B 5 February 6, 2010: At circle time on Thursday, Lorenzo declared that when he makes smores for Julian (which I wasn’t aware that he’d ever done) he makes them with bricks, sticks and snow. (more...) by Fred Moten

B 4 February 6, 2010: A lot of it is just trying to figure out how to say something. How to read. Not how to offer a reading, or even an interpretation, but a performance of a text, in the face of its unintelligibility, as if one were forced/privileged to access some other world where representation and unrepresentability were beside the point (so that the response to [...] by Fred Moten

B 3 February 6, 2010: Dear Evie, Remember when we read together in November, and afterwards you asked me about a particular poem of mine, and seemed to wonder why my reading of it didn’t acknowledge or account for the spacing of/in the poem as it is on the page? I figured that question was a statement and that you were right. Philip’s theater is this spatial [...] by Fred Moten

Backlog 2 February 6, 2010: The commitment to repair is how a refusal to represent terror redoubles the logic of representation. The refusal of our ongoing afterlife can only ever replicate a worn-out grammar. The event remains, in the depths. The event-remains are deep and we stand before them, to express them, as their expression. (more...) by Fred Moten

Backlog February 6, 2010: I didn’t stop logging, I just stopped posting. I think I got waterlogged from not being able not to try to get too deep. I got into some kind of double trouble from blowing bubbles, I guess. Anyway, here’s some more stuff, along the lines I promised, though I might want to make another promise now. The other thing is that this is driven by the [...] by Fred Moten

Contemplation is Mourning: Tim Lilburn February 6, 2010: “Wilderness can be enacted in language, but as it is enacted, language begins to seem less and less like language…[1]” Tim Lilburn is a contemplative poet, a deep reader and thinker, a poet in the tradition of “you give your life” to the project. (more...) by Sina Queyras

This English Language February 5, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/This-English-LanguageFINAL.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

CA Conrad’s and Frank Sherlock’s The City Real and Imagined February 5, 2010: Sunday of this past weekend saw the official New York City launch of CA Conrad’s and Frank Sherlock’s collaborative book-length poem The City Real and Imagined, published by Heretical Texts, at the Zinc Bar reading series hosted by Dorothea Lasky. Among a crowd of friends and admirers the two poets read their book in its entirety, calling [...] by Thom Donovan

Dung and Glitter February 4, 2010: Morning, in Colorado, if I'm not teaching or trying to make a school lunch my offspring will actually eat, involves a second cup of Double Bergamot Earl Grey tea and a quick skim of The Guardian, online, with the memory of pretending to read it, a broadsheet, upside down in bed, with my dad.  The paper, not me.  I was two. Thus, a few days [...] by Bhanu Kapil

UbuWeb Top Ten for Feb by Christian Wiman February 4, 2010: 1. Christopher Logue - "This is the final statement..." (1934-35) [MP3 link](From Aspen 7) 2. John Tavener - For Rene Magritte [MP3 link] (From Aspen 7) 3. Ed Dorn - from Gunslinger, Book 4 [MP3 link] (From Giorno Poetry Systems - Totally Corrupt ) 4. UbuWeb Podcast - Women of the Avant Garde Part 2 [MP3 link] (Ubu Podcast Page) 5. [...] by Kenneth Goldsmith