YOCKADOT POETICS THEATRE FESTIVAL 5/5

SATURDAY MAY 5th, Alexandria, VA
at the US Patent and Trademark Offices, near the King Street Metro (Blue Line).

3 PM, ongoing--

Text performance art by Mark Greenwood. Adam Good will lead improvisitional tours around the USPTO site intermittently throughout the festival.

4 PM Show: Dominion Stage--

A BEVY OF WELCOMES and THE GUNFIGHT: two comic shorts by Brent Cunningham.

SOP DOLL! A Jack Tale Noh Drama by Lee Ann Brown (author of Polyverse, and The Sleep That Changed Everything) and Tony Torn (noted stage and screen actor).

7 PM Show: Yockadot's poetics theatre troupe under the direction of Enoch Chan--

Excerpt from VERVE ON VERGE, a "jigsaw puzzle play" by Ellen Redbird, poetics theatre theorist and publisher of Nerve Lantern. HOURS by Thalia Field, author of Ululu (Clown Shrapnel), and Incarnate: Story Material.
BAD I.O.U, a brand new play by Tina Darragh, author of Dream Rim Instructions, and Striking Resemblance.

USPTO Madison Building, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria VA 22314. Near the King Street Metro station (Blue Line).

This semi-religious spectacle that the Nazis are well known for staging, especially to pot one ball with another prod my little black cat was faith strewn to stomach to the whole Constitution into the melting witness a feral, semi-nomadic subsistence the heat and stir-in of the dead favorite opposite, stones, root there-there sun of Graceland Harbor friend, we sew this nude deficit and soul, coup-like, a harrow's no. Close file. Fresh.

Byrne/Davis/Stine @ Bar Rouge 4/30

Monday, April 30, 8pm

Mairéad Byrne, Jordan Davis and Alison Stine

Bar Rouge
1315 16th Street NW
Washington D.C.

uh-oh = woohoo

I saw Buck read today & I said "read Buck read!" Missed Ryan, Jeremy, etc though dernit.

Lee Ann's a-comin' to town, & plus which there's Yockadot Toscanomania Saturday night. Then later the Balmer currrrazies w/ Blaster Al and Blaster Thurston and Blaster Franks too.

MAYBE YOU HAD TOO MUCH TOO FAST

MAYBE YOU HAD TOO MUCH TOO FAST

I gave her Miranda too much
while she's wasting my her away

Much like IBM, you have to wonder

why

You fucked
President Clinton

too slow

YOCKADOT POETICS THEATRE FESTIVAL

FRIDAY Night, April 27th
St. Elmo's Coffee Pub

8pm. "The Poetry Reading as Performance/ The Poem as Theatre." Featuring Mid-Atlantic poets Jeremy Gardner, Chris Casamassima, J.D. Smith, Ryan Walker, and Buck Downs. 2300 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria Virginia 22301.

SATURDAY Afternoon, April 28th
Gunston Arts Center

4pm. Dominion Stage presents comic shorts by Brent Cunningham, as well as Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn's modern Noh drama, Sop Doll. 2700 South Lang Street, Arlington, Virginia 22236

SATURDAY Night, April 28th
Del Ray Artisans Gallery

8pm, New York poet Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theatre. Performers will include Rodrigo Toscano, Tom Orange, Rod Smith, Cole Swensen, Gregory Stuart, Kelly Brown, Jeremy Gardner, and Jason Conger.

9:30pm, Ffrummsbo!—a mini-festival of text performance art from the flourishing Baltimore-Buffalo corridor: with Blaster Al Ackerman, John Eaton, Megan McShea, John Berndt, Rupert Wondolowski, David Franks, Buffluxus, and Kevin Thurston.
2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22301

MONDAY evening, April 30th
George Mason University

7:30 pm. Seminar on "Sop Doll" with author Lee Ann Brown, cast and crew from Dominion Stage, and folklorist Peggy Yocum.
Johnson Center, Gold Room. 4400 University Drive Fairfax, Virginia 22030

All events are free of charge. Donations accepted.
Please see the festival website for details and directions: www.yptfest.org
or call 703-400-2984

Andrew Hill's last concert 3/29/07

POETRY BATTLE 2007

They say I should be afraid of
Gutstein cuz he's so strong.














