Manhatta :: Silent Film :: Walt Whitman's Words

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Creativity

Just watch it.

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Pt. Loma 2002 Writers Symposium: Kathleen Norris

Second time around listening to this amazing woman speak. Mainly because I heard her on a KUOW podcast that will be sent down The-Hold's RSS feed in due course.

"Copyediting...kind of like water torture."
"Faith is best thought of as a verb."

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Haiku Month @ Utterz

Jonny Goldstein has declared February haiku month @ Utterz - which is a great way to publish poems from your phone.

Tag it “haikuproject” so people can find it.



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Robert Croma :: Video Poetry

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I've been waiting for Robert Croma to upload a new video in order to re-vlog his work and provide you with fresh media.

Today's the day.

:)

Had occasion to work with still photographer Annie Liebovitz on a motion picture project featuring the great Lauri Anderson. Liebovitz just didn't get the transition from still to motion.

Still photog Croma gets the poetry of it.

Layers of meaning, movement, rhythm, rhyme, repetition.

Oh.

Yeah.

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Ivor Cutler :: Poet / Musician :: "I Got No Common Sense"

Just heard that Ivor Cutler is no longer with us.

Here's his page of poetry and music.

Here's a sample of his work.

He always makes me laugh. If darkly.

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Lovely :: 4khz

Oh.
Yes.
Lovely indeed.

Thanks, Wooster Collective, for the heads' up.

How did 4khz do that?

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Simon Rich's "The Wisdom of Children"

Ze's blog turned me on to this New Yorker-published poem titled "The Wisdom of Children"
by Simon Rich.

An excerpt:

I. A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table

MOM: Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.
DAD: O.K.
GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.
DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.
UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.
DAD: We all are.

Thanks as always, Ze, for inspiration above and beyond the call of avocation.

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Shannon Noble :: Manly Poetry

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More manly video poetry from Shannon Noble.

File under inspiration.

Shannon's been inspiring me for years.

Let him inspire you, too.

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Bullemhead's Singing Woodchuck Variety Minute

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Bullemhead :: Macho Poet.

Visual poetry takes many forms.

The-Hold likes to push the envelope.

Comedy in poetry is perhaps more difficult than politics in poetry.

Bullemhead is part of Wreck & Salvage, which makes human-made media that won't insult you.

Well, not much.

Moreover, Wreck & Salvage experiments with making money making videoblogs by means of its Ebay auctions for adspace. Check it out, HERE.

It's ART.

No, it's ADVERTISING.

No, it's definitely art.

Videobloggers on the cutting edge of advertising models.

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Flickr Photo-Poetry :: Found Poetry

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This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from the Found Poetry group pool. Make your own badge here.

Poetry's everywhere.

Check out Flickr for images from the "Found Poetry" group.

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POST NOTE: Okay, so Flickr's code won't play in posts, but it DOES play in the sidebar - see it?

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Celebrating Auden's 100th Birthday @ Cooper Union Today

From the NY Times Urban Eye email newsletter:

Stop all the clocks: today would’ve been W. H. Auden’s 100th birthday, and the Poetry Society of America has organized a celebratory reading with Francine Prose, Michael Cunningham and Katha Pollitt, among others. It’s worth remembering that the British-born poet adopted our fair city — and even, in his famous experiment in communal living with Carson McCullers, Gypsy Rose Lee, Benjamin Britten, and Jane and Paul Bowles, turned himself into the consummate control-freak New Yorker. “He issued chore lists, meal schedules and budgets, not to mention rules for dinner-table conversation.” Can you imagine the Craigslist haikus that would’ve inspired?

7 p.m., Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 Seventh Street at Third Avenue, East Village, (212) 353-4195; free.

HERE is a link to an in-depth NY Times story on Auden's NYC residence in Brooklyn.

Today's media enclosure is courtesy of Salon.com's article on W.H. Auden.

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Gabcast Poetry :: Ann Bogle

Perusing Gabcast channels this morning, found this collection of poems from:

Ann Margaret Bogle blog

14 Poems at AMBlog #2



Found Ann's collection oddly compelling and herewith, share this collection of Ms. Bogle's works with you.

Gabcast is a cellphone-to-Internet audio connection.

A great poetry creation tool. Would love to see this used in conference call for some kind of collaboration.

A few notes on what Gabcast offers:

1) Auto-posting to blog
2) Copyable Flashplayer HTML
3) Direct links to mp3 files
4) Up to 30 minutes of conference call capacity
5) Free recordings up to one hour in length
6) World-wide toll-free access numbers

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Noodle Scar Daily :: Poetry

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Noodle Scar Daily. A lot like poetry. But better. Noodle Scar tickles.

Download the Quicktime version HERE.

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On Being a Woman :: Re-claiming Feminism

Had a long conversation with Jen of Ebb & Flow TV, produced in consanguinity with her husband, Kent.

Ah.

This is my audio & text response to her fine poem. Download the mp3 HERE.

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Photos by Bill Foley.

Bill and I worked together years ago. He seemed remarkably human for a still guy, and we got on. When I moved to a loft in Williamsburg I suggested he take some photographs of the place, a spot I knew neared the end of its useful life as both building and working factory.

Was writing a lot back then and shared the words about the factory with him, toward inspiration. After he gave me prints, I re-wrote and ordered the bits together in what I'd wanted to be a handmade, limited edition book. I'd no money to execute the project in the way I'd imagined and its publication foundered, though this one piece found a page in "The World's Longest Open Love Letter".

"Jackie on His Head: For JKO" was one of the poems and short stories that were appropriate to our collective mission of hanging out and documenting the amazing space in which I lived.

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Prufrock and Other Observations::T.S. Eliot

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The gift of one of my favorite poems from Mr. Eliot.

I understand it more now - at 50 - than at 17 when I first discovered and read it.

Ah. Good.

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