PoemTalk

It's the Al Filreis again:

For each episode of PoemTalk four friends and colleagues in the world of poetry and poetics convene to collaborate on a close (but not tooclose) reading of a single poem. We talk through and around the poem, sometimes beyond it, often disagreeing, always excited by what we discover as we talk, and perhaps after twenty-five minutes we've opened up the verse to a few new possibilities and have gained for a poem that interests us some new readers and listeners.

Episodes so far include Oppen, Stein, Pound, Hejinian, Ginsberg and Perelmen.

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Faits Divers de la Poésie Américain et Britannique

Sometimes you wish you had thought of it first:

Inspired by the anonymous "Faits Divers" which for 6 months in 1906 appeared in the French daily Le Matin, a new anonymous collective has launched its own blog of "Faits Divers," with news briefs from the American and British Poetry Worlds.  ... Since the facts/news stories that Feneon works with are those "hot off the wire," and come in over the "telegraph lines," they are already of necessity brief and dryily "factual" "telegrammatic" style, one which influenced a great many early Modernist poets, fictioneers and artists.

via DBC and Tom Raworth

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Viral Art

via the BBC

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This is the Motherfucking Remix

Marcus Slease:

I did a collaboration with the poet Brian Howe around five years ago. Some of it was published in Tony Tost's Faascicle magazine. Well now Scantily Clad Press has published the final version. Just published yesterday. it is a very strange little thing.  A remix alright. Lots of found language and sounds. Swerves out of the personal. Away from the father. Away from the thick syrup of the body. Sound dictates.

Read it over at the lovely issuu. Also, read this post and this post by Marcus.

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Word For/Word Issue 14

New issue online from Word For/Word.

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Camille Martin

If you're going to make a website for your poetry, do it like Camille Martin and make sure you have lots of stuff to show.

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Membrane

Newness at dark mucus.

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Wordsalad

The internet provides poetry with a means to disseminate audio work cheaply or freely to whoever wants to listen to it.

Wordsalad is a concept.  For the time being it manifests itself as a weekly radio program on WSUM-FM, Madison.

Each one-hour installment includes recordings of contemporary authors performing their own work, whether intended for page or stage.

The content is (kind of) arranged in advance, according to a set of rules and random operations. As the host, I don’t know how it will really sound until it’s in process. If you’d like to submit audio of your work, contact me at pabaker55 (at) sbcglobal (dot) net

Paul Baker is taking full advantage of these new outlets. Wordsalad is well worth your time.

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"We'll Meet Again, Don't Know Where, Don't Know When..."

Patrick Cockburn in the LRB about America's timeline for exiting Iraq:

Astonishingly, this momentous agreement was greeted with little surprise or interest outside Iraq. On the day that it was finally passed by the Iraqi parliament international attention was focused on the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. For some months polls in the US have shown that the economic crisis has replaced the Iraqi war in the minds of American voters. In any case, Bush has declared so many spurious milestones to have been passed in Iraq over the years that when a real turning point is reached people are naturally sceptical about its significance. The White House is anyway so keen to keep quiet about what it has agreed in Iraq that it hasn’t even published a copy of the SOFA in English. Some senior officials in the Pentagon privately criticise Bush for conceding so much, but the American media are fixated on the incoming Obama administration and no longer pay much attention to the doings of Bush and Co.

"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

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Emily Dickinscribble

Visual work by Zachary Sifuentes:

What does sound look like in [Emily] Dickinson’s poetry? With their associative logic, tangential reasoning, and circuitry, Dickinson’s lines hint at a shuffling of the mind.  In other words, the linear behavior of her poems is anything but linear.

Instead, her lines are large flocks of starlings, or cormorants, or even sparrows, fugitive from apprehension. 

via Al Filreis

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