We take turns you and I and sometimes others,
telling stories that reveal what we think and how we feel.

And when we hear between the lines we discover:
who we are ~ who they think we are ~
who we could become ~ and what we never wish to be.

If we choose our words carefully
we succinctly relay what we want others to know;
~~ we think, we hope.

If we are careless with our speech
~ we are misunderstood
~ we can hurt ~ misrepresent or falsify.

The meaning of words are slanted by perceptions.
Subject to a bias cut on the slant of our judgment,
filtered through the sieve of personal experience.

As he says, “that isn’t what I meant.”
And she replies, “it’s what you said.”

Who defines the meaning of literally speaking?

The orator or the listener?

All Rights Reserved Sudo Nym Copyright January 2008

Here are pictures from my recent debut event at the Seattle Art Museum.  Enjoy!

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Many thanks to the Seattle Art Museum for allowing us to exhibit, to Mimi Allin for putting together this event, to David Kuhns for the invite and to Gene Frogg for the photography!

It was an honor for me to participate.

Sudo Nym/Poet in Motion

Portland, Oregon

I am uber excited, I was invited to participate in this event! My first appearance as my poet self. My nom de plume is Sudo Nym. Which proves to be a rather extraordinary pseudonym as Sudo is my birth name. I am descendant of 13th century, Edo Japan, Samurai.

An Impasse of Poets @ SAM Live installation with 100 poets SAM Downtown | Seattle Art Museum 8-9PM Thursday 11 June 2009

Experience guerilla poetry at The Seattle Art Museum this summer. At 8pm on Thursday June 11, artist and poet A. K. “Mimi” Allin will present her first of three events at SAM Downtown – An Impasse of Poets.

Poets will move through the museum, gather around specific works and drape themselves over The Grand Staircase while reciting poetry from memory and in response to the artwork. The poet will physically and verbally embody SAM’s galleries and artworks. Their voices will come together to form whispering walls—impasses—of poetry here and there.

Come to the SAM on June 11th. Experience “An Impasse” first-hand in the galleries or hang out in the lobby and listen for free. Wireless microphones will broadcast the group’s poetic output, in live time, to the main lobby (Brotman Forum). As you listen, imagine the above mass of poets enveloping your favorite work, zigzagging down the halls and infusing the art you love with their words. An Impasse of Poets will perform 6 times over the course of an hour, creating impasses with their bodies and words on all 4 levels of the SAM.

IMPASSE brings together 100 poets to make one cohesive voice– the voice of the poet. The group will address SAM spaces, exhibits and works of art. The voice of the poet will mingle with the voice of the art and of the museum. We invite you to see and move along with us.