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12/30/2000 - Painted Bride Quarterly Tossed Across Earthside Cyberstoops 12/19/2000 - Give Poetry This Holiday Season! Museletter Correspondents' Picks 12/19/2000 - Bob Holman's Poetry Wish List 2000 12/12/2000 - “How Things Outlive Us”: Larry Levis' Selected Poems 12/1/2000 - HipHop, Performance Poetry, Spoken Word, Slam: Definitions from a Teenager 11/21/2000 - What Makes Taylor Mali? Clarity Born in Contradictions (w/Attitude) 11/14/2000 - Poets Way: Boulder Blazes a Poetic Trail 10/31/2000 - Translating Ginsberg's Queer Shoulder: Raymond Federman's Tiny Essay 10/24/2000 - What Ever Happened To Poez? 10/17/2000 - Clifton Joseph & Sheri-D Wilson 10/3/2000 - Dante & the Response Poem 9/26/2000 - David Ossman, Amiri Baraka, Frank O’Hara, Dylan Thomas 9/19/2000 - Bumbershoot, “A Word Bath” 9/12/2000 - Notes Towards Exploding “Exploding Text: Poetry Performance.” From a Prof who straddles the abyss between Academe & Slam: some notes on how to take Action within the Ivory Tower.
9/5/2000 - “Bring Me the Head of Gregory Corso” 8/29/2000 - The Center Cannot Hold: Slam, Academia & the Battle for America's Bourgeoisie. Victor Infante writes on the generational cycles of poets & poetic institutions, class & politics in American poetry, slam poetry's evolution into a new establishment.
8/22/2000 - Rattapallax: The Sound Googles the Blast for a New-Po Zine 8/15/2000 - Notes from the Scene at the 11th National Poetry Slam 8/8/2000 - The Teenage (R)evolution of Poetry; The Poetic (R)evolution Of Teenagers: James Kass of Youth Speaks writes about bringing poetry into the schools, because “the next generation can speak for itself!”
8/1/2000 - Summer CD Roundup 7/28/2000 - Poets You Ought To Know About, Part III 7/25/2000 - “do wah” by Alan Sondheim 7/18/2000 - Beau Sia as Bob Holman Also Loses to Sherman Alexie in AlternaTaos 7/17/2000 - Lyrik am Lech Festival Diary 7/11/2000 - Poets You Ought To Know About, Part II 7/4/2000 - Poets You Ought To Know About 6/27/2000 - How To Train For the World Heavyweight Poetry Bout Championship -- and Lose! (Part II) 6/20/2000 - How To Train For the World Heavyweight Poetry Bout Championship -- and Lose! (Part I) 6/13/2000 - Reviews That Should Have Been Written: Poetry, The Press, and Public Space 6/6/2000 - The Beat Goes On: Lawrence Ferlinghetti is still a rebel 5/30/2000 - Old-Skool and New Media 5/23/2000 - “listen the battlefield is in the mind” 5/16/2000 - Time Traveling to the Wilds of Beat Era Cleveland 5/9/2000 - A Poem for Elian Gonzalez by John Farris 5/2/2000 - The Wild Party On the Stage 4/25/2000 - Sparrow & Mike Topp: A Literary Miscellany 4/18/2000 - Speaking Seagull & Recording the History of the World: Joe Gould's Secret 4/11/2000 - Poetry Snapshot: The State of the Art 2000 4/4/2000 - Issue Zero: “The Lady in Stripes” 3/28/2000 - So You Wanna Host a Poetry Reading Series? PoeticLicense founder & Museletter correspondent Larry Jaffe speaks from experience on how to get started hosting a poetry reading series.
