Tag Archives: Black Bart

Poetry As Crime; Parole at Ten

Poetry As Crime; Parole at Ten by Pat Nolan In September of 2012, Parole, the blog of the newly reconstituted Black Bart Poetry Society whose motto is “For those who think poetry is still a crime,” started as irregular memos … Continue reading

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The Poet Learns To Surf

The Poet Learns To Surf In which Carl Wendt, poet, flaneur, and walking anachronism, dips his gnarled toes into the waters of the cyberverse to find it not as cold as he’d anticipated. Although still in the shallow end with … Continue reading

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Meditations In An Emergency~Part Two~

MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY ~Part Two~ By David Perry The Cosmopolitan, the Quotidian, and the Anthropocene Turn in Sun Dong’s 2020 Pandemic Poetry “春天在人类纪 欲呼无气,欲加口罩” — 孙冬《注视》 “Spring in the Anthropocene You who’d scream to breathe, add a mask” — Sun Dong, … Continue reading

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Meditations In An Emergency ~Part One~

MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY~Part One~ By David Perry The Cosmopolitan, the Quotidian, and the Anthropocene Turnin Sun Dong’s 2020 Pandemic Poetry “春天在人类纪 欲呼无气,欲加口罩” — 孙冬《注视》“Spring in the Anthropocene You who’d scream to breathe, add a mask”— Sun Dong, “Fixed Gaze” 空山不見人,   但聞人語響。— 王維《鹿柴》Empty mountains: … Continue reading

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“A Continuous Fabric (Nerve Movie?)”

  “A Continuous Fabric (Nerve Movie?)”: Early Scalapino, Late Whalen Part One by Bruce Holsapple                                                   … Continue reading

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This Heaven Where We Live As Music

Rounding out Philip Whalen Month is a previously published succinct and insightful review of The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen by Keith Kumasen Abbott who has authored numerous essay and lectures on the American poet and Zen monk appearing in … Continue reading

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In Close Proximity—Part Two

In Close Proximity—Part Two Excerpts from Side Effect A Journal of Zen Life with Philip Whalen by Tensho David Schneider Tensho David Schneider’s journal, Side Effect, came about from the idea that the sayings and doings of Philip Whalen—Zenshin Ryufu … Continue reading

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In Close Proximity—Part One

In Close Proximity—Part One excerpts from Side Effect A Journal of Zen Life with Philip Whalen by Tensho David Schneider Tensho David Schneider’s journal, Side Effect came about from the idea that the sayings and doings of Philip Whalen—Zenshin Ryufu … Continue reading

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Hello, I Must Be Going [Part II]

Hello, I Must Be Going [Part II]  Excerpts from Thanks For Asking: The Whalen Journal by Steve Silberman        In May of 1993, Michael Wenger at the San Francisco Zen Center contacted  Steve and asked him if he … Continue reading

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Whalen & Wieners: Eavesdropping on the Greats

[Eavesdropping on the greats is bound to garner an earful.  A brief unauthorized peek at  correspondence between Philip Whalen and John Wieners from the late ‘50s, early ‘60s. Many thanks and appreciations to Messer’s Berkson and Abbott (now jogging funny … Continue reading

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