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~~~KETAN BEN CAESAR~~~

_Ultra Performance Artist_
_________Poet_________
_Mega Media Celebrationist_

 

Performing for Selective Audience...

Resonating & Reverberating segment from
KBC's PPP Extravaganza To Come!!!








photo by WinstonNP

 

UltraPerformanceArtist_Poet_MegaMediaCelebrationist


******************Website established 1999****************

11-13-2009:
KETAN took great pride in g|ving another special presentation by a Poetic Invocation/Incantation at the Wedding Reception of Maryann Elizabeth to his friend Ron P. Swegman (http://www.ronpswegman.com) at Columbia Station Hall in Phoenixville.
Ketan performed three poetic renditions. The bride and groom looked Splendiferous!!!

9-5-2009:
KETAN made a surprise appearance for The Bacchanal Bar Reunion at the Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum, considered a 'Treasure of West Philadelphia', and read three of his poems.
The legendary Bacchanal (1981-1988) was a like-never-before & as-never-after home and performance space for artists, writers, poets, musicians, actors, dancers, etc.-etc., where Ketan performed countless times.
The Tiberino Family's artistry is highly renowned and widely acclaimed, spanning a legacy near five decades and four generations.

A VERY SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT
Ketan Ben Caesar gave a feature presentation titled 'TIME TO REJOICE' at the First Unitarian, 2125 Chestnut St.(Center City Philadelphia).
Segments from
POETESY~PIZAZZY~PANOPLY
were included!
Also on the program was well-known psychic Valerie Morrison(www.valeriemorrison.com).
This extraordinary event was coordinated by the preeminent Ageless Wisdom Aquarian Conference, and Mabel Byers, Director.



The original artist is not only one who imitates nobody, but also one whom nobody can imitate...
KETAN BEN CAESAR is an accomplished phenomenalest artist who has presented, organized, and promoted:
poetrypoetic performancethe spoken wordand multi-media artistic events since the good ol' days
way-back-when
continued further down...


Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!...~upcoming soon~> POETESY~PIZAZZY~PANOPLY...KBC's SPECTACULAR ONE-MAN-MAD-HATTER-RUN-AMOK RIOT= A GALA MASSIVE-MEDIA MAGNUM OPUS EXTRAVAGANZA EXHIBIT-GALORE...Check local Media for Dates and Locations(scroll down for more info)...wowwie!


POETESY~PIZAZZY~PANOPLY
Still at the Vanguard...
KBC's Eclectic Calvacadespree of Poetry-
Spoken Word-
Performance Art-
A Treasure Trove of Genres...
A Cornucopia of Splendiferous Multimedia Innovations...
And Then Some!!!...

...includes the highly anticipated
long awaited & sought after
much-coveted
Revolutionary Photography -
NANYSERE
http://community.webtv.net/kbc123

scroll down for full description of POETESY~PIZAZZY~PANOPLY

BRAGGING RIGHTS CAVEAT...
You are viewing
The #1-Number One Poet Website
albeit self-proclaimed :-)>...

"But don't just take my word for it -
check out others for comparison.
'Tis true, I do not lack for over-confidence, most poets are more modest than me -
and, yes-indeedy, they have much more to be modest about!"
<{;-) -kbc.
"Humility is the worst kind of ego!"
-Lenny Bruce


PSS-S-T: The Latest What's What ---

July, 2009:
SAMMY DAVIS, JR., one of the greatest entertainers ever (great singer, great dancer, great actor, great comedian, great impressionist, great musicologist, great racial-harmony celebrationist, great limitless talent with great poetic artistry, 1925-1990, whose passing was briefly noticed) must be chuckling with amusement from The Hereafter at the endless gobbledygook coverage to pathetic-perverse-pitiful Michael Jackson's death. I saw Sammy perform three times (first, way, way back when: 1960 or 1961 at the Club Harlem - years later, twice at the Latin Casino), and each performance was unforgettable - like it was yesterday - timeless...Sammy Davis, Jr. was maybe the greatest performer that ever lived!!!

