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Read more: Deers | Trippy Gum
This duo from Madrid makes me happy. Like The Raincoats. I love The Raincoats!
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Read more: Andalucia
New poems written while in Andalucia, Spain.
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Read more: Auld Enemies poetry: London – Tim Atkins & Jeff Hilson
Innovative British poetry from Tim Atkins and Jeff Hilson. Terrific. They make me believe poetry is alright again! a great reading in London as part of the Auld Enemies project by SJ Fowler.
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Read more: Nine Holes
July 1998. “Nine Holes” Translated by Malcolm Sinclair. http://krzysztofjaworski.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/dziewiec-dziur.html
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Read more: UPTIGHT POETRY FILM
GENTLEMEN(POETRY, MUSIC, FILM COLLABORATION FOR UPTIGHT)DIRECTOR: Graeme MaguireASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Sarah MaguirePOETRY: Marcus SleaseSOUNDS: Annie Gardiner of Hysterical InjurySTARRING: Rick Hambleton, Natalie Brown, Mo, Jamie LindsayTHANKS TO: The Cube, Scubaboy Inc, Floating Harbour Studios, Geneva Stopcheck it out://player.vimeo.com/video/100253149 GENTLEMEN – Short…
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Read more: grenada
hangin in old moorish streets of Grenada. Reading Lorca in NY while I am in Grenada. Bones on fire in 40 degree heat but can´t type worth a damn on ancient devices. Nuts with white wine on the lower east…
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Read more: OPPOSING POWER BLOCKS
“Too hip for the squares and too square for the hips is a category of oblivion which increasingly threatens any artist who dares to take his own way, regardless of mass public and journalistic approval. And how could it be…
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Read more: PROGRAM MERCURY
Awesome exhibit coming up in Warsaw Poland. The first big exhibit of the artist and poet Grzegorz Wroblewski in his home country after many many years of exile. Gonna check it out in August. You can see both conceptual and…
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Read more: A MEMOIR OF MAGICAL TRAVEL
FROM MY NOVEL IN PROGRESS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DON WHISKERS. THE COLLEGE DAYS OF SEARCHING FOR MYSTICAL TREASURES . . A RECORDING/READING OVER AT SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/from-never-mind-the-beasts
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Read more: Eucharist
“There weren’t enough gumdrops in the shop to feed the dopamine and keep him to me. My blue-suited brother had gotten wise and hid our mother’s loot on his token visit home. So when the need jerked Andrew stupid, and…
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Read more: Tim Atkin’s reading from launch of his Petrarch
SJ Fowler organised it all. WOW! What a night!! And lots more poets reading on the night . . . check ’em out over at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om1Qq2Ekhhk&index=1&list=UUH-fLGyt8YZrtNctaU1OauQ
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Read more: Philip Terry puts Tim Atkin’s Petrarch through a music box
Here is Philip Terry. An member back in the day of Oulipo. He puts Tim’s Atkin’s poems from Petrarch through a music box. It is very interesting. Tim Atkin’s Petrarch is available from Crater Press over here: http://www.craterpress.co.uk/ Crater…
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Read more: Holly Pester performing Tim Atkin’s Petrarch
Holly makes her own spin on Tim Atkin’s spin on Petrarch. Oh yeah! and many more readings over here:
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Read more: Jeff Hilson reading at Tim Atkin’s launch
The awesome Jeff Hilson reading from Tim Atkin’s Petrarch:
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Read more: Marcus Slease reading from Tim Atkin’s Petrarch
Crater 27: June 2014. Tim Atkins, Complete Petrarch.All of Petrarch translated / transfigured / transplanted by Tim Atkins – a hallucinogenic, euphoric striptease of a traductory odyssey. 550 odd pages of pure lyric gold. [Not letterpressed.] £16 + p&phttp://www.craterpress.co.uk/Lot’s of London…
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Read more: Miles Champion covers Tim Atkins – Petrarch 199
Reminds me of the amazing plays of Kenneth Koch. But with a Tim Atkins twist. It doesn’t get any better than Tim Atkins!!! Amazing launch of his Petrarch at Rich Mix last Saturday. You can get the magnum opus (plays,…
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Read more: Ghetto Defendant
by The Clash featuring the poet Allen Ginsberg (from the album Combat Rock, 1982)
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Read more: THE BEAST GENERATION
by Zarina Zabrisky Buy the awesome chapbook from TREE KILLER INK here: http://www.epicrites.org/tree-killer-ink.html
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Read more: Dani Sandal’s 97%
