Month: May 2015

What would it take to limit climate change to 1.5°C?

Press Release by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 05/21/2015 A new study analyzes the required climate policy actions and targets in order to limit future global temperature rise to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100. This level is supported by more than 100 countries worldwide, including those most vulnerable to climate change, as a safer goal than the … Read more What would it take to limit climate change to 1.5°C?

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Poetry Foundation’s 2015 Pegasus Award Winner & Finalists

  WINNER: This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray, by Mark Ford May 26, 2015 CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation is honored to announce that Mark Ford’s 2014 publication This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray, from Eyewear Publishing, is awarded the annual $7,500 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, which honors the best book-length works of criticism, … Read more Poetry Foundation’s 2015 Pegasus Award Winner & Finalists

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WHO WILL SAVE ISRAEL?

by Uri Avnery May 23, 2015 THE BATTLE is over. The dust has settled. A new government – partly ridiculous, partly terrifying – has been installed. It is time to take stock. The net result is that Israel has given up all pretense of desiring peace and that Israeli democracy has suffered a blow from which it may never recover. ISRAELI GOVERNMENTS – with the possible exception of Yitzhak … Read more WHO WILL SAVE ISRAEL?

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An Appeal to Planet Earth from the Cloud House for a New Place to Breathe In.

by KUSH: The Cloud House Poetry Archives are looking for a storefront, warehouse or even an accessible floor of a building, where we can share our cultural treasures and multimedia installations/theatre with the public. We plan to establish a new Cloud House in proximity to a wide range of small East Coast colleges. The primary objective is to interact with the surrounding community and be enriched by the participation of the people … Read more An Appeal to Planet Earth from the Cloud House for a New Place to Breathe In.

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A Memoir of Graham Mackintosh (1935-2015)

The great printer Graham Mackintosh has left us. On Poltroon Press’ site Alastair M. Johnston has published a memorial piece worth reading for anyone interested in Bay Area poetry & poetics — and the days when books were actually typeset. I am reproducing the opening paras below, for the full article (& examples of Mackintosh’s work) click here. Pity the writer or artist with a Bad Boswell. I am thinking … Read more A Memoir of Graham Mackintosh (1935-2015)

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Towards a new industrial revolution: studying societies’ metabolism

Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 05/19/2015 To achieve a lasting transition towards sustainability, large-scale conversion of our built environment – cities, transport systems, power generation – is key. This is an outcome of a special feature investigating advances in the research on industrial ecology, to be published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and coordinated by the Potsdam Institute … Read more Towards a new industrial revolution: studying societies’ metabolism

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Summer Schedule for NP & PJ

via Nicole’s blog: Lots of exciting events here in France & elsewhere. Opening of the exhibition WE WERE A VERY POOR JETSET 3 Saturday May 16th : Philippe TURC, Nicole PEYRAFITTE, Anne KIESECOMS Exposition collective du 07 mai au 24 juin 2015 Samedi 16 mai 2015 inauguration sur réservation de 11h à 13h Plus d’informations sur la galerie privée : OÙ Galerie Paradis 152 rue Paradis 13006 Marseille L’Association … Read more Summer Schedule for NP & PJ

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Picasso’s Expensive Disappearing Women

Have a last look at this great 1955 Pablo Picasso painting from 1955 called “The Women of Algiers:” The painting was just sold at auction for $ 180 million, & will disappear into the safe vault of the anonymous private owner, where, as Nicola Kuhn writes in the Tagesspiegel “it will serve as a blue chip, as guarantor of value appreciation in times of an overheated market. How great the current greediness … Read more Picasso’s Expensive Disappearing Women

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Glasfryn Seminar: Two Angles on Modernism

These materials via Junction Box, where you can find the continuation of these two takes & a range of other fascinating materials. On March 28th 2015 a seminar was held at Glasfryn in Llangattock, Powys, on the subject of modernism. There were two presenters: Allen Fisher and Anthony Mellors. Fisher discussed developments in art dating from around 1850 with reference to the evolution of a recognisably modernist aesthetic, whilst Mellors … Read more Glasfryn Seminar: Two Angles on Modernism

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Wellman on Celan/Joris

On his blog “immanent occasions: Mental excursions into poetics and cultural anthropology,” Donald Wellman has started to speak to my Celan translations. Much appreciated! Below the opening para; read the rest here: In the case of Paul Celan, more so than other poets with the possible exception of Louis Zukofsky, the reader is confronted by the slipperiness and multivalency of individual words. This phenomenon of innovation and concentration, this cast of … Read more Wellman on Celan/Joris

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