Kirk Lumpkin
NEW WAY MEDIA FESTIVAL 2005presents
POETRY OF WITNESS/The WITNESS OF POETRY
DECEMBER 10, SATURDAY, 8 PM
ECOLOGY CENTER, 2530 SAN PABLO AVE., BERKELEY, CA.
Featuring: Kirk Lumpkin, Julia Vinograd, Tim Nuveen, David Madgalene, Christopher J. Luna, Marianne Robinson, David Gollub, Jeremy Morris Siegel, Debra Grace Khattab, Robert Roden, & Richard Mason
with trumpet by Eric Padget
Free & open to the public!
For more info, including bios & poetry by the featured readers, please go to Festival homepage at http://homepage.mac.com/davidjrandolph
Kirk Lumpkin is a poet with two published books of poetry, In Deep and Co-Hearing, and a singer/songwriter performing with the bands The Word-Music Continuum and WILD BUDS: West Coast Mardi Gras Band.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kirk is also known as the host (1994-2003) of the Cafe International Friday Night Performance Series (San Francisco Bay Guardian "Best Spoken Word Open Mike").
Kirk hosted the spoken word open mic at Burning Man ('97-'99) and coordinated the Ecology Center Literary Series '97-'99.
As part of his work as the Special Events & Promotions Coordinator for the Berkeley Farmers' Market, a program of the Ecology Center, he collaborates with Poetry Flash and Ecocity Builders in presenting the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, hosted annually by former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Hass.
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BFD Live 105 Concert Update
Friday, June 10th
The Main Stage
The Foo Fighters
Social Distortion
Jimmy Eat World
Kasabian
The Lovemakers
The Bud True Music Festival Stage
Sleater Kinney
Hot Hot Heat
Alkaline Trio
The Bravery
Lyrics Born
Ash
Tegan and Sara
Rise Against
MXPX
Dredg
Senses Fail
Every Move A Picture
Jackson United
Fat Tone, RIP
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Kansas City Rapper Killed in Las Vegas
Kansas City, MO/South of Las Vegas, NV --- A Kansas City rapper is shot and killed in a neighborhood south of Las Vegas. A security guard found 22-year-old Anthony Watkins, also known as "Fat Tone", dead inside a car at the end of a cul-de-sac in a neighborhood near Vegas.
Another man was dead on the ground nearby.
Investigators say both men were shot several times.
In October 2003, Watkins was supposed to perform at Millenium Club on Kansas City's east side, but someone shot him during what police call a 'rolling disturbance.'
Watkins had just left a radio station near 47th and Main when that shooting happened.
Detectives do not know who's responsible for Fat Tone's death, but police in Kansas City say Watkins may have known something about the murder of a California rapper named Mac-Dre.
Dre died in a drive-by shooting in Kansas City last fall.
The Nonconformity of Nelson Algren
Nonconformity: Writing On Writing, by Nelson Algren
(Edited by Daniel Simon and C.S. O'Brien)
Seven Stories Press 130 pp.
How goes the legacy of Nelson Algren? As one of the most neglected major American writers of the Twentieth Century, he is hardly mentioned in the same breath with lesser literary lights.
His nonfiction work is even more obscure nowadays than his two major novels, Walk on the Wild Side, and The Man with the Golden Arm; or The Neon Wilderness, his collection of short stories.
In a brilliant stroke of enlightened publishing, Seven Stories Press has issued this heretofore unpublished essay by Algren, written at the height of his acclaim, prior to his fall from grace due to his unfortunate collision course with American culture in the early Fifties. It is a tale that shows the writer, defiant and unrepenting, smack up against the hypocrisy and mediocrity and censorship of 1950s America, and its message remains relevant to this day.
Algren starts the essay on a grim note: the depravity of the adult "condition" versus the mission of the writer, against the seemingly impossible task to reclaim the dictates of the heart from the grasp of an uncaring society consumed with "business is business."