Dani Sandal’s freakin awesome tale 97%. Listening now and it is mighty mighty good!! The failures of pops. Jesus/God. Daughter/father. Pre-detox love. 3% unsure. “The secrets are still buried deep by bull’s ass. But we rocked out and flayed asphalt.…
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Read more: HEADLESS
BY GEORGES BATAILLE http://solarluxuriance.com/oop/pdfs/SL011.pdf
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Read more: TOO LATE
Coming of age 3d glasses scary breast story over at Referential Magazine. Olive and Prue waiting lady like in church for their last picture show. Faye Dunaway. Textured and layered with word pleasures. The awesome Dani Sandal. Check it: http://referentialmagazine.org/dani-sandal/
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Read more: LIKEWISE FOLIO
Got some surrealist/fabulist prose poems written in Poland 2008 and 2012 in the new issue of Likewise Folio . Check it out at :http://likewisefolio.org/poet/marcus-slease
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Read more: EXCERPTS FROM KOPENHAGA IN INDIA
http://poetry.sangamhouse.org/2014/06/excerpts-from-kopenhaga-by-grzegorz-wroblewski/
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Read more: Nicholas Grider
THREE KICK ASS POEMS BY NICHOLAS GRIDER OVER AT SHAMPOO. CUTE AS A TICK: http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentytwo/grider.html (art: Nicholas Grider)
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Read more: I LOVE DICK
Chris Kraus’ I Love Dick is opening a space for me to exist in. To move around in. She says, “Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill- getting larger cause you’re entering another person’s…
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Read more: TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF MY BROTHER
It’s still hard and the world is a completely different place with loss of this size. We were so close growing up and then were reconnecting again after I left the U.S. and traveled the world for seven years in…
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Read more: International Poetry and Fiction from Mexico City
Got some poems in the new issue of Ofi Press Magazine from Mexico City. Including one for my brother Aaron (“Piper Down”). Tomorrow he will have been gone for 2 years. It’s still hard!!! http://www.ofipress.com/sleasemarcus.htm
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Read more: CABARET HRABAL
Reading a poem that engages with Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude and Closely Watched Trains. Part of my manuscript Play Yr Kardz Right. Next month at THE HORSE HOSPITAL. 3rd JULY. COME ON OUT!! GREAT LINE UP!!
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Read more: RALPH HAWKINS "FIND THE BLACK SEA"
https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/raph-hawkins-find-the-black
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Read more: THE NEW CAVE OF PLATO
Artist Pawel Kuczynski, who is based in Poland, creates thought-provoking art that will give you another way to view this world.
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Read more: MY BOOK RIDES (IN THE TRADITION OF TED BERRIGAN)
“I began writing train poems on the London tube in 2008-2009. I sat there scribbling into notebooks as the train went from one stop to the next.” I’m talkin about train poems & my process for writing Rides on H_ngm_n magazine…
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Read more: Sarah Maguire – SHE GOT AWAY
Sarah Maguire. The co-creator of UPTIGHT. www.thisisuptight.com
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Read more: UPTIGHT!
“We are two poets, Sarah Maguire (Bristol) and Marcus Slease (London) that to put it mildly are sick of traditional intellectual, stiff, PHD driven British poetry and feel obligated to do something …anything ….to make a change. “ CHECK OUT…
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Read more: ALEXANDER VVEDENSKY
A READING OF THE FABULOUS RUSSIAN ABSURDIST OBERIU POET ALEXANDER VVEDENSKY’S POEM “THE JOYFUL MAN FRANZ.” https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/the-joyful-man-franz-by-alexander-vvedensky “pussy riot are Vvedensky’s disciples and heirs. . His principle of bad rhythm is our own” — Pussy Riot (Nadezhda Tolokonnikova;s closing statement…
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Read more: Zarina Zabrisky
RUSSIAN ABSURDISM MEETS RAW EROTICISM SEX POSITIVE PSYCHOANALYTIC FEMINISM ETC. ETC. ETC. ZARINA ZABRISKY ROCKS!!!
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Read more: RUSSIAN AMERICAN ABSURDIST FLARF ROCKS
SAW EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY YESTERDAY AT SERPENTINE GALLERY IN LONDON. PIRATES AND PARROTS. BEST READING IN LONG TIME!! RUSSIAN/AMERICAN ABSURDISM!! TERRIFIC!
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Read more: Dr. Maddy Corbin "The Politics of Knowledge in the Psychedelic Sciences"…
What do we mean by liberation? Spirituality and race gender class and nation.
