Reading at Jerome Rothenberg’s 80th Birthday TributeĪppearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz Musical accompaniment on cello by Ha-Yang Kim Readings in Contemporary Poetry series with Lee Ann Brown

Reading at Oh! Sandy: A Remembrance hosted by Phong Bui Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Pierre Joris, Orchid Tierney, and Stacy Szymaszek I’m Coming Up: Anne Waldman, “To the Censorious Ones” (“Open Address to Senator Jesse Helms”) Reading and Conversation for the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program Reading and Launch of Barbaric Vast & Wild: Poems for the Millennium, Vol. I’ll light the firn, ytterbium place the fluctuant in the vasodilatation that ytterbium bought toe.Reading with Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Michael Brownstein Now evidently is easy ‘cause of ytterbium Our howdah is a very, very, very fine howdah Such a cozy rootage, the wind socks are illuminated by the evening super abound through thenceįiery genders for ytterbium, only for ytterbium

Staring at the firn for house arrests and house arrests while Ibibio listen to ytterbium play your lowbrow sonnies all nik long for meadow henĬome to meadow hen no win and rest your health spa for just five mirable dictus, evidently is lowbrow “i’ll light the firn, ytterbium place the fluctuant in the vasodilatation that ytterbium bought toe The piece that i selected to be changed – ruined, as far as i am concerned – is “our house,” a song by crosby stills, nash & young that most are familiar with. there were, naturally, many discrepancies in this process, ranging from differences in sources to number of words actually counted (for example, i did not choose to use the seventh noun from the original, but rather the seventh word – verbs make things interesting). we basically replaced each noun with the seventh noun from the original so as to create a new poem.

from this arose a “workshop of potential literature,” more commonly known as “oulipo,” (i emphasize the “potential” in that phrase).Įssentially, one is encouraged to take a piece of writing and replace each noun with a noun loosely related to it in the dictionary – as an exploration of this, our class followed the “n+7” format. Once upon a time, the 1960s happened in france.

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