Algren excoriates the American obsession with comfort and specialization, and argues episodically through seasoned literary quotes and sly characterization that the desire to be an entertainer, rather than a truth teller, is fatal to the sacred trust of the writer (which, among other things too mundane to present, is to be vindictive).
While this may appear to contradict the high minded art of writing, Algren considers the writer-as-artist to flourish only in a rabid state of alienation from society, and he offers quotes from sources as disparate as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dostoevsky, Rimbaud and Leo Durocher to reinforce that sensibility.
He does not fashion his style to please the public, as if he were writing for approval. As he himself aptly puts it, his approach was more like "This ain't what you rung for, Jack -- but it's what you're damned well getting."
Algren mastered an emotional unity with his characters at a level rarely reached by other writers, especially his contemporaries. He wanted to endow his creations with the gifts that his heart understood, without the slightest concern for the prevailing tastes of the "heaviest tipper."
His compassion for the underclasses was so overwhelming that ordinary Joes found it incomprehensible that he would waste so much emotion on the wretched and the criminal -- those heathen to the gospel of wealth and success.
Algren's genuine, unromanticized love for the downtrodden spilled from his beliefs. He found "guilt" to be purely illusory -- a fiction that society at large manufactured in order to justify its own injustice.
This is similar to Chomsky's notion of "manufacturing consent" in the American capitalist democracy, and Algren wants to turn the tables. The last are to be first and the first are...well, irrelevant. The lowly, the drug-addicted, the corrupted: they were the fount of Algren's inspiration. He was able to draw them accurately with his words, becase he kept close association with society's "losers." If you want a correlation between Algren and Dostoevsky, whom he quotes approvingly, it's in these dark alley associations.
Algren wrote this extended essay between 1950 and 1953. His observations are prescient of the current era, post 9/11, and the book could be read from that angle. Simply replace Senator McCarthy with Attorney General Ashcroft and the Cold War Madness with the War against Terrorism. The enemies of old are still pursuing their dark agenda; only the names have changed. Aside from Algren's essay, this elegant paperback edition from Seven Stories Press includes an expanded commentary by publisher Daniel Simon and C.S. O'Brien.
Here, they describe Algren's writing method, that of "accretion", and the laborious "layering" process of composition that occurred in the writing of The Man with the Golden Arm. They also discuss Algren's running admiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is quoted extensively in the main body of the essay. While Algren had no Gatsby in him, and preferred to write about "the tricked, the maimed" and "the tortured", both saw the writer as maker of archetype, and prisms of truth, to the outside culture.
Algren wrote Nonconformity at the end of his affair with Simone deBeauvoir -- the essay includes a wonderful account of an evening she and Algren spent in a Chicago skid row bar -- which was also at the height of his acclaim. The Man with a Golden Arm won the National Book Award in 1950, but Algren's acceptance as one of the top ranked American writers receded as the era's Communist witch hunters linked him to "pink" causes. Even though the left-leaning Algren may have been a Party member in the 1930s, and was in his youth a member of the John Reed Club, he was not a Party member in the Fifties. His years of disassociation with the Communist Party didn't stop the FBI or some of the more notorious members of Congress from attempting to silence his muse.
It was Algren's association with organizations like the Committee to Secure Justice for the Rosenberg Case, and his high profile as an engaged writer, struggling for social justice, that got him into difficulty with his publisher, Doubleday.
They initially tried to buck the wellstorm of anti-Communist criticism, then withdrew publication of Nonconformity, forfeiting the $1500 they had advanced the author. Algren was able to recoup some of the money by running part of the essay in the Chicago Daily News, etc, but eventually became disenchanted with Nonconformity being published in his lifetime.
Not coincidentally, his faithful agent then "misplaced" or lost the manuscript. The publishing history of the book is chronicled in the closing notes of this edition, and the editors bring parallels between Nonconformity and The War Prayer.
