fhole

2010-08-05T14:37:00.001-04:00

we are now over here --- tidy

2010-01-31T18:11:00.001-05:00

fhole is dead

prole art threat lives

i don't have to explain this to anyone

2010-01-31T12:05:00.000-05:00

2010-01-26T07:43:00.000-05:00

2010-01-24T12:59:00.000-05:00

2010-01-17T22:34:00.002-05:00

Barbara Caruso: 1937-2009

2010-01-14T20:08:00.000-05:00

Barbara is missed by her family, friends in Paris, and by friends in the visual arts and writing communities across Canada and abroad. Cremation has taken place.

sweet sounds of jesus shit

2010-01-10T22:40:00.001-05:00

I like to think of Jesus as a mischievous badger.
Sounds like Jesus sounds ...Sounds like Jesus... Sounds like Jesus ...Oh That Shit Sounds Environmentally Sound...
And I mean “awesome” in the way Attack Attack!
This is a song about a girl.
Dear Lord Baby Jesus, we'd also like to thank you,
Lost Loves, Gun Control and the Sweet Sound of Failure.
I thought this thread was going to be about a zombified "damn" will become "drat," "shit" will become "poo poo," "cunt" will become ....current mood.
You just schooled me

2010-01-08T11:24:00.001-05:00

babylonian

2010-01-08T07:47:00.000-05:00

Not Your Mother's Norwegian Black Metal:

2010-01-07T11:25:00.003-05:00

Apparently, Mother Nature makes vicious. If this all sounds familiar to you (and your mother), welcome home. Wigglebutt. Do not ask your mother to wash your Tolkien underwear. He believes in an eye for an eye, if you harm him he will harm you. Do you want his satanic piece in your mouth or something? Not Norwegian black metal, not now, not obviously peas, not your mother's slow cooker recipes for entertaining, not your problem. Go steal your mother's (or sister's),True Norwegian Black Metal. I do not give Satan any type of glory, so I would not support your play."Hate Songs in E-Minor" is a cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love". Here Abortion texts his mum back in Oslo, saying he'll ram her in her secret Jesus wallet. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately. Metal is not the only thing I listen to though. Even if it is your mother-in-law's metal. Actually, especially if it is an in-law's metal. It's not even really black metal anymore. I might be elitist though. But I believe in the primitiveness of black metal and not showing your mother how good one can play one's instrument. Nerds destroy punk. Didn't throw away that wool sweater your mother gave you last Christmas. Buy it, download it, steal it from your scary Satan worshiping neighbor. 'Twilight's' Jackson Rathbone Goes Black Metal. Jackson thinks about the throats of Christian babes as he's nestled in the arms of my Mother.

2009-12-30T12:29:00.001-05:00

Rowland S Howard dies

Duty Free: The Canadian Poetry Festival (1980) By Alessandro Porco

2009-12-16T13:11:00.000-05:00

Only Gerry Gilbert really tackles these issues head-on, in his long poem, “Friends and Loving in Faro,” where he talks about writing, printing and selling his own books of poetry and then condemns the Canada Council for its disenchanting effect on the arts by virtue of administrative rules and regulations.

oh how little has changed

Neutra Face : An Ode On A Typeface

2009-12-03T15:58:00.001-05:00

2009-12-01T11:51:00.005-05:00

poetical heroes series:

Daniel F. Bradley and

David Baptiste-Chirot

2009-11-30T12:59:00.002-05:00

general fine artist (painters) misuse language when they work it. i know this is a generalization, but there is a ring of truth to it -- so i was surprised to find some of these Sean Landers' paintings quite enjoyable

2009-11-24T13:14:00.000-05:00

some collaborations with andrew topel

late georgian furniture

2009-11-15T19:53:00.000-05:00

bir ölüye ofis partisi (a dead party office)-- suzan sarı

2009-11-09T11:49:00.001-05:00

blog here

2009-11-06T13:53:00.001-05:00

a very enjoyable documentary on british electronic music 1970-1980 in 9 parts

northern review

2009-11-06T10:51:00.003-05:00

has book reviews of two fhole favorites

alice burdick

and

liz bachinsky (by alessandro porco)

priestess hairdresser varmint domain name then trying in bathroy

2009-11-02T09:47:00.002-05:00

Five from the murder of semiotics

in otoliths fifteen.

the idiot number five

2009-11-01T20:17:00.000-05:00

Montana

2009-10-27T07:43:00.001-04:00

from the b=l=a=c=k=f=l=i=e=s language e=x=p=e=r=i=m=e=n=t=s

2009-10-26T11:43:00.004-04:00

(s)witch the bitch / surreal the (e)state

The Tower (XVI) (most common modern name) is a Tarot trump card that has many different names, symbols, and meanings. The name and layout in its current form is a reference to the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, where God destroys a tower built by mankind to reach a babe in halter we spring up and down, restrained, eternity invades right now I’m thinking LangPo is the serialism of poetry -- joyless academic dogmatism, obsessed with an ivory tower version of art history is that my head smelling just like a lubed tuba.

