Gary (Sullivan) and Nada (Gordon)
stopped by yesterday to watch the debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama with us. As you know, if you read Nada's blog, she enthusiastically supports Hillary. The debate was ok, Toni's pasta dinner was great, and Gary and Nada were as much fun as ever. What is truly exciting is that Gary gave me an early printing of his book of plays *PPL In A Depot* coming out very soon from Roof Books, two of which were published in OCHO 14 which I guest edited with much help from Toni, who did the cover. Speaking of covers, this one is awesome, a tracing from some wall graffiti which Gary had photographed. Mac Wellman wrote of these plays: "Gary Sullivan's PPL in a Depot is a collection of pataphysical dramas- each a delight to read, and presumably to watch- if from a safe distance. A gleeful and slightly spavined collection of fast-moving and un-pindownable plays in a nastily wicked vein. They could be called poetic, but the author whould probably prefer to be shot than thought poetic. How can you not love a play called 'Written in Styrofoam'?"
God, I love these plays. They will make you think and laugh at the same time, or will teach you how.
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Heather O'Neill's *lullabies for little criminals*, Harper 2006
What *David Copperfield* was for the 19th Century and *The Catcher in the Rye* for the 20th, *lullabies for little criminals* could or should be for the 21st.This is childhood painted against a black sky, where a fat full moon glares at you grumpily or shimmers its silver smiles and falling stars lift, then break your heart.
Heather O'Neill's story *The End of Pinky* in The Walrus
Heather O"Neill profile in Quill and Quire
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Kathleen Mock Rides Again
If you are a subway commuter in New York there is little doubt that you have more than once stopped to listen, with pleasurable surprise, to Kathleen Mock's lovely, vibrant voice wending its way between the roars of trains entering and leaving the station. It was quite some time ago that I first chatted with her and bought a CD. To my delight I heard her again playing yesterday at the 96th Street station on the #3 train. This time I bought another CD of hers, which she told me consists of songs written in her 20s. She loves singing on the subway now as much as she did when she started 18 years ago. Kathleen Mock website, including NPR interview, here: Kathleen Mock
Distribution Automatique
Tuesday, February 19
Out of the Past: Lucy Lippard talks about Eva Hesse with Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt
6/5/1973- Artforum, February 2008
This month's Artforum features a fascinating interview that Lucy Lippard held with Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson in 1973. For Robert Smithson and Eva Hesse fans (are there any art lovers over the age of 50 who aren't?) this is a definite must-read. I couldn't resist copying out some sections to post. Of course it led me to remembering my own brief meeting with Smithson at Max's Kansas City in the early 70's. I was introduced to him by a friend, the artist Wayne Timm who I had met in Provincetown in 1962. Reading this interview also led me to thinking about the fact that by the early 1980's I had lost five heroes as a result of untimely deaths: Buddy Holly (I was at a Crickets concert in 1957), Robert Smithson, John Lennon, Ted Berrigan and Phillip K. Dick. All of these heroes were prophets who typified and emcompassed their eras in their work and who also very accurately anticipated the future by means of their astounding innovative creations. In this interview Smithson shows the impressive scope of his insights.
"Robert Smithson: I think all perception is tainted with a kind of psychoanalytic reading. In other words, somebody who's having Oedipal problems, it's going to come out in the perception, or it's going to come out in the making, the kind of work they choose to do. I got into a sort of psychoanalyzing of landscape perception in that [Frederick Law] Olmstead piece."
"Lucy Lippard: Yeah, true, You go back in, in order to come back out- the labyrinth."
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"Robert Smithson: But my high school art teacher said to me that the only people that become artists are women and cripples."
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"Robert Smithson: Society at large has a kind of flattening effect in terms of its rationality, the kind of rationality that more or less keeps things going. It's very totalitarian, because it flattens everything out. We're sort of witnessing that with the Watergate situation, or that's breaking down. There's a kind of real artlessness about these people; they're really people without art. They control. The artist is in some other realm. The artist is involved with some kind of enchantment. In the other world, that whole enchantment is crushed with some kind of efficiency, and that efficiency is now catching up with itself."
"Nancy Holt: I think the more awareness you have, the more difficult it gets. Part of the motivation for smoking dope or drinking is to dull what can be seen, felt, and perceived, and I'm sure that that extends into other areas of life. I'm sure that we're all blocking off large segments that we can't deal with in any given moment. It might be like dimming in and dimming out."
"Robert Smithson: There's a kind of terrorism involved in the whole situation. How much can you take? I thought it would be very interesting if tornadoes came into New York and ripped it up. But I think the art world is a sort of tribal society with its totems and taboos. No human can withstand too much emotional stress. Taling about Eva [Hesse] that stress is sort of objectified into this totem."
