Saturday 31 January, 2009 via the BBCPolish artist Miroslaw Balka has been commissioned by London's Tate Modern gallery to fill its Turbine Hall.
Balka will be the tenth artist to display their work in the hall when the exhibition opens in October. Comprising installation, sculpture and video, Balka's work explore themes of personal history and experience.
Saturday 31 January, 2009 2 Eleven, and the arterial road has tightened with traffic. Vendors stamp feet for the van: they have delivered their papers. All of them hold doctorates in walking and standing.PDF and downloadable eBook available via Intercapillary Space.
Saturday 31 January, 2009 
Wednesday 18th February, 7 - 9pm (reading from 7.30 - 8)
The Council Room, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, WC1.
Wine will be served. All Welcome.
Friday 30 January, 2009 in Steve Willey 
A far from definitive reading of this panel is available as part of the Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk Benefit reading project. The social space is significant.
Friday 30 January, 2009 And also, and this is the part some won’t like, I’d like to know if flarf is not engaged in the production of tag clouds? Is not the stated purpose of flarf just this, to create tag clouds through “combination and remixing” outside of the contexts of discourse that provided meaningful space for the words in the first place? Flarf poems resist criticism because they resist meaning by voiding words of the contexts of their origin. If Google is the archive through which Flarfists meet with their own good minds to create a poetic vocabulary of “intensity” perhaps in order to “incite a feeling or a response” we need, certainly, “to invite the interrogation of that response or what induced it” to the table. As far as I can tell, it’s not that critics are just mean ole nasty cusses who want to dismiss flarf outright, but flarf builds into its practice resistance to the kind of argumentation necessary to produce meaningful commentary.
Friday 30 January, 2009 Links recently added to the Openned sidebar: neon highway abandon yr timid notion fait accompli
Friday 30 January, 2009 If The Guardian was in charge of the world, we would all have to read 1000 novels. This raises a number of interesting computations. Reading one novel per day (a feat within itself) it would take you 2.73 years to complete the list, or 2 years, 8 months, roughly. If we were to assume you had a life outside of the list (which is not implied in the Guardian's fascistic instructions) and say that you could complete a novel every week, then you are looking at close to 19.2 years of reading. Assuming that you fit these novels in amongst your normal reading habits, perhaps to the extent of one a month, you have an unenviable 83.3 years of perilous scanning ahead of you. I'm not sure what this list is meant to achieve. The Top 100 Novels of All-Time is bad enough - at least that seems to be trying to rank the buggers. This is less a list and more a collection of books staggered amongst some wide-ranging and wholly inaccurate classifications (the 'State of the Nation' genre being my favourite). Perhaps I'll compile a list of 1000 Poems Everyone Must Read. I think I'll start with 'If'.
Thursday 29 January, 2009 Brian Joseph Davis, just like it sounds. Featuring:
Thursday 29 January, 2009 My ability to express my opinion in words fails me. But I am simultaneously not surprised.A new X Factor style television talent show will attempt to discover the next British art sensation.
The BBC Two show, presented by advertising boss and art collector Charles Saatchi, is open to all aspiring artists. Artists aged 18 and over can apply to www.submityourart.com.
Thursday 29 January, 2009 I realise it's late in the month and all, I also realise there's not a huge market for this stuff, and I do have other stuff to do with mutapoem. But I have decided that I am going to attempt to release a CD of new sound poetry every month for the whole of 2009.Tare is the first, paypal button should be available soon or might be available already depending on when you're reading this.
