Poems
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New Music + Poetry: Burn Unit Sessions
A series of poems written and performed by Daniel X. O’Neil at Burn Unit studios in Los Angeles in 1995. Original music composed by Dylan Morgan and performed by Dylan Morgan and Bob Christy. Based in large part on poems from MemoToAllEmployees by Daniel X. O’Neil. More here: juggernautco.com/
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Pastiche for Kaa Pow
Last weekend I saw Kaa Pow at Dazzle in Denver. At center stage is quite the drums, hand-carved deep-cut wood fashioned into the studied disorganization of a jazz-kit. Littered with spaces for each player to step out and thrive, their-style. The Way I Feel from Cookpot comes first. The keyboardist has his backpack next to…
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Magritte and Hart
Black hair can be seen as no— thing— a hidden state, a way to be incognito in your neigh— borhood, in light of orange. Magritte understood. —5/29/2018, SFMOMA
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Art Reaction: Leroi Jones and His Family, Bob Thompson, 1964
Babylon Revisited was the first poem I ever memorized, and loved, and could recite at will. It was horrible /bile- full but the words were beautiful. They flowed from a mouth. Impossible to speak them gentle or slow, so many near-rhymes and walls and spits.
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When Irma was a child
In 1993, John F. Burns, my favorite journalist ever, wrote an article in the New York Times: British Fly to Bosnian Girl’s Rescue. Here’s a snip: SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aug. 9— After worldwide publicity about her plight, a 5-year-old girl severely wounded by a Serbian artillery shell was evacuated today from Sarajevo by a British…