quoting Michael Hoerman > > : > > > > > > > > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/? > > page=full > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL ?Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com > __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:43:02 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kevin Killian Subject: A Podcast with Me On It In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Hey everybody, check it out, finally a pod cast worth listening to, with me on it! http://www.kqed.org/topics/arts/writersblock/0601-killian.jsp On this tape I read aloud the words of my late friend, Sam D'Allesandro, whose collected stories I have edited eighteen years after his death! Unbelievable how time goes by so fast, and thinking of him, Sam, so young when he died, only 31, he would be nearly 50 today. Anyhow this is one of his best stories and a local public radio station had me come in, read it, and they said they would make it available for anyone to listen to. Hopefully you will like what you here and then go and take a look at his book, which I have called, THE WILD CREATURES. which you can find, well at SPD, or Amazon, or wherever. It's a steal. He was the greatest. Well, if not the greatest, he was anyhow insanely cute. And a terrific writer, as you will see. Thanks Kevin K. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 23:24:53 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: alexander saliby Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sorry, folks, but I find I am in harmonious agreement with the article. = We do have a bazillion "bad" poets in the country; by the way, I find = that piece of news to be good news, despite the inference from the = writer. If we have more writers writing poetry, however good or bad the = poetry, we can't be in bad company. The only thing worse in the society = than too few poets would be too many poets. =20 But, what's worse, we have no real mechanism for offering print and = praise to the few who deserve the credit. Worster yet; academia has = usurped the world of poetry. Professors act as the owners of the media. = How sad.=20 I fine folks like Harold Bloom from Yale to be pompous ass critics = looking more to create a name for themselves than looking at the task of = building a better, more receptive world for poets.=20 Alex=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Alex Jorgensen=20 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=20 Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:12 PM Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe I would argue this is just another by-product of the sorry state of affairs in poetry, where we celebrate a kind of almost fawning diversity and too many disparate communities and the consequent dribble one develops in any incestuous situation lingering deeply in leanings, policed and parochial thought. This is democracy, "THREE CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY" -- and you made it, the hubbub absent of any real discord, discourse, dangerous undermining the established by thoughtful thinkers, where there are no movements and we just ring-a-ding our bells, because we like to -- and cause our ID says poet. Hell, the end result is that we'll all be able to bathe in effluent as interesting as, say, us. C'mon babes, surf the net and see how much sh*t you have to choose from,less, mostly, quality. Mafia MFA's in creative writing? Rock star poet MCs. Hosts who hoist there white flags in form of radical undies. Poets who write computer noise -- as if poetry, me thought, was about peopled humanity. Succession! But that makes people unhappy! I remember telling RC that one would need to repudiate parts of what he helped to make. You better brace, huddle together, make sure you're in there when the house burns down -- aNd I'm talking to only some of you, but I'm serious you politicos. AJ --- maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about > spreading poetry leave me with=20 > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and > co. had decided to invade=20 > another country to spread democracy? =20 > Maxine Chernoff >=20 > Quoting Michael Hoerman > >: >=20 > > > = http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/? > page=3Dfull > >=20 >=20 __________________________________________=20 Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about.=20 Just $16.99/mo. or less.=20 dsl.yahoo.com=20 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:56:28 -0800 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Silliman's Blog Comments: To: Brit Po , New Po , Wom Po , Lucifer Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Starred Wire by Ange Mlinko: Writing, the New York School and why aesthetic consistency is not voice Ken Rumble on Lucifer Poetics – Writing & community in North Carolina Blogs, listservs, poetry and modes of discourse Larry Eigner and the problem of improving as one matures as a poet Allen Fisher and Place – An epic poem in Britain The poetry of Jonathan Greene – Zen Objectivism deep in Kentucky Larry Fagin offers a list of poets and books that have been neglected Shift & Switch – Searching for newness in the Canadian north A New Year’s Resolution Looking backward 2005 The 1,001 books mostly often found in libraries Poets I admire whose work is hard to find – thinking of Jerry Estrin Ways to Use Lance by Brett Evans The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:00:13 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: Not A Poem but A Call MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit pleme from poetics list until march 1st ase remove ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:07:05 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Godston Subject: Poetry Foundation In-Reply-To: <1136752578.43c177c24a1d4@webmail.sfsu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes, I agree. And it sounds like Poetry Magazine's strategy is pretty bizarre. They get $175 million and they come up with a strategy that convoluted? They were bequeathed that huge sum three years ago and this is what you get... I just read an interview with John Barr, the Poetry Foundation's president, and the only concrete educational initiative I found was that the Poetry Foundation plans on having "recitation contests in all fifty states" by spring of this year. How innovative is that. See http://fdncenter.org/pnd/specialissues/content.jhtml?id=118500004. -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of maxpaul@SFSU.EDU Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:36 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about spreading poetry leave me with a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and co. had decided to invade another country to spread democracy? Maxine Chernoff Quoting Michael Hoerman : > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/? page=full > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:52:10 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mary Jo Malo Subject: Rilke a "potentiating force of contemporary poetry" & Cezanne as his influence MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/mh-up.htm ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:12:52 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: salinger Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This recitation contest is quite a load as far as I am concerned - why not spend the money on teaching kids to write and perform their own work instead of memorizing dusty dead white men's canon fodder? Brain dead. salinger Daniel Godston wrote: >Yes, I agree. And it sounds like Poetry Magazine's strategy is pretty >bizarre. They get $175 million and they come up with a strategy that >convoluted? They were bequeathed that huge sum three years ago and this is >what you get... > >I just read an interview with John Barr, the Poetry Foundation's president, >and the only concrete educational initiative I found was that the Poetry >Foundation plans on having "recitation contests in all fifty states" by >spring of this year. How innovative is that. See >http://fdncenter.org/pnd/specialissues/content.jhtml?id=118500004. > >-----Original Message----- >From: UB Poetics discussion group >[mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of maxpaul@SFSU.EDU >Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:36 PM >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > > >Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about spreading poetry leave me >with >a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and co. had decided to >invade >another country to spread democracy? >Maxine Chernoff > >Quoting Michael Hoerman : > > > >>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/? >> >> >page=full > > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:51:46 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: maxpaul@SFSU.EDU Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit One might also argue that money might be used to teach poetry in more schools and even, gasp!!, universities, where a majority of people first read poetry. If you imagine that university professors and teachers are at fault for making poetry difficult or inscrutable or less popular than you imagine it should be, I ask you to search your memory for a time when a teacher actually taught you something, even about poetry, maybe? I would guess that most people who think well of poetry haven't been poisoned by teachers or become victims of the conspiracy that keeps poetry from "the people." And if you imagine that POETRY magazine and its minions are going to to do more good than the thousands of well-intentioned and even excellent teachers in the world and programs already in existence like Poetry in the Schools, Teachers and Writers Collective, just to name a few, you're probably wrong. WHile I've heard many people in life who aren't even poets praising their teachers, I have yet to hear many people say that their experience reading Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, has changed their lives. One might also ask why big money and conservative power want to work in the poetry field. I'm not that fond of missionaries, for instance, for the good work they do in the field. I trust them less than teachers. MC uoting alexander saliby : > Sorry, folks, but I find I am in harmonious agreement with the article. We > do have a bazillion "bad" poets in the country; by the way, I find that piece > of news to be good news, despite the inference from the writer. If we have > more writers writing poetry, however good or bad the poetry, we can't be in > bad company. The only thing worse in the society than too few poets would be > too many poets. > > But, what's worse, we have no real mechanism for offering print and praise to > the few who deserve the credit. Worster yet; academia has usurped the world > of poetry. Professors act as the owners of the media. How sad. > > I fine folks like Harold Bloom from Yale to be pompous ass critics looking > more to create a name for themselves than looking at the task of building a > better, more receptive world for poets. > Alex > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Jorgensen > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:12 PM > Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > > > I would argue this is just another by-product of the > sorry state of affairs in poetry, where we celebrate a > kind of almost fawning diversity and too many > disparate communities and the consequent dribble one > develops in any incestuous situation lingering deeply > in leanings, policed and parochial thought. This is > democracy, "THREE CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY" -- and you > made it, the hubbub absent of any real discord, > discourse, dangerous undermining the established by > thoughtful thinkers, where there are no movements and > we just ring-a-ding our bells, because we like to -- > and cause our ID says poet. Hell, the end result is > that we'll all be able to bathe in effluent as > interesting as, say, us. C'mon babes, surf the net and > see how much sh*t you have to choose from,less, > mostly, quality. Mafia MFA's in creative writing? Rock > star poet MCs. Hosts who hoist there white flags in > form of radical undies. Poets who write computer noise > -- as if poetry, me thought, was about peopled > humanity. Succession! But that makes people unhappy! I > remember telling RC that one would need to repudiate > parts of what he helped to make. You better brace, > huddle together, make sure you're in there when the > house burns down -- aNd I'm talking to only some of > you, but I'm serious you politicos. > > AJ > > > > --- maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > > > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about > > spreading poetry leave me with > > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and > > co. had decided to invade > > another country to spread democracy? > > Maxine Chernoff > > > > Quoting Michael Hoerman > > >: > > > > > > > > > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/? > > page=full > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:13:23 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Amato Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: <1136832706.43c2b0c294648@webmail.sfsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" amen to that, sister... joe >One might also argue that money might be used to teach poetry in more schools >and even, gasp!!, universities, where a majority of people first read poetry. >If you imagine that university professors and teachers are at fault for making >poetry difficult or inscrutable or less popular than you imagine it should be, >I ask you to search your memory for a time when a teacher actually taught you >something, even about poetry, maybe? I would guess that most people who think >well of poetry haven't been poisoned by teachers or become victims of the >conspiracy that keeps poetry from "the people." And if you imagine that >POETRY magazine and its minions are going to to do more good than the >thousands of well-intentioned and even excellent teachers in the world and >programs already in existence like Poetry in the Schools, Teachers and Writers >Collective, just to name a few, you're probably wrong. WHile I've heard many >people in life who aren't even poets praising their teachers, I have yet to >hear many people say that their experience reading Poetry: A Magazine of >Verse, has changed their lives. One might also ask why big money and >conservative power want to work in the poetry field. I'm not that fond of >missionaries, for instance, for the good work they do in the field. I trust >them less than teachers. > >MC > > >uoting alexander saliby : > >> Sorry, folks, but I find I am in harmonious agreement with the article. We >> do have a bazillion "bad" poets in the country; by the way, I find >>that piece >> of news to be good news, despite the inference from the writer. If we have >> more writers writing poetry, however good or bad the poetry, we can't be in >> bad company. The only thing worse in the society than too few poets would be >> too many poets. >> >> But, what's worse, we have no real mechanism for offering print >>and praise to >> the few who deserve the credit. Worster yet; academia has usurped the world >> of poetry. Professors act as the owners of the media. How sad. >> >> I fine folks like Harold Bloom from Yale to be pompous ass critics looking >> more to create a name for themselves than looking at the task of building a >> better, more receptive world for poets. >> Alex >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Alex Jorgensen >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:12 PM >> Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe >> >> >> I would argue this is just another by-product of the >> sorry state of affairs in poetry, where we celebrate a >> kind of almost fawning diversity and too many >> disparate communities and the consequent dribble one >> develops in any incestuous situation lingering deeply >> in leanings, policed and parochial thought. This is >> democracy, "THREE CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY" -- and you >> made it, the hubbub absent of any real discord, >> discourse, dangerous undermining the established by >> thoughtful thinkers, where there are no movements and >> we just ring-a-ding our bells, because we like to -- >> and cause our ID says poet. Hell, the end result is >> that we'll all be able to bathe in effluent as >> interesting as, say, us. C'mon babes, surf the net and >> see how much sh*t you have to choose from,less, >> mostly, quality. Mafia MFA's in creative writing? Rock >> star poet MCs. Hosts who hoist there white flags in >> form of radical undies. Poets who write computer noise >> -- as if poetry, me thought, was about peopled >> humanity. Succession! But that makes people unhappy! I > > remember telling RC that one would need to repudiate >> parts of what he helped to make. You better brace, >> huddle together, make sure you're in there when the >> house burns down -- aNd I'm talking to only some of >> you, but I'm serious you politicos. >> >> AJ >> >> >> >> --- maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > > >> > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about >> > spreading poetry leave me with >> > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and >> > co. had decided to invade >> > another country to spread democracy? >> > Maxine Chernoff >> > >> > Quoting Michael Hoerman >> > >: >> > >> > > >> > >> >> >http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/w.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/>? >> > page=full >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> >> __________________________________________ >> Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. >> Just $16.99/mo. or less. >> dsl.yahoo.com >> -- Joe Amato, Managing Editor American Book Review Illinois State University CB 4241 Fairchild Hall, Room 109 Normal, IL 61790-4241 USA 309.438.2127 (voice) 309.438.3523 (fax) AmericanBookReview@ilstu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:46:22 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Cynie Cory Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: <1136832706.43c2b0c294648@webmail.sfsu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Right on, Maxine. Right on. Cynie Cory maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: One might also argue that money might be used to teach poetry in more schools and even, gasp!!, universities, where a majority of people first read poetry. If you imagine that university professors and teachers are at fault for making poetry difficult or inscrutable or less popular than you imagine it should be, I ask you to search your memory for a time when a teacher actually taught you something, even about poetry, maybe? I would guess that most people who think well of poetry haven't been poisoned by teachers or become victims of the conspiracy that keeps poetry from "the people." And if you imagine that POETRY magazine and its minions are going to to do more good than the thousands of well-intentioned and even excellent teachers in the world and programs already in existence like Poetry in the Schools, Teachers and Writers Collective, just to name a few, you're probably wrong. WHile I've heard many people in life who aren't even poets praising their teachers, I have yet to hear many people say that their experience reading Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, has changed their lives. One might also ask why big money and conservative power want to work in the poetry field. I'm not that fond of missionaries, for instance, for the good work they do in the field. I trust them less than teachers. MC uoting alexander saliby : > Sorry, folks, but I find I am in harmonious agreement with the article. We > do have a bazillion "bad" poets in the country; by the way, I find that piece > of news to be good news, despite the inference from the writer. If we have > more writers writing poetry, however good or bad the poetry, we can't be in > bad company. The only thing worse in the society than too few poets would be > too many poets. > > But, what's worse, we have no real mechanism for offering print and praise to > the few who deserve the credit. Worster yet; academia has usurped the world > of poetry. Professors act as the owners of the media. How sad. > > I fine folks like Harold Bloom from Yale to be pompous ass critics looking > more to create a name for themselves than looking at the task of building a > better, more receptive world for poets. > Alex > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Jorgensen > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:12 PM > Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > > > I would argue this is just another by-product of the > sorry state of affairs in poetry, where we celebrate a > kind of almost fawning diversity and too many > disparate communities and the consequent dribble one > develops in any incestuous situation lingering deeply > in leanings, policed and parochial thought. This is > democracy, "THREE CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY" -- and you > made it, the hubbub absent of any real discord, > discourse, dangerous undermining the established by > thoughtful thinkers, where there are no movements and > we just ring-a-ding our bells, because we like to -- > and cause our ID says poet. Hell, the end result is > that we'll all be able to bathe in effluent as > interesting as, say, us. C'mon babes, surf the net and > see how much sh*t you have to choose from,less, > mostly, quality. Mafia MFA's in creative writing? Rock > star poet MCs. Hosts who hoist there white flags in > form of radical undies. Poets who write computer noise > -- as if poetry, me thought, was about peopled > humanity. Succession! But that makes people unhappy! I > remember telling RC that one would need to repudiate > parts of what he helped to make. You better brace, > huddle together, make sure you're in there when the > house burns down -- aNd I'm talking to only some of > you, but I'm serious you politicos. > > AJ > > > > --- maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > > > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about > > spreading poetry leave me with > > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and > > co. had decided to invade > > another country to spread democracy? > > Maxine Chernoff > > > > Quoting Michael Hoerman > > >: > > > > > > > > > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/w.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/>? > > page=full > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com > --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:01:36 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kristin Dykstra Subject: Mandorla 8 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit *Announcing the publication of /Mandorla:/* */New Writing from the Americas / Nueva escritura de las Américas/*** *Issue 8* http://www.litline.org/Mandorla/subscribe.html *M8 contributors / colaboradores*: Michael Davidson * Jerome Rothenberg * Heriberto Yépez * Laura Juaregui Murueta * Eduardo Milán * Rae Armantrout * Josely Vianna Baptista * Thomas Glassford * Reynaldo Jiménez * Rosa Alcalá * Roberto Harrison * Luis Felipe Fabre * Joe Amato * Liliana Ponce * Ricardo Cortez Cruz * Dan Featherston * Kent Johnson * Duanel Díaz Infante * Antonio Ochoa * Gabriel Gudding * Jorge Guitart * Gabriel Bernal Granados * Nancy Gates Madsen * Antonio Mestre * Rolando Sánchez Mejías * Richard Deming * Mario Arteca * Brian Collier * Ricardo Pohlenz * Luis Dolhnikoff * José Kozer * Jorge Ortega * Kristin Dykstra * Reina María Rodríguez First published in Mexico City in 1991, /Mandorla/ emphasizes innovative writing in its original language--most commonly English or Spanish--and high-quality translations of existing material. Visual art and short critical articles complement this work. The name of the magazine--mandorla, describing a space created by two intersecting circles--alludes to the notion of exchange and imaginative dialogue that is necessary now among the Americas. *Ordering Information* _Individuals_: $12.50 USD for one year (one issue) in the Americas; $20 for two years (one current issue, one future issue). Europe: 14 Euros for one year (one issue). Order online at http://www.litline.org/Mandorla/subscribe.html with a credit card using Paypal, or send a check or money order payable to /Mandorla/ at the following address: Mandorla / Dept. of English / ISU Campus Box 4240 / Normal, IL 61790-4240. _Libraries_: $18 institutional price for one year (one issue). /Mandorla/ is available through Ebsco. If you use a different subscription agency, please ask them to carry /Mandorla/. Frequency: /Mandorla /is published once annually. Language: In Spanish and English. Standard No: ISSN: 1550-7432; LCCN: sn 96-36712 . /Mandorla/ is a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:31:06 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Re: Mandorla 8 In-Reply-To: <43C2DD40.9090405@ilstu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kristin Can you backchannel me? Ray=20 -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] = On Behalf Of Kristin Dykstra Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:02 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Mandorla 8 *Announcing the publication of /Mandorla:/* */New Writing from the = Americas / Nueva escritura de las Am=E9ricas/*** *Issue 8* =20 http://www.litline.org/Mandorla/subscribe.html =20 *M8 contributors / colaboradores*: Michael Davidson * Jerome Rothenberg * Heriberto Y=E9pez * Laura Juaregui Murueta * Eduardo Mil=E1n * Rae = Armantrout * Josely Vianna Baptista * Thomas Glassford * Reynaldo Jim=E9nez * Rosa = Alcal=E1 * Roberto Harrison * Luis Felipe Fabre * Joe Amato * Liliana Ponce * Ricardo Cortez Cruz * Dan Featherston * Kent Johnson * Duanel D=EDaz Infante * Antonio Ochoa * Gabriel Gudding * Jorge Guitart = * Gabriel Bernal Granados * Nancy Gates Madsen * Antonio Mestre * Rolando S=E1nchez Mej=EDas * Richard Deming * Mario Arteca * Brian Collier * = Ricardo Pohlenz * Luis Dolhnikoff * Jos=E9 Kozer * Jorge Ortega * Kristin = Dykstra * Reina Mar=EDa Rodr=EDguez =20 First published in Mexico City in 1991, /Mandorla/ emphasizes innovative writing in its original language--most commonly English or Spanish--and high-quality translations of existing material. Visual art and short critical articles complement this work. The name of the = magazine--mandorla, describing a space created by two intersecting circles--alludes to the notion of exchange and imaginative dialogue that is necessary now among = the Americas. =20 *Ordering Information* =20 _Individuals_: $12.50 USD for one year (one issue) in the Americas; $20 = for two years (one current issue, one future issue). Europe: 14 Euros for = one year (one issue). Order online at http://www.litline.org/Mandorla/subscribe.html with a credit card using Paypal, or send a check or money order payable to /Mandorla/ at the following address: Mandorla / Dept. of English / ISU Campus Box 4240 / Normal, IL 61790-4240. =20 _Libraries_: $18 institutional price for one year (one issue). =20 /Mandorla/ is available through Ebsco. If you use a different = subscription agency, please ask them to carry /Mandorla/.=20 Frequency: /Mandorla /is published once annually. Language: In Spanish and English. Standard No: ISSN: 1550-7432; LCCN: sn 96-36712 . /Mandorla/ is a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:37:29 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Kane Subject: Job at the University of East Anglia MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If interested in applying for a LECTURESHIP IN AMERICAN STUDIES, Literature and Culture, 19th Century, go to http://www.uea.ac.uk/hr/jobs/acad/ac618.htm Please note that the closing date is January 20th. Best, --daniel ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:31:20 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Hot Whiskey Press Subject: Left Hand Reading Series with Barg, Rogers, Koshkin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Friday, January 27 2006 8 p.m. The Left Hand Reading Series Presents Barbara Barg, Jennifer Rogers and Michael Koshkin at The Left Hand Book Collective 1200 Pearl Street #10 Boulder, Colorado (downstairs on pearl street at broadway and pearl) www.lefthandreadingseries.blogspot.com Michael Koshkin Hot Whiskey Boulder -- Hot Whiskey Press www.hotwhiskeyblog.blogspot.com www.hotwhiskeypress.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:08:46 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: <20060109204622.66531.qmail@web30713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Poetry is art and should be prophetic and challenging. There is much poetry that is good and great in the US but there is a sea of crap too- it has always been that way since Dante, Since whoever wrote the Psalms. POETRY Magazine is a cyst on the neck of Poetry the artform. Here we are in Chicago with a large and interesting poetry scene, small presses that are funded mostly from people's bank accounts and struggle to survive and we have in our midst POETRY magazine with its millions. POETRYdoes nothing for our community or Poetry in city that it calls home in fact I have NEVER seen Christian Wiman at ANY poetry event in this city except AWP two years ago. I am sorry but POETRY Magazine makes me sick they spent millions on a study to find out why people don't read poetry when they could have given that money to 30 small press or reading series or MFA programs and really made an impact. They got new offices in a LSD high rise when they could have opened a Literary Center in Chicago which we desperately need and with all their money they charge $12.00 to go to their readings. RB -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Cynie Cory Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:46 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe Right on, Maxine. Right on. Cynie Cory maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: One might also argue that money might be used to teach poetry in more schools and even, gasp!!, universities, where a majority of people first read poetry. If you imagine that university professors and teachers are at fault for making poetry difficult or inscrutable or less popular than you imagine it should be, I ask you to search your memory for a time when a teacher actually taught you something, even about poetry, maybe? I would guess that most people who think well of poetry haven't been poisoned by teachers or become victims of the conspiracy that keeps poetry from "the people." And if you imagine that POETRY magazine and its minions are going to to do more good than the thousands of well-intentioned and even excellent teachers in the world and programs already in existence like Poetry in the Schools, Teachers and Writers Collective, just to name a few, you're probably wrong. WHile I've heard many people in life who aren't even poets praising their teachers, I have yet to hear many people say that their experience reading Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, has changed their lives. One might also ask why big money and conservative power want to work in the poetry field. I'm not that fond of missionaries, for instance, for the good work they do in the field. I trust them less than teachers. MC uoting alexander saliby : > Sorry, folks, but I find I am in harmonious agreement with the > article. We do have a bazillion "bad" poets in the country; by the > way, I find that piece of news to be good news, despite the inference > from the writer. If we have more writers writing poetry, however good > or bad the poetry, we can't be in bad company. The only thing worse in > the society than too few poets would be too many poets. > > But, what's worse, we have no real mechanism for offering print and > praise to the few who deserve the credit. Worster yet; academia has > usurped the world of poetry. Professors act as the owners of the media. How sad. > > I fine folks like Harold Bloom from Yale to be pompous ass critics > looking more to create a name for themselves than looking at the task > of building a better, more receptive world for poets. > Alex > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Jorgensen > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:12 PM > Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > > > I would argue this is just another by-product of the > sorry state of affairs in poetry, where we celebrate a > kind of almost fawning diversity and too many > disparate communities and the consequent dribble one > develops in any incestuous situation lingering deeply > in leanings, policed and parochial thought. This is > democracy, "THREE CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY" -- and you > made it, the hubbub absent of any real discord, > discourse, dangerous undermining the established by > thoughtful thinkers, where there are no movements and > we just ring-a-ding our bells, because we like to -- > and cause our ID says poet. Hell, the end result is > that we'll all be able to bathe in effluent as > interesting as, say, us. C'mon babes, surf the net and > see how much sh*t you have to choose from,less, > mostly, quality. Mafia MFA's in creative writing? Rock > star poet MCs. Hosts who hoist there white flags in > form of radical undies. Poets who write computer noise > -- as if poetry, me thought, was about peopled > humanity. Succession! But that makes people unhappy! I > remember telling RC that one would need to repudiate > parts of what he helped to make. You better brace, > huddle together, make sure you're in there when the > house burns down -- aNd I'm talking to only some of > you, but I'm serious you politicos. > > AJ > > > > --- maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > > > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about > > spreading poetry leave me with > > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and > > co. had decided to invade > > another country to spread democracy? > > Maxine Chernoff > > > > Quoting Michael Hoerman > > >: > > > > > > > > > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/w.bosto n.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/>? > > page=full > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com > --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:44:50 +0530 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: kari edwards Subject: Looking for reading venue in Boston / NYC area end of feb-march... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I will be back from India Feb.17 (till late March), to the Boston area looking for reading venues for my new book, "obedience," from Factory School. Willing to arrange some reading in a fairly wide area.. if there are options... please feel free to back channel... kari edwards ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 21:16:04 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Waber Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: (Haas Bianchi's message of "Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:08:46 -0600") MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii And Ruth Lilly, at long last, through the most diabolical of means, wreaks a measure revenge most rejected poets only ever dream about. I can hear her laughing now: ahaha, that'll teach you to reject Ruth Lilly! Dan Haas Bianchi wrote: > Poetry is art and should be prophetic and challenging. There is much poetry > that is good and great in the US but there is a sea of crap too- it has > always been that way since Dante, Since whoever wrote the Psalms. > > POETRY Magazine is a cyst on the neck of Poetry the artform. > Here we are in Chicago with a large and interesting poetry scene, small > presses that are funded mostly from people's bank accounts and struggle to > survive and we have in our midst POETRY magazine with its millions. > POETRYdoes nothing for our community or Poetry in city that it calls home in > fact I have NEVER seen Christian Wiman at ANY poetry event in this city > except AWP two years ago. > > I am sorry but POETRY Magazine makes me sick they spent millions on a study > to find out why people don't read poetry when they could have given that > money to 30 small press or reading series or MFA programs and really made an > impact. They got new offices in a LSD high rise when they could have opened > a Literary Center in Chicago which we desperately need and with all their > money they charge $12.00 to go to their readings. > > RB > > -----Original Message----- > From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On > Behalf Of Cynie Cory > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:46 PM > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > > Right on, Maxine. Right on. > > Cynie Cory > > maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > One might also argue that money might be used to teach poetry in more > schools and even, gasp!!, universities, where a majority of people first > read poetry. > If you imagine that university professors and teachers are at fault for > making poetry difficult or inscrutable or less popular than you imagine it > should be, I ask you to search your memory for a time when a teacher > actually taught you something, even about poetry, maybe? I would guess that > most people who think well of poetry haven't been poisoned by teachers or > become victims of the conspiracy that keeps poetry from "the people." And if > you imagine that POETRY magazine and its minions are going to to do more > good than the thousands of well-intentioned and even excellent teachers in > the world and programs already in existence like Poetry in the Schools, > Teachers and Writers Collective, just to name a few, you're probably wrong. > WHile I've heard many people in life who aren't even poets praising their > teachers, I have yet to hear many people say that their experience reading > Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, has changed their lives. One might also ask why > big money and conservative power want to work in the poetry field. I'm not > that fond of missionaries, for instance, for the good work they do in the > field. I trust them less than teachers. > > MC > > > uoting alexander saliby : > >> Sorry, folks, but I find I am in harmonious agreement with the >> article. We do have a bazillion "bad" poets in the country; by the >> way, I find that piece of news to be good news, despite the inference >> from the writer. If we have more writers writing poetry, however good >> or bad the poetry, we can't be in bad company. The only thing worse in >> the society than too few poets would be too many poets. >> >> But, what's worse, we have no real mechanism for offering print and >> praise to the few who deserve the credit. Worster yet; academia has >> usurped the world of poetry. Professors act as the owners of the media. > How sad. >> >> I fine folks like Harold Bloom from Yale to be pompous ass critics >> looking more to create a name for themselves than looking at the task >> of building a better, more receptive world for poets. >> Alex >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Alex Jorgensen >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:12 PM >> Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe >> >> >> I would argue this is just another by-product of the >> sorry state of affairs in poetry, where we celebrate a >> kind of almost fawning diversity and too many >> disparate communities and the consequent dribble one >> develops in any incestuous situation lingering deeply >> in leanings, policed and parochial thought. This is >> democracy, "THREE CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY" -- and you >> made it, the hubbub absent of any real discord, >> discourse, dangerous undermining the established by >> thoughtful thinkers, where there are no movements and >> we just ring-a-ding our bells, because we like to -- >> and cause our ID says poet. Hell, the end result is >> that we'll all be able to bathe in effluent as >> interesting as, say, us. C'mon babes, surf the net and >> see how much sh*t you have to choose from,less, >> mostly, quality. Mafia MFA's in creative writing? Rock >> star poet MCs. Hosts who hoist there white flags in >> form of radical undies. Poets who write computer noise >> -- as if poetry, me thought, was about peopled >> humanity. Succession! But that makes people unhappy! I >> remember telling RC that one would need to repudiate >> parts of what he helped to make. You better brace, >> huddle together, make sure you're in there when the >> house burns down -- aNd I'm talking to only some of >> you, but I'm serious you politicos. >> >> AJ >> >> >> >> --- maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: >> >> > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about >> > spreading poetry leave me with >> > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and >> > co. had decided to invade >> > another country to spread democracy? >> > Maxine Chernoff >> > >> > Quoting Michael Hoerman >> > >: >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/w.bosto > n.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/>? >> > page=full >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> >> __________________________________________ >> Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. >> Just $16.99/mo. or less. >> dsl.yahoo.com >> > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Photos > Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands > ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:26:55 -0500 Reply-To: rumblek@bellsouth.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ken Rumble Subject: Desert City: Roberson & Sandvik This Saturday, Jan. 14th 8pm-Chaple Hill, NC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please spread far and wide.... Who: Ed Roberson; author of _Atmosphere Conditions_, _Just In / Word of Navigational Challenge_, _Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In_ and others; Lila Wallace Readers Digest Award recipient; taught all the cats how to land on their feet. Who: Todd Sandvik; Carrboro Poet Laureate; curator of the Blue Door Late Night Series; veteran of the Carrboro Poetry Festival; put all the lightening in Thor's Hammer. What: Desert City Poetry Series; putting the extra X in 2000 & 6. When: Saturday, January 14th, 8pm, 2006. Where: Internationalist Books; 405 W. Franklin Street; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; right where you stand when you know where to be. How much: $2 donation requested to support the series & the readers. Why: "This is what folks talk / about the gods walking // sitting on your shoulders / in your shoes / having consumed / you // in that beauty // fixed by that crack of the gravel // your decision made // to face and see" "to know is nothing / splash of red as axe handles jump" See you there...... Upcoming readings: February 11th, 8pm: Claudia Rankine & Christopher Davis March 25th, 8pm: Ron Silliman & Selah Saterstrom April 22nd, 8pm: Emmanuel Hocquard & Rosmarie Waldrop *Internationalist Books: http://www.internationalistbooks.org *Desert City Poetry Series: http://desertcity.blogspot.com *Ed Roberson: http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress/robvoicas.htm *Todd Sandvik: http://www.fascicle.com/issue01/Poets/sandvik1.htm Contact the DCPS: Ken Rumble, director rumblek at bellsouth dot net The Desert City is supported by grants from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Orange County Arts Commission and generous donations from anonymous individuals. VII. AFRICAN ASCENDANCY by Ed Roberson ascendant an ancient use for ancestor mine ancestor is seen upon my skin a light that color is upon the surface mine is an African ascendancy in sight at sight a burn If yours were the eye of the sky what would the source be of your look upon me, what would it grow, what would its color be? How do you burn? One from /Dead Swede/ by Todd Sandvik 3. /flokk 1/ I see women birthing in saunas as men prepare their dead nearby purple mountains orange meadows steaming rust-colored shielings on stilts I see children heap ladles of water on stones to urge on the voluntary infernos /nothing organized/ /organized as it seems/ /it seems/ infinities of bees explore black blossoms midnight sun ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:27:15 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Craig Allen Conrad Subject: in search of courage in DC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On the morning of January 8th Tim Russert hosted an interview/debate with Kate Michelman and Kate O'Beirne, a program he was calling The Battle of the Kates. Kate Michelman is the former president of NARAL, and the author of With Liberty and Justice for All. Kate O'Beirne is the Washington editor of The National Review, and the author of Women Who Make the World Worse. To be honest O'Beirne said nothing new, nothing not already said over and over and over again by Bush, by Jerry Falwell, etc. Kate Michelman however said some pretty fantastic things, one thing in particular that I really wish Howard Dean, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton (all of whom are turning coat very quickly on gay rights and Roe v. Wade) could hear. She's a brilliant woman, who calls for nothing less than for the Democrats to find the courage to stand their ground. Here's a small excerpt of what I'm referring to: Tim Russert: ...Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic Party said this recently: "I think we need to talk about abortion differently. ... Republicans have forced us into a corner to defend abortion." Then he went on to say: "If I could strike the words 'choice' and 'abortion' out of the lexicon of our party, I would." Kate Michelman: ...I'm reminded of the '92 election when President Clinton was elected. The House and the Senate were under control of Democrats. The political pundits were writing the obituary of the right wing and the conservative movement, and you didn't see the conservatives sort of back away from their values or their principles. They didn't give up and start publicly talking about changing their language.... What they did is they stayed focused on their values and that's what we need to do. ------------- This is exactly what needs to happen! People with real courage, I mean, WHAT THE HELL does Howard Dean believe in anymore anyway!? At least George W. Bush isn't interested in going against his beliefs: he hates gays, always has, hasn't changed his mind, doesn't intend to, he's angry about abortion, wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, makes no bones about. Oh please, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but, I have more respect for Bush! Not that I can ever agree with him, but he acts the way I want the Democrats to act. I really want, so badly want someone with the certitude Bush has to say AND REALLY MEAN IT WHEN SHE OR HE SAYS IT, that they believe in queers and women and will not back down from defending our civil liberties. This person does not exist, as far as I can see. We have nothing but cowards on our side. SHIT! Kate Michelman is saying something very simple about NOT whimpering NOT turning away NOT giving in AND DAMMIT STAYING TO FIGHT THIS BATTLE OUT! Fuck the right wing! Fuck the born agains! How is giving into bigotry ever going to change anything for the better? Later on the night of the 8th I went to a demonstration outside Exodus Church in Philadelphia where Jerry Falwell and Rick Santorum were speaking on behalf of the Alito nomination. When I saw Falwell walk into that church with Santorum it made me so angry just to SEE THEM! The HATE that they spread can be felt! How on earth can any Democrat give into these monsters? At one point we could hear the minister giving his speech inside the church. He is a black man, and he was speaking out against gay marriage, abortion, etc., and there were some members of his congregation out on the sidewalk yelling and praying at us. I said to one couple, "How would you feel if that were being said about civil rights for African Americans? How would you feel if you heard a pastor of a church speaking out from the pulpit in favor of segregation?" I'm not sure if the couple even heard me, but a few white Quakers who were near me were upset with me, saying that I "shouldn't say that!" But why not? I'm only trying to create some common ground, isn't that okay? Are my rights as a gay man any less important than their rights? It's so tired hanging with some of these people on "the Left" sometimes. Everyone's so fucking careful, and for what reason? I mean, the Right says whatever the fuck they want! It's such fucking bullshit, telling people how to conduct themselves when you've got Jerry Fucking Falwell and Rick Santorum giving speeches about the evils of queers and women a few feet away! With scum like that in the house ALL GLOVES SHOULD COME OFF! Let the protection and belief in Love get scary on their fascist asses! And by the fucking way, our rights are NOT bargaining chips! PERIOD! It's time to tell Howard Dean and friends to find their strength or to get the hell out of the way for someone better, someone with some real courage! Quite seriously, CAConrad _http://CAConrad.blogspot.com_ (http://CAConrad.blogspot.com) "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained...." --William Blake _http://PhillySound.blogspot.com_ (http://PhillySound.blogspot.com) CAConrad's tarot services: _http://LightOfLakshmi.blogspot.com_ (http://LightOfLakshmi.blogspot.com) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:40:54 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Murat Nemet-Nejat Reading MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Murat Nemet-Nejat to Read His Poetry followed by Open Mic Friday, January 13th at 8 PM As Part of New Jersey Poets Reading Series At Symposia Bookstore, at Washington and Fifth Streets Hoboken, New Jersey Murat Nemet-Nejat is presently working on a poem The Structure of Escape. Hi= s=20 recent works include Rose Strikes (2006), Eleven Septembers Later: Readings=20 of Benjamin Hollander=E2=80=99s Vigilance (2005), Eda: An Anthology of Conte= mporary=20 Turkish Poetry (2004), A Thirteenth Century Dream (2004), Diaspora: Homeland= s In=20 Exile =E2=80=93 Voices (2003) The Peripheral Space of Photography (2003), St= eps (and=20 2003).=20 Future Events in New Jersey Poets Reading Series Are: Holly Scalera, February 10th Joel Lewis, March 10th Madeline Tiger, April 14th Edward Foster, May 12th, Burt Kimmelman, June 9th The Second Friday of the Month, at 8 PM ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:08:32 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Dalachinksy Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit take me list please til march 1st ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:03:35 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charlie Rossiter Subject: fyi--poetry column MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Interestingly the newspaperman got the part about newspapers wrong. Ted Kooser's weekly column is not aimed at rural and small town papers. It's available free to any publication that would like to sign up and receive it via email each week. You could sign up and run it in your garden club newsletter if you like. In fact, if you were a person at the Boston Globe interested in arts and culture, you could sign up to receive the column and when you liked one of them enough, you could run it. Charlie -- The truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it Emily Dickinson www.poetrypoetry.com where you hear poems read by the poets who wrote them ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:04:16 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Craig Allen Conrad Subject: have you seen our B. Franklin Basement Tapes yet?------------------------------ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit have you seen our B. Franklin Basement Tapes yet?------------------------------------------------- Not sure how much longer it will be online, but Frank Sherlock and I have a piece on the NEXUS gallery webpage for Ben's birthday. Open the link below, then click on "MENU" on the pink Ben ipod, it's there you'll find us, with all kinds of fun and wonderful company. Here's the link to NEXUS gallery: _http://www.nexusphiladelphia.org/ben/_ (http://www.nexusphiladelphia.org/ben/) Thanks and Happy New Year, CAConrad _http://CAConrad.blogspot.com_ (http://CAConrad.blogspot.com) "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained...." --William Blake _http://PhillySound.blogspot.com_ (http://PhillySound.blogspot.com) CAConrad's tarot services: _http://LightOfLakshmi.blogspot.com_ (http://lightoflakshmi.blogspot.com/) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:53:57 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: <20060110.010452.-959595.0.skyplums@juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Along the these same lines, I would also argue that a pretense prevades. The whole damn thing is often far from open, the work often secondary to individual egos. Truth is that things have gotten so incentuous in some parts, as said before, that often one, I should think, learns how NOT to explore process without benefit of that daisy chain of gathered and wrecked holes that seem to keep many of us linked together (in a kind of choo-choo train-type thing) and leading, quite frankly, nowhere -- and, more importantly, to noone (especially when in such situation of curtains drawn). It is not me who is important, and this can be difficult to impart, but the work and how it might shape the individual and our culture -- as if there are no witnesses but for the future (if we're to claim to value the individual and belonging to a greater community /culture for which we are responsible). I just keep plugging along, he said, like all those folk who became my heroes...and of that engine, I'd rather be the unlinked caboose, or the train car going the other (wrong) way! Don't know if I've made any sense, AJ __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:15:45 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ray, Don't you know how these work. Poetry suddenly had this mind numbing amount=20 of money. They have decided they should do something "important" with it. Th= ey=20 selected a committee, realizing so few people care for poetry (implicitly,=20 gosh why did we get all this money!). The committee looked around discoverin= g=20 that the only poetry on TV is DefCom." Therefore, if more people learnt how=20= to=20 read poetry, there will be more poetry on TV. Voila! Murat In a message dated 01/09/06 9:08:54 PM, saudade@COMCAST.NET writes: > Poetry is art and should be prophetic and challenging. There is much poetr= y > that is good and great in the US but there is a sea of crap too- it has > always been that way since Dante, Since whoever wrote the Psalms. >=20 > POETRY Magazine is a cyst on the neck of Poetry the artform. > Here we are in Chicago with a large and interesting poetry scene, small > presses that are funded mostly from people's bank accounts and struggle to > survive and we have in our midst POETRY magazine with its millions. > POETRYdoes nothing for our community or Poetry in city that it calls home=20= in > fact I have NEVER seen Christian Wiman at ANY poetry event in this city > except AWP two years ago. >=20 > I am sorry but POETRY Magazine makes me sick they spent millions on a stud= y > to find out why people don't read poetry when they could have given that > money to 30 small press or reading series or MFA programs and really made=20= an > impact. They got new offices in a LSD high rise when they could have opene= d > a Literary Center in Chicago which we desperately need and with all their > money they charge $12.00 to go to their readings. >=20 > RB >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On > Behalf Of Cynie Cory > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:46 PM > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe >=20 > Right on, Maxine. Right on. > =A0=A0 > =A0 Cynie Cory >=20 > maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > =A0 One might also argue that money might be used to teach poetry in more > schools and even, gasp!!, universities, where a majority of people first > read poetry. > If you imagine that university professors and teachers are at fault for > making poetry difficult or inscrutable or less popular than you imagine it > should be, I ask you to search your memory for a time when a teacher > actually taught you something, even about poetry, maybe? I would guess tha= t > most people who think well of poetry haven't been poisoned by teachers or > become victims of the conspiracy that keeps poetry from "the people." And=20= if > you imagine that POETRY magazine and its minions are going to to do more > good than the thousands of well-intentioned and even excellent teachers in > the world and programs already in existence like Poetry in the Schools, > Teachers and Writers Collective, just to name a few, you're probably wrong= . > WHile I've heard many people in life who aren't even poets praising their > teachers, I have yet to hear many people say that their experience reading > Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, has changed their lives. One might also ask w= hy > big money and conservative power want to work in the poetry field. I'm not > that fond of missionaries, for instance, for the good work they do in the > field. I trust them less than teachers. >=20 > MC >=20 >=20 > uoting alexander saliby : >=20 > > Sorry, folks, but I find I am in harmonious agreement with the > > article. We do have a bazillion "bad" poets in the country; by the > > way, I find that piece of news to be good news, despite the inference > > from the writer. If we have more writers writing poetry, however good > > or bad the poetry, we can't be in bad company. The only thing worse in > > the society than too few poets would be too many poets. > > > > But, what's worse, we have no real mechanism for offering print and > > praise to the few who deserve the credit. Worster yet; academia has > > usurped the world of poetry. Professors act as the owners of the media. > How sad. > > > > I fine folks like Harold Bloom from Yale to be pompous ass critics > > looking more to create a name for themselves than looking at the task > > of building a better, more receptive world for poets. > > Alex > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Alex Jorgensen > > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:12 PM > > Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > > > > > > I would argue this is just another by-product of the > > sorry state of affairs in poetry, where we celebrate a > > kind of almost fawning diversity and too many > > disparate communities and the consequent dribble one > > develops in any incestuous situation lingering deeply > > in leanings, policed and parochial thought. This is > > democracy, "THREE CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY" -- and you > > made it, the hubbub absent of any real discord, > > discourse, dangerous undermining the established by > > thoughtful thinkers, where there are no movements and > > we just ring-a-ding our bells, because we like to -- > > and cause our ID says poet. Hell, the end result is > > that we'll all be able to bathe in effluent as > > interesting as, say, us. C'mon babes, surf the net and > > see how much sh*t you have to choose from,less, > > mostly, quality. Mafia MFA's in creative writing? Rock > > star poet MCs. Hosts who hoist there white flags in > > form of radical undies. Poets who write computer noise > > -- as if poetry, me thought, was about peopled > > humanity. Succession! But that makes people unhappy! I > > remember telling RC that one would need to repudiate > > parts of what he helped to make. You better brace, > > huddle together, make sure you're in there when the > > house burns down -- aNd I'm talking to only some of > > you, but I'm serious you politicos. > > > > AJ > > > > > > > > --- maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > > > > > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about > > > spreading poetry leave me with > > > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and > > > co. had decided to invade > > > another country to spread democracy? > > > Maxine Chernoff > > > > > > Quoting Michael Hoerman > > > >: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/w.bos= to > n.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/>? > > > page=3Dfull > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > > Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. > > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > > dsl.yahoo.com > > > =A0 >=20 >=20 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Photos > Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands > ASAP. >=20 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:21:47 +1100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pam Brown Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Poetics - I don't live there in the U S of A and where I live, Australia, we have zilch, zero, no poetry benefactors other than us poets ourselves. (so the Ruth Lilly money has just seemed imagined - unreal - since I first read about it ) But, reading the Boston Globe article and the subsequent posts - I'm with Maxine Chernoff here. I'm with teachers too - almost always. Best wishes, Pam Brown _________________________________________________________________ Web site : Pam Brown - http://www.geocities.com/p.brown/ Associate editor : Jacket - http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html _________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: Now with unlimited storage http://au.photos.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:36:12 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: <20060110072147.92313.qmail@web33205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Pam, But one thing you do have, along with John Tranter, is Jacket Magazine, which, regrettably, I'm not able to view from my flat in Beijing -- and sorely miss! AJ --- Pam Brown wrote: > Dear Poetics - > > I don't live there in the U S of A and where I live, > Australia, we have zilch, zero, no poetry > benefactors > other than us poets ourselves. (so the Ruth Lilly > money has just seemed imagined - unreal - since I > first read about it ) > But, reading the Boston Globe article and the > subsequent posts - I'm with Maxine Chernoff here. > I'm > with teachers too - almost always. > > Best wishes, > Pam Brown > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Web site : Pam Brown - > http://www.geocities.com/p.brown/ > Associate editor : Jacket - > http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos: Now with unlimited storage > http://au.photos.yahoo.com > __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:36:29 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Kelleher Subject: JUST BUFFALO E-NEWSLETTER 1-10-06 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable WINTER/SPRING WORKSHOPS More still to come. Call 832-5400 to register today. Visit our website for= detailed workshop descriptions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/workshops/index.shtml Between Word And Image Saturday, February 11, 12-4 p.m. (DATE STILL TENTATIVE) Instructors: Caroline Koebel And Kyle Schlesinger =2450, =2440 members (This workshop is a co-production of Just Buffalo and CEPA Gallery) Creating a Fammily History 2 Saturdays, February 25 and March 4, 12-4 p.m. Instructor: Christina Abt =2490, =2470 members Playwrighting: Scene And Un-Scene 6 Tuesdays, 2/21 3/28 7 =E2=80=93 9 p.m. Instructor: Kurt Schneiderman =24185, =24150 for members Independent Publishing And Print-On-Demand Saturday, 3/11, 12-4 p.m. Instructor: Geoffrey Gatza =2450, =2440 members The Working Writer Seminar Instructor: Kathryn Radeff Individual workshops: =2450, =2440 members All four sessions prepaid: =24185, =24150 members 1. You Can Get Published Saturday, March 18, 12 =E2=80=93 4 p.m. 2. Travel Writing Saturday, April 8, 12 =E2=80=93 4 p.m. 3. 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Carnegie Art Center 240 Goundry St., North Tonawanda (Meets monthly on the second Wednesday) Featured: Russ Golata Wednesday, January 11, 7 P.M. 10 slots for open readers Rust Belt Books 202 Allen Street, Buffalo (Meets the monthly on the third Sunday) Featured: Celia White Sunday, January 15, 7 P.M. 10 slots for open readers The Book Corner 1801 Main St., Niagara Falls (Meets monthly on the third Thursday) Featured:Christina Wos-Donnelly Thursday, January 19, 7 P.M. 10 slots for open readers INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS, HOSTED BY JOYCE CAROLYN Spotlight on Youth Open Mic/Coffee House Wednesday, January 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Planned Parenthood Meeting Room, 2697 Main St. (Amherst Station subway stop= ) Admission: Free A forum for young people ages 12-21 to share poetry, song, dance, rap, draw= ings or other creative talents. All are welcome and no prior performance experie= nce is necessary. Adults and members of the community are welcome. Sponsored by Ju= st Buffalo Literary Center, Compass House, Fillmore Leroy Area Residents, Gay = & Lesbian Youth Services, Native American Community Services, Planned Parenth= ood, and the YWCA. Angles, Lines, Circles in Time Friday, January 20, 7 p.m. Langston Hughes Institute, 25 High Street Admission: =244 general/=242 members, students, seniors Kenn Morgan's one man Exhibition, 'A Study of Architecture,' will be joined= with poetry for a multi-disciplinary performance featuring spoken word artists Robert D= jed Snead, Lonnie B. Harrell, Howard F. Smith, James J. Cooper, N'Tare Ali Gault, and = Gary Earl Ross. ORBITAL SERIES: GUEST CURATORS Parts of the winter/spring Orbital Series will be curated by guest curators= Forrest Roth (COMMUNIQUE: FLASH FICTION READINGS) and Kevin Thurston (SMALL PRESS POETRY READINGS) COMMUNIQUE: FLASH FICTION Kim Chinquee and Ed Taylor Saturday, January 28, 7 P.M. Big Orbit Gallery, 30d Essex Street, Buffalo Visit http://www.bigorbitgallery.org/bigorbit/alloftheminformation.html for= directions. ADMISSION: Free SPOKEN ARTS RADIO with host Sarah Campbell A joint production of Just Buffalo Literary Center and WBFO 88.7 FM Airs Sundays during Weekend Edition at 8:35 a.m. and Mondays during Morning Edition at 6:35 A.M. & 8:35 a.m. Upcoming Features: January 22 and 23 Kim Chinquee and Flash Fiction NEWS FROM JUST BUFFALO BUFFALO ONE OF 10 CITIES CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE IN NATIONAL PROGRAM TO PROMOTE READING National Endowment for the Arts announces =22The Big Read=22 Just Buffalo Literary Center is pleased to announce that it has received a = grant of =2425,000 to participate in The Big Read, a national initiative in partners= hip with The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Arts Midwest. The program will en= courage literary reading by asking communities to come together to read and discuss= one book. Just Buffalo has chosen Fahrenheit 451 =7Cby Ray Bradbury as the com= munity novel for Western New York. The Big Read kicks off May 1, 2005 and will con= tinue throughout the month of May in libraries, theaters. schools, book groups, c= ommunity centers, coffee houses, universities and bookstores throughout Western New = York. Books purchased at Talking Leaves benefit Just Buffalo Literary Center. WINTER/SPRING INTERNSHIPS Just Buffalo is now accepting applications for 3-5 for-credit, unpaid stude= nt internships for the spring semester at both the high school and the college level. Inte= rns work in the Just Buffalo Offices in Downtown Buffalo 10 + hours a week and assist t= he staff with direct mail marketing, telephone communications, public relations, eve= nts staffing, and various other administrative duties. Applicants should love literature,= write and speak well, work hard, and be computer literate. Send applications to: Inte= rnship Program, Just Buffalo Literary Center, 617 Main St., Suite 202A Buffalo, NY= 14203. JUST BUFFALO WRITER'S CRITIQUE GROUP Members of Just Buffalo are welcome to attend a free, bi-monthly writer cri= tique group in CEPA's Flux Gallery. Group meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 7 p.m. Call fo= r details. UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will b= e immediately removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:50:33 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas savage Subject: Re: GOTHICK INSTITUTIONS by Peter Lamborn Wilson In-Reply-To: <11DA00BF-9168-4732-B71D-811C4E7865FA@mwt.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I made a copy of and read at my leisure the Janos Sugar interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson. It is, without a doubt, the best thing I've read in internet poetry communications in a long time. I only wish I could share it with more poets and people. Perhaps if the publisher or someone put it on the web as a separate posting rather than just an address at the end of an ad more people might read it. mIEKAL aND wrote: New from Xexoxial Editions— GOTHICK INSTITUTIONS by Peter Lamborn Wilson 2005, 76 pages, 6x9, $10 softcover. $25 hardcover. Add $2 postage. ISBN 0-9770049-0-2 | ISBN 978-0-9770049-0-4 http://xexoxial.org/new_releases/gothick_institutions.html "Ostensibly a volume of poems, this dense glossary packs the deep gratification of his best prose. But at its best, Gothick Institutions is neither poetry nor prose while obviously both—because buried in these pages we find wrinkled love letters from our spiritual ancestors reincarnated as the crinkly cartography of our future utopia." —Anu Bonobo, Fifth Estate, Winter 2006 from the book: Remote Viewing Imagine an alternate dimension where where dervishes are roaming around America sects of Swedenborgian hobos etc. You're there camping in the graveyard long black hair in tangles, ghostwhite face. Peter Lamborn Wilson founded The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade on Pacifica Radio; taught many years at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University; and is a long-time member of the Autonomedia publishing collective in Brooklyn, New York. Author of Angels: An Illustrated Study (Thames & Hudson); Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (City Lights); "Shower of Stars": Dream & Book in Sufism & Taoism (Autonomedia); etc. He Lived in Tehran, London and Manhattan before moving to upstate New York at the fin de siécle. more info on PLW: János Sugár interviews Peter Lamborn Wilson http://www.hermetic.com/bey/pw-interview.html Online bibliography http://www.sniggle.net/bey.php make checks payable to: Xexoxial Editions 10375 Cty Hway A LaFarge,WI 54639 perspicacity@xexoxial.org --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos – Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books. You design it and we’ll bind it! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:53:49 +0100 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Side Subject: New interview at The Argotist Online Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Interview with Ed Larrissy of Leeds University on the limitations of modern British verse. http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Larrissy%20interview.htm ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:17:30 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gary Sullivan Subject: Poetry & Sex Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Poetry & Sex (& Video & ...) Amy Greenfield Nada Gordon Gary Sullivan Kim Rosenfield Bonnie Dunn Allan Douglass Coleman Saturday, January 14, 6:00pm - 7:30pm, $9 Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, 1 block above Houston ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:44:31 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: GOTHICK INSTITUTIONS by Peter Lamborn Wilson In-Reply-To: <20060110155033.66360.qmail@web31110.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tom: This is a great interview with Peter, I'm not really sure what your =20 point is however. This interview has been online for years & I was =20 merely linking to it as a source of additional info. ~mIEKAL On Jan 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Thomas savage wrote: > I made a copy of and read at my leisure the Janos Sugar interview =20 > with Peter Lamborn Wilson. It is, without a doubt, the best thing =20 > I've read in internet poetry communications in a long time. I only =20= > wish I could share it with more poets and people. Perhaps if the =20 > publisher or someone put it on the web as a separate posting rather =20= > than just an address at the end of an ad more people might read it. > > mIEKAL aND wrote: New from Xexoxial Editions=97 > > GOTHICK INSTITUTIONS > by Peter Lamborn Wilson > > 2005, 76 pages, 6x9, $10 softcover. $25 hardcover. Add $2 postage. > ISBN 0-9770049-0-2 | ISBN 978-0-9770049-0-4 > > http://xexoxial.org/new_releases/gothick_institutions.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:01:04 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Godston Subject: Poetry Foundation In-Reply-To: <43C29994.4040506@en.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brain dead is right. And for an organization whose strategy claims to be so democratic they're acting hermetically sealed. Like a pickle jar, not like the Dil Pickle Collective. -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of salinger Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:13 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation This recitation contest is quite a load as far as I am concerned - why not spend the money on teaching kids to write and perform their own work instead of memorizing dusty dead white men's canon fodder? Brain dead. salinger Daniel Godston wrote: >Yes, I agree. And it sounds like Poetry Magazine's strategy is pretty >bizarre. They get $175 million and they come up with a strategy that >convoluted? They were bequeathed that huge sum three years ago and this is >what you get... > >I just read an interview with John Barr, the Poetry Foundation's president, >and the only concrete educational initiative I found was that the Poetry >Foundation plans on having "recitation contests in all fifty states" by >spring of this year. How innovative is that. See >http://fdncenter.org/pnd/specialissues/content.jhtml?id=118500004. > >-----Original Message----- >From: UB Poetics discussion group >[mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of maxpaul@SFSU.EDU >Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:36 PM >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > > >Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about spreading poetry leave me >with >a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and co. had decided to >invade >another country to spread democracy? >Maxine Chernoff > >Quoting Michael Hoerman : > > > >>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/? >> >> >page=full > > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:07:28 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: furniture_ press Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Honestly, I think it's time for a coup. What'll happen next is they'll be d= rilling for poetry in Independent forests. Going to war with your more 'dev= iant' poetic journals like Chain or No (perhaps thay, too, have weapons of = mass deconstruction). Who knows. Is this bickering or what? Can someone please come up with a list of things we can actually buy with t= hat kind of money, like, maybe, The Center for Poetic Studies (that's hypot= hetical) on the east coast. --=20 ___________________________________________ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.graffiti.net/ Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:36:55 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: maxpaul@SFSU.EDU Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Brain dead is right. And for an organization whose strategy claims to be so > democratic they're acting hermetically sealed. Like a pickle jar, not like > the Dil Pickle Collective. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: UB Poetics discussion group > [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of salinger > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:13 AM > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation > > > This recitation contest is quite a load as far as I am concerned - why > not spend the money on teaching kids to write and perform their own work > instead of memorizing dusty dead white men's canon fodder? > > Brain dead. > > salinger > > Daniel Godston wrote: > > >Yes, I agree. And it sounds like Poetry Magazine's strategy is pretty > >bizarre. They get $175 million and they come up with a strategy that > >convoluted? They were bequeathed that huge sum three years ago and this is > >what you get... > > > >I just read an interview with John Barr, the Poetry Foundation's president, > >and the only concrete educational initiative I found was that the Poetry > >Foundation plans on having "recitation contests in all fifty states" by > >spring of this year. How innovative is that. See > >http://fdncenter.org/pnd/specialissues/content.jhtml?id=118500004. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: UB Poetics discussion group > >[mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of maxpaul@SFSU.EDU > >Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:36 PM > >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > >Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > > > > > >Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about spreading poetry leave me > >with > >a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and co. had decided to > >invade > >another country to spread democracy? > >Maxine Chernoff > > > >Quoting Michael Hoerman : > > > > > > > >>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/? > >> > >> > >page=full > > > > > > > > > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:48:56 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Julia Klein Subject: FROM POETRY TO VERSE: Essays on the Making of Modern Poetry Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Announcing the publication of FROM POETRY TO VERSE: Essays on the =20 Making of Modern Poetry. This book is published by the University of Chicago Library in =20 conjunction with the exhibit, FROM POETRY TO VERSE: The Making of =20 Modern Poetry (on view through 2/12/06) Edited by University of Chicago Assistant Professor Srikanth =93Chicu=94 = =20 Reddy, FROM POETRY TO VERSE investigates the culture of poetry =20 production and the dynamic relationships between poets, editors, and =20 the public. Significantly, many of the essays in this book reassert =20 the crucial role played by Chicago in the creation of modern and =20 contemporary poetry. The essays cover much of the twentieth century =96 from the manuscript =20= era to the email era =96 by telling the stories of literary editors, =20 from the little-known (Chicago Review=92s =93Chip=94 Karmatz) to the = iconic =20 (Poetry=92s Harriet Monroe and Big Table=92s Paul Carroll) to the =20 innovative (Verse=92s Andrew Zawacki and Brian Henry and LVNG=92s Joel =20= Felix, Michael O=92Leary, and Peter O=92Leary). The book includes a preface by Alice Schreyer, Director, Special =20 Collections Research Center, and Sebastian Hierl, former =20 Bibliographer for English and Romance Literatures; Srikanth Reddy=92s =20= introduction; as well as contributions from members of the University =20= of Chicago and greater Chicago community: Matthias Regan, =93Culture Jamming in the Archive: The Correspondence =20= of Elmer Chubb, Dr. Atherton, and Harriet Monroe=94 David Wray, =93Louis Zukofsky=92s First Half of =93A=94-9=94 Eirik Steinhoff, =93The Making of Chicago Review: The Meteoric Years =20 (1946-1958)=94 Jenny Ludwig, =93Big Table: Signpost to American Poetry, 1959-1960=94 Kenneth Clarke, =93The Poetry Center of Chicago: When It Began=94 Andrew Zawacki, =93A Short History of Verse=94 Joel Felix, Michael O=92Leary, and Peter O=92Leary, =93LVNG: A History=94 The book can be purchased for $10.00 through the Special Collections =20 Research Center, Regenstein Library. A postage and handling charge of =20= $5.00 will be applied for mail orders. Special Collections is currently closed for construction, but you can =20= stop in to purchase a copy between the hours of 1:00-4:00 pm, Monday-=20 Friday. Please contact David Pavelich, Special Collections Research Center, =20 with any questions. Email, pavelich@uchicago.edu or call, 702-8705. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:27:21 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harriet zinnes Subject: Re: Interview Suggestions- December Issue Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dear Haas Never have received a copy of th e review of WHITHER NONSTOPPING/ Do send it when you can.. And a happy New Year to you. Best Harriet - Original Message ----- From: "Haas Bianchi" To: Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 7:39 PM Subject: Interview Suggestions- December Issue Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com > DECEMBER 2005 Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com to be up December 1, 2005 > > Book Reviews for December 2005 > > My Kafka Century, Arielle Greenberg > Forged, Ted Mathys > Table of contents for Transparencies lifted from noon, Chris Glomski. > Whither Nonstopping,Harriet Zinnes > > Plus the December, January and February Calendar of Events for the Midwest > > > > Dear Buffalo Listers and Others: > > As many of you know Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com tries to publish two or > three Poetic Profiles (r) a month and every six months we do a Global > Profile (r) our first was of Brazil and our Second was of France (Edited by > Jennifer K Dick). Now as we reach our third year and our 150,000th unique > visit I am in need of your help to recommend poets of interest with whom I > can do poetic profiles for 2006. So if any of you have suggestions on poets > to be interviewed backchannel me with their names and I will approach them > over the next year. > > Again I thank all of your for all the great support > > Regards > > Ray ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:31:42 -0500 Reply-To: pamelabeth@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pam Grossman Subject: using the endowment Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit money buys money. doesn't it seem clear that they should invest the endowment in solid, eco-friendly, politically nontoxic funds and use the ongoing revenue to fund (innovative, wide-reaching, birth-giving) programs and scholarships, to be determined? and ditch the shmancy offices, and get to some readings within the community and beyond, and, hell yeah, lower their own admission price (the savings generated by non-scmancy offices will help with that). -----Original Message----- >From: furniture_ press >Sent: Jan 10, 2006 12:07 PM >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > >Honestly, I think it's time for a coup. What'll happen next is they'll be drilling for poetry in Independent forests. Going to war with your more 'deviant' poetic journals like Chain or No (perhaps thay, too, have weapons of mass deconstruction). Who knows. Is this bickering or what? > >Can someone please come up with a list of things we can actually buy with that kind of money, like, maybe, The Center for Poetic Studies (that's hypothetical) on the east coast. > > > >-- >___________________________________________ >Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net >Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.graffiti.net/ > > >Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:52:29 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: tlrelf Subject: Re: the Boston Globe article MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Would someone please repost the title of the Boston Globe article--and the link, if possible. Thank you! Ter ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:29:34 -0500 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rob McLennan Subject: forthcoming Stride titles MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT NEW TITLES FROM STRIDE, MARCH 2006 name , an errant rob mclennan ISBN 1-905024-061 £8.50 86pp pbck March 2006 Using sparse language, name , an errant writes a complex line of breaks, naming, and breaking down. In Canadian poet rob mclennan's eleventh poetry collection, he writes the poem that begins after everything has fallen apart, and slowly struggles to put itself back together. These are pieces that exist before hope, and in the expectation of hope. These are poems that name us and tell us who we are. "rob mclennan goes the distance between surfaces with each fresh discovery touching upon a line segment that extends from one's own presence to each other. The poems engage in learning, knowing, relishing 'nothing in particular, all the time', inductively revealing everything." Sheila E. Murphy "Crisscrossing Canada like a mad pilgrim, rob mclennan keeps his eyes & ears open - to the unravellings of culture, high & low, past & present. These poems sing a wild concatenation, 'abt' more than 'mere wishful thinking', & remember all that's still & continually 'falling through the cracks' in 'the ruin we call' our civilization. There he is, again, 'writing down sand'." Douglas Barbour "In mclennan, a whole tradition that has been underground in Canada for almost half a century has found a new champion. Harold Rhenisch, Arc HYMNS TO THE GOD IN WHICH MY TYPEWRITER BELIEVES Robert Sheppard ISBN 1-905024-05-3 £8.50 94pp pbck March 2006 These poems - the first to appear after Sheppard completed his epic Twentieth Century Blues - riff off other works of art, as both text and commentary. The materials selected, many of them by European artists, are unexpected new cultural referents for Sheppard: from the visual works of Charlotte Saloman to Hugo Dachinger, from particular drafts and poems by Anne Sexton and Veronica Forrest-Thomson, from surreal 'translations' of Sephardic songs to investigations of the ode and the anti-poem. Familiar Sheppard themes emerge in these borrowed contexts, from the Holocaust to September 11. The voice is quieter, but no less compelling, serious or jocular, the visual opportunities of page-space part of the poems' exacting design. 'Sheppard is a rhizomiste. This means he has found a form for his epic Twentieth Century Blues project that could sprout off in any direction without warning, like a potato; and it does, in poems drawing on blues and jazz mythologies, as well as literary and social theory, and a staggering range of other twentieth century odds and sods. A half-subverted leftism ranges widely over a channel hopper's collage from late night satellite television.' John Muckle, The Poetry Review '[The Lores] is tremendously serious in its reflections on history and in its proposals for how such reflections can help us live in the present.' Scott Thurston, Tears In the Fence 'Here are the discourses on our moment - political, literary, media, advertising - saturated with echoes of great literature so as to produce a dense weave of language registers that prompt a truly Joycean "laughtears".' Marjorie Perloff on Tin Pan Arcadia Available from the publisher: STRIDE, 11 SYLVAN ROAD, EXETER, DEVON EX4 6EW [Trade terms: 35% discount, 21 days invoice.] or online with secure credit-card facilities at www.stridebooks.co.uk -- poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...10th coll'n - stone, book one (Palimpsest Press) .... c/o 858 Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:52:17 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Penton Subject: G. Gabor Gyukics at the Bowery MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A forwarded message... Dear Everyone, On the 29th of January at 6pm (to 8pm) I'm doing a reading at the Bowery Poetry Club in their East Europian Poetry series. Would be great to see all of you there Yours Gabor Address: 308-310 Bowery New York, NY 10012 Neighborhood: East Village Location: West side of The Bowery, at East 1st Street between Bleecker & East Houston Streets. Directions: Closest subway: 6 to Bleecker Street. Walk east on Bleecker Street to Bowery, then south to the theatre. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:53:59 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Godston Subject: Poetry article in Boston Globe In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This ongoing dialogue about the Poetry Foundation (mis)endowment is fascinating. Ray & you all who've commented on this, the points you've made are salient and right. It's uncanny that the fortress attitude, the "screw all you locals" attitude that the Poetry Foundation seems to have in regards to how they've been strategizing what to do with their enormous endowment, illustrates one main theme of The MacArthur Foundation's "Chicago as a Global City" report, which was published a few years ago. Among other things, the report states that Chicago's "assets remain fragmented, seldom cooperating, islands, rather than an archipelago" (see http://www.globalchicago.org/reports/arch/MacArthur.pdf). -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of Haas Bianchi Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:09 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe Poetry is art and should be prophetic and challenging. There is much poetry that is good and great in the US but there is a sea of crap too- it has always been that way since Dante, Since whoever wrote the Psalms. POETRY Magazine is a cyst on the neck of Poetry the artform. Here we are in Chicago with a large and interesting poetry scene, small presses that are funded mostly from people's bank accounts and struggle to survive and we have in our midst POETRY magazine with its millions. POETRYdoes nothing for our community or Poetry in city that it calls home in fact I have NEVER seen Christian Wiman at ANY poetry event in this city except AWP two years ago. I am sorry but POETRY Magazine makes me sick they spent millions on a study to find out why people don't read poetry when they could have given that money to 30 small press or reading series or MFA programs and really made an impact. They got new offices in a LSD high rise when they could have opened a Literary Center in Chicago which we desperately need and with all their money they charge $12.00 to go to their readings. RB -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Cynie Cory Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:46 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe Right on, Maxine. Right on. Cynie Cory maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: One might also argue that money might be used to teach poetry in more schools and even, gasp!!, universities, where a majority of people first read poetry. If you imagine that university professors and teachers are at fault for making poetry difficult or inscrutable or less popular than you imagine it should be, I ask you to search your memory for a time when a teacher actually taught you something, even about poetry, maybe? I would guess that most people who think well of poetry haven't been poisoned by teachers or become victims of the conspiracy that keeps poetry from "the people." And if you imagine that POETRY magazine and its minions are going to to do more good than the thousands of well-intentioned and even excellent teachers in the world and programs already in existence like Poetry in the Schools, Teachers and Writers Collective, just to name a few, you're probably wrong. WHile I've heard many people in life who aren't even poets praising their teachers, I have yet to hear many people say that their experience reading Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, has changed their lives. One might also ask why big money and conservative power want to work in the poetry field. I'm not that fond of missionaries, for instance, for the good work they do in the field. I trust them less than teachers. MC uoting alexander saliby : > Sorry, folks, but I find I am in harmonious agreement with the > article. We do have a bazillion "bad" poets in the country; by the > way, I find that piece of news to be good news, despite the inference > from the writer. If we have more writers writing poetry, however good > or bad the poetry, we can't be in bad company. The only thing worse in > the society than too few poets would be too many poets. > > But, what's worse, we have no real mechanism for offering print and > praise to the few who deserve the credit. Worster yet; academia has > usurped the world of poetry. Professors act as the owners of the media. How sad. > > I fine folks like Harold Bloom from Yale to be pompous ass critics > looking more to create a name for themselves than looking at the task > of building a better, more receptive world for poets. > Alex > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Jorgensen > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:12 PM > Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > > > I would argue this is just another by-product of the > sorry state of affairs in poetry, where we celebrate a > kind of almost fawning diversity and too many > disparate communities and the consequent dribble one > develops in any incestuous situation lingering deeply > in leanings, policed and parochial thought. This is > democracy, "THREE CHEERS FOR DEMOCRACY" -- and you > made it, the hubbub absent of any real discord, > discourse, dangerous undermining the established by > thoughtful thinkers, where there are no movements and > we just ring-a-ding our bells, because we like to -- > and cause our ID says poet. Hell, the end result is > that we'll all be able to bathe in effluent as > interesting as, say, us. C'mon babes, surf the net and > see how much sh*t you have to choose from,less, > mostly, quality. Mafia MFA's in creative writing? Rock > star poet MCs. Hosts who hoist there white flags in > form of radical undies. Poets who write computer noise > -- as if poetry, me thought, was about peopled > humanity. Succession! But that makes people unhappy! I > remember telling RC that one would need to repudiate > parts of what he helped to make. You better brace, > huddle together, make sure you're in there when the > house burns down -- aNd I'm talking to only some of > you, but I'm serious you politicos. > > AJ > > > > --- maxpaul@SFSU.EDU wrote: > > > Why does the POETRY MAGAZINE announcement about > > spreading poetry leave me with > > a sinking feeling, as if I'd just read that Bush and > > co. had decided to invade > > another country to spread democracy? > > Maxine Chernoff > > > > Quoting Michael Hoerman > > >: > > > > > > > > > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/w.bosto n.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/>? > > page=full > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com > --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:54:59 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gabrielle Welford Subject: call for books In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT does anyone remember a publishing call for books that came in this morning? i'm not even sure it was on here, but i deleted it. best, gabe gabrielle welford instructor, hawaii pacific university welford@hawaii.edu Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.595 / Virus Database: 378 - Release Date: 2/25/2004 wilhelm reich anarcho-syndicalism gut/heart/head/earth ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:42:08 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetry Project Subject: Change of Readers! Tomorrow (Wednesday) 1/11/06 In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Dears, Susan Wheeler will not be able to make it Wednesday night for her reading with Jordan Davis. Chris Edgar has valiantly agreed to step in. Chris has worked at Teachers & Writers for many years, and is the author of At Port Royal (Adventures in Poetry), of which John Ashbery wrote, =B3Everything is sympathetically alive, part of an encompassing order. Edgar=B9s poems are unlike any I=B9ve ever read: deep, beautiful, and laugh-out-loud funny.=B2 Jordan Davis' new book is The Moon Is Moving: Million Poems Journal II (Faux). He is in the middle of the second season of The Million Poems Show, a monthly poetry talk show he hosts at the Bowery Poetry Club. He is a member of the Subpress Collective, an editor of The Hat, a contributor to Constant Critic, and a daily blogger at equanimity.blogspot.com. From 1992-94 he edited the Poetry Project Newsletter. From 1995-99 he hosted the Poetry City reading series at Teachers & Writers Collaborative. His essays on literary history have appeared in the Village Voice and Vanitas. He worked twelve years as Kenneth Koch's editorial assistant; he also wrote th= e introductory essays for The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch (Coffee House= ) and Some South American Poets: Poets Invented by Kenneth Koch (Faux). He ha= s written one blurb. Please join us Wednesday (tomorrow) evening at 8:00pm! Love, The Poetry Project =20 ZOMBOID! (Film Performance Project #1) RICHARD FOREMAN/ONTOLOGICAL-HYSTERIC THEATER Ontological Theater, 131 East 10th Street in St. Mark's Church Opens Thursday January 12 Tues, Thurs - Sun @ 8PM Students $17, Adults $23, ALL Saturday $28 (no service fee) buy tickets online at www.ontological.com or call TheaterMania at 212.352.3101=20 =20 For more information on ZOMBOID! visit www.ontological.com. Winter Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.html 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.com www.poetryproject.com Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $85 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. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:46:17 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: POETRY MAGAZINE its millions needs to be actively opposed In-Reply-To: <20060109061201.90250.qmail@web54414.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After reading people's comments on this Boston Globa article; I have thought that something that could start the conversation about how Poetry Magazine is wasting their money and not supporting poetry as an artform would be to publish an open letter. Since most of the people on the Buffalo list will NEVER appear in Poetry the political fallout would be minimal but I think that if 150 or 200 American poets who are publishing, running presses, teaching and writing poetry came together and we simply said that our artform is not really benefiting from this great gift it might create some debate rather than gushing NPR stories and newspaper articles. Last year Christian Wiman appeared on a local Right wing intellectual show here called Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg. They devoted an entire two hour program to poetry and reading and talking about poetry. It was not who they included but who they excluded that indicates what they are about the following poets were not even mentioned by Mr Wiman. Robert Creeley, Maxine Chernoff, Russell Edson, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Ted Berrigan, Robert Olson, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Paul Hoover, H.D., John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara,Alice Notley, and on and on. The reality is that the biggest elephant in the poetic room is not interested in poetry as an artform a creative political force, no they are interested in poetry the way that art museums are interested in paintings as a means to profit and to do blockbuster artshows. I think that their agenda needs to be opposed. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:47:32 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Nick LoLordo Subject: Re: POETRY MAGAZINE its millions needs to be actively opposed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm curious, though: who _did_ they include? among living poets, I mean.....is there a transcript available? The _Globe_ story was relatively good, I thought--somewhat critical at least. I like your open letter idea. ---------- V. Nicholas LoLordo Assistant Professor University of Nevada-Las Vegas Department of English 4504 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, NV 89154-5011 (702) 895-3623 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:28:03 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Recommended Reading (II): Antin, Bergvall, Ledebur, Lehto, Mancini Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Antin, *john cage uncaged is still cagey*=20 (San Diego: Singing Horse Press, 2005). Two talk=20 poems from 1989, which start as a response to=20 Cage=92s Silence. With an introduction, =93Start=20 Making Sense,=94 by Kenneth Goldsmith. Caroline Bergvall, *Fig* (Cambridge, UK: Salt,=20 2005). Listen to the glissade, as meaning slides=20 into sound, sound to sense, sense to action.=20 Working at the borders of poetry, installation,=20 performance, and translation, Caroline Bergvalls=20 Fig is conceptually astute and structurally=20 shimmering. From figuration (imagine) to figure=20 (articulate) to fig (object): a pleasure for eye, ear, mind. Benedikt Ledebur, *=DCBER/TRANS/LATE/SP=C4T* (Paris:=20 Onestar Press, 2001). A key new work of radical=20 translation. Ledebur, an Austrian poet, has=20 produced a series of deformative translations of=20 poems by Dickinson, Auden, Blake, Rimbaud,=20 Villon, and Mallarm=E9. On the verso pages, he has=20 created as series of poems using a procedure of=20 erasure similar to Ronald Johnson=92s Radi os and=20 Jen Bervin=92s Nets (for Shakespeare=92s sonnets),=20 except that Ledebur will often do several=20 versions of a single poem. On the recto, he=20 translates these poems (which are in English and=20 French) into German. Interspersed are provocative=20 passages on the poetics of translation from=20 Antoine Berman, Nelson Goodman, Roland Barthes,=20 and others, which operate not as explanation but=20 as an integral part of this exploratory work. Leevi Lehto, *P=E4iv=E4* (Helsinki: Kirja kerrallaan,=20 2004). In Finnish, and inspired by Kenneth=20 Goldsmith's Day, Lehto has sorted, alphabetically=20 by sentence, the entire Finnish News Agency feed=20 for August 20, 2003. P=E4iv=E4 is organized news in=20 the pursuit of that most elusive elixir, the new.=20 Now it is dawn, now night, now noon. This day=20 never ends. P=E4iv=E4 shows the fly the way out of=20 the flybottle. Full PDF of the book, and sample=20 English translation, at http://www.leevilehto.net/paiva. Donato Mancini, *Ligatures* (Vancouver: New Star Books, 2005) Brilliant typographic design in two extended=20 visual poems =93Graphically Classified Alphabet=94=20 and =93Starfield Series=94 are standouts; also=20 intriguing: =93Writing for the First Time: 22 baby=20 mesostics.=94 Candadian =92Pataphysics Is Dead! Long Live Canadian= =91=92Pataphysics! Charles Bernstein http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:50:43 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Brennan Subject: Some things you need to know before the world ends Comments: To: corp-focus@lists.essential.org, WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Click here: The Assassinated Press Cheney/Bush Administration Officials Charged With Prostitution And Murder In Deaths Of 12 West Virginia Miners: Kleptocracy Caught With Smoking Guns In Mouths of Victims Again: Mine Disaster's Terrible Irony: The Media, After Reporting Nothing About The Hazards Of Mining Deregulation And Union Busting, Commences Exploiting The Miners' Murders For Profit Without Threat Of Criminal Sanctions Or Even A Decent Vigilante Movement: 'Scooter' Libby's Hush Money To Be Laundered Through The Hudson Institute: Before Second 'Stroke' Sharon Was About To Spill The Beans About The Hariri Assassination By BOWAND KURTZY The Anti-Empire Report Some things you need to know before the world ends By WILLIAM BLUM Save Your Horseshit, Pace; Assassinated Press Poll Shows 0% Of American Youth Know Who Murtha Is Much Less What He Said About Your Imperial Adventure: Lawmaker's Talk About Military Irks Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Restin Pace: Assassinated Press Finds Military's Pool Of Cannon Fodder Untouched By Knowledge Or Information Of Any Kind: Poll Numbers Lower Among The General Population: "When Your Out There, Its Like America Is A Pre-Literate Culture. It Makes Me So Proud Of Our Education System, Stooge-Glutted Media, Entertainment Industry, And Vast Government And Corporate Propaganda Machine."---Ed Bernays: Losing Struggle Against Iraqi Patriots Making Pace Testy, Say Aides: Library Of Congress To Discard Books For Video Games To Compete With Pentagon For Funds: By JOSHING WHITEYLIE Except For Oil Pipelines, CIA Poppy, U.S. Throwing In The Towel In Afghanistan: Record Year of Violence, American Deaths And Money At Stake In Upcoming 2006 Elections Convinces Cheney Administration To Go Public With Surrender Strategy: "As Far As U.S. Is Concerned, The Hunt For Bin Laden Is Over," Says U.S. Ambassador Neumann: NATO, Other Allies Take Up Combat Role, Avenge 9/11, And Pretend To Hunt For Bin Laden: NATO Ain't Your Grandfather's Run Of The Military-Industrial Cold War Hustle Any More; Now Its A U.S. Owned And Operated Imperialist Army: "But My Heart Ain't In It," Complains Lithuanian NATO Commander: CIA Says UNOCAL Oil Pipeline Rep Hamid Karzai To Remain In Power For Now: Most New Appropriations For Iraq Slated For Prison Construction To Meet U.S. Forces Appetite For Interrogation Sex: By GRIFTY WITT They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical, whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house. One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving free reign to this hubbub of voices...." ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:22:57 +1100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pam Brown Subject: Hi Alex J. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Alex, If you can access the Poetics list, what's the problem with accessing 'Jacket' in Beijing ? The link is http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html Best of luck, Pam >Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:36:12 -0800 >From: Alex Jorgensen >Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe >Pam, >But one thing you do have, along with John Tranter, is >Jacket Magazine, which, regrettably, I'm not able to >view from my flat in Beijing -- and sorely miss! >AJ _________________________________________________________________ Web site : Pam Brown - http://www.geocities.com/p.brown/ Associate editor : Jacket - http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html _________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out gigs in your area on the comprehensive Yahoo! Music Gig Guide http://au.music.yahoo.com/gig-guide ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:02:48 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: 'Jacket' in Beijing In-Reply-To: <20060111052258.85174.qmail@web33205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It's been blocked, along with Wikipedia, BBC, of course, countless others, along with many "anonymizers" -- in fact, my computer use is monitored, along with e-mails. I keep reminding myself that my breath is my liscense, and that this right, though taken for granted too often, is the only power I truly have to dispense reason where there might be none. AJ --- Pam Brown wrote: > Hi Alex, > If you can access the Poetics list, what's the > problem > with accessing 'Jacket' in Beijing ? > The link is http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html > Best of luck, > Pam > > >Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:36:12 -0800 > >From: Alex Jorgensen > >Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe > > >Pam, > > >But one thing you do have, along with John Tranter, > is > >Jacket Magazine, which, regrettably, I'm not able > to > >view from my flat in Beijing -- and sorely miss! > > >AJ > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Web site : Pam Brown - > http://www.geocities.com/p.brown/ > Associate editor : Jacket - > http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > ____________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out gigs in your area on the comprehensive > Yahoo! Music Gig Guide > http://au.music.yahoo.com/gig-guide > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:44:17 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: dbcinema version 0.6792 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i have a new version of dbcinema (still in progress) at http://vispo.com/dbcinema . this is a tool for finding and viewing images on any topic. type the concept. view the pictures. ja ps: have been following the POETRY thread with great interest. have started about five emails on the subject, but deleted them all before sending. what occurs to me at this moment is that if you look at what some excellent poets have given poetry and poets--the works and their other work--it dwarfs what this organization has achieved so far, from what i read. it really does seem to be a question of the richness, generosity, and resourcefulness of imagination that brings forth good things relevant and useful to poetry. i hope they are able to do wonderful things with that money, ultimately. but what it shows us, so far, is where the real riches are, concerning poetry--they aren't in the bank. