[I’ve been invited to be a part of this… come on out! I’m in the “Beer and Pretzels” part of the day.]

Now that Adam’s Books has been open awhile, and opening wider each day, the time has come to celebrate. For example, this Sunday, November 12: THE ADAM’S BOOKS GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION PARTY.

If you haven’t visited the store recently, you might be surprised at how grand it has become. The shelves are full. The books are sorted and alphabetized. There are soft, comfortable chairs. There are more and better and grander books than ever before.

So: SUNDAY NOVEMBER 12: all afternoon and evening, from 12 to 10 pm, the GRAND OPENING party to celebrate ADAM’S BOOKS. There will be balloons.

Also: short readings by several of the neighborhood’s finest writers. (See below for schedule.)

You can dance if you want to. This will be a party.

ADAM’S BOOKS is located at 456 Bergen St., between 5th Avenue and Flatbush.
That’s north Park Slope, Brooklyn, just around the corner from the Atlantic Yards landgrab.
Steps from the 2,3 Bergen St. subway; a short walk from the MNQBRW2345 Atlantic Ave subway hub.

12 pm – 3 pm:  COFFEE & MUFFINS

12:00 – 1:00 : Rick Pernod, Andrea Baker, Bronwen Tate
1:00 – 2:00 : Jenn Guitart, Tisa Bryant, Lynn Xu
2:00 – 3:00 : Christopher Myers, Erika Howsare, Jackie Delamatre, Juliette Lee

3 pm – 6 pm:  BEER & PRETZELS

3:00 – 4:00 : Will Hubbard, Jess DeCourcy Hinds, Amber West
4:00 – 5:00 : Eve Packer, Holly Tavel, Fred Schmalz, Brian Kim Stefans
5:00 – 6:00 :  Mac Wellman, Erin Courtney, Jonathan Ceniceroz  

6 pm – 10 pm: WINE & CHEESE

6:00 – 7:00 : Anika Haynes, Gareth Lee, Brenda Iijima
7:00 – 8:00 : Luisa Guigliano, Jennifer Hayashida, Christopher Stackhouse
8:00 – 9:00 : Bonnie Emerick, Amy King, Adam Tobin

Adam’s Books
456 Bergen St. 11217
(between 5th Ave. & Flatbush)
Brooklyn NY adamsbooks@earthlink.net
718 789 1534

