Will Alexander, “Live at the Roosevelt Room,” Detroit, August 24, 2016
Word count: 412
Paragraphs: 7
(PennSound)
W.A. peals himself / wailing / aural / elliptical / solar / celestial / dash board / will call / hesitation chance / leap aboard:
This-a-way-we-will-to-beat / will-to-beat / will-to-beat / all night long …
No ill will / not in this / hear REALIA …….. …………. ………… …..
Only terrestrial healing / all night long / ReAlhexhandler / soundbard / riff raft / instrumental / for what ails America / moor & moor / room for all dispelled / black wards / lack words/time cheats/ scoff the Hart’s wood paneled / “Roosevelt Room” / for all / A sharp ……. ………… …………. …………. under groove / Will rode / #’s man / Will prepared / piano/ oud / bass / toy piano / voice / guitar / adroit drummer / 7 smiles stride / against the grain ………..:…………..:………….:…………..…..:…………..: shelf exploratory :::: :: :: :: :: :: : ::::: : : : : : ::: :::: :: :: :: ::: reef fugue / cliff notes / spare pattern / seep immersion / shore / shore / 4/4 time / din / burrow / along Detroit River / mash again / improvising / harp poem / finger probe / something fishy / bloated / off the wall / eyed / sirens….
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“Start with some piano & everyone else comes in.” Scat/dog/stray beats/Lunacy! What a will moonlight will…2…4… good Will hunting/ silent sequences/ sympathetic strings/ a request to start/ from scratch/ silence. twilight/ home:
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“Do you want the door closed?”
Metaphysical sound / alchemical / glacial / algebraic / astral / Willalia / Willeluia / initial initial / sonar Willphabet / spare change / climate time / geological / middle C / tearscale / way black / magi / call hum/mum / electra set / Africosmo s / hue bangy / choral reef / Willafornia / thar he blues / re LAX is mundi / feel Will / in tune notion / murmur matrix / finger lobe / Willumination / phoneme home / Will A. weep for …………………
Julie Ezelle Patton
ARKiTEXT, a special issue of Chicago Review (Vol. 67) focuses on poet/performer julie ezelle patton’s Let it Bee (LIB) Arkhive, a building/land and art stewardship project that has protected and advocated for the work and legacies of Depression Era birthed artists Theresa Ramey, Virgie Patton, Russell Atkins, and others, since the 1980’s. J Walking thru the Alphabet, an edited selection of ezelle-patton’s concrete, visual, and textual poetics from the 1970s to the near present is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. julie ezelle-patton is a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Art Poetry Award.