renouncing my sexism for seven thousand years

Monday, 31 December 2007

News: Joni Mitchell--on Blue at least--competes with Leonard Cohen's "vaulted" (whose banker? where is the miner's bow tie?) "lyrical territory" (I have thought a lot about what that means; now you can!) and defeats him.Did this need its own blog post?All your questions have been forwarded to the g

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newsweek: 'just mail half of them put the other half in your bag: is bryan coffelt the best idea haver ever?'

Sunday, 30 December 2007

Bryan Coffelt: ohBryan Coffelt: you'll get them in less than a month...Bryan Coffelt: i'm sure they would be there in timeBryan Coffelt: just mail half of themBryan Coffelt: put the other half in your bagMe: yeah good ideaMe: i'm probably only going to bring a small green bag, but it will workBryan

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how did you sleep last night?

Wednesday, 19 December 2007

I have entered a legal war with Tao Lin.My attorney suggests that I not refer to the origin of the war, but you can probably find it if you're not silly.After this legal war is over, and I've won, I will own all of Tao's assets--poodles, book royalties, a Brooklyn bedroom, his $$$ Asian identity--a

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love is out to get you / it's the makeup in your beard

Saturday, 15 December 2007

Let's have some seasonal affection for my local writing friends and their fresh publications:Ben Stein's Boyandquarter in SmokeLong.Rachel B. Glaser's The Kid in elimae.Christopher Cheney's poems in notnostrums.I feel like there are more, but I can't remember. Maybe, later, I will add to this post.

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"there is no team in fuck you"

Monday, 10 December 2007

Hilarious stuff from Christian Bök:Favorite lines:[see blog post title]"did you know that no american has died of old age since 1951?!""the sanskrit word for war means 'a desire for more cows'""we eat cruel and unusual peppermint""when in rome? do as the ramones do!"

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hours like sparrows

Sunday, 9 December 2007

My story "The Peaches Are Cheap" has just gone up at Hobart. It originally appeared in Monday Night, a lovely journal out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Now other people in the world--in cities that start with San or don't--may read it. Or may not. Mayn'

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maxim to writers with high yearly incomes

Saturday, 8 December 2007

If you're going to be insufferable,At least be entertaining. Cheers.

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esoteric levinas snow poem about uncomfortable parties

Friday, 7 December 2007

WE'RE NOT FRIENDS YETIn case I need help,are your hands free?Hugs on bicycles, per-mission: dance.Is it swanky to askfor your pocket toosoon? Terrific lowstakes hello whores.We wanted smores.There's no then what.Chrome and milk chasehome the snowplows.You didn't see thatcoming, nor me aswell: now w

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five feet in one shoehorn

Saturday, 1 December 2007

I have 5 poems in the new Concelebratory Shoehorn Review. Thank you, Maurice Oliver. Other people in the issue: Barry Ballard, Glenna Luschei (her poems: swell), C. L. Bledsoe (good poems here too), John Tranter (editor of Jacket), Maxim Popykin, Ashok N

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yes

Saturday, 1 December 2007

Small Pale Humans by Daniel Spinks is good. Yep. Easy on eyes, too.

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according to

Thursday, 22 November 2007

JEAN STAINClay mug--or apipe dream? No,mug: cracked toleak a stamp ofcoffee. A crazynight, kid? No.

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mad hits about the face and neck

Thursday, 15 November 2007

Announcing NOÖ Journal's December Bicoastal Reading!East Coast:Amherst BooksDecember 12th / 8PMAmherst, MAFeaturing the following readers:Heather Christle's poetry has or will appear in Fence, Octopus Magazine, Unpleasant Event Schedule, LIT, NOÖ Journal and elsewhere.Elisa Gabbert's recent work ap

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i hope my umass students are curious human beings who google my name and find this blog. i've titled this post with the school name to help them

Monday, 12 November 2007

My students: they think I'm confusing. This is both good and bad. Discuss.

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prose flurry

Tuesday, 6 November 2007

I don't know if I'll leave up the thing below or not. Do you? Do you know?Joe Massey had a call-in day at his blog. Hear mine there. I laugh at myself a couple times, once or twice.This is what I read, if you want to read along (I'm writing MC Oroville poems instead of doing NaNoWriMo like Jess, Br

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this is how 90% of "intelligent" and "informed" people write about the future.

