Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial

Morgan

Featuring readings of his work and remembrances from Stephanie Balzer, Miriam Benatti, Adam Chiles, Danny Clifford, Barbara Cully, Mark Horosky, Gillian Jerome, Kristi Maxwell, Kiki Petrosino, Boyer Rickel, Michael Schiavo, and others

University of Arizona Poetry Center

1508 East Helen Street

Tucson, AZ

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Poetry Roundtable

Around 10:00 a.m. this morning I’ll be on WAMC to discuss books and poetry with Joe Donahue Ray Graf on The Roundtable. Joining me will be owner and proprietor (and my boss) of The Bookstore in Lenox, Matthew Tannenbaum. If you don’t know who Matt is, see page 53 of Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day.

Time permitting, I hope to discuss Jenny Boully’s Not Merely Because of the Unknown that was Stalking Toward Them, Matt Hart’s Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless, and Morgan Lucas Schuldt’s Verge.

Tune in and turn on! But don’t drop out. Just yet.

Follow-Up: Listen to the recording!

Flying Guillotine Press Tribute to MLS

Founded by Sommer Browning and Tony Mancus

On Tuesday, March 27, there will be a tribute reading to Morgan Lucas Schuldt sponsored by Flying Guillotine Press in celebration of his chapbook (As Vanish, Unespecially) as well as to honor his life and work as one his generation’s significant poets and editors. I’ll be reading some of Morgan’s work, as will Miriam Benatti, Adam Chiles, Mark Horosky, Lisa Jarnot, Tony Mancus, and others.

The second half of the event will feature music from Jane Carver as well as Serena Chopra and Philip Metres reading from their new Flying Guillotine chaps.

Please come to hear Morgan’s work and to celebrate his life and spirit.

ACA Galleries

529 West 20th Street

5th Floor

New York, NY

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

“Song” by Morgan Lucas Schuldt

This somewhat song.
From light to what’s heft,

may I dulge it?
-inguistically?

In the last of the light,
the disassembling light

(ruin-yellow blew),
may I sing them—

this duskguise,
this strew-dark,

these misflowres?
Oxygen (its sweet knees)

& in silm,
mutely.

Of this mouth
(winning soft,

occupliable)

enjoying upclose,
or coming

(shakesbelieve)
to try—its angles—

may I sing it?
From night to what’s left?

Published in Tight 3 (2008)

Morgan Lucas Schuldt (1978-2012)

MLS

Poet and publisher Morgan Lucas Schuldt (b. February 11, 1978) passed away on January 30, 2012 from complications of cystic fibrosis. He was 33 years old. The son of Barbara Schuldt and Murray Dychtwald, Morgan was born and raised in Toms River, New Jersey, where he grew up loving the Jersey shore, Jersey Mike’s sub sandwiches, poetry, his dogs and family. He was an honors student and member of the National Honors Society at Toms River High School East. His favorite outfit—ripped jeans and a t-shirt, flip-flops and ball cap—belied his accomplishments. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia in 2000, and from the University of Arizona he earned an MFA in Poetry in 2002, and an MA in English Literature in 2007. Tucson became his home and where he pursued a career writing, editing and teaching. He is the author of Verge, a collection of poems published by Free Verse Editions, and three chapbooks—Otherhow (Kitchen Press), L=u=N=G=U=A=G=E (Scantily Clad Press), and (as vanish, unespecially), forthcoming from Flying Guillotine Press. He was the cofounder of CUE, a journal of prose poems, and CUE Editions, a poetry press. From his parents, Morgan learned compassion, a tenacious spirit, and a desire to see the world. From the world, he learned strength, perseverance, and a commitment to kindness and justice. He was a San Francisco 49ers fan in memory of his grandfather, Henry. And he loved the beaches of Mexico and composed many poems there. Morgan was also romantic, loyal and funny. He was a tireless champion of his friends’ writing and sought by many as an editor and mentor. For others, he was a source of encouragement and a voice of reason. Language was his medium and inspired his art and wit, but he was also a connoisseur of film, television, music, comedy and painting—known to have impeccable taste. He is cherished and will be missed by too many to list, including Barbara and Murray, Nance, Boyer, Stephanie, Barbara, Danny, Mark and Miriam, Adam and Emily, Cristina, and Chris. Morgan’s family and friends wish to extend their heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to his cystic fibrosis pulmonologists in Tucson—Wayne Morgan, Cori Daines, Mark Brown and Roni Grad—who took exceptional care of him for 11 years. Also too numerous to list are the nurses, respiratory therapists and medical technicians who worked on 3NE and, towards the end of his life, 4NW at the University of Arizona Medical Center. Donations in Morgan’s memory can be made to two national organizations, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the United Network for Organ Sharing.

