31 January 2007

Bedazzled! is always a good time, even if I'm not a good time.

Here's "Out of Sight" by James Brown and The Game People Play.

Man, I love my new Vista peapod unhosable bingbong trousers.

30 January 2007

crets eggs

Crets Crets Crets Mike Hauser Rust Buckle BooksCrets Crets Crets Mike Hauser Rust Buckle BooksCrets Crets Crets Mike Hauser Rust Buckle BooksCrets Crets Crets Mike Hauser Rust Buckle Books

Chris Abani & Peter Orner 02/01 @ The Poetry Center

The Poetry Center Chris Abani and Peter Orner Thursday February 1, 2007 7:00 pm

29 January 2007

Death March Begins

Against the Day Thomas Pynchon Death MarchThe Against the Day Deathmarch begins tomorrow, sponsored by Cecil Vortex. Beginning Tuesday, January 30, read 50 pages a day of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and blog about it. Finish it (I'm not sure what year that would be) and you could win marvelous prizes.

Full information here.

Dozens of Pynchonists the world over are already waiting to be your new friend.

CLOSING NIGHT!

small press traffic: POETS THEATER JAMBOREE 2007POETS THEATER JAMBOREE 2007
All seats $10 — no reservations — arrive early



FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2007 at 7:30 P.M.

“Hooligan’s Island,” / Written & Directed by Scott MacLeod

“Self/Cell” / Text by Olivia E. Sears / Images by Aline Mare / Music by Craig Bicknell

“The Deathperts” / Written & Directed by Chana Morgenstern

Selections from “James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet” (1982)
Written by John Cage / Directed by Marie Carbone / With Gillian Conoley, Patricia Dienstfrey, Dale Going, Brenda Hillman, Denise Liddell Lawson, Denise Newman, giovanni singleton and Carol Snow

“The Gunfight” / Written & Directed by Brent Cunningham

"FEED" / Written & directed by Juliana Spahr

"Noggin Flowers" / Written by Lisa Robertson & Jacob Eichert / Directed by Kevin Killian


MAP & DIRECTIONS
MAP & DIRECTIONS




I live in Oakland and am carless if anybody wants to trundle together.


28 January 2007

However I stumbled on this page (keine Ahnung), it made me a little homesick.

In the coming days I will be blogging about other things I miss, and then everything.

The 2008 FENCE Modern Poets Series, for a full-length collection by a poet writing in English at any stage in his or her career
  • Envelope must be postmarked on or between February 1st of 2007 and February 28th of 2007. No Federal Express or UPS
  • guidelines pdf

OBSERVABLE READING Maplewood Missouri February 1, 2007: Ten Jens - Hofer, Bervin, Chapis, Robinson, MacKenzie, Coleman, Woods, Scappettone, Gaby, Lyons, and Mueller<br /> <br />Jen Hofer's recent publications include Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003) and slide rule (subpress, 2002). Her work can be found in recent issues of 1913, Bomb, Bombay Gin and Primary Writing.<br /> <br />Jen Bervin is the author of A Non-Breaking Space (uglyducklingpresse.org), Nets (Ugly Duckling Presse 2004) and Under What Is Not Under (Potes & Poets 2001),. Bervin is an editor of the literary journal, jubilat, and teaches at Pratt Institute and New York University.<br /> <br />Jen Chapis is author of the chapbook The Beekeeper's Departure (Backwards City 2007). Recipient of the Florida Review Editor's Prize and GSU Review Poetry Prize, she has published poems in The Iowa Review, McSweeney's, Quarterly West, Best New Poets, etc. Jen is an Editor with Nightboat Books (nightboat.org).<br /> <br />Jen Coleman is a poet in Brooklyn, NY and co-editor of PomPom magazine (pompompress.com). She's also co-author of the chapbook Communal Bebop Canto with CE Putnam and Allison Cobb.<br /> <br />Jen MacKenzie teaches literature and writing at UM St. Louis. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, among them The Literary Review, Feminist Studies, The Christian Science Monitor, Unitarian-Universalist Poets, and, locally, River Styx, Delmar, and Sou'wester.<br /> <br />Jen Robinson is the author of For Conifer Fanatics (Soft Skull, 1996) and the chapbooks What Solitary Ocean and Late Night Clanging (with artist Elizabeth Zechel). She serves as puzzle editor for Lungfull! magazine and makes her home in Queens, New York.<br /> <br />Jen Woods is a poet and short fiction writer from Louisville, Kentucky. She serves as an editorial and marketing assistant for Sarabande Books, an independent literary press (sarabandebooks.org).<br /> <br />Jen Gaby studied Creative Writing at University of Indiana and is a fierce advocate for the literary arts in St. Louis. During daylight hours, she serves as the public relations manager for the Contemporary Art Museum.<br /> <br />Jen Scappettone's Abluvion Almanac will be out imminently from Outside Voices. Poems, translations from Italian, and prose have appeared lately in Bay Poetics, P-Queue, The Canary, The Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, and other places. She lives in Chicago.<br /> <br />Jen Lyons is from Kansas City and is currently attending the Washington University MFA program; she has had a poem published in Cimarron Review.<br /> <br />Jen Mueller's new collection, Bonneville, comes out this spring from Elixir Books. She teaches poetry and fiction writing at McKendree College.

