tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40822662011-08-25T07:05:19.822-07:00San Diego Poetry Guildnotes on guild, poetry, and San Diegobillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2051100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1123175151339085232005-08-04T09:58:00.000-07:002005-08-04T10:05:51.346-07:00Illinois Valley Poetry GuildI'm passing the SDPG torch to some able bodies here in SoCal and moving to Chicago, where I'll be starting a new guild based somewhere along the Illinois River. Many thanks to current, past, and future sdpg.blogspot readers.To contact the Guild in San Diego, write to: guild "at" factoryschool.orgTo contact me, write to: bmarsh "at" factoryschool.orgCome fall, I'll be blogging via the dead billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1122040200076131392005-07-22T06:47:00.000-07:002005-07-22T06:50:00.076-07:00Czo.jpgbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1120657699087806392005-07-06T06:47:00.000-07:002005-07-06T06:48:19.093-07:00Snowflake.jpgbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1118849728044081992005-06-15T08:34:00.001-07:002005-06-15T08:35:28.046-07:00Shoes.jpgbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1118063897368384212005-06-06T06:17:00.000-07:002005-06-06T06:18:55.406-07:00Landfill.jpgbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1117803985342870682005-06-03T06:05:00.000-07:002005-06-03T06:07:35.933-07:00Desperanto Jr.jpgbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1117545208477542052005-05-31T06:12:00.000-07:002005-05-31T06:15:48.993-07:00Beflute.jpgbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1117031736310262062005-05-25T07:34:00.000-07:002005-05-25T08:39:01.520-07:00Synaesthetic Chortle (A Response to Jonathan Mayhew'sQuestions for Ron Silliman (and everyone else too))1. What is your sense of the poetic tradition? How far back does your particular historical sense range? What defines your tradition? Nationality, language, aesthetic posture? What aspect of your poetic idiolect or tradition most distinguishes you from your closest poetic collaborators? Wavering cloud cover soup in a bowl of deep dark yoga billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com108tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1116968078737184112005-05-24T13:52:00.000-07:002005-05-24T13:56:01.973-07:00Bemsha Swings QuestionsAbout poetry and poetic tradition, alliances, allegiances, allegations. Check in, drop out, shoot an answer.billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1116769248462018482005-05-22T06:36:00.000-07:002005-05-22T06:40:48.466-07:00Small Press DistronationMy prediction is that, as more and more poetry publishers realize what SPD has become (the "lowest rung" as opposed to the "cutting edge"), new points of entry will be imagined, developed, and implemented by publishers to create an organization of some kind that will make cutting-edge publishing actually appealing to the academy, to libraries, and to booksellers.billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1116536371008795132005-05-19T13:56:00.000-07:002005-05-19T13:59:31.013-07:00Witless Witticism #2The question shouldn't be "Are you a poet?" but "What's your poetry and where do I get some?"billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1116514042972396512005-05-18T07:46:00.000-07:002005-05-19T13:59:51.040-07:00Border RoundAre we brinking it best through poetry?A persistent question.billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1115729000809519682005-05-10T05:42:00.000-07:002005-05-10T05:43:20.813-07:00MLBLH p.58 beginAt the time the perpetual Latin of love kept things hiddenbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1115481140676337892005-05-07T08:51:00.000-07:002005-05-09T09:04:03.923-07:00Antennae 7May 2005cover stamp and drawings/text bymark boothpoems bybill marsh / president of the united hearts / ray bianchi / brenda iijima/ james wagner / kiki anderson / rob halpern / robert lax & john beer / daniel borzutsky / kari edwards / dan machlin / matt turnera play bykara feelymusic scores byjennifer walshe / michael pisaro$6Payable to Jesse Seldess / 2325 W Ainslie #1 / Chicago / IL / billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1115324376244946712005-05-05T13:14:00.000-07:002005-05-05T13:25:52.023-07:00Witless Witticism #1What the older generation of poets seems slowest to give up is the idea of "the work"--that still-warm cadaver of literary labor free-standing in a pool of definite articles--and toward this fundamental commitment many have swarmed in search of food, fame, and friendship.billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1114436876247840732005-04-25T06:46:00.000-07:002005-04-25T06:47:56.246-07:00SD Poetry RadioCheck outhttp://myvocabulary.blogspot.com/new indy music and poetryin San Diego!billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1111938428060510352005-03-27T07:46:00.000-08:002005-03-27T07:47:08.063-08:00MLBLH p. 55 beginAny photographer will tell you the same billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com51tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1109950986230368562005-03-04T07:23:00.000-08:002005-03-08T14:45:06.140-08:00San Diego Slam and the Christian RightAbout fifty people meet to judge poetry. The stated rules are pretty clear: three minute time limit, no props, no costumes, just the poet and his/her voice; maximum score 10, minimum score 0, points deducted for every 15 seconds over time; poets judged on "content" and "performance" (5 points each); five judges instructed to be consistent in scoring but also responsive to audience feedback; billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com351tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1108047151859255942005-02-10T06:52:00.000-08:002005-02-10T06:53:15.613-08:00MLBLH p.52 beginReligion is a vague lowing
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1106184491535849742005-01-19T17:21:00.000-08:002005-01-19T17:47:45.966-08:00A Poem Can Now Be Written"...a poem can now be written free of commitment to, or even knowledge of, the formal or material conventions for receiving the poem.
