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Overall, I do believe in progress. It wakes me up in the morning. I think my poetics have moved in different directions over the past year or so and so… Read more.

Hopefully you’ll hear something interesting if you tune in to my broadcast at miPO Radio. You can subscribe to my podcast on miPO radio via itunes, rss feed, or odeo… Read more.

I can’t decide between Narcoleptic Lawn and King Gorged for book two of Resident Alien. Any thoughts? Read more.

Geraldine Monk Geraldine Monk info Review of Monk’s Noctivagations Tom Raworth Tom Raworth EPC page Tom Raworth Homepage video of Tom Raworth Reading Maggie O’Sullivan Maggie O’Sullivan info Maggie O’Sullivan… Read more.

head: by which information is transferred from an electrical signal to the recording medium, or vice versa Read more.

miPO radio is really kicking ass. Check out the latest shows (Asian-American poets, reading poetry by others, an interview with Rita Maria Martinez). I have a few recordings on the… Read more.

What is the difference between a serial poem and a long poem? Read more.

I had a really great time reading/listening/chatting on Saturday. Great to see close friends from Greensboro (Angie and Jake, Lori, Fay, Ezra) and lots of Lucifers: I’ve always been interested… Read more.

I’ve got some samples from Resident Alien in the latest Mipo radio broadcast. Interesting radio programme (check it and subscribe to the podcast). Here is the link to subscribe to… Read more.

Here’s the poster Todd Sandvik made: Read more.

Perhaps many of you know this already, but I continue to find it fascinating. A society that uses sex to diffuse violence etc. A more equal relationship between males and… Read more.

watched the movie Crash last night. Really well done. Much better than Shortcuts or Magnolia etc. in weaving multiple plots and characters. The movie deals with race with compassion and… Read more.

Reading Mark Wallace’s Temporary Worker Rides a Subway and watched In the Realms of the Unreal and they triggered some strange neuron firings this morning. I am in an airport… Read more.

Google the word “failure” and look at what’s first. Read more.

I am wondering what the ratio might be between ancient art celebrating the life giving powers of the penis versus ancient art celebrating the life giving powers of the vagina?… Read more.

A really terrific reading last night at The Nightlight in Chapel Hill. Some of the DC poets braved the highways and read some fascinating poetry. First up was Kathy Eisenhower.… Read more.

Prepare to be blown away. This is a very promising literary journal (The best new lit journal I have ever witnessed whether print or online). Ambitious. Well-contextualized. The very highest… Read more.

This just in from Michael Magee at Combo Books: Hi everyone, It is my distinct pleasure to announce the publication ofthe latest Combo Book, ALSO WITH MY THROAT I SHALL… Read more.

Finished reading Robert Kelly’s Runes and now reading Clark Coolidge’s Odes of Roba and a selection of poems from Maureen Owen’s The No-Travel’s Journal. So ancient places have invaded my… Read more.

I just finished reading Kent Johnson’s _Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz_ and it woke me up. I’ve been a bit sluggish (two weeks of only bits of writing). One of the… Read more.

The semester starts on Monday and I just picked up four classes (just wish adjunct status included benefits). I don’t like to do the same class twice, so I’ve immersed… Read more.

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1) Ken Rumble getting ready to wet willy Randall (his morning wake-up call. (Wish I looked that sexy w/out my shirt on) 2) Todd and Laura with punk rock legend… Read more.

1) Molly engaged in conversation 2) a famous Philly politician 3) sign for the Italian market 4) Brian Howe Waking up (Molly let us sleep in her room in the… Read more.

1) Marcus points to the deli in Brooklyn (our morning after meeting spot for the journey to Ithaca) 2) I met my good friend Hardy Gieske in Brooklyn (he recently… Read more.

Brian Howe leaves our cabin of infinity (we had some good stony talk about infinity in there). Marcus Slease and Ken Rumble hug as brothers as they contemplate the long… Read more.

While boundaries are often permeable, I think it’s quite clear these poets fit the school of quietude. Or perhaps the school of safety or the school of predictability. Top 40… Read more.

Jack Kerouac, The Bobblehead Lowell Massachusetts native Jack Kerouac is getting bobbleheaded – Boston Red Sox single-A affiliate Lowell Spinners will be giving out 1000 Jack Kerouac bobbleheads on August… Read more.

What an amazing trip with the Lucifer Poetics Group. I am exhausted but very happy. Brian Howe has a nice report at: Slatherpus Mike Snider has a brief account of… Read more.

I am trying to find a server to store mp3 files for podcasting. So do not subscribe to never mind the beasts on itunes yet. For some reason it’s just… Read more.

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You can subscribe to my rss feed for audio (just click the link) But, better yet, subscribe to the Never Mind the Beasts podcast via itunes (within a day or… Read more.

I’m going on a reading trip with the Lucifer Poetics Group. Come see us if you’re in any of the areas. Here’s our tour schedule: Baltimore: Wednesday, July 27, 7pm… Read more.

