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Monday, November 25, 2013
Poem-A-Day: Ernest Hemingway
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Komunyakaa poem at Kenyon Review
A Prayer
Yusef Komunyakaa
Great Ooga-Booga, in your golden pavilion
beside the dung heap, please
don’t let me die in a public place.
I still see the man on the café floor
at the airport beneath a canopy
of florescence, somewhere
in the Midwest or back East,
travelers walking around him
& texting on cell phones
while someone shocked him back,
fiddling with dials & buttons
on a miraculous instrument.
Was the memory of a dress in his head?
beside the dung heap, please
don’t let me die in a public place.
I still see the man on the café floor
at the airport beneath a canopy
of florescence, somewhere
in the Midwest or back East,
travelers walking around him
& texting on cell phones
while someone shocked him back,
fiddling with dials & buttons
on a miraculous instrument.
Was the memory of a dress in his head?
Great Ooga-Booga, forgive me
for wearing out my tongue before
I said your praises. No, I haven’t
mastered the didgeradoo.
I don’t have an epic as a bribe.
My words are simple. Please
don’t let me die gazing up at a streetlight
or the Grand Central facades.
Let me go to my fishing hole
an hour before the sun sinks
into the deep woods, or let me swing
on the front porch, higher & higher
till I’m walking on the ceiling.
for wearing out my tongue before
I said your praises. No, I haven’t
mastered the didgeradoo.
I don’t have an epic as a bribe.
My words are simple. Please
don’t let me die gazing up at a streetlight
or the Grand Central facades.
Let me go to my fishing hole
an hour before the sun sinks
into the deep woods, or let me swing
on the front porch, higher & higher
till I’m walking on the ceiling.
To read more poems by Yusef Komunyakaa, purchase the issue.
Friday, November 22, 2013
After 500 Years, Leonardo da Vinci’s Piano Machine Comes Alive
The reconstructed Leonardo da Vinci viola organista (via zubrzycki.art.pl)
Leonardo da Vinci had a lot of wild schemes for inventions, like a robot knight and elaborate flying machines that gave humans wings, but one he never got to experience himself has finally been realized by a crafty Polish pianist.
Leonardo’s design for the viola organista (viaWikimedia)
Slawomir Zubrzycki spent from 2009 to 2012 reconstructing Leonardo’s viola organista based on an illustration in theCodex Atlanticus, a 12-volume collection of the artist and inventor’s ideas on topics that range from botany to weapons to music. As the Sydney Morning Herald reported, the instrument appears much like a piano, but its mechanics are quite different, which is why you might look twice if you see someone playing what seems like a standard piano while the sounds are that of a stringed instrument.
Leonardo himself was a musician, apparently able to play anything he picked up as well as compose music — as if being a genius artist, inventor, and mathematician weren’t enough to likely give all of his Italian Renaissance compatriots an inferiority complex. As Zubrzycki interpreted from Leonardo’s 15th-century design, the sound of the viola organista comes from the musician powering a pedal located under the keys that causes four wheels inside to turn. These wheels are coated in hair from a horse’s tail, just like many string instrument bows, so that when you press the keys, one of 61 steel rings hits the cushioned wheels, rather than the hard contact of a hammer against a steel string like in an ordinary piano.
The sound, which you can hear below in a video of Zubrzycki’s October 21 concert in Krakow, is vaguely like a cello dreaming of being a harpsichord, with the sustained tones of a string instrument combined with the quick change notes of a piano. People seem to regularly take joy in bringing to life some of Leonardo’s most fantastic creations, such as a mechanical lion and the massive Colossus horse, and although the artist himself never got to hear his viola organista, he surely would have loved the challenges to the perception of what a piano can be and sound like. Now maybe we can have that Ideal City?
There are some other images over at Colossal.
From Hyperallergic HERE
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Tom Collins Poetry Competition 2013, entries due 15th of December!
