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Wed, 22 May 2013 19:04:00 -0400

Had the great pleasure to open the afternoon portion of the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:58 -0400

Had the great pleasure to open the afternoon portion of the LitTap Facing Pages Statewide Convening 2013 last Thursday, May 16, with a reading of my poetry. Many, many thanks to Kathleen and the kind folks at NYSCA for the invitation. But dang, what a thrill to grace the venue of the event, which was none other than the legendary Astoria Kaufman Studios, home of Sesame Street! I also got to tour the Theater Development Fund costume department, housed now in the studios, and walked away with the above images.

Couldn’t resist.

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:23:27 -0400

Couldn’t resist.

bobholman: The address is the same. 308 Bowery The look is not...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:13:46 -0400

bobholman:

The address is the same. 308 Bowery
The look is not
Come one and all
To Taylor’s boite

For the Love of Taylor Mead (1924-2013)

Taylor Mead, a poet, actor and exuberant bohemian who collaborated with Andy Warhol in the 1960s to nurture a new approach to making movies — sometimes spontaneously, always inexpensively (hand-held 16-millimeter cameras sufficed) and brashly experimental (one film consisted of an hourlong shot of Mr. Mead’s bare posterior) — died on Wednesday in Colorado. He was 88.”

Come celebrate the oft-storied life and “brilliant downtown zen” poetry of this quintessential New York figure.

6 - 9 pm, May 13

http://nyti.ms/12ke5I3

DC Women Kicking Ass: Happy Mother's Day to the Moms of DC!

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:53:38 -0400

DC Women Kicking Ass: Happy Mother's Day to the Moms of DC!: With all apologies to Dr. Seuss, a poem...

Fellow Sunnyside resident James Hall (on trombone) recently...

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:39:00 -0400

Fellow Sunnyside resident James Hall (on trombone) recently premiered his musical adaptations of contemporary poetry at the fantastic IBeam Center in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Real honored to see my poems “Heart As Arena” and “Tangerina” (featured in this video), both from The Feeling Is Actual, among James’ selections. Thank you so much, James! You can check out more of his work here.

RIP, Taylor Mead. Had the distinction of being heckled by this...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:43:32 -0400

RIP, Taylor Mead. Had the distinction of being heckled by this Warhol great while hosting a 2nd Ave Poetry event back in 2006 at the Bowery Poetry Club. You will be missed! Here’s a poem Taylor left behind for us in his apartment:

The Chilliad.

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:46:00 -0400

The Chilliad.

RIP RAY HARRYHAUSEN WE SAY GOODBYE TO THE GREATEST VISUAL...

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:14:38 -0400

RIP RAY HARRYHAUSEN

WE SAY GOODBYE TO THE GREATEST VISUAL EFFECTS ARTIST THE MOVIES HAVE EVER KNOWN

Is it unreasonable to suggest that, for better or worse, special effects just don’t seem quite as special now as they were when Ray Harryhausen made them? It’s not even so much that he was a master of the form—though he was certainly that—as the fact that his mastery was the product of a purely physical labor. Harryhausen’s special effects were real, hard work, accomplished as much through technical ingenuity as by sheer dedication to a craft; when you see his work brought to painstaking life on screen, even now, the immense effort is visible in every frame.

Cherishing Harryhausen’s now antiquated stop-motion animation techniques isn’t a matter of mere nostalgia for some outdated facet of movie history—the quality of the work speaks louder than that. It’s true that many of the fantastic creations for which Harryhausen was responsible have aged and look dated, maybe even quaint, but they don’t look dated in the same way that, say, the early computer effects plastered throughout “Tron” do. Digital effects have a tendency to fall into what seems like instant obsolescence, where even the most-cutting edge images are outpaced the moment they arrive, making year-old blockbusters seem clunky and decade-old ones to look practically archaic; the advances are so sudden, the achievements so fleeting, that what’s once-revelatory rapidly becomes an antique. But Harryhausen’s effects never had that problem: their style was so singular, their presence on screen so wonderful and strange, that even today they don’t appear old-fashioned so much as otherworldly.

OUR TRIBUTE CONTINUES ON FILM.COM

I can’t encourage you enough to watch this fantastic...

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:46:00 -0400

I can’t encourage you enough to watch this fantastic documentary by the great Lynne Sachs. She will be screening Your Day Is My Night twice in the next couple of weeks, & will be on hand to give a Q&A immediately after. Part of the Second Annual Workers Unite Festival.

Friday, May 10 Opening Night
Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street @University Place NYC
8 p.m.
post-screening Q&A w/ co-producer & cinematographer Sean Hanley

Friday, May 17
The Brecht Forum
451 West. St. at. Bank St.
7:45 p.m.
post-screening Q&A with director Lynne Sachs

For the first time, he wished he were far away. Lost in a deep,...

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:09:13 -0400

For the first time, he wished he were far away. Lost in a deep, vast country where nobody knew him. Somewhere without language or streets. And he dreamed about this place with out knowing its name. And when he woke up, he was on fire.

- Sam Shepard

Detective Comics Vol 1 #241 (1957). Frederic Wertham be damned!

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:04:37 -0400

Detective Comics Vol 1 #241 (1957). Frederic Wertham be damned!

EOAGH Lunch Poems Reading at the CUNY Chapbook...

