Events

HIST at House Poets in Philly | 2/24/23 by James belflower

HIST performance @ Fitz books & waffles! by James belflower

Matthew Klane and I performed some tracks from HIST with poets Julie Neely and Robin Lee Jordan on 2/3/23. Such a good turnout and amazing waffles! Thanks for the love Fitz and company!

Fitz Books and Waffles
Robin Lee Jordan Reads at Fitz Books and Waffles

Robin Lee Jordan

Fitz Books and Waffles
Julie Neely Reads at Fitz Books and Waffles

Julia Neely

Hist Performance at Fitz Books and Waffles

Photo Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan

Hist Performance at Fitz Waffles and Books

Photo Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan

“Thicket on the Prarie” Video Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan

Hist Performance @ Endicott college by James belflower

The Center For Belonging was an excellent performance space.

Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn

Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn

We performed John Cage’s Musicircus with students from a course on Zen Buddhism, co-taught by Rocco Gangle, Daniel Sklar, and Michael Kilburn.

Randall Livingstone took us down to the ocean, which was across the street!

Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn

Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn

Green Kill Performance of With Walden by James belflower

A great time reading with Ruth Danon at the Green Kill Performance Space on 2.13.20. Using Touchviz, I improvised video and read from an ongoing project titled With Walden. You can see other stills of the project here. I return to Green Kill on 2.27.20 to perform an except from a new sound poem called Idiopathic. Hopefully I’ll see you there!

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Photo Courtesy of Bill Lessard

Hybrid Poetry and Real Time Collaboration at the New School by James belflower

On 2/22/2018 I spoke with students from John Reed's seminar at The New School about Hybrid Poetry. We discussed the difficulties unique to creating hybrid work and the innovations that can result from collaborating with and through different mediums. At the end of our conversation all 10 of us participated in a real time collaboration through Google Docs. The goal was to write a short collection of hybrid work in 15 minutes. No other constraints were established, so if you were inclined to, you could simply delete for the entire time. No one did, but the discussion afterward revealed that the event pushed each one of us to write, collage, and negotiate different mediums in fresh ways. In the poem you'll notice multiple languages, humor, memes, confessional lines, questions, word acrobatics, texts, tonal juxtapositions, and advertising images, all mingled in a communal sense of play.

The experience was stupendous and the results were so irreverent and fun! I've published the pages from the collaboration below. Enjoy!