tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56813632024-02-19T06:40:03.332-05:00PhillySound: new poetrycontact us: <a title="mailto:PhillySound777@gmail.com" href="mailto:PhillySound777@gmail.com">PhillySound777@gmail.com</a>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comBlogger1456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-16979253624004736662012-04-12T16:27:00.003-04:002012-04-12T16:38:50.871-04:00Frank Sherlock on Etel Adnan<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdIMciFH13pQAfavCqAbviFQk6bPthls7EMPwl_Du4yUrg20fyNgb3lVycumkblytuRrJ2_3OJM-YjFU9MopRW2c297Jhc4sInHvsvnMEi1mS5bMQKUIMqVGFVRO0er08ApeBunA/s1600/Etel+Adnan.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdIMciFH13pQAfavCqAbviFQk6bPthls7EMPwl_Du4yUrg20fyNgb3lVycumkblytuRrJ2_3OJM-YjFU9MopRW2c297Jhc4sInHvsvnMEi1mS5bMQKUIMqVGFVRO0er08ApeBunA/s200/Etel+Adnan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730614405743257938" border="0" /></a><br />Much thanks to <a href="http://www.exitstrata.com/">Exit Strata's</a> Lynne Desilva-Johnson for the opportunity to share one of my great influences & one of the world's great writers.<br /><br />You can read my 30/30/30 Poetry Month piece on Etel Adnan <a href="http://www.exitstrata.com/poetrymonth_day12_franksherlock_on_etel_adnan/">here</a>.<br /><br /><br />- Frank Sherlock<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-75626615265374360472011-12-01T19:02:00.011-05:002011-12-01T22:50:51.366-05:00Philadelphia Magazine PROVES they are the voice of the 1%<div style="text-align: center;">“This is a classic slingshot.”</div><div style="text-align: center;">--my grandmother</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Please feel encouraged to call the Philadelphia Magazine office and demand a public apology from them for disparaging The Mummers. Here's their number: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><b>215.564.7700</b></span></span></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFv1_xJeFK8Y6HqBq29Cq6kjeF9VaP7csZEiU0n3M4UCvAHOb7kq-fDQC1T33X3V4Bp2LkkChIatYaoCdF3p05pGnJKgUuA0h9vhZ3wE2rfe_wL0utP0iNuNvEMQSAEpYOTXtgmA/s1600/373404_18600488993_1051300675_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFv1_xJeFK8Y6HqBq29Cq6kjeF9VaP7csZEiU0n3M4UCvAHOb7kq-fDQC1T33X3V4Bp2LkkChIatYaoCdF3p05pGnJKgUuA0h9vhZ3wE2rfe_wL0utP0iNuNvEMQSAEpYOTXtgmA/s400/373404_18600488993_1051300675_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681315297185152162" border="0" /></a>Let me quickly go over what happened. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/philadelphiamagazine/posts/10150392180968994">Philadelphia Magazine</a> printed on page 72 of their December 2011 issue a list of “THINGS WE NEED TO GET RID OF.” <a href="http://mummers.com/">The Mummers</a> were on that list.<br /><br />Frank Sherlock showed it to me. We were hanging out and he said I wouldn’t believe it. It shot through me. I mean to say like an enormous encapsulated bullet of hateful set of problems that have more to do with class than anything since the mummers are working class. All of them. This is a working class town, Philly.<br /><br />But I was so angry! And I went onto Philadelphia Magazine’s Face Book page and demanded that they write an apology to the citizens of Philadelphia, AND OF COURSE to The Mummers. They ignored me completely at first. So I kept writing, making clear that none of us are blind to the fact that their magazine caters to the very wealthy, elite, advertising 600 dollar dinners, etc.<br /><br />Soon enough they blocked my entrance onto the site. I went to the office. And everyone should know right away that my office visit was LITERALLY nothing but polite, right from the beginning! I didn’t STORM IN YELLING! I walked into 1818 Market Street and said hello to the receptionist, who in turn said hello to me.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgckUZ1TWT-jd-Q16abFcezVm54UI3bwaJ7J_FSHWlqYofDPVbR4FZIsri9tU5JwSzJeDMzr007oVO9OwDhX1auyT0LRcGzpaIBAx5K6X6cxhqAKlaDLUbI0lkfqDhjnskQKQp4Iw/s1600/images.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 183px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgckUZ1TWT-jd-Q16abFcezVm54UI3bwaJ7J_FSHWlqYofDPVbR4FZIsri9tU5JwSzJeDMzr007oVO9OwDhX1auyT0LRcGzpaIBAx5K6X6cxhqAKlaDLUbI0lkfqDhjnskQKQp4Iw/s400/images.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681316908734949346" border="0" /></a><br />I told her that I would like to speak to the online editor. She asked me to take a seat, and I did. There was a beautiful Calder on the wall, under glass. WOW! And the view was of course a 600 dollar view of the city, 36 floors high.<br /><br />A few minutes later she asked what I wanted to speak to an editor about. I told her that I was there for two things. 1) To find out exactly who wrote the list saying that the mummers SHOULD LEAVE TOWN! 2) To ask for a public apology to The Mummers and to Philadelphia.<br /><br />This city does not belong to the rich. This is Philadelphia. This is the city where working class people DESTROYED the transit company nearly a century ago after their hit squad murdered peaceful strikers on Broad Street. NO ONE took the trolley, everyone started walking to work and put them out of business! This is the same Philadelphia who STILL lives here! I can feel and believe this.<br /><br />After I explained my reason for coming to the office the mood changed dramatically. Instantly actually. I was told NO ONE was in. Which is ridiculous of course. I said, oh, are they all on lunch break? I can wait. I was handed a business card to contact one of their editors by email. The shake-off. I said, no, I’ll wait here to speak to someone in person.<br /><br />Now you’re being removed. I was told this. Security came. Then the police were called, and I showed page 72 to one of the men who said he knows people who are mummers, which of course is easy to believe since there are so many mummers. But he said I still had to leave the building. I understood.