========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:44:46 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: David Kirschenbaum (me) Reading in Long Island this Friday Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howdy all, I've been invited to read in Amityville, Long Island at The Peacesmiths Coffeehouse. They've got a nice hippie vibe, info on a number of great political causes, and homemade treats, too. Always a swell scene. best, dak ---------- The PeaceSmiths, Topical, A-Typical, Folk Music, Poetry, and Whatever Coffeehouse Fri., Nov. 5, 2010, 8:00 p.m. $7 (more if possible, less if necessary) Grand Folk Railroad and David Kirschenbaum (me) (with a guest song from Michelle Herman) Open Mic: Maybe you! First United Methodist Church 25 Broadway Amityville, N.Y. Info call: (631) 798-0778 http://www.peacesmiths.org/ Grand Folk Railroad: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grand-Folk-Railroad/131370943568194 -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) To subscribe free to The December Podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=343169880 For music from Gilmore boys: http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:51:03 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: Entropy and Books--Descriptons of Favorite Weathered Volumes and Texts In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Mark, yr being too hard on Jesse. Shit happens & besides, this list could use more anecdotal interventions. My 2 sense, ~mIEKAL On Oct 31, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Mark Weiss wrote: > Jesse: You seem to be rehearsing bits for an essay or memoir, and a > good one it will be. Though maybe you should be more careful with > your books. =!= Data Visualization for the Synaptically Inspired http://filevillage.info ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 02:04:42 +0100 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Pirene's Fountain has a feature on Jake Berry and myself Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc , Wryting-L MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pirene's Fountain has a feature on Jake Berry and myself: http://www.pirenesfountain.com/folios/berry_side.html My thanks to editor Ami Kaye for all the work she's put into this during the past year. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:43:15 +1100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chris Jones Subject: Re: The Poets' Corner - an update In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anny, at this rate you may need to rename it; poets' world.... It is getting to be an impressive collection, or it would be more precise to say has long passed this description; best cj On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 16:08 +0200, Anny Ballardini wrote: > Dear All, > > > > The present update is dedicated to My Father. To the contributors, my > very > special acknowledgment. -- have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog weird just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 02:30:41 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: Entropy and Books--Descriptons of Favorite Weathered Volumes and Texts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sat., Nov. 13 Reading at the Locust Valley Library Poetry Society 2:00 pm, 170 Buckram Road, Locust Valley, NY, Free Marie-Elizabeth Mali and Steve Dalachinsky will read, followed by an open mic. Funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts. Hosted by Mankh, poet, essayist and small press publisher. Directions: Train: LIRR to Locust Valley Station, take taxi to the library. Driving: Take the L.I.Expressway to Glen Cove Road, exit 39N. Go north on Glen Cove Road to end. Turn right onto Brewster Street. Brewster becomes Forest Ave. and then becomes Buckram Road after 13 traffic lights. Library is on the right past the tennis courts. For more information, contact Mankh. mankh@allbook-books.com __________________________________________________________ and nov 17 8 pm living theater with IRA COHEN JUDITH MALINA Valery Ouisteaneu Alan Graubard and others On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:17:46 -0400 Mark Weiss writes: > Jesse: You seem to be rehearsing bits for an > essay or memoir, and a good one it will be. > Though maybe you should be more careful with your books. > > At least i had the excuse in the following of > being out of my mind on LSD. I had been left > alone for what proved to be a very long night in > a house I'd never been in before. The room they > gave me had purple walls and dim light and the > momentos of a woman of questionable sanity. So I > was pretty freaked. And the only companion I had > was a copy of the paperback of Duncan's The > Opening of the Field, which I was getting to know > for the first time. This would be 1969, I think. > I couldn't put it down. Hard to read, because the > perspective kept changing, and the color of the > letters, which seemed to dance to the rhythm of > the verse, but it was a safer space than the dark > corners that I was sure were inhabited. I > annotated it copiously (I almost never write in > books), which took some determination, because > the pencil kept bending in my hand. I couldn't > put it down, which is why I had it with me, open, > when I got up to pee, and it slipped out of my > hands and into the drink. Horrified, I rescued it > and patted it dry as best I could. It was a > little rank for a while, but I still have it. > It's a pretty trippy book, and Duncan was known > to indulge, but he was more disciplined than I > was, and my notations, those that are legible, > are more yawps than commentary, with a few strange neologisms. > > That was very good acid. And it occurs to me now that if I sucked > the pages... > > Best, > > Mark > > > > At 09:55 PM 10/30/2010, you wrote: > >I dropped a copy of Jack Spicer's early poems into a glowing ash > pit > >without at first realizing that I had done so due to the waves of > horror > >and revulsion that repeatedly swept over me one early June morning > in > >Maryland. The scene was a tragic one: a barn that had once housed > >several dozen sheep had been burnt to the ground with the sheep > still > >inside--the carcasses of which, with wool pelt intact--remained > >scattered among the smoking timbers. The fire engines had just > left, > >but several State Troopers were still collecting evidence, and the > >general consensus was that it was almost certainly arson. I had > been > >reading the SPICER TEXT by flashlight, as the sun had not risen > yet, but > >found that the combined car headlights, flashing gumball machines > atop > >the cars of the troopers, and abrupt illuminations from the flash > units > >of the reporters' cameras (remember, this was way back in the days > >before digital), not to mention the steady-state flickerings of > the > >charred and clinkered upper walls and fallen ceilings of the barn > >provided enough ambient light that I could put away my flashlight > with > >no qualms about the safety of my eyesight. Indeed, by this > flickering > >light, the early poems seemed to possess a strength and beauty that > I > >had not noticed in the amber light of my electric lit room. I > stood > >with the book held loosely in my left hand (bad mistake!), when an > old > >college friend, whom I hadn't seen in years, chose that particular > >moment to tap me on the shoulder. I was startled from my > >grief-stricken-transience-of-all-earthly-things-pose, and whirled > about, > >only to be greeted by the somewhat glowing teeth and silhouette of > my > >old friend, who quickly announced his name (WHICH SHALL NOT BE > GIVEN > >HERE), to preclude any further signs of panic on my part. He was > too > >later, however, as the volume was spun from my grip and tumbled > into the > >ashes, sending a sneeze-pattern cloud of firefly-like POINTS OF > >LIGHT--perhaps 1000 of them into the Republican sky! Cheered on by > the > >voice of my friend, I located a stick and scraped the volume > towards us, > >though it had already TAKEN FIRE with an almost supernal beauty of > >orange and copper-colored flames. Finally, I could reach under > the > >crime-scene tape and rake the book onto the wet grass. I stepped > on the > >book 20 times or so to transmogrify the magnetic flames into a > drizzle > >of smoke. Then, borrowing my friend's handkerchief, I lifted the > >volume into the rays of the barely risen sun to inspect the damage. > All > >of the front matter had been craggily carbonized, up to about page > 25 > >(if I recall correctly), and was missing due to the repeated > application > >of my steel-toed work shoe. However, the latter half of the > volume, > >though partially carbonized and truncated by the action of the > flames, > >was still legible, though brittle, and as I attempted to read the > TEXT, > >noting here and there the various modifications of form (and > >consequently of meaning) I could see that my fingertips and the > upper > >joints of my fingers, had turned black (almost to blueness) with > the > >charred leavings of the lower portions of the pages and binding. > >Sensing the sudden change in mood of my friend from the solemnity > of a > >shared grief to a barely repressed hilarity bursting to be > expressed in > >the mutton-fragrant air, I pulled the remaining pages apart and > >mentioned to my friend, how the book looked for all the world like > >something to be deposited in the trash bin. And later, after > sketching > >the literary remains in my journal to make sure that I had taken > >sufficient notice of every part--it was. Jess > > > > > > > > > > > > > >On 10/29/2010, "Jesse Glass" wrote: > > > > >I accidentally dropped a copy of Kenneth Rexroth's Collected > Longer > > >Poems into an old "botton" latrine-style, Japanese toilet when I > lived > > >in Nagasaki Prefecture back in the early 90's. Fortunately, the > book > > >did not sink right away, but slowly listed to the side in the > emerald > > >green antiseptic and deodorizing solution in the tank, while > Kenneth's > > >eyes staring woefully up through the lapping green waves. It > took about > > >30 minutes to wrangle the volume up with a fish hook and ten feet > of > > >nylon line borrowed from a neighboring fisherman. The solution > had dyed > > >the pages a delightful color, though the photograph on the cover > was > > >relatively unchanged and continued to present that old, cunning > > >gentleman, in a manner that might have elicited a comment from > Susan > > >Sontag regarding the uncanny in photography had she been standing > beside > > >me. The sun was barely out that day, but I deposited the book on > the > > >back step of my one-room country "mansion" where it drew a few > hopeful > > >flies and an ant. Jess > > > > > >On 10/21/2010, "Crane's Bill Books" > wrote: > > > > > >>Jesse, > > >>In New Mexico the glue used in bindings sometimes dries out and > turns to > > >>dust so that a book comes apart in your hands. > > >>I have some topo maps with wonderful, meandering trails eaten > into them by > > >>insects. > > >>A few years ago the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe did > a show not > > >>of environmentally damaged books but of library books that had > been > > >>vandalized because of their lesbian/gay > > content. A group of artists salvaged > > >>them and turned them into sculptural artists' books and other > kinds of > > >>artworks. Quite moving. > > >>Jeffrey > > >> > > >>----- Original Message ----- > > >>From: "Jesse Glass" > > >>To: > > >>Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 9:54 PM > > >>Subject: Entropy and Books--Descriptons of Favorite Weathered > Volumes and > > >>Texts > > >> > > >> > > >>> It would be great to share some descriptions of the tango > between your > > >>> favorite volume(s) and the environment where you are. Japan > is > > >>> notorious for its foxing frenzies--most of my books have tiny > black and > > >>> brown threads colonizing the tooth of the paper and > lichen-like spoors > > >>> notching away at the typographic landscapes of what I read. I > have two > > >>> notebooks form the 1980's that are crammed full of writing, > scribbling > > >>> out, worthless phone numbers, torn, dog-eared and foxed pages, > pages > > >>> rotting, onion skin-like, sun-burnt, spat-upon, maggot-bitten > and > > >>> palimpsested with white-out and bic reworkings, rain-tortured > into > > >>> rivulets of ink charging crookedly down the cheek of the page > from black > > >>> to blue to gray like the tears of a miraculous icon in a sooty > corner of > > >>> some yellow-walled church where nobody goes but the > toothless, > > >>> squint-eyed, and terminal; books falling to pieces and > stinking of > > >>> ancient sex and Lucky Strikes, and years spent in old winter > coats for > > >>> sale in the bargain bins of the Purple Heart and the Salvation > Army. > > >>> These are the kinds of books that excite my imagination > because those > > >>> old Complete Poes and The Poems of Robert Service tortured > into > > >>> ghostlier shapes, rain-warped into counterweights for mobiles > and > > >>> stabiles invites my Twombly and Rothco appreciation centers > to > > >>> re-activate, and these are located close to the endorphin > sluices of my > > >>> innermost and most secret self and jam them open, or at least > tickle the > > >>> hell out of them so that my tongue thrusts out to lick the > plaster on > > >>> the wall in joy. > > >>> > > >>> Your descriptions solicited! Jess > > >>> > > >>> ================================== > > >>> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. > Check > > >>> guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > >>> > > >> > > >>================================== > > >>The Poetics List is moderated & does not > > accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub > > info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > >> > > > > > >================================== > > >The Poetics List is moderated & does not > > accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub > > info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > >================================== > >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept > >all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: > >http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape. > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm > > > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a > lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the > poet alive in every sense of the word, and > through every one of his senses. Instead of > missing a beat or a part, Weiss’ fragments are > like Chekhov’s short stories­the more that gets > left out, the more they seem to contain… One can > hear echoes from all the various > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its > core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment > is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure > musical threnody…[it] opens a window, not only > into a mind, but a person, a personality, this > human figure at the emotional center of the poem." > > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket. > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:57:42 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "St. Thomasino" Subject: Jack Foley on MYSTERIOSOS AND OTHER POEMS by Michael McClure Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Jack Foley on MYSTERIOSOS AND OTHER POEMS by Michael McClure = http://eratio.blogspot.com/2010/10/jack-foley-reviews-mysteriosos-and.html= GVST, Ed., E=B7ratio e=B7= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:28:55 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?= Subject: ... at the IMRAM festival MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable _______________ Two articles by Jana Peterson, the editor of The Pine Journal in Minnesota ... 1.) "Poet S=E9amas Cain heads to Ireland ..." in the issue for Thursday, September 16th, 2010, Volume Number 127, Issue Number 37, on page A5 http://www.pinejournal.com/event/article/id/21429/ 2.) "Still making waves with poetry and plays" in the issue for Thursday, October 28th, 2010, Volume Number 127, Issue Number 43, on the front-page and page D1 http://www.pinejournal.com/event/article/id/21875/group/News/ _______________ The IMRAM Festival has published a CD of S=E9amas Cain chanting the poem tr=EDd an gcoill. Slavek Kwi, the Czech sound-artist, in a stereo mix, has surrounded Cain's voice with the music of nature in Dromore Woods, County Clare, Ireland ... the sound of the wind and the sounds of birds, the movements of the trees and the sounds of raindrops, and most intriguing of all the sounds of the underwater insects. Anyone who would like a copy of this CD should write for details and ordering-information to Liam Carson at info@imram.ie http://www.imram.ie/ http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain/questionsanswers.htm http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dlist_pages_catego= ries&cid=3D258 _______________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:23:12 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "St. Thomasino" Subject: a noun sing 4 new e=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=B7chaps_from_e=B7ratio_?= editions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) e=B7 a noun sing 4 new e=B7chaps from e=B7ratio editions #10. The Galloping Man and five other poems by Gregory Vincent St. =20 Thomasino. =93 . . . how does / a body know, here is a hand, and here, =20= is a sentence / or, / what=92s riding on hearts . . . =94 #9. Prosaic Suburban Commercial by Keith Higginbotham. Two poetic =20 sequences. =93 . . . bathe deep in / the barely-there / disassembled =20= gallery / of the everyday . . . =94 #8. Polylogue by Carey Scott Wilkerson. Poems. =93 . . . with rules =20= and constitutive games, / with paints and gramarye / with some =20 modicum / of my reckless trust . . . =94 #7. Basho=92s Phonebook. 30 translations by Travis Macdonald. The =20 great Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Basho goes digital. Conceptual =20 poetry. With translator=92s notes. http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/eratioeditions.html .pdf (free) e=B7= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:12:19 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Nov 3: Rust-belt Haiku in Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Write a Haiku about the plight, or renaissance, of the mid-American city in a post-globalization economy. Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Gary, Minneapolis need your language. This is an opportunity to re-rebrand an iconic rust-belt city through the ancient artform of Haiku. Wednesday, November 3 5:30-7:30pm at Urban Burger 1578 N. Clybourn Avenue Chicago, Illinois Haiku Contest Judges: Richard Fox Jennifer Karmin DETROIT: PHOENIX Presented by Paul Druecke (The Suburban) as part of Steppenwolf's Explore Series http://www.steppenwolf.org/calendar/detail.aspx?id=193 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 19:50:02 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jared Schickling Subject: call for work and readers (it's free) / eccolinguistics Comments: To: New Poetry List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable All=2C If you are interested=2C a call for work: http://eccolinguistics.blogspot.com/ The first issue will issue later in 2011=2C intending a wide and diverse au= dience: We aim to spread your writing. Subscriptions are free. FREE (No author mentioned was consulted in the masthead.) All best=2C and please reconsider=2C Jared=20 = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 00:10:43 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Slaughter Subject: Notice: Mudlark MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed New and On View: Mudlark No. 40 (2010) Measuring the Days | Poems by Michael Hettich Michael Hettich's most recent books of poetry are Like Happiness (Anhinga Press, 2010) and Flock and Shadow: New and Selected Poems (New Rivers Press, 2005). He also has a recent chapbook, Many Loves (Yellow Jacket Press, 2007). Most of the poems in Measuring the Days are drawn from The Animals Beyond Us, a new collection of poems forthcoming from New Rivers Press. He lives in Miami with his wife, Colleen, and teaches at Miami Dade College. Spread the word. Far and wide, William Slaughter MUDLARK An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics Never in and never out of print... E-mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 06:58:51 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jordan Stempleman Subject: Poetry Publication Opportunity for Teens MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Occasionally=2C an opportunity to be a small part of a large change present= s itself. This is that opportunity. My name is Jessica Kendall=2C and my co= lleague Marlee Stempleman and I are attempting to create a poetry project t= hat we hope will unify students and teachers from Title I schools=2C as wel= l as poets from across the nation.=20 We currently teach at Turner High School=2C located in Kansas City=2C Kansa= s. Last year=2C Marlee created a poetry club known as the Turner Troubadour= s. Through this club=2C we both witnessed firsthand the power of poetry as = a means for expressing the emotions and overcoming the obstacles that are u= nique to students from Title I or low-income backgrounds.=20 Last year=2C the club produced one publication=2C which can be viewed at ww= w.lulu.com (search Turner Troubadours). This year=2C the club will be produ= cing three publications. While the Troubadours club is experiencing great s= uccess at Turner High School=2C both Marlee and I feel that this is not eno= ugh. This year=2C we are seeking to recreate this experience at any and all= Title I schools across the nation.=20 We are currently accepting poetry submissions from all Title I schools=2C a= nd we need any and all of the help that we can get in soliciting and collec= ting student's work. With these submissions=2C we plan on creating a three-= part anthology that will consist of =93I Remember=94 poems=2C Six-Word Memo= irs and free-verse poems. The book will also contain information dedicated = to the educator about how to teach poetry=2C which will help debunk all of = the myths of teaching and reading poetry and promote the love of poetry acr= oss all curriculums.=20 To make this project a reality we need your help. We are looking for any an= d all assistance in the funding=2C publication and promotion of this projec= t. We graciously appreciate any support that you are able to provide=2C and= we ask that if you are not able to help=2C you forward this information on= to anyone who may be able to assist with the project. Any donation will be= directly applied to making this project a reality=2C and your assistance w= ith the project will be noted in the publication.=20 We wholeheartedly support our students=2C and believe in the power of the p= en as our students navigate an often difficult and challenging world. With = a little help=2C we believe this project has the potential to bridge many g= aps and bring together a nation of underserved students. Please be a small = part of what has the power to be a large change in the lives of Title I stu= dents across the nation.=20 Thank you for your support=2C=20 Jessica Kendall and Marlee Stempleman=20 kendallje@turnerusd202.org=20 stemplemanm@turnerusd202.org=20 Turner High School=20 2211 S. 55th Street=20 Kansas City=2C Kansas 66106=20 = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:43:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Nate Pritts Subject: H_NGM_N BKS Open Reading Period In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Here's a brief note to let you know about something: H_NGM_N BKS open reading period for full-length manuscripts runs through Fe= bruary 28th. Click here for the information: http://www.h-ngm-n.com/s_bmissions/ In 2010=2C we published William Heyen's LORD DRAGONFLY=2C a reissue of his = out of print 1981 classic with contextualizing essays by Nate Pritts & Matt= hew Henriksen. We also published WOLF FACE=2C by Matt Hart=2C & will soon = be releasing titles by Alexis Orgera & Adam Fell. We aim to publish 3-4 ti= tles per year. There is a $10 reading fee=3B $15 gets you a copy of either LORD DRAGONFLY or WOLF FACE! More information can be found here: http://www.h-ngm-nbks.com Thanks so much for your support! -Nate=20 ___________ :: Dr. Nate Pritts =20 :: http://www.natepritts.com = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:22:41 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William Allegrezza Subject: Series A this Wednesday in Chicago--Wood, Reed, and Vitkauskas MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Come hear Joseph Wood, Marthe Reed, and Lina ramona Vitkauskas read their poetry this Wednesday, Nov. 3, in Chicago. 7-8 p.m. Byob. Free parking. Easy public transit access. (Note: the reading starts and ends on time because the HPAC closes at 8.) This is the last reading curated by Bill Allegrezza. The series will be passing into the hands of Francesco Levato when it starts back up in January. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:57:06 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chad Sweeney Subject: Early reviews of Parable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii http://rattle.com/blog/2010/10/parable-of-hide-and-seek-by-chad-sweeney/ http://greatamericanpinup.wordpress.com/ Two early reviews of Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James) in Rattle and GreatAmericanPinup. If anyone's interested in reviewing, I'd be happy to send out a copy. Cheers, Chad ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:07:58 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chad Sweeney Subject: Sweeney homecoming readings in California this week MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chad Sweeney is doing six readings in California this week from Parable of = Hide =0Aand Seek =0A=0Ain Berkeley, Venice/LA, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Hayw= ard.=A0A homecoming, as he =0Amisses his peoples west.=0ABerkeley :Chad Swe= eney and Melissa Stein at Moe's Books, 7:30PM in Berkeley, =0A2476 Telegrap= h Avenue, Poetry Flash Presents=0A=0AHayward : Chad reads in the Distinguis= hed Writer Series, California State =0AUniversity East Bay, 7PM, University= Library's Biella Room, 25800 Carlos Bee =0ABlvd=0A=A0=0ASacramento : Sacra= mento, 3PM at Sacramento State University, library gallery. =0AHosted by Jo= shua McKinney=0ANov 5Nov 8Nov 4=0A=A0=0ASacramento Nov 5, 7PM,=A0 Word Fest= ival at the Guild Theater.=0A=0AVenice Nov 6: 6PM, Beyond Baroque, killer b= ig festival =0A=0ASanta Cruz : Chad and Katherine Hastings at the Felix Kul= pa Gallery, 107 Elm =0AStreet 4PM, New Cadence Reading Series, Santa Cruz, = hosted by James MaughnNov 7 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 15:08:53 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christophe Casamassima Subject: Re: David Kirschenbaum (me) Reading in Long Island this Friday In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 if y'r from queens, you say, "on lon' gisland." or longisle. italians! On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 6:44 PM, David Kirschenbaum wrote: > Howdy all, > > I've been invited to read in Amityville, Long Island at The Peacesmiths > Coffeehouse. They've got a nice hippie vibe, info on a number of great > political causes, and homemade treats, too. Always a swell scene. > > best, > dak > > ---------- > > The PeaceSmiths, Topical, A-Typical, Folk Music, Poetry, and Whatever > Coffeehouse > > > Fri., Nov. 5, 2010, 8:00 p.m. > > $7 (more if possible, less if necessary) > > Grand Folk Railroad > > and > > David Kirschenbaum (me) > (with a guest song from Michelle Herman) > > > Open Mic: Maybe you! > > First United Methodist Church > 25 Broadway > Amityville, N.Y. > > Info call: (631) 798-0778 > http://www.peacesmiths.org/ > > > Grand Folk Railroad: > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grand-Folk-Railroad/131370943568194 > > -- > David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher > Boog City > 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H > NY, NY 10001-4754 > For event and publication information: > http://welcometoboogcity.com/ > T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) > To subscribe free to The December Podcast: > http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=343169880 > For music from Gilmore boys: > http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 15:29:12 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sarah Rosenthal Subject: Sat 11/13: Gala Launch for A Community: #2 of 2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You are invited to the 2nd of 2 Gala Launches for: A Community Writing Itself:=20 Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area Edited by Sarah Rosenthal (Dalkey Achive, 2010) When: Saturday November 13, 2010 =E2=80=93 7:30pm Where:=20 Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street (above Sutter)=20 Hosted by the San Francisco Poetry Center=20 Who: Stephen Ratcliffe Elizabeth Robinson Juliana Spahr Truong Tran Sarah Rosenthal Sarah Anne Cox reading for Barbara Guest What: Readings by authors featured in the book followed by Q&A* Wine, nonalcoholic beverages, desserts=20 $10; no one turned away for lack of funds Free to SFSU students & Poetry Center members http://www.acommunitywritingitself.com=20 *You are invited to bring your own questions for Stephen, Elizabeth, Julian= a, and Truong about any aspect of their work. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 23:35:42 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gloria Mindock Subject: Cervena Barva Press November, 2010 Newsletter Has Posted MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The November, 2010 Cervena Barva Press Newsletter is now online.=20 Check it out at:=C2=A0=20 http://www.cervenabarvapress.com/newsletter.htm=20 Thank You.=20 Gloria Mindock, Editor & Publisher=20 midwesternglo@comcast.net=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:59:56 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Anny Ballardini Subject: Re: The Poets' Corner - an update In-Reply-To: <1288579395.1448.3.camel@chris-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks Chris, Anny On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > Anny, at this rate you may need to rename it; poets' world.... > > It is getting to be an impressive collection, or it would be more > precise to say has long passed this description; best cj > > > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 16:08 +0200, Anny Ballardini wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > > > > > The present update is dedicated to My Father. To the contributors, my > > very > > special acknowledgment. > -- > have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog wei= rd > > just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones. > > Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/ > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > --=20 Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3Dpoetshome http://www.lulu.com/content/5806078 http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! Friedrich Nietzsche =AB Stulta est clementia, cum tot ubique vatibus occurras, periturae parcere chartae =BB Giovenale =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:19:01 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Wanda Phipps Subject: REMINDER OF NYFA BOOT CAMP ARTS FESTIVAL READING MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey: Just sending this reminder if you are in town for the first of the NYFA Boo= t Camp Arts Festival readings I will be participating in--also my birthday this weekend--woohoo! I hope you can join me to celebrate--spread the word= : *POETRY READING: =93In Abundance,=94 at The Bowery Poetry Club* *Fri, Nov 5; 6:00 =96 7:00pm; $5 at the door* Location: The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (foot of 1st Street, b/w Houston and Bleecker) Subway: F to 2nd Ave; 6 to Bleecker St Poets Wanda Phipps and Liliana Almendarez (also a playwright), both graduates of the NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp, read from their work. Almendarez offers both new poems and pieces from her book, A Scorched Page (lulu.com). Phipps reads from Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press), Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire (BlazeVOX[books]) and Silen= t Pictures Recognize the World, a collection-in-process. Guitarist Stephen B. Antonakos, Phipps=92s frequent collaborator, accompanies her with original compositions. =93In Abundance,=94 the presentation=92s name, connotes the w= ell of energy and inspiration that the poets call on to create their work. (Ms. Phipps and Ms. Almendarez read again on November 13 at 7pm at Launchpad in Brooklyn). *Part of the New York Foundation for the Arts=92 =93NYFA Boot Camp Arts Festival=94 (Nov 4 - 20), a showcase of work by 38 visual artists, filmmake= rs, musicians, choreographers, and authors. For a complete program schedule visit http://nyfabootcampfestival.wordpress.com/* --=20 Wanda Phipps Check out my websites: http://mindhoney.com and http://www.myspace.com/wandaphippsband My latest book of poetry Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire available at: http://www.blazevox.org/bk-wp.htm And my 1st full-length book of poems Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems available (print and Kindle editions) at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193236031X/ref=3Drm_item =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:25:43 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "-- http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/q=". Rest of header flushed. From: amy king Subject: Poetry Society of America - Q & A Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Q&A with me here =0A-- http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/q= a_american_poetry/page_57/=0A=0A=0A=0AA few others in the PSA American Poet= ry series: =0A http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/qa_americ= an_poetry/ =0A=0A2010=0ATimothy Liu=0AAmy King=0AMarcella Durand=0ASarah G= ambito=0AAllison Hedge Coke=0AKazim Ali=0AErin Belieu=0AMaria Melendez=0AKe= n Chen=0AAna Bo=C5=BEi=C4=8Devi=C4=87=0AElizabeth Robinson=0ATina Chang=0AB= rian Teare=0ABarbara Jane Reyes=0ASeth Abramson=0AJill Alexander Essbaum=0A= Jibade-Khalil Huffman=0AGraham Foust=0ASharon Mesmer=0AJoshua Corey=0AGabri= elle Calvocoressi=0AAda Limon=0AJennifer Scappettone=0ACate Marvin=0A1999= =0ABob Holman=0AGail Mazur=0ADara Wier=0AHal Sirowitz=0ACampbell McGrath=0A= Carl Dennis=0AColette Inez=0AEleanor Wilner=0AMiller Williams=0AAndrea Holl= ander Budy=0AAnne Stevenson=0AArthur Vogelsang=0AJames Cummins=0ACharles Ma= rtin=0ADiane Wakoski=0ACarolyn Kizer=0ACarol Muske-Dukes=0ADenise Duhamel= =0AX. J. Kennedy=0ASuzanne Gardinier=0AJacqueline Osherow=0AJosephine Jacob= sen=0AFrank Lima=0AKaren Swenson=0ALawrence Joseph=0ALynn Emanuel=0ARachel = Hadas=0AVicky Karp=0AAnselm Hollo=0AFrank Bidart=0AThom Gunn=0AAnn Lauterba= ch=0AMarilyn Hacker=0ASusan Wheeler=0ARika Lesser=0AGrace Schulman=0AMarily= n Chin=0AAndrei Codrescu=0ASam Hamill=0AHarvey Shapiro=0AHenri Cole=0AMicha= el S. Harper=0AElizabeth Macklin=0ANaomi Shihab Nye=0AWanda Coleman=0ARon S= illiman=0AAngela Jackson=0AMark Doty=0APaul Hoover=0AKenneth Koch=0ASandra = M. Gilbert=0AMaxine Kumin=0AAmy Gerstler=0ARichard Wilbur=0AElaine Equi=0A-= - =0A*********=0AVIDA: Women in Literary Arts=0A+ Interviews=0A=0AAmy's Al= ias=0A+ http://amyking.org/ =0A********=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:32:12 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: New Downloads from Xerox Sutra Editions Comments: To: spidertangle@yahoogroups.com, fluxlist@yahoogroups.com, British & Irish poets MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Geraldine Monk / Alan Halsey Broadside for reading in Madison, WI October 23, 2010 http://www.scribd.com/doc/40806527/Geraldine-Monk-Alan-Halsey-Broadside-for-reading-in-Madison-WI-October-23-2010 Mesostics for Dick Higgins by mIEKAL aND http://www.scribd.com/doc/40201627/Mesostics-for-Dick-Higgins-by-mIEKAL-aND Fluxonyms by Elizabeth Was & mIEKAL aND http://www.scribd.com/doc/39302931/Fluxonyms-by-Elizabeth-Was-mIEKAL-aND Advancience Snakespeared by mIEKAL aND http://www.scribd.com/doc/38608506/Advancience-Snakespeared-by-mIEKAL-aND ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:50:17 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cara Benson Subject: bummed about politics? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sunday, Nov 7th @ 4pm: Hi-Density Polit= Yes! Reading understands.=0A=0ASunday, Nov 7th @ 4pm:=0A=0AHi-Density Polit= ics (BlazeVOX, 2010) author Tomas Urayo=E1n Noel =0Aand David Mills "The Dr= eam Detective" will bring it. =0A=0AGo here for bios, poem samples:=0Ahttp:= //yesreading.wordpress.com/=0A=0AOn Sunday, if in Albany, NY, go here:=0ASo= cial Justice Center=0A33 Central Avenue=0A4pm - yep, afternoon doings.=0A= =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:38:50 -0400 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: a little interview with me, here; http://greyborders.blogspot.com/2010/11/grey-borders-reading-series-q-with-rob.html rob -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 11:45:31 -0700 Reply-To: matvei yankelevich Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: matvei yankelevich Subject: Fw: Dragomoshchenko, Thursday, 7:30 Comments: To: poetics cuny , Princeton Poetics Symposium MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am very happy to invite you this Thursday to a really= Dear Friends, =0A=0AI am very happy to invite you this Thursday to a really= special reading and =0Around-table discussion with Arkadii Dragomoshchenk= o from St Petersburg. The =0Aevent will be held at Columbia Univ's MFA bui= lding (Dodge Hall). It is free and =0Awill be followed by a small receptio= n, wine, book sales, signings and great =0Aconversation. The details are b= elow. Sincerely hoping to see you there,=0A-Matvei=0A=0A=0A =0A=0ABLURRING= BOUNDARIES:=0AARKADII DRAGOMOSHCHENKO IN CONVERSATION=0A =0A=0AThursday, = Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. Columbia University Dodge Hall, Room =0A501 = 2960 Broadway, New York City=0A=0AArkadii Dragomoshchenko, one of Russia= =E2=80=99s foremost poets, will discuss his work =0Aas a poet and a prose-= writer in the context of late Soviet history, the current =0Apost-Soviet s= ituation, and connections between Russian and American literature. =0AHe w= ill be joined by Charles Bernstein, Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich,= =0Aand his translators Thomas Epstein and Genya Turovskaya. Additionally, = =0ADragomoshchenko and his translators will read from his previous books an= d a =0Aforthcoming collection.=0A=0ACo-sponsored by the Creative Writing P= rogram at Columbia University=E2=80=99s School of =0Athe Arts,The Columbia= Department of English and Comparative Literature,The =0APoetry Society of= America, Ugly Duckling Presse, and Dalkey Archive Press.=0A=0A=0AArkadii = Dragomoshchenko=E2=80=99s work in English translation includes two books of= =0Apoetry (Description and Xenia, both translated by Lyn Hejinian and publ= ished by =0ASun & Moon) a novel (Chinese Sun, Ugly Duckling Presse 2005) an= d a book of prose =0Aand essays (Dust, Dalkey Archive, 2009). Born in Pots= dam in 1946 and raised in =0AVinitsa in Ukraine, Dragomoshchenko lives in = St. Petersburg where he writes for =0Aseveral cultural journals.=0A=0AChar= les Bernstein is the author of All the Whiskey in Heaven, published by =0A= Farrar, Strauss and Giroux in Spring 2010. After many years of teaching in= the =0APoetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo, Bernstein currently holds the Don= ald T. Regan =0AChair in the Department of English at the University of Pe= nnsylvania. =0A=0AThomas Epstein is a specialist in contemporary Russian li= terature. His most =0Arecent publications are articles on Russian poets Leo= nid Aronzon (Wiener =0ASlawistischer Almanakh, #63) and Elena Shvarts (Novo= e Literaturnoe Obozrenie, =0A#102) and translations of Aleksandr Skidan, Dm= itri Golynko, Sergei Zavyalov =0A(Aufgabe, #8), and of Elena Shvarts (New A= rcadia Review, #4). He is a professor =0Aof Humanities and Russian Literatu= re at Boston College.=0A=0AEuegene Ostashevsky is the author of two books p= oetry, The Life and Opinions of =0ADJ Spinoza and Iterature (both from Ugly= Duckling Presse). He is the editor and =0Aco-translator of OBERIU: An Anth= ology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern Univ. =0APress) and of Dmitry Goly= nko=E2=80=99s As It Turned Out (UDP). His work has appeared in =0ABest Amer= ican Poetry, and in many magazines including Jubilat, Boston Review, =0Aand= Fence. He teaches at New York University.=0A=0AGenya Turovskaya is the co-= translator of two books of contemporary Russian =0Apoetry, both from Ugly D= uckling Presse: Red Shifting by Aleksandr Skidan, and =0AThe Russian Versio= n by Elena Fanailova, which won the Best Translated Book Award =0Afor poetr= y. Her work has appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Aufgabe, =0AOctop= us, and other magazines. She is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: =0AC= alendar (UDP) and The Tides (Octopus).=0A=0AMatvei Yankelevich is the autho= r of Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books) and =0Atranslator of Today I Wrote No= thing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms =0A(Overlook). He edited the = Contemporary Russian Poetry and Poetics issue of =0AAufgabe (No. 8, 2009).= He teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts =0A(Writing Division= ) and is the editor of the Eastern European Poets Series for =0AUgly Duckl= ing Presse.=0A=0AView PDF press release here:=0Ahttp://www.uglyducklingpres= se.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Dragomoshchenko_event.pdf=0A=0A=0Awww.ugl= yducklingpresse.org/events=0A=0A# # # =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 01:30:51 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: OT/ Two open slots for The Beatles, The White Album Show MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, On Fri., Dec. 17 from 8:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. at Sidewalk Caf=E9, we will =20= be doing another of our classic albums live shows. This time it's our =20= second place finisher from our recent vote, The Beatles The White Album. Below is the slot-by-slot breakdown listing all the acts who will be =20 performing this show. Slots 2 and 9 are open, so, if you're game to =20 play the show, let me know your order of preference as soon as possible. Hope this finds you all swell. as ever, David --------- The Beatles, The White Album --SLOT 1=97 Chris Maher Back in the U.S.S.R. Dear Prudence Glass Onion --SLOT 2-- Open Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Wild Honey Pie The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill While My Guitar Gently Weeps --SLOT 3-- Genan Zilkha Happiness Is a Warm Gun Martha My Dear I'm So Tired --SLOT 4-- Yoko Kikuchi & Kate Wheeler Blackbird Piggies Rocky Raccoon --SLOT 5-- Ben Krieger Don't Pass Me By Why Don't We Do It in the Road? I Will --SLOT 6-- Todd Carlstrom Julia Birthday Yer Blues --SLOT 7-- So L'il Mother Nature's Son Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey Sexy Sadie --SLOT 8-- The Trouble Dolls Helter Skelter Long, Long, Long Revolution 1 --SLOT 9-- Open Honey Pie Savoy Truffle Cry Baby Cry --SLOT 10-- Bob Kerr Revolution 9 Good Night -- David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) To subscribe free to The December Podcast: = http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=3D3431698= 80 For music from Gilmore boys: http://www.myspace.com/gilmoreboysmusic= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 05:55:52 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Penton Subject: Leon De la Rosa, Anne McMillen, New Orleans, Boston, and New York MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Greetings, readers and federal agents assigned to their cases! Soy solo palabras but wish to be a city by León De la Rosa (and illustrated by Gui.ra.ga7) and Monolith by Anne McMillen are now here! But I can't mail them to you yet, because I won't be! Take advantage of my absurd travel plans and order a copy now at http://www.unlikelystories.org/10/delarosamcmillen1010.shtml to get free shipping to the US and Canada! These books will ship around Thanksgiving. Mind, you can get yours before then if you happen to be in New Orleans, Boston, or New York! Because in twelve hours, I'll be hitting the road, and you'll be able to catch Unlikely at seven great events this month! The dates and places are set, though the readers are still subject to change, but you'll find some kind of party at: The New Orleans Bookfair Saturday, November 6 on the 500-600 block of Frenchman Street taking the main stage at 12:45pm with Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Brian Downes, Michael Harold, Michael Parker, and Jonathan Penton McKeown's Books and Difficult Music, New Orleans Sunday, November 7, 6pm 4737 Tchoupitoulas Street with Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Brian Downes, Michael Harold, Michael Parker, and Jonathan Penton A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery, Manhattan Sunday, November 14, 7pm 285 East 3rd St, 2nd Floor (between Avenues C and D) with Anne Ardolino, Bob Castle, Steve Dalachinsky, Deb DeSalvo, Kirpal Gordon, and Donna Snyder Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, Mass. Monday, November 15, 6:30pm 10 Arrow Street with Bill Berry, Luke Buckham, Olivia Kennett, Peter Schwartz, and Donna Snyder Boston University (sponsored by the BU Literary Society) Wednesday, November 17, 7pm with Bill Berry, Luke Buckham, Ric Carfagna, Olivia Kennett, Peter Schwartz, Donna Snyder, and maybe Eric Schwartz too if the control chip in his head works! Unnameable Books, Brooklyn Friday, November 19, 7pm 600 Vanderbilt Ave. with Will Crawford, Joja, Anne McMillen, Tim Millas, and Donna Snyder The Bowery Poetry Club, Manhattan Sunday, November 21, 1pm 308 Bowery with Bill Berry, Steve Dalachinsky, Deb DeSalvo, Kirpal Gordon, Anne McMillen, Tim Millas, Donna Snyder and maybe even Louise Landes Levi -- one can never tell! And hey! I've got a YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/JonathanPenton -- how undignified or awesome or whatever is that? In fact, I bet if you go to places like that and http://www.unlikelystories.org/blog , you'll be able to find out all sorts of socially inappropriate things about this mini-tour as they happen! Or even better -- as I unscrupulously reconstruct them! Or find us on FaceFook -- the least efficient information dissemination system devised yet! Hope to see you soon, -- Jonathan Penton http://www.unlikelystories.org/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:53:12 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Siegell Subject: Splitleaves Press broadsides Jazz Fest poems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Hello, Splitleaves Press has published two poster-sized broadsides of my New Orleans Jazz Fest calligrams: * 05.04.07 =96 New Orleans Jazz Vipers =96 Spotted Cat, NOLA * 05.05.07 =96 Jonathan Freilich, Skerik, Stanton Moore, Todd Sickafoose = & Mike Dillon =96 Chickie Wah Wah, NOLA When you have a moment: http://bit.ly/9J9pml Many thanks, Paul http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:22:54 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ken Chen Subject: Sexy Nerd Party & PAGE TURNER festival this weekend MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://pageturnerfest.org/#sexynerd The Sexy Nerd Party: Page Turner Kick-Off with Fred Ho and Das Racist Featuring drinks, music, dancing and guest appearances by Tao Lin, Richard Price, Lorraine Adams, Nami Mun, Karan Mahajan, and others. Live music by Fred Ho and Das Racist Saturday, November 6, 8-11pm Chambers Fine Arts, 522 West 19th Street, NY, NY $40 entry / $60 for two Sorry, pal. If you're a writer or if you're Asian American, odds are you were once a nerd. Don't be ashamed--you're all grown-up now and besides, thanks to Andre 3000, Tina Fey, and Google, nerd chic is in. So, throw on your most festive attire and stumble over to the swankiest Asian Art gallery in New York, where we'll have drinks and dancing. You can support your favorite nonprofit by gazing shyly at the cute red-haired girl across the room, getting drunk in the presence of writers like*Tao Lin, Richard Price, Lorraine Adams, Nami Mun, and Karan Mahajan,* and dance awkwardly in the corner with your favorite sexy nerd. Featuring jazz legend *Fred Ho* and hip hop ensemble *Das Racist* as musical guests. You bring the sexy, we'll bring the nerd. Admission comes with free sexy nerd glasses. *Online ticket sales close on Friday, November 5 at 6PM.* http://pageturnerfest.org/#pageturner PAGE TURNER: The Asian American Literary Festival Featuring Susan Choi, Tao Lin, Tan Lin, Das Racist, Richard Price, Tim Wu, Henry Chang and others! Sunday, November 7, 11am-6pm Literary Awards Reception 6-7pm powerHouse Books, 37 Main St Brooklyn, NY, NY Hey, let's you and I create the next Asian American intellectual milieu. The Workshop's premiere festival will feature more than twenty writers to create a brainy and eclectic literary space. Hear Richard Price, author of *Lush Life* and *The Wire,* talks shop about the Lower East Side with crime novelist Henry Chang. Marvel at well-known writers reading their best work that got rejected by literary journals. And take a break at our cozy upstairs mezzanine space--we're calling it The Hangout and it's where we'll have Asian American superheroes, drunken scrabble, and more. It all shakes down at the hottest bookstore in New York. Featuring Meena Alexander, Gina Apostol, Henry Chang, Samantha Chanse, Susan Choi, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Luis H. Francia, Sarah Gambito, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Fred Ho, Young-ha Kim, Myung-mi Kim, Hari Kondabolu, Amitava Kumar, Tan Lin, Tao Lin, Jerry Ma, Karan Mahajan, Cate Marvin, Nami Mun, Manijeh Nasrabadi, Wena Poon, Richard Price, Iraj Isaac Rahmim, Bino A. Realuyo, Akhil Sharma, Roger Shimomura, Sung J. Woo, Tim Wu, Jeff Yang, and Monica Youn. See the full schedule here. -- Executive Director, The Asian American Writers' Workshop http://www.aaww.org 110-112 W. 27th Street, Sixth Floor, NY, NY 10001 212.494.0061 tel. 212.494.0062 fax kchen@aaww.org PAGE TURNER: The Asian American Literary Festival http://pageturnerfest.org/ Literary readings: http://www.aaww.org/aaww_events.html Creative Writing Workshops: http://www.aaww.org/events_workshops.html Support Asian American literature: http://www.aaww.org/donate ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 05:07:48 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jesse Glass Subject: Re: Entropy and Books--Descriptons of Favorite Weathered Volumes and Texts In-Reply-To: <<20101101.023042.164.53.skyplums@juno.