November 20, 2006
poem
Notes on terror
why the long face?
Blue blood sassy mag?
Asks how painful
It is to drown
Your list is in my hands
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vague not 401 error
demise re. plural ominous
eye racing for…
court Shangri-La no. 12.
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factor is chance is literal
dance damn is solo sour
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Cassandra never looked better than you did
Contra ignore stars, Ignatius even
Bore up, keep, trick or treat…
3 oh six beltway motive or refined…
pelvis, or a question wilt
rain. Suppose a famous person asks a question…
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pass garde crash on couch on swanky treat
love: an arc
give: dissident
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terabyte heaven you wish you were on the map
the fire door, the…something that a trope
tangible object, is wall hanging…
don’t talk to me about being nice or…flesh…dirt…
make gossip: thank you rape me mag…pho please?
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Yeah Yeah it’s November! It’s Ribogane Month!
It’s shelter! Elect velum! Talk about torture!
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emancipation by suicide
August 16, 2006
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May 31, 2006
May 22, 2006
spam
I received a spam email with the subject header stating:
Who the hell would throw shit at a fan?
The answer: I would. Tho acrylic paint would create a more interesting effect. I'm sure my landlords would appreciate it.
On that note: come over to what's left of my apt, Friday May 26 from 7pm on. Don't worry, there still will be places to sit. Bring food, beverages and poems. Wish me well as I trade one polis for another.
If you can't make that I'm reading with Jack Kimball at the Demolicious Reading Series June 4 at approx 2pm. I'll be showing a few videos and if all goes well, I'll have DVDs for sale.
Don't bring a fan. I own three of them already.
May 17, 2006
Olson at MIT
Friday, May 19 Michael Rumaker will read from his poems & memoir at The Bookstore, Gloucester. 7pm.
Saturday May 20
1pm to 6pm
MIT
50 Vassar St. #34-110
Cambridge
panel w/ audience discussion
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Sunday May 21
11:30am
Gloucester Train Station
Gloucester
The walk begins. We'll wind through Gloucester & stop to hear folks read poems at certain stops (the library, the Y, Pavilion Beach, the house in which he rented an apartment, the Fitz Henry Lane house, etc.) After walking we'll eat &
drink at Alchemy across the street(ish) from the Lane house.
May 01, 2006
it's official
I'm outta here June 1st. The landlord has been notified and the apt is looking kinda sparce. Well, not that sparce, I seem to be a packrat...but I've made some small dents...
I have not figured out a date quite yet, tentative May 26th but I will be having a party. It's either the:
SAD TO SEE YOU GO party
or the:
THANK GOD SHE'S OUT OF HERE! I DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN OR READ OF HER BITCHING AND COMPLAINING ANYMORE! party
Take your pick. I am most certain it will be on Friday May 26th, starting at about 7 or so. BYOB. BYOFOOD-Y ITEMS if you so desire. And most importantly, BRING POEMS. I'd like to turn the evening into an inpromtu reading.
It would be great to see you. The formal announcement email blast is forthcoming.
March 16, 2006
poem
go jump off a viaduct
cole porter chest good brains
Quell follow ball: sez next sex
bash sponsor: your other
shoe naïve cared 4.
ease not oranges gunz are
bad newz, dude… come out
Sung to the tune of
“Xenophobia is in the air”
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19. – 85 looks like bs
razor wire emblematic of said
consist ancy narc can respond to
digital arch magazine
can love C.A. paint ourselves blue
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cheap Australian wine flooding the market
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and on this date in story kiss a pronoun
for tomorrow…graduate to fourth degree…
January 30, 2006
more later
more smary comments
the reading
So, Simon pettet read at my house Friday night and tho I was the host and had to pay attention to 25-30 approx people (?), I think it was a success. Hard to tell, as I am hard on myself for starters, and if people weren’t pleased, I’m sure they will gossip amongst themselves…
For starters, Simon is just a wealth of information, he is of course more accurate than the us government, so listening to him, as one does, means that one has to hold even more information into their brain. My brain can only hold so much, and Simon is not attached to the computer like I am for example, so therefore it’s even more astounding the way and how this guy gets around…
Second, he and I at one point were talking about tom rayworth and miles champion, how the two of them read really vite vite! fast and Simon does not. Simon reads the poem twice which is his mark and his style. So in my case, I would hear lines the first time, and I’d hear different lines the second time he read the poem and it would be one big cumulation of “the poem.” It made me wonder how or what other british poets wrote or read, or rather, it made me ask about poets outside of the united states bc I’ll admit, I’m pretty fucking bored here. I am not bored with American poets per se, but I am bored with the east coast, mostly eastern seaboard style of living.
