Archive for September, 2021

Glenn LaVertu | Episode 6 | Infinite Surface Podcast – YouTube

2021
09/30
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L’oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird) by Maurice Maeterlinck – REVIEW

2021
09/28
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Jane Bennett – Walt Whitman’s Solar Judgment | Backdoor Broadcasting Company

Jane Bennett – Walt Whitman’s Solar Judgment

In the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass, Whitman attributes to the poet this remarkable talent: he has learned how to judge “not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.” To judge as the sun falls: my goal is to examine the techniques — literary, grammatical, conceptual — that Whitman uses to cultivate this queer, even oxymoronic, practice. I suggest that Whitman’s “solar” judging helps to induce a special kind of auditory perception: the ability to detect the voice of “inanimate” things, a voice that announces the role that such things have played in the particular political actions or events to which one is called upon to judge. Thus Whitman’s claim that poets can take on the posture of falling sunlight is linked to his materialism, or the way he conceives of materiality as a living force.

Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory at Johns Hopkins University and currently a Fellow in the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Her latest book is VIBRANT MATTER: A POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THINGS (Duke University Press, 2010).

Ecoutez, mes amis! (with gratitude to word pond and earth friend, dirk.)

Source: Jane Bennett – Walt Whitman’s Solar Judgment | Backdoor Broadcasting Company

2021
09/28
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Notes on a Poem by Holly Jackson – Beir Bua Journal

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2021
09/28
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What I fear most is becoming a poet – Katerina Gogou – Janet Lees – YouTube

2021
09/28
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Katerina Gogou – Reciting from her poem “Loneliness”

2021
09/27
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The Beatles – Nowhere Man (live!)

2021
09/25
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Cecil Shaw & Band “Get Down On It” Trilogy

2021
09/25
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Tomboy by Claudia Masin, Robin Myers – Poems | Academy of American Poets

About This Poem

“’Tomboy’ comes from a book of mine called Lo intacto, a series of poems based on movies; in this case, Céline Sciamma’s eponymous 2011 film about a gender non-conforming child. The poem came to me in a flash; I barely edited it at all. After I saw the film, I had to speak in the voice of this child as a way to address the damage caused by stagnant conceptions of identity; the need to free this power, which so fiercely resists domestication and regulation, that lives in each of us; and the infinite capacity of our own imaginations for empathizing with what surrounds us. In the end, I think that prejudice and cruelty spring from an utter lack of imagination, an inability to think of ourselves beyond whatever we seem to be.”
—Claudia Masin

Translated by Robin Myers

Source: Tomboy by Claudia Masin, Robin Myers – Poems | Academy of American Poets

2021
09/25
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Richard Wright’s Haikus Turned Into Public Art Around Downtown Brooklyn – Gothamist

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[Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue]

The creeping shadow

Of a gigantic oak tree

Jumps over the wall.

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Wright’s haikus are now the subject of “Seeing Into Tomorrow,” a new public art project by the Poetry Society in which some of his verses have been turned into large-scale installations around Brooklyn.

Source: Richard Wright’s Haikus Turned Into Public Art Around Downtown Brooklyn – Gothamist

2021
09/23
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