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:10:48 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: George Bowering Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 10-Jan-06, at 11:44 PM, Jim Andrews wrote: > i have a new version of dbcinema (still in progress) at > http://vispo.com/dbcinema . Is that a movie about David Bromige? > Mr. George Bowering, M.A. His eyes hurt more than his feet. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:26:25 +0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bob Marcacci Subject: Re: 'Full Metal Jacket' in Beijing In-Reply-To: <20060111060248.72030.qmail@web54411.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Yes, these are blocked, as are blogs... I can go to blogger.com to update my blog (http://marcacci.blogspot.com/> *snickers*, although I can never visit the site to see the results. I use a proxy server to access the site, and those don't seem to be blocked here. Or they haven't caught up with it yet... It makes it a little tedious to read blogs but, at least for the time being, this is a good workaround. I've actually come across a number of websites, mostly poetry related, which also seem to be blocked, although I haven't investigated. Seems a little strange that some of those podunk poetry sites are blocked... I should start keeping a list... I know Alex is still learning about all this techno mumbo-jumbo, but we're doing our best to follow all y'all back in the states... -- Bob Marcacci Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. - Emile M. Cioran > From: Alex Jorgensen > Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group > Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:02:48 -0800 > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: 'Jacket' in Beijing > > It's been blocked, along with Wikipedia, BBC, of > course, countless others, along with many > "anonymizers" -- in fact, my computer use is > monitored, along with e-mails. I keep reminding myself > that my breath is my liscense, and that this right, > though taken for granted too often, is the only power > I truly have to dispense reason where there might be > none. > > AJ > > --- Pam Brown wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> If you can access the Poetics list, what's the >> problem >> with accessing 'Jacket' in Beijing ? >> The link is http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html >> Best of luck, >> Pam >> >>> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:36:12 -0800 >>> From: Alex Jorgensen >>> Subject: Re: Poetry article in Boston Globe >> >>> Pam, >> >>> But one thing you do have, along with John Tranter, >> is >>> Jacket Magazine, which, regrettably, I'm not able >> to >>> view from my flat in Beijing -- and sorely miss! >> >>> AJ >> >> >> > _________________________________________________________________ >> >> Web site : Pam Brown - >> http://www.geocities.com/p.brown/ >> Associate editor : Jacket - >> http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html >> > _________________________________________________________________ >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> Do you Yahoo!? >> Check out gigs in your area on the comprehensive >> Yahoo! Music Gig Guide >> http://au.music.yahoo.com/gig-guide >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:31:21 -0500 Reply-To: dbuuck@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Buuck Subject: looking for Mike Magee Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey MM - email me? thanks David Buuck ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:40:03 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Robert Corbett Subject: Re: the Boston Globe article In-Reply-To: <000601c61617$01dedf00$78870744@homen5ledppmlr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit here is the link: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/ The title is Poets, Inc. tlrelf wrote: Would someone please repost the title of the Boston Globe article--and the link, if possible. Thank you! Ter ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:23:37 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: Doing time behind the bars of america-- womyn in prison MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/47745.php Doing time behind the bars of america Dedicated to womyn in prison. Doing time behind the bars of america by Dj Elen of the ways Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006 at 3:08 AM Dedicated to womyn in prison. -- wo audio: MP3 at 47.5 mebibytes http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/2006-01-10--22-42.mp3 ___\ Stay Strong \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil \ "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte \ http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/lbraithwaite-01.html \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ } ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:54:37 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > i have a new version of dbcinema (still in progress) at > > http://vispo.com/dbcinema . > > Is that a movie about David Bromige? yes eventually. at the moment it's more like a slideshow. but taking it from dbslideshow to dbcinema is something i hope eventually to write. and if you type in "George Bowering" | "David Bromige" that means 'gb or db' and you get a slideshow mostly of gb. on the internet, there's a picture of you taken for just about each year you've walked the earth, george. ja ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:01:45 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Re: POETRY MAGAZINE its millions needs to be actively opposed In-Reply-To: <1136951252.43c47fd4a2616@webmail.scsv.nevada.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Donald Justice, Philip Larkin, Kay Ryan, Billy Collins were talked about allot R -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Nick LoLordo Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:48 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: POETRY MAGAZINE its millions needs to be actively opposed I'm curious, though: who _did_ they include? among living poets, I mean.....is there a transcript available? The _Globe_ story was relatively good, I thought--somewhat critical at least. I like your open letter idea. ---------- V. Nicholas LoLordo Assistant Professor University of Nevada-Las Vegas Department of English 4504 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, NV 89154-5011 (702) 895-3623 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:24:49 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Roommate sought, Chelsea, NYC Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Beautiful Chelsea apartment, parquet floors, terrace, eat-in kitchen, Empire State Building views, front and back yards, cable tv, and cable modem. Available March 1, affordable rent. Email editor@boogcity.com or call 212-842-2664 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://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) F: (212) 842-2429 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:18:27 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: PR Primeau Subject: Re: Doing time behind the bars of america-- womyn in prison MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Womyn? Hahaha. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:42:16 -0330 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kevin Hehir Subject: African Literature conference : Call for Papers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII CALL FOR PAPERS The Changing Face of African Literature The Centre for African Literary Studies, in conjunction with the 9th annual Time of the Writer international writers festival in Durban, is hosting a conference on The Changing Face of African Literature March 21-23, 2006, in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. African literature does not look as it did when it was first established as a field of academic study in the 1960s. Africa itself has changed enormously since the first generation of writers appeared just before and after independence, and the needs and concerns of its writers have changed greatly as a consequence. Africans have undergone terrible ordeals and have developed resourceful strategies to deal with them. A younger generation, the literary grandchildren of Senghor, Achebe, and Soyinka, have moved onto the stage with very different concerns than their predecessors, yet too often academics talk as if the die had been cast by the first generation of postcolonial writers. There are more women writing than ever before, but they are still outnumbered. There is more writing in African languages but the danger of being swamped by English and French is also greater than ever before. Colonization has receded into the past, yet globalization and neo-colonialism pose challenge! s of their own at least as great. All the old certainties of nation-state and Pan-Africanism have been challenged; all are still with us. Whereas the first generation of writers and academics had to prove Africa was capable of high literature, there is now more freedom to explore popular culture. There is an African film industry. And there are new challenges that literature is only tentatively beginning to explore: such as AIDS, child soldiers, the triumph of global capitalism, the destruction of the natural environment, and the rise of religion as a political force. We invite papers (of about 20 minutes in length) dealing with aspects of what is new in African literature since 1990 or discerning the lineaments of African literature today. We are interested in literature from all of the continent south of the Sahara, written in English, French, and Portuguese as well as in languages that originated in Africa. Papers may deal with single texts, single authors, or with larger themes explored across several texts. We invite papers about pedagogy as well as literary criticism. Paper Proposals should indicate a Title, Name and Affiliation of proposer, Contact Address [including e-mail & fax], and should be accompanied by a short [one paragraph] abstract. The deadline for proposals for papers is Jan 20, 2006. Please submit proposals to Bernard DeMeyer or Neil ten Kortenaar Centre for African Literary Studies University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg Scottsville 3209 South Africa Or by e-mail to : demeyerb@ukzn.ac.za or to TenKortenaar@ukzn.ac.za The Time of the Writer festival runs from 20-25 March - for more information visit www.cca.ukzn.ac.za -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please find our disclaimer at http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer -------------------------------------------------------------------- <<<>>> _______________________________________________ CCA-World mailing list CCA-World@lists.ukzn.ac.za http://lists.ukzn.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/cca-world ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:06:54 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: amy king Subject: Angelina Jolie is pregnant, and Ted Kooser In-Reply-To: <26c.3dcab4b.30f49fb3@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit is at it again! In a new interview today ... is no one else bugged ----> http://www.amyking.org/blog/ ? --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos – Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books. You design it and we’ll bind it! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:12:47 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lou Rowan Subject: Golden Handcuffs Review #6 is out MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Colleagues, the new issue: Poetry by Rachel Tzvia Back, Daniel = Borzutsky, Laynie Browne, Anna Maria Hong, Toby Olson, Jerome = Rothenberg, Jacques Roubaud, Dionysius Solomos and Bruce Stater; Fiction = by Leslie Kaplan, Tim Keane, Stacey Levine, Harry Mathews, Joe Ashby = Porter, Matthew Roberson, Alan Singer, and James Tierney; Essays by Bill = Dorn, Douglas Messerli, and Michael Palmer; Responses to Laynie Browne = by Jeanne Heuving and Robert Mittenthal; to Leslie Kaplan by Catherine = A.F. Macgillivray; to Stacey Levine by David Karp and Lou Rowan; to Joe = Ashby Porter by Emily Grosholz, Harry Mathews, Toby Olson, and James = Tierney. Golden Handcuffs is distributed by Ingram, DeBoer, and Ubiquity. The = website = (www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com) = contains a selection, and is being updated and improved. Price $6.95/ = issue, subs $12/annum from Box 20158, Seattle, WA 98102. Best, Lou Rowan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:05:11 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Kane Subject: apartment in Copenhagen, February and March Comments: cc: jlfaces@hotmail.com, d.kane@uea.ac.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed It's nice and cheap and central and furnished. And no roomates. For more info, contact Jenny Lund at jlfaces@hotmail.com best, --daniel ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:31:26 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: tlrelf Subject: Re: the Boston Globe article MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thank you so much, Robert. Best, Ter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Corbett" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:40 AM Subject: Re: the Boston Globe article > here is the link: > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/01/08/poets_inc/ > > The title is Poets, Inc. > > > tlrelf wrote: Would someone please repost the title of > the Boston Globe article--and the > link, if possible. > > Thank you! > > Ter ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:55:15 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: New Small Press Profile PAVEMENT SAW PRESS call for reviews MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Friends of Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com: In January we are doing a new and exciting small press profile of Ohio's Pavement Saw Press. We are profiing 13 of their authors along with links to any reviews of their books. If any of you have written reviews of Pavement Saw Books or Chapbooks please send me any on line links to these reviews or the text of the reviews with a release and I will attach them or link them to this new section. I need to have these by January 15th 2006 Rgds Raymond L Bianchi chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/ collagepoetchicago.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:39:20 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Waber Subject: words years days people MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 40 words, 40 years 365 days, 365 people I turned 40 on January 12th, 2005, and I wanted to mark the occasion in some positive fashion. So I got this crazy idea: I know! I'll write 40 words (no more, no less) every day for a year, and each day I'll write about a different person (in no particular order--in fact, in a shuffled order) who touched my life in some way. But not just anyone, it's got to be someone I've actually met in person, someone whose name I still remember, and someone who was interesting. Because I often think up great ideas for things that turn out to be impossible (that darned reality!), the first thing I did was attempt to make a list of 365 people whose names I remembered and who were interesting to me. I recommend you try this. Soon. It's a worthwhile exercise, I promise. Don't think you can do it easy, or you can't do it, no way, really try it and don't give up easily. For me, the first 50 or so came lickety-split, easy-peasy. The second 50 were not too tough. After that, it got really tough, really fast. When I got to 200 I honestly thought this was going to be impossible. When I got to 300 I was pretty much certain it was impossible and I thought I was going to need to relent on the restriction that I had to remember their name. I have lost a lot of names from my memory. I still have faces, and the floorplans of houses and the shapes of mouths, and the words they used, but I have lost the names. 40 words is a tiny lens to look through. How do you put a mother, an ex-wife, a best friend, or the love of your life into 40 words when that's not even enough for the junior high math teacher, or the son of the guy who sold meats and cheeses to the place you worked? There's only one way to find out. Try this: make a list of 365 people whose names you remember and who were interesting to you. Even if you don't want to write 40 about each, at least try making the list. And then, if you can, write down a few words about each of them before they're gone from your memory. If you can't do this, it might be wise to spend the next 365 days meeting more people in person who are interesting to you. Learn their names. This is the only time I'll post to this list about this project, though I will be posting them daily to the WRYTING-L list (where the regular posting of experiments seems more appropriate), and also to a blog set up for this limited purpose at: http://www.logolalia.com/40x365/ I have begun with my mom because, well, I began with my mom, and this is being begun on my birth day. The rest will be done from a list whose order has been shuffled. Regards, Dan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:25:27 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Boyd Spahr Subject: Wheeler, Howe, Gordon, WIlliams, Glomski, Downing/Picker, Greenberg Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain Some recent and forthcoming appearances at Order+Decorum (www.personnagesobscurs.com): + Susan Wheeler [Rush Holt, D-12 NJ] + Brian Howe [David Price, D-4 NC] + Noah Eli Gordon [Jim Cooper, D-5 TN] + Tyrone Williams [Michael Oxley, R-4 OH] + Chris Glomski [Dennis Hastert, R-14 IL] currently posted + Marion Picker's translation into German of Brandon Downing's poem "In Sear= ch of the Amber Room" [E. Clay Shaw, R-22 FL] tomorrow + two "idylls" by Michael Greenberg [Jim Costa, D-20 CA] Monday Thanks - = Boyd Spahr ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:43:15 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Maria Damon Subject: Fwd: The Probe Of Professors Said To Inject Politics Into Classes At PA Publi... Comments: To: englfac@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable academic freedom under siege again, this time unsuccessfully... >Hearing Into Bias Falls Short Of Billing > >The Probe Of Professors Said To Inject Politics Into Classes At PA >Public Colleges Drew Just One Student Speaker. > >By Patrick Kerkstra Inquirer Staff Writer > >Philadelphia Inquirer >January 10, 2006 > >Yesterday's hearing on academic freedom at >Pennsylvania's public universities was hyped by >conservative activists as a "historic moment," in which >school administrators would finally be "called to >account" in front of state legislators for allowing >student "indoctrination and abuse" by leftist >professors. > >But the hearing at Temple University did not live up to >that billing. > >A professor scheduled to testify about alleged rampant >liberal bias at Temple canceled. The sole student to >appear before the legislative committee acknowledged he >had never filed a formal grievance. > >And Temple president David Adamany testified that in >fact no student had made an official classroom bias >complaint in at least five years, despite well- >developed policies and procedures for doing so. > >"If there are students out there who feel their rights >are being abridged, they need to speak up," said Rep. >Gib Armstrong (R., Lancaster). Armstrong is the >conservative lawmaker who called for hearings and got >them approved by the Pennsylvania House. > >Pennsylvania is the only state in the nation to have >held academic freedom hearings, but lawmakers in 19 >other states have proposed some form of legislation >designed to address alleged professorial bias. The >hearings at Temple are the second of four scheduled by >the state House Select Committee on Academic Freedom in >Higher Education. > >Many academics have condemned the movement, and >Pennsylvania's hearings in particular, as a new form of >McCarthyism that leaves professors with the impression >the government is monitoring their lectures. > >"Just as in the 1950s, right-wing forces are attempting >to impose political tests on the faculty," Rachel >DuPlessis, a Temple English professor, testified. > >Lawmakers first heard from Adamany yesterday. Unlike >many of his presidential counterparts, Adamany said he >welcomed the hearing. He defended Temple's record, >acknowledging only that the university could do more to >"make sure that students know of their rights to >appeal" when politics leaks inappropriately into >classroom discussions. > >Temple senior Logan Fisher, vice chairman of the >school's College Republicans chapter, offered several >vivid examples of what he considered classroom bias, >alleging that a few professors vulgarly insulted >President Bush in their lectures. Fisher also said a >professor told him, "You're going to have a rough >semester in this class," after Fisher disagreed with >him over a foreign policy question. > >Fisher also said he had spoken with many students who >had similar experiences. > >Asked why he and the other students never filed a >formal complaint, Fisher said they feared retribution >and felt their grievance would be ignored. > >Democrats seemed convinced that the threat to student >academic freedom had been overblown. > >Rep. Dan Frankel (D., Allegheny) said that "for us to >pretend there is widespread abuse going on is >problematic." > >Rep. Dan Surra (D., Elk) called the hearings a >"colossal waste of time and taxpayer money." > >The hearings at Temple conclude today. Contact staff >writer Patrick Kerkstra at 610-313-8111 or >pkerkstra@phillynews.com. > >=A9 2006 Philadelphia Inquirer and wire service sources. >All Rights Reserved. http://www.philly.com > > >_______________________________________________________ > >portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, >discussion and debate service of the Committees of >Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. It aims to >provide varied material of interest to people on the >left. > >For answers to frequently asked questions: >http://www.portside.org/faq > >To subscribe, unsubscribe or change settings: >http://lists.portside.org/mailman/listinfo/portside > >To submit material, paste into an email and send to: >moderator@portside.org (postings are moderated) > >For assistance with your account: >support@portside.org > >To search the portside archive: >https://lists.mayfirst.org/search/swish.cgi?list_name=3Dportside ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:53:47 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pierre Joris Subject: Nomadics blog is back Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed After a "sabbatical" break, I've decided to rekindle my blog =E2=80=94 & = =20 expect to post 3 or 4 times a week. Check out the latest offerings: On Europe Peter Lamborn Wilson on the Web Monday Night in Albany NY La=C3=A2bi's New Year Poem More Of Last Year's News That Will Mess With These Coming Years Yearly Review, not by me HAPPY NEW YEAR * BONA ANNADA * =EC=83=88=ED=95=B4 =EB=B3=B5 =EB=A7=8E=EC=9D= =B4 =EB=B0=9B=EC=9C=BC=EC=84=B8=EC=9A=94 * BONNE =20 ANNEE * A SCHEI'NT NEIT JOER * FELIZ ANO NUEVO Back up, possibly running Nomadics blog: http://pjoris.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism,since it is the merger of state and corporate power." =E2=80=94 Benito Mussolini =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D Pierre Joris 244 Elm Street Albany NY 12202 h: 518 426 0433 c: 518 225 7123 o: 518 442 40 85 Euro cell: 011 33 6 79 368 446 email: joris@albany.edu http://www.albany.edu/~joris/ Nomadics blog: http://pjoris.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:08:28 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joel Weishaus Subject: Oregon Literary Review Comments: To: Invent-L , Webartery , WRYTING-L@listserv.utoronto.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable First Issue of Oregon Literary Review, "an online collection of = literature, hypertext, art, music, and hypermedia."=20 http://www.oregonlitrev.org/v1n1/OregonLiteraryReview.htm ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:29:27 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eric Dickey Subject: 10,000 poems In-Reply-To: <8664opmupj.fsf@argos.fun-fun.prv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://www.10000poems.com/ As a part of the Steinbeck Chair program, we are looking for all kinds of poets – school students to retirees, novice beginners to published Pulitzer Prize-winning poets to create 10,000 poems over one year. We are looking for writers from diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Poems can reflect the rich cultural heritage of the Salinas Valley or are representative of the specific place you call home. The 10,000 Poems Project seeks to celebrate the lives of our fellow residents and their personal journeys. Poems can be on whatever topic you wish, and do not need to relate to or mention John Steinbeck. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos – Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books. You design it and we’ll bind it! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:32:28 +0530 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: kari edwards Subject: Some shameless self promotion MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline Q2hlY2sgb3V0IHRoZSBuZXcgPGEKaHJlZj0iaHR0cDovL2hvdGVsYW1lcmlrYS5uZXQvc3Vic2Ny aXB0aW9ucy5zaHRtbGwiPkhvdGVsIEFtZXJpa2E6PC9hPgoKVm9sdW1lIDQgTm8uIDEg4oCoRXVn w6luaW8gZGUgQW5kcmFkZeKAqExpeiBCZWFzbGV54oCoVC4gQWxhbiBCcm91Z2h0b27igKhDaGFy ZApkZU5pb3Jk4oCoa2FyaSBlZHdhcmRz4oCoQnJlbmRhbiBHYWx2aW7igKhTdGV2ZSBHZWhya2Xi gKhHZW9yZ2VzIEdvZGVhdeKAqEpvaG4KSG9sbGFuZGVy4oCoU8OhbmRvciBLw6FuecOhZGnigKhK ZXNzZSBMZWUgS2VyY2hldmFs4oCoSmVubmlmZXIgTC4gS25veOKAqExlb25hcmQKS3JpZWdlbOKA qFBldGVyIExhU2FsbGXigKhBbGV4IExlbW9u4oCoTGF1cmEgTWNDdWxsb3VnaOKAqFNlYW4gTWNE b25uZWxsCkVkdWFyZG8gTWlsw6Fu4oCoQWltZWUgTmV6aHVrdW1hdGF0aGls4oCoTGl6YSBQb3J0 ZXLigKhCb25uaWUgUnViZXJn4oCoVG9ueQpTYW5kZXJz4oCoU3RldmVuIFNjaHdhcnR64oCoUmlj aGFyZCBTZWx6ZXLigKhWaXJnaWwgU3XDoXJleuKAqEdsYWR5cyBTd2Fu4oCoSm9lClRheWxvcuKA qFN1c2FuIFRpY2h54oCoVG9ueSBUcmlnaWxpb+KAqERhdmlkIFdhZ29uZXLigKhEaWFuZSBXYWtv c2tp4oCoRGFuZWVuCldhcmRyb3DigKhUb20gV2hhbGVu4oCoQ2Fyb2x5bmUgV3JpZ2h04oCoWnls bGFoIFphbGEKCkhvdGVsIEFtZXJpa2EKMzYwIEVsbGlzIEhhbGwKT2hpbyBVbml2ZXJzaXR5CkF0 aGVucywgT0ggNDU3MDEK ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:25:07 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Cassandra Laity Subject: CFP: Modernist Studies Association 8th Annual Conference (MSA 8; 2/28/06; 5/9/06; 10/19-22/2006) (Revised) Comments: To: modbrits@listserv.kent.edu, hdsc-l@listserv.uconn.edu, tse@lists.missouri.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MSA 8=E2=80=94OUT OF THE ARCHIVES 19-22 October 2006 Tulsa, Oklahoma CALL FOR SEMINAR, ROUNDTABLE, AND PANEL PROPOSALS http://www.utulsa.edu/jjq/msa8 The 2006 meeting of the Modernist Studies Association will take place at=20 the Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 19-22 October.=20 Founded in 1999, the MSA is devoted to the interdisciplinary study of=20 the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts=20 from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century. The=20 organization=E2=80=99s annual conference regularly brings together in exces= s of=20 500 scholars from a variety of disciplines and features an engaging mix=20 of keynote addresses, small seminars, panel presentations, and=20 roundtable discussions. This year the event will be hosted by the=20 University of Tulsa with generous financial support provided by the=20 National Endowment for the Humanities, the James Joyce Quarterly, the=20 Modernist Journals Project, and Tulsa Studies in Women=E2=80=99s Literature= . Although the organizers welcome seminar and panel proposals on any topic=20 related to the organization=E2=80=99s focus, particular preference will be = given=20 to those which consider the ways in which visual, literary, cinematic,=20 journalistic, personal, financial, musical, and other sorts of archives=20 have begun to alter the structure and boundaries of aesthetic modernism.=20 Detailed information about the conference=E2=80=94including updated calls f= or=20 proposals, housing arrangements, travel information, and details=20 regarding subsidiary events--can be found on-line at=20 http://www.utulsa.edu/jjq/msa8 . All email queries should be directed to=20 the conference organizers at msa8@utulsa.edu. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES * All who attend the MSA conference must be members of the organization=20 with dues paid for 2006-2007. (MSA membership runs from October to=20 September.) * Because we wish to involve as many people as possible as active=20 participants, MSA does not permit multiple appearances on the program.=20 That is, one cannot give papers in two sessions, or be both a seminar=20 leader and a panelist or roundtable participant. However, panelists,=20 roundtable participants, and plenary speakers who also wish to=20 participate in a seminar or a "What Are You Reading?" session may=20 certainly do so. And of course one may chair a session and also appear=20 elsewhere on the program. * MSA rules do not allow panel or roundtable organizers to chair their=20 own session if they are also speaking in the session. Organizers are=20 encouraged to identify a moderator and include this information with=20 their proposals; the MSA Program Committee is also able to help you=20 secure another conference attendee's service as moderator. CALL FOR SEMINAR PROPOSALS Deadline: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Seminars are one the most significant features of the MSA conference.=20 Participants write brief "position papers" (5-7 pages) that are read and=20 circulated prior to the conference. With no more than 15 participants,=20 seminars generate lively exchange and sometimes produce networks of=20 scholars who continue to work together beyond the conference. The format=20 also allows most conference attendees to seek financial support from=20 their institutions as they educate themselves and their colleagues on=20 subjects of mutual interest. Seminars are two hours in length. Please note that this is the call for seminar leaders. Sign-ups for=20 seminar participants will take place on a first-come, first-served basis=20 starting in mid-March, coinciding with registration for the conference. Seminar Topics There are no limits on topics, but past experience has shown that the=20 more clearly defined the topic and the more guidance provided by the=20 leader, the more productive the discussion. To scan past seminar topics,=20 go to the Conference Archives=20 on the MSA website,=20 click the link to a prior conference, and then click on "Conference=20 Schedule" or "Conference Program." You'll find seminars listed along=20 with panels and other events. Proposing a Seminar Seminar proposals must be submitted via email and must include the=20 following information. Please assist us by sending this information in=20 exactly the order given here: * Use as a subject line: SEMINAR PROPOSAL / [LAST NAME OF SEMINAR=20 LEADER] (e.g., SEMINAR PROPOSAL / GORMAN) * List the seminar leader's name, institutional affiliation, discipline,=20 position or title, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address * Provide a brief curriculum vitae (including teaching experience) for=20 the seminar leader * Give a brief description (up to 100 words) of the proposed topic Submit proposals by Tuesday, February 28, 2006 to: msa8seminars@utulsa.edu Seminars will be selected mid-March 2006. CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS Deadline: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 There are no limits on topics, but please bear in mind these guidelines: * We encourage interdisciplinary panels and discourage panels on single=20 authors. * In order to encourage discussion, we prefer panels with three=20 participants, though panels of four will be considered. * Panels composed entirely of participants from a single department at a=20 single institution are not likely to be accepted. * Graduate students are welcome as panelists. However, panels composed=20 entirely of graduate students are less likely to be accepted than panels=20 that include degreed presenters together with graduate students. Proposals for panels must be submitted via email and must include the=20 following information. Please assist us by sending this information in=20 exactly the order given here: * Use as a subject line: PANEL PROPOSAL / [LAST NAME OF PANEL ORGANIZER]=20 (e.g., PANEL PROPOSAL / GORMAN) * Session title * Session organizer's name, institutional affiliation, discipline,=20 position or title, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address * Chair's name, institutional affiliation, discipline, position or=20 title, and contact information (if you do not identify a chair, we will=20 locate one for you) * Panelists' names, paper titles, institutional affiliations,=20 disciplines, positions or titles, and contact information * A maximum 500-word abstract of the panel as a whole * Brief (2-3 sentence) scholarly biography of each panelist Send proposals by Tuesday, May 9, 2006 to: msa8panels@utulsa.edu Panels will be selected mid-June. CALL FOR ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS Deadline: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Unlike panels, which generally feature a sequence of 15-20 minutes talks=20 followed by discussion, roundtables gather a group of participants=20 around a shared concern in order to generate discussion among the=20 roundtable participants and with the audience. To this end, instead of=20 delivering full-length papers, participants typically deliver short=20 position statements in response to questions distributed in advance by=20 the organizer, or they take turns responding to prompts from the=20 moderator. The bulk of the session should be devoted to discussion. No=20 paper titles are listed in the program, only the names of participants. Other MSA roundtable policies: * Roundtables may feature as many as 6 speakers. * We particularly welcome roundtables featuring participants from=20 multiple disciplines, and we discourage roundtables on single authors. * Panels composed entirely of participants from a single department at a=20 single institution are not likely to be accepted. * Graduate students are welcome as speakers. However, roundtables=20 composed entirely of graduate students are less likely to be accepted=20 than roundtables that include degreed presenters together with graduate=20 students. Proposals for panels must be submitted via email and must include the=20 following information. Please assist us by sending this information in=20 exactly the order given here: * Use as a subject line: ROUNDTABLE PROPOSAL / [LAST NAME OF ROUNDTABLE=20 ORGANIZER] (e.g., ROUNDTABLE PROPOSAL / GORMAN) * Session title * Session organizer's name, institutional affiliation, discipline,=20 position or title, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address * Moderator's name, institutional affiliation, discipline, position or=20 title, and contact information (if you do not identify a moderator, we=20 will locate one for you) * Speakers' names, institutional affiliations, disciplines, positions or=20 titles, mailing addresses, phones, faxes, and e-mail addresses * A maximum 500-word rationale for the roundtable * Brief (2-3 sentence) scholarly biography of each speaker Send proposals by Tuesday, May 9, 2006 to: msa8roundtables@utulsa.edu Roundtables will be selected mid-June. --=20 Matt Huculak Conference Assistant, Modernist Studies Association 8 University of Tulsa Dept. of English Language and Literature 600 S College Ave Tulsa, OK 74104 Phone: 918.631.2474 Fax: 918.631.3033 http://www.utulsa.edu/jjq/msa8 --=20 Matt Huculak Conference Assistant, Modernist Studies Association 8 University of Tulsa Dept. of English Language and Literature 600 S College Ave Tulsa, OK 74104 Phone: 918.631.2474 Fax: 918.631.3033 http://www.utulsa.edu/jjq/msa8 Cassandra Laity Associate Professor Co-Editor, _Modernism/Modernity_ Department of English Drew University Madison, NJ 07940 Phone: 973-408-3141 Fax: 973-408-3040 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:36:06 +1100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pam Brown Subject: Re: POETICS Digest - In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello Alex, That's too bad - I don't think Jacket's all that dangerous in the imperialism/foreign devil stakes. It will all be up there in cyberspace whenever you're surfing outside China. All good wishes, Pam Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:02:48 -0800 From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: 'Jacket' in Beijing It's been blocked, along with Wikipedia, BBC, of course, countless others, along with many "anonymizers" -- in fact, my computer use is monitored, along with e-mails. I keep reminding myself that my breath is my liscense, and that this right, though taken for granted too often, is the only power I truly have to dispense reason where there might be none. AJ _________________________________________________________________ Web site : Pam Brown - http://www.geocities.com/p.brown/ Associate editor : Jacket - http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html _________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Movies: Check out the Latest Trailers, Premiere Photos and full Actor Database. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:51:22 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark Weiss Subject: query Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I owe Bill Mohr an email, but his address is on the computer that's in the shop. Anyone have it? B/c please. Mark ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:38:47 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Small Press Traffic Subject: Poets Theater Jamboree begins Tomorrow Night MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Small Press Traffic is pleased to present the first night of our Poets Theater Jamboree 2006 edition....Friday, January 13 at 7:30 pm. All seats are $10 and first come, first served. Hope to see you there!!! POETS THEATER JANUARY 13 "A Play, A Play" by Paolo Javier, directed by Del Ray Cross Entre act: Music by Brumit "The Laureate" written and directed by Michelle Bautista. Performed by Michelle Bautista, Rona Fernandez, Caroline King, Rhett Pascual and Dennis Somera Entre act: Music by Brumit "A Vinculum" by Chris Vitiello, directed by Mary Burger INTERMISSION Scenes from "The Lady Contemplation" (1662) by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, performed by Steffi Drewes & Emily Liechty Entre act: Music by Brumit "Asphodel In Hell's Despite" by John Wieners, directed by Kevin Killian Entre act: Music by Brumit "Who is the Real JT LeRoy" written & directed by Mattilda (a/k/a Matt Bernstein Sycamore) Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, San Francisco For directions and a map, please see http://www.sptraffic.org/html/fac_dir.html Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCA 1111 -- 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415.551.9278 http://www.sptraffic.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:35:18 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gabrielle Welford Subject: Re: words years days people In-Reply-To: <8664opmupj.fsf@argos.fun-fun.prv> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT what a wonderful idea! i'm going to do it. best, gabe On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Dan Waber wrote: > 40 words, 40 years > 365 days, 365 people > > I turned 40 on January 12th, 2005, and I wanted to mark the occasion > in some positive fashion. So I got this crazy idea: I know! I'll write > 40 words (no more, no less) every day for a year, and each day I'll > write about a different person (in no particular order--in fact, in a > shuffled order) who touched my life in some way. But not just anyone, > it's got to be someone I've actually met in person, someone whose name > I still remember, and someone who was interesting. > > Because I often think up great ideas for things that turn out to be > impossible (that darned reality!), the first thing I did was attempt > to make a list of 365 people whose names I remembered and who were > interesting to me. I recommend you try this. Soon. It's a worthwhile > exercise, I promise. Don't think you can do it easy, or you can't do > it, no way, really try it and don't give up easily. > > For me, the first 50 or so came lickety-split, easy-peasy. The second > 50 were not too tough. After that, it got really tough, really > fast. When I got to 200 I honestly thought this was going to be > impossible. When I got to 300 I was pretty much certain it was > impossible and I thought I was going to need to relent on the > restriction that I had to remember their name. I have lost a lot of > names from my memory. I still have faces, and the floorplans of houses > and the shapes of mouths, and the words they used, but I have lost the > names. > > 40 words is a tiny lens to look through. How do you put a mother, an > ex-wife, a best friend, or the love of your life into 40 words when > that's not even enough for the junior high math teacher, or the son of > the guy who sold meats and cheeses to the place you worked? There's > only one way to find out. > > Try this: make a list of 365 people whose names you remember and who > were interesting to you. Even if you don't want to write 40 about > each, at least try making the list. And then, if you can, write down a > few words about each of them before they're gone from your memory. If > you can't do this, it might be wise to spend the next 365 days meeting > more people in person who are interesting to you. Learn their names. > > This is the only time I'll post to this list about this project, > though I will be posting them daily to the WRYTING-L list (where the > regular posting of experiments seems more appropriate), and also to a > blog set up for this limited purpose at: > > http://www.logolalia.com/40x365/ > > I have begun with my mom because, well, I began with my mom, and this > is being begun on my birth day. The rest will be done from a list > whose order has been shuffled. > > Regards, > Dan > gabrielle welford instructor, hawaii pacific university welford@hawaii.edu Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.595 / Virus Database: 378 - Release Date: 2/25/2004 wilhelm reich anarcho-syndicalism gut/heart/head/earth ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:43:07 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetry Project Subject: Events at the Poetry Project 1/18-1/23 In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friendly People, There will not be a Monday Night Reading this week in honor of Martin Luthe= r King, Jr. Day. Please join on on January 18 to hear John Coletti and Deniz=C3= =A9 Lauture read. Also, scroll down for information on upcoming Spring Workshops. Love, The Poetry Project Wednesday, January 18. 8:00PM John Coletti & Deniz=C3=A9 Lauture John Coletti grew up in Santa Rosa, California and Portland, Oregon before moving to New York City twelve years ago. He is the author of Physical Kind= =C2=A0 (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs/Boku Books 2005), The New Normalcy (BoogLit 2002), and Street Debris (Fell Swoop 2005), a collaboration with poet Greg Fuchs with whom he also co-edits Open24Hours Press. He currently works in the city as an artist=E2=80=99s assistant and a freelance graphic designer. Deniz= =C3=A9 Lauture writes poetry in Creole, English and French. He has authored three volumes of poetry, The Blues of the Lightning Metamorphosis (1987, in Creole), When the Denzen Weeps (1989, in English) and The Curse of Sincerit= y River=E2=80=99s Samba (2004, in Creole). A new book, The Black Warrior and Other Poems, is forthcoming from subpress/Open24Hours. Lauture is also the author of three children=E2=80=99s books, a teacher, a Spanish Literature scholar and a former welder. He has read at the United Nations, the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Public Library. Recent work has been published in Bomb, Hurricane and Editions Desnel (France), among others. Monday, January 23, 8:00PM Anne Carson & Christine Hume Anne Carson is the author of over 10 books of poetry and criticism and teaches ancient Greek at the University of Michigan. She has been awarded a Guggenheim and a MacArthur among many other accolades. Her new book is called Decreation. Christine Hume is the author of Musca Domestica and Alaskaphrenia. Her criticism has been published in The Chicago Review, Context, Verse and online at How2 and Slope. She teaches at Eastern Michiga= n University. WRITING WORKSHOPS AT THE POETRY PROJECT =20 PRACTICAL CRITICISM: A POETRY WORKSHOP =E2=80=93 TONY TOWLE TUESDAYS AT 7 PM: 10 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 14TH =20 =E2=80=9CIt is assumed that participants will be serious, practicing poets and so critiques and comments will be made from the vantage point of what the person has already established, not with a view to =E2=80=98prescribing=E2=80=99 some different way of writing. However, stretching the sensibility will be encouraged, both in the group and through individual suggestion. Non-bindin= g assignments will be given each week and poems from the past as well as thos= e of the workshop participants will be read aloud and discussed. In the cours= e of this, numerous poets past and present, and topics both literary and general, will arise and be talked about. Also I will make written comments on poems individuals may prefer not to have read aloud.=E2=80=9D John Ashbery has written: =E2=80=9CTony Towle is one of the best-kept secrets of the New York School.=E2=80=9D Tony=E2=80=99s first reading at the Poetry Project was in 1968. Recent books include The History of the Invitation: New & Selected Poems 1963-2000= , and Memoir 1960-1963. THE UNPERFORMABLE: THE VISUAL SIDE OF POETRY =E2=80=93 EVELYN REILLY THURSDAYS at 7 PM: 5 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 16TH =20 =E2=80=9CThe traditional notion of poetry as primarily a matter of =E2=80=9Cvoice=E2=80=9D ha= s often obscured its graphic and visual character, and can limit the range of experiment to what can be experienced in the venue of the poetry reading. Even the most performance-based poets, however, face issues of how to spatialize their work on the page, and every line break is as much a visual as a rhythmic and aural decision. This workshop will explore a broad range of visual poetics =E2=80=94 from modernist innovations to composition-by-field to recent spatialized text, concrete, collage, and digital poetry. We will examine work by Mallarme, Apollinaire, cummings, Olson, Schwerner, Hak Kyun= g Cha, Aram Saroyan and Susan Howe, and peruse the UbuWeb site together. Everyone will be encouraged to analyze the visual assumptions behind their poems as well as to write or revise work using alternative visual conventions.=E2=80=9D Evelyn Reilly=E2=80=99s book Hiatus was published by Barrow Stree= t in 2004 and was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America=E2=80=99s Norma Farber First Book Award.=20 =20 INFORMATION POETICS =E2=80=93 CAROL MIRAKOVE THURSDAYS AT 7 PM: 5 SESSIONS BEGIN APRIL 6 =E2=80=9CHow do we get the swirling-inside/outside-the-head onto the page? What a= re the differences between knowledge and information, and what are we putting into our poems? Why? We will look at poets & projects confronting these questions & we will explore our own potential in navigating transitional space (community, jobs, war, media). We may look at poems by Etel Adnan, Ammiel Alcalay, Jules Boykoff, Ernesto Cardinal, Roque Dalton, Kevin Davies= , Jeff Derksen, Laura Elrick, Heather Fuller, Dana Gelinas, Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, Pattie McCarthy, Yedda Morrison, Alice Notley, Mark Nowak, Douglas Oliver, Kristin Prevallet, Deborah Richards, Cristina Rivera-Garza, Kaia Sand, Leslie Scalapino, and Rodrigo Toscano. We will discuss how we read an= d what we value, how to assess the values of any given poem. We may address contradictions in literal or figurative yogic practice and the (in)corporate(zation) rush. How can we sustain simultaneously our health an= d our engagements with destruction?=E2=80=9D Carol Mirakove is the author of Mediat= ed (Factory School, forthcoming in Spring 2006) and Occupied (Kelsey St. Press). =20 IN THE ABSENCE OF THEIR SURPRISE: A NEW YORK SCHOOL WORKSHOP =C2=AD=E2=80=93 JOEL LEW= IS FRIDAYS at 7 PM: 5 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 17TH =20 =E2=80=9CIn this workshop, we will the explore the poetry and poetics of the New York School of Poetry. A school of writing more linked by personal alliance= s and mutual dislikes, it features a dazzling range of approaches ranging fro= m the radical formalism of Edwin Denby to the the permanently =E2=80=9Cunder construction=E2=80=9D poetry of Clark Coolidge. In between these banner holders a= re poets with Pulitzer Prizes (John Ashbery, James Schuyler), poets with rock bands (Jim Carroll, Patti Smith, Janet Hamill), poets who run for President (Eileen Myles) poets who are actually read by non-poets (Frank O=E2=80=99 Hara) a= nd poets held dear mostly by other New York School Poets (Joe Ceravolo, Steve Carey and Jim Brodey). We will explore New York School techniques such as collaborations, appropriative writing, list poems, cut ups, rewrites, lists= , invented forms, reinvented forms, sonnets and the secrets of how-to-keep -going-when-you-having-nothing-interesting-to-say.=E2=80=9D Joel Lewis is the aut= hor of Verticals Currency: Selected Poems and edited On The Level Everyday, selected talks of Ted Berrigan. =20 POETRY WORKSHOP =E2=80=93 DAVID HENDERSON SATURDAYS AT 12PM: 10 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 18TH =20 =E2=80=9CWe are making manuscripts of our work (at whatever stage the work or the poet or both are). As poets we are also looking at and sometimes working with prose, as another form of poetry, as well other forms of poetry such a= s lyrics, raps, spoken word form(ats) or even simple lines =E2=80=93 good in and of themselves. We practice exercises and routines of the poet. We often listen to the works of each other =E2=80=93 in progress. And there is always the right t= o just read a work without comment or criticism.=E2=80=9D Poet, lyricist, and biographer David Henderson is the author of several books, including Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age and Neo-California. =20 =20 ***The workshop fee is $300, which includes a one-year individual Poetry Project membership and tuition for any and all spring and fall classes. Reservations are required due to limited class space, and payment must be received in advance. Please send payment and reservations to: The Poetry Project, St. Mark=E2=80=99s Church, 131 E. 10th St., NY, NY 10003. For more information please call (212)674-0910 or e-mail info@poetryproject.com. ZOMBOID! (Film Performance Project #1) RICHARD FOREMAN/ONTOLOGICAL-HYSTERIC THEATER Ontological Theater, 131 East 10th Street in St. Mark's Church Opens Thursday January 12 Tues, Thurs - Sun @ 8PM Students $17, Adults $23, ALL Saturday $28 (no service fee) buy tickets online at www.ontological.com or call TheaterMania at 212.352.3101=20 =20 For more information on ZOMBOID! visit www.ontological.com. Winter Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.html 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.com www.poetryproject.com Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $85 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. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:01:50 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jay Dougherty Subject: Interview series MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We're now featuring interviews with poets at Poetry Circle. http://www.poetrycircle.com Typically the interviews will be with poets whose works find their way among the editors' picks on the site, but I did hoist up a previously unpublished original interview with Charles Bukowski recently: http://www.poetrycircle.com/index.php/topic,226.0.html In the interview, Bukowski discusses letter writing with German translator Carl Weissner. I'll post lots of other interviews on the site in the coming weeks and months as well. I invite you all to join the site and submit your work. So far I've generally been pleased with the quality of work submitted, especially given the nature of the site, which is open to all. Here's an overview of the editorial concept: http://www.poetrycircle.com/index.php/topic,14.0.html I'm trying to cultivate an outlet for serious poetry, with a bent toward experimental works. Hope to see you there. And if you're interested in helping out as an editor of the site, please sign up and send a message to one of the existing editors. Thanks and take care. Jay ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:25:20 -0800 Reply-To: ishaq1823@telus.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: I am we (from revolutionary suicide) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/47863.php I am we So many of my comrades are gone now. Some tight partners, crime partners, and brothers off the block are begging on the street. Others are in asylum, penitentiary, or grave. They are all suicides of one kind of another who had the sensitivity and tragic imagination to see the oppression. Some overcame; they are the revolutionary suicides. Others were reactionary suicides who either overestimated or underestimated the enemy, but in any case were powerless to change their conception of the oppressor. I am we by huey p newton There is an old African saying, "I am we." If you met an African in ancient times and asked him who he was, he would reply, "I am we. This is revolutionary suicide: I, we, all of us are the one and the multitude. So many of my comrades are gone now. Some tight partners, crime partners, and brothers off the block are begging on the street. Others are in asylum, penitentiary, or grave. They are all suicides of one kind of another who had the sensitivity and tragic imagination to see the oppression. Some overcame; they are the revolutionary suicides. Others were reactionary suicides who either overestimated or underestimated the enemy, but in any case were powerless to change their conception of the oppressor. The differences lies in hope and desire. By hoping and desiring, the revolutionary suicide chooses life; he is, in the words of Nietzsche, "an arrow of longing for another shore." Both suicides despise tyranny, but the revolutionary is both a great despiser and a great adorer who longs for another shore. The reactionary suicide must learn, as his brother the revolutionary has learned, that the desert is not a circle. It is a spiral. When we have passed through the desert, nothing will be the same. You cannot bare your throat to the murderer. As George Jackson said, you must defend yourself and take the dragon position as in karate and make the front kick and the back kick when you are surrounded. You do not beg because your enemy comes with the butcher knife and the hatchet in the other. "He will not become a Buddhist over night." The Preacher said that the wise man and the fool have the same end: they go to the grave as a dog. Who sends us to the grave? The unknowable, the force that dictates to all classes, all territories, all ideologies; he is death, the Big Boss. An ambitious man seeks to dethrone the Big Boss, to free himself, to control when and how he will go to the grave. There is another illuminating story of the wise man and the fool, found in Mao's Little Red Book. A foolish old man went to the North Mountain and began to dig; a wise old man passed by and said, "Why do you dig; foolish old man? Do you not know that you cannot move the mountain with a little shovel?" But the foolish old man answered resolutely, "While the mountain cannot get any higher, it will get lower with each shovelful. When I pass on, my sons and his sons and his son's sons will go on making the mountain lower. Why can't we move the mountain?" And the foolish old man kept digging, and the generations that followed after him, and the wise old man looked on in disgust. But the resoluteness and the spirit of the generations that followed the foolish old man touched God's heart, and God sent two angels who put the mountain on their backs and moved the mountain. This is the story Mao told. When he spoke of God he meant the six hundred million who had helped him to move imperialism and bourgeois thinking, the two great mountains. The reactionary suicide is "wise," and the revolutionary suicide is a "fool," a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being "a fool for Christ." That foolishness can move the mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn. We will touch God's heart; we will touch the people's heart, and together we will move the mountain. from revolutionary suicide http://www.nathanielturner.com/revolutionarysuicide.htm ___\ Stay Strong\ \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil \ "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte \ http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/lbraithwaite-01.html http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ } ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:32:20 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Didi Menendez Subject: looking for a few good women....MiPOesias MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 I am currently working on the new issue for MiPOesias magazine. _http://www.mipoesias.com_ (http://www.mipoesias.com)=20 Here are the guidelines:=20 _http://www.mipoesias.com/2006Volume20Issue1/guidelines.html_=20 (http://www.mipoesias.com/2006Volume20Issue1/guidelines.html) =20 Deadline: February 15, 2006=20 All I can promise is that if your work is accepted, you will be in good =20 company.=20 Many Thanks =E2=80=93=20 Didi Menendez=20 Publisher/editor/producer/web girl........ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:23:33 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis LaCook Subject: Mary murmurs through threads Comments: To: netbehaviour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Does love forgive your abyss? Living next to bending smoke flecked with muscle with tissue upon rasped voices savage and just woke up, Mary's first morning Marlboro hangs acrid in the hot pinched air of our little yellow bedroom, now brown with syntax. When the kids are off to school and the house contracts to you again, and your work, you sit down in this struggle with light every morning brings, and you read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, and all that math you don't know(product of Lorain City Schools). But motherfucker, don't you understand that's no excuse? It's a warm dark winter again, and love is angled around you, splitting off in serial streams "Either way they have an abundance of the right stuff and you should accept it as gracefully as possible. Children learning to be socially competent, gaining positive values, increasing self-esteem, and having what it can to help and has decided to give away a non-commercial email sending service without cost to charities and nonprofits in need," Mary murmurs through threads. "Our records indicate that you may be in need of a refill. This offer is being presented to you right now!. Your credit history is in no way a factor. We have 99% approval rate. OK's the disallows theprocessed twitched meung lucked in clusters takahe conflicting or sercq the testiness inresponsively , torments it reconvened it's lordy in send and balladeer or xxiii or textbook's inobturates or limpsy it's mirrorize in gauntry ! but bureaucratises Herschel flannel's discusses colorific ! supercivilized's scrutinized changer resuscitates ! but tolyl it's wholesalers and" Wholesalers. It might rain bruise. It might torture bukake. There are secret prisoners of the war on terror, and they're not allowed to listen. http://www.lewislacook.org/xanaxpop/ *************************************************************************** No More Movements... Lewis LaCook -->Poet-Programmer|||http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/||| --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:31:13 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Grant Jenkins Subject: CFP (Call for Poets): AWP Austin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For those of you attending AWP in Austin this March who have contacted me with interest in reading, I believe I have secured a venue. If you are still interested (or are just now interested), backchannel me at grant-jenkins@utulsa.edu and let me know when you plan to arrive in Austin. That way, I can nail down the best day and time. Thanks! Grant -- G. Matthew Jenkins Director of the Writing Program English Department University of Tulsa 600 S. College Ave. Tulsa, OK 74104 918.631.2573 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:07:06 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: New on the blog Comments: To: "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics"@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Comments: cc: UK POETRY Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ Pix & Texts - Scrolling Along: Alito = Sadness Winter Throne Down When the Dead Die Winter Ancestry Round & Round Poetry - the High Wire Act (or, Poetry as a Form of Ecstasy) In a January vein! Stephen Vincent ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:32:48 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Elizabeth Treadwell Subject: FW: Etel Adnan reading in San Francisco Tuesday 1/17 Comments: To: wom-PO@LISTS.USM.MAINE.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Tuesday, January 17th, 7 pm at City Lights Books Etel Adnan celebrates the release of In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country, published by City Lights Books A haunting memoir that explores identity, history, displacement, and war from an Arab American perspective. A mosaic of lyrical vignettes, at once deeply personal and political, set against the turbulent backdrop of Arab/ Western relations, from the violent legacy of T.E. Lawrence to the contemporary catastrophes of Lebanon and the war on Iraq. Adnan writes, “Contrary to what is usually believed, it is not general ideas and grandiose unfolding of great events that impress the mind during times of heightened historic upheavals, but rather the uninterrupted flow of little experiences, observations, disturbances, small ecstasies, or barely perceptible discouragements that make up day-to-day living.” Etel Adnan, a Lebanese American poet, painter, and essayist, lives in Paris, Beirut, and the San Franciso Bay Area. Among her books, the novel Sitt Marie Rose is considered a classic of Middle Eastern Literature. She has been powerful voice for compassion and empowerment in feminist and antiwar movements. http://www.citylights.com/events.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:54:59 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: C Daly Subject: Catherine Daly Reads MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Catherine Daly, author of DaDaDa (Salt, 2003), Locket (Tupelo, 20050, = and the forthcoming Secret Kitty (Ahadada), Paper Craft (Moria), and = Chanteuse / Cantatrice (factoryschool), reads in the next two weeks in the = northeast: =20 January 15 with Leslie Bumstead (book party!) In Your Ear DC Arts 2438 18th street NW Washington DC 3 pm =20 January 17 with Yvette Neisser and Kathleen O'Toole Poetry Coffeehouse Grace Church 1041 Wisconsin Ave., NW Washington DC 7:30 pm =20 January 20 with Moira Egan and Jessica Smith i.e. reading series area 405 gallery 405 Oliver St Baltimore, MD =20 January 21 with Toby Olson Night Flag=20 upstairs at the Khyber 56 S. Second Street Philadelphia PA 7 pm =20 January 24 with Jeffery Levine Poets House NY, NY TBD =20 January 25 with Betsy Andrews Poetry Project NY, NY 8 pm =20 January 27 3rd Word House Reading 1650 Harvard St, NW Apt 515 Washington DC 9 pm =20 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:04:23 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis LaCook Subject: The Opening-up of lewislacook,org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit For years now, I've maintained a personal website that served more as an archive for my work than anything else. While such repositories are useful,they can get dusty, and they don't often utilize the community-building power of Internet technology. The net should be a place where nodes intersect and collide, not a dead museum or drab resume. ight? Thus, I'm opening up lewislacook.org to the community--for collaboration, announcments, discussion, personal blogging, even collaborative text creation...Mostly, I'd love to see here discussions and meetings on net.art, algorithmic art, netcinema and the like. But I also hope to see pure code-talk as well--specifically the usage of Open Source technologies. http://www.lewislacook.org/ *************************************************************************** No More Movements... Lewis LaCook -->Poet-Programmer|||http://lewislacook.corporatepa.com/||| --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:52:36 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Hot Whiskey Press Subject: Hot Whiskey Press: Now Accepting Book-length Manuscripts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Greetings, Hot Whiskey is now looking at book-length manuscripts of poetry, prose and translation for the first perfect bound Hot Whiskey publication. Manuscripts should be between 60 and 200 pages. Please contact us for more information. Hot Whiskey should be printing 1 to 2 perfect bound books a year. We are also looking at chapbook manuscripts. Current and forthcoming Hot Whiskey chapbook titles have or will come from Joseph Cooper, Jared Hayes, Joseph Massey, Elizabeth Robinson and Anselm Parlatore. Email manuscripts to: howhiskeypress@gmail.com or Send to: Hot Whiskey Press 1727 Pine St. #1 Boulder, CO 80302 Thanks! Michael Koshkin and Jennifer Rogers Hot Whiskey Editors -- Hot Whiskey Press www.hotwhiskeyblog.blogspot.com www.hotwhiskeypress.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:58:42 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brigitte Byrd Subject: Re: CFP (Call for Poets): AWP Austin In-Reply-To: <43C7D5D1.2090107@utulsa.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Grant: I am very much interested in reading. This is a great idea. I plan to be in Austin on Thursday and to leave, most probably, on Saturday evening. I have a reading scheduled with Ahsahta Press on Saturday afternoon (1:30-2:45pm) as my collection of prose poems FENCE ABOVE THE SEA came out mid-September through that press. Here is a link to my webpage on the Ahsahta website http://www.boisestate.edu/english/ahsahta/books/byrd.htm. I just finished a second manuscript, which I am starting to send out. So indeed, I am now working on a new project. . . . Last year, I had the opportunity to read off site with "poetics" poets during the MLA conference and thoroughly enjoyed being a part of this event. I hope to hear from you soon, Best, Brigitte Byrd Brigitte Byrd Assistant Professor of English Language & Literature Department Clayton State University 2000 Clayton State Boulevard Morrow, GA 30260-1250 770-961-3420 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:19:02 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: reJennifer Bartlett Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Saint Elizabeth Street has finally joined the 21st Century with our new website - www.saintelizabethstreet.com Complete with blog and hypertext poetry. We are also looking for work for the Spring 2006 Issue. We prefer email submissions at Jen@saintelizabethstreet.com Best, JB _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:30:19 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: New @ M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed New @ M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/ Mira Schor, "She Demon Spawn from Hell" & "The ism that dare not speak its name" Daryl Chin, Letter to the Editors "At times the debates over feminism and feminist art takes on the characteristics of daytime soap opera, complete with contested inheritances, angry aging divas, and beautiful young women suffering from the convenient onset of amnesia." -- from "She Demon ..." "She Demon Spawn from Hell," an introduction to the M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online republication of "The ism that dare not speak its name," originally published in Documents No. 15 (Spring/summer 1999) is occasioned by performance artist Tamy Ben-Tors anti-feminist performance on January 7 at the panel Feminisms in Four Generations, moderated by Roberta Smith, with panelists Ben-Tor, Collier Schorr, Barbara Kruger, and Joan Snyder, held at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City as part of the 5th Annual New York Times Arts and Leisure Weekend. http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/ A PEPC Production ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:45:40 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lori Emerson Subject: Kenneth Goldsmith & Conceptual Poetics | special issue of OPEN LETTER Comments: cc: "Cole, Barbara" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline We are indeed very pleased to announce the new issue of Open Letter on || Kenneth Goldsmith & Conceptual Poetics || || Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory || || Twelfth Series, No. 7, Fall 2005 || || edited by Barbara Cole and Lori Emerson || || Contributors: Bruce Andrews, Derek Beaulieu, Carolyn Bergvall, Dr.Howard Britton, Christian Bok, Jason Christie, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Robert Fitterman, Ruben Gallo, Kenneth Goldsmith, Simon Morris, Marjorie Perloff, Carl Peters, Molly Schwartzburg, Darren Wershler-Henry, Christine Wertheim, Geoffrey Young || || Cover-art by David Daniels || || Ordering information can be found at http://publish.uwo.ca/~fdavey/ || || Three-issue subscription $21.00 Canada $26.00 International || || Individual Issues $8.00 Canada $10.00 International / USA || || MAIL TO: || Open Letter 102 Oak Street Strathroy, On N7G 3K3 Canada More soon on the upcoming Toronto and New York launches ... our very best, Lori & Barbara ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:55:11 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lori Emerson Subject: Re: Kenneth Goldsmith & Conceptual Poetics | special issue of OPEN LETTER In-Reply-To: <1eba3dda0601140645t7b2af066o487d882ec77b8be8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline ps please feel free to circulate our announcement far and wide to anyone who might be interested! many thanks & best, Lori On 1/14/06, Lori Emerson wrote: > We are indeed very pleased to announce the new issue of Open Letter on > > || Kenneth Goldsmith & Conceptual Poetics || > || Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory || > || Twelfth Series, No. 7, Fall 2005 || > || edited by Barbara Cole and Lori Emerson || > > || Contributors: Bruce Andrews, Derek Beaulieu, Carolyn Bergvall, > Dr.Howard Britton, Christian Bok, Jason Christie, Johanna Drucker, > Craig Dworkin, Robert Fitterman, Ruben Gallo, Kenneth Goldsmith, Simon > Morris, Marjorie Perloff, Carl Peters, Molly Schwartzburg, Darren > Wershler-Henry, Christine Wertheim, Geoffrey Young || > > || Cover-art by David Daniels || > > || Ordering information can be found at http://publish.uwo.ca/~fdavey/ || > > || Three-issue subscription > $21.00 Canada > $26.00 International || > > || Individual Issues > $8.00 Canada > $10.00 International / USA || > > || MAIL TO: || > Open Letter > 102 Oak Street > Strathroy, On N7G 3K3 > Canada > > More soon on the upcoming Toronto and New York launches ... > > our very best, Lori & Barbara > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:02:11 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: jUStin!katKO Subject: New at Meshworks =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?=96?= Byrne and Sondheim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline TmV3IHZpZGVvIGF0IE1lc2h3b3JrczogdGhlIE1pYW1pIFVuaXZlcnNpdHkgQXJjaGl2ZSBvZiBX cml0aW5nIGluClBlcmZvcm1hbmNlCmh0dHA6Ly93d3cub3Jncy5tdW9oaW8uZWR1L294bWFnL21l c2h3b3Jrcy8KCpYgTWFpculhZCBCeXJuZSByZWFkaW5nIGF0IHRoZSBTb3VuZEV5ZSBGZXN0aXZh bCBpbiBDb3JrLCBKdWx5IDIwMDUKliBBbGFuIFNvbmRoZWltJ3MgbXVsdGktbWVkaWEgcGVyZm9y bWFuY2UgYXQgTWlhbWkgVW5pdmVyc2l0eSwgRGVjZW1iZXIgMjAwNQoKTW9yZSBmcm9tIENvcmsg YW5kIGVsc2V3aGVyZSBjb21pbmcgc29vbi4gLiAuCg== ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:17:59 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lori Emerson Subject: Re: Kenneth Goldsmith & Conceptual Poetics | Open Letter In-Reply-To: <1137284113.43c994116a0a1@webmail.sas.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Dear all: I must give credit where credit is due - please allow me to include, once more, the list of contributors for the new issue of Open Letter on Kenneth Goldsmith & Conceptual Poetics: Contributors: Bruce Andrews, Derek Beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Dr.Howard Britton, Christian Bok, Jason Christie, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Robert Fitterman, Ruben Gallo, Kenneth Goldsmith, Simon Morris, Marjorie Perloff, Carl Peters, Joshua Schuster, Molly Schwartzburg, Darren Wershler-Henry, Christine Wertheim, Geoffrey Young || Thanks for your patience ... best, Lori > > || Kenneth Goldsmith & Conceptual Poetics || > > || Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory || > > || Twelfth Series, No. 7, Fall 2005 || > > || edited by Barbara Cole and Lori Emerson || > > > > || Contributors: Bruce Andrews, Derek Beaulieu, Carolyn Bergvall, > > Dr.Howard Britton, Christian Bok, Jason Christie, Johanna Drucker, > > Craig Dworkin, Robert Fitterman, Ruben Gallo, Kenneth Goldsmith, Simon > > Morris, Marjorie Perloff, Carl Peters, Molly Schwartzburg, Darren > > Wershler-Henry, Christine Wertheim, Geoffrey Young || > > > > || Cover-art by David Daniels || > > > > || Ordering information can be found at http://publish.uwo.ca/~fdavey/ = || > > > > || Three-issue subscription > > $21.00 Canada > > $26.00 International || > > > > || Individual Issues > > $8.00 Canada > > $10.00 International / USA || > > > > || MAIL TO: || > > Open Letter > > 102 Oak Street > > Strathroy, On N7G 3K3 > > Canada > > > > Please feel free to circulate this announcement far and wide - > > > > best wishes, > > Lori Emerson > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:07:51 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: jUStin!katKO Subject: New at Meshworks: Byrne and Sondheim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline (first try seemed to get lost in the smear) New video at Meshworks: the Miami University Archive of Writing in Performance http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/oxmag/meshworks/ Mair=E9ad Byrne - SoundEye Festival, Cork - July 2005 Alan Sondheim's - Miami University - December 2005 More from Cork and elsewhere coming soon. . . ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:53:03 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pierre Joris Subject: query In-Reply-To: <3bf622560601142107g481a2a59h8172f85199ddbff4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable does anybody have a snailmail address for Patrick Durgin & Kenning? =20 mercy beaucoo -- 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 "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism,since it is the merger of state and corporate power." =97 Benito Mussolini =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D Pierre Joris 244 Elm Street Albany NY 12202 h: 518 426 0433 c: 518 225 7123 o: 518 442 40 85 Euro cell: 011 33 6 79 368 446 email: joris@albany.edu http://www.albany.edu/~joris/ Nomadics blog: http://pjoris.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:31:22 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the style of performance or performances and also discuss what you particularly valued about the reading or readings. Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:37:57 +0100 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Sean O'Brien, Seamus Heaney, and Redefining the Mainstream Comments: To: British Poetics Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://jeffreyside.tripod.com/ New post to blog. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:53:27 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group Comments: Resent-From: Bill Berkson Comments: Originally-From: Bill Berkson From: Bill Berkson Subject: BERKSON READS O'HARA JANUARY 17 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Celebrating the new facsimile edition of IN MEMORY OF MY FEELINGS by Frank O'Hara Bill Berkson reads & comments on the book & the poems Tuesday, January 17, 7 p.m. CLEAN WELL-LIGHTED PLACE FOR BOOKS 601 VAN NESS AVENUE SAN FRANCISCO 415-441-6670 FREE In Memory of My Feelings-Frank O'Hara.~Edited and with an afterword by Bill Berkson. Between 1952, when Frank O'Hara published his first collection of poems, and his death, in 1966, at the early age of forty, he became recognized as a quintessential American poet whose vernacular phrasing, both worldly and lyrical, beautifully told of the urban life of his generation. In addition to the contribution he made to American literature, O'Hara was a vital figure in the New York cultural scene and spent many years working at The Museum of Modern Art, where, having begun by taking a job selling postcards on the admissions desk, he ultimately became an associate curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture. And when he unexpectedly died, in an accident on the beach at Fire Island, New York, he was deeply mourned by the Museum's staff and by the New York art world. In Memory of My Feelings was published by the Museum in 1967 to honor its late curator. The book was edited by the poet Bill Berkson, who had been a close friend of O'Hara's and was then a guest editor in the Museum's Department of Publications. Berkson invited thirty artists* who had known O'Hara, ranging from Willem de Kooning to Claes Oldenburg, from Joan Mitchell to Jasper Johns, to produce works to accompany his poems. The book was issued in a limited edition as a set of folded sheets held loose in a cloth-and-board folio that was itself contained in a slipcase. Now, for the first time, the Museum has republished In Memory of My Feelings in a conventionally bound edition, and with a newly designed paper jacket instead of a slipcase. In every other way, however, this book is an exact facsimile of the edition of 1967. PUBLISHED BY: The Museum of Modern Art, New York FORMAT: Clothbound, 9 x 12 in./224 pgs / 49 color illus. ISBN: 0870705105 RELEASE: Oct 2005 The artists are; WILLEM DE KOONING, JASPER JOHNS, JOE BRAINARD, NELL BLAINE, MATSUMI KANEMITSU, LEE KRASNER, PHILIP GUSTON, HELEN FRANKENTHALER, ROBGERT MOTHERWELL, JOHN BUTTON, JANE FRIELICHER, JANE WILSON, ALLEN D'ARCANGELO, ALEX KATZ, ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, MICHAEL GOLDBERG. NORMAN BLUHM, JOAN MITCHELL, ROY LICHTENSTEIN, LARRY RIVERS, CLAES OLDENBURG, NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, GRACE HARTIGAN, ALFRED LESLIE, REUBEN NAKIAN, AL HELD, GIORGIO CAVALLON, ELAINE DE KOONING, MARISOL, BARNETT NEWMAN. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:56:17 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Adam Fieled Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060115120142.045ce9f0@writing.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit TOP 5 READINGS/ LAST FEW YEARS 1) Anne Waldman, New England College, 2006, w/ jazz musician Roy Nathanson. Anne is the heir of the Beat tradition. Her no-holds-barred assault-on-the-senses performance aesthetic is a force to be reckoned with. Combined w/ the Ornette Coleman-ish Free Jazz stylings of Jazz Passengers stalwart Roy Nathanson, Waldman's harangues, exhortations, and shamanistic invocations took on a preternatural power. 2) Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Robin's Books, Philadelphia, 2005. Jeff Lee's "Identity Papers" recall an incident that took place between Lee and a street-walking bum years ago. To make a long story short, the bum attacked Lee with a hammer, and the dramatic poem recounts this. It's a visceral, gripping, incendiary piece of writing, and Lee delievered it with precision & panache. 3) C.A. Conrad, Poetry Incarnation '05, Philadelphia, 2005. Conrad read a portion of Ginsberg's HOWL in sync with a tape of Lorenzo Thomas, his friend who (I believe) died last year. Conrad's delivery played up the incantatory power of Allen's words, and the 100 + crowd created an intense ambience that added to the effect. 4) John Ashbery, East Village, spring '05. Ashbery read from his new book. His reading was precise, engaging, and matter-of-fact, which served to underline the understated pathos of the new poems. 5) Michael Waters, New England College, '06. Waters is a masterful Centrist poet whose throaty rich voice knows how to savor consonants & vowels. He writes a lot about sex, and his own particular take on the erotic (complete with "nine inch dildos slathered with monkey oil") never fails to register memorably. Thanks, adam fieled afieled@yahoo.com Charles Bernstein wrote: Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the style of performance or performances and also discuss what you particularly valued about the reading or readings. Charles Bernstein --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:22:01 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Patricia SpearsJones Subject: Not all Screen Goddesses are Alike Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Charles Bernstein told me to send this and I usually listen to what he says. When I was working at Samuel French I actually talked to Shelley Winters--she was in town in search of a play to do, wanted scripts sent to her. I remember that she sounded, well, drunk and it was like 2:30 p.m. By that time, the lack of sobriety of actors, writers and any other kind of performer did not phase me. But it was Shelley Winters and she was a terrific actress as anyone who ever saw her in The Diary of Anne Frank or An American Tragedy or those silly 50's comedies where she played the floozy secretary who woke up, told off her loverboy boss and clicked her heels out the door. It's January and those two faces are showing. As I excavate the stuff in my apartment, I look back, when I throw stuff out or "re-gift" or send off to the Salvation Army, I prepare for the future. The past few weeks have brought news of illness in the poetry world: Akua Lezli Hope struggling to regain her limbs in Rochester; the mighty Bill Kushner suffering strokes in Manhattan. We are all in our own ways trying to help our sisters and brothers. We may need that help ourselves at some later date. We had a January thaw before there was any thing to thaw and it is now over. Sleet and snow and cold--real January weather is here. Maybe it is the lingering darkness of the mornings, but I welcome the noisy precipitation. It will make spring seem that much more lovely when it comes. 2005 was a year of tremendous loss: Ossie Davis, Lorenzo Thomas, Rosa Parks, the remarkable vulgarian, Richard Pryor and the homes, lives and cohesive culture of the Gulf Region and New Orleans. As for our adventures in war mongering, well now there are close to 3000 Americans dead and countless Iraquis. I get this weird feeling that Iraq may well have a democracy of some sort in the next few years; I am not so sure about this country given the TURN BACK THE CLOCK AND CLOSE OUR EYES TO THE FUTURE UNLESS IT ONLY INCLUDES THE VERY RICH JUDGES, LEGISLATORS AND PRESIDENTS WHO WANT TO BE MONARCHS that we seem to be getting. For all those people who say there is no difference between the Democrats and the Republicants, think of thedifference between Tip O'Neill and Tom DeLay--both powerful, both tough, both with ethical issues, but one is so sleazy, so nasty, so over the top that his current problems in Texas seem like poetic justice. In the same way that Ronald Reagan's last years as an empty suit devoid of charm was perfect payback for a man who's decision destroyed any chance for democratic and progressive government in Central America and whose economic policies have made the rich really really richer and given us homelessness as a national and chronic problem. Janus may have been wise, I can't remember, but the idea of being able to simultaneously look behind and ahead seems like what poets do when we are really in our game. May you (poets and all others) play the game well. Ms. Winters did, even if she drank just a bit too much and ate just a bit too much. She had a lot of fun. We ought to have fun too. Peace, Patricia Spears Jones ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:22:23 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Adam Fieled Subject: New Blog: "Stoning the Devil" Comments: To: "cordite@cordite.org.au" , "js@johnsiddique.co.uk" , "thunderburst@ntlworld.com" , val@writtenpicture.co.uk, "cmccabe@rfh.org.uk" , "derek@theadamsresidence.co.uk" , jeffreyethan@att.net, golden.notebook@gmail.com, cipollinaaaaa@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Friends, Fellow Poets, Self-publishing is a funny thing. It may be transgressive/ regressive, but most of us have done it at one time or another. So, having turned PFS Post into an outlet for world post-avant poetry other than mine, I'm taking the leap back into DIY land with a new blog, "Stoning the Devil", at this rather obvious URL: www.adamfieled.blogspot.com. I'll be publishing poems, anecdotes, journal type entries, meditations on life, love, the pursuit of venereal satisfaction & all the rest of it. Please join me. And, of course, check out what's new at PFS Post (www.artrecess.blogspot.com): stevenallenmay, Steve Halle, and (in a few hours) Rob McLennan. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:50:17 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Hoerman Subject: Ozark poets for New England event MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm looking for poets from the Ozarks (past or present) for a reading or two in the New England area in May. Michael Hoerman michaelhoerman@comcast.net ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:13:23 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Paul Nelson Subject: Venues MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles, Red Sky Poetry Theater, in Seattle, is in hiatus at this time, after losing a venue in use since 1994. Before that were other venues in Seattle, at The Pike Place Market and elsewhere since 1980. I came of age at this reading, as it was an intergenerational open mic, attracted many quality poets: Marion Kimes; Paul Hunter; Michael Hureaux; Judith Roche; Nico Vassilakis & others,) booked quality features (including giving many poets their first features,) and did not suffer fools. I co-created the Northwest SPokenword LAB (SPlab!) based, in part, on that model, and our Living Room is the only regular venue in the Puget Sound region which offers a literary salon in which writers can get feedback for their work. http://www.splab.org These are two different styles, the second of which is designed with feedback as an intentional part of the setup, whereas at Red Sky it was a by-product of the venue. I hope this is helpful. Paul Nelson Auburn, WA P.S. Charles Bernstein wrote: > Thanks for writing me and your two posts. I feel the kind of > significant work you are doing, and many others, on coordinating > readings and performances tends to get lost, outside of place and over > time. I am interested to see greater documentation of this work. Eg > just the kind of thing you wrote me about the various series in > Seattle -- I didn't know the names or the contexts. And the new > project is quite interesting. I hope you can add to your two posts by > sending on to Poetics the info you sent me, perhaps tomorrow, given > the two post a day limit. > > with best, > > Charles > > epc <>pennsound > <>blog > > Charles, I appreciate your kind words and of course, your dedication and contribution to the field for so many years. I actually back-channeled you, as I don't think I can actually post to the list. (I tried, when someone asked about the Chicago radio program Extension 720 and a poetry feature it once did.) As for the SPokenword LAB, my involvement in the reading side of things ends in May after a ten year involvement. We have tried to archive as much as we can at: http://splab.org/archives.html and our visiting poet seies at: http://splab.org/visitingpoet.html where you will also find sound in the form of mp3's from interviews I have done with Visiting Poets. (Radio is my first calling, then poetry.) SPLAB! will continue as a travelling workshop troupe (THAT actually /pays/) and in some form on-line, perhaps to be resumed in 10 or 20 years as a venue again. I have begun to archive my own activities more seriously in the last year or so at: http://www.globalvoicesradio.org/paul-nelson-community-activities.html Again, thanks for your kind words and continued success and wellness to you. Paul -- Paul E. Nelson www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org www.AuburnCommunityRadio.com www.SPLAB.org 110 2nd Street S.W. #100 Slaughter, WA 98001 253.735.6328 toll-free 888.735.6328 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:53:15 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark Weiss Subject: reading announcement Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable THE PHOENIX READING SERIES @ SOCRATES 101 Hudson Street (corner of Franklin Street) 212-219-2422 Nos. 1, 9 to Franklin Street Saturdays 3 pm (sharp) Excluding Major Holidays Close Reading (short) & Open Reading sometimes follow Features SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2006, 3 PM Steve Turtell is a native New Yorker.He has been=20 He earned his MFA at Brooklyn College where he=20 was editor of Brooklyn Review. His chapbook=20 Letter to Frank O'Hara is available from P&Q=20 Press. His work has been featured in the=20 anthologies Blood & Tears: Poems for Matthew=20 Shepard and This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys &=20 Barbarians 2, from Windstorm Press, and in other publications Robert Viscusi has published a long poem, An=20 Oration upon the Most Recent Death=20 of Christopher Columbus (VIA Folios, 1993), a=20 novel entitled Astoria (Guernica, 1995; American=20 Book Award 1996), a collection of poems entitled=20 A New Geography of Time (Guernica, 2004) and a=20 critical history entitled Buried Caesars, And=20 Other Secrets of Italian.American Writing (SUNY=20 Press, 2006). He is professor of English and=20 director of The Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College. Mark Weiss is the author of six books of poetry,=20 most recently Figures: 32 Poems (Tucson: Chax=20 Press, 2001) and the e-book Different Birds=20 (Exeter, UK: Shearsman Books 2004;=20 http//www.shearsman.com/pages/books/ebooks/ebooks_pdfs/weiss_db.pdf).=20 He is the editor, with Harry Polkinhorn, of the=20 bilinguial anthology Across the Line / Al otro=20 lado: The Poetry of Baja California (San Diego:=20 Junction Press, 2002) and the translator of=20 Cuaderno de San Antonio / The San Antonio=20 Notebook, by Javier Manriquez (La Paz, Mexico:=20 Editorial Praxis, 2005). Forthcoming are, as=20 coeditor, with Marc Kaminsky, Stories as=20 Equipment for Living: Late Talks and Tales of=20 Barbara Myerhoff (Ann Arbor: University of=20 Michigan Press, 2006), and as editor and=20 translator, The Whole Island: Six Decades of=20 Cuban Poetry (Berkeley: University of California=20 Press, 2008) and Stet: Selected Poems of Jose=20 Kozer (New York: Junction Press, 2006). Robert Harding=97To Be Provided HOST Michael Graves is the author of two books=20 of poems, Outside St. Jude=92s, which was re-issued=20 as an ebook by Rattapallax; his second book, ADAM=20 AND CAIN, is forthcoming from Black Buzzard Press=20 (2006). Graves is the recipient of a grant of=20 $4,500 from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation for=20 two thousand four. He has published thirteen=20 poems in the James Joyce Quarterly and read a=20 selection of his poems to a meeting of the James=20 Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart in New York=20 City. His poem =93Apollo to Daphne=94 appears in Gods=20 and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical=20 Myths (Oxford University Press, 2001) . He has=20 published widely in journals and magazines, some=20 of which include The Classical Outlook, European=20 Judaism, The Journal of Irish Literature (4),=20 Writer=92s Forum, Rattapallax (5), The Hurricane=20 Review, The Hollins Critic (11), Archipelago, and=20 Salonika (4). He has had two editorial positions=20 at Rattapallax and been an editor for R. E.M.=20 Press and The Poetry News Letter and a=20 Contributing Editor to the Aeraiocht Press. He=20 sponsored and organized the conference =93Baptism=20 of Fire: The Work of James Wright=94, which took=20 place at Poets. House in New York City, Saturday, March 27, 2004 Donation $5 and One Purchase , 718-942-4102 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:22:10 GMT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "holsapple1@juno.com" Subject: Reading in Placitas, NM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain ________________________________________________________________ Duende Poetry Series Box 281, Placitas New Mexico 87043 = FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE = Duende Poetry Series presents = "DUENDE & FRIENDS" Poetry Reading Sunday, January 22, 2006 3pm = Anasazi Fields Winery of Placitas, NM announces the fourth in its Duende Poetry reading series... = featuring Duende Poetry Series organizers* and friends~ (*=3DGary Brower, JB Bryan, Jim Fish, Larry Goodell, Cirrelda Snider) (~=3DLisa Gill, Gary Glazner, Bruce Holsapple, Marilyn Stablein) (see bios below) = Please come out to Anasazi Fields Winery Village of Placitas share some wine & poetry & company = The reading will be held Sunday, January 22 at the Winery in Placitas a= nd will begin at 3 pm. Anasazi Fields wines will be available for tastin= g and purchasing. Poetry books by the poets will be for sale. Free admis= sion. Soup will be served after the reading, compliments of the Winery. To get to the Winery, take I-25 to the Placitas exit 242, drive 6 miles = east to the Village, turn left at the sign just before the Presbyterian Church, follow Camino de l= os Pueblitos through two stop signs to the Winery entrance. = =2E..quarterly poetry readings held at Anasazi Fields Winery, Placitas, = NM... = The next reading in the Duende Poetry Series will be Sunday, March 19 @ = 3pm: "A Tribute to Angel Gonzalez" with Tony Mares, Gary Brower and ? Enrique= Lamadrid. = CONTACT: = Jim Fish Anasazi Fields Winery 505-867-3062 Cirrelda Snider-Bryan Duende Poetry Series 505-897-0285 cirrelda@laalamedapress.com = Lisa Gill is the author of Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist (L= a Alameda Press 2002). Her second of poems, Mortar & Pestle, is forthcomin= g from New Rivers Press in the Fall of 06. She edits the broadside KE5TRA [Sound Literature] and is currently working on Caput Nili, a one woman s= how about violence, which will premiere at Out Ch'Yonda in March 2006. She l= ives and writes in Moriarty, NM. = Gary Mex Glazner has been published by Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Salon.com. He is the author of Ears on Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World = of Poets and How to Make a Living as a Poet. Glazner is the founder and director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, (APP). NBC's =B3Today=B2 sho= w, NPR's =B3Weekend Edition,=B2 Voice of America and New Zealand National Radio h= ave featured segments on the APP. He is the editor of Sparking Memories: T= he Alzheimer's Poetry Project Anthology. The APP recently received a grant = from National Endowment for the Arts. Glazner is the coach of the Precision Poetry Drill Team at Desert Academy. Glazner and the team were featured = on NPR=B9s =B3All Things Considered.=B2 = Bruce Holsapple is a speech-language pathologist, working in central New= Mexico. Over the last few years, his poems have appeared in The Poker, First Intensity, House Organ, Indefinite Space, Texture, Situation, Open= 24 Hours, and Cafe Review. He received a Ph.D. in English from SUNY Buffa= lo in 1991 and has published critical articles on William Carlos Williams a= nd Charles Reznikoff. Recently, Bruce had an essay on Phil Whalen=92s poet= ry published in Continuous Flame (a tribute to Whalen), an essay on =93voi= ce=94 in The Fulcrum Annual and a second essay on Whalen accepted for Sagetrieb. = He has published several chapbooks of poetry and was the editor of Contraba= nd Press in Portland, Maine. = Marilyn Stablein writes both poetry and prose. She is the author of eig= ht books. Two of her most recent works, Sleeping in Caves: A Sixties Himala= yan Memoir and High in the Himalayas. are set in the Himalayas where she li= ved for 7 years. She is also a performer of her work. One poetry performanc= e in Seattle, called, Auto Text featured the poet reading poems through a bullhorn from the back of a pickup truck which made scheduled stops duri= ng an arts festival. Last year she and her husband Gary Wilkie moved their= used bookstore, Acequia Booksellers, from Woodstock, N.Y. to Corrales. S= he is also a visual artist working with collage and assemblages. = ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:27:53 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Don't tell anyone Comments: To: spidertangle@yahoogroups.com, "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed that Maria Damon has secretly started a blog called Nomad Ink. (Damon backwards, get it?) She is very shy about this & requests that no one know of its existence. http://nomadink.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:38:12 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Re: Ozark poets for New England event In-Reply-To: <011520061850.2333.43CA9969000862D20000091D2206999735020E039D0A0108040A0E080C0703@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brian Clements is at Western Connecticut in teaching in the Mfa program I know that he is from the Ozarks, Also Simone Muench is from there as well R -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Hoerman Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 12:50 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Ozark poets for New England event I'm looking for poets from the Ozarks (past or present) for a reading or two in the New England area in May. Michael Hoerman michaelhoerman@comcast.net ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:50:21 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mairead Byrne Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP Comments: To: bernstei@BWAY.NET Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1254 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline BEST RECENT READING Clark Coolidge & Alvin Curran at Tazza in Providence in 2005. Clark read = from PROVIDENCE in Providence & Alvin did his own thing. Simultaneously. = Clark said they had waited twenty years to do it. It was a very long = reading, something like a sauna & an endless meal out in the open & as if = time was a very good bottle of wine to be enjoyed slowly and with friends. = Clark was just relentless! Normally I wouldn=92t be a big fan of very = very long readings. I loved this one & was fit to climb a mountain after = it. Wrote about it on British & Irish Poets at the time: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=3Dind05&L=3DBRITISH-POETS&P= =3DR87120&D=3D0&H=3D0&I=3D-3&O=3DT&T=3D0&X=3D65FA052A6F6F0AABE2&Y=3Dmairead= .byrne%40gmail.com ANOTHER EXCELLENT READING Catherine Walsh & Billy Mills at the SoundEye International Poetry = Festival in Cork in July 2005. Catherine brought back all the sounds of = my childhood for me: when we were out playing after dark & should have = been home. I wrote about this on British & Irish Poets too (scroll down): http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=3Dind05&L=3Dbritish-poets&T= =3D0&O=3DD&I=3D-3&X=3D4216D1535A9851C341&Y=3Dmairead.byrne%40gmail.com&P=3D= 100985 FIRST READING I EVER TRULY ENJOYED Alan Dugan at the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown. I was sweeping the = floor of the Barn and listening to a tape I had borrowed of Dugan=92s reading in the = Hudson D. Walker Gallery, a few yards away, the night before. I had given = up trying to go to readings with a baby. But later I met him during = another reading, both of us outside the door, me with a baby, Dugan I = don=92t know why, maybe for a cigarette. He was 65 and thrilled to be = getting Social Security. I was 30 =96 a long time to wait, through a lot = of readings, for one that WOKE ME UP! He was funny, as romantic as a = classicist can be, inimitable but even I tried to imitate him (his = Brooklyn accent): his poems were sort of chased, like silver. I'm glad I = have his voice in my head. READER I=92M MOST SORRY I MISSED Kurt Schwitters. ANOTHER VERY GOOD READING Caroline Bergvall in the Brown University=92s McCormack Family Theatre in = Fones Alley in Providence in October 2002, I think. Bergvall read her = Dante piece, first lines of The Inferno in every English translation = available. Stunning. The suspense waiting for Mandelbaum=85.Oy Oy!!! Mairead www.maireadbyrne.blogspot.com >>> bernstei@BWAY.NET 01/15/06 12:31 PM >>> Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the=20 poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics=20 subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry=20 readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible=20 (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the=20 style of performance or performances and also discuss what you=20 particularly valued about the reading or readings. Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:04:58 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060115120142.045ce9f0@writing.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 1) Robert Creeley at the Walt Whitman Center in Camden NJ March 2003. At this reading Creeley was very unassuming and he really connected and related with the audience which was mostly local people rather than poetic regulars. There was a gentleness and a confidence that made the reading soothing and disturbing at the same time. 2) Peter Gizzi at Danny's Tavern Series in Chicago, October of 2004. Dannys is a weird venue for poetry because it is dark and hard to read. Peter was paired with Arielle Greenberg whose work is quite hip. Peter in contrast drew this hipster crowd into something different. He was able to connect by reading slowly but he also has a regular person accent, not a faux intellectual accent which is appreciated in Chicago. 3) Jen Hofer at the Discrete Series, in Chicago March 2004. I read first in this reading and it was a cast of poetic heavyweights. Jen came in an with her energy and artistic clarity she poked us all in our eyes. She was so powerful and clear and she drew you into her world. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:30:35 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060115120142.045ce9f0@writing.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable charles April, 2001 Talan Memmott, 'Lexia to perplexia', Boston Library, ELO Electronic Literature awards. Whilst someone navigated through a = web-based interactive piece that was projected, talan stood below the screen with = a large, very old fashioned analog blackboard. With chalk talan wrote = certain words that appeared on the screen, and with each mouse click he would = make a connection between words. He used the entire surface of the blackboard, = even jumping to reach the highest parts. It was a physical performance = without a word spoken from talan, it was the spontaneous creation of a huge = concrete poem, it was a theoretical comparative study of various inscription and performance techniques. And i can't deny the impact of first experiencing your performance introduction to the 2001 e-poetry conference in buffalo, the line "computers will never replace poets because computers would not take so = much abuse" stays with me forever. =20 There are so many good performances i have experienced here in Australia = but i would need lots of time to summarise all of them and i don't know if = it is relevant to your study. komninos zervos homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs |||-----Original Message----- |||From: UB Poetics discussion group = [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] |||On Behalf Of Charles Bernstein |||Sent: Monday, 16 January 2006 3:31 AM |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU |||Subject: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP ||| |||Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the |||poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics |||subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry |||readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible |||(though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the |||style of performance or performances and also discuss what you |||particularly valued about the reading or readings. ||| |||Charles Bernstein ||| |||-- |||No virus found in this incoming message. |||Checked by AVG Free Edition. |||Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: = 14/01/06 ||| --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: = 14/01/06 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:30:07 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Tod Edgerton Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060115120142.045ce9f0@writing.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit My own favorite reading of the past year was without a doubt the first half of the Creeley Tribute at St. Mark's over Halloween weekend. The whole thing was too long for my endurance level, but the first half was PERFECT all of itself. I loved it because I could really feel that sense of "company" that Creeley talked about and the love and respect for the man and his work in that room was so intensely palpable. I can only hope to have that kind of commmunity of poets and artists in my own life. I felt genuinely moved by the confirmation of its possibility at St. Mark's. To quote a poem that I believe (but I have the worst memory) C.D. Wright read: "I want no sentimentality / I want no more than home." I just thought it was amazing. My second favorite was probably Lisa Jarnot reading at Taaza here in Providence. I heard her read once before and knew it would be great. After that reading the four other grad students in my year are all teaching Black Dog Songs next semester. Her voice and deadpan delivery is absolutely perfect for her work. I saw Jerome Rothenberg a couple of years ago at the Goldmine in New Orleans. He did a piece by Hugo Ball (sans paper suit) and was incredible. Best, Tod Charles Bernstein wrote: Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the style of performance or performances and also discuss what you particularly valued about the reading or readings. Charles Bernstein Michael Tod Edgerton Graduate Fellow, Program in Literary Arts Box 1923 Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Rebuild New Orleans / Bulldozer Bush --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:42:26 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ruth Danon Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I will never forget hearing Robert Creeley reading "Histoire de Florida" at an otherwise dreary AWP meeting in Albany. I had loved Creeley's work, then lost track of it, and then found it again in Albany. No sham no artifice just the pure courage to tell the truth. The material, the poet, and the performance were perfectly unified. That reading made me remember why I became a poet and the memory of it and of Robert keeps me at it. Ruth Danon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Bernstein" To: Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 12:31 PM Subject: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP > Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the poem > from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics subscribers > (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry readings that you > most valued over the past few years. If possible (though hardly > necessary!), please provide a description of the style of performance or > performances and also discuss what you particularly valued about the > reading or readings. > > Charles Bernstein > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:53:57 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: George Bowering Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060115120142.045ce9f0@writing.upenn.