Organism for Poetic Research/Pelt event at Observatory this Friday!
The future of poetry, philosophy, publishing, and collaboration come together in DIY para-academic groups such as the Organism for Poetic Research/Pelt. I have only found out about these dedicated word-scientists recently, and I’m proud to be hosting them at Observatory on Friday. If you have any interest in the intersection of poetry, philosophy, and political [...]
“Scooter, Newtown Creek” on Underwater New York
I have a new short-short story on Underwater New York about an object that fell into a favorite NYC waterway (Newtown Creek). Check it out >> This is the image of wonderful muck that inspired the story. Image copyright Nate Dorr, who is awesome at photography and also has these bangin images of the Gowanus. Big ups, [...]
Elsewhen: The Hollow Earth Society at Elsewhere
—being a report of our work for Elsewhen at the Elsewhere Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. As part of this unusual residency, we’ve generated stories, videos, classes, happenings, and even a new para-academic conference: The Longest Story Ever Told – Saturday, April 21, 2012/ongoing – Almost as soon as we arrived in the Greensboro of 2012, we helped [...]
Elsewhen: The Story of the Living Library
As part of the Hollow Earth Society’s time here at Elsewhere—inhabiting a library, workshopping the notion of library/museum/site of education—we’ve developed an Elsewhen Tumblr to showcase our fictions and other responses to the books in the Living Library. Read our stories; share them; write your own! We will be posting titles periodically that still need [...]
Class at Genspace! Genetically Modified Storytelling
Genetically Modified Storytelling: Can Science Fiction Prognosticate Our Biotech Future? Classes will be held Tuesdays at 7:30pm, March 6, 13, 20. Never before attempted! Genspace will cross a literature course on science fiction with an intro to biotech. Get ready. It’s hands on. Sci-fi writers write our future. Jules Verne gives us Captain Nemo and [...]
Imaginary Reading List: Archimboldi
Kindlifresser, an unfinished novella by Benno Von Archimboldi about the legendary “Child-Eater of Bern.” Given up by the great author after page fifty due to a “geometrical uncertainty,” according to Archimboldi’s own faint marginalia. What the “uncertainty” was and why it prevented the completion of this compellingly horrifying fairy tale remain mysteries. [The plot seems to [...]