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A stray tom lightly pissed on my copy of Charles Bukowski's Burning In Water, Drowning in Fire while I was out getting a six-pack of Rolling Rock and a bag of tortilla chips c. 1977. You have to understand that Westminster, Maryland was the kind of place at that time where you didn't have to lock your door, the crime rate was so low. (This has since changed, unfortunately, for a variety of reasons.) In addition to leaving my door unlocked, I left my window open more than a crack because my girlfriend earlier in the day had burnt the T.V. dinners she had diligently been preparing until I walked into the kitchen and she started tearing my clothes off of my broad, hod-carrier's shoulders (yes, I was a hod carrier at that time), in a rush for what eventually became mutual carnal fulfillment. Well, while we were off in the other room doing our best imitations of the illustrations in our dog-eared copy of the Karma Sutra, which she had gotten me for an early Christmas present (and which sported its own interesting stains and creases, but that's another posting), the timer went off on the stove, and we failed--naturally--to hear it. It wasn't until plumes of smoke from the flaming gravy and turkey slices alerted us to the emergency situation in the kitchen, that we gave over feeding our "fleshier flame," rushed into the kitchen and put the fire out with souvenir tumblers (Little Jimmy Dickens had just played at the Civic Center and we wanted to remember our first date) of tap water. It was then that we noticed that we were out of cigarettes, but we also reminded each other (she to me) that we were giving the old coffin nails up. I also commented that we were lacking the latest Sporting News from the Baltimore area tracks (Bowie, Pimlico), but then I reminded both of us that we had given up gambling at the same time that we gave up ritualistic post-coital smoking. Just then the phone rang and my girl friend had to assist her mother stringing beans and boiling pig's feet for the great Methodist revival meeting the following day--which, as you probably guessed--was a Sunday. She kissed me at the door (still smelling of sex and turkey smoke), and I decided it was time to go to the High's at the Westminster Shopping Center. The room was still smoky, so I opened the window to let the country air in. It took me a bit longer to get back than I'd anticipated: I had been somewhat indecisive in deciding which beer to get--National Bo, or Rolling Rock. I decided after some minutes of ear-pulling that Rolling Rock was cheaper, and more aesthetically pleasing, I might add, in its green "pony" bottles. That final, more spiritual point, was the clincher of the decision. When I came back to my apartment and turned on the lights, I surprised a thin tabby tom cat in the midst of eating the TV dinners from my trash can. When it saw me it leaped back to the windowsill and out. I made a thorough check of every room, but did not discover anything untoward until about a week later, when I noticed in the living room corner that a stack of books there displayed evidence of being micturated upon. The top book on the stack--the Bukowski--suffered the worst damage. The cat urine had soaked into and through the thick and attractive paper cover that Black Sparrow editions feature. My girlfriend (let's call her "Nell") was a rather religious young lady, and I believe that she had been thumbing through the book and had placed it, face-down, on the top of the stack when she heard me return. (I hear she later married a Baptist minister who holds forth on the local cable open access station and has developed something of a following). Or at least I suspect so, as "Nell" would have been the only person to go browsing through my books at the time. I found that the urine had completely dried and the pages--including the "about the author" with a youngish Bukowski doing an imitation of Jack Kerouac (or Jack London?) jumping a freight train, and which also included the staggering information that Bukowski was much more popular in Germany than in California--were adhering together and exhibited the same waviness that one expects in ordinary water damage. This damage was amplified and compounded in the severely damaged section by the brownish-yellow Elmer's glue "slab-like"concretion of pages for a full eighth of an inch. As I gingerly began to pull these pages apart I noticed a slight unmeshing sound, as if tiny Velcro patches were being separated. With each light tug, a cloud of dried urine arose, pungent, palpable, and clearly visible in the slant of sunlight in which I was working. I'm happy to record that the rest of the book did not suffer such severe damage, but the dried cat urine had thickened and discolored the spine to such an extent that any attempt at reading would expose a stain of a good quarter of each page running "up" and at a diagonal from the gutter to the opposite (upper) right angle of each page. Some of the pages displayed a brownish translucency due to the chemical action of the cat piss that allowed one to almost see "through" one of the texts and into and through the next. However, this only applied in the case of one or two signatures. For the most part, the staining grew lighter and less invasive as one proceeded through the volume from front to back, and on the title page disappeared entirely. On 10/31/2010, "steve dalachinsky" wrote: >Sat., Nov. 13 Reading at the Locust Valley Library Poetry Society > >2:00 pm, 170 Buckram Road, Locust Valley, NY, Free > >Marie-Elizabeth Mali and Steve Dalachinsky will read, followed by an >open mic. > > >Funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from the NY >State Council on the Arts. Hosted by Mankh, poet, essayist and small >press publisher. > >Directions: Train: LIRR to Locust Valley Station, take taxi to the >library. >Driving: Take the L.I.Expressway to Glen Cove Road, exit 39N. Go north on >Glen Cove Road to end. Turn right onto Brewster Street. Brewster becomes >Forest Ave. >and then becomes Buckram Road after 13 traffic lights. Library is on the >right past the tennis courts. > >For more information, contact Mankh. mankh@allbook-books.com >__________________________________________________________ > >and nov 17 8 pm living theater with IRA COHEN JUDITH MALINA Valery >Ouisteaneu Alan Graubard and others >On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:17:46 -0400 Mark Weiss >writes: >> Jesse: You seem to be rehearsing bits for an >> essay or memoir, and a good one it will be. >> Though maybe you should be more careful with your books. >> >> At least i had the excuse in the following of >> being out of my mind on LSD. I had been left >> alone for what proved to be a very long night in >> a house I'd never been in before. The room they >> gave me had purple walls and dim light and the >> momentos of a woman of questionable sanity. So I >> was pretty freaked. And the only companion I had >> was a copy of the paperback of Duncan's The >> Opening of the Field, which I was getting to know >> for the first time. This would be 1969, I think. >> I couldn't put it down. Hard to read, because the >> perspective kept changing, and the color of the >> letters, which seemed to dance to the rhythm of >> the verse, but it was a safer space than the dark >> corners that I was sure were inhabited. I >> annotated it copiously (I almost never write in >> books), which took some determination, because >> the pencil kept bending in my hand. I couldn't >> put it down, which is why I had it with me, open, >> when I got up to pee, and it slipped out of my >> hands and into the drink. Horrified, I rescued it >> and patted it dry as best I could. It was a >> little rank for a while, but I still have it. >> It's a pretty trippy book, and Duncan was known >> to indulge, but he was more disciplined than I >> was, and my notations, those that are legible, >> are more yawps than commentary, with a few strange neologisms. >> >> That was very good acid. And it occurs to me now that if I sucked >> the pages... >> >> Best, >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> At 09:55 PM 10/30/2010, you wrote: >> >I dropped a copy of Jack Spicer's early poems into a glowing ash >> pit >> >without at first realizing that I had done so due to the waves of >> horror >> >and revulsion that repeatedly swept over me one early June morning >> in >> >Maryland. The scene was a tragic one: a barn that had once housed >> >several dozen sheep had been burnt to the ground with the sheep >> still >> >inside--the carcasses of which, with wool pelt intact--remained >> >scattered among the smoking timbers. The fire engines had just >> left, >> >but several State Troopers were still collecting evidence, and the >> >general consensus was that it was almost certainly arson. I had >> been >> >reading the SPICER TEXT by flashlight, as the sun had not risen >> yet, but >> >found that the combined car headlights, flashing gumball machines >> atop >> >the cars of the troopers, and abrupt illuminations from the flash >> units >> >of the reporters' cameras (remember, this was way back in the days >> >before digital), not to mention the steady-state flickerings of >> the >> >charred and clinkered upper walls and fallen ceilings of the barn >> >provided enough ambient light that I could put away my flashlight >> with >> >no qualms about the safety of my eyesight. Indeed, by this >> flickering >> >light, the early poems seemed to possess a strength and beauty that >> I >> >had not noticed in the amber light of my electric lit room. I >> stood >> >with the book held loosely in my left hand (bad mistake!), when an >> old >> >college friend, whom I hadn't seen in years, chose that particular >> >moment to tap me on the shoulder. I was startled from my >> >grief-stricken-transience-of-all-earthly-things-pose, and whirled >> about, >> >only to be greeted by the somewhat glowing teeth and silhouette of >> my >> >old friend, who quickly announced his name (WHICH SHALL NOT BE >> GIVEN >> >HERE), to preclude any further signs of panic on my part. He was >> too >> >later, however, as the volume was spun from my grip and tumbled >> into the >> >ashes, sending a sneeze-pattern cloud of firefly-like POINTS OF >> >LIGHT--perhaps 1000 of them into the Republican sky! Cheered on by >> the >> >voice of my friend, I located a stick and scraped the volume >> towards us, >> >though it had already TAKEN FIRE with an almost supernal beauty of >> >orange and copper-colored flames. Finally, I could reach under >> the >> >crime-scene tape and rake the book onto the wet grass. I stepped >> on the >> >book 20 times or so to transmogrify the magnetic flames into a >> drizzle >> >of smoke. Then, borrowing my friend's handkerchief, I lifted the >> >volume into the rays of the barely risen sun to inspect the damage. >> All >> >of the front matter had been craggily carbonized, up to about page >> 25 >> >(if I recall correctly), and was missing due to the repeated >> application >> >of my steel-toed work shoe. However, the latter half of the >> volume, >> >though partially carbonized and truncated by the action of the >> flames, >> >was still legible, though brittle, and as I attempted to read the >> TEXT, >> >noting here and there the various modifications of form (and >> >consequently of meaning) I could see that my fingertips and the >> upper >> >joints of my fingers, had turned black (almost to blueness) with >> the >> >charred leavings of the lower portions of the pages and binding. >> >Sensing the sudden change in mood of my friend from the solemnity >> of a >> >shared grief to a barely repressed hilarity bursting to be >> expressed in >> >the mutton-fragrant air, I pulled the remaining pages apart and >> >mentioned to my friend, how the book looked for all the world like >> >something to be deposited in the trash bin. And later, after >> sketching >> >the literary remains in my journal to make sure that I had taken >> >sufficient notice of every part--it was. Jess >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >On 10/29/2010, "Jesse Glass" wrote: >> > >> > >I accidentally dropped a copy of Kenneth Rexroth's Collected >> Longer >> > >Poems into an old "botton" latrine-style, Japanese toilet when I >> lived >> > >in Nagasaki Prefecture back in the early 90's. Fortunately, the >> book >> > >did not sink right away, but slowly listed to the side in the >> emerald >> > >green antiseptic and deodorizing solution in the tank, while >> Kenneth's >> > >eyes staring woefully up through the lapping green waves. It >> took about >> > >30 minutes to wrangle the volume up with a fish hook and ten feet >> of >> > >nylon line borrowed from a neighboring fisherman. The solution >> had dyed >> > >the pages a delightful color, though the photograph on the cover >> was >> > >relatively unchanged and continued to present that old, cunning >> > >gentleman, in a manner that might have elicited a comment from >> Susan >> > >Sontag regarding the uncanny in photography had she been standing >> beside >> > >me. The sun was barely out that day, but I deposited the book on >> the >> > >back step of my one-room country "mansion" where it drew a few >> hopeful >> > >flies and an ant. Jess >> > > >> > >On 10/21/2010, "Crane's Bill Books" >> wrote: >> > > >> > >>Jesse, >> > >>In New Mexico the glue used in bindings sometimes dries out and >> turns to >> > >>dust so that a book comes apart in your hands. >> > >>I have some topo maps with wonderful, meandering trails eaten >> into them by >> > >>insects. >> > >>A few years ago the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe did >> a show not >> > >>of environmentally damaged books but of library books that had >> been >> > >>vandalized because of their lesbian/gay >> > content. A group of artists salvaged >> > >>them and turned them into sculptural artists' books and other >> kinds of >> > >>artworks. Quite moving. >> > >>Jeffrey >> > >> >> > >>----- Original Message ----- >> > >>From: "Jesse Glass" >> > >>To: >> > >>Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 9:54 PM >> > >>Subject: Entropy and Books--Descriptons of Favorite Weathered >> Volumes and >> > >>Texts >> > >> >> > >> >> > >>> It would be great to share some descriptions of the tango >> between your >> > >>> favorite volume(s) and the environment where you are. Japan >> is >> > >>> notorious for its foxing frenzies--most of my books have tiny >> black and >> > >>> brown threads colonizing the tooth of the paper and >> lichen-like spoors >> > >>> notching away at the typographic landscapes of what I read. I >> have two >> > >>> notebooks form the 1980's that are crammed full of writing, >> scribbling >> > >>> out, worthless phone numbers, torn, dog-eared and foxed pages, >> pages >> > >>> rotting, onion skin-like, sun-burnt, spat-upon, maggot-bitten >> and >> > >>> palimpsested with white-out and bic reworkings, rain-tortured >> into >> > >>> rivulets of ink charging crookedly down the cheek of the page >> from black >> > >>> to blue to gray like the tears of a miraculous icon in a sooty >> corner of >> > >>> some yellow-walled church where nobody goes but the >> toothless, >> > >>> squint-eyed, and terminal; books falling to pieces and >> stinking of >> > >>> ancient sex and Lucky Strikes, and years spent in old winter >> coats for >> > >>> sale in the bargain bins of the Purple Heart and the Salvation >> Army. >> > >>> These are the kinds of books that excite my imagination >> because those >> > >>> old Complete Poes and The Poems of Robert Service tortured >> into >> > >>> ghostlier shapes, rain-warped into counterweights for mobiles >> and >> > >>> stabiles invites my Twombly and Rothco appreciation centers >> to >> > >>> re-activate, and these are located close to the endorphin >> sluices of my >> > >>> innermost and most secret self and jam them open, or at least >> tickle the >> > >>> hell out of them so that my tongue thrusts out to lick the >> plaster on >> > >>> the wall in joy. >> > >>> >> > >>> Your descriptions solicited! Jess >> > >>> >> > >>> ================================== >> > >>> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. >> Check >> > >>> guidelines & sub/unsub info: >> http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >>================================== >> > >>The Poetics List is moderated & does not >> > accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub >> > info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> > >> >> > > >> > >================================== >> > >The Poetics List is moderated & does not >> > accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub >> > info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> > > >> > >> >================================== >> >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept >> >all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: >> >http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> >> >> >> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape. >> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm >> >> >> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a >> lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the >> poet alive in every sense of the word, and >> through every one of his senses. Instead of >> missing a beat or a part, Weiss$B!G(B fragments are >> like Chekhov$B!G(Bs short stories­the more that gets >> left out, the more they seem to contain$B!D(B One can >> hear echoes from all the various >> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its >> core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment >> is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure >> musical threnody$B!D(B[it] opens a window, not only >> into a mind, but a person, a personality, this >> human figure at the emotional center of the poem." >> >> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket. >> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml >> >> ================================== >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >> guidelines & sub/unsub info: >> http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> >> > >================================== >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:26:39 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Patrick F. Durgin" Subject: Poets Theater in Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Kenning Editions , Oracle Productions , and Poetry Magazine are proud to announce a special collaboration that will give six local poets 48 hours to devise a program of Poets Theater, accompanied by a panel discussion with Chicago-based poets, playwrights, and critics, plus a talkback and a book launch for /*The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945-1985*/, edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. The six poets will first meet, devise and rehearse on Saturday, December 4, and present their work on Sunday, December 5, at Oracle Theatre, 3809 N. Broadway in Chicago. Sunday's panel discussion begins at 6:00 PM and the performance follows at 7:30. Talkback and book party follow immediately. Admission is free and open to the public in Oracle's *Public Access Theatre*. Reservations are strongly recommended and can be made at www. oracletheatre.org. Although poetry and drama have been kin from Sophocles to Shakespeare, Milton, Stein and Baraka, Poets Theater has remained an opportunely loose form, often liberating poets or playwrights from proprietary impulses. Poets Theater has migrated between the mainstage and parlor affairs. It has built a secret history for itself, from the alternate Noh tradition of the Cambridge Poets Theatre of the 1950s to Leslie Scalapino's appropriation of thematic and formal registers of the Elizabethan theater; the Living Theatre's productions of Greek tragedy to the adjudications of identity and community values after the counter-culture: El Teatro Campesino, Black Arts theater, and the conceptualist performance of Adrian Piper or Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, for example. Interest in poets theater can be glimpsed in recent festivals, journals, one-off productions, and anthologies. One of the latter, /*The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945-1985 */presents the occasion for a Chicago-centric Poets Theater experiment. On Saturday, December 4, six local poets begin work together at Oracle, each with a copy of the anthology, some technical support, and about 48 hours, in which time they will conceive, rehearse, and perform a program of Poets Theater. A unique experiment in how the theater space and fundamental conventions of drama serve as studio to poets of various aesthetics, imposing as little premeditation as possible, who knows if a new play will be written, old ones compiled or mashed up? On Sunday, December 5, Kenning Editions, Oracle Productions, and Poetry Magazine host a roundtable event and talkback to complement the performance, featuring participants from the performance, poetry, and theater communities of Chicago. The roundtable will serve as an introduction to and a conversation on Poets Theater as a genre. The post-show talkback will facilitate a response to the evening's performance specifically, allowing the poets/performers to answer audience questions and comment on their experience as an ensemble. The evening concludes with a launch for the anthology with food, drink, and informalities of all kinds. *_SCHEDULE OF EVENTS | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5_ 6:00 PM - Roundtable Discussion featuring John Beer, Jen Karmin, Ruth Margraff, Don Share. Moderated by Patrick Durgin, publisher of Kenning Editions, and Valerie Johnson, Managing Editor of Poetry Magazine 7:30 PM - Performance and Talkback featuring Daniel Borzutsky, Duriel Harris, John Keene, Jacob Saenz, Leila Wilson, Tim Yu. All events hosted at Oracle Theatre, 3809 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60613. Admission is free. ADA accessible. Phone: 252-220-0269 or visit www.oracletheatre.org . _PARTICIPANT BIOS_* *John Beer* is the author of /*The Waste Land and Other Poems */(Canarium, 2010). He has curated a poet's theater showcase at Links Hall in Chicago, directed Robert Duncan's /*Medea at Kolchis*/, and is editing a special section on poet's theater for *Jacket*. He is a staff theater writer at *Time Out Chicago*. *Daniel Borzutzky *is the author of /*The Book of Interfering Bodies */(Nightboat, 2011); /*The Ecstasy of Capitulation */(BlazeVox, 2007); and /*Arbitrary Tales */(Triple Press, 2005). He is the translator of Raul Zurita's /*Song for his Disappeared Love */(Action Books, 2010) and Jaime Luis Huenún's /*Port Trakl* /(Action Books, 2008). *Duriel E. Harris* is a co-founder of Black Took Collective and a member of Douglas Ewart & Inventions free jazz ensemble. Extending the multivocal experiments of /*Drag*/ (Elixir Press, 2003), she is currently at work on the AMNESIAC media art project. Her collection /*Amnesiac: Poems */is being released by Sheep Meadow Press this fall. *Jennifer Karmin's *multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her text-sound epic, /*Aaaaaaaaaaalice*/, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. *John Keene* is the author of /*Annotations*/ (New Directions) and, with artist Christopher Stackhouse, of /*Seismosis*/ (1913 Press). He teaches at Northwestern University. *Ruth Margraff *is a playwright, librettist, lyricist, and performer. Her writing has been developed and produced internationally, notably in such venues as The Guggenheim Museum and Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The recipient of four Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts commissions, among other honors and awards, she is currently Associate Professor of Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. *Jacob Saenz* is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. His work has appeared in *Columbia Poetry Review, Inkstains, OCHO, Poetry *and other journals. He works at a library and is an associate editor for *RHINO*. *Don Share* is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine. His books include /*Squandermania*/ (Salt Publishing), /*Union*/ (Zoo Press), and the forthcoming titles /*Wishbone*/ (Black Sparrow); a critical edition of Basil Bunting's poems (Faber and Faber); and /*Bunting's Persia */(Flood Editions). He has been Poetry Editor of *Harvard Review *and* Partisan Review*, Editor of *Literary Imagination*, and curator of poetry at Harvard University. *Leila Wilson's /The Hundred Grasses /*is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2011. Her poems have appeared in *A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, Poetry, The Canary*, and elsewhere. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute. *Timothy Yu* is the author of a chapbook, /*Journey to the West */(Barrow Street), winner of the Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize from Kundiman, and the critical book /*Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 */(Stanford University Press). He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A celebration of poets theatre is a perfect complement to Oracle's Public Access Theatre, which keeps admission free to the public through sponsorships and fundraising efforts. Retrofitting the model of public broadcasting and churches, Oracle is a public arts organization that provides cultural services to the community free of charge. The current mainstage season of plays explores classic poetic works, including Lorca's /*BLOOD WEDDING*/ (through November 20), Buchner's */WOYZECK/* (opening March 19, 2011), and Euripides' /*BACCHAE*/ (opening June 4). Among the poets featured in Kenning Editions' /*THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER: 1945-1985 */are John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Gregory Corso, Helen Adam, Anne Waldman, Hannah Weiner, Sonia Sanchez, Carla Harryman, Charles Bernstein, and Leslie Scalapino. Also included are previously unpublished plays by Jack Spicer, V.R. "Bunny" Lang, and Diane di Prima. Rounding out the book are contemporary classics, such as LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's /*Dutchman*/ and Kathy Acker's /*The Birth of the Poet*/. It is the first major anthology of poets theater. The Poetry Foundation , publisher of Poetry magazine , is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. Upon receipt of a major gift from philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the Poetry Foundation was established in 2003, evolving from the Modern Poetry Association, which was founded in 1941. The Poetry Foundation is one of the largest literary foundations in the world. www.kenningeditions.com www.oracletheatre.org www.poetryfoundation.org ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:43:11 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Al Filreis Subject: PoemTalk #37 on Osman's 9/11 poem Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Today we've released episode 37 of the PoemTalk series, a discussion of Jena Osman's "Dropping Leaflets" featuring Mark Nowak, Emily Abendroth and Jessica Lowenthal. http://poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com/ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ PoemTalk is also available on iTunes: just type "PoemTalk" in the searchbox of your iTunes music store. Al Filreis http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:22:43 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Call & Response Sonic Art Residency. In-Reply-To: <4CD3D1F3.9010800@furtherfield.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Call & Response Sonic Art Residency. Call & Response is an independent sonic arts collective, serving as a focus for sound arts practice in London. Our aim is to provide an artist run spac= e for the exhibition and performance of sonic artworks, reflecting the emerging interest in the use of the auditory in contemporary art. You are invited to a four-day sonic art residency at the James Taylor Gallery, Hackney. An immersive listening environment located in an expansiv= e Victorian factory in East London. Free entry. --- 12-6pm, 4th-7th Nov ...We'll be presenting multi-channel works by Kaffe Matthews (Annette Works) Robert Van Heumen (STEIM) Jo Thomas (En'Tracte) Jacob Kirkegaard (Touch) Dawn Scarfe Ralph Steinbr=FCchel (12k) Eric La Casa (Room 40) Mick Grierson (EMS) Tom Slater John Levack Drever (EMS) Lawrence Upton Jeremy Keenan These will be on rotation from 12-6pm, 4th-7th November and entry is free throughout. For full details of the programme check our website. --- 7-11pm, 5th Nov An evening of international performers utilising our 8.1 surround sound system on the evening of Friday 5th November. A-R-A-R (UK) Homemade electronics duo Vasco Alvo and Louie Rice, on AM/FM Keyboard and Tone Generator. Andre Avelas (PT) Presenting a performless solo generated by musical automata. Brian Mckenna (CA) Performing an audiovisual work using feedback and harmonic distortion. Adam Asnan (UK) Presenting a 12 channel work utilising mobile cassette players. Kaffe Matthews (UK) Performing a live multi-channel piece. Tickets will be available on the door and in advance (=A36/=A34), check our website for details. --- 4:30-6pm, 6th Nov 'Sound is Promiscuous' In conjunction with the exhibition and performances, Call & Response is proud to present a talk around the act of listening, particularly locating sound as a spatial concern and contesting its power of representation in contemporary society. Joining us in the discussion are curator Cecilia Wee, and three of the exhibiting artists =97 Lawrence Upton, Dawn Scarfe and Tom Slater. The titl= e of the talk, Sound is Promiscuous, is taken from Brandon Labelle's analysis of auditory life and sound culture in Acoustic Territories. --- http://callandresponse.org.uk/ http://www.jtg.org.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:51:31 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "St. Thomasino" Subject: Ethnopoetics and The Audacity of Pigeons at The Postmodern Romantic Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Ethnopoetics and The Audacity of Pigeons at The Postmodern Romantic http://thepostmodernromantic.blogspot.com/2010/11/poets-mechanicity.html (This is a new sentence.) Is the sentence the new lyric? ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:01:10 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Robert Creeley and Francesco Clemente Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit http://www.2river.org/2RView/2_2/poems/creeley6.html read this now then read some more creeley then write ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 04:21:56 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: NYC readings: Nov 8 & 9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8th @ 8pm ******************************* Brandon Shimoda & Jennifer Karmin with guest performers Cara Benson, Claire Donato, Thom Donovan, Curtis Jensen, Pierre Joris, Michael Leong, and Ronaldo Wilson at The Poetry Project 131 E. 10th Street admission $8 students & seniors $7 http://poetryproject.org BRANDON SHIMODA was born on the west coast of the United States, and has since lived in nine states and five countries. His collaborations, drawings and writings have appeared in print, online, on vinyl and on walls. Recent books include The Alps (Flim Forum Press, 2008), The Inland Sea (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008), Lake M (Corollary Press, 2010) and The Bowling (Greying Ghost Press, 2010), a collaboration with Sommer Browning. He is currently on the road, and lives nowhere. JENNIFER KARMIN, in a polyvocal improvisation with seven NYC writers, will perform a selection of cantos from Aaaaaaaaaaalice, published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. Karmin curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. In Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools. CARA BENSON is author of a book of interconnected pre-elegiac texts for plants animals humans and earth called (made). She teaches in a NY State prison. CLAIRE DONATO lives in Brooklyn, NY and received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Recent poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Octopus and Action Yes. THOM DONOVAN edits Wild Horses Of Fire weblog, now in its 6th year!, and coedits ON Contemporary Practice. He is an ongoing participant in the Nonsite Collective and the Project on the Commons. CURTIS JENSEN's work has appeared in Try!, the Sugar House Review, Precipitate and The Equalizer. Previous to Brooklyn, he has lived and worked in Utah, Wyoming, and Ukraine. He maintains a blog at theendofwaste.blogspot.com PIERRE JORIS is a poet, translator, essayist & anthologist. He has published over forty books, most recently Aljibar II (poems) and Justifying the Margins (essays). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited the award-winning anthologies Poems for the Millennium. "MICHAEL LEONG" is an anagram of "helical gnome"; he is the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry including e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009), Midnight's Marsupium (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010), and Cutting Time with a Knife (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail, forthcoming). RONALDO V WILSON's Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man, won the 2007 Cave Canem Prize, and Poems of the Black Object, the 2010 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9th @ 6:30pm *********************************** The Brooklyn Rail / Amelia Earhart Series presents Allison Power & Jennifer Karmin with collaborator David Emanuel at Zebulon 258 Wythe Avenue Williamsburg, NY between 1st St & 3rd St near to Bedford Ave (L) http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com ALLISON POWER is an editor for Rizzoli Publications and edits the poetry journal MAGGY. Her chapbook, YOU AMERICANS, was published by Green Zone Editions in 2008. Her poems have appeared in Post Road, Pax Americana, The Best American Poetry Blog, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others. JENNIFER KARMIN (see above bio). Her new poems are right here. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/10/poetry/two-karmin DAVID EMANUEL creates text and text-based pieces. He has worked as an arts administrator and collaborated with artists to make performance installations, zines, poems, and occasional artifacts. His critical writing has appeared online in How2 and in print in Newcity. He is from Oklahoma, but just moved to Providence, RI. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 10:53:33 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ruth Lepson Subject: Re: New at Bridge Street: Brathwaite, Cage, O'Hara Now, Olson, Perec, Poets on Teaching, Retallack, Scalapino, &&& In-Reply-To: <976694.50616.qm@web503.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable meaning of sarkozy, poets on teaching, bernstein's 3 operas, brathwaite for me, Rod. glad fanny's is a best seller, esp now she's in DC. hope you & the store are thriving. best, ruth will there be alternative readings at AWP in DC, do you know? On 10/18/10 3:04 PM, "Rod Smith" wrote: > We're re-beginning our regular email updates. Thanks for your independen= t > support of a fine independent bookstore, independently. Ordering and dis= count > information at the end of this post. >=20 > CORRESPONDENCE, Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan, trans Wieland Hoban, Sea= gull > Books, cloth 376 pgs, $24.95. "I send you many many ardent good thoughts= !" >=20 > THE COMMUNIST HYPOTHESIS, Alain Badiou, Verso, 280 pgs, $19. "That is wha= t > gave=20 > the revolt its particular flavour." >=20 > ELEGGUAS, Kamau Brathwaite, Wesleyan, cloth 128 pgs, $22.95. "& look / th= e old > man's alligator hands are young" >=20 > EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY: THE VISUAL ART OF JOHN CAGE, Hayward Publishing= , 160 > pgs color throughout, $30. Introduction by Roger Malbert, essays by Jere= my > Millar, Irving Sandler, Helen Luckett, and Lauren A. Wright. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 23:23:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Peter ciccariello Subject: Poems about never getting where you wanted to go MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Poems about never getting where you wanted to go *http://tinyurl.com/2c6paxu* -- http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/ http://uncommonvision.blogspot.com/ http://poemsfromprovidence.blogspot.com/ http://uncommon-vision.blogspot.com/ You can find my art and writing updates on Twitter https://twitter.com/ciccariello ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:37:28 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jesse Glass Subject: Re: Entropy and Books--Descriptons of Favorite Weathered Volumes and Texts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I was sitting in a Baltimore crabhouse thinking of Thomas Hardy while absent-mindedly paging through a copy of the 1905 reprint of The Black Riders and Other Lines by the "boy-genius" Stephen Crane, which I was lucky enough to find at the Enoch Pratt Library's bargain table book sale one Saturday c. early 1980, when a jealous husband mistook me for his wife's lover and attacked me with a letter-opener he'd bought (the police later found out) on a whim at a Stucky's in Gettysburg, PA during one of his last "happy" afternoons in the presence of his suspected cheating spouse. Luckily, the aggrieved husband was of a "gracile" build and was none-too-handy with the letter opener. As he shouted some garbled words of abuse in my direction, I immediately arose and plucked up a wooden crab mallet, tore off my bib, and prepared to throw the wet remains of the crabs that I had just consumed into the man's face, and then bop him on either temple as he fell, in my best imitation of the biblical heroine Jael--less the spike. Among the screams of the diners the frenzied husband lunged awkwardly at me and managed to stab the point of the letter opener into the plain cloth cover of Stephen Crane's pioneering poems, which I held in my left hand, in a happily successful attempt to deflect the blow from my heart. I recall at exactly that moment wondering what damage had occurred to the text--funny how one's mind works in an "emergency situation"--before I plucked a tin of "Old Bay Seasoning" quite literally "from out of the blue"--(yes, the crabhouse sported a battery of blue "cool ray" bulbs to soften the harsher florescent lighting that spilled in from the adjoining kitchen)--thrown to me by a young waiter whom I had been tipping rather heavily that evening. In a thrice I popped off the lid with my thumb and lashed the powder into my attacker's eyes. He screamed and collapsed on the table among the crabshells, wet newspapers--largely the old News American sports pages, if I recall correctly--and partially imbibed "National Bo" bottles. By this time the police had been called and one powerfully muscled Polish gentleman had wrenched the letter opener from the jealous husband's hand while he wallowed, pitifully weeping, on the floor. Almost at the same moment a few of the other diners had secured the man's surprisingly frail wrists with a "clip-on" tie that one of them had been sporting--much to the amusement of his date. Of course I denied being the Lothario as repeatedly described in the husband's sniveling accusations to the police, and they nodded in perfect agreement, noting that though I had beer on my breath, I passed every test of sobriety they subtly appraised me by, and, in addition, I appeared to one and all to be be a morally upright, God-fearing, tax-paying, citizen of the LARGER BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON AREA. The sergeant, after taking my account of the incident, abruptly turned to the other policemen and simply said the words "book-em," as he clicked his glittering Bic 90, whereupon the culprit was frog-marched away to the waiting Black Maria shouting both apologies to the other diners, and imprecations addressed in less-than-flattering terms at your humble correspondent, though, not knowing my TRUE NAME appeared to pose certain difficulties which were nigh insurmountable for the pitiable, soon-to-be-convict in the heat of his tantrum. To show my appreciation, I bought a bushel of crabs each for the Polish gentleman and the diners, and ordered a round of "National Bo" for everyone in the crabhouse. After receiving the accolades and salutations of one and all, I sat down at my table and stared out at the night sky. It was then that I remembered my copy of Stephen Crane's Black Riders and proceeded to examine the cause of my being alone at the crabhouse in the first place--i.e. my celebrating the lucky purchase of this remarkable volume earlier in the day. The point of the letter opener was thick enough to more dent than pierce the center of the tough "board" cover of the volume. It followed as I suspected, however, that the indentation was repeated through the front matter and the early pages of the text, becoming more shallow as it proceeded through the thickness of each page to end, finally, in an obliterated letter "n" in the fourth line, 5th word, of the following poem found on page 11 of the volume in question: SHOULD THE WIDE WORLD ROLL AWAY, LEAVING BLACK TERROR, LIMITLESS NIGHT, NOR GOD, NOR MAN, [ ]OR PLACE TO STAND WOULD BE TO ME ESSENTIAL, IF THOU AND THY WHITE ARMS WERE THERE, AND THE FALL TO DOOM A LONG WAY. Jess ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 15:08:56 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jesse Glass Subject: Re: Entropy and Books--Descriptons of Favorite Weathered Volumes and Texts In-Reply-To: < MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mowing the lawn of the upscale Milwaukee apartment complex as a favor to "Len" the landlord, c. 1990, I forgot that I had left my copy of Jackson MacLow's Pronouns (Station Hill, 1977) within easy reach of Len's pet capuchin monkey "Gifted." Len took Gifted everywhere he went in those palmy days, the monkey, tricked out in handsome blue pampers, collar and shiny chain leash, riding easily on Len's shoulder as he made his rounds inspecting the various properties owned by the Gillis Group. Len that day was in an expansive mood, and after signalling that I should take a break, shared some of his iced tea from out of the Styrofoam cooler he carried in his truck. The tea really "hit the spot" in the hot weather. Len enjoyed discussing Wittgenstein, who apparently was a distant relative, and so each time we met he invited me to explore the Blue or Brown books with him. He liked to pose Wittgenstein's questions to me and wait for my answer, or sometimes he would invent his own Wittgensteinian questions using the props at hand--like "Gifted" for instance--whose perception of "tool use" and language recognition, provided fertile ground for the creation of open-ended questions in the best (to Len) Wittgensteinian tradition. "What would the verb "to reconnoiter" mean to a a monkey's like Gifted? If Gifted had to choose between the color green (as in paint) and the concept of the color green, which would he be more likely to anticipate in his everyday perceptions in this suburban jungle of ours?" I would often shake my head and attempt to signal my awe at the depths of this display of heuristics on my landlord's part, simply because he was kind enough to allow me to move into his building without a security deposit. It was during one of these sessions, the lawn mower turned off, and Len pacing back and forth before me declaring that thinking in such a manner was "hard as hell," that Gifted freed himself from Len's chain, plucked up my copy of Jackson MacLow's classic, climbed into the top branches of an oak tree, and larded the humid air with pages, and fragments of pages, bitten in small, moist mouthfuls, from my copy of The Pronouns. The torn and mangled pages floated down as those autumn leaves described in the Edwin Arlington Robinson poem "Luke Havergal" as slaying themselves as they fall, and indeed, as I noted the steady deconstruction of my book proceeding from on high, I motioned to Len, pointed up to where his miscreant monkey was just wadding up the photograph of Jackson, his son, and Iris Lezak processing about the Pronouns performance space years earlier, to pitch it, and the torn, twisted and bitten through spine, into Milwaukee's equivalent of a zen-Buddhist, aleatory abyss, Len clapped his hands and angrily called to Gifted to return, but the capuchin would have none ofit, knowing all too well that a Wittgensteinian box on the ear awaited it. We therefore spent most of the afternoon drinking Len's iced tea with our shirst off, writing down Len's dictated thoughts on language and primate perception on a legal pad that he provided me, and speculating when Gifted would come back from his assault on both heaven and my book. About sun-down Gifted leaped from the lower branches of the oak into Len's arms. Len exhibited more joy at his "bad boy's" return than anger, and so ruled out corporal punishment for the time being. I had already collected the scraps and fragments of my MacLow masterwork, and spread them out across the patio wondering if I should attempt to reconstruct the volume, or simply toss the dice in order to generate even more possibilities "for the dancers". I opted for the latter, and am now editing a monkey-mauled textual epilogue for a possible, limited edition, addition to Jackson MacLow's collected works. If any publisher out there might be interested, or wish further information regarding Len and his monkey, please contact me via this list. Jess On 11/5/2010, "Jesse Glass" wrote: >A stray tom lightly pissed on my copy of Charles Bukowski's Burning In >Water, Drowning in Fire while I was out getting a six-pack of Rolling >Rock and a bag of tortilla chips c. 1977. You have to understand that >Westminster, Maryland was the kind of place at that time where you >didn't have to lock your door, the crime rate was so low. (This has >since changed, unfortunately, for a variety of reasons.) In addition to >leaving my door unlocked, I left my window open more than a crack >because my girlfriend earlier in the day had burnt the T.V. dinners she >had diligently been preparing until I walked into the kitchen and she >started tearing my clothes off of my broad, hod-carrier's shoulders >(yes, I was a hod carrier at that time), in a rush for what eventually >became mutual carnal fulfillment. Well, while we were off in the other >room doing our best imitations of the illustrations in our dog-eared >copy of the Karma Sutra, which she had gotten me for an early Christmas >present (and which sported its own interesting stains and creases, but >that's another posting), the timer went off on the stove, and we >failed--naturally--to hear it. It wasn't until plumes of smoke from >the flaming gravy and turkey slices alerted us to the emergency >situation in the kitchen, that we gave over feeding our "fleshier >flame," rushed into the kitchen and put the fire out with souvenir >tumblers (Little Jimmy Dickens had just played at the Civic Center and >we wanted to remember our first date) of tap water. It was then that we >noticed that we were out of cigarettes, but we also reminded each other >(she to me) that we were giving the old coffin nails up. I also >commented that we were lacking the latest Sporting News from the >Baltimore area tracks (Bowie, Pimlico), but then I reminded both of us >that we had given up gambling at the same time that we gave up >ritualistic post-coital smoking. Just then the phone rang and my girl >friend had to assist her mother stringing beans and boiling pig's feet >for the great Methodist revival meeting the following day--which, as you >probably guessed--was a Sunday. She kissed me at the door (still >smelling of sex and turkey smoke), and I decided it was time to go to >the High's at the Westminster Shopping Center. The room was still >smoky, so I opened the window to let the country air in. It took me a >bit longer to get back than I'd anticipated: I had been somewhat >indecisive in deciding which beer to get--National Bo, or Rolling Rock. >I decided after some minutes of ear-pulling that Rolling Rock was >cheaper, and more aesthetically pleasing, I might add, in its green >"pony" bottles. That final, more spiritual point, was the clincher of >the decision. When I came back to my apartment and turned on the >lights, I surprised a thin tabby tom cat in the midst of eating the TV >dinners from my trash can. When it saw me it leaped back to the >windowsill and out. I made a thorough check of every room, but did not >discover anything untoward until about a week later, when I noticed in >the living room corner that a stack of books there displayed evidence of >being micturated upon. The top book on the stack--the >Bukowski--suffered the worst damage. The cat urine had soaked into and >through the thick and attractive paper cover that Black Sparrow editions >feature. My girlfriend (let's call her "Nell") was a rather >religious young lady, and I believe that she had been thumbing through >the book and had placed it, face-down, on the top of the stack when she >heard me return. (I hear she later married a Baptist minister who holds >forth on the local cable open access station and has developed something >of a following). Or at least I suspect so, as "Nell" would have been >the only person to go browsing through my books at the time. I found >that the urine had completely dried and the pages--including the "about >the author" with a youngish Bukowski doing an imitation of Jack Kerouac >(or Jack London?) jumping a freight train, and which also included the >staggering information that Bukowski was much more popular in Germany >than in California--were adhering together and exhibited the same >waviness that one expects in ordinary water damage. This damage was >amplified and compounded in the severely damaged section by the >brownish-yellow Elmer's glue "slab-like"concretion of pages for a >full eighth of an inch. As I gingerly began to pull these pages apart I >noticed a slight unmeshing sound, as if tiny Velcro patches were being >separated. With each light tug, a cloud of dried urine arose, pungent, >palpable, and clearly visible in the slant of sunlight in which I was >working. I'm happy to record that the rest of the book did not suffer >such severe damage, but the dried cat urine had thickened and discolored >the spine to such an extent that any attempt at reading would expose a >stain of a good quarter of each page running "up" and at a diagonal >from the gutter to the opposite (upper) right angle of each page. Some >of the pages displayed a brownish translucency due to the chemical >action of the cat piss that allowed one to almost see "through" one of >the texts and into and through the next. However, this only applied in >the case of one or two signatures. For the most part, the staining grew >lighter and less invasive as one proceeded through the volume from front >to back, and on the title page disappeared entirely. > > > > >On 10/31/2010, "steve dalachinsky" wrote: > >>Sat., Nov. 13 Reading at the Locust Valley Library Poetry Society >> >>2:00 pm, 170 Buckram Road, Locust Valley, NY, Free >> >>Marie-Elizabeth Mali and Steve Dalachinsky will read, followed by an >>open mic. >> >> >>Funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from the NY >>State Council on the Arts. Hosted by Mankh, poet, essayist and small >>press publisher. >> >>Directions: Train: LIRR to Locust Valley Station, take taxi to the >>library. >>Driving: Take the L.I.Expressway to Glen Cove Road, exit 39N. Go north on >>Glen Cove Road to end. Turn right onto Brewster Street. Brewster becomes >>Forest Ave. >>and then becomes Buckram Road after 13 traffic lights. Library is on the >>right past the tennis courts. >> >>For more information, contact Mankh. mankh@allbook-books.com >>__________________________________________________________ >> >>and nov 17 8 pm living theater with IRA COHEN JUDITH MALINA Valery >>Ouisteaneu Alan Graubard and others >>On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:17:46 -0400 Mark Weiss >>writes: >>> Jesse: You seem to be rehearsing bits for an >>> essay or memoir, and a good one it will be. >>> Though maybe you should be more careful with your books. >>> >>> At least i had the excuse in the following of >>> being out of my mind on LSD. I had been left >>> alone for what proved to be a very long night in >>> a house I'd never been in before. The room they >>> gave me had purple walls and dim light and the >>> momentos of a woman of questionable sanity. So I >>> was pretty freaked. And the only companion I had >>> was a copy of the paperback of Duncan's The >>> Opening of the Field, which I was getting to know >>> for the first time. This would be 1969, I think. >>> I couldn't put it down. Hard to read, because the >>> perspective kept changing, and the color of the >>> letters, which seemed to dance to the rhythm of >>> the verse, but it was a safer space than the dark >>> corners that I was sure were inhabited. I >>> annotated it copiously (I almost never write in >>> books), which took some determination, because >>> the pencil kept bending in my hand. I couldn't >>> put it down, which is why I had it with me, open, >>> when I got up to pee, and it slipped out of my >>> hands and into the drink. Horrified, I rescued it >>> and patted it dry as best I could. It was a >>> little rank for a while, but I still have it. >>> It's a pretty trippy book, and Duncan was known >>> to indulge, but he was more disciplined than I >>> was, and my notations, those that are legible, >>> are more yawps than commentary, with a few strange neologisms. >>> >>> That was very good acid. And it occurs to me now that if I sucked >>> the pages... >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> At 09:55 PM 10/30/2010, you wrote: >>> >I dropped a copy of Jack Spicer's early poems into a glowing ash >>> pit >>> >without at first realizing that I had done so due to the waves of >>> horror >>> >and revulsion that repeatedly swept over me one early June morning >>> in >>> >Maryland. The scene was a tragic one: a barn that had once housed >>> >several dozen sheep had been burnt to the ground with the sheep >>> still >>> >inside--the carcasses of which, with wool pelt intact--remained >>> >scattered among the smoking timbers. The fire engines had just >>> left, >>> >but several State Troopers were still collecting evidence, and the >>> >general consensus was that it was almost certainly arson. I had >>> been >>> >reading the SPICER TEXT by flashlight, as the sun had not risen >>> yet, but >>> >found that the combined car headlights, flashing gumball machines >>> atop >>> >the cars of the