I say he should try
Ban Roll-On.

DUPLESSIS & PERELMAN at Bridge St 4/22

SUNDAY April 22nd, 7 PM

RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS
&
BOB PERELMAN

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

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

Send Tim Your Self Portraits

I need as many copies of Bob Dylan's LP "Self Portrait" as possible, for a sculpture I am making. I've been buying them on Ebay, but have artificially driven up the price by buying so many.

If you have an old copy, no matter how bad the condition, please send it to me at

Tim Davis
101 North Road
Tivoli, NY 12583

And I will be eternally grateful.Please feel free to forward this to any interested party.

David Markson, The Last Novel

David Markson, The Last Novel. I recommend it, with the caveat that I don't think "it pulls it off"-- what it sets out to do, I think, is cause some emotional connection to a doubly or triply removed character named "Novelist" as he "remembers" or re-remembers various literary anecdotes almost all of which are interesting and a good number of which are priceless. The anecdotes are more than worth the price of admission. No doubt, one is actually not supposed to feel the connection but to feel "Novelist" as a ghostly presence, or something, and his unimportance, or something, in the vast terrain of literary history, etc. Whatever, I didn't. But the anecdotes are great, and his phrasing of them is terrific. I did't need a narrative tease, or really understand why it was, occasionally, there. In order to call it a novel? perhaps. & I'm still making up my mind on what to make of the Wastelandish conclusion(s). Will likely read it again. This is not a negative review, it's a puzzling book, & at that level, I'll take it back, certainly does pull it off. Me think puzzling good. Like they say.

Am now reading Vonnegut's Slapstick for the first time since high school. It holds up.

Hi ho.

Andrew Hill: 1931-2007

Thu, 9 Nov 1995 01:16:44 -0500
Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group
Sender: UB Poetics discussion group
From: Rod Smith
Subject: Re: granted (Jameson) but

Tenney--
Eric Wirth addresses the question you raise re the "power" of the writer &
reader in an essay in _Aerial 6/7_-- basically in agreement w/ your
assertion-- he considers that in the dada text (using Coolidge as example)
there is "a preemptive fusing of relations." I go back & forth on this tho I
don't see how "opacity" is aggressive-- it can be used as such certainly, but so can any other technique. It seems to me the strength of the opaque text is
that it makes no pretense of clarity & leaves the reader free to respond on
their own terms as they will. If the rules are broken in the writing then
certainly they can be broken in the reading. This is where I find validity
in critical claims about reader interaction w/ l.p.-- such writing "honors" the reader's subjectivity by admitting its own.

I have a recollection of Jameson dismissing Cage in one sentence in his _Postmodernism_. Pretty boring. Dan Barbiero addresses "the Perelman issue" at length in a piece in _Aerial 6/7 as well.

I think your remarks abt "euphoria or mania" in the amer tree are important points-- Mayer & Coolidge being exemplars-- Mayer often talking abt exploring states of consciousness. & certainly there's only one Hannah. I think of Ted B. etc. as the hardest partiers. & "Howl" am I remembering it right?-- was written on mushrooms. & the recent visitation of David Ayre certainly made exceptional use of "mania." I'm still tired of grumpy virgins.

--Rod



Tenney Nathanson wrote:
"there are certainly big problems w Jameson's take on Perelman's work
(insurmountable, were it a question of buying or not buying the goods).
Minor point: I think it's worth noting that the

Tonic Closing

Mel passed on this link to the student news blog at Virgina Tech:

http://collegemedia.com/

Kurt Vonnegut

DCPOETRY

RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES
@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

Saturday, April 14, 2007, 8:00PM

C.S. GISCOMBE, SUSAN TICHY, and KEN RUMBLE

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

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, April 15, 2007

PHYLLIS ROSENZWEIG & JESSICA GRIM

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.

HEY MIKE!

