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Saturday

This Saturday I’m going to read poetry with Hailey Higdon and then Grubby Little Hands will play music while Fishing Engine does live video projections. 

The Seaside!

I just finished reading Heather Christle’s new chapbook from minutes BOOKS It’s called The Seaside! 

And friends it was filled with so much goodness I had to read the poems out loud I wished I had an audience! I emailed some to friends right away like I was crazy

The poems are punctuated like this blog post There are no periods but sometimes there are exclamation points Capital letters are used to mark new sentences I read faster and faster until I crashed into exclamation points It was intense! I had to go back and read the poems out loud to slow down Sometimes I couldn’t be sure which sentence a particular clause was part of at least for the first couple reads and that gave things a lovely double-exposure kind of feeling 

Heather Christle’s poems have a tone or a perspective or a way of orienting themselves to the world that is so open They refresh my real-world perspective and mental pathways

I’m not sure how the poems manage to be as open as they are and not sound naive or innocent It’s an impressive tight-rope act

I think someone else described Christle’s poems’ orientation as “post-fear” but I can’t seem to find where they wrote that And if they didn’t I just did because I think that’s a good way to talk about it The poems aren’t unafraid fear has nothing to do with it They are beyond everything as the Mooninites would say

So anyway you should maybe read The Seaside! and also read The Difficult Farm

Read a poem from The Seaside! here

Enter the Mantis

Woah. I think David Attenborough may have been a few gin & tonics deep when he agreed to narrate this doc in 2001.

It’s right up there with “The Living Desert” (only this was made 47 years later). 

Related question: Can fonts be racist? 

Sugar Gliders

I’m reading this Friday at 7pm with Carlos Soto Roman, Hailey Higdon, and Kim Gek Lin Short at Germ Books. There will be live music by Jeff Brennan and HB Wells. It is free. If you come, you can read too. 

I got a year older today. I’ve done this 27 times now. 

Here’s DOMEFAIL on elimae. Thanks elimae! 

I bought a house two weeks ago. 

I went to the coffee shop on Sunday and there was a felt purse beside me on the counter and inside the felt purse were three of these: 

Seedbombs

yes definitely 

Bug Season

I have a poem called THE COLOR GREEN BEGINS AS PALE EGGSHELL in the new Fox Chase Review. Don’t miss Carlos’s poems and Joe Roarty’s Circus, also in the issue. 

I have some excerpts from DOMEFAIL forthcoming in elimae in July.

Bug season is here and I love it. Grow spiders grow.