Ta very much
Monsieur Raworth has posted some photos of Charles and Maggie's stay in London, including a few snapshots of pre-crowd-rush Openned. A big thank you to Charles and Maggie for taking the time to come down to read, and also to Justin Katko and Edward Nesbit and all the musicians. A video of the evening will be appearing on the site very soon. Keep those peelers eyed.
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Tidbits
It's all been done but never so nicely displayed.
The many faces of amper's and.
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RIF/T
'Between 1993 and 1998, the editors had the stimulating and pleasurable experience of publishing six substantial issues of an online literary journal. The initial issue was distributed to subscribers via an email list in a text-only format and archived via Gopher; few people even knew that there was such a thing as the World Wide Web. Soon there were 1000 subscribers to the e-poetry listserv, a seemingly astonishing number in those days before the 'dot.coms'. Early contributors were often curious about the status of poems published on the internet: Were they protected by copyright? Who would read them? Would they vanish or remain permanently? The rapid development of the Web has rendered these questions into quaint reminiscences, but RIF/T holds a place as the groundbreaking venue for innovative or postmodern poetry on the internet.'
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Omitted Prose
'I've just finished a manuscript called Anti M in what I'm calling 'omitted prose'. Omitted prose is when you write an entire work in continuous prose sequences – filled-up pages with paragraphs, chapters, and the like – then go through it and selectively remove a large portion (in the case of Anti M, most) of the words according to selection principles such as sound and phrasal and lexical significance. The retained words are largely kept in the same location they occupied when the other words were all around them, thus page space is activated in new ways. The prose and/or narrative architecture remains quite strongly in place even after the occlusion of the majority of supporting representational structures.'
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Collins Mix
'Q. You think poetry’s on the upswing?
A. Well, in some ways it is, indisputably. When I was poet laureate, one effect of occupying that office is that you get interviewed quite a bit, and the two most frequently asked questions were, one, how to do you account for the upswing in poetry, the rebirth of interest in it all across America, and the second question was, how come no one reads poetry anymore?
Q. So, there’s opposite sides of the same coin.
A. Well, I think the answer lies … There is a way, in a kind of paradoxical way, to answer both questions, which is to say that, yes, the audience for poetry is increasing, the number of reading venues and prizes and magazines and all poetic mechanisms are increasing, but—and this is not completely the case—but that the audience for poetry seems to be composed largely of people who want to write poetry. George Carlin, who’s one of my favorite word guys, he says, the thing about poetry is there’s a lot more people writing it then there are reading it. Yeah, well, I think there’s a great deal of truth to that, and I think there are certain poets out there who are breaking this kind of vicious circle, if you will, by bringing it into the audience of poetry non-practitioners, that is to say, people who have no vested interest. It’s like, if you have 600 people at the opera, probably 20 of them are fellow opera singers, but if you have 600 people at a poetry reading, it’s closer to 500 that are poets.'
via Silliman's Blog
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Googly Moogly
'What does a Google Books Library Project book look like?
When you click on a search result for a book from the Library Project, you'll see basic bibliographic information about the book, and in many cases, a few snippets – a few sentences showing your search term in context. If the book is out of copyright, you’ll be able to view and download the entire book. In all cases, you'll see links directing you to online bookstores where you can buy the book and libraries where you can borrow it.'
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UBU madness
La Monte Young (translation: developing 2nd world city)
Some modern art, give me a G, give me a G
Before watching you should also go here.
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'The Electronic Frontier' - Horizon, BBC, 1993
'Out of print and commercially unavailable in any form, this was digitized from VHS.'
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One Day Poem Pavillion
'The results of an extensive exploration with shadows, the One Day Poem Pavilion demonstrates the poetic, transitory, site-sensitive and time-based nature of light and shadow. Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem.'
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