Saturday, March 31, 2018
Friday, March 30, 2018
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Monday, March 26, 2018
EVEN INSIDE ~
There
From no place —
a small striped gull feather
Cape
The wilder
the place the
wilder the birds
~
Top down —
hair blowing
fields blowing
Edge Of Land
What overtakes me more —
The blue of the sea or her dress
Raised, wading, high above her knees
Today
3 days since we’ve been to the sea —
But there again
When I kiss your hair
Even Inside
You were asleep
I blew out the lamp
Turned to you —
A firefly blinked
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BOB ARNOLD
I'm In Love With You
Who Is In Love With Me
Longhouse 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Saturday, March 24, 2018
INDIAN TALES: JAIME DE ANGULO ~
No more excuses
that you have nothing
to share
with your children
or grandchildren.
Start here~
Indian Tales by Jaime de Angulo
Tales of the Pit River Indians as recounted by anthropologist Jaime de Angulo for KPFA in 1949. Re-edited and produced by Gui de Angulo in 1991.
Friday, March 23, 2018
Thursday, March 22, 2018
RYSZARD KRYNICKI ~
. . . May Slaves
. . .
. . .
. . .
may slaves not strive for power at any cost,
may power govern nothing but itself,
may judges be fallible rather than venal,
may prosecutors not stop at nothing,
may the police work to reveal their own crimes,
may burglars break into their own apartments,
may censors redact themselves out of existence,
may informers deliver reports on themselves,
may customs officers look up their own asses,
may guards build the prison of their dreams
and locking themselves up to a man, from inside
throw the key into the ocean
73/74
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Ryszard Krynicki
OUR LIFE GROWS
New York Review of Books 2018
translated by Alissa Valles
afterword Adam Michnik
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
THE BATTLE OF MICHIGAN AVENUE ~
"How Hard It Is To Accept The Truth"
Film Notes
The Urban Crisis and the New Militants, Part 2—Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Avenue (1969)
Production Company: The Film Group, Inc. Transfer Note: Digital file made from a 16mm print preserved by the Chicago Film Archives. Running Time: 11 minutes.
Production Company: The Film Group, Inc. Transfer Note: Digital file made from a 16mm print preserved by the Chicago Film Archives. Running Time: 11 minutes.
The Film Group, a Chicago-based production company set up to create industrial films and ads, found a new purpose during the Chicago Democratic Convention in late August 1968. On a lunch break from shooting a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial, founding member Mike Gray and his crew were shocked by police violence on the very streets where they lived and worked. Radicalized, they filmed the chaos and created their feature-length documentary American Revolution 2. From their footage grew the educational series, The Urban Crisis and the New Militants.
Produced by the Film Group’s accountant Bill Cottle, the series consists of seven self-contained modules that “teach by raising questions rather than by attempting to answer them.” The modules tell their story through editing rather than voice-over narration and show “real events, with real people acting spontaneously,” as the Group explained to an educational film distributor. In Social Confrontation, the filmmakers juxtapose events inside the convention hall with those on the streets, connecting the brutality of police with the oppressive tactics of the Democratic leaders.
The 1968 convention brought together a Democratic Party enraged and dispirited by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy just a few months before and torn by opposition to the Vietnam War. President Johnson had refused to seek reelection and many saw front runner Vice President Hubert Humphrey as little better. Antiwar and civil rights protesters converged on Chicago but the police and National Guards had little patience with their demonstrations. On August 28, in part of what the Walker Report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence called a “police riot,” authorities clubbed protesters and released tear gas so intense that it permeated the convention hotel. The ensuing mayhem came to be known as “The Battle of Michigan Avenue.”
Social Confrontation captured the havoc firsthand. While convention-goers debated the Vietnam plank, protestors filled Grant Park for a rally. In a series of escalating confrontations documented by the film, police released tear gas, National Guards surrounded the park, and protesters escaped onto Michigan Avenue, mingling with the covered wagons of the Poor People’s March led by Reverend Ralph Abernathy. A stand-off ensued in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, headquarters of the major convention-goers. Receiving an order to clear the streets, the police charged into the 5,000-strong crowd, beating anyone in their path—protestors, reporters and bystanders—and dragging them into police wagons.
