BOTH BOTH

2013-05-22T13:47:00.001-07:00

2. SAGINAW #4- Edited David Harrison Horton, featuring Cassandra Smith, Eileen Myles, Courtnie Wolfgang, Spencer Selby, Rodney Koeneke

I remember standing out side the Canessa Gallery in North Beach one night chatting with DHH. This was back when Erica Lewis was curating, I think Suzanne Stein (SS read her transcript from her Poetry Project reading) and Ariel Goldberg (AG, read some of her photo project stuff) were reading. DHH and I were talking about skateboarding, The Pack's song "Vans" had just dropped, so we were chopping it up about the then nascent (and now dead) skate-rap movement. I have a line in RAVE ON! "skateboarding is not the 6th element of Hip Hop," and it's not, and as a skater, and former hip hopper I would get frustrated with the overeager conflation of the two, though I was into what The Pack were doing, and told DHH so.

2013-05-15T15:55:00.001-07:00

check it check it out
EAST BAY POETRY SUMMIT SCHEDULE

it's basically a week away. i can't believe it.

please see below the final schedule of events and readings

(also attached as a lovely green pdf)

and PLEASE PASS IT ALONG!

and write me back if you have any questions!

also, andrew's asked me to ask you

to COME TO OUR POTLUCK on saturday 5/25

and to "implore 'em to bring brats, whole chickens,

stuck pigs, and caterwauling shoals

of cliffs of beets + potato salads"

for love of blood and kale

xo pe

EAST BAY POETRY SUMMIT SCHEDULE:

Thursday, May 23rd

8pm @ Nick's Lounge: 3218 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA
Karaoke at Nick's Lounge

Friday, May 24th

7:00 p.m. @ 2127 Blake St, Berkeley
Uyen Hua
Douglas Rothschild
Melissa Buzzeo
Jen Hofer
David Wolach

Saturday, May 25th

4:00 p.m. @ Long Haul: 3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CACassie Smith
Sue Landers
Mathew Timmons
Katy Bohinc
Frank Sherlock6:00 p.m. @ Woolsey Heights: 1628 Woolsey st apt c, Berkeley

Potluck! 8:00 p.m. @ Woolsey Heights
Bhanu Kapil
Andrew Durbin
John Coletti
Jared Stanley
Dolores Dorantes (with Jen Hofer)
Jenn McCrearySunday, May 26th

3:00 p.m. @ The Public School: 2141 Broadway, Oakland
Anne Boyer
Anna Vitale
Laura Henriksen
Sophie Sills
Frank Montesonti
7:00 p.m. @ Tender Oracle: 531 22nd St, OaklandMaged Zaher
Matt Longabucco
Dawn Lundy Martin

Monday, May 27th 2pm
BBQ at David Buuck’s!

2013-05-14T10:47:00.001-07:00

1. A Clash Of Kings- George R.R. Martin (A Song Of Ice And Fire, Book 2)
Bantam Books

I'd rather watch Mad Men drinking Canadian Club whiskey. I can't watch Game Of Thrones without drinking red wine. My enjoyment of these two shows is enhanced and altered by consuming site specific alcoholic drinks, whiskey and red wine, I'm a lemur, easily influenced by the media I consume, if Tyrion Lannister is drinking red wine, I should be too. I like to watch Mad Men on Tuesdays, I only watch Game Of Thrones on Sundays. I was selected for jury duty a couple years ago, I'd walk home from 850 Bryant everyday, SOMA to Civic Center, up Grove St. through the Western Addition projects to the Lower Haight. I'd watch Mad Men and drink Canadian Club whiskey in late afternoon bedroom sunlight, I'd fantasize about tailored suits and classic haircuts. Game Of Thrones is perfect on Sunday evenings after spending the day in the park, Fairyland or Lake View, yelling at disgusting Canadian geese, eating a sandwich, drinking a beer, lazing in the Lake Merritt sunlight. I feel like having a balcony enhances the experience of watching Game Of Thrones, taking breaks in underrated.

2013-05-13T08:47:00.002-07:00

I kept getting the building code wrong.

A mansion, an entrance way, columns (a la House Of Leaves).

I remember L. K. calling bullshit (actually he said "spurious") on Jack Spicer's last words reportedly being "my vocabulary did this to me/ your love will let you go on." His whole thing was that Jack was catatonic in the hospital, couldn't speak, couldn't move, that there was no way he could have been lucid enough to form those two sentences.

