Massive People
Happy New York (Part I)
I don’t think the Rust Buckle Books (more on these in Part II) bee
r can logo (below) is by Brian Calvin, but seeing it reminded me–via Flood Editions, where Calvin’s heads (Half-Mast, 2001, and Killer, 2006) can be found on Graham Foust’s Necessary Stranger (2007) and A Mouth in California–that “Head”, his show at Anton Kern, closes on January 16.
I’m sure New Yorkers themselves go elsewhere (where?), but “Goings On About Town” is still my first stop to find out what I get for living where else. Although there’s always an abundance in ART (the above BRIAN CALVIN, WALLACE BERMAN – Jan. 9; “FROTTAGE” – Jan. 17) and MOVIES (Tati–tonight, Trafic–at the MOMA: see also, under ART, OROZCO) that I wish I wasn’t missing, rarely does READINGS AND TALKS make me want to move.
Ever abbreviated (possibly defensible in print, but why all the white space online, where this week there were three total readings–no talks–compared to eight pages of movies?), the section is never more so than in its annual capsule announcement of the reading of the year:
A hundred and forty poets and performers, including Penny Arcade, Yoshiko Chuma, Steve Earle, John Giorno, Taylor Mead, Judith Malina, Jonas Mekas, Eileen Myles, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, gather for the thirty-sixth annual marathon reading at the Poetry Project.
What about the other 130 plus poets (from Ana Bozicevic to Magdalena Zurawski) and performers (Philip Glass) and performers (Ostashevsky)? Is there another reading anywhere that, thanks to the Project’s own Arlo Quint (and Emily XYZ) covers every letter? But I guess I shouldn’t quarrel with an alphabet that begins with Penny Arcade and ends with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Indeed I would have gone to hear the listed Ms alone: where else could you find Mead (who turned 85 on New Year’s Eve), Malina (b. 1926 in Germany, godmother of the American avante garde), the Lithuanian born Mekas (godfather of same, turned 87 on Christmas Eve), and Myles (the only Presidential candidate who’s written a speech about Robert Walser?), not to mention Machlin, Marinovich, (Chris) Martin, and Mesmer, among Many More (see list-in-progress, with links, after the leap), in one audience, let alone on one stage?
CAConrad, the poet of the year if ever there were one (when’s the last time anyone had books as good as Advanced Elvis Course and The Book of Frank come out in the same year?), has an anecdote about the most memorable line from the 2005 reading in the comments section of this to-be-revisited list. Can anyone give us some highlights from yesterday’s event? Will anything else in 2010 approach this gathering in sheer skylight?
Here’s a (more) complete list copied from the Poetry Project website. I’ll be adding links and names as the Coletti (see Part II) confetti clears:
Ammiel Alcalay, Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers, Penny Arcade, Ari Banias, Jim Behrle, Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Ana Bozicevic, Donna Brook, Michael Brownstein, Franklin Bruno, Tyler Burba, Peter Bushyeager, Reuben Butchart, Callers, Steve Cannon, Yoshiko Chuma, Church Of Betty, Michael Cirelli, Todd Colby, John Coletti, CAConrad, Cori Copp, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Mónica de la Torre, Mina Pam Dick, Steve Dalachinsky, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Maggie Dubris, Douglas Dunn, Marcella Durand, Steve Earle, Will Edmiston, Joe Elliot, Christine Elmo, Laura Elrick, Maggie Estep, Avram Fefer, Jess Fiorini, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Foamola, Tonya Foster, David Freeman, Ed Friedman, Greg Fuchs, Joanna Fuhrman, Cliff Fyman, Kelly Ginger, Pepi Ginsberg, John Giorno, Philip Glass, John Godfrey, Toby Goodshank, Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan, Stephanie Gray, Tim Griffin, Miguel Gutierrez, John S. Hall, Diana Hamilton, Janet Hamill, Robert Hershon, Tony Hoffman, Eddie Hopely, Lisa Jarnot, Paolo Javier, Patricia Spears Jones, Pierre Joris, Adeena Karasick, Erica Kaufman, Lenny Kaye, John Kelly, Aaron Kiely, David Kirschenbaum, Bill Kushner & Merle Lister, Susan Landers, Joan Larkin, Dorothea Lasky, Denizé Lauture, Joel Lewis, Brendan Lorber, Michael Lydon, Kim Lyons, Dan Machlin & Serena Jost, Judith Malina, Filip Marinovich, Chris Martin, Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil, Tracey McTague, Taylor Mead, Jonas Mekas, Sharon Mesmer, David Mills, Rebecca Moore, Tracie Morris, Will Morris, Eileen Myles, Roy Nathanson, Elinor Nauen, Murat Nemat-Nejat, Jim Neu, Geoffrey Olsen, Dael Orlandersmith, Richard O’Russa, Eugene Ostashevsky, Yuko Otomo, Gary Parrish, Simon Pettet, Nicole Peyrafitte & Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Kristin Prevallet, Brett Price, Arlo Quint, Elizabeth Reddin, Evelyn Reilly, Citizen Reno, Renato Rosaldo, Bob Rosenthal, Douglas Rothschild, Tom Savage, Michael Scharf, David Shapiro, Frank Sherlock, Elliott Sharp, Nathaniel Siegel, Patti Smith, Christopher Stackhouse, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Tardos, Steven Taylor, Susie Timmons, Edwin Torres, Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theater, Tony Towle, David Vogen, Nicole Wallace, Lewis Warsh, Phyllis Wat, Karen Weiser, Simone White, Dustin Williamson, Emily XYZ, Don Yorty, Rachel Zolf, Peter Zummo Group (with Ernie Brooks and Bill Ruyle), Magdalena Zurawski & more t.b.a
Tags: art, Brian Calvin, CAConrad, graham foust, poetry, Poetry Project
ca conrad is incredible.
