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Author: Marcus Silcock
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http://blackcakerecords.bandcamp.com/album/park-house BY ROBERT DUNCAN GRAY Robert Duncan Gray is an English artist currently living and working in Portland, Oregon, which is in the top left corner of America. Rob is the curator and host of A reading. He is currently concerned with painting, writing, drawing, and his R&B noise performance/persona project, COLDGOLDCHAIN. He produces a…
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we drift and dawdle and dart and Pit and Pounce and gallop and glide and jink and jog and lope and leap and march and meander and plod and prance and promenade and prowl and sashay and saunter and step and shamble and shuQe and stalk and stomp and stride and stroll and strut and…
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The Enemies project presents some of the finest contemporary poets from Poland collaborating to read original works of avant garde / literary poetry with British contemporaries. Multiple pairs of poets will present work that is cross language, cross media and truly groundbreaking, evidencing the innovative potential of collaboration in poetry and the force of European…
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MY CHAPBOOK SPANISH FORK NOW AVAILABLE WITH COUNTRY MUSIC. DOWNLOAD FOR FREE . YOU DO NO NEED SPECIAL SPECTACLES TO READ IT!! THANK YOU SCOTT ABELS!!! CHECK IT http://countrymusicpoetry.org/media/Spanish_Fork.pdf
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Octopus Books will publish Wong May’s first book of poems since her last was published in 1978. It will be edited by Zachary Schomburg and Brandon Shimoda, and it is called Picasso’s Tears.I am def gonna grab Picasso’s Tears!!check out some of her awesome poetry in the new Octopus Mag over here: http://www.octopusmagazine.com/Issue16/may.php
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http://www.shampoopoetry.com/shampooforty/lee-swenhaugen.htm Yes I left my hat thereover a series of summersat the bottom of a who knowshow many bowls of wine! Marshall Walker Lee and Drew Scott Swenhaugen
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HERE IS WEE ONLINE PERFORMANCE OF MY POEM A LOVE SUPREME. IT IS AN ATTEMPT AT COMPASSION. MEDITATION, DHARMA. ETC. WRITTEN AND PERFORMED IN EAST LONDON DOCKLANDS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jkzwZiQ_Z8
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(first take, draft, whatever . .) It’s one day from new years. We are getting to the end of 2013 and everyone is making lists. I haven’t made a list. If I made a list it would be a list of books I loved, or books I still haven’t read, but really I’m thinking about…
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Super happy to have my work in the new issue of The Atlas Review with CA Conrad and other fine folks. It is available for pre-order over here: http://theatlasreview.bigcartel.com/product/issue-3-preorder YIPPPIEEEE!!!
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thanks for reading, glancing, clicking, stumbling upon etc etc etc. itr’s a noisy world on the internet. and irl life too. but even more on the internet. the internet is the noisiest place on the planet.
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BY ROBERT DUNCAN GRAY IT’S GOOD. I LIKE IT. GIVE ME MORE ROBERT DUNCAN GRAY. read LUNCH MONEY AND OTHERS OVER AT THE CRUSHES OF POOR CLAUDIA: http://www.poorclaudia.org/crush/
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christmas eve morning breakfast in poland: homemade pickled herring, lots of beautiful onions, soft warm bread, a coffee. a snowman with twenty five blinking lights.
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IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE. I AM IN POLAND READING THE LION’S FACE. THANK YOU TIMVANDYKE AND TYPO and BAUDRILLARD http://www.typomag.com/issue16/vandyke.html
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One of my fav poets. Zachary Schomburg. Reading over here for Likewise Folio (based in Provo, Utah not far from my parents. Hm.) Likewise Folio has some good stuff. Gonna read more of Likewise Folio soon. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/212094882/z%20schomburg%20%20final.mp3
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Check it. City Lights podcast with Dodie Bellamy and Dennis Cooper: http://www.citylightspodcast.com/dennis-cooper-and-dodie-bellamy-celebrate-the-release-of-their-new-books-the-marbled-swarm-and-the-buddhist/
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interview with the great Dodie Bellamy. Sophistication is so conformist. Oh yeah! Love Cunt Norton. The Letter of Mina Harker. Can’t wait for her TV Sutras. Interview over at Bomb Magazine: http://bombsite.com/issues/126/articles/7454
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poem for my brother Aaron Slease (15th Dec 1982-7th June 2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbOaoYLPmMc
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A picture of me and Ewa and Bandit at our friend Chris’s house last night. This picture was taken after four joints, six beers, and some Iranian food. We all watched the dog chew the ball and we all wished we had the teeth to chew a ball like this dog. I could hear the…
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We will serve food in jelly. Mouth grenades. A concentrated form of sustenance and subsistence. This is all you need to survive. Our slogan is: ‘My cranium is a helmet of the universe’. Starting off with a duo of basic flavours: chicken and rosemary (chicken being at the core), to then develop the menu into a kaleidoscope of…
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love this!!
