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.

Updated Archives

All readings/interviews to date are now permanently archived on this blog (that is, there should be no more expired links, if you've tried unsuccessfully to listen to shows from the fall). Enjoy:

10-03-07 Rob Fitterman
10-24-07 Lawrence Giffin
11-07-07 Steven Zultanski
11-28-07 Sara Wintz
12-12-07 Rodrigo Toscano
01-23-08 Rachel Levitsky
02-06-08 Marie Buck
02-13-08 Barbara Cole
03-05-08 Rod Smith
03-12-08 Bruce Andrews
03-19-08 Kim Rosenfield
03-26-08 Kenneth Goldsmith
04-02-08 Anselm Berrigan

Tomorrow, Judith Goldman

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.