In Roxana Vilk’s short film, “Fire Won’t Eat Me Up,” Manal Al Sheikh says it is dangerous for her to be a writer in her hometown of Nineveh, Iraq, so she now engages readers online from Norway. The documentary, produced for Al Jazeera’s “Artscape: Poets of Protest” series, follows Al Sheikh as she prepares for a reading.
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 02/26/2013 Weather extremes provoked by trapping of giant waves in the atmosphere The world has suffered from severe regional weather extremes in recent years, such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011 or the one in Russia 2010 coinciding with the unprecedented Pakistan flood. Behind these devastating individual events there is a common physical cause, propose … Read more Weather extremes & Giant Atmospheric Waves
The following poem was written 12.15.1962, during the period of composition of Die Niemandsrose, though not taken into that volume. Working on the later poem “Als uns das Weiße anfiel | When whiteness assailed us” I noticed that the opening phrase of the 1962 poem has been picked up and made part of the later poem. Here I propose a first translation of this earlier poem. (The later one will … Read more An ungathered Paul Celan Poem
This just in, via Arab Literature (in English) blog by mlynxqualey The Qatari appeals court today reduced the sentence of Mohammed al-Ajami, the poet jailed for his work, from life in prison to a long stint of 15 years. According to Al Jazeera, as the news outlet now appears to be covering the case, al-Ajami ”shouted insults at the courtroom and against the government of the Gulf state as he left the Doha court surrounded by … Read more Qatari Poet’s Sentence Not Overturned, Cut to 15 Years
On The Road Again Monday, March 4, 6:30 p.m. A poetry reading at the University of New Haven Pierre Joris The event is part of UNH’s Arts@Night series at the UNH Bookstore on the West Haven campus. Randall Horton, UNH assistant professor of English, said the evening promises to be an engaging one. “Pierre Joris is one of the most important poets of my generation and beyond,” Horton said. “He … Read more Spring Reading Schedule
… & this is as fresh as the day she sung it in 1965!
One of the most essential books for my own coming of (political) age in the sixties was Raoul Vaneigem’s Traité de Savoir-vivre…, one of the two core texts of the Situationist International (the other one being Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle). As readers of this blog will know, I have kept up with Vaneigem’s writings over the years — here & here & here — and so … Read more New Translation of Vaneigem Classic
Her film “Fly” (1971) viewable on Ubuweb, here.
Sometime last week I forwarded a review of a current British Museum exhibition on prehistoric art to Clayton Eshleman. He responded two days ago, saying: “I remembered my little moleskin notebook I had with me in London 2007 when at that Museum. I decided to copy out my notes on the ancient pieces I scribbed standing before their windows one morning…” And with his permission, here they are, for me clearly more than fragmentary notes, poems … Read more Clayton Eshleman’s British Museum Notebook
… the Beatles recorded their first album: Please Please Me which in this country nobody wanted to release prudishly reading the title as a request for giving head… Recorded on 11 February it was released on March 22, 1963 in the UK. An edited version (see above) was released in the US later that year, and retitled Introducing the Beatles. Songs in this album included: Anna Ask Me Why Baby its You … Read more Today, Fifty Years Ago…