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Saturday

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:45:00 -0400

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!

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:08:00 -0400

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

Doctor’s find pea seed growing in man’s lung: Fresh,...

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:15:16 -0400

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

Photo

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:29:03 -0400

Photo

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:26:59 -0400

Amy Casey

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:25:54 -0400

Amy Casey

I like Basil’s pro-“vegitation” platform.

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:32:41 -0400

I like Basil’s pro-“vegitation” platform.

Enter the Mantis

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:14:04 -0400

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).

Part 2 Part 3 “Enter the Mantis”- another entry in...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:03:00 -0400

Part 2

Part 3

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

Sugar Gliders

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:59:00 -0400

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:

Seedbombs

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:29:42 -0400

yes definitely

Bug season means I get to film more insects. In this video a...

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:53:00 -0400

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.

Bug Season

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:46:00 -0400

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.

I need some new clothes. How about this cabbage smock by Nicole...

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:24:58 -0400

I need some new clothes.

How about this cabbage smock by Nicole Dextras?

Yes please.

Scorpion Square Dance from “The Living Desert,”...

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:25:00 -0400

Scorpion Square Dance from “The Living Desert,” Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 1953

'n RABBITS

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:41:27 -0400

I put a poem called RABBITS up at Ink Node.

Here are some headbanging cacti:

nothing else to report really

Grubby Little Hands - “Feel in My Back” Video by...

Fri, 28 May 2010 11:15:25 -0400

Grubby Little Hands - “Feel in My Back”

Video by fishing engine

This Saturday: 2 Readings

Mon, 03 May 2010 17:21:07 -0400

NPP PRESENTS:

Eric Ekstrand, Hannah Gamble & Sean Bishop

Poems @ Fergie’s Pub @ 6 pm

Chapter & Verse Presents:

Eugene Ostashevsky, Carolina Maugeri & Kyle Conner

Poems @ Chapterhouse Cafe @ 8 pm

Poems & Readings

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:54:21 -0400

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.

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.

Recording (thanks Greg Bem!) of me reading some poems a week or...

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:10:58 -0400

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