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. September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... John Cage For the character of John Cage from the TV show Ally McBeal see: John Cage (Character) John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer, writer and visual artist. ... Earle Brown (December 26, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American composer. ... Christian Wolff is the name of at least two notable individuals: an eighteenth-century philosopher and mathematician - see Christian Wolff (philosopher) a twentieth_century composer _ see Christian Wolff (composer) a German actor This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same...

Mac Low won the 1999 Wallace Stevens award. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. ...

He received his associate's degree from the University of Chicago in 1943 and his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College in 1953. An associates degree is a degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges and some bachelors degree-granting colleges and universities in Canada and the United States upon completion of a course of study equivalent to the first two years in a four-year college or university. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...

Mac Low played composer Pauline Oliveros, as part of her Theater of Substitution series (1975-?), at the New York Philharmonic's "A Celebration of Women composers" concert on November 10, 1975 and Oliveros has played MacLow (see Jackson's "being Pauline narrative of a substitution", Big Deal, Fall 1976). (Von Gunden, p.141) Pauline Oliveros (born 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. ...

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Selected Works

• 22 Light Poems (Black Sparrow, 1968)
• Stanzas for Iris Lezak (Something Else Press, 1971)
• The Pronouns (Station Hill Press, 1979)
• Pieces O' Six: Thirty-Three Poems in Prose (Sun and Moon Classics, 1991)
• Twenties (Segue, January 1992)
• 42 Merzgedichte in memoriam Kurt Schwitters (Station Hill Press, 1994)

Source

• Von Gunden, Heidi (1983). The Music of Pauline Oliveros. ISBN 0810816008.

External links

• Jackson Mac Low website
• Academy of American Poets
• SUNY Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center
• In Remembrance of Jackson Mac Low EOAGH (Issue#2) includes poems and remembrances on-line
• The Register of Jackson Mac Low Papers 1923-1995 @ Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego
• Jackson Mac Low in Virtual Space a remembrance by Barrett Watten, including links to other Mac Low sites