Thomas Meyer has long been one of a handful of my contemporaries whose work I totally admire — as readers of Nomadics will know. I was therefore very pleased & excited when the following email came from Jeff Davis: “When Lisa Jarnot heard Thomas Meyer read his new work in Hickory last fall, she said simply ‘That’s a great poem’.This week Meyer, author of At Dusk Iridescent, The Bang … Read more Thomas Meyer on Wordplay
Tribute to Emma Bee Bernstein and book release for Belladonna Elders Series 4 Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. A.I.R. Gallery: 111 Front St., #228, Dumbo, Brooklyn This event will be a tribute to Emma Bee Bernstein and a book release for Belladonna Elders Series #4, which Emma edited and which features contributions by Johanna Drucker and Nona Willis Aronowitz, photographs and an essay by Emma Bee Bernstein, … Read more Tribute to Emma Bee Bernstein
The University at Albany’s Department of English And College of Arts and Sciences Presents Rhetorics of Plague: Early / Modern Trajectories of Biohazard February 26-27, 2009University at Albany The Standish Room, Science Library Building for details, time-table of events & locations click here. Keynote Speakers: Kathleen Biddick, Temple University Graham Hammill, University at Buffalo John Kelly, Visiting Writer Robert Markley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * on Friday from 12:30-1:30 … Read more Rhetorics of the Plague
Carolee Schneemann Painting, What it Became Curated by Maura Reilly PPOW Gallery (New York) 555 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (through March 28) Sphinx 1962, mixed media, 50 x 28 x 4 inches One Window is Clear- Notes to Lou Andreas Salome 1965, mixed media, 77 1/2 x 48 x 3 1/2 inches
Yesterday at high noon I saw a man wielding a hammer in a glass house & screaming how beautiful speed & war are. That was Charles Bernstein reading F.T. Marinetti‘s The Founding and manifesto of Futurism on the 100th birthday of its publication in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro (see yesterday’s post). Charles did smash the pulpit, but refrained from having a go at the glass walls or at … Read more Marinetti's Manifesto Meets MoMA
Dear friends, Happy 100th Anniversary of Futurism! Today is the day, one hundred years ago, when the Futurist Manifesto was published on the front page of Le Figaro in Paris! Celebrate in extraordinary ways. Come together, create the future. Futurist salutations! RoseLee RoseLee Goldberg Director PERFORMA 100 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011 212 366 5700 www.performa-arts.org
Great pleasure last night to catch a rare (at least for me) appearance of Keith Waldrop at the Poetry Project. He is one of the secret treasures — I wanted to say secret masters — of poetry in this country today. ّWell, semi-secret, judging from the large and appreciative audience that had gathered last night — but still, his work should indeed be way better known than it is. … Read more Keith Waldrop @ Poetry Project
Next month Jonathan Littell’s controversial novel The Kindly Ones will be published in Charlotte Mandell’s translation by Harper-Collins. Meanwhile, for a special issue celebrating the 100th anniversary of La Nouvelle revue Française (NRF), Littell wrote an essay on reading Maurice Blanchot on reading. The original French version can be found on the Blanchot website; Mandell’s translation of this piece has just been published on the This Space site. Here … Read more Jonathan Littell reads Maurice Blanchot
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in 1926, 17th cavalry regiment in Bamberg. © Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive) Have abstained from catching Valkyrie, the Tom Cruise flick on von Stauffenberg’s attempt to assasinate Hitler, but came across an interesting article by British historian Richard Evans speaking of von Stauffenberg’s connections to the poet Stefan George and his circle, and its influence on the aristocratic (and in no way democratically … Read more On von Stauffenberg & the George Circle
Long lovely Sunday walk along the beaches of Coney Island. But a pincement de coeur at seeing all the boardwalk places and the amusement park closed — Mayor Bloomie &, rumor has it, The Trump (what was The Joker in the ole Gotham City comics) possibly also, have ideas about how to renovate / update / or whatever euphemism you prefer for greedy landgrab development of the old seafront. … Read more Coney Island of the $$$ Mind