<br /><br />The reason I’m writing this is because of the misinformation Philadelphia Magazine is now saying about me. The magazine’s arts and entertainment editor Victor Fiorillo wrote on Zoe Strauss’s Face Book page, “CA, Philadelphia Magazine blocked you not because you were demanding an apology, but because you were spamming the page. And now you've been arrested.” What an asshole. What a smug, corporate-humping prick!<br /><br />The truth is that they were embarrassed by what I was saying. And they gloated over my removal from the office on Face Book. Oh, and while I was being escorted OUT, one of the magazine’s enforcers said that I was to be arrested if I ever stepped foot inside the building again. NICE!<br /><br />10 THINGS TO GET RID OF. Get rid of. We GET RID OF things of no use. Right? Philadelphia Magazine is SAYING that The Mummers are of no use. They are saying that mainly because they are extremely uncomfortable with working class people and this is an all-out, 100 percent working class event, The Mummers Parade on New Years Day.<br /><br />I’ve spent my entire life watching working class people get cut, and cut, and CUT deeper into the disappearing edges of this world. Nearly everyone in my family works – or has worked – in factories. I’ve heard countless stories of company abuse, and watched aunts and uncles die breathtakingly and heartbreakingly too young.<br /><br />Get rid of? When I worked in retail in the elite, posh Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia I made a point on New <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTmvFLGraavTMI7kxoePMgypaHW1ouOYXEjW0QLvfACLnCH7KMBxiQ9iodnhvPiEyzqp1d2JD3Ox3qucvLd-b-H-G3rhvrfJmDZiw0JIpAfZxTmiLo5EEuZHgDH3hY4qKLd2_Amg/s1600/images-1.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTmvFLGraavTMI7kxoePMgypaHW1ouOYXEjW0QLvfACLnCH7KMBxiQ9iodnhvPiEyzqp1d2JD3Ox3qucvLd-b-H-G3rhvrfJmDZiw0JIpAfZxTmiLo5EEuZHgDH3hY4qKLd2_Amg/s400/images-1.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681316607632570962" border="0" /></a>Years Day of saying to customers, “Happy Mummers Day!” They HATED IT! I can still remember the sneers, snickers, rolling eyes, and the occasional, “You mean NEW YEARS DAY!”<br /><br />We are STILL the same city who has told company bosses and corporations to fuck themselves. I can feel and believe this. And what Philadelphia Magazine does when they say that the mummers are SO INSIGNIFICANT that they should be gotten rid of is PROOF that it is the wealthy one percent they speak for. Philadelphia Magazine has TODAY PROVEN that they are in fact not at all interested in the 99 percent of Philadelphians who make this city shine! I’ve met the rich of this town, and they’re a bunch of fucking bores! And Victor Fiorillo is just another bellhop carrying their bags with a grin! CHUMP!<br /><br />FUCK PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE, AND FUCK THEIR ELITE AUDIENCE!<br />But LOVE for Philadelphia, where I learned to love the world!<br />CAConrad<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-64705865211515390052011-11-23T16:08:00.002-05:002011-11-26T07:39:47.882-05:00video for PRETERNAUTURAL CONVERSATIONSJUBILAT Magazine has published <a href="http://somaticpoetryexercises.blogspot.com/2011/08/59-preternatural-conversations.html">PRETERNATURAL CONVERSATIONS</a> and the seven resulting poems in<a href="http://www.jubilat.org/jubilat/archive/20/soma_tic_poetry_exercise_poem/"> issue #20</a>. To celebrate, they have asked poets to make videos reading the poems. <br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32670455?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="275" height="206" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br /><br />(posted by CAConrad)<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-12254793106571578782011-10-24T09:43:00.010-04:002011-10-24T12:43:24.376-04:00October 31st is my 25th anniversary of living in Philadelphia!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJU2phnUX11mjhXQY601pKTP4GCmQ2s33z9Fra6UiTQbvl9hNlZ4u18FNrb3tgxYN4DfAvSIDVT9kXneBLehkN7KNvdspU5Z3bmkYJuEUlc6DgKdLm03_fxBnRNTiVWyIa1HTUUg/s1600/images-4.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJU2phnUX11mjhXQY601pKTP4GCmQ2s33z9Fra6UiTQbvl9hNlZ4u18FNrb3tgxYN4DfAvSIDVT9kXneBLehkN7KNvdspU5Z3bmkYJuEUlc6DgKdLm03_fxBnRNTiVWyIa1HTUUg/s400/images-4.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667055045633391426" /></a>Where do you want to die? Don’t tell me you haven’t thought of this. Where you want to die says a lot about how the place fills your life, your waking dreaming life. For me it’s always been Philadelphia. For me poetry has always been about Philadelphia. For me Philadelphia has always been about poetry.<br /><br />I have known hundreds of poets in this city and this is not a figure of speech, I do mean hundreds. 95 percent of them stopped writing. I’m glad to have grown into this world WITH the poems. In August, walking down Sansom Street near my tiny apartment an old poet friend of twenty years ago said hello. He didn’t bring up poetry so I did. He said, “Nah, got to grow up <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpUVjo0di0K0a0mvIX50x05rjsEzC755mvVTaSEM1C5Gh84FQZ-3s2GrkeWG8dKFoTvjLbRO0CYH_MJL8Pdi5H06_TJhBe3ncgmjV50UyvBxsHVuh24nSzUsCp1PJVb9a3JMUs8g/s1600/images-3.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpUVjo0di0K0a0mvIX50x05rjsEzC755mvVTaSEM1C5Gh84FQZ-3s2GrkeWG8dKFoTvjLbRO0CYH_MJL8Pdi5H06_TJhBe3ncgmjV50UyvBxsHVuh24nSzUsCp1PJVb9a3JMUs8g/s200/images-3.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667054878864768562" /></a>some day, right?” And I said, “I HAVE grown up, but WITH poetry!” He scratched his head vigorously then said, “Yeah, I miss poetry sometimes though.” And I said, “It’s always there, you don’t have to miss it too long if you don’t want to.” I hope he’s reading and writing again SOON because I liked his poems so much.<br /><br />It’s funny, that reaction he had, saying that we have to grow up one day. What is that about? He’s not the first of these MANY poets who have stopped writing to say such a thing to me. I think they associate poetry with a time in their lives when they felt freer than they are now. And maybe they romanticized poetry when they were younger and became frightened by it as other demands pulled at them.