Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

New Journal of Visual Poetry: The Bleed

I've started one of my own: http://avantexte.com/thebleed/!

In support of our Avantexte Press, which will publish an anthology of pwoermds soon, The Bleed will be an online journal for visual, concrete and experimental poetics.

Submission Guidelines:
Please submit 4 or 5 visual (including asemic works), concrete or experimental lexical poems to contact@avantexte.com. Accepted formats for visual and concrete work include JPG, GIF and PNG. Lexical poems may be sent either in the body of the email, if formatting is not an issue, or in an attached Word DOC or RTF file. Particularly heavily formatted lexical poems, those blurring the lines between visual and lexical, should be submitted in one of the graphic file types previously mentioned.

Beyond the work itself, the editors (who are myself and Mara Hernandez), would like to request that you include the following:

1. A brief statement regarding your work. This can be a general artists' statement or a specific discussion of the work submitted. Submissions that do not include said will be disregarded. Please note that we reserve the right to make minor edits for clarity and grammar. If heavy editing is required we will run the edited version by you before going to print.
   
2. A photo of yourself.
3. A bio. Please include links to your personal website(s)/blog(s).

Unlike most poetics journals, we will not have distinct issues: Works will be published as they are accepted.

Note that we are also very interested in receiving critical works on visual poetry, so don't hesitate to send us your ruminations on the form! And don't hesitate to pass the word along to fellow friends and artists not included on these mail lists.

Thank you,
John Moore Williams

Specific smell in words, composer or corpses. Colors think. Reply in laboratory, theory served in absolute alcohol, meaning saturated in unambiguous, perpetual homesickness, despair, and joy. Dark water and still darker ooze. Is it coarser and more robust in texture and star-like? More intense fire lighting her to speak, its intensity pure upon which it is projected, places to stand or kneel? Every winter the lamp signifies.

Eileen Myles at WSU

I believe I first encountered Eileen Myles work in the late 1970s/early1980s in Dennis Cooper’s feisty magazine "Little Caesar" and probably some other SoCal zines. I appreciated her work then—always have a soft spot for the New York school, new and old (Frank O’Hara, Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, Tony Towles, Anselm Berrigan)—but her work dropped off my radar (as, alas, much work can in thirty-five years of reading poetry).

She popped up on my radar with a vengeance last night at a reading at WSU. Myles was electric—not lightning but a steady pulsing wiry current. She deftly played her audience of lit, creative writing, rhet comp, and teaching majors. That I want to read more of her work speaks most to her performance. I want to read The Inferno, more of her poems, and any and all pieces about James Schuyler.

Two questions I wish I would have asked: We’re you working with James Schuyler when he wrote the exquisite “The Morning of the Poem”? There’s an expansive earthiness in that poem. What can you tell us about its origin/composition? And: You talked about how technology changes a poem, changes poetry, and suggested how change of place changes poetry. As you spend a semester in Missoula, how is your poetry changing? If you moved to Missoula, where would your writing move?

POETRY in MARCH @ Pilot Bookstore

www.pilotbooksseattle.com
6:00pm - 6:15pm, longer where noted *

 
3/1 - Don Mee Choi
3/2 - Matthew Zapruder (7pm – CA Conrad)
3/3 - Chelsea Martin
3/4 - Joshua Beckman
3/5 - Crystal Curry (7pm - Tom Hansen book release)
3/6 - Nico Vassilakis
3/7 - Stacey Levine
3/8 - Matt Briggs
3/9 - Jeanne Heuving
3/10 - Meredith Clark*
3/11 - John Olson
3/12 - Ezra Mark
3/13 - Carol Guess
3/14 - Linden Ontjes
3/15 - Sharon Alexander
3/16 - Judith Skillman
3/17 - Kristen Kosmas (an improvided staging of her playscript, Hello Failure)
3/18 -  Matthew Simmons
3/19 - Tenney Nathanson*
3/20 - Kevin Sampsell
3/21 – BIG PELT III - Reg Johanson and David Wolach*
3/22 - Dan Peters (7pm Ish Klein, John Beer, Paul Killebrew (Canarium Books)
3/23 - Joel Felix
3/24 - Janee Baugher
3/25 - Yuko Enomoto 
3/26 - Jenifer Browne-Lawrence
3/27 - Zachary Schomburg
3/28 - Doug Nufer
3/29 - Sarah Mangold
3/30 - Kim-An Lieberman
3/31 - Tao Lin* 

Hay(na)ku for Haiti

MERITAGE PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Open Palm Press (an imprint of Meritage Press), is pleased to announce the series:

 

Hay(na)ku for Haiti

 

-- a fundraiser for Haiti, edited by Eileen R. Tabios and blessed by support from chapbookpublishing.com. 

