[New-Poetry] Call for submissions from Aldo Tambellini

Mon Dec 15 20:33:08 EST 2008

2006 

that yesterday 
when the aging according player 
surrounded by elevator muzac 
touched 
with his arthritic fingers 
the imaginary black & white keys 
chromatic images of youth 
flash inside the isolated 
compressed space 
from far away he heard 
its sound bouncing over white foam 
echoing in hollow conch shells 
he walked out of the elevator 
into the red & green 
pulsating neon night 
thinking 
how far can a shadow 
stretch itself 
before  its human form disappears 

August 15,  1990 
to Vincent  Van Gogh 

vincent 
at southby  auction 
the super  rich 
by invitation  only 
some by long distance  telephone 
bid  millions 
for one of your  paintings 
while you were  here 
they spat on you with  indifference 
doctors analyzed your erratic  behavior 
questioning 
what kind of insanity was  yours 
that so brilliantly  developed 
the genius in your  work 
just this  week 
the book  section 
of the Sunday ny  times 
reviewed your life &  art 
in 2 new  books 
bringing more theories to  play 
every detail of your existence 
is scrutinized in most scholarly  fashion 
if the pistol that cut your  life 
were to be  found 
it would be an expensive item  for sale 
now one hundred years after your  death 
the dutch queen honors you  with 
an exhibition being insured for  literally 
several  billions 
higher than the national  budget 
of many a country in the  world 
alive not many gave a  damn 
about you   
though theo loved  you 
a bitter death   
your  life 
the  neglect 
became  unbearable 
July  29 1890 
you took your  life 
that’s what they are bidding for  at the auction 

August 18,  1990 

artists  
they leave traces 
markings 
moments 
from a process 
they leave bones 
ground in fine dust 
they give a way to see 
the droppings of a donkey 
they look inside craters 
interrupted by 
the take-off of 
a missile 
leave polaroids  
accumulating with time 
pick up refuse 
with a question 
their neurons 
flip TV
on & off 
xerox machines 
running in their brains 

August 18,  1997 
10:15 PM 

1 

place the ear to the young heart 
listen 
it beats 
it pulsates 
it pumps desires 
driven by fresh oxygen 

2 
place the  ear to the heart 
its years  later 
listen 
it  beats 
monotonously with routine  order 
it pumps   
repetitiously conforming  desire 
3 
place the  ear to the heart 
years  & years & years later 
listen 
it’s now a  faint hardening murmur 
barely  audible in the doctor’s scope 
is it  beating? 
Or are you  becoming deaf 

Aldo  Tambellini

Aldo Tambellini was born in Syracuse, New York in 1930  his father from 
Brazil, his  mother from Italy. He was taken to  Italy at the age of eighteen  
months where he lived in Lucca, Tuscany. At the age of ten, he was enrolled in  
Lucca’s art  institute. A survivor of the bombing of his neighborhood during 
World War II,  Aldo, at an early age, experienced first hand the oppression of 
the Fascists and  later the terror of Nazis in Italy.  He returned to the United 
 States in 1946. He received a full scholarship  for painting at Syracuse 
University graduating in 1954 and a Teaching  Fellowship at the University of 
Notre  Dame graduating with a Masters Degree in Sculpture  in 1959. He has 
dedicated his life to fighting oppression, discrimination and  stereotyping. He was 
very active in the 60’s Counter-culture Movement in  New York where  he 
challenged the art establishment.  In New York  City, he pioneered in Video Art and 
Multi-Media  Performances.  The Gate Theatre,  which he opened in the Lower 
East Side in the  60’s, showed experimental films and radical plays.  With Otto 
Piene, he opened the Black  Gate Theatre in New York  City which was the first 
ever “Electromedia” Theatre for  multi-media performances and installations. 
 Of his Black Film Series produced in the  60’s, “Black TV” won the Grand 
Prix at Oberhausen  Film Festival and is in the collection at the Museum of 
Modern Art.   
>From 1976 to 1984, Aldo was a Fellow at the  Center for Advanced Visual 
Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  His art, films and media 
work have been featured widely nationally and  internationally.  In 1983, he  
exhibited at the Sao Paolo Biennale (Brazil). He has performed his Social  and 
Political Poetry in numerous venues. In 1998, he founded and hosted the  venue “
The People's Poetry” in Cambridge MA.  He is one of the founders of the Poetry 
Collective Group called Poets Against  the Killing Fields. These poets have 
read extensively in venues in MA and  New York and  have recently published the 
anthology, “Poets Against the Killing Fields.”   His poetry has been 
translated into  various languages. His political art pieces were recently part of 
the NO! Art  Show in Berlin,  Germany. He has  produced 2 video films in which 
he uses his anti-war poems, television images  and children’s art to show the 
devastation of war and its effects on the  innocent population.  One of these  
films, “Listen,” was the 1st prize winner for Short Experimental Film  at the 
New England Film Festival in October 2005 and the 1st prize  winner at 2006 
Syracuse International Film Festival.  The Lucca  Film Festival (Italy) honored 
Aldo with a  retrospective of his film and video work and a retrospective of 
his artistic  work.  In 2007, he had a  retrospective of video and film at the 
Leeds Film Festival (England). Aldo received a 2007  Lifetime Achievement 
Award from the Syracuse Film Festival for his work in film and  video.  He was 
the recipient of the  Key to the City of Cambridge in recognition of his 
lifetime work  in the Arts and his active social and artist contribution to the  
City. 

In a message dated 9/1/2008 11:44:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
chan_jt at hotmail.com writes:

Poetry Sz: demystifying mental illness is calling for  submissions to its 
27th issue.

We are calling for original, previously  unpublished poetry written by people 
who have experienced mental illness.  Poems of all topics and styles are  
welcome.

http://poetrysz.blogspot.com

Send 4-6 poems and a short  bio in the body of your email to 
poetrysz at yahoo.com

Thank  you.

regards

J  Chan
editor

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