okay, just got back from Liquor Mart where i purchased a tall-boy of Foster's and a 12 pack of Pabst...checked the mailbox and found that Michael Slosek's Drill issue 7 had arrived...i'm pretty sure the Academy Awards are on tonight...settling in...
"Drill, issue 7, is completed. It's quite simply the best one yet. Cover art by Luke Daly, art work by Scott Shanley, a CD edited by Eric Unger with sound poetry by ric royer, jUStin!katKo, and Eric Unger. And 17 poets: Eric Unger, jUStin!katKO, Dorothea Lasky, Luke Daly, Aaron Lowinger, Barrett Gordon, Piers Hugill, Sheila Murphy, Tawrin Baker, Michael Slosek, Michael Koshkin, Maureen Thorson, Andrew Peterson, Francis Raven, Ian Duncan, and Derek Beaulieu. I'm ever so slowly mailing out issues to contributors - a good number of them should be in the mail on Monday. If you'd like an issue, please let me know via the House Press email address. Also, if you're going to be in Chicago in early April - Luke Daly, Eric Unger, and I will be reading (probably at Danny's) as a launch for both Drill and Spell magazine. Thanks to everyone who submitted work. Drill will return in the late summer or early fall with an 8th and final issue. I'll keep you posted."
can't wait to did into it...all of it...
...currently listening to Sonic Youth Goo...(can you tell Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands?...i'm going to try and get a picture with Thurston at the reading...tee hee...)
Mar 4, 2006
anthology ish...
go here for up to date info 2008
...currently listening to Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star..."
...currently listening to Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star..."
what's all this talk about a new anthology?
Jessica Smith of Outside Voices has graciously asked me to edit the "West Coast" portion of a new anthology of younger poets (25-35) to be published in 2008...more details to come as the project moves forward...
here's what Jessica had to say about the project on her blog:looktouch
(if someone can teach me how to hyperlink my links i'd be grateful)
for all my left-coast friends (loosely from Texas to Washington), expect solicitations with details forthcoming...
...thinking about going to the liquor store in a bit, grab some beer (burnt on whiskey for the weekend), watch the Academy Awards...
...currently listening to Sonic Youth Disappear Maxi Single"
here's what Jessica had to say about the project on her blog:
(if someone can teach me how to hyperlink my links i'd be grateful)
for all my left-coast friends (loosely from Texas to Washington), expect solicitations with details forthcoming...
...thinking about going to the liquor store in a bit, grab some beer (burnt on whiskey for the weekend), watch the Academy Awards...
...currently listening to Sonic Youth Disappear Maxi Single"
...
just woke up from a dream...i was at Fenway Park, opening day...Red Sox vs. A's...pregame...Red Sox fans were giving the few A's fans (appropriately decked out in green) a lot of friendly verbal hazing...i remember this one kid got up looking offended and shouted "calm down you guys, this is comedy, this is just baseball," and i got up immediately and shouted down to the kid "this isn't comdey!...this is DRAMA!...this is BASEBALL!!!"...ha! what a weirdly satisfying dream...
i also dreamt that Dose One came to teach at the SWP...i was his faculty aid...and he was perpetually hung over...i remember introducing Dose to Alan Gilbert saying "Adam this is Alan Gilbert, he's an art critic, music critic and poet, he's written for Artforum and the Village Voice..."...wtf?
and then i was skating down Monument Blvd. in Concord...my skateboard broke, a bunch of Scraps ran up on me about to beat my ass...i recognized one of them as my friend Oscar from highschool, Oscar quickly helped me up and introduced me to the guys...i remember the ghetto Spanish i spoke in highschool came back...it was all "que onda whey? and "simone whey"...and pats on the back...
...currently listening to Sole Uckrt...
i also dreamt that Dose One came to teach at the SWP...i was his faculty aid...and he was perpetually hung over...i remember introducing Dose to Alan Gilbert saying "Adam this is Alan Gilbert, he's an art critic, music critic and poet, he's written for Artforum and the Village Voice..."...wtf?
and then i was skating down Monument Blvd. in Concord...my skateboard broke, a bunch of Scraps ran up on me about to beat my ass...i recognized one of them as my friend Oscar from highschool, Oscar quickly helped me up and introduced me to the guys...i remember the ghetto Spanish i spoke in highschool came back...it was all "que onda whey? and "simone whey"...and pats on the back...
...currently listening to Sole Uckrt...
Mar 3, 2006
boy wonder KK...
didja know that Kevin K. is now officially #193 in the world for amazon.com reviews...?
his amazon "project" (though i'm sure he wouldn't call it that) is probably the Arcades Project of our time...
KK is a dreamboat...
tangent: Jessica Smith (of Outside Voices) is planning a "Norton" anthology of youngsters (25-35) for a 2007 publication...we love Jessica...yes we do...
still...currently listening to Sole Selling Live Water (can you believe this Bay Area Slump?!)...