Which brings me to a second complaint: not a lot of female poets around here, and for that matter, zilch for lesbians. It seems that lesbians go for “spoken word” or “performance poetry” and that is not what I am interested in. which is why having kari edwards here will be a blessing (she’s reading in Cambridge ma on march 10) but perhaps all that is a side note…as women are a side note and we’re only put on this earth to clean up after men…which is what I’ve been doing for the past few days, cleaning up but hell, have a poetry reading slash party at one’s house and this is what you get…
All bitching aside…I like having readings in my house, bc I saw x amount of people sitting on my floor, engaged in Simon’s reading, mingling about, hopefully talking about poetry and politics…Simon talked briefly about New Orleans, (tho he filled me in on what was going on there more extensively)…or rather, what he saw was going on there…and a reading in one’s house immediately lends itself to an “intimate” space…which I do not think is abnormal by any means…natural actually….and whatever relationships can be made from that, or whatever connections can be had are not forced…
Or are they forced? Ruth Lepson had 5 of her students attend, and believe me, they were students, they were so young, and when they showed up at the door I wanted to tell them: You must be Ruth’s students bc I really don’t know anyone underage! You all look like you’re too young to vote!
But of course I didn’t say that, and they seemed to have a good time…and hopefully they “got it” whatever “got it” they were to get…
All I know is that I am tired beyond belief. And two, people are very welcome to read here but just don’t expect me to be coherent in the morning. I’m awake from 5pm to 2 am and any other time…its called the Forgotten Channel, it’s probably on cable or will be soon…just ask your local cable network….it’s also called the Facetious & Irony channel…wanton local advertising…poets welcome...
January 18, 2006
2 readings
Simon Pettet reads in Boston, Jan 27 at 7:30pm.
MORE WINNOWED FRAGMENTS
Ah, romance, the hint of mystery,
perfect, quirky interludes--
this is the lesson he comes to teach.
Charmed in every wryly conceived moment.
--Joanne Kyger
Simon Pettet's many books include his Selected Poems (Talisman). He edited The Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler and collaborated with Duncan Hannah on Abundant Treasures and with Rudy Burckhardt on Conversations About Everything and Talking Pictures. British by birth, he lives in New York City.
Simon will read from his new book, More Winnowed Fragments, now out on Talisman.
The (informal) reading takes place at Christina Strong's apt outside of Boston, MA. Come hear Simon read from his new book and hopefully talk about his recent trip to New Orleans. Christina might read a word or two (at the very least). Food, beverages, and an interested audience welcomed. RSVP to this email for details and directions.
Please spread the word!
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Kari Edwards will be reading March 10th at the Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge MA - this event is co-curated by Demolicious and Openmouth Press.
January 11, 2006
I wonder
I wonder about Lilly giving her money away to poetry mag and then I wonder how many poets are on meds.
January 05, 2006
titles
I have a poem titled:
I figured out what was wrong with hugo chavez
December 11, 2005
POETRY READINGS NOW BANNED IN BOSTON
POETRY READINGS NOW BANNED IN BOSTON (CLS) Friday, December 9, 2005
If one is banned in Boston, Houston, we may have a problem.