Due 15th of December, Tom Collins Poetry Competition 2013 entries! Get your in ASAP!
Find the entry form here, or find all FAWWA competitions at http://fawwa.org.au/category/competitions/
Further details below:
To all you bards, of whatever stamp or persuasion:
GET YOUR POEMS IN TO THE
TOM COLLINS POETRY COMPETITION 2013
HURRY! DUE DECEMBER 15!
YOU CAN WIN:
$1000 (one poet)
$400 (one poet)
or $150 (four different poets)
four poets are also commended with a certificate
Send typed entries to:
Tom Collins Poetry Prize
PO Box 6180
Swanbourne WA 6910
haiku -Myron Lysenko
teaching haiku –
I listen with interest
to what I’m saying
not trying to be funny they laugh anyway
dementia –
will my sister tell me when
my mother dies?
river ripples
tonight I must apologise
for being a sook
traffic noises
I still regret my anger
From last week’s argument
I listen with interest
to what I’m saying
not trying to be funny they laugh anyway
dementia –
will my sister tell me when
my mother dies?
river ripples
tonight I must apologise
for being a sook
traffic noises
I still regret my anger
From last week’s argument
"In last night's Creative Writing class we wrote haiku which were a combination of the objective and the subjective. It made the haiku and senryu we wrote more personal, more emotional."
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Wordplay: The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
And the winners are:
1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men
Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
And the winners are:
1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Fred Williams and Weary Dunlop at Benalla
Fred Williams The Pilbara
Walking ramp to Benalla Art Gallery
In a second gallery at Benalla there was a mixture of drawing techniques contributed by the Polish Art Exhibition. I didn't catch the full story, but apparently it is an annual competition where artists from around the world roll up their drawings and send them unframed to this competition. This exhibition had artists from Hungary, Slovenia and Japan, plus a few others. From abstracts to super realist work, the collection shows how drawing is used as a contemporary technique in 2013.
'Weary' Dunlop memorial, Benalla
Friday, November 15, 2013
Free Poetry Events TOMORROW
Free poetry reading at Federation Square with Rose Lucas
Saturday 16 November, 2.00 – 4.00pm
The Atrium (near the Flinders Street entrance), Fed Square, Melbourne
Free event, for more information email: poetry@fedsquare.com
Saturday 16 November, 2.00 – 4.00pm
The Atrium (near the Flinders Street entrance), Fed Square, Melbourne
Free event, for more information email: poetry@fedsquare.com
Peter Rose & Kristin Henry at Tales Out Loud: Poetry Edition
Saturday 16 November, 2.00 – 4.00pm
Malvern Library, 1255 High Street, Malvern VIC
Free event, bookings essential: http://bit.ly/1gEpGw5
Saturday 16 November, 2.00 – 4.00pm
Malvern Library, 1255 High Street, Malvern VIC
Free event, bookings essential: http://bit.ly/1gEpGw5
Meet the author: Sally-Ann Jones at The Grove Library
Wednesday 20 November, 6.30 – 7.30pm
The Grove Library, 1 Leake St, Peppermint Grove WA
Free event
Wednesday 20 November, 6.30 – 7.30pm
The Grove Library, 1 Leake St, Peppermint Grove WA
Free event
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Black Inc. Warehouse Sale
They’re having a Warehouse Sale – come along and pick up some bargains.
What:
Black Inc. books, all priced at $5
Black Inc. books, all priced at $5
When:
Friday 15th November, 4.00pm-6.00pm
Saturday 16th November, 9.00am-2.00pm
Where:
Black Inc. Office
37-39 Langridge St, Collingwood VIC 3066
Cash and credit cards/Eftpos accepted
A Heaney event and 2014 Buckley Poetry Prize
Commemorating Seamus Heaney
The Institute of Advanced Studies at The University of Western Australia invites you to attend a special evening to commemorate the life of Seamus Heaney, once described as "the greatest poet of our age". UWA literary scholars Winthrop Professor Philip Mead, Professor Andrew Lynch and Dr Duc Dau will give short talks about the place of Heaney’s poetry in their academic and personal lives. Audience members will then be invited to recite a short poem or excerpt and, if they so wish, describe its significance to them. The celebration will conclude with light refreshments. Monday 25 November, 6pm-7.30pm, at the IAS, Irwin Street Building, UWA (Parking: P18 &20 off Fairway). Free event but places are limited and RSVP is essential via email.
