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The sort of profundity brought about when poetry is utilized for, not inside it, or at it, to it, a sheer, though, vehicle, transparent, ease ( an easy thing is what? ), uncomplicated, finite, pointed, then done. Grief, Loss, Parenthood, Disability, Acute Oppression, Violence, all of which, when mentioned, buoyed in a poetry, don't linger, don't place with, unless they are enacted, compressed into or expand from.
That Berryman quote.
Healing and Optimism. Ok. But the splintering of means, the turning outward and away from what occurs in the writing itself, a unit is made of the written thing, corners are pre-known, the end is the thing that happens and that's that. A poetry that stems from not-poetry, yes, a poetry that does things, yes.
Larry Eigner. Though it's present, is not a sole definition, is moved from, by.
In the case of the most recent Front Porch reading, Vanderbilt, poetry as vehicle intrinsic to healing. Poetry therapist Jennie Linthorst to a full filled room, clear-eyed, her from her first and second book, "my voice shine," "let it speak," "umpteenth," "beams with freedom," "swim towards his longings," "I am..." Really, just very nice, got to me right when I got into the room, showed me her face.
Hot minutes have passed, without pushing into new work much, without an eye on poetries in Nashville, and have dwindled, from oppressions of job from labor that way from season from screens from having so few collisions I am dependent on collisions.
Less tangible, among and the flattening of things is always easy on us. Like Nashville is missing its corners or something.
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But did go to Lyrical Brew poetry evening at the end of May, with Lisa Dordal, Kendra DeColo, Deborah Bernhardt. They read to a good Nashville-sized audience, occupied the whole downstairs coffee section of Barnes N Nobles.
Maya Angelou had just died, the women were on a stage, they each, Deborah Bernhardt in an even, contemplative though lively volume and pace, concerns with language in language, with thought in thought out loud, a processual, koanesque, working towards in the work itself, “my latest emergency,” “direction of our faces,” “what I though to be done thinking,” “let not one put asunder any content,” an authority in somewhat less than authoritative presence ( she did mention recent run-in with a plant she could not chemically deal with which resulted in epidermic rash mess ), and only her second ( ? ) time to Nashville from Knoxville.
Recent Spicer listenings had stayed and rose at Deborah Bernhardts sections ( Morphemics, and Graphemics ), also Leslie Scalapino’s Forest In The Euphrates, and Can't Is Night.
Kendra DeColo began as I believe people were likely to think she would by addressing/invoking/owning/sending a "pussy", and off and running. Bring attention to gender, sexuality, the sexy things by having them present, personified, forming a system of articulation around a thing that perhaps is not articulate ( most bodily things aren't ) but nonetheless prominent, inner dialogues as listener regarding misogyny, empowerment, saying the thing into being, exorcizing the thing out of being, the sonic quality not forceful but easy to let, charged with anatomical renderings, a truly bodied poetics ( this addressed in the after events of the reading, the q and a, the body and its otherness, the somatic, the reclaiming, the ubiquitous claim by all of it), with charm, with really nice covers, banister. All my information in unformed, curse of the transplant, but I think in the same way Jeff The Brotherhood is a Nashville music, Kendra Decolo is a Nashville Poetry, “bearable husks wincing,” “dividing bayous,” the thing with a bodied poetics as hers is its accessbility, its openness to everyone, visible parameters upset by eloquent observations, one’s intimate functions immersed among one’s intimate reformations, a poetry of context where the writing relates always to its carnal origins ( whose origin is not carnal ), I do find it distancing to play devil’s advocate though and not straight advocate. A visceral that entrenches.
Lisa Dordal I was not as familiar, she began with statement of sexual orientation and started the reading with a moment in history. Orbit that breathes, a rhythmic physiology that brought up Lew Welch’s Chicago Poem, a laboring over in pushing terms, Ginsbergian long to that rising syllabically goes, the most narrative of the three that found its structure in propulsion ahead, a deceptive monotony that places attention everywhere to everything, each line told with blame or reward or revelation, renew, push, reveal, renew.