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over at the fantastic OVERPASSBOOKS it’s How to be Alienation by Filip Marinovich http://overpassbooks.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/how-to-be-alienation-by-filip-marinovich.pdf
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eileen myles. reading cool for you with a cool video of her dwelling space!!! https://vimeo.com/28244303
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this makes me happy
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http://eileenmyles.com/blog/ JUST WHAT I NEEDED THIS MORNING!
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Up at the new Tenderloin. Waste. The city. The cows. The country. http://www.tender-loin.com/toder.html
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Reading from new manuscript ANOTHER KIND OF MISSION at Poet’s As Saints. Hardy Tree Gallery. Erkembode Exhibit. Nov 23rd 2013. photos by Alexander Kell
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A BIG THANKS TO JIM GOAR FOR THE GREAT QUESTIONS. WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT. LIKE NY SCHOOL POETS AND PHILIP WHALEN, AND POOR CLAUDIA. ALSO ABOUT NOMADIC POETICS AND TRAVEL AND SURREALISM. INTERVIEW UP NOW AT THE VOLTA/CONVERSANT http://theconversant.org/?p=5588
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http://www.likestarlings.com/the-stranger-or-is-being-a-female-anathema-to-being-an-absurdist/ TERRIFIC!! JUST WHAT I NEEDED TO READ HERE IN EAST LONDON TODAY!! YES! DARCIE DENNIGAN ROCKS!!!
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Marcus Slease and John Estes. Over here. John Ashbery and Eileen Myles are in the conversation. Many others too. Canton, Ohio and East London. Check it out over here at Likestarlings: http://www.likestarlings.com/poems/marcus-slease-john-estes/#1
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My reading at Hardy Tree in London on Saturday 23rd Nov 2013. pocket rubbings, aliens, mormons, boy scouts, a blooming tattoo, conversations with saints and work of Eileen Myles, Sister Spit, Michelle Tea, Bernadette Mayer and others from new ms in progress: ANOTHER KIND OF MISSION thank you Saint Erkembode! thank you SJ Fowler! Thank…
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http://erkembode.com/2013/11/23/poems-for-saints-that-are-poets-as-saints/ THANK YOU SAINT ERKEMBODE!