From the Arizona Daily Star

Morgan Lucas Schuldt

MLS

Morgan Lucas Schuldt has passed away. Morgan was an amazing poet, a groundbreaking editor and publisher, and a good friend. I’m proud to have published his work in Tight and The Equalizer. He was one of the early champions of my poetry and I will always be indebted to him for publishing me when lots of people didn’t.

His sequence, “Little Just Ones,” will appear in Gondola 3 this spring. This will be one of the first things I do to honor his memory, but it certainly won’t be the last.

Some of his poetry in Coconut, Diagram, EOAGH, Fou, Free Verse, H_NGM_N, Shampoo, and Typo.

And his books: Verge (Parlor Press), L=u=N=G=U=A=G=E (Scantily Clad Press), Otherhow (Kitchen Press), and (as vanish, unespecially) (Flying Guillotine Press, forthcoming).

Too soon twilight. Too soon, Morgan.

Dwight Ripley at Tibor de Nagy

Setúbal, 1962, ink and colored pencil on paper, 14 x 20 inches

Dwight Ripley: Travel Posters and Language Panels is a new exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. It runs from January 28 - March 10, 2012. From the press release:

Dwight Ripley was a British born artist, whose work was the subject of five solo exhibitions at Tibor de Nagy starting in 1951. A polymath, Ripley was a serious botanist, the author of a volume of poetry, and spoke fifteen languages. However, it was for his artwork that he was most recognized. Six of his drawings were included in an exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim’s legendary gallery Art of This Century. 

Ripley’s “Travel Posters” and “Language Panels”—two series of drawings made in 1962 and 1968, the last decade of his life—combine inventive graphic clarity with allusive puns based on popular art forms. In his “Travel Posters,” the enticing scenery has been configured from the scientific names of indigenous plants, but spun in a cursive web that suggests the wandering line of Surrealist or abstract art. In the “Language Panels,” his etymologically-driven idea of the comic strip, the drawings have been divided into mysterious quadrants that imply narratives of both discovery and danger. Colorful, unusual, and pioneering in their steadfast insistence on colored pencil, the drawings are prescient of the epistemological savvy and environmental awareness that came to characterize the era we still recognize as our own.

Douglas Crase has also written about Ripley on the Best American Poetry blog. An opening reception will be held at Tibor de Nagy (724 Fifth Avenue) on Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Dao De Jing

Now that the first three issues of Gondola are almost ready for the printers, I’m engaged in a translation of the Dao De Jing. I’ve made a first pass, and will now start to creep through each of the 81 sections, refining, refining, refining. If I’m largely silent here in the coming months, that’s the reason.

New School Memorial Reading for Paul Violi, December 2, 2011

Paul Violi Memorial Reading at the New School

This Friday, come celebrate the life and poetry of Paul Violi, with readings of his poems by distinguished poets, friends, and former students. I’m honored to be one of the readers, along with Paul Auster, Star Black, Patricia Carlin, Billy Collins, Elaine Equi, Matt Hart, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Amy Lawless, Charles North, Ron Padgett, Robert Polito, Michael Quattrone, Helen Schulman, Tony Towle, Maggie Wells, Bill Zavatsky, and many others.

This is a free event. If you’re unfamiliar with Paul’s work, this will be a great opportunity to hear his words. If you already know and love him, please come to help us honor this great man.

Theresa Lang Center

Arnhold Hall

55 West 13th Street

2nd Floor 

Friday, December 2, 2011, 6:30 PM

Francis Wolcott on Occupy Wall Street

I Could Say “Elves” To Him But It’s Not Elves Exactly

This range was composed on 10/30 and 10/31 after my visit to Zuccotti Park on 10/18. It was first read at Zinc Bar on 11/6. The “Jake” that this range addresses is Jacob Bromberg, a contributing editor to The White Review, who was kind enough to solicit me for work over the summer. It’s a thank you not only to him but to many, many others. The title is taken from Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall,” a poem that addresses, in part, the necessity and ridiculousness of tradition.

