I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER soon

Dragomoschenko on Creeley

good one!

i.e. reading series 9/1

One of several collaborations with Alexandra Smith, circa 1995.

Rain could dampen lawns

Ron & Flash @ Bridge Street

How has your first book changed your life?

This woman was in love with him.

. . . a rationalized, expansionist, centralized, spectacular and clamorous production faces an entirely different kind of production, called "consumption," that is characterized by its ruses, its poaching, its secrecy . . .

kick yourself

I don’t

The fuzz on

some other

hard
to be
Tarzan

you humiliated

snuffs up

the grease
I love

English Makes You Fat

According to researchers at the Mayo Clinic, speaking English as a second language makes you fat.

Bilingualism was once considered a leading cause of mental retardation. American psychologists in the early twentieth century argued that filling up a child’s brain with a useless immigrant language like Italian or Yiddish meant less room for actual knowledge. They also found a strong correlation between speaking two languages and criminal behavior. Their solution was simple: switch to English, leave the language of crime and ignorance behind, become 100% American, and don’t look back.

speaking of Washington

Here comes George, In Control

also, Doug Lang's DCPoetry Blog

Millions were dead; everybody was innocent.

A special Ghostbrain toast to Tom "TKO" Orange-- who went & done got his PhD.

The story of Anne's cat Ulysses and Wanda Landowska's performance of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier

america wet pony bless us more

Sight by Hejinian & Scalapino

After almost two years Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino's book-length collaboration from Edge is available again.


click here to order via paypal

Sight
Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino
120 pgs, Cover design by Ree Hall

Regularly $15.00 -- just
$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge




sight and meaning
Hejinian EPC
Scalapino Wikipedia

Le Quartanier

Extrait :


Commence n'importe où.


Alarmes. Anneaux concentriques.


Miroirs tous aux angles. Des fragments s'agrègent. Amas.


L'écrivain après que ses mots sont morts.


"... après que la bombe est lâchée."


Silhouette esquissée sur le sol.


Le temps passe.


"Leur destin est de demeurer."


Sortie, suppression. Entaille sur plat de cuivre.


Que désignait un alphabète... Que condensait un index utopique...


Syntaxe effacée.

Happy Bastille Day

*we could tape silence & not play it back*

I love how she pronouche 'sexy'!

The Dangerfield Conundrum

A Roundtable on Humor in Poetry

George Bowering
Maxine Chernoff
Katie Degentesh
Gabriel Gudding
Rachel Loden
Ange Mlinko
K. Silem Mohammad
D. A. Powell
Ron Silliman
Gary Sullivan

Man Robs Bank Disguised as Tree

Police say the suspect used duct tape to attach tree branches onto his body as a form of camouflage. He then walked into the Citizens Bank on Elm Street and demanded money.

P.O.S.T.M.O.D.E.R.N C.U.L.T.U.R.E.

Jussi Parikka, Insects, Sex, and Biodigitality in Lynn Hershman Leeson's Teknolust

Stephen Voyce, The Xenotext Experiment: An Interview with Christian Bök

Marc Botha, How To Lose Your Voice Well

Annette Schlichter, "I Can't Get Sexual Genders Straight": Kathy Acker's Writing of Bodies and Pleasures

Steven Helmling, How To Read Adorno on How To Read Hegel

The World Narrowed to a Point

Liquor and love
when the mind is dull
focus the wit
on a world of form

The eye awakes
perfumes are defined
inflections
ride the quick ear

Liquor and love
rescue the cloudy sense
banish its despair
give it a home.

Landscape of a Vomiting Multitude

JULES BOYKOFF - SQUELCHING DISSENT

Professor Boykoff on David Barsamian's Alternative radio.

Narrow House presents:
There Were One & It Was Two:
Annotated Artifcacts from the Doubles Museum
by Rick Royer with sound by John Berndt

Book/CD release party
June 29, 2007
7 p.m.
FREE

The Red Room
425 E. 31st St.
Baltimore, MD
(410) 243-6888

Naropa Summer Writing Program

I'll soon be in Boulder teaching, reading, paneling, partying, hiking, & Kerouac festivaling:

Week Two: Lineages of the New American Poetry and Beyond
Monday, June 25–Sunday, July 1, 2007

Eric Dolphy would've been 79 today.

Nautical homophonic puns (a flarf primer)

Good post over at This Cruellest month.

