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fifteen or so friends and friends of friends at the now shuttered uncanny valley in long island city in spring 2012 may went on after the cellist meaner pencil as seen on the nyc subway the poems are my sneakers frumpy i got a butt plug and neti pot for my birthday cheese puff dust under your nails tattoos remind me of my relationship to the holocaust and the height of floss had their first airing i used that gel with air bubbles to slick my hair back into the shape of a bike helmet after may s reading i was greeted by a lengthy manologue from an audience member about how he edited his high school literary magazine and therefore has a special relationship to poetry this confession was just his icebreaker before divulging that may s poem about hand sanitizer potato chips and latex gloves had expanded his idea of what sexual intercourse even is 186 187 ariel responded to audience questions from respondents organized by kevin killian syd staiti evan kennedy matt sussman zoe tuck and yours truly and others more readings should proceed like this i think conversation proves so engaging and powerful ariel s book is an exploration of queer art a thinking through of naming categorizing and the work it does and doesn t do the legibility it provides or obscures this work strikes me as a form of new narrative criticism an ethical criticism that engages the location of the writer writing a writing that names names takes risks reflects and attempts to narrate the text and its emergence exciting stuff posted by robin tremblay mcgaw at 6 26 pm no comments labels ariel goldberg evan kennedy kevin killian matt sussman poetry queer art simone white syd staiti zoe tuck 2 20 2017 celebratory reading bob glück and aaron shurin what now feels like waaaay back in december on the 17th s trange and disturbing how the election and all that has ensued since has changed my sense of time a terrible nightmare simultaneously on slo mo and fast forward happening right now i had the pleasure of attending the small press traffic event celebrating the 70th birthdays and recent essay collections of two of the bay area s creative anchors bob g lück and aaron shurin bob s communal nude collected essays is recently out from semiotext e and aaron s the skin of meaning collected literary essays and talks from the university of michigan press bob aaron photo courtesy of kevin killian so here is to the critical creative capacious thinking that might sustain us provide pleasure enable us to be as norma cole put it when i saw her at mary burger and truong tran s art show some weeks ago tenacious the first piece is from one of bob s current projects excerpt from i boombox note this is an excerpt from a long poem i boombox the poem is assembled from my misreading s in that sense it s an autobiography in which i dream on the page it s my version of the modernist long poem published in sections and only interrupted by the author s death my car likes to sleep on my favorite chair the ominous and elevated streetcar important cheeses it goes right through my vino masked and distinguished groaning with indignation escaping to the shades below composer s love transforms as a dramatic theme the first to flatter a paper flower behind her ear the corruption here is for buyers orphan nation groaning with indigestion escaping to the shades below to make skeletons of the physically unfit pre emptive word on cher who can be happy only when she s abstract what i have been waiting for something torn from a photograph ben saw brazenly lending his attraction to the boys across the street and pressured them into his book eclipsed cultivar of genius departing for religions unknown said he had been undercut on a red eye destructive logic and inspired guess work the official interrupted sky i had just praised his bowels the first known in something like its eternity from sicily to somber i flashed an impressive smile at pouty four inch heels one day neglecting the next the writing banged out the complexity born to a preposterous family she stood on her head cocked to one side beef encounter her face lived in concentration to unrape me the water has taken seven lives from me yet we moor on your shoes because contagion is not easy a dreamer bests himself again and break the back of paper he had been spreading humans onto pita in less than a mouth he d be totally gone a miserable grocery bag bronze frog that sits on a throne lillypad called bride because it squeaked with the slightest move christianity is a vice corporate poetry month forms a kind of obstacle discourse the system eats the continent until all that s left is the system their politeness is asking for a castration mein hand stroking flint shattered by an art teacher the broken porn night redevelop the linebreak i revise only in the cemetery but the reflections of my voice mouths of pre trial dentation to the kidney korner mission and indigestible a grin woman with a world view she tolerates little devotion