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A Dream Delivery Service Poetry Prompt
1. Plant words in the abandoned lot.
2. Among broken plates & rotting drywall.
3. Watch the words stretch to the light.
4. Listen to the wind & write what it says.
5. Hold your blank page out to the falling rain.
6. Write until the words unearth the poem.
Silo City Reading Series - 2017
Pages from an Illuminated Gospel. Ethiopia, Highland Region. 1300s.
This illuminated manuscript of the Four Gospels was created in the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century at an Ethiopian monastic center. Its full-page paintings on vellum depict New Testament scenes from the life of Christ and portraits of the evangelists. The text is in Ge'ez, the classical Ethiopian language. Typical of Ethiopian painting, the imagery is two-dimensional and linear. Heads are seen frontally; bodies are often in profile. The artist abbreviated the facial features and treated the human form as a columnar mass, articulated in bold black and red lines.
In the fourth century A.D., the Ethiopian king Ezana converted to Christianity. Christianity became the official religion of the state whose legacy endured in various forms until the twentieth century. Around the time this manuscript was made, Ethiopia’s Christian kingdom expanded its influence. Monastic centers became increasingly important outposts of state power. They were also the chief sites of Christian art production. During the sixteenth century, Islamic incursions devastated the region, and most Christian Ethiopian art that predates the seventeenth century was destroyed. This illuminated gospel is a rare survival. -Met
9/23 Dream-In at Chop Suey Books in Richmond, Virginia
Tomorrow I’ll be hosting a Dream-In at Chop Suey Books. All day I’ll be writing & collecting dreams to make a zine called The Big Book of Richmond Dreams.
To include your dreams in the zine, message me or reply to this post with a brief (up to 300 words) narrative of a dream you’ve had & your name.
Then at 7pm we’ll have a reading from The Big Book of Richmond Dreams at Chop Suey. It’ll be an open reading of dreams from the zine & other dream-related writings, featuring Robert Cataldo, Allison Titus, Joe Cates, me, & more.
Send me your dreams! Hit me up if you’re in Richmond & would like to read some dreams!
Reading in Greenville, SC & DC & Thirty Dreams Chapbook
If anyone is interested in seeing me read poems I’m reading twice this coming week, in Greenville, SC & in DC.
In Greenville I’m reading at 7pm Thurs night at the GCS Arts Center (102 Pink Knoll Rd.) www.facebook.com/events/1760623204225696
In DC I’m reading at 3pm Sun afternoon at the DC Arts Center (2438 18th St NW) alongside Danielle Evannou, Temim Fruchter, & Angelique Palmer. www.facebook.com/events/1776406882605884
Also, I’ve made a little chapbook, Thirty Dreams, which consists of thirty dreams from the June dream deliveries. If that is something you might want you can order it here: dreamdeliveryervice.tumblr.com/post/150230884100
Subscribers to poet Mathias Svalina's Dream Delivery Service receive a written dream at their doorstep every morning for a month.
I did an interview with Colorado Public Radio a bit ago. They also too this photo of me holding dreams.
"One thing I love about dream logic is that nothing comes apart, or if it does the coming-apart is also a binding. Any thing can intrude in a dream & it's just like Well, yeah, of course, whereas intrusions in reality-logic are difficult & cause rupture & require processing & understanding. In the dream every new thing emits tendrils of meaning & sympathy to help the whole cohere. The stumble becomes the first step to flight, the stupid a means of profundity, the natural estranging..."
The incomparably awesome Sara Renee Marshall interviewed me for the Poetry Society of America.
And!! they let me use my favorite author photo, in which Lara’s dogs are piling onto me.
This summer you may be too swamped to remember your subconscious. If you don't have time to dream, or if you can't recall them, you can enroll in a service that will bring typed up dreams to your doorstep courtesy of local poet and bike messenger, Mathias Svalina, creator of...
I did a little interview about Dream Delivery Service with the Denver arts weekly, Westword.
Agate bowl
Roman Egypt, 1st - 2nd century AD
Source: The J. Paul Getty Museum
THIS MONTH’s SPD HANDPICKED is all about LOCATION - The Wine Dark Sea by Mathias Svalina traps us in a crawlspace of a recurring title - The Wine Dark Sea. With every poem pointing to this sea as a referent we have to ask ourselves - where is it? Is it more than a feeling? Either way, we’re already drenched.
20% off all month w/ code HANDPICKED
Summer 2016 Dream Delivery Service
My name is Mathias Svalina. I’m a writer. In June & August of 2016 I will write & deliver dreams to subscribers.
I write the dreams without consultation of the dreamer & deliver them daily: hand deliver via bike to subscribers in a four-mile radius of my home in Denver, & by mail to others.
I will take forty subscribers per month.
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Subscription fees (per month):
Hand delivery: $40. Mail delivery: $40+postage=$55
Daily nightmares cost an extra $3.75.
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June DreamsVia Bike (Denver only) $40.00 USDVia Mail (US only) $55.00 USD
August DreamsVia Bike (Denver only) $40.00 USDVia Mail (US only) $55.00 USD
June NightmaresVia Bike (Denver only) $43.75 USDVia Mail (US only) $58.75 USD
August NightmaresVia Bike (Denver only) $43.75 USDVia Mail (US only) $58.75 USD
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Bio: Mathias Svalina is the the author of five books, including Destruction Myth (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), Wastoid (Big Lucks Books), & the recently released The Wine-Dark Sea (Sidebrow Books). He is an editor for the small press Octopus Books.
Since 2014 Svalina has run the Dream Delivery Service during summers in Denver & ran a similar project for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in 2015. In the fall of 2016 through the summer of 2017 he will be delivering dreams in other cities, including Richmond, Tucson, & Marfa, & possibly New Orleans & Chicago.
Aditi Machado in Folder Magazine. This is only one section of a fantastic long poem. Read it: http://www.foldermagazine.com/aditi-machado/
creation myth ink and colored pencil on paper 8.22 x 11.56 inches