The delegates in the convention hall gradually received reports of the melee. When Wisconsin delegate Donald Peterson noted that thousands of young people were being beaten in the streets and proposed moving the convention he was cut off mid-sentence by Convention Chair Carl Albert. The film cuts to bloodied protesters before returning to the convention, shock gripping the hall as Senator Abraham Ribicoff went off script to exclaim “When George McGovern is president of the United States we wouldn’t have to have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago!” The Mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley (father of the current mayor), shouted back in protest, leading Ribicoff to add, “How hard it is to accept the truth!” By the convention’s end 668 people had been arrested and a thousand more treated by medics. Hope, however, still lived on at the candlelight vigil concluding the film.
To counter the images in the news, Chicago commissioned the film What Trees Do They Plant? (1968), titled after one of the mayor’s rejoinders. But the violence documented by national television and films like Social Confrontation had been seared into the public consciousness. The truth proved hard, but not impossible to accept.
About the Preservation
Thanks to release prints of The Urban Crisis and the New Militants donated by Bill Cottle and Mike Gray and grants from the NFPF, the CFA has preserved the entire seven-part series.
Thanks to release prints of The Urban Crisis and the New Militants donated by Bill Cottle and Mike Gray and grants from the NFPF, the CFA has preserved the entire seven-part series.
More Information
The Film Group’s award-winning documentaries American Revolution 2(1969) and The Murder of Fred Hamptonare available on DVD (Facets Video, 2007); Cicero March, another entry from the Urban Crisis series, is included as an extra.
The Film Group’s award-winning documentaries American Revolution 2(1969) and The Murder of Fred Hamptonare available on DVD (Facets Video, 2007); Cicero March, another entry from the Urban Crisis series, is included as an extra.
About the Archive
Founded in 2003, The Chicago Film Archives is a non-profit organization devoted to the acquisition, preservation, and exhibition of films that reflect the history and culture of Chicago and the Midwest. Holding over 9,200 titles, the CFA focuses its collections on independent documentaries as well as industrial, educational, experimental, sponsored, and amateur films.
Founded in 2003, The Chicago Film Archives is a non-profit organization devoted to the acquisition, preservation, and exhibition of films that reflect the history and culture of Chicago and the Midwest. Holding over 9,200 titles, the CFA focuses its collections on independent documentaries as well as industrial, educational, experimental, sponsored, and amateur films.
Monday, March 19, 2018
MY MORNING ~
My Morning
&
you
in
it
Sunshine
in the garden
along the rows
on her long hair
down her arms
Always The Way
She peeks in my window
But she is so pretty
I’m already peeking out
Diary
Working with her in the sun
We break for lunch in the sun
Share sandwiches in the sun
Finish and lay back in the sun
Suddenly we are kissing in the sun
The Kiss
She can do this what she’s doing
If light could be liquid, well then
This is it, thrilling itself into
The lamp, and only later do I
Taste the kerosene on her lips
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BOB ARNOLD
I'm In Love With You
Who Is In Love With Me
Longhouse 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
AKIKO YOSANO ~
5
Fragrant the lilies
In this room of love;
Hair unbound
I fear
The pink of night's passing.
14
Beloved Buddha,
Among the new leaves of these trees,
More and more
I feel the friendliness
Of your face.
16
In my bath —
Submerged like some graceful lily
At the bottom of a spring
How beautiful
This body of twenty summers.
26
Softly I pushed open
That door
We call a mystery,
These full breasts
Held in both my hands.
32
After my bath
At the hot spring.
These clothes
As rough to my skin
As the world!
60
Complain not,
But hurry on your way —
Tonight, other soft hands
Will be waiting.
Ready to undo your clothes!
82
Yet I remember
Once
When the lily,
Dazzling white,
Ruled the fields of summer!
93
Two months
At this Kyoto inn,
I have done nothing but write my poems;
O you plaintive birds along the Kamo River,
Now I am not in love!
102
May the child
Born this morning
Find in time
A beautiful
Love.
112
Even at nineteen
I knew
The violet would fade,
The brook would dry up,
And life would pass away.
124
Soft morning rain,
Kimono sleeve
Striped, multicolored bright,
Over
Her small hand-drum.
137
Was it yesterday
Or a thousand years ago
We parted?
Even now I feel your hand
On this shoulder.
154
How lonely
By the temple bell
After I slipped out
To meet him
When the fog cleared.
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Akiko Yosano
TANGLED HAIR
selected tanka from Midaregami
translated from the Japanese by
Sanford Goldstein & Seishi Shinoda
Cheng & Tsui Company, 2002
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