tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69954271354391492712024-03-13T19:21:19.787-04:00The House of Tight“It's Whatever”Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-74570740769451214742009-10-08T00:00:00.001-04:002009-10-08T00:00:01.273-04:00Tight<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMYgqs_RuDK2fs_9pnUivH7pS97g_1jq_AF15_yILfYYsIuKJynndD9S0dvcMyZsQq2DKkMHX8ZsdnFycAAMM5Nj9GQoa35-QY-7wROy8eUgZYo5ZFITLW9TXqnpWuxWBC7lZLLINNlyH/s1600-h/Tight+Cover+Art+%28Black+with+White%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMYgqs_RuDK2fs_9pnUivH7pS97g_1jq_AF15_yILfYYsIuKJynndD9S0dvcMyZsQq2DKkMHX8ZsdnFycAAMM5Nj9GQoa35-QY-7wROy8eUgZYo5ZFITLW9TXqnpWuxWBC7lZLLINNlyH/s400/Tight+Cover+Art+%28Black+with+White%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389178376674339986" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Nora Almeida, Samuel Amadon, Stephanie Anderson, Nathan Austin, Jeffery Beam, Paul Beckman, Aaron Belz, Kim Ben-Porat, David Berman, April Bernard, Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Anne Boyer, Brian Brodeur, Sommer Browning, Denver Butson, Matt Campbell, Michael Carr, Michael Carroll, Michael Centore, Jackie Clark, Tom Clark, Andrea Cohen, John Coletti, Billy Collins, Shanna Compton, Justin Courter, Barbara Cully, Abbot Cutler, Peter Davis, Russell Dillon, Buck Downs, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Theodore Enslin, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Katherine Factor, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Gene Fox, John Gallaher, Amy Gerstler, Jennifer Gervais-White, Elton Glaser, Whit Griffin, Gabriel Gudding, David Harbilas, Matt Hart, Mike Hauser, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Katy Henriksen, Matthew Henriksen, Noah Hoffenberg, Mark Horosky, David Huddle, Andrew Hughes, Susan Ingersoll, Lisa Jarnot, Shannon Jonas, Pierre Joris, Robert Kelly, Evan Kennedy, Jennifer L. Knox, John Koethe, Mark Lamoureux, Katy Lederer, David Levi, Eric Lundwall, Jackson Mac Low, Thomas McCaffrey, Elaine Walters McFerron, Dora Malech, Maurice Manning, Carl Martin, Chris Martin, Joseph Massey, James Meetze, Thomas Meyer, E. Ethelbert Miller, Mary Millsap, Andrew Mister, K. Silem Mohammad, Jean Monahan, Joe Mueller, Paul Muldoon, Ryan Murphy, Jason Myers, Jess Mynes, Daniel Nester, Charles North, James Nyman, Constance Onorato, Cate Peebles, William Pierce, Arlo Quint, Matt Reeck, David Rees, Boyer Rickel, Christopher Rizzo, Judy Rowley, Stephen Sandy, Michael Schiavo, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, John D. Scrimgeour, Ravi Shankar, Prageeta Sharma, Sandra Simonds, Ed Skoog, Lytton Smith, Mark Spitzer, Enzo S. Surin, Matthew Swan, John Taggart, Aaron Tieger, Eric Unger, Paul Violi, Dana Ward, Karen Weiser, Mac Wellman, Edmund White, Jonathan Williams, Dustin Williamson, Terence Winch, Kathleen Winter, Sara Wintz, Ted Wojtasik, Charles Wright, John Yau, Eve Zukor</div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-50962883818554760512009-06-15T00:00:00.001-04:002009-06-19T19:22:59.131-04:00Tight 5<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQl7yL_RYcQ5By1yT0TOuYiUjxk7T07GNeldlDnYQBmk0oQZuR3b34QFI19Ocn5YQ-oFkmudQgt7Mz3VDHvOPYUdxLh5WIP3EEHl9gAFmY5K9zO35S2blkATY1YOfUe8cZCbRdobBH3Pvr/s1600-h/Tight+5+Cover+Only.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQl7yL_RYcQ5By1yT0TOuYiUjxk7T07GNeldlDnYQBmk0oQZuR3b34QFI19Ocn5YQ-oFkmudQgt7Mz3VDHvOPYUdxLh5WIP3EEHl9gAFmY5K9zO35S2blkATY1YOfUe8cZCbRdobBH3Pvr/s400/Tight+5+Cover+Only.