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.
Poetry Congress (aka PoJam) at Paul Baker’s House in Madison WI
I recorded a portion of the performances and readings at last week’s Avant Writing Symposium.
If you can get past the sometimes shaky camera work I think you’ll find a lot to enjoy:
Several clips of the Be Blank Consort in performance at OSU’s Urban Arts Space
Tzara in Oblivion performed by Camille Bacos and mIEKAL aND
Composition for Nine Voices and With Two Incidents by C. Mehrle Bennett
What Word Once Was, composed and performed by Geof Huth
A portion of Reid Wood’s performance piece “Don’t”
Guaniauiqui: What is the digital avant-garde? a talk by Loss Pequeňo Glazier
I met some astoundingly creative people at the Avant Writing Festival last week at Ohio State U. Among them were several contributors to Wordsalad radio. I’ve posted photos and will post some video when time permits. Thank you, John M Bennett, for bringing us all together. Geof Huth has posted many thoughtful things at visualizing poetics; others have too, I’m sure.
Last night at Avol’s Books we heard from Crag Hill, James Yeary, and mIEKAL aND, all of whom are heading to Columbus tomorrow for the Second Annual Avant Writing Fest at Ohio State. This event was part of Madison’s “____ – Shaped Reading Series.”
Crag HillPart 1 Part 2 James Yeary Part 1 Part 2 mIEKAL aND Part 1 Part 2
Crag Hill until recently edited SCORE, one of only two journals dedicated exclusively to concrete/visual poetry. In the last three decades his work has appeared in over 100 journals and anthologies, including several available online. With Nico Vassilakis, he is editing the first major anthology of visual poetry, The Last Vispo Anthology, due out this fall. His creative and critical works in progress can be found at http://scorecard.typepad.com.
James Yeary is a poet and visual/performance artist living in Portland, Oregon. He is a member of the Spare Room collective for whom he recently organized a festival of poetry for multiple voices. He is publisher of the chapbook series c_L books and is co-author (with Nate Orton) of the zine series my day. His work has appeared in ditch, Peaches & Bats, and SHIFTER.
mIEKAL aND is a longtime DIY cultural anarchist & the creator of an infoplex worth of visual-verbal lit, audio-art, performance ritual & hypermedia, all distributed by Xexoxial Editions. His hypermedia works reside at JOGLARS Crossmedia Broadcast (http://www.joglars.org). Since 1991, he has made his home at Dreamtime Village (http://www.dreamtimevillage.org), a hypermedia / permaculture village project, located in the driftless bioregion of southwestern Wisconsin.
Avant Writing Symposium 2010
Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books & MSS Library
The Ohio State University Libraries
August 19-21
Downloadable posters and schedules
THURSDAY AUGUST 19
8-10 AM – Registration & continental breakfast
10 AM – Keynote Address: Dr. Marvin A. Sackner
Erotica, Pornography, and Obscenity in Contemporary Concrete and Visual Poetry, and, Visual Verbal Imagery
11:00 AM – Keith A. Buchholz & Reed Altemus
FluxFast: Performing Fluxus Scores by Contemporary Networkers
11:30 AM – Tom Beckett: Questions: What do I know? What should I do?
12:00-1:00 Break for lunch
1:00 PM – Lizabel Mónica: 21st Century Cuba: Literature in Transition
2:00 PM – K. S. Ernst: Three-Dimensional Poetry: the Ghosts of Words
2:30 PM – F. A. Nettelbeck: F. A. Nettelbeck Reads, Out the IN Door
3:00 PM – Suzanne Silver: Blacklists/Whitelists: An Artist’s Book
3:00 PM – Paul Baker: Wordsalad: A Radio Show
3:30 PM – William James Austin: Deformatism and the Avant-Garde
3:30 PM – Chris Burnett
Writing Imaging: Early Image Processing as Found Literature
4:00 PM – Nico Vassilakis: Staring at Vispo: LETTERS
4:30 PM – Thomas M. Cassidy: Disjointed: A Performance
5:00-7:00 PM Break for dinner
7:00 PM – The Be Blank Consort
Scott Helmes, K. S. Ernst, Sheila E. Murphy, John M. Bennett, Michael Peters, Geof Huth, Thomas M. Cassidy, mIEKAL aND, Nico Vassilakis, and others
Sound Poetry Performance
FRIDAY AUGUST 20
8:00 AM – Continental breakfast
9:00 AM – Olchar E. Lindsann: Somasemia: Poems Wearing Meat-Suits
9:30 AM – Gerald Schwartz
Strategies Against the God of World: Bring Me the Head of the Semiotic Goethe (performance)
9:30 AM – William R. Howe: Holographic Poetry: Disrupted by Hand
10:00 AM – Luis Bravo
Tamudando/Ischanying (Voces & Sonidos/Voices & Sounds)
11:00 AM – Sheila E. Murphy
Text and Art to Honor the Occasion: Renewing the Public Role of Poetry and Art
11:30 AM – Joel Lipman: The Sciart of Bern Porter’s Found Poetry
12:00-1:00 PM Break for lunch
1:00 PM – Martín Gubbins: Presentation of Visual Poetry: London Poems
2:00 PM – Jean Kusina
Visual-Cine-Poetry: The Alphabetical Experimental in Film and Video
2:00 PM – Rachel Heberling: To Achieve Typing Power: An Artist’s Book
2:30 PM – Loss Pequeño Glazier: Guaniauiqui: What Is the Digital Avant-Garde?
