I remember the nighttime is the right time but I can't remember why.

CHRISTIAN BÖK

RACHEL ZOLF

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tonight @ 7:30pm

the inxnay reader volume four

CAConrad, Arielle Greenberg, Ryan Eckes, Lewis Warsh, Elizabeth Scanlon, Kirsten Kaschock, Eric Baus, sasha fletcher, Brenda Iijima, Sarah Dowling, Michael Kelleher

SPD's AWP Bad Poem Contest Deadline Friday!

WIN AN SPD BOOK!!!!

Even if you weren't at the AWP in Chicago, you can win an SPD book in our...

AWP BAD POEM CONTEST

You may think it’s easy to write a bad poem, but is it really? How bad can you be?

SPD will award the SPD book of your choice (up to $30) for the worst poem in each category. Shipping included.

Please select from one of the categories below and write the worst poem you can. Send to laura (at) spdbooksdotorg. Be sure to indicate the category the poem belongs to, and also include your name, email, and address.

• Worst haiku
• Worst Language poem
• Worst workshop poem
• Worst poem mentioning your mother
• Worst sonnet
• Worst poem intended to lead to sex
• Worst poem using the words rainbow, mist, luminous, crystal, and anemone
• Worst poem using the word capitalism
• Worst Flarf poem (Complexly, this poem needs to be good.)
• Worst poem using chance operations
• Worst postmodern lyric
• Worst New Formalist poem

Also, please tell us if you would rather not have your bad poem published on SPD’s blog.

At least one winner will be selected in each category. Contest ends February 20, 2009. Winners will be announced soon after. Poems will be judged by bad poetry experts on the SPD staff.

RAIN TAXI ONLINE

EARLY WARNT: 7 MARCH @ MOE'S

LISA ROBERTSON
& RAE ARMANTROUT
saturday, march 7 @ 7:30pm
MOE'S BOOKS

friday: christian bök & rachel zolf

CHRISTIAN BÖK & RACHEL ZOLF
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Friday, February 20 @ 7:30pm

THURSDAY: ROB FITTERMAN

The Holloway Series in Poetry
Thursday, February 19th @ 7:00pm
Rob Fitterman with Samia Rahimtoola

march

GET

• People I said hi to and couldn't say more.
• People I saw and couldn't say hi to.
• People who didn't want my hi whose ears I talked off.
• People I didn't see whom I wanted to.
• People who had sprouts on their sandwiches and didn't like them and threw them at me.
• People who said, "You can take my picture but no flash."
• People at readings I couldn't go to.
• People in line to the ATM who'd fallen down whom I didn't help up.
• People wearing sunglasses.

I'D FORGOTTEN; YOU DON'T

SPD's AWP Bad Poem Contest

WIN AN SPD BOOK!!!!

Even if you weren't at the AWP in Chicago, you can win an SPD book in our...

AWP BAD POEM CONTEST

You may think it’s easy to write a bad poem, but is it really? How bad can you be?

SPD will award the SPD book of your choice (up to $30) for the worst poem in each category. Shipping included.

Please select from one of the categories below and write the worst poem you can. Send to laura (at) spdbooksdotorg. Be sure to indicate the category the poem belongs to, and also include your name, email, and address.

• Worst haiku
• Worst Language poem
• Worst workshop poem
• Worst poem mentioning your mother
• Worst sonnet
• Worst poem intended to lead to sex
• Worst poem using the words rainbow, mist, luminous, crystal, and anemone
• Worst poem using the word capitalism
• Worst Flarf poem (Complexly, this poem needs to be good.)
• Worst poem using chance operations
• Worst postmodern lyric
• Worst New Formalist poem

Also, please tell us if you would rather not have your bad poem published on SPD’s blog.

At least one winner will be selected in each category. Contest ends February 20, 2009. Winners will be announced soon after. Poems will be judged by bad poetry experts on the SPD staff.

SPD AWP BOOTH NO.

205

where i was last week

RICK, LISA, and PAIGE TONIGHT.

BANES BANES BANES BANES

For like ages, if you googled my surname Banes, this blog would come up in the second, third, or sometimes first search result position. So I googled my surname to reach here religiously.

Most of last week and frankly most of this year I haven't been online too much—lots the same to you, that is. Anyway. Yesterday I googled Banes, again, and now I'm no more; I'm in a Jodorowsky film, I'm not in a Jodorowsky film.

MRS MAYBE NO 2

Bill Luoma, Alli Warren, Sawako Nakayasu, Catherine Meng, Elisabeth Beasley, James Shea, Logan Ryan Smith, Daniel Ostmann, Cynthia Sailers, Joseph Massey & Jess Mynes, Genevieve Kaplan, Erin Morrill, Brandon Shimoda, Andrew Kenower, Dorothea Lasky, Christopher DeWeese, Trevor Calvert, Claire Becker, Jessica Baron, Nathan Hoks

bird dog

C. S. Carrier
Christopher DeWeese
Emily Kendal Frey
Anna Fulford
Anne Gorrick
Jac Jemc
Grant Jenkins
Meghan McNealy
Sara Michas-Martin
Cheryl Pallant
Nicole Pollentier
Sarah Rosenthal
Linda Russo
Andrew Sage
Brandon Shimoda
Maureen Thorson
Emily Toder
Laura Madeline Wiseman
David Wolach
An interview with Juliana Spahr by Sarah Rosenthal
Art from Nathan Cordero, Lauren DiCioccio, Vanessa Woods
& Cover Art by Larry Bob Phillips