Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Laura Young



Setting the Course

On Barcelona contributors as of June 18, 2013


January 2012


Aaron Belz, Geoffrey Gatza, Larissa Shmailo, Gregory Vincent de St. Tomasino, Charles Bane Jr., Stephen Russell, Bill Pearlman, Michael Rothenberg, Helen Duberstein, David Weinstock, Rodney Nelson, Alexandra Schor, Glen Phillips, Jaime Manrique, Dean Faulwell, Hilton Obenzinger, Burt Kimmelman, Anthony Robinson, Tony Mancus, Donna Fleischer, Lynda Schor, Hal Sirowitz, bobbi lurie, Halvard Johnson, Andrew Burke, Ken Wolman, Philip Hartigan, Paul Murphy, Steve Tills, Bill Dunlap, John M. Bennett, Robert Hughes via Halvard Johnson, Richard Livermore, Nancy Scott, Ramón Gómez de la Serna via Richard Kostelanetz, Harriet Zinnes, rob mclennan, Janet Mason, Steve Dalachinsky, Colin Morton, Lakey Comess, Patrick McManus, Lawrence Upton, Nathalie F. Anderson, Gunnar Ekelöf via Edward Field, Mark Weiss, Sheila F. Murphy, James Cervantes, Jill Jones, Douglas Barbour, Calvin Pennix, Bob Marcacci, Bonnie MacAllister, Anny Ballardini, Johanna Fischer, Mark Melnicove, David Rakowski, William Bain, Jerry McGuire, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Hugh and Jane Stilley, Roger Mitchell, Larry Goodell, Amy King, Jan Clausen, Jasper Brinton, Ric Carfagna, Mark Prudowsky


February 2012


Rose Mary Boehm, Eileen Tabios, Janet Spangler, Laura Young, Lila Zeiger, Jack Dowling, William Bain, John M. Bennett, Douglas Barbour, Katherine Soniat, Sheila F. Murphy, James Cervantes, Jeff Harrison, Paul Charles Howell, Lars Palm, Mary Kasimor, George Bowering, Alvin Greenberg, Jose Padua, Alan Sondheim


March 2012


George Bowering, Laura Young, Dick Allen, William Bain, Steve Dalachinsky, Rose Mary Boehm, John M. Bennett, Mark DuCharme, Dominic Fox, Elizabeth Switaj, Thad Rutkowski, Felino A. Soriano, Michael Andre


April 2012


Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Robin Mookerjee, John M. Bennett, Laura Young, Lanny Quarles, Mark Prudowsky, Chris Mansell, Dean Faulwell, Bjørn Magnhildøen, Jacques Prèvert via Harriet Zinnes, Alan Sondheim, Michael Andre, Harriet Zinnes, Dominic Fox, Max Richards, Cheryl Pallant, Lakey Comess, Gloria Avner, Andrew J. Jones, Steve Tills, David Gitin, Vivekanand Jha, Susan Lewis, Joel Chace, Patrick McManus


May 2012


Jasper Brinton, Laura Young, John M. Bennett, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, William Bain, Gene Tanta, Cortney Bledsoe, Márton Koppány, Alex M. Pruteanu, Andrew Burke, Paul Charles Howell, bobbi lurie, Barry Spacks, Mark Prudowsky, Vernon Frazer, Michael Farrell, Barry Seiler, Halvard Johnson, Matthew Hill, Tucker Stilley, Caleb Puckett, Edgar Gabriel Silex, Rudolfo Carrillo, Audrey Friedman, Sheila E. Murphy, Lars Palm, Diana Magallón


June 2012


Harriet Green, Joanna Howard, John M. Bennett, Lena Bartula, Skip Fox, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Harriet Zinnes, Gray Jacobik, Hal Sirowitz, Sheila E. Murphy, Douglas Barbour, Edward Field, Lawrence Upton, Mark Weiss, Laura Young, Michael Kelleher, Mark Melnicove, Will Hochman, Jim Cory, William Allegrezza, Rafi Lev, Peter Ciccariello, Mark Young, Donna Kuhn, bobbi lurie, Rodney Nelson, Steve Dalachinsky, Mark DuCharme, Calvin Pennix, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Erik H. Rzepka, Michael Gottlieb, Barry Alpert, Jasper Brinton, Niels Hav, Adam Fieled, James Cervantes, Frederick Pollack, Donna Fleischer, Steve Tills, Paul Siegell, Scott Keeney, William Bain, Jill Jones, Diana Magallón, Jessy Randall


