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Charles Bukowski goes cabaret August 11, 2010: Last year, German singer Ute Lemper included a Charles Bukowski poem between songs in her otherwise poetry-free cabaret show. One thing then led to another as it so often does with Bukowski, and now Lemper is slated to perform "The Bukowski Project" at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in New York next weekend. The show journeys through 24 [...]
Dancing with Anne Carson July 22, 2010: Photo: Liza Voll at the New York Times The collaboration between poet and critic Anne Carson and dancer-choreographer Rashaun Mitchell has resulted in a multi-layered mash-up of poetry and dance. Carson’s Nox, her most recent book, and Mitchell’s Bracko, her most recent dance composition, were presented by Summer Stages Dance and the [...]
Bill Clinton: the opera July 13, 2010: President, philanthropist, lady’s man....and the next Don Giovanni? Oh yes. Bill Clinton is the subject of a new opera slated to open in Little Rock, Arkansas this fall, reports the New York Daily News. Arkansas poet Britt Barber (bio here) and musician Bonnie Montgomery, who called Clinton’s life “the perfect operatic vision,” are [...]
The words and music of the Mountain Goats July 12, 2010: Jim Fisher over at the Paris Review blog has put together an appreciation of John Darnielle (impresario behind the best little death-metal-folk-rock band The Mountain Goats) and his sometimes-sung, sometimes-written poetry: We poets write a lot about the music of poetry, its roots in oral/aural traditions, its rhythm and need to be sounded [...]
Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn June 30, 2010: Zach Layton, Brooklyn composer and Whitman fan, has gathered together a boatload of artists, musicians, and writers for "I Do Not Doubt I Am Limitless: Walt Whitman's Brooklyn," a celebration of the poet's life and work at Brooklyn Bridge Park on Thursday: "It's going to be a Whitman freak-out jam by the waterfront," Zach Layton said. The Wall [...]
Bizzaro Jersey Shore: Pinksy and the Boss May 7, 2010: The Star-Ledger reports from Wamfest: MADISON -- Getting on like old friends even though they’d never met, New Jersey giants Robert Pinsky and Bruce Springsteen swapped stories yesterday during an intimate conversation, during which they talked about their artistic influences, the creative process and growing old. The poet and rocker [...]
A Mountain Goats Google Map May 6, 2010: A map of every place mentioned in the music of the Mountain Goats, brainchild of sometime-poet John Darnielle: Here's the whole map (with lyrics).
Aram Saroyan’s Top Ten on Ubuweb May 6, 2010: Poet and essayist Aram Saroyan claims the May 2010 featured resources on ubuweb: 1. Andy Warhol - The Plastic Exploding Inevitable Newspaper 2. John Cage - Memogram Correspondences 3. Vito Acconci - Two Track (1971) 4. Yvonne Rainer - Hand Movie (1966) 5. Ernst Jandl - Sound Poems 6. Carl Fernbach Flarsheim - Visual Poems 7. Morton [...]
Memory traces April 20, 2010: [caption id="attachment_11593" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Dinh Q. Lê. Untitled from the South China Sea Pishkun series (still 1) 2009, c-print, 50 x 89 inches. Courtesy P•P•O•W. "][/caption] For fun and because I found his post provocative, I thought I’d answer the six sets of questions Thom Donovan provided in “For an [...]
Kiss my ars poetica. April 12, 2010: While other people were reading, you know, some dorky crap, I was reading, you know, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire and things like that, so, and it just sprung from that, and on TV I was just watching old horror movies and like, you know crime, so, and Elvis, you know so that's it. —Glenn Danzig