A couple weeks ago I was invited to a poet's birthday party at Specs in North Beach, I didn't know the poet whose birthday we were celebrating, I was invited by Angelos and Jack Hirschman. Hirschman told me that L. K. had moved back from Europe, he told me he's gotten skinny, I told Hirschman that L. K. had invited me to spend some time as a writer's resident at his girlfriend's barn in Switzerland, I couldn't afford the ticket to Europe.

Was reading Ron Silliman's essay My Vocabulary Did This To Me in ACTS #6 this morning. Ron argues that Spicer's last words were antithetical to his poetics, that it was never about "vocabulary" for Spicer, VOCABULARY was a R. Duncan thing. Vocabulary is furniture, merely furniture. And then Silliman returns to Spicer's last words, ties it all up in the end, I can't remember how, I was drinking sour Colombian coffee in bed.

Benjamin Hollander (ed. ACTS #6) and George Albon are reading at Bird And Beckett this Wednesday at 7pm, not to be missed.

2013-05-11T16:48:00.002-07:00

me and Karyn, Sarina and Josh saw The Shining documentary Room 237 last night at The New Parkway last night, it was mostly silly and a little bit terrible.

we then went The Legionnaire Saloon for Hennessey and beers, they were playing House music, it was terrible, and I love House music.

we then headed back to Karyn's place where she cooked us tuna, it was delicious, we had conversations about the Kentucky Derby.

currently listening to Joanna Newsom's Mild Eyed Mender drinking a Dark And Stormy.

I listened to baseball on the radio at Lake View park today.

2013-05-09T16:59:00.002-07:00

"Only now in my early thirties do I realize the incomprehensible/ pain of living, the inevitability of death, and the endless need/ for total illumination, be that as it may."

from Serenade
Bill Berkson

2013-05-06T09:35:00.001-07:00

I'm so Greek Easter hungover.

Check out these RAVE ON! poems just up at Tarpaulin Sky.

Happy birthday Willie Mays, hope you have a restful day.

Love.

2013-04-29T09:36:00.004-07:00

4 photos by KJH, Room 389, Oakland, CA.

2013-04-22T10:57:00.002-07:00

drawing by Karyn, hand by Jesse

5 new chapbooks bought and gifted

2013-04-18T12:43:00.000-07:00

Stained Glass Windows Of California by Julien Poirier (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Let The Smoke And The Tracks Carry You! by Christina Fisher, Patrick James Dunagan and Derek Fenner (Bird And Beckett Books)

Jack Of Diamonds And The Queen Of Spades by Jackson Meazle (Bird And Beckett Books)

Fright Catalog by Joseph Mosconi (Insert Blanc Press)

Fright Analog by Joseph Mosconi (Insert Blanc Press)

2013-04-17T12:00:00.003-07:00

re: the Atacama Humanoid

"Today, the team has elected to share the following additional 'Atacama Humanoid' conclusive findings: 'Ata' was male and survived post-birth 6 to 8 years.
Speaking specifically to Internet controversy over 'Ata,'..While it's size led many to suggest that it was an aborted fetus, bone density and epiphyseal plate studies have already concluded that this creature survived post-birth 6 to 8 years."

2013-04-14T11:48:00.002-07:00

2013-04-12T09:28:00.001-07:00

2013-04-07T09:09:00.000-07:00

Stephen Vincent grew up attending Camp Ravencliff 40 years before I did.

Jack Hirschmann is the godfather of Amber Tamblyn.

these are poetry facts, I learned them at the Anselm Hollo memorial, then later at the Amerarcana issue #3 book party at Bird And Beckett.

today is the Sunset season opener. I'm not going.