Dictated between 1904-1905, Twain's satire, inspired by the Philippine-American War, was rejected by Harper's Bazaar and other publications, and did not find its way into print until 1923. While Twain's strong ego made him conclude that society was simply afraid of the truth, Algren escaped America's Cold War attacks with diminished strength and confidence.
He came to despair at the idea that his essay -- despite its unflinching honesty -- would not be published while he was alive. For a few years after his death in 1981, it looked like this neglected writer's wish would be honored even after death. Then, in 1986, Seven Stories Press's Dan Simon found a copy of the essay in the Ohio State University Algren Archives. This volume is the result. It's a beautifully realized edition with an Afterword containing historical information and acknowledgments, Notes, and an amusing Appendix.
There, Algren humorously recounts his disastrous encounters in Hollywood during the sale of the film rights to The Man with the Golden Arm -- a section was originally intended to open the essay. Simon and O'Brien thought better and placed it at the end, where it satisfies like a good brandy at the end of a sumptuous meal. Nonconformity has much to say about the creative process, the role of the writer, and the writer's engagement with the social milieu. Those who expect a masterwork, or something close to it, will be thoroughly satified. -- Carl Macki · · · · · · ·
You Are Invited to a…by Whitman. . .the other one
You Are Invited to a…Night of the Doubly Damned!
Saturday, June 4 7-10:30pm
“New American Underground Poetry: Poets from Hell”
Café Babar and Paradise Lounge Poetry Scenes Anthology
featuring Vampyre Mike Kassel, Joie Cook, Kathleen Wood
Q.R. Hand, Jr., Julia Vinograd, Mel C. Thompson
Bruce Isaacson, Jerry Ferraz & others. . . .
Plus a screening of the “White Folks Was Wild Once, Too” dvd reissue!! pointed
Bird & Beckett Books & Records
2788 Diamond
One block from Glen Park BART station
San Francisco
415-586-3733
Come and hear some of the best Bay Area poetry of the late 20th century.
New posthumous collections of Eli Coppola and David Lerner will also be available from Zeitgeist Press.
We Gave it All We Had. Some of us paid for this poetry with our lives. Now come and get it, people!!!
Abyssinia Infinite
When in a state of wonder about the new sounds from across the Big A, I visit the BBC's websites--Radio 3 is their new world music site. Through a link of the Contemporary Music Network, I discovered this artist.
Acutally a collective by Ejigayehu “Gigi” Shibabaw and several Ethiopian music virtuosos percussionists Hamid Drake and Ayib Dieng, keyboardist Abegasu Shiota, Tony Cedras on accordion and Bill Laswell on bass plus Gigi's voice.
Abyssinia Infinite harken back to the classical sounds of Coptic Ethiopia, before the coup by Mengistu Derg against His Emperor Haile Selassie, and the subsequent jailing of live muscicians.
Visit: http://farmer-glitch.blogspot.com/2005/04/abyssinia-infinite-featuring-gigi.html
Soft Skull Press
How To Make A Living As A Poet, by Gary Mex Glazner Soft Skull Press Paper 6 x 9 240 pgs. ISBN: 1-9328360-69-7 List: $14.95 03/1/2005
"Are you saying Gary doesn’t make sense if he makes a living being a poet himself?"--Whitman McGowanThere are publishers and there is Soft Skull. Craniotabes, to those with a medical background. Soft Skull Press has been on a publishing tear lately. They are currently publishing books on radical circus, queers, globalization, stencil graffiti, cartoons, the use of class violence, how to be a mother and still be creative, a collection of writings by the late comedian Bill Hicks, a punk vegan cookbook--just some of the listings.
Now we have the publication of How to Make A Living As A Poet by Gary Glazner, ποιεω
part autobiography, and part resource guide. All this can be a help to gather ideas on how to apply for grants and residencies, and to spur creativity. I don't know about the making a living part. If how to make a living is the question, then poetry isn't the answer, the poet isn't the answer, Being is the answer. That, however, may be so abstract that it doesn't connect. It is the do-be. That is, what is doing arises from our being.
