New Review: Amy Barone’s Defying Extinction
My latest book review has appeared in Rain Taxi. It’s for Amy Barone’s Defying Extinction (Broadstone, 2022).
Author: Greg
New audio: Exhume
I’ve just gotten back from a retreat at the Whiteley Center on San Juan Island, where I spent a few days roaming around the rainforest and coastline seeking out more field recordings, studying intimacy, and generally finding myself enjoying the natural solitude.
Shadowscrawler Reading and “Eight Nights of Deep” Poem
The Shadowscrawler Reading this past Winter Solstice was the coldest reading I’ve ever hosted and the coldest reading I’ve ever read at.
GOOS II Released
GOOS II: Straddle is now out and about. Contact me for copies. Limited print run. Also written with AI (InferKit and GPT). I read from this book last night at the Bulldog Poetry series. When the recording is made available I will link to it here.
Shadowscrawler: Notes for the Solstice
Here is an announcement for an upcoming reading in the dark at the Arboretum in Seattle. 9pm on 12/21/22, the Winter Solstice.
G Ooze Live Reading, Underbelly Poetry Reading
Eric Acosta and friends explore GOOS I through reading and singing, at the Underbelly Reading Series.
GOOS I Created and Released
I’m excited to announce that my latest book was released last Wednesday at the Underbelly Poetry Reading in Seattle. GOOS I is the first book under my working name G. Ooze. It’s the first in a series I am still realizing.
New review: Vanguards of Holography
It’s been quite a while, but I’ve got a new review up for Annie Christain’s The Vanguards of Holography. Many thanks to North of Oxford for continuing to host this ongoing body of work.
AI Text Experiments: What is Ooze in Real Life?
More from InferKit.
AI Text Experiments: What is a Slime Ball?
More from InferKit.
AI Text Experiments: What type of poetry does Greg Bem write?
Have you heard of InferKit? I’ve been using it once in a while, here and there, to create short prose works. Not for anything other than my own morbid AI curiosity. I decided to try and generate a bio note today, which inspired the AI to come up with a (not yet created) book and a brand new, Whitmanesque poem. The prompt is first in bold, and then the generative text.
A New Sound Project: roarbuzz
It’s been a while since I posted any new audio works. This is the first new exploration in sound since May 2021’s Dunn Gardens. roarbuzz uses found sound from a hostel in Banff, along with Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch, and a bunch of EQing in Ableton. The result is the most ambient work I’ve ever created, and the first in a sequence of audio projects that are connected to a larger performance piece in development.
Strange Time: The Belfair GIFs
Footage from October 2022. Created with Resolve and QGIFer.