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYX1vgZ3EDUQO6VdJx5lmZWaVZvOptC0g8rFBVr6NMmc0W-s5XxebSMcu0whqMiDeIjdaTJKMGPG6e1-QrOwPocgEHHTeKiq4VxlHjx4zzy9WJ77AV_fdMFp8Ewj5nliDPMM9zWA/s1600/images-2.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYX1vgZ3EDUQO6VdJx5lmZWaVZvOptC0g8rFBVr6NMmc0W-s5XxebSMcu0whqMiDeIjdaTJKMGPG6e1-QrOwPocgEHHTeKiq4VxlHjx4zzy9WJ77AV_fdMFp8Ewj5nliDPMM9zWA/s200/images-2.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667054493745032546" /></a>You can do anything and write poems. Right? It feels silly saying this because it seems so obvious to me, but I guess it’s NOT so obvious to some? If you love poetry and want to write poems, and are not writing poems, and you live in Philadelphia, and want to talk about it, call me: 215.563.3075 (this is a landline with an old-fashioned answer-machine because cell phones DO cause brain cancer, and I HATE brain cancer and I LOVE my LIFE!)<br /><br />It’s a beautiful world! And I feel like I live in the best place on Earth. The city of Philadelphia is perfect for poets to be poets. I moved here in 1986 into a teeny apartment and turned the rest of the city into my living room. I have an enormous living room, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUhkIaVgPyzge0g12l8cG5yrEBvvZZeWazYaxlutMFPYInw0bkBy7updLdtTtNVhcMoNEX079dY0at1jH_KvqvNVA9Sb6RtCcGqsOUPtRRVq_1jAkeCZrI0MM_airT3wKikcWneQ/s1600/images-1.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUhkIaVgPyzge0g12l8cG5yrEBvvZZeWazYaxlutMFPYInw0bkBy7updLdtTtNVhcMoNEX079dY0at1jH_KvqvNVA9Sb6RtCcGqsOUPtRRVq_1jAkeCZrI0MM_airT3wKikcWneQ/s200/images-1.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667054253512304018" /></a>and it’s where I write, and live.<br /><br />Hope I get to celebrate my 50th anniversary of living here. I love it! If not, I hope someone scatters my ashes on the northeast corner of 22nd and Chestnut, under the big tree. Don’t ask permission, I GIVE YOU PERMISSION! Thanks!<br /><br />Thanks Philadelphia! And thanks to my incredible, beautiful friends! LOVE YOU!<br />CAConrad<div><br /></div><div>p.s.<a href="http://www.philamuseum.org/"> these</a> 4 <a href="http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/40202.html">images</a> are 4 of my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Philadelphia">favorite</a> places in <a href="http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/">Philadelphia</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-18222201155509633372011-10-23T08:25:00.012-04:002011-10-24T09:39:22.525-04:00So much Philly POETRY!!!!!!!!NICOLE STEINBERG & SAM TRUITT READ FOR MILANO'S<br />TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST<br />READING STARTS AT 7PM SHARP<br />ALL DETAILS AT <a href="http://milanophiladelphia.blogspot.com/">THIS LINK</a>!<br />AND THE PIZZA IS DELICIOUS!<br /><br />2 upcoming MUST-SEE readings from GENERAL IDEAS Series hosted by Debrah Morkun & Kim Gek Lin Short:<br />10/29 is CARD, COVEY, KASCHOCK, LYALIN, details <a href="http://generalideajoint.blogspot.com/2011/09/poetry-reading-on-saturday-october-29th.html">HERE</a><br />11/5 is a BLOOF BOOKS Festival: Anne Boyer, Shanna Compton, Jennifer Knox, and Maureen Thorson, details by clicking <a href="http://generalideajoint.blogspot.com/2011/10/gi-3-bloof-books.html">HERE</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYTSFGHAN1ILBK4bDdyRLcNJp0AaBmmEwN-CuyCeO85WC-sHoI1Ep8ComfSLjWeq-3B4cpZf9tLfCLtC4dOGiG8NpwOSpnC35w8159zsEQO8B_6m7xbxn5SgAlho72VnSvojS8sw/s1600/product_large_253.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 122px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYTSFGHAN1ILBK4bDdyRLcNJp0AaBmmEwN-CuyCeO85WC-sHoI1Ep8ComfSLjWeq-3B4cpZf9tLfCLtC4dOGiG8NpwOSpnC35w8159zsEQO8B_6m7xbxn5SgAlho72VnSvojS8sw/s200/product_large_253.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666669816851802802" /></a>The magical Anne-Adele Wight's long-awaited FIRST BOOK is out! And her book party will be Saturday, November 5, at 2 PM<br />at Moonstone Arts Center, 110-A South 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA! There will be food, books, and THE AMAZING Anne-Adele Wight! Click <a href="http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/sidestep-catapult-by-anne-adele-wight-253/">HERE</a> for the Blazevox page for her new book!<br /><br /><br /><br />Debrah Morkun's book <i>THE IDA PINGALA</i> is coming out! Her book party will be on NOVEMBER 11th, that's 11/11/11, at <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVvjQ6yGT7-6dhfIibK6grdWnoEO30k3xlvjAH9OfewBL5V0aYe5VeED3cFWL9AGQ7UiOzquBH2Q7ACACti29YaeOxw1Gc4LnbN3bokn6YVmtzpDAjfadhw6f139DCMmvpA2hCUw/s1600/product_large_254.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 122px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVvjQ6yGT7-6dhfIibK6grdWnoEO30k3xlvjAH9OfewBL5V0aYe5VeED3cFWL9AGQ7UiOzquBH2Q7ACACti29YaeOxw1Gc4LnbN3bokn6YVmtzpDAjfadhw6f139DCMmvpA2hCUw/s200/product_large_254.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666666123992228946" /></a>Giovanni's Room Bookstore, 5:30pm, details at <a href="http://www.giovannisroom.com/event/reading-debrah-morkun">THIS LINK</a>! NOT TO BE MISSED! Debrah's first amazing book <i>PROJECTION MACHINE</i> did NOT have a book party in Philadelphia, which was VERY SAD, so we're going to celebrate BOTH books on 11/11/11!!!!!!!!!!! And then go to Dirty Frank's afterward to toast at 11:11pm on 11/11/11!!!!!!!!!!! Click <a href="http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/the-ida-pingala-by-debrah-morkun-254/">HERE</a> for the Blazevox page for <i>THE IDA PINGALA</i>! Don't miss this event! DON'T MISS THIS EVENT!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheRuzI1uv7GJMrWw_SRPS827nVdbxA5p9lFxHTe7igdTdI5mKQsE9YPQFsi8YsClPAoL5fv7YoKTCPg24gdWZ7nd5L9kIx7xOCaK64PWQrixJ8KWnVxKZXe2iYh3djP26k-nhfwA/s1600/woodscs.