tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212858092024-03-23T12:10:35.589-06:00This Public Face for John Pluecker Has Been Closed / Ya se cerró esta cara pública de John PlueckerRedirecting now to www.johnpluecker.com - Redirigiendo ahora a www.johnpluecker.comJohn Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.comBlogger1095125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-58887635856011310412017-03-15T15:01:00.001-06:002017-03-15T15:01:33.529-06:00THIS BLOGSPOT IS NOW CLOSED. WE MOVED ON.
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CHAO.John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-50935125088717737072017-01-28T11:59:00.001-06:002017-01-28T11:59:18.135-06:00John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-24049256722587603882017-01-23T14:21:00.001-06:002017-01-23T14:21:58.818-06:00John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-55529145293614831602017-01-19T19:40:00.001-06:002017-01-19T19:40:13.139-06:00John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-22454371493393854002017-01-19T13:30:00.002-06:002017-01-19T13:30:27.915-06:00Reading in Tucson on J21
All the info is here.John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-33759279318822261662017-01-07T06:58:00.000-06:002017-01-07T15:00:34.343-06:00A Letter of Openness for Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Dear Ayanna,
Last night, I attended Hear Her Ear: Women in Sound at Art League in Houston. Here are some words about what I heard (or attempted to hear) through the rushing stream of constant thoughts I attempted to divert, dam and slow.
There are still small things in the wreckage. There are still sounds. Ephemeral bits of language and noise, and something rubs against something else and John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-78497249794001245182017-01-04T11:35:00.002-06:002017-01-04T11:35:40.014-06:00Zeke Peña
RECLAIM
Current Show at the Rubin Center at the University of Texas El Paso
zeke from Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center on Vimeo.John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-48233250511224847322017-01-03T15:08:00.000-06:002017-01-03T15:08:01.190-06:00"Storytelling does not begin with inventing, it begins with listening.”
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“I’m all for the diffusion of what I’ve written,” Berger says, “but my own story doesn’t interest me.” He pauses. “There’s a risk of egocentricity. And to storytellers, egocentricity is boring.”
- John Berger here
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"Opposition is seen as confrontation, confrontation as aggression, aggression as a will to John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-59150823219078445572016-12-28T14:55:00.003-06:002016-12-28T14:56:58.262-06:00
"I've kinda let go of trying to name things and put things in boxes and just let it be multiplicities of me creating different types of work."
- Ayanna Jolivet MccloudJohn Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-8233292273314231242016-12-26T17:21:00.002-06:002016-12-26T17:21:20.062-06:00Sometimes I think that there is no poetry written without the intervention of the dead. It’s their voices speaking to you that allow you to find words from nowhere; they are the muse. I’m from the Mojave Desert; there are a lot of cranks there. I don’t usually tell people, but every once in a while I feel like telling them. Because everything else that’s said about poetry is so boring and trivialJohn Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-74038171747341523342016-12-16T22:07:00.001-06:002016-12-16T22:13:40.549-06:00No one talks to a white poet and says, “How do you feel about your complicity in indirectly fucking so many people over?”
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It's all personal for me. It’s the refusal to accept subjectivity as pretext for subjugation.
