Sem. 2 Workshops

Mystical Poetry [Tues. 11^th Feb. 4-6pm, room TBC.]

The initiation rite involved the production of acute embarrassment, but whose was anyone’s guess. “Magical thinking is the belief that thoughts and desires can directly transfer themselves to, and transform, the material world, other people, the future.” The mystic eschews calcified power structures, insisting on unmediated access to whatever-you-call-it. Killer Mike says “I kill my masters | I mentor none.” It should be distinguished from the occult, from magic, from spirituality, but it blurs dimly fuzzy perceived unclear, or by means other than the typical five attributes. Candidates include the I Ching, Tarot, and astrology.

Guerrilla Poetry [Tues. 10^th Mar. 4-6pm, room TBC.]

We shuddered inside the self-addressed envelope, pure fluxion warped its walls. Patchy tactics eh. Guerrilla knitting, gardening/advertising/theatre. It trips dissociative, the transgression reinscribing the line it wanted to eschew only grew. Spanish guerrilla, diminutive of guerra war. The CEOs have their expense claims rejected. In that phase-shift of lights elemental, organicism sings ♫ killing is a part of what we inadequately call living ♫. Ethics toxified breath. The mannequin’s eery light lathering up a fiscal fistbump. We’ll meet at Sean Bonney’s ‘Notes on Militant Poetics’ and escalate from there.

Carceral Poetry [24^th Mar. 4-6pm, room TBC.]

Blacksmith as lockpick. As unemployment increases and profitability declines worldwide, there is a return to incarceration as a way of managing those who are designated ‘surplus’ or unruly. Macao constraint breaks the macao constraint. “I know who you are,” she said, reaching for her sword. I move it up my shoulder just a bit a nudge if I can, jingling the keys. Confrontation string through to lacquered panpipes. The bare bulb swung ghastly bright. Ringleaders may include George Jackson, Bobby Sands, and Jackie Wang.