tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70322236362215475232012-01-05T06:45:07.010-05:00:: The Smoking Carillion ::Douglas Mansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09943791167663878388noreply@blogger.comBlogger1651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032223636221547523.post-25390702989238397392011-11-23T09:44:00.002-05:002011-11-23T09:55:19.857-05:00

In my growing confusion over news reports from Egypt and the Near East --sometimes not realizing the stories are NOT about the Occupy movement in American cities, I took an article from today's New York Times and changed the names to paint a picture of how U.S. politics would look, some months from now, under the NYT lens. How does it feel? ::<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false

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Preference has been moved to increase discoverability. Susceptible to giant news camera + million-dollar blonde in the bougie chelsea market I hold this slateboard as if holding my magical member cupped in hand at my crotch on the train where the trimmings and trappings of power provoke a kind of mental armoring. The news camera beckons me, as does the million-dollar blonde, while a plain Jane

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fondle and pullrecollections of a lonely wandererfrom a rotting bog of garbageearnestlythe thinness of lifein consumerist complicitywell wishhole in the chestangerbooks & spaceweaknessthinking and forgettingtiny cyclesmall wisps aroundthe nerves of the brainor whipscanned fooddry featurecompulsivesmokingmonitoringTuesday aubadeelectric lightcoffee & the men and womenwho grew it, picked itgot it

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Scenes from the 8th Annual Small, Small Press Fair. August 6, 2011. sunny. august. hot. Evie Shockley reading from her chapbook of prose poems (Belladonna*, 2010). She also read from her new book The New Black (Weslyan, 2011). Leigh Stein reads from her sheets and keeps the crowd in stitches. Magus Magnus exponentializes his Heraclitean Pride (Furniture Press). Helen Vitoria reads her

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July 30th & 31st. Governors Island, New York CityQuod si me lyricis vatibus inseresSublimi feriam sidere capiteNote: video quality seems choppy on my machine, and is best viewed with the audio turned off.Brooklyn Ferry to Governors Island from Pier 6 from Douglas Manson on Vimeo.The Ferry ride is quick, but fun. The readings were held along the beautiful & stately Colonel's Row, under a

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Hör auf Mich un ConseilFocus constantly to make your worka celebration of the joys of human existence.Trace the lives and live the tracesof all that surrounds you.Notice children first and seein their eyes the world is small,smaller than the mile in which they move,the smaller circle of a parent’s handmore alive than a thought that revolves& devolves on the edge of pluto's ellipseor such men who

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We are erogenous and emotional nomads who refuse history as bad conscience, and memory as mental detritus. We are determined, each one of us, to learn all the functional skills necessary to have a life rich in experiences, give and take pleasures by way of our demonstrations of mastery over all kinds of things--ordering food and settling bills and shopping and planning fun-filled adventurous

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Jibade-Khalil HuffmanDouglas MansonMolly PrentissNancy WeberSoul Cafe at The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd7420 Fourth Avenue, Bay Ridge, BrooklynTime: ‎7:30PM Friday, June 24th, 2011Jibade-Khalil Huffman is the author of "19 Names For Our Band" (Fence Books, 2008) and "James Brown is Dead" (Future Plan and Program/Project Row Houses, 2011). His works of art and writing have been

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Pâques à New York Seigneur, c'est aujourd'hui le jour de votre Nom,J'ai lu dans un vieux livre la geste de votre PassionEt votre angoisse et vos efforts et vos bonnes parolesQui pleurent dans un livre, doucement monotones.Un moine d'un vieux temps me parle de votre mort.Il traçait votre histoire avec des lettres d'orDans un missel, posé sur ses genoux,Il travaillait pieusement en s'inspirant de

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I like the proliferative momentum of this book. Hank was published last year (2010) by Action Books. I do wonder, though, just how much my sense of it depends on having heard these poems read--or incanted--or what have you, by the author himself before I opened it.While reading this book this morning, a phrase from a Kenneth Patchen recording kept popping up in my mind:"The tune's got shoes!"Hank

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Here is a list, in no particular order, of poetry books accumulated over the past 6-9 months: they were given to me for review; given as a gift from authors, publishers, editors; or I bought them. I want to acknowledge those who have sent me works, read them to me at readings, or told me a lot about how they were made. Poets and poetry publishers will sometimes give their books away (don't tell

