SEEDINGS: THE INAUGURAL ISSUE!

I'm delighted to have an essay, "Babaylan Poetics & the MDR Poetry Generator" in Seedings, Issue One, edited by Jerrold Shirroma!  The essay presents the conceptual underpinning to my most recent books, among other matters.

Please also check out the other participants, certainly an impressive roster:

Pura López Colomé – from Speaking in Song (hearing and forgetting) (tr. Dan Bellm)
Rachel Tzvia Back – In the Quiet Hills: Lost & Found Lyrics
Michèle Métail – from Earth’s Horizons (tr. Marcella Durand)
Rachel Blau DuPlessis – from Numbers
Aleksandr Blok – On Death (tr. Peter France)
Lu Xun – Three Poems (tr. Matt Turner)
Pierre Reverdy – from Painted Stars (tr. Dan Bellm)
Brian Lucas – Five Poems
Guillermo Parra – Moro / Westphalen
César Moro – Seven Poems (tr. Guillermo Parra)
Emilio Adolfo Westphalen – Seven Poems (tr. Guillermo Parra)
from The Aeneid, Book VII (tr. David Hadbawnik)
Marcella Durand – Four Poems
Demosthenes Agrafiotis – from Y’es (tr. Angelos Sakkis & John Sakkis)
Elke Erb – Haste Makes Waste (tr. Rosmarie Waldrop)
Etel Adnan – At Two in the Afternoon (tr. Sarah Riggs)
Nathaniel Tarn – Three Poems
Eileen R. Tabios – Babaylan Poetics & the MDR Poetry Generator
René Depestre – Seven Pillars of Innocence (tr. Colin Dayan)
Santiago Vizcaíno – Four Poems (tr. Alexis Levitin)
Paul Verlaine – Forgotten Little Arias (tr. Keith Waldrop)
Sarah Riggs – Manifolds
Jaime Montestrela – from Fluid Fables (tr. Cole Swensen)
Τζών Σακκής – Τα Νησιά (Μετάφραση, Θανάσης Φωτιάδης Λίνα Τσουκαλά και Άγγελος Σακκής)
Rosmarie Waldrop – Doing
Larry Kearney – On Translation
Λάρρυ Κέρνυ – H Μετάφραση (Μετάφραση, Άγγελος Σακκής)
Laura Moriarty – from Late Mourning
John Olson – Two Poems
Sara Tuss Efrik – Gland (tr. Johannes Göransson)
Will Alexander – from Concerning the Henbane Bird

EXCAVATING THE FILIPINO...

For as long as I've been a poet, I've admired Tinfish Press for its fabulous experimental poetry from/re the Pacific in radically gorgeous designs. Entonces, I'm so pleased that publisher Susan Schultz asked me for, and will publish, a rather unique chapbook:

EXCAVATING THE FILIPINO IN ME

It will have an interview, visual poetry and a poem. The interview is wide-ranging but it will also "out" the poet Pearl Yasmin.  I won't say more on that except to say, compared to Pearl Yasmin, that whole Michael Derrick Hudson / Yi Fen Chou matter is ... amateur-hour.

More on my chap later!  Meanwhile, do check out one of Tinfish Press' latest offerings, chaps by Jen Crawford, Timothy Dyke, Salah Faik (trans. by Maged Zaher), and Joseph Han. They're wonderful and available as a series!

CHANCE POETRY?

I appreciate Chris Mansel's attention to my new book The Connoisseur of Alleys in The Daily Art Source. Chris asks, "Should poetry be left to chance? If it is 'generated' by a machine is it still chance?" 

It's an interesting question because even when I (and others based on what I've read about others' processes) write consciously with "I" in place, chance often comes up in the process (as words define their own effect as much as the human does). 

(Btw, if my source is a machine, it's probably a hybrid between human and machine, not purely a machine...but that's another story involving how I prefer trans ... Anyway, information on my MDR Poetry Generator HERE.)

CHROMATEXT EXHIBITION

... and if you happen to be in Manila from Nov. 6, 2015 - Jan. 17, 2016, you're invited to drop by this exhibit.  A VizPo manifestation from "Excavating the Filipino in Me" (from The MDR Poetry Generator project) will be part of Chromatext Reboooted's art, poetry and vizpo offerings from Filipino poets and artists around the world:

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I talk more about Chromatext HERE.

DUENDE FROM THE MDR POETRY GENERATOR

I think I've written less than a handful of poems so far this year, which is ironic as I'm on my way to seeing 2015 with three poetry collections and an experimental biography.  I'm happy for The MDR Poetry Generator for allowing me to be prolific while I nap!

And the latest poetry collection to come out of said Generator is

DUENDE IN THE ALLEYS

!  Thanks to lars palm and swirl editions for publishing it.  Finally, I can say I'm published in Sweden!  And cyberspace, of course ...

Petra Palm did the cover image and I'm grateful!  Hope you enjoy my latest poetry collection HERE which is covered by