El Corno Emplumado, Medellin Poetry Festival, Bin Laden's win
Off to NYC to catch an evening (film & panel) on that great sixties magazine El Corno Emplumado edited by Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragon between 1962 and 1969; and a further evening taking my elder son to a lecture on sake, followed of course by a tasting.
For interested New Yorkers, here are the details of the El Corno Emplumado evening:
Friday, September 29, 6:15 pm: a screening of “el corno emplumado/the plumed horn – a story from the sixties,” followed by a panel with, Sergio Mondragón, Margaret Randall, Jerome Rothenberg, Cecilia Vicuña, and Anne Mette W. Nielsen, at the Auditorio del King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University, 53 Washington Square South.
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The notings below seemed interesting to me in their different ways:
Medellin Poetry Festival’s Alternative Nobel
via: Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa
Published: Thursday September 28, 2006
Bogota- For a poetry initiative in the one-time violence- plagued Colombian drug capital of Medellin, Thursday’s award of an Alternative Nobel Prize gave global recognition to the search for peace in their region, the recipients said. The International Poetry Festival of Medellin in Colombia earlier Thursday received a 2006 Right Livelihood Award, a monetary prize created in 1980 by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull to reward outstanding work in the defence of peace, human rights and the environment as well as the fight against poverty and social inequality.
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& this meditation on our government’s latest stupidities in signing off on Bush’s interrogation techniques by Meteor Blades:
It is said that Osama bin Laden was surprised but gleeful upon learning that his hand-picked hijackers had done more than expected and toppled the twin towers of the World Trade Center. But the devastation of that attack five years ago caused minuscule damage compared with the dirty bomb that the Senate and House have exploded in our midst this week. The rule of law is contaminated. In the clash of civilizations, civilization took another hit.
If al Qaeda held five seats in the U.S. Senate, does anyone doubt that there would be five more ayes today to approve the Dungeons and Rendition Act? It wasn’t, however, al Qaeda that voted for torture and against habeas corpus. This was the act of men and women who swore an oath to the Constitution they have now chosen to eviscerate. Not all at once, mind you, rather death by a thousand cuts.
full article here.
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux