Dreamer in the Wake

I forget...

2012-01-26T15:32:00.001-08:00

and so relink http://www.moriapoetry.com/cycholdaly.htm oh, and now I started all these blogs, I think I have to move the salmon / tapenade/ pasta recipe elsewhere...

impromptu googlesculpting...

2012-01-24T20:09:00.000-08:00

how does one love zero? Zero Mostel sings "Do You Love Me?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_y9F5St4j0 use of "love" for zero is disputed "I love how mathematics' four greatest values, e, π, i, and 1, unite to form...0: e^(πi) - 1 = 0"

2012-01-24T02:34:00.000-08:00

TO MY WIFE(WITH A SET OF ROMAN PEARLS)(See Note 12) Pray, take these pearls!—and my thanks for themYou lavished, the home of my youth to gem!The thousands of hours of peaceful lusterYour spirit has filled, are pearls that cluster With beauty blest On my happy breast, And softly shining My brow are entwiningWith thoughts whence the truth gleams: Thus gave his

2012-01-16T23:30:00.001-08:00

Lermontov 1

2012-01-15T18:35:00.000-08:00

TAMARA In that tower tall and narrow, Princese Tamara lived: There through the midnightght fog , A golden light gleamed, beckoning her voice was all desire & passion, peril, On a soft bed in brocade and pearls, She awaited s/her/the guest. burning hands intertwined, Lips stuck to lips, strange, wild sounds As if at that empty tower hundreds celebrated the nocturnal wedding, a great funeral...

robert de montesquiou

2012-01-15T10:31:00.000-08:00

Offrand Virginale She sees nothing but official men, their dubious horrors, and respects them with discourse. When she achieves the mission she knows, cities, temples, and hearts open, but she guards her effort, never naked before the vanquishers. A bird goes to her and never returns. When the drama is complete, the lips of the Holy, a dove, Spirit herself, Paraclete.

2012-01-12T16:35:00.000-08:00

Drawings Hugo produced more than 4000 drawings. Originally pursued as a casual hobby, drawing became more important to Hugo shortly before his exile, when he made the decision to stop writing in order to devote himself to politics. Drawing became his exclusive creative outlet during the period 1848–1851. Hugo worked only on paper, and on a small scale; usually in dark brown or black

2011-11-14T10:36:00.001-08:00

experimentalsome prefer innovative, but I wonder if anything is truly new -- some things are, but... --- language, modestly so -- the experiment has to do with process-based poetry, and the problem with a lot of experimental poetry is that the poet isn't particularly good at setting up a good test/experiment/process/project -- there's a divergence between intention and outcome that tends to yield

2011-11-04T05:56:00.000-07:00

just finished watching a bbc trollope miniseriesreminds me that while Tower's columbia writing department -- novel side -- seemed to be very much James vs. Dickens, James preferred -- I'm Trollope yields Wolfe and Joyce yields the novel now, and I'm, sticking with Messerli -- Stein was not a novelist, but a poet -- going thru papers and tossing as much as possible -- when my parents moved last

2011-10-26T17:58:00.000-07:00

great link to a .pdfhttp://loriemersondotnet.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/astronautsofinnerspace.pdf

2011-10-26T10:24:00.000-07:00

Cockeyed Charlie ParkhurstSybil Herrold

2011-10-19T09:55:00.000-07:00

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."Matthew, The Bible."Keep in mind that permits are legally required for assemblies of more than 20 or more people within the confines of NYC public parks, which close at 10pm. YOU DO NOT NEED A PERMIT TO OCCUPY OR PEACEABLY ASSEMBLE ON PUBLIC SIDEWALKS."Public assembly is a tricky thing. 12 people wearing

2011-08-29T09:01:00.000-07:00

when one reads a book/movie there are almost always poems, stories, passages, that fall flat / don't move one (this leads one to think this portion is "less fine" or even "bad"). One starts skimming or skipping to the sympathetic works or areas. Usually the thing under perusal is ordered such that the good stuff is first and last OR that once one wades in (after introductory material / set up),

2011-08-06T14:30:00.000-07:00

List of things Catherine Dalys wrote from academia edu -- kinda cool --Advances In Phytase Research Predictive Biomarkers of Chemotherapy Efficacy In Colorectal Cancer: Results From the UK MRC FOCUS TrialBurning Velocities of Dimethyl Ether and Air KRAS and BRAF mutations in advanced colorectal cancer are associated with poor prognosis but do not preclude benefit from oxaliplatin or irinotecan:

