Stephen M. Miniotis reads at “Occupy the Poetry” at Queen Gallery in Toronto, Thursday 3 May 2012 (video here:)

Video recording:

Stephen M. Miniotis reads at “Occupy the Poetry, with the International Festival of Poetry of Resistance”, at the Queen Gallery in Toronto, on 3 May 2012, Thursday at approximately 7:00pm

A big thank you to to the event organizers (Mr. J. Peachy, Mr. Patrick Connors) along with the Queen Gallery, for hosting this great event and inviting me to read. As you can see, I had a great time!

Here is a brief synopsis of what happened:

“On May 3rd, Patrick Connors, co-Chair of the 4th International Festival of Poetry Of Resistance, is hosting “Occupy the Poetry”. It will be in conjunction with J Peachy, the Queen Gallery, and IFPOR.

The Queen Gallery in Toronto, 382 Queen Street East, is excited to welcome Vancouver based Artist J Peachy as its Artist in Residence from April 27 to May 6th, 2012. Peachy is a multi-faceted lateral thinker, hunter-gather
and a creative warrior who is constantly responding to themes around his own personal psycho-social-environmental conflict.

Confirmed for “Occupy the Poetry”; from IFPOR: Carlos Angulo Rivas, Jose Gonzalez, Roghyeh (Roki) Ghanbaralizadeh, Jeannine Pitas, and Connors. Also confirmed: J Peachy, Stephen Miniotis, Kit Cat, Areta, Mahlikah Awe:ri, Philp Arima, and Max Layton, as well as a special presentation of Milton Acorn’s new anthology, In A Springtime Instant, featuring Terry Barker and Anna Yin.

Event is free, and starts at 7:00 PM.
For more information, please visit: http://queengallery.ca/“

Analyzed one of Bob Dylan’s songs before I heard it.

I just analyzed one of Bob Dylan’s songs before I heard it “Subterranean Hometown Blues”. I must’ve been spot on in one aspect of my analysis, because according to Wikipedia, I was right about it. Sweet!

Before that, I was analyzing ‘I shall be free’ and realized the comic value in it. I laughed! I wonder about the subtle humor in Dylan’s work. It is an excellent juxtaposition between other factors, such as the music, drama and tragedy that is suggested or included in the work. Hard to explain. I’m no theorist. I can just feel them before they happen. And sometimes they are funny and sometimes they are sad. And sometimes they are happy and sometimes they are mad. And it ain’t just Bob Dylan.

I think I’ll buy a USB keyboard and bang around on it. Maybe I’ll get back into music a little, and melopoieia some of my poetry. (“mellodize”). Whoops, looks like melopoia isn’t a word yet. I’ll explain this later, with a song or two. Granted, I’ll probably never be good at it. But that’s not the point. I just need to understand music a little better, is all, and see what I can come up with.

Gotta love The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. Bob you rock! I need to pick up more of his albums, I only have one: “The Essential Bob Dylan”. I have barely heard Bob.

Another example of my gaping hole of knowledge in the music community is that, just today, I wikipedia’d Bluegrass to understand a definition of what it is. I’m sitting on a lot of good music right now. In fact, because of my method of interpreting music poetry literature and art, I have barely listened to any great popular music at all.

I’m a clean slate. That’s why I have a different approach and unique perspective.

I should probably flesh out my analysis(es) in blog posts, (I call them “first responses”), but there are a few reasons why I haven’t yet.

Ain’t no freewheelin’ Bob Dylan in me, yet, either, or or any Bluegrass for that matter, and that’s one of the reasons why I tend to shy away from public analysis. I do analyze the songs I hear privately, though and try to understand them wholly with what little I know. Sometimes I’m spot on and my perspective, although unique, is clear to understand. Perhaps I should get into reviews.

One thing I should note is that I do think all day, very hard and carefully, but am very slow to act on my ambitions.

I will be attending “Occupy the Poetry, with the International Festival of Poetry Of Resistance”. Don’t miss it!

I will be attending: http://www.facebook.com/events/336223749774277/. Don’t miss it!Occupy the Poetry, with the International Festival of Poetry Of Resistance

Thursday, May 3 at 7:00pm at Queen Gallery in Toronto.

For more info or to attend, please see the facebook event page, above.