tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40795452024-03-19T06:50:54.839-04:00OverlapDrew
Gardner's
BlogDrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.comBlogger606125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-41577727983299982792012-06-15T15:51:00.001-04:002012-06-15T15:51:17.305-04:00Three poems from my new series Empire Plan are up at Caesura Gallery.
They are based on scenes from The Empire Strikes Back.
Empire Plan is also the name of my heath insurance company.
Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-5765773617388966022012-03-23T21:56:00.000-04:002012-03-23T21:58:37.115-04:00Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-44588793355758415372012-03-13T10:22:00.001-04:002012-03-13T10:26:29.295-04:00Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-80662260164073339812012-02-20T20:42:00.001-05:002012-02-20T20:45:41.115-05:00Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-30625191707269449882012-01-02T20:58:00.007-05:002012-01-02T21:10:55.050-05:00Flarf Orchestra CD release party at Le Poisson Rouge, Fri 1/13, 7:00Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-49401643670771066932011-10-18T14:01:00.004-04:002011-10-18T14:09:14.283-04:00Me reading "On Fire" at DC Arts Center, Washington DC, 10/16/2011Buck Downs: guitarMel Nichols: ukuleleMaureen Thorson: ukuleleVideo: Katie DegenteshDrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-81300684804604775042011-10-09T13:20:00.002-04:002011-10-09T13:26:36.506-04:00Human mic poetry could be like this:Poets could write poems for the human mic(Poets could write poems for the human mic)short poems with clear sets of information (short poems with clear sets of information)that work well with these delays and repetitions.(that work well with these delays and repetitions)Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-1982899924916471052011-10-02T22:48:00.004-04:002011-10-02T23:02:19.932-04:00I'll be reading in the In Your Ear poetry series at the DC Arts Center Sunday, October 16.2438 18th St. in Adams Morgan, WDC, 3:00pmDrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-84152641824710205492011-10-02T00:34:00.002-04:002011-10-02T00:39:48.072-04:00My photos of the march and the arrests today on the Brooklyn Bridge.More photos:Occupy Wall St. 9.30.11Occupy Wall St. 9.25.11Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-72280997508388635812011-09-05T20:04:00.000-04:002011-09-05T20:05:04.623-04:00GETTING OUR FREEDOMS BACK
Nurses and teachers, working people and public sector workers, the poor, the elderly and the sick are destroying this country, and harming CEOs, hedge fund managers, and investment bankers, the very people who create non-union jobs in the first place. It's just a fact of life that the tax breaks needed for these job creators generate deficits. Someone has to pay for Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-1536127960080856652011-08-30T22:56:00.002-04:002011-08-30T22:57:25.792-04:00Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-77404385051136531392011-06-08T19:17:00.013-04:002011-06-08T20:47:56.616-04:00Nada Gordon, Scented Rushes, Roof Books, 2010Scented Rushes is a series of highly artificed poems of seduction and frustration. It moves from the excited frustration of approach to the bitter frustration of rejection. The book is loosely epistolary, addressed to a distant love object, one who is truly objectified, having little or no presence beyond the engine he creates for the poems. He is a Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-57408426518447161122011-06-08T13:37:00.005-04:002011-06-08T13:58:16.870-04:00Daniel Nester interviews me at WWAATD.Dan's questions are appropriated from various teen magazines. My answers are appropriated from a 1985 interview with Klaus Kinski mixed with various quotations from Bertrand Russell.Two of the answers are "directly" from me, can you guess which? You could certainly argue that all the answers are really from me. Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-68124248590288367442011-06-02T10:25:00.002-04:002011-06-02T10:28:43.334-04:00My interview with Michael Gottlieb is up at Jacket2.Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-16707732263767173652011-05-27T16:39:00.007-04:002011-05-28T10:17:10.873-04:00This Wednesday, June 1st, I'm playing the Poetry Project with arrangements for poetry and electronics.131 E 10th St. @ 2nd Ave.NYC, 8:00pmw/ Mark YakichDrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-14997354291871931832011-05-11T14:35:00.002-04:002011-05-11T14:41:31.811-04:00Download a PDF of the cover art and first twelve poems of Chomp Away here.Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-1025762604218273032011-04-30T12:56:00.002-04:002011-04-30T13:50:20.951-04:00WE ARE BIRTHERSHow did we get here, where we don't belong?We are birthers, racist against ourselves,not wanting someone of our colorto be in charge of our lives.We are showroom birthers. We are standing hereexposing ourselves in the public domain of our friendsand enemies, we go on campaignsto discredit ourselves, to evade thequestion of what we do,and think of credentials, of paper work,notary Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-48391847410558926992011-04-26T14:55:00.004-04:002011-04-26T15:26:30.374-04:00Abraham Lincoln, Issue #6, Edited by K. Silem MohammadSandra Simonds:I am like an elephant mom ready toBang my trunk against a screen. Marie Buck:Tom Cruise suggested in an interview that they had produced a stillborn baby composed entirely of marijuana. Michael Magee:Every act of creation is the self-portrait of a Chia Pet gasping and wobblingIsh Klein:I do not know what the inside of this thingDrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-17126420036816055852011-04-25T16:49:00.021-04:002011-04-25T22:11:55.785-04:00Rod Smith’s new poem “What’s The Deal” illustrates how Flarf and conceptual poetry might be the perfect complements of each other, in the sense of complementary colors. They are 180 degrees apart. Where Conceptual poetry is intentionally boring (“If there were an Olympic sport for extreme boredom, I would get a gold medal." --Kenny Goldsmith) and the reader’s engagement is meant to be minimal or Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-45550301673337180362011-04-21T22:38:00.003-04:002011-04-21T22:42:04.177-04:00for the BP oil spill anniversary, #181 from Michael McClure's proto-Flarf book 15 FleasTHE MURRES AND THE PUFFINS BLEW MY MIND I ALWAYS DREAMED THAT I WOULD FIND one covered with oil and save his life and toil to resurrect his beauty and he'd love me and be my pet murre or auk or puffin I loved the feathered crests asweeping from their eyes and their Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-21552363347218881492011-04-20T12:34:00.007-04:002011-04-20T12:41:44.475-04:00New study is the first to extensively evaluate the influence of poetry on the biochemistry and development of the brainThe scientists observed writers lacking normal poetry exposure levels, then compared their behavior, brain chemistry and brain development to writers having elevated poetry exposure levels. The poetry-free writers were more active and, in specific behavioral tests, were less Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-25997895285762267772011-04-13T13:42:00.007-04:002011-04-13T13:53:25.713-04:00The complete recording of my Feb 26th performance at The Bowery Poetry Club is now available on my Pennsound page.This was the book release for Chomp Away, and all the material is from the new book. I'm using a looped monophonic keyboard -- a Casio VL-Tone, made famous by Trio, and a Boss Loop Station.Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-42124384889872761522011-02-23T15:56:00.003-05:002011-02-23T16:06:23.348-05:00My new book, Chomp Away, is now available from Combo Books. The book release event is this Saturday, 2.26 at The Bowery Poetry Club, 4:00pmDrew Gardner and Josef KaplanSegue poetry series at the Bowery Poetry Club308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker)F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker$6Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-37933670284207685512011-02-07T22:47:00.018-05:002011-02-08T13:14:51.362-05:00How much difference could there be between the Egypt NSA briefs that Obama must be hearing and the hysterical Glenn Beck tirades that Americans hear on TV?*There is no broker state (Manning Marable) in Egypt or Tunisia. One thinks of the vanity of well meaning academic socialists in assuming to predict the periodic tempo of crises in the talk of "late Capitalism." The writers who speak of "utopiaDrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079545.post-90109772961161177982011-01-21T11:30:00.004-05:002011-06-08T13:36:49.899-04:00But Dickinson was lonely and weird and obscure; the fact that Warren is one of the most successful songwriters of our time suggests that these sentiments aren’t just hers, they’re ours—this blinding crucible of nuancelessness is our ideal conception of love. And, before I get too carried away, I should point out that the schmaltz-addled, love-crazed speaker/singer that emerges from the songs Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217928929570222106noreply@blogger.com0