Frankenstein vs. the World

Tags: paul baribeau.

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Sat., 7/31

Magdelena Zurawski
Joey Yearous-Algozin
Holly Melgard
Robert Dewhurst

2 p.m., SW corner of 6th & Market
(the milkweed sculpture-fountain next to the Dow Chemical building)
hosted by CAConrad / Transgressors
Philadelphia

Tags: holly melgard, joey yearous-algozin, magdelena zurawski.

Tags: mama cass elliot.

ON Contemporary Practice 2

East Coast Release Party

oncontemporaries.org

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I was delighted to write a long-distance intro for Bruce Boone’s reading in Portland’s Spare Room series this past Wednesday:

Bruce has been all over the place lately. Robin Tremblay-McGaw quietly reprinted the entire Ted chap in question a couple months back over at X Poetics, alongside her own not-so-mini essay on the text to boot. Plus more reviews of Century of Clouds popping up at 3 A.M. (by Colin Herd) and Sustainable Aircraft (by Dana Ward). And Rob Halpern takes on Boone, Jameson, and Perelman — all via Steve Abbott’s Soup — over at Jacket.

Tags: bruce boone.

Check out Joey Yearous-Algozin riffing on Bob Grenier’s Sentences, alongside Jena Osman and Bob Perelman, in the current issue of Al Filreis‘ PoemTalk. Here’s a snippet:

JY-A: They all look very, very similar. But when you start going through all 500 of them, they are doing some radically different things. There’s some that aren’t even words. Or, I think there’s one that there’s Ds just spalyed out, almost like a concrete poem, that’s just sitting in there. Which doesn’t seem to fit with this other sort-of very . . . we’ve kind of been talking about maybe domestic, or ‘throw-away’ words.

AF: The celebration of young Amy learning to speak . . .

BP: Bits of household conversation . . .

JY-A: So there’s all of these different moves. And I think that he keeps it various enough that our tendency to fix on wondering whether or not that one suffices — ’cause there’s 500 of them, right? And they all sort of sit in that network of the 500. So in a weird way it puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the individual card as you experience it. But then taking away that pressure as it sits in that network. And so as you start to isolate it and remove it, in different contexts, then I think you can say ‘I have a liking for this.’ Which is really subjective. And really wonderful that you are able to say . . . like, “Walking down Washington Avenue.” Every city has a Washington Avenue, and I remember the first time I was walking down Washington Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin, and I realized, ‘I’m Walking down Washington Avenue.’ Walking down Washington Avenue. And you know, you repeat it to yourself, and you have an experience with it. And the poem has sort-of that strange existence.

JO: Until you come to Philadelphia and walk down Washington Avenue.

AF: Get hit by a trolley!

Tags: joseph yearous-algozin.

My favorite conceptual poet, Chris Sylvester, is now blogging: http://sisteract.tumblr.com/.

Here is a tremendous video of Cap’n Jazz playing my favorite song “Que Surete!” at the Fireside Bowl in Chicago in 1995. In a moment of clarity last week, Chris and I realized over some sunny afternoon mint juleps that Cap’n Jazz might be our greatest mutual poetics influence.

Tags: chris sylvester, super mario brothers glitches.

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When I watch this video the walls melt a little bit and the spirit hits me and I fall down.

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