6/5/1973- Artforum, February 2008
This month's Artforum features a fascinating interview that Lucy Lippard held with Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson in 1973. For Robert Smithson and Eva Hesse fans (are there any art lovers over the age of 50 who aren't?) this is a definite must-read. I couldn't resist copying out some sections to post. Of course it led me to remembering my own brief meeting with Smithson at Max's Kansas City in the early 70's. I was introduced to him by a friend, the artist Wayne Timm who I had met in Provincetown in 1962. Reading this interview also led me to thinking about the fact that by the early 1980's I had lost five heroes as a result of untimely deaths: Buddy Holly (I was at a Crickets concert in 1957), Robert Smithson, John Lennon, Ted Berrigan and Phillip K. Dick. All of these heroes were prophets who typified and emcompassed their eras in their work and who also very accurately anticipated the future by means of their astounding innovative creations. In this interview Smithson shows the impressive scope of his insights.
"Robert Smithson: I think all perception is tainted with a kind of psychoanalytic reading. In other words, somebody who's having Oedipal problems, it's going to come out in the perception, or it's going to come out in the making, the kind of work they choose to do. I got into a sort of psychoanalyzing of landscape perception in that [Frederick Law] Olmstead piece."
"Lucy Lippard: Yeah, true, You go back in, in order to come back out- the labyrinth."
****
"Robert Smithson: But my high school art teacher said to me that the only people that become artists are women and cripples."
****
"Robert Smithson: Society at large has a kind of flattening effect in terms of its rationality, the kind of rationality that more or less keeps things going. It's very totalitarian, because it flattens everything out. We're sort of witnessing that with the Watergate situation, or that's breaking down. There's a kind of real artlessness about these people; they're really people without art. They control. The artist is in some other realm. The artist is involved with some kind of enchantment. In the other world, that whole enchantment is crushed with some kind of efficiency, and that efficiency is now catching up with itself."
"Nancy Holt: I think the more awareness you have, the more difficult it gets. Part of the motivation for smoking dope or drinking is to dull what can be seen, felt, and perceived, and I'm sure that that extends into other areas of life. I'm sure that we're all blocking off large segments that we can't deal with in any given moment. It might be like dimming in and dimming out."
"Robert Smithson: There's a kind of terrorism involved in the whole situation. How much can you take? I thought it would be very interesting if tornadoes came into New York and ripped it up. But I think the art world is a sort of tribal society with its totems and taboos. No human can withstand too much emotional stress. Taling about Eva [Hesse] that stress is sort of objectified into this totem."
Friday, February 15
New at Penn Sound
Thanks to Danny Snelson, Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis and others at Penn Sound for the great job in updating and presenting my sound files- I hope you will have a chance have a look and a listen soon
Penn Sound
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Text Loses Time by Nico Vassilakis
a review on
fantographic books
by
Eric Reynolds
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The Remains of the Poet
Peter Ciccariello
Thanks to Danny Snelson, Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis and others at Penn Sound for the great job in updating and presenting my sound files- I hope you will have a chance have a look and a listen soon
Penn Sound
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Text Loses Time by Nico Vassilakis
a review on
fantographic books
by
Eric Reynolds
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The Remains of the Poet
Peter Ciccariello
Tuesday, February 12
New Sound Files at Penn Sound
J. Henry Chunko
Danny Snelson has been updating my sound files at Penn Sound, "segmenting" them, as he explains it- which means you can listen much more easily to individual tracks- has some very kind words to say about this blog- which was a very nice thing to happen on:: fait accompli's:: fifth birthday!
Thanks, Danny
J. Henry Chunko
Danny Snelson has been updating my sound files at Penn Sound, "segmenting" them, as he explains it- which means you can listen much more easily to individual tracks- has some very kind words to say about this blog- which was a very nice thing to happen on:: fait accompli's:: fifth birthday!
Thanks, Danny
Friday, February 8
"Ah, Squares": Big Window Features the Art of Toni Simon
Big Window
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Douglas Messerli Opens New Blog
Green Integer
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critiiphoria #1
Critiphoria
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"Nobody is well known. Look at the Unknown Soldier: everybody knows him"
Francis Picabia
("I Am A Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, Provocations"
translated by Mark Lowenthal; MIT Press)
Big Window
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Douglas Messerli Opens New Blog
Green Integer
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critiiphoria #1
Critiphoria
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"Nobody is well known. Look at the Unknown Soldier: everybody knows him"
Francis Picabia
("I Am A Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, Provocations"
translated by Mark Lowenthal; MIT Press)
Monday, February 4
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Blogger
Things are cooking up in the poetry world lately; so many readings and publications it is hard to keep track of them all. This past weekend there were readings at Adam's Books, The Museum of the City of New York, The Bowery Poetry Club and other venues including the AWP conference that included Carla Harryman, David Shapiro, Anne Waldman, Jeff Encke and many, many others. You'll have to check elsewhere for the scoop on the AWP.
I did attend the Counterpath reading (see list below) at the Bowery Poetry Club and listened with pleasure to Anthony Hawley, Laynie Browne, Jen Hofer, Marjorie Welish, Peter Gizzi, Forest Gander and many others.
Earlier on Friday I had lunch with Anthony Hawley whose acquaintance I made last year at the reading for Gina Meyers' Tiny, issue #3 at the Poetry Project.
