tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105275482011-07-07T18:10:09.443-05:00phactory-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.comBlogger9521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-89717501721743183662007-06-25T21:39:00.000-05:002007-06-25T21:58:01.211-05:00Whoah. Tomorrow I'll be listening to the Ceravolo tapes.The set dated 1968 has more than a few paratextual moments, like an entire radio show picked up in the background. Intentional ambiance? Something about "a fire boys and girls!" at about 3:00. A siren gives way to space music, then the "sun testicles" line."Dear Mother, Try Track B."-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-13815613477715778282007-06-21T17:45:00.000-05:002007-06-21T17:46:15.402-05:00Required and suggested readings for Naropa summer program.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-18803697424150104002007-06-20T08:55:00.000-05:002007-06-20T08:59:21.665-05:00A Frank O'Hara group on Flickr.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-55956102731863033892007-06-17T18:41:00.000-05:002007-06-17T18:45:14.021-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-78106605738690008082007-06-17T17:55:00.000-05:002007-06-17T17:56:55.964-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-56682138218656498932007-06-14T04:47:00.000-05:002007-06-14T04:49:05.599-05:00Dan Featherstone interviewed by Detroit's Metrotimes.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-191807720713850462007-06-13T19:25:00.000-05:002007-06-14T07:32:14.444-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-1374815847907531932007-06-11T20:23:00.000-05:002007-06-11T20:24:04.153-05:00Holloway Series mp3s.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-6384328857181560352007-06-11T09:04:00.001-05:002007-06-11T20:04:58.981-05:00I have seen the apples that toss you secrets,--Beloved apples of seasonable madnessThat feed your inquiries with aerial wine.Put them again beside a pitcher with a knife,And poise them full and ready for explosion--The apples, Bill, the apples!--Hart Crane, "Sunday Morning Apples"(reading)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-31678846511310652022007-06-08T07:33:00.000-05:002007-06-08T07:41:08.423-05:00Niedecker on the California Delta (courtesy of Indymedia)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-2493028803792760822007-06-07T07:59:00.000-05:002007-06-07T08:07:09.706-05:00The Ipod Shuffle is the new I Ching.(Re: EyeSpace by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-51589842273779973402007-06-07T07:53:00.000-05:002007-06-07T07:55:53.467-05:00In the news:A Bill Gates scholarship will allow a University of Sydney student to complete a PhD at Cambridge University in communist poetry... [The student] is studying poets such as Louis Zukofsky, a New York Jew who belonged to a group of left-leaning avant-garde poets known as the Objectivists who came to prominence in the 1930s...-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-76952951773857918912007-06-06T04:38:00.001-05:002007-06-06T04:41:05.560-05:00The endeavor to start and sustain communication is typical of talking birds; thus the phatic function of language is the only one they share with human beings. It is also the first verbal function acquired by infants; they are prone to communicate before being able to send or receive informative communication. --Roman Jakobson, "The Speech Event and the Function of Language"-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-38874204889344153012007-06-02T11:35:00.000-05:002007-06-02T16:15:48.368-05:00If Ken Rumble worked for US Weekly and took photos of DC Poets...-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-76262868492924268412007-06-01T20:26:00.000-05:002007-06-01T20:37:57.535-05:00Shark on the Sorted Books Project.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-51781629421627099022007-05-31T07:22:00.000-05:002007-05-31T07:24:32.152-05:00I have despaired of satire. Satire requires an audience that is intelligent enough to see what one is doing, and a hope that it can do some good. In some dictatorships it is a crime to be a satirist. In other places, where the people have lost touch with the principles that started their civilization, satire gets hidden behind the search for an American Idol.