Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Blogiversary
Two years old this month, I guess. I just realized it. Thanks for your visits, comments, encouragement, and etc. I mean it.
I had a gun pulled on me in New Orleans once...
...but I also got married there. Despite your many flaws, NOLA, I love you. Goodbye Napoleon House. Goodbye Marisol. Goodbye Kaboom Books. Goodbye Central Grocery. And best of luck and wishes to your million citizens, friends, family of friends, NOLA bookfair pals, and the rest. Mississippi River, I love you too, despite. It's hard to know what else to say.
UPDATE: I know you don't need me to tell you, but I am going to anyway. If you can afford it, please click here to donate to the 2005 Hurricane Disaster Fund administered by the Red Cross.
UPDATE: I know you don't need me to tell you, but I am going to anyway. If you can afford it, please click here to donate to the 2005 Hurricane Disaster Fund administered by the Red Cross.
Approaches to Needlework Theory
[Scroll down to Monday.]
I am digging this poem from No Tell Motel by Clay Matthews. I like it because I am surprised, via it, at myself--that I can tolerate a conceit so "pretty" sustained over so many lines. I'm finding I've mostly lost patience for that kind of thing because so often such threads are overdone, pushed too hard, embroidered to the point of gaudy. In this case though, I felt myself fall at first into a predisposed groove but I couldn't stay there.
A pretty personal reading and more about my prejudices than the poem, I suppose. But I like it.
I am digging this poem from No Tell Motel by Clay Matthews. I like it because I am surprised, via it, at myself--that I can tolerate a conceit so "pretty" sustained over so many lines. I'm finding I've mostly lost patience for that kind of thing because so often such threads are overdone, pushed too hard, embroidered to the point of gaudy. In this case though, I felt myself fall at first into a predisposed groove but I couldn't stay there.
A pretty personal reading and more about my prejudices than the poem, I suppose. But I like it.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Monday, August 29, 2005
Acceptsentence
The AWP panel on DIY publishing I proposed (with the help of some genius poets & writers) has been accepted.
Moreadings
Just added!
Jen Knox & I will be paneling and book signing at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 8 & 9, in conjunction with our reading at Watkins College of Art & Design on the 10th. ROCK.
Also, I'll be reading with Danielle Pafunda at the Ear Inn in Manhattan on October 15. (Woohoo--class of 2002!)
And the Shaman Drum Jen-and-Shanna event in Ann Arbor, MI has moved to October 19th.
And I'll be reading for Christine Hamm's new series at the Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan on November 16.
And again with CAConrad (whose amazing book Deviant Propulsion is coming soon!) at Lucky 13 Bar here in Brooklyn on December 4.
Eventually, all these will be put up here and of course of course I'll remind ya.
Jen Knox & I will be paneling and book signing at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 8 & 9, in conjunction with our reading at Watkins College of Art & Design on the 10th. ROCK.
Also, I'll be reading with Danielle Pafunda at the Ear Inn in Manhattan on October 15. (Woohoo--class of 2002!)
And the Shaman Drum Jen-and-Shanna event in Ann Arbor, MI has moved to October 19th.
And I'll be reading for Christine Hamm's new series at the Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan on November 16.
And again with CAConrad (whose amazing book Deviant Propulsion is coming soon!) at Lucky 13 Bar here in Brooklyn on December 4.
Eventually, all these will be put up here and of course of course I'll remind ya.
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