dimanche 12 septembre 2010

Georges Laughead: Artist Malcolm McNeill: On Beat Writer William Burroughs, The Unspeakable Mr. Hart Comic Series, Ah Puch Is Here Graphic Novel, and London 1970s Art Scene

In Beats In Kansas: The Beat Generation in the Heartland by Georges Laughead :

The Unspeakable Mr.Hart, Malcolm McNeill © 1970 with William Burroughs 

Interview by George Laughead, August 2007


Emmy award winning artist Malcolm McNeill worked with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs during the early 1970s in London. Much of that work remains unknown. Malcolm was "born and educated in England. Started working with Bill Burroughs in 1970 on comic series The Unspeakable Mr. Hart while at Hornsey College of Art in London. Moved to the US in 1974 to complete graphic novel Ah Puch is Here (aka, Ah Pook is Here). Lived in New York for twenty plus years. Worked as a live action/effects director for television for fifteen years. Now lives in Los Angeles. Just finished a book about his working relationship and friendship with Burroughs, including artwork from the various collaborations." [Note: Manuscript of Malcolm's book, Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs and Ah Puch, made me read all day long -- interview was result. GL


Read the whole interview at http://www.vlib.us/beats/malcolmmcneill.html 

 For more of William Burroughs and Malcolm McNeill art work, see: Ah Puch Is Here or Malcolm McNeill site.

George Laughead | WWW Virtual Library @ http://www.vlib.us/

Fantagraphics Acquires Lost William S. Burroughs Graphic Novel

http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4763&Itemid=95
Written by Eric Reynolds


Thursday, 09 September 2010

FANTAGRAPHICS ACQUIRES LOST ‘GRAPHIC NOVEL' BY WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS & ARTIST MALCOLM McNEILL

SEATTLE, WA, SEPT. 9, 2010 --- Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce the acquisition of the only graphic novel written by — and possibly the last unseen work of his to be published — the innovative Beat writer and Naked Lunch author, William S. Burroughs. This lost masterpiece, Ah Pook Is Here, created in collaboration with artist Malcolm McNeill in the 1970s, will be published in the summer of 2011 as a spectacularly packaged two-volume, hinged set, along with Observed While Falling, McNeill's memoir documenting his collaboration with one of America's most iconic authors.
Ah Pook Is Here first appeared in 1970 under the title The Unspeakable Mr. Hart as a monthly comic strip written by Burroughs and drawn by the British cartoonist and painter Malcolm McNeil in the English magazine Cyclops. When the publication folded, Burroughs and McNeill decided to develop the project into a full-length, Word/Image novel (the term "graphic novel" had not yet been coined). Burroughs was 56 at the time, McNeill 23.



More at http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4763&Itemid=95  

William S. Burroughs' lost graphic novel coming in 2011

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/09/william-s-burroughs-lost-graphic-novel-coming-in-2011.html
  
The long-lost graphic novel by William S. Burroughs and Malcolm McNeil will be published in 2011, Fantagraphics announced Wednesday. The Seattle-based publisher will release "Ah Pook Is Here" in a package with McNeil's memoir of working with Burroughs, "Observed While Falling."
The project began with a Burroughs-and-McNeil collaboration in the 1970s on the comic strip "The Unspeakable Mister Hart," which appeared in the British magazine "Cyclops." The magazine folded, and the two decided they wanted to turn their work into a full-length project -- at the time, Burroughs was 56 and McNeil was 23. What they conceived was so new that they weren't sure what to call the form, and settled on "a Word/Image novel." They worked for seven years but never found a publisher.
Fantagraphics, which included some spectacular images from the book in its announcement, describes the story of "Ah Pook Is Here":
John Stanley Hart is the "Ugly American" or "Instrument of Control" -- a billionaire newspaper tycoon obsessed with discovering the means for achieving immortality. Based on the formulae contained in rediscovered Mayan books he attempts to create a Media Control Machine using the images of Fear and Death. By increasing Control, however, he devalues time and invokes an implacable enemy: Ah Pook, the Mayan Death God. Young mutant heroes using the same Mayan formulae travel through time bringing biologic plagues from the remote past to destroy Hart and his Judeo/Christian temporal reality.
McNeil's story of working with Burroughs on the project is sure to be interesting. "Fictional events in the text would materialize in real life. Very specific correspondences, not just similarities," he told the website Big Bridge in 2008. "Such events might suggest that things are already in place and that with the right combination of words they can be made to reveal themselves ahead of time. That's what Bill's 'Cut ups' were about: 'Cut the word lines and the future leaks out.'"
Creating a "Word/Image novel" was pretty futuristic too.
-- Carolyn Kellogg
Photo: William S. Burroughs photographed by Allen Ginsberg in 1991. The photo is on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington through Sept. 19. Credit: Allen Ginsberg via MCT