--New interview with George Bowering-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-675721479194960252007-05-30T21:58:00.000-05:002007-05-30T20:12:25.151-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-27699915435015855982007-05-30T20:05:00.000-05:002007-05-30T20:11:33.902-05:00RSS feed for new additions to Pennsound.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-81908859148535469362007-05-30T20:01:00.000-05:002007-05-30T20:07:50.535-05:00Quote that I was looking for some time ago:Poets, for obvious reasons, tend to look at "disguised unemployment" as time to write, which partly explains their gravitation to part-time service sector jobs, such as clerking in bookstores or proofreading for publishers and law firms.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-85375042020884830002007-05-30T19:56:00.000-05:002007-05-30T19:57:43.918-05:00Seattle:Circa 1991, after I had just gotten off work and boarded the #7 bus for Capitol Hill, I sat down next to a middle-aged man and began reading a small red book titled American Ones, a collection of prose poems by Clark Coolidge. The man asked me if it was a good book...-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-63571947785547457022007-05-30T09:13:00.000-05:002007-05-30T08:01:26.748-05:00O, Sir, doubt not but that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a Trout with an artificial Fly ? a Trout ! that is more sharp-sighted than any Hawk you have named, and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled Merlin is bold ? and yet, I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast: doubt not therefore, Sir, but that angling is an art, and an worth your -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-47011743510454551992007-05-29T05:19:00.000-05:002007-05-29T05:35:34.893-05:00Brakhage radio --> 20 shows at 30 min a piece. The first show is on poetry, film, and Gregorian chant.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-33714065580163162932007-05-26T17:00:00.000-05:002007-05-26T17:01:12.803-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-33555100896176178722007-05-25T21:08:00.000-05:002007-05-25T21:21:14.500-05:00Lincoln & Washington(And Benjamin Franklin)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-48156296821267319562007-05-22T09:18:00.000-05:002007-05-22T14:55:20.805-05:00Lots o' new audio from the spring '07 season of Segue @ BPC. (Dahlen!)New Bellamy here (03/22/07).And a PennSound easter egg! The Benson reading at the Kelly Writers House has 30 minutes of inexplicably free music at the end of the tape.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-34906560962735169052007-05-18T09:49:00.000-05:002007-05-18T10:49:46.742-05:00Ubu's Hall of Shame.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-86071738445063892262007-05-14T09:09:00.000-05:002007-05-14T09:11:38.786-05:00Lynne Dreyer in Tottel's 17 (1978)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-75351481920568208372007-05-10T05:43:00.000-05:002007-05-10T05:46:42.405-05:00RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES@ Pyramid Atlantic Art CenterSaturday, May 12, 2007, 8:00PMElizabeth Willis and Nancy KuhlPlease join the Ruthless Grip Poetry Series for a reading by Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Kuhl on Saturday, May 12, at 8:00PM.ELIZABETH WILLIS is the author of four books of poetry, including TURNERESQUE (Burning Deck, 2003), THE HUMAN ABSTRACT (Penguin, 1995), and SECOND LAW (Avenue-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-52767083079178420372007-05-08T15:57:00.000-05:002007-05-08T16:02:32.903-05:00"When you are done loading your iPod with Better than Ezra and Carlos Santana, why not try a little Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams?"(News article on PennSound with accolades from several unlikely parties.)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-17230475530564811692007-05-08T03:36:00.000-05:002007-05-08T04:41:56.740-05:00Books for reading in the middle of the night:Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Early Poems 1937-1952, ed. Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan (Da Capo Press, 2006)-Because the 11 year old lists the dozens of movies that he has seen and because the 17 year old lists the dozens of sexual words that he has learned and because he is not yet "Allen Ginsberg.