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I can seldom remember dates of readings. For example, when was the last time I heard Creeley read in public? It was 2 or 3 years ago in Vancouver, I do remember some very well. Like the tenth time I heard Creeley read was AT THE UBC Vancouver poetry bash in summer 1963, when the power was turned off by some janitor, and Creeley read to the light of a hurricane lamp. I think that in the past year my favourite was the ten minutes by Fanny Howe at the Griffin awards reading. She was reading to 1000 people, as were 6 other poets. I remember hers. On 15-Jan-06, at 9:31 AM, Charles Bernstein wrote: > Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the > poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics > subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry > readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible > (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the style > of performance or performances and also discuss what you particularly > valued about the reading or readings. > > Charles Bernstein > > Yrs, George B. Almost as old as his jokes. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:13:10 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anna Vitale Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060115120142.045ce9f0@writing.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I just joined this list. I saw Alice Notley read here in Ann Arbor, both her work and Ted Berrigan's and it was delightful. Many others came to read Ted Berrigan's work, too. Chris Tysh, George Tysh, Ken Mikolowski, it was a lot of fun. And Alice reading her own work, the next night, was infused with energy and all the heart I read when I read her work alone. Anna Vitale Ann Arbor, MI On 1/15/06, Charles Bernstein wrote: > > Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the > poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics > subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry > readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible > (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the > style of performance or performances and also discuss what you > particularly valued about the reading or readings. > > Charles Bernstein > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:57:05 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mike Luster Subject: Re: Ozark poets for New England event MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CD Wright is still at Brown. Mike Luster ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:44:27 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ted Hughes read in Victoria at Open Space in Victoria around 1986. I suspect most people who saw him read noted the uncanny strength of his readings. He seemed to have a quiet conviction in the power of poetry. And knew his own power. Joe Keppler read at Open Space about a year later. Parts of that reading are at http://vispo.com/audio/index.html#rad . I've read someone say that his readings in Seattle are "legendary". I understand why they would say that. I heard Jerome Rothenberg in Seattle at Bumbershoot somewhere around 1990. The place was packed and it was a big place; this was one of the main readings at Bumbershoot that year. Rothenberg didn't disappoint. It was a performance of sound poetry (mostly without words) the likes of which I haven't heard before or since. Margareta Waterman read in Victoria in 1995 at Mocambopo. She's one of the main poets, for me, in Seattle. She read from a work that examines the alphabet and some of its lore. Fascinating. Somewhere around 1997 Al Purdy did a reading in Victoria at Mocambopo. People were jowl to jowl. It was the last time I heard him read. He was delighted to have such a close crowd, enjoyed himself, and the crowd had a blast. And he read very well. That was a great evening. Joe Donahue did a reading in Seattle at the Speakeasy somewhere around 1999. He reminded me that what I remember, most often, of great poetry readings is the tone and music, the motion of the spirit of the poet or the poem the two together indivisible, really, rather than any particular lines. Much like musical performances when we are moved it is the motion we recall, the emotion and connection with the song, the motion of the spirit, shared. ja http://vispo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:54:05 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: journals In-Reply-To: <6D7FF0E5-8611-11DA-9119-000A95C34F08@sfu.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Question: In presumed terms, does a piece of work published online generally make it ineligible for submission to a paper journal (if the point is to submit unpublished work)? Feel free to backchannel. AJ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:24:13 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Didi Menendez Subject: Re: journals MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well. Well... Well.....Well..... I am an online publisher. I would like to know what print publisher does not consider what I have been doing online for the past five years as not published. And I would like to know what writer out there still has the same mentality. I doubt too many will come forward. I hope this answers your question. That is all I have to say about that. Didi Menendez MiPOesias Magazine _www.mipoesias.com_ (http://www.mipoesias.com) In a message dated 1/15/2006 6:54:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, jorgensen_a@YAHOO.COM writes: Question: In presumed terms, does a piece of work published online generally make it ineligible for submission to a paper journal (if the point is to submit unpublished work)? Feel free to backchannel. AJ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:40:44 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: Don't tell anyone In-Reply-To: <38B3118F-5365-4FA7-9557-1B1923DE7A34@mwt.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > that Maria Damon has secretly started a blog called Nomad Ink. > (Damon backwards, get it?) She is very shy about this & requests > that no one know of its existence. > > http://nomadink.blogspot.com/ Needle points, please, on all levels: thread, creative, critical and a little craziness to boot; while you are at it, and in the same State, can you enlist that detective, Guy (or is it "Goy"?) Noir to unravel the mysterious death or was it the Murder of Paul Wellstone? As you probably know, suspicion continues to nag many of us. But above all, Maria, have fun. Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:52:41 GMT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "holsapple1@juno.com" Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain Interesting question, what makes a poetry reading stand out. Of the rea= dings in New Mexico I've heard, Larry Goodell's have been impressive. H= is poems are direct, personal & political, & Larry is a skilled performe= r, using a number of props & instruments. He's also funny. I don't thi= nk it's simply his skill as a performer that's moving, tho, but the tota= l package, the investment & experience that he brings to it (40 years no= w). = In a related way, I recorded a reading by Gene Frumkin this year that co= ntinues to move me. With Gene, tho, it was straight-forward, just him r= eading off the page. But again, he's been at this a long time (since th= e 50s) & there is a sense of culmination in the work, so when he reads, = the event is textured by that history. Lisa Gill & Arthur Sze also have given impressive readings. I think the= ir readings were particularly moving because they can involve you intens= ely in their own levels of engagement, their concerns. Bruce Holsapple ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:00:44 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark Weiss Subject: Re: journals In-Reply-To: <158.5f32640f.30fc41ad@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Most print publishers don't care if the work's been online, but a lot of online publishers do care if it's been on paper. At 04:24 PM 1/15/2006, you wrote: > >Well. > >Well... Well.....Well..... I am an online publisher. I would like to know >what print publisher does not consider what I have been doing online for the >past five years as not published. And I would like to know what writer out >there still has the same mentality. > >I doubt too many will come forward. > >I hope this answers your question. > >That is all I have to say about that. > >Didi Menendez >MiPOesias Magazine >_www.mipoesias.com_ (http://www.mipoesias.com) > >In a message dated 1/15/2006 6:54:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, >jorgensen_a@YAHOO.COM writes: > >Question: > >In presumed terms, does a piece of work published >online generally make it ineligible for submission to >a paper journal (if the point is to submit unpublished >work)? Feel free to backchannel. > >AJ > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:55:12 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: journals In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.1.20060115195921.046bfd40@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Part of the reasoning behind my question, and this is being said to address ruffled feathers, is that print journals are often a more dependable repository for work -- being a hard copy and being often found in libraries and collections. And I certainly had no to intent to dismiss or pay any disrespect to the advent, influence, or prominence of the online journal. Too, my question was asked because both forms, as representing different media, often reach different audiences -- and, sometimes, cultivate very different philosophy with respect to accessibilty (and, one wonders, if they are in competition). The point, I wonder, is to see work disseminated, whilst respecting the author's work, journals, and, of course, publishers. Your responses, here, and via back channel, are very much appreciated. AJ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:04:00 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lou Rowan Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Charles, if I might interpret "the last few years" to include the = l960's (as for poetry they might), I'd mention first Creeley and Wieners = at the YMHA in New York around l966, introduced by Ed Sanders who = proclaimed them great "cocksmen" to a liberal and silent crowd. What was = most telling to me was Wieners pausing in the midst of reading party = from "Hotel Wentley" to say something close to, "Ever since I heard = Auden read here I've wanted to, but now I feel some strange monotony = reading through me." (Not my experience of what he did, which was = powerfully sad.) Creeley thanked Sanders but proclaimed Ginsberg the = great cocksman. Secondly, a reading sponsored by The New York Free Press, a short-lived = weekly some of whose editors departed to the very green pastures of = "Screw." About the same period and the Judson Memorial Church(forgive my = vague chronology). New York Free Press was about the most full-throated = and competent attack on the political and economic establishment going. = A reading in honor of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka who was then in jail in = Newark after the uprising. The publisher of NYFP, Jack Banning, a = cigar-chewing tough guy talked about all of "them" out to "get us." = Armand Schwerner read a poem for his dead brother, and I can still hear = how beautifully he addressed him. All this despite Baraka's legendary = anti-Semitism. Jerome Rothenberg reading from Poland ("stuffed with = Poland") to which he quietly said he'd never been. An evening in which = it seemed poetry actually could address and change politics, without = agitprop or liberal sentiment. All best, Lou ----- Original Message -----=20 From: holsapple1@juno.com=20 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=20 Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 4:52 PM Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP Interesting question, what makes a poetry reading stand out. Of the = readings in New Mexico I've heard, Larry Goodell's have been impressive. = His poems are direct, personal & political, & Larry is a skilled = performer, using a number of props & instruments. He's also funny. I = don't think it's simply his skill as a performer that's moving, tho, but = the total package, the investment & experience that he brings to it (40 = years now). =20 In a related way, I recorded a reading by Gene Frumkin this year that = continues to move me. With Gene, tho, it was straight-forward, just him = reading off the page. But again, he's been at this a long time (since = the 50s) & there is a sense of culmination in the work, so when he = reads, the event is textured by that history. Lisa Gill & Arthur Sze also have given impressive readings. I think = their readings were particularly moving because they can involve you = intensely in their own levels of engagement, their concerns. Bruce Holsapple ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:06:50 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eric Elshtain Subject: New Chapbook from Beard of Bees Press MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Beard of Bees Press is very, very pleased to announce the publication of _To Build a Cathedral_ by Theodore Enslin. What the author calls a "sin of his old age" we call a sharp poetic investigation of the work of composer Anton Bruckner. http://www.beardofbees.com/enslin.html Please also read the latest machine/human poetic collaboration by 11-year-old "Gnoet" JoAnn Welch. http://www.beardofbees.com/welch.html Yours, Eric Elshtain Editor Beard of Bees Press http://www.beardofbees.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:34:53 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: C Daly Subject: reading faves MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) Charles Bernstein is a HAM and read from his libretto well on Wilshire=20 =20 2) I have always liked Brodsky et al - the other Russians reading their poetry in Russian, in Brooklyn before he died =20 3) I like the way that the hand motions Adeena Karasick makes are different from the hand motions Ann Lauterbach makes, tho I must admit liking Ann's reading before the hand motions for example at Books & Co. = with John Ashbery in the audience, so this is the "liking hand motions in readings" number =20 4) John Ashbury's reading at the Goethe house in NY with April = Barnard when all his poems sounded like THE CAT IN THE HAT and he blushed beet = red but hers were so very bad =20 5) John Giorno at LACMA when I'd just moved across the street and thought everything was going to be miserable but then he opened his = mouth =20 =20 also =20 Ginsburg on public access TV in NY doing yoga stretches in his kitchen = and opening his sad fridge =20 Kasey M. rubbing a piece of paper on the mic in Detroit =20 Margaret Atwood making her poems sound like bedtime stories in NY =20 Chris Piuma in LA with no one in the audience but Franklin Bruno, Ron = Burch and myself =20 Tracie Morris =20 All best, Catherine Daly cadaly@comcast.net =20 come hear me read Tuesday, Friday, Saturday or next Wednesday =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:17:37 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: alexander saliby Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Charles, I dislike being read to. Most "readings" I've attended have bored me to tears. Let me list a few = of the major disappointing moments of my listening life: 1. listening to Karl Shapiro read...the man was a poet, teacher, a = critic, and quite possibly the world's worst reader. When he stopped = mumbling and engaged us in conversation, he was witty; that part of the = evening was delightful. The reading: Boring.=20 2. listening to Alan Ginsberg pretend to read but preach instead. The = man too was a poet, but so wrapped up in himself and his beliefs he = lacked any sensitivity for his audience; there was a total lack of = communicative interplay. The preaching: Boring...the pompous ass = assumed we all held his ideology. 3. listening to Robert Creeley recite...at this event, Robert held a = book and flipped pages as he went through the drill of pretending to = read. He was in fact reciting his own work from memory, and he did it = without any apparent connection or concern with or for the 50 or so = folks seated in front of him. Television screens had greater = connectivity with the audience than Robert did that evening. The = recitation: Boring.=20 4. sitting in a crowded auditorium in Michigan State with another 300 or = so students at the demands...though referred to as "suggestions"...of = our Contemporary British Poets prof (who shall remain nameless here) and = listening to a grad student blunder through the readings of some of W.H. = Auden's finest material. The performance: Boring. Although I do = remember coveting the student's tie...a paisley print as I recall.=20 On the other hand, there's a side to listening to the auditory marvels = of some poets that makes the event noteworthy, memorable, and special. = For example, these are memorable: 1. listening to ted joans between jazz sets. The man took the floor in = a darkened room, had a dim light shining up at his face, and he spoke to = his audience. He spoke his works as if he were talking with those of us = who sat in the audience. There was interplay; there was audience = tension, and there was poetic communication. There was no "reading."=20 2. listening to Maya Angelou speak to a crowd of students...the speech = in and of itself could not too easily be called poetry, but the delivery = was so moving, so emotionally rich with audience involvement and = interplay that the entire 30 minutes amounted to an epic poem for my = memory. The speech: exciting! Again, there was no reading.=20 One closing point, I confess, I never think of poetry as "performance" = art. More to the point, I don't view reading as a performance = skill...just a short-coming in my up-bringing I imagine.=20 Alex=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Charles Bernstein=20 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=20 Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:31 AM Subject: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the=20 poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics=20 subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry=20 readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible=20 (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the=20 style of performance or performances and also discuss what you=20 particularly valued about the reading or readings. Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:04:03 -0500 Reply-To: nudel-soho@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: Per... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles' statement begs the question...is po a performance...an act...is the poet an actor..& if so...who is he playing...bring on the fiddlers three... I remember K.K...reading in Buffalo..many yrs ago..he was in the right mood....the audience was in the right mood...he had them in schtick... Many yrs later...i read a poem Marel Duchamp & Me....in the back closet at the Olde Knitting Factory...the small audience was laughing it up...i thot about 'em...abt moi...and never read again... Drn............... ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:51:29 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: rose-helene Subject: robert rius (1914-1944) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit UB Poetics discussion group "Poetic Martyrs" Dear Ray, I saw your forum about "Poetic Martyrs" and an answer saying that the French surrealist poet Robert Rius was killed in concentration camp. It's completely wrong, he was in the Resistance and he was arrested, tortured and killed in France in July 1944 by the Gestapo network in Fontainebleau just before the release of Paris. Rose-Helene Iche ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 03:31:42 -0800 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Silliman's Blog Comments: To: Brit Po , New Po , Wom Po , Lucifer Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Poets who died young – Samuel Greenberg, 1894-1917 52 neglected poets (at least in the eyes of Dan and Jessica Schneider) The First Hay(na)ku Anthology – A stanza, not a poem Cinema as painting – 2046 by Kar Wai Wong Metro by Curtis Faville Starred Wire by Ange Mlinko: Writing, the New York School and why aesthetic consistency is not voice Ken Rumble on Lucifer Poetics – Writing & community in North Carolina Blogs, listservs, poetry and modes of discourse Larry Eigner and the problem of improving as one matures as a poet Allen Fisher and Place – An epic poem in Britain The poetry of Jonathan Greene – Zen Objectivism deep in Kentucky Larry Fagin offers a list of poets and books that have been neglected http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:37:07 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Australian experiences Jas H Duke, first in my coffee lounge in 1983 , but most notably at La = Mama poetica in a small theatre in Carlton, inner city Melbourne, it held = about 60 people, a small, intimate venue, with good lighting and sound that = had been holding readings since the late 1960s. Jas H Duke performed a set = of sound poems and 'sound poem' was one of them. Repeating 'sound poem' = over and over again, saying it differently each time, pulling his lips apart = and putting his hand inside his mouth to change the sound of the repeated = sound poem. The poetry dedicated crowd at La Mama loved it. But so too did a = large noisy rock and roll audience at Queensland's Livid Festival in 1990.=20 Ania Walwicz since the early 1980s is another performance poet who has = been able to fix me with her performances, engaging me with her short = staccato sentences in a mixture of hypotactic and paratactic prose poetry. Her = polish accent never obscuring the perfectly enunciated words and passion with = which they are delivered.=20 Using not theatrical devices other than standing at the microphone and delivering her texts. Jane Fenton Keane whom i first heard in the early 1990s at poetry = readings in Brisbane amazed me one day with a performance in a lecture theatre at Griffith University to first year arts students in 1998. Her 30 minute memorised rave partly fictional partly autobiographical dramatic = monologue had the whole lecture theatre on the edge of their seats. Her high = energy performance took everyone by surprise and shocked them into engagement. In the revolutionary/hippy/peace/love/and happiness early 1970s, and as = a long haired university student of science i was blown away by a poet = called PiO standing in the Student union surrounded by a circle of people, in = the middle of a stampede of students rushing between lectures. I was equally stunned the first time i saw Tom the Street poet reading his poetry to passers by in busy bourke street mall in melbourne, handing out his = street sheets ably assisted by his girlfriend, Yes Indeed. I can't forget eric beach's performances. I never knew if he was going = to fall over drunk or not. At most readings he'd carry with him every poem = he'd ever written, hundreds of single typed sheets of paper in a small = suitcase, which probably held other belongings too. He was between homes in the = early 1980s. Anyway one night at a university reading, i remember a light = flooded stage, perhaps it was a literary festival, eric staggered onto stage = towards the microphone and trips and all the poems fell out of the suitcase onto = the stage. The audience did not know whether to laugh or be concerned for = his health, he got up scratched his head and picked up pieces at random from = the floor and read them. He was a great success, and he read the poems well, = and something tells me he planned it like that. He must have been aware of = the fact that that was the image he was creating for himself and he made it = work for him, because once he had the attention of the audience he had the = poems to maintain their attention. And White Feather Light at the R J Hawke hotel in brunswick in 1986, = playing electronic keyboard with her toes, only the white keys on the keyboard = was her plan of action, her poetry was not memorable but her performance = was. In the public bar the black ulan bicycle gang drank and liked to heckle on their way through, and the poetry readings always had a background of = some racecall on the tv. [And in 1991 hearing Sylvia Plath reading Daddy on a vinyl record in the = ABC spoken word radio archive studio, very haunting, powerful, chilling, and dylan thomas reading under milk wood, and ogden nash, and on and on and = on] And hearing/experiencing poets like Lauren Williams, Kerry Scuffins, = Kristin Henry, Chrissie King, Carmel Bird, Kerry Loughrey and Liz Hall at venues like caf=E9 jammin' in south melbourne every Tuesday night in the early = 1980s. Cappucino machine punctuating poets, collaborative works performed instantly, confessional, beat style poetry, strong women with = interesting things to say, presented honestly and with emotion. Many fond memories and poetic moments at sydney's writers in the park = from 1985 to the early 1990s. I first heard two australian legends, les = murray and john tranter at this venue and they were great performance poets in terms of knowing how to present their work to audiences, even if they = were Australia's most successful published poets. Writers in the park had a weekly audience of 300 people, and became the literary focal point in = sydney for many years. Where writers went every Tuesday night even if they = didn't listen to the readings and an open section for unpublished and unknown writers. It really helped to bring literature to the public sphere, = along with Mietta's/Readings bookshop readings in melbourne and Talk it Down readings in brisbane. Enough for now Charles what have you started here There'll be an avalanche of 'reading'/sounding experiences at ubpoetics. komninos komninos zervos homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: = 14/01/06 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 05:58:15 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: aaron tieger Subject: Re: journals In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As a print publisher I'm uninterested in printing material that has appeared anywhere else. The whole point for me is to expose the audience to stuff that's never been seen before. Based on my subscriber list I suspect that a lot of CARVE's present audience is also pretty up-to-date on what's going on in the webzines; thus I don't want to be redundant. Aaron Tieger Editor, CARVE Poems "Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate." (Brian Eno) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:01:05 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: AMBogle2@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Doing time behind the bars of america-- womyn in prison MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When one of my California friends got involved in getting archaic anti-sex laws off the books, I doubt she was concerned with or thinking of women in prison. She might have gone to jail herself at one time -- for reasons other than sex -- but didn't end up having it go that way, thank goodness for her. On Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in 2003 (three years ago), I went to jail for having drunk 5.5 beers on election night Nov. 5, 2002. I drove home that night well enough, but I was stopped because one of my high beams was out for a quarter mile. The other headlights worked fine, but my bal (blood alcohol level) turned out after three weeks of urine testing to be .12 or .02 over the legal limit. Besides the alcohol, they tested for the anti-depressants I told them they would find -- two of them -- plus lithium and an an anti-seizure drug. I was in treatment for major as well as manic depression. According to the doctor, three drinks with food is all right, but I had drunk 5.5 beers with just an appetizer. The charge against me was gross misdemeanor, which is likely to cause problems in finding employment, likely for good. The jail, where I stayed for 48 hours, gave me enough information to write a 180-page book, something I resisted setting out upon due to the insult of it. The other women in the jail were staying longer than I was -- I had ankle bracelet to contend with after leaving the jail; they were in jail, no longer in apartments, and without a way to be on ankle bracelet at home. Martha Stewart said she preferred jail to ankle bracelet, but I preferred ankle bracelet. The ankle bracelet itself was like a plastic wrist watch that someone had cleverly clamped on above my foot, so my shoes could tell time. There was a box that looked like Darth Vader's helmet plugged in by my new phone line that would send out a red signal if I should try to leave. I never ended up leaving the house in 18 days, so I was set free ten days early. I could bathe and otherwise move about. I wore a sock under the bracelet to keep it from chafing. Those 18 days gave me much less to think or worry about than the 48 hours in jail. I read two books while in jail, one was by Zora Neale Hurston about her visits to Haiti and Jamaica. She gives an amazing account of a wild bore hunt. If you get a chance to read hers next to Robert Stone's description of being in Mexico with Kesey and Kerouac and THEIR wild boar, do that. The food in jail was dreadful, so it was the next best thing to eating something really good to read of eating the boar with Zora. (The chicken ala king, however, was good, and so were the biscuits.) It's sick that I could write a good long account of those 48 hours; I guess we'd agree to that. Two years later it was still bothering me that the women in the jail were not allowed lotion unless someone they knew brought it to the m. There was an epidemic of dry skin there, so dry that the women had visibly sore skin. This is not going to help their chances in finding work and housing when they get out, and yet it is such a simple thing. I wanted to organize something, but I never go to bars -- it would be a wonderful thing for women who do go to bars to try to do -- sponsor a woman in jail with a bottle of lotion by bringing it to her. The black women were in jail for crack & prostitution (except one who had hit someone while she was pregnant) and the white women were there for drinking & driving. I had a one-year sentence hanging over my head. Jail is a really bad place by comparison to being locked in your own house. I hope it never has to happen again. It's sad that I have become such a recluse. I prevent ever having to go to jail again by rarely leaving my own house, and by rarely drinking -- by living in fear of authorities and of local busybodies. With money, I would move to a decent city and out of the suburbs. Jobs are mostly out of the question due to the record. My California friend who was agitating for anti-sex laws off the books for gay men in Houston didn't think of this: How do the police KNOW that the women are trading sex for drugs before they are arrested? Why aren't they simply arrested for possessing drugs? Had I had sex prior to my arrest? Had they thought I had? I was carrying expired condoms in my car (how embarrassing!) -- and they did rip through the car later and throw everything around. My head was wrapped in a large black muffler with a Harley Davidson patch on one end -- the woman cop must have thought I was a Muslim in the dark of night, in my dented blue Volvo 240 DL 1989 the way she looked at the flipped-over patch. I had voted for Democrats. Ann Bogle ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 06:56:54 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: journals In-Reply-To: <20060116135815.63849.qmail@web32511.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Perhaps I'm being too aloud, here, but I'm wondering if some of us're really just writing for the few, let me say, and this is being prompted by some of the less then friendly responses sent me directly, almost as if the point's to be parochial or exclusive, a weakness one might easily argue, rather than accessible to a broader audience and open, as O'hara might've said, the shame in this being, of course, that such highbrowed thinking has led our community to the kind of political and cultural impotence in which we find polluting us these days. This I'm a publisher bit, sounds really bitchy, and that threatening -- "Well...well..." (Well, for instance, I understand you've got something at stake, I mean, you're like a promoter, one could say, of your own aesthetic, and perhaps need to legitimize it -- along with yourself). I'll be Stateside soon and hope to hear many of you read, to meet and learn whatever -- share, too, if given the opportunity. I'll be round NYC and Western MA come March. Thanks for all your great advice -- and you know who you are. Best as ever, AJ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 06:59:04 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: Re: journals In-Reply-To: <20060116145654.74567.qmail@web54411.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Tired, am tired, he said. So, please, forgive all the grammar mistakes and spelling errors, as I think the point's clear (and it's almost midnight Beijing time). --- Alex Jorgensen wrote: > Perhaps I'm being too aloud, here, but I'm wondering > if some of us're really just writing for the few, > let > me say, and this is being prompted by some of the > less > then friendly responses sent me directly, almost as > if > the point's to be parochial or exclusive, a weakness > one might easily argue, rather than accessible to a > broader audience and open, as O'hara might've said, > the shame in this being, of course, that such > highbrowed thinking has led our community to the > kind > of political and cultural impotence in which we find > polluting us these days. This I'm a publisher bit, > sounds really bitchy, and that threatening -- > "Well...well..." (Well, for instance, I understand > you've got something at stake, I mean, you're like a > promoter, one could say, of your own aesthetic, and > perhaps need to legitimize it -- along with > yourself). > > > I'll be Stateside soon and hope to hear many of you > read, to meet and learn whatever -- share, too, if > given the opportunity. I'll be round NYC and Western > MA come March. Thanks for all your great advice -- > and > you know who you are. > > Best as ever, > AJ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:19:04 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: Re: journals In-Reply-To: <20060116135815.63849.qmail@web32511.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 1/16/06 8:58 AM, aaron tieger at atieger@YAHOO.COM wrote: > As a print publisher I'm uninterested in printing material that has appeared > anywhere else. The whole point for me is to expose the audience to stuff > that's > never been seen before. Based on my subscriber list I suspect that a lot of > CARVE's present audience is also pretty up-to-date on what's going on in the > webzines; thus I don't want to be redundant. > > Aaron Tieger a little less then a year after boog started i was visiting ed sanders to look through his d.a. levy archives. i asked him for a poem i had heard him read, and he said that it had already been published in another journal. so i asked him if he had anything unpublished i could get instead. he told me to wait a second, that that previously published piece was only out in a journal with a print run of 300 and that the piece had more life left in it, adding that we didn't really have a crossover with them either. so basically that's been my policy for the past 13+ years. best, david ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:01:23 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Samuel Greenberg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Funny or like stereo ... Last month I send a tiny=20 piece on Samuel Greenberg to CA Conrad, for his=20 list of "neglected" poets; something I had=20 written in response to the small book mentioned=20 below. So I was pleased to see Ron Silliman write=20 about Greenberg on his blog today -- Samuel Greenberg, Self Charm: Selected Sonnets &=20 Other Poems. ed. Michael Carr and Michael Smith=20 Cambridge: Katalanch=E9 Press, 2005 Greenberg was born in Vienna in 1883 and died in=20 1917. An immigrant, he came to New Yorks Lower=20 East Side when he was seven and went to school=20 only until the seventh grade. He died of TB at=20 23. Unpublished in his own lifetime, Greenberg is=20 primarily known as an important source for Hart=20 Crane, whose "Emblems of Conduct" is a pastiche=20 of Greenbergs work. A second-wave "ideoloectial"=20 modernist, Greenberg practiced a radical forms of=20 sprung lyric -- a wild, sound -wracked, syntactic=20 syncretism that verges on the abstract and the=20 rhapsodic, which I associate with Crane and=20 Hopkins, but might also be described as as a=20 cross between Leo Gorcey reciting Shakespeare and=20 the poetical works of Elsa von=20 Freytag-Loringhoven. In the postwar period, I'd=20 point to Joseph Ceravolo's *Fits of Dawn*, many=20 of the works of Clark Coolidge and J. H. Prynne,=20 Kenneth Koch's *When the Sun Tries to Go On*, the=20 early poems of David Marriott ... well, the list=20 could go on. Just published -- a tiny book in a=20 tiny edition -- is *Self Charm: Selected Sonnets=20 & Other Poems*. The editors have carefully noted=20 the erratic spelling and punctuation of=20 Greenberg's poems, which had been slightly=20 regularized in earlier publications; for example,=20 restoring the hanging comma in the last line of=20 "Enigmas": "Mine eye lids shut, I fell into=20 unfelt realms,". Greenberg, whose holograph=20 manuscripts are at the Fales collection at NYU,=20 has been fortunate in finding these remarkable=20 editors, and Michael Smith has assembled a=20 stunningly good web site for Greenberg: http://logopoeia.com/greenberg/ Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:15:57 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Wilcox Subject: Third Thursday Open Mic in Albany Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed the Poetry Motel Foundation presents Third Thursday Open Mic for Poets at the Lark Street Bookshop 215 Lark Street, Albany, NY (near State St.) Thursday, January 19, 2006=09 7:00 sign up; 7:30 start Featured Poet: Dain Brammage $3.00 donation. Bring a poem, a friend, read your poem, make new friends, write a poem=20= for your friend, buy a book, buy your friend a book, whatever. Your host: Dan Wilcox, every Third Thursday. =93Dain Brammage=94 is a member of the board of AlbanyPoets, Inc., has=20= hosted slams locally and is a member of the PrysmaticDreams.com East=20 Coast Slam Team. Come & check out his performance style poetry. ### ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:01:39 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: Recommneded Riding (1/16) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Today would have been Laura (Riding) Jackson's 105th birthday, so I just thought I'd share some of these journal thought/questions I wrote after my little truncated dialogue with Dave Baratier and Charles Bernstein on this list last week (the first paragraph refers, briefly, to two other threads from this list a few weeks back.....) Chris Do you want to wage war over the meaning of the word =B3poetry=B2 with the editors of the Chicago magazine =B3Poetry: A Magazine of Verse=B2? Or the curators of the Chicago alternative shindig, from poetry to verse? Or with Charles Bernstein for that matter who considers =B3poetry=B2 as a defendant and a writer like Laura (Riding) Jackson a =B3witness for the prosecution?=B2 Does it seem that Bernstein, in claiming to side with =B3poetry,=B2 characterized as the defendant, is a witness for those who are prosecuting = a case against Laura (Riding) Jackson in the name of =B3poetry=B2? And what is this =B3poetry=B2 for which he speaks? Is it YOUR poetry? (and if it's not, is he, along with the Chicago poetry/verse folks, prosecuting a case against YOU?) And if it is, does it need to be so spoken for, defended? Can it be DEFINED= ? (and what is the relationship between defining and defending?) Does Shelley=B9s or Sidney=B9s famous defenses defend it? Does Whitman=B9s anonymously printed self-reviews defend it? Does Baraka=B9s =B3Hunting Is Not Those Heads On The Wall=B2? Do Riding=B9s statements that criticize the limits imposed on what was called poetry by many in her day (from the 1920s up until her death in 1991), whether =B3modernist=B2 or not, define it? Is there a wall separating freedom from poetry? Do you think verse is much easier to define (if not necessarily to defend) than poetry? And, if so, is poetry only valuable as verse? To what extent is freedom disparaged by what=B9s called poetry? It=B9s clearer for the formalists, but for those who claim NOT to be formalists, or who engage in a more moderate formalism (allowing a modicum of freedom in the form of =B3hybrid texts=B2 etc), to what extent is =B3ask not what poetry can do for=8Bor as=8Byou, but ask what you can do for poetry=B2 a statement you agree with? Then there=B9s quotes like these =B3but if you=B9re gonna call people like Robert Frost a poet, then I got to say this gas station boy was too=B2 (taken out of context from a 1965 Bob Dylan press-conference interview) around which a really interesting essay could be written. NOW, HOLD IT, Here I am imagining like I got some kind of public forum---this Buffpo list! I don=B9t. Bernstein briefly came down here to debate a little, then quietly left me with the last word, and a (temporary) feeling of inconsequence, of =B3squandered energy=B2 insofar as poetry is a social medium. But I guess that=B9s okay if I have no reputation to defend. And even if I did, any defense would have no meaning unless it was also a creating in its own right, whether or not such creation is called poetry, o= r =B3glorified=B2 with the fetishised term poetry. To =B3break the spell of poetry=B2 is to de-fetishize the term whose shackles may be aesthetically shiny, or even gloriously grimy, but insofar as poetry is a non-pejorative term employed or deployed to designate a writing activity, to what extent is a defense of it necessary? If it can=B9t be defined (even as =B3that which can=B9t be defined=B2), at least in any absolute way, that doesn=B9t mean it can=B9t be defended. But if you choose to defend poetry, especially if you=B9re defending it as =B3that which can=B9t be defined,=B2 what ar= e you defending it against? And can whatever you=B9re defending really be called poetry? Or, you=B9re going to claim =B3REVOLUTION=B2 and offer more of the same dressed in shiny new snake oil vocabulary or syntax, are you ay better or worse than those who don=B9t claim to be revolutionary? Chris ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:36:27 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tom Beckett Subject: favorite poetry readings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I haven't read in public for almost six years. The last reading I attended (accompanied by Jessica Grim) was by Robert Creeley, a couple of years ago, at Kent State. Creeley's reading was memorable. As was our brief exchange afterwards. This occasion was also the last time I saw legendary book dealer James Lowell alive. James was pissed that I hadn't been by to see him for quite awhile. Sigh. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:34:43 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: UbuWeb Subject: __U B U W E B :: Winter 2006__ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit __ U B U W E B __ http://ubu.com ---------------------------- UBUWEB :: Winter 2006 ---------------------------- --- RECENT FEATURES --- Samuel Beckett: BBC Radio Plays Eight full-length BBC radio productions of Samuel Beckett plays, broadcast between 1959 and 1991. Audio includes: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Ireland, 1958); A Piece of Monologue (UK, 1986); Cascando (UK, 1964); Cascando (Ireland, 1991); Embers (UK, 1959); Rough for Radio (UK, 1976); Words and Music (UK, 1962); The Old Tune (Ireland). Jacques Lacan: Hours of archival material from French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981). Includes his 1973 film Télévision (1973), the complete Radiophonie (1970), as well as numerous other lectures dating from 1966-1970. Also included are nine audio recordings of the legendary Séminaire. From 1953 to 1980, Lacan's Séminaire was the laboratory, the work-in -progress for his Return to Freud project. The Séminaire was a singular place and moment, almost weekly, every year from November to June. Without any connection with university, it was public and open to everyone. Curiously, despite Lacan's famous verve for grandiloquence and his matchless improvising oral style, none of the 500 sessions have been cleanly and officially recorded (neither audio nor video) until now, presented here on UbuWeb. (audio and video is in French) Harold Pinter: BBC Radio Plays 8 hours worth of plays by Harold Pinter aired between 1964-2000. Includes "Moonlight" (2000), "A Slight Ache" (2000), "Last To Go" (1964), "The Birthday Party" (1970), "No Man's Land" (1978), "Betrayl" (1990), "Family Voices" (date unknown), "Landscape", "Victoria Station" (1986) and "Family Voices" (1981). Gertrude Stein: MP3s In conjunction with our partners at PennSound, UbuWeb is pleased to host a number of audio recordings by Gertrude Stein made during the years of 1934-1935 with liner notes by Stein scholar Ulla Dydo. Selections include: "The Making of Americans: Parts 1 & 2", "Matisse", "A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson", "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso", "Portrait of Christian Bérard", "Madame Recamier: An Opera", "How She Bowed To Her Brother" and "Interview (1934)." --- Winter 2006 :: NEW ADDITIONS --- Steve Roden Soundwalk (2005), [MP3] Momus Fakeways (2002), [MP3] Adolf Wölfli Gelesen und vertont (1978), [MP3] John Cage Mureau (1972), [MP3] Mike Kelley Interview (1996) [PDF] Jerome Rothenberg How We Came Into Performance: A Personal Accounting (2005) [PDF] A.S. Bessa Vers: Une Architecture (on Stéphane Mallarmé) [PDF] Jean Genet Le condamné a mort, 1952, [MP3] Jean Genet Un Chant D'Amour, 1950, 269 mb (AVI) Abraham Lincoln Gillespie: 1895-1950 [PDF] Antony Balch (with William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin) The Cut-Ups, 1966, 212 mb (MPEG 4) Maya Deren Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, 1947, 121 mb (MPEG 4) Henry Miller reads from "Black Spring" and "Colossous of Maroussi" (both 1949) (MP3) 40 Years of Polish Experimental Radio from Studio Warsaw (MP3) Craig Douglas Dworkin Unheard Music (extended version) (PDF) Extended Voices Works by Lucier, Oliveros, Ashley, Ichiyanagi, Feldman, Cage (1968), MP3 Luc Ferrari France Culture Tributes and Documentaries (MP3) Gene Youngblood Expanded Cinema (1970), PDF Klaus Kinski The Spoken Performances of Klaus Kinski (MP3) Derek Bailey Interview (1987), MP3 Erik Satie Conceptual Works, MP3 Robert Smithson Hotel Palenque, (1969), 362mb, .AVI ---------------------------- UBUWEB :: Winter 2006 ---------------------------- UBUWEB IS ENTIRELY FREE __ U B U W E B __ http://ubu.com Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:00:41 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gabrielle Welford Subject: derrick jensen looking for small publishers for interview book MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT dear all, i wonder if any small publisher here would be interested in taking this up. derrick's very well known among activist folk, as i'm sure those of you who are activists know, and has written fiction as well as very useful non-fiction work, published by chelsea green. you could write to him directly at the address above. all best, gabe ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 derrick@derrickjensen.org wrote: > > > I have enough interviews that I did back when I was doing interviews for > > The Sun to make five or six books. I'm wondering if anyone knows any > > tiny environmental publishers (and I mean tiny) who might want to > > publish these books. I've tried some big publishers, and they aren't > > interested. I was thinking about publishing them myself--and that's what > > I'll do if necessary--at a rate of one per year, but I was also thinking > > that I'd like to support a tiny publisher or startup. It might be good > > for both me and them. If any of you either know of or are associated > > with some tiny publisher, please let me know. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Derrick ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:05:10 -1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gabrielle Welford Subject: Re: derrick jensen looking for small publishers for interview book Comments: cc: derrick@derrickjensen.org In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT oops, the address above is now the address above... On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Gabrielle Welford wrote: > dear all, i wonder if any small publisher here would be interested in > taking this up. derrick's very well known among activist folk, as i'm > sure those of you who are activists know, and has written fiction as well > as very useful non-fiction work, published by chelsea green. you could > write to him directly at the address above. all best, gabe > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 derrick@derrickjensen.org wrote: > > > > > I have enough interviews that I did back when I was doing interviews for > > > The Sun to make five or six books. I'm wondering if anyone knows any > > > tiny environmental publishers (and I mean tiny) who might want to > > > publish these books. I've tried some big publishers, and they aren't > > > interested. I was thinking about publishing them myself--and that's what > > > I'll do if necessary--at a rate of one per year, but I was also thinking > > > that I'd like to support a tiny publisher or startup. It might be good > > > for both me and them. If any of you either know of or are associated > > > with some tiny publisher, please let me know. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > Derrick > gabrielle welford instructor, hawaii pacific university welford@hawaii.edu Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.595 / Virus Database: 378 - Release Date: 2/25/2004 wilhelm reich anarcho-syndicalism gut/heart/head/earth ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:22:02 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Katalanche Press Subject: Re: Samuel Greenberg MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Thanks to Charles Bernstein for his post earlier today on the Samuel Greenberg chapbook, Self Charm: Selected Sonnets & Other Poems. For easy navigation I thought I would give a link to the Katalanche Press page for anyone interested in getting a copy: http://katalanchepress1.blogspot.com/ Bests, Michael Carr ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:56:58 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Okay, I'll jump into this one a little.... (though I have way too many thoughts to adequately represent here) While I don't entirely agree with Alex Saliby (for instance, I've always found Creeley to be an excellent performer if not exactly "reader"), like Alex (and many others I've talked to), I do generally tend to find about 90% of poetry readings I've attended to be pretty boring. (however since I go to less now than I used to--- which of course means I don't get asked to read as much as I used to-- that percentage has decreased---maybe only about 60% I now find boring) Yet, the conclusion that I draw from this, for me, existential fact, is not that poetry IS NOT a performance art. Rather, I take it as a challenge-- If, for instance, one likes, loves, even NEEDS, poetry on the page, the intensities that occur in reading and writing in "a room of one's own" (or at least a cafe), what is the purpose of a poetry reading of this kind of work that, on paper and in solitude, can seem very liberating or vivifying? I think it is, for the most part, an under-explored question. Or that there's an etiquette/protocol based on the assumption that somehow reading from what essentially amounts to a "PREPARED SPEECH" in a gallery, bar, etc., whether seated at a desk or standing, in a church-like quiet, with the occasional chuckle perhaps, is going to somehow come close to evoking what the book does. Or that anybody who would even hope or expect that the performance would do anything like this is, frankly, unrealistic. The assumptions that the "reading" is somehow secondary to 1) the after reading party and 2) the book you're then suppossed to take home color most readings with a "life is elsewhere" feeling. It's one of the reasons that in my own readings (starting from around 1998) I began to READ less and less of my poetry, and IMPROVISE far more-- going around the room, asking questions, inviting heckling, needling the audience, changing tones, using stand-up comedy, dialogue pieces, perhaps even playing a song (if there's a piano) and THEN after clearing away alot of the GUCK, that detritus, "breaking down the fourth wall," reading a SERIOUS poem VERY VERY slowly---just one or two perhaps-- but in general I've found I've REACHED more people and more profoundly this way--- Sure, some of these experiments have been more successful than others. That's the risk of such performances, but even though I've had some "purists" object to what I'm doing, or who say "I'm selling my self short" perhaps (on the ground that they think it's making a mockery of my work or something), I still feel it's worth it, and comes closer to the sense of intimate confrontation I find in my favorite writing on the page. For if people want to READ THE POETRY ON THE PAGE, which, yes, sure, I'd like them to do, well, they can always see the linguistic subtleties THERE-- I don't ALWAYS need to try to replicate that in performance. Sometimes I'll still do the "Straight" reading (or at least my version of the straight reading) but even in the best of those I've attended as an audience there's this sense of A WASH OF WORDS that can drown or floor--- (and the linguistic subtleties don't come through no matter how drab a monotone one reads in---therefore why not have some fun with it?) One way to cope with this (as audience member) is to take notes, or to stand near the back of the room and allow oneself to sway-- Yet if, say, three people are reading, and there was a GREAT LINE by poet # one that really blew you away, by the time the event is over it's sometimes very hard to remember just what that was--- I'd really love it if more poets and venue-curators considered re-evaluating the standard poetry reading format. I've curated some readings where I only let a poet read for like 5 minutes and then let people in the audience interact with that poet, and then move on. That's one possible way. Many others.... Then of course there's the big problem that for the most part only poets go to alot of these readings, and the way this changes the performance itself. Luckily, there's some exceptions--- Last night, I happened to go to a performance hosted by East Bay writer Kaya Oakes, who wrote an essay a few years ago called "Why Poetry Readings Suck," and who I'm told will shortly be publishing her first book of poetry on Dave Baratier's PAVEMENT SAW Press (which, for the sake of full disclosure, published my first book, 11 years ago). It was a lot of "personal essays," "cultural criticism" kind of stuff combined with poetry---and it worked very well as a combination of informal and formal. Particularly the reading by Stefanie Kalem and poet Jeff Johnson---both spoke directly to an audience, in a non-specialized way, and when Jeff read two linguistically sophisticated poems in between his two informal stories, even if they might have "gone over the head" of some of the audience, they had an emotional impact that the framing devices helped bring forth, and showed that, yes, there can be a place for what might be called poetry, outside the "self-satisfied" (but secretly frustrated) inwardly oriented pseudo- consensus of the sub-sub-coteries. Chris ---------- >From: alexander saliby >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP >Date: Sun, Jan 15, 2006, 9:17 PM > > > One closing point, I confess, I never think of poetry as "performance" art. > More to the point, I don't view reading as a performance skill...just a > short-coming in my up-bringing I imagine. > Alex > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Charles Bernstein > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:31 AM > Subject: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP > > > Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the > poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics > subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry > readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible > (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the > style of performance or performances and also discuss what you > particularly valued about the reading or readings. > > Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:53:19 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Amato Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: <200601161931.k0GJVHUe012594@pimout1-ext.prodigy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" actually, i think everything chris says here goes for mla "readings" too, with the necessary adjustments... in general i think our approach to public space as writers/readers/thinkers/creators/performers/jugglers/butchers/bakers and candlestick makers could use some serious retooling... why do people want to hear other people speak?... why do they want to gather together with other people and hear three different people speak, uninterruptedly, for 20 minutes apiece (whether poetry or scholarship)?... listening to vocal work/performance, finally, sans song as such (if you'll permit me to make this distinction, just so's we have something to discuss), isn't high on my list of things in life i eagerly anticipate, uh-uh... i'm always happy, for that matter, when i *do* hear something worth hearing... i'm sure, too, that my response isn't shared by everyone, if only b/c i always find people at absolutely dreadful readings---dreadful in terms as objective as i can imagine them---to be moved to tears (etc.)... which means not simply that we have different aesthetics, but that we've been differently sensitized to speech/language practices... i mean, not simply cognitively, if that too, but bodily, and interpersonally... to move me to tears or to make me laugh, hard, or to get me to thinking---to do that by speaking... words?... that shouldn't be so easy, should it?... but yeah, i'm of the opine that one of the major mistakes made by poets is thinking they can and should be rendering the page verbatim, as it were, during a reading---and more, that that's all they should be doing... this works sometimes, but in my experience, not most of the time... best, joe >Okay, I'll jump into this one a little.... >(though I have way too many thoughts to adequately represent here) > >While I don't entirely agree with Alex Saliby >(for instance, I've always found Creeley to be an excellent performer >if not exactly "reader"), >like Alex (and many others I've talked to), >I do generally tend to find about 90% of poetry readings I've attended >to be pretty boring. > >(however since I go to less now than I used to--- >which of course means I don't get asked to read as much as I used to-- >that percentage has decreased---maybe only about 60% I now find boring) > >Yet, the conclusion that I draw from this, for me, existential fact, >is not that poetry IS NOT a performance art. > >Rather, I take it as a challenge-- > >If, for instance, one likes, loves, even NEEDS, poetry on the page, >the intensities that occur in reading and writing in "a room of one's own" >(or at least a cafe), >what is the purpose of a poetry reading of this kind of work that, >on paper and in solitude, can seem very liberating or vivifying? > >I think it is, for the most part, an under-explored question. >Or that there's an etiquette/protocol based on the assumption >that somehow reading from what essentially amounts to a >"PREPARED SPEECH" in a gallery, bar, etc., >whether seated at a desk or standing, >in a church-like quiet, with the occasional chuckle perhaps, >is going to somehow come close to evoking what the book does. > >Or that anybody who would even hope or expect that the performance >would do anything like this is, frankly, unrealistic. >The assumptions that the "reading" is somehow secondary to >1) the after reading party and 2) the book you're then suppossed to take >home >color most readings with a "life is elsewhere" feeling. > >It's one of the reasons that in my own readings (starting from around 1998) >I began to READ less and less of my poetry, and IMPROVISE far more-- >going around the room, asking questions, inviting heckling, needling the >audience, changing tones, using stand-up comedy, dialogue pieces, perhaps >even playing a song (if there's a piano) and THEN after clearing >away alot of the GUCK, that detritus, "breaking down the fourth wall," >reading a SERIOUS poem VERY VERY slowly---just one or two perhaps-- >but in general I've found I've REACHED more people and more profoundly >this way--- >Sure, some of these experiments have been more successful than others. >That's the risk of such performances, but even though I've had some >"purists" object to what I'm doing, or who say "I'm selling my self short" >perhaps (on the ground that they think it's making a mockery of my work >or something), I still feel it's worth it, and comes closer to the >sense of intimate confrontation I find in my favorite writing on the page. > >For if people want to READ THE POETRY ON THE PAGE, which, yes, sure, I'd >like them to do, well, they can always see the linguistic subtleties THERE-- >I don't ALWAYS need to try to replicate that in performance. >Sometimes I'll still do the "Straight" reading >(or at least my version of the straight reading) >but even in the best of those I've attended as an audience >there's this sense of A WASH OF WORDS that can drown or floor--- >(and the linguistic subtleties don't come through no matter how drab a >monotone >one reads in---therefore why not have some fun with it?) > >One way to cope with this (as audience member) is to take notes, >or to stand near the back of the room and allow oneself to sway-- > >Yet if, say, three people are reading, and there was a GREAT LINE >by poet # one that really blew you away, by the time the event is over >it's sometimes very hard to remember just what that was--- > >I'd really love it if more poets and venue-curators considered >re-evaluating the standard poetry reading format. > >I've curated some readings where I only let a poet read for like 5 minutes >and then let people in the audience interact with that poet, >and then move on. That's one possible way. Many others.... > >Then of course there's the big problem that for the most part only poets >go to alot of these readings, and the way this changes the performance >itself. > >Luckily, there's some exceptions--- > >Last night, I happened to go to a performance hosted by East Bay writer Kaya >Oakes, who wrote an essay a few years ago called "Why Poetry Readings Suck," >and who I'm told will shortly be publishing her first book of poetry on >Dave Baratier's PAVEMENT SAW Press (which, for the sake of full disclosure, >published my first book, 11 years ago). It was a lot of "personal essays," >"cultural criticism" kind of stuff combined with poetry---and it worked very >well as a combination of informal and formal. Particularly the reading by >Stefanie Kalem and poet Jeff Johnson---both spoke directly to an audience, >in a non-specialized way, and when Jeff read two linguistically >sophisticated poems in between his two informal stories, even if they >might have "gone over the head" of some of the audience, they had an >emotional impact that the framing devices helped bring forth, and showed >that, yes, there can be a place for what might be called poetry, outside >the "self-satisfied" (but secretly frustrated) inwardly oriented pseudo- >consensus of the sub-sub-coteries. > >Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >---------- >>From: alexander saliby >>To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >>Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP >>Date: Sun, Jan 15, 2006, 9:17 PM >> > >> >> One closing point, I confess, I never think of poetry as "performance" art. >> More to the point, I don't view reading as a performance skill...just a >> short-coming in my up-bringing I imagine. >> Alex >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Charles Bernstein >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:31 AM >> Subject: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP >> >> >> Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the >> poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics >> subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry >> readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible >> (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the >> style of performance or performances and also discuss what you >> particularly valued about the reading or readings. >> >> Charles Bernstein -- Joe Amato, Managing Editor American Book Review Illinois State University CB 4241 Fairchild Hall, Room 109 Normal, IL 61790-4241 USA 309.438.2127 (voice) 309.438.3523 (fax) AmericanBookReview@ilstu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:00:23 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Amato Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" oh well, i find i have to post an addendum to what i just posted: probably the WORST thing a poet can do is spend needless minutes (upon minutes) in between each and every fucking poem explaining to the audience what it's about, where it comes from, etc... *that* kind of interjection---where the spiel often lasts longer than the actual reading of the poem---is high on my Not To Do list... the banter, that is, however improvisational, really has to be a practiced thing... best, joe -- Joe Amato, Managing Editor American Book Review Illinois State University CB 4241 Fairchild Hall, Room 109 Normal, IL 61790-4241 USA 309.438.2127 (voice) 309.438.3523 (fax) AmericanBookReview@ilstu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:05:09 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: kevin thurston Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline i think there is a difference that is defined by the individual that is, do they focus on the page as a static object if so, they probably shouldn't read as presenting the text (orally) is not their focus (and now the conjecture) i really enjoy reading robert lax's work, but i would never want to hear th= e poems he dedicated to ad reinhardt red red red etc same with, eg, eugen gomringer however, if the page is something that is a mere container--the energy of the words in capusle form--then by all means go this list would include mike basinski jackson maclow etcetera most poets, however, are somewhere in-between and that is when you have no idea what the fuck yer gonna get that said, probably nothing was said, and i have to go back to work On 1/16/06, Joe Amato wrote: > > actually, i think everything chris says here goes for mla "readings" > too, with the necessary adjustments... in general i think our > approach to public space as > writers/readers/thinkers/creators/performers/jugglers/butchers/bakers > and candlestick makers could use some serious retooling... why do > people want to hear other people speak?... why do they want to gather > together with other people and hear three different people speak, > uninterruptedly, for 20 minutes apiece (whether poetry or > scholarship)?... listening to vocal work/performance, finally, sans > song as such (if you'll permit me to make this distinction, just so's > we have something to discuss), isn't high on my list of things in > life i eagerly anticipate, uh-uh... > > i'm always happy, for that matter, when i *do* hear something worth > hearing... > > i'm sure, too, that my response isn't shared by everyone, if only b/c > i always find people at absolutely dreadful readings---dreadful in > terms as objective as i can imagine them---to be moved to tears > (etc.)... which means not simply that we have different aesthetics, > but that we've been differently sensitized to speech/language > practices... i mean, not simply cognitively, if that too, but bodily, > and interpersonally... to move me to tears or to make me laugh, hard, > or to get me to thinking---to do that by speaking... words?... > > that shouldn't be so easy, should it?... but yeah, i'm of the opine > that one of the major mistakes made by poets is thinking they can and > should be rendering the page verbatim, as it were, during a > reading---and more, that that's all they should be doing... this > works sometimes, but in my experience, not most of the time... > > best, > > joe > > >Okay, I'll jump into this one a little.... > >(though I have way too many thoughts to adequately represent here) > > > >While I don't entirely agree with Alex Saliby > >(for instance, I've always found Creeley to be an excellent performer > >if not exactly "reader"), > >like Alex (and many others I've talked to), > >I do generally tend to find about 90% of poetry readings I've attended > >to be pretty boring. > > > >(however since I go to less now than I used to--- > >which of course means I don't get asked to read as much as I used to-- > >that percentage has decreased---maybe only about 60% I now find boring) > > > >Yet, the conclusion that I draw from this, for me, existential fact, > >is not that poetry IS NOT a performance art. > > > >Rather, I take it as a challenge-- > > > >If, for instance, one likes, loves, even NEEDS, poetry on the page, > >the intensities that occur in reading and writing in "a room of one's > own" > >(or at least a cafe), > >what is the purpose of a poetry reading of this kind of work that, > >on paper and in solitude, can seem very liberating or vivifying? > > > >I think it is, for the most part, an under-explored question. > >Or that there's an etiquette/protocol based on the assumption > >that somehow reading from what essentially amounts to a > >"PREPARED SPEECH" in a gallery, bar, etc., > >whether seated at a desk or standing, > >in a church-like quiet, with the occasional chuckle perhaps, > >is going to somehow come close to evoking what the book does. > > > >Or that anybody who would even hope or expect that the performance > >would do anything like this is, frankly, unrealistic. > >The assumptions that the "reading" is somehow secondary to > >1) the after reading party and 2) the book you're then suppossed to take > >home > >color most readings with a "life is elsewhere" feeling. > > > >It's one of the reasons that in my own readings (starting from around > 1998) > >I began to READ less and less of my poetry, and IMPROVISE far more-- > >going around the room, asking questions, inviting heckling, needling the > >audience, changing tones, using stand-up comedy, dialogue pieces, perhap= s > >even playing a song (if there's a piano) and THEN after clearing > >away alot of the GUCK, that detritus, "breaking down the fourth wall," > >reading a SERIOUS poem VERY VERY slowly---just one or two perhaps-- > >but in general I've found I've REACHED more people and more profoundly > >this way--- > >Sure, some of these experiments have been more successful than others. > >That's the risk of such performances, but even though I've had some > >"purists" object to what I'm doing, or who say "I'm selling my self > short" > >perhaps (on the ground that they think it's making a mockery of my work > >or something), I still feel it's worth it, and comes closer to the > >sense of intimate confrontation I find in my favorite writing on the > page. > > > >For if people want to READ THE POETRY ON THE PAGE, which, yes, sure, I'd > >like them to do, well, they can always see the linguistic subtleties > THERE-- > >I don't ALWAYS need to try to replicate that in performance. > >Sometimes I'll still do the "Straight" reading > >(or at least my version of the straight reading) > >but even in the best of those I've attended as an audience > >there's this sense of A WASH OF WORDS that can drown or floor--- > >(and the linguistic subtleties don't come through no matter how drab a > >monotone > >one reads in---therefore why not have some fun with it?) > > > >One way to cope with this (as audience member) is to take notes, > >or to stand near the back of the room and allow oneself to sway-- > > > >Yet if, say, three people are reading, and there was a GREAT LINE > >by poet # one that really blew you away, by the time the event is over > >it's sometimes very hard to remember just what that was--- > > > >I'd really love it if more poets and venue-curators considered > >re-evaluating the standard poetry reading format. > > > >I've curated some readings where I only let a poet read for like 5 > minutes > >and then let people in the audience interact with that poet, > >and then move on. That's one possible way. Many others.... > > > >Then of course there's the big problem that for the most part only poets > >go to alot of these readings, and the way this changes the performance > >itself. > > > >Luckily, there's some exceptions--- > > > >Last night, I happened to go to a performance hosted by East Bay writer > Kaya > >Oakes, who wrote an essay a few years ago called "Why Poetry Readings > Suck," > >and who I'm told will shortly be publishing her first book of poetry on > >Dave Baratier's PAVEMENT SAW Press (which, for the sake of full > disclosure, > >published my first book, 11 years ago). It was a lot of "personal > essays," > >"cultural criticism" kind of stuff combined with poetry---and it worked > very > >well as a combination of informal and formal. Particularly the reading b= y > >Stefanie Kalem and poet Jeff Johnson---both spoke directly to an > audience, > >in a non-specialized way, and when Jeff read two linguistically > >sophisticated poems in between his two informal stories, even if they > >might have "gone over the head" of some of the audience, they had an > >emotional impact that the framing devices helped bring forth, and showed > >that, yes, there can be a place for what might be called poetry, outside > >the "self-satisfied" (but secretly frustrated) inwardly oriented pseudo- > >consensus of the sub-sub-coteries. > > > >Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >---------- > >>From: alexander saliby > >>To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > >>Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP > >>Date: Sun, Jan 15, 2006, 9:17 PM > >> > > > >> > >> One closing point, I confess, I never think of poetry as "performance= " > art. > >> More to the point, I don't view reading as a performance skill...jus= t > a > >> short-coming in my up-bringing I imagine. > >> Alex > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Charles Bernstein > >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > > >> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:31 AM > >> Subject: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP > >> > >> > >> Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating > the > >> poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics > >> subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry > >> readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible > >> (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the > >> style of performance or performances and also discuss what you > >> particularly valued about the reading or readings. > >> > >> Charles Bernstein > > -- > Joe Amato, Managing Editor > American Book Review > Illinois State University > CB 4241 > Fairchild Hall, Room 109 > Normal, IL 61790-4241 > USA > > 309.438.2127 (voice) > 309.438.3523 (fax) > AmericanBookReview@ilstu.edu > -- really.serious.commentary. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:17:51 +1100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pam Brown Subject: Not all Screen Goddesses are Alike In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Patricia Spears Jones, My favourite Shelley Winters film was 'The Balcony' - the screen version of Jean genet's play in the 'sixties. She played the madam of the fantasy house where the clients act out their erotic fantasies. She was great. I liked her as Roseanne's mum too. All good wishes, Pam _________________________________________________________________ Web site : Pam Brown - http://www.geocities.com/p.brown/ Associate editor : Jacket - http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html _________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find a local business fast with Yahoo! Local Search http://au.local.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:21:20 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charlie Rossiter Subject: 3 Memorable Readings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Three memorable readings. Amiri Baraka a couple of Dodge Festivals ago. He was on the main stage, but given an afternoon slot, and he really whipped it up--including some hand percussion on the podium if I recall correctly. I saw Ginsberg many times but the best I ever heard him do was at Albany, NY's now defunct QE2 back in the early 90's. He'd already read at the University; this was the community read, and the black-walled club must have inspired him-- "The Green Car" and "Please, Master" in the same reading. Outstanding. To my taste a lot of efforts to do poetry with music just don't work because they're either cliched or just thrown together affairs, but a couple of years ago Joy Harjo did a reading here in Chicago sponsored by the Guild Complex that was exquisite. She had her sax, a bass man and a guy on cajon and other hand percussion. In this case, the music supported the poetry and extended the poems' impact. Even the rows of bells strapped to her ankles were completely appropriate and effective. Charlie -- The truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it Emily Dickinson www.poetrypoetry.com where you hear poems read by the poets who wrote them ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:22:27 -0500 Reply-To: az421@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rob McLennan Subject: new(ish) on ottawa poetry newsletter Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT -- notes on geography: Meredith Quartermain, John Newlove, William Hawkins & The Ottawa City Project by rob mclennan -- a review of James Reaney's Souwesto Home (2005) by Jesse Ferguson -- a review of Norman Drive: A University of Ottawa Class Anthology by Amanda Earl -- The Role of Poets in Politics by Ritallin etcetera www.ottawapoetry.blogspot.com -- poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...11th coll'n - name , an errant (Stride, UK) .... c/o 858 Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:57:38 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Sam Ladkin Subject: Cambridge Series Poetry this/every Thursday In-Reply-To: <43C7D5D1.2090107@utulsa.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Ladies and Gentlemen, we are delighted to announce the return of the CAMBRIDGE SERIES POETRY READINGS opening with Thursday January 19th ULLI FREER ANDREW BREWERTON TIM ATKINS Readings begin at 8pm In the New Music Room St John's College, Cambridge Donations in the order of =A33/2 (concessions) are hoped for. Wine will be available. ALL ARE WELCOME see www.cambridgepoetry.org for further details or email contact@cambridgepoetry.org to be sent them. The New Music Room is in First Court, St John's College. Entrance to =20 the college will be through the forecourt entrance and keep turning =20 left until you are in First Court. Here is a map of the location of the college: http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?=20 mp=3Dmain;xx=3D1681;yy=3D590;mt=3Dc;ms=3D180 And here is a map of the college itself: http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?=20 mp=3Dmain;xx=3D1681;yy=3D590;mt=3Dc;ms=3D180 We'll have signs up to make sure you get there. For information on ULLI FREER see http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710025.htm For information on ANDREW BREWERTON see http://www.dartington.ac.uk/research/staff/staff.asp?uid=3D35 For information on TIM ATKINS see http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/poets/atkins.htm Presented with the generous support of the Judith E Wilson Fund, =20 Faculty of English and Barque Press (see www.barquepress.com) Thursday January 19th Ulli Freer / Andrew Brewerton / Tim Atkins Thursday January 26th Fiona Sampson / Randolph Healey / Linh Dinh Thursday February 2nd Geoff Ward / John Temple Thursday February 9th Alice Notley / Ralph Hawkins / Anthony Barnett Thursday February 9th - BARQUE PRESS EVENT Keston Sutherland / Neil Pattison / Matt Ffytche Thursday February 23rd Lucy Sheerman / Jeremy Hardingham / Bill Griffiths Thursday March 2nd Performances of John Cage Four6 (1992) Cornelius Cardew Treatise (1963-67) and poetry performances. Curated by Harry Gilonis and Josh Robinson ***TUESDAY*** March 7th Peter Robinson / Dell Olsen (Line-ups may suffer some changes and other additions) WWW.CAMBRIDGEPOETRY.ORG= ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:59:58 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anna Vitale Subject: Re: 3 Memorable Readings In-Reply-To: <3484.68.253.210.135.1137446480.squirrel@www.poetrypoetry.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Oh yeah, Amiri Baraka! I forgot that I saw him, but now that you mention it, his readings are definitely memorable. I saw Amiri Baraka at this tiny little space in Detroit 6 or 7 years ago and the room was packed and he's pretty short so I couldn't see him. It was so hot and I was trying to stand on my tippy toes the whole time. One thing I remember him saying was something like: why do you think they call the white house the white house? And it sent the whole room into a roar. I'll never forget that! -Anna Vitale On 1/16/06, Charlie Rossiter wrote: > Three memorable readings. > > Amiri Baraka a couple of Dodge Festivals ago. He was on the main stage, > but given an afternoon slot, and he really whipped it up--including some > hand percussion on the podium if I recall correctly. > > I saw Ginsberg many times but the best I ever heard him do was at Albany, > NY's now defunct QE2 back in the early 90's. He'd already read at the > University; this was the community read, and the black-walled club must > have inspired him-- "The Green Car" and "Please, Master" in the same > reading. Outstanding. > > To my taste a lot of efforts to do poetry with music just don't work > because they're either cliched or just thrown together affairs, but a > couple of years ago Joy Harjo did a reading here in Chicago sponsored by > the Guild Complex that was exquisite. She had her sax, a bass man and a > guy on cajon and other hand percussion. In this case, the music supporte= d > the poetry and extended the poems' impact. Even the rows of bells > strapped to her ankles were completely appropriate and effective. > > Charlie > > -- > The truth is such a rare thing > it is delightful to tell it > Emily Dickinson > www.poetrypoetry.com > where you hear poems read > by the poets who wrote them > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:04:07 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: "Environment in Crisis" - Grim Grim Grim Comments: cc: "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics"@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338878.ece Environment in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return' Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out that the Earth possessed a planetary-scale control system which kept the environment fit for life. He called it Gaia, and the theory has become widely accepted. Now, he believes mankind's abuse of the environment is making that mechanism work against us. His astonishing conclusion - that climate change is already insoluble, and life on Earth will never be the same again. Read on at: http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338878.ece Well, at least we can say, Happy Birthday to/for Martin Luther King - his example and the way his power and vision got people to the front, and to the table. Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:47:27 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re intros to poems New zealand's sam hunt spends a long time introducing poems, but his = intros are stand up comedy routines that do not detract from the poem but frame them and i have seen him perform them to literary festival audiences at = the brisbane writers festival and in a noisy pub in roselle in sydney. His = hour and a half show was well received in both venues. But i agree with joe, those who reveal the content of the poems before = they read them, or who have to explain too many references in the poem have = not chosen their poems wisely for public performance. There are those who haven't decided what poems they will read before getting onto the stage = and waste people's time fumbling about. Re: skills for performance Those who think there are no skills required for performance have = probably never successfully communicated their poetry in public. If someone gets = up to read a poem and read it like they were sitting in their lounge at = home reading it from a book, head buried in the book, to me this is not = public performance, it is personal indulgence, there is no consideration of the audience. To have an audience in a pub venue, 300 people who have been drinking, absolutely silent, as you whisper a poem, takes sophisticated performance skills not just powerful words on a page. Eye contact: I think once you get over nerves and can actually look at the audience instead of looking at your shoes and stop using the book or sheet of = paper to hide behind, then you start to communicate, when you can establish = eye contact with your audience you can read their reaction and a feedback = loop starts to happen. komninos zervos homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs |||-----Original Message----- |||From: UB Poetics discussion group = [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] |||On Behalf Of Joe Amato |||Sent: Tuesday, 17 January 2006 6:00 AM |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU |||Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP ||| |||oh well, i find i have to post an addendum to what i just posted: ||| |||probably the WORST thing a poet can do is spend needless minutes |||(upon minutes) in between each and every fucking poem explaining to |||the audience what it's about, where it comes from, etc... *that* kind |||of interjection---where the spiel often lasts longer than the actual |||reading of the poem---is high on my Not To Do list... ||| |||the banter, that is, however improvisational, really has to be a |||practiced thing... ||| |||best, ||| |||joe |||-- |||Joe Amato, Managing Editor |||American Book Review |||Illinois State University |||CB 4241 |||Fairchild Hall, Room 109 |||Normal, IL 61790-4241 |||USA ||| |||309.438.2127 (voice) |||309.438.3523 (fax) |||AmericanBookReview@ilstu.edu ||| |||-- |||No virus found in this incoming message. |||Checked by AVG Free Edition. |||Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: = 14/01/06 ||| --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.19/231 - Release Date: = 16/01/06 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:45:54 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Sam Ladkin Subject: Cambridge Series Poetry Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed CAMBRIDGE SERIES POETRY READINGS Readings begin at 8pm In the New Music Room St John's College, Cambridge Donations in the order of =A33/2 (concessions) are hoped for. Wine will be available. ALL ARE WELCOME see www.cambridgepoetry.org for further details or email contact@cambridgepoetry.org to be sent them. The New Music Room is in First Court, St John's College. Entrance to =20 the college will be through the forecourt entrance and keep turning =20 left until you are in First Court. Here is a map of the location of the college: http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?=20 mp=3Dmain;xx=3D1681;yy=3D590;mt=3Dc;ms=3D180 And here is a map of the college itself: http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?=20 mp=3Dmain;xx=3D1681;yy=3D590;mt=3Dc;ms=3D180 We'll have signs up to make sure you get there. Presented with the generous support of the Judith E Wilson Fund, =20 Faculty of English and Barque Press (see www.barquepress.com) Thursday January 19th Ulli Freer / Andrew Brewerton / Tim Atkins Thursday January 26th Fiona Sampson / Randolph Healy / Linh Dinh Thursday February 2nd Geoff Ward / John Temple Thursday February 9th Alice Notley / Ralph Hawkins / Anthony Barnett Thursday February 16th - BARQUE PRESS EVENT Keston Sutherland / Neil Pattison / Matt Ffytche Thursday February 23rd Lucy Sheerman / Jeremy Hardingham / Bill Griffiths Thursday March 2nd Performances of John Cage Four6 (1992) Cornelius Cardew Treatise (1963-67) and poetry performances. Curated by Harry Gilonis and Josh Robinson ***TUESDAY*** March 7th Peter Robinson / Dell Olsen (Line-ups may suffer some changes and other additions) WWW.CAMBRIDGEPOETRY.ORG= ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:39:18 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jesse Seldess Subject: Antennae 8 now available MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ANTENNAE 8 January 2006 $6 poems by paul foster johnson / minamikawa yuko - trans. sawako nakayasu / laura elrick / melizza buzzeo / roberto harrison / jonathan skinner / alistair noon / steven zultanski music or performance scores by pierre thoma / jeremy woodruff / istvan zelenka covers by Leonie Weber and Jesse Seldess Payable to Jesse Seldess / 1321Woodland Lane / Riverwoods / IL / 60015 E-mail: j_seldess@hotmail.com North American subscriptions outside the US, please add $3. 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She was great. > I liked her as Roseanne's mum too. > > All good wishes, > Pam > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Web site : Pam Brown - http://www.geocities.com/p.brown/ > Associate editor : Jacket - http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Find a local business fast with Yahoo! Local Search > http://au.local.yahoo.com > > George Harry Bowering Sweeter than a summer squash. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:27:27 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: George Bowering Subject: Re: 3 Memorable Readings In-Reply-To: <3484.68.253.210.135.1137446480.squirrel@www.poetrypoetry.org> MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 16-Jan-06, at 1:21 PM, Charlie Rossiter wrote: > Three memorable readings. > > Amiri Baraka a couple of Dodge Festivals ago. He was on the main > stage, > but given an afternoon slot, and he really whipped it up--including > some > hand percussion on the podium if I recall correctly. I have heard Baraka read in San Francisco, Buffalo, Boston and Victoria. At the Victoria reading, it was a Sun Splash weekend, run by Hope Anderson, and some kids had been dozing out in the sun, listening to Taj Mahal. Then Amiri Baraka started READING. and boy, did they snap awake! > Geo Bowering Learning to live with one head. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:31:27 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harriet zinnes Subject: Re: January Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com featuring PAVEMENT SAW PRESS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit chicagopostmodernpoetry.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Haas Bianchi" To: Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 5:17 PM Subject: January Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com featuring PAVEMENT SAW PRESS > Please visit our Site with the Following New Features > > CHICAGOPOSTMODERNPOETRY.COM > > SMALL PRESS PROFILE > > Pavement Saw Press, Profiles of 11 Pavement Saw Poets > > THE CHICAGO POETRY CALENDAR > > For January, February and March 2006 > > Raymond L Bianchi > chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/ > collagepoetchicago.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:46:55 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gerald Schwartz Subject: Re: Not all Screen Goddesses are Alike MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes, found the moment where she and her spawn fall into the mud. Gerald Schwartz ...still (in vain) searching for his copy of "Barjona, Jeu Scenique en six tableaux...." > My favourite was as the wild mad bad woman mother > in "Pete's Dragon" > > > > On 16-Jan-06, at 1:17 PM, Pam Brown wrote: > >> Dear Patricia Spears Jones, >> >> My favourite Shelley Winters film was 'The Balcony' - >> the screen version of Jean genet's play in the >> 'sixties. >> She played the madam of the fantasy house where the >> clients act out their erotic fantasies. She was great. >> I liked her as Roseanne's mum too. >> >> All good wishes, >> Pam >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> >> Web site : Pam Brown - http://www.geocities.com/p.brown/ >> Associate editor : Jacket - http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html >> _________________________________________________________________ >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________ >> Do you Yahoo!? >> Find a local business fast with Yahoo! Local Search >> http://au.local.yahoo.com >> >> > George Harry Bowering > > Sweeter than a summer squash. > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:55:53 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kerri Sonnenberg Subject: Michael Robins and Jesse Seldess read in Chicago this Friday Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit _________THE DISCRETE SERIES @ The Spareroom__________ presents...poets..:::Michael Robins:::::::Jesse Seldess Friday, January, 20 @ 7PM / 2416 W. North Ave. / $5 suggested donation Michael Robins' poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in eye~rhyme, Boston Review, Cranky, National Poetry Review, Milk Magazine, The Cincinnati Review Hubbub and elsewhere. His photographs have appeared or are forthcoming in Synthesis and Unpleasant Event Schedule. Jesse Seldess recently relocated from Chicago to Berlin. He is the founder and editor of Antennae, a journal of experimental writing, music, and performance, and, while in Chicago, he co-founded and co-curated the Discrete Reading and Performance Series with Kerri Sonnenberg. His poems have most recently appeared in the journals Crayon, Kiosk, Traverse, and First Intensity, and chapbooks of his poems have been published by Answer Tag Home Press, Bronze Skull Press, and the Chicago Poetry Project. His first full-length book of poems, Who Opens, is forthcoming from Kenning Editions. SpareRoom is a time-arts cooperative. Its members make artwork that crosses disciplines and takes risks. Its space gives a community of artists the opportunity to rehearse, perform, exhibit, and develop work on their own terms. The Discrete Series is an approximately monthly event presenting local and national writers reading from their work. For more information about this or upcoming events, email kerri@lavamatic.com. Or visit www.lavamatic.com/discrete Coming up this spring... (No event in February) 3/3:::Tom Raworth & Joel Craig @ The Spareroom, 7 p.m. 3/24::Brenda Hillman, Laura Sims and Anthony Hawley @ The Spareroom, 7 p.m. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:58:32 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: 3 Memorable Readings In-Reply-To: <6B7CCAAC-86F8-11DA-B192-000A95C34F08@sfu.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Three memorable readings. > > > > Amiri Baraka a couple of Dodge Festivals ago. He was on the main > > stage, > > but given an afternoon slot, and he really whipped it up--including > > some > > hand percussion on the podium if I recall correctly. > > I have heard Baraka read in San Francisco, Buffalo, Boston and Victoria. > At the Victoria reading, it was a Sun Splash weekend, run by Hope > Anderson, > and some kids had been dozing out in the sun, listening to Taj Mahal. > Then > Amiri Baraka started READING. and boy, did they snap awake! I saw that reading too. That was back in the early eighties. I remember how smart he looked. And he had his poems in a briefcase. A perfectly serious poet. No question about it. And when he read, the righteous scolding began. It wasn't so much anger with a cause--though of course there was cause (and some anger)--as the truly funky justicer had obviously come to town. Yes, I agree--that was indeed a memorable reading. Hope Anderson gave white bread Victoria a gift in that Sun Fest with Baraka and Taj Mahal that was unexpected, to me, and really something. I was pretty young at the time. Hope had his 'Octopus Island Bookstore' in Market Square. The store specialized in northwest poetry. It lasted a couple of years. That was the best bookstore Victoria's had, as far as I'm concerned--the only one with that sort of purpose. Of course it was doomed. I suspect Hope new that. But he did something beautiful there. That was the house of poetry. ja http://vispo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:13:12 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bruce at Coconut Poetry Subject: Coconut Three In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Wake to a little coconut under your pillow! Coconut Three features juicy new poetry by Bill Berkson, Eileen Myles, Catherine Daly, Denise Duhamel, Brian Henry, Wanda Phipps, Aaron Tieger, Anita Naegeli, K. Silem Mohammad, randy prunty, Jennifer L. Knox, Daniel Borzutzky, Sandra Simonds, Brandon Shimoda, Heidi Lynn Staples, Mark Lamoureux, Dana Ward, Donna Kuhn, Erin Martin, Sheila E. Murphy, Marina Wilson, Katy Lederer, and Clay Matthews. Now live on the web at http://www.coconutpoetry.org. Happy reading, Bruce Covey, Editor, Coconut ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:29:17 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jason Nelson Subject: e-poetry site SecretTechnology.com is reborn MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dearest all, I've finally added my work, blog and heaps of other fascinating and awe cringing digital works to my new site. So, please do come play and explore SecretTechnology.com. All is overhauled and reborn. http://www.secrettechnology.com and I've also added a list of nearly all works created: http://www.secrettechnology.com/works/everything.htm cheers, Jason Nelson --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:55:26 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brenda Coultas Subject: Mayer reads in Albany, 1-21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bernadette Mayer will be reading this Sat., Jan 21 at Red Square, in downtown Albany at 5pm. For directions go to: www.redsquarealbany.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:09:48 +0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: derekrogerson Organization: derekrogerson.com Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060115120142.045ce9f0@writing.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'll always remember bill bisset doing his 'Opening Chant' or something similar opening a reading at a toronto space. i was just a front-row kid and remember thinking he was a bearded rhythmic lunatic, i was at the wrong place, and when were the real poets coming out? But coming out i was happy to forget everything after that (for shame that anything should follow) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:06:47 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Kelleher Subject: JUST BUFFALO E-NEWSLETTER 1-17-06 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable WINTER/SPRING WORKSHOPS Call 832-5400 to register today. Visit our website for detailed workshop descriptions: http://www.justbuffalo.org/workshops/index.shtml The Last Five Years: Writing Memory from Reflection to Recreation 2 Saturdays, February 4 & 18, 10-2 p.m. Instructor: Marj Hahne Location: Musical Fare Theatre 4380 Main St., Suite 810, Amherst =2490, =2470 members Between Word And Image Saturday, February 11, 12-4 p.m. Instructors: Caroline Koebel And Kyle Schlesinger =2450, =2440 members (This workshop is a co-production of Just Buffalo and CEPA Gallery) Creating a Family History 2 Saturdays, February 25 and March 4, 12-4 p.m. Instructor: Christina Abt =2490, =2470 members Playwrighting: Scene And Un-Scene 6 Tuesdays, 2/21 3/28 7 =E2=80=93 9 p.m. Instructor: Kurt Schneiderman =24185, =24150 for members Independent Publishing And Print-On-Demand Saturday, 3/11, 12-4 p.m. Instructor: Geoffrey Gatza =2450, =2440 members The Working Writer Seminar Instructor: Kathryn Radeff Individual workshops: =2450, =2440 members All four sessions prepaid: =24185, =24150 members 1. 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The Book Corner 1801 Main St., Niagara Falls (Meets monthly on the third Thursday) Featured:Christina Wos-Donnelly Thursday, January 19, 7 P.M. 10 slots for open readers INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS, HOSTED BY JOYCE CAROLYN Spotlight on Youth Open Mic/Coffee House Wednesday, January 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Planned Parenthood Meeting Room, 2697 Main St. (Amherst Station subway stop= ) Admission: Free A forum for young people ages 12-21 to share poetry, song, dance, rap, draw= ings or other creative talents. All are welcome and no prior performance experie= nce is necessary. Adults and members of the community are welcome. Sponsored by Ju= st Buffalo Literary Center, Compass House, Fillmore Leroy Area Residents, Gay = & Lesbian Youth Services, Native American Community Services, Planned Parenth= ood, and the YWCA. Angles, Lines, Circles in Time Friday, January 20, 7 p.m. Langston Hughes Institute, 25 High Street Admission: =244 general/=242 members, students, seniors Kenn Morgan's one man Exhibition, 'A Study of Architecture,' will be joined= with poetry for a multi-disciplinary performance featuring spoken word artists Robert D= jed Snead, Lonnie B. Harrell, Howard F. Smith, James J. Cooper, N'Tare Ali Gault, and = Gary Earl Ross. ORBITAL SERIES: GUEST CURATORS Parts of the winter/spring Orbital Series will be curated by guest curators= Forrest Roth (COMMUNIQUE: FLASH FICTION READINGS) and Kevin Thurston (SMALL PRESS POETRY READINGS) COMMUNIQUE: FLASH FICTION Kim Chinquee and Ed Taylor Saturday, January 28, 7 P.M. Big Orbit Gallery, 30d Essex Street, Buffalo Visit http://www.bigorbitgallery.org/bigorbit/alloftheminformation.html for= directions. ADMISSION: Free SPOKEN ARTS RADIO with host Sarah Campbell A joint production of Just Buffalo Literary Center and WBFO 88.7 FM Airs Sundays during Weekend Edition at 8:35 a.m. and Mondays during Morning Edition at 6:35 A.M. & 8:35 a.m. Upcoming Features: January 22 and 23 Kim Chinquee and Flash Fiction NEWS FROM JUST BUFFALO BUFFALO ONE OF 10 CITIES CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE IN NATIONAL PROGRAM TO PROMOTE READING National Endowment for the Arts announces =22The Big Read=22 Just Buffalo Literary Center is pleased to announce that it has received a = grant of =2425,000 to participate in The Big Read, a national initiative in partners= hip with The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Arts Midwest. The program will en= courage literary reading by asking communities to come together to read and discuss= one book. Just Buffalo has chosen Fahrenheit 451 =7Cby Ray Bradbury as the com= munity novel for Western New York. The Big Read kicks off May 1, 2005 and will con= tinue throughout the month of May in libraries, theaters. schools, book groups, c= ommunity centers, coffee houses, universities and bookstores throughout Western New = York. Books purchased at Talking Leaves benefit Just Buffalo Literary Center. WINTER/SPRING INTERNSHIPS Just Buffalo is now accepting applications for 3 to 5 for-credit, unpaid st= udent internships for the spring semester at both the high school and the college= level. Interns work in the Just Buffalo Offices in Downtown Buffalo 10 + hours a w= eek and assist the staff with direct mail marketing, telephone communications, publ= ic relations, event staffing, and various other administrative duties. Applicants should = love literature, write and speak well, work hard, and be computer literate. Send= resume and cover letter to: Internship Program, Just Buffalo Literary Center, 617 Mai= n St., Suite 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 or call 832.5400 for more info. JUST BUFFALO WRITER'S CRITIQUE GROUP Members of Just Buffalo are welcome to attend a free, bi-monthly writer cri= tique group in CEPA's Flux Gallery. Group meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 7 p.m. Call fo= r details. UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will b= e immediately removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:02:19 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pierre Joris Subject: Mayer & Mulligan in Albany Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed POETRY READING Bernadette Mayer and Joseph Mulligan Saturday, Jan. 21 at 5pm, @ The Red Square, 338 Broadway, Albany For directions go to: www.redsquarealbany.com hosted by Pierre Joris Renowned avant-garde poet and writer, Bernadette Mayer, will read for =20= the first time in Albany, NY along with poet and translator, Joseph =20 Mulligan, at one of Capitaland's newest and most eclectic venues. =20 Poetry Reading to be held at The Red Square, 338 Broadway, in a =20 lounge setting, offering drinks and a full dinner menu. Event starts =20 at 5pm and will be hosted by Pierre Joris. Admission is $5.00 and =20 will last approximately an hour and a half. Books will be on sale. Called "magnificent" by John Ashbery and "consummate" by Robert =20 Creeley, Mayer is in the forefront of American poetics. Her work in =20 contemporary poetry is tantamount, having served as the director of =20 The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in NYC in the 80's, not to =20 mention her editing of 0 to 9, with Vito Acconci (1967-1969); =20 Unnatural Acts, with Ed Friedman (1972-1974); and United Artists, =20 with Lewis Warsh (1977-1983). Mayer will read from her new books, =20 Scarlet Tanager and Indigo Bunting. She is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose including Two =20= Haloed Mourners: Poems (New York: Granary Books, 1998); Another =20 Smashed Pinecone (New York: United Artists Books, 1998); Proper Name =20 & other stories (New York: New Directions, 1996); The Desires of =20 Mothers to Please Others in Letters (West Stockbridge, MA: Hard =20 Press, 1994); A Bernadette Mayer Reader (New York: New Directions, =20 1992); The Formal Field of Kissing (New York: Catchword Papers, =20 1990); Sonnets (New York: Tender Buttons, 1989); Mutual Aid =20 (Mademoiselle de la Mole Press, 1985); Utopia (New York: United =20 Artists Books, 1984); Midwinter Day (Berkeley, CA: Turtle Island =20 Foundation, 1982); The Golden Book of Words (Lenox, MA: Angel Hair, =20 1978); Eruditio Ex Memoria (Lenox, MA: Angel Hair, 1977); Poetry (New =20= York: Kulchur Foundation, 1976); and Studying Hunger (New York: =20 Adventures in Poetry/ Bolinas, CA: Big Sky, 1976). Joseph Mulligan returns to Albany after living for 2 years in Lima, =20 Peru, where he translated Trilce by C=E9sar Vallejo, the catalyst of =20 the Latin American avant-garde. This reading will be his last in the =20 States before retuning to Latin America (Brazil) for further research =20= in poetics and translation. Mulligan?s own work in poetics deals =20 primarily with the synthesis of the foreign and the familiar and with =20= the idea that poetry, in itself, is translation. He will read from =20 Lo: Poems & Translations (Jhire Grafel: Lima, 2004) and from his most =20= recent collection of poems Can_os & Sounnets. He has also translated Latin American Baroque poetry from the =20 Spanish, including The Sonnets of Sor Juana In=E9s de la Cruz, as well =20= as selections from The Sonnets and The Solitudes of Lu=EDs G=F3ngora y =20= Argote; Golden Age Roman poetry from the Latin, including selections =20 of Carmina by Catalus, and Modernist poetry from the Portuguese, =20 including selections from The Poems of =C1lvaro Campos by Fernando =20 Pessoa and likewise, The Lyre of S=E3o Paulo by M=E1rio de Andrade. