Showing posts with label manifesto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manifesto. Show all posts
12.07.2021
9.03.2018
breezy poem
How To Write A Breezy Poem
by Charles “Chuck” Calabreze
1. Begin with “Because,” “When,” or “If.”
2. Mention two strangers. Describe in detail.
3. Tell where you’re watching from.
4. Create a simile involving a household pet.
5. Make a tentative philosophical observation.
6. Take back tentative philosophical observation.
7. Confess that you’ve lied about 1 & 2.
8. Change the subject entirely. Or write a series of similes involving various pop culture icons. Extra credit: Drop names of TV shows seen only on Nick at Nite.
9. Say what you’re really doing (i.e. writing a poem).
10. Confess that you don’t really know what you’re doing.
11. Tell what you’d rather be doing.
12. Write a brief passage proving that you’re not a capital ‘P’ poet (e.g., T.S. Eliot)
13. Further undermine your authority by impugning your motives. (Hint: reduce them to something base and trivial.)
14. Invent a simile or two or three using common kitchen appliances or objects.
15. Mention a friend’s marital or dating problems. Extra credit: Mention your married friend’s dating problems.
16. Make list of events beginning with “After.”
17. Make tentative psychological observation.
18. Take back tentative psychological observation.
19. Rapidly change the subject to avoid implication of 16.
20. Return to the strangers. Begin line “I swear.”
21. Envy something about the strangers. Example: Unselfconsciousness.
22. Mention an obscure rock ‘n’ roll band.
23. Praise the band extravagantly.
24. Change the subject again.
26. Apologize to the reader.
25. End with slightly obtuse but trivial observation grounded in everyday routine. If possible, be witty.
[Originally appeared in Countermeasures #3]
by Charles “Chuck” Calabreze
1. Begin with “Because,” “When,” or “If.”
2. Mention two strangers. Describe in detail.
3. Tell where you’re watching from.
4. Create a simile involving a household pet.
5. Make a tentative philosophical observation.
6. Take back tentative philosophical observation.
7. Confess that you’ve lied about 1 & 2.
8. Change the subject entirely. Or write a series of similes involving various pop culture icons. Extra credit: Drop names of TV shows seen only on Nick at Nite.
9. Say what you’re really doing (i.e. writing a poem).
10. Confess that you don’t really know what you’re doing.
11. Tell what you’d rather be doing.
12. Write a brief passage proving that you’re not a capital ‘P’ poet (e.g., T.S. Eliot)
13. Further undermine your authority by impugning your motives. (Hint: reduce them to something base and trivial.)
14. Invent a simile or two or three using common kitchen appliances or objects.
15. Mention a friend’s marital or dating problems. Extra credit: Mention your married friend’s dating problems.
16. Make list of events beginning with “After.”
17. Make tentative psychological observation.
18. Take back tentative psychological observation.
19. Rapidly change the subject to avoid implication of 16.
20. Return to the strangers. Begin line “I swear.”
21. Envy something about the strangers. Example: Unselfconsciousness.
22. Mention an obscure rock ‘n’ roll band.
23. Praise the band extravagantly.
24. Change the subject again.
26. Apologize to the reader.
25. End with slightly obtuse but trivial observation grounded in everyday routine. If possible, be witty.
[Originally appeared in Countermeasures #3]
8.23.2018
literary collaborators
A manifesto makes room for the aphorism. The aphorism is made for a manifesto.
8.06.2018
sentences comment
34. When an artist learns his craft too well he makes slick art.
35. These sentences comment on art, but are not art.
—Sol Lewitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art"
[First published in 0-9 (New York), 1969, and Art-Language (England), May 1969]
35. These sentences comment on art, but are not art.
—Sol Lewitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art"
[First published in 0-9 (New York), 1969, and Art-Language (England), May 1969]
6.30.2018
declaration not an answer
A manifesto arises, it is not solicited.
[A manifesto lives on impulse. It is not as slow to develop as a project.]
[A manifesto lives on impulse. It is not as slow to develop as a project.]
11.05.2016
7.23.2016
listen up, people
Another online litmag with one of those masthead manifestos written by an editor too young to understand how much his exhortations sound like echoes.
9.29.2012
poetry doesn't need you
Poetry doesn’t need you to coax out its meanings or to tease out its
strategies or to unpack its bags.
[…]
Poetry doesn’t need you to vibrate or widen your mindscope or
suckle your cowsack or snuff up your hornblow or sweat out
your insides or dredge up your backwash or kick in your
facecloth or chisel your eyeteeth or sink into quicksand.
—Ken Cormier, two sections from “Poetry Doesn’t Need You,” The Tragedy in My Neighborhood (Dead Academics Press, 2011)
strategies or to unpack its bags.
[…]
Poetry doesn’t need you to vibrate or widen your mindscope or
suckle your cowsack or snuff up your hornblow or sweat out
your insides or dredge up your backwash or kick in your
facecloth or chisel your eyeteeth or sink into quicksand.
—Ken Cormier, two sections from “Poetry Doesn’t Need You,” The Tragedy in My Neighborhood (Dead Academics Press, 2011)
12.09.2007
12.01.2007
60 second manifesto
I thought this was a well executed performance piece (60 second lecture). I've often observed that much of the 'prosody' of language poetry is expressed in the negative: Poetry that is asyntactic, non-narrative, non-linear or discontinuous, lacking closure, etc. True to form, Bernstein's poem-manifesto is completely phrased in the negative except for the last line, in which he invokes the great Borscht Belt comics' mantra of 'a joke is all in the timing'.
5.20.2006
old battle flag
Their manifesto was an old battle flag trotted out with some new dyes and hastily embroidered emblems.
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