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-18994702272647067862007-05-08T03:32:00.000-05:002007-05-08T04:23:30.622-05:00Frances Jaffer on the web:Working Notes at How(ever) archive --> plus the poems "Do Well" and "Lodging"If I write as freely and rapidly as I can, on re-reading I frequently find language clusters that please and surprise me. (Will my little dog know me?) I lift them from the often relatively banal prose matrix, arrange them, sometimes but not always in the order in which they appear, and on a -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-85628293341796895662007-05-08T03:03:00.000-05:002007-05-08T04:26:57.272-05:00"I’m tempted to make an analogy between poetry books and their audience and baby leatherback sea turtles and their home in the Galapagos Islands."-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-56611920268605909672007-05-05T07:44:00.000-05:002007-05-05T07:46:41.317-05:00Perfect weather for the ultimate tournament today. Who cares that it's our worst season ever?-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-85415736020682628022007-05-05T05:14:00.000-05:002007-05-05T21:27:02.218-05:00Goldilocks Zone --> where a planet can sustain life because it is "not too hot, and not too cold"-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-47367226029679468862007-05-05T04:40:00.000-05:002007-05-05T07:58:22.114-05:00Impatient to read the new Amnasan. Review by KK.//More spring reads --> order both and save money on shipping.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-34214003134479144412007-05-05T04:22:00.000-05:002007-05-05T07:59:19.936-05:00"Although the homosocial worlds of Messrs. [Jerry] Bruckheimer and [Joel] Silver on occasion make room for a Venus in leather like Carrie-Anne Moss or, more routinely, a neonatal-size waif like Keira Knightley, these are testosterone-fueled domains, largely defined by bulging muscles and exploding guns, both symbolic and actual."(NYT review of Hot Fuzz.)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-4335361644043248852007-05-01T10:16:00.001-05:002007-05-01T10:16:38.270-05:00Yockadot Poetics Theater.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-83667308520648357602007-04-29T21:19:00.000-05:002007-04-29T20:28:30.257-05:00Steve Benson on the erotics of translation (1979)./Brian Reed on Hart Crane's compositional process (2007)./(When holding a fussy newborn, it's easier to listen to an mp3 than to flip through the pages of a book.)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-90590930855545218092007-04-23T07:06:00.000-05:002007-04-23T07:09:42.329-05:00Q: Do you find that having children adds meaning to life? A: I find that for a left-winger like me, the problem is that either your children out-left you or they become fascists.(Eagleton)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-11357669983509092352007-04-20T10:31:00.000-05:002007-04-20T10:32:04.536-05:00Kathy Acker is 60.(Wednesday was her birthday.)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-13003421232882735892007-04-18T21:17:00.000-05:002007-04-18T21:25:25.757-05:00Welish on Clover: But neither do these poems argue from a secure position of permanently disengaged cultural negation...-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-55321438368705010742007-04-15T17:05:00.000-05:002007-04-15T17:06:43.689-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-7699615778671826622007-04-12T19:47:00.000-05:002007-04-12T19:51:02.526-05:00RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES@ Pyramid Atlantic Art CenterSaturday, April 14, 2007, 8:00PMC.S. GISCOMBE, SUSAN TICHY, and KEN RUMBLEPlease join the Ruthless Grip Poetry Series for a reading by C.S. Giscombe, Susan Tichy, and Ken Rumble on Saturday, April 14th, at 8:00PM.C.S. Giscombe's recent poetry books are Giscome Road and Inland. He currently teaches at Penn State and will be teaching at U. C.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-21279648059174004012007-04-12T19:40:00.000-05:002007-04-12T19:42:49.664-05:00Reading this and this and this.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-20580162449049739402007-04-12T10:35:00.000-05:002007-04-12T10:39:35.737-05:00kari edwards memorial //Kelleher on the Olson doc.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-5555864696429790382007-04-08T10:41:00.000-05:002007-04-08T20:33:45.032-05:00Being Charles Olson.