The Existentially Fucked Megamouth Shark

Tao Lin:
The Existentially Fucked
Megamouth Shark,
Mississippi Review Online

North American Poetics, Some British Poetics

Robert Sheppard:
North American Poetics: A Sample, pages
Some British Poetics, pages

MERCURY PROJECT

Grzegorz Wróblewski:
MERCURY PROJECT, a chapbook, poems
translated from Polish by Adam Zdrodowski,
Toad Press, 2008
Three Poems, CYC GADA

Don't Drink Busch Beer

Bernadette Mayer:
Video & Sound Files,
MESHWORKS

Der Explosion

K. Silem Mohammad:
Five Poems, La Petite Zine

ROCKPILE TOUR CALENDAR 2009

CHECK OUT THE ROCKPILE WEBSITE AT
www.bigbridge.org/rockpile/
TOUR CALENDAR 2009

LOS ANGELES

Rockpile Performance

Thursday, October 8th 7:00pm
The Hammer Museum
Billy Wilder Theater
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310.443.7000
http://hammer.ucla.edu/
ADMISSION: free

David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg with Theo Saunders (piano), Johnny Lee Schell (guitar), John B. Williams (bass), Joe Sublette (saxophone), Debra Dobkin (drums and percussion).

ALBUQUERQUE

Rockpile Performance

Saturday, October 15th 7:30 pm
Outpost Performance Space
210 Yale SE • 2 blocks south of Central
Albuquerque, NM 87196 (505) 268-0044
http://www.outpostspace.org/
ADMISSION: $7, $5 dollars for members,
(Outpost accepts phone orders as well as in-person sales
at the Outpost Performance Space Box Office Hours:
2:00-5:30pm—Monday-Friday and 1 hr before
each show at the door

David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg with Thunderbird Poetry Orkestra:
JB Bryan, alto saxophone, rumba box, rattles; Mark Weber, hubcapaphone
& glockenspiel; Leif Rustebakke, koto, hurdy gurdy, percussion; Jon
Baldwin, cornet; Mark LeClaire, cello; Daisy Kates, mellophone,
percussion; Lou Liberty, taiko, little instruments; Jim Burbank,
djembe, didgeridoo, wooden flutes; John Tritica, rain stick, cowhorn rattle,
percussion; Riha Rothberg, balafon & percussion; plus special guest
Terri Carrion, accordion.

NEW ORLEANS

Rockpile Performance

Sun, October 25th 8PM
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
New Orleans, Louisiana 70113
(504) 827-5858 or (504) 352-1150
http://www.zeitgeistinc.net/
ADMISSON: all events are by donation - $7 general / $6
students & seniors / $5 Zeitgeist members /Patrons
& Children 15 and under free (unless otherwise indicated)

David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and, Blodie with members of
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band including Gregory Davis (trumpet), Roger Lewis
(baritone sax), Terence Higgins (drums), Julius McKee (sousaphone),
and Jake Eckert (guitar).

WASHINGTON, DC
Sunday, November 1st, 2pm – 3:30
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
(301)654-8664
http://www.writer.org/
ADMISSION: free

"All About Rockpile," with David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, and
Burnett Thompson & The New Columbia Orchestra.

WASHINGTON, DC

Rockpile Performance

Wednesday, November 4th, 9pm-11pm
Busboys and Poets: “Hump Day Groovez”
2021 14 St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-387-9757
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/
ADMISSION: 10 dollars at the door

David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg with Burnett Thompson and
The New Columbia Orchestra

NEW YORK CITY

Saturday, November 7th 2-5pm
Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
Parish Hall 131 E. 10th St.(& 2nd Ave.)
Manhattan,
NY ADMISSION: free

ROCKPILE Symposium: David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg
host a discussion on "Art and Activism, Poetry, Music and The
Troubadour Tradition, Censorship and The Academy, Community
and Collaboration: Open discussion with Ammiel Alcalay, Teresa
Carrion, Jim Christy, Marty Ehrlich, Michael Franklin, Murat
Nemat-Nejat, Wanda Phipps, Robert Priest, Harris Schiff, Suzi
Winson and Bill Zavatsky. We welcome audience participation.
Moderator: Jim Feast. Refreshments

Monday, November 9th, 12:30-2pm
Segal Theater The Center for the Humanities
The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue,
Room 5103 New York, NY 10016 212-817-2005
ADMISSION: free

ROCKPILE- Poetry and Music and The Troubadour
Tradition A Discussion with David Meltzer and Michael
Rothenberg hosted by David Henderson and Ammiel Alcalay.

