Callie Gardner, "Culture Warrior"
From left: Laynie Browne, Julia Bloch, Iain Morrison
Julia Bloch, Laynie Browne, and Iain Morrison joined Al Filreis in KWH’s Wexler Studio to talk about a poem — or rather two versions of a poem — by the late Callie Gardner. One version, titled “when will my love return from the culture war?,” is 6-quatrains long. A second, for which we have a recorded performance, is four quatrains; there’s a variation on the second that seems to invite us to call it a sonnet. Callie added a version — organized in the quatrains — to their blog on May 1, 2020. On November 19, 2020, Callie read the shorter version of the poem as part of a live-streamed reading given by eight poets. Callie was the fifth to read. We link the YouTube recording HERE, and PoemTalk listeners are invited to watch and listen to our poem at 53 minutes into the group reading.
December 24, 2024
John Waters Critique, George Kuchar Tribute, Ryan Trecartin Parody
new Felix Bernstein video
Bard College © student Felix Bernstein stars as YouTube Professor Felix Bernstein. Followed by a Post Script, Branching off on the aforementioned Homosexual Artists: An Overly Generalized and Reductive Philisophical Theory about Everything. Ryan Trecartin Played By and Animated by Gabe Rubin. (Ben Coonley homage.)