Big Window

How do you do?

Meet PAM, the perpetual art machine.  {Story source = Rhizome.org}

The State of the Art

If you've been analyzing the wonderful world of poetry and asking yourself: What's wrong with this picture, then here's an article by Steve Evans.  His 5 part essay called Free (Market) Verse provides a critique of poetry, politics, and the state of the union .  It's posted now at Third Factory and will soon to be published in The Baffler 17. 

Red Writing Hood

An image I love and therefore stole from Thomas Hawk.  The letters seem to emit their own light.

Advice from Merce Cunningham

Here's your Merce Cunningham quote of the day--

The only way to do it is to do it.

Yonder

A Poem by Rae Armantrout
1 Anything cancels everything out. If each point is a singularity, thrusting all else aside for good, “good” takes the form of a throng of empty chairs. Or  it’s ants swarming a bone. 2 I’m afraid I don’t love my mother who’s dead though I once – what does “once” mean? – did love her . So who’ll meet me over yonder? I don’t recognize the place names. Or I do, but they come from televised wars.
"Yonder" was first published in Shiny, Issue 13. Copyright © Rae Armantrout. Forthcoming in Next Life (Wesleyan, 2007).

SILENT TEACHER

HANNAH WEINER         SILENT TEACHER 

hannah weiner was born to it in providence ri in 1928 

and graduated from radcliffe college 1950 magna cum 

laude    she then worked for three publishing houses   

got fired from all of them    once for being
too intellectual    once for associating with aliens 

and once for being caught not slapping her bosses face      

she then turned to retailing and was an assistant buyer 

for fat ladies dresses in bloomingdales basement     

she married a psychiatrist   freudian and divorced 

him four years later     then she exaggerated but not 

lied herself into a job designing lingerie and turned 

down her second request for marriage     by this time 

she was making the rounds of galleries and parties in 

the early sixties and began to write poetry in 1963    

both writing and designing were childhood ambitions
she got a free course at the new school and found 

she couldnt write new york school poetry in fact 

she couldnt write her own words at all    only the 

magritte poems      written in     and the fast 

are in her own words     happily she discovered 

the international code of signals and found she could 

write about almost anything by using the code books     

these became rather wild performances followed by 

other performances like street works 1-7 and the 

fashion show poetry event    she was very well 

reviewed because the art critic of the village voice 

was one of her partners she thus met the musicians   

performers   pop artisits   lesbians and poets of that 

time all this glory ended in 1970 when she became 

extremely psychic and hiding out in a cheap apartment 

wrote about nothing else in almost 100 notebooks     

see the fast     the words began to appear in 1972 and 

led to the clairvoyant journal a three voice performance 

poetry book about learning     explaining instructions
and the counter voice     years passed     the language 

group moved in and so did the indians    she still 

remembers meeting chawho at a party saying youre 

getting pretty old dont you think you should publish    

she did   sixteen and spoke begin to introduce
the teaching   now she is reaching her ultimate 

achievement learned first at her grandmother's knee      

TEACHING SILENT she has dragged several poets into 

this with her    gosh ma shes a real female tarpsichordist

from the Electronic Poetry Center 

WHITE OUT

image from veer

The Triggering City

Is there a geographical place that seems to be the source/birth place/inspration of your creative work?

Another Batch of Born

I'm behind on my reading so maybe you've already seen this new work, but I really enjoyed the latest issue of Born Magazine.

Need for Speed

New York artist Brody Condon created a “full size" 85′ lamborghini countach from cast plastic branches.  V-r-r-r-r-rooooooom.

Borrowed from Coin-Op

Azalea

I'm trying to learn how to add video to Big Window.  Let me know if you are/ are not able to view this snippet.

oPen 18

Allow the Ouija board to write the poem, and let the otherness voice guide you.  Okay?

Rage for Order

Life with a toddler and an infant is a little tricky. No, actually, it is more than a little tricky. I had several weeks off from work when Jojo first arrived, and then the holidays came, but now she is six weeks old.  I am back at work, Pearl is back at preschool, and we are trying to establish our new routine as a family of four.  Right now the idea of routine is making me very happy.