Marcus Silcock

Just returned from my pilgrimage to The Bookshop in Chapel Hill. Turned in Paul Hoover’s _Postmodern American Poetry_, some Derrida and Frederic Jameson. Used my in store credit and spent… Read more.

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One week from today gonna take an airplane . . . I’m a going (to my second) home. From Greensboro to Boston to Dublin for a few days. Tour the… Read more.

Ruth Dickey, a friend and fellow poet, moved to Seattle recently to help run this program called New Futures. Good things happening. Check it out : New Futures Read more.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& the bell is known in all cultures – but not known when invented mission bells sing from strange halls during the recession of 1890 mission halls overflowed with harmonic… Read more.

Patrick is discussing some great issues of power/poetry and more specifically next years festival over at his newly created Carrboro blog spot. Check it out. Join the discussion: <a href="http://carrboropoetry.blogspot.com/&quot;… Read more.

I used to feel compelled to start and finish one book before starting another. Now I feel compelled to juggle many books (and ideas and languages) at once. Still, there… Read more.

Head over to Aaron McCollough’s blog and listen to his songs. I love Via Positivia and Fire’s on the Phone. I also like Big Star Cover. Song for Puckheads is… Read more.

There’s a hot spanking new mag out of Greensboro called Backwards City Review. Comics, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. The first issue should be available soon. I’ve had a sneak peak (in… Read more.

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Just ordered maurice Scully’s Livelihood from Wild Honey and Rosmarie Waldrop’s Blindsight from New Directions. I am really excited to read some more Maurice Scully. check out some of his… Read more.

Broken glass everywhere People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don’t care I can’t take the smell, I can’t take the noise Got no money to move out,… Read more.

Just finished Turbulence by Pierre Joris and I am charged. Fully charged. I search and search for the right book at the right time and this is it. The movement… Read more.

FIGURES 1 A figure of feeling is not a single tree a set of lines an occasion of words. A figure of feeling is a system of roots, a bloodline,… Read more.

The interconnections of blogs. I was just surfing a little and found Josh and Jordan are both talking about audience (as well as Silliman). Josh and Jordan are both very… Read more.

Silliman’s post about audience today was very interesting. I’ve noticed the same thing. A lot more people laughed when I read to a mix of poets and non-poets at a… Read more.

do you know the difference between a camel and a child? A lion and a camel? CLICK HERE FOR ANSWER Read more.

I’ve been trying to figure out how one could make a contemporary argument for art as an end in itself (not a cultural production). As in Kant’s notion of personhood.… Read more.

Finally got around to reading Carl Martin’s _Genii Over Saltzburg_. Terrific book. I was really taken back by the elegant surrealism. I felt like I was reading some strange combination… Read more.

If you haven’t already seen this, take a look. Horrific. Falluja Read more.

GOEST, by Cole Swensen, Alice James Books, 63 pp., $13.95 “Cole Swensen leads readers through history as she explores the subject of light, both natural and man-made. The poems in… Read more.

Been reading coductors of Chaos for a while (an anthology of outsider/experimental poetry from the U.K.). I am really digging Chris Cheek. His poem “Stranger” got the engine roaring tonight.… Read more.

For the last couple of weeks our cat iris is been in and out of the vet/hospital. Earlier this week she underwent exploratory surgery and they diagnosed her with a… Read more.

check out the new poem from Joe Donahue over at the verse blog <a href="http://versemag.blogspot.com/2004/08/new-joseph-donahue-poem.html&quot; >Joseph Donahue Poem Read more.

Good time reading at Solaris last night. Angie Decola took the photos below. A guy videotaped the reading and is sending the readers a free DVD of the night (he… Read more.

more friendly audience members Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

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Ezra and Fay (lovers galore) Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

Rhett (the third poet of the night) and Marcus not sure what we are looking at Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

Jake and Angie (the photographer) Jake's lucky hat is also in display in this photo Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

marcus reading a few poems Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

marcus and ezra relaxing before reading Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

Marcus Slease Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

some of the crew an audience of friendly friends Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

ezra explaining the etymology of world(s) Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

ezra reading Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

someone's cool red shoe Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

From: Judith Barrington Date: 2004/11/10 Wed PM 08:35:38 CST To: WOM-PO@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU Subject: POL: THIS SEEMS VERY IMPORTANT: Will Kerry Un-conceed? Please forward to all who have specifics on vote fraud.… Read more.