People no longer want to hear about a profession named “poet.” Call them instead: teachers, editors, owners, property ruling class, professors, retail workers, generic office workers, single owner businesses, technical support assistants, etc…
Poet as profession? Was it ever your goal in life to teach in a mfa program? It seems the case in many BU, BC, EC, HU, MIT, NE, Brandeis, Tufts, and alumni. I find that all these universities do not only NOT contribute to the community but suck air from it. This has not been the case with NYC, Philly, Providence RI, SF, some back stock items … the inhospitable environment for experimental savant garde innovative poetry has a broken foot to stand on in Boston. “I did not coin the phrase – ‘ provincial backwater,’ –" said Christina Strong, a resident of the Boston area for almost four years, “but I do propagate it. If you are interested in brahmin culture, this is it. It is as boring as a job as cash changer at the till."
Boston as bean baked? Poetry fried to a crisp? Or do you like it easy to swallow? THERE IS A GAG ORDER IN EFFECT!
Other parties involved were asked to contribute, but were only to contribute a sad few bunch of names. Or opt-d out of program. They cited “stylistic differences.”
Christina Strong's next book will be out on so and so press, or on back channel press or your clique or no clique press
December 09, 2005
poem
I could always teach…Japanese for Jackworking class life for a down theory
is fung shui
to accept French poet
cree, French and English grew out of Catnip dinners, boiled stew, leaf
baby cards, gifts… was or is vision or wrong key note…
The thing of a
loss as given In fifth or minor discover even that is useless
Shoplifting or
worse yet, conservative mind set we vacuumed and dead advent
poetry… burnt thumb der german mag fries at three am
weed content
layout… through sixth grade we learn empathy…
books…novel is
mimed for sweeps Later will ING
was not paying attention why
trickle did or not say See wind faq in cape mayor is a misnomer…
December 08, 2005
DUE TO STYLISTIC DIFFERENCES
and the stifling presence of MFA programs churning out hack writers, there is now a reading series looking for a home here in B'ton...
November 08, 2005
design remix
who agrees that the epc web site at buffalo needs to be updated, and in a big way and a major hurry?
clap yer hands, let me hear you....
November 06, 2005
Judge and Jury Square, West of 3rd
Judge and Jury Square, West of 3rd
Ad mit like surgery donna summer filled second show
some lilt gave up petals app press play catch tube
depressing: guitar watch fall screen or fall asleep hide phone
not carry, breathing, handwriting, running commentary tink come back
tint hue this evening password: cork only kidding
what you lung kids listen to indignant printer any nerve
damage escape sic pile fuckin’ highway so/dew/jewel
Green Assembly Art: Professor of Cola Products.
November 02, 2005
Demolicious! Nov 6th
Demolicious Poetry Series has moved to a new and improved home and changed its time.
Join us
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6,
5:30 P.M.
for our first reading at
THE ENORMOUS ROOM
367 Mass. Ave. (above Central Kitchen restaurant), Central Square, Cambridge
Bring an experiment to read at the open mic!
As we welcome
MICHAEL BASINSKI
Michael Basinski is the Curator of The Poetry Collection State University of New York at Buffalo. He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with BuffFluxus. Among his many books of poetry are Heka (Factory School); Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert (Burning Press); The Idyllic Book (Michel Letko, Houston, Texas); Mool, Mool3Ghosts and Shards of Shampoo (Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum); Cnyttan and Heebie-Jeebies (Meow Press); By and The Doors (House Press); Un-Nome, Red Rain Two, Abzu and Flight to the Moon (Run Away Spoon Press): Poemeserss (Structum Press). His poems and other works have appeared in Dandelion, BoxKite, Antennae, Unbearables Magazine, Open Letter, Torque, Leopold Bloom, Wooden Head Review, Basta, Kiosk, Explosive Magazine, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, First Offense, Terrible Work, Juxta, Kenning, Witz, Lungfull, Lvng, Kenning, Tinfish, Curicul e Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, First Intensity, House Organ, Ferrum Wheel, End Note, and many others.
Demolicious events are held the first Sunday of every month
The Enormous Room
367 Mass. Ave., above Central Kitchen restaurant
Suggested donation: $5
For further information go to our Web site, www.demolicious.net
October 31, 2005
October 27, 2005
re: fifty dollar hamburger
As the digestive turns...