NEW YORK CITY

Rockpile Performance

Monday, November 9th 8pm
The Gershwin Hotel 7 East 27th
Street New York, NY 10016
(212)545-8000
http://www.gershwinhotel.com/english/site1.html
ADMISSION: $10 at the door

David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg with Marty Ehrlich
(multi-reed player), Lindsey Horner (bass), Bill Zavatsky
(piano), Michael Stephans (drums)


ROCHESTER

November 11th, 4-5:15 pm
David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg read
and discuss ROCKPILE
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Lounge Bldg.
6, Rm 1251 92 Lomb Memorial Dr Rochester,
NY (585) 475-4922
ADMISSION: free

November 11th,
7pm David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg
and Terri Carrion Reading at: Writers and Books
740 University Ave Rochester,
NY (585) 473-2590
ADMISSION: free

November 12th, 10:30 am
Rochester Institute of Technology
lecture Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion
class on “Editing The Literary Magazine”
Rochester Institute of Technology 92
Lomb Memorial Dr. Rochester,
NY ADMISSION: free

BUFFALO, NY

November 12th, 7PM
David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg
reading Just Buffalo @ WNYBAC Western
New York Book Arts Center 468
Washington St. @ Mohawk Place 2nd
Floor Buffalo, NY 14203
http://www.justbuffalo.org/
ADMISSION: free

CHICAGO

Rockpile Performance

Thursday, November 19, 8pm- 12pm
The Hideout 1354 W Wabansia Chicago,
Il 60622 773.227.4433 http://www.hideoutchicago.com/
ADMISSION: 10 dollars at the door
(all shows 21 & over unless stated otherwise advance tickets
online or by phone at 866.468.3401)

Poetry & Jazz Festival with ROCKPILE: David Meltzer and
Michael Rothenberg perform with The Spider Trio and The
Bob Malone Band and special guests Art Lange, Ed Roberson,
Francesco Levato, Larry Sawyer, Dan Godston Band
and Terri Carrion.

ST. LOUIS

Monday, November 23rd 6pm Untamed Ink,
Under and Above Ground:
A Publication Celebration
hosted by David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg
and Terri Carrion Lindenwood University, LCIE auditorium.
ADMISSION: free

ST. LOUIS

Rockpile Performance

November 24th 7:30-11pm
Regional Arts Commission
Performance Space 6128 Delmar Blvd. St. Louis,
MO 63112-1204 (314) 863-5811
http://www.art-stl.com/
ADMISSION: free

David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg with Zimbabwe
Nkenya (Bass), Dave Black ( guitar), Bob Malone (piano),
Michael Franklin, Shirley LeFlore, Michael Castro, K. Curtis
Lyle and David Jackson (assorted percussion and electronics),
Alexander Balogh, Sean Arnold, Terri Carrion, Howard Schwartz,
and Philip Gounis.

Panama

A.D. Winans:
Panama, erbacce 6/2006

"A.M."

Kurt Schwitters

"A.M."

Er fiel in einen Narrenstall.
Da rauscht ein zäher Wasserfall.
Da sank ein zäher Gummiball.
Er aß von seinem Widerhall.
Da gab er seinen zähen Knall.
Wer gab da seinen zähen Knall?
Der zähe Gummiwasserfall?
So endete der zähe Prall
Im allgemeinen Knall und Fall:
Von Arp und Merz in diesem Fall.
So springt ein zäher Wasserball.

Lima

Carlos Jiménez Cahua:
Lima

Fifteen Walls/Phabetical

Nico Vassilakis:
INTRODUCTION
From Fifteen Walls
From Phabetical
ACTION YES Vol. 1, Issue 10

Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1, Issue 80

harry k stammer

harry k stammer:
Five Poems, P.F.S. Post
Jewelry Dictrict, word for/word
harry k stammer BLOG

West End Final

Hugo Williams:

West End Final, Faber & Faber

West End Final, book review: And so to bed
by Polly Clark, Guardian

TRIBUTE SHOW to DAVID BROMIGE

TRIBUTE SHOW to DAVID BROMIGE

August 26, 2009 7:00 p.m.

Katherine Hastings presents a one-hour tribute to the late poet David Bromige. The author of dozens of books and the recipient of many literary honors, David Bromige was also a former Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, a professor at Sonoma State University, and a mentor to many. His experimental style and sharp wit translated to a large collection of work so varied that the poems could easily be mistaken as the work of many. Born in London in 1933, Bromige died in Sebastopol in June of this year. Participating in tonight's program will be his wife, Cecelia Belle, their daughter, Margaret, and others. Recordings of Bromige reading his work will also be featured.

To listen to the program:

1) Tune in to KRCB 91.1 FM

2) Stream live at www.krcb/org

3) iTunes: Go to Radio/Public/KRCB

4) Comcast Cable TV, Santa Rosa, Channel 961

walking on the sussex coast

Robert Bly:
walking on the sussex coast,
watching a turtle climbing from a rock,
the first fall rain washes away a few angers,
second aeon 15/1973

Another Day Trip

Michael Rothenberg:
Poems, Otoliths

From "Cabaret Voltaire"

Hugo Ball:

From Cabaret Voltaire - Issue I

When I founded the Cavaret Voltaire, I was sure that there must be a few young people in Switzerland who like me were interested not only in enjoying their independence but also in giving proof of it. I went to Herr Ephraim, the owner of the Meierei, and said, "Herr Ephraim, please let me have your room. I want to start a night-club." Herr Ephraim agreed and gave me the room. And I went to some people I knew and said, "Please give me a picture, or a drawing, or an engraving. I should like to put on an exhibition in my night-club." I went to the friendly Zürich press and said, "Put in some announcements. There is going to be an international cabaret. We shall do great things." And they gave me pictures and they put in my annoucements. So on 5th February we had a cabaret. Mademoiselle Hennings and Mademoiselle Leconte sang French and Danish chansons. Herr Tristan Tzara recited Rumanian poetry. A balalaika orchestra played delightful folk-songs and dances.