vendredi 10 septembre 2010

Phil Scalia: Compounds



Phil Scalia, Eupraxsophist

Galerie Ecritures : Vernissage

La Galerie ECRITURES présente les planches originales de Braise 1 et Braise 2
du 24 septembre au 24 octobre, nous vous invitons à venir rencontrer les auteurs
le 24 septembre à partir de 18 h
BRAISE


Une nuit, dans un orphelinat comme il en existe tant, Prune réveille son grand-frère Janus, effrayée par une étrange musique. Qui peut bien jouer de l’instrument à une heure aussi tardive ? Comme envoûtés, les enfants se lèvent et suivent cette mélopée qui les conduit vers l’extérieur. Le musicien, élégant chat noir du nom de Braise, aura tôt fait de séduire les bambins en manque d’affection par ses délicieux discours et ses promesses du plus beau des présents : une maman douce et aimante. Mais un avenir bien noir leur est promis, comme le constate la petite Prune, la seule à ne pas s’être laissée embobinée par le matou beau parleur et les bonbons à foison…

Conte noir et cruel, cette histoire concoctée par Bouton et Fortier, nouveaux venus dans le monde merveilleux de la bande dessinée, séduit d’emblée par un style littéraire d’une rare qualité. Par un langage soigné qui ne lasse de surprendre, entre figures de style et néologismes témoignant d’une constante créativité, le personnage de Braise intrigue autant qu’il émerveille. Cultivant le mystère sur ses motivations, il se fait le héraut de cette lointaine marâtre, elle aussi difficile à cerner.

Ne ménageant en rien l’irrépressible envie du lecteur d’en apprendre davantage sur les intérêts de chacun, les auteurs n’éclairent qu’à moitié l’univers fantasmagorique dont ils détiennent les clés.
Le dessin de Cédric Fortier, au bel encrage puissant et expressif, donne à ce premier épisode (sur quatre) un véritable dynamisme, qui rend l’histoire palpitante et attachante. Relevant d’une belle assurance, le dessin aide à se plonger dans une ambiance où des couleurs franches, utilisées à bon escient, n’ôtent pas aux planches un ton résolument obscur et inquiétant.

Braise joue sur ses nombreuses particularités pour se distinguer de la masse, aidé dans cette tâche par une couverture qui ne manque pas d’attirer le regard. Les lecteurs qui oseront franchir le pas en seront récompensés par la découverte d’une histoire au charme plus qu’évident.

Galerie Ecritures

1 rue Pierre Petit
03100 Montlucon

mercredi 8 septembre 2010

rustytruck/deucecoupe : featuring the work of Robert Philbin and Charles Plymell

featuring the work of Robert Philbin and Charles Plymell (part 3)

Des implications en sciences humaines du travail de recherche de Michel Onfray sur Freud

By Isabelle Aubert-Baudron.