2011-07-28T11:49:00.000-07:00

something's beeping, kumbayawhether or not kumbaya means come by here, the sacred intent of the song was to say, in a "primitive" fashion, that in the quotidian as it is overheard and sounded, logos is presentthis is really interesting to consider in light of the recent coinage of kumbaya in gulluh (if that etymology is correct), especially vis a vis beeping --- which, as I've written before, and

2011-07-23T13:18:00.001-07:00

from wikiPseudonymous authorshipThe prophet stood in direct relations with his people; his prophecy was first spoken and afterwards written. The apocalyptic writer could obtain no hearing from his contemporaries, who held that, though God spoke in the past, "there was no more any prophet." This pessimism limited and defined the form in which religious enthusiasm should manifest itself, and

2011-07-12T18:36:00.000-07:00

Some really repetitive thoughts on writing:1) I always wanted to be a writer. I am a writer. But I don't get to write what I want, when I want. Do any of us? Furthermore, I feel trapped. I feel in competition with others.2) A lot of writing out there is crap.3) I am better at writing (unpleasant to write) things that "anyone could write" than anyone I've encountered. Also, I have been

2011-06-19T17:57:00.001-07:00

I have a back patio -- at least for another month or two -- with a sort of stage-like porch... and a marionette theatre. I'm asking a number of people to think of ways we can finally start using it. My first thought was fundraisers for various theatre companies, presses, etc., book launches... a reading series would work -- like David Lloyd's Effie Street series.But some more interesting ideas

2011-06-19T17:44:00.000-07:00

I have been thinking more about this.We had just as strict rules about hair, makeup, jewelry, piercing, tattoos, socks, shoes, belts, scarves, and sashes as about the clothes. The hair -- there was so little we were allowed. The two african american girls weren't allowed to wear braids unless they were white girl braids. If the boys came in with anything odd, their heads were shaved. That was

2011-06-10T15:23:00.001-07:00

LACE is proud to present Unfinished Paintings, a provocative curatorial project organized by Los Angeles artists Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster. The headlining exhibition for our 2011 summer season, Unfinished Paintings is an exhibition of 38 medium sized paintings by 38 artists, hung alphabetically by the artist’s first name. This show is meant to dissect and turn contemporary painting

2011-06-03T07:14:00.000-07:00

Some thoughts on YogaSome thoughts on Meditation

2011-05-21T08:55:00.000-07:00

2011-04-28T06:28:00.001-07:00

Bill Berkson & Cole Swensen Reading their PoemsMay 13, 2011,7:30 p.m. Armand Hammer Auditorium (New York Avenue entrance)Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design, 500 17th St. NW,Washington DCGraduating students from the Corcoran will read from 6 to 7. Reception from7 to 7:30 p.m.Admission FreeEveryone Welcome. Questions: csmith@corcoran.orgNote: On the previous evening, May 12, 6:30

2011-04-18T10:38:00.000-07:00

expressionist gesamtkunstwerk and intermedia / happenings / performance

jacket 2

2011-04-15T10:24:00.000-07:00

jacket 2the impulse the reviewer has -- same as mine -- to "re-read" the image -- to regularize it. the text has been made by folding and then it must be read as folded. why?also, the idea that things could be written to be folded -- as paper craft, things were written, then folded and that folding was a writing (mine and baum different but related, I think to DuPlessis' folds), but then there

2011-04-15T09:53:00.001-07:00

Felís Stella -- IKEA My House: Part III April 23 - May 21, 2011Opening Reception Saturday, April 23 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm L2kontemporary Gallery990 N Hill St #205Los Angeles, CA 90012DON'T MISS A ONE TIME ONLY EXTRA SPECIAL MYSTERY IKEA PRODUCT ASSEMBLY CONTEST EXTRAVAGANZA AT THE RECEPTION!!!! FABULOUS PRIZES, SWEDISH POP, AND IKEA MEATBALLS GALORE!!!Press Release:L2kontemporary is pleased to

2011-04-14T20:40:00.000-07:00

so now we are back in it, or how are we back in it? I mean -- now that one can say that -- I have been reading this about Cocteau -- to fall asleep -- but then I got a ittle curious, and thought, what did that number of that journal look like, and were there women in it (unfortunately, always a question in my mind), and what was their work like and could it be played -- received differently -- by

2011-04-14T07:43:00.000-07:00

So this represents my diving back into last years NaPoWriMo project with a renewed something or otherbecause of you I'm distraught mistaught lost in thought maladroitfor, you've given up your song tune long tongue (wrong)I wish you'd pick it up again take remain refrainwithout you I'm

