Let's Pretend it's Week Three Of The SWP!

C. Rankine 7/18/05:

Robert Lowell as the “new knight” of the modernists until he had a mental breakdown.

C. Rankine’s one rule for writing Don’t Let Me Be Lonely “don't lie to yourself” (if you find yourself being tricky cross it out!)

Week Three Panel 7/18/05:

L. Robertson- buildings in Vancouver last on average 15 years before they are torn down/ “i got off the bus in a neighborhood that i believed i knew like the back of my hand and had no idea where i was."
R. Toscano- an other-world problematic/ a poem with more than one word in it/ what lies on the other side of a singular word?/ target audience (postmodern promissory notes).
M. Delatorre- has really cool glasses.
A. Hollo- “words words as if all the worlds were there” R. Creeley/ poetry-don’t write for an audience.

a translation of Rodrigo Toscano
“Juliana Spahr has taken this perspective that I have been talking about and applied it in her book, Response. In Response, she supposes the strategies that television talk shows apply are literary strategies, that is, literary methodologies. And so if television talk shows are actively employing literary strategies to reach their viewers, I ask, who is this fabled general population (audience) that we as artists are supposedly talking down to?"

C. Rankine 7/19/05:

newmediapoets.com (claudia’s website)

A. Waldman Socratic Rap 7/ 19/ 05:

“coefficient of weirdness” (J. Rothenberg) the strangeness of language re: oral poetic traditions/ Antonin Artaud “we are listening to him!”

C. Rankine 7/20/05:

the image in a book or poem needs to extend the weight of the text/ keep the space active/ check Hejinian’s The Language of Inquiry for “Happily”.../ phosphene reaction-the stars you see when you push on your eyes.

E. Robinson 7/25/05:

send us out!/ let’s try a perceptual, exploratory experiment/ a scavenger hunt for language/ bibliomancy/ in what ways is this continuos with my work? in what way is it dissimilar? if it were a person being forced to talk what would it reveal about me as a writer/ recent or long term preoccupation?/ RE-BARBITIVE...(how come i hear A. Waldman's voice while typing this?)

L. Mullen Lecture 7/25/05:

saying you hate Gertrude Stein is like saying you hate Saturn/ art is fact/ agit-prop- agitation propaganda (i still haven't a clue what this means)

MISC.:

and now, that deathmetal band HATEBEAK that has a parrot as its lead singer...my favorite song “God Of An Empty Nest”...and then Caninus that has two pitt bull’s for their lead singers...this all reminds me of Stacy Szymaszek’s “parrot watching, parrot-friends, parrots the century”/ “lot’s of female poet’s with GREAT BODIES of work” J. Yao (for shame mr. Yao...for shame)