One time a well-known industrial rock star saw me acting crazy in a bar--not the first time--another time at his house I had to be restrained from lewd behavior on his mother, of all people--and said, Use your mind.
noun a German lyric poet and singer of the 12th-14th centuries, who performed songs of courtly love. ποιεω (poieo) Pound bleatingsget--> bard1 • noun 1 archaic or literary a poet, traditionally one reciting epics. 2 (the Bard) Shakespeare. 3 (Bard) the winner of a prize for Welsh verse at an Eisteddfod. — DERIVATIVES bardic adjective. — ORIGIN fanciful formation from the name of Ambrose Philips (1674-1749), an English pastoral poet ridiculed for his insipid verse. griot
It's sort of like, no time to talk, to time to think, just be. The doing will take care of itself.
Besides How To Make A Living As A Poet Softskull sent me, Deliver Me From Nowhere by Tennessee Jones, a fine book of short stories that I have not had the resolve to finish reading yet. No fault of Tennessee's though. And as a bonus, Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be..., by Jacinta Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer. I await How To Look Slimmer Instantly, by Jerome Sala. . . But I get ahead of my mission here. The reviewer David points out in the Sun Oasis review: http://www.sunoasis.com/bookreview.html, that the title of the book is oxymoronic, were it not for the fact that Glazner is doing it. It does not follow that doing it makes it any less oxymoronic. Which brings to mind the recollection of a saying by R. Buckminster Fuller: "Either you make money or you make sense. The two are mutually incompatible.". . . link to NPR link of most recent posting by Gary Mex Glazner, about the 8th Annual Poetry Slam in San Francisco and about James Kass [Poetry About.com piece] and Youth Speaks. Both are prominent in the book. The book has also made the Forbes Book Club, where it is cited approvingly for its DIY entrepreneurship, and listed for sale. Then are publishers, and there is Soft Skull.
from the SoftSkull catalog about the book:
"Extremely useful.... this book should prove an asset to all poetry collections." —Library Journal on Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (by Gary Glazner)
Available on Powells.com, Amazon.com, from your local BookSense store, and bookstores everywhere!
About the book:
After selling the flower shop he owned for 18 years, the champion of the 1998 Poetry Olympics worked as a poet-in-residence at a hotel (leaving 45,000 copies of his poems on guests pillows!), secured sponsorship to take 100 poets on an 8,000-mile tour of America and even got Pontiac to hire him to promote a new car.
From the story of his own project using poetry to help Alzheimer’s patients to an interview on the nuts and bolts economics behind the world’s only "Poetry Diner," Glazner details how creativity off the page can spark even new approaches to writing itself.
From marketing ideas for how to break out of the "poetry ghetto" to the how’s and why’s of analyzing the economic impact of slam festivals, Glazner shows exactly how its possible to not just survive but thrive off one’s art.
About the author: Glazner is also the editor of Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry.
He is curator of the Word Art series at the Governor’s Museum in Santa Fe and the director of Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, which reads poems to the patients that they learned as children. Glazner organized SlamAmerica, a poetry bus ride, which featured 37 readings over 30 day period in 36 cities and directed a documentary film on the tour, Busload of Poets.
Glazner has given lectures and performances at About Cafe Bangkok, City Lights Bookstore, Chicago Theater, Tucson Poetry Festival and with the Royal Nepali Poets in Kathmandu.
Glazner is a graduate of Sonoma State University’s Expressive Arts program with an emphasis in poetry. He and his wife live outside of Santa Fe.
This author is on tour:25 city tour!
See events page for details!Visit the official website:http://www.howtopoet.blogspot.com
From the book:
From the Introduction
So you want to be immortal? Only through great writing can you hope to join the cannon, have your words live on, and be added to the long history of poetry.
The goal of this book is to help give you more time to work on your art and to integrate poetry more fully into your life.
It is a step-by-step break down of various strategies using the skills learned as a poet to make your living as a poet and a series of life lessons from working poets on how to integrate the world of commerce with the art form of poetry.