I Celebrate ODETTA, who died 12-2-08 at 77---saw her perform at Grendel's Lair on South St., the iconic venue where I later saw the most ribald musical(Let My People Come) ever staged- I'll never forget ODETTA'S remarkable, powerful, transcendent voice.

PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK HUSSAIN OBAMA:
"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may may not get there in one year or even one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you - we as a people will get there. ..."
Poetic excerpt, Historic visionary speech:
November 4th, 2008.
www.recovery.gov

Wonders Never Cease - 'BOMINSPI...Body-Mind-Spirit Dynamics'
- Ketan's 1985 one-of-a-kind mystical book (see more info below) is being negotiated for an updated/revised printing by a major publisher.

Congratulations to French novelist and essayist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio for being awarded the Nobel Prize(worth about $1.43 million). The academy praised him as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization"...wooow!...Am I envious? Of course not, how's that for lying?

KBC's admission-price-wastage must-do rant:
3XShame on JOHN LEGUIZAMO, a once/used-to-be great poetic performance artist ('Mambo Mouth', 'Spic-O-Rama') for reducing himself to producing and starring in 'The Babysitters', a loathsome film of exploitation at the most cynical and crass lowest-ditch!...

...On a brighter note:
3XCongratulations to singer-songwriter PATTI SMITH, Philly-area-bred girl, long considered the poet laureate of punk, who at Rowan University (5-16-08) was honored with an honorary doctorate of letters.

2-14-08: Grandiose Valentine's Day Gift to all poets & the rest of the world, after 50 years -
Allen Ginsberg's first-time reading of his masterpiece 'Howl' discovered!



Swing-a-Ring-DingDingDing<~forthcoming soon~> POETESY~PIZAZZY~PANOPLY...Still at the Vanguard...KBC'S ECLECTIC SPREE OF POETRY-SPOKEN WORD-PERFORMANCE ART-AND THEN SOME...=A PRIME TREASURE TROVE OF GENRES=A CORNUCOPIA OF WAYBEYOND-THE-FRINGE MULTIMEDIA INNOVATIONS...Drop Everything! Peruse Local Media for Times & Venues(scroll down for description) <~forthcoming soon~...




Wait not for an occasion to celebrate
make everyday an occasIon to celebrate
death is certain...life is not!
be, do, personify & exemplify
POETRY~IN~MOTION
"laissez les bons temps rouler": LTGTRoll
:-)->LIve Happily Ever Now - yeeha!<-(-:



Witticism du jour/joke:
"Oh Counselor, I feel unattractive, codependent, lazy, dysfunctional, and mad at myself and the world. What career would suit me best?"
"Be a performance artist"
"What???"
"If you fail at that, try being a poet!"
(phooey-bah! - bad joke, SSINF)



After Silence
That Which Comes Nearest
To Expressing The Inexpressible
Is Poetry...
the exquisite art
of saying something
in a way
that leaves nothing unsaid...
Poetically - One Word
Is Worth A Thousand Pictures...
poetry is the daring endeavor
of improvement upon Silence.
---kbc.


Enormously impactful as they may be, words can only get you so far.
Can one ever truly convey something as spellbinding as sex or quantum physics or childhood or love or loss?
At it's best, language can hint, allude, perhaps suggest them.
But ultimately our most real experiences are our most baffling.
They are inexpressible in the crude meanings of words and language.
What comes closest is Poetry.
Poetry is the supreme art form transcending the medium composing it.
The best poetry offers more than words can tell, and I daresay is really too good for words.
It is understood viscerally, not intellectually, by the heart, not by the head.
---kbc.


"Well done is better than well said."
---Benjamin Franklin




IN POETIC MEMORIUM & TRIBUTE:

Why I Am A Poet

because I don't have the money to become a doctor
the strength to become a minister
the patience to become a psychiatrist
not enough free time to be a wine-o
too crazy to be a revolutionary
not crazy enough to be a prophet

so I write poems that heal the body
as well as the weak-willed mind
stay drunk -on life- while I pen poems
that forgive the sins of our soul
scribble blue prints for transformation
and read them in subways and on
street corners like John the Baptist.

