Anne Waldman on Peter Orlovsky’s Passing: “The Shellean farmer astride hid Pegasusian tractor” as Gregory Corso once knighted him passed on today, May 30 2010 to the elysian fields, a bardo of becoming. First glance hour earlier Peter was resting with “trach” in throat in orange sheets at the kind Vt Respite Center in Williston, Vermont (but no extra tubes/ heroic measures for this advanced cancer on his lung!), … Read more Peter Orlovsky (1933 -2010)
here is the announcement, sent out by Leslie Scalapino’s family: “Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.” — Philip Whalen Leslie Scalapino passed away on May 28, 2010 in Berkeley, California. She was born in Santa Barbara in 1944 and raised in Berkeley, California. After Berkeley High School, she attended Reed College … Read more Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010)
From the comments to my may 27th post, the above photo from Tom Clark’s site, and below, friend Bill Sherman who in his reply sent the reader to to his website, where he proposes the following, with which I agree: What Obama Could Do (1) Fire Salazar and all of his epigone underlings at Interior who continued past administrations’ corrupt policies of refusing to regulate permits and safety procedures. … Read more Two Comments
Thursday May 27th 7pm MaelstrÖm Revolution Festival Jerome Rothenberg/Pierre Joris/Nicole Peyrafitte + a group of Belgian & US Artists at The Invisible Dog 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn * * * complete tentative line-up as of this morning: The evening starts at 7pm -David Giannoni – Dwayne Morgan – Antoine Boute – Jerome Rothenberg – Vincent Tholomé —First Break— – Olivier Dombret – Benjamin Pottel – Kat Georges and Peter … Read more MaelstrÖm Revolution Festival
John Maas posted this image (in a better resolution, so check it out there) this morning on his DoomsDiary site: & now check out the following article in the NYT: WASHINGTON — In the days since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells and a halt to a controversial type of environmental waiver that was given to the Deepwater Horizon rig, at least … Read more MV Change YCBI
Via Truthout: Trucking Toward Climate Change (Illustration: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t) The tar sands mining project in Alberta, Canada, is possibly the largest industrial project in human history and critics claim it could also be the most destructive. The mining procedure for extracting oil from a region referred to as the “tar sands,” located north of Edmonton, releases at least three times … Read more Dahr Jamail on Tar Sands Mining Project
Back from France last night. Today, Saturday — & if you are in NYC, do come & check it out — will take in & contribute to the conference on translation sponsored by NYU. Details below: Saturday, May 22 Maison Française 16 Washington Mews New York, NY 10003 Tel: (212) 998-8750 FAX: (212) 995-4142 maison.francaise@nyu.edu 10-15 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Poétiques du traduire Raluca Manea Emmanuel Hocquard: the Poet as … Read more NYU Talk on Translation & Reading
First somewhat sunny day in Paris was two days ago, and so Habib Tengour and I went out to Ménilmontant to meet up with some friends at a Kabyle restaurant for lunch. Though we ate inside, we quickly moved to the terrace afterward for coffee and the little sun that was just beginning to break through. Much pleasant and intense talk — as nearly always with Algerians, there are … Read more Maghrebi Lunch Break