1) cigarette butts
2) paper pieces
3) plastic pieces
4) styrofoam
5) glass pieces
6) plastic food bags
7) plastic caps and lids
8) metal beverage cans
9) plastic straws
10) glass beverage bottles
11) plastic beverage bottles
12) styrofoam cups
— Plastics in our Oceans
The above picture is from the last time I was at the Kinetic Poetics Festival in Santa Cruz CA, back in 2008. The fest is where, in 2007, I did my second college show and the show that was the first one I booked that started off my job as a fulltime poet. The festivities go until Wednesday and includes performances in the upcoming days from Andrea Gibson, Laura Yes Yes, and Kim Johnson, all while poets compete for a spot on the 2012 Santa Cruz CUPSI team.
Tonight is at Porter Hall. It starts at 9pm and a suggested donation of $5 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds).
More info here.
photo via sjyalon
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8 months.
Outside the sheets outside the window on the other side of the hills they’re coming. In bed there is a continent of you and I. Unlonely. Abundance. Flourishing. All the plates shift around us. But beneath us the grass grows. Even in the dry earth our grass grows. All our shelves are full of blue china. Outside the sheets, on the other side of the window the sun flashes its knives, juggling them to see us smile. On the other side of the hills they are waving their flags, firing the canon, stepping in time, their boots like thunderous handclaps. We know they are coming for us. This world we fill with ourselves. Our mouths, pitchers pouring our hearts into one another. I overflow. Everyday with what you give to me. They are coming. A brigade of light. They have been told of the two of us, of how powerful our wrists lay together. Steel rusts, gold bends. We are iron dipped in the fire of the suns. This brigade of light is opening their shirts, shedding their buttons, running faster to get to us sooner. The land is filled with the sounds of our gods. I can see their banners rippling outside the sheets, outside the window on the other side of the hills, rising into the sky I hear their trumpets, sounding all the songs that surround our room.
i shore do like this pic, that afternoon, and the folks that were there.
paul and anis on Flickr.
friends
Dustin’s assistant Drew hepped me to this the other week, Machotaildrop, from Corey Adams. It looks as if Peter Greenaway and Jared Hess decided to make a skateboard movie together and have Wes Anderson produce it. In other words, it looks awesome.
All that is wonderful about going to the movies is summed up by the above, and The Artist only adds to that conversation.
ahh, the memories.
if near Cullowhee NC tomorrow night, come check the above out. No hotdog.
These three dudes are an incredible poet mafia
Poetry Revival show this Wednesday, January 25th, at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee NC, with Buddy Wakefield and Derrick Brown. At the Bardo Performing Arts Center, 7:30, open to the public, $5.
Buy tickets hereThe first apartment I lived, in down in Savannah Georgia, was on the upper level of a giant house that was split into 4 units. As there were four of us, each with our own room there was no living room. But just off our porch was a tiny room, we called the lounge. It was just big enough to hold a carpet, a couch we had reupholstered in fake velvet and a four-legged cabinet that housed a record player and radio player, which we had bought for fifty dollars at an estate sale. Walking through the house of that sale, there were beautiful songs from the forties and fifties playing, which we learned were coming form this cabinet. For such a price we bought it on the spot and the lady threw in a stack of records–big band, jazz, bossa nova, Tijuana brass. We couldn’t believe our good fortune. We took to it immediately, filling our home with this music from a different era. I can still remember the warm glow of its light. It introduced us to Frank Sinatra, Glen Miller, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, and Etta James. The wonderful, wondrous, inimitable Etta James. What a lovely voice. Made the easiness of my day that much easier and much more beautiful.
Rest in Peace Ms James.