THE BURNING CHAIR, 3/10

Saturday, March 10th, 2007 2:30-7 PM
Galapagos Art Space 70 North 6th Street
Between Kent and Wythe Williamsburg, Brooklyn
http://www.galapagosartspace.com
$5 for twelve poets & another who sings

2:30-4:30 PM - Ben Mazer, Christian Hawkey, Matvei Yankelevich, Anna Moschovakis, Ann Lauterbach, Fanny Howe - 4:30-5 PM - I Feel Tractor - 5-7 PM - Farid Matuk, Susan Briante, Jess Mynes, Karen Weiser, Anselm Berrigan, Rod Smith

Lang/Raworth at Bridge Street, Thurs 3/8, 8 PM

Bridge Street Books presents

DOUG LANG
&
TOM RAWORTH

THURSDAY, MARCH 8th, 8 PM

Doug Lang is an expatriate Welsh writer who teaches in the Academic Studies Department at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. He has published novels, stories, poems, essays, and reviews. A volume of his selected poems is forthcoming from Edge Books.

Tom Raworth's most recent book is CALLER AND OTHER PIECES, just out from Edge Books. Since 1966 he has published more than 40 books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations, in several countries, including ACE, ETERNAL SECTIONS, TOTTERING STATE: SELECTED EARLY POEMS 1963-1983, and CLEAN AND WELL LIT: SELECTED POEMS 1987-1995. His COLLECTED POEMS was published by Carcanet in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, England.

Raworth author page featuring writing, visual work, audio, and essays: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/raworth/

Edge Books page for Caller and Other Pieces: http://aerialedge.com/caller.htm

Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC
202 965 5200

Bridge Street is located 5 blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro (blue & orange lines), next to the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown.

Jenny 2 series at GW, Ayala & Downs 3/7

Wednesday, March 7th at 5:25 PM

Buck Downs
author of Marijuana Softdrink and Ladies Love Outlaws
&
Naomi Ayala
author of Wild Animals on the Moon

in the GW Visitor Center (22nd & H Sts NW)

Gordon Ball Photos

Cadets read Howl, February 19, 1991, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Measuring Bigotry

from The University of Ulster Report

"The value of the bigotry gap ratio – the mean, percentage amount by which the
bigotry scores of all the persons was above the bigotry line (z=1) – was also highest
for Greece (51 percent) and Northern Ireland (50 percent): not only did these
countries have a high proportion of bigoted persons, bigots in these countries were, on
average, more bigoted than in other countries. By contrast, the values of the bigotry gap
ratios for Sweden and Iceland were only 9 percent and 11 percent, respectively.

When inequality in bigotry scores (the S-values) between bigoted persons was taken into account, the value of the equity-sensitive measure for Germany rose sharply from its bigotry gap ratio value (from 23 to 84). This implies a high degree of inequality in bigotry scores among bigoted Germans with a high GB value causing a large gap between the Q and the J values. Under an equity-sensitive measure of bigotry, Germany joined Greece and Northern Ireland as the most bigoted of Western countries."

Or, actually, you might want to read the summary: Northern Ireland Heads Bigotry Index

"The study also explored who among the various countries’ populations were most likely to be bigots. It found:

· Women are less likely to be bigoted than men.
· The young (15-29 years) and middle-aged (30-49) were less likely to be bigoted than those aged over 50.
· People who were unhappy were more likely to be bigoted than those who were not unhappy.
· Some evidence that financial dissatisfaction might also be a source of bigotry.
· Right wingers, especially those who felt their government’s priority should be ‘maintaining order in the nation’, were more likely to be bigots than those whose politics were middle-of-the-road or left-wing.
· Students were less likely to be bigots than non-students.
· Those in socio-economic classes A-B (upper and upper-middle class); C1 (middle class, non-manual) and C2 (middle, manual) were less likely to be bigoted than those in D-E (unskilled manual)."

$1,000,000.00 CHECK FOR POETRY

The Przewalskist Manifesto

Ye haw!!

Caller & Other Pieces by Tom Raworth

New from Edge Books:

CALLER AND OTHER PIECES
by Tom Raworth

48 pgs, perfectbound, cover by the author

$9.00 til March 15 ($12.50 retail)

Click here to order Caller and Other Pieces via paypal.

Caller and Other Pieces is Raworth's first collection since the Collected Poems of 2003. Comprised of 14 pieces with the long poem "Caller" at its center, this book evinces a striking formal and tonal variety-- from the classic Raworth rhythmic and roving perceptual matrix, to the comedic one-liner, to the parodic end-rhyme, the visual, and even a bit of nouveau-zaum. Caller and Other Pieces again demonstrates that Tom Raworth's accomplishment is essential to the poetry of our time.

To order by mail: send $9 payable to Aerial/Edge to POBox 25642, Washington, DC 20007.

Many of our titles receive web discounts, order by paypal or check:

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Also new from Edge:

Ladies Love Outlaws, Buck Downs, 24 pages, $5

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Thanks for your support!

