20th
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.