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:.. = .= ..: d1scuss1on – open house – workshop – read1ng – tour – jam
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: AUTOSTART – A Festival of Digital Literature
:
. Kelly Writers House, October 26 & 27
: Celebrating the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 1
: MACHINE series # Electronic Literature Organization
: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/autostart.html
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:#.:…:.:=#..=.=.=:==:> N. Katherine Hayles
:.=#:.===.:.:::.=..#..=> Daniel C. Howe
:=#:::=:.#:=.=.=….=..> Aya Karpinska
..:.==#==::#==:……:.> Aaron Levy
:#=.=..:..=.::=::#..==.> Marjorie Luesebrink
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…..:==::.=.#:.=.==#.:> Stuart Moulthrop
:=…=#:…:::=#===..:.> Jason Nelson
:#..=.==..:=.=..:#.=:::> Jena Osman
:..=.=.=.=#:=:#.:…=::> Bob Perelman
:….:.:.===#=.:=:#=..:> Scott Rettberg
.==:.=…:..#.::=:.=.=#> Ron Silliman
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: All events except the tour of Slought take place at the
: Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania,
. Philadelphia, PA
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: THURSDAY Oct 26
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: 1:00-2:30 pm Discussion (Arts Cafe)
. A conversation about writing and literature in the digital
. age, featuring four prominent poets:
: > Charles Bernstein – University of Pennsylvania
: > Jena Osman – Temple University
: > Bob Perelman – University of Pennsylvania
: > Ron Silliman – Silliman’s Blog
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: 2:30-5:30 pm The Open Machine Open House
: Electronic literature available for reading and discussion
: throughout the downstairs area, with guided tours at
. 3:30 pm & 4:30 pm by two Electronic Literature Collection,
: volume 1 edtitors:
: > Stephanie Strickland – New York City
: > Nick Montfort – University of Pennsylvania
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: 4:00-5:30 pm Wet Digits Workshop
: An introductory workshop for those new to HTML and digital
: writing, led by the editors of The New Media Reader:
. > Noah Wardrip-Fruin – University of California, San Diego
: > Nick Montfort – University of Pennsylvania
: [[[ RSVP REQUIRED: contact wh@writing.upenn.edu ]]]
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: 5:30-7:30 pm Reading (Arts Cafe)
: Presentations of electronic literature by Electronic
: Literature Collection, volume 1 contributors:
: > Mary Flanagan – Hunter College
: > Aya Karpinska – Brown University
: > Stuart Moulthrop – University of Baltimore
. > Noah Wardrip-Fruin – University of California, San Diego
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: FRIDAY Oct 27
:
: 10:30-11:30 am Tour of Slought Foundation (4017 Walnut St)
. Slought Foundation broadly encourages new futures for
: contemporary life through public programs featuring
: international artists and theorists.
: > Aaron Levy – Slought Foundation Executive Director
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. 1:00-4:00 pm Electronic Writing Jam (Room 202)
: A time to write collaboratively and to discuss forms,
: techniques, and technologies, hosted by:
: > Jim Carpenter – University of Pennsylvania
: Participants include readers and editors from AUTOSTART’s
: Thursday program as well as:
: > Daniel C. Howe – Brown University
: > Brian Kim Stefans – Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
: Participants by videoconference include two editors of
: the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 1:
. > N. Katherine Hayles – University of California, Los Angeles
: > Scott Rettberg – University of Bergen, Norway
: An editor of volume 2 and volume 1 contributor:
: > Marjorie Luesebrink – Irvine Valley College
: And volume 1 contributor:
. > Jason Nelson – Griffith University, Australia
: [[[ RSVP REQUIRED: contact wh@writing.upenn.edu ]]]
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: The Electronic Literature Collection, volume 1 is edited by
: N. Katherine Hayes # Nick Montfort
: Scott Rettberg # Stephanie Strickland
: This volume features 60 digital selections by
: Jim Andrews # Ingrid Ankerson # babel # Giselle Beiguelman
: Philippe Bootz # Patrick-Henri Burgaud # J.R. Carpenter
: John Cayley # M.D. Coverley (Marjorie Luesebrink) # Martha Deed
. David Durand # escha # Damien Everett # Sharif Ezzat
: Edward Falco # Mary Flanagan # Marcel Fr’emiot
: Elaine Froehlich # geniwate # Loss Peque~no Glazier
: Kenneth Goldmith # Tim Guthrie # Richard Holeton
: Daniel C. Howe # Jon Ingold # Shelley Jackson # Michael Joyce
: Aya Karpinska # Robert Kendall # Deena Larsen
: Kerry Lawrynovicz # Donna Leishman # Bill Marsh # Talan Memmott
: Maria Mencia # Judd Morrissey # Brion Moss # Stuart Moulthrop
. Jason Nelson # Marko Niemi # Millie Niss # Lance Olsen
: Jason Pimble # William Poundstone # Kate Pullinger
: Melinda Rackham # Aaron A. Reed # Shawn Rider # Jim Rosenberg
: Megan Sapnar # Dan Shiovitz # Emily Short # Alan Sondheim
: Brian Kim Stefans # Reiner Strasser # Dan Waber
: Noah Wardrip-Fruin # Rob Wittig # Nanette Wylde
: The Collection will be available on the web and on CD-ROM under a
: Creative Commons license – see http://eliterature.org
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NEXUS GALLERY
137 North 2nd St. (between Arch and Race)
Philadelphia, PA
Monday, September 25, 7:30 pm.

Readers include:
Emily Abendroth
Andrea Lawlor
Carolina Maugeri
Stan McDonald (aka Stan Mir)
Kate Schatz
Brian Kim Stefans

info: molesnotmolar@excite.com

GROOVY POSTER:
Nexus_event.pdf

My book of reviews, essays and interviews is out:

Before Starting Over
Selected Writings and Interviews 1994-2005

http://saltpublishing.com/
http://saltpublishing.com/books/rec/1844710882.htm

Here’s the Amazon link.