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It is an unusual feeling, looking through the corrective lens of hindsight. And it is harmful to eschew foresight in making any life-altering decision. To think of what one is capable of walking into, and willingly--it defies reason. Talk about it. Tell people. From the perspective of friends, or occasional confidants, there is a sympathy that does not seem understanding enough. THIS, one

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May 31, 2008BlueWhat can you do?Three of us wore blue.McCaffery shot two.Please check out: http://www.chax.org/Karen Mac Cormack's _Implexures_ complete text (Chax Press, 2008)Steve McCaffery's _Slightly Left of Thinking_ (Chax Press, 2008)A nice pair!June 2, 2008windyMonday afternoon. Emerging from printed cocoon of old texts in English translation, emerging onto this tight little electronic

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March 4, 2008learning to ask in the past year i learned more about myself than in the previous ten years.April 17, 2008who is that? As far as I can tell, there are two or three readers of this blog. Reasons: 1. i don't tell anyone i have it (i'm shy). 2. i don't post very often.The result is that i love my little bloggy. it feels like mine, there all along,

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July 10, 2007My Personality I took an online personality disorder test, and won!Here's the results:Disorder Rating Information Paranoid: Very High Schizoid: High Schizotypal: Very High Antisocial: High Borderline: Very High Histrionic: Very High

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well. imagine a list of books here. Then imagine a long, thoughtful description of why I think they are great.next, imagine the announcement of exciting works being written, sweated over, decidedly done.then, imagine updates about fantastic events and exhibits visited, and described in gushing, luminous detail.so, while i am getting myself out of this headlock, I have an idea to go into a season

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The little guy remembered a day in the city, just feeling the pace of the space, and the Moment when the Whole Vision, large as it was in his life and mind, had to be spilled out into the ear of an overtaxed, distracted Person with Resources while they were together in an elevator. Yet he was unable to speak at first, burdened by an accumulated history of debt, unpaid bills, scraps of paper with

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Born in 1911 on December 13 in Youngstown, Ohio.Kenneth, you are an old soul. I think of you not at all dead in 1972, but still here, three years older than my grandmother (who died this past August at age 96), continuing to make picture poems for social causes and protests across the globe.I'm sure you continue to draw new word-animals across all the bounding walls of heaven, and William Blake

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Hi.I tried posting some short films here, but they wouldn't load.Local news: I'm writing a play. Reviews of Ed Sanders' recent 2 volumes of selected poetic works have appeared in Boog City #66, a New York City poetry newspaper. How many poetry newspapers are there in the world?I will continue to try loading these films.Works for Celery Flute: The Kenneth Patchen Newsletter are strongly

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From Ideas of Order (1936)Poet, be seated at the piano.Play the present, its hoo-hoo-hoo,Its shoo-shoo-shoo, its ric-a-nic,Its envious cachinnation.If they throw stones upon the roofWhile you practice arpeggios,It is because they carry down the stairsA body in rags.Be seated at the piano.That lucid souvenir of the past,The divertimento;That airy dream of the future,The unclouded concerto . . .The

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I had the pleasure of writing about Wallace Stevens when Greg Gerke asked for "something, anything" about his poetry (or prose). You can read that, and many other reflections and musings about Stevens by going to the Big Other literary website. Scroll down to find the page.*.*

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Here is the new cover for the third edition of my first full-length book from 2005. It should be available for purchase here at this blog in just a few weeks. Let me know what you think of this design. I think it looks great, myself. I'm actively seeking a publisher for my second book, now titled A Normal Line of Work. If you have seen any versions of this poem (now housed here under a

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Poetry and Literature courses help strengthen the mind, open the senses and heal the heart so that one can easily confront, outwit and address with eloquence life's many problems and dilemmas. They also allow us have some noisy fun along the way! Literature is an aid to thinking, remembering and resolving--and the study of poetry as a musical/visual speech-act can become a constant throughout

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"The formation of new social conditions makes the struggle to earn a living uncertain and hampers the fulfillment of daily duties that, not finding broad roads, change form and direction at every instant, spurred on by the fear that arises from the probability and proximity of poverty. With the spirit thus divided among contradictory and intranquil loves, and the concept of literature shaken at

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While I didn't know Bob Bowen, I'm horrified by what happened two weeks ago, and that a creative, talented person has died because he was hit while riding his bike in Manhattan.Story here: Community Mourns Musician*.*

