John Kelsey, Depesrsion, Impoetnce, 2012.
Kelsey repurposed found language from spam emails for these “poems,” which he presents on paper featuring the old Whitney Museum insignia, the eagle. The lists of names indicate the emails’ senders, the titles are drawn from the subject lines, and the “stanzas” consist of the seemingly random, cut and pasted content of the messages.
Bottom right photograph by Tyko
(via anticipatedstranger)
Source: whitneymuseum
“Why do all of Lacan’s diagrams of desire resemble the female reproductive system?”—Corina Copp asks in the Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet.
Source: poetryfoundation.org
Larry Rivers, O’Hara Reading, 1967. Color lithograph with collage on paper.
Source: poetsorg
Join Triple Canopy editors Lucy Ives and Dan Visel at the 2012 Chapbook Festival, where they’ll discuss “Digital Chapbooks” with Adam Robinson of Publishing Genius and Martin Rock of Epiphany.
5pm Thursday, March 29 at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, NYC.
Source: chapfest.wordpress.com
Untitled (Surf Drawings), masking tape and collage on paper, by Ann Pibal
Pibal will be talking about paintings + poems with Rebecca Wolff at Triple Canopy this weekend.
Source: sldistin
Join Triple Canopy on Saturday, March 24 for As Is/So Is, an evening of readings and conversation on and along lyric and chromatic lines. Poet, novelist, and publisher Rebecca Wolff will discuss the work of painter Ann Pibal, who in turn will discuss Wolff’s poems, moderated by Triple Canopy senior editor Lucy Ives.
155 Freeman St., Brooklyn NY. March 24, 2012. 7 p.m., free admission.
Above: Ann Pibal, GNLS, 2011, acrylic on aluminum panel.
Source: canopycanopycanopy.com
Writing is a kind of pursuit of company that never comes.
Source: canopycanopycanopy.com
Who has gone farthest? For lo! have not I gone farther?
And who has been just? For I would be the most just person of the earth;
And who most cautious? For I would be more cautious;
And who has been happiest? O I think it is I! I think no one was ever happier than I;
And who has lavish’d all? For I lavish constantly the best I have;
And who has been firmest? For I would be firmer;
And who proudest? For I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city;
And who has been bold and true? For I would be the boldest and truest being of the universe;
And who benevolent? For I would show more benevolence than all the rest;
And who has projected beautiful words through the longest time? Have I not outvied him? have I not said the words that shall stretch through longer time?
And who has receiv’d the love of the most friends? For I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends;
And who possesses a perfect and enamour’d body? For I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamour’d body than mine;
And who thinks the amplest thoughts? For I will surround those thoughts;
And who has made hymns fit for the earth? For I am mad with devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth!
Poet Elizabeth Bishop’s E. Bishop’s Patented Slot-Machine. (On display with other paintings by and personal belongings of the poet at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, through January 21.)
