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24 May 2013 / 2 notes

http://thesegalcenter.org/event/poetry-in-theatre-early-frank-ohara-plays-by-contemporary-poets-with-judith-malina/

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24 May 2013 / 1 note

I’ll be discussing limits and phtantasms of “relief work” in Haiti and Southeast Asia with Celina Su and Alissa Quart at this Belladonna* event. If you come you can get a very special limited edition Belladonna* chapbook of a new poem by me called TWELFTH NIGHT.

15 Apr 2013 / 7 notes

ODE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH NEGRO POETS

from near the sea, like Whitman my great predecessor, I call
to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

do not spare your wrath upon our shores, that trees may grow
upon the sea, mirror of our total mankind in the weather

one who no longer remembers dancing in the heat of the moon may call
across the shifting sands, trying to live in the terrible western world

here where to love at all’s to be a politician, as to love a poem
is pretentious, this may tendentious but it’s lyrical

which shows what lyricism has been brought to by our fables times
where cowards are shibboleths and one specific love’s traduced

by shame for what you love more generally and never would avoid
where reticence is paid for by a poet in his blood or ceasing to be

blood! Blood that we have mountains in our veins to stand off jackals
in the pillaging of our desires and allegiances, Aimé Césaire

for if there is fortuity it’s in the love we bear each other’s differences
in race which is the poetic ground on which we rear our smiles

standing in the sun of marshes as we wade slowly toward the culmination
of a gift which is categorically the most difficult relationship

and should be sought as such because it is our nature, nothing
inspires us but the love we want upon the frozen face of earth

and utter disparagement turns into praise as generations read the message
of our hearts in adolescent closets who once shot at us in doorways

or kept us from living freely because they were too young then to know
what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life

the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in
lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth
and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are.

-Frank O’Hara

SATURDAY

Cathy Park Hong, Mores McWreath, Ariana Reines, Catherine Wagner, and Ronaldo Wilson

30 Mar 2013 / 3 notes

TODAY IS FRIDAY

or good friday

NOVEL OPERATIONS

launch for Triple Canopy’s Corrected Slogans and Invalid Format

starring Jim Fletcher, with Lakpa Bhutia, Alex Delinois, Sam Frank, Jordan Lord, and Ariana Reines

55 Walker Street, New York, NY

March 29, 2013
7:00–9:00 p.m., $5 suggested donation

29 Mar 2013 / 2 notes

4 THINGS ABOUT BOSTON

1. 12 GOOD READERS

with Jack Christian, Heather Christle, Kate Greenstreet, Amelia Gray, Ben Hersey, Dorothea Lasky, Ella Longpre, Scott McClanahan, Ariana Reines, Abraham Smith, Dana Ward, Carolyn Zaikowski

THURSDAY MARCH 7 @6:30 PM AT THE CANTAB LOUNGE, 738 MASS AVE, CAMBRIDGE

2. MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM

with Donald Dunbar, Lucy Ives, Ariana Reines, & Rebecca Wolff

THURSDAY MARCH 7 DOORS @11:30 PM READINGS @MIDNIGHT AT ERBA CYCLES, 535 ALBANY STREET, BOSTON

3. HOLY TRINITY

with Ariana Reines, Justin Taylor, and Adam Wilson

FRIDAY MARCH 8 @7:00 PM AT LOREM IPSUM BOOKS, 1299 CAMBRIDGE ST, CAMBRIDGE

4. THURSDAY

a new chapbook by me from SPORK, debuting at AWP