The-Hold: poetry, prose, art, multimedia

014 Ode To Servers

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:46:00 -0500

Treat your waiters well.

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Poetry Radio

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:38:00 -0400

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Shakespearean Beatbox

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:31:00 -0400

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From Emily's Loft.

Formats available: MP3 Audio (.mp3)

Tags: emily, best, loft, shakespeare, arjun, gupta, beatbox

Crash! Bang! Wallow? Up for Film Award

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:13:00 -0400

Types of Bitches 1-14

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Sat, 6 Mar 2010 06:58:00 -0500

Types of Bitches 1-14
Originally uploaded by chinese_fashion

Pure poetry.

There are Things

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:10:00 -0500

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An audio poetry collaboration between Lenny Dellarocca, Stacie M. Kiner, Jan McLaughlin & Bruce Weber.

Formats available: MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: florida, poems, poets, lenny, dellarocca, stacie, kiner, jan, mclaughlin, jonathan, rose, bruce, weber, collaboration

Picking Chestnuts :: an Autumn Poem

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:06:00 -0500

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PICKING CHESTNUTS
- Jan McLaughlin

The last of the sweetest corn is in.
The tomato patch begins to thin.
The final field of beans comes on.
Leaves careen.

Acorns plop and thud in wind
that cracks the woods near which we live.

Rain moves down the fields in waves.

Because they fall, it's time to pick
the chestnuts where they land.

Like Easter eggs, they hide before our hands.

Their shells reflect and glisten.

We listen.

Before the chest, the hazels drop.
With hammer and a nail the hazel's
chipped apart for its meat that holds
its perfect winter oils;
the beginning of the laying on of fat.

This fundamental commerce
pays one buck a nut
from Mother's grocery money;
makes me again a girl
in my mother's house
where a gentle, persistent order reigns;
the discipline of days in which
one always wakes this day to watering,
and that, to baking;
the daily foraging for food
so fresh and close the roots sing
the names of their leaves
even as they slide down throats
to return again to soil.

We share the joy of
the coming on of chestnuts.

The first day a few,
then in the first cold rain
one hundred.

I prosper.

We hold the gathered nuts in bowls,
where they turn from white to brown in air,
hardening.

You can't take them 'til they're ready.

Hulls with nails are haughty warning.

Chestnuts.

Boiled are best:
hot and rife with wood & smoke
even without coals.

We tangle with the squirrels.

Chestnuts.

Autumn's Easter hunt.

Formats available: MP3 Audio (.mp3)

Tags: pumpkin, brass, poem, poetry, autumn, chestnuts, picking, family, fall

John Korn :: MipoRadio

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:59:00 -0400

John Korn.

Again.

Still.

More.

Fuck yeah.

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Palin / Shatner Poetry

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:26:00 -0400

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Brilliant.

Tags: poetry multimedia

Video Installation: Marksims

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Sat, 8 Aug 2009 11:48:00 -0400

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Justin's house show 7.31.09

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

Man Ray :: Poet/Film Maker :: Emak Bakia, 1926

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Fri, 7 Aug 2009 06:27:00 -0400

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Dream Triptych: Mashup Week V

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:14:00 -0400

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The works of lots of folks appear in this "television show", notably the moving voice of atom bomb survivor Sakue Shimohira on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki.

Each element chilled, moved or otherwise stayed with me:

spoken words - Sakue Shimohira (thanks to Democracy Now)

"American Flag" - unknown vlogger (metadata reminder)

"Flux Film No. 14" - Fluxus 1966

cello - Robert Rowe

poem - Ron Androla

spoken poem - John Korn

"Foolium" - Roy Trumbull of "The Story Spieler"

Volkswagon / AlkaSeltzer footage courtesy Internet Archive

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: mashup, satire, video poem, advertising, cello, commercial, sakue shimohira, collaboration, ron androla, robert rowe, film poem, peace, faux press, poetry, roy trumbull, john korn

TED :: Golan Levin :: Kurt Schwitters Poem

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:17:00 -0400

There's a Schwitters poem in there.

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Tags: poetry multimedia

Manhatta :: Silent Film :: Walt Whitman's Words

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:00 -0400

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SOMETIMES WHEN YOU GET THE BLUES THERE MIGHT BE A DAMNED GOOD REASON

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:21:00 -0400

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU GET THE BLUES THERE MIGHT BE A DAMNED GOOD REASON
Originally uploaded by Reckon

Buk.

Creativity

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Sat, 6 Jun 2009 20:07:00 -0400

Just watch it.

Tags: poetry multimedia

Coquette Trades Her Peugeot for a Tank

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:11:00 -0400

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Poem.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Third Generation Platform (.3gp), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: jan, mclaughlin, poem, love, survival, understanding, poetry, poet, wloll

Who Would Marry the Waitress

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:01:00 -0400

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A meditation on self worth.

Written and recorded by Jan McLaughlin.

Formats available: MP3 Audio (.mp3), Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: florida, poems, poets, jan, mclaughlin, marriage, meditation, self-worth, value

PWAV :: Poets Without a Voice

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:35:00 -0400

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Collaborative poem by Jan Bruce, who is Jan McLaughlin and Bruce Weber.

Rant about the academy and its death grip on literature.

Formats available: MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: florida, poems, poets, lenny, dellarocca, stacie, kiner, jan, mclaughlin, jonathan, rose, bruce, weber, collaboration

Mechelle Reads Walt Whitman

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:07:00 -0400

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Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

Inside/Outside :: Jan Bruce

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:14:00 -0400

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'Jan Bruce' is the collaborative entity comprised of Jan McLaughlin & Bruce Weber. This poem originated on the pages you see in the video and never went anywhere until now.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: poem, poetry, poets, poet, jan bruce, jan mclaughlin, bruce weber, collaboration, florida

Charles Bukowski :: Genius of the Crowd

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Wed, 1 Apr 2009 06:23:00 -0400

Too true, Chas.

Tags: poetry multimedia

Poetry in Song :: Video Collaboration :: Seesmic as Poetry / Music Tool

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:54:00 -0400

Dzaakya and I have collaborated before elsewhere. This is a new work from him and another person @ Seesmic.

Folks are making things together over there from time to time. Check it out.

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Damn You Barak Obama

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:38:00 -0500

Yeah!

Tags: poetry multimedia

Pretentious Poet Portrait

noreply@blogger.com (Jan McLaughlin - Multimediatrix of the-hold.com) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:42:00 -0500

Pretentious Poet Portrait
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan

With "These Poems Are Not Pretty".

Photo by Brian Fass.