napowrimo #30

Wednesday, 30 April 2008

I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU IF YOU WILLNothing I write will ever giveback Monty Hensley. Fuck youI'm crying. But I won't makeyou. The more we agree to cling atclever intricacies of conniption,the less we have to monitor thisspleen. Fuck you "sad poem." Fuck you balloon in the woods.All I want to do is ma

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napowrimo #29

Wednesday, 30 April 2008

CALL TO RETARDED ARMSIs there good advice here?Take things one at a time,sleep with one at a time,fine. I heard you the firsttime. Listen to the swallowlark. Aim at the reap. Grindpast your blink at this mercy.

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napwrimo #28

Monday, 28 April 2008

BRYAN COFFELT ON MIKE YOUNG: "Mike Young's poetry is heavily rooted in zoroastro-colonialism and sanguine video adapters. The comic enjambment in his poems stems from a love of knives. In "Make It Rain," Young utilizes comic enjambment to load the reader with possibility.Yeah im in this business of

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napowrimo #27

Monday, 28 April 2008

DANIEL BAILEY ON MIKE YOUNG: "mike young's poems read like a a cultural critique written by an alien living inside a radio station that plays nothing but a tribe called quest and songwriters influenced by bob dylan. his comic enjambment brings to mind shakespeare, if shakespeare had been part wooki

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napowrimo #26

Saturday, 26 April 2008

JUSTIN TAYLOR ON MIKE YOUNG: "In the Family Double Dare of the heart, Mike Young's comic enjambment demands no less than that we confront our father and sisters (off-camera, before taping starts) and work out our issues so that the whole family can rely on each other and function as a team. Only in

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napowrimo #25

Thursday, 24 April 2008

JOSH MADAY ON MIKE YOUNG: "Mike Young's words dig into the mind with their pointy-sharp chin. Bleeding becomes a matter of comic enjambment, and one's external uterus swells with milkweed and ragweed and fetusweed, swimming in the othernight, lying still at the bottom, encased in the swaggering cur

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napowrimo #24 (see my "i like suttree" post for details; send me more!)

Thursday, 24 April 2008

ALEX BURFORD ON MIKE YOUNG: "Mike Young's poetry, although a suitable front for his West Indian Wife Swap, is not a suitable container for a child. Or children for that matter. His comic enjambment, its tiny little fingers getting in the pores of your lung, does not account for the hurried tone and

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see the post "i like sutree" for details; send me more of these; napowrimo #23 literary critcism as poetry

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

K SILEM MOHAMMAD ON MIKE YOUNG: "Mike Young's sometimes painfully multivalent hollering comes at a time when we were just getting used to a bunch of weak shit being at the center of this, what, this pantomime passing itself off as a dedicated dialectic about/with/towards lettered competence now, to

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napowrimo #22: literary criticism as poetry

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

GABE DURHAM ON MIKE YOUNG: "Mike Young's poetry has the "good fat" of a ripe avocado and everybody knows it. When he concluded his collection, "The Kindhearted Enemies of Mike Young," with "I want to dip / my comic. In jam," all of America wondered what "comic. in jam" meant."MIKE YOUNG ON GABE DUR

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napowrimo #21: a literary crticism intermission

Monday, 21 April 2008

BLAKE BUTLER ON MIKE YOUNG: "Mike Young's poetic teetaw caused a cosmic enjambment in my scrote, which once infected, defined a nation, and that nation was neon purple & made of email, and I left that nation with Mike Young's mother's mother, and Mike Young's mother's mother was the dude who sc

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i like suttree

Monday, 21 April 2008

Can someone write an essay or blog post about my poetry that uses the phrase "comic enjambment?" I don't care what else you write. Just the phrase "comic enjambment" and maybe a picture of yourself with your shirt off.It doesn't even have to be a positive essay. You can talk shit about "comic enjam

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napowrimo #20

Sunday, 20 April 2008

THE GREAT MUSCLE RELAXER IN THE SKYI can't remember why I'm buying groceries online.Save on the frozen black bean mango entrée, sure,laugh a little. Eat by yourself and laugh a lot,looking. Hug the walls of the rink and list thesongs you'd request if you were someone who didthat. "I want to be with

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breaking the record for most posts in a day

Friday, 18 April 2008

Tao doesn't have the only prolific email mother. Here is a story my mother just sent me:(REMEMBER?) OUR TRIP "TO" BUCK'S LAKEA true story about being in the right place at (more or less;-) the right time. Alternate title: ARE YOU SURE YOU STILL WANT A MINI COOPER?!? It was a bright & sun

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GMAIL = MOTHERFUCKING JUDAS

Friday, 18 April 2008

So I'm angry at GMail for the first time ever.You know that feeling when you really loved something and then--Ugh.Ugh.GMail has for I-don't-know-how-long! been calling very important messages spam. Tonight I found at least three very important messages that GMail was like "hmm, looks like spam." In

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games

Friday, 18 April 2008

I have included two "words" in the two poems below that you will have fun looking up. Let's hope only two. Unless you don't know what totally means or something.