troopers, and abrupt illuminations from the flash >>> units >>> >of the reporters' cameras (remember, this was way back in the days >>> >before digital), not to mention the steady-state flickerings of >>> the >>> >charred and clinkered upper walls and fallen ceilings of the barn >>> >provided enough ambient light that I could put away my flashlight >>> with >>> >no qualms about the safety of my eyesight. Indeed, by this >>> flickering >>> >light, the early poems seemed to possess a strength and beauty that >>> I >>> >had not noticed in the amber light of my electric lit room. I >>> stood >>> >with the book held loosely in my left hand (bad mistake!), when an >>> old >>> >college friend, whom I hadn't seen in years, chose that particular >>> >moment to tap me on the shoulder. I was startled from my >>> >grief-stricken-transience-of-all-earthly-things-pose, and whirled >>> about, >>> >only to be greeted by the somewhat glowing teeth and silhouette of >>> my >>> >old friend, who quickly announced his name (WHICH SHALL NOT BE >>> GIVEN >>> >HERE), to preclude any further signs of panic on my part. He was >>> too >>> >later, however, as the volume was spun from my grip and tumbled >>> into the >>> >ashes, sending a sneeze-pattern cloud of firefly-like POINTS OF >>> >LIGHT--perhaps 1000 of them into the Republican sky! Cheered on by >>> the >>> >voice of my friend, I located a stick and scraped the volume >>> towards us, >>> >though it had already TAKEN FIRE with an almost supernal beauty of >>> >orange and copper-colored flames. Finally, I could reach under >>> the >>> >crime-scene tape and rake the book onto the wet grass. I stepped >>> on the >>> >book 20 times or so to transmogrify the magnetic flames into a >>> drizzle >>> >of smoke. Then, borrowing my friend's handkerchief, I lifted the >>> >volume into the rays of the barely risen sun to inspect the damage. >>> All >>> >of the front matter had been craggily carbonized, up to about page >>> 25 >>> >(if I recall correctly), and was missing due to the repeated >>> application >>> >of my steel-toed work shoe. However, the latter half of the >>> volume, >>> >though partially carbonized and truncated by the action of the >>> flames, >>> >was still legible, though brittle, and as I attempted to read the >>> TEXT, >>> >noting here and there the various modifications of form (and >>> >consequently of meaning) I could see that my fingertips and the >>> upper >>> >joints of my fingers, had turned black (almost to blueness) with >>> the >>> >charred leavings of the lower portions of the pages and binding. >>> >Sensing the sudden change in mood of my friend from the solemnity >>> of a >>> >shared grief to a barely repressed hilarity bursting to be >>> expressed in >>> >the mutton-fragrant air, I pulled the remaining pages apart and >>> >mentioned to my friend, how the book looked for all the world like >>> >something to be deposited in the trash bin. And later, after >>> sketching >>> >the literary remains in my journal to make sure that I had taken >>> >sufficient notice of every part--it was. Jess >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >On 10/29/2010, "Jesse Glass" wrote: >>> > >>> > >I accidentally dropped a copy of Kenneth Rexroth's Collected >>> Longer >>> > >Poems into an old "botton" latrine-style, Japanese toilet when I >>> lived >>> > >in Nagasaki Prefecture back in the early 90's. Fortunately, the >>> book >>> > >did not sink right away, but slowly listed to the side in the >>> emerald >>> > >green antiseptic and deodorizing solution in the tank, while >>> Kenneth's >>> > >eyes staring woefully up through the lapping green waves. It >>> took about >>> > >30 minutes to wrangle the volume up with a fish hook and ten feet >>> of >>> > >nylon line borrowed from a neighboring fisherman. The solution >>> had dyed >>> > >the pages a delightful color, though the photograph on the cover >>> was >>> > >relatively unchanged and continued to present that old, cunning >>> > >gentleman, in a manner that might have elicited a comment from >>> Susan >>> > >Sontag regarding the uncanny in photography had she been standing >>> beside >>> > >me. The sun was barely out that day, but I deposited the book on >>> the >>> > >back step of my one-room country "mansion" where it drew a few >>> hopeful >>> > >flies and an ant. Jess >>> > > >>> > >On 10/21/2010, "Crane's Bill Books" >>> wrote: >>> > > >>> > >>Jesse, >>> > >>In New Mexico the glue used in bindings sometimes dries out and >>> turns to >>> > >>dust so that a book comes apart in your hands. >>> > >>I have some topo maps with wonderful, meandering trails eaten >>> into them by >>> > >>insects. >>> > >>A few years ago the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe did >>> a show not >>> > >>of environmentally damaged books but of library books that had >>> been >>> > >>vandalized because of their lesbian/gay >>> > content. A group of artists salvaged >>> > >>them and turned them into sculptural artists' books and other >>> kinds of >>> > >>artworks. Quite moving. >>> > >>Jeffrey >>> > >> >>> > >>----- Original Message ----- >>> > >>From: "Jesse Glass" >>> > >>To: >>> > >>Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 9:54 PM >>> > >>Subject: Entropy and Books--Descriptons of Favorite Weathered >>> Volumes and >>> > >>Texts >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > >>> It would be great to share some descriptions of the tango >>> between your >>> > >>> favorite volume(s) and the environment where you are. Japan >>> is >>> > >>> notorious for its foxing frenzies--most of my books have tiny >>> black and >>> > >>> brown threads colonizing the tooth of the paper and >>> lichen-like spoors >>> > >>> notching away at the typographic landscapes of what I read. I >>> have two >>> > >>> notebooks form the 1980's that are crammed full of writing, >>> scribbling >>> > >>> out, worthless phone numbers, torn, dog-eared and foxed pages, >>> pages >>> > >>> rotting, onion skin-like, sun-burnt, spat-upon, maggot-bitten >>> and >>> > >>> palimpsested with white-out and bic reworkings, rain-tortured >>> into >>> > >>> rivulets of ink charging crookedly down the cheek of the page >>> from black >>> > >>> to blue to gray like the tears of a miraculous icon in a sooty >>> corner of >>> > >>> some yellow-walled church where nobody goes but the >>> toothless, >>> > >>> squint-eyed, and terminal; books falling to pieces and >>> stinking of >>> > >>> ancient sex and Lucky Strikes, and years spent in old winter >>> coats for >>> > >>> sale in the bargain bins of the Purple Heart and the Salvation >>> Army. >>> > >>> These are the kinds of books that excite my imagination >>> because those >>> > >>> old Complete Poes and The Poems of Robert Service tortured >>> into >>> > >>> ghostlier shapes, rain-warped into counterweights for mobiles >>> and >>> > >>> stabiles invites my Twombly and Rothco appreciation centers >>> to >>> > >>> re-activate, and these are located close to the endorphin >>> sluices of my >>> > >>> innermost and most secret self and jam them open, or at least >>> tickle the >>> > >>> hell out of them so that my tongue thrusts out to lick the >>> plaster on >>> > >>> the wall in joy. >>> > >>> >>> > >>> Your descriptions solicited! Jess >>> > >>> >>> > >>> ================================== >>> > >>> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. >>> Check >>> > >>> guidelines & sub/unsub info: >>> http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >>> > >>> >>> > >> >>> > >>================================== >>> > >>The Poetics List is moderated & does not >>> > accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub >>> > info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >>> > >> >>> > > >>> > >================================== >>> > >The Poetics List is moderated & does not >>> > accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub >>> > info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >>> > > >>> > >>> >================================== >>> >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept >>> >all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: >>> >http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >>> >>> >>> >>> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape. >>> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm >>> >>> >>> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a >>> lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the >>> poet alive in every sense of the word, and >>> through every one of his senses. Instead of >>> missing a beat or a part, Weiss$B!G(B fragments are >>> like Chekhov$B!G(Bs short stories­the more that gets >>> left out, the more they seem to contain$B!D(B One can >>> hear echoes from all the various >>> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its >>> core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment >>> is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure >>> musical threnody$B!D(B[it] opens a window, not only >>> into a mind, but a person, a personality, this >>> human figure at the emotional center of the poem." >>> >>> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket. >>> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml >>> >>> ================================== >>> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 18:04:41 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Gloria Mindock Subject: Cervena Barva Press Announces New Fiction chapbook by Joan Gelfand MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cervena Barva Press Announces a New Fiction Chapbook=20 "Here and Abroad"=20 by Joan Gelfand=20 =C2=A0=20 Winner of the 2010 =C4=8Cerven=C3=A1 Barva Press Fiction Contest, Judged by= Dorothy Freudenthal=20 Joan's poetry, fiction, reviews and essays have appeared in national and in= ternational magazines, anthologies and literary journals including Rattle, = Kalliope, The Toronto Quarterly, The Huffington Post and The MacGuffin . Pa= st President of the Women's National Book Association, Joan is the Fiction = Editor for Zeek Magazine and teaches in the California Poets in the Schools= program. " A Dreamer's Guide to Cities and Streams " was published by SF B= ay Press in 2009 and " Seeking Center ," by Two Bridges Press in 2006. You = can listen to her CD, "Transported," on reverbnation.com http://joangelfand= .com=20 "Joan Gelfand is at her best in her new collection of short stories. They'r= e quirky, original, and highly entertaining with surprising dark moments th= at will take your breath away."=20 =E2=80=94Mary Mackey Author of The Widow's War=20 "EAT WRITE LOVE. Joan Gelfand whisks us, briefly, to Paris, where the prese= nt meets the past in both its ugliness and its grace, to Florence, where ar= t meets its cruelest friend, "art criticism," to a more anonymous if earthi= er place in our own land where families and lovers pass and balance, for a = moment, on the pinnacle of Thanksgiving. Her stories, like her poetry, cele= brate life and love, family, friendship, art - a scrumptious meal, and an i= ntoxicating bottle of wine! (Warning: Do NOT read these stories on an empty= stomach.)"=20 =E2=80=94Christopher Bernard, author of A Spy in the Ruins , cofounder of C= aveat Lector=20 $7.00 | ISBN: 978-0-9831041-0-0 | 52 Pages=20 Order online at http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/cervenabooks.html=20 Here and Abroad =09 $7.00=20 Shipping =09 $3.00=20 Total =09 $10.00=20 =C2=A0=20 =09 Send check or money order payable to:=20 Cervena Barva Press=20 P.O. Box 440357,=20 W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222=20 e-mail: editor@cervenabarvapress.com=20 Thank you.=20 Gloria Mindock, Editor & Publisher=20 midwesternglo@comcast.net=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:38:19 +0100 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "Tracking Systems" by Alan May Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc , Wryting-L MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is "Tracking Systems" by Alan May Description: In "Tracking Systems" we see a world (not completely unlike our own) full of threat and the attending paranoia. Populating this world: Stetson Kennedy, Benjamin Franklin, Don Knotts, Gandhi, and an assortment of birds, bears, coyote, and a few beings of the less ordinary, more mythical variety. Available as a free ebook here: http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/tracking-systems/13524166 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:14:55 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "D. Wellman" Subject: A North Atlantic Wall MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My new book has been released by Dos Madres and is available there as well as SPD, etc. The book was first inspired by photographs of Nazi-era fortifications on the coast of France and then morphed into an exploration of pilgrimage trails and experiences of flight from religious persecution. That is one way to read the long serial poem that is the title poem. http://www.dosmadres.com/dos-madres-books/a-north-atlantic-wall-by-donald-we llman/. Donald Wellman Daniel Webster College http://faculty.dwc.edu/wellman/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 19:20:29 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: jason snyder Subject: Sidebrow Books: City Chapbook Preorder MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sidebrow Books is pleased to announce the first of a series of multi-author chapbooks curated from contributions to Sidebrow=92s collaborative projects. Culled from contributions to The City Project=2C City threads the poetry and prose of Tyler Flynn Dorholt=2C Danielle Dutton=2C Matt Hart=2C and Shane Michalik into a valenced reflection on the city=2C and how habitation and architecture=2C both real and imagined=2C play a transformative role in literary contexts. Limited to 100 copies=2C the chapbook is available for a preorder discount = of $10. To order=2C go to http://www.sidebrow.net/books/city-sb004 Best=2C Sidebrow http://www.sidebrow.net http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sidebrow/68012168356 + + + + + + + + + + City =20 A collaborative narrative featuring work by Tyler Flynn Dorholt=2C Danielle= Dutton=2C Matt Hart=2C & Shane Michalik December 2010 ISBN: 0-9814975-3-5 44 pages=2C 5x6 perfectbound=2C $12 =20 =93When you enter the city in the dark you enter with your life in your hands. When you enter the city at dawn=2C where then is your life? In your throat?=94 To order: http://www.sidebrow.net/books/city-sb004 Tyler Flynn Dorholt writes and paints in NYC. Some of his visual work will = be included in Heather Momyer's Mining the Bones=2C to be released by H_NGM= _N. Current writing and films can be found at Slope=2C Court Green=2C Requ= ited=2C EOAGH=2C We are Champion=2C Spinning Jenny=2C and others. He edits = the journal Tammy and can be traced deeper via Blonde on Ponde. Danielle Dutton is the author of Attempts at a Life (Tarpaulin Sky) and S P= R A W L (Siglio Press). She is editor of Dorothy=2C a publishing project= =2C and book designer at Dalkey Archive Press. Matt Hart's second book of poems=2C You Are Mist=2C is forthcoming from Moor Books. Additionally=2C he is the author of Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions=2C 2006) and several chapbooks=2C including=2C most recently=2C Deafening Leafening (Pilot Books=2C 2009)=2C a collaboration with poet Ethan Paquin. Hart lives in Cincinnati where he edits Forklift=2C Ohio: A Journal of Poetry=2C Cooking & Light Industrial Safety. Shane Michalik is a recent MFA graduate of the California College of the Arts and previous owner of Built=2C an art gallery in Seattle. She is interested in the visual presentation of text and is the founder of Paper Knife Press=2C a small publisher of chapbooks in San Francisco. = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 14:40:16 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: CA Conrad Subject: eco-LANG Philadelphia panel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Details at: http://CAConradevents.blogspot.com CACONRAD TINA DARRAGH MARCELLA DURAND BRENDA IIJIMA PATRICK LUCY HOA NGUYEN JONATHAN SKINNER FURTHER / LANDSCAPES Program of Reading & Community Discussion SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH 4PM UPSTAIRS @ Fergie's 1214 Sansom St. PHILADELPHIA -- PhillySound: new poetry http://PhillySound.blogspot.com THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad http://CAConrad.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:48:23 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Fw: GOLDWITHOUTWARNING: A 3-Day DCPOETRYFEST Nov 12-14 @ DCAC, 7:30 pm Fri-Sun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable good stuff: 3 day D.C. poetry fest. --- On Mon, 11/8/10, DCPoetry Events wrote: From: DCPoetry Events Subject: GOLDWITHOUTWARNING: A 3-Day DCPOETRYFEST Nov 12-14 @ DCAC, 7:30 pm= Fri-Sun To: poet_in_hell@yahoo.com Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 9:57 AM hey look it's GOLDWITHOUTWARNING: A 3-DAY DCPOETRYFEST November 12-14 @ the District of Columbia Arts Center, 2438 18th Street NW Fri. Nov. 12, 7:30 PM -- Heather Fuller, Sandra Doller, Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, & Ward Tietz Sat. Nov. 13, 7:30 PM -- Ryan Walker, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, Rod Smi= th, Mark McMorris, & Terence Winch Sun. Nov. 14, 7:30 PM -- Ben Doller,=C2=A0 Brian Fitzpatrick, Ken Jacobs, T= heodora Danylevich, Dan Gutstein, Leslie Bumstead, Bryan Koen,=C2=A0 Maureen Thorso= n, & Wade Fletcher Leslie Bumstead is the author of Cipher/Civilian (Edge Books). She lives in= Takoma Park, MD. Theodora Danylevich is a DC Poet and a PhD student in English at GW. Dora i= s trying hard to make it as an academic, and has had poetry published in Ph= oebe, Vanitas, Boog, and DCPoetry.com. Ben Doller's most recent books are Dead Ahead (Fence, 2010), and FAQ (Ahsah= ta, 2009).=C2=A0 His first collection of poetry, Radio, Radio, (Louisiana S= tate University Press, 2001) was selected by Susan Howe for the 2000 Walt W= hitman Award. He teaches at George Mason University. Sandra Doller has two books of poems--Oriflamme & Chora--with a third--Man = Years--on the way. She recently finished a book-length experimental essay t= itled Memory of the Prose Machine. Doller is the founder & editrice of 1913= a journal of forms & 1913 Press and Assistant Professor at California Stat= e University. A while back, she and her man legally merged their names=E2= =80=94Doyle + Miller =3D Doller=E2=80=94but their dogs, Ronald Johnson & Ki= ki Smith, opted to keep theirs. Buck Downs' most recent books are Now & Laters and Ain=E2=80=99t Got All Ni= ght. He is also the author of Recreational Vehicle, Marijuana Softdrink, La= dies Love Outlaws, In Memory D Thompson, and several others. He is current = co-curator of the In Your Ear series at DCAC. Cathy Eisenhower is the author of the poetry collections Language of the Do= g-heads (Phylum), clearing without reversal (Edge Books), and would with an= d (Roof Books). She is co-translating the selected poems of Argentine poet = Diana Bellessi.=20 Brian Fitzpatrick received his Masters Degree in Literature from George Mas= on University, where he currently teaches composition and literature. He wo= rks as a poetry reader for the literary journal Phoebe and is pursuing an M= FA in Creative Writing. Wade Fletcher co-hosts the monthly Cheryl's Gone reading series in Washingt= on D.C. Recent work can be found in Lo-ball, So to Speak, and the Boog Read= er, and he's published two chapbooks: Snitch Culture (dusie, 2007) and Cond= itions Which (Pied-a-terre, 2010). He lives in Northern Virginia with his w= ife and son.=20 Heather Fuller is the author of perhaps this is a rescue fantasy (Edge Book= s), Dovecote (Edge Books), and Startle Response (O Books). She lives in Bal= timore, MD. She was the poetry editor of Washington Review for several year= s and an early curator of the in your ear series at DCAC. Dan Gutstein is the author of Non/Fiction (Edge Books). His poems and stori= es have appeared in more than 60 publications, including Ploughshares, Prai= rie Schooner, American Scholar, TriQuarterly, The Penguin Book of the Sonne= t, and Best American Poetry, as well as aboard metrobuses in Northern Virgi= nia. He runs the Writing Studio and Learning Resource Center, and teaches c= reative writing at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Bryan Koen lives in Alexandria, VA. He attends the MFA program at George Ma= son University, where he serves as the Assistant Editor of Phoebe: A Journa= l of Literature and Art. Life as he knows it will soon end with the birth o= f his first child. Ken Jacobs is the author of Sooner (Phylum Press 2009) with other recent wo= rk in the Boog City Reader and the online journal Everyday Genius. He write= s code in Northern Virginia. Mark McMorris' collections of poetry include Entrep=C3=B4t (Coffee House Pr= ess, 2010); The Caf=C3=A9 at Light (Roof Books, 2004); The Blaze of the Pou= i (2003), which was selected by C. D. Wright for the 2002 Contemporary Poet= ry Series and was also a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and= The Black Reeds (1997), winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series prize fro= m the University of Georgia Press. He teaches at Georgetown University. Chris Nealon is the author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotio= n before Stonewall (Duke, 2001), and two books of poems, The Joyous Age (Bl= ack Square Editions, 2004) and Plummet (Edge Books, 2009).=C2=A0 He recentl= y finished a book called The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The Am= erican Century (forthcoming Harvard, 2011). He teaches at Johns Hopkins Uni= versity. Mel Nichols' most recent book is Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (Nati= onal Poetry Series finalist). She is also the author of Bicycle Day, The Be= ginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6, and Day Poems. = She is a member of the Flarf Collective.=C2=A0=20 Rod Smith is the author of Deed, Music or Honesty, Protective Immediacy, an= d In Memory of My Theories. He edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Boo= ks, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. He is also editing T= he Selected Letters of Robert Creeley with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker fo= r The University of California Press. Maureen Thorson is a poet, publisher, and book designer living in Washingto= n, D.C. Her collection Applies to Oranges is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling= next year. She is the author of a number of chapbooks, including Twenty Qu= estions for the Drunken Sailor (2009), Mayport (2006), which won the Poetry= Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship, and Novelty Act (Ugly D= uckling Presse 2004). She is current co-curator of the In Your Ear reading = series at DCAC. Poetic artist Ward Tietz=E2=80=99s book Hg-The Liquid is forthcoming from 1= 913 Press.=C2=A0 His large-scale, word-sculpture installation, Three Recipe= s, is under development for the City of Alexandria.=C2=A0 Examples of his w= ork can be viewed at www.wordimage.net. Ryan Walker self-published the hell out of his book, You Will Own It Perman= ently.=C2=A0 He enjoys candy bars. Terence Winch=E2=80=99s most recent book is a collection of poems called Bo= y Drinkers (Hanging Loose, 2007).=C2=A0 His new book, Falling Out of Bed in= a Room with No Floor, will be out in 2011. His work appears in the Oxford = Book of American Poetry, four Best American Poetry collections, and in many= journals, including the Paris Review,=C2=A0 American Poetry Review, and Ne= w American Writing. Also a musician and songwriter, he released a CD anthol= ogy in 2007 of his Irish compositions called When New York Was Irish: Songs= & Tunes by Terence Winch.=20 GOLD WITHOUT WARNING is sponsored by DCAC and dcpoetry.com. Admission is $5.00. District of Columbia Arts Center is located at 2438 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan, Washington, DC, between the Dupont Circle and Woodley Park metro stations. For directions, see the DCAC web site at http://www.dcartscenter.org/plan_location.htm UPCOMING READINGS: Wednesday, November 10, 7:30 pm Corcoran All-Stars: Brittany Law, Jordan Shwartz, Mia Olsen, Liora Valero, Alexa Pearson, & Chris Cunningham. Hosted by Doug Lang & Casey Smith. @ DCAC Thursday, November 11, 8 pm Tom Raworth & Steve Zultanski @ Bridge Street Books Thursday, November 18, 8 pm Ben & Sandra Doller, Nichole Tong, & Stripmall Ballads Big Bear Cafe, 1st & R NW Sunday, November 21, 3:00 pm Tom Hibbard, Allen Fisher, & Katy Bohinc @ DCAC Sunday, November 21, 7:00 pm Sarah Riggs & Cole Swensen @ Bridge Street Books Sunday, December 12, 3:00 pm Barbara Henning, Rachel Levitsky, & Adam Marston @ DCAC --------------------------------------------- For more information about upcoming events, or to subscribe to this list, c= heck out our website at http://www.dcpoetry.com _____________________________ Change email address / Leave mailing list: http://ymlp110.com/u.php?id=3Dgu= jyjsgsgbqhgubju Powered by YourMailingListProvider =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:34:22 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Will Larsen Subject: Poetry Reading: Joanna Fuhrman and Suzanne Buffam, this Sunday (11/14), 2pm @ the Ren Comments: To: creative-writing@lists.uchicago.edu, ugrad-english@lists.uchicago.edu, poetics@lists.uchicago.edu, workinprogress@lists.uchicago.edu, euphony@lists.uchicago.edu, slicedbread@lists.uchicago.edu, whpk@lists.uchicago.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *Fall Reading Series at The Renaissance Society * *Poetry Reading* Joanna Fuhrman and Suzanne Buffam *Sunday, November 14, 2:00 pm Swift Hall Room 106* Joanna Fuhrman Currently teaching in the creative writing program at Rutgers, Fuhrman is the author of four volumes: Pageant (Alice James Books, 2009), Moraine (Hanging Loose Press, 2006), Ugh Ugh Ocean (Hanging Loose Press, 2003) and Freud in Brooklyn (Hanging Loose Press, 2000). "Fuhrman is a leader in the particular, in 'infra-surrealism.' She taboos nothing; no form impedes her complete wit. This full poetry is not only 'feminine, marvelous, and tough,= ' but subtle, searching, and wounded-sexual, social, and smart. Fuhrman celebrates new truth-telling, an art of the spectacular pageant." David Shapiro Suzanne Buffam Currently teaching in the creative writing program at The University of Chicago, Buffam's first collection of poetry, Past Imperfect (House of Anansi, 2005), won the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of poetry published in Canada in 2005, and was named one of 2005's Books of th= e Year by the Globe and Mail. Her most recent collection is The Irrationalist= , (Canarium Books, 2010). "Buffam's often deadpan tone is like a magical dustpan that sweeps up the strangest observations and ideas, all worlds to themselves. Her 'Little Commentaries'-'On Pi=F1atas,' 'On Fountains,' and '= On Vanishing Acts' (to name only a few)-are absolute gems, kin to Anne Carson'= s town poems and Yoko Ono's Grapefruit. Buffam's poems tug at new corners of the brain. They're marvelous." Matthea Harvey This event will take place in Swift Hall Room 106. (Swift Hall is directly east of the gallery.) This event is free and open to the public. The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago 5811 South Ellis Avenue, room 418 Chicago IL 60637 773-702-8670 www.renaissancesociety.org =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:11:57 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: stephanie g Subject: FW: Tendencies: Poetics & Practice 11/11 - Stephanie Gray, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Nathaniel Siegel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable not sure if this was sent to the list yet=2C fyi... TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice Stephanie Gray=2C Dawn Lundy Martin=2C and Nathaniel Siegel This series of talks by and about contemporary poets=2C titled in honor of = Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick=2C explores the relationship between queer theory=2C = poetic practice=2C manifesto=2C and pedagogy. =20 The next event features talks by:=20 Stephanie Gray Dawn Lundy Martin Nathaniel Siegel ...followed by a discussion/Q&A session. on Thursday=2C November 11 at 7 PM FREE=20 at CUNY Graduate Center (in the Skylight Room=2C 9100) 365 Fifth Avenue=2C NYC Filmmaker and writer Stephanie Gray's first collection of poetry=2C Heart S= toner Bingo was published by Straw Gate Books in 2007. Publications include= EOAGH=2C 2ndAvenuePoetry=2C The Recluse=2C and Press 1. Readings include t= he PRJCTNS=2C Segue=2C Zinc=2C and Poetry Project Friday series. Her short = experimental super 8 films=2C often city portraits or mini-symphonies have = screened internationally=2C including at the Ann Arbor=2C Oberhausen=2C and= Viennale fests. Her queer-themed films are often about pop cultural figure= s such as dyke heroine Joan of Arc in Dear Joan and the perceived dyke hero= ine Kristy McNichol in Kristy=2C both of which have screened at gay & lesbi= an film fests such as Frameline (San Francisco)=2C Outfest (Los Angeles)=2C= and Mix NYC. Her analog video from the early 00s=2C "close your hearing fo= r the cap(shuns)" is probably the only art work out there to mash up "Our L= ips Our Sealed" on slo-mo with Schoolhouse Rock's "Conjunction Junction" an= d Charlie Brown's indecipherable adults to explore themes of language=2C he= aring loss and our construction of meaning. If you know of others let her = know. =20 Dawn Lundy Martin=2C a poet=2C essayist=2C and activist=2C is the winner of= the 2009 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize for her manuscript=2C DISCIPLINE=2C = selected by Fanny Howe and forthcoming in February=2C 2011. In 2006=2C she = was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Carl Phillips for her manuscript= =2C A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (U of Georgia P=2C 2007). A= mong her honors include Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants for P= oetry in 2002 and 2006=2C and the 2008 Academy of American Arts and Science= s May Sarton Prize for Poetry. Dawn is a founding member of the Black Took = Collective=2C a group of experimental black poets=3B she is also one of fou= r founders of the Third Wave Foundation in New York=2C a feminist=2C activi= st foundation that works nationally to support young women and transgender = youth ages 15 to 30=2C and co-editor of a collection of essays=2C The Fire = This Time: Young Activists and The New Feminism (Anchor Books=2C 2004). She= is an assistant professor of English in the Writing Program at the Univers= ity of Pittsburgh. =20 Nathaniel A. Siegel is an artist=2C activist=2C poet and curator based in = New York City. His work has been shown at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Founda= tion (SOHO)=3B Art Around The Park - HOWL ! Festival=3B Split This Rock ga= thering - Washington D.C.=3B Visual AIDS=3B and Naropa. He is a member of = ACT-UP NYC=2C and the Queer Justice League and co-founded Poets for Peace= =2C Poets Against the War=2C the LGBTQ Poetry Reading Series Come Hear ! a= nd Acts of Art. His first chapbook TONY is published by Portable Press at = Yo-Yo Labs of Brooklyn. He has performed at The Poetry Project=2C the Bowe= ry Poetry Club=2C the Living Theatre=2C Creative Visions in New York City= =2C and Giovanni's Room in Philadelphia. His installation "how to put on a= nd use a condom : a safe sex presentation" was displayed at NYC's LGBT Cen= ter for The Center Show marking the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall. His po= etry and interviews have appeared in EOAGH=2C Landscapes of Dissent Guerill= a Poetry & Public Space by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand=2C BOOG City Newspap= er=2C and BPC's Study Abroad on the Bowery's Poets Anthology. * * * TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice is curated by Tim Peterson (Trace). For addi= tional information=2C visit the Tendencies website. All events are co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities=2C CLAGS (the = Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies)=2C The Graduate Center PhD Program in E= nglish=2C and the GC Poetics Group. =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =09 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =09 = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 07:58:35 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: THE SISTERHOOD OF UNIVERSAL CAPTCHA Comments: To: Theory and Writing , spidertangle@yahoogroups.com, UKPOETRY@listserv.muohio.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.drunkenboat.com/?p=1320 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:41:16 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Adam Fieled Subject: Three "Equations" Links MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Several more poems from Equations, due out in December from Blue & Yellow D= og =0APress, are out, in moria, Otoliths, and Great Works:=0A=0Ahttp://www.= moriapoetry.com/fieled0909.html=0A=0Ahttp://www.the-otolith.blogspot.com/20= 10/09/adam-fieled-from-equations-22-to-dwell.html=0A=0A=0Ahttp://www.greatw= orks.org.uk/poems/fld5.html=0A=0AMany thanks to Bill Allegrezza, Mark Young= , and Peter Philpott.=0A=0ABest,=0AAdam Fieled=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0= =A0=A0=A0 afieled@yahoo.com=A0=A0 =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:50:23 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: juliana spahr Subject: Mills College Graduate Assistantship in Community Poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please forward to anyone considering applying to MFA in poetry programs. **** Mills College Graduate Assistantship in Community Poetics Mills College is pleased to introduce a two-year, full-tuition assistantship to one student pursuing a master of fine arts (MFA) degree in poetry beginning fall 2011. Candidates for the assistantship will design and implement a poetry-related community project during the course of their two-year degree program. The assistantship does not require a teaching commitment. Under the mentorship of Mills' renowned faculty, the successful candidate will have the unique experience of pursuing his/her MFA degree while implementing a community poetics project of his/her own design. This is a high-profile opportunity to explore poetry's possibilities for transformative dialogue---at Mills and beyond. Background Continuing the Mills tradition of experimentation in graduate education, this newly created assistantship is designed to support the development of innovative, even risky, ways of teaching and/or presenting poetry. As the number of full-time teaching positions in higher education decline across the United States, Mills seeks to explore the possibilities of making poetry available outside traditional academic confines to broaden access to the art form and utilize it as a force for social change. This assistantship aligns with the goals of the existing Mills Community Teaching Project which offers students the opportunity to teach residents in the communities surrounding the College. Mills graduate students lead writing workshops in a variety of alternative venues, including after-school programs, elder homes, community centers, half-way houses, lock-down facilities, and battered-women's shelters. Proposals should not replicate the Community Teaching Project but should re-imagine poetry's socially transformative possibilities. Applicants are encouraged to imagine a project that in some way propels poetry into new encounters outside the academy. Some examples of projects that inspired the creation of this assistantship include Mark Nowak's poetry workshops with auto workers in the US and South Africa, Heriberto Yepez's public poetry signage in Tijuana, and June Jordan's Poetry for the People. Application Instructions Applicants should follow and complete the usual application processes for the MFA in Poetry by the priority application deadline of December 15. In addition to those materials, they should submit a maximum 1,000-word proposal that outlines a project they would like to pursue during the two-year MFA program. Proposed projects could explore new ways of teaching poetry, expanding arts access, and promoting social change. The proposed project needs to be executed during the timeframe of the student's MFA program. It can be a continuation of work the applicant is already doing. They should also submit a CV or resume that demonstrates any relevant experience and skills. The proposal and CV or resume should be submitted separately from the program application materials. Assistantship proposals and CV or resume can be submitted by going to: www.mills.slideroom.com The assistantship in Comminity Poetics is listed on slideroom along with multiple assistantships the deparment offers, and applicants to the MFA in Poetry program are encouraged to apply for the Community Poetice assistant ship as well as any other graduate assistantships in which they are interested. Please note that each student may only be awarded one assistantship position for the academic year. Please also note that all other available assistantships carry an award of $3,000/semester or $6,000 for the academic year and are awarded in addition to any need-based scholarships students may be awarded. The Assistantship in Community Poetics is the only full assistantship offered by the MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College at this time. NOTE: There is a $10.00 total submission fee to apply for this and any other assistantships online via SlideRoom; though we prefer that mode, and we think applicants might find it easier to manage the application. However, if the $10.00 fee causes a hardship, contact Stephanie Young by email and include a statement about why you need to waive the application fee. Judging Criteria Proposals will be judged based on: 1. Creativity 2. Potential for social impact/change Deadline: December 15, 2010 Questions please contact: Stephanie Young, English Graduate Programs Coordinator syoung@mills.edu 510.430.3130 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:10:51 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Naomi Buck Palagi Subject: Poetry Reading: Stratman and Buck Palagi In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: This SATURDAY Novemeber 13th @ Myopic Books / Naomi Buck Palagi & = =0AConnor Stratman=0ATHE MYOPIC POETRY SERIES =E2=80=94 a weekly series of = readings and occasional poets' =0Atalks=0A=0AMyopic Books in Chicago =E2=80= =94 All readings begin at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, =0A2nd Floor=0A= =0Ahttp://www.facebook.com/l/04f5b2BureKskd91tE3plgCeOaA;www.myopicbookstor= e.com/poetry.html=0A=0A=0A773.862.4882=0A=0AContact curator Larry Sawyer fo= r booking information and requests.=0A=0AE-mail: milkmag@rcn.com=0A=0AThis = SATURDAY at Myopic Books:=0A=0A7pm=0A=0A=0ASaturday, November 13 =E2=80=93 = Connor Stratman & Naomi Buck Palagi=0A=0ANaomi Buck PALAGI loves shaping th= ings; wood, fabric, sound, words. She has work =0Apublished or forthcoming = in journals such as The Spoon River Review, Moria, Blue =0AFifth Review, Ot= oliths, Wicked Alice and Blossombones, among others. Her =0Achapbook, silve= r roof tantrum, is recently published by dancing girl press. She =0Alives, = works, writes, and loves in Northwest Indiana.=0A=0AConnor STRATMAN current= ly lives and works in Chicago. His work has appeared in =0Ajournals such as= The Toronto Quarterly, Pinstripe Fedora, Leaf Garden, =0ACounterexample Po= etics, Otoliths, Scythe, and Ditch, among others. He currently =0Aedits the= online poetry journal The Balloon. His first chapbook, invisible =0Aentran= ces, was published by Erbacce Press in 2010. The winner of the 2010 =0AErba= cce Press Prize for Poetry, his first full-length book of poems, An Early = =0AScratch, will be published in early 2011.=0A=0A=0AUPCOMING=0A=0A=0AThurs= day, December 2 - Johan J=C3=B6nson, Sarah Riggs, and Cole Swensen =0A=0A= =0A2011=0A=0ASaturday, February 12 - Duriel Harris & Nick Demske =0A=0A=0A = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:15:13 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Women not worth $100,000? Comments: To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" , Discussion of Women's Poetry List , pussipo@googlegroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Answer here - h= Women worth $100,000 at Academy of American Poets? =0A=0AAnswer here =0A- h= ttp://vidaweb.org/academy-of-american-poets-overview-of-academy-awards-betw= een-1995-2010=0A=0A=0APrevious questions a la 2010 Publishers Weekly here = =0A- http://vidaweb.org/publishers-weekly-kirkus-review=0A=0AHopefully,=0AA= my=0A=0Ap.s. Interviews coming up with Anne Waldman and Blanche Wiesen Coo= k ...=0A=0A=0A=0A*********=0AVIDA: Women in Literary Arts=0A+ Interviews= =0A=0AAmy's Alias=0A+ http://amyking.org/ =0A********=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:04:58 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Skinner Subject: Call for Participants: Simultania (Sat. 13 Nov.) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable EMF World Urgent Opportunity Simultania Project Saturday, November 13, 11am EST ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The Simultania Project is an attempt to experience simultaneous =20 realities by gaining a many-layered perspective of a single moment in =20 time. It?s about our impossible wish to break free from the isolation =20 of a singular sense of consciousness, while at the same time =20 possessing the imaginative power to realize that there are other =20 experiences of consciousness occurring right now besides our own. The =20 project is about our fundamental desire to be special on the one hand, =20 while realizing that it?s this very desire that makes us utterly =20 common on the other. And it?s about how new technologies are changing =20 the way we directly experience the world, and the sheer sense of =20 wonder that results when we realize that simultaneous realities are =20 unfolding around us at all times. The one major criteria is that participants time-stamp their footage =20 or audio recording so that later it can be synced up to play back =20 simultaneously with everything else in the installation. To do this, =20 set a watch or clock to the live time-count on the website?s homepage. http://www.simultaniaproject.com/index.html Then, in the seconds before the 1-minute-moment is set to begin, start =20 your recording by filming the face of your watch or clock (or the live =20 time-count itself on the screen of your computer) as the seconds tick =20 away. Then, without stopping your recording, go on to film whatever =20 you?d like to for the 1-minute-moment. For more simple time-stamping methods (including audio-only methods), go to: http://www.simultaniaproject.com/participate.html#p7HGMpc_1_5 The installation will be exhibited in the spring of 2011 in the =20 Streaming Museum?s network of international screens in public spaces =20 and at Here is Elsewhere in Los Angeles, as well as online at =20 simultaniaproject.com and streamingmuseum.org. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:10:13 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sarah Rosenthal Subject: This Saturday! Gala Launch for A Community MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii You're invited to the 2nd of 2 Gala Launches for: A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area Edited by Sarah Rosenthal (Dalkey Achive, 2010) When: Saturday November 13, 7:30pm Where: Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street (above Sutter) Hosted by San Francisco Poetry Center Who: Stephen Ratcliffe Elizabeth Robinson Juliana Spahr Truong Tran Sarah Rosenthal Sarah Anne Cox reading for Barbara Guest What: Readings by authors featured in the book + Q&A* Wine, nonalcoholic beverages, desserts $10; no one turned away for lack of funds Free to SFSU students & Poetry Center members http://www.acommunitywritingitself.com *You're invited to bring questions for Stephen, Juliana, Elizabeth, and Truong about any aspect of their work. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:07:03 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Susan Webster Schultz Subject: Job opening in Creative Writing at UH-Manoa MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, Poet and/or Novelist, full-time, tenure-track position in Creative Writing starting August 1, 2011 (position number _____ ); position dependent upon funding and availability. _Teaching Duties_: teach introductory composition and literature courses as well as upper-division and graduate-level courses in Creative Writing, as well as courses in literature; 2-2 teaching load first year and at least one other year during probationary period; 3-2 load in other years. _Minimum Qualifications_: Ph.D. or M.F.A. in English; with strong publishing record. _Desirable Qualifications_: creative and teaching interest in any of the following areas: Hawaiian and/or Pacific literary traditions, international literature, non-realist writing, gender and sexuality, mixed genres, translation. _Salary_: commensurate with experience and background. Send letter of application and CV to Professor Jeffrey Carroll, Chair, English Department, University of Hawai'i at Ma-noa, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. The University of Hawai'i at Ma-noa is committed to equal opportunity and affirmative action. _Closing Date_: December 1, 2010. Initial interviews will be conducted at MLA in Los Angeles in January 2011. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:49:13 -0500 Reply-To: clwnwr@earthlink.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bob Heman Subject: Brevitas Event this sunday - "Information" online - CLWN WR December 4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi Folks - some big news first - this sunday i'll be one of over 35 poets who will be reading their short poems (no longer than 14 lines) between 2 and 6 at the 7th Annual Brevitas Festival of the Short Poem at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (between Houston and Bleecker Streets) - it will be a lot of fun - everyone who attends will receive a free anthology containing all the poems that are being read plus many more (it's easily worth the $7 price of admission) - plus, while each poem is being read you will see it projected over the poet's head - it's a unique event and one you'll remember + + + second - most of you know my "Information" pieces, an ongoing series of prose poems that explore all kinds of things well, you can find recent "Information" in the last two issues of the Australian magazine Otoliths at http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/ in the first online issue of formerly print magazine Caliban at www.calibanonline.com in the most recent issue of Right Hand Pointing at https://sites.google.com/site/rhpissue36/ and in the January-April 2010 issue of Press 1 http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v3n3/heman.html + + + and last (but certainly not least) the lineup for the next BIG CLWN WR Event/Celebration has been pretty much finalized - it will be held on December 4 between 7 and 10 in the Community room at Westbeth and will feature filmaker/performance artist (and poet and dancer and singer) Mindy Levokove, and will include an improvised dance poem by Nathan Whiting and Christina Knight, songs by Carolyn Ota, photographs by Lori Rogers, and poetry by Thomas Fucaloro, Evie Ivy, Judy Kamilhor, Jee Leong Koh, Brian McInerney, Katrinka Moore, Adriana Scopino, George Spencer, Phyllis Wat and Liza Wolsky - more info will follow Bob Heman clwnwr@earthlink.net EarthLink Revolves Around You. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:13:55 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: lulu coupon code Comments: To: pussipo , "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &, Views" , Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating poetry and poetics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 today only, vetsday305 coupon code at lulu gets you 20% off your order, up to $100 so you can buy everyone's lulu books! including mine, Paper Craft All best, Catherine Daly ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:11:01 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: William at Spineless Books Subject: 11/11 11:11 New at Spineless Books > Riddle & Bind, Keyhole Factory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) SPINELESS BOOKS ANNOUNCES Riddle & Bind, poetry by Nick Montfort http://spinelessbooks.com/riddle A book of poems to solve in three sections: "Riddle," poems = inviting =20 the reader to guess their subject; "Bind," poems written using =20 Oulipian constraints; and "&," riddles written using ludic and poetic =20= forms. Answers and constraints are disclosed in an encrypted answer =20 key. The book has a introduction and extensive notes, and comes =20 wrapped in an enigmatic riddle-blurb by Christian B=F6k. Nick Montfort =20= is on the faculty of MIT's Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies =20 and serves as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He =20= lives, writes, and programs in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Keyhole Factory, fiction by William Gillespie http://spinelessbooks.com/keyholefactory Revolving around an event that takes pace on 11/11/11, = interlocking, =20 formally innovative stories plot the tragic trajectory of a world off =20= the edge. "...despite its format as a novel (and also its novel =20 format...), Keyhole Factory is poetry at its heart. It suggests, =20 nudges, and paints blurry, horribly beautiful word pictures more than =20= it tells, and it never uses straightforward prose where an allusive =20 fever-dream will do. It is by turns bewildering and gorgeous, =20 maddening and profound, and at the end of the day, it's a winner." - =20= Smile Politely. William Gillespie is the author of eight and five-=20 sixths books of fiction and poetry, published under five names. He is =20= co-host of the radio show Rock Geek F.M. and holds an MFA in =20 electronic writing from Brown University. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR RIDDLE & BIND I like the way Nick Montfort's poems maintain both brilliance = and =20 being: never losing either while displaying the other. The poems build =20= their force by acceleration as they shimmer between imagination and =20 reality, between attention to language and the language of attention. =20= For example, to note that many passersby are gripping "head wounds" - =20= the first two words of "Another Hole" - is striking; that what these =20 passersby are clutching is their mobile phones is mordantly funny. And =20= beyond that, the poem ("Another Hole") deploys Montfort's distinctive =20= gifts of ear, eye and brain to consider genuine, figurative wounds: =20 "Heal them, please/ please press their/ heads together,/ O." This is a =20= boldly original, serious and playful book of genuine poetry. - Robert Pinsky Ancient poetic tradition teaches both the prism-house (riddle) = and =20 prison-house (bind) of language. Old English riddles artfully mislead =20= us, only to return sparkling awareness of what had been lost as =20 commonplace once they are solved, the language-practice of riddle =20 defeating the graying-out effects of ordinary speech. All of world-poetry uses the constraints of sound-following, = measure, =20 and form. A drive to preserve traditional constraints co-exists with a =20= constant pressure to discover or elaborate new ones. Most recently, =20 visual, lettristric, mathematical, and algorithmic constraints have =20 been explored by Oulipians, digital writers, and others. Nick Montfort=92s Riddle & Bind comes informed by all these = practices, =20 especially enriched by his experience as a prizewinning writer of =20 digital interactive fiction and as a coder of concise, elegant poetry =20= generators. Dive in to the riddles and bound poems of Riddle & Bind as gifts = of =20 21st-century language - and turn to the "key" at the end of the book =20 if your enjoyment includes the "answers" or curiosity about =20 constraints. Deep pleasure awaits you. - Stephanie Strickland TODAY DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN PUBLISHES QUESTIONS TO INTERVIEW ANSWERS BY =20 WILLIAM GILLESPIE = http://bigother.com/2010/11/11/the-big-other-interview-87-william-gillespi= e-oh-what-a-tangled-webwork-we-weave/ KEYHOLE FACTORY ADVANCE REVIEW IN SMILE POLITELY = http://www.smilepolitely.com/arts/book_review_keyhole_factory_by_william_g= illespie/ This is a rare email from the bashful Spineless Books. http://spinelessbooks.com Spineless Books PO Box 17191 Urbana, IL 61803 USA 217 722 1033= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:10:36 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Subject: PROTEST!! COME JOIN US!! VOICES AGAINST BIG OIL, BEYOND BAROQUE, NOV 18 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable VOICES AGAINST BIG OIL POETS AND MUSICIANS MIXING IT UP IN PROTEST Thursday, November 18=20 7:00pm - 10:00pm Beyond Baroque=20 http://beyondbaroque.org/ 68 Venice Ave. Venice, CA Join us for a night of action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster with = poets JAWANZA DUMISANI, LUIS JAVIER RODRIGUEZ, LEWIS MACADAMS, LIZ = GONZALEZ, TERRI CARRION, RANDY CAUTHEN, MICHAEL ROTHENBERG and musicians = BOB MALONE (piano), JEFF DELLISANTI (sax), RICHARD GRANT (trumpet) and = TREVOR WARE (bass) All proceeds got to The Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a 501(c)(3) = environmental health and justice organization. www.labucketbrigade.org ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS: LIZ GONZALEZ's work has appeared in numerous journals, periodicals, and = anthologies and will be in the forthcoming anthology Blame the Ugly Mug: = Ten Years of Two Idiots Peddling Poetry. She facilitates creative = writing workshops at community centers and teaches writing at Long Beach = City College and creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' = Program. JAWANZA DUMISANI is Director of Literary Programming at The World Stage, = a PEN Fellow and recipient of the 2004-2005 PEN Award; his collection, = Stoetry, is available from FarStarFire Press. LEWIS MACADAMS is a poet, journalist, filmmaker, and founder of Friends = of the Los Angeles River. The River, Books 1,2, & 3 were published = recently by Blue Press. He is also the author of Birth of The Cool. His = most recent Blue Press book is Lyrics. TERRI CARRION was conceived in Venezuela, born in New York to a Galician = mother and a Cuban Father, and raised in Los Angeles and Miami. Her = poetry, prose and photography has appeared and disappeared in various = publications.