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Read more: BIG HAPPY BALL
BIG BALLS OF HAPPY ENERGY AND DEVASTATOR BEER. SPANISH FORK UTAH. DOCKLANDS EAST LONDON. UVF CHILDHOOD. PORTADOWN. EXPANDING UNIVERSE. NOTHINGNESS.
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Read more: Eileen Myles in Vilnius
Eileen Myles reading in Vilnius. Terrific! Expansive and open and generous. Her confidence is contagious. I think she opens up the space and all the people in that space. So many poetry readings feel closed and sometimes suffocating. We need…
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Read more: THE NEW H_NGM_N
SOME OF MY POEMS FROM MANUSCRIPT TRAIN RIDES. POEMS WRITTEN GOING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS ON TRAINS IN THE U.K. INSPIRED IN PART BY TED BERRIGAN’S TRAIN RIDES. CHECK IT OUT IN THE NEW H_NGM_N ISSUE 16. http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-sixteen/marcus-slease.html
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Read more: TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE
NEW POEM THINKING ABOUT HRABAL AND TIME LIVING IN POLAND. WRITTEN WED 7TH MAY 2014.
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Read more: 9/11
“Take 9-11. That means something in the United States. The “world changed” after 9-11. Well, do a slight thought experiment. Suppose that on 9-11 the planes had bombed the White House, suppose they’d killed the president, established a military dictatorship,…
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Read more: SCHOOL OF FISH AT SPORK
MY POEM SCHOOL OF FISH IS OVER AT SPORK. YIPPPIEEE . . . http://sporkpress.com/
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Read more: Texas SB 5 by Laurie Filipelli
Texas Senate Bill 5 (or Texas SB 5), created on June 11, 2013 and discussed during the First Special Session of the Eighty-third Texas Legislature, is a list of measures that add and update abortion regulations in Texas. The controversial bill includes…
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Read more: POEMS IN WHICH
NEW POEMS IN WHICH ISSUE 5. A HEALTHY SPRINGING FROM OTHERWISE OVERALL STALE BRITISH POETRY (OR STALE MAGAZINES AND PRESSES OF BRITISH POETRY) GOT A POEM ABOUT STRING AND THE UNIVERSE AND MORMON MISSION MEMORIES OF TYING COMPANION TO BED…
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Read more: TOWERS 2
POETRY: MARCUS SLEASE MUSIC/SOUND: FIELD RECORDINGS OF CANARY WHARF, 4 TRACKS OF RANDOM TRACKS SELECTED VIA CHANCE METHODS JOHN CAGE STYLE
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Read more: Blood Lotus and Amy King
Mighty good poems over at Blood Lotus. It’s Amy King. It’s not hipster irony. I am right there too!!! Stacia M. Fleegal on Amy King: “Experts are servants / to those in power who return things to ‘normal.’ Riot on.”…
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Read more: POETRY RECEIPT SCROLL FROM BRITISH MUSEUM
Erkembode (DAVID KELLY-MANCAUX) has created a saintly scroll of my poems (a minimalist version of Kerouac’s On the Road). Erkembode created the poetry scroll while working the gift shop at the British Museum. He said the till was going crazy…
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Read more: Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
Belief and Technique for Modern Prose (Jack Kerouac) Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy Submissive to everything, open, listening Try never get drunk outside yr own house Be in love with yr life Something that…
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Read more: HALF WAY HOUSE
KARAMAN, TURKEY. 2010 https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/half-way-house
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Read more: reading from The New Vision
except from my novella in progress THE NEW VISION. Inspired by William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Eileen Myles, Feminism, psychedelic revolutions, Mormon youth, Utah and much more
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Read more: THE NEW STORY
STARTED A NEW NOVEL OR NOVELLA TODAY. IT’S CALLED THE NEW VISION. UTAH OF THE 90’S. BASED ON A TRUE STORY. HA. AND NOT. FEELIN THE PULL . . OF SOMETHING . . SMALL EXCERPT OF FIRST 20 PAGES HERE:…
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Read more: WHAT THE HELL IS POETRY?
in his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” poet/artist George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before poets of all kinds and in many places: what is poetry? In response poets let us in on their private space…
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Read more: IT POPS
Ewa is making chapbooks for my Victorian toilet bowl reading with Richard Barrett this Tuesday. Drawings by David Kelly-Mancaux. The Chapbook is called IT POPS. Ewa made a chapbook a few years ago with nail varnish for the cover called Balloons. I…
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Read more: CAT POWER AND JACK KEROUAC
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=FdhKs7FeHrU&u=/watch?v=pn9CdLKBDVE&feature=share Jack Kerouac and Cat Power. What a combo!