Tuesday, 6 November 2007

HI: A WRITING THING ABOUT THE FUTURE OR SOMETHINGIt's hard for me to get away from this old idea I have about something. Sure, it's wrong, and I know that. In fact, here is a long and clearly well-attuned exploration of all the ways in which my idea is outdated. Pretty sharp, right? Why did I even

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you're so fun they should make a sequel

Sunday, 4 November 2007

More MC Oroville poems (plus one from Don't Wake Up It's Just Me) now live at Lamination Colony, Blake Butler's tarnation tough online magazine.This November issue also features Andrea Fitzpatrick, Shane Jones, Gene Morgan, Ofelia Hunt, and Sean Lovelace.So even if you think I'm a whiny asshole, yo

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she said she'd stick around until the bandages came off

Sunday, 21 October 2007

More Americans play World of Warcraft than farm. Why is our self-image so wrong?

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thunderbirds are actually cats. sorry. you should have been told sooner.

Wednesday, 17 October 2007

EAT THIS CITY! EAT THIS CITY OH!No, not "home" -- you haven't even boughta real lamp. Friends you tell them all offlesh and local compromise, this act isact this, ignore that, silly rabbit:you are not where I reach at in sleep.I sign birthday cards on the night bus.Sundays I jar the apple mash for

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lonely people are evil

Saturday, 13 October 2007

A pathetic, sadistic screed by Josh Olson about two lonely women and the things that happened between them.No wonder History of Violence sucked.Josh Olson's new theory is that he is the final arbitrator of "good" and "evil" because he can cuss a lot and isn't fat or something, I think.Since I can't

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apple pie air freshener

Tuesday, 9 October 2007

I just finished reading a William Gay story that mentioned "an autumnal look of distances." Which is vague, abstract, overly clinical and clunky with vocabulary--but also perfect. No more Nick Drake records needed. That clause is a linguistic summary of

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clay banes

Saturday, 6 October 2007

Sir Clay Banes is the:NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION OUTSTANDING HANDSELLER FOR 2007.Buy him a vegan mallomar now.

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pirates and cupcakes

Friday, 5 October 2007

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sexy hanging garden on a trellis with plums of sex

Sunday, 30 September 2007

Thank you to Didi Menendez: I am a Man of the Web.Yeah, that's what I thought too.

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everybody everybody everybody knows

Sunday, 30 September 2007

THANK YOU BUT I'M OVER HEREI do not totally regret life.Sub pumps and chirp coloredcrosswalks, Charlie tokensand Yuri and Whisper and Patand then and who and hello.Amherst is a box of scarfs.Of cider and oak sweatervests.Of scarf flavored doughnuts.Portland's a basement of punkswith duct tape over

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dong dong dong

Monday, 24 September 2007

Someone's struck the pretty witch.Good.What I mean is this article, where Melvin Jules Bukiet denounces a lot of fluffy bullshit.He is overzealous, sure, but come on. How is this not right: Unfortunately, it’s false to all human experience to find “growth” in tragedy. In fact, the dull truth is tha

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don't harsh my mellow

Sunday, 23 September 2007

KETCHUP AND CHAMPAGNEGreen tea in a milk jug,tap water in a wineglass,fruit flies in a fixture,the fake in this gesture.Ketchup and champagne: AWOLall morning. Millions of balloons that no one ever demonstrates for Powerpointsor Sir Etcetera. The littlelike of things okay,the put it off skew--tomor

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: yes

Sunday, 23 September 2007

I don't know how to introduce this link. I very much enjoyed this post, and I empathized and identified with much of what Reginald speaks of. Not all of it. Everyone is a little bit their own language, which is usually a drag but is probably good for the time we have."Working Class Hero" from Regin

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growing old in 1849

Friday, 21 September 2007

THEM'S THE BREAKSYou should invent a retarded hemp androidinstead of playing bingo with your mother.Age is not just the good ship New Excusesbut a way to like sad foods and cleanless teeth. Each day I want a littlesaid, a little different said, of and tomy face. O a lark the range of human salt.O t

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a ^ versus a carrot

Tuesday, 18 September 2007

NOÖ Journal [seven] is online!That is font size seven for issue seven. Victory.In other victory news, I have completed my 1st Visit to New York quest and saved the princess. Thank you, Nick. I will see the realpoetik reading at the Bowery Poetry Club on

