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It's BlogDay, everyone. Here are the links to 5 of my favorite photoblogs:
Feel free to participate, either on your on blog or in the comment section below. Happy BlogDay to you!
Remember Bart Simpson's famous words from the 90s? Of course you do. Here's an irreverent exercise
for poet bloggers. Check out the surrealist machine called The Eater of Meaning. Type in the URL of your blog and start the engine. The results are a cut-up version of your blog. For example, the heading of my Ashbery story below turned into: I Wandering my Housewife Daydreams. Add your favorite distorted headline as a comment. Or write a new poem using that phrase as the title or first line.
A great new issue of Absent Magazine has graced the internet. Check out this poem by Jasper Bernes:
Note on the Etymology of Camera
Shuddering with duplicates or, eyes overcast: any room rented or temporary’s a camera. This a rare skin disease: photodermatitis, Hank and Liselle at the beach on your shoulder, a balcony in fog, a wall with the words SHIT HERE in ketchup. In this way, you are able to live next door to yourself, by truce, for months
Through the viewfinder, a tiny judge consults his notes: f. Aryan root kam- to curve, bend. From room to room, from ether to object to mind to voice, oh boy. Stand there, no over there, that’s it, look up, don’t do that thinking thing with your mouth. And when the big wing tears free, like all the things you liked to look at overexposed
While she’s out buying film, you open the locket she wears around her neck, the chain of which, snagged on a faster part of being, a loose end, broke. There’s nothing in it, not even a picture of nothing, not even nothing’s likeness. Like this, you know that there is room for you in her life, if you can keep quiet about what you know
Inside entire, in feet per second, in Cinemascope, with an elephantiasis of the will and, by fortune, your thesis on the tragic rejected by the Bureau of Entireties? What architecture does not leave itself printed on your skin like a limit: that way physics, this way feeling?
published in Absent 2.0
Issue two also features Charles Bernstein, Regis Bonvicino, Jack Boettcher, Tim Botta, Julia Cohen, Shanna Compton, John Cotter, Shafer Hall, Lisa Jarnot, Pierre Joris, Joan Kane, Noelle Kocot, Jason Labbe, Kathleen Ossip, The Pines, Matthew Rohrer, Kate Schapira, Mathias Svalina, Kathryn Tabb, Allison Titus, and Betsy Wheeler. I really enjoyed reading these poems.
Cool news of the day is this: John Ashbery has been chosen as the first poet laureate of the MTV generation. Sixteen poetry "spots" will air on MTVU this fall. I'm lovin' it!
Julie Blackmon casts an unnaturally lime light on the domestic life. To see more of her work, check out her website.
The September issue of MiPoesias is out, and it's worth a look. My personal fave is "Swimming Underground, I Float Face Up Thinking of Railroads" by Betsy Wheeler.
Economically, not
emotionally this
color is connected
to that color
the waves
break
they really
do.
I hold on,
I hold on to you
by Eileen Myles
(via buffalo epc)
photo by Fernando (pixelstains) via flickr
What would Ernie say about this gigantic art object?
It is floating in the Loire river in France this month, and people gather to gawk at Florentijn Hofman's "Rubber Duckie."
(via the Wooster Collective)
(from hankweb, the archives of marian hank, r.i.p.)
Check out Antilimit, a photoblog by Eric Gustafon.
from Sailor Porn
dear big hunk
pilot off the Nellie
my midriff
nice on top of it
burn me lightly
yes Bruno
we'll go to the steak house
along the bleakest
of lakes
I would like
the green beans
ok beauty
this is me
in a dress
so good
on a desk
it was August
in one a them
M states - an Arab
from Ann Arbor
in the offing...
click here to read the rest of the poem excerpt published in EOAGH and written by Brenda Iijima and Stacy Szymaszek
Here's a painting by Sage Vaughan that I found on Art Moco.
This writing prompt begins with a photograph. You can use the one by Travis Ruse that I have posted below, or find one on your own and print a copy. Draw a 4x4 grid onto the photo. A ruler is not necessary! You will end up with 16 boxes. Write a 16 line poem, using each square as the leaping point for each line.
