24 June 2011
one of my poem plays published in Everday Genius
YIPPIE: . . . love publishing genius and everday genius . . a happy camper. . . thank you Adam . . .
check it out:
http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011/06/marcus-slease.html
check it out:
http://www.everyday-genius.com/2011/06/marcus-slease.html
now one of my favourite literary journals
great great magazine!! Picked up two issues last night at the x-ing the line reading of Vincent Katz and Barry Schwabsky. Great reading. Really terrific stuff.
All the greats in Vanitas. NY and beyond!!! Good critical and thematic stuff. Art and poetry. Good for the eyes and ears and all-around brain.
Feels nice in the hands as well.
One of the issues I picked up has poems and reflections and stills from films etc.
Will be my tube reading for a few weeks:
http://vanitasmagazine.blogspot.com/
http://www.vanitasmagazine.net/
All the greats in Vanitas. NY and beyond!!! Good critical and thematic stuff. Art and poetry. Good for the eyes and ears and all-around brain.
Feels nice in the hands as well.
One of the issues I picked up has poems and reflections and stills from films etc.
Will be my tube reading for a few weeks:
http://vanitasmagazine.blogspot.com/
http://www.vanitasmagazine.net/
19 June 2011
The possibilities of life/art/community
Fun reading last night!!! Really super enjoyed it. Good to feel the enjoyment. The pleasures of poetry/language/community.
Really super happy to read from new work in the chapbook Balloons . .
I like Balloons . . .
I like the chapbook . . .
Ewa rocks!!!
the paper and string and smell of nail varnish on the cover . .
Did an exchange with Colin Herd and picked up his book
too ok:
http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2011/04/kevin-killian-welcomes-colin-herds-too.html
and excellent magazine Anything Anymore Anywhere:
http://www.anything-anymore-anywhere.com/
YIPPIE!!!
Really excited to dig in!!!
great conversations and gatherings . . .
great to meet so many fine folks . . .
great to see Jonty Tiplady with Balloons down his trousers . .
great to catch up with close friend Michael Zand . . .
ah the possibilities of language and beings . .
Big big big thank you to Steven Fowler for being one hella of a host and organising these readings and doing something really different and gutsy for the London poetry world with his Maintenant reading series with European poets . . .
exciting times in London!!!
http://www.sjfowlerpoetry.com/
Really super happy to read from new work in the chapbook Balloons . .
I like Balloons . . .
I like the chapbook . . .
Ewa rocks!!!
the paper and string and smell of nail varnish on the cover . .
Did an exchange with Colin Herd and picked up his book
too ok:
http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2011/04/kevin-killian-welcomes-colin-herds-too.html
and excellent magazine Anything Anymore Anywhere:
http://www.anything-anymore-anywhere.com/
YIPPIE!!!
Really excited to dig in!!!
great conversations and gatherings . . .
great to meet so many fine folks . . .
great to see Jonty Tiplady with Balloons down his trousers . .
great to catch up with close friend Michael Zand . . .
ah the possibilities of language and beings . .
Big big big thank you to Steven Fowler for being one hella of a host and organising these readings and doing something really different and gutsy for the London poetry world with his Maintenant reading series with European poets . . .
exciting times in London!!!
http://www.sjfowlerpoetry.com/
18 June 2011
reading tonight in east london
i am reading tonight with nice mix of poets. If you are around, come on out!!!! Will read some short short poem plays inspired by mr kenneth koch :-)
Maintenant Slovakia in association with Literature across Frontiers & Arc Publications
June Saturday 18th 2011 – 7pm – Entrance Free – The Rich Mix arts centre. London
Ivan Štrpka – Mila Haugova – Marcus Slease
Tamarin Norwood – Jonty Tiplady – Colin Herd
Ivan Štrpka – Mila Haugova – Marcus Slease
Tamarin Norwood – Jonty Tiplady – Colin Herd
10 June 2011
9 June 2011
6 June 2011
4 June 2011
an old post from 2005
26 MARCH 2005
still breathing
A very intense dream the other night. don't know if any of you out there ever feels a bit of despair over becoming wormfood, but lately the cycle has been a bit on the downside. Hence a dream to release my anxiety.