=20 RANDY CAUTHEN is Poet-in-Residence at Cal State Dominguez Hills and the = author of three books: The Use of Force (poetry), Black Letters: An = Ethnography of Legal Writing (nonfiction) and the forthcoming Stealing = Your Death (poetry). LUIS JAVIER RODRIGUEZ is a published poet, novelist, short story writer, = memoirist and columnist. He's also founder of Tia Chucha Press and = cofounder of Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural in the Northeast San Fernando = Valley. MICHAEL ROTHENBERG is editor of Big Bridge magazine, www.bigbridge.org. = He is the author of the eco-spy thriller Punk Rockwell(Tropical Press). = His most recent book of poems is My Youth As A Train (Foothills = Publishing, 2010). BOB MALONE doesn't just accompany himself on piano. "He supports his = singing with pulsating, roaring keyboard work that grabs you and shakes = you until you cry for mercy."- Keyboard Magazine JEFF DELLISANTI: Professional woodwinds player. Owns and operates all = his machinery. Special Admission: $10.00. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:43:43 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Weiss Subject: Re: Women not worth $100,000? In-Reply-To: <368163.78109.qm@web83303.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Good thing most poets aren't in it for the prizes. At 01:15 PM 11/11/2010, you wrote: >Answer here >- h >Women worth $100,000 at Academy of American=20 >Poets? Answer here -=20 >http://vidaweb.org/academy-of-american-poets-overview-of-academy-awards-bet= ween-1995-2010=20 >Previous questions a la 2010 Publishers Weekly=20 >here -=20 >http://vidaweb.org/publishers-weekly-kirkus-review=20 >Hopefully, Amy p.s. Interviews coming up with=20 >Anne Waldman and Blanche Wiesen Cook ...=20 >********* VIDA: Women in Literary Arts +=20 >Interviews Amy's Alias + http://amyking.org/ ******** > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept=20 >all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info:=20 >http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape. $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a=20 lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the=20 poet alive in every sense of the word, and=20 through every one of his senses. Instead of=20 missing a beat or a part, Weiss=92 fragments are=20 like Chekhov=92s short stories=ADthe more that gets=20 left out, the more they seem to contain=85 One can=20 hear echoes from all the various=20 ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its=20 core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment=20 is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure=20 musical threnody=85[it] opens a window, not only=20 into a mind, but a person, a personality, this=20 human figure at the emotional center of the poem." M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.=20 http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:36:25 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ron Henry Subject: CALENDAR LISTING: SOON Productions Presents a Poetry Reading by Joshua Clover and Kiki Petrosino on 11/21/10 at 4:00 p.m. at the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, NY Comments: To: ith-calendar@gannett.com, arts@ithacatimes.com, Cornell Chronicle , daze@cornellsun.com, The Ithacan , gdunn@cyradiogroup.com, ballinger@cyradiogroup.com, pr@wells.edu Comments: cc: Fred Muratori , Avery Slater MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Poets Joshua Clover and Kiki Petrosino will read from their work on Sunday, November 21st, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell University campus. The reading is free and open to the public. JOSHUA CLOVER is a scholar and poet who is the spending the year as a Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell. His first collection of poems, Madonna anno domini, won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. His most recent books include The Matrix, a book of film criticism; The Totality for Kids, a collection of poems; and 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About. He is a Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, Davis. KIKI PETROSINO is the author of Fort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009). She was born in Baltimore and received her BA from the University of Virginia. She spent two years in Switzerland teaching English and Italian at a private school, after which she earned graduate degrees from both the University of Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poem, "You Have Made a Career of Not Listening," was featured in the anthology Best New Poets (Samovar Press), and other poems have appeared in FENCE, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include a post-graduate writing fellowship from the University of Iowa and two staff scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Louisville. This event has been made possible in part with grant support from the Community Arts Partnership. SOON Productions is dedicated to bringing innovative poets and writers to Ithaca for readings and talks. Please visit our website at http://soonproductions.org for more information about the series. For more information, contact: Ron Henry SOON Productions Email: ron.henry@gmail.com Web: http://soonproductions.org ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:50:31 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Noah Eli Gordon Subject: NEW: Farid Matuk & Juliana Leslie MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear friends: =20 We are pleased to announce two new Letter Machine Editions titles: =20 Farid Matuk's This Isa Nice Neighborhood =20 and =20 Juliana Leslie's More Radiant Signal =20 =20 You can purchase both for $20 (including shipping!) here: http://www.lettermachine.org/ =20 =20 They are also available individually here for $14 each: http://www.lettermachine.org/purchase.html =20 =20 On Matuk: =20 Can identity be pliant and penetrable? Can the speech act be one of attenti= on over intention=2C can play and fluidity open onto an ethic? This Isa Nic= e Neighborhood=2C Farid Matuk=92s first full-length collection=2C says yes.= Yes to the rejection of any opposition between politics and aesthetics=2C = between rhetoric and poetics. Yes to vulnerability. Yes to a poetry willing= to enact the errors=2C uncertainties=2C and tangled complexities of our po= litical=2C sexual=2C and social lives. Testing both narrative and lyric=2C = Matuk finds desire at the root of each=2C a root from which=2C these poems = suggest=2C compassion and permission grow intertwined. =20 Farid Matuk was born in Peru to a Syrian mother and Peruvian father=3B he h= as lived in the U.S. since the age of six. Matuk is the auther of Is it the= King? (Effing). His poems have appeared in 6 X 6=2C Barrelhouse=2C The Bos= ton Review=2C Big Bridge=2C and Cannibal=2C among others. His essays and re= views have appeared in Sentence=2C Cross-Cultural Poetics=2C and The Poerty= Project Newsletter. Matuk has published translations from Spanish in Kadar= Koli=2C Bombay Gin=2C Translation Review=2C and Harvard Review. The recipi= ent of Ford and Fullbright Fellowships=2C Matuk holds an MFA from the Miche= ner Center for Writers at UT Austin. He lives in Dallas with the poet Susan= Briante. =20 =20 On Leslie: =20 A chair by Charles and Ray Eames. A painting by Paul Klee. A sentence by Vi= rginia Woolf. Juliana Leslie=92s debut collection More Radiant Signal broad= casts its elegant=2C probing lyricism here=2C among the panoply of those wh= o worked to house extended thought in moments of compressed articulation. W= ith haunting=2C painterly logic=2C Leslie=92s poems offer a world where the= equivocal beauty of algebra and the aerodynamics of paper planes meet "a w= indowpane in love/ with a bright whirligig" to show that "[t]he boundary of= the sky is a touchstone for enunciation." Is there such a thing as an impo= ssible object? And if not=2C how is that after reading More Radiant Signal = it sits there perfectly in the center of the room.=20 =20 Juliana Leslie was born in Cooperstown=2C New York and currently lives in S= anta Cruz=2C California. She holds degrees from the University of Californi= a=2C Santa Cruz=3B Mills College=3B and the University of Massachusetts=2C = Amherst. This is her first book. =20 =20 New chapbooks from Fred Moten and Peter Gizzi are forthcoming in the spring= =2C along with Edmund Berrigan's memoir Can It! due out next fall 2011. =20 =20 Our books are also available at SPD=2C and we'll see you in the Table X fra= y at AWP in DC this year. =20 =20 Many thanks=2C JMW & NEG http://www.lettermachine.org = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:55:11 -0500 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: new from above/ground press: Chris Turnbull's Continua 1-22 Continua 1-22 by Chris Turnbull $4 published in Ottawa in an edition of 250 copies; 2011 subscriptions now available; http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-subscriptions-now-available.html to order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2 US) to rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7 Chris Turnbull lives in Kemptville, Ontario. Recent pieces of continua have been published in ottawater, Convergences, How2, ditch and Dusie. continua is a visual text and multi-voiced performative piece. -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:14:11 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Xerox Sutra Editions liberates another title from the beginning of copier culture Comments: To: ubuweb@yahoogroups.com, fluxlist@yahoogroups.com, spidertangle@yahoogroups.com, UKPOETRY@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Watch Sally Blow featuring Sally Saxophone Sally Saxophone coloring book, for kids whose parents are not unfamiliar with altered perception. Print out copy & color away. You won't find a coloring book like this in any store! Created by Elizabeth Was in 1981. http://www.scribd.com/doc/41957871/Watch-Sally-Blow-featuring-Sally-Saxophone ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:40:24 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: NHL BRAIN TRINKET MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NHL BRAIN TRINKET http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=565 What I'm going to tell you-I warn you-is of no consequence whatever. And it won't even be of any interest to you at all unless you're an NHL hockey fan. And, what's worse, it's going to severely test your algebra skills. The only thing I can say in favour of saying it at all is that you just won't ever read anything else about hockey like what I'm going to tell you right now. It just doesn't happen. This is the unicorn of hockey writing. Right here, right now. It's so messed up to be telling you this at all that I have to give you something to get you to read it. What I'm going to give you is like something you'd get for a dollar out of a bubble-gum machine. But maybe the best such thing you'd get. Cuz it's an idea. It's a formula. It's from the bubble gum machine of the mind. I figured it out myself. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else. I'm going to give you a little brain trinket. The formula tells you how many points a perfectly average NHL team should have after they've played N games. That's it. That's all this is about. The only use it has is to be able to tell if a team is above or below average. Think of this as a peculiarly Canadian gift. It's a way to think a little bit more clearly about something that is barely worth thinking about at all. But, you know, in Canada, we think about hockey. It's more pleasant than thinking about the mess we're in..... ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:57 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Camille Martin Subject: New @ Rogue Embryo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 New @ Rogue Embryo http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com * Kristallnacht anniversary http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/anniversary-of-kristallnacht/ * Emil Cioran's perpetual collapse of belief http://rogueembryo.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/emil-ciorans-perpetual-collapse= -of-belief/ Cheers! Camille Martin Sonnets: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781848610705/sonnets.aspx Codes of Public Sleep: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781897388112/codes-of-public-sleep.aspx =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:02:06 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bill Dunlap Subject: Barn Murals and Poetry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, I recently finished the first in a series of murals on barns across Maryland. Each mural will be a text and image piece featuring poetry. The project is organized by the University of Maryland Art Gallery in College Park, and is called "Poetic Aesthetic in Rural Maryland". For the first barn I used the poem "Lost" by David Wagoner. If anyone can offer suggestions for poems about nature (specific poems, anthologies, web sites) I'd appreciate it. Some images of the first barn are at the following links. On my site: http://www.billdunlap.com/painting/view_2010/viewA10_49.html On My Love for You... (an art blog) where I wrote a bit more about the idea behind this project: http://bit.ly/bQdLAJ Thanks! ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:18:04 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jordan Stempleman Subject: The Continental Review MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Wonderful new videos from Kate & Max Greenstreet=2C Dana Ward=2C Sawako Nak= ayasu=2C Jennifer K. Knox=2C Heather Christle=2C Brandon Downing=2C and man= y others now up at The Continental Review: http://www.thecontinentalreview.= com/ =20 Best=2C =20 Jordan Stempleman = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:59:11 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Wanda Phipps Subject: Performance Saturday--Would love to see you.... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hope you can make it Saturday night: *PERFORMANCE: =93Words, Music and Moving Pictures=94* *Sat, Nov 13, 7:00pm; FREE, tickets at door* Location: Launchpad, 721 Franklin Ave, Bklyn Subways: 2/3/4/5 to Franklin Ave; C to Franklin Ave http://thebrooklynink.com/2010/11/12/19073-free-on-franklin-avenue/ Three NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp graduates and a Boot Camp organizer present their work: Documentarian and multimedia artist Ryan Murdock presents =93Project: Butte= , America,=94 a multimedia essay about Butte=92s mining past and its question= able legacy. Playing the role of a subjective tour guide, Murdock narrates this combination folk-history-and-cautionary tale to live music. Poets Liliana Almendarez and Wanda Phipps read from their work. Almendarez offers both new poems and pieces from her book, A Scorched Page (lulu.com); Phipps reads from Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press), Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire (BlazeVOX[books]) and Silent Picture Recognize the World, a collection-in-process. Stephen B. Antonakos, a frequent collaborator, accompanies her with original compositions performed on the guitar. Singer-Songwriter Stephanie Spangler performs songs from her album, *Leavin= g Biltmore Grove*, as well as some new tunes. Spangler navigates through love, loss, and resolution in her original pop-folk songs played on the piano. *Part of the New York Foundation for the Arts=92 =93NYFA Boot Camp Arts Festival=94 (Nov 4 - 20), a showcase of work by 38 visual artists, filmmake= rs, musicians, choreographers, and authors. For a complete program schedule visit http://nyfabootcampfestival.wordpress.com/* --=20 Wanda Phipps Check out my websites: http://mindhoney.com and http://www.myspace.com/wandaphippsband My latest book of poetry Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire available at: http://www.blazevox.org/bk-wp.htm And my 1st full-length book of poems Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems available (print and Kindle editions) at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193236031X/ref=3Drm_item =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:55:32 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jesse Glass Subject: Re: Barn Murals and Poetry In-Reply-To: <<690770.35019.qm@web112615.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Why don't you use a Maryland poet's work? On 11/13/2010, "Bill Dunlap" wrote: >Hello, > >I recently finished the first in a series of murals on barns across Maryland. Each mural will be a text and image piece featuring poetry. The project is organized by the University of Maryland Art Gallery in College Park, and is called "Poetic Aesthetic in Rural Maryland". For the first barn I used the poem "Lost" by David Wagoner. > >If anyone can offer suggestions for poems about nature (specific poems, anthologies, web sites) I'd appreciate it. Some images of the first barn are at the following links. > >On my site: >http://www.billdunlap.com/painting/view_2010/viewA10_49.html > >On My Love for You... (an art blog) where I wrote a bit more about the idea behind this project: >http://bit.ly/bQdLAJ > > >Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > >================================== >The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:14:15 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sommer Browning Subject: Flying Guillotine Press Open Chapbook Reading Period MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Flying Guillotine Press is a handmade=2C limited edition poetry chapbook pr= ess. We're accepting submissions to our open reading period for three more days. Please see what we do and=2C if you like it=2C submit a chapbook!=20 Examples of our books and our guidelines are here: http://flyingguillotinepress.blogspot.com/2010/10/open-reading-period.html We look forward to reading your work and good wishes to you! FGP = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:01:19 +0100 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: Robert Archambeau interview at The Argotist Online Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc , Wryting-L MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Robert Archambeau interview at The Argotist Online =20 http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Archambeau%20interview.htm =20 =20 Excerpts: =20 =E2=80=9C[T]here are certainly instances where poetry can fill an important= political need, and where, perhaps, it can have =E2=80=9Cmajor=E2=80=9D po= litical effects. As for experimental poetry in the contemporary West=E2=80= =94I agree with Andrea Brady, when she says, of such poetry, =E2=80=9CAt my= most optimistic, I hope it encourages its readers=E2=80=94who, as readers = seeking out this kind of work, aren=E2=80=99t likely to require encourageme= nt=E2=80=94to think critically about politics, or perhaps to be inspired by= such thinking to participate in collective efforts to overcome the tyranni= es of capitalism.=E2=80=9D That is, I think that thinking about this kind o= f poetry can be an important spur to critical thinking about one=E2=80=99s = assumption=E2=80=94although, like Brady, I do feel there=E2=80=99s a compon= ent of preaching to the choir involved. Also, I=E2=80=99m not sure this is = a kind of politics in which poetry has any special role over, say, sociolog= y or history or ecology. I=E2=80=99ve always been suspicious of claims abou= t the specia ness of poetry: my colleague Josh Corey, whom I admire, claims= that =E2=80=9Conly poetry can undo the Big Lie =E2=80=94 I=E2=80=99m not a= t all sure that=E2=80=99s true, I=E2=80=99m not convinced that film, or mus= ic, or street protest, or editorial writing, or talking to one=E2=80=99s fr= iends, isn=E2=80=99t similar in its effect. There=E2=80=99s a kind of narci= ssism one encounters sometimes in poetry circles, a sense that this thing t= hat we care for must be of central importance not just to us but to others = as well. Sometimes we even see the lack of evidence for such importance as = a sign of importance=E2=80=94as proof that we=E2=80=99re Shelley=E2=80=99s = =E2=80=9Cunacknowledged legislators=E2=80=9D after all. My instinct is to = distrust such claims, though I=E2=80=99m open to demonstrations to the cont= rary.=E2=80=9D [=E2=80=A6] =20 =E2=80=9CA politics of obscurity? Well: one could argue that there=E2=80=99= s a long tradition of this, or several traditions. One kind of obscurity ta= kes the form of what George Steiner calls =E2=80=9Ctactical difficulty,=E2= =80=9D a kind of encoding of messages to get past censors of one kind or an= other. This depends on the right kind of reader or auditor being able to pi= ck up a message that the wrong kind can=E2=80=99t: old style blues lyrics o= ffer a case in point. There=E2=80=99s another kind of politics of obscurity= , which we can think of as going back at least as far as the symbolist, dec= adent, and aesthetic movements. People like Mallarm=C3=A9 or Gustav Moreau,= who advocated an art that turned away from the world, and from intelligibi= lity, as a means of rejecting modernity. If the realist novelists sought to= combat social injustice polemically (as did, say Zola or Upton Sinclair), = this other path offered an implicit critique via the turning of its back on= the world. It=E2=80=99s less a transformation of the world than a refusal = of it, or a retreat. The analogy that comes to mind from my personal experi= ence is the hippie commune I spent some of my childhood living next door to= , in Maine. Many of these guys had been politically engaged, trying to chan= ge policy through protest (a Zola-esque politics, in this analogy), but at = a certain point they decided to withdraw from that engagement, and turn the= ir backs on the world they despised, living in obscurity (if that=E2=80=99s= not too much of a pun). It=E2=80=99s a politics of sorts, I suppose, in it= s refusals more than anything else, and its general, unarticulated assertio= n that there=E2=80=99s got to be another way of doing things. But the ways = it changes the world=E2=80=94if indeed it does, and I imagine there are way= s=E2=80=94are difficult to trace.=E2=80=9D =20 [=E2=80=A6] =20 =E2=80=9CAs for the question of the academy=E2=80=94it=E2=80=99s certainly = become the main place where one finds poets in the United States, and, incr= easingly, in the U.K. Of course this has an impact. In the case of the New = Critics, the first American generation of poets to enter the academy, it di= d have the effect of playing-up the formalist element of their agenda, for = reasons that are quite explicit if you read their correspondence. The unive= rsity demands specialization, and poetry can defend itself as a specializat= ion=E2=80=94as something distinct from philosophy or history or sociology o= r journalism=E2=80=94with reference to form. And if one looks at the kind = of poetry coming out of academic programs in the United States now, one see= s it is overwhelmingly elliptical in form: that is, it insists on its disti= nctness from the language of quotidian prose, on its formal qualities that = make it a kind of special field of endeavor in an environment that is domin= ated by the logic of specialization. That=E2=80=99s not the only thing that= =E2=80=99s going on, but it=E2=80=99s certainly a part of our current cultu= ral logic. All of this may change, with the big changes that seem likely to= come to academe over the next generation, but I=E2=80=99m not in any posit= ion to make predictions about what lies ahead, except that it will be diffe= rent from the way we do things now.=E2=80=9D =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:44:51 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: call for proposals: curate a festival in chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi poetics friends....chicago arts space links hall is looking for interdis= ciplinary festival proposals for 2011-12.=C2=A0 it's a great chance to laun= ch a series of creative projects in chicago with both financial and marketi= ng support.=0A=0Ai've participated as a performer in a poets' theater showc= ase (2008) and co-curated a festival of writing, performance, and video (20= 09).=C2=A0 this spring i'll be performing in the art/profit festival.=C2=A0= so, feel free to send any questions my way. =0A=0Ayou can see the details = of past festivals here.=0Ahttp://linkshall.org/o-aa.shtml=0A=0Aapplications= are due DECEMBER 6th. =0Ahttp://linkshall.org/o-proposals_aa.shtml=0A=0Aan= d -- curators don't need to live in chicago.=C2=A0 i've posted a few more d= etails below.=C2=A0 forward the info to your friends and collaborators.=0A= =0Aonwards,=0Ajen karmin=0A=0A=0ALinks Hall=E2=80=99s Artistic Associates (= AAs) each curate a nine performance festival for the Links Hall space, for = which they receive a budget, along with marketing, mentoring and technical = support. AA projects have taken place annually since 2005 and have proved t= o be an important and supportive relationship for both Links Hall and the a= rtist, generating press coverage, and expanding audiences for new work. Man= y Artistic Associates maintain their relationship with Links Hall beyond th= eir curation.=0A=0AThe AA program welcomes new artistic perspective each ye= ar to keep programming fresh and interesting. Many successful applicants ha= ve had limited or no curatorial experience and have found the program to be= an opportunity for creative and professional development.=0A=0A2005-2010 A= A programs have included dance, puppetry, live art/performance, experimenta= l theater, cantastoria, readings, music, and multidisciplinary work.=0A=0AL= inks Hall plans to select three AAs for 2011-12, and welcomes proposals. Th= e proposal review and selection of AAs will be made by Links Hall=E2=80=99s= Programming Committee, which comprises artists (including some past AAs), = as well as Links Hall Staff and Board members.=0AEligibility and Criteria= =0A=0AAll practicing artists are welcome to submit a proposal, and no past = curatorial experience is necessary.=0A=0AAAs do not need to be based in Chi= cago. If you are based elsewhere, please reference in your proposal that yo= u plan to be in Chicago for some program planning and your festival.=0A=0A= =0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:19:47 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: patrick dunagan Subject: new Jim Carroll chap of poems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Kevin Opstedal over at Blue Press down in Santa Cruz has put out a chapbook of previously unpublished poems by Jim Carroll. More info here: http://bluepressbooks.blogspot.com/2010/11/bolinas-poems-by-jim-carroll.html & here: http://bluepressbooks.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:10:28 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Kamau Daa'ood at EsoWon In-Reply-To: <566997.6950.qm@web81304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I mean to forward this as a topic of discussion as well as just a -- notice Catherine Daly Next Saturday November 20 at EsoWon 10:30 to 4:00pm EsoWon Books 4331 Degnan Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90008 323-290-1048 Eso Won is please to announce a Special Saturday Sale, November 20 from 10:30 am to 4:00 pm. Poet Kamau Daaood returns to Eso Won offering for sale 100's of Books from his own collection, as well as Cd's, Dvd's and other items. Many of the items are rare and collectable and the prices can't be beat. Come early as this will include merchandise never displayed before. Eso Won will also have a table of used books and Cd's as well. Plus special refreshments will be provided by "Arts & Food". Join us, the past events have been great with a lot of pleased customers. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:35:23 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: ShaunAnne Tangney Subject: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the revolution = will not be televised?" I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron lyrics; I know = those. But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song? Doesn't it come = from a speech or a poem? Anyone know? Thanks--ShaunAnne =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:37:59 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: New stop action animation on Emerging Language Practices Comments: To: spidertangle@yahoogroups.com, fluxlist@yahoogroups.com, Theory and Writing , UKPOETRY@listserv.muohio.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Alpha Tree a film by mIEKAL aND & Liaizon Wakest How can YOU resist this discount hot ticket item ready to buy in your local checkout aisle? For a mere $5, you can venture into the spooky & indeterminate world of visual poetry. The alphebetic drift, it's all about the drift. How to spell what is not being said. http://epc.buffalo.edu/ezines/elp/issue-1/alpha-tree.php ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:12:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chris Hosea Subject: Review of Lasky's BLACK LIFE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi folks, I review Dorothea Lasky's BLACK LIFE at http://friendswritebooks.wordpress.com. -Chris ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:32:10 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: This Friday - NOVEMBER 19 =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?= DOUGLAS ALLEN ~ MACGREGOR CARD ~ KATHY FAGAN ~ RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN ~ CHRIS SALERNO & ROB SCHLEGAL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 7 PM ON NOVEMBER 19 @ GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY â= STAIN OF POETRY PRESENTS=0A=0A7 PM ON NOVEMBER 19 @ GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY =E2= =80=93 BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN=0A=0A=0A=0ADouglas Allen is the author of WEATHER= VANES, from Feral Press. A New Yorker =0Asince 1998, he was educated at Mic= higan State University, where he received his =0AB.A. in Theatre. He is pos= sessed by light and dark butoh, a part of Ollom =0AMovement Art, and a teac= her with Brooklyn Arts Council. A few of his favorite =0Athings are the fil= m Dead Man, the band Fever Ray, and purple owls.=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0A=0AMacgrego= r Card left Brooklyn. He lives in Queens, teaches at Pratt Institute and = =0A=0Aprograms Monday nights at The Poetry Project. A new chapbook, THE ARC= HERS, is =0Ajust out from Song Cave. His first book,DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FO= REIGN SECRETARY, =0Awas published in December =E2=80=9909 by Fence Books. W= ith Andrew Maxwell, he was editor =0A=0AofTHE GERM: A JOURNAL OF POETIC RES= EARCH (archives up at =0Ahttp://germspot.blogspot.com).=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0A=0AK= athy Fagan is the author of four collections of poems, most =0Arecently LIP= (distributed by Carnegie Mellon UP). She is the recipient of grants =0A=0A= from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the NEA, and the Ohio Arts Council. Her= work =0A=0Ahas appeared in such places as SLATE, THE PARIS REVIEW, THE NEW= REPUBLIC, =0AFIELD, and POOL. She currently teaches in the MFA Program at = The Ohio State =0AUniversity, where she also co-edits THE JOURNAL.=0A=0A=0A= ~=0A=0A=0APoet, translator, essayist and educator, Richard Jeffrey Newman i= s the author of =0A=0Athree volumes of po-etry: THE SILENCE OF MEN (CavanKe= rry Press, 2006), a book of =0A=0Ahis own poems and SELECTIONS FROM SAADI= =E2=80=99S GULISTAN and SELECTIONS FROM SAADI=E2=80=99S =0ABUSTAN (Global S= cholarly Publications, 2004 & 2006 re-spectively), translations =0Aof two m= asterpieces of 13th century Iranian poetry. As well, he co-translated =0Awi= th Professor John Moyne the poetry in A BIRD IN THE GARDEN OF ANGELS (Mazda= =0APublishers, 2008), a selection of work by Rumi, also from 13th century = Iran. =0ANewman=E2=80=99s poems and essays have appeared in a wide range of= journals, =0Aincluding SALON.COM, THE AMERICAN VOICE, CIRCUMFERENCE, PRAIR= IE SCHOONER, =0AANOTHER CHICAGO MAGAZINE, THE PEDESTAL MAGAZINE and BIRMING= HAM POETRY REVIEW. =0AHis work has been anthologized in ACCESS LITERATURE (= Wadsworth Publishers, =0A2005), and the title poem from THE SI-LENCE OF MEN= has been translated into =0ADutch. In addition, he has completed a verse t= ranslation of a book-length =0Asection of SHAHNAMEH, the Persian national e= pic. Richard Jeffrey Newman is =0ALiterary Arts Director of Persian Arts Fe= stival, sits on the advisory boards of =0AThe Translation Project and Jacks= on Heights Poetry Festival, and is listed as a =0Aspeaker with the New York= Council for the Humanities. He is Associate Professor =0Aof English at Nas= sau Community College in Garden City, New York, where he =0Aco-ordinates th= e Creative Writing Project. His website is =0Awww.richardjnewman.com.=0A=0A= =0A~=0A=0A=0AChristopher Salerno=E2=80=99s books of poems include MINIMUM H= EROIC,recipient of the =0AMississippi Review Poetry Series Award (2010), an= d Whirligig (Spuyten Duyvil, =0A2006). A chapbook, ATM is just now out from= Horse Less Press. His most recent =0Apoems can be found in journals such a= s DENVER QUARTERLY, BOSTON REVIEW, AMERICAN =0A=0ALETTERS AND COMMENTARY, B= LACK WARRIOR REVIEW, TUSCULUM REVIEW, and elsewhere. He =0A=0Ais co-curator= of the So and So Reading Series, and co-editor of SO AND SO =0AMAGAZINE. C= urrently, he teaches as an Assistant Professor of English at William =0APat= erson University of New Jersey.=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0A=0ARob Schlegel=E2=80=99s TH= E LESSER FIELDS was selected for the 2009 Colorado=0APrize for Poetry and w= as published by the Center for Literary=0APublishing. Born and raised in Po= rtland, OR., he has lived in=0ACalifornia, Montana and Iowa. Recent work ca= n be found in NEW=0AAMERICAN WRITING, SUBTROPICS and BARN OWL REVIEW.=0A=0A= @=0A=0A=0AGOODBYE BLUE MONDAY=0A1087 BROADWAY=0A(CORNER OF DODWORTH ST)BROO= KLYN, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343=0A=0AEASY RIDE TO BROOKLYN:=0A =0AJ / = M / Z TRAINS TO MYRTLE AVE=0AOR J TRAIN TO KOSCIUSKO ST=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0AH= osted by Steven Karl, Erika Moya & Christie Ann Reynolds=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0A***= ******=0AVIDA: Women in Literary Arts=0A+ Interviews=0A=0AAmy's Alias=0A+ = http://amyking.org/ =0A********=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:23:52 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Poetry Justification Day! Seeking Recommendations... Comments: To: Discussion of Women's Poetry List , "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Let's say I wanted to compile a list of contemporary "lay" articles to just= ify =0Ateaching poetry for an academic administrator who was previously a s= cientist or =0Abiologist. Any recommendations?=0A=0A=0AVERSE BROADENS THE = MIND, SCIENTISTS FIND --=0Ahttp://amyking.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/verse-br= oadens-the-mind-scientists-find/ =0A=0A=0A=0AThis Is Your Brain on Metaphor= s --=0A http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/this-is-your-brain-= on-metaphors/=0A=0A=0A=0A=0APresent and Tense: Fiction vs. Poetry in Recove= ry --=0Ahttp://soberfornow.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/present-and-tense-ficti= on-vs-poetry-in-recovery/=0A=0A=0A=0APoetry is I say essentially a vocabula= ry just as prose is essentially not. And =0Awhat is the vocabulary of which= poetry absolutely is. It is a vocabulary based =0Aon the noun as prose is = essentially and determinately and vigorously not based =0Aon the noun. Poet= ry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with =0Awanting with d= enying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is =0Adoing t= hat always doing that, doing that doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing = =0Anothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressi= ng =0Anouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no mat= ter what =0Akind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetr= y. So that is =0Apoetry really loving the name of anything and that is not = prose.=0A* Gertrude Stein, =E2=80=9CPoetry and Grammar=E2=80=9D=0A=0A=0A = =0A*********=0AVIDA: Women in Literary Arts=0A+ Interviews=0A=0AAmy's Alia= s=0A+ http://amyking.org/ =0A********=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:37:17 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Christopher Leland Winks Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: <07E66800-5359-4EEA-9970-5994641728FA@minotstateu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As far as I know, this is Gil's own-own aphorism. And sorry, Websters, Blogosphericals, Netizens, Twitterers, Facebookies -- it's still the truth. Corollary: The revolution will not be virtual. ----- Original Message ----- From: ShaunAnne Tangney Date: Monday, November 15, 2010 12:34 pm Subject: the revolution will not be televised To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the > revolution will not be televised?" I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron > lyrics; I know those. But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song? > Doesn't it come from a speech or a poem? Anyone know? Thanks--ShaunAnne > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:57:05 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "Jay MillAr, Andrew Hughes,=". Rest of header flushed. From: Cara Benson Subject: Yes! BookThug Reading & Workshop MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yes! Reading presents an evening of BookThugs:=0AJay MillAr, Andrew Hughes,= Mark Goldstein and Marianne Apostolides.=0A=0A=0ASocial Justice Center=0A3= 3 Central Avenue=0AAlbany, NY=0AFriday, Nov 19 @ 7:30pm=0A=C2=A0=0AMarianne= Apostolides is the author of three books, most recently Swim (BookThug, = =0A2009) and The Lucky Child (Mansfield Press, 2010). Her work has been pub= lished =0Ain eight countries throughout Europe and the Americas. Her fourth= book, =0Atentatively titled Sinew and Stories: A Collection of Lyrical Ess= ays, will be =0Apublish...ed next year. She lives in Toronto with her two c= hildren. =0A=0A=0AMark Goldstein is a writer and an award-winning graphic d= esigner. Earlier this =0Ayear, he led the inaugural seminar at the Toronto = New School of Writing =E2=80=93 a =0A12-week course on Transtranslation. Wh= ile lecturing at EHESS Paris in the =0Aspring, he launched =E2=80=9CTracela= nguage: A Shared Breath,=E2=80=9D his second title with =0ABookThug, a tran= stranslation of poet Paul Celan's seminal work, =E2=80=9CAtemwende.=E2=80= =9D =0AGoldstein lives in Toronto.=0A=0AAndrew Hughes lives in Methuen, MA.= His work has appeared in Forklift, Ohio, =0ACannibal, Spell, Can We Have O= ur Ball Back, Bimbo Jim, PUPPYFLOWERS, and others. =0AHe is the author of S= weethearts of the Great Migration and Now Lays the Sunshine =0ABy=0A=0AJay = MillAr is a Toronto poet, editor, publisher, teacher and virtual bookseller= . =0AHe is the author of several books, the most recent of which are esp : = =0Aaccumulation sonnets (2009) and Other Poems (2010). He is also the autho= r of =0Aseveral privately published editions, such as Lack Lyrics, which ti= ed to win the =0A2008 bpNichol Chapbook Award. MillAr is the shadowy figure= behind BookThug, a =0Apublishing house dedicated to exploratory work by we= ll-known and emerging North =0AAmerican writers, as well as Apollinaire's B= ookshoppe, a virtual bookstore that =0Aspecializes in the books that no one= wants to buy. Currently Jay teaches =0Acreative writing and poetics at Geo= rge Brown College and Toronto New School of =0AWriting.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0ATrans= translation Workshop with Jay MillAr and Mark Goldstein=0ASaturday, Nov 20 = 2 to 4pm=0AContact: annafence@gmail.com to sign up and get location details= =0AFREE!=0A=C2=A0=0A=E2=80=9CThese are mistranslations of Catullus. Working= on basically one year of high =0Aschool Latin and what the poems reminded = me of in English, with the proviso that =0Athe poems had to make sense. In = that sense they turned into conversations with =0Athe dead. I ended up writ= ing pieces that weren=E2=80=99t really me and seemed much more =0Alike Catu= llus. So it became a kind of very strange experience of =0Atranscription.= =E2=80=9D=E2=80=93 bpNichol=0AIf to be original is unoriginal can transtran= slation bridge the gap between the =0Aanti-egoist conceptual poem and the l= yrical I? If so, how have poets such as =0AbpNichol, Louis Zukofsky, and Er= in Mour=C3=A9 employed their unorthodox approaches to =0Atranslation to gai= n access to poetical works written in a foreign tongue and =0Aopen possibil= ities within their own language? In this workshop, we will discuss =0Athese= questions using examples. Participants will then be =E2=80=9Cfreed=E2=80= =9D to embark upon =0Atranstranslations of their own.=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:59:31 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "Jay MillAr, Andrew Hughes,=". Rest of header flushed. From: Cara Benson Subject: Yes! BookThug Reading & Workshop (w/ links) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yes! Reading presents an evening of BookThugs:=0AJay MillAr, Andrew Hughes,= Mark Goldstein and Marianne Apostolides.=0A=0ASocial Justice Center=0A33 C= entral Avenue=0AAlbany, NY=0AFriday, Nov 19 @ 7:30pm=0Ahttp://yesreading.wo= rdpress.com/=0A=C2=A0=0AMarianne Apostolides is the author of three books, = most recently Swim (BookThug, =0A2009) and The Lucky Child (Mansfield Press= , 2010). Her work has been published =0Ain eight countries throughout Europ= e and the Americas. Her fourth book, =0Atentatively titled Sinew and Storie= s: A Collection of Lyrical Essays, will be =0Apublish...ed next year. She l= ives in Toronto with her two children. =0A=0A=0AMark Goldstein is a writer = and an award-winning graphic designer. Earlier this =0Ayear, he led the ina= ugural seminar at the Toronto New School of Writing =E2=80=93 a =0A12-week = course on Transtranslation. While lecturing at EHESS Paris in the =0Aspring= , he launched =E2=80=9CTracelanguage: A Shared Breath,=E2=80=9D his second = title with =0ABookThug, a transtranslation of poet Paul Celan's seminal wor= k, =E2=80=9CAtemwende.=E2=80=9D =0AGoldstein lives in Toronto.=0A=0AAndrew = Hughes lives in Methuen, MA. His work has appeared in Forklift, Ohio, =0ACa= nnibal, Spell, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Bimbo Jim, PUPPYFLOWERS, and othe= rs. =0AHe is the author of Sweethearts of the Great Migration and Now Lays = the Sunshine =0ABy=0A=0AJay MillAr is a Toronto poet, editor, publisher, te= acher and virtual bookseller. =0AHe is the author of several books, the mos= t recent of which are esp : =0Aaccumulation sonnets (2009) and Other Poems = (2010). He is also the author of =0Aseveral privately published editions, s= uch as Lack Lyrics, which tied to win the =0A2008 bpNichol Chapbook Award. = MillAr is the shadowy figure behind BookThug, a =0Apublishing house dedicat= ed to exploratory work by well-known and emerging North =0AAmerican writers= , as well as Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, a virtual bookstore that =0Aspeciali= zes in the books that no one wants to buy. Currently Jay teaches =0Acreativ= e writing and poetics at George Brown College and Toronto New School of =0A= Writing.=0A=0A=C2=A0=0ATranstranslation Workshop with Jay MillAr and Mark G= oldstein=0ASaturday, Nov 20 2 to 4pm=0AContact: annafence@gmail.com to sign= up and get location details=0AFREE!=0Ahttp://yesreading.wordpress.com/=0A= =C2=A0=0A=E2=80=9CThese are mistranslations of Catullus. Working on basical= ly one year of high =0Aschool Latin and what the poems reminded me of in En= glish, with the proviso that =0Athe poems had to make sense. In that sense = they turned into conversations with =0Athe dead. I ended up writing pieces = that weren=E2=80=99t really me and seemed much more =0Alike Catullus. So it= became a kind of very strange experience of =0Atranscription.=E2=80=9D=E2= =80=93 bpNichol=0AIf to be original is unoriginal can transtranslation brid= ge the gap between the =0Aanti-egoist conceptual poem and the lyrical I? If= so, how have poets such as =0AbpNichol, Louis Zukofsky, and Erin Mour=C3= =A9 employed their unorthodox approaches to =0Atranslation to gain access t= o poetical works written in a foreign tongue and =0Aopen possibilities with= in their own language? In this workshop, we will discuss =0Athese questions= using examples. Participants will then be =E2=80=9Cfreed=E2=80=9D to embar= k upon =0Atranstranslations of their own.=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:01:34 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Marsh Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: <07E66800-5359-4EEA-9970-5994641728FA@minotstateu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Was that Abbie Hoffman?=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "ShaunAnne Tangney" =20 To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU=20 Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 6:35:23 AM=20 Subject: the revolution will not be televised=20 Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the revolution wi= ll not be televised?" =C2=A0I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron lyrics; I know= those. =C2=A0But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song? =C2=A0Doesn't= it come from a speech or a poem? =C2=A0Anyone know? =C2=A0Thanks--ShaunAnn= e=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=20 The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:14:10 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Emma Bolden Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: <07E66800-5359-4EEA-9970-5994641728FA@minotstateu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 As far as I know, it started with Heron -- though as a poem, which he recites on one album. The song came a little later. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:35 AM, ShaunAnne Tangney < shaunanne.tangney@minotstateu.edu> wrote: > Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the revolution > will not be televised?" I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron lyrics; I know > those. But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song? Doesn't it come > from a speech or a poem? Anyone know? Thanks--ShaunAnne > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > -- Emma Bolden www.emmabolden.wordpress.com Visiting Assistant Professor Department of English Georgetown College 400 East College Street Georgetown, KY 40324 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:09:51 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Margaret Konkol Subject: JEREMY BRADDOCK Small Press in the Archive | November 19 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Small Press in the Archive Lecture Series presents JEREMY BRADDOCK "The Material Formation of the Field: Charles Abbott's and Carl Van Vechten's Archives of the Twentieth Century" November 19th @ 1:00pm The Poetry Collection, 420 Capen University at Buffalo Jeremy Braddock received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Fellow at Cornell's Society for the Humanities, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College, and an Assistant Professor at Princeton University before coming to Cornell. A specialist in twentieth-century American literature and culture, he is finishing a book, *The Modernist Collector and Black Modernity, 1914-1934*, has edited a collection of essays on Hollywood "B" movies, and has published articles on the Black Atlantic and African-American modernism. Small Press in the Archive Lecture Series dedicates itself to the study of poetry outside the traditional literary historical plot. The lectures in this series draw on materials in The Poetry Collection, at SUNY Buffalo in order to explore community/discourse formations, the status of ephemera and the making of genre, the conditions of literary production, transatlantic cross-pollinations in and between specific magazines, the careers of poets, the role of book art, and how the little magazine functions in the making of the avant-garde. All events are free and open to the public. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:46:22 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Maria Damon Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: <07E66800-5359-4EEA-9970-5994641728FA@minotstateu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Last Poets song/poem. and yes, i think Scott-Heron was one of them at that point. ShaunAnne Tangney wrote: > Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the revolution will not be televised?" I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron lyrics; I know those. But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song? Doesn't it come from a speech or a poem? Anyone know? Thanks--ShaunAnne > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:07:53 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Young Subject: Out from Otoliths =?windows-1252?Q?=97_?= "Sard", by Philip Byron Oakes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Now out from Otoliths *Sard* Philip Byron Oakes 68 pages Cover image by Sheila E. Murphy Otoliths, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9807651-6-8 $12.50 + p&h URL: *http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/sard/9579586* Reading poems, such as =93Whoever Answers the Door=94, in Philip Byron Oake= s=92 second book *Sard*, reminds one of a grandiloquent room=97very modern and p= osh with amenities, and at the ready to receive the exhilarated mob attempting to enter all at once, in a crush of three or four abreast, through a door constructed for one and one only to enter in style. Luckily we have Philip Byron Oakes to defuse the chaos, magically narrow the door, creating tension, putting things in order, resetting the ratio of things to their meaning once again. The thrill of exhilarated facts, =93the whirlwind scuttling/a moment of stillness=94, of cultural information streaming off o= f each page at the speed of sound, places the reader at the crux of a savant= =92s poetic genesis, displacing the literal with the dancing heads of the figurative and in a big way. Often joking while performing his circus of fire eating acts, he gets around to lavish spectacles =93Sooner or loiter.