illuminated meat

GOLDWITHOUTWARNING: A 3-DAY DCPOETRYFEST

2010-03-02T22:59:00.001-08:00

@ DC Arts Center

in Adams Morgan

2438 18th Street NW

Washington, DC

Fri. Nov 12, 7:30 PM -- Heather Fuller, Sandra Doller, Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, Ward Tietz

Nov 13, 7:30 PM -- Ryan Walker, Buck Downs, Ben Doller, Cathy Eisenhower, Mark McMorris,Terence Winch

Sun.Nov 14, 7:30 PM: Rod Smith, Brian Fitzpatrick, Ken Jacobs, Theodora Danylevich, Dan Gutstein, Leslie Bumstead, Bryan Koen, Maureen Thorson, Wade Fletcher

the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica

2010-01-02T12:19:00.000-08:00

two posts by Steven Fama

review of catalytic exteriorization phenomenon

and

his year-end report

kent or kenny?

2009-11-07T15:53:00.001-08:00

Kenny Goldsmith? Kent Johnson?

Monday night at Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC--a signed copy of Day by Kenneth Goldsmith:

in this photo: Kenny Goldsmith and Rod Smith

2009-11-07T15:31:00.000-08:00

catalytic exteriorization phenomenon

2009-04-17T08:20:00.000-07:00

New Book Launch Rae Armantrout Mel Nichols

8:00PM Friday April 17th @ Bridge Street Books

2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC

Please join us at 8:00PM Friday April 17th @ Bridge Street Books for a reading and publication celebration featuring Rae Armantrout & Mel Nichols.

Armantrout's VERSED was recently published by Wesleyan University Press. CATALYTIC EXTERIORIZATION PHENOMENON by Mel Nichols is just out from Edge Books.

Rae Armantrout has forged a growing international reputation--publishing eight remarkable books of poems including the brand new Versed (Wesleyan, 2009). Other books include Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004) and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 2001), as well as countless poems in anthologies (Best American Poetry 2002, and Postmodern American Poetry, and a Norton Anthology, 1994). She has taught writing at The University of California San Diego for almost two decades.

Mel Nichols is the author of Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha Press 2008), The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones mnichol6 (Edge Books 2007), Day Poems (Edge Books 2005), and due out from Edge Books in mid-April, Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (finalist in the National Poetry Series). With Mark Cunningham she recently collaborated on the online chapbook nightlightnight.

PORPO: DAY ONE

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8PM Saturday Feb 7
The i.e. reading series
Cathy Eisenhower, Mel Nichols, Rod Smith

L O F Studios
120 W. North Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.loadoffun.net
http://ieseries.wordpress.com/

POST_MOOT: A RADICALLY INCLUSIVE INAUGURATION ANTHOLOGY

2009-01-17T16:33:00.000-08:00

http://postmoot.net/

2008-10-09T13:06:00.001-07:00

big bear

2008-06-18T09:56:00.000-07:00

Cheryl’s Gone Reading Series

June 19: DJ Renegade, Mel Nichols, Ryan Call, Tone Ghosting
8pm - free
Big Bear Cafe
1700 1st St NW, at 1st and R
Washington DC

Joel Dias Porter (aka DJ Renegade) was the 1998 and 1999 National Haiku Slam Champion. His poems have been published in Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Callaloo, Antioch Review, and the anthologies Meow: Spoken Word from the Black Cat, Role Call, Def Poetry Jam, 360 Degrees of Black Poetry, Slam (The Book), Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapallooza, Poetry Nation, Beyond the Frontier, Catch a Fire, and The Black Rooster Social Inn, which he also edited. In 1995, he received the Furious Flower “Emerging Poet Award” from James Madison University. He has performed on the Today Show, in a commercial for Legal Jeans, in the documentaries Voices Against Violence and SlamNation, on BET’s Teen Summit and By the Book, and in the feature film Slam.

Mel Nichols is the author of Bicycle Day (Slack Buddha 2008), The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge 2007), Day Poems (Edge 2005), and the forthcoming book Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon. Poems have recently appeared or will soon appear in New Ohio Review (/nor), Van Gogh’s Ear, Practice, and Abraham Lincoln. She lives in Washington, DC and curates the Ruthless Grip Series at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Sliver Spring, Maryland.

Ryan Call is a recent MFA graduate of George Mason University and the former fiction editor of Phoebe. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Avery, Hobart, Caketrain, NO COLONY, and Sonora Review.