If you like a good mix of critical consciousness (politics, well-situated damn amazing poetry) then check out the spanking new issue of: Your Black Eye Read more.

This is one of best sites I’ve ever come across. Some great hip hop podcasts and street art from around the world. The power of artist collectives. check it out:… Read more.

The poet and music critic Brian Howe has created a blog combining both his passions. Really interesting first post comparing hip hop to contemporary poetry in its expansiveness (not in… Read more.

Part One of Stephen Jonas’ Selected Poems (Talisman House) is titled Exercises for the Ear and Part Three is titled Orgasms/Dominations. These titled capture the amazing fusions and poles of… Read more.

Just picked up some books from the bookshop in Chapel Hill and Internationalist Books. All via trade credit (with $40 in store credit left): 1) Dalachinsky (Ugly duckling Presse) 2)… Read more.

“Technology does not serve so much as modify; it simultaneously promises and threatens change.” (Steve McCaffery) I’ve been reading scattershot about sound and music and space. I am especially intrigued… Read more.

poetry as: 1) quest 2) questioning 3) to write:to right 4) striking out FROM MY NOTEBOOK: “Surrealism once promised to tell us about the unconscious, but finished up trapped by… Read more.

After some serious revisions, Campanology has now become Resident Alien. Resident Alien has a good chunk of Campanology, but the frame is a lot stronger (sequencing etc.) Resident Alien also… Read more.

Some very good revisions today. It helps to get Campanology rejected by contests. Makes me reorganize, resee, rethink. So. Campanology is now divided into three sections: section 1: Resident AlienSection… Read more.

Selected Quotes of Ernest Fenolossa: “The eye sees noun and verb as one: things in motion, motion in things.” “Motion leaks everywhere, like electricity from an exposed wire . .… Read more.

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While examining dildos and butt plugs and books on the female orgasm at Adam and Eve’s, I met a colon cleansing salesman. He claimed a lot for his kit. The… Read more.

A message from Aaron McCollough: Dear Kind Hearted Readers of GutCult: I’m pleased to announce the release of the Summer 2005 issue of GutCult (www.gutcult.com). I hope you will come… Read more.

This just in from Del Ray Cross: SHAMPOO issue 24, the FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA, is now hot off the shelf and ready for your shower. Rinse and repeat and… Read more.

Polyurethane vs. Ester 1. Greater stability in humid environments. Dampness promotes ester foam disintegration. 2. The different raw materials used to manufacture Polyurethane foam usually cost less than those used… Read more.

I know one of the arguments against avant garde (and post-avant) poetics is when it’s disjointed or fragmented or mucks with syntax it’s all surface or the poet is a… Read more.

You are Percy Bysshe Shelley! Famous for yourdreamy abstraction and your quirky verse,you’re the model “sensitive poet.” Avegetarian socialist with great personal charmand a definite way with the love poem,… Read more.

Doing a three step process with a new ms (with the tentative title of Narcoleptic Lawn). 1st step: Moleskin notes. Phrasings. collages, diagrams, and quotes 2nd step: organizing the notes,… Read more.

Electronic ink is a new material that will have far-reaching impact on how society receives its information. Electronic ink is a proprietary material that is processed into a film for… Read more.

Three Cheers for Patrick Hero(n), The Internationalist, Carrboro parks and Recreation, Open Eye Cafe etc. So amazing people at THE poetry Festival. Philip Nikolayev was funny and gorgeous. Lyric in… Read more.

Here’s a nice little write-up about the NC poetry scene by Ken Rumble. Although there is an inaccurate lumping of: Black Mountain poets, Randell Jarrell, UNC Greensboro’s MFA program, Jargon… Read more.

When does the use of advertising language, for example, simply reinforce the advertising culture? Or, to go back a bit, did our man Andy W. challenge the status of low/high… Read more.

This program looks amazing. Just what interests me: writing in the context of the arts (mixed media, performance etc.) check out the quicktime video: Performance Writing Read more.

Reading some great essays on Tom Raworth (Removed for Further Study from The Gig) and some really amazing performance/sound/shamanistic poems of Maggie O’Sullivan (Palace of Reptiles also from The Gig).… Read more.

Historians claim that the holiday of Mother’s Day emerged from the ancient festivals dedicated to mother goddess. In the ancient Greek empire, Rhea, the wife of Cronus, and mother of… Read more.

Just got back from Durham with some goodies. Picked up: 1) Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger Book III The Winterbook (Frontier Press) 2) Rodrigo Toscano’s The Disparities (Green Integer) 3) Theresa Hak… Read more.

Before I went home to Ireland last Christmas I had a recurring dream/nightmare that Ireland had been coopted by Las Vegas. All the green fields changed into a desert of… Read more.

