Mar 7, 2021
From the album Quiet Lightning, by Turk & Divis: http://turkanddivis.com/
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From the album Quiet Lightning, by Turk & Divis: http://turkanddivis.com/
‘He kind of stopped using it as part of his repertoire in maybe ’68, but for those nine, almost 10 years I think he probably played “So What” 200 nights a year, and if you think about that process as a process of revision, not even so much with the idea that you are going to get to an end point, or to some kind of perfection, but he was just constantly reworking, constantly revisiting and revisioning, revising that song. That’s what the revision is … and I can think of the revising as improvising.’Evan Karp, Special night with poets Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey - SFGate
Evan Karp, (Fred Moten on Miles Davis), Special night with poets Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey - SFGate
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A wordless- ness written into the dirt writes itself around you
from Joseph Massey's To Keep Time, reviewed in SF Weekly
Evan Karp interviewed me and recorded me reading some poems. I had just been drenched in a downpour and was wearing a pricey dress I misguidedly bought after an interview for a shmaltzy art gallery job I ended up not getting. This is all to say: here is an interview with a vaguely destitute and incompetent person pretending to be an adult of some kind.
Brian Lucas illuminates collaborative 'Poetbook'
by Evan Karp
Brian Lucas painted the covers of a few blank hardbound books, then got local poets to contribute to what became "Poetbook."
From around 1996 to 1999, Brian Lucas edited a poetry magazine and chapbook press called Angle, the issues of which were stapled and letter-size and included a formidable roster of contributors, including Barbara Guest, Paul Vangelisti, Clark Coolidge and Cole Swensen. A visual artist and musician as well, Lucas hand-painted three of the five covers of Angle, which might be seen as a foreshadowing of his current project: "Poetbook: The Illuminated Manuscripts."
It started when Lucas purchased a few 20-page white hardbound books with blank pages in February. He painted the covers and couldn't decide what to do with the interiors.
"Although I also write poetry," he says via e-mail, "putting my own work in the books didn't appeal to me (although the two disciplines may orbit about and inform each other, along with my music projects, I keep each practice strictly separate)."
At the suggestion of his longtime friend, the poet and City Lights editor Garrett Caples - who is also in one of the issues of Angle - Lucas asked local poets for contributions.
Lucas writes each poem by hand. He then "illuminates" the pages in watercolor. "That aspect is purely spontaneous," he says. "I endeavor not to obscure any of the text, which to me is the heart of this project.
"By handwriting all the poems I develop a very different relationship with the poems than by just reading them," he continues. "It's an interesting process. I climb into the poems. It's as though I'm following the twists and turns of the writer's mind-paths, feeling their word choices and relating to the work in a more personal way than by just reading the poems."
Now with four of these illuminated books, Lucas has decided to conduct a reading, which will showcase the books and feature some of the local poets therein: a stellar cast that includes Micah Ballard, Cedar Sigo, Sara Larsen, Gillian Conoley and Andrew Joron.
"The reading is for the poets who helped make this project happen," he says. "Without them the books would still be blank."
Original article here.
In which Evan Karp reads poetry from the future.
Lenore Kandel
When a society is afraid of its poets, it is afraid of itself. A society afraid of itself stands as another definition of hell…. -Lenore Kandel
via divineanimal.com
Lenore Kandel
(January 14, 1932, New York City - October 18, 2009, San Francisco)
The very heart of the Beat movement
lenore kandel reads from Evan Karp on Vimeo.
with appreciation to Evan Karp, who covers San Francisco literary culture for the SF Chronicle and Examiner read his moving tribute here: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-24149-SF-Literary-Culture-Examiner~y2010m1...