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Author: Marcus Silcock
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AudiomuraleAdriana Ronżewska Kotyńska, a Polish architect and painter interested in public art projects, originated the concept behind the Audiomurale and then executed it, with a team, on the wall of a townhouse in the Old Town district of Elblag, Poland. The team conducted interviews with passers-by recording their remarks about their town. Selected opinions –…
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http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Acker/Acker-Kathy_02_Redoing-Childhood_Miss-Savage’S-School-For-Gi.mp3
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MY NEW BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW FROM POOR CLAUDIA. SUPER EXCITED. THEY MAKE SUPER HANDSOME HANDMADE LIMITED EDITIONS. It is called Mu (dream) So (Window). Part of my nomadic surrealist life project. No name but love, indeed, for Marcus Slease, in this exciting collection of small, surprising, lyrical poems which continue (very nicely,…
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http://heikojulien.bandcamp.com/
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http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/i-left-my-heart-in-sf/
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getting a bit tired of blogger . . . here is the new home for the foreseeable future . . THE HOUSE OF ZABKA: http://marcusslease.tumblr.com/
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http://www.crispinbest.com/
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http://issuu.com/delphicghentbooks/docs/issue_12 Grab everything by Wroblewski. One of the best, if not the best, Polish poet writing today. He is also a fab painter, writer of plays and fiction. His book about experiences in Copenhagen is being translated and will be available next year from a U.S. publisher. MORE DETAILS WHEN I GET ‘EM . .…
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http://heikojulien.bandcamp.com/
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One of my favs . . Zachary Schomburg: http://lovelyarc.tumblr.com/
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an interesting new confessionalism . . along with Thought Catalog . . Tao Lin . . Miranda July etc. grab yr shabby dolls: http://shabbydollhouse.com/SHABBY-DOLL-HOUSE
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if you spend too much time hunting down interesting fiction and poetry on the internet this is the portal to take you to good places: http://neatomosquitoaltlitfireworksshow.tumblr.com/
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DANKLAND: http://dankland.blogspot.co.uk/
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My new flash fiction “The Cows Said Mu” now up at Thought Catalog: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-cows-said-mu/
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Pank magazine . . the queer Issue . . rockin . . pank magazine
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This guy rocks!!!! He has a new book from coming from Housefire Books. Gonna def get it: http://housefirebooks.com/bodies-made-of-smoke-a-novella-by-j-bradley/
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love this project. Art as a means of connecting. Simple and complicated. Accessibility in all the right places. Getting tired of the celebration of alienation in art!! Miranda July – Pretty Cool People Interviews from Submarine Channel on Vimeo.
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Imma by Ji Yoon Lee the good of gruel . . the goo of the gruel . . cute as a button . . kneebiters as prom queens . . conglomerate prostitution . . language of all shapes and sizes . . yep yep . . Stephen Hawking and his Lou Gerig’s diet. . . mongrel matings…
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Nouns of Assemblage from Housefire Books arrived in the post today and I am a very happy fella. Been reading it on the tube. I kind of gave up on fiction after finishing my BA in English. But here it is. Fresh for me again. All the best of kick ass poetry and fiction and…
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from Heriberto Yépez for his weekly column at the Mexico City magazine Laberinto (translated from Spanish by the poet Guillermo Para): “Generally, unsubmissive foreigners are not translated and instead marketable or functional foreigners are chosen. We translate what is exemplary. What serves as an example of something we want to make visible in our own culture.”…
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dig it!!!! http://www.poorclaudia.org/crush_reines.php
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i am thinking of little furry animals on hovering aircrafts gliding through trees . . i am thinking of sincerity versus authenticity and prefer authenticity or authenticity as main dish and sincerity as an afterburp I am thinking of e-books and how to make the most of my new wok while reading all these kick…
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guess everyone needs to take a turn . . Department Books has some interesting stuff on the island . . onedit was the best magazine I have seen from the island . . and Mendoza is putting together a nice book of poems for a reading this week . . poems for Sonic Youth .…
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Very very few places I go for consistently interesting kick ass poetry . . . Poor Claudia is one of them . . check out the latest Amling Crush . . . diggin this Amling . . but right now I am on a loop with “Self Satisfied Vanity” . . What is it with…
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Enjoying some of the poems and videos of Gabby Gabby. Just ordered her Airplane Food from NAP: http://naplitmag.com/store.html Reading Tao Lin’s Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as well. http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/ And Diana Salier’s Letters from Robots http://nightbombpress.com/ Both highly recommended. I am hoping Gabby Gabby’s Airplane Food will be fab fab as well. Liked what I read at…