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 158px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheRuzI1uv7GJMrWw_SRPS827nVdbxA5p9lFxHTe7igdTdI5mKQsE9YPQFsi8YsClPAoL5fv7YoKTCPg24gdWZ7nd5L9kIx7xOCaK64PWQrixJ8KWnVxKZXe2iYh3djP26k-nhfwA/s200/woodscs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667047254399095938" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: right;">PhillySound poet</div><div style="text-align: right;">Michelle Taransky</div><div style="text-align: right;">has an incredible</div><div style="text-align: right;">NEW chapbook from</div><div style="text-align: right;">BRAVEMEN PRESS titled</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS</i></div><div style="text-align: right;">which you can seeat <a href="http://www.bravemenpress.com/series11.html">THIS LINK</a>!</div><div><div style="text-align: right;">Order it while you can!!!!</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJftBUoyqVe4RxYA9w4u-b4jAJ7skiQ9DxCKXPbaoyY8HhbY-KYYFIWdqJXs8bdfGwtvUQZDB2yVOs1NR7xNq-fbAPCD509Vg88XcTeFqPPPIWMq0iFZJXaxy0-f0GamuFXrM_Q/s1600/dome_cover_upload1.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 129px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJftBUoyqVe4RxYA9w4u-b4jAJ7skiQ9DxCKXPbaoyY8HhbY-KYYFIWdqJXs8bdfGwtvUQZDB2yVOs1NR7xNq-fbAPCD509Vg88XcTeFqPPPIWMq0iFZJXaxy0-f0GamuFXrM_Q/s200/dome_cover_upload1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667043632069777170" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Jenn and Chris McCreary</div><div><div>have published </div><div>AN AMAZING chapbook <div>by Jamie Townsend titled </div><div><i>THE DOME</i>, which you </div><div>can read more </div><div>about </div><div>at <a href="http://www.ixnaypress.com/ixnay_books___chapbooks.html">THIS LINK</a>!<br /><br /><br /></div><div>There's so much more going on of course, but this is just a little!<br />CAConrad</div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-6884654652863163932011-10-06T21:41:00.001-04:002011-10-06T21:42:54.475-04:00OCCUPY PHILADELPHIA: Day One (10/6/11)<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/10150842754220307"><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/10150842754220307" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><br /><b>That's American poet Frank Sherlock at the end of the video.<br />CAConrad</b><div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-9161727810793804772011-09-22T13:44:00.002-04:002011-09-22T13:50:40.920-04:00Old News<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm5Z8ItRoE7Rq0pIb3ntBR0dzHp4veY8iv7FrLLWgICqzvj0phmrS3fyNJ-zo7Rktj0Ir4xVCfagOMWef0QTE8HWINzA_2U-laz8ckpGAP1FYpdB1r-0dVkOtIemBCsOnVoSb-iw/s1600/FINAL+old+news+covers_crop.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm5Z8ItRoE7Rq0pIb3ntBR0dzHp4veY8iv7FrLLWgICqzvj0phmrS3fyNJ-zo7Rktj0Ir4xVCfagOMWef0QTE8HWINzA_2U-laz8ckpGAP1FYpdB1r-0dVkOtIemBCsOnVoSb-iw/s320/FINAL+old+news+covers_crop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655242366286632498" border="0" /></a><br />My book <span style="font-style: italic;">Old News</span> has been published by Furniture Press. It's available <a href="http://furniturepressbooks.com/books/eckesoldnews/">here</a>.<br /><br />Big thanks to Christophe Casamassima, the editor.<br /><br />- Ryan Eckes<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-88265777636293480952011-09-10T15:23:00.005-04:002011-09-10T15:48:33.359-04:00poets at WCWPCCS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0TG0_LRw2b90LUZJrN-wE6lAvnFqK6Y3DfplK1Fp0Wn7tbPeWXJmRODWtl6lfgYGpZTKIQlh6FFQLOdr0wy6iVnICf3WrjHpG-3OE2L16dZ8t-yJXWZm9aGOa0BNteTqUV-1iRg/s1600/Photo+on+2011-09-10+at+15.29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0TG0_LRw2b90LUZJrN-wE6lAvnFqK6Y3DfplK1Fp0Wn7tbPeWXJmRODWtl6lfgYGpZTKIQlh6FFQLOdr0wy6iVnICf3WrjHpG-3OE2L16dZ8t-yJXWZm9aGOa0BNteTqUV-1iRg/s400/Photo+on+2011-09-10+at+15.29.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650815914217719650" /></a>WCWPCCS poets make my poetry meter hit FULL! On the back of this INCREDIBLE collaborative chapbook they write, "We all forgot who wrote what." <a href="http://www.wcwpccs.blogspot.com/">WCWPCCS</a> is Amy Berkowitz, Elisabeth Divis, Emma Gorenberg, Miriam Lawrence, Elisa McCool, and Jessica Young.<div><br /></div><div>Here's a favorite of mine from the new collection <i>EXQUISITE CRAPS. </i>This is a poem I know that Magdalena Zurawski will LOVE as much as I do!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, I WOULD LIKE TO RUN</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">THROUGH A CORNFIELD WITH YOU</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But you're very famous now, and older, and I have a feeling you're being interviewed on NBC and wearing a baseball cap or something. And anyway, I'm in this cornfield with another man -- but Bruce, when he turns his back, I think of you without the baseball cap -- I think of you and I braid cornhusks into little crowns to adorn you with. Bruce, put down the microphone, leave the NBC studios, you owe Al Roker nothing, he will go on to tell the weather, and you will go on to tell me the answer to this question: where does the wild corn grow, Bruce? I mean the corn that nobody planted on purpose.</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>CONTACT THE GENIUS POETS OF <a href="http://www.wcwpccs.blogspot.com/">WCWPCCS</a> FOR A COPY OF THEIR LATEST TODAY!</div><div><br /></div><div>THEY'RE AMAZING!</div><div>CAConrad</div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-34421103041779647072011-08-26T23:20:00.002-04:002011-08-26T23:24:49.629-04:00Thank you Greg Bem!Click <a href="https://hugohouse.org/blog/2011/aug/pocket-sized-profundities-four-small-chapbooks-cannot-exist-press">HERE</a> to read the review of CANNOT EXIST chapbook series by Greg Bem! Click <a href="http://cannotexist.blogspot.com/">HERE</a> to see our chapbooks Greg writes about! Many thanks to CANNOT EXIST editors Andy Gricevich and Lewis E. Freedman!
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<br />Natalie Hope McDonald interviewed me for Philadelphia Magazine's G-Philly. Check it out <a href="http://blogs.phillymag.com/gphilly/2011/08/12/qa-frank-sherlock/">here</a>.
