An audio “look” at family resemblance in voice, over the phone, over the microphone. And a big thank you to my mom and sister for lending their voices to this piece so I could see if we did in fact sound like we.
3:20 min (2003)
Recollections of a Geographer
That you stood back to see if I would
Under all those flares
Knocking down cairns
(from a forthcoming book, We Used to Be Generals—due out early 2014)
Sights
daydream
are rarely lost in thought
sign up for tours
buy the audio guide
put stray cats on their shoulders
can’t do another museum today
look tired
look cold
are cold
watch closely
notice that no one notices them
look dazed
try to pack things in
gain a sense of accomplishment by visiting must-see landmarks
hate the phrase “must-see” but go looking anyway
(excerpt from Tourists, a serial poem // work-in-progress)
'Reported Ocean' : One or more voices out loud →
“There are so many ways for something to be unsayable. Reading a poem out loud is one of these ways. From this vantage, consider the prospect of the contemporary American poetry reading for poets who believe that “the text is not the text.” For poets who ask, as Myung Mi Kim is always asking in her work, “Who has authority?” and then are asked to appear at the front of the room and wear their author-ity by reading out loud. … ” read more at Jacket 2’s feature on Myung Mi Kim
Everything We Could Ask For →
Doing some blog maintenance and realized I forgot to ever post a link to my 2010 chapbook, Everything We Could Ask For, published by Little Red Leaves. So here it is, years later!
Together
They drown out the dog
A few chairs beneath
The garden of happiness
Words with Dürer →
a new blog for summer–
Artworks by Albrecht Dürer
Poems by Sarah Campbell
What sort of picture would remain, if we took out all of the human players?
— Yedda Morrison
a page from Yedda Morrison’s Darkness. For more, click here.
Poetry Written With an Eraser
(9 min 40 sec; PoetryFoundation.org, January 2010
Writing poems by erasing someone else’s words: erasure poetry. Interviews with Yedda Morrison about Darkness (an erasure of the first chapter of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) and with poet-critic Ron Silliman.
goldenhandcuffsreview.com →
Poems for the Millenium, vol. 3: book review
The Romantics are more contemporary than we are. The Postromantics are more alive than we now living. This is the barbaric reverse vitality which bleeds out while reading the latest volume in the Poems for the Millenium anthology series.
read more at Golden Handcuffs Review
The Appearance of Appearance
Niagara Falls for one
Imagine that
Larkes
(3 min 7 sec; Kiosk magazine and in performance, Buffalo, NY 2005)
This piece is the final of a five-part series called, “HAP.” "HAP" was the result of interviews I did with people asking them to tell me a story of a coincidence they had experienced or heard of and to tell me how they defined “coincidence.” The resulting audio pieces interweave these stories, and often remove the coincidence “punchline.” The main voice you hear in this piece is that of Marve, a 19-year-old from Turkey. We were classmates together at a German language school in Vienna one summer.
If I found a commonality between the coincidence stories that people told me, it was that they often centered around people in motion (passing through airport terminals, paddling out into the ocean and looking at the person bobbing next to you or, simply walking down the street and looking up.
We could imagine then that perhaps a reason—or a good enough reason—to leave one’s house if you are having trouble getting out of bed and leaving the house, is to try to make a coincidence happen. Go to.