2011-04-11T14:02:00.001-07:00

My 2 cents on the budget crisis:The Vatican is opposed to contraception; it softened in the 30s on natural methods of contraception, and in the 90s on sexual activity for pleasure -- even if it could not lead to conception. [A return to practices in the 13th century, say.] To put a finer bead on it, papal infallibility as a doctrine (unsupported by scripture) is called into question by the most

2011-04-10T10:18:00.000-07:00

Chanteuse / Ricochet (!)http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/books/smallpress/2007-02-18

Dream-Land by Edgar Allan Poe

2011-04-02T15:21:00.000-07:00

Dream-Land by Edgar Allan Poe

Louis Vuitton Wraps Hong Kong Museum of Art w/ Richard Prince “After Dark” | nitrolicious.com

2011-04-01T08:51:00.000-07:00

Louis Vuitton Wraps Hong Kong Museum of Art w/ Richard Prince “After Dark” | nitrolicious.comFake book covers become a line of LV handbags, wrap (one of the worst) art museums (I have ever been to).

2011-03-26T11:20:00.001-07:00

Join PEN Center USAin celebrating the works ofthe 2011 Emerging Voices FellowsHAFEEZ LAKHANIERIC LAYERLAUREN MARKSAZARIN SADEGHJAMIE SCHAFFNERApril 17, 2011 @ 6 PM21 and over | $6 coverHosted by Tongue and Groove at The Hotel Cafe1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90028Musical Guest: Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys!!!

2011-03-23T14:56:00.001-07:00

I was lucky enough to see a real "live" page of Insects of Surinam at the Huntington on Sunday!http://www.huntington.org/exhibitions/beautifulscience/merian/Shell_Merian.html

2011-03-23T11:50:00.000-07:00

Just to announce a new book of poetry: Saccade Patterns by Deborah Meadows from Geoffrey Gatza’s BlazeVOX [books]Publisher Web site: http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/saccade-patterns-by-deborah-meadows-226/Saccade Patterns explores vision, the erotic gaze, and social discernment. The book opens with a shuffled text that dismantles melodrama by inscribing primate capacity for

2011-03-22T14:30:00.001-07:00

Dear Local(ish) Poemeleon Contributors:Please join Poemeleon editors Maureen Alsop & Cati Porter for a multi-media collaborative event celebrating the work of poet & artist Carl Miller at the Riverside Art Museum, Thursday March 24 at 7 pm. This event is FREE. Beer & wine will be available for purchase.Please forward to freely to anyone who might be interested!Cati Porter, editorwww.poemeleon.org

2011-03-19T16:06:00.000-07:00

I didn't get to the -- surely a gala celebration -- Margaret Randall reading last night, but she has some new books coming out -- of writing! (I will check -- photography, too?)We're so proud to send you Issue Three of SOL: English Writing in Mexico. This issue marks the first year of this quarterly on-line literary magazine. To read it, click on the link below. Here's what we've got in store

2011-03-18T18:48:00.001-07:00

A German Sound Exploration Launch party Saturday, March 19th 2011 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. Join this Saturday for the inauguration party of the German Sound Exploration theme-stream or visit the dublab website to view and listen to the launch broadcast live! The dublab.com radio collective and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles offer a wide-spectrum survey of German sounds that will enlighten your ears.

2011-03-17T15:31:00.001-07:00

To understand the music of spoken words, to help in creation of a new poetic art form — for everyday speech may be heard as a rich and complex music that we all create at will with effortless virtuosity, and when we do so consciously may become an art — it seems preferable to me to use music notation.

2011-03-14T11:35:00.001-07:00

It's that time again...another Vinatero Wine Shop Poetry Night! Join us on Thursday, March 24th at 7:30 PM at Vinatero Wine Shop in Uptown Whittier for a night of good poems and good drink!If you've been to one in the past, you know how much fun they are! And if you haven't been before, you're in luck because this one's going to be one of the best!I will be hosting, and the evening's special

2011-03-13T21:23:00.001-07:00

You are invited to Shearsman Books' 30th Anniversary ReadingFeatured Poets: Joseph Bradshaw, Richard Deming, Shira Dentz, George Economou, Anne Gorrick, Michael Heller, Nancy Kuhl, Maryrose Larkin, Jill Magi, Deborah Meadows, Eléna Rivera, Mercedes Roffé and Mark WeissMarch 19, 2011, 6 – 7:30 p.m.Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (between Houston & Bleecker), New York City, NY2011 marks the 30th

