Kyle Schlesinger follow-up

http://www.kyleschlesinger.com/

Here are some links and leads Kyle Schlesinger is sharing with us as a follow-up to his visit (I also suggest UBU Web—an incredible online archive of experimental works). I guess the "Google Poetry" I mentioned in class is officially known as "Flarf." See below.

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UBU Web. Rare films, tons of audio files, documents, etc. Kenny G is the editor. I strongly suggest Craig's Conceptual Writing anthology as a compendium for Oulipo: http://www.ubu.com/

There's also Craig's Eclipse, an archive of inspired writing: http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/
and Kenny is also a senior editor at PennSound http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

If we had time, I would have played Frank Kuenstler reading from In Which, Joe Brainard reading from I Remember, Darren Wershler-Henry reading from The Tape Worm Foundry, Christian Bok reading from Eunioa, and Kenny Goldsmith reading from Fidget (also a print and online project). As I write this is occurs to me that all of these Oulipian writers (third-wave sounds too formal) are also visual artists—Frank the filmmaker, Joe a painter and collage artist, Darren a book designer and Internet theorist, Christian a performance artist, and Kenny a 'trained' sculptor.

... read more about the contemporary controversy surrounding Flarf at http://jacketmagazine.com/30/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flarf_poetry Also makes for a fun writing exercise.