While many of us are going to AWP in Denver, many more aren’t. I’m inviting any poets and writers to help me assemble a very informal event in NYC on Saturday April 10th, ideally. Having some readers, maybe one talk, but more just a gathering for writers in the area. Much is needed. Especially a [...]
Archive for February, 2010
AWP in New York
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Warm Love”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hard Nose the Highway, Van Morrison, Warm Love on February 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As the snow came down hard in New York City I sat with my loves listening to Van Morrison. When “Warm Love” from his 1973 album Hard Nose the Highway came on we had to hear it three more times! While I love that fragile, melancholic acoustic version, I also love this funked up performance. Imagine Van Morrison [...]
Only 2 days left to register for AWP.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AWP 2010 on February 26, 2010 | 72 Comments »
Student registration, with a student ID at check-in, is the best deal at $40. Safari poses some difficulty; Firefox is the way to go, here.
LibriVox: Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged audiobooks, itunes, LibriVox on February 26, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I’ve got quite a bit of driving to do in the days ahead, so I clicked on my handy iTunes store to see what audiobooks are available. At $35.00, on average, I was just about to give up. Until. I. Saw. LibriVox. (They have a website but I think you’re better off just looking at [...]
Innovation’s Altar (or, what’s So New about Innovation?)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blowup, Bram Stoker, David Foster Wallace, Dracula, Infinite Jest, innovation, Leprechaun 4: In Space, Leprechaun in the Hood, Malachi Black, Paul Kincaid, Ron Silliman, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on February 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Regarding “Innovation Redux” by Malachi Black and this post by Ron Silliman (which were both partially responding to something I wrote regarding innovation): I find that one of the sticking points on this subject is that “innovation” is often defined too broadly, or not defined at all. And so it’s easy for terms like “innovative [...]
Why I’m not an Essentialist Even Though I Think Evan Lysacek’s Totally Queer & Should Say So
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
This post is about figure skaters. Is there a connection to arts and culture? Maybe kinda? If not, hopefully Mr. Madera won’t mind. Yesterday, after I posted a facebook item crying foul on Olympic figure skater Evan Lysacek’s sudden romance w/ gymnast Nastia Liukin (This USA Today piece later appeared, then People edited their headline [...]
Big Other Reading Series #8
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cynthia Reeser, Finishing Line Press, Light and Trials of Light, Mel Bosworth, Prick of the Spindle on February 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Mel Bosworth reads “The Mountain Road,” by Cynthia Reeser.
Side by Side #5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Queens of the Stone Age, Side by Side, The Kinks on February 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Big Other Contributors’ News, #14
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Tim Jones-Yelvington will participate in this weekend’s Orange Alert reading series, co-sponsored this month by Monkeybicycle. 6:00 PM at the Whistler, 2421 North Milwaukee, Chicago. Other readers include Anne Valente, Brandon Will, Amanda Marbais, Charlie Nadler and Michael Czyzniejewski. John Madera reviewed Brian Evenson’s Baby Leg for The Collagist. Shya Scanlon has work in the [...]
Hey, Collaborator
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bill Meissner, Elisa Gabbert, Jack Driscoll, Kathleen Rooney, PANK on February 22, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Outside where I work there are two homeless people jamming. One is playing flute, the other, guitar. There’s no better backdrop for thoughts on collaboration, even if I do wish they’d quiet down and stop drowning out my music. Collaboration is, for me, a fairly foreign beast. One I appreciate and look up to, but [...]
Write Your Best Fake Hosho McCreesh Poem Title Contest
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Contest, Hosho McCreesh, Sunnyoutside on February 22, 2010 | 18 Comments »
Overwhelmed by the kind responses to last week’s post, Hosho McCreesh is graciously offering his last two remaining author’s copies of For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed. I’m going to match those two, which means FOUR copies are up for grabs. For your chance to win a copy, please [...]
Crap Crap, Glorious Crap
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2010 | 10 Comments »
There’s a thoughtful post in the Barrelhouse blog abt the movie “Four Christmases” and making fiction “happen.” I think this is a great reflection on the kind of fiction that aims to conceal its scaffolding, realism that seeks verisimilitude. I like this kind of writing. I also like writing aware of its own artifice. And [...]
“[T]he pseudo-intellectuals at Big Other…”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, How Fiction Works, James Wood, Nigel Beale on February 21, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Nigel Beale, a “writer, broadcaster, bibliophile,” and, it appears, fan of and apologist for James Wood, insults Big Other’s contributors and commenters in a post that can be found HERE. Without a semblance of critical thinking, he calls A D Jameson’s essay, “Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works”, a “lengthy [...]
Deform this book!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged &NOW BOOKS, Gretchen E. Henderson, Plonsker, Tom La Farge, Wendy Walker on February 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Lake Forest College hosts The Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize. The deadline for the 2011 residency–which comes with $10,000, 2-month room and board at Lake Forest, and first book publication by &NOW Books–is April 1, 2010. The genre is poetry or cross-genre, and there is NO ENTRY FEE! That’s right. Apply! We also [...]
Unearned
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I have been coming to the conclusion lately that we learn more about how fiction does and doesn’t work from poor stories than we do from good ones. A crude first novel, for instance, can often be extraordinarily revealing about an author’s subsequent work. Gene Wolfe’s Operation Ares, for instance, is a pretty dreadful book, [...]
Why Do We Have Readings? (A Polemic)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne Waldman, Annual Arizona Spoken Word Festival and Slab City Slam, Basil Bunting, Beat poetry, Bill Allegrezza, Candy Slam, Charles Olson, Cut-Up Method, Dada, Encyclopedia Show, Erin Teegarden, Ira S. Murfin, Jennifer Karmin, John Cage, Kathleen Hanna, Kill rock Stars, Larry Sawyer, Louis Zukofsky, Marc Smith, Miranda July, Myopic Poetry Series, playgiarism, Rec Room, Robert Ashley, Series A, Shanny Maney-Magnuson, Slam, sound poetry on February 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This is an intro I wrote for a panel discussion that I moderated last September: “Why Do We Have Poetry Readings?”, part of the daylong Series A Mini-Conference: Conversations about Poetry, held at the Hyde Park Art Center and curated by Bill Allegrezza. I thought it might be of interest given Shya’s avant-garde post and [...]
Kathleen Rooney & Writers’ Loyalties
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Is anybody following Kathleen Rooney’s situation? I felt legitimately shaken up earlier this week when I found out Kathleen (I should probably do a full disclosure thingie clarifying she’s my future publisher, right?) had been fired from her job working for Senator Durbin’s Chicago office. Without fully realizing it, I think I looked to Kathleen [...]
For those of you with students of the creative writing persuasion…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alex Phillips, Amherst, Charles D'Ambrosio, Dara Wier, Heather Christle, James Tate, Joy Williams, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Leni Zumas, Lisa Olstein, Mark Doty, Matthew Zapruder, Michael Kimball, Noy Holland, Paul Lisicky, Stephen Graham Jones, Thomas Sayers Ellis, University of Massachusetts on February 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Please tell them about the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts. This is the best summer writing conference around. (I’m a little biased, to be sure, having been the program’s associate director for several years and now serving as one of its writers in residence.) It’s an incredible June week in lovely [...]
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