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ass power

Monday, 17 September 2007

a call after 'the project'by Jack Christian

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the distance between us is like how motivated i must be to wash the dishes

Saturday, 15 September 2007

On the first of May, I told you "all" that I would blog long blogs about emoticons, rollercoasters and Airborne. Will this happen? Think of it this way:1) The sun still holds some sway over the ocean2) Steve Earle doesn't appreciate the fact you can prob

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new york sleeping bag

Sunday, 2 September 2007

New York sleeping bag found. See above.A few people have asked about pictures. Here are some pictures from my cell phone.You know exactly what's going on, you just don't want to admit it.Emilie was born on a Zeppelin above Paris, Texas.Chris is a maximum

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Grace Paley

Thursday, 23 August 2007

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

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you know what that means

Tuesday, 21 August 2007

Last night, I almost started a grease fire, which made me think "man! I had better start writing stupid and bloodlessly surreal story poems!" So this afternoon, I got straight on dat shit.WE ARE JUST BELLS IN THE SOUP NAZI'S DREAMand play that 'who can be the more audaciousdumb.' Yet these swamp mi

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omg rhyming--he's like an obnoxious cell phone

Sunday, 19 August 2007

It takes me some of these sometimes to "build up" any "steam."THE CON MAN'S THIRTEEN CONSTRUCTION BALLADSThese games were built for solitude,These tricks were built for whores.These belts were built for hipstersAnd these wide roads built for war.This face was built for lotion,This discretion built

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train poems

Thursday, 16 August 2007

Most written downstairs in the lounge car. I should tell you stories but I would rather tell them like they were on a sandwich menu. Please ask if you would like the story selection.IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERINGYou got mustard all over,dumbface. Careful, or youmelt into the old drunkof flinches who pr

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oh okay

Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Now I am in Amherst.To my left:"Sharply criti-, um, criticizing the environmental --""Oh yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah."

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eye contact: the musical

Saturday, 11 August 2007

I am in Chicago right now.Zomgzers.

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noo journal musical soldier contest results

Sunday, 5 August 2007

NOÖ just posted the results of their famous Musical Soldier contest.This is a travesty.I edit the goddamn magazine and I wasn't even a finalist.I didn't even know the contest was afoot for Christ's sake.Somebody should call Foetry. We need a recount. I should be there somewhere, and so should Obama

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i am the applebees of contemporary poetry

Thursday, 2 August 2007

Today's hypothetical question: what toy makes you sad to be too old for it?Unrelated eulogistic hash below. This poem is about an imaginary person who dies because he is anti wiretapping or some shit. It is very relevant and inexpensive.REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE THE SIREN?Remind me again why we need y

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well, our kitten sees handsome ghosts

Sunday, 22 July 2007

Ryan works as a security guard in the Oroville Hospital. He plays guitar. Soccer, too. He got pulled over in Texas and shot at in Afghanistan. Since he couldn't come to last Sunday's concert, Yuri and I played some songs for him in the other Ryan's bedro

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you can be handsome i'll be pretty

Sunday, 22 July 2007

OCHO #10Full disclosure: A few of my poems hung out in OCHO #9.Um, OCHO #11 is already out. But I want to talk about OCHO #10 because I got a free PDF version in my email. Didi Menendez, publisher of MiPOesias, publishes OCHO print-on-demand through Lulu

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hamfisted sandwich

Thursday, 12 July 2007

One of my friends is having a birthday today. We never hang out. Picture the opposite of razzmatazz.Overdue: commentary (inevitably sodden and unelegiacal) on San Francisco, OCHO #10, Arcata hippie goats, and good music. Is this a "substitution" post? Of course not. These are not pinch hitter sente

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holy drum twitch

Sunday, 8 July 2007

I am like the end of a slap tired. That tired.I am in McKinleyville, CA. See above.The reading went well. Logan talked about it. My danke to Logan, Elliot, Clay and everybody else in the slobberingly lovely Bay Area. Except that fucker on the way home fr

