Jackson Mac Low

Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 – December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. He was married to the artist Iris Lezak from 1962 to 1978, and to the poet Anne Tardos from 1990 until his death. He wrote 31 books. His work has been published in more than 90 anthologies and periodicals and read publicly, exhibited, performed, and broadcast in North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He read, performed, and lectured in New York and throughout North America, Europe, and New Zealand, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Asnières, Paris, Bouliac (near Bordeaux), Marseilles, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and New York.

Mac Low received his associate's degree from the University of Chicago in 1943, where he continued study in philosophy and literature into 1945, and his bachelor's degree in Ancient Greek from Brooklyn College in 1953. From 1957 onward, Mac Low worked as an etymologist, writer of reference-book articles, copy editor, indexer, proofreader, and fact checker for many publishers, including Knopf, Funk & Wagnalls, Pantheon, Bantam, and Macmillan. Beginning in 1981, Mac Low and Anne Tardos wrote, directed, and performed in seven radioworks.

New Study Suggests Bible Could Have Been Written Earlier Than Previously Thought

Edit WorldNews.com 12 Apr 2016

“To Eliashib, and now. Issue from the wine 3 baths ... The Pentateuch—which comprises Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy—was thought by some not to have been written down in a version approaching its present form until after 586 BCE ... “There is no such thing as consensus in biblical studies these days,” one professor from Bar-Ilan University told the Times ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....

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File - The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the center of the galaxy.

NASA Scientists Regain Control Of Kepler, Trying To Figure Out Outage Cause

Edit WorldNews.com 11 Apr 2016

Just hours after NASA expressed concern about the Kepler space telescope and declared a spacecraft emergency, NASA engineers say the craft has now recovered and they’re working to figure out what happened, NPR reports. Soaring through space nearly 75 million miles away from Earth, the spacecraft placed itself in Emergency Mode sometime in the middle of last week....

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at JetSmart Aviation Services on Sunday, April 10, 2016, in Rochester, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

CBS’ ‘60 Minutes’ Vindicates Trump But Republican Purge Continues

Edit WorldNews.com 11 Apr 2016

Article by WNews.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingIt was during one of the debates that you could practically hear a pin drop, that is, when Republican candidate Donald Trump asserted a former Republican president failed to keep Americans safe on Sept. 11, 2001, and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, despite a Saudi Arabia connection to 9/11, was an enormous mistake facilitated by former President George W ... Senator Rand Paul....

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In this picture taken Saturday, April 9, 2016, provided by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, second left, witness the signing of agreements and memorandums of understanding, in Cairo, Egypt.

Egypt gives Saudi Arabia 2 islands in a show of gratitude

Edit The Times of India 11 Apr 2016

DECLAN WALSH. CAIRO. Since King Salman of Saudi Arabia arrived in Cairo on Thursday for a five-day visit, the leader of the oil-rich kingdom has lavished his Egyptian allies with promises of aid and investment. But this time, instead of writing a blank check with little more than a polite "thank you" to show for it, King Salman will return home Monday with something more substantial in return ... Mr ... After Mr ... For Mr ... ....

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Brazilian House Committee Votes To Recommend Rousseff's Impeachment

Edit WorldNews.com 12 Apr 2016

Brazilian lawmakers pushed President Dilma Rousseff a step closer to impeachment after a committee voted for her ouster in the first formal test of sentiment in the country’s lower house, Bloomberg News reported.With a tally of 38 in favor and 27 against, a special lower house committee recommended impeachment proceed on allegations that Rousseff bypassed Congress to illegally finance a budget deficit ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....

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Small press book distributor recommends several Chax Press books (University of Houston - Victoria)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Mar 2016

(Source. University of Houston - Victoria) ... 'Andalusia,' 'The Complete Light Poems of Jackson Mac Low' and 'Life-list' have appeared on the Small Press Distribution list of recommended books ... Charles Alexander ... 'The Complete Light Poems of Jackson Mac Low' is a collection of 60 poems written during an extended stretch of the poet's life from 1962 to 1988. For his 'Light Poems,' Mac Low created a chart of kinds of light ... Main St ... (noodl....

Visual Arts at Northwestern in February and More (Northwestern University)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Feb 2016

(Source. Northwestern University). EVANSTON, Ill ... The Block Museum's Main Gallery show, 'A Feast of Astonishments ... The Block also is hosting 'Don't Throw Anything Out ... Archives of the Avant Garde at Northwestern Libraries,' through July 17, 2016 ... 10 ... Originating Fluxus artists such as Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins and Jackson Mac Low were regular participants; Yoko Ono, Emmett Williams and George Brecht were represented in performance....

Visual Arts at Northwestern in January and More (Northwestern University)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Dec 2015

(Source. Northwestern University). EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University's Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art will re-open Jan ... The Block Museum's Main Gallery show, 'A Feast of Astonishments. Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s-1980s,'Jan ... Originating Fluxus artists such as Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins and Jackson Mac Low were regular participants; Yoko Ono, Emmett Williams and George Brecht were represented in performance....

Charlotte Moorman Exhibit to Open at Northwestern in January (Northwestern University)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Nov 2015

(Source. Northwestern University). Charlotte Moorman performs Nam June Paik's 'One for Violin Solo,' DIAS-USA-Preview, New York City, March 22, 1968. © Julie Abeles ... EVANSTON, Ill ... Lisa G ... Inside the Exhibition ... It documents Moorman's collaboration with and sponsorship of diverse composers, artists and writers, including Nam June Paik, John Cage, Earle Brown, Dick Higgins, Jackson Mac Low, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Jim McWilliams....

The Arditti Quartet celebrates its 40th anniversary with Brian Ferneyhough

Edit The Examiner 24 Apr 2014

This coming Tuesday the æon label will release a three-CD set (currently available for pre-order from Amazon.com) of the string chamber music of Brian Ferneyhough ... The one instance of text in this album comes in that fourth string quartet, where the soprano is required to sing a syllabic deconstruction of the Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound synthesized (“written” seems like too inadequate a verb) by the American poet Jackson Mac Low ... ....

Mac Low, Jackson Filmography

Jackson Mac Low

ALBUMS

Stories: Berio and Friends

A Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute

Totally Corrupt (The Dial-A-Poem Poets)

Born: 1922-09-12

Died: 2004-12-08