Enough stupid blogging for tonight except:

pills

kluge

&

tinies

Top 40 (or so) Most Played, Jazz

Profoundly Blue No. 2-Edmond Hall's Celeste Quartet-Complete Edmond Hall Blue Note Sessions
Wailing Wall-Andrew Hill-Smokestack
Fish 'n' Rice-Andrew Hill-Dance with Death
Verne-Andrew Hill-Smokestack
Spiritual-John Coltrane-Village Vanguard 11-01-1961
You Go To My Head-Anthony Braxton & Ran Blake-A Memory Of Vienna
Hold 'em Joe-Sonny Rollins-On Impulse!
Crepescule With Nellie-Steve Lacy-More Monk
Ah-Leu-Cha (-2 !)-Charlie Parker- Complete Savoy Sessions
Here Me Talkin' To Ya-Louis Armstrong -Vol. 4 Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines
My Favorite Things-John Coltrane -Live Trane: The European Tours
Body And Soul-Thelonious Monk- In Italy
The Griots-Andrew Hill-Andrew!!!
Things Ain't What They Used To Be-Cecil Taylor-Jumpin' Pumpkins
Carvin' The Bird-Charlie Parker-Dean Benedetti Recordings
The Griots (Alt Take)-Andrew Hill-Andrew!!!
Maputo-Steve Lacy-Work
North Of The Sunset (Take 1)-Thelonious Monk-Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo
Light Blue-Schlippenbach- Monk's Casino
Let's Do It-Billie Holiday-The Lady Sings: God Bless The Child
Skylark -Anthony Braxton & Stuart Gillmor -14 Compositions (Traditional)
Four-Anthony Braxton & Ran Blake-A Memory Of Vienna
The Way You Look Tonight-Mal Waldron-Mal-2
Lazy Mae -Red Garland Quintet with John Coltrane-Dig It!
Black Monday- Andrew Hill-Andrew!!!
Rockin' Chair-Derek Bailey-Ballads
Not So (Alt Take)-Andrew Hill-Smokestack
Let The Little Sunbeam In-Derek Bailey, Denio, And Palmer-The Gospel Record
Duplicity -Andrew Hill-Andrew!!!
Diga Diga Doo-Duke Ellington -The OKeh Ellington
Someone to watch over me-Bill Evans & Lee Konitz-Play the arrangements of Jimmy Giuffre
Don't Stop The Carnival-Sonny Rollins-G-Man
Best Black-McKenzie's Candy Kids -Shanghai 1925 Langmix
Ring Starmines-Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser-Wireforks
Don't Get Around Much Anymore-Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington-The Making of the Great Summit
Stompy Jones-Barney Bigard And His Jazzopators-Duke Ellington: Back Room Romp
I Love You-Tal Farlow-The Complete Verve Tal Farlow Sessions
Peg O' My Heart-Jack Teagarden -1939-40
Sugar Hips-Dizzy Gillespie-1953-1954
Sportee's Jump -Todd Rhodes-1947-1949
Epistrophy-Steve Lacy/Mal Waldron -Japan Dream

Chomsky on Why Bush Does Diplomacy Mafia-Style

Shank: So when the United States considers a potential invasion you think it's under the premise of gaining control? That is what the United States will gain from attacking Iran?

Chomsky: There are several issues in the case of Iran. One is simply that it is independent and independence is not tolerated. Sometimes it's called successful defiance in the internal record. Take Cuba. A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it too. But the government won't allow it. It's attributed to the Florida vote but I don't think that's much of an explanation. I think it has to do with a feature of world affairs that is insufficiently appreciated. International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.

Orange/Miller/Doyle i.e. 3/3

The i.e. series welcomes-

Tom Orange, Sandra Miller & Ben Doyle

Saturday- March 3rd - 7 pm

Dionysus Restaurant & Lounge
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

Ultravioleta Docs

Creeley to Olson, 1/29/61:

Hey! I'm still

a hick!

(I hope.)

Loscil - Plume

My pick for record of 2006.

Free web only release by Loscil, Stases.

Plume reviewed at Cyclic Defrost.

La guerre, un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent mais ne se massacrent pas. --Paul Valéry

3 on P. Inman

Wallace on Inman

Laura Steele on M'event

a different table altogether

Face to Face: Allen Ginsberg

Terrific long interview with Allen from 1995 on Ubu.

& a Cage interview from '85

Stephen Montague: You are seventy years old on September 5. What are the best and the worst things about being your age? What are some of your reflections?

John Cage: Well, I have a friend named Doris Dennison, who is seventy-four and whose ninety-six-year-old mother lives alone in Oregon and is still taking care of herself. Doris called her one day and asked how she was. Mrs. Dennison said: "Oh, I'm fine, it's just that I don't have the energy I had when I was in my seventies."

a note from Frank Sherlock

a conversation with ALICE NOTLEY on trance, tarot, and poetry

Kaplan Harris Flarf pictures

More She Male Presidential Hopefuls

5 little known things about me.