also up at hasted hunt kraeutler is paolo ventur’as winter stories, which were up on bright stupid confetti at some point. show’s up through january 23rd. here’s the site: http://www.hastedhunt.com/photos.php?a=paolo_ventura&i=57523
haven’t been but my girlfriend just texted to tell me how great it is. going soon. alright.
really, if anyone here hasn’t read the book of frank and/or advanced elvis course, go do that. please.
ca conrad is incredible.
also up at hasted hunt kraeutler is paolo ventur’as winter stories, which were up on bright stupid confetti at some point. show’s up through january 23rd. here’s the site: http://www.hastedhunt.com/photos.php?a=paolo_ventura&i=57523
haven’t been but my girlfriend just texted to tell me how great it is. going soon. alright.
really, if anyone here hasn’t read the book of frank and/or advanced elvis course, go do that. please.
Thanks for Winter Stories. Maybe I’ll do a Part III with link to other things to see this month in the City.
Thanks for Winter Stories. Maybe I’ll do a Part III with link to other things to see this month in the City.
wow to that reading.
i just heard, once again, dollar bills flying out to elvis…
wow to that reading.
i just heard, once again, dollar bills flying out to elvis…
the first paragraph of this post has more references than I have ever read in any other paragraph.
the first paragraph of this post has more references than I have ever read in any other paragraph.
Sean,
wow to that photo of a fox on your blog. I have never seen a fox not far away, and want to blame all infelicities on this fact. And thanks for your post there and posts here. I like the way you write about reading. Which book of yours should I read first?
Kevin,
I like your dense sentence. Clicking on your name led me to collages that seem to have a lot of references, in a different, better sense. Swimmingly dense. I like them immensely. If they were for sale, and I had enough money I would fly dollar bills at them. Which (forgive another reference), have you seem Mark Wagner’s currency collages:
http://www.sienese-shredder.com/2/mark_wagner-currency_collages.html
In defense of my poor paragraph: you’d think if I were going to do a post in multiple parts that I might be able to spread out the sense. But I’m afraid Part II’s gonna be even more (worse) dense. Still, there has to be a paragraph _somewhere_ with more (better) references.
In sum, and Sean this is what I think it means to see a fox on the last day of a decade: This decade is dense, says one friend. Two days in, and Best Decade Ever seems to still be in play, says another.
Sean,
wow to that photo of a fox on your blog. I have never seen a fox not far away, and want to blame all infelicities on this fact. And thanks for your post there and posts here. I like the way you write about reading. Which book of yours should I read first?
Kevin,
I like your dense sentence. Clicking on your name led me to collages that seem to have a lot of references, in a different, better sense. Swimmingly dense. I like them immensely. If they were for sale, and I had enough money I would fly dollar bills at them. Which (forgive another reference), have you seem Mark Wagner’s currency collages:
http://www.sienese-shredder.com/2/mark_wagner-currency_collages.html
In defense of my poor paragraph: you’d think if I were going to do a post in multiple parts that I might be able to spread out the sense. But I’m afraid Part II’s gonna be even more (worse) dense. Still, there has to be a paragraph _somewhere_ with more (better) references.
In sum, and Sean this is what I think it means to see a fox on the last day of a decade: This decade is dense, says one friend. Two days in, and Best Decade Ever seems to still be in play, says another.
I certainly wasn’t judging the first paragraph, just making an observation. There is something truly interesting about structurally making that work as a complete sentence, and then comprehending it as thought as it branches out in so many different directions.
Thank you for checking out my blog and offering feedback! I appreciate it.
Strange that you should mention it, yes, I have seen the Mark Wagners. I work at a frame shop in Manhattan and have been lucky enough to see them first hand and frame a ton of the originals. They really are amazing.
I certainly wasn’t judging the first paragraph, just making an observation. There is something truly interesting about structurally making that work as a complete sentence, and then comprehending it as thought as it branches out in so many different directions.
Thank you for checking out my blog and offering feedback! I appreciate it.
Strange that you should mention it, yes, I have seen the Mark Wagners. I work at a frame shop in Manhattan and have been lucky enough to see them first hand and frame a ton of the originals. They really are amazing.
The can painting is by Andrew Mister. More of his work can be seen at http://registry.whitecolumns.org/view_artist.php?artist=9489
Dustin
The can painting is by Andrew Mister. More of his work can be seen at http://registry.whitecolumns.org/view_artist.php?artist=9489
Dustin
Thanks, Dustin,
I got a tip on that from Cori Copp, and was just going to add a note here, now that I finally posted Part II, where, hoepfully you’ll be able to clarify re: Quint’s RBB chapbook…Keep up the good work.
Instead I will add that Andrew Mister’s chapbook from fewer & further is worth staying in:
http://fewfurpresshotels.blogspot.com/
Thanks, Dustin,
I got a tip on that from Cori Copp, and was just going to add a note here, now that I finally posted Part II, where, hoepfully you’ll be able to clarify re: Quint’s RBB chapbook…Keep up the good work.
Instead I will add that Andrew Mister’s chapbook from fewer & further is worth staying in:
http://fewfurpresshotels.blogspot.com/