away from the manse a couple of weeks...

out & about

Redeeming the Almanac

"To the naked Eye, the Aether, appears like a solid Arch, the Stars
like the Heads of brass Nails, the Sun flat and about as big as a
Chease, but our reason informs us better."

Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs podcast about their EA Poe one-man show...

Dennis Paoli wrote the play, using a compilation of historical accounts, actual monologues, articles, letters and Poe's own words to construct the definitive portrait of American's most famous macabre poet. The play ran for months in Los Angeles and received unanimously glowing reviews. After seeing the show in November, we immediately invited Jeffrey Combs and director Stuart Gordon to come to Austin for this year's Fantastic Fest. Although not a film, NEVERMORE was the very first show booked for this year's festival...

CSA Space: Mike Grill--through 21 October

Bruce Conkle

Magic Chunks
at Worksound (Portland)
opening reception
Saturday October 9th 6 -9pm
820 SE Alder
free and open to the public
funded in part by a RACC project grant
October 9 - 30 2010

Bubble Raft
at Dorsch Gallery (Miami)
September 1st - October 2nd

W.H. Auden’s “daydream College for Bards.”

a bunch of Hammer Horror on TCM tonight...

me reading at The (New) Reading Series - 7.19.09

also here

• Albert Flynn DeSilver
  
• Alli Warren 6.2.07
  
• Alli Warren 7.16.09
  
• Ariana Reines
  
• Ariel Goldberg
  
• Barbara Tomash
  
• Barrett Watten
  
• Bhanu Kapil
  
• Brandon Brown
  
• Brenda Hillman 5.3.07
  
• Brenda Hillman 9.6.07
  
• Brent Cunningham
  
• Brian Strang
  
• Bruce Boone
  
• C.S. Giscombe
  
• CAConrad
  
• Carol Mirakove
  
• Caroline Selman
  
• Catherine Meng
  
• Cedar Sigo
  
• Chad Sweeney
  
• Charles Bernstein
  
• Chris Daniels
  
• Chris Stroffolino
  
• Claire Becker
  
• Clark Coolidge
  
• Craig Santos Perez
  
• D.A. Powell
  
• Dan Machlin
  
• Dana Ward
  
• David Abel
  
• Dawn Lundy Martin
  
• Denise Newman
  
• Dodie Bellamy 4.14.07
  
• Dodie Bellamy 1.17.09
  
• Elizabeth Robinson
  
• Elizabeth Treadwell
  
• Elizabeth Young
  
• Erica Kaufman 3.12.09
  
• Erika Staiti 5.31.08
  
• Erika Staiti 1.17.09
  
• Erin Morrill
  
• Evan Kennedy
  
• Frank Sherlock
  
• Garrett Caples
  
• Geoffrey G. O'Brien
  
• Gina Myers
  
• Graham Foust
  
• Jacqueline Waters
  
• James Shea
  
• James Wagner
  
• Janet Holmes
  
• Jared Stanley 11.11.07
  
• Jared Stanley 3.6.09
  
• Jasper Bernes 4.6.07
  
• Jasper Bernes 5.31.08
  
• Jeff T. Johnson
  
• Jenny Drai
  
• Joanne Kyger
  
• Joe Wenderoth
  
• John Sakkis
  
• Joseph Lease 11.6.07
  
• Joseph Lease 9.17.09
  
• Joshua Clover 11.1.07
  
• Joshua Clover 5.2.09
  
• Joshua Marie Wilkinson
  
• Judith Goldman
  
• Juliana Spahr 11.2.2007
  
• Juliana Spahr 4.14.07
  
• Juliana Spahr 5.31.08
  
• Julie Choffel
  
• Julien Poirier
  
• K. Silem Mohhamad
  
• Kate Greenstreet
  
• Kaya Oakes
  
• Kevin Killian
  
• Kristen Yawitz
  
• Laura Moriarty 4.25.07
  
• Laura Moriarty 5.31.08
  
• Lauren Levin 11.11.07
  
• Lauren Levin 7.26.08
  
• Laynie Brown
  
• Lily Brown 1.26.08
  
• Lily Brown 9.5.07
  
• Lindsay Boldt
  
• Linh Dinh
  
• Lisa Robertson 11.6.07
  
• Lisa Robertson 8.31.10
  
• Lisa Sewell
  
• Lyn Hejinian
  
• Marjorie Welish
  
• Martin Woodside
  
• Mary Burger
  
• Matvei Yankelevich
  
• Maxine Chernoff
  
• Megan Breiseth
  
• Miles Champion
  
• Monica de la Torre
  
• Norma Cole
  
