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July 29, 2010
Boston Poet Tea Party Begins
The Boston Poet Tea Party, a three-day poetry marathon, begins tomorrow, so Nancy and I are heading out tomorrow afternoon to enjoy the festivities and participate. The entire schedule is massive, with 88 poets reading, but along with those people will be Nancy and me. Here's the basic schedule:
A Summer Poetry Marathon
featuring 88 local and visiting poets
reading for 8 minutes apiece
Friday 7/30, 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St., Harvard Square, Cambridge
Saturday...
July 27, 2010
A Day at the Beach
Geof Huth, "lost sand" (26 July 2010)Nancy, our son Tim, and I spent the day yesterday at the far end of Long Island, the tip of the southern fork (and completely coincidentally next week Nancy and I will be at the far end of the northern fork). The day was warm and bright, perfect actually, so we sweated a little but not much, we walked through the pine barrens and we played the stony beach at Montauk Point. The sand in this part of the world does not lend itself to being written in, so the ...
July 25, 2010
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July 22, 2010
How Do You Edit a Life?
Everything is about poetry for me, so when my new phone arrived this week I began to make poetry with it. That was always my plan: to use the new phone to record video as I performed some kind of extemporaneous poem into it. That was my general plan, though, and my original plan has not come to be. Originally, I expected to record video in the woods or parks and create poems make out of spoken words. So far, I've made four of these poems, and only one is spoken, only one (the same one) uses a...
July 21, 2010
The Fourth and Bagged
Bagazine # 4 (2010)This week has been unexpectedly busy with new literary/art magazines. Today's arrival was Bagazine # 4, edited and produced by Johnny Brewton. This publication includes scores of small publications: a sizable chapbook by Richard Kostelanetz, photographs, cards, leaflets, and all kinds of ephemera. It is like the remains of a life's memories. These pieces are poems, mailartlike objects, handwritten poems, micro-broadside poems, visual poems (my little leaflet). The work is s...
July 20, 2010
Tuli&Savu&VisualPoetry
Tuli&Savu (1/2010 nro 59)I am pleased to announce that today I received a copy of the first issue of Tuli&Savu (Fire&Smoke) today, and it is a beautiful publication as usual. It's filled with interior color (even a slight venture into glossy full-color paper within its pages), a stylish tall shape, and lots of writing about poetry. All of it in Finnish.
The issue includes an article by me about evaluating visual poetry (and it's available only in Finnish), illustrated with a few visual poems, ...
July 19, 2010
Pretending I'm a Blogger Again
Geof Huth, "the heart of the green man" (Caroga Lake, NY, 18 July 2010)I am so much a poet these days, hiding in the world of words, that I am hardly ever a blogger of any consequence, rarely letting a few unfettered thoughts escape me into the night. So I'll end that tonight, at least for a moment.As a poet, I am interested in constraints, in the sense that I am interested in challenges, so I somehow have to spend every remaining year this year writing a longish poem, so I have to finish a c...
