Bettering American Poetry – Volume 3
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Belladonna* loves you and needs you….
Belladonna* Benefit Performance and Auction Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 6:30 pm Location: Hi Art! 227 West 29th Street, 4th Floor (between 7th & 8th) New York, NY 10001 Advanced ticket sales are only $12! At the door, tickets are $20. http://www.belladonnaseries.org/benefit.html The Belladonna* Benefit will showcase a performance by Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye,…
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The “I Like Amy King A Lot” Interview FIND OUT: * You’re very involved in participating in the poetry community. What motivates you to be involved with so many projects? What do you get from all your projects? * What is your best coping mechanism for the AWP experience? Do you enjoy participating in the…
Two Poets “Earning Their Keep”
David Green, NYC Subway Poet Initial Query So I commissioned a female artist not long ago to make some dolls of my partner-in-crime, Ana, and myself. I was thrilled when they arrived. But their arrival got me to thinking, especially in relation to the film, “Who Does She Think She Is?” — How many of…
“…damned mob of scribbling women” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
THOSE BADASS ♀ ARE AT IT AGAIN Judith Butler: As a Jew, I was taught it was ethically imperative to speak up ~~ “I call myself a feminist.”–Dalai Lama ~~ Film explores the life of China’s first feminist ~~ Sarkozy’s depiction of pregnant, ‘virgin’ Marianne sparks feminist … ~~ Forty years of women’s liberation ~~ The Revolution Won’t…
Read more “…damned mob of scribbling women” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
WILLA – New School Event +
Riggio Forum: Women in Letters and Literary Arts Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 6:30 p.m. Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street — Room 510 New York, NY WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) presents readings along with a panel discussion on the state of women’s literature today. Participants, all of whom…
The What Else of Queer Poetry
WHETTING EXCERPTS: …In queer poetry, desire blooms, and yes, I may just marry my dog— …Beyond that debate, we remain, in all our queerness, anomalies writing aloud the unimagined territories that language spearheads and explores. They may fear adventure in my world, but I inhabit theirs in multiple ways—and am them. …Queer poets especially locate…
The Weenie Roast – Ingredients? Not How Long, But What’s in It…
Please don’t take another long drag on your ciggie and nonchalantly claim that the editors of Publisher’s Weekly didn’t know they were selecting books solely by men for their Top 10 Best Books of 2009. I will hurl dragon fire and burn your little house of cards down. One need only peruse the “brief reviews”…
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To Camus or Not To Camus?
I’m not an existentialist but I know a prodding thing when I see one. Which is why Gina Myers’ sweet essay up at ColdFront today is timely — my students just read The Myth of Sisyphus and watched the films, “Woman In the Dunes” (Teshigahara adapted Kobe Abe’s book of the same title) and “The…
Is It True?
That no one wants to read the poem I wrote after Lidija Dimkovska? Finding it hard to believe, finding belief is hard … ~~~~~~ LIDIJA DIMKOVSKA HAS MADE A BOMB OF MY EYES Lidija Dimkovska has made a bomb of my eyes, pulled the pin and women become the new ramparts from which we watch…
Comedian Comes Out
At the Las Vegas rally for Proposition 8 yesterday, comedian and Adventures of New Christine ingenue Wanda Sykes told a massive crowd of onlookers that she’d gotten married on October 25…to a woman. After divorcing her husband in 1998, many had hoped Sykes would break up Larry David’s marriage and claim him for her own.…
Poetry Tip of the Month
Amy King kicks it out each month (fingers crossed!) @ Mike’s Writing Newsletter (click here & scroll waaay down for November’s tip) ~~~~~~~ WOMPO members have created an online conference, “First Annual Festival of Women’s Poetry!” Click here for my book’s page or here for my author page. But please note: I am but one…
Weekend Hits
Maddow on “The Gay” ~~~~~~~ Rachel Maddow On Lesbian Men and Women ~~~~~~~ Current Mood Tune ~~~~~~~ Men Define Feminism for Maddow ~~~~~~~ A Little Lovely Waits While You Wait ~~~~~~~ Maddow on They Don’t Say “GAY” Debates ~~~~~~
How To Recruit Ladies For The Lesbian “Lifestyle” & Hot New Scam
