Tom Cassidy—Untitled

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Tom Cassidy appeared in AlteredScale.com 3 and is a regular contributor to this blog.

Tom Cassidy's written and drawn works have appeared in hundreds of smallpress and mainstream publications, as well as galleries and museums around the world. His works are archived in dozens of art institutions, often under his own name. With John Bennett and Scott Helmes, he co-edited Vispoeology (2007), an international anthology of visual literature for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, where he also co-curated None of the Above in 2009. In 1976, Tom co-founded the Portland performance poetry troupe The Impossibilists, who were reunited in April, 2008, for a series of shows by the Oregon Heritage Commission. He is currently a board member, performer, and curator for Cheap Theatre and Patrick’s Cabaret.

Ann Bogle, AlteredScale Writer, Recognized As Authoring a Top 50 Very Short Fiction for 2013

READING 

by

ANN BOGLE

preceded by

Lenora Drowns-Twin Cities visual artist and poet

George J. Farrah-visual artist and author of forthcoming poetry collection The Low Pouring Stars (Ravenna Press)

Jefferson Hansen-novelist, poet, essayist, editor of AlteredScale.com

June 29 
7:30 
SubText Books
165 Western Ave. N., St Paul, MN

In Blair Arcade building.

Every year, Wigleaf publishes a list of the top 50 Very Short Fictions that appeared in the previous year. TheAlteredScalePress and AlteredScale.com is proud to announce that Ann Bogle's "Meryl Streep Laughed at That" made the list this year. What's more, it originally appeared as a broadside with a beautiful photographic backdrop designed by Ann herself. You can purchase the broadside at TheAlteredScalePress.

Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2013

ALL RIGHT, YOU SAY YOU’RE A JAZZ POET,

by Jack Foley

 does that mean you identify

            Dear one,

with the girl singer

            the world

(with her single voice)

            is waiting for the sunrise—

or with the band—

            every rose

with its   MULTITUDE

            is heavy

of voices?

            with dew—

     *     *     *     *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkJ72u2ymBc

has tenor John Steel in a 1921 recording of “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise”  (1919, lyrics by actor Gene Lockhart, music by concert pianist Ernst Seitz), matched with images of The San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. The Palace of Fine Arts had been built as a “fictional ruin” by architect Bernard Maybeck for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. Steel mispronounces “trysting.” The tenor’s peak moment was probably when he sang Irving Berlin’s “A Pretty Girl is like a Melody” in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=mH_0g2IoNbI&feature=endscreen

is a red-hot version of the song performed by Django Reinhart and Stéphane Grappelli.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiJ6ME4EGQI&feature=related

has Les Paul and Mary Ford’s version, from their TV show.

A correction: Steel's pronunciation of "trysting" isn't a mistake: it's possible though not preferred. I had never heard it pronounced that way.

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Jack Foley’s radio show, Cover to Cover, is heard on Berkeley, California radio station KPFA every Wednesday at 3; his column, “Foley’s Books,” appears in the online magazine Alsop Review. He has published 11 books of poetry, 5 books of criticism, and Visions and Affiliations, a chronoencyclopedia of California poetry. In 2010 Foley was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Berkeley Poetry Festival, and June 5, 2010 was proclaimed “Jack Foley Day” in Berkeley. A webfestschrift celebrating his life and work can be found in the current Tower Journal: www.towerjournal.com.

Website: www.jack-adellefoley.com/ 

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Foley_(poet)#Biography.

Jack Foley contributes regularly to this blog.

WordTree paintings by George J. Farrah

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George J. Farrah lives and writes poetry and paints in Minneaplis, Mn. His visual work is concerned with on going series that reflects the interstice of technology, language and nature. He has published and exhibited nationally for over 25 years. He is represented by Flanders Contemporary Gallery.

His poetry is concerned with the language of loss and discovery and experimentation. “The Low Pouring Stars“ is forthcoming from Ravenna Press.

WordTree paintings by George J. Farrah

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(Detailed photos of a painting entitled WordTree #11.532.21, which is 96" long and 60" wide. Media: charcoal and typed poems on canvas)

George J. Farrah lives and writes poetry and paints in Minneaplis, Mn. His visual work is concerned with on going series that reflects the interstice of technology, language and nature. He has published and exhibited nationally for over 25 years. He is represented by Flanders Contemporary Gallery.

