Craig Dworkin

For Ceptuetics' last show, Craig Dworkin provided insight into some of the social and technological issues surrounding conceptual poetics  and addressed his editorial choices for the UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing and a forthcoming book co-edited with Kenneth Goldsmith, Against Expression. He read from his most recent book, Parse (Atelos), and discussed the place of subjectivity in this text and other "uncreative" works.

Craig will be interviewing Vito Acconci at the Bronx Museum on Saturday at 3pm (North Wing, 2nd Floor). Scroll down from here for more info.

FOR GODOT

Steve talks about ISSUE ONE from Rotterdam.

Greg sings Stein from Philadelphia.

Vlad waits. He doesn't have any thoughts about the pdf.

Brad Flis

Brad Flis reads from his book Peasants, which will soon be released by Patrick Lovelace Editions. He shares a few other poems and talks with me about the union of disparate historical moments in his writing, the pressure to generate ethically 'responsible' work, and questions of clarity and censorship in poetry.

He'll be reading at the Poetry Project with Patrick Durgin on Monday 10/20 at 8pm.

Tracie Morris and Tan Lin

Tan Lin reads (with me) from Plagiarism/Outsource, a project that chronicles Heath Ledger's death through SMS messages and RSS feeds. We talk about the technological provisions for ambient writing with multiple subjectivities, Tan's strategy of re-writing news stories by inserting himself into the work, the genres of autobiography and the novel, duration, and Warhol & disco as post-medium moments.

Tracie Morris airs audio pieces - "Get It, Got It," a collaboration with Elliott Sharp, and "Gallery" - and reads from a collaboration with Charles Bernstein, "Truth Be Told." We talk about poetry's potential for political intervention as we receive word on the economic crisis, and discuss language use in the 2008 election, speech act theory, and collaboration. File is strangely reverb-y.

Juliana Spahr

A new poem, The Incinerator, and a discussion on autobiography/anti-autobiography (see Juliana's Everybody's Autonomy), representing the local (thru Chillicothe), & class in Appalachia.

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Jen Bervin

Apologies to those who tried to catch Jen Bervin's reading/interview streaming at wnyu.org or iTunes -- WNYU's still in the midst of a move and doesn't have working Internet yet. Here's the show to download. Jen read from her latest book, The Desert (Granary Books, 2008), and talked about sewing-through John Van Dyke's work, her book's air, and the new readers & writers of the desert.

Five Shows on PennSound

Recent shows with David Buuck, Eddie Hopely, Matmos, Brian Kim Stefans, and Caroline Bergvall are all available on PennSound, thanks to Dear colleagueS Danny Snelson & Michael S. Hennessey.

WNYU's packing up for greener pastures (a few blocks down), so expect new room tones to fill the non-breaking spaces & stitches of Jen Bervin's poetry and book art next week.

Look to the right for more guests, soon.

Oh Meow: MATMOS

Matmos (Drew Daniel & M.C. Schmidt) talk about their conceptual sound pieces, parapsychology, telepathic love, pedagogy, performances, and the sound & visual portraits that comprise The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, an album that pays tribute to Wittgenstein, Burroughs and Solanas, among others.

Matmos has a new album out, Supreme Balloon

rabbit on their way to the capitol

Eddie Hopely reads from the chapbooks Plant, Rabbit on their way to the capitol, and other poems. We talk about blueprints, image and text, community & collaboration. Diana Hamilton and I read with Eddie, and describe his rabbit.

Brian Kim Stefans

Brian Kim Stefans reads from Kluge: A Meditation (Roof, 2007) and talks with me about minimal bits of information as events and variation in conceptual literature, ambient poetics and musical influences like John Cage and Alvin Lucier.

Caroline Bergvall

Caroline Bergvall reads a Chaucer tale and some figs. We discuss intertextuality, multilingualism and governmental strictures on speech, and the intersections of 'differential' practice, performance writing, and conceptualism. Caroline also gives a short recap of the recent Conceptual Poetry and Its Others conference at University of Arizona, which you can read more about from Kenneth Goldsmith and Charles Alexander.

