February 2012
2 posts
Come and see
On Monday, Feb 13th, I’ll be reading with CAConrad and Camille Roy for con/crescent press.
Higher Grounds
631 North 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123 (7:00-9:00 pm)
($5 suggested donation, shirts optional*)
Details over at concrescentpress.org »
*I doubt shirts are optional
January 2012
8 posts
I'm Reading this Saturday in Philly
I’ll be reading for Art Loft PA’s salon in Philadelphia this weekend.
Saturday’s salon features the work of visual artist Kim Piotrowski and music by Lee Allen.
The salon is invitation only- if you’d like to go just shoot me an email ahead of time.
“Readers today appreciate variations and plays on cliche in the way past readers...”
– Amit Majmudar
December 2011
7 posts
Apiary Launch Saturday
The launch party for APIARY issue 3 is this Saturday starting at 7 pm.
I will be reading some poems at the event, including HONEYCREEPER, which is included in the issue. NOTE: the venue has changed to the Media Bureau in Northern Liberties (4th and Brown).
“I bet any poet of conscience who doesn’t actively write about sociopolitical...”
– Jaswinder Bolina in an essay for Poetry
November 2011
2 posts
Thanks for all the air whales
Two new poems in La Fovea thanks to Whit Griffin and Virginia McLure.
I had a great time reading two Sundays ago thanks to Daniel Coudriet, Asher Lewis, Angelo Colavita, and Debrah Morkun.
Daniel read from his amazing book Say Sand, which I highly recommend picking up.
Debrah, who hosts Jubilant Thicket, just had her second book, The Ida Pingala, come out from BlaxeVOX. It is also a...
October 2011
1 post
Jubilant Thicket on November 13
I’ll be reading Sunday, November 13th in Debrah’s Jubilant Thicket Series.
Daniel Coudriet and Asher Lewis will also be reading.
Starts at 7 pm at the Walking Fish Theatre in Fishtown. I’ll have copies of DESERT SUITE available. DESERT SUITE is an ephemeral chapbook composed of five “filmic” poems set in the desert. Hand bound and hand burnt by me, DESERT...
July 2011
1 post
Oh, right.
I should probably mention some things.
This weekend I’m reading in the Boston Poetry Marathon. There’s whole bunches of other people reading that I’m excited to hear. Have a look at the lineup.
Carlos Soto-Román has released Philadelphia’s Notebooks and also visited Jupiter.
Jamie Townsend has had two beautiful chapbooks come out recently - STRAP / HALO from Portable...
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
Some Glitches
2RXF6
2RXF6 ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS
1. To intall (2) and (5) below of (6) by (1).
2. To assemble (6)(9) by using componets (3)(4).
3. To fix (13) and (16) into (12) by (14).
4. To assemble (9)(12)(15) by using components (7)(8).
5. To fix (17) from top of (10), then put the (10)on the (9).
6. The revolving (17) can be fixed position on (11), when press down (11), you can revolve (17) to anothe...
April 2011
1 post
Updates from the Universe
I kept reading this as Planets ‘may have black planets’.
What does it mean?!, I thought. I was pretty excited.
Took a screenshot so I’d remember forever. It was 2:18 AM.
Obviously.
.
All sorts of amazing poets have been visiting Jupiter lately.
Poets like Joey Yearous-Algozin, Dorothea Lasky, Ryan Eckes, Debrah Morkun, and Frank Sherlock.
CAConrad is behind it...
March 2011
4 posts
Coming
Finished a chapbook called FISH NOT FISH. 24 prose poems. Going to submit it places.
Finished something called DESERT SUITE and made a chapbook for it.
20 copies of DESERT SUITE have been printed & cut, but still need to be bound.
The covers have burn marks. I burned them.
WILLIAM is still forthcoming from con/crescent.
MARSH SUITE keeps growing.
Some poems will appear in the...
I've elected affinities
3 poems and a statement of poetics up at Elective Affinities.
It was kind of a big deal for me to write a statement of poetics.
I mean it took me a long time. And I tried really hard.
Make sure you read the other work at Elective Affinities.
It’s a generous space to read.
Lately I’ve been seeing walls I last saw as a child.
“Perception is always an embrace.”
– Unassigned Territory by Kem Nunn
February 2011
1 post
“THROUGH LINE sometimes also called the crack, was first suggested by Constantin...”
January 2011
1 post
Wrote a poem last night called KEEPING JIM HENSON HONEST AND DEAD.
Wrote another called SATELLITE (a bad poem).
A couple days ago I sat down to write but I could only write titles, not poems.
I think I’m going to go to AWP this year.
December 2010
6 posts
Said the Blizzard to the Beach
12.28.10 Lewes, De
Revista Laboratorio
Carlos Soto Román was kind enough to translate some of my work into spanish.
Some of those translations just appeared in Revista Laboratorio, a magazine out of Santiago, Chile.
A few of my collage poems are also in the issue.
As are some other translations by Carlos (and Juan Diego Soto) of Zachary Schomburg’s poems.
A big, big thanks to Carlos. Now I get to imagine my poems stomping...
A workshop unlike most
Hey! Did you know CACONRAD hosts (Soma)tic Poetry Workshops from time to time?
And did you know Conrad is hosting one in Philly on Sunday, December 12?
AND did you know there are only two spots left in said workshop?
Well, what are you waiting for? Go register »
ps- I did a (Soma)tic Workshop with Conrad last year. In a word: MARVELOUS.
Be prepared to take notes.
November 2010
3 posts
October 2010
2 posts
Minimilism...
… at the BioMotionLab
September 2010
4 posts
I just finished a suite of marsh poems.
Before that I wrote a suite of bear poems.
My poems used to come one at a time.
Then they started coming in pairs.
Now they come in sets of five to eight. I call them suites.
I’m not sure if they’re really separate poems.
They might be modules, facets or a dub version of a single poem.
It’s fun writing this way.
Like...
omg, it’s a zorse
Surprise Reading Tonight
I will be reading alongside Carlos Soto Román, Nicholas DeBoer, and Debrah Morkun at the Philadelphia Center for the Book.
It’s from 6-8 tonight (Sep 10) @ 626 South Street in Philly.
When the reading’s over, we’ll spill into the streets to purchase designer jeans, hookah pipes and Auntie Anne’s pretzels, South Street style.
August 2010
4 posts
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...
