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When words penetrate deep into us they change the chemistry of the soul, of the imagination. We have no right to do that to people if we don’t share the consequences.-
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Postmodernism is an intellectual, artistic, philosophical, and/or cultural mindset that questions institutionalism, hierarchy, power, and simple, knowable truth. Alternatively it embraces complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, fractured metaphysics, multiplicity, deconstruction, and diversity. In poetry it offers semiotic liberty.Robert Anton Wilson
Semantic noise also seems to haunt every communication system. A man may sincerely say, ‘I love fish,’ and two listeners may both hear him correctly, yet the two will neurosemantically file this in their brains under opposite categories. One will think the man loves to dine on fish, and the other will think he loves to keep fish (in an aquarium).Witold Gombrowicz
Here is the writer who with all his heart and soul, with his art, in anguish and travail offers nourishment – there is the reader who’ll have none of it, and if he wants, it’s only in passing, offhandedly, until the phone rings. Life’s trivia are your undoing. You are like a man who has challenged a dragon to a fight but will be yapped into a corner by a little dog. from Ferdydurke
I’m an Executive Director with a doctorate in education, a consultant, painter, photographer, composer, poet, and vocalist.
Gustav Flaubert
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.DuÅ¡an “Charles” Simić
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Monique Wittig
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it… Language as a whole gives everyone the same power of becoming an absolute subject through its exercise. But gender, an element of language, works upon this ontological fact to annul it as far as women are concerned and corresponds to a constant attempt to strip them of the most precious thing for a human being – subjectivity. Gender is an ontological impossibility because it tries to accomplish the division of Being. But Being is not divided. God or Man as being are One and whole. So what is this divided Being introduced into language through gender? It is an impossible Being, it is a Being that does not exist, an ontological joke, a conceptual maneuver to wrest from women what belongs to them by right: conceiving of oneself as a total subject through the exercise of language. The result of the imposition of gender, acting as a denial at the very moment when one speaks, is to deprive women of the authority of speech, and to force them to make their entrance in a crablike way, particularizing themselves and apologizing profusely. The result is to deny them any claim to the abstract, philosophical, political discourses that give shape to the social body. Gender then must be destroyed. The possibility of its destruction is given through the very exercise of language. For each time I say ‘I’ I reorganize the world from my point of view and through abstraction I lay claim to universality. This fact holds true for every locutor.
W.S. Merwin
All the things that really matter to us are impossible…Writing poetry is impossible. I don’t know how to write a poem. A poem – there has to be a part of it that is not my own will; it comes from somewhere that I don’t know. There is so much that comes out of what we don’t know and what we don’t have any control over. I think that one of the only things we can learn as we get older is a certain humility. – from Doing the Impossible
Thomas Aquinas
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
I’m an Executive Director with a doctorate in education, a consultant, painter, photographer, composer, poet, and vocalist.
Chromapoetica 
That sounds awesome! Cannot wait!
Hope to see you at the prompt!
graffiti, awesome. Bansky stuff and whatnot, I can dig it.
Yes Bansky stencils and all.
The images, music and words are simply perfect. Wonderful work!
Thank you :D!
Time and work permitting, I’m there 🙂
I’d love to see you!
BRAVO!!!!! What ever this new form is, I am so in! 😀
Awesome, I’d love to see you there!
thanks for the heads up. I will try to participate by working on something this week. Maybe a video since I have extra time to do it. Hope you’re well, Anna! Miss ya.
I’ve purchased a new business and it requires a lot of my time. I hope to see you on Thursday. I miss you too!
congrats on your new endeavor
Thank you, it is wonderful and exhausting.
oo oo oo cant wait for that…i love graffiti…sounds like it will be awesome!!!!
Thanks for the enthusiasm, it’s been fun so far!
These are wonderful art and music collisions ‘cross time. Cool! I’ll have to think about this for Thursday.
Thanks Susan, I really enjoyed your response!
wrapped in bling boxes harsh babies burning…nice…
sorry could not see the vid yesterday because the block at school….
Haha, I’m so subversive with YouTube :). Hope you enjoy your chalk poetry adventures!
very cool anna…love how words, visual and music flow together in this..a bit like spraypaint as well…looking forward to the prompt
Thanks Claudia, great response to the prompt!
I enjoyed the artistic / poetic / musical montage, look forward to the prompt !!
Thanks, hope you got the technical glitches worked out.
I most certainly did NOT !!!!!!
I’m sorry to hear that.
Terrific stuff, all forms of expression wrapped up together…really loved this and can’t wait for your prompt!
Yeah, street culture tends to incorporate multimedia so I took it that direction.
Love grafitti art, and love your presentation. Very impressed and looking forward to prompt. I hopes I can participate.
Would love to see you there!
Writing on walls… cool!
Certainly fun!
another artform you are exploring? many amazing street art works online
For a while now, I make art toys which grew out of street culture and worked with it a bit when I ran the arts centers :).
wow, this is fabulous… you never cease to amaze me.
You never cease to put a smile on my face; I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.
Lovely presentation, Anna. We have nothing like that in my town. What you have shown as graffiti is beautiful.
Hush does street art and also works for gallery walls, he made it easy to beautify.
Wonderful, 🙂
Thanks!
A very interesting prompt and challenge Anna ~ Thank you for stretching our pens & imagination ~
You’re welcome, I’m glad you found something in it.
Excellent prompt here Anna – many thanks.
Anna :o]
You are very welcome.
Anna–I absolutely loved this. Has almost a flarf feel to it, but not.
Yes, high/low cultural collisions walk the tightrope. Flarf is such an appropriate neologism for that type of poetry.
Yes–if there were such a thing as “high flarf” I might explore it more.
Haha!
Wow! Poetry alive no time for the paint to dry before your words are leaving their ink upon our hearts. Cheers!
Thanks :D!
Very cool – loved the artwork and the music – just a very wonderfully put together art piece! K
Thank you, I enjoyed creating it and it took a while :).
This is a new form to me…your video itself a piece of art..thank you for the prompt, Anna.
Thank you :D!
Wonderful words and wonderful video presentation, Anna! The words and music go in tandem! Nicely!
Hank
Thanks Hank, your encouragement is much appreciated.
Brava!
:D!
one day we may need to dust off paper
Well, if it makes you feel any better I always start on paper :).
A whole entertaining production, Anna…I loved it!
Thank you, you’re very kind!
very cool presentation, love how you used not only the graffiti medium, but also music and the slideshow format here. Awesome work. Had a lot of fun working with Graffiti tonight. Thanks
Thanks Fred, I was hoping this prompt would be fun :)!
Wow! What beautiful art in image, words, and music! Awesome Anna!
Thanks Susie, it’s lovely to see you!
HI Anna, great visuals, words, music pastiche. I am especially captivated by the main image. You know I lived in NYC in age of Samo and Keith Haring and graffiti has a very sad aspect for me. k.
I considered highlighting them but found it difficult to do all I wanted with the article. The unaltered Hush image is here (much cleaner): http://www.emptykingdom.com/featured/hush/. He has a lot of work in a similar vein so the link in the dVerse article will take you to his studio if you’d like to look at more.
I will try. My life a bit difficult at the moment. Thanks. k.
Do take good care of yourself during the transition.
Your combination of media make a powerful statement, Anna. As I said at d’Verse, you’ve created one of the best challenges of recent months. Bravo.
http://www.kimnelsonwrites.com/2013/02/22/it-is-written-vehicles-of-the-word/
Thanks Kim, it is wonderful to be of service. I look forward to seeing what you came up with :D!
You rule!!!
Haha, thanks :D!