STRAIGHT OUTTA JEZEBEL: While I can’t quite do the graphic design work that went into Gay Times‘ man-pussy ad or its “women are all stupid, frightening bitches” ad or even any of its three “get laid more” ads, I can push out a list of talking points like a mofo. So, following are the talking…
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absent is keeping it real
Elisa Gabbert says: At long last, absent 3 has arrived! Featuring new poetry, prose, sound, image, translation and manifestos by Amish Trivedi * Ana Bozicevic * Babs de Genlis * Bill Brown * Carl Tillona * Catherine Meng * Chad Reynolds * Chris Nealon * Chris Tonelli * Dale Smith * Donna Stonecipher * Dorothea…
Dear Deer,
Amy King is in the throes of grading, writing, and other things. She’ll be back soon. In the meantime, enjoy a new video from the last Akron/Family album: And if you’re really bored, please visit this interview I did with half of the Akron/Family many moons ago — but be careful, the music early on…
Over the Coals …
ROBERT GIBBS TAKES SEAN HANNITY TO TASK: HOW TO FRAME AN ARGUMENT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From THE HOUR OF THE STAR by Clarice Lispector Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never…
The Author, Resurrected
Roland Barthes might be found chuckling in his grave this morning at all of the poet egos lamenting, laughing over, or wringing their hands about a kind of anthology that appeared on the web this morning (read the irate comments already piling up here). Happily, it appears on a blog called, “For Godot,” which is…
Yurts, Pelicans, and Sarah Palin
Find out more with Ariana Reines, Sept. 26th @ Stain Bar [PLEASE NOTE: Ariana was not aware that we were taping, & we were all feeling festive & anxious about the imminent presidential debate.] Please visit our new reading series site to view videos of Ariana Reines reading dreams & Coeur de Lion and answering…
Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers
IT’S A CHARLES BERNSTEIN-KIND-OF-DAY: From a statement read at an event marking the release of Best American Poetry 2008, held last night at The New School, in New York City. David Lehman is the series editor of Best American Poetry, and Robert Polito is the director of the writing program at The New School. Chairman…
Charles Bernstein’s Performance at the Technicians of the Sacred Celebrations
On 14 September Jerome Rothenberg hosted at the Bowery Poetry Club a celebration for the 40th anniversary of Technicians of the Sacred, a seminal work which brought a global range of oral & tribal poetries into focus & launched ethnopoetics as a new approach to poetry & performance. Pierre Joris made a video of Charles…
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Little Noteworthies
SELF AWARENESS? I found this elephant — Hong — on G.I.’s blog, “Love Settlement“. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They just wanted to be like everyone else, and unfortunately they were: normal guys who happened to have sex with other normal guys. For me, to be gay was an elective affinity, a chosen destiny. For most of them, it…
GET BITCH
[YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpteWcREVVA] NOT JUST FOR THE LADIES, THINKING GUYS DIG IT TOO! One of the few kick-ass feminist publications produced by and for a younger generation, here’s their mission: Mission We seek to be a fresh, revitalizing voice for feminism, one that welcomes complex arguments, showcases witty and whip-smart critiques of popular culture, and refuses to…
Wake Up, Have a Poem & a Song
Take a break from the political scene with “Rocky Took a Lover” by Bell X1 (above video makes me happy) and a poem by Rika Lesser: Let’s throw it out the window How ever did we spend an entire evening re-bending that wire sculpture, only to toss it eighteen stories down? Poor contorted dancer, we…
Um …
One way to get poetry noticed … “Robert Burns’s poetry might have been dismissed as ‘sentimental doggerel’ by Jeremy Paxman but that hasn’t stopped diminutive I’m A Celebrity contestant David Gest and pop legend Michael Jackson from recording an album of the much-loved Scottish poet’s work. Gest’s spokesman said the album is a modern musical…
Mort, Moschovakis, Murphy, Yankelevich & Ball!
Valzhyna Mort speaks out and who among the angelic blog-reading hordes will listen? Listen! And don’t miss Matvei Yankelevich, Anna Moschovakis, Ryan Murphy and Michael Ball, all youtubed for your eyes and ears. Go now!
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