A solo project of Jeff Bagato (aka DJ Panic), Tone Ghosting features a unique homemade instrument he invented himself: playing vinyl LPs with small hacksaw & electronic FX, magnifying, modifying, & energizing the small scrapes & squeaks to create a complex musical vocabulary. The patented “Tone Ghosting process” includes looping these sounds, reformulating them in frenetic live dubs, & adding freeform vocal madness. Tone Ghosting creates a unique sonic universe somewhere between the attack of power electronics & the complex mind-body games of electronica & non-idiomatic free improvisation.

bicycle day | mel nichols

2008-04-19T15:41:00.000-07:00

new book from slack buddha press:

Bicycle Day
Mel Nichols

you can get it here:

Bridge Street Books
rod@bridgestreetbooks.com
202.965.5200

OR

coming May 3rd: buy online using paypal
aerialedge.com
[or contact: aerialedge@gmail.com]

OR

slackbuddha@gmail.com

B.O.B. for march 2008

2008-03-01T12:57:00.000-08:00

http://thebeginningofbeauty-march.blogspot.com/

love ya love ya

2008-02-13T09:59:00.001-08:00

send love on valentine's day mnichol6

2008-02-01T14:59:00.001-08:00

http://thebeginningofbeauty-february.blogspot.com/

2008-01-14T01:42:00.000-08:00

for january [new year replica watches]

2008-01-13T19:05:00.000-08:00

http://thebeginningofbeauty-january.blogspot.com/

november

2007-11-12T20:57:00.000-08:00

the project continues for november

it's here

2007-08-20T16:58:00.000-07:00

Rod Smith's beautiful Deed has arrived--one advance copy at any rate. And with a most excellent cover photo by Tim Davis. Should be available in early September.

This is The Good House & Other Poems. You want this book.

“The great thing about Rod Smith’s work is that it is all risk all the time. In Deed, he has built a substantial architecture whose ‘perilous upkeep’ is dazzling. This is a truly wondrous book.”—Peter Gizzi

“A master poet among us? I’d vote for Rod Smith. With the sweeping vision of Whitman, the noun-play of Gertrude Stein, and the slant political commentary of the New York School, Smith chisels out a place of his own with a tremendous integrity of vision. Deed contains the best of what American poetry has to offer: a place to pause and reflect upon the beauty of language and love flowering up through the mayhem of the world.” —Lisa Jarnot, author, Black Dog Songs

A deed is a governmental conveyance, a power asserted by the written, for, as William Carlos Williams wrote to Robert Creeley: “the government can never be more than the government of the words.” The question of ownership, of the words with which we define ourselves and each other, and of whose and what claims are legitimate is much at issue in Rod Smith’s Deed, a lyric, ambitious, rebellious work thoroughly grounded in the New American tradition of poets such as John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Olson.

At the entrance to this collection stands an abode in the form of a long poem, “The Good House,” a comfortable, at times soothingly humorous place that is also a site of conflict. In “The Spider Poems,” the mythic spider, the maker of the alphabet, is a ﬁgure of fun and revelation. The third section of the book presents a series of shorter poems chosen for their stylistic variety. Deed ends with a nod to two masters, as Smith turns Jack Spicer’s “Homage to Creeley” into a double homage with “Homage to Homage to Creeley.” The gesture of choosing what one brings into one’s house, what one decides to love, closes the book.

Deed is about making as bequeathing, as celebration, and as impatience for the true democracy that is always yet to arrive. There is still joy inside and out, and by giving us Deed Rod Smith has captured that joy. In so doing he tells us where we as a people, a politik, and a poetic are going.

A duck's quack has no echo. And no one knows why.

2007-08-13T07:48:00.000-07:00

rock heals

2007-08-09T07:24:00.000-07:00

rock heals recently posted poems from the daily projects of jamie, adam, ryan, and me (week 117).

ryan walker wrote a really nice review of my new chapbook for rock heals earlier this summer.

senanque (provence)

2007-08-07T23:13:00.000-07:00

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/senanque.htm

for august

2007-08-03T18:26:00.000-07:00

Vigeland Park, Oslo

2007-07-07T09:45:00.001-07:00

i start blogs

2007-06-21T21:28:00.000-07:00

http://foundtext.blogspot.com/

here's junior

2007-05-08T11:56:00.000-07:00

Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival

2007-04-29T11:56:00.001-07:00

http://www.yptfest.org/

family

2007-04-22T13:25:00.000-07:00

rod and i are expecting some baby mourning doves on our balcony in about 2 weeks...

april blog project

2007-04-22T13:00:00.000-07:00

my blog project for april
http://thebeginningofbeauty.blogspot.com/

C.S. GISCOMBE, SUSAN TICHY, and KEN RUMBLE

2007-04-13T09:02:00.000-07:00

RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES
@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
Saturday, April 14, 2007, 8:00PM
C.S. GISCOMBE, SUSAN TICHY, and KEN RUMBLE

7:30-8:00PM Champagne Reception! Please come!

