talking about yourself is like dancing about something else

Thursday, 29 June 2006

I know y'all can take me only in tiny doses, and I can take myself only in droplets, but my friend Sean Kilpatrick was kind enough to interview me and let me talk at length about shit.Please read my interview.I will do something for you, buy you a cake or something.P.S. I probably won't buy you a c

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SoQ repreZENT

Tuesday, 27 June 2006

I feel sleazy. I am not out in the heat doing physical labor, like my father once did, like my mother once did, like my sister does on Arcata farms, like my friends do in foundation pits and cherry factories.I feel sleazy about that.Have done it. Building sheds, canning, gutting and cleaning filthy

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stolen graham crackers

Thursday, 15 June 2006

New poems, real names, same ole same ole:For If You Burn Carol's Phone NumberGod, Keighley, we were not a cityof giant things: weeds and wordsfor sleet from a Russian immigrant.He evacuated a smirched shantytownfor your couch. He called Carola girl who sound like horse.Not horse, dude: just Caterpi

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New SmokeLong Quarterly

Thursday, 15 June 2006

SLQ 13 is out. Fine flash fiction from flash fiction fiends.

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NOÖ [four]!

Monday, 12 June 2006

Everyone trundle on over to NOÖ Journal to check out [four]! Just released! Hot and steamy!

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jessica rowan is a good person

Monday, 12 June 2006

Jessica Rowan is a kind person.She reminds me of Emmanuel Levinas. She likes other people and what they say. She allows them their oceans, even when they're tentative and honest about the stupidity of many activities, like writing to practice for MFA programs instead of writing to love language and

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NOÖ Journal [four] is out!!

Sunday, 11 June 2006

Update: Everyone trundle on over to NOÖ Journal to check out [four]! Just released! Hot and steamy!Now, rain:"It's raining? Is it warm rain? My phone told me it was warm rain."This Oregon swamprain is crazy right now. You have to see it.When I read about things I've never seen -- a poem about a Mon

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in the bathtub with a french accent

Thursday, 1 June 2006

What's going on these days with fizzpo? Friends are writing short, sly fluff pieces about why their friends' poetry is fizzpo.Check it out here.What is fizzpo?And some more clever fizzpo rules.

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