2011-03-12T07:49:00.001-08:00

It kind of amazes me that no one seems to be formatting with hanging indents, which is what print publishers do with lines that are too long for a printed page. There are even protocols for hanging indents for long lines when some of the lines are indented (usually less of an indent). There's actually a whole listserv devoted to w3 specifications for poetry, but none of the people there seem to

2011-03-06T10:27:00.000-08:00

oh yes -- to switch from form to form to see something -- that's it -- that's closer to transposition without being the same but just the same sort of idea -- hit it with a different seive

2011-03-06T09:45:00.000-08:00

thinking briefly on annie finch's idea of "multiformalism" this morning, together with my idea of "transposition" in systems (and a poem is a little system, or a piece of one (if it is a serial poem, say), or a version or release or iteration of one), one thing you have to consider is the formalism of your approach to the system; if it is a little poem, will it bludgeon it to death and cost a lot

2011-03-05T21:43:00.001-08:00

March 8 Matthew Hendriksen is publisher of Cannibal Books, co-editor of Typo, and author of Ordinary Sun.March 15 Nicoloas Lopez is a local regular who consistently impresses with his intensity and invention. March 22 Jerry Garcia is an accomplished poet, photographer, and filmmaker, and was selected by the LA Poetry Festival in 2006 for the prestigious Newer Poets reading. March 29

2011-03-05T18:52:00.000-08:00

When I receive spam like thism it;s as if the "C"s in the print are faces of flapppers and inattentive female clerks just setting up their first accounts, when the reality of it is moving from the necessity of check cashing to having an account!YOUR CHASE DEBIT CARD OVERDRAFT COVERAGE DECISION IS EFFECTIVE AS OF THE DATE OF THIS EMAIL We want to summarize the potential consequences of not having

2011-03-04T10:11:00.000-08:00

Some Emmy Hennings:Jetzt muß ich aus der großen Kugel fallen.Dabei ist in Paris ein schönes Fest.Die Menschen sammeln sich am Gare de l'EstUnd bunte Seidenfahnen wallen.Ich aber bin nicht unter ihnen.Ich fliege in dem großen Raum.Ich mische mich in jeden TraumUnd lese in den tausend Mienen.Es liegt ein kranker Mann in seinem Jammer.Mich hypnotisiert sein letzter Blick.Wir sehnen einen Sommertag

2011-03-03T14:42:00.001-08:00

This Friday, March 4atKristi Engle Gallery 8 pm Third in our poetry series curated by Carolie ParkerMathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is the General Director of General Projects at various locations including Outpost for Contemporary Art and The Ups & Downs, an installation series, at workspace. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/

2011-02-27T15:03:00.001-08:00

WILL ALEXANDER AND FRIENDSMarch 3, Thursday 7:30 PM681 Venice Venice, CA 90291 Phone 1-310-822-3006March 3, Thursday 7:30 PMWILL ALEXANDER AND FRIENDSJoin Will and special guest readers as well as musicians. Enjoy music with WILL ALEXANDER on the piano and ANDREW JORON on the theremin. ANDREW JORON is the author of Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights, 2010). Joron’s earlier poetry

2011-02-23T11:46:00.001-08:00

2011 Conference on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Her Work, Colonial Mexico, and Spain’s Golden AgeSponsored by the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and the Gigi Gaucher-Morales Memorial Lectures SeriesThis conference is free and open to the publicMay 13-14, 2011Golden Eagle BallroomCalifornia State University, Los Angeles

2011-02-13T09:34:00.001-08:00

The objects missing are as follows:1. Gilded wood statue of Tutankhamun being carried by a goddess2. Gilded wood statue of Tutankhamun harpooning. Only the torso and upper limbs of the king are missing3. Limestone statue of Akhenaten holding an offering table4. Statue of Nefertiti making offerings5. Sandstone head of an Amarna princess6. Stone statuette of a scribe from Amarna7. Wooden shabti

2011-02-12T11:49:00.001-08:00

From Claudia Rankine's site:If you write about race frequently what issues, difficulties, advantages, and disadvantages do you negotiate? First I think of Harryette Mullen's essay about writing for people who haven't even been born. So, I first think of what another African American writer writes about audience. Because I am first off thinking of Hoagland's "white people" comment.Do I write for

2011-02-09T13:54:00.001-08:00

Literary Orange 2011.Date: April 09, 2011 08:00AMVenue: UCI, Irvine, CALocation: West Peltason Drive, Irvine, CA, The United StatesDescription:18 Panels. 73 authors and moderators. $60.00 general admission. $25.00 student/military ID. Lunch included. More details online.