forthcoming

Innovative Poetry in English 2005/2006 The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Gertrude Stein Awards A continuation of the famed Sun & Moon Press series of selections of poems published in 2004 magazines, this volume expands the popular series to include all English-language poetry. GREEN INTEGER BOOKS 1933382694

27 January 2007

alice blue five ofelia hunt tao lin a d jameson jon swan nadine darling c mcallister williams ellen kennedy hugh behm-steinberg doug nufer elisabeth workman james belflower tim roberts anne heide mark cunningham meagan evans

alice blue five

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Samson W. Gave Me One Star

Yelp Kristin Aardsma | Lindsay Bell | Aaron Belz | Laynie Browne | Michael Burkard | Mairéad Byrne | Tom Carson | Shana Cleveland | John Colasacco | Sean Cole | Ryan Collins | John Steven Cummins | Robert Eisele | d. g. eng | Monica Ferrell | Annie Finch | Lisa Fishman | Richard Foerster | Kate Gale | Lara Glenum | Johannes Gorransson | Chris Green | Arielle Greenberg | Eloise Klein Healy | Jen Hofer | Karen Holden | Anna Maria Hong | Joy Katz | Caroline Knox | Wayne Koestenbaum | Sue Kurek | Patrick Lawler | Lyn Lifshin | Maggie Lopez | Lisa Lubasch | Sarah Manguso | Sabrina Orah Mark | Heather McHugh | Heather Miles | Stephen Miller | Ange Mlinko | Albert Mobilio | Caroline Morrell | Thomas Mowe | Brighde Mullins | Maggie Nelson | Danielle Pafunda | Lisa Pepper | Robert Polito | Kristin Prevallet | Srikanth Reddy | Stephanie Rioux | Matthew Rohrer | James Shea | Martha Silano | Laurel Snyder | Janet Sternburg | Stephanie Strickland | Novica Tadić | Karen Tepfer | Steven Teref | Tom Thompson | Tony Trigilio | David Trinidad | Jean Valentine | Kathrine Varnes | Michael Ventura | Rebecca Wolff | cover art by Miranda LichtensteinSamson W. posted a review of the place where I work on Yelp today and gave it one star.

I'm "the guy."

Because I always say something like, "sorry I can't use any of these today," and I always say the same things to people, and tell the same jokes, by "which suck big time," Samson W. must have meant it sucked that I couldn't buy any.

I feel terrible.

Before I learnt about this and felt terrible (I still feel terrible) I felt great because I was feeling great and fresh copies of Black Clock 6 had just come in.

leajous snet

26 January 2007

sometimes i love the bus

A.M.Abraham Lincoln's Death Scene by Zachary Schomburg
P.M.Threads by Jill Magi

I am labeling all the online journals to read this weekend Hud.