 

Poets who write in the hay(na)ku form (about which more information is available at http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com) have consented to create hay(na)ku for helping Haiti's recovery efforts.  The results are to be released as "pocket poem booklets" by Open Palm Press.  Each will be sold for $3.00, reflecting the hay(na)ku's three lines, with all proceeds to be donated for Haiti relief.

 

The first five of the series are:

 

#1:     PARTICLE AND WAVE and FROM THE CHAIR, two hay(na)ku sequences by Jean Vengua
#2:     On A Pyre: An Ars Poetica by Eileen R. Tabios
#3:     Hay(na)ku for Haiti by Tom Beckett
#4:     when the earth moves by Lars Palm
#5:     After René Depestre’s  “My Definition of  Poetry”, as translated by Edwidge Danticat, with lines at the end by Lafcadio  Hearn by John Bloomberg-Rissman

 

Over time, more releases will occur as it is anticipated that Haiti's relief requirements will be prolonged and deep.  Poets interested in exploring the hay(na)ku through this fundraising effort may contact the series editor at MeritagePress@aol.com

 

"H for H" booklets are lovingly produced by chapbookpublishing.com (http://chapbookpublisher.com/) on lilac-colored paper to fit, at 2.75" x 4.5 X 2", on an open palm -- ideal for giving engagements.

 

To order some or all of the series, please send checks made out to "Meritage Press" for $3 per booklet and send to

 

Eileen Tabios
Meritage Press
256 North Fork Crystal Springs Rd.
St. Helena, CA 94574

 

For more information: MeritagePress@aol.com

 

***

[PERMANENT LINK FOR THIS PROJECT: http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com/2010/02/haynaku-for-haiti_23.html

Open Call for Visual Poetry: VISPO at Eyedrum

Open Call for Visual Poetry: accepting art experiments in the space between viewing and reading.

VISPO at Eyedrum is a Visual Poetry show to be held at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery on May 1st - May 15th 2010.

The mission of the show is to examine the boundaries of the creative and communicative process by seeking work that combines the literary and visual arts.

All forms (concrete poetry/asemic writing) approaches to visual poetry will be considered. Non-English based work is strongly encouraged by any and all applicants.

Deadline for submission of work:
April 26th 2010
2d/3d work (received ready to display)
All sizes of ready to display work are accepted.
Digital file submissions accepted (maximum size 8.5x11-some exceptions may apply)

No Entry fee. The show is juried and produced by members of the eyedrum literary committee. Please provide email and any info about yourself and the work provided you find necessary. Provide title, medium, and any display/handling instructions necessary. Please provide return addressed envelope and any mailing instructions to have work returned.

Mail all entries to: Jeff Dahlgren 132 Adair Street Decatur, Ga. 30030 USA

Information: eggtoothjeff@yahoo.com

Curated By: Jeff Dahlgren

Established in 1998, Eyedrum is a non-profit organization developing an interdisciplinary approach to the arts by incorporating a wide range of contemporary art, music and new media in its gallery space.

Now Available: etceteras by Marilyn Rosenberg

etceteras is now public and you can preview some of the content directly at this website:

http://www.lulu.com/content/8380410

etceteras was gleaned from fragments of visual poems, images of poetry bowls, and collage remnants from bookworks created by artist and visual poet Marilyn R. Rosenberg over the past 25+ years. Originally based on her bookwork named "5", from which many middle layers for etceteras pages can be found, Marilyn R. Rosenberg creates a totally new spatial and meaningful experience that evolves and grows through drawing, color, collage, semic and asemic writing, creating not only a visual feast for the senses but an implied narrative.  etceteras is a gorgeous artist's book with strongly multi-dimensional and layered pages.  It is unique, hard to put down, and hard not to pick up again and again.

