28th

I’ll be leading some collaborative writing techniques tomorrow along with the rest of the New Philadelphia Poets and Michelle Taransky at the Kelly Writers House at U Penn.
Come anytime between 1 and 3 in the afternoon.
DETAILS:
New Philadelphia Poets present:
A Poetic Obstacle Course!
Sponsored by the Kelly Writers House and Penn Arts Crawl
Friday, November 20
1:00-3:00 pm
Kelly Writers House
at the University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

The Tibetan Cut-Ups by Marion Bell

BASA by J. Townsend

_Catch/Confetti Sampler

Live Field: Growths 1-5 by Patrick Lucy
Did you know that sometimes (increasingly) this blog is a very small press?
So far _Catch/Confetti Press has released the following 7-poem broadsides:
The Tibetan Cut-Ups by Marion Bell
B A S A by J. Townsend
Pitch Black by Patrick Lucy
Yelling Customer by Gregory Bem
Cygnet by Sarah Heady
Over and Out by Carlos Soto Román
+ Chapbooks:
Live Field: Growths 1-5 by Patrick Lucy
Ante by Greg Bem
More to come.

My poem JUST BORN, A TWILIGHT OF DOORKNOBS, THREE BULBS was recently featured on Ink Node. That was really cool.
It was even cooler (and inexplicable) to find out I’m one of the most-read authors on Ink Node. The eighth most-read, apparently. Which means my poems know a lot more people than I do.
So, yeah, a big thank-you to everyone out there who is reading. It means something, even if it shouldn’t.
Here are some poems I’ve found on Ink Node that are awesome and I wouldn’t have encountered otherwise, probably:
Brian Christian’s Meditation at Ripton: A poem that clubs you as soon as you step inside.
Lucy Ives’ View (Red Flowers): It started an argument between my boyfriend and I about what a poem can be vs what a poem should be.
Hannah Gamble’s Everything That’s Alive Stays That Way: This poem hit me in the gut. Kind of like how James Tate’s The Ghost Soldiers beat me up everyday after work last week. The war really IS everywhere.
Ink Node is trying to raise money to cover hosting costs right now. You should help them if yr able by donating at this link.
Thanks to Sommer Browning, the Multifarious Array & everyone who came out to the reading at Pete’s last Friday. I had a great time.
ps- that’s me in the picture. that’s what I look like in my body, in the world.
Friday, October 23
7 pm @ Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
I’m reading at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn with Paige Taggart, Sharon Dolin, & Esther K. Smith. The reading series is called The Multifarious Array- it’s curated by Sommer Browning.
I haven’t been to NYC in awhile- it’s going to be a lot of fun.
I wish I had a picture for this post. Here’s one:

Best things to have happened to my brain in the last couple months, maybe more, maybe forever:
Poet: Eric Baus