2013-04-03T17:51:00.000-07:00

the screaming meemies gave us the heebie-jeebies
living ghosts go down the logger's trail
chewing cud at the crossroads,
Vanishing Hitchhickers never get where they're going

2013-04-01T08:29:00.001-07:00

2013-03-29T08:32:00.001-07:00

Anselm Hollo, a Memorial Tribute Saturday
April 6, 4:00 pm @ CCA Graduate Writing Studio, 195 DeHaro (at 15th Street)
California College of the Arts, San Francisco

Jane Dalrymple-Hollo and Tamsin Hollo will be our honored guests

Participants to include:
Alan Bernheimer
Mary Burger
Maxine Chernoff
Brenda Coultas
Steve Dickison
Stephen Emerson
Derek Fenner
Gloria Frym
Tinker Greene
Donald Guravich
Paul Hoover
Alastair Johnston
Joanne Kyger
George Mattingly
Lucy Farber Mattingly
Sarah Menefee
Jim Nisbet
Eric Olson
Michelle Puckett
Kit Robinson
John Sakkis
Andrew Schelling

2013-03-22T11:07:00.001-07:00

3 Failed Email Collaborations
for Ben Mirov, Julian Poirier and Chris Martin

a little nose dive down,
my posture is a yellow balloon
into and out of the bottle
this sour spittle, this
little wreckage-go-round
I can't feel my legs
licking it it sprightly, a love burn nervously fleeing
the last time I was in NYC I flooded
SFO will never be named MILK
now that blah blah "diamonds and furs..."
a WASPish widow, and the apple of my eye,
and the layover of my loutishness, my bald
balls are hung and heavy with merriment,
a ribald toast to our brattiness, cake and food
I'm a bubble wrap B-Boy, smell smell smell
say that's really swell Mr.
say you're a bottom dweller skimming Cul de Sac
clean, like a mean Reaper you give good BONE
let's play kick the can down the road/ TELEPHONE
repeat after me "my bloody gums receding"
"my buddy knows no bleeding"
"my buddy's nose knows no's"
and I really couldn't remember
your text preference whether
your outta-didact was fuzzy
and x-rated but yes, definitely
human and stiff as a stream
straightening out small tweak-
ers huffing and puffing above
me working the floor
till kingdom come
[starts couplets]
Sparks Outrage on the internet
[starts couplets]
the Bonnie Bay Bridge of Autumn
and I really couldn't remember
your text preference whether
your outta-didact was fuzzy
and x-rated but yes, definitely
human and stiff as a stream
straightening out small tweak-
ers huffing and puffing above
me working the floor
till kingdom come

2013-03-20T10:23:00.003-07:00

Thursday night, 8PM

Evan Kennedy

David Brazil

Jackqueline Frost

The Hearts Desire Reading Series

2013-03-18T15:30:00.004-07:00

Nevada City

there is no Union Hotel

which blond ass do you prefer

a vodka tonic and a burger, Burner's Equinox

no smoking in this miner's town

vegan rot gut

everyone plays guitar

2013-03-15T07:55:00.000-07:00

Year One

I didn't like the part
where the Batman
kicked the tree
in half

2013-03-12T10:32:00.002-07:00

Antony and the Johnsons, you're a warble monster.

Gargle spittoon on the gangways.

"Thank You For Your Love" filled me with dread.

Vibrato violence/ make up mooch/ trembling EP epitome.

I don't give a fig about wardrobe, and Joan Baez can suck a duck too.

2013-03-11T20:51:00.000-07:00

I just ate an egg salad with gingerbread and sprinkles.

I'm going to box the mayo and chimichanga out of my pores this week.

I ended up on the ceiling again this morning.

I spent the day reading Sucker Punch reviews.

It's going to be 75degrees out tomorrow.

2013-03-11T10:28:00.000-07:00

some new The Next Big Thing interviews from

Stephen Boyer

Susana Gardner

Amanda Davidson

Jenn McCreary

2013-03-07T08:42:00.000-08:00

spill a whiskey
your Jason mask is ready
and I'm falling down on the mark
at the river a water tick bit my belly
there is no HEAVEN, only bread,
you are one of them that eats their GOD
only folly, I'm praying not to doze
during the drive home, I'm feeling frisky,
static RADIO and Redwoods,
let's download the rest and get busy,
I'll visit when I'm ready
Lodge-Builder, Sun Dancer, Fire-Fighter
what tools will you get for Christmas?
I bet a sailboat and tackle, a new LOVE
the best breakfast ever sandwiched between
this regional rest, I'm sure of it, you'll do fine
now it's up to me to mark the water, build those
bridges, skip stones and cowboy up,
every year is the same, making a wish around the clock
fools gold for a fire sign, water is my woman
this conjuring stick in the mud, stop sitting down
for a second and jam out, I've never broken bread
with an automobile, this New Year's Eve resolution:
a road trip, a warm summer, back to magic baby