Poet introduction (1)

Humor -- it can be awkward as in laughing at the wrong time or being the only one laughing in the movie theater; it can be therapeutic as in laughing until you cry.

It's interesting to note that humerus is its homonym; humerus being the long bone in your upper arm. Perhaps that's the true funny bone.

Our poet today uses humor as a way to the truth. Her work is humorous (funny not the bone) because we see ourselves -- or someone we know -- in her poems.

Alexandra Oliver ...

Input (iii)

Reading: (in preparation for Anne Waldman workshop) Fast Speaking Woman; Marriage: A Sentence; In the Room of Never Grieve; Outrider; and Civil Disobediences. (photo from gregfuchs.com)

DVD: Ramones Alive!

Download: Bob Mould, District Line.

Rain that imitates Anne Waldman

Awake the politics in poetics. Move beyond observations. Stand up.

Poet as a matter of public record

to read a poem into the record
to read a poem publicly
to be a poet of record
to be a public poet
to a poet of public record
to a public of poet record
to a poem
to a public
to a record
to record
to read
to poet

Input (ii)

Reading: The Age of Huts (compleat) by Ron Silliman / Cable Factory 20 by Lytle Shaw / Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison / Blackstock's Collections by Gregory L. Blackstock / Zen and the Beat Way by Alan Watts

DVD: Dexter

Download: TON-185 by Mountain Con