Contents

Notes and Acknowledgements xi
Introduction xiii

Before Starting Over 1
“Poet-Critic” 3

I. Six Reviews 5
Tan Lin ‘BlipSoak01’ 7
Christian Bök ‘Eunoia’ 14
Kevin Davies ‘Comp.’ 20
Bruce Andrews ‘Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis,’
Lyn Hejinian ‘The Language of Inquiry’ 26
Alice Notley ‘Disobedience’ 34
W. S. Graham ‘New Collected Poems’ 41

II. Asian American Poetry 53
On The Introduction to ‘The Open Boat’ 55
A Search for Lost Time: A Review of Walter K. Lew’s
‘Excerpts from Δikth/DIKTE for DICTEE (1982)’ 61
Remote Parsee: A Grammar of Alternative Asian
North American Poetry 71

III. A Poetics of Virtuosit y 109
A Poetics of Virtuosity 111

IV. Life and Contacts 143
“After Language Poetry” 145
Veronica Forrest-Thomson 148
Fence Letter 154
Ezra Pound 159
Open Letter to Brendan Lorber 164
Frank O’Hara 169
Bruce Andrews 172
When Lilacs Last In The Door: Notes On New Poetry 175
Jeff Derksen ‘Dwell’ 184
Tim Davis ‘Dailies’ 190
Jennifer Moxley ‘Wrong Life’ 195
Suzanne Dathe, Grenoble, France — Can We Win?
Notes On Carol Mirakove’s Poetry 201
Steve McCaffery 205
Blogs 212
Silliman Commentaries 214

V. Digital Poetics 239
Interview 241
Statement for University of Orono, Maine 245
Hacktivism? I didn’t know the term existed before I did it . . . 248
Statement for Slought: “Digital Fever: Archiving Art and Poetry Online” 260
Interview with Brian Kim Stefans re /UBU EDITIONS 263
Toward a Poetics for Circulars 269
Interview for Albanian Paper 289
Privileging Language: The Text in Electronic Writing 296

VI. Little Reviews 317
Jeff Derksen ‘Transnational Muscle Cars’ 319
Bill Luoma ‘Works & Days’ 321
Stacy Doris ‘Conference’ 324
Dan Farrell ‘Last Instance’ 326
Renee Gladman ‘Juice’ 328
Kenneth Goldsmith ‘Day’ 330
Jessica Grim ‘Fray’ 332
Pamela Lu ‘Pamela: A Novel’ 335
Christophe Tarkos ‘Ma Langue est Poétique — Selected Work’ 339
Rodrigo Toscano ‘Partisans’ 341
Jose Garcia Villa ‘The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings’ 343
Caroline Bergvall ‘Goan Atom’ 346
Darren Wershler-Henry ‘The Tapeworm Foundry’ 350
Susan Wheeler ‘Source Codes’ 355
Joel Kuszai (editor) ‘poetics@’ 357

Bibliography 361

Just got a copy of this in the mail… I have an essay about my website Circulars in there, and a few of the other pieces deal with my work. I haven’t finished it yet but it’s a pretty cool collection of writers, and the first substantial book to deal with digital literature from the perspective of poetry and poetics. And it’s got a pretty cover…

 

New Media Poetics
Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories
Edited by Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss

New media poetry–poetry composed, disseminated, and read on computers–exists in various configurations, from electronic documents that can be navigated and/or rearranged by their “users” to kinetic, visual, and sound materials through online journals and archives like UbuWeb, PennSound, and the Electronic Poetry Center. Unlike mainstream print poetry, which assumes a bounded, coherent, and self-conscious speaker, new media poetry assumes a synergy between human beings and intelligent machines. The essays and artist statements in this volume explore this synergy’s continuities and breaks with past poetic practices, and its profound implications for the future.

By adding new media poetry to the study of hypertext narrative, interactive fiction, computer games, and other digital art forms, New Media Poetics extends our understanding of the computer as an expressive medium, showcases works that are visually arresting, aurally charged, and dynamic, and traces the lineage of new media poetry through print and sound poetics, procedural writing, gestural abstraction and conceptual art, and activist communities formed by emergent poetics.