His poetry is concerned with the language of loss and discovery and experimentation. The Low Pouring Stars is forthcoming from Ravenna Press.

Jefferson Hansen at Uptown Writers Group

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Jefferson Hansen is the author of ...and beefheart saved craig and a number of volumes of poetry. He is the editor of AlteredScale.com, and will open for Ann Bogle on June 22 when TheAlteredScalePress celebrates her broadside, "Meryl Streep Laughed at That," being selected by Wigleaf as one of the top 50 Very Short Stories of 2013. Also reading will be Lenora Drowns and George J. Farrah.

7:30

Common Roots Cafe

2558 Lyndale Ave. S.

Minneapolis

Jonathan Brannen at Uptown Writers Group June 15, 2013

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Jonathan Brannen appears in all AlteredScale.com issues, and will be the featured artist in AlteredScale.com 4, out in the fall. He has two books out from TheAlteredScalePress, and has published widely. His work has been translated into three languages.

Terry Folz at Uptown Writers Group June 15, 2013

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Terry is a regular contributor to this blog, and has appeared in AlteredScale.com 1, AlteredScale.com 2, and will appear in AlteredScale.com 3. His chapbook Dead Parrots appeared from TheAlteredScalePress in 2013.

Mary Kasimor at Uptown Writers Group June 15, 2013

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Mary Kasimor is a regular contributor to this blog. She also appears in AlteredScale.com issues 2 and 3, and she guest edited a poetry gallery in issue 3. She is the author of a number of books of poetry, including Duplex (TheAlteredScalePress).

Jen Coleman—Special Guest Reader at Uptown Writers Group

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Jen Coleman visited Minneapolis' Uptown Writers Group on June 15, 2013 and shared with us this wonderful reading.

Jen lives in Portland and is the author "of the chapbook Propinquity and coauthor with Allison Cobb and C. E. Putnam of the chapbook Communal Bebop Canto. Her work has appeared in Chain, Tangent, Ixnay, EOAGH, and other literary magazines. She works in outreach for Oregon Environmental Council." (Bio is lifted from her feature at Jacket 2.)

Others who read at party:

Mary Kasimor's film to show on 6/16
Terrence Folz's to show on 6/17
Jonathan Brannen's to show on 6/18
Jefferson Hansen on 6/19



On 6/22, ANN BOGLE reads at Common Roots Cafe (2558 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Lenora Drowns, George J. Farrah, and Jefferson Hansen open. See Facebook event page.

Ascenseur pour l’échafaud/Elevator to the Gallows

by Jack Foley

                         for Robin A. Nicholas

who writes
who writes
of the sadness of lovers
of the sadness of lovers
of their
of their
loneliness when apart
loneliness when apart
Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau
in this magnificent film
in this magnificent film
wanders the night
wanders the night
streets of Paris
streets of Paris
finding
finding
nothing
nothing
her love is sincere
her love is sincere
but her punishment
but her punishment
later
later
is worse than her
is worse than her
lover’s
lover’s
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
watched the film
watched the film
with those deep deep eyes
with those deep deep eyes
and named
and named
the nothing
the nothing
she felt
she felt
as he leapt
as he leapt
beyond
beyond

the frenzy of bebop

to the pure
to the pure
sound
sound

of the heart of the world
of the heart of the world

in a woman’s
in a woman’s

longing
(longing)

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Jack Foley’s radio show, Cover to Cover, is heard on Berkeley, California radio station KPFA every Wednesday at 3; his column, “Foley’s Books,” appears in the online magazine Alsop Review. He has published 11 books of poetry, 5 books of criticism, and Visions and Affiliations, a chronoencyclopedia of California poetry. In 2010 Foley was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Berkeley Poetry Festival, and June 5, 2010 was proclaimed “Jack Foley Day” in Berkeley. A webfestschrift celebrating his life and work can be found in the current Tower Journal: www.towerjournal.com.

Website: www.jack-adellefoley.com/ 

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Foley_(poet)#Biography.

Jack Foley contributes regularly to this blog.