Karen Werner

Radio artist and sociologist based in western Massachusetts and Bergen, Norway.

[NourbeSe Philip @mnourbese]

November 29, 2021, marks the 240th anniversary of the beginning of the Zong! massacre.

We will be sharing a 10-day online re-broadcast of the Zong!Global2020 durational readings starting tomorrow - November 30 – Dec 9th, 2021.
#rebroadcast #zong!global2021 #announcement #JoinUs

[TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien @tonspur__folgen]

Coming up this Sunday: TONSPUR_live_set_17_in_times_of_COVID-19 • Karen Werner (@KWerner15 & Alwynne Pritchard (@AlwynneP) • Live stream from Bergen, Norway • Sun 21 Nov • 17:00—18:00 CET
In cooperation with @Q21_vienna / @mqwien
https://t.co/vHV6GnHHFK

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

We came to transmit the shimmering
from which we came; to name it

we deal with a permanent voyage,
the becoming of that which itself had
become

—Etel Adnan (1925 - 2021)
https://t.co/BOe5LHFE6Y

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

"i feel myself splitting into too many rooms of static
you touch my hand & there i am"

-Danez Smith

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Everything that is not said
is poetry.

--Ali Al Jallawi (tr. Ayesha Saldanha)

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“Magic is speech liberated from language.”

—Agamben

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Follow up question:
What will help us find a way towards human communication?

Asking for a friend.

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Here is another moving poem by Carolyn Forche:

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Public service reminder:

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."

--Ursula K. Le Guin

[Karen Werner @KWerner15]

Wave Farm | The Radio Art Hour: Scanner, NeuroTransmitter, Barbara Ess and Peggy Ahwesh, Joan Schuman https://t.co/vQftacRXZj

[Karen Werner @KWerner15]

Wave Farm | The Radio Art Hour: Karen Werner, Scanner, Marcia Bassett, Thomas Dimuzio, Yvette Janine Jackson https://t.co/fXmv66rS7H

[Karen Werner @KWerner15]

Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst: https://t.co/ZhOwhTV7BP #bek #bergen #kunst

[Maria Papadomanolaki @voicesoundtext]

Mark yr calendars: Reveil 8 - May 1-2 @ResonanceEXTRA and participating stations! 24hrs of daybreak sounds & a programme of performances, workshops and talks. More soon!🌕🌖🌗🌘🌒🌓🌔👂🏼🦻

[Samantha Wood @cornerrobot]

Traffic report today on SkottegatenFM included the poem “This Space” by Ruth Stone.
@KWerner15 and I talked about longing, how traffic is always now, the external forces at work and also phase change in spring. I love drinking coffee w the Marconi towers. #radioart

[Karen Werner @KWerner15]

3 month micro radio in Bergen: 88.6FM SkottegatenFM's schedule for the upcoming week with Sam, Laura, William, Ricarda, Maxine, plus sheep birds, sounds, music, words...@cornerrobot

[Karen Werner @KWerner15]

#WorldRadioDay

[Karen Werner @KWerner15]

Valkeapää's poetry read aloud in English at noon on Tuesday on @SkottegatenFm, micro FM radio in Bergen

[Jacek Smolicki @jaceksmolicki]

Nils Aslak-Valkeapääs was a Sámi musician, poet and writer. Listen to his wonderful bird symphony composed of field recordings made during one year between early spring and late autumn. https://t.co/Oul8ai7yaj Happy National Sámi Day! Thanks for the hint @mirko_nik !

[Jacek Smolicki @jaceksmolicki]

Nils Aslak-Valkeapääs was a Sámi musician, poet and writer. Listen to his wonderful bird symphony composed of field recordings made during one year between early spring and late autumn. https://t.co/Oul8ai7yaj Happy National Sámi Day! Thanks for the hint @mirko_nik !

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

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[quadgoal @quadgowl]

Ilya Kaminsky, “Still Dancing: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky”

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

For complete concurrence of souls there needs to be a concurrence of breath, for what is breath, if not the rhythm of the soul?

So, for humans to understand one another, they must walk or lie side by side.

Tsvetaeva, On Love, 1917