2:30 PM – C. Mehrl Bennett: Mailart, Visual Poetry, Fluxus: A Connection
3:00 PM – Roger Santiváñez: De Huidobro a Parra: Martín Gubbins & Beyond
3:30 PM – Antonio Bonome: The Visual Arts and William S. Burroughs
3:30 PM – Crag Hill & Nico Vassilakis: The Lastvispo Anthology: What Then, What Now?
4:00 PM – Gary Barwin: The Myopic School Bus of the Tongue
4:30 PM – John M. Bennett: Reading/Performance & Las Cabezas Mayas/Maya Heads
5-7:00 PM – Award Reception
SATURDAY AUGUST 21
8:00 am – Continental breakfast
9:00 AM – Jorge Luiz Antonio
Digital Avant-Garde Experimental Poetry: Another Genre of Contemporary Poetry?
10:00 AM – Reid Wood: Don’t: Performance
10:30 AM – Mary Jo Bole: Toilet Worship/Toilet Talk
11:00 AM – Endwar: An Eye for an I
11:30 AM – Séamas Cain: Elective Affinities & Random Actions
12-1:00 PM Break for lunch
1:00 PM – Wilton Azevedo: Atame Angustia do Precario: Visual Poetry
2:00 PM – Will Napoli: Protext and Then Some
2:00 PM – Roger Santiváñez: Poetry Reading Neo-Barrok
2:30 PM – Michael Peters: A Press Conference Celebrating the Donation of Priceless Archival Fleury Colon Material to the OSU Libraries
3:00 PM – Richard Kostelanetz: Seductions: A Performance Piece with Audience Participation
3:00 PM – David Baratier & David Baptiste Chirot: The Vizpo of Public Space
3:30 PM – Thomas L. Taylor In Memoriam: A Reading
John M. Bennett, Olchar E. Lindsann, Tom Cassidy, Sheila E. Murphy, Warren Fry, Michael Peters, F. A. Nettelbeck, Michael Peters
4:00 PM – Geof Huth: What Word Once Was
4:30 PM – mIEKAL aND & Camille Bacos: Tzara in Oblivion
5-8:00 PM Break for dinner
8:00 PM – Jim Leftwich, C. Mehrl Bennett, John A. Bennett, and others
Collaboration festival, performances, vispo mail art exhibit, and other celebrations
Enjoyed another very well attended Monsters of Poetry reading last night at Project Lodge.
Listened intently. Bought some books. Chatted some.
Mike Sheehan
Nick Lantz
Ander Monson
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I’ve posted video of readings by Ron Ellis and Russell Gardner, who performed at Avol’s Books 17 June. They were accompanied by guitarist Angela Smith and percussionist Tom Zografi.
More about Ron
More about Russell
Last night we heard four very distinctive voices read here in Madison.
Jennifer K. Dick, instructor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at L’École Polytechnique in Lozère, France. She co-edits Amsterdam-based lit mag Versal.
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Rusty Russell, long-time host of Madison’s CheapAtAnyPrice open mike, slam poet, and author of the chapbook Witness.
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Steve Timm, sound poet and author Disparity, available from http://www.blazevox.org .
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Brett Eugene Ralph’s poems have been anthologized in The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets and The Stiffest of the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader.
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Artist. Poem. Source.
allen ginsberg. charnel ground. ginsberg audio collection. harper collins
anne waldman. my ongoing query. matching half. farfalla
dana ward. dogs of love. shaped reading series. private recording
jesse glass. part 4. babes of the abyss. ahadada books
john coletti out you go now. cy-press. pennsound
marc smith. bold new americans. quarters in the jukebox. em press/ slampapi
maria damon & mIEKAL aND. from eros/ion. avol’s reading. private recording
sonya renee. stop looking. thick girl.
vanessa place. i heard the lark. segue series. pennsound
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