No Tell Poems and Reading in NC (Oct 30th)

poems of mine up at No Tell Motel this week
(if you check after this sunday (oct 17th) then look for me in archives). I wrote these poems last summer. They're in a different form than is usual for me. And when I wrote them i was definitely in a different sort of mind-set.

also,
i'll be reading in The So and So series on october 30th in Raleigh, NC
(along with Joe Hall, most recent Black Ocean author, and Paula Cisewski, first Black Ocean author)

and, Monday's my birthday. BFD.

The Fool: Rauan Klassnik is not important

Reb Livingston dreams about me. And writes about it on her blog.

Reb (in a dream not involving Rauan Klassnik) says she was "underwater playing some kind of fish game."

Reb says "Rauan Klassnik is not important."

Reb's No Tell Motel is open to submissions now.

Reb reads lots of books about dreaming.

Reb wants to approach life as a fool.

A few nights ago I dreamed about some baby hummingbirds I found in a man-made nest under a wooden deck in an abandoned lot. They looked like baby Love Birds. Two men who'd looked quite threatening a moment before were suddenly telling me all about hummingbirds. I think the lot was Clayton's.

In other news:
I washed my dog today.


(p.s. Reb's a very good friend.)

Bits of Brian Foley's "Black Eye" shack up over at No Tell

Poems from Brian Foley's manuscript The Black Eye are featured this week at No Tell Motel

Here are some sections that struck me:

"your inside voice
assembled in hermeneutic smoke
brewed in cauldrons of steamships."

and

"I push like an unborn
from the inside until we both are outside, born again in boiling water
And weeping for our mothers."


If, like me, you like middle-career Charles Simic (when he was hungry and glinting) then I think you'll like these No Tell Foley poems, though the quotes above aren't so Simicy.

on the other side of the interview

i answer a few questions about prose poetry, the blog interviews i do, and my forthcoming chapbooks on No Tell's Blog (with Kurt Geisler)