Quite a few of friends in this one: Angie and Jake Decola, Ezra Plemmons, Fay Dacey, Adam and Melissa, Dan Albergotti, Tony Tost, and a lot of people with bits of people I know.
So we are all in an old house lining up to be executed by firing squad. The soliders tell us if we don't put up a fuss they will shoot us right in the head rather than riddling us with bullets (and more pain). I ask one soldier if he feels guilty about doing this and he says he's just doing his job. So we all line up (in a manner familiar to receiving the eucharist). Some old men are excited. One 92 yr. old man tells me he is ready to go with drama. He tells me he is from London and lived through World War Two and is tired of his body. So I watch all these people I don't know being shot in the head via firing squad. and then when they get to me and my friends they tell us we can go upstairs and compose ourselves for our execution. All of us go upstairs except Dan Albergotti. We are all in one room and some of us begin to cry. I try to imagine what it will feel like not to feel. Angie says she's not ready. I sneak downstairs and Dan is in a chair and a twin Dan shoots him in the head and both the shot dan and the Dan shooting laugh. I run upstairs. Tony is playing with a large pot of jelly and says he wants to feel one last time. Ezra leads me to the balcony and it turns out it's about a 100ft. drop to the rocks and ocean. He shakes his head and I get excited. I tell everyone we can tie some bedsheets together and try and climb down. Adam tells us we don't have a 100ft of bedsheets. Fay tells us we must move into a circle and dance one last time. I move out to the balcony and find a large rain stick. a small camera is located in the top part of the stick. Jake tells me this is the camera they use to line up their guns. He asks me if I can reprogram it so the soldiers misfire. I dismantle the rainstick and somehow extract energy from it via some hand feeling technique. Melissa asks if we should consider an orgy before we are called down to be executed. Tony asks us all to feel the pot of jelly and estimate our lives. we all hear a few shots downstairs and then some screams. a man comes into our room with a bloody white smock and tells us he's the barber and would we care for some opera? I quickly say no thinking it is code for something other than opera. He tells us all the girls must go to another room to prevent fraternization. So Tiffany, Angie, Fay, and Melissa all move to the room next door. We all hug. I begin to sweat wondering if I should just jump. Ezra suggests we steal the canons downstairs and put up a fight. Tony says he doesn't want to be tortured by The Barber. Then we are called downstairs. We all sit in rows and watch a video of the conversations in our room. The chief of police pauses the video and tells us to get ready for some humor. He presses play and we all watch me singing and chanting with the rainstick. we all laugh. I realize my pointless ritual. We are then ordered to line up for our execution. Dan waves at us. The chief of police reminds us if we try anything funny the barber will make our endings less than pleasant. I look at Ezra and he nods. I look at Jake and he nods. Tony begins to sing a beautiful song to distract the firing squad. His song is something like Dancer in the Dark. Just as we are about to make our move the house peels back and the chief informs us we are released to enjoy the sea air one last time. But we will be rounded up again very soon. We run out onto the beach and I find Tiffany and we hug and breathe and weep. Tony sings to us as we all hug. Melissa and Angie and Jake and Dan and Adam and Ezra and Fay and me and Tiffany hug and laugh and sing as we run down the beach. I feel Relieved to breathe the fresh air. To watch the waves one last time.
I woke up relieved feeling fantastic. As cliche as it is, the morning air felt great.
Two nights before the dream, I watched this movie:
Quite a few of friends in this one: Angie and Jake Decola, Ezra Plemmons, Fay Dacey, Adam and Melissa, Dan Albergotti, Tony Tost, and a lot of people with bits of people I know.