...an author can now create the formal or material conventions for receiving a poem (epitomized in what we now call interface design) free of any specific knowledge about what actual source content will be delivered into that frame."
News from Alan Liu's recent billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com92tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1105293494433392932005-01-09T09:57:00.000-08:002005-01-09T10:00:02.256-08:00New Pix, AudioFrom the last Korova event and Jennifer K. Dick reading.
SDPG Webbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1105285752428590692005-01-09T07:48:00.000-08:002005-01-09T07:49:12.426-08:00...DLG...language is inherited from the dead
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1104772543064526162005-01-03T09:12:00.000-08:002005-01-03T10:53:01.446-08:00Year-End/Begin UpdateTwo years ago, SDPG took off in heavy winds. Now, on the eve of anniversary-2, the skies have opened up with rain. And lots of it. Most know San Diego for its near-ubiquitous sunshine and mild climates, but take a trip out here in December or January, or in March and April when the spring storms hit, and you'll see a different and much wetter side of this "finest city."
The Guild is still a billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1104198965369415102004-12-27T17:55:00.000-08:002005-01-09T07:54:01.546-08:00MLBLH p.48 beginI wrote my name in every one of his booksbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1103581200579269632004-12-20T14:19:00.000-08:002004-12-20T14:21:43.370-08:00Viderupt.jpgbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1102536289207901472004-12-15T13:04:00.000-08:002004-12-20T14:22:36.553-08:00Poetic Method: Editing (part two)Back in October (on Halloween, in fact), I posted a little something about editing and never got around to finishing it. I'll do that now but, first, to summarize that 10.31.2004 post:
A poetic document is always divided into a great number of separate pieces, and an actual poem, ready for use as poetry, must take into account this basic property of the poetic document. The construction of a billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1102450306886427172004-12-07T10:00:00.000-08:002005-01-06T07:06:00.120-08:00SAN-OAK-SAN: Poetry and Strategy(rough draft of an introduction NOT read at the New Brutalist reading this past Sunday)
12.04
The longer the line, the shorter the wait [now boarding]. Should this be an introduction to a poetry of strategic intervention? Instead, I am here to use poetry strategically. Poetry is often at its best when strategic, and a poetics is a calibration of good strategies.
Note: one fine uni-ball is not billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1101750480634128922004-11-29T09:40:00.000-08:002004-11-29T09:48:00.636-08:00Open [up the] MikeSan Diego Poetry Guild hosts "Open [up the] Mike" this Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 7-9pm, at Korova Coffee Bar (4496 Park Blvd.), just south of Adams on Park.
If you're anywhere near San Diego, please come and share your work, ideas, pictures, songs, jokes, ..., whatever else moves and motivates. Projection, amplification, screen, and image/sound database at your disposal.