2011-02-04T16:40:00.000-08:00

After I read these depressing poets on cancer. Rae Armantrout got a Pulitzer for her book last year -- poems include selecting a place on the California coast for ash-dumping... Ted Kooser wrote one. Judith Hall's book (I read it ages ago for WOMPO -- plus she's local) is called, _Anatomy, Errata_. Isn't that cool? The front has a piece of hindu statuary with the breasts defaced (almost all

2011-01-26T19:13:00.000-08:00

http://craftswomanhouse.blogspot.com/UnveiledCraftswoman House will open her doors with the group exhibition Unveiled, a show that features works by six west-coast artists who explore feminist content. The exhibit includes works by Launa Bacon, Ursula Brookbank, Wendy Kveck, Freya Prowe, Cindy Rehm, Angela Simione.Unveiled coincides with the 39th anniversary of Womanhouse, the first public

2011-01-26T08:31:00.001-08:00

quote from vallum magazine this morningPart Two, “Poetry and Anarchy,” charts the trajectory of Webb’s “anarchist poetics” (89) away from “the lyric self” toward “the multitude of others” with the poem as a place of “communion” (89). Collis suggests that the form of the serial poem, which Webb increasingly favoured, is “the anarchist form par excellence – the formal analogue of anarchism’s

2011-01-19T12:08:00.003-08:00

Some thoughts on etymology and poemsOut of a WOMPO conversation about etymology and poems, where posted this to poet and former Stegner fiction fellow...[can't find]

2011-01-19T12:08:00.001-08:00

You are thoroughly invited to our 10th Annual Poets Theater Festival!This year's lineup, scheduled for Friday January 28th and SaturdayJanuary 29th, includes innovative offerings by some of our mostelastic minds, who will whip you into a frenzy of joy and ecstasythat will leave you begging for more.Join us Friday January 28th at 7:30pm for:+Feel Your Media--Bitch by Rodrigo Toscano/Collapsible

2011-01-04T15:50:00.001-08:00

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6CLMP & SPD have arranged the following program:Session 60. Roundtable on Poets Theater1:45-3:00pm, Plaza III, J.W. MarriottPresiding: Patrick F. Durgin, School of the Art Inst. of Chicago; Kevin Killian, California Coll. of the ArtsSpeakers: Sarah T. Bay-Cheng, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York; Heidi R. Bean, Bridgewater State Coll.; Fiona Templeton, Brunel Univ.;

2011-01-03T22:27:00.001-08:00

I wonder, though, how revising different sorts of poems is different? For example, revising a poem with meter and rhyme must certainly be different from rewriting a lyric narrative in free verse, from improving a poem in an innovative format?Length strikes me as a difference too -- short vs. 1-3 pages vs long vs. book length?Thinking about this today: there seems to me to be a number of ways

2011-01-03T22:27:00.000-08:00

2010-12-30T08:23:00.001-08:00

MLA Off-Site ReadingJan 8, 20117pm doors / reading 7:30pm ArtShare801 East 4th Pl.Los Angeles, CA 90013http://artsharela.org The traditional MLA-offsite marathon reading -- over sixty poets from across the country, reading for 3 minutes each -- brought to you by Andrew Maxwell, Mathew Timmons, Joseph Mosconi, Ara Shirinyan and Brian Kim Stefans. More complete information, including directions and

2010-12-29T22:51:00.001-08:00

Fluxfest - Chicago 2011Please Join us to Perform and Congregate : at the MCA – Chicago, week of Feb. 15th – 20th, 2011.organized by Keith A. Buchholz and Picasso Gaglione.A weeklong exploration of Fluxus activity, from it’s earliest scores and actions, to contemporary re-interpretations of classic scores, and Recent works by Contemporary Fluxus Artists.Held inside the Museum of Contemporary Art -

2010-12-29T22:40:00.000-08:00

December 31, 1999Ewa Lipska All the poets will write about it.Even the illiterate ones.There will be rumors that it is the last.That after this, comes only metal-plated fear.A compass drawing square. But the night won't be childless.Taking by surprise the doubting suicidesand gullible priests,the New Year's infantwill scream at midnight. The sudden hawk of a windwill bend the willow.The compass