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348861007637662722" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.northshire.com/siteinfo/bookinfo/9781605710334/0/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Tight</span> 5 is now available for purchase from the Northshire Bookstore</a><br /><br />Samuel Amadon<br />Stephanie Anderson<br />Nathan Austin<br />Charles Bernstein<br />Anne Boyer<br />John Coletti<br />Justin Courter<br />Barbara Cully<br />Katherine Factor<br />John Gallaher<br />Jennifer Michael Hecht<br />Shannon Jonas<br />Katy Lederer<br />Andrew Lundwall<br />Carl Martin<br />K. Silem Mohammad<br />Charles North<br />Boyer Rickel<br />Christopher Rizzo<br />Ravi Shankar<br />Prageeta Sharma<br />Lytton Smith<br />Paul Violi<br />Dana Ward<br />Eve Zukor</div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-83048745031240980222009-04-02T00:00:00.001-04:002009-04-02T00:00:00.575-04:00Submissions Closed<div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks for submitting work for <span style="font-style: italic;">Tight</span> 5. Submissions are now closed. We will be contacting you some time before July 4 with our decision.<br /><br />Andrew Hughes & Michael Schiavo, Editors<br /></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-16321163491962511972009-01-01T12:00:00.004-05:002009-02-05T22:25:28.755-05:00Submission Guidelines For Tight 5<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Tight</span> is accepting submissions from January 1 through April 1, 2008 for Issue 5. Please read our guidelines carefully:<br /><br />• We accept poetry and are open to hybrid forms as well.<br /><br />• Send up to 10 pages of work in a standard font (e.g. Arial, Times New Roman, Garamond) in a single Word document (.DOC) to tightjournal (at) gmail (dot) com.<br /><br />• The subject line of your email as well as your Word document should look like this: Last Name First Name - Tight 5 Submission.<br /><br />• No simultaneous submissions.<br /><br />• We will notify you via email on or before Independence Day of our decision.<br /><br />• We strongly encourage you to purchase a copy of <span style="font-style: italic;">Tight</span> 3 and/or 4 to get a sense of the work we publish and the feel (literal and figurative) of the journal.<br /><br />ANY SUBMISSIONS NOT ADHERING TO THESE GUIDELINES WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT BEING READ AND YOU WILL NOT BE NOTIFIED.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Andrew Hughes & Michael Schiavo, Editors</span><br /></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-21145609683459537122008-12-31T12:59:00.005-05:002009-01-15T16:16:33.028-05:00Tight 4<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6fpD8nIfLWsbt3TD0-_3FPlROnsbRwaKL35CAcrRsxTSvKiMZWaNjRQ-udkdIEATNRpcHyNSBzs6w4jPW4nEe8BKkn0uDn6Dugz4eWtiHT8VMv8LaLnP6dW52-sS5pls6_xMiXnds-dRj/s1600-h/Tight+4+Cover+Only.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6fpD8nIfLWsbt3TD0-_3FPlROnsbRwaKL35CAcrRsxTSvKiMZWaNjRQ-udkdIEATNRpcHyNSBzs6w4jPW4nEe8BKkn0uDn6Dugz4eWtiHT8VMv8LaLnP6dW52-sS5pls6_xMiXnds-dRj/s400/Tight+4+Cover+Only.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285390712270566802" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.northshire.com/siteinfo/bookinfo/9786057102423/0/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Tight</span> 4 is now available for purchase at the Northshire Bookstore.</a><br /><br />Jeffery Beam<br />April Bernard<br />Edmund Berrigan<br />Jackie Clark<br />Peter Davis<br />Corrine Fitzpatrick<br />Matthew Henriksen<br />Susan Ingersoll<br />Jennifer L. Knox<br />Mark Lamoureux<br />Dora Malech<br />Tom Meyer<br />Mary Millsap<br />Paul Muldoon<br />Constance Onorato<br />Matt Reeck<br />Aaron Tieger<br />Eric Unger<br />Karen Weiser<br />Mac Wellman<br />Dustin Williamson<br />Terence Winch<br />Sara Wintz<br /></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-2886328349267691502008-10-17T22:57:00.000-04:002008-10-17T22:58:12.892-04:00Just Like A Woman<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yQW-Xay5g7k&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yQW-Xay5g7k&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-81791744326092004012008-09-11T12:00:00.001-04:002008-09-12T07:22:39.288-04:00The Mad Song is Here!