Frankenstein vs. the World

I am in Mexico City for the week. The air here is warm and wonderful.

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Tags: caconrad, dorothea lasky, lee ann brown.

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Tags: bernadette mayer, brenda coultas, caconrad, caitlin newcomer, deborah poe, dorothea lasky, geoffrey gatza, joey yearous-algozin, lee ann brown, liz kotz, myung mi kim, sam truitt, sean reynolds, stephen cope.

Pilgrimage to Buffalo this April Fool’s Day to celebrate the amazing life & work of the one and only Bernadette Mayer. Modes of Love and Reason: A Bernadette Mayer Symposium will feature critical talks by scholars Stephen Cope (Bard College), Lee Ann Brown (St. John’s University), Caitlin Newcomer (Florida State University), Deborah Poe (Pace University), Sam Truitt (Station Hill Press), and Joey Yearous-Algozin (SUNY-Buffalo); a roundtable of contemporary poets CAConrad, Dorothea Lasky, and Brenda Coultas discussing their own elective affinities with Mayer; and a keynote address by art critic Liz Kotz (Words to Be Looked At). Bernadette Mayer herself will take the stage at 8 p.m. for a reading.

Click thru the poster above for the complete schedule and program. Thanks to Chicago illustrator & consummate correspondent Grace Tran for re-lettering the beautiful Joe Brainard drawing from A Golden Book of Words.

Tags: bernadette mayer, brenda coultas, buffalo poetics program, caconrad, caitlin newcomer, deborah poe, dorothea lasky, joey yearous-algozin, lee ann brown, liz kotz, sam truitt, stephen cope.

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

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I feel incredibly, emotionally kindred with this song. Basically, the lullaby and video combined describe my interior monologue 7 days of the week to a tee. Only watch if you want to delve deep into the child-realms of my psyche. It is by Kiiiiiii, a Japanese twee pop band who I recently discovered and adore.

. . . Sometimes I scared if I close the door of exit / But more scary thing is I am not scared / to not go back to real life / Hello, darkness, my old friend, / I need to break out this door . . .

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If you haven’t yet, you should visit Uwe’s blog.

Tags: feline auras.

“When I think of my body and ask what it does to earn that name, two things stand out. It moves. It feels.” — Brian Massumi

Tags: bomp-a-tee-bomp, striped shirts.