Anthony and I met for lunch at the Moma Snack bar. Over excellent soup and salad Anthony I swapped stories about our childhoods and other things. Anthony has a new book from Counterpath that last year published his terrific Autobiography/Oughtabiography. After Anthony left for further AWP activities close by MOMA at the Hilton I stayed to look around. I liked the Latin American show, but particularly enjoyed a piece by Rodney Graham titled Rheinmetall/Victoria 8. This film depicts a 1930's German typewriter found in a junk shop screened using an ancient projector.
Rodney Graham
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Lanny Quarles
has opened a new group blog
Havmophunic Transolutions
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Don't Miss
Douglas Messerli's *My Year 2005: Terrifying Times (Green Integer). Douglas Messerli has embarked on a massive memoir project that is inventive, comprehensive, funny and fascinating. By means of brief essays juxtaposed with each other disjunctively he is both tracing his own and cultural history from 2000-2010. Each year is given a theme that Douglas traces by means of reviews, autobiographical anecdotes, interviews and other sorts of short pieces. 2005 was "terrifying times." This year he told me. over lunch and coffee at recently at Molyvos, is called "Into the Gap" which is a phrase that describes the dangerous missions of counter-spies who put themselves out in the open to bring out their adversaries. This is time travel par excellence and well worth reading and collecting. From the Table of Contents: "How to Destroy your Children", "Three Hitchcock Structures", "Applause, Applause", "The Prom King", "How ROTC Saved My Llife", "How I Learned to Write Immorally", "Nine Nights in New York", "Making Things Difficult: An Interview between Charles Bernstein and Douglas Messerli", "Two Words by Julien Gracq", "Standstill", "The Hole Missing Robert Creeley", "What Have We Reaped?", "Something Wicked", "Longo's Empire", "The Imperfect Medium", "Answering the Sphinx", "The Necessary Remedy", "Living Darwinism", "Singing the Body Electric", "Borders without Borders", "Starting Over"
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Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack, Delacorte Press
My review on Goodreads
bookshelves: currently-reading (edit)
review: Ever since reading Peter Moore's terrific novel Los Angeles, one of my novelistic holy grails became the search for new witty novels that take place in the silver screen behemoth. For me, Los Angeles is to New York what Paris is to London, our mirror opposite, our ambivalent companion. That grail has been more than satisfied, for the moment, by the literary team Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack's *Literacy and Longing in L.A.* For denizens of Goodreads this novel may well be the most sheer literary fun they've had in years, because essentially it is about them. This is a book about, for and by literary gourmands, compulsive readers and book collectors whose lives, let alone "free time" are based on the desire to read. The main character, Dora (named after--guess--Eudora Welty) has recently divorced. In blatant identification with her alcoholic mother, whose husband, Dora's father, left when the two sisters were around 8, Dora loses herself- to the reader's great joy- in an endless reading fest that she writes about in great detail. Dora's husband is a wealthy CEO who is ravishingly handsome but who admits to being "bored by Shakespeare." After a few years of tedious social events, Dora leaves him for her books, bathtub and bottle of wine. A mad affair with a bookstore clerk/playwright brings her to her senses--and more books. At the end of the tome you find a 10 page single spaced list of books mentioned in the text.
Things are cooking up in the poetry world lately; so many readings and publications it is hard to keep track of them all. This past weekend there were readings at Adam's Books, The Museum of the City of New York, The Bowery Poetry Club and other venues including the AWP conference that included Carla Harryman, David Shapiro, Anne Waldman, Jeff Encke and many, many others. You'll have to check elsewhere for the scoop on the AWP.
I did attend the Counterpath reading (see list below) at the Bowery Poetry Club and listened with pleasure to Anthony Hawley, Laynie Browne, Jen Hofer, Marjorie Welish, Peter Gizzi, Forest Gander and many others.
Earlier on Friday I had lunch with Anthony Hawley whose acquaintance I made last year at the reading for Gina Meyers' Tiny, issue #3 at the Poetry Project.
Anthony and I met for lunch at the Moma Snack bar. Over excellent soup and salad Anthony I swapped stories about our childhoods and other things. Anthony has a new book from Counterpath that last year published his terrific Autobiography/Oughtabiography. After Anthony left for further AWP activities close by MOMA at the Hilton I stayed to look around. I liked the Latin American show, but particularly enjoyed a piece by Rodney Graham titled Rheinmetall/Victoria 8. This film depicts a 1930's German typewriter found in a junk shop screened using an ancient projector.
