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Author: Marcus Silcock
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read read read read read the work of this giant!! Entering my top 8.5 favs poets of all eternity!!! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-piero-heliczer-1460471.html
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Richmond My new machine arrived today in a green Buddhashade after a night in New Orleans my handshakes were full of resin not green gray like they say on this Austrian passport we shot arrows into crab apples on the back of Tom Raworth while he was riding a motorcycle and debating the merits of…
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I just purchased a ton of indie poetry books at a massive discount at the bookshop in London called England’s Lane. The bookseller in charge of poetry really knows their stuff. I now have a big hoard of mostly innovative American poetry books. Terrific. Here are some of the poets: Aram Saroyan, Bernadette Mayer, Bill…
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Marchmont Street Soaps02890446574via hand signals outside the windowsucking the tips of impertinent fingersyou get A to BhuskypointI have a big appetite for lovesleeping on the floor on the sofaa number of fixed positionshe was just complaintsNVQ’swhat am I?she got Spanish two months agowhen she was bornI turned it downwhat can I pour THIS into?silver flashesthe…
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Crunching Numbers the price of beans of which I am constitutedthe dude behind all that raintime has this shadow check this dog a boneevery man jack gets to be a wife the statessomewhere does a sky bend into lassitude a full court press into high hips into a form fitting sheetnew jack sexthunder puddlesin Wood Greenno pev no gup yano…
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http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=3285123286/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/
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up and ready to rock!!! Check it:Past Simple 10
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Crunching Numbers an earcheck breath from a hooded hook no pev no gup ya part of a slipper they call it a gulf time has this shadow sometimes a chant the dude behind all that rain check this dog a bone every man jack gets to be a wife the price of beans of which…
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Soho Curzon . .. Hello Tiny Bird Brain . . . new poetry collection from Knives Forks and Spoon Press . . . check it out here: Hello Tiny Bird Brain at Soho Curzon
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hello tiny bird brain Poetry at the Soho Curzon Wednesday August 31st 2011~ 7pm ~ Entrance free Marcus Slease launches ‘hello tiny bird brain’ Wayne Clements launches ‘western philosophy’ collections published by Knives forks & Spoons press also readings by Tim Atkins – Elizabeth Guthrie- Michael Zand Linus Slug – Patrick Coyle & SJ Fowler the Soho Curzon cinema,…
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it’s PECKHAM IN FURS!!!! AND POETS AT THE URBAN PHYSICS GARDEN
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we need many more plays of Grzegorz Wroblewski translated into English . . . please please . . . money . . relationships . . happiness . . . and of course the language here . . . works really well in English . . . great translation . . . check it out .…
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Blues For Stan Brakhage from Michael Mayer on Vimeo.
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Brief Bio in sloppy joes in ear-muffs dropping coins for Dr. Pepper in the city of trailer parks in the jerks of god in a gumball machine in the Hamburger Helper in the nerf inside the unobstructed science of free donuts in Vallejo California a rock hurled from a car window the lack of snow oh on the way to Rancho camel trucking partially submerged birds a shooting…
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interview for Hello Tiny Bird Brain
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low quality recording . . lispy voice . . . part one from Jeff Hilson and Sean Bonney’s reading series X-ing the Line . .. read with the beguiling revenge poetics of Christie Ann Reynolds and the mind blowing mystical musings of Amy Evans . . part two (unrecorded) was a bit lighter with more…
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http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/seven-poems-oracle-lies-van-gasse/
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My new book with poems from Elblag, Poland; Trieste, Italy; and London (UK) out now with nice wee press from northern England. Check out Hello Tiny Brain here: http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/theknivesforksandspoonspress/HOME.html
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Held at the rich mix arts centre in Brick Lane, London on June 18th 2011, Emilia Haugovà and Ivan Štrpka were joined by a half dozen London-based poets to celebrate the sixth event in the Maintenant series. As ever, the Maintenant series advocated a diverse selection of poetic methodologies, ages & nationalities – collecting together…
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A translated Korean folk poem . . for the anthology of plant poems at the Urban Physics Garden in South London last week . . yippie . . . .
