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Documentary on Poet Considered “The Godfather of Grunge” Due May 27, 2011: The Pacific Northwest Inlander reports on a forthcoming documentary, I Am Secretly An Important Man, based on the life of the man voted Seattle's best poet in 1989, Steven “Jesse” Bernstein. As the article states, In the documentary I Am Secretly An Important Man, filmmaker Peter Sillen chronicles the life of Steven “Jesse” Bernstein, a [...]
Hackney Hear syncs contemporary poetry to the Olympic experience March 14, 2011: About Hackney Hear from Hackney Hear on Vimeo. While the last line from Tennyson's 1833 poem "Ulysses" has been chosen to adorn the wall of the Olympic Village, the award-winning Hackney Podcast has a more modern take on incorporating poetry into the Olympics. Hackney Hear is a new project that links up over 400 audio recordings— poetry, [...]
What poetry teaches us about consciousness March 10, 2011: PRI's The World in Words podcast has a lot of ground to cover in 27 minutes: Is consciousness the ability to use language to articulate our thoughts or is "consciousness a language in itself?" In order to tackle this Big Question, host Patrick Cox looks at two subjects, the bilingual brain and poetry. Why poetry? Cox posits that because of its [...]
Salvador Dalí’s surrealist English March 7, 2011: Listen to Salvador Dalí teach Edward Mulhare how to speak Dalían English, which involves making words more dynamic by distorting and dramatizing their pronunciation. For example, “butterfly” is pronounced “boot-ER-fly-EEEE.” Or something like that. From a flexidisc that came with Echo magazine in 1960, reposted on Ubuweb: "a [...]
Hear Zadie Smith read Frank O’Hara March 2, 2011: Sounds like she might have a cold. But still!
Bob Cobbing flexidiscs and the habit of arts organizing February 25, 2011: Today's Resonance FM's Wavelength podcast features the sound poetry flexidiscs of Bob Cobbing. The podcast includes some rare poems not found on UbuWeb, along with a statement about his career in Cobbing's own words from the journal Ceolfrith Number 26: Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum explains: "I was an arts organizer before I took myself [...]
Poets set the tone for “Natural Events to Social Disasters” conference in Austin February 22, 2011: Natasha Trethewey and Evelyne Trouillot will keynote this week's conference From Natural Events to Social Disasters in the Circum-Caribbean hosted by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at University of Texas, Austin. The conference will discuss the long-running injustices across the region that natural disasters of the [...]
Lorine Niedecker recordings up on PennSound February 22, 2011: Check out these recordings of Lorine Niedecker reading in 1970!
K. Shakespeare Mohammad February 16, 2011: Listen here to hear Flarf superstar K. Silem Mohammad read 15 of his new Sonnagrams. Each of the poems is composed using the letters from one of Shakespeare's sonnets as the source material for a for a new poem (also in iambic pentameter!), and the (often hilarious) titles are then made from whatever letters were left over. The results are goofy [...]
Listening in on Mackey February 8, 2011: Check out Nathaniel Mackey reading new poems last week on Close Listening. Also an interview. But the new poems!