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THE LAST 4 THINGS by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta Press) A MOUTH IN CALIFORNIA by Graham Foust (Flood Editions) FACE by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press) INCIVILITIES by Barbara Claire Freeman (Counterpath Press) PINK ELEPHANT by Rachel McKibbens (Cypher Books) SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA AND OTHER POEMS by Amiri Baraka (House of Nehesi) THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose) FROM...
The Center for the Humanities invites you to celebrate the publication of The Amiri Baraka/Edward Dorn Correspondence; The Kenneth Koch/Frank O’Hara Letters: Selections; Muriel Rukeyser: Darwin & the Writers; Philip Whalen’s Journals: Selections: Robert Creeley: Contexts of Poetry, with selections from Daphne Marlatt’s Journals. These comprise the inaugural chapbook series in...
over 170 bars, with lyrics that change from show to show: Who believe the confederate flag need to be flying/Who talk about democracy and be lying/Who/Who/Who/Who? "You know that poem that he always gets in trouble for saying?" asked Wiley. "That one, he always makes it relevant to the time. It still has that timeless quality." It's not clear to what extent Baraka writes things...
Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones) has a long history of hostility toward Jews. An influential leader of the Black nationalist movement, Baraka has a long record of antisemitic, anti-American, and anti-white statements, going back many years. Baraka was appointed poet laureate for NJ in July 2002, but the title was taken from him when Gov.... (Click the title to read more....)
When I was a graduate student at Cornell University, I became fascinated but equally frustrated by the Civil Rights-Black Power movement nexus in North American historiography. On one hand, historians presented the African American Civil Rights movement as a watershed phenomenon unto itself and which forever changed the course of North American politics and race relations; on the other hand, the Black...
[ November 14, 2009; 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. With influences [...]
Right before the recital of the poem that made Amiri Baraka lose his laureateship he was singing the Monk tune "Misterioso." Another poem was accompanied by "Monk's Mood." I bet only Ken Irby and I and a few other people in the SRO audience got those references. This blog isn't called Bemsha Swing for nothing. I'm wondering if my Haydn obsession isn't a reaction to preparing the...
KHIRBET KHIZEH by S. Yizhar (Ibis Editions) THE CREEPY GIRL AND OTHER STORIES by Janet Mitchell (Starcherone Books) ISLAND OF THE NAKED WOMEN by Inger Frimansson (Caravel Books) WHAT DID I DO WRONG? by Fanny Howe (Flood Editions) THE ACTIVIST by Renee Gladman (Krupskaya) BOONS & THE CAMP by David Ohle (Calamari Press) THE CHANGELING by Joy Williams (Fairy Tale Review Press) UNEXPLAINED PRESENCE...
(from the author's private journal) Apparently that music the youngsters like to play in their shiney cars is called "grime". It's a word lifted from a Rolling Stone interview with Karen Carpenter. (Okay, it isn't.) I discovered this fascinating fact during a news item on the radio about a movie (I didn't catch the name of it) depicting gang life in the Midlands. The movie has apparently...
One of the things I've been reading recently is Beats at Naropa edited by Anne Waldman and Laura Wright (Coffee House Press, 2009), a collection of lectures, panel discussion transcripts, and similar material, drawn from the audio archives of Naropa University over a period of more than thirty years. I've only read part of it so far, am liking most of it. Here are a few passages, picked from the book,...
"> Nicole Peyrafitte's iPhone video of Ambrose Bye's Fast Speaking Music Project: a performance of experimental music & poetry. Soundscapes from the Manatee/Humanity project and G Spot, plus piano improvisation with noted performance poets. With musician-composer Ambrose Bye and poets Kristin Prevallet, Anne Waldman, Bob Holman. Ambrose Bye graduated from The University of California, Santa...
Published Poems - Poets Who Blog NPM Feature Poem April 3, 2009 - The Poet's Haven Poetry Gallery 6, #440 April 23, 2009 - The Poet's Haven Poetry Gallery 6, #441 April 23, 2009 - The Poet's Haven Poetry Gallery 6, #442 April 23, 2009 - The Poet's Haven Poetry Gallery 6, #443 April 23, 2009 - The Poet's Haven Poetry Gallery 6, #444 April 23, 2009- Gloom Cupboard Literary Magazine Issue #90 April 25,...
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