Rodney Graham
******
Lanny Quarles
has opened a new group blog
Havmophunic Transolutions
******
Don't Miss
Douglas Messerli's *My Year 2005: Terrifying Times (Green Integer). Douglas Messerli has embarked on a massive memoir project that is inventive, comprehensive, funny and fascinating. By means of brief essays juxtaposed with each other disjunctively he is both tracing his own and cultural history from 2000-2010. Each year is given a theme that Douglas traces by means of reviews, autobiographical anecdotes, interviews and other sorts of short pieces. 2005 was "terrifying times." This year he told me. over lunch and coffee at recently at Molyvos, is called "Into the Gap" which is a phrase that describes the dangerous missions of counter-spies who put themselves out in the open to bring out their adversaries. This is time travel par excellence and well worth reading and collecting. From the Table of Contents: "How to Destroy your Children", "Three Hitchcock Structures", "Applause, Applause", "The Prom King", "How ROTC Saved My Llife", "How I Learned to Write Immorally", "Nine Nights in New York", "Making Things Difficult: An Interview between Charles Bernstein and Douglas Messerli", "Two Words by Julien Gracq", "Standstill", "The Hole Missing Robert Creeley", "What Have We Reaped?", "Something Wicked", "Longo's Empire", "The Imperfect Medium", "Answering the Sphinx", "The Necessary Remedy", "Living Darwinism", "Singing the Body Electric", "Borders without Borders", "Starting Over"
**
Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack, Delacorte Press
My review on Goodreads
bookshelves: currently-reading (edit)
review: Ever since reading Peter Moore's terrific novel Los Angeles, one of my novelistic holy grails became the search for new witty novels that take place in the silver screen behemoth. For me, Los Angeles is to New York what Paris is to London, our mirror opposite, our ambivalent companion. That grail has been more than satisfied, for the moment, by the literary team Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack's *Literacy and Longing in L.A.* For denizens of Goodreads this novel may well be the most sheer literary fun they've had in years, because essentially it is about them. This is a book about, for and by literary gourmands, compulsive readers and book collectors whose lives, let alone "free time" are based on the desire to read. The main character, Dora (named after--guess--Eudora Welty) has recently divorced. In blatant identification with her alcoholic mother, whose husband, Dora's father, left when the two sisters were around 8, Dora loses herself- to the reader's great joy- in an endless reading fest that she writes about in great detail. Dora's husband is a wealthy CEO who is ravishingly handsome but who admits to being "bored by Shakespeare." After a few years of tedious social events, Dora leaves him for her books, bathtub and bottle of wine. A mad affair with a bookstore clerk/playwright brings her to her senses--and more books. At the end of the tome you find a 10 page single spaced list of books mentioned in the text.
Thursday, January 31
Counterpath Press at the Bowery
Poetry Club starting at 7 on Friday, Feb. 1st.
Anthony Hawley
Laynie Browne
Linda Norton
Cole Swensen
Martine Bellen
Bruce Beasley
Gillian Conoley
Forrest Gander
Peter Gizzi
Jen Hofer
Elizabeth Willis
Claudia Keelan
Timothy Liu
Suzanne Paola
Bin Ramke
Donald Revell
Carol Snow
Marjorie Welish
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Reading at the Museum of the City of New York Sunday 2pm Honoring Rudy Burkihardt and Yvonne Jacquette
reservations required
Museum Reading
Poetry Club starting at 7 on Friday, Feb. 1st.
Anthony Hawley
Laynie Browne
Linda Norton
Cole Swensen
Martine Bellen
Bruce Beasley
Gillian Conoley
Forrest Gander
Peter Gizzi
Jen Hofer
Elizabeth Willis
Claudia Keelan
Timothy Liu
Suzanne Paola
Bin Ramke
Donald Revell
Carol Snow
Marjorie Welish
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Reading at the Museum of the City of New York Sunday 2pm Honoring Rudy Burkihardt and Yvonne Jacquette
reservations required
Museum Reading
Monday, January 28
Notebook, 1/27/08
Wanderers
Awareness, whether of past, present or future experience appears as a shimmering. Things maintain solidity but even our awareness of our own bodies sustains this ghostly, discontinuous quality. Everything in time plays hide and seek with us. Perhaps if we could be sure of a purpose for existence the accumulation of a myriad of moments might assume some permanent outline or shape. But without certainty of proven purpose, comprehension of material manifestation must remain sporadic. The perpetuation of this fleeting significance of experience constantly returns us to various shadings of desire or despair. In order to reconceive these aporia as graspable entities we are led to evolve forms of metaphysical measure. But even our senses of success in such strivings remain occasional and tentative. Life is a voyage whose ports offer countless discoveries but whose goals remain elusive.
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This just in from Mark Young
Otoliths 8
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New Interview Issue from Mipoesias includes an interview with Gary Sullian by Rodney Koeneke
Mipoesias
Wanderers
Awareness, whether of past, present or future experience appears as a shimmering. Things maintain solidity but even our awareness of our own bodies sustains this ghostly, discontinuous quality. Everything in time plays hide and seek with us. Perhaps if we could be sure of a purpose for existence the accumulation of a myriad of moments might assume some permanent outline or shape. But without certainty of proven purpose, comprehension of material manifestation must remain sporadic. The perpetuation of this fleeting significance of experience constantly returns us to various shadings of desire or despair. In order to reconceive these aporia as graspable entities we are led to evolve forms of metaphysical measure. But even our senses of success in such strivings remain occasional and tentative. Life is a voyage whose ports offer countless discoveries but whose goals remain elusive.
