Gutstein & Toll DCAC 9/17

IN YOUR EAR
@ District of Columbia Arts Center

DAN GUTSTEIN and CHRIS TOLL

3PM - Sunday, September 17th

District of Columbia Arts Center
2438 18th Street NW
Admission $3.00

dcpoetry.com

Back to me

Thanks to O Books
for reprinting this.
You can get it on
Amazon for $74.47 cdn
or from SPD for $12
or from me for $10.

Pics from Mirakove/Good reading

An audience of at least 50 came out to Pyramid Atlantic last night. Adam read in a highly rhizomatic fashion, fusing semi- circularities in an ongoing "Score for Local Knowledge" comprised of graphic filtrations of readings he'd attended, statistically improbable phrases, & audience audients. Kaplan Harris demonstrated something of Adam's method in yet another inexplicably apt introduction.

Carol spent many years in DC & is always festively welcomed back. She read largely from her latest book Mediated, which as Mel pointed out in her intro, received an important award even before it was published. Here's a bit from something I wrote on her first book, Occupied:

Mirakove makes, somehow, of this our collective deeply tainted unconscious, an art that is singular-- a space which only she could have created. This space is one of tension, a tension in process, subject to it, turned by them, and untrusted forward-- what breaks through is, to repeat, singular, & sometimes, shattered. poetry.

Afterward we went to Majorca. Kaplan often goes there to grade papers & read Creeley letters. It was good to catch up with Chris Nealon who's off to Berlin for a week. Buck Downs was in bright circumstance as per usual-- news soon of his new Edge chapbook. Leslie Bumstead was in attendance, David Berrigan, Mary Seidel, Jeff Vogt, o so many others.

It was indeed quite pleasant.

Click on the title link to see Cathy's monkey, shiny Adam, leaving Majorca, etc.

A favorite line from Mediated: "Even Juicy Fruit has a blog."

"The Vote"

In a sworn affadavit from computer programmer Clinton Curtis (a life-long registered Republican) he was told by his employer: “You don’t understand, in order to get the contract we have to hide the manipulation in the source code. This program is needed to control the vote in south Florida.” (Boldface in original).

Inman/Lang Reading 9/16

i.e. reading series-

Saturday, September 16th-
4 pm - 6 pm

P. Inman & Doug Lang

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

Lester

This is Lester. He lives in Southern California. He is important. & yes, he will bite you.

For periodic Lester updates this is your best source of information.

Conrad Interview

TB: What do you think poetry does? What do you want a poem to do?

CAC: A poem should help you rob a bank. What kind of fucking poem wouldn't help you rob a bank?

Mirakove & Good Reading 9/9

R U T H L E S S G R I P
P O E T R Y S E R I E S
@ Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center

8:00PM, September 9, 2006
CAROL MIRAKOVE
and ADAM GOOD

Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD

Three blocks from the Metro red line.

Photo: Carol & Mel Nichols at after-Flarf party NYC

For directions:
http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/about/contact.htm

I'm not saying anything, I'm just sayin'

osama bin drinkin'

Most Played

Zoom (It Happens All Over The World) -Robert Pollard
L'Orphelin De La Java -Francis Lemarque
Take Me Back To Tulsa -Bob Wills
My Valuable Hunting Knife -Guided By Voices
Jardin d'hiver -Keren Ann
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie -Louis Jordan
Desaparecido -Manu Chao
Profoundly Blue No. 2 -Edmond Hall's Celeste Quartet
Fish 'n' Rice -Andrew Hill
Wailing Wall -Andrew Hill

The Bus is Leaving Tomorrow

Check out the insane schedule. Montreal to Northampton in one day? Durham to Asheville to Athens to Tuscaloosa, one night each? I'll be reading at the DC stop October 4th at Big Hunt-- wish I could make more of the dates but too damn busy. Rumor has it Peter Gizzi will be here for the Oct 4 reading as well.

Comets on Fire at Black Cat 8/31

Desperately revelatory. Imagine what Grateful Dead circa '68 (tunes like The Other One and The Eleven) would sound like if they were new, if they were now -- seriously, this band is very hippy, very hardcore, and very convincing. For those that know the records I'll take any recommendations. Have heard only the first one which had a Jon Spencer thing, which is fine-- but not what they were up to on Friday. Will definitely see them again.

The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice

"I love women as I love food when I am full. I am surfeited but despairing-- I would take the forbidden fruit. How I envy the man who has appetite!"

Yes, but where was Dolphy?

Dolphy was with the Coltrane group at Babe Baker's Jazz Corner in
Cincinnati, January 7-13, 1963.

quoting sizzle chest

"Last night, Rod and I (and others) saw DC United get humbled, 5-2, by the L.A. Galaxy. The Redskins lost, 41-0, to the Pats, in preseason action. And the (g)Nats got smashed by Atlanta, 10-1.

In all, Washington sports teams scored 3 points last night. Their opponents scored 56. So, Washington lost last night, 56-3."

no, it's not a joke

The vertebrate silence worries the legal sail

kudos to Orange comma Tom on this one

The Strength

In the renting & in
something lenghty
a loosening, a lack’s lattice
round-- this beam abbreviate oppposite-sized carnal loam--

it is its sever

triad is not so low as to shove a gone stop

& then the solve curses
& thin the corpse ago

-- dawn runs it, dawn, that is.

the rising’s recourse.

alone.

Code Orange

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