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Read more: MUNCHING ON DREAM DUST
(scraps from this weeks notebook) The giant city awake in the first warm breath of springtime. 5 days till 40th birthday. Moving into part time insomnia. Money worries. I have enough now but what about next month? The month after?…
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Read more: Dani Sandal’s Benevolence of Forgetting
Most wars are class wars. Send all the sons and daughters of American congress people and then maybe they will think a bit about putting greed before human life!! Dani Sandal’s Anti-War poem kicks ass. As Genesis says Each war…
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Read more: Grzegorz Wroblewski interview with Gilbert Wesley Purdy
Fantastic interview with Grzegorz Wroblewski by Gilbert Wesley Purdy over here: http://www.eclectica.org/v18n2/purdy_wroblewski_interview.html Grzegorz is currently in a plane flying to New York for his American tour. Go see him if you are on the East Coast of the U.S. A…
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Read more: Grzegorz Wróblewski — Melancholia
MALANCHOLIAGuitar: Amir Hadziahmentovic Text/voice: Grzegorz Wroblewski Drawings: My Life with Ann by Grzegorz Wroblewskihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKjlYwjnhf8 (drawing: Grzrgorz Wroblewski’s My Life With Ann)
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Read more: ATLAS REVIEW 3
SUPER SUPER HAPPY!! IT IS A GOOD SATURDAY IN EAST LONDON. GOT MY COPY OF ATLAS REVIEW 3. AMONG ABSOLUTELY AMAZING COMPANY. BEST MAG I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG LONG TIME!!! SO MANY GREAT ARTISTS AND POETS!! THANK YOU…
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Read more: Magic Scone
Eating a magic Scone last night with David Kelly-Mancaux in London before poetry reading. The poetry reading was a word pharmacy at Hardy Tree Gallery. It was very interesting. http://hardytreegallery.com/
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Read more: Reading in old London Victorian toilet
Footsie Index #5 Richard BarrettMarcus SleaseRichard will be launching his new book ‘Free’ which is published by Blart Books. Tuesday 15th April 2014 STARTS @ 7PM Footsie Index #5 is at Artslav http://www.artslav.com/ Artslav is a restored Victorian public toilet located under the…
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Read more: Grzegorz Wroblewski at Columbia University
If you are in NY, check out Kopenhaga. Grzegorz Wroblewki and Piotr Gwiazda: http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/poetry-reading-grzegorz-wr%C3%B3blewski
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Read more: What Remains
powerful story in Raleigh Review. Dani Sandal’s “WHAT REMAINS” http://www.raleighreview.org/flash_fiction.html Nails age. Memory fades. The power of fuck remains. The longevity of the fuck. The word. The life energy! Skulls crack like eggs.
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Read more: THE BIRTHDAY CAKE I MADE YOU
BY RUSS WOODS AT BLACK CAKE RECORDINGS. A NIFTY AUDIO SITE FOR POETRY. DIG: http://blackcakerecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-birthday-cake-i-made-you
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Read more: THE HOLY GRAIL
BY JACK SPICER. BACK IN PRINT.AND GORGEOUS OF COURSE! I LOVE POOR CLAUDIA. SO HAPPY TO HAVE MY BOOK WITH THIS TERRIFIC PUBLISHER. ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVS http://www.poorclaudia.org/books/the-holy-grail/
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Read more: America
America (after Ginsberg) America I am putting my pursy lips to the wheel America go to bed dream new dream America none of this means anything America I’ve got your booty in my laundry bag America my potatoes are puffy,…
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Read more: AMERICAN BOOK TOUR GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI AND PIOTR GWIAZDA
If you are in the U.S. and near these cities (NY, MA, RI) then try to catch Grzegorz Wroblewski and Piotr Gwiazda (translator) on their American book tour!!! Grzegorz Wróblewski and Piotr Gwiazda, poet and translator of KOPENHAGA — Friday,…
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Read more: PETER ORLOVSKY’S "SECOND POEM"
FROM YUGEN ISSUE 4 PETER ORLOVSKY’S “SECOND POEM” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZstJLgAhy8
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Read more: South Korea 2006
a reading of Mu (dream) So (Window) on soundcloud. Seoul, South Korea 2006: https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/mu-dream-so-window
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Read more: Penn Sound Page
GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI HAS A NEW PENN SOUND PAGE. YIPPIE!!! Mp3s of readings from London: Torriano reading series and Enemies project reading at Rich Mix. Also a reading I did of Grzegorz’s poetry set to some basic music I whipped together.…
