February 28, 2007
February 22, 2007
Playlist 22 february
Selections from “gertrude stein reads,” Caedmon recordings:
A valentine to sherwood anderson.
From the making of americans.
Madame recamier.
Portrait of henri matisse.
Portrait of picasso.
Selections from Penn Sound:
A portrait of TS eliot.
Gertrude stein interview.
Portrait of christian berard.
She bowed to her brother.
Bonus track: Charles Bernstein. ‘Poetry month.’ NPR, April 2001.
Thanks to Cyrena Pondrom for her commentary
Music:
John cage. Dream; Music for marcel duchamp. in a landscape. Catalyst
Steve reich. six marimbas. Nonesuch
Steve reich. music for large ensemble; violin phase. ECM
February 19, 2007
Gertrude Stein in (con)text(s)
This week’s Wordsalad will continue the observance of Gertrude Stein’s birthday month with more audio clips, augmented with commentary by Cyrena Pondrom, whom I interviewed today. A professor of English at UW-Madison, Pondrom speaks to a broad range of issues and artistic movements in modernism and the avant garde. She is now on my Top Ten list of people I’d like to have a beer with. But Pondrom may ruffle some feathers as she argues that we’re mistaken to apply the term “post-modern” to any living artist. Why? Because we’re still teasing out all the implications of what the modernists set out a century ago.
“Post- ” is premature.
As radio is an aural medium I’ll include complementary music, by Steve Reich (whose shimmering cells of slowly changing micro units offer an analogue to some of Stein’s prose) and by John Cage (check out Cage’s debt to Stein in Richard Kostelanetz’s “John Cage (ex)plain(ed)” and Joan Retallack’s “Musicage: Cage Muses on Words Art and Music”). If radio were a visual medium I’d provide images by Picasso and Duchamp. But it ain’t, so I hope you’ll tune in anyway for this week’s Portrait of Pondrom on Wordsalad (1 p.m. Thursday at www.wsum.org).
February 17, 2007
Audio archive available
Wordsalad streams live Thursdays at 1 p.m. Central, at www.wsum.org. If you can’t listen then, you can download shows as mp3 files at your convenience.
February 15, 2007
show notes, 15 february
Words:
andrea gibson. when the bough breaks. when the bough breaks. andreagibson.org
ange mlinko. poem bejeweled with proper nouns. frequency audio journal. Penn sound
charles martin. autopsychography. rattapallax 11. rattapallax
gertrude stein. from the making of americans 1 and 2. gertrude stein reads. caedmon
jennifer coleman. coney island. frequency audio journal. Penn sound.
lola haskins. from ambitions for piano. selected poems
marc bamuthi joseph. the spoken world.
mark weber. know then. albuzerxque vol 20. zerx press
molly russakoff. abnormal psychology. frequency audio journal. Penn sound
norman fischer. from I was blown back. close listening on WPS1. Penn sound
patrick donnelly. sotto voce.
sina queyras. surface. rattapallax 11. rattapallax
steve dalachinsky. the tv is totally broken. incomplete directions. Knitting factory
tom raworth. 60 words i’ve never used before. no hard feelings. Corbett vs. dempsey
Music:
daniel lentz. is it love/ on the leopard altar. Cold blue
dub taylor. lumiere. lumiere. varese international
jim fox. descansos, past. Cold blue
February 8, 2007
playlist 8 february
Words:
andrea gibson. photograph. when the bough breaks
andrea gibson. yarrow. when the bough breaks
brenda coultas. opening the cabinet. rattapallax 11
charles bukowski. farewell foolish objects. 70 minutes in hell
elena alexander. isn’t it romantic. rattapallax 11
gertrude stein. madame recamier. gertrude stein reads
gertrude stein. portrait of T.S. Eliot. penn sound
jonathan chin. dirge for agha shahid ali. i quake
lauren camp. the invisible line of sleep. albuzerzque vol. 20
lola haskins. aquarium. selected poems
lola haskins. farm wife. selected poems
marc bamouthi joseph. ayana’s tears. sampler cd
marc bamouthi joseph. spoken word. sampler cd
merry fortune. inter. rattapallax 11
patrick donnelly. every night. sampler cd
patrtick donnelly. instant coffee. sampler CD
sheila chandra. speaking in tongues. moonsung
steve dalachinsky. blue #1. incomplete directions
Music
kyle gann. long night. long night. Cold blue
rick cox. fade. Fade. Cold blue
Happy birthday Gertrude
Gertrude Stein’s birthday falls in February. She’s credited with reinventing language, in a way, and with influencing a number of important writers. I’m airing tracks of her reading during the next few shows. You can listen to her anytime you want by pointing your browser to Penn Sound or to Ubuweb. Biographical and critical information is available at Ellensplace , at tenderbuttons , and Modern American Poetry, among other sites.
February 2, 2007
Janet, in person
I was happy to finally meet, in person, Janet Kuypers, our friend and correspondent in Chicago. She’s a writer and performance artist and publisher. It was a treat to have a couple hours to talk with her about art and music and poetry over a couple of good hearty German beers. I’ve enjoyed airing her work on WordSalad and more of her material is coming up in future programs.
Janet and Paul
mORE on mIEKAL
Here are a few more links to mIEKAL aND’s multifaceted work. Enjoy browsing through this material and following the paths.
mIEKAL’s Electronic Poetry Center author page
The Samsara Congeries project
Spidertangle: International Network of VisPoets
Internalational Dictionary of Neologisms
Dreamtime Village: Hypermedia Permaculture EcoVillage in Southwest Wisconsin
mIEKAL aND. Photo by CamillE BacoS
February 1, 2007
Today’s guest: mIEKAL aND
I was happy to have in the studio today mIEKAL aND, whose work I’ve known about for a long time. mIEKAL publishes Xexoxial Editions and Joglars Crossmedia Beliefware, writes poetry and prose, and composes and performs music. We spoke about epic poems, spam poetry, visual poetry, and the Mail Art movement, among other things.
