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Goodbye Columbia City

As I prepare to make one last presentation at one last Living Room in Columbia City, I am taking a moment to look back and consider all the great things that happened in our three year run here. My wife … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Ted Berrigan (Living Room Tue 11.15.11 – 7P)

Ted Berrigan (Nov. 15, 1934-July 4, 1983) was a master practitioner of a multiplicity of strategies for making poems, among them appropriation, collage, collaboration, misreadings and mistranslations, found poetry, and list poems. In his mix of voices and sources he … Continue reading

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Living Room, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7P

Apocalypticism Now? In a recent Chicago Review essay, Peter O’Leary attempts to trace a “way forward” between traditional workshop poetry and Language poetry, both of which have become academically institutionalized. He draws the right lineage, but the wrong conclusions. There … Continue reading

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