Kazim Ali reads two poems: “Interrupted Letter” and “The Second Funeral”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRhdoo6kSUw

Kazim Ali reads “Interrupted Letter” and “The Second Funeral” from The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008).

Kazim Ali is is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque (Alice James Books), winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award, and The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008). He is also the author of the novel Quinn’s Passage (blazeVox books), named one of “The Best Books of 2005” by Chronogram magazine, The Disappearance of Seth (Etruscan Press, 2009), and Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press, 2009).

He is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College and teaches in the low-residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine. His work has been featured in many national journals such as Best American Poetry 2007, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, jubilat and Massachusetts Review. He teaches at Oberlin College and the Stonecoast MFA program and is a founding editor of Nightboat Books.

     

Kazim Ali reads two poems: “Dear Sunset, Dear Avalanche” and “Mouth”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbYqiz8GTiE

Kazim Ali reads “Dear Sunset, Dear Avalanche” and “Mouth” from The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008).

Kazim Ali is is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque (Alice James Books), winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award, and The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008). He is also the author of the novel Quinn’s Passage (blazeVox books), named one of “The Best Books of 2005” by Chronogram magazine, The Disappearance of Seth (Etruscan Press, 2009), and Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press, 2009).

He is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College and teaches in the low-residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine. His work has been featured in many national journals such as Best American Poetry 2007, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, jubilat and Massachusetts Review. He teaches at Oberlin College and the Stonecoast MFA program and is a founding editor of Nightboat Books.

     

Tracing the Places of d.a. levy (by Alex Gildzen) – video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGun47KdM1Y

Poem by Alex Gildzen recorded on 21 July 2010 at Whitehaven Memorial Park in Mayfield Village, Ohio.

“Tracing the Places of d.a. levy” comes from Gildzen’s work-in-progress Ohio Triangle, forthcoming in 2014 from Crisis Chronicles Press.

For more Gildzen, check out his Outlaw Dreams (2008) and Beth (2009) from Green Panda Press, as well as his The Avalanche of Time: Selected Poems 1964-1984 (1986, North Atlantic Books).

You may also visit Gildzen’s blog: http://arroyochamisa.blogspot.com
read his biography: http://internet.cybermesa.com/~takis/AGBio.htm
peruse his papers: http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/faculty/gildzen.html
and view several more of his videos: http://youtube.com/user/gildzen

For more d.a. levy, please visit http://www.clevelandmemory.org/levy

Michael Salinger features at Lix & Kix, part two – 4/21/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsH3fKQWSZw

Part two of Michael Salinger‘s featured reading on 21 April 2010 during the Lix and Kix Poetry
Extravaganza at Bela Dubby Art Gallery & Beer Cafe, 13321 Madison Avenue in Lakewood, OH

MIchael Salinger is a teaching artist, author and literacy consultant working out of the Cleveland, Ohio, area who travels all over the world promoting literacy and comprehension through poetry and performance.  For more information, visit www.michaelsalinger.com or follow his blog at http://michaelsalinger.blogspot.com.

     

Michael Salinger features at Lix & Kix, part one – 4/21/2010

Part one of Michael Salinger‘s featured reading on 21 April 2010 during the Lix and Kix Poetry
Extravaganza at Bela Dubby Art Gallery & Beer Cafe, 13321 Madison Avenue in Lakewood, OH

MIchael Salinger is a teaching artist, author and literacy consultant working out of the Cleveland, Ohio, area who travels all over the world promoting literacy and comprehension through poetry and performance.  For more information, visit www.michaelsalinger.com or follow his blog at http://michaelsalinger.blogspot.com.

     

After a Visit (by Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906

After a Visit
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
[from Lyrics of Lowly Life, 1896]

I be’n down in ole Kentucky
     Fur a week er two, an’ say,
‘T wuz ez hard ez breakin’ oxen
     Fur to tear myse’f away.
Allus argerin’ ’bout fren’ship
     An’ yer hospitality–
Y’ ain’t no right to talk about it
     Tell you be’n down there to see.