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PotBGB08_vA/SMg0oXH5fFI/AAAAAAAAALQ/arKIrcrYaFk/s1600-h/mad_song_schiavo_cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PotBGB08_vA/SMg0oXH5fFI/AAAAAAAAALQ/arKIrcrYaFk/s400/mad_song_schiavo_cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244499634079497298" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Greetings Everyone,<br /><br />I’m very excited to announce the publication of my first book of poetry, <i>The Mad Song</i>, a prose meditation, bluesy elegy, sensual lament, comic colloquy, poetic memoir, and cri de cour for liberty that seeks not necessarily to reveal the invisible republic but to remind you that it’s there.<br /><br />Douglas Crase, former MacArthur Fellow, Witter Bynner Prize-winner, and author of <i>The Revisionist</i>, <i>AMERIFIL.TXT</i>, and <i>Both: A Portrait in Two Parts</i>, has written an illuminating foreword to this book-length poem that he says “lope[s] with the erotic generosity that proceeds from all the best unions of high and low culture.”<br /><br /><i>The Mad Song</i> is published on the Espresso Book Machine developed by Jason Epstein by the Shires Press, the imprint of the Northshire Bookstore, a family-owned, independent bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont since 1976. The Espresso Book Machine at the Northshire Bookstore is one of only five in the world, including machines housed at the New Orleans Public Library and the Library at Alexandria.<br /><br /><i>The Mad Song</i> is available exclusively from the Northshire Bookstore. There are a number of ways you can purchase your copy:<br /><br />• Go online to <a href="http://www.northshire.com/">www.northshire.com</a>, search for <i>The Mad Song</i> by Michael Schiavo, and place your order; or you can simply click <a href="http://www.northshire.com/siteinfo/bookinfo/9781605710150/0/">here</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">The Mad Song</span> retails for $13 plus shipping, standard or media mail rate. The latter will take a little longer to get to you but you’ll save a couple of bucks. You can also download a free preview featuring Douglas Crase’s foreword and the first chapter of The Mad Song, originally published by <a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/492/from_the_mad_song_1/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Guernica</span></a> in January 2008.<br /><br />• Call the Northshire Bookstore toll free at 1-800-437-3700 and talk to a helpful and friendly Northshire Bookseller. The Northshire Bookstore has one of the most knowledgeable staffs of any bookstore in the world. It will only take a few minutes to place your order and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Mad Song</span> will ship right away.<br /><br />• Visit the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont. Southern Vermont offers some of the most stunning scenery in the United States, any time of the year. The Northshire Bookstore offers three floors of books and a helpful staff ready to answer your questions and offer suggestions for books to read on any topic under the sun.<br /><br />I hope you enjoy the free preview and that you’ll join me in supporting not only independent artists and bookstores, but the spirit of independence that our country was founded upon.<br /><br />Your servant,<br />Michael Schiavo<br /></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-36895471201836160762008-05-16T17:22:00.003-04:002008-05-16T17:25:13.288-04:00Tight 3<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8b1vXa_yUmIXamITxO9c5H7sLuVZ1HAx6TvDpFR-jrj1EoQ-syAGs3lIczO8YvDH7qPTkpkEVRGaKfnZ2s4B5109BH7S4fKxAxgnThY7hIooYGned6Aphf4AsTTnp5v5JUQUpk8dU4d33/s1600-h/Tight+3+Cover.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201089538339339154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8b1vXa_yUmIXamITxO9c5H7sLuVZ1HAx6TvDpFR-jrj1EoQ-syAGs3lIczO8YvDH7qPTkpkEVRGaKfnZ2s4B5109BH7S4fKxAxgnThY7hIooYGned6Aphf4AsTTnp5v5JUQUpk8dU4d33/s320/Tight+3+Cover.