Ben Meyerson

Had a great conversation with @varnvlog.bsky.social about subjectivity and the production of social interiority in medieval and contemporary poetics, my book Seguiriyas with @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social, flamenco, various elements of MFA culture, 'difficult poetry,' and much more

Looking forward to them! And this was a lot of fun -- thanks for having me on

If you oversleep and get to the flamenco archive two hours before closing time, then you, too, might find yourself getting interviewed by BBC presenters in an empty hallway outside of a library in which you have been surreptitiously scanning pages from out-of-print books with your phone camera

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Flamenco Is Like the Sun Robert Elms explores his passion for flamenco music in Andalusia.

Tune into BBC Radio 3 today to hear me get interviewed about the history and contemporary relevance of flamenco alongside some of the foremost living performers and scholars of the art form: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The cover of my forthcoming #poetry collection. I am delighted with it. Brilliant work by the @faberbooks.bsky.social designers.

Orasaigh | An Solas Òir Orasaigh is a collaboration between poet Steve Ely and photographer Michael Faint, inspired by the landscape around the tidal island of Orasaigh, South Uist The work of the artists combines and inter...

The island of Orasaigh is the inspiration for a book I have a book out with @steveeely.bsky.social

Following two exhibitions, this unique collaboration between poet & photographer has been published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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YouTube video by MTerremotoVEVO María Terremoto - Soñé Que La Nieve Ardía (Soleá, Dudas / Visualizer)

Here's that lyric's most recent appearance, in a banger of a soleá by María Terremoto, who is one of the most talented flamenco singers alive right now: youtu.be/isSYu9sFKdk?...

Long shot, but does anyone know if the line "Soñé que la nieve ardía" predates the Chilean composer Osmán Pérez Freire's "Ay Ay Ay" from 1913? It appears in folk musics throughout Spain (jota, flamenco, Gallego music, etc) and also in Peruvian music. Is there a longer history?

EXCLUSIVE: Jewish Group Gives Trump Admin List Of ‘Pro-Hamas’ Foreign Students, Faculty To Deport Betar US sent the Trump administration files on dozens of allegedly pro-terrorist college students and faculty, hoping President Donald Trump will deport them.

We are deeply troubled to learn that some members of the Jewish community are calling for the deportation of foreign-born university students and faculty who they deem “pro-Hamas,” and compiling lists of those they want to target for deportation.

From Fibs to Fractals: exploring mathematical forms in poetry A few years ago I was contacted out of the blue by Michelle Moloney King, the founder of Beir Bua Press. She had read some of my blog posts on mathematical forms in poetry, and offered to publish t…

Something rather lovely for the poets from Marian Christie...

marianchristiepoetry.net/from-fibs-to...

Michael Longley

We’re mourning the loss of the wonderful Michael Longley, who has died in Belfast aged 85. A Vice President of The Poetry Society, we were proud to publish him in our magazine The Poetry Review throughout his long career. Sharing below a 2014 poem which celebrated his long marriage to Edna Longley.

some author activity: Davis, Pakdel, mclennan, Beaulieu + Meyerson, Jordan Davis has a poem up at The Pi Review , as does Saba Pakdel ; rob mclennan has a poem up at Common House Magazine ; Tony Trehy mention...

some above/ground press author activity: Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social , Saba Pakdel, rob mclennan, Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social + Ben Meyerson,
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/some...

Suguiriyas by Ben Meyerson — Black Ocean by Ben Meyerson Paperback / 96p. / Poetry ISBN 978-1939568-73-1

If you're interested in checking out SEGUIRIYAS, here's a link to that: www.blackocean.org/catalog1/seg...

Fan Wu interviews Ben Meyerson on /Seguiriyas/ Ben's debut poetry collection out now from Black Ocean

Now live: an interview in Common Measure about my book SEGUIRIYAS (Black Ocean, 2023). I talk process philosophy and the role of violence in collectivity + how metaphor and the voice of a flamenco singer can both act as vehicles for historical solidarity: commonmeasure.substack.com/p/fan-wu-int...

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Some of it is just about commitment to the 'bit,' too. Like, devising the sentimental mis/redirection is one thing, but it's another thing to venture that deeply into the surreal/absurd and embrace the risk, knowing all the while that you can bring it back into the realm of the unspecified personal

This is the reason why everyone was trying to write like Young in the mid to late 2000s

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Reiterating that there are more Gazans here and they are more persistent in posting their links because there has essentially been no flour in all of South Gaza for well over a week. It is also cold. Please treat them how you’d want people to treat you or your family in a famine.

The concept of the lyric (the poetic movement from interiority to exteriority) implies a poetic subject that is anterior to the poem. What are the ideological positions underpinning our willingness to accept that any poet's attention can ever be separated from the form into which it is funneled?

In approaching the medieval troubadours, the question arises as to whether it's possible for the poet to express subjectivity beyond the arrangement of formal topoi. Meanwhile, we make an easy distinction between the modern poetic subject and the 'formal enclosure' that they select for their poem

I would submit that most of us don't really think about this enough.

I have spent the past year transposing very old discursive and notational templates into poetic forms and am now realizing that beyond the abstract terms that we've all inherited from hylomorphism (form as the emergence of content, etc), I still need to figure out what a form actually is

Crisis Creates Us: Fire at the Crossroads of Art and Activism — Workshops 4 Gaza Register for “Crisis Creates Us” here . Donate to Motasim here (suggested donation $60USD). The poet Martín Espada wrote that every rebellion begins with the idea that conquerors on hors...

@djolder.bsky.social is hosting a workshop for us on narrative fundamentals on December 19th! All proceeds go to Motasim’s family in GZ. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/cri...

I never thought about the connection between the Akedah and Pericles' Funeral Oration, but it makes sense

Might also be worth checking out Douglas Kearney's "Optic Subwoof," which has a chapter about silence and building a poetics of sonic unrepresentability, and another about the ways in which violence resists representation. He discusses "Zong" at least once in that book