Month: July 2010

Felix Bernstein is major. I will be able to say I knew him when…

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i’m wilting, who are you?

Now and then my mother gets it into her head to send me poetry I wrote when I was little. I have posted at least one of these before, but she just sent me these a moment ago, so I post her email in its entirety

(Early Works, age 11 or 12)

3.95

a number

a poem in itself

a mathematical complication, a 3 digital figure

or

Love – Beauty – Virtue – And other corny junk

Or

Chinese Noodles and fried asparagus noses

Or
Bleep

But all it really is – is 3.95.

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What is a thought?

A being –

A state of consciousness –

Or even a butterfly?

The wind is a thought –

A thought from the creatures above

The rain is a thought (a soggy thought)

Even lifeless boogars are a thought

But – what is not a thought?

Stay tuned tomorrow for the next episode of Philosophical nonsense

Same time

Same station

1974 –

For one thing, I’ve always enjoyed photography and I love drawing and plants. I’ve always wanted to be a writer (I always have been anyway!)

I love flowers and birds, live beautiful bursts of color and energy, believe it or not, I think that even flowers have a personality.

I also like to read a lot. I started reading when I was about two, and I could read “Charlotte’s Web” when I was 3 and 1/2 . When I tell my friends this, they don’t believe me, but it’s the naked truth.

One thing that drives me crazy is slugs. I don’t mind snails, but slugs! Yuk!

P.s. This is only of the corniest things I’ve ever wrote.

Love from Mama

On Thursday, July 22, WE-ARE-FAMILIA Gallery will host a gathering of flarf poets. Flarf is an international avant-garde poetry movement of the late 20th century / early 21st century whose 30+ practitioners explore “the inappropriate” in all of its guises. Their method is to mine the Internet with odd search terms then distill the results into often hilarious and sometimes disturbing poems, plays, and other texts. Recently profiled on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, the flarf collective create hilarious, shocking, and sometimes downright offensive works. Heated discussions about flarf have been broadcast by the BBC and National Public Radio, and published in The Village Voice, The Nation, Poetry, Poets & Writers, and The Wall Street Journal. “Flarf is a hip, digital reaction to… boring, genteel poetry,” writes poet and critic Marjorie Perloff. Whatever flarf is––whatever you think flarf is––it is most definitely the 21st century‘s first poetry movement. Host and flarfista Sharon Mesmer will introduce some of the collective’s New York members: Shanna Compton (Down Spooky), Katie Degentesh (The Anger Scale), Nada Gordon (Folly), Gary Sullivan (PPL In A Depot), Brandon Downing (Dark Brandon), and Drew Gardner (Petroleum Hat)

WE-ARE-FAMILIA is an extensive global network of creative individuals from all disciplines who have come together to explore the powerful, complex ties which consciously and unconsciously touch all that we experience as humans. Spearheaded by Creative Director Jennifer Garcia, their primary ongoing project is a series of 25 one-of-a-kind Keepsake Boxes showcasing original “mementos” engaging the concept of family.

WE-ARE-FAMILIA, with help from sponsors Art Assets, Atlantic Assets, and GFI Realty, have recently transformed a raw, formerly vacant storefront on Atlantic Avenue into an open studio where they will continue assembling new Keepsake Boxes including a special commission for the Museum of Art and Design. The space additionally functions as a gallery to exhibit new works by Keepsake Box contributors as well as a free event space which aims to extend their family dialogue. The space opened its doors on June 11th, 2010, during Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk and has since had a showing of Jeff Lewis’ meticulous pencil grid drawings as well as electronic performances by Mitchell Akiyama and Nina Mehta of bands First Nation and Rings from Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks label.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

6 to 8 PM

We-Are-Familia

539 Atlantic Avenue

Brooklyn, New York

646-709-6702

cancelled tonight. 😦

to be recheduled in the fall…

hot