Mary Kasimor

*& cruel red*



68 pages

Cover design by Sheila E. Murphy

Otoliths 2010

ISBN: 978-0-9806025-9-3

$12.50 + p&h

URL: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/cruel-red/8262152


A seductive exploration of the individual—Mary Kasimor’s new book is
innovative and energy packed, crafted and aurally interesting, with poems
ranging from classical myth to Freud to Rimbaud to butterflies. These poems
delve insightfully into the person and the process of writing and definitely
reward reading and rereading. —*William Allegrezza*


'There are always butterflies around death' and around the vivid poems of *&
cruel red* language leaps with multi-layered pleasures. Diverse spaces,
where 'tractors tow a fleece of sky', 'secrets circulate', where grass grows
a spine, and it can rain moss. As the very first poem suggests 'you are
tangled up', and indeed we are as we are lead to the threshold between chaos
and order, pain and relief, burden and symphony. Deconstruction/
reproduction—Mary Kasimor navigates what lies between. All 'safety rolls
away', bones are reshaped, the poems look for surprised freedoms and find
them. —*Diana Adams*


The full catalog of Otoliths books, plus print editions of the journal, can
be found at The Otoliths Storefront <http://stores.lulu.com/l_m_young>.

the Gateless Gate by Joel Weishaus

Dear All;

Here are the next five texts / five images of "The Gateless Gate-New Series":
http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/Gate-R/Pgs%2031-32R.htm

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Index of First Lines:

31:

What to one person is a relic...
Then one year he suddenly remembered...
Religion, philosophy, art-in-depth take place on the verge...
Faith in the unknown is the miracle...

33:
I received this letter...

To inspire the public and acquire grants...
If English had been Einstein's native language...
What interested David Peat and his mentor David Bohm...

35:
In the 3rd Century...
In the 7th Century...
Sacred stories trace all the way down...
I am living in Pablo Picasso's villa...
Today I'm wondering why moon goddess Artemis...

37:
At this point in my life...
The myth of Western Art may have begun...
While in America...
Enlarging his earthly kingdom...
A cry went through late antiquity... (quote)
This morning I gained the woods...

39:

Sweet scents spread through my mind...
Because different types of sensory information... (quote)
The outside world has given rise...
Gods dwell on mountains because...
What is lost is winter...
Seeing reality through..
In a dream last night, Marcel Duchamp...

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If you wish to begin at the beginning:

http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/Gate-R/Cover-R.htm

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Thank you for your participation in this project that seeks to open one way of writing, designing and presenting digital literary art as a continuum to the tradition of books and other print media. Your critique is always welcome.

-Joel Weishaus

Birgitta Jonsdottir

poet, joins Parliament.

http://savethepeopleoficeland.com/


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The Steiner Book Archive

Steve McCaffery

Minima Moralia

With the police of gravity extended
no one listens to reading

the lake forsakes an edge
its social parlance fish
still there to stress
the reader as incompetent.

There were events some found on sheets
and folds deferring to between a we
that never was.

Each chasm bias
felt across the sightless rain
in other deeds
.............................keyboard jolt into

the human reign delay.


(c) Steve McCaffery
The Iowa Review, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer, 1996), p. 147
published by U of Iowa

Burroughs Homage at Gnoetry Daily

Read a few gnoetically treated Burroughs routines:

http://gnoetrydaily.wordpress.com/


Eric Elshtain
Editor
Beard of Bees Press
http://www.beardofbees.com

Jacket magazine: An Announcement from John Tranter and Al Filreis

Jacket magazine: An Announcement from John Tranter and Al Filreis

Dear friends:

We are writing with news of a transition we both deem very exciting.

By the end of 2010, John Tranter and Pam Brown will have put out 40 issues of Jacket (jacketmagazine.com). It began in what John recalls as "a rash moment" in 1997 - an early all-online magazine, one of the earliest in the world of poetry and poetics, and quite rare for its consistency over the years. "The design is beautiful, the contents awesomely voluminous, the slant international modernist and experimental." (So said _The Guardian_.)

After issue 40, John will retire from thirteen years of intense every-single-day involvement with Jacket, and the entire archive of thousands of web pages will move intact to servers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where it will of course be available on the internet to everyone, for free, as always. But the magazine is not ceasing publication: quite the opposite.

Starting with the first issue in 2011, Jacket will have a new home, extra staff and a vigorous future as Jacket2. Jacket and its continuation, Jacket2, will be hosted by the Kelly Writers House and PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania.

The connection with PennSound, a vast and growing archive of audio recordings of poetry performance, discussion and criticism, is seen as a valuable additional facet of the new magazine, as is the relationship with busy Kelly Writers House, a lively venue for day-to-day poetic interchange of all kinds. The synergy in this three-way relationship has great potential.

