A bagel a day could land near eggs.
After Cleastor escapes to Houston, D goes to hell.
Bonjour – do we need to piñones you?
Coital Touchdown! Goldbrick tried to leave.
Dad said: Mean plays do not hop on a dinner
Did you see my solo egg hairdo on the phone chip?
Dude being laid out needs total Giselman on the path.
Garris took a home-grown shower.
Haut monde (a.k.a. Che) missed Joan and her parakeet
I just got Jay signorina mano a mano.
I ween that these are good for me
In Omaha, call all the food police and pendalia police
Jake Scholl and his faithful soul watch on the roof.
Leon McGee being done on the blowmold mantra.
Mom was Knobbly that afternoon
Nick started the morning off feeling the seas and naming Nephi to read Hulu.
Osama owns a Sueola, but status will not send them to Carmel
Saying bonjour and doing community can flatten you, but say Hi and get hit.
Taddei made his blitz so Wyngaard could watch over two.
They landed fast when Mineo found Leo at the death meeting.
Up on the WinMag & over the hospital to Bassetdale Loda we go
You can leave Ono and my iPhone for the evening.
Poetry Congress (aka PoJam) at Paul’s House
Kevin Ducey and Bridget B. were in town and along with Madison residents Matthew Stolte and Paul Baker- and Ohio duo John M. Bennett and me – We were a six-fold congress on Dec.23rd, hosted by Paul in his basement den.
http://cmehrlbennett.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/poetry-congress-at-paul-bakers-house-in-madison-wi/
Catching Up with Rimbaud
Recently finished a short bio of Arthur Rimbaud by Edmund White, which led me to check out the Steinmetz biography. Wildly entertaining. And now i want to read the new Alfred Jarry bio from MIT Press.
What music have you been listening to recently?
I’m revisiting recordings from the 1980s of the Russian avant jazz-performance art group, the Ganelin Trio. I admire their energy and stop-on-a-dime precision, within a swirl of chaos. On the other end of the density spectrum I’m reacquainting myself with Morton Feldman’s work. I like its pure transparency.
New verbo musico improv from Poltergeist Trio
poltergeist trio
Last Saturday my friends Andy Gricevich and Kevin Ducey joined me for an evening of rehearsed improvisational risk taking of the musical and poetic kind. Inspired by 1960s recordings of poets backed by musicians, we decided to put our own spin on things.
I’ve posted audio mp3s at Audioboo. I’d love to hear what you think.
Crosshatxh series continues at Avol’s Books
Thanks again to Laurel Bastian for curating a wonderful reading series here in Madison. Crosshatxh now makes its home at Avol’s Books. I’ve posted videos from 3 readings last night.
Steel Wagstaff is a graduate student in English literature at the UW-Madison, where he studies 20th Century American poetry and environmental criticism. Watch
Marne Bruckner is a 19-year-old poet and spoken word artist who grew up in Washington Heights, NYC. She received a First Wave scholarship to the UW-Madison for her poetry and was a part of the 2010 UW-Madison CUPSI team. Watch
Rebecca Hazelton is in character here as Anne Sexton. Rebecca is the Jay C. and Ruth Hall Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Creative Writing Institute. Watch
Sterling and Laurel present new work
I enjoyed attending a reading presented by the UW-Madison Institute for Creative Writing.
Held at Avol’s Books downtown, last night’s program featured two writers.
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain is the 2010-2011 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the wisconsin institute for creative writing, UW-Madison. He was born and raised in northwest Montana on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. He attended the University of Montana, where he majored in creative writing, and from which he accidentally graduated in 2005. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2010. After finishing his time as a Wisconsin fellow, he plans on returning to the rez.
Here’s his reading.
Laurel Bastian is the 2010-2011 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the wisconsin institute for creative writing, UW-Madison. She founded, coordinates, and teaches with the Writers in Prisons Project, produces and hosts the Crosshatxh Poetry series, and has work seasoning print and online journals (see links at laurelbastian.org). She is this year’s recipient of the Elizabeth Curry Prize in Poetry and two Pushcart nominations.
Here’s her reading.