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once again berkeley is next

Saturday, 7 July 2007

7/7/07 Ringo Starr Birthday Poetry Extravaganza:Elliot HarmonLogan Ryan SmithMike YoungFREEPegasus Books @ 7:30pm2349 Shattuck Ave.Berkeley, CA 94704Also: this band Frontier Ruckus is my favorite new band. They are near my age. Listen to "Dark Autumn Hou

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Beat You With a Railroad Spike

Monday, 2 July 2007

The Back to Oroville PostIf you can't cast a boat off the dock, don't chain one to your sedan. How about an old story first? One of my relatives planted all the purple flowers up the dam road. Another of my realtives helped build the dam. That is contrib

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climbed up a tall tall tree

Thursday, 28 June 2007

Things I Have learned:If you refer to yourself as an adjective--maybe you're not an asshole, but you aren't very funny.Example: "I was just doing it, you know, that ole Mike Young way!"/end of things i have LearnedRequisite "Back in Oroville" post coming soon.

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boring post dept 23354

Thursday, 14 June 2007

Three new poems in the June elimae. These are from a new chapbook I made of April poems and otherwise. It's called Don't Wake Up It's Just Me. It will soon be sort of available. Let me know if you want one. If you don't want one, please don't vocalize yo

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you fuck like you're running for office

Sunday, 3 June 2007

Dragonfly Identity Crisis: Another Music PostWith somewhat of a jolt, I realized tonight that I love Mint Records. Like that morning where you're trying to be very polite and trying to pour organic maple syrup for her all over the pancake and not the tablecloth, and you are trying to, you know, rem

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i did not put him up to it

Tuesday, 29 May 2007

Ha, thanks Kasey. And Willie for the footage.I did change the melody a little bit, yeah, but the guy murdered me. Click the link for an explanation.

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i have a friend named ocho

Monday, 28 May 2007

Being in a magazine named OCHO is not the same as being in my friend named Ocho.Si?To wit, the just released:OCHO #9: MiPOesias' Print CompanionWriters: Ron Androla, Nin Andrews, Tom Blessing, Zachary Blessing, Tara Birch, Pris Campbell, Nick Carbo, Grace Cavalieri, Denise Duhamel, Adam Fieled, Cam

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opera expert

Thursday, 24 May 2007

I am a food writer. VICTORY! Thank you Flavor a Deux.

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mp3 blog intermission

Friday, 18 May 2007

Drop everything you're doing and listen to my new favorite bands of the moment. They could not be more different. Well, they could. DNA-wise, one could be a band full of zebras. Let's not get into that, okay?The Avett BrothersMaybe it's because their vocal range is similar to mine--clued off before

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jesus christ those spectacles, that cane

Friday, 4 May 2007

In the least relevant post I will ever make:Holy God: Andrew WK likes peanuts:"Sunday, April 29I had a refrigerated Snickers bar — I would’ve preferred it be thawed more — and salted peanuts. You take a bite of peanuts and then a bite of the Snickers. Everything seems to be that much better with mo

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what a long strange trip it's been

Tuesday, 1 May 2007

Well, no. Not really. It was just a month of writing poems. But I enjoyed it. I wrote some terrible poems, which I'm probably not going to revisit. I also started some decent ones, which I am going to revisit. At some point, I am going to take down all the April poems. Not because they're "secret"

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so long marianne

Monday, 30 April 2007

xxx/xxx: I THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS GOING TO BE OKAY FROM NOW ONThe surgeon's saw: all the livelong night. I lay coins on my eyes. Eh? What dream?

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poem dedicated to accuracy for Chall Gray

Thursday, 26 April 2007

xxii/xxx: QUATRAINS THAT EXACTLY TRANSCRIBE MY EMOTIONAL MATRIX FOR FUTURE HISTORIANSha ha ha ha oh shit ha ha jeezgoddamn fuck sigh sigh sighha ha ha oh wait no wait don'tyes ok wow that's hot that's hotthat's um wait oh mmm mmm shitsigh sigh sigh ha ha oh waitgoddamnit ow shit okay mmmmman oh jee

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can we hurry up with this cloning bit?

