Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

eMediaLoft.org Creative Projects Residency Grant, Summer, 2014

Barbara Rosenthal: Technical DirectorX A N A D U P R E S S

New York City

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Swing your partner Round and round

Go down swinging

Write your own ticket

Imagine civic engagementas a party

Now dive into now

Action figure

RAZOR TONGUE(Sucking wind)

I dreamed my mottowas Perseverance, Loyalty, Gratitude

Let’s meet at the party meetingAll going forward, securein our collective notionof a “happy revolution”Marching aheadGratification dependenton social interchange /exchange / change

PARTY EVERYWHERE

Meet you at Rodeo BarTrail boss of kisses

What rhymes with lime ricky?Kon Tiki

I changed my motto:Patience, Love and Grace

Meet you at the pawnshopDashing through the snow jobs

Meet us at the Tin PalaceTell us a bedtime story(Janine Pomy VegaReading from Bard Owlin 1976)

Meet me at The LibraryManhattan Ace of ClubsWe are the last of usMy kingdom for a huss

Over-reverberate ActivateInvolve other playersfrom ancillary associations…

involve the policeand local elected officialsstate senators and assemblymen,in the play you are playing inhead over heels

Merry WidowVelvet Hammer

Belt as a verbHere’s to your bad ass

Here’s to the fork in your roadBoxcar Commodore

“Urgency is not not relative,”urged the sophist, urgently “

“Urgenthy is agenthy,” slippedthe lisping solipsist, ie:All for one (another)

So the party never endsIt’s a never-ending seriesof infinitetemporary works Tom and JerryMake mine a Drunken MonkeyMing Tran

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Let’s meet at KGBsSwap some tongue

It’s raining keysGleaning meaning from connections madeWild acts of kindness filling every page

Flirting with wolvesThinking of you in blueLapis lazuli

Let’s meet at KGBsSwap some tongue

It’s raining keysGleaning meaning from connections madeWild acts of kindness filling every page

Flirting with wolvesThinking of you in blueLapis lazuli

Meet us at the garden partyWatering daffodils is a party

Work hard and play fairParty in your underwearWork hard and play fairParty in your underwear

Carrying a hero inside like a dummy That’s a party

Talk to me, dummy, say,“Drumroll please”

Live and die inside the die Let fly Shake, stir, roll and spin it

Swing your partnerRound and roundGo down swinging

Write your own “ticket”

Sing Here

eMediaLoft.orgCreative Projects Residency Grant

Summer, 2014X A N A D U P R E S S

New York CityISBN 0-9760793-9-9ISBN13 978-0-9760793-9-2

$ 25. USD

“This poem is a manifesto for the nascient ‘eventworks’ movement

that stresses collaboration, community and cause-based art.

Welcome to the new world ardor.”—Michael Andre