(With narration by John Malkovich! A rough cut of the film was shown previously at Olson Now.)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-61215024623640379312007-04-07T07:33:00.000-05:002007-04-07T07:20:10.722-05:00McCaffery says, "The general economy... makes apparent that excesses of energy are produced, and that by definition, these excesses cannot be utilized. The excessive economy can only be lost without the slightest aim, consequently without meaning."But what are the practical consequences of such excess? Let's ask Georges Bataille!"In a bad way from drinking." (89)"Unpleasant effects from drinking -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-34101781237010243482007-04-05T07:06:00.000-05:002007-04-05T07:09:54.735-05:00On Ashbery and his collage art --The man I know talks knowledgeably about sitcoms and happily produced a video clip for MTV, in which he appears as the channel's ``poet laureate.'' He has a taste for telling bad jokes, too, including one in which a doctor tells a patient that the ``good news'' is that he has Alzheimer's disease.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-63780735904130433732007-03-29T12:50:00.000-05:002007-03-29T12:53:10.972-05:00Geoffrey Gatza: "ex-Marine/chef/poet/publisher"-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-955867370583050272007-03-28T06:52:00.000-05:002007-03-28T07:10:40.025-05:00The Pawtucket Times has a feature on Michael Magee as poet, scholar, and community activist: "While Magee's foray into local education doesn't quite follow in Emerson's historic footsteps, it's a toe in similar waters..."-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-31056014723765793432007-03-21T12:00:00.000-05:002007-03-21T12:17:12.452-05:00From the art blogs: "A Warning Shouldn’t Be Pleasant – a group exhibition of 23 California-based artists’ responsiveness to the end of the world. The exhibition takes its title from an essay by the poet Alice Notley..."//And a new interview with Notley.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-81358618953551914292007-03-15T09:26:00.000-05:002007-03-15T07:43:26.925-05:00From the Nordic Network for Avant-Garde Studies comes a CFP on the "Avant-Garde and Violence" --> conference to be held at the University of Iceland.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-23125267901162757582007-03-15T07:06:00.000-05:002007-03-15T07:09:05.577-05:00Cherry blossom time lapse.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-72317581899397897642007-03-13T13:06:00.000-05:002007-03-13T13:09:19.308-05:00Bob Glück from UCSD New Writing Series ---> mp3(from the series podcast)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-3159655825660776442007-03-13T10:40:00.000-05:002007-03-13T15:44:06.738-05:00I'm reading Inger Christensen's Alphabet and also wondering about a connection with This Connection...//Was it about twenty years ago that I first heard about Jim Henson's early experimental films? Here they are at last: Time Piece (1965) and The Cube (1969).-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-3165161426605254832007-03-08T16:34:00.000-05:002007-03-08T16:36:04.826-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-63184084859631806612007-03-07T10:59:00.000-05:002007-03-07T11:08:01.109-05:00RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES@ Pyramid Atlantic Art CenterSaturday, March 10, 2007, 8:00PMROB HALPERN and LAUREN BENDERPlease join the Ruthless Grip Poetry Series for a reading by Rob Halpern and Lauren Bender on Saturday, March 10, at 8:00PM.Rob Halpern is the author of Rumored Place (Krupskaya 2004) and Disaster Suite (Vigilance Society 2006). Currently, he's co-editing the poems of the late -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-5784059847741817812007-03-06T12:54:00.000-05:002007-03-06T13:01:49.652-05:00Spoken language, when heard, tends to arrange itself into rhythmic groups of syllables: phrases and the pauses between phrases. These syllabic groups are usually not complete sentences, because most spoken sentences are too long to be easily pronounced without a pause; most sentences, further, are structurally divided into syntactic units, and it is natural for the speaker of a sentence to pause -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-72189329450306609312007-03-01T19:42:00.000-05:002007-03-01T19:53:21.875-05:00See you in Baltimore tomorrow?