Thursday, 26 April 2007

Let's say I took some DNA off my knuckle and used it to make a small, productive army of interns. That would be nice. I would like that.In the meantime, author, chef and cool person Kelly Spitzer was kind enough to profile me in her Writer Profile series two days before my birthday. I am embarrasse

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ridiculous lowrider song for Kelly Spitzer

Tuesday, 24 April 2007

xviii/xxx: TAKE A LOW, SLOW RIDE WITH MEv1Country singers die in the back of classic cars.Chisel flingers lie about the necks of spastic whores.Gristle eaters try not to suspect their pasta drawers.Whistle needers cry and find the flecks of silence poor.chorusTake a low, low ride with me.Take a low

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currant apricot bread

Monday, 23 April 2007

If you read this blog, you probably already read Tao Lin's, but if you don't, you should read this essay of concrete language and logic and some productive ideas for solutions.Also, re: NaPoWriMo. I know. I know. I will finish. I have it all lined up. It may came in a slurry. A flurry? Something li

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bad tom waits song imitation napowrimo surprise

Thursday, 19 April 2007

xvii/xxx: WARS AND WELLSHandsome as an axThrough a history of ice. Scribble your condolences;I wrote your number down on mine.I lent a drag of Lucky StrikeTo the son of Jesus Christ.Marigolds and piccolosBeen bothering me all night.Everyone's so friendly here:It's a beggar's hand's wet

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blame K Silem Mohammad

Wednesday, 18 April 2007

xvi/xxx: DEAR CUTE-TUSHED, JUBILANT, RESOURCEFUL AND PARADOXICAL HUMAN BEINGS: THIS POEM IS WORSE THAN MARMITERyan sautéed me some fine-ass crepes. (And I've hadme some squirrel, big thumbs downtown to that!)Sure my family grew up loving on their potato latkes,Romaine Lettuce, dog bones, reporters

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sleek taste of napowrimo failure muffins & successful birthday song

Sunday, 15 April 2007

NaPoWriMo #14 and #15 are suspended while I recover from a nasty cold. In the meantime, my sister Holly's birthday is tomorrow, April 16th. She lives in Arcata, CA. I wrote a poem for her college graduation: This You as a Wolf With Wings.And here is the best song about sisters ever, I think:Happy b

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"There's only one rule that I know of, babies -- God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Thursday, 12 April 2007

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aggressive myth invention

Tuesday, 10 April 2007

I think I'm trying to break this blog's record for most posts in a single day. My new monologue is up at Juked: "And the Shoes on the Cables Are There For the Angels."Thank you for reading if you decide to read. You may have already read this in an older form, since it was on the blog not too long

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Joe Massey and disembodied voices

Tuesday, 10 April 2007

In case you missed it, Joe Massey had a bunch of cool people call into his blog .. and me. Go listen if you have listening time in your satchel.

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verb modification poem for Elisa Gabbert

Sunday, 8 April 2007

viii/xxx: HOW DARE YOU SAY HOW BEAUTIFULLY I SINGRaft pump in the TV hollow there, not so wecan frolic willy-nilly, but for living roomexpeditions. Here, no more graves:my manifest couch destiny. Solamente.Apricot tea, responsible cheese. Remotelyabandoning the concept of grace. Thereforedistant. S

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non-word poem for Blake Butler

Saturday, 7 April 2007

vii/xxx: FIRMLE ILLICHlers iz en mi enzeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeirk-en-day-lezen-fas.nuh meren zarumf.ner zaddle ef zeref zaddle ur fichlerz ez en mi enzoymer ir zen! mer ir zen!no meren zarumf.nag der un ner mahnesh nurf en val vulsh.fishalt zerk en mickvaladu.leerz ez en mi enzoy!leerz ez en mi enzoy!mirrr

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gone but not gregorian

Saturday, 7 April 2007

I've spent a nice, musical morning with the following things:Richard Hawley -- M Ward crossed with '50s suit and tie and smoke ballads crossed with Britain.Fredrik Ståhl's "When People Go to Work I Go to Bed" -- Um, I kind of resemble this song.Hayward Williams -- Bark under your fingernails and bl

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poetry mall

Wednesday, 4 April 2007

If you like small presses and small press poetry, check out Press Press Press, a new centralized blog shop for small poetry press purchases. Like Wal-Mart but without the bouncing face. Or, you know, the evil.

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little brother thinks the road is straight and fine

Monday, 26 March 2007

I'm so backlogged with email that I never blog.I am frustrated.

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w00t strawberry!

