Wednesday 19 September, 2007 Jerome Rothenberg will be reading at a special Openned night, Wednesday 3rd October at 7.15pm in The Foundry, East London. More poets TBA. Check the nights page for more information.
Tuesday 18 September, 2007 Weds 17th Shearsman Series, Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury, London. Sat 20th The Language Club, Plymouth Arts Centre. Tues 23rd University of Wales, Bangor, Contempo videoconference with Aberystwyth. Weds 24th University of Wales, Bangor, reading with Chus Pato. Thurs 25th Rose Theatre, Edge Hill, Liverpool.
Friday 14 September, 2007 Maggie O’Sullivan and Ulli Freer will be reading their poetry in the upstairs room at The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1, from 7.30 on Thursday 20th September. This is the fifth in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). Nearest tubes: Russell Square; Holborn. Further events will include Stephen Watts, Christopher Gutkind and Richard Leigh (25 October) and Lee Harwood and Laurie Duggan (22 November).
Friday 14 September, 2007 Can you say... DADA? Parent website: Old magazine articles. Much interest and fun.
Thursday 6 September, 2007 The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (Simplified Chinese: 施氏食狮史; Traditional Chinese: 施氏食獅史; Pinyin: Shī Shì shí shī shǐ) is a famous example of constrained writing by Zhao Yuanren which consists of 92 characters, all with the sound shi in different tones when read in Mandarin. The text, although written in Classical Chinese, can be easily comprehended by most educated readers. However, changes in pronunciation over 2,500 years resulted in a large degree of homophony in Classical Chinese, so the poem becomes completely incomprehensible when spoken out in Putonghua or when written romanized. Link
Wednesday 5 September, 2007 Akira > Tetsuo > Olympics > Citius/Altius/Fortius > Daft Punk > Kanye West/Stronger > Stronger video > Akira >
Tuesday 4 September, 2007 B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson) (5 February 1933 - 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and film-maker. Link
Monday 3 September, 2007 RUSHDIE: Actually, I think you can't do it. There's just this book, there's just this object, and what you can do technically inside the format of just writing it down is almost infinite. It's just inexhaustibly infinite. I'm more interested in that than in these more physical foolings around with the book. I'm not interested in, for instance, one of these writers of what's called cyberpunk fiction who had written a book which was available only on a floppy disc. [William Gibson's story, Agrippa, was published on diskette.] CRONENBERG: Right. RUSHDIE: And had built into the program a thing which meant that each time you scrolled through, read a page, the previous page would be deleted. So that by the time you finished the book, you didn't have the book anymore. I don't know if this was a device to prevent replication or what. It seemed to be completely futile, because the great pleasure of a book is re-reading. Link
Friday 31 August, 2007 From Crag Hill: Looking for Work: CRITIPHORIA: A Journal of Poetry and Criticism Edited by Stephen Paul Miller, Tim Peterson, and Cecilia Wu Contributing Editors: Karen Alkaly-Gut, Maria Damon, Kenneth Deifik, Denise Duhamel, Peter Frank, Bob Holman, Carolee Schneemann, and David Shapiro. Critiphoria is a journal partially funded by St. Johns University which seeks submissions of "poetry-criticism" in all its forms for a first issue to be published in late 2007. This new journal will energize poetry and criticism through one another, exploring their intersection in the possibility of a "third genre" that grows out of such precedents as Charles Bernstein's "Artifice of Absorption," Stephen Paul Miller's poem reviews and essay/lectures, [Bob Perelman's "IfLife"] Lyn Hejinian's poetic nonfiction, the linguistic mysticism of David Shapiro, the autobiographical scholarship of Susan Howe, Zizek's psycho-political analyses, W.J.T. Mitchell's totemic digs, David Antin's talk poems, and a variety of dialogic critical-poetic objects (we enthusiastically anticipate new models). We will publish essays in poetic form, essays using poetic methodology, poems with critical content, pedagogy, essays concerning poetry-criticism, statements about poetic production. We also invite items of a more general nature pertinent to these topics, including essays, poems, visual art, vispo, audio, and e-poetry. Submissions may include a statement concerning the submission and how it concerns dynamic interaction between poetry and criticism. Critiphoria will appear at http://www.critiphoria.org, and a print edition will also be published. Subscriptions are $20/two issues. Email submissions or other correspondence to the editors: Stephen Paul Miller, Tim Peterson, and Cecilia Wu at critiphoria@gmail.com.