Something reminded of all three, breathy, visceral, obscene, profound, descriptive, pedagogical, urgent, ordered, politicized - Rob Halpern's Music for Porn : First Portion / Portion / Portion
Nextest readings-
6/26 - Vanderbilt, Scarritt Bennett, Poet's Corner - Jennie Linthorst
Plus Lyrical Brew, date ( ? ) usually last week of the month, Barnes & Noble, Vanderbilt
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ALSO ALSO ALSO Caldwell calls it quits after god knows how many years of debauchery, come see it off.
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Missed triple kiss of poetries the other night, guerrillas. More missed readings. The weather turns again, wasps, slats, sleeves, porch, sockless, ice. Nashville is filling now with a visceral hand of vast tones that background it, peripheral but the difference between polaroid and landscape, a context pressing to you where you are, placing sets, why would you not make musics, or arrive at all.
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Dang the thing El Aleph sent, vol. 1 - their first magthing, is a grand pretty thing, popped it open in a car slapped by rain in front of the train graffiti scape, over by the goodwill.
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Plus Sara Renee Marshall's work has been on the repeater of late, her Landscapes Were In My Arms are heist. A real nice big backyard tent is the new Opon #3.
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Readings near -
4/4 - Howlin' After Dark, Howlin' Books ( 8th Ave )
4/10 - Eavan Boland, Vanderbilt, Butrick 102
*Brady Haston show opening at Zeitgeist May 3 whut shut.
Rats, again fell upon me layouts of the vandercampus, nice to walk through hard to walk through to see ya. Kendra Decolo read her stuff elsewhere me charging into exam halls searching elsewheres. If only the polarizing, seeing the thing and people, seeing the people thing.
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Are you going to the Paper Lakes rawk thang this very eve, dang, Beef Oven, plus I think Fly Golden Eagle, Clear Plastic Masks, Ranch Ghost, Blank Range, key key figures in the town town.
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Timber Timbre new album Hot Dreams out next week hootie hoo.
Buy it without seeing it. Not the manner I enjoy getting writing out - behind the velvet sheet of bought. But, and, I am one, of many, to have some thing ( "Paloma: Ground Work" ) in the new only El Aleph Press publication, magazine issue #1 - amongst Sampson Starkweather, Ben Segal, Logan Fry, plus others. It's probably really nice, I think I get a copy too for no moneys.
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Certain portions of my "o n e" chaptered project have been unleashed through soonly Opon #3, and already the Inpatient Press subsection called 'The Webworks Plexus.' Please do, I intend them to be interred into a chappy done up with the illustrations of the Crawford.
I will charge five buckos for it and they all go to opening of an IRA as per insistent family requests.
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Soon, in town -
3/20 - Vanderbilt, Visiting Writers Series, Kendra DeColo
3/27 - Scarritt Bennett Center, Gary McDowell
Lyrical Brew recent : mass and volume are some indication of the density, also are the figures toward what these move. Perhaps the largest turnout as of yet. TJ Jarrett, Jeff Hardin.
Gary L McDowell - the reasoning is the less fixed a thing the more open it is ( steaknive - laddle ), the oscillations are a difference of, and heavily, approach ( for the brunt of the difference ), influence or 'craft' or trajectory, having an arc means seeing its beginning as such, knowing it gets its way, as in metonymy, as in if the thing itself has its parts as analogy, web, orbit, relation is its project, at hand, not necessarily sensuous or sensical. I attribute a large portion of these to the manufacturing of the thing, "I have no desk" is: guerrilla, direct, synaptic, jot, stitch, thread count visible and helm, the thing is arrayed going, should be so, and, here, is so.
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And Damien, Kentucky, minimalist.
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Plus Philip Seymour Hoffman ( ? )
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Capote
The Master
The Big Lebowski
Ol' baby-cheek-wingbone Meagen Crawford has a webstation ( ! ) - bluhz.com. Throughout which one can zoom sectors and move around minutiaes, continually reorganize the layers of, hierarchies of, syntax of.
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Opon has agreed to principals, to put up entrance to "o n e" ( I ) plus more : II, III, V, X, XI, XVI, XX. Their next is up in the next month or two, maybe February March time.
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Plus a new reading space in town, still Vanderrelated, on campus - Space 204 ( ? ) Anyhow, it hosts the second next most closest reading, city.
1/29 - Lyrical Brew, Barnes & Noble ( W. End )
2/22 - Space 204, Vander