I’ve been thinking over my thoughts about why writing matters. Publication and ego boosts and smoozing are all part of it. But perhaps, at least for me, not the core.… Read more.

Lee Ann Brown and Carl Martin read last night to wrap the 2005 Desert City reading series. Carl Martin read first: rich sounds, density, surrealist touches, a head well squared… Read more.

I am really fascinated by the intense relationship between Olson/Creeley and how they created an institution for the reception of their work. Not quite traditional marketing but perhaps marketing nonetheless.… Read more.

I am reading a book right now called _Career Moves_ by Libbie Rifkin. Rifkin analyzes the making of an American Avant Garde community via Creeley, Olson, Berrigan, and Zukofsky. I… Read more.

I am really amazed by the output of Clark Coolidge. I read Own Face, Alien Tatters and I just finished The Crystal Text. I loved these books so much I… Read more.

The soon to be knighted Sir Rumble braught Lisa Jarnot to my intro to poetry class yesterday. The class was standing room only (word got around) and most of the… Read more.

My friend Adam sent me this link (we need more of this reporting): Bedtime Story Read more.

This review really hit it for me. I recently read Maurice Scully’s _Livelihood_ and Geofrey Squires _Untitled and Other Poems_ is on deck (I love that baseball term. It is… Read more.

I’ve been reading Poetry On & Off The Page by Marjorie Perloff and I am really enjoying it. Perloff is so lucid and engaging. One of the essays in her… Read more.

Announcing the Second Carrboro (International) Poetry Festival May 21 & 22 The 2005 Carrboro Poetry Festival will feature readings from 40 poets during the two day event Saturday May 21… Read more.

some interesting experiments with s+7 in my intro to poetry class: intro to poetry Read more.

Lester sent a great link to a music video celebrating the wonders of America. Check it out: America You Must Go ON Lester also sent this quote: “Of course we… Read more.

This hot new journal sounds very very promising. A focused eclectic (much needed as opposed to so many unfocused eclectics like Fence etc.) Here’s the notice (and open call) from… Read more.

some really fresh cod and cold Stella last night at Fishbones. A nice little birthday celebration with some Greensboro buddies. My good friend Dan got me a gift certificate to… Read more.

The second airing of My Vocabulary this Sunday. Last week’s show was great. Some wonderful Robert Creeley poems and tributes. Check it out this Sunday. Here’s the message from one… Read more.

Wow. Tiffany surprised me with a 20gb ipod for my birthday today. I’ve never used an ipod. It’s charging right now. Can’t wait to load it up with some tunes… Read more.

so I am turning 31 tomorrow. it’s a strange number. the only significance being 10 years older than 21 (the age of drinking in the U.S.). In other news, I… Read more.

Patrick Heron sent this link to the Lucipo folks recently. A really well done music video. Here’s the synopsis: Protesting U.S. foreign policy, the Norwegian rap group Gatas Parlament created… Read more.

re-read _Pieces_ last night and it moved me greatly. There’s so much packed into the book. Philosophical meditation on the “I” and death and the world body. This book really… Read more.

I am excited to check out Stockholder’s work at the Weatherspoon. Just came across this brief interview and it perked (peaked) my interest: Klaus Ottmann: What are the most important… Read more.

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… Read more.

In case you don’t know already there’s a great new mag in town. Adam Good (of DC poet fame) has organized a very impressive first issue. Editorial vision (this is… Read more.

I am laughing and gasping and all in all envious of Mayer’s Midwinter Day. The “NY School” has so much boundless and boldness. What generation is Bernadette Mayer anyway? She… Read more.

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great st. paddy’s day party last night. some pics of noses and mouths. soon I will get inside the ear. Read more.

The idea of audience and language has been on my mind for quite a few years (perhaps always but I talking consciously here). Quite a few of my professors over… Read more.

Chris Vitiello instigated a great discussion on the Lucipo listserv. He asked about our conception of open/closed text while composing/writing. His bloghas some fascinating talk of late (audience, plays etc.)… Read more.

Just picked up Medeski Martin and Wood’s Notes From The Underground. I am liking it a lot so far. What a range! I have found music without words works best… Read more.

Dry spells hurt. Resurrections are good (poetry doesn’t want immortality but ressurection) or insurrection? It’s good to plug back in. Listening to Jazz contemplating, dancing, and writing with IT. I… Read more.

If you like sound (birds, dialects, Princess Elizabeth talking to children during WWII) check outThe British Library Sound Archive Read more.

If you’re ever in Chapel Hill, NC you must visit The Bookshop. I have yet to find a better used bookshop for poetry. Turned in a small box of poetry… Read more.

Red Juice by Hoa Nguyen Originally uploaded by postpran. Handsome, well-made chap. Demotic and personal and eliptical and chiseled. Music that stays fresh all year. Lot’s of interesting poems about/around… Read more.

Etruscan Reader VI Originally uploaded by postpran. These Etruscan Readers really rock. I want them all! Read more.