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Noah Eli Gordon’s choir of poets March 9, 2011: Noah Eli Gordon’s new book The Source is made of quotations stolen and remixed from page 26 of thousands of books from the Denver Public Library. The result is surprisingly consistent and “readable,” whatever that means. But Gordon troubled that readability in a recent performance, for which he invited a host of fellow poets (Arda Collins, [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
John Ashbery reads from his translation of Rimbaud at the New School February 18, 2011: Via The Best American Poetry, John Ashbery reads his translation of Arthur Rimbaud's "Promontory" from Illuminations. Originally published in 1886, Norton will release Ashbery's translation in May, though not with his above comments about scholars' endless attempts to track Rimbaud through Scarborough just because he mentions it in the poem. [...]
File under: Yes, please February 18, 2011: Check out this video of actor Michael Winslow (Motor Mouth from the Police Academy movies!) reciting the history of the typewriter in sound effects. Winslow imitates the unique sounds of various machines, giving the history of printed text an audio component.
The animals, the animals, let’s read poetry to the animals… February 15, 2011: The title of this video says it all: Michael McClure reads poetry to lions in this 1966 edition of Richard O. Moore's USA Poetry Series. He describes the act of reading poetry to animals as an experiment, and he definitely succeeds in getting a response from his audience: check out the McClure vs. lion growling match at about 3:18. Also check [...]
A Valentine’s Day toast from J.J. Walker February 14, 2011: May your own attempts at love poetry never fall victim to a laugh track, and may your Valentine's Day be full of Good Times.
File Under: Nice Video February 10, 2011: Check out Lisa Robertson giving a talk on Eva Hesse at SFMOMA.
Prezi as a tool for visual poetry? February 7, 2011: .prezi-player { width: 460px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }Stop Drilling on Prezi It seems only fitting to honor a writing conference with writing formatted to that classic conference tool: the slideshow. Fortunately, when Natasa Bozic Grojic was putting together Stop Drilling, she didn't resort to the static, dry PowerPoint [...]