Poem by Jerome Robinson(1952-2003),
a Kindred Spirit to all, all ways, all the way.



KETAN BEN CAESAR
Continued from above- ANSWERS to FAQ:

KBC is really, truly, no kidding, a 'sui generis'
A self-created innovative human theatricon of art without discernable origins...

He is a trailblazer in the flourishing poetry and spoken word movement, having founded the legendary London's Pub 'Writers & Readers Showcase' Poetry Series in Philadelphia. (http://www.phila.gov)
Also, he coordinated the North Star Bar Poetry Series.
And numerous other poetic locations, including the well-known cheap drinks for the downtrotten haunt McGlinchy's Tavern.


Moreover & to boot, he has been the real deal since the 1970's in performing & exemplyfing poetry long before the recent-ever-so-popular 'Def Poetry Jam' (www.defpoetryjam.com) format.


Ketan has given and coordinated readings, presentations, performances, etc., in venues too numerous to tally and it would take another website...but.,,hmmm, well, OK...

Concisely put, they include:
art centers, theaters, universities, schools, bookstores & book fairs, libraries, educational projects, religious institutions, corporations, the WALT WHITMAN Mausoleum...

As if the above isn't outstanding in itself,
the list has just begun:
seminars, workshops, panels, galleries, bars,
nightclubs, cabarets & concerts('groupies' gathered), restaurants, parties(private & public & savory & unsavory), prisons, sanctuaries, private ceremonies, sports events, festivals, the EDGAR ALLEN POE House...

Whew!, that's not all:
firewalks(www.stillpointawareness.com), peace rallies, fundraisers, children's & youth & senior centers, comedy clubs, coffeehouses(original bohemian java joints to conglomerate-owned cafes), the MARIANNE MOORE Room...

Additionately:
studios, parks, banks, hospitals, massage parlors, government programs(mayor's commission on learning-etc.)...

Ay-yi-yi, Furthermore:
symposiums, conventions, weddings, retreats & resorts, rehabilitation facilities, nudist colonies, brothels -er- gentlemen's retreats(pelted with undergarments onstage)...

Including:
cruise liners & trains & airplanes...

Not excluding:
the streets & the alleys & the subways...

Along with:
sign-up readings & open mikes & poetry slams & free-form forums - (ad infinitum to ad nauseating nauseam)...

It -gasp, gasp- doesn't stop there:
radio, television, movies...

Oh, and then there's not the least of which:
the blogosphere & cyberspace...
www.ketanbencaesar.blogspot.com
-one of the first bloggers to see the light and quit blogging...
"the field became overrun with amateurs" (;^]-

Phew-Tralalalalala, plus et al...


'BOMINSPI...Body-Mind-Spirit Dynamics' - a self-published, personally-hand-made, glossy-covered, multi-illustrated, 811 size, spiral-bound, 70-page poetry book was distributed by Ketan in July, 1985.
It contained mostly mystical/spiritual renditions(e.g.: 'The New Age', 'No Effort', 'The Indwelling All', 'Serendipity') with an Introduction by best-selling author Alan Cohen('The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore' and other books).
The 150 copies of BOMINSPI, priced at $15, sold out(author to buyer, usually at readings) within two months and is now a collector's item among KBC readers.

He also has had his poems published in various, diverse, eclectic publications - from national magazines to chapbooks to 'zines.

Ketan was one of the original performers at the world-class Avenue Of The Arts on Broad St., featured three times in the Arts Bank (Broad & South Sts.)


He was awarded the "Performance In An Intimate Space (PIAS)" grant by the Philadelphia Community Education Center.


A distinctive one-man think tank, Ketan casts a wide, varied net in subjects & style covering an alphabet-soup spectrum of breadth & depth from ABC to XYZ in Mind, Body, and Spirit appealing to the ear, gut and heart...

