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Introduction The distinction between poetry and prose has never worried me too much. The only people who need to worry are judges, editors and anthologists - if they get it "wrong" they'll receive lots of feedback and might not be asked to do the job again. Some people try to define poetry based on analysis of the text, often using unquantifiable terms like "density" and "intensity". Sound is frequently mentioned in these definitions. This approach faces several problems Such definitions tend to exclude accepted poetic genres - e.g. light verse, shaped poetry, poems like "The Red Wheelbarrow", or LANGUAGE poetry The definitions tend to stray into discussing Quality rather than Category issues, describing what a good poem should have rather than what a poem requires Borderline texts ("Found poetry", "Prose poetry") are difficult to handle Reader-centred approaches seem more useful. Rather than classifying texts as "po...

July 7-August 6, 2006 DABORA GALLERY 1080 Manahttan Avenue, between Dupont and Eagle Streets, Brooklyn NY, 718. 609.9629 Lynda Mahan: lynda@daboragallery.com URL: http://www.daboragallery.com Article Projects and Dabora Gallery are proud to exhibit “Peek” by Rebecca Hackemann, a storefront installation of the artist’s stereoscopes, which make certain participatory demands upon the viewer, to gaze into the twin eyeholes to see the art—and when facing the images contained inside, one is also called upon to read the messages that accompany them, putting together the separate elements of a complicated esthetic event that is both imagistic and linguistic at the same time. Each of the collages in her stereoscopes is part quandary and part parable. Rebecca Hackemann is a contemporary artist whose pieces stretch the definition of fine art black and white photography as language and formally as flat image on the wall. Photography and sculpture are combined into “photo based” work or optical scu...

To my mind, it seems obvious that it is important to have an international legal order and to foster strong international institutions that seek to advance the greater good of all humanity. As John F Kennedy said.... "We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination." But, it appears that the UN is in a bit of a crisis. Major powers see it as a nuisance in the pursuit of their own agenda. Demonising the UN and tarnishing its image has become a popular sport for some. We cannot underestimate the important role of this world body. It may appear weak at times. But its will is only as strong as we allow it to be. As such, I decided to sign the following petition: "The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the U...

The Works of James Madison Secularism is a political value that needs to be continually reinforced. In a multi-cultural, multi-religious society such as Singapore, it is taken for granted. Secularism is so much a part of the substratum of politics here that one does not even consider the dangers of a non-secular theological state. One cannot be overly complacent about unholy alliance between the church and the state. Such alliances have never been spiritually fruitful and have always been instrumental in facilitating some form of tyranny or other... I was just reading some of the works of James Madison and came across the following. Its from an address by him to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virgia in 1785. Americans today are faced with the dangerous enchroachment of right wing religious groups into the political arena. This observation of James Madison from 221 years ago has not been proven wrong despite the passage of time. "What influence in fact have eccl...

Just read this rather funny take on the death of al-Zarqawi. well placed humour and certainly not off the mark... at least there is no collateral damage to innocent reputations. :-) Hubub in Hibhib: The Timely Death of al-Zarqawi

126 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, March 1-30, 2006. Part of collaborative curatorial project originated by Anat Litwin focusing on themes of nostgalia, domesticity, and origin. Article Projects organized Room #1 with Diane Apostolacus, Marcy Brafman, Robert Grant, and Mark Power. Rooms 2-6, curated by Anat Litwin, with work by Peter Dudek, Merav Ezer, Anat Litwin, Raffael Lomas, Arik Miranda, Shiri Sandler, Emily Silver, Monika Sosnowski, Joshua Strauss, and Shirley Wegner I would like to ask this question: what is home? Home is everything that’s familiar to us, the many little things that arrange themselves in the order of our daily experience, which define the state of domestic bliss, that color our first encounters with life in the family abode, and which we remember just as much as the more dramatic events that shape our emotional growth, even though we are apt to take them for granted. Such encounters are more often than not extremely commonplace, but they reflect the te...

Tuesday, May 9, 7:00 PM, $10 admission Makor-Steinhardt Center at 35 West 67th Street near Lincoln Square The final event in a year-long series of artist lectures brings a panel discussion with sculptors Katherine Daniels, Marilla Palmer and Gae Savannah, and painter Margaret Lanzetta. All of these artists produce bodies of work that manifest elements of decoration, including ornate beading, flashing lights and crystals, ethnic fabrics and hair accessories, and textile design such as appears on wallpaper or book margins. How does this renewed interest in visual motifs previously denigraded as merely female represent a progressive view of how marginalized media can be made to reenter and renew the contexts for contemporary art production, its fetishization, and its critical context? What is really at stake in such work is the dignity of culturally empowered expression, its escape from the margins of creativity that achieves its ends both aesthetically and politically. Join us to see wh...