Cover and spread from “Pomada (Pomade)” (1913), with poem by Alexei Kruchenykh and lithography by Mikhail Larionov (all images courtesy The Getty Research Institute) Made from paper often stapled ...
To understand sound poetry, the form Dutch artist Jaap Blonk has dedicated his life to, you have to understand the Dada movement. Dadaism stems from Marcel Duchamp’s coining of a kind of “anti-art” in ...
Pianist Ken Berman's friendship with the late poet Eythan Klamka served as the inspiration for Sound Poetry, a musical project of mostly original compositions bookended by two solo reinterpretations ...
Other Minds Festival 23 recently finished a week of events dedicated to new and old sound poetry at ODC Theater, San Francisco. Subtitled "The Wages of Syntax," the series covered a range of vocal ...
These two debut solo albums of innovative Norwegian musicians—Kristoffer Lo and Bjørn Thevik feature long and nuanced sound poems, created with minimal means. Tuba player Lo, a member of the art-rock ...
If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air”, ...
English associate professor Brian Kim Stefans said his translations of Arthur Rimbaud will give new light to the rebel, revolutionary and intellectual. Stefans is in the process of publishing a book ...
Our latest poetry feature is “The Palace,” a long poem by Kaveh Akbar. Akbar, who was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency M.F.A. programs at Randolph ...
When Yang Yu-Chiao was studying at National Taiwan University, he was exposed to a recording of the Korean pansori play "Simcheongga," which has a passage in which the main character's blind father ...