"selling live water to out of towners with cameras"
—Sole
his amazon "project" (though i'm sure he wouldn't call it that) is probably the Arcades Project of our time...
KK is a dreamboat...
tangent: Jessica Smith (of Outside Voices) is planning a "Norton" anthology of youngsters (25-35) for a 2007 publication...we love Jessica...yes we do...
still...currently listening to Sole Selling Live Water (can you believe this Bay Area Slump?!)...
"selling live water to out of towners with cameras"
—Sole
"friends...how many of us have them...?"
can i just say how much i appreciate the phone calls...are you guys prescient? the phone calls couldn't have come at a better time...
first Brandon Brown, my best friend in SF...made me nostalgic and happy...thanks Brandon...
and then Akilah Oliver just now...just to check in...which i love her for...
don't worry, i'm not depressed or anything...far from it...but, it's good to hear familiar voices in an unfamiliar enviroment every now and then...and with Akilah, we can bond over that...
...currently listening to Sole Selling Live Water...(one of my favorite Yay Area records ever)...
by the way, you should all buy Brandon Brown and Akilah Oliver's books...
first Brandon Brown, my best friend in SF...made me nostalgic and happy...thanks Brandon...
and then Akilah Oliver just now...just to check in...which i love her for...
don't worry, i'm not depressed or anything...far from it...but, it's good to hear familiar voices in an unfamiliar enviroment every now and then...and with Akilah, we can bond over that...
...currently listening to Sole Selling Live Water...(one of my favorite Yay Area records ever)...
by the way, you should all buy Brandon Brown and Akilah Oliver's books...
Composition As Explanation...
okay, one of the things that's so cool about working on the Naropa U. archive project, besides the fantastic material, good pay and cool office, is the flexible hours...yet again, i couldn't sleep last night so i got up, worked out, showered, coffeed, and went to work...at 5 AM...woot woot...
so, currently at work on a Robert Creeley class workshop from 1983 where he discusses all thigs Zukofsky and Stein...an amazing moment came twenty six minutes into the recording...in the middle of reading Zukofsky's A 11 Creeley begins quietly weeping...he continues reading the poem pausing along the way to try and gain composure...after he reads, the class is silent and he remarks "I can think of nothing more ridiculous than reading something that makes you want to cry and not crying..."...what a guy...
a Creeley tick that i hadn't been aware of...while reading, if he messes up or bumbles a line he quickly interuptes himself saying out loud "wait a minute" and begins again...
also, Creeley tells a funny story, with regard to work being a distraction, about stealing the girlfriend of (can't remember the first name, a painter) Rice, a good friend of his at Black Mountain...Rice was so busy with his work he had no idea Creeley and his girl had "fallen in love"...it was only when Rice had finally completed what ever painting he had been working on for the past months that he realized what was going on...for shame!
Kaplan has nice reading report on Alice Notey...
good readings coming up at Naropa, Tom Raworth later this month, and Bob Gluck as a seperate event later this month as well...don't forget the Bombay Gin event staring Thurston Moore, Jello Biafra and Anne Waldman on the 9th, and a couple others that i can't remember at the moment...
the March issue of BOTH BOTH is looking to be one of the best yet...two of my favorite writers and an amazing cover...
so, currently at work on a Robert Creeley class workshop from 1983 where he discusses all thigs Zukofsky and Stein...an amazing moment came twenty six minutes into the recording...in the middle of reading Zukofsky's A 11 Creeley begins quietly weeping...he continues reading the poem pausing along the way to try and gain composure...after he reads, the class is silent and he remarks "I can think of nothing more ridiculous than reading something that makes you want to cry and not crying..."...what a guy...
a Creeley tick that i hadn't been aware of...while reading, if he messes up or bumbles a line he quickly interuptes himself saying out loud "wait a minute" and begins again...
also, Creeley tells a funny story, with regard to work being a distraction, about stealing the girlfriend of (can't remember the first name, a painter) Rice, a good friend of his at Black Mountain...Rice was so busy with his work he had no idea Creeley and his girl had "fallen in love"...it was only when Rice had finally completed what ever painting he had been working on for the past months that he realized what was going on...for shame!
Kaplan has nice reading report on Alice Notey...
good readings coming up at Naropa, Tom Raworth later this month, and Bob Gluck as a seperate event later this month as well...don't forget the Bombay Gin event staring Thurston Moore, Jello Biafra and Anne Waldman on the 9th, and a couple others that i can't remember at the moment...
the March issue of BOTH BOTH is looking to be one of the best yet...two of my favorite writers and an amazing cover...
Mar 2, 2006
Kansas City King Hillbilly...
on the message machine last night from John Greiner...
"hey Johnny Sack-is...this is Johnny Greiner, i just wanted to call and make sure that your moose was loose..."
...this is usually where John calls from...outside the Flea Market Bar "lookin' at all the beautiful women!"...
...and this is John peeing down by the river from my last visit...
oh yeah, John's one of the best singer/songwriters in Kansas City, MO...
god i love that boogan son of a bitch!
