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Jim Leftwich and Michelle Greenblatt
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A Visual Conversation on Michelle Greenblatt's ASHES AND SEEDS with Stephen Harrison, Monika Mori | MOO, Jonathan Penton and Michelle Greenblatt

Letters for Michelle: with work by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jeffrey Side, Larry Goodell, mark hartenbach, Charles J. Butler, Alexandria Bryan and Brian Kovich

Visual Poetry by Reed Altemus
Poetry by Glen Armstrong
Poetry by Lana Bella
A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
A Eulogy by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
A Eulogy by Alan Fyfe
Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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three poems by Steve Dalachinsky

Genesis  ( the late paintings of Willem de Kooning )

                                                    1.
her belly button's
like de kooning's
late work
                                               wide   /        open

                                                    2.

elegant/   touchable                                            &                 wide /       o   p   e   n
ribbons   of
soft
            color
                              from a primary eye.

                                                    3.

soft       /
       /      elegant       &               open

                                               she    floats    on   a vast sea   of             white


                                                    4.

                                             her    hair
                          cropped tight to her scalp is                red
                                    her eyes    wide   open          &                         as vast
                                                                                                as the  White / SEA
all these elements
are the waves
that make up the back of her
head

which help to form a
canvas

                                                    5.
someone in this open space
speaks
                     ITALIAN    &
    i disperse
                        &   re/
                                 /   connect
      like the lines in de kooning's late paintings

as always
lines forming words on white
space
                  are not as elegant as

                                                                       PAINT.




2 dead crows

i wanted to leave but felt trapped within the Q & A
fine full blades of grass crept up thru the clefts
of the ruins
& a field of roses surrounded the colonnades
trapped within its chassis

we need not create a world      i mutter something to jim

used to be so's one could walk within the garden
w/o seeking solutions

h.w.'s pretty wife left him for a rich young free mason
anti-all-the-rest where will all the poems and rhetoric
go now bad enough in any season but this one so interchangeable
with the last
he's closing up shop for dollar & health   ( c.z. not a bad looker )
will not see that statue where emma lay
rise up before her     again

          we sat in the truck     it wreaked of sullen & free
            crammed with colonnades   & no license to  bear them

i muttered something to jim
                                                               what is free mason & does he still exist
      slave revolt he says disguised as        wild orgy
                    something tells me                                            then tells someone else  same

what's meant by all the pony  i asks      is all that philosophy ya speaks of  is it useful
say's useful as a poem      there's the rubout      climbing toward the tops of it

i insist on leaving  but only to myself. i am seated in a corner    trapped within the Q & A.
i'm not easy to read  though i always think i am so i say here this is what i am read me hey
don't read me i'll do it for you    h.w. says she left him & his funds & health are failing.
oh, stinking fucking rotten world where an uncontrolled grope comes so natural.
      cider in the corner      coffee's not so good here anyhow      none's the music either

it's all the same anyway 2 dead crows in the little basket with a lid they've been showing us
   them for decades      i mutter something to jim      i could have left hours ago
          but instead munch another carrot      the Q & A is over        i ask WHY…




KONEC  -  for Willem de Kooning


the freedom  to     be a woman
     a man painting a
                                          woman              a line

                        liberated from space

                                                                         _______________________

                           & then violently applied                to destroy   & reconstruct itself

     a scowl             a smiling instance     of tenderness

  the pink lady looks up hurt wondering waiting

     the freedom of line torn from space
  franticly                              de ___________________________________ constructed
                      with order pathos    tenderness &        light
  the ribs
                                    torn from the man
                            sharp ribs                  with infinite line haired edges
     jangling   every which way
                                                                 to make a perfect composition
  her teeth perhaps    too big     her breasts       too full    with feeding

               but she is the total embodiment
               of his desire
               his hysteria &
               his love.


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Steven Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn, New York sometime after the last Big War and before lots of useless little wars...he has been writing poetry since before then and has always...he is basically self-taught...his great loves and influences are the Beats, Blake, Kafka, Camus, Harpo, surreal and abstract painting and music......especially jazz and so-called "Avante Guarde" or "FREE" jazz. Two key elements in his poetry are spontaneity and the idea of transformation rather than description with a preference toward non-linear, non-narrative thought. He resides in Manhattan where he has lived for the past 30 years.