Hope to see you billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1100454597686651812004-11-14T09:49:00.000-08:002004-11-14T09:49:57.686-08:00Apologiessorry everybodybillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1100272681074079692004-11-12T07:17:00.000-08:002004-11-12T07:18:22.006-08:00...It is hard to turn away from moving water
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1099843126927579822004-11-07T07:57:00.000-08:002004-11-07T07:58:46.926-08:00W(ill) & CapitalIn what sense is 51% a mandate? When capital is accumulated through margins of profit. "I earned political capital, and now I intend to spend it." How can 1.5% represent the national will?billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1099668293108953642004-11-05T07:21:00.000-08:002004-11-10T06:51:07.173-08:00Guild WordsThe following is a list of words that we at S.D.P.G. use to describe ourselves:
active, activist, building, candid(ly), care(ing), challenge, change, children, choice, citizen, commitment, common sense, compete, confident, conflict, control, courage, crusade, debate, dream, duty, eliminate good time in prison, empower, fair, family, freedom, hard work, help, humane, inventive, initiative, lead, billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1099525853800052922004-11-03T15:47:00.000-08:002004-11-04T13:49:20.060-08:00In A Blue State (of Mine)If you voted for Bush
then you have delivered what
the Bush Team now calls a mandate.
In your name, or as they
will say, ‘in the name of the American
People,’ this mandate has been given.
If you voted for Bush, then you
have voted to endorse a Bush policy,
doctrine, philosophy that began some years ago
and now continues into perpetuity—that
was your mandate, regardless of when
Bush leaves, if billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1098816990867373032004-10-31T11:41:00.000-08:002004-11-03T15:51:17.240-08:00Methods of Treatment of the Material[a new installment in an ongoing Assembly Poetics]
A poetic document, and consequently also a poem, is always divided into a great number of separate pieces (more correctly, it is built out of those pieces). The sum of the poem is divided into parts, each part into movements, and, finally, the movements themselves (portions or partitions within a poetic document) are constructed from a whole billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1098812974452197652004-10-26T10:43:00.000-07:002004-10-26T10:49:34.453-07:00SDPG @ KorovaCome see the Guild "transmuted into direct action, formulated not by a formula, but by a form," this Wednesday, 7pm, Korova Coffee House, 4496 Park Blvd. (south of Adams Ave.), in University Heights.
Vox Report, Los Blake, Sycophanticidal Lunacy, Puppet Correspondence, Document Retrieval, "Voice Exchange Rates" (from Tijuana), Watermelon Haiku, and other moments of applied literary activism.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1097795603187509572004-10-14T16:07:00.000-07:002004-10-14T16:13:23.186-07:00And Then Two Weeks Go ByDebates.
Guild Night at Korova, October 27, a Wednesday, about 7pm, maybe 90 minutes of programming followed by Open [up the] Mic.
Theme: "Pre-Election Selection Rejection"
Kicking off with "Next on Jerry Springer," smash-mouthed with Carlos maybe.
Other features: "Los Blake" (Conrad mixed with Dead Man, call-and-response, closing with live commentary, all to the tune of 'Round Midnight).
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1096500098517958572004-09-29T16:20:00.000-07:002004-09-29T16:21:38.516-07:00The Liberal Mindbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1096293096176928622004-09-27T06:43:00.000-07:002004-09-27T07:08:49.556-07:00............#
We have come a long way from what we actually felt
Long hiatus from blogging too. Big heavy summer finally tips over into fall. Stretching out with Combo and Crayon, some Letters of Insurgents, Daly's DaDaDa on deck. Maya and Zazil, who grew up on the stuff, refer to Cat Stevens as "Daddy." Another degree by Halloween.
Kristeva's Powers of Horror, first chapter at least, offers billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1094908117615502802004-09-11T06:08:00.000-07:002004-09-11T06:09:02.130-07:00...........@
An old building creaks, more so by water.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1093017966275692652004-08-20T08:59:00.000-07:002004-08-20T09:06:06.276-07:00Something almost religious.
My Life by Lyn Hejinian (Green Integer 39, 2002) is now one year old.
The first year was marked by a peculiar balance between obsession and burden. On some days, the sentence read like a horoscope, forwards and back. In general, there was something almost religious about it, something idolatrous, something insufficient. Daily meditation (back to the book, the glue ofbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1092412462218321002004-08-13T08:53:00.000-07:002004-08-13T08:55:05.480-07:00...........(
What memory is not a "gripping" thought
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1091024337611592262004-07-28T07:06:00.000-07:002004-07-28T07:19:54.830-07:00...........%
Where are the snows of yester-blog?