I stumbled on a book of Beverly Dahlen’s _A Reading 1-7_. So far, I am really enjoying it. I just finished reading Leslie Scalapino’s: 1) Way 2) How Phenomena Appear… Read more.

If anyone is free and lives near Greensboro, I am reading with two excellent poets (Don Ezra Cruz and Rhett) at Solaris (a restaurant/night club in downtown Greensboro) at 9PM… Read more.

“And cast down me wretched / sinner unto thee I am / slightly different from / a corpse at a funeral / in that I am less made up /… Read more.

It’s hard to even begin today. My friend Gerry helped me to feel a little better if only to express my own shock, disbelief, horror, and fear: LONG ROAD Read more.

had to get my mind off the big countdown. Worked for a few hours on Campanology. Refound my pace. I’ve felt for about a month (after trying it out on… Read more.

Many of you’all may have already read this over at Possum Pouch, but in case you haven’t: Freedom is on the March by Eliot Weinberger Among the things the second… Read more.

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Just finished Angelus Bell by Edward Foster and it reminded me in some ways of Daniel Zimmerman’s Post-Avant with its formal density. I was really drawn into Angelus Bell by… Read more.

Just watched a new release DVD called How to Draw a Bunny. It’s a documentary on the pop artist Ray Jonhson. Really fascinating and eerie. for some reason I can’t… Read more.

Another great reading on Saturday. Ken Rumble really brings the heat to town. Tony Tost read some great prose poems. Dense in the sense of including various lives (reading life,… Read more.

Randall Williams in the act of it Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

Randall Williams waterworks performance piece I am still processing this performance. Tiffany loved it as well. Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

Aaron McCollough with deep voice (manly) Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

tony tost (ex)pounding # 2 Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

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ken Rumble introducting Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

Feeling the Draft By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: October 19, 2004 Columnist Page: Paul Krugman Forum: Discuss This Column E-mail: krugman@nytimes.com TIMES NEWS TRACKER Topics Alerts United States Armament and Defense… Read more.

I am not sure why there is sometimes so much build up before writing. It’s usually when I am revising/restructuring. The intial writing phases are no pressure/no problem. But getting… Read more.

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I am amazed, blown away. Peter O’Leary’s _Watchfulness_ has changed my landscape. Really fired me up to keep moving with my book length poem Campanology. king Midas Gold, man of… Read more.

Been reading a lot of Nathaniel Mackey and Leslie Scalapino lately. In _How Phenomena Appear to Unfold_ Scalapino writes, “The writing is a mode, not a system.” So mode versus… Read more.

After an amazing first festival, the city of Carrboro has decided NOT to allow another festival next year. Where did the funds go? Another national/international festival? Patrick Heron received this… Read more.

Draft is a really interesting word. As in: rough. As in: cold wind down the hallway. I think Evie is right. A draft might wake more people up. Read more.

I handed out this information to my students in class yesterday. Most of them were surprised. Especially the female students. Not sure if Kerry is all for this or not.… Read more.

I am wondering whether or not to buy the new Interpol? Am also wondering about jobs for next year. Contract runs out. Jobs jobs jobs. Agh. Gotta watch some Godard.… Read more.

I am going to teach a film class in the spring. It’s exciting putting together the syllabus. Going to use Monaco’s How to Read a Film and a selection of… Read more.

In constructing my disruptive narrative of influences, I’ve come full circle. I really came to poetry after leaving the comfortable world of a fundamentlist religion. After the leaving, I studied… Read more.

finished Burger’s Theory of the Avant-Garde last night. I’ve been pondering the non-organic versus organic (language as artifact). Burger says, “The organic work intends the impression of wholeness. To the… Read more.

I just ordered the complete Basil Bunting. I’ve only read/heard a little of Briggflatts. I am excited to sit down with him. Also ordered Watchfulness by Peter O’Leary and John… Read more.

The a Desert City Readng Series kicked off again this past Saturday. James Brasfield and Joe Donahue read. Joe read some hot new poems. Lots and lots of voices. My… Read more.

