Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

from The Hay(na)ky of Spiro Agnew

The Common Man Speaks

I
had endured
the didactic inadequacies

of
the garrulous
in silence...

SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse 2008 call for videopoems

Pacific Cinémathèque and curator Heather Haley are seeking videopoem submissions from around the world for the annual Visible Verse screening and performance poetry celebration, Nov. 6, 2008. Visible Verse is North America's sustaining venue for the presentation of new and artistically significant videopoetry.

Official guidelines:

*Visible Verse seeks videopoems, with a 15 minutes maximum duration.

*Either official language of Canada is acceptable, though if the video is in French, an English-dubbed or-subtitled version is required for consideration. Videos may originate in any part of the world, however.

*Pieces will be judged on true literary merit. The ideal videopoem is a wedding of word and image, the voice seen as well as heard.

*Please, do not send documentaries, as they are outside the featured genre.

*Videopoem producers should provide a brief bio, full name, and contact information in a cover letter. There is no official application form nor entry fee.

*Submission deadline is 1 September, 2008. Send, at your own risk, videopoems and poetry films/preview copies (which cannot be returned) in DVD format to: VISIBLE VERSE c/o Pacific Cinémathèque, 200--1131 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2L7, Canada. Selected artists will be notified by 1 October, 2008 and receive a screening fee.

For more information contact Heather Haley, hshaley @ emspace.com

Vancouver's Pacific Cinémathèque Pacifique, a not-for-profit society dedicated to the understanding of film and moving images. http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca

from The Hay(na)ku of Spiro Agnew

Schizophrenia

While
Agnew is
not a household

word
yet, few
people forget Spiro.

elidimony

the state of ceremonial displacement

interduce

the right way to meet someone

ergal

something embarrassing, esp. something personal

a bOOK to lOOK fORWARD to by Geof Huth & mIEKAL aND, or is that Huth and &, or is that hAND & uTH, oR?

Texistence

Fort of July

A nation acting like a child
Constructed of sparklers and concussive finales
Facts unredeemed
By (lack of) innocence

This Summer

I’m slow to start writing

I’m slow to start

I’m slow

Isn’t that a glorious turn of events!

I don’t want to force writing, so wild reading fills/feels the hole. I’ve got direction in the a.m., reading as an English Educator, preparing for the next year, but later I run where I don’t know where or whether I will arrive anywhere at all (oh a glorious turn of place!).

Afternoon today, after finishing Christopher Arigo’s Lit Interim, I took three books to my backyard chair: William Bronk’s New and Collected Poems, Dunya Mikhail’s The War Works Hard, Charles Tomlinson’s Written on Water, looking for something to turn my head inside out.

Given an hour

of time and space

Indeed!

What a glorious turn of events

There’s so much I’ve had on the back shelf to read that’s the writing I’m currently writing.

No Wonder They Seemed So Bitter

I

told Noemi

I now know

 

why

robins’ bellies

are red–they

 

gorge

our ripe

strawberries one by

 

one.

I spied

a male squabbling

 

with

two females

over a plump

 

red

berry. He

seized it, flew

 

away,

leaving them

the green ones.