As the digestive turns...
There's blood in the water
Gotten to change, with long drawn money
Instead of the real, pure, raw
Bill. Charge? Fun buck. Saw?
Character range drawn upon object
If one begins...would become
Teary eyed. Correct.
Sometimes it's actually that: oral.
Rapid receipt. Grilled Mystique?
Hesitate taste, which cabal calls me here...
October 18, 2005
poem
wallace stevens part 673
I have been thinking about context lately geo-graphic dimensions…
wallace stevens did not mingle or socialize…
earned credit by walking and composing
affinity for tall tales twain biblical twist… you’re this parade…
or what part of dock…? Tinkle AS IF …
rice: black as turncoat
SPORT
neo colonial…
post hock -less
bribery bus let er rip…
October 05, 2005
Kasey and Kent
one of my favorite reactions out of the reading was watching the audience flinch when kasey and kent read…. I’m not reporting on the reading, but commenting about it.
We, jack kimball, john dooley and myself all commented on the “for lease” signs prevalent on westminster st. in providence…
It came to my cynical conclusion that if brown and risd weren’t there in rhode island, that the city and state would be, to use a cliché, a wash-up.
All hail higher education!
But seriously…
Having grown up in new england I am quite aware of the economic and historical make-up of said origins…which is why I moved to san francisco in 1994, to escape…which is why I also understand john wieners and jack spicer much better….this is a faulty excuse why I live where I do…
In new england. on the east coast.
Why? I’m not reporting, but commenting…
September 10, 2005
local literary light
Demolicious reading series got a write up in stuff@night and not only that, Ruth Lepson and I received a mention, thanks to Ruth Tobias.
Tho this local literary light is looking into moving to Hawai'i for the winter...who knows...?
September 07, 2005
[Anti-Erato]
Straight from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs...
[Anti-Erato] - poems by Christina Strong
If you'd like to order a copy,
talk to the woman who will be receiving a big kiss the next time I see her,
Brenda Iijima, the woman behind this chapbook and many great others.
I finally received it via pony express (literally) today.
Between that and my fresh picked heirloom tomatoes
I am all set for the time being.
August 31, 2005
Demolicious
DEMOLICIOUS
Open-Mic, Followed by Poetry
and Multimedia Feature Artists
(NOTE: NEW STARTING TIME - 2:00)
Demolicious features experimental poetry
and multimedia. But when it comes to the open-mic,
we focus on YOU and whatever you bring us.
Please join us on SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 4 at 2:00 P.M.
Jonas Mekas' video "Letter from Greenpoint"
Jonas Mekas, born in 1922, is a Lithuanian filmmaker,
writer and curator who has often been called
"the godfather of American avant-garde cinema."
He was the founder of the Anthology Film Archive,
the Filmmakers' Cooperative and "Film Culture" magazine.
He was heavily involved with artists such as
Andy Warhol, Nico and Yoko Ono. He is best
known for his diary films, such as
"As I Was Moving Ahead, Occsaionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty,”
assembled by hand from an archive of
fifty years worth of recordings of his life.
Mekas grew up in a small farming community.
During the Second World War, he was held in
displaced persons camps before emigrating to the
United States in 1949. In "Letter from Greenpoint,"
made for the 2003 Venice Biennial's Utopia Station sub-exhibit,
Mekas discusses his unique views on utopia.
First Sunday of every month
At the Green Street Grill
280 Green Street
Central Square, Cambridge
2:00 p.m.
$5 suggested donation
Brenda Iijima
In the self promo department:
And I also read that article about Philly
being the "6th borough"...which it's not,
last I checked. The other weekend I was in NYC
and heard people talking about that article...
I think Philly's a great city, Boston on the other hand...
we're now down to one reading series here,
unless you count the mainstream
and academic bores (which I don't)
or the readings that go on inside people's houses....
In addition, we've had an exodus of poets leaving the B'ton area.
I've been criticized for dissing B'ton so I'll make my statement simple:
It sucks here. The emperor has no clothes. And I'm not from here.
Whew. I feel better already.