• Patrick Duggan
  
• Paul Ebenkamp
  
• Rae Armantrout
  
• Rob Halpern 5.31.08
  
• Rob Halpern 7.9.09
  
• Robin Tremblay-McGraw
  
• Sandra Lim
  
• Sharon Osmond
  
• Stan Apps
  
• Stephanie Young
  
• Steve Farmer
  
• Steve Kramp
  
• Susan Gevirtz
  
• Suzanne Stein 1.17.09
  
• Suzanne Stein 6.2.07
  
• Taylor Brady and Rob Halpern
  
• Tyrone Williams
  
• Tyrone Williams | poetry
  
• Vanessa Place
  
• Will Alexander
  
• William Moor
  
• Zachary Schomburg

PennSound: Victor Coleman

archived readings by one of Canada's most luxurious poets...

UNDERTHESUN - Roy Arden

farewell Michael Gizzi

CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT

The father in exile stripped of his sundial borrows the equator for a belt.

All his life his life had yet to start, coming of age was the end.

You think about genetics, would think, well,

maybe a whole other life is possible. Maybe noon would rather be midnight.

The humble Hellebore becomes a rock star thanks to intelligent design. Coziness
cradles him like rage. “He hid under his bed when he lived with his mother!”

One branch of the family is antiseptic, another a lecture on prickers.

Everything else is made up.

PennSound: Michael Gizzi

out & about

John Latta's interesting take on New Star's Stan Persky/Brian Fawcett memoir of Robin Blaser-- “The New American Poetry and Us”

Michael Turner reviewed the book's launch at

websit

Yes, I Would Like To Swing On A Star

Perhaps it’s just how antiquated his music sounds today -- beautifully, mysteriously antiquated, like something emerging from a dream….or a nightmare. In either moody reverie, when listening to the brilliant baritone sing “Pennies From Heaven,” “Ol’ Man River” or “Swinging on a Star,” you feel the music form around you, as if you’re riding on an ethereal echo chamber of air coming from a million miles away. It’s spacey, creepy and charming all at once. Which perfectly explains how effective the song “Mairzy Dotes” becomes in David Lynch's Twin Peaks, when daughter-murdering, Bob-haunted Leland Palmer crazily sings it in the midst of his meltdowns. And then there was that pairing of the two Thin White Dukes -- Bowie and Bing dueting “Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy” -- ideal. These were two sexy space aliens keeping Christmas a little bit Christian and a little bit…pagan. As much as I love Frank Sinatra, this kind of cross generational extraterrestrial-ness could have only been created with Crosby...

"Little Drummer Boy", David Bowie and Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra - Well, Did You Evah (High Society)

Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby, "MAKE BELIEVE" (1928)

Bing Crosby - Some Of These Days, 1932

Bing Crosby - Just a Gigolo, 1931

Golden Goodness: my grandmother’s Georgia cornbread

prints from A Journey Round My Skull: Strange Parameters

from My Parents Were Awesome

Back to School

Starting school — people act as if there’s something inherently virtuous to it. Setting your shoulder to the wheel, your nose to the grindstone, putting away childish things. Knuckling down — they can’t wait to get you knuckling down, as if you become a real person only when you start doing things you don’t want to do. God forbid you should spend your life running around the park. What if everyone did that? Who would poison the rats? Who would sue the government?

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