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General resources for poets and poems: Academy of American Poets: <www.poets.org> Poetry Daily: <www.poems.com> Readers for Spring 2007: Patrick Barron: <http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Barron%20poems.htm> Martha Collins: <www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/273> Peter Fallon: <www.peterfallon.com> Danielle Legros Georges: <www.curbstone.org/authdetail.cfm?AuthID=123> Chris Janke: <http://www.pshares.org/Authors/authorDetails.cfm?prmAuthorID=6723> Liam Rector: <www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/379> Dan Chaisson and Meghan O'Rourke discusss autobiography and poetry at <http://www.slate.com/?id=2162725>
4/30--Public Radio Talent Quest: UMass Boston’s WUMB 91.9FM Radio has partnered with the Public Radio Talent Quest staff, to help change the sound of public radio nationally and to find the public radio stars of tomorrow. This is an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for UMass Boston students (as well as interested faculty and staff). Anyone can submit an entry for the competition on their own, but WUMB is making it easy to create and to submit the simple two-minute entry in an “American Idol” type of open audition. We will have staff and equipment available to record entries, this Tuesday, May 1st from 6pm-9pm at the WUMB studios, Lower Level, Healey Library. Talent Quest staff will be on hand to help fill out the paperwork and to upload the entry to their Web site. First come, first served; we will be able to accommodate up to 50 people; advance recording time reservations are recommended by e-mailing wumb@umb.edu. All anyone has to do to enter the competition either on their own or at the open audition, is to be prepared to show his/her personality with a script up to two-minutes in length, or be prepared to talk to for up to two-minutes. Entries can be in one of three categories: Talk, Music or Entertainment. Limit of one entry per person. There are cash prized totaling $70,000, and up to three winners will be selected to develop a radio show to be aired nationally on public radio! More info at: http://www.wumb.org/talentquest/index.php. Visit the Web site to link to the location where you can listen to entries that have already been submitted. Wouldn't it be great if a UMass Boston student became the next major talent for public radio? Questions? E-mail wumb@umb.edu Patricia Monteith, CFRE 4/12: Danielle Georges' "You Will Listen to Me" is an example of "investigative poetics," which embraces the idea that poetic discourse is as useful a tool for exploring the factual world as scientific, political, or social analysis. The term was first used by Ed Sanders in the early 1970s (he wrote a book--not in verse--about the Manson family) and has been embraced by writers like Claudia Rankine and Martha Collins.
Laisse-moi devenir L’ombre de ton ombre L’ombre de ta main L’ombre de ton chien Ne me quitte pas —Jacques Brel
YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME (I) New York: A man who built a voodoo shrine using his ex-girlfriend’s underwear— then killed her mother, and a dog,— was sentenced Thursday to 28 years to life in prison. The ex-girlfriend, Françoise McDaley, 16, told police that Pierre Carrenard, 36,
harassed her after she broke up with him. On the day of the crimes, it is reported Carrenard called her at work and threatened her mother, Esperance Labidou, a Haitian immigrant who worked at a bus company. Carrenard later stabbed the mother 25 times in her home, before he turned the knife on her Chichuahua, Foo Foo. He then fled to Florida. Police found a shrine in his apartment, made of the ex-girlfriend’s underwear and one of his socks tied together in a vine. Carrenard explained in court that the shrine “was a sort of spell to control her spirit.” Police also found a letter in his apartment. “All I want to do is to love you and make a life with you, but your family keeps getting in the way. Let this be the last interference. You will no longer listen to your family. You will listen to me.”
YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME (II) What appears above is a condensed, almost verbatim transcript of an Associated Press story* entitled “Man With Voodoo Shrine Gets Life In Prison.” No individual by-line accompanies the story, which is titillating because of its dramatic elements: murderous love; the always sensational voodoo in the U.S.; the wild pair of the sock and underwear (vine of love); the madly-called dog, whose name, translated, is “Crazy Crazy.” It is crazy, all of it: the man stabbing Foo Foo; the man stabbing the mother; the story itself like a ravenous dog rummaging though trash for a meaty bone; and the girl 16 to the man’s 36 years (here the story does not blink)—and all that this implies, 16 . 36. 16. In considering which headline might work in this light, perhaps “Pedophile menaces girl and kills mother,”? “Pedophile kills dog and mother.”? Let’s kick voodoo to the curb, leave the shrine and its dark shroud behind, continue to climb up the story’s vine, “Man with mental illness menaces family”? Do not leave me, dear reader, as I dredge up the dreary details, the awful facts. Ne me quitte pas.
*Man with Voodoo Shrine Gets Life in Prison By Associated Press, August, 18, 2006
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