Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

First Blush Seattle March 30, 2007

Last night's performance in Seattle was/is one to savor. For me, the performance points forward: possible collaborative surge (eat your heart out George; some of us work together seamlessly), as well as invoking the past (The Outpatients of 1980s Bay Area, an "ensemble" comprised of Bill DiMichele, Tom Hamill, Dale Jensen, Jon Bailiff, Crag Hill and others -- poets, musicians, painters, actors, exhibitionists, synergists, kooks, cranks -- who always, and I mean always, somehow, found a way to make a whole of the most impossibly disparate parts, to fit a specific event/venue).

Last night we were not a collection of individuals but a collective throughout the sixty-five minute performance (eschewing poetry reading conventions, we chose not to introduce participants and did not give introductions to individual pieces; the works in and of themselves provided transitions). We listened to/thought about/ each other, and we thought about the audience, the other, the infinite other of you and you, about how we could reach, touch, contact, embrace.

Success?

Who were all those unmasked people intensely conversing long after the performance?

Joel Lipman at Woodland Patterns, Milwaukee

Joel Lipman: ORIGINS OF POETRY
Stamp Art, PoeMvelopes, & Visual Poems

April 1 through May 13

Opening Reception Sunday, April 1 - 1:00 to 4:00 pm

Reading & Gallery Talk with Joel Lipman - 2:00 pm

Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee

FREE

Joel Lipman is a native of Kenosha and graduate of UW-Madison. He is professor of Art and English at the University of Toledo. Among his beautifully obscure books of poetry are Provocateur [Bloody Twin Press, 1988], Machete Chemistry/Panades Physics, with Yasser Musa [Cubola New Art Foundation, 1994], The Real Ideal [Luna Bisante Prods, 1996], and Subversao Deliberada [International Writers & Artists Association, 2000]. Represented in the anthology Writing To Be Seen [Score, Light & Dust, 2001], his visual poems were exhibited in 2002 and 2003 at the New York Center for the Book and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Long active as a mail artist and a five-time recipient of Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in Poetry, an on-line portfolio of his work can be found at Light and Dust Poets.

http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/lipman/lipman.htm
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/gallery/exhibits.shtml

This is a Room Poem: After Bob Cobbing

    -- after a poem Bob performed in Edmonton, 12th June 1997

Voice East:

This is a room poem.

Voice South:

This poem is a room.

Voice West:

Is this room a poem?

Voice North:

This room is a poem.

Voice East:

This room is.

Voice South:

A poem is a poem–this room.

Voice West:

This is a poem-room.

Voice North:

A poem-room is this poem.

Voice East:

This is a room.

Voice South:

A room poem is this room.

Voice West:

This is a poem.

Voice North:

This is.

Voice East:

A poem-room.

   -- Something I might do with others during the soundvisualdigitalpoetries reading March 30th in Seattle. It might be a good piece to help break in the new space for Subtext.

Call for Political Poems

From Jennifer Karmin: "In March 2007, Wave Books (http://www.wavepoetry.com) will consider poems for an anthology of political poems to be published in the Fall of 2008.

Specifically, we're looking for poems that engage with our current political climate. We're interested in a broad definition of a political poem and in expanding the conversation about what a "political poem" can be and do. So we're not limiting this to poems discussing specific political issues, though those are welcome. If you think it's political, send it to us.

***Guidelines***
Please send a cover letter and up to three poems, on 8.5 x 11 paper, printed on one side only.

In the cover letter, please include your name, address, telephone, and e-mail, acknowledgments for
any of the poems which may be previously published, a biographical note and a list of previous publications.

Also include a self-addressed, stamped, business-size envelope for our response. Poems will not be returned; submissions will be recycled after responses have been made.

Submissions must be postmarked in March. We cannot accept submissions at any other time.

At this time we are not able to consider submissions of book-length manuscripts.

Mail your submission to:
The Editors
Wave Books
116 Pleasant Street, Suite 205
Easthampton, MA 01027

Please allow three to six months for a response; all submissions are read by the Wave Books staff. We cannot answer inquiries about the status of a submission under consideration.

We will notify poets whose poems are chosen to appear in the anthology; it's not possible for us to comment on poems that didn't fit this particular project. "

New Issue of Great Works

Now available: New issue of Great Works:  http://www.greatworks.org.uk

Frances Presley, Learning Letters (poem)
John Welch, poems
Nick Wayte, 7 poems
Tim Keane, 3 poems
Lisa Zaran, 6 poems
Mark Goodwin, 6 poems
Tom Harding, 6 poems
Colin Fleming, Blinkered (prose)
Crag Hill, 4 poems from 7 x 7
M T C Cronin, 5 poems
Paul Holman, VICINAL (poem sequence)
Duane Locke, 5 poems (email to Damniso Lopez)
Nicholas Spicer, 4 poems
Nathan Thompson, 5 poems
Hannah Silva, 5 poems
Sarah Millward, 5 poems
Elias Siquieros, 3 poems
Robert Sheppard, Sudley House (text of performance piece: poetry)
Iftekhar Sayeed , PRESENT AT PLASSEY (essay)

