[Lilac blossoms on a small lilac tree I pass on my morning walks to the office.]
Spring, it appears, has arrived here in West Michigan.
As my workload eases slightly I have been listening to some of the recordings at the Naropa Poetics Audio Archive. In particular, a series of lectures from a 1991 workshop called “Beat and Other Rebel Angels,” run by Joanne Kyger at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
In the first of eight lectures from the workshop, Kyger talks extensively of Jack Spicer, of whom I recently became aware when reading the Evergreen Review Reader, 1957-1966 earlier this year. Spicer had significant interaction with Richard Brautigan, and now I think I need to seek out more of his work.
Reading
I finished my Brautigan book, which included Trout Fishing In America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar. My brain is now wonderfully twisted.
Writing
I managed another poem or two this week, but most of my creative energy went to writing code.
Weekly Writing Prompt
Subject: Reincarnation, Portals
Setting: Wilderness
Genre: Horror
Listening
“Me & You vs. the World” by Space, from their 1996 album Spiders.
Interesting Links
- “China Sends Strong Message to “Global South” (and US) Via Its Embassy in Argentina” (Nick Corbishley, Naked Capitalism)
- “Pluralistic: Every complex ecosystem has parasites” (Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic)
- “Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So.” (Toby Buckle, Liberal Currents)