Communication: A Poetics is moving along apace.
Meanwhile, "knowledge incorporated" and assorted "techniques of ordering" the "disorder."
A cooler San Diego summer than usual.
But summer in San Diego doesn't start til September.
Anyone going to Zuk-fest then?
In TJ last week, with Mark Weiss and Octavia (Davis), to see "photographs by young billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1089898477629175932004-07-15T06:34:00.000-07:002004-07-15T06:35:35.600-07:00...........>
Transformation as Game
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1089470560865726632004-07-10T07:40:00.000-07:002004-07-10T07:42:57.930-07:00Gesturo-Haptic Lexicon
[R-Y]
reading revision
ring ritual
scientists sow shoe
single slow smell
society/city
sociology
solutions speak spirit spread
stagnant stairway
stone suitable sunset
surround symbol
tailored taking
temple that theology throw away
tied down to traincar
triangle typologies
ultimate
under
up
user
vision
walk walnut
wasting way
we what else?
wonder working write
youth
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1089294715258617922004-07-08T06:49:00.000-07:002004-07-08T06:51:55.260-07:00Gesturo-Haptic Lexicon
[L-P]
lever liberty
life lines
literature LSD
magnetism marks mechanism
metal mistake
missing moment
money
necessary new nomad
nuclear
obstacle
opposite
over
pals
physics plaster point
pray priests print printing press progress
[pronouns] provoke
publish
pyramid
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1089068786579679352004-07-05T16:04:00.000-07:002004-07-05T16:06:26.580-07:00Gesturo-Haptic Lexicon
[E-K]
effective embroidery environments
evolution examines excavation
expertise explodes exponentially
famous facts fire
fly foliage
forget formulations
fulcrum full functionality
future
gambling given
gods grab groups guitar gun
hammer hand hat
hear heart hieroglyphic
history holding home hood house
hurdy-gurdy hybrid
ideas in inciteful increase
individuality intakebillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1088967700172498232004-07-04T11:57:00.000-07:002004-07-04T12:02:33.446-07:00Gesturo-Haptic Lexicon
[A-D]
advance
agree
airplane
alive
all
ancestors
anchored
animals
anonymous
any
appears
architecture
authority
automation
awkward
behind
between
billiards
blow
bodies
body
boundary
breath
build/built
buried
buttressed
[...]
cavalry
chair
chasing
city/society
clay
cold
collect
communication
company
compare
concept/idea
connecting
consolidate
constituted
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1087657466154353002004-06-19T07:59:00.000-07:002004-06-19T08:04:26.153-07:00............?
Bring the page to glow, or,
essay as reflective text.
Otherwise, "technologies of writing"
as a winter seminar(y).
What writing needs
is a poetics of reading.
The Poker
sent me packing.
Cheating corrupts
cheaters corrupt absolutely.
The obvious analogy
is notwithstanding.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1086751789134369532004-06-08T20:26:00.000-07:002004-06-08T20:29:49.133-07:00............n.b.
Coffee with Carlos yields performative mandate: dramatic reading, but not "theater," and a tripartite blue-green-mauve? E.g., street theater in October, but with lots more street in it.
The roughly 400 years separating Hugh's Didascalicon, Montaigne's Essais, and Ted Nelson's "intertwingling" -- a corpulescence of incorporation.
With O: On Educating Educators, or, the billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1086549967815382682004-06-06T12:24:00.000-07:002004-06-06T12:26:07.816-07:00.........n.b.
My Life read against Illich's Vineyard, Hugh of St. Victor's "luminous page" and the quest for the divine through meditative, experiential reading (as pedagogy).
