Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, The Occult, and Poetry and Mysticism, in 1956.  I had the pleasure of interviewing the magus back in 2006. Read the interview: Colin Wilson on poetry and the peak experience.

And here is the trailer for a new documentary on Colin Wilson.


More info here with Dennis Price at Eternal Idol.

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I'm beginning to brush up on all things "mathematical poetry." The Kaz Maslanka installation was a smashing success. (And it's so nice to be able to say "smashing success" and really mean it.) I'm excited to see what Kaz brings to the Rhythm of Structure event. And I'm excited at the prospect that Bob Grumman might be coming up from his home in FL. I've only met Bob once before and only briefly. Here is a link to an essay I wrote on Bob's "Mathemaku" poetry, it's entitled:

Notes on Bob Grumman's Mathemaku and on Mathematical Poetry Generally.

That essay will give you an idea of what I think of and of how I construe "mathematical poetry" (as basically a "making permanent of the transitory," which is what I maintain poetry does generally). Soon I'll post some samples of my own "mathematical poetry," along with a brief essay explaining it, and that'll be a sort of preview of the perspective or angle I'll be bringing to my responses to the "Mathematical Graffiti" at the Rhythm of Structure show. And I'll be posting about John Sims, the curator, mastermind and impresario behind this whole thing! So if you're reading this and you're at all interested, stay tuned. . . .



















Follow Rhythm of Structure on Facebook and at the Bowery Poetry Club.

Click here, please, for an article on the Rhythm of Structure series in Art in America and for a photo of John Sims with the former Poet Laureate Mark Strand.   And here, from an article in Nature, is John Sims on math and the arts:

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Last night I made it over to The LAB Gallery for the opening of Morgan O’Hara’s SPRING LAB, her latest site-specific drawing which is part of her ongoing “Live Transmissions” series.

“Live Transmissions” are made by a process in which O’Hara, with a pencil in each hand, records the left and right hand movements of an observed subject performing a task. Drawing methodically with multiple razor-sharp pencils and both hands, as time-based performance, O’Hara condenses movement into accumulations of graphite line. Such tasks have included knitting a sweater, a farmer’s wife digging up asparagus, a musician performing on piano and street pavers setting paving stones. The result is an abstracted map of the subject’s gestures.

“Movement of the hands of
 Conductor Riccardo Chailly” 
while conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No 4. 
first movement, 
Carnegie Hall, New York City, 10 February 2000.

Here’s a video of the installation.

Morgan O’Hara

O’Hara’s works impress me as being neat and articulate.


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E·ratio Poetry Journal celebrates poetry with The Alan Halsey Interview.

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Visionary poet and mathematician Kaz Maslanka is bringing a special installation to NYC for The LAB Gallery at the Roger Smith (at 47th and Lex.). The installation will run from March 5th to March 26th, 2010, only.

Click here to see a “computer aided design mockup” showing the main structure of the installation.

Click here to read my interview with Kaz Maslanka.

Click here for Kaz Maslanka’s blog, Mathematical Poetry, and for updates and videos about the installation.





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a noun sing e·ratio 13 · 2010 · featuring the Alan Halsey interview

with poetry by Laynie Browne, Jill Jones, Jane Adam, Jeff Encke, Joseph F. Keppler, Mark Cunningham, Jadon Rempel, Keith Higginbotham, Anne Fitzgerald, and Halvard Johnson

e·ratio editions e-chaps by Travis Macdonald and Carey Scott Wilkerson

and featuring The Alan Halsey Interview

edited by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino



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In Poets and Artists January 2010 v3.1.

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Cover art by Eddy Burger for Cordite Poetry Review #31, EPIC. To see Eddy Burger's complete set of illustrations, click here.

Cordite 31: EPIC is edited by Ali Alizadeh. Read Ali Alizadeh's excellent editorial, here.

Read my poem, "The Archaeology of Palestine," here.

Cordite Poetry Review is directed by David Prater.


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from In White Writing by Alan Halsey


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This afternoon I had the pleasure of visiting at Granary Books (on Mercer, in Soho). What a thrill to be among such fine poetry, such fine books (art objects and artists’ books, “small edition books”), and such fine people. Thank you, Steve Clay, for welcoming me.

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"Vacation" by Márton Koppány

KOPPÁNY WAVES TO E·RATIO EDITIONS.

E·ratio Editions is happy to announce the publication of Waves, an e-chap by Márton Koppány.

See Márton Koppány's work online at e·ratio:

IT IS THE SAME
Dedication Poems


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Postcards, 1994.

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"Still Life" by Márton Koppány


Read my review of Márton's 2003 volume, Investigations & Other Sequences.

Investigations & Other Sequences
by Márton Koppány
Ahadada Books, 2003
ISBN: 0-973223-1-6


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a noun sing e·ratio 12 · 2009

with poetry by David Chikhladze, Gautam Verma, David Rushmer, Anne Fitzgerald, Mary Ann Sullivan, Ruth Lepson, Virginia Konchan, Sandra Huber, Paige H. Taggart, Marcia Arrieta, Sean Patrick Hill, Travis Macdonald, Mark Lamoureux, Camille Martin, Nathan Thompson, Philip Byron Oakes, Cyril Wong, and Derek Henderson

edited by gregory vincent st. thomasino



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“For the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him one step, he leaves it behind.”

—Schopenhauer


In a dispute by correspondence with a young admirer of his named Kugelmann, Marx explains the application of the dialectic to current events. It was 1870 and Kugelmann could not see why Germany should turn her defensive war against France into an aggressive and imperialistic war. Marx replies that the dialectic consists not only in opposing another force but in overcoming it and so fusing the two elements. Then he writes to Engels: “When a man attacks me on the street, according to K., I have only the right to ward off his blows; to strike him in return and knock him down would be, according to him, to become an aggressor. It is clear none of these fellows understand anything about the dialectic.”

—from Darwin, Marx, Wagner by Jacques Barzun


“I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go.”

—Anaïs Nin


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