Al Filreis (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
These have been going 'round the poetry blogosphere a bit, but I had to share a few here. Click for more! Arthur Rimbaud and Thomas Chatterton walk into a bar. They are carded. Sylvia Plath walks into a bar. The bartender says,”What’s cookin’, good lookin’”? Gertrude Stein walks into a bar, thinking it was a bar. But it was a bar. John Ashbery walks into a bar. The bartender...
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
I've been way for far too long with this kind of post. Some recent links about gay poets! Richard Howard's WRITING LIFE Bruce Snider interviewed on Brian Brodeur's "How a Poem Happens" Do you remember who you were reading when you wrote this poem? Any influences you’d care to disclose? I’d been reading the New York School poets, especially Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch....
SPD TODAY (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
SADNESS AT LEAVING: AN ESPIONAGE ROMANCE Erje Ayden $7 | paper | 256 pp. Semiotext(e) ISBN: 0936756578 Fiction. Friend of Frank O'Hara and "bodyguard" to Willem DeKooning, Turkish expatriate Erje Ayden was the house novelist of the New York School poets and painters during the early and mid-1960s. Ayden boasts of a background in espionage, so this genre-spy thriller could be a veiled autobiographical...
it is ambient time WILDEBEEST (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
on sunday i went to burger king to get the new cupcake milkshake a voice said, "sorry, we're out of sprinkles" i felt a little disappointed and stared at my feet on the way home and then felt better last night i went back with my mom she asked for a cupcake milkshake the voice said, "sorry, we're out of sprinkles" again for some reason, i pretended to cry "i know it's not your...
SPD TODAY (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
THE COLLECTED POEMS WITH SELECTED DRAWINGS Fairfield Porter $14 | paper | 90 pp. Tibor de Nagy ISBN: 9780922792641 Poetry. Most of the poems and drawings in this volume appear for the first time. With an introduction by John Ashbery. Edited by John Yau with David Kermani. Artist, art critic, and poet Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) is recognized as a major twentieth-century American Intimist painter,...
The Pomlog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
EDWARD GOREY Born in Chicago in 1925, Edward St. John Gorey reputedly began drawing at the age of eighteen months. Some time later, he was drafted into the army and assigned to the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. His job there, he says, was to test poison gas. In 1950, Gorey saw his art in print for the first time--as the September cover for the "Harvard Advocate," his college publication,...
TED BURKE, like it or not (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I enjoy David Lehman's mosaics of place names, mad jazz and painterly effect; there is an fabulous improvisation in his lines that performs an activity I think is poetry's core province, which is testing language's ability to accommodate experience and offer up perception in a manner that merits a second, third or a hundredth look at the daily things that surround us.There is what sounds like genuine...
In Memory of Our Feelings (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
We start with the system it's working parts the consciousness that seeks to be assimilated Frank O'Hara sounds that way because he thinks that way I do this I do that and schools are birthed and entire industries from those schools which is what Pete was talking about which we are coming back to the big picture and only mattering details teaching as impressionism only approaching, like cursors for...
Me~Tronome (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I had an opportunity to discuss new Chicago poetry at a recent conference with Garin Cycholl and Ray Bianchi as part of Bill Allegrezza's Series A poetry reading series at the Hyde Park Art Center. Click here to access the sound file. Frank O'Hara's work loomed large in my mind as I considered how to respond to the idea of Poetry and Place.
mischievoice (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
i just have to post this lovely review of Susan Maurer's Perfect Dark. these are the words of George Wallace Peering Through Perfect Dark: New Poems by Susan Maurer In PERFECT DARK ( ungovernable press , 2009), a new collection of poems Susan Maurer, the urban dilemma that is New York is told in fine style, offering up poem after poem with the kind of duality that satisfies and tantalizes readers....
the word cage (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Usually I get about five hours of sleep a night, waking up at 5:30, but my daughter had the day off from school today, so I got to sleep until 6:50 (when my son woke up), and it made such a difference. Then I was somewhat non-hassled getting ready, since there was no elementary school urgency, and I took care of some household chores, and that made me really happy. Sometimes I'm baffled by the things...
swim/swam (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
There is something uncanny about watching a Youtube clip of Frank O’Hara reading a poem in his apartment, sharpened if, at the same time “chatting” on Skype in another browser, and in another searching for images of Dylan Thomas on Google. It isn’t that feeling of anteriority that Roland Barthes identifies – looking at the [...]
kostis velonis (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
The Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon is an ambitious two-day poetry event taking place in London during Frieze Art Fair week and featuring unique performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians. An international group of major figures will be brought together to perform in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009, designed by architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa...
Poet Mom (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
How lucky to be included with these poets! The North Shore was one of eight venues across the state kicking of the second annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival. It was a packed house in Salem, as we read poems by Massachusetts poets along with a few of our own. The evening was hosted by J.D. Scrimgeour (front, right center, green sweater) and Claire Keyes (second row, right, red jacket). I felt very...
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