caught me with my own special

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

POETS & PUPPETSSaturday, August 29, 8pmBrooklyn, NYBLAKE BUTLER has published more short stories than Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss combined. He is the author of EVER, a novella (Calamari Press), and the forthcoming Scorch Atlas, a novel in

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what i saw outside a mexican restauraunt in northampton, ma

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Outside the Mexican restaurant were two old gay men, one in a silk buttondown and one with peroxided hair and a New England Patriots Super Bowl t-shirt. They were silent, smoking thin brown cigarettes and holding hands.Then the one in the t-shirt said "

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Preorder THE DRUNK SONNETS, get a free beer koozie!

Monday, 17 August 2009

reposted from the NOÖ Journal blogDear friends,Daniel Bailey's thrump of a full length poetry debut, The Drunk Sonnets (Magic Helicopter Press, Oktoberfest 2009) is now available for pre-order. Only $10 for a boom boom pow of heart gobbling poetry. And w

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NOÖ 10!

Sunday, 16 August 2009

NOÖ [10]online!Check it out. Here is some trivia: one of my poetry heroes, Ron Padgett, is in this issue. He seems like a really generous and funny guy from emailing back and forth with him. He didn't like the double dash in lieu of actual em dash in fro

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velvet elvis and secondhand clothes

Thursday, 13 August 2009

This is one of the best Alan Jackson songs ever. Now with meerkats.Things I'm going to do today: make jean shorts, read Willa Cather, work on uploading NOÖ 10. You should read Campbell McGrath's American Noise if you've never done that. Let's browse a river like it's a real estate catalog. Let's ma

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do all people named tom like to paint

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Dennis Cooper, who is on the Mt Rushmore of indie lit as Abe Lincoln-with-nice-sport-coats, very sweetly posted a big post on his blog about MC O and some of my music. Big splashes of thanks to Dennis, and thanks as well to my Australian friend David Ryl

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MC O: available at powells

Tuesday, 11 August 2009

UPDATE: COPIES AVAILABLE AT POWELL'S, CLICK HERE Logan Ryan Smith, publisher of Transmission Press, moved to Seattle last week or so, and he couldn't take all his chapbooks with him, so he sent me his remaining copies of MC Oroville's Answering Machine t

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p.s.

Wednesday, 5 August 2009

New blog url is http://mikeayoung.blogspot.com. The old one, http://noojournal.com/blog, should redirect here, but update yr RSS feeds and all that good stuff.

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We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough will be a brook you can swim in

Wednesday, 5 August 2009

Some cool news to share with friends, and I think I'm officially allowed to share now that it's on the catalog page: My first full length poetry book, We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough, will be coming out from Publishing Genius Press in 2010. I lik

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Stay Awhile If You Can is a long story about relationships, murals, punks, and community radio

Monday, 3 August 2009

You can read it in Hobart #10 alongside sweet stories by Alicia Gifford, B.J. Hollars, Blake Butler, Claire Vaye Watkins, Amy Clark, Daniel Nester, JoeAnn Hart, Curtis Dawkins, Brad Gayman, Colleen Hollister, and Lori Ostlund, plus comics by Lydia Conkli

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