Saturday, 24 March 2007

NOÖ [six] is online!Actually, I think I am going to say that 4 1/2 more times.NOÖ [six] is online!NOÖ [six] is online!NOÖ [six] is online!NOÖ [six] is online!NOÖ [six]!

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100th post: out of control identity destroying poem posting frenzy

Tuesday, 20 March 2007

You Are a Nice Young Singer-SongwriterYou are a nice young singer-songwriter.Two kinds of alcohol: one for hand sanitizer,the other for barley wine and cheap wine.You are not willing to hop a train.Seamus is and slays the mandolin.Charlie's in jail for having a dumb beard.You are, at the moment, a

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NASA and the word nerd-gasm

Tuesday, 13 March 2007

Read about my alien building days over on zee Fringes' blog. Thanks, Erica!

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avery has a slice backhand

Wednesday, 7 March 2007

In other words, I once played tennis with an older gentleman named Avery. But I also just published a short piece in a new anthology of fiction called Avery:There are stories from Stephen Dixon, Ander Monson, Dean Bakopoulos, and Richard Grayson. It's a

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NOT! : barrage of confident overtures

Monday, 5 March 2007

What Do You Owe Your Zip Code?Hey, no smokingon the go-karts.We skid stopped past theoff ramp to browse this van:a cult's old blanketsand off-season Clementines.That's nice, that braceletjingles like a dancer caughther ankle in the algae.She is a Viking slave.Take now, a night hiss,a slur of proud-

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hurrah!

Saturday, 24 February 2007

Jennifer L. Knox!!

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furthermore

Friday, 23 February 2007

Off of Kasey's request for Anchorman poetry. Okay, he barely mentions Anchorman, but Anchorman poetry interests me a lot more than Lord of the Rings/American Pie poetry.And just to kick something off, on the subject of lines: most of Anchorman's best lines came improvised. Maybe the first problem i

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custom everyday hope machine beta

Thursday, 22 February 2007

P.S. Click once to get your own unique poem. If you're trying to do this off an RSS thing like Bloglines, it won't work. Also: after you're done, be sure to reload and get new ones. Step 1: Step 2:

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sincerity, bitches

Sunday, 18 February 2007

The Day That Dale DiedWhen I saw the wreck I knew he was gonna be ok.We were still at the hospital (my first child's birth).One of the very last times I weighed myself.I never even cried when my momma, passing through fromacid rock to Hollywood, died in an H-60 crash:no-one cared. But I quit follow

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the british are coming

Friday, 2 February 2007

For those readers interested in the whole Boston LED "terror" story involving LEDs, D batteries, a shamefaced police department and traditional media outlets who adore confusion and ignorance, here is a decent analogy from Joe Keohane of the Weekly Dig:Next, let’s all get out our dictionary and loo

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triste in un treno all’alba

Wednesday, 31 January 2007

Life is . . . to remember--written 1927–1938, Sandro Penna Life is . . . to remember waking upsad in a train at dawn: to have seenthe light hesitate outside: to have feltin your broken body the tartand virgin sorrow of sharp air.Thank you to Mathias for turning me on.

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generic post, genre: invitation

Sunday, 21 January 2007

I have some different poems up at the venerable MiPOesias. The poems: relationships, self-deprecation, skepticism, pork rinds, etc. MiPO have changed their design to a feed-driven thing instead of a frontpage-oriented thing. Go there and find out what I mean. They have a photo of me eating gas stat

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it falls like suspicion

Friday, 19 January 2007

Tagged to reveal little known facts by François, who is in San Francisco. Lucky bastard. The restaurants in San Francisco are cheaper than Ashland. Weird? I know. Weird.1) The most annoying thing I did in third grade was chase people around pretending to be a Victorian movie camera. Like for the sh

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Michael Schaub

Wednesday, 17 January 2007

If you read Bookslut, the literary news blog and magazine, you may remember Michael Schaub, who used to blog there. He was funny, and I remember enjoying most of the links he would post. Tao Lin and I have discussed Michael Schaub's blogging, and we want to thank him somehow for all his work.Here i

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riggle raggle rah rah rah

Monday, 15 January 2007

RAGAD is a new(ish) literary zine. You should check it out. I have a piece up. It's called "Skinny Rose, Blue and Yellow," and it is firmly sentimental.

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