Sunday, February 7, 2021

Of thee I sing... of Youth Laureates

 



 ("Glorious in my fragmentation," she has written) and confronted social issues. Her poem “In This Place (An American Lyric),” written for the 2017 inaugural reading of U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, condemns the racist march in Charlottesville, Virginia ( “tiki torches string a ring of flame”) and holds up her art form as a force for democracy:


Tyrants fear the poet.



Now that we know it



we can’t blow it.



We owe it



to show it



not slow it


Sunday, December 27, 2020

change and changers couple

 



Excellent Climactics Coupled. With Essence of Deep stairwells 

Indian summers, enumerations. Angels, are you still mine? Lonely rivers flow to the sea. To the sea, coupled with essences of deep, resonant stair wells.

To all the empty tunes suspended in time, and the riviera. 

After changes upon changes this is the Poland Warsaw enumerative of the Beethoven Truth project, framed and filmed by the Susquehanna in late Summer 2010. What is the truth? Freezing bubbles and off-kilter sunsets. And why is everyone searching for freezing staccato and off-kilter baubles.  

Snowplows, delivery invocatios and tractor-trailers were among the numerous vehicles to get stuck in the heavy snow in Binghamton, New York. Heavy snow, Indian summer? Bombay, Pakistan. 

Calcutta, Craig Czury? Shiller and Shubert. Streets and curbing.

Paving; utilities; ...  writers, composers, a solitary seamstress, dressmaker, or tailor. Mmm. Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn radiant. Titilates, radiates all the baffles near the vibrating Plaza. Good vibrations in point of fact. Vibes, vibes, vibes.

A sunny halo graces the sky because Kevyn Knox has thrown his hat in the ring.

Knox is running, with some vigor, to be mayor of Harrisburg, PA. Knox is the right man for the position. 

His constitio


ncy is abuzz. Tingling!



--mge, esworthy


Ars Poetrica [sic]

I love a charade. And fond memories of Malazina Snyder.

On occasion, I augment, or depart from traditional lyrical form to heighten tension, leading my interior self to declain in the patio area, if you will.

I love excellent climactic condtions coupled with deepstairwells and extended-intermission led versifiers, which provide a new world view  as well as surprisingly good acoustics. 

There was a time when I'd be was totally hovering above the line of authentic meaning, often called amateur-quakes or homemade porn (I jest), that I delighted in predicting them, foreshadowing their below-the iceberg power. 

Not simply their energy, but their converntrated synergies. The method I latticed into and around "Rim Shots" became pure energy release, quite rythmic in action. Pure.

I got rhythm. And I can spell it too, forward and back.

Elegant, deductionarily spraching.Very pretty but it seems odd to have the trees so regimented. Can you bake a pie?

Can you turn a poem into  a solvent for clogged sinks? 


mge, esworthy

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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Happy Birthday Kali V!

 

 hOPE YOUR BIRTHDAY is a Special Event that vibrates throught the rest of all days.



 



 

Everything's waiting for you.




Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Mound Art Lives!

 Mound Art in America


Step one-- Mound Art theoretician 
Marty Esworthy considers the possibilities. 
Looking for form. Theorizes. 

I mean, the Appian Way wasn't built in a day. --z.k.


















Mound art ain't easy. But it's fulfilling. It's outdoor work.
     You start with the raw material and landscape.

It's mainly about shape and form and moving earth, gravel and other foundations into a pleasing form 
that continues to grow with grace through wind and rain, heat and cold. You work with Mother Earth
and try with work in harmony with the surrounding landscape. You sculpt and shape with natural elements
whenever possible. 
You start with your concept and work with the good earth and that's what makes America great.
Work quickly before the oceans boil over. For real. Y'know life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

Way back when, large earthen monuments were built by Native Americans, often in the shapes of animals...  

On the Watson Brake mound complex on the west side of the Ouachita River approximately twenty miles south of West Monroe were found eleven mounds constructed in a circular pattern, with each mound being connected by a low manmade earthen ridge. 

The Watson Brake mounds are the oldest known human construction in the entire Western Hemisphere. Watson Brake, in fact, is older than the Egyptian pyramids and England’s Stonehenge.

https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/history/the-first-mound-builders/

https://www.broadstreetreview.com/museums/penn-museum-presents-moundbuilders-ancient-architects-of-north-america#
http://www.artificialgrassseattle.com/grassphotos/how-to-install-artificial-grass-grand-mound-washington/426/

https://sites.google.com/site/postdadapress/directions

http://variationsonabullmoose.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-05-15T19:06:00-07:00&max-results=7&reverse-paginate=true

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Saturday, April 25, 2020

Remember Pearl Harbor! Remember the Pandemic....






It has come to the attention of the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel that     
     a "compassionate listening non-profit" has launched a website that hopes to act as a digital library to remember the pandemic. People can submit stories, poems, and articles for publication. interested in publishing your pandemic poetry, sharing your story? Check it out.
Interact with a world of literature outside your own 'hood.



Step outside your boundaries. Live, love, laugh & be happy!
You don’t have to be sad or isolated to write poetry or to smash out of your writer's block. Just do it.
I mean, heck, you don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's.

Life could be a dream. Send them something, if you like.  https://www.coronaviruschroniclesarchive.com
come, read on thursdays at our home on zoom. 
read out loud. share with the world.

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Zoum into cyberspace for congeniality and the sound of verse in early Spring


Open Poetry Mic,  April 2, Zoom
     

Okay, listen up.

Sound in poetry:
in ordinary listening, one responds
to the speaker's intention without attending overmuch
to shape and presentation.

In poetry-- with its double coding-- both sound and sense
are important, and the two are processed on different,
not necessarily, parallel tracks.

     Choo choo ch'-boogie! know I'm sayin'?






There'll be an open
mic, at Zoom, OlĂ©!
The Almost Uptown Poetry
Carter continually hosts
Thursday night (7--9pm)
verse events.

Come to Zoom.
Check our Facebook page for info.
Directions, etc...

                                                                                          We don't miss a beat.
                                  Indeed, we're constant as the Northern Star,
                  everything's waiting for you.

                No sign-up sheet.
                          It's Quaker-style-- read as the spirit moves you.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Open Mic, poetry cartel, 1421 N. 3rd, March 12!










The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel hosts a near-mid-March open-mike poetry-performance-opportunity, March 12, 2020, 7 to 9pm at the long-running POETRY THURSDAYS-Cartel-reading-series,

Now, every Thursday, at Hertrich Fine Art, 1421 N. Third. 17102.

 Second floor, walk in, walk up-- you're there! Yes, a place to declaim-- to tell it like it is. Jump in.

Everything's waiting for you.
Did I say, 7-9PM? More info: 717.695.9299.

Spring is nigh, summer's just around the bend. The oak-leaf hydrangeas are expected to be a brilliant snow-white this year.



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