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I'm very happy to have an iPhone poem!<br />CAConrad</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-61606000036700646912011-07-31T11:54:00.001-04:002011-07-31T12:07:18.407-04:00art as experienceDebrah Morkun interviewed me recently for her new project called <a href="http://starlightphiladelphiapoetry.blogspot.com/">Starlight, Philadelphia</a>, which focuses on the practices and poetics of poets who live or have lived in Philadelphia. We talked about entropy, having the last word, and repeating yourself, among other things.<br /><br />Click <a href="http://starlightphiladelphiapoetry.blogspot.com/"> here</a> to also read conversations with Jamie Townsend, Sarah Heady and Greg Bem, along with poems by each of them.<br /><br />- Ryan Eckes<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-19838260783619753042011-06-22T15:06:00.004-04:002011-06-22T15:17:43.038-04:00PhillySound Pew Fellows<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZdXHYQKRN_TvhJ00TKpQlXERz6rAIRvgg2G4XPecmfYBZtRcy6IcsrqnCuqoKTU2sl4d2IAPzNISnwXiXwmCI3ucO-0O0232ppMVax47crnrQjd2jnVtc8nXilGnEu0qWcW-Yw/s1600/Picture+341.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 139px; height: 105px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZdXHYQKRN_TvhJ00TKpQlXERz6rAIRvgg2G4XPecmfYBZtRcy6IcsrqnCuqoKTU2sl4d2IAPzNISnwXiXwmCI3ucO-0O0232ppMVax47crnrQjd2jnVtc8nXilGnEu0qWcW-Yw/s400/Picture+341.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621124631565214674" border="0" /></a>Congratulations to PhillySounders & 2011 Pew Fellows CAConrad and Pattie McCarthy! Toast them tonight wherever you are. They deserve the love.<br /><br /><br />- Frank Sherlock<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-30968056484856958122011-06-07T14:18:00.003-04:002011-06-07T14:23:38.146-04:00Journeys South Closing Event featuring Frank Sherlock<span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpcNExHs5W-FEHdAdgjK8B4LKOluwOpXdtHSLf1dOwJYDB-0Oy0HTEAGbV7uuMMOBYyPV0EGHMagPgzrsAhB0ecQpwb_Ar9RkK-ZSaev-bIzntAO9NelPY1r6v1mbh_gITOCYyrQ/s1600/WEBSITE_new+corrected+JS+Logo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpcNExHs5W-FEHdAdgjK8B4LKOluwOpXdtHSLf1dOwJYDB-0Oy0HTEAGbV7uuMMOBYyPV0EGHMagPgzrsAhB0ecQpwb_Ar9RkK-ZSaev-bIzntAO9NelPY1r6v1mbh_gITOCYyrQ/s320/WEBSITE_new+corrected+JS+Logo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615544850671993394" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" ><b>This Thursday, June 9<br />5:30 pm - 7:30 pm</b><br /><b>Paradiso Restaurant & Wine Bar<br />1627 East Passyunk Avenue<br /></b><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Join Mural Arts and the Journeys South artists as we celebrate this rich, multilayered community-based art project. The closing reception at Paradiso Restaurant & Wine Bar, located on East Passyunk Avenue, near Tasker Street – the oldest Italian-American business district in the country, and “South Philly’s Restaurant Row” – will mark the culmination of this six-week engaging and inspiring off-the-wall experience, and will feature:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><ul><li>A reading of the Journeys South Neighbor Ballads by author Frank Sherlock</li><li>Complimentary copies of the Journeys South commemorative book</li><li>Contemporary Italian fare and open bar from 5:30-6:30pm, followed by drink specials from 6:30-7:30pm</li></ul><b><i>The event is free, but space is limited and advance registration is required.<br />To RSVP, email events@muralarts.org or call 215-685-0759.</i></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>-Jenn McC.</i></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-74769353712162694202011-06-01T10:29:00.000-04:002011-06-01T10:30:16.059-04:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHG5uggEJue0lfYVkPIr59C3De7X3ZDp9F_cuj4v5F5121sswWKg3ZXbkwTMCFZARup4Teq4VdNSkd1Jvp7cBY4b36uNPD1xIz6gHaPUhC5BvU-G9F1yaGh-Gz0i3Fto89K5P/s1600/Conrad_Front.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 147px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHG5uggEJue0lfYVkPIr59C3De7X3ZDp9F_cuj4v5F5121sswWKg3ZXbkwTMCFZARup4Teq4VdNSkd1Jvp7cBY4b36uNPD1xIz6gHaPUhC5BvU-G9F1yaGh-Gz0i3Fto89K5P/s400/Conrad_Front.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612922133241972050" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">I'm Poetry Trading Card #17<br />from Fact-Simile Editions<br />all details at </span></span><a href="http://fact-simile.blogspot.com/2011/05/poetry-beats-patriotism.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">THIS LINK</span></span></a></span><br /><br />posted by CAConrad<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-41264651100658819622011-05-28T12:12:00.001-04:002011-05-28T12:12:47.792-04:006/5/11 (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLoo6ZqjfcAnq6fJUU4OXe7HRQpx2ghdTVM8ddGbPpyUQeiAwb8hXu76SjrnswGNNzni5NyQYNp5zlF9wD787UczvDR34EURb9Jb1rGcUofdwRq-gRAw3rmrTc6IlxBxUUu4zh/s1600/images.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLoo6ZqjfcAnq6fJUU4OXe7HRQpx2ghdTVM8ddGbPpyUQeiAwb8hXu76SjrnswGNNzni5NyQYNp5zlF9wD787UczvDR34EURb9Jb1rGcUofdwRq-gRAw3rmrTc6IlxBxUUu4zh/s200/images.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611795478440430962" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">for all details on the </span></strong><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">JUNE Philadelphia<br />workshop "MASONIC SLUICE"<br />go to </span><a href="http://myforehead.