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McGuire, Kristi 2012

Thursday, December 13, 2012

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Check out Kristi McGuire’s project False Flags:

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Psychosomatic Netflix binges, off-notification sexting on Signal, ranking Grubhub delivery options by how likely or not will be your engagement with humanity, or clicking “Report” on the trust-fund-enabled sponsored content behind a cyborg-influencer’s Instagram post about detox tummy tone wraps, are all such immaterial allusions as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep (or, as well like to call it, Suspend to RAM mode).

Read an article by Kristi McGuire:

The crisis in non-fiction publishing | The Chicago Blog

Bolder. More global. Risk-taking. The home of future stars. Not a tagline for a well-placed index fund portfolio (thank G-d), but the crux of a

Watch this presentation and conversation about Social Media as Performance featuring Kristi McGuire:

AAUP 2015: I Don’t Understand Your Brand Strategy: On Social Media as Performance from AUPresses on Vimeo.

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McGrath, Campbell 2003

Wednesday, December 10, 2003

I’ve got the copyright on love, honey baby.
Registered patent number such &
such. Don’t dillydally with saxifrage
& sassafras, don’t bother me with this & that,

– Campbell McGrath, “Love (c)”

Broadside of “Love (c)” by Campbell McGrath

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Listen to Campbell McGrath’s 2003 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago:

Today is a trumpet to set the hounds baying.
The past is a fox the hunters are flaying.
Nothing unspoken goes without saying.
Love’s a casino where lovers risk playing.
The future’s a marker our hearts are prepaying.

– Campbell McGrath, “Pentatina for Five Vowels”

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Read an interview with Campbell McGrath from the Kenyon Review:

Campbell McGrath | Kenyon Review Conversations

Campbell McGrath is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012). A resident of Miami, he teaches in the […]

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Mamet, David 1997

Tuesday, May 20, 1997

There is nothing trivial about love.
There is completion in it. And a trial
By pain and power
Barely to be borne.
That fever.

– David Mamet, “Untitled”

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Read an interview with David Mamet from The Huffington Post:

Writer-to-Writer: A Conversation With David Mamet

“Writing a stage play and a screenplay have very little to do with each other. A stage play is just dialogue. One has to be able to communicate the play through disputation. A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia.”

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Mairs, Nancy 1996

Wednesday, November 13, 1996
with Mary Swander

Let me tell you this once
(I will not be able to say it again):
I have lost the meaning of words.
Heavy, they ripped away from the sounds,
fell into cracked ground. For weeks
I scratched but what I dug up was
bicycle spokes, black melon rinds,
a smashed doll face–it was not meaning.
I don’t know what I am saying.

– Nancy Mairs, “Naming”

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Watch Nancy Mairs discuss her book, Waist-High in the World:

Nancy and George Mairs discuss “Waist-High in The World”

From Janice Dewey’s documentary: www.mezcalmt.com

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Madhubuti, Haki 2003

Tuesday, October 21, 2003
with Michael Anania

their memory occupies our dreams,
our waking minutes and the
seconds of our deep contemplations.
we are now in the rough tomorrows
of pain, outrage and reordering.

– Haki Madhubuti, “When 21 Is More Than A Number”

Broadside of “When 21 Is More Than A Number” by Haki Madhubuti

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Listen to Haki Madhubuti’s 2003 reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago:

Who has the moral high ground?
Fifteen blocks from the whitehouse
on small corners in northwest, d.c.
boys disguised as me rip each other’s hearts out
with weapons made in china. they fight for territory.

– Haki Madhubuti, “Rwanda: Where Tears Have No Power”

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Watch an interview with Haki Madhubuti:

Haki Madhubuti Interview

On the south side of Chicago The Authors Road met with noted poet, writer, educator and publisher, Haki Madhubuti. In this video he explains his birth in LIttle Rock and his growing up in Detroit and eventual discovery of like-minded writers through his local library.

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MacDonald, Douglas 1981

Friday, May 27, 1981
Homage to Anna Akhmatova
with Anna Linchevskaya
The Poetry Center at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Vintage poster of Homage to Anna Akhmatova featuring Anna Linchevskaya and Douglas MacDonald reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Vintage poster of Homage to Anna Akhmatova featuring Anna Linchevskaya and Douglas MacDonald reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.

Preview the book printed for this event:
Six poems & requiem

Lynch, Thomas 2002

Wednesday, March 3, 2002

It came to him that he could nearly count
How many Octobers he had left to him
In increments of ten or, say, eleven
Thus: sixty-three, seventy-four, eighty-five. 

– Thomas Lynch, “Refusing at Fifty-two to Write Sonnets”

Broadside of “Refusing at Fifty-two to Write Sonnets” by Thomas Lynch

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The body of the boy who took his flight
off the cliff at Kilcloher into the sea
was hauled up by curragh-men, out at first light
fishing mackerel in the estuary.

– Thomas Lynch, “He Posits Certain Mysteries”

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Watch a reading and interview with Thomas Lynch at the Chicago Humanities Festival:

Thomas Lynch: Poet & Undertaker

http://chicagohumanities.org – See more Chicago Humanities Festival events. “There is nothing like the sight of a dead human body to assist the living in separating the good days from the bad ones. Of this truth I have some experience,” writes Thomas Lynch in Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality.

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Lux, Thomas 1998

Wednesday, November 4, 1998

His spine curved just enough
to suggest a youth spent amidst a boring
landscape: brokedown corncrib, abandoned sty,
skeletal manure shed, a two-silo barn with one
sold off leaving a round pit
filled with rubble–where once the sweet silage
piled up and up now the brooding
ground of toads…

– Thomas Lux, “His Spine Curved Just Enough”

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Watch Thomas Lux read his poem, “Refrigerator:”

“Refrigerator” by Thomas Lux

Thomas Lux read this on March 15, 2012 at the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts at the annual Robert Creeley Poetry Reading. Thomas Lux is the 2012 winner of the Robert Creeley Award. For more information about the foundation, please visit http://www.robertcreeleyfoundation.org/about_foundation

you need not talk nor fear
that particular sticky abrasion gotten
by walking into pine trees… You find
a lucidity in this darkness.

– Thomas Lux, “The Night So Bright A Squirrel Reads”

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Read an interview with Thomas Lux from Writer’s Digest:

Thomas Lux: Poet Interview

Poet Thomas Lux, author of a dozen books, including Child Made of Sand and God Particles, takes a moment to talk poetic process, surrealism, and the importance of reading until you bleed.

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Lombardo, Stanley 1994

Thursday, February 17, 1994

Read an interview with Stanley Lombardo from Jacket Magazine:

Stanley Lombardo

Lombardo: Shakespeare, Chaucer, Beowulf – trying to read some of it in the original, in whatever way I could. The Romantics, especially Keats and Coleridge, but also Wordsworth. I memorized ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat, The Waste Land.

Watch Stanley Lombardo read from his translation of the Iliad:

Professor Stanley Lombardo reads from his translation of the Iliad

One of the speakers at Hollins 34th annual Classics Symposium was Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas, who read from his translation of the “Iliad.”

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