Please join the Ruthless Grip Poetry Series for a reading by C.S. Giscombe, Susan Tichy, and Ken Rumble on Saturday, April 14, at 8:00PM.

C.S. Giscombe's recent poetry books are Giscome Road and Inland. He currently teaches at Penn State and will be teaching at U. C. Berkeley starting in fall 2007. His EPC author page is located at http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ giscombe/.

Susan Tichy's books are Bone Pagoda (Ahsahta Press, 2007), A Smell of Burning Starts the Day (Wesleyan University Press, 1988), and The Hands in Exile (Random House, 1983), which was chosen for the National Poetry Series. Her poems, collaborations, and mixed-genre works have been published in the U.S. and Britain, most recently in such journals as 42opus, Agni, Beloit Poetry Journal, Court Green, CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Fascicle, Free Verse, and Indiana Review. She lives in Colorado and in Virginia, where she teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at George Mason University. She also serves as poetry editor for Practice: New Writing + Art, and has just launched The Mag/pie, a blog about poetic collaboration and collage.

Ken Rumble is the author of Key Bridge (Carolina Wren Press, 2007) and a contributing editor for Fascicle. His poems have been published in Talisman, Parakeet, Cranky, Cutbank, Typo, Octopus, and others. He lives in Greensboro, NC, and works for the Green Hill Center for NC Art. [Ron Silliman just gave Ken's new book a big review on his blog.]

We hope you can join us for the reading and the festivities afterwards.

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center is located at 8230 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, MD, three blocks from the Metro red line. For directions: http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/about/contact.htm

broadsides in progress

2007-04-13T09:00:00.000-07:00

hey mike!

2007-04-09T22:16:00.000-07:00

Rod Smith tagged me with this meme...

More Mike commands at Tong Bliss and Unreliable Zygote.

“Hey Mike! Grab a cowboy and get the cattle burger on your banana boat! Giddy up!”

“Hey Mike, I need you to rub this all over a character from the cantina scene in Star Wars.

"Hey Mike, I need you to break out your Bach & Rock and stick it in a dry dock."

“Hey Mike, I need you step into the walk-in and beat off to these K-Mart panties.”

"Hey Mike, I need you to take this twine and truss up the bobcat that just landed in my mise en place."

“Hey Mike, I need you to write a persuasive essay about how much my dad and I love your show. Also do you want to go to a party with me on Sunday?”

I tag Maureen, Cathy, Stan, Brian + all of [blank] device, Katie, and Gary.

what is this?

2007-04-05T07:38:00.000-07:00

Whatever it is, you can get it at the Giant Food Mart by my house.

lately

2007-03-12T23:03:00.000-07:00

flarf tour | spring 2007

2007-02-23T21:41:00.000-08:00

photos by rod smith and mel nichols >>>
photos by nada gordon >>>
photos by kaplan harris >>>
gary sullivan's blog report >>>
gary sullivan's blog report from philly >>>

DC/BALTIMORE, FEBRUARY 17 & 18, 2007

An Evening of Flarf

i.e. reading series presents
The Flarf Collective
Sat. Feb. 17th- 7 pm til? @!
Dionysus Restaurant & Lounge
8 E. Preston Street, Baltimore, MD
410-244-1020

followd bye

An Afternoon of Flarf

IN Y O U R E A R R E A D I N G S E R I E S
@ District of Columbia Arts Center
2438 18th Street NW, Washington DC
Sun. Feb. 18th, 3 - 6 pm

Performers will include:

Katie Degentesh, author of The Anger Scale
Drew Gardner, author of Petroleum Hat & Sugar Pill
Benjamin Friedlander, author of A Knot is Not a Tangle & Simulcast
Nada Gordon, auhor of V. Imp & Foriegnn Bodie
Rodney Koeneke, author of Musee Mechanique & Rouge State
Michael Magee, author of Mainstream & My Angie Dickinson
Sharon Mesmer, author of In Ordinary Time & The Empty Quarter
Mel Nichols, author of Day Poems
Rod Smith, author of Music or Honesty & The Good House
Gary Sullivan, author of How to Proceed in the Arts & Elsewhere

+ Film by Brandon Downing, author of Dark Brandon

+ FlarfOrchestra conducted by Drew Gardner
featuring Flarf Collective members &

The Brain Wave Chick
Jason Hamrick, trumpet
Buck Downs & Ryan Walker, guitars
Jamie Gaughran-Perez, guitar etc.
Adam Good, bass
Gary Sullivan, ocarina

The District of Columbia Arts Center is located between the Dupont Circle and Woodley Park metro stations. For directions, see the DCAC web site.

