Christopher Funkhouser
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Humanities, Faculty Member
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... This poem literally displays a momentary reflective pause in a litany of text created by Carmona's program, which does not apparently conform to ... catalogues index cards lunches in the city recatalogues index cards drinks two... more
... This poem literally displays a momentary reflective pause in a litany of text created by Carmona's program, which does not apparently conform to ... catalogues index cards lunches in the city recatalogues index cards drinks two beers Returns home kisses his wife says hello to the ...
... Ras Baraka, their son, is a political leader as well as an editor and poet who co-hosts programs at a poetry cafe in Newark. These non-stop efforts by the Barakas are com-pletely vital for regional arts and cul-tural awareness. ...
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An article that addresses Mackey's then recent books (School of Udhra, Djbot Baghostus's Run, and Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing) as touchstones.
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An entry on Eric Drooker's graphic novel Flood! A Novel in Pictures written for the Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independents and Underground Classics, Volume 1 (Salem Press 2012)
A 9/4/94 interview with Cecil Taylor, published in Hambone 12 (1995)
Digital poetry is an evolving process, employing various techniques that began to form well before the advent of the personal computer and continues to refine itself in today's World Wide Web (WWW) environment. This chapter seeks to... more
Digital poetry is an evolving process, employing various techniques that began to form well before the advent of the personal computer and continues to refine itself in today's World Wide Web (WWW) environment. This chapter seeks to reveal the development, range, and construction of digital poetry, as well as what constitutes the genre. Digital poems, while built on similar principles, are always being technically, culturally, and imaginatively redefined. Various forms of poems – related by technological agency – both represent (i.e., simulate) classical literature (in programs that implement classical forms, or by assembling CD-ROM anthologies of classical poetry) and, more profoundly, embrace new methods of communicating verbal information. Poets initially used computer programs to synthesize a database and a series of instructions to establish a work's content and shape.
first published in Hambone 21 (2015) The Cricket was a mimeographed music magazine edited by LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, and A.B. Spellman in 1968 and 1969. Subtitled “Black Music in Evolution,” The Cricket promoted music as a cultural... more
first published in Hambone 21 (2015)
The Cricket was a mimeographed music magazine edited by LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, and A.B. Spellman in 1968 and 1969. Subtitled “Black Music in Evolution,” The Cricket promoted music as a cultural nucleus, vitally representing and upholding accelerated standards for progressive art by insisting on a flow between various creative forms. It was an atypical music magazine, incorporating an abundance of poetry, short plays, and blends of forms, in addition to essays and reviews. Musician-authors published in The Cricket include Sun Ra, Milford Graves, Mtume, and Albert Ayler. The Cricket helped to promote innovative projections of art in sync with a revolutionary movement, making advances by trumpeting poetic articulations and shifting cultural formulations. Christopher Funkhouser conducted the following interview at Amiri Baraka’s home in Newark, NJ, on June 21, 2000, while preparing an essay titled “LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, and The Cricket: Jazz and Poets’ Black Fire” for the 2000 National Poetry Foundation conference on the 1960s; the essay was published in African American Review (Vol. 37, Nos. 2-3, 2003).
The Cricket was a mimeographed music magazine edited by LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, and A.B. Spellman in 1968 and 1969. Subtitled “Black Music in Evolution,” The Cricket promoted music as a cultural nucleus, vitally representing and upholding accelerated standards for progressive art by insisting on a flow between various creative forms. It was an atypical music magazine, incorporating an abundance of poetry, short plays, and blends of forms, in addition to essays and reviews. Musician-authors published in The Cricket include Sun Ra, Milford Graves, Mtume, and Albert Ayler. The Cricket helped to promote innovative projections of art in sync with a revolutionary movement, making advances by trumpeting poetic articulations and shifting cultural formulations. Christopher Funkhouser conducted the following interview at Amiri Baraka’s home in Newark, NJ, on June 21, 2000, while preparing an essay titled “LeRoi Jones, Larry Neal, and The Cricket: Jazz and Poets’ Black Fire” for the 2000 National Poetry Foundation conference on the 1960s; the essay was published in African American Review (Vol. 37, Nos. 2-3, 2003).
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An appendix to "Charles O. Hartman in conversation with Chris Funkhouser", Back Up State is a poem largely created with Hartman's PyProse program, serially published on twitter during 2009-2010.
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Connecticut College professor Charles O. Hartman is a poet and musician who has also authored an important critical study, Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (Wesleyan, 1996), which focuses on connections between poetry and... more
Connecticut College professor Charles O. Hartman is a poet and musician who has also authored an important critical study, Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (Wesleyan, 1996), which focuses on connections between poetry and computing. PyProse, his sentence-generation software (for Mac OS X and Windows, 2006), is amongst the finest syntactical programs yet created; he has also produced Open Source metric scansion software named the Scandroid (both are available at http://oak.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs.htm). At the time of this conversation, Chris Funkhouser was using PyProse as part of a social media writing project (virtually buried at https://twitter.com/ctfunkhouser), which is partly encapsulated in Back Up State, a poem that will appear in the forthcoming volume, IN|FILTRATION: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley (Station Hill). [Note: an e-book edition of Back Up State is posted on academia.edu as an appendix to this conversation].