Al will become Publisher and Jessica Lowenthal, Director of the Writers House, will be Associate Publisher. The new Editor will be Michael S. Hennessey (currently Managing Editor of PennSound) and the new Managing Editor will be Julia Bloch. John will be available as Founding Editor, and Pam will continue as Associate Editor.

More news about Jacket2 in the weeks and months to come. Meantime, the Jacket2 folks extend gratitude -- as many in the world of poetics do -- to John and to Pam Brown for the extraordinary work they've done. And John, for his part, is mightily pleased that Jacket will be preserved and will continue and grow in a somewhat new mode but with a continuous mission and approach.

John Tranter & Al Filreis
http://jackemagazine.com


Informative links:

The University of Pennsylvania: http://www.upenn.edu/

Al Filreis: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/
http://writing.upenn.edu/

Kelly Writers House: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/wh/
3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA: tel: 215-746-POEM

Kelly Writers House Director: Jessica Lowenthal: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/staff/

Michael S. Hennessey: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Hennessey.php

Julia Bloch: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bloch.php

Pam Brown: http://thedeletions.blogspot.com/

John Tranter: http://johntranter.com/

Amaranthine by Jeff Harrison

Amaranthine

cry Neptune, Theseus, then Hippolytus
cry Neptune, Polyphemus, then Ulysses
stare stark, mute Actaeon
after Artemis, the hounds

fly as though a hind, Eurydice
and you, Arethusa, fly ever on
Orpheus! that you were Hebrus ever in sight of hind!
and Aristaeus in his fervor ever the shamefaced Phlegethon

(c) Jeff Harrison

Drunken Boat

Dear Friends of Drunken Boat

We're pleased to announce that Issue 11 is now live. You can view it at www.drunkenboat.com. Be sure to check out our featured folio, Life in a Time of Contraction, a socially-conscious collection of nonfiction and visual arts, as well as our exclusive on current US poet-laureate Kay Ryan and our folio of sound art. This issue marks our first bi-annual release. From this issue on, we will also be including 50 poems in Poetics. We'll also be bringing you the meatiest in fiction and nonfiction from around the world. Sincerely, The Editors of Drunken Boat

PS. Don't forget to check for weekly updates on our blog, fan us on Facebook for the latest updates, or follow us on Twitter for a daily dose of literary goodness!

And a warm thanks to James Finnegan for the latest updates!

Yale Working Group in Contemporary Poetry

Diane di Prima

Salinger on The New Yorker

The trouble with all of us, he believed, is that when we were young we never knew anybody who could or would tell us any of the penalties of making it in the world on the usual terms: “I don’t mean just the pretty obvious penalties, I mean the ones that are just about unnoticeable and that do really lasting damage, the kind the world doesn’t even think of as damage.” He talked about how easily writers could become vain, complaining that they got puffed up by the same “authorities” who approved putting monosodium glutamate in baby food.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2010/02/08/100208ta_talk_ross#ixzz0eJNRHGk3

Stanley Kunitz

Touch me

Summer is late, my heart.
words plucked out of the air
some forty years ago
when I was wild with love
and torn almost in two
scatter like leaves this night
of whistling wind and rain.
It is my heart that's late,
it is my song that's flown.
Outdoors all afternoon staking my garden down
I kneeled to the crickets trilling
underfoot as if about
to burst from their crusty shells;
and like a child again
marvelled to hear so clear
and brave a music pour
from such a small machine.
what makes the engine go?
desire, desire, desire.
The longing for the dance
stirs in the buried life.
one season only,
and it's done.

So let the battered old willow
thrash against the windowpanes
and the house timbers creak.
Darling, do you remember
the man you married? Touch me,
remind me who I am.

Otoliths - Mark Young Editor

Otoliths rounds out its fourth year with another issue that maintains the journal's reputation for excellent offerings across a variety of disciplines & styles. Included in issue sixteen, the southern summer 2010 issue, is work from Thomas Fink, Satu Kaikkonen, Nate Pritts, Jane A. Lewty, Craig Foltz, Michael Basinski, Stephen C. Middleton, Márton Koppány, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Raymond Farr, Jeff Crouch & Sheila E. Murphy, Joel Chace, Caleb Puckett, Philip Byron Oakes, Ed Baker, Tom Beckett interviewing William Allegrezza, William Allegrezza, dan raphael, Alyson Torns, Jeff Harrison, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Michele Leggott, PD Mallamo, Ray Craig, Mark Cunningham, Cecelia Chapman, David-Baptiste Chirot, Vernon Frazer, Helen White & Jeff Crouch, James Yeary, Robert Lee Brewer, Michael Brandonisio, J. D. Nelson, Scott Metz, Geof Huth, Corey Wakeling, John M. Bennett & Thomas M. Cassidy, Sheila E. Murphy & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, Rebecca Mertz, Felino Soriano, Cath Vidler, David Wolach, Carlyle Baker, Stu Hatton, Jenny Enochsson, Robert Gauldie, Rebecca Eddy, Joe Balaz, Bobbi Lurie, Andrew Topel & Márton Koppány, Hugh Tribbey, John Martone, J. Gordon Faylor, Evan Harrison, A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz, Bob Heman, Guillermo Castro, & sean burn.