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:21:13 -0400

EOAGH Lunch Poems Reading
at the CUNY Chapbook Festival

featuring Abigail Child, Jaime Shearn Coan, EC Crandall, Paolo Javier, Patricia Spears Jones, Burt Kimmelman, and Susan Landers

Friday, May 3 at 1 PM

at the CUNY Chapbook Festival

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

NYC

Hosted by Tim Trace Peterson

http://chapbookfestival.org/

http://eoagh.com

Abigail Child is a media artist and writer whose original montage pushes the envelope of sound-image relations. Child is the author of 5 books of poetry (A Motive for Mayhem, Scatter Matrixand Artificial Memory among them) and a book of critical writings: THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film from University of Alabama Press (2005). Her newest book of poetry,MOUTH TO MOUTH is forthcoming from EOAGH Books this summer. Child has taught film/video production and history at various schools and is currently Senior Faculty at SMFA, Boston. Her home is in NYC.

Jaime Shearn Coan lives in Brooklyn, New York, teaches creative writing and literature at City College, and leads a long-standing writing workshop with LGBT elders through the NY Writers coalition. His poems have appeared in several journals and his artist book, Dear Someone, the product of a collaborative queer letter-writing project, is distributed through Printed Matter. A 2012 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Jaime has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Saltonstall Arts Colony.

EC Crandall’s poems have been published in PANK, Jupiter 88, Gay Shame, and The Trans Literary Reader. Crandall is co-author of the satiric novel Executive Privilege, and teaches in the University Writing Program at Columbia University.

Paolo Javier is the current Queens Borough Poet Laureate. Author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Feeling is Actual (Marsh Hawk Press), Javier is also as the publisher of a Queens-based tiny press, 2nd Avenue Poetry (2ndavepoetry.com).

Patricia Spears Jones is poet and playwright and author of Painkiller (2010), Femme du Monde(2006) and The Weather That Kills (1994) and three chapbooks. She edited Think: Poems For Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Hat/ (2009) and Ordinary Women: An Anthology of Poetry by New York City Women (1978) and is editing 30 Days Hath September for the Black Earth Institute blog. Poems and prose are featured in African Voices, The Agni Review, Bomb, Barrow Street, Calabar, Callaloo, www.kwelijournal.org, Fifth Wednesday, The Oxford American, The Southampton Review, and TriQuarterly.

Burt Kimmelman has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent The Way We Live(Dos Madres Press, 2011); Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982 - 2013(BlazeVOX [books]) is forthcoming. He has also published a number of books of criticism and scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry. He teaches at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Susan Landers is the author of 248 mgs, a panic picnic (O Books), Covers (O Books), 15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style (Least Weasel), and What I Was Tweeting While You Were On Facebook (forthcoming, Perfect Lovers Press). Her latest project,Franklinstein, is a mash-up of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Gertrude Stein’s Making of Americans, and the history of one Philadelphia neighborhood. She blogs about this project at susanlanders.tumblr.com.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:08:18 -0400

Join us for a Lunch Poems Reading Curated by EOAGH for the CUNY...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:48:00 -0400

Join us for a Lunch Poems Reading

Curated by EOAGH for the CUNY Chapbook Festival

Featuring: Abigail Child, Jaime Shearn Coan, EC Crandall, Paolo Javier, Patricia Spears Jones, Burt Kimmelman, &Susan Landers. Hosted by Tim Trace Peterson.

Friday, May 3rd, 1-2 PM
at the CUNY Chapbook Festival
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (catty corner from the Empire State Building)
NYC

Directions: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Home

Marvel Comics pauses to reflect on the untimely passing of...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:45:07 -0400

Marvel Comics pauses to reflect on the untimely passing of writer Robert Morales, a man whose dedication to diversity widened and deepened the history of the Marvel Universe.

Many thanks to Professor Lee Ann Brown for the invite to share...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:00:27 -0400

Many thanks to Professor Lee Ann Brown for the invite to share my work at Saint John’s University this past Tuesday! I read from The Feeling Is Actual, and had a blast speaking with her poetry students about the art, publishing, movies, &, what else?, Queens. SJU has a beautiful campus, & I’m always excited to visit any place that’s located along Utopia Parkway.

anthologyfilmarchives: YA PRIVATE SKY (Stom Sogo, 2001) A short...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:14:13 -0400

anthologyfilmarchives:

YA PRIVATE SKY (Stom Sogo, 2001)

A short work by Stom Sogo (1975-2012) that combines super 8 film and mini-dv digital video.

Check out the Stom Sogo memorial screenings happening Friday, April 5 to Sunday March 7th at Anthology Film Archives. He was a remarkable film and video artist who passed away last July at the age of 37 in his hometown of Osaka. Stom lived in New York for most of the 90s into the early 2000s and exhibited in many contexts, including The 2002 Whitney Biennial, MoMA’s BIg As Life 8mm film series, Artists Space, The New York Underground Film Festival and the Views From The Avant-Garde. A master of the Super 8 format and a catalyst within the film community, he helped open the back door of Anthology to a younger generation of artists and fellow travelers.

These six programs are more of a sampler rather than a retrospective of his super 8/16mm films and videos. Materials from his family and everything is still being cataloged; we’re talking about hundreds of reels of films, mini-dv tapes, hard drives, audio cassettes, etc. - Andrew Lampert

For the full schedule and more info on Stom, please visit:

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/40715

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:44:07 -0400

Debbie Lum’s They’re All So Beautiful: Yellow...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:34:45 -0400

Debbie Lum’s They’re All So Beautiful: Yellow Fever? (episode 1)

Required viewing.