A large sample of what has come be known as flarf can be found at.

PHILLY FLARF
Thursday, 2/8 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The MACHINE series presents a Flarf Poetry Festival, co-sponsored by Combo Arts. Note that this program was recorded for the PENNsound archive, and is now available as a downloadable mp3 file.

Inappropriate, odd, disturbing and hilarious, Flarf Poetry is an avant garde poetry movement of the late 20th and the early 21st centuries. The program will feature several prominent Flarf practitioners, including Nada Gordon, Mike Magee, Mel Nichols, Rod Smith, Sharon Mesmer, Gary Sullivan, and a film by Brandon Downing.

new weird america

2007-02-22T11:16:00.000-08:00

Rod Smith & Dana Ward @ Pyramid 2/10 8 PM

2007-02-06T14:20:00.000-08:00

RUTHLESS GRIP POETRY SERIES
@ Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

Saturday, February 10, 2007, 8:00PM

Rod Smith is the author of In Memory of My Theories (O Books), Protective Immediacy (Roof), New Mannerist Tricycle with Lisa Jarnot and Bill Luoma (Beautiful Swimmer), Music or Honesty (Roof), The Good House (Spectacular Books), Fear the Sky (Narrow House Recordings), and Deed (forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press). He is also editing, with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris, The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, for the University of California Press.

Dana Ward is the author of New Couriers (Dusie 2006), I Didn't Build This Machine (Boog Literature, 2004) & The Imaginary Lives of My Neighbors (Duration, 2003). Recent poems have appeared in Mirage #4/Periodical, string of small machines, Small Town, & other places. He lives in Cincinnati & edits Cy Press.

We hope you can join us for the reading and the festivities afterwards.

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center is located at 8230 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, MD, three blocks from the Metro red line. For directions: http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/about/contact.htm

Letterpress Broadsides of the poets (made in collaboration with printmaker Val Lucas of Pyramid Atlantic) will be available at the reading.

Love Train

2007-01-30T17:17:00.000-08:00

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meuh!

feng shui tip for today

2007-01-14T15:38:00.000-08:00

If a pet upsets a romance, move photos of the animal out of the boudoir. Keep two fresh flowers in the far right corner.

better living through chemistry

2007-01-11T09:39:00.000-08:00

Albert Hofmann turns 101 today.

he fed so many of us

2007-01-10T12:28:00.000-08:00

Momofuku Ando, Inventor of Instant Ramen Noodles

Happy Birthday, Elvis

2007-01-08T14:21:00.000-08:00

because it's all about meme

2007-01-02T20:56:00.000-08:00

Got tagged by Rodney Koeneke to state five little-known facts:

1. Had a very brief career as a busker in Rouen, France.
2. Also had a very brief career as a karaoke star in Rouen, France.
3. Supported myself through college, in part (not briefly), as a rock-n-roll caterer ("rock" broadly defined to also include the likes of Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, and Milli Vanilli)(and of course bands like White Snake).
4. In high school I was in Show Choir. We had to wear these horribly designed red dresses.
5. Fred (my pop) developed the VideoDisc with RCA (remember those?)--not to be confused with LaserDisc, which came later--VideoDisc had a stylus. One of my early childhood memories is watching King Kong on VideoDisc.

tagged: rod smith, cathy eisenhower, stan apps,
sharon mesmer, liz hildreth.

happy new year

2006-12-31T11:47:00.000-08:00

2006-12-25T11:24:00.000-08:00

Lucky Street Pencil (The Poetics of Re-use)

2006-12-19T12:28:00.000-08:00

Tagged with the poetics of re-use.

Adam Good gave sheets of stickers to everyone in the audience when he introduced the reading at DCAC.

"...the pychosis of influence..."

Lucky street pencils and found notebooks lead to poems. Buck Downs talks about re-use, reads from the Ted Berrigan's Sonnets as well as his own work, "A Fresh 24." Use non-functioning objects [words] and bring them them to life.

