NOMADIC TRAVEL WRITING

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.

tom raworth essays Originally uploaded by postpran. Ordering this soon from The Gig Editions. Read more.

tom raworth’s collected Originally uploaded by postpran. This is my true reading project. He is in my top five poets of all time. Read more.

lew daly’s nemesis Originally uploaded by postpran. about to try and read this Apex of the M fella again. I’ve read parts and put it away. Read more.

maggie o’sullivan’s palace of reptiles Originally uploaded by postpran. Can’t wait to get this in the mail Read more.

This article makes me want to re-read some Ashbery. I often give up on him. I didn’t make it through Three Poems or Flow Chart. There is so much Ashbery.… Read more.

1) when is the new commodified: a) at the moment of its conception b) when air enters its lungs c) after it leaves the hospital 2) which best describes your… Read more.

PART ONE: HOW TO RECLAIM AGENCY IN LANGUAGE? 1) break the language to see what’s underneath. Allow for paradox and competing representations. 2) speak clearly and efficiently. Less clouded than… Read more.

I taught a little Kamu Brathwaite in my intro to poetry class today. Mostly we listened to to Kamu Brathwaite on Leonard Schwartz’s Cross Cultural Poetics. I was especially fascinated… Read more.

My good friend Jake DeCola will be showing fifteen new sculptures in steel and bronze at the Durham Art Guild (120 Morris Street, Durham, NC) beginning this Thursday, February 24.… Read more.

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Cole Swensen and Joe Donahue Originally uploaded by postpran. Joe reads to Cole from his palm (reopen pic with a photo editing program. zoom/isolate Joe’s palm to read his poem) Read more.

Laura and kathryn Originally uploaded by postpran. At the Blue Door. Smiles all around. Read more.

Another very interesting reading last night at the Internationalist. Chris Vitiello projected live fish swimming on an overhead projector and slides and ran a text loop with a film projector.… Read more.

Ken Rumble’s Desert City Reading Series kicks ass! Here’s the annoucement from Mr. Rumble: Cole Swensen & Chris Vitiello This Saturday, February 19th Please spread far and wide……… Who: Cole… Read more.

while the energy of words are difficult to measure, I do find myself drawn toward the fast-paced, high energy performances of Miles Champion, Rod Smith, and most of all Tom… Read more.

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todd at the Irish monument in Philly Originally uploaded by postpran. Read more.

1) Ken Rumble dropped Tessa Joseph on her head three times. However, he is one hell of a swing dancer. Tessa didn’t mind. It was part of the dance. 2)… Read more.

fab time last night. fun lucipo (lucifer poetics) reading at the flea last night. Todd sold some Lucifer Poetics t-shirts. 3 sets of 3 readers with two breaks after… The… Read more.

Publishing venture to seek profit in poetry By Sheila Farr Seattle Times art critic Charlie Wright, son of art patrons Virginia and Bagley Wright, is starting a new venture. Seattleites… Read more.

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*** INSTITUTE FOR ANARCHIST STUDIES’ SOAPBOX SOCIAL *** Dear Friends and Supporters, old and new, The Institute for Anarchist Studies warmly invites you to our Soapbox Social, to be held… Read more.

Just finished reading Antidotes for an Alibi by Amy King. Lots of surprising twists and turns that often reminded me of Tomaz Salamun. Certainly there are a lot of young… Read more.

when people say personal in relation to poetry they often say: “the use of the personal” how can we know if the personal is using us? By this I mean… Read more.

( +speaking+) a voice reading neither film nor mirror. the lake a question. the gift a symbol. among the sparks. with thick eyes descending. fascination for fools. of dried apples.… Read more.

a good start to the semester. Some interesting and intelligent responses to Mallarme on the class blog. check it out: intro to poetry blog Read more.

II. SHEMSHAM “It is only a few who reach the edge of the world where its mirror /image begins” (Peter O’Leary) “shem was a sham and a low sham and… Read more.

Another great Desert City reading on Saturday. Poems by Marcos Canteli (read in Spanish then translated by Rachel Price into English). A very refreshing bestiary from Mr. Standard Schaefer. Great… Read more.

Standard Schaefer and Kathryn Standard read some great bestiary poems. In this pic, he is saying some very naughty things to poor wee Kathryn. Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

some bloody drink Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

patrick Heron LOOK INTO MY EYES!!!!! Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

three of the evenings readers/performers Rachel Price, Marcos Canteli, and Tanya Olson Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

the rumble Mr. Rumble's own private disco after some great desert city and blue door readings Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

at Belfast city hall the cold alters the relation between rain and puddle.the heart fills with hellium. voice a soggy pitch. in this place the pattern is meager but the… Read more.

I just received my copies of Backwards City Review. Some cool poems and comics (I haven’t looked at the fiction yet). Tony Tost does some complex sleep, Kent Jonhson does… Read more.

Most people are tired of paramilitaries. And the militaries. Us versus them everywhere. In Portadown. In Belfast. The murals are everywhere. How about a new story now. Read more.

I received some genuine sheepskin slippers in the mail today. I just wish it were cold around these parts. Ah well, it does make me feel cozy. It’ll be damp… Read more.

at the Buffs in Belfast. after twenty-four years. no ark for flood. no balm for ear. (liquid filling into liquid). horses on the telly. lust of memory. and the larynx… Read more.

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Picked up some Peter Riley while I was in London. Haven’t read much of him except Untitled Sequence (a chapbook from Wild Honey Press) It’s strange being back. It took… Read more.

Reading a little James Monaco for the class I will be teaching on film a week from today. He has a little chart. The spectrum from least abstraction to most:… Read more.

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strange being back in America. Got back late last night. My body says it’s 1:38AM and I want to sleep, but must push through the jet lag. Great time in… Read more.

leaving in 1 hour to fly to Boston then on to Dublin. 5 hour layover in the Boston airport however. Printed out Silliman’s Demo and Rod Smith’s Protective Immediacy to… Read more.

never listened to Matmos before. really working me good this morning. sounds of old elizabeth with some serious drums and creative electronica (an eerie base giving me the chills) These… Read more.

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.

Tom Christopher Blogged via Fotola.com. Read more.

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.