Posts Tagged ‘music’
Listen Aid
Posted: September 8, 2010
Tags: poetry, Virginia Woolf, John Cage, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant
Guest Contributor: Dena Ratner Plugged into Clinic, your thirty-minute journey to work is colored by the band’s coke-induced fast tracks. What started out as a bleary-eyed trudge is transformed into matutinal elation as you’re gliding down the street past person after person, cars cars cars and building after building, everything is rocking with your aural jubilation As you climb up the stairs and come back forever / Summer’s in the house, untamed it was / Walking with thee / Walking with thee / Walking with thee / Walking with thee until you arrive at work and barely remember how you …
Jericho Brown Writes What’s On His Mind
Posted: July 18, 2010
Tags: Wallace Stevens, Phillis Wheatley, Black Arts Movement, punctuation, Billie Holiday
“I think we’ve been telling our students so long, ‘Write what you know. Write your lived experience,’ and I think our students have this idea that that means write about the time A, B, and C happened to me, but that’s not really it. It’s more, write what you can’t stop thinking about. Write what’s on your mind.”
Creating the Chorus: Joshua Kryah and the Question of Faith
“…the poem that is crafted as well as it can be crafted sometimes winds up just ‘saying’ something; it’s saying this about language, or it’s saying this about faith, or it’s saying this about the Beloved, or the condition of love. Whereas right now what I want to do is speak. I want, not to pronounce, but to let the poems go further than they usually have, or that I’ve allowed them to go.”
Artistic Fundamentals: Gabriel Judet-Weinshel
“… any time somebody’s taste expands I think it’s because something touches them in that new thing that they’re drawn to, something that’s accessible immediately. If there’s nothing accessible immediately I don’t think you can gravitate towards something, but if there’s something immediately accessible or something that touches you, then that creates the spark that makes you want to stretch.”
