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RICHARD WEHRENBERG, JR.
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nail-biter: tour kick off reading! lovely flyer by lovely Richard W. Reading in Bloomington at the cemetery in my neighborhood, the Near West Side. I’ll be reading poems and aphorisms (ie. subjective-truth spittin’ particularized by its abstract nature, grounded in happening and being in a moment, of a specific, indelible place, yet not situated (completely) in a single, solid place.) Come hang out?

nail-biter:

tour kick off reading!

lovely flyer by lovely Richard W.

Reading in Bloomington at the cemetery in my neighborhood, the Near West Side. I’ll be reading poems and aphorisms (ie. subjective-truth spittin’ particularized by its abstract nature, grounded in happening and being in a moment, of a specific, indelible place, yet not situated (completely) in a single, solid place.)

Come hang out?

Posted 1 month ago from tarae with 4 notes and tagged poetry,reading,zines,bloomington,indiana,white oak cemetary,tara j,xavier m,bethy squires,flyer,poems,near west side,

On Monday, March 26th, Penina Gal and myself spoke to a feminist studies class of middle and high school students from Harmony School in Bloomington, Indiana about ZINES at Boxcar Books. Subjects we touched on included: the general history of zines, the poetic history of zines, the punk history of zines, the comix history of zines, the feminist history of zines, the subversive nature of zines, the urgency of self-publishing, famous zines, anti-famous zines, infamous zines, sexy zines, zine libraries, fests, archives, punk, house shows, diy punk, feminism, Monster House, poetry tours, and community. Above is the outline I would glance at occasionally to gain my bearings when my thoughts had flown off course.

On Monday, March 26th, Penina Gal and myself spoke to a feminist studies class of middle and high school students from Harmony School in Bloomington, Indiana about ZINES at Boxcar Books. Subjects we touched on included: the general history of zines, the poetic history of zines, the punk history of zines, the comix history of zines, the feminist history of zines, the subversive nature of zines, the urgency of self-publishing, famous zines, anti-famous zines, infamous zines, sexy zines, zine libraries, fests, archives, punk, house shows, diy punk, feminism, Monster House, poetry tours, and community.

Above is the outline I would glance at occasionally to gain my bearings when my thoughts had flown off course.

Posted 1 month ago with 6 notes and tagged boxcar books,harmony school,notes,penina gal,poetry,punk,things i do,zines,bloomington,indiana,

libraryland: April is National Poetry Month! poems yo

libraryland:

April is National Poetry Month!

poems yo

Posted 2 months ago from libraryland with 364 notes and tagged poetry,yo,

Wendell Berry - “An Epilogue” from Findings (1969) All arrivals bear away…

Wendell Berry - “An Epilogue” from Findings (1969)

All arrivals bear away…

Posted 4 months ago with 12 notes and tagged wendell berry,an epilogue,findings,poetry,solid poems,

Li-Young Lee - “Mnemonic” from his collection Rose Once, I was cold. So my father took off his blue sweater.

Li-Young Lee - “Mnemonic”

from his collection Rose

Once, I was cold. So my father took off his blue sweater.

Posted 6 months ago with 10 notes and tagged li-young lee,mnemonic,rose,poetry,poems,kindness,memory,solid poems,

Naomi Shiab Nye - “Valentine for Ernest Mann” from Red Suitcase Poems hide…What we have to do / is live in a way that lets us find them.

Naomi Shiab Nye - “Valentine for Ernest Mann” from Red Suitcase

Poems hide…What we have to do / is live in a way that lets us find them.

Posted 6 months ago with 42 notes and tagged naomi shiab nye,valentine for ernest mann,solid poems,living,poetry,

Being gone: Writing as reconstruction, memory as re-representing / atrophying mechanism, and the existence of multiple bodies coinciding at different velocities, accelerations, decelerations and identities in spaces* usually designated as houses At my other blog, SIMPERING FOOL, I blogged to a massive extent, about a two week poetry tour I went on in April.

Being gone: Writing as reconstruction, memory as re-representing / atrophying mechanism, and the existence of multiple bodies coinciding at different velocities, accelerations, decelerations and identities in spaces* usually designated as houses

At my other blog, SIMPERING FOOL, I blogged to a massive extent, about a two week poetry tour I went on in April.

Posted 8 months ago with 2 notes and tagged poetry tour,richard wehrenberg jr,james payne,matt whispers,traveling,poetry,memory,poems,andy gardner,maryn jones,

“I come from one meaning and go to another
Life is liquid
and I thicken it and define it
with my pair of scales and sceptre”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from Mural, trans. John Berger & Rema Hammami

Posted 10 months ago with 3 notes and tagged mahmoud darwish,mural,solid poems,john berger,rema hammami,poetry,life is liquid,

“I think there’s a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there’s still time.”

— W. S. Merwin (via lesmotsjustes)

(Source: whiskeyriver.blogspot.com)

Posted 10 months ago from libraryland with 504 notes and tagged poetry,saying,actualizing,hopelessly hopeful,solid quotes,ws merwin,

John Berger reading an excerpt from Mahmoud Darwish’s Mural. 

Posted 11 months ago with 1 note and tagged john berger,mahmoud darwish,magical people,mural,poetry,palestine,death,solid poems,