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From Atlanta Poets Group: Call for Sound Poetry

just wanted to let folks know we are looking for work for issue 2 of
aslongasittakes--- submissions are rolling, but we hope to have issue 2
out in the next month and half or so-- the official call for work is below
thanks,
james sanders

"How long is a poem? As long as it takes to perform it." --Bob Cobbing

a s l o n g a s i t t a k e s, a sound poetry magazine published by the
Atlanta Poets Group, is seeking submissions. We are looking for sound
poetry, scores for sound poetry and essays on sound poetry. "What is
'sound poetry'?" you ask. Good question. It's one of those know it when
you see (hear) it kind of things. It's probably not music (thanks Dick
Higgins). It might be noise. If you think about a spectrum of possible
noise made by the human body (or simulations thereof or substitutions
therefor), and at one end of the spectrum is a person reading her poem
and at the other end is abstract noise, we're looking for works that
fall towards the latter end. We are looking for works in/of/against the
tradition(s) of Ball, Schwitters, Dûfrène, Henri Chopin, Jandl, Cobbing,
The Four Horsemen, Fylkingen Group, Öyvind Fahlström. . . hopefully by
now you get the idea. We're looking for stuff that will push/redefine
the limits. The magazine is Web-based.

Please send submissions to aslongasittakes@comcast.net
<mailto:aslongasittakes@comcast.net> in one of the following formats:
.mp3, .wav, .wma, or flac. Please query before sending in other formats.
If you can't get us the work via email, just send an email and let us
know, and we can find another way. We don't know how long it will take
to get back to you on your submissions, just be cool. We can't pay you
anything for your work. All work that appears in the magazine will be
available for download from the magazine's site under the Creative
Commons' /Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike/ license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/); if you are not
comfortable with making your work available in that way, let us know and
we can probably work something out.

Silliman Jism

Entering a new entrance, I'm not a trance, not a rant or a truce. When I cross the door jamb, do I cross out? Fall, feel, full, I have few other places to go.

Scatter

Silliman Jism

Climbing temporal walls, trellises, poles, they're all bean counters. Tossing me a dessicated leaf from clouds, Jack wets his pants. Topless, my breath seizes, a tear in its eye.

DO YOU BUY POETRY?": A SIMPLE POETRY SURVEY

My answers to this survey from Eileen Tabios (see links below if/when you'd like to complete the survey, too):

1) Have you bought a poetry publication in the last 12 months?
(If you can't recall that far back, just what you remember within the last 12 months would be fine.)

I must buy 25-30 books a year (get another dozen or so sent to me). I buy more books in the summer and consequently read more in the summer. Can't remember all the titles, but in the last few weeks I bought the following (see next question):

2) If so, which one(s). If not, why not?

 

Given, Wendell Berry (new)

The Ends of the Earth, David Bromige (used)

Situation Sings, Jack Collom & Lyn Hejinian (new)

The Human Abstract, Elizabeth Willis (used)

The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich (used)

Slinger, Ed Dorn (used)

nothing doing, Cid Corman (new)

Lit Interim, Christopher Arigo (new)

In the archives, Christopher Arigo (new)

this connection of everyone with lungs, Juliana Spahr (new)

Recyclopedia, Harryette Mullen (new)

The Outernationale, Peter Gizzi (new)

Night Scenes, Lisa Jarnot (new)

The Fatalist, Lyn Hejinian (new)

Time and Materials, Robert Hass (new)

3) If you have bought a poetry publication, how did it/they come to your attention?
(Sample answer: a friend told me; I read a good review of it; it was assigned in a class, etc.)

I have about three dozen poets I'll buy/read every book they've done (I rarely read reviews anymore, though I read a ton about poetry on blogs). When I go to a bookstore like Powell's in Portland, I'll pick up a book or two from poets whose work I've seen in zines or on-line over the years but haven't read a book from yet (e.g. Gizzi's The Outernationale). I've also been re-acquiring books that kicked my ass 20-30 years ago (e.g. Dorn's Slinger).

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I would like to post the results of this survey -- I'd be happy to post your answer anonymously (and obviously keep your identity confidential) if you let me know.

If you don't buy poetry, I'd appreciate hearing from you and why not, too (even if your reason is that most mundane but important factor: I'm broke!)

More details on survey is posted at moi blog at http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com/2008/08/do-you-buy-poetry.html

For part of my own answer, if you're so interested, go to http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-we-actually-buy-poetry-publications.html But I do hope you'll participate in the survey.

Best,
Eileen Tabios

p.s.  Please feel free to share the survey with others!

Prisoner

Silliman Jism

Righteous leftists contain a center that consumes itself. Egging on your own corpse exceeds all daily requirements. What's left is right.

Silliman Jism

No, wind! Wind up everything you know, see if it has any spring. Denial is in slack action.

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Silliman Jism

It arrived in the mail and could not be returned: a bowl of a bull's eye, Adam's nipple, nape of a neck-to-neck race (not an issue, they claim, in this pain). She snipped the apple; he craved the center as a biological imperative. We will never drink the same way again.