Now that the meme's basically dead (I think) . . .

1. The first concert I ever saw was Kiss. . . . the opening band? Bob Seager.

2. The first reading I ever organized was for Ron Silliman at Bridge Street in 1988. He read from What for a crowd of 50. He wore a Jesse Jackson for president button.

3. I don't really smoke cigarettes. It's all done with mirrors.

4. The line I sometimes use in my piece "Snips," at readings, that inevitably gets a huge laugh, "If it's not sex, why are you thinking about it" is stolen from Kevin Davies.

5. I don't have a B.A. but do have an M.F.A., thanks to Carolyn Forché.

Flarf at Dionysus & DCAC pics

Thanks to Michael Ball, Cathy Eisenhower, Adam Good,
Dionysus, DCAC & all the Flarfers & FlarfOrchestrators!
& to everybody who came out! Great Time!

Nada Gordon also has some photos up.

Lang/Zuravaleff + Shattered Wig 2/23

Doug Lang & Mary Kay Zuravleff

Friday, February 23 at 7:30pm, at Westmoreland Church

One Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, MD
(intersection of Western and Mass Ave)

For public transport, take the Red Line Metro
to Friendship Heights and Ride-On Bus #29
to Westmoreland Circle. For more information: 301 229-7768.

******

Shattered Wig Night of Great Psychic Warmth

Friday, Feb. 23rd

The Degenerettes
Kate Porter & Adam Good
Wheatie Mattiasich
Theresa Columbus
Blaster Al Ackerman

Doors open at 9pm, cost of admission is a mere
$5. At the 14 Karat Caberet on 218 W. Saratoga,
Baltimore, MD.

in memory of emmett williams (1925-2007)

Gary Sullivan on Baltimore/DC Flarf

found in an old jacket

Flarf, Ladies & Gentleman, & FlarfOrchestra too

An Evening of Flarf

i.e. reading series presents
The Flarf Collective
Sat. Feb. 17th- 7 pm til? @!
Dionysus Restaurant & Lounge
8 E. Preston Street, Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

followd bye

An Afternoon of Flarf

IN Y O U R E A R R E A D I N G S E R I E S
@ District of Columbia Arts Center
2438 18th Street NW, Washington DC
Sun. Feb. 18th, 3 - 6 pm

Performers will include:

Katie Degentesh, author of The Anger Scale
Drew Gardner, author of Petroleum Hat & Sugar Pill
Benjamin Friedlander, author of A Knot is Not a Tangle & Simulcast
Nada Gordon, auhor of V. Imp & Foriegnn Bodie
Rodney Koeneke, author of Musee Mechanique & Rouge State
Michael Magee, author of Mainstream & My Angie Dickinson
Sharon Mesmer, author of In Ordinary Time & The Empty Quarter
Mel Nichols, author of Day Poems
Rod Smith, author of Music or Honesty & The Good House
Gary Sullivan, author of How to Proceed in the Arts & Elsewhere

+ Film by Brandon Downing, author of Dark Brandon

+ FlarfOrchestra conducted by Drew Gardner
featuring Flarf Collective members &

The Brain Wave Chick
Jason Hamrick, trumpet
Buck Downs & Ryan Walker, guitars
Jamie Gaughran-Perez, guitar etc.
Adam Good, bass
Gary Sullivan, ocarina


The District of Columbia Arts Center is located between the Dupont Circle and Woodley Park metro stations. For directions, see the DCAC web site.

A large sample of what has come be known as flarf can be found at.

BAN PAPERLESS VOTING

A new bill in Congress would ban paperless voting. It's got enough support to pass, but time is short. This week, the Democratic leadership is deciding what Congress will take up next. Sign this petition!

"Do I really have to go out there?"

--Peter Gizzi, "Wintry Mix," The Outernationale

"And on that note
maybe we could have it a little warmer in here."

--John Ashbery, "Sleeper Wedding," A Worldly Country

"Well done all around."

--Kevin Killian on Michael Ruby

FRANK SHERLOCK FUND RAISER

This Saturday, 2/17
3:00-4:00 pm
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery@ Bleecker
New York, NY
$20 suggested donation (please give what you can)

Performers include:

Anselm Berrigan, Eddie Berrigan, John Coletti, Cori Copp, Marcella Durand, Greg Fuchs, Brenda Iijima, Mark Lamoureux, & Carol Mirakove

Our good friend Frank Sherlock was rushed to the hospital January 22nd with a sudden and mysterious illness which turned out to be a serious case of meningitis. He needed emergency surgery and also suffered a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of symptoms related to the illness. His friends have come together to help him at this critical time. We are reaching out to other friends and the poetry community on Frank's behalf. Frank's poetry page can be found here: http://FrankSherlock.blogspot.com

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD,
from the Friends of Frank Sherlock

Silliman on Magee's My Angie Dickinson

Ngugi wa Thiong'o at Georgetown 2/13-14

ROVA 2/11 8 pm

Transparent Productions presents:

ROVA

Bruce Ackley, saxophones
Larry Ochs, saxophones
Jon Raskin, saxophones
Steve Adams, saxophones

Sunday Feb. 11, 2007
8:00 pm

Twins Jazz
1344 U St. N.W.
Washington D.C.
(202) 234-0072

** Frank Sherlock EMERGENCY FUND **

Our good friend Frank Sherlock was rushed to the hospital January 22nd with a sudden and mysterious illness which turned out to be a serious case of meningitis. He needed emergency surgery, and also suffered a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of symptoms related to the illness.