...currently listening to Sigur Ros sigur ros...
"hey Johnny Sack-is...this is Johnny Greiner, i just wanted to call and make sure that your moose was loose..."
...this is usually where John calls from...outside the Flea Market Bar "lookin' at all the beautiful women!"...
...and this is John peeing down by the river from my last visit...
oh yeah, John's one of the best singer/songwriters in Kansas City, MO...
god i love that boogan son of a bitch!
...currently listening to Sigur Ros sigur ros...
Mar 1, 2006
never mind the insomnia...
because i woke up at 4 AM this morning i didn't have the energy to do much but eat some salami and chedder and watch Wedding Crashers...
Wedding Crashers- wow! i wasn't really expecting to enjoy it...but i sure did...super funny...i usually hate Vince Vaughn (sp?)movies...like that fraternity movie (YUK) and, well i can't remember what else (Jurassic Park Pt. 2, though that doesn't really qualify as a Vaughn move, you know what i mean...they usually co-star Ben Stiller...YUK)...but yeah, i was laughing a lot..."you shut your mouth when you're talking to me!!!"
Jim Behrle doesn't believe me that i ordered a "I Invented Flarf" t-shirt...medium black dooder...send that shit!
and then i fell asleep late afternoon to the Sex Pistols playing which segued into The Shins which maybe or maybe not informed my alpha-sleep dreams...
and then i went to the bar...got about 6 pages done on Palmer's poem "Echo" from First Figure...which prologue to the nap i thought was going to be impossible...prelim theis draft due friday...ouch...but not so ouch now that 6 more pages were added, AND i took tomorrow off work (sorry no "currently at work on" posts till friday)...i'll still have to explain to Anselm why i'm 5 pages short...
wrote three poems for Mouf...(roughy rough)
"the islands will
be a grave
for their children"
which slept inside
the rock
which the mind
is made up
which exenterates
the islands
and then and then
so it became
an immediate rime
which they will forget
in a sense
then go to sleep
...
"the limit of the song is this
prelude to a journey to
the outer islands"
his words are over
the stain on the sheet
the flower and so on
the ink dries
to the piles
of flowers
I did?
which is also opal
a long blue
listeners at the crook
of the brook
...
I have been travelling
a white strip
my head is the meadow
the carnelian
weather or
a small room in
a steel vise
I am a woman or
a man been travelling
into the details
as it sounds
to fuck the
subject against
the ceiling/ borders
of the bathroom
sulphur borders
mirroring the brides
waved an "odor of sulphur
penetrated the rooom"
...currently listening to Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information...
Wedding Crashers- wow! i wasn't really expecting to enjoy it...but i sure did...super funny...i usually hate Vince Vaughn (sp?)movies...like that fraternity movie (YUK) and, well i can't remember what else (Jurassic Park Pt. 2, though that doesn't really qualify as a Vaughn move, you know what i mean...they usually co-star Ben Stiller...YUK)...but yeah, i was laughing a lot..."you shut your mouth when you're talking to me!!!"
Jim Behrle doesn't believe me that i ordered a "I Invented Flarf" t-shirt...medium black dooder...send that shit!
and then i fell asleep late afternoon to the Sex Pistols playing which segued into The Shins which maybe or maybe not informed my alpha-sleep dreams...
and then i went to the bar...got about 6 pages done on Palmer's poem "Echo" from First Figure...which prologue to the nap i thought was going to be impossible...prelim theis draft due friday...ouch...but not so ouch now that 6 more pages were added, AND i took tomorrow off work (sorry no "currently at work on" posts till friday)...i'll still have to explain to Anselm why i'm 5 pages short...
wrote three poems for Mouf...(roughy rough)
"the islands will
be a grave
for their children"
which slept inside
the rock
which the mind
is made up
which exenterates
the islands
and then and then
so it became
an immediate rime
which they will forget
in a sense
then go to sleep
...
"the limit of the song is this
prelude to a journey to
the outer islands"
his words are over
the stain on the sheet
the flower and so on
the ink dries
to the piles
of flowers
I did?
which is also opal
a long blue
listeners at the crook
of the brook
...
I have been travelling
a white strip
my head is the meadow
the carnelian
weather or
a small room in
a steel vise
I am a woman or
a man been travelling
into the details
as it sounds
to fuck the
subject against
the ceiling/ borders
of the bathroom
sulphur borders
mirroring the brides
waved an "odor of sulphur
penetrated the rooom"
...currently listening to Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information...
Flarf couture...
have you bought your "I invented Flarf" tee yet?
Eric Gelsinger made my insomniac ass laugh out loud at 4:30 this morning with his "And where the hell are they finding Danish flags in Iran, Afghanistan, and Libya."
...does a Notley/ Bok reading bill seem strange to anyone else...?...was it a strange reading? how did it go? any intersections?
...currently listening to Scarub Heavenbound...
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