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Socrates Sculpture GardenThis past Thursday we were experiencing a day of perfect weather here in our fair city, so a friend and I headed out from Bay Ridge by train and bicycle to visit the Socrates Sculpture Garden in Long Island City, Queens.But before I rave about the park, I have to get something off my chest.One thing I depend on are the bike lanes in New York City. Of course there are

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I'm writing this blog post over against another piece of writing I need to be working on (though it may not be as important as this).In the era of socialized media (and not a socialized society) via the internet, I find I tune in on poetry news quite a bit. Poetry groups are very interesting subcultures to both be a member of and to try to understand from an objective distance. Tuning-in on

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I am a less seasoned communicator (aka schmoozer) than I would like to be. It's one reason I write so much, publish so little. On the other hand, I haven't yet built my Watts Towers, or written my Ark.I think in my hypothetical "li'l list o'fixations," the lead item is that I am predisposed to think I am being misunderstood by everyone. I leave many a conversation thinking I didn't really get

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To Red Hook from Yellow Hookthe wind is very strong, please hold the handle statue of a doughboyseathemed jetsam-covered shantylabyrinthine sparkly storebrick warehouses with black shutterscranes and ikeasshorebirds and tugboatspearlescence of diamonds on the oily harbor waterstwenty-dollar entreesmay you forever sparkle and forever shinemay you dance dancea black leotard trancethe double

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The following list incorporates available courses I am prepared to teach, individually or collaboratively, autonomously at free schools & schools of the future, or according to departmental guidelines at schools, colleges, yeshivas, universities and polytechnical institutions. Each course is designed to present a field of inquiry and discovery, and to develop writing, critical thinking and

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Don't forget the big time Douglas Manson poetry reading in Boston, Massachusetts, along with 89, yup, that's Eighty-Nine, other poets. And maybe more??July 31.Outpost 186.2:32 p.m.Cambridge, Mass.The Origin of BaseballSomeone had been walking in and outOf the world without comingTo much decision about anything.The sun seemed too hot most of the time.There weren't enough birds aroundAnd the hills

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Big time Douglas Manson poetry reading: Saturday, July 31 at 2:32 p.m. I will read for 8 minutes.Where?OUTPOST 186186 1/2 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge (Boston, Mass.)I guess this video is Rated R. And Jim's my label-mate! C U in Boston! 90 poets, 90 bucks (if you live in NYC).JIM BEHRLE FOR POETEEVEE from A. Lee Abelson on Vimeo.

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photo by Geoffrey GatzaBartleby, the Sportscaster A Novella by Ted Pelton. Boulder, Colo.: Subito Press, 2010. 73 pp.buy it here. (SPD)The precious gift of a few hours free from parenting, working, cleaning up the spilt milk, fretting over love’s delicate fibers and the looming necessity of home repair: this is the time I use to sit down for a visit with Herman Melville. Bartleby the Scrivener:

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The Memorial for Leslie Scalapino on Monday at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was a wrenching, sad, but also incredibly loving collective expression of grief and elation. Though I never met her, she seemed to be everywhere Monday and Tuesday, especially in my thoughts, and as a kind of energy and force--so that my class today, beginning with Emily Dickinson's poem "Tell all the Truth

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Today is PLAY DAY. A rare moment between gigs, where I decide to cocoon it like beckham and hike the pristine Alps of all my undiscovered countries, where I regurgitate my true colors in the same way Alexander von Humboldt's pomeranian throw-pillow spits mysterious lyrics about Bulgarian bait shops. It's just like blogging from a shed in the Hudson Valley, except that now all its unlocked

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Hi.You are likely to be one of my 7 daily readers.I'm probably either related to you or got all sweaty with you sometime in the near or distant past.If you aren't one of these people, then welcome! I apologize for the sticky sweet intimacy of my greeting.I'm tragically distractable. That's why my posts aren't as prosodically vitamin-packed and irradiated with x-ray infrared theory missiles as my

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The internet has grown increasingly a space for literature as time goes by. As a child, books were so wondrous and magical I couldn't help thinking, outside of the fame I would achieve once I appeared on television, perhaps on the Junior version of my favorite TV game shows like Joker's Wild or Wheel of Fortune, that the greatest success in my lifetime would be to write and publish a novel--and

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A friend called to wish me a happy birthday. We've been friends for over 15 years. If I thought she wanted me to mention her name, I'd gladly post it here, but she might not.Below is the portion of our conversation relevant to my new poem:"So have you been writing any poetry?""Yes! I just wrote a poem. Hang on."[reads poem]"Boy, that's racy.""Do you think?""That's what happens when you turn

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Richard Ownes is traveling a river in his poem. The river of time. He titles his book delaware memoranda, though I don’t find any instructions here. A 93-page book of memos? Ownes is a fine man, loving husband, editor and publisher of a good journal called damn the caesars. The last I heard he is also studying poetry in Buffalo. He’s kept up a lot of correspondence with the poets he likes.