Labels: Take me to the river, watch me drown.

whoof

2009-10-25T18:53:00.000-04:00

2009-10-23T10:53:00.001-04:00

gustave points us all to a neat-o little poem by karl adamus

2009-10-22T12:08:00.001-04:00

"the warning" a fun little documentary-----

kraut

2009-10-20T20:17:00.000-04:00

in the ditch,

2009-10-19T10:54:00.001-04:00

David Fujino

the paintings of chris winkler

2009-10-08T11:22:00.003-04:00

winkler was a active fringe writer/publisher in the mid 80's. seems he has taken up painting. nice stuff. (check out the commissions)

Joel Peter Witkin - life is an invention.

2009-10-07T12:06:00.002-04:00

a lovely john wyndham cover cavalcade

2009-10-06T16:02:00.004-04:00

a lovely john wyndham cover cavalcade over at caustic cover critic

2009-10-06T15:07:00.001-04:00

2009-10-02T13:07:00.001-04:00

No one buys or reads New Yorker for the poetry.

No one buys or reads Poetry for the poetry.

Conceptual what????

2009-10-02T12:53:00.001-04:00

In large part, my interview process is, I have to admit, a critical response to my dislike of the very popular and common "questionnaire" interview, with preset, non-variable questions, often having nothing to do with the poet/poems. Asking the same questions to the same poets produces remarkably similar interview-reading experiences (tropes of answers).

time to put out

2009-10-01T11:22:00.003-04:00

i've already sent my 100 dollars

as is usual there will be much hand wringing and best wishes but it's cash that's needed. where much of the "advant garde" isn't curry is the real thing, so it's time to get our overfed asses in gear send some money.

2009-10-01T10:49:00.002-04:00

2009-09-22T15:16:00.000-04:00

In the late 1980s Box began as a magazine with one reader and one editor/contributor and these positions rotated between Greg Evason and Daniel f. Bradley. One issue would be created by Evason for Bradley then the next issue was created by Bradley for Evason. This perfect system worked because each issue had a dedicated readership. The readership demanded that each issue be wildly different in both content and form. Experimentation became the rule, not the exception. Flash forward 20 years and Box begins again as a simple blog with the same spirit. (....here)

pictures from the Sept 13 reading

2009-09-21T09:46:00.001-04:00

rob read

oia, dfb and nick power

jay and cole being MC's

oia

dfb

2009-09-16T11:55:00.000-04:00

an endorsement of sorts

Prick Up Your Ears

2009-09-15T10:05:00.002-04:00

greg suggests we watch prick up your ears in 12 parts starting here

2009-09-11T09:40:00.000-04:00

"Sporticus" is played by millionaire areobic champion and owner of an Icelandic gym franchise--who also produces, directs, designs the puppets--according to the credits, there's nothing he doesn't do--and the message, constantly reinforced throughout every episode is that the answer to all life's problems is relentless exercise, narcissistic exhibitionism--personified by muscle flexing, gratuitous displays of aerobics, and taking credit for everything. We are all helpless bivalves, waiting for a well-cut Uber Man to rescue us in Lazytown.

hitler youth day

2009-09-10T10:56:00.002-04:00

junction arts festival

2009-09-08T12:58:00.003-04:00

despite knowing better i will have my first public reading in toronto in over 4 years Sept 13 at 4:30 pm . let the bodies fall where they may

2009-09-01T10:05:00.001-04:00

a review of fmachinery one, two, and three

Golub: Late Works are the Catastrophes

2009-08-26T14:05:00.001-04:00

The film captures an historic artistic journey, shared with his wife and studio partner of 50 years, the prominent anti-war and feminist artist, Nancy Spero. In some wonderfully comic and touching scenes we see them as each other’s most valued critic and most ardent supporter. Golub continued in his later paintings to “report” on what’s going on in the world, but he does it with the kind of dissonances and discontinuities that led Theodor Adorno in his essay on Beethoven to proclaim, “In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.”