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For the past three months or so I have looking at/for innovative fiction. And writing it. Especially hybrid fiction. Somewhere between poetry and prose. And so far my favourites have been Mud Luscious Press (esp their imprint Nephew) and Fugue State Press. I found Fugue State Press this morning and ordered two books but I…
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Nice clear headed interview here with fiction writer Brian Evenson. Makes me wanna get one of his books. I am working through my mind/body split. Working through this delusion via writing. http://htmlgiant.com/random/what-is-experimental-literature-five-questions-brian-evenson/
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achilles chapbook series
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http://vimeo.com/5869314
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terrific political allegory over here . .. America as a naive female in love with power and the idea of a dictator .. really interesting story: http://www.dzancbooks.org/the-collagist/2012/9/9/lady-liberty.html
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Housefire lights my fire . . over and over and over again . . check out Ugly Mouth: ugly mouth (painting by one mr michael j trull)
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Do you know Białooka? A Polish fairy tale. With a nod to Camus. Come meet her over here at Metazen: http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11167
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“Darkness will become a straight line, even if you don’t intend it to.” check out “The End of Time.” A flash fiction over at Housefire Magazine: “The End of Time” by Brian S. Ellis
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check out Boogaloo at Jellyfish http://jellyfishmagazine.org/katz1.html
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thanks Steven Fowler . . . and thanks Poetry International . . and 3AM Magazine . . . smashing time
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flash fiction . . interviews . . . the best new small press poetry and fiction . . great resource: http://dogzplotnews.blogspot.co.uk/
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over at the fabulous ZimZalla . . check it out: steven fowler and strong tea
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lovin this . . . got a bit of everything . . rubbin me in all the right wrong ways . . . check it check it check it . . . mighty fine with a good ale . . keep this bag away from children
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listening to Ted Berrigan on public access poetry . . oh yeah . . . wish there was a poetry project in London!!!!!!!!!! public access poetry
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fascinating article here . . privatisation . . the new packaged as the old . . the big breakthrough . . ahhh yes . . . well written . . . on point . . . some very significant poets and writers from Poland waiting in the wings to pack a wallop . . .…
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Birds LLC and So and So magazine and reading series have joined forces . .. yippie . . . one of my favs check out the latest issue of So and So magazine . . so and so magazine
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try singing your next poem . . . paul legault singing farm 2
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good before sleep or upon waking . . brings you to both sides of the mind . . . check it out . . . Pioneer by Horsebladder
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switched to writing short stories the last couple of months . . . . interlinking short stories . . . I’ve written four of them . . . the short story collection is called (currently) Hot Chocolate on Bad Coffee . . some of the stories centre around being an immigrant in America . .…
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very very happy to be included in this issue . . .check it out . . some cool poetry in there . . so and so magazine
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http://knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/establishmentmag.html
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http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.4/b_k_fischer_ariana_reines_coeur_de_lion_mercury_poetry.php
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Must clean my muddy boots. Leave tomorrow. . Been working on flash fiction and short stories from travel experiences. Slowly getting back to poetry. Think these Polish mountains with my hot gal shd freshen things up . .
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check out the new minimalist blog: The New Never Mind the Beasts – – – – think I will keep posting here though . . .
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Another nice publication from Spork publications. Poems from my manuscript The Fertility Show. Written while riding the London tube on my daily commute. Thank you so much to the fine editors at Spork!!! Yippie!! http://sporkpress.com/poetry/?p=387
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Another nice publication from Spork publications. Poems from my manuscript The Fertility Show. Written while riding the London tube on my daily commute. Thank you so much to the fine editors at Spork!!! Yippie!! from The Fertility Show
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The poems in Tim Van Dyke’s “Light on the Lion’s Face” are composed in conjunction with Jean Baudrillard’s book, “Seduction”, often using fragments from the text as architecture for the poems. The other two architectural concepts are the Shivite myth of Kīrttimukha (or “Face of Glory”), a story about a ravenous lion eating its own…
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I am the new CRUSH over at Poor Claudia. A huge thank you to Poor Claudia. The editors did an absolutely stellar job. I am a very very happy camper. Check it out here: http://www.poorclaudia.org/crush_slease.php
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I am the new CRUSH over at Poor Claudia. A huge thank you to Poor Claudia. The editors did an absolutely stellar job. I am a very very happy camper. Check it out here: CRUSH
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come on out if you around. Some fun collaborations happenin . . it’s The Camarade Project Edition 3. I am reading some collaborative work with Richard Barrett. Quite a line up!!!
