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Karawane: Or, the Temporary Death of the Bruitist is a journal of experimental performance texts featuring poetry, plays, manifestos, etc. Karawane, like many little magazines, is a labor of love on the part of its editor, with occasional help from those I browbeat into it. Thus, it is published erratically, but with passion. The next issue will hopefully be out by April or May, 2008. We strive for one issue each calendar year, as time and life permits. (Not to be confused with Time/Life, who has many more resources and publishes much more consistently than Karawane.)
Karawane is named after a sound poem by Dada poet Hugo Ball, which we now have playing on our MySpace. The name was chosen to signal to people that we were spoken word more like Cabaret Voltaire than a poetry slam. We grew out of an experimental, interactive, community-spirited open mic in the Minneapolis area in the late 1990s.
Our Blog is a featured writers’ showcase including pieces from past and current issues. This will also be the place where we will do our calls for manuscripts and announce events and shows. So be sure to add us to your friends list and subscribe to the blog.
Be sure to check the Karawane website for guidelines on how to submit work, what type of work we look for, etc. All submissions will be considered for the website, the print journal, and the MySpace Featured Artists Blog.
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Playwrights, performance artists, spoken word performers, performance poets, orators, dadaists, surrealists, situationists, conceptualists, dancers, musicians, visual artists, manifesto writers, theatre types, and anyone with a jones for experimental performance and writing.

My Blog

We're back

Karawane is back online after a hiatus.  The website has been updated, including a link to Marie Osmond doing Hugo Ball's poem Karawane, and a link to issue #10 in PDF.  Check it out:  Karawane M...
Posted by on Thu, 27 May 2010 22:43:00 GMT

Myspace.com Blogs - manifesto of surrealsim - andre MySpace Blog

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog....
Posted by on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:46:00 GMT

Coming Soon and Overdue: An excerpt from issue 10

Yes, we said issue 10 would be out by now.  But you know how we are.  And you love us anyway.  Like the drunken boy/girlfriend that you fear you are enabling, who is so erratic, so unre...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:04:00 GMT

Were Number TWO! Were Number TWO!

So, Karawane has had a pretty good week on the web. I went out and checked our website stats and found that we’ve been getting consistently a lot of hits, which inspired me to update the site ju...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:36:00 GMT

What is a Performance Text -- More Responses

Here are some more responses from my brilliant Dramatic Lit students on what is a performance text. I suppose I should frame this a little more than the last post.  The question posed to them was...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:01:00 GMT

Marjorie Perloff on Avant Garde Poetry

Those who denigrate Language poetry and related avant-garde practices invariably claim that these are aberrations from the true lyric impulse as it has come down from the Romantics to such figures as ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:48:00 GMT

What is a performance text? Some responses

As part of the Dramatic Literature course I TA'ed last fall at the University of Minnesota, I asked students to (re)think the idea of a performance text (particularly as juxtaposed against the te...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:26:00 GMT

Danielle Billington - excerpt from upcoming issue

     Jackson Pollock is my hero even though he was a drunk and incapable of even halfway human relationships. Pollock was innately talented, intuitively marked, intuitively genius....
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:10:00 GMT

Karawane Manuscript Reading Period

Karawane: Or, the Temporary Death of the Bruitist will be accepting manuscripts between now and July 1st for possible publication in the fall of 2007, issue 10. Karawane is a journal of experimental p...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:42:00 GMT

Excerpt from Peculiar, Issue 9

 PECULIAR  welcome  (Spoken by a video-mediated Jason direct to an audience of 40)  There is some allure in gathering groups of people, assembling them in some dark, intimate space, al...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:26:00 GMT