= =94 Details mount and accrue, as what is real=97objective=97is less satisfying = to observe than the ritualized, impeccably imbedded electrical buzz and charge of these manic fragmented tableaux holding place as they surge. Oakes write= s as he guns the motor. There is a sense of vertigo that appeals to one=92s right brain and left brain simultaneously. The language swirls=97a whirlpoo= l of stochastic images encountered without fault. The poems are, I feel, impressively unimpeachable=97shards of focus as imagined works of art. What= we are witness to is the random miracle seemingly made plain=97a vase of flowe= rs torn from a table by a cyclone in Kansas (the house ripped to kindling) and placed down serenely in Sarasota or Reno without so much as a petal harmed. Such is the force of the poems in *Sard*. *Sard *is a chaotically ruled, brilliantly conceived, devastating regime of organic and supra-organic devices that are as delightful to think about and ponder, once having read them, as they are to read. =97Raymond Farr, editor of *Blue & Yellow Dog* A sample poem... *and-then* A calypso melody in the frozen food section, thawing out in the belly of a tourist on the couch. A codicil of apologies, chasing a legacy through a penny arcade. An ante of sugar putting starch in the collar, of the otherwise naked, for a secularity of vespers, in a roll call of loyalists to the scrum. Breathing not a word, a bird, a plane. The weight of ulterior personae. Magnanimously queued, in a march of the non sequiturs, manning the breaches with the optimism of the ill informed, as to the depth of the valleys. The assimilation of toads into the fairy tale. Philip Byron Oakes =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:22:19 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: susan maurer Subject: Hugh Fox on Susan Maurer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable By way of thanking Hugh Fox whom I have never met I must tell you that afte= r he had read a good deal of my work he called me "an ordinary blossoming g= enius"=2C which I want to share with you guys. Susan Maurer = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:54:54 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aldon Nielsen Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: <07E66800-5359-4EEA-9970-5994641728FA@minotstateu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I think Gil might well be the point of origin for that phrase -- On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:35 AM, ShaunAnne Tangney < shaunanne.tangney@minotstateu.edu> wrote: > Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the revolution > will not be televised?" I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron lyrics; I know > those. But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song? Doesn't it come > from a speech or a poem? Anyone know? Thanks--ShaunAnne > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > -- Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature Department of English 117 Burrowes Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-6200 aln10@psu.edu sailing the blogosphere at http://heatstrings.blogspot.com "kindling his mind (more than his mind will kindle)" --William Carlos Williams, early adopter ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:55:56 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aldon Nielsen Subject: Re: Kamau Daa'ood at EsoWon In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Catherine -- Is he just thinning things out, or is he in financial need? On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Catherine Daly wrote: > I mean to forward this as a topic of discussion as well as just a -- notice > > Catherine Daly > > Next > Saturday November 20 > at EsoWon > 10:30 to 4:00pm > > EsoWon Books > 4331 Degnan Blvd. > Los Angeles, CA 90008 > 323-290-1048 > > > Eso Won is please to announce a > Special Saturday Sale, November 20 from 10:30 am to 4:00 pm. > Poet Kamau Daaood returns to Eso Won offering for sale 100's of Books from > his own collection, as well as Cd's, Dvd's and other items. > Many of the items are rare and collectable and the prices can't be beat. > Come early as this will include merchandise never displayed before. > Eso Won will also have a table of used books and Cd's as well. Plus > special > refreshments will be provided by "Arts & Food". > Join us, the past events have been great with a lot of pleased customers. > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > -- Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature Department of English 117 Burrowes Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-6200 aln10@psu.edu sailing the blogosphere at http://heatstrings.blogspot.com "kindling his mind (more than his mind will kindle)" --William Carlos Williams, early adopter ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:01:01 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: Kamau Daa'ood at EsoWon In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I am not sure. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:31:47 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: facism? in Denver. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii google Denver, new world, airport. thing looks like swatstika ( can't spell well). creepy murals. & underground ... the tunnels .... the links aren't always accurate. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:03:30 +0100 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: First review of Kent Johnson's 'A Question Mark Above the Sun:Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem "By" Frank O'Hara' Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc , Wryting-L MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit First review of Kent Johnson's 'A Question Mark Above the Sun:Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem "By" Frank O'Hara' http://pearlblossomhighway.blogspot.com/ Excerpt from the review: The question he seems to be asking is not so much, "Did Frank O'Hara or Kenneth Koch write the poem?" as much as it is, "Why is it important to attribute a work of art to the name of an individual artist and to protect that name as a sign of artistic genius?" and "What, exactly, are they trying to protect?" It returns us to the kinds of questions Kent has been asking publicly for years about the ways in which poetry hierarchies function and how coteries of friends, or alumni of prestigious east coast universities, or poets of a certain generation and/or geographic location, protect their own, while simultaneously claiming an objective and innocent love of great art, regardless of its source. These are often questions of class and race and gender, though I think Kent is more interested in the functioning of power qua power, less about its specific manifestations ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:48:09 -0500 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: new from above/ground press: rob mclennan's First you know, and then so ordinary, First you know, and then so ordinary, by rob mclennan $3 published in Ottawa by above/ground press in an edition of 200 copies for a question/answer seminar for MA students, Small Presses, Little Magazines, and Creative Writing, at Carleton University, November 18, 2010, alongside Cameron Anstee; 2011 subscriptions now available; http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-subscriptions-now-available.html to order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2 US) to rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7 Some of these poems appeared previously in the summer 2010 issue of MiPOesias, Otoliths, and an above/ground press broadside. Born in Ottawa, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. He is the author of nearly two dozen trade publications in multiple countries, including the poetry collections wild horses (U of Alberta Press, 2010), the forthcoming Glengarry (Talonbooks, spring 2011), and a second novel, missing persons (The Mercury Press, 2009). He is currently working to complete a third novel, various short stories, and a non-fiction project concerning grieving, loss and family archives. -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:30:48 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Aldon Nielsen Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: <4CE1AA2E.5010903@umn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Please, Please, Please (to quote James Brown) -- Gil Scott Heron was never part of the Last Poets and got real tired of people saying he had been. To add to the confusion, there's the "original Last Poets" and then there's the later trio that went forward without Gylin Kain (sp?) -- [There was a group of student poets at Howard in the late 70s that had the all time best name; they were "The Next to the Last Poets"] "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was first recorded with just drums etc. for the album "Small Talk at 125th and Lennox Avenue" -- It was then rerecorded with a larger band, and that second version is the one that got lots of air play and became the stuff of legend. It also appeared in Scott Heron's first book of poems, also titled "Small Talk at 125th and Lennox Avenue" -- These days students will need Norton style footnotes for damn near everything in the piece, from "put a tiger in your tank" to "Whitney Young." On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Maria Damon wrote: > Last Poets song/poem. and yes, i think Scott-Heron was one of them at that > point. > > ShaunAnne Tangney wrote: > >> Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the revolution >> will not be televised?" I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron lyrics; I know >> those. But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song? Doesn't it come >> from a speech or a poem? Anyone know? Thanks--ShaunAnne >> >> ================================== >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >> guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> >> > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > -- Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature Department of English 117 Burrowes Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-6200 aln10@psu.edu sailing the blogosphere at http://heatstrings.blogspot.com "kindling his mind (more than his mind will kindle)" --William Carlos Williams, early adopter ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:38:38 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: <56108e7920df61.4ce1297d@mail.nyu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The revolution will be on the Internet. But will you be able to find it? ja http://vispo.com > ...it's still the truth. Corollary: The revolution will not be virtual. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:50:31 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Poetry Justification Day! Seeking Recommendations... In-Reply-To: <569290.78196.qm@web83304.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Grade level? "Teaching poetry": reading? writing? criticism? mnemonics / performance? Are the biologists providing similar bibliographies to justify "teaching biology" at the same grade level? "Teaching biology": plant and animal identification? dissection? scientific method (really doesn't matter the science)? More usefully: look at the learning academies model. I would look at models at level, not articles "for dummies." If he is the administrator and not an administrator. All best, Catherine Daly On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:23 AM, amy king wrote: > Let's say I wanted to compile a list of contemporary "lay" articles to > justify teaching poetry for an academic administrator who was previously a > scientist or biologist. Any recommendations? > > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:25:19 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Maria Damon Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I knew there had been at least 2 configurations of LastPoets but i thot Gil SH had been in the earlier incarnation. MEA CULPA. Okay, JB? Aldon Nielsen wrote: > Please, Please, Please (to quote James Brown) -- Gil Scott Heron was never > part of the Last Poets and got real tired of people saying he had been. To > add to the confusion, there's the "original Last Poets" and then there's the > later trio that went forward without Gylin Kain (sp?) -- [There was a group > of student poets at Howard in the late 70s that had the all time best name; > they were "The Next to the Last Poets"] > > "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was first recorded with just drums > etc. for the album "Small Talk at 125th and Lennox Avenue" -- It was then > rerecorded with a larger band, and that second version is the one that got > lots of air play and became the stuff of legend. It also appeared in Scott > Heron's first book of poems, also titled "Small Talk at 125th and Lennox > Avenue" -- > > These days students will need Norton style footnotes for damn near > everything in the piece, from "put a tiger in your tank" to "Whitney > Young." > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Maria Damon wrote: > > >> Last Poets song/poem. and yes, i think Scott-Heron was one of them at that >> point. >> >> ShaunAnne Tangney wrote: >> >> >>> Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the revolution >>> will not be televised?" I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron lyrics; I know >>> those. But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song? Doesn't it come >>> from a speech or a poem? Anyone know? Thanks--ShaunAnne >>> >>> ================================== >>> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >>> guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >>> >>> >>> >> ================================== >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines >> & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> >> > > > > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:40:05 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Bowering Subject: Re: facism? in Denver. In-Reply-To: <825295.4237.qm@web52406.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Is facism like racism, except that yr prejudiced against certain faces rather than certain races? I was in Denver last year. Saw some faces that weren't great, I have to admit. gb On Nov 16, 2010, at 1:31 PM, steve russell wrote: > google Denver, new world, airport. > thing looks like swatstika ( can't spell well). > > creepy murals. > & underground ... the tunnels .... > > the links aren't always accurate. > > > > > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ > welcome.html > George Bowering Has never had pineapple pie. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:53:56 -0800 Reply-To: ddbowen2000@yahoo.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Bowen Subject: New American Poetry Prize Comments: cc: poetics@listserv.bufallo.edu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable NEW AMERICAN PRESS is now accepting submissions for the annual New American= Poetry Prize. Winner receives $1000, 25 copies, and a publication contract= . Final judge is T. R. Hummer. Please submit poetry collection =0A(40 pages minimum) to: NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE Attn: Okla Elliott 1830 Orchard =0APlace, Suite C Urbana, IL 61801.=20 Entry fee is $20 and the postmark deadline is December 15, 2010.=A0 More in= fo is available at http://newamericanpress.com/contests/current.php. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:59:40 +1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Young Subject: Re: Out from Otoliths =?windows-1252?Q?=97_?= "Sard", by Philip Byron Oakes In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please note that I accidentally bolded the URL for Philip Byron Oakes's * Sard*; & the second of the two asterisks that the server uses to indicate boldness has become incorporated in the first address. The URL given within the < > is the correct one. To clarify, the correct URL, sans boldness, sans asterisk is http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/sard/9579586 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Mark Young wrote: > Now out from Otoliths > > > > *Sard* > > Philip Byron Oakes > > 68 pages > > Cover image by Sheila E. Murphy > > Otoliths, 2010 > > ISBN: 978-0-9807651-6-8 > > $12.50 + p&h > > URL: *http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/sard/9579586* > > > > Reading poems, such as =93Whoever Answers the Door=94, in Philip Byron Oa= kes=92 > second book *Sard*, reminds one of a grandiloquent room=97very modern and > posh with amenities, and at the ready to receive the exhilarated mob > attempting to enter all at once, in a crush of three or four abreast, > through a door constructed for one and one only to enter in style. Luckil= y > we have Philip Byron Oakes to defuse the chaos, magically narrow the door= , > creating tension, putting things in order, resetting the ratio of things = to > their meaning once again. The thrill of exhilarated facts, =93the whirlwi= nd > scuttling/a moment of stillness=94, of cultural information streaming off= of > each page at the speed of sound, places the reader at the crux of a savan= t=92s > poetic genesis, displacing the literal with the dancing heads of the > figurative and in a big way. Often joking while performing his circus of > fire eating acts, he gets around to lavish spectacles =93Sooner or loiter= .=94 > Details mount and accrue, as what is real=97objective=97is less satisfyin= g to > observe than the ritualized, impeccably imbedded electrical buzz and char= ge > of these manic fragmented tableaux holding place as they surge. Oakes wri= tes > as he guns the motor. There is a sense of vertigo that appeals to one=92s > right brain and left brain simultaneously. The language swirls=97a whirlp= ool > of stochastic images encountered without fault. The poems are, I feel, > impressively unimpeachable=97shards of focus as imagined works of art. Wh= at we > are witness to is the random miracle seemingly made plain=97a vase of flo= wers > torn from a table by a cyclone in Kansas (the house ripped to kindling) a= nd > placed down serenely in Sarasota or Reno without so much as a petal harme= d. > Such is the force of the poems in *Sard*. *Sard *is a chaotically ruled, > brilliantly conceived, devastating regime of organic and supra-organic > devices that are as delightful to think about and ponder, once having rea= d > them, as they are to read. =97Raymond Farr, editor of *Blue & Yellow Dog= * > > > A sample poem... > > > *and-then* > > > > A calypso melody in the frozen food section, > > thawing out in the belly of a tourist on the > > couch. A codicil of apologies, chasing a > > legacy through a penny arcade. An ante > > of sugar putting starch in the collar, of the > > otherwise naked, for a secularity of vespers, > > in a roll call of loyalists to the scrum. > > Breathing not a word, a bird, a plane. The > > weight of ulterior personae. Magnanimously > > queued, in a march of the non sequiturs, > > manning the breaches with the optimism > > of the ill informed, as to the depth of the > > valleys. The assimilation of toads into > > the fairy tale. > > > > Philip Byron Oakes > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:09:04 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cralan Kelder Subject: in Amsterdam? come thursday: Bad Kitten vs Poetry & Protest In-Reply-To: <825295.4237.qm@web52406.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii you are cordially invited to the event - Bad Kitten vs Poetry & Protest = LLL=20 A beautiful prepared Vegetarian meal for the reasonable price of 7 = euro or so, by the Dutch Artist and chef Bastiaan Lips & a sampling of poetry fr. = this city & elsewhere, friend poets Louise Landes Levi (American) Cralan Kelder ( Dutch American) & = Dianao Ozon=20 Paul Schaaps (NL) & Crappy Jack (USA ) A LA LA HO =20 Program=20 19:00 Vega Food Chef Lips=20 Menu: Misso Muchroom Soup Ginger Tofu Curry, Misty Dal, Spinach, Raita, = Chutney, Rise and more... 21.00 Poetry & Protest Louise Landes Levi Cralan Kelder Diana Ozon 22:00 Bad Kitten original strange folk songs.=20 Jan and Wim joining on drums and slide guitar 23:00 Letters from Vietnam Paul Schaap - Gitar & Cappy Jack -Text 23:30 Dj Nanowitz Miss Whips cakes Expo Marie cars and girls. Anna drawing and Short film. --=20 dokhouse galerie @ PLANTAGEDOK elke donderdag ::::: acts, eten & muziek ::::: 19.00 [eten] tot 24.00 www.plantagedok.nl [become a friend of DOKHUIS GALERIE on facebook...]=20 skypenaam : dokhuis plantagedoklaan 8, amsterdam= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:08:09 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Lewis Warsh Subject: Something To Remember You By Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) SOMETHING TO REMEMBER YOU BY Two readings by students in the MFA program at Long Island University Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (between Bleecker and Houston in Manhattan) Friday November 19, 5-6:45 Mary Walker Jessica Wedge Kyle DeOcera Rachel Jackson Willie Perdomo Tiffany Johnson Tina Barry Jhon Sanchez Elspeth Macdonald Marita Downes Amyre Loomis Gulay Isik John Casquarelli Friday December 10, 5-6:45 Alicia Berbenick Liz Dalton Eric Alter Joe Infante Desiree Rucker Sarah Wallen Uche Nduka Yani Gonzalez Christine Francavilla Aimee Herman Tony Iantosca Patia Braithwaite Lisa Rogal Micah Savaglio Wendi Williams Jamey Jones ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:47:14 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Kirschenbaum Subject: Last Call to Advertise in Boog NYC Small Presses Issue Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please forward ------------------ Advertise in Boog City 66: NYC Small Presses Issue **Deadlines** =97Space Reservations-Email to reserve ad space ASAP =97Fri. Nov. 26-Submit Ad or Ad Materials =97Sat. Dec. 4-Distribute Paper This is a quick note to see if you=92d like to advertise and reach our =20= readership. (Donations are also cool, way cool.) 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Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H NY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information: http://welcometoboogcity.com/ T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:34:47 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: art/call for artist/swastikas at the Denver airport MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii call me crazy, but the damn thing does look like a swastika. & the creepy murals-- go figure. Maybe it's a bomb shelter (longlonglong tunels underground). Or a gas chamber, a quick, effiecient way to get rid of the unwanted ... DIA often offers the prospect to connect artists for temporary exhibition or permanent artwork opportunities. If you would like to receive e-mail updates when calls for entry or Request for Qualifications (RFQs) are announced, please e-mail. DIA Art Program. Include your full name, phone number, and e-mail address. Also indicate if you would like to receive e-mails about temporary exhibits, RFQs for public artwork or both. For more information about the DIA Art Program, call (303) 342-2521 or e-mail DIA Art Program. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:35:36 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Hadbawnik Subject: Re: First review of Kent Johnson's 'A Question Mark Above the Sun:Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem "By" Frank O'Hara' In-Reply-To: <15536633.2110261289945010384.JavaMail.www@wwinf3703> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 actually, the first review appears here http://habenichtpress.com/?p=550 nearly a month ago... On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Jeffrey Side wrote: > First review of Kent Johnson's 'A Question Mark Above the Sun:Documents on > the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem "By" Frank O'Hara' > > http://pearlblossomhighway.blogspot.com/ > > Excerpt from the review: > > The question he seems to be asking is not so much, "Did Frank O'Hara or > Kenneth Koch write the poem?" as much as it is, "Why is it important to > attribute a work of art to the name of an individual artist and to protect > that name as a sign of artistic genius?" and "What, exactly, are they trying > to protect?" > > It returns us to the kinds of questions Kent has been asking publicly for > years about the ways in which poetry hierarchies function and how coteries > of friends, or alumni of prestigious east coast universities, or poets of a > certain generation and/or geographic location, protect their own, while > simultaneously claiming an objective and innocent love of great art, > regardless of its source. These are often questions of class and race and > gender, though I think Kent is more interested in the functioning of power > qua power, less about its specific manifestations > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:39:58 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: <56108e7920df61.4ce1297d@mail.nyu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable maybe The Last Poets got there first. Baraka did a few riffs along that lin= e. If rap could be traced to one logical source =0Apoint, this exceptional pie= ce of vinyl would be it, without question. =0AThough the strict adherence t= o syncopated rhythms and standard song =0Astructures are absent, all the el= ements that would later become the =0Ahallmarks of hip-hop by the early 198= 0s (and predictable fare by the =0A1990s) are here: vivid depictions of str= eet level violence, vivid =0Aapocalyptic predictions of racial genocide. Al= l that is missing are =0Apointless party anthems. But running through all t= he songs on the Last Poets'=0A debut is an urgent sense of the need for rad= ical action in the nation =0Aas well as the black community. In addition to= railing against the =0Ainjustices perpetrated by white America, the Poets'= =0A comment on the economic and social devastation of drugs ("Jones Comin' = =0ADown," "Two Little Boys"), complacency in urban families ("Wake Up =0ANi= ggers," "When the Revolution Comes"), the emotional release of sex =0A("Bla= ck Thighs"), and the weight of oppression that leads to =0Ahopelessness ("S= urprises"). At the same time, they warn of the dangers =0Aof half-hearted c= ommitment to revolutionary change: "don't talk about =0Arevolution until yo= u are ready to eat rats." In the same manner that Marvin Gaye's landmark al= bum What's Goin' On depicted the problems that doomed black culture, the La= st Poets=0A are now seen by many as prophets. But also like Gaye, the reali= zation =0Athat the problems depicted on The Last Poets are now much worse m= arks =0Athe record as an unheeded warning, far more than just a piece of Bl= ack =0APower kitsch. ~ John Duffy, All Music Guide=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A= =0A=0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A= =0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A=0A=09=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=09=0A=09=09Tra= cks --- On Mon, 11/15/10, Christopher Leland Winks wrote: From: Christopher Leland Winks Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 12:37 PM As far as I know, this is Gil's own-own aphorism.=A0 And sorry, Websters, B= logosphericals, Netizens, Twitterers, Facebookies -- it's still the truth.= =A0 Corollary: The revolution will not be virtual. ----- Original Message ----- From: ShaunAnne Tangney Date: Monday, November 15, 2010 12:34 pm Subject: the revolution will not be televised To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the=20 > revolution will not be televised?"=A0 I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron=20 > lyrics; I know those.=A0 But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song?= =20 >=A0 Doesn't it come from a speech or a poem?=A0 Anyone know?=A0 Thanks--Sh= aunAnne >=A0=20 >=A0 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >=A0 The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check=20 > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >=A0=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:51:36 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Last Poets have been well served by the new generation. I've heard a gr= eat take off on The Seseme Street theme by young rapper/poets at D.C's Busb= oy @ Poets. But we (US coach potatoes) rarely protest anymore. Or do we? No= , I don't think we do at all. We do I guess/blog, or so I've been told.=20 --- On Tue, 11/16/10, Aldon Nielsen wrote: From: Aldon Nielsen Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 2:30 PM Please, Please, Please (to quote James Brown) -- Gil Scott Heron was never part of the Last Poets and got real tired of people saying he had been.=A0 = To add to the confusion, there's the "original Last Poets" and then there's th= e later trio that went forward without Gylin Kain (sp?) -- [There was a group of student poets at Howard in the late 70s that had the all time best name; they were "The Next to the Last Poets"] "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was first recorded with just drums etc. for the album "Small Talk at 125th and Lennox Avenue" -- It was then rerecorded with a larger band, and that second version is the one that got lots of air play and became the stuff of legend.=A0 It also appeared in Sco= tt Heron's first book of poems, also titled "Small Talk at 125th and Lennox Avenue" -- These days students will need Norton style footnotes for damn near everything in the piece, from "put a tiger in your tank" to "Whitney Young." On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Maria Damon wrote: > Last Poets song/poem. and yes, i think Scott-Heron was one of them at tha= t > point. > > ShaunAnne Tangney wrote: > >> Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the revolution >> will not be televised?"=A0 I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron lyrics; I kn= ow >> those.=A0 But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song?=A0 Doesn't it = come >> from a speech or a poem?=A0 Anyone know?=A0 Thanks--ShaunAnne >> >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check >> guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >> >> > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > --=20 Aldon L. Nielsen Kelly Professor of American Literature Department of English 117 Burrowes Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 16802-6200 aln10@psu.edu sailing the blogosphere at http://heatstrings.blogspot.com "kindling his mind (more than his mind will kindle)" --William Carlos Williams, early adopter =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:07:16 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Kyle Schlesinger Subject: Poems & Pictures Comments: To: UK POETICS LIST Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi All, Just wanted to let you know that my new book, Poems & Pictures, is now available from Oak Knoll: http://www.oakknoll.com/detail.php?d_booknr=3D105200&d_currency=3D Very best, Kyle --=20 POEMS & PICTURES Curated by Kyle Schlesinger Museum of Printing History Houston October 22, 2010 =AD January 29, 2011 Berman, Brainard, Creeley, Dine, and much more www.printingmuseum.org =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:15:54 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cralan Kelder Subject: Give Some Word - new poetry book In-Reply-To: <825295.4237.qm@web52406.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 With great pleasure to announce to the poetics list the availability of = another book of poems! Give Some Word is 90 pages of poetry. The collection traces a narrative = of irreverence humor & beauty by foot across cities and mountains on 3 = continents.=20 Now out from Shearsman, click for ordering, etc: = http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/kelder.html A is for Accessible. Give Some Word is a somewhat irreverent book of = poems. Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted, = not confused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in Give Some Word is no = exception; equal parts distilled language, contrary, and pushing = everyday language out of conformity.=20 Some apparent influences; Carver, Brautigan, Corman, Sakaki, Lax, the = Jargon Society and a hundred others. The collection includes work from = publications over the past 10 years by Coracle, Longhouse, Blue Press, = and many generous magazine editors. On Using the Word =91Important=92=20 to Describe Poetry I found some good poems,=20 faxed them right over=20 to a colleague of mine.=20 The boss came in and asked me,=20 =93What are these? What=92s this all about?=94=20 =93They=92re poems,=94 I explained =93I thought they were very=20 important, Sir,=20 and that as many people=20 as possible should see them.=94 What people are saying: When I first read the first poems by Cralan Kelder before assembling = what became Lemon Red, I had remarked to myself that in the best ones, = he was a kind of urban Gary Snyder. Later, he showed me notes written in the margins of the manuscript of some of those poems, indeed = by Snyder himself.=20 He had taken a class with him in California, and his comments were = almost identical to what I had said about the poems. Later still, Synder = denied ever meeting Kelder or writing about his poems. Simon Cutts __ Like Buddhist koans it makes no sense to try and unpick how Kelder's = best poems work: they just do. The language, concept and experience are = all one.=20 Kelder is a morning poet, he's up before the sun to make raspberry tea = and politicise his croissants, hoping he'll be the next in line for the = sun's address - after Mayakovsky and O'Hara - but in the mean time his = delight is in sharing his observations (the autobahn, the finches) = through his art. The clarity of his address occupies the place where = language is thought, speech poetry where all pretence is stripped. These = are real the poems of a poet drifting his mind over the domestic clutter = of an ordinary day. =20 =20 Chris McCabe __ Cralan Kelder's writing is delightfully intoxicating and fresh -- his = pungent perspectives enliven the world. Naomi Shihab Nye __ Unlike many of his contemporaries, Cralan Kelder does not employ his = poems as armatures for hidebound rhetoric or as floorshows for = linguistic acrobatics, but cleaves instead to immediacy=92s insistence = with words and thought-tropes that sparkle like the many facets of = everyday consciousness, in a teleological real-time that is both = arresting and fluxional. Give Some Word gives us all that and more. Mark Terrill __ I once met the kind and tremendous poet Cralan Kelder. This was in = Amsterdam. Let's go have a drink, said Cralan; OK, I said. We had some = drinks at a bar, and then we went to a smaller bar and had some more. = After this, we went to a bar that was even smaller yet, and we kept on = drinking, and thus the night continued, in progressively smaller bars, = until at some fantastical hour we sat there, facing one another, in a = kind of tiny dark bar-closet that smelled of hashish, our knees pressing = up against each others', our faces nearly touching. I felt by this time = a bit disoriented and numb, but Cralan held forth, a true gentleman, = laughing uproariously and discoursing brilliantly about Olson, Dutch = poetry of the 17th century, dike technology, and whatnot. Let's go to = another bar, said Cralan; OK I said, and so we went out into the dawn, = and I wondered to myself how in the world there could be a bar tinier = than the one from which we had just come. And as I was wondering this, I = fell into a canal and began to splash about, yelling Help me, and that = is the last I recall. Thank you, Cralan Kelder, for pressing your lovely = mouth against mine, and bringing me back to life, in Holland. Kent Johnson =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:39:53 -0500 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: above/ground press 2011 subscriptions now available, I'm now offering my usual annual $40 above/ground press subscription for 2011 (& check out our group on facebook). YES! I WANT EVERYTHING ABOVE/GROUND PRESS HAS TO OFFER! 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:18:13 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: susan maurer Subject: Re: Hugh Fox on Susan Maurer In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Oops. Hugh just said it should be "an extaordinary blossomimg genius". Apol= ogies . I was cheery enough being an ordinary genius. Susan Maurer > Date: Tue=2C 16 Nov 2010 12:22:19 -0500 > From: sumaurer@HOTMAIL.COM > Subject: Hugh Fox on Susan Maurer > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > By way of thanking Hugh Fox whom I have never met I must tell you that af= ter he had read a good deal of my work he called me "an ordinary blossoming= genius"=2C which I want to share with you guys. Susan Maurer=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:20:47 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Thompson Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I think that it might have come from Guy Debord. George Thompson On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Aldon Nielsen wrote: > Please, Please, Please (to quote James Brown) -- Gil Scott Heron was never > part of the Last Poets and got real tired of people saying he had been. To > add to the confusion, there's the "original Last Poets" and then there's > the > later trio that went forward without Gylin Kain (sp?) -- [There was a group > of student poets at Howard in the late 70s that had the all time best name; > they were "The Next to the Last Poets"] > > "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was first recorded with just drums > etc. for the album "Small Talk at 125th and Lennox Avenue" -- It was then > rerecorded with a larger band, and that second version is the one that got > lots of air play and became the stuff of legend. It also appeared in Scott > Heron's first book of poems, also titled "Small Talk at 125th and Lennox > Avenue" -- > > These days students will need Norton style footnotes for damn near > everything in the piece, from "put a tiger in your tank" to "Whitney > Young." > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Maria Damon wrote: > > > Last Poets song/poem. and yes, i think Scott-Heron was one of them at > that > > point. > > > > ShaunAnne Tangney wrote: > > > >> Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the revolution > >> will not be televised?" I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron lyrics; I know > >> those. But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song? Doesn't it come > >> from a speech or a poem? Anyone know? Thanks--ShaunAnne > >> > >> ================================== > >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > >> guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > >> > >> > > > > ================================== > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > -- > Aldon L. Nielsen > Kelly Professor of American Literature > Department of English > 117 Burrowes Building > The Pennsylvania State University > University Park, PA > 16802-6200 > > > aln10@psu.edu > > sailing the blogosphere at http://heatstrings.blogspot.com > > "kindling his mind (more > than his mind will kindle)" > > --William Carlos Williams, early adopter > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:16:53 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Tonight - NOVEMBER 19 =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?= DOUGLAS ALLEN ~ MACGREGOR CARD ~ KATHY FAGAN ~ RICHARD JEFFREY NEWMAN ~ CHRIS SALERNO & ROB SCHLEGAL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable STAIN OF POETRY PRESENTS 7 PM ON NOVEMBER 19 @ GOODBYE BLUE MOND= =0A=0ASTAIN OF POETRY PRESENTS=0A=0A7 PM ON NOVEMBER 19 @ GOODBYE BLUE MOND= AY =E2=80=93 BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN=0A=0A=0A=0ADouglas Allen is the author of W= EATHERVANES, from Feral Press. A New Yorker =0Asince 1998, he was educated = at Michigan State University, where he received his =0AB.A. in Theatre. He = is possessed by light and dark butoh, a part of Ollom =0AMovement Art, and = a teacher with Brooklyn Arts Council. A few of his favorite =0Athings are t= he film Dead Man, the band Fever Ray, and purple owls.=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0A=0AMa= cgregor Card left Brooklyn. He lives in Queens, teaches at Pratt Institute = and =0A=0Aprograms Monday nights at The Poetry Project. A new chapbook, THE= ARCHERS, is =0Ajust out from Song Cave. His first book,DUTIES OF AN ENGLI= SH FOREIGN SECRETARY, =0A=0Awas published in December =E2=80=9909 by Fence = Books. With Andrew Maxwell, he was editor =0A=0AofTHE GERM: A JOURNAL OF PO= ETIC RESEARCH (archives up at =0Ahttp://germspot.blogspot.com).=0A=0A=0A~= =0A=0A=0AKathy Fagan is the author of four collections of poems, most =0Are= cently LIP (distributed by Carnegie Mellon UP). She is the recipient of gra= nts =0A=0Afrom the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the NEA, and the Ohio Arts Co= uncil. Her work =0A=0Ahas appeared in such places as SLATE, THE PARIS REVIE= W, THE NEW REPUBLIC, =0AFIELD, and POOL. She currently teaches in the MFA P= rogram at The Ohio State =0AUniversity, where she also co-edits THE JOURNAL= .=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0A=0APoet, translator, essayist and educator, Richard Jeffre= y Newman is the author of =0A=0Athree volumes of po-etry: THE SILENCE OF M= EN (CavanKerry Press, 2006), a book =0Aof =0A=0Ahis own poems and SELECTION= S FROM SAADI=E2=80=99S GULISTAN and SELECTIONS FROM SAADI=E2=80=99S =0ABUST= AN (Global Scholarly Publications, 2004 & 2006 re-spectively), translations= =0Aof two masterpieces of 13th century Iranian poetry. As well, he co-tran= slated =0Awith Professor John Moyne the poetry in A BIRD IN THE GARDEN OF A= NGELS (Mazda =0APublishers, 2008), a selection of work by Rumi, also from 1= 3th century Iran. =0ANewman=E2=80=99s poems and essays have appeared in a w= ide range of journals, =0Aincluding SALON.COM, THE AMERICAN VOICE, CIRCUMFE= RENCE, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, =0AANOTHER CHICAGO MAGAZINE, THE PEDESTAL MAGAZINE= and BIRMINGHAM POETRY REVIEW. =0AHis work has been anthologized in ACCESS = LITERATURE (Wadsworth Publishers, =0A2005), and the title poem from THE SI-= LENCE OF MEN has been translated into =0ADutch. In addition, he has complet= ed a verse translation of a book-length =0Asection of SHAHNAMEH, the Persi= an national epic. Richard Jeffrey Newman is =0ALiterary Arts Director of Pe= rsian Arts Festival, sits on the advisory boards of =0AThe Translation Proj= ect and Jackson Heights Poetry Festival, and is listed as a =0Aspeaker with= the New York Council for the Humanities. He is Associate Professor =0Aof E= nglish at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York, where he =0Aco= -ordinates the Creative Writing Project. His website is =0Awww.richardjnewm= an.com.=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0A=0AChristopher Salerno=E2=80=99s books of poems incl= ude MINIMUM HEROIC,recipient of the =0AMississippi Review Poetry Series Awa= rd (2010), and Whirligig (Spuyten Duyvil, =0A2006). A chapbook, ATM is just= now out from Horse Less Press. His most recent =0Apoems can be found in jo= urnals such as DENVER QUARTERLY, BOSTON REVIEW, =0AAMERICAN =0A=0ALETTERS = AND COMMENTARY, BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW, TUSCULUM REVIEW, and elsewhere. He = =0A=0Ais co-curator of the So and So Reading Series, and co-editor of SO AN= D SO =0AMAGAZINE. Currently, he teaches as an Assistant Professor of Englis= h at William =0APaterson University of New Jersey.=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0A=0ARob Sc= hlegel=E2=80=99s THE LESSER FIELDS was selected for the 2009 Colorado=0APri= ze for Poetry and was published by the Center for Literary=0APublishing. Bo= rn and raised in Portland, OR., he has lived in=0ACalifornia, Montana and I= owa. Recent work can be found in NEW=0AAMERICAN WRITING, SUBTROPICS and BAR= N OWL REVIEW.=0A=0A@=0A=0A=0AGOODBYE BLUE MONDAY=0A1087 BROADWAY=0A(CORNER = OF DODWORTH ST)BROOKLYN, NY 11221-3013 (718) 453-6343=0A=0AEASY RIDE TO BRO= OKLYN:=0A =0AJ / M / Z TRAINS TO MYRTLE AVE=0AOR J TRAIN TO KOSCIUSKO = ST=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0AHosted by Steven Karl, Erika Moya & Christie Ann Reynold= s=0A=0A=0A~=0A=0A*********=0AVIDA: Women in Literary Arts=0A+ Interviews= =0A=0AAmy's Alias=0A+ http://amyking.org/ =0A********=0A=0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:53:18 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: mIEKAL aND Subject: Re: in Amsterdam? come thursday: Bad Kitten vs Poetry & Protest In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) if I wasn't 6633 kilometers away I'd be there, especially for the ginger tofu curry & the chutney... make some noise, ~mIEKAL On Nov 17, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Cralan Kelder wrote: > you are cordially invited to the event - Bad Kitten vs Poetry & > Protest LLL > A beautiful prepared Vegetarian meal for the reasonable price of 7 > euro or so, > by the Dutch Artist and chef Bastiaan Lips & a sampling of poetry > fr. this city & elsewhere, friend > poets Louise Landes Levi (American) Cralan Kelder ( Dutch American) > & Dianao Ozon > Paul Schaaps (NL) & Crappy Jack (USA ) A LA LA HO > > Program > 19:00 Vega Food Chef Lips > Menu: Misso Muchroom Soup > Ginger Tofu Curry, Misty Dal, Spinach, Raita, > Chutney, Rise and more... > 21.00 Poetry & Protest > Louise Landes Levi > Cralan Kelder > Diana Ozon > 22:00 Bad Kitten original strange folk songs. > Jan and Wim joining on drums and slide guitar > 23:00 Letters from Vietnam > Paul Schaap - Gitar & Cappy Jack -Text > 23:30 Dj Nanowitz > > Miss Whips cakes > Expo Marie cars and girls. > Anna drawing and Short film. > > -- > dokhouse galerie @ PLANTAGEDOK > elke donderdag ::::: acts, eten & muziek ::::: > 19.00 [eten] tot 24.00 > www.plantagedok.nl > > [become a friend of DOKHUIS GALERIE on facebook...] > > skypenaam : dokhuis > > plantagedoklaan 8, amsterdam ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:30:46 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: John Cunningham Subject: looking for quote MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone help me? I'm trying to track down a quote (and the author) to the effect that books breed books. John Herbert Cunningham ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:06:27 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: michael farrell Subject: Re: Give Some Word - new poetry book In-Reply-To: <1FB9C29E-7638-4EDC-8751-55C09EEFED99@cralan.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable sounds good but a couple of the blurbs made me wonder (carrie-style) is(must) the praise of one (be) defined by the bagging of others? > Date: Thu=2C 18 Nov 2010 20:15:54 +0100 > From: mail@CRALAN.COM > Subject: Give Some Word - new poetry book > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > With great pleasure to announce to the poetics list the availability of a= nother book of poems! >=20 > Give Some Word is 90 pages of poetry. The collection traces a narrative o= f irreverence humor & beauty by foot across cities and mountains on 3 conti= nents.=20 >=20 >=20 > Now out from Shearsman=2C click for ordering=2C etc: http://www.shearsman= .com/pages/books/catalog/2010/kelder.html >=20 >=20 > A is for Accessible. Give Some Word is a somewhat irreverent book of poem= s. Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted=2C not c= onfused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in Give Some Word is no exceptio= n=3B equal parts distilled language=2C contrary=2C and pushing everyday lan= guage out of conformity.=20 >=20 > Some apparent influences=3B Carver=2C Brautigan=2C Corman=2C Sakaki=2C La= x=2C the Jargon Society and a hundred others. The collection includes work = from publications over the past 10 years by Coracle=2C Longhouse=2C Blue Pr= ess=2C and many generous magazine editors. >=20 >=20 >=20 > On Using the Word =91Important=92=20 > to Describe Poetry >=20 > I found some good poems=2C=20 > faxed them right over=20 > to a colleague of mine.=20 > The boss came in and asked me=2C=20 > =93What are these? > What=92s this all about?=94=20 > =93They=92re poems=2C=94 I explained > =93I thought they were very=20 > important=2C Sir=2C=20 > and that as many people=20 > as possible should see them.=94 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > What people are saying: >=20 > When I first read the first poems by Cralan Kelder before assembling what= became Lemon Red=2C I had remarked to myself that in the best ones=2C he w= as a kind of urban Gary Snyder. Later=2C he showed me notes > written in the margins of the manuscript of some of those poems=2C indee= d by Snyder himself.=20 > He had taken a class with him in California=2C and his comments were almo= st identical to what I had said about the poems. Later still=2C Synder deni= ed ever meeting Kelder or writing about his poems. >=20 > Simon Cutts > __ >=20 >=20 > Like Buddhist koans it makes no sense to try and unpick how Kelder's best= poems work: they just do. The language=2C concept and experience are all o= ne.=20 >=20 > Kelder is a morning poet=2C he's up before the sun to make raspberry tea = and politicise his croissants=2C hoping he'll be the next in line for the s= un's address - after Mayakovsky and O'Hara - but in the mean time his delig= ht is in sharing his observations (the autobahn=2C the finches) through his= art. The clarity of his address occupies the place where language is thoug= ht=2C speech poetry where all pretence is stripped. These are real the poem= s of a poet drifting his mind over the domestic clutter of an ordinary day.= =20 > =20 > Chris McCabe >=20 > __ >=20 > Cralan Kelder's writing is delightfully intoxicating and fresh -- his pun= gent perspectives enliven the world. >=20 > Naomi Shihab Nye >=20 > __ >=20 > Unlike many of his contemporaries=2C Cralan Kelder does not employ his po= ems as armatures for hidebound rhetoric or as floorshows for linguistic acr= obatics=2C but cleaves instead to immediacy=92s insistence with words and t= hought-tropes that sparkle like the many facets of everyday consciousness= =2C in a teleological real-time that is both arresting and fluxional. Give = Some Word gives us all that and more. >=20 > Mark Terrill >=20 > __ >=20 > I once met the kind and tremendous poet Cralan Kelder. This was in Amster= dam. Let's go have a drink=2C said Cralan=3B OK=2C I said. We had some drin= ks at a bar=2C and then we went to a smaller bar and had some more. After t= his=2C we went to a bar that was even smaller yet=2C and we kept on drinkin= g=2C and thus the night continued=2C in progressively smaller bars=2C until= at some fantastical hour we sat there=2C facing one another=2C in a kind o= f tiny dark bar-closet that smelled of hashish=2C our knees pressing up aga= inst each others'=2C our faces nearly touching. I felt by this time a bit d= isoriented and numb=2C but Cralan held forth=2C a true gentleman=2C laughin= g uproariously and discoursing brilliantly about Olson=2C Dutch poetry of t= he 17th century=2C dike technology=2C and whatnot. Let's go to another bar= =2C said Cralan=3B OK I said=2C and so we went out into the dawn=2C and I w= ondered to myself how in the world there could be a bar tinier than the one= from which we had just come. And as I was wondering this=2C I fell into a = canal and began to splash about=2C yelling Help me=2C and that is the last = I recall. Thank you=2C Cralan Kelder=2C for pressing your lovely mouth agai= nst mine=2C and bringing me back to life=2C in Holland. >=20 > Kent Johnson >=20 >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:13:31 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: michael farrell Subject: Re: art/call for artist/swastikas at the Denver airport In-Reply-To: <278870.30811.qm@web52402.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (irrelevant sidenote) australian poet dorothea mackellar invented a monalphabetic code for her di= ary to obscure particularly personal entries but outside this code she used swastikas to indicate menstruation (she seem= s to have suffered to the extent that required an operation) this was in the 1910s .. > Date: Thu=2C 18 Nov 2010 07:34:47 -0800 > From: poet_in_hell@YAHOO.COM > Subject: art/call for artist/swastikas at the Denver airport > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > call me crazy=2C but the damn thing does look like a swastika. & the cree= py murals-- > go figure. Maybe it's a bomb shelter (longlonglong tunels underground). O= r a gas chamber=2C a quick=2C effiecient way to get rid of the unwanted ... >=20 >=20 > DIA often offers the prospect to connect artists for temporary exhibition= or permanent > artwork opportunities. If you would like to recei= ve e-mail updates when calls for > entry or Request for Qualifications (RFQs) are an= nounced=2C please e-mail.