André Willequet à la Galerie Didier Devillez

Retrouvez André Willequet sur http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be/

GALERIE DIDIER DEVILLEZ

53, rue Emmanuel Van Driessche • 1050 Bruxelles (Belgique) • +32(0)475 931 935

Jack Micheline

http://jackmicheline.outlawpoetry.com/



FOR JACK MICHELINE ON HIS DEATH
by AD Winans

http://jackmicheline.outlawpoetry.com/2010/09/07/a-d-winans-for-jack-micheline-on-his-death/

Silliman’s Blog

Silliman’s Blog,

A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.

Mike Watt: back home in time for labor day march!

stooges touring done (righteous gigs!), I finished chimping tour diary:
http://hootpage.com/hoot_stooges-wattdiary2010c.html
 but maybe much better writing here: Concert review: "Iggy and the Stooges at the Riviera"
http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2010/08/concert-review-iggy-and-the-stooges-at-the-riviera.html
and from the l.a. paper about pedro doof:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-0829-mike-watt-20100829,0,2668529.story
and september five watt from pedro show has history lessons from john dieterich, thollem mcdonas and tim barnes: http://twfps.com/
amazing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_May_Wong
from scotty-san's daughter:
Mike Watt
Photos: Mike Watt

Labor day march in Wilmington 2010


Stooges in Chi-Town 100829

Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

On line at http://www.themim.org/

Click here to view the video.

Iggy Pop and the Stooges in the press

The New York Times: "Body Language, Translated and Remixed"
Music review by BEN RATLIFF

Published: September 5, 2010
On line at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/arts/music/06all.html?_r=2

npr music: "All Tomorrow's Parties 2010 In Photos" :
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/09/07/129707926/all-tomorrow-s-parties

Lorraine Chamberlain Looking for original drawings by S. Clay Wilson

I am in a mad search for the owner(s) of three drawings by Wilson for the curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in LA. They would like to include the originals in a big exhibition next year. It's not an Underground Comics show, but a contemporary artists exhibit. I would love for Wilson to be in this impressive show. I have posted the images on http://www.sclaywilsontrust.com/ , and my Facebook page, but am at a loss to find them so far. Who knows where they are by now, as they were from 1979-1981. Wilson can't remember anything and kept no records.
If anyone knows who owns the originals of these three black white drawings, please contact me (including in the subject line "Drawings"), or the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in LA! Thanks!

Lorraine Chamberlain
 

Toxic Coils from the Iris...Piercing Screams from the Street - 1979


No Title - 1981



Captain Rosey Namrooth and her Crew attempt to prevent the Checkered Demon from Rescuing Star Eyed Stella and her Witch Sister through a Hole in the Hull. - 1980

Art work of David Wright LaGrone

http://www.davidwrightlagrone.com/

Meridel LeSueur Lecture, Madison, WI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqiHZE2-ao
jgrantkansas

Brie clip of Meridel and a talk by Chuck Miler about Meridel.


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jeudi 2 septembre 2010

Interzone report of July-August 2010

Hi all,
August 2nd was the 13th anniversary of Bill Burroughs' death and August 10th , the 13th anniversary of Interzone start. So here we are and here we go again ! About the activities of all those years, see the front page of the site Interzone Report https://sites.google.com/site/aubertisa/ which contains the links to the reports since August 1997. I dedicate this report specially to James Grauerholz.
As you can state reading it, this summer has been busy on the Zone's side. i cnnot include all the info gathered during those two months in the blog Interzone news : see at http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/ for the details and extra info.
William Burroughs, Charles Plymell and James Grauerholz.
A benefit for S. Clay Wilson :
medical expenses are beyond his ability to pay and have made him and his family paupers. I’d like your help to raise money for S. Clay Wilson’s medical expenses. S. Clay Wilson is a major figure in American comics, a founder of the underground comix movement." David Chelsea
More on Punkglobe at http://www.punkglobe.com/sclaywilsonbenefit409.html
Lorraine Chamberlain and S. Clay wilson
"In November 2008, cartoonist S. Clay Wilson suffered a severe brain injury in a fall. He spent a week in intensive care and faces a long recovery. Even with insurance, Wilson’s