July 2012


Scott Keeney, Larry Goodell, John M. Bennett, Stephen Caratzas, Barry Seiler, Rudolfo Carrillo, Caleb Puckett, Felino Soriano, Peter Ciccariello, Alan Britt, Russ Golata, Laura Young, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Dean Faulwell, Michael Gottlieb, Lakey Comess, Marc Vincenz, Glen Phillips, Steve Dalachinsky, Karri Kokko


August 2012


Ric Carfagna, Barry Spacks, Wendy Battin, David Graham, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Allen Bramhall, Orchid Tierney, Halvard Johnson, Ruth Damon, Jeff Harrison, Erik H. Rzepka, Roger Mitchell, Russ Golata, David Gitin, Sarah Edwards, John M. Bennett, Donna Kuhn, H. Palmer Hall, Márton Koppány, Gloria Avner, Basil King, Daniel Zimmerman, David Rakowski, Chris Jones, Steve Dalachinsky, Marge Merrill, Scott Keeney, Stephen Ellis, Lars Palm, Bill Wootton, mIEKAL aND, Andrew Burke, Gwyn McVay, David Howard, Rudolfo Carrillo, Mark Thomas, R. Clark Morrow, Al Maginnes, Peter Ganick


September 2012


John M. Bennett, Steve Tills, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Alan Sondheim, Peter Ganick, Rudolfo Carrillo, David Hopes, James Cervantes, Márton Koppány, Lynda Schor, Stephen Russell, Diana Magallón, Mark Prudowsky, John Oughton, Russ Golata, Bjørn Magnhildøen, Jasper Brinton, Luc Fierens, Halvard Johnson, Nico Vassilakis, David Weinstock, Colin Morton, Jaap Stijl, Isma'il ibn Ali al-Sadiq, Talan Memmott, Vernon Frazer, Jim Andrews, Barbara Moore Vincent, Volodymyr Bilyk, Christopher Barnes, Sheila Black, Kristin Palombit


October 2012


Nico Vassilakis, Katherine Soniat, Russ Golata, Jim Andrews, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Dean Faulwell, Lakey Comess, Luc Fierens, Stephen Ellis, Márton Koppány, Christopher C. Jones, Volodymyr Bilyk, Ziba Karbassi, Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, Jim Bennett,  rob mclennan, Laura Young, Andrew Burke, Felino A. Soriano, Jim Wittenberg


November 2012

Kit Robinson, Diana Magallón, Donna Kuhn, Michael Fleming, Mark Prudowsky, Márton Koppány, Rae Desmond Jones, John M. Bennett, Lars Palm, Diana Magallón, David Harrison Horton, Volodymyr Bilyk, Teresa Peipens, John C. Goodman, Mary Kasimor, Peter Gannick, John M. Bennett, Glenn Bach, Laura Young 

December 2012

Rudolfo Carillo, Bob BrueckL, Laura Young, Jan Clausen, Felino Soriano, Joel Chace, Jasper Brinton, Vernon Frazer, Luc Fierens, Ruth Lepson, Lynda Schor, Philip Meersman, John Oughton, Alicia Askenase, Hugh Seidman, Catherine Daly, Victoria Marinelli, Anthony Robinson, Lawrence Upton, Russ Golata, Paul Howell, Rudolfo Carrillo

January 2013

John Oughton, Ken Wolman, Lakey Comess, Marge Merrill, Martha Deed, Nancy Scott, Volodymyr Bilyk, David Howard, Eileen Tabios, Larissa Shmailo, John M. Bennett, Luc Fierens, Bob BrueckL, Marthe Reed, Sheila E. Murphy, Stephen Ellis, Ann Neuser Lederer, Vernon Frazer, Richard Kostelanetz, Caleb Puckett, rob mclennan, Russ Golata, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, William Bain, Michael Andre, Katherine Soniat, Satu Kaikkonen, Lars Palm, Felino A. Soriano, Murray Jennings, James Cervantes 

February 2013

Alla Vilnyanskaya, Laura Young, Nico Vassilakis, Wendy Battin, John M. Bennett, Jasper Brinton, Tad Richards, Larry Goodell, Charles Taylor, Alan Sondheim, Diana Magallón, G. Robert Jeaurond, Volodymyr Bilyk, B.E. Kahn, William Bain, Joseph Somoza