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This just in from Mark Young
Otoliths 8
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New Interview Issue from Mipoesias includes an interview with Gary Sullian by Rodney Koeneke
Mipoesias
Wednesday, January 23
Drew Gardner's Poetics Orchestra
performed last night at the legendary Living Theater, featuring poets Katie Degentesh and Sharon Mesmer as well as the Musetry Project with Steve Dalachinsky and Ellen Christi. Christi and Dalachinsky brought back very pleasant memories and smiles for me of Keeley Smith and Louis Prima, a comic jazz duo extant no doubt well before your time, reader. Ellen Christi's jazz riffs worked well with Dalanchinsky's poetic monologues spoken in a cool undertone at the back of the Living Theater stage decked out for a Judith Malina play which is up now. One of Dalichinsky's poetic quips floated by me bringing a strong chuckle: "young and gifted, old and gifted." ( "Is botox a ball team?" he later asked, from the stage, of Sharon Mesmer, referring to a line from her performance: "I thought it was BoSox").You could see that both Christi, and later Degentesh added to their comic presences by working from the sunken bathtub which was part of the Malina stage set (Malina performs there tonight there in a two-women play at 21 Clinton Street on the Wednesday pay-as-you-wish basis). Katie Degentesh read from her recent book The Anger Scale, in the lightning fast world of blogging already an underground classic, and Sharon Mesmer read mostly from her equally awesome new book Annoying Diabetic Bitch, both from Combo.Mesmer and Degentesh are terrific poets, working in these books in the Flarf manner, who happen also to be superb performing poets as well; i would even go so far as to say they are each fine comic actors who write their own hilariously parodic material that strikes home on many levels of complexity: poetic, personal, social and philosophic. Sharon told me that she has performed before with bands and enjoyed it. I heard her ask Drew to invite her back and I hope he does. The members of the Orchestra were in top form as well, melodically rich, rhythmically diverse and meticulously coordinated both with each other and with the poets, under the able baton of Drew Gardner. Mesmer and Degentesh's voices also blended well together yet each has her own unique and individual peforming style. I hope Drew brings them all together again soon.
Speaking of bitchin' books...
Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books)
Sonnetailia (Roof Books)
Thursday, January 24
8pm
Mehanata Bulgarian Bar
113 Ludlow Street
NYC
F/J/M/Z trains to Delancey/Essex
Free admission until 10:30
Cash bar
Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello DJ-ing at 10:30
Drinkin’!
Dancin’!
Rockin’!
Aww yeah!
More info:
Mehanata
Virgin Formica
[from Virgin Formica- Sharon Mesmer]
By the way, Nicole Peyrafitte, who was in the audience, will be performing at the Zinc Bar on Sunday, January 17 with Belle Gironda at 6pm. Having lived these many years in Albany, raising two children with poet-blogger-translator-traveler-professor Pierre Joris, she now resides in Brooklyn, where, like so many other poets these days, she unquestionably wants to be.
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This Just In from Tom Beckett:
An Ex-Val Interview with Jessica Grim
performed last night at the legendary Living Theater, featuring poets Katie Degentesh and Sharon Mesmer as well as the Musetry Project with Steve Dalachinsky and Ellen Christi. Christi and Dalachinsky brought back very pleasant memories and smiles for me of Keeley Smith and Louis Prima, a comic jazz duo extant no doubt well before your time, reader. Ellen Christi's jazz riffs worked well with Dalanchinsky's poetic monologues spoken in a cool undertone at the back of the Living Theater stage decked out for a Judith Malina play which is up now. One of Dalichinsky's poetic quips floated by me bringing a strong chuckle: "young and gifted, old and gifted." ( "Is botox a ball team?" he later asked, from the stage, of Sharon Mesmer, referring to a line from her performance: "I thought it was BoSox").You could see that both Christi, and later Degentesh added to their comic presences by working from the sunken bathtub which was part of the Malina stage set (Malina performs there tonight there in a two-women play at 21 Clinton Street on the Wednesday pay-as-you-wish basis). Katie Degentesh read from her recent book The Anger Scale, in the lightning fast world of blogging already an underground classic, and Sharon Mesmer read mostly from her equally awesome new book Annoying Diabetic Bitch, both from Combo.Mesmer and Degentesh are terrific poets, working in these books in the Flarf manner, who happen also to be superb performing poets as well; i would even go so far as to say they are each fine comic actors who write their own hilariously parodic material that strikes home on many levels of complexity: poetic, personal, social and philosophic. Sharon told me that she has performed before with bands and enjoyed it. I heard her ask Drew to invite her back and I hope he does. The members of the Orchestra were in top form as well, melodically rich, rhythmically diverse and meticulously coordinated both with each other and with the poets, under the able baton of Drew Gardner. Mesmer and Degentesh's voices also blended well together yet each has her own unique and individual peforming style. I hope Drew brings them all together again soon.
Speaking of bitchin' books...
Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books)
Sonnetailia (Roof Books)
Thursday, January 24
8pm
Mehanata Bulgarian Bar
113 Ludlow Street
NYC
F/J/M/Z trains to Delancey/Essex
Free admission until 10:30
Cash bar
Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello DJ-ing at 10:30
Drinkin’!
Dancin’!
Rockin’!
Aww yeah!
More info:
Mehanata
Virgin Formica
[from Virgin Formica- Sharon Mesmer]
By the way, Nicole Peyrafitte, who was in the audience, will be performing at the Zinc Bar on Sunday, January 17 with Belle Gironda at 6pm. Having lived these many years in Albany, raising two children with poet-blogger-translator-traveler-professor Pierre Joris, she now resides in Brooklyn, where, like so many other poets these days, she unquestionably wants to be.
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This Just In from Tom Beckett:
An Ex-Val Interview with Jessica Grim
Tuesday, January 22
Saturday, January 19
Friday, January 18
This Just In from Drew Gardner
--FRIDAY, 1/18--
I'll be performing at the book release party for the release of
Jackson Mac Low's Thing of Beauty:
From 6:30 - 8:00pm, CUE Art Foundation, 511 West 25th Street, NYC
Readers/performers include Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge,
Katie Degentesh, Mitch Highfill, Chris Mason, Joan Retallack, Anne
Tardos
www.cueartfoundation.org
--TUESDAY 1/22--
Drew Gardner's Poetics Orchestra @ The Living Theater
I'll be conducting The Poetics Orchestra, 8:00pm, The Living Theater,
21 Clinton St., NYC
featuring: Gene Cawley, Ty Cumbie, Steve Dalachinsky, Katie
Degentesh, Francois Grillot, James Ilgenfritz, Daniel Nester, Sharon
Mesmer
with: Ty Cumbie's Musetry Project!
http://www.livingtheatre.org/livingmusic.html
--FRIDAY, 1/18--
I'll be performing at the book release party for the release of
Jackson Mac Low's Thing of Beauty:
From 6:30 - 8:00pm, CUE Art Foundation, 511 West 25th Street, NYC
Readers/performers include Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge,
Katie Degentesh, Mitch Highfill, Chris Mason, Joan Retallack, Anne
Tardos
www.cueartfoundation.org
--TUESDAY 1/22--
Drew Gardner's Poetics Orchestra @ The Living Theater
I'll be conducting The Poetics Orchestra, 8:00pm, The Living Theater,
21 Clinton St., NYC
featuring: Gene Cawley, Ty Cumbie, Steve Dalachinsky, Katie
Degentesh, Francois Grillot, James Ilgenfritz, Daniel Nester, Sharon
Mesmer
with: Ty Cumbie's Musetry Project!
http://www.livingtheatre.org/livingmusic.html
Wednesday, January 16
Monday, January 14
Sunday, January 6
Toni Simon- the Mipoesias Art Gallery
Free Fall- the Mipoesias Art Gallery
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Contradicta
Ask your feet to take you where your mind won't go.
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Understanding the world and its needs may tell me why I should give; but it is understanding myself and my own needs that tells me why I am able to give.
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Tom Beckett discusses Jean Vengua's new book of poetry Prau
Free Fall- the Mipoesias Art Gallery
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Contradicta
Ask your feet to take you where your mind won't go.
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Understanding the world and its needs may tell me why I should give; but it is understanding myself and my own needs that tells me why I am able to give.
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Tom Beckett discusses Jean Vengua's new book of poetry Prau
Friday, December 28
Sunday, December 23
Monday, December 17
fait accompli at the university
Portland State University, Department of English, List of Internet Sites
Portland State University, Department of English, List of Internet Sites
Friday, December 14
From The Ontological Museum
The Spam Poetry Game
In one of my nocturnal wandering of Yahoo, I came across the following group of spam poems, created from a game I participated in in May of this year, the link for the complete selection above.
Department of Linguistic Records
THE SPAM POETRY GAME
Round Two - 27 Entries!
You'll want to have plenty of time to study this wonderful selection of spam poetry most of which used the same cluster of random words and phrases. Each poet brought their own style and sensibility to the words. Some people offered a number of works and some offered works that seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with the directions for this game. But that's poets for you (or possibly people who cannot read instructions).
BELOW THE RESULTS FROM OUR POETS
Mon 5/7/2007 9:57 PM
First half and last line complete the mirrored stochasticative...
storms ~ emote
reputation ~ radarman
wrong ~ toward
only on the ~ alt no Zerbo
hand grasp ~ spurge avow
love more ~ Ham rag
tempests ~ nonprint
end enemies ~ lament lazy
remember ~ adrenal
there no england ~ brogan an craft
lessen days ~ guff vassal
freedom ~ malevo
however ~ several
customer death ~ Wtoeh rewatow
wrong paradise ~ laborat zonalt
but part of the common ~ runner alt or boy tod
Remainder
[Skillful pilots gain their much my political life, but no who mixes the pleasant with the useful. I have had a lot of there is much error. I never forgive, dignity of any but I always forget. He gains shortcut to life. Law everyone's there is glory approval of, life is a learned. Honesty is a question of right or not a matter of policy. Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. Malt does more than Milton can to justify to man.]