I received much support and encouragement from Herr M. Slodki, who designed the poster, and from Herr Hans Arp, who supplied some Picassos, as well as works of his own, and obtained for me pictures by his friends O. van Rees and Artur Segall. Much support also from Messrs. Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco and Max Oppenheimer, who readily agreed to take part in the cabaret. We organized a Russian evening and, a little later, a French one (works by Apollinaire, Max Jacob, André Salmon, A. Jarry, Laforgue and Rimbaud). On 26th February Richard Huelsenbeck arrived from Berlin and on 30th March we performed some stupendous Negro music (toujours avec la grosse caisse: boum boum boum boum - drabatja mo gere drabatja mo bonooooooooo -). Monsieur Laban was present at the performance and was very enthusiastic. Herr Tristan Tzara was the initiator of a performance by Messrs. Tzara, Huelsenbeck and Janco (the first in Zürich and in the world) of simultaneist verse by Messrs. Henri Barzun and Fernand Divoire, as well as a poème simultané of his own composition, which is reproduced on pages six and seven. The persent booklet is published by us with the support of our friends in France, Italy and Russia. It is intended to present to the Public the activities and interests of the Cabaret Voltaire, which has as its sole purpose to draw attention, across the barriers of war and nationalism, to the few independent spirits who live for other ideals. The next objective of the artists who are assembled here is the publication of a revue internationale. La revue paraîtra à Zurich et portera le nom "Dada" ("Dada"). Dada Dada Dada Dada.

Zürich, 15th May 1916

Memphis

Mike Golden:
Memphis,
Exquisite Corpse

A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle

Brandon Shimoda:
A Giant Asleep in Fortune's Spindle,
Otoliths

Under My Wig

Marcus Slease:
Two Poems, Shampoo #20
Poems, Free Verse
Two Poems, The Adirondack Review

The Think Shop

The Think Shop

A Casual Acquaintance...

Daniel Gallik:
A Casual Acquaintance of Vast Importance,
ABJECTIVE

TWO ARABESQUES BY MIKE TOPP

Mike Topp:
TWO ARABESQUES BY MIKE TOPP,
Exquisite Corpse

Radial Citizens

Paul A. Green:
Radial Citizens,
Brand

Part 1 of this year’s Big Bridge is now online!

Part 1 of this year’s Big Bridge is now online!

As usual, it includes balanced presentations of arts and genres, aesthetic approaches and socio-political statements, compact anthologies and stand-alone works.

The issue opens with a collection of essays and examples of Slow Poetry, one of the leading contenders for the first major shift in 21st century art. Not a movement, but rather a means of approaching, rethinking, and appreciating virtually all modes and genres. A measure of the importance of this feature is that its URL got passed around before the issue officially went online. It thus officially appears after being mentioned in blogs, and even satirized by another group. In one way or another, we hope our features tend to be similarly ahead of the curve - at times going so far as to generate response before official publication.

We do, however, try to present work that keeps response from distorting our environment, as we try to reclaim poetry from preconception. This issue’s anthology of poetry and fiction from South Africa, for instance, makes no attempt to fill in news stories or confirm simplifications of huge problems and unusual successes, but present a glimpse of the diversity of a complex nation’s poetry and the individuality of its writers.

Standard features such as the continuing group statements in War Papers and another in the series of paintings by Jim Spitzer, judicious essays and terse reviews, short fiction and a suggestive sample of current little magazines published on paper in the digital age continue the scope of the magazine. A simplified table of contents appears below.

This issue differs from its predecessors in several ways. It intersects with the ROCKPILE program of transcontinental readings lead by David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg and including local participants.

It also appears several months before the omnibus New Orleans anthology, which, in itself, is larger than everything else in the issue. Later this year, we will also add a compact, bi-lingual Anthology of Venezuelan Women poets, another tri-lingual Anthology of Galician writers and a few small contributions. We feel that dividing the issue up this way keeps the New Orleans feature from throwing the issue off balance and giving our readers some breathing room. Opening ROCKPILE at this time also gives us a chance to test the interaction of an annual magazine with an on-going project.

Although we are adamant partisans in some areas, such as opposition to senseless wars in places the U.S. does not understand and where it does not belong, and in celebration of the history and resurrection of one of America’s greatest cities, we hope to maintain enough diversity to present some work that will appeal to nearly anyone who looks for progressive poetry on the web, and perhaps promote interchange between people with different ideas and orientations.

At a time when economic crisis brings out the perennial name for boondoggles, we’d like to move as far away from being a bridge to nowhere as we can but rather see how close we can come to being a big bridge that can act as a focal point for the cyberbridges that lead everywhere.

http://www.bigbridge.org