Besides the traditional paths of teaching and working with publishers, this book will expose more innovative guerrilla techniques like business sponsorships, unusual poet-in-residencies, and using new media to build the poetry audience.
After studying poetry in college I worked for 18 years as a florist. I also worked on my poetry, giving readings and producing several reading series. I was busy and productive but my goal was to be a full-time poet.
In 1998, I sold my retail flower shop and traveled to 18 countries in Asia and Europe meeting poets, working on translations, and writing poetry. This was my first step in becoming a full time poet. By selling my business I gave myself a grant to travel the world and study poetry. I invested in my career as a poet.
Since returning to the United States, I have worked as a poet-in-residence at a hotel distributing over 40,000 poems. I have secured a sponsorship to take 100 poets on an 8,000-mile tour of America and made a documentary film about the project, Busload of Poets.
I edited an anthology documenting the first ten years of the Poetry Slam movement. I have read at festivals around the country including the Seattle and Tucson Poetry Festivals and the Texas Book Festival.
Pontiac hired me to tour with the jazz trio, "Vibes," to promote a new car.
It is not an easy task to become a working poet or full time poet. In most cases when people ask what I do and I answer, "I am a poet," their immediate response is, "Yes, but what do you really do?" Once I explain the projects I have accomplished they are less skeptic but it still seems like magic to make a living as a poet. I hope with this book to take another small step in changing that attitude and perception and to encourage poets like you to take the leap to full-time poetry.
The first change must come from within— you must believe you can make it as a poet. If you say you are a freelance writer or a marketing consultant no one blinks an eye. The skills learned and used in those professions are also in the poet’s arsenal.
The way these other professionals manage their careers are transferable to the career of the poet. Many of the skills and techniques we will discuss in this book come under the heading of "managing your own career."
This book will look at poets who make their living from their art. We will use them as resources and as inspiration. We will break down the steps they have taken to reach their achievements. We will look at how different types of poetry lead you to different paths. This book speaks to poet's roles in enriching and bettering their lives, managing their careers and bringing their poems to market. This book will give you many techniques and methods to explore and try out while showing you what has worked for a wide range of poets.
We will build on the creativity you have developed as a poet and extend that creativity to help bring your poetry to life. Only you can dedicate your life to poetry and if the muse is willing, you and your poetry may just be immortal, but that is doubtful so why not work hard and enjoy yourself?
© 2003 Soft Skull Press, Inc.
from That Technical Bookstore.com website:
AnnotationA top "slam" poet offers practical advice on how to live on a poet's salary, including interviews with Sherman Alexie, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mary Karr, James Kass, Beau Sia, Janine Pommy Vega, and others. Original.
Table of Contents
Disclaimer
Introduction
The Poetry Entrepreneur: Creative Poetry Programming
Redefining Poet-in-Residencies
Lisa Gill-The Poet's Diner
Alzheimer's Poetry Project
A Poetry Festival's Economic Impact
Marketing Poetry: Breaking Out of the Poetry Ghetto
Rhyme and Meter Revisited
Poet's Plaza
Working with Art Presenters
Poetry & Popcorn
Steero-types and the Cow'vant Garde
Benefactors and Poetry Saints
Investigative Poetry/Poetry As News
Interviews
The Poet's Voices
Sherman Alexie-The Easiest Way to Make a Living As a Poet is to Write Fiction
Mary Karr-Eat Good Poems
Naomi Shihab Nye-The Word Career Does Not Fit My Whole Way of Thinking About Poetry, but the Word Devotion Does
James Kas-Youth Speaks
Bob Holman-Bowery Poetry Club
Beau Sia-Bright Lights of Broadway
Paul Polansky-Poetry Gets the Job Done
Janine Pommy Vega-Words Are the Glue That Holds Us Together: Working with Migrant Farm Workers and Prisoners Using Poetry
The Typing Explosion Rachel Kessler, Sarah Paul Ocampo, and Sierra Nelson
Adrian Arancibia-On Being a Taco Shop Poet
Nuts/Bolts/Rants/Manifestos
How to Wear a Beret: A Manifesto
The Barbaric Yawp: Giving a Good Reading
Booking a Poetry Tour: DIY Style or Corporate Sponsor?