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3:am magazine is kickin in some fresh hot poetry . . . . check out G. Wroblewski . . . stellar as usual: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/grzegorz-wroblewski-5-poems/
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30th June 2011I want to go more oval in the faceor perhaps trianglethis is a sonata for spoiling eyesa book left open in the rainI’m sitting on an egg timerI don’t knowwhat a sonata is but is soundsgood with my morning coffeewho can water these belching eyes?stroll past All Soulstoday’s morning lesson is on birdsWHO…
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esp dig Peter Jaeger and Thomas Krogsbol . . . . check it out: http://lagranada.no/
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YIPPIE: . . . love publishing genius and everday genius . . a happy camper. . . thank you Adam . . . check it out: http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011/06/marcus-slease.html
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Fun reading last night!!! Really super enjoyed it. Good to feel the enjoyment. The pleasures of poetry/language/community. Really super happy to read from new work in the chapbook Balloons . . I like Balloons . . . I like the chapbook . . . Ewa rocks!!! the paper and string and smell of nail varnish…
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i am reading tonight with nice mix of poets. If you are around, come on out!!!! Will read some short short poem plays inspired by mr kenneth koch :-) Maintenant Slovakia in association with Literature across Frontiers & Arc Publications June Saturday 18th 2011 – 7pm – Entrance Free – The Rich Mix arts centre.…
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from my notebook in 2005. Greensboro, North Carolina. 26 MARCH 2005 still breathing A very intense dream the other night. don’t know if any of you out there ever feels a bit of despair over becoming wormfood, but lately the cycle has been a bit on the downside. Hence a dream to release my anxiety.…
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The Unbearables are lightin my fire!! Mike Topp’s Shorts are Wrong is super super!! Still exploring Sharon Mesmer. Hm . . . thanks to Grzegorz Wroblewski over in Copenhagen for pointing me in their direction . . . http://virginformica.blogspot.com/ The Unbearables: http://www.unbearables.com/blog/
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just read the poems again . . . and became even happier!!! Very very happy!!! So many possibilities for poetry just when I was feeling that straight jacket again . . . . Eileen Myles, Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer meet Colin Herd!!! Please don’t leave the island mr. Colin Herd . . . we need you!!!…
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This poet makes me excited about the future of poetry on this island . . . good interview too . . . really dig the poetry A LOT! interview: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-63-colin-herd/Poetryhttp://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-colin-herd/
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http://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/audio-recording-on-tuesday
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my poem play “Godzenie” in the latest issue of Stimulus/Respond . . . a fashion/architecture/art mag with some literature . . . visually centred mag . . check it out here: http://www.stimulusrespond.com
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The lucifer Poetics Group and the Desert City Reading Series (run by Ken Rumble) and the Blue Door (Todd and Laura Sandvik) and Carborro International Poetry Festival (organized by Patrick Heron) and lots of spontaneous events . . . this is where I was given wings . . . . so much generosity . .…
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I was surprised by this . . . forgot about this work . . . and my voice/accent has changed from all the foreign traveling and isolation . . . i kinda miss this guy in the video . . . coming back around to that playfulness now again . . . phew :-) http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=3285123286/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/
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Irish Ninja Somewhere around the age of 20 I had been looking to get my accent back that would have been 1995 when I first came back to Milton Keynes & Portadown BOYO after moving to Vegas where the middle school was full of Mexicans hombre and a girl named Candy squinted when she smoked…
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THE PRINCE OF MIST BY THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SHADOW OF THE WIND this version left blank due to rules regarding blog posted poems and submissions to mags . . hm . . . not sure about that . . ah well . . .
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THE PRINCE OF MIST BY THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SHADOW OF THE WIND I’m petite Asian and can handle any cock they fix everything here take your sandals to the shop i have cabbed upon this mind barking like a cork this is eski yeni in other words Samsara hello kebab hello clam…
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Ewa is putting nail polish on chapbook cover of chapbook Balloons. The ink with title and name did not dry on Napalese paper. Some copies of cover painting have now been printed on tracing paper. Grzegorz Wroblewski’s These Extraordinary People:http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljm5dqlW6n1qc8hseo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1306620007&Signature=WWRskYoycHtVOxghlSSKFB12IrU%3DGetting dizzy with fumes. We need to make a mock up for the chap. Print. Glue. We have…
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(friday afternoon. Tasmac. Northwest London. 10 min break time . . . recollecting in tranquility the delights of living in Ankara and feeling that thing commonly called nostalgia but for something that isn’t quite grasped or expressed . . what is IT?) many times i have cabbed upon this in eski YENI this is my…
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Jeff Hilson’s In the Assarts (My fav Hilson yet!!!) Tim Atkins Petrarch (from Barque Press) (my fav Atkins yet!!) Hilson and Atkins Atkins and Hilson a cold drink of water in the desert of British poetry!!! Kenneth Koch’s poem “On Beauty” Elffish Jon (the unassarts) . . . . from Linus Slug . . . Now I remember why…
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It is raining in London. I am in Kingsbury. At a business school teaching EFL. The job will end next Thursday. I am searching for jobs again. To survive (shelter and food etc. ) This is a continual process. In the meantime, I have become bored (temporarily) of poetry. Perhaps boredom can be a good…
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Tim Atkins has written a fantastic review about a book that influenced me a lot when I lived in Poland and continues to inform me sense of what is possible. It is absolutely one of my favourite books of poetry from the last 15 years. It is interesting because I love Rhode Island Notebook a…
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interview at 3:AM magazine poems from smashing time at 3:AM magazine big thanks to Steven Fowler . . .