PAUL NEWMAN RACHEL ABRAMOWITZ<br />ANDREA BAKER<br />ERIN M. BERTRAM<br />ZACH BAROCAS<br />DANIEL BORZUTZKY<br />LILY BROWN<br />LAURA CARTER<br />TYLER CARTER<br />JULIA COHEN<br />SIMON DEDEO<br />JIM GOAR<br />DAVID GOLDSTEIN<br />CAROLYN GUINZIO<br />KENNETH E. HARRISON JR.<br />REBECCA LOUDON<br />KEITH NEWTON<br />DANIEL PLATE<br />EMMA RAMEY<br />KATE SCHAPIRA<br />MORGAN LUCAS SCHULDT<br />ABRAHAM SMITH<br />THERESA SOTTO<br />ANN STEPHENSON<br />BRONWEN TATE<br />ALLISON TITUS<br />CHRIS TONELLI<br />JEN TYNES

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25 January 2007

A friend asked me tonight what's up with all the birthdays. Because I don't like to talk about my personal problems, I denied it. What birthdays. I read about birthdays on your blog. I tried really hard to think of something else to talk about. Do you want a stick of gum. I have gum. We chewed gum together awhile. We stood and watched a traffic light turn from green to amber to red and then green again.

We're good friends.

READING TONIGHT!
LINDA RUSSO & SARAH ANNE COX

Almost precisely here: that dread-told EYEBALL HATRED.

Yet white page at this writing: the TYPO 9.

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Aiden Starr with Jon Leon, Laura Solomon, Jenny Boully, Jasper Bernes, Kirsten Kaschock, and Karla Kelsey.

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DUSIE ISSUE 5 dawn pendergast john hyland alan a madison kristin palm cs carrier anne heide andrew demcak carrie hunter adam fieled logan ryan smith bronwen tate bill allegrezza simone muench kerri sonnenberg eileen tabios jared hayes edward smallfield kristy bowen anne boyer raymond farr marcia arrieta elisa gabbert kathleen rooney shanna compton mike hauser rachel abramowitz peter jay shippy jessica bozek john deming kate greenstreet rob mclennan samara bulhassan elise ficarra lance newman anna preston daniel borzutzky cathy eisenhower nicholas manning lonna whiting james grinwis jordan stempleman dan chelotti o hunt joseph cooper melanie hubbard jennifer sarah frota michael farrell barbara maloutas eve rifkah vernon frazer bob maracacci kathryn l pringle duane locke matina stamatakis john bradley brandon shimoda michelle detorie stephen ratcliffe mark cunningham will gallien steve timm johannes göransson lisa janssen jen scappettone



Like a late baby, it's big.

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24 January 2007

It was very nearly Zachary Schomburg Afternoon at the store today. I received copies of Mr. Schomburg's new Horse Less Press chapbook, Abraham Lincoln's Death Scene, and a startling box from Octopus Books (hi, Mathias!). To tell you the truth, I trembled when I opened it. I was frightened. I held my boxcutter and had to rehearse my approach two or three times before first slicing. I think some kind of cgi golden sunburst shot out of the box when its flaps came open. I heard a flourish and a harp and big drums, although there were no trumpet players or harpists or drummers in the store at the time. A man with a harmonica put down the used volume of Thomas Hardy's poems he'd been fingering and stepped to the desk and asked me, "What's in that box?"

chax press moment:
SINCE I MOVED IN Tim Peterson Chax Press
SINCE I MOVED IN
by Tim Peterson


TOMORROW NIGHT
LINDA RUSSO
7:30PM
MIRTH

Look out.

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TONIGHT AT CITY LIGHTS:
SPD NEW LIT GENERATION
PARTY AND READING

with Ben Lerner, Dana Teen Lomax,
Aimee Suzara, Jay Thomas,
Indiana Pehlivanova, and Eric Foster



Poster says 7:30 PM.
City Lights' website
says 7. You decide.

HERETICAL TEXTS, VOLUME 3

Factory School Wars. Threesomes. Drafts. & Mothers Heriberto YépezFactory School Death Notices Meg HamillFactory School fait accompli Nick PiombinoFactory School Chanteuse / Cantatrice Catherine DalyFactory School Scrapmetal Ammiel Alcalay

Shusui Kotoku 幸徳 秋水

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YOU'RE ON NOTICE!
Why begrudge me a little fun. And must you chew gum.
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