i don't know; i do do

Saturday, 31 January 2009

You've gotta read Nick Sylvester's blog post on Animal Collective, Hipster Runoff, the idea of liking things for the "right" reasons, dancing, The Joker, blasting DMX out your Wrangler, the difference between being self-conscious and self-disabling, and

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mama there's a dream in my pillow

Sunday, 25 January 2009

That's right: the epic and long-awaited Barnaby Jones #1 is now really totally available from Pinch Pinch Press. I have a copy and it's smooth as tail. New work from all sorts of stalwarts. $5. Nab it.

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To all of you...

Sunday, 25 January 2009

"Happy Chinese New Year ...Gong Xi Fat Choi...!"

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"just so you know, after you’re done reading this you might have some slime somewhere on you"

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Monsters of Oak Mountain is my new favorite online literary magazine.An excerpt from "Ferlley:"Ferlley has a slimy body because he is kin to slugs and he has twenty-one eyeballs to see everything that goes on. He has sharp teeth to chew and scare. He als

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nobody else in the world is worried about this: volume one

Monday, 19 January 2009

STOCK CAR RACER DAVEY ALLISON WHO DIED TRAGICALLY YOUNGWHISKEY AND LEMON VOICED FOLK SINGER IAN FELICEMY FRIEND ISSACSTILL NEEDED: CHICAGO COUCH: SEE BELOW =(

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couch wizard

Saturday, 17 January 2009

Dear Internet Friends Who Live in Chicago (see picture if you're not sure whether you live in Chicago or not),As of yet, I have no place to stay during my AWP visit to your fair city. That's Feb 11-14. If you have a couch-like object I could sleep on, I

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that's nothing; i can land a river on a bird

Thursday, 15 January 2009

I have a new story out in MARY Magazine, the magazine of St. Mary's College of California's MFA program. There is new work from Matthew Rohrer, Richard Meier, Craig Santos Perez, and others. Good shit.Most of the stories are pretty long, including mine,

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a squirrel snuck into the breaker room [aka] YOU THINK A PICTURE OF TWO UNICORNS FORNICATING IS FUNNY?!?!

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

From Julia Cohen [Mike's comments in brackets]:Hi,I'm pleased to announce that the third issue of Saltgrass is out, featuring these fine poets & writers:Eric Baus, CAConrad [coolest person alive], Jessica deCourcy Hinds, Johannes Goransson [a new qua

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with your moon still rank on the ground

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

If you're going to be in San Francisco, I'm going to be here Saturday night. My friend Sara Blaylock is in the show! She's a lightning hitting the mast ahoy.Elsewise, I will be around. You might see me going up to strangers and asking "Excuse me, is ther

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the only coconut hemp necklace in the heart

Monday, 5 January 2009

ATTN ATTNTHANKS TO ALL SEEN IN ASHLAND FOR BEING TRUE AS NEPTUNE AND FLAMMABLE AS ASTEROIDS. I'M SORRY I DID NOT GET TO SEE THOSE I DID NOT GET TO SEE. LOVE TO ALL; LOVE IS LIKE THE FLASHLIGHT; LOVE IS THE DILATION OF LOVE, OF A CIRCLE THAT WIDE_S AND WI

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apples, honey, toast, peanut butter

Friday, 2 January 2009

My essay "It Ain't Me Babe" was voted Top Nerve Essay of 2008. Thank you to all out there in blogland who voted. Don't listen to your enemies: you're in my salvation army, and that's a yes.

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major development in translation: daniel bailey and mike young

Thursday, 1 January 2009

Big news tonight. Hickory Assbags, top poet from Space Kentucky, has officially chosen Daniel Bailey and I to be his English translators. He likes candy and the poem. We're pretty sure he's the next Tomaž Šalamun, which makes us, like, the next, wait, wh

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