Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
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SB Publications Catalogue
I just realized I forgot to post this! We released the Winter 2011-2012 catalogue for SB Publications at the end of September. This season’s offerings include a text & photographic work from ReLit award winning poet Daniel Scott Tysdal, and a mixed media art book from Canadian culture jammer ýta. From within the art collective, we’re releasing a multimedia text ...
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Fuck Irony
Text, collage, photography, and collaboration celebrating mimesis over a period of thirty days in 2011. Works include poetry, visual art, and documentation of public performance/ happenings in Vancouver by multidisciplinary artist Karen Correia Da Silva. Fuck Irony ISBN: 978-0-9867777-7-6 Release Date: December 2011 SB Publications 30 copies
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The Scream Literary Festival
Upcoming event for the Scream Literary UnFestival: The Steel Bananas Art Collective will be meandering the streets of Toronto armed with a wagon, microphone, and camera, inviting passersby to take a moment to offer “Variations on a Scream” and/or improvisational poetry on the street. Each poet-for-a-moment will be photographed for a large piece to be presented to the Scream organizers, ...
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Blonk
Last night Curran and I ventured out to the Toronto New School of Writing‘s evening with Dutch avant-garde composer and sound-poet Jaap Blonk. In the great hall of 918 Bathurst Culture, Arts, Media, and Education Centre, Blonk opened with Hugo Ball’s Seepferdchen und Flugfische, the poem I performed last year, which he performed ⎯ I must admit ⎯ better than ...
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A Toronto New School of Writing Event you must attend
After my performance of Hugo Ball’s “Seepferdchen und Flugfische” at the Cameron House last year, it has been my dream to perform Kurt Schwitters’ “Ursonate” about half as well as Jaap Blonk. Thus, I am extremely excited for this event: Toronto New School is pleased to host for one night only in Toronto international sound performance artist Jaap Blonk, who ...
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“gray and affectionate”
As I shuttle back and forth between Vancouver and Toronto this summer, I’m also continuing my work with the unpublished correspondence of DADA artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven at the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, including letters to Djuna Barnes, Peggy Guggenheim, William Carlos Williams, and more. After a few months of working with the Baroness’ nearly one-hundred year-old ...
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Existere 30.1
The latest issue of Existere: Journal of Arts and Literature has been released! This issue includes my editorial titled Art and Affairs of State: Does Toronto’s Art community Respond to its Social Responsibility? Pick it up in bookstores, newstands, or online.
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immaculate defiled
Five days until Curran and I hit NYC! We’ve been busy trying to get all schoolwork and extracurricular jazz sorted out before we leave on the 24th, so SB is launching a few days late this month. We’ve also started a handmade chapbook series with SB, so our excitement for the project has eclipsed all else. Curran has been gracious ...
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Wahre Liebe
you being in love will tell who softly asks in love, am i separated from your body smile brain hands merely to become the jumping puppets of a dream? oh i mean: entirely having in my careful how careful arms created this at length inexcusable, this inexplicable pleasure-you go from several persons: believe me that strangers arrive when i have ...
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Boots
Finishing up teaching for my second week at Ryerson, quit smoking and started huffing on Budesonide inhalers as per Doctor’s orders, and heading home now to get more sleep. Curran and I went to the Dr. Martens store last week and bought boots. They make me feel powerful. Boots by Rudyard Kipling (1914) We’re foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin’ over Africa — Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin’ over Africa ...
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Ele provou em branco
Às vezes me pergunto onde foi, mas seu rosto nunca era inocente. Minha intuição nunca mentiu como ele fez com os dedos calejados rastejando fora de suas mãos. Ele me fez comer a sua voz para me lembrar que eu posso ser estúpido. Ele possui nenhum conhecimento além do vazio, ele não é nada, mas morto, sem cor, sem rosto, ...
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Seepferdchen und Flugfische
I will be reading/performing sound poetry at the Thursday Night Rent Party this Thursday, June 24th at the Cameron House. Don’t miss out on a performance of Hugo Ball’s Seepferdchen und Flugfische, and a few other auditory curiosities. Also reading with me will be the incomparable N. Alexander Armstrong, along with comedy by Sunnie D’Souza and music by Hopeful Monster, ...
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Woman from Raška
small pink bodies treading water with toes under the surface of glass i can’t breathe in here: tomato juice and vodka on your breath speaking blood tongues for what i won’t give you, your small bare breasts a sweet reminder of victories from years ago, our impasse now large enough to suggest why it was never meant to last. i’ll ...
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jostle together
Last year’s Steel Bananas anthology GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose is on sale until June 30th as part of Tightrope’s blowout book sale. Below is the assemblage’s cut-up prologue and my poem “(MY)RIAD”. Enjoy!
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treading water
six shifts, shards pieces of sounds more familiar, he- moving forward untamed, moving backward jerking like a handful of collar, like a sudden meeting of surfaces, one absorbing the momentum of outstretched hands maintain the border with fingertips circling eject, fondling the end, seducing with the ghost of lack, blank look, some sort of void emotion, urge to hate and ...
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New Hypertext Project
The idea of a hypertext/web art journal has been swimming around in my head since the inception of Steel Bananas, and I’ve been running it by interested parties here and there, but it hasn’t yet found its expression on the world wide web. Well, until now, that is. As a lover of internet art and hypertext poetry and prose, I’ve ...
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The Monthly Eggplant Reading Series – Episode One
Thanks to everyone who came out to see/hear me read at the first installment of the Monthly Eggplant Reading Series! We Steel Bananas folk were totally stoked with the turnout, and I was more than thrilled to read with Richard Rosenbaum, James Papoutsis, and the incomparable N. Alexander Armstrong, who (as I’m sure you’ve already read/heard by now) accompanied part ...
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Whoa! Events!
Whoa! It’s been a while since I’ve sat down to pay attention to this fruity part of cyberspace. I’ve been exceedingly busy working on design for the Fall 2009 catalog for Tightrope Books, preparing GULCH for print, getting the Flying Walrus site designed, and starting the last year of my BA, during which I’m writing that thesis I like to ...
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A critique of Aarseth, Chats with Joel Plaskett & Lloyd Kaufman, Treats from a Taste of the Danforth and More!
... Aarseth set out, in his ballsy dissertation, to “describe any text according to their mode of traversal” (62), a very literal application of McLuhan’s musings on media, which explains his odd disconnect with the aspects of imagination that transcend media, that can live in story outside of the text, or game itself. This kind of jazz makes me a ...
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The Vagabond Trust!
After seeing Darrah Teitel and Kathleen Brown read at Scream, then meandering over to This Ain’t the Rosedale Library for their last reading, I resolved to join the Vagabond Trust – and alas, I have! I love sharing writing and talking to people about art. This should be a fun venture! I’ll make sure to post readings and updates for ...
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The SCREAM Literary Festival and what it’s like to watch your prof eat a book
I’ve only been able to fit two SCREAM events (and one offshoot) into my busy schedule this week, but the fare was definitely pretty badass this year. I haven’t yet decided how exactly I feel about the whole death of the book idea, but I figure I’ll have a better idea after I mull it over with some wine this ...
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