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More on Wave Books’ August Residency at the Henry Gallery: a Bookmaking Tutorial with Joshua Beckman August 5, 2011: As we've previously reported, Wave Books is the August Publisher-in-Residence at Seattle's Henry Gallery. Wave is taking part in Shelf Life, the Henry's summer ode to books and reading. As the site explains, the program "invites a diverse group of bookmakers (and book-lovers) to the Henry to share their relationship to books and independent [...]
Language’s Newest Role April 13, 2011: Language Alters Imagery While poets have always had a deep and intimate knowledge of language's capabilities — formally and emotionally — the video above demonstrates that technology has made language act in ways that I don't think we've conceived of before. In it, words aren't used to express anything: they don't sing, emote, or pull [...]
Gertrude Stein dance party March 28, 2011: Check out the Nederlands Dans Theater 2 perform a dance version of Gertrude Stein’s poem “Shutters Shut.” It rules!
Reading Liu Xiaobo in South Africa March 24, 2011: BOOK Southern Africa has posted videos from a reading last week organized by South African PEN and Poetry International Web South Africa. Part of a protest reading that took place in 33 countries around the world, South African writers shared their own prison writing alongside English and Afrikaans translations of Liu's "Charter 08" and "You [...]
Treme turns to local poet to capture post-Katrina New Orleans March 23, 2011: The Times-Picayune talks with Gian Smith who is featured reciting his poem "O Beautiful Storm" in a new promo for the HBO show Treme. Smith now hosts an open mic at The McKenna Museum of African American Art, but it was Katrina that first made him turn to poetry. In both the poem and his interview, he describes scraping the residue off the [...]
Carl Sandburg’s typographic “Chicago” March 18, 2011: Chicagoist talks to graphic artist Bud Rodecker about his typographic series Ode to Carl. The project grew out of his self-imposed mission to make one new piece of artwork daily. Though titled RicharDaily, the first series of daily art didn't have nearly the connection to Chicago that the Sandburg graphics do. Writer Betsy Mikel notes that [...]
Suheir Hammad’s anti-war poems at TED Women March 18, 2011: Poet Suheir Hammad who "blends the stories and sounds of her Palestinian-American heritage with the vibrant language of Brooklyn" performed at TEDWomen in Washington DC in December. Hammad addressed the crowd of "confused, aspiring pacifists" and spoke of how poetry prepares you to confront "man's creative violence" in her poems "What I Will" [...]
Marshall McLuhan + Christian Bök = ??? March 14, 2011: Video streaming by Ustream Watch Darren Wershler deliver a lecture on Marshall McLuhan and contemporary poetry at McLuhan in Europe 2011. According to the author: "The text concerns both the importance of thinking about McLuhan in terms of poetics, and the implications that contemporary projects like Christian Bök's [...]
Rae Armantrout on the contemporary lyric March 9, 2011: Check out this video of Rae Armantrout giving a talk on the lyric at the University of Chicago. She argues that there’s been a resurgence in the interest of “the lyric” as a category, and with this resurgence of interest has come an expansion in its definition. The best thing about this talk is that it’s not actually a talk, and [...]
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 [...]