Who will be The Other Room’s Xmas Number 1 and get to ride in Noel Edmonds’ helicopter? Only 3 weeks to wait to find out. And to notify Noel Edmonds. Today’s Christmas hit is a some 19th century girl power, with Charlotte Brontë singing 2 Become 1 by The Spice Girls.
The Other Room’s countdown to Christmas gather pace and nothing says “Christmas” more than an argument. Here we see Simone calling Jean Paul “un clochard” and “un punk” after a dispute about whether to watch Moonraker or The Cannonball Run. Jean Paul later spent a long time with his hand on a door knob wondering if he existed. That Croft Original is strong stuff.
Our festive hit parade continues with Ted Berrigan, revealing a hitherto unsuspected Brummy accent.
All through December, The Other Room is counting down to Christmas with some of our favourite writers and artists giving their own renditions of timeless festive hits. Today, Ed Dorn sings Merry Christmas Everyone by the immortal Shakin’ Stevens.
Symphony of Sirens: Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde. PDF and sound file at Monoskop.
Essays and tributes to Marjorie Perloff by Jerome McGann, Adelaide Morris, Richard Sieburth, Maggie O’Sullivan, Jan Baetens, Charles Bernstein, Vanessa Place, Caroline Bergvall, Johanna Drucker, Stephen Fredman, Brian Reed, Al Filreis, Jean-Michel Rabate, Peter Nicholls, Peter Middletown, along with an extensive annotated bibliography by Gordon Faylor. All at the Jacket 2 site.
Films from this Mercy organised event at Manchester’s Cornerhouse are now available, featuring SJ Fowler, Nathan Jones and Hannah Silva, above. You can also watch SJ Fowler’s lecture on poetry and violence.
The program described below is available worldwide via live free webcast:
Tuesday, October 9, at 6:00 PM: we get the first-ever WRITING ABOUT ART! Modeled
after our ever-popular “7-up” series and last year’s Dylan-fest, our first ever
WRITING ABOUT ART program features seven hub member and connoisseurs of modern
art—RACHEL PASTAN, THOMAS DEVANEY, LILY APPLEBAUM, GRACE AMBROSE, HENRY
STEINBERG, FRANCIE SHAW, and JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ—each describing, discussing,
deconstructing, contextualizing, and/or riffing-off of a work by avant garde
artist MARCEL DUCHAMP. Hosted by Isaac Kaplan (C’15), this discussion comes
complete with food, descending a staircase.
The Kelly Writers House and Creative Ventures present
Writing About
Art:
MARCEL DUCHAMP
featuring
RACHEL PASTAN: Bicycle Wheel
(1913)
THOMAS DEVANEY: The Trap (1917)
LILY APPLEBAUM: Why Not Sneeze,
Rose Selavy (1921)
GRACE AMBROSE: First Papers of Surrealism (1942)
HENRY
STEINBERG: torn paper self portrait (1958)
FRANCIE SHAW: Etant donnes
(1946-68)
JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ: Etant donnes (1946-68)
hosted by
Isaac Kaplan (C’15)
Tuesday, October 9, at 6:00 PM in the Arts
Café
Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk
No registration required. This
program is free and open to the public.
Via Al Filreis
Print it
Coracle Press 1989-2012 exhibition
COPY in residence
Pop-up Artist Bookshop
Inspired by the pioneering work of Coracle Press, who for over 35 years have collaborated with artists and poets from Kurt Schwitters to Richard Tuttle to expand the creative possibilities of publishing, Site Gallery presents print it. Drawing its title from Charles Olson’s call to DIY action, print it is an exhibition, workshop series, residency space for artist collective COPY and pop-up international bookshop with experimental publishers world-wide.
Coracle Press 1989 – 2012 has been organised by Coracle as part of the touring exhibition Printed in Norfolk.
At SITE gallery, Sheffield. Until 8th September
A discussion with Peter Cole, Henry Steinberg, and Michelle Taransky, of two poems by Charles Reznikoff from the PennSound archive. Number 56 in the PoemTalk series.
Program notes and links to the PoemTalk discussion and recordings of the poems are available at Jacket2 and at the Poetry Foundation:
https://jacket2.org/content/poem-talk
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/3490
Interview
Reading
From Radi0 Web Macba: “Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of Ubuweb – the most important online repository on sound experimentation –, takes us on a journey through his personal history as a collector of sounds that spans from his childhood to adult life and the creation of Ubuweb, by way of different stages of obsession with what he calls the ‘accumulation of cultural artefacts’.”
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/44920075 w=250&h=216]
James Davies will be teaching an online course for The Poetry School
Experimental Sonnet Writing
Tutor: James Davies
Day / Time: Thursdays, fortnightly, 7pm UK Time
Duration: 5 sessions
First Live Chat: 4 October
Price: £76, £67, £60
Level: open to all
The Sonnet has proved to be the most popular form of poetry over the last 500 years or so. The twentieth and twenty-first century has seen the form reinvented time and time again in staggering ways which suggests there are no end to the possibilities it has to offer. On this course we will explore the form’s malleability and range. By reading a small amount of the key sonnets of modern and contemporary times, whilst considering the sonnet’s heritage, you will write your own 14 liners. Tasks will be based around sonnets written in the last hundred years or so (with a particular focus on the last fifty years).By the end of the course you will be inventing your own methods and processes and adding to this rich tradition. Students should have 5-10 of their own poems ready to work on which they are prepared to treat and manipulate; these need not be sonnets nor in any way complete.
We will be thinking about poets including: e.e. cummings, John Berryman, Man Ray, Matthew Welton, Ted Berrigan, Derek Henderson, Philip Terry, Jen Bervin, Tim Atkins, Tony Lopez, Juliana Spahr, Sarah Riggs
See www.poetryschool.com for more
A collaboration is now available at Very Small Kitchen, HERE
Next poetry workshop at MadLab (Northern Quarter), Manchester on Saturday – June 30th – 2-4pm
Miles Champion’s history is available HERE
A compilation of sound art, drone, improvisation, noise, spoken word, sound poetry and other sonic experiments, from experimental label OSG. Contributors were asked to respond to Henri Bergson: “…In truth, all sensation is already memory.” The release is compiled either to play as a continuous album, or in three separate LP length sections; tracks are numbered accordingly. Free download at http://archive.org/details/VariousArtists-AllSensationIsAlreadyMemory
Includes Matt Dalby, Philip Davenport and lots more
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