(or)awgeezacademitassemasochismo-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-67321465918788797602007-03-01T07:37:00.000-05:002007-03-04T08:48:52.521-05:00E-books [w/ some translations] hosted by GAMMM --::: jeff derksen / from transnational muscle cars [.en + .it]::: michele zaffarano / no man is an island [.it] ::: massimo sannelli / o [.it]::: nanni balestrini / tape mark I [.it]::: charles bernstein, arthur rimbaud / frasi = sentences = phrases [.en+.fr+.it]::: julien blaine / le grand noir du berry brayait avec le baudet du poitou?-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-73593968512201993992007-02-28T11:26:00.000-05:002007-02-28T11:35:12.901-05:00Anne-Marie Albiach: ... I must say that I am very attracted to equations, number, geometry, it seems to me that verse coheres there... And then, with that geometry and those equations a counterpoint appears made in relation to a very painful lyricism that I can't deny.Jean Daive: But who is asking you to deny it?Anne-Marie Albiach: No one! But Jean, if I don't have a geometrical, mathematical -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-74682853857868645672007-02-27T13:19:00.000-05:002007-02-27T13:24:58.669-05:00Podcast for New Writing Series at UCSD -- w/ Valentines Day broadcast by Heriberto Yepez (mp3).-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-91483038708838874622007-02-27T10:34:00.000-05:002007-02-27T11:04:02.871-05:00Louisville pictures -- with various attendees bending over to look at the poems of Lev Rubinstein.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-36334266002832202802007-02-26T15:22:00.000-05:002007-02-26T15:10:43.663-05:00More title confusion:O.BLEKO-blek or O Blekand sometimesOblique-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-82969524056400709312007-02-26T06:08:00.000-05:002007-02-26T06:20:52.861-05:00Interview with Caroline Bergvall (courtesy of Kornkammer)Favoritförfattare?– George Perec, W. G. Sebald, Susan Howe, Anne Carson.Favoritord?– Nja. Jag hade ett förut. Ephemeral, éphémère på franska. Det ljuder mjukt och beskriver det flyktiga som bara tonar ut. -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-31222087212693246392007-02-24T21:03:00.001-05:002007-02-24T21:03:45.012-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-71964283942176157562007-02-20T17:33:00.000-05:002007-04-23T22:25:01.108-05:00Reading list 20071. Charles Baudelaire, "Danse Macabre" Trans. Keith Waldrop, Circumference 42. Tim Dlugos, "G-9" Eoagh 33. Brent Cunningham, "Sponge" Vanitas 24. Kate Greenstreet, "Story" Fascicle 35. Tyrone Williams, "Sunset Boulevard" Fascicle 36. K. Lorraine Graham, "Speculation Descending Therefrom" Dusie Chapbook 20067. Jen Scappettone, "Abluvion Almanac 5, 6, 7 & 8" Dusie 58. Bob Perelman,-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-24816730851233781822007-02-20T07:43:00.000-05:002007-02-19T22:07:21.450-05:00Kathy Acker's sex-drenched books did a curious thing without the presence of Kathy's body to support them. In "The Madness of Day," Maurice Blanchot says, "I must admit I have read many books. When I disappear, all those volumes will change imperceptibly." I thought Blanchot had lapsed into a pretentious sentimentalism that marred his terrific story. But when Kathy died, I felt her words *rustle*-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-60319632445292758242007-02-19T19:42:00.000-05:002007-02-19T21:50:40.006-05:00Nun haben wir Augen - Augen - ein schön Paar Kinderaugen!-E.T.A. Hoffman, from Nachtstuecke(While reviewing class notes on Freud's "uncanny," I got sucked into one of his main examples - Hoffman's "Der Sandmann." I always thought the Sand-Man threw sand in your eyes, i.e. not fun but not deadly either. In Hoffman's version, the Sand-Man tries to pluck out the eyes of children and feed them to his-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-67908761942447589032007-02-18T13:44:00.000-05:002007-02-18T13:48:55.737-05:00Flærf pictures here.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-13265218120516137602007-02-17T10:18:00.001-05:002007-02-17T14:49:21.839-05:00The heterosexual matrix of Oppen's Collected Poems is a defense, an overdetermination of completeness.