playlist 29 may

artist.   track.   cd title.   label.

ani di franco. it can be kind of deceiving. ..

bern porter & mark melnicove. the world slowed down; mole speech. eternal poetry festival. audio muzixa qet

brian michael tracy. driving with dante; your poem. Midnight Tea: A second cup. midnightteapoetry

brion gysin. i am that i am; junk is no good baby. ubuweb.

caroline bergvall. figs 1-4. pennsound.

cecil taylor. track 4. chinampas. ubuweb

glossolalia. chandetan. black sail. glossolalia-blacksail

julianna spahr. blood sonnets. SUNY Buffalo. pennsound

kathleen fraser. a definite mountain. something even human voices. pennsound

leslie scalapino. bum series. way. pennsound

lisa jarnot. suddenly last summer. poems from ring of fire and black dog songs

Twitter poetry

I thought I had invented a new genre of writing, but guess what …

playlist 15 may

caroline bergvall. flesh according to … ; more pets. pennsound. pennsound

chuck stebelton. duplex duplex. denver reading. private recording

jane ormerod. bowling green at night. nashville invades manhattan. nashville invades manhattan.

joan labarbara & kenneth goldsmith. 1666. 73 poems. lovely music

joan retallack. autographia literaria. SUNY Buffalo reading. pennsound

kenneth gaburo. maladetto part 1 & 2 Lingua II. pogus

lyn hejinian. solitude. woodland pattern reading. private recording

peter gizzi.  beginning with a phrase; a panic that can still come upon me. close listening. pennsound

tom raworth. the vein. big slippers on. pennsound

william s burroughs. outside the pier prowled like electric turtles. giorno poetry systems v 4. mercury

playlist 8 may

artist. track. cd title. label

bob holman. January;  on the street named pedro. awesome whatever. bowery

caroline bergvall. Gong; penn sound singles. pennsound

chuck stebelton. the aspiration gene; the second coming. denver reading. private recording

genny lim. the only language she knows. Lip: the cd with a big mouth. ruby throat

ima aikio arianack. sami poetry. rattapallax v 13. rattapallax

jane ormerod. notorious. nashville invades manhattan.

john m bennett. blade me down; cloud gg nat. la m al. luna bisonte

minton sparks. killing time; mama flies a car. this dress. mintonsparks com

ron silliman. co payment; elegy for larry eigner. segue reading series. pennsound

sapphire. face in the wilderness. poems not fit for the white house.

tom raworth. all fours; wit wither. big slippers on. Pennsound

An attitude toward information

“Poetry in America reflects struggle ….   It is class war–and more–conducted through the normal social mechanisms of verse. The primary ideological message of poetry lies not in its explicit content, political though that may be, but in the attitude toward reception it demands of the reader. It is this “attitude toward information” which is carried forward by the recipient. It is this attitude which forms the basis for a response to other information, not necessarily literary, in the text. And, beyond the poem, in the world.”

–Ron Silliman, The New Sentence, Roof Press, 1977/87

playlist 1 may

artist. track. CD title. label

cecil taylor. track 3. chinampas. ubuweb.

jane ormerod. the shadow the doubt the fury. nashville invades manhattan.

john m bennett. selections. globbolalia. luna bisonte.

laurie anderson. ouija board. the ugly one with the jewels. warner.

lyn hejinian. the curtain is flapping. woodland pattern reading. private recording.

melody sumner carnahan. the bench. carnahan sonami. burning books.

taylor mali. reading allowed. icarus airlines. words worth ink.

wm s burroughs. handkerchief masks. giorno poetry systems 4. mercury.