Brandon Shimoda & Jennifer Karmin with guest performers Cara Benson, Claire Donato, Thom Donovan, Curtis Jensen, Pierre Joris, Michael Leong, and Ronaldo Wilson at The Poetry Project 131 E. 10th Street, NYC admission $8 students & seniors $7 http://poetryproject.org BRANDON SHIMODA was born on the west coast of the United States, and has since lived [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Brandon Shimoda & Jennifer Karmin Reading @ The Poetry Project, Nov. 8th, 8pm
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brandon Shimoda, Jennifer Karmin on October 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Twenty lines a day, genius or not.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 20 lines a day, dalkey archive, Harry Mathews, november, stendhal on October 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Who’s this guy? What? You don’t know? It’s Stendhal! Who decided at one time or another that he would write “twenty lines a day, genius or not.” If that isn’t genius, I don’t know what is. Some time later, Dalkey Archive author Harry Mathews followed in Stendhal’s footsteps and also decided that he would write [...]
The Great Controversy #742: Nico–awesome or awful?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Nico on October 29, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I say the former.
Days of the Weak
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Seven days without kindness makes one weak, and those weeks make me think about drafting a petition to change the days to James Joyce’s perhaps far more accurate naming of the days in Finnegans Wake, that is, to the following: Moanday, Tearsday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, and Shatterday; but I don’t want to use his proposed [...]
DAPHNE ZUNIGA! SWIMMING POOL! CARROT!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inspired by yesterday’s celebration of ZUNIGAMAS, I’ve launched a new tumblr blog – DAPHNE ZUNIGA! SWIMMING POOL! CARROT!
How Do You Measure a Bookstore’s Worth?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2010 | 13 Comments »
I live not too far from Politics and Prose. In my opinion, it’s the only really great bookstore left in DC. It’s also a neighborhood institution. Now its future is uncertain, due to the death of one of the owners and the possible sale of the store. There are a lot of people who love [...]
ZUNIGAMAS
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Today is a TRANSNATIONAL HOLIDAY! That’s RIGHT! Today is the birthday of inimitable actress DAPHNE ZUNIGA, ambassador of FABULOUS! ZUNIGAMAS!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!!! According to Wikipedia, Daphne Zuniga is best known for her roles in SPACEBALLS and on MELROSE PLACE and ONE TREE HILL, but I’m pretty sure she was also in some classic B, [...]
Looking at Movements, part 4: New Wave (UK)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bernard Gendron, Bernie Rhodes, Caroline Coon, Dizzy Gillespie, Dr. Feelgood, Edie and the Hot Rods, Elvis Costello, John Ingham, Jon Savage, Malcolm McLaren, Melody Maker, Sex Pistols, Slaughter and the Dogs, The Boomtown Rats, The Jam, The Only Ones, The Police, The Stranglers, XTC on October 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What do we talk about when we talk about New Wave? It’s more complicated than post-punk and No Wave, the term having been almost from the start defined more loosely, and applied to a wider variety of musical styles. But let’s dig into it…
At the risk of total self-indulgence…
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I wrote this in the third grade (1990-1991). It betrays its influence in romantic action comedies of the 1980′s. Our third grade teacher Miss Viernow put a director’s chair in one corner of the room. She encouraged us to write stories and once a week we would gather in that corner, and one by one [...]
Ah, the great profession!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Can’t embed this for some reason, but funny: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7451115
Autocritique
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, autocritique, Big Other, Douglas Storm, Greg Gerke, HTMLGiant, Jimmy Chen, John Madera, Michael Leong, Mike Kitchell, Rebekah Silverman, Shya Scanlon, Tadd Adcox, University of Scranton on October 26, 2010 | 24 Comments »
re: Jimmy Chen’s (very funny) obit for this site, and some comments made there by my friends Tadd Adcox and Rebekah Silverman, not to mention Big Other’s recent one-year anniversary, I thought I’d take some time and a post to perform some autocritique. (I grew up on the campus of the University of Scranton, among [...]
What the Poetry Wants: A Review of Monkey Bars & an Interview with Matthew Lippman & Jen Woods
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Part I: Overview / Review I treat my mailbox like a little kid, my inanimate child, the son I see when I come home from a long day of work, the first person I stop by to say hello to before dinner & bedtimes & all the et cetera. & sometimes I chastise him for [...]
“All the words are falling”: Estela Lamat Poems in New Hessien EP
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Estela Lamat, Fluid Audio, Handstitched*, Hessien, Obelisk|Stelea on October 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
[Hessien - We Don't Want to Live in Your Dreams (Bonus track via Fluid Audio)] Estela Lamat, the Chilean poet I translate, has contributed four new poems in English to Hessien’s EP “Obelisk|Stelea,” which was just released this month by Fluid Audio and Handstitched*. This limited edition (200 copies) is beautifully printed with letter pressed covers [...]
Strike 1
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2010 | 25 Comments »
The first rule of being a good and decent human being is to treat others with respect and kindness and to ensure the safety and comfort of those you encounter even when it may imperil your own comfort and safety—because this is the basis—the absolute bedrock—of everything.
Any Other Completists Out There?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2010 | 52 Comments »
I received some astonished looks the other day when I mentioned that I was in the middle of reading Robert Lowell’s collected poetry, with the intention of reading all a thousand plus pages of it. And so I wonder if anyone else has this kind of tendency, that is, reading collections from start to finish, [...]
Stat & Astonished
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2010 | 15 Comments »
As a fiction writer — primarily — I think a lot about imaginative literature and how it fits, nowadays, in a tightly-wired yet tatterdemalion world. Yet over the weekend the most provocation considerations on the issue turned up in the papers, the New York Times. On the Times “Opinion” pages, recently, they’ve invited contributions from philosophers. [...]
An Exciting Upcoming Panel and Reading
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Down With Lindsay Hunter
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daddy's, Featherproof, Lindsay Hunter on October 25, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Lindsay Hunter’s debut collection, Daddy’s will kick you right in the nads. It’s unrelenting, unabashed set of stories will surprise you, make you laugh, and most importantly make you want to read it over and over. One of the best story collections I’ve read in a while (right up there with Paula Bomer’s Baby, Mary [...]
The Midnight’s Marsupium Defacement Project III: (Eric Elshtain & J.A. Tyler)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eric Elshtain, J. A. Tyler, Midnight's Marsupium on October 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m happy to present the latest installment of defacements/refacements of Midnight’s Marsupium: Eric Elshtain’s “er_aced _plan_” of wild cross-outs and marginalia and J.A. Tyler’s “exhumed” sequence (which seems so much like René Magritte‘s graffiti). Thanks so much, guys, for these surprising contributions! Check out the previous results: Ryan Bradley, Sommer Browning, Anne Keefe, & Jared Schickling The 9th Grade [...]
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