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I've decided that, two days into my "paid criticism" effort, I could go down to Rob's Word Shop on Tuesday and buy three sentences from him. With about 10 words per sentence, this would cost me $30. That's a lot of money to buy three sentences of constructive criticism. Do people who write blogs even read many blogs? My birthday is coming up. Maybe someone could go to Rob and buy 30 words

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Poetry workshops afford us the chance to pay money to a college or university or institution so that other people will say stuff about our poetry right to our face in a room.The poetry communities of the United States are fun to hang out with. We usually like each other's poems, and we often get together in a room to say our poems, though we don't often say something at the time about the poems

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The Chapbook Festival at the CUNY Graduate Center hosted a number of exciting presses on May 3 and 4.little scratch pad press was there, and offered instant publishing of new works for attendees. The press will be working on new editions in this format in upcoming weeks, so stay tuned for event information.The Festival offered a good way for the press to get back up to scratch.Here are the new

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Today is the last day of the CUNY Chapbook Festival. Yesterday I shared my table with the Greying Ghost Press from Salem, Massachusetts. They were very cool humans, makers of beautiful chapbooks, but I forgot to write their names down for the sake of the blog, and they've gone home today. They gave away little tiny Gumby dolls and homemade buttons, as well as folded single-sheet poems.POETS!

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Where: CUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities.365 Fifth Avenue, ManhattanMarathon Reading ScheduleMONDAY, MAY 32-3 PMRiver Poets Journal/Lilly Press: Phoebe WilcoxPoinciana Paper Press: Angelique V. Nixon2nd Ave Poetry: Jill MagiBateau Press: James GrinwisBelladonna*: E. Tracy Grinnell3-4 PMBOOK Works: Estha WeinerH_NGM_N: Ben MirovCervena Barva Press: Susan LewisCUNY Lost & Found: Josh

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Come to the chapbook festival! I'll either be wearing a soup kettle on my head, or a lovely service representative's shop floor apron. In any case, I will be calm and professional to the point of impersonality, though my heart will be bursting from its ribcage in the hopes you will want to hang out with me.Bring poems! The kind that really work! Get published in a rare limited edition!Here's

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She wore black, and a hint of makeup. Her clothes fit tightly against her body, her rounded breasts, the smooth curve of her hips. The collar of her shirt flush against her skin, the neckline modest but offering a glimpse of the top of the curving of her breasts. Her face was round and generous, her lips not overfull, but ample. She had two voices: an assertive, informing tone, and

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How good it is to know that life, love and things can get better. Always.This here ol' wetbog meatbag w/the wobbly legs is feeling some momentum again.Look again soon for reviews, ravings, ripostes and ruckus.I'd trumpet the efforts of my dear friends, magical writers all, in a very specific way here, but an editorial decision to alter some of the original content of this blog as published in

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Things are moving very slowly here.Very slowly.S-L-O-W-L-Yi hope that's all you wanted to know.i'm the very slowed-down grandson.*.*

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Douglas Manson[address & phonewithheld]dougmanson@rocketmail.comObjectiveSeeking a position as full-time professor of poetry, literature or writing; editor or publisher; events coordinator; administrative assistant or accounts manager.Professional ExperienceAdjunct Professor of English. LaGuardia Community College. August 2009-present. Courses taught: Basic Writing, Writing Through

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In the late fall/early winter of '05, Isabelle Pelissier offered me the use of her studio (sometimes called The Steel Bar) at the TriMain Building in Buffalo. For just over a month I prepared work for a January show at Rust Belt Books. I called it "The Real. It's Nothing, Really?". I sold some of the works & after the opening floated on a pink cloud of happiness for weeks. I owe its success

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I lost harmonies in the crude iron line-shot sympathy on stark dystopian vine.--"The Shy Autos" in Sugar In The Raw, a brunch-infused assemblage book we made at Jonathan Skinner and Isabelle Pelissier's house on Huntington Ave., Buffalo, on April 22, 2000. W/Chris Alexander, Michael Kelleher, myself (credited as "Douglass Finley Crashpants"), Linda Russo, and Edwin Torres.Moody as usual. But

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Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pmLocation: 99 Sutton St. (American Cork Building #204) Greenpoint, BrooklynAs part of a new series of readings/events at Eric Gelsinger's house, Douglas Manson will offer a discussion of William Blake's visual works followed by a presentation of some of his poetry.Blake is cool because he’s a workshop for the mind of his readers, whether they

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not forget corvus corax.