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I don’t find the need to declare Gaza, to name a place. Even Gaza now becomes a safe reflex for those of us who prefer to sigh. Gaza becomes a logo of suffering to be John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-77360078336646875992016-12-16T20:38:00.001-06:002016-12-16T20:38:09.695-06:00Las emociones a flor de piel.John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-42172601226860836822016-12-15T22:39:00.002-06:002016-12-15T22:39:27.700-06:00John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-19921125185955658752016-12-15T22:38:00.005-06:002016-12-15T22:38:43.208-06:00John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-45093587346541238752016-12-15T22:38:00.002-06:002016-12-15T22:38:09.700-06:00
¿Cómo cubrir el dolor? from FNPI on Vimeo.John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-57258495646342970422016-12-10T13:09:00.002-06:002016-12-10T13:09:59.693-06:00"At this moment, all over the world—and most recently in America—the conductors standing in front of this human orchestra have only the meanest and most banal melodies in mind. Here in Germany you will remember these martial songs; they are not a very distant memory. But there is no place on earth where they have not been played at one time or another. Those of us who remember, too, a finer musicJohn Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-16093926315692842122016-12-06T14:23:00.001-06:002016-12-06T14:23:07.699-06:00
This, by Janice Worthen at Small Press Distribution:
ANTÍGONA GONZÁLEZ made my feet heavy, my hands itch, my thoughts turn to circles...around and around with Antígona, her big heart, her determination, searching for the disappeared. "How could I not demand his body even if just to bury it?" In such cases, how does the heart not become a tomb? "Facing what disappears: what does not disappearJohn Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-89226193896340453522016-12-03T09:54:00.001-06:002016-12-03T10:01:50.433-06:00
Lorraine O'Grady
John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-43414961053708605012016-12-03T09:45:00.001-06:002016-12-03T09:45:27.124-06:00Equilibrio Norte
Standing Rock, Texas and the Xicanx, Mexicanx Nation
Derelicts DishJohn Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-68197848658307060212016-11-01T12:47:00.000-06:002016-11-01T12:47:04.239-06:00"I knew and admired the films of Pasolini, but the one that absolutely enchanted me was his 1970 feature-length documentary Appunti per un’Orestiade Africana (Notes for an African Orestes), which I saw in 2003. In it, Pasolini documents his preparations for a planned but never completed film version of the Oresteia set in Africa. Probably the most eloquent sequence is the one in which John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-9926930411268569632016-10-19T09:09:00.001-05:002016-10-19T09:09:31.315-05:00"Abrazamos la idea del cambio con el sueño de que cambiando las relaciones de producción y distribución íbamos a tener un hombre nuevo. Nos equivocamos feo. Simplificamos la historia. Es mucho mas complicado y tuvimos que aprender una lección que resumiría: la cultura es tan determinante o mas determinante que lo material y en definitiva si no cambia la cabeza, no cambia nada."
- José Mujica en John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-79480487172454108862016-10-05T13:56:00.000-05:002016-10-06T11:10:02.072-05:00Señal Series US Tour
October 9th to 14th, 2016
Señal is a chapbook series for contemporary poetry from Latin America in translation, published collaboratively by BOMB Magazine, Libros Antena Books, and Ugly Duckling Presse. Señal publishes two chapbooks a year, linked thematically, conceptually, or trans-historically, troubling received ideas around what the terms “contemporary” andJohn Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-90447662407923519802016-08-26T16:08:00.000-05:002016-08-26T16:29:42.201-05:00
WHEN YOUNG THUG exploded from Atlanta’s rap underground into national consciousness last year, there were lots of things that set him apart. There was his appearance—a 6’3″ dude in a dress is hard to miss. There was his predilection for addressing his male friends as “bae” and “hubby.” But most obvious to listeners was how hard it was to understand what he was saying. Although Young Thug’s John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-356716618574777902016-08-25T09:58:00.000-05:002016-08-25T09:59:59.342-05:00Say No to VoluntourismAnyone on a flight from the United States to Haiti this summer might be struck, as I was in July, by the sheer numbers of bright-eyed, well-meaning young people heading for volunteer assignments at some of Haiti’s many orphanages, eager to help the struggling nation’s more than 30,000 institutionalized children.
Sadly, despite their good intentions, volunteers at orphanages are unwittingly John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285809.post-59756585465712208712016-08-19T14:50:00.000-05:002016-08-19T14:50:02.134-05:00The House Is on Fire: Race, Gentrification, Houston and the de Menil Family Legacy
On August 16, 2016, a Houston Chronicle article, “De Menil Plans Artist Enclave in Acres Homes,” detailed a new plan to build a development of fourteen single family houses for artists in Acres Homes, a historically Black neighborhood on the north side of the city. The homes would be in the $300-450,000 range, far higher than the median home price in the city in 2016: $230,000. The John Plueckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306549917282522180noreply@blogger.com0