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Archive

Jun
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‘n RABBITS

I put a poem called RABBITS up at Ink Node

Here are some headbanging cacti: 

nothing else to report really

May
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Grubby Little Hands - “Feel in My Back” 

Video by fishing engine 

May
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This Saturday: 2 Readings

NPP PRESENTS:

Eric Ekstrand, Hannah Gamble & Sean Bishop

Poems @ Fergie’s Pub @ 6 pm 

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Chapter & Verse Presents: 

Eugene Ostashevsky, Carolina Maugeri & Kyle Conner

Poems @ Chapterhouse Cafe @ 8 pm


Apr
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Poems & Readings

I have some poems about Starfish and some poems about Cuttlefish in the new issue of Gulf Coast.

I’m in great company- there’s also words by Heather Christle, Brandon Shimoda, Jennifer Moxley, Matthew Rohrer, Matthew Zapruder, Zachary Schomburg, illustrations by Jules Buck Jones and more. 

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This Saturday I’m going out of town but that’s kind of silly because Sueyeun Juliette Lee and Erica Kaufman are reading for NPP Presents at Fergies. 

Apr
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Recording (thanks Greg Bem!) of me reading some poems a week or so ago at the book warehouse in fishtown. 

Apr
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WINE-0 TUESDAY

I’ll be reading with Benjamin Winkler at the Wine-O Reading Series this Tuesday (4/27).

Reading starts at 7:30. Wine-O is at 447 Poplar Street in Philadelphia. That’s pretty much the corner of 5th & Poplar. There will be house wine specials and those specials will be good. 

Here are some things I won’t do: 

1. Tell you how many poems I have left to read (it’s a surprise). 

2. Play defense. 

3. Audience participation! 

Here are some things I will do: 

1. Have a few glasses of wine. 

2. Audience participation! 

3. Eye contact:

Apr
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NPP Presents Fletcher & Schomburg

This Friday, April 23

6:30 - 9:00 pm @ FERGIE’S PUB (1214 Sansom St)

Debrah Morkun & I will host. There will be projections. Maybe blankets over the stained-glass windows.

This is how most forts start.  

Apr
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Upcoming April Dates

This Saturday (4/10) I’ll be introducing Heretical Text authors Kate Schapira, Allison Cobb, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Simone White, CAConrad & Frank Sherlock at the University of the Arts in Terra Hall. This Philly event is the only time all 5 authors will be reading together! It’s free & starts at 8 pm. More details at CAConrad’s blog

Thursday (4/15) I’ll be reading with members of the Corresponding Society from Brooklyn and the New Philadelphia Poets at a warehouse party at 1113 Frankford Avenue in Fishtown. It’s free to get in, there’s a cash bar. Party goes from 7pm-11pm. More details at NPP

Friday (4/16) I’ll be reading again with Debrah Morkun in the Mostly Books Reading Series hosted by Brandon Holmquest

Friday (4/23) I’ll be co-hosting NPP Presents Zachary Schomburg & Sasha Fletcher at Fergie’s Pub in center city Philadelphia. Starts at 6:30, ends at 9.  

Tuesday (4/27) I’ll be reading in the WineO reading series hosted by Abbi Dion at the WineO bar & restaurant in Northern Liberties. 

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I spent the better part of March in the Costa Del Sol of Spain (and a little bit in Morocco). I am very lucky. Here are some things I saw: 

Mar
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NPP in the Spring

NPP’s spring schedule is 80% up and it’s quite the schedule. We’re proud of our baby. 

Visit the NPP events page for info on upcoming Philly readings by: Marion Bell, Debrah Morkun, Joe Roarty, Luis Humberto Valadez, Patrick Lucy, Zachary Schomburg, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Sasha Fletcher, Eric Ekstrand, Hannah Gamble, Sean Bishop, Jamie Townsend, Catherine Theis, Jared Stanley, Lauren Levin, Andrew Schelling, Sarah Heady, Erica Kaufman, Suenyeun Juliette Lee & more. 

Mar
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Philadelphia Poetry Map

Did I mention that Greg Bem put together a Philadelphia Poetry Map with Google Maps?

It’s a great place to get a handle on what Greg calls Philly’s “scene of scenes.”

A wonderful thing about Greg is that he’s everywhere, all the time. And he brings a recorder. At his blog you can listen to loads of poetry readings he’s recorded all over the city.

You might find some recordings of me while you’re there but I’m not going to make it easy for you.

_Catch/Confetti released Greg Bem’s chapbook ANTE awhile back and, before that, we released his broadside YELLING CUSTOMER.

Woah Greg Bem & _Catch/Confetti, slow down. Right? I know.

That photo up there? It’s Henlopen Trail Map by Brian Melton.

Mar
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Spring: Almost Here

The snow’s finally melting. I don’t think this polar bear is going to make it.

Feb
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New Broadside: Carlos Soto Román

To celebrate the recent release of Carlos Soto Román’s Cambio y Fuera, _Catch/Confetti has released a broadside featuring three (english) translations from the book.

Copies of the broadside were first available this past Saturday at the Chapter & Verse reading series, where Carlos read alongside Angel Hogan and Lauren Ireland.

Feb
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Jan
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Progress Report

I’m writing a lot, finishing the first draft of a manuscript called “FULL EPISODE PLAYER”. It’s filled with gym instructors, starfish, chairs, giant salamanders, burning nuns, ladders, cuttlefish, hummingbirds, station wagons, mutations, naked men, bees, false deer, conch shells and Julia Robertseses.

There’s also a quiz to make sure you’re paying attention.

The first poems from FULL EPISODE PLAYER will be in the next issue of Gulf Coast- 7 short anatomical poems about starfish and 7 more about cuttlefish.

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This weekend I’m going to finish binding the few remaining copies of ANTE and LIVE FIELD: GROWTHS 1-5. Some very patient people are waiting for me to do that. Thank you patient people.

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Last Friday I read at a pot-luck organized by CA Conrad to celebrate the grand reopening of Molly’s Bookstore in the Italian market. Then on Saturday I read at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC with the rest of the New Philadelphia Poets. I’ll post a link to audio and/or video of our collaborative performance once it surfaces.

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Friend Carlos Soto Román has launched ELECTIVE AFFINITIES, a cooperative anthology of US contemporary poetry. According to the site, the project is “an effort to chart our own literary map where affinities, differences, and unexpected connections coexist in an ongoing, collective construction”. What’s really cool is that it’s part of a larger project- parallel versions of Elective Affinities are already growing in other countries.

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Thom Donovan is blogging right now over at Harriet. Thom is awesome. You should go read his posts.

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If you order any book from Greying Ghost Press right now you get a FREE copy of Sasha Fletcher’s pamphlet “We Are All Of Us Up To Something” (while supplies last). Greying Ghost makes beautiful chapbooks and Sasha makes beautiful sentences, so.

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And, lastly, I recently fell in love love love with Heather Christle’s THE DIFFICULT FARM. Just so you know.