Fiona Templeton

Six New Leslie Scalapino videos on PennSound: three performances, a reading, plus Reed and NY memorials

Charles Bernstein

from FIona Templeton production of Flow – Winged Crocodile

Goya's L.A., New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, February 26, 1995

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'My mother's mother-of-pearl'

Stan Mir

The statistics for literature in translation in the United States aren’t good. As Anna Clark, writing for the Pacific-Standard, points out in her article “You’re Missing Out on Great Literature,” a slim 3 percent of books published per year in the US are works in translation.[1] Some readers and translation publishers are already aware of this number.

July 31, 2014

Tom Weatherly (Nov. 3, 1942 - July 15 , 2014) on PennSound

Charles Bernstein

PennSound has located a rare sound recording of Tom Weathelry, reading in Grand Valley Michigan in July of 1971.
(21;07): MP3
Weatherly reads the complete serial poem "MAUMAU AMERICAN CANTOS" for the first ten minutes of the reading (text here); after that he reads various poems, including “Lady Fox” from Thumprint but nothing else from that book or MAUMAU.

Tom Weatherly -- full texs of these powerful, brilliant, often volatile (and distressingly unacknowledged) books at Eclipse:
MAUMAU AMERICAN CANTOS (Corinth Books, 1970, via Eclipse)
Thumbprint (Telgraph Books, 1971, via Eclpise)

July 31, 2014

"Not like normal stars"

Amy Catanzano

Image of brown dwarf star 2M1207 and a companion object, 2M1207b. The image may be "the first extrasolar planetary-mass companion to be directly imaged and is the first discovered orbiting a brown dwarf." Courtesy of ESO and Wikipedia: http://www.eso.org/public/images/26a_big-vlt/

The impulses that inspire poets to think through science span from investigative, speculative, conceptual, documentary, and more to impulses that use science as a form of address to and from the notion of the other. Lila Zemborain, in Mauve Sea-Orchids (Belladonna, 2007, trs.

July 31, 2014