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Poegles at Salomon Arts, January 17th
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On Saturday, January 17th 2009, Salomon Arts and the founders of Poegles.com will celebrate the closing of Ah Pook is Here: The Lost Art of William S. Burroughs and Malcolm McNeill with a reception and a presentation on found poetry in honor of Burroughs and his “cut-up method” of writing.As proponents of a new kind of ‘cut-up’ method of found poetry using internet search results, we are extremely excited to demonstrate our craft in the presence of work by the cut-up’s most famous proponent, William Burroughs. Participants are invited to view the exhibition and participate in an interactive discussion about found poetry and the new art of using internet search results to create poems.
When and where is the event?
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Wine reception 4 pm to 7 pm, Presentation at 5:30 pm
Salomon Arts- Tribeca
83 Leonard Street (between Broadway and Church), 4th Floor
New York, NY 10013
How do I RSVP?
Because of limited space anyone wishing to attend must RSVP to editor@poegles.com.
What is Ah Pook is Here?
The exhibition is made up of artwork and prints from the unfinished graphic novel Ah Pook is Here. This remarkable seven-year collaboration between Burroughs and the artist Malcolm McNeill has been rediscovered after more than thirty years and is now being publicly shown for the first time.
As Burroughs wrote in 1978, “over the years of our collaboration Malcolm Mc Neill produced more than a hundred pages of artwork. However, owing partly to the expense of full color reproduction, and because the book falls into neither the category of the conventional illustrated book, nor that of a comix publication, there have been difficulties with the arrangements for the complete work. The book is in fact unique…”
What will happen at the event?
Participants will be invited take in the exhibition, and then channel the spirit of Burroughs in their very own cut-up poems. We will demonstrate the poegling technique and discuss the history of found poetry from 19th century France through to today.
Friends, poeglers, we hope you can join us.