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div align="center"><em>Tight</em> 3 is now available for purchase at the <a href="http://northshire.com/siteinfo/bookinfo/9781605710020/0/">Northshire Bookstore</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><em>Featuring work from</em><br /><br />Nora Almeida<br />Aaron Belz<br />David Berman<br />Sommer Browning<br />Michael Carr<br />Shanna Compton<br />Buck Downs<br />Jill Alexander Essbaum<br />Gabriel Gudding<br />Matt Hart<br />Mike Hauser<br />Katy Henriksen<br />Mark Horosky<br />David Huddle<br />Lisa Jarnot<br />Robert Kelly<br />Evan Kennedy<br />John Koethe<br />Maurice Manning<br />Chris Martin<br />Joseph Massey<br />James Meetze<br />Andrew Mister<br />Ryan Murphy<br />Jess Mynes<br />Daniel Nester<br />Cate Peebles<br />Arlo Quint<br />Morgan Lucas Schuldt<br />Sandra Simonds<br />Ed Skoog<br />Kathleen Winter<br />Charles Wright</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>Get Your Mind Right</strong></div></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-59839464979723754002008-05-10T19:10:00.004-04:002008-05-10T22:28:53.423-04:00Goose! Up! Poetry!<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRfAYpF-Vfpjwm-Wxc_uqqLpisu29nelQdiAfG9NB4Oaabd85lpRdp1qKL2uX9ZJMl7w56KXBMSVyf2b5aZMFtxY3s09ADnQ3qCBUNajIidZ-YMv_BCHxjcmq5-WMeJB5gTfWk_YUb3YDZ/s1600-h/goose+up+flier.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRfAYpF-Vfpjwm-Wxc_uqqLpisu29nelQdiAfG9NB4Oaabd85lpRdp1qKL2uX9ZJMl7w56KXBMSVyf2b5aZMFtxY3s09ADnQ3qCBUNajIidZ-YMv_BCHxjcmq5-WMeJB5gTfWk_YUb3YDZ/s320/goose+up+flier.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198891521029667858" border="0" /></a><a href="http://typomag.com/burningchair">The Burning Chair Readings</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">present<br /><br />Goose Up!<br />Poetry!<br />at <a href="http://www.eastcoastaliens.com/">East Coast Aliens</a><br /><br />Saturday, May 17th, 3-8pm<br />Doors 2:30 pm, $6<br /><br />Ana Božičević<br />John Coletti<br />Kate Greenstreet<br />Sarah Gridley<br />Katy Henriksen<br />Shannon Jonas<br />Jennifer Kronovet<br />Mark Lamoureux<br />Timothy Liu<br />Chris Martin<br />Jess Mynes<br />Cate Peebles<br />Christopher Rizzo<br />Matthew Rohrer<br />Frank Sherlock<br />Joanna Sondheim<br />Shanxing Wang<br />Rebecca Wolff<br /><br />& music from<br />The Hadacol<br /><br />Hosted by <a href="http://flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Cannibal</span></a>, <a href="http://saltgrasscontents.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Saltgrass</span></a>, <a href="http://www.harpandaltar.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Harp & Altar</span></a>, & <a href="http://tightjournal.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Tight</span></a><br />Representing <span style="font-style: italic;">Tight</span> are<br />John Coletti, Katy Henriksen, Chris Martin,<br />Jess Mynes, and Cate Peebles<br /><br /><a href="http://www.eastcoastaliens.com/">East Coast Aliens</a><br />216 Franklin St<br />btwn. Green & Huron<br />Greenpoint, Brooklyn<br />G to Greenpoint Ave (exit at India St)<br />B61/B43/B42<br /></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-23786965713354915272008-03-16T23:47:00.004-04:002008-04-02T14:33:15.925-04:00Jonathan Williams<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcK7TuwACXElA5dALskTnNGW1N9OlRjr4KeYt0ghb3LuXWJNtnaCC5-Ca3fkUKkcz6ObpVDfGAT2yKGrSSZFe1g5rLtchDvV1sOZmpekdd5CHI1JB759qxMhae2jQKhrHEsT3nhHCPHBPw/s1600-h/jonathan+williams.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcK7TuwACXElA5dALskTnNGW1N9OlRjr4KeYt0ghb3LuXWJNtnaCC5-Ca3fkUKkcz6ObpVDfGAT2yKGrSSZFe1g5rLtchDvV1sOZmpekdd5CHI1JB759qxMhae2jQKhrHEsT3nhHCPHBPw/s400/jonathan+williams.