Today’s show featured 50s/60s advertising outtakes, concrete pillar of a poet Emmett Williams, Tristan Tzara the dude who made the Dada’s manifesto, a Jerry Rothenberg (famous anthologist) poem to Tzara , Canadian poet bpNichol’s really funny sound poems, Jaap Blonk cool stuff too. Also there’s a bonus at the end of the show: you get to hear the very irish and fabulous intro to the celtic show and a favorite celtic-punk band of mine The Pogues:

['Merzrainbow' by Kurt Schwitters]

On Sunday we welcomed the advent of Spring with a special sneeze-friendly live radio reading: We featured the work of poets Heather Cousins, Andy Frazee, and Life.

Purchase Heather’s new book __Something in the Potato Room__ HERE and visit her WEBSITE.

Look forward to Andy’s chapbook __That the World Should Never Again Be Destroyed by Flood__ forthcoming from New American Press in 2010.

Visit Life’s WEBSITE, purchase his NEW BOOK, and learn more about the the local organization CLASSIC CITY KNIGHTS. There’s also an opportunity to see Life perform at New Earth Tuesday Mar. 30.

A big warm, farm animal hug to our wonderful guests Heather, Andy, and Life, to Claire Paffenhöfer for her help and purple glasses, to Akeeme aka DJ BlaqueStarr who sweetly edited the show, and to our listeners!!!

Also, there’s a VOX Reading Wednesday at 8pm at Cine with poets Kristin Naca and Heather Christle. Double also, there’s a reading with Leonard Schwartz (!) Thursday at 7pm at Cine.

BIG NEWS: a LIVE radio reading will happen this Sunday at 10am on 90.5! Sharing their work will be local poet and spoken word artist Lemuel “Life” LaRoche and two poets from UGA’s creative writing program Andy Frazee and Heather Cousins. Tune in at ten!

A Swim

Cutting through water, the fin
that became a hand becomes a fin again.

You, who were human moments ago,
standing on the edge of the water on two knobbed legs,

are now a long body moving through
the cold, black lake, press of blindness

on closed eyeballs, gray coils of deafness
in the ears, a pale slip of skin.

You turn your head and open your lungs,
close them again, bubbles

of air escaping from the wide holes
of your nose, slippery, fast.

Soon you will come out:
heavy as a boot, dripping death,

pulled toward the earth as if sucked
by mud: how hard it is

to return, thin legs having to hold
the entire body up.

by Heather Cousins originally published in Alehouse

Heather Cousins’s first book of poems __Something in the Potato Room__ just came out from Kore Press. www.heathercousins.com

Andy Frazee’s chapbook __That the World Should Never Again Be Destroyed by Flood__ was selected by Dan Beachy-Quick as winner of the New American Press chapbook contest, and is forthcoming in 2010. His work is also forthcoming in 1913: A Journal of Forms and Eoagh: A Journal of the Arts, and has appeared in Eleven Eleven, Cannot Exist, Bath House, BlazeVOX, and elsewhere. Originally from Illinois, he is currently a PhD student in English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

Remember this? Heather and Andy read at a 2009 VOX Reading.

Life has given readings at local poetry venues such as The Globe, Poetic Soul at Bulldog Cafe, and Word of Mouth. This will be his first appearance on Purple Cow!

other neat-o highlights: Richard Nonas “What do you Know” around 34th min. and immediately following that, some number poems from Experiments in Disintegrating Language. eight four… eight four… / / eight three six five one

the PLAYLIST: starts in around 5:30

[devastation from ww2]

The PLAYLIST and the show:

Also, if you missed Tuesday’s VOX Reading at Cine, we’ve got a recording of it. So listen to the READING!

Also, a magical new promoo

Want to hear something in particular on the next show? email me, dude. purplecow@wuog.org

The READING: Orlando White & Sonya Huber Tues. 1/ 26 @ Cine 8pm

The BOOKS from today’s show.

The PLAYLIST

The POETS (Chesterton, Snyder, Sanders) and a collage (Adam)

evening star brings back
what bright dawn has scattered
brings back the sheep
brings back the goats
brings back the children to their mothers

BIG NEWS: NEW TIME 10-11AM SUNDAYS!

Basically we had a two-part show, the first part including poems by these famous people:
Wallace Stevens, “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
T.S. Eliot, “Journey of the Magi”
Charles Simic, “Riddle”
Robert Graves, “To Juan at the Winter Solstice”
Gertrude Stein, “If I Told Him: A Complete Portrait of Picasso” (love)
William Carlos Williams, “A Love Song”
Czeslaw Milosz, “Ars Poetica?”
John Ashberry, “My Philosophy of Life”
Robert Penn Warren, “The Nature of a Mirror”
Anne Waldman, “Lady Tactics”
John Berryman, “The Lay of Ike” and “The High Ones Die”
Randall Jarrell, “Next Day”
Joshua Marie WIlkinson, “A Moth in the Projectorlight” (read by Ms. Paffenhofer)
Yusef Komunyakaa, “My Father’s Love Letters”
James Tate, “The Lost Pilot”

The second part of the show (starts at 36:00) featured the original work of undergraduate creative writers Colin Fawley reading an excerpt of fiction, Melissa McDaniel who read nonfiction and a poem, Khaled Khlifi reading poems, Caitlyn Crossley reading poems, and Daniel Jordan reading poems (not fiction!). Thanks to the ohsome Colin, Khaled, Caitlyn, Melissa, and Daniel!!!

That’s it for Purple Cow for Fall 2009, we’ll be back in January, hopefully at a new time (I like poetry in the morning, don’t you?)! Keep reading those poemzz, snap-snap. love you all.