December 2011
15 posts
Occupy This -- A Live Streamed Poetry Event
This Saturday,
January 7, 2012
from 7:00pm until 11:30pm…
“We declare ourselves to be free. There is no debt, no cage, no jail cell that can contain us because we are already free.” –Josefina Lopez Casa 0101 and The Roots and Wings Project unite forces for Occupy This! a Poetry Event organized and hosted by artists and activis…ts Jesse Bliss and Josefina Lopez. The evening...
My Column about City Lights Publishing.. →
In December 2011 I wrote 4 columns
for Poets & Writers Magazine’s website..
There are brief reviews of the new books
by David Meltzer, Will Alexander & Ry Cooder..
Districts...
Downtown Los Angeles holds districts within districts. The area is large enough to have several small neighborhoods but small enough to be a tight-knit community. Though the districts have some outlined boundaries, the districts of downtown are smaller sub-districts of the bigger downtown. For instance, the Old Bank District is completely within the Historic Core. The Broadway Theater District is...
Dada Notes
Notes on Dada
After Tristan Tzara
Sound Poems
New Art
Cabaret Voltaire
Peoples Art Under
The Bridges of Paris
In the shadow of
Architectural Ribs.
Discrete detectives
set sixteen suicides
into the Russian night.
Recite French rites
Geographic Futurist Map Poems:
Marinetti’s Backbone,
Apollinaire’s Little Car.
Thank You Tristan Tzara.
Watering Holes
Libraries are monuments,
Bookstores are watering holes,
Get a book to get full.
Books heal souls for those
Who serve them faithfully,
Books alone are free..
Between MeaLs
Junot Diaz, Johnathan Lethem,
Dave Eggers, Jane Jacobs.
Lewis Mumford, PauL Goldberger
Hemingway & his Code Hero;
This is Not a Novel
City Terrace Field Manual
Variations on a Theme Park
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Morning Breaks in the Elevator
My Vocabulary Did This To Me
Poetry As Insurgent Art
The Colossus of New York
Midnight at the Barrelhouse
Between Meals.
The Society of the...
Notes on Calvino & Steinberg..
Meta-literature
Levels of reality, Layers of mythology
Epistemologically
The phantoms of the Imagination
Laboratory conditions
Operators of metaphysics
Ghosts of cybernetics
Science of language, Graphic acrobatics
The pen, the hand, the artist, the man,
The cat, the desk,
Construct perspective,
A story within a story,
Story, information,
Story, information,
Creative NonFiction.
Mike Sonksen Is Alive in Los Angeles →
Blog for Poets & Writers…
P&W-supported spoken-word artist Mike Sonksen, author of I am Alive in Los Angeles, blogs about the L.A. poetry scene.
Folklore on the LAst Bookstore.. →
Weekends as Marathons
Weekends like marathons
Running around town
Hanging with Family,
two Poetry performances,
this is my daughter sleeping
Saturday on our way to Emi’s art show..
Thanks to Jeremy Sole
& Anne Carmack
for the photo..
The Studio For Southern California..
Saturday December 10
I will be performing a set
of poems at
The Studio for Southern California History 977 N. Hill Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
7.30PM.. For more info
on a full day of events
check below..
Taken from Website of The Studio for Southern Caifornia:
The STUDIO CELEBRATES ECHO PARK COMMUNITY PARADE AND THE STUDIO WITHOUT WALLS
Los Angeles, CA – Thursday, December 8, 2011...
Sunday Afternoon Poetry-- 12/11/2011
Check the Poets
throwing down
in 10,000 Sqare Feet
at the
LAst Bookstore
on
Sunday
December 11th
at 5pm…
Spoken Word
& Live Music
Hosted by
Mike the PoeT
Special Muscial Guest
Ice Truck
453 South Spring Street
(5th & Spring)
Enter on 5th..
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 488-0599
Here is a few paragraphs
about the bookstore from their website:
The Last...
What does it mean to be a poet? →
I’m blogging this month
for Poets & Writers Magazine,
this week’s article asks the question:
What does it mean to be a poet?
PoetiC SoundCLouD →
Here are a few recordings
of mine on Soundcloud..