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Sep.
2004
Mark
Flanigan
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AUDIO
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Cincinnati
native Mark Flanigan has been writing and performing for
over 14 years....Works from his collections Wrong-Way Poems
For One-Way Streets, Not Necessarily God Stories and Next
to Nothing have appeared in a variety of independent publications.
He has also co-written a screenplay (“Midway,” with Brian
Keizer), edited a literary publication (omnibscure) and worked to develop,
produce and curate various gallery shows and performance readings --
notably, VOLK/c.s.p.i. and Intermedia Series readings at the Contemporary
Arts Center and the Weston Art gallery.
Flanigan’s monthly column, “Exiled on Main Street,” appeared
for over three years, first in x-ray, and upon his resignation there,
at semantikon.com.
Performances of his can be found on “the Volk/c.s.p.i. spoken
word series CD (2001),” which he co-produced, and on the CD “One
Night Only (2002),” both of which can be purchased at semantikon.com’s
artist exchange.
Through the fall, Mark will be touring the Midwest on a supporting
book tour for the publication of his works in the annual review in
the stomach. Flanigan and musician Steven Proctor are also at work
recording their first album together why, available in winter 2005.
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Mark
Flanigan, Cincinnati, Ohio, poet, performer, editor, poetry,
minute poems, performance artist, audio clip, steve proctor |
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Her
Thoughts on Love
it was everything everything else
should be,
but rarely is:
very real.
a
love. founded
on assumption. once doubted
diseased—now—a
corpse on display
the
peering in of
yielding
little more than memory
the
breathing into
impotent to inspire
belief.
more
than words on paper
awaiting the rebirth of breath
we
were body, we were form
the
size of which
eclipses me,
my sight,
and darkens the promise—in the distance—
of anything more perfect.
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