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Saturday 23rd November, 7.30pm – Poets as Saints hardy tree gallery near kings cross London Event specific poetry by avant-garde poets bouncing around the subject of saints. Poets/saints on board so far are Tim Atkins, SJ Fowler, Robert Kiely, Sarah Kelly, David Berridge and Marcus Slease.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVlF7mOZnKo
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2BrSHygKfs CANNIBALS ON A DIET GETTING SMALLER GETTING SMALLER GETTING SMALL JIGGLE JIGGLE JIGGLE JIGGLE ETC. a reading of some of Bruce Andrews’ work
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http://vimeo.com/12884851 wow and WOW and WOW AGAIN
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with SJ Fowler and Holly Pester. part of the enemies project. FAB FAB FAB COLLABORATION ALL THE WAY IN MEXICO CITY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bNO5qmGPOQ
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http://erkembode.com/2013/11/18/photos-and-blab-from-saints-on-film/ a film on the back of my ghost costume
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YOU’VE BEEN PUSHING SINCE LAHORE A COLLABORATIVE POST SURREAL TRAVEL STORY OF THREE SAINTS ON A MISSION!!! WRITTEN BY MARCUS SLEASE, DAVID KELLY-MANCAUX, CHRIS GUTKIND. BASED ON A TRUE STORY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdaiuSEumzs
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11th November 2013 NOT JUST ANOTHER SAINT PERFORMANCE NIGHT AT HARDY TREE GALLERY IN LONDON. IT WAS CALLED SAINTS ON FILM I changed into a white robe and Saint Erkembode screened the film he made on my back while I read a collaborative story about traveling through London to find a Doom Drone concert. The…
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http://erkembode.com/2013/11/10/saint-sandwich/ This evening I am sandwiched between last night’s K R A M P U S NACHT and tomorrow’s S A I N T S O N F I L M events – both part of the NOT JUST ANY OLD SAINTS series for my current ERKEMBODE: NOT JUST ANOTHER SAINT solo exhibition at the…
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One of my favourite poets and people of all time. She has a new website. It is very good. I go there almost everyday. http://www.eileenmyles.com/index.php
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POEM WRITTEN TODAY AND READ INTO WEBCAM. Contrasts with my writing 2000-2005. And writing 2014-2019. It is fun to change. My life! Your life! Whose life is it anyway? I am interested in reconciling art and life (it is impossible). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qOb4mRX5PI
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Over at the Hardy Tree Saint Erkembode is opening his exhibition tomorrow. Near Kings Cross London. A nice intimate space. Outsider art. No academic bullshit!! check out the schedule . . some great collab between artists performers poets. Come Sat for Krampusnacht to kick it off!
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OVER AT THE DOCTOR T.J. ECKLEBURG REVIEW 1) As part of the mother’s mother family wisdom a baby boy has a slipknot around his ankle and tied to the cribpost 2) Claude and Nellie are the baby’s parents 3) Claude lusted over Nellie when she was milking a heifer 4) Nellie’s mum whooped on Claude…
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super excited for my poem “The Big Egg” to appear in issue three of http://theatlasreview.com/ THANK YOU NATALIE EIBER
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vine.co/v/hpFmUm9M07h thanks Erkembode
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Grzegorz Wroblewski, my bad . 26.5 x 39.5. Mixed media on paper [6.10.1990].
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Mass collab happenin in London today. Gonna be reading some of my train poems. Forwards and backwards. Collab with Claire Potter. Yeah. Go London. Go Rich Mix. Go UK Poets! It’s gonna explode! http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/camarade-poetry-festival/ Camarade IV – October 26th 2013 2pm to 10pm at the Rich Mix arts centre The Camarade poetry festival is…
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Poems written while living in South Korea. Or shortly after. Or much later. But inspired or recollected in tranquility, or not, a few years later. In either case, these are my nomadic surrealist poems from South Korea. They are called Mu (dream) so (window). Available from Poor Claudia (from Portland, OR). Clark Coolidge and Philip…
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These poems are train rides around the U.K. They also deal with love & romantic pornography. They are from my manuscript in progress called Rides. https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/from-my-heart-is-shuffled-it
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read it here: http://issuu.com/d_r_e_a_m_s/docs/d_e_p_t_h_s/11?e=0
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Poem trying to deal with my brothers unexpected death a little over a year ago from overdose. “Cool Valley” http://www.thebakerypoetry.com/cool-valley/
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http://www.thebakerypoetry.com/
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LOVE THIS GUYS WORK! YES! WOLFMAN LIBRARIAN!
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EILEEN MYLES IS COMING TO TOWN!! yipppiiieeee!!! ONE OF MY FAV POETS OF ALL TIME!
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HAPPY TO BE IN THE NEW VLAK MAG WITH MY POETRY COMIC COLLAB WITH TIM ATKINS. LOTS OF GREAT STUFF IN THERE. Vlak is a nice avant garde art magazine from Prague. You can check it out over here: http://vlakmagazine2.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/vlak-4/
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BY THE OUTSIDER ARTIST SAINT ERKEMBODE (aka David Kelly) https://vine.co/v/hXWbIMM739W part of an exhibition starting this weekend in Paris, Amiens, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme. Opening exhibition in London (Krampusnacht) at the Hardy Tree Gallery (near Kings Cross, London) on 9th November. Can’t wait!!