0!Z!^!P P!^VP
Mon 5/7/2007 10:06 PM
Skillful pilots
enemies that I can remember
part of the Common
is
the hand that does not grasp
God's ways of freedom
the pleasant with the useful.
An apology mixes
shortcut to life
of his memory
love the more
Remainder
reputation from storms and your wrong.? Bah! adversaries in alights only on . The greater the difficulty If you tempests. To the end . There is no of England. lesson imperfectly The bird our days Disgusting! wrong, Cowardly! Beneath the gentleman, however be. Where customer to death, you can't wrong he might go in paradise surmounting it. gain their much my political life, but no who I have had a lot of there is much error. I never forgive, dignity of any but I always forget. He gains shortcut to life. Law everyone's there is glory approval of, life is a learned. Honesty is a question of right or not a matter of policy. Everyone complains of the badness , but nobody of his judgment. Malt does more than Milton can to justify to man.
Jim Piat
Mon 5/7/2007 11:29 PM
apology
I have had
a lot of
skillful
political
pilots
grasp
reputation
from
difficulty
and
there is
England
God's
Law
Honesty
reputation
judgment
glory
life
cowardly
enemies
disgusting
storms
badness
death
freedom
memory
love
I
never
justify
error
but
I always
forget
dignity
life is a
wrong
shortcut
where
the
tempests
end
paradise
imperfectly
beneath
the
gentleman
customer
Bah!
bird
[remainder words]
is part of the Common wrong. An in alights only on the hand that does not grasp. The greater If forgive you t more. end that I can remember. There is no of lesson our days ways however be. to, you can't he might go in surmounting it. gain their much my, but no who mixes pleasant with useful there is much. I never of any but always forget. He to everyone's there is approval of, is a learned. is a question of right or not a matter of. Everyone complains of of his, but nobody of his judgment. Malt does more than Milton can to justify to man
Nick Piombino
Tue 5/8/2007 8:40 AM
Malt does more to Milton
than the policy of England.
God’s reputation mixes
skillful approval of
the cowardly customer with
the law of death.
Everyone alights honesty.
The tempest’s political badness
is surmounting dignity.
A gentleman always
gains adversaries.
To the enemies I can
remember, I hand no apology.
I never forgive you and
your wrong judgment.
A common bird complains
of the error of his memory.
If you love nobody, life
is a disgusting matter.
A lesson of my life:
There is no shortcut
to paradise.
Pilots in storms grasp
the difficulty in life.
Beneath glory, there is only
that question of right or wrong.
He can’t imperfectly forget
that much useful freedom.
Everyone’s end is pleasant,
However wrong he might be.
Bah!
But I go to where man
is to justify his ways.
But who have our days
learned from? There is
the greater part of their gain,
but not much more.
Remainder
An, on, it, the had, lot, any can, not, of, that, of, the, does
Kathy Burkett
Tue 5/8/2007 8:41 AM
[reputation]
reputation from
storms and your wrong. An apo
logy? Bah! adver
[only on the hand]
saries in alights
only on the hand that does
not grasp. The greater
[to the end]
the difficulty
If you love the more tempests.
To the end enem
[ies, there is no england]
ies that I can rem
ember. There is no
of England. lesson imper
[the bird]
fectly The bird our
days God's ways of freedom
Disgusting! wrong, Cow
[beneath the gentleman]
ardly! Beneath the
gentleman, however be.
Where customer to
[death, you can't wrong]
death, you can't wrong he
might go in paradise sur
mounting it. Skillful
[pilots gain their life]
pilots gain their much
my political life, but
no who mixes the
[i have had a lot]
pleasant with the use
ful. I have had a lot of
there is much error.
[i never forgive]
I never forgive,
dignity of any but
I always forget.
[law]
He gains shortcut to
life. Law everyone's there is
glory approval
[honesty is a question]
of, life is a learned.
Honesty is a question
of right or not a
[everyone complains]
matter of polic
y. Everyone complains of
the badness of his
[malt does more]
memory, but no
body of his judgment. Malt
does more than
[the common man]
Milton can to just
ify to man. is part of
the Common
(titles have been [added] but are all taken directly from the text of each haiku from which they are sampled)
Allan Revich http://www.digitalsalon.com
The Spam Poetry Game
In one of my nocturnal wandering of Yahoo, I came across the following group of spam poems, created from a game I participated in in May of this year, the link for the complete selection above.
Department of Linguistic Records
THE SPAM POETRY GAME
Round Two - 27 Entries!
You'll want to have plenty of time to study this wonderful selection of spam poetry most of which used the same cluster of random words and phrases. Each poet brought their own style and sensibility to the words. Some people offered a number of works and some offered works that seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with the directions for this game. But that's poets for you (or possibly people who cannot read instructions).