March 2013

Diana Magallón, Allen Bramhall, Diane Jackman, rob mclennan, Bob Marcacci, Halvard Johnson, Rudolfo Carrillo, Lakey Comess, David Howard, Federico Federici, John M. Bennett, Niels Hav, Alicia Salinas

April 2013

John Oliver Simon, Volodymyr Bilyk, Taylor Reid, Mark Prudowsky, Elizabeth Terrazas, Murray Jennings, Stephen Ellis, John M. Bennett, Felino A. Soriano, Sheila E. Murphy, James Finnegan

May 2013

Lawrence Upton, Volodymyr Bilyk, John M. Bennett, Peter Ganick, James Bell, Bob BrueckL, Rudolfo Carrillo, Francesco Aprile, Allen Bramhall, Francesco Levato, Laura Young, Adam Fieled, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez

June 2013

Laura Young, Felino A. Soriano, Aurora Margrethe, 











Sunday, June 16, 2013

Aurora Margrethe


ai0(A.M)

Felino A. Soriano


from  Of isolated limning



appertaining

time-veneration
            valued accolade

alternate finding this thesis of unspoken                                            pellucidity

                        naturalized envelop

surge of serenade
            embracing shapes of contoured revelations
            loud though secure in the inclusionary freedom this              pageantry

instills
                                               
                                                                        apert
                                    ranges and
unordinary seams

                                                mimesis qualitative venture

incorporating self in the vision of whole dimensions


***

invention or the subtlety of illusion

                        rest suspends corporeal fundamentals

desire or
the purposes of endeavor rewind

                                                in contextual meander the mind’s oval flatness

insinuates culture or the ignition to connect (grouped)

                                    thus
                             endeavor
                    or indecent (unknown)
            systems of

naturalized connectivity to the self’s purposeful implantation

                                                                                    unrecognized by the physiognomy of
truth’s misrepresented fallacy,

simulated


***

comparison

the violin of skin alternates phrases
amid serenade of angles’
origami privileges

            streaks of kinetic purples find pluralized births
atop
language’s
warmth and water submerged faculty of illusion’s achromatic need


*** 

in view or dedicatory limpidity

tableaus incorporate distance’s calligraphy
calibrating the eye into            role      beyond           
            visible veneration

a
                        systemic acclimation   slim      or whole
regarding tonal timekeeping expositions, the

                                    range of piano                         slides in / on scaled definitional
fury
lending eye
or the partial of fractioned centimeters’
center
seer
sidenote secrecy
                                                            or the subjective component of a whisper’s

language of dedication


***

considered

intuitive responses
resulting paradigm
persuading frequent
penetrative faculties—

harmless or the fiction of
determination
            altered calling onto
beautified
                        tension away
or alleviated meander this thought
appendage portends


***
***

Laura Young



Breaking Off

Friday, May 31, 2013

Pansy Maurer-Alvarez


Burnt-orange Sarabande 
  
the desert daytime stingingly scoops up everything into its center
indifferent fluorescent lady of eyes and paws
every part of her body spills offspring
her platitudes lie in rusted rings around
 
it is      because I think it is this way
your moon      yours
that was always improbable
along the arc of the night’s tight arm
it broadens me flat against this baffling climate
sometimes at night I sense illuminated white marble
this is belated                 the ownership of a debt
 
O sorrowful Spain      
through streets to rooms, the players undress their “Nights in the gardens of ... ”
night lights on tree tops reach towards the stellar women whose fault it is to chase
they leap past and brush the husband
they capture and penetrate the sweet hot lull of my paradox
somewhere a thrashing rainfall becomes a superb blue
but your moon is gaining      on my night


***

Painted Crown 
  
Lady Silver, shine
but contain no more rings than days or tears to harm a disappointed reason 
The approximate sticky overplay can defer a daughter
from sounding deeply absorbed      A stranger may arrive
and escalating chances clearly pronounce a beauteous nerve
Flames of irony are a fleeting ply
they recede in the antechamber of the amassed circumstances of debt
This perception is humble and stained
but veiled in brassy cult shadows;
it is a lament that can bend its ruby red permission to a cruel unalterable kiss 
When the mottled world bites the neck of the graceful maiden
(such loving invincible mistakes, anything like waxy flesh)
the message of sexuality goes completely mad with virility
Sweet mating calls quiver perfectly in the bright blue room
The singing is interrupted      Erroneous and enormous immunity
bedecks the scenario with its blazing bolt 
The tongue stages itself in the blurred woods but is strengthened
by a blurting focus:  tomorrow someone
else will tempestuously stitch another epaulette


***
***

Adam Fieled

Peanut Butter and Rabies

The aged woman with glasses, doing charity
work, wants some charity herself. The nights
at this place have been long— the kids get
disgruntled, people aren’t bringing in as much
food as they used to. If it’s another peanut
butter and jelly night, she has to bear the brunt.
All the kids see is a half-empty plate. Her
husband won’t come anymore— the atmosphere
is too strained. The kids, she thinks in spite of
herself, are like a bunch of dogs with rabies.
And, as she can’t tell, they think the same of her.

