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Showing category "poetry & poetics" (Show all posts) Blackout, Revisited \| Enpipe Line, Enacted Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, In : poetry & poetics Posted 1/24/11 on Lemon Hound. The current issue of Vancouver lit magazine Subterrain has published essays by writers Elizabeth Bachinsky and Alex Leslie on their BLACKOUT AT THE CANDAHAR project, an erasure-as-intervention experimental poetry response to the Vancouver Olympics on which I posted last February. The poems, created by visitors to the bar during the 14 day Olympic occupation, were unable to be printed in Subterrain due to "copyright concerns," however Alex has posted a sampling, o... Continue reading ... Jordan Scott: Flub and Utter Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, December 15, 2010, In : poetry & poetics Posted to Lemon Hound on Monday, December 13 'Tis mid-December, several days till solstice, several more days till the Festival of Plastic. I've spent the day in a mild state of panic, wrapping various locally-purchased, artist/isan-made items in locally-purchased brown kraft paper to stuff in my suitcase, as if any of that can absolve my participation in the annual consumer-capitalist wet dream. This is the opposite of poetry. Here's some actual poetry, conceived and filmed by the National Fi... Continue reading ... Indexical Elegies, Indexed Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, November 1, 2010, In : poetry & poetics Posted November 1, 2010 to Lemon Hound. Jon Paul Fiorentino's latest poetry book is Indexical Elegies, out recently from Coach House. Though the book's cover includes the words "Includes index", no index was included in my copy. I thought this a grave oversight and sought to rectify it. Herewith, an incomplete index on Indexical Elegies. Death, 70 all the expensive/whiskey at your wake, 52 all the way to hospice, 41 appalled I grieve, 36 at the floodway burying Saturday, 70 but in dead event (Gilbert... Continue reading ... still my favourite found poem of all time Posted by Nikki Reimer on Friday, October 22, 2010, In : poetry & poetics Life The Principal Sum. Both Hands The Principal Sum. Both Feet The Principal Sum. Entire Sight of Both Eyes The Principal Sum. One Hand and One Foot The Principal Sum. One Hand and the Entire Sight of One Eye The Principal Sum. One Foot and the Entire Sight of One Eye The Principal Sum. Speech and Hearing in Both Ears The Principal Sum. One Arm Three-Quarters of The Principal Sum. One Leg Three-Quarters of The Principal Sum. One Hand Three-Quarters of The Principal Sum. One Foot Three-Quarters of The Principal Sum... Continue reading ... Existentiality & the Breath Line in Artie Gold’s “some of the cat poems” Posted by Nikki Reimer on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, In : poetry & poetics Posted to Meta-Talon on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Nikki Reimer “There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.” -Dan Greenberg Though allergic, Artie Gold lived with up to 3 cats at a time, if his autobiographically-arranged poetry is to be believed, & he seems to have regarded them with simultaneous bemused detachment & impassioned affection. An introduction credited to “The shortstop of the heart” (perhaps either Cat or Gold himsel... Continue reading ... The more things digitize the more we return to the printed page Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, September 21, 2010, In : poetry & poetics (Published on Lemon Hound on Sept. 20, 2010) I’m fumigating at the moment (fleas, sowbugs, clothing moths). Akin to moving, only you move right back in to the same apartment. This is why I missed Lisa Robertson and Eileen Myles read at the charles h. scott gallery on Saturday, which I'm certain was all kinds of woman rock star writer awesomeness. Over the summer, I attended, and briefly read at, the west coast diagonal zine fair, a hopefully inaugural event featuring these BC-based zines and... Continue reading ... VisPo : Writing a blog post on BC Arts Cuts Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, September 4, 2010, In : poetry & poetics via the very cool IOGraphica.com Continue reading ... Some recent online writing Posted by Nikki Reimer on Monday, August 9, 2010, In : poetry & poetics I haven't been cross-posting pieces I've written elsewhere to this blog, which is perhaps a mistake, as I have ownership over this site (archival purposes) and also I have no idea who (if anyone) is reading this. Nevertheless, I've recently posted the following online: On Lemon Hound, a cheeky read of the movie Bright Star: A Few Things I Learned About Life as a Poet from Watching Bright Star I approached this movie ready to be snarky and suspicious. No romantic frippery for this lady, in either ... Continue reading ... erasure & Harryette Mullen Posted by Nikki Reimer on Tuesday, August 3, 2010, In : poetry & poetics My writing class this past week seemed only moderately successful, however I believe we were all lethargic from the heat. I vow to do better next week. I did read them the first poem from Harryette Mullen's SPeRM*KT, which, though out of print, is highly highly recommended. Louis Cabri included a Mullen poem in his "poetry pack" at his recent KSW Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics seminar, which inspired me to pull SPeRMKT* off the ol' shelf and give it a re-read. We are all poet-con... Continue reading ... from Wednesday's writing class Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, July 3, 2010, In : poetry & poetics Words that start with p preclude pestilence persnickety pantomime petunia persimmons palimpsest plenitude presbyterian Continue reading ... the new normal Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, June 19, 2010, In : poetry & poetics The introduction I wrote for Nicole Markotić's reading tonight at KSW's Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics series. Poet, critic, novelist and teacher Nicole Markotic writes fault lines of sensation. She pictures lapsed Mormons and ruminates Alexander Graham Bell in the 19^th or 20^th century, where telephone voices call problem bodies. Markotic invents the telephone all over again with sympathetic vibrations, memories, confessions, misunderstood gestures with tongue and femur. Syllables ... Continue reading ... OLSON conference CLOSING at the KSW \| Sunday June 6 from 8:00 onwards Posted by Nikki Reimer on Saturday, June 5, 2010, In : poetry & poetics closing party for the Charles Olson Centenary Conference featuring poetry readings by: Charles Alexander Carla Billitteri Michael Boughn Victor Coleman Ben Friedlander David Herd Jeanne Heuving GP Lainsbury Kim Minkus Peter O'Leary Richard Owens John Roche Lytle Shaw Jonathan Skinner Sharon Thesen Jacqueline Turner Sunday June 6 W2 Storyeum 151 W. Cordova St -- [NOTE our new address!] 8:00 pm THIS READING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC guests not registered at or participating in the Olson conference are encouraged to a... 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