Wanted to upload some extracts from the video I shot (poorly, iPhone isn’t the Red camera) of Ed Sanders’ closing event at the Worcester Olson conference on Saturday. But I need to spend some more time editing the video, so it won’t be up for a couple days yet. Meanwhile, here is an audio-file (I’m a bit faster at editing them thar things) of a part of last night’s … Read more Extract of Last Night's Gig with Peyrafitte & Bisio
Monday March 29th 8PM Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris & Michael Bisio (bass) THE LOCAL 269 269 E Houston Street NYC check out the full line up and details as the NY Times put it: “EVOLVING VOICE/EVOLVING MUSIC (Monday) The headliner on this edition of the experimental music series, appearing at 10 p.m., is Bizingas, a quartet with Kirk Knuffke on trumpet, Brian Drye on trombone, Jonathan Goldberger on guitar … Read more Peyrafitte, Joris & Bisio @ Local269
Saturday March 27: Dana Commons, Clark University Registration and Morning Reception 9:00 AM Presentation: 9:30 – 10:45 Charles Olson Society of Gloucester presents: Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place w/ Filmmakers Henry Ferrini and Ken Riaf. Q&A will follow the hour film. The Body and the Personal: 11:00 : Dr. Stephen Gilson Ammiel Alcalay and Kate Tarlow Morgan: The Body is a House Donald Wellman: … Read more Olson Conference in Worcester
A big conference coming up with scientists trying to see how to geoengineer the climate of the planet — below links to a few articles on these matters in the current issue of Wired. planet earth Climate Hackers Want to Write Their Own Rules 14 hours ago Read More here. Author Q&A Geoengineering: ‘Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come’ 14 hours ago book excerpt Hack the Planet: Do or … Read more Hackin' Earth?
Sunday March 21 Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris & Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, & Nick Flynn, Major Jackson, Douglas Unger 6PM Poets for Peace at Erika’s 85-101 N. 3rd St # 508 Brooklyn, NY 11211 (between Wythe and Berry and it is the Bedford stop on the L train)
An excellent interview by Jay Sanders with Charles Bernstein in the new issue of BOMB, the occasion being the publication of Bernstein’s new volume of selected poems, All the Whiskey in Heaven; Here’s an extract: JS: In your and your poetic peers’ early work, you feel that intensity of purpose, of provocation, amidst what was perceived as a staid poetic and political climate. Drawing on peculiar inspirations and tactics, … Read more Charles Bernstein Interview
The latest installment of the English edition of the Bengali online literary magazine Kaurab has an lovely interview of Jerome Rothenberg by Mark Weiss as well as an excellent review of volume one of Poems for the Millennium by Tyrone Williams (oh, btw Tyrone, your inklings re Faber & Faber hit the nail on the head). Extracts of these can be read below. Kaurab is generally excellent — a … Read more Kaurab Magazine: Rothenberg Interview & Millennium Anthology Review
Via Reporters Without Borders, here are the opening paras of an article on growing internet censorship in a range of countries. You can read the full piece here. The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at … Read more Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0
Most happy to be able to report that last night Rae Armantrout was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for her book Versed from Wesleyan University Press. As Ron Silliman has said about Rae’s work: “Trying to read a book by Rae Armantrout in a single sitting is like trying to drink a bowl of diamonds. What’s inside is all so shiny & clear & even tiny that … Read more
I have been very remiss keeping up my calendar page on the blog, but will try to update it more regularly, & so to remind readers that it exists I’ll post these updates to the blog today — usually they can be found on the Events Calendar page: Saturday, April 24 — 2 p.m. post_moot convocation 2010 Miami Art Museum 2:30pm–4:00pm Tyrone Williams, Erin Mouré/Oana Avasilichioaei, Pierre Joris Miami … Read more Calendar Updates for March/April