Exceptions are what unfortunately masquerades as 'poetry' these days: fear, victimization, histrionics, whining, rage, blame, scarcity, diary-dribble, memoir-mush, therapeutic venting, sermonizing, expostulation, helplessness/hopelessness, verbiage, gender, race, & class diviseveness.
____________________________________

"In our time we have a historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope."
-Condoleezza Rice
-United States Secretary Of State, 2007

"These days, there's too much pluribus and not enough unum."
-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., 2005
-Famed Historian and Social Critic

"There is no black America, there is no white America, there is no latino America, there is no asian America. There is the United States of America!"
-Barack Obama, Senator(D-IL)
-Dem.Natl.Conv., 2004

"We can all be great because we can all serve."
-Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr.
-Omaha speech 10-22-66

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
-John F. Kennedy, President, USA
-Inauguration speech, Jan., 1961

"One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, President, USA
-Aug. 24, 1957 - In speech regarding Little Rock, Arkansas, desegregation

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect UNION..."
-THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
-Convention, September 17th, 1787 ____________________________________

Referred to as a 'gadfly' 'contrarian', 'parodist', 'spoofer', 'put-on jokester/sage' for his sometime procliviy of declaring two diametrically opposing points of view at the same time(sheesh!), Ketan's poetry has no ax to grind, is unabashedly politically incorrect(PC- the most flagrant oxymoron), belongs to no school, and can't be cubbyholed.

Though many of his poems are in traditional forms and meters, he doesn't fit in with the new formalists.
Though he sometimes reveals discrete
personal details, he's miles away from being a confessional poet.
And though he often experiments, he isn't remotely postmodernist.
Manifestly, he is a singularly daring idiosyncratic, off-kilter, antipodean stylist beyond category...having no peer.

For Ketan, poetry is less a passion or a way of expression than a devotional visceral act, an illustrious representation of enhancing Life - its vibrancy, paradoxical & transitory nature, complex and random essence, and its inevitable blows - by memorializing it in a way that only poetry's calibration of language can. His poetry does not try to change the world, edify a point, or be a means to an end, rather, it is an end in itself.

Innately predisposed to the power of language & linguistics(fluent in Italian), his affinity for the right word is as exuberant as his vivid imaginings are indelible with both insight and inspiration.
His words transmit music, radiate light, beam color, fling shadow, and sway movement among the meanings often shifting quickly with adroit virtuosity and the literal unadulterated flair he has in rendering them.

Defying the commodification of art, not infrequently he is a valiant 'sesquipedalian'(user of big words for special effect) and proud of it.

Notably, Ketan was among the trendsetting poets to market, distribute, and sell professional videos:
"Resonations For The New Millennium" (1996) - shot live, in-performance, with an audience.
"Portrait Of A Poet" (1999) - a visual/verbal documentary, including many featured readings & performances.

And get this: Discovering The Internet -
Invariably the innovator, groundbreaker, and unsurprisingly ahead of the pack, KBC - who else? - established & launched this Web Site in November, 1999, long before the now interminable number of sites (more than 180 million of the things online - Oct., 2008.)
And...Two months prior to the terror of the Y2K Millennium Bug Mania! How quickly we
forget! (www.y2ktimebomb.com)
Creativity with Low-Tech...
Not with a computer, but by means of a 1999 webtv(now called msntv) setup, this Web site was independently self-reliantly styled, and in the same way still maintained by the non-techie-geek artist(KBC) himself - no small feat ;-}



...More Full Disclosure & Open
Transparency:
(love life? you want love life info, huh???)
see BIO on page 2 ===



TO BE ANNOUNCED: TAKE NOTICE TIPOFF! -
UPCOMING SOON:

The very definition in every sense of the most tremendous one-artist multi-dynamo-media event of all time!
Check Your Local News Source -

STRATOSPHERICALY FAR ABOVE & AWAY BEYOND, NOT JUST ANOTHER POETRY (yawn!) READING:

Continually quantum leaps ahead in the avant garde, KBC is currently offering an Ultra-Disciplinary Multi-Media Magnum Opus Exhibit/Presentation-Galore:

" POETESY~PIZAZZY~PANOPLY: Kicking The Great Googamooga's Ass~~~Leaving Destiny For Suckers~~~Living Life As A Celebration~~~and Other Vistas From The Transcendental "

...An original all-encompassing artistic
bonanza/extravaganza/tour de force combining
poetry & performance,
storytelling & music,
installation art & dance,
theatrics & video,
found objects,
sculpture, rare artifacts-memorabilia-incunabula-ephemera,
and an assemblage of miscellany...

