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jeudi, juin 14, 2007

WtWaB Featured Poet: Nina Zivancevic

Cure

Nina Zivancevic is a poet, essayist, fiction writer, art critic, translator, and contributing editor to NY ARTS, from Paris. Nina has published 9 books of poetry in English; she also has written three books of short stories and two novels, published in Paris, New York, and Belgrade. The recipient of three literary awards, she has edited and participated in numerous anthologies of contemporary world poetry. As editor, she has contributed to New York Arts Magazine, American Book Review, East Village Eye, Republique de lettres. She has lectured at Naropa University, New York University, the Harriman Institute, and St. John's University, in the U.S. She has taught English language at Paris V and Paris VII, in France, and at numerous universities and colleges in Europe.

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dimanche, juin 03, 2007

The Laughing Goat

A majority of the films posted here are taken from events at The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse. If you haven't ever been there, take some time to check it out.

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vendredi, juin 01, 2007

Dechen Hawk's Prague Benefit

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dimanche, mai 27, 2007

WtW:aB Featured Visual Artist: Alexander Erskine

Theodicy

dust, Manichean

2 Becomes 1

broken sky/broken earth

Alexander Erskine is a free-floating artist and writer. After six years of the army (some of which was spent roaming the desert), he decided it was time to return to Colorado and make things.

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vendredi, mai 25, 2007

WtW:aB featured band: Salmon; Beastman

The Company

Again (Star, Mars, & Cars)

Anyway

Mouse

January

Foxes & Marionettes

Europa

An Illusion of How to Dance Dead

Twentysix

Top of the Line

Permanent Trailer

Jeff Bridges and Nick Butner met nearly ten pink balloons with the face of stranger years ago and formed clay into wood paneling inscribed, the seminal, Miami Death Machine, known star systems more for their theatrical stage antics, excessive drunkeness, and broken-bones faces than for innovation. Because of their wildlife stage shows, they quickly built a rapport with animals they kept, building a devoted fantastic base that elevated them to local cult status quo. Soon after the new moon of the new year, Nick Butner, Jeff Bridges, and guitarist Lindy Thompson started a side-bending project away from the band, which heavily intensified the apearance of the muscles on their left sides and also strayed with dogs from the bone-head image of the said to be known group, Miami Death Machine, and focused with newely discovered focus machines of recorded images, capturing more on song writing. Jake Frye was also brought in on drums. The first song given a right to life by way of being written by the band was entitled, "Anyway" - a driving, yet hauntingly soft pop song. Soon after the gold rush, the Miami Death Machine fell into a pitfall which drove them apart due to musical differences and Salmon;Beastman took center stage. Jeff Bridges and Nick Butner, now in their late 20's, had been playing a cow bell flinging prism game, invented by the Russians, post-WWII, to the punk rock crowd for nearly ten years, and they wished like little blown-out god damned candles to do something of grand proportions a little differently. The new band drew more sketches from the likes of the Pixies, Elliot Smith, and Guided by Voices, than the Germs or the Cramps; although a faint, barely discernible whisper of punk rock still drove their snow plows to clear the roadways of Russian song writing. While the Miami Death Machine was embraced with open arms, the new band, which didn't easily fit into a genre, was rejected by way of torturing the same crowd that still wore their Miami Death Machine shirts to local peep shows. Awash in a sea of shifting trends, Salmon;Beastman forged ahead. They knew Frodo must see the ring of power safely destroyed or other star systems would meet the same fate as Alderaan's, finding one or two listeners at each show who sawed their bones styled as a refreshing change of pace. They recorded their first album, Winter Song, on an 8-track in a bedroom. The album exhibits ambitious song writing, with songs ranging in Alps, to the length from 26 second miles, to seven and a half thousand minutes. Although much of the writing was promising hogwash, the recording was a first testament to the bands first two years of victory to the best of 7, which had seen wild mood changes in style and, therefore, resulted in a disjointed shoulder which would godspeed the effort. One year later, it was a year later, and the band returned to recording, this time with long-timed triathalon friend Mike Council as producer. The album is more cohesive but still holds to the same diversity and ambition of the first record. When most people are asked to describe Salmon;Beastman, most think for a moment before admitting they can't really describe it. Salmon;Beastman, despite a straight-ahead approach rock and roll, defies any sort of description or genre. Perhaps an apt description, for lack of a better word, would be Indie rock, albeit, a different breed of Indie rock, from the many slick and polished Killers clones of today. Indie rock with greasy, ripped jeans. In a scene dominate by hyperbole, fashion, flashy acrobatics, and disposable hardcore, and emo, Salmon;Beastman offers up a genuine and simple return to a kind of song writing that is both new, refreshing, and as old as creepy song writing itself.

