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Aug
31st
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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. 

Aug
25th
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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

Aug
13th
Fri
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Doctor’s find pea seed growing in man’s lung: Fresh, local, organic. 

Aug
6th
Fri
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Amy Casey

Amy Casey

Aug
5th
Thu
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I like Basil’s pro-“vegitation” platform. 

Jul
28th
Wed
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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? 

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Part 2

Part 3

“Enter the Mantis”- another entry in my ongoing search for terrible animal docs. 

Jul
12th
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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

Jun
29th
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Seedbombs

yes definitely 

Jun
22nd
Tue
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Bug season means I get to film more insects.

In this video a wasp cleans itself while I watch.

The handheld cam makes this video voyeur-tastic! 

Watch in high def at Vimeo

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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.

Jun
10th
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I need some new clothes.
How about this cabbage smock by Nicole Dextras?
Yes please. 

I need some new clothes.

How about this cabbage smock by Nicole Dextras?

Yes please. 

Jun
8th
Tue
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Scorpion Square Dance from “The Living Desert,” Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 1953