(From Doug Johnson of Cave Moon Press)
April 30, 2012
Dear Poet:
In 2011 we produced the anthology entitled Broken Circles to benefit hunger. The strategy was simple and it succeeded in helping local food banks from San Francisco to New York. Poets were charged with [...]
We’ll celebrate Mayday by working on an ancient Japanese form that’s gained steam since Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder started their experiments in the 50s. We’ll look at Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling’s more contemporary approaches and Sam Hamill’s translations and thoughts on this combination of prose and poetry. A couple of bad ones will [...]
Text Corpse
Exquisite Corpse- a French Surrealist game in which a poem is passed around and participants add the lines with limited knowledge of what was previously written.
Text message- brief communication between two mobile devices.
We will be combining these two things. A prompt will be texted to everyone and then we will build [...]
Michael McClure wrote:
Diane is suffering with several painful and even
life-threatening illnesses, including removal of all teeth, arthritis
from her earlier back operation, extreme problems with glaucoma and a
needed operation; but that’s just the top of the list. Despite all, she
is in [...]
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