lonnie monka

Poet | Writer | Educator | PhD candidate @HebrewU | Researching David Antin's talk poetics through the lenses of performance, orality, & modernism...

[Tom D’Evelyn @TomDEvelyn]

Moore — a modernist AND our contemporary. She showed how poems can make “sense” and still disturb one’s poetic world: “writing” can upset the conventions through explicit meaning. By paraphrasing the discursive she topples conventional hierarchies. Habakkuk our contemporary.

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

@lenaozge Also see David Antin's talk poems.

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

The quote is from Antin's essay, "Modernism and Postmodernism: Approaching the Present in American Poetry" (1972) published in the inaugural edition of @Boundary2. Every time I return to this essay, I learn more & more... This time I was struck by the very Benjaminesque idea.

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

“...it is a fact of our experience that it is the past not the present, which changes. We go on for a long time, taking the present for a constant, much as the self. At some point we raise our heads and are surprised at what lies behind us and how far away it is.” - David Antin

[Charles Bernstein @ChrlesBernstein]

Paul Bové and I write about peer review in scholarly/academic publishing. Paul’s is a probing, resonant reflection; my essay is more of a confection. Both respond to Amit Chaudhuri’s provocations for his Literary Activism series. Read both essays here:
https://t.co/QbbOsHCq3I

[Ludwig Wittgenstein | Philosopher 📖 @Wittgensteinnn]

"To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."

[Ludwig Wittgenstein | Philosopher 📖 @Wittgensteinnn]

"One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is."

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

A review of "Poems as Invitations" (the exhibition I curated). Published in today's @Jerusalem_Post

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

@christianbok Nice!

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

@timothygreen Too vague of a question for me...

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

NOTHING ELEGANT.

A charm a single charm is doubtful. If the red is rose and there is a gate surrounding it, if inside is let in and there places change then certainly something is upright. It is earnest.

[#Wondering What can Stein's Tender Buttons offer EFL students?]

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

@OMTorah Nice. Whom was the video made for? I may try to squeeze it into some of my courses and see how (or rather if) students respond.

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

@Katie_Dozier Try cutting all the references to poetry/reading/submissions/voltas/&c out, except maybe the poet's dream at the end. They are abstract (very much so), detracting (if not decimating) the constellation of vivid imagery.

[Christian Bok @christianbok]

EUNOIA has received one million views because of the zaniness of Michael Stevens on TikTok—(the first time in my life when anything that I have ever made has received an audience of this size): https://t.co/aZbtzXfSqu

[Jerusalism @Jerusalism]

Lives are like that usually killing time till it kills you
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I hear the sound of water coming from the same source I cannot see
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(An excerpt from the poetic exchange between Gali-Dana Singer & Stefan Ellis: https://t.co/0jkEA4pNjy... #israelilit

[Jerusalism @Jerusalism]

Before sleep
my mother switches the tv
to the children’s channel
so the newscaster
won’t see her
getting undressed.
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From "Visit" by Nadia Adina Rose & translated by Linda Zisquit. Read the whole poem on Halah: https://t.co/77YYn2KYkC... #israelilit

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

the weed wobbles
& its shadow sways
—new moon

#haiku

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

@BethanyJarmul Try "talk poetry" (after David Antin)!

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

folded
flowers
unfolding

[lonnie monka @lonniemonka]

@systole_ David Antin, especially his talk poetry books (for a taste of experimental oral poetry). I think that How Long Is the Present or Radical Coherency should be easier to find.