See also
- AN UPDATE ON ARTIST  S. CLAY WILSON By: Lorraine Chamberlain
http://www.punkglobe.com/sclaywilsonarticle0610.html
- S. CLAY WILSON You Can't Keep a Dirty Cartoonist Down! by Rebecca G. Wilson
http://www.punkglobe.com/S.%20Clay%20Wilson%20Interview.html in Punk Globe:
- AN UPDATE ON ARTIST  S. CLAY WILSON By: Lorraine Chamberlain
http://www.punkglobe.com/sclaywilsonarticle0610.html
Just married
Lorraine Belcher Chamberlain and S. Clay Wilson got married on August 10th 2010 !
Best wishes of happiness to them !
Farewell to Harvey Pekar and Herman Leonard:
Herman Leonard, icon photographer of Jazz scenes, has died at the age of 87 on August 14th in Los Angeles. He was famous for his "smoky," backlighted B and W photos of Jazz greats like Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker. Over 60,000 of his negatives are stored at the Ogdon Museun. He returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and was featured in the 2005 BBC Sundance Documentary “Saving Jazz," and was featured in the 2006 BBC documetnary "Saving Jazz."

"Pekar-Crumb, une épopée des petites vies"
Harvey Pekar, scénarist of «American Splendor», passed away on July 12th 2010.
See in Mediapart the article "Pekar-Crumb, une épopée des petites vies" by Vincent Truffy at http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/270810/pekar-crumb-une-epopee-des-petites-vies

The book "Harv & Bob", scenario by Harvey Pekar, drawings by Robert Crumb, has just been published at the editions Cornelius.
 
Literature
The Time of the Naguals on line:
I have received from the Bibliothèque nationale de France the number of dépôt légal for "Le Temps ds Naguals - Autour de Burroughs et Gysin", so all the formalities of publishing are done for this book. I have put the pdf on line last month at http://www.inter-zone.org/thetimeofthenaguals/TNFR.pdf
The tome "Around Burroughs and Gysin" on line at www.inter-zone.org/thetimeofthenaguals/TNAroundB&G.pdf has been updated: Paul O'Donovan's illustrations have been added.
The tome of Reseach at www.inter-zone.org/thetimeofthenaguals/TN2research.pdf will be updated as well as more on the dreamachine will be added.
For the rest of the anthology, I suggest that we use another technic: rather working on one tome at a time, due to the number of the tomes to end, I suggest that I put them on line as they are at the moment, (they are already in pdf) so people who wrote in them can send the modifications to make, otherwise it will take some decades for the whole anthology to be ready, and we have been at it since 12 or 13 years now.
Any suggestion welcome.
Alain and Jean presented their new book, "Papy Beat Generation" , Editions Hors Sujet, in Rochefort sur Loire.
A beatiful day, and a very nice meeting.
 
Alain Gegou & Jean Azarel - Jean Azarel et Pierre Rannou, éditeur de "Papy Beat Generation" chez Hors Sujet
"The Poetry Bomb is a former U.S. military practice bomb. The artifact will be completely converted into a beautiful object filled with poetry from around the world. When finished, it will have a primo paint job just as if it were a classic car, complete with pin-striping. It will also have a window or portal that will open and close making it possible to not only see inside of the piece, but to take poems out at performances to read out loud, and to add future submissions. Once converted, I will take The Poetry Bomb on tour across the United States, and then, who knows? Plan on beginning the tour in late April of 2010." S.A. Griffin
More at
Video : How to build a poetry bomb :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbps2kVoAQ&feature=channel  