BELOW THE RESULTS FROM OUR POETS
Mon 5/7/2007 9:57 PM
First half and last line complete the mirrored stochasticative...
storms ~ emote
reputation ~ radarman
wrong ~ toward
only on the ~ alt no Zerbo
hand grasp ~ spurge avow
love more ~ Ham rag
tempests ~ nonprint
end enemies ~ lament lazy
remember ~ adrenal
there no england ~ brogan an craft
lessen days ~ guff vassal
freedom ~ malevo
however ~ several
customer death ~ Wtoeh rewatow
wrong paradise ~ laborat zonalt
but part of the common ~ runner alt or boy tod
Remainder
[Skillful pilots gain their much my political life, but no who mixes the pleasant with the useful. I have had a lot of there is much error. I never forgive, dignity of any but I always forget. He gains shortcut to life. Law everyone's there is glory approval of, life is a learned. Honesty is a question of right or not a matter of policy. Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. Malt does more than Milton can to justify to man.]
0!Z!^!P P!^VP
Mon 5/7/2007 10:06 PM
Skillful pilots
enemies that I can remember
part of the Common
is
the hand that does not grasp
God's ways of freedom
the pleasant with the useful.
An apology mixes
shortcut to life
of his memory
love the more
Remainder
reputation from storms and your wrong.? Bah! adversaries in alights only on . The greater the difficulty If you tempests. To the end . There is no of England. lesson imperfectly The bird our days Disgusting! wrong, Cowardly! Beneath the gentleman, however be. Where customer to death, you can't wrong he might go in paradise surmounting it. gain their much my political life, but no who I have had a lot of there is much error. I never forgive, dignity of any but I always forget. He gains shortcut to life. Law everyone's there is glory approval of, life is a learned. Honesty is a question of right or not a matter of policy. Everyone complains of the badness , but nobody of his judgment. Malt does more than Milton can to justify to man.
Jim Piat
Mon 5/7/2007 11:29 PM
apology
I have had
a lot of
skillful
political
pilots
grasp
reputation
from
difficulty
and
there is
England
God's
Law
Honesty
reputation
judgment
glory
life
cowardly
enemies
disgusting
storms
badness
death
freedom
memory
love
I
never
justify
error
but
I always
forget
dignity
life is a
wrong
shortcut
where
the
tempests
end
paradise
imperfectly
beneath
the
gentleman
customer
Bah!
bird
[remainder words]
is part of the Common wrong. An in alights only on the hand that does not grasp. The greater If forgive you t more. end that I can remember. There is no of lesson our days ways however be. to, you can't he might go in surmounting it. gain their much my, but no who mixes pleasant with useful there is much. I never of any but always forget. He to everyone's there is approval of, is a learned. is a question of right or not a matter of. Everyone complains of of his, but nobody of his judgment. Malt does more than Milton can to justify to man
Nick Piombino
Tue 5/8/2007 8:40 AM
Malt does more to Milton
than the policy of England.
God’s reputation mixes
skillful approval of
the cowardly customer with
the law of death.
Everyone alights honesty.
The tempest’s political badness
is surmounting dignity.
A gentleman always
gains adversaries.
To the enemies I can
remember, I hand no apology.
I never forgive you and
your wrong judgment.
A common bird complains
of the error of his memory.
If you love nobody, life
is a disgusting matter.
A lesson of my life:
There is no shortcut
to paradise.
Pilots in storms grasp
the difficulty in life.
Beneath glory, there is only
that question of right or wrong.
He can’t imperfectly forget
that much useful freedom.
Everyone’s end is pleasant,
However wrong he might be.
Bah!
But I go to where man
is to justify his ways.
But who have our days
learned from? There is
the greater part of their gain,
but not much more.
Remainder
An, on, it, the had, lot, any can, not, of, that, of, the, does
Kathy Burkett
Tue 5/8/2007 8:41 AM
[reputation]
reputation from
storms and your wrong. An apo
logy? Bah! adver
[only on the hand]
saries in alights
only on the hand that does
not grasp. The greater
[to the end]
the difficulty
If you love the more tempests.
To the end enem
[ies, there is no england]
ies that I can rem
ember. There is no
of England. lesson imper
[the bird]
fectly The bird our
days God's ways of freedom
Disgusting! wrong, Cow
[beneath the gentleman]
ardly! Beneath the
gentleman, however be.
Where customer to
[death, you can't wrong]
death, you can't wrong he
might go in paradise sur
mounting it. Skillful
[pilots gain their life]
pilots gain their much
my political life, but
no who mixes the
[i have had a lot]
pleasant with the use
ful. I have had a lot of
there is much error.
[i never forgive]
I never forgive,
dignity of any but
I always forget.
[law]
He gains shortcut to
life. Law everyone's there is
glory approval
[honesty is a question]
of, life is a learned.
Honesty is a question
of right or not a
[everyone complains]
matter of polic
y. Everyone complains of
the badness of his
[malt does more]
memory, but no
body of his judgment. Malt
does more than
[the common man]
Milton can to just
ify to man. is part of
the Common
(titles have been [added] but are all taken directly from the text of each haiku from which they are sampled)
Allan Revich http://www.digitalsalon.com
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