Poetry Projector 5

This week's poetry projection is from Ben Mirov's Ghost Machine, picked by Michael Burkard for the 2009 Caketrain Chapbook Competition. Either Ben or a ghost of Ben is poetry editor for LIT Magazine. Other ghosts of Ben might have published several books and chapbooks. Sometimes ghosts appear in his ghost catcher.
Ghost Machine is on backorder here. Enjoy.

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Quote Fruit: Mark Leidner

In an interview with Alex Phillips:

"Sound and rhythm, ... those were like waves I wanted to surf, and in order to surf them you have to think about something else"

Line Collector 2

This week's collection is taken from Emily Kendal Frey, author of The Grief Performance from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. The collection also includes lines from Airport, from Blue Hour Press.
Feel free to follow @linecollector on Twitter. Frey's Meditation on a Meditation of Frost is also the feature of this weeks Poetry Projector 4, a reading and composition of contemporary poetry.


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Poetry Projector 4

Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, OR, where she teaches at PCC. She carries a big wit. Her first book, The Grief Performance, won the 2010 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. It was chosen by Rae Armantrout, who states in her blurb: "See, everything you know is wrong," which just seems so right. You can purchase the book here
(note this is part one of a long poem. I have yet not found a suitable setting for part two)

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Colors and Compositions

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Quote Fruit

(Pulled from the vine of John Gallaher's blog (which is great))

I like an authoritative gasp of the absurd. I don’t want to be a sad little adorable poet in a big confusing world. I want my poems to be the big confusing world.

Hot Potato

Today's Hot Potato link, passed on by Justin Marks on Twitter.

Twitter is a media form which I have resisted due to information overload. However, the ability to discover new information (feel free to substitute "connections/perspectives/magic/art") through the physical flow of your day is crucial for artists in general and writers (poets) specifically. In a world of increasing individualism driving the further introspection of poetry, you can still find wonder and discourse through The new media. Think of it as an adaptation of Gift Culture from Lewis Hyde's The Gift. This interesting article suggests what authorship means in new media (Twitter specifically):

If information discovery plays such a central role in how we make sense of the world in this new media landscape, then it is a form of creative labor in and of itself. And yet our current normative models for crediting this kind of labor are completely inadequate, if they exist at all.

Q: Can the artful "curation" of Twitter be poetry?

Read more @ niemanlab.org

Bonus butter link:

Is Twitter writing, or is it speech?

Line Collector 1

Line collector is a new project working in conjunction with Poem Projector to expand on authors I enjoy. Each Line Collector is a week-long twitter feed comprised of selected lines from the author's work. Feel free to follow @LineCollector or check the Line Collector section on my blog sidebar.

This week features Joe Hall, author of Pigafetta is My Wife, published by Black Ocean. Ill be posting at least one selection a day until next Sunday.

Enjoy!

Jeremiah


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Poetry Projector 3

Joe Hall lives in the D.C. area, where he helps lead the search at the Cheryl's Gone reading series. His first book, Pigafetta Is My Wife, as well as his second, Devotional Poems (forthcoming), are from Black Ocean, a press I like to spoon. Enjoy.

Colors and Compositions

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Poetry Projector 2

This week's Poetry Projector features Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, who lives in NYC, teaches Yoga, (hopefully still) dances, and supports great events like the CUNY Chapbook festival. Her chapbook, Lure, was selected by Arthur Sze as a winner of the 2009 PSA chapbook fellowship contest. There are still copies available. You can buy the whole 2009 series for $30 here.
Enjoy.

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