Bill Bissett and BP Nichol -- Interviewed by Phillis Webb

2009-08-25T10:39:00.001-04:00

d.a. levy film trailer

2009-08-24T14:04:00.000-04:00

In Realms of the Unreal (Henry Darger)

2009-08-20T10:50:00.001-04:00

part 1 of 12 -worth a look or second look

2009-08-08T14:53:00.001-04:00

‘Three Canadian poets whose writing is like finding razors on your tongue and getting turned on by it’

2009-07-28T16:48:00.002-04:00

answer to the question why well happy to marvel at their own feces it's like a mirror and everyone like the look of their own little warhol it's a bad joke just scoops up the junk and presents it as something new something the same skill is the fame the frame and that frame is tiresome after a couple of minutes fuck the avant garde the boss man has put his idiot son in charge make work die quietly

2009-07-17T12:24:00.000-04:00

consonant clusters

2009-07-16T10:11:00.000-04:00

We live with it every single microsecond of every day. I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. I’m not striving for happiness, I’m trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you’re doing, working and working until you feel it’s finished. And that’s an interesting point too, that you’ve got to know when to stop. Sometimes there’s a magical moment when everything comes together.

THE ART OF HU MING

2009-07-15T10:47:00.001-04:00

2009-07-14T06:50:00.001-04:00

2009-07-13T14:56:00.001-04:00

2009-07-07T15:17:00.001-04:00

a pretty interesting documentary on rock-a-billy which examines how one scene deals with interlopers. in 6 parts - this being the first

2009-07-01T18:48:00.002-04:00

nothing more canadian than judith copithorne being in the ditch,

2009-06-25T10:47:00.002-04:00

frances kruk in the ditch,

2009-06-25T10:39:00.001-04:00

a scan of the gerry gilbert obit --

thanks J

2009-06-22T10:30:00.005-04:00

gerry gilbert died on june 19 2009. perhaps one of the most underrated poets in canada. he had is own language and his own rhythm. an important writer in a time when writing has been made unimportant.

Bjørn Melhus -- AMERICA SELLS (excerpt)

2009-06-15T15:49:00.000-04:00

Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) - Trying Things Out

2009-06-15T15:22:00.000-04:00

fmachinery june 2009

2009-06-12T09:27:00.008-04:00

this issue has work by scott helmes, alexander jorgensen, andrew topel, mike cannell, andy matrich with a colaberation by reed altemus and mike cannell, image by andy martrich

issues available by emailing your address to fmachinerypoems@gmail.com

submissions always wanted we are always reading

2009-06-11T09:38:00.002-04:00

Johnny and Luther's Wikipedia page

wurm : issue one

2009-06-08T07:27:00.002-04:00

a review of t=i=d=y language and a couple of pages from free doll inside are included in the first issue of wurm. lot's of goodies in this first issue.

Diane Arbus

2009-05-26T14:13:00.001-04:00

part 1

part 2

part 3

part 4

2009-05-25T14:06:00.001-04:00

2009-05-14T13:04:00.001-04:00

kevin killian takes on jack spicer again

fmachinery

2009-05-11T10:37:00.003-04:00

the first issue of fmachinery is done, a nasty quick affair that meets you at the bar takes you the to the motel room and leaves while your in the shower. collaborations by john m. bennett, musicmaster, and scott helms. Also a sordid affair by mike cannel and daniel f. bradley (attached). judith copithorne, gustave morin, david-baptise chirot, nico vassilakis and carlyle baker as the beaver. If your interested in seeing a copy send your mailing address to fmachinerypoems@gmail.com. Or why don’t you just submit your visual poetry to the e-mail address or fmachinery 4001 don mills rd #140 north york ontartio m2h 3j8. you only have your dignity to lose

Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty (TV Live)

