Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

Bowed down the things themselves

The view hinders any spreading ground glass, makes existing knowledge dead.

She closed her eyes, took air, and went on walking in.

A small truck loaded with the role of language, goats in the dust, like a splash of cool water.

His skin splintered making ideas.

More than a half mile distant, we found a small lord doesn’t care.

As I stretched my highest attainable branch, I used to be the root.

Jurgen Olbrich's Autopoems

Out of Kassel, Germany, Jurgen Olbrich has been a juggernaut in mail art, performance art, and conceptual installation since the early 1980s. Receiving an envelope from him stuffed with postcards and other ephemera always made my day. It's been a delight to reconnect with him this year. Life's long yet a decade's absence abcesses.

In the 1980s, SCORE published several pages of Jurgen's autopoems (see here). Jurgen writes these poems by transcribing the license plates that pass him during a thirty minute period. Below are two recent autopoems, the first composed in Berlin, the second in Frankfurt. Not only conceptual poems (preceding and surpassing the Goldsmith tedium), both also offer up themselves as sound poetry scores.

Now flarf This

 

I can’t read flarf as new.

I can’t read flarf as anything to capitalize.

I can’t read flarf manifestos. I’ve read more flarf manifestos than I should have.

I love the creation story of flarf, similarly conceived by at least one high school literary magazine staff I know of. I impatiently await the death of flarf.

I love some flarf poems (I laugh in my love, I lose myself in laughter, wonder why flarf poets don’t become flarf stand-up comics, wonder why anyone would want to be identified as flarf anything, but then that’s the flarf of it).

I hate some flarf poems, process worn thin on poem's chest like a worn plastic convention badge.

I rue the distraction. I love the distractions, dialogues, diatribes. I hate the Sisyphysean debates.

I resent the short-sightedness, the claims of originality for 50 year old cut-up techniques.

I love the brashness.

I hate the exclusiveness: we did this first and foremost.

I love the inclusiveness: anyone can do this. Even the aforementioned high school literary magazine staff. Even my eight year old cat.

I love the movement even if it doesn’t ultimately move.

I’ll love what it meant even when I no longer read what it means.

Vispo/Soundpo from Regina Pinto

1- My new experimental, sound, visual  poetry work "An Iranian Rose is
an Iranian Rose is an Iranian Rose" / 2009 (
http://arteonline.arq.br/neda/ ) is participating of the Project
Pantea's Rose by Deb King

July 25th is a  'Global Day of Action in Unity with the People of Iran.'

Pantea's Rose intends to be a simple show of solidarity, of shared
humanity, with the mothers, fathers and children, the artists,
academics and working people of Iran.  Considering the importance the
internet has been to the Iranian people's communication with the
outside world,  a net action take place is particularly appropriate.

http://www.panteasroses.com

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2- My work "Café com Pão" / 2008 ( http://arteonline.arq.br/train/ )
is participating of the FILE 09:

http://www.file.org.br

FILE 10 NURBS PROTO 4KT is the title of the FILE 09 exhibition that
takes place in São Paulo, Brazil, from July 28 to August 30, 2009 at
the Fiesp - Ruth Cardoso Cultural Center, from July 28 to August 30,
Monday 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday
10 a.m.-7 p.m.

This year, we have the honor to present FILE 10 -- ten years of events
accomplished in the city of São Paulo, ten years of discussion on art
and technology in Brazil.

The 10th edition of FILE - Electronic Language International Festival
- the major art and technology festival in Brazil and Latin America
shows a great diversity of national and international research and
productions. In this 10th edi tion 300 artists participate - among
groups, collectives and individual works - from more than 30
nationalities, with productions in the areas of digital culture.

CAFÉ COM PÃO

"Café com Pão: coffee with bread, experimental visual/sound poetry by
the artist Regina Pinto ."
Tags: Manuel Badeira, Trem de Ferro, Henri Bergson, Interactive,
Digital poetry, Sound Poetry, Visual poetry, New Media, Web art,
experimental, literary, programming, movies, photos, Regina Célia
Pinto, Bruno Ferreira Pinto (voice), Brigitte Neufeldt (voice), Myron
Turner (voice), poetics, innovative"

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Regina Pinto

http://arteonline.arq.br
http://pintor.tumblr.com

S'kid'S

face deed bed fade beg

Road near the river's bank

trust the man rifts

haveve

Bailout Narrative

ha,ve

have n ’ t

A/re-
     buke
         book
back
      look

           let's fin-
all-
                             y

    strike
                           forward

or fol-    (fall)
           low

                                               our tail.