Greying Ghost Press

Soooo since I've been blabbering and swooning about this press, I thought I should share it with the class! Greying Ghost is based out of Salem, Ma and publishes bright young poets in delightfully handmade books. I'd highly suggest Sugar Means Yes by Mathias Svalina & Julia Cohen. I can't stop thinking about it.

My new goal is to have some of my work published by them. Someday, someday.

<3 jamie

The Red & White Quilt Show at the Armory

--Matthea 

(can we have full class participation on the blog this week?)

We so excited

Important:

Arms So Freezy: Rebecca Black's "Friday" As Radical Text



Also:

Vanessa Place - The Poetics of Radical Evil



--Ryan

[citation needed]

Just found this, one of the best ideas for a tumblr on the internet --

Citation Needed

Collecting Wikipedia's finest ^{[citation needed]} prose

Examples:

Sussudio ("The song was received mostly positively, and has been mentioned in numerous moments in pop culture.[citation needed]")

Islamic toilet etiquette ("When defecating together, two men cannot converse, nor look at each other’s private parts, and especially not handle each other’s private parts.[citation needed]")

Waterbed ("Homes with many occupants may be bothered by noise pollution coming from the bed, due to sexual intercourse.[citation needed]")

Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth ("Some threats for humanity come from humanity itself.[citation needed]")

Also, for the love of god please read the talk page for Unrequited love.

--Ryan

Maira Kalman

"As if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make the bears dance when we long to move the stars." – Flaubert, Madame Bovary

That is one of the quotes Maira Kalman has painted on the wall of her auto-curated exhibit at The Jewish Museum. You should go see it. Or at least read this. It's like walking around in her attentive, associative brain and it's lovely. I wonder if she knows Mary Ruefle?

Here is one my favorite Kalman paintings. Sorry it is so small.
It's called Man Leaping While Man Talks On Phone.


There is also an exhibit on Houdini.

happy world poetry day!

...and a NYT article about Twitter poetry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/weekinreview/20twitterature.html?_r=2

Against Bullshit (2)

Copyright law: getting stupider and more outdated every day.

Craig Venter, whose research team created the first synthetic life form last year by replacing the genome of a bacterium called Mycoplasma capricolum with one composed on a computer, just gave a talk at SXSW where he related the mind-boggling story of being sent a cease and desist and threat of lawsuit by the estate of James Joyce, for encoding the line "To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life,” (from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) in said bacteria. Venter claims fair use.

--Ryan