Included within is Revolutionary Photography...

NANYSERE
'NakedNymphetsSexualRevolution' -
click:
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Produced by:

TROUBADOUR PRODUCTIONS
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ALTHOUGH NEEDING NO ACCOLADES,
THE WILD-EYED HOSANNAS ARE OUT:

***LA-CREME-DE-LA-CREME***
***WONDROUS***
***ALL-BETS-ON-JACKPOT***
***QUINTESSENTIAL***
***POETICALLY-THE-PARADIGM***
***MAJESTIC-LARGESSE-DU-JOUR***
***CENTRIFUGAL***
***THRILLTHROBBING***
***INIMITABLE***
***EPIC-MILLENNIAL-TRUMPET-BLAST***
***KALEIDOSCOPIC***
***FORMIDABLE-BALLSOUT-WIZARDRY***
***MAESTRO-BRAVISSIMO***
***COMMANDINGLY-BELIEF-ALTERING***
***SIESMICSOULSOARING***
***TORRID***
***HYPERKENETICCHIMERICAL***
***URGENT***
***SMOKIN'-HOT-SLAMDUNK***
***LIGHT-YEARS-AHEAD-COUP***
***NEPLUSULTRA***
***EXCELLENCE-TO-EMINENCE***
***FLABBERGASTING***
***INTREPID***
***ZEUSISSUEDTHUNDERCLAPS***
***ASSWHUPPIN'***
***BONAFIDELIFECHANGING***
***OMNIPOTENT-INVINCIBLE-BENEFICIENT***
***INCANDESCENT-NITTY/GRITTY***
***SYBARITIC***
***SEXY & EROTIC & ABSOFINLUTELY SINFULLY KINKY***
and...
***STENDHAL-SYNDROME-EFFECTING***
***UNDEBATEBLY HOBSON'S CHOICE***

The Stendhal syndrome was named after a French writer who was overwhelmed with feeling at the sight of art during his 1817 trip to Florence. The syndrome is characterized by symptoms like a shift in awareness, palpitations, swooning, ecstacy, and celestial sensations!

Hobson's Choice is a choice without an alternative, the item offered or nothing.


--->The Rumors Are True...
DOBELIEVE THE HYPE!<---

-DECIDEDLY THE LAST WORD-
-IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERESTIMATE-
-DE PROFUNDIS OF NO COMPARISON-

Unexampled & Unsurpassed!
Unprecedented & Unsucceeded!
The Apex & The Apogee!
If anything really & truly deserves the outandish fanfare & hysteria --- this is it!


NOT TO BE MISSED -
NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE OR WHAT YOU DO:
BE THERE TO EXUBERATE IN THE INCOMPARABLE EXHILERATION!


"The Performance Poet
Transforms the Page to the Stage,
Sways the Script,
and Makes the Word Come Alive
( Poetry-In-Motion & Page-Made-Flesh...
Where & When Every Word Is A Thunderbolt! )."
-kbc.


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Any & All enquiries...e-mail address:

ketanbencaesar@yahoo.com

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Just as an F.Y.I. - Know What?:
The word "poet" derives from the Greek verb "to make."
Hence my poetic-justice precept: Life can be a Celebration...so let us "make" it that.
We could do worse.

'Poetry searches for radiance,
poetry is the kingly road
that leads us farthest.'
-Clare Cavanagh, Polish poet, 2002

'In poetry, as in prayer, it is better to have heart without words than words without heart.'
-B. Lindsay - variation by kbc.



See the July 27th presentation & look for~~~Tick-Tock-Ahoy! - action pending on the quick & swifty move...POETESY~PIZAZZY~PANOPLY...to the one & only You! - Zippety Do Da On Alert!.......TBA any day now~~~

 

Poetizing At Exclusive Showing...1-05-08



 

as Webster said: "one word leads to another">


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