"Hey Mike, I need you to turn yourself into a huge rhesus monkey and terrorize table four."

hey mike, beg for change. when someone offers you change, extend an open mason jar full of ketchup and say "in the ketchup, please."

hey mike, "fffffffffffffffffffff." <3 "bee bee bee." ~^..^~

Hey Mike, I need you to break out your Bach & Rock and stick it in a dry dock.

Hey Mike, construct a pudding to mimic the area’s prime geographical features.

Dude, Mike, somebody locked the fig stain hormone drawer.

Hey Mikey, debone me

mike, tell rod to fuck off!

Hey Mike, we need you to salivate into this cup in order to eliminate you as a suspect.

& of course the initiatory perpetrations:

'Hey Mike, I need you to croon some gravy all over the zucchini warts, and serve them in flames to Mustache Tits out in the parking lot.'

'Hey Mike, I need you to put pancake batter on my leg in time for the Asshole Car Interiors Memorial Dinner and Bake-Off.'

What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?

Noah Eli Gordon/Erik Anderson on Anselm Berrigan's Some Notes on My Programming

"The sweeping arcs of individual colors, which seem to be entering Berrigan’s ear, might be analogous to the implicit and multiple output of the world, and to the bow-tied order such information often misleadingly presents."


Click here to order Some Notes on My Programming via paypal.

looks familiar

Forbes: Sarkozy set to win French presidency with 52 pct of vote

The Age: Sarkozy poll lead at risk in suburbs

Parisblog: Uh-Oh - Electronic Voting in France

Le Palais Idéal

new meme

New meme! - tell Mike what to do -- I tag Mel, Ryan, Kasey, Nada, Rodney, and Kevin.

'Hey Mike, go flog that travel agent, we're feeling stupid.'

'Hey Mike, eat this newt.'

'Hey Mike, run the unnumbered bugs in the fresh meat-host.'

'Hey Mike, stop licking the carpet.'

'Hey Mike, restabilize this canteena funding community, we're considering it for a groping appropriation parachute-suit.'

'Hey Mike, read Proust to this pineapple, it's almost bored.'

'Hey Mike, spray over the whole piece.'

'Hey Mike, arrest those cops.'

'Hey Mike, run on down and plead with the Harvard affect interface, we've got this fairy-tale cap what needs a good controlling.'

More Mike commands at Tong Bliss and Unreliable Zygote.

Oh Clo-Clo!

Genevieve Lily Harris!

Born 10pm on Monday, April 2.

Flarf Update

Nada Gordon is on her way to inventing a new type of poetry in which Pre-Raphaelitism meets Zeppo Marx while doing the hokey pokey to a fox trot beat.

Degentesh’s poems hold together despite their raggedness, roar with resentment against the world as it is, and resonate with joy.

Tennyson was once so drunk at the end of a London dinner that he started to leave by way of the fireplace.

--The Last Novel

le nouveaux projet de Mel

wow. humans.

Just saw the Cecil Taylor documentary All the Notes at the Library of Congress. It's major. The film that those of us who've loved the music & knew, wanted to know more of the person, the wisdom there, have wanted, needed. Shots of Cecil dancing in his house to Betty Carter. Articulations by Baraka, Mackey, Thurston Moore. The insistence on joy in practice. "Not discipline!" Importance preiminent of the precursors, Bird, Ellington, etc. Where it/one comes from, actually. Excellent beyond repair. At 72 minutes only need it to be more. Question though, who's as important as example to us, now? Stein, Coltrane? Debord? Picasso? Notley? Monk? Creeley, Cage? etc. Not many come to mind as "in the same league." But enough. One hopes. Shoot for it. The only way to bring the 'them' down.

Peter Gizzi @ Bridge Street 4/6

PETER GIZZI

Friday April 6th, 8 PM

A reading & publication celebration for his new exciting new tome THE OUTERNATIONALE, recently issued by Wesleyan University Press.

Gizzi’s other collections include Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), and Periplum and other poems (Salt, 2004). He is also the editor of The House that Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 1998). Gizzi has taught at Brown University and The University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently teaches in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Gizzi’s author page at the EPC: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/gizzi/

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

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

What do Pamela Anderson, Casey Kasem, & Jerry Lee Lewis have in common?

