Then were when I missed out on some things, sure. There was that Live On The Green thing. Ty Segall. Some other things plus sleep. The main was the Bruce Beasley reading, over at Vanderworld. Seemed like a promising event too. Detroit ( whut ) has its winner, to forward, to cheer, to talk, in a house from, to be the graboid of communals there, Detroiter. Here are a few pieces of hers that held the promise. Stay tuned on that front, I hear pray tell a couple more houses are on the schedule for next year as they move ahead with infinite grace n economic beauties.
/ Got the Beef show with Beat Bums who played with the Ben Spinksgents, which was not grody, and caught some wet beef footage in the light threshold pocket off a turtley smartphone. / The online collection World Picture is hyper rad for the afternoon tea, themed issues of "Serious," "Left," "Distance," "Wrong"…
Frances Richard has sustained, check her read at Poet As Radio*, read some this, and an excerpt from her Anarch. / Listening too, these - The new Blonde Redhead for season, the new Jolie Holland for season.
/ Next readings slash zinefest thanggggggg - Sept. 25, Scarritt Bennett, Vander - Stellasue Lee Sept. 29, Barnes & Noble, Vander - Lyrical Brew, tri of readers (Miguel de Cervantes event) Oct. 3, 4, Watkins College ( free ) - Handmade & Boundfestival, marketplace * Jackqueline Frost's Poet As Radio reading is smashing too.
Holy mountains of amerigo, sun pouring itself out onto our ours. Been heavy intoJackqueline Frost, mentioned earlier, and then Evan Kennedy. Both of whom reach levels of confluence re a placing of a body into all larger bodies, an intender thing, tender placements into abrasive organisms, a political sequin onto the bodies themselves, a wearing gracefully, a certain ownership, uncertainty as certainly as held fire up to itself, they are both best of anything I've ever read ever lately, concerned alignments, land, land governors, psyche of the land governor, agreements with the world, qualms that micro out among with a tender jadedness, unreasonabilities, awayness, collective propulsion, disuassion, each. Someone said the word emo along the way which made me harden back, though it should not be occluded in a spectrum of everything, shapes of, perhaps.
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On the Detroit front, ten finalists mentioned to be deathing it out for a hunger games spot to have a house to have to live in. Here they are. If you didn't get a house this time around, Write A House plan on placing writers into three homes this next year, keep being kept good Detroit.
A reading tonight, the ol' Jeff Hardin, whose voice alone in the nights of liquid are wooded. Go see him for comfort, go see him for care, might want to bring your own strong drink. It's over at The Scarritt-Bennett, Fondren Building, Vanderworld. 7pm, free.
/ And blessit ( ! ) The Beef have a show coming up again from last time they played The Basement left a mark upon the place and so get to Labor again, it's a Labor Day thing you should get yr freak on with us. Aug. 31, free, below Grimey's off 8th.
/ Also lately are Aussie crew Zeahorse. Stream their whole album there.
Lo ( ! ), the return to have arrived, PoetrySucks! rides again ( ! ) , with a cool lineup to their back again event; apparently people will not crush in dimensions of greasehouse Dino's but at the new location at Fond Object. Sat, Aug. 2nd.
I'll be in exilic transfers to California for a week or so to it, 1st through 9th; somebody pick me up from the airport Nash, or I do the highway shoulder walkathon like last time ( a fun adventure regardless humidity, brambles, tick fear ), miles of, horses of it / Jackqueline Frost is rad up the yin yang y'all ( still+ again ); put in a good word for the 'p i d e r, its 3rdeh ( ? ). Check also L i g h t f i g h t e r. So is Protomartyr. / Also, them beefboys, Beef Oven, have that show on the Thurs, Aug. 7th, I think at the Basement ( ? ), like those blokes on Fbook and they'll let you know.
Did miss the last Poet's Corner reading over at Vanderbilt, Tiana Clark, though ( and not to justify missing anyone read ever ) had seen her at a Lyrical Brew reading some months back. Did anyone else see her page long looking on top of you poem in the glossy-nouveau Nashville Arts Mag ( ? ) Speaking of which, tomorrow is the next Lyrical Brew, whose readers are Contributor contributors ( ! ) /
And for all you dobby-come-lately's Third Man Books is a thing, off shoot, quickstorm, strong hand in the mix already, White's Third Man is sure, as Patchett's Parnassus, to prop the Nashpo tent wider to a greater citizenry of literati in this fair city. Their first endeavor just put out is a gutsy collection calledLanguage Lessons, the thing sounds pretty fantastic, mixed genre/media/avenue chocked full of rich/ standard/ local/ non poets, musicians, artists. Probably go get it. / / Plus - if you must get out of your house - go to the free Fort Houston art thang on Friday ( 7/25 ), I think there's free beer and free arts ( if you are not blind ? ), it's over by the Sounds' Stadium. Also go to the basement show on Aug 2, yarp, to check R. Ghost, plus Lylas.
A piece of mail to the address I am at with me in it there, the new InpatientPress anthology paper “Incident Codex,” unfolding newspaper grey full font poems that operate with the page space, are content in it, prose narrative / non narrative pieces, 80 pages. Artist-Illustrator Eben Haines has “Frostbite A” and “Frostbite B”, Krystal Languell, “she prefers either to violets in a fist. Now the time has passed. For the crime. Walk away,” Gil Lawson, “The refrigerator, as with the cupboard, as with the dishwasher, occupies the same space of full in the kitchen despite themselves being full only of very many one more empties. Full only of one more empties,” as in the introductory piece, “each work is its own summoned surface.”
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And ha the new N/A is out ( #5 ), I look like how I probably am maybe young, and the work is quite cool, just the way detectives should be, it's Bogart; thanks be to francois luong plus Amish Trivedi. Do spend some time with it, it's got my stamp.
Summertime, got some of the "o n e" over with the esteemable N/A lit journal, a complex magazine put out quarterly that makes me feel velvet to be among. Issue #5 due out this very next week, with whom else I have no idea ( ? )
That's almost all the rooms of "o n e" ( rest are over at Inpatient Press, Opon ) out somewhere to see, so I think I do a chap with illustrations by Crawford, for five buckos, or trade, or something, holla if if if.
Courtesy M. Giffen. / Also 'Beat Mondays' at the five points co-op? Where have I been doing nothing all my last mondays of a month? Over by the Barista Parlor, The Fuselage, 521 Gallatin Ave., place I've never seen the inside of. / Next readings in town? 7/19 - Andrew McFayden-Ketchum, Parnassus Books 7/24 - Tiana Clark, Scarritt Bennett Center, Vander
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.