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Read more: A DARK DREAMBOX OF ANOTHER KIND
THE POEMS OF ALFRED STARR HAMILTON. An American surrealist. A nice discussion here on the internet radio: http://www.kcrw.com/media-player/mediaPlayer2.html?type=audio&id=bw140123alfred_starr_hamilto
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Read more: Shane Christmass
I like Shane Christmass. Sunday Morning reads: I’M NOT FAMILIAR WITH ALLAN GINSBURGH BUT HE LOOKS LIKE HE SMOKES A LOT OF WEED. & PUBIC HAIR A TANGLE $$$$$$$. over at Housefire: http://housefirebooks.com/deux-two-poems-by-shane-christmass/
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Read more: Krzysztof Jaworski
CHECK OUT KRZYSZTOF JAWORSKI. TERRIFIC POEMS OVER HERE. TRANSLATED BY BANJAMIN PALOFF http://bettermagazine.org/004/krzysztofjaworski.html Krzysztof Jaworski was born in Kielce, Poland, in 1966, and has written over a dozen books, including Irksome Pleasures: Collected Poems 1988–2008 and, most recently, To the Marrow, an avant-garde novel…
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Read more: Grzegorz Wroblewski and Amir (guitar)
The title is Schylek. A poem from Grzegorz’s first poetry collection Ciamkowatosc zycia (from 1992). Written in Warsaw in the beginning of 80’s punk period. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x5iUrUaBxc
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Read more: Grzegorz Wroblewski and Piotr Gwiazda in London
Grzegorz Wroblewski reading from his book Kopenhaga and Piotr Gwiazda reading his English translations. London. Torriano Reading Series. 9th Feb 2014.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axWyV2Ja3UE&feature=youtu.be
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Read more: Wrogowie Grzegorz Wroblewki and Marcus Slease
As part of the Enemies project (www.weareenemies.com) Wrogowie celebrated contemporary Polish poetry in collaboration with British poetry on February 8th 2014 at the Rich mix arts centre in London. Six pairs of poets premiered original collaborative works specifically for this…
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Read more: THREAT LEVEL: POETRY
poetry “is in the margins, the fray, and the common places too. Some poets may attempt to harness and use the “PoBiz” for personal or professional gain, but it is at their own expense that they fail to grasp that…
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Read more: REVIEW OF KOPENHAGA IN THREE PERCENT
“What terrifies me in Denmark (the land of Bohr and Kierkegaard, a caring tolerate state, with a high standard of living, etc)? What terrifies me is homo sapiens. Also in Wilanów and other wholly innocent corners of the Earth. What terrifies…
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Read more: Awesome Polish poets in London!!!
Wrogowie – Feb sat 8th at the Rich Mix, London Wrogowie: February Sat 8th at the Rich Mix Arts Centre: 7pm doors. Free entry. http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/wrogowie-the-enemies-project-polish-poetry/ http://www.polishculture.org.uk/literature/events/news/article/wrogowie-the-enemies-project-2244.html Marcus Slease & Grzegorz Wróblewski Joanna Rzadowska & Francesca Lisette Ula Chowaniec & Amy Cutler…
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Read more: Wiara by Grzegorz Wroblewski
Grzegorz Wroblewski and Amir (on guitar). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pk1Pr0AROI
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Read more: bearding the beats
Got this in the mail today!!! Big Table issue 1. The Complete contents of the suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review. Jack Kerouac, Edward Dahlberg, William S. Burroughs And an old newspaper article. Bearding the Beats. Kenneth Tynan, The Observer. Sunday…
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Read more: Tieryas Mini Reviews Spanish Fork by Marcus Slease
http://tieryas.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/tieryas-mini-reviews-spanish-fork-by-marcus-slease/ A NICE MINI REVIEW OF SPANISH FORK CHAPBOOK. THANK YOU TIERYAS!!!
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Read more: Grzegorz Wroblewski Reading
Paintings by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Poems of Grzegorz Wroblewski translated by Agnieszka Pokojska and Adam Zdrodowski. Reading: Marcus Slease. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSv6LAHI0gY
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Read more: Grzegorz Wroblewski and Krzysztof Jaworski
http://krzysztofjaworski.blogspot.dk/2014/01/piesci-wladzy.html
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Read more: Mike Topp and Grzegorz Wroblewski
A few more observations, haiku, extremely short stories, by Mike Topp who lives and works in a large, Eastern metropolis. Grzegorz Wroblewski’s Kopenhaga and Mike Topp’s poetry have quiet a lot in common. They are both from the Milky Way…
Never Mind the Beasts 