2010-12-28T16:01:00.000-08:00

areas of narrative practice-- externalizing conversations (dialogue?)-- re-authoring conversations-- re-membering conversations (identity and perceived identities in relationship)-- definitional ceremonies-- unique outcome conversations-- scaffolding conversations

2010-12-28T15:56:00.000-08:00

john oliver hobbes = Pearl Craigiefrank danby = Julia Frankau

2010-12-27T20:26:00.001-08:00

We read poems which are quite lengthy which were written before novels were written, and poems which are primarily statements of poetics, novels, plays, etc.,long poems with models which are long works (poems incl. epics, plays, works of fiction, non fiction, and/or novels),long poems with sources which are long works (poems, epics, plays, works of non fiction, novels, and/or entire bodies of

2010-12-26T12:04:00.001-08:00

think it is important to begin to talk more about women writing long poems now that -- as opposed to about a dozen years ago, when the list read several -- everyone writes at least one. There was a time when trying out long poems marked the post-MFA experience, where the MFA was spent writing the type of two-page-and-under poems many workshops used as an upper limit, and then collecting the 36-48

2010-12-20T08:12:00.001-08:00

Guiding Questions1. Why do you write? When did you begin? How do you begin?2. Where does your writing come from? In what ways is it connected to others? Are you writing for/in response to someone else? (Perhaps someone who couldn’t write for herself/himself…?)3. What does it mean to “write like a woman”?4. Do women writers write the body in a particular way? How does thebody, particularly a woman

2010-12-09T15:22:00.001-08:00

The Souls, including Ada Levenson, Margot Tennant/Asquith, Lady Wemyss, Lady Salisbury

2010-12-06T23:10:00.000-08:00

Anna Ballard, a reporter for the New York Sun, was a friend and traveling companion of Ada Clare.Beach, Juliette H. (1829-1900)Literary Critic, Journalist, Editor, Poet.Juliette Beach and her husband Calvin were acquaintances of Henry Clapp. The couple may have visited Pfaff's during their occasional sojourns to New York City. It was Clapp who suggested that Juliette review the 1860 Leaves of

2010-12-06T16:47:00.001-08:00

Holiday Party, Open Mic, and Gretchen Mattox's Mystery Birthday CelebrationAmy Newlove Schroeder invited youTime Saturday, December 18 · 7:30pm - 10:30pmLocation Ruskin Art ClubCreated By Amy Newlove SchroederMore Info Reading from 7:30pm-8:30pm.Birthday cake, nibbles, and reception, 8:30pm-9:30pm.The gift of your presence is the present. Anyone who would like to participate in the reading is

2010-12-05T19:10:00.000-08:00

Vaseline, THE ELIXIR VITAEFar backward, in the dusky mists of Time,When Arts and Learning o'er the darkened Earth,After long ages, rose again sublime,But faint and tottering, from their later birth.Men groped obscurely on that border land,Where Nature's laws were blent with Magic old,And vainly sought to find that wonderous Stone,Whose simple touch turned baser things to Gold;While some more

2010-12-05T18:10:00.001-08:00

More soap abcedaria:“Alphabet—Pretty pictures and truism about children's friend Wool Soap,” “A true story told inverse and pretty pictures which we trust will interest both young and old.”A is for Alphabet read this one through and learn all the good that Wool Soap can do.B is for Baby so pink and so white who is bathed with Wool Soap each morning and night.C is for Children immersed in a tub

2010-12-05T17:56:00.001-08:00

F is for “Foremost,” “Fairest” and “Fine”;A is for “Able” to do it each time;I stands for “Ideal” in everything great;R means the “Rarest” yet found up to date;B is for “Better,” “Brighter” and “Best”A is for “Acme,” that stands every test;N means “no rival,” and that is no jest;K tells you “keep it” and you will be glad,S is for “Standard” the best to be had.F is for “Fairy” white, floating and

2010-12-05T14:13:00.000-08:00

Start - Settings - Connections tab - "manage existing connections" - then edit bradband acc. When in that area, just delete the password. The password is ALWAYS vzw so if you want to use data, it will ask for the password and then you just type it in. This way, you will always know whether or not your connected to data services.if you want to completely get rid of data services (cellular, not

2010-12-03T12:10:00.001-08:00

HOLIDAY FESTIVAL!Los Feliz Village´s Eclectic Annual Holiday Festival features lots of incredible gifts, cheer and goodwill. Trolley and an open-air bus transport revelers around Village main streets of Vermont Ave. Hillhurst Ave. and Hollywood Blvd. Magicians, musicians, elves and carolers create mirth and an unforgettable holiday experience. Who: The Los Feliz Village Business Improvement

2010-11-27T17:40:00.001-08:00

Sacheverell Sitwell wrote in 1947....a scarf is, admittedly, not a tapestry, not a dress; it is a mere square of silkor some other material intended to be worn around the head. But it can betreated as a work of art. It can be collected like a rare book or print....