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:15:15 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Francisco Aragon Subject: Robert Duncan/Octavio Paz In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Charles: Curiously enough, two of the most memorable poetry readings I ever =20 attended had the poets sitting at a table, nearly immobile--but with very good =20= mics and sound systems. As non-purist as this may sound, a good sound system has always enhanced my experience of the poetry reading because it allowed the poet to focus his/her energy on nuance of voice and not spend half of his/=20 her energy on projecting so that the back row can merely make out what's being =20 said. The poets were Robert Duncan and Octavio Paz in Madrid and Berkeley, =20 respectively. It may very well have been--in fact, I'm certain it was--Duncan's =20 last reading. It would have been around 1985/6 in the Maude Fife Room on the third =20 floor of Wheeler Hall on the Berkeley campus. Up until that point, I had =20 only read him (I was introduced to his work by Thom Gunn, a former teacher). I had =20 no expectation of how the Duncan reading would go (I'd had my share of famous poets reading horribly). As I recall, what I enjoyed was how playful he =20 was, the richness of the voice, the bantering between the poems, which was nearly as =20 enriching-- and then almost without warning he would launch into a voice performance (his illness, I suppose, did not allow for any sweeping arm gestures, =20= which I hear he did in his younger days---just the voice) of one of his poems, the =20= most memorable --not surprisingly--My Mother would be a Falconress". The recitation =20 by Duncan of that poem remains one of the high points of my experience with poetry. The Octavio Paz reading took place in the early 90s before he won the =20= Nobel. He read at the renowed "Residencia de Estudiantes" where Lorca, Dali, and Bunel lived during their college years. Unlike with my experience =20= with Duncan, whose work I was already an admirer of on the page, I had little experience with Paz's. But it was a great reading. Again, =20 there was an intangible quality in the voice and what he did with it. I know =20 I'm doing a terrible job of rendering the experience. And he read this wonderful poem called "The Fable of Joan Mir=F3". Towards the end, he read a = series of brief love poems, and I remember closing my eyes and just drinking in the voice. I was sitting quite in the back and didn't have a good =20 view of him to begin with, but it remains one of the best experiences at a =20= poetry reading. It was his voice---subdued, amplified just right, and clear. =20= His voice. What he did with it. Francisco Arag=F3n, Director, Letras Latinas Institute for Latino Studies University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-2882 http://poetasypintores.com/ http://www.momotombopress.com/ http://www.franciscoaragon.net/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:59:54 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas Orange Subject: Poems by Rosalie Moore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi all, following shanna compton's lead in scanning and putting joan murray's poems (yale UP 1947) online, and with ca conrad's encouragement that i go public with it, i've made The Grasshopper's Man and other poems by Rosalie Moore (Yale UP 1949) available as a PDF (2.2M) online. you can reach the link via http://heuriskein.blogspot.com/2006/01/grasshoppers-man-and-other-poems-by.html rosalie moore brown was originally associated with the activist group of poets who studied in the berkeley area under lawrence hart in the 1940s, including jeanne mcgahey, robert horan, robert barlow and others. moore's 1949 debut was chosen by w.h. auden for the yale younger poet's series. moore's next book did not appear until the 1970s, during which time she raised a family and wrote children's books with her husband. she also wrote and published long poems on gutenberg and the childrens' crusade. she died in the mid-1990s. enjoy! tom orange ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:27:04 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Re: Poems by Rosalie Moore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit as an aside, Anne Fields was a student of lawrence hart, her collected poems, with intro by William Dickey, is available from some book stores dealing in special collections. Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Orange" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:59 AM Subject: Poems by Rosalie Moore > hi all, > > following shanna compton's lead in scanning and putting joan murray's > poems (yale UP 1947) online, and with ca conrad's encouragement that i > go public with it, i've made The Grasshopper's Man and other poems by > Rosalie Moore (Yale UP 1949) available as a PDF (2.2M) online. you can > reach the link via > > http://heuriskein.blogspot.com/2006/01/grasshoppers-man-and-other-poems-by.html > > rosalie moore brown was originally associated with the activist group of > poets who studied in the berkeley area under lawrence hart in the 1940s, > including jeanne mcgahey, robert horan, robert barlow and others. > moore's 1949 debut was chosen by w.h. auden for the yale younger poet's > series. moore's next book did not appear until the 1970s, during which > time she raised a family and wrote children's books with her husband. > she also wrote and published long poems on gutenberg and the childrens' > crusade. she died in the mid-1990s. > > enjoy! > tom orange > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:58:09 -0330 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kevin Hehir Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: <000001c61a99$905a6700$8e00a8c0@qld.bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII wow. that read was some ride. On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, K Zervos wrote: > Australian experiences > > Jas H Duke, first in my coffee lounge in 1983 , but most notably at La Mama > poetica in a small theatre in Carlton, inner city Melbourne, it held about > 60 people, a small, intimate venue, with good lighting and sound that had > been holding readings since the late 1960s. Jas H Duke performed a set of > sound poems and 'sound poem' was one of them. Repeating 'sound poem' over > and over again, saying it differently each time, pulling his lips apart and > putting his hand inside his mouth to change the sound of the repeated sound ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:41:41 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark DuCharme In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Many, many apologies to the list. I just unintentionally posted something that was very much intended for backchannel. Mea culpa. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:03:06 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: tb2h Subject: addresses Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Looking for the title of Loss' new book so I can order from the library? also emails for Clemente Padin Loss Ron Silliman mIEKAL aND Maria Damon. thanks in advance. tom bell ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:06:07 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kristine Leja Subject: andrea baker? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit does anyone have andrea baker's email address. BC please to kmleja@yahoo.com thx, Kristine Leja www.14hills.net --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:48:47 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Tod Edgerton Subject: Re: addresses In-Reply-To: <43CEEB17@mtsu20.mtsu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Loss Glazier's newest book, unless there's a brand sapankin' new one I don't know about, is Amatman, Pumpkin Seed--or something close to that.... Best, Tod tb2h wrote: Looking for the title of Loss' new book so I can order from the library? also emails for Clemente Padin Loss Ron Silliman mIEKAL aND Maria Damon. thanks in advance. tom bell Michael Tod Edgerton Graduate Fellow, Program in Literary Arts Box 1923 Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Rebuild New Orleans / Bulldozer Bush --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:30:51 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: George Bowering Subject: Re: addresses In-Reply-To: <43CEEB17@mtsu20.mtsu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 17-Jan-06, at 2:03 PM, tb2h wrote: > Looking for the title of Loss' new book so I can order from the > library? > > Not really, no. George Bowering Open to love, especially from dogs. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:34:09 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: George Bowering Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 11-Jan-06, at 10:54 AM, Jim Andrews wrote: >>> i have a new version of dbcinema (still in progress) at >>> http://vispo.com/dbcinema . >> > > That's basically Google Images in a slide show, eh? Geordie Bowering No longer cuts his toenails in sequence. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:33:20 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: POETS RAVE ABOUT NEW CD!!! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ANNOUNCING "When I Met You" A new CD of songs arranged and performed by Elya Finn with lyrics by poet Michael Rothenberg. Check it out at CDBABY.COM: http://cdbaby.com/cd/elyafinn2 "Elya's CD is fabulous -- all her songs sound like Weimar Lenya & postwar Nico, lushly affirmative at the same time being edged w/ cosmic weltschmertz. An immensely tasty production." --David Meltzer "A perfect and balanced vehicle for poet Michael Rothenberg and singer and composer Elya Finn. Congratulations to them both for this terrific CD!" --Joanne Kyger "Thrilling this CD. Brecht/Weill of course come to mind, but also the wonderful cabaret songs of Arnold Weinstein & Bill Bolcom on BLACK MAX." --Bill Berkson "This album features soft rock with overtones of jazz and Kurt Weill. Michael Rothenberg's lyrics are the most intelligent lyrics I've heard in years. Elya Finn, a skilled and sensitive vocalist, renders them with tenderness and passion. Highly recommended!" --Vernon Frazer "Lovely dark, smoky and shadowy jazzy female pop that creeps and slithers, wrapping itself around rich piano harmonies, shuffley drums and a noir-ish strut. Drumming up mischief and mystery wherever she can, Elya Finn gives up her breathy alto voice to these songs of intrigue and hidden agendas. Jazz meets noir, folk meets pop, dark cabaret meets whispering lullabies. A beautifully mysterious album." --CD BABY ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:11:41 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >>> i have a new version of dbcinema (still in progress) at > >>> http://vispo.com/dbcinema . > That's basically Google Images in a slide show, eh? Yeah. Google and Yahoo. Eventually to include others such as Altavista and maybe Flickr. They all come up with different images when you search a given concept or phrase, though there's overlap. The thing can go in several directions from here. Can be a screensaver; you'd configure it, say, to read your browsing history and it'd search for images relevant to that language; or you'd configure it, say, to read your email and it'd pick out key words and feed that into dbcinema; or you configure words yourself it uses as search language. Could also be part of an installation piece in a gallery or wherever. A room for a couple of people to converse in. Two chairs. A table. The chairs are miked. The audio gets fed into a voice recognition system. The voice recognition system recognizes the odd word and feeds that into dbcinema. dbcinema is projected onto the wall. So the people see images sometimes relevant to their conversation. Or they use dbcinema in their conversation. 'Yeah, show us Istanbul. I said Istanbul. Istanbul for gawds sake. Damn thing.' Or could use parts of the code in works such as http://vispo.com/vismu/warpigs/warpigs8.htm (which isn't finished either) for the visuals. In this case, I'd feed dbcinema warpig-related language every now and then as the audio plays. Currently it's dbslideshow. But I'd eventually like to take it to dbcinema via stuff like the algorithms at http://complexification.net . There you see some pretty nice abstract generative visual work. The idea would be to use such algorithms but have them operate on the visuals fetched by dbcinema. Usually computer generated visuals are strong (when they're strong) concerning abstraction. Not too hot concerning representation. But this poses the possib of combining good generative abstract visuals with somewhat relevant representation. Probably more than you wanted to know. ja ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:24:01 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey jim how do you unregister, i registered as a minor by accident now i can't take censorship controls off (mac osx)? komninos komninos zervos lecturer, convenor of CyberStudies major School of Arts Griffith University Room 3.25 Multimedia Building G23 Gold Coast Campus Parkwood PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre Queensland 9726 Australia Phone 07 5552 8872 Fax 07 5552 8141 homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs |||-----Original Message----- |||From: UB Poetics discussion group = [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] |||On Behalf Of Jim Andrews |||Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:12 AM |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU |||Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 ||| |||> >>> i have a new version of dbcinema (still in progress) at |||> >>> http://vispo.com/dbcinema . ||| |||> That's basically Google Images in a slide show, eh? ||| |||Yeah. Google and Yahoo. Eventually to include others such as = Altavista |||and |||maybe Flickr. They all come up with different images when you search = a |||given |||concept or phrase, though there's overlap. ||| |||The thing can go in several directions from here. ||| |||Can be a screensaver; you'd configure it, say, to read your browsing |||history |||and it'd search for images relevant to that language; or you'd = configure |||it, |||say, to read your email and it'd pick out key words and feed that = into |||dbcinema; or you configure words yourself it uses as search language. ||| |||Could also be part of an installation piece in a gallery or wherever. = A |||room |||for a couple of people to converse in. Two chairs. A table. The = chairs |||are |||miked. The audio gets fed into a voice recognition system. The voice |||recognition system recognizes the odd word and feeds that into = dbcinema. |||dbcinema is projected onto the wall. So the people see images = sometimes |||relevant to their conversation. Or they use dbcinema in their |||conversation. |||'Yeah, show us Istanbul. I said Istanbul. Istanbul for gawds sake. = Damn |||thing.' ||| |||Or could use parts of the code in works such as |||http://vispo.com/vismu/warpigs/warpigs8.htm (which isn't finished = either) |||for the visuals. In this case, I'd feed dbcinema warpig-related = language |||every now and then as the audio plays. ||| |||Currently it's dbslideshow. But I'd eventually like to take it to |||dbcinema |||via stuff like the algorithms at http://complexification.net . There = you |||see |||some pretty nice abstract generative visual work. The idea would be = to |||use |||such algorithms but have them operate on the visuals fetched by = dbcinema. |||Usually computer generated visuals are strong (when they're strong) |||concerning abstraction. Not too hot concerning representation. But = this |||poses the possib of combining good generative abstract visuals with |||somewhat |||relevant representation. ||| |||Probably more than you wanted to know. ||| |||ja ||| |||-- |||No virus found in this incoming message. |||Checked by AVG Free Edition. |||Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: = 18/01/06 ||| --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: = 18/01/06 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:27:05 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Small Press Traffic Subject: Poets Theater 1/20: Neo-Benshi Night at SPT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Small Press Traffic is pleased to present the second night of our Poets Theater Jamboree 2006 edition....Friday, January 20 at 7:30 pm. All seats are $10 and first come, first served. Hope to see you there!!! Friday, January 20, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. Neo-Benshi Night: Move Over Silver Screen With Mistress of Ceremonies Roxi Power Hamilton Presented in association with SF Cinematheque & curated by Konrad Steiner & Stephanie Young. Neo-benshi is the result of the dalliance between poets and moving pictures from which is born a new breed of entertainment. Restoring cinema to the theater and casting the movies away from their original dialog, nine writers re-adapt films to their own intent. Subtext and potentials are revealed in the performances to scenes from the following features (all titles are anagrams to protect the guilty). "Fall Down & Bounce" (1972) A well-loved fire and slice samurai adventure adapted from a well-known japanese manga. benshi: Leslie Scalapino "No to Torture Inflicted" (1939) Romantic comedy sparring Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy and Eve Arden. benshi: Alan Bernheimer "My High: The Death Thing" (1954) A transpacific flight of both colorful and renegade passengers. benshis: Dodie Bellamy, Colter Jacobsen & Kevin Killian "Ahem, Conspiracy!" (2000) Macabre tale of a crazy criminal investment banker. benshi: Ronald Palmer "It's Sweet & So Dry" (1961) A celebration in dance and song of tense race relations. benshi: Dennis Somera "An Horseman's Option" (1952) A strong woman cornered in the seedy English countryside. benshi: Tanya Brolaski "By Bob" (1973) From Bollywood, the sweet agony of love bridging the castes. benshi: Summi Kaipa Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, San Francisco For directions and a map, please see http://www.sptraffic.org/html/fac_dir.html Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCA 1111 -- 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415.551.9278 http://www.sptraffic.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:34:02 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Elizabeth Treadwell Subject: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Catherine Wagner about this time last year in the New Brutalism Series at the 2nd oldest space of 21 Grand in Oakland....reading and singing her poems in a somewhat flat but utterly heartfelt way.... Mark McMorris in fall 2004 at Small Press Traffic....what a voice, what a presence..... both of these writers were majestic and humble and perfectly in pitch with the idionsyncratics of their own poetics in a way that was extremely pleasing to me. They made me happy. At last week's Poets Theater Jamboree Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore and crew did an amazing song dance and play called Who is the Real JTLeroy....they were hilarious, gorgeous, and very fine dancers. A standing ovation, perhaps Poets Theater's first. Back to lurking, Elizabeth Elizabeth Treadwell http://elizabethtreadwell.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:53:55 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Elizabeth Treadwell Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSV Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Interesting to read your post, Chris. I am very much of the less is more, in terms of contextualizing the work at readings....I don't want to talk too much about my own poems, and I certainly don't want to hear to much about others', generally speaking. I realize this is not responding precisely to your comments, but what I like is when the voice lends something to the words, some new dimension I didn't get when reading. This happened to me with Brenda Coultas, as one example that comes to mind. This is what I look for at poetry readings; I like the bellowing church voices I suppose. Cheers and really back to lurking, Elizabeth Elizabeth Treadwell http://elizabethtreadwell.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:31:49 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Robin Hamilton Subject: Re: addresses (mIEKAL) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > also emails for ... > mIEKAL aND perspicacity@XEXOXIAL.ORG RH. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:30:33 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: <000001c61bcd$dcf49560$8e00a8c0@qld.bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Hey jim how do you unregister, i registered as a minor by accident now i > can't take censorship controls off (mac osx)? Sorry, Komninos; there is no facility for 'unregistering' as a minor. Perhaps I will add some code that checks your age once a year. I'm not sure. The value, I feel, of dbcinema in its current incarnation (and this is true whether the porn filter is on or off) is as a tool (not really a work of art) with which to explore the collective visual representation of ideas, places, history and people, mainly. The further away the language you use is from products and consumerism, the more interesting the search results. I learned quite a bit in a search of 'ontology' concerning contemporary usage of that word. Lots of tree diagrams detailing particular 'ontologies'. In a different vein, I've been reading works by Turkish writers recently--including Murat's anthology of Turkish poetry, which I recommend--and so searched for various places in and writers from Turkey and got wonderful results. You may have noted that if you click an image, that opens the Web page on which the image was found. That lets you broaden it from a solely visual thing into the textual as well. It's a different way of looking at how to search. Often, when we are looking for information, we just use regular google (or whatever) text search. And that has its advantages. But if we are either looking for visual information or we are prepared to approach the search in a more leisurely, possibly disinterested manner, then the visual approach can be rewarding and pleasantly surprising. The sites we visit tend to be ones that contain interesting graphical representations of whatever we're searching for. That doesn't always mean their textual content is going to be better than others, but if their graphical content stands out, it's likely that the intelligence behind the site may have additional insight to offer besides what we see in dbcinema. ja http://vispo.com/dbcinema ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:16:46 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Can i download an earlier version that doesn't have the filter or the sign-in? komninos komninos zervos lecturer, convenor of CyberStudies major School of Arts Griffith University Room 3.25 Multimedia Building G23 Gold Coast Campus Parkwood PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre Queensland 9726 Australia Phone 07 5552 8872 Fax 07 5552 8141 homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs |||-----Original Message----- |||From: UB Poetics discussion group = [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] |||On Behalf Of Jim Andrews |||Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 4:31 PM |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU |||Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 ||| |||> Hey jim how do you unregister, i registered as a minor by accident = now |||i |||> can't take censorship controls off (mac osx)? ||| |||Sorry, Komninos; there is no facility for 'unregistering' as a minor. |||Perhaps I will add some code that checks your age once a year. I'm = not |||sure. ||| |||The value, I feel, of dbcinema in its current incarnation (and this = is |||true |||whether the porn filter is on or off) is as a tool (not really a work = of |||art) with which to explore the collective visual representation of = ideas, |||places, history and people, mainly. The further away the language you = use |||is |||from products and consumerism, the more interesting the search = results. I |||learned quite a bit in a search of 'ontology' concerning contemporary |||usage |||of that word. Lots of tree diagrams detailing particular = 'ontologies'. In |||a |||different vein, I've been reading works by Turkish writers |||recently--including Murat's anthology of Turkish poetry, which I |||recommend--and so searched for various places in and writers from = Turkey |||and |||got wonderful results. You may have noted that if you click an image, |||that |||opens the Web page on which the image was found. That lets you = broaden it |||from a solely visual thing into the textual as well. ||| |||It's a different way of looking at how to search. Often, when we are |||looking |||for information, we just use regular google (or whatever) text = search. |||And |||that has its advantages. But if we are either looking for visual |||information |||or we are prepared to approach the search in a more leisurely, = possibly |||disinterested manner, then the visual approach can be rewarding and |||pleasantly surprising. The sites we visit tend to be ones that = contain |||interesting graphical representations of whatever we're searching = for. |||That |||doesn't always mean their textual content is going to be better than |||others, |||but if their graphical content stands out, it's likely that the |||intelligence |||behind the site may have additional insight to offer besides what we = see |||in |||dbcinema. ||| |||ja |||http://vispo.com/dbcinema ||| |||-- |||No virus found in this incoming message. |||Checked by AVG Free Edition. |||Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: = 18/01/06 ||| --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: = 18/01/06 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:18:42 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: <000401c61bff$24aa7880$8e00a8c0@qld.bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Can i download an earlier version that doesn't have the filter or the > sign-in? > > komninos I've been meaning to get that age verification in there for a while, and now it's in; i'd say it's in there for good. So, sorry, no, there's not a version online that doesn't have the age verification in it. ja http://vispo.com/dbcinema ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:40:38 -0500 Reply-To: pmetres@jcu.edu Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Philip Metres Subject: on poetry readings, for charles bernstein MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Q2hhcmxlcywgZXQuYWwuLA0KDQpEdXJpbmcgYSByZWNlbnQgdG91ciBkb2luZyBiaWxpbmd1 YWwgcmVhZGluZ3Mgd2l0aCBTZXJnZXkgDQpHYW5kbGV2c2t5LCBhIFJ1c3NpYW4gcG9ldCwg SSBzdGFydGVkIHRvIHdyaXRlIGEgYml0IGFib3V0IA0KaGlzIHJlY2l0YXRpb25zLCBzaW5j ZSB0aGV5IHdlcmUgYW1vbmcgdGhlIGZpcnN0IHJldmVsYXRpb25zIA0KYWJvdXQgd2hhdCBw b2V0cnkgY291bGQgbWFrZSBwcmVzZW50IHdoZW4gZGVsaXZlcmVkIG9yYWxseS4gIA0KVGhp cyBkZXNjcmliZXMgYSByZWFkaW5nIGhlIGdhdmUgYXQgdGhlIEFubmEgQWtobWF0b3ZhIE11 c2V1bSANCmluIDIwMDIuIA0KDQoiR2FuZGxldnNreSBzdG9vZCwgaGlzIGJhY2sgc3RyYWln 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IHJlYWRpbmcuDQoNClBoaWxpcCBNZXRyZXMNCkFzc2lzdGFudCBQcm9mZXNzb3INCkRlcGFy dG1lbnQgb2YgRW5nbGlzaA0KSm9obiBDYXJyb2xsIFVuaXZlcnNpdHkNCjIwNzAwIE4uIFBh cmsgQmx2ZA0KVW5pdmVyc2l0eSBIZWlnaHRzLCBPSCA0NDExOA0KKDIxNikgMzk3LTQ1Mjgg KHdvcmspDQpodHRwOi8vd3d3LnBoaWxpcG1ldHJlcy5jb20NCg== ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:16:57 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: konrad Subject: Re: Poets Theater 1/20: Neo-Benshi Night at SPT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed SPT wrote: . . . are anagrams to protect the guilty). [alright, alright, we confess . . .] "Fall Down & Bounce" (1972) Lone Wolf and Cub A well-loved fire and slice samurai adventure adapted from a well-known japanese manga. benshi: Leslie Scalapino "No to Torture Inflicted" (1939) Letter of Introduction Romantic comedy sparring Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy and Eve Arden. benshi: Alan Bernheimer "My High: The Death Thing" (1954) The High and the Mighty A transpacific flight of both colorful and renegade passengers. benshi's: Dodie Bellamy, Colter Jacobsen & Kevin Killian "Ahem, Conspiracy!" (2000) American Psycho Macabre tale of a crazy criminal investment banker. benshi: Ronald Palmer "It's Sweet & So Dry" (1961) West Side Story benshi: Dennis Somera "An Horseman's Option" (1952) Another Man's Poison benshi's: Tanya Brolaski & Dan Fisher "By Bob" (1973) Bobby benshi: Summi Kaipa Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, San Francisco For directions and a map, please see http://www.sptraffic.org/html/fac_dir.html konrad ^Z ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:29:53 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "D. Wellman" Subject: XCP: Cross Cutural Poetics Release MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics is pleased to announce the publication of Streetnotes Winter 2006 http://www.xcp.bfn.org This issue includes work collected under the "Heterotopia: Festival and Disaster" theme and features. CJ Lundberg, Uddipana Goswami, Cat Tyc, Kenji Siratori, Ewa Chrusciel, Urszula Lukaszuk, Jeremy Hight, Jefferson Navicky, Christina McPhee, Camille Martin, Adam Siegel, Edward Wainwright, Ambronita Douzart, Tim Keane, Lance Newman, Dion Farquhar, Catherine Daly, Donald Wellman, Olive McKeon, Melissa Buzzeo, B. Marlin Young Streetnotes is a biannual electronic exhibition space for socially descriptive art and text, online since 1998. -- David Michalski Xcp: Streetnotes, Editor http://www.xcp.bfn.org michalski@ucdavis.edu Donald Wellman http://faculty.dwc.edu/wellman/pubs.htm ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:14:03 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'll have to get an 11 year old to log in for me as an adult on another computer, download the .dcr and bring it back to my computer. Cheers komninos komninos zervos lecturer, convenor of CyberStudies major School of Arts Griffith University Room 3.25 Multimedia Building G23 Gold Coast Campus Parkwood PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre Queensland 9726 Australia Phone 07 5552 8872 Fax 07 5552 8141 homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs |||-----Original Message----- |||From: UB Poetics discussion group = [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] |||On Behalf Of Jim Andrews |||Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 8:19 PM |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU |||Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 ||| |||> Can i download an earlier version that doesn't have the filter or = the |||> sign-in? |||> |||> komninos ||| |||I've been meaning to get that age verification in there for a while, = and |||now |||it's in; i'd say it's in there for good. So, sorry, no, there's not a |||version online that doesn't have the age verification in it. ||| |||ja |||http://vispo.com/dbcinema ||| |||-- |||No virus found in this incoming message. |||Checked by AVG Free Edition. |||Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: = 18/01/06 ||| --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: = 18/01/06 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:35:14 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: aaron tieger Subject: CARVE Editions chapbooks now available MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit CARVE is pleased to announce the publication of the first two chapbooks in the CARVE Editions series: Jess Mynes’ birds for example and Christopher Rizzo’s Zing. In birds for example Jess Mynes creates a rural vernacular reminiscent at times of Clark Coolidge, Philip Whalen, and Joseph Ceravolo. Flora and frustration, seasonal changes, sea changes - all are present in these poems which, though comfortable in their abstraction, find rather than lose the reader. Christopher Rizzo’s ZING will stand as a document of a certain kind of existence long after its author has left it behind. With a sense of line, break and word reminiscent of a Renaissance-era Coolidge, Rizzo deftly drops these lyrics of longing and beauty. The title is apt. Each book is $5, available (shortly) via this website or via post: CARVE Poems 221 W. Lincoln #2 Ithaca, NY 14850 Checks made payable to Aaron Tieger. "Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate." (Brian Eno) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:45:35 +1300 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Wystan Curnow (ARTS ENG)" Subject: memorable readings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 1. I first heard Ginsberg read as one of a number of poets in an anti-war reading at Penn circa 1966, he's the only one I remember well. He read a lengthy section of Wichita Vortex Sutra, which was as yet unpublished. I was not prepared for poetry as politically powerful as this, and so fully of its moment in history. Although the distance of time has diminished it somewhat, the memory of hearing it stays with me sustaining my continuing respect for it. =20 2. For me Creeley is one of the great poetry readers. Initially, this is in 1975 in the Auckland Grammar School Hall, and he was reading with two others, both New Zealanders, one older (my father) and one much younger but both of them read far more formally than Creeley. Auckland Grammar is the nearest thing in the state system to a private high school, and with that went a degree of pompous solemnity. While the others stood and used the lecturn, Creeley sat on a stool and smoked. There was something liberated in his American casualness. But what was more to the point was the manner in which Creeley made this school hall an intimate space, reduced its size and our numbers so that both were drawn into a small circle around him.=20 =20 3. A year or so ago at the Poetry Project at St Marks I heard Harryette Mullen for the first time. Apart from her reading which I liked a lot, the evening was memorable as being the first time I had registered that there were members of the audience writing. Several, and two at least were poets, whom I knew would not be taking notes. What were they writing? I remember some time before going to a Dinosaur Junior concert in Buffalo with a couple of poets who were writing away on the fringes of the mosh pit. Are these random events, or is there a significant dimension to the contemporary reading that has been overlooked here? What is the meaning of this listening? =20 =20 Wystan=20 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:22:14 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mike Luster Subject: Re: memorable readings MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'll add Ginsberg at the University of Arkansas in the late 70s, a reading he dedicated to the memory of Frank Stanford. Mike Luster ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:24:28 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: memorable readings In-Reply-To: <640F0190D197074CA59E6F82064E80C328D6E1@artsmail.ARTSNET.AUCKLAND.AC.NZ> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > A year or so ago at the Poetry Project at St Marks I heard Harryette > Mullen for the first time. Apart from her reading which I liked a lot, > the evening was memorable as being the first time I had registered that > there were members of the audience writing. Several, and two at least > were poets, whom I knew would not be taking notes. What were they > writing? I remember some time before going to a Dinosaur Junior concert > in Buffalo with a couple of poets who were writing away on the fringes > of the mosh pit. Are these random events, or is there a significant > dimension to the contemporary reading that has been overlooked here? > What is the meaning of this listening? Good question. I suggest Writing in & during a reading may: 1. Just be a mark of respect - similar to humming along to music (a kind of participatory way of being there.) (A way of sharing the pleasure - taking down words, phrases one likes.) Or 2. An act of improvisation - listening to a poet's lines and building on and/or transforming them into something of your own. (At least something to take home and possibly build on). Theory of another's poems as a catalyst for other poems, yours, etc. Or, 3. An act of nervousness - the way some folks to needlework no matter what the occasion. Or, 4. The way some poets need to balance their power against or with the power of the poet reading. A kind of counter-ego absorption. Or, 5. Similar to the way some write notes in the margins of a book - a means of interpretation, critical or otherwise. I suspect for some poets and audience members it's aggravating - the way an 8th grader teacher gets aggravated when students are writing and passing notes back and forth in class. Not something you are supposed to do in Church. I actually never do take notes during a reading - it gets in the way of being fully open and taking it all in. Of course, if it's a bad reading, I'd rather 'vote with my feet.' But don't. Just fight falling asleep! Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:59:13 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: C Daly Subject: Re: memorable readings In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit WENT TO THE CORCORAN TODAY; Warhol's screen tests, saw ashbery, ginsberg, duchamp, et.al. good idea ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:13:15 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: <000001c61c74$1c372d40$8e00a8c0@qld.bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I'll have to get an 11 year old to log in for me as an adult on another > computer, download the .dcr and bring it back to my computer. > Cheers > komninos That's creepy, Komninos. Leave the 11 year old alone. It wouldn't work anyway. ja http://vispo.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:53:43 -0500 Reply-To: nudel-soho@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: AT LX... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit TEMPUS FUCKIT.... DRN.... ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:17:59 +0100 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Randy Roark interview at The Argotist Online Comments: cc: British Poetics Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Randy Roark interview at The Argotist Online http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Roark%20interview.htm ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:26:44 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: C Daly Subject: FW: Cross Cutural Poetics Release MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My poem in this -- there was some discussion when I wrote it about the best place to put something like this -- I don't know because it is about Canada but written by an American, or it was back when there were no poems on the list and people weren't sure about posting poems to blogs... Anyway, I decided the best place for the poem was in an online journal with a theme the poem fit into. All best, Catherine -----Original Message----- Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics is pleased to announce the publication of Streetnotes Winter 2006 http://www.xcp.bfn.org This issue includes work collected under the "Heterotopia: Festival and Disaster" theme and features. CJ Lundberg, Uddipana Goswami, Cat Tyc, Kenji Siratori, Ewa Chrusciel, Urszula Lukaszuk, Jeremy Hight, Jefferson Navicky, Christina McPhee, Camille Martin, Adam Siegel, Edward Wainwright, Ambronita Douzart, Tim Keane, Lance Newman, Dion Farquhar, Catherine Daly, Donald Wellman, Olive McKeon, Melissa Buzzeo, B. Marlin Young Streetnotes is a biannual electronic exhibition space for socially descriptive art and text, online since 1998. -- David Michalski Xcp: Streetnotes, Editor http://www.xcp.bfn.org michalski@ucdavis.edu Donald Wellman http://faculty.dwc.edu/wellman/pubs.htm ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:55:28 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charlie Rossiter Subject: Poetry/Improv Theater Experiment in Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Unique Poetry/Improv Theater Experiece in Chicago THIS Sunday, Jan. 22 Poet Charlie Rossiter will read his original poems and the Improv Olympians will develop spontaneous skits based upon them. Sunday, January 22, 2006, 10:30 pm, at the Improv Olympics Theater, 3521 N. Clark, a half-block south of Addison. 773-880-9993 for more information. This is part of a month-long poetry/improv experimenting. Charlie -- The truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it Emily Dickinson www.poetrypoetry.com where you hear poems read by the poets who wrote them ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:00:36 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gerald Schwartz Subject: Re: Poetry/Improv Theater Experiment in Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Go Charlie! Rock 'em! Best, Gerald Schwartz > Unique Poetry/Improv Theater Experiece in Chicago > > THIS Sunday, Jan. 22 > > Poet Charlie Rossiter will read his original poems and the Improv > Olympians will develop spontaneous skits based upon them. Sunday, January > 22, 2006, 10:30 pm, at the Improv Olympics Theater, 3521 N. Clark, a > half-block south of Addison. 773-880-9993 for more information. > > This is part of a month-long poetry/improv experimenting. > > Charlie > > -- > The truth is such a rare thing > it is delightful to tell it > Emily Dickinson > www.poetrypoetry.com > where you hear poems read > by the poets who wrote them > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:08:02 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Your security is creepy, you have no way of authenticating the age of = those who log in. And it did work before i sent the email. You are being very prickly about this one jim. It is a great porno slideshow you've invented. I like camel toe as a search term best. Komninos The reference to the 11 year old was to indicate how pointless your = security log in actually is. So why are you making it so hard for an adult, a verified adult, me, = whom you have met, to get an adult version of your program? komninos komninos zervos lecturer, convenor of CyberStudies major School of Arts Griffith University Room 3.25 Multimedia Building G23 Gold Coast Campus Parkwood PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre Queensland 9726 Australia Phone 07 5552 8872 Fax 07 5552 8141 homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs |||-----Original Message----- |||From: UB Poetics discussion group = [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] |||On Behalf Of Jim Andrews |||Sent: Thursday, 19 January 2006 6:13 PM |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU |||Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 ||| ||| |||> I'll have to get an 11 year old to log in for me as an adult on = another |||> computer, download the .dcr and bring it back to my computer. |||> Cheers |||> komninos ||| |||That's creepy, Komninos. ||| |||Leave the 11 year old alone. It wouldn't work anyway. ||| |||ja |||http://vispo.com ||| |||-- |||No virus found in this incoming message. |||Checked by AVG Free Edition. |||Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/234 - Release Date: = 18/01/06 ||| --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/234 - Release Date: = 18/01/06 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:16:10 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: aaron tieger Subject: CARVE Editions chapbooks web address MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sorry about that, The address I meant to include is: www.carvepoems.org click on CARVE Editions apologies for a temporarily awkward format. Aaron "Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate." (Brian Eno) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:34:39 -0500 Reply-To: nudel-soho@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: (A) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been told by more than 1 correspondent that my Latin is as bad as my English..pome shd read... LAX... TEMPUS FUCKIT... DRn.. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:06:59 -0500 Reply-To: az421@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rob McLennan Subject: STANZAS #43 - Sharon Harris Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT new from above/ground press More Fun With 'Pataphysics (Poetic Experiments for Ages Zero to Ethernity) by Sharon Harris (Toronto) 7. Poets who lose their way Why do poets fly to the warm lights of pubs and bars? They are not naturally attracted to these places, but misled. Flying at night, poets steer by the moon. They know they are flying in a straight line as long as the moon shines into their eyes from the same side. But when they pass the lights of a public house (on the other side), they get confused. They leave their straight flight path and approach in spirals. ======== Sharon Harris' photographs and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Word: Canada's Magazine for Readers + Writers, dANDelion, eye weekly, Jacket, Broken Pencil, Quill & Quire, hat, fHole, sudden magazine, RAMPIKE, Queen Street Quarterly, filling Station, minimalist concrete and on CityTV. Her online home is iloveyougalleries.com "Fun With 'Pataphysics" is an ongoing column in Word (Jan 2004 - present). A previous collection of columns appeared as a chapbook by BookThug (2005). Sharon's first full length collection of poems, AVATAR, is forthcoming from The Mercury Press. free if you find it, $4 sample (add $2 international) & $20 for 5 issues (outside canada, $20 US)(payable to rob mclennan), c/o 858 somerset st w, ottawa ontario canada k1r 6r7 STANZAS magazine, for long poems/sequences, published at random in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. previous issues include work by Gil McElroy, Aaron Peck, derek beaulieu, carla milo, Gerry Gilbert, George Bowering, Sheila E. Murphy & Douglas Barbour, Lisa Samuels, Ian Whistle, Gerry Gilbert, Rachel Zolf, J.L. Jacobs, nathalie stephens, Meredith Quartermain, etc. 1000 copies distributed free around various places. exchanges welcome. submissions encouraged, with s.a.s.e. & good patience (i take forever) of up to 28 pages. complete bibliography & backlist availability now on-line at www.track0.com/rob_mclennan various above/ground press publications can be found at Mother Tongue Books (Ottawa), Collected Works (Ottawa), Annex Books (Toronto), etc next issues: Dennis Cooley (Winnipeg MB) and Stan Rogal (Toronto ON) ======= -- poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...11th coll'n - name , an errant (Stride, UK) .... c/o 858 Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:59:15 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: <000201c61d01$c29734e0$8e00a8c0@qld.bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Your security is creepy, you have no way of authenticating the > age of those > who log in. > And it did work before i sent the email. > You are being very prickly about this one jim. > It is a great porno slideshow you've invented. > I like camel toe as a search term best. > Komninos > > The reference to the 11 year old was to indicate how pointless > your security > log in actually is. > So why are you making it so hard for an adult, a verified adult, me, whom > you have met, to get an adult version of your program? > > komninos You aren't the only adult who has emailed me requesting the ability to turn the porn filter off after having classified himself as a youth. You were born after 1988. Yes No That was the age verification screen. You click either 'Yes' or 'No' to continue. Of course the thoughtless thing to do is to click 'Yes'. Because often in software we are initially asked various things to which we sometimes thoughtlessly respond 'Yes'. So this catches the thoughtlessly hasty, and, also, gives minors the opportunity to respond truthfully since many youngsters just simply don't want to be shown sexually explicit material. However, it is true that the above question is not infallible in verifying that a youth is a youth (which is more important than verifying that an adult is an adult). So I have simply disabled, for all people, the ability to turn the porn filter off. The porn filter is on and cannot be removed by anybody, now. The porn filters that Google and Yahoo have built are remarkably effective, I think. I suppose they deal with the matter in several ways. First, the search language can be analysed for typical porn language and simply return no images in such case. Secondly, there are long lists available that list porn site urls. These lists are used by a variety of software programs that seek to block porn, and it seems likely that Google and Yahoo etc use at least one such list in their filtered image search. Also, the language of the url of the image and the html page itself on which the image is found can be analyzed for sexual content, as well as the name of the graphic. Finally, there are actually algorithms that examine the graphics themselves for proportion of skin tones. This seems likely to exclude pictures of hands, for instance. It seems likely that there is going to be much more than porn excluded from such filters, and also a very small proportion of porn must surely creep into the results, though I haven't seen that myself yet. However, when we look at the effectiveness of related filters, such as email spam filters, which probably correctly identify over 99% of spam and very very rarely identify valid email as spam, we see that such filters are getting quite good. In the case of email filters, it is important not to identify valid email as spam. In the case of image search, it isn't so important whether non-porn is identified as porn, and thereby excluded, since there are so many millions of images on the net to choose from. Indeed it would be more important to exclude suspected porn than include an image that only *might* be porn. So porn filters would be different from email filters in their decision weightings. As usual, sexual content is heavily monitored but graphic violence is not monitored. As I mentioned earlier, dbcinema is at its best when the language you use is not associated with consumerism or specific products. Actually it's kind of an interesting index of the state of any given word or phrase, ie, the collective visual associations with any word or phrase usually are indicated in interesting ways in an image search. In a sense, the porn filter is going to remove the sexual overtones of the visual representation of language, and this is surely unfortunate, but dbcinema is available to anyone over the net, kids and adults, so it seems like the responsible, adult thing to do is to have the porn filter on and not allow it to be turned off. ja http://vispo.com/dbcinema ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:20:21 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetry Project Subject: Events at the Poetry Project 1/23 - 1/27 In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Dear Fine People, Come and share in the radiant love vibrations that charge the air here at St. Mark=E2=80=99s Church. Listen to poetry! Enroll in workshops! Please note tha= t the Rage of Aquarius has been rescheduled, and will unleash itself next Friday, January 27. Love, The Poetry Project Monday, January 23, 8:00PM Anne Carson & Christine Hume Anne Carson is the author of over 10 books of poetry and criticism and teaches ancient Greek at the University of Michigan. She has been awarded a Guggenheim and a MacArthur among many other accolades. Her new book is called Decreation. Christine Hume is the author of Musca Domestica and Alaskaphrenia. Her criticism has been published in The Chicago Review, Context, Verse and online at How2 and Slope. She teaches at Eastern Michiga= n University. Wednesday, January 25, 8:00PM Betsy Andrews & Catherine Daly =20 Betsy Andrews is the author of the chapbooks She-Devil (Sardines Press, 2004), New Jersey (Furniture Press, 2004) and C-3/In Trouble (a Boog Press flipbook with Bruce Andrews, 2004).=C2=A0 Her full-length manuscript, New Jerse= y, was a finalist for the 2005 National Poetry Series.=C2=A0 Her poems and essays can be found in journals including Fence, Narrativity and PomPom, forthcoming in 26 and Five Fingers Review, and in anthologies including Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House Books, 2004), Dangerous Families: =C2=A0Gay and Lesbian Survivors of Domestic Abuse (Harringt= on Park Press, 2004), Before and After: New York Stories, (Mr. Beller=E2=80=99s Neighborhood Books, 2002) and Fresh Water (Pudding House, 2002).=C2=A0 She reviews books, theater and art regularly for Gay City News, and she=E2=80=99s written on culture and politics for publications including Salon and The Village Voice.=C2=A0 Her collaboration with visual artist Peter Fox will be on view at I.S.E. Foundation in SoHo from May 19 to June 24, 2005. Catherine Daly has lived in Los Angeles long enough to be included in Green Integer's Pip Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century, No. 5:=C2=A0 Intersections (Southern California).=C2=A0 Author of DaDaDa (Salt Publishing, 2003), the firs= t trilogy in a project entitled CONFITEOR, and Locket (Tupelo Press, 2005), a= s well as chaps and eBooks including the forthcoming Hello Phantasm / Mime (Ahadada) and Cocktails (furniture press). She bartended on a riverboat in Florida. During a decade in New York, she worked in technology in some buildings that are gone and others that are renamed. Friday, January 27, 10:30PM Rage of Aquarius=20 Gather and celebrate the birthday day of Desiree Burch, comedian and NY neo-futurist of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. She=E2=80=99ll bring Aquarian rebellion with other poets, playwrights and provocateurs Clay McLeod Chapman, Kyle Jarrow, Christine Hamm and Red Metal Mailbox. WRITING WORKSHOPS AT THE POETRY PROJECT =20 PRACTICAL CRITICISM: A POETRY WORKSHOP =E2=80=93 TONY TOWLE TUESDAYS AT 7 PM: 10 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 14TH =20 =E2=80=9CIt is assumed that participants will be serious, practicing poets and so critiques and comments will be made from the vantage point of what the person has already established, not with a view to =E2=80=98prescribing=E2=80=99 some different way of writing. However, stretching the sensibility will be encouraged, both in the group and through individual suggestion. Non-bindin= g assignments will be given each week and poems from the past as well as thos= e of the workshop participants will be read aloud and discussed. In the cours= e of this, numerous poets past and present, and topics both literary and general, will arise and be talked about. Also I will make written comments on poems individuals may prefer not to have read aloud.=E2=80=9D John Ashbery has written: =E2=80=9CTony Towle is one of the best-kept secrets of the New York School.=E2=80=9D Tony=E2=80=99s first reading at the Poetry Project was in 1968. Recent books include The History of the Invitation: New & Selected Poems 1963-2000= , and Memoir 1960-1963. THE UNPERFORMABLE: THE VISUAL SIDE OF POETRY =E2=80=93 EVELYN REILLY THURSDAYS at 7 PM: 5 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 16TH =20 =E2=80=9CThe traditional notion of poetry as primarily a matter of =E2=80=9Cvoice=E2=80=9D ha= s often obscured its graphic and visual character, and can limit the range of experiment to what can be experienced in the venue of the poetry reading. Even the most performance-based poets, however, face issues of how to spatialize their work on the page, and every line break is as much a visual as a rhythmic and aural decision. This workshop will explore a broad range of visual poetics =E2=80=94 from modernist innovations to composition-by-field to recent spatialized text, concrete, collage, and digital poetry. We will examine work by Mallarme, Apollinaire, cummings, Olson, Schwerner, Hak Kyun= g Cha, Aram Saroyan and Susan Howe, and peruse the UbuWeb site together. Everyone will be encouraged to analyze the visual assumptions behind their poems as well as to write or revise work using alternative visual conventions.=E2=80=9D Evelyn Reilly=E2=80=99s book Hiatus was published by Barrow Stree= t in 2004 and was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America=E2=80=99s Norma Farber First Book Award.=20 =20 INFORMATION POETICS =E2=80=93 CAROL MIRAKOVE THURSDAYS AT 7 PM: 5 SESSIONS BEGIN APRIL 6 =E2=80=9CHow do we get the swirling-inside/outside-the-head onto the page? What a= re the differences between knowledge and information, and what are we putting into our poems? Why? We will look at poets & projects confronting these questions & we will explore our own potential in navigating transitional space (community, jobs, war, media). We may look at poems by Etel Adnan, Ammiel Alcalay, Jules Boykoff, Ernesto Cardinal, Roque Dalton, Kevin Davies= , Jeff Derksen, Laura Elrick, Heather Fuller, Dana Gelinas, Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, Pattie McCarthy, Yedda Morrison, Alice Notley, Mark Nowak, Douglas Oliver, Kristin Prevallet, Deborah Richards, Cristina Rivera-Garza, Kaia Sand, Leslie Scalapino, and Rodrigo Toscano. We will discuss how we read an= d what we value, how to assess the values of any given poem. We may address contradictions in literal or figurative yogic practice and the (in)corporate(zation) rush. How can we sustain simultaneously our health an= d our engagements with destruction?=E2=80=9D Carol Mirakove is the author of Mediat= ed (Factory School, forthcoming in Spring 2006) and Occupied (Kelsey St. Press). =20 IN THE ABSENCE OF THEIR SURPRISE: A NEW YORK SCHOOL WORKSHOP =C2=AD=E2=80=93 JOEL LEW= IS FRIDAYS at 7 PM: 5 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 17TH =20 =E2=80=9CIn this workshop, we will the explore the poetry and poetics of the New York School of Poetry. A school of writing more linked by personal alliance= s and mutual dislikes, it features a dazzling range of approaches ranging fro= m the radical formalism of Edwin Denby to the the permanently =E2=80=9Cunder construction=E2=80=9D poetry of Clark Coolidge. In between these banner holders a= re poets with Pulitzer Prizes (John Ashbery, James Schuyler), poets with rock bands (Jim Carroll, Patti Smith, Janet Hamill), poets who run for President (Eileen Myles) poets who are actually read by non-poets (Frank O=E2=80=99 Hara) a= nd poets held dear mostly by other New York School Poets (Joe Ceravolo, Steve Carey and Jim Brodey). We will explore New York School techniques such as collaborations, appropriative writing, list poems, cut ups, rewrites, lists= , invented forms, reinvented forms, sonnets and the secrets of how-to-keep -going-when-you-having-nothing-interesting-to-say.=E2=80=9D Joel Lewis is the aut= hor of Verticals Currency: Selected Poems and edited On The Level Everyday, selected talks of Ted Berrigan. =20 POETRY WORKSHOP =E2=80=93 DAVID HENDERSON SATURDAYS AT 12PM: 10 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 18TH =20 =E2=80=9CWe are making manuscripts of our work (at whatever stage the work or the poet or both are). As poets we are also looking at and sometimes working with prose, as another form of poetry, as well other forms of poetry such a= s lyrics, raps, spoken word form(ats) or even simple lines =E2=80=93 good in and of themselves. We practice exercises and routines of the poet. We often listen to the works of each other =E2=80=93 in progress. And there is always the right t= o just read a work without comment or criticism.=E2=80=9D Poet, lyricist, and biographer David Henderson is the author of several books, including Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age and Neo-California. =20 =20 ***The workshop fee is $300, which includes a one-year individual Poetry Project membership and tuition for any and all spring and fall classes. Reservations are required due to limited class space, and payment must be received in advance. Please send payment and reservations to: The Poetry Project, St. Mark=E2=80=99s Church, 131 E. 10th St., NY, NY 10003. For more information please call (212)674-0910 or e-mail info@poetryproject.com. ZOMBOID! (Film Performance Project #1) RICHARD FOREMAN/ONTOLOGICAL-HYSTERIC THEATER Ontological Theater, 131 East 10th Street in St. Mark's Church Opens Thursday January 12 Tues, Thurs - Sun @ 8PM Students $17, Adults $23, ALL Saturday $28 (no service fee) buy tickets online at www.ontological.com or call TheaterMania at 212.352.3101=20 =20 For more information on ZOMBOID! visit www.ontological.com. Winter Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.html 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.com www.poetryproject.com Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $85 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. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:48:48 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis LaCook Subject: door: 1 minute QuickTime video Comments: To: netbehaviour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://www.lewislacook.org/netcinema/door.mov QuickTime video, 2006 duration: 1 minute || size: 3.52MB *************************************************************************** ||http://www.lewislacook.org|| sign up now! poetry, code, forums, blogs, newsfeeds... --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. 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See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:35:22 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Reb Livingston Subject: Lolita & Gilda's Burlesque Poetry Hour Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed http://burlesquepoetryhour.blogspot.com/ Please join Lolita and Gilda in welcoming Kim Addonizio, Matthew =20 Zapruder, and Deborah Landau burlesque style to Bar Rouge in =20 Washington D.C. What will be taken off and what will be revealed? =20 Come find out for yourself on Monday January 30th. Reading will begin =20= at 8:00 p.m. in The Dark Room at Bar Rouge. * Kim Addonizio's debut novel, Little Beauties, was described by O =20 magazine as "a wonderfully optimistic, quirky testament to the power =20 of chance encounters" and was chosen as a Best Novel of the Month by =20 Book of the Month Club. Addonizio's several books of poetry include =20 Tell Me, a finalist for both the National Book Award and PEN USA West =20= Book Award; and most recently What Is This Thing Called Love. With =20 Dorianne Laux, she co-authored The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the =20 Pleasures of Writing Poetry. She has also published a book of =20 stories, In the Box Called Pleasure, and co-edited an anthology about =20= tattoos, Dorothy Parker's Elbow. Her awards include two NEA =20 Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Matthew Zapruder is the author of American Linden, winner of the =20 Tupelo Press Editors' Prize. His poems have appeared in many literary =20= magazines and journals, including The Boston Review, Fence, Crowd, =20 Jubilat, Both, Harvard Review, The New Republic and The New Yorker. =20 He is the co-translator of Secret Weapon, the final collection by the =20= late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu. He is the Editor of Verse Press, =20 the co-curator of the KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series, and an =20 instructor of Creative Writing at the New School in New York City. Deborah Landau is the author of Orchidelirium, winner of the Anhinga =20 Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary =20 magazines, including Columbia, Grand Street, Barrow Street, The =20 Antioch Review, and Prairie Schooner, and she has published critical =20 articles on contemporary American poetry. She is the Assistant Chair =20 of the Writing Program at The New School and co-curates the KGB =20 Poetry Reading Series. * All readings will take place at Bar Rouge which is located at 1315 =20 16th street (between Mass. & O). Readings are free to the public but =20 your patronage at the bar will be greatly appreciated. The poets will =20= be =93taking it off=94 and if you want to =93have it, (that being which = is =20 taken off)=94 you may want to anticipate having a few extra dollar =20 bills as =93having it=94 is not =93free.=94 http://burlesquepoetryhour.blogspot.com/ ------------------ Reb, aka Gilda= ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:07:59 -0800 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Subject: Pavement Saw Sells Out MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I want to mention that we have nearly sold out of all of our Pavement Saw chapbooks except for Knute Skinner's from 2005. These will not be reprinted, so, if you are interested this is the last chance, these are $6 each including postage payable via paypal to info@pavementsaw.org or send a check to our address at the bottom. These were all printed in a run of 400 copies except Naton Leslie's chap which was 500. All chapbooks not mentioned here are out of print. Here is our remaining inventory from _all_ of our chapbook titles-- 13 copies of The People Instruments by Amy King 14 copies of War Holdings by Lisa Samuels 11 copies of Sauce Robert by FJ Bergmann 4 copies of Add Musk Here by John Bradley 7 copies of Disrobing by Gina M. Tabasso 3 copies of The Root by Mark Taksa 19 copies of Shooting the Strays by Rose M. Smith 12 copies of Their Shadows are Dark Daughters by Naton Leslie 22 copies of Pants (2nd edition) by Shelley Stenhouse 8 copies of Tampon Class by Mary E. Weems Our literary journal (551 copies per ish) is also about to disappear, issues 1-6 are out of print, I have left # 7 the Ultimate Issue ($7 p/p) only 23 copies #8 The Man PO ($7 p/p) #9 The Last LAFT double issue ($12p/p) only 14 copies I have 4 copies of Robert Grenier's 12 from r h y m m s $20 I have 7 copies left of the first edition of Errol Miller's full length book Magnolia Hall. It is a superior work of southern experimentation and it is doubtful it will be reprinted. $10 I expect these will all be gone by the time we go to AWP in Austin. Thanks--! Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus, OH 43206 http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:43:48 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: tb2h Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Aldon and others. I am in a graduate Englsih class on black lit and there are no black experimentalists listed. Ideas? Aldon, if you send me the names of books or articles you've done I can probably get the library to order them. tom bell ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:25:37 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: John Lowther In-Reply-To: <43D6D505@mtsu20.mtsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit please make this a front-lost discussion On Friday, January 20, 2006, at 08:43 AM, tb2h wrote: > Aldon and others. I am in a graduate Englsih class on black lit and > there are > no black experimentalists listed. Ideas? Aldon, if you send me the > names of > books or articles you've done I can probably get the library to order > them. > > tom bell > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:14:59 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit J. This is the best analysis of of the relationship between computer (its logic? information, image structure?) ande poetry/art I have read. Thank you. It gives me at least a means to discuss and think about the issues in fruitful ways. Murat In a message dated 01/17/06 7:12:55 PM, jim@VISPO.COM writes: > > >>> i have a new version of dbcinema (still in progress) at > > >>> http://vispo.com/dbcinema . > > > That's basically Google Images in a slide show, eh? > > Yeah. Google and Yahoo. Eventually to include others such as Altavista and > maybe Flickr. They all come up with different images when you search a given > concept or phrase, though there's overlap. > > The thing can go in several directions from here. > > Can be a screensaver; you'd configure it, say, to read your browsing history > and it'd search for images relevant to that language; or you'd configure it, > say, to read your email and it'd pick out key words and feed that into > dbcinema; or you configure words yourself it uses as search language. > > Could also be part of an installation piece in a gallery or wherever. A room > for a couple of people to converse in. Two chairs. A table. The chairs are > miked. The audio gets fed into a voice recognition system. The voice > recognition system recognizes the odd word and feeds that into dbcinema. > dbcinema is projected onto the wall. So the people see images sometimes > relevant to their conversation. Or they use dbcinema in their conversation. > 'Yeah, show us Istanbul. I said Istanbul. Istanbul for gawds sake. Damn > thing.' > > Or could use parts of the code in works such as > http://vispo.com/vismu/warpigs/warpigs8.htm (which isn't finished either) > for the visuals. In this case, I'd feed dbcinema warpig-related language > every now and then as the audio plays. > > Currently it's dbslideshow. But I'd eventually like to take it to dbcinema > via stuff like the algorithms at http://complexification.net . There you see > some pretty nice abstract generative visual work. The idea would be to use > such algorithms but have them operate on the visuals fetched by dbcinema. > Usually computer generated visuals are strong (when they're strong) > concerning abstraction. Not too hot concerning representation. But this > poses the possib of combining good generative abstract visuals with somewhat > relevant representation. > > Probably more than you wanted to know. > > ja > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:18:48 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That sounds like the guest who never leaves (A Saturday Night Live sketch from its earl days). Murat In a message dated 01/17/06 8:17:53 PM, kom9os@BIGPOND.NET.AU writes: > Hey jim how do you unregister, i registered as a minor by accident now i > can't take censorship controls off (mac osx)? > > komninos > > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:48:42 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aldon Nielsen In-Reply-To: <43D6D505@mtsu20.mtsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed this still happens in 2006?????? anyway, I wouldn't ordinarily do this on the list, but since I was asked: first thing to do is get the new anthology from U of Alabama Press: EVERY GOODBYE AIN'T GONE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF INNOVATIVE POETRY BY AFRICAN AMERICANS ed. by Lauri Ramey and Aldon Nielsen this book is just a map, running roughly from the late 40s Tolson up through the late 70s, with more to follow in a second volume -- but it has LOTS of work you won't be able to find elsewhere -- as to critical stuff by me, the most relevant are the books BLACK CHANT, WRITING BETWEEN THE LINES, and INTEGRAL MUSIC -- all still in print -- but there are lots of chapters, essays, talks etc. by people such as Kathy Crown, Elizabeth Frost, Meta Jones, Evie Sedgewick, Grant Jenkins, Mendi Obadike, C.S. Giscombe, Nathaniel Mackey, and god knows how many others I hope won't be insulted that I didn't list them in the hurried response on my way to a meeting -- point being, there's really no good reason to overlook this material at this late stage of the scholarship -- there never was a GOOD reason, but at least 20 years ago people could claim that it was hard to track down -- and there's another anthology just out from U of Miami Press of poets who participated in their major conference on African American poetry of two years ago, including several of the more innovative writers -- and your library MUST get all the issues of giovanni singleton's journal Nocturnes (the poetry collection probably already has it, no?) and the special issue of Tripwire that grew out of a colloquium in San Francisco on this subject a few years back -- etc. -- Kathy Lou! Why don't you jump in on this thread! At 08:43 AM 1/20/2006, you wrote: >Aldon and others. I am in a graduate Englsih class on black lit and there >are >no black experimentalists listed. Ideas? Aldon, if you send me the names of >books or articles you've done I can probably get the library to order them. > >tom bell <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "and now it's winter in America" --Gil Scott-Heron Aldon Lynn Nielsen George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature Department of English The Pennsylvania State University 112 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091 [office] (814) 863-7285 [Fax] ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:50:07 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eric Elshtain Subject: Reviews of Chapbooks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chapbooks are woefully under-represented in the review sections of most journals (some do make efforts to include reviews of chaps), whether those journals be on-line or print. As an on-line chapbook *press*, we at Beard of Bees are really two-time losers, since too there seems to be a continued idea that on-line chapbook and book publishing is somehow of less value, professionally, than traditional print publication. One way to help legitimize on-line chapbook and book publishing is to have quality reviews of said publications published in journals. I've e-mailed our link to several print journals with review requests (just like sending print books in for review) but to no avail. Of course, they may have considered the chaps unworthy; however, they may have just completely ignored the request. That said--please consider jotting short reviews of any chapbooks on our list (or on anybody's list, on-line or not on-line) that strike your fancy, maybe even including a squib about the "on-line reading experience." Post it on a blog; send it to a journal; staple it onto a telephone pole... Thank you for your attention, Eric Elshtain Editor Beard of Bees Press http://www.beardofbees.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:11:19 -0500 Reply-To: John Lowther Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: John Lowther Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit aldon i ask only as i still hear it said that exprimental writing is an all white affair & cuz i knew you would probably site something i hadnt seen yet best john ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:19:33 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mairead Byrne Subject: Re: Reviews of Chapbooks Comments: To: epelshta@UCHICAGO.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Dear Eric, I agree with you. Chapbooks are a much more available and fluent form of = publication than books for me as I find book publication elusive. With = chapbooks, I enjoy precious relationships with publishers, also the = pleasure of fast completion of projects. Two (print) chapbooks of mine published in = 2005, AN EDUCATED HEART (Palm Press 2005) and VIVAS (Wild Honey Press = 2005) were reviewed in MiPOesias www.mipoesias.com, and the British = webjournal LITTER http://leafepress.com/litter/. You might find both = those publications hospitable to Beard of Bees. =20 A 2004 online chapbook, CHINA DOGS (Poetic Inhalation, 2004) was not = reviewed and Poetic Inhalation itself no longer has a site, so the = chapbook is not available except in archives. I think old habits may die = hard as far as clutching something in your hand that you're going to = review is concerned. But it's only a matter of time and critical mass. = Today I read something Reb Livingstone said about not understanding why = many web journals are published in issues rather than rolling editions. = The gestalt of a journal may still derive from the print model but that = will change. Chapbooks are definitely a vital form of publication, increasingly so; I = can only see web journals becoming increasingly friendly to reviewing both = print and e-chapbooks. I'm not so sure about print journals, which are more arthritic, sort of = lumbering at the picnic while the little chapbooks are running around = everywhere! =20 Meanwhile, I guess we have to step forward and offer to review more. = That's not the royal we. I mean I. So I'm off to browse your site. Sincerely, Mairead >>> epelshta@UCHICAGO.EDU 01/20/06 10:50 AM >>> Chapbooks are woefully under-represented in the review sections of most journals (some do make efforts to include reviews of chaps), whether those journals be on-line or print. As an on-line chapbook *press*, we at Beard of Bees are really two-time losers, since too there seems to be a continued idea that on-line chapbook and book publishing is somehow of less value, professionally, than traditional print publication. =20 One way to help legitimize on-line chapbook and book publishing is to have quality reviews of said publications published in journals. I've e-mailed our link to several print journals with review requests (just like sending print books in for review) but to no avail. Of course, they may have considered the chaps unworthy; however, they may have just completely ignored the request. =20 That said--please consider jotting short reviews of any chapbooks on our list (or on anybody's list, on-line or not on-line) that strike your fancy, maybe even including a squib about the "on-line reading experience." Post it on a blog; send it to a journal; staple it onto a telephone pole... Thank you for your attention, =20 Eric Elshtain Editor Beard of Bees Press http://www.beardofbees.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:44:08 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eileen Tabios Subject: GALATEA RESURRECTS (A Poetry Review) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Eric, Mairead and others, My Call for GR (below) seems timely -- synchronicity. Please note, too, the= =20 offer to e-publish previously hard-copy reviews. Anyway, here 'tis Eileen Tabios ++++++++++++++++++ A Call from GALATEA RESURRECTS (A Poetry Review) Dear All, I'm inaugurating (as Managing Editor) a new online publication called =A0 GALATEA RESURRECTS (A Poetry Review) =A0 I hope the inaugural issue will come out sometime in March or so. The focus= =20 of GR will be presenting poetry reviews (though there will be interim poetry= =20 features). =20 =A0 So this email is to say I am looking for folks interested in writing reviews= =20 for GR. I've backchanneled a few folks and have gotten review commitments=20 from Barry Schwabsky, Thomas Fink, kari edwards, and Guillermo Juan Parra, a= mong=20 others. I drop their names because I'm writing this Call before there's an=20 issue out there that I can point to as a sample issue. The goal of this project is to offer another venue for poetry reviews and=20 hopefully expand discourse. It's not limited to "new" poetry publications -= - all=20 books, chaps, broadsides and other poetry publications, as long as they're=20 still in print and available to the public, are eligible to be reviewed. =20 Indeed, we encourage reviewing books that you may feel have been undeservedl= y=20 ignored. =20 Reviewers will be "paid" with books (which you don't have to review) from=20 certain titles published by Meritage Press (http://meritagepress.com) or, if= =20 there's interested, with books by the Managing Editor (assume smiley here) =20= The=20 author of the review most enjoyed over the course of a calendar year by=20 Oenophiles for Poetry also will receive a bottle of wine.* And because the project is just to support the expansion of poetry discourse= ,=20 GR is also available for reprinting reviews previously published in print bu= t=20 not yet on the Internet. We've all heard how online readership often=20 supplants print readership, and I wanted to offer a means for expanding the=20= audience=20 for reviews worth reading but which may not be accessible if the journals ar= e=20 no longer around or have small print runs. (Previous publishers will be=20 acknowledged, of course.)=20 Finally, if you wish your poetry publications considered for reviews, send a= =20 copy to me at =A0 Eileen Tabios 256 North Fork Crystal Springs Road St. Helena, CA 94574 =A0 Obviously, there's no guarantee that your publication will be reviewed but=20 here I am with open arms. Please feel free to query me directly if you have= =20 questions.=20 =A0 Best, Eileen Tabios ---- * Limited to reviewers who live in the U.S. and in states which allow=20 shipments of alcohol from California. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:03:54 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Van Shell Subject: call for submissions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Poetics List Serve Members, Quadrangle, the Canisius College literary journal, is seeking submissions from Canisius alumni, current students, and associated faculty and staff. The submissions must be received by 5:00 p.m. February 1, 2006. SUBMISSIONS: Poetry, short fiction, creative non fiction, photography, and artwork may be submitted electronically to _quadmag@canisius.edu_ (mailto:quadmag@canisius.edu) or dropped off at Churchill Tower 901 in the Quadrangle mailbox, or mailed to Quadrangle Magazine, Churchill Tower 901, Canisius College, 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208. Please include a brief bio. Simultaneous submissions accepted as long as they are indicated as such and we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Payment is two copies upon publication. No submissions returned without a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Sincerely, Michelle Vanstrom, Quadrangle staff and Poetics list member, Shana Williams, Editor-in-chief, Quadrangle We have become not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. ~Jimmy Carter Here's to celebrating our many differences. Quadrangle 2006 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:03:10 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: Reviews of Chapbooks / ebooks Comments: cc: Lars Palm , J Kimball In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Should we also mention - we should - the world of poetry ebooks, a flourishing form for many poets, with little or no critical attention. I have done two - to beat the digital drum - in the last two years Sleeping With Sappho (a faux ebook)at: http://www.fauxpress.com/e/vincent/ And The publishers report many visitors, at least 'grazers', but precious few reviews. Lars Palm's blog mishievoice, http://mischievoice.blogspot.com/ has started to review some, including an upcoming one next week of Triggers. Ebooks, similar to chapbooks, are a great and efficient way - especially if well designed - to get an initial phase or portion of a larger book into the public eye. But - as a public realm in terms of response - they still remain as ephemeral or as elusive as the well made poetry broadside. Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > Dear Eric, > > I agree with you. Chapbooks are a much more available and fluent form of > publication than books for me as I find book publication elusive. With > chapbooks, I enjoy precious relationships with publishers, also the pleasure > of > fast completion of projects. Two (print) chapbooks of mine published in 2005, > AN EDUCATED HEART (Palm Press 2005) and VIVAS (Wild Honey Press 2005) were > reviewed in MiPOesias www.mipoesias.com, and the British webjournal LITTER > http://leafepress.com/litter/. You might find both those publications > hospitable to Beard of Bees. > > A 2004 online chapbook, CHINA DOGS (Poetic Inhalation, 2004) was not reviewed > and Poetic Inhalation itself no longer has a site, so the chapbook is not > available except in archives. I think old habits may die hard as far as > clutching something in your hand that you're going to review is concerned. > But it's only a matter of time and critical mass. Today I read something Reb > Livingstone said about not understanding why many web journals are published > in issues rather than rolling editions. The gestalt of a journal may still > derive from the print model but that will change. > > Chapbooks are definitely a vital form of publication, increasingly so; I can > only see web journals becoming increasingly friendly to reviewing both print > and e-chapbooks. > I'm not so sure about print journals, which are more arthritic, sort of > lumbering at the picnic while the little chapbooks are running around > everywhere! > > Meanwhile, I guess we have to step forward and offer to review more. That's > not the royal we. I mean I. So I'm off to browse your site. > > Sincerely, > > Mairead > >>>> epelshta@UCHICAGO.EDU 01/20/06 10:50 AM >>> > Chapbooks are woefully under-represented in the review > sections of most journals (some do make efforts to include > reviews of chaps), whether those journals be on-line or print. > As an on-line chapbook *press*, we at Beard of Bees are > really two-time losers, since too there seems to be a > continued idea that on-line chapbook and book publishing is > somehow of less value, professionally, than traditional print > publication. > > One way to help legitimize on-line chapbook and book > publishing is to have quality reviews of said publications > published in journals. I've e-mailed our link to several > print journals with review requests (just like sending print > books in for review) but to no avail. Of course, they may > have considered the chaps unworthy; however, they may have > just completely ignored the request. > > That said--please consider jotting short reviews of any > chapbooks on our list (or on anybody's list, on-line or not > on-line) that strike your fancy, maybe even including a squib > about the "on-line reading experience." Post it on a blog; > send it to a journal; staple it onto a telephone pole... > > Thank you for your attention, > > > > Eric Elshtain > Editor > Beard of Bees Press > http://www.beardofbees.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:05:06 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brian Clements Subject: Re: Reviews of Chapbooks In-Reply-To: <36e5ba48.7da67963.81afb00@m4500-00.uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics reviews chapbooks of prose poetry, experimental prose, and similar or related work in every issue. We're always happy to receive review copies and always looking for new reviewers. Our review section has limited space--usually about 20 pages. Any chap/books that don't get reviewed are listed in our Also Received section. If you have titles that you think may be appropriate for our scope, please le me know and I'll add them to our review list. http://firewheel-editions.org Eric Elshtain Sent by: UB Poetics discussion group 01/20/2006 10:50 AM Please respond to UB Poetics discussion group To POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU cc Subject Reviews of Chapbooks Chapbooks are woefully under-represented in the review sections of most journals (some do make efforts to include reviews of chaps), whether those journals be on-line or print. As an on-line chapbook *press*, we at Beard of Bees are really two-time losers, since too there seems to be a continued idea that on-line chapbook and book publishing is somehow of less value, professionally, than traditional print publication. One way to help legitimize on-line chapbook and book publishing is to have quality reviews of said publications published in journals. I've e-mailed our link to several print journals with review requests (just like sending print books in for review) but to no avail. Of course, they may have considered the chaps unworthy; however, they may have just completely ignored the request. That said--please consider jotting short reviews of any chapbooks on our list (or on anybody's list, on-line or not on-line) that strike your fancy, maybe even including a squib about the "on-line reading experience." Post it on a blog; send it to a journal; staple it onto a telephone pole... Thank you for your attention, Eric Elshtain Editor Beard of Bees Press http://www.beardofbees.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:09:08 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: laura oliver Subject: Black Zinnias seeks submissions Comments: To: drabel2@yahoo.com, xpmorgan@hotmail.com, elaclark@mindspring.com, acornford@earthlink.net, denmania@yahoo.com, gfrym@earthlink.net, n_karavatos@hotmail.com, aikicinema@yahoo.com, dmelt@earthlink.net, poetics-talk@yahoogroups.com, raeppley@aol.com, pabs67@yahoo.com, ninaschuyler@hotmail.com, tworose@pacbell.net Comments: cc: EhToroEh@aol.com, mark_c_taberna@yahoo.com, msipo@aol.com, rchrdgdnz@cs.com, sharonc@cwo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hello, Black Zinnias seeks submissions of poetry, short stories, interviews, etc., for our third issue, which will be perfect bound, full color cover. Please refer to the Black Zinnias website for our submission guidelines at: www.blackzinnias.org. Please send your submissions to me in a Word document at: laura@calartsandletters.org Also, please forward this to anyone you think may be interested. best wishes, Laura Oliver ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:44:10 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Re: Reviews of Chapbooks In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So few books get reviewed, period, fewer chapbooks, and books/chapbooks of poetry? A spiral of diminishing returns, perhaps. Obviously it takes a bit more time to write even the shortest review/response to a book than to read it and move on, which is why I enjoy the lists offered sometimes here and elsewhere of people's recent reads -- micro-reviews or reviews in potentia, those, for me. Otherwise, formal reviews strike me as targeted, political things that turn on personal, social relationships as opposed to, say, economies of attention, worth, or perceived value. Also, I'm not sure I agree that chapbooks are "more available and fluent form" but i agree that's been the case. With print-on-demand, that might be changing, particularly with regard to speed of turnaround. And I think the nature of the relationship with the publisher has a lot more to do with the publisher, and the publishee, than with the form. There's the risk of positioning things along familiar hi/lo divides with chaps as somehow inherently more intimate and "spines" as more removed, professional, elite. But... maybe that's a common experience, so ... Might be best, and more efficient, to review in "batches" -- which I think Mairead and others have done -- focusing on an imprint or a locale. Makes for better reading, too, I think in the treatment of context, and less about close-reading a solo effort to oblivion. bill On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Mairead Byrne wrote: > Dear Eric, > > I agree with you. Chapbooks are a much more available and fluent form > of publication than books for me as I find book publication elusive. > With chapbooks, I enjoy precious relationships with publishers, also > the pleasure of > fast completion of projects. Two (print) chapbooks of mine published > in 2005, AN EDUCATED HEART (Palm Press 2005) and VIVAS (Wild Honey > Press 2005) were reviewed in MiPOesias www.mipoesias.com, and the > British webjournal LITTER http://leafepress.com/litter/. You might > find both those publications hospitable to Beard of Bees. > > A 2004 online chapbook, CHINA DOGS (Poetic Inhalation, 2004) was not > reviewed and Poetic Inhalation itself no longer has a site, so the > chapbook is not available except in archives. I think old habits may > die hard as far as clutching something in your hand that you're going > to review is concerned. But it's only a matter of time and critical > mass. Today I read something Reb Livingstone said about not > understanding why many web journals are published in issues rather > than rolling editions. The gestalt of a journal may still derive from > the print model but that will change. > > Chapbooks are definitely a vital form of publication, increasingly so; > I can only see web journals becoming increasingly friendly to > reviewing both print and e-chapbooks. > I'm not so sure about print journals, which are more arthritic, sort > of lumbering at the picnic while the little chapbooks are running > around everywhere! > > Meanwhile, I guess we have to step forward and offer to review more. > That's not the royal we. I mean I. So I'm off to browse your site. > > Sincerely, > > Mairead > >>>> epelshta@UCHICAGO.EDU 01/20/06 10:50 AM >>> > Chapbooks are woefully under-represented in the review > sections of most journals (some do make efforts to include > reviews of chaps), whether those journals be on-line or print. > As an on-line chapbook *press*, we at Beard of Bees are > really two-time losers, since too there seems to be a > continued idea that on-line chapbook and book publishing is > somehow of less value, professionally, than traditional print > publication. > > One way to help legitimize on-line chapbook and book > publishing is to have quality reviews of said publications > published in journals. I've e-mailed our link to several > print journals with review requests (just like sending print > books in for review) but to no avail. Of course, they may > have considered the chaps unworthy; however, they may have > just completely ignored the request. > > That said--please consider jotting short reviews of any > chapbooks on our list (or on anybody's list, on-line or not > on-line) that strike your fancy, maybe even including a squib > about the "on-line reading experience." Post it on a blog; > send it to a journal; staple it onto a telephone pole... > > Thank you for your attention, > > > > Eric Elshtain > Editor > Beard of Bees Press > http://www.beardofbees.com > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:00:11 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dodie Bellamy Subject: Bellamy and Killian at The Backroom, SF Comments: To: ampersand@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy will be taking=20 part in The Backroom, an archival project=20 displayed at New Langton Arts, which opens this=20 Wednesday. The Backroom will display source materials used=20 in the making of KK's biography of Jack Spicer.=20 Vampire and horror source material (and some=20 original manuscripts) from Dodie's novel The=20 Letters of Mina Harker will also be shown. the backroom Opening reception: Wednesday, January 25, 6-8 pm Wednesday, January 25 - Saturday, February 25 Open: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-5 pm Presented by New Langton Arts and San Francisco Camerawork 1246 Folsom Street (between 8th and 9th streets) San Francisco, CA 94103-3817 =46or further information: 415.626.5416 www.the-backroom.org the backroom is a research-oriented project that=20 provides access to source materials which inform=20 and support artists' practice. Accumulated over=20 five months, the temporary archive presents=20 objects, videos, magazines, photographs,=20 ephemera, data, and written anecdotes from an=20 evolving lineup of artists, filmmakers, writers,=20 and architects. New Langton Arts and SF Camerawork have=20 collaborated to present the backroom for one=20 month, opening the gallery as an informal=20 reading, meeting, and viewing room, as well as=20 hosting one-time events. Source materials will be presented from:=20 Akasegawa Genpei (compiled by Reiko Tomii),=20 Anthony Auerbach, Dodie Bellamy Walead Beshty,=20 Jennifer Bornstein, Anne Collier, Dennis Crompton=20 (Archigram), Vaginal Davis, Olivier Debroise,=20 Jeremy Deller, Kota Ezawa, Vince Fecteau, Mario=20 Garcia Torres, Sam Green, David Hatcher, Carl=20 Michael von Hausswolff, Jess, Paul Ram=EDrez Jonas,=20 William Jones, Adria Julia, Stephen Kaltenbach,=20 Allan Kaprow, Kevin Killian, Thomas Lawson, Jesse=20 Lerner, Lu Jie, Marko Lulic, Erlea Maneros, Ari=20 Marcopoulos, Euan MacDonald, John Menick, Julian=20 Myers, Michelle O'Marah, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen,=20 Raqs Media Collective, Tercerunquinto, Jeffrey=20 Vallance, Miguel Ventura, Mark Verabioff, and=20 Bruce Yonemoto the backroom is run by Magali=20 Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:28:55 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, in collaboration with freelance editor Colin Dickey, will be producing a unique book project whose topic is the aesthetics of failure. Below, please find this projects call for submissions. Send all submission ideas to contact@journalofaestheticsandprotest.com or Colin Dickey at cdickey@nu.edu. (Note; Colin wrote an amazing article in issue #3, "Metaphysics, Protest, and the Politics of Spectacular Failure." http://www.joaap.org/new3/index.php?page=dickey) FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY Proposals are invited for a volume on the topic of failure, and its relationship to idealism and history, to be published in conjunction with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (http://www.joap.org). We're interested primarily in those historical and aesthetic failures which are a result of a powerful, if sometimes naïve, idealism, out of step with their own contexts. Either a result of the exhaustion of a moment and/or movement, pushed to its logical (or illogical)conclusion (such as the Children's Crusades of 1212, or the Weather Underground), or the result of the utter misunderstanding of a historical moment (novelist Yukio Mishima's attempt to re-ignite fascism in post-war Japan). The question of re-visiting these various cultural, historical, artistic moments is inevitably an exploration of the relationship between an act and its historical moment, and bringing that relationship into the present. While a success may seem to be something that determines the shape of history, failures on a colossal and spectacular scale are often those things that bring history, culture, and art most sharply into relief. We're looking for essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, visual explorations (e.g., photo-essays) or aesthetic experiments that deal with the topic of failure and its relationship to idealism and history. Possible topics include: failed utopias, failure and tragedy, failed political movements (including Marxism), specific literary or artistic works (such as Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans), the failure of the Iraq war protests, various arguments on the failure of the avant-garde and/or modernism, specific theorists relationship to failure (e.g.,Deleuze and Guattari, Hakim Bey, Derrida), technology and failure, the history of failure, failure and architecture, alternative psychology movements, failed public art (e.g., Tilted Arc). Please send a 300 word abstract or description of the project, as a Word attachment, to Colin Dickey, cdickey@nu.edu, by February 15, 2006. Notification for selected work will be February 28,2006, and completed works will be due no later than June 1, 2006. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:46:34 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Adam Fieled Subject: Rachel Blau DuPlessis on "PFS Post" Comments: To: cipollinaaaaa@yahoo.com, "cordite@cordite.org.au" , "cmccabe@rfh.org.uk" , "derek@theadamsresidence.co.uk" , "js@johnsiddique.co.uk" , peter@greatworks.org.uk, cdeniord@nec.edu, aduncan@pinko.org, jeffreyethan@att.net, a.waldman@mindspring.com, nmoudry@temple.edu, jlwhite@temple.edu, michaelland84@yahoo.com, val@writtenpicture.co.uk, "kinsellaj@kenyon.edu" , lse664@aol.com, bdfreedman@yahoo.com, meharju@yahoo.com, marywgraham@yahoo.com, golden.notebook@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Rachel Blau Duplessis, author of the long and continually evolving poem “Drafts” skillfully blends elements of Objectivism, “Language” poetry, and standard lyricism with the epic expansiveness of Williams, Olson, Zukofsky and Pound. “Drafts” is a tapestry of enormous scope and equally enormous delicacy. Beginning with the contentious assertion, “There will be no point….to all this”, Duplessis treats the engaged reader to a sophisticated, cerebral, emotional, historical, anti-historical mélange of themes, thoughts, images, and allusions. You can read two of Rachel's wonderful DRAFTS, a long interview w/ Rachel (click on "Adam Fieled"), & more intro stuff at PFS Post (www.artrecess.blogspot.com). Also, check out Diana Magallon, new Adam Fieled poems at Stoning the Devil (www.adamfieled.blogspot.com). --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos – Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books. You design it and we’ll bind it! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:02:37 -0800 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Subject: experimentalists In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Tom-- I published Will Alexander's Above the Human Nerve Domain, I'd recommend that. In addition to Aldon's list I'd add Melvin Tolson, Bob Kaufman, Harryette Mullen. From outside the US Leon Damas, Rene Depestre, Leopold Senghor, Aime Cesaire, Fily Dabo Sissoko. that is what comes to mind immediately-- Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus, OH 43206 http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:53:38 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: <236.57a05c3.31025873@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > This is the best analysis of of the relationship between computer > (its logic? > information, image structure?) ande poetry/art I have read. Thank you. It > gives me at least a means to discuss and think about the issues > in fruitful ways. Thanks, Murat. I think you are being very generous; if that was what it revealed to you, I think much of it must have been your own thoughts on the matter. I have wondered about the relationship between dbcinema and poetry myself. Like, is there any? But, over time, it seems there is. What Google/Yahoo/etc image search does is create/discover the relationship between alphabetic language and digital images. And then enable us to search for images with alphabetic language. In turn, that will allow us to explore visual language in new ways. For instance, we see in 'Guess the Google' by Grant Robinson ( http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google ) and 'Visual Poetry' by Douwe Osinga ( http://douweosinga.com/projects/googlehacks ) the beginning of computer works that use image search to communicate with images. Alphabetic language is being communicated, in a real sense, but it is not seen, only is inferable from the images, in the case of Robinson's piece. So we can imagine poetries of strings solely of images, or of interplay between the images and the alphabetic language. In the case of Osinga's 'Visual Poetry', the relationship is quite explicit: you type a sentence, and each word is simply 'translated' into an image. We can infer from these two pieces future works that are not so explicit in the relationships they draw between the textual and the image, works that attempt, for instance, to present sequences of images as poems, where the sequence of images actually corresponds to a sequence of words but the idea is not so much to 'guess the sequence of googles' as to 'read' the thing as a sort of cinematic, poetic experience. In the computer, it's all just ons and offs, zeroes and ones. All images represented in the computer, all videos, texts, sounds, etc, are all coded in zeroes and ones. That introduces the possibility of relating them between one another in ways that previous technologies have not permitted. It brings text, sound, image, video, etc into dynamic relationship with one another. Relationship in which the textual underlies the relationship, for the most part, ie, it is largely the textual that glues them together. So that digital poetic language is comprised not only of the textual but other media as well, though in a sense it is the textual that underlies it all. Is this the sort of thing you were thinking of? ja http://vispo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:25:51 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Re: experimentalists Comments: To: editor@pavementsaw.org In-Reply-To: <20060121060237.73597.qmail@web81709.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I'd include Stephen Jonas SELECTED POEMS from Talisman House and ooutside the usa take a look at the mary ann caws edited collection of 20th century poetry of the the french speaking world >From: David Baratier >Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: experimentalists >Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:02:37 -0800 > >Tom-- > > I published Will Alexander's Above the Human Nerve Domain, I'd recommend >that. In addition to Aldon's list I'd add Melvin Tolson, Bob Kaufman, >Harryette Mullen. From outside the US Leon Damas, Rene Depestre, Leopold >Senghor, Aime Cesaire, Fily Dabo Sissoko. that is what comes to mind >immediately-- > > > > >Be well > >David Baratier, Editor > >Pavement Saw Press >PO Box 6291 >Columbus, OH 43206 >http://pavementsaw.org _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:53:57 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Maria Damon Subject: Re: experimentalists Comments: To: editor@pavementsaw.org In-Reply-To: <20060121060237.73597.qmail@web81709.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" duriel harris, harryette mullen, marlene nourbese philip, ntozake shange as well. At 10:02 PM -0800 1/20/06, David Baratier wrote: >Tom-- > > I published Will Alexander's Above the Human Nerve Domain, I'd >recommend that. In addition to Aldon's list I'd add Melvin Tolson, >Bob Kaufman, Harryette Mullen. From outside the US Leon Damas, Rene >Depestre, Leopold Senghor, Aime Cesaire, Fily Dabo Sissoko. that is >what comes to mind immediately-- > > > > >Be well > >David Baratier, Editor > >Pavement Saw Press >PO Box 6291 >Columbus, OH 43206 >http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:40:37 -0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lawrence Upton Subject: Re: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You might add to your list of failures the fialure of those who assume = Stein's making of americans is a failure L=20 -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Karmin To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:29 AM Subject: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, in collaboration with freelance editor Colin Dickey, will be producing a unique book project whose topic is the aesthetics of failure. Below, please find this projects call for submissions. Send all submission ideas to contact@journalofaestheticsandprotest.com =20 or Colin Dickey at cdickey@nu.edu. (Note; Colin wrote an amazing article in issue #3, "Metaphysics, Protest, and the Politics of Spectacular Failure."