Contributors:
Giselle Beiguelman, John Cayley, Alan Filreis, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Alan Golding, Kenneth Goldsmith, N. Katherine Hayles, Cynthia Lawson, Jennifer Ley, Talan Memmott, Adalaide Morris, Carrie Noland, Marjorie Perloff, William Poundstone, Martin Spinelli, Stephanie Strickland, Brian Kim Stefans, Barrett Watten, Darren Wershler-Henry

Adalaide Morris is John C. Gerber Professor of English at the University of Iowa, where Thomas Swiss is Professor of English and Rhetoric of Inquiry.

Thomas Swiss is Professor of English and Rhetoric of Inquiry at the University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

1. New Media Poetics: As We May Think/How To Write
Adalaide Morris

I. Contexts
 
2. The Bride Stripped Bare: Nude Media and the Dematerialization of Tony Curtis
Kenneth Goldsmith
 
3. Toward a Poetics for Circulars
Brian Kim Stefans
Exchange on Circulars (2003)
Brian Kim Stefans and Darren Wershler-Henry
 
4. Riding the Meridian
Jennifer Ley
 
5. Electric Line: The Poetics of Digital Audio Editing
Martin Spinelli
 
6. Kinetic Is As Kinetic Does: On the Institutionalization of Digital Poetry
Alan Filreis

II. Technotexts
 
7. Screening the Page/Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text
Marjorie Perloff
 
8. Vniverse
Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Lawson
 
9. The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to Event
N. Katherine Hayles
 
10. 10 Sono at Swoons
Loss Pequeño Glazier
 
11. Digital Gestures
Carrie Noland
 
12. 3 Proposals for Bottle Imps
William Poundstone
 
13. Language Writing, Digital Poetics, and Transitional Materialities
Alan Golding and Giselle Beiguelman
 
14. Nomadic Poetry

III. Theories
 
15. Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading
Talan Menmott
 
16. Time Code Language: New Media Poetics and Programmed Signification
John Cayley
 
17. Poetics in the Expanded Field: Textual, Visual, Digital . . .
Barrett Watten

Dudes, this is like… tomorrow. I write this from the airport even as we speak.

Performance Writing Series

If you are in San Francisco, please come! I’m flying in on the previous Wednesday and leaving the following Monday (I save something like $120 by staying the extra day, which I don’t mind.) Anyway, so that means lots of time to hang out…

I’ll be showing videos, doing a reading of recent poetry, and also do a presentation of the new Kluge, a screen cap of which is below. I’m also supposed to do a short reading of “In Pines,” my short Mac Wellmanish play, but I’m not sure that will happen given the number of goodies I already have lined up.

My new book is out! Can be ordered from the publisher, Factory School, or from Small Press Distribution. Beautiful cover photograph by poet/everyman Tim Davis.

(Click to enlarge.)

What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers

Brian Kim Stefans

Poetry

Factory School. 2006. 148 pages, perfect bound, 6.5×9.

ISBN: 1-60001-048-2

$14 / $12 direct order

Description: Collecting poems from the past six years, What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers is Stefans’ most ambitious book to date. Includes the successful chapbooks “The Window Ordered to be Made,” “Jai lai For Autocrats” and “Cull.” “What Does It Matter?,” a chapbook published in England in 2005, is a long sequence that updates Ezra Pound’s “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” by 100 years, several wars and with a change of neighborhood (London for Williamsburg, Brooklyn).

I have some amazing news, which is that Kate Valk of the Wooster Group, probably the coolest actor to have graced a New York stage (pictured above with Frances McDormand in “You, The Birdie!”), will be performing in my short play, “Where Stones Gather,” in the Play on Words poet’s theater festival this weekend.

She will be playing the part of “Kate Valk,” a part I did actually write with her in mind. I don’t know who they are getting to play Hanna Schygulla and Jason Robards (or the cheese) but I’m not too concerned — this is a dream come true. It will be directed by Tony Torn and take place in Richard Foreman’s theater at St. Mark’s Church. What an amazing thing! Thank you Cori and Tony and Lee Ann!