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178754087836183874" border="0" /></a><div> </div><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: justify;">Jonathan Williams, the founder of the Jargon Society, the small publishing house in the western mountains of North Carolina that for more than 50 years has introduced the works of unknown, little-known and soon-to-be-better-known writers, photographers and artists, died on March 16 in Highlands, N.C. He was 79 and lived and worked in Scaly Mountain, N.C.<br /><br />The cause was pneumonia, said Thomas Meyer, Mr. Williams’s companion for more than 40 years.<br /><br />Mr. Williams was himself a poet, essayist, photographer and graphic artist — talents he brought to the meticulously refined design of the approximately 100 books of avant-garde poetry and fiction, folk art and photography that Jargon has published since 1952.<br /><br />“The face he presented to the world was of an irascible crank, a loose cannon, a gadfly,” Mr. Meyer said. “But as a publisher he was extraordinarily generous, always looking for the overlooked.”<br /><br />Among the writers whose careers budded or bloomed through Mr. Williams’s attention were James Broughton, Basil Bunting, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Paul Metcalf, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Olson and Louis Zukofsky. A book-length poem about the history of industrialization by the futurist Buckminster Fuller was published by Mr. Williams in 1962.<br /><br />Hugh Kenner, a Canadian literary critic, once called Mr. Williams “the truffle hound of American poetry.”<br /><br />In the early 1950s Mr. Williams turned down Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” which became a Beat Generation classic. He had no regrets. ”If Jargon had published it,” he told The New York Times in 1976, “it would have sold 300 copies.”<br /><br />Artists and photographers whose work has been highlighted in Jargon books include Harry Callahan, R. B. Kitaj, Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Robert Rauschenberg. Mr. Rauschenberg, the acclaimed Pop artist, was barely known in 1952 when he painted swirling arrows to illustrate “The Dancer,” a poem by Joel Oppenheimer, published by Jargon.<br /><br />Mr. Williams was an early champion of outsider art — works by those, mostly self-taught, who are outside the artistic establishment and away from art-world centers and might use materials like corrugated roofing, plywood or rug remnants.<br /><br />“Although he lived in Manhattan and also San Francisco in the mid-50s, he felt there was this whole vibrant culture outside of cities,” Mr. Meyer said. Noted outsider artists shown in Jargon books include Thornton Dial and Howard Finster.<br /><br />In his own writings and photographs, published by other small-press houses and in periodicals, Mr. Williams delved into his diversity of passions: long-distance hiking, Appalachian plant life, civil rights, vernacular variations, English parish churches, graveyards, Chinese porcelains, Japanese poetry, French haute cuisine, corn bread and barbecue.<br /><br />His curmudgeonly affinity for the low-brow led, in 1986, to the publication by Jargon of Ernest Mickler’s “White Trash Cooking,” with recipes for delicacies like cooter pie, okra omelets and potato-chip sandwiches. New York publishers initially declined to buy the manuscript unless the author changed the title to something like “Poor Southern Cooking.” When Mr. Mickler refused, Mr. Williams gave him a $1,000 advance and ordered a modest 5,000-copy first printing. It was a best seller and was the only seriously profitable Jargon publication.<br /><br />Jonathan Chamberlain Williams was born in Asheville, N.C., on March 8, 1929, the only child of Thomas and Georgette Chamberlain Williams. When he was a child, the family moved to Washington.<br /><br />Mr. Williams dropped out of Princeton after his freshman year and began independently studying painting, etching, photography and book design. In 1951 he went to Black Mountain College, a hive of creativity outside Asheville, and came under the tutelage of the poet Charles Olson.