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I just ate a pig’s ear. I am trying to forget about it. It was chewy and from Bulgaria. A Bulgarian gave it to me. I can still taste it. I will forget soon. Southbank for the day. Books borrowed from the poetry library: 1) The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard (cartoons, narratives, ahhhhhhh boyo…
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THE FAVOURITE THINGS OF MIKE TOPP AT THE MAGAZINE THE RUMPUS. IT IS A KIND OF OBJECT INTERVIEW. MIKE TOPP IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ABSURDISM AND 21ST CENTURY SURREALISM. WHO IS MIKE TOPP?
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some paintings of Grzegorz Wroblewski they are even better live in person . . . . so happy happy gluck lick Ewa and I have two of his paintings on our wall . . .
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terrific indie publishing . . . restores my hope . . . check it out: publishing genius
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Publishing Genius has some interesting work . . . no reason poetry can’t connect like Indie music scenes in the 80’s and 90’s or punk music in the 70’s . . . etc. etc. check out this trailer for a book of poetry forthcoming TEXT
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small time?
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The empty earth . . . . TEXT
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Trendy Club (Elblag, Poland) put a hole in your skullsays Rogerthe lidis openbut where are my eyesmy balcony opensdon’t let themkeep you herei am giving youa ride homeI have not adaptedI envy my neighbourstheir incredible skill
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Philip Whalen’s Collected Poems Kenneth Koch’s Collected Poems Kenneth Koch’s The Gold Standard Lew Welch’s Ring of Bone
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what a city. What time. Grzegorz Wroblewski. Paintings. Books. Louise Rosengreen (another terrific Danish poet). A journey to a place called Christiana. A freetown. A town at the end of the world. The wild west reborn. And the strand. Ahhh what a strand. I was in a painting. It was a nice painting. And the…
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poem plays from Smashing Time
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on the third day I walked again to the rynek of Rybnik and met a girl who told me to come to the electricity plant and I asked her about poetry and she said Milosz and I said I know and she said that was all she knew plus someone named Szymborska and I said…
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Godzenie samples
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Great reading series with interviews and poetry from European poets. Steven Fowler’s Maintenant Series (if you didn’t know). This Lithuanian poet rocked it a few weeks ago at Rich Mix in east London and Europe house. Fab fab fab work. Check out the interview and poems here: Interview poems
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r.i.p. Tim Hetherington
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this poet just keeps on keeping on and spurns out some seriously good language play Clark Coolidge chapbook
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from smashing time
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Friday night. A week drawing to a close. Indian stomach rumbles again from the buffet. Settling in with some ginger tea and reading some plays of Kenneth Koch collected in The Gold Standard. Leaning over bed in this small North London room to type on laptop which rests on a foldable chair. Will return to…
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The primitive art of Grzegorz Wroblewki THESE EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE
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what will and what won’t go. Books are coming in again. All those hundreds upon hundred of books let go in North Carolina to travel the world. On the way from parent’s gift certificate: Collected Poems of Philip Whalen still reading collected poems of Kenneth Koch (the “short ones”) wondering about getting Joanne Kyger’s collected…
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best and most interesting literary journal . . perhaps . . . full stop . . . with a new look . .. and layout . . . get your fill . . . Jacket 2 REVISED FOUR DAYS LATER: OH NO, HAS JACKET DONE A MERGER TO BECOME AN INSTITUTION. WHO’S IN AND WHO’S…
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John A. and K. Koch in conversation: sense making
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books coming this week with the brown santa for 37th b-day: 1) The Sore Throat and other poems by Aaron Kunin 2) The Gold Standard a book of plays by Kenneth Koch 3) Pink and Hot Pink Habitat by Natalie Lyalin 4) My New Job by Cathy Wagner interesting radio reading and talk with Cathy…
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Bernstein against national poetry month
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site specific . . . environment specific . . . time specific . . . music specific . . . and so on . . . first take no revisions from notebook . . . 6.30PM-6.45PM . . . Tues 29th March . . . Balloons ***** I’ve got a little hill with little green…
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quiet nostalgia . . . a bit of the old alternative sounds . . .