Andrews/Hill/Huth/Vassilakis, Seattle, March 30th

WHAT:     AN EVENING OF SOUND/VISUAL/DIGITAL/POETRIES
               With: Crag Hill, Geof Huth, Jim Andrews, & Nico Vassilakis

WHERE:    Nonsequitur CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE at The Good Shepherd
               4649 Sunnyside N, Just south of 50th St in Wallingford.  4th Floor

WHEN:       7:30 PM, FRIDAY March 30, 2007

TICKETS:        DONATIONS $5, at the door

PRESS CONTACT:  Nico Vassilakis 206-935-3669

Subtext is pleased to co-present a special evening of SOUND/VISUAL/DIGITAL/POETRIES at the future home of the Subtext reading series, which is moving from Hugo House to the Chapel Performance Space in June.

Performers for the evening are Jim Andrews (from Victoria, BC), Crag Hill (Moscow ID), Geof Huth (Schanectady NY), & Nico Vassilakis (Alki Beach).

Donations for admission will be taken at the door on the evening of the performance.  The event starts at 7:30pm.

Bios:

Crag Hill has been exploring the world through the prisms of verbal and visual language since his re-birth in the 1970s. Writer of numerous chapbooks and/or other print interventions, including Dict (Xexoxial Endarchy), Another Switch (Norton Coker Press), and Yes James, Yes Joyce (Loose Gravel Press), he has also edited Score Magazine, a publication seeking the edges of writing since 1983. He co-edited, with Bob Grumman, Writing To Be Seen, the first major anthology of visual poetry in 30 years. Crag runs the blog SCOREPAD http://scorecard.typepad.com/

Jim Andrews is a poet-programmer and audio guy who has published http://vispo.com/ since 1995 which is his attempt at creating an online body of literary work that can swim in the brine of the binary. He lived in Seattle 1997-2000 and now lives in Victoria. Recent projects include vispo.com/bp , a recovery of computer poems written by bpNichol in the 80's, and vispo.com/kearns , a binary meditation on the work of Vancouver's Lionel Kearns, a contemporary wreading of Kearns's work.

Nico Vassilakis lives in Seattle. Recent books include: chapbook from BCC press, Askew and  DIPTYCHS: Visual Poems available at http://www.lulu.com/content/670787. Nico has a DVD of visual poetry titled Concrete: Movies.  In 2006, his work was shown at the Wright Exhibition Space as part of the exhibition 5 Visual Poets. He recently STARED in a play about Morton Feldman in NY at the HERE Theatre. With compass and pencil he is drafting his way through dread.

Geof Huth is a writer of textual and visual poetry. Over the years, he has created visual and other poems in a wide variety of formats: lineated verse, prose, paintings, drawings, and films. He has been published in venues as diverse as The American Poetry Review, Dreams and Nightmares, Kalligram, Lost and Found Times, Modern Haiku, La Poire D'Angoisse, Prakalpana Literature, ZYX, and atop bandaids. His chapbook of visual poems, "Out of Character," will soon be published by Paper Kite Press. He writes almost daily on visual poetry at his blog http://dbqp.blogspot.com.

The future Subtext schedule is:

April 4, 2007      Curtis Bonney and Jocelyn Saidenberg (Bay Area) - at Hugo House
May 2, 2007      Charles Alexander (Tucson AZ) with music of Tim Rishe (Florida) presented by
                       Mike Katel and ensemble at Hugo House Theatre
June 6, 2007     Subtext Anniversary Reading (13th year) - SERIES MOVES to
                       CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE!

For info on these & other Subtext events, see our website: http://www.speakeasy.org/~subtext

VERY SPECIAL THANKS to the co-sponsor of this event: Nonsequitur

Avoiding the Academic

Stayed close to home this spring break to work on me dissertation. I'm not a procrastinator by any means, but writing academic discourse brings out Procastination with a capital P! Yet I can't stand to not get anything done.

So I cleaned. First I cleaned the work counter (hasn't been this clean for months). I straightened out bookshelves and cds, organized the computer files for my doctoral work, then I started to clean the cupboards in the office. I found the previous four artworks I've posted in a stack of sketchbooks and folders.

If it were only warmer, I'd clean the garage. I know I have a box or two of art, writing, and correspondence from the 70s and 80s shelved out there. Who knows what I might find to wile away the time?

And if I get that done, I can start in on cleaning out the top shelves of the Justice Department. Somebody's got to do it.

Malok's Free Form Abortion #538 Apr 22 1982

Malok's Three Aghast at the Peak of Nothing Mar 4 1982

Embryo: A Score