Tomorrow (Tuesday), Caroline will be performing My Chaucer at the Hispanic Society of America along with Mario Diaz de Leon. 7:30 pm: Audubon Terrace, Broadway between 155th and 156th streets...By subway take number 1 train to 157th and Broadway

Danny Snelson

Danny Snelson performs the translation project MY DEAR COUNTESS, a video / text cut-up. He also reads from The Book of Ravelling Women, a re-purposed Djuna Barnes chapbook with visual art by Phoebe Springstubb, and talks with me about his source materials, his projects' focus on reading, and re-orienting the 'you' of Barnes' work. See his recent PennSound featured resources here.

Welcome to the Zoo

Diana Hamilton reads from The Zoo, Soft Snap (+0ther Salutations), and other works. She talks with me about words hanging out together, Wikipedia, anthropomorphism, and Dick Cheney.

For those in New York, Diana will be reading at the Poetry Project this Monday the 19th, at 8pm, along with another ceptuetics guest, sara wintz.


from Soft Snap:

third-person reading be
divorced or giving divorce a Divorce


rates in us are rising
accord to rought round of in


no doubt process everyone
unhapis even worse. If you are
better to bail



a reassessing of how:
become an issue you can spend

come laws

Chris Funkhouser

talks digital poetry and reads from a forthcoming work, Technopoetry Rising. More of his work recently archived at PennSound.

note: Caroline Bergvall will not be on the show May 21st, but June 4th.

Ara Shirinyan

Ara Shirinyan reads from Syria is in the World (Palm Press, 2007) and Your Country Is Great (Afghanistan - Guyana) (Futurepoem, 2008). We talk about the "largest small country," its claims to being "in the world" and the language of tourism, before closing with a discussion on post-conceptual poetics.

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Anne Tardos + Laura Elrick

late on this, but happy to group these two shows together, they make a very poly-duo btwn Tardos' I Am You (Salt, 2008) and Elrick's multivocal audio pieces, accumulated using language from her book Fantasies in Permeable Structures (Factory School, 2005)

Anne Tardos on Ceputetics, 04/16/08

Laura Elrick on Ceptuetics, 04/23/08


the reason for the delay, i'm glad to say, will (persistent cold willing) result this week in a finished thesis on conceptual writing & a reading/discussion on post-conceptual poetics with Ara Shirinyan for next week's show.

Judith Goldman

Judith Goldman came onto ceptuetics after a stunning reading of chopped & détourned news stories at the Poetry Project. She read several new pieces, and discussed zones + boundaries, filtering the Internet, Spanglish and anti-immigration.

Anselm Berrigan

reading & interview on ceptuetics

Anselm reads from Some Notes on My Programming (Edge, 2006) and Have A Good One, a 46-page poem composed of 97 short poems sharing that title. We talk about his writing's connection to loss, poetry as political forum, and the structure of his new serial poem.

Anselm is reading with Ben Friedlander at Poetry Project this Wednesday (4/9) at 8pm.

Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith talked with me on ceptuetics about his latest book, Sports, the new installment of his American "on the ones" trilogy (Make Now Press). From there we wander through many filters of conceptual writing: boredom, temporality, information management, peeling language off the page & pouring it into different forms.

See Goldsmith's EPC author page for many articles on his work, including an excellent collection of writings in Open Letter: Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics, edited by Barbara Cole and Lori Emerson. Also, Goldsmith & UbuWeb in this month's ArtForum.

Please feel free to send me comments/thoughts on Goldsmith's work at ceptuetics@wnyu.org, if interested - I'm coming near a deadline for a thesis on the subject of conceptual writing, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Caroline Bergvall, and would be happy to discuss their work & the movement w/ others.

Bruce Andrews, Kim Rosenfield

"we're all idiom now": Bruce Andrews reads from Give 'Em Enough Rope, Lip Service, and War and Peace (journal edited by Judith Goldman and Leslie Scalapino), discussing his modular writing process, his collaborations with musicians, dancers & other poets, and Lip Service's interrogation of gender socialization. At the end Bruce gives a shout-out to Obama.

re:evolution: Kim Rosenfield reads, sings, and talks about her latest, ambiguously named project (forthcoming on Les Figues next spring) - we talk inherited modes of logic & how to disrupt them w/ subjectivity in the poetic text, Kim strutting her stuff, feminism, and psychotherapy. Interrupting re-evolution's "Denouement," Kim gives a shout-out to Obama.