Bong Hits 4 Naked Chocolate Jesus

Cavallaro is best known for his quirky work with food as art: Past efforts include repainting a Manhattan hotel room in melted mozzarella, spraying five tons of pepper jack cheese on a Wyoming home, and festooning a four-poster bed with 312 pounds of processed ham.

Bourgeois Pseudo

No beastly work sidles
up, silly-like-- rather
pull-outs clop-clop &
we are pleuperfect, mazy
ricochets, loopy, like cold-cocked
cows numbered and radio-
implanted, perfect.

. . . in art there are no foreigners . . .

Zweig interview

"The fact of the matter is that 60 percent of American workers want to be in a union, and only 12 percent are."

Reconfigurations

Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetic Contingency, Practice & Theory
Volume 1: Manifestos

Submission Deadline: July 4, 2007
Publication Date: October 11, 2007

Call for Work: Abstracts, dialogues, essays, fictions, interviews, poems,
statements, vectors & whatnots.

Limitations: No image or sound files. 2,000 words maximum. New work. No simultaneous submissions.

Austentation

Frank Sherlock benefit pics

Avant-Situ: Apollinaire, the Dérive, & the Politics of the Third Dimension

The talk of poetry is everywhere in the SI writings of the Fifties; one wishes they had mentioned dance instead, so that unitary urbanism could be described as "dancing about architecture." But it was far closer to poem-ing about architecture, and here we intend "about" not as in "lie about your age" but as in "lie about the house." "Let us say," concluded Guy Debord, the prose stylist who seems to have written no poems, "that we have to multiply poetic objects and subjects, and that we have to organize games of these poetic subjects among these poetic objects. There is our entire program, which is essentially ephemeral."

"Nothing dies but that which never lived"

Fashion this, from the Irony
Of the world

  That I, the undaunted Laureate of the place, daunted in some
  Un as yet/ed pre tense of what they see, they be
  As if, such where they was
  Was yet to be, and then to say
  They is, and is not, like revelations, wow!
  Humans. The skin, the lodging inside dumbness a slight breeze frees
  they speech
  To speak as if acquainted with small things in the world. Eating,
  Belching, Farting, Murder, Robbery.
  And so. As if, and them too they is. But nothing further
  But the wee dots on the deletion resembling the minds of them
  Yet to come.

Still just $9 for new Raworth, hurry hurry

Almostcool on new Arcade Fire

ARK

Having a Coke with Adorno & O'Hara

The University in Ruins

Attn Joanna Newsom Fans

ZeitGhost

Look at them

Newly Madeout

Troubles, sad not to
say most

things,

mostly.

Bong Hits 4 Jesus at The Supreme Court

Thanks to Kevin T for this ArtVoice piece

Coming soon: Sudden Address by Bill Berkson

Buffalo & Toronto readings

Just Buffalo
Rod Smith and Stacy Szymaszek
Thursday, March 15, 7 p.m.
Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen St., Buffalo


The Test Reading Series
Stuart Ross and Rod Smith
March 16, 7:30 p.m.
Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art
37 Lisgar Street, Toronto

A half-naked Chilean dictator’s deaf-dumb pet chinchilla
Bulging beside the patriotism like a dying bat with a little red hat

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:

Some Notes on my Programming, Anselm Berrigan, $14 (regularly $15)
Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge, Jules Boykoff, $12 (regularly $14)
Cipher/Civilian, Leslie Bumstead, $12 (regularly $14)
American Whatever, Tim Davis, $12 (regularly $14)
Metropolis XXX, Robert Fitterman, $12 (regularly $14)
Dovecote, Heather Fuller, $12 (regularly $14)
The Sense Record and other poems, Jennifer Moxley, $12.50 (regularly $14)
interval, Kaia Sand, $12 (regularly $14)
Haze: Essays Poems Prose, Mark Wallace, $12.50 (regularly $14)

Also new from Edge:

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

All prices postpaid.

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.