<br /><br />Mr. Olson urged students in his poetry class to go beyond the writing on the page. Mr. Williams took him at his word. He started what became Jargon on campus. In 1968, with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, it became a nonprofit corporation.<br /><br />At different times Mr. Williams offered different mottos for Jargon. In 1956 he told The Times it was, “Wanted, 500 readers.” Two decades later he said it was, “One poet’s way of doing something for other poets.”<span></span><br /></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-35865784564661064922008-03-07T11:46:00.001-05:002008-03-07T11:46:25.472-05:00Sensual Seduction<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qSS_DY_z-Dc"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qSS_DY_z-Dc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-45275424592452635992008-02-28T19:11:00.007-05:002008-02-28T20:57:46.950-05:00In April<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGODhmGj9JmrQrsD7X5x9at9pQXszw7xEv4_h0qUQjf5EolGaJPB2b_GftwRcchJhRlJlY7iCU7dSZp-mkOqK0AkqsQ-L19sDopPmyenUoJXJ6IH5AhdEvlnvSzqRO-wUyJnb2F_axwdWx/s1600-h/Chimera+Cropped.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGODhmGj9JmrQrsD7X5x9at9pQXszw7xEv4_h0qUQjf5EolGaJPB2b_GftwRcchJhRlJlY7iCU7dSZp-mkOqK0AkqsQ-L19sDopPmyenUoJXJ6IH5AhdEvlnvSzqRO-wUyJnb2F_axwdWx/s400/Chimera+Cropped.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172215194991016658" border="0" /></a>combination of the hot tear | A noise beneath the noise | Together we unspool | curve of youth | October’s endless ribbon in a maiden’s hair I unravel | its noiselet | not your garden variety Platonic— | Then she is housed. | into a suit of worry, birdsong recircuited. | left in the lyric dust late in the night | WOW! This is new, surprising, strange, out-of-nowhere, and oddly sensual. | That’s what they call a nation. | as chief social pleasure | Brought me nearer to the tomb. | I can show myself to bed and make nice | this prick pushing a stroller | helen keller corduroy | So this—this is Pontiac LeMans | you will have a sponge lizard in your stomach | into the distant colonies | Like the radio dark. | ask to coronation par none | Pretty nice, but that was then, | I just put my name up on the board. | a punctuation to harbor time | one-eyed monster flame-ups | Her phlox already rotted. | o you are my cabana privily | millennial persuasion | may I sing it? | These moods came on in the early fall, | Dust rides in with rainy explanations. | in the sweep</div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-90006910455555578592008-02-20T19:31:00.001-05:002008-02-20T19:31:58.148-05:00Light My Fire<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C45mye89Kgs&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C45mye89Kgs&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-20812575859776170302008-02-12T22:46:00.002-05:002008-02-12T22:49:09.216-05:00A Little Something for the Mayor<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4QPN0dbTDAg&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4QPN0dbTDAg&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-73144048473829778282008-02-05T23:43:00.000-05:002008-02-04T22:49:20.629-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbz3SBJsGVbEVsuKo1-9FWyZRb2Y9-QBUi42PJ98DvKxytCiUlGllPUWZJoSGatDtp8BnjOn_hF-d7jeC-OouG4I79qBG4eOSzngZX4F-rnUc7CqzojKHlroThhKcZiVhNHlbrCFcdofCi/s1600-h/g070_guston_zone.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbz3SBJsGVbEVsuKo1-9FWyZRb2Y9-QBUi42PJ98DvKxytCiUlGllPUWZJoSGatDtp8BnjOn_hF-d7jeC-OouG4I79qBG4eOSzngZX4F-rnUc7CqzojKHlroThhKcZiVhNHlbrCFcdofCi/s400/g070_guston_zone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163338155338413042" border="0" /></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span>See, I do change it. But I can’t help it. It’s not that I’m a “genius”—but it’s just that I can’t help it. I play it one way so long, I just have to <span style="font-style: italic;">change</span> my way. In order to give it to <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span>. So you’ll like it.