Somewhere there must be recourse!

A picture took form on a screen on the opposite wall.
Even thinking about that made him quail. Wherever he was, she must seek him out

I’ll be reading along with Jordan Scott at Jen Currin’s upcoming book launch for The Inquisition Yours.

Saturday March 27 at Cafe Montmartre.

4362 Main Street.

8 pm.

Free like cheap.

Hope to see you!

Featuring Portland bands Pelican Ossman and Dramady.

Discussions of

• protest tactics
• poetic devices
• slogans
• poetry and movement discourse
• literary form and politics
• autonomous struggle
• colonialism
• writing and/as/v.s. activism
• etc.

Readings by

• Clint Burnham
• Stephen Collis
• Jeff Derksen
• Kim Duff
• Roger Farr
• Reg Johanson
• Donato Mancini
• Cecily Nicholson
• Naava Smolash

Music by

• Justice
• KRS One
• Judas Priest
• DOA
• Cypress Hill
• Melvin and the Blue Notes
• Metric
• Neil Young
• The Fugees
• James Brown

Quotations from

• Adorno
• Deleuze
• Lenin
• Marx
• Ranciere

Hot political aural love.

(Info via Roger Farr.)

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King Aillas will have me quickly hanged!

If you ask a fourth, I am free.
Murgen, in cold disgust, isolated himself at Swer Smod. His party had dismounted and were tying their horses to a rail.

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Please note I’m not the first to think of this…..see Spam is Poetry

Other resources:

http://www.marketingvox.com/spam_poetry-015451/

a lecture by

Fredric Jameson

William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies Duke University

Thursday, March 11^th, 2010

7:00-8:30 pm

A world-renowned critic, Fredric Jameson is the recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize in recognition of his outstanding scholarship in the arts and humanities.  He is a prolific author, perhaps best known for his book Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; he has also written seminal works on Marxist literary and cultural theory  (Marxism and Form; The Political Unconscious) and numerous other books.

Reception to Follow

Fletcher Challenge TheatreRoom 1900 SFU Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

“You know

They call them killer whales

But you seemed surprised

When he pinned you down

To the bottom of the tank

Where you can’t turn round

He took half your leg

And both your lungs……”

Music (People got a lotta nerve) by Neko Case

Artwork by Paul and Julie Morstad

About the death of Dawn Brancheau and the captivity of Tilikum

And in case it’s unclear….I am against the keeping of large mammals in captivity.

http://jasonseiden.com/screw-your-career-path-live-your-story/lifestory/

“Finding a good writer willing to waste months on someone else`s idea for no pay is like finding a needle in a haystack. Granted, you might find a hobbyist who will meet you in a coffee shop with a copy of Save The Cat, and you might find a penpal to trade B.S. with for a week or two, but you will not find a writer. Writing a script for the purposes making a film requires investment, and 99% of the time the investment comes first, with the idea, and the writer gets PAID. Selling your `life story“ or your “great idea“ to a studio, or even and independent, is like getting struck by lightening, and even then you`ll have run around naked in the rain holding a ladder for years. Even if your script gets written, no one will read it until it`s been edited and read by readers at least once, and this is not free. Studios typically don`t read anything that doesn`t come through an agent. To get an agent you need at least two features written that are far beyond being first drafts.

So, hate to be a naysayer, but my suggestion is – write it as a short story, or even a novel. If it has any legs at all, it will go further. But most “writers“ have enough of their own ideas and are not going to suffer someone else`s headaches unless they get paid. Profits shared if the idea sells – haha. Not in this climate. The likes of Seth Rogen and Adam Sandler can write an idea down on toilet paper and that might sell after one phone call, but you – no.

Craigslist and the B.C. film industry – a land of wannabees and small time egos churning out fluff in a city that truthfully has a dismal industry (until the Americans ride into town once in a while – that let`s us pretend a little). And thanks to the Liberals and 90% arts cuts, your little indi film idea will forever stay on paper.”

now!!

“U”look”like”a”man”whore

Each plant had fallen and died, as if ravaged by the blight!

But the glamour was gone from him.
In a moment he would be a god. The line by which his food ascended was far too light.

Hope you can make it down to the W2 Wednesday night for the Poets (and some fictioneers).

Doors open at 7pm. $5 cover charge. I’m told folks should get there only as it was standing room only last week.

Check it:

Hosted by Elizabeth Bachinsky

Teresa McWhirter, Lee Henderson, Heather Susan Haley, Nikki Reimer, Chris Hutchinson, Dina Del Bucchia, Amber Dawn, Donato Mancini, Sonnet L’Abbe, Jonathon Wilcke, Catherine Owen, Meredith Quartermain.

Bios for all writers here.