--Kevin Killian, "Oppen Talk" (1995)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-30983483724756935672007-02-17T08:08:00.000-05:002007-02-17T08:49:31.136-05:00...inky of my dinky... licker of my flicker...--Emmett Williams(mp3)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-13063947736994987652007-02-16T14:26:00.000-05:002007-02-16T15:22:42.939-05:00If the original, already, effects a new material dimension in its language, translation will unfold yet another one which is not, strictly speaking, situated in either of the languages. This way, Benjamin's solution to the "problem" of Babelization is -- more Babelization.--Leevi Lehto, "In the Beginning Was Translation" (from MLA 2006)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-17298106003223941962007-02-16T09:46:00.000-05:002007-02-16T12:45:17.921-05:00About syllables — I mean that nubby material edging up of consonants against airy vowelness in a line. How for me a line has to have a presence in this way — this sound structure I go for at first intuitively, then tweak by making small moves and shifts and adjustments so there is no sonic flattening within a line. It has to, for me, have this sort of full knobbly quality, or a torsion or a -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-70201217293089499062007-02-15T08:06:00.000-05:002007-02-15T11:42:19.750-05:00Going to Louisville next week for the 20C lit/culture conference? I am giving a paper on New Narrative and Language poetry.The fabulous Patrick Durgin is also on my panel talking about Fanny Howe and Leslie Scalapino.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-21948741093146170312007-02-14T13:57:00.000-05:002007-02-14T13:58:40.614-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-4008855182984090722007-02-14T12:45:00.000-05:002007-02-14T12:46:59.728-05:00Eye low view.High lo few.Isle of yew.Allah view.A la vue.Hi low phew.Olive yew.Aloe view.Ah low view.Aisle of hue.--Homophonic valentine courtesy of Dora and Sally-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-366851890451056372007-02-12T23:04:00.000-05:002007-02-12T22:42:27.666-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-54464203608481040982007-02-12T08:07:00.000-05:002007-02-12T08:11:10.864-05:00Call for papers on Carla Harryman.//Skip school, get a free electronic tracking device.//Jeg puttede en bønne i mit øre.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-50815046585232341692007-02-11T20:54:00.000-05:002007-02-11T20:44:26.525-05:00"...these relations turn to their fetters..."We are doing a quick run through Marx and Engels for my grad seminar on Monday evening, unless it snows.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-74277289895614464772007-02-11T17:50:00.000-05:002007-02-11T10:38:09.546-05:00vielleicht ist es so, vielleicht ist es aber auch so nicht.vielleicht. so ist es. vielleicht. aber ist es auch? so nicht.vielleicht. ist es so? vielleicht. ist es aber auch so nicht.vielleicht ist es. so! vielleicht ist es. aber. auch. nicht. so.vielleicht. ist es so, vielleicht. istesaberauch nicht so.--Michael Lentz, from "vielleicht ist es so, vielleicht ist es aber auch nicht so" (mehr )-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-51336416144931671462007-02-11T10:33:00.000-05:002007-02-17T07:30:52.222-05:00the poet who doesn't need a jobmeets a worker who doesn't need poetry--Mark Wallace, from "The Long Republican Winter" (here)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-66433455124601143452007-02-07T09:47:00.000-05:002007-02-07T09:59:13.077-05:00Rod Smith and Dana Ward - Ruthless Grip Reading SeriesSaturday, February 10, 8:00 pm@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-62801455238115730852007-02-06T09:20:00.000-05:002007-02-06T09:21:16.654-05:00-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-26966711248115246862007-02-04T20:42:00.001-05:002007-02-04T21:00:17.675-05:00Long heard about but never seen.Foucault & ChomskyPart 1.Part 2.(The links keep moving due to copyright.)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-68751073441123478192007-02-04T08:38:00.000-05:002007-02-04T10:06:46.702-05:00I say: a flower! and outside the oblivion to which my voice relegates any shape, insofar as it is something other than the calyx, there arises musically, as the very idea and delicate, the one absent from every bouquet.