The timing could not be worse as this attack of meningitis happened during the two month window in which Frank is without health insurance.

His friends have come together to help raise money at this critical time. We are reaching out to other friends and the poetry community on Frank's behalf. Please consider sending donations for his hospital bills, physical therapy, as well as his very expensive medications and other needs.

If you can make a donation by check or money order at this time please send it to Frank's longtime friend Matthew McGoldrick.

VERY IMPORTANT: Please make check or money order out to Matthew McGoldrick, and send to his address:

1504 Morris St.
Philadelphia PA 19145

We will be having a benefit show in Philadelphia in the very near future. If you would like to be notified of that event please e-mail CAConrad13@aol.com for the details. Frank's poetry page can be found here: http://FrankSherlock.blogspot.com, and he can also be found at http://PhillySound.blogspot.com

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD,
from the Friends of Frank Sherlock

Ghost Brain

loo
is
lonely-- there's a serious number--

the go-go woe-woe's done
got
a
dumb bumper like its like,

low. we're low.

loooooooowwwww.

sir.

Smith & Ward @ Pyramid 2/10 8 PM

RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES
@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

Saturday, February 10, 2007, 8:00PM

ROD SMITH and DANA WARD

Rod Smith is the author of In Memory of My Theories (O Books), Protective Immediacy (Roof), New Mannerist Tricycle with Lisa Jarnot and Bill Luoma (Beautiful Swimmer), Music or Honesty (Roof), The Good House (Spectacular Books), Fear the Sky (Narrow House Recordings), and Deed (forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press). He is also editing, with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris, The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, for the University of California Press.

Dana Ward is the author of New Couriers (Dusie 2006), I Didn't Build This Machine (Boog Literature, 2004) & The Imaginary Lives of My Neighbors (Duration, 2003). Recent poems have appeared in Mirage #4/Periodical, string of small machines, Small Town, & other places. He lives in Cincinnati & edits Cy Press.

We hope you can join us for the reading and the festivities afterwards.

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center is located at 8230 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, MD, three blocks from the Metro red line. For directions: http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/about/contact.htm

Letterpress Broadsides of the poets (made in collaboration with printmaker Val Lucas of Pyramid Atlantic) will be available at the reading.

SECOND STRAIGHT SUPER SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE SUNDAY!

wookie coup de boule

The tour guide, Brian Sapir, told the Los Angeles Times that he asked the Chewbacca impersonator to stop harassing two young Japanese tourists when the actor exploded in anger.

"He said, 'Nobody tells this wookie what to do,'" Sapir said.

The Robot's Hot

Five Robert Creeley poems you’ve got to know about.

Poetry

Foundation
.org asked

critic and
poet

Charles Bernstein
to

recommend
five poems
by Robert

Creeley to
add to

the
archive.

Harry & Bela on Global Warming

WAMPA

Doors to the Wampa cage rooms had a bright orange warning sticker.

The poor Wampa is so misunderstood. He just wants to make friends and play games

Several other Wampa sequences were planned for Empire, but they were ultimately cut.

Mungo

However, they won't say: the times were dark
Rather: why were the poets silent?

Brecht, 1936

kari edwards memorial reading

i.e. reading series

a memorial reading for kari edwards

Jan. 27th at 7 PM

hosted by C.A. Conrad

DIONYSUS Restaraunt & Lounge
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore, MD. 21202
410-244-1020

Jules Boykoff on NPR

Bob McChesney's Media Matters

This week our guest is Jules Boykoff, author of The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch US American Social Movements.

exacting surface

zounds

parental (a mucus-lute) runes
or
pre-nude

parliament

passes. this.

wtf?

MP3: Infinite Mixtape #51: Deerhunter: "Spring Hall Convert"

"discourse"

the i.e. reading series welcomes

Graham Foust, Chris Nealon & Simon Pettet

Jan. 20th- 4pm-6pm at

Clayton Fine Books
317 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD. 21201
410-752-6800

+++++++++++++++++++++

I N Y O U R E A R R E A D I N G S E R I E S
@ District of Columbia Arts Center

3:00PM, Sunday, January 21, 2007

RICHARD DEMING
LYNNE DREYER
&
GRAHAM FOUST

District of Columbia Arts Center is located
at 2438 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan, Washington, DC.

Coconut

Un site illégal veut acheter une île

Le site Pirate Bay, l'un des plus populaires dans le monde pour le téléchargement illégal de films, a annoncé vendredi son intention de se porter acquéreur d'une île afin d'échapper aux lois sur les droits d'auteur.

