Rodney Koeneke and Benjamin Friedlander Reading / April 4, 2008
Event report
Poets Rodney Koeneke and Benjamin Friedlander read to an audience of approximately fifty people in the New Writing Series on April 4, 2008.
For the full photoset, visit our Flickr page .
Set List (compiled by Katie Lattari)
Rodney Koeneke
Epigraph for this reading, derived from the sign of the University Inn: 鈥淟aughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face鈥
Excepts from Rouge State
#50 Summer Acrostic Hotshot
#39 How to Find Safe Passage
#21 Sweethearts of what rodeo?
Excerpts from Mus茅e Mechanique
Afterword
Use Dips to Initiate
Pizza Kitty
Chary as Gary
In Memory of My Feelings
The World is Loud
Europe. Memory. Squid Parts. Grace.
The Adorno Corollary
Excerpts from 鈥淓truria鈥 (manuscript)
ben friedlander
Rules for Drinking 40s
chinoiserie
Etruria
Film/ poetry 鈥渘eo-benshi鈥 performance for Guru Dutt鈥檚 film Pyaasa (1957)
Koeneke鈥檚 Commentary
-On 鈥淭he Adorno Corollary鈥: the poem is referencing Adorno鈥檚 famous statement about poetry after Auschwitz
-On 鈥淏en Friedlander鈥: this is a birthday poem
-On 鈥淓truria鈥: 鈥淔LARF, like soylent green, is people鈥
Benjamin Friedlander
鈥淚t鈥檚 a pleasure to read for the home crowd鈥︹Reads works in translation, originally in either German or Italian; then proceeds to his own poems
The Fox, the Cook, the Cock (translation)
Prayer of Exhortation or Encouragement (translation)
To Set Your Mind at Rest (translation)
Afternoon with Circus and Citadel (translation)
Brecht (translation)
History lesson
The Social Contract
Urban Renewal
Network News
Dictation
The Mind is a Bubble Sheet
The Emergency Broadcasting System
Dedication
Patriot Days
When a Cop Sees a Black Woman
Biological or Social Female Parent of a Child or Offspring and Its Poetry
Somebody Blew Up America
Hillary Duff
Fame
The Chinese Written Character is a Medium for Poetry
Beloved
Eliot
Me and My Gang
Charmed
Drew鈥檚 Old
Friedlander鈥檚 Commentary
鈥 The poem 鈥淗illary Duff鈥 as his 鈥渟tatement on poetics鈥
鈥 鈥淔ame鈥 is in memory of a friend; 鈥渕ay be my first FLARF elegy鈥
鈥 鈥淭he Chinese Written Character is a Medium for Poetry鈥: 鈥渇or Burt and Sylvester if only they were here鈥
鈥 鈥淐harmed鈥 is a 鈥淏irthday Poem鈥: 鈥淢y favorite thing about FLARF is the Birthday poems鈥
Questions
How do you use Google searches to help sculpt your [FLARF] poems?
(To Koeneke) Do you have any audio files of your poetry available anywhere?
For birthday poems, how/ what do you search? Is there a certain way you go about it?
How much FLARF do you write in comparison to non-FLARF poetry?
(To Koeneke): How long did it take you to write the 鈥渘eo-benshi鈥 piece?
(To Koeneke): Are you striving for persona-type poems?
Do you think writing can change things?
(To Koeneke): You like performance鈥攄o you have any background in theatre?