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Some Words on Wallace Stevens at Big Other

I had the pleasure of writing about Wallace Stevens when Greg Gerke asked for "something, anything" about his poetry (or prose). You can read that, and many other reflections and musings about Stevens...

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"Mozart, 1935" by Wallace Stevens

From Ideas of Order (1936)Poet, be seated at the piano.Play the present, its hoo-hoo-hoo,Its shoo-shoo-shoo, its ric-a-nic,Its envious cachinnation.If they throw stones upon the roofWhile you practice...

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Video Failure

Hi.I tried posting some short films here, but they wouldn't load.Local news: I'm writing a play. Reviews of Ed Sanders' recent 2 volumes of selected poetic works have appeared in Boog City #66, a New...

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Happy 99th Birthday, Kennth Patchen

Born in 1911 on December 13 in Youngstown, Ohio.Kenneth, you are an old soul. I think of you not at all dead in 1972, but still here, three years older than my grandmother (who died this past August at...

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Prose Instructions

The little guy remembered a day in the city, just feeling the pace of the space, and the Moment when the Whole Vision, large as it was in his life and mind, had to be spilled out into the ear of an...

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This Blog is currently in recovery

well. imagine a list of books here. Then imagine a long, thoughtful description of why I think they are great.next, imagine the announcement of exciting works being written, sweated over, decidedly...

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July 10, 2007 to February 22, 2008

July 10, 2007My Personality I took an online personality disorder test, and won!Here's the results:Disorder Rating Information Paranoid: Very High Schizoid: High Schizotypal: Very High Antisocial: High...

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March 4, 2008 to May 30, 2008

March 4, 2008learning to ask in the past year i learned more about myself than in the previous ten years.April 17, 2008who is that? As far as I can tell, there are two or three readers of this blog....

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May 31, 2008 to August 21, 2008

May 31, 2008BlueWhat can you do?Three of us wore blue.McCaffery shot two.Please check out: http://www.chax.org/Karen Mac Cormack's _Implexures_ complete text (Chax Press, 2008)Steve McCaffery's...

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Sweetest Surrender

It is an unusual feeling, looking through the corrective lens of hindsight. And it is harmful to eschew foresight in making any life-altering decision. To think of what one is capable of walking into,...

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Works Received

Here is a list, in no particular order, of poetry books accumulated over the past 6-9 months: they were given to me for review; given as a gift from authors, publishers, editors; or I bought them. I...

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Dedicated to the memory of Tuli Kupferberg

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A book I like

I like the proliferative momentum of this book. Hank was published last year (2010) by Action Books. I do wonder, though, just how much my sense of it depends on having heard these poems read--or...

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"Easter in New York" by Blaise Cendrars, 1912.

Pâques à New York Seigneur, c'est aujourd'hui le jour de votre Nom,J'ai lu dans un vieux livre la geste de votre PassionEt votre angoisse et vos efforts et vos bonnes parolesQui pleurent dans un livre,...

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a reading of new poetry and fiction

Jibade-Khalil HuffmanDouglas MansonMolly PrentissNancy WeberSoul Cafe at The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd7420 Fourth Avenue, Bay Ridge, BrooklynTime: ‎7:30PM Friday, June 24th,...

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Americans Aren't Going Out to Get New Stuff as Much as They Used To

We are erogenous and emotional nomads who refuse history as bad conscience, and memory as mental detritus. We are determined, each one of us, to learn all the functional skills necessary to have a life...

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If You'd Only Known / It's Hid From Your Eyes

Hör auf Mich un ConseilFocus constantly to make your worka celebration of the joys of human existence.Trace the lives and live the tracesof all that surrounds you.Notice children first and seein their...

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Scenes from the First Annual New York Poetry Festival

July 30th & 31st. Governors Island, New York CityQuod si me lyricis vatibus inseresSublimi feriam sidere capiteNote: video quality seems choppy on my machine, and is best viewed with the audio...

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5th Annual Welcome to Boog City Festival

Scenes from the 8th Annual Small, Small Press Fair. August 6, 2011. sunny. august. hot. Evie Shockley reading from her chapbook of prose poems (Belladonna*, 2010). She also read from her new book The...

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Poem

fondle and pullrecollections of a lonely wandererfrom a rotting bog of garbageearnestlythe thinness of lifein consumerist complicitywell wishhole in the chestangerbooks & spaceweaknessthinking and...

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