Don't Do Your Show in a Vacuum: Writing a Press Release
Poetry Broadsides
Don McIver-Poetry and Radio: Human Nerve Ending
Publishing: Dear Poet: Don't Forget to Cash Your "Reality Check"
Poems and Roads: Poetry As Subject for Magazine Articles and Books
Chapbooks: An Avalanche of Words
Reverse Blurb Chapter
Foundations, Grants, Fellowships, Residencies
Emiliana Torrini
June 10 Slim's 9:00 PM KCRW.com Presents Emiliana Torrini David Kitt ($16)
drownedinsound review of "Heartstopper" single
EMILIANA TORRINI "FISHERMAN'S WOMAN"
Available on CD/Deluxe 1st Edition CD/LP.
“these are desperately beautiful songs...Torrini presses those special buttons reached by Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen” THE GUARDIAN
****“…softly melodic pop with textured beauty...” TIME OUT
To listen, go to Rough Trade
Marin Scope offices
One of many offices I use. Sausalito, California. Where I work for Marin Scope Newspapers, a division of the UB Group, makers of Taj Mahal, Kingfisher, Mendocino brews.
Kaisers Permanentes
photo: Kaiser Chiefs
The Kaiser Chiefs have a new e-card! Point to the Flash animation.
Chiefly speaking: "From May-July we'll be spending some time in US. We're genuinely delighted by the response so far in America, thanks to everyone who's bought the album or come to see us."
Here are the new dates:
NEW NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
May
24 Philadelphia, PA Theatre Of Living Arts
25 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony
27 Montreal, QUE Club Soda
29 Toronto, ONT Mod Club
31 Chicago, IL Park West
June
01 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
04 Seattle, WA White River Ampitheatre
10 Mountain View, CA Live 105 BFD--Shoreline Amphitheatre
11 Los Angeles, CA Avalon
12 San Diego, CA House Of Blues
July
20 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
21 New York, NY Webster Hall
23 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza Festival
Writers Who Write
Writers wanted at new weekly Marin County, California-based publication: contact editor@thenewsmarin.com
Phone: 415-339-8510 x23
(Note: I am employed by the parent company of The News Marin: Marin Scope/UB Group.)
Bamboo Textiles
Answers The Argument Against Cotton
All Natural Bamboo Fiber has no dye or bleach . . . they are naturally anti-bacterial, soft and biodegradable.
breathability.
According to Bamboo Textiles, "Bamboo fiber clothes are the world's most comfortable clothes. and . . . are destined to revolutionize the T-shirt!"
Popscene Notes
Interview with Nick Hodgson, drummer for the Kaiser Chiefs, who recently played at the Popscene: the SF club. We will be reporting on the club, and publishing pictures. Also: Bark Psychosis
And speaking of Popscenes, here's Popscene with Jalal on Radio Bremen:
The Kills
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The Kills - new single - 'Love is a Deserter'Out 30th May.
To hear remixes and new b-sides, watch the video, see the tour dates, click HERE. www.dominorecordco.com/thekills/
US dates not set -- still touring UK with White Rose Movement
All Music guide Newsletter
New Release Newsletter - 5/10/05
Here are AMG's picks for this week's most noteworthy new releases. For more information, click through on a specific album or just visit the New Releases page on our site. AMG's Featured Albums:
Renée Fleming
"Haunted Heart"
Decca
Operatic superstar Renée Fleming's self-produced "Haunted Heart" is the most daring change of gears by an established classical singer in recent memory. With pianist/arranger Fred Hersch and guitarist Bill Frisell, she delivers an intimately soulful and eclectic album of vocal jazz with a sound and style unlike anything you've heard from her before.
