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Saturday, April 02, 2005

The Program

As I said in the last post, Sunday's show will be devoted to giving Robert Creeley the last word. Most of our time will be spent playing recordings of Creeley reading his own poems. There will also be memorial readings and tributes by Tony Tost, Aaron McCollough and Norman Dubie (along with any other tributes we might receive between now and Saturday night).

Because I have never done a radio show before, I don't know exactly how much time to allow for this first portion of the show. But if all goes as planned, I hope we'll also be playing some cool music and some poems by Tim Yu, Jeannine Gailey, E.V. Noechel and Jeffrey Ethan Lee.

I hope you'll tune in -- 4-6pm (PST) Sunday -- by clicking on the following link and choosing your connection speed: http://scw.ucsd.edu.

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Creeley on the radio this Sunday -- A Call for Tributes

James Meetze and I are preparing for our first radio show, which will air this Sunday afternoon. We will be dedicating the first hour of this first show to Robert Creeley, and will be playing some of Creeley's recorded readings. I hope you'll tune in -- 4-6pm (PST) Sunday -- by clicking on the following link and choosing your connection speed: http://scw.ucsd.edu.

And you can help me with this memorial. If you have written any elegies for Creeley, or would like to pay tribute to him in some other way (such as by reading your favorite Creeley poem on the air), please let me know. We will actually have to pre-record your reading over the telephone (there is no phone in the studio for some reason), so please send me an email if you are interested and we will set up a time to record your tribute. Please let me know by email as soon as possible -- matthew dot shindell at gmail dot com.

In the second half of the show we will be playing some of the truly wonderful recordings we received in response to our first call for recorded poetry submissions. (A more detailed program should be available here soon).

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

More Good Radio News

More good news on the recorded poetry front. Julie Englander has given us permission to play excerpts from Live from Prairie Lights, and Tony Tost has told us we can use the mp3s that he's been providing on Spaceship Tumblers. Everyone so far has been very cooperative. We have a lot of resources available to us. I still want to find freshly recorded poetry that has not been broadcast elsewhere and we are still short on this, but at least I know we will have no shortage of material.

I hope you will all tune in on Sunday afternoon. And tell your friends!

I will put a program up soon, as soon as I decide who to play on the first show.

Monday, March 28, 2005

The Response (my vacation ends)

The response to my initial call for recorded poems has been great! So far I've received mp3s or links to mp3s from Ivy Alvarez, Jeffery Bahr, Marvin Bell, Clayton Couch, AnnMarie Eldon, Jeannine Gailey, Gabriel Gudding, Paul Guest, Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Tatiana Moseeva, E. V. Noechel, Nick Piombino, Ron Silliman, Evie Shockley, Marcus Slease and Timothy Yu (you can find many of these names in my blogroll). Several others have promised to record something as soon as they can. I don't know if we'll be able to fit them all into the first program, but I do know that the program will be great!

I wrote to Charles Bernstein and got his blessing for the show. It was really cool to hear back from him. We will be using some stuff from the LINEbreak and PennSounds programs that he recorded and that are now available to nonprofit radio stations like KSDT. I also wrote to Julie Englander of the Live from Prairie Lights radio show but I have not yet heard back. Hopefully she'll be as cool as Charles and let us use some of the stuff they have available.

James Meetze tells me he has Stephanie Young and Cynthia Sailers coming to do a reading on Saturday, April 23rd. If all goes well and the two of them agree to it, we will record the reading and play it on the show the next day. I am also going to ask Jordan Davis if he wouldn't mind us playing a recording of a reading he did here about a month ago. Hopefully he'll say yes.

And this is how I imagine the show going. We will play one full reading each week, along with individual poems by an assortment of poets. Plus a little music here and there (I've received no requests yet -- don't you poets have anything you'd like to hear?).

E. V. Noechel asks if we will be reviewing lit mags on the show. I don't really know. My inclination is to say no. Personally I have no interest in doing reviews. Maybe James does, but I haven't asked him. Anyway, I think we can do something more interesting than review magazines. If you edit a magazine and you can put together a few recordings of your poets reading the poems they have published in your mag, send them along. We'll play them. Or, if you want to review a magazine or a book, send us a recording of your review and we'll play it.

Now. What about my vacation? As you may have guessed, I am back home. Details?

Two friends and I spent the last four days camping and traveling in Baja California. We drove down to a spot a couple hours south of El Rosario and made our way back up north. We ate a lot of fantastic Mexican seafood along the way, most notably these incredibly delicious lobster burritos. We drank some very smooth tequila at midnight on a cliff that overlooked a beautifully moonlit ocean in La Bufadora (it was like looking over the edge of the world). And we ended our trip by taking a tour and having a taste or two in a fine Mexican winery along the Routa del Vino. Somehow we managed to avoid all the other gringos on spring break (I don't think any of them drove as far south as we did). We did see the packed beaches in Rosarito and Tiajuana. The sight of the throngs made us glad we'd gone out of our way. I mean, did any of them see the boulder fields of central Baja? I don't think so.

: Name: Matthew Shindell; Location: San Diego, California, United States

Matthew Shindell used to live and write in Phoenix, Arizona. He now lives and writes in La Jolla, California.

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American Letters and Commentary (Coming Soon) - "Hoo Ta Ta, Hoo Ta"

American Poetry Review July/August 2004 - "It sounds like a saxophone tugging across a field"

Black Warrior Review v30n2 - "Sidekick"

FENCE v6n2 - "Drinking with the Ventriloquist's Dummy" & "Parable of the Boy inside the Deer"

Hayden's Ferry Review #25 - "The Willow"

Hayden's Ferry Review #35 - "The Monkey's Skull: Where Do Good Newsmen Come From?" & "Made Easy"

Jubilat 7 - "But Emerson Says, 'The body is a metre. The eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose."

The Melic Review - "In Short, a Pleasant Day :: The Man Arrives, Hooray!" "The Same Words :: Order of Harpoons," & "A Birdâs Head Rolls Into Two Baskets :: Walkie-Talkie"

No Tell Motel - "Order of Harpoons :: Digitalia :: Dobre Vecher" 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Read my discussion of the poem here.

Northwest Review - "Clink" & "Bear-Caught"

Octopus 4 - "About the Author," "Four Star General" &
"The Day :: Born :: The Red Door"

Pleiades 24:2 - "Speech of Artificio, a Character in My New Play" & "Inc."

Tarpaulin Sky v2n2&3 -
"Two Jokes About Bears"

Unpleasant Event Schedule - "He Called Her Forest (or was it Forest?)" & "The Brain Full of Bourbon (concerning the doctor and the simulation of Switzerland)"

Read my online poetic project, Jubilee's Daughters, the ongoing and evolving tale of Isabgol in Ronomok.

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The Canary
Typo
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The Program

Creeley on the radio this Sunday -- A Call for Tributes

More Good Radio News

The Response (my vacation ends)

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