=20 http://www.joaap.org/new3/index.php?page=3Ddickey) FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY Proposals are invited for a volume on the topic of failure, and its relationship to idealism and history, to be published in conjunction with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (http://www.joap.org). =20 We're interested primarily in those historical and aesthetic failures which are a result of a powerful, if sometimes na=EFve, idealism, out of step with their own contexts. Either a result of the exhaustion of a moment and/or movement, pushed to its logical (or illogical)conclusion (such as the Children's Crusades of 1212, or the Weather Underground), or the result of the utter misunderstanding of a historical moment (novelist Yukio Mishima's attempt to re-ignite fascism in post-war Japan). =20 The question of re-visiting these various cultural, historical, artistic moments is inevitably an exploration of the relationship between an act and its historical moment, and bringing that relationship into the present. While a success may seem to be something that determines the shape of history, failures on a colossal and spectacular scale are often those things that bring history, culture, and art most sharply into relief. We're looking for essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, visual explorations (e.g., photo-essays) or aesthetic experiments that deal with the topic of failure and its relationship to idealism and history. =20 Possible topics include: failed utopias, failure and tragedy, failed political movements (including Marxism), specific literary or artistic works (such as Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans), the failure of the Iraq war protests, various arguments on the failure of the avant-garde and/or modernism,=20 specific theorists relationship to failure (e.g.,Deleuze and Guattari, Hakim Bey, Derrida), technology and failure, the history of failure, failure and architecture, alternative psychology movements, failed public art (e.g., Tilted Arc). Please send a 300 word abstract or description of the project, as a Word attachment, to Colin Dickey, cdickey@nu.edu, by February 15, 2006. =20 Notification for selected work will be February 28,2006, and completed works will be due no later than June 1, 2006. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around=20 http://mail.yahoo.com=20 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:55:41 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: elen Subject: Brown MFA Alumna Wins Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please help to celebrate and support Carolyn Beard Whitlow's second collection of poetry, Vanished, now available through Lotus Press. The following information includes her biography and an announcement of the collection: Biography: Selected as one of ten North Carolina poets to appear on the 1997 PBS series "Poetry Live" hosted by Charles Kuralt, recipient of a 2001 and 2002 Yaddo Residency, and a Cave Canem Fellow, Carolyn Beard Whitlow, is Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, where she teaches creative writing and African-American literature. Finalist for the 1991 Barnard New Women Poets Prize, and the 2005 Ohio State University Poetry Prize, she won the 2006 Naomi Long Madgett Prize in Poetry, the winning manuscript, Vanished, published by Lotus Press in Detroit. She wrote her first poem at 30 years old while a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University and, subsequently, completed the M.F.A. at Brown University, where she won the Rose Low Rome Memorial Prize in Poetry, and was named Phi Beta Kappa Poet in 1989. Lost Roads published her first collection of poems, Wild Meat, in 1986, and her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Announcement: Carolyn Beard Whitlow's Vanished Winner of the 2006 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award "In Vanished, Carolyn Beard Whitlow is as she says, 'seeking the heal of words'-'some self assembly required.' Whether she uses a sestina or a villanelle, Whitlow croons the blues of a strong-hearted woman singing herself out of the past. Vanished performs magic-it gives voice to the voiceless, body to the vanished. I love the nakedness of the love poems.. There is no false turn in this book.." -Toi Derricotte "We have a siren who lives by metaphor, all the neighborhoods she's occupied, traversed, transcended-and there are 'notes' at the end: much of her history is not written down, or unwritten, or cadenced with a 'scrupulous meanness' (James Joyce) intended for dissection and worse, the aftermath of slavery and neglect where 'some people talk back.' This is a poet with fluency and cadence in prosody, an inclination toward Motown and the blues, but feints in sestina and villanelle for both circularity and word-play. She attends to organization, in units, as increment, as progression: so many losses, frustrations, but beneath the floss of voicing 'within the veil' a prideful storytelling in origami detail: all in her own idiom. In her world one can become one's own parents and kinfolk, the ancestors singing. 'And silence, too, is talk.' (African proverb)." -Michael Harper ISBN: 0-916418-96-0 available at www.lotuspress.org 112 pages (paper) $18.00 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:35:54 +1300 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ken Springtail Subject: Xvarenah Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed The blog "Xvarenah," apparently on hiatus for several months, has recently started posting poems again: http://graywyvern.blogspot.com K. S. _________________________________________________________________ Looking for love? Check out XtraMSN Personals http://xtramsn.match.com/match/mt.cfm?pg=channel&tcid=200731 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:43:29 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Linda Reinfeld Subject: writing prose non-fiction course In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT It looks like I'll be teaching an undergraduate course entitled "Creative Writing: Prose Non-fiction" in the spring at RIT. Most of the students -- 90% technology majors -- are unlikely to have had much experience writing (or reading!) beyond what's been required in high school. Any suggestions for appropriate texts or materials? I'm happy using Hazel Smith's The Writing Experiment (combined with a lot of photocopied material of my choosing) in another more poetry-oriented creative writing class, but I'm not sure how I might set up a creative writing non-fiction syllabus... Linda ******************************************************************* Linda Reinfeld, Ph.D. Department of Language and Literature Rochester Institute of Technology * 92 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-5604 * lmrgla@rit.edu * 585 475-4622 ******************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:23:11 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: alexander saliby Subject: Re: writing prose non-fiction course MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Linda, I'm a great fan of the M.I.T. program's Technical Communication = materials: two works in particular: A Writer's Guide for Engineers & Scientists and Communicating Technical Information =20 both works by Robert R. Rathbone Given that you too are in a technical (engineering focused) facility, = you might find these items helpful, and appropriate to your student = make-up.=20 Alex Saliby=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Linda Reinfeld=20 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=20 Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:43 AM Subject: writing prose non-fiction course It looks like I'll be teaching an undergraduate course entitled "Creative Writing: Prose Non-fiction" in the spring at RIT. Most of the students -- 90% technology majors -- are unlikely to have had much experience writing (or reading!) beyond what's been required in high school. Any suggestions for appropriate texts or materials? I'm happy using Hazel Smith's The Writing Experiment (combined with a lot of photocopied material of my choosing) in another more poetry-oriented creative writing class, but I'm not sure how I might set up a creative = writing non-fiction syllabus... Linda ******************************************************************* Linda Reinfeld, Ph.D. Department of Language and Literature Rochester Institute of Technology * 92 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-5604 * lmrgla@rit.edu * = 585 475-4622 ******************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:01:36 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Richard Jeffrey Newman Subject: Reviews on The Great American Pinup MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Reviews of Suheir Hammad's ZaatarDive and Kazim Ali's The Far Mosque up on The Great American Pinup: http://greatamericanpinup.blogspot.com/2006/01/suheir-hammads-zaatardiva-and -kazim.html Richard Jeffrey Newman ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:10:34 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Austinwja@AOL.COM Subject: Blackbox submission period closed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello everyone, The submission period for the Blackbox winter gallery is now closed. Thanks to all who sent work, and a special thanks to those few who actually followed the submission guidelines. Heh! I am still working with a couple of artists who submitted before the deadline, but whose submissions ran into problems. So there may be a couple of additions. Otherwise the winter gallery is complete and will be available for viewing later today. The eclectic offerings include Ron Padgett, Richard Kostelanetz, William James Austin, Steve Dalachinsky, jukka-pekka kervinen, Michelle Greenblatt, Vernon Frazer, kari edwards, F. J. Bergmann, mIEKAL aND, Nicholas Karavatos, and Paul Nelson. As always, go to WilliamJamesAustin.com and follow the Blackbox link. Or go directly to WilliamJamesAustin.com/Blackbox.html. Remember to stroll (scroll) through the galleries until you reach the latest exhibition. Lots of admirable work on view along the way. I will be open for spring gallery submissions sometime in April, and will make the announcement at that time. Again, many thanks to all who contribute to, and support, my little project. Best, Bill WilliamJamesAustin.com KojaPress.com Amazon.com BarnesandNobel.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:34:43 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Richard Foreman's ZOMBOID! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Richard Foreman's ZOMBOID! is now playing at the Ontological Hysteric Theater at the St. Mark's Church in New York. Information on tickets for the production at http://www.ontological.com/ My brief response to the work, and Foreman links, at http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:53:08 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis LaCook Subject: gift - QuickTime video Comments: To: netbehaviour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://www.lewislacook.org/netcinema/gift.mov for Mary QuickTime video, 2006 1 minute 38 seconds 5.88 MB *************************************************************************** ||http://www.lewislacook.org|| sign up now! poetry, code, forums, blogs, newsfeeds... --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:16:13 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: a gift book for a friend or yourself In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Peter I wd like to order Jukka's book, in part to see what a blue lion book looks like. We have hired Christina Strong to do the design work on the book--she designed one of Jukka's books--I think for Chax Press. I have given her almost everything of mine and she is starting this weekend. Do the books have T of C and page numbers? Rusty will give her his work soon so things are coming along. How are you? Best, Ruth On 12/17/05 11:57 AM, "Peter Ganick" wrote: > ORDER from www.cafepress.com/bluelionbooks66 > SUBMISSIONS information below. > > <><><><><><><><><><><><> > <<>> > <><><><><><><><><><><><> > > BLUE LION BOOKS > espoo, finland > west hartford connecticut usa > > <><><><><><><><><><><><> > > << << << << << > <><><><><><><><><><><> > > blb-1 Jukka-Pekka Kervinen > '(no subject)' - 427pp - $23.81 isbn 9529963211 > > Kervinen has written a text that includes all types of language: > current affairs, numerals, neologisms, portmanteau words, new > ways of constructing syntax, all adding to an exciting sequence > of words. The language has a sort of game-quality to it, one can > spend hours decoding, sounding out, glancing through. or just > reading this sparkling text. > > blb-2 Jim Leftwich > 'thetextasifsuch' - 528pp - $26.84 isbn: 9529963203 > > Jim Leftwich is represented here by his poetry and essays from > the early 21st century. The title 'textasifsuch' has more relevance > to a practice of writing that calls itself 'text' and is specifically so, > in the full sense of the word. It could be defined as the pure > essence of writing, with a pared-down wording that mirrors > the consciousness of the writer. Leftwich's words are worth > engaging into reading. > > blb3 J Hayes Hurley > 'Motion and Rest' - 483pp - $27.49 isbn: 952006322X > revised edition available January 15, 2006 > > fiction. "Motion and Rest" is a modern western with a Gnostic > twist. The narrator, Robert Glin, is a Montana-born paperback > western genre writer who wants to be the next Louis L'Amour. > He is challenged by a pair of European documentary film- > makers to write an "authentic" new western novel instead. > Robert meets an old drifter named Thomas Sligo who claims > to be a Gnostic god fallen to earth and in need of saving > himself. Robert does not take Sligo's claim seriously, though > he sees in Sligo the authentic character he needs for his novel. > He joins Sligo in drifting about the west and eventually invites > the filmmakers along. More characters join the god's caravan > and as they drift about a number of modern western themes > are explored, minor miracles are performed by the god, philo- > sophical issues are discussed, guns are bandied about, and > the atmosphere is at once comic, wistful, and mystsical. > > blb4 Peter Ganick > 'why: ...1 ...2 ...3 ...4' - 319pp - $19.57 isbn: 9529963238 > > poetry. four longpoems that surround the text 'why'. should > 'why' be followed by a question mark, a period, or a comma, > or all of theabove? originally the longpoems were composed > for separate occasions, but are now collected in this book > due to conjunctions in syntax, memory, and time when writ- > ten. a flow is established in each longpoem that carries the > reader forward through a postmodern reconstruction of the > wordlless word, 'why'. unanswerable... > > blb5 Scott MacLeod > 'Post Empire" p- 288pp - $19.64 isbn: available soon > book available now > > Post Empire is a meditation/incantation on the graspings > and whitherings of the tentacles of empire. MacLeod appro- > priates and recomposes computer virus code, internet > search results, film stills, EBay listings, stolen poetry, > newspaper reports, academic theses and much more to > create a marching band playing the death rattle in the > throat of Western civilization. Prose, poetry and visual art > follow a dusty trail leading from Alphaville through Ground > Zero though Abu Ghraib to - where? To appropriate & para- > phrase German artist Franz John's description of his own > work: [MacLeod's] interest is not in the [word]-chain itself > but rather in the tectonic forces and energies of a matrix > which is visibly and continually updating and renewing itself. > > <><><><><><><><><><><><> > > send hard copy manuscripts to: > Peter Ganick > 181 Edgemont Avenue > West Hartford CT 06110 USA > or in electronic format (Word DOC or RTF-files, > 250-550 pages in 5x8 inches page size to > pganick@comcast.net > > <><><><><><><><><><><><> ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:41:33 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ward Tietz Subject: Susan Stewart @ Georgetown U on January 31 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Susan Stewart--Poetry and the Feeling of a Thought Tuesday, January 31 Seminar: Poetry and the Feeling of a Thought, 5:30 PM, ICC 462 Reading: 8:00 PM, ICC Auditorium Widely acclaimed poet and critic Susan Stewart is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Forest and Columbarium, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003. Her many prose works include Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, winner of the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism from Phi Beta Kappa and the Truman Capote Prize in Literary Criticism. For further information about the series or this event, contact Ward Tietz, Director, Lannan Poetry and Seminar Series, at eet4@georgetown.edu. For more information about the Lannan Literary Programs at Georgetown visit: http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/english/Lannan/Index.html The ICC Auditorium and ICC room 462 are in the red brick building located near the Georgetown University main gate at 37th and O Streets in Washington, DC. All events are free and open to the public. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:44:47 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Austinwja@AOL.COM Subject: Blackbox addition MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Beautiful piece by K. S. Ernst has been added to the winter gallery. Best, Bill WilliamJamesAustin.com KojaPress.com Amazon.com BarnesandNobel.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:09:15 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Re: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY In-Reply-To: <004301c61ea0$3a9239a0$b01486d4@o2p8f8> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed touche LU! >From: Lawrence Upton >Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Re: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY >Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:40:37 -0000 > >You might add to your list of failures the fialure of those who assume >Stein's making of americans is a failure > >L > -----Original Message----- > From: Jennifer Karmin > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:29 AM > Subject: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY > > > The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, in > collaboration with freelance editor Colin Dickey, will > be producing a unique book project whose topic is the > aesthetics of failure. Below, please find this > projects call for submissions. > > Send all submission ideas to > contact@journalofaestheticsandprotest.com > or Colin Dickey at cdickey@nu.edu. > > (Note; Colin wrote an amazing article in issue #3, > "Metaphysics, Protest, and the Politics of Spectacular > Failure." > > http://www.joaap.org/new3/index.php?page=dickey) > > FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY > Proposals are invited for a volume on the topic of > failure, and its relationship to idealism and history, > to be published in conjunction with the Journal of > Aesthetics and Protest (http://www.joap.org). > > We're interested primarily in those historical and > aesthetic failures which are a result of a powerful, > if sometimes naïve, idealism, out of step with their > own contexts. Either a result of the exhaustion of a > moment and/or movement, pushed to its logical (or > illogical)conclusion (such as the Children's Crusades > of 1212, or the Weather Underground), or the result of > the utter misunderstanding of a historical moment > (novelist Yukio Mishima's attempt to re-ignite fascism > in post-war Japan). > > The question of re-visiting these various cultural, > historical, artistic moments is inevitably an > exploration of the relationship between an act and its > historical moment, and bringing that relationship into > the present. While a success may seem to be something > that determines the shape of history, failures on a > colossal and spectacular scale are often those things > that bring history, culture, and art most sharply into > relief. > > We're looking for essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, > visual explorations (e.g., photo-essays) or aesthetic > experiments that deal with the topic of failure and > its relationship to idealism and history. > > Possible topics include: failed utopias, failure and > tragedy, failed political movements (including > Marxism), specific literary or artistic works (such > as Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans), the > failure of the Iraq war protests, various arguments > on the failure of the avant-garde and/or modernism, > specific theorists relationship to failure > (e.g.,Deleuze and Guattari, Hakim Bey, Derrida), > technology and failure, the > history of failure, failure and architecture, > alternative psychology movements, failed public art > (e.g., Tilted Arc). > > Please send a 300 word abstract or description of the > project, as a Word attachment, to Colin Dickey, > cdickey@nu.edu, by February 15, 2006. > > Notification for selected work will be February > 28,2006, and completed works will be due no later > than June 1, 2006. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:04:58 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Hot Whiskey Press Subject: The Squalicum Harbor Suite by Anselm Parlatore. 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Creeley readings, there was one with Mercury Rev was fantastic but the last time I saw Bob read it was not so hot, it was a "going thru the motions" type thing for AWP, which did not surprise me. Seeing John Wieners read was heartbreaking, the condition he was in. Of those still around: Lucille Clifton, Gerrit Lansing, Todd Colby, Bill Luoma, Maj Ragain, Julie Otten, Terri Ford (w/ Uncle Glockenspiel, this one man band person she was touring with), John M. Bennett (especially when wearing his "word suit"), Tyrone Williams, Richard Blevins, Brian Richards, Ralph LaCharity, and Jack Gilbert. Especially Jack, he listens to the acoustics in a room and adjusts his tone & timber accordingly, uses silence in a way that few poets are able. Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus, OH 43206 http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:47:36 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit "There many kinds of men and women and I know it. They repeat it and I hear it and I love it. This is now a history of the way they do it. This is now a history of the way I love it. Now I will tell of the meaning to me in repeating, of the loving there is in me for repeating." - Gertrude Stein ------------------------------------------------------ ....as a stein-o-phile, i don't view "the making of americans" itself as a failure. but -- how about the trouble stein had getting the work published, read, and appreciated in her own time? a true failure of the american imagination. alas, i'm not connected to the following book project. only the messenger who emailed it along to see what others might come up with. onwards, jennifer karmin Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:09:15 -0600 From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Re: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY touche LU! >From: Lawrence Upton >Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Re: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY >Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:40:37 -0000 > >You might add to your list of failures the fialure of those who assume >Stein's making of americans is a failure > >L > -----Original Message----- > From: Jennifer Karmin > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Date: Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:29 AM > Subject: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY > > > The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, in > collaboration with freelance editor Colin Dickey, will > be producing a unique book project whose topic is the > aesthetics of failure. Below, please find this > projects call for submissions. > > Send all submission ideas to > contact@journalofaestheticsandprotest.com > or Colin Dickey at cdickey@nu.edu. > > (Note; Colin wrote an amazing article in issue #3, > "Metaphysics, Protest, and the Politics of Spectacular > Failure." > > http://www.joaap.org/new3/index.php?page=dickey) > > FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY > Proposals are invited for a volume on the topic of > failure, and its relationship to idealism and history, > to be published in conjunction with the Journal of > Aesthetics and Protest (http://www.joap.org). > > We're interested primarily in those historical and > aesthetic failures which are a result of a powerful, > if sometimes naïve, idealism, out of step with their > own contexts. Either a result of the exhaustion of a > moment and/or movement, pushed to its logical (or > illogical)conclusion (such as the Children's Crusades > of 1212, or the Weather Underground), or the result of > the utter misunderstanding of a historical moment > (novelist Yukio Mishima's attempt to re-ignite fascism > in post-war Japan). > > The question of re-visiting these various cultural, > historical, artistic moments is inevitably an > exploration of the relationship between an act and its > historical moment, and bringing that relationship into > the present. While a success may seem to be something > that determines the shape of history, failures on a > colossal and spectacular scale are often those things > that bring history, culture, and art most sharply into > relief. > > We're looking for essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, > visual explorations (e.g., photo-essays) or aesthetic > experiments that deal with the topic of failure and > its relationship to idealism and history. > > Possible topics include: failed utopias, failure and > tragedy, failed political movements (including > Marxism), specific literary or artistic works (such > as Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans), the > failure of the Iraq war protests, various arguments > on the failure of the avant-garde and/or modernism, > specific theorists relationship to failure > (e.g.,Deleuze and Guattari, Hakim Bey, Derrida), > technology and failure, the > history of failure, failure and architecture, > alternative psychology movements, failed public art > (e.g., Tilted Arc). > > Please send a 300 word abstract or description of the > project, as a Word attachment, to Colin Dickey, > cdickey@nu.edu, by February 15, 2006. > > Notification for selected work will be February > 28,2006, and completed works will be due no later > than June 1, 2006. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 00:01:16 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Jen bervin email In-Reply-To: <20060122053103.83285.qmail@web81710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit jen you out there? Backchannel'' Ray ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:16:31 -0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lawrence Upton Subject: Re: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable fair enough L -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Karmin To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Sunday, January 22, 2006 5:48 AM Subject: Book Project -- FAILURE: IDEALISM AND HISTORY alas, i'm not connected to the following book project. only the messenger who emailed it along to see what others might come up with. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:25:22 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lori Emerson Subject: bp Nichol audio archive| new @ PENNsound Comments: To: Poetics+ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; 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Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit L(0)X TEMPUS FUCKIT... DRN... ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:57:02 -0500 Reply-To: jofuhrman@excite.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joanna Fuhrman Subject: Re: experimentalists MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just noticed no one mentioned Jayne Cortez. She's amazing. She should also be on the list of the best readers though, strangely, I have only heard her read on CD with her band, never in person. (sigh) Is Wanda Coleman experimental? Kind of a vague term. She writes in various styles, the language in some of the poems does more than in others. But maybe. Joanna Fuhrman _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:22:14 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: ALDON L NIELSEN Subject: Re: experimentalists Comments: To: jofuhrman@excite.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Jayne Cortez did a wonderful reading for us at Penn State last semester -- While I have all of her recordings, I've never gotten to see her live with the band -- positive reports from her band performance at Southern Illinois a few months back -- think they might have been at Minnesota too, is that right Maria? You can see her on film in the much recirculated POETRY IN MOTION video -- anybody know of other Jayn Cortez video -- I have a video of her lecture at the Yari Yari conference -- On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:57:02 +0000, Joanna Fuhrman wrote: > > Just noticed no one mentioned Jayne Cortez. > She's amazing. She should also be on the list of the best readers though, strangely, I have > only heard her read on CD with her band, never in person. (sigh) Is Wanda > Coleman experimental? Kind of a vague term. She writes in various styles, > the language in some of the poems does more than in others. But maybe. > > Joanna Fuhrman > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Breaking in bright Orthography . . ." --Emily Dickinson Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature The Pennsylvania State University 116 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:41:41 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lisa Jarnot Subject: contact info joseph simas? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hello List People, I'm trying to get in touch with Joseph Simas. Does anyone have contact info? Thanks much, Lisa Jarnot ljarnot@gmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:47:16 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: experimentalists In-Reply-To: <20060122155702.7280B1BCB0@xprdmailfe23.nwk.excite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When Edgard Varese, the composer, was asked once about being an experimental composer, he responded, "When I'm done composing a piece, the experiment is over." Hal, rough quoting On Jan 22, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Joanna Fuhrman wrote: > > Just noticed no one mentioned Jayne Cortez. > She's amazing. She should also be on the list of the best readers > though, strangely, I have > only heard her read on CD with her band, never in person. (sigh) Is > Wanda > Coleman experimental? Kind of a vague term. She writes in various > styles, > the language in some of the poems does more than in others. But maybe. > > Joanna Fuhrman > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! "I can see that you are the kind of young man who is accustomed to winning arguments." --Gertrude Stein to Mortimer Adler Halvard Johnson ================ halvard@earthlink.net halvard@gmail.com http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:46:10 -0500 Reply-To: derek@calamaripress.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Derek White Subject: Sleepingfish : Call for submissions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Submissions are now being considered for the next iteration of Sleepingfish... http://sleepingfish.net/submit.htm bring it on! Derek White www.5cense.com www.sleepingfish.net www.calamaripress.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:42:09 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: charles alexander Subject: Re: bp Nichol audio archive| new @ PENNsound In-Reply-To: <1eba3dda0601220625u3f05c919od9f4ae8c39179a33@mail.gmail.co m> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hurray! I know many of us are really interested in this. thanks so much! Charles At 07:25 AM 1/22/2006, you wrote: >I am delighted to announce the release of the extensive audio archive for= =20 >Canadian poet bpNichol, now available at PENNsound.=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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D bp Nichol Audio Archive,= ed.=20 >Lori Emerson http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Nichol.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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Intended to be an= invaluable=20 >resource for teachers, researchers, and writers, the new site includes=20 >complete bibliographic information and downloadable recordings of bpNichol= =20 >from the following: +the 7 1=E2=81=844 floppy record borders included in= the box=20 >bp, published in February 1967 by Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario).=20 >+the first side of the phonodisc Motherlove, published in 1968 by Allied=20 >Record Corporation (Toronto, Ontario). The second side of the phonodisc=20 >will be available on the forthcoming 2-CD collection The Collected Sound=20 >Poems of bpNichol, to be published by Talonbooks=20 >(http://www.talonbooks.com/). +the entirety of the rare 60-minute cassette= =20 >bp Nichol, published in 1971 by High Barnet Company (Toronto, Ontario).=20 >+the entirety of the split 7" single Appendix, published in 1978 by Black= =20 >Moss Press (BM 101) (Windsor, Ontario); this was issued as part of Sean=20 >O'Huigin's POE TREE: A Simple Introduction to Experimental Poetry.=20 >Recording by R. Hindley-Smith and Starborne Productions. +the 60-minute=20 >cassette Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980, published in 1982 by=20 >Membrane Press New Fire Tapes (Milwaukee). Making brief appearances are=20 >the voices of Michael Dean, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, David Penhale,=20 >Steven Smith (now Steven Ross Smith), and Richard Truhlar. +live solo=20 >performances by bpNichol from 1978, 1980, and 1986. This material comes=20 >from the archives of The Four Horsemen, courtesy Paul Dutton.=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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D bp Nichol Audio Archive,= ed.=20 >Lori Emerson http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Nichol.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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D About PennSound=20 >http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/ Charles Bernstein & Al Filreis,=20 >Directors Chris Mustazza, Managing Director Kenneth Goldsmith, Senior=20 >Editor Loss Peque=C3=B1o Glazier, Joel Kuszai, & Martin Spinelli,= Contributing=20 >Editors John MacDermott, Technical Advisor Kun Jia, Julie Sheetz & Mollie= =20 >Braverman, Student Technical Support Staff PennSound is an ongoing=20 >project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving=20 >existing audio archives. We intend to provide as much documentation about= =20 >individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be=20 >added over time (please contact us if you can supplement the information=20 >already provided). As part of the PennSound project, the Schoenberg Center= =20 >for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) in collaboration with the Annenberg=20 >Rare Book and Manuscript Collection at the University of Pennsylvania is=20 >developing a sophisticated cataloguing tool for all our sound files; this= =20 >should be available in about one year.=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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Please do=20 >forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested.=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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D charles alexander / chax press fold the book inside the book keep it open always read from the inside out speak then=20 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:16:20 -0000 Reply-To: wild honey press Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: wild honey press Subject: Re: bp Nichol audio archive| new @ PENNsound MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm with Charles on this. What fantastic news. many thanks Randolph ----- Original Message ----- From: "charles alexander" To: Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 6:42 PM Subject: Re: bp Nichol audio archive| new @ PENNsound > hurray! I know many of us are really interested in this. > > thanks so much! > > Charles > > At 07:25 AM 1/22/2006, you wrote: >>I am delighted to announce the release of the extensive audio archive for >>Canadian poet bpNichol, now available at PENNsound. >>========================================== bp Nichol Audio Archive, ed. >>Lori Emerson http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Nichol.html >>========================================== Intended to be an invaluable ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:12:17 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Charles Reznikoff Collect/NYT Review Comments: cc: "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics"@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, Allen Bramhall , Alli Warren , Barrett Watten , Ben Friedlander , Carla Harryman , catherine meng , charles alexander , Charles Amarkhanian , chris murray , Chris Sullivan , Christine Murray , Chukwuma Azuonye , D G & C V Kennedy , Dana Ward , David Abel , David Hess , Del Ray Cross , Douglas Barbour , Eileen Tabios , eleni Stecopoulos , Ellen Zweig , Felix Okeke-Ezigbo , Francis Raven , George Albon , George Evans , Gloria Frym , "Hank A. Lazer" , Hilton Obenzinger , "J. Vengua" , Jerry Martien , Joannekyger@earthlink.net, John Norton , Joseph Lease , "K. Silem Mohammad" , kari edwards , Kit Robinson , Koichiro Yamauchi , Larry Felson , Lyn Hejinian , Mac McGinnes , Magdalena Zurawski , Mark Weiss , Michael Rothenberg , Norma Cole , Patrick Herron , Phil Crippen , Robert Gl=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=ck , Ron Silliman , Saneeetee3@aol.com, shanna compton , Sheila Murphy , Stephanie Young , Summer Brenner , Susan Schultz , Susan Stone , suzanne , Tanya Brolaski , Terry Winch , Tom Raworth , Trevor Joyce , David Highsmith Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Congratulations to Joshua Clover for today's Sunday NYT Book Review of Reznikoff's Collected (Black Sparrow). So refreshing to get a poet whose work has real weight, and enduring significance. (I do wish the paper would have put up a window on a Reznikoff poem as an example of the work). I do not know what shapes choices for poetry reviews at the NYT - I hope they can keep opening it up to other significant work. Reading the Book Review - decade by decade - I suspect among many of us this is a reoccurring prayer, to which, "Lot's of luck" is the common, jaded response. In the meantime thanks to Clover for making, at least, a momentary wedge! Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:19:30 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Richard Long at SFMOMA Comments: cc: UK POETRY , "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics"@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Yesterday I went to hear Richard Long (walker, sculptor & photographer) give a lecture and (extensive) slide show of his work, as well as to see th= e installation of his recent site specific Sierra mountain walk, including photographs, text and mudwall hand paintings at San Francisco's MOMA. Such lovely work, but a troubling human presence. Long is more of what I would call a "geomancer" than one interested in human relations within and about the variously global habitats of his long walk and camping visitations. (Most often there are no people visible at all). The actual work - photographs and texts, however, possess an extraordinary sense of precision= , spatial relations and time. Indeed the work, as he admits, a form of earth science, one with roots in ancient origins and practice - whether for religious or other cosmological purposes of study. During the period of questions at the end of the talk, I threw him what was probably a "ringer": =B3What kind of reading informs your work?=B2 He looked puzzled, so I asked, in the long tradition of English walkers and writers, =B3Like do your read Wordsworth?=B2 I had no doubt that that would pus= h a button! He reacted with the contempt that many mininamlist sculptors no doubt reserve for romantics. "No, I don't read Wordsworth." And then made mention that he was reading a popular detective writer. In the context of his recent 20 day walk in the Sierra along the Pacific Crest Trail, there was no indication he had read John Muir, Rexroth, Snyde= r or Whalen=B9s work in those same mountains - which is, I suspect, must remain= , at least a personal loss, though I do not how the reading of those writers might have shaped this recent work at all. (Well, if he actually read a history of the Donner Party - in reference to a slide of a circle of stones he built there - he would not have said the Party was merely "stranded there." It was not like those in the Party who either died or barely survived had just missed a bus!) When I did not budge from my question, or looked at him as if he were not being fully truthful, he allowed that had recently read a book on gravity and Newton. Which was right on his mark, his work. Long, I would saym is kind of scientist of =B3the sublime,=B2 though I am sure he does not frequently use tha= t =B3word=B2 in his vocabulary. But much of the work is =AD framed by classical formal elements (circle, line, time units) - in its precision and severity - incredibly beautiful, indeed. Sublime. (If I can be critically comparative, Long=B9s work definitely sub-rates the crowd pleasing, Hallmark card aspects- and no where near the intelligence - of much of the work of Andy Goldsworthy).=20 But it intrigues me how many artists =AD in this case those in a minimalist tradition (Carl Andre, Judd, DeMaria, etc.) tend to avoid the literature about the spaces that their work inhabits. Not always. Smithson, for example, seems very conversant with the literature and history of, say, wha= t occurred about the site of Spiral Jetty (intentionally siting it near the golden spike that connected the first transcontinental railroad.) Unfortunately I did not get to ask Richard Long if he even reads Thomas A. Clark - the Scottish poet who also examines remote landscapes in an also rigorous fashion - though, different from Long, Clark is much more interested in the human implication of what he discovers on his walks. Long= , by the way, is quite insistent that his text pieces not be confused with poems. The words he considers as "objects", not different than individual stones or other natural items, and shape in which the are printed on the paper correspond to shape of the walk or some aspect of the terrain. The elegant portrayal of evidence - the printed works. In fariness, I guess we can also count multiples the number of writers who have no literacy around the visual! It's probably the sad irony of so many art programs in the way they exclude literature study from their requirements, and, reciprocally, the way creative writing programs remain blind to visual literature, let alone the history of music, avant garde innovation, etc. Whatever writers, artists or composers discover beyond the frames of their discipline, I suspect is left to do it on their own. I suspect, or imagine the multi-disciplinary character of computer technology is rapidly altering the situation (tho I personally do not know if the 'pedagogy' is keeping up with these changes at all. ) Oh well, similar to scientists and surgeons, there is nothing to expect in Long's work to suspect him to be an expert in human or social relations =AD (spatial relations, yes) He likes being out there long, and often alone. Yet, one must applaud the counter-imperial, non-monumental, ephemeral character of the work - Long clearly means no natural harm - and only bring= s home primarily the visual record and analysis of what he has temporarily built, discovered and witnessed with camera and journal. No small achievement. Paradoxically - for the space of an exhibit, or in th= e presence of many of his books - the evidence is touchingly, not only beautiful, but large and instructive. Stephen Vincent http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ New blog site / same archives! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:04:33 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: One word. 60 seconds to write about it. Comments: To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed http://oneword.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:31:03 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Kelleher Subject: OlsonNow Update Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed JONATHAN SKINNER/CHARLES OLSON AND THE QUESTION OF BOUNDARIES: THE "POET SCHOLAR" http://olsonnow.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:59:04 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mairead Byrne Subject: Re: Charles Reznikoff Collect/NYT Review Comments: To: steph484@PACBELL.NET Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hear Hear!!! Three cheers for Joshua Clover, David Godine, Seamus Cooney, = Black Sparrow, John Martin, & the incomparable Charles Reznikoff. I hope = today's review brings sales & attention to a great poet. Mairead >>> steph484@PACBELL.NET 01/22/06 3:12 PM >>> Congratulations to Joshua Clover for today's Sunday NYT Book Review of Reznikoff's Collected (Black Sparrow). So refreshing to get a poet whose work has real weight, and enduring significance. (I do wish the paper = would have put up a window on a Reznikoff poem as an example of the work). I do not know what shapes choices for poetry reviews at the NYT - I hope they can keep opening it up to other significant work. Reading the Book Review - decade by decade - I suspect among many of us this is a reoccurrin= g prayer, to which, "Lot's of luck" is the common, jaded response. In the meantime thanks to Clover for making, at least, a momentary wedge! Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:31:12 -0800 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Silliman's Blog Comments: To: Brit Po , New Po , Wom Po , Lucifer Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Prose poetry by women: Boxing inside the Box by Holly Iglesias in re Reznikoff Epigrams and aphorisms – the compact poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton George Stanley and the value of quietness Borderless Bodies by Linh Dinh Another poet who died young - Joan Murray Poets who died young – Samuel Greenberg, 1894-1917 52 neglected poets (at least in the eyes of Dan and Jessica Schneider) The First Hay(na)ku Anthology – A stanza, not a poem Cinema as painting – 2046 by Kar Wai Wong Metro by Curtis Faville Starred Wire by Ange Mlinko: Writing, the New York School and why aesthetic consistency is not voice Ken Rumble on Lucifer Poetics – Writing & community in North Carolina http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:44:55 -0800 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Subject: Re: bp Nichol In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I just don't understand either of these pieces about Nichol. Could someone help? Maybe a Canadian? 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<20060123054455.38161.qmail@web81708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Read it out loud. Don't stop until you reach the last letter. If you make a mistake start over. On Jan 22, 2006, at 11:44 PM, David Baratier wrote: > I just don't understand either of these pieces about Nichol. Could > someone help? 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But I've moved over to Wordpress (from Movabletype), much better! http://www.arras.net/fscIII/ Drop by, leave a comment or something, let me know if it works... Peace out, Brian ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:57:52 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Roger Day Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline the only visual artist i know is beverley carpenter http://www.freewebs.com/cambourneartist/. she maintains a commitment to text, having studied under George Szirtes at one stage, although she usually brings in somebody else to do the text - see http://www.beverleycarpenter.co.uk/htdocs/asylum.htm. She's well, brilliant is just one of the words that springs to mind. i recall having a heated conversation btn myself and her boyfriend (another visual artist, Rob Long) about a display in the Fitzwilliam of Lucien Freuds etchings. I got fixated on the labels Freud had given his etchings. Freud did a series of etchings direct to copper plate, quite impressive technically speaking, except that he'd decided to give them labels (apparently, according to freud, art gallery curators usually screw this bit up). The choice of text seemed to me to indicate real problems with his work, apart from the overall machismo of his technique. For example, one portrait was entitled "head of an irishman" (this one was particularly problematic), he didn't label the "famous" characters (I recognised a couple of these "famous" people, but I suspect not many below the age of 40 would do), and one "a woman" could have done without it as the portrait had a pleasing androgynous quality. So, I says to Rob, "don't you have a problem with the labels?" "What labels..." in some respect, i wonder if both parties are blind to the others concerns because that's the way they are... poets and writers tend to see the world wholly through text (and memory to a large extent) whereas artists see the world through images, the here and now (the latter makes O'Hara very interesting). As poets, I think we maintain a touching faith in the world of text and I think we're particularly disturbed when we meet people who don't share it. I used to measure people in terms of their book collections, towns in how many bookshops they had. I got ahead because I read books, wrote essays. I remember watching Beverley tear a book up. This act seemed to me to be rebarbative and shocking, and the act continues to echo through my work and practice. It was one of the factors that made me look at the tidy nest of books I had hauled with me through my life, echoing my fixations (http://www.badstep.net/image/collage/shelford/death-of-soldiers.= jpg, which is a collage of some of the books that i owned) and aspirations (all those computer books), and deciding that I should be a little less attached to them and how I viewed the world through them ... Our practices met through collage (http://www.badstep.net/image/collage/shelford/shelford.jpg). She was worried, I think, when I dabbled in film (http://www.badstep.net/image/moving/index.html) then, horror of horrors, I started into representational art (http://www.badstep.net/image/representational/long-road-autumn-2005/index.= html). For me, drawing represents a visceral sense of the here and and now, a thinking directly in the now, with the body. Poetry seems to be more about thought, memory, recovery, contemplation and semantics of text. My sense so far is that poetry and art don't meet easily. See http://sherbooke.livejournal.com/2006/01/21/ for example. (apologies that this has turned into an advert for my amateur scratchings). Ummm. A friend of mine in Cambridge, a poet, is a watercolourist. I'll have to think on this. The thoughts aren't fully formed yet. Actually, Richard Long reminds me of Lottie Glob, a danish sculptor who settled in Durness in Scotland (http://www.durness.org/Balnakeil%20Craft%20Village.htm). She goes off for days or weeks into the mountains with nothing but some food and a plastic bag, and deposits her sculptures in the mountains. None of her work strikes me as being particularly literate. I don't know her practise, but i'm willing to wager that she doesnt grok "the word" either in such a big way. I almost met her, but she was out in the hills somewhere... Alison's comment about inter-disciplinary curiousity is interesting. It's not that this has just happened. People - particularly visual artists, have rubbed along without recourse to other disciplines quite happily for a long time now as far as I can see. There's a whole history of it. Read any biog of the major artists, look at photographs of them in their studios, their homes. I think you'll search a long time before you find evidence of books in those photos. Even more so, evidence of the kind that Stephen seems to long for. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, i just think it's rare. The book isn't the only means of carrying knowledge in the world. In fact, for Richard Long, it might be a drag on his work, it might "poison" or "pollute" the way he looks at the world. I'm not saying this is so, I'm just postulating the counter theory that reliance on text isn't always good. Recourse to a literate history might be counter-productive or "evil" putting it in more fashionable terms. ahh, work calls... Roger On 1/22/06, Stephen Vincent wrote: > Yesterday I went to hear Richard Long (walker, sculptor & photographer) > give a lecture and (extensive) slide show of his work, as well as to see = the > installation of his recent site specific Sierra mountain walk, including > photographs, text and mudwall hand paintings at San Francisco's MOMA. Suc= h > lovely work, but a troubling human presence. Long is more of what I would > call a "geomancer" than one interested in human relations within and abou= t > the variously global habitats of his long walk and camping visitations. > (Most often there are no people visible at all). The actual work - > photographs and texts, however, possess an extraordinary sense of precisi= on, > spatial relations and time. Indeed the work, as he admits, a form of eart= h > science, one with roots in ancient origins and practice - whether for > religious or other cosmological purposes of study. > During the period of questions at the end of the talk, I threw him what w= as > probably a "ringer": =B3What kind of reading informs your work?=B2 > He looked puzzled, so I asked, in the long tradition of English walkers a= nd > writers, =B3Like do your read Wordsworth?=B2 I had no doubt that that wou= ld push > a button! > He reacted with the contempt that many mininamlist sculptors no doubt > reserve for romantics. > "No, I don't read Wordsworth." And then made mention that he was reading= a > popular detective writer. > In the context of his recent 20 day walk in the Sierra along the Pacific > Crest Trail, there was no indication he had read John Muir, Rexroth, Sny= der > or Whalen=B9s work in those same mountains - which is, I suspect, must re= main, > at least a personal loss, though I do not how the reading of those write= rs > might have shaped this recent work at all. (Well, if he actually read a > history of the Donner Party - in reference to a slide of a circle of ston= es > he built there - he would not have said the Party was merely "stranded > there." It was not like those in the Party who either died or barely > survived had just missed a bus!) > > When I did not budge from my question, or looked at him as if he were not > being fully truthful, he allowed that had recently read a book on gravity > and Newton. > > Which was right on his mark, his work. Long, I would saym is kind of > scientist of =B3the sublime,=B2 though I am sure he does not frequently u= se that > =B3word=B2 in his vocabulary. But much of the work is =AD framed by class= ical > formal elements (circle, line, time units) - in its precision and severi= ty > - incredibly beautiful, indeed. Sublime. (If I can be critically > comparative, Long=B9s work definitely sub-rates the crowd pleasing, Hallm= ark > card aspects- and no where near the intelligence - of much of the work of > Andy Goldsworthy). > > But it intrigues me how many artists =AD in this case those in a minimali= st > tradition (Carl Andre, Judd, DeMaria, etc.) tend to avoid the literature > about the spaces that their work inhabits. Not always. Smithson, for > example, seems very conversant with the literature and history of, say, w= hat > occurred about the site of Spiral Jetty (intentionally siting it near the > golden spike that connected the first transcontinental railroad.) > > Unfortunately I did not get to ask Richard Long if he even reads Thomas = A. > Clark - the Scottish poet who also examines remote landscapes in an also > rigorous fashion - though, different from Long, Clark is much more > interested in the human implication of what he discovers on his walks. Lo= ng, > by the way, is quite insistent that his text pieces not be confused with > poems. The words he considers as "objects", not different than individual > stones or other natural items, and shape in which the are printed on the > paper correspond to shape of the walk or some aspect of the terrain. The > elegant portrayal of evidence - the printed works. > > In fariness, I guess we can also count multiples the number of writers wh= o > have no literacy around the visual! It's probably the sad irony of so man= y > art programs in the way they exclude literature study from their > requirements, and, reciprocally, the way creative writing programs remain > blind to visual literature, let alone the history of music, avant garde > innovation, etc. Whatever writers, artists or composers discover beyond t= he > frames of their discipline, I suspect is left to do it on their own. I > suspect, or imagine the multi-disciplinary character of computer technolo= gy > is rapidly altering the situation (tho I personally do not know if the > 'pedagogy' is keeping up with these changes at all. ) > > Oh well, similar to scientists and surgeons, there is nothing to expect i= n > Long's work to suspect him to be an expert in human or social relations = =AD > (spatial relations, yes) He likes being out there long, and often alone. > Yet, one must applaud the counter-imperial, non-monumental, ephemeral > character of the work - Long clearly means no natural harm - and only bri= ngs > home primarily the visual record and analysis of what he has temporarily > built, discovered and witnessed with camera and journal. > No small achievement. Paradoxically - for the space of an exhibit, or in = the > presence of many of his books - the evidence is touchingly, not only > beautiful, but large and instructive. > > Stephen Vincent > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > New blog site / same archives! > -- http://www.badstep.net/ http://www.cb1poetry.org.uk/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:26:29 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Valentine's Day at Smith College Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Jerome Rothenberg and I will be reading at Smith College on Tuesday, February 14, 7:30pm, at Stoddard Hall Auditorium, as part of the Granary Books show at the Museum. In December, the Smith College Museum of Art has launched a web site to coincide with the exhibition "Too Much Bliss: Twenty Years of Granary Books," on view until February 19. The web site features essays about a number of Granary books as well as a new digital format that allows viewers to turn virtual pages of the reproduced books. And beyond the remarkable virtual display, there a number of great books presented -- including Jerry's fantastic collaboration with Susan Bee, The Burning Babe -- http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/exhibitions/granarybooks My collaboration with Mimi Gross, Some of These Daze, is included in the show. I recently wrote a statement about this collaboration (for the web site) and have now posted it at http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/ Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:55:04 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: hsn Subject: Re: Favorite Poetry Readings: RSVP In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060115120142.045ce9f0@writing.upenn.edu> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit can't remember which day but within the last few months, Stacy Szymascek read in Philadelphia (@ F Sherlock's Night Flag series) with Kevin Varrone. it was a really special night. both readers read keen, *solid* work, and each read with direct & sincere connection - no pretense, no glaring ego need, fully engaging, etc...wish i could remember a line or two at the moment... hassen On 1/15/06 12:31 PM, "Charles Bernstein" wrote: > Thinking of poetry as performance, but not necessarily separating the > poem from its performance, I would appreciate it if Poetics > subscribers (*lurkers alert!*) would provide a list of the poetry > readings that you most valued over the past few years. If possible > (though hardly necessary!), please provide a description of the > style of performance or performances and also discuss what you > particularly valued about the reading or readings. > > Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:11:12 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Roger Day Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline apologies, this went to the wrong list. Roger. On 1/23/06, Roger Day wrote: > the only visual artist i know is beverley carpenter > http://www.freewebs.com/cambourneartist/. she maintains a commitment > to text, having studied under George Szirtes at one stage, although > she usually brings in somebody else to do the text - see > http://www.beverleycarpenter.co.uk/htdocs/asylum.htm. She's well, > brilliant is just one of the words that springs to mind. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:20:29 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Waber Subject: 12 by Nico Vassilakis MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The minimalist concrete poetry site at: http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ has been updated with 12 pieces by Nico Vassilakis. The phrase "the silence between words" gets bandied about so often and in so many contexts that I wonder if any of you has ever stopped to consider what the silence between words looks like. And what of the silence between letters? Nico Vassilakis can show you both. Enjoy, Dan ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:34:47 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Maria Damon Subject: Re: Valentine's Day at Smith College In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060122191728.028e48d8@writing.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" this subject line is too funny. i used to deliver pizzas to smith college after i graduated from hampshire, for a little joint called pizza express. the girls come to the door in their lantz nightgowns and snatch the pizza from me, not tip me, and then call pizza express and say next time send a guy. At 7:26 PM -0500 1/22/06, Charles Bernstein wrote: >Jerome Rothenberg and I will be reading at Smith College on Tuesday, >February 14, 7:30pm, at Stoddard Hall Auditorium, as part of the >Granary Books show at the Museum. >In December, the Smith College Museum of Art has launched a web site >to coincide with the exhibition "Too Much Bliss: Twenty Years of >Granary Books," on view until February 19. The web site features >essays about a number of Granary books as well as a new digital >format that allows viewers to turn virtual pages of the reproduced >books. And beyond the remarkable virtual display, there a number of >great books presented -- including Jerry's fantastic collaboration >with Susan Bee, The Burning Babe -- >http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/exhibitions/granarybooks > >My collaboration with Mimi Gross, Some of These Daze, is included in >the show. I recently wrote a statement about this collaboration (for >the web site) and have now posted it at >http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/ > >Charles Bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:34:52 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Kelleher Subject: JUST BUFFALO E-NEWSLETTER 1-23-06 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ORBITAL SERIES BEGINS SATURDAY AS FEATURED ON 'SPOKEN ARTS RADIO' ON WBFO AND IN ARTVOICE... COMMUNIQUE: FLASH FICTION, hosted by Forrest Roth Kim Chinquee and Ed Taylor Saturday, January 28, 7 P.M. Big Orbit Gallery, 30d Essex Street, Buffalo Visit http://www.bigorbitgallery.org/bigorbit/alloftheminformation.html for= directions. 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UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will b= e immediately removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:07:25 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: George Bowering Subject: Re: bp Nichol In-Reply-To: <34BAFEFA-40E2-4C9C-9303-9B77EBB25E3E@mwt.net> MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit You just have to make sure you know whether these are sound pieces or concrete pieces. On 22-Jan-06, at 9:59 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote: > Read it out loud. Don't stop until you reach the last letter. If you > make a mistake start over. > > > On Jan 22, 2006, at 11:44 PM, David Baratier wrote: > >> I just don't understand either of these pieces about Nichol. Could >> someone help? 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Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Cara Hoffman to Read at Bluestockings (NYC) February 4, 7pm Bluestockings Books 172 Allen Street New York On Saturday, February 4 at 7pm, independent journalist, prisoner =20 advocate Cara Hoffman will read from her second book of fiction, The =20 Wedding (Factory School, 2006) at Bluestockings in New York City. Hoffman has been awarded a New York State Foundation for the Arts =20 Fellowship and a New York State Council on the Arts Fellowship for =20 her work. Praise for The Wedding: "In one of Schoenberg=92s compositions is the very evocative line =93I =20= feel the wind from other planets.=94 Cara Hoffman=92s beautifully = crafted =20 stories bring that back to me. Tales of absence and possibility and =20 other realms, rendered in unique voices. Haunting and excellent." =97 =20= John Zerzan, author of Elements of Refusal To read a story from The Wedding, please visit http://=20 factoryschool.org/pubs/hoffman/childhood.pdf For more information about Bluestockings, please visit http://=20 bluestockings.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:02:07 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tom Beckett Subject: new at e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-lu-e-s MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Check out my interview with Mark Young at http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:08:31 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: PUB: call for papers -- chicana and chicano literature MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >>PUB: call for papers -- chicana and chicano literature ================================================= MLA 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS THREE SESSIONS SPONSORED BY CHICANA AND CHICANO LITERATURE DIVISION Deadline for proposals: March 1, 2006 Proposals must include 2-3 page CV and 500 word abstract or 8-page paper. Submit proposals to: Theresa Delgadillo (delgadillo.1@nd.edu). 1. Visual Culture and Chicano/a Literature Working from a broadest view of visual culture as encompassing objects, images, seeing and new media we welcome papers that analyze the influence or significance of visual on literary or vice versa and/or the convergence of visual and literary in new (graphic novel) or old (illustrated, serialized novels, film adaptations) forms. 2. Spirituality in Chicano/a Literature Papers that examine the significance of spirituality or the sacred, including spiritual figures (such as mystics, healers, saints, shamans), traditions (curanderismo, speaking-in-tongues, quest, pilgrimage) or religions (Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Indigenous cosmologies) in Chicano/a fiction, poetry, essay, drama, performance or new media welcome. 3. Chicano/a Literary and Cultural Studies in the Americas Submit proposals that examine literary and cultural exchange in the hemisphere, particularly intersections and convergences between Chicano/a and African-American, Native-American, Asian-American or other Latino/a literary and cultural texts, between Chicano/a and Latin American literary and cultural texts, or between Chicano/a, Indigenous and diasporic African or Asian texts and traditions throughout the Americas. What do we learn about the Americas or about race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality through these comparative analyses? Is it really, true, as the musical group War sings that “for me and for you, the world is a ghetto?” or do these distinct texts and traditions create new spaces? Speak from sites of privilege? Remap the continent? Create new literary traditions? ========================================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP@english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://cfp.english.upenn.edu or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj@english.upenn.edu ___ Stay Strong "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte \ http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/lbraithwaite-01.html \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:55:39 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Review: Picturing Disaster: The 1906 Earthquake - Exhibit, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Comments: cc: "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics"@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, POETRYETC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, UK POETRY Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Picturing Disaster: The 1906 Earthquake - Exhibit, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art This is a haunting show! Put together by Corey Keller, the Museum's assistant curator, the photographs - some amateur, some commercial, some for insurance companies - envelop, or are enveloped in smoke and ruin of magical, clearly tragic proportions. At a hundred years remove from the present, it is is a show that - superficially - will draw in crowds of people, as was true Saturday. In reality, the likelihood of another devastating earthquake is as ever present, and certainly a looming threat that no doubt penetrates and sits in the psychic well of any resident in this part of California. As art - one without the ego of the artist present - just the wonderful orchestration, practically rhapsodic hand of the curator, deftly locating and positioning the photographs - the aesthetic experience of being within the parameters of this show is akin to walking around within an elaborate mausoleum - one in which one witnesses the borders between the dead and the living, including the initial fiery transformation of one element (wood) into another (smoke) - incredible, various shades of black, gray and white billowing plumes of it rising from the insides and outsides of both small and major buildings. The living, the refugees are in tents, in various states of awe and shock, looking down across the town or setting up temporary coffee shops and construction sites on cracked, divided and buckled streets that lie between the ghostly, skeletal building facades and flattened foundations of burnt out ruins. Indeed, walking through the three distinct spaces within the gallery, is as if a visit to a tomb whose history and ghosts are still very much alive below the City's psychic and collective surface. Geologically, with one monstrous shake, what the photographs provide is evidence of what undoubtedly fated to happen once again! It's a timely show. Not only the anniversary of '06, but in parallel with the aftermath of Katrina, and life in the middle of a Presidential Administration, one whose moves seem implicitly and often explicitly apocalyptic: as if fundamentally possessed with a vision of smoke and ruins in which 'good' American souls will arise. etc. It's a keynote show that speaks to our collective edges. In context of the museum's parallel Richard Long exhibit, it is also interesting in the ways in which this show juxtaposes with the geometric shapes and classical confidence of Long's walks, sculptures and photographs - a work that, ironically, beautifully thrives the more for its reliance on working with stones and other elements in the landscape, ones overtime that are constantly at the mercy of geological eruption, including, no doubt, major earthquakes. Stephen Vincent http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:41:59 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "David A. Kirschenbaum" Subject: New Printed Matter and Poetry Editors, and Upcoming Events Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, some staff changes and upcoming events here at boog city. our printed matter editor jean-paul pecqueur is moving on to focus on his own writing. also, our poetry editor dana ward will be leaving us after the march issue to concentrate on his own small press, cy press (www.cypresspoetry.com), back home in cincinnati. dana's been getting us swell poems from across the nation to run in these here pages since decembe= r 2004. plus, he and j.p. were the only people on the staff i could talk baseball with. and now, a hearty welcome to our new printed matter editor mark lamoureux (www.marklamoureux.com), taking over with the february issue. as many of yo= u know, mark is a poet, critic, and translator who lives in astoria, ny. his work has appeared in numerous publications, in print and online. he is an associate editor for fulcrum annual. he is the author of three chapbooks: city/temple (ugly duckling presse, 2003), 29 cheeseburgers (pressed wafer, 2004), and film poems (katalanch=E9 press, 2005). and welcome aboard to our new poetry editors, laura elrick and rodrigo toscano, who many of you are also familiar with. laura's book fantasies in permeable structures came out last year from factory school as part of the heretical texts series. she is also the autho= r of sKincerity (krupskaya, 2003) and is one of the featured writers on women In the avant garde, an audio cd produced by narrow house recordings in 2004= . rodrigo was a 2005 fellow in poetry from the new york foundation for the arts. he is the author of to leveling swerve (krupskaya, 2004), platform (atelos, 2003), the disparities (green integer, 2002), and partisans (o books, 1999). oh yes, and laura and rodrigo are mets fans. and our next two events: Boog City Classic Albums Live presents Pretty in Pink at 20 20 Years to the Day of the Film=B9s Release See the Movie then Hear the Album Live Tues. Feb. 28, 6:45 p.m., $10 Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (and 1st Street), NYC The soundtrack will be performed live by The Baby Skins, Dibson Hoffweiler, Bob Kerr, Matt Lydon, and Prewar Yardsal= e ***** Boog City presents =20 d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press =20 Skanky Possum (Austin, Texas) Tues. March 14, 6 p.m., free ACA Galleries 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr., NYC Event will be hosted by Skanky Possum editors Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith Featuring readings from Basil King Kristen Prevallet and more poets and musicians best, david ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:58:50 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA Comments: To: "Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and"@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, poetics Comments: cc: UK POETRY In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.1.20060123102746.04d77eb8@earthlink.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Often - as it seemed with Richard Long 'in performance - the politics of rich and/or poor painters (or artists) is to ignore poets, poetry, and 'us'. I suspect - though I could be wrong - "they" - those kinds of artists - do not die from the lack of it (poetry). In the way that many of us - or our poetry - would die from the lack of looking to painting and photography and hearing music: the way each medium feeds and variously helps frame the work. And, yet, looking around there are examples of cross-fertilization of mediums and collaborations everywhere (in the USA, Granary books, Kelsey Street Press, poets theaters, Brian Steffans' projects, to name a brief few). The limits of much educational curricula and cruel economics sully the potential for intermarriage of the media. And yet, what young person, particularly, cannot be vulnerable to all art mediums, incorporating them via computer technologies - where "Adobe" ought to be a verb("Adobe it"). (Let alone all the other kinds of knowledge - if pursued - that impact a work). Yet - whether or not one intermarries one's form with another, or just absorbs and improvises the shape of one's own work from the experience of another media - it's also nice to just return to the unabridged quiet around the word and claim it as poetry - singular in and of itself. Equally, as one might accept other kinds of artists - rich or poor - who are delightfully challenged and happy staying inside the history and making of their own chosen medium. Sometimes - I accept - that might just be the way it is, poets included. Stephen Vincent > And Max Jacob reading at parties of artists and writers. > > Poets tend to be driven by visual images at least as much as by text, > except in the limited case of langpo and its cousins. > > But I think what truth there is to the observation has to do with > younger generations of visual and literary artists, often trained in > programs that separate them from each other, and products, in the US, > at least, of a culture that facilitates ignorance not only of other > arts but of other cultures and classes and anything but the very recent past. > > Most of the visual artists that I know, at least among my > contemporaries, are profoundly literate. On the other hand, I > remember seeing the work of one of my friends when I first met her, > during her expressionist phase. "There's a lot of Munch in these," I > said. She didn't know who I was talking about. She held an MFA from a > prestigious academy. > > I design books and occasionally do pastels or paint or take pictures. > I also build furniture for myself and care what it looks like. > > What does "a series of etchings direct to copper plate" mean? > Etchings are always done on copper or zinc plates. > > Mark > > > At 08:47 AM 1/23/2006, you wrote: >> On 23/1/06 10:59 PM, "Roger Day" wrote: >> >>> People - particularly visual >>> artists, have rubbed along without recourse to other disciplines quite >>> happily for a long time now as far as I can see. There's a whole >>> history of it. Read any biog of the major artists, look at photographs >>> of them in their studios, their homes. I think you'll search a long >>> time before you find evidence of books in those photos. >> >> Gosh. I'm thinking of Eluard naming Miro's paintings, and how he counted >> Dali and Tanguy among his close friends; Appollinaire and Chagall; Frank >> O'Hara and the New York school of artists, the whole history of collage >> (which comes from poets) and Breton and surrealism...then theatre and dance >> and the visual artists and writers who participated in those art forms >> (Giacommeti designing the tree in Waiting for Godot, Balanchine and >> Chagall), Kiefer, who has worked so much off the poetry of Celan, or people >> like Cocteau, who seemed to do everything... >> >> It's late here and I feel a bit incoherent, but this seems an amazing >> statement, Roger. >> >> Best >> >> A >> >> >> Alison Croggon >> >> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com >> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au >> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:30:28 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Sam Ladkin Subject: Cambridge Series Poetry In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed CAMBRIDGE SERIES POETRY READINGS Thursday 26th January LINH DINH / RANDOLPH HEALY / FIONA SAMPSON 8pm New Music Room, First Court St John's College =A33/2 donations hoped for. Wine will be served ALL ARE WELCOME see www.cambridgepoetry.org for further details or email contact@cambridgepoetry.org to be sent them. The New Music Room is in First Court, St John's College. Entrance to =20 the college will be through the forecourt entrance, past the porters =20 lodge, turn left and move into Second court, turn left and move into =20 First court. Here is a map of the location of the college: http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?=20 mp=3Dmain;xx=3D1681;yy=3D590;mt=3Dc;ms=3D180 And here is a map of the college itself: http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?=20 mp=3Dmain;xx=3D1681;yy=3D590;mt=3Dc;ms=3D180 Presented with the generous support of the Judith E Wilson Fund =20 (Faculty of English), St John's College, and Barque Press (see =20 www.barquepress.com) Randolph Healy was born in 1956. He lives on the Dublin Wicklow =20 Border with his wife Louise and their five children. In 1997 he =20 started Wild Honey Press which has published 49 chapbooks so far =20 including work by Pam Brown, Mairead Byrne, Ric Caddel, Alison =20 Croggon, Allen Fisher, Jill Jones, Trevor Joyce, John Kinsella, =20 Rachel Loden, Karen MacCormack, David Miller, Billy Mills, Joan =20 Retallack, Peter Riley, Ron Silliman, Geoffrey Squires, Rosmarie and =20= Keith Waldrop and Susan Wheeler among others. His selected poems, =20 _Green 532_ is available from Salt. Fiona Sampson has published twelve books: four poetry collections, =20 philosophy of language and books on writing process. She has won =20 many awards, including the international Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia, =20 2003); and been published in fifteen languages. Her books in =20 translation include The Self on the Page (Hebrew, 2002), Travel Diary =20= (Macedonian, 2003), Folding the Real (Romanian, 2004) and The =20 Distance Between Us (Romanian, Macedonian, 2005). She is the Editor =20 of Poetry Review. Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House =20 (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press =20 2004), and three books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish =20= 2003), American Tatts (Chax 2005) and Borderless Bodies (Factory =20 School 2005). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry =20 2000, Best American Poetry 2004 and Great American Prose Poems from =20 Poe to the Present, among other places. He is also the editor of the =20 anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven =20 Stories Press 1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (Tinfish 2001), and =20 translator of Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry of Phan =20 Nhien Hao (Tupelo 2006). Linh Dinh is living in Norwich, England, as =20 a David T.K. Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia. And then... Thursday February 2nd Geoff Ward / John Temple Thursday February 9th Alice Notley / Ralph Hawkins / Anthony Barnett Thursday February 16th - BARQUE PRESS EVENT Keston Sutherland / Neil Pattison / Matt Ffytche Thursday February 23rd Lucy Sheerman / Jeremy Hardingham / Bill Griffiths Thursday March 2nd Performances of John Cage Four6 (1992) Cornelius Cardew Treatise (1963-67) and poetry performances. Curated by Harry Gilonis and Josh Robinson ***TUESDAY*** March 7th Peter Robinson / Dell Olsen (Line-ups may suffer some changes and other additions) If any one is receiving these messages and can't imagine why, or if =20 they know why but it is a period of their life they would rather =20 forget, then please email me and I will stop sending out information. =20= If anyone gets several copies of this email and wants that to stop =20 let me know. Thanks. Having said that, please forward this message to =20= anyone you feel may be interested. WWW.CAMBRIDGEPOETRY.ORG ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:36:17 -0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Robin Hamilton Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA Comments: cc: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics , "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This thread seems to be developing two separate lives, one on Poetics and the other (fuller) on Poetryetc. Now if Roger Day could just "accidentally" cross-post to New Poetry, perhaps Bob Grumman could get in on the act? Robin Hamilton, a.k.a. The Wombled Ferret ****************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Vincent" To: Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:58 PM Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA > Often - as it seemed with Richard Long 'in performance - the politics of > rich and/or poor painters (or artists) is to ignore poets, poetry, and > 'us'. > I suspect - though I could be wrong - "they" - those kinds of artists - > do > not die from the lack of it (poetry). SNIP > Stephen Vincent >> And Max Jacob reading at parties of artists and writers. >> >> Poets tend to be driven by visual images at least as much as by text, >> except in the limited case of langpo and its cousins. SNIP >> Mark >> At 08:47 AM 1/23/2006, you wrote: >>> On 23/1/06 10:59 PM, "Roger Day" wrote: >>> >>>> People - particularly visual >>>> artists, have rubbed along without recourse to other disciplines quite >>>> happily for a long time now as far as I can see. There's a whole >>>> history of it. Read any biog of the major artists, look at photographs >>>> of them in their studios, their homes. I think you'll search a long >>>> time before you find evidence of books in those photos. [SNIP] ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:49:58 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: dbcinema version 0.6792 In-Reply-To: <2b2.32d8937.31025958@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 'A word is worth a thousand pictures.' Each of Google and Yahoo returns a maximum of one thousand images per search. Typically, any given word will indeed return a thousand images. And it would surely take a thousand images to scope out (but not exhaust) the visual 'meaning' of any given word. ja http://vispo.com/dbcinema ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:38:59 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark Weiss Subject: query Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Looking for cheap digs in the Miami area for a week of research at the U of Miami, Feb 23-March 2. Info from any south florida oficionados greatly appreciated. B/c please. Mark Weiss ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:20:37 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Maria Damon Subject: FWD Call for Work Comments: To: francobe@aol.com, writers-l@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =46rom: Association for Research on Mothering Subject: NEW Call for Poetry for Forthcoming ARM=20 collection...PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY Call for Poems **PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY** The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)=20 is seeking submissions for an anthology of poetry=20 on motherhood to be published in 2007. White Ink White Ink is a rare and unique anthology of poems=20 on the theme of mothers. Beginning with a=20 comprehensive critical introduction by editor and=20 poet Rishma Dunlop, this book will explore the=20 changing role of the mother in contemporary=20 society by bringing together diverse poetic=20 voices =96 female, male, Canadian and=20 international. White Ink will select some of its=20 poems from ARM Journal, the journal of the=20 Association for Research on Mothering (ARM).=20 However, White Ink will also include poems about=20 motherhood that have not appeared in ARM Journal. The title, White Ink, is borrowed from H=E9l=E8ne=20 Cixous=92 metaphor for mother=92s milk, a metaphor=20 that grounds women=92s writing in the female body.=20 Tentative section headings include: When Water=20 Breaks: The Birth of the Mother; Apron Strings:=20 Motherhood as Institution; Cutting the Cord:=20 Mothers in Violent Times; Rocking the Cradle:=20 Redefining Motherhood; Positively Glowing: The=20 Beauty of the Mother. Established and emerging writers =96 female, male,=20 Canadian and international =96 should submit 3-6=20 poems along with a 50-word bio and contact info=20 (including an E-mail address where you can be=20 reached) to: Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) 726 Atkinson, York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 (416) 736-2100 x 60366 Fax: (416) 736-5766 arm@yorku.ca Submissions in the body of E-mails are also=20 acceptable. No attachments accepted. Please=20 indicate White Ink in the subject header. Deadline: September 1, 2006 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:51:12 +1300 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Wystan Curnow (ARTS ENG)" Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Stephen Vincent wrote: Unfortunately I did not get to ask Richard Long if he even reads Thomas A. Clark - the Scottish poet who also examines remote landscapes in an also rigorous fashion - though, different from Long, Clark is much more interested in the human implication of what he discovers on his walks. Long, by the way, is quite insistent that his text pieces not be confused with poems. The words he considers as "objects", not different than individual stones or other natural items, and shape in which the are printed on the paper correspond to shape of the walk or some aspect of the terrain. The elegant portrayal of evidence - the printed works. Long seems little different from his compatriot Fulton and from the Americans Andre, Weiner and Kosuth, and the Japanese-American, On Kaware, in his attitudes to poetry. All of them present texts as art, and yet are insistent that those texts are not poetry. This is because they think that if their texts are read as poetry they will be mis-read, which indeed they would be if the poetry was that of Wordsworth, or of many other kinds of poetry, including say the 'concrete poetry' of the 60s with which they were probably familiar. But it is true that they tend not to know enough about the state of the art in their own times to realise that there are links between their texts and those of some contemporary poets. There is value to Long's view that words are 'objects' not different than stones or other natural items that would not be lost on many contemporary poets--Clark Coolidge could be cited. And it should be added that the procedural character of their texts: esp. say Andre, Weiner and Long, links them to the procedural work of MacLow and some Language poetry work. I think their texts can usefully be read as poetry. Wystan =20 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:37:31 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Slaughter, William" Subject: Notice: Mudlark MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit New and On View: Mudlark Flash No. 35 (2006) Derek Pollard | A Day Busy With Indecision Derek Pollard is an English instructor at Lakewood Prep School in Howell, New Jersey, an associate editor at New Issues Poetry & Prose (Western Michigan University), and a contributing editor at Barrow Street. As for recent publications, he has poems and reviews appearing or forthcoming in Ambit (UK), Caketrain, Colorado Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Diagram, Hawai'i Review, iota (UK), Pleiades, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Shade, and Zone 3. Spread the word. Far and wide, William Slaughter MUDLARK An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics Never in and never out of print... E-mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:28:24 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: Re: FWD Call for Work In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable komninos zervos writes with white ink on white surfaces komninos zervos is a poet komninos zervos has never given birth to a baby komninos zervos has two teenage children komninos zervos lost a child during childbirth komninos zervos loves his mother komninos zervos is getting more like his mother each day komninos zervos is a single parent komninos zervos is a mother. komninos zervos does not glow, he perspires. komninos zervos homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs |||-----Original Message----- |||From: UB Poetics discussion group = [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] |||On Behalf Of Maria Damon |||Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:21 AM |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU |||Subject: FWD Call for Work ||| |||From: Association for Research on Mothering |||Subject: NEW Call for Poetry for Forthcoming ARM |||collection...PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY ||| ||| |||Call for Poems |||**PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY** |||The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) |||is seeking submissions for an anthology of poetry |||on motherhood to be published in 2007. |||White Ink |||White Ink is a rare and unique anthology of poems |||on the theme of mothers. Beginning with a |||comprehensive critical introduction by editor and |||poet Rishma Dunlop, this book will explore the |||changing role of the mother in contemporary |||society by bringing together diverse poetic |||voices =96 female, male, Canadian and |||international. White Ink will select some of its |||poems from ARM Journal, the journal of the |||Association for Research on Mothering (ARM). |||However, White Ink will also include poems about |||motherhood that have not appeared in ARM Journal. |||The title, White Ink, is borrowed from H=E9l=E8ne |||Cixous=92 metaphor for mother=92s milk, a metaphor |||that grounds women=92s writing in the female body. |||Tentative section headings include: When Water |||Breaks: The Birth of the Mother; Apron Strings: |||Motherhood as Institution; Cutting the Cord: |||Mothers in Violent Times; Rocking the Cradle: |||Redefining Motherhood; Positively Glowing: The |||Beauty of the Mother. |||Established and emerging writers =96 female, male, |||Canadian and international =96 should submit 3-6 |||poems along with a 50-word bio and contact info |||(including an E-mail address where you can be |||reached) to: |||Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) |||726 Atkinson, York University |||4700 Keele Street |||Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 |||(416) 736-2100 x 60366 Fax: (416) 736-5766 |||arm@yorku.ca |||Submissions in the body of E-mails are also |||acceptable. No attachments accepted. Please |||indicate White Ink in the subject header. |||Deadline: September 1, 2006 ||| |||-- |||No virus found in this incoming message. |||Checked by AVG Free Edition. |||Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/238 - Release Date: = 23/01/06 ||| --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/238 - Release Date: = 23/01/06 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:24:32 -0500 Reply-To: nudel-soho@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: Guilty.... 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PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09Cg== ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:10:58 -0330 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Kevin Hehir Subject: Re: bp Nichol audio archive | new @ PENNsound In-Reply-To: <1eba3dda0601240616x721a8d8cy410be1e9445585b4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hey Lori, This is great. I've been using beep with kids for years and this will be an incredibly useful resource for me and my students. cheers, kevin -- The monthly Open Mics now have a home on the interweb: http://www.freewebs.com/allagesopenmic/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:58:05 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Recommended Reading (III): Cadiot & Fourcade Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Olivier Cadiot, *Colonel Zoo*, tr. from French by=20 Cole Swenson (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2005).=20 Cadiot=92s paranoid imaginary turned into a tour de=20 force of prose as mapping not consciousness but=20 repetition-compulsion: male hysteria at its most=20 exquisitely funny or maybe savagely exquisite.=20 Dystopian humanism. A knock-out French theatrical=20 adaptation of the work was presented in New York=20 in November, directed by Ludovic Lagarde and=20 performed with maniacal craft by Laurent=20 Poitrenaux. All in all one of the best=20 realizations of poet=92s theater I have ever seen;=20 in a league with Mac Wellman=92s Terminal Hip and=20 Fiona Templeton=92s You=ADthe City. Dominique Fourcade: *en laisse*; *sans lasso et=20 sans flash*: *=E9ponges mod=E8le 2003* (Paris:=20 P.O.L., 2005). The seed work of these three=20 interconnected (or triangulated) books is=20 Fourcade=92s reflection on the leash (laisse) or=20 lasso in the Abu Ghraib photographs; the middle=20 book centers on a painting from the late 1950s by=20 Simon Hanta=EF, =C9criture Rose. Lyric and reflection, commentary and= lament. Charles Bernstein http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:31:41 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mairead Byrne Subject: Re: FWD Call for Work Comments: To: kom9os@BIGPOND.NET.AU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1253 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Go Komninos! >>> kom9os@BIGPOND.NET.AU 01/24/06 12:28 AM >>> komninos zervos writes with white ink on white surfaces komninos zervos is a poet komninos zervos has never given birth to a baby komninos zervos has two teenage children komninos zervos lost a child during childbirth komninos zervos loves his mother komninos zervos is getting more like his mother each day komninos zervos is a single parent komninos zervos is a mother. komninos zervos does not glow, he perspires. komninos zervos homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs |||-----Original Message----- |||From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] |||On Behalf Of Maria Damon |||Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:21 AM |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU |||Subject: FWD Call for Work ||| |||From: Association for Research on Mothering |||Subject: NEW Call for Poetry for Forthcoming ARM |||collection...PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY ||| ||| |||Call for Poems |||**PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY** |||The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) |||is seeking submissions for an anthology of poetry |||on motherhood to be published in 2007. |||White Ink |||White Ink is a rare and unique anthology of poems |||on the theme of mothers. Beginning with a |||comprehensive critical introduction by editor and |||poet Rishma Dunlop, this book will explore the |||changing role of the mother in contemporary |||society by bringing together diverse poetic |||voices =96 female, male, Canadian and |||international. White Ink will select some of its |||poems from ARM Journal, the journal of the |||Association for Research on Mothering (ARM). |||However, White Ink will also include poems about |||motherhood that have not appeared in ARM Journal. |||The title, White Ink, is borrowed from H*l*ne |||Cixous=92 metaphor for mother=92s milk, a metaphor |||that grounds women=92s writing in the female body. |||Tentative section headings include: When Water |||Breaks: The Birth of the Mother; Apron Strings: |||Motherhood as Institution; Cutting the Cord: |||Mothers in Violent Times; Rocking the Cradle: |||Redefining Motherhood; Positively Glowing: The |||Beauty of the Mother. |||Established and emerging writers =96 female, male, |||Canadian and international =96 should submit 3-6 |||poems along with a 50-word bio and contact info |||(including an E-mail address where you can be |||reached) to: |||Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) |||726 Atkinson, York University |||4700 Keele Street |||Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 |||(416) 736-2100 x 60366 Fax: (416) 736-5766 |||arm@yorku.ca |||Submissions in the body of E-mails are also |||acceptable. No attachments accepted. Please |||indicate White Ink in the subject header. |||Deadline: September 1, 2006 ||| |||-- |||No virus found in this incoming message. |||Checked by AVG Free Edition. |||Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/238 - Release Date: = 23/01/06 ||| --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/238 - Release Date: 23/01/06 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:21:40 +0000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: reJennifer Bartlett Subject: Saint Elizabeth Street Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Saint Elizabeth Street is looking for submissions for our Spring 2006 Issue. Past contributors have included Charles Bernstein, Nathaniel Tarn, Marcella Durand, Andrea Baker and others. ***************** New on the LIZBLOG Why Al Gore is our hero. Life inside of Cerebral Palsy. And Why Elizabeth Bishop is a goddess. www.saintelizabethstreet.com _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:02:24 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Tuttle Reading at Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I Love Poets - Thursday January 26, 2006 7 pm to 10 pm Whitney Museum of American Art, 74th Street & Madison, New York Readings on the occasion of The Art of Richard Tuttle Thursday, January 26 7pm Charles Bernstein Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Simon Cutts Larry Fagin Thomas McEvilley Leslie Scalapino Anne Waldman John Yau And guest readings of works by Anne-Marie Albiach and Barbara Guest Admission: $8; members, senior citizens, and students with valid ID $6. Advance sales are strongly recommended, as seating is limited. Tickets may be purchased at the Museum Admissions Desk or reserved at (212) 570-7715 or public_programs@whitney.org. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:49:01 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Nathaniel Tarn MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit looking for e-mail address for Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Nathaniel Tarn, please backchannel Michael ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:30:39 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA In-Reply-To: <640F0190D197074CA59E6F82064E80C328D6E3@artsmail.ARTSNET.AUCKLAND.AC.NZ> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > Long seems little different from his compatriot Fulton and from the > Americans Andre, Weiner and Kosuth, and the Japanese-American, On > Kaware, in his attitudes to poetry. All of them present texts as art, > and yet are insistent that those texts are not poetry. This is because > they think that if their texts are read as poetry they will be mis-read, > which indeed they would be if the poetry was that of Wordsworth, or of > many other kinds of poetry, including say the 'concrete poetry' of the > 60s with which they were probably familiar. But it is true that they > tend not to know enough about the state of the art in their own times to > realise that there are links between their texts and those of some > contemporary poets. There is value to Long's view that words are > 'objects' not different than stones or other natural items that would > not be lost on many contemporary poets--Clark Coolidge could be cited. > And it should be added that the procedural character of their texts: > esp. say Andre, Weiner and Long, links them to the procedural work of > MacLow and some Language poetry work. I think their texts can usefully > be read as poetry. > > Wystan Thanks for these good connections, Wystan. It would,for example, be interesting to know if Long was ever aware - but how could he not be? - of the Something Else Press anthology of concrete poets (Emmett Williams, editor?) - that book did cross the line and was in museum shops everywhere - including England - in the sixties and early seventies (to the envy of us small press publishers who could never get a poetry book across those crow headed museum store buyers - even on with a cover by a well known artist!). But the question is, I suspect, when does a 'text based work' by a poet (or artist such as Weiner) get conferred as, say, "an object with an aura", that befits an art collection - particularly something that can be framed and go on a wall? How much is the way one markets ones work, how much inventory of such does it take for a gallerist, for example, to take it serious enough to offer it a salable good? Why is Bob Grenier's text qua art work now sold in a good New York gallery, and why is that of Tom Raworth (to my knowledge) not so. Raworth's visual work is certainly equally interesting. But maybe Tom has a total contempt for the art market(??). But Long certainly figured it out early in relation to his text works. (I do remember circa 1986 in Frankfurt seeing a Long book done as a book of poetry by an English Press - actually I think I bought it for the equivalent of 10 dollars at most and now it is lost, gone - but it probably still available in the book format for relatively cheap. But Long - by taking the work up into a large print format of good type on fine papers - done in multiples (?) I do not know - managed to create pieces that cast a material sense of being in place with a walk. His "30 day walk" (to somewhere) that indicates with arrows the direction(s) of the wind for each day is marvelous, as are his maps. Other times - with say a mountain walk - I remember telling myself, 'hokum - I'd rather be reading an early rip-rap poem by Gary Snyder as much more tangible and 'real'. I think part of Long's success has been to define his position within certain limits and maximize what he does within those. (walks, circles, lines, mud, etc.) He never, for example, makes more than one print of a photograph. They sell for 30,000 dollars. The singularity - no multiples - enables the work to be considered "art" rather than as a photography. He does seem traditionally English - and financially smart - in this rigidity of commitment. Tho the photographs can be astonishing, I'd think he'd rather be walking and thinking, rather than making multiple prints). Just as an aside, I think one of his most impressive works 'for sale' - done by Lapis Press in the eighties - was a project where he went around the world and made paper from maybe ten major rivers. A limited edition of 35 copies, he stenciled the name of the different river, "Amazon", for example, on each river - all of whom created different colors of paper. Conceptually and its realization, I thought it was a terrifically successful project. Concrete poetry, indeed, at its best. Stephen Vincent Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:39:25 -0500 Reply-To: az421@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Rob McLennan Subject: ottawater #2 now on-line! Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT the second issue of ottawater (www.ottawater.com/), an Ottawa poetry pdf annual, edited by rob mclennan, is now online. The second issue features work by various residents current and former, including: Stephanie Bolster, Louis Cabri, Rhonda Douglas, Jesse Ferguson, Anita Lahey, Nicholas Lea, Anne Le Dressay, Karen Massey, Una McDonnell, Colin Morton, Jennifer Mulligan, Nick Power, K. I. Press, Shane Rhodes, Sandra Ridley and Ian Whistle, interviews with poets Monty Reid and Chris Turnbull, and reviews of work by Diana Brebner, William Hawkins and Nadine McInnis, as well as artwork by Jennifer Kwong, Jeremy Reid, Kerry Cavlovic, Amy Thompson, and Sacha Leclair. The launch party for the second issue will be happening Thursday, January 26th, 2006 at the Mercury Lounge, 56 Byward Street, Ottawa, from 8pm to 10pm, lovingly hosted by rob mclennan. After short readings by various contributors, stick around for a drink, and listen to resident dj Trevor Walker host Mui Afro Funke, playing Latin and African influenced musics, jazz funk, and house music later on into the night. ottawater would like to thank designer Tanya Sprowl, Mercury Lounge's Lance Baptiste, the ottawa international writers festival, and Randy Woods at non-linear creations for their continuing support. -- poet/editor/pub. ... ed. STANZAS mag & side/lines: a new canadian poetics (Insomniac)...pub., above/ground press ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...11th coll'n - name , an errant (Stride, UK) .... c/o 858 Somerset St W, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7 * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:58:28 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: furniture_ press Subject: Furniture Press is shutting down, temporarily... Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 I'm sorry to say that Furniture Press will be closing its doors for a few m= onths, until summer.=20 All pressing has stopped and all projects will be put on hold.