The lion
and the lamb
are getting
very
sleepy....

I'll be conducting the Flarf Orchestra this Sat:

SATURDAY, APR 26, 6:00 P.M., BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 BOWERY, $8

The Flarf Orchestra
Conducted by Drew Gardner

Featuring:

Franklin Bruno - guitar
Ehran Elisha - drums
Francois Grillot - bass
Dave Ross - guitar

with poets:

Shanna Compton
Katie Degentesh
Benjamin Friedlander
Drew Gardner
Nada Gordon
Mitch Highfill
Rodney Koeneke
Michael Magee
Sharon Mesmer
K. Silem Mohammad
Mel Nichols
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
James Sherry
Rod Smith
Christina Strong


See you at the party, Richter!

The pure products of America go crazy. Ange Mlinko in the Nation.

What if you look at something with a little life in it, Leaves of Grass, for instance, and you decide to do everything in your power to drain the life out of it while appearing to champion it? Maybe you secretly, jealously hate the art and wish to kill it with cliches and platitudes, or dripping sententiousness? Or, maybe, more to the point, you valorize the figure of the author, your one true fixation, while having little or no interest of what the art does in the first place, or why. And it's not just PBS. How many poetry listeners in churches and non-profits continually make the same kinds of mistakes...