Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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It ain't the Stray Dog, but my friends, it is a cabaret. It has been said that we are blessed with a resident demon. He taunts us to write, to overcome even ourselves. As Ms. Bishop tells us, there is only one way to oust the marauder: Write it!
NOT TO BE MISSED
- 12.16.09 - Projection - featuring Nick Flynn, Jason Schneiderman, Joseph Fasano, and Diego Baez @ The Center For Performance Research (361 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn), Curated by Zach Pace. 8PM, $5
- 12.16.09 - Sapience - choreography showcase featuring the lovely Cori Kresge @ the Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune St., 11th Floor, Manhattan, 8PM
DEATHLINES
- 1.1.10 - Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art - $500 and publication for 1st place in poetry, judged by Dan Beachy-Quick. Submit up to five poems, $12 entry. http://www.columbiajournal.org/contests.htm
- 1.15.10 - "Discovery"/Boston Review 2010 Poetry Contest - 10-page manuscript, $10 entry, judged by Nick Flynn, Claudia Rankine, Susan Howe. Guidelines: http://www.92y.org/content/literary_programs.asp#3
BOOK YOUR LIFE
- Actual Air - David Berman
- Culture and Anarchy - Matthew Arnold
- Duties of An English Foreign Secretary - MacGregor Card
- The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
- We Meet - Kenneth Patchen
- Lyric Photography - Walker Evans
- War Music - Christopher Logue
- Dialogue of the Dogs - Miguel De Cervantes
2 comments:
And what, pray tell, are your thoughts on this Mr. Gertzog?
I am increasingly finding Louise intolerable. She makes a few sound points here, but it's her presumed stature, or perhaps self-exclusiveness, that rattles me.
You want to see worse? Find Sharon Olds speaking at the same year's Forum.
You want to see better? Find Lyn Heijinian.
I don't know that I thought anything about it as much as wondered what other people thought about it.
I guess it seems like the ultimate message here is "Be reasonable". This strikes me as among the worst things you could possibly say regarding poetry - unless there's a standard of reasonableness out there to which I'm not attached, which is probably the case.
This is, of course, the exact same thing which you have said. More and more, most of these people you just want to go "Who the fuck are you?" -Unless, of course, they just want to talk straight about their poems.
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