2014 Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize
The 2014 Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize is now open to Australian poets. The approximately AUD$10,000 prize will facilitate a trip to Ireland. Applications must be received by close of business Friday 29 November. For guidelines, and to apply, click here.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Australian Poets on Display
Some poems by myself and many poems by other contemporary Australian poets up now for your enjoyment at http://robbiecoburn.wordpress.com/work-by-australian-poets/
Thank you, Robbie Coburn, for such great archival work.
Thank you, Robbie Coburn, for such great archival work.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
C'mon Aussie, C'mon, c'mon ... Summer is a cumen in
George Bailey at the Gabba
Squad Chris Rogers, David Warner, Shane Watson, Michael Clarke (capt), Steve Smith, George Bailey, Brad Haddin (wk, vice-capt), James Faulkner, Mitchell Johnson, Peter Siddle, Ryan Harris, Nathan Lyon.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Friday, November 08, 2013
the elegant gentleman's guide to knife fighting - animations
http://www.youtube.com/v/l-7IV2qryiQ?version=3&autohide=1&autohide=1&feature=share&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=XnfO3n3A8oJsAJo2Cq-Ydw&showinfo=1
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
New BIG Poetry Prize from University of Canberra
VICE-CHANCELLOR’S INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE
TOTAL PRIZE POOL $25,000
ENTRIES CLOSE 30 MAY 2014
The University of Canberra has established an international poetry prize. On behalf of the university, this is administered by the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI), part of the Donald Horne Institute's Centre for Creative and Cultural Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design.
The prize celebrates the enduring significance of poetry to cultures everywhere in the world, and its ongoing and often seminal importance to world literatures. It marks the University of Canberra’s commitment to creativity and imagination in all that it does, and builds on the work of the International Poetry Studies Institute in identifying poetry as a highly resilient and sophisticated human activity. It also builds on the activities of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, which conducts wide-ranging research into human creativity and culture.
The University of Canberra’s Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize will be offered for the first time in 2014 and entries may be submitted from 1 October 2013 until 30 May 2014 for this prize. The prize will be announced on 30 September 2014 and prize winners will be notified prior to that.
IMPORTANT DETAILS ARE:
- The winner will receive AUD$15,000
- The runner-up (second-placed poem) will receive AUD$5,000
- Four additional poems will be short-listed
- All poems entered for the prize will be single poems that have a maximum length of 50 lines (see the Conditions of Entry for further details)
- Each entry of a poem will cost AUD$15 if submitted by 31 January 2014 and AUD$20 if submitted between 1 February and 30 May 2014. There are discounts for students.
- Full Conditions of Entry
- How to Enter page
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Monday, November 04, 2013
Fado and its Poetry : A Workshop with Mike Burns
by Mike Burns:
It’s not just that everyone is discovering Fado this year, that we have become infatuated with its exquisite nostalgia, delicate melody and pirouetting accompaniment; and that we have also fallen under the successive spells of beautiful fadistas – Amalia, Misia, Mariza, Ana Moura, Joana Amendoeira and Maria Ana Bobone, and with the literary brilliance of Fernando Pessoa and Jose Saramago. People are also asking “What is Fado?” So let me share my Fado with you.
A few years ago I embarked on a journey into Fado, and after three study periods in Portugal I have managed to befriend some of the greats in that arena. I have explored it in Lisbon, Coimbra, Porto and smaller towns, and learned the Portuguese guitara (its most distinctive instrument) with the legendary Carlos Gonçalves, while other modern performers mentioned above offering me their perspectives.