I Could Say “Elves” To Him But It’s Not Elves Exactly

Jake—maybe ya know but have no

          idea what we do over here. Some

                    some idea. You know Violi?

          Imagination magnificent he founder

First Community College du Loup.

          You’ll admit its pyramid & indigo bulge

                    apart from the island proper.

          A topnotch twirler tho know

his baton doubled as laser blade ’cause of

          copyright restrictions. Limitations! Borders

                    artificial. Wide the gap in our Custerdome

          “bodacious cowboys” “such as your friend”

“will never be welcome here” dear cousin I can’t do

          party. Find the hotspot I plotz. No lingo

                    mi gringo conmigo y su mujeres.

          Soy El Hombre Mayor.

Ellas saben lo que estoy hablando. Ante up.

          Six months from now & six months from

                    now then the beginning of the begin.

          Stipe’s no farmer. Buck’ll boogie. Mills’ll

quote 40,000 miles more to Athens.

          My sonnet “Anti-Horse” addresses that creature

                    as symbol of Sneakypantsism. In short

          some empire. Some old cold. Some

new lozenge. Every step of the way.

          Winter Sonoma. Past the Mississippi

                    you can’t not hardly find

          my probable cause. My flaws

show whole. My laws tire of Number.

          Tried to escape but the gangsters here

                    well you know Scoresese.

          Late October is my favorite.

Lead up too. Skyfire. Periwinkle

          sucks limbtips but this year the snow.

                    White mountain ground creeps column

          douse flame. Zuccotti is Glastonbury.

Oakland’s Atlanta is Denver.

          Tahrir & Neda. Saadhi Whitman. Same

                    swamps absorbs binds the universe.

          Still the individual. Break out go forth

dig in undone get down

          come around. Qui-Gon Jinn. My upper lip

                    is covered I know you have no idea

          what we do here.

I’m surprised myself sometimes

          when I look up

                    see exactly what it is.

Ranges I

Ranges I

In the latest issue of H_NGM_N, among great work from Jackie Clark, Smarie Clay, Matt Hart, Travis Macdonald, Gina Myers, Alexis Orgera, Kiki Petrosino, Amanda Smeltz, and Aaron Tieger, & alongside chapbooks by Wendy Xu and Milan Deklava, you can find Ranges I.

Nate Pritts has published chaps by MC Hyland, Dan Magers, Ben Mirov, Amber Nelson and many other great poets, so to be numbered therein makes me want to, as Aaron Belz would point out, humblebrag.

The ranges included in this vista are “Andy’s Not Listening to Keith Jarrett on Palm Sunday,” “Wisdom and Goodness to the Vile Seem Vile,” “Scarlett Johansson on the Fourth of July,” “An Oregon Log Jam for the Fop of the Fields,” “High Noon in Maine Without Birthday Suit or Birch,” “Farrago For Henry Gould Not Henry Gould But Henry,” “Johnny & The Mothers are Playing ‘Stompin’ at the Savoy’ in Vermont Tonight,” and “The Notion of Equality From a Man About to Die.”

My eternal thanks to the editors of The Awl, BPM, Chocolate Submarine Review, Cold-Drill,  EOAGH, H_NGM_N, The Normal School, &  We Are So Happy to Know Something, where these ranges first appeared.

Exile On Main Street #3

My final installment for the Best American Poetry blog this week. A huge thanks to Stacey for inviting me to blog again. Maybe I can do it again next year . . .

Politics

I’ve posted Emerson’s essay “Politics” over at the Best American Poetry blog today.

Marquis de Concord

Today I tackle the similarities between Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Marquis de Sade for Best American Poetry.

This Condensery

I write about blogging, Twitter, and Lorine Niedecker today at the Best American Poetry blog.

Exile On Main Street #2

Another “Exile On Main Street” installment for the Best American Poetry blog.

A Resistance to Emerson

My second post this week for the Best American Poetry blog. No doubt I’ll have more to say about Emerson this week but, Emerson-like, I’m trying to stay open to the possibilities that there might (gasp!) be other things to write about.

Guest Blogger, Best American Poetry, Oct. 9-15

I’m the guest blogger at the Best American Poetry blog this week. Here’s my first entry. Thanks to Stacey for inviting me back!