3/21/2000 - Griottes & Griots 3/14/2000 - Poetry's Future Stranded? 3/7/2000 - Max Blagg's “Autobio A Gogo” 2/29/2000 - Slam 'n Me 2/22/2000 - Extreme Poetry in the North Woods 2/21/2000 - Poetry and Art in Santa Fe 2/15/2000 - Women of Eritrea: Fighters and Poets 2/8/2000 - “Enter the Dragon 2000” 2/1/2000 - Against All Odds 1/25/2000 - “What's the Hipster to the Slammer?” 1/18/2000 - The Ultimate Rejection Letter 1/11/2000 - Poems from The Spirit in the Words 1/4/2000 - 3 Days Biting Poetry in the Hands That Feed You
Museletter correspondent Marj Hahne talks with the editors of the venerable PBQ about its reincarnation on the Web this year (its 27th year of publication).
We've compiled a poetry gift list for your last-minute holiday shopping, based on the recommendations of our Museletter correspondents. Merry Christmas, Cheery Chanukah, Kool Kwanzaa, Happy New Year!
Bob Holman offers his own Poetry Wish List 2000, the best CDs and books of the year.
On the occasion of the posthumous publication of Larry Levis' Selected Poems, Museletter correspondent Shann Palmer interviews Greg Donovan, his friend & the man who discovered the body he left behind in 1996.
An interview with Eman, 16-year-old poet & host of 2 weekly open mics: “If you're looking for the definitions of the New Poetry, she's the one to ask.”
Bob Holman reviews Taylor Mali's brand-new CD, Poems from the Like Free Zone: “Listen... and you learn How to Read with your Ears.”
Project Director Michael Evans-Smith outlines the development of a public art project that brings Poetry to & into life, poets' voices “in the footprints of time, engraved in the sandstone that visitors will walk upon.”
Something's lost in the translation -- is that the poetry? And something's gained -- the illusion that homo sapiens actually communicate... These are the queries in Raymond Federman's “Reflections Concerning the Translation of Poetry.”
Jackie Sheeler answers the “how did you become a poet” question... “she started in about this guy who used to read in the park back in the day... Poez, Paul D. Mills, was a rogue poet, lone wolf, his own mission.”
Outrageous perfpoets corral a mixed audience with aplomb: A report from the PanCanadian WordFest in Calgary, October 2000.
We’re all for Formalism, especially when you make up the forms... David Shapiro & Frank Lima create another kind of collaboration, the Response Poem.
The Firesign Theater Meets the Sullen Art in David Ossman's interview with Amiri Baraka, then Leroi Jones: “I thought that anything -- anything you could grab -- was fit material to write a poem.”
Bob Redmond, our own Seattle/Pacific Northwest Museletter correspondent & emcee of the Lit Stage at this year's Bumbershoot Seattle arts festival, invites us to bathe in the waters of the Mighty Po.
An epic poem by Mike Golden -- song of the “famous drunk poet hustle,” the Tyson-Douglas fight, terrorizing the squares & transcendance -- translated into French by Raymond Federman & Patricia Privat-Standley.
An email interview with cyber visionary Ram Devineni, publisher of Rattapallax poetry journal & Rattapallax Press.
Museletter correspondents Victor Infante, Robyn Su Millerz, Jason Pettus & Phil West report the competitive & festive goings-on at the National Poetry Slam in Providence, Rhode Island last week.
Mikhail Horowitz, John Trudell, Ed Dorn, the Rhino anthology of black writers, Firesign Theater, Jaap Blonk, Common, Mike Ladd: Bob Holman reviews the current poetry, spoken word & hiphop CDs that should be in your ears.
We devoted the month of July to expanding our library of Net links to must-read, must-hear word-crafters & we kept on finding more necessary poets. Here's another group -- happy browsing!
Here's another jewel mined from the Buffalo Poetics List -- Use your voice. Read this one ALOUD.
Bob's How To Train For the World Heavyweight Poetry Championship Bout -- and Lose! prompts a scathing email Hzah! & a slyly hilarious retelling.
Jerry Quickley writes on his trip into the crazy vibrant poetry scene in southern Germany.
The cavalcade of must-read, must-hear poets added to the About Poetry library continues -- here are more, suggested by our Museletter correspondents.
