Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

great response! the lack of questioning, critical, reflective attitudes in dreaming state is a very important observation. but, actually this causes me to reconsider my previous enthusiasm for dreaming, since i value critical thinking quite highly. but i wonder whether the 'no mind' and 'oneness of ...

trevor, this has been very interesting and has made me try to be more careful in expressing my views because people are apt to misinterpret what one writes. this has happened several times in our exchange. there are several points where simple misunderstanding has combined with genuine disagreement,...

hi, we have few distinct issues tied up in one here which maybe it's best to disentangle. one is the question of style and grammar/orthography/punctation. these are very different things of course, correct spelling and puntuation doesn't equal good style nor vice versa. anyway, what style is good or...

this wild west may be untamable, however, becuase it has an ever expanding frontier, unlike the old wild west with limited space. technology is on both side of the problem: there was no technological anwer to the guns that one the west that could favor anarchy, whereas the technologies of 'anarchic'...

the second one made more sense (though perhaps because i had been primed by reading already the first version) in part because it spelled things out more in terms of directives and action-scenes. it was also much more erotic, and those portions were worth saving in their own right though i am not su...

in some of brooklyn's posts here at StudioEight he has expressed the idea that there is need to adapt and tranform the kind of poetry that took place on the old Litkicks in order to make it fit in with the standards of traditional, mainstream printed literary journals. There is a clear desire on the...

wow, thanks for sharing your stories, guys. although it may be not worth the cost in lives and allowing the assault on human dignity, i sort of think it might be a good thing if the draft is re-introduced. such an issue seems to have helped focus and intensify anti-war resistance during the Vietnam ...

this is indeed a great philosophy of the soul of man: "various metaphysicians have speculated on the location of the soul when it has always been obvious to me that my soul is located in my brain and occasionally migrates to my pecker." but where do you stand on the question of immortality? i was ju...

Some of the Kerry-Edwards rhetoric is starting to disturb me. They have been trying to out-militarize the Bushies, a stupid and reckless move. Yesterday, Edwards was lauding the huge defense-spending bill for which Kerry and he voted. And they have both been emphasizing their plan to 'find the terro...

there is always the danger with a moderately successful site, that the power and feeling of ownership will get to the creator's head and they will start behaving as an autocrat. as basica as human nature. despite overtures to the idea of 'community' and 'discussion.'

well, i sincerely hope that today's Literary Kicks' question is supposed to be a self-parody, 'cause if not, that's one hell of a self-destructing text! if i understood it correctly: press A if you tend to think in terms of good or evil, black and white press B if not anyway, i've been abstaining fr...

what to do about this? is it best to remove it (or encourage the relevant authorities to do so) as soon as possible, for the purposes of removing unsightliness, public health threats, and out of respect for the dead; or, is it best to let it lie there for a while, as a (morbid) warning, so as to war...

line breaks matter enormously, for the visual appearence-design but also for me, at least, it functions as a guide to pauses in reading, that is, when i make a line break i want that to be reflected in the way it is recited (although i know most poets do not use line breaks this way, i.e.e many will...

the borders of the soul
are the borders of the universe?

the blade that shaves
Existence into nothingness

a block of cheddar
against the grate

and then the thumb

and then
the bone

the Dodge Poetry Fest was excellent, as usual. astill a bit to focused on establishment poets of the academic variety, but nonetheless some great eprformances. especially remarkable were two poets whose work is totally new to me though they've been at it for a while: Cecilia Vicuna, a Chilean poetes...