A woman recently took to the streets of NYC and walked around for 10 hours. She walked behind someone wearing a hidden camera that captured all of the catcalls and harassment directed toward her during that time…
Building on recent studies of the relationship between visual poetries and eco-poetics, this essay argues that language conceived of as systematic is an important consideration in the work of Thomas A. Clark. Beginning with readings of some of his meta-poetical work from the early 1970s, the essay suggests that the overt interest in poetic language as a system analogous to an ecosystem continues into Clark’s later writing, though in a less overt, more ephemeralized manner. The essay explores ways in which Clark conceives of poetry as anti-entropic activity in a language system.
Source: Jones | a common idiom … call it a place | Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
The literary, teaching, and musical gifts of Kala Ramesh are diverse and many. These have had a profound and rich influence on short poetic forms from China and Japan. She has made herself a bridge between East and West, ancient and contemporary, the in breath and the out breath. She even reads haiku different from any other reader this writer has heard. A deep bow in front of Kala Ramesh! ~ word pond
Pharaoh Sanders in 1985. Photo by Frans Schellekens/Redferns.
The legendary saxophonist, who died at 81 this week, saw music as a route toward holiness.
Source: Remembering Pharoah Sanders, Who Sought Divinity on Earth | Pitchfork
The Samsara is long, and endless. And we don’t have all day.
-ko ko thett
Source: When the mother tongue embraces you like a failed state – sacrificezone
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