[New-Poetry] Call for submissions from Aldo Tambellini

Mon Dec 15 21:46:03 EST 2008

sorry I must have sent this to the whole mailing list....I apologize for  
such a mass mailing
aldo 

In a message dated 12/15/2008 8:31:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ATambellini01 at aol.com writes:

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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