MILK A Poetry  Magazine
David Barker • Lisa Birman • Dave Donovan
Dan Fante • Nathan Graziano • Andrew Hilbert
Stephen Hines • Jordan Hurder • Justin Hyde
Richard Krech • Linda Lerner • Lyn Lifshin
Ellaraine Lockie • Gerald Locklin
Hosho McCreesh • Brian McGettrick
Brown Miller • Jack Moxie • Michael Phillips
Charles Plymell • M.P. Powers
William Taylor Jr • A.D. Winans

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* GRIST : Rare issue of GRIST magazine edited, designed, printed by Charles Plymell in S.F. in 60's on same multilith that ZAP was printed on. The format was maximum size for Multilith which determined format of comix for many years. The front cover was done by Plymell and back cover Wilson drawing. The center fold (not pictured) was also Wilson drawing. http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2010/07/rare-issue-of-grist-magazine-edited.html

Richard Krech:
http://bospress.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/a-bibliography-of-works-by-richard-krech-1065-2009-by-jason-davis/

A complete bibliography that details every known printed appearance including books, magazines, anthologies and ephemera. An exhaustive work. 100 pages. Edition of 74 copies, 1/4 bound cloth over boards. We have very few of these left. $35 plus shipping. Visit www.bospress.net/order.html  to order.

Benoit Delaune: articles autour de William Burroughs
Benoit Delaune has written a thesis of comparative literatures on Burroughs, particularly down the cut-up and "nova trilogy". In July 2009 he took part in the colloquium in Paris for the 50 yeats of Naked Lunch, as a lecturer as well as a musician, with the group he is a member of, " Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique".
Some of the articles he wrote around Burroughs are available on line :
- "Texte itératif et stéréotypes chez William Burroughs : de l’intertextualité à l’autostéréotypie": http://revel.unice.fr/cnarra/index.html?id=1268 in the Cahiers de Narratologie.
- Collage, montage, cut-up, musique concrète : figures de l’intégration du chaos dans l’œuvre chez William Burroughs et Pierre Schaeffer : http://trans.univ-paris3.fr/spip.php?article276 : TRANS - Revue de littérature générale et comparée, N° 9: Pop-culture.

A.D. Winans: Love-Zero and more poems :
- On AD Winans' book, "Love -Zero", see http://hipstershustlersandhighjivers.blogspot.com/2010/07/ad-winans-love-zero.html in Ginger Eades' blog.
- "A Call to Poets" : http://www.inter-zone.org/adwinans3.html
- FOURTH OF JULY POEM http://www.inter-zone.org/adwinans1.html
- More poems : FOR JAMIE, FOR WILLIAM BURROUGHS, ON THE DEATH OF JACK MICHELINE, REMEMBERING BOB KAUFMAN : http://www.inter-zone.org/adwinans2.html
- SIGN OF THE TIMES  http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2010/08/sign-of-times-by-ad-winans.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/books/20book.html?_r=1
By JANET MASLIN

Published: July 19, 2010


General semantics:
The translation of chapter III of Science and Sanity, by Alfred Korzybski, has been updated at http://semantiquegenerale.free.fr/Articles/S&SIntro.htm  
The page on the courses on line at http://semantiquegenerale.free.fr/coursenligne.htm  has been updated: I am stopping the seminars to concentrate on the courses on line with skype, which I have been experimenting since two years now: this is more practical, cheaper, and one course a week is more adapted to the teaching of general semantics than a 2 week-end seminar, too concentrated to be integrated by the nervous system.
See also the article:
- Also on Freud également, two chapters of "N'Etre" by Roger Gentis at http://semantiquegenerale.free.fr/Articles/RogerGentisN'ÊtreII.pdf 

Music 

Following in the footsteps of Brian Jones and Timothy Leary, Richie Troughton heads to Morocco to experience the magical sounds of the Master Musicians of Joujouka
 
The Master Musicians of Joujouka are now on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Master-Musicians-of-Joujouka/105892372781794
He Also Took That Boat by Alma/Joe Ambrose will be featured in a forthcoming British festival of music created by pioneering plastic artists - Be Glad For The Song Has No End. The track, favourably reviewed in Art Monthly, had its first outing earlier this year in the London gallery show, Dead Fingers Talk – The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs.

