Wow, I'd like to be there. But, as I can't be, all I can do is wish you
a terrific reading with an attentive audience for all you do....
Doug
On 4-May-06, at 9:09 PM, Pierre Joris wrote:
> SATURDAY May Sixth
>
> THE FOURTH PEOPLE'S POETRY GATHERING
> Sponsored by City Lore and the Bowery Poetry Club in collaboration
> with the
> Division of Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate
> Center, CUNY
>
> POETRY BASH
>
> CUNY Graduate Center
> 365 5th Avenue (at 34th St.)
> 212/817-8215
> Subway: B, D, F, V, Q, W, N, R to 34th St/Herald Square.
>
> 3:30-
> 4:30pm
>
> DISTANT LANGUAGES, REAL AND IMAGINED
>
> —> Break Out Room 5 <—
>
> Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg will engage in a big time
> presentation/performance of the many ways in which poets & artists
> have drawn from distant languages & traditions or have invented or
> pretended to invent new languages so as to escape the tyranny of the
> old. Along with their own performance of a range of poetic &
> ethnopoetic works, there will be a mining of audio & visual archives,
> to bring into the mix the actual voices & visions of artists such as
> Schwitters, Artaud, Schwerner, Cobbing, Chopin, & assorted
> glossolaliacs & chanters from the centers & margins of our world.
Douglas Barbour
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White parchment trees
Recording
The brief lives of insects
An automatic writing
Telling all and nothing
David Campbell
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