In the time zone began as a container for a variety of my work in progress, moving all forward in time. As someone with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder I have long been driven by the alphabet. I wrote an initial “Abject Alphabet” in the 80s, with many letters of the alphabet published in magazines like Grain and Prairie Fire, but the work didn’t seem to be going anywhere. IN THE TIME ZONE now exists as 10 minute digital media episodes of readings of my poetry animated with graphics.
The first three episodes were posted in 2020. By the time D came up it was 2021 and we had adopted a different approach going strictly to a text and graphic or animated images provided by Murray Toews now g as the co-director. E is now finish that I will post that in a secondFound there still time to make a donation to the E, though the fundraiser for the F will begin shortly. All of Money raised helps us get it done.Money Raised goes to pay artist fees.
Follow the links below to see each episode on YouTube:
LETTER B – Some Assembly Required
LETTER C – Clothes Get On My Nerves
LETTER E – Preview of Opening Titles
EPISODE CONTAINS SELECTIONS FROM THIS LIST OF WORK IN PROGRESS
- THE ABJECT ALPHABET introduces each episode,
- Pieces of my mind/my body in parts for this series….will become a memoir for publication called My Life in Pieces in 2024.
- Dead Mennonites (title shortened for videocast) a.k.a the Mennonite Book of the Dead Read by Jim Van Duesen
- And He Was (plays off Talking Heads, and injects some levity)read by Jim Van Dusen.
- Dispatches from the Pain Room; vivid testimony of how much it hurts, will morph into an art show called WITNESS in a Winnipeg Gallery rented to open in November 2022.
- Jimmy Bang Blues Project – cover song poems, blues, misplaced lyrics –about drinking depression and suicidal ideation
- Shrapnel(from an unruly mind) Not yet fully developed, but includes scrambled passages from tens of thousands of email