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[New? Hi. I’m Jayson. I started it is what it is to connect the pieces of my process connect in real time—what i’m doing, where, and (most importantly,) how. I’ll explain the rest as we go. First, some sounds:]
This was made thinking about Wo Chan’s TOGETHERNESS; a playlist filled with various artists’ early sounds & how they (& their feelings) have changed over the years.
it is what it is (recent + upcoming events, NOMAD)
We are just four days away from another NOMAD, ft. resident luminaries Wo Chan & Valerie Hsiung. Thank you to Grandchamps, Word is Change, and Poets & Writers for co-sponsoring this event—click the photo above to get your ticket today!
Last Wednesday, I read with Jaylen Strong as a part of Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Experiment Reading series. I opened up the idea of “reading” to not only my poems, but other works I’ve been in conversation with. Thanks to Jaylen for curating & the Brooklyn Rail team for hosting such a fly series.
it is what it will be (outside, plans)
[Announcing a few fall writing workshops next week—be on the look out for registration details]
Next Thursday, July 20 (7PM), I’ll be at Dear Friend Books reading for Jaylen Strong’s After You series. I’ll be reading in a similar fashion to Brooklyn Rail & trying to ask some new questions. Pop out if the spirit moves—
it is what it could be (a process journal, of sorts)
"The high standard of living in the domain of the great corporations is restrictive in a concrete sociological sense: the goods and services that the individuals buy control their needs and petrify their faculties. In exchange for the commodities that enrich their life. the individuals sell not only their labor but also their free time. The better living is offset by the all-pervasive control over living. People dwell in apartment concentrations- and have private automobiles with they can no longer escape into a different world. They have huge refrigerators filled with frozen foods. They have dozens of newspapers and magezines. that espouse the same ideals. They have innumerable choices, innumerable gadgets which are all of the same sort and keep them occupied and divert their attention from the real issue - which is the awareness that they could both work less and determine their own needs and satistactions.
- Herbert Marcuse
found poem by Nazifa Islam that knocked me flat this morning.
“Donna Haraway, celebrated scholar of feminist science studies, once said that “sex, infection, and eating were old relatives.” By this, they meant, I think, that the moment in which your own bodily sovereignty is breached by some other being—whether it is another human, a virus, or a different species that has been ingested—an intimacy is sprung. You are no longer just your own body. You have become multiple, relational, boundless. You fuck, and bodies become entangled. You eat the apple, and you are full of apple. You get the virus, and you succumb to its spell. We are no longer just ourselves.”
Megan Fernandes, from “On Boundlessness”
“there is a drastic psychic economy to becoming an x-ray of yourself, but you work with that”
-Anne Carson, from “On Corners”
That’s all this week—see you outside. Keep yourself & each other safe—