Be Glad For The Song Has No End - A Festival of Artists' Music is a day of live musical performances, film screenings and events, set across three uniquely constructed stages in the grounds of Wysing Arts Centre in rural Cambridgeshire, organised and arranged by artist/musician Andy Holden.

Throughout the day artists will perform their music on the two outdoor stages whilst a program of films and performance that explore music from a more documentary or anthropological perspective take place in the cinema stage.

Artists involved in the festival include Archie Bronson Outfit, Luke Fowler, Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, Bob and Roberta Smith, Grubby Mitts, Sam Belinfante, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), and Jutta Koether. The festival is supported by Resonance 104.4FM, Lost Toys Records and The Wire magazine, and is made possible by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England East. For further information on the festival, details of places to stay, transport, and to book tickets visit: www.wysingartscentre.org/news/ 201 + 44 1954 718 881
The group Novacriminal played on July 8th at the the 5 star bar, 267 S Main, Los Angeles, CA  
"Some videos from poetry evening in our home town last autumn (also, don't remember, maybe i already sent those links). There I made music for texts of some my favorite poets - W. Blake, R.M. Rilke, A. Rimbaud."
Vasha
- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : "The Smile" by William Blake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esSKPyZtmUo
- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : Rilke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWcacWumGsM&feature=related
  • In July the Sooges have been touring through France, Belgium and Monaco.
Diary:
http://hootpage.com/hoot_stooges-wattdiary2010b.html

Diary of April-May http://hootpage.com/hoot_stooges-wattdiary2010a.html .

July 11, 2010 featuring: remote broadcast from marseille, france in the Watt from Pedro show http://twfps.com/
The dates of the concerts of August in UK , Sweden, Russia, Netherland and US are on line in Mike Watt Hoot Page at http://mikewatt.com/ 
Mike Watt Interview and Bass Lesson. PlayThisRiff.com :

(From left) Mike Watt, Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton and James Williamson in London, May 3, 2010. (Courtesy of Columbia Records)
Photo gallery by Phil Scalia: Grant Hart http://www.philipscalia.com/gh/index.htm
THE NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY 2010
http://www.nationaltabboulehday.com/
Since 2001, a yearly national day, celebrated the first Saturday of the month of July (this year the 3rd of July, 2010), is dedicated to TABBOULEH.
During this day, Lebanese and their friends everywhere in the world meet in private or in public around this king of the mezzé. This artistic, cultural, gastronomic and touristy feast presents them an opportunity to show and to reinforce their attachment to their country. In 2007, the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism granted its approval and its patronage officially for the NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY.
Many events will take place all over the world! wherever there are Lebanese and friends. In downtown Beirut, for example, a big public gathering is organized at Souk el Tayeb in Saifi Village, where savoring and competitions of the best TABBOULEH will take place (www.soukeltayeb.com).
Let's celebrate all together the next NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY that will take place on Saturday July 3, 2010. How? Here are some suggested ways:
In July 3, 2010
- Think about Tabbouleh
- Or do Tabbouleh alone or with friends
- Or do a public Tabbouleh event on your way
While doing so, know that you’re sharing these moments with all the others.
I all cases please take photos and share them on facebook for example. You can also send them to contact@nationaltabboulehday.com so we can publish them on the Website www.nationaltabboulehday.com and/or facebook…
Happy Tabbouleh Day!!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=121197891505
forward the good news! 
Exhibitions 
 Mino D.C.: Tableau d'herbes

Nicolas CUSSAC: exhibition from 1st to 19th September  

Preview of the exhibition: Saturday September 4th, 11 AMAt CAPELLETA de CERET
rue Pierre Rameil
Exhibition from September 1st to 19th 2010
Gallery on line in Interzone Galleries