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The following poem took three years to write, and was edited over the span of another year and a half. Generous friends have given me to understand it is largely musical, rather than informative or intellectual. Its only truly complete version took place on April 23, 2008, as a performance with interruptions by other singers, poets and friends. This version of the poem is a residue; as a

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With Naked Foot will be featured in the upcoming Poets House Showcase of new poetry books in April. Jonathan will also be conducting two seminars and a workshop at Poets House entitled "Ecopoetics After Copenhagen" in May of this year. For more information about this seminar, please visit the "eco" page at Poets House.In the February/March 2010 issue of The Poetry Project Newsletter, Edmund

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I was shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Gabrielle Boulaine on January 29, when we lost a bright, generous, fiery and incredibly perceptive poet from Buffalo. For a little while we lived with just a few scant yards between us on Buffalo's west side, where she worked day and night to produce, promote and organize the Nickel City Poetry Slam events and Slam media for the Buffalo area.

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See image for venue. Take the G-line to Bedford-Nostrand, get out on the Bedford end of the platform, walk two blocks North to DeKalb, then left onto DeKalb, the Cafe is on the left at 520.Writer, poet, educator, sometime blogger and publisher, Douglas Manson is the author of _Roofing and Siding_ and _The Table_, both of which he will gladly send to your inbox as .pdf files if you email him. He

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Book can be purchased here. or here.What a strange, albeit almost predictable novel: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore. This is Midwestern American prose. It is good and, like any significant relationship you might make with a Midwesterner, you will want to make an early commitment to this book based on its immediate charm and wholesomeness. I was glad I

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& then I saw a bird.It resembled the kingfisher. It nested at sea. As it sat on its egg, all the seas were calmed.Happy solstice!

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This is kind of like a quiz plus words about why you chose this particular person.1. Who is the most beautiful person you have ever met?2. Who is the smartest person you have ever met?3. Who is the funniest person you have ever met?4. Who is the most erotic and sexy person you have ever met?I will post my own answers within a week. You don't have to name people if you don't want to.Please

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If you aren't certain enough of yourself to sign your own garbage talk on my my blog, then please keep your opinions to yourself. Have a nice day.*.*

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The press (which is really me) is moving again. In my New York City perambulations, I first stayed in Bed-Stuy. So I moved to Bensonhurst, where I loved the neighborhood & now I'm moving to Bay Ridge. I've got an unlimited metrocard, so I'll be able to span the boroughs from those verdant shores. R-line UP! Please do come help me with the moving party this Saturday. This time all the heavy

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Um, uh, well, like. . .I guess, um, since there was so much inarticulate anxiety in my last post on the ability to think the "now", Ron Silliman has stepped in to announce it: it's Tao Lin's Shoplifting From American Apparel. As in the Jay-Z video , all our pure products are now in place. I've spotted at least four well-placed product names in this video, but I'm sure there are many more, and

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One of the more recent and important questions here at Unbecoming and Undisbecoming has been, "Are we capable of recognizing the new?" Meaning that, as we are capable of seeing and saying, can we effectively describe an important change in attitude, a shift in the productive, generative spirit of our time or the general appearance of a content that demands a new form?The question arose in regard

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Miriam Atkinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7032223636221547523.post-18677108410236416562009-10-19T01:28:00.010-04:002009-10-19T10:20:22.763-04:00

Trees FallingOn WordsThe Robert Creeley ConferenceTravelogue of the InteriorBuffalo and EnvironsOctober 13-14, 2006.Account written January 8-9, 2007, during the rains of winter, amidst some small home improvements and repairs.The lamp has been taken apart, I find there's an armature that's burnt out. This won't take much, a dollar or two at the hardware store.Charles Bernstein kicked things off