2010-11-23T15:02:00.001-08:00

Poet Laureate nominations may come from people in the field of Literature (poets may self-nominate) and must be emailed to PL2011@cac.ca.gov.Exception: If a nominator does not have access to email, nominations will be accepted by mail to the following:California Arts Councilc/o Kristin Margolis1300 I Street, Suite 930Sacramento, CA 95814Nominations must contain the following: • A cover letter

2010-11-18T10:55:00.000-08:00

Beyond Baroque will be hosting six amazing voices from the border towns of Tijuana and Jaurez, Mexico. These poets traversed many hoops and challenges to travel across the border and be with us in L.A. If you are free please consider joining us on Friday at 7:30pm to welcome our international guests and listen to their unique voices that speak of being neither here nor there.

2010-11-16T16:02:00.000-08:00

Hey! If you are a friend, or not, but if you promise not to send chipper spam e-mails, check http://genxbreastcancer.blogspot.com/multi-bloggers welcome, link backs -- let me knowI will also be posting f/f updates so that I do not have to spend 20 hours on the phone explaining things, etc.

2010-11-09T09:36:00.001-08:00

November 18 at 8 pm at Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica. Doors open at 7.15. Barry Schwabsky reading with Judith Hall, Vanessa Place, and Mark Irwin.

2010-10-30T16:17:00.001-07:00

Eight years after California's Legislature adopted a tuition break to help undocumented immigrants afford college, these students account for 1 percent or less of all students in the state's three higher education systems.The data come as both Republican candidates for governor are calling for the practice to end, saying the cash-strapped state can't afford to let illegal immigrants attend

2010-10-27T08:22:00.000-07:00

Haven't read it yet, but this is another entry in what seems to be an answer to the Gioia / New Formalist cry for a New Narrative, this one not in form but in a "slim volume" of "free verse". There are more books than these; this is another facet in that gem -- silicon? carbon? -- that is the project-driven book of poems. In other words, free verse poems which together tell a story is a subset

2010-10-26T09:58:00.000-07:00

as I apply for the broad, it behooves me to look at some of the education-related jargon in the current campaigneven though I've voted, I'm armed with a Meg Whitman education planthe first thing I'm looking up is "simplify categorical funding"the first resource I found was an article in the San Diego paper, that says it is a good thing, that there are some current category-funded programs which

2010-10-24T10:19:00.000-07:00

"Whereas many poetry collections in the last few years have fully incorporated a single idea as the driving point of the entire collection..."Because this is true (is "collection" meaningful? were the poems written to theme, or were they collected?) and also because this is increasingly causing anxiety (project poetry -- while "project" has been a fruitful term, practice -- "project poetry" as a

2010-10-23T21:45:00.000-07:00

12th Annual ALAP (10-Minute) Playreading Festival1. Spanksgiving << this is how I am spelling it, like "Thanksgiving"Thomas J. MisuracaIt is about what you think it is about: two tops exchanging "water cooler" style remarks while following their scripts -- stereotypes about spanking. These intertwine very humorously, "you've been a bad girl" "it's hard to find a good woman."2. CoyoteRon

2010-10-23T21:17:00.000-07:00

Alliance of Los Angeles PlaywrightsALAPLovely group of people; web site's in transition. I am using their event as a model for a small press weekend / day at Beyond Baroque, where a small press would bring in, say, the publisher, and the local authors (well, it is LA, there are loads of presses which have, say, three-ish local authors at least), and maybe the few -- California, American West,

2010-10-23T13:56:00.001-07:00

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2010-10-15T12:57:00.000-07:00

Here is what I said at the Planning meeting, which will be continued. So that we don't have to enter it into minutes / so our meeting can be shorter. Together with Dana, I will write a report from the meeting to put on our new blog; I will start making the blogroll for the blog too. I will send a version of this to some people I haven't contacted yet @ WAHA, La Fayette Square HPOZ, and La

