Hist Soundtrack Complete

I wasn’t sure if I would ever say this, but I have completed the soundtrack for my collaborative graphic novel HIST. I’m very proud of this album because it blends the rich and uncanny textures of intimate found sounds, such as the clicking of beech nut spikes, with spoken word, extending the digital materiality of the graphic novel into the sonic realm. Working with my coauthor and vocalist, Matthew Klane, over the last two years, he and I have recorded the full album, mixed it, and the mastering was recently finished by the wonderful Sam Torres at Polymouth Music. I am in the process of shopping this album to various labels and will update as soon as I place it!

Keep an eye out for updates on future performances. For now, enjoy these offerings below.

New poetry published - Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism

I’ve been working on two new series, Capacities To and SPLTTD. A special issue of Capacities To from Imbricate Press published quite a few of them. It’s awesome to be in such good company.

Thanks to Gregory J. Seigworth, Mathew Arthur, Wendy J. Truran, Chad Shomura for their wonderful editing skills and their timely release of this joyful collection.

HIST performance @ Fitz books & waffles!

Matthew Klane and I performed some tracks from HIST with poets Julie Neely and Robin Lee Jordan on 2/3/23. Such a good turnout and amazing waffles! Thanks for the love Fitz and company!

Robin Lee Jordan

Julia Neely

Photo Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan

Photo Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan

“Thicket on the Prarie” Video Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan

New Publication: Graphic Novel HIST in Diagram

Check out a new excerpt from Matthew Klane and I’s graphic novel Hist in the new Diagram 22.1. The full graphic novel is forthcoming in Summer 2022 with Calamari Archive. We’ll be designing the cover and writing a score to accompany it in the coming months. Stay tuned!

New Review: Writing In Real Time

Writing in Real Time

Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital. Cambridge UP, 2017. 226 pp. $105.00 hardback.

I just finished a review of Paul Jaussen’s excellent Writing in Real Time | Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital for the Journal of Modern Literature. I highly recommend it! With the Covid Pandemic, I’m not sure when this will be published, but I’ll keep you posted.

Abstract

In Writing in Real Time | Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital, Paul Jaussen reconsiders the formal idiosyncrasies of the American long poem through contemporary systems theories. Jaussen claims that the immutable architectures that support long poems from Walt Whitman to Nathaniel Mackey cannot be reduced to the play of lyric intensities, nor are they productively approached through extensive genre categorization. Instead of these two methodologies, he argues that their forms interactively emerge; they unfold in real time as adaptive systems with the capacity to critique, rework, and respond to their changing material environments. To read the diversity of the American long poem through systems theoretical discourse is to reveal what Jaussen calls “interactive emergence,” the poet’s sustained creative/critical improvisation with the material dynamism of time.

New Audio: Green Kill Performance of Idiopathic

Enjoy this performance from my performance of Idiopathic for voice, electronics, and found sound on 2/27/20 at Green Kill Performance Space.

Techniques for the Oddity

Audio and Video from past performances by James Belflower

Green Kill Performance of With Walden

A great time reading with Ruth Danon at the Green Kill Performance Space on 2.13.20. Using Touchviz, I improvised video and read from an ongoing project titled With Walden. You can see other stills of the project here. I return to Green Kill on 2.27.20 to perform an except from a new sound poem called Idiopathic. Hopefully I’ll see you there!

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Audio: Ronald Johnson’s “ARK 38, Ariel’s Songs to Prospero”

I’m very excited to see access to the audio file of Ronald Johnson’s ARK 38 “Ariel’s Songs to Prospero” available (thanks Peter!). I was looking for this during my dissertation chapter on Ronald’s cookbooks! This is a wonderful addition to the recent reissue of Ark by Flood Editions.

Ronald Johnson's papers are held at the Kenneth Spencer Research Collection at the University of Kansas Libraries. His books are published in the U.S. by Flood Editions. Send all inquiries to peter [at] luxhominem [dot] com.

Below is a link to the recording of “ARK 38, Ariel’s Songs to Prospero,” for Dorothy Neal, recorded with Roger Gans at KQED in San Francisco in the early 1980s. It is “constructed out of recordings of songs of the birds of eastern United States,” according to Johnson.

English Department Colloquium Presentation

Film Poem Published in Barzakh Magazine | With Walden

My new film poem is in great company in the new alumni issue of Barzakh Magazine! With Walden employs improvised video, field recordings, drawings, and poetry to grapple with the claustrophobic vigor of love in the first months of fatherhood.