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1085513962329047292004-05-25T12:30:00.000-07:002004-05-25T12:43:30.110-07:00 Plates Form
Group 1: Or, some gnawing negation
impelling all this? (15)
preemptive / authorships (16)
logging on to a collectivizing -- chance? (18)
[defamatory / familiarized (ill ear eyes)]
[Bertolt Brecht: "The Doubter" -- scathing skepticism?]
complimentary encryptionists (authors) (34)
mannerism (36)
[foggy clear density, compounding, great zesty and necessary space/page light, billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1084910003780491802004-05-18T12:48:00.000-07:002004-05-18T13:01:45.896-07:00Head Count
disembodied head (19)
[syntax by affidavit--roiling]
marks fall to the floor everywhere (22)
[alt.slough/text][think MacLow with the same impressive agenda but perhaps a better sense of humor]
Mars needs terrorists [and water] (27)
[raunch of truth and culture wars]
I can no longer fight the delusions of the majority (32)
[the Web is what's on TV] a hobbit and a militant (34)
in billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1084630993070791852004-05-15T07:22:00.000-07:002004-05-15T07:23:53.146-07:00.............#
Like plump birds along the shore
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1083872934362480132004-05-06T12:48:00.000-07:002004-05-06T12:53:13.750-07:00..............(
Freedom Torture.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1083703742771665402004-05-04T13:49:00.000-07:002004-05-04T13:53:30.216-07:00..............!
"That's another thing: Capitalism or the bourgeois world are based on a straight line, and that's part of this destruction. If you go fast enough on a straight line, that's called progress, but you can destory everything. It leads to the bottom--a straight line leads to the bottom. If you keep circling you can't do that, because it's going to return. As a writer--to think on thatbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1083697317633534862004-05-04T12:01:00.000-07:002004-05-04T12:05:42.326-07:00.............&
What distinguishes a game from a non-game?
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1083624418673321002004-05-03T15:46:00.000-07:002004-05-03T15:50:58.670-07:00.............*
The Planet of Craziness -->
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1083100655997843972004-04-27T14:17:00.000-07:002004-04-28T08:25:40.950-07:00SAN - HNL - SAN
SAN: 04.21: 8:30 AM : flight delayed one hour, six hours to Honolulu, three hour time change (splash back) -- Moriarty last night in 26 B on a "poetics of distribution": check penultimate page for great prose poem about the life of a smallpress book -- repetitive stress: hand cramps to hold a pen
pending blog report on last Friday's "Communication in the Wild" showcase at UCSD billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1082556093791115802004-04-21T07:01:00.000-07:002004-04-21T07:05:33.700-07:00............>
Honolulu for Tao Drops, I Change book launch and splash down. Check your local listings.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1081952029554094502004-04-14T07:13:00.000-07:002004-04-14T07:17:40.076-07:00Excential Texts 8: Raworth
From "Letters from Yaddo" in VISIBLE SHIVERS:
This morning I had a letter from Marco Antonio, part of which says:--
I've sent you my long book, COLLECTED POEMS, to the University. Here it has been received with much verbal enthusiasm, but little written criticism. I wonder if it was worth the trouble, and the twenty years I spent writing it.
and he billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1081801476034152122004-04-12T13:24:00.000-07:002004-04-12T13:35:30.106-07:00Toscano Reading Report
SDPG kicked off its reading series on Friday night with Rodrigo Toscano setting the tone (and the bar) for future events. Thanks to him and an enthusiastic crowd of students, teachers, writers, scholars, friends, and unidentified hecklers who, together, made this truly a night to remember.
Just now Elena from across the hall stopped by to thank me again for inviting herbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1081545163112518042004-04-09T14:12:00.000-07:002004-04-09T14:16:27.390-07:00...............&
Three fuzzy looks at what J.R. and I did this past Sunday at 040404 conference in Berkeley.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1081543945390136832004-04-09T13:52:00.000-07:002004-04-09T14:13:47.373-07:00SAN-OAK-SAN
Chez Stephanie, Hayle's remediation as "medial ecology": "robust interactions between media" -- on the kitchen table, Mayakovsky's "How Are Verses Made," and by the back door, a box of Alli Warren's Schema of which a copy my way with a cup of english breaky -- "an ecology in which one medium is remediated in another, only to be remediated in turn" -- decision to lodge visiting billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1081267718461960432004-04-06T09:08:00.000-07:002004-04-06T09:14:09.450-07:00Toscano Reading
SDPG is pleased to present Rodrigo Toscano, this coming Friday, April 9, 7pm. The reading, with reception to follow (and party to follow reception), will be held at the Guild's current headquarters in the Normal Heights area of San Diego.