Brian Howe Spider Poems Remix

Snow said Friday

"What you're doing is, you're asking me, 'Is the president concerned about the public-opinion ramifications of a policy that he may or may not have chosen?' When the president chooses a policy, we can do the public polling questions. I think at this point it's preliminary,'' Snow said Friday.

spam situationists

This shift in modeling is also representative of a shift in the definition of artistic avant-gardes. The era of manifestos has suffered under the baggage of those who took representative discourse to its extremes: the Situationists themselves. A slogan can no longer be taken at face value. Directives are given to robots – no longer to humans, for whom they have been replaced by directions, whereas a
directive has the technical meaning of an instruction. Here are some examples of code that directs the actions of robots, from

<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html>:
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

The directive discourse is combinatory and data is submitted to it, waiting for its orders: the code takes over. The performance on the structure changes meaning: the wall doesn't support the writing, the data, or the slogans. It becomes the writing. Read the above code against the directives listed in the May ‘68 Communique "Slogans To Be Spread Now By Every Means":

OCCUPY THE FACTORIES
POWER TO THE WORKERS COUNCILS
ABOLISH CLASS SOCIETY
DOWN WITH THE SPECTACLE-COMMODITY SOCIETY
ABOLISH ALIENATION
ABOLISH THE UNIVERSITY
HUMANITY WON'T BE HAPPY TILL THE LAST BUREAUCRAT IS HUNG WITH
THE GUTS OF THE LAST CAPITALIST
DEATH TO THE COPS
FREE ALSO THE 4 GUYS CONVICTED FOR LOOTING DURING THE MAY 6
RIOT

Situationists, when writing on walls, didn't change the qualities of the wall, but rather its most superficial function, transforming the neutral into the symbolic. The "brick & cement meant to separate us for the sake of urban living" becomes "we are structures of control and we reveal it by becoming pages for counter-power directives." The wall, by revealing its symbolic form, switches from
supporting one set of directives (control-based) to supporting another (freedom-based). But, they are still directives with a message, and the wall is subordinated to the data. Spammers, if we carry on with this notion of infrastructure, decompose and rebuild the wall itself in a way that is pre-symbolic. The only means by which Situationists can accomplish this literally is by destroying the wall itself, which is exactly what the students did in May 68, dismantling the streets to use the paving stones as weapons. So too in 1871.

This is precisely what is happening with our search engine Spammers, and this is why the study of Situationist spam cannot be limited to the question of slogans or data. Rather, it must to be confronted with code, with the changing of things in their materiality. Hence, the notion of infrastructure is important, but should be re-approached in terms of protocol in order to avoid reading it as an inexact metaphor: we are not confronted by a symbolic page with directive data but with material code that performs orders as an action – a literal performativity, not the willing performativity of slogans.

Follow the link above for pdf of the full article.

Robot New Years Resolutions & Zombie Haiku

"Word that has been [whore]d out beyond belief. Often when ever you go into a large room and scream it, you'll be responded to by many 'OK!'s by many people trying desperately to sound like Lil' John."

Announcing Jacket 31

" Announcing Jacket 31 "

As the shades of 2006 gather to bid us farewell...
the glow of a gleaming new Jacket lights up the night sky...

Jacket 31 - October 2006 - via
http://jacketmagazine.com/00/home.shtml

Featuring the late great Robert Creeley...
poetry from the Low Countries...
the Letter to Poets project...
more on the Phlarf Phenomenon...
and millions of poems, reviews, articles, and interviews.


>>>>>> Feature: Robert Creeley (1926-2005)

Edited by Michael Kelleher

--- Robert Creeley, 'Wow. I called it and why not:' 7 letters, 1950-1961, edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.

--- Charles Alexander: Robert Creeley: The Speech that Seeks Company (two brief notes)

--- Amiri Baraka: CREELEY TRIBUTE, MAY 06 JUST BUFFALO

--- Benjamin Friedlander: Reading in Pieces

--- Susan Howe: Leaf Flower in the Wind Falling Blue The Dark River

--- From Words to Pieces: On Robert Creeley, A tape-essay by Tosa Motokiyu, Ojiu
Norinaga, and Okura Kyojin, with an introduction by Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez

--- Alexander Jorgensen: Emails to a Younger Poet

--- Margaret Konkol: Creeley in Age: Negative Poetics in Robert Creeley's Late Work

--- Ruth Lepson: "It Is All a Rhythm": Robert Creeley and Steve Lacy

--- Stan Persky: About Robert Creeley (1926-2005)

--- Kyle Schlesinger: GETTING Behind the Word: Creeley's TyPOGRAPHY

--- Dale Smith: Space Suits: the Empirical Tradition in Robert Creeley's "A Day Book"

--- Joel Weishaus: A Poem Addressed to Robert Creeley on His Poem "Histoire De -Florida."

