Tumblr (3.0; @chrisgilpin)http://www.chrisgilpin.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3u3aqih2N1qbsnmho1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>“the only place I really care about being famous is in hell”</em> –David Lerner (1951–97)</p> <p>I’ll be reading a selection of Lerner’s poems at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/390658717619876">Dead Poets Reading Series</a>, this Sunday, May 13th, at Project Space. Show starts promptly at 3pm. Admission by donation.</p>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/22814209780http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/22814209780Thu, 10 May 2012 21:11:12 -0400xs<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/N14DGxNaI-M?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>My performance from the 2012 Calgary Spoken Word Festival.</p> <p>Poems in this set:</p> <ul><li>“All Music is Psychedelic”</li> <li>“A Lover to End Winter”</li> <li>“Do Not Trust Canadians”</li> <li>“Albertan Girl”</li> </ul>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/22373023033http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/22373023033Fri, 04 May 2012 02:57:46 -0400xl<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2jmQTKOKv0g?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Khary Jackson aka 6 is 9.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://prettydeadhair.tumblr.com/post/22255359644">prettydeadhair</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I’m in a book contest. If you like the poem, click “like”. If not, no worries. Check it out…</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/22265157439http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/22265157439Wed, 02 May 2012 14:32:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3bujsLxP91r25bz0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Some of my favourite poets!</p> <p>(from left to right): Mindy Nettifee, Brian Ellis, Mike McGee, Jon Sands</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mikemcgee.tumblr.com/post/22176878477/whirlwind-co-boston-university-april-30-2012">mikemcgee</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Whirlwind Co., Boston University — April 30, 2012 (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/22218021095http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/22218021095Tue, 01 May 2012 18:11:58 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2wh96hujl1r25bz0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>At the Calgary Spoken Word Festival 2012, (from left to right): ? (remind me), Eliz Perso, myself, Sheri-D Wilson, Truth Is…, Mary Pinkoski, Alessandra Neccarato, Andre, Tanya Evanson, and Fabrice Koffy. Photo by Mike McGee.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mikemcgee.tumblr.com/post/21601359249/our-last-night-in-calgary-this-is-one-great-group">mikemcgee</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Our last night in Calgary. This is one great group of Canada’s poets. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/21636174636http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/21636174636Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:49:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0funsuV5Q1r25bz0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mikemcgee.tumblr.com/post/18819944729/art-eh">mikemcgee</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Can’t remember where I found this, but I dig the sentiment.</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/20766325986http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/20766325986Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:00:29 -0400xlA History Of Silence: What Year Was Heaven Desegregated? // Jeffrey McDaniel: Watching the news...http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/19871572529http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/19871572529Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:49:30 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0l182ZBF91qcx3szo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://areasofmyexpertise.com/post/18991082864/tornandfrayed-bob-dylan-stevie-wonder-was">areasofmyexpertise</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tornandfrayed.tumblr.com/post/18959028973/bob-dylan-stevie-wonder">tornandfrayed</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Bob Dylan & Stevie Wonder.</p> </blockquote> <p>Was this when they were in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen together?</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/18994115301http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/18994115301Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:23:49 -0500<a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/hartley.html">Another Entrance to the Byzantine World of Language Poetry</a>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/17807567326http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/17807567326Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:08:00 -0500xs““Poetry is made in bed like love,” André Breton wrote in one of his surrealist poems. I was a...http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/17562166473http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/17562166473Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:47:03 -0500xs<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz17ldzGvr1qmaoalo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://reuters.tumblr.com/post/17214194022/this-reuters-graphic-shows-there-have-been-6-519">reuters</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>This Reuters graphic shows there have been 6,519 men, 190 women and 465 children killed in violence in Syria as of Feb. 5, 2012. </strong>The most fatalities in a single day since April of last year happened on Feb. 4, 2012 with 400 deaths reported.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/world">The latest on Syria</a> | <a href="http://tumblr.com/follow/reuters">Follow Reuters on Tumblr</a></strong></p> <p>[Graphic: REUTERS | Sources: UNITAR-UNOSAT, Syria Violence Document Center, syrianshuhada.com, syriamap.wordpress.com, news reports]</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/17309266830http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/17309266830Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:23:44 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwnlje7Lac1qb155to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://pafurada.tumblr.com/post/15463581562/the-toy-atlas-rainbow-an-installation-of-2-500">pafurada</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“The Toy Atlas Rainbow” - An installation of 2,500 old toys cars by the UK artist <strong><a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/rainbow-toy-car-installation-made-from-2500-cars/">David T.Waller</a></strong>.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://julienfoulatier.tumblr.com/post/14665594452/the-toy-atlas-rainbow-an-installation-of-2-500">julienfoulatier</a></p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/15641949859http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/15641949859Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:58:47 -0500xl<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx2qfvxlBB1qe0r71o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://apoetreflects.tumblr.com/post/15083244725/for-last-years-words-belong-to-last-years">apoetreflects</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>For last year’s words belong to last year’s language<br/> And next year’s words await another voice,</p> <p><strong>—T. S. Eliot, </strong>Section II of Quartet no. 4 “Little Gidding,” lines 118-119, from <em>Four Quartets </em>(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1943)</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/15246621736http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/15246621736Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:50:00 -0500xs<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwse1kPsQt1qbejcco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My stylish poet friend, Shayne Avec I Grec.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://shaynanigans.tumblr.com/post/14787700835/a-very-earth-tone-christmas">shaynanigans</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>a very earth tone christmas…</p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14798003410http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14798003410Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:11:49 -0500““CHRISTMAS: Celebrating an unmarried teenage mom giving birth in a stable, to a baby...http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14783856697http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14783856697Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:37:00 -0500xs<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwjgptAA4M1qafu4to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://banksystreetart.tumblr.com/post/14550704357/no-stopping">banksystreetart</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/nostopping2.html">No stopping</a></p> </blockquote>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14554426644http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14554426644Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:25:35 -0500Chemical names, bird names, names of fireand flight and snow, baby names, paint names,delicate names...http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14434162915http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14434162915Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:00:00 -0500PoemsILikepoetry““Mark Twain tried to swallow an entire planet’s imperialistic, selfish greed,...http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14277840413http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/14277840413Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:09:00 -0500xs<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30617037" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Beautiful video shot on old school video with one of the best bass lines ever.</p>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13914456593http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13914456593Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:06:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt1d1dAmi41qbycdbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13700849256http://www.chrisgilpin.com/post/13700849256Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:46:34 -0500