Westminster Arch

The Ballad of Robert Johnson, now out on PennSound, was recorded here, at Westminster Arch in Logan Square, Center City Philly, in 2011. I lived here from 2008 to 2012, wrote Apparition Poems and the Cheltenham Elegies here, and stared out my fourth floor window at the PECO Tower to gauge the time & temperature. The cross-streets are 23rd and Arch. Nice to get WA mentioned on PennSound as a poetry venue, too.

Plain Jane

The Wayback Machine has done its own, innovative number on Cheltenham Elegy #420's Seattle Star page. Here, we see a stark, whited out version of 420. Which is of note, for those who might prefer stark/whited out to the SS's also interesting graphic.

from Otoliths 30

Now that The Great Recession is out as an Argotist E-Book, a little luster is added by this 2013 Otoliths (30) page, saved into Trove. It highlights, also, the aspect of the book that it took many years to craft, hone, kick into shape. Some books come easy; for me, GR wasn't one of them. 

Hybrid Page: On Barcelona

Literature online: authors devote web-pages in journals to sections of books. Standard operating procedure. What makes this 2012 page, from Halvard Johnson's On Barcelona, unique, is that it's a hybrid, featuring several poems from The Great Recession and a few from Apparition Poems as well.

Jazz Feets (Erin Audley)

from Otoliths 25

This random page from Otoliths 25 (2012) features a poem from a series I began and never completed in any reasonable way. Still not sure what to do with it. 

P.F.S. Post in NLA (Trove)

The snazzy, jazzy, 2017 version of P.F.S. Post (Philly Free School Post) front page in NLA (Trove).

"Flamed" Version: Apparition Poem #1613

E-Mail: Kelly Campbell (Wofford College) to Adam Fieled, 2008, i.e. Beams

Syllabus: English 412: U of Oregon: Fall 2009

Quote from Stress Fractures

A quote from "Post-Avant: A Meta-Narrative," my essay from the 2010 Stress Fractures anthology (UK, Penned in the Margins), is used in this UK mini-encyclopedia of lit-crit quotes. 

Noir Mike Land

Minecraft: Solipsist: Beams (Emma Gambade, 2010)

from Mad Hatter's Review: 2011

Apparition Poem 1335: Upstairs at Duroc 13 (print)

From Something Solid: Recondite (Otoliths 47, print edition, p.76)

    Otoliths 47 in library form. 

Apparition Poem 1488: Upstairs at Duroc 15 (print)

from Tyger Burning Literary Journal Issue 1 (Marick Press, 2010)

Maggie Mangual

On Maggie, as later appeared in Beams.

Deep Red (The Hatchet Murders)

The liquor store in Apparition Poem #1488 is the one at 13th and Chestnut, "center-of-center-city" Philadelphia, right across from the Adelphia House where Mike Land lived in the mid-Aughts. The incident transpired in 2008; Julia Brodsky is the poem's muse. App #1488 is one of the Apparition Poems series with the most impressive diaspora; from Seattle and back to Philly. J.B., coast to coast.

Harrisburg 'Burbs

The story of Jennifer and I, in the Harrisburg 'burbs, on the Main Line, or in Center City Philly and State College, all in the skewered summer of '96, is a long-winded one. This vignette attempts to capture one of the most emotionally affecting moments; but leaves an important element out, as it must. The center of the state of Pennsylvania is covered with a patina of "earth magic"; a sense that the elements of nature are alive and dancing around a usually-fumbling human race. The earth magic was there in the Harrisburg 'burbs, too.

A Match For A Match

Of the two new lyric poems I have out in Ex-Ex-Lit, one of them, "A Match," has a neat counterpart in Apparition Poems. The counterpart is Apparition Poem #1543:

What could be more crass
than a round-trip ticket to
Los Angeles? Nothing but
beds of starlets, flawless in
perfect color harmony but
vomit stains in the toilet, I
don't know what could be
more crass, in fact I don't
know anything anymore, I
think the sky is marvelous.

The sublime gets sucker-punched by the ridiculous, and vice versa.

Perma Multi-Media (Otoliths 16)

This archived version of the Otoliths 16 essay, On the Possibilities of Multi-Media Readings, by Adam Fieled, puts the Philly Free School shows at the Highwire Gallery in 2004/2005 in an entrenched position. 

Julia Brodsky

Mike Land: South Philadelphia: 2004

Dada Circus: Adam Fieled: Outlaw Playwrights: September 24, 1998

Mary & Mary: Williamsburg, Brooklyn: 2007

from Poetry (2005)

from Poetry Daily (2005)

from tygerburning.blogspot.com

Buffalo Poetics List: introducing Mary Walker Graham

Stoning the Devil (Wayback Machine): Random Notes: May 2007

Mary Harju: Portraits: 4 Poets (05-12-07, South Philadelphia)

Closing Remarks: P.F.S. Presents (Philly Free School Presents): 05-12-07