Drunken Boat 14

January 2011

It’s an honor to appear in the latest issue of the Ravi Shankar-helmed Drunken Boat. Lots of reasons. I’m an admirer of Ravi’s work, having published him in Tight and The Equalizer. He read, with Robin Beth Schaer, in the second installment of my Ordinary Evening Reading Series in 2006 in New Haven. (I was sad to find out it recently ended its run.) He teaches at Central Connecticut State, which means that Drunken Boat is published in my home state.

But, really, why?

Issue 14 features work from Ernest Hilbert, Kathleen Rooney, Shiraz Dent, TC Tolbert, Part 2 of the /Slant/Sex folio (find Part 1 here), and a Bernadette Mayer folio featuring a single bud, “For For,” nestled amongst work from Steven Alvarez, Micah Ballard, Laynie Brown, CAConrad, Brenda Coultas, Sandra Doller, Dorothea Lasky, Kate Schapira, and so many great others, and I evidently didn’t provide an author photo.

Huge thanks to Ravi and all the editors of and contributors to Drunken Boat!

Flyover

PEN Center USA

PEN Center USA linked to my buds in The Awl in a recent Weekend Literary Roundup.

Two Buds in Jerry #3

Two buds in the latest installment of the British journal Jerry: “New Not” and “Love Brings.” The latter does and does not make reference to Tony Hoagland at the end. Thanks to Emily Wolahan and Ethan Hon for publishing them.

Four Buds at The Awl

Four buds up at The Awl: “Sweet Addition,” “Civil Love,” “Because Song,” and “& Brightness.” Thanks to Mark Bibbins for publishing me yet again. Also featured today: Jim Behrle’s “Songs That Have Made Me Bawl My Eyes Out While Doing Karaoke” and this:

“A plant has killed and ‘eaten’ a blue tit at a garden nursery in Somerset. Nurseryman Nigel Hewitt-Cooper, from West Pennard, was inspecting his tropical garden when he discovered one of his pitcher plants had trapped the bird. He said he was ‘absolutely staggered’ to find it had caught the creature. It is believed to be only the second time such a carnivorous plant has been documented eating a bird anywhere in the world.”

Boston Poetry Marathon 2011

A Boston Poetry Marathon and BBQ

A Summer Poetry Marathon

featuring 88 local and visiting poets

reading for 8 minutes apiece

Admission is free but the hat will be be passed

Friday 7/29, 7 PM - 10 PM

Saturday 7/30, 1 PM - 10:30 PM

Sunday 7/31, 1 PM - 5 PM

OUTPOST 186

186 1/2 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge

Friday 7/29

7:00 John Mulrooney
7:08 Bridget Madden
7:16 Kythe Heller
7:24 Elizabeth Marie Young
7:32 Michael Carr
7:40 Danielle Georges
7:48 Jennifer Tamayo

break

8:04 Arto Vaun
8:12 Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
8:20 Lori Lubeski
8:28 Jen Hyde
8:36 Ryan Gallagher
8:44 Kevin Gallagher
8:52 Arda Collins

break

9:08 Thom Donovan
9:16 Dorothea Lasky
9:24 Amanda Nadelberg
9:32 Geoff Olsen
9:40 Mike County
9:48 Derek Fenner

Saturday 7/30

12:30 Aaron Kiely
12:38 Mike Young
12:46 Emily Pettit
12:54 Ish Klein
1:02 Greg Purcell
1:10 Joel Sloman

break

1:26 Debrah Morkun
1:34 Carlos Soto Roman
1:42 Chris Rizzo
1:50 Jonathan Skinner
1:58 Whit Griffin
2:06 Frank Montesonti

break

2:22 Richard Deming
2:30 Nancy Kuhl
2:38 Ken Walker
2:46 Patrick Lucy
2:54 Magus Magnus
3:06 Jessica Bozek

break

3:22 Anna Ross
3:30 Cory Ericson
3:38 Tony Mancus
3:46 Jean-Dany Joachim
3:54 Ted Dodson
4:02 Ryan Murphy

break

3:48 Patrick Doud
3:56 Lewis Freedman
4:04 Aaron Tieger
4:12 Suzanne Mercury
4:20 Michael Peters
4:28 Geof Huth

break

4:44 Allen Bramhall
4:56 Michael Schiavo
5:04 Seth Abramson
5:12 Ellen Kennedy
5:20 Henry Gould

break

7:00 Ruth Lepson
7:08 Martha Oatis
7:16 Brett Price
7:24 Jessica Fiorini
7:32 Tracey McTague
7:40 John Coletti
7:48 Dana Ward

