"I knew a girl named Bethany* and she was a total asshole!"
* Name changed to protect the asshole. So if your name is Bethany, it's not you.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
A work in progress...
BEST OF THE MICROPRESSES @/in/around AWP
Also, if you're interested in Bloof Books, we don't have a table. Look for me though. I'll be a walking bookstore--hawking copies of Drunk by Noon, A Gringo Like Me, For Girls (& Others) from my tote--special event price $10 each!--& bestowing limited advance copies of My Zorba on potential reviewers.
Danielle Pafunda will also have copies of My Zorba in her bag to show off/give to reviewers.
Also, if you're interested in Bloof Books, we don't have a table. Look for me though. I'll be a walking bookstore--hawking copies of Drunk by Noon, A Gringo Like Me, For Girls (& Others) from my tote--special event price $10 each!--& bestowing limited advance copies of My Zorba on potential reviewers.
Danielle Pafunda will also have copies of My Zorba in her bag to show off/give to reviewers.
REMINDER: Meet our lovely contestants LIVE!
MICROPRESS POETRY PAGEANT
FRIDAY FEB 1 @ 8PM
STAIN BAR
766 Grand Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(L TRAIN to Grand Street, 1 block West)
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No AWP badge required!
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Jennifer L. Knox
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Reb Livingston
Danielle Pafunda
PF Potvin
Ravi Shankar
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* Unfortunately cannot attend in person, yet will be attending in spirit, which is also good company.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
"Please note that your sobriety will be challenged at many of these venues."
Did anybody else notice that on the AWP offsite event page?
Sunday, January 27, 2008
In sash of satin she sways & sashays...
Reb "Your Ten Favorite Words" Livingston's isn't quite finished. Her status requires additional bling.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
The future of our road trip depends on it.
Hey, if you're in/near Des Moines, or Iowa City, or Central Illinois, or Minneapolis, or St. Louis & feel like having your brain picked, please drop me a line? (Email at top right.)
Ms. Knox, Ms. Pafunda & I are coming through there in April and have some spots to fill to complete our little tour, is why.
Roadside attractions & chowhound tips more than welcome too!
& how excited are we for part 2 of "Funcie in Muncie"? Oh, very. Who knew Muncie was the funnest town in the Midwest?
(The schedule so far is here. Some local stuff coming up too!)
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Publishers Weekly reviews For Girls (& Others)
"'For Girls,' the first of the two sequences that make up the book, responds to, reacts against and takes many phrases from an 1882 'health manual' with the same title: its advice on fashion, bodies and morals gives rise, in Compton's hands, to quirky but politically pointed verse. 'Comedy of Manners,' the second sequence, [...] hints of romantic narrative, frequent sarcasm, riffs on found texts and ambitious range of diction (from elaborate to vulgar) all serve Compton's consistent interest in how and whether the culture will ever let girls grow up."
Link to the full review (& thanks to C. Dale for the tip!)
Right now, you can only get the book here or via Powell's (because it's still not yet showing up in the distro system, alas).
Pretty much every page on this site is now out of date, most especially the blogroll. It's on my (very very very very) long to-do list. Sure it is.
Link to the full review (& thanks to C. Dale for the tip!)
Right now, you can only get the book here or via Powell's (because it's still not yet showing up in the distro system, alas).
Pretty much every page on this site is now out of date, most especially the blogroll. It's on my (very very very very) long to-do list. Sure it is.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Told ya it was hot
A limited number of advance copies will be available for reviewers (sorry, no sales yet!) from Danielle or me during you-know-what. (D will actually be attending the conference, so stay tuned for details.)
The official release date is April.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
2 new reviews of Drunk by Noon...
...& both terrific, naturally!
Ben Mirov in Coldfront sez, "[Drunk by Noon] is a series of beautiful failures linked together by the imaginative desire to fail again and again in highly enjoyable and creative ways."
& "Not since I first read James Tate have I encountered a poet who is able create a world that is at once so bizarrely asymmetrical to ours and yet somehow uncannily accurate in its portrayal of humanness."
& many other nice things.
Chris Purdom in PhilArt compares Drunk by Noon to a very wild ride of a careening cable car & recommends, "It's that good. Seriously. Go buy a copy. Now."
Shall I remind you that the Grand Opening Specials are available through the end of this month, at the Bloof Store? Drunk by Noon is also available via Powells.com (as well as the physical store in Portland, OR), Amazon.com, these great booksellers, or your favorite store can order it for you via Ingram.
Ben Mirov in Coldfront sez, "[Drunk by Noon] is a series of beautiful failures linked together by the imaginative desire to fail again and again in highly enjoyable and creative ways."
& "Not since I first read James Tate have I encountered a poet who is able create a world that is at once so bizarrely asymmetrical to ours and yet somehow uncannily accurate in its portrayal of humanness."
& many other nice things.
Chris Purdom in PhilArt compares Drunk by Noon to a very wild ride of a careening cable car & recommends, "It's that good. Seriously. Go buy a copy. Now."
Shall I remind you that the Grand Opening Specials are available through the end of this month, at the Bloof Store? Drunk by Noon is also available via Powells.com (as well as the physical store in Portland, OR), Amazon.com, these great booksellers, or your favorite store can order it for you via Ingram.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Busy as a certain micropress logo
Still working with D on My Zorba so that we can have a few advance copies ready by you-know-what.
To which, I am not really going. But I will be at Stain Bar, Friday Feb 1 at 8:00 PM. Like Reb said. & we're not kidding about the tiaras.
Still reading Infinite Jest (have taken many breaks) and also this behemoth, of another stripe entirely.
Bloofy updates & hopefully a big old DIY post to come by the end of this weekend, too.
