Month: mei 2018

Reading: The Daughter by Carmen Giménez Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith (b. 1971) is a new York poet who teaches in New Mexico. I read a poem from her 2013 book 'Milk and filth': The Daughter We said she was a negative image of me because of her lightness. She's light and also passage, the glory in my cortex. Daughter, where did you get all that ...
The Good Life
Mark likes to play computer games. In real life he fixes televisions. There are solder spots on his hands, when he sends his armies to the front lines. Paul, who measures buildings before they are inhabited, enjoys spinning a lifetime of infinities in his mind. Oscar, the media guy, prefers sitting in the sun. Justine ...
Uitwaaien in Laos
Een van de voordelen van het freelancerbestaan is de mogelijkheid om spontaner dan een werknemer even naar de tropen te gaan. Toen ik een maand geleden mijn ticket naar Laos boekte had ik last van kiespijn en dacht ik: die ga ik in de jungle wegmediteren in een hangmat. Hier aangekomen was de kiespijn verdwenen ...
Pissing with Ginsberg
I still piss a powerful stream the color of the sun a sizzling fountain that sounds like spring has arrived in my toilet bowl. bowl! bowl!
Reading: On Seeing A Watermelon by Monika Kumar
Monka Kumar (b. 1977) is a Hindi poet. Her interests include the folklore and folk culture of Punjab, contemporary literary theory and world poetry. She also writes a PhD thesis on the work of François Lyotard. I read a fruity love poem in the translation by Sampurna Chattarji: On Seeing A Watermelon Seeing a watermelon ...
Uprooted
When I was born, my parents planted a birch tree in our back garden. I could not see it from my room at the front of the house. The room in which I read my Winnetou, in which I touched a breast for the first time. The room I painted ocher, and decorated with beer ...
Sneeuwpoppop
Ik maak Miru graag met voorbeelden uit haar eigen belevingswereld vertrouwd met abstracte concepten. Toen ze van een vriendinnetje een knuffel kreeg van een sneeuwpop, zag ik mijn kans schoon. "Hé Miru", zei ik, "dat is een sneeuwpoppop." -"Een wat?" "Het is geen sneeuwpop, toch? Want die is van sneeuw." -"Oh ja." "Dan is het ...
Small big data
Today's hype is Big Data. As with other hypes, such as 'sharing economy', 'cloud', 'blockchain', the hype is simultaneously promoted as a commercial instrument that is indispensable for companies and as a pervasive phenomenon that redefines the fabric of society. Every big corporation sits on a heap of big data about their customers. Statistical analysis ...
Reading: The Wreck by Don Paterson
Don Paterson (b. 1963) is a Scottish poet from Dundee, where he still lives and plays jazz guitar in a band. He has taught poetry and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire. His poetry unique on two T.S. Eliot Prizes and the list of awards goes on. I read a remarkable ode to a love ...