Living la Muerte de Lorca [Ainadamar, Long Beach Opera]
I am not generally one for sports metaphors, but if an opera company could be compared to a major league slugger, Long Beach Opera has been on a successful hitting streak... Read more...
a fool in the forest, Today, 3:12pm
Becketts Question: How often have you thought about what it means to blur something, for what it means for something/someone to be blurred?
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, Today, 3:12pm
How surely the land made good land bearing good, the long placid eddy with two boys.
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, Today, 3:12pm
Beckett's Question: Who doesn’t love the work of Nick Piombino?
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, Yesterday, 3:11am
New Visual Poetry Blog: New Poetry Forms
http://newpoetryforms.blogspot.com/
Some stunning hand- and machine made work from:
karl kempton
ben fry
noah wardrip-fruin
kris rzepka
nico vassilakis
reconnoitre
yoshi sodeoka Read more...
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, Yesterday, 3:11am
he settled down to hold his own, allowing himself lost sight in the wet obscurity, a whisper to make the boat my bed, his brain’s soft grassy plain
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 21, 3:12pm
One of them got language that overlooked the genetically connected
Logical empiricism? Yet it would be nature with that connection, someone shouted. The laughter was a direct continuation of the path you step over with an anxious tone. The woman looked panicked with those little yellow flakes. He had shown them an air of expecting immediately, lightly as a chip. The welcome odor of straw, something a little “off,” a short distance bespectacled, filling my cup.
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Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 21, 3:12pm
A nameless quality, a jack-o’-lantern, and the inarticulate forces of shoulder
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 21, 3:11am
We're So Sorry, Uncool Albert [Albert Herring, Los Angeles Opera]
Puritanism,... Read more...
a fool in the forest, May 20, 3:11pm
We often realize there were pregnant women holding the arms of their history
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 20, 3:11am
Call for Submissions: Beasts, Monsters, Creatures, and Cyborgs: An Anthology of Post-Human Poetry
In the twenty-first century poetry interfaces with animal-machine. The “human” is not a given concept, but rather is one that is made in an ongoing technological and anthropological process. We hope to publish an anthology of poetry that participates in technological, biological, representational, sexual, political and theoretical post-humanisms. We’re looking for poetry that engages with or is written by animals, beasts, monsters, immigrants, creatures, aliens, cyborgs, queers such that it challenges western, enlightenment figurations of the “self” and “human.” Read more...
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 20, 3:11am
We learn only that symbolic order and cleanliness of the mother’s bed
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 20, 3:11am
Calmer now, subjectivity is a load acquired by hesitation
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 19, 3:11am
Something in the Air Besides the Atmosphere[Hilary Hahn and Hauschka : Silfra]
Silfra Read more...
a fool in the forest, May 18, 3:12pm
Some New Material Up At Last Vispo
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Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 17, 3:11pm
A Saucerful of Secrets [New Lens Concert Series premieres in Pasadena]
The promise of the unknown, the mysterious, the surprising—of the NEW!—can generate anticipation and instill excitement, or it can sow uncertainty and envelop us in dread. The New Lens Concert Series proposes that the unknown and the... Read more...
a fool in the forest, May 16, 3:11pm
Greater and Lesser Lights
"Urban Light" by Chris Burden, at Read more...
a fool in the forest, May 15, 3:11pm
Something Boroughed, Something New [wild Up, "Craft" in Venice]
The wickedly engaged and engaging new music collective wild Up returned to Beyond Baroque in Venice on Friday evening (repeated on... Read more...
a fool in the forest, May 15, 3:11am
Of Course You Realize This Means War [wildUp, The Armory, Pasadena]
a fool in the forest, May 14, 3:12pm
Beckett's Question: What constitutes enough of anything?
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 14, 3:12pm
Beckett's Question: When one speaks is one projecting anything more than one’s voice?
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 14, 3:11am
Beckett's Question: Could a voice be said to be something akin to a shadow’s cousin?
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 13, 3:11am
Digging in the Dirt [Maria de Buenos Aires, Long Beach Opera]
Tyrannies do not come in ones or twos; tyrannies come in battalions.... It does not matter what the party motto is, what flag flies, what history pretends to teach, what rewards will be yours, what hurt feelings will follow; we need to be free to choose our own errors, our own myths, to furnish our souls as we see fit.
— William H. Gass Read more...
a fool in the forest, May 12, 3:12pm
Beckett's Question: What’s your favorite musical instrument?
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 12, 3:12pm
Beckett's Question: Are declared intentions sufficient (in art or in any human exchange)?
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 12, 3:12pm
Welcome to iPoems - an online exhibit by Nico Vassilakis
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 9, 3:11pm
Neighborhood Bully
Photo and rudimentary processing by the blogger. Read more...
a fool in the forest, May 8, 3:11pm
The Genoan Article [Simon Boccanegra, Los Angeles Opera]
The famous natural philosopher and super genius, Wile E. Coyote, demonstrated convincingly that one can accomplish absurd and impossible things, such as running at speed on the thin air above absymal... Read more...
a fool in the forest, May 7, 3:11pm
New on Rogue Embryo: Robert Zend's Typescapes: Concrete poetry from a Renaissance man of Canadian letters
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 5, 3:11am
Beckett's Question: Is writing a form of substance abuse?
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 5, 3:11am
Beckett's Question: Where did/does poetry begin for you?
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 5, 3:11am
Year of the Dragon
Dragon from Ai Wei Wei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at LACMA; photograph and rudimentary processing by the blogger. Read more...
a fool in the forest, May 4, 3:11pm
Otoliths, Issue 25 has gone live
This, the southern autumn 2012 issue (http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/), marks the sixth birthday of Otoliths; & lined up in the impressive May Day parade are Charles Freeland & Rosaire Appel, Joshua Comyn, Sam Langer, Scott Glassman, Emmalea Russo, Ed Baker, Enola Mirao, Charles Borkhuis, Aaron Crippen, Louie Crew, Kristine Snodgrass, Bobbi Lurie, Jim Meirose, John M. Bennett, Anne Gorrick, Philip Byron Oakes, S S Prasad, Eszter Takacs, Christopher Brownsword, Tony Brinkley, R/B Mertz, Lakey Comess, Adam Fieled, Keith Higginbotham, Sandy McIntosh, Les Wicks, Raymond Farr, Joe Bussiere, Kirk Marshall, Walter Ruhlmann, Connor Stratman, Gary Barwin, Sarah Crewe, Joel Chace, Michael Ruby, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Eryk Wenziak, Sam Truitt, Andrew Nightingale, Jeff Harrison, SJ Fowler, Catherine Vidler, Andrew Topel, Howie Good, Jill Chan,... Read more...
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 4, 3:11am
Rough Swedding
I am beginning to worry about Mark Swed.
The Los Angeles Times is today a mere walking... Read more...
a fool in the forest, May 3, 3:11pm
Instructions for Appeasing the Enemy
Piss on corpses
Burn the Holy book
Shoot families in homes
children in their beds
Burn the bodies
Blame the policies
of the party in power Read more...
Crag Hill's poetry scorecard, May 3, 3:11pm