ain't got nothing but pretty news

Thursday, 29 April 2010

Nothing insightful or spunky to say, but here is a mock up of the We're All Good cover (not done yet). Art by the amazing Lyndsey Lesh. We are going maybe—as the poems go—for a doodle book meets physics lecture meets Chitty Chitty Bang Bang kind of vibe.

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there's a fi(r)st for every flugelhorn

Thursday, 22 April 2010

Two pieces from a weird and as-yet unpublished choose your own adventure online story "about" Ada Lovelace--the inventor of computer programming, daughter of Lord Byron, and all around bad-ass lady--are online in the second issue of We Are Champion, a fi

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WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THERE'S A SHAPE IN YOU THE SIZE OF YOUR BODY?

Wednesday, 21 April 2010

New from Magic Helicopter Press$5 | First Edition | 75 Numbered CopiesWhen some haircuts are wolverine kits and some cling to bulwarks? When you want to be more sincere but the economy says NO / EAT MORE?

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one step away from public telepathy; we're talking dance step; we're dancing publicly

Monday, 19 April 2010

Alex Ableson, captain of the badass video poetry series POETEEVEE, recently and graciously invited me to read with Deb Gorlin on his Amherst Public Television series POETSEE, so it's sort of like I got to play soccer for the San Francisco Giants. 

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changes in altitudes, changes in platitudes

Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Back from a lovely and surprisingly calm AWP. Great time. Hung out with and met awesome folks. Sweet readings. Packed panel. More soon from beyond the realm of hyper-truncated summary, but for now lemme tell you about some hot new online literary magazin

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"Lust By Midnight, Loneliness By Morning"

Saturday, 10 April 2010

Lost in a blur.Caught in the raptureof late night text messagesand Saturday night phone conversations.Sharing thoughts and desires,ideas and feelings,in the form of lewd conversingwith extremely detailed articulations. "Where can we meet?""When are you available?""Allow me to get lost in you.""I pr

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"Will Literature Be Wasted On The Young?"

Friday, 9 April 2010

I'm sure that everyone my age and younger can recall an instance when they heard their parents, older relatives, or just someone substantially older than them say: "I really feel sorry for the generations to come. God help them; because I don't know what the world will become under their control."

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"I Finally Bought My Spaceship. No More Of This Grave Shift..."

Thursday, 8 April 2010

Who knew that being laid off could be so......liberating? That's exactly how I feel nowadays since I was recently cut from my occupational hiccup/part time job. I understand that any type of job- especially good ones -are hard to come by nowadays and even harder to hold onto; but I can honestly say

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going to awp? come to these things!

Sunday, 4 April 2010

1) Thursday Afternoon Dewclaw reading! (Click image to see bigger)2) Friday Afternoon Panel on Independent Publishing!Noon-1:15 PM | Friday | April 9thRoom 108Colorado Convention Center, Street LevelF150. Indie Mags: Publishing Outside of MFA Programs an

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"an Afghan war vet allergic to the sun"

Friday, 2 April 2010

Couple winters ago, I was on a Greyhound back from Ashland, OR to Oroville, CA, and there was this lady talking about working at a VFW bar because her dad had been a soldier in Desert Storm (I know! But the math works: she was ten while he was over there

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