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Attention Span, At Last

Mon, 04 May 2009 20:30:39 GMT

Last year's installment of Attention Span is gradually unfolding here, if you feel like dropping by.

Attention Span 2008

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:21:56 GMT

This year's deadline for contributing to Attention Span is Monday, August 4, 2008. Readers interested in participating are invited to drop me a line. Contributors so far include Rae Armantrout, John Wilkinson, G.C. Waldrep, Jon Leon, Patrick Pritchett, Meredith Quartermain, Stan Apps, Chris Stroffolino, Peter Quartermain, Rodney Koeneke, Pam Brown, and Erik Sapin.

Scattered notes

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:36:13 GMT

Noël Coward's The Vortex in a BBC production from 1969 (preceded by an interview conducted by an echt era hipster with a memorable slouch, a tie that can scarcely be descried against a psychedelic shirt of identical fabric and pattern, and a face that seems, oddly, often on the verge of crying). Lot of action for words ending in -ly. • Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Kontakte" (disc 6 of...

Scarce

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:38:09 GMT

For a while there, it felt like I just ambled from place to place explaining Saussure to people. Then, that all I did was work on websites. And now I'm nearly too busy to have even such thoughts. But did...

Attention Span Update

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:01:16 GMT

The official deadline for contributing to this year's Attention Span is midnight tonight. But there's plenty of formatting to keep me busy while you slip a late entry under the door.

Many thanks to those who have contributed so far: Jerrold Shiroma, Bill Berkson, Pam Brown, Simon DeDeo, John Palattella, James Wagner, Jordan Stempleman, Tom Orange, Allyssa Wolf, Laura Carter, Patrick F. Durgin, Michael...

Attention Span 2007

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:00:35 GMT

Attention Span marks its fifth anniversary this summer. If you are interested in contributing to this year's installment, drop me a line here.

Screen Memories (Early Spring to Mid-Summer Edition)

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:37:52 GMT

Grizzly Man (dir. Werner Herzog, 2006). Touch the Sound (dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer, 2004). Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (dir. Steven M. Martin, 1994). Place de la République (dir....

Lipstick Traces

Thu, 31 May 2007 22:55:29 GMT

As in "all that's left are." Meaning, look here (or here) if things seem all too quiet in the notebook.

May Day Update

Tue, 01 May 2007 20:27:46 GMT

When the estimable Pam Lu last updated her blog Open Reader, it was to inform us that she'd begun reading War and Peace, which more or less earns her an active link at Third Factory right through to end times. I've got no comparable excuse...

For the Image-Repertoire

Tue, 01 May 2007 20:26:00 GMT

Shadows cast by the Large Glass, a glimpse into Given, and the Mister Softee truck that two Sundays ago gave me, in the form of a small vanilla cone with chocolate sprinkles, a Proustian experience while visiting the street where I lived as a very young boy.

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Commerce between us (continued)

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:07:28 GMT

I don't know, maybe there are people who truly care about contemporary poetry, read it with renewed appetite and a healthy balance of curiosity and commitment, trouble themselves to articulate—at least in conversation, maybe sometimes even online or in print—their responses to books and readings and careers and magazine issues and individual poems, and who also feel that the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker,...

Upcoming grad seminars

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:10:28 GMT

Summer (poetry in the age of the mp3), Fall (Roland Barthes).

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Scattered notes

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:27:42 GMT

Happiness: Another reader's present in eleven titles. • Fewer wasted glances of late, thanks to Kaplan's feed. • Cold enough this morning that my hair briefly but pretty entirely froze. • Over at the Against the Day...

Screen Memories (Oscar Run-Up Edition)

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:38:47 GMT
Half Nelson (dir. Ryan Fleck, 2006). Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill (dir. Lawrence Jordan, 1999). The Departed (dir. Martin Scorcese, 2006). Babel (dir. Alejandro...

Commerce between us (bis)

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:37:47 GMT
Dana Goodyear's New Yorker piece on John Barr and the Poetry Foundation has occasioned a fair amount of chatter online and off. To widen the account of the "argument that keeps on giving" offered on the Foundation's million-dollar website, here's...

Site Notes

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:15:25 GMT
Added some fresh clickable cover scans to the ensemble page, which had gotten badly outdated. And recorded another banner week of works received. Continuing on with LibraryThing, despite the extra work it makes. • While the scanner's humming, here's a picture of yours truly in...

Commerce between us

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:23:34 GMT
The much anticipated New Yorker feature on the Poetry Foundation is live. And by strange coincidence, the much delayed Baffler 17 arrives the same week. "Free (Market) Verse" remains...

Like paper caught in wind (another whirl)

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:49:44 GMT
Asked if he'd need a jacket. My heart comes undone. And live on but remembering. Them that don't like it / can leave me alone....

Like paper caught in wind

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:36:13 GMT
Le modèle et son peintre. One-off. That sort of so-insincere-it’s-sincere tone is his trademark....

A Middle Class Voice

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:51:30 GMT
Via Pantaloons and Venepoetics, found my way to Big Bridge 6 and the poem John Wieners wrote (on, do I recall it correctly, a stenopad?) for his reading at...