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">THIS LINK</span></a></strong></div><br />posted by CAConrad<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-11862534108395064052011-05-11T12:47:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:42:21.641-04:00Poetry This Weekend at Robin's<span style="font-weight: bold;">This Saturday, May 14th at 7pm</span><br /><br />it'll be<br /><br />Jenn McCreary<br />Chris McCreary<br />Ryan Eckes<br />& Christophe Casamassima<br /><br />in a <a href="http://www.moonstoneartscenter.org/moonstone-arts-center-events/a-splitleaves-affair-organized-by-benjamin-winkler/">Splitleaves Affair at Robin's Bookstore, 110A S. 13th Street</a><br /><br />and <span style="font-weight: bold;">on Sunday, May 15th, at 3pm</span><br /><br />it'll be<br /><br />Jennifer L. Knox<br />Melissa Stein<br />Jeffrey McDaniel<br /><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Ada Lim</strong>ó<strong style="font-weight: normal;">n<br /></strong>& Shane Book<br /><br />doing an <a href="http://www.moonstoneartscenter.org/moonstone-arts-center-events/the-exquisite-reading-with-jennifer-l-knox-ada-limon-shane-book-and-melissa-stein/">Exquisite Reading</a><a href="http://www.moonstoneartscenter.org/moonstone-arts-center-events/the-exquisite-reading-with-jennifer-l-knox-ada-limon-shane-book-and-melissa-stein/"> at the same venue</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">- R Eckes</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-20241790498520285142011-05-06T16:04:00.004-04:002011-05-06T16:34:19.831-04:00Neighbor Ballads on the Street<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTlOBJ4vjgU7OqNfy6XvwgzlN38JqDSviyBIQLI6956ZZna6tVP8xoEvoOwlNhfm06t6LWfxKlt4ZbC7S_HQkEVOVlPJcxdWgi1YjoMzdhekLiGoQa5GvDKhbTH9Wjj1men7iGQ/s1600/Neighbor+Ballads+011.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTlOBJ4vjgU7OqNfy6XvwgzlN38JqDSviyBIQLI6956ZZna6tVP8xoEvoOwlNhfm06t6LWfxKlt4ZbC7S_HQkEVOVlPJcxdWgi1YjoMzdhekLiGoQa5GvDKhbTH9Wjj1men7iGQ/s400/Neighbor+Ballads+011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603696735837435314" border="0" /></a>The <a href="http://muralarts.org/event/journeys-south-poetic-broadsides-%E2%80%9Cneighbor-ballads%E2%80%9D"><span style="font-style: italic;">Neighbor Ballads</span> project</a> is a public art installation available for the taking from honor boxes in South Philly. These seven poems celebrate figures from immigrant communities that continue to shape one of Philadelphia's most diverse and storied neighborhoods.<br /><br />It's been a pleasure to meet and work with the friends, families and figures themselves that make this project a reality. Big ups to collaborator <a href="http://www.justseeds.org/artists/erik_ruin/">Erik Ruin</a> for his visual design and box installation.<br /><br />Where you can find them:<br /><br />Antonio Isoleri- 9th & Carpenter<br />Frank Snock- 9th & Washington<br />Fabiola Canto- 9th & Ellsworth<br />Ba Nguyen- 9th & Passyunk<br />Bill McIntyre- 10th & Dickinson<br />Dorothy Allen- Cross & Passyunk<br />Joe Tayoun- Passyunk & Morris<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br />The installation is a component of <span style="font-style: italic;">Journeys South</span>, a neighborhood-wide Mural Arts Program initiative . <a href="http://muralarts.org/journeyssouth">Check out all the great installations that comprise<span style="font-style: italic;"> Journeys South</span></a>.<br /><br /><br />- Frank Sherlock<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-2190134865096736482011-05-04T12:31:00.002-04:002011-05-04T12:33:27.251-04:00TIM DLUGOS BOOK LAUNCH!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9amo1YVaHz5mGUi4m-OQgz7M7XopivbDW5q5zTfe8dkr54nvXDc0LZY1G6veGoGWdXMF8jJr9BDZq36IZnKwQG1TPIl_Si8SVTecoTJMn0fhXNuGO3jnnUvih1GakYvkjNHDxsA/s1600/Unknown.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 184px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9amo1YVaHz5mGUi4m-OQgz7M7XopivbDW5q5zTfe8dkr54nvXDc0LZY1G6veGoGWdXMF8jJr9BDZq36IZnKwQG1TPIl_Si8SVTecoTJMn0fhXNuGO3jnnUvih1GakYvkjNHDxsA/s400/Unknown.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602899900171055986" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It's an INCREDIBLE HONOR to have been invited to read at the book launch for Tim Dlugos's collected poems A FAST LIFE! A poet I always wish that I had met before his sad, untimely death! For details click </span><a href="http://caconradevents.blogspot.com/2011/05/reading-at-tim-dlugos-launch.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">HERE</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">... CAConrad</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-13231687102684289442011-04-25T13:21:00.005-04:002011-04-25T13:31:12.689-04:00Michelle Taransky's Major!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW9-Wp-m1Xy_bSwXKZu6PUcnCOeGCbkLOU1HTZynZ88om5hr0B2sEOvAUJVMfYS6-EoB3aiXuVOwdpksSBdzQQj3QI_tykk-P_C8WgGXRBF6IS9RnTkAuD_W3zKTU2iHQZlKZYww/s1600/20110424_inq_ae1poets24z-b.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW9-Wp-m1Xy_bSwXKZu6PUcnCOeGCbkLOU1HTZynZ88om5hr0B2sEOvAUJVMfYS6-EoB3aiXuVOwdpksSBdzQQj3QI_tykk-P_C8WgGXRBF6IS9RnTkAuD_W3zKTU2iHQZlKZYww/s200/20110424_inq_ae1poets24z-b.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599573071666394146" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Michelle Taransky is featured in today's <span style="font-style: italic;">Philadelphia Inquirer</span> as one of seven reasons why Philly is a major poetry producer.<br /><br /><a href="http://articles.philly.com/2011-04-24/news/29468855_1_poetry-month-poetry-scene-poetry-organizations">Check it out check it out!</a><br /><br /><br />- Frank Sherlock<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-3906078381010511822011-04-12T12:23:00.004-04:002011-04-12T12:46:01.312-04:00Sunday 4/17- Julian Brolaski & Trisha Low featuring Juan & The Pines<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7kjr96KJ3u6WqfnAZPLKyA7msyOzGC1hW8_TtI13oofysFkAoQScra62YX0gb45Kh4A6wzrkhq-PBmSNySrduDVr3zWSyIBG3SfjE2Ob2_KEil3JKINw0U2wzdzEnPOeAUytjg/s1600/10480725.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7kjr96KJ3u6WqfnAZPLKyA7msyOzGC1hW8_TtI13oofysFkAoQScra62YX0gb45Kh4A6wzrkhq-PBmSNySrduDVr3zWSyIBG3SfjE2Ob2_KEil3JKINw0U2wzdzEnPOeAUytjg/s320/10480725.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594734362793966690" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Julian Brolaski Book Release Party</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday April 17 at 8pm</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Night Flag presents </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Julian Brolaski & Trisha Low</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">featuring Juan & The Pines</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">L'Etage</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">624 S. 6th St. (2nd Floor)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Julian T. Brolaski's </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">new</span> book <i><a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=178">gowanus atropolis</a> </i><span style="font-style: normal;">has just been released </span>from Ugly Duckling Presse. <i>Advice for Lovers</i> is forthcoming from City Lights in 2011. Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where xe is an editor at Litmus Press and plays music with <a href="http://www.myspace.com/juanandthepines">Juan & the Pines</a>.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Trisha Low</b><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><b> </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: normal;">is a student in Philadelphia who appreciates the difference between restraint and restraints. And she's talking about poetry, ok? Low is the author of the chapbook <a href="http://jqua.net/gausspdf/GPDF022-TL-COAV.pdf">Confessions [of a Variety]</a> </span></span><a href="http://jqua.net/gausspdf/GPDF022-TL-COAV.pdf"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></i></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://jqua.net/gausspdf/GPDF022-TL-COAV.pdf">(Gauss PDF, 2010)</a> and her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming from </span></span><a href="http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/Title/tabid/68/ISBN/0-8101-2711-3/Default.aspx"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></i></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/Against%20Expression:%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Conceptual%20Writing">Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing</a>, Thirteen Myna Birds and HEAT MAP magazine. </span></span> </p><br />Come for the poems. Come for the music. Come for the book. See you there.<br /><br /><br />- Frank Sherlock<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-82028486299613136672011-03-30T10:11:00.006-04:002011-03-30T10:42:19.438-04:00for the Bernadette Mayer Symposium in BuffaloThe following is my statement for the <a href="http://english.buffalo.edu/mayersymposium/">"Poet's Panel"</a> I'm taking part in at the Bernadette Mayer Symposium this weekend in Buffalo. CAConrad<br />-------------<br /><br />Every time I see Bernadette Mayer she asks if <a href="http://poetryhotel.blogspot.com/">The Philadelphia Poetry Hotel</a> is open and ready for her to move in. Not yet, BUT SOON, I always say. When I first arrived in Philadelphia I lived in a much-fabled neighborhood affectionately called The Zulli Nation, named after our landlord Al Zulli. Al LOVED artists! If you told him you were a painter or a poet your rent would be unimaginably affordable. My apartment was 210 a month, meaning I only needed a part-time job to survive, and I spent much of my time in the Free Library system reading and learning poetry. Ezra Pound said, “The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take party in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-1Uu_genRbBwyGN0RmI6cpApmlTbufq12PWUIKxxoNVFCPdLFfj-j-TmUGuZmIcS0tg-YKWIe4yLMCkvlVk70FQtTjJ-OGLHbq_rAoRdBqKx-3IrE2ewPY4Gcv6z1BPwY_CtFPQ/s1600/hunger.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 198px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-1Uu_genRbBwyGN0RmI6cpApmlTbufq12PWUIKxxoNVFCPdLFfj-j-TmUGuZmIcS0tg-YKWIe4yLMCkvlVk70FQtTjJ-OGLHbq_rAoRdBqKx-3IrE2ewPY4Gcv6z1BPwY_CtFPQ/s400/hunger.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589877812627223906" /></a>his creation.” More than anything I want to open the Poetry Hotel so Bernadette, and other poets can live affordably, and be removed from the tyranny of wolfish landowners.<br /><br />It’s always nice when I meet a college professor who tells me they are teaching Bernadette’s work and using her exercises in the classroom. Yet part of me wishes there was a way to obtain royalties for her each time a new group of students are reading and activating the energy she has stored for us all. When I win the lottery I will hang a poster of Bernadette’s exercises, and each time someone reads it Bernadette will receive a check for 5,000 dollars. There will be a blue neon sign installed that says, “READ THIS AND MAKE BERNADETTE MAYER 5 GRAND!” A flood of 5,000 dollar checks will find their way to Bernadette’s mailbox.<br /><br />We stand on her shoulders today, having gleaned much. She is not merely a forerunner to present-day conceptual poetry for Bernadette Mayer is the mother of conceptual poetry. Her books MEMORY and STUDYING HUNGER are as much evidence as needed. Hers is a poetry whose concepts never deny suffering but engage suffering, never deny the body but uses her very body to hone her ideas and shape her poems. My own conceptual work with (Soma)tics owes gratitude to Bernadette as much as anyone else. Let me share with you a page from her newly released <a href="http://www.stationhill.org/products-page/all/studying-hunger-journals/">STUDYING HUNGER JOURNALS</a>, published by Station Hill Press, and lovingly edited by Sam Truitt. These journals have never been published before now, the journals to her much-celebrated book STUDYING HUNGER. What I’m going to read is her introductory statement at the back of the 450 page journal, a page which divulges how concept is for her first and foremost above anything else as the way to her poems.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">INTRODUCTION to MY JOURNALS and the RECORDING of the ACTIVITIES of the HUMAN MIND<br /><br />I used to fall, no that’s not what I meant. I began with a drawing of mescaline for no real reason and with the word mescaline written in large letters, each letter the color of the letter in my mind.<br /><br />This is from memory. Then comes later a picture of the human head with false areas of the brain, throat and larynx outlines and colored in such a way that they cannot be xeroxed.<br /><br />I must be clear, I must erase certain parts of my personal history from memory, or, these parts must cease to be functional like an appendix, a collection of supplementary material at the end of a book. That or this is why I had to be moving.