I have just finished sending out my chapbook copies for the DUSIE Chapbook Kollectiv. The title is this post’s title. I have a few copies left over, so if you’re interested in receiving one – freely and imminently – I’ll post it to you before the holidays. My DUSIE chapbook from last year…
If you aren’t sure, read these new ones: ARI BANIAS “who is ghost” “From Somewhere in the Middle” “Find Love in Brooklyn Now!” ” If Fear Were the Teacher” ~~ KATE BELES “Faulkner’s Caddy” “Count Me In” – “An Apology for my Father” “The Signified” ~~ ANA BOZICEVIC-BOWLING “Voicemail Anthem” “Oranges” “Fall Hopscotch” “The Moment…
Kevin Cornell And my absence. I’m at work on a number of things, including a tenure application. That means lots of non-blog time; I hope you’ll come back in a few weeks to find me rising from the dust, phoenix-like. Or zombie-ish, if necessary. Either way, there’s a distant blurry plan which will narrow its…
Ross Von Rosenberg – “I Am The City” I like these two poems, very much, from Arthur Vogelsang’s book, CITIES AND TOWNS. ~~ NEW STREET The final light is the last fur and no animals left. Listen to me as if you’ll be on earth forever. Some lamps of the rehabilitated enriched neighborhood Like six…
“I don’t classify myself–I let other do that. If you sing all the roles put in front of you, you are a tenor [as compared to a lyrice tenor or a light lyric tenor]. Punto [period.] If you are also an actor, or a good driver of your voice, if you have personality and a…
How strange would it be if our Mormon pop icon started reciting, by heart, a German Dadaist’s ‘nonsense’ verse? “Marie Osmond became co-host with Jack Palance. In the format of the show, little topic clusters (like ‘weird language’) were introduced by one of the hosts. In this case, the frame was Cabaret Voltaire. Marie was…
At dinner last night with a brilliant poet, we shuffled through the encyclopedia of poets between us. I noted the brilliance of Anne Boyer; she noted the recent “Good Apocalypse”; I revisited today. Yes, for you, two below from Anne Boyer’s “Good Apocalypse” and vital parting advice: if you don’t know, you don’t know. So…
Going back to Barcelona, I will one day. Soon. For the moment, this window of pop fun will make me do. _______________ I thought Nico Case sent this link my way, but it was Nico Vassilakis for all you Vispo people out there. ______________ Visit the new Asian-Amerian issue of MiPO guest edited by Nick…
Excerpt from Logically Consistent Poetry by Kurt Schwitters, 1924: Classical poetry depended on the similarity of human beings. It regarded the association of ideas as unequivocal. It was wrong. In any case, it was based on associations of ideas: ‘Uber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh’ (On the hill-tops all is tranquil.’). Here Goethe is not simply…
“The female is as it were a deformed male.” –Aristotle “Distinguished women . . . are as exceptional as any monstrosity . . . for example a gorilla with two heads.” –Le Bon (1879) “It was certainly an odd monster that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards–[woman as] a…
Is it cliché to be a Basquiat fan these days? I don’t hear or see many younger writers noting his work or citing him as an artist they admire. Was he too hip? More legend than artist? Or merely a “graffiti maker” (which he denied vehemently)? Was his style too uneven or messy? Correct me,…
Either this video for “Living Proof” is a transparent attempt to garner attention or it’s one slick & clever commentary on the order of the day via “cross country” play. Chan Marshall runs in latex red carrying a Jesus ornament, against her opponents, who appear to be spin-offs of Muslim women. Who will win? Choose…
this collage painting from Jane Hammond, who created it for a series she completed called, “The John Ashbery Collaboration.” He supplied her with titles; she painted. In fact, I just ordered the book of reproductions from Amazon for the amazingly low price of 2.99. I’ll believe it when it actually arrives in my mailbox. Anyway,…
AMY KING 