Holiday Question

"That’s the universal question as a 21^st century male artist, right? How can I desire (women) without my desire being damaging?"

Alexis Orgera in "Pen Pals: A Conversation with Nate Slawson"

Less Than a Year

Less than a year now till my 2nd book, The Moon's Jaw, releases,....

will I switch back into idiot blogger mode ???

Old Flame

"A Poem is Not a Teddy Bear"--- (my soul-mate, Tony Hoagland)

Black Ocean's 2012 Schedule

Hunger Transit by Feng Sun Chen (Spring 2012)
Fjords by Zachary Schomburg (Spring 2012)
Handsome Vol. 4 (Spring 2012)
Dark Matter by Aase Berg, trans. Johannes Göransson (Fall 2012)
The Moon's Jaw by Rauan Klassnik (Fall 2012)

and you can pre-order it all now for $50
(Almost a 30% savings! And as always, free shipping!)

Black Ocean is also currently offering package deals on
their entire catalog of books. Check them out here.

So and So Poems

so
some of my newer poems are included in the new So and So

along side work by Cisewski, Hall, MacDonald, Mirov, etc,...

check it out here

Reading in DC and Philadelphia this Week

for anyone interested i'll be reading, thanks to Joe Hall, in DC this thursday (17th).

and, thanks to Kim Gek Lin Short, in Philadelphia on saturday. 19th.
details below.


1) In DC with Buck Downs and Jeff Bagato
and music from The Sweater Set

at the Cheryl's Gone Series
Big Bear Cafe
1st and R NW
Washington, DC

Thursday, 17th, 8-10pm


2) In Philadelphia with Kim Gek Lin Short, Michelle Taransky and Justin Marks

A Splitleaves Affair
Moonstone Arts Center
110 A S. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA

Saturday, 19th, 7-9pm


i'll be there in my best red dress

A Long Time Ago

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie

"I am on a drug," Sheen said. "It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body."

Wayne Water Signed (twice)

Wayne Water (aka BOY MTN), who collaborated with me on some Holy Land "music," has been signed by a couple of different labels,...

if you're interested in checking out some of the tracks on Purgatorio then click here

Dangerous House of Pages

a nice little blurb-review of Holy Land at James Schiller's Under Speech

"brute strength"

"demented"

"textual knuckles"

etc

click here to read

Matthew Guenette

So when I'm not reading Chaucer, Hopi Tales of Sexual Floundering, Psychobabbles on Stalin (with lots of juicy Hitler-Man-Crush details) and dancing around naked in the glittering charnel house of my poetry

----Danse Russe (WCWilliams)-----

If I when my wife is sleeping
Ballet russe (photo of Adolph Bolm and Flore Revalles, taken in 1910)

and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a flame-white disc
in silken mists
above shining trees,--
if I in my north room
dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
waving my shirt round my head
and singing softly to myself:
"I am lonely, lonely.
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!"
If I admire my arms, my face,
my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
again the yellow drawn shades,--

Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?


I've been reading Matthew Guenette's Marriage/wish poem on Anti--Even though I now kind of feel that i can see most of the author's fingerprints and scaffolding I don't care. I'm really delighted by this poem....

to check it out click here

Nic, Nic, Nic

"Between now and then I'm gonna mess you up!!"

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on Amazon used but good copies of Holy Land can now be bought for the same price as a Big Mac ... $2.79...(plus shipping).... great .....