Classical/Jazz Vocal
Robert Plant & the Strange Sensation
"Mighty Rearranger"
Aranza/Sanctuary
The irrepressible Robert Plant and his fine band The Strange Sensation return to recording after a three-year hiatus with "Mighty Rearranger," his most provocative album to date. On twelve new songs — all of them co-written with The Strange Sensation — Plant digs deep into his musical and cultural trick bag and comes up with a mysterious road map that landmarks his own history. Plant and friends unapologetically reference the singer's long tenure with Led Zeppelin, and indulge an ever-deepening investigation of the various musics emanating from the African desert. The result is a futuristic rock and roll album whose myths and texts come from the winding, labyrinthine legacy of the blues.
Hard Rock, Album Rock
Spoon
"Gimme Fiction"
Merge
Spoon's long-awaited fifth album, "Gimme Fiction," is a dark, detailed album that captures the intimacy and strangeness of late nights. At times, it's surprisingly subdued, but it shows off Britt Daniel and Jim Eno's ability to incorporate different sounds and moods into the Spoon aesthetic.
Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Weezer
"Make Believe"
Geffen
Weezer's "Make Believe" may not be exactly what long-time fans pining for a second Pinkerton want to hear, but the group's fifth album does boast Rivers Cuomo's most open, emotionally direct writing since that 1996 classic. The difference is, unlike the tense, noisy Pinkerton, Make Believe is big, polished, and positive — a shift in sound and aesthetic which may not please all fans, but does make for another strong Weezer album.
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Gilian Conoley
POETRY READING
GILLIAN CONOLEY
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 7 PM
(CINCO DE MAYO!)
GILLIAN CONOLEY is the author of the newly released PROFANE HALO, just out from Verse Press, as well as six other collections of poetry, among them LOVERS IN THE USED WORLD and TALL STRANGER, nominated for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in poetry.
Winner of several Pushcart Prizes, the Jerome Shestack Award in Poetry, and included in Best American Poetry, she is Poet-in-Residence and Professor at Sonoma State University, where she is the founder and editor of Volt.
Following her reading will be other infamous and wily poets, celebrating the word, Cinco de Mayo, and the onset of spring cascading into summer.
“A poetic vision that is utterly original and utterly transforming.”
The American Book Review
”Out of the old beliefs a new language speaks. We said this yesterday, and today the words are stronger. I am taken by surprise by the wit and jeopardy, by the way an ending is avoided on the surface of the book’s meaning. I am excited by the triumph of this writing.”
Barbara Guest
“All the pleasures and dangers of the work achieve a brilliant suspension, like particles of dust in air… a time-stopping grace in quantum improvisations of form. Rain Taxi
--written by Terry Ehret, Poet Lareate Sonoma County
Heikki
credit: www.cabal.se/westside/
Stockholm's folk-tinged indie pop combo Heikki features the core duo of guitarist Jari Haapalainen and vocalist Maria Eriksson along with a revolving cast of supporting musicians. Haapalainen, who also plays with the Bear Quartet and has produced albums by Nicolai Dunger, Ed Harcourt, the (International) Noise Conspiracy, and the Concretes, among others, and Eriksson, who also plays guitar with the Concretes, met and began working together in 1999 as Heikki (taking the name of Haapalainen's Finnish grandfather). . . more
"Get Behind Me Satan" -- White Stripes
courtesy of New Music Express:
"Get Behind Me Satan" - the new cd by The White Stripes
TBR June 7
Track listing
track# song name
1 Blue Orchid -- Salon.com Audio Link
2 Nurse
3 My Doorbell
4 Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)
5 Little Ghost
6 Denial Twist
7 White Moon
8 Instinct Blues
9 Passive Manipulation
10 Take, Take, Take
11 As Ugly as I Seem
12 Red Rain
13 I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)
Contrary to published reports, the single "Blue Orchid" apparently is not available now at itunes.