<br /><br />I had started, no, I start my making of the unconscious conscious, and, each step of the way, I take the rage emerging there and vent it, unattested.<br /><br />Spent it on who, what and the adverbs. There was a point of transition made (unidentified, I study the man attendant upon God, dominations and dominions, I study the possible messenger). (Learn shorthand.)<br /><br />I began all this in April 1972, I began to write continuously, on all vehicles and in all positions. I did not read or understand what I wrote. Gradually I began to translate some of it back into literature. The literature. I chose an interpreter, one who could even listen to one’s ideas about, for instance, potatoes, and so on. I began to change a little bit and feel free to move around which brought with it the total inability to move, as, connected to, the color blue. Or, where are the missing persons and where’s eternity besides the unending and never-beginning hole in the earth of the backyard full of columbines and one snapping turtle. And the central problem of belief in the own existence at all in the room where every object and alignment of the meetings of space have already been assigned the values of memory’s moods, yet you must be there. And outside that room.<br /><br />Then every surface may prevent you from looking.<br /><br />As the idea of being alone began to overtake the acts of unconscious doings worked through, the necessity for a single human presence, any one, in every hour, becomes the most imminent disaster in the life here. I forget to speak of change. For example, I have become a doctor as I have become fatter, I have learned to rule life with life, we are all still so envious of an exchange. Change is example yet I have not changed. I have no private property. Nor are these journals a diary of change. They are a simple recommendation to be driven to the present with the chances that may allow to change not one’s self but the world. We cannot begin to know science and poetry until we understand the people and the machines with which they work, the eyes, a glance, the hands.<br /><br />I reveal to you the like-mother and the like-father, we will all be forgiven. Then, even the you will change, as, you eat with your eyes, as usual. We know everything now, we are spacing more graciously together. Atavistically, in a position of silent rest, I thank you.<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-59398485475942152162011-03-28T14:06:00.001-04:002011-03-28T14:06:50.478-04:00APRIL 2011 (Soma)tic Workshop(the following is posted by CAConrad)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_09asuZT2fIaMGloZDGkuMZ_lYNh2etbAuu4ll3sxktsNMXcy1fEVaYWYGJrdLPha0OIZiVwphfTSPJgDSKpuVPuDobaVx_liDKQVHI8Nah8Jf0-XEoLRmhRfGGF3oPozSCY1/s1600/aerial_photo_philadelphia.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 69px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_09asuZT2fIaMGloZDGkuMZ_lYNh2etbAuu4ll3sxktsNMXcy1fEVaYWYGJrdLPha0OIZiVwphfTSPJgDSKpuVPuDobaVx_liDKQVHI8Nah8Jf0-XEoLRmhRfGGF3oPozSCY1/s400/aerial_photo_philadelphia.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583767228328441698" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>SUNDAY</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>April 10th</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>3pm</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>SPRING, WHEN SOMA</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>OVERTAKES SOMATIC</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>the poetry in everyone</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>workshop is $25</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>please use the Pay Pal button below</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>(if you miss the workshop you may use</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>payment as credit for a future workshop)</b></div><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><br /><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick"><br /><input type="hidden" name="encrypted" value="-----BEGIN PKCS7-----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-----END PKCS7----- "><br /><input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - 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Part reference book, part literary journal, each volume appropriates the form of the encyclopedia—from general layout to cross-referencing—as a venue for publishing new, innovative literary and visual works.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Readings by:</div><div style="text-align: center;">Amra Brooks </div><div style="text-align: center;">CAConrad </div><div style="text-align: center;">Carolina Maugeri </div><div style="text-align: center;">Emily Abendroth </div><div style="text-align: center;">Jena Osman </div><div style="text-align: center;">Mary Hoeffel </div><div style="text-align: center;">Patrick Scanlon</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5681363.post-74765171738944410342011-03-21T23:33:00.001-04:002011-03-21T23:33:44.705-04:00new (Soma)tic chapbook!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8nQU55GbwLYKf019jeQcxnhIWr7ps5-7ZDYJtuM8_KbtiyUjPAEBRwwTLB_TmCVB1O7DB1_tpVDJ-jps0mNbQEwsRjkIlrLzXPBcKGY0LBBJvK5OUknWilmf9x5xeYuolv8L1/s1600/x+ray+heart.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 149px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8nQU55GbwLYKf019jeQcxnhIWr7ps5-7ZDYJtuM8_KbtiyUjPAEBRwwTLB_TmCVB1O7DB1_tpVDJ-jps0mNbQEwsRjkIlrLzXPBcKGY0LBBJvK5OUknWilmf9x5xeYuolv8L1/s200/x+ray+heart.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586741858865537922" /></a>I'm very excited about my new chapbook <em>MUGGED into poetry</em> from Cannot Exist Press! And it's only $5 for pre-sale now. All details about the chapbook, as well as other new chapbooks and issue #7 of Cannot Exist Magazine, please click <a href="http://cannotexist.blogspot.com/2011/03/special-pre-order-deals-on-new-cannot.html">HERE</a>!<div class="blogger-post-footer">PhillySound: new poetry</div>PhillySoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10586337138876158691noreply@blogger.com