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mardi, mai 22, 2007

Kayanne Pickens & Sue Rhynhart Reading

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mardi, mai 22, 2007

Watching the Wheels: a Blackbird Featured Poet: Olatundji Akpo-Sani

Lonely Heaven

2D

How Picasso Became Kinkade

Shuck N Jive

Olatundji Akpo-Sani is a poet from Boulder, Co. He co-edits Baobob Tree Press, which publishes chap books of Boulder poets and writers who are not yet on any one's radar in the hopes that someone may pick their signal up. He is also an educator at New Vista High School teaching literacy and spoken word. He has been performing and writing in the Boulder area for the past nine years. He will graduate with his BA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado in May. Olatundji has been published in Illiterate Magazine, Poems From Penny Lane, Wordletting, and has four books of poetry out.

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lundi, mai 21, 2007

Watching the Wheels: a Blackbird Featured Poet: Tom Peters Jr.

the Book of Silence

Thomas R. Peters, Jr. moved to Boulder, Colorado in 1985 to study poetry at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (now Naropa University). There he restarted the then defunct Bombay Gin magazine with friends, which he edited for four years. He also served as contributing editor to In This Corner and The New Censorship. He has performed with the industrial and cacophonic experimental music group Architect's Office, completed two 16 mm films: instead of sleeping with people and There's a price to be paid for dreaming. He is the author of five books of poetry: Listen to My Machine (Rodent Press), over the roofs of the world (Cityful Press, reprinted by Dead Metaphor in 2000), 100 missed train stations (Holy Mackerel Press, reprinted by farfalla press with twelve new stops in 2002), The Book of Silence (Left Hand 2005 & 2006), Selected Poems 1986-2006 (2007), and has contributed to I Know Why the Caged Bird Drinks (2003) with Jack Collom and special guests, as well as both an introduction, and poems, to the anthology Poems from Penny Lane. He's performed his poetry and stories in Colorado, Iowa, California, New York, and Texas to audiences numbering from a handful to as many as 20,000 at the Lallapaloosa Festival where he performed on all three stages. He has appeared in various literary journals including Big Fire-Proof Box, Bombay Gin, The Exquisite Corpse, Friction, In this Corner, The New Censorship, and in 2001, Abandoned Auto, an anthology of Detroit poets (Wayne State University Press). Currently, he is the owner of the Beat Book Shop, now located at 1717 Pearl St. Boulder, Colorado and has run the weekly Monday night poetry readings at Penny Lane Coffe House since 1987, now hosted at the Laughing Goat Coffee House. Also, you can look for him in the feature film American Saint directed by Joe Castello, which features Kevin Corrigan, Vincent Schiavelli, and Woody Harrelson. He currently has work in Orbit and other literary publications.
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jeudi, mai 17, 2007

Watching the Wheels: a Blackbird's Featured Poet: Rob Geisen

in the end

have it your way

the introduction vs. octavia paz

Site B

The Ballad of Blue Plate Special

Two Poems for Andy Kaufman

"To a Score Settled"

Back from the Dead

Born in Springport Michigan. B.A. in Music. Rob Geisen played in various bar bands for several years - then moved to Boulder in 1996. Published eight books of poetry: I see you, Lewis (Baobob Tree Press), love does stuff, Tristan & Isolde: a poem in 24 chapters, Flowers for Shoot-a-Loop, The Night We Called Dennis (Amber Lodge Press) paper thin, i was going to use that (farfalla/mcmillian & parrish), beautiful graveyards (farfalla press). Poems/short stories published in various magazines/newspapers/anthologies. Co-editor of Baobob Tree Press (w/Olatundji Akpo-Sani). Baobob has published four books so far, most recently Why My Penis Is Bigger Than Yours by Andrea Todaro. Poem Flowers For Goldfish has been nominated for 2006 Pushcart Prize (winners won't be chosen for couple months). Married to poet Caroline Litwinski. Have written four novels. Currently writing more. Likes cats, Chris Matthews, King Kong, and the works of Rod Serling.

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