Publisher	Luna Bisonte Prods
Copyright	©2010 Marilyn R. Rosenberg (Standard Copyright License)
Language	English
Country	United States
Publication Date	February 20, 2010
Page Count	56 pages, soft cover
Size	U.S. Letter
Binding	Black Coil Bound
Interior Color	Full-color

Call for Papers: Turning on Rights: Politics, Performance, and the Text, April 16-17, 2010

SUNY Albany, Keynotes: Rachel Zolf, Joseph Slaughter

“The other is the neighbour, who is not necessarily kin, but who can be. And
in that sense, if you're for the other, you're for the neighbour. But if
your neighbour attacks another neighbour or treats him unjustly, what can
you do? Then alterity takes on another character, in alterity we can find an
enemy, or at least we are faced with the problem of knowing who is right and
who is wrong, who is just and who is unjust.” (Emmanuel Lévinas, quoted in
Rachel Zolf's Neighbour Procedure)

How do "rights" intervene in and compose our notions and notations of just
and unjust, right and wrong? In wide ranging disciplines, rights of the
subject and to the objective world are both historically grounded and
contemporarily debated. If discourses of all varieties are also textual
sites, then the places where rights are manifested (technology, culture, art
and literature, science, law, and ontology) must be read and ultimately
performed.

This conference features work that explores definitions, constructions, and
performative notions of rights. How do texts challenge predominant
conceptual narratives of rights? In what ways does literature explore
notions of rights inside and outside of the juridical realm?

As the focus of our 8th annual Graduate Student Conference, the English
Graduate Student Organization at the University at Albany seeks both
critical and creative projects that further this discussion. Rachel Zolf is
our keynote poet for the Friday evening performance. Zolf is the author of
Neighbour Procedure (2010) and Human Resources (2007), winner of the
Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Saturday's keynote will be Joseph Slaughter,
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia and
author of Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and
International Law (2007).

We solicit creative submissions for inclusion in the evening performance as
well as panels and papers for Saturday. We encourage submissions from
graduate students working in any field, historical period, or scholarly
discipline. Critical abstracts should be limited to 250-300 words; creative
abstracts should include a 300 word or less description and a 3-page sample.
Submit abstracts to: egsoalbany@yahoo.com by March 12, 2010.

Possible areas of inquiry may include, but are not limited to:

• Witnessing vs. Performing Rights
• Authorship, Readership, Agency
• Animal and Other Alterities
• Violence, Trauma, and Testimony
• Sovereignty, Exemplarity, and Exception
• Environmental, Agricultural, and Terrestrial Rights
• Global vs. National Rights
• Unwritten, Inalienable Rights
• Definitions of Freedom
• Sexual and Reproductive Rights
• Corporate and Commercial Rights
• Information, Technology, and Copyright
• Rights and the Demarcations of the Body
• Rights in the Realm of the Post-Human and Virtual

Saw it hugging that large lithographed butterfly without speech,

that thinking against the wall.

 

Tried to pull it off with sensory data, woke up with applause,

first words translated into a tactile vain attempt.

 

Snow was lighter than chaff.

But in return for being underwing,

 

not buried in questions of money,

I fancied profits on a piece of rock or log.

 

Her form was the waiting for.

The lee side of a haystack in mantles of white.

 

I have to get some.

International Mail Art Exhibition in Honor and Memory of Judith Hoffberg

June 27 – August 22, 2010

To be held at:
Susan and John Caldwell Gallery

Armory Center for the Arts
Jay Belloli, exhibition curator

Opening Reception Saturday, June 26, 2010, 7-9 p.m.
Susan and John Caldwell Gallery
Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103

Judith A. Hoffberg (1934-2009) was an avid and active promoter of mail art and artists books. Judy was editor and publisher of Umbrella, a newsletter devoted to all manner of art publishing and art exhibitions.  In addition to Judy's work as a librarian, archivist, lecturer and curator, she gave unstintingly of her time and energy to promote artists through her encouragement and connections in the art world.

To participate in the exhibition

, art submissions must be received by June 4, 2010 by postal mail or email. Please send submissions to:

Jay Belloli
Director of Gallery Programs
Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103
jbelloli@armoryarts.org

All mail art included in the exhibition will be donated to the Judith A. Hoffberg Archive at the Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, with the permission of the artist.

For questions about the exhibition contact Jay Belloli at jbelloli@armoryarts.org or 626-792-5101 ext 117.