We've expanded & reorganized our library of Net links to help you find out about the poets whose work you ought to know. Here are 15 must-read, must-hear wordworkers newly ensconced in the About Poetry library.
Bob Holman's training regimen for the Bout. The goal: Peak Poetry Performance.
Bob Holman's view from inside the ring, where he challenged Sherman Alexie for the title of World Heavyweight Poetry Champion at the 2000 Taos Poetry Circus last Saturday night.
Marj Hahne reports the lively discussion between poets Charles Bernstein, Amiri Baraka, Eileen Myles & Jennifer Moxley, and reviewers Alan Golding & Steve Evans at the recent Philadelphia symposium.
Victor Infante interviews Ferlinghetti on the Poet as Outsider: “Poetry is news, and it's important when it articulates a new vision of reality or an old vision in a surprising way. When it subverts the dominant paradigm.”
Self-distributing your poetry at the millennium: Jason Pettus offers a guide to the next step after you've become a self-publisher. “How do you take your zines, your chapbooks, your Microsoft Word documents, and actually get them into the hands of your audience?”
d.a. levy & his poetic heirs: To dig past the officially anointed and remember the fallen who contributed their lives to poetry. . . gives the lie to the notion of the current poetry resurgence as a blip fad.
The new edition of The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle gives d.a. levy his due as protodeconstructivist/visual-conceptual artist/poet.
...is contained in a pickle jar in a David Hammons exhibition. “How many things can a poem do? Everything.”
Museletter correspondent Cristin Aptowicz reviews the twin New York musical stage productions of The Wild Party in spring 2000: “If Joseph Moncure March wasn't already dead. . . .”
Drawn from the Collected E-Correspondence. Q: What do Sinatra Haiku, the Boston Knicks, Damon Bunyan, Ahab Rehab, and Arthur Godfrey on Acid have in common? A: Sparrow and Mike Topp.
It was Joe Gould’s Oral History of the World, the longest book never written, that brought him fame, and was his secret, and makes him a hero in the US Oral History/Performance Poetry world. It’s time that his poems see print.
A composite photograph of the state of the art of poetry all across North America right now, during National Poetry Month 2000, taken through the lenses of our network of Museletter correspondents.
A letter from Michael Rothenberg about the conference of literary magazines, “a community shower town crier kind of party... weaving the antitradition small press tradition into the Web that is us now.”
A review of Thomas Hale's book & more -- how the griots, keepers of the oral tradition, are at once witnesses to history, arbiters of the present, and seers into the future....
Speaking on “The Future of Poetry,” Mark Strand preaches political indifference at UC Irvine & our own Victor Infante offers a response.
The Web Shakes Proud To Present American Classic: The most remarkable poem about New York since Walt Whitman crossed Brooklyn Ferry, since Frank O'Hara did Second Avenue....
Shann Palmer tells the story of Slam's first appearance in Richmond, Virginia: I'll admit it. I had preconceived notions about Slam....
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz interviews the five young New York City poets taken to Vermont by ESPN for the 2000 Winter X-Games.
Gary Glazner reviews two shows that bring together visual art & poetry: Allan Graham's AS REAL as thinking & Cynthia Fusillo's Romance Languages.
More Notes from the Front, brought back by Bob Holman from the Against All Odds conference on African Languages and Literatures into the 21st Century.
A fun poem for the New Year by Russell Leong: “Bruce Lee / left us a long time ago...”
Bob Holman writes from the January 2000 conference on “African Languages and Literatures into the 21st Century” in Asmara, Eritrea: . . . a historic event, a Future-now... which is Loop to Past.
As we move into a new millennium, let's remember Poetry Everywhere... the ever-opening relevance of found poems is up to you, Dear Readers!
An open letter from Poetfest editor/publisher Robert J. Tiess about the state of the art of poetry.
Poems by Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, Sandra Abena Songbird Naylor & Larry Jaffe, performers at The Spirit in the Words program in New York.
Larry Jaffe reports the po-news as sponsored by Mercedes Benz at The Spirit in the Words.
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