break

8:04 Mairead Byrne
8:12 Jess Mynes
8:20 Andrew Hughes
8:28 Arlo Quint
8:36 Meredith Walters
8:44 Corina Copp
8:52 Macgregor Card

break

9:08 Christina Strong
9:16 Mitch Highfill
9:24 Jacqueline Waters
9:32 Edmund Berrigan
9:40 Joe Elliot
9:48 Filip Marinovich

break

10:10 Mark Lamoureux
10:18 Douglas Rothschild

Sunday 7/31

12:30 Jim Behrle
12:38 Anna Moschovakis
12:46 Ben McFall
12:54 Donald Wellman
1:02 Michelle Taransky
1:10 Meg Barboza

break

1:26 Amanda Cook
1:34 Ben Mazer
1:42 Fred Marchant
1:50 Gerrit Lansing
1:58 Jim Dunn
2:06 Michael Franco

break

2:22 Colleen Farrell
2:30 Andi Werblin
2:36 James Cook
2:44 Ken Walker
2:52 Susanna Gardner
3:00 Anne Shaw

break

3:16 Roz Zimmerman
3:24 Sean Cole
3:32 Janaka Stucky

Organized by

Jim Behrle

Michael Carr

David Kirschenbaum

John Mulrooney

Aaron Tieger

Sawmill 3

I have two buds — “Large Art” and “Riot There” — in the newest issue of the Brian Ensminger-edited Sawmill. The issue is subtitled “What to Know and Do About a Nuclear Attack.” Also featured are excerpts from Matt Hart’s blank verse masterpiece Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless, to be published by Lumberyard Press (the party responsible for Sawmill) in 2012.

Other Rooms Press Presents

an evening of poetry with

ORP online authors

Michael Schiavo

Joshua Baldwin

Yelizavera Golub

David Applegate

Kip Potharas

Elizabeth Dosta

Nora Almeida

& Dolan Morgan

hosted by ORP editors

Ed Go

&

Michael Whalen

Free, Saturday, July 16th @ 7:30pm

Shayz Lounge

130 Franklin St.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

visit Other Rooms Press online @ otherroomspress.blogspot.com

Ranges II

Ranges II

I’m proud to announce the publication of Ranges II by Forklift Ink. Editor Matt Hart and design genius Eric Appleby have put together a great chapbook, one in a long line that includes Russell Dillon and Alexis Orgera, not to mention books by Dean Young, Chad Sweeney, and Abraham Smith. This is the first book bearing my name as author that I have not published myself. That it’s from Forklift makes it especially humbling.

The ranges included are “We All Operate in a Ghost World Where We Are Maharajah,” “Flight Delay From Charlotte All Thanks to My Calrissian,” “Glad in Full Moon Among Pussy Willows I Swamp,” “Carol of the Drum, Bells, Fife, Lute, Theremin, Turntable, Moog,” “In the Visionary Words of Sportscaster Warner Wolf,” “King James Devotes His Summer to the Myrmidon Pursuits,” “Do You Look Into the Keyhole Only to Find a Mirror,” and “Patton Oswalt While the Oligarchy Funk Refurbishes the Rumpus.”

Thanks to Mark Bibbins at The Awl, Evie Shockley at jubilat, and Melissa Broder and D.W. Lichtenberg of La Petite Zine where a few of these first appeared.

And, no, you didn’t miss anything: Ranges I will be published by H_NGM_N Chapbooks this fall.

Country Music #2

I’ve got three buds—dub translations of Shakespeare’s sonnets—in Issue 2 of the great online journal Country Music, edited by Scott Abels. Also featuring work from Angela Veronica Wong, Nate Pritts, Andrea Henchey, Rob MacDonald, Katie Condon, Peter Jay Shippy, and many more. “My Sun,” “Star My,” and “Pure Prime” are the first of the 154 (plus) buds to appear in print, so a huge thanks to Scott for believing in them.

He also asked contributors to respond to a February op-ed in the New York Times by Scott Turow, Paul Aiken, and James Shapiro entitled “Would the Bard Have Survived the Web?” The editorial is authored by these gentlemen as representatives of the Author’s Guild. Scott asked us to reply specifically to this sentence from the piece: “As with much else, literary talent often remains underdeveloped unless markets reward it.”