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pnoesis

Some comments Made into a Manifesto

[Unwitting guest blogger, Ed Baker, takes over today, because I won't have time tonight to continue documenting the Avant Writing Symposium, and because Ed sent me this compelling, if Bakerish, email today, and it seems almost manifestolike, and thus suitable for posting as I have received it. Same spelling, same punctuation, same capitalization, even in the title of this entry. Also this serves as a response to Ed, who is so energetic that I don't always have the energy for a response.:]

"If ...

Yes, Another Delay

A Card by Reid Wood, My Left Hand, My Right Foot, and the Carpet (21 August 2010)

We made it back to our hotel by 2 am, and I'm still behind in everything I'd usually be doing at night, and I just can't make it, can't even post a few videos, so the world will have to wait a little bit for my thoughts on the last two days of the Avant Writing Symposium 2010.

In general, let me say that it was a great event. There was a wide variety of presentations and performances and more to do than anyone sh...

Avant Writing Symposium, Day 2 (Delayed)

Window, 11th Floor, Thompson Library, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (20 Aug 2010)The days and nights are too busy to keep up with the documentation of the Avant Writing Symposium, but I've posted a number of small videos to Facebook. For now, enjoy the photograph of a window on the eleventh floor of the Thompson Library, in the room where the awards ceremony was held tonight. Jim Leftwich won the Avant Writing Award tonight.

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Avant Writing Symposium, Day 1

There's no way I can adequately report on today's events at the Avant Writing Symposium 2010 in Columbus, Ohio. Too much happened in too short a time, and even all the documenting we did (notes, audio, video) will be enough to capture the fun, the information, the camaraderie, the beauty we experienced today. (Also, the only pictures I'm posting here are ones off my camera, and there a plenty of other and better pictures for me to use.)


Keynote Address: Dr Marvin A Sackner
Erotic, Pornography, ...

Before the Avant

The Roger D. Blackwell Inn at Fisher College, Room 418, Columbus, Ohio

Chalked Graffiti on the Ohio State University Mall, Columbus, Ohio (18 Aug 2010)When Nancy and I pulled up to the Blackwell Inn, Tom Cassidy (AKA Musicmaster) walked out of the hotel and past our car not seeing me. But at that point I knew I was where I needed to be, at a quite beautiful hotel on maybe the most beautiful and impressive college campus I've ever seen. The mall for this campus, which would be a modest quad on ...

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written at mile marker 213 heading west on the New York State Thruway

Going to the Avant Writing Symposium

For the next many days, I'll be at Ohio State University for the Avant Writing Symposium 2010, which promises to be an interesting time and one that might just be exhaustingly filled with activities. If you're near Columbus, just show up and bring $30 to cover registration. That's $10 a day, which includes breakfast each day. Deals don't get better than that.


Avant Writing Symposium 2010
Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books & MSS Library
The Ohio State University Libraries

August 19-21

THURSDAY AU...

Words in the Shape of Afternoon

Geof Huth, "Bird Song" (2 August 2010)

begun at Caroga Lake, New York (sometime in the past) and finished in Schenectady, New York

It is, of course, possible that knowing what you're doing destroys your ability to do it. That the structure of knowledge serves somehow as cincture, tourniquet, throttle. That learning and knowing are a burden to making.

But I don't believe it.

I often think that visual poets are usually the equivalent of outsider artists where their visual skills are concerned, that...