2010-10-13T19:24:00.001-07:00

Red Rover Series{readings that play with reading}FALL/WINTER 2010Chicago, IL*Experiment #40: October 23videos by Carrie Olivia Adams, Justin Cabrillos,Laura Goldstein, Amira Hanafi, Kurt Heintz,& Mark Jeffery/Judd Morrissey*Experiment #41: November 5Joel Lewis, Adrian Moens & Marthe Reed*Experiment #42: December 4Vanessa Placeat Outer Space Studio1474 N. Milwaukee Avenuesuggested donation

2010-10-09T07:47:00.001-07:00

Saturday October 9th at 7:30a reading/performance for the Art of the Book 3 exhibit at the Artists Union Gallery330 S. California Street - Ventura reader/performers include:Glenna Luschei, Friday, Beverly Messenger, Gigi Bennett, Phil Taggart, Gauvin, Doris Vernon, Cathryn Andresen, Peg Quinn,Joyce Lombard Host: Marsha de la O The Art of the Book 3 exhibit features contemporary, traditional and

2010-10-07T10:25:00.000-07:00

PHOTOGRAPHS BY Ann Mitchell Head of Art and Photography Department, Long Beach City College "Family Stories: An Exhibition exploring Family, Memory and Identity" Curated by Neil FranceLocation: 218 N PROMENADE Long BeachDates: October 6- November 5, 2010 Opening Reception October 9, 2010 7-10pmPhotographer Ann Mitchell explores family in this body of work trough the understanding of personal and

2010-10-07T09:59:00.001-07:00

Sacramento Poetry CenterPresentsChristopher Mlalazi and Ron SlateMonday, Oct. 11 at 7:30 PMCrossroads for the Arts1719 25th StreetHost: Emmanuel Sigauke Christopher Mlalazi is a Zimbabwean writer who has been published in 11 short story anthologies, including the 2006 Caine Prize Anthology (Obituary Tango), the 2006 Edinburgh Review, and the 2007 PEN SOUTH Africa anthology. He was on the HSBC PEN

2010-10-03T17:59:00.000-07:00

Guess the source and circa of these:1. theme within the ken of most readers2. attention-getting title repeated within the work3. "genderless": no gender to the speaker / can be narrated or ____ by man or woman or any combination4. "heart" / emotion5. Original in idea, words, sound/form6. Nature not in the abstract but in the tangible, quotidian.7. Open vowels / euphony8. Simple/clear/concise9.

2010-10-01T13:05:00.000-07:00

These are cool, but I am using them to think (as usual)Thomas Sayers Ellishttp://www.tsellis.com/Change the Game Rule #1. Poetry is unique. A book of poetry is not a novel, so please resist the current trend of making books of poetry about one subject, Series writing. A book-length poem is different but most (not all) Series depend heavily on fiction with line breaks, as well as the enemy of the

2010-10-01T11:00:00.001-07:00

http://www.academic.marist.edu/nork/mirra.htmMirra Lokhvitskayahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirra_LokhvitskayaI'm a Blok fan.

2010-09-29T07:42:00.001-07:00

eaturing:Cara BeMommy! Mommy!7:30pm Saturday, October 2Featuring:Cara BensonSean GriffinJennifer KarminKate Zambrenoat Pieter (Performance Art Space DANCE)420 W Ave 33, #10Los Angeles, CA (Lincoln Heights)http://www.pieterpasd.comMommy! Mommy! presents“Mommy, I'm Sorry”Forgiven, forgivenhttp://mommymommyreadingseries.blogspot.comDoor at 7:30.Show at 8.Event is Free.Please bring non-monetary

2010-09-26T12:57:00.001-07:00

UNESCO Cities of Literature Edinburgh, UKIowa City, Iowa, USAMelbourne, AustraliaDublin, IrelandUNESCO City of FilmBradford, UKUNESCO Cities of MusicBologna, ItalyGhent, BelgiumGlasgow, UKSeville, SpainUNESCO Cities of Crafts and Folk Art Aswan, Egypt Kanazawa, JapanSanta Fe, New Mexico, USAIcheon, Republic of KoreaUNESCO Cities of DesignBerlin, Germany Buenos Aires, ArgentinaKobe, JapanMontreal,

2010-09-24T08:17:00.001-07:00

Sacramento Poetry CenterPresentsMark Statman and Kurt BrownMon. Sept. 24 at 7:30 PMCrossroads for the Arts1719 25th StreetSacramento, CAMark Statman's writing has appeared in numerous publications including Tin House, Hanging Loose, Cincinnati Review, Trespass, The Hat, Bayou, Conduit, Subtropics, The Florida Review, Ping Pong, and American Poetry Review. His work has been featured on Poetry