Originally from San Diego (with some years living in San Francisco), Rodrigo Toscano now lives in New York City, where he works at The Labor billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1080748508009283092004-03-31T07:55:00.000-08:002004-03-31T07:58:57.263-08:00.............@
The obvious analogy is with music
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1080172625167033022004-03-24T15:57:00.000-08:002004-04-06T09:19:35.060-07:00(Micro) Weather Report
words began to push worlds from my mouth
an unconscious and transoceanic plagiarism [ontology]
foolish youth of long ago [then] birdsong!
[mom and sister author(it)s abounding in creases, those missing photos a.k.a. sonnets (hand)]
that childhood condition of surprise endings
dressing room... larger theater [cribbing sky-writing]
my plagiarist's study... time served... billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1078946310675548212004-03-10T11:18:00.000-08:002004-03-10T11:23:07.576-08:00Excential Texts 7
[from P. and P. Goodman's Communitas]
A chief cause of the absurdity of industrial work is that each machine worker is acquainted with only a few processes, not the whole order of production. And the thousands of products are distributed [one] knows not how or where. Efficiency is organized from above by expert managers who first analyze production into its simple processes, billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1078764155286168592004-03-08T08:42:00.000-08:002004-03-08T14:08:35.966-08:00............^
This blog looks like crap in Netscape -- apologies.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1078760041885083702004-03-08T07:34:00.000-08:002004-03-08T07:40:31.436-08:00..............%
K. Silem Mohommad on "the near-inadequacy of trying to have not quite caught up," which covers it for me too.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1078602144146035362004-03-06T11:42:00.000-08:002004-03-06T12:01:54.826-08:00'Desperanto' and the Use of Kinesthetic Translation in Scholarly Performance
Adapting Brecht's notion of the learning play, this presentation takes critical and activist discourse and works it into a kinesthetic theatrical showcase that both entertains and instructs. We are interested in challenging the categorical distinctions that sometimes separate media production, scholarly performance, billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1078412378843384572004-03-04T06:59:00.000-08:002004-03-04T07:04:37.343-08:00Joe Amato on Blogs
[from the Poetics List, posted here with Joe's permission -- this is NOT a plagiarism file]
on the one hand, as alan sondheim suggests, blogs are simply part of a growing online suite---lists, irc, moos, muds, and so forth... and we'll each be free to pick and choose on the basis of what we like, technical difficulties notwithstanding... i've never myself much liked moos/mudsbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1078331408623359742004-03-03T08:30:00.000-08:002004-03-08T08:23:26.950-08:00.............+
Happy birthday (yesterday) to Thedor Geisel -- Seussentennial...
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-107772661335402422004-02-26T08:30:00.000-08:002004-02-27T07:16:02.200-08:00Guild Minute
Neither group nor collective nor "crew" nor org nor political party, SDPG nonetheless gathered last week to talk about, in order: hands, color, membership, the Winter Showcase, our new F.S. intern, the next issue of Zazil2, the next showcase, and the status of the guild as something other than group, collective, crew, etc., but still also those things at least in part.
At heart, billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1077725980684087672004-02-25T08:19:00.000-08:002004-02-25T08:23:57.543-08:00............!
Congratulations to Tim and Kasey -- well done!
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1077234066545700732004-02-20T06:31:00.000-08:002004-02-20T07:01:15.700-08:00What is a Season?
A season is one of the four weather periods of the year. Each season--spring, summer, autumn, and winter--lasts about three months and brings changes in temperature, weather, and the length of daylight.
The changing seasons are caused by the changing position of the Earth in relation to the sun. Astronomers can tell exactly from the Earth's motion around the sun when one billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1077232860482330742004-02-19T15:21:00.000-08:002004-02-19T15:23:38.780-08:00.............(
After I'm done writing about plagiarism I want to do a history of the paper clip. Does anyone know if something like that's been done yet? I've seen (not read) one on the pencil, but not the clip.