Strange connections. The conversation over at Tony’s blog really picked up with the issue of responsibility. Over at Smartish Place (http://www.smartishpace.com/home/poetsqa/graham_answers.html) I asked Jorie Graham a question about influence and… Read more.

If you haven’t checked it out already, click on over to Tony Tost’s blog. A very interesting, provocative conversation happening. Process and product, canons, cult of the author, art that… Read more.

The memory of last Saturday feels foggy, eerie. Did it really happen? Lots of glazed donuts (one dollar each). The Krispy Creme poetry tent was a wierd revival type setting.… Read more.

all sorts of stuff is leaking into my long poem. Such as Mormon doctrine and early mysticism (the mysticism was quickly abandoned for corporation/institutional reasons). But Joseph Smith’s spectacles amaze… Read more.

A little while back a few Lucipo folks (Tony and Ken perhaps?) mentioned how quite a few younger poets are attempting long poems. I’ve been dipping and out of Olson’s… Read more.

We started discussing poetry section in my intro to literature class. I am using individual collections for all the genres, but for poetry I am using an anthology (Allen’s New… Read more.

Just traded in a collected Milosz and a collected Wright (I like them both but don’t love ’em) for: 1) The geography of the imagination (essays by Guy Davenport) 2)… Read more.

sometimes a little alcohol (or little a lot) helps moisten my mind. Had a good time at a part last night at one of the editors of the new journal… Read more.

I’ve decided to 5 contemporary books of poetry in my intro to poetry class in the spring. I think I am going to create a blog for the class to… Read more.

Finally got the ariel. My head is all squirm. It feels good to rework some of the abstractions (i.e. my head banging against a padded cell) in the second MS.… Read more.

Good times last night at the open eye reading ( a series run by Mr. Tony Tost). A real mix. Chris Vitiello read from Nouns Swarm a Verb and Evie… Read more.

I have some recent poems in the latest issue of Diagram. The second poem “Multitide and Miracle” is actually in my current MS Diagram Read more.

Just got a poem accepted by Forklift, Ohio. It’s strange. My last three acceptances have been for poem I cut from my MS (Columbia Poetry Review, Conduit, and now Forklift,… Read more.

I am teaching two sections of intro to poetry in the spring. I’ve taught with a lot of the Norton/Vendler/Gioia anthologies (etc.) in the past and I am very tired… Read more.

So there is American surrealism of the deep image and pastoral variety (perhaps Matthew Rohrer is a good example of this tendency although he sometimes moves away from deep image… Read more.

I am teaching Jesus’ Son in my intro to lit class and the students often want to know if such and such really happened. The narrator is not reliable, but… Read more.

I am in awe. I just sat down and read Combo Winter/Spring 2004 from start to finish and I honestly loved every god damn poem (and interview and letter). I… Read more.

some poems I wrote about two years ago are in the current issue of Spork. Spork Mag Read more.

Inspired by the comments of Ken Rumble, I just re-read My Life and read Chris Vitiello’s Nouns Swarm A Verb. It was a very interesting experience to read those two… Read more.

Yes U2 currently sucks. In the past they might not have sucked. I think there is a difference between sucks and sucked. It’s sad when something that didn’t suck now… Read more.

So many strange dreams. An orgy last night. I was ordered to do certain things. I was also ordered to try the new and improved Mormon filter (for Camels only).… Read more.

a collective blog featuring some of the folks of Lucipo poetics is linked to the right. I’ve been reading about Bean News in the Chicago Review. Sounded like an interesting… Read more.

I am still concerned about the conversion narrative (from school of quietude to avant garde). The problem is the narrative is too simplistic. But knowing where you’re coming from doesn’t… Read more.

Chicago Review has some interesting letters between Ed Dorn and Tom Raworth and Dorn and Olson in 1961. So far they are really interesting. Raworth is really funny. I did… Read more.

Just got the latest issue of Chicago Review from my mailbox. It’s a special issue on Ed Dorn. I am really excited to read it. I love Chicago Review Chicago… Read more.

around the table some of the gang around the table Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

kathryn taking a break another porch break Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

Serge, Samantha, and Brian Howe a little porch break Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

The reading took place at Todd and Laura Sandvik’s home. They are amazing hosts. Always great food, liquid, sound, art. I borrowed Chao Manhattan from Todd. Looking forward to watching… Read more.