by Ryukan | May 11, 2012 | Blog
Paranomasia has nothing to do with a lack of ghosts. Rather, it comes from Greek, meaning word-shunting, and refers to the deliberate exploitation of words to achieve multiple meanings, ambiguities, humor, etc. (i.e., punning; i.e. cummings) — a way of...
by Ryukan | May 1, 2012 | Blog
The moving dot can be extinguished in an instant, yet it contains all information, even eternity. Try placing a dot on the undulating waves. The moment I extend my arm, the dot is already gone. —from the essay “In the Oxymoronic World” by Kim Hyesoon, translated...
by Ryukan | Apr 24, 2012 | Blog
We’ll celebrate Mayday by working on an ancient Japanese form that’s gained steam since Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder started their experiments in the 50s. We’ll look at Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling’s more contemporary approaches and Sam...
by Ryukan | Apr 17, 2012 | Blog
Text Corpse Exquisite Corpse- a French Surrealist game in which a poem is passed around and participants add the lines with limited knowledge of what was previously written. Text message- brief communication between two mobile devices. We will be combining these two...
by Ryukan | Apr 10, 2012 | Blog
An average day in the city: on the bus, a child mothers a crying parent; a homeless woman peers into the window of a toyshop; a statue in the park seems it has something to say. Beauty lies in the midst of such incongruities, and in those incongruities, poems are...
