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11 albums of Futurist, Dadaist & Surrealist music, sound, and poetry [MP3]: http://is.gd/f3g2k

A Tribute

David Cassidy:
I think I love you
but--

Howard Zinn

...wars don’t solve any fundamental problems, and they always poison everybody on both sides. They poison the minds and souls of everybody on both sides. We’re seeing that now in Iraq, where the minds of our soldiers are being poisoned by being an occupying army in a land where they are not wanted. And the results are terrible.

Howard Zinn, http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/28/howard_zinn_1922_2010_a_tribute

Buff-Cinci-Oxfluxus

WORD+SOUND AT BRANDT GALLERY, CLEVELAND
Michael Basinski, L.A. Howe and William R. How
with special guests Fluxmonkey and Frass Accolades
SATURDAY JANUARY 16 8PM SHARP $5 DONATIONS

MICHAEL BASINSKI (left) is the Curator of the Poetry Collection of the University at Buffalo. He has published a batch of books of poetry including All My Eggs are Broken (BlazeVox 2007), Of Venus 93 (Little Scratch Pad 2007) and Welcome to the Alphabet (Red Fox2007). His poems, visual poems, sound works, essays, reviews and such have appeared in magazines from Poetry and the Village Voice to fhole and the Wormwood Review. He regularly performs with his ensemble, BuffFluxus, wherever art administrators will allow. Don't miss him, he's 59, and his bags are packed.

L.A. HOWE (center) is a writer, artist, and editor who lives and works in Cincinnati. She is the author of the chapbook, Entropic Easter (Little Scratchpad Books), which is now out of print. She is a co-founder of Slack Buddha Press, co-editing Slack Buddha’s La Perruque series of chapbooks, which publishes the work of contemporary practitioners from the U.S. and the U.K., including poetry, prose, performance texts, and verbo-visual works. Also a bookbinder, Howe crafts artist’s and writer’s journals to sell at bookfairs and online.

WILLIAM R. HOWE (right) is a poet, book artist, publisher, editor, performance artist, and visual artist. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University of Ohio. His work has appeared in Plantarchy, Mirage #4/Period(ical), FerrumWheel, The Gig, and others. His most recent book is translanations one (BlazeVox 2009). He runs the Putitupor Broadside series, and he and his wife, L.A. Howe, edit Slack Buddha Press. His second full-length collection Kid Stippler & the Sty-elf is forthcoming in Spring/Winter 2010 from Slack Buddha. His third collection Sixes & Eights will appear with white print inc in 2010.

http://www.pluggedincleveland.com/events/view.cgi?num=34921

Delirious Hem

This is a project worth following, and if they keep to their calendar an audio poem by Cathy Wagner should be put up sometime today: http://www.delirioushem.blogspot.com/

Whiteprintinc Press Benefit Cleveland 11/15

POETS FROM DETROIT AT BRANDT GALLERY

A BENEFIT FOR WHITEPRINTINC PRESS
MIRINDA FLEENARY || JAMES E HART III || ANITA SCHMALTZ
WITH CARMEN TRACEY & MUSIC BY JOSE LUNA & TEMPLE FUGATE

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 || 1028 KENILWORTH AVE CLEVE OH
7PM SHARP $5 DONATIONS

Mirinda Fleenary is 22 years old and currently resides in Detroit where she makes art. She is working on her fifth collection of poems. She received the Francis Barrett Creative Writing Award (2008) and The Larry Colter Poetry Prize (2007, 2008). Her work is forthcoming (invisibles) from white print inc.

James Hart III lives in southwest Detroit. Currently he has published two manuscripts: the watchable book, Weightless Language Press (2003) and white holes, Marick (2006). Forthcoming, high-coup Slack Buddha Press, Spring (2010). His work has appeared in Dispatch, Door Jamb Press, Past Tents Press on line anthology, and The Cafe Review (ME). He is the director and editor of white print inc, a new avant-garde Detroit press dedicated to emerging and unknown writers, as well as the Cass Corridor history. He curates The Woodward-Line series, currently Detroit’s only independant national venue. He has corresponded with Jacques Derrida, who expressed great interest in his work.

Anita Schmaltz is an artist, writer, photographer, musician and teacher. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the College for Creative Studies and a Masters of Creative Writing degree from Wayne State University. She’s written hundreds of articles and reviews about the arts for the Metro Times. Since 2000, she’s been a creative writing teacher through InsideOut Literary Arts Organization. A founding member of the band Ass, Anita’s currently involved with the music project In Your Hand. She lives in Royal Oak, Michigan.

http://www.whiteprintinc.com/
http://brandtgallery.org/

Intercollegiate Athletic Guide

The Rugby Player

And here is another name, a football name
something else like a tough nickname
a brown suit and slender tie


The Coxswain

Boats are quoted and ships italicized


The Golfer

Fair Isle sweaters and pea coats are function
not fashion again


The Lacrosse Player

No, never mind him
Ben Sherman jackets match Fred Perry shoes
Mohawks and leather on the other side


The Ballplayer

or a film about him
or the poster outside the theater


The Swimmer

Seen here in the convex mirror
backwards
around the corner


The Fencer

Stage combat certification
looks good on a resume


The Wrestler

With another name, wear a tuxedo
or a linen shirt and summer shoes
Here, center ring, stained glass