Recording from Should You Lose All Reason(s) Launch
I had the pleasure to read for Justine Chan’s book launch with some freshly written and generated works. Thanks to Ruth for the recording–the blur adds to the drama.
Category: My Poetry
Seven Clips (Video Poems)
I recently recorded myself reading seven poems from various projects. They are below.
there are you here – Super Position Performance Recording with Eric Acosta
Thanks to R.K. for recording the reading this past Saturday at Super Position. Details in the YouTube description.
Three Poems in “feathers”
I have three poems in Kyld Watkins’s latest super-limited-release feathers, which is the first part in the TimeBarn Produce series.
In Chill I Rest
A Poem
Upcoming Seattle Event: Reflexive Assembly: An Interactive Happening
A brief announcement that there will be an “interactive happening featuring you” at Common AREA Maintenance (CAM) in Belltown, Seattle, on 2/10/23. The event will go from 6pm to 9pm. It will feature Eric Acosta, Amy Hirayama, Keegan O’Rourke, Whitney Bashaw, and myself, and will include interactive soundscapes, music, poetry, projections, and painting! See you there!
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.
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.
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.
New poem in New SPREAD
The latest SPREAD (Issue 80) contains my poem “I Dream the Licks,” which discusses the fire at Umtanum Creek from a couple years back. Copies can be ordered at spankstra@hotmail.com.
Final Videos of View.Point.2 are up
I have received and uploaded the final videos of View.Point.2 to YouTube and they are now available in full. Note that they are not in the original order from the event.
Videos from View.Point.2
Very grateful to have the View.Point.2 recordings uploading to the ‘Tube. Many thanks to Amy Billharz and David Goodman for their recording efforts. Playlist below! As of this writing, 2/3 of the videos are up.