=20 > DIA Art Program. Include your full name=2C ph= one number=2C and e-mail address. > Also indicate if you would like to receive e-mail= s about temporary exhibits=2C RFQs > for public artwork or both. For more information = about the DIA Art Program=2C call > (303) 342-2521 or e-mail DIA Art Program. > =20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =20 = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:25:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mark Melnicove Subject: The revolution is being televised In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The revolution is being televised; one just needs to know where to look = for it. Right now, its ratings are not very high, but that's subject to = change. Mark Melnicove =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F =20 From: George Thompson [mailto:gthomgt@GMAIL.COM] To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sent: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:20:47 -0500 Subject: Re: the revolution will not be televised I think that it might have come from Guy Debord. =20 George Thompson =20 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Aldon Nielsen wrote: =20 > Please, Please, Please (to quote James Brown) -- Gil Scott Heron was= never > part of the Last Poets and got real tired of people saying he had be= en. To > add to the confusion, there's the "original Last Poets" and then the= re's > the > later trio that went forward without Gylin Kain (sp=3F) -- [There wa= s a group > of student poets at Howard in the late 70s that had the all time bes= t name; > they were "The Next to the Last Poets"] > > "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was first recorded with just = drums > etc. for the album "Small Talk at 125th and Lennox Avenue" -- It was= then > rerecorded with a larger band, and that second version is the one th= at got > lots of air play and became the stuff of legend. It also appeared i= n Scott > Heron's first book of poems, also titled "Small Talk at 125th and Le= nnox > Avenue" -- > > These days students will need Norton style footnotes for damn near > everything in the piece, from "put a tiger in your tank" to "Whitney > Young." > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Maria Damon wrot= e: > > > Last Poets song/poem. and yes, i think Scott-Heron was one of them= at > that > > point. > > > > ShaunAnne Tangney wrote: > > > >> Hey--Does anyone out there know the origin of the phrase "the rev= olution > >> will not be televised=3F" I don't mean the Gil Scott Heron lyric= s; I know > >> those. But doesn't the phrase pre-date the Heron song=3F Doesn'= t it come > >> from a speech or a poem=3F Anyone know=3F Thanks--ShaunAnne > >> > >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > >> guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > >> > >> > > > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > > > -- > Aldon L. Nielsen > Kelly Professor of American Literature > Department of English > 117 Burrowes Building > The Pennsylvania State University > University Park, PA > 16802-6200 > > > aln10@psu.edu > > sailing the blogosphere at http://heatstrings.blogspot.com > > "kindling his mind (more > than his mind will kindle)" > > --William Carlos Williams, early adopter > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:26:05 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: Publication of the Turkish poet Seyhan Eroz=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E7elik's_?= Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My book of translation of the Turkish Poet Seyhan Eroz=E7elik=92s *Rosestri= kes and Coffee Grinds* is just out: * * *Seyhan Er=F6z=E7elik, ROSESTRIKES AND COFFEE GRINDS, translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat* Published by* Talisman House* Available from SPD and Amazon: =93In Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry, Murat Nemet-Nejat established =91eda=92 as a marker of poetic process much as Lorca=92s duend= e or the Japanese concept of yugen had ignited similar interests in the century now behind us. The rootedness of mysticism in language, central to the poetics in question, finds a true exemplar in Seyhan Er=F6z=E7elik=92s Rose= strikes and Coffee Grinds, a work of both intelligence & passion." =97*Jerome Rothenberg* =93Could it be that Seyhan is actually informing us that in this world, wh= ere life is presented to us as if it were the reality of the past, present, future and destiny (=91fate=92 or =91sorrow=92), there is in fact nothing m= ore than the surreal? It must be=97the surreality of fortune images and the allegory= of the mediocrity of conventional fortune discourse, signifying life caught between mediocrity and imagination. With Seyhan, =91rose=92 is a savior: An icon that can be anything and overc= ome anything. An icon that provides redemption from being caught between mediocrity and imagination! Seyhan attributes a miraculous, mystical (maybe even divine?) power to the rose... The power of the rose, that shall transform us not towards doing everything, but towards being everything. In Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds we see three paths: all of which are paths of the rose! In three spans of time: the rose shall come along those paths. And will bring us to itself...=94 =97*Hilmi Yavuz* =93Seyhan Er=F6z=E7elik=92s Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds has three layers= of narrative: first, the physical arrangements of rosestrikes and coffee grounds that the reader never sees; second, the fortune reader=92s own interpretation of these casual arrangements through words; and third, the text that the reader simply encounters. All of these convergent layers unit= e in one point: what is said in the poem will be=85 the objective future of t= he anonymous other.=94 =97*Efe Murad* ISBN 13: 978-1-58498-073-5 $14.95 Ciao, Murat =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:58:18 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: online chapbooks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello folks my chapbook and my wife yuko's are no up on Ugly duckling Presse website spread the word > > http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/online-reading/in-glorious-blac k-white-by-steve-dalachinsky/ > > http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/online-reading/small-poems-by-y uko-otomo/ thanks steve ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:36:00 -0500 Reply-To: clwnwr@earthlink.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bob Heman Subject: 12th BIG CLWN WR Event/Celebration Saturday December 4 @ Westbeth MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII The 12TH BIG CLWN WR Event/Celebration Saturday, December 4, 2010 7:00 - 10:00 P.M. Westbeth Community Room 155 Bank Street / 57 Bethune St. FREE ADMISSION!!! featuring film and performance by Mindy Levokove with poetry by Thomas Fucaloro, Evie Ivy, Judy Kamilhor, Jee Leong Koh, Brian McInerney, Katrinka Moore, Adriana Scopino, George Spencer, Phyllis Wat & Liza Wolsky songs by Carolyn Ota photographs by Lori Rogers plus a collaborative dance poem by Nathan Whiting &Christina Knight hosted by Bob Heman, editor of CLWN WR, & The Westbeth Artists Residents Council Literary Arts Committee [Westbeth is an artists' housing complex in the far West Village convenient to the 14th Street stop on the A, C, and E trains, the West 4th Street on the A, C, E, B, D, F and M trains, and the Christopher Street stop on the 1 train. It is mid-block between Washington and West Streets. The Community Room is in the inner courtyard.] ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:13:26 +0100 Reply-To: argotist@fsmail.net Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jeffrey Side Subject: The VERY first review of Kent Johnson's 'A Question Mark Above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem "By" Frank O'Hara' Comments: To: British Poetics , Poetryetc , Wryting-L MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The VERY first review of Kent Johnson's 'A Question Mark Above the Sun: Doc= uments on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem "By" Frank O'Hara' http://habenichtpress.com/?p=3D550 Excerpt from the review: "The text itself was perhaps best described by Owens during his recent visi= t to Buffalo to see it through the final stages of printing =E2=80=94 he ca= lled it a literary-critical Tristram Shandy. Indeed, Johnson so dramatizes = the metanarrative of his thesis that this is the first book of critical inq= uiry about which I=E2=80=99m afraid to say too much, for fear of giving awa= y the plot. And it does have one, compleat with villayns and heroes.=20 The first of these emerge during the highly entertaining section =E2=80=9CC= orroded by Symbolysme: An Unfinished Novella.=E2=80=9D The section fanciful= ly details Johnson=E2=80=99s sojourns in England during various conferences= , and his mysterious encounters with British poets intent on preventing the= publication of the original =E2=80=9Ctape essay=E2=80=9D by Tosa Motokiyu = in which the alternate =E2=80=9CTrue Account=E2=80=9D authorship theory was= first proposed. Prominent among these is J.H. Prynne. Apparently the leader of this odd =E2= =80=9Cfellowship of the ring=E2=80=9D dedicated to preserving the legacy of= Frank O=E2=80=99Hara, Prynne goes white on first hearing of the impending = publication of said tape essay during a meeting with Johnson, and the latte= r subsequently reports incidents of harassment from anonymous callers beari= ng British accents." =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:44:54 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Hadbawnik Subject: two new books... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://habenichtpress.com/?p=577 Farid Matuk's *This Isa Nice Neighborhood*, Trey Moody's *Climate Reply* @ Primitive Information --David Hadbawnik ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:48:46 -0500 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: a new little e-chapbook by rob mclennan now available from American publisher Gold Wake Press; Your torn, infectious bliss, http://goldwakepress.org/2010/11/18/rob-mclennan-your-torn-inflectious-bliss/ -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:11:19 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Ryan Daley Subject: Tests of English as a Foreign Language MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Back in May, and back when I was teaching a TOEFL test instruction class, I would spend so much time preparing and teaching per week that my writing was suffering. Then I came up with an idea. On the TOEFL test there is a 30-minute essay segment. Test takers have 30 minutes to write a 300 word essay in answer to an assigned question. These questions are usually somewhat mundane, i.e., one custom from your country you would share, . My goal was to write at least 75 essays and to repurpose them. While doing this, I also like I was sticking it to the powers observing us (Cameras were placed in each room, for "quality control"). To cut it short: I have roughly 60 TOEFL (poetic) essays up at my blog, htp://charitablegiving.blogspot.com. Check 'em out! And thanks for reading! Best, Ryan Daley ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:25:51 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Millicent Subject: Women's Voices for Change In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Greetings and happy Thanksgiving! I have two poems up at the Women's Voices for Change. I hope you'll stop= by and please leave a comment at the web site (if you can). Thanks! http://womensvoicesforchange.org/poetry-friday-serving.htm Millicent =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:34:43 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Marsh Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: <021501cb8778$a163d210$e42b7630$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cormac McCarthy said something like that in an interview, or wrote commenting on the derivative nature of novel writing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cunningham" To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:30:46 PM Subject: looking for quote Can anyone help me? I'm trying to track down a quote (and the author) to the effect that books breed books. John Herbert Cunningham ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:15:24 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Louis Armand Subject: poetics & other books from LPB archived online MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Litteraria's online archive at http://issuu.com/litteraria has expanded, with the addition of 14 more titles. Some of these titles are out-of-print, while others are down to the last remaining dozen copies. If you find any of these archived titles useful, please visit the LPB website at www.litterariapragensia to see if the title is still available for ordering. Coming soon to the web, the inaugural issue of VLAK magazine (contemporary poetics and the arts). Only ten copies remain available. See www.vlakmagazine.com for information about forthcoming issues. To be released on Monday: DAVID LYNCH IN THEORY, ed. Francois-Xavier Gleyzon, with contributions from Todd McGowan, Greg Hainge, Gary Bettinson, Dominique de Courcelles, Scott Wilson, Alanna Thain, Jason T. Clemence, Joshua D. Gonsalves, Rebecca Anne Barr, Louis Armand, Eric G. Wilson, Francois-Xavier Gleyzon, Gary Bettison, Michel Chion. "Francois-Xavier Gleyzon has brought together a brilliant set of critical essays on the iconic hero of lost forms, David Lynch. Probing, fearless and scrupulous, the volume stays close to the pained exactitude of an unrelenting oeuvre, strongly supporting its troubled and abjected areas, the glacial vocabularies and spectral prods that have made Lynch unbypassable, necessary and enduring." --Avital Ronell, New York University See http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/lynch.html for further information. 2011 sees the release of a series of new books, including critical studies of Dusan Makavejev, Pierre Joris, James Joyce, David Grieg, Gilles Deleuze; studies of English-Language Theatres in Post-Communist Prague and Prague Poetics; an anthology of 20th century emigre poetry in Prague; fiction by Thor Garcia; and poetry collections by Vincent Farnsworth and Laura Conway... -- Louis Armand Director, Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory, UALK, Philosophy Faculty, Charles University, Nam. J. Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, CZECH REPUBLIC www.louis-armand.com www.litterariapragensia.com www.vlakmagazine.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:46:01 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cralan Kelder Subject: Re: Give Some Word - new poetry book In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hmm, agreed.=20 one clarification: by (bagging) do you mean bagging somebody as in = getting somebody to write a blurb, or bagging somebody as in bagging on = somebody? the truth of the matter is that i was in painstakes addressing the whole = blurb thing. it's a trend in the publishing workplace and who am I to protest? I couldnt quite bring myself to include the blurbs in the book itself, = so they are only here for your reading pleasure, and not in the book = itself.=20 I figured that after badgering everybody to write one, the least I could = do was use them somewhere. none of my favorite (poetry) books have blurbs anywhere near them,=20 with the exception of Jargon Society books, with those irreverent = brilliant observations by the master jonathan williams and what is = written on the flaps of those books.=20 these particular blurbs below are meant to find a place in those veins so, michael, what do you think a blurb should do? Im sure this = discussion has been here before (?) I just wasnt around at the time to = read it... On Nov 19, 2010, at 2:06 AM, michael farrell wrote: > sounds good >=20 > but a couple of the blurbs made me wonder (carrie-style) >=20 > is(must) the praise of one (be) defined by the bagging of others? >=20 >=20 >> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:15:54 +0100 >> From: mail@CRALAN.COM >> Subject: Give Some Word - new poetry book >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >>=20 >> With great pleasure to announce to the poetics list the availability = of another book of poems! >>=20 >> Give Some Word is 90 pages of poetry. The collection traces a = narrative of irreverence humor & beauty by foot across cities and = mountains on 3 continents.=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> Now out from Shearsman, click for ordering, etc: = http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/kelder.html >>=20 >>=20 >> A is for Accessible. Give Some Word is a somewhat irreverent book of = poems. Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted, = not confused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in Give Some Word is no = exception; equal parts distilled language, contrary, and pushing = everyday language out of conformity.=20 >>=20 >> Some apparent influences; Carver, Brautigan, Corman, Sakaki, Lax, the = Jargon Society and a hundred others. The collection includes work from = publications over the past 10 years by Coracle, Longhouse, Blue Press, = and many generous magazine editors. >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> On Using the Word =91Important=92=20 >> to Describe Poetry >>=20 >> I found some good poems,=20 >> faxed them right over=20 >> to a colleague of mine.=20 >> The boss came in and asked me,=20 >> =93What are these? >> What=92s this all about?=94=20 >> =93They=92re poems,=94 I explained >> =93I thought they were very=20 >> important, Sir,=20 >> and that as many people=20 >> as possible should see them.=94 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> What people are saying: >>=20 >> When I first read the first poems by Cralan Kelder before assembling = what became Lemon Red, I had remarked to myself that in the best ones, = he was a kind of urban Gary Snyder. Later, he showed me notes >> written in the margins of the manuscript of some of those poems, = indeed by Snyder himself.=20 >> He had taken a class with him in California, and his comments were = almost identical to what I had said about the poems. Later still, Synder = denied ever meeting Kelder or writing about his poems. >>=20 >> Simon Cutts >> __ >>=20 >>=20 >> Like Buddhist koans it makes no sense to try and unpick how Kelder's = best poems work: they just do. The language, concept and experience are = all one.=20 >>=20 >> Kelder is a morning poet, he's up before the sun to make raspberry = tea and politicise his croissants, hoping he'll be the next in line for = the sun's address - after Mayakovsky and O'Hara - but in the mean time = his delight is in sharing his observations (the autobahn, the finches) = through his art. The clarity of his address occupies the place where = language is thought, speech poetry where all pretence is stripped. These = are real the poems of a poet drifting his mind over the domestic clutter = of an ordinary day. =20 >>=20 >> Chris McCabe >>=20 >> __ >>=20 >> Cralan Kelder's writing is delightfully intoxicating and fresh -- his = pungent perspectives enliven the world. >>=20 >> Naomi Shihab Nye >>=20 >> __ >>=20 >> Unlike many of his contemporaries, Cralan Kelder does not employ his = poems as armatures for hidebound rhetoric or as floorshows for = linguistic acrobatics, but cleaves instead to immediacy=92s insistence = with words and thought-tropes that sparkle like the many facets of = everyday consciousness, in a teleological real-time that is both = arresting and fluxional. Give Some Word gives us all that and more. >>=20 >> Mark Terrill >>=20 >> __ >>=20 >> I once met the kind and tremendous poet Cralan Kelder. This was in = Amsterdam. Let's go have a drink, said Cralan; OK, I said. We had some = drinks at a bar, and then we went to a smaller bar and had some more. = After this, we went to a bar that was even smaller yet, and we kept on = drinking, and thus the night continued, in progressively smaller bars, = until at some fantastical hour we sat there, facing one another, in a = kind of tiny dark bar-closet that smelled of hashish, our knees pressing = up against each others', our faces nearly touching. I felt by this time = a bit disoriented and numb, but Cralan held forth, a true gentleman, = laughing uproariously and discoursing brilliantly about Olson, Dutch = poetry of the 17th century, dike technology, and whatnot. Let's go to = another bar, said Cralan; OK I said, and so we went out into the dawn, = and I wondered to myself how in the world there could be a bar tinier = than the one from which we had just come. And as I was wondering this, I = fell into a canal and began to splash about, yelling Help me, and that = is the last I recall. Thank you, Cralan Kelder, for pressing your lovely = mouth against mine, and bringing me back to life, in Holland. >>=20 >> Kent Johnson >>=20 >>=20 >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check = guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check = guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:48:38 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Morse Subject: Re: looking for quote Comments: cc: John Cunningham In-Reply-To: <021501cb8778$a163d210$e42b7630$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/18/2010 1:30 PM, John Cunningham wrote: > Can anyone help me? I'm trying to track down a quote (and the author) to the > effect that books breed books. I suppose the ur-source would be Ecclesiastes 12.12: "Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh." Jonathan Morse ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:35:01 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chris Stroffolino Subject: D&Gtombstonechuckle In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) The phrase desiring machine gains resonance if played for description of the schizoid subject-under--scanner-- scanject subner the corporate welfare of the new airport security system in more ways than want blegh hello ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:53:40 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: nominate a book for calhum's statewide read Comments: To: "Sigauke, Emmanuel" , womprose@googlegroups.com In-Reply-To: <4CE6F0C7.4060306@pw.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The California Council for the Humanities, in partnership with the California Center for the Book and the California State Library, is looking for book nominations for an upcoming statewide read program around the theme of democracy. Fiction and nonfiction books are eligible. The deadline is Dec. 15. Please visit http://www.calhum.org/nominate/ for details and to nominate a book. ~Cheryl --=20 Cheryl Klein Director, California Office and Readings/Workshops (West) Poets& Writers, Inc. 2035 Westwood Blvd. #211 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Phone: 310-481-7195 Fax: 310-481-7193 __._,_.___ Reply to sender| Reply to group| Reply via web post| Start a New Topic Messages in this topic( 1) Recent Activity: - New Members 1 Visit Your Group To post to this listserv, send an email to norcallitlist@yahoogroups.com. MARKETPLACE Get great advice about dogs and cats. Visit the Dog & Cat Answers Center. ------------------------------ Stay on top of your group activity without leaving the page you're on - Get the Yahoo! Toolbar now. ------------------------------ Hobbies & Activities Zone: Find others who share your passions! Explore new interests. [image: Yahoo! 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:54:37 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: if you are in paris or close by MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit also if anyone knows of readings i can do in december january or february while i'm there thanks steve > “Pour Albert Ayler” > 2 décembre à 20h30 / December 2 at 8:30 p.m. > Concert > > > Avec la participation de Zéno Bianu, Steve Dalachinsky, Bernard Lubat, > Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Michel Portal, Archie Shepp, Elsa Wolliaston… > Vibrato hypertrophié, lyrisme incandescent, improvisations dionysiaques > et force du cri caractérisent le musicien Albert Ayler. Retrouvé mort > dans l’East River à New York en 1970, il est l’une des figures les plus > fortes de la modernité jazzistique des années 1960. Réunissant musiciens > et écrivains, cette soirée exceptionnelle célèbre sa mémoire et lui rend > hommage. > Une soirée proposée par la contrebassiste Joëlle Léandre et le > journaliste et écrivain Franck Médioni > With Zéno Bianu, Steve Dalachinsky, Bernard Lubat, Joe McPhee, Evan > Parker, Michel Portal, Archie Shepp, Elsa Wolliaston… > Hypertrophic vibrato, incandescent lyricism, Dionysian improvisations, a > blaring primal scream all characterized the music of Albert Ayler. Found > dead in New York’s East River in 1970, he was a dominant force in the > free jazz movement of the 1960s. Assembling musicians and writers, this > special event celebrates Ayler’s memory and art. > An evening proposed by the bassist Joëlle Léandre and the writer and > journalist Franck Médioni. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:20:26 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Sharon Dolin Subject: CBA Lettepress Poetry Chapbook Competition Deadline is December 1st Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Dear Friends, Please pass along the info to poets and students. Kimiko Hahn is the = final judge. Deadline is Dec. 1st. = http://www.centerforbookarts.org/opportunities/chapbook2011guidelines.pdf I'm pasting in the info below. ATTENTION POETS: Your Chance to Win $1,000 and Get Your POETRY Printed in The Center for Book Arts=92 2011 POETRY CHAPBOOK COMPETITION The Center for Book Arts invites submissions to its annual Poetry = Chapbook Competition by December 1, 2010. The winning manuscript will be = chosen in April 2011 and will be awarded with the publication of a = beautifully designed, letterpress-printed, limited-edition chapbook = printed and bound by artists at the Center for Book Arts. The edition is = limited to one-hundred signed and numbered copies, ten of which are = reserved for the author and the remainder of which will be offered for = sale through the Center. The winning poet will also receive a cash award = of $500, and a $500 honorarium for a reading, to be held at the Center = in the fall of 2011, as well as an exclusive opportunity to stay at the = Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York as one of their = Winter Shakers. This year=92s judges will be Kimiko Hahn & Sharon Dolin. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please submit a collection or sequence of original poems or a single = long poem not to exceed five- hundred lines or twenty-four pages (no = translations). The cover page should contain, on a single detachable = page, the manuscript title, and author=92s name, along with address, = phone number, and email. The author=92s name should not appear anywhere = else. A second title page should be provided without the author=92s name = or other identification. Please provide a table of contents and a = separate acknowledgements page containing prior magazine or anthology = publication of individual poems. Please note that the five-hundred lines = or twenty-four page limit does not include the cover page, title pages, = table of contents, or acknowledgements pages. Manuscripts should be = bound with a simple spring clip. NOTE: Poems may have appeared in journals or anthologies but not as part = of a book-length collection. Competition is open to all poets writing in = English who have published no more than one full-length book. Reading Fee: Please send a $25 check payable to The Center for Book = Arts. Please Include: A #10 self-addressed stamped envelope for notification = of the winner. Manuscripts will not be returned. Deadline: Manuscripts = must be postmarked no later than December 1, 2010. ABOUT THE JUDGES Kimiko Hahn is the author of eight collections of poetry, including = Toxic Flora: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2010 ); The Narrow Road to the Interior = (W.W. Norton, 2006); The Artist's Daughter (2002); Mosquito and Ant = (1999); Volatile (1998); and The Unbearable Heart (1995), which received = an American Book Award. Hahn is the recipient of fellowships from the = National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the = Arts, as well as the PEN/Voelcker Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader=92s = Digest Writers=92 Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and = an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award. She is a = Distinguished Professor in the English department at Queens College/CUNY = and lives in New York. Sharon Dolin=92s fourth poetry book, Burn and Dodge, won the AWP 2007 = Donald Hall Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of = Pittsburgh Press in 2008. Her other books include Realm of the Possible = (Four Way Books, 2004), Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Heart = Work (1995). She currently teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the = 92nd Street Y. Her poems have appeared in dozens of journals including = Barrow Street, The Kenyon Review, New American Writing, Court Green, and = The New Republic. See Entry Form. . . .Send Entries to: 2011 CHAPBOOK COMPETITION The Center for Book Arts 28 West 27th St., 3rd = Floor New York, NY 10001 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Complete this form and send it with a Visa or Master Card number or a = check for the $25 reading fee, Payable to: The Center for Book Arts Name: = __________________________________________________________________________= __ Address: = __________________________________________________________________________= City: ______________________________________ State: ____________ Zip: = __________________ Email: = __________________________________________________________________________= ___ Phone, day ________________________________ evening = _________________________________ How did you find out about this poetry competition? Poets & Writers = Advertisement ____ APR ad ____ AWP Conference ____ =46rom a = class/instructor ____=20 Friend ____ CBA Website ____ Other _____ Visa / MasterCard # _________________________________________________ = Expires: _________ Signature: = ___________________________________________________________ Please include a #10 SASE for notification of the winner. Manuscripts = cannot be returned. ABOUT THE CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS The Center for Book Arts is dedicated to the preservation of the = traditional artistic practices of bookmaking, as well as encouraging = contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object. Founded in = 1974, it was the first not-for- profit organization of its kind in the = nation. The Center organizes exhibitions related to the art of the book = and offers an extensive selection of educational courses, workshops and = seminars in traditional and contemporary bookbinding, letterpress = printing, fine press publishing, and other associated arts. The Center = for Book Arts is supported by its members and by various foundations = including The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Carnegie = Corporation of New York, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The = Charina Foundation, New York Community Trust, the Elbert Lenrow Fund, = Inc. the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Institute of Museum and = Library Services (IMLS), the Elbert Lenrow Fund, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, = the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the NY State Council on the = Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and New York City Department = of Cultural Affairs. The Center for Book Arts, Incorporated 1974 is a = 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. Contributions are tax deductible to = the extent allowed by law. For further information or to register for = workshops and classes, call the Center at (212) 481-0295 or visit = www.centerforbookarts.org. Sharon Sharon Dolin sdolin@earthlink.net www.sharondolin.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:01:20 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: michael farrell Subject: Re: Give Some Word - new poetry book In-Reply-To: <6490F1E9-9FE6-44DE-B484-1B03EC8087E0@cralan.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi cralan its something of a vexed issue .. i try not to take it too seriously .. tho= i like to collect particularly cool things people say .. in my head at lea= st .. [ er yes - about my poems] .. i think it can help get a book some att= ention=2C & im happy to oblige a publisher .. it can help orient a book in = its poetic-cultural place etc esp if yr trying to distribute internationall= y .. these are obvious things to say ..=20 by 'bagging' - i dont know if its australian vernacular or uk/us but i mean= t - basically - insulting - what i referred to is these comments: "poetry where all pretence is stripped" "does not employ his poems as armatures for hidebound rhetoric or as floors= hows for linguistic acrobatics" im just expressing my dislike for critics having a generalised swipe - esp = when that is not the task at hand .. &=2C just asking - is it possible to d= efine (again in naive sex & city fashion) its (a book's) positive attribute= s=2C without referring to what its not i see a lot of that here & am sensitive to the thought that (something like= ) 'linguistic acrobatics' might refer to my poems (& whats wrong with that?= ) .. whats wrong with pretence?=20 in the poem quoted re the importance of poetry - u seem to be having a go a= t a certain kind of stuffy critical discourse which seems (totally) fine wi= th me .. to be clear - im not bagging you - or even blurbing - just that strain with= in criticism .. michael > Date: Sat=2C 20 Nov 2010 23:46:01 +0100 > From: mail@CRALAN.COM > Subject: Re: Give Some Word - new poetry book > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >=20 > hmm=2C agreed.=20 >=20 > one clarification: by (bagging) do you mean bagging somebody as in gettin= g somebody to write a blurb=2C or bagging somebody as in bagging on somebod= y? >=20 >=20 >=20 > the truth of the matter is that i was in painstakes addressing the whole = blurb thing. > it's a trend in the publishing workplace and who am I to protest? >=20 > I couldnt quite bring myself to include the blurbs in the book itself=2C = so they are only here for your reading pleasure=2C and not in the book its= elf.=20 > I figured that after badgering everybody to write one=2C the least I coul= d do was use them somewhere. >=20 >=20 > none of my favorite (poetry) books have blurbs anywhere near them=2C=20 >=20 > with the exception of Jargon Society books=2C with those irreverent brill= iant observations by the master jonathan williams and what is written on th= e flaps of those books.=20 >=20 > these particular blurbs below are meant to find a place in those veins >=20 >=20 > so=2C michael=2C what do you think a blurb should do? Im sure this discus= sion has been here before (?) I just wasnt around at the time to read it... >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > On Nov 19=2C 2010=2C at 2:06 AM=2C michael farrell wrote: >=20 > > sounds good > >=20 > > but a couple of the blurbs made me wonder (carrie-style) > >=20 > > is(must) the praise of one (be) defined by the bagging of others? > >=20 > >=20 > >> Date: Thu=2C 18 Nov 2010 20:15:54 +0100 > >> From: mail@CRALAN.COM > >> Subject: Give Some Word - new poetry book > >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > >>=20 > >> With great pleasure to announce to the poetics list the availability o= f another book of poems! > >>=20 > >> Give Some Word is 90 pages of poetry. The collection traces a narrativ= e of irreverence humor & beauty by foot across cities and mountains on 3 co= ntinents.=20 > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> Now out from Shearsman=2C click for ordering=2C etc: http://www.shears= man.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/kelder.html > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> A is for Accessible. Give Some Word is a somewhat irreverent book of p= oems. Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted=2C no= t confused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in Give Some Word is no excep= tion=3B equal parts distilled language=2C contrary=2C and pushing everyday = language out of conformity.=20 > >>=20 > >> Some apparent influences=3B Carver=2C Brautigan=2C Corman=2C Sakaki=2C= Lax=2C the Jargon Society and a hundred others. The collection includes wo= rk from publications over the past 10 years by Coracle=2C Longhouse=2C Blue= Press=2C and many generous magazine editors. > >>=20 > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> On Using the Word =91Important=92=20 > >> to Describe Poetry > >>=20 > >> I found some good poems=2C=20 > >> faxed them right over=20 > >> to a colleague of mine.=20 > >> The boss came in and asked me=2C=20 > >> =93What are these? > >> What=92s this all about?=94=20 > >> =93They=92re poems=2C=94 I explained > >> =93I thought they were very=20 > >> important=2C Sir=2C=20 > >> and that as many people=20 > >> as possible should see them.=94 > >>=20 > >>=20 > >>=20 > >>=20 > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> What people are saying: > >>=20 > >> When I first read the first poems by Cralan Kelder before assembling w= hat became Lemon Red=2C I had remarked to myself that in the best ones=2C h= e was a kind of urban Gary Snyder. Later=2C he showed me notes > >> written in the margins of the manuscript of some of those poems=2C in= deed by Snyder himself.=20 > >> He had taken a class with him in California=2C and his comments were a= lmost identical to what I had said about the poems. Later still=2C Synder d= enied ever meeting Kelder or writing about his poems. > >>=20 > >> Simon Cutts > >> __ > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> Like Buddhist koans it makes no sense to try and unpick how Kelder's b= est poems work: they just do. The language=2C concept and experience are al= l one.=20 > >>=20 > >> Kelder is a morning poet=2C he's up before the sun to make raspberry t= ea and politicise his croissants=2C hoping he'll be the next in line for th= e sun's address - after Mayakovsky and O'Hara - but in the mean time his de= light is in sharing his observations (the autobahn=2C the finches) through = his art. The clarity of his address occupies the place where language is th= ought=2C speech poetry where all pretence is stripped. These are real the p= oems of a poet drifting his mind over the domestic clutter of an ordinary d= ay. =20 > >>=20 > >> Chris McCabe > >>=20 > >> __ > >>=20 > >> Cralan Kelder's writing is delightfully intoxicating and fresh -- his = pungent perspectives enliven the world. > >>=20 > >> Naomi Shihab Nye > >>=20 > >> __ > >>=20 > >> Unlike many of his contemporaries=2C Cralan Kelder does not employ his= poems as armatures for hidebound rhetoric or as floorshows for linguistic = acrobatics=2C but cleaves instead to immediacy=92s insistence with words an= d thought-tropes that sparkle like the many facets of everyday consciousnes= s=2C in a teleological real-time that is both arresting and fluxional. Give= Some Word gives us all that and more. > >>=20 > >> Mark Terrill > >>=20 > >> __ > >>=20 > >> I once met the kind and tremendous poet Cralan Kelder. This was in Ams= terdam. Let's go have a drink=2C said Cralan=3B OK=2C I said. We had some d= rinks at a bar=2C and then we went to a smaller bar and had some more. Afte= r this=2C we went to a bar that was even smaller yet=2C and we kept on drin= king=2C and thus the night continued=2C in progressively smaller bars=2C un= til at some fantastical hour we sat there=2C facing one another=2C in a kin= d of tiny dark bar-closet that smelled of hashish=2C our knees pressing up = against each others'=2C our faces nearly touching. I felt by this time a bi= t disoriented and numb=2C but Cralan held forth=2C a true gentleman=2C laug= hing uproariously and discoursing brilliantly about Olson=2C Dutch poetry o= f the 17th century=2C dike technology=2C and whatnot. Let's go to another b= ar=2C said Cralan=3B OK I said=2C and so we went out into the dawn=2C and I= wondered to myself how in the world there could be a bar tinier than the o= ne from which we had just come. And as I was wondering this=2C I fell into = a canal and began to splash about=2C yelling Help me=2C and that is the las= t I recall. Thank you=2C Cralan Kelder=2C for pressing your lovely mouth ag= ainst mine=2C and bringing me back to life=2C in Holland. > >>=20 > >> Kent Johnson > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guide= lines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > =20 > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidel= ines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:22:30 -0800 Reply-To: Joel Weishaus Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Joel Weishaus Subject: Poetica Critique of Stanley Diamond's "Totems." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This Poetica critique is of Stanley Diamond's "Totems." Diamond (1922-1991) was an anthropologist best known for his book, "In = Search of the Primitive." "Totems" was the first collection of his poems: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Poetica/blog-6.htm -Joel Joel Weishaus Homepage: http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/ Digital Archive: www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/index.htm =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:43:24 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Bowering Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: <4CE85046.4090508@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed And since then just about everyone has said it, including Northrop Frye. On Nov 20, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Morse wrote: > On 11/18/2010 1:30 PM, John Cunningham wrote: >> Can anyone help me? I'm trying to track down a quote (and the >> author) to the >> effect that books breed books. > I suppose the ur-source would be Ecclesiastes 12.12: "Of making > many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the > flesh." > > Jonathan Morse > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ > welcome.html George Bowering Star of Stage, Screen & Front Yard. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:32:14 -1000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jonathan Morse Subject: 11 blue images MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit can be seen at http://issuu.com/jonathan-morse/docs/11_blue Jonathan Morse http://jonathan-morse.blogspot.com ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:47:14 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dale Smith Subject: Feneon MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 As many of you know, there have been some difficulties regarding the distribution of Works and Days of the Feneon Collective--and the publishers anticipate continued delays filling orders for the time being. We're working to make the book is available as soon as possible and appreciate everyone's patience. Queries regarding order status can be directed to me at possumego@gmail.com/. I'll make another announcement here as soon as the Effing Press website is back online. Best, Dale -- Dale Smith, Assistant Director Department of Rhetoric and Writing University of Texas Department of English 1 University Station, B5500 Austin, Texas 78712 ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:02:50 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Lundquist, Sara" Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: <021501cb8778$a163d210$e42b7630$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full-stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network. -- Michel Foucault Thus I discovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told .... -- Umberto Eco -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of John Cunningham Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:31 PM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: looking for quote Can anyone help me? I'm trying to track down a quote (and the author) to the effect that books breed books. John Herbert Cunningham =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:49:40 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: John Cunningham Subject: seeking quote MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Perhaps I wasn't accurate enough. The phrase I'm looking for is to the effect that books inspire other books. I'm looking for the quote and the author. John Herbert Cunningham ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:05:11 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Paul Siegell Subject: POP A SQUAT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" hello friends, at least one porta-potty operator agrees... http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:27:19 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Nov 29: Lewis Carroll Coffeehouse in Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii A LEWIS CARROLL COFFEEHOUSE with performers, writers, composers & choreographers featuring Jennifer Karmin in a live collaboration with Kath Duffy & Dan Godston performing from the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice Monday, November 29th 7-8:30 pm at the Storefront Theater 66 E. Randolph St -- Chicago, IL free but reservations encouraged 312.742.8497 or http://www.dcatheater.org presented by Chicago DCA Theater Chicago Opera Vanguard & Caffeine Theatre in conjunction with Boojum! Nonsense, Truth, and Lewis Carroll November 18-December 19, 2010 http://www.caffeinetheatre.com JENNIFER KARMIN's text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. In Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools. http://aaaaaaaaaaalice.blogspot.com KATH DUFFY is a writer who co-founded the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise in 2001 to forge alliances with other artists, activists, community groups, and the general public. Expanding on collaboration as political force, Kath initiated the organizing efforts of the Dill Pickle Food Coop in late 2005, and is currently serving her second three year term on the board of directors. Kathleen earns her keep as the Communications Organizer for the Campaign for Better Health Care and is a member of the concert production staff of the Old Town School of Folk Music. DAN GODSTON teaches and lives in Chicago. His writings have appeared in Chase Park, After Hours, BlazeVOX, Versal, Beard of Bees, Drunken Boat, 580 Split, Kyoto Journal, Eratica, The Smoking Poet, Horse Less Review, Moria, Apparatus Magazine, EOAGH, Requited Journal, Sentinel Poetry, and other print publications and online journals. His poem "Mask to Skin to Blood to Heart to Bone and Back" was nominated by the editors of 580 Split for the Pushcart Prize. He also composes and performs music, and he works with the Borderbend Arts Collective to organize the annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:00:27 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii is the obvious answer Derrida. something to the effect of all books being about other books. --- On Sun, 11/21/10, George Bowering wrote: From: George Bowering Subject: Re: looking for quote To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Sunday, November 21, 2010, 8:43 PM And since then just about everyone has said it, including Northrop Frye. On Nov 20, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Morse wrote: > On 11/18/2010 1:30 PM, John Cunningham wrote: >> Can anyone help me? I'm trying to track down a quote (and the author) to the >> effect that books breed books. > I suppose the ur-source would be Ecclesiastes 12.12: "Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh." > > Jonathan Morse > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html George Bowering Star of Stage, Screen & Front Yard. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:36:21 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Comments: RFC822 error: Invalid RFC822 field - "Keep in touch=". Rest of header flushed. From: David Seaman Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Excellent search. I can't help, but I support your search.=0AKeep in touch= =0ADavid=EF=BB=BF=0A=0ADavid W. Seaman, Ph.D.=0Ahttp://personal.georgiaso= uthern.edu/~dseaman/Welcome.html=0A=0AFollow my Twitter poetry at dseaman4= 0=0A=0AYouTube video of my Venice Biennale poem: =0Ahttp://www.youtube.com= /watch?v=3DJQ5bOuJBN_k=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0AOn Nov 22, 2010, at 08:02 AM, "Lun= dquist, Sara" wrote:=0A=0A> The frontiers of = a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first=0A> lines, and the= last full-stop, beyond its internal configuration and its=0A> autonomous = form, it is caught up in a system of references to other=0A> books, other = texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network. --=0A> Michel Fouca= ult=0A>=0A> Thus I discovered what writers have always known (and have tol= d us again=0A> and again): books always speak of other books, and every st= ory tells a=0A> story that has already been told .... -- Umberto Eco=0A>=0A= >=0A>=0A>=0A> -----Original Message-----=0A> From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB= ) [mailto:POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On=0A> Behalf Of John Cunningham=0A= > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:31 PM=0A> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFA= LO.EDU=0A> Subject: looking for quote=0A>=0A> Can anyone help me? I'm tryi= ng to track down a quote (and the author) to=0A> the=0A> effect that books= breed books.