DAYBOOKS Reading, listening to, and looking at contemporary poetry
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DAYBOOKS Reading, listening to, and looking at contemporary poetry |
28 December 2007 | Attended marathon group reading in Chicago coinciding with this year's MLA. Narrative account here, pics here.
2 December 2007 | Read Within Hours, a chapbook by Joseph Massey.
1 December 2007 | Read Tonight's the Night by Catherine Meng. • Site note: Lots of magazines & journals in the most recent batch of works received.
29 November 2007 | Heard the experimental fiction writer Edward Desautels read in the UMaine New Writing Series.
26 November 2007 | Site note: Attention Span 2007 is now online.
15 November 2007 | Heard Michael Davidson read in the UMaine New Writing Series. Announcement here. Event report here.
8 November 2007 | Heard Sawako Nakayasu and Aaron Kunin read in the UMaine New Writing Series. Event report here.
18 October 2007 | Heard David Matlin read from his poetry and prose in the UMaine New Writing Series. Announcement here.
13 October 2007 | Site note: More than twenty new titles added to the works received.
6 October 2007 | Heard Jennifer Moxley and Maggie O'Sullivan read in the Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club.
27 September 2007 | Heard Joanne Kyger read from About Now in the UMaine New Writing Series. Event report here.
21 September 2007 | The National Poetry Foundation's new website goes live.
12 September 2007 | Heard Ron Padgett read from How to Be Perfect in the UMaine New Writing Series. Event report here.
2 August 2007 | Site note: An overdue update of works received since late June.
9 - 27 July 2007 | Busy with an intensive summer grad seminar on "poetry in the age of the mp3." A fair amount of blogging, but with the WordPress cloaking device switched on.
25 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Nathan Austin on Spicer, Reuven Tsur on enjambment.
24 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Mark McMorris. • Works received: Berkson, Carr, Shklovsky, Modern Review 2.4, Vanitas 2, and others.
23 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Jessica Smith on poetry readings.
22 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Piero Heliczer.
20 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Protosemiosis. Also, a podcast & a comprehensive track listing.
9 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Stein's Patriarchal Poetry interpreted by Elisabeth Shimana and Ludwig Zeininger.
8 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Eileen Myles (detail).
5 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Varieties of Aural Experience.
4 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Eileen Myles, Frank O'Hara.
2 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Peter Gizzi.
1 June 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: talking soundfile poetics & pedagogy with Al Filreis. • Works received: Friedlander, Kyger, Hunt, and others.
31 May 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Leslie Scalapino (yet another detail).
30 May 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Leslie Scalapino (another detail).
27 May 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Leslie Scalapino (detail).
24 May 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Leslie Scalapino.
20 May 2007 | Read Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan. • Lipstick of Noise: Aram Saroyan.
19 May 2007 | Read Good Apocalypse by Anne Boyer.
15 May 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Joe Ceravolo and To The Sound.
12 May 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Tom Raworth.
3 May 2007 | Added "Words Are What Stick to the Reel" (1988) to the Archive.
2 May 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Michael Gizzi.
26 April 2007 | Heard poets Allison Cobb and Brenda Coultas read in the UMaine New Writing Series (event report here).
24 April 2007 | Reread A Handmade Museum by Brenda Coultas.
23 April 2007 | Attended the end-of-year "Hub Party" at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. The event ended with a rousing version of "I shall be released" by the Writers House Freedom Singers.
20 April 2007 | Passed the time on a long bus trip south in part by listening to "What Is This Crackling of Voices in the Mind" by Susan Howe and a performance of "Words and Music" by Samuel Beckett.
17 April 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Robert Grenier.
16 April 2007 | Heard poet Rosanna Warren read in the UMaine New Writing Series (event report here). • Lipstick of Noise: Bill Berkson.
12 April 2007 | Read "The Work of Voice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (or, "The Sound of Pound: A Listener's Guide") by Richard Sieburth. • Lipstick of Noise: John Ashbery.
11 April 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Ezra Pound.
10 April 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos.
09 April 2007 | Read Edge and Fold by Paul Hoover. • Lipstick of Noise: Robert Kelly on Paul Blackburn.
04 April 2007 | Heard Robert Kelly read in the UMaine New Writing Series (event reports here and here).
23 March 2007 | Read the long interview (excerpted here) Simone dos Anjos conducted a year ago with Robert Kelly for the Modern Review.