TOM RAWORTH RECEIVES MAJOR AWARD

Tom Raworth has been awarded Italy's prestigious Antonio Delfini Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. The ceremony will take place in Modena on 23 June. An illustrated limited edition of Raworth poems has been published to mark the occasion. The only previous Anglophone poet to receive the prize is Robert Creeley.

Raworth's recent Caller and Other Pieces and the classic Ace are available via paypal from Edge Books.

issue the first

Pennylicious

Thinking of going to DePaul, think again.

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good. --Steve Lacy

Looking fwd to Flag Day.

Truthout too optomistic again. Somebody, please, crack that Libby nut.

ART

Sudden Spider at Ideolexicon

New at Bridge Street

Raging Caging

eviltrailmix

Then Jesus asked him, “What is your favorite cartoon character?”

Deed, forthcoming, September '07

Cover photo: Thrift Store Washington, Tim Davis.

CONTENTS

The Good House 4

The Spider Poems 36

The Given

Barnes & Chernobyl 54
Poem 55
1/43/97 56
The Given 57
Moist Feelings: A Love Poem 58
Identity is the Cause of Warts 59
Ted’s Head 60
Specifically the Luminous 61
The Strength 62
Floorboard 63
the love that is truly a refuge
for all living beings 64
XCVII ("she knows who she is") 66
The Narrative Quiescence 68

Homage to Homage to Creeley 70

the wild

A 3D Exquisite Corpse

Water Walk, 1960

John Cage on What's My Line?

/ Ubu Editions

Third Series
Spring 2007

Bruce Andrews Divestiture - A (1994)
Steve Benson The Ball // 30 Times in 2 Days (2005)
Maurice Blanchot The Last Man (1957)
Mairéad Byrne SOS Poetry (2007)
Terence Gower & Mónica de la Torre Appendices, Illustrations & Notes (1999)
Dick Higgins Horizons (1984)
Bernard Nöel The Outrage Against Words (1978)
Severo Sarduy Big Bang (1973)
Claude Simon Properties of Several Geometric or Non-Geometric Figures (1971)
Rosemarie Waldrop Shorter American Memory (1988)
Robert Wilson A Letter For Queen Victoria: An Opera (1974)
Monique Wittig Les Guérillères (1969)

Palast on Goodling Testimony

And now, not bothering to understand the astonishing revelation in Goodling's confessional, they are missing the real story behind the firing of the US attorneys. It's not about removing prosecutors disloyal to Bush, it's about replacing those who refused to aid the theft of the vote in 2004 with those prepared to burgle it again in 2008.

Ron Silliman & Tom Mandel at Bridge Street Books

SUNDAY, MAY 27th at 7 PM

RON SILLIMAN
& TOM MANDEL

A reading and publication celebration for

The Age of Huts (compleat)

& To the Cognoscenti

& The Grand Piano

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW
WASHINGTON, DC

202 965 5200

the i.e. reading series welcomes

Ron Silliman & Tom Mandel

Saturday, May 26- 8 pm at

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

www.ieseries.wordpress.com

Test Reading Series Toronto 3/16/07

My recent Toronto reading is online at ourmedia. Thanks to Mark Truscott.

Bender's Yockadot pics

Andrews/Nichols Baltimore/DC 5/19&20

Mel Nichols & Bruce Andrews

i.e. reading series
Saturday, May 19th- 8 pm

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


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, May 20, 2007

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.

Five Lyrics

Five poems of mine just up on Web Conjunctions.

Mark McMorris has almost 24 full seconds of clapping.

Flickring

Willis/Kuhl 5/12

RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES
@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Saturday, May 12, 2007, 8:00PM
Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Kuhl

& also:

Beth Joselow & Terence Winch May 18th Chapters 7 PM
Bruce Andrews & Mel Nichols May 21st DCAC 3 PM
Ron Silliman & Tom Mandel May 27th Bridge Street 7 PM

Doug Ireland: What Sarkozy's Victory Means

... in a major campaign speech just days
before the election, Sarkozy surprisingly devoted 20
minutes of his discourse to a violent denunciation of
the May 1968 student-worker revolt (Sarko was only 14
at the time of that rebellion.). The heritage of May
'68, Sarko thundered, must be "liquidated.

Keyword analysis for Snips:

2 - 66.67% displexity
1 - 33.33% unswart german

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.