Monthly Archives: March 2011
God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth…
…is the motto of Berea College, which was founded in Berea, Kentucky in 1855 as the first interracial and coeducational college in the South, and which today contains some of the nicest people in any geographic region, including Loreal Bell (far left) and Vicky Hayes (second from the right) of the college Learning Center: [...]
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Without You I’m Nothing…
…is the name of of an exhibition on art and its audience currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art here in Chicago. Martin and I happened to go yesterday, which, lucky for us, meant we got to hear a lecture called “On the Creative Act (after Marcel Duchamp)” by Adelheid Mers, a Chicago-based visual artist [...]
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Scenes from the Dollhouse
Courtesy of Daniela Olszewska and the Instamatic app on her cell phone camera, here are photographs of the fantastic first installment of the Dollhouse Reading Series. This is Dolly Lemke, whose house it was (get it?) introducing readers and encouraging everyone to drink some beer, eat some cheese, and have a good time: The first [...]
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Hello, Dolly!
This Friday, March 18th at 8:00 pm, Dolly Lemke will be kicking off the first installment of a brand new reading series known, fittingly, as The Dollhouse: It will be happening at her apartment at 1850 W. Belle Plaine Ave., #3 in Chicago, and instructions are as follows: “Come and enjoy people reading poetry, drinking beer, [...]
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The end of the quarter body count…
…is three: three Exquisite Corpses by the Reading & Writing Poetry class I taught. We hadn’t done any collaboration yet, so yesterday each of the three rows in the room wrote a collective poem. Here is Row 1… …and here is Row 2… …and finally, Row 3: Thanks, poets, for always being good sports [...]
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Repetition compulsion
Lily Hoang took incomplete and/or abandoned short stories from 20 or so writers, then she finished them. Now, you can read them all in a single collection called UNFINISHED, recently published by Jaded Ibis Press. One of the stories, “So Cold and Far Away,” started out as mine, and it–greatly improved by Lily’s efforts–is in [...]
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The Beauty of the Husband
The last time one Martin Seay blogged was way the heck back on August 25, 2010, but look out! He’s made a triumphant return six months in the making with an epic post on Bruce Springsteen, Arcade Fire, Eddie and the Cruisers and Harold Bloom’s anxiety of influence. My favorite sentence may be “I just [...]
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Behold Nick Demske’s clearance discounts.
And behold my review of Nick Demske’s debut poetry collection, Nick Demske, on The Rumpus here, plus Nick Demske’s poem “Campbell McGrath” as part of a Rumpus Original Combo here. Today is my birthday, and if I didn’t already have it, I’d want somebody to buy me a copy of Nick Demske as a present. Buy [...]
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