=0A>=0A> John Herbert Cunningham=0A>=0A>=0A> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=0A> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. C= heck=0A> guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welco= me.html=0A>=0A> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0A> The Poetics List is moderat= ed & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://= epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:03:18 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: if you are in paris or close by In-Reply-To: <20101120.215649.956.434317@mailpop10.vgs.untd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Have a nice trip. Murat On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:24 PM, steve dalachinsky wrote= : > also if anyone knows of readings i can do in december january or february > while i'm there > > thanks steve > > > =93Pour Albert Ayler=94 > > 2 d=E9cembre =E0 20h30 / December 2 at 8:30 p.m. > > Concert > > > > > > Avec la participation de Z=E9no Bianu, Steve Dalachinsky, Bernard Lubat= , > > Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Michel Portal, Archie Shepp, Elsa Wolliaston= =85 > > Vibrato hypertrophi=E9, lyrisme incandescent, improvisations dionysiaqu= es > > et force du cri caract=E9risent le musicien Albert Ayler. Retrouv=E9 mo= rt > > dans l=92East River =E0 New York en 1970, il est l=92une des figures le= s plus > > fortes de la modernit=E9 jazzistique des ann=E9es 1960. R=E9unissant > musiciens > > et =E9crivains, cette soir=E9e exceptionnelle c=E9l=E8bre sa m=E9moire = et lui > rend > > hommage. > > Une soir=E9e propos=E9e par la contrebassiste Jo=EBlle L=E9andre et le > > journaliste et =E9crivain Franck M=E9dioni > > With Z=E9no Bianu, Steve Dalachinsky, Bernard Lubat, Joe McPhee, Evan > > Parker, Michel Portal, Archie Shepp, Elsa Wolliaston=85 > > Hypertrophic vibrato, incandescent lyricism, Dionysian improvisations, > a > > blaring primal scream all characterized the music of Albert Ayler. > Found > > dead in New York=92s East River in 1970, he was a dominant force in the > > free jazz movement of the 1960s. Assembling musicians and writers, this > > special event celebrates Ayler=92s memory and art. > > An evening proposed by the bassist Jo=EBlle L=E9andre and the writer an= d > > journalist Franck M=E9dioni. > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelin= es > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:14:04 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jules Boykoff Subject: Kaia Sand: Poetry & Magic in Portland, Oregon: 1 December MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable for those in and around Portland, Oregon... ?Econ Salon? to mix magic, poetry, & storytelling exploring housing =20 foreclosures Event: An Econ Salon (?The Magician Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its =20 Puff??a magic show & story, followed by a talk on housing foreclosures) Date & Time: Wed. Dec. 1, 7PM-9PM Location: Field Works (storefront on corner of SW11th & Jefferson, =20 downtown Portland) Contact: Kaia Sand (sand@thetangentpress.org) Internationally acclaimed whistler and magician Mitch Hider is =20 collaborating with Kaia Sand to tell a tale of financial fiasco, ?The =20 Magician Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff? through magic, =20 whistling, and storytelling on Wed., Dec 1, at 7 PM. at the Field Work =20 gallery (the corner of S.W. 11th Avenue & Jefferson in downtown =20 Portland). The performance will be followed by a talk by Angela =20 Martin, executive director of Economic Fairness Oregon, on the housing =20 foreclosure crisis and current organizing efforts. The evening event will also include a screening of an 8-minute video, =20 It?s a Wonderful Time to Buy, and ongoing installation projects by =20 Jennifer Hardacker (Sheltered?a video) and David Buuck (?Matta Clark =20 Park Series??a poster project). The evening?s events will end by 9PM. The structure of this event is an Econ Salon, a format launched in =20 2008 blending economic talks with cultural performances. The event is =20 part of the Happy Valley Project, an ongoing poetic investigation of =20 housing foreclosures and financial speculation by Kaia Sand =20 http://thehappyvalleyproject.wordpress.com/ The Happy Valley Project will reside in Field Works (SW 11th & =20 Jefferson) from Monday, Nov. 29-Sat. Dec. 4. Aside from the Dec. 1 =20 evening performance, the space will be open during the day for the =20 installation projects. Sheltered, by Forest-Grove based experimental video-maker Jennifer =20 Hardacker, illuminates the inside of a shell with video images of =20 boys, who share their ideas of their dream homes. Oakland-based David =20 Buuck?s ?Matta Clark Park Series? is a poster project claiming various =20 off-limits public and private spaces as conceptual parks. Field Work is located in a former downtown storefront. A collaboration =20 between PSU?s MFA in Contemporary Art and Graphic Design programs, =20 Field Work is a platform for students, artists and curators to engage =20 and collaborate directly with the public. www.fieldworkspace.org. Field Work will be open to the public for the Happy Valley Project =20 Monday Nov. 29, 10AM-1PM; Tuesday, Nov. 30, 10AM-3PM, Wednesday, =20 6PM-9PM; Thursday, 10AM-3PM, Friday, 10PM-1PM & 4PM-7PM, and Sat. =20 10AM-1PM, and by appointment (sand@thetangentpress.org) Bios for Dec. 1 Econ Salon Mitch Hider is a long-time professional musical whistler and =20 vaudeville-style performer. He is in the National Whistlers Hall of =20 Fame and is a noted historian of whistling; he has given talks about =20 the history, using vintage recordings. Mitch whistles, sings, yodels =20 and scats; he does standards, jazz, show tunes, sacred, western, =20 novelty, international and more. He does opera parody and a humorous =20 magic show. He plays ukulele, harmonica, drums and other novelty =20 instruments. He uses a table of hats and props. Mitch?s shows have a =20 lot of humor, but he also does church programs and has whistled at =20 many funerals. He once whistled with ?Bertha the Harmonica-Playing =20 Elephant.? Angela Martin is the director of the Economic Fairness Coalition of =20 Our Oregon, where she focuses her legislative advocacy and policy work =20 on predatory lending, credit and debt issues. Prior to working with =20 Our Oregon, Angela was part of the Oregon Food Bank?s public policy =20 team, providing research and analysis on state and federal policy =20 issues affecting low-income Oregonians. Angela?s professional career =20 in policy research and legislative advocacy is supplemented with years =20 of political organizing experience gained on state and local electoral =20 campaigns. Kaia Sand is a poet and essayist who explores contexts that exceed the =20 book. Supported by a Regional Arts and Culture Council project grant, =20 she is currently working on the Happy Valley Project, a multi-media =20 poetry project investigating foreclosures and financial speculation. =20 Her book, Remember to Wave (Tinfish Press 2010) investigates political =20 geography in North Portland, which takes the form of a poetry walk. =20 She is also the author of a poetry collection, interval (Edge Books =20 2004), and co-author with Jules Boykoff of Landscapes of Dissent: =20 Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space (Palm Press 2008). Sand has created =20 several chapbooks through the Dusie Kollektiv, which also published =20 her wee book, lotto. Her poems comprise the text of two books in Jim =20 Dine's Hot Dreams series (Steidl Editions 2008). Bios for ongoing installations David Buuck is the author of The Shunt (Palm Press, 2009) and numerous =20 small-press chapbooks and pamphlets. He is the founder of BARGE (the =20 Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics). The Matta-Clark =20 Memorial Parks Posters are named after Gordon Matta-Clark, who in the =20 1970s bought up un-used property-slices in New York as part of his =20 ?Fake Estates? project, re-framing these ?odd lots? as found public =20 art. In this ongoing project, BARGE hopes to claim various off-limits =20 public and private spaces as conceptual parks, in order to reframe and =20 highlight how space gets cordoned and fenced off from the public, and =20 how the ?enviro-aesthetics? of the urban landscape tends to reinforce =20 such divides. (More information can be found here: =20 http://www.davidbuuck.com/barge/mattaclarkparks/index.html) see: =20 http://buuckbarge.wordpress.com/ and davidbuuck.com/barge Jennifer Hardacker is an experimental short film/video maker and =20 educator. She has been making films and videos for over 13 years and =20 her films have screened widely in festivals across the US. Her films =20 are interested in re-imaging and re-imagining the meaning and context =20 of images. Currently, Hardacker teaches film/video studies and =20 production at Pacific University in Oregon. Prior to life in the =20 Northwest, she taught film at the University of Michigan and The New =20 School University in New York City. She also spent time working =20 professionally in New York as an editor and assistant editor of =20 television commercials, short films and music videos. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:57:39 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: California Poet Laureate Nominations -- Open! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.cac.ca.gov/poetlaureate/main2.php Who will follow Carol Muske-Dukes? All best, Catherine Daly ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:11:51 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Marsh Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: <660288453.1278156.1290553808513.JavaMail.root@sz0153a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cormac McCarthy from a 1992 NY Times interview: "The ugly fact is books are made out of books," he says. "The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written." His list of those whom he calls the "good writers" -- Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner -- precludes anyone who doesn't "deal with issues of life and death." Proust and Henry James don't make the cut. "I don't understand them," he says. "To me, that's not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange." ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cunningham" To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:30:46 PM Subject: looking for quote Can anyone help me? I'm trying to track down a quote (and the author) to the effect that books breed books. John Herbert Cunningham ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:20:58 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: George Bowering Subject: Re: seeking quote In-Reply-To: <02ab01cb8a76$06273d40$1275b7c0$@com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I have come across a few hundred of those during my long life. On Nov 22, 2010, at 10:49 AM, John Cunningham wrote: > Perhaps I wasn't accurate enough. The phrase I'm looking for is to > the > effect that books inspire other books. I'm looking for the quote > and the > author. > > John Herbert Cunningham > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/ > welcome.html George Bowering Star of Stage, Screen & Front Yard. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:38:50 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: amy king Subject: Chauffeur Found Guilty of Speeding Off With a New York Poet's Warhol MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Glad that's over -- http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36418/chauffeur-found-guilty-of-speeding-off-with-a-new-york-poets-warhol/ ********* VIDA: Women in Literary Arts + Interviews Amy's Alias + http://amyking.org/ ******** ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:53:26 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: DAWN APRIL LONSINGER Subject: WHR Special **Adaptation** Issue Call for Submissions In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 ::: Call for Submissions for a Special **ADAPTATION** Issue of WHR (Spring = 2011) ::: The editors invite submissions that exemplify or address the phenomenon of = ADAPTATION. Fiction, poetry and criticism are all welcome, as well as writi= ng in hybrid genres that combine or adapt more traditional forms. edited by Lance Olsen // Scott Black // Craig Dworkin // Paisley Rekdal Submission Period: January 1, 2011 through March 15, 2011 (postmark date) Guidelines: If one long prosaic piece (essays, fiction, etc.), no more tha= n 25 pages; If poems or shorter pieces, up to 5 pieces (totaling not more t= han 25 pages) /// Everything should be in a format that can be printed in W= HR's standard journal format (black and white), and should be sent via regu= lar mail. Send questions to: whr@mail.hum.utah.edu Submit your ADAPTATIONS to (please do not forget to designate as for the "A= daptations Issue" on the mailing envelope): Western Humanities Review ADAPTATIONS ISSUE c/o dawn lonsinger University of Utah English Dept. 255 S. Central Campus Dr., LNCO 3500 Salt Lake City, UT 841112 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:30:42 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Micah Robbins Subject: New Title from Interbirth Books: Christian Peet's Pluto: Never Forget Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Announcing the release of Interbirth Books' latest title!=20 Pluto: Never Forget by Christian Peet=20 Seventy-six books were designed, printed, assembled, and hand bound 100% in-house at Interbirth Books by Micah Robbins and Clifton Riley. Twenty-= six books are bound between boards using the coptic stitch, lettered A-Z, and= signed by the author. Fifty books are bound in paper using the pamphlet stitch. The cover is an original silk screen print. For more information and to order, visit www.interbirthbooks.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:46:59 -0700 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: "Angeline, Mary" Subject: Images of Women in Literature MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I will be teaching a gen ed Humanities course titled "Images of Women in = Literature and the Arts" I have selected art texts but other than the = few sixty lbs Norton anthologies of English Women writers I am wondering = if there are anthologies published recently that I could check out...I = will be using Burlesque but need to supplement with others...Thank You & = Happy turkey Day! Mary Angeline University of Northern Colorado Department of English Co-Director, Life of the Mind Program Chair, Rosenberry Writers' Conference Faculty in Residence, Central Coalition -----Original Message----- From: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) on behalf of Micah Robbins Sent: Wed 11/24/2010 9:30 AM To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: New Title from Interbirth Books: Christian Peet's Pluto: Never = Forget =20 Announcing the release of Interbirth Books' latest title!=20 Pluto: Never Forget by Christian Peet=20 Seventy-six books were designed, printed, assembled, and hand bound 100% in-house at Interbirth Books by Micah Robbins and Clifton Riley. = Twenty-six books are bound between boards using the coptic stitch, lettered A-Z, = and signed by the author. Fifty books are bound in paper using the pamphlet stitch. The cover is an original silk screen print. For more information and to order, visit www.interbirthbooks.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check = guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:43:05 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cara Benson Subject: Prison Need: Toomer's Cane MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Folks, I'm in need of six copies of Jean Toomer's Cane for the class I teach at Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in NY State. Anybody got an extra they want to donate? If so, please back channel. gratitudinally, Cara ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:10:50 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Seaman Subject: Re: Images of Women in Literature In-Reply-To: <9C2151E931C62E43897FB3FED435573190415A@itex05.unco.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable I have sometimes found the Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion a useful stim= ulus in all sorts of courses.=A0=0A=0ADavid=0ADavid W. Seaman, Ph.D.=0Ahtt= p://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~dseaman/Welcome.html=0A=0AFollow my Twit= ter poetry at dseaman40=0A=0AYouTube video of my Venice Biennale poem: =0A= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DJQ5bOuJBN_k=0A=0A=0A=0A=0AOn Nov 24, 2010= , at 02:04 PM, "Angeline, Mary" wrote:=0A=0AI wil= l be teaching a gen ed Humanities course titled "Images of Women in Litera= ture and the Arts" I have selected art texts but other than the few sixty = lbs Norton anthologies of English Women writers I am wondering if there ar= e anthologies published recently that I could check out...I will be using = Burlesque but need to supplement with others...Thank You & Happy turkey Da= y!=0A=0AMary Angeline=0AUniversity of Northern Colorado=0ADepartment of En= glish=0ACo-Director, Life of the Mind Program=0AChair, Rosenberry Writers'= Conference=0AFaculty in Residence, Central Coalition=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A= =0A=0A=0A-----Original Message-----=0AFrom: Poetics List (UPenn, UB) on be= half of Micah Robbins=0ASent: Wed 11/24/2010 9:30 AM=0ATo: POETICS@LISTSER= V.BUFFALO.EDU=0ASubject: New Title from Interbirth Books: Christian Peet's= Pluto: Never Forget=0A=0AAnnouncing the release of Interbirth Books' late= st title! =0A=0APluto: Never Forget by Christian Peet =0A=0ASeventy-six bo= oks were designed, printed, assembled, and hand bound 100%=0Ain-house at I= nterbirth Books by Micah Robbins and Clifton Riley. Twenty-six=0Abooks are= bound between boards using the coptic stitch, lettered A-Z, and=0Asigned = by the author. Fifty books are bound in paper using the pamphlet=0Astitch.= The cover is an original silk screen print.=0A=0AFor more information and= to order, visit www.interbirthbooks.com=0A=0A=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0A= The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guideline= s & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html=0A=0A=0A=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=0AThe Poetics List is moderated & does not accept= all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poet= ics/welcome.html=0A= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:46:26 +0100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Cralan Kelder Subject: Re: Give Some Word - new poetry book In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi michael,=20 yes, the same in the vernacular where i come from - bagging means to = take a dig at somebody.=20 I think you are right - taken as a whole, the poem excerpted & the = quotes take a swipe at inaccessible poetry. That was not consciously the = intention when putting this together, but now I read it the same as you. The poem quoted is bagging on poetry books that are described as "an = important contribution" on the back cover. There is more bagging in the = book too; on prissy signs, war-mongers, cars, roadkill, etc.=20 Obviously there is a lot more going on in the book too, but there are = definitely undertones of contrariness. I would agree with you that positive sentiments are in general more = preferable. It may be bad form to define yourself by differentiating = negatively from others.=20 and yet I come back to the book's poetic bent; to write pieces that may = appear simple on the surface & do not confound.=20 it also has to do with my literary heroes, writing that makes me excited = - unpretentious straight-forward writing that appears simple, until you = try & write like that yourself. The blurbs / quotes and critical tone are my responsibility in the sense = that the authors who wrote the blurbs are picking up on my sentiments = towards inaccessible poetry. The discussion gets interesting for me now, as I realise that what you = say is true, that this particular book is also many years in the making; = a reaction to a lot of poetry i read in the past 20 years, so that the = reactionary nature of the blurbs is perhaps accurate i would hope for it to be more of a positive reaction to the styles that = I like, as opposed to just bagging on what didn't speak to me. So to ask the next logical question: isn't writing poetry a reaction to = the reading that has gone on before - and don't we incorporate our likes = and dislikes in what we write & omit? On Nov 22, 2010, at 1:01 AM, michael farrell wrote: > hi cralan >=20 > its something of a vexed issue .. i try not to take it too seriously = .. tho i like to collect particularly cool things people say .. in my = head at least .. [ er yes - about my poems] .. i think it can help get a = book some attention, & im happy to oblige a publisher .. it can help = orient a book in its poetic-cultural place etc esp if yr trying to = distribute internationally .. these are obvious things to say ..=20 >=20 > by 'bagging' - i dont know if its australian vernacular or uk/us but i = meant - basically - insulting - >=20 > what i referred to is these comments: >=20 > "poetry where all pretence is stripped" >=20 > "does not employ his poems as armatures for hidebound rhetoric or as = floorshows for linguistic acrobatics" >=20 > im just expressing my dislike for critics having a generalised swipe - = esp when that is not the task at hand .. &, just asking - is it possible = to define (again in naive sex & city fashion) its (a book's) positive = attributes, without referring to what its not >=20 > i see a lot of that here & am sensitive to the thought that (something = like) 'linguistic acrobatics' might refer to my poems (& whats wrong = with that?) .. whats wrong with pretence?=20 >=20 > in the poem quoted re the importance of poetry - u seem to be having a = go at a certain kind of stuffy critical discourse which seems (totally) = fine with me .. >=20 > to be clear - im not bagging you - or even blurbing - just that strain = within criticism .. >=20 > michael >=20 >=20 >> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:46:01 +0100 >> From: mail@CRALAN.COM >> Subject: Re: Give Some Word - new poetry book >> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >>=20 >> hmm, agreed.=20 >>=20 >> one clarification: by (bagging) do you mean bagging somebody as in = getting somebody to write a blurb, or bagging somebody as in bagging on = somebody? >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> the truth of the matter is that i was in painstakes addressing the = whole blurb thing. >> it's a trend in the publishing workplace and who am I to protest? >>=20 >> I couldnt quite bring myself to include the blurbs in the book = itself, so they are only here for your reading pleasure, and not in the = book itself.=20 >> I figured that after badgering everybody to write one, the least I = could do was use them somewhere. >>=20 >>=20 >> none of my favorite (poetry) books have blurbs anywhere near them,=20 >>=20 >> with the exception of Jargon Society books, with those irreverent = brilliant observations by the master jonathan williams and what is = written on the flaps of those books.=20 >>=20 >> these particular blurbs below are meant to find a place in those = veins >>=20 >>=20 >> so, michael, what do you think a blurb should do? Im sure this = discussion has been here before (?) I just wasnt around at the time to = read it... >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> On Nov 19, 2010, at 2:06 AM, michael farrell wrote: >>=20 >>> sounds good >>>=20 >>> but a couple of the blurbs made me wonder (carrie-style) >>>=20 >>> is(must) the praise of one (be) defined by the bagging of others? >>>=20 >>>=20 >>>> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:15:54 +0100 >>>> From: mail@CRALAN.COM >>>> Subject: Give Some Word - new poetry book >>>> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU >>>>=20 >>>> With great pleasure to announce to the poetics list the = availability of another book of poems! >>>>=20 >>>> Give Some Word is 90 pages of poetry. The collection traces a = narrative of irreverence humor & beauty by foot across cities and = mountains on 3 continents.=20 >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> Now out from Shearsman, click for ordering, etc: = http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2010/kelder.html >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> A is for Accessible. Give Some Word is a somewhat irreverent book = of poems. Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be = delighted, not confused. Poems are not riddles. The poetry in Give Some = Word is no exception; equal parts distilled language, contrary, and = pushing everyday language out of conformity.=20 >>>>=20 >>>> Some apparent influences; Carver, Brautigan, Corman, Sakaki, Lax, = the Jargon Society and a hundred others. The collection includes work = from publications over the past 10 years by Coracle, Longhouse, Blue = Press, and many generous magazine editors. >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> On Using the Word =91Important=92=20 >>>> to Describe Poetry >>>>=20 >>>> I found some good poems,=20 >>>> faxed them right over=20 >>>> to a colleague of mine.=20 >>>> The boss came in and asked me,=20 >>>> =93What are these? >>>> What=92s this all about?=94=20 >>>> =93They=92re poems,=94 I explained >>>> =93I thought they were very=20 >>>> important, Sir,=20 >>>> and that as many people=20 >>>> as possible should see them.=94 >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> What people are saying: >>>>=20 >>>> When I first read the first poems by Cralan Kelder before = assembling what became Lemon Red, I had remarked to myself that in the = best ones, he was a kind of urban Gary Snyder. Later, he showed me notes >>>> written in the margins of the manuscript of some of those poems, = indeed by Snyder himself.=20 >>>> He had taken a class with him in California, and his comments were = almost identical to what I had said about the poems. Later still, Synder = denied ever meeting Kelder or writing about his poems. >>>>=20 >>>> Simon Cutts >>>> __ >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> Like Buddhist koans it makes no sense to try and unpick how = Kelder's best poems work: they just do. The language, concept and = experience are all one.=20 >>>>=20 >>>> Kelder is a morning poet, he's up before the sun to make raspberry = tea and politicise his croissants, hoping he'll be the next in line for = the sun's address - after Mayakovsky and O'Hara - but in the mean time = his delight is in sharing his observations (the autobahn, the finches) = through his art. The clarity of his address occupies the place where = language is thought, speech poetry where all pretence is stripped. These = are real the poems of a poet drifting his mind over the domestic clutter = of an ordinary day. =20 >>>>=20 >>>> Chris McCabe >>>>=20 >>>> __ >>>>=20 >>>> Cralan Kelder's writing is delightfully intoxicating and fresh -- = his pungent perspectives enliven the world. >>>>=20 >>>> Naomi Shihab Nye >>>>=20 >>>> __ >>>>=20 >>>> Unlike many of his contemporaries, Cralan Kelder does not employ = his poems as armatures for hidebound rhetoric or as floorshows for = linguistic acrobatics, but cleaves instead to immediacy=92s insistence = with words and thought-tropes that sparkle like the many facets of = everyday consciousness, in a teleological real-time that is both = arresting and fluxional. Give Some Word gives us all that and more. >>>>=20 >>>> Mark Terrill >>>>=20 >>>> __ >>>>=20 >>>> I once met the kind and tremendous poet Cralan Kelder. This was in = Amsterdam. Let's go have a drink, said Cralan; OK, I said. We had some = drinks at a bar, and then we went to a smaller bar and had some more. = After this, we went to a bar that was even smaller yet, and we kept on = drinking, and thus the night continued, in progressively smaller bars, = until at some fantastical hour we sat there, facing one another, in a = kind of tiny dark bar-closet that smelled of hashish, our knees pressing = up against each others', our faces nearly touching. I felt by this time = a bit disoriented and numb, but Cralan held forth, a true gentleman, = laughing uproariously and discoursing brilliantly about Olson, Dutch = poetry of the 17th century, dike technology, and whatnot. Let's go to = another bar, said Cralan; OK I said, and so we went out into the dawn, = and I wondered to myself how in the world there could be a bar tinier = than the one from which we had just come. And as I was wondering this, I = fell into a canal and began to splash about, yelling Help me, and that = is the last I recall. Thank you, Cralan Kelder, for pressing your lovely = mouth against mine, and bringing me back to life, in Holland. >>>>=20 >>>> Kent Johnson >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >>>> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check = guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >>> =20 >>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >>> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check = guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html >>=20 >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >> The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check = guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > =20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check = guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:51:30 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: Prison Need: Toomer's Cane In-Reply-To: <279795.61024.qm@web112301.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 isn't it in the public domain? you could just xerox it... ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:46:15 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: Images of Women in Literature In-Reply-To: <9C2151E931C62E43897FB3FED435573190415A@itex05.unco.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 It depends on how you want to teach it. For example, each institution in the California CC and CSU systems must offer a course entitled "Women in Literature" which was originally built around a pretty lame anthology of the same name; NOW it is built around some weird Jungian-archetype approach. Luckily, people weren't forced to use the syllabus or bibliography, so some writers who teach in the non-UC public system, like Leilani Hall, Kate Haake, and me, are able to teach really innovative courses that follow the general description. It seems as though you're in the same situation -- that you can use whatever you want. I always choose source texts over anthologies, or more than one dover anthology over a fat one, because they are inexpensive. Of course at least 1/2 the course is going to be things in the public domain, so you can choose which free ones you want your students to use. So how ARE you teaching it? Burlesque? I always used literature and art made by women as a limiting factor. All best, Catherine Daly ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:01:24 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: <560158245.1278182.1290553911849.JavaMail.root@sz0153a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 "Don't make the cutIII" Who is this Cormac McCarthy anyway? A statement that seems so profound, so revelatory, but it seems to me absolute nonsense. Ciao, Murat On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Michael Marsh wrote: > Cormac McCarthy from a 1992 NY Times interview: "The ugly fact is books are > made out of books," he says. "The novel depends for its life on the novels > that have been written." His list of those whom he calls the "good writers" > -- Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner -- precludes anyone who doesn't "deal > with issues of life and death." Proust and Henry James don't make the cut. > "I don't understand them," he says. "To me, that's not literature. A lot of > writers who are considered good I consider strange." > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Cunningham" > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:30:46 PM > Subject: looking for quote > > Can anyone help me? I'm trying to track down a quote (and the author) to > the > effect that books breed books. > > John Herbert Cunningham > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:44:34 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Mary Kasimor Subject: Re: Images of Women in Literature In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Interesting. I don't have any anthology in mind. I am thinking about a Peac= e Studies class that I have been developing. I do find that there is a grea= t deal available online,=A0and I am =A0including some inexpensive books, al= so. I have found art, poems, plays, all available with a url.=20 =A0 Mary Kasimor --- On Wed, 11/24/10, Catherine Daly wrote: From: Catherine Daly Subject: Re: Images of Women in Literature To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 1:46 PM It depends on how you want to teach it.=A0 For example, each institution in the California CC and CSU systems must offer a course entitled "Women in Literature" which was originally built around a pretty lame anthology of th= e same name; NOW it is built around some weird Jungian-archetype approach. Luckily, people weren't forced to use the syllabus or bibliography, so some writers who teach in the non-UC public system, like Leilani Hall, Kate Haake, and me, are able to teach really innovative courses that follow the general description. It seems as though you're in the same situation -- that you can use whateve= r you want.=A0 I always choose source texts over anthologies, or more than on= e dover anthology over a fat one, because they are inexpensive. Of course at least 1/2 the course is going to be things in the public domain, so you can choose which free ones you want your students to use. So how ARE you teaching it?=A0 Burlesque? I always used literature and art made by women as a limiting factor. All best, Catherine Daly =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines= & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:49:44 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: marc vincenz Subject: New Chapbook - Upholding Half the Sky MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello everyone, Just a quick message to let you know that my chapbook, Upholding Half the Sky, was just recently released by Goss 183 as part of the MiPOesias Chapbook Series 2010. You can purchase a copy via MagCloud, here: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/127547 Or, download a free e-book here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/41071842/Marc-Vincenz-Upholding-half-the-Sky Take care all, and thanks for your time. All the best, Marc ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:19:44 -0500 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: the peter f yacht club; Christmas part/reading span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the peter f yacht club reading/christmas party at the carleton tavern lovingly hosted by rob mclennan with readings by yacht club regulars & irregulars, including Monty Reid, rob mclennan, Pearl Pirie, Amanda Earl, & plenty of others; Friday, December 30, 2010; doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm The Carleton Tavern, 223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs) information on the peter f. yacht club with links to issues here: http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/08/peter-f-yacht-club-miscellany.html -- writer/editor/publisher ...STANZAS mag, above/ground press & Chaudiere Books (www.chaudierebooks.com) ...coord.,SPAN-O + ottawa small press fair ...poetry - wild horses (U of Alberta) ...2nd novel - missing persons www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com * http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:01:03 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Alan Sondheim Subject: two readings, musics (Maria Damon, Alan Sondheim) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed two readings, musics (Maria Damon, Alan Sondheim) Maria Damon, text and reading Alan Sondheim, pipa http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/moompipa.mp3 format, accompaniment until the pauses, at which point thick improvisation http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/moomviol.mp3 Maria Damon, text and reading Alan Sondheim, viola, violin format, following or leading inflections of speech ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:24:16 +1100 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Chris Jones Subject: Re: Images of Women in Literature In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 11:46 -0800, Catherine Daly wrote: > It depends on how you want to teach For modernist Australian women writers see: http://www.booksandcollectibles.com.au/dump/Eureka_Australiana_Books/books-0001/1753.html A search should lead to a PDF at Adelaide University Chris Jones. Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:16:58 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Jim Andrews Subject: New on Netartery MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SOUND RESOLUTION by Jim Andrews http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=597 Now what I'm going to tell you you already know back in some primitive part of your brain. Digital sound doesn't sound as good as many analog recordings. Here's why... DIGITAL FICTION IPAD PROJECT: THE GOOD AND BAD STUFF by Andy Campbell http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=579 I thought it might be interesting to reflect on how we're finding the iPad as a development platform regarding our latest digital fiction project 'Changed', bearing in mind that we're not using the Apple SDK or exporting an App from Flash CS5 to produce this piece... NHL BRAIN TRINKET by Jim Andrews http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=565 What I'm going to tell you-I warn you-is of no consequence whatever. And it won't even be of interest to you unless you're an NHL hockey fan. And, worse, it's going to test your algebra skills. The only thing I can say in favour of saying it at all is that you just won't ever read anything else about hockey like what I'm going to tell you right now. It just doesn't happen. This is the unicorn of hockey writing. Right here, right now... SHOES RED AS WOUNDS by Christine Wilks http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=556 For my performance of Underbelly in Edinburgh, UK, on Halloween at Inspace no one can hear you scream I intend to wear shoes as red as wounds. Why? Because Underbelly, my work of playable media fiction, is an exploration of women's bodies in relation to the land - past and present, inside and outside, above and below ground - and shoes, especially red ones, are loaded with associations... NOTE: Underbelly won the Poole Prize for New Media after Christine posted this. ISSUE ON DIGITAL POETRY FROM THE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING by Jim Andrews http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=543 Aaron McCollough is guest-editing an issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing on digital poetry. What we have here is the email he sent to the Poetics list requesting submissions for that issue... ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:03:58 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Eric Weinstein Subject: Fwd: The appeal and in the attachment "I'm Liu Xiaobo" in chinese for the readings on march 20th In-Reply-To: <2251B020-C0A9-4DEC-B624-A5CE28DEB451@laposte.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, Please see the below, and a (belated) Happy Thanksgiving. I can't send the attachments (they're automatically rejected by the listserv), but please feel free to message me backchannel if you'd like them. All best, E http://ericqweinstein.blogspot.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- *We'd be grateful if you would please forward this letter to other institutions and persons who might be interested in participating in this event. * * * *Freedom for Liu Xiaobo* *The internationales literaturfestival berlin appeals for a signing of this letter and a worldwide reading on 20th March 2011 of the =91Charter 08=92 a= nd the poem =91You wait for me with Dust=92 by Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2010. * Liu Xiaobo is currently the world=92s only winner of the Nobel Peace Prize still held in detention. In 2009, after co-authoring =91Charter 08=92, a manifesto calling for greater freedoms and democracy in China, Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to eleven years in prison on a spurious charge of =93inciting subversion of state power=94. His continued imprisonment is a basic breach = of human rights, and also a violation of China=92s own constitution where Arti= cle 35 states that =93Citizens of the People=92s Republic of China enjoy freedo= m of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration=94. 1936 was the last time neither the winner, German journalist and pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, nor any of his family members, could go to Oslo to collect the Nobel Peace Prize. They were all barred from leaving Nazi Germany. This historical comparison should disturb the Chinese government China has made extraordinary economic progress over the last few decades. The country is now the world=92s second largest economy, and a powerful pla= yer on the global stage. China is rightly proud of these achievements, but it should also value democracy. The preamble to =91Charter 08=92 states that =93*Chinese citizens are becom= ing increasingly aware that freedom, equality, and human rights are universal values shared by all humankind, and that democracy, republicanism, and constitutional government make up the basic institutional framework of modern politics. A =93modernization=94 bereft of these universal values and= this basic political framework is a disastrous process that deprives people of their rights, rots away their humanity, and destroys their dignity. Where i= s China headed in the 21st century? Will it continue with this =93modernizati= on=94 under authoritarian rule, or will it endorse universal values, join the mainstream civilization, and build a democratic form of government?*=94[i] Now is China=92s chance to take a magnanimous step towards democracy. China can do this immediately =96 by showing pride that one of its citizens, Liu Xiaobo, has received the world=92s greatest award in recognition of a strug= gle to uphold human rights. This award should be an honour for China, too. In 2005, Liu Xiaobo wrote: =93*Didn't they say that China was in a golden moment of historical peak, a= nd that the state of human rights is at the very best?Didn't they say that the present government wants to treat "the people as the foundation" in order t= o build a "harmonious society"? Then why is the government which has built th= e golden and almighty China so panicky? Why in this "harmonious society" in which "the people are the foundation" are I and other dissidents treated like trash to be stomped upon? Why must the "harmonious society" be constructed only with police officers posted at stations?*=94[ii] It does not befit a great country to denounce the Nobel Peace Prize, expand the restrictive security net around a peace laureate to include his friends and relatives, and persuade foreign diplomats to boycott the prize ceremony= . Since the prize announcement, there has been no let-up in the harassment of Liu=92s family and supporters, and all others attempting free speech activities in China. Liu Xiaobo=92s wife, Liu Xia, is under house arrest. Several Chinese human rights activists have been prevented from leaving the country in case they go to Oslo, and Liu=92s brothers are pessimistic about their chances of being able to travel in his place. Chinese citizens make up one fifth of the world=92s population. Liu Xiaobo= =92s case is not the story of one man: he is a symbol of the aspirations and treatment of 1.3 billion people. The call for worldwide readings of =91Charter 08=92, and Liu Xiaobo=92s poe= m =91You Wait for me with Dust=92, signify support for the campaigner, and a call fo= r his release from prison. A courageous activist all his life, Liu Xiaobo once wrote that =93*in a dictatorial country, open letters signed by individuals or groups form an important method for the civilians to resist dictatorship and fight for freedom*.=94[iii] And so we, citizens of the world, sign this appeal =96 so= me with our names, and many, many more with our voices, which will be raised o= n 20th March 2011 to read Liu=92s words =96 and show solidarity with him, and others in China, who are not free to say what they want. We will continue to speak up until there is an end to the unjust incarceration of Liu Xiaobo, and others like him. *To sign this appeal, please reply to this email before 1st of December 201= 0, giving the following information:* * * *Name* *City* *Country* *The appeal, together with a list of signatories, will be published around the world on 10th of December, the day of the Nobel Prize ceremony.* We welcome all participants and ideas for the "Freedom for Liu Xiaobo"-readings to be held on 20th March 2011. If you would like to take part, please contact: worldwidereading@literaturfestival.com ------------------------------ [i] Extract from *Charter 08*, translated from the Chinese by Human Rights in China [ii] Extract from *If the policemen are posted outside my door*, by Liu Xiaobo [iii] Extract from *Me and the Internet*, by Liu Xiaobo WorldWideReading internationales literaturfestival berlin Chausseestr. 5 D-10115 Berlin Tel. +49 (0) 30 27 87 86 0 Fax +49 (0) 30 27 87 86 85 worldwidereading@literaturfestival.com www.literaturfestival.com *P* Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The paper you are saving could become a book=85 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:14:24 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii yeah. his manner of speaking is full of sound & fury, and i like southern noveliest, but not always their opinions. --- On Wed, 11/24/10, Murat Nemet-Nejat wrote: From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: looking for quote To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 7:01 PM "Don't make the cutIII" Who is this Cormac McCarthy anyway? A statement that seems so profound, so revelatory, but it seems to me absolute nonsense. Ciao, Murat On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Michael Marsh wrote: > Cormac McCarthy from a 1992 NY Times interview: "The ugly fact is books are > made out of books," he says. "The novel depends for its life on the novels > that have been written." His list of those whom he calls the "good writers" > -- Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner -- precludes anyone who doesn't "deal > with issues of life and death." Proust and Henry James don't make the cut. > "I don't understand them," he says. "To me, that's not literature. A lot of > writers who are considered good I consider strange." > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Cunningham" > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:30:46 PM > Subject: looking for quote > > Can anyone help me? I'm trying to track down a quote (and the author) to > the > effect that books breed books. > > John Herbert Cunningham > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:45:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Amanda Earl Subject: experiment-o issue three now on line Comments: cc: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed hi all, i am pleased to announce that the third issue of experiment-o featuring work by Henry Avignon, Michael Basinski, derek beaulieu, Bill Brown, Satu Kaikkonen, John Lavery, Kevin Matthews, Monty Reid, Sandra Ridley and Chris Turnbull is now on line at http://www.experiment-o.com/ AngelHousePress publishes the pdf magazine annually to celebrate the art of risk. Amanda Earl AngelHousePress www.angelhousepress.com the angel is in the house ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:11:07 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: carol dorf Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: <471753.62189.qm@web52406.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 He seems to need to create a background for the over-the-top violence in his own work. Interesting that no female southerners (Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Conner (who wrote with a fair amount of close-in violence)) make his cut. Carol Dorf poetry@talkingwriting.com http://talkingwriting.com/ ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:22:53 -0500 Reply-To: az421@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Rob McLennan Subject: new(ish) on rob's clever blog -- writing and reading glengarry county -- edmonton writer myrna kostash in ottawa, december 1 -- Gary Barwin, The Porcupinity of the Stars -- 12 or 20 questions: with Derek Winkler -- John Lavery, Sandra Beck -- a new little e-chapbook by rob mclennan -- A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area, Sarah Rosenthal -- Dany Laferrire, I Am a Japanese Writer -- fwd; new issue of The Puritan (with an interview I did with Ken Sparling -- Pearl Pirie + rob mclennan read with Gregory Betts in St. Catharine's -- MINE MINE MINE NOW NOW NOW: Johanna Skibsrud, The Giller Prize and Gaspereau Press -- Ottawa X-Press; Best of Ottawa 2010; apparently I won something -- D.G. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:51:51 +0000 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Michael Marsh Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: <151512161.1396759.1290879759086.JavaMail.root@sz0153a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Part of the power of McCarthy's writing is the ruthless way he sticks to his ideas. He does not wander. It does not surprise me that he reads that way too, although Melville does a great deal of wandering. ----- Original Message ----- From: "steve russell" To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 11:14:24 AM Subject: Re: looking for quote yeah. his manner of speaking is full of sound & fury, and i like southern noveliest, but not always their opinions. --- On Wed, 11/24/10, Murat Nemet-Nejat wrote: From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: looking for quote To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 7:01 PM "Don't make the cutIII" Who is this Cormac McCarthy anyway? A statement that seems so profound, so revelatory, but it seems to me absolute nonsense. Ciao, Murat On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Michael Marsh wrote: > Cormac McCarthy from a 1992 NY Times interview: "The ugly fact is books are > made out of books," he says. "The novel depends for its life on the novels > that have been written." His list of those whom he calls the "good writers" > -- Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner -- precludes anyone who doesn't "deal > with issues of life and death." Proust and Henry James don't make the cut. > "I don't understand them," he says. "To me, that's not literature. A lot of > writers who are considered good I consider strange." > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Cunningham" > To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:30:46 PM > Subject: looking for quote > > Can anyone help me? I'm trying to track down a quote (and the author) to > the > effect that books breed books. > > John Herbert Cunningham > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:35:56 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bonnie MacAllister Subject: Call for Submissions: Certain Circuits DEADLINE DECEMBER 30 Comments: To: Nathalie F Anderson Comments: cc: certaincircuits@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Announcing the premier issue of Certain Circuits. We accept poetry, fiction, art, and multimedia (can include film, theatre, animations, video, music, performance.) Click here: http://web.me.com/bonniemacallister/Site/An_Uncommon_Magazine.html for the prototype (final permanent site to follow with the first issue.) We exist online and in print. All published artists receive print copy with ISBN. Please send a 50 word bio with submissions. All submissions are by email to: certaincircuits@gmail.com. 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Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:25:59 -0600 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: David Chirot Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 i couldn't help laughing at the quotes from cormac mccarthy-- the two most predictable possible of al writers for a writer wishing to be taken as a tough guy to put down are--proust and james-- who, with their complex styles, for the most upper class characters, "effete" psychological approach and "decadence"--are often setup as stereotypes of everything the tough guy writer is NOT--as a "man" and as a writer-- (after all, part of the stereotype is that Proust and James are--one gay, the other often thought to be -- -- a kind of "manly" homophobia is considered to be "healthy & necessary" for the kind of image mr mccarthy is deliberately trying to project here--) Many thanks Carol Dorf for your comments re the violence in Flannery O'Connor & Eudora Welty-- one could add Carson McCullers to this list-- i also liked the insight, noting the "close-in" violence in O'Connor & Welty (and i wd add McCullers--)--as last night i saw reruns of the old dick cavett interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and the director, using the way that the shower scene in "Psycho" is shot and edited using 78 close in pieces of film to create effects that no long shots nor long held shots can create--that is, by bringing the eye of the viewer, the presence of the viewer, close-in right into the shower and next to the knife the curtain, the water, the tub, he tiny fragments as seen close in of the woman's body--this creates the effect of "being there" that makes the scene so effectively horrifying and violent, makes the viewer feel so violated in terms of its being "close-in" to the viewer also--"as though you, too, are there"-- no offense to mr mccarthy who is a greatly admired writer as it is--but his pose in the quote is such an already old nostrum--reeking of way too many boozy such statements have heard since a kid and first ran into from the mouths of the junior hemingway's and bukokwsi's-- actually re the strangeness of james that mccarthy notes--jorge luis borges has a remarkable short piece re james in which he notes that he is one of the strangest of al writers in terms of the subjects he creates--in fact borges notes and lists the incredible range of new subjects and genres that james came up with--noting also that james struck him (Senor Borges)--as a denizen of Hell with an incredible sense of irony!-- (Hell being this world--) "real issues of life and death"--if one defines such things as "real" only if they are violent-- i have heard this argument also since kid--and wonder about it often--as i live in the midst of a lot of violence and certainly a lot of my writing and art work deals with violence of al sorts-- the argument being that violence alone guarantees a certain kind of "authenticity"-- that violence is as it were, a more literally and figuratively "red-blooded" dose of "reality" than anything else in human experience-- (hence the incredible proliferation and popularity of violent TV show of the "reality" kind based on or recording crimes, prisons, cops, forensics, etc-- or as the Tru Channel puts it, to top reality shows-!!-- "NOT REALITY. ACTUALITY"- which has lead me to write some things re what exactly are the boundaries separating "reality" from "actuality" when one is dealing with the "docu-drama"-- seriously--i think it is a once a hilarious and a metaphysical/philosophical question, and in terms of creating art works with these things in mind-- what ways might one come up with to present these "differences" beyond the semantic levels, the catchy phrase "appearance"?