Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1, Issue 79

CIRCUMSTANCES OF BETTER TIMES

Douglas Messerli:
Poems, Shadowtrain

Audri Sousa

Audri Sousa:
Four Poems, Word Riot
Cordoba, The Literary Bohemian
break & cappadocia, ABJECTIVE

A Poetry of Place

Andrew Taylor:
Four Poems, Otoliths #11

Poetics and Proto-Poetics

Robert Sheppard:
Poetics and Proto Poetics from Aristophanes
to Yeats, Pages
Poetics through and after Modernism:
Some Texts, Pages

DISTRESS SALE INVENTORY

Michael Rothenberg:
Two Poems, Thunder Sandwich #15
Two Poems, Jacket Magazine #6
Poems, The Cortland Review #5
Poems, Mad Hatters' Review #6

Five Sequences

Nico Vassilakis:
Five Sequences,
gammm

Global Landmark

Global Landmark
by Herzog & De Meuron,
56 Leonard

"Was Kunst ist, wissen Sie..."

Kurt Schwitters:

Was Kunst ist, wissen Sie ebensogut wie ich, es ist nichts weiter als Rhythmus. Wenn das aber wahr ist, so beschwer ich mich nicht mit Imitation oder mit Seele, sondern gebe schlicht und einfach Rhythmus mit jedem beliebigen Material, Straßenbahnfahrscheinen, Ölfarbe, Holzklötze, ja da staunen Sie Bauklötze, oder mit dem Wort in der Dichtung, dem Ton in der Musik, oder wie Sie wollen. Darum sehen Sie sich nicht das Material an, denn das ist unwesentlich. Suchen Sie nicht versteckt irgendeine Imitation von Natur, fragen Sie nicht nach Seelenstimmungen, sondern suchen Sie trotz des ungewöhnlichen Materials, den Rhythmus in Form und Farbe zu erkennen. Mit Bolschewismus hat das ebensowenig zu tun wie der moderne Bubikopf. Dafür ist es die Essenz aller Kunst, das heißt, jedes Kunstwerk aller Zeiten mußte diese primäre Forderung erfüllen, Rhythmus zu sein, sonst war es nicht Kunst.

The Dark Side of Success

Dan Flavin:
The Dark Side of Success,
by Greg Allen, The New York Times
Constructed Light,
The Pulitzer Foundation for Arts

The Young Designers

Scott Thurston:
From The Young Designers, Shadowtrain
From Singing Sensation, Shadowtrain

Art in the Era of Globalization

Georg Schollhammer:
Art in the Era of Globalization

Coop Himmelb(l)au

Coop Himmelb(l)au

Citizen Jane

Daniela Olszewska:
from Citizen Jane,
P.F.S. Post

The Uncanny and the Architecture of Deconstruction

The Uncanny and the Architecture of Deconstruction,
Image [&] Narrative

PROGRESSIVE POETRY

PROGRESSIVE POETRY,
Center for American Progress

Thelma

Robert Sheppard:
From Thelma,
Shadowtrain

Glam Backpack

K. Silem Mohammad:
Four Poems, P.F.S. Post

Words Never Spoken

Barbara de Franceschi:
Words Never Spoken,
Eclectica, Jul/Aug 2009

Poems About Trees

K. Silem Mohammad:
Poems About Trees,
Poetry (July/August 2009)

Amy De'Ath

Amy De'Ath:
But This is Your Quota, past simple
Interviewed by Kinga Pilich, OFF_MAGAZINE

ROCKPILE

A Collaborative Journey of Poetry & Music…
ROCKPILE is a collaboration between David Meltzer — poet, musician, essayist, and more — and Michael Rothenberg of Big Bridge Press. David and Michael will journey through eight cities in the U.S. to perform poetry and prose, composed while on the road, with local musicians and artists in each city. ROCKPILE will serve to educate and preserve as well as to create a history of collaboration. It will help to reinforce the tradition of the troubadour of all generations, central to the cultural upheaval and identity politics that reawakened poets, artists, musicians, and songwriters in the mid-1960s through the 1970s. The project will end with a final multimedia performance in San Francisco.
Made possible by a grant from the Creative Work Fund
Visit our ROCKPILE BLOG to see what we are up to once we hit the road!
See details of PERFORMANCES AND VENUES.
And check our CALENDAR, on the right sidebar, for day to day details starting on October 5th. Just click on the red highlighted date!

Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1, Issue 78