22 March 2007 | Heard fiction writer Steve Tomasula read in the UMaine New Writing Series (event report here).
21 March 2007 | Reread nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement (she by Sawako Nakayasu.
17 March 2007 | Read Teahouse of the Almighty by Patricia Smith.
16 March 2007 | Read, belatedly, Goldbeater's Skin by G. C. Waldrep.
15 March 2007 | Read The Wife of the Left Hand by Nancy Kuhl.
12 March 2007 | Read Secret Histories by Craig Watson.
9 March 2007 | Read Case Sensitive by Kate Greenstreet.
8 March 2007 | Attended the Maine state finals of the Poetry Out Loud recitation competition.
7 March 2007 | Read Caller and Other Pieces by Tom Raworth.
4 March 2007 | Read Academonia by Dodie Bellamy.
1 March 2007 | NB: Screen memories (Oscar run-up edition).
1-8 March 2007 | Read or reread the five books and six chapbooks I own by William Fuller.
28 February 2007 | Archive: Added "The Little Magazine a Hundred Years On: A Reader's Report" (originally published in The Modern Review).
27 February 2007 | NB: Roundup of reactions to New Yorker piece on Poetry Foundation.
26 February 2007 | Read Inspector vs. Evader by Paul Killebrew.
24 February 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Keith Waldrop's translation of Baudelaire's "Danse Macabre."
22 February 2007 | Listened to poetry and fiction by UMaine students in the NWS.
16 February 2007 | Read Terrasse à la Kasbah by Emmanuel Hocquard.
15 February 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Brian Kim Stefans.
13 February 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Tracie Morris.
12 February 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Sueyeun Juliette Lee. • NB: Dana Goodyear's New Yorker article on the Poetry Foundation.
9 February 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Alice Notley.
8 February 2007 | Heard Jonathan Skinner and Annie Finch read in the UMaine New Writing Series. • Lipstick of Noise: Tina Darragh.
7 February 2007 | Lipstick of Noise: Rae Armantrout.
6 February 2007 | Read Political Cactus Poems by Jonathan Skinner. Lipstick of Noise: Robert Duncan. • NB: John Wieners and the "middle class voice."
5 February 2007 | Read Next Life by Rae Armantrout. • Began cataloging works received on LibraryThing.
4 February 2007 | Read A Reading 18-20 by Beverly Dahlen.
3 February 2007 | Read SF Spleen by David Hadbawnik and The Flea Market in Kiel by Lewis Warsh.
31 January 2007 | Read The Grand Piano.
30 January 2007 | Read The Filaments by Daniel Bouchard. • NB: recent screen memories.
29 January 2007 | Finished reading City Eclogue by Ed Roberson.
28 January 2007 | Began reading City Eclogue by Ed Roberson.
25 January 2007 | Heard Tina Darragh read in the UMaine New Writing Series. Event report here.
23 January 2007 | Read In Captivity by Camille Guthrie.
22 January 2007 | Read The Red Gaze by Barbara Guest.
19 January 2007 | Read nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement (she by Sawako Nakayasu.
18 January 2007 | Finished reading Girly Man by Charles Bernstein.
17 January 2007 | Read My Mestiny by Kevin Killian. Began reading Musee Mechanique by Rodney Koeneke.
16 January 2007 | Began reading Girly Man by Charles Bernstein.
15 January 2007 | Read "Au Hasard Suicide," Fanny Howe's essay on Bresson and Bernanos (nb).
14 January 2007 | Read Likeness by Geoffrey Young and Days Shadows Pass by Paul Vangelisti.
13 January 2007 | Began Jean Daive's book of interviews with Anne-Marie Albiach, L'Exact Réel.
12 January 2007 | Read Poems for the American Revolution by Ryan Murphy.
11 January 2007 | Read The Hotel Wentley Poems by John Wieners, in a stealth reprint from Joy Street Press.
10 January 2007 | Read Figured Image by Anne-Maria Albiach (in Keith Waldrop's translation).
9 January 2007 | Read Necessary Stranger by Graham Foust.