Fake Talking Real Talking (Listening to Steve Benson)*

Repudiation of the morning. The innuendo of slight grand. Why I might be tall and. I think about things with. The eyes holding a book to. Not break them to generate. Our ability to be written in. Advance ankle movement. Positing a challenge between. The body acting it out I. Am thinking aloud anywhere. The body on the page. How are you I'm tortured. The revelry of doldrums as. A species on the whole. I can't see each other. To think speaking the. Northern coast of Maine. Not to the body we don't. Use those words to think. A prosthesis to your nervous. System such writing is. An extension or as I imagine. It surfaces a prosodic membrane. More on that later. I couldn't quite hear if. We didn't have a body we. Would not have to exist. Out of balance relaxing it. Let's it's a nervous lace. That's how I think with. Other people's experiences yet. Porous there is an exchange. Of the body becoming what. It isn't of looking going in. Parts that are coordinated. Into which things come reading. Matter always in some slow. Motion everywhere at different. Times in projections skin. Boundaries up there in motion. Again and again and again. Preoccupied we are thinking. Make it successful sensory. Danger semblance there used. To be an idea of the then. Collapsing limited now. The body everywhere the. Body is exhausted it doesn't. Know to focus on poetry. In question the wind's intraceable.

*composed during the Segue series panel, "Language Poetry and the Body"

...and the body*

Cut it thru the author
Like an ear that had lost its power
Loving to fuck on the beach
Loving to fuck the beach

Seabirds drenched in trauma
Human interest that is
Nonetheless linking I author
It with plenty of negation
To become the lovechild space

*composed during the Segue series panel, "Language Poetry and the Body"

A Reason To Believe In This World

Consequentially the
Cartooned ground
Of ideology gives out

Another subject hangs
Over a cliff but there
Is this to believe in

The way you reached for
Me so unsymbolically or
Sometimes disappear

From my eyes a "pro-
visional termini" if we
Are here at all let us be

For this "quasi-chaos"
Not mistaking their
Land grabs for the real.

What Beauty (II)

What angels see

Anamorph of trees

Birches beware

Things here

Fall back to life

PROSODIC BODY ADMIXTURE #2

MAY 26th at 8:30 PM
PROSODIC BODY ADMIXTURE #2

Poet Film Maker Abigail Child
The Future is Behind You creates a fictional story composed from an
anonymous family archive from 1930’s Europe, reconstructed to emphasize
gender acculturation in two sisters who play, race, fight, kiss and
grow up together under a shadow of oncoming history. At once biography
and fiction, history and psychology, THE FUTURE IS BEHIND YOU excavates
gestures to explore the speculative seduction of narrative; it seeks a
bridge between private and public histories.

Dance artist Melanie Maar
-Leo recuerda Duende-
is provoking the past in the present body
is conducting a family history of dance and
movement disorder through space
is happening in a circle of people
is about letting it appear first, recognizing then
is a dance.

Dancer/choreographer Yves Musard will present bits of movement from his
recent project in La Passerelle, Scene nationale of St Brieuc in
Brittany and will share the dimensions of his project as he experienced
it there.

Dancer/choreographers Daria Fain with Melanie Maar, Peter Sciscioli and
Laurence Schroeder in a Prosodic Body experimentation.
The Prosodic Body is an ongoing collaboration between choreographer
Daria Fain and architect/poet Robert Kocik based on their exploration
of language as a somatic (practice (the manifestation of language in
the body). In the restrictive definition of the word, ‘prosody’ is the
science of poetry and the study of speech intonation. Extending this
definition of prosody, Fain and Kocik opened an experiential field
called the prosodic body.

LOCATION 241 Bedford Ave. #7 -- Brooklyn, NY 11211
L train to bedford Ave. BTWN North 3rd and 4th - 1st floor
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I MAXed OUT

Come to this benefit to help out my friend Elka who recently presented a 90 second I MAX film at the Syracuse Planetarium...

TUESDAY May 22, 2006 starting at 6pm - come to witness Michael Portnoy perform live auction object transference,
hear Aki Onda play with multiple cassette Walkmans and electronics,
sample Chop Shop’s newest delicious bits,
touch the original celluloid of the 90-second, 4lb of 15/70 mm film that premiered at Bristol Imax 3 weeks ago,
see the documentary of “Plany Mela” screening,
and bid for art by

Sarah Oppenheimer, David Reed, Arnold Helbling, Guy Goodwin, Leah Gelpe, Ken Jacobs, Monika Wiechowska, Robert Chambers, Matt Luem, Richard Foreman, Kate Manheim, Marianne Vitale, Markus Draper, James Siena, Paulina Olowska, Julian Kreimer, discoteka flaming star, Michael Portnoy, Lary Seven
(artwork details at http://www.elka.net/IMAXauction.html)

at I MAXed OUT
http://www.elka.net/imaxedout.html
a fundraising auction for the future life of
“Plany Mela” 2007, a movie/performance for dome
a collaboration of Elka Krajewska and Alan Licht
premiered at Bristol Imax Dome on April 21, 2007
http://www.elka.net/BristolImax.html

day schedule for May 22, 2007:

12 - 6 pm works on view at M. Vitale Loft, 50 Delancey buzzer 4
6 - 8 pm silent auction
8 pm sharp – live auction of selected works performed by Michael Portnoy
9 pm – music performance by Aki Onda
9:30 – last 15 minutes of silent bids
9:45 – winners of silent auction announced

10 pm on – other attractions!



All regular silent auction rules apply, all works must be picked up after the bidding ends.
Suggested Admission $15.
with any questions contact : elka@elka.net

Little Red Leaves Vol. 1

The inaugural issue of Little Red Leaves features poems by Marcia
Arrieta, Derek Beaulieu, Jason Christie, Thom Donovan, Raymond Farr,
Skip Fox, Elisa Gabbert, Michalle Gould, Arielle Greenberg, Geoffrey
Hlibchuk, Victoria Hsieh, Ofelia Hunt, Laura Navratil, Francis Raven,
Larissa Shmailo, Elizabeth Treadwell, Sara Veglahn, and Joshua Marie
Wilkinson.

Issue one also includes a selection from the first Dos Press chapbook,
featuring poems by Hoa Nguyen, Carter Smith, and Andrea Strudensky.

www.littleredleaves.com
www.littleredleavesjournal.blogspot.com

Every Name (Piece)

How many degrees one felt the circle sing to us
The warble blend every personage you were
Every phylum you were not--

A timely ambivalence the inverse of chance
In the below of violence sudden above of obediance
I is not I any longer when it reflects while it acts.

For Matiushin

Some tankers and stars lapse some shade of
Resource always resource outsources our lips leak
Silence lay sense to waste intuit what other

Organs were here accomplice to apocalypse art its
Consequences are shapes you make in the dark
About-face non-images are for thinking a feeling

Won't break the back sound waves lapping like
The mind is heard here in not seeing nothing a
Total proprioception of the back as it turned.

Acephale (Man Thinking)

On the road
Again and
Headless

With a gun
For a brain
A mind's full

Of lack that
Wastes the
Isolate

Youth cult
With muscles
Bulging from

No where
One was on
Fire no fire

Was to speak
Of lovers
Bounced on

A bed they
Fulfill their
Deepest wills

Like they were
Our own fuck
Deeply to

The turn-
off gore true
Rubberneckers.