Let's Pretend It's Week One Of The SWP!

L. Moriarity 7/4/05:

{Hamlet: The Rest is Silence/ writing is space in collaboration with reader

(on video) Norma at rest at California Historical Society show in San Francisco/ Norma on the staricase/ Norma laying at the base of the staircase.

a short exercise: scout, scissors, unavowable, nicole brossard speaks of homogeneity when she speaks, I said the same, I met a man who was Laura’s husband who plays blue grass, in fact I recently saw him in the new SPD catalog playing what looked like bluegrass.
—to read the space

Faculty Panel 7/4/05:

L. Moriarity- (don’t except the horse trojan)/ Blake’s “without unceasing practice nothing can be done”/ the writer of self-destruction.
S. Bitsui- practice crossing borders/ bringing places together/ irrational places/ computers changing the way we see the written word (digital age conversions)/ Navaho Nation lacking a “written language” but families compensating by inventing “code” to communicate with each other.
B. Scheffel- writing is a force (this is a judgment, but why was bill invited to speak on this panel?...he didn’t say ANYTHING)/ Trumpa as “inventor” of Naropa/ Jared Hayes says “totally old school Naropa.”
J. Kyger- not practicing to win but practicing Ikebana as an “everyday”/ self is overrated/ write down the date/ time while writing a journal/ poem...what’s going on right now/ “get it while it’s hot!”

MFA Meeting 7/4/05:

1. what does it mean to be raised in the Bay Area?
2. What organ do you write with? e.g., eyes, ear, mouth, body (not an organ but a unit of organs)
3. what does/ has family meant to your current occupation (poet/ career/ school etc.)?
4. how does community manifest? Could you function as a writer without community?
5. what are your reading habits?

L. Moriarity 7/5/05:

would tea?/ I’m/ that’s hyphy!/ post partum depression/ with vitamins/ and exercise/ in this/ room/ I like/ mostly red

L. Moriarity 7/7/05:

terrorist attacks in London/ subway/ double-decker bus (cut in half)
how does lineage change over time? what is lineage? where is lineage?// tea or BBQ? (BBQ I say emphatically)
“is Barbara Guest being ‘very Western Civ’”
lapidary-like jewelry (in relation to Barbara Guest)
Benjamin Hollander asks “can we still talk about the “L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E wars?”

E. Sanders Lecture (Olson/ Creeley) 7/7/05:

poet as investigator/ prophet without death
Creeley has more academic papers on him than Madonna (hardy har)
“the saturation job”- Olson’s notion of the first big research done by a poet/ Olson’s S.J. was his research on Melville, “Call Me Ishmael”
Pound encouraged Olson to be a writer of manifesto’s possibly leading Olson to his “Projective Verse.”

L. Moriarity 7/8/05:

rap vs. traditional song/ Alan Gilbert-----Aesop Rock
Laura says “poety” “stealy” “admiry”...words cyborged by “Y”...ex. “i am very admiry of this”/ i think this is great.
Laura as part of the Analytic Lyric movement/ Analytic Lyric/ though these books lower case, analytic lyric 1. call me ishmael 2. my emily dickinson 3. rituals of truce 4. my life 5. Benjamin Hollander, Norma Cole, Michael Palmer, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Laura Moriarity, David Levi Strauss, ACTS 7 (ordered today...hip hip hooray!!!)
the life of the book/ what the “poor book” goes through to get out of your head into the hands of the reader (...and then burned by the publisher...rip BOUT BOUT)

K. Abbott Lecture (kerouac and Haiku) 7/8/05:

Kerouac’s Book of Haiku as a book of contemplative practice (um...)/ “memorybabe” as Kerouac’s nickname as a child (um...)/ haiku is not figurative representations they are intuitive rather, they point to original intuitions (ah...yes!)