and also a campy impresario his immature camaro was used in ritual dreams i enjoyed the eucharist they planted grapes in better suites the building lava lamp parsley prefers stale over substance wattlewood trees came up with hi i would have killed to spend my life with him i m a deathalete the rage of european minimalism the scared geometry an iconic bridge and its pedophile or a block of french lightning laughing as it destroys the dirt with a crest and back like an old brick wall sensory hall in tokyo drowning vipers go side to side plastic fantastic foreskin formed a celebrated parsnip with mikhail baryshnikov in which he repeats jeanette s diary if time seems personal defenestration moon the great loss they troll bloomingdale s the affected elegant tilt of their voices matriarch inc shooting up at the beach after the artists dealers critics and hedge fund guys jerked off last weekend neo raunch s next move would feel it tugging at its chin protesting with nervous tremendousness my force slips and goes funny robert glück and here s an excerpt from aaron s essay prosody now as soon as i heard about aaron s prosody class at usf i wish i might have been a student there and could have taken it the essay is as close as i will get from prosody now this is a talk with four beginnings for the first we are deep in moonlight though it is purely textual light since we are indoors in the hallway of a spanish style house in los angeles circa 1965 in that verbal shimmer and glow i ve flung myself across the carpeted floor to perform for my mother and brother the soliloquy that will be my tryout piece for a midsummer night s dream our high school senior play i am deliriously inside the spell of the spell casting sonorities as oberon prepares puck to begin his mission of mischief i know a bank he instructs and i declaimed drunk on iambs and perfume i know a bank where the wild thyme blows where oxlips and the nodding violet grows quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine with sweet musk roses and with eglantine there sleeps titania sometime of the night lulled in these flowers with dances and delight the hallway carpet was a bed of flowers in which i too lay down in moonlight and drowsed in the end you may have read elsewhere i was chosen to play not oberon but puck nu look at this face who else but having voiced and memorized and rehearsed the oberon lines i held them close inside me shall i call this somatic prosody for over thirty years cherished and foundational right up to the point that i began to teach a course in prosody for the graduate writing program at the university of san francisco the week s topic was the line and in particular the metrical line with further inflections to come via pound williams and projective verse by luck or magic i happened to be walking through golden gate park that flower strewn bank and chanced upon the shakespeare garden which i d passed many times before but never yet entered there i found among the living representative plants the textual flora as shakespeare had named them engraved as quotations on a stone wall and there of course i immediately searched i found the coordinates of my beloved forest glade where oberon avowed i read i know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows excuse me whereon that s a mistake should be as i d memorized long ago i know a bank where the wild thyme blows not whereon the wild thyme blows did i have it wrong all these years was that possible did i have a somatic prosody malady i ran home to google perhaps then it was alta vista and found there was some scholarly contention as to whether the line should have scanned as perfect iambs meaning some scribe had dropped the on in whereon a position adhered to by a number of conservative noodle heads including our golden gate protectors of the regularity in verse or whether shakespeare had intended the broken foot enacting a small caesura inside the imabic swoon this is my first beginning what is prosody it is not just the difference between noodle headed regulators and actual poets it s the study of or the attention paid to the shifts of meaning in the balance in the tiny pause of a syllable suspended as a breeze blows or a petal falls it is the possibility of where against the probability of whereon for the second beginning let me take you to my apartment in san francisco circa 1981 where a group of poets and enthusiasts have gathered together to form the now somewhat famous homer club an informal spinoff from the poetics program at new college of california with the lunatic aim of acquiring ancient greek and reading the whole of the iliad in the original simultaneously many of us knew not a word of greek but we had passion for poetic study and not incidentally the ferocious appetite of group captain robert duncan to motivate us and so foolishly doggedly triumphantly i clopped my way through dictionaries and the crib of multiple translations aided i ll say by a motown inflected natural ear for rhythm to mark the rise