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There has never been more than one successful strategy: publish the best writing you can get with the highest production values you can and distribute it as far as your funds and energy permit. Tactically, a poem in the mouth is worth two on the tree.from Speaking for the Dumb: Rants and Other Writings by Poets & Pubs. Cleve, Oh?: greenpandapress. Oct. 2006.*.*

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She felt mortified by her failure, and insulted by the nonchalant behaviour and indifference of Uddereek to her charms and beauty, which even her attentions to him had not prevented her from seeing had been admiringly gazed upon by many another elfin swain who had envied Uddereek his great good fortune in sitting next to her, and would have given anything, even the tips of their tiny moustaches,

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Just listen to this summary of what it “costs” to read a book:Self-publishing companies may produce books for less than $5, but how much does all this production cost readers? In ‘So Many Books,’ Zaid playfully writes that ‘if a mass-market paperback costs $10 and takes two hours to read, for a minimum-wage earner the time spent is worth as much as the book.’ But for someone earning around $50 to

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where titania hid the indian kid& where keats found his feets:in the eglantine,next to the coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,under hot nodding violets, fast-fading and wet,amidst the oxlips (in background),with wild thymes, wild thymes! and wyld stallyns--rowing in eden,in a murmurous haunt of flies, luscious & lulling.the dudes: William Shakespeare and John Keats. Inside they're crying.(

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these are notes.not an argument.so i'm trying to eat good food. smile at the sun. cross on green and stop on red.i read somewhere that saying there were not serious and lasting aesthetic differences among American poets was like throwing a sucker-punch. A mean gesture. Not ameliorative.But maybe our sudden realizations take us aback and we can make new differentiations once we've regained our

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Two cheap hamburgers digesting into useless grease and supplementary globs of unusable energy flow thickly into his blood and nerves as a spreading lethargy. He is sitting at a table in the public library of a small, insignificant city. A grey rain is shrouding heaven’s unwinking light, it seems to him, even as it sustains and renews the emergent blooms and budding limbs of the winterlong

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Here's the program page listing small presses & my featured poet. It's me!Check out the full program here:http://welcometoboogcity.com/bc59.pdf

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sometimes you just hafta to say what the fuck, and when you get done getting mad at everyone else around you, you turn around and see what it is you got spinning on the karma wheel and somehow somehow somehow begin to get the joke that is your life, when compared to the ideal image you formed of it when your were ten years old.so you're one of these thousands of creative souls who decided to

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Poems For The Millennium Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic & Postromantic Poetry. Edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson. 928 pp. 2009.Jerome Rothenberg. Poetics & Polemics 1980-2005. essays and interviews. Co-edited with Steven Clay. University of Alabama Press. 2008.Jerome Rothenberg’s commitment to literary and ritual traditions is both conflictual and

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breaking sudden broadcastamend propose and wed deep analytic needfrom all (to failto all due regardin geste wherethe pain crackledtemple to templei read therenotes on p.o.dpositive enjoymentthat lichensprung from a holeor wholesstitched up in listingmonostichic tonal driftsin snowy deepsour own black trailsbetoken linear fraysto set the self abashin tides or tricksof the velcro eyeto catch at

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a kind of sugary ooze slicks these midaugust dense-sweat agonized self-shoeboxing summer grease is the word wallows, one that only a burning beam refracted from an all-concrete environ melting dead desires into complete jello failures of all formely-working vocabularies and appeals could appreciate. Out of this wispy pudding of joyless crumb-scatter some kind of acetate spore has percolated into

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a note to announce that the press has moved to brooklyn new york after many many years in buffalo. hello brooklyn!! of course, i don't have an actual letterpress, or a mimeo machine, but i do have two computers, a scanner and a black and white printer. as the huge cloud of dust raised by the move has yet to settle, it will be a few weeks before any new writing, publishing and other worthwhile

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"Going to Marbles Town"patrol this good regardthe well beyond the wellonly surmise the variousmeasures on which one mayillumenegative gift of artifacton the variable linecount as game or pressvigilance manifestsof the former selvesselvage the ignore threadssquab of cuyahogaout-patrolled in compassionmovement is not marking linespreconceived in neededextraneous mode like ever-tremblethere in the

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Stupid desire sits in piles of packaging spans vast and empty boxes surroundinga tiny red pilla niacin highWhat pleasure comes in soft folds orshovel-headed burrowing formssome preeminent pulse of settling numbnessice cold viral hot(note: poem written April 2, 2005)

