Unlikely 2.0


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

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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
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Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
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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

High Holy Day in Harlem – 9/21/07 set 2 -- The Kidd Jordan All-Stars with Guest David Murrray -- (Roy Campbell Jr., Dave Burrell, Harrison Bankhead & Hamid Drake)

creole resting
place
stars awash in river
moon hanging bright & listless
above tenement
clawing thru the chain-link of
too many vacant lots wired
like circles

vast units of entertainment
colored flowers on
wallshirts
obvious secretions lost
in trumpet
venturing out toward e-motion
this is what "all-stars" means
casa elegancy asac-gleance
all stars shine / outcome(d)
sparks

night has become a city without margins
at the height of the heat of some renaissance
on harlem's edge

there is no such thing as stop(ped) motion
shouting innocence usurped unsurprising
sorely missed
heat flows chill my neck
& black shirted trumpeter wipes his brow
with a blood red cloth
moon awash in river of candleblues
earth colors piercing our ears
saxophony extraordinary
as 2 tenors pronounce every microscopic
sound speck
every range of fuckoff & nearer
pushed into the stoodup
blowing being catalyst
immediately bordered by projections

this is truly a war of peace
for instance:
this is event to the head
then deeper into sweet dessert
cracked up & dark moving thru
the face of situation
piano falling softly thru a room
awash with faces
density of a late dying summer night
wired like circles
moon
haven of elegance
white keys depressed
in melancholic conviction
unequivocally messing
with trigger
quick emotional struggle
weapons of peace
contrabass attacking the whatnots
of subtleness
coinciding struggles
cultural quantums steadily
drummed into us
freaky epiphanies situated in
no-man's-land
resources within a vast expanse of
he's & she's
& the narrower spaces that humility
& pointing towards advance
exactly brings

SHOOT ME?

here even the furniture runs
excitedly
roamers unleashed -
i'm right up front with
         the horns

if god had wanted me to stay home
  tonight
    "he" would have found a way
                    to do so.




evening

enters
not so much as
itself
but as sparks burs
ting forth as they exting
uish
with a shared caution
baring left then
right
in accordance w/body's
movement
6:02 pm
summery oct.
day
by the
river

who is it that sd.
what most of us no longer
remember?

it's a moving thing
evening
sparks of fish-light lying
boys caressing
shadows jogging
not reaching
proper lowpoint between
structures
moving south
again
boy's hand stroking genitals
beneath cloth
kayaks rippling toward
pier

when i was young
evening always had its
good side
despite my ignorances
   this sun masterful from this chair
warranting
2 pairs of spectacles from
my pocket
near viewing / far viewing
still so much to
learn

falling without sound
evening
water
railing
ending days / happy days

what makes a man?




Globe Unity / a Musser -- (Globe Unity Orchestra & Joelle Leandre Octet at Malcolm X / Betty Shabazz Center 9/20/07)

              1.
located sources
    imperial  televs
          professional workers
               resume
                    spring – a build up
       slide/ valve stretches
                     calling our selves stresses
              almost essentially centuries
           tried & apart(h)e(i)d periods here
               separatum from enslavement
                    the many whittled colors robbed friends
                            essentially
                mussered val(v)ue  hook by hook in/deeds
                      kinship – any body’s blown familiar
                          unaccustomed springing to extent
                                  parts stresses periods ends l’avement
          we are different & paper-read traders
                          understated updates
           understood referred psychability available(s)
                        doesn’t have to be done so
                              bone registered openness
        all the stones right for a slipping back
                        team supported stop densitorium
                   what is honest brought to life – a musser
                            i knew right there – a musser
              plunkt the regrund  sensitivity to the depth of 'merica
                      seeking assessments gone-or-geous sonorities
                              playerful fractured removal of melody
                                       scratch it & scratchit
                       a musser urk morph difference removed live
                             unison cord broke musexplitives
                                    spoke-hum delturized
                              extent/ed mid-ranging pounded sleepwalker
                                     ult desun end sahray merci.

                                                 2.
              page turned
                          upside down
                               scored unblindness
                                       charm / wit
                          wisdom / wild restraint
              carnival barker repeats over & over again
                       mental  sat tie(d) mental
                faster  faster   up / down
                      intervals of humor / laughing
                                   grand monocled sir laugh me
                          splayed / splintered into singular tongues
                                     what can possibly come out of fractured speech(es)?
                                         how many revolutions are created by sound?
                                                 musser the gentle beauty spilled
                                                     the chao(h)s caused this sleeper to awake.


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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.