Today, I stood and stared, as I often have, at Gene Davis' "Sky Wagon," a painting  from 1969 measuring nine feet and ten and 3/4 inches tall and 54 feet and 5 and 1/2 inches wide. The painting is too wide to appreciate in full in one eyegulp, and it doesn't work that way anyway. It is still beautiful, straight after straight vertical line of acrylic five storeys recumbent. In such a view, you see the colors as they change, you see the bundles of light colors struck through with a discordant line of color, but you don't live within the painting.

I work in a building that is home to a museum, though I do not work in a museum, but this is a museum focused on the historical, both human and natural, rather than art.
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The eye takes it in; the lungs then breathe it out.

At times, I say my favorite color is pink--because my favorite color is pink.
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I wonder sometimes if I am truly a poet--not because of the quality of my poetry, or the recent infrequency of my creation of it, but because I am so interested in the multisensory, in art that presents itself to the world through all senses, that I have now begun to create works that are not poems even by my broad definition, even though I want to designate them such.

This year, so far, my two "major" works ("major" requires quotation marks more often than "minor" does) are not poems.
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Didi Menendez has done it again. She has put together a remarkable magazine of art, some of it poetic, some of it visual poetry, and most of it visual artistic, and she's delivered it (this time) in so many formats that the mind reels. There are gorgeous visual poems, paintings, and photographs in this issue, all ready for your delectation.
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Eliot, T.S. (whose initials we must imagine stood for Tough Shit, [Ezra]), told us that April is the--and this is his spelling, having given up his Missourian orthoepy--cruellest month. He was, of course, opening a great poem with this as he was opening spring to us, just as Geoffrey Chaucer (whose namesake I intentionally am) began his own tale of pilgrims' travels to Canterbury.
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This is a list of where I expect to be on the road in the future. If anyone knows of anything of possible interest to me happening in these places at these times, drop me a line, though I can’t be sure I’ll have the time for anything.

  • 3-5 October 2011: Buffalo, New York
  • 6-8 October 2011: Cheyenne, Wyoming
  • 19-22 October 2011: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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    1 October 2011
    The Grey Borders Reading Series
    Niagara Artists Centre
    354 St. Paul Street
    St Catharine's, Ontario
    Geof Huth, NF Huth, and Angela Szczepaniak
    8:00 pm


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