Barbara Cole on ceptuetics

After an excellent Belladonna* reading with Elizabeth Robinson, Barbara Cole came into ceptuetics on Wednesday to read and discuss portions of her ongoing long poem, situ ation come dies. The scope of this project - a 5-part Bildungsroman written in the present, to paraphrase Rachel Levitsky - is already astonishing. Foxy Moron, which you can read from ubu's /ubu editions, investigates the sexual development of a young girl through the many shards of language that force their way upon her by way of pop songs, parents, pornos, and the bully at the back of the bus. Barbara's latest chapbook, from ear: say, out on Belladonna*, is a more solemn narrative that shifts the setting from grade school to the doctor's office. During the show, she discusses and reads from both sections:

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Marie Buck reading/interview

Brie

You may already be an anarchist. It's true. Nothing is finer, more sublime or creamy. In its long history, when you come up with your own ideas and initiatives and solutions, it should bulge slightly. Not all brie is created equal. Poetry is made by all, not one, and at our cheese counter lies a cheese monger's tip.

from WHOLE FOODS, by Marie Buck

Download the show here and if you haven't already, check out Marie's irreverent, outrageous chapbook Beard of Bees, see what Ron Silliman has to say, and order some Model Homes! Can't get enough? Look out for a collection of Marie's poetry on Patrick Lovelace's press, Nocturnal Editions, this spring.


Next week on ceptuetics:
Barbara Cole received her Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at SUNY—Buffalo in 2006. Since 2000, she has been writing the ongoing project, situ ation come dies, a long poem in five parts. In 2002, a chapbook-length excerpt of the first section was published by Handwritten Press followed by an excerpt from the second section, foxy moron, by /ubu editions in 2004. Most recently, Belladonna published a chapbook excerpt from the middle section, ear say. Earlier chapbooks include little wives (Potes&Poets, 1998) and postcards (BeautifulSwimmer, 1998). In 2005, Cole co-edited (with Lori Emerson) an issue of Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory on "Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics." Currently, she is co-editing (with Sarah Bay-Cheng) a collection of plays written by modernist poets.

Rachel Levitsky reading/interview

Wednesday's show: Rachel Levitsky reads from Neighbor, a manuscript forthcoming on Ugly Duckling Presse, and The Story of My Accident is Ours, a novella.

Rodrigo Toscano

Rodrigo came into ceptuetics yesterday and talked with me about his latest project, Collapsible Poetics Theater, a series of polyvocal pieces, body movement poems, and poetics plays that will be collected next year by Fence Books. He also aired a radio play, "Eco-Strato-Static" (text for this and other CPT pieces available at his EPC page).

Download the show here

The Collapsible Poetics Theater is an all volunteer effort, one that assembles itself within a given 48-72 hour period of each performance. Each locale (with its resident poets, experienced actors, experienced non-actors) brings an entirely new set of possibilities. It is reminiscent of Commedia Dell'Arte in its traveling, portable, rapid-set up qualities. To be sure, Poetics Theater fits into the poetry scene as a baby does in itchy burlap; it fits into the drama scene as does a little crown, little scepter, little gown, all neatly stored in a metal suitcase (quite literally!). The dings are just dings. The persistent question is: can the poem be tested any further?

Upcoming Guests

Tune in next Wednesday to hear Rodrigo Toscano on ceptuetics. For those unfamiliar with his work:

Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The Disparities, and Partisans. His new collection Collapsible Poetics Theater, which was a National Poetry Series 2007 selection, is due out in 2008. Toscano is the artistic coordinator for the Collapsible Poetics Theater (CPT). His experimental poetics plays, body movement poems, and polyvocalic pieces have been performed at the Disney Redcat Theater in Los Angeles, Ontological-Hysteric Poet’s Theater Festival, Yockadot Poetics Theater Festival (Alexandria, Virginia), and in Teubingen, Germany. His poetics radio pieces have been aired on WPIX FM, New York, PS. 1 Radio, KAOS Public Radio, Olympia. Toscano is originally from the Borderlands of California. He works at the Labor Institute in Manhattan, and lives in Brooklyn.

In addition, tomorrow the Fiery Furnaces will be coming into my other radio show (The New Afternoon Show, a new rock/electronic/ experimental/noise show that has been running on WNYU for 25+ years). The Fiery Furnaces are one of my favorite indie rock bands to emerge since 2000, and I'm very excited to have them on for a live performance + interview. Tune in tomorrow around 5:30-6:45 pm (full show runs from 4-7:30), as always at 89.1FM, wnyu.org, or directly on iTunes, under "eclectic" in the radio section.

Sara Wintz on ceptuetics

Sara Wintz reads several short poems from a manuscript on language & gender, discusses those topics, her reading practices, Language poetry, regionalism and more here.

The file throws you into her second poem after the intro and hellos, so here is a bio:

Description: Sara Wintz is lead singer of the pretty panicks press and co-publisher of :::thepressgang:::, publisher of juliana spahr's recent chapbook, intricate systems, and--in december--karen volkman's one might. Sara's writing has appeared in cricketonlinereview, shampoo poetry, ecopoetics, and canwehaveourballback.

Apologies to Sara & friends for the delay in airing + recording! Hope you enjoy it all the same.

Lawrence Giffin on Ceptuetics

Here's yesterday's show,
Lawrence Giffin is the series editor of The Physical Poets Home Library, a small-run journal featuring various American poetry communities' self-edited work. He read from the manuscript Applied Traumatics, which examines the nature of language, child sexuality, and privation through the figures of Christ, Helen Keller, and "Genie," the 'feral' child of Arcadia, California. He also read short pieces from another manuscript, as well as work by Marie Buck, Brad Flis, and Steven Zultanski, as featured in Physical Poets Issue One. You can find out more about the Physical Poets journal at physicalpoetry.blogspot.com.

Links to archived shows are now permanent. You can also find Rob Fitterman's reading here for good.

Rob Fitterman reads and talks poetics

Here's an mp3 of yesterday's show. Rob read from two new manuscripts, Sprawl (Metropolis 31-40) and Rob the Plagiarist, and answered my questions about his use of appropriated language, his development towards the long poem/book format, and aspects of his genre-annihilating work with visual artist Dirk Rowntree, War: the Musical (Subpress).

Rob Fitterman on ceptuetics