This poem at Jubilat has my curiosity up. Who is this Arielle Greenberg? Making a mental note to find more by her and sit a while. SPD has some listing, including one coming in a couple months. I am vaguely familiar with her name (Funny what it takes to get to that point) and the title Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections that she wrote with Rachel Zucker. She reviewed in Jacket years ago. Feminist, burlesque, and a variety of else. Definitely should look into more, beyond her attractive bias, especially because of that pivot-yness to her lines, and a something catchy in her cadence.

Compose the Holes at Lemon Hound pointed to some erasure texts.
I recently ran across this one by daniel scott tysdal from Acts of Barbarity and Vandalism (Martian Press, 2006) which is downloadable. He is overlaying text in text yet not erasing but refuting with the text with the substance of itself. You can still see the original so can read both simultaneously. It seems more like a dialogue. It hides nothing and so seems oddly evenhanded even tho the dominant argument is more bold and apparent.

IV. You
Is this government by propaganda? Call it, if
you prefer, government by education. But
education, in the academic sense of the
word, is not sufficient. It must be
enlightened by expert propaganda through
the creation of circumstances, through the
high-spotting of significant events, and the
dramatization of important issues. The
statesman of the future will thus be enabled
to focus the public mind on crucial points of
policy and regiment a vast, heterogeneous
mass of voters to clear understanding and
intelligent action.
Edward Bernays, Propaganda

The selective choices cause your mind to read the words the selected words are embedded in, popping those out to half strength instead of the fuzzy peripheral vision of the rest. So when “in” is called up so is “mind” but “crucial points” being further away is not attended to unless you deliberately look. It works with how the eye works with what the foveal vision catches.
No/on had an issue with a haibun, two translations of the same, and each overlaid with a bolded text pulled up in the same way to place a new haiku within the same text. I can’t seem to google the reference on pesbo nor did rifling the shelves turn it up. You’ll have to trust me on that one. It exists even if google can’t verify.
It is messing with the original intent but that messing with what data we have coming in is the one real job we have as we breathe and sleep and wake and eat. To have it there is leaving more up to the reader to have the rich direct experience of both.
Being one for loving as much data, and conflicting data, as possible, this works well with my brain. Secondary and tertiary sources of response poems are fine as a reaction piece or therapy, but if you want to understand something, using as primary as possible materials as the visible starting point in as close as possible to being side by side with the response makes the most sense. If one isn’t quoting then it just adds more work for the reader, a cognitive load of having to pile on the grains of salt because it is only hearsay.
If I get both sides, I can decide for myself, and only have the cognitive load of salt grains of trusting or not that the originals haven’t been distorted too much nor selectively sampled too much to sway towards the opposite side of the argument. What either sides say is another matter.
Which isn’t to say erasing out and leaving new found material behind is lesser but a different thing for different aims. One aims to sample, play, explore, press language, and the other more towards a stylized debate.

Sean Wilson hosting John Lavery (Sandra Beck, Anansi), Sandra Birdsell ( Waiting for Joe, Random House), and David Bergen (The Matter with Morris, Phyllis Bruce Books) on panel about novels with family ties at the Ottawa Writers Festival on Oct 24.
Today is poetry day with the John Newlove Poetry Award at Southminister United Church at 6:30 with readings of this years honorble mentions, readings by 2009 winner Marcus McCann and the announcement of next year’s winner of the John Newlove Chapbook. The Poetry Cabaret is at the Mayfair Theatre at 8:30 with readings by Peter Norman, Sandra Ridley, George Murray, M.T. Kelly, hosted by Stephen Brockwell.
Tomorrow evening’s time slot is novelists hosted by poet/novelist Mike Blouin at the fest versus Betsy Struthers and Oni the Haitian Sensation at Tree The Bywords calendar lists 13 literary events in Ottawa for tomorrow then it settles down to the more usual 4 or 5 choices per day. What a city!

Howsabout that. 3 poems by me at This Magazine, online and everything.

Under the policy of not wasting paper, wouldn’t it be nice to send poems by email. Silk Road set up an online submission managing system and they’re not the only ones. Here are other poetry magazines that take online submissions. [hat tip to Robert Peake]