Galleries
Two slide shows from Collage Art by Claude Pelieu & Mary Beach by Ginger Eades    


Kansas Mandala by Phil Scalia

Video

Those videos are made by Egle, dureing their trip from Lithuania to Portugal in 2009:

- keliones pradzia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxekonmAw4
- keliones II dalis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHf0p1R4qbk&feature=related
Some videos from poetry evening in our home town last autumn (also, don't remember, maybe i already sent those links). There I made music for texts of some my favorite poets - W. Blake, R.M. Rilke, A. Rimbaud.
Vasha

- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : "The Smile" by William Blake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esSKPyZtmUo
- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : Rilke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWcacWumGsM&feature=related 
This report is on line at https://sites.google.com/site/aubertisa/reportjuly10-html and in French at https://sites.google.com/site/aubertisa/reportjuly10fr-html . Between two reports, the info is gathered in Interzone news which is regularly updated.
Wishing you all the best for keeping on your activities after the holidays. 
Cheers.
Izzy 

mercredi 1 septembre 2010

Richard Krech: "Playing the Game" from S.A. Griffin’s “POETRY BOMB” 2010

The Great Game

they called it
in the last years of the 19th Century.


The “Fin de Siecle” time
when the sun never set
on the British Empire,
the fierce Waziristan of Rudyard Kipling
at the center of the “Game”
the center
of the struggle between
Russia and Great Britain.

Lord Durand drew a line
along a map delineating
British India from Afghanistan.

Drew a line thru tribal areas
controlled by the tribes and jirgas
since Alexander.

Drew a line oblivious to the blood
and flag and language ties
on either side
of his scribbles on a map
in London
half a world away.

Mortimer Durand’s arbitrary line
created the no-man’s land
between the tectonic plates
of Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent
where al Qaeda - the base - still thrives.

Irredentist warriors
from the 10th Century
nurtured by the arrogance
of game players
sipping tea in the parlor
in honor of the Queen

10/30/08
Richard Krech

The Poetry Bomb - Project by S.A. Griffin

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1768073198/the-poetry-bomb

The Poetry Bomb is a former U.S. military practice bomb. The artifact will be completely converted into a beautiful object filled with poetry from around the world. When finished, it will have a primo paint job just as if it were a classic car, complete with pin-striping. It will also have a window or portal that will open and close making it possible to not only see inside of the piece, but to take poems out at performances to read out loud, and to add future submissions. Once converted, I will take The Poetry Bomb on tour across the United States, and then, who knows? Plan on beginning the tour in late April of 2010.


I am soliciting funds not only to create The Poetry Bomb, but also, to then take The Poetry Bomb on tour.

Everyone who contributes anything at all will be listed as a participant in the project as a part of The Bomb Squad on Facebook and in any subsequent documentation.

You can follow the progress of the project, help spread the word and get more specifics about submissions (everyone is welcome, everyone!) at the Facebook fan page, "The Poetry Bomb". Please, SUBMIT TO THE BOMB!

(*The short presentation film, "THE POETRY BOMB" is by Christopher Lockett, that's his music in the background too. Thanks Chris!)

Project location: Los Angeles, CA



See also on You Tube: How to build a poetry bomb :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbps2kVoAQ&feature=channel

mardi 31 août 2010

MILK - A poetry magazine


A Poetry Magazine
Volume 1, Number1
Summer 2010

David Barker • Lisa Birman • Dave Donovan
Dan Fante • Nathan Graziano • Andrew Hilbert
Stephen Hines • Jordan Hurder • Justin Hyde
Richard Krech • Linda Lerner • Lyn Lifshin
Ellaraine Lockie • Gerald Locklin
Hosho McCreesh • Brian McGettrick
Brown Miller • Jack Moxie • Michael Phillips
Charles Plymell • M.P. Powers
William Taylor Jr • A.D. Winans

Price: $ 5