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Persian poet Hafez Shirazi’s ghazal reworked by the fab Michael Zand. In super slow mo. The NY School is there too. Check it out: http://soundcloud.com/michael-zand/before-bitterness
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It has warmed a lot in the last two days in London. People are sitting around on the grass and even this rougher section of London feels lighter. I’ve taken things very slowly since the news of my brother’s death. I needed that slow time. Today was the first day where I got some speed.…
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Do we know what we feel? Behind the scenes playing all the time. In the social, political, and personal. . . . . . . . . . . . . Last night I had dreams of my friend Andrew coming to visit. I was supposed to pick him up from a ferry. I never…
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Is hope a form of expectation? My expectations have often led to suffering. Whether the next new country or relationship. Or planning a lesson for a spectacular class only to have it fail miserably. And then the letting go. Almost tricking myself into believing I don’t really care and then WHAM! A surprisingly great class.…
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What does it mean to deal with something? Another 20 min of breaking down after seeing more pictures of Aaron and Shantell when they were little. Remembering those times. Feeling the pain of not being able to protect. The pain of not being an older brother. Aaron was so sensitive as a kid. Aaron and…
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day 3 of teaching my travel literature summer intensive course. Naps after class and all time collapses. North Carolina, Bellingham, Turkey, Utah. I can see I am not the same person and all things change but larger events seem to bring about bigger changes and shifts. 2009 was the last large event that changed everything.…
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Kozan Ichikyo, died February 12, 1360. After writing this poem on the morning of his death, he lay down his brush and died sitting upright. Empty-handed I enteredthe worldBarefoot I leave it.My coming, my going —Two simple happeningsThat got entangled.
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Ewa is under the kitchen windowwith a plastic bag on her haircleaning the kingdomof dead spidershiding behind the curtains
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I cannot find you brother. How can I imagine you as nowhere. If I imagine you as somewhere where I can imagine you? On a cloud? Slipping back into the sea? As some kind of energy? I like to imagine you as full of awe and wonder. Full of peace. I like to imagine you…
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Dust motes and black mould. Stiff neck and sore back. Sipping green tea. People are mowing the grass and cutting the branches outside. after cleaning housestaring at the clouds movingcut grass under the same roofwe all sleep let us peelthe potatoesfor evening supper bell bottomclouds I have borrowedmy brother’s jeans there is no windto carry…
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Went to High Street Kensington to look for the classroom I will be teaching in on Monday. For a large part of the time I was frustrated with all the activity. The rush of shoppers and thrill seekers. Every little bit of pleasure somehow felt frustrating. We went to Whole Foods and looked around. Somehow…
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Two hour nap. Fresh vegetable soup. Heading out to get fresh air. Aaron will be with me. Love you brother!!
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I try to think of Aaron as not suffering. As no longer feeling pain. When I see a picture of him I am flooded again. When I think of visiting Utah in August and not being able to talk to him, hear him, see him none of this comforts me. I have never experienced so…
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My body went into shock. Then morning. Lots of morning. When do I stop morning? If I stop morning do I stop remembering Aaron? I have never cried this much. Or in this way. If I eat why am I eating? I have sat in this room since I got the news of the death…
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what is a vacuum? Why am I vacuuming? What is this round plate? Why I am eating off it? What is the mug? Why am I drinking from it? What is this wind? What does it blow? What do I know? What do I not know?
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Sleep is not easy. Last night I had a dream. A friend was sitting alone on a chair. He said he was lonely. He said he last best friend was moving away. It was a big empty room for a conference. There was no conference. There was only the hug of my friend and his…
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We pay money to have our attention grabbed We will engage it and give it something to do for hours We can’t fix everything so what will we do? What do you choose to give your attention to? looking for the next thing that is wrong and then figure out how to fix it I…
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the dharma is the law of the heart which has no form but contains everything
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I lost my brother Aaron yesterday. He was 29. Everything seemed petty and a bit worthless after the news. It was a shock. No warning. Just gone. I was with him six months ago in Utah. We made plans. We grew up together and went through a lot. Living in Coffee Hall housing estate in…
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The Spanish introduced the potato to Europe in the second half of the 16th century. After they killed off the Incas. European mariners brought it to territories and ports all around the world. I guess the European farmers were skeptical for a while but it was adopted. The potato played a major role in the…
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First draft of a John Wayne mesh up over at The Creature. In Old California film. The Mirror Palace is the saloon where a lot of the action takes place: http://nomadicpoetics.wordpress.com/
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The gym is the best way to combat wet and damp England. Now I can think. Reading Paul Legault’s The Other Poems today while watching John Wayne’s old California. I like the man with a toothache who is tamed by a woman who shoots her laundry off the line. There is a lot of play…
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works in progress from The Creature: The Creature
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it is a project. 88 edited pages into it . . . might publish it in three parts . . . check out unedited ones in progress here: http://nomadicpoetics.wordpress.com/
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For almost seven years I traveled around the world with one suitcase. I had romantic notions that didn’t quite turn out romantic. Or sometimes they did. Now I am settling down in London. Waiting for the delivery of a used sofa that may not fit through the door. I have a big screen to type…
Never Mind the Beasts 