[New-Poetry] Mac Low influenced young OK sound poets

[Halvard Johnson]

Okay, OK sound poets sound sound enough
to me. I'd only hope they (and their audience)
were reading those words randomly, not in
unison.

Hal

"I always wanted to be a cosmologist
but failed the physical."
			--Anon.

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On May 6, 2007, at 10:09 AM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:

> http://hub.ou.edu/articles/article.php? 
> article_id=1712033609&search_id=2029973675
> Student poets spout ‘Subterranean’-style sounds
> By Ryan Daly • The Oklahoma Daily
> Posted 9:24 p.m., May 2, 2007
>
>
> The Jacobson House was packed. The audience, which ranged  from  
> aging intellectuals in slacks and blazers to college students in  
> flip-flops, listened attentively to instructions issued from five  
> students standing at the front of the small room.
>
> The crowd looked pensively for a moment at brightly colored sheets  
> of paper that had been passed out before the performance. The  
> papers were filled
> with words, from inanimate objects to expletives. Slowly at first,  
> then gradually building momentum and dissolving to utter chaos, the  
> performers and
> audience began reading the words, enunciating each carefully.
>
> The group is Sound Lab.
> ...
> “We incorporate a lot of the [beat poets] as a jumping-off point,  
> but our main influence is a guy named Jackson Mac Low,”
>
>
>
>
>
> See what's free at AOL.com.
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