To which, I am not really going. But I will be at Stain Bar, Friday Feb 1 at 8:00 PM. Like Reb said. & we're not kidding about the tiaras.
Still reading Infinite Jest (have taken many breaks) and also this behemoth, of another stripe entirely.
Bloofy updates & hopefully a big old DIY post to come by the end of this weekend, too.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Working on My Zorba
It's gonna be great. Wait'll you see.
Sent D the first-pass proofs last night.
Here are some of the previously published poems (some in earlier versions):
Sent D the first-pass proofs last night.
Here are some of the previously published poems (some in earlier versions):
--in Coconut
--in Apocryphal Text
Friday, January 11, 2008
VotePoke
Are you registered to vote? VotePoke will check for you, prepare your form if not, and let you poke your friends. It's not too late to register to vote in the primaries of New York and New Jersey (for instance, and many other states too), so get poking, pokey.
NB: The postmark deadline in NJ is Tuesday, Jan 15.
VotePoke.org
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
No bit...
...for yesterday. Because I went to a slam instead. T'was fun.
Robbie Q. be funny.
& speaking of slam, Cristin's Words in Your Face is finally out.
Robbie Q. be funny.
& speaking of slam, Cristin's Words in Your Face is finally out.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Happy new year
Um, hi. I'm feeling shy in front of my own blog. Funny.
Even though the daily bits I've been posting are mostly eh, I'm going to stick with it until I crack this unproductive streak. My excuse? That old saw "garbage in, garbage out."
Sina has posted the interview we did. Very interesting questions. (Thanks, Sina!) A few poems from For Girls (& Others) too.
& speaking of interviews, look to Bookslut on Thursday. Jason Jones will be posting a (really funny) interview with your friend & mine, Jennifer L. Knox.
One more thing I should probably mention here (wow, I have too many blogs): Bloof Books now has a Facebook group. Sign up for (infrequent) news and event invitations. Danke.
It's back to the writing-about-shoes factory for me...
Even though the daily bits I've been posting are mostly eh, I'm going to stick with it until I crack this unproductive streak. My excuse? That old saw "garbage in, garbage out."
Sina has posted the interview we did. Very interesting questions. (Thanks, Sina!) A few poems from For Girls (& Others) too.
& speaking of interviews, look to Bookslut on Thursday. Jason Jones will be posting a (really funny) interview with your friend & mine, Jennifer L. Knox.
One more thing I should probably mention here (wow, I have too many blogs): Bloof Books now has a Facebook group. Sign up for (infrequent) news and event invitations. Danke.
It's back to the writing-about-shoes factory for me...
Monday, January 7, 2008
And some winters
there were no snows
upon the ground.
The tawny geese
waddled about
not knowing when to begin.
The squirrels fattened
but never slept.
A faded green
lingered
on most of the lawns.
"Spring will be
less exciting, or
will we even notice?"
the man asked
of the handsome crow
rummaging through
a mound of blown leaves.
Crows know no seasons.
there were no snows
upon the ground.
The tawny geese
waddled about
not knowing when to begin.
The squirrels fattened
but never slept.
A faded green
lingered
on most of the lawns.
"Spring will be
less exciting, or
will we even notice?"
the man asked
of the handsome crow
rummaging through
a mound of blown leaves.
Crows know no seasons.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Saturday, January 5, 2008
There's a cat in my suitcase
I said to my friend A.
Somehow we were in Germany.
Or maybe like Russia.
K secretly was a rock god
on the drums but he'd never told us.
So after tipping our waitress
(a Polish model whose name I can't recall)
we went to the show. A & I danced
in vintage dresses & boots.
When I went to pee, the bathrooms
had bathtubs with millions of tiny tiles
& blond punkrock kids
sitting on their edges shooting up.
I said to my friend A.
Somehow we were in Germany.
Or maybe like Russia.
K secretly was a rock god
on the drums but he'd never told us.
So after tipping our waitress
(a Polish model whose name I can't recall)
we went to the show. A & I danced
in vintage dresses & boots.
When I went to pee, the bathrooms
had bathtubs with millions of tiny tiles
& blond punkrock kids
sitting on their edges shooting up.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The fraction of an administered
dose unchanged. On waiver in vivo
the extent to which human. The current
understanding of the mechanisms
is no fault. A undersea environment
rich in potent generals. Who among
the nutritive company so bioavailable
so rotationally grazed. Three organizations
are superior to a million organisms
floating lonely in a watery theater.
dose unchanged. On waiver in vivo
the extent to which human. The current
understanding of the mechanisms
is no fault. A undersea environment
rich in potent generals. Who among
the nutritive company so bioavailable
so rotationally grazed. Three organizations
are superior to a million organisms
floating lonely in a watery theater.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
A raft of apple studded mawkish skins
A draft more often uttered than unloud
Which lack presents the ruddy leaf of gall
So juiced, the press a might less savor fall
& shook some puddled favors to mere dips
However earthen she did roll
A query stirring in a hill
Whose eager geyser never spilled
But quivered sharply all turmoiled
Until a loner's much regard had born
A missing lister must retard
No udder rowing purring of beloved
A pictured fuddle outfitted with a bell
As over loving as the churled mock mail
For new year's fetid unguent quelled
A draft more often uttered than unloud
Which lack presents the ruddy leaf of gall
So juiced, the press a might less savor fall
& shook some puddled favors to mere dips
However earthen she did roll
A query stirring in a hill
Whose eager geyser never spilled
But quivered sharply all turmoiled
Until a loner's much regard had born
A missing lister must retard
No udder rowing purring of beloved
A pictured fuddle outfitted with a bell
As over loving as the churled mock mail
For new year's fetid unguent quelled
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