Poetry, The Internet and The Process of Collaboration:
an interview with S.A. Griffin, by Diana Bonebrake

S.A. GRIFFIN. 

I had heard of the Carma Bums, that motley crew of poet performers who ran amok throughout America and the Internet in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I knew about the writings of Scott Wannberg and had spent plenty of quality nightclub time with Doug Knott. But in all my years in Los Angeles I had never crossed paths with S.A. Griffin. Then around 2004 a friend introduced me to S.A. at a coffee shop in Los Feliz.  I asked S.A. to send me some poetry. He sent me his book Unborn Again (2001 Phony Lid Publications). Reading his work sent me into something of a spell-- I sat down at the desktop, pulled up some images I had painted, and began slapping stanzas of his poetry onto the images of my paintings.   I couldn't help myself. I guess I wanted to become part of the words, or make them part of my experience, inhale their power, their musicality; so I read, copied, and pasted until I came up with what
I thought might be an image or two worthy of sharing.


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