--- Don Wellman: Creeley's Ear


>>>> Feature: The Low Countries -

Editor: Karlien van den Beukel

--- Karlien van den Beukel: Introduction [to come]

--- Paul Bogaert: ADDRESS, translated by John Irons

--- Arjen Duinker: Senses and Desires, translated by Jeltje Fanoy

--- Hans Faverey: Poems from Three Cycles: translated by Francis R. Jones

--- Astrid Lampe: 4 Poems from "Spuit je Ralkleur" (Spray your RAL Colour)

--- Lucebert: Four Poems, translated by Diane Butterman

--- Erik Spinoy: Three poems, translated by John Irons

--- Dirk van Bastelaere: Wwwhhhooossshh (The Opera Ain't Over Till The Fat Lady Sings), trans. Willem Groenewegen

--- F. van Dixhoorn: Two Poems: 'All at sea' and 'Big batten', trans. Astrid van Baalen, with a note on the translation

--- Reviews: Andrew Duncan: "The Last to Leave" by Dirk van Bastelaere

--- Douglas Messerli: Three reviews: Hugo Claus, Remco Campert, Hans Faverey

--- Eliot Weinberger: "Preface Against the Forgetting: Selected Poems" by Hans Faverey, trans. by Francis Jones


>>>>>> Feature: Letters to Poets

--- Introduction: Dana Teen Lomax and Jennifer Firestone: Letters To Poets: Conversations

About Poetics, Politics, and Community

--- Kathleen Fraser and Patrick Pritchett

--- Paul Hoover and Albert Flynn DeSilver

--- Leslie Scalapino and Judith Goldman


>>>>>> Articles

--- Charles Bernstein: Afterword to "The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser" (Revised and Expanded Edition) Edited by Miriam Nichols

--- Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Manhood and its Poetic Projects: The construction of
masculinity in the counter-cultural poetry of the U.S. 1950s

--- Jonathan Fedors: Writing Class in Kevin Davies' "Comp"

--- John Felstiner and David Goldstein: The Lure of the God: Robert Duncan on Translating Rilke

--- Chris Glomski: Leafing The Now: "Depth Theology" by Peter O'Leary, "The Totality for Kids" by Joshua Clover

--- Piers Hugill: "Fig" by Caroline Bergvall, and "Via: Poems 1994-2004", by Caroline
Bergvall

--- Tom Jones: "The Unconditional: A Lyric" by Simon Jarvis

--- Poets Behaving Badly: Robert Sheppard: "Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court" by Peter Barry: 'What the Arts Council's investigating team had failed to achieve in months I accomplished in seconds,' boasts Osborne of the fateful meeting when the avalanche of resignations was triggered by chairman Jeff Nuttall. 'They marched out of the room, and I asked the Secretary to be certain to record their resignations in the minutes, for fear they should come to what senses they possessed and march back in again. But they didn't return. Was ever a victory so inadvertently achieved?'

--- Anthony Stephens: Nietzsche's Unease: The Ambiguity of Poetic Metaphor


>>>>>> Poems

--- Caroline Bergvall: The Summer Tale (Deus Hic, 1)

--- Sean Carey: Looking at Peter Porter after many years

--- Sharon Dolin: Four poems: Missed Hummer / The Give, Seek, Am / This Scabbard's Free / Lick-Over

--- Landis Everson: Jack, My Vocabulary Said This

--- Adam Fieled: Apparition Poems

--- Alan Gilbert: from "Pretty Words Made a Fool Out of Me"

--- rob mclennan: Four poems

--- D.S. Marriott: the levees

--- Geoff Page: Ugly Beauty

--- Hazel Smith: In camera

--- Mark Yakich: New Love Poem

--- Jeffrey Yang: Bedsong for A - after Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006)

--- Todd Swift: Four poems: Confessions / The Serious Business / I'm In Love With A
German Film Star / Hume

--- John Tranter: Girl in Water

--- Harriet Zinnes: Possibilities

--- Grzegorz Wróblewski: Two poems: A Summation Scheme (About the Illness of John T.) / Black Head


>>>>>> Interviews

--- Janet Cardiff in conversation with Anthony Easton

--- The Romantic Objectivist: Hugh Seidman in conversation with Molly Nason, 2006


>>>>>> More on Flarf

--- Michael Gottlieb: Googling Flarf

--- Rick Snyder: The New Pandemonium: A Brief Overview of Flarf


>>>>>> Reviews

--- Erik Anderson: Cockerels and Testicles: "Exchanges of Earth & Sky" by Jack Collom

--- Martin Anderson: "New and Selected Poems" by Kelvin Corcoran

--- Scott Bentley: "Perspective Would Have Us" by Erica Carpenter

--- Clive Bush: "Myne. New and Selected Poems and Prose, 1976-2005" by Frances Presley

--- John Couth: "Inside to Outside" by Christopher Gutkind

--- Ian Davidson: "Collected Poems" by Lee Harwood

--- Thomas Fink: "The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. 1" by Eileen R. Tabios

