Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

Tom Beckett's Wittgenstein Etudes

A beautiful direct, engaging, provocative studious series of hay(na)ku poems came to a conclusion as of July 7. (One of the strengths of blogging is observing a series in progress across time, mixed with other events, concerns, looking forward to them much as readers must have looked forward to the next installments in serialized novels ((is anyone serializing novels on the web now?))). We'll harken back to this series as a classic of the hayna(ku) genre. I read them as I read fresh air. As they reflected/refracted Wittgenstein's ideas, honed down by Beckett's sharp intelligence, the poems cut through the static we're too often hounded by in our surroundings.  These poems made me stop, breathe, think. I didn't have to do anything else.

Check out all 27 of 'em (scroll/troll into the archives to get 'em all) at Worderos. And hopefully, as Shanna Compton suggests in the comments section to #27, we'll get the chance to read them published as a group.

What/ Would Tom/ Say Of This?

Today

skittering in

and out and

in

squirrel rattles

the cherry tree

Dan Waber's New Blog

Check out this exciting new blog: Dan Waber's minimalistconcretepoetry. Why a new blog? He answers: "because I went looking for something that didn't exist."

I especially like the links to websites related to the art of type, the art of the alphabet. His opening cheer brought cheer and chuckles.

Funeral At Sea

Prelude

of deep

cold blue layer 

Spikes

of dimensions

Colorless too heavy

Powerful

shoulders permanently

wrapped Pulling downward

This

time he’s

dreaming shapes, graphs

A

rubber hinge

Horizontal field His

body

out of

reach But he’s

not

yet dead

Floating in harbor

My Ideal Schedule, Ha!

Wake up.

Love make. Duh!

Water gardens.

Coffee.

Newspaper, light reading, poetry, e-mail, blogs, internet news.

Probe the outside world.

Write, two, three hours.

Love make, duh!

Brunch or lunch, whichever comes first.

Biking with Liam and Noemi

(and Laurie can come along if she can keep up),

parks, swimming, hiking, moon walks when available.

Errands.

Visits with friends.

Write, read (light of day for non-fiction, theory),

read mail/SPORE submissions, answer mail, nap.

Garden: prune, weed, cut flowers for vases,

vegetables for dinner, deadhead, return phone calls.

Dinner, main meal, dessert.

Visits with friends.

Walk, short bike ride, watch a family flick, space out.

Read to/with Liam and Noemi.

Shepherd them through showers, baths, brushing, to bed.

Answer e-mails, blog.

Writing, re/vision, mostly.

Read lightly, fiction, poetry, biography, internet news.

Think, reflect, breathe.

Love make.

Dream of this schedule.

Dream.

Another Push For Ekphrastic Writing for SPORE 2.1

SPORE 2.0's closed (hope to have it out by the end of this month), but I'm still looking for ekphrastic writing (writing based on, jumped off from, the visual arts, e.g. painting, sculpture...). If you need deadlines, make it August 31.

If you need something to jump off of, try writing about/on/in/off/over some of these paintings by the marvelous Bay Area painter Bill DiMichele:

 

Early SCORE & Other Pubs Available at Abebooks...

On my way to working up a post to say bravo to Jonathan Brannen, whose first full-length publication  (I think) is out from Chax Press (checking any links I could use, etc.), I found an on-line bookseller from the UK -- Abebooks -- who's got infant issues of SCORE (including the exceedingly rare #1) available from a variety of independent sellers. Briefly, then, to SCORE; count on a post of Joanthan's deaccessioned landscapes in the near future.

Along with SCORE items for sale, Abebooks has related publications for sale -- Generator, Malthus, Industrial Sabotage, Red Lines, Kaldron, and others. They also have copies of collaborative projects SCORE contributed to -- Core, with John Byrum, and Writing To Be Seen, with Bob Grumman.

I had no ideas these were available anywhere. Some of 'em I haven't heard/thought about in almost twenty years, thinking they were out of print, out of mind, absolute paper-and-print dust of absolute dust of dust of ...

Some of 'em, too -- I won't tell you which ones -- are being offered for far, far less than what SCORE's received for some of 'em in the recent past...

Who's Who in Death 2005

No

idea, no

ideas, who’s who

photographed

blacksmith shop

West Lima, ~1900

Nor

do they

posed, absently, know

how

utterly beyond

knowing they are

Summer Break

Br

Be

Ba!

Bk?