Brian Howe with Audrey after the reading @ Angles in Adams Morgan.

Brian discussed/read from F7, a project that utilizes Word's spellcheck feature. Cage-influenced, Brian tried various ways of typing in a non-reglar manner for the project, turning the keyboard backwards, etc. Reminded me of Derek Bailey's non-idiomatic guitar playing. Before his reading Brian performed a sampled/improvised sound-piece.

from the notebooks of brian & audrey

I pray for the second coming...God forgive me...when he comes, I hope he is wearing rhinestones and singing "Love Me Tender"

2006-12-18T14:17:00.000-08:00

rod and i went to see martha, josie, and the chinese elvis by charlotte jones at woolly mammoth theater.

post-dickinson, part 2

2006-12-13T17:46:00.000-08:00

videos of the flarf readings at http://mainstreampoetry.blogspot.com/

aleatory printmaking

2006-12-13T09:10:00.000-08:00

my letterpress experiment at the book arts fair at pyramid atlantic art center (november 17, 18, 19). there are wonderful people affiliated with pyramid atlantic who salvage old wooden and metal type (like you see in the first photo above) before it is destroyed or melted down.

macomb & wisconsin

2006-12-12T09:52:00.000-08:00

maureen thorson & dan gutstein@ pyramid atlantic

2006-12-10T08:37:00.000-08:00

silver spring, maryland

maureen reads from her new PSA chapbook

dan reads from a work that includes
a dish called "cowboy hotplate"

The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black

2006-12-09T08:34:00.000-08:00

karen black in trilogy of terror.
the VHKB performs "underwear drawer" on YouTube.
dan gutstein and maureen thorson read tonight, 8PM.
at pyramid atlantic art center.

"First and foremost, I am an entertainer, but all I need is the Federal credentials."

2006-12-05T12:05:00.000-08:00

alexandra's homework last night was to write a paper from the perspective of elvis--here's an excerpt from the the letter elvis wrote to richard nixon on the way to DC:

Sir, I am staying at the Washington Hotel, Room 505-506-507.... I am registered under the name of Jon Burrows. I will be here for as long as it takes to get the credentials of a Federal Agent. I have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and Communist brainwashing techniques and I am right in the middle of the whole thing where I can and will do the most good.

cathedral avenue

2006-12-02T14:54:00.000-08:00

joe

2006-12-01T09:11:00.000-08:00

recently read ron padgett's memoir of joe brainard. the piece above i found in the poets of the new york school, published in 1969 by falcon press in philly & distributed by the gotham book mart and gallery in nyc.

anthology of baltimore poets

2006-11-30T07:48:00.000-08:00

sandra miller reads jamie gaughran-perez's anthology of baltimore poets it was real close and squishy. DCAC, 18 november 2006.

inside: rupert wondolowski, miriam stewart, justin sirois, lauren bender, marianne amoss, chris toll.

2006-11-28T08:51:00.000-08:00

2006-11-26T09:18:00.000-08:00

flash and me

2006-11-22T12:13:00.000-08:00

charles bernstein @ bridge street books

2006-11-21T13:13:00.000-08:00

charles bernstein read from the libretto he wrote for shadowtime, an opera
by brian ferneyhough based on the life and work of walter benjamin.

[sitting in front: sandra miller, ben doyle, tony tost, ryan walker]

i like this boat ride i'm being taken for

2006-11-20T16:36:00.000-08:00

tony tost & miriam stewart reading, DCAC, 19 november.

tony read a 1001 sentence poem that began: "i have 1000 more sentences to write."
miriam gave us fragments to read as a group--included one of my favorite ted berrigan poems, "crystal."

PHOTOS >>>>>

charles bernstein and rod smithread in baltimore @ i.e.

2006-11-18T12:59:00.000-08:00

18 november 2006
clayton & company books

wow.

union station

2006-11-12T14:00:00.000-08:00

the penguins of new york city

2006-11-12T12:38:00.000-08:00

no bus, gus

2006-11-12T11:43:00.000-08:00

leslie scalapino panel

2006-11-11T13:04:00.000-08:00

brenda ijima organized the panel on leslie scalapino at st. marks
i read with rod his work on leslie, Essay: A Play

The Work of Leslie Scalapino on Saturday, November 11th, 1:00 pm
The Poetry Project, St. Marks Church, 131 East 10th Street, NYC