--- Kass Fleisher: "Nightbirds" by Garin Cycholl

--- Tom Goff: "Must Be Present to Win", poems by Meg Withers

--- Henry Gould: "Breeze" by John Latta

--- Lisa Guidarini: "Jagged With Love" by Susanna Childress

--- Edmund Hardy: "The Places As Preludes" by Gustaf Sobin

--- Edmund Hardy: "Ancestors and Species: New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry" by Tom

Lowenstein

--- Tim Kahl: "Mulberry", by Dan Beachy-Quick

--- David Kennedy: Ken Bolton, "At The Flash & At The Baci" - Four Coffees with Ken
Bolton

--- Michael Leddy: Homer: "Iliad" 12 CDs and "Odyssey" 10CDs, translated and read by
Stanley Lombardo: '...I have been reading and teaching the Iliad and the Odyssey in
Lombardo's translations for several years, and I'm delighted by the ways in which
listening to these readings allows nuances of the poems to register.'

--- Ben Lerner: "Curves to the Apple", by Rosmarie Waldrop

--- Nicole Mauro: "Twin Towers" by Basil King

--- Nicole Mauro: "Gogol in Rome" by Katia Kapovich

--- Bridie McCarthy: "Strange Attractors", by Louis Armand

--- Tim Morris: "Word is Born", by Michael Kindellan and Reitha Pattison

--- Robert Mueller: "Ledger" by Susan Wheeler

--- Paul Nelson: "Lost in the Chamiso" by Amalio Madueño

--- Paul Nelson: "Fulcrum" Number Four 2005

--- Craig Perez: "Involuntary Lyrics" by Aaron Shurin

--- Gilbert Wesley Purdy: "Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved" by
Gregory Orr

--- Brian Richards: "Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets" by Kent Johnson

--- Peter Riley: "Blue Grass" by Peter Minter

--- Dale Smith: "Solution Simulacra" by Gloria Frym

--- Rob Stanton: "Open Clothes" by Steve Benson

--- James Stuart: "The Trees: Selected Poems 1967-2004" by E. Montejo and "Walking to
Point Clear" by David Brooks

--- Ezra Tessler: "The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch", by Kenneth Koch

--- Carolyn van Langenberg: "The Hoplite Journals" by Martin Anderson

--- Mark Wallace: "Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture" by Joe Amato:'... That such forums continue to exist in a society often so hostile to them gives Amato at least a degree of optimism on which to conclude a book that spends most of its time detailing a vast industry of unfreedom and the anguish it causes.'

--- Ivan Weiss: "Gagarin Street" by Piotr Gwiazda

--- Marjorie Welish: "Spinoza in Her Youth" by Norma Cole

________________

"outsourcing"

The Poetics of Re-Use.

The appeal for redress.

Lisa J's Catskill Organics.

The Cinematic Mode of Production.

2nd Ave Poetry vol. 2

2nd Ave Poetry vol. 2

featuring the work of

annon-3888976 | anselm berrigan | regie cabico
michael coffey | ernest concepcion | kevin coval
del ray cross | thom donovan | phebus etienne
thomas fink | rob fitterman | sarah gambito | drew
gardner | rigoberto gonzales | sabrina gschwandtner
donna ho | fanny howe | brenda iijima | paolo javier
ellen kennedy | jack kimball | tao lin | serena liu
jill magi | paolo manalo | noam mor | joyelle mcsweeney
bruna mori | hugo mujica | daniel nester | aimee
nezhukumatathil | long ngan | urayoan noel | manuel
ocampo | aaron peck | tim peterson | wanda phipps
sreshta premnath | meredith quartermain | peter
quartermain | barbara jane reyes | tony robles | patrick
rosal | thaddeus rutkowski | sukhdev sandhu | leslie
scalapino | jennifer scappetone | purvi shah | dennis
somera | rodrigo toscano | charles valle | tim yu

signage

1 in 32

hmm, interesting headline for under-reported mass arrests, yes close to 1,300 people rounded up just a few days after this justice dept report:

A US justice department report released on November 30 showed that a record 7 million people or one in every 32 American adultswere behind bars, on probation or on parole at the end of last year. Of the total, 2.2 million were in prison or jail.

for the reuters report, scroll down on this blog to 12/10 "sweet land of liberty"

herman husband, we need ye.

For the Onion Dead

Cauliflower works well when smushed with a bit of
bizarro mannequin behind the wheel of a
round-bodied Pudding Risotto Beef--

An onion-headed man.
His teeth were bad.

How's your ass?

"me real poet, you historical context"

Tony's got some interesting things to say re Ron on Ashbery.

The thing I wonder is would Dave Smith be able to comment on Ron's work at all. I rather suspect Ron cld comment, with some context, on Dave Smith. That's, perhaps, part of Ron's dismissal of that list of Medal for the Arts recipients. The tradition Ron is pushing, radical modernist comme Stein, Zukofsky - New American - Language etc is used to being overlooked in the awards/major review arena. I don't disagree with Tony that there's new terrain to be explored but I'm not sure championing Ashbery, against, for example Pinsky, could do anything but further that exploration.