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Miles Davis</span><br /></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-64416171936519424022008-01-23T12:12:00.000-05:002008-01-22T12:12:49.478-05:00Chocolate Rain<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EwTZ2xpQwpA&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EwTZ2xpQwpA&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-16720378856682077022008-01-16T23:27:00.000-05:002008-01-17T12:28:28.884-05:00Hot Child In the City<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/El6iQ2_dvlc&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/El6iQ2_dvlc&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-69764988921631491422008-01-09T15:50:00.001-05:002008-02-04T22:45:11.148-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-90nX0XCCEJXVX27C6VhR0-yBzE-kte1fCfg6Xbt-qrJb8GYtjnHbD2udgjcmYnITflOe_7TZsS2w_MQWQvH64Y2GBKbpqrQ1iWsZxQ1kgKj8ts9o9GtujEYxZeQi3-RwIxQ2NPOZAUCL/s1600-h/cornell.habitat-group.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-90nX0XCCEJXVX27C6VhR0-yBzE-kte1fCfg6Xbt-qrJb8GYtjnHbD2udgjcmYnITflOe_7TZsS2w_MQWQvH64Y2GBKbpqrQ1iWsZxQ1kgKj8ts9o9GtujEYxZeQi3-RwIxQ2NPOZAUCL/s400/cornell.habitat-group.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153585013210188322" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">“Gentlemen,” he said, “I don’t need your organization. I’ve shined your shoes; I’ve moved your mountains, and marked your cards. But Eden is burning: either get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.”<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Bob Dylan</span><br /></div></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-75139574657557907782007-12-26T14:02:00.000-05:002008-02-04T22:44:58.045-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXwrAmWVcXrjyS0dTwNGJAFu40AzDA5h4nmd6yMkyneVx68QGkvHxIhcbwbsvmlzz7JPIvhoqAaRjBTKGAPwt5AzwG6MSUm_EvlcF9wigB64Uqf2Vp25edAJLIDQUTMEMksd8JiyYrXsLR/s1600-h/sabers1997a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXwrAmWVcXrjyS0dTwNGJAFu40AzDA5h4nmd6yMkyneVx68QGkvHxIhcbwbsvmlzz7JPIvhoqAaRjBTKGAPwt5AzwG6MSUm_EvlcF9wigB64Uqf2Vp25edAJLIDQUTMEMksd8JiyYrXsLR/s320/sabers1997a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148364471869263074" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br /></div></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995427135439149271.post-86268253458585345102007-12-16T13:40:00.000-05:002007-12-16T15:17:46.389-05:00The Return<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span>Of <span style="font-style: italic;">Tight</span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span>Get your mind right in 2008.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span>Watch this space for weekly updates.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span>tightjournal (at) gmail (dot) com</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGGKNoFly9nERjdXCjy8vZCIU9OwLs9bGBT99qd2e1IdPU166ZVyGRhT1azNWyALWNHlDhCd8iuXo0hUT4AkvdT81r2DOoxpXtCXJvjd9jOE7lPVC_aifzWMduGoOyZJWSSYRbFmxNa0s/s1600-h/Gettysburg+POW.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGGKNoFly9nERjdXCjy8vZCIU9OwLs9bGBT99qd2e1IdPU166ZVyGRhT1azNWyALWNHlDhCd8iuXo0hUT4AkvdT81r2DOoxpXtCXJvjd9jOE7lPVC_aifzWMduGoOyZJWSSYRbFmxNa0s/s320/Gettysburg+POW.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144666483552570578" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span>“Pliny described them as the strangest religious body in the world.”</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div>Tighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704905343321065604noreply@blogger.com