Maybe it isn’t

For us

To know

If they are zombies

Who surround us

On one empty

Corner

Of that great grey-blue

Emptiness of rust

And sweating oil

In this way

We can sleep

Away our nights through

The humming

The blue humming

That makes them

Wish for killing

That asks them

To pour

The blood they can

That forces their

Madness that changes

These simple people

Into simpler beings

Who scrounge

For blood yet never

Eat yet never

Drink who kill

To stop the buzzing

That has

Them pull

From any chest the

Beat heart

Muscle blood and empty

Vein before dropping it

To dry

Brown earth beneath

Grey-blue sky

In this way

We can sleep

ecr. l'inf.
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It is interesting to learn that the US military doesn't think that everything can be bulletized, though when an officer made that statement he was talking about the distilling of complex thoughts into a set of semi-random and ostensibly (though falsely) equivalent bullet points.
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I want to say things quickly. Not because there is not much to say, but because there is so much. Because the world is now filled with so much visual poetry I haven't the time to write about it all. But the more quickly I can write, the more I can write about.

Paul Siegell's wild life rifle fire is a stunningly beautiful work of hyper-clean concrete poetry.

Anne Carson, Nox (2010)

Only the surprises are worth the time it takes to live.

Lucky for us, there are plenty of surprises.

I buy many books, pulling into the house over the last two weeks a couple of dozen new books (and this after a self-imposed embargo on book buying).
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The Red Hook Collective, The Twelve Songs of Noise and Voices

Red Hook, New York (28 Feb 2010)

I've been behind on documenting many of the events I've attended over the past many months, so today I'm taking a brief trip back to February 28th of this year, when a smaller than usual assemblage of the Red Hook Collective came together to invent a little strange extemporaneous music and to celebrate the birthdays of Lynn Behrendt and (in absentia) Anne Gorrick.

34. Change

Revision is the process of figuring out how quickly you can give up trying to make a poem any good.

35. Wrawing

I don't know the difference between writing and drawing. As physical acts, they use the hands to create images on a page or a screen. As a receptive act, they are about interpreting visual images that may be concrete or abstract, obvious or obscure. This is the point of visual poetry: the word is the image.

35.
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Sometimes three things can be one thing. Maybe it's always that way. Entire religions have been based on this idea. And maybe poetry is a twisted religion of some kind. Maybe everything is twisted. There is something tight and durable about a braid. Everything held in place to work together.

If you are interested in the art of text, the Text Festival, held in Bury, England, is an event and venue for you. If interested in becoming involved, see below.

Text Festival Call for Submission

The third international Text Festival in Bury, Manchester, UK, will open on 29 April 2011.

Project proposals and submissions are invited - in any artform (sound, media, poetry, visual art, etc) using language in innovative ways.

Link and Leave and Listen

Last night (at an event I'll write about eventually), I told Jon Lathrop, "The best art is created at the last moment." The link above takes you to evidence that counters this statement.

After a long night of writing, which ended in the early morning, I stumbled to bed, moving through the house in the dark as I've done since I was a child. In bed, I decided to recite an extemporaneous poem to Nancy while I recorded it on my phone.

THE 2ND AVANT WRITING SYMPOSIUM

The Avant Writing Collection

Rare Books & Manuscripts Library

The Ohio State University Libraries

Columbus, Ohio, USA

August 19-21, 2010

PROPOSALS INVITED

The Symposium will be open to all interested persons, with a small registration fee. The number of presentations will be limited by time and space constraints.
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