Nomadics

James Tenney, one of the truly major composers and musical theorists of these last 50 years died this past August. The following essay — reprinted from A Companion to Slug #13, The Frog Peak...

Today Anna Politkovskaia will be buried in Moscow. The journalist was shot & killed three days ago in the elevator cage of her building. She was killed because she was a fearless & honest...

It’s a great pleasure for AlbanyPoets & Ta’wil Productions to announce a POETRY READING by Jerome Rothenberg onWednesday 11 October ,at7:30 p.m.inthe UAG Gallery247 Lark StreetAlbany, NY *** The Hat Shall Be Passed.The Contents...

Do not miss the first Monday Night Experimental Cabaret of the seasonMonday October 9th 2006 7PM at Tess’ Lark Tavern453 Madison AvenueAlbany, New York 12210 (Map)no cover charge/donation suggested In order of appearance: -Intro-Nicole...

On 4 October the Romanian-German poet Oskar Pastior died in Frankfurt-am-Main shortly before his 79th birthday. He was to receive the Büchner Prize, the major German poetry prize, on 21 October (I reported on...

On 20 September I posted a few excerpts (in a hasty home-made translation) from a longer interview with Tunisian writer Abdelwahab Meddeb first published in the German newspaper Die Zeit. Signandsight has just published...

* * * Interesting interview ith JG Ballard on his new novel, Kingdom Come, can be read here. And here’s a tidbit: SIMON SELLARS:A character describes Pearson as ‘beyond psychiatric help’. JG BALLARD: Ah...

Here are the opening paragraphs of a lengthy, thoughtful review of Matthew Lasar’s second volume of the history of Pacifica Radio — Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio’s Civil War, Great Britain, Black Apollo Press, 2006,...

Out for a day or two for minor medical overhaul, but here is a site worth exploring: the September (v o l 14 i s s u e 05) issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanach...

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...