“The Paradox of Practice and Purity” published in the Fall 2016/Spring 2017 issue of emerge, the journal of arts administration and policy from the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Thank you to associate editor Courtney Citron for inviting this conversation on the theme of practice. Click here. Blow! – now!—your way is your only […]
Tag Archives: and the Practice of Spontaneous Poetics
Black Pearl book launch reading
Watch and listen to Albert DeGenova’s entire 20 minute reading of selected poems from Black Pearl, November 4, 2016, at the Actors Garden in Oak Park, IL. Standing room only at an event that included the film “Sojourn” by Max DeGenova, music by Cole DeGenova and Courtney Cintron, and a dramatic reading of Anne Sexton’s […]
Bop Prosody, Jazz, and the Practice of Spontaneous Poetics
This study, “Bop Prosody, Jazz, and the Practice of Spontaneous Poetics,” explores the disparate concepts of jazz poetry while explaining the distinctions between the terms stated in the title. Through close readings of Hayden Carruth’s collection of jazz essays in Sitting In and through the writings of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and others, to write […]