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I’ve always wondered about the meaning of autobiography, and to go with it, the kinds of disclosures that people make about themselves during correspondence interviews (where conversation can take place over vast scales of time and distance). Written interviews, especially like those collected in the third volume of Tom Beckett’s E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The final XIV Interviews +One, focus

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Date: Saturday, June 27, 2009 Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm Location: Karpeles Manuscript Library Street: 453 Porter AvenueVisual poet Geof Huth and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet Tom Beckett will be reading together for the first time in Buffalo this coming Saturday at the Karpeles Manuscript Library, 453 Porter Ave. in Buffalo NY. They will discussing their year-long interview, as well as reading their own

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ENDOCRINOLOGY OPEN MICROPHONE will take place at SUGAR CITY on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, at 7:00 p.m. 19 Wadsworth Street in AllentownThe first featured reader will be SHERRY ROBBINS, author of Snapshots of Paradise and the book Or, The Whale. She has been a writing teacher since 1977. The second featured reader will be DOUGLAS MANSON, author of Roofing and Siding. There will be 10 open slots for

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At long last, a new issue of Celery Flute: The Kenneth Patchen Newsletter is now available!This is a special issue dedicated to the performance of Kenneth Patchen's work--plays, poems, and even some of the issues surrounding the "performance" of the "outsider poet" in literary history. Features in this issue include an interview with Chris Covics of Hollywood's Unknown Theater, special

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We are pleased to announce that Jonathan Skinner's new book of poems, With Naked Foot, is now readily available from little scratch pad editions.Edited and designed by Jonathan Skinner and Douglas Manson, with production taking place in Maine and New York and with production assistance from the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative.Jonathan Skinner edits the journal ecopoetics (issues

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7pm at Sugar City in Allentown with featured readers Aaron Lowinger and Matt Klane.from Aaron Lowinger's Open Night:from Matt Klane's Associated Press:

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I'd like to post a piece from the upcoming issue of Celery Flute, which is a section from a much larger project of mine, one I have taken up and abandoned over the years (sputteringly, alas). My hope is to eventually delineate a verbal-visual criticism that will be as useful for literary studies as it is for the visual arts. The essential sticking point, in my mind, is the degree to which

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Drowsy, uncertain memories form the substrate of Susan Bee’s luminous dream-dramas, where hellfire nightmares interrupt the amorous gestures of courtly paramours, and prim little girls shoot guns at fairies. She evokes the half-waking state when the body grasps for situation in the real world in order to leave behind the strange figures of night-time reverie. An image from the title sequence of

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The Boog City reading and events publishing/booking organization has just "offically" posted full audio links to the Cakeshop Poetry readings that were held as a part of the "Welcome to Boog City" Festival back in September of 2008.You can hear my reading at this link, under the name "Manson Douglas Manson" which is not my legal name, but if repeated often enough, may create an

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This March I was invited to participate in the Wick Poetry Center's 25th Anniversary reading and panel series at Kent State University in Ohio. Seven former Wick fellows and interns were present to discuss their experiences at a number of panels, and at a reading of poetry and short story on the night of March 12. In this interview, I respond to a series of questions about the role I played at

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Edgewisea word incould I getjustnoyou*.*Don't let my previous post fool you into thinking I was unhappy about my experiences as poet/publisher at a Fair--My post was following "scripts" found almost by accident when thinking about my various engagements in writing, as they reflect relationships between writing and the rest of it--living--the overlap, bleed and blend of the ongoing, and the art as

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A Table Fable[plagiarized/altered from the imdb capsule plot summary for Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories"]A poet/publisher named Randy Fishman is a man who simply doesn't want to make goofball poems and chapbooks anymore, and it seems these lyric salads and sandwiches are all that society wants from him. He's unhappy at the moment because his first "serial" poem isn't well received by the public

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This blog is now going to be the "Most Fun On Internet" site. Since a recent Google search for "most fun on internet" brought no results, we here at Unbecoming Normality decided to fix a remarkably horrible situation in computerland. Welcome! We are Most Fun on Internet site! Hey, its better than going to hospital!*.*

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Small Press Month! Mark you Calendars and Daybookslittle scratch pad press is happy to be taking part in a host of events this month, from small press book fairs, readings and panel discussions, fundraisers for local presses, and a special Endocrinology evening of readings/performances to celebrate the poetry of Bonita Z. who suddenly passed away on February 27.Here is the upcoming calendar:March

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