fingering the gauntlet of day (April ghazal) spring-brown grass sparrows where people wait for buses non-paths bulge hard-packed low wet edge twist treads with shifted weights wait there is time yet to procrastinate wart worry slip toe mudded delicious sink wind river lashed rain dash for cover is for others hermetic skin long shrift skywaterland […]
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Watch 2 poets compose poems in real time. 15 minutes worth of it being composed at QuickMuse or have google make a random string form poem (Would this be computer-generated flarf?)
Coleman Barks and Rumi
For those who don’t read at the other, a cross-posting. The closing act of the spring writers festival was leaving on a blissful high note –a performance of 800-year-old poetry of Rumi by the Mushfiq Ensemble and Coleman Barks. The Persian music was by 2 men from Afghanistan, sometimes singing the Sufi’s words in the […]
Lampman III
The idea of randomizing Lampman more has happened. I threw a cover on the bed and the new sonnet with different set of rhymes made their individual word way to the floor. Before recording what I had. That’s the way the poem crumbles. So, what have we here upside down and following paths of chaos? […]
Spoken Word Revolution, Redux
(cross-posted at www.pagehalffull.com/humanyms) I’ve got a review copy of The Spoken Word Revolution Redux. It is book 2 in a series on the history of Spoken Word. It is by the publishers who put together Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs). I got that […]