-- mr mcarthy's statements--as "stateMEANTs" say--re writing and ciolence--i think about often as my own life and writing are in midst of, are often "concerned with/about"--violemce and its relationships now only with "reality" of "life and death" but the imagination in relation with these--which as a writerof fiction--mr mcarthy is involved with as much as with the "real life matters of life and death"--how the "reality/actuality" and the "fictions" the imaginations--of these-- so--what about this question of "authenticity" when one is dealing with it in terms of,as, fiction, as works of "power & the imagination" as William Blake puts it---- after all, if one is working in fiction and dealing with "real life" "matters of life and death"--is that what/why Mr M "needs to" as it were--stake a claim for "authenticity"--becuase there is a fear that "fiction" somehow is NOT "authenticate" enough wihout resorting to violence?--and, the more violent it is, the more "authenticate" itis?--i think about this question becuase obvisouly the fictional violence in the El Colonel stories are of a different kind than the "actual" violence with which i am familiar--and even the pieces i have written which use a lot of the violence i have experienced, witnessed, first hand--the question seems not to be the "authencity" or the need to assert a pose that they are somehow "more real" because of this--but what questions arise are ones more of the nature of the means which one uses to express these, and the realization just how much the imagination does enter in--and how much it must enter in for mr mccarhy--this makes the question of the "strange" which mr mccarthy finds so necessary to note--an interesting one in terms of why it is certain subjects, genres, are associated with certain tones, styles, of writing--and so, are supposed to "rule out"as it were, anything "strange" to them--instead of investigating how one might not make use of a as many possible forms of the "strange"--including al manner of forms of "estrangement" to wreak violence on the forms themselves which are supposed to, apparently, in mr mccarthy's statements, alone be qualified to present violence in an "authentic" way, that is to say, as "real life" matters of "life and death"-- if one approaches the question from this point of view--then what mr mcarhy is saying is that ceratin genres of writing, certain ways of thinking about "life and death" have to be protected as it were, from the "strange"-- in a sense, the author feels the need to "protect and defend" the Homeland of his particular form of writing, his particular way of presenting himself as a writer, his especial kind of reader and reading-- in this regard one might do wel to turn to the famous essay by Raymond Chandler on "The Simple Art of Murder" in which he presents the differences between the British form of the detective story, the British--and British-influenced American--forms of detetecive and crimes and ways the detective goes about solving the crimes--as opposed to the American Hard Boiled School/Style/Genre, which grew out of the early Pulp magazines such as the Black Mask, in which writers such as Mr Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich aka William Irish, David Goodis, Chester Himes, Jim Thompson ad gloriam first began publishing and defining the style and genre, (as well as those writers influenced by them such as James M Cain, the Faulkner of the early novels and The Wild Palms & the early William S Burroughs of Junkie & writers in Europe such as the Camus of L'Etranger)--Chanlder develops very succinctly his theis and winds up creating--for his onw fictions--the paradoxically Romantic and Arthurian Romance influenced image the "tough dick" known as Philip Marlowe who "down these mean streets must go"--(btw Henry James was one of Chandler's own favorite authors--)--this brillaint piece by Chanlder presents an eampleof the complexity of the at first apparently "vioent and crude" distinctions between the British style and what Chanlder rightly knew to be a compeltley new form of writing, yet one which he links in matters of his own sense of morality to the kinds of writing which Mr M finds "strange"-- the point being that the creation of writing dealing with violence and "life and death" etc in a "red-blooded" way can draw as much on the "strange" as on any kind of writing and writers-- hence the question re the Homeland Security attitude Mr McCarthy re protecting from the "strange" "life and death" matters in terms of writing and writing- which brings one back books being created from books--why it is that a writer might want to assert that in creating certain kinds of books one can draw on only certain kinds of previous books and writers-- just as in certain forms of poetry writing various forms of the "strange" in terms of subject matter, influences, writers, styles, etc--need to be excluded and so be "protected from" as it were--implying a certain kind of Terror at work--making one wonder why this "needs to be"--not simply the "anxiety of influence" so much as the sheer Terror of the influence, contamination by, the "strange" however that "strange" is perceived to be-- the Terror implying in turn a Puritanism of sorts--the need to "purify the language of the tribe" in ways not always consistent with hose envisioned by Mallarme in his famous statement-- the irony being that a "tough guy" pose as writer and as forms of writing--should be Terrorized-- in which case Mr McCarthy's statements might be extended in considering all manner of literary "wars" and "battles"--"quarrels"--in which case a considerable violence does ensue in connection with protecting certain forms, certain genres, certain writers, certain conceptions of the Author, of Writing, of Poesy, Poetics etc-because they for one reason or antoher feel threatened by what is considered "strnage," "different" in the particular context--often revealing a kind of contradiction between concepts of "contestation" when finding themselves contested-- in a way the, the fear, the Terror, of the contamination of the "purity" of a genre, of an author's conception of themselves and so on--extneds to a fear of change--a desire to maintain a status quo--within various "literary bounds"--literally * figuratively last week while i was in the midst of working on yet more pieces in my"El Colonel" series (the latest appearance of which is, from yesterday, at Jerome Rothenberg's poets and poetics blog--this is part one of three which is appearing there, with the next one to have some links to other pieces and a note appended to it by way of a little "background" to the series--wd be glad to share with anyone interested a bibliography of all the pieces so far --9 or 10 now--on line which compiled for Jerome Rothenberg as a reference & background as the being of El Colonel and the styles, forms of writing of the pieces--are not static, are rhizomatic and so are not linear in order, nor are of a "character" nor related with an "author" in any usual sense of these----) poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com -- while writing away with El Colonel--my then apt mate entered with someone i didn't see--and within moments--this was way past curfew--sounds of violent sex exploding through the walls--just as i was dialing the manager my apt mate burst in my room screaming "call the muthafuckin police! i've been stabbed !!! and robbed!!"--a slow night here for once--so six squad cars two ambulances and a fie truck arrived and loads of uniformed men and women pouring into the tiny apt--as the tale was slowly sorted through via the varying accounts my apt mate gave it became apparent that he brought home a six foot tal two hundred plus pound man dressed as a woman in blonde wig, tight pants bright orange jacket and high leather boots with heels--apparently my apt mate's "thang being such companionship and according to the ops the bar--i used to go there in late afternoon unadvertised as no longer legal "happy hours"--during relapses while living at the adjacent now closed down red cross place for homeless--where my apt mate had gone being after midnight a hang out for cross dressing gay male prostitutes--learn something new everyday as it were --fortunately the stab wounds requiring only about four stitches, being short and superficial--al the same my apt ate turned out to have some crimes against his wife of quite some violence, so off he went to prison and hospital while the cops started their search for the man in the blonde wig -- just a week or so before these events i had been walking down the street to store to get some smokes and saw two men run up behind another--and "cap"him--shoot him down--and run away--on my way back from the store about five minutes later--the body stil lay in the street--no police as yet--and some persons in various buildings' windows peering out carefully from behind drawn blinds-- that particular street and lock in the last months has been the site of many shootings, often, as the one i witnessed was, in broad daylight-- reading the cormac mccarthy quote i thought of these things as in re my own writing which mixes violence and poetry scenes, questions, questions re writing which obsess el colonel who himself lives in the midst of violence, guerrilla war fare, counter insurgency etc-- and creates writings which particpate in the non-materilizationof writing, as something which emerges and yet is also part of the "Writing of the No"--compostions which emerge ouf ot decomposition, death deay-- and, given that many of my non-el colonel stories are about actual events witnessed through the years of primarily drug related violence--(as the shooting most likely was--)--(the events in the apt were booze related as after the final police photographer had left a good near two hours after the actaul ten second long event--we found in cleaning up a huge bottle of brandy--and the meeting of the two men had taken place at bar--)-- thinking about these reading cormac mccarthy's quote-- again, i come back to the notion expressed by the writer that there is somehow more "authenticity" to be gained by the depiction of violence than there is in the writings of a proust or james--who are "strange"-- as certainly thereis much violence in both those writers' works--the violence being simply of different kinds than the direct physical sort for the mos part--though as i recal--(my memory may well be fualty here as is some time ago i read the book--)-- le Baron Charlus participated in sado-masochist events that ceratinly included physical violence of a particalr kind--yet--as torturers know--psychological violence can be every bit as extreme as direct physical assault--and so the charcters in proust and james often undergo severe degrees of violence-- which in turn makes me wonder--knowing little about mr mccarthy--how much violence has he experienced in hislife and of what kinds, how muh witnessed--how many people seen actually killed?--(without being in a war i have seen roughly a dozen/dozen and half through the years dispatched by means of violence--some at the hands of the Law too for sure--)-- i wonder about it becuase many writers who have not necesarilywitnessed violence create incredibly violent scenes--and write a great deal about the maoral universe of violence, the psychological cosmos of this--and to very great effect--that is, they makeone think about the QUESTION, QUESTIONS which violence raises every moment in every part of the world-- my wondering & point re McCarthy--which means i have to now go read his books, really,-- and read interviews etc to find out for myself what he is abt--is simply why fall back on such hackneyed claims as he makes, why feel the need to strike the tough guy pose by picking out all the old stereotypes and "usual suspects"--with al the implicit homophobia on display?-and al the usual claims re kinds of "authenticity" in re "questions of life and death"-- it seems to be a question more of genre than an individual--that is, to fit the bill so to speak of a writer of violence, one "has to ""distance oneself" from the worlds of writers like proust and james--(who in turn are associated with being read by certain "types" of readers, "effete intellectuals & esthetes" etc--yet further stereotypes denoted as "strange"--)-- and, in turn--as Carol Dorf points out--to distance oneself from the world of "women writers" who are in fact every bit as tough as any hard boiled writer i have read, which is going some as i devour that style of writing-- it raises the question of to what extent does "genre" "determine" the "author" as "critical iterary thinker"-- --implying, in turn, that perhaps writers like proust and james would NOT read writers like McCarthy due not only to their being "strange" but to the genres of fiction they work in being themselves "strange"-- again, authors considered in terms of their genres, which in turn are determinates of the "actual" ("NOT Reality. ACTUALITY"!!--)--being and thought, "lifestyle of the writer"-- using these elements, might one not then create a whole new form of literary criticism and thinking re writing and writers based on the 'PROFILING" of both genres and writers! a kind of "War on Terror" re literature in which the "terrorists" are the "strange" writers and "strange" forms of writing, "strange genres"--complete with levels of "Terror Alerts" marked out in color which has been done with eprson to be sure in the most horrific ways--badges and stars of differing colors denoting various " profiles" of persons--the "look" of "Muslim" persons which "proclaims them" as "suspects" to be detained, renditioned--and that way of looking which in Arizona----completely arbitrary, subjective, relative--which somehow announces to the Law--or a "concerned citizen withe power to make a citizen's arrest"--that they are in the presence of an--or more!!--illegal alien or aliens-- ) -- bringing one back to the kind of "Terror" which mcarthy expresses in reverse as it were of various kinds of writers, writing, readers and readings- and that somehow this Terror is what makes the particular writers, form of writing and readers and kinds of readings--like himself and his readers--"TOUGH"--and concerned with "real matters of life and death"--becuase they are as it were--on the front lines of the "War on Terror"-- defending the Homeland against "strangeness"-- because this "strange" form of writing and writers,or reading and readers--is not "like us"--not "TOUGH on--take your pick--crime, drugs, terror--all those elements which along with poverty which the USA has declared itself to be at war with, to be making war on-- of course-- i am exaggerating and making much ado about a smal quote--but having heard for eons it seems the nearly exact same statements as those McCarthy is making--one can't help but sense in the statements themselves a kind of over the top exaggeration which for some reason "seems necessary" for this particular author, working in a particular genre as it were, to make-- and which, to stay against charges of being "anti-literary"--mentions authors who usually are noted in these kinds of assertions as ones who do use violence and are concerned with "real matters of life and death"--are consdiered, especially Dostoevsky, to be to some degree "philosophers"--"myth makers" and the like-- it's intersting to see inthis regard through time which authors have been chosen to represent "real matters of life and death"--as i remeber "Dost" and "Hem" Bukowksi wrote a great deal about in his early stories, esp in Notes of a Dirty Old Man-- all of which goes to show how vast literary cosmos are opened in just a few simple statements--how with a few swift storkes--whole terrains are lit up--of literary criticism, literary history, questions of genre--how even the bellicose assertions of a kind of literary equivalent a barroom brawl provocation--"go to show" as Kaetrs wd say ho much may be made of a dminished thing, hey!-- or that is, perhaps not so much a diminished thing as an attempt to make of certain forms of literary and human "strangeness" a "diminished thing"-- On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:11 AM, carol dorf wrote: > He seems to need to create a background for the over-the-top violence in > his > own work. Interesting that no female southerners (Eudora Welty, Flannery > O'Conner (who wrote with a fair amount of close-in violence)) make his cut. > > Carol Dorf > poetry@talkingwriting.com > http://talkingwriting.com/ > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:32:01 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Bonnie MacAllister Subject: Re: Call for Submissions: Certain Circuits DEADLINE DECEMBER 30 In-Reply-To: <776168.62131.qm@web58004.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks, George. -- Announcing the premier issue of Certain Circuits. We accept poetry, fiction, art, and multimedia (can include film, theatre, animations, video, music, performance.) Click here: http://web.me.com/bonniemacallister/Site/An_Uncommon_Magazine.html for the prototype (final permanent site to follow with the first issue.) We exist online and in print. All published artists receive print copy with ISBN. Please send a 50 word bio with submissions. 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From: Jennifer Karmin Subject: Dec 2 & 4: Vanessa Place in Chicago MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Pilot Light:=0AThe Green Lantern Press / Dear Navigator Conversation Series= =0A=0ATHURSDAY, DECEMBER 2nd=0AVanessa Place & Jennifer Karmin=0A=0A7:30-9:= 30pm=0Aat The Green Lantern Gallery=0A2542 Chicago Ave -- Chicago, IL=0Afre= e admission=0Ahttp://thecorpselives.com=0A=0AOf VANESSA PLACE and Robert Fi= tterman=E2=80=99s Notes on Conceptualisms, Mary Kelly said, =E2=80=9CI lear= ned more about the impact of conceptualism on artists and writers than I ha= d from reading so-called canonical works on the subject.=E2=80=9D Kenneth G= oldsmith has called Place=E2=80=99s Statement of Facts =E2=80=9Carguably th= e most challenging, complex and controversial literature being written toda= y.=E2=80=9D Place is also author of Dies: A Sentence, La Medusa, and The Gu= ilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law, based on her work as an attorney repre= senting indigent sex offenders on appeal. She is co-director of Les Figues= Press, and a regular contributor to X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. Her = most recent work is available in French by =C3=A9ditions =C3=A8=C2=AEe, as = Expos=C3=A9 des Faits and in English, by Blanc Press, as Statement of Facts= .=0A=0AJENNIFER KARMIN has published, performed, exhibited, taught, and exp= erimented with language across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. She curates the = Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Sur= prise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, art= ist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets. Aaaaaaaaaaalice, a = text-sound epic, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. At home in Chic= ago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and = works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools. She earned her MFA in = the Writing Program at SAIC in 2001.=0Ahttp://aaaaaaaaaaalice.blogspot.com= =0A=0AABOUT PILOT LIGHT:=0AThe writer creates many relationships: with ones= elf; with one=E2=80=99s intimate, immediate, and local communities; and wit= h the writing community at-large (earth/space). Pilot Light brings together= writers at varying stages of their career for conversations that cross and= explore these different relationships. Emerging and established writers ea= ch read from their own work and then engage in a discussion that creates an= intimate space across genre and career status.=0A=0ACo-presented by Dear N= avigator, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago=E2=80=99s literary mag= azine, and The Green Lantern Press. The series is curated by Elizabeth Metz= ger Sampson.=0A=0Ahttp://blogs.saic.edu/dearnavigator/category/fall2010=0A= =0Ahttp://press.thegreenlantern.org=0A=0A@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@= @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@=0A=0ARed Rover Series=0A{readings that play= with reading}=0A=0AExperiment #42:=0ARepeat Offender=0A=0ASATURDAY, DECEMB= ER 4th=0A7pm / doors lock 7:30=0A=0AFeaturing:=0AVanessa Place=0A=0AWith co= llaborators:=0ADenise Dooley=0AElizabeth Metzger Sampson=0AFred Sasaki=0ALu= is Humberto Valadez=0A=0Aat Outer Space Studio=0A1474 N. Milwaukee Avenue= =0AChicago, Illinois=0Asuggested donation $4=0A=0Alogistics --=0Anear CTA D= amen blue line=0Athird floor walk up=0Anot wheelchair accessible=0A=0AThis = event will contain texts that are often sexually-explicit and violent. Aud= ience discretion is advised.=0A=0AExperiment #42 is funded in part by Poets= & Writers, Inc.=0A=0AVANESSA PLACE (see December 2 bio above).=0A=0ADENISE= DOOLEY lives in Rogers Park, Chicago. She reads and writes with the Next = Objectivists workshop at Mess Hall. Her chapbook 'Drumptops' will be out t= his fall from Con/Crescent Press.=0A=0AELIZABETH METGER SAMPSON is a writer= currently living in Chicago. She is the editor of Dear Navigator, an elect= ronic magazine published by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.=0A= =0AFRED SASAKI is associate editor of Poetry magazine, editor-at-large for = the Chicagoan, and a conspirator with the Dil Pickle Club and Homeroom. He = has new writing in Artifice, Iowa Review, MAKE, and other places.=0A=0ALUIS= HUMBERTO VALADEZ is a writer, musician, performer, and educator from Chica= go Heights, IL. Born and raised in a tense environment riddled with violen= ce, criminal activity, and desperation, he developed a perspective=E2=80=94= further shaped in his experiences at Columbia College Chicago where he rece= ived his BA and Naropa University where he received an MFA=E2=80=94that fue= led his first book ("what i'm on," 2009 University of Arizona Press). He c= urrently works as AmeriCorps VISTA Supervisor for Chicago HOPES.=0A=0ARED R= OVER SERIES is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event i= s designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, a= nd international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded i= n 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.=0A=0AEmail ideas for reading expe= riments=0Ato us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com=0A=0AThe schedule for eve= nts is listed at=0Ahttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries=0A=0A=0A=0A= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:25:04 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: peter ganick Subject: publication MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 New publication by Peter Ganick thanks for taking a look. http://chalkeditions.blogspot.com -- http://ex-ex-lit.blogspot.com experiential-experimental literary blog http://chalkeditions.co.cc free avant-garde literary ebooks http://pro-inca.webs.com *EXPANSIVE IMMANENCE long experimental texts* * * *from Collins English Gem Dictionary, *Collins, London and Glasgow, 1954. *spare **a.* additional, in reserve; scanty; not in use.--*v.t.* leave unhurt, show mercy; abstain from using; do without, give away. *dace **n. *freshwater fish. *microwave* *n.* a radiation with a frequency of under one metre. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:10:10 -0800 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve russell Subject: A More Disturbing Derrida/ ( thinning out the herd ), Darwin, the bad type MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable & if books breed books, do poor people breed more poor people? =A0=A0 This, and other bits of petty, mean Social Darwinism,=A0 is somethin= g I overheard recently at a downtown D.C. Starbucks. Two guys, both very re= spectable, ties, 3 piece suits, rolex watches, all that, were casually spea= king their minds. Not speaking in hushed tones, but speaking very openly, w= ithout the sense that what they had to say was in any way disturbing. This = particular Starbucks is not=A0 far from the Ian Pei National Gallery buildi= ng, and only blocks=A0 from the J Edgar Hoover, FBI building.=20 & one guy says in response to the poor breeding the poor comment, this: "It's not PC to say so, but the HERD needs thinning out." Am I being paranoid or what? Seriously, that comment, coming from two not s= o threatening looking executives, has freaked me out. Haunted me. And I rea= lly don't think I'm ranting when I say Be Wary of the Ruling Class. Gore Vi= dal ( and he should know ) has repeatedly said the same thing.=20 =0A=0A=0A =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:38:47 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Al Filreis Subject: symposium on 1960 - next Monday at KWH - live video stream available Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear friends: Next Monday at 6 PM eastern time, join us at the Kelly Writers House for a symposium on the poetry of 1960, a confabulation of poets each offering a brief retrospective review of a book published that year. If you can't get to Philly, watch our live video stream. If you can come, join in the Q&A and partake of the great reception following the event. For much more, go here: http://afilreis.blogspot.com/2010/11/1960-symposium-monday-december-6-6-pm.html - Al Al Filreis Kelly Professor Faculty Dir., Kelly Writers House Dir., Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing University of Pennsylvania on the web: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis blog: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/blog PoemTalk: http://www.poemtalk.org RON SILLIMAN on The Opening of the Field by Robert Duncan RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS on Second Avenue by Frank O'Hara CHRIS FUNKHOUSER on Stanzas for Iris Leza by Jackson Mac Low ERICA KAUFMAN on The Location of Things by Barbara Guest JUDITH GOLDMAN on The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks KRISTEN GALLAGHER on Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note by LeRoi Jones DANNY SNELSON on Cartridge Music by John Cage MICHAEL S. HENNESSY on A New Folder edited by Daisy Aldan CHARLES BERNSTEIN on On My Eyes by Larry Eigner MEL NICHOLS on Hymns of St. Bridget by Bill Berkson & Frank O'Hara BOB PERELMAN on The New American Poetry edited by Donald Allen ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:41:12 -0500 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Murat Nemet-Nejat Subject: Re: looking for quote In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 David, To explore further your brilliant comments on the relationship between violence, authenticity and strangeness (to which I would add the dimension of time): On the one hand, one has the aestheticising or sentimentalizing of violence in certain movies (Brian de Palma, Tarantino, etc.) or war propaganda (war as heroism, political speeches, murder as justice, etc, etc.) or where violence gains a certain rhetorical familiarity, normalcy. On the other hand, there is the instantaneousness of violence, as in the case of your apartment mate. It is this suddenness of violence, so matter of fact (only four stitches) which is so strange, devoid of rhetorical palliation because there was no time. (Even the most terrifying earthquakes only take a few seconds.) What I am talking about here is the banality of violence (subjectively witnessed or undergone) which is strange. In Alain Renais's movie on Holocaust images, *Night and Fog*? there is a very revealing shot: people who were being carted to concentration camps were moved to the trains in big procession on public roads. In this shot, along with the procession of people being moved, one can see ot)her people (free?) carrying their shopping back on their daily routines. Both James and Proust explore, delve into that instantaneity. James's baroque (effeminate?) sentences (k. Iskender's "post *naked lunch*/ panislamic/femininity" *souljam*) are attempts paradoxically to strip perception of its rhetorical excesses, to reach a kind of authenticity, to experience the the thirty second or so of an earthquake subjectively, strangely, from the inside so to speak --to approximate that connection between violence/dread and infinity. The same way, Proust's endless novel is an attempt to stop the mechanism (familiarity) of time. Ciao, Murat On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:25 PM, David Chirot wrote: > i couldn't help laughing at the quotes from cormac mccarthy-- > the two most predictable possible of al writers for a writer wishing to be > taken as a tough guy to put down are--proust and james-- > who, with their complex styles, for the most upper class characters, > "effete" psychological approach and "decadence"--are often setup as > stereotypes of everything the tough guy writer is NOT--as a "man" and as a > writer-- > (after all, part of the stereotype is that Proust and James are--one gay, > the other often thought to be -- > -- a kind of "manly" homophobia is considered to be "healthy & necessary" > for the kind of image mr mccarthy is deliberately trying to project here--) > > Many thanks Carol Dorf for your comments re the violence in Flannery > O'Connor & Eudora Welty-- > one could add Carson McCullers to this list-- > > i also liked the insight, noting the "close-in" violence in O'Connor & > Welty (and i wd add McCullers--)--as last night i saw reruns of the old > dick > cavett interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and the director, using the way > that > the shower scene in "Psycho" is shot and edited using 78 close in pieces of > film to create effects that no long shots nor long held shots can > create--that is, by bringing the eye of the viewer, the presence of the > viewer, close-in right into the shower and next to the knife the curtain, > the water, the tub, he tiny fragments as seen close in of the woman's > body--this creates the effect of "being there" that makes the scene so > effectively horrifying and violent, makes the viewer feel so violated in > terms of its being "close-in" to the viewer also--"as though you, too, are > there"-- > > no offense to mr mccarthy who is a greatly admired writer as it is--but his > pose in the quote is such an already old nostrum--reeking of way too many > boozy such statements have heard since a kid and first ran into from the > mouths of the junior hemingway's and bukokwsi's-- > > actually re the strangeness of james that mccarthy notes--jorge luis borges > has a remarkable short piece re james in which he notes that he is one of > the strangest of al writers in terms of the subjects he creates--in fact > borges notes and lists the incredible range of new subjects and genres that > james came up with--noting also that james struck him (Senor Borges)--as a > denizen of Hell with an incredible sense of irony!-- > (Hell being this world--) > > "real issues of life and death"--if one defines such things as "real" only > if they are violent-- > i have heard this argument also since kid--and wonder about it often--as i > live in the midst of a lot of violence and certainly a lot of my writing > and > art work deals with violence of al sorts-- > the argument being that violence alone guarantees a certain kind of > "authenticity"-- > that violence is as it were, a more literally and figuratively > "red-blooded" > dose of "reality" than anything else in human experience-- > (hence the incredible proliferation and popularity of violent TV show of > the > "reality" kind based on or recording crimes, prisons, cops, forensics, > etc-- > or > as the Tru Channel puts it, to top reality shows-!!-- > "NOT REALITY. ACTUALITY"- > which has lead me to write some things re what exactly are the boundaries > separating "reality" from "actuality" when one is dealing with the > "docu-drama"-- > seriously--i think it is a once a hilarious and a > metaphysical/philosophical > question, and in terms of creating art works with these things in mind-- > what ways might one come up with to present these "differences" beyond the > semantic levels, the catchy phrase "appearance"?-- > > mr mcarthy's statements--as "stateMEANTs" say--re writing and ciolence--i > think about often as my own life and writing are in midst of, are often > "concerned with/about"--violemce and its relationships now only with > "reality" of "life and death" but the imagination in relation with > these--which as a writerof fiction--mr mcarthy is involved with as much as > with the "real life matters of life and death"--how the "reality/actuality" > and the "fictions" the imaginations--of these-- > so--what about this question of "authenticity" when one is dealing with it > in terms of,as, fiction, as works of "power & the imagination" as William > Blake puts it---- > > after all, if one is working in fiction and dealing with "real life" > "matters of life and death"--is that what/why Mr M "needs to" as it > were--stake a claim for "authenticity"--becuase there is a fear that > "fiction" somehow is NOT "authenticate" enough wihout resorting to > violence?--and, the more violent it is, the more "authenticate" itis?--i > think about this question becuase obvisouly the fictional violence in the > El > Colonel stories are of a different kind than the "actual" violence with > which i am familiar--and even the pieces i have written which use a lot of > the violence i have experienced, witnessed, first hand--the question seems > not to be the "authencity" or the need to assert a pose that they are > somehow "more real" because of this--but what questions arise are ones more > of the nature of the means which one uses to express these, and the > realization just how much the imagination does enter in--and how much it > must enter in for mr mccarhy--this makes the question of the "strange" > which > mr mccarthy finds so necessary to note--an interesting one in terms of why > it is certain subjects, genres, are associated with certain tones, styles, > of writing--and so, are supposed to "rule out"as it were, anything > "strange" > to them--instead of investigating how one might not make use of a as many > possible forms of the "strange"--including al manner of forms of > "estrangement" to wreak violence on the forms themselves which are supposed > to, apparently, in mr mccarthy's statements, alone be qualified to present > violence in an "authentic" way, that is to say, as "real life" matters of > "life and death"-- > if one approaches the question from this point of view--then what mr mcarhy > is saying is that ceratin genres of writing, certain ways of thinking about > "life and death" have to be protected as it were, from the "strange"-- > in a sense, the author feels the need to "protect and defend" the Homeland > of his particular form of writing, his particular way of presenting himself > as a writer, his especial kind of reader and reading-- > in this regard one might do wel to turn to the famous essay by Raymond > Chandler on "The Simple Art of Murder" in which he presents the differences > between the British form of the detective story, the British--and > British-influenced American--forms of detetecive and crimes and ways the > detective goes about solving the crimes--as opposed to the American Hard > Boiled School/Style/Genre, which grew out of the early Pulp magazines such > as the Black Mask, in which writers such as Mr Chandler and Dashiell > Hammett, Cornell Woolrich aka William Irish, David Goodis, Chester Himes, > Jim Thompson ad gloriam first began publishing and defining the style and > genre, (as well as those writers influenced by them such as James M Cain, > the Faulkner of the early novels and The Wild Palms & the early William S > Burroughs of Junkie & writers in Europe such as the Camus of > L'Etranger)--Chanlder develops very succinctly his theis and winds up > creating--for his onw fictions--the paradoxically Romantic and Arthurian > Romance influenced image the "tough dick" known as Philip Marlowe who "down > these mean streets must go"--(btw Henry James was one of Chandler's own > favorite authors--)--this brillaint piece by Chanlder presents an eampleof > the complexity of the at first apparently "vioent and crude" distinctions > between the British style and what Chanlder rightly knew to be a compeltley > new form of writing, yet one which he links in matters of his own sense of > morality to the kinds of writing which Mr M finds "strange"-- > the point being that the creation of writing dealing with violence and > "life > and death" etc in a "red-blooded" way can draw as much on the "strange" as > on any kind of writing and writers-- > hence the question re the Homeland Security attitude Mr McCarthy re > protecting from the "strange" "life and death" matters in terms of writing > and writing- > which brings one back books being created from books--why it is that a > writer might want to assert that in creating certain kinds of books one can > draw on only certain kinds of previous books and writers-- > just as in certain forms of poetry writing various forms of the "strange" > in > terms of subject matter, influences, writers, styles, etc--need to be > excluded and so be "protected from" as it were--implying a certain kind of > Terror at work--making one wonder why this "needs to be"--not simply the > "anxiety of influence" so much as the sheer Terror of the influence, > contamination by, the "strange" however that "strange" is perceived to be-- > the Terror implying in turn a Puritanism of sorts--the need to "purify the > language of the tribe" in ways not always consistent with hose envisioned > by > Mallarme in his famous statement-- > the irony being that a "tough guy" pose as writer and as forms of > writing--should be Terrorized-- > in which case Mr McCarthy's statements might be extended in considering all > manner of literary "wars" and "battles"--"quarrels"--in which case a > considerable violence does ensue in connection with protecting certain > forms, certain genres, certain writers, certain conceptions of the Author, > of Writing, of Poesy, Poetics etc-because they for one reason or antoher > feel threatened by what is considered "strnage," "different" in the > particular context--often revealing a kind of contradiction between > concepts > of "contestation" when finding themselves contested-- > in a way the, the fear, the Terror, of the contamination of the "purity" of > a genre, of an author's conception of themselves and so on--extneds to a > fear of change--a desire to maintain a status quo--within various "literary > bounds"--literally * figuratively > > > last week while i was in the midst of working on yet more pieces in my"El > Colonel" series (the latest appearance of which is, from yesterday, at > Jerome Rothenberg's poets and poetics blog--this is part one of three which > is appearing there, with the next one to have some links to other pieces > and > a note appended to it by way of a little "background" to the series--wd be > glad to share with anyone interested a bibliography of all the pieces so > far > --9 or 10 now--on line which compiled for Jerome Rothenberg as a reference > & > background as the being of El Colonel and the styles, forms of writing of > the pieces--are not static, are rhizomatic and so are not linear in order, > nor are of a "character" nor related with an "author" in any usual sense of > these----) > poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com > -- > while writing away with El Colonel--my then apt mate entered with someone i > didn't see--and within moments--this was way past curfew--sounds of violent > sex exploding through the walls--just as i was dialing the manager my apt > mate burst in my room screaming "call the muthafuckin police! i've been > stabbed !!! and robbed!!"--a slow night here for once--so six squad cars > two > ambulances and a fie truck arrived and loads of uniformed men and women > pouring into the tiny apt--as the tale was slowly sorted through via the > varying accounts my apt mate gave it became apparent that he brought home a > six foot tal two hundred plus pound man dressed as a woman in blonde wig, > tight pants bright orange jacket and high leather boots with > heels--apparently my apt mate's "thang > being such companionship and according to the ops the bar--i used to go > there in late afternoon unadvertised as no longer legal "happy > hours"--during relapses while living at the adjacent now closed down red > cross place for homeless--where my apt mate had gone being after midnight a > hang out for cross dressing gay male prostitutes--learn something new > everyday as it were --fortunately the stab wounds requiring only about > four > stitches, being short and superficial--al the same my apt ate turned out to > have some crimes against his wife of quite some violence, so off he went to > prison and hospital while the cops started their search for the man in the > blonde wig -- > just a week or so before these events i had been walking down the street to > store to get some smokes and saw two men run up behind another--and > "cap"him--shoot him down--and run away--on my way back from the store about > five minutes later--the body stil lay in the street--no police as yet--and > some persons in various buildings' windows peering out carefully from > behind > drawn blinds-- > > that particular street and lock in the last months has been the site of > many > shootings, often, as the one i witnessed was, in broad daylight-- > > reading the cormac mccarthy quote i thought of these things as in re my own > writing which mixes violence and poetry scenes, questions, questions re > writing which obsess el colonel who himself lives in the midst of violence, > guerrilla war fare, counter insurgency etc-- > and creates writings which particpate in the non-materilizationof writing, > as something which emerges and yet is also part of the "Writing of the > No"--compostions which emerge ouf ot decomposition, death deay-- > and, given that many of my non-el colonel stories are about actual events > witnessed through the years of primarily drug related violence--(as the > shooting most likely was--)--(the events in the apt were booze related as > after the final police photographer had left a good near two hours after > the > actaul ten second long event--we found in cleaning up a huge bottle of > brandy--and the meeting of the two men had taken place at bar--)-- > thinking about these reading cormac mccarthy's quote-- > again, i come back to the notion expressed by the writer that there is > somehow more "authenticity" to be gained by the depiction of violence than > there is in the writings of a proust or james--who are "strange"-- > as certainly thereis much violence in both those writers' works--the > violence being simply of different kinds than the direct physical sort for > the mos part--though as i recal--(my memory may well be fualty here as is > some time ago i read the book--)-- le Baron Charlus participated in > sado-masochist events that ceratinly included physical violence of a > particalr kind--yet--as torturers know--psychological violence can be every > bit as extreme as direct physical assault--and so the charcters in proust > and james often undergo severe degrees of violence-- > which in turn makes me wonder--knowing little about mr mccarthy--how much > violence has he experienced in hislife and of what kinds, how muh > witnessed--how many people seen actually killed?--(without being in a war i > have seen roughly a dozen/dozen and half through the years dispatched by > means of violence--some at the hands of the Law too for sure--)-- > i wonder about it becuase many writers who have not necesarilywitnessed > violence create incredibly violent scenes--and write a great deal about the > maoral universe of violence, the psychological cosmos of this--and to very > great effect--that is, they makeone think about the QUESTION, QUESTIONS > which violence raises every moment in every part of the world-- > > my wondering & point re McCarthy--which means i have to now go read his > books, really,-- and read interviews etc to find out for myself what he is > abt--is simply why fall back on such hackneyed claims as he makes, why feel > the need to strike the tough guy pose by picking out all the old > stereotypes > and "usual suspects"--with al the implicit homophobia on display?-and al > the > usual claims re kinds of "authenticity" in re "questions of life and > death"-- > it seems to be a question more of genre than an individual--that is, to fit > the bill so to speak of a writer of violence, one "has to ""distance > oneself" from the worlds of writers like proust and james--(who in turn are > associated with being read by certain "types" of readers, "effete > intellectuals & esthetes" etc--yet further stereotypes denoted as > "strange"--)-- > > and, in turn--as Carol Dorf points out--to distance oneself from the world > of "women writers" who are in fact every bit as tough as any hard boiled > writer i have read, which is going some as i devour that style of writing-- > it raises the question of to what extent does "genre" "determine" the > "author" as "critical iterary thinker"-- > --implying, in turn, that perhaps writers like proust and james would NOT > read writers like McCarthy due not only to their being "strange" but to the > genres of fiction they work in being themselves "strange"-- > again, authors considered in terms of their genres, which in turn are > determinates of the "actual" ("NOT Reality. ACTUALITY"!!--)--being and > thought, "lifestyle of the writer"-- > using these elements, might one not then create a whole new form of > literary > criticism and thinking re writing and writers based on the 'PROFILING" of > both genres and writers! > a kind of "War on Terror" re literature in which the "terrorists" are the > "strange" writers and "strange" forms of writing, "strange > genres"--complete > with levels of "Terror Alerts" marked out in color which has been done with > eprson to be sure in the most horrific ways--badges and stars of differing > colors denoting various " > profiles" of persons--the "look" of "Muslim" persons which "proclaims them" > as "suspects" to be detained, renditioned--and that way of looking which in > Arizona----completely arbitrary, subjective, relative--which somehow > announces to the Law--or a "concerned citizen withe power to make a > citizen's arrest"--that they are in the presence of an--or more!!--illegal > alien or aliens-- ) > -- > bringing one back to the kind of "Terror" which mcarthy expresses in > reverse > as it were of various kinds of writers, writing, readers and readings- > and that somehow this Terror is what makes the particular writers, form of > writing and readers and kinds of readings--like himself and his > readers--"TOUGH"--and concerned with "real matters of life and > death"--becuase they are as it were--on the front lines of the "War on > Terror"-- > defending the Homeland against "strangeness"-- > because this "strange" form of writing and writers,or reading and > readers--is not "like us"--not "TOUGH on--take your pick--crime, drugs, > terror--all those elements which along with poverty which the USA has > declared itself to be at war with, to be making war on-- > of course-- i am exaggerating and making much ado about a smal quote--but > having heard for eons it seems the nearly exact same statements as those > McCarthy is making--one can't help but sense in the statements themselves a > kind of over the top exaggeration which for some reason "seems necessary" > for this particular author, working in a particular genre as it were, to > make-- > and which, to stay against charges of being "anti-literary"--mentions > authors who usually are noted in these kinds of assertions as ones who do > use violence and are concerned with "real matters of life and death"--are > consdiered, especially Dostoevsky, to be to some degree > "philosophers"--"myth makers" and the like-- > it's intersting to see inthis regard through time which authors have been > chosen to represent "real matters of life and death"--as i remeber "Dost" > and "Hem" Bukowksi wrote a great deal about in his early stories, esp in > Notes of a Dirty Old Man-- > all of which goes to show how vast literary cosmos are opened in just a few > simple statements--how with a few swift storkes--whole terrains are lit > up--of literary criticism, literary history, questions of genre--how even > the bellicose assertions of a kind of literary equivalent a barroom brawl > provocation--"go to show" as Kaetrs wd say ho much may be made of a > dminished thing, hey!-- > or that is, perhaps not so much a diminished thing as an attempt to make of > certain forms of literary and human "strangeness" a "diminished thing"-- > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:11 AM, carol dorf wrote: > > > He seems to need to create a background for the over-the-top violence in > > his > > own work. Interesting that no female southerners (Eudora Welty, Flannery > > O'Conner (who wrote with a fair amount of close-in violence)) make his > cut. > > > > Carol Dorf > > poetry@talkingwriting.com > > http://talkingwriting.com/ > > > > ================================== > > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines > > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > > > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines > & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:35:24 -0600 Reply-To: dgodston@gmail.com Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: Dan Godston Subject: A LEWIS CARROLL COFFEEHOUSE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A LEWIS CARROLL COFFEEHOUSE with performers, writers, composers & choreographers featuring Jennifer Karmin in a live collaboration with Kath Duffy & Dan Godston performing from the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice Monday, November 29th 7-8:30 pm at the Storefront Theater 66 E. Randolph Street free but reservations encouraged 312.742.8497 or http://www.dcatheater.org presented by Chicago DCA Theater Chicago Opera Vanguard & Caffeine Theatre in conjunction with Boojum! Nonsense, Truth, and Lewis Carroll November 18-December 19, 2010 http://www.caffeinetheatre.com JENNIFER KARMIN's text-sound epic, Aaaaaaaaaaalice, was published by Flim Forum Press in 2010. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. A proud member of the Dusie Kollektiv, she is the author of the Dusie chapbook Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina. Walking Poem, a collaborative street project, is featured online at How2. In Chicago, Jennifer teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and works as a Poet-in-Residence for the public schools. http://aaaaaaaaaaalice.blogspot.com KATH DUFFY is a writer who co-founded the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise in 2001 to forge alliances with other artists, activists, community groups, and the general public. Expanding on collaboration as political force, Kath initiated the organizing efforts of the Dill Pickle Food Coop in late 2005, and is currently serving her second three year term on the board of directors. Kathleen earns her keep as the Communications Organizer for the Campaign for Better Health Care and is a member of the concert production staff of the Old Town School of Folk Music. DAN GODSTON teaches and lives in Chicago. His writings have appeared in Chase Park, After Hours, BlazeVOX, Versal, Beard of Bees, Drunken Boat, 580 Split, Kyoto Journal, Eratica, The Smoking Poet, Horse Less Review, Moria, Apparatus Magazine, EOAGH, Requited Journal, Sentinel Poetry, and other print publications and online journals. His poem "Mask to Skin to Blood to Heart to Bone and Back" was nominated by the editors of 580 Split for the Pushcart Prize. He also composes and performs music, and he works with the Borderbend Arts Collective to organize the annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:54:11 +0530 Reply-To: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" Sender: "Poetics List (UPenn, UB)" From: steve dalachinsky Subject: Re: experiment-o issue three now on line MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit steve dalachinsky, Erica Dagnino, Ken Filiano and others 7 pm and steve and Ken at 10 pm at Local 269 269 E. Houston Street (corner Suffolk -F to Delancey or 1st Ave.) Dec. 27, 2010 burn off X-mas bring in new years be there and be...................................... On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:45:01 -0500 Amanda Earl writes: > hi all, > > i am pleased to announce that the third issue of experiment-o > featuring work by Henry Avignon, Michael Basinski, derek beaulieu, > Bill Brown, > Satu Kaikkonen, John Lavery, Kevin Matthews, Monty Reid, Sandra > Ridley and Chris Turnbull is now on line at > http://www.experiment-o.com/ > > AngelHousePress publishes the pdf magazine annually to celebrate the > > art of risk. > > Amanda Earl > AngelHousePress > www.angelhousepress.com > the angel is in the house > > ================================== > The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check > guidelines & sub/unsub info: > http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html > ================================== The Poetics List is moderated & does not accept all posts. Check guidelines & sub/unsub info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/welcome.html