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might change previous manuscript title to Gypsy Moth instead of Primitive Pianos. Still thinking of titles. Poems written in Spanish Fork, Ankara, Istanbul, Trieste, Elblag, London. Revision in progress from Trieste section: ****************************** in heaven there is television I’m forever blowing bubbles bubbles senora senora I’m hung up on love and love I’m there in a thin white towel what if getting old…
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It is the 28th March. The weather, of course, is mostly overcast. But I am mostly inside so that’s OK. I spend over two hours everyday on trains, commuting to work. Sometimes teaching at two different campuses at different parts of London. So reading, well, it is a form of sanity. I can do a…
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it seems like a dream now. flying out of Trieste Italy to Prague to read at the Prague Microfest. Louis Armand. Stephen Delbos. Jason Mashak. Others. Ex-pats and poets and artists and Anglo American university. So anyway. Yes I flew from Trieste to Prague. Stayed not far from the main square. Felt the energy from…
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so here i sit on a friday afternoon i got a view so that helps and the weather has changed into spring almost summer and i am flooded with all the memories of countries and people and it is getting crowded in my head plus there’s the net with its endless streams of words information…
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link from friend Grzegorz Wroblewski . . . legendary Polish punk . .. waiting for a signal from “central”
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I just received Joe Brainard’s I Remember in the post today. I am sure many folks have read it. I am late to the game. It is a classic of conceptualism and NY School Poetry. I am sure the French writers have already been influenced by it. It seems NY School Poetry has much more…
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American surrealism . . . zachary schomburg I need to get my hands on some of his books . .. and Cathy Wagner’s My New Job and Matthew Roher’s books . .. haven’t read Matthew Rohrer since 2005 when he came to Greensboro . . . Just read Maureen Owen’s Zombie Notes and loved it…
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eleven eleven journal
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S.B.’s Ghost Shit soap me sock me I got a table at the rainbow roombig ship approaching the dockI’ve got you heavy in this London sunshineWood Green March 4th 2011and an Indian at the table is really a hyenathat’s who I amsuppose has some facts aroundyep! imaginary income! UGH!well the crooks are outspastic garage feedback…
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Got my copy in the post today!!! Super super super good!!!! Ahhhh now this refreshes me big time!! Stuff is happening over here in the U.K.. I mean fresh fresh interesting poetry and essays!! And it’s a really handsome handmade nice on the eyes production! check it and grab yourself a copy quick: DEPARTMENT POETRY…
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trace . . . . . .
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Nice review of Godzenie in Goodreads. Kept meaning to post it. Thanks Fish. Fish’s review Oct 13, 09 bookshelves: transculture Finally got a copy of this in Japan. Read it almost immediately! Here’s part of what I wrote in my journal immediately afterwards: Still processing but: A. It is full of truth moment coins, singular…
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The UK revolution in language continues . . . . Department 3 now available. . . edited by the super duper editorial vision of Richard Barrett & Simon Howard writing from Marie-Angelique Bueler, Wayne Clements, Matt Dalby, David Grundy, Catherine Hales, Ryan Ormonde, Posie Rider, Marcus Slease, & Tom Watts. check it: Department Magazine
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1) Many Happy Returns by Ted Berrigan 2) Train Ride by Ted Berrigan 3) Tuned Droves by Eric Baus 4) Nothing to You by Ted Berrigan Finished those fine books this week. Love to hold them in my hand. Fine specimens. Heading to poetry library now. Hoping to pick up 1) Alice Notely: Grave of…
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some poems in progress taken off . . . . poems sent onward to magazines who count this humble blog as already publishing them . . . . yadda yadda yadda
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I’m thinking of the human voice. Of speech. Of the subversion of communication. Of the pre-fabrication of meaning. Of Emotions language and meanings. What slips past. What infer requires of the logic of thinking. A systematic ordering may go, have gone, too far into a systematic disordering. What is the form or norm for variation?…
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MiPOeasias
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perfect position to write. not sure if the heat from this laptop will decrease the potency of my sperm. I do not need potent sperm at this time, or perhaps ever. wondering bout Neil Gaiman? Children’s stories etc. It is time for M&M, peanuts, yellow, mostly. A pedestrian poetics?????? Tomorrow is Monday. How does that…
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some fascinating answers and questions . . . not the usual fluff: Interview with Sean Bonney some interesting new translations of the poet Grzegorz Wróblewski: Grzegorz Wróblewski
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now after a very intense month in London of nothing but almost mindless work my mind is coming round again. memories. Turkey. Italy. poland. nights of flickers and shadows. revising primitive pianos. lookin for a good poetry reading. will be reading at poetry cafe in covent garden in march with a bunch of other poets…
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Treetop Flyers “not common speech / a dead level / but the uncommon speech of paradise / tongue in which oracles/ speak to beggars and pilgrims.” — Denise Levertov “A Common Ground” “A language / excelling itself to be itself” –Denise Levertov “A Common Ground” ————————– the anti-poetic for the peepsokthere’s beautya drop kick a…
Never Mind the Beasts 