(New York - 1982)When I say: "a flower!" then from that forgetfulness to which my voice consigns all floral form, something different from the usual calyces arises, something all -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-66047441557354551092007-02-01T22:57:00.000-05:002007-02-02T09:08:56.365-05:00Pompel and PiltFriday morning language lessons. Mio MaoThis second link is for anyone studying Italian.(Courtesy of Tigerclaws, who also has a Flickr site.)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-40762988044079479772007-02-01T10:55:00.000-05:002007-02-01T11:00:54.349-05:00Pictures from recent readings:-kari edwards memorial reading-Clayton Eshleman's translations of Vallejo-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-65937366977460873872007-01-27T09:32:00.000-05:002007-01-27T09:53:03.793-05:00Hundreds of ways to misspell Britney."Buttney Spears"Has Britney been elevated to a religious principle? I am just thinking of a passage from Robert Glück's Jack the Modernist. Here is the narrator reading Jack's short story about Joe-Toe:Joe-Toe is growing more mysterious by the page. People are praying for him. But if Joe-Toe is a source, it’s merely for puns, endless verbal substitutions: -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-40138870057551267982007-01-22T15:29:00.000-05:002007-01-22T15:44:30.064-05:00Graham Foust, who read yesterday afternoon, has a frisbee poem. Scroll down to "Poem with Trademark for a Plastic Disk Thrown From Person to Person in a Game."-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-70292512009085671442007-01-22T15:22:00.001-05:002007-01-22T15:29:00.092-05:00"I could explain Lacan to gradeschoolers."-Dodie Bellamy, Academonia-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-4005786640836538132007-01-18T13:15:00.000-05:002007-01-18T13:17:57.289-05:00Steve McCaffery's The Black Debt earns a "large print" classification from Amazon.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-67299571505542900102007-01-17T20:43:00.000-05:002007-01-17T21:34:55.359-05:00Pronouns don't go away. -RA in The Grand Piano Part 1.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-20589541014470236182007-01-15T21:23:00.000-05:002007-01-15T21:24:44.290-05:00Pictures from the Cole Swensen and Theodora Danylevich reading.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-6504330332792091562007-01-15T20:54:00.000-05:002007-01-15T22:47:21.614-05:00Chicken-baby.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-1753060542666673622007-01-11T16:11:00.000-05:002007-01-11T16:16:17.754-05:00 RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center8:00PM, January 13, 2007COLE SWENSEN and THEODORA DANYLEVICHPlease join the Ruthless Grip Poetry Series for a reading by Cole Swensen and Theodora Danylevich at 8PM on Saturday, January 13th, at 8:00PM.Cole Swensen received her B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-65161566173567512672007-01-10T08:13:00.001-05:002007-01-10T10:25:34.508-05:00"Will you see if the store has Season 6 Part 1 Disc 2 with episodes 4 through 6?"Made our way slowly at first and then quickly, like one mad dash, through Part 1 of the final season. Tony's initial resurrection in California--though I still don't really understand the implications--reminded me of Jean Echenoz's Piano. When people die, says Echenoz, they simply move onto other lives. A concert -kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-76151769372044954072007-01-08T22:36:00.000-05:002007-01-08T14:00:30.371-05:00Hallelujah look at that spring 2007 reading schedule.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-5376871075183118652007-01-08T15:52:00.000-05:002007-01-08T15:53:45.657-05:00Top ten U.S. out-of-print books in 2006.-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10527548.post-84071874718376398112007-01-08T13:16:00.000-05:002007-02-11T22:36:06.192-05:00flippant vocabulary of the stars' anywhere fortunately maelstrom meliorismprestretch tense partial parallaxpackage house albatross up to enhancesubnarrative overhang youmean removes jolt meaning right?lend me your themsurge protection prolongedname your child 'Detective'-from Jessica Grim and Bruce Andrews, "Typologies" in Co (Roof, 2006)-kaplanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13074356925385202350noreply@blogger.com0