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Chris Gutkind over at the new Summerstock. Staring Pinky. http://www.summerstockjournal.com/2013/08/chris-gutkind.html https://myspace.com/outernet/video/pinky-39-s-violent-nature/2226141 https://myspace.com/outernet/video/pinky-39-s-love-of-heights/47469909
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the beautiful voice of a re-incarnated Richard Brautigan but not Richard Brautigan: http://www.tender-loin.com/thedepression.mp3
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Mathias Svalina is the author of three books, most recently The Explosions from Subito Press. With Alisa Heinzman, Hajara Quinn & Zachary Schomburg he co-edits Octopus Books. Big Lucks will release his book Wastoid in 2014.check out the new Tenderloin. Poems, interview, sound of the very fabulous Mathias Svalina:http://www.tender-loin.com/svalina.html
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A great list of indie publishers. Yes. It does seem like a golden age. The big publishers have lost touch, created a vacuum (we know what nature does with vacuums). These publishers are pushing the best shit right now in the English speaking world. There are others that they missed (of course) like Octopus Books/Poor…
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The poet Jim Goar kicks off a fab interview series over at The Conversant. Check out his interview with the amazing British poet Johan De Wit: http://theconversant.org/?p=4858
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One of a handful of mighty mighty good poets who live in the U.K. Here are some of Tim Atkin’s poems from his forthcoming book On Fathers> On Daughtyrs. Now online at Summerstock magazine (edited by Elizabeth Guthrie). Tim Atkins from ON FATHERS > ON DAUGHTYRS http://www.summerstockjournal.com/2013/09/tim-atkins.html
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I keep getting this message. Over and Over. Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, show them this information: qXVaA16xGlseNLMwf8BXkhmTB-BdeF-NzCUIxxe3F6dmhIOwzKyYm6xTdOHebrm09QIU1Orn1c650uu82OQtlxDcZ6cnB65CZdfK_4p3D1Y3b-ZvCjxMEyLsPoz4yTKLx_ifRK-QmOdtkeyAZT6QLfpSw1PvfBNGMpRPuCLNAwVUFKyrPrHFSFlScKE-H11Oyxj0hsCmPnnrKbqA0g-0XrQr1FAMW3c9Bcm1miHiSjLEY5CGkC8hr_rMlmt-r8AuYS8wv-vnUlpiOdmGXRAm3JousENit96RCX4lIAsk0DWT-eqPimWtg7jRM04bR-RHd12Gk4lv0Ra4ZawC3VSEaQceJswnw5cVcqLv43njXRBw7GreDQBw7yKSSagwMnQ4Wa2VgP0fK0sZebyjhN0BDWRVkCOnDgAKrh_8tmHJ6uzSpit4FVx15Sx_m81rgsa0LmBsDyYMCKJ34yA19CY4ljNsQlbVQQBBIlNpQQ0_Nq1NOXwYNxExVMAlBsTeIFW-slAaVn06m9PbofmOZEYJg5KRa–jJSNgHVSuEBEn6t22h6b_l2ZXMQ_s7oK_GmYxN__t7bKc2JzWxSt1X-f2bD8lnHbvw7kMrt2kZKs847afhtYSI1LdmHddIGL0CTEHNy159QkIz1cWRg7jK3SDYEWXkOPF0sLT4oPx0ms8oCxovqEcyMTggG2ROE5ylugY9voYMySkL8dhgpTx6GejscQoG9Adt7y1x917vvgRAu0FmHOL15E5TJQIHsxRP–l-YR_ZdrXlRSQK-0U3K3346sxOPwop7RlcCXmRjwOn5GOf0pTOt9JOc16l0AoQPziauZSOBoke08LB8r2Wubxl7xpbTykQvPqBgSC2ay7_uUIBySEFtrmAn-HlFJ3lbtetg8t_QSa0kielB48QNFvTZ0F8Ce2JmFgKuAuMu3MlRBj7VZbYXGiG9M1rOpp7nscCJmkmzxAPxtzj33i0OWHK-31eHuOd2hSSeQNQbqqACsbj9GDPLflO_P9aQWJTOuvrXXyUxpwxsMiLgVlEzeGXTWY4n-6cl57N0YnfSkIl1wWLdRXzyIys6opdE0FC_rcWwiYUzjMY8hi4XgBXxnt99sZlN_207KwuAJpJtKArq1ghufIRJ5aPmmIppd0ADnLnosaCWFXN1-9rQOSgsRGufU0cij6Sv9L_ZQy3UiV14Oz72Au-Ur_cG9p9yehfdbL6_5EzxxfoN5KJzltDKBBNInQU0jQzqetmKu2sswEsKV5MjUPtxk97ZIhgwUNV4MSSkii5142z8WYDaHY0S9nJleYtumFSGJXgZhvNaqyCB_2yGQlONdrR8OwxlxGRQDk4bH8BiJPwQYX0HwDpZdkdsAQogwGveYI8LvrS_JqwzPwhTaoQjTwYJYzT6wKeyS8kEUBbnVbDu3___oZSeC_3XToSaSbLJnP6H5qkuy6Q0OTARDwvg-ShZZS8mpDetp-iXoGqlk51aKYr1v70YNEHfcWqFOLFu6gTe-VkpYAfxtiVUA4WE4QR2FlfkGzbXLUULG4QEvFxSeXYWiTFuSS4ti3ME9BqiVWW0AUOuXvg_2qDITTBIHr5qjYF4Woe1fXwNizh2bQ2nSTv3JGtZ2xYTg1L8MkbnDduCXp0iJTgCdjBpFDojtZfYLhBq93yuoA3Aj4vT5LtNIDt6VXaxTbAIExLsehselnCiv8sBR1A5dMLlY0a2yXWNxDt4qx3kzi845dPokkpA8pHg3VjGSlnQI1PLgVxwBhKwJrQVntDD8oCX9ckoqoU-96SIzAeTlC6l06q0B-7ph5mmPKW9gKH27U7EWjXk0Z74pU5AGNbzT44mOmgd75E6O1kWacgSBOQFSioXSjf1rUtMfDaXtzd1z6fksyjq2TjmmtgvObsi7UMCWbs6-dGxiJfgPG4FA4N21M7MoozLQmr5Yj0Yu-aMPz39Ju1lWwcoLT7W1UN02v0pavejP33p1XZMV2V5KiuTMMXqw4ehnxAcUVjjhOlDLiKMR7wb508wuoH5ykBZNCBt-tyT2K-pOdEDGSYykp7eZv0yjCnOmgpifY4Mbxhg8mOF_uU0UNjvgWKezTfOwv3GbQ4WY8CKBGEnu9_xvn694PzmyWDQK7o_oi2uLm87sYu-qT_qsC5zys12EBfP3DmgKHDggUNiOrcz5IjdWnQg_-wP0ylt2VwwzXqdrw5gD8e9Iam2XZVc8F9QHS_wUS-GobQEC4jt0nmWZuTfHDF_beubdmcenqrjswkdxFAHXXRG9iSAWv8Xt6UiHAXM3V_LwWdEdSDEEbjSpcD2G2IHCZhlZ5-8Wb_HsstsWQPg_fxVX7DAFMg7Tt-Xr4-dvHOP4O4jDgjHAsBCKtYEXz0cBwsCMC3YT4C9jrHg7bAM-PpK9mPDp_pmt7dhJnld1LXBmbaDXLfbEo1LXZzqD85vW_CNSbuPONOqBeimX5T9Uts-eauCyQWwTaPwSDe7POf07aJUEMpgdM_s5MZedswOH7agcajFx6_2lgwd94AbH60fglv-mYJawEc97TcJCbA2wOjgcdY6ZxILFtCbuB6rAC6oFQhE-lMDLUApG35EhzHRBj2RunDWPRCW5k_vPjMBKtgopYW4zIkWERm5elRS9-ZG2W90gm3ZGQi4HQTkv7_VThqm2KUgyj8VNHsXjG2qXgaNeyG9zbn2janXKhLvKywOrXt1d6TE5TuNoyOlRjbIDmV35_BwCDbuF9n9a1D0T-ip8g0JeRyyXJorXlNSZ2-4cibTNXkPiOBTCNuDqgