{"id":2190,"date":"2012-10-19T15:06:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T22:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2012-11-11T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T02:21:52","slug":"canopy-cauldron-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/canopy-cauldron-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"canopy cauldron culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/canopycanopycanopy.com\/podcasts\/38-poems-for-america-part-1\" title=\"38 poems for america part 1\" target=\"_blank\">triple canopy podcast<\/a> today, a conversation between poet Aaron Kunin and artist Ken Okiishi, moderated by Katie Raissian.<\/p>\n<p>*smh*<br \/>\n(Hilariously to me, it means &#8220;shaking my head&#8221; &#8211; had to look it up in the twitterspeak dictionary.)<\/p>\n<p>Not entirely happy with conceptual art and writing. Although I&#8217;m drawn to it and can&#8217;t seem to resist. It is so abstract and cerebral as to make me feel my head is going to fill will helium and fly off. And not remotely populist. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m also not entirely happy with populist poetry, the (heh) &#8220;traditional epiphanic.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t not believe that current poetry is infected with the overall problems of current American culture, no matter how determinedly the poet tries to escape them. Can people see this? <\/p>\n<p>My Conceptual Poem which is a critique of conceptual poems<br \/>\n(from <em>Poems for Last October<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>the cauldron culture brews<br \/>\nits best from<br \/>\nstew of brand names<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to the triple canopy podcast today, a conversation between poet Aaron Kunin and artist Ken Okiishi, moderated by Katie Raissian. *smh* (Hilariously to me, it means &#8220;shaking my head&#8221; &#8211; had to look&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}