See jest how they give you welcome
     To the best that ‘s in the land,
Feel the sort o’ grip they give you
     When they take you by the hand.
Hear ’em say, “We ‘re glad to have you,
     Better stay a week er two;”
An’ the way they treat you makes you
     Feel that ev’ry word is true.

Feed you tell you hear the buttons
     Crackin’ on yore Sunday vest;
Haul you roun’ to see the wonders
     Tell you have to cry for rest.
Drink yer health an’ pet an’ praise you
     Tell you git to feel ez great
Ez the Sheriff o’ the county
     Er the Gov’ner o’ the State.

Wife, she sez I must be crazy
     ‘Cause I go on so, an’ Nelse
He ‘lows, “Goodness gracious! daddy,
     Cain’t you talk about nuthin’ else?”
Well, pleg-gone it, I’m jes’ tickled,
     Bein’ tickled ain’t no sin;
I be’n down in ole Kentucky,
     An’ I want t’ go ag’in.

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Beyond the Years (by Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906

Beyond the Years
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
[from Lyrics of Lowly Life, 1896]

I.

Beyond the years the answer lies,
Beyond where brood the grieving skies
     And Night drops tears.
Where Faith rod-chastened smiles to rise
     And doff its fears,
And carping Sorrow pines and dies–
     Beyond the years.

II.

Beyond the years the prayer for rest
Shall beat no more within the breast;
     The darkness clears,
And Morn perched on the mountain’s crest
     Her form uprears–
The day that is to come is best,
     Beyond the years.

III.

Beyond the years the soul shall find
That endless peace for which it pined,
     For light appears,
And to the eyes that still were blind
     With blood and tears,
Their sight shall come all unconfined
     Beyond the years.

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Kate Zambreno reads from O Fallen Angel in Cleveland, part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oqMpQT4pE

2nd half of a reading by Kate Zambreno from her novel, O Fallen Angel (2009, Chiasmus Press)
recorded May 8th 2010 at Visible Voice Books, 1023 Kenilworth Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio
[camera and video editing by John Burroughs]

Kate Zambreno’s O Fallen Angel won Chiasmus Press’ “Undoing the Novel” contest. She is the prose editor at Nightboat Books and a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative. A book of essays with the same name as her blog, Frances Farmer Is My Sister, will be published by Semiotext(e)’s Active Agents series in Spring 2012.  Legacy Pictures recently published a chapbook, I AM SHARON TATE, that is excerpted from her novel-in-progress Under the Shadow of My Roof. Her novel Green Girl will be published by Emergency Press in Fall 2011. She is also the author of the anti-memoir Book of Mutter.

[from] On Weddynge Gyftes (by Ernest Hemingway)

U.S. Army photo of Ernest Hemingway in Milan, 1918

Three traveling clocks
Tick
On the mantlepiece
Comma
But the young man is starving.

[written 1921 in Chicago, published 17 December 1921 in the Toronto Star Weekly]

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Kate Zambreno reads from O Fallen Angel in Cleveland, part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX3Ap5554so

1st half of a reading by Kate Zambreno from her novel, O Fallen Angel (2009, Chiasmus Press)
recorded May 8th 2010 at Visible Voice Books, 1023 Kenilworth Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio
[camera and video editing by John Burroughs]

Kate Zambreno’s O Fallen Angel won Chiasmus Press’ “Undoing the Novel” contest. She is the prose editor at Nightboat Books and a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative. A book of essays with the same name as her blog, Frances Farmer Is My Sister, will be published by Semiotext(e)’s Active Agents series in Spring 2012.  Legacy Pictures recently published a chapbook, I AM SHARON TATE, that is excerpted from her novel-in-progress Under the Shadow of My Roof. Her novel Green Girl will be published by Emergency Press in Fall 2011. She is also the author of the anti-memoir Book of Mutter.

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