Thursday, May 07, 2009

Very interesting integrated poetry translation process --

http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/search/label/Indian%20poetry

I've done reading poems -- musicians composing on the spot and me choosing poems in response,

and also a "woven" or braided poetry-music piece with my poem Pele and Don Grusin composing and playing the music on stage,(none of us had met each other, or knew each other or our work before the first session) in Boulder CO in 1997. Red Holloway and Dennis Brutus also participated. Dennis was delayed by a snowstorm in Denver, then stepped in and started reading "seamlessly." Before Dennis arrived, I was the only poet and had to keep the ball in the air. Session was moderated and facilitated on site by a professor of English who did a great job of gently pushing us to take artistic risks.

Kyi May Kaung.

South by Southwest Music, Movie Fest--Austin, TX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_by_Southwest