September 2010 – Page 3

September 7, 2010

Sonny Rollins @ 80!

Many Happy Returns, Sonny! (Miles, do you remember? You were just about 6 weeks old when you heard your first Sonny Rollins concert!)

Poetry / Prose / Summer Reading

September 7, 2010

Kali Claude Yug Pélieu Express 8

Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…) COCA NEON CAMERA SUTRA FUCK TO THE BONE! Some time ago I lent a few slogans to the wind, just for laughs. A...

Demonstrations / Paris / Photography / Racism

September 5, 2010

“ANTI-XENOPHOBIA” DEMONSTRATION ACROSS FRANCE

Margo Berdeshevsky sent these pictures she took yesterday in Paris on the occasion of major “anti-xenophobia” demonstrations held all across France. These demos are in reaction to many weeks of governmental harassment, incarcerations and...

Uncategorized

September 4, 2010

Reuven Snir on Arab Jewish Language & Poetry

Marilyn Hacker called my attention to this excellent essay on Qantara, a superb multilingual site subtitled “Dialogue with the Islamic World,” and which I have been perusing for a long time, even though I...

Conference / Paul Celan / Poetry readings / Poets / Translation

September 3, 2010

Wish I Were There…

MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ International Poetry Festival 3 – 5 September 2010 Chernivtsi, Ukraine The major theme of the festival is contemporary German and Ukrainian poetry. The participants are well-known poets from Ukraine, Austria, Germany and Switzerland...

Obituaries / Poetry / Poets

September 2, 2010

Stephen Kessler on George Hitchcock

Here is Stephen Kessler’s obit for George Hitchcock, as published yesterday in SantaCruz.com. George Hitchcock, 1914-2010 When I was an undergraduate and aspiring poet at school in upstate New York in the mid-1960s I...

Poetry / Prose / Summer Reading / Translation

September 1, 2010

Kali Claude Yug Pélieu Express 7

Claude Pélieu : KALI YUG EXPRESS Translated by Mary Beach (continued…) WRITTEN AND ERASED IN THE FRISCO SKY A bit of eternity in the pink window. Blond mountains riddled with poppies and corn-flowers. (Stones...