Friday
Jan292010
Poetry is
Friday 29 January, 2010 in Alan Davies, Allen Fisher, Ammiel Alcalay, Anselm Hollo, Arman, Barrett Watten, Blue, Bob Holman, Carla Harryman, Caroline Bergvall, Carter Ratcliff, Cecilia Vicuña, Charles Bernstein, Charles Stein, Cheryl Pallant, Chris Mann, Chris Tysh, Coleman Barks, David Antin, David Henderson, David Levi Strauss, Elizabeth Clark, Elizabeth Willis, Eric Gansworth, Fanny Howe, Franz Kamin, Hanon Reznikov, Harvey Bialy, Hector Alves, Henry Weinfield, India Radfar, Jerome Rothenberg, Joanna Fuhrman, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Malina, Kate Suddes, Kevin Hart, Kristen Prevallet, Krzysztof Ziarek, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lee Ann Brown, Leslie Scalapino, Louise Landes Levi, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Michael Coffey, Michael Meade, Michel Deguy, Mikhail Horowitz, Mitch Highfill, Nick Piombino, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Kelly, Romana Huk, Ron Silliman, Sapphire, Sharon Olds, Steve Goodman, Susan Howe, Tenzin Wangyal, Timothy Doane, Tisa Bryant
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 of poetry definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for poets/artists to say what poetry or art is than for others (critics, historians, philosophers, viewers). For a particular poet, poetry may not only be an object, a thing historically defined, but something close to the core of one's life, perhaps even a singular event. Here we gain unique access to its nature in the person speaking.
via Ron Silliman