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The Making of This: Part I March 15, 2011: Or: on writing text for K.J. Holmes’s “This is Where We Are (or take arms against a sea of troubles).” Performed at The Chocolate Factory, L.I.C NY, March 9-12, 2011 Performed by: Jodi Bender, Keith Biesack, K.J. Holmes, Marin Sander-Holzman, Kathy Westwater, Devika Wickremesinghe. Music performed by: Doug MacKenzie, David Moss [...]
To serve poets: The cookbooks of Ronald Johnson March 15, 2011: Samuel Amadon wants you to remember Ronald Johnson for more than just his great poetry. Writing for the Gulf Coast blog, Amadon is appreciative of what Johnson's Simple Fare (1989) taught him about scrambled eggs, but it's his commentary on each recipe and the way that they "feel gathered out of his experience" that sets his books apart. These [...]
C.D. Wright wins the National Book Critics Circle Award March 14, 2011: Last week, the National Book Critics Circle awarded their 2010 award for poetry to C.D. Wright for her book One With Others. NBCC board member Craig Morgan Teicher had this to say about the book: C.D. Wright’s One with Others is a crucial book, and not just in the way that we often say the work of a major poet is “important,” like [...]
Cowboy Poetry attacked with… poetry? March 9, 2011: Political theater now plays out on more venues than just the floor of the Capitol, but verse still thrives on all of them. Harry Reid has been catching some flack for citing Nevada's annual Cowboy Poetry Festival as a reason to preserve the budget for the National Endowment for the Humanities. While said flack has more to do with his [...]
“Skin” remixed in interactive, interpersonal literature March 9, 2011: Missed connection: 2,095 pieces of "Skin" have been seeking each other since 2003. Each has a single word tattooed on its body thanks to the writer Shelley Jackson who asked each "word" to volunteer as part of a human story which was never published in any other format. According to The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal: The pieces of it wandered [...]
Type-faced faces March 8, 2011: Check out these 45 text-based portraits made entirely from digital fonts. The artists on Abduzeedo probably don’t consider themselves visual poets, and are most likely coming out a web-design context. Still, it’s hard to ignore the resonance between vispo and these portraits, and it’s interesting to see a genre which has worked so diligently [...]
Can Andrew Motion cure verse-drama’s identity issues? March 2, 2011: And does he need to? With the news that Andrew Motion has turned playwright, The Guardian's Andrew Haydon questions his own knee-jerk response that poetry and theater can't mix. In fact, there's not even a phrase that accurately describes the combination (although to be fair to Motion, no one will know whether the "poetry" or the "theater" should [...]
Happy birthday, Richard Wilbur. Love, the Wall Street Journal. March 1, 2011: It's Howard's 90th b-day today, a perfect occasion for Richard B. Woodward to wonder why he's so badly loved: Why Mr. Wilbur is not more nationally beloved or imitated is perplexing. Clive James favors the suppression theory: Mr. Wilbur's virtuosity in meter and rhyme so daunted his contemporaries returning from World War II that he had to be [...]
What would poetry sound like as curated by Philip Glass? February 28, 2011: According to The Los Angeles Times' Culture Monster blog, you'll get to find out in August when Philip Glass launches his own annual arts festival at Hidden Valley arts center near Carmel, California. The Days and Nights Festival will include poetry alongside theater, dance, film and, of course music. The as yet unannounced lineup for the poetry [...]
“A multidisciplinary feat of beauty from the heart of Montreal’s poetry scene” February 25, 2011: Disappear - from the CD To Call Out in the Night by Pharmakon MTL from Ian Ferrier on Vimeo. Art Threat talks with Montreal poet Ian Ferrier about his live improvisation with the band Pharmakon MTL and its use in the video above as part of the media artist pk langshaw's d_verse project. Adding up the collaborators, that's one poet, three [...]