A celebration and inquiry into the work of prominent contemporary experimental Bay Area writer and publisher (of O Books) Leslie Scalapino. Leslie Scalapino's over 20 books challenge the boundaries of poetry, prose and visual art. Her most recent titles are Orchid Jetsam, Dahlia's Iris and Zither & Autobiography. Six poets will each present a short talk on aspects of Scalapino's work, followed by a question/answer session. Poets will include Brenda Iijima, who will host the discussion, Rod Smith, Laura Elrick, Alan Davies, Jennifer Scappettone & Rodrigo Toscano.

some bloggers:
thom donovan
tim peterson

PHOTOS >>>>>

ron padgett and amy king reading @ bridge street books

2006-11-06T12:45:00.000-08:00

PHOTOS >>>>>
PHOTOS by amyhappens >>>>>

dad was the guy always pointing into the skyat a buzzard...

2006-11-05T12:58:00.000-08:00

rod smith

segue series at the bowery poetry club on 4 november 2006
@ penn sound >>>

rat genius

2006-10-23T19:24:00.000-07:00

Friday was Dan Gutstein's debut on National Geographic in Rat Genius. Dan faces a lamb-chop eating rat in his kitchen. Rat Genius airs again Friday, October 27, 2PM. Check it out.

ca roule ma poule (that wheels my chicken)

2006-10-23T14:02:00.000-07:00

rod brings home helpful vocabulary from french class. tonight he taught me hachis parmentier.

we had hachis parmentier (shepherd's pie) after mei-mei berssenbrugge's reading at georgetown last thursday, but it was smothered in cheese.

mei-mei berssenbrugge reads at georgetown university.

the georgetown reading was on a rainy thursday, just like lisa robertson's reading earlier this fall. brenda hillman read various poems including one having to do with string theory. mei-mei read mostly from i love artists.

during the seminar brenda said she has spent a lot of time talking to rocks and mei-mei said, you know, rocks can move all by themselves.

is that wool hat my hat

2006-10-16T16:22:00.000-07:00

from the ladies room at quarry house pub

photos from sandra miller/ben doyle reading @ pyramid atlantic >>>>

rod smith, mel nichols, sandra miller, ben doyle read jackson mac low @ DCAC.

photos to come on ward tietz and ric royer performances that day.

welsh rarebit

2006-10-07T12:30:00.000-07:00

Chris Nealon and Dora & Sally help Adam Good with his order Welsh Rarebit after Lisa Robertson's reading at Georgetown; Mel Nichols introduces Lisa to Flash the Basset Hound at the end of a rainy evening in DC.

Lisa Robertson read from Rousseau's Boat and The Men. She was brilliant. Rousseau's Boat is a still expanding series first published as a chapbook in 2004. She described this work as an index of last lines from 20 years of notebooks.

By the way, we weren't sure that the Welsh Rarebit was authentic Welsh Rarebit. It was more like cheese dip served with toast. Also of note: "Vivid nightmares are famously attributed to overindulgence in Welsh [rarebit]." Acccording to Wikipedia.

poetry bus at the big hunt

2006-10-05T12:41:00.000-07:00

Maureen Thorson and Mel Nichols show up for the Poetry Bus wearing the same shirt.

>photos<

Readings by Rod Smith and Cole Swensen at the Poetry Bus site >>>

post-dickinson

2006-10-02T23:56:00.000-07:00

store window in carlisle, PA.
more photos...

big kitty

2006-09-24T22:37:00.000-07:00

this big kitty lives in the pet boutique next to flash's
doggie social club on 14th street.

DCAC : dan gutstein & chris toll : 09.17.06

2006-09-19T11:53:00.000-07:00

check out rod's reading report at ghostbrain.

and also the carol mirakove adam good reading in september >>>
http://ghostbrain.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_ghostbrain_archive.html

party at cathy's

2006-09-17T10:46:00.000-07:00

orange avec accordian

2006-09-17T10:35:00.000-07:00

carol mirakove and adam good @ pyramid atlantic

2006-09-10T13:16:00.000-07:00

adam good's map of carol mirakove's reading

carol mirakove & chris nealon

adam good signs broadsides

MORE PHOTOS >>>>>

it's all about compassion

2006-09-05T08:04:00.000-07:00

illuminated lunch

2006-08-19T14:17:00.000-07:00

illuminated flarf

2006-04-25T12:08:00.001-07:00

rod smith and stan apps in new york for flarf festival 2006 >>>

america the beautiful

2006-03-11T09:10:00.000-08:00

photo taken in north carolina on the way to the outer banks, 2000 or 2001. the sign was there for years--but is gone now.

illuminated meat

2006-02-12T21:00:00.000-08:00