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Poetry is Vol II
A superb new film by George Quasha. Volume I and links to art is and music is are HERE
Vol. II is in 3 parts comprising the following poets in order of appearance:
Part 1
Mark Mirsky, Michael McClure, Maryrose Larkin, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Robert Kelly, Elaine Equi, Charles Amirkhanian, Charles Stein, Nancy Kuhl, Maria Damon, Vyt Bakaitis, Debrah Morkun, Eleni Stecopoulos, Lamont Brown Steptoe, Nada Gordon, Sam Truitt, Elizabeth Bryant, Carlos Soto-Roman, Jena Osman, Vincent Katz, Tinker Greene, Gerard Malanga, Alana Siegel, Jeffrey Robinson, Dorota Czerner, Barbara Blatner, Kenneth Irby
Part 2:
Jonas Mekas, Don Byrd, Jennifer Scappettone, Mark Mirsky, Burt Kimmelman, Hank Lazer, Sara Larsen, Lori Anderson Moseman, Ryan Eckes, Geof Huth, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Chris Funkhouser, Elaine Equi, Anna Moschovakis, Clark Coolidge, Jesse Glass, Rochelle Owens, Jerome Sala, David Brazil, Richard Deming, Rae Armantrout, Jacques Roubaud, Maureen Thorson, Joan Murray, Anselm Berrigan, David Wolach, Peter Cook & Kenny Lerner
Part 3
Michael McClure, Amy Catanzano, Basil King, Jennifer Bartlett, Nancy Frye Huth, Marilyn Stablein, Michael Slosek, Robert Mittenthal, Bob Perleman, Deborah Poe, Chris Piuma, Kimberly Lyons, Frank Sherlock, Rachel Levitsky, D. H. Melhem, CAConrad, Patricia Spears Jones, George Economou, Lynn Behrendt, Julian Semilian, Rebecca Wolff, Robert Kelly, Will Alexander, Alana Siegel, Barbara Kremen, Kythe Heller, Torben Ulrich
What Do You Want From the Art World?
What Do You Want From the Art World?
A new artists book by Andy Parsons & Glenn Holman
Glenn Holman and Andy Parsons of Floating World were commissioned by Visual Artists Ireland to create an artists book as part of their 20:20 vision initiative looking into the future of the visual arts in Ireland.
Through a series of workshops held on Friday 15th May 2015, during Get Together at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, artists were interviewed about what they want from the art world and their visual and verbal opinions and comments transcribed as accurately as possible in ‘real time’ as images, texts, collages and general observations. The robot is a deliberately obvious reference to the future, but it served the more useful purpose of creating a neutral place for artists to place their ideas. The comedic element helped to elicit more frank and open contributions. We thought of it something akin to Golem, a hard to define entity that will nonetheless work tirelessly for it’s creators. This art work is a compendium of peoples response to the question:
What Do You Want From the Art World?
In a first for Floating World this book is available solely as A PDF for free distribution. We hope that it entertains and contributes to the ongoing dialogue.
Floating World are Andy Parsons & Glenn Holman with assistance on this project and with huge thanks to Glenn Gannon.
John Goodby: a preview
The next Other Room takes place 8th July at The Castle Hotel, 7.30 and as always is free. The event is a special edition featuring 6 Welsh poets. See the poster in the middle column for more details.
John Goodby is an expert on Dylan Thomas and has edited a version of his Collected Poems – see an interview HERE
Read about and download a sample of John’s cut-up sonnet sequence, Illennium, at Shearsman – LINK
Vlak and Richard Makin launches
DATE: Sunday, 24 May
TIME: 19:00–22:00
VENUE: Power Lunches
ADDRESS: 446 Kingsland Road, Hackney, London, E8 4AE
An evening of readings/performances hosted by VLAK magazine to mark the launch of VLAK 5, featuring Lou Rowan, Stewart Home, Jim Ruland, Ulli Freer, Becky Cremin, Sean Bonney, Will Rowe, Louis Armand, David Vichnar, Nat Raha, Tim Atkins, Jeff Hilson and more.
SPECIAL FEATURE: Launch of Richard Makin’s new novel, MOURNING (published by Equus Press, 2015).
The Other Room poster gallery
All Other Room posters are now in our poster section in the middle column or at this LINK.
Here is the first one from back in April 2008 designed by Alex Davies
Maintenant #55: Scott Thurston
Just as the radical continental poetic methodologies of the 20th century have left an indelible impact on contemporary British poetry, so, it seems, has the model of the poet as a thinker and teacher. Scott Thurston is a central facet in the recent resurgent brilliance of North Western British poetry in and around Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester. His is an innovative poetic defined by its care, intricacy and sophistication, and his reputation as a seminal and urbane poet over the last few decades has established him as a vital part of the UK’s poetry scene. In a comprehensive and generous interview he discusses his role as a poet, a teacher, his experience of European poetics and his beginnings in innovative poetry.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-55-scott-thurston
Accompanying the interview are four of Scott’s poems from the work, Sustainability.
New in the library
Red Shifts by Other Room Reader Maggie O’ Sullivan has been added to The Other Room library and is available for postal loan. Click here to browse the complete library stock list.
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