Purple Cow

Last Saturday’s show (Sept. 26) featured music by Silver Jews and poems from David Berman’s Actual Air (1999) for the first hour. For the second hour, I pulled some recordings off the Poetry on Record album from WUOG’s archives. Here’s the show and the show’s playlist can be found here:

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Tune in again on Saturday at Noon to hear some cool French poetry, read in the original French and, hopefully, translated so that we who don’t speak French can feel cool. As always, thanks for listening.

Favorite poem of the show? Definitely “New York” by Berman. Watch out for those pigeons, yall.

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Today’s show feature local Athens poets Celeste Divine and Isai, who specialize in spoken word and perform regularly every Wednesday at the Bulldog Cafe’s Poetic Soul event. It was a really great conversation touching on topics like black holes, love, relationships, poetics, philosophy, and I haven’t even mentioned the poems. Props to Celeste and Isai for bringin such killer poems and thoughts to the mic. Listen to the show in it’s entirety, and then listen to it again, and then go cook a big dinner for yourself and play the show in the background, and then go to a window and count how many different sounds you hear, then listen to Purple Cow some more, and then…Enjoy.

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You can find Isai on Facebook and Myspace, and you can visit Celeste’s website [which I will link you to as soon as I find where I wrote it down]. There’s another event going on *tonight* at The Globe in Athens, Ga. featuring these two performance poets, other poets, and musicians. It’ll go from 8PM-2AM, and you can drop in and hang out as long or as often as you like. I’ve also been told it’ll be a dance party!

Tune in next week at Noon for some more poetry! I’ve stumbled upon a couple of albums of spoken word and poetry recordings in the Archives, so you definitely don’t want to miss these diamonds radiating from the deep, underwater Archive-cave.

Thanks to everybody who tuned in, who always tunes in, and who will tune in five years long after we’ve passed the show down to other poet-hosts…

Peace,

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Today’s show featured Seth, a budding sound artist and poet, who collaborates with other musicians, fuses music and poetry, and tests the limits of text/sound. We played his working “album” called “The Skeleton Keyhole” and also a sample of some of his influences, including Susan Howe’s “Theifts,” Modest Mouse, and Max Richter’s “The Blue Notebooks.” Here you can check it for yourself:

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Don’t forget to tune in next Saturday! Special guests from Poetic Soul, a local poetry event that happens every Wednesday at The Bulldog Cafe, poets Celeste and Life will be performing spoken word and talking about poetry in their lives.

Special thanks to all our listeners! And special thanks to Seth for giving us such a “disembodied tongue spill.”

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Hi everyone!

Purple Cow’s live and loud this Saturday at Noon! We’ll be featuring work by UGA sound artist and poet Seth McKelvey. Seth is a senior working under direction of Andrew Zawacki on an honors thesis concerned with experimental poetry and its potentially increased accessibility via music. Text/sound/mp3 files and a conversation

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Coming soon: podcasts of the VOX Reading Series! Keep your toes pointed!

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