NY School Poetry
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Meat from the Stones
Time is moving fast and faster. 3 years in Spain after over 8 years in London, plus many other countries besides. The thrill of new places, like the thrill of anything, has a short lifespan, but it is still good, overall, here. Madrid was the first city, before here near Barcelona, and it is a… Read more
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WHY I AM A MEMBER OF THE RON PADGETT FAN CLUB
Count me in! http://hyperallergic.com/94782/why-i-am-a-member-of-the-ron-padgett-fan-club/ Read more
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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 otherwise in a supremely tribal civilization like ours, where even artists feel compelled to band… Read more
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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 UPTIGHT! A NEW POETRY AND ARTS COMMUNITY BASED IN BRISTOL, UK AND LONDON, UK. OUR… Read more
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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 spewing out poems instead of numbers for receipts. These poems are conversational vernacular poems. A… Read more
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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 think there is a theme. http://www.artslav.com/ Read more
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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!!! Read more
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Marcus Slease Interview at The Volta
A BIG THANKS TO JIM GOAR FOR THE GREAT QUESTIONS. WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT. LIKE NY SCHOOL POETS AND PHILIP WHALEN, AND POOR CLAUDIA. ALSO ABOUT NOMADIC POETICS AND TRAVEL AND SURREALISM. INTERVIEW UP NOW AT THE VOLTA/CONVERSANT http://theconversant.org/?p=5588 Read more
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EILEEN MYLES
One of my favourite poets and people of all time. She has a new website. It is very good. I go there almost everyday. http://www.eileenmyles.com/index.php Read more
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IT’S ALMOST PORN
EILEEN MYLES IS COMING TO TOWN!! yipppiiieeee!!! ONE OF MY FAV POETS OF ALL TIME! Read more
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FRANK O’ HARA AND DRAKE TOGETHER AT LAST
FRANK O’ HARA AND DRAKE, TOGETHER AT LAST! http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/09/10/frank_o_hara_and_drake_mashup_poetry_and_pop_music_beautifully_put_together.html?utm_source=Poetry+Sept+11%2C+2013&utm_campaign=Poetry+September+11&utm_medium=email Read more
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Loving the Polish: Grzegorz Wróblewski’s "Kopenhaga"
Nice review of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s Kopenhaga over here by Chad W. Post: http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=8022 Read more
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letters from the milky way
Kopenhaga by Grzegorz Wroblewki is one of those touchstone books for me. I mean the kind of book that sits on my best shelf with my favourite books of all the ages.Surreal rooted in the everyday. Surreal rooted in the historical. Letters from a human being from the Milky Way but currently somewhere between Denmark… Read more
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Jeff Hilson pokes it right in and gives it a twist
Marcus Slease reading Jeff Hilson from _In The Assarts_ NY School poetry meets the London school of medieval ass arts. Kraftwerk. Buster Keaton. Ted Berrigan. Francis Picabia & the sheriff of Nottingham. Jimmy “great charming girl” Schuyler. The ladies in waiting have left their nuts in a medieval thicket. Jeff Hilson pokes it right in… Read more
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ALT LIT and NY School Poetry
Alt LIT and NY School Poetry (Frank O’ Hara and Ted Berrigan etc.) This same kind of negative review of the legacy of NY School poetics was also leveled at Alt Lit in Vice recently. Sociability. Pop art. Speed. The bad dna of Frank O Hara and Ted Berrigan etc. The attention deficit of NY… Read more
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what i’d like for christmas by ted berrigan
What I’d Like For Christmas, 1970 by Ted Berrigan Black brothers to get happy The Puerto Ricans to say hello The old folks to take it easy & as it comes The United States to get straight Power to butt out Money to fuck off Business with honor Religion & Art Love A home A… Read more
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some of my poem plays in So and So magazine
very very happy to be included in this issue . . .check it out . . some cool poetry in there . . so and so magazine Read more
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How to Keep Fresh
For almost seven years I traveled around the world with one suitcase. I had romantic notions that didn’t quite turn out romantic. Or sometimes they did. Now I am settling down in London. Waiting for the delivery of a used sofa that may not fit through the door. I have a big screen to type… Read more
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One of my favourite living poets on planet . .
This makes living in the U.K. worthwhile. One of my favourite living poets. He is an unforgettable reader/performer. check it!!! Poetry and interview over here. interview with British poet Jeff Hilson some sample poems from Rinker with the interview: Jeff Hilson poems from Rinker Read more
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Ron Padgett’s Translations of Yu Jian
Ron Padgett, like so many great NY School poets, is also a fantastic translator. I love his translations of French poetry. They are so fluid and contemporary. I especially love his translations of Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars. Blaise Cendrars’ Complete Poems is one of my favourite collections of poetry ever. He is also a nomadic poet par… Read more
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christmas day 2011
Spicy frozen pizza for Christmas dinner. A 4AM taxi pickup to Heathrow on Boxing Day. London-Paris-Salt Lake City. Drinking Melissa Tea. It was my favourite tea when I lived in Poland. I have finished The Fertility Show (formally Nerve Movie). Sent it off to a publisher or two. Will have to wait a few months.… Read more
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poems and interview with Colin Herd
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/ Read more
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The Poetry Project and Openned
A very interesting interview with Anne Waldman and Stacy Szymaszek about the Poetry Project at St. Marks church in the Bowery. The history. The community building. The future. NY School poetry, of course, and also much more. One of my favourite places in the universe. The Openned reading series in London has the potential to… Read more
Never Mind the Beasts 