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Idaho Center for the Book Announces Call for Handmade Books

Books designed, written, illustrated and bound by Idahoans may be submitted for the Idaho Center for the Book’s juried traveling exhibition, “Booker’s Dozen 2008.” Submissions will be accepted from June through August. Fourteen original bookworks by individual authors will be accepted for the exhibition, which will tour the Gem State nextyear. 


Authors should send works with SASE to Booker’s Dozen, Idaho Center for the Book, Boise State University, Boise, ID, 83725-1525. Submissions should include a brief description of the work, its insured value, and contact information. 


Judges will select works in October; selectees will be notified then or their works will be returned. For more information, contact Tom Trusky at (208) 426-1999 or ttrusky@boisestate.edu

Current State Of State Of?

“The

vice president

doesn't know what

branch

of government

he is in,

the

president doesn't

know what the

constitution

is, the

people don't know

what

the heck

is going on.”

-- Chuck Shumer, 6-27-07

Ann Coulter and the Truth

Call for Artists: Site Unseen

THE LAND/an art site, Inc.
419 Granite NW, Albuquerque NM 87102
505 242-1501

theland@comcast.net
www.landartsite.org/siteunseen.html

THE LAND/an art site, Inc., announces a call to artists for proposals of
ideas that can be variably realized by partner artists working at a
specific outdoor site (or sites) in New Mexico. The resulting works will
be featured in a show titled SITE UNSEEN, to run from September 28, 2008
to October 19, 2008.

Selected artists will be asked to contribute, with no detailed knowledge
of the site(s), a score, plan, or text, from which their on-site
collaborator will devise a highly site-specific realization (or
realizations). Ideas may be very specific or wide-open, and
collaborations may range from blind to intensely cooperative. SITE
UNSEEN will encourage artists to rethink traditional notions of
collaboration and site-specificity, and will provide an opportunity for
artists worldwide to be involved with THE LAND/an art site. Artists from
outside the United States are especially encouraged to apply.

The proposal DEADLINE is September 14, 2007.

Selection of idea proposals will be completed and artists notified by
November 10, 2007.

THE LAND/an art site, working jointly with other New Mexico arts
organizations, will review separate proposals from artists to work
on-site, and selection of these artists will be completed by November
24, 2007. Work on realizations will begin March 1, 2008.

Applicants should send the following:

A proposal, artist's statement, resume, and examples/images on CD (or
any other appropriate support materials). Please include a SASE if
support materials are to be returned.

HAY(NA)KU = INVITATION

You are cordially invited by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego, and Eileen Tabios to participate in THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT! As authors of single-author poetry hay(na)ku collections, we invite you to collaborate with others to create "chained hay(na)ku" -- a poem based on the hay(na)ku poetic form and created by multiple authors (at least three individual authors). Information on the hay(na)ku are available at:

http://www.meritagepress.com/haynaku.htm

http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haynaku.htm

http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com/

For an example of the Chained Hay(na)ku, please visit the blog, THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT: AN INVITATION at http://chainedhaynaku.wordpress.com/ which features our collaborative poem, "Four Skin Confessions." The poem was written in May 2007 by email, spanning the time zones of London, Cardiff, and California.

We now invite other poets to collaborate with others in creating other chained hay(na)ku. Authors can then contribute their collaborations (including excerpts from such collaborations) for possible publication, which Meritage Press (www.meritagepress.com) will release as either a journal, anthology, or hand-made limited edition (the final format will depend on the nature of and number of contributions). Collaborations need not be only in verse form. Visual poetry is welcome, as long as the collaborators number at least three and realize that reproduction is likely to be in black-and-white.

Email Contributions (and queries) to MeritagePress@aol.com

Deadline for Contributions: January 31, 2008 Why not get together with others and chain together a hay(na)ku? It's a poetic form that has always been intended to be an Invitation!

All Best, Ivy Alvarez, author of 1 DOZ. POISON HAY(NA)KU (Big Game Books, 2007) John Bloomberg-Rissman, author of OTAGES (Bamboo Books, 2006) and NO SOUNDS OF MY OWN MAKING (Leafe Press, 2007) Ernesto Priego, author of NOT EVEN DOGS (Meritage Press, 2006) Eileen Tabios, author of THE SINGER AND OTHERS (Dusie, 2007)

Six Word Story K

Hemingway, in Ketchum, Idaho, falls backward.

Check Out Spencer Selby on You Tube

Brought to you by The Continental Review. View a slide show of his recent visual poetry as he reads his textual poetry above and behind. There are some stunning juxtapostions of spoken and visual word in the first three minutes.

Find the work through The Contintental Review or at You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgR10Ekn2AQ

Six Word Story I

“I’m a woman; I’m a truckdriver.”

Epistemography

I know their names don’t,

but I don’t know their names.

I names their don’t know?

Their don’t know names I know?

Their names know I don’t.

Their know names I don’t.

I don’t names their know.

I don’t know their names.

New Audiobook of Joyce's Ulysses

I've been re-reading Joyce's Ulysses. One, because we were planning a complete reading-aloud of the novel in May (too many people gone in this college town to pull together enough readers fro Bloomsday), and two to keep pace with the indefatigable budding scholar Nick Brunsfeld (who now plans to re-read the novel once a year).

Christ, I forgot how funny it is, how bawdy (never forget its invention, its erudition). Much delighted to get an e-mail from Dan Waber (Thanks, Dan!) via spidertangle announcing the availability of the novel aloud on-line (much kudos to Dan's presentation of Chapter 18; the overlapping/underlying voices enhance!):

LibriVox Releases Free Audiobook of James Joyce's Ulysses
in celebration of Bloomsday, 2007

LibriVox.org, an online volunteer project with an objective of recording all public domain books into audio, will release a free audio version of James Joyce's Ulysses, in time for Bloomsday, June 16, 2007.

The Internet, June 15, 2007 - In celebration of Bloomsday, LibriVox.org has released an unabridged audio version of James Joyce's Ulysses. As with all LibriVox recordings, the audio is in the public domain, and available for anyone to download for free in mp3 and ogg vorbis format.

The work comprises more than 32 hours of audio, and the project took a year-and-a-half to complete, with scores of volunteer participants. Started in November 2005, it is one of LibriVox's longest-running projects, and is also the longest text we have recorded.

The LibriVox Ulysses project had a few special rules: readers were encouraged to read in groups, in public places, and no editing was required. And yet some of the sections (notably, sections 15 and 18 ) have been done with extraordinary attention to detail and creativity. The audiobook can be downloaded here: http://librivox.org/ulysses-by-james-joyce/

Bloomsday also sees the release of another Joyce novel, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which can be found at:

http://librivox.org/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-by-james-joyce/

There is some rumbling within the LibriVox community about trying to produce a new audio version of Ulysses every two years.

About LibriVox.org:

LibriVox is an open, international volunteer project with the objective of making all public domain books available as free audio books. We have a catalog of 685 works, in sixteen languages. Listeners
can listen on the computers, or using portable media devices such as ipods. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. We host our files at the Internet Archive (archive.org) and ibiblio.org, and get the majority of our texts from Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org).