and fall and rise of the homeric hexameters as they roused the troops and swung the sails and heaved the bloody spears on the fields before troy we chanted together to hear the aural imprint of the oral epic in our california accents and tone deaf attempts at pitch and we felt the beat of the mythical poets s staff as it tapped out the points of the six flexible feet menin aiede thea peleiados achilleos dum de de dum de de dum dum de de dum de de dum dum i would learn to call these units dactyls and spondees but before that i would like awake for hours with the sonic hoofprints of the beat galloping through my head not t he greek words which i d instantly memorized and recited but the pure hexameters before language before the poem what is prosody it is the performance of humility before the great powers of form in language it is the name of the galloping horse tearing through the fields of a restless dawn on its essential mission to gather poetic meaning it is as the new princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics has it meaning given figured and textured shape 37 39 to read about aaron s other beginnings check out his book posted by robin tremblay mcgaw at 5 25 pm no comments labels aaron shurin communal nude robert gluck san francisco poetry readings the skin of meaning 1 29 2017 looking for a reason for hope check out communal presence new narrative writing today dear all i am very pleased to post here the call for papers for the joint uc berkeley and uc santa cruz conference communal presence new narrative writing today to be held friday october 13 to sunday october 15 2017 the conference is convened by lyn hejinian chris chen daniel benjamin and eric sneathen details are available below communal presence new narrative writing today call for proposals on scribd posted by robin tremblay mcgaw at 6 52 pm no comments 1 15 2017 frances richard s george oppen memorial lecture for some years now i ve tried to make it to the poetry center and american poetry archive s george oppen memorial lecture often they are thrilling intellectually rigorous surprising provocative this is certainly true for frances richard s talk the mind s own place and feminine technologies george oppen and possibilities of the political delivered on december 17 2016 frances has generously shared her inspiring talk with us it was accompanied by a series of images of the oppens various publications and art work you can also listen to and watch recordings of her talk from the poetry center here i highly recommend it here is one of the images from frances s talk william blake s satan exulting over eve from 1794 blake s satan exulting over eve 1794 oppen talk by frances richard on scribd frances richard frances richard is the author of anarch futurepoem 2012 the phonemes les figues press 2012 and see through four way books 2003 as well as the chapbooks shaved code portable press at yo yo labs 2008 and anarch woodland editions 2008 she writes frequently about contemporary art and is co author with jeffrey kastner and sina najafi of odd lots revisiting gordon matta clark s fake estates cabinet books 2005 her writing on visual art has appeared in artforum the nation bomb and exhibition catalogs from the whitney museum of american art guggenheim museum and independent curators international among others she teaches at california college of the arts and san francisco art institute posted by robin tremblay mcgaw at 3 54 pm no comments labels denise levertov frances richard george oppen memorial lecture mary oppen poetry politics 12 28 2016 dahlen gevirtz and shufran at the green arcade quick before 2016 is over there are several noteworthy bay area events that occurred in the last half of december here is one on tuesday december 16th after a long hiatus from readings i ventured out to the green arcade a san francisco gem one of our community oriented bookstores which hosts numerous literary readings and events to hear beverly dahlen lauren shufran and susan gevirtz what a good choice i made in the midst of so much shock and horror and the struggle to figure out what one should be doing in the face of our current and ongoing post election crisis there was something powerful about being in a room with others committed to the thoughtful exploratory nuanced engagement with language with thinking with making beverly read from some new work which struck me as painterly sculptural lyrical i love it here is one of these new pieces the thrushes of egypt the thrushes of egypt lauren shufran then read three recent poems all of which are part of a project that writes in tension with whitman s leaves of grass through contemporary politics a trip to india references to leonard cohen david bowie the bhagavad gita richard spencer s national policy institute speech in dc and more this work was mesmerizing and i hope we ll see it out in the world here or elsewhere soon lastly susan gevirtz read from her new book hotel abc just out from 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