In these workshops you will learn about Fado’s different meanings – an expanding set of musical forms to which lyrics are set; Fado as a local regional/village expression and identifier; Fado as the sometimes mundane moments of human nature raised to glorious artistic heights by fadistas and guitaristas – as our Fate, and so on.
I will sing and play the songs and translate the poetry, hoping to draw you into the passion and saudade that its Fado’s lifeblood.
You will see pictures of Lisbon’s Fado tascas, the Alfama, Mouraria and the famous Clube de Fado, and the other fado cities Coimbra and Porto. Listening to early recordings and recent collaborative projects, you will see and hear how the artform has used classical poetic forms and modern freedoms, with musical styles that encompass the Baroque to Jazz and Pop, along with other ethnic flavours.
Each week we will learn and attempt to write in a variety of Fado forms, and read and hear some of its regional expressions. Appropriate coffee and refreshments will be available, and the series will close with a small performance and readings.
Cost: 3 workshops $120
Venue: the Deca Bodega basement, Market St Fremantle (behind Gino’s)
Sunday 9:30-11:30am Nov 24th , and Dec 8th and 15th.
Excellent coffee and food available at the venue
For enquiries contact Mike Burns MA, MusB, DipED 0432 219133
It’s not just that everyone is discovering Fado this year, that we have become infatuated with its exquisite nostalgia, delicate melody and pirouetting accompaniment; and that we have also fallen under the successive spells of beautiful fadistas – Amalia, Misia, Mariza, Ana Moura, Joana Amendoeira and Maria Ana Bobone, and with the literary brilliance of Fernando Pessoa and Jose Saramago. People are also asking “What is Fado?” So let me share my Fado with you.
A few years ago I embarked on a journey into Fado, and after three study periods in Portugal I have managed to befriend some of the greats in that arena. I have explored it in Lisbon, Coimbra, Porto and smaller towns, and learned the Portuguese guitara (its most distinctive instrument) with the legendary Carlos Gonçalves, while other modern performers mentioned above offering me their perspectives.
In these workshops you will learn about Fado’s different meanings – an expanding set of musical forms to which lyrics are set; Fado as a local regional/village expression and identifier; Fado as the sometimes mundane moments of human nature raised to glorious artistic heights by fadistas and guitaristas – as our Fate, and so on.
I will sing and play the songs and translate the poetry, hoping to draw you into the passion and saudade that its Fado’s lifeblood.
You will see pictures of Lisbon’s Fado tascas, the Alfama, Mouraria and the famous Clube de Fado, and the other fado cities Coimbra and Porto. Listening to early recordings and recent collaborative projects, you will see and hear how the artform has used classical poetic forms and modern freedoms, with musical styles that encompass the Baroque to Jazz and Pop, along with other ethnic flavours.
Each week we will learn and attempt to write in a variety of Fado forms, and read and hear some of its regional expressions. Appropriate coffee and refreshments will be available, and the series will close with a small performance and readings.
Cost: 3 workshops $120
Venue: the Deca Bodega basement, Market St Fremantle (behind Gino’s)
Sunday 9:30-11:30am Nov 24th , and Dec 8th and 15th.
Excellent coffee and food available at the venue
For enquiries contact Mike Burns MA, MusB, DipED 0432 219133
Issa Haiku
autumn evening--
wind in the window's little hole
plays flute
wind in the window's little hole
plays flute
1811
.秋の夜や窓の小穴が笛を吹
aki no yo ya mado no ko ana ga fue wo fuku
Issa finds beauty in the ordinary. Instead of complaining about the poverty represented by the hole in his paper window (we can assume it's made of paper because he says so in a nearly identical haiku written the same year), Issa smiles and appreciates.