=20 Personal responsibilities inhibit me from making any executive decisions at= this moment and prevent me from taking action, as far as readings, solicit= ation and publishing go. Our catalogue items are dwindling, and that's a good thing, so if anyone st= ill wants copies of our books and chaps, feel free to check out the out-of-= date site (again, it's not in my ability right now to be totally responsibl= e...) www.towson.edu/~cacasama/furniture/poae everything will be discounted if you write me about what you want. I'm just= trying to clean house. Also, Betsy Andrews, who did the first installment of the ongoing "New Jers= ey" project with us as a limited edition screen-printed cardbook, has great= news: "the full-length mss of "New Jersey" has won the Univ. of Wisconsin' Britti= ngham Prize. My book comes out in October." Check 'em out, not many left, and Sarah's beautiful prints are to die for! = $5 Thanks, everyone, again and again. Chris =20 --=20 ___________________________________________ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.graffiti.net/ Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:09:54 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dodie Bellamy Subject: Spring workshop Comments: To: ampersand@yahoogroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Looks like there's one opening in my workshop. Preference given to folks who are not currently enrolled in grad writing programs. ---------------- Dodie Bellamy's Prose Workshop This spring I will be leading a prose workshop, which will meet 11 Wednesday evenings, from 7 to 10 p.m. The dates: February 8 through April 26 (no class February 22). Cost: $350, with a $100 deposit due by February 1. By prose I mean fiction, nonfiction, prose poetry, cross-genre (and cross-gender) writing including (but not exclusively) anything edgy or experimental. It's a good place to present work that feels too risky or sexy or queer for academic workshops. The workshops are totally open-ended. Five people present a week, scheduling that the week ahead. Usually people bring in something 5 pages or less (copies for everybody) and we critique it that week. Longer pieces are also okay, but they need to be handed out a week ahead of time for people to read. Each student typically gets a half an hour each time we critique. The classes are limited to 10 students. Lots and lots of personal attention. They take place in my South of Market apartment, which comes complete with snacks and one cat. Pink Steam, my collection of fiction, memoir, and memoiresque essays, was published in 2005 by San Francisco's Suspect Thoughts Press. My vampire novel, The Letters of Mina Harker was reprinted by University of Wisconsin Press, also in 2005. Academonia, a book of esays, is forthcoming from Factory School. I'm the author of 3 other books and I teach creative writing at SF State and in the MFA program at Antioch Los Angeles. I've also taught at CalArts, Naropa summer session, Mills, USF, UC Santa Cruz, and the SF Art Institute. I'm the winner of the Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Literature and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Poetry. If you're interested, please email about work samples, etc. Or--if you know anybody who might be interested, please pass this email along to them. If you're interested do contact me promptly. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:29:31 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bruce at Coconut Poetry Subject: lyn hejinian reading in atlanta In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lyn Hejinian will be reading at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, on February 15, 2006, at 7pm at the Harland Cinema in the Dobbs University Center. At 4pm on the same day, she will lead a colloquium on Improvisation and Process in Poetry (Kemp Malone Library, 301 Callaway North). Both events free & open to the public. Bruce Covey ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:16:25 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Fantasy Genre Callouts for Jack Magazine Comments: cc: jonathan penton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Call for submissions fro Mary Sands at Jack Magazine I generally do not solicit things from strangers on the web, but like = your site and am putting together an magazine issue dealing with the = fantasy genre. If anyone is interested in contributing to the 2006 = issue, or knows other sources to forward this to, I'd appreciate it very = much.=20 I'm currently accepting submissions in the form of the following: 1. Reviews, articles, and essays of movies, books, music, and games = (examples: Lovecraft, LoTR, Narnia, World of Warcraft, etc.) 2. Short stories and novel excerpts 3. Artwork 4. D&D campaigns and/or adventure outlines Please see http://www.jackmagazine.com/welcome.html and = http://www.jackmagazine.com/submit.html for more detailed content and = submission guidelines.=20 Thanks a bunch. Mary Sands Editor, Jack Magazine ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:56:21 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tom Beckett Subject: At e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit another new interview...This time Thomas Fink interviews Michael Heller. Go to: http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:26:20 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Small Press Traffic Subject: Poets Theater Final Night 1/27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Small Press Traffic is pleased to present the final night of our Poets Theater Jamboree 2006 edition....Friday, January 27 at 7:30 pm. All seats are $10 and first come, first served. Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, San Francisco For directions and a map, please see http://www.sptraffic.org/html/fac_dir.html Hope to see you there!!! Poets Theater for Friday, January 27, 2006 PIECE FOR RECORDER, ONE HAND MOVING (1961) By Jackson Mac Low Performed by the Anachronism is Not Enough Quartet Brent Cunningham Graham Foust Amy Hezel Jared Stanley Musical Interlude with Bound to Get Fuller Alli Warren & Brandon Brown EUPHEMISMS Written & Directed by Sean Finney A: Ruby Des Jardins B: Sean Finney Musical Interlude with Bound to Get Fuller Alli Warren & Brandon Brown GATHA IN C FOR THERESA SALOMON (2001-02) By Jackson Mac Low Performed by David Buuck Musical Interlude with Bound to Get Fuller Alli Warren & Brandon Brown THE LATE EDUCATION OF SASHA WOLFF, OR, THE SON AND HEIRESS (An Excerpt) Written & Directed by Shonni Enelow Taylor Brady as Sasha Wolff Kathleen Miller as Jenny Daly Dan Fisher as The Media Chana Morgenstern as Jenna Jameson Shonni as herself IS THAT WOOL HAT MY HAT? (1980) By Jackson Mac Low Conducted by Brent Cunningham Performed by the Max Fischer Players Melissa Benham Kyle Kaufman Sara Larsen Jay Thomas Musical Interlude with Bound to Get Fuller Alli Warren & Brandon Brown DONNING CHEADLE Written & Directed by Geraldine Kim Ben Baker as Don Cheadle Malia Jackson as Cameragirl Bowman Chan as Korean Dad anonymous as Korean Mom B-ROLL: SHORT DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE By Margaret Tedesco With Special Guest Appearances by ??? Musical Interlude with Bound to Get Fuller Alli Warren & Brandon Brown SURVIVOR::XANADU // ROMANCING THE ROMANCE Written & Directed by Neil Alger Music by Ryan Moya Image Consulting by Erica Freyberger Tune in for the final episode of this award-winning reality show, SURVIVOR: XANADU, to see which surviving contestant will walk away with the million dollar prize. Expect intrigue, avarice, and lots of of other inappropriate nouns, verbs, and adjectives on this wild ride through untamed island jungles. Not for the faint of heart or apathetics. Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, Director Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center at CCA 1111 -- 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415.551.9278 http://www.sptraffic.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:58:40 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: John Lowther Subject: Fwd: joseph ceravolo page is up Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit written by James Sanders of the A.P.G. (that's his note below) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ceravolo have a look-- the beauty is that if you think what i wrote stinx, you can change it ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:10:27 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brian Stefans Subject: Electronic Writing II In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you know any undergrads at Brown who are looking for a fun course, tell them to take electronic writing! It's got a cool site, too, which can serve as a resource for electronic writing courses elsewhere. http://www.arras.net/brown_ewriting/ Cheers, Brian ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:52:48 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David-Baptiste Chirot Subject: Re: Fwd: joseph ceravolo page is up In-Reply-To: <7CF97823-8D4E-11DA-8E83-000393ADC3C0@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed many thanks for this ceravolo is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century >From: John Lowther >Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Fwd: joseph ceravolo page is up >Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:58:40 -0500 > >written by James Sanders of the A.P.G. (that's his note below) > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ceravolo > >have a look-- the beauty is that if you think what i wrote stinx, you can >change it _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:05:41 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jesse Glass Subject: Lindley Williams Hubbell, Friend of Gertrude Stein MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I missed meeting this fabulously learned gentleman, who died in a hospital in Kyoto in 1994 at the age of 93. Hubbell was a friend of Gertrude Stein's, and an accomplished poet in his own right. He was up on Cage, Mina Loy and the Baroness Elsa Freytag Von Loringhoven, yet his work is hard to come by. Hubbell's 1933 review of Lucy Church Amiably and other Plain Edition Stein works, as well as a good selection of his own poetry is up at ahadadabooks thanks to the good graces of Yoko Danno and Makoto Ozaki. Go to: http://www.sendecki.com/ahadada/ and take a look. Jess ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:43:55 +1300 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Wystan Curnow (ARTS ENG)" Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Stephen, Thanks. I must try to get to see those Long books you mention. I = can't say anything about his knowledge of concretepoetry--Emmet Williams = links with Fluxus may not have helped its repute among Long and his = contemporaries.And I am myself less interested in proposing an = unknowledged link there--indeed it is the fact that the typographic is = relatively less interesting to the artists I listed is that suggests the = issue of the visuality of the text is lodged differently in their work.=20 Issues of the market can confuse the question. Sculptors such as = Andre, and Long, have always had objects to sell, and their 'aura' = presumably attaches to the text pieces. On Kawara has long sold his as = paintings. Fulton on the other hand has only photos to sell and like = most contemporary art photographers has made them one-offs. Kosuth and = Weiner are probably the most interesting in that their practice is more = or less exclusively text-based--it hasn't been easy for them to build = the aura for their texts so as to bring them good money. Neither are = easy to collect, and both have produced a rich body of book works.=20 =20 You say that for tangibility and realness you prefer early = Snyder to Long's text works related to walks.=20 Doesn't that suggest a single standard? What are the assumptions about = language at work in these various text practices? Does the answer to = that help decide whether these artists can escape the charge of being = poets? =20 Wystan=20 =20 ________________________________ From: UB Poetics discussion group on behalf of Stephen Vincent Sent: Wed 25/01/2006 7:30 a.m. To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA > Long seems little different from his compatriot Fulton and from the > Americans Andre, Weiner and Kosuth, and the Japanese-American, On > Kaware, in his attitudes to poetry. All of them present texts as art, > and yet are insistent that those texts are not poetry. This is because > they think that if their texts are read as poetry they will be = mis-read, > which indeed they would be if the poetry was that of Wordsworth, or of > many other kinds of poetry, including say the 'concrete poetry' of the > 60s with which they were probably familiar. But it is true that they > tend not to know enough about the state of the art in their own times = to > realise that there are links between their texts and those of some > contemporary poets. There is value to Long's view that words are > 'objects' not different than stones or other natural items that would > not be lost on many contemporary poets--Clark Coolidge could be cited. > And it should be added that the procedural character of their texts: > esp. say Andre, Weiner and Long, links them to the procedural work of > MacLow and some Language poetry work. I think their texts can usefully > be read as poetry. > > Wystan =20 Thanks for these good connections, Wystan. It would,for example, be interesting to know if Long was ever aware - but how could he not be? - = of the Something Else Press anthology of concrete poets (Emmett Williams, editor?) - that book did cross the line and was in museum shops = everywhere - including England - in the sixties and early seventies (to the envy of = us small press publishers who could never get a poetry book across those = crow headed museum store buyers - even on with a cover by a well known = artist!). But the question is, I suspect, when does a 'text based work' by a poet = (or artist such as Weiner) get conferred as, say, "an object with an aura", = that befits an art collection - particularly something that can be framed and = go on a wall? How much is the way one markets ones work, how much = inventory of such does it take for a gallerist, for example, to take it serious = enough to offer it a salable good? Why is Bob Grenier's text qua art work now sold = in a good New York gallery, and why is that of Tom Raworth (to my = knowledge) not so. Raworth's visual work is certainly equally interesting. But = maybe Tom has a total contempt for the art market(??). But Long certainly figured it out early in relation to his text works. = (I do remember circa 1986 in Frankfurt seeing a Long book done as a book of = poetry by an English Press - actually I think I bought it for the equivalent of = 10 dollars at most and now it is lost, gone - but it probably still = available in the book format for relatively cheap. But Long - by taking the work = up into a large print format of good type on fine papers - done in = multiples (?) I do not know - managed to create pieces that cast a material sense = of being in place with a walk. His "30 day walk" (to somewhere) that = indicates with arrows the direction(s) of the wind for each day is marvelous, as = are his maps. Other times - with say a mountain walk - I remember telling myself, 'hokum - I'd rather be reading an early rip-rap poem by Gary = Snyder as much more tangible and 'real'. I think part of Long's success has been to define his position within certain limits and maximize what he does within those. (walks, circles, lines, mud, etc.) He never, for example, makes more than one print of a photograph. They sell for 30,000 dollars. The singularity - no multiples = - enables the work to be considered "art" rather than as a photography. He does seem traditionally English - and financially smart - in this = rigidity of commitment. Tho the photographs can be astonishing, I'd think he'd = rather be walking and thinking, rather than making multiple prints). Just as an aside, I think one of his most impressive works 'for sale' - = done by Lapis Press in the eighties - was a project where he went around the world and made paper from maybe ten major rivers. A limited edition of = 35 copies, he stenciled the name of the different river, "Amazon", for = example, on each river - all of whom created different colors of paper. = Conceptually and its realization, I thought it was a terrifically successful project. Concrete poetry, indeed, at its best. Stephen Vincent Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ =20 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:59:21 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pierre Joris Subject: Recent posts on Nomadics blog Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Recent posts on Nomadics blog at http://pjoris.blogspot.com/ : Paul Celan: Microliths They Are, Pebbles Orhan Pamuk : Good News Mayer & Mulligan Reading Past the Midnight Hour Gaia in Trouble Bernadette Mayer & Joe Mulligan in Albany Eric Mottram @ Wickipedia & also a reminder thast my website is now located at the following url: http://pierrejoris.com ___________________________________________________________ The poet: always in partibus infidelium -- Paul Celan ___________________________________________________________ Pierre Joris 244 Elm Street Albany NY 12202 h: 518 426 0433 c: 518 225 7123 o: 518 442 40 85 email: joris@albany.edu http://pierrejoris.com Nomadics blog: http://pjoris.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:15:00 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Re: Electronic Writing II In-Reply-To: <000f01c6216d$a7b92b40$0602a8c0@brianlaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I strongly recommend a quick (or thorough) browse through the artists list on this page -- amazing assortment of the old and new of net-digi-art etc. bill On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Brian Stefans wrote: > If you know any undergrads at Brown who are looking for a fun course, > tell > them to take electronic writing! It's got a cool site, too, which can > serve > as a resource for electronic writing courses elsewhere. > > http://www.arras.net/brown_ewriting/ > > Cheers, > Brian > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:54:15 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Amato Subject: Re: Electronic Writing II In-Reply-To: <7aa86e3b4632ccfdc46492253566aba1@factoryschool.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" valuable site, yes bill... one of the things that strikes me about those artist links is how clear it is, generally, who has access to serious institutional $$, and who doesn't... some of those linked sites have been put together by real pros, others by people who are still coding (like me) with html (and i understand, too, that some folks prefer stripped-down presentations)... i'm envious!... and i teach at a u, if one that can't afford to give us anywhere near that kind of expert programming assistance... if i want to rip a dvd and put it on my website, the best i can get is someone to tell me over the phone what i need to do... then i have to go and do it... another problem here, too (and i know the electronic lit org is working on this) is how to represent early storyspace, hypercard, etc., works---which were the works that first caught my eye back in, say, 1990... for that matter, the idea that net art could really bolster collaboration---something i've always contended was the case---has bumped up against that dollar reality too... in the past 4-5 years it's become increasingly evident to me that it often takes serious $$ to collaborate---depends on the project, of course, but have a look at any number of ongoing dvd projects---and the nation's top 50 or so academic institutions are way, way ahead when it comes to providing funding for such work... collaboration is great, yeah, but it can be pricey... best, joe >I strongly recommend a quick (or thorough) browse through the >artists list on this page -- amazing assortment of the old and new >of net-digi-art etc. > >bill > >On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Brian Stefans wrote: > >>If you know any undergrads at Brown who are looking for a fun course, tell >>them to take electronic writing! It's got a cool site, too, which can serve >>as a resource for electronic writing courses elsewhere. >> >>http://www.arras.net/brown_ewriting/ >> >>Cheers, >>Brian -- Joe Amato, Managing Editor American Book Review Illinois State University CB 4241 Fairchild Hall, Room 109 Normal, IL 61790-4241 USA 309.438.2127 (voice) 309.438.3523 (fax) AmericanBookReview@ilstu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:08:02 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Sarah Trott Subject: Contemporary Writers Series: Bruce Andrews, 1/31 Comments: To: poetics@listserve.buffalo.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline The Contemporary Writers Series welcomes poet and performance artist, Bruce Andrews for a rare West Coast reading at Mills College. Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 5:30 p.m. 1st Floor Living Room, Mills Hall Mills College refreshments will be provided Bruce Andrews is "a performance artist and poet whose texts are some of the most radical of the Language school; his poetry tries to cast doubt on each and every 'natural' construction of language" (The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English). Andrews is a founding editor of the legendary journal L=3DA=3DN=3DG=3DU=3DA=3DG=3DE, which catalyzed the ep= onymous poetry movement that emerged in the 1970s and '80s. His many books include Lip Service (Coach House Books, 2001), Paradise and Method: Poetics and Praxis(Avant-Garde and Modernism) (Northwestern University Press, 1996), Ex Why Zee (Roof Books, 1995), and I Don't Have Any Paper So Shut Up (or, Social Romanticism) (Sun & Moon Press, 1992). For directions and a campus map, call (510) 430-3250 or go to www.mills.edu/maps/index.php Hope to see you there! Sarah Trott The Place for Writers Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:11:19 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Adam Fieled Subject: "silliman and pound" stone the devil MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There's a new essay on Stoning the Devil: www.adamfieled.blogspot.com comparing Ezra Pound & Ron Silliman. I think it might be of interest to some people.... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:14:47 +0100 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Side Subject: I need to contact Heidi Staples Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need to contact Heidi Staples. She is doing an interview for me with Medbh McGuckian for The Argotist Online. I have emailed her many time since December but I have had no response. This is unusual as she normally replies promptly. Does anyone know of her whereabouts? Is she alright? Jeff Side ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:16:31 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Re: Electronic Writing II In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit collaboration and cash. i see your point (and i thought they were all starving artists clicking away in sound-proof garrets). actually, i had a similar thought scrolling through, but more along the lines of design and distro protocols, costs and infrastructure requirements for that. tho some, if you go all the way through, are clearly not in that pro category, as you say. bill On Jan 25, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Joe Amato wrote: > valuable site, yes bill... one of the things that strikes me about > those artist links is how clear it is, generally, who has access to > serious institutional $$, and who doesn't... some of those linked > sites have been put together by real pros, others by people who are > still coding (like me) with html (and i understand, too, that some > folks prefer stripped-down presentations)... > > i'm envious!... and i teach at a u, if one that can't afford to give > us anywhere near that kind of expert programming assistance... if i > want to rip a dvd and put it on my website, the best i can get is > someone to tell me over the phone what i need to do... then i have to > go and do it... > > another problem here, too (and i know the electronic lit org is > working on this) is how to represent early storyspace, hypercard, > etc., works---which were the works that first caught my eye back in, > say, 1990... for that matter, the idea that net art could really > bolster collaboration---something i've always contended was the > case---has bumped up against that dollar reality too... in the past > 4-5 years it's become increasingly evident to me that it often takes > serious $$ to collaborate---depends on the project, of course, but > have a look at any number of ongoing dvd projects---and the nation's > top 50 or so academic institutions are way, way ahead when it comes to > providing funding for such work... > > collaboration is great, yeah, but it can be pricey... > > best, > > joe > >> I strongly recommend a quick (or thorough) browse through the artists >> list on this page -- amazing assortment of the old and new of >> net-digi-art etc. >> >> bill >> >> On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Brian Stefans wrote: >> >>> If you know any undergrads at Brown who are looking for a fun >>> course, tell >>> them to take electronic writing! It's got a cool site, too, which >>> can serve >>> as a resource for electronic writing courses elsewhere. >>> >>> http://www.arras.net/brown_ewriting/ >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Brian > > -- > Joe Amato, Managing Editor > American Book Review > Illinois State University > CB 4241 > Fairchild Hall, Room 109 > Normal, IL 61790-4241 > USA > > 309.438.2127 (voice) > 309.438.3523 (fax) > AmericanBookReview@ilstu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:21:07 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Juliana Mary Spahr Subject: poetry and pedagogy collection now available MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-disposition: inline this is out now=2E but only in hardback at an astronomically high price=2E= if so inclined=2C please encourage your library to order so a paperback= reprint will happen=2E or=2C order an examination copy=2E details on ho= w to do this are at=3A http=3A//www=2Epalgrave-usa=2Ecom/textbooks/newte= xtbooks=2Easpx and also http=3A//www=2Epalgrave-usa=2Ecom/textbooks/exam= =5Fcopy=2Ehtm POETRY AND PEDAGOGY The Challenge of the Contemporary Edited by Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr From Palgrave Macmillan Pub date=3A Feb 2006 328 pages Size 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 =2469=2E95 - Hardcover (1-4039-6912-4) Few could deny that the contemporary is the chronic blind spot in most l= iberal arts curricula=2E Many =93twentieth century lit=2E=94 courses sti= ll don=92t cover much after the mid-fifties=3B other disciplines in the = humanities don=92t acknowledge poetry at all as part of the study of the= contemporary=2E The essays collected here suggestively address the poss= ibilities=2C pleasures=2C and risks of teaching from the multiplicity of= poetries that have proliferated since the sixties=2E They discuss how t= o create a lively=2C investigative poetry classroom and suggest ways to = work with cultural implications of poetry in society=2E The aim is to in= vite students to experience and make meaning of the poetics of our conte= mporary world=2C one that is blatantly =93multi=94=97multi-cultural=2C l= ingual=2C racial=2C and ethnic=2E = Table of contents * Why Teach Contemporary Poetries=3F--Joan Retallack =26 Juliana Spahr = * Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy--Alan Golding = * FFFFFalling with Poetry=3A The Centrifugal Classroom--Lynn Keller = * Reading for Affect in the Lyric--Charles Altieri = * )Writing Writing(--Jonathan Monroe = * New World Studies and the Limits of National Literatures--Roland Green= e = * What Hawai=27i=27s =22Local=22 Poetry Has Taught Me about Pedagogy--Mo= rris Young = * Post-literary Poetry=2C Counter-performance=2C and Micro-poetries--Mar= ia Damon = * The Difficult Poem--Charles Bernstein = * Deformance and Interpretation--Lisa Samuel and Jerome McGann = * Nourbese Philip=27s =22Discourse on the Logic of Language=22--Mark McM= orris = * The Didactic--Lytle Shaw = * Stages of Encounter with a Difficult Text--Lyn Hejinian = * =22My Susan Howe=2C=22 or=2C =22Howe to Teach=22--G=2E Matthew Jenkins= = * Language as Visible Vapor--Jim Keller = * Teaching Kimiko Hahn=27s The Unbearable Heart --Juliana Chang = * =22Gumshoe Poetry=22--Jena Osman = * A Case for Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom--Hiram Maxim = * Sex Dolls=2C Mice=2C and Mother=27s Suitcase--Derek Owens = * Creative Wreading=3A A Primer--Charles Bernstein = * Understanding Alternative Poetries--Harryette Mullen = * He Has More Than One Ear--Diane Glancy = * Notes Towards Exploding =22Exploding Text=3A Poetry Workshop=22--Bob H= olman = * Some Places to Find New Poetries and Pedagogies = * Notes on Contributors ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:46:25 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anny Ballardini Subject: Re: Fwd: joseph ceravolo page is up In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Very well done, Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! Friedrich Nietzsche On 1/25/06, David-Baptiste Chirot wrote: > > many thanks for this > ceravolo is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century > > > > >From: John Lowther > >Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group > >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > >Subject: Fwd: joseph ceravolo page is up > >Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:58:40 -0500 > > > >written by James Sanders of the A.P.G. (that's his note below) > > > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ceravolo > > > >have a look-- the beauty is that if you think what i wrote stinx, you ca= n > >change it > > _________________________________________________________________ > On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to > get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=3DRetirement > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:14:07 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Gary Sullivan Subject: FEB-MAY SEGUE READINGS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed SEGUE READING SERIES @BOWERY POETRY CLUB The Segue Reading Series is made possible by the support of The Segue Foundation. For more information, please visit www.segue.org/calendar, http://bowerypoetry.com/midsection.htm or call (212) 614-0505. Curators: Feb. Mitch Highfill, Mar. Charles Borkhuis, Apr. & May Tonya Foster & Monica de la Torre. FEBRUARY 4 GARY SULLIVAN AND MARSHALL REESE Gary Sullivan is both a poet and a cartoonist. He is the author of Dead Man, How To Succeed in the Arts and with Nada Gordon, Swoon. He has edited or co-edited numerous presses and magazines, including Detour Press, Readme, and the Poetry Project Newsletter. The first issue of his comic book, Elsewhere, was published in 2005. Marshall Reese is an artist and poet who addresses the nexus of power, religion, and commerce. For more than 20 years he has collaborated with Nora Ligorano as Ligorano/Reese. Their process of making work has become seamless and the boundaries between their conceptual contributions have all but disappeared. He is the author of Writing and Slush. He co-edited E and E pod magazines. FEBRUARY 11 BILL BISSETT and ADEENA KARASICK Bill Bissett is one of the most unique poets writing today. His rhythms, based on physical pauses not grammatical form, make him one of the world’s leading sound poets. His latest book is northern wild roses/deth interrupts th dansing. Adeena Karasick is an internationally acclaimed and award winning poet, media-artist and author of six books of poetry and theory, including The House That Hijack Built, The Arugula Fugues, and Dyssemia Sleaze, all marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges linguistic habits and normative modes of meaning production. She teaches at St. John’s University in NYC. FEBRUARY 18 LESLIE SCALAPINO and MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Leslie Scalapino is the author of Zither & Autobiography, The Tango & Dahlia’s Iris – Secret Autobiography and Fiction, among many other books. She publishes one of the premiere small presses in the U.S. O Books. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's Selected Poems is forthcoming in April. Concordance, a collaboration with Kiki Smith, has been published by The Rutgers Center for Innovative Paper and Print. She lives in New Mexico and New York City. FEBRUARY 25 ROBERT KELLY and ELIZABETH ROBINSON Robert Kelly is the author of over 40 books, most recently Lapis, and a collaboration with Birgit Kemper called Shame/Scham. Forthcoming are Threads and The Language of Eden. Elizabeth Robinson is the author of 7 books, most recently Apostrophe. She won the Nat’l Poetry Series for Pure Descent, and the Fence Modern Poets Prize for Apprehend. She co-edits 26 Magazine, Instance Press and Etherdome Chapbooks. Elizabeth lives in Boulder and teaches at the University of Colorado. MARCH 4 NADA GORDON and ANN LAUTERBACH Nada Gordon is the author of V Imp, Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker Than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?, Foriegnn Bodie, and, with Gary Sullivan, the e-pistolary nonfiction novel Swoon. Visit her blog at: http://ululate.blogspot.com. Ann Lauterbach 's seventh poetry collection, Hum, was published in 2005, along with The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she teaches at Bard College. MARCH 11 BOB PERELMAN and TOM RAWORTH Bob Perelman is the author of numerous books of poems, including Playing Bodies, a poem/painting collaboration with Francie Shaw, and Ten to One (Selected Poems), and two critical books, The Trouble with Genius and The Marginalization of Poetry. He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Tom Raworth is England’s foremost innovative poet. He has a painful left big toe this morning (November 29th), is drinking a large cup of black coffee, has just finished reading Illicit by Mosés Naím and is about to go out in cold rain to have a blood-test. His latest book is Collected Poems. MARCH 18 JOANNA FUHRMAN and CYNTHIA HOGUE Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three books of poetry: Freud in Brooklyn (2000), Ugh Ugh Ocean (2003), and Moraine (2006.) Some of her collaborations appear in the new anthology Saints of Hysteria: Fifty Years of Collaborative Poetry. Cynthia Hogue’s most recent collections are Flux and The Incognito Body, and her critical work includes essays on Dickinson, H.D., Marianne Moore, Susan Howe, and Kathleen Fraser. She is currently the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry and the Interim Director of Creative Writing at Arizona State University in Tempe. MARCH 25 RODRIGO TOSCANO and CHARLES ALEXANDER Rodrigo Toscano was a 2005 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The Disparities, and Partisans. Originally from California, Toscano has been living in NYC for the last seven years. Charles Alexander's books of poetry include Hopeful Buildings, arc of light/dark matter, Near or Random Acts, and the forthcoming Certain Slants, as well as numerous chapbooks. He founded Chax Press in 1984 and continues to guide it in the publication and creation of poetry and book arts works. He has just received the distinguished Arizona Arts Award, the largest award given to an artist in the state of Arizona. APRIL 1 ROCIO CERON and CARLA FAESLER (MOTIN POETA) and LILA ZEMBORAIN Rocío Cerón is author of four books of poetry published in Mexico City—Estas manos, Litoral, Basalto, and, most recently, Apuntes para sobrevivir al aire—and of Soma, published in Buenos Aires. She is editor of Ediciones El billar de Lucrecia, devoted to new poetry from Latin America. Carla Faesler is author of the poetry books No tú sino la piedra and Anábasis maqueta. Cerón and Faesler are founding members of the Mexico City-based poetry collective Motín Poeta. Lila Zemborain is author of four books of poetry, Ábrete sésamo debajo del agua, Usted, Guardianes del secreto, and most recently Malvas orquídeas del mar, published in Argentina. She directs and edits the chapbook & reading series Rebel Road, and directs the poetry reading series at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I Center. APRIL 8 CAROLINE BERGVALL and KENNETH GOLDSMITH Caroline Bergvall has been based in London since 1989. Her books include Eclat and Goan Atom, 1. Fig, her most recent collection, was published in 2005 in the Salt Modern Poets series. A cd, VIA: poems 1994-2004. She is Research Fellow in Performance Writing at Dartington College and Co-chair of Writing, Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College. Kenneth Goldsmith is the author of eight books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb, and the editor of I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, Goldsmith is also the host of a weekly radio show on New York City's WFMU. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of PennSound, a online poetry archive. APRIL 15 DAWN LUNDY MARTIN and EVIE SHOCKLEY Evie Shockley’s poetry collection, a half-red sea, is forthcoming, which also published her chapbook, The Gorgon Goddess (2001). Her work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blue Fifth Review, Brilliant Corners, Bum Rush the Page, Fascicle,Hambone, HOW2, nocturnes (re)view, Poetry Daily, Talisman, and other journals and anthologies. She is an assistant professor of English atRutgers University and a Cave Canem fellow. Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of The Morning Hour, selected in 2003 by C.D. Wright for the Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Fellowship. She has published poetry in several journals including Callaloo, Nocturnes, and Encyclopedia. A founding member of the Black Took Collective, a group of experimental black poets, Dawn is co-editor of the collection of essays, The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism, and a founder of Third Wave Foundation in New York. Dawn currently teaches at The New School University and Bard College.. APRIL 22 LATASHA N. NEVADA DIGGS and URAYOAN NOEL Latasha Diggs is the author of three chapbooks—Ichi-Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), and Manuel is destroying my bathroom. She is the recipient of scholarships, residencies, and fellowships from Cave Canem, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Naropa Institute, Caldera Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lead electronic vocalist for two bands, the Yohimbe Brothers. Latasha is the poetry curator for the online journal, www.exittheapple.com, and teaches at Medger Evers College. Urayoán Noel is the author of the books of poetry Kool Logic / La lógica kool and Boringkén diciones Vértigo), and of the performance DVD Kool Logic Sessions: Poems, Pop Songs, Laugh Tracts. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he is a doctoral student in Spanish at New York University. APRIL 29 DURIEL HARRIS and LISA JARNOT Duriel E. Harris is a co-founder of The Black Took Collective and a Poetry Editor for Obsidian III. A regular performing member of Douglas Ewart’s experimental jazz choir Orchestra Inventions, she is currently at work on AMNESIAC, a media art project supported in part by funding from the “Race and Technology Initiative” at the University of California, Santa Barbara Center for Black Studies.Harris teaches at Saint Lawrence University, and is the author of Drag. Lisa Jarnot is the author of three collections of poetry—Black Dog Songs, Ring of Fire, and Some Other Kind of Mission. She recently completed a biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan which will be published in 2007. She lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Brooklyn College, and in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University. MAY 6 MARCELLA DURAND and ERICA HUNT Marcella Durand is the author of The Anatomy of Oil and Western Capital Rhapsodies. This spring she is a writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She is still working on a series of prose poems titled "False Color View," an anthology of contemporary French poetry, some translations, and essays on ecology and poetry. Erica Hunt is the author of three collections of poetry--Local History, Arcade, and Piece Logic. Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals. Erica is president of The Twenty-First Century Foundation, which supports organizations that address root causes of social injustice. Erica is currently the 2005-06 Fellow in Poetics & Poetic Practice at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. MAY 13 ELIOT WEINBERGER and SUSAN HOWE Eliot Weinberger's latest books are What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles; The Stars, a collaboration with the artist Vija Celmins; and an anthology, World Beat: International Poetry Now from New Directions. Susan Howe's most recent books are The Midnight, and Kidnapped. A CD called Thiefth in collaboration with the musician/ composer David Grubb has recently been released. She holds the Samuel P Capen Chair in Poetry and the Humanities as the State University New York at Buffalo. MAY 20 CAROL MIRAKOVE and LISA ROBERTSON Carol Mirakove is the author of Mediated and Occupied as well as two chapbooks. She is included on the Narrow House CD Women in the Avant-Garde and her essay "Anxieties of Information" appears in the debut issue of Small Press Traffic's new magazine, Traffic. Lisa Robertson lives in France. In Spring 2006, a new book of poetry, The Men is forthcoming. Previous books include XEclogue, Debbie: an epic, The Weather, Rousseau’s Boat, and a collection of essays, Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:21:24 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Electronic Writing II In-Reply-To: <000f01c6216d$a7b92b40$0602a8c0@brianlaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Interesting list of artists, Brian. Here are some others who are seriously involved in 'electronic writing': JASON LEWIS (USA/Canada) http://www.thethoughtshop.com I particularly like his piece "I Know What You're Thinking". EUGENIO TISSELLI (Spain) http://www.motorhueso.net Eugenio is an artist-programmer who has created an interesting body of Shockwave work for the Web. Plus some other work in PHP and Visual Basic. Some of Eugenio's work is exploratory of the 'semantic Web', ie, you type something into the interface and the program then uses Google image search or perhaps an online thesaurus or whatever to retrieve relevant data and then does stuff with it. He also has some downloadable software online such as MIDIPoet (done with Visual Basic) to create reactive text and image pieces. And he has done some other strongly conceptual work in PHP where, each time a Web page is visited, a character is deleted or generated or, in another piece, a synonym replaces a word of the page--that is in a piece titled "Philosophy of Language". Eugenio teaches at MECAD in Spain. GREGORY WHITEHEAD (USA) http://gregorywhitehead.com http://www.ubu.com/sound/whitehead.html http://vispo.com/temp/whitehead.m3u Whitehead's work is literary audio work. His background is in theatre and literary theory. He has been producing amazing audio work since the early eighties. CHRISTOPHE BRUNO (France) http://www.iterature.com I find Bruno's work inspired in its exploration of things like search technology to "iterature". Be sure to check out the works linked toward the bottom of the page such as "Epiphanies" and "Fields". JOGCHEM NIEMANDSVERDRIET (Holland) http://nobodyhere.com This is a cohesive site. A synthesis of HTML works and Flash works. This site is nobody's sorrow (which is what "niemandsverdriet" means). JOE KEENAN (USA) http://beehive.temporalimage.com/content_maps/42h.html Joe doesn't have his own site set up, but I've admired this work, "Moment", for some years. JAKA ZELEZNIKAR (Slovenia) http://www.jaka.org THE WORD PROJECT (South Africa) http://www.thewordproject.com Visual poetry mostly in Flash. I ordered and read his book 'A Branch of Wisdom', which is a pretty good novel. STEVE DUFFY (UK) http://www.debris.org.uk HTML/DHTML related to, say, Ted Warnell's approach. DAJUIN YAO (Taiwan) http://www.sinologic.com/concrete One of the only Taiwanese literary sites I know of. MARKO NIEMI (Finland) http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/marniemi Poet-programmer, translator, and editor. JUKKA-PEKKA KERVINEN (Finland) http://nonlinearpoetry.blogspot.com DAVID KNOEBEL (USA) http://home.ptd.net/~clkpoet ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:35:11 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Today's Special In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Today's Special Guide to the Tokyo Subway & other poems by Halvard Johnson Now available from Hamilton Stone Editions and at a website (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Alibris, Powells, etc.) near you. Halvard Johnson ================ halvard@earthlink.net http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr.html http://www.hamiltonstone.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:48:22 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Van Shell Subject: Quadrangle: call for submissions Comments: cc: cochrane@canisius.edu, quadmag@canisius.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Poetics List Serve Members, Quadrangle, the Canisius College literary journal, is seeking submissions from Canisius alumni, current students, and associated faculty and staff. The submissions must be received by 5:00 p.m. February 1, 2006. SUBMISSIONS: Poetry, short fiction, creative non fiction, photography, and artwork may be submitted electronically to _quadmag@canisius.edu_ (mail to:quadmag@canisius.edu) or dropped off at Churchill Tower 901 in the Quadrangle mailbox, or mailed to Quadrangle Magazine, Churchill Tower 901, Canisius College, 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208. Please include a brief bio. Simultaneous submissions accepted as long as they are indicated as such and we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Payment is two copies upon publication. No submissions returned without a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Sincerely, Michelle Vanstrom, Quadrangle staff and Poetics list member, Shana Williams, Editor-in-chief, Quadrangle We have become not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. ~Jimmy Carter Here's to celebrating our many differences. Quadrangle 2006 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:50:08 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Teen Poetry Generator Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed (I'm waiting for some teen to hack the site & bring it down....the poetry is that bad) http://www.elsewhere.org/hbzpoetry/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:58:38 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: Electronic Writing II In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What's electronic writing anyway? Is it the same thing it was 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 25 years ago? Aren't we really talking about language-oriented interfaces? All questions, no answers. ~mIEKAL ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:33:40 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brian Stefans Subject: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A fully linked version of this post appears at: http://www.arras.net/brown_ewriting/ _What is Electronic Writing?_ I=92m asked this question quite often, and have rarely been able to come = up with a short answer. It=92s many things, and quite often, a work of =93electronic writing=94 is so unique that it=92s a genre until itself. If I were to come up with a fortune cookie answer to the question, I = would say that it is any form of writing that takes advantage of the = possibilities afforded by digital technology =96 such as the internet, or graphics = programs such as Illustrator or Photoshop, or animation / audio / interactive programs such as Flash =96 in their creation and presentation. But it is also those forms of writing that are informed by new ways of thinking brought on by the way digital technology has impacted our = world, i.e. forms of writing that are organized according to the principles of = the database, or that work primarily as texts distributed over the internet, = or that =96 in the manner of =93Dispositions,=94 which was written with the = aid of a GPS device =96 relied on computer technology in the writing. Now for the long answer=85 Electronic writing can be:=20 - Classic hypertext fiction, in which different pages of writing (often called =93lexia=94) are maneuvered by the reader by clicking on words or = images. These can be =93choose your own adventure=94 type narratives, or more = poetic interactive texts in which there are no fictional elements at all. Many = of the better ones of these, such as =93Patchwork Girl=94 and = =93Afternoon,=94 are not available online, and have to be purchased from Eastgate Systems.=20 - Animated poems, such as =93The Dreamlife of Letters=94 or = =93Axolotl,=94 in which the viewer/reader is not asked to do anything but watch and listen while text performs before them. Think of this as the art of movie titles = applied to creative ventures. =93Bembo=92s Zoo=94 is another classic example.=20 - Conceptual blogs and websites, such as =93The Dullest Blog in the = World=94 or =93Dagmar Chili Pitas,=94 which are sites that explore a particular type = of writing to the nth degree, such that you really can=92t categorize them = under anything in particular. =93Entropy8,=94 by Aurelia Harvey, is a classic = in this genre.=20 - Non-electronic conceptual writing, such as =93The Tapeworm Foundry=94 = or =93Dispositions,=94 that explore some aspect of writing that relates to = a =93database aesthetic,=94 i.e. a collection of fragments that are = organized into a poetic whole.=20 - Parody and =93hactivist=94 websites, which are conceptual sites that = attempt to comment on the conventions public communication on the web, such as =93whitehouse.org,=94 my own =93Vaneigem Series,=94 or =93Blackness for = Sale,=94 which was really just a page of Ebay. These sites usually engage in some form = of artistic plagiarism, i.e. taking graphics and design elements from = corporate sites.=20 - Wordtoys, which are more sophisticated forms of classic hypertext, in which the user is invited to play with an experimental interface is such = a way that new textual creations are manufactured in real-time, such as Camille Utterback installation =93Text Rain=94 or the projects of Daniel = Howe.=20 - Interactive Fiction and literary games, in which the user is the hero = of a story, and must input commands to navigate the literary piece and solve = it like a puzzle, in the manner of early text-playing or role-playing = games. Nick Montfort has been the biggest advocate of this type of writing.=20 - Cave Writing and installation texts, which takes place in the VRML environment of Brown=92s Cave or in gallieries, like =93Text Rain=94 or = =93Legible City.=94 Some installations, such as Mark Domino=92s gl=E5s, are not = interactive.=20 - Email and collaborative art, and other forms of writing that take advantage of the forms of communication peculiar to electronic communications, such as =93Implementation,=94 which is a fiction that = requires the user to download stickers that they can paste up in the cities or = towns they live in, or even writing that is primarily distributed via text messaging.=20 - Computer generated texts, in which a computer program helped in the creation of the text, or in which a web spider culled live text from the internet to create the work, such as in Noah Wardrip-Fruin=92s =93Regime = Change & Newsreader.=94 A version of this is website translators like =93Pornolize.com,=94 which converts the text of any website into a = (kitchy) porn language.=20 There are a billion variations on the above, and in fact no piece is = ever peculiar to one of these categories. A work called =93They Rule,=94 = which uses a database of CEOs of the major corporations of the world, is an = interactive political cartoon that is almost entirely a textual experience, while = =93All Your Base Are Belong to Us=94 is just a crazy Flash movie made by any = number of people spontaneously around the world. Practical websites - such as ubu.com, a collection of concrete, audio = and avant-garde video files, and rhizome.org, the premiere internet website = - are often considered a form of art since they are often the expressions = of very personal, non-commercial and often very obsessive artistic and political visions. Communities often develop around these sites, thus putting them somewhere in the camp of =93activism.=94 Great electronic art can be created with little or no computer skills, = which is kind of the drama of the entire venture. Some of the most effective = forms of Electronic Writing are INCREDIBLY SIMPLE to create, such as = =93Blackness for Sale=94 and the =93Vaneigem Series.=94 I have a soft spot for these = types of projects, since they don=92t require a team of computer scientists to = create, and their impact is clean and immediate. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:11:21 -0500 Reply-To: jofuhrman@excite.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joanna Fuhrman Subject: announcement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi list members Just want to announce that my new book Moraine is out. Here’s the link if you are interested. http://hangingloosepress.com/newtitles.html Happy Chinese New Year! I’m not sure if they are at SPD yet, but they have them at Hanging Loose Press. By spring they should be at SPD, Barnes and Nobles online etc.Joanna _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:33:41 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: AMBogle2@AOL.COM Subject: Bogle Blog Comments: cc: AMBogle@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://annbogle.blogspot.com ANN MARGARET BOGLE BLOG is now open and serving: First Sex, about meeting a man at an internet dating website. Four Poems Father-time Trent Kesey, a dream. Rida, rida ranka, a Swedish folksong. Photos 2002 & 1998 Story of my arrest on election night 2002. What is a blog? What is a bogle? Notes on psychotherapy and diagnoses. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:25:47 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Electronic Writing II In-Reply-To: <000f01c6216d$a7b92b40$0602a8c0@brianlaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 3 more concerning 'electronic writing': BILL MARSH (San Diego) http://www.factoryschool.org/btheater CHRIS JOSEPH (Canada/UK) http://www.babel.ca WRITER RESPONSE THEORY (Australia/USA) http://wrt.ucr.edu/wordpress "Our primary focus is on active and interactive works, in which users input text and receive textual responses as output." ja ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:06:25 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Henry A. 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And Gregory Whitehead is indeed a great one for audio "electronic writing." I'll put him up there, and maybe Christophe Mignone. Only so much I can cram into the sidebar. Chris Joseph is a real find, I wish I had known about him earlier, but it appears he's only been working since 2002. Still working through the rest of the links. Mark Tribe gave me a bunch of good ones too. I agree that the loss of all of the Storyspace work for now is huge. I really thought that I'd be able to teach some of that stuff, but it's so awkward to get them to borrow copies from the library, read them in the lab (where the software doesn't even run on the new Macs, from what I understand) etc. I don't know why there is no Java version of Storyspace, it seems like a no-brainer. Then those students who didn't want to learn Flash could just learn that. As for funding for these projects, yes there is a difference between those who can pay to have their stuff designed for them, but I actually find many sites pretty, well, unbeautiful, even when there seems to be institutions behind them. It's when it comes to projecting your words on a wall and dancing around in from of them with an electronic glove that it gets expensive. Most of the better looking web stuff tends to be by people who make their money elsewhere anyway, with their own design sense unhindered by other people's money. A computer in itself is an investment, of course. I encourage people to visit the blog, especially when student work starts to go up, but please do me a favor and don't leave comments. The comments are for them, and I'd like to make them feel like they have some privacy, even though they know they don't. (Feel free to comment at FSC however.) Thanks again! Brian ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:24:32 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Electronic Writing II In-Reply-To: <000c01c6223e$da00a570$0602a8c0@brianlaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Chris Joseph is a real find, I wish I had known about him earlier, but it > appears he's only been working since 2002. It may be that the work he currently has up is from 02 on, but he has been at it for longer than that. I met him in 2001 and had seen quite a bit of more literary work that he no longer has up on his site. I wrote something about some of his work, recently, for a book to be published in Britain concerning his work and the work of several others who are doing experimental work with the moving image. There's a show of their work touring Britain. I wrote about some of the work Chris has done that draws on early cinema and its theory but recontextualized concerning Net art. ja ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:14:40 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Nico Vassilakis Subject: sUbtext rEading: Brian Evenson & Stacey Levine & Tony Burgess Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Subtext continues its monthly series of experimental writing with readings by Brian Evenson and Stacey Levine; and a short film by Tony Burgess at Richard Hugo House on Wednesday, February 1, 2006. Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of the performance. The reading starts at 7:30pm. Brian Evenson is the author of six books of fiction, including Altmann's Tongue, Father of Lies, Contagion, and Dark Property. He is the recipient of a NEA Fellowship, an O. Henry Prize, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Conjunctions, The Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Third Bed, The Southern Review, and a number of other magazines. He teaches in Brown University's Creative Writing Program, and is a Senior Editor for Conjunctions. Evenson earned his Ph.D. in critical theory and English literature at the University of Washington. Stacey Levine lives in Seattle and is the author of the award winning My Horse and Other Stories, and Dra - (a novel), both from Sun & Moon Press. Her new novel is Frances Johnson, from Clear Cut Press. Tony Burgess is an Ontario writer who has published poetry, screenplays, criticism, and fiction. He is the author of The Hellmouths of Bewdley, Pontypool Changes Everything, and Caesarea. A short film will be shown, not necessarily of him reading. The future Subtext 2006 schedule is: 3/1/2006 Jonathan Brannen (St Paul, MN) and Adriana Grant 4/5/2006 Mark Tardi (Chicago) and Sarah Mangold For info on these & other Subtext events, see our website: http://www.speakeasy.org/~subtext ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:13:59 -0800 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Subject: Larry's Poetry Forum MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Poetry Forum at Larry’s The Season: 2005-2006 The Poetry Forum at Larry’s Fall/Winter 2005 Looking forward to seeing you'all soon-- Readings: 2 sets about 20-25 minutes each. From: January 16 -- Stevi Meredith January 23 -- Jerry Roscoe January 30 -- Louise Robertson February 6 -- Eoin O'Brien February 13 -- Sommer Sterud February 20 -- Gina Blaurock February 27 -- Frank Richardson March 6 -- Andrew Hudgins March 13 -- Sharmila Voorakka March 20 -- Alice Cone March 27 -- Leonard Kress & Eric Wallack April 3 -- Bill Morgan April 10 -- Garin Cycholl April 17 -- Gabriel Gudding April 24 -- TBA May 1 -- William Redding Memorial Reading All Events Mondays 7pm 2040 N. High St Columbus, Ohio All readings followed by a brief open mike. Funded by the Ohio Arts Council: A state agency that supports public programs in the arts. Be well David Baratier, Co-coordinator, Larry's Poetry Forum Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus, OH 43206 http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:03:51 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lewis LaCook Subject: Confusion is sex Comments: To: netbehaviour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://www.lewislacook.org/xanaxpop/ After I kill the President, the Boys come home from the desert. They're thirsty, and it's not a liquid thirst. Sunshine repaints the windows every morning around this time, but the Boys seem morose somehow: they're waiting for something. They shovel hot new food into themselves, wrapping their arms around their plates to insure proper delivery. My hair dries out in the heat, so I have to condition--loudly. Tid-bits of information dribble from the scimitar curl of their lips. Mary is careful to point out the differences between data and information: information is data in context. She learned this in school. Because I'm suspicious of everything I've been taught, I appear not to listen. Appear. I'm so fucking sick of words and definitions, of taxonomies and discrimination. Mary is learning how to wander. The way is shocking sometimes, in its method of detachment. The Boys, too, seem adroitly adrift, as if, exhausting themselves akin to drowning, they'd drained their personalities too. But Mary knows where we're going. The first moment out of the shower, when the air hits you. *************************************************************************** ||http://www.lewislacook.org|| sign up now! poetry, code, forums, blogs, newsfeeds... --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with your Yahoo! Mail. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:28:14 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? In-Reply-To: <000001c621ff$645c5e70$0602a8c0@brianlaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > _What is Electronic Writing?_ > > I’m asked this question quite often, and have rarely been able to come up > with a short answer. It’s many things, and quite often, a work of > “electronic writing” is so unique that it’s a genre until itself. > > If I were to come up with a fortune cookie answer to the question, I would > say that it is any form of writing that takes advantage of the > possibilities > afforded by digital technology – such as the internet, or > graphics programs > such as Illustrator or Photoshop, or animation / audio / interactive > programs such as Flash – in their creation and presentation. In that case, the 'electronic' part should, instead, be 'computer' or 'digital'. 'Electronic writing' can include work that doesn't have anything to do with computers, such as Gregory Whitehead's audio work, or, much earlier, William Burroughs's audio cut-ups, or Jenny Holzer's LED works. ja http://vispo.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:46:40 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Belz Subject: email for Courtney Queeney MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anybody have a current email address for Courtney Queeney? Backchannel - aaron@belz.net Thanks, Aaron ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:03:21 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Re: Electronic Writing II In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In all fairness, what I do is more e-diting than e-writing, more -editation than me-reme-diation, more publish than the e-parish of current digi-praxis, so my camps are arguably elsewhere. Still, e-diting as digital composition, book-making as computer-based design-art, meta-organ-ization of the ur-book out of your-book... if pushed I'd want to include these as e-writing formations, since they are forms of writing that take advantage of the possibilities afforded by digital technology and certainly graphics/design programs like Pshop and InDesign, not to mention the Internet by which the many micro and macro details of ur-book editation, production, distribution are invented, managed, choreographed, and challenged. There are the lingering issues of intent, investment, and output that I think could be stressed a little more in definitions of e- or any other-writing, the stamps of "e"-ness--or as a corollary, "print"-ness--that come from the personal or institutional investments (of all kinds) inherent to particular kinds of production and distribution, over the Internet or elsewhere. Electronic writing is self-consciously so, and not to its detriment by any means, and its capacities and limitations, as with other forms, have more to do, I think, with "ways of thinking" than with any structural reliance on computer technology. Dispositions, to borrow the title, seem more to the point. Bill Marsh (now in Chicago, actually) On Jan 25, 2006, at 6:25 PM, Jim Andrews wrote: > 3 more concerning 'electronic writing': > > BILL MARSH (San Diego) > http://www.factoryschool.org/btheater > > CHRIS JOSEPH (Canada/UK) > http://www.babel.ca > > WRITER RESPONSE THEORY (Australia/USA) > http://wrt.ucr.edu/wordpress > "Our primary focus is on active and interactive works, in which users > input > text and receive textual responses as output." > > ja > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:53:21 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Hot Whiskey Press Subject: Tomorrow in Boulder: Left Hand Reading With Barg, Rogers, Koshkin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline LEFT HAND Reading Series This Friday, January 29th at 8pm Poetry Reading: Barbara Barg Michael Koshkin Jennifer Rogers at Left Hand Book Collective 1200 Pearl St. # 10 Boulder, CO the store is downstairs on the mall near broadway in pearl in the Broadway Basement Shops call 303 - 888 - 6726 for more info and, or visit our web page http://lefthandreadingseries.blogspot.com http://hotwhiskeyblog.blogspot.com Please see site for poster! ********************************************************************* -- Hot Whiskey Press www.hotwhiskeyblog.blogspot.com www.hotwhiskeypress.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:52:55 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Hot Whiskey Press Subject: Reading Tomorrow in Boulder: Left Hand Reading With Barg, Rogers, Koshkin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline LEFT HAND Reading Series This Friday, January 29th at 8pm Poetry Reading: Barbara Barg Michael Koshkin Jennifer Rogers at Left Hand Book Collective 1200 Pearl St. # 10 Boulder, CO the store is downstairs on the mall near broadway in pearl in the Broadway Basement Shops call 303 - 888 - 6726 for more info and, or visit our web page http://lefthandreadingseries.blogspot.com http://hotwhiskeyblog.blogspot.com Please see sites for poster and more info ********************************************************************* -- Hot Whiskey Press www.hotwhiskeyblog.blogspot.com www.hotwhiskeypress.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:22:26 -0500 Reply-To: patrick@proximate.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Patrick Herron Organization: proximate.org Subject: *Feb 02 Reading in St. Louis* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Feb 02 Reading in St. Louis* For those of you in or around St. Louis, MO, I will be reading there this coming Thursday, February 2nd, along with Joe Esser and Kent Shaw. The reading will be held at 8PM in the Club Room at the Schlafly Brewery and Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street (map: http://tinyurl.com/8h9ru). If you aren't far please come out and introduce yourself after the reading. The site of the reading (a tap room) sounds not only like a nice place to read but also like the perfect place to share a beer. Poet Aaron Belz (http://meaningless.com/), a former North Carolina piedmont resident and all-around smart guy, has run the reading series for three years. See the article below. What: Readings @ the Schlafly Tap Room When: 8 p.m. first Thursday of the month Where: Club Room at the Schlafly Brewery and Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street How much: Free More info: 314-241-BEER Who: Patrick Herron, Joe Esser, Kent Shaw on Feb. 2 Patrick Patrick Herron http://proximate.org/bio ================================================================ Copyright 2005 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) September 1, 2005 Thursday FIVE STAR LATE LIFT EDITION GET OUT; Pg. 7 Chapter and verse Schlafly, Duff's book returning pair of literary series. By Daniel Durchholz SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH This month marks the return of two popular annual literary series: the venerable River Styx at Duff's series, which begins its 31st year with a program Sept. 19, and the relative upstart Readings @ the Schlafly Tap Room, which begins at 8 tonight. If you don't recognize the latter's name, that's because it has moved locations and changed names three times in three years. "We were at the City Museum the first year, and then we moved to the Contemporary Art Museum," says poet and teacher Aaron Belz, who curates the series. "This year we've hunkered down in the Club Room on the second floor of the Schlafly brewery. It's really quite a nice room." Despite its short history, the series has hosted a surprising number of established poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Dennis and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rodney Jones. "This year, we have some really well-established poets like Carl Phillips and Jane Mead coming to read," Belz says. "We also have a lot of younger and vital poets mixed in. Each season, about 75 percent of the poets have been from out of town." The series doesn't represent any one style, Belz says, though there may be a slight emphasis on the avant-garde, which reflects his own taste. "But I've really been quite willing to have all types of poets read," he says. "Carl Phillips isn't at all avant-garde, but he's very well respected. We're all over the place (stylistically)." Some of the bills are put together with a bit of whimsy. One reading scheduled for January features five writers, all of them named Aaron -- including Belz, who will emcee. "Last year, we had a reading with three Stephanies, and it was a huge success," he says. "For us, it's a huge success if there are 50 or 60 people in the audience. Last year, we averaged over 40 per reading, which is very high for a poetry series." The River Styx series, meanwhile, has been packing them in at Duff's for decades. "It's a great place to have the readings," says Richard Newman, who edits the River Styx literary magazine, which just published its 30th anniversary issue. "There's a bar, and Karen Duffy is almost religiously devoted to the reading series. She's even been known to shut off the air conditioner so there's no noise to distract from the poetry readings. She actually did that once when she thought her own air conditioner was too loud." Each of the River Styx readings features two writers, usually one from St. Louis and one from out of town. Among the luminaries reading this year are novelist and essayist David Carkeet, women's collective Loosely Identified and fiction writer Lee K. Abbott. Newman says there's also interest in keeping the readings varied in terms of formal concerns. "There's going to be a mixture of poets or fiction writers or nonfiction writers and performance artists," he says. "We've had playwrights a couple times. We try to be lively and diverse. Those are the two overriding mission words: lively and diverse." Belz, meanwhile, maintains that his series' purpose is "to connect St. Louis' writing culture with what's happening in the rest of the country. I think we're doing that." --- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:37:05 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetry Project Subject: Events at the Poetry Project 1/27 - 2/1 In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Dears, It=E2=80=99ll be a mixed bag this week, with talking, singing, poetry-reading and sparkling debauchery a la Aquarian groundswell. Please come by! Love, The Poetry Project Friday, January 27, 10:30PM Rage of Aquarius=20 Gather and celebrate the birthday day of Desiree Burch, comedian and NY neo-futurist of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. She=E2=80=99ll bring Aquarian rebellion with other poets, playwrights and provocateurs Clay McLeod Chapman, Kyle Jarrow, Christine Hamm and Red Metal Mailbox. Monday, January 30, 7:00PM Talk Series: Edmund Berrigan: Caught in the Human Shredder =20 Greil Marcus conjured a vision of the =E2=80=9COld, Weird America=E2=80=9D in his book = of the same title, of a landscape where blues and folk musicians of different eras interacted in a beautiful and violent place accessible by something like a turn of phrase from a Bob Dylan song. This will be a talk/performanc= e on the merging of poetry and songwriting in terms of applications, influences, and technical issues. Figures cited will include Blind Blake, James Schuyler, Blind Willie Johnson, Joan Baez, Cynthia Dall, Stephen Malkmus, Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery, Bob Dylan, Alice Notley and others. Edmund Berrigan is the author of Disarming Matter, Your Cheatin=E2=80=99 Heart, a= nd several other chapbooks. He performs music regularly as I Feel Tractor, as well as in the groups Mellow Crypt and Twig Light. Wednesday, February 1, 8:00PM Mike Kelleher & Kim Rosenfield Mike Kelleher is the author of=C2=A0To Be Sung (Blazevox 2005), as well as the chapbooks=C2=A0Cuba (Phylum, 2002), Bacchanalia (Quinella: Three Poems Series, 1999) and The Necessary Elephant (Ota Molloy, 1998). His writing has appeared in Slope, ecopoetics, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Kiosk, Queen St. Quarterly, The Transcendental Friend,=C2=A0and others. He lives in Buffalo, NY, where works as Artistic Director for Just Buffalo Literary Center and a= s literary editor for artvoice. Kim Rosenfield is the author of Good Morning=E2=80=94Midnight=E2=80=94(Roof Books, 2001) which won the Small Press Traffic = Book of the Year Award) and Tr=C3=A0ma (Krupskaya, 2004). She co-edited Object magazine with the poet Robert Fitterman from 1993-1999. She lives in NYC. WRITING WORKSHOPS AT THE POETRY PROJECT =20 PRACTICAL CRITICISM: A POETRY WORKSHOP =E2=80=93 TONY TOWLE TUESDAYS AT 7 PM: 10 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 14TH =20 =E2=80=9CIt is assumed that participants will be serious, practicing poets and so critiques and comments will be made from the vantage point of what the person has already established, not with a view to =E2=80=98prescribing=E2=80=99 some different way of writing. However, stretching the sensibility will be encouraged, both in the group and through individual suggestion. Non-bindin= g assignments will be given each week and poems from the past as well as thos= e of the workshop participants will be read aloud and discussed. In the cours= e of this, numerous poets past and present, and topics both literary and general, will arise and be talked about. Also I will make written comments on poems individuals may prefer not to have read aloud.=E2=80=9D John Ashbery has written: =E2=80=9CTony Towle is one of the best-kept secrets of the New York School.=E2=80=9D Tony=E2=80=99s first reading at the Poetry Project was in 1968. Recent books include The History of the Invitation: New & Selected Poems 1963-2000= , and Memoir 1960-1963. THE UNPERFORMABLE: THE VISUAL SIDE OF POETRY =E2=80=93 EVELYN REILLY THURSDAYS at 7 PM: 5 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 16TH =20 =E2=80=9CThe traditional notion of poetry as primarily a matter of =E2=80=9Cvoice=E2=80=9D ha= s often obscured its graphic and visual character, and can limit the range of experiment to what can be experienced in the venue of the poetry reading. Even the most performance-based poets, however, face issues of how to spatialize their work on the page, and every line break is as much a visual as a rhythmic and aural decision. This workshop will explore a broad range of visual poetics =E2=80=94 from modernist innovations to composition-by-field to recent spatialized text, concrete, collage, and digital poetry. We will examine work by Mallarme, Apollinaire, cummings, Olson, Schwerner, Hak Kyun= g Cha, Aram Saroyan and Susan Howe, and peruse the UbuWeb site together. Everyone will be encouraged to analyze the visual assumptions behind their poems as well as to write or revise work using alternative visual conventions.=E2=80=9D Evelyn Reilly=E2=80=99s book Hiatus was published by Barrow Stree= t in 2004 and was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America=E2=80=99s Norma Farber First Book Award.=20 =20 INFORMATION POETICS =E2=80=93 CAROL MIRAKOVE THURSDAYS AT 7 PM: 5 SESSIONS BEGIN APRIL 6 =E2=80=9CHow do we get the swirling-inside/outside-the-head onto the page? What a= re the differences between knowledge and information, and what are we putting into our poems? Why? We will look at poets & projects confronting these questions & we will explore our own potential in navigating transitional space (community, jobs, war, media). We may look at poems by Etel Adnan, Ammiel Alcalay, Jules Boykoff, Ernesto Cardinal, Roque Dalton, Kevin Davies= , Jeff Derksen, Laura Elrick, Heather Fuller, Dana Gelinas, Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, Pattie McCarthy, Yedda Morrison, Alice Notley, Mark Nowak, Douglas Oliver, Kristin Prevallet, Deborah Richards, Cristina Rivera-Garza, Kaia Sand, Leslie Scalapino, and Rodrigo Toscano. We will discuss how we read an= d what we value, how to assess the values of any given poem. We may address contradictions in literal or figurative yogic practice and the (in)corporate(zation) rush. How can we sustain simultaneously our health an= d our engagements with destruction?=E2=80=9D Carol Mirakove is the author of Mediat= ed (Factory School, forthcoming in Spring 2006) and Occupied (Kelsey St. Press). =20 IN THE ABSENCE OF THEIR SURPRISE: A NEW YORK SCHOOL WORKSHOP =C2=AD=E2=80=93 JOEL LEW= IS FRIDAYS at 7 PM: 5 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 17TH =20 =E2=80=9CIn this workshop, we will the explore the poetry and poetics of the New York School of Poetry. A school of writing more linked by personal alliance= s and mutual dislikes, it features a dazzling range of approaches ranging fro= m the radical formalism of Edwin Denby to the the permanently =E2=80=9Cunder construction=E2=80=9D poetry of Clark Coolidge. In between these banner holders a= re poets with Pulitzer Prizes (John Ashbery, James Schuyler), poets with rock bands (Jim Carroll, Patti Smith, Janet Hamill), poets who run for President (Eileen Myles) poets who are actually read by non-poets (Frank O=E2=80=99 Hara) a= nd poets held dear mostly by other New York School Poets (Joe Ceravolo, Steve Carey and Jim Brodey). We will explore New York School techniques such as collaborations, appropriative writing, list poems, cut ups, rewrites, lists= , invented forms, reinvented forms, sonnets and the secrets of how-to-keep -going-when-you-having-nothing-interesting-to-say.=E2=80=9D Joel Lewis is the aut= hor of Verticals Currency: Selected Poems and edited On The Level Everyday, selected talks of Ted Berrigan. =20 POETRY WORKSHOP =E2=80=93 DAVID HENDERSON SATURDAYS AT 12PM: 10 SESSIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 18TH =20 =E2=80=9CWe are making manuscripts of our work (at whatever stage the work or the poet or both are). As poets we are also looking at and sometimes working with prose, as another form of poetry, as well other forms of poetry such a= s lyrics, raps, spoken word form(ats) or even simple lines =E2=80=93 good in and of themselves. We practice exercises and routines of the poet. We often listen to the works of each other =E2=80=93 in progress. And there is always the right t= o just read a work without comment or criticism.=E2=80=9D Poet, lyricist, and biographer David Henderson is the author of several books, including Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age and Neo-California. =20 =20 ***The workshop fee is $300, which includes a one-year individual Poetry Project membership and tuition for any and all spring and fall classes. Reservations are required due to limited class space, and payment must be received in advance. Please send payment and reservations to: The Poetry Project, St. Mark=E2=80=99s Church, 131 E. 10th St., NY, NY 10003. For more information please call (212)674-0910 or e-mail info@poetryproject.com. Friday, January 27, 7PM FREE Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club (one drink minimum) 308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston Bowery Arts and Science present The National Treasures Series: John Godfrey (Mule), Frank Lima (The Beatitudes) and John Yau (Borrowed Love Poems). Thi= s is Once-in-a-Lifetime. Winter Calendar: http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.html 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.com www.poetryproject.com Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $85 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. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:26:11 +1000 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: K Zervos Subject: Re: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Electronic, digital, computer do not indicate interconnectedness nor hyperlinking which i would have thought was absolutely necessary to the = new literary activity brian is teaching. Writing is suspect too as it has in the past referred to written text, = tying it down to only one system of interpretation, not allowing for image, = moving image, sound, voice, interactive elements, etc. At the moment we all sort of know what electronic writing means. I rather like cybertext, espen aarseth's definition. 'There is a tendency among hypertext theorists to call all electronic texts hypertexts (and to call paper-based texts with paths or simi- lar devices protohypertexts), but this sort of imperialist = classification is not useful, considering the wide variety of textual types (many of which are already known by other names, such as MUDs and adventure games). Hypertext is a useful term when applied to the structures of links and nodes, but it is much less so if it includes all other digital texts as well. I suggest the term cybertext for texts that involve calculation in their production of scriptons.' So for me a course called 'electronic writing' may be better named 'constructing cybertets'. komninos zervos lecturer, convenor of CyberStudies major School of Arts Griffith University Room 3.25 Multimedia Building G23 Gold Coast Campus Parkwood PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre Queensland 9726 Australia Phone 07 5552 8872 Fax 07 5552 8141 homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos broadband experiments: http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs |||-----Original Message----- |||From: UB Poetics discussion group = [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] |||On Behalf Of Jim Andrews |||Sent: Friday, 27 January 2006 1:28 AM |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU |||Subject: Re: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? ||| |||> _What is Electronic Writing?_ |||> |||> I=92m asked this question quite often, and have rarely been able to = come |||up |||> with a short answer. It=92s many things, and quite often, a work of |||> =93electronic writing=94 is so unique that it=92s a genre until = itself. |||> |||> If I were to come up with a fortune cookie answer to the question, = I |||would |||> say that it is any form of writing that takes advantage of the |||> possibilities |||> afforded by digital technology =96 such as the internet, or |||> graphics programs |||> such as Illustrator or Photoshop, or animation / audio / = interactive |||> programs such as Flash =96 in their creation and presentation. ||| |||In that case, the 'electronic' part should, instead, be 'computer' or |||'digital'. 'Electronic writing' can include work that doesn't have |||anything |||to do with computers, such as Gregory Whitehead's audio work, or, = much |||earlier, William Burroughs's audio cut-ups, or Jenny Holzer's LED = works. ||| |||ja |||http://vispo.com ||| |||-- |||No virus found in this incoming message. |||Checked by AVG Free Edition. |||Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/242 - Release Date: = 26/01/06 ||| --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/242 - Release Date: = 26/01/06 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:17:01 +0530 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: kari edwards Subject: while we watch the war in horror the rats take our rights away MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline http://transdada.blogspot.com/ UN: U.S. ALIGNED WITH IRAN IN ANTI-GAY VOTE Rice Must Explain Repressive UN Ban on LGBT Rights Groups (Washington, D.C., January 25, 2006) - In a reversal of policy, the United States on Monday backed an Iranian initiative to deny United Nations consultative status to organizations working to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, a coalition of 40 organizations, led by the Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Watch, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, called for an explanation of the vote which aligned the United States with governments that have long repressed the rights of sexual minorities. http://transdada.blogspot.com/ also http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=3D9&id=3D8231 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:28:32 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Peter Quartermain Subject: NOMADOS new titles & backlist. In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060115120142.045ce9f0@writing.upenn.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Please order some or all for your institutional library!! Thanks. 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(a serious-playful and engaging work in which she weighs and = sounds what presents itself outside a real window, inside language, and through verbal-emotional associations. This work creates an osmotic border = between seeing and writing, a realist hypnogogic passage between memory and = today, between outside and inside, between now and then. That anywhere is everywhere is proven once again with this brave, enchanting book. = Rachel Blau DuPlessis) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Peter Quartermain 846 Keefer Street Vancouver BC Canada V6A 1Y7 604 255 8274 (voice) 604 255 8204 fax quarterm@interchange.ubc.ca =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:35:29 -0800 Reply-To: ishaq1823@telus.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: notes to new palestine: niggers can never go home again. -- (Re: Message not approved: Hey Jim -- Please Call Home!) Comments: To: Status of Women Action Group In-Reply-To: <00b801c622b5$5e5dd330$5c9dc8cf@billibong> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit peace cindy, We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte i understand where you are coming from, however, the members of imc back peddling and passing the buck, below have used the forum to launch personal attacks, harass me and defame my character. they have basically entered it not to produce independent media or "challenge the centres of power" -- b.u.t. to infiltrate and control it like 90% of the media in kkkanada (owned and operated by the kkkanadian government or the asper family). stephen karr/pepper (whose refrain is to remind us that his ignorance, obsession, unilateral thinking and sociopathic manipulative behaviour can be excused because of the amerikkkan racial and national socialist party percentile law -- not black this time b.u.t. -- of being "1/4 jewish?") was actually a troll who spent much time lying, launching personal attacks against *ytzhak*, defaming the character of the poster, attacking and deleting latino posts and complying with the racist segregationist policies of california immigration laws and xenophobia and making false claims of *antisemiticism* (the new tools for anyne who critiques or challenges the centres of power) along with guamanian/dan bashaw with jim hedger/radhippie (supporter of ernst zundle) and former member of the white boy only anachist club, as their go boy shill -- some are lawyers now advising on how far they can push a nigger legally without getting caught; some pretend to be journalists for media monoplies. most imc would find it odd that a troll would be offered a position on the admin of the imc they have disrupted and attack. then that very troll would, try and invoke choas on the site to collapse it ad then encourage very threatening and affected/disturbed persons to engage in internet harassment against a regular posters and other peoples in order to discourage them from participating in local and global affairs that contradict the white global supremacist and elitist agenda. any opportunity to make light of, humiliate and harass *ytzhak* or lawrence ytzhak braithwaite, the below imc coopterss have taken and it has become, much to their schoolyard bullying pleasure, humiliating, unfair, anti-intellectual, childish and intolerable -- form of behvariorial modification -- which is the desired affect of harassment. it's not that that people are blind to the bad behavior of the white bourjois in public b.u.t. that it is to make the situation so insane that anyone reacting normally, to extreme confrontation and hyperbole, with no jusitice or fairness/no checks and balances and with no outlet -- then like a frustrated ghetto by from native son or a palestinian bomber, thrower or matyre, each seen taken out of contexte with no knowledge of the history of opression, would toss themselves into the mix like c k chesterton's description of art to *thursday* -- in a a sudden act of desperation, -- so why should i be a fool for this? this city which has history of erasing and/ignoring the accomplishments of nonwhites is so hell bent on cultural imperialism is has almost become an inbred race or ethncity in itself. i have never been offered the respect as a long time member of this society here or of the community, despite my work to assist, or as an author worthy of respect and as an asset. i remained always pushed to the outside with a theatrical flair of making as if i was resisting an invitaiton -- i was and am resisting tokenism & colonial labels. frankly, i have been treated like uppity nigger that won't know his place (or when that stranger called honesty and straight talk take hold -- like an animal) . if people disagreed with me on an intellectual level that would be one thing -- b.u.t. it is reduced to slander, bullying, defamation and humiliation tactics -- for like israel, and it's brutality toward difference, they can't seem to make a case it or any other their twisted idealogies. they can only build firewalls and shoot of derision. basically, i have been subjected to the old colonial ritual of personal harassment -- my body violated, my accomplishments the victim of benign neglect and driven to the point of despair by these powers with the hope that i self destruct via negative reinforcement and isolation. i guess that's what you get when you are drafted, and i say drafted because i do not prefess to be of greatness or noble calling, only a simple man not a *boy* or anybody's *boy* as a supremist poster refereners to me as, b.u.t. at times a bit ridiculous, into fighting/or starting a scene of two as lord attendant, for a noble cause/for my peoples -- staggering in the footsteps with an increasingly heavying backpack -- in the footsteps of bruhs/sis and ancestors -- more stronger than i -- the tokenism and invisibility of our invincable accomplishements in this city and what jay-z once reminded us, to get people to "see what a nigga look like when a nigga in a roadsta"/or nigga as an author -- to see ourselves -- from niggas to gods as bruh akil once wrote. to hear ourselves -- not the reflection tolerance of the so called liberal british columbian society, a society that has an agneda of making this a white dialogue -- be it left or right -- junkie or str8 edge -- of separatist and one race caste system, b.u.t. one of as accomplished various individuals who have a right to BEE seen, respected and heard. since i have been here whatever opportunity, on an increasing level, has been take to degrade me -- to criminalize me to take me down a few notches -- tokenize and label. i have not been in the least bit respected or publicly acknowledge as an asset to my community - to my city. i have served this country for 11 years of my life. i have studied the classics. i wrote what has been acknowledge as cult classic in the united states. both novels have had featured reviews and praises from the alterntive to mainstream presses, outside of victoria. i was the first kkkanadian to have been signed to much saught after press. my writngs have been included in the national poetry archieves, studied at grad level in university. i have worked with food not bombs, put together a zine of black, native and muslim knowledge and revolutionary thought (mw), made chapbooks illustrated wby local artists. my recordings and writing have been heard and published, respectively, internationally. my hope and struggle has always been for new palestine. i have struggled for my community and faught and turned down opportunities in both the u.s. and kkkanada who have attempted to disrespect the peoples here and my fam and peoples in general -- compromise our integrity = "i am we". and have always acknowledged being from victoria and not the more glamourous big city of vancouver, like so many other artist have attempted to do, and all these efforts have garndered is benign neglect, brutality and/or constant humilation (to every step in my elevation which, will, god willing, remain constant), and in the case of certain city privately contracted individuals, like an animal who won't down stay. ...and by some coincidence i'm am suppose to ignor, or we are, that all this has happened to, and is happening to, the first black author of british columbia. one not treated as a prize. ...not as human b.u.t. as being killed by willful destruction. i must admit, i have been foolish, in my obession over making this city and my hood feel and think and CEE. ...for i have, openly, in a covert manner, said, not worship or adore -- not even more importantly, like, maybe -- b.u.t. 'love me'. ...and all smirked all the way. b.u.t i know that... b.u.t. i grow tired... ...and my backpack, visible or not, gets heavier kkkanadian towns have always had a history of, not only institutional, b.u.t. local citizenry collective racism, harassment and complicity in the rapes, murders and other wilful destruction of humnanbeings undesired/'not wanted on the journey' by the static quo -- be they natives, poor, black and now muslims and arabs - one might say that kkkanada comes into it's own or collapses, for maybe 'colonialism time has come to an end', as the nwo makes a power move on the world -- for no two have anything more in common for the sadistic bullying, cold kills, bought journalist monopolies on truth, worship of mediocrity, and utter disregard for the individual and human values of difference and varying cultures and voices. imc's were created and fought in attempt to bring truth to the people and combat the lies of the mainstream cooped media. it then became an outlet for creativity for those on the outskirts or rejecting mainstream corporate arts -- BEE it hip hop, punk, rap, turntablism, literature, poetry or creative non-fiction or film and video. it was not, however, ever meant to be a forum for failed peoples to place themselves as admin or editors and engage and provoke harassment and humiliation of individuals who do ntot stroll with the party line -- nor was it meant to be a lackey to brutal, apartheid regimes, totalitarian governments, dysfunctional racist individuals and corporate whores. in the case of victoria.indymedia.org, it has fallen victim to to the spooks of planted seeds of kkkanadian imperialism and media same think unthink tank totalitARYANism and showboaters. in a town with aryan nation groups, fascists separatists electoral parties, paranoid white folk training grounds, a gay community loyal to corporate and white power causes, mercenaries and supremacist gangs ...they say the trouble and threat to freedome and what must be faught and degraded for the safety of jews and even homosexuals, lies in combating one of the victims of these totalitarianism groups since his arrival -- the black author lawrence ytzhak braithwaite. ...and as good hypocracy, the sort this country breeds in the very genes of it's system, it is done with the stance of fighting against the oppression of now oppressive groups = *homophobia* and now *antijewish* sentiments and the new heretical religion of *holocaust deniel* i.e. hiding behind white european jewish struggle (where if any negative comments were made against these two groups, and new born religion, would have been deleted within minutes) all of whom who having forgotten the solidarity that got them here - or what it is like to be treated cruely by what was once the opressors, have decided to join the daemon's cacophony of destruction of enlightment for the dark ages of fear and ignorance, as bedfellows. nigger go home. ...and bruthas got the shout down of *let the niggers burn* my body and life in this place is the witness, inshallah. if something should happen to me (and it scares to say it shall) -- remember not only these names and it's history and pracitices b.u.t. remember the city and it's habits and plants, inshallah. one day we will be, inshallah peace 1426 Lawrence Y Braithwaite (aka Lord Patch) New Palestine/Fernwood/The Hood Victoria, BC Status of Women Action Group wrote: > Hi Lawrence, > > We're here, got the message, hope that Vic IMC can rectify the > situation if you are being put at risk. > > I too had a much smaller incident several years ago where I was being > identified and defamatory information was being posted about me. IMC > at the time did help correct the situation but also since then there > have been legal cases across North America where web sites have been > held legally responsible for the material posted on them. I think this > is a real problem with IMC's as once you have a problem that is not > dealt with right away, you are hesitant to return to participate in > IMC. This is especially true for women and visible minorities. > > Hope you are okay. > > Cindy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ishaq > Cc: soacentcom ; Kalamu ya salaam > ; mike@democracynow.org > ; DJeHu > ; Junious Ricardo Stanton > ; TheBlacklist > ; BlackList > ; Status of Women Action Group > ; pheonixstar62@hotmail.com > > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:37 > Subject: Re: Message not approved: Hey Jim -- Please Call Home! > > this was advice to jim hedger who along with the people below have > mismanaged victoria.indymedia.org by jeopodizing the life and > freedome of the black writer lawrence ytzhak braithwaite by > allowing and participating in misusing the indymedia site launch > and encouraging personal attacks against this black author inorder > to reveal his physical discreption and to slander him and defame > his character in order to allow easy access to the black author > that he may be killed, harassed, isolated, detained, imprisoned or > further physiclly assaulted. > > the situation is one of loss of freedome and is becoming out of > control. > > soacentcom wrote: > >> >> >>>remove the reference to lawrence braithwaite. >>> >>> >>>and so the defamtion and slander, it continues until lawrence >>>braithwaite is killed injured or imprisoned. >>> >>>Lawrence Braithwaite: Hezbollah's Boy in Victoria >>>by che . >> >>> >>author=che&comments=yes> >> >> >>>Wednesday January 25, 2006 at 07:49 AM >>> >>>"...So what is the problem with Ahmadinejad's speech against >>> >>> >>Israel? >> >> >>>Will this hurt the Arabs? I believe that we will benefit...." >>> >>>The problem with that asshole's speeches is that he causes the >>> >>> >>rest of >> >> >>>the world to believe that Iran is run by raving lunatics... >>> >>>Other than that... no big deal. >>> >>> >>>http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48214_comment.php#48370 >>> >>> >>> >>>Jim Hedger wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hi there, >>>> >>>>Sorry All! >>>> >>>>I have been overwhelmed with work and life lately and have been >>>> >>>> >>sort >> >> >>>>of ignoring my Gmail account. >>>> >>>>Would love to have a beer sometime with you Dan. For everyone's >>>> >>>> >>info, >> >> >>>>I am actively trying to find someone else to take over editing >>>> >>>> >>of Vic >> >> >>>>IMC but have not been successful as of yet. I do intend to jump >>>> >>>> >>in >> >> >>>>soon but have too much to write right now. (I am working on a >>>> >>>> >>book >> >> >>>>along with an overload of articles) >>>> >>>>more soon, >>>>jim >>>> >>>> >>>>On 1/23/06, Dan Bashaw >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Jim; >>>> >>>> Got this note from Pepper, and I recall that I also did not >>>> >>>> >>hear back >> >> >>>> from you after you asked about the possibility of flatlining >>>> >>>> >>the >> >> >>>> comment >>>> threads on Victoria IMC a month or so back. Are you >>>> >>>> >>incommunicado? >> >> >>>> Laying low? Leaving your radical past behind? >>>> >>>> Enquiring minds want to know, so please: >>>> >>>> 1. Drop Pepper an email. >>>> 2. Call me up for a beer. >>>> >>>> Cheers and Solidarity; >>>> >>>> Dan (a.k.a Guamanian) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Dan Bashaw [mailto:dbashaw@t... ] >>>> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 8:19 PM >>>> To: dan.bashaw@t... >>>> Subject: [Fwd: Re: Greetings from Guam...] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -------- Original Message -------- >>>> Subject: Re: Greetings from Guam... >>>> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:10:59 -0500 (EST) >>>> From: Stephen Karr < wrld_peace21c@y... >>>> > >>>> To: dbashaw@t... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Dan, >>>> >>>> I've been trying to get in touch with Jim recently regarding >>>> >>>> >>IMC >> >> >>>> but he >>>> isn't returning my e-mails. Do you know if he's OK? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Stephen >>>> >>>> */dbashaw@t.../* wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Stephen; >>>> >>>> Good to hear from you! Are you still teaching in >>>> >>>> >>Taiwan? [ at >> >> >>>> least >>>> I think >>>> that's where Jim mentioned you were? ] Or have you >>>> >>>> >>relocated back >> >> >>>> to >>>> Victoria? >>>> >>>> I was pleasantly surprised to see you battling trolls >>>> >>>> >>and and >> >> >>>> fighting the >>>> forces of chaos on the Vic IMC site. I can fully >>>> >>>> >>empathise >> >> >>>> with the >>>> frustrations >>>> involved, and appreciate the hard work you have been >>>> >>>> >>doing. >> >> >>>> Aside from the recent BC-STV debate I've been avoiding >>>> >>>> >>the >> >> >>>> Vic IMC >>>> site, knowing >>>> that I'd want to help out, and yet also knowing that my >>>> 'on-again-off-again' >>>> toggling approach to engagement with Vic IMC is not >>>> >>>> >>really >> >> >>>> all that >>>> helpful. It >>>> takes the kind of consistent committment you are >>>> >>>> >>putting in, >> >> >>>> multiplied by a >>>> solid collective of 6 or more activists, to keep an IMC >>>> >>>> >>alive and >> >> >>>> healthy. >>>> >>>> I'll be getting together with Jim tomorrow after work >>>> >>>> >>for a brew, >> >> >>>> so >>>> I'll get >>>> caught up on the latest regarding Vic IMC and the BC IMC >>>> project. I >>>> do think >>>> your life will be easier once the software is upgraded >>>> >>>> >>to IMCDaDa >> >> >>>> or >>>> to the >>>> latest version of SFActive. Much better troll >>>> >>>> >>control. :-) >> >> >>>> Thanks for getting in touch, and good luck with making >>>> >>>> >>Vic IMC a >> >> >>>> solid activist >>>> resource! >>>> >>>> Cheers and Solidarity; >>>> >>>> Dan Bashaw >>>> >>>> http://www.communitypipe.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -------- Original Message -------- >>>> Subject: aka "Pepper" >>>> Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 02:33:43 -0400 (EDT) >>>> From: Stephen Karr >>>> To: guamanian@t... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Guamanian, >>>> >>>> Yes, its Pepper from Vic IMC. Off-line you can call me >>>> Stephen. You >>>> gave me >>>> your e-mail a few months back but I never followed up >>>> >>>> >>on it >> >> >>>> and for >>>> that I >>>> apologize. I'm covering for Jim these days as he's >>>> >>>> >>extremely >> >> >>>> busy >>>> with work, >>>> though he's doing the cover stories. I've just re- >>>> >>>> >>opened the >> >> >>>> Complaints >>>> Department on the site because I'm getting tired of >>>> >>>> >>threads being >> >> >>>> sidetracked, >>>> though I'm just going to use it for complaints and >>>> >>>> >>comments >> >> >>>> directed >>>> at the >>>> editorship. >>>> >>>> I've known Jim for several years and it was actually >>>> >>>> >>him that >> >> >>>> brought me into >>>> Vic IMC soon after he became editor. We had both been >>>> involved with >>>> the peace >>>> movement (VCAWSI) at the time, and circumstances >>>> >>>> >>resulted in him >> >> >>>> moving over to >>>> IMC. I followed soon after. Anyway, just thought I'd >>>> >>>> >>drop a line. >> >> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Stephen >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> >>--------- >> >> >>>> Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed >>>> >>>> >>people can >> >> >>>> change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever >>>> >>>> >>has. -- >> >> >>>> Margaret Mead >>>> >>>> An eye for an eye only succeeds in making the whole world >>>> >>>> >>blind. -- >> >> >>>> Mohandas K Gandhi >>>> >>>> Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are >>>> >>>> >>caught in >> >> >>>> an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single >>>> >>>> >>garment of >> >> >>>> destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all >>>> >>>> >>indirectly. >> >> >>>> --Martin >>>> Luther King Jr. >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> >>----------- >> >> >>>> Find your next car at *Yahoo! Canada Autos* < >>>> >>>> >>http://autos.yahoo.ca> >> >> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/\ >\ >} > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I > ___ Stay Strong "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/lbraithwaite-01.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php \ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:38:11 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: C Daly Subject: received in my absence, call:review 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Call: Review #3 with Jerome Rothenberg, Catherine Daly, Mary Jo Bang, Spencer Selby, Campbell McGrath, Anne Tardos, Cole Swenson, Jeffrey = Jullich, Clayton Eshleman, Pamela Lu, Nathaniel Mackey, Kenneth Goldsmith, Rachel Hadas, Lytle Shaw, Virgil Suarez, Peter Gizzi, Clayton Couch, annie = Finch, John Olson, Diane Wakowski =20 www.callreview.net =20 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:05:03 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: notes from new palestine: niggers can never go home again. -- Hey Jim -- Please Call Home! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit notes from new palestine: niggers can never go home again. -- Hey Jim -- Please Call Home! We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte do you overstand where we are coming from? the members of imc back peddling and passing the buck, over the seriousness of lessez faire racism and personal harassment of posters, to imc and local authors have used the forum to launch personal attacks, harass and defame character. they have basically entered it not to produce independent media or "challenge the centres of power" -- b.u.t. to infiltrate and control it like 90% of the media in kkkanada (owned and operated by the kkkanadian government or the asper family). stephen karr/pepper (whose refrain is to remind us that his ignorance, obsession, unilateral thinking and sociopathic manipulative behaviour can be excused because of the amerikkkan racial and national socialist party percentile law -- not black, as far as the amerikkkan goes, this time b.u.t. -- of being "1/4 jewish?") was actually a troll who spent much time lying, launching personal attacks against *ytzhak*, defaming the character of the poster, attacking and deleting latino posts and complying with the racist segregationist policies of california immigration laws and xenophobia and making false claims of *antisemiticism* (the new tools for anyne who critiques or challenges the centres of power) along with guamanian/dan bashaw with jim hedger/radhippie (supporter of ernst zundle) and former member of the white boy only anachist club, as their go boy shill -- some are lawyers now advising on how far they can push a nigger legally without getting caught; some pretend to be journalists for media monoplies. most imc would find it odd that a troll would be offered a position on the admin of the imc they have disrupted and attacked. then that very troll would, try and invoke choas on the site to collapse it and then encourage very threatening and affected/disturbed persons to engage in internet harassment against a regular poster and other peoples in order to discourage them from participating in local and global affairs that contradict the white global supremacist and elitist agenda. any opportunity to make light of, humiliate and harass *ytzhak* or lawrence ytzhak braithwaite, the below imc coopters have taken and it has become, much to their schoolyard bullying pleasure, humiliating, unfair, anti-intellectual, childish and intolerable -- a form of behvariorial modification -- which is the desired affect of harassment. it's not that people are blind to the bad behavior of the white bourjois in public b.u.t. that it is to make the situation so insane that anyone reacting normally, to extreme confrontation and hyperbole, with no jusitice or fairness/no checks and balances and with no outlet -- then like a frustrated ghetto boy from native son or a palestinian bomber, thrower or matyre, each seen taken out of contexte with no knowledge of the history of oppression, would toss themselves into the mix like c k chesterton's description of art to *thursday* -- in a sudden act of desperation, -- so why should i be a fool for this? this city which has history of erasing and/ignoring the accomplishments of nonwhites is so hell bent on cultural imperialism it has almost become an inbred race or ethncity in itself. i have never been offered the respect as a long time member of this society here or of the community, despite my work to assist, or as an author worthy of respect and as an asset. i remained always pushed to the outside with a theatrical flair of making as if i was resisting an invitation -- i was and am resisting tokenism & colonial labels. frankly, i have been treated like an uppity nigger that won't know his place (or when that stranger called honesty and straight talk take hold -- like an animal) . if people disagreed with me on an intellectual level that would be one thing -- b.u.t. it is reduced to slander, bullying, defamation and humiliation tactics -- for like israel, and it's brutality toward difference, they can't seem to make a case for it or any other their twisted idealogies. they can only build firewalls and shoot of derision. basically, i have been subjected to the old colonial ritual of personal harassment -- my body violated, my accomplishments the victim of benign neglect and driven to the point of despair by these powers with the hope that i self destruct via negative reinforcement and isolation. i guess that's what you get when you are drafted, and i say drafted because i do not prefess to be of greatness or noble calling, only a simple man not a *boy* or anybody's *boy* as a supremist poster refereners to me as, b.u.t. at times a bit ridiculous, into fighting/or starting a scene of two as lord attendant, for a noble cause/for my peoples -- staggering in the footsteps with an increasingly heavying backpack -- in the footsteps of bruhs/sis and ancestors -- more stronger than i -- the tokenism and invisibility of our invincable accomplishements in this city and what jay-z once reminded us, to get people to "see what a nigga look like when a nigga in a roadsta"/or nigga as an author -- to see ourselves -- from niggas to gods as bruh akil once wrote. to hear ourselves -- not the reflection tolerance of the so called liberal british columbian society, a society that has an agenda of making this a white dialogue -- be it left or right -- junkie or str8 edge -- of separatist and one race caste system, b.u.t. one of as accomplished various individuals who have a right to BEE seen, respected and heard. since i have been here whatever opportunity, on an increasing level, has been taken to degrade me -- to criminalize me, to take me down a few notches -- tokenize and label. i have not been in the least bit respected or publicly acknowledge as an asset to my community - to my city. i have served this country for 11 years of my life. i have studied the classics. i wrote what has been acknowledge as cult classic in the united states. both novels have had featured reviews and praises from the alterntive to mainstream presses, outside of victoria. i was the first kkkanadian to have been signed to much saught after press. my writngs have been included in the national poetry archieves, studied at grad level in university. i have worked with food not bombs, put together a zine of black, native and muslim knowledge and revolutionary thought (mw), made chapbooks illustrated by local artists. my recordings and writing have been heard and published, respectively, internationally. my hope and struggle has always been for new palestine. i have struggled for my community and faught and turned down opportunities in both the u.s. and kkkanada who have attempted to disrespect the peoples here and my fam and peoples in general -- compromise our integrity = "i am we". and have always acknowledged being from victoria and not the more glamourous big city of vancouver, like so many other artist have attempted to do, and all these efforts have garndered is benign neglect, brutality and/or constant humilation (to every step in my elevation which, will, god willing, remain constant), and in the case of certain city privately contracted individuals, like an animal who won't down stay. ...and by some coincidence i'm am suppose to ignor, or we are, that all this has happened to, and is happening to, the first black author of british columbia. one not treated as a prize. ...not as human b.u.t. as being killed by willful destruction. i must admit, i have been foolish, in my obession over making this city and my hood feel and think and CEE. ...for i have, openly, in a covert manner, said, not worship or adore -- not even more importantly, like, maybe -- b.u.t. 'love me'. ...and all smirked all the way. b.u.t i know that... b.u.t. i grow tired... ...and my backpack, visible or not, gets heavier kkkanadian towns have always had a history of, not only institutional, b.u.t. local citizenry collective racism, harassment and complicity in the rapes, murders and other wilful destruction of humnanbeings undesired/'not wanted on the journey' by the static quo -- be they natives, poor, black and now muslims and arabs - one might say that kkkanada comes into it's own or collapses, for maybe it is what ahmadinejad has said, 'colonialism time has come to an end', as the nwo makes a power move on the world -- for no two have anything more in common for the sadistic bullying, cold kills, bought journalist monopolies on truth, worship of mediocrity, and utter disregard for the individual and human values of difference and varying cultures and voices. imc's were created and fought for in an attempt to bring truth to the people and combat the lies of the mainstream coopted media. it then became an outlet for creativity for those on the outskirts or rejecting mainstream corporate arts -- BEE it hip hop, punk, rap, turntablism, literature, poetry or creative non-fiction or film and video. it was not, however, ever meant to be a forum for failed peoples to place themselves as admin or editors and engage and provoke harassment and humiliation of individuals who do not stroll with the party line -- nor was it meant to be a lackey to brutal, apartheid regimes, totalitarian governments, dysfunctional racist individuals and corporate whores. in the case of victoria.indymedia.org, it has fallen victim to to the spooks of planted seeds of kkkanadian imperialism and media same think unthink tank totalitARYANism and showboaters. in a town with aryan nation groups, fascists separatists electoral parties, paranoid white folk training grounds, a gay community loyal to corporate and white power causes, mercenaries and supremacist gangs ...they say the trouble and threat to freedome and what must be faught and degraded for the safety of jews and even homosexuals, lies in combating one of the victims of these totalitarianism groups since his arrival -- the black author lawrence ytzhak braithwaite. ...and as good hypocracy, the sort this country breeds in the very genes of it's system, it is done with the stance of fighting against the oppression of now oppressive groups = *homophobia* and now *antijewish* sentiments and the new heretical religion of *holocaust deniel* i.e. hiding behind white european jewish struggle (where if any negative comments were made against these two groups, and new born religion, would have been deleted within minutes) all of whom who having forgotten the solidarity that got them here - or what it is like to be treated cruely by what was once the opressors, have decided to join the daemon's cacophony of destruction of enlightment for the dark ages of fear and ignorance, as bedfellows. nigger go home. ...and bruthas got the shout down of *let the niggers burn* my body and life in this place is the witness, inshallah. if something should happen to me (and it scares to say it shall) -- remember not only these names and it's history and pracitices b.u.t. remember the city and it's habits and plants, inshallah. one day we will be, inshallah peace 1426 Lawrence Y Braithwaite (aka Lord Patch) New Palestine/Fernwood/The Hood Victoria, BC "...President Ahmadinejad considered the "existence of an appropriate atmosphere for expressing viewpoints" as the prerequisite for "holding dialogues among countries", adding "if one side would keep on talking and the other side would merely have to listen, it would not be called a dialogue." He added, "the era of colonialism and literature of threats has long been over..." -- mahmoud ahmadinejad see: Lawrence Braithwaite: Hezbollah's Boy in Victoria by ... • Wednesday January 25, 2006 at 07:49 AM "...So what is the problem with Ahmadinejad's speech against Israel? Will this hurt the Arabs? I believe that we will benefit...." The problem with that asshole's speeches is that he causes the rest of the world to believe that Iran is run by raving lunatics... Other than that... no big deal. add your comments http://www.victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48214_comment.php#48385 ___ Stay Strong "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/lbraithwaite-01.html \ http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/766_0_15_0_C/ \ http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:39:48 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charlie Rossiter Subject: electronic writing--exemplary works In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Do any of you have links to some really good examples of electronic writing? I think examples of people doing it well will help me get the idea better than attempted definitions/descriptions. thanks Charlie -- The truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it Emily Dickinson www.poetrypoetry.com where you hear poems read by the poets who wrote them ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:28:15 +0100 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Plan B Press chapbook competition Comments: To: British Poetics Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have been asked by Steven May of Plan B Press to notify you that there is a chapbook competition run by the Press. Details at: http://www.planbpress.com/contestnew.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:41:40 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Aaron Belz Subject: meet me on myspace MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Poets and others- I have a Myspace page at http://myspace.com/orthodontist -- I also keep a poetry blog there. If any of you have a myspace page, please feel free to look me up in that venue. I have been very happy with the acquaintances I've made, young and old, the world over, in that forum. Yes, it's a bit juvenile, but then -- so am I. Aaron ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:54:05 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Flora Fair Subject: Re: meet me on myspace In-Reply-To: <001901c6234f$c93c0420$230110ac@AARONLAPTOP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'll second that. I have a blog there, as well. Just look up Flora Fair. See you there, Aaron! -Flora Aaron Belz wrote: Poets and others- I have a Myspace page at http://myspace.com/orthodontist -- I also keep a poetry blog there. If any of you have a myspace page, please feel free to look me up in that venue. I have been very happy with the acquaintances I've made, young and old, the world over, in that forum. Yes, it's a bit juvenile, but then -- so am I. Aaron --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? With a free 1 GB, there's more in store with Yahoo! Mail. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:57:33 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Bill Marsh Subject: Re: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? In-Reply-To: <000001c622d8$46aa8b20$8e00a8c0@qld.bigpond.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable And yet 'cybertext' points to no less of an "imperialist=20 classification" than 'hypertext' or 'electronic writing,' right? There=20= are institutional and structural reasons for calling a body of work=20 "electronic" and/or "writing" or "literature" or "poetry" or "cyber" --=20= the latter invoking obviously the cybernetics movement in information=20 science not to mention the pop/cult nuances of cyberspace/punk. Calling=20= it a "new literary activity" is itself arguable on at least two fronts=20= (new? literary?). I'd rather call it all "communicative objects" and be=20= done with it, but parsing that would take a day. The complicated=20 history of "writing" as curriculum in higher education (the ghettoized=20= first-year kind), in the US at least, also adds a funny twist.=20 Salvaging "electronic" probably does wonders for Radio Shack. At least=20= "electronic writing" interfaces nicely with the Electronic Literature=20 Organization, most of whose board members are featured in the course at=20= Brown. This is not meant as a criticism of that course specifically,=20 just a reality check on the activities and relations that inform formal=20= discussions of this kind. take care, bill On Jan 26, 2006, at 6:26 PM, K Zervos wrote: > Electronic, digital, computer do not indicate interconnectedness nor > hyperlinking which i would have thought was absolutely necessary to=20 > the new > literary activity brian is teaching. > > Writing is suspect too as it has in the past referred to written text,=20= > tying > it down to only one system of interpretation, not allowing for image,=20= > moving > image, sound, voice, interactive elements, etc. > > At the moment we all sort of know what electronic writing means. > > I rather like cybertext, espen aarseth's definition. > > 'There is a tendency among hypertext theorists to call all electronic > texts hypertexts (and to call paper-based texts with paths or simi- > lar devices protohypertexts), but this sort of imperialist=20 > classification > is not useful, considering the wide variety of textual types (many > of which are already known by other names, such as MUDs and > adventure games). Hypertext is a useful term when applied to the > structures of links and nodes, but it is much less so if it includes > all other digital texts as well. I suggest the term cybertext for = texts > that involve calculation in their production of scriptons.' > > So for me a course called 'electronic writing' may be better named > 'constructing cybertets'. > > komninos zervos > lecturer, convenor of CyberStudies major > School of Arts > Griffith University > Room 3.25 Multimedia Building G23 > Gold Coast Campus > Parkwood > PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre > Queensland 9726 > Australia > Phone 07 5552 8872 Fax 07 5552 8141 > homepage: http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos > broadband experiments: > http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs > > > |||-----Original Message----- > |||From: UB Poetics discussion group=20 > [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] > |||On Behalf Of Jim Andrews > |||Sent: Friday, 27 January 2006 1:28 AM > |||To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > |||Subject: Re: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? > ||| > |||> _What is Electronic Writing?_ > |||> > |||> I=92m asked this question quite often, and have rarely been able = to=20 > come > |||up > |||> with a short answer. It=92s many things, and quite often, a work = of > |||> =93electronic writing=94 is so unique that it=92s a genre until = itself. > |||> > |||> If I were to come up with a fortune cookie answer to the=20 > question, I > |||would > |||> say that it is any form of writing that takes advantage of the > |||> possibilities > |||> afforded by digital technology =96 such as the internet, or > |||> graphics programs > |||> such as Illustrator or Photoshop, or animation / audio /=20 > interactive > |||> programs such as Flash =96 in their creation and presentation. > ||| > |||In that case, the 'electronic' part should, instead, be 'computer'=20= > or > |||'digital'. 'Electronic writing' can include work that doesn't have > |||anything > |||to do with computers, such as Gregory Whitehead's audio work, or,=20= > much > |||earlier, William Burroughs's audio cut-ups, or Jenny Holzer's LED=20= > works. > ||| > |||ja > |||http://vispo.com > ||| > |||-- > |||No virus found in this incoming message. > |||Checked by AVG Free Edition. > |||Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/242 - Release Date:=20 > 26/01/06 > ||| > > --=20 > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/242 - Release Date:=20 > 26/01/06 > > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:59:14 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Dan Waber Subject: altered books project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The altered books project at: http://www.logolalia.com/alteredbooks/ has been updated with new work by: Meghan Scott, Holly Crawford, Ross Priddle, Kevin Thurston, Nico Vassilakis, Mike Magazinnik, John M. Bennett, Sheila Murphy, Michelle Taransky, and Tim Martin. Enjoy, Dan ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:08:58 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: more links to 'digital writing' or 'computer writing' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit more links to 'digital writing' or 'computer writing': DAN WABER http://vispo.com/guests/DanWaber http://logolalia.com LEWIS LACOOK (USA) http://www.lewislacook.org MATT FAIR (CANADA) http://www.theworldowesyoualiving.org ALAN SONDHEIM (USA) http://asondheim.org MARCUS BASTOS (BRAZIL) http://pfebril.net ALEXANDRE VENERA (BRAZIL) http://www.eale.hpg.ig.com.br ANA MARIA URIBE (ARGENTINA) http://vispo.com/uribe KOMNINOS ZERVOS (AUSTRALIA) http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos VICTOR AZ (BRAZIL) http://concretismo.zip.net ja ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:38:02 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Charlie O Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Just made my way thru Tom Clark's made-for-TV biography of Olson & finished the book feeling unfulfilled. Surely there must be other Olson biographical sources out there that do a more thorough job of taking the reader thru the Maximus Poems & how the big guy lived it. Kept feeling like Clark would begin to reference MP time & again, starting to make some connections but then quickly give way to the misunderstood genius / tortured lover subtext. I know of Butterick's sourcework which I haven't read. Is that something that's readable or is it a giant footnote? Anything else essential that I'm missing, I mean I know there's a lot out there, how to sort thru it? Also, I know there are a more than a few OlsonHeads listening, is the 95 University of CA edition of Maximus, the final version, the one to read? way west of dogtown, ~mIEKAL ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:57:26 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? In-Reply-To: <000001c621ff$645c5e70$0602a8c0@brianlaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Brian (I first typed Brain): _What is NOT Electronic Writing?_ I'm attempting to decide if I find this term "electronic writing", =20 useful in anyway. It's not one that I've ever used, & really, I'm =20 not one to get hung up on terminology, but these concepts which are =20 known to be as old as Vannevar Bush (say late 1930s), keep getting =20 reinvented endlessly, & given a new spin to tout what might be =20 fashionable for the time, or favorite. ~mIEKAL On Jan 25, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Brian Stefans wrote: > A fully linked version of this post appears at: > > - Classic hypertext fiction, > > - Animated poems > > - Conceptual blogs and websites > > - Non-electronic conceptual writing > > - Parody and =93hactivist=94 websites > > - Wordtoys > > - Interactive Fiction and literary gamesdvocate of this type of =20 > writing. > > - Cave Writing and installation texts > > - Email and collaborative art > > - Computer generated texts > > Practical websites - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ s a m s a r a c o n g e r i e s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "the last 20th century epic about to happen" http://xexoxial.org/samsara_congeries ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:11:57 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: furniture_ press Subject: Re: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" MIME-Version: 1.0 When I think of electronic writing I think of hypertext (html) and news tic= kers on building and what appears in those old word processor windows that = shows the text before it's actually printed. I think there's more but my co= nception of electronic writing is anything (words) that appear on an electr= onic surface. I don't think printing a document from a Word file should be = considered electronic writing, but the word document "as it's being process= ed on the screen" is electronic writing.=20 How about: something that can be manipulated electronically in real time? christophe casamassima > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mIEKAL aND" > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Re: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:57:26 -0600 >=20 >=20 > Brian (I first typed Brain): >=20 > _What is NOT Electronic Writing?_ >=20 >=20 > I'm attempting to decide if I find this term "electronic writing", usefu= l in anyway. It's not=20 > one that I've ever used, & really, I'm not one to get hung up on termino= logy, but these=20 > concepts which are known to be as old as Vannevar Bush (say late 1930s),= keep getting=20=20 > reinvented endlessly, & given a new spin to tout what might be fashionab= le for the time, or=20 > favorite. >=20 >=20 > ~mIEKAL >=20 >=20 > On Jan 25, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Brian Stefans wrote: >=20 > > A fully linked version of this post appears at: > > > > - Classic hypertext fiction, > > > > - Animated poems > > > > - Conceptual blogs and websites > > > > - Non-electronic conceptual writing > > > > - Parody and =93hactivist=94 websites > > > > - Wordtoys > > > > - Interactive Fiction and literary gamesdvocate of this type of writin= g. > > > > - Cave Writing and installation texts > > > > - Email and collaborative art > > > > - Computer generated texts > > > > Practical websites - >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > s a m s a r a c o n g e r i e s > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >=20 > "the last 20th century epic about to happen" > http://xexoxial.org/samsara_congeries > Christophe Casamassima, ed. Furniture Press Baltimore, MD --=20 ___________________________________________ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.graffiti.net/ Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:11:18 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: John Lowther Subject: Re: Charlie O In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit mIEKAL i sort of hate that book. i found if for next to nothing (less than $1) before i had really read much Olson and read it and it really poisoned me wrt to his work. it took a number of years before i it had faded enough from my mind to approach O without it getting in the way. so i wd also be interested in hearing of any better bio work on O JLo ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:13:40 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: alexander saliby Subject: Re: Charlie O MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kirby Olson directed me to the Butterick tome more than 2 years ago; I'm = still struggling to wend my way through the effort. My problem is I = lack the in-depth familiarity with the MP works; Butterick seems to have = committed all the MP works to memory. Butterick's work is impressive in = its thoroughness; it isn't, however, a work to pick up and sit in your = easy chair to read...you may find yourself, as I do, nodding off = quickly. =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: mIEKAL aND=20 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=20 Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:38 AM Subject: Charlie O Just made my way thru Tom Clark's made-for-TV biography of Olson & =20 finished the book feeling unfulfilled. Surely there must be other =20 Olson biographical sources out there that do a more thorough job of =20 taking the reader thru the Maximus Poems & how the big guy lived it. = Kept feeling like Clark would begin to reference MP time & again, =20 starting to make some connections but then quickly give way to the =20 misunderstood genius / tortured lover subtext. I know of Butterick's = sourcework which I haven't read. Is that something that's readable =20 or is it a giant footnote? Anything else essential that I'm missing, = I mean I know there's a lot out there, how to sort thru it? Also, I =20 know there are a more than a few OlsonHeads listening, is the 95 =20 University of CA edition of Maximus, the final version, the one to = read? way west of dogtown, ~mIEKAL ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:12:25 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: John Lowther Subject: Re: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? In-Reply-To: <20060127171157.C1DC113EF0@ws5-9.us4.outblaze.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit don't our bodies run on ELECTRICAL impulse as well? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:31:13 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Lori Emerson Subject: cfp: Writing the Machine: Materiality, Intentionality & the Digital Poem (MLA '06) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline In light of the recent discussion about e/digital/computer writing/texts/objects, the following CFP might interest some of you: + Writing the Machine: Materiality, Intentionality & the Digital Poem + Call for Papers: MLA Special Session + Annual Meeting December 27-30th 2006 (Philadelphia) What's at issue in this panel is the relation between machine / human, intentionality / intentionlessness in digital textuality. More particularly, papers could enact close-readings of digital poems using well-known theorists such as Gerald Bruns, Michael Davidson, Johanna Drucker, Susan Howe, Jerome McGann, and Marjorie Perloff -- all of whom have long been engaged with the ways in which materiality, of the word, the text, the page, provides insight into authorial intent. Papers could also draw from Walter Benn Michaels as a theorist of the material as he explicitly separates an interest with materiality from an interest in authorial intention, claiming that contemporary writing mistakenly pits the one against the other. Please send 500-word proposals with a paper-title and a brief CV to Lori Emerson, lemerson@buffalo.edu, by March 1st 2006. best, Lori ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:46:10 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Paul Nelson Subject: Re: Charlie O MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit mIEKAL aND wrote: > Just made my way thru Tom Clark's made-for-TV biography of Olson & > finished the book feeling unfulfilled. Surely there must be other > Olson biographical sources out there that do a more thorough job of > taking the reader thru the Maximus Poems & how the big guy lived it. > Kept feeling like Clark would begin to reference MP time & again, > starting to make some connections but then quickly give way to the > misunderstood genius / tortured lover subtext. I know of Butterick's > sourcework which I haven't read. 1) Is that something that's readable > or is it a giant footnote? 2) Anything else essential that I'm > missing, I mean I know there's a lot out there, how to sort thru it? > Also, I know there are a more than a few OlsonHeads listening, is the > 95 University of CA edition of Maximus, the final version, the one to > read? > > way west of dogtown, > > ~mIEKAL mIEKAL, 1) Yes and Yes. 2) Yes 3) Yes I think Tom Clark was trying to do a hatchet job and I know several people would not even talk to him. McClure and Joanne Kyger I think among them. Funny thing about hatchet jobs, they often make the hatchet man look stupid while the subject's field does not seem to suffer damage, but continues to radiate off the pages. 1) Butterick's guide is necessary, but is a giant footnote. Would LOVE to see the whole thing in hypertext someday. (http://www.uncg.edu/eng/pound/canto.htm is an example, though I remember seeing one mcuh better looking years ago.) 2) Sherman Paul - "Olson's Push." Robert Von Hallberg - "Charles Olson - The Scholar's Art" Shahar Bram - "Charles Olson and Alfred North Whithead: An Essay on Poetry." Paul Christiensen - "Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael" Robin Blaser - "The Violets: A Cosmological Reading of a Cosmology" http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2534 David Saffo - "Charles Olson, Martin Heidegger, and Ontic Immediacy: a Phenomenological Interpretation of poem-in-the-world" http://www.h-ngm-n.com/ These are a few relevant sources. I have recently been studying Olson and have two essays I've just finished: *"*Dualism and Olsonian/Whiteheadian Process" http://www.globalvoicesradio.org/Dualism_and_Olsonian.htm and "The Sound of the Field" http://www.globalvoicesradio.org/The_Sound_of_the_Field_(1.19.06).htm The Bram book and the Blaser essay are the most satisfying for me. I think Olson's process, sourced in the cosmology of Whitehead, is his most critical achievement. Bram investigates the aspects of Whitehead's "stance toward reality" which Olson ran with and used to create a cosmology which is his poetics. This is huge. Here are some salient points from Bram: * “…poetry is not a poem: the name of an object, a finished aesthetic object, the outcome of a process is negligible. Rather, the poem is poesis; the process of creation and the poem are, at most, two names or two perspectives for contemplating the same activity, the creativity of a human being in the world” (12); * “Olson argues that Whitehead ‘only refines and corrects the most ancient myth-cosmos’” and “Olson’s poetic act constitutes a critique of prevailing norms and a proposal for an alternative ethos, which he actualized as a poetics. The poem is an act and a call to act, the building of a new (re-newed) identity for the individual and the community” (12); * “every place, according to Olson, is an opening place, and can serve as a gate inward that can be used to return outward, after further growth. (14); and most importantly: * “Olson does not adopt the scientific worldview and its concepts metaphorically” (15). This last point can’t be understated, and Olson may have been TOO committed to process. Much of The Maximus Poems turns out to be field notes and jottings which, for other poets, would be not more than material for new poems. Olson leaves them all in so his process is completely transparent and Bram concludes his introduction with the notion that The Maximus Poems has “an acute sense of failure in the concluding section of the poem” (17). (In the Blaser essay he says Olson felt he needed another ten years.) And 3) I am using the TMP edition you cite, tho waterlogged at the Tibetan Bon workshop on Wickaninnish Island in Clayoquot Sound last year in the torrent. **That should get you going. Paul -- Paul E. Nelson www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org www.AuburnCommunityRadio.com www.SPLAB.org 110 2nd Street S.W. #100 Slaughter, WA 98001 253.735.6328 toll-free 888.735.6328 -- Paul E. Nelson www.GlobalVoicesRadio.org www.AuburnCommunityRadio.com www.SPLAB.org 110 2nd Street S.W. #100 Slaughter, WA 98001 253.735.6328 toll-free 888.735.6328 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:54:11 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Skip Fox Subject: Re: more links to 'digital writing' or 'computer writing' In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to all who have provided sites for e-poetry, digital poetry, or whatever. Very useful and of moment for me. The arguments and definitions have even been interesting. I hope for more of the same. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:55:48 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Baraban Subject: Re: Charlie O In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I highly recommend Charles Boer's memoir _Olson in Connecticut_, about the very last phase of O's life, with flashbacks to the Buffalo days. > so i wd also be interested in hearing of any better > bio work on O > > JLo > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:27:34 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: charles alexander Subject: Re: Charlie O In-Reply-To: <43DA5C62.80903@speakeasy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed mIEKAL: Great summary by Paul Nelson. I'd also add that it seems essential to me to read the correspondence between Olson & Creeley, published by Black Sparrow Press in 10 volumes. Maybe not to read all of it, but make your way through the first few volumes at least and see if you want more from there. Also, Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: A Modern Correspondence, is well worth the time. Other letters, such as Letters for Origin, are worth your time as well. Here are a couple of other titles: Ann Charters, Olson/Melville: A Study in Affinity Richard Grossinger, ed., An Olson-Melville Sourcebook (two volumes) Don Byrd, Charles Olson's Maximus Olson's own memoir of his father, The Post Office, is also worth reading. For accuracy, and because it's in print, yes, the U California edition of Maximus is essential. I prefer to read the earlier volumes, though, which were published separately. The Maximus Poems (Jargon/Corinth, 1960) Maximus Poems IV, V, VI (Cape Golliard/Grossman, 1968) The Maximus Poems Volume Three (ed. by Charles Boer and George Butterick, Grossman, 1975) I know these aren't as inclusive or accurate in some ways, but they give more sense of the scale of the work, and even though the last two are oversized, they are more easily handled than the big complete version. There is also a sense, in the physical presentation of those books, of work that is in some ways still discovering, and at risk. Those books, even the look and feel of them, probably contributed to my excitement about Olson and Maximus when I first delved into them. Unfortunately, you may not be able to find those volumes anywhere, except in libraries. The Univ. of California Press book, while I welcome it, does not convey such a sense of wonder. Charles At 10:46 AM 1/27/2006, you wrote: > mIEKAL aND wrote: > >>Just made my way thru Tom Clark's made-for-TV biography of Olson & >>finished the book feeling unfulfilled. Surely there must be other Olson >>biographical sources out there that do a more thorough job of taking the >>reader thru the Maximus Poems & how the big guy lived it. Kept feeling >>like Clark would begin to reference MP time & again, starting to make >>some connections but then quickly give way to the misunderstood genius / >>tortured lover subtext. I know of Butterick's sourcework which I haven't >>read. 1) Is that something that's readable or is it a giant footnote? 2) >>Anything else essential that I'm missing, I mean I know there's a lot out >>there, how to sort thru it? Also, I know there are a more than a few >>OlsonHeads listening, is the 95 University of CA edition of Maximus, the >>final version, the one to read? >> >>way west of dogtown, >> >>~mIEKAL > >mIEKAL, > >1) Yes and Yes. >2) Yes >3) Yes ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:02:31 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Thomas Devaney Subject: T. Devaney On John Coletti's "Physical Kind" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Here is a poem I wrote yesterday after reading a new/recent book poems by John Coletti called "Physical Kind." The book is published by Portable Press, edited by Brenda Iijima and Erica Kaufman. NO SUCH POEM for John Coletti John, hug "like a quilt truck." On the roof "Cooing a page /in the twilight." You send me to Joe Ceravolo, John Godfrey, Clark Coolidge, Jack Collom: Middle weights of old—-heavies all. Names, names, names. How can I describe their one-syllable dash. A long history of no apology /and no story. I know if you knew, you'd take us—- I know that. As you do, and do. You don't say, "You don't say." Nor I don't want to live like a story. A translucent brown floor-dust is there for you to see, sweep, blow away, note by slow dusty note. No shit, yes; "someone stole." JC enters the ring: it's war, it's peace— /Leo T. to a T. Ted and Ted G. are in the corner, /your cut men. Curly hair Coletti, measured eyes, measured /lips—-and the measure of a moan. All the silent bruises I have ever loved, the "emotional surface" scratched and gone too. No one asking if it's a flood. -Thomas Devaney ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:04:12 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pierre Joris Subject: Mary Beach (1919-2006) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Mary Beach, painter, translator, editor, writer passed away last =20 night in Cooperstown, NY. She would have been 87 on 11 April; her =20 husband, the poet & collagist Claude P=E9lieu died on Christmas eve = 2002. For details of Mary's life & work, please visit my blog: http://pjoris.blogspot.com ___________________________________________________________ The poet: always in partibus infidelium -- Paul Celan ___________________________________________________________ Pierre Joris 244 Elm Street Albany NY 12202 h: 518 426 0433 c: 518 225 7123 o: 518 442 40 85 email: joris@albany.edu http://pierrejoris.com Nomadics blog: http://pjoris.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:08:54 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: justin sirois Subject: 'digital writing' or 'computer writing' Comments: To: Stephen Janis In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit How about: Electronic writing utilizes or exploits the interactive, nonlinear amorphous characteristics of digital technology through hyper linking, animation, and associative click streaming. A great resource for digital critique = www.digitalthinktank.org justin sirois . . . . . . . http://www.narrowhouserecordings.com/ a record label primarily interested in contemporary writing, poetics and the political __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:25:44 -0800 Reply-To: mona@theintersection.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mona Baroudi Subject: Francisco X. Alarcon with WritersCorps at Intersection MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Intersection Literary Series in Collaboration with WritersCorps Francisco X. Alarcon with Beto Palomar, Chrissy Anderson-Zavala, Santa Fe Indian School & WritersCorps youth poets Join us for the first of a three-part reading series, where writer-teachers and youth poets from WritersCorps share the stage with some of our most esteemed literary icons. This reading features award-winning poet and educator Francisco X. Alarcon (author of No Golden Gate for Us, De amor oscuro/Of Dark Love, From the Other Side of Night/Del otro lado de la noche) with WritersCorps writer-teachers Beto Palomar and his students from International Studies Academy and Bayview Library, Chrissy Anderson-Zavala and her students from Everett Middle School, and students from Santa Fe, New Mexico's Indian School. Tuesday, January 31, 7:30pm $5-$15/Sliding Scale Intersection for the Arts 446 Valencia Street (between 15 & 16) San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 626-2787, www.theintersection.org INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space and provides a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences can intersect one another. At Intersection, experimentation and risk are possible, debate and critical inquiry are embraced, community is essential, resources and experience are democratized, and today's issues are thrashed about in the heat and immediacy of live art. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:28:40 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pierre Joris Subject: Re: Charlie O Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Jan 27, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Paul Nelson wrote: > > 2) Sherman Paul - "Olson's Push." > Robert Von Hallberg - "Charles Olson - The Scholar's Art" > Shahar Bram - "Charles Olson and Alfred North Whithead: An Essay on =20= > Poetry." > Paul Christiensen - "Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael" > Robin Blaser - "The Violets: A Cosmological Reading of a Cosmology" =20= > http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=3D2534 > David Saffo - "Charles Olson, Martin Heidegger, and Ontic =20 > Immediacy: a Phenomenological Interpretation of poem-in-the-world" =20 > http://www.h-ngm-n.com/ add to that: Don Byrd, _ Charles Olson's Maximus_ (still, to my mind, the best =20 single investigation of the MP) Charles Stein, _The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum_ (essential to =20 get to the mytho-poetics Jungian elements of the late Max) Clark's bio is indeed a nasty little oedipal hatchet job that screams =20= "kill daddy, kill daddy" on every page. But he did briung out the =20 Frances Boldereff connection, which is major. 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 "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism,since it is the merger of state and corporate power." =97 Benito Mussolini =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D Pierre Joris 244 Elm Street Albany NY 12202 h: 518 426 0433 c: 518 225 7123 o: 518 442 40 85 Euro cell: 011 33 6 79 368 446 email: joris@albany.edu http://pierrejoris.com Nomadics blog: http://pjoris.blogspot.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:44:22 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Peter Quartermain Subject: Re: Charlie O In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Ralph Maud's CHARLES OLSON'S READING: A BIOGRAPHY is amazingly good -- indeed I think it's exemplary. Traces connections, opens up the work, pays attention to what Olson is actually up to. Essential, and definitely NOT a footnote. And, hey, it's well-written as well as resourceful. P ========= Peter Quartermain 846 Keefer Street Vancouver BC Canada V6A 1Y7 604 255 8274 (voice) 604 255 8204 fax quarterm@interchange.ubc.ca ========= -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of mIEKAL aND Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:38 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Charlie O Just made my way thru Tom Clark's made-for-TV biography of Olson & finished the book feeling unfulfilled. Surely there must be other Olson biographical sources out there that do a more thorough job of taking the reader thru the Maximus Poems & how the big guy lived it. Kept feeling like Clark would begin to reference MP time & again, starting to make some connections but then quickly give way to the misunderstood genius / tortured lover subtext. I know of Butterick's sourcework which I haven't read. Is that something that's readable or is it a giant footnote? Anything else essential that I'm missing, I mean I know there's a lot out there, how to sort thru it? Also, I know there are a more than a few OlsonHeads listening, is the 95 University of CA edition of Maximus, the final version, the one to read? way west of dogtown, ~mIEKAL ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:26:40 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: amy king Subject: For your listening pleasure .... Ron Padgett In-Reply-To: <1138388551.43da6e4797b14@webmail.sas.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A Brand Spankin' New Interview (& tiny poetry reading) with Ron Padgett: http://www.miporadio.com/ Or if you prefer to listen from ODEO: http://www.odeo.com/audio/633334/ Thank you, Didi Menendez and Amy King www.miporadio.com The poems are from his most recent collect, "You Never Know" (Coffee House Press): "Ron Padgett makes the most quiet and sensible of feelings a provocatively persistent wonder. You never know what he'll think of next!" -Robert Creeley "These 'late' poems of Ron Padgett have the clearness, the small sadness, and the big space of Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the many French writers he has translated into English. They are like a glass of transparent Vittel water held against the sky of Paris. 'I am forty-nine years old and surrounded by death. Does writing help? Probably not,' he writes in a poem about a friend who has since died. But Ron's writing helps us. Enormously." -John Ashbery "A Padgett classic. He has, with obvious premeditation and pleasure, employed his most characteristic "tricks" to produce a deep, funny book. The poet makes superlative use of the directive writing consciousness -- often automatic pilot -- to tap the unconscious for memory, vision, emotion, and the unexpected and indefinable. The poems speak backwards and forwards in time, to self, to family and friends, to poetic technique, to the birds caged in the chest. It is so lovely." -Alice Notley "Is there another American poet who could make us stop and wonder why woodpeckers don't get headaches? Could anyone else do a better job of evoking the small, tactile pleasures of sweeping up dust with a cornstraw broom? The Ron Padgett of yore is still with us-as charming, unpretentious, and surprising as ever-but there is a new Ron Padgett in this book as well: a poet of heart-breaking tenderness and ever-deepening wisdom. In You Never Know, he has become a chronicler of mortality, an elegist of worlds that vanish before our eyes." -Paul Auster "Ron Padgett's poems sing with absolutely true pitch. And they are human friendly. Their search for truths, both small and large, can be cause for laughter, or at least a thoughtful sigh. You Never Know is a delightful antidote to anything pretentious. There poems are agile and lucid and glad to be alive. It's a pleasure to recommend them." -James Tate http://www.coffeehousepress.org/youneverknowreviews.asp http://www.miporadio.com/ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing, reviews, & more on new and used cars. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:50:19 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Armstrong Subject: Wegway stops publishing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wegway Primary Culture Magazine will be ceasing publication. I'm very sorry to disappoint the many subscribers and supporters of the magazine. Both personal and financial factors have brought me to this difficult decision. If someone were willing and able to carry on, I would consider selling Wegway - a partial list of assets includes: 5700 art-related email contacts (mostly North America with about 250 international contacts) 850 art-related postal contacts (mostly North America) The Wegway name CMPA membership (Canadian Magazine Publishers Association) Newsstand distribution in the U.S. and Canada Functional website and domain name www.wegway.com Canada Post publications account Wegway back issues plus the "clip art" data cd I am available to help with the transition and willing to remain in an advisory capacity. Perhaps this unfortunate turn of events will be someone's golden opportunity. Thank you Steve Armstrong Editor/Publisher Wegway ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:35:56 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Bernstein Subject: Seeing Double: Feb. 7 - March 4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Seeing Double: Susan Bee & Miriam Laufer Opening Thursday, February 9, 6-8 pm Exhibition February 7 - March 4 A.I.R. Gallery, 511 West 25th St., New York Tues.-Sat. 11-6 212-255-6651 Gallery I. Philosophical Trees: New Paintings by Susan Bee Gallery II. Paintings by Miriam Laufer from the 1960s and 1970s Seeing Double is a two-person show of paintings by Susan Bee and her mother, Miriam Laufer (1918-1980). The show is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Johanna Drucker and a new web site devoted to the work of Miriam Laufer. Susan Bee's web site has been updated to include new works from the show. Miriam Laufer web site: http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/Laufer Susan Bee web site: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bee/ Johanna Drucker essay: http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/Laufer/drucker.html more info at: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:57:35 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "St. Thomasino" Subject: eratio redux + call Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed . 9 . eratio issue six http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com * poetic language * Jack Foley Nicholas Manning Dan Masterson Salvatore Quasimodo, Tr. Anny Ballardini Jorge Lucio de Campos Todd Swift Hugh Tribbey Eileen Tabios Ashok Niyogi Dustin Hellberg Amy J. 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"The noise of them that sing I do hear." . . http://thepostmodernromantic.blogspot.com/ . 9 =A0 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:39:58 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark Weiss Subject: Re: Charlie O In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20060127111109.02bbecb8@mail.theriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I second all this, and add Chuck Stein's Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum, about Olson and Jung. It would be nice to have a bio that didn't portray the man as a hopeless depressive (at best). Mark At 01:27 PM 1/27/2006, you wrote: >mIEKAL: > >Great summary by Paul Nelson. I'd also add that it seems essential >to me to read the correspondence between Olson & Creeley, published >by Black Sparrow Press in 10 volumes. Maybe not to read all of it, >but make your way through the first few volumes at least and see if >you want more from there. Also, Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: >A Modern Correspondence, is well worth the time. Other letters, such >as Letters for Origin, are worth your time as well. Here are a >couple of other titles: > >Ann Charters, Olson/Melville: A Study in Affinity >Richard Grossinger, ed., An Olson-Melville Sourcebook (two volumes) >Don Byrd, Charles Olson's Maximus > >Olson's own memoir of his father, The Post Office, is also worth reading. > >For accuracy, and because it's in print, yes, the U California >edition of Maximus is essential. I prefer to read the earlier >volumes, though, which were published separately. > > The Maximus Poems (Jargon/Corinth, 1960) > Maximus Poems IV, V, VI (Cape Golliard/Grossman, 1968) > The Maximus Poems Volume Three (ed. by Charles Boer and > George Butterick, Grossman, 1975) > >I know these aren't as inclusive or accurate in some ways, but they >give more sense of the scale of the work, and even though the last >two are oversized, they are more easily handled than the big >complete version. There is also a sense, in the physical >presentation of those books, of work that is in some ways still >discovering, and at risk. Those books, even the look and feel of >them, probably contributed to my excitement about Olson and Maximus >when I first delved into them. Unfortunately, you may not be able to >find those volumes anywhere, except in libraries. The Univ. of >California Press book, while I welcome it, does not convey such a >sense of wonder. > >Charles > >At 10:46 AM 1/27/2006, you wrote: >> mIEKAL aND wrote: >> >>>Just made my way thru Tom Clark's made-for-TV biography of Olson & >>>finished the book feeling unfulfilled. Surely there must be other >>>Olson biographical sources out there that do a more thorough job >>>of taking the reader thru the Maximus Poems & how the big guy >>>lived it. Kept feeling like Clark would begin to reference MP time >>>& again, starting to make some connections but then quickly give >>>way to the misunderstood genius / tortured lover subtext. I know >>>of Butterick's sourcework which I haven't read. 1) Is that >>>something that's readable or is it a giant footnote? 2) Anything >>>else essential that I'm missing, I mean I know there's a lot out >>>there, how to sort thru it? Also, I know there are a more than a >>>few OlsonHeads listening, is the 95 University of CA edition of >>>Maximus, the final version, the one to read? >>> >>>way west of dogtown, >>> >>>~mIEKAL >> >>mIEKAL, >> >>1) Yes and Yes. >>2) Yes >>3) Yes ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:14:18 +0530 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: kari edwards Subject: Invation to Subjunctive rearticulation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I invite you all to my blog: TRANSSUBMUTATION http://transdada3.blogspot.com/ for the past 4 months I have been in India. And in an attempt to articulate this experience I have been working on my "Subjunctive rearticulation project," @ TRANSSUBMUTATION http://transdada3.blogspot.com/ hope you enjoy.. thank you kari edwards ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:59:11 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: notes from new palestine: niggers can never go home again. (redux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48437.php notes from new palestine: niggers can never go home again. kkkanadian towns have always had a history of, not only institutional, b.u.t. local citizenry collective racism, harassment and complicity in the rapes, murders and other wilful destruction of humnanbeings undesired/'not wanted on the journey' by the static quo -- be they natives, poor, black and now muslims and arabs - one might say that kkkanada comes into it's own or collapses, for maybe it is what ahmadinejad has said, 'colonialism time has come to an end', as the nwo makes a power move on the world -.... notes from new palestine: niggers can never go home again. -- Hey Jim -- Please Call Home! “stop sweet-talking him. tell him how you feel. tell him how -- what kind of hell you've been catching, and let him know that if he's ready to clean his house up, if he's not ready to clean his house up, he shouldn't have a house. it should catch on fire and burn down. “-- al hajj malik shabaaz We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte do you overstand where we are coming from? the members of imc back peddling and passing the buck, over the seriousness of lessez faire racism and personal harassment of posters, to imc and local authors have used the forum to launch personal attacks, harass and defame character. they have basically entered it not to produce independent media or "challenge the centres of power" -- b.u.t. to infiltrate and control it like 90% of the media in kkkanada (owned and operated by the kkkanadian government or the asper family). stephen karr/pepper (whose refrain is to remind us that his ignorance, obsession, unilateral thinking and sociopathic manipulative behaviour can be excused because of the amerikkkan racial and national socialist party percentile law -- not black, as far as the amerikkkan goes, this time b.u.t. -- of being "1/4 jewish?") was actually a troll who spent much time lying, launching personal attacks against *ytzhak*, defaming the character of the poster, attacking and deleting latino posts and complying with the racist segregationist policies of california immigration laws and xenophobia and making false claims of *antisemiticism* (the new tools for anyne who critiques or challenges the centres of power) along with guamanian/dan bashaw with jim hedger/radhippie (supporter of ernst zundle) and former member of the white boy only anachist club, as their go boy shill -- some are lawyers now advising on how far they can push a nigger legally without getting caught; some pretend to be journalists for media monoplies. most imc would find it odd that a troll would be offered a position on the admin of the imc they have disrupted and attacked. then that very troll would, try and invoke choas on the site to collapse it and then encourage very threatening and affected/disturbed persons to engage in internet harassment against a regular poster and other peoples in order to discourage them from participating in local and global affairs that contradict the white global supremacist and elitist agenda. any opportunity to make light of, humiliate and harass *ytzhak* or lawrence ytzhak braithwaite, the above imc coopters have taken and it has become, much to their schoolyard bullying pleasure, humiliating, unfair, anti-intellectual, childish and intolerable -- a form of behvariorial modification -- which is the desired affect of harassment. it's not that people are blind to the bad behavior of the white bourjois in public b.u.t. that it is to make the situation so insane that anyone reacting normally, to extreme confrontation and hyperbole, with no jusitice or fairness/no checks and balances and with no outlet -- then like a frustrated ghetto boy from native son or a palestinian bomber, thrower or matyre, each seen/taken out of contexte with no knowledge of the history of oppression, would toss themselves into the mix like c k chesterton's description of art to *thursday* -- in a sudden act of desperation -- so why should i be a fool for this? this city which has history of erasing and/ignoring the accomplishments of nonwhites and the poor is so hell bent on cultural imperialism it has almost become an inbred race or ethncity in itself. i have never been offered the respect as a long time member of this society here or of the community, despite my work to assist, or as an author worthy of respect and as an asset. i remained always pushed to the outside with a theatrical flair of making as if i was resisting an invitation -- i was and am resisting tokenism & colonial labels. frankly, i have been treated like an uppity nigger that won't know his place (or when that stranger called honesty and straight talk take hold -- like an animal) . if people disagreed with me on an intellectual level that would be one thing -- b.u.t. it is reduced to slander, bullying, defamation and humiliation tactics -- for like israel, and it's brutality toward difference, they can't seem to make a case for it or any other their twisted idealogies. they can only build firewalls and shoot off derision. basically, i have been subjected to the old colonial ritual of personal harassment -- my body violated, my accomplishments the victim of benign neglect and driven to the point of despair by these powers with the hope that i self destruct via negative reinforcement and isolation. i guess that's what you get when you are drafted, and i say drafted because i do not prefess to be of greatness or noble calling, only a simple man not a *boy* or anybody's *boy* as a supremist poster refereners to me as, b.u.t. at times a bit ridiculous, into fighting/or starting a scene of two as lord attendant, for a noble cause/for my peoples -- staggering in the footsteps with an increasingly heavying backpack -- in the footsteps of bruhs/sis and ancestors -- more stronger than i -- the tokenism and invisibility of our invincable accomplishements in this city and what jay-z once reminded us, to get people to "see what a nigga look like when a nigga in a roadsta"/or nigga as an author -- to see ourselves -- from niggas to gods as bruh akil once wrote. to hear ourselves -- not the reflection tolerance of the so called liberal british columbian society, a society that has an agenda of making this a white dialogue -- be it left or right -- junkie or str8 edge -- of separatist and one race caste system, b.u.t. one of accomplished various individuals who have a right to BEE seen, respected and heard. since i have been here whatever opportunity, on an increasing level, has been taken to degrade me -- to criminalize me, to take me down a few notches -- tokenize and label. i have not been in the least bit respected or publicly acknowledge as an asset to my community - to my city. i have served this country for 11 years of my life. i have studied the classics. i wrote what has been acknowledge as cult classic in the united states. both novels have had featured reviews and praises from the alterntive to mainstream presses, outside of victoria. i was the first kkkanadian to have been signed to much saught after press. my writngs have been included in the national poetry archieves, studied at grad level in university. i have worked with food not bombs, put together a zine of black, native and muslim knowledge and revolutionary thought (mw), made chapbooks illustrated by local artists. my recordings and writing have been heard and published, respectively, internationally. my hope and struggle has always been for new palestine. i have struggled for my community and faught and turned down opportunities in both the u.s. and kkkanada who have attempted to disrespect the peoples here and my fam and peoples in general -- compromise our integrity = "i am we". and have always acknowledged being from victoria and not the more glamourous big city of vancouver, like so many other artist have attempted to do, and all these efforts have garndered is benign neglect, brutality and/or constant humilation (to every step in my elevation which, will, god willing, remain constant), and in the case of certain city privately contracted individuals, like an animal who won't down stay. ...and by some coincidence i'm am suppose to ignor, or we are, that all this has happened to, and is happening to, the first black author of british columbia. one not treated as a prize. ...not as human b.u.t. as being killed by willful destruction. i must admit, i have been foolish, in my obession over making this city and my hood feel and think and CEE. ...for i have, openly, in a covert manner, said, not worship or adore -- not even more importantly, like, maybe -- b.u.t. will you 'love me'. ...and all smirked all the way. b.u.t i know that... b.u.t. i grow tired... ...and my backpack, visible or not, gets heavier kkkanadian towns have always had a history of, not only institutional, b.u.t. local citizenry collective racism, harassment and complicity in the rapes, murders and other wilful destruction of humnanbeings undesired/'not wanted on the journey' by the static quo -- be they natives, poor, black and now muslims and arabs - one might say that kkkanada comes into it's own or collapses, for maybe it is what ahmadinejad has said, 'colonialism time has come to an end', as the nwo makes a power move on the world -- for no two have anything more in common for the sadistic bullying, cold kills, bought journalist monopolies on truth, worship of mediocrity, and utter disregard for the individual and human values of difference and varying cultures and voices. in a town with aryan nation groups, fascists separatists electoral parties, paranoid white folk training grounds, a gay community loyal to corporate and white power causes, mercenaries and supremacist gangs ...they say the trouble and threat to freedome and what must be faught and degraded for the safety of jews and even homosexuals, lies in combating one of the victims of these totalitarianism groups since his arrival -- the black author lawrence ytzhak braithwaite. ...and as good hypocracy, the sort this country breeds in the very genes of it's system, it is done with the stance of fighting against the oppression of now oppressive groups = *homophobia* and now *antijewish* sentiments and the new heretical religion of *holocaust deniel* i.e. hiding behind white european jewish struggle (where if any negative comments were made against these two groups, and new born religion, would have been deleted within minutes) all of whom who having forgotten the solidarity that got them here - or what it is like to be treated cruely by what was once the opressors, have decided to join the daemon's cacophony of destruction of enlightment for the dark ages of fear and ignorance, as bedfellows. nigger go home. ...and bruthas got the shout down of *let the niggers burn* imc's were created and fought for in an attempt to bring truth to the people and combat the lies of the mainstream coopted media. it then became an outlet for creativity for those on the outskirts or rejecting mainstream corporate arts -- BEE it hip hop, punk, rap, turntablism, literature, poetry or creative non-fiction or film and video. it was not, however, ever meant to be a forum for failed peoples to place themselves as admin or editors and engage and provoke harassment and humiliation of individuals who do not stroll with the party line -- nor was it meant to be a lackey to brutal, apartheid regimes, totalitarian governments, dysfunctional racist individuals and corporate whores. in the case of victoria.indymedia.org, it has fallen victim to to the spooks of planted seeds of kkkanadian imperialism and media same think unthink tank totalitARYANism and showboaters. my body and life in this place is the witness, inshallah. if something should happen to me (and it scares ... to say it shall) -- remember not only these names and it's history and pracitices b.u.t. remember the city and it's habits and plants, inshallah. one day we will be, inshallah peace 1426 Lawrence Y Braithwaite (aka Lord Patch) New Palestine/Fernwood/The Hood Victoria, BC "Braithwaite’s work is brilliant, and represents the distinct voice of black BC literature, a matter-of-fact defiance of traditional ideas about race, class and sexuality in popular cultures and in black literary criticism. As Compton notes, black Canadian identity is not determined by "transplant Afrocentrism, easy access African-Americana or the spice-rack vapidness of [Canadian] liberal multiculturalism". " -- Anne Borden -- "The Danforth Review" "...President Ahmadinejad considered the "existence of an appropriate atmosphere for expressing viewpoints" as the prerequisite for "holding dialogues among countries", adding "if one side would keep on talking and the other side would merely have to listen, it would not be called a dialogue." He added, "the era of colonialism and literature of threats has long been over..." -- mahmoud ahmadinejad http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48418.php and http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48214.php and http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/how_fast_does_light_travel___for_george_scott_3rd_b2.mp3 http://www.odeo.com/audio/306382/view See also: http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/lbraithwaite-01.html http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php and "So many of my comrades are gone now. Some tight partners, crime partners, and brothers off the block are begging on the street. Others are in asylum, penitentiary, or grave. They are all suicides of one kind of another who had the sensitivity and tragic imagination to see the oppression. Some overcame; they are the revolutionary suicides." -- huey p newton -- "I am we" -- from revolutionary suicide http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/47863.php or http://www.nathanielturner.com/revolutionarysuicide.htm and "in these times immersed in the absurdity of systemic acts of cruelty and double standards in this messy area , some call the west , which is now embedded in the midst of a treacherous performance piece -- it is only logical that in an illogical world run by bullys, abusers, simpletons and usurpers -- that frustrated valid bruthas will invoke acts of will to power and make you feel the pain they feel."--Lawrence Y Braithwaite (aka Lord Patch) -- "notes from new palestine: revolutionary suicidal tendencies (the war brought home)" http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/42944.php or http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48156.php and http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/unner_stated__down_pressin__acapella__--_lord_patch.mp3 or http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/8314.php ___ Stay Strong \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil\ "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte\ \ http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/lbraithwaite-01.html \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ } ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:47:18 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Nathaniel Siegel Subject: Summer positions at Putnam Camp Adirondaks High Peaks New York MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Friends, Hi ! Every summer I spend 1-2 weeks at a place called Putnam Camp located in St. Huberts New York in the heart of the Adirondaks High Peaks Region. The camp has been in continual operation since 1877, a historic, rustic, family resort. The season runs from June 25th to Sept 2nd, and there are a number of positions to be filled including Choreperson, Maintenance Assistant, Breakfast Cook, Laundry Person, Cook, Kitchen Manager and General Manager. I am sharing this with the poetics list because in the past the camp was run by a lovely academic couple, and most of the staff is college age, just starting or about to go. If you would like to learn more about a summer job that offers the great outdoors and space and time to write and recreate, please feel free to contact me at _nathanielsiegel@aol.com_ (mailto:nathanielsiegel@aol.com) . Thank you ! Nathaniel ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:03:57 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: ric carfagna Subject: Re: Charlie O MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi mIEKAL, I don't know if it's been mentioned but Don Byrd's Charles Olson Maximus published by University of Illinois Press is an interesting and scholarly addition to the Charlie O critical editions. I too would like to see a few more intense endeavors into Olson and his poetic legacy. Ric ----- Original Message ----- From: "mIEKAL aND" To: Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 11:38 AM Subject: Charlie O > Just made my way thru Tom Clark's made-for-TV biography of Olson & > finished the book feeling unfulfilled. Surely there must be other > Olson biographical sources out there that do a more thorough job of > taking the reader thru the Maximus Poems & how the big guy lived it. > Kept feeling like Clark would begin to reference MP time & again, > starting to make some connections but then quickly give way to the > misunderstood genius / tortured lover subtext. I know of Butterick's > sourcework which I haven't read. Is that something that's readable > or is it a giant footnote? Anything else essential that I'm missing, > I mean I know there's a lot out there, how to sort thru it? Also, I > know there are a more than a few OlsonHeads listening, is the 95 > University of CA edition of Maximus, the final version, the one to read? > > way west of dogtown, > > ~mIEKAL > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:39:16 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jason Nelson Subject: electronic writing, digital writing...or what have you... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit damn nice to see an (e-lit or whathaveyou) discussion here, the various names and labels and wee-wonkers that people stick to the various incarnations of cyber(insert other)-poetry are a sign that the art/writing form has matured enough for classification torubles to arise. personally, I dont much care for classifications and find these digital creatures (what I call them) to typically be created without an umbrella (or sunbrella for B.M.), without the notion of "my works fit here....and not here, make me some brownies you damn computer" I know my work seems to be drifting more into the art world, or new media (another troublesome sticky and chest high name tag) art spaces. I imagine that is more about their resources (prizes, gallery spaces, online playgrounds etc) than any sneaking slink towards any particular camp. Sadly, many of venues for (cyber)poetry seem to rise and fall with the few folks that run them. As you print editors know, it is damn hard to continue the good fight without an entourage of grad/undergrad ass editors or damn good friends to help. I personally, and no surprise here, seeing as though his office is a few feet from mine, agree with Mr. Zervos. Text is animation, interface, sound, stabbing motions, a nice grilled apricot, the smooth of the back, and so certainly some (cyber)poems often have no word-words at all. cheers, Jason Nelson --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? With a free 1 GB, there's more in store with Yahoo! Mail. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:43:03 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jesse Glass Subject: Looking for Readings in the Baltimore/Washington Area in March Ahadada MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'll be back in the Baltimore Washington area from March 7th to 19th and am interested in reading by myself or as a duo/ trio of ahadada press poets (have two on call, who would read with me)--Please back-channel possibilities--could also make the trip to NYC by train. Thanks! Jesse Glass ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:11:11 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: What the &#@*% _is_ Electronic Writing?!? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I'm attempting to decide if I find this term "electronic writing", > useful in anyway. It's not one that I've ever used, & really, I'm > not one to get hung up on terminology, but these concepts which are > known to be as old as Vannevar Bush (say late 1930s), keep getting > reinvented endlessly, & given a new spin to tout what might be > fashionable for the time, or favorite. There's a terrific conference happnin at the mo in my home town on digital audio art, and i've have had the pleasure of Peter Courtemanche's company for much of it. We talked today a bit about terminology. He mentioned that many people feel that by the time the moniker 'performance art' had settled on a certain range of work, it was basically over. So perhaps it's a good sign that the dust has not settled enough for there to be any agreement on these matters. ja http://vispo.com/arteroids http://vispo.com/nio http://vispo.com/kearns http://vispo.com/dbcinema http://vispo.com/StirFryTexts http://vispo.com/animisms/enigman http://vispo.com/animisms/enigman2 http://vispo.com/animisms/timesuite/MilleniumLyricIntro.htm http://vispo.com/animisms/SeattleDrift.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:14:46 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anny Ballardini Subject: Re: altered books project In-Reply-To: <86psmdach9.fsf@argos.fun-fun.prv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I particularly enjoyed some, keep it rolling, Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! Friedrich Nietzsche On 1/27/06, Dan Waber wrote: > > The altered books project at: > > http://www.logolalia.com/alteredbooks/ > > has been updated with new work by: > > Meghan Scott, Holly Crawford, Ross Priddle, Kevin Thurston, Nico > Vassilakis, Mike Magazinnik, John M. Bennett, Sheila Murphy, Michelle > Taransky, and Tim Martin. > > Enjoy, > Dan > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:17:32 +0100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anny Ballardini Subject: Re: Invation to Subjunctive rearticulation In-Reply-To: <6968f59e0601271744v13262261s6fe0b86bd644f056@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I have already praised your TRANSSUBMUTATION several times, great work, writing, pictures, and the same trip! Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! Friedrich Nietzsche On 1/28/06, kari edwards wrote: > > I invite you all to my blog: > > TRANSSUBMUTATION > http://transdada3.blogspot.com/ > > for the past 4 months I have been in India. And in an attempt to > articulate this experience I have been working on my "Subjunctive > rearticulation project," @ > TRANSSUBMUTATION > http://transdada3.blogspot.com/ > > hope you enjoy.. > > thank you > kari edwards > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:52:24 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eric Elshtain Subject: 'digital writing' or 'computer writing' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The problem with generic terms is that they're, well, generic. "Electronic writing" is fuzzy; could my poem written on an old Selectric typewriter be called "electronic"? "Computer poetry" does little to distinguish b/t poets that use the computer as a medium--poets that use the computer as an aid in procedural or combinatorial poetry, for example--and then poets that use the computer as a collaborator in the creation of original poetry. The helpful term "litware" (litteraciels) is used by the researchers of computer-assisted literature connected to Oulipo, which specifically names those computer-assisted literatures that fulfill an "implicational level aimed at using generative components such as the principles of narrative logic to make possible the creation of complete, complex works." (vide "ALAMO" in the _Oulipo Compendium_) Software engineer Jon Trowbridge, who wrote the code for Gnoetry0.0. 0.1 and 0.2 http://www.beardofbees.com/gnoetry.html has taken to calling what the software does as "computational poetry" and any discussion of how it works and of its results as "computational poetics." This seems a good, accurate description of this brand of computer-assisted poetry, and perhaps reminds us of the fact that a computer is a machine used for calculation. Eric Elshtain Editor Beard of Bees Press http://www.beardofbees.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:21:20 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tony Trigilio Organization: http://www.starve.org Subject: Court Green #4 / Call for Submissions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit COURT GREEN 4 / Spring 2007 http://english.colum.edu/courtgreen Call for Submissions Dossier: Political Poetry Each issue of COURT GREEN features a dossier on a special topic or theme. Occasional or topical poetry is a fraught genre, but we live in fraught times, and understand that poetry can be a way to negotiate our relationship to the current political situation. For issue 4, we are accepting submissions of poems that seek to expand the definition or commonly held notions of "political poetry." All styles and subjects welcome, but special consideration will be given to poems that aim to explore and complicate rather than teach or hold forth. Submissions of political poetry for consideration in the Dossier can be sent through May 1, 2006 to: Editors, Court Green, English Department, Columbia College Chicago, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605. Email submissions are not accepted. Submissions of poetry for the regular section of the magazine are welcome, in addition to Dossier submissions. If you would like to submit poems for the regular section, our reading period is February 1-May 1 of each year, to the same address above. Email me if you have questions (tony@starve.org). Thanks-- Best, Tony ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:30:42 +0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: derekrogerson Organization: derekrogerson.com Subject: Audio Digitization Archivist MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit New York City Poets House, a 45,000-volume poetry library, archive and lively international literary center seeks a temporary Audio Archivist to digitize 300-400 hours of poetry readings recorded on open reel tape. This is a 6-month grant-funded position, the goal of which is to preserve a remarkable collection of reel-to-reel recordings. Responsibilities: - Prepare recordings for digitization, including appropriate conservation work as necessary - Digitize recordings according to project standards - Create and input appropriate metadata for digitized recordings - Create backups onto appropriate physical media - Edit and process audio files using ProTools editing software - Produce CD user copies of remastered recordings Qualifications: - Broad experience working with open reel spoken word recordings of various formats in an archival setting desired; minimum of 3+ years required - BA or BS required (graduate degree in audio engineering, archives, library science or another related field is desirable) - Knowledge of proper preservation practices and digitization standards for magnetic tape - Knowledge of the recommended practices and guidelines for archival restoration and digitization of sound recordings - Excellent computer skills (Word, Excel) and facility with databases (we use a custom-designed Filemaker database) and audio production software (ProTools) - Proficient on Macintosh operating systems - Superior organizational ability and attention to detail A knowledge of and appetite for poetry is will make this job a pleasure. Candidates should send cover letter, resume, and salary requirements to: Ms. Carlin M. Wragg Multimedia Archive Coordinator Poets House 72 Spring Street, Second Floor New York, NY 10012 F: 212-431-8131 mailto:carlin@poetshouse.org No phone calls please. Start date is February 15, 2006. To learn more about Poets House, please see http://www.poetshouse.org ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:45:35 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brian Stefans Subject: Electronic writing, links etc. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The original form of my essay, which my post was intended to point to, is full of links to works: http://www.arras.net/brown_ewriting/?p=10 I can't really engage in this discussion of the phrase "electronic writing" -- it's what the class was called before I got here. A vague, innacurate term is useful anyway, it leaves anyone free to do what they want with it. After all, "projectivist" poetry was not an accurate moniker, nor did "objectivist" poetry have anything to do with Ayn Rand or objectivist philosophy. I'm not sure that Young-Hae Chang considers her work "electronic writing" but it is better written than most other "electronic writing" and it is in Flash, a primo technology for electronic writing. But it's not interactive... so, huh? I dunno... but I do whatever I want in my work. Jim, the second paragraph of my essay addresses print works that reflect digital practices in their creation, which I think is what you were addressing. As for audio, I think opening up pure audio works to being called "electronic writing" leaves open the possibility of saying that videos work is "electronic writing" because it has a screenplay, which I actually think is true, but I don't want my students doing pure audio or video works just yet. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:40:58 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Heller Comments: To: Mattes50@aol.com, sgavrons@barnard.edu, sdolin@earthlink.net, Sazibree@aol.com, hursts@sunyacc.edu, hokumakai@aol.com, sdonadio@middlebury.edu, millers@stjohns.edu, sclay@interport.net, sed372@aol.com, susanwheeler@earthlink.net, tenah@beasys.com, tennessee@thing.net, thilleman@excite.com, tom@goprofab.com, mamtaf@juno.com, tlavazzi@kbcc.cuny.edu, UKPOETRY@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU, vernagillis@earthlink.net, wginger@stjohns.edu, z@culturalsociety.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-1A502494; boundary="=======AVGMAIL-43DBF2FA0EB1=======" --=======AVGMAIL-43DBF2FA0EB1======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-1A502494 POETRY READING AT COLUMBIA MICHAEL HELLER & SAMUEL MENASHE WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 7th, at 8 pm WHERE: the Deutsches Haus at Columbia 420 W 116th St. between Amsterdam and Morningside Michael Heller is the author of seven volumes of poetry, the most recent being Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (Salt Publishing, 2003) His latest book is Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (Salt Publishing, 2005). The late Robert Creeley wrote of his work: "There is a classic largeness to these poems, whether of means or of reference--a consummately civilized response to our times that makes the intimate and the physical still primary despite the generalized chaos Heller movingly confronts." Samuel Menashe has been honored with the first Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation. His most recent book is New and Selected Poems (LIbrary of American, 2005). Victor Howes, in The Christian Science Monitor, remarked that "the art of Samuel Menashe is a jeweler's art, his poems are small, precision-cut, gem-like, and give off little sparks and splinters of flame." Dana Gioia writes: "Menashe is essentially a religious poet, though one without an orthodox creed. Nearly every poem he has ever published radiates a heightened religious awareness." Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (2003) and Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays (2005) available from Salt Publishing at www.saltpublishing.com and at both regular and online bookstores. For a survey of work, poems, essays, prose, go to: http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm --=======AVGMAIL-43DBF2FA0EB1======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=us-ascii; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-1A502494 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/243 - Release Date: 1/27/2006 --=======AVGMAIL-43DBF2FA0EB1=======-- ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:56:15 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ian VanHeusen Subject: Make a room for the unknown guest In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed To whomever is interested, I am currently distributing my free and 2nd self published chapbook. It is an expression of agape, a love of the divine, and I am curious to see if any list members would be interested in it. I do not claim to be anything in particular and would simply love to share this short collection with any interested parties. If you would like a copy, please email me at ianvanh@hotmail.com and provide your address. The following is an excerpt from the book: there is a book in the thought colored with dreams there are the words etched with the trembling voice of the heart & there is love a communion with the soul in the womb of the world we enter as joy & are baptized in tears of prayer, your child was born to live let the bond that joins be an iron castle fortified with patience may the tree of your relationship have deep roots and may its canopy build a tent with your shared affection why does this poet rejoice because in your arms is a union with God! Peace be with you and thank you for your time, Ian VanHeusen ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:45:03 +0900 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jesse Glass Subject: Thanks for the Suggestions! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I appreciate the response and will follow up. Jess ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:25:54 +0530 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: kari edwards Subject: Pinstripe Fedora MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline The Editors of Pinstripe Fedora are seeking new work... please send asap.. Please send work to Pinstripe_Fedora@gawab.com with the subject SUBMISSION in the e-mail's heading. http://pinstripefedora.com/guidelines.htm -- transSubmutation http://transdada3.blogspot.com/ NEW!!! obedience Poetry Factory School. 2005. 86 pages, perfect bound, 6.5x9. ISBN: 1-60001-044-X $12 / $10 direct order Description: obedience, the fourth book by kari edwards, offers a rhythmic disruption of the relative real, a progressive troubling of the phenomenal world, from gross material to the infinitesimal. The book's intention is a transformative mantric dismantling of being. http://www.factoryschool.org/pubs/heretical/index.html http://www.spdbooks.org/SearchResults.asp?AuthorTitle=3Dedwards%2C+kari ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:29:31 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tony Trigilio Organization: http://www.starve.org Subject: Joan Larkin Reading / Thursday / Columbia College Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit JOAN LARKIN POETRY READING Thursday, Feb. 2, 5:30 p.m. Columbia College Concert Hall (1014 South Michigan Ave.) Free & open to the public Joan Larkin is the author of HOUSEWORK, A LONG SOUND, and COLD RIVER (poetry); THE AIDS PASSION, THE LIVING, THE HOLE IN THE SHEET, and BROTHER DUST (plays); and IF YOU WANT WHAT WE HAVE and GLAD DAY (prose). She is co-translator (with Jaime Manrique) of SOR JUANA'S LOVE POEMS, editor of four anthologies of poetry and prose, and poetry editor of BLOOM. Twice winner of the Lambda Literary award for poetry, she co-founded the independent press Out & Out Books and co-edited the ground-breaking anthologies AMAZON POETRY and LESBIAN POETRY (with Ellly Bulkin) and GAY AND LESBIAN POETRY IN OUR TIME(with Carl Morse) in the 1970's and 80's. Her anthology of coming-out stories, A WOMAN LIKE THAT, was nominated for Publishing Triangle and Lambda awards for nonfiction in 2000. She earned a B.A. at Swarthmore College, an M.A. in English at the University of Arizona, and an M.F.A. in playwriting at Brooklyn College . Her awards include fellowships in poetry and playwriting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, NYFA, and the NEA. Joan is a visiting poet in the Columbia College English Department for Spring 2006. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:57:14 +1100 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Pam Brown Subject: ka mate ka ora - first issue In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit k a m a t e k a o r a # 1 December 2005 http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) is pleased to announce the first issue of Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics with contributions by Pam Brown, Murray Edmond, Alison Hunt, John Newton, Suzanne Nola and an editorial by Robert Sullivan. kmko is edited by Murray Edmond at the University of Auckland with assistance from a team of consulting and contributing editors. It will publish research essays and readings of New Zealand-related material and welcomes contributions from poets, academics, essayists, teachers and students from within New Zealand and overseas. Submission guidelines and further information at www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/about.asp _________________________________________________________________ Web site : Pam Brown - http://www.geocities.com/p.brown/ Associate editor : Jacket - http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html _________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News: Get the latest news via video today! http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:14:20 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brian Stefans Subject: The text in electronic writing & Themes and Concepts & axolotl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Some other things that I've put online recently might be of interest to you. The first actually went live several weeks ago. It's a discussion of the role of text in electronic writing, developed from a response to a chapter of the book First Person. Catch the link at my blog: http://www.arras.net/fscIII/ You can now leave comments at the blog, but also at Electronic Book Review, where the essay is stored. Second is a few more paragraphs I wrote in preparation for my class, called Themes and Contexts. It's really just a very short glossary of concepts I like to toss around. I left more easily graspable concepts out of it: http://www.arras.net/brown_ewriting/?page_id=20 Lastly, here's a short piece that one of my students did last semester that I think is pretty cool. http://www.arras.net/brown_ewriting/?page_id=18 Peace out! Brian ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:31:12 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Evans Subject: Poetry Foundation Article Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Free (Market) Verse," my article examining the poetic and political ramifications of the Lilly bequest to Poetry magazine and the subsequent creation of the Poetry Foundation, is slated to appear in the next issue of The Baffler magazine, due out soon. In advance of its print publication, the article will be serialized this week at http://www.thirdfactory.net/freemarketverse.html The schedule is as follows: Introduction (Monday) Poets for Bush (Tuesday) Deregulating Poetry (Wednesday) Poetics of the Backlash (Thursday) And Deliver Us from Modernism (Friday) If this issue interests you, I hope you will have a look and let me know what you think. Steve ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:04:39 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Steve--- thanks for sending this; sounds very intriquing---maybe even people will want to debate it on this here list, etc, as well. looking forward, Chris ---------- >From: Steve Evans >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Poetry Foundation Article >Date: Sun, Jan 29, 2006, 9:31 PM > > "Free (Market) Verse," my article examining the poetic and political > ramifications of the Lilly bequest to Poetry magazine and the > subsequent creation of the Poetry Foundation, is slated to appear in > the next issue of The Baffler magazine, due out soon. In advance of > its print publication, the article will be serialized this week at > > http://www.thirdfactory.net/freemarketverse.html > > The schedule is as follows: > > Introduction (Monday) > Poets for Bush (Tuesday) > Deregulating Poetry (Wednesday) > Poetics of the Backlash (Thursday) > And Deliver Us from Modernism (Friday) > > If this issue interests you, I hope you will have a look and let me > know what you think. > > Steve ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:39:19 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Reb Livingston Subject: Burlesque Poetry Hour -- reminder Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Come hear Kim Addonizio and Deborah Landau read at the Burlesque Poetry Hour in Washington DC tonight at 8 p.m. at Bar Rouge (located at 1315 16th street (between Mass. & O). For more details: http://burlesquepoetryhour.blogspot.com/ Gilda ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:51:53 -0800 Reply-To: editor@pavementsaw.org Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Baratier Subject: Re: Beard of Bees Chap question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Eric-- I have been considering your questions about chapbook reviews, how difficult they are in e-chap format, let alone otherwise & since our chapbooks are reviewed regularly I am wondering what your adversity is to creating a small run of the physical chapbook? I publish 400, which involves a physical cost you might not wont the burden of, but what about 30 for review & not mentioning the run-- As a trend, small runs are what most full-length book publishers are doing, beyond the corporate houses there are less than 2 dozen of us who are still publishing 1000 or more run editions. Applying this ideology to chaps seems even more feasible as there is not a quality issue / problem. Be well David Baratier, Editor Pavement Saw Press PO Box 6291 Columbus, OH 43206 http://pavementsaw.org ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:52:58 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: alexander saliby Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Steve, A brilliant piece of detective work here and well written!=20 Not sure I buy into the idea that the gift to Poetry was tied to a = "cover-up" of any kind, e.g. the decline in value of the Lilly stock, or = what ever else, but I share your view that the Lilly folks, at least the = CHQ ones are Bush's folks. The Poetry benefactor however, hmmmm...I = viewed her bequests more as a self-serving desire to be associated with = something she was not, a poet and an artist. =20 On the other hand, you are most accurate in your analysis that the = timing certainly helped take the heat off several other fronts for both = Lilly and the entire pharmaceutical de-regulation stuff! Was that a = planned (diabolical) plot on the part of the deceased? Don't think so! = Did she have help from the CHQ folks in forming that thought? Sounds = too much like an Oliver Stone movie to me...too much speculation, too = few facts to substantiate the thought.=20 None the less, I'm looking forward to the rest of the material. Alex=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Steve Evans=20 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=20 Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:31 PM Subject: Poetry Foundation Article "Free (Market) Verse," my article examining the poetic and political =20 ramifications of the Lilly bequest to Poetry magazine and the =20 subsequent creation of the Poetry Foundation, is slated to appear in =20 the next issue of The Baffler magazine, due out soon. In advance of =20 its print publication, the article will be serialized this week at = http://www.thirdfactory.net/freemarketverse.html The schedule is as follows: Introduction (Monday) Poets for Bush (Tuesday) Deregulating Poetry (Wednesday) Poetics of the Backlash (Thursday) And Deliver Us from Modernism (Friday) If this issue interests you, I hope you will have a look and let me =20 know what you think. Steve ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:12:13 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Tom Beckett Subject: New at e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bob Grumman interviewed by Geof Huth. Hie thee to: http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:26:30 -0800 Reply-To: rsillima@yahoo.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ron Silliman Subject: Silliman's Blog: Kimiko Hahn, Robert Kelly, Joanne Kyger Comments: To: Brit Po , New Po , Wom Po , Lucifer Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ RECENT POSTS Shame and Celan: Four new books by Robert Kelly (a collab with Birgit Kempker) A chapbook by Helena Bennett Other blogs – notes on Robert Creeley, Mary Beach and Lindley Williams Hubbell Night Palace by Joanne Kyger An interview with Kimiko Hahn Birds for example by Jess Mynes – the particular, the particular Seeing Double – the paintings of Miriam Laufer and Susan Bee Prose poetry by women: Boxing inside the Box by Holly Iglesias in re Reznikoff Epigrams and aphorisms – the compact poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton George Stanley and the value of quietness Borderless Bodies by Linh Dinh Another poet who died young - Joan Murray http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:59:10 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Adam Fieled Subject: 3rd & Final Blog: "Fieled's Proust-Juice" Comments: To: cipollinaaaaa@yahoo.com, "cmccabe@rfh.org.uk" , "kinsellaj@kenyon.edu" , "derek@theadamsresidence.co.uk" , peter@greatworks.org.uk, val@writtenpicture.co.uk, "cordite@cordite.org.au" , "js@johnsiddique.co.uk" , stevehalle77@gmail.com, bdfreedman@yahoo.com, Lse664@aol.com, aduncan@pinko.org, jeffreyethan@att.net, mountaingirl523@hotmail.com, marywgraham@yahoo.com, golden.notebook@gmail.com, michaelland84@yahoo.com, sglassman@comcast.net, ediesedgwick@ediesedgwick.biz, samwallack@hotmail.com, cdeniord@nec.edu, mistabol@aol.com, meharju@yahoo.com, theogold5@yahoo.com, bfsmith@syr.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Several people have mentioned to me that they enjoyed my "Proust-Juice" entries on Stoning the Devil. I've decided to devote Stoning the Devil to lit-crit, so that gives me a good excuse to found a third & final blog: "Fieled's Proust-Juice". It's at www.proustjuice.blogspot.com. Meanwhile, lots of new lit-crit at Stoning the Devil (www.adamfieled.blogspot.com) and new poetry at PFS Post (www.artrecess.blogspot.com). Thanks, y'all... af --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with your Yahoo! Mail. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:02:43 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: ALDON L NIELSEN Subject: Endesha Ida MaeHolland Comments: To: L-Poconater@lists.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland, former professor at USC, Minnesota and Buffalo, author of the prize-winning FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA, friend and inspiration to many of us, passed away Wednesday after a long struggle with ataxia. Dr. Holland was just 61 years old. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Breaking in bright Orthography . . ." --Emily Dickinson Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature The Pennsylvania State University 116 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:15:30 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article In-Reply-To: <200601300538.k0U5cjn1252964@pimout1-ext.prodigy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What I find interesting is that no one is challenging the "poetry" Foundation to justify the cash they waste and why the poetry community does not organize to challenge what they are doing? Just think about this statistic for the same amount that they just spent to research why Americans do not read poetry they could have endowed 10 small presses for five years. With all the money they have they could have supported reading series in rural and suburban America where poetry does not exist. They could have provided hundreds of scholarships for the education of poets. They could have created a place where poetry could have its own institution like the National Science Foundation Giving out grants to poets to do important work. The problem is that the PF is a sea of mediocrities, Billy Collins lovers-- give me a break Kay Ryan is a great poet? What a crock Ray ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:17:37 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Godston Subject: Arts Education Promotes Healing for Hurricanes' Kids In-Reply-To: <86k6d83k0r.fsf@argos.fun-fun.prv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here's a fascinating article about how poetry and other art forms can help young people express themselves and deal with disasters -- Arts Education Promotes Healing for Hurricanes' Kids In Waveland, Mississippi, 75 kites recently flew defiantly against winds that once battered the town. Lumber collected from demolished homes became kite frames, and high school students' poetry scrawled on colored paper became kite tails. This project and other creative arts have enabled students affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to express their emotions, and go back to school with a sense of release and a return to normalcy. One student, Caitlin Dalgo, noted, "All of us put our thoughts into our kites as we made them, and when we let our kites go in the wind, the wind blew all the bad times and memories away." The Mississippi Whole Schools Initiative, a comprehensive school reform group, the Mississippi Arts Commission, and DreamYard, a New York-based arts education nonprofit organization, sponsored the kite project in Waveland for students from Ocean Springs, Bay St. Louis, and Laurel, each designated a disaster area after Hurricane Katrina. In addition to creating kites, with guidance from DreamYard teachers, students wrote original monologues, short scenes, and poetry, which were integrated into a collaborative arts project among the schools. The project and an anthology of students' poetry were recently unveiled to community members and students at a ceremony at Bay St. Louis High School. The Waveland kites and other arts education initiatives have emerged as a way for students to heal after the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The U.S. Department of Education has produced a resource for parents, educators, coaches, and children called Tips for Helping Students Recovering from Traumatic Events. In the "Tips for Students" section, the booklet acknowledges that, after a disaster, students may want to find ways to express themselves by creating artwork, writing, playing music, or singing. This approach is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the American Psychological Association, as well. An added benefit is that students may reap academic benefits while expressing themselves through the arts. At the "Coming Up Taller" Awards in 2004, for example, First Lady Laura Bush noted, "The arts...are critical building blocks for a child's development and they provide a foundation for a lifetime of learning. Drawing helps children improve their writing skills. The study of poetry helps with memory and vocabulary. Theater can bring history to life." In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example, schools and organizations recognized the potential of arts activities to help students deal with trauma. The New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund established the School Arts Rescue Initiative where staff and artists, many from the New York City nonprofit ArtsConnection, created music, dance, theater, and visual arts programs to help students work through their emotions and learn about tolerance. In West Sacramento, California, second graders at Bryte Elementary School used their language arts unit on bravery to create a book called Some People Are Brave. The book with writings and illustrations of the disaster was published locally by Kinko's and then published nationally by SRA/McGraw-Hill. Dawn Imamoto, the teacher who organized the project and a participant in the OII-funded National Writing Project, recalls, "What my students could not express orally, they were able to do in writing and illustrating." In line with Tips for Helping Students Recovering from Trauma, the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers is providing students with a creative outlet through its administration of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. In addition to the national awards that annually recognize outstanding works of art and writing created by students in seventh through twelfth grade, in May 2006, the Alliance plans to launch a virtual gallery and program entitled "Kids Reconstruct with Creativity." The student artwork will document how youth are coping with the loss and dislocation caused by the 2005 hurricanes in the Gulf Coast and Florida. At the local level, Fairhope, Alabama, which was hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina, has ratcheted up resources to absorb victims from other communities that were more severely damaged. At Fairhope's Eastern Shore Art Center, both local and evacuee youth have been welcomed into its studios and galleries. Nancy Raia, the Center's Arts Bridging Creativity (ABC) Project Director, and Vicky Nix Cook, a former classroom teacher and current supervisor for fine arts at the Baldwin County (AL) Public Schools, organized a "Hurricane Hair" project for students at Fairhope Middle School. The project originated as a response to Hurricane Ivan that ravaged Fairhope in 2004, and was so successful that Ms. Raia and Ms. Cook brought it back for victims of Katrina and Rita. Students designed whimsical postcards for the project. Each picture depicts a person experiencing a "bad hair day." Students used straws to blow paints onto the surface of postcards, making it appear that the resulting brightly colored hair is blowing in the wind. Last year, proceeds from the Hurricane Hair postcards went to Ivan charities and tsunami aid. This year, in addition to helping students heal, these postcards were turned into a fundraiser for the American Red Cross. Following a monochromatic theme, the Center also organized a Blue Faces of Katrina project for local students and evacuees from various Mississippi and Louisiana schools. Students discussed their experiences and painted faces using blue pigment. They learned about Pablo Picasso's "Blue Period" and how the artist used his art to depict human misery and alleviate his own depression. Henry Kutzenski, a seventh grade Louisiana student displaced by the storm noted, "[This project] helped me express a bit more of what I feel...sadness but also hope." Like Henry, as many as 200,000 displaced students have found safe haven in new schools and cities across the country. In Texas, the Theatre Action Project (TAP), an educational interactive theater company serving over 50 schools in greater Austin, organized creative arts classes for thousands of evacuees in the Austin Convention Center. A TAP program specialist developed the curriculum for pre-kindergarten students. TAP also arranged classes, which consisted of theater games and writing and drawing exercises, for older children at the Convention Center in the evenings. In addition, classes are led by TAP teachers at Heart House, a local after-school program. They represent a collaborative effort between TAP and another Austin arts organization, Outreach Productions. Also in Texas, Big Thought, a learning partnership that supports community partnerships, cultural integration, youth development, and family learning, is offering arts programming to students through 56 cultural partners involved in the Dallas ArtsPartners program. In addition to providing services to students, schools and arts organizations have coordinated fundraising efforts. For example, Virginia Commonwealth University is spearheading an exhibition of artists' work from around the world based on the theme of "The Power of Water." Proceeds from the sale of the artwork go to the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Hurricane Katrina Recovery Fund, where the aim is to rebuild schools in areas hardest hit by the storm. The U.S. Department of Education website "Hurricane Help for Schools" also continues to link donors who wish to help hurricane-affected schools and those that have taken in students displaced by Katrina and Rita. As of early January, 551 connections had been made through the website. On a musical note, the VH1 Save the Music Foundation is focused on donating instruments to students in affected areas, and reaching out to its Arts Coordinators in the Gulf Coast. MENC: The National Association for Music Education (formerly Music Educators National Conference) has funneled donations through a fund set up by NAMM: International Music Products Association to assist with the efforts of charities such as the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, MusiCares, and the American Red Cross. Across the country, the arts are connecting resources, students, and communities to each other in an effort to heal and rebuild. KID smART, a local New Orleans nonprofit that teaches life skills to underprivileged children through visual and performing arts, is crossing its borders and organizing arts programming at KIPP-NOW (Knowledge Is Power Program - New Orleans West) College Prep in Houston, Texas, a K-8 school recently created for students displaced by the hurricane. On December 10, a group of artists, educators, and community members, coordinated through KID smART, convened at the Crescent City Farmers' Market in New Orleans. They carried shells from Lake Pontchatrain, branches from fallen trees, and pine needles from the North Shore. The group collected these materials to create a giant mandala, a Hindu and Buddhist circular design containing symbols of wisdom. The mandala was used to redirect the city's painful symbols of destruction into a representation of change and hope. The Office of Innovation and Improvement funds Arts in Education grant programs and the Arts Education Partnership (AEP). The Mississippi Whole Schools Initiative, ArtsConnection, and Big Thought have received Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination grants. The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, the National Art Education Association (NAEA), the Mississippi Arts Commission, NAMM: International Music Products Association, MENC: The National Association for Music Education, the National Network for Folk Arts in Education (see What's New), the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, and the VH-1 Save the Music Foundation are all members of AEP. Note: There is little research available on the benefit of art therapy in helping survivors of traumatic experiences; however, a randomized, controlled trial of "mindfulness-based art therapy" (MBAT) was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. This study of women with cancer found that, as compared to the control group," the MBAT group demonstrated a significant decrease in symptoms of distress... and significant improvements in key aspects of health-related quality of life..." For more, visit The Education Innovator at http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/innovator/2006/0126.html.