Frankenstein vs. the World

poetry reading

Lee Ann Brown
CAConrad
Dorothea Lasky

MY HOUSE
359 Lafayette Ave. / Buffalo, NY
Sat., 2 April
3 p.m.

Tags: caconrad, dorothea lasky, lee ann brown.

I will be reading twice in Michigan this weekend, with an envoy from Bflo featuring Holly Melgard, David Hadbawnk, & John Hyland.

Saginaw:
Friday, March 25 · 7 p.m.
Woody O’Brien’s
116 S. Hamilton St.
Saginaw, MI
organized by Gina Myers
(link)

Detroit:
Saturday, March 26 · 8:00 p.m.
Contemporary Arts Institute of Detroit
5141 Rosa Parks Blvd
w/ music by The James Cornish Quartet
& dance performed by Chrisite Lynn Jenuwine & Lisa Lamarre
organized by Sarah Jeanne Peters

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Area commissioners have voted not to repaint the Montgomery College Germantown Earthoid — named Steel Tank of the Year, 1980 — with a stupid baseball motif, but to instead restore the tank’s original planet Earth mural. I only wish they could get Paul Thek to do the job.

WSSC officials approved design of the Germantown Water Tower

By Laura Rowles | GermantownPatch.com

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) commissioners have approved a contract that calls for the same worldly design for a Germantown Water Tank.

The 33-year old, two-million gallon, water storage tank in Germantown will be repainted as a replica of the earth. The water tank is situated on Observation Drive of the Germantown Campus of Montgomery College.

The contract to repair and repaint the tanks interior and exterior is not to exceed $857,200. The winning bid went to Horizon Brothers Painting, Inc - located in Howell, Michigan - who estimates it will cost $120,000 for the world mural.

WSSC asked bidders to provide cost estimates for two designs – a replica of the original globe and a baseball design. Montgomery College officials reported that they preferred the “globe” design over the baseball concept due partly to their new campus building, Globe Hall, which is slated to open in 2013.

Commissioner Gene Counihan of Montgomery County said, “The Earthoid has become quite a symbol for the community as well as Montgomery College. It is one of the most significant landmarks in Montgomery County.”

The tank was heralded as a landmark project in water storage when it was built in 1978 for its size, shape, and paint scheme, according the WSSC officials.

It won the “Steel Tank of the Year” award in 1980 from the Steel Plate Fabricators Association and pictures of the tank have been exhibited in numerous magazines. The 100-foot tall tank was first painted to resemble the world in 1980. Peter Freudenberg led the team of four painters after creating a scale model based on a National Geographic globe.

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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.

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Here am I
Whole at last with a golden view
Looking for hope
And I hope it’s you
Splitting my heart
Cracked right in two
The pleasure of pain endured
To purify our misfit ways
And magnify our crystal days

Where are you
In shadows only I can see
Looking for hope
And you hope it’s me
Tattered and torn and born to be
Building a world where we can
Purify our misfit ways
And magnify our crystal days

Pure and to magnify

Here am I
Whole at last with a golden view
Looking for hope
And I know it’s you
Splitting my heart
Cracked right in two
The pleasure of pain and joy
To purify our misfit ways
And magnify our crystal days

Purify our misfit ways
And magnify our crystal days

Do do do do do do do do

– “Crystal Days” by Echo & the Bunnymen

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