Even more amazing is the sexy cat drawing they are using on their flyer (I’m sure the boys above are happy). It’s titled “Two Great Tastes That Go Great Together”:

The whole festival looks to be incredibly interesting, no doubt a high point in the New York poetry schedule this year. I wish I could make more of it but I’m not in Providence right now (though I’ll be in NY Friday night, fer shur). 

ontological hysteric incubator + the poetry project present
plays on words: a poets + theater festival
curated by lee ann brown + corina copp + tony torn

saint mark’s church may 11th-15th 2006
2nd ave + 10th street nyc
all shows 7pm @ the ontological theater
unless otherwise noted

thursday may 11th: opening night
micro-plays by poet+theater allstars
INCLUDING
charles bernstein + anselm berrigan + kelly copper + francesco canguillo + nada gordon + may josephs + dana maisel + tom raworth + anne waldman + catherine wing + many more!
+ opening night PARTY!
10:30pm @ bowery poetry club
featuring tuli kupferberg’s DRINKING SONGS FOR MARX

friday may 12th: words by
charles borkhuis + brian kim stefans + david henderson

saturday may 13th: words by
laynie browne + carla harryman + julie patton

sunday may 14th : words by
bob holman / bob rosenthal + kevin killian / dodie bellamy

monday may 15th (8PM in the PARISH HALL): words by
reed bye + corina copp + rachel levitsky + chris stroffolino +genya turovskaya + rodrigo toscano + jacqueline waters

every night: special guest directors and performers!

Tickets: $7 per performance or $20 for festival pass
Opening Night Party @ BPC (308 Bowery) free admisson
for tickets: http://www.ontological.com/ or
212.352.3101 (theatermania) no additional fee
+ (cat by michelle rollman) !

“Kluge: A Meditation and other works,” my MFA thesis, is now online. It has a whole bunch of new shorter electronic poems, a pdf of new writing (poetry, essays, etc.) and the One Letter At a A Time Series among other fun things. Check it out. The poem “Kluge” is still in development — I’m training it to write poems based on the source text, and adding other fun gizmos, but the first version is still pretty fun to read.

Kluge: A Meditation and other works

PRESS RELEASE 
April 2006

e-motive: Visual Poetry in the Digital Age

15th June – 6th July

Private view: Friday 16th June

The University Gallery
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester  CO4 3SQ

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 11am – 5pm, Saturdays 1 – 4.30pm

Admissions: Free

Visual Poetry Exhibition

e-motive is a group exhibition showcasing a variety of computer-generated visual poems by international artists based in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The featured works have been created through computer software, allowing for experimentation in digital imaging, animation, electronic sound and holography. The aural, visual, animated and interactive qualities of these exhibits give an insight into a medium of poetry in which electronics push visual poetry’s boundaries.

This exhibition will explore works, where both written language and visual elements are juxtaposed to function in creative tension. In each piece language is treated as raw material, yet enriched by the dynamic nature and physical possibilities of technology.

The selected artworks will range from prints and projections to those displayed on computer monitors, all of which will be set in a dimly lit space, immersing the viewer in a theatrical experience. 

In short, e-motive aims to reveal the latest practices in visual poetry. It will challenge the viewer’s perceptions of poetry, as words are no longer static but set free on the page/screen, demanding the viewer to think anew.

Artists include: Jim Andrews, Giselle Beiguelman, Ladislao Pablo Gyori, Eduardo Kac, Robert Kendall, María Mencía, Ana María Uribe, Brian Kim Stefans and Nico Vassilakis.

Curated by MA Gallery Studies Students: Laura Carnicero, Lydia Gordon, Eleftheria Leventaki and Caroline Sones.

An illustrated catalogue published by Palladian Press will accompany the exhibition.

For further information and images please contact Lydia Gordon (07818421165) or Caroline Sones (07958902062)

E-mail: vp2006@essex.ac.uk                                          
Fax: 01277 220145

Check out the poster I designed… click to enlarge.