So we are all in an old house lining up to be executed by firing squad. The soliders tell us if we don't put up a fuss they will shoot us right in the head rather than riddling us with bullets (and more pain). I ask one soldier if he feels guilty about doing this and he says he's just doing his job. So we all line up (in a manner familiar to receiving the eucharist). Some old men are excited. One 92 yr. old man tells me he is ready to go with drama. He tells me he is from London and lived through World War Two and is tired of his body. So I watch all these people I don't know being shot in the head via firing squad. and then when they get to me and my friends they tell us we can go upstairs and compose ourselves for our execution. All of us go upstairs except Dan Albergotti. We are all in one room and some of us begin to cry. I try to imagine what it will feel like not to feel. Angie says she's not ready. I sneak downstairs and Dan is in a chair and a twin Dan shoots him in the head and both the shot dan and the Dan shooting laugh. I run upstairs. Tony is playing with a large pot of jelly and says he wants to feel one last time. Ezra leads me to the balcony and it turns out it's about a 100ft. drop to the rocks and ocean. He shakes his head and I get excited. I tell everyone we can tie some bedsheets together and try and climb down. Adam tells us we don't have a 100ft of bedsheets. Fay tells us we must move into a circle and dance one last time. I move out to the balcony and find a large rain stick. a small camera is located in the top part of the stick. Jake tells me this is the camera they use to line up their guns. He asks me if I can reprogram it so the soldiers misfire. I dismantle the rainstick and somehow extract energy from it via some hand feeling technique. Melissa asks if we should consider an orgy before we are called down to be executed. Tony asks us all to feel the pot of jelly and estimate our lives. we all hear a few shots downstairs and then some screams. a man comes into our room with a bloody white smock and tells us he's the barber and would we care for some opera? I quickly say no thinking it is code for something other than opera. He tells us all the girls must go to another room to prevent fraternization. So Tiffany, Angie, Fay, and Melissa all move to the room next door. We all hug. I begin to sweat wondering if I should just jump. Ezra suggests we steal the canons downstairs and put up a fight. Tony says he doesn't want to be tortured by The Barber. Then we are called downstairs. We all sit in rows and watch a video of the conversations in our room. The chief of police pauses the video and tells us to get ready for some humor. He presses play and we all watch me singing and chanting with the rainstick. we all laugh. I realize my pointless ritual. We are then ordered to line up for our execution. Dan waves at us. The chief of police reminds us if we try anything funny the barber will make our endings less than pleasant. I look at Ezra and he nods. I look at Jake and he nods. Tony begins to sing a beautiful song to distract the firing squad. His song is something like Dancer in the Dark. Just as we are about to make our move the house peels back and the chief informs us we are released to enjoy the sea air one last time. But we will be rounded up again very soon. We run out onto the beach and I find Tiffany and we hug and breathe and weep. Tony sings to us as we all hug. Melissa and Angie and Jake and Dan and Adam and Ezra and Fay and me and Tiffany hug and laugh and sing as we run down the beach. I feel Relieved to breathe the fresh air. To watch the waves one last time.
I woke up relieved feeling fantastic. As cliche as it is, the morning air felt great.
Two nights before the dream, I watched this movie:
3 June 2011
The Unbearables . . . Mike Topp . . . etc.
The Unbearables are lightin my fire!! Mike Topp's Shorts are Wrong is super super!!
Still exploring Sharon Mesmer. Hm . . .
thanks to Grzegorz Wroblewski over in Copenhagen for pointing me in their direction . . .
http://virginformica.blogspot.com/
The Unbearables:
http://www.unbearables.com/blog/
Still exploring Sharon Mesmer. Hm . . .
thanks to Grzegorz Wroblewski over in Copenhagen for pointing me in their direction . . .
http://virginformica.blogspot.com/
The Unbearables:
http://www.unbearables.com/blog/
1 June 2011
colin herd
just read the poems again . . . and became even happier!!! Very very happy!!! So many possibilities for poetry just when I was feeling that straight jacket again . . . .
Eileen Myles, Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer
meet
Colin Herd!!!
Please don't leave the island mr. Colin Herd . . . we need you!!!
Read them again and weep!!!
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-colin-herd/
Eileen Myles, Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer
meet
Colin Herd!!!
Please don't leave the island mr. Colin Herd . . . we need you!!!
Read them again and weep!!!
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-colin-herd/
poems and interview with Colin Herd
This poet makes me excited about the future of poetry on this island . . . good interview too . . .
really dig the poetry A LOT!
interview:
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-63-colin-herd/
Poetry
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-colin-herd/
really dig the poetry A LOT!
interview:
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-63-colin-herd/
Poetry
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/six-poems-colin-herd/
some Grzegorz Wroblewski paintings
Such a range of work . . . in the paintings . . . plays . . . poetry . . . fiction/memoir etc. etc. etc.
amazing human being as well . . . .
http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=3217
amazing human being as well . . . .
http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=3217
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