Rodney Koeneke's Blog, page 21
October 12, 2009
Weinerssance
Maria Damon on Hannah Weiner and on Juliana Spahr on Hannah Weiner in the new Kaurab; Stan Apps on Weiner and on Spahr on Weiner at the upcoming &NOW Conference in Buffalo.
October 9, 2009
Stupid Poet Tricks
How to know your own 'C' when you're also its column of air.
October 7, 2009
This Glittering Tour de Force
I'm sure this is wrong. Why is it also so moving? "The creativity of Egyptian civilization seemed, in the end, strangely to miscarry. Colossal resources of labour were massed under the direction of outstanding civil servants, but only to set up the greatest tombstones the world has ever seen. Craftsmanship of exquisite quality was employed, but to make grave-goods. A highly literate elite utilizing a complex and subtle language and possessing, in papyrus, a material of unsurpassed...
October 5, 2009
Dept. of Monday
Days when you wish the world would compress to the size of that theater the Beatles keep trying to escape from in A Hard Day's Night.
September 30, 2009
Tangent Reading this Friday, 10/2
A gaggle of poets land on Portland this weekend to participate in the Econvergence conference; 14 of them read Friday at 9:30 PM for Tangent. Just mosey on over from Noam to the SEA Change Gallery on Everett. Details below.
Tangent presents
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 at 9:30 PM
ECONVERGENCE READING with: JULES BOYKOFF, JAKE BUFFY, DAVID BUUCK, ALLISON COBB, ALICIA COHEN, JEN COLEMAN, CA CONRAD, ROB HALPERN, DAN RAPHAEL, KAIA SAND, FRANK SHERLOCK, JOHNATHAN SKINNER, AARON VIDAVER & DAVID WOLACH
SEA...
September 28, 2009
September 25, 2009
Wild Orchids
Robert Dewhurst sent a copy this week of Wild Orchids, the new annual he and Sean Reynolds edit out of SUNY Buffalo. Each issue solicits contemporary poets' responses to a single author—Herman Melville for the debut; Hannah Weiner on deck for next year. This gives the issue more cohesion than you get in the usual contemporary literary journal, even creates a sense of exchange—if not quite a conversation, maybe a gam—between writers who ply the same thematic field.Benjamin Friedlander's accoun...
September 23, 2009
September 21, 2009
The New Talkies, de Young Museum, San Francisco 9/11/09
• Friday passes procured at secret entrance.• "Sound check."
• Interns snaking poets past replica of Tutankhamun's royal chair.
• Picking up phrase "deep rake" to describe altitude of museum theater.
• Wondering if "deep rake" will fill.
• Wondering will any poets fill deep rake on SPT's cross-town opening night.
• Free sandwiches, free potato salad, free fruit salad, free wine in backstage "hospitality tent."
• Jaime Cortez practicing "The Fifth Element" in dressing room, m...
