Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

Looking Forward

School's out in less than two weeks. Some things I'm looking forward to:

- Finishing the half dozen or so books I'm into, Chrisitan Bok's Eunoia, Forrest Gander's The Blue Rock Collection, Philip Levine's The Simple Truth, Herbert Mason's verse translation of Gilgamesh, Jena Osman's Amblyopia among them.

- Finding others to read (I'm begging for suggestions), read, read, read, read, read ( and not have to assess, evaluate, assign...)

- Working with Liam on an alien pet essay contest (but I also want to ask him who is his pet alien; imaginary friends are oh so different now).

- Writing everyday. I've got one sequence to finish up - Compass Points - and a couple others to get out of my head and started.

- Catching up, e.g the new xerolages from xexoxial. Answering mail - postal and electronic - again.

- Finishing up the editing SPORE 2.0, an issue of ekphrastic writing.

- Smelling the garden grow. Smelling the garden know.

- Nothing.

- Bike riding miles and miles with Liam, Noemi, and Laurie.

- To read and write blogs and listservs. One post I'm looking forward to writing: I assign an end-of-the-year writing booklet, an assignment in which I hope students show and argue for the best of their best. The last six years or so the assignment has expanded to encourage some rather incredible artists' books, presentations of writing that include swimming pools, barf bags, flip-flops, mobiles, picnic spreads, motorcylcle helmets, treasure chests, trees, toilets... I can't get enough of the ways students choose to showcase their writing. I look forward to posting some photographs of some of these pieces.

Yeah! Re-release of Bern Porter's The Last Acts of Saint Fuck You

An announcement from xexoxial's dynamic hypermedia intern, jUStin!katKO:

In celebration of the imminent release of Hold Onto Your Hat - a collection of unpublished interviews with the late Bern Porter - Xexoxial Editions is proud to announce that Porter's 1985 classic THE LAST ACTS OF SAINT FUCK YOU - is now back in stock and ready to grace the mailboxes of the world.

With collages by Steve Perkins, an introduction by mIEKAL aND and full color cover, this handmade edition - for a meager $5 - is the perfect stocking stuffer as you scramble to get that early holiday shopping done before the weekend.

send $6 ($1 added for s&h) to:

Xexoxial Editions
Dreamtime Village
10375 Cty Hway A
La Farge, WI 54639

Spam Haynaku

For Cecil Touchon
http://ontologicalmuseum.org
http://collagepoetry.com

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need by region.

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energy earth.

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burn.

Had, see,

seem, head sit

Call for Work: Brasil Visual Poetry Exhibition

Send artworks to the Visual Poetry Exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery of the Campinas State University–Unicamp. The works will become part of the future Museum´s archive. Opening on Wednesday, 08 June 2005 until 08 July 2005.

The deadline is 02 June 2005.

Works should be sent to:

Visual Poetry Exhibition
a/c Amir Brito Cadôr
Galeria de Arte Unicamp/IA
Caixa Postal 6159
CEP 13083-970
Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz
Campinas – SP – Brasil

Noemi, 6 Year Old Conceptual Writer

Noemi's full-time job is whirling dervish -- she's always spinning, hopping, hanging and swinging, doing headstands, making neck bridges -- but she needed to put her work aside this a.m. at a mother's day brunch. Her whirling threatened the safety of those around her -- infants, toddlers, grandparents -- so, in an attempt to calm her down, I asked her to tell me a cat story in twenty words. This is what she rattled off without hesitation:

"The cat three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen the end."

the 'small chapbook project' (scp)

was launched by peter ganick a month ago to provide chapbooks of between 20 and 44pp printed on fine quality, in small editions, at reasonable prices.

the first four books are available for $20 postpaid. new prices for the individual books are $5 ea $1 postage each:

'we walk sleepily forward'     peter ganick      $5
'mainstay'     peter ganick       $5
'sailing in six/four'    peter ganick         $5
eminence: treble clef'     peter ganick      $5

(though the books above are all by peter ganick in an apparent ego-grab, the project will never again publish a book of his.)

for consideration, please submit the manuscript such that it will translate into 5.5" x 8.5" pages. visual or text poetry is acceptable. please send hardcopy manuscripts. manuscripts will not be returned, but scp will provide return envelope and postage. final page count must be between 20 and 44 pages. dealine for submissions is september 1, 2005; notification will be around october 1, 2005. books to be printed early 2006. send up to two manuscripts.

please send manuscripts to:
  small chapbook project
  181 edgemont avenue
  west hartford CT 06110
for e-correspondence: pote2poet@mindspring.com

use the same address for ordering chapbooks.

Ledge of Question

The

world you

sigh, the fucking

world

you seethe,

the fucking you

fantasize,

your honor,

hope against all

horror,

is that

peace or flagellation?

Wea/eken(e)d Warriors

Finally, a line drive to right.

No collar.

Finally a ripe drive to light.

No holler. A cheer.

Oops, finally, a line drive to left.

No collar.

Finally a deft drive down the line.

No hollow. No beer.

Not yet.

Send Poetry Books to Cook Library @ Towson University

From Christophe Casamassima:

To everyone who has donated books to Cook Library, my heartfelt thanks to you. We're beginning to build a more interesting collection of contemporary poetry and other gems. In the past week I received about 14 books, great start, but I'd like my library to represent a broader writership, so please consider sending us copies of your books or if you have anything lying around, or in bulk, that would benefit us.

Please send no money, just books. We need all that we can get!

Please write me and send to

Cook Library @ Towson University
c/o Christophe Casamassima
8000 York Road
Baltimore, MD 21252