2009-05-06T11:54:00.000-04:00

2009-05-06T10:17:00.000-04:00

a newish collage up at nos obras otros

otoliths

2009-05-04T13:20:00.001-04:00

got a couple of pieces in the new otoliths

a collage

and a collaboration with Mike Cannell

2009-05-04T11:02:00.000-04:00

Louise Bak in the ditch

2009-05-01T16:28:00.000-04:00

an interview with DAVID-BAPTISTE CHIROT

May's not poetry month

2009-05-01T12:01:00.005-04:00

Elizabeth Bachinsky at ditch,

a review of T=I=D=Y LANGUAGE by Arnold Skemer in ZYX # 50

2009-04-29T13:10:00.003-04:00

T=I=D=Y LANGUAGE, Daniel f. Bradley, Outlands Eight, 2008

Of the uses of language and the ultimate rage thereof. Daniel f. Bradley supplies a swift ride through a landscape of promiscuous growth and bizarre structure with obscene and scatological prose poems, impertinent similes and much disgust for the world around him. From cock sucking penguins to panties falling over peddles, from people happy with shit to play with to a train wreck of epic postmodern blowjobs: “the asshole with a thousand faces shuck inside Memphis again got to the hotel overlooking those towers so exhausted from our handy work pretty much keeled beneath our starched argyle knee socks.” (page.46) “what bodes the spawn of incompatible bedfellows resemble per verse breeding cum costumed mask deacon smack down dis damage dark venom” (p. 52) “don’t want iconoclasts want cuddly mirror urine that wasn’t creepy it was just what you did with all that collected urine from your old girlfriends that was kinda anyway i know or rather lash out” (p.56) “thus stay forever young or improve our complexion this was not mentioned trial order n’ steak’s of human flesh moth on ya bones till none of its left breath pest exhale” (p.74), “imagine if instead of country club jails CEO’s faced public hangings upside down and gutted like pigs(.p84) . Well that should give you an idea.

2009-04-29T12:00:00.001-04:00

explain to me how anyone can take huth and his "gosh golly" satori's seriously. fuck what a maroon.

What's big and purple and lives in the ocean?

2009-04-28T11:11:00.000-04:00

Alphabette

2009-04-15T10:07:00.001-04:00

link via raincoaster twitter

2009-04-14T11:15:00.000-04:00

a date with willy pickton

2009-04-13T13:30:00.003-04:00

a discussion on many things in and around visual poetry and Gustave Morin's Nein Typos

@ ditch,

2009-04-08T09:57:00.004-04:00

this week at ditch, my editorial responsibility include Carlyle Baker

2009-04-07T10:12:00.000-04:00

first bit of something i'm calling (for now, maybe) the wall

because april is the filthiest month

2009-04-06T10:29:00.002-04:00

the daily filth

Outer Space--Peter Tscherkassky.

2009-03-30T14:39:00.000-04:00

Tulsa to Phoenix

2009-03-27T15:31:00.001-04:00

Lance La Rocque ditch,

2009-03-27T10:28:00.004-04:00

my second editorial adventure in the ditch,

lance makes a couple of his weird poems available to the general public

2009-03-20T10:33:00.001-04:00

GRAVE P.S

Not to be missed,

2009-03-17T12:34:00.000-04:00

a rare appearance from Windsor exile Gustave Morin, author of A Penny Dreadful (Insomniac) and The Etcetera Barbecue (BookThug) as well as an uncountable number of his own samizdat concrete works and textual pranks, along with David Fujino, multi-talented actor, poet and horn player, the author most recently of Air Pressure (BookThug). Event begins at 7pm, March 18th, and takes place in the store.

This Ain't the Rosedale Library
86 Nassau St.
in Kensington Market
Toronto Ontario
Canada

(416) 929-9912

2009-03-17T10:21:00.001-04:00

lisa sent along this Mexican ska (?) reminds me of very old los lobos-- very cool

medulla review

2009-03-16T12:28:00.006-04:00

geof huth babbles on about Medulla issue one. as he is all ways insistent on his linear meaning/reading of visual poetry he goes looking for his scared cow herd. but this Medulla is a beautiful and mysterious thing and can't be fenced in

next weekend the Grave P.S (again

2009-03-15T12:04:00.004-04:00

once again Grave P.S will descend on the sleepy hamlet of buffalo for the small press book fair. lots of offerings will be available, stop by our table , we bite.

more linda ronstadt

2009-03-13T11:01:00.001-04:00

2009-03-13T10:29:00.000-04:00

linda ronstadt kickin it

Kemeny Babineau

2009-03-12T23:10:00.000-04:00

In the Moment Before
(for Pentti Saarikoski)

The future smirks like an electronics
of burnt hair:

where the past lays back in a repose of seizures

bad habits can lead to no forgiveness
and, no now

2009-03-08T12:08:00.002-04:00

the folk over at ditch, have asked me to provide likely suspects for their collections of post what ever poets. so with this opportunity i present Greg Evason to the gathering

2009-03-06T14:16:00.001-05:00

2009-03-02T13:47:00.002-05:00

as twitter is all the rage -- and i love all the rage i can get
i will try to dash lines from free doll inside into my twitter account