***
***

Laura Young


Around and Through

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Francesco Levato


if caloric, a modification of light

The names of such things as affect us, which please, and displease,
the common discourses of inconstant signification,
its species and respective capacities; of the structure required; 
of the number and nature of constituent parts;
this crevice a small room, whitewashed and clean 
but scarce that principle of morality to be named,
of virtue to be thought on, not somewhere or other
slighted and condemned, between general fashion
and rules of living quite opposite to others.

[ from kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘to burn’) ] 1.0b6


***


the gravity of the water

At first I had neglected them, 
but now that I was able to decipher the characters,
death, wounds, imprisonment,
the promise of not resisting force,
the action as one continuous whole, 
can it be imagined, that they perceive the impressions 
from things without, and be at the same time ignorant 
of those which nature stamped within?

[ from kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘to burn’) ] 1.0b7


***


sulphuric ether, small narrow glass

Let us follow the natural order and begin with primary facts. 
The other is compounded; as when from the sight of a man at one time, 
and of a horse at another, we conceive in our mind a centaure,
qualify metaphor by adding on to it that which it supplants.
But the use of words in registering our thoughts
is in nothing so evident than reward and punishment; 
in enjoyment embittered by memory of the future, 
anticipation of the past.

[ from kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘to burn’) ] 1.0b9


***
***


Sunday, May 12, 2013

Allen Bramhall

Little is Known of Mongolia

A piano remained when everybody died. The piano was named Karl as a spoof on frequency. Its tone provoked a resonance, and everyone talked with verbs, nouns and the like. The nation's imagination threw a bolt of what is your favourite flavour into the air of chance. We decided we were coloured transistors from the planet Diagram. North is a point to discuss, as is South. The piano we remember was a spot in a sentence. The sentence meant to provide an action, and colour it with adjectives. No one expected the piano to remain aloof: It was friday, the living was fine. While the program constitutes a nation, we stop mid sentence. There could be a change, like spirit in a desk.

We're told so many things. The spectacle requires a mask.


***
***

Francesco Aprile



***
***

Rudolfo Carrillo


Fourteen Memetic Signals Used to Provoke Uncertainty in the Reader

American flags made from hidden Yankee tendencies.
Shaved pudenda isolated through the use of Photoshop.
A new television set that is colored to resemble night.
Innumerable displays suggesting coition or its possibility.
Dactyls on display at the petroleum depot.
Clinical observations made prior to the execution of bodily functions.
Self-referential asides that invite mockery.

Imagining oneself as a monkey living in an Antarctic laboratory.
Accumulating chemicals as means of displaying wealth and patience.
Having fun with the ruined atmosphere.
Rendering hands as twigs and branches.
Changing the settings to thwart capitalist interlopers.
Sensing the closeness of dissolution like a snail senses paint.

The statutory procedure that terminates at a local trailer park.


***
***

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Volodymyr Bilyk



***
***

Bob BrueckL


 Stout Snout


Toothy, swishy:  un-un moniker the stupid gamut, 
the cloned ultrasuede, the rhomboid-stolid Wake-Robin 
(trillium erectum) -- recurved, hypostatic, prickled, 
declinated

 Tin ingots, O butt cloner, peristalsis slashy --
 un-name my meme:  my meme is me, O dander:
 What dew I knew!

Creamy, liver-shaped monstrosities, serrated, protruding,
slishy-sloshy, gloopy-gloppy purple maroon abutting
the back of the indigo moon

Dusky, unabetted, stripped scrape, deface
the jarring pompadour, O my
cauliflower ear

Aubergine midnight on the periphery:  scrap
the immaculate, ultramarine, mauve-striped violets,
the delirious faces of the canary-yellow pansies
softly swaying in the sapphire shadows
straddling the ovoid awl -- No!

***
***