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Epic Poem Included in Elaine Bradford’s Exhibition at Bill’s Junk in Houston

Houston-based artist Elaine Bradford asked me to write a poem to be included with her exhibition at Bill’s Junk. Glass Tire features a write up on the show.

Using images of masks Elaine sent me, I wrote a poem I consider to be an epic fragment on the order of Coleridge’s “Kubla Kahn.”

Here I present to you “Future Myths of Wonder,” the poem formatted for smartphones. This image and QR code links to a specially formatted PDF designed to read on small screens.

Organic Poems Typed by Banana at First Night Raleigh

First Night Raleigh 2018

Dan Boehl is typing poems on demand at First Night Raleigh 2018 and the DIY Festival.

Dear Readers,

I’ll be typing poems on demand at the DIY Festival during First Night Raleigh. Come to down to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and get your very own personal poem typed up by a man in a banana costume!

Dan Boehl Poetry on Demand in a Banana Suit for First Night Raleigh 2018 and DIY FestivalFirst Night Raleigh
December 31, 2017
2 pm to 6pm
NC Museum of Natural Sciences

These poems will not go bad!

Love,

d

emoemoji : woods reviewed in Publishers Weekly

Check out the Publishers Weekly review of my new book, emoemoji : woods.

“blends whimsy and minimalism in his second full-length collection, an insouciant take on nature writing in the era of Twitter. Written during a residency in Germany, the book records impressions of people, places, and things in highly constrained lyrics. Each of the collection’s fragmented, yet flowing, poems contains just one word per line. Some poems offer irreverent musings on tradition (“henry/ david/ therouxs/ a/ grumpy/ know/ it/ all”), while others merge the digital and the pastoral (“touch/ screen/ tech/ of/ email/ vs/ first/ thing/ I/ do/ in/ the/ morning/ is/ check/ the/ field/ for/ fox”).”

Click here for the full review.

Dan Boehl emoemoji : woods reviewed in Publishers Weekly

Zagreb Diaries Video Poetry on Schloss Post

Zagreb Diaries Dan Boehl from Pogon

During my 2015 residency at POGON in Zagreb, Croatia I had the opportunity to film some street videos and lay some real nice audio tracks over them to create these poetry videos. Maja Markovic made the animation and Boris Fisher recorded the audio. You can see all the videos grouped together up at Schloss-Post.

Click this link to watch the videos on a YouTube playlist.

POGON Artist Residency

POGON Residency Dan BoehlFrom January to March 2015, POGON – the Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth – awarded me a residency to live and work in Zagreb.

Besides putting together a series of video works and an animation with artists Maja Markovic and Boris Fisher, POGON sponsored two big billboards of my poetry. The Croatian language poetry billboards appeared under a tram bridge in the area around Zagreb University.

Dan Boehl Pogon Billboard

Dan Boehl Pogon Billboard

The first billboard reads:

drive
jaguar
to
popular
mall

how
hard
we
going
to
dance
tonight

all
the
way
hard

!!!

 

The second poem:

nothing
happens
these
days

everyones
home

no
chance
for
change
until
morning

i
dream
of
a
better
life
but
tomorrow
is
just
monday

but
i
was
on
gajeva
ulica
when
the
heart
lights
came
on
and
a
woman
eating
salad
stuck
out
her
tongue

art
is
always
escaping
always
somewhere
else

candle
in
the
light
the
horror
speaks
through
the
work

its
amazing
to
come
to
a
new
place
and
what
you
are
seeing
collides
with
your
idea

you
were
made
for
me
by
the
stars
above

it
pays
to
explore
the
universe

 

 

Island Life Residency Report from Fishers Island

Dan Boehl Fishers Island Fellowship Lighthouse Works

I wrote up a little report on my time living on Fishers Island for the Lighthouse Works Residency for six weeks. The island is only accessible by ferry. I stayed on the island 36 consecutive days as the population dwindled to off-season levels. Check out the full report over at Schloss-Post.

Quoted in the New York Times

Check out this article in the New York Times about my residency on Fishers Island, New York at the Lighthouse Works. The residency brings artists to an ultra-exclusive island in Long Island Sound where the population swells from 5,000 over the summer down to just 200 residents in the off-season. No hotels, one restaurant, and a $50 bike tax to take a non-resident bike on the ferry from New London, CT to Fishers Island.

emoemoji : woods

emoemoji woods

$15.00 Click the link to order a paperback copy of emoemoji : woods.

Poetry paperback/digital edition, 188 pages, published by Edition Solitude, 2016. ISBN: 978-3-937158-92-1.

Click the link to download a free PDF copy of emoemoji : woods.

About emoemoji : woods

Much like it’s predecessor, Kings of the F**king Sea, Dan Boehl’s second collection, emoemoji : woods, feels both ancient and contemporary, mythic and ephemeral.

Documenting his time at Schloss Solitude, these terse poems—every line, just one word—unravel the anxiety and disorientation of living in an unfamiliar place and the comfort and freedom of living in that place among artists:

schulbus
waiting
on
schloss
tots

one
clear
view
from
the
government
castle
to
the
summer
one

we
live
here
now
but
where
do
flamingos
go
in
the
winter

By disturbing the nature-centered minimalism of Basho or Moritake with the contemporary urban conversationalism of O’Hara or Creeley, Boehl depicts how the present disturbs the past, how an American disturbs other cultures, and how an artist disturbs the world:

becks
bottle

deer
scat

patch
of
untouched
snow

some
impossible
stone
cross
nestled
below
the
road’s
muddy
slope

But instead of the path of least resistance-judgement-Boehl treats this with joyful inclusion:

bird
songs
and
yells
of
scooter
teens
just
going
bonkers

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