Eyeporium Gallery Exhibition Opening
"Paper+Paint" by Sarah Kretchmer and Marianna Levant
Opening Night is Friday, April 2, 2010
For more infomation, click here.
This interview with Karyna McGlynn about her book I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl was conducted during the spring of 2010 by seven poets: Aaron Delee, Dane Hamann, Sarah Jenkins, Joshua Lobb, Christine Pacyk, Lana Rakhman and Virginia Smith.
Q: I enjoyed the many perspectives on the same or similar situations in this book. Where did the collection begin? Has it always been a collection? Did you recognize a theme and write to it, or did you realize you had several poems that belonged together?
Karyna McGlynn: The book started out as this grad school manuscript, Dark Rum Funnel, which was much more language-y and eventually split into two separate projects: The Mahogany Dimension and what's now I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl. The book didn't really start to gel as a collection, however, until I went to Ireland for the Moveen Residency. I had intended to use the residency to work on a different project, but instead I started writing a lot of new poems that had a similar feel to them, including 1994's title piece. It wasn't until I decided to use the poem "I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl" as the title that the theme and organization of the book started falling into place for me. I had been writing pieces that were thematically linked all along; I just didn't recognize the theme until that title was staring me in the face.
Brandi Homan is editor-in-chief of Switchback Books, a feminist press that publishes poetry by women. She earned her MFA from Columbia College, Chicago, and her MA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has appeared in Barn Owl Review, Born Magazine, DIAGRAM, MiPOesias, Natural Bridge, North American Review, and Salt Hill. Hard Reds was her first full-length collection of poetry (Shearsman, 2009). Her second collection is Bobcat Country (Shearsman, 2010).
MOBILE HOMECOMING
My professor said I was "aiming for mediocrity." I was thirty years old. My mother's into money recently, talks about some book that associates class with worldviews of material goods. In the book, low class means "quantity," middle class means "quality," and high class means "presentation." Working on my master's degree, I knew for certain I wasn't middle class, going again for quantity. I saw that others, hello Professor, viewed me as not middle class. That I was low-middle class, or low-class, even, depending on how much cash the one doing the viewing had. Or really that I was culturally bankrupt from growing up in a vacuum cleaner.
As Rich Johnston writes, "Earlier this week, writer Clifford Meth revisited his rather-abandoned-of-late column at Comic Bulletin, Meth Addict.In which he told how a project he was associated with, Dave Cockrum's The Futurians almost made it to the screen a couple of times.And how he was also hired to write a screenplay treatment for his IDW series Snaked, before being moved aside for another writer - and then discovering he was suddenly not getting paid his kill fee...
"We have a contract," I said. "Of course he's going to pay me." "No he isn't. He's pretty sure you won't sue him. The fee is too small and you'd have to fly to Los Angeles to file for damages. Apparently this is how he does things." "Tell me this is a bad joke." "Sorry Cliff," said my agent. "Welcome to Hollywood."
So Cliff describes how he offered to "talk" with the producer's parents. Whose address Meth happened to have. Which suddenly has the desired effect.The column has been pulled, after someone got a bit scared it seems. But I understand the specific column in question has been bought out by a bigger site who will be running it tomorrow.
Not Bleeding Cool, we weren't even in the bidding. But if you'd like to read the whole column now, go to Daniel Best's Blog, where it is re-posted here.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=33a9c5ae-0b6d-4063-bcb9-95d46f9e288b)
Above: Hand of History (Ode to John Heartfield)
oil on canvas, 21.5 x 43 inches
Below: Artist Peter Otto
Exhibition: The Lodger
March 7 - April 9, 2010
3039 West Carroll Avenue
Chicago, IL 60612
(312) 420-4720
www.deveningprojects.com
Exhibition facilitated by Cultural Services in the USA / Consulate General of the Netherlands and Materiaalfonds, Amsterdam
Proximity continues its Arts Theory Column, edited by Mark Staff Brandl, with an essay by Noah Berlatsky: "The Last Shall Be First."
Most traditional economic theory is built around the concept of scarcity -- the idea that there's not enough stuff to go around. In The Accursed Share (1946), famed theorist Georges Bataille inverts this; life, he says, is characterized, not by too little, but by too much. Life is excess -- it pushes onto every bleak rock, every cranny; it spends itself in profligate sexual activity and in the ultimate profligacy of death. And it throws out unneeded economic activity; too much fat, too many children, too much grain in the stores, too many bodies in the street, too much creative energy shaking its collective tuchas on the YouTube videos.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=64ba4067-230c-45c4-94a0-bb999113bbd4)
Mathias Svalina was born in Chicago, where his parents were both chemists. He is the author of five chapbooks as well as five collaboratively written chapbooks. His work has been published widely in journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Diagram, Jubilat, and Typo. He has won fellowships and awards from The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Iowa Review and New Michigan Press, among others. With Zachary Schomburg, he co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He currently teaches writing and literature in Denver, Colorado. Destruction Myth (Cleveland State University Press, 2010) is his first book.
CREATION MYTH
There was a bunny with a broken leg
& a mink with an empty stomach,
Somehow they coexisted peacefully
& were able to create the world.
When Hollywood heard about this
they sent a team of idea people out to meet them.