Happy Christmas 2008

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The

Festive

season is upon us.

The Cleave will be ‘hibernating’ until the New Year.

Here are some of the highlights of 2008.

1. The list of Cleave Poets

2. The first cleave poem submission

3. The first ‘post-call’ cleave poem submission

4. Increasing readership

5. The Cleaves of the Month

6. Media mentions: 15minutepoet, poets who blog, ink sweat and tears, Ron Silliman, cleave in ‘Don’t be a stranger’ initiative

7. The Cleave Anthology

To review this year’s cleaves:

– Use the ‘SEARCH THE CLEAVE WEBZINE’ button

– Click on the tags in the tag cloud

– Click on the calender and archives to see cleaves for specific days

– Check out the cleave genius that is Dennis Kelly with 150+ cleaves on his blogsite

Finally, but most importantly:

Please keep submitting cleave poems.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

may next year

be even better!

Cleave of the Month December 2008 shortlist

The last Cleave of the Month for 2008.

The Poll is open until midnight 31/12/08.

The cleave poems are:

• cups and saucers by Thane Zander
• Spontaneous thing by Dennis Kelly
• Brainwashed by Nancy Williams Lazar
• KEROUAC by Janet Hamill

Cups and Saucers by Thane Zander

                Cups and Saucers
          o', you borrowed | a line
            from Art House | the colour
              several shades | of darkness
        of hues emanating | radiation
        leaks and droplets | burning images 

                   you supply | cups and saucers
             generalisations | with pretty filigree
              and encounter | gold riddles
              etched in time | unruffled by cause
             and effectively | placed to pasture
you tighten your noose | around your neck
                      and jump | stretching your existence.

Rhapsody-Cleft by Andrea Barton

………………I should ode a meadow – a solitude we once passed through
….a million million grains of grain – a lea
………………..golden and currented – like dawn at sea
and answer its enchanting beckon – for us to come and wallow in
………its ripples kissing landscape – its tide so invitingly introduced
………a profoundness by which we – unsuspecting prisoners-to-be
………………………………………–were seduced-

New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon and RACKETT at the Bowery Poetry Club

We would like to draw your attention to a very
special event. Please join us for an evening of poetry and rock and
roll with Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize winning poetry editor of
the New Yorker, and the Princeton-based band Rackett, on Saturday,
December 20th, 8-9:30 p.m., at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery,
(Between Houston and Bleecker), New York. Ticket cost is $15.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Paul
Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in
literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot
Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin
International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American
Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2005
Aspen Prize for Poetry, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has
been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most
significant English-language poet born since the second World War.”

Along with Muldoon, RACKETT features: Stephen Allen (keyboards), Bobby
Lewis (drums), Lee Matthew (lead guitar, vocals), Paul Muldoon
(guitar, lyrics), and Nigel Smith (bass).

Please feel free to contact us for more details.

Katelyn Maloney
Media Director
Bowery Poetry Club

Spontaneous thing by Dennis Kelly

This cleave and Three-Way Poetics were first published here at Dennis Kelly’s poetry blog and mentioned here on Ron Silliman’s blog.

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Larry Eigner

—for Diana Manister

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“when you search the

spontaneous thing”

—Larry Eigner, “The Fine Life,”

On My Eyes

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When I search for—the thing

The spontaneous thing—already there

It becomes even more—spontaneous

Do it yourself—try it & see

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What blooms—in drought

Isn’t you or me—it’s intuition

The other radio—the Red Sox one

The Orphée one—just ask Cocteau

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Heurtebise—your chauffeur

Eurydice—your wife

Maria Casares—La princesse

The Land of Dis—Spontaneous now

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Words—your Rolls Royce

Language—your motorcycle escort

Writing—thru the liquid mirror

Runtime—Saturday matinee

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The more—you read

The more—you write

The more—you cleave

The more—you see

Three-Way Poetics by Dennis Kelly

Three-Way Poetics

“we  got trinaural hearing”

—Larry  Eigner, “Do it yrself,” 

 Look at the  Park
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Now I’ve got—three “ears”

The front one—the back one

The one—coming down the street

Brainwashed by Nancy Williams Lazar

His monotonous voice dull as water running through a pipe flows from the room where the night nurse reads in the hall, her legs crossed and kicking. . . . . . . His clothes heaped on the tile floor of a room so warm the walls moan against a stream of cold from a broken window covered over by plasterboard

. . . . . . . . His calls for the police and the governor and a lawyer morph into a litany on how many times you hear the word “bi” the word “polar” in a lifetime.

His clothes heaped on the tile floor of a room so warm the walls moan against a stream of cold from a broken window covered over by plasterboard . . . . . . His monotonous voice dull as water running through a pipe flows from the room where the night nurse reads in the hall, her legs crossed and kicking.

Nancy Williams Lazar worked as a wood-shop manager for 18 years. After her business closed she wrote for The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in The Loch Raven Review, Mindfire: War and Peace special issue; and Soundzine, July 2008 Beat Poetry Issue.

iCleave by iDrew

i'm just a girl
                dreaming at the edge of sound
flirting with
a prince
                consumed
in the silence
                by glitter kisses
and wishes
                and the happy ever afters
hidden in
desires
                of wistful promises

P. A. Levy writing under the name of iDrew – to match her titles, Drew is an Essex girl that enjoys clubbing, drinking and boys, but as these are the topics she usually writes about she says it’s all in the name of research.  iDrew writes for the Clueless Collective to be found at:  www.cluelesscollective.co.uk

Cleave of the Month November 2008 shortlist

Congratulations to Diana Manister for her second Cleave of the Month.

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These are the Editor’s picks for this month – in selecting, I have considered the following 4 points and also simply, do I like the poem?

1. Depth: What is the theme, what is the point – so what?
2. Craft: Does each poem work on its own and together?
3. Communication: Is it clear; does it communicate?
4. Experimentation: Is it pushing the envelope?

Here are the poems (Poll closes 12th December):

• Afterwards, Janet: A Murder Mystery in Speech Acts by Diana Manister

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• After Reading Shelley and Hearing Krenwinkel is up For Parole Again by Laurie Byro

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• Cloven by Mal

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• The Verdant Lore by Ernesto Pangilinan Santiago

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• tHe mAgic typEwritEr (cleave poetics 2/19) by Dennis Kelly

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• Split in Two (or three) by P.A.Levy