All that said, I've never read Robert Penn Warren. & I'm ok with that.

But, seriously, is working with awareness in a tradition inherently an oedipal matter? Pollock, to go to another context, seemed to think so. But let's go to jazz, how about Lacy's relation to Monk? It seems to me possible to work in a furthering/celebratory manner that's highly conscious of a/the tradition(s).

Flarf Goes to College Videos

Just in time for the holidays, all the videos from the Flarf collective reading at Dickinson College - Katie Degentesh, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon w/ Mel Nichols, Michael Magee, Rod Smith, & Gary Sullivan - are now up at YouTube.

sweet land of liberty

"The United States has 5 percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the world's incarcerated population. We rank first in the world in locking up our fellow citizens," said Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance, which supports alternatives in the war on drugs.

We now imprison more people for drug law violations than all of western Europe, with a much larger population, incarcerates for all offenses.

What the media aren't telling you about the Iraq Study Group report

Summary: Media Matters for America has identified six findings in the Iraq Study Group's report that major news outlets have largely overlooked. They include: that the Pentagon has significantly underreported the extent of violence in Iraq, that U.S. officials possess little knowledge about the sources of the ongoing attacks, and that the situation in Afghanistan has grown so dire that U.S. troops may need to be diverted there from Iraq.

"seemingly"

Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe 2001

this is all too motionless for rubber words

The Lipstick of Noise, yay!

Third Annual Single Malt Poetry Slam

Sunday Dec 10, 5 pm

Third Annual Single Malt Poetry Slam! Anna Moschovakis, Gary Sullivan,
Paolo Javier, Eugene Ostashevsky, Kim Rosenfield + yr hosts: Fitterman
& Holman $20/$15 at www.virtuous.com

The Bowery Poetry Club is hosting a Sixteenth Annual Single Malt Scotch Holiday Poetry Slam, at 5pm on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006, 308, Bowery at Houston. $20 includes 6 single malts! ($15.00 in advance at virtuous.com)

This fourth annual event features 6 poets, reading descriptions of six
single malts, as the audience samples the whiskeys. The audience votes
on the poets and single malts. + Door prizes!!

Ronaldinho Villareal

& here, with buildup

Comp. in French!

traduit de l'anglais par Xandaire Sélène

cover photo: Tim Davis, Buddah Security Camera

So There

Bass player Steve Swallow has been meditating on the poetry of the late Robert Creeley (1926-2005) for a long time. In 1980, Swallow and pianist Steve Kuhn released an album of song settings of Creeley’s poems with vocalist Shirley Jordan (Home, ECM). After a quarter century, Swallow feels prepared to take up the collaboration again.

For So There, Creeley recorded a selection of poems and fragments. Swallow took the recordings to Oslo a few short months after the poet’s death and created the musical accompaniment, again in the company of Kuhn, and this time also with the Cikada String Quartet.

Tracks: Oh No; Names; Here Again; Ambition; Indians; From Histoire De Florida; Sufi Sam Christian; Later; From Wellington, New Zealand / From Eight Plus; Miles; Just In Time; Return; Echo; Sad Advice; Riddle; Blue Moon; I Know A Man; A Valentine For Pen.

Personnel: Steve Swallow: bass; Robert Creeley: voice; Steve Kuhn: piano; The Cikada String Quartet: Henrik Hannisdal: violin; Odd Hannisdal: violin; Marek Konstantynowicz: viola; Morten Hannisdal: cello.

OMG THIS is SOOO Presidential!!

Idiots have bred presidents to be much larger than ever
intended, thereby increasing the incidence of hip dysplasia .

Beethoven Opus 109 pg 2 original draft manuscript

BBC ON CIA ROLE IN RFK ASSASINATION

New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy's assassination has been brought to light.

The evidence was shown in a report by Shane O'Sullivan, broadcast on BBC Newsnight.

It reveals that the operatives and four unidentified associates were at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles in the moments before and after the shooting on 5 June, 1968.

The CIA had no domestic jurisdiction and some of the officers were based in South-East Asia at the time, with no reason to be in Los Angeles.

Ghost Brain

the to-come,
its
always--

red dye on the
sunburnt rye--

lest the lettuce-head win:

keep worsening

their orbit, their

lutes,

their us

Thanks to Jane Dark on Kakutani on Pynchon.

A case of review as "bucket wheel excavator."

On the other hand, there's some class struggle at the Wall Street Journal.

I refuse their call for resignation.

Lannan at Georgetown 11/16

Thursday, November 16 in the ICC Auditorium at Georgetown

8:00 PM, Reading:

CAROLINE BERGVALL
&
JOHANNA DRUCKER

4:00 PM, Lannan Literary Symposium, The Poetic Book

Jerome McGann, Johanna Drucker, Penn Szittya, & Caroline Bergvall

Did NASA accidentally nuke Jupiter?