> ASAP. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:22:00 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Nam June Paik 1932-2006 Comments: To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: > From: Rod Stasick > Date: January 30, 2006 11:55:30 AM CST > To: SilenceList > Subject: [silence] Nam June has passed... > > http://www.paikstudios.com/ > > Nam June Paik passed away at his Miami home at 8:00pm EST on Sunday, > January 29th, 2006. > Funeral information to be announced. > > Rod ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:25:38 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Anna Vitale Subject: Poetry vs. Precious MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hello, To read a brief discussion on precious poems, please visit my website to read "Poetry vs. Precious," at http://annavitale.blogspot.com/ I'm a 24 year old school bus driver/ poet living in Ann Arbor, MI. Thanks and I hope to hear from some of you on the site soon. Best, Anna Vitale ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:36:35 -0800 Reply-To: ishaq1823@telus.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: Breakdown FM: A few Things to Ponder About Slick Rick the Ruler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48314.php A few Things to Ponder About Slick Rick the Ruler Rick cautioned folks not to get caught up in the racial thing because he expressed love for the Beatles and Elvis. He stressed that they were good at their craft and they cannot be denied. He said that far too often we over generalize people and that everyone Black and white have good things to offer. Rick also spoke fondly of the Rat pack which featured Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis and Dean Martin. He said that one should not sleep on Dean and that his showmanship was and style was dope. A few Things to Ponder About Slick Rick the Ruler download mp3: http://media.odeo.com/3/5/0/Breakdown_FM-SlickRick.mp3 by Davey D Slick Rick is considered by many to be one of Hip Hop’s most colorful characters and the genre’s greatest storyteller. He’s also considered one of Hip Hop’s better performers. One thing is for certain, he lived up to those glowing adjectives this past weekend when he rolled through the Bay Area to do a special show. Unlike most so called old school acts, Slick Rick did not need to show up and be apart of an ‘old school rap package that featured 10 other groups. He and he alone packed out the Mezzanine Night club in San Francisco with both a capacity crowd as well as a who’s who in local Bay Area celebrities. The make up of the crowd covered damn near all the generations within Hip Hop. You saw over the over 30 and 40 crowd rolling deep in one corner. You saw the twenty-somethings in another corner. You saw some sporting fancy fur coats and big ole dookey chains from ‘back in the days’, while others were rocking the latest Sean jean and Roc-A-Wear. The dance floor was packed with people who gathered around b-boy and b-girl circles to watch folks pop, strut and spin on their backs. In another part of the club you saw folks doing the latest Hyphy dances. But no matter whop they were and what they were doing, they all of them came to see Slick Rick the Ruler who did not disappoint. I had spoken with Rick the day before his show and he emphatically talked about two things that he seemed determined to address with his performance. First, he seemed annoyed that the record industry gatekeepers continue to erase and put to the back anybody who is older. Rick who is now 40 talked about how the industry has created a climate where folks feel comfortable in disrespecting Hip Hop’s history and its icons. He said this sort of attitude has resulted in a lot of older cats walking around pretending they are real young just to fit into the industry. Rick also pointed out the while its important to create space and allow the newer generation to have their time in the sun, it’s been disconcerting to see that so many have not built upon past lessons and approaches to Hip Hop. He was specifically referring to showmanship. He spoke about how there has always been a premium on artists being able to do good shows. He says it was and continues to be critical. One was expected to put forth an effort to adorn a costume or style of dress, have a well crafted image and be able to rock the crowd. He cited Big daddy Kane’s recent performance on VH1 Hip Hop Honors as an example of what Hip Hop should be striving for. However, with many of today’s artists that skill set has been lost… Rick would like to see that change. When Slick Rick hit the stage this past Saturday night he showed everyone including veteran performers how it should be done. He broke out wearing his traditional fly outfit and adorned with mounds of trunk jewelry. The crowd went nuts when he hit the stage. They went even more nuts when he started rocking all his hit songs to the house band which was headed up by long time neo-soul-jazz artists Ricky Rick and Vernon Hall. As an added surprise Dwayne Wiggins of the group Tony Toni Tone jumped on stage with Rick to back him up and the rest they say his history. The place went crazy… Slick Rick hammered home his point about not sleeping on the old school when he asked his deejay DJ Kaos to spin a few records from the old school and match them up against today’s hits. Rick wanted the crowd to compare. Yes, the crowd went nuts to hit songs from artists like Young Jeezy and Mannie Fresh. But once you heard classic cuts from Eric B and Rakim or Big Daddy Kane, there was simply no comparison. The old school won out that night. As for our interview with Slick Rick, he remained as colorful as ever. As I mentioned he spoke about the importance of doing good shows and ran off a short list of entertainers that all newcomers should peep and learn from. Among those cited were the Beatles and Elvis Presley, Gladys Knight and James Brown. Rick cautioned folks not to get caught up in the racial thing because he expressed love for the Beatles and Elvis. He stressed that they were good at their craft and they cannot be denied. He said that far too often we over generalize people and that everyone Black and white have good things to offer. Rick also spoke fondly of the Rat pack which featured Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis and Dean Martin. He said that one should not sleep on Dean and that his showmanship was and style was dope. During our interview we spoke with Rick about the legacy of his former crew the Kangol Crew which some may consider Hip Hop’s first ‘Rap Pack’. He talked about the good fortune that fell upon members like himself and Dana Dane. Slick Rick also spoke on the art of storytelling and how he goes about writing his rhymes. Anybody who is an emcee will wanna peep out some of Slick Rick’s techniques. For example, he says the best way to write a rap that tells a story is to write the second, third or forth line first… We ended our interview by speaking on politics. Rick offered up his insight about the Democrats and explained why he attended 2004 National Hip Hop Political Convention and told people not to vote for George Bush or John Kerry. He also broke down the things we need to be aware of regarding the nomination of Judge Alioto for the Supreme Court. He concluded by giving some choice words about England’s Prime Minister Tony Blair. http://odeo.com/audio/610940/view or http://media.odeo.com/3/5/0/Breakdown_FM-SlickRick.mp3 ___ Stay Strong "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as)\ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/lbraithwaite-01.html http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:37:18 -0500 Reply-To: nudel-soho@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: Nam June Paik.... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I knew Nam...that's what i called him..tho i assume it was his last name....as one of many passing acq. in Soho...he was a brilliant intuituve artist...who could see what other's easily missed...i once lent him one of his own early throw a way pieces for a retrospective show...two yrs later...it was returned... with a little prodding....ah...once on the street..he led a visiting artist by Steve&My stand..& sd..."this is the POET'S CORNER"...it takes an OUTSIDER to see what was in front of one's avante-garde nose....once i sold him a copy of a book called "Red Cats??"...a series of academic essays on the French Rev...he came back an hr later..and handed me a drawing of Red Cats...and exclaimed in his usual incomprehensible accent "& they i sd i couldn't draw"....pass...passing...& to come..Drn... ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:48:09 -0500 Reply-To: nudel-soho@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Harry Nudel Subject: Erratum... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The book in question was prob..."THE MASSACRE OF CATS"...got it confused with Anselm Hollo's trans of the russians..'RED CATS'...either or either will do....mem. serves...love one...drn.. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:50:29 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Halvard Johnson Subject: Re: Nam June Paik.... In-Reply-To: <28201448.1138646239089.JavaMail.root@mswamui-valley.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit And, for those interested, there's a CD of his work composed between 1958 and 1979, played by Nam June Paik himself: Sub Rosa 178. www.subrosa.net Hal On Jan 30, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Harry Nudel wrote: > I knew Nam...that's what i called him..tho i assume it was his > last name....as one of many passing acq. in Soho...he was a > brilliant intuituve artist...who could see what other's easily > missed...i once lent him one of his own early throw a way pieces > for a retrospective show...two yrs later...it was returned... with > a little prodding....ah...once on the street..he led a visiting > artist by Steve&My stand..& sd..."this is the POET'S CORNER"...it > takes an OUTSIDER to see what was in front of one's avante-garde > nose....once i sold him a copy of a book called "Red Cats??"...a > series of academic essays on the French Rev...he came back an hr > later..and handed me a drawing of Red Cats...and exclaimed in his > usual incomprehensible accent "& they i sd i couldn't > draw"....pass...passing...& to come..Drn... Today's Specials Guide to the Tokyo Subway & other poems by Halvard Johnson Drivers, short stories by Nathan Leslie Now available from Hamilton Stone Editions and at a website (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Alibris, Powells, etc.) near you. Halvard Johnson ================ halvard@earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:50:03 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Kelleher Subject: JUST BUFFALO E-NEWSLETTER 1-23-06 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ORBITAL SERIES AND GUSTO AT THE GALLERY PRESENT NICKEL CITY POETRY SLAM Friday, February 3, 7 p.m. Clifton Hall, Albright-Knox Art Gallery Free. All ages. Alcohol served. Reader sign-ups at 6:30 p.m. Come see Buffalo's finest slam artists compete for a prize and for a slot o= n the Buffalo slam team we hope to send to the slam nationals this summer. Featured this = month is Blair, from Detroit, a member of the 2002 National Slam Championship Team, = and an HBO Def Poet. Buffalo's own N'Tare Gault will be filling in for Gabrielle B= ouliane as host for the evening. Also at the Gallery on Feb. 3: The Connection: James Joyce and Buffalo, An evening of readings, talks and films Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 5-10 p.m. Free and open to the public. INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS, HOSTED BY JOYCE CAROLYN Along This Way: Storytelling in the African Tradition Saturday, February 4, 2 p.m. Buffalo and Erie County Central Library Auditorium,Downtown Buffalo Admission: Free This fun-for-the-whole-family program has become a Black History Month Trad= ition. Join storytellers Sharon Holley and Karima Amin, vocalist Joyce Carolyn, an= d percussionist Eddie Sowande Nicholson for stories, songs, games, and music = from the African and African American traditions. SPOKEN ARTS RADIO with host Sarah Campbell A joint production of Just Buffalo Literary Center and WBFO 88.7 FM Airs Sundays during Weekend Edition at 8:35 a.m. and Mondays during Morning Edition at 6:35 A.M. & 8:35 a.m. Upcoming Features: Ugly Duckling Presse, February 12 & 13 NEW ON THE WEBSITE: SPOKEN ARTS MP3 FILES=21 All shows are now available for download on our website, including features= on John Ashbery, Paul Auster, and more... http://www.justbuffalo.org/events/sar.shtml WINTER/SPRING WORKSHOPS Call 832-5400 to register today. 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UNSUBSCRIBE If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just say so and you will b= e immediately removed. _______________________________ Michael Kelleher Artistic Director Just Buffalo Literary Center Market Arcade 617 Main St., Ste. 202A Buffalo, NY 14203 716.832.5400 716.270.0184 (fax) www.justbuffalo.org mjk=40justbuffalo.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:52:55 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Godston Subject: Re: Nam June Paik 1932-2006 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is very sad news. Paik Nam June was an amazing artist. I love those collaborations he did with Joseph Beuys. There's that story about when he snipped John Cage's tie in half during a Fluxus performance... Here're some audio clips of Paik performing with cellist Charlotte Moorman and saxophonist Terry Jennings: http://www.ubu.com/sound/moorman.html. Here's a link to the PNJ retrospective that was at the Guggenheim several years ago: http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/paik/paik_top.html. -----Original Message----- From: UB Poetics discussion group [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of mIEKAL aND Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:22 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: Nam June Paik 1932-2006 Begin forwarded message: > From: Rod Stasick > Date: January 30, 2006 11:55:30 AM CST > To: SilenceList > Subject: [silence] Nam June has passed... > > http://www.paikstudios.com/ > > Nam June Paik passed away at his Miami home at 8:00pm EST on Sunday, > January 29th, 2006. > Funeral information to be announced. > > Rod ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:01:06 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: maxpaul@SFSU.EDU Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Kudos to Ray. I'm also very pleased to see that Steve Evans is taking on this subject in The Baffler. What we need, however, is a major major venue. Maxine Chernoff Quoting Haas Bianchi : > > What I find interesting is that no one is challenging the "poetry" > Foundation to justify the cash they waste and why the poetry community does > not organize to challenge what they are doing? > > Just think about this statistic for the same amount that they just spent to > research why Americans do not read poetry they could have endowed 10 small > presses for five years. > > With all the money they have they could have supported reading series in > rural and suburban America where poetry does not exist. > > They could have provided hundreds of scholarships for the education of > poets. > > They could have created a place where poetry could have its own institution > like the National Science Foundation > Giving out grants to poets to do important work. > > The problem is that the PF is a sea of mediocrities, Billy Collins lovers-- > give me a break Kay Ryan is a great poet? > What a crock > > > Ray > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:10:10 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Daniel Bouchard Subject: Poker 7 available Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Poker 7 is now available. poems by George Stanley, Stan Mir, Cameron K. Gearen, Scott Bentley, Tom Orange, Elena Rivera, Ben Lerner, Marcella Durand, Alice Notley, Elizabeth Marie Young, Ange Mlinko, Kit Robinson, Chris Pusateri, and Mark Lamoureux; an interview with Anselm Berrigan; and prose (a memoir of Boston's music scene in the late 70s, early 80s) by Joseph Torra Check out back issues at: http://www.durationpress.com/thepoker/ Poker 8 will be out in the Spring. Subscribe, that Poker may thrive. The cost of each The Poker is $10.00. Subscriptions: 3 for $24.00. All orders post paid. Make checks payable to Daniel Bouchard, and mail to P.O. Box 390408, Cambridge, MA 02139. Edited by Daniel Bouchard Contributing Editors: Beth Anderson, Kevin Davies, Steve Evans, Marcella Durand, Cris Mattison, Jennifer Moxley, and Douglas Rothschild ><>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Daniel Bouchard Senior Production Coordinator The MIT Press Journals 238 Main St., Suite 500 Cambridge MA 02142-1046 bouchard@mit.edu phone: 617.258.0588 fax: 617.258.5028 <>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><>> ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:12:38 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: Nam June Paik.... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Any recordings of him dragging that violin down Canal St? On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote: > And, for those interested, there's a CD of his work composed between > 1958 and 1979, played by Nam June Paik himself: Sub Rosa 178. > > www.subrosa.net > > Hal > > > On Jan 30, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Harry Nudel wrote: > >> I knew Nam...that's what i called him..tho i assume it was his >> last name....as one of many passing acq. in Soho...he was a >> brilliant intuituve artist...who could see what other's easily >> missed...i once lent him one of his own early throw a way pieces >> for a retrospective show...two yrs later...it was returned... >> with a little prodding....ah...once on the street..he led a >> visiting artist by Steve&My stand..& sd..."this is the POET'S >> CORNER"...it takes an OUTSIDER to see what was in front of one's >> avante-garde nose....once i sold him a copy of a book called "Red >> Cats??"...a series of academic essays on the French Rev...he came >> back an hr later..and handed me a drawing of Red Cats...and >> exclaimed in his usual incomprehensible accent "& they i sd i >> couldn't draw"....pass...passing...& to come..Drn... ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:27:31 +0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: derekrogerson Organization: derekrogerson.com Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ray : ..| What I find interesting is that no one is challenging the "poetry" ..| Foundation to justify the cash they waste and why the poetry ..| community does not organize to challenge what they are doing? I guess to answer to this question you need to ask how much you believe "poetry" and "cash" are related. I suppose a lot of people have made "cash" into "poetry". The line does grow thick. It's tough to see a day go by onlist without some commerce established. But why trouble the Poetry Foundation? You will always have need of more scholarships, reading series, and places in America where poetry would be a much needed gift. Why don't you challenge what you are doing? Whenever you choose, you can provide all things and more. (If you will try, you will find that you can.) Life is an experiment to a great extent untried... ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:35:17 -0800 Reply-To: Jeremy Hawkins Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jeremy Hawkins Subject: Ron Padgett In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Does anyone have an email address for Ron Padgett? If so, I'd appreciate a back-channel response. yours, jez ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:46:28 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: ANNOUNCING THE NEW BIG BRIDGE 2006 ISSUE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Big Bridge, www.bigbridge.org is pleased to announce its 2006 Issue. FOR DAVID, Tribute to David Meltzer A Festschrift on the Occasion of the Publication of David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer (Penguin Books, 2005) Guest-edited by James Brook Reflections, criticism, poetry, visual art, photos, music, video clips, and a complete bibliography -- the works! Contributors include Ammiel Alcalay, Aya (with a poem by David Meltzer), Micah Ballard, Todd Baron, Bill Berkson, John Brandi, Robert Briggs, Daniel Cassidy, Michael Castro, Neeli Cherkovski, Maxine Chernoff, Clark Coolidge, Sophie Dannenmuller, Steve Dickison, Sharon Doubiago, Gary Gach, Gloria Frym, Jesse Glass, Tiffany Higgins, Owen Hill, Jack Hirschman, Josh Kun, Joanne Kyger, Marina Lazzara, Joel Lewis, Christopher Longoria, Michael McClure, Duncan McNaughton, Gerald Nicosia, Michael Perkins, Daniel Pupko-Maizel, Ishmael Reed, Judith Roche, Jerome Rothenberg, Michael Rothenberg, Victoria Sanchez, Steve Sanfield, Gerald Schwartz, Howard Schwartz, Cedar Sigo, Dan Smith, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Christopher Winks, Will Yackulic, and Karl Young. Video clips (by Mark Palmer) include David Meltzer reading from "Shema," Gloria Frym reading from "Shema" by David Meltzer, Duncan McNaughton reading "Morning Glories" by Shiga Naoya (translated by Allen Say and David Meltzer), Joanne Kyger reading "Lamentation for Jack Spicer" by David Meltzer, Diane di Prima reading "15th Raga / for Bela Lugosi" by David Meltzer, Clark Coolidge reading from Beat Thing by David Meltzer, Michael McClure reading "Nature Poem" by David Meltzer, and Michael Rothenberg reading "The Blackest Rose" by David Meltzer. And from the audio vaults, Serpent Power (with David and Tina Meltzer) performing "Endless Tunnel" ... Feature Chapbook: Same Here by Bill Berkson with Illustrations by Nancy Victoria Davis Blue Poets in a Red State: A Linked Verse--Hank Lazer, Jake Berry, Nathaniel Mohatt, Derek Burleson, Billie Wilson, Charles Alexander, Sheila Murphy, Lisa Cooper, Adam Clay, Michael Heffernan, Anne Waldman, Anselm Hollo, Jack Collom, Randy Roark, Michael Rothenberg, Vernon Frazer, Terri Carrion, John Lowther, Randy Prunty, Crag Hill, Francisco Aragon, Dan Grossman, Cole Swensen, Jonathan Mayhew, Jim McCrary Justin Katko, Andrei Codrescu, Claudia Grinnel, Skip Fox, Beth Ann Fennelly, Selah Saterstrom, Aaron Belz, Jonathan Minton, Lois Grace Bauer, Matthew Mason, Claudia Keelan, Jeff Bryant, Miriam Sagan, Patrick Herron, Chris Vitiello, Heather Nagami, Rodney Nelson, Karen Joan Kohoutek, Mark Kuhar, Marcus Bales, Jane Falk, Grant Mathew Jenkins, Clayton Couch, John Lane, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Mark Sroggins, J P Craig, Douglas Basford, Brad Elliot, Caki Wilkinson, Joe Speer,Jonathan Penton, Dale Smith, Donald Revell, Andy Neely, Joel Long, Paisley Rekdal, Jennifer Tonge, Cheryl Pallant, Amy Ritchie, Racquel Yerbury, David W. Romtvedt Some Volumes of Poetry: A Retrospective of Publication Work by Karl Young First installment in a series of multi-genre essays based on publications and organizational activities over 40 years of publishing, from mimeo to the web. This installment covers apprentice work in printing; books by Toby Olson, Jackson Mac Low, bpNichol, John Taggart and others; creating The Water Street Arts Center (parent of Woodland Pattern); Margins magazine and symposiums on Guy Davenport, Rochelle Owens, Diane Wakoski, Michael McClure, Clark Coolidge, Theodore Enslin, Tom Phillps, Ian Tyson, and Joe Tilson. Prelude, Investigation of the Recent Work of Vernon Frazer guest edited by Jonathan Penton includes interview, vispo, reviews by Jonathan Penton, Kirpal Gordon, Stephen-Paul Martin, Ric Carfagna, and Dan Waber The World Begins, A Visit With Tom Clark, guest edited by Dale Smith includes poems, letter exchange between Clark and Dale Smith, critical work by Dale Smith and David Hadbawnik Mother Slovenia, Anthology of Slovenian Poetry guest edited by Andrew Lundwall includes Alja Adam, Primoz Cucnik, Svetlana, Makarovic, Novica Novakovic, Iztok OsojnikGregor Podlogar, Tone Skrjanec, Jana Putrle Srdic, Uros Zupan Wales Song, Anthology of Welsh Poetry guest edited by Graham Hartill includes Ian Davidson, Lyndon Davies, Peter Finch, Penny Hallas, Graham Hartill, Ric Hool, John Jones, Phil Maillard, Ian McLachlan, Fiona Owen, lloyd robson, Zoe Skoulding, Zoe Skoulding and Ian Davidson, Chris Torrance, Christopher Twigg Iraqi Ice Tea, Tom Hibbard's Epic Journal of The Second Iraqi War Seven Samplings of Minimalist Infraverbal Poetry guest edited by Bob Grumman featuring Richard Kostelanetz, endwar, Karl Kempton, LeRoy Gorman, mIEKAL aND, lyx ish, Geof Huth, and Jonathan Brannen Poetry: Nate Mohatt, Rodney Nelson, David Plumb, John Roche, Lynn Strongin, Erik Sweet, Anne Tardos, Mike Topp, a. d. winans, David Bromidge & Rychard Denner, Ed Baker, Ira Cohen, Norman Fischer, Christien Gholson, Giles Goodland, Michelle Greenblatt, Julia Istomina, Tim Keane, Joel Lewis Fiction/Non-Fiction with Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Michael Hettich; Halvard Johnson FjordAnn Bogle, Shira Dentz, Kirpal Gordon, Stephen-Paul Martin, Stephen Moran, Carol Novack, Seth Phelps, Lynda Schor, Steve Starger, Mark Wallace, Reviews and Reflections: Maggie Dubris reviews Not Only Love: New and Collected Poems 1975-2003 by Richard McMullen; Kirpal Gordon: Entering the 'Clear Pool School' of Poetry: Reviews of Eric Paul Shaffer's Lahaina Noon and Jordan Jones's The Wheel; Anthony Hunt: Commentary on the writing of Genesis, Structure, and Meaning in Gary Snyder's 'Mountains and Rivers Without End'; Marie Kazalia: sameness in the luxury of being: A review of Suckers by Joseph Farley; Sheila E. Murphy on brain:storm by Michelle Greenblatt; Charles P. Ries on The Babarians of San Francisco - Poets from Hell; Big Bridge recommends Jack Collom's exchanges of Earth and Sky; Apikoros Sleuth; Derek Whites, The Singing Fish Art: Collage Retrospective from Paul Grillo, Photography by Darren Holmes and Marcela L. Little Mags: Features ART:MAG; Black Spring; Clara Venus; Court Green; Factorial; Golden Handcuffs Review; new, International Visual and Verbal Communication; small town; Spore; Vanitas; Wandering Hermit Review; Wildflowers,Woodstock mountain poetry anthology ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:20:09 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: furniture_ press Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Can there be a call to petition this outrage? If everyone one the list sign= ed - electronically - a petition and sent it to the editors of Poetry, we m= ight be able to gauge what kind of reaction these 'poets' may elicit. Even = if it's an experiment in futility, at least we'll know what is actually bei= ng heard and what, as is usually the case, is being swept under the carpet. Viva Hate. Christophe Casamassima > ----- Original Message ----- > From: derekrogerson > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article > Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:27:31 +0700 >=20 >=20 > Ray : > ..| What I find interesting is that no one is challenging the "poetry" > ..| Foundation to justify the cash they waste and why the poetry > ..| community does not organize to challenge what they are doing? >=20 > I guess to answer to this question you need to ask how much you believe > "poetry" and "cash" are related. I suppose a lot of people have made > "cash" into "poetry". The line does grow thick. It's tough to see a day > go by onlist without some commerce established. >=20 > But why trouble the Poetry Foundation? You will always have need of more > scholarships, reading series, and places in America where poetry would > be a much needed gift. >=20 > Why don't you challenge what you are doing? Whenever you choose, you > can provide all things and more. (If you will try, you will find that > you can.) >=20 > Life is an experiment to a great extent untried... >=20=09 >=20=09 > Christophe Casamassima, ed. Furniture Press Baltimore, MD --=20 ___________________________________________ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.graffiti.net/ Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:08:20 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Yeah, and we gotta do it smart, and with a sense of fun. When the Beats helped "open up" poetry in the 50s and turned new people onto it, the stuffy snobs of the day (somewhat analogous to the Lilly/Poetry folks of today) showed their true colors in reaction. Today, the dynamics might be a little different. So the cautionary tale I get from this for today, assuming we could get some major media attention, would be to try to be aware of how they might be able to present US rather than THEM as the Poetry Cops, and paint us into a corner, or have us paint ourselves into a corner. I think brainstorming on some ways to avoid this risk would be important. The story about how the LILLY people approached THE POETRY PROJECT to try to get some of THEIR money, I think, is very telling, and could be strategically used to show what they are on about..... More later---I gotta run... Solidarnos, Chris ---------- >From: maxpaul@SFSU.EDU >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article >Date: Mon, Jan 30, 2006, 11:01 AM > > Kudos to Ray. I'm also very pleased to see that Steve Evans is taking on this > subject in The Baffler. What we need, however, is a major major venue. > Maxine Chernoff > > Quoting Haas Bianchi : > >> >> What I find interesting is that no one is challenging the "poetry" >> Foundation to justify the cash they waste and why the poetry community does >> not organize to challenge what they are doing? >> >> Just think about this statistic for the same amount that they just spent to >> research why Americans do not read poetry they could have endowed 10 small >> presses for five years. >> >> With all the money they have they could have supported reading series in >> rural and suburban America where poetry does not exist. >> >> They could have provided hundreds of scholarships for the education of >> poets. >> >> They could have created a place where poetry could have its own institution >> like the National Science Foundation >> Giving out grants to poets to do important work. >> >> The problem is that the PF is a sea of mediocrities, Billy Collins lovers-- >> give me a break Kay Ryan is a great poet? >> What a crock >> >> >> Ray >> ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:53:03 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: alexander saliby Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok, would some one please take a moment and explain...in simple terms, = remembering my lack of intellect...to me what there is to object to with = the the Poetry Foundation's inheritance? =20 My view: some rich lady died; she could have left her estate to pigeons = in Central Park or to her great-great third cousin in Peoria. Instead, = she chose to split her wealth up among a few organizations she felt = deserving of assistance. =20 Why did she do this? Who the hell knows...she was in love with one of = the lady poets she once heard read during her undergrad days? Or maybe, = she really liked the kind of poetry the Magazine used to publish, and it = was her way of attempting to finance that activity into perpetuity. =20 It was her money; she did with it as she chose. =20 Now, as for the newly named Poetry Foundation. What will they do with = that new found wealth? One thing is for certain: they never would = publish anything I wrote before they became wealthy; it's a pretty good = bet they'll hold that position into the future, so it's safe to say they = remain unchanged by their endowment. How commendable is that? Money = will not change nor spoil them. Any way, I'm a little confused by some (if not all except my very own) = responses to Steve Evans' well done efforts. What exactly is the = "outrage" ?=20 Alex=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: furniture_ press=20 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=20 Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:20 PM Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article Can there be a call to petition this outrage? If everyone one the list = signed - electronically - a petition and sent it to the editors of = Poetry, we might be able to gauge what kind of reaction these 'poets' = may elicit. Even if it's an experiment in futility, at least we'll know = what is actually being heard and what, as is usually the case, is being = swept under the carpet. Viva Hate. Christophe Casamassima > ----- Original Message ----- > From: derekrogerson = > > To: = POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article > Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:27:31 +0700 >=20 >=20 > Ray : > ..| What I find interesting is that no one is challenging the = "poetry" > ..| Foundation to justify the cash they waste and why the poetry > ..| community does not organize to challenge what they are doing? >=20 > I guess to answer to this question you need to ask how much you = believe > "poetry" and "cash" are related. I suppose a lot of people have made > "cash" into "poetry". The line does grow thick. It's tough to see a = day > go by onlist without some commerce established. >=20 > But why trouble the Poetry Foundation? You will always have need of = more > scholarships, reading series, and places in America where poetry = would > be a much needed gift. >=20 > Why don't you challenge what you are doing? Whenever you choose, = you > can provide all things and more. (If you will try, you will find = that > you can.) >=20 > Life is an experiment to a great extent untried... >=20 >=20 > Christophe Casamassima, ed. Furniture Press Baltimore, MD --=20 ___________________________________________ Graffiti.net free e-mail @ www.graffiti.net Play 100s of games for FREE! = http://games.graffiti.net/ Powered By Outblaze ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:58:43 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Christopher Leland Winks Subject: Afro-Cuban Music and Literature -- A Special Event at Queens College/CUNY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable AFRO-CUBAN MUSIC AND LITERATURE A special program featuring Michael Lipsey=2C percussion=3B Antonio Hart=2C= = saxophone=3B and Christopher Winks reading his own work and writings by = Lydia Cabrera=2C Guillermo Cabrera Infante=2C and Nicol=E1s Guill=E9n=2E Monday=2C February 6=2C 2006 at 12=3A15 p=2Em=2E Admission free=2E Location=3A LeFrak Concert Hall=2C Aaron Copland School of Music=2C Queen= s = College=2C 65-30 Kissena Blvd=2E=2C Flushing=2C NY 11367=2E In honor of Black History Month=2E For more information=2C call 718-997-3800=2E ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:45:27 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Poetry Project Subject: Correction - tonight's talk is at 8 pm Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Dear all, Forgive us Bur tonight's talk by Edmund Berrigan Is at the normal start time of 8pm Not 7pm. Talk Series: Edmund Berrigan: Caught in the Human Shredder =AD 8 pm =20 Greil Marcus conjured a vision of the =B3Old, Weird America=B2 in his book of the same title, of a landscape where blues and folk musicians of different eras interacted in a beautiful and violent place accessible by something like a turn of phrase from a Bob Dylan song. This will be a talk/performanc= e on the merging of poetry and songwriting in terms of applications, influences, and technical issues. Figures cited will include Blind Blake, James Schuyler, Blind Willie Johnson, Joan Baez, Cynthia Dall, Stephen Malkmus, Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery, Bob Dylan, Alice Notley and others. Edmund Berrigan is the author of Disarming Matter, Your Cheatin=B9 Heart, and several other chapbooks. He performs music regularly as I Feel Tractor, as well as in the groups Mellow Crypt and Twig Light. The Poetry Project St. Mark's Church=20 131 E. 10th Street New York, NY 10003 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:45:14 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: C Daly Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have long been interested in institutional history, not particularly because no one else is, but because I believe being aware of the = structure or situation of a given organization in its founding and through time = leads to some sort of understanding of the way it functions. so to with poetry, and while my knowledge of poetry, editorial policy, = money problems, organization, mission, and history, etc. is culled from = various books and not from a few weeks reading archival material, because I am = so interested in overlooked female writers publishing books prior to 1923, = the poetry circle around Harriet Monroe is something that I suppose I would = like to be important to me -- it is no secret that the fairly wealthy and cosmopolitan women poets of = the Midwest who formed Monroe's mainstay, her subscribers, supporters, and = many of the poets she published -- those she published much to the chagrin of Pound and then I suppose Eliot insofar as he commented -- those who read = her work, instead of using her as a publisher only, were women perhaps = unlike Lilly and more like Monroe in that they had somewhat less money and = wrote more and better, but still. In other words, Mary Aldis, for example, = who published a single (and excellent) book as far as I know was the wife of = a real estate developer in Chicago who gave a fair bit of money to the journal. Alice Corbin Henderson, a long-forgotten poet, was the = assistant editor, and in particular a target of Pound's ire. I could go on and develop these examples more, but -- look, Pound didn't found the magazine; he harangued Monroe, and may have solicited some of the best work poetry published, but he didn't succeed = in taking the magazine and its policies over, and he needed the monetary = and "publicity" support that poetry had to offer to give to his friends, = et.al.; and Monroe was always a more conservative acquisitions editor and = publisher, and had her eye far more on the bottom line, than the editors of many a now-defunct journal even during the later period of the objectivist number, etc., there was = an annual prize, not unlike the annual prize many journals have now, judged = by the editors, and it is no secret that a lot of now-forgotten poets who = were writing ghosts of sonnets won this prize, and not the experimental poets = of the time So in fact, on can argue that the Lilly gambit, the long Parisi tenure, = etc. is in line with the history of the journal, and it is only in their = failure to be as savvy editors and publishers, to listen, as Monroe did that has = led them to publish and support "a type of poetry" -- to exclude many = poetries written in English that Monroe -- and her contentious sub-editors -- = were open to, eager to find and support... but what was Apple without Jobs? =20 and as far as "tainted money" --=20 All best, Catherine Daly cadaly@comcast.net "Free (Market) Verse," my article examining the poetic and political =20 ramifications of the Lilly bequest to Poetry magazine and the =20 subsequent creation of the Poetry Foundation, is slated to appear in =20 the next issue of The Baffler magazine, due out soon. In advance of =20 its print publication, the article will be serialized this week at =20 http://www.thirdfactory.net/freemarketverse.html The schedule is as follows: Introduction (Monday) Poets for Bush (Tuesday) Deregulating Poetry (Wednesday) Poetics of the Backlash (Thursday) And Deliver Us from Modernism (Friday) If this issue interests you, I hope you will have a look and let me =20 know what you think. Steve ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:49:08 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brian Stefans Subject: FW: RHIZOME_RARE: FW: Nam June Paik passed away MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ------ Forwarded Message From: "elastic group" Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:33:13 +0100 To: Subject: Nam June Paik passed away =20 I am very sad to announce the death of Nam June Paik who passed away at around 8 p.m.( ET. 29th Jan) in his apartment in Florida. The news was brought to my attention by Ken Paik( the manager of Nam June/ Nam June's Nephew) about an hour ago. Nam June's Body will be brought to New York by tomorrow afternoon and the funeral will take place sometime this weekend. Iris Moon Please join us for a moment of silence at the second opening of Moving Time. Moving Time is the last exhibition Nam June had participated while alive. Moving Time: A tribute to Nam June Paik at the Korean Cultural Service New York present Nam June Paik's seminal video works from the 60s and 70s. The exhibition will also feature recent work of 30 international artists representing different generations and different cultural perspectives: Rene Sultra & Maria Barthelemy, Terry Berkowitz, Krista Birnbaum, Jonathan Brainin, Hong Buhm, Damien Keller & Adriadna Capasso, Graciela Fuentes, Mariam Ghani, Elastic Group, Sigrid Hackenberg, Kye Ryoon Han, Claudia Joskowicz, Jung Kang, Jeong Han Kim,Tae Jin Kim, Mayumi Kimura, Hyun Jean Lee, Hyunsoo Joy Lee, Joo Young Lee, Seung June Lee, Carlos Motta, Wanda Ortiz, Jaye Rhee, Sang Ho Shin, Molly Stevens, Jeanne Susplugas,Traci Tullius, Shiying Vicki Yang, Lin Yilin, Jorge Calvo. The curators of this exhibition give thanks to 30 most innovative, supportive and generous artists who have agreed in joy to pay humble but heartfelt tribute to Nam June Paik who has been influential in every area of video art since he unleashed it in1965. It is an honor to have Nam June Paik-the father of video art-as the special guest artist in Moving Time. Thursday 2th february there=B9ll be the opening of the second part of the exhibition General Information Location: Korean Cultural Service NY, 460 Park Ave., 6th Fl. New York, NY 10022 Website: www.koreanculture.org Telephone: 212-759-9550 Fax: 212-688-8640 Point of contact: Yu Jin Hwang, Jee Yun Kim, Inhee Iris Moon Email: nyarts@koreanculture.org sthfun@hanmail.net inheemoon@hotmail.com KCS NY Gallery Hours: 10:00 am =AD 7:00 pm Monday through Friday, 10:00 am =AD 4:00 pm Saturday, closed on the 20th of February observing President=B9s Day. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Gallery Korea Korean Cultural Service in NY www.koreanculture.org nyarts@koreanculture.org Tel:212-759-9550 Fax:212-688-8640=20=20 I will keep you posted, =20 Iris Moon=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20 =20 =20 =20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 ------ End of Forwarded Message + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. 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Subscribers to Rhizome Rare are subject to the terms set out in the Member Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:57:26 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joel Weishaus Subject: Fw: Stew Albert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "hammond guthrie" To: "Joel" Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 2:01 PM Subject: Stew Albert Stew Albert died today, January 30, 2003 at 3:20 a.m, age 66. Peacefully, in his sleep, surrounded by Judy, Jessica and his many friends. Funeral services this Wednesday, Feb. 1 at Havurah Shalom in Portland. Stew at the last ... Hospice is coming in regularly -- as the symptoms of end stage liver cancer are well in place. Spoke with Judy yesterday -- their daughter Jessica is in from SF and of course Stew is as comfortable as possible. When I was with him the other day it seemed to me that he is ready when everything else is ready.. Prayers to our brother Stew Albert-- a Yippie of the first degree - a man of our times who stood up for 'us' - one and all -- and did the time for 'us' whenever he was arrested with the likes of the Berrigan Brothers -- a man who in many ways brought 'us' all -- one and all - a bit closer in understanding and support for Huey Newton and the Panthers, helping to levitate the Pentagon and so so much more as he continues to believe in 'us' -- one and all. I am so thankful -- nay, blessed, to have known this gentle man - a loving and devoted husband-father, activist and friend. Stew Albert http://emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/postreatment.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:23:26 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Jack Collom Fish Drum Exchanges of Earth & Sky Comments: To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fish Drum, Inc. and Suzi Winson present a publication party for Jack Collom's Exchanges of Earth & Sky Jack reads from his new book at the Zinc Bar (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION FOR FISH DRUM!!) 90 West Houston between La Guardia & Thompson (downstairs, back room) Sunday, February 12, 2006 7pm $5. cover ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:43:15 -0800 Reply-To: ishaq1823@telus.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: 'Munich' What Steven Spielberg left out: mp3 download MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48580.php 'Munich' What Steven Spielberg left out: mp3 download "...to me it's putting an equal sign between the opressed and the oppressor; "it's all the same" and that's why it's so problematic. because there is no equal sign between the defensive violence of the oppressed and the agressive violence of the oppressor. one has nothing to do with the other" -- Joyce Chediac (Lebanese American of the "workers world forum") -- '"Munich" What Steven Spielberg left out audio dowload: MP3 at 5.0 mebibytes http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/_munich____what_steven_spielberg_left_out.mp3 "Munich" What Steven Spielberg left out The Palestine national liberation movement, in 1972 and today. Speaker: Joyce Chediac, a Lebanese American who has written extensively on the Middle East for Workers World. Workers World Forum, Jan. 13, 2006, NYC (Running time is 31:13) http://www.workersdaily.org/podcast/audio/joyce_chediac_011306.m3u see also: "However, if one's conscience is to be truly clear, it is the actions of Avner's parents' generation which need to be acknowledged and reconciled. After his mission, Avner asks his mother, who lost many family members during the Holocaust, if she wants to know what he did on his mission and she declines. "Whatever it took, whatever it takes, we have a place on earth at last," she tells him. But whether a people — citizens of Israel like Avner or supporters of the state like Spielberg — can feel morally whole with such fresh wounds is the question that truly needs to be dealt with." -- "'Munich': Spielberg's thrilling crisis of conscience" http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48097.php see also: Imagine if we were in a parallel universe in which Hollywood gave Arabs and Muslims a fair shake. Here are ten films (all based on true stories) that are just waiting for Spielberg's magic. http://www.altmuslim.com/perm.php?id=1607_0_25_0_M or http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/47333.php and ...But this begs the question: why is Munich more famous than the savage bombardment of Palestinian refugee camps back in February prior to Munich? And why did the letter bombs to three Palestinian writers not get any world attention? Why did American liberals and PEN not notice it back then? ...The movie did not tell you that by the time the Israeli terrorists finished with their “mission,” some 100 Palestinians and Lebanese were murdered on that day in April 1973. http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/47235.php or http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2005/12/spielberg-on-munich-humanization-of.html and ...the 1973 assassination of the Palestinian poet, Ghassan Kanafani...The writer said in his report, published Monday by the Hebrew daily "Yedioth Ahronoth", that the Israeli intelligence elements planted an explosive device in Kanafani's vehicle that exploded thereafter causing his immediate death. -- "Israel admits responsibility for assassinating Palestinian poet" http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_14740.shtml and http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/44887.php http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4393.shtml and Who are the Palestinians who blow themselves up for their cause? Why do they do this? Are they “terrorists,” “fanatics,” “cowards”? People who come from a place where “life is cheap”? This is what the U.S. media say, but the voices speaking are not Palestinian; ....Abu-Assad said he saw the award not only as recognition of the film, its cast and crew, “but also as recognition that the Pales tinians deserve their liberty and equality unconditionally.” -- Joyce Chediac -- "Paradise Now’—a Palestinian view of suicide bombings" http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48573.php and http://www.workers.org/2006/world/paradise-now-0202/ Bosses to blame http://www.workers.org/pdf/current.pdf http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:gSrkoFmXECkJ:http://www.workers.org/pdf/current.pdf+what+ever+worker+should+know+about+violence+and+the+olympics+%2B+joyce+Chediac&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 http://workers.org/ http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/_munich____what_steven_spielberg_left_out.mp3 ___ Stay Strong \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" \ --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil \ "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte \ http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/unner_stated__down_pressin__acapella__--_lord_patch.mp3 \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ } ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:10:21 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Simon DeDeo Subject: rhubarb is susan : you can't stop the signal In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Hi all -- rhubarb is susan is back online! Welcome to the new era of rhubarb is susan. Last night I sent the final draft of my thesis to my committee; there's now a four week waiting period while they read it and make the reader's report. So fingers crossed. rhubarb is back online, and with one new review, of a poem by Henry Gould appearing in his new book Dove Street: http://rhubarbissusan.blogspot.com/2006/01/henry-gould-basilique-sainte-madeleine.html http://rhubarbissusan.blogspot.com/ I have a whole sheaf of fantastic things to review, and will be getting to them in the coming days. Stay tuned to rhubarb is susan; if you're a tech guru RSS guru genius type, or you use something like google or yahoo's newsfeeds, you can "subscribe" to rhubarb to be alerted when a new review goes live: http://feeds.feedburner.com/rhubarb Finally: The first fundraiser pulled in $19.52 in comissions on $260.26 in sales; as promised, I've doubled that and sent the total $39.04 to the FCNL, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker-founded ecumenical group working for peace and justice in Washington DC. I was able to see what books were purchased (though not the buyer names) and while I won't reveal the titles for privacy reasons, I have to say you girls and guys are seriously classy. I don't even recognize half of the presses, let alone the authors. Thanks, then, to all who participated and made me feel uneducated and provincial; what I'll do is keep the fundraiser running, but without the matching contribution. Which means that 7.5% of (pre-shipping) purchases you make by following links to Powell's on the blog will continue to go towards the FCNL. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:15:58 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: ALDON L NIELSEN Subject: Re: Afro-Cuban Music and Literature -- A Special Event at Queens College/CUNY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain WOW! though on first, quick reading, I thought you were appearing in the LaFreak concert hall -- thought I was back in the 70s with Chic -- On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:58:43 +0000, Christopher Leland Winks wrote: > AFRO-CUBAN MUSIC AND LITERATURE > > A special program featuring Michael Lipsey, percussion; Antonio Hart, > saxophone; and Christopher Winks reading his own work and writings by > Lydia Cabrera, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Nicolás Guillén. > > Monday, February 6, 2006 at 12:15 p.m. Admission free. > > Location: LeFrak Concert Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens > College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367. > > In honor of Black History Month. > > For more information, call 718-997-3800. > > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Breaking in bright Orthography . . ." --Emily Dickinson Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature The Pennsylvania State University 116 Burrowes University Park, PA 16802-6200 (814) 865-0091 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:31:00 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Mark Weiss Subject: Re: Afro-Cuban Music and Literature -- A Special Event at Queens College/CUNY In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chris: What's the subway stop? At 03:58 PM 1/30/2006, you wrote: >AFRO-CUBAN MUSIC AND LITERATURE > >A special program featuring Michael Lipsey, percussion; Antonio Hart, >saxophone; and Christopher Winks reading his own work and writings by >Lydia Cabrera, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Nicol=E1s Guill=E9n. > >Monday, February 6, 2006 at 12:15 p.m. Admission free. > >Location: LeFrak Concert Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens >College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367. > >In honor of Black History Month. > >For more information, call 718-997-3800. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:36:20 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joel Weishaus Subject: Mary Beach MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/marybeachtribute.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:59:28 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: tb2h Subject: Re: experimentalists MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thanks Aldon and others. Very helpful and the library is getting a copy. tom bell ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:49:02 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Electronic writing, links etc. In-Reply-To: <000f01c62432$a4c53470$0602a8c0@brianlaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When I was very young I took a course in what I thought would be contemporary po, since the course was named 'Modern Poetry'. So, yes, I agree that art names function other than as 'chair' and 'stone'. When I think of "Electronic Poetry", I think not so much of the meaning of either of those words as of hypertext and the Electronic Literature Organization and, mostly, USAmerican efforts. It does seem to be quite USAmerican in its involvement, doesn't it, as opposed, say, to 'digital writing' or 'digital literature'. The electronic part of poetry that preceeds the digital is largely not USAmerican, though there are perhaps even more than a few very wonderful artists such as WS Burroughs and, more recently, Gregory Whitehead, Susan Stone, Jenny Holzer, and undoubtedly many others who brilliantly used recorded sound or video or other electronic media as serious literary media. Recorded sound goes back quite a ways. I see ubu.com has a recording, for instance, of Apollinaire from 1913 and Vladimir Maiakovski from 1914. I don't really know if the early work is *accurately* described as "electronic", but the difference between electronic recorded sound and non-electronic recorded sound is surely incidental, is more a matter of the technology than the art. I've heard recordings of sound poets from quite early in the twentieth century, and I don't recall any by USAmericans. But the gist of what I'm saying is this: the idea of beginning 'electronic literature' with the digital seems to me to dismiss too much important electronic work done prior to the digital. Does the term 'Electronic Literature', then, as it is commonly used, display a certain myopic insularity? ja http://vispo.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:08:30 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Corey Frost Subject: Erin Mour=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9?= quote Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Somewhere in an Erin Mour=E9 poem (essay?) I remember reading a line to =20= the effect that books left unread on bookshelves still have an effect =20= on people, or on the books around them. For that matter, I think this =20= is an idea that has been expressed by more than a few poets. Can =20 anyone tell me the Mour=E9 source, or give me other formulations of the =20= same idea? I am trying to use the concept in an essay. Thanks Corey Frost= ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:47:48 -0500 Reply-To: tyrone williams Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: tyrone williams Subject: Re: Poetry vs. Precious Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anna, Clearly you belong on this listserv... Tyrone Williams, ex-Detroiter -----Original Message----- >From: Anna Vitale >Sent: Jan 30, 2006 1:25 PM >To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >Subject: Poetry vs. Precious > >Hello, > >To read a brief discussion on precious poems, please visit my website >to read "Poetry vs. Precious," at http://annavitale.blogspot.com/ > >I'm a 24 year old school bus driver/ poet living in Ann Arbor, MI. > > >Thanks and I hope to hear from some of you on the site soon. > >Best, >Anna Vitale Tyrone Williams ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:15:20 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Brian Stefans Subject: Re: Electronic writing, links. etc In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > But the gist of what I'm saying is this: the idea of beginning 'electronic literature' with the digital seems to me to dismiss too much important electronic work done prior to the digital. Does the term 'Electronic Literature', then, as it is commonly used, display a certain myopic insularity? I think your splitting hairs (or trying to pick a fight?) here. Would you begin a 3-month course in auto mechanics with a study of the anatomy and feeding of horses? I know, I know, I'm narrow and restrictive... I just don't get anything... I should get out more. ;) Brian ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:01:50 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: Electronic writing, links. etc In-Reply-To: <000e01c62625$5533ee70$0602a8c0@brianlaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is the work of Burroughs, Holzer etc to digital writing/digital poetry as horses are to cars? Please. That work is electronic literature, Brian, in probably a more accurate sense than digital poetry is electronic literature. The notion of defining 'Electronic Literature' in such a way that it begins with the digital sweeps that work away as electronic literature, as it does to the better part of a century of work. The term 'Electronic Literature' is not going to have much historical value for this and other reasons. ja http://vispo.com > -----Original Message----- > From: UB Poetics discussion group > [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU]On Behalf Of Brian Stefans > Sent: January 30, 2006 9:15 PM > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Subject: Re: Electronic writing, links. etc > > > > But the gist of what I'm saying is this: the idea of beginning > 'electronic > literature' with the digital seems to me to dismiss too much important > electronic work done prior to the digital. Does the term 'Electronic > Literature', then, as it is commonly used, display a certain myopic > insularity? > > I think your splitting hairs (or trying to pick a fight?) here. Would you > begin a 3-month course in auto mechanics with a study of the anatomy and > feeding of horses? > > I know, I know, I'm narrow and restrictive... I just don't get > anything... I > should get out more. > > ;) > > Brian > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:32:20 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Stephen Vincent Subject: Re: Electronic writing, links etc. In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > But the gist of what I'm saying is this: the idea of beginning 'electroni= c > literature' with the digital seems to me to dismiss too much important > electronic work done prior to the digital. Does the term 'Electronic > Literature', then, as it is commonly used, display a certain myopic > insularity? Walt Whitman (1819=AD1892). Leaves of Grass, 1855. 19.=20 I Sing the Body Electric .... ** Of origins, early non-insular,non-myopic primal over the top, electrified, electrifying out and about the entire premises. Definitely had all the machinery in place. & not a bad place to start. Stephen V ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:40:00 +0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: derekrogerson Organization: derekrogerson.com Subject: Chair MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bronx, New York Fordham University invites applications from senior scholars for the Reverend John Boyd S.J. Chair. This chair honors the distinguished Jesuit scholar and teacher who centered his scholarship, literary criticism and teaching upon an investigation of the poetic imagination and its relation to life. Applicants work should address the history of poetry and poetics, as well as the relation between poetry and philosophy and/or poetry and theology. Preference is submission of materials in *both* hard and electronic versions. Please send letters, curriculum vitae's and the names of three references to: Professor Philip Sicker English Department Fordham University Bronx, NY 10458 -and to- mailto:sicker@fordham.edu Review of applications begins February 15. Fordham (www.fordham.edu) is an independent Catholic university in the Jesuit tradition. EOE/AA. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:32:54 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Mr. Horton" Subject: Union Herald for january Comments: cc: dhorton@mills.edu In-Reply-To: <000801c62639$8d513a60$040aa8c0@jah> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed What you get is: Fluxus seen by Visible Language Rebekah Werth's "Bison Bison." Excellent chap. Cornelia Parker and Wang Du at Yerba Beuna Art Gallery Chuck Stebelton's "Circulation Flowers"[Jack Spicer Award Winner, Tougher Disguises] Good book. Dan Buck's "This Day's Wait." Prose poems even if his publisher doesn't say so. "You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship." Australialians figured a lot out before we did; now, it's a question of apply. David Harrison Horton www.unionherald.blogspot.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:13:31 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alex Jorgensen Subject: MESSAFE from aLEX In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'd like to know if your gonna use any od rhose letters. I think upi should. I a m in India at presenat, an f its ctap. do. Creeley RC acually hated the MFA, nlcude the pdf and erase my name, becuase i think its improitant for younf writers, AJ --- Michael Kelleher wrote: > ORBITAL SERIES AND GUSTO AT THE GALLERY PRESENT > > NICKEL CITY POETRY SLAM > Friday, February 3, 7 p.m. > Clifton Hall, Albright-Knox Art Gallery > Free. All ages. Alcohol served. > Reader sign-ups at 6:30 p.m. > > Come see Buffalo's finest slam artists compete for a > prize and for a slot on the Buffalo > slam team we hope to send to the slam nationals this > summer. Featured this month is > Blair, from Detroit, a member of the 2002 National > Slam Championship Team, and an > HBO Def Poet. Buffalo's own N'Tare Gault will be > filling in for Gabrielle Bouliane as > host for the evening. > > Also at the Gallery on Feb. 3: > > The Connection: James Joyce and Buffalo, > An evening of readings, talks and films > Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 5-10 p.m. > Free and open to the public. > > INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS, HOSTED BY JOYCE CAROLYN > > Along This Way: Storytelling in the African > Tradition > Saturday, February 4, 2 p.m. > Buffalo and Erie County Central Library > Auditorium,Downtown Buffalo > Admission: Free > > This fun-for-the-whole-family program has become a > Black History Month Tradition. > Join storytellers Sharon Holley and Karima Amin, > vocalist Joyce Carolyn, and > percussionist Eddie Sowande Nicholson for stories, > songs, games, and music from the > African and African American traditions. > > SPOKEN ARTS RADIO > with host Sarah Campbell > A joint production of Just Buffalo Literary Center > and WBFO 88.7 FM > Airs Sundays during Weekend Edition at 8:35 a.m. and > Mondays during Morning > Edition at 6:35 A.M. & 8:35 a.m. > Upcoming Features: Ugly Duckling Presse, February 12 > & 13 > > NEW ON THE WEBSITE: SPOKEN ARTS MP3 FILES! > All shows are now available for download on our > website, including features on John > Ashbery, Paul Auster, and more... > > http://www.justbuffalo.org/events/sar.shtml > > WINTER/SPRING WORKSHOPS > > Call 832-5400 to register today. Visit our website > for detailed > workshop descriptions: > http://www.justbuffalo.org/workshops/index.shtml > > The Last Five Years: Writing the Memory from > Reflection to Recreation > 2 Saturdays, February 4 & 18, 10-2 p.m. > Instructor: Marj Hahne > Location: Musical Fare Theatre > 4380 Main St., Suite 810, Amherst > $90, $70 members > > Between Word And Image > Saturday, February 11, 12-4 p.m. > Instructors: Caroline Koebel And Kyle Schlesinger > $50, $40 members > (This workshop is a co-production of Just Buffalo > and CEPA Gallery) > > Creating a Family History > 2 Saturdays, February 25 and March 4, 12-4 p.m. > Instructor: Christina Abt > $90, $70 members > > Playwrighting: Scene And Un-Scene > 6 Tuesdays, 2/21 3/28 7 – 9 p.m. > Instructor: Kurt Schneiderman > $185, $150 for members > > Independent Publishing And Print-On-Demand > Saturday, 3/11, 12-4 p.m. > Instructor: Geoffrey Gatza > $50, $40 members > > The Working Writer Seminar > Instructor: Kathryn Radeff > Individual workshops: $50, $40 members > All four sessions prepaid: $185, $150 members > > 1. You Can Get Published > Saturday, March 18, 12 – 4 p.m. > > 2. Travel Writing > Saturday, April 8, 12 – 4 p.m. > > 3. Boost Your Freelance Writing Income > Saturday, April 29, 12 – 4 p.m. > > 4. Power of the Pen > Saturday, May 13, 12 – 4 p.m. > > JUST BUFFALO WRITER'S CRITIQUE GROUP > > Members of Just Buffalo are welcome to attend a > free, bi-monthly writer critique group > in CEPA's Flux Gallery. Group meets 1st and 3rd > Wednesday at 7 p.m. Call for details. > > UNSUBSCRIBE > > If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, > just say so and you will be immediately > removed. > _______________________________ > Michael Kelleher > Artistic Director > Just Buffalo Literary Center > Market Arcade > 617 Main St., Ste. 202A > Buffalo, NY 14203 > 716.832.5400 > 716.270.0184 (fax) > www.justbuffalo.org > mjk@justbuffalo.org > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:42:34 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Arielle Guy Subject: call for submissions Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed A new online arts magazine, Turntable & Blue Light, featuring music reviews, poetry and visual art, would love to see your submissions. It can be found at: turntablebluelight.com. You can email work to wordone1@mindspring.com. Thanks! Arielle Guy Arielle Guy Word One New York Editing Turntable & Blue Light Magazine www.wordone-ny.com www.turntablebluelight.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:57:06 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Eric Elshtain Subject: Reviews of Chapbooks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mr Baratier Since we like the idea of *freely* distributable poetry, we are loath to print print runs. Given the fracas over Poetry monies and government fundings, we feel that if there's an opportunity to create and to distribute poetry without ANY overhead and without ANY cost to anybody, we'd like to take advantage. Since we started to publish the work of mere humans (and not just machine/human collaborations) about two and a half years ago, around 8000 chapbooks have been downloaded by folks. The fact, too, that we're sure many of these chaps were downloaded and laser or ink-jet printed by people at work only delights us more. As to the idea of a small print run to send off for reviews; maybe not a bad plan. You're right about quality not being a big issue. We'd rather, though, that letters detailing our list be enough for editors to type in an url and see what's up. Thanks, Eric Elshtain editor Beard of Bees Press http://www.beardofbees.com Subject: Re: Beard of Bees Chap question Eric-- I have been considering your questions about chapbook reviews, how difficult they are in e-chap format, let alone otherwise & since our chapbooks are reviewed regularly I am wondering what your adversity is to creating a small run of the physical chapbook? I publish 400, which involves a physical cost you might not wont the burden of, but what about 30 for review & not mentioning the run-- As a trend, small runs are what most full-length book publishers are doing, beyond the corporate houses there are less than 2 dozen of us who are still publishing 1000 or more run editions. Applying this ideology to chaps seems even more feasible as there is not a quality issue / problem. Be well David Baratier, Editor ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:54:12 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Steve Evans Subject: Poetry Foundation Article Pts. 2&3 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed The serialization of "Free (Market) Verse" continues today with parts 2 and 3 ("Poets for Bush" and "Deregulating Poetry"). The introduction will remain online until midnight tonight. The article will wrap up on Wednesday with the final two sections ("Poetics of the Backlash" and "And Deliver Us from Modernism"). The whole thing will soon be available in print in The Baffler, by whose kind permission I am running this web version. Thanks to everyone who has taken an interest in the topic both here on the list and on individual blogs. I hope to scratch out some follow-up comments late in the week. http://www.thirdfactory.net/freemarketverse.html On another note: sad to say goodbye to Nam June Paik. His televisions were a constant and consistently surprising fact of the UCSD campus when I studied and lived there in the mid-80s and I've loved his work ever since. The anecdote of him snipping Cage's necktie at a performance (recounted on a video about Cage & Cunningham) for some reason keeps coming to mind.... Steve ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:05:49 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: Poetry Foundation Article Pts. 2&3 Comments: To: Steven.Evans@MAINE.EDU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 01/31/06 9:50:49 AM, Steven.Evans@MAINE.EDU writes: > The serialization of "Free (Market) Verse" continues today with parts=A0 > 2 and 3 ("Poets for Bush" and "Deregulating Poetry"). The=A0 > introduction will remain online until midnight tonight. >=20 >=20 Steve, Does this mean I missed the first part? Murat ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:57:45 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Penton Subject: Re: Jack Collom Fish Drum Exchanges of Earth & Sky DONE please look at it In-Reply-To: <04e601c625f4$2c909a80$6601a8c0@LENOVO5E22278F> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael Rothenberg wrote: > Fish Drum, Inc. and Suzi Winson present > a publication party for Jack Collom's > Exchanges of Earth & Sky > Jack reads from his new book > at the Zinc Bar (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION FOR FISH DRUM!!) > 90 West Houston > between La Guardia & Thompson > (downstairs, back room) > Sunday, February 12, 2006 7pm $5. cover > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:28:17 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Jonathan Penton Subject: Re: Jack Collom Fish Drum Exchanges of Earth & Sky DONE please look at it In-Reply-To: <43DFB329.9000108@natisp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Er, sorry about that, folks. Itchy send-key finger. Yours, -- Jonathan Penton http://www.unlikelystories.org Jonathan Penton wrote: > Michael Rothenberg wrote: > >> Fish Drum, Inc. and Suzi Winson present >> a publication party for Jack Collom's >> Exchanges of Earth & Sky >> Jack reads from his new book >> at the Zinc Bar (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION FOR FISH DRUM!!) >> 90 West Houston >> between La Guardia & Thompson >> (downstairs, back room) >> Sunday, February 12, 2006 7pm $5. cover >> >> > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:51:00 -0800 Reply-To: ishaq1823@telus.net Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Ishaq Organization: selah7 Subject: How rap music was blamed for the Paris riots MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/48618.php How rap music was blamed for the Paris riots Clichy-sous-Bois, the impoverished and segregated north-eastern suburb of Paris where the two men lived and where the violent reaction to their deaths began, was a ticking bomb for the kind of dramatic social upheaval we are currently witnessing. ...A simple gesture of regret could go a long way towards defusing the tensions for now. The morning after the gassing of the mosque, a young Muslim woman summed up a widespread feeling: "We just want them to stop lying, to admit they've done it and to apologise." -- NAIMA BOUTELDJA -- "The Explosion in the Suburbs: Paris is Burning" "Samedi soir, au moment de la rupture du jeûne (vers 18h30), les 400 CRS et gendarmes, dont une partie vient de Chalon s/saone, sont sortis un peu partout dans la cité du Chêne pointu. Comme à l’accoutumée, il s’agissait d’encercler - "de boucler" - le quartier. Don quichottisme policier : en cohorte, à la façon des légions romaines, au pas de course, visière baissée, bouclier au bras, et flashball à la main, ils parcourent les rues une à une contre des ennemis invisibles....Pourquoi cette démonstration de force alors même que les rues étaient particulièrement calmes ?" -- Antoine Germa -- "Clichy-sous-Bois : zone de non-droits ou zone d’injustices ?" audio download: MP3 at 8.3 mebibytes http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/straight_outta_clichy.mp3 http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45999.php On 27th October 2005, teenagers Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore climbed into an electrical sub-station in the Parisian banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois, and were electrocuted. Their deaths sparked three weeks of riots that tore across France, and ignited a debate that could have serious repercussions for freedom of speech and for French rap music. Weeks after the riots politician François Grosdidier filed a petition signed by 200 French MPs to bring legal action against seven French rap acts, for inflammatory lyrics and 'hatred of France'. Annie Mac investigates the story of how rap took the blame for the French riots… Related links: Radio1: Westwood http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/urban/westwood/ 1Xtra: Hip hop shows http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/hiphop/ BBC News: French riots timeline http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4413964.stm Disiz La Peste official site http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/060130_clichy.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://disizlapeste.artistes.universalmusic.fr/ Fonky Family official site http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/060130_clichy.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://www.fonkyfamily.com/upgrade.html La Rumeur Records official site http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/060130_clichy.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://www.larumeur-records.com/ Supreme NTM official site http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/060130_clichy.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://www.supreme-ntm.com/home.htm Dernier Pro official site http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/060130_clichy.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://www.dernierpro.com/ lord patch 1: en fins (clichy-sous bois)bmixdistortion dub http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/en_fins__clichy-sous_bois_.mp3 see also: "Yes. I believe there's a high potential for the spread of this type of rebellion and rioting in other parts of Europe. ....There's a large number of Muslims and Africans living clandestinely in Italy going from one place to another looking for jobs. But they're being treated very viciously by the police, very suspiciously by the public, and they're not able to sustain themselves. That also is a prime population ready to revolt at any moment."--Behzad Yaghmaian http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45749.php or http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/1538216 and ... Well, I had a very eerie feeling of déjà vu. And you'll forgive me, Amy, for being haunted by the first page of Black Boy, my father wrote, when at four years old he felt left out, and they were poor, and he was hungry, and nobody was paying attention to his brother and him. And he wandered listlessly about the room. And he stood before the shimmering embers, fascinated by the quivering coals. And a new idea of a game grew and took root in his mind. Why not throw something into the fire and watch it burn? ... julia wright http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45747.php or http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/1538211 and "The victims should be the subject of the story if we have any kind of compassion at all as human beings. When we reach this stage, I think, you know, journalism ceases to perform its function. What we should be doing is challenging authority, ...You know, Amira Hass, the very fine Israeli journalist, a friend of mine, we were discussing the purpose of being a foreign correspondent about two years or so ago, and I was going on about, you know, “We write the first pages of history,” in my Brit way. And she said, “No, Robert, our job is to monitor the centers of power.” And we don't do that." -- robert frisk http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45774.php and http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/1538226 and "Samedi soir, au moment de la rupture du jeûne (vers 18h30), les 400 CRS et gendarmes, dont une partie vient de Chalon s/saone, sont sortis un peu partout dans la cité du Chêne pointu. Comme à l’accoutumée, il s’agissait d’encercler - "de boucler" - le quartier. Don quichottisme policier : en cohorte, à la façon des légions romaines, au pas de course, visière baissée, bouclier au bras, et flashball à la main, ils parcourent les rues une à une contre des ennemis invisibles....Pourquoi cette démonstration de force alors même que les rues étaient particulièrement calmes ?" -- Antoine Germa -- "Clichy-sous-Bois : zone de non-droits ou zone d’injustices ?" http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45602.php or http://lmsi.net/article.php3?id_article=477 and Clichy-sous-Bois, the impoverished and segregated north-eastern suburb of Paris where the two men lived and where the violent reaction to their deaths began, was a ticking bomb for the kind of dramatic social upheaval we are currently witnessing. ...A simple gesture of regret could go a long way towards defusing the tensions for now. The morning after the gassing of the mosque, a young Muslim woman summed up a widespread feeling: "We just want them to stop lying, to admit they've done it and to apologise." -- NAIMA BOUTELDJA -- "The Explosion in the Suburbs: Paris is Burning" http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45648.php or http://www.counterpunch.org/naima11072005.html hit it: http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/249797.shtml http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/7632.php "Yes. I believe there's a high potential for the spread of this type of rebellion and rioting in other parts of Europe. ....There's a large number of Muslims and Africans living clandestinely in Italy going from one place to another looking for jobs. But they're being treated very viciously by the police, very suspiciously by the public, and they're not able to sustain themselves. That also is a prime population ready to revolt at any moment."--Behzad Yaghmaian http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45749.php or http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/1538216 and ... Well, I had a very eerie feeling of déjà vu. And you'll forgive me, Amy, for being haunted by the first page of Black Boy, my father wrote, when at four years old he felt left out, and they were poor, and he was hungry, and nobody was paying attention to his brother and him. And he wandered listlessly about the room. And he stood before the shimmering embers, fascinated by the quivering coals. And a new idea of a game grew and took root in his mind. Why not throw something into the fire and watch it burn? ... julia wright http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45747.php or http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/1538211 and "The victims should be the subject of the story if we have any kind of compassion at all as human beings. When we reach this stage, I think, you know, journalism ceases to perform its function. What we should be doing is challenging authority, ...You know, Amira Hass, the very fine Israeli journalist, a friend of mine, we were discussing the purpose of being a foreign correspondent about two years or so ago, and I was going on about, you know, “We write the first pages of history,” in my Brit way. And she said, “No, Robert, our job is to monitor the centers of power.” And we don't do that." -- robert frisk http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45774.php and http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/1538226 http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45749.php http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45747.php or http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/1538211 http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/7632.php 2: en fins (clichy-sous bois): dub stereophonical http://images.indymedia.org/imc/seattle/media/2005/11/249798.mp3 3: en fins (clichy sous bois): zone d’injustices ?" dbl the giver dub http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/en_fins__clichy-sous_bois_dbl_da_giver___.mp3 and http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45602.php or http://lmsi.net/article.php3?id_article=477 and Clichy-sous-Bois, the impoverished and segregated north-eastern suburb of Paris where the two men lived and where the violent reaction to their deaths began, was a ticking bomb for the kind of dramatic social upheaval we are currently witnessing. ...A simple gesture of regret could go a long way towards defusing the tensions for now. The morning after the gassing of the mosque, a young Muslim woman summed up a widespread feeling: "We just want them to stop lying, to admit they've done it and to apologise." -- NAIMA BOUTELDJA -- "The Explosion in the Suburbs: Paris is Burning" http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/45648.php or http://www.counterpunch.org/naima11072005.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/060130_clichy.shtml http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/straight_outta_clichy.mp3 ___ Stay Strong \ "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" \ --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) \ "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil \ "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte \ http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/unner_stated__down_pressin__acapella__--_lord_patch.mp3 \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ } ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:58:25 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Re: Jack Collom Fish Drum Exchanges of Earth & Sky DONE please look at it MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit that's nice, thanks, mr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Penton" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:57 AM Subject: Re: Jack Collom Fish Drum Exchanges of Earth & Sky DONE please look at it > Michael Rothenberg wrote: > >> Fish Drum, Inc. and Suzi Winson present >> a publication party for Jack Collom's >> Exchanges of Earth & Sky >> Jack reads from his new book >> at the Zinc Bar (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION FOR FISH DRUM!!) >> 90 West Houston >> between La Guardia & Thompson >> (downstairs, back room) >> Sunday, February 12, 2006 7pm $5. cover >> >> > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:46:03 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: IRA COHEN'S 71ST BIRTHDAY PARTY Comments: cc: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SUNDAY FEB. 5th @ Zebulon Concert/Cafe (directions below) IRA COHEN'S 71ST BIRTHDAY PARTY come celebrate with Ira Cohen & friends an evening of Poetry, Film, & Music Special Feature: PARADISE NOW: THE LIVING THEATRE IN AMERIKA (1968)* A film by Marty Topp - Produced for Universal Mutant by Ira Cohen "Ira Cohen and Marty Topp's film of 'Paradise Now' reveals how the theories of revolutionary change and the experience of sexual liberation are not separate paths to the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution. Together they form a single thrust encompassing both political action and sensual joy, leading to the dreamed-of terrestrial paradise." - Judith Malina (new DVD Release forthcoming from BASTER/ARTHUR Magazine) Zebulon Concert Cafe http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com/ 718.218.6934 258 Wythe Avenue btwn North 3rd & Metropolitan Brooklyn, NY 11211 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:49:10 EST Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Craig Allen Conrad Subject: Dear POETS, you will want to read this LIST OF SOME OF OUR FORGOTTEN POETS.... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 =20 Dear POETS, you will want to read this LIST OF SOME OF OUR FORGOTTEN =20 POETS.... =20 =20 welcome to the NEGLECTORINO PROJECT @ PhillySound =20 =20 =20 "Wowee. This is so much FUN to find out about all these forgotten poets. =20 It's like everybody confessing their secret crushes." --Shanna Compton =20 =20 Oh yeah, Shanna is so right on! Thanks to everyone who gave up their secre= t=20 crushes, to help widen the force of the ripples, get us goggled, googled, =20 and engaged out here. Dubbed THE NEGLECTORINO LIST by Ron Silliman? (Oh, I= 'm=20 going to get such hate mail if it wasn't Silliman. That's okay, send it, I= 'll=20 apologize then, and apologize now, but send me your hate just the same) Bu= t=20 yeah, it sounds great, let's call it that, THE NEGLECTORINO LIST! Someone=20 recently said to me when I told him that I read almost nothing but poetry,=20= "Is=20 there really THAT much good poetry to read?" Hehehe, man, there's so much=20 you can't possibly imagine reading it all! Not that I'm complaining mind y= ou! =20 It's exciting to note that, not only were so many poets generous with their= =20 participation in this project of the neglected, but Shanna Compton and Tom =20 Orange have made available for us some amazing, invaluable access to work L= ONG=20 out of print. Shanna created a file on Joan Murray, and Tom created a file= =20 on Rosalie Moore. "Created a file" sounds so FBI, but you know what I mean= ,=20 PDF, downloadable, to print, to have and to get juiced by! Shanna and Tom,= we=20 are in your debt, truly! =20 Whenever possible I provide links to the internet on a poet. Saddly, as=20 you'll see, sometimes none exist, and it's off to the Interlibrary Loan of= fices=20 of our public libraries. =20 Here's to making some of our forgotten, neglected (and nearly invisible)=20 unmistakably necessary. =20 Happy Year of the Dog everyone, CAConrad =20 THE QUESTION: =20 =20 Not long ago I interviewed Eileen Myles for PhillySound, and one of the=20 questions I asked her was, "There must be other poets whose work you admire= whose=20 work is either out of print or difficult to find. Can you share some names=20 or titles, and what this work means to you?" =20 This was her answer: Susie Timmons. Always Susie. Locked from Inside. Yellow Press of Chicago di= d=20 it. She is my generation of poets who came up in the east village in the 70= s=20 and 80s. Very fast, very conceptual, funny and magical. Nobody like her. I=20 loved her work then and now. Joe Ceravolo. Wonderful, also kind of=20 religious-tinged work. Loose but sinewy. Spring in this world of poor mutts= is a title.=20 A guy completely unheard of is Richard Bandanza. He was in workshops with m= e=20 in the 70s. He published one book under a pseudonym, Richard Nassau. It was= =20 called I Like You. He married a doctor and he lives in Connecticut. I bet h= e=E2=80=99s=20 still writing. =20 Not only was I excited to learn about Susie Timmons, but others who read=20 this interview were also quite excited, and said so, and I'm taking this=20 question to the next step. It's important, I believe, to ask this question= of poets=20 whose work we admire, which is why I'm asking you and a few others the very= =20 same question, "There must be other poets whose work you admire whose work=20= is=20 either out of print or difficult to find. Can you share some names or=20 titles, and what this work means to you?" =20 THE ANSWERS: to read the answers, please go to=20 _http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_phillysound_archive.html_=20 (http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_phillysound_archive.html)=20 =20 THOSE PARTICIPATING: =20 RAE ARMANTROUT MICHAEL BASINSKI JEN BENKA CHARLES BERNSTEIN ANSELM BERRIGAN STEVE CLAY SHANNA COMPTON KYLE CONNER CACONRAD BRENT CUNNINGHAM BUCK DOWNS RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS MARCELLA DURAND JAIME ANNE EARNEST KARI EDWARDS WILL ESPOSITO BRETT EVANS GREG FUCHS HEATHER FULLER ALAN GILBERT ALEX GILDZEN NOAH ELI GORDON ANSELM HOLLO BRENDA IIJIMA P. INMAN ERICA KAUFMAN KEVIN KILLIAN DAVID KIRSCHENBAUM WENDY KRAMER JOSEPH MASSEY NICK MOUDRY CHRISTOPHER NEALON TOM ORANGE RONALD PALMER BOB PERELMAN SIMON PETTET TOM RAWORTH JOAN RETALLACK DON RIGGS JOSHUA SCHUSTER NATHANIEL SIEGEL ELENI SIKELIANOS RON SILLIMAN JONATHAN SKINNER DALE SMITH ROD SMITH SPARROW BETHANY SPIERS CHRIS STROFFOLINO CHRISTINA STRONG STACY SZYMASZEK KEVIN THURSTON TONY TOAST CHRIS TOLL ELIZABETH TREADWELL KEVIN VARRONE DIANE WALD MARK WALLACE ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:28:14 -0800 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Flora Fair Subject: Re: Dear POETS, you will want to read this LIST OF SOME OF OUR FORGOTTEN POETS.... In-Reply-To: <295.4b7eaab.31111936@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hey, When you say hard to find, do you mean not available on amazon, or just not usually stocked on bookstore shelves? Thanks, Flora Craig Allen Conrad wrote: Dear POETS, you will want to read this LIST OF SOME OF OUR FORGOTTEN POETS.... welcome to the NEGLECTORINO PROJECT @ PhillySound "Wowee. This is so much FUN to find out about all these forgotten poets. It's like everybody confessing their secret crushes." --Shanna Compton Oh yeah, Shanna is so right on! Thanks to everyone who gave up their secret crushes, to help widen the force of the ripples, get us goggled, googled, and engaged out here. Dubbed THE NEGLECTORINO LIST by Ron Silliman? (Oh, I'm going to get such hate mail if it wasn't Silliman. That's okay, send it, I'll apologize then, and apologize now, but send me your hate just the same) But yeah, it sounds great, let's call it that, THE NEGLECTORINO LIST! Someone recently said to me when I told him that I read almost nothing but poetry, "Is there really THAT much good poetry to read?" Hehehe, man, there's so much you can't possibly imagine reading it all! Not that I'm complaining mind you! It's exciting to note that, not only were so many poets generous with their participation in this project of the neglected, but Shanna Compton and Tom Orange have made available for us some amazing, invaluable access to work LONG out of print. Shanna created a file on Joan Murray, and Tom created a file on Rosalie Moore. "Created a file" sounds so FBI, but you know what I mean, PDF, downloadable, to print, to have and to get juiced by! Shanna and Tom, we are in your debt, truly! Whenever possible I provide links to the internet on a poet. Saddly, as you'll see, sometimes none exist, and it's off to the Interlibrary Loan offices of our public libraries. Here's to making some of our forgotten, neglected (and nearly invisible) unmistakably necessary. Happy Year of the Dog everyone, CAConrad THE QUESTION: Not long ago I interviewed Eileen Myles for PhillySound, and one of the questions I asked her was, "There must be other poets whose work you admire whose work is either out of print or difficult to find. Can you share some names or titles, and what this work means to you?" This was her answer: Susie Timmons. Always Susie. Locked from Inside. Yellow Press of Chicago did it. She is my generation of poets who came up in the east village in the 70s and 80s. Very fast, very conceptual, funny and magical. Nobody like her. I loved her work then and now. Joe Ceravolo. Wonderful, also kind of religious-tinged work. Loose but sinewy. Spring in this world of poor mutts is a title. A guy completely unheard of is Richard Bandanza. He was in workshops with me in the 70s. He published one book under a pseudonym, Richard Nassau. It was called I Like You. He married a doctor and he lives in Connecticut. I bet he’s still writing. Not only was I excited to learn about Susie Timmons, but others who read this interview were also quite excited, and said so, and I'm taking this question to the next step. It's important, I believe, to ask this question of poets whose work we admire, which is why I'm asking you and a few others the very same question, "There must be other poets whose work you admire whose work is either out of print or difficult to find. Can you share some names or titles, and what this work means to you?" THE ANSWERS: to read the answers, please go to _http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_phillysound_archive.html_ (http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_phillysound_archive.html) THOSE PARTICIPATING: RAE ARMANTROUT MICHAEL BASINSKI JEN BENKA CHARLES BERNSTEIN ANSELM BERRIGAN STEVE CLAY SHANNA COMPTON KYLE CONNER CACONRAD BRENT CUNNINGHAM BUCK DOWNS RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS MARCELLA DURAND JAIME ANNE EARNEST KARI EDWARDS WILL ESPOSITO BRETT EVANS GREG FUCHS HEATHER FULLER ALAN GILBERT ALEX GILDZEN NOAH ELI GORDON ANSELM HOLLO BRENDA IIJIMA P. INMAN ERICA KAUFMAN KEVIN KILLIAN DAVID KIRSCHENBAUM WENDY KRAMER JOSEPH MASSEY NICK MOUDRY CHRISTOPHER NEALON TOM ORANGE RONALD PALMER BOB PERELMAN SIMON PETTET TOM RAWORTH JOAN RETALLACK DON RIGGS JOSHUA SCHUSTER NATHANIEL SIEGEL ELENI SIKELIANOS RON SILLIMAN JONATHAN SKINNER DALE SMITH ROD SMITH SPARROW BETHANY SPIERS CHRIS STROFFOLINO CHRISTINA STRONG STACY SZYMASZEK KEVIN THURSTON TONY TOAST CHRIS TOLL ELIZABETH TREADWELL KEVIN VARRONE DIANE WALD MARK WALLACE --------------------------------- Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing, reviews, & more on new and used cars. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:32:16 -0500 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Christopher Leland Winks Subject: Re: Afro-Cuban Music and Literature -- A Special Event at Queens College/CUNY In-Reply-To: <200601310015.TAA21528@webmail18.cac.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ah yes=2C Nile Rodgers (in fact=2C Lefrak is the parent company of = the =22people=22 I pay my rent to -- so I almost wish it were called = LeFreak Auditorium instead)=2E Anyway=2C Monday should be fun=3A trying = to = break through departmental balkanization here=2E Chris ----- Original Message ----- From=3A ALDON L NIELSEN =3Caln10=40PSU=2EEDU=3E Date=3A Monday=2C January 30=2C 2006 7=3A15 pm Subject=3A Re=3A Afro-Cuban Music and Literature -- A Special Event at = Queens College/CUNY =3E WOW! =3E = =3E though on first=2C quick reading=2C I thought you were appearing in = =3E the LaFreak =3E concert hall -- thought I was back in the 70s with Chic -- = =3E = =3E On Mon=2C 30 Jan 2006 15=3A58=3A43 +0000=2C Christopher Leland Winks = wrote=3A =3E = =3E =3E AFRO-CUBAN MUSIC AND LITERATURE =3E =3E = =3E =3E A special program featuring Michael Lipsey=2C percussion=3B Anton= io = =3E Hart=2C = =3E =3E saxophone=3B and Christopher Winks reading his own work and = =3E writings by = =3E =3E Lydia Cabrera=2C Guillermo Cabrera Infante=2C and Nicol=E1s Guill= =E9n=2E =3E =3E = =3E =3E Monday=2C February 6=2C 2006 at 12=3A15 p=2Em=2E Admission free=2E= =3E =3E = =3E =3E Location=3A LeFrak Concert Hall=2C Aaron Copland School of Music=2C= = =3E Queens = =3E =3E College=2C 65-30 Kissena Blvd=2E=2C Flushing=2C NY 11367=2E =3E =3E = =3E =3E In honor of Black History Month=2E =3E =3E = =3E =3E For more information=2C call 718-997-3800=2E =3E =3E = =3E =3E = =3E =3E = =3E = =3E = =3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C= =3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3C=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E= =3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E=3E =3E=3E=3E=3E =3E = =3E =22Breaking in bright Orthography =2E =2E= =2E=22 =3E --Emily Dickinson =3E = =3E = =3E Aldon L=2E Nielsen =3E Kelly Professor of American Literature =3E The Pennsylvania State University =3E 116 Burrowes =3E University Park=2C PA 16802-6200 =3E = =3E (814) 865-0091 =3E ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:46:57 -0600 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Haas Bianchi Subject: Poetry foundation and putting the spotlight on myself Derek In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit " But why trouble the Poetry Foundation? You will always have need of more scholarships, reading series, and places in America where poetry would be a much needed gift. Why don't you challenge what you are doing? Whenever you choose, you can provide all things and more. (If you will try, you will find that you can.)" Derek: I am more than willing to put all the free work I do on behalf of poetry in Chicago against what the Poetry Foundation does. I have a website that I pay for out of my own pocket and devote allot of time to that has promoted living, innovative poets and their books in Chicago, the midwest and the nation, it also has a calendar for our region that is used by over 10,000 unique readers a month. I also have launched out on my own with Bill Allegrezza a bookpress. I don't have millions but I believe in the artform and care passionately about it so I do it. What does the Poetry Foundation care about? An example of Success---- Here in Chicago a decision was made in the 1970's by foundations to support live theatre. Today Chicago arguably has a better theatre scene than New York because people who care about theatre spent their money to build infrastructure of the artform. We now have over 30 non profit theatre companies and independent theatres like Steppenwolf, Looking Glass and Goodman are world reknowned. The Poetry Foundation could do the same with poetry in many US Cities bringing the artform a new prominence; they have not done this . The problem with the Poetry Foundation is that they have the resources to really help OUR artform to have a larger profile and they have chosen to give themselves a bigger profile. The Poetry Foundation has chosen to do the following with their millions, pay for a survey that no one cares about, Launch poetry prizes that 'poets' like Billy Collins and Kay Ryan have won, and to launch a reading series here in Chicago that they CHARGE $12.00 a person to attend. While they are doing these things reading series and presses in their own backyard are self financing themselves and struggling. The problem with the Poetry Foundation is that they are controlled by small minded people who are not visionaries. This is a problem that mainstream poetry suffers from in the US and the Poetry Foundation is the essential example of this. 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This Tuesday, January 31, the president will be giving his State of the Union address, which should cause us all to vomit or explode with horror. However, your loving pals at RadioActive San Diego will be covering this infernal event *live*, cutting through the lies and giving this simian the mocking of a lifetime. We will also take live calls from activists in the streets protesting the President's speech... As you may know, the President of the United States is a lying sack of crap. This Tuesday, January 31, the president will be giving his State of the Union address, which should cause us all to vomit or explode with horror. However, your loving pals at RadioActive San Diego will be covering this infernal event *live*, cutting through the lies and giving this simian the mocking of a lifetime. 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But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil \ "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte \ http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/lbraithwaite-01.html \ http://www.sleepybrain.net/vanilla.html \ http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7255.php \ http://ilovepoetry.com/search.asp?keywords=braithwaite&orderBy=date \ http://www.lowliferecords.co.uk/ \ } ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:46:27 -0500 Reply-To: dbuuck@mindspring.com Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: David Buuck Subject: Poetry Foundation, Legitimate Dangers, etc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit for those of you following the thread begun by Steve Evans' essay, and/or the various bloggage around the Legit Dangers anthology - Please read Mark Nowak's Workers of the Word, from Palm Press - a pamphlet that takes on the MFA/AWP/etc industry alongside bookstore workers' struggles and efforts at constructing viable oppositional spaces (for poetry & pedagogy) outside the academy. http://palmpress.org/chapbooks.html David Buuck