October 2009 – Page 3 – Coffeehouse Junkie

i’m down to $0.75. what can i get for lunch with $0.75?

dare i live blog this writing workshop?

Nobody killed poetry. Guys like Epstein… hearken back to some dreamland America in which people got up in the morning and opened their windows to the birds singing and when they felt their souls elevated they recited American poetry to the waiting world. Bullshit!

Philip Levine (via the blog poetic)

Performance poetry is not for everyone…. Poetry is a broad church, the natural partner of humour as well as intensity, love and grief as much as short girls and text messages. As Don Paterson, two-times winner of the TS Eliot prize, puts it: “Poetry is a basic function of language, not an operation we perform on it. It’s the way language renews itself, whenever it’s both emotionally charged and short of time. As long as we speak, there will be poetry.

Iain Hollingshead, Standing up for pure poetry (via)

Coffee at Albiani’s: A Poetry Workshop

Every morning at 6 a.m. the young Donald Hall would walk to an all night cafeteria, called Albiani’s, order coffee and work on his poems until 8 a.m. Following the Poet Laureate’s example, we’ll meet for two hours a week and work on poetry (coffee is optional). Open to students of all writing levels. This is a generative workshop and focuses on various writing exercises. Additionally, class members will be encouraged to submit two to three poems for inclusion in a class chapbook which will be published at the conclusion of the course. Each student will receive a copy of this chapbook.

Classes meet Tuesday evenings (Oct. 13, 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10) 6 – 8pm in the library at the Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts St. Asheville.

5-Session Tuition and Fees: $50.00

Email to register or for more information: coffeehousejunkie@gmail.com

quomodo omnia nobis divinae virtutis suae quae ad vitam et pietatem donata est per cognitionem eius qui vocavit nos propria gloria et virtute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy6Omz1bDPg

awesome jackson pollock music video… sort of… featuring ed harris…

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another jackson pollock video…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2C8ziyOWR8

i can not get enough of jackson pollock…

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the man, the artist… jackson pollock…

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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Steven Wright

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Finished my first fartlek in the rain. Felt good, but it took longer than I thought. Maybe it’s my music mix. The last few weeks I’ve been listening to Gasoline Heart’s Cucumber Riot & recording pretty decent running times. Today I had an iTunes mix playlist that included: The Mooney Suzuki, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Sophomore, The Whigs, Juliana Hatfield, Sons and Daughters, Dolores O’Riordan, Tullycraft, & The Hold Steady. As much as I like Juliana Hatfield & Dolores O’Riordan, I think they slowed my pace.

origami poems

“Like the ancient art for which it is named, the beauty of origami books is in their smallness, their charm, their hyper-efficient use of space and language” (via)

folding an origami poem book (via)

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When I launched my own Web site two years ago, I wanted visitors not only to learn about me and my work but also to hear my poetry—in my own voice. I wanted the music of my poems, intimate and aspirant, to reach my would-be readers in that sacred place where the eardrum’s rhythms pound with the heart’s heat.

Todd Boss, Poets & Writers, The Audio Revolution: How to Amplify Your Poems