Posts tagged "Edwin Torres"
Rimbaud’s Illuminations
[ Wednesday, April 27, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
At last! John Ashbery’s translation of French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s final masterpiece before abandoning poetry at the age of 21, Illuminations (Norton, 2011) has been published. Ashbery’s rendering of all forty-four poems powerfully evokes the kaleidoscopic beauty of the original and creates “a vision of postdiluvian freshness” out of “the chaos of ice floes and [...]
Edwin Torres reads “Me No Habla Spic” & “No Lie _ H onest” – 11/4/09
“Me No Habla Spic”
Edwin Torres Me No Habla Spic
“No Lie _ H onest”
Edwin Torres no lie
Edwin Torres on his Project reading
Read Edwin’s Buffer Zone Galactica on the blog “harriet.”
Edwin Torres & Will Alexander
[This event took place Wednesday, November 3, 2009]
Report by Nada Gordon
Edwin Torres was stylin’ in his official MTA pop lettrist NY School subway socks and fine loud maybe zinnia print shirt in shades of burgundy, pumpkin, scarlet, neon cantaloupe, and 50s aqua on a warm cream background. I watched him psych up gathering energy to be, as [...]
Introductions for Will Alexander & Edwin Torres – 11/4/09
Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and visual artist who lives in Los Angeles, the city where he was born in 1948. He was the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry in 2001 and a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002. Over the years he has worked several jobs (including the LA [...]
From Edwin Torres – Guest Blogger
May 27, 2009
We are a church, mass happens at every reading, right?
Oh PoProj, I give you my last blog entry as a popopoom>>>
I have jumped the castle-making pontiff machine
Scraping the hem of clergymen at low tide
I have sunk my grabb on stank pot putty
Paging Homer Bomar, the Bixter Funk
Hey, the Times had an [...]
from Edwin Torres – Guest Blogger
May 20, 2009
Hiding behind screens of populated jams, where to find this week’s inch? On The Bowery, in The Bunker, from the travelled lungs of a certified poetry icon.
John Giorno’s reading at the Project last week was one of those pinch-me-I’m-alive events that reboots the mainframe and makes you want to write, perform and bask [...]
from Edwin Torres – Guest Blogger
May 13, 2009
The Poetry Project is my hub. I heed the darkening pull—Grand Central—Shuttle—Time Square—every morning, a disfigurement of propulsions unfolding, like the city I love, like the dad I’ve become.
“Whoah, unfold like reality, dude.”
“Disease is a feel called love.”
“Those bottled packs of Salinger under my puffed teabags? Sulfuric ganja!”
A smattering of the scattered dollops [...]
from Edwin Torres – Guest Blogger for May
May 7, 2009
I am such NOT a blogger…but I will attempt to present tidbits and odd bites over the next few weeks. Thanks Stacy, for giving me another deadline…I mean for delving into the nether reaches of such facile humility.
Oh, and guess what, Mercury will be in retrograde for the length of my guest blogging…and [...]
