{"id":283,"date":"2006-10-13T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2006-10-13T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T15:24:00","slug":"jr-came-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/jr-came-through\/","title":{"rendered":"JR Came Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">The reading Jerome Rothenberg gave here in Albany on wednesday night was a great success (chairs had to be schlepped in from Tess&#8217; Tavern 3 blocks up the street). JR read from the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">China Notes and The Treasures of Dunhuang (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahadadabooks.com\/\">Ahadada Books<\/a>, Toronto and Tokyo)<\/span>. and from the forthcoming New Directions compilation of his Poland 1931 \/ Khurbn \/ &#8220;Burning Babe&#8221; sequences. Besides the pleasure of the poems, a major aspect of the success of the reading was the audience:  a rare \u2014 for Albany, but for many other towns &#038; cities as well, as I know from experience \u2014 mix of the town &amp; the gown that included many of the members of the local open mic scene(s), plain citizens of Albany and environs, SUNY students, both graduate and undergraduate, plus a bevy of more or less well-known poetas \u2014 with  a novelist or two thrown in \u2014 from the Hudson Valley region to the Berkshires. An excellent mix that made for a large table afterwards with talk flowing in  harmony with the libations.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry &#038; Diane got back on the road this morning for a gig at Yale&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/beineckepoetry.wordpress.com\/working-group-in-contemporary-poetry\/wgcp-schedule-and-readings-fall-2006\/\">Working Group in Contemporary Poetics<\/a> later tonight. But not before I scanned a page from Jerry&#8217;s road notebook, where the poems get cooked up. Here it is:<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/3504\/1589\/1600\/JRNoteBook.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/3504\/1589\/400\/JRNoteBook.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reading Jerome Rothenberg gave here in Albany on wednesday night was a great success (chairs had to be schlepped in from Tess&#8217; Tavern 3 blocks up the street). JR read from the China&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}