dbqp: visualizing poetics: August 2011

In Place of Placing

Hotel 71, Room 2812, Chicago, Illinois

I am in Chicago for the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists. This year is the 75th anniversary of the association, so the celebrations are a little more enhanced than in the past. Still, I will be missing the giant all-attendees reception tonight because I'll be giving a poetry performance ("reading" doesn't seem to be the right term for what I do) with Steve Roggenbuck as part of the Red Rover reading series. Our joint performances will constitute Red Rover Experiment # 49: Full-Body Poetics, and I'll try to live up to that title even though I'll be working with a back I twisted out of whack by gently rotating my torso while in the opening plenary session yesterday morning.

Aug

The Heat from It

We are born into biases and through our biases we see everything on a slant. Our thoughts slope down into unavoidable and irredeemable space.

I am compelled to announce this at the onset because I will be saying some words that may seem kind, but which I see merely as factual, about a book of poetry. Yet it is not just any book. It is not a book that is somehow anonymous to me and which I must learn to accept into the marrow of my bones.

Aug

A Work Week's Worth of Fidgetglyphs

After spending most of a week of work in meetings, creating over thirty fidgetglyphs over the course of those days, I returned to my process of creating extemporaneous video essays, this time about these fidgetglyphs and what my making of them says about me.

ecr. l'inf.

Aug

Note Date and Time Change of Reading in Chicago in August

Red Rover Series

{readings that play with reading}

Experiment #49:

Full-Body Poetics

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26th

7:30 pm / doors lock 8:00 pm

**please note change from usual time**

Featuring:

Geof Huth

Steve Roggenbuck

at Outer Space Studio

1474 North Milwaukee Avenue

suggested donation $4

logistics --

near CTA Damen blue line

third floor walk up

not wheelchair accessible

GEOF HUTH writes frequently about poetry, visual and otherwise, at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics.

Aug

Reading in Chicago

My next reading and performance of full-body poetry will be a part of the Red Rover Reading Series, which is for readings playing with reading. Since that is what my readings do, I think it is perfectly appropriate for me to read there.

Aug

Bleeding Text

Open publication - Free publishing

For a good sense of what visual poetry is doing today, along with a long essay on the taxonomization of visual poetry, though it claims to be not quite that, you could do much worse than the bleed 0.1. Read it above, edited by John Moore Williams and Mara Patricia Hernandez, and enjoy almost 100 pages of textual entertainment.

ecr. l'inf.

Aug

The First Night of the Boston Poetry Marathon and BBQ

I am attempting, this year, to remember something forth from the Boston Poetry Marathon, because last year I didn't. Allen Bramhall, who made it to last year's event and did not this year (but deposited some criticism of it nevertheless), thought last year that I would turn my extensive notes (two full orange notebooks, handsized) into a detailed report. And maybe I would have if I had had the focus I needed to review and decipher my notes.

Aug

Reading from and Reading To

I've been back, for the past two days, from the Boston Poetry Marathon and BBQ, a three-day extravaganza of poetry readings, featuring nearly 100 poets, and I was there for all but the last seven of them. The call of the road, the three-plus-hour drive back, encouraged me to leave a little early.

dbqp: visualizing poetics

visual poetry, the textual imagination, and personal experience