__._,_.___
Sunday, November 03, 2013
GLASS PALACE: Mark Weiss poems
Mark Weiss has a string of 17 wonderful little poems called Glass Palace on display at jacket2. Take a look and enjoy.
At the end, instead of a poetics statement, he says: Put two things next to each other and a third thing happens. Sometimes a series of short poems create their own world, but fragmented, like reflections on shards of glass. (M.W.)
At the end, instead of a poetics statement, he says: Put two things next to each other and a third thing happens. Sometimes a series of short poems create their own world, but fragmented, like reflections on shards of glass. (M.W.)
Mark Weiss
A SIMILE
Tastes like rabbit, the fox thinks,
slinking from the hen-house.
HORSE SENSE
There's many a slip
twixt the clop and the clip.
We call it luck
to die by increments.
A STORY
Dressed for the bridal bed
her shawl became the sky, her gown
the sea.
Saturday, November 02, 2013
poem by Murray Jennings
TOO OLD FOR DANCING, TOO YOUNG FOR DYING
Ask me why I write and walk
Ask me why I drink and talk
Ask me why I sing and whistle
I’ll tell you now so that this’ll
make sense, I don’t want to be
tense
nervous, hesitant, or apprehensive
I’m opting for calm and the pensive
I’m too old for dancing
I’m too young for dying
I can still walk and sing
without really trying
I need to read, enjoy a feed
a moderate drink
Anyway, that’s what I think.
- Murray Jennings
Friday, November 01, 2013
Black Inc BOOK SALE - $5 a book
What:
Black Inc. books, all priced at $5
When:
Friday 15th November, 4.00pm–6.00pm
Saturday 16th November, 9.00am–2.00pm
Where:
Black Inc. Office
37–39 Langridge St, Collingwood VIC 3066
Come along and pick up some fabulous Christmas gifts and great summer reads for yourself.
Black Inc. Events
ANU Event
Join ANU and Black Inc. as Professor Ross Garnaut discusses his new book Dog Days: Australia After the Boom with Professor Andrew MacIntyre.
Date: Friday 15th November
Time: 2.30pm–3.30pm
Venue: Canberry Room, Level 1, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, Australian National University
RSVP: Registration required, please visit crawford.anu.edu.au/events/ to register
Melbourne Launch
Join the University of Melbourne and Black Inc. for the launch of Dog Days: Australia After the Boom by Ross Garnaut.
To be launched by Lindsay Tanner.
Date: Wednesday 20th November
Time: 6pm for a 6.30pm start
Venue: Dean’s Boardroom, Level 12, 198 Berkeley Street, The University of Melbourne, Carlton
RVSP by Friday 15th November to enquiries@blackincbooks.com or phone 03 9486 0288
Black Inc. books, all priced at $5
When:
Friday 15th November, 4.00pm–6.00pm
Saturday 16th November, 9.00am–2.00pm
Where:
Black Inc. Office
37–39 Langridge St, Collingwood VIC 3066
Come along and pick up some fabulous Christmas gifts and great summer reads for yourself.
Black Inc. Events
ANU Event
Join ANU and Black Inc. as Professor Ross Garnaut discusses his new book Dog Days: Australia After the Boom with Professor Andrew MacIntyre.
Date: Friday 15th November
Time: 2.30pm–3.30pm
Venue: Canberry Room, Level 1, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, Australian National University
RSVP: Registration required, please visit crawford.anu.edu.au/events/ to register
Melbourne Launch
Join the University of Melbourne and Black Inc. for the launch of Dog Days: Australia After the Boom by Ross Garnaut.
To be launched by Lindsay Tanner.
Date: Wednesday 20th November
Time: 6pm for a 6.30pm start
Venue: Dean’s Boardroom, Level 12, 198 Berkeley Street, The University of Melbourne, Carlton
RVSP by Friday 15th November to enquiries@blackincbooks.com or phone 03 9486 0288
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