"life and death in dark noir" is the late summer 2009 new i-outlaw poetry show. This show is a dark noir detective tale that is presented using poetry, prose, a myriad of voices, sound effects and music. See how far you are willing to fall through the minds in dark streets, booze, sex and poetry. This is "life and death in dark noir". This episode contains the artistry of Josh Hinck, Bob Marcacci, Ian Hinck, Dave Roers and Dave Billington.
In this 3rd installment of From the Vault of Antiquity, Joe McDonald sifts through the garbage filled detritus heaps of the ancients. Truly, this show features writing that had been thrown away by someone at that time. He culls together various papyri from the first 4 centuries of the current era and by so doing provides us with a glimpse of the ordinary human mind. Passions, hopes and fears are delivered to the listener in the original Greek and his new English translations.
We were away for the summer and, just reading all of the fan mail, I know you missed us. We moved about the globe and vacationed, (and you did it, too!) but we're back in the cyberslack and it's all true. You wrote it. i-Outlaw 2.7, as you can easily see from the title, features Sheila E. Murphy and her unique blend of poetry that will render you suitable for more, so check the score. We're not leaving without you.
If you're not in the loop, ripping from her Wikipedia entry, Sheila E. Murphy, born in Mishawaka, Indiana, is an American text and visual poet who has been writing and publishing actively since 1978.
Just there, I'll turn to the issue of disjunction, the ultimate expression of freedom in my writing, that is the beginning of discovery. It is almost as though something underneath all the activity pursued actively challenges me to put two things together and to find out how they match. Because, of course, they do. They fit together or at least work together in some way. I may not know how until they are there together. And when they are, and I learn how and maybe even why they fit or match or mutually enhance, then I've begun to learn something that ensures that I'll move forward in some way I do not know until I have.
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Episode 2 brings you a text by Herodotus called 'The Punishment of Harpagus' read in the ancient Greek, followed by a new translation by Joseph McDonald. This story finds us delving into the madness and anxiety that can beset us through our fears.
Her mother was a poet and doll-artist, her father a scholar of philosophy and religion. A practicing Wiccan, Finch's poetry is inspired largely by her relations with the natural world, especially the landscapes of Maine. The forms of Finch's poems are almost always complex and musical; their themes draw upon earth-centered spirituality, myth, sex, and childbirth. Uniting all of her work is a conception of poetry as essentially incantatory, performative, speaking to the body as much as to the mind. - from the Annie Finch and Poets.org websites.
The role of the poet, as of every citizen, is to be first a fully engaged citizen, either of a family or a community or a subculture or a nation or the planet or of any other group that feels like the right fit. - from an interview on Here Comes Everybody, 2005.
i-Outlaw version 2.6 also features fine poetry, in order of appearance, by:
Spread the word far and wide. Don't forget to enter our contest to win a free book of poetry! I have books by Sheila E. Murphy, Jill Chan, Derek Motion, Jordan Stempleman, Eileen Tabios, Mark Young & Bill Allegrezza. Listen to i-Outlaw now and find out how...
This episodic mini-show brings long lost forgotten writings to your 21st century ears. Joe McDonald reads in the original ancient languages along with his translation. Come listen to ancient Greek, Hebrew and even modern Kyrgyz stories and poems given fresh life.
Episode 1 features the writing of Basil of Seleucia with his piece called 'The One on Saint Elijah'.
Joseph McDonald has been studying languages dead and living for about a decade. After reading Greek and playing music in his formative years he moved with his wife to Kyrgyzstan, where he taught English in a rural school and learned Kyrgyz over glasses of fermented horse milk. He traveled in India after his time in Central Asia and eventually made his way to the Bay Area, where he read Hebrew, Greek, and German under the Jesuits in Berkeley. He holds an M.A. in Biblical Languages and is contemplating further study in ancient Semitics and Hebrew poetry.
Spread the word far and wide. Don't forget to enter our contest to win a free book of poetry! Listen to i-outlaw now and find out how...
Charles Bernstein was born in New York City in 1950. In the 1970s, Bernstein co-founded the influential journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Bernstein also serves as the Executive Editor, and co-founder, of The Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY-Buffalo and is also a member of the Poetics List Editorial Board.
Watch Neils Plenge's The Answer, a poetry video with Charles Bernstein filmed in Riverside Park, New York, 2003.
Her mother was a poet and doll-artist, her father a scholar of philosophy and religion. A practicing Wiccan, Finch's poetry is inspired largely by her relations with the natural world, especially the landscapes of Maine. The forms of Finch's poems are almost always complex and musical; their themes draw upon earth-centered spirituality, myth, sex, and childbirth. Uniting all of her work is a conception of poetry as essentially incantatory, performative, speaking to the body as much as to the mind..jpg)
