Married to Questions

Today's Journal of Note:

Locus Nocus


Poet and Poem of the Issue:

Gary Lain's "A Plague of Cities"

Although I did not find them all so, Lain's was an excellent poetic event. I say event because this is an interplay of image, text, and sound. Colors, movement, and music work together and against each other simultaneously in a space that is not a space about the change of space and the desire to change it back.

What does this mean for poetry? Is it still poetry?

Mark Doty says, "scraps of cell-phone recitations into private ethers."

Yes.

So what does it mean to read a screen, ephemeral diction, TV format, with language already condensed, then add layers of links to more text like fillings and icings? (Click here. Click here. Click here.) Now add images. Animation and sound.

Decorative or meaningful?

In an era where confusion is respected, purposefully induced and highly regarded, sought out even, art has to reflect it, right? We still arrive at truth, yes?

I am engaged.