Unlikely 2.0


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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

frith froth (evan parker - fred frith duo set 2 @ the stone 10/15/09)

no bail out akin to start
no holds barred
ofter the fixer
a smooth esthetic from the get-go
every beat on the beatup
fred brushin the strings / palette painted
like painting yes they are painting
beyond trinkle tinkle
beyond mere trinket & artifice
suffice it to say         THIS  is    ART
tuning up/down boing-a-boingin
see the sounds emerge & merge
contradict & concisely consciously depict
act (en) counter / attack
fred tingly raspy like dynamo in a sci-fi flick
reactor exploding
no needing to see or even anticipate one another
no formulaic formulas
creating immediate solvable theories
that need not be solved immediately
defined as un-definable
turbine(d) — cycling attentiveness
it's the chains broke free
& put thru the sifter
think incredible not incredulous thoughts
meta-bonding / bounding   bound by & bowed by...
hot for an underlying melody @ times
a second there & gone to lilting
this craving
my gruff pushy boyish naïve sensitive self
me most sensitive soul — ted coughs right in my ear
a mini tsunami ensues
fierce wind & storm out on the street tonite
in here too
donors aplenty though donors be rare
there are salient & savory promptitudes & angles
with platitudes never part of the issue
large men & their umbrellas being breathed away
        take my hand — i call to her as the storm blows us
    down the street but she is too busy shouting @ me over
                    some silly domestic dispute

 fred's bare feet hit the pedals
             his toes curl up — something electric there
                        the storm inside is also strong
                                 & rips thru us just as the one out there
                                                does
             if you'll only hold on to me for a bit instead of your anger
             i think to myself  keeping a safe distance at her request
                      leave your anger across the street   i have
                                                 for now @ least
                                         leave the cycles @ home

they play laments
spacious   liturgical almost — distended church bell
                    difficult sonorities — a whole new view
                        knocking on the doors of...
 fred says have to tune to that one now just so we can see where it's going
            not that we care — that'a another one down  —
                     evan says: & 5 more to go

well we have to end by 11 — evan says pointing to the ceiling
we've got 3 minutes left
let's see what we can play in 3 minutes
it's the ballad isn't it — fred says
i thought we played the ballad already — evan says —
     we only know one — it's gonna be a pretty ballad fred chimes in
                                      & more ongaku &  eumahk  begin

                & my body has gone somewhere else just then ... AMEN.




(evan parker- matt shipp- william parker @ the stone 10/10/09 sets 1&2) - for baraka & monk

germination
   & the upper side
       @ first dis   en chant  meant
              chant as to sing
                     a slinking about core  all sizes amonkerip(plin')
                from solidities to amorphous blues line
                      fragmented     &    re-defined
                low action plays diminished pianissimo
                               a rhythmic dynamic
                    reinventing the shuffle
                           as before gesturing hitched again
                                   only the glisserials different & filtering
                                             re-read demon/ends & kindly killers
                                                                a-boilin'
                                the progno an almost perplexed hesitation
                                             & tremulous though not fearful
                                                  more thoughtful rapture
                                pluck upward the upright
                                     & i'm waiting for explosions
                                sensation   inseparability   ratification
                                           re-boost (sometimes we listen too well)
                                                 age(nts) of hearing / responding
                                        jelly-hellos   descreet indiscretions
                                                hey where's the whachamasyndromes?
                                        what keen pinch work almost snazzadrople slapstring
                                                 upended granules  /  shepherding
                                                       & retinue of unwinds & playoffs
                                  & again monkering toward the finish line
                                                      the evidence of histories combined
                                                                   a second arrival
                       what others view at breakneck speed across the small expanse
                                            i'm so weary of my language     this reworded miscellany
                                as the trio re-invents their lives on this day of the birth of 2 masters

                  i will take me down some
                  carry this weight to the river
                  turn on the gyrorator     underscore reality bites
                  & try to be less conniptious
                    but first i must listen to the sound of the music
                                (the music in the words)
                     & bring that sound closer to my heartbeat.




whirly-giggy as the colors dance (evan parker - milford graves duo @ the stone 10/3/09 set 1)

whirly-giggy as the colors dance
 up/down & sideways
    the wooden sentinel a goddess if
                     ever there was one — goddess of soundsation
                                 immediate concoction
                                         without conniption
                                               a congenial doorway into passageway

          a collid-e-scopic not(a)tion of swirliferous
                     a stopping into the go
                                   yet continuance of structure
                                            structure(d)less abiding &
                        there there's cause & be/cause

                                         it's all so full of
                                              bright & massive
                                              light & heavy

                                                           the world's in here
                                                                        for now all's copasetic

                                i pause to partake deeper
                                       in deeper still.


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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.