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napowrimo #18 (if a charles bernstein poem is a hot dog this is a very small sausage wrapped in polite cornbread)

Friday, 18 April 2008

BLAH, SICKLYHot, tactfullyUrp, desperatelySurvey, winninglyAquarium, totallyClap, skepticallyChest, blearilyStilts, wanlyHorns, manlyDebt, lovinglySwirl, reliablyBob, buckinglyOkay, fuminglyFuck, hooly

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steak knife to your pillow

Thursday, 17 April 2008

A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness is a book compiled of four chapbooks by Claudia Smith, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Amy Clark. You should buy it. Speaking of communities: what a great way to release short-short fiction. Four people in one "normal

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my heart is a bluebird with a bowlcut

Thursday, 17 April 2008

Oh God, thank you Old Man Luedecke for writing my theme song: "Big Group Breakfast."

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napowrimo #16

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

IF LIGHIGHT IS A POEM SO IS THIS EMBEDDED YOUTUBE VIDEO THANK YOU GOOD NIGHT

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napowrimo #13

Monday, 14 April 2008

LET ME FIND MY SOOTHING FIREI've got love in myskillet, again, love,coconut macaroonpancakes, again, love.Holy shit Jim Ford iscrispy. Sun hands ondown its walking cane tothe swamp behind the barnwhere I found a whitebat, didn't want tokill it. Put it in myskillet. "Okay, passa fallow swamp, 2ndref

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napowrimo #12

Sunday, 13 April 2008

THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS ALWAYS HAPPEN IN RACHEL AND MIKE'S PLATONIC FRIENDSHIPIIITHE FATTEST MAN IN THE WORLDRachel and Mike ate some gemelli. "Which eyebrow do you like better?" said Rachel. Mike threw a squishy world ball against the wall. "You're an athlete," said Rachel encouragingly. She'd

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i've never been a criminal i've only been concerned

Sunday, 13 April 2008

I have a new story in Alice Blue Review. It's called "The Fire Hazard." The "you" in this story is the "you" in "Don't Wake Up It's Just Me,"* which you can read in realpoetik. I'm just trying to help the critics. Body o' work. Lickable body of work.*Jus

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Ashland, Oregon is the new Iowa City minus the corn

Saturday, 12 April 2008

I present:Jennifer GarciaGenevieve KleinbaumAlex BurfordBryan CoffeltJess RowanMichael KerrAngela GalvanThese people will all publish their first books in the next ten years or sooner. If they keep writing etc. And Ashland may even continue to produce (and attract) good young writers. If you live i

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there are people alive to affirm that i've run out of french fries and sort of just ate it off my finger

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

This is a commercial for barbecue sauce from Oroville, CA. Oh Lord-- if there were some way to include this in MC Oroville's Answering Machine. Dear Jessica Smith: I need your help. You've made books with perfume on them. Can I make my chapbook smell like barbecue sauce?

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napowrimo #8

Monday, 7 April 2008

IT'S ALL PARTY OF THE PLAYI can't believe I saw a snake cloud today!I can't believe I saw a baby trampoline!I can't believe I saw the changes work!I can't believe I saw you after the ball!I can't believe I saw Yuri eat the butter!I can't believe I saw the condor! Live!I can't believe I saw that guy

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napowrimo #7

Monday, 7 April 2008

FINE, HOW ABOUT I'M LEAVING?I can't believe my dad is sitting on a horse!I want to say that he's facing the wrong way.He's wearing the Father's Day shirt again.Why did we move to this town anyway, God?The daises are in knots! They're acting up!Written with much fighting and cake by Mike Young and R

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napowrimo #6

Sunday, 6 April 2008

WE CAN ONLY TAKE ABOUT THREE STANZAS OF THIS SHIT, ANYWAY. WHAT'S A STANZA. OH, YOU. I THINK YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THE "SHE SUCKED HIM OFF WITH HER GLASSES ON" POEM. IT'S TWO DOWN. THANKS. IT DOESN'T HAVE STANZAS DOES IT? MOST THINGS DON'T. THAT'S TRUE. VERY TRUE. TRUSH IS EXSHITEING.Treat me right: l

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napowrimo #5

Sunday, 6 April 2008

IF YOU KNOW IT AND YOU KNOW IT CLAP YOUR HANDSGo on, son. Take one for the team.Soon we'll want a full reportof which one you take.Reaction rollercoaster. We like tograft shit to interstellar glee. Don'tlie there, do what I say.I want to add you onto onto. Isn'tthat what they say when theycan't sto

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napowrimo #3

Wednesday, 2 April 2008

This is a (bad) fifty word storypoem about sandwiches on consignment. It was written for Nick Ostdick, topic chosen by Kendra Grant Malone (sandwiches). Here it is on Nick's blog with an interview yea boi.HORN WON'T CHANGE THE MENUWho could Horn tell? Tooth in the burger, pissed off snowmobiler. Se

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