Thinking about starting with the feudal genius informing post-industrial bureaucracies, then working through a wide swath of juncture and boundary discourse in order to argue for billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1076858429710876512004-02-15T07:20:00.000-08:002004-02-15T07:23:23.233-08:00..............*
What is the meaning hung from that depend
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1076024682431455462004-02-05T15:44:00.000-08:002004-02-05T16:50:29.403-08:00Tao Drops, I Change
Pleased to announce the release of a new book of poems written and assembled by Steve Carll and moi. Available through Steve, Moi, Subpress, and Small Press Distribution.
Lists for $12 but I'd happily deliver it (postage paid) to any blogger who sends $8 to me at home:
Bill Marsh
7661 Troy Terrace
La Mesa, CA 91941
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1075758783334205792004-02-02T13:53:00.000-08:002004-02-03T20:00:41.250-08:00Lessons I Learned (Again) Watching the Super Bowl
Pepsi and I-Tunes now hold intellectual property rights to the very *idea* of pirating music off the web.
Guys still think being a horny, sexist monkey is cool.
Everybody loves Raymond.
The Northern Patriots have defeated the Southern Black Panthers.
Auto manufacturers can now produce, market, and distribute twelve distinct types of billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1075499920442681562004-01-30T13:58:00.000-08:002004-01-30T14:00:51.530-08:00...............&
New pubs from Factory School, including a reprint of Ron Silliman's Xing. Do please check it out and buy lots of copies for Valentine's Day.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1075497627274762522004-01-30T13:20:00.000-08:002004-01-30T13:23:35.606-08:00SDPG Winter Showcase, Jan 16, 2004
The first thing to know about the San Diego Poetry Guild (if you don't know it already) is that, in fact, it has very little to do with poetry. We've talked about this a lot over the past year-and-a-half or so and have yet been able to escape that strange little nagging (maybe healthy) paradox. We all write or read poetry to some degree (and did so, on and off,billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1074714142736909392004-01-21T11:42:00.000-08:002004-01-21T12:24:01.890-08:00Bruce Andrews: Thinking System
Hopelessly remiss in my blogland duties of late -- reading little and writing less -- but I think of all of you often. Most likely no one's reading this either, so I'll cry tears of guilt by myself and be done with it.
I caught Bruce Andrews reading at the Vis Arts space on UCSD campus last week, and that was fun, especially when Sally Silvers got up and started billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1074122178226533952004-01-14T15:16:00.000-08:002004-01-14T15:19:05.420-08:00SDPG Winter Showcase
When: Friday, Jan 16, 7pm
Where: J.R.'s house, Normal Heights
Who: Bobbie, Ricardo, Bill, Octavia, Jenifer, J.R., Jingle, and a host of participatory others
What: Poetry, real-time text assembly, video interlude, "lecture," haiku bingo, slide show, and more
Why: Because "the imagination is more restless than the body."
Email for directions.
Stay tuned for report.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1073693998206876872004-01-09T16:19:00.000-08:002004-01-09T17:56:14.593-08:00Poker Ante [concluded]
Kaku!
I just got back from Barbara Kruger and Jerome Rothenberg discussing IMAGE & TEXT over at the Vis Arts building at UCSD. The question of categories, as you'd expect, held fast as a centerpiece of conversation.
"Kaku," J.R. noted toward the end, is the Japanese word used for both "writing" and "drawing." He wondered aloud how things might be different in the West billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1073611563039906822004-01-08T17:26:00.000-08:002004-01-08T18:06:10.686-08:00Poker Sub Fic Ant [cont.]
All of which (please see 1.2.04) brings me to what I wanted to write about in the first place -- these three zines and their object or artifact or pseudo-artifact status in a communication framework, assuming that's even a fair place to start.
Editor Mark Wallace, for example, introduces the first issue of Submodern Fiction with a call for "alternative fiction to go billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1073399056985706132004-01-06T06:24:00.000-08:002004-01-06T06:25:56.560-08:00...............!
Happy BD, SDPG.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1073068560529863402004-01-02T10:36:00.000-08:002004-01-09T18:00:32.920-08:00The Poker Sub Fiction Antennae
At the recent MLA conference, I split my time between roughly literary and roughly communication oriented panels. Highlights on both sides included Jena Osman's visually-aided presentation on journalistic found poetry and Peter Jaszi's rather gloomy predictions for copyright and IP law. It was my first time at the MLA, and I went primarily because it was here, in billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1072803981336526552003-12-30T09:06:00.000-08:002003-12-30T09:30:20.093-08:00Special Sessions of the Modern Language Appropriation {San Diego, Dec 31 - Jan 1}
American Airlines Literatures
Anachronistic Literatures
Bargain Bin Literatures
Battered Literatures
Comparative Studies in Moribund Literatures
Comparative Studies in Shotgun Literatures
Comparative Studies in Tangible Literatures
Comparative Studies in Voluntary Literatures
Contagious Literatures
Deer Head billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1072367634375722332003-12-25T07:53:00.000-08:002003-12-25T08:02:24.373-08:00...........@
Some words about the Guild and my part in it -- now on Luminations.
And here are some pix from the "Hotels/Motels" exhibit last weekend -- mentioned in the interview.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1071874494770420512003-12-19T14:54:00.001-08:002003-12-19T15:06:14.013-08:00..............*
Dickens' A Christmas Carol seeps into today's Dead Letter Game.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1071855361179385322003-12-19T09:36:00.000-08:002003-12-19T09:39:27.233-08:00..............!
I third Tympan's seconding of Bemsha Swing.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1071790429640548812003-12-18T15:33:00.000-08:002003-12-18T15:35:04.483-08:00............(
Happy to find "Long Nose Pinnochio Bitch" in my mailbox today.
Thanks Stephanie, Tim, Kasey, and Russel-via-Jonathan.
Of course, my favorite bit was the stuff about the "squirrel puppet."
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1071781035324830892003-12-18T12:57:00.000-08:002003-12-18T12:58:29.700-08:00..............$
I second Tympan.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1071613219078515462003-12-16T14:20:00.000-08:002003-12-16T14:24:21.060-08:00End Fall Quarter 03
End Communication as a Social Force
Final Score:
Market: 14
Public Sphere: 7
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1071156992670744992003-12-11T07:36:00.000-08:002003-12-11T07:37:37.780-08:00Software paraphrases sentences
We paraphrase all the time, often without thinking about it. Try to give a computer the means to reword a sentence, however, and it becomes apparent that figuring out how to say it differently is complicated.
Researchers at Cornell University have tapped a pair of unlike sources -- on-line journalism and computational biology -- to make it possible to billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1070930649397158632003-12-08T16:44:00.000-08:002003-12-09T06:23:02.310-08:00Performance Publishing
I finally got around to reading issue 4 of Tripwire (on "WORK") and that put me in the mood this month to work on some poems.
Writing poems is all "work," obviously, and a particular kind of work that I've affectionately decided to label "the work of generating poems." It's a very guild-like way of talking about poetry, and I'm sure some of my more visionary friends (in billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1069352278024056952003-12-01T07:54:00.000-08:002003-12-03T12:39:47.763-08:00Bad Student Essays, Vol. 1
On M. Bakhtin's Art & Answerability
I'm pretty sure this work is positioned somewhere between Russian Formalism and Neo-Kantian metapsychology. Bakhtin distinguishes his project from R.F., for example, by way of a clear emphasis on material aesthetics, finding the Formalist doctrine of defamiliarization limited and limiting. He proposes that material in art should notbillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1069179894897186662003-11-18T10:24:00.000-08:002003-11-18T11:01:04.246-08:00Fence V6 N1
[btw: I prefer the "b" tag to the "strong" tag for bolding.]
On a journal-munching rampage this month, most recently feasting on Fence including (some of my favs) Anne Waldman, Eugene Ostashevsky, Eleni Sikelianos, Tom Horacek, Susan Schultz, Joshua Beckman, Neal Gill, Claudia Rankine, Sean Casey, Jeff Johnson, and Morgan Beatty.
Plus a stellar performance by Kristin Prevallet, billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1069168402522155682003-11-18T07:13:00.000-08:002003-11-18T07:14:44.920-08:00Sharpies are the drawing world's 'new media.'
-- J.R. Osborn, SDPG
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082266.post-1069085308006129822003-11-17T08:08:00.000-08:002003-11-17T08:09:22.700-08:00Assemble the relatives.
billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784952400457002902noreply@blogger.com0