Rodney Koeneke's Blog
December 25, 2009
December 23, 2009
Saturday's group reading of The Crystal Text brought a shifting but steady 15 to the Waypost over the time I was there, many of them on-deck or just finished readers, but some not, distinctions like that disappearing fast anyway in the afternoon gloom. The only sign of sun was in the orange-and-yellow latch hook Western landscape hung up above the piano behind the readers, which kept drawing my attention, like the crystal does Clark's in the text, for its kitschy appeal but also for its conne...
December 21, 2009
December 18, 2009
Spare Room thinks big. On the heels of their marathon "100 poems from the last 100 years" event in January, and 2008's start-to-finish group reading of H.D.'s Helen in Egypt, comes this Saturday's public reading of Clark Coolidge's The Crystal Text. Teams of two readers will tackle 20 pages each from Clark's mid-80's opus from noon to five-ish at The Waypost, which is Portland concentrated and shrunk down, Bottle City of Kandor-style, to convenient coffeehouse size.Hearing longer modern works...
December 16, 2009
Could someone explain to me "the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism"? Me and Wikipedia must keep in different hemispheres.
December 14, 2009
December 11, 2009
"Such considerations have meant that while it is usually not difficult for Arab authors to be published—quite a few publish their books themselves—it is much more difficult to gain a public profile or readership, and it is almost impossible to make a living from writing books. As a result, Arab authors almost always have full-time jobs, often in the large bureaucracies that are a feature of Arab countries, reserving their writing for their spare time. It is well known, for example, that span
December 9, 2009
Are you one of those "loud laughers" at readings? Check this out (plus the exchange in the comments).
