Rodney Koeneke's Blog, page 30
March 20, 2009
Bioku for Barnaby Jones
The large souls at Ashland, Ore.’s Pinch Pinch Press, instead of contributors’ bios, requested “biokus” for the new Barnaby Jones #2 (which is out but I can’t find online to link to.) Here’s mine:waiting to publish
some other person’s opus
published instead. Shit![image error]
March 18, 2009
Having a Coke with Edoardo Sanguineti on Tiananmen Square
What Google’s “Translate This” did with Sanguineti’s controversial remarks on Tiananmen Square:“forty boy lovers of western myth and the Coca-Cola have made more noise of thousands of workers killed in Chile.”[image error]
March 16, 2009
March 13, 2009
Dept. of Anthologies I'd Most Like to See
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March 11, 2009
Gruppo 63
“Translate this page” is the best word scrambling tool since Telephone. For Gruppo 63, it spit out a complete poetics:The Group 63 had the merit of proposing and groped in a renewal rather closed view of Italian literature, but his aristocratic detachment from the common feeling and complexity of the codes of communication made it an elitist movement, accused of the brain.
March 9, 2009
March 6, 2009
On the Oregon Trail
Alli and Brandon report on warm rabbit legs, boar collars, Ashland dancing, porches, prop planes, misspelled orientalia, and civilization without sales tax here and here.
March 4, 2009
Brandon Brown Tangent Intro, 2/28/09
For Brandon’s Tangent reading in Portland on Saturday:For a long time now, Brandon Brown’s righteous careen through poetry has been a model to me of how much the art can be. Curator, crooner, translator, blogger, linguist, scholar, Jam of the Year nominator, study group joiner, and all-around renaissance all-star, Brandon reminds me how “poetry” is really just shorthand for “people,” and how people are really just nodes in a debate about Aeschylus that lasts past 2 AM.
Earlier this year, Brandon
March 2, 2009
Alli Warren Tangent Intro, 2/28/09
Tom Fisher, Alli Warren & Brandon Brown gave one of the best readings I’ve been to in Portland on Saturday, bringing down the variegated house with poems in the form of email apologies, wolf teats swollen with political allusion, and bathrooms in secret perpendicular to Levinas. Intro for Alli:
So far as I can tell, Alli Warren sprung fully formed from the head of Santa Cruz. Whatever magic first pulled her up the 101 has since distributed itself across many chapbooks, readings, parties, direct
February 25, 2009
Tangent Reading this Saturday, 2/28: Alli Warren, Brandon Brown & Tom Fisher
Alli Warren and Brandon Brown bring it to Portland this Saturday with poetry’s one-man incredible string band, Tom Fisher. Feel free to stick around to feed and water the poets afterwards.Tangent presents
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 at 7 PM
ALLI WARREN, BRANDON BROWN & TOM FISHER
Clinton Corner Café, 2633 SE 21st Avenue (@ Clinton) Portland, OR
ALLI WARREN was born in the 1980s and remains extant. Recent publications include No Can Do (Duration Press), and a collaboration with Michael Nicoloff entitled Br
