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.