Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Run-ins with Animals
A goat ate my dress.
A horse ate my hair.
My mother has pictures of both of these things.
Whoops: Last-minute reminder!
Get on down to KGB at 8:00 for the Gamers reading!
I was so busy I almost forgot to remind ya. Bad bad editor/publicist/book designer/retailer.
See ya there. Right now I gotta go kickbox.
Monday, November 29, 2004
"No Possum, No Sop, No Taters" by Wallace Stevens
He is not here, the old sun,
As absent as if we were asleep.
The field is frozen. The leaves are dry.
Bad is final in this light.
In this bleak air the broken stalks
Have arms without hands. They have trunks
Without legs or, for that, without heads.
They have heads in which a captive cry
Is merely the moving of a tongue.
Snow sparkles like eyesight falling to earth,
Like seeing fallen brightly away.
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground.
It is deep [November]. The sky is hard.
The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.
It is in this solitude, a syllable,
Out of these gawky flitterings,
Intones its single emptiness,
The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
It is here, in this bad, that we reach
The last purity of the knowledge of good.
The crow looks rusty as he rises up.
Bright is the malice in his eye...
One joins him there for company,
But at a distance, in another tree.
Sunday, November 28, 2004
What a week!
Whew--that was fun. The reading last Tuesday, then off for five glorious days, with turkey in the middle and friends last night. Lovely time. And my house is CLEAN.
This week is gonna be killah.
Tuesday, November 30 at 8:15*
GAMERS launch at KGB Bar
Nic Kelman, Roland Kelts, Whitney Pastorek & me
(*Note later start time than usual 7:30 for KGB.)
Friday, December 3 at 7:00
LIT 9 launch at the New School
John Hennessy, Sean McNally, Amy Sickels & Christopher Tonelli
Saturday, December 4 at 9:00
GAMERS launch at the Bowery Poetry Club
Katie Degentesh, Drew Gardner, Shannon Holman, Luis Jaramillo, K Thor. Jensen, Mark Lamoureux, Daniel Nester & Maureen Thorson
Video-game sound effect music by Drew Gardner and by game-themed covers by Gene Cawley & Daniel Nester
Game-themed art by Charles Orr
And Saturday afternoon is also Karaoke + Poetry = Fun at Frequency!
I will post reminders for each, and also send an email to my list.
Contributors: GAMERS went out to you before the holiday. Expect it soon. LIT 9 will go out this week!
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