Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Logic of the World:
The Poetics of Robert Kelly
A Day of Talks in NYC Celebrating
Robert Kelly's 75th Birthday
and his 50 Years at Bard
Talks by
George Quasha and his "Desire" video
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Thanks to George Quasha (who recorded it all),
to the organizers & presenters
& to rk-ology.com,
where all of these are housed
Labels: Readings, Robert Kelly, Talks
Monday, October 10, 2011
You will find a permanent link
to the latest calendar
in the sidebar to your left
Labels: Coming Events
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Saturday, October 08, 2011
Friday, October 07, 2011
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer,
winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature,
2011
A poet of the inner self
Tranströmer at 80
The Guardian on Tranströmer’s prize
Tranströmer:
where to start?
A crazy Nobel year
Internet hoax has Serb writer winning
Reuters got it pretty much right
The Nobel Prize for literature:
the good, the bad, the British
Labels: Prizes, Tomas Tranströmer
Thursday, October 06, 2011
INCO / MPRE / HENS / IBLE
On Natural Language:
4 conversations between Stephen Ratcliffe & Robert Grenier
Talking with Vanessa Place
Rae Armantrout, reading
Talking with Michael Lally
Talking with Harry E Northup
Jim Behrle & I
go to a ballgame
Carol Watts: Sundog
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
My piece, From Northern Soul (Bury Neon), is now permanently installed in the transit center of Bury, Lancashire just in time for the baseball playoffs in the United States. The work, an homage to the great Chico Escuela, is a part of Wharf Hypothesis, which itself is the opening movement of still-in-progress Northern Soul. Northern Soul is a section of Universe. The sculpture is already part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. This almost certainly will prove to be the most widely read publication I will ever have.
Labels: Installation, Sculpture, Visual Arts
Monday, October 03, 2011
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Cloud Shepherd is:
Andrew Joron: Theremin, waterphone
Brian Lucas: 6 string bass, sounds, voice
Joseph Noble: wind instruments, percussion
Labels: Music
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Ron Silliman reads
Tonight in Buffalo, NY
September 30
at the Western New York Book Arts Center
468 Washington @ Mohawk
8:00 PM
Labels: Events
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Mark Doty, David Lehman
& Michael Braziller
on Frank O’Hara
Labels: David Lehman, Frank O'Hara, Mark Doty, Michael Braziller, Talks
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Music with Roots in the Aether:
Robert Ashley
Downloadable AVI file
From Robert Ashley’s
groundbreaking 1970s
opera for television series
Plus Ashley’s section from
Peter Greenaway’s
Four American Composers
Labels: Music, Robert Ashley
Sunday, September 25, 2011
You will find a permanent link
to the latest calendar
in the sidebar to your left
Labels: Coming Events
Ron Silliman reads
Next Friday in Buffalo, NY
September 30
at the Western New York Book Arts Center
468 Washington @ Mohawk
8:00 PM
Labels: Events
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Richard Young’s
Dinner with Henry
(from Ubuweb)
An interview with Henry Miller
in two parts
The Paris Review interview
Labels: Henry Miller, Interviews, Talks
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
I am old enough to remember the world of poetry before Jerome Rothenberg began to issue his extraordinary anthologies. Which is to say that I still retain a visceral sense of just how dramatically Shaking the Pumpkin, Technicians of the Sacred & Revolution of the Word, in particular, transformed one’s sense (my sense) of what poetry had been, was & could be. Part of what made those three books so important was that they greatly expanded & deepened one’s understanding (my understanding) of those things. They left the world not only more complex, but more articulate as to what those complexities might be. This might be a literal definition of enrichment.
I recall getting this also when I first read William Carlos Williams’ Spring & All in 1970. It had been out of print at that point almost continuously for more than 40 years. Spring & All completely recast my sense of what modernism and the modernist project might be about – indeed it was impossible afterward not to take the work of Gertrude Stein utterly seriously, not because Williams wrote about her, although he does in a way, but because it was impossible afterward not to see how what the good doctor was doing was not, at least in part, a response of her writing. In everything he did from the early 1920s onward. Which made (& makes) him a much more modern writer than his peers (Pound, Eliot, even Joyce) who did not. Their work reaches the earliest portions of the 20th century but then freezes as to what it can do, say, or think about. Williams does not, it keeps going, developing for another half century, precisely because he is able to respond to the challenge of Stein. This is what makes him so valuable for the poets who come after. In ways that even the Pisan Cantos is not. Williams’ “American language” is built up precisely from Stein’s little words. Yet I don’t think you would get this, “grok it” as we might have said in 1970, if you have not read Spring & All or even if it had always been a part of the Williams you knew, always already there. Books change you in just this way. The moment when Gertrude Stein went from being a marginal character of comic relief, Life magazine’s favorite avant-gardiste, into being one of the foundations of 20th century writing was the moment that Harvey Brown reissued this book by Williams. It is the part of the modernist jigsaw that suddenly makes it all cohere.
Which is exactly my take on Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, co-edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black & Michael Northen, & just released by Cincos Puntos Press, the terrific little press run by the Byrd family of El Paso, Texas. This is not just the most ambitious publication Cincos Puntos has attempted to date, it’s going to be one of the defining collections of the 21st century – and let’s hope it doesn’t take nearly half a century for us all to recognize it.
Labels: anthologies
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Tracy K Smith’s
Life on Mars
Excerpts & a reading
The Larry Fagin school of poetry
Q&A with Rae Armantrout
Manuel Brito:
interviews with
Charles Bernstein & Barrett Watten
Access to Knowledge
in the Age of Intellectual Property
A 76-page crowd-sourced review
of Michael Cross’
Haecceities
Talking with Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
Some questions for sound poetry
Tom Konyves:
Videopoetry: A Manifesto
Talking with Richard Tillinghast
Susan Stewart
on Susan Howe, Anne Carson,
CD Wright & Gjertrud Schnackenberg