Enjoy.

Mark Young

Hippocrates Poetry Org

Duke Medicine

from peter ganick

http://chalkeditions.co.cc

for experimental poetry – our first twenty titles.

chalk editions – usually poetry attempts to conquer time and insert an immortality-factor to its texts – this possibility has reverted against itself recently – the physical book is a dinosaur – we, at chalk editions, don’t like this event, however, it is the reality of a now, almost into the second decade of the 21^st decade – hardcopy books are expensive to produce and purchase, soon, hardcopy books will be the present tense for either the rich elite, or collectors – digital paper and ink are improving as we speak, the quality of reading on a computer screen [such as amazon’s kindle device] is improving – screen technology [for computers] is improving as well

we are poets: we come and go with the wind. free.

these are some of the ideas behind our new venture – the texts are free of charge – if you wish, download a few – make print-outs – as a kindness to the authors and publisher, please mention our site and the author’s copyright.

peter ganick & jukka-pekka kervinen – 07.04.09

pganickz@gmail.com

jkervinen@gmx.com

clicking on a title will bring up the text and cover art.

John M. Bennett - T ICK TICK TIC K

Lars Palm - fragments from this

Thomas Lowe Taylor - "...of shooting stars and brightness."

Andrew Topel - RE-ECHOES

Jim Leftwich - OF IF IN

Peter Ganick - g=e=i=s=t=l=i=c=h

Hugh R. Tribbey - waitinale glasses

Lawrence Upton - water lines

Jeff Crouch - furious peddler

Sheila E. Murphy - Reverse Haibun

John M. Bennett - Fla g Wh ale

zachary count lawrence - parsing

Sheila E. Murphy - circumsanct

Ivan Arguelles - SECRET POEM

Ivan Arguelles - SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UPANISHADS

Alan Sondheim - Pushing to Convulsion

Jim Leftwich - BEGET STATESMAN

Jim Leftwich - TIME JUNK

Peter Ganick - recent / how recent

Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - Bad Knob

Brian Stefans

My new piece:

http://www.arras.net/scriptor/suicide_in_an_airplane_1919/

However, I think it's best viewed as a standalone app. Funny things are happening to it when viewed in a browser.

http://www.arras.net/scriptor/suicide_in_an_airplane_1919/SIAA_for_PC.zip

http://www.arras.net/scriptor/suicide_in_an_airplane_1919/SIAA_for_Mac.zip

There's sound, a piano piece by Leo Ornstein (hence, the title). I don't have the rights to this recording, unfortunately, but we'll see.

foofwa sondheim carter

“Foofwa d’Imobilité/Neopost Ahrrrt”

Dance New Amsterdam

New York, NY

January 22, 2010

By Martha Sherman

Jeff Harrison

In a Grove

For Aurora, ever nascent, Sylvan bodies, Antiquity to evince. Like the Chatterton of Wallis is each Sylvan posed. What is out of place in a grove? Tomorrow, Dryads with wreaths to rouse them.


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Weiswampach, January 25, 1945

Remembering Weiswampach in 1945

Marilyn Bowers Jensen

Anne Boleyn, Queen for a Day

from The New York Times:

THE LADY IN THE TOWER

The Fall of Anne Boleyn

By Alison Weir

Illustrated. 434 pp. Ballantine Books. $28

Esse10

ocho 29

is out - Didi Menendez, Editor.

Pierre Joris

Ahadada Books is pleased to present Canto Diurno #4: The Tang Extending From The Blade by Pierre Joris. The Tang Extending From The Blade is the twenty-ninth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.

Congratulations to both, Pierre Joris and Jesse Glass, the Editor.

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Joel Weishaus

Dear All;

Here are the first thirty pages of "The Gateless Gate-New Series":

http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/Gate-R/Cover-R.htm

These thirty pages--which begin past the introduction--consist of 15 pages of text and 15 facing pages of images that don't resemble, but rather echo each other on various levels of consciousness.
Those of you who read the original texts, which I withdrew from the internet this morning, will recognize them, although there's been some rewriting, repositioning, deletions and additions. The images, however, are all new, their code still wet.

Thank you for your participation in this project that opens one way of writing, designing and presenting literature made on and for the Internet, one that seeks a continuum to the tradition of books and other printed media, while using the tools and avenues of the newer medium.

If you want your name removed for this mailing list, please let me know.

Your feedback and critique is always welcome and taken seriously.

-Joel Weishaus