Pay Attention
by: Jonathan Montgomery
(Random lessons from Jonathan Montgomery’s masterclass in…1980′s pop/rock theory)
Boulder, CO July 2009
{ Monthly Archives }
October 2009
This Interactive Poetic Space: A Close Reading of “The Archivist”
by: Daniel Dissinger
There is something to be said of the poet who grabs hold of intangibility with such a firm grasp, enough to grind it into solid matter. Words have become the shapes, sounds, tastes, textures, and smells that they seem to be attracted to, and with the technological hurdles that keep challenging today’s young wordsmiths, exploring new and exciting venues to exhibit poetry has become essential to the medium. James Kerley stretches and pushes the boundaries of what could be considered tangible and/or intangible with his work The Archivist. His work defines an erasure of traditional cover-to-cover books, while maintaining the integrity of fine poetic craftsmanship through careful web development. His words and ideas are excavations of historic fact that have been filtered through a fine mesh of surrealism interactively working within an ever evolving landscape. But the question is, who is the archivist-its creator or its reader?
Old Ghost Woman and All Her Blues (for guitar and 2 voices)
by: LaVonne Natasha Caesar
Old Ghost Woman She Say:
Nobody wants me.
My momma don’t want me.
My daddy don’t want me.
My baby don’t want me.
My man don’t want me.
My body don’t want me.
My country don’t want me.
My god don’t want me.
Nobody wants me.
Axioms
by: Henry Rasof
1. Tao Is Out
OUT<->TAO
2. Illusion of Self
I AM<->MAYA
5 excerpts from: n7ostradamus
by: Travis Macdonald
Certainty II Question 66
Through great darlings the caravan escaped:
In a short tinge great his flounder changed.
In the pallbearer the perch are trapped,
Through good omen the clairvoyant besieged.
Certainty III Question 29
The two networks brought up in diverse plaids:
Naval bayonet, landmark, fauns fallen:
They will come to be elevated very high in making wardrobe
To avenge the inlet, engines succumbed.