Jared Stanley's Blog, page 6
February 22, 2010
Write! Look! Listen! Spring 2010 Readings
The Write! Look! Listen! Spring Schedule is up, now. The WEBSITE IS OVER HERE.
2.18 Poet Steven Mayu AKA GFTD1 (Black Box Theatre, 452 W. Main St. Merced)
*
3.4 Poets Brian Teare & Catherine Meng (Black Box Theatre, 452 W. Main St. Merced) 7:30 PM
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
*
4.15 Novelist Andrew Altschul (Black Box Theatre, 452 W. Main St. Merced), 7:30 PM
Andrew Altschul is the author of Lady Lazarus...
February 21, 2010
February 18, 2010
Believe It
Here's THE poem:
ETERNAL
for Jeff Butler
Farm erasers rake my bells
wolf down sweet milk
at the Peach Pit
hugged up on tube coolers
piling Oui in creek wheat
you remind me of the state of Nevada
passed out near a beer fridge
crazy old bump you
rose rose bodega rose
-
That's John Coletti's. Can you believe it? It's here.
February 16, 2010
Baby Pic of the Desert Die
This is a picture of The Desert Die, which is still under construction. It's the book / information center / game I wrote about a couple of days ago. Beautiful illustration by Gabie Strong, and all that excellent metalwork by Matt Hebert. See those little holes in the lower corner? That's a speaker, and where I come in. Soon, this box will talk.
February 14, 2010
John Yau on Peter Saul
The question remains in the air, like a fart in a crowded bus: Why hasn't Saul's work gained the status it deserves? Why has it always been regarded as a special case? Is it too iconoclastic to be considered mainstream? Is it because the mainstream prefers the predigested, quick but anticipated shock rather than a prolonged engagement with something open-ended, irreducible, and other? One reason is capitalism—Saul's works can't be financed. Nor are they interchangeable products that can be...
February 12, 2010
The Dry Immersion Roving Symposium
(These are the Lemurians who live underneath Mt. Shasta)
For about six months, I've been collaborating with artists I met at UC Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery's "Dry Immersion Roving Symposium," which was this arts-centered investigation of the Desert that I attended in order to do sensorium research for a book I'm writing. While there, I met Chris Woodcock and Gabie Strong. Chris is an excellent photographer, steady handed and methodical, who's doing this gigantic project on the UC Reserve S...
February 8, 2010
February 6, 2010
Snowmageddon, No Go, Wieners, Schuyler Saturday, Spy Wednesday
So because it was snowing, didn't make it to Washington D.C. – now back in Merced, where it is raining. Brought home 3 books, Coultas, Handmade Museum, Wieners' Selected (Score!) and Sorrentino's Selected (mmm, oranges). Also, regretted not buying Schuyler's Collected, which I saw twice, and didn't buy, then was completely absorbed in, while reading last night. Especially "The Morning of the Poem," with it's fat bluejays – I want to read that whole poem, now!
Also, at L's read David Brazil's S...
February 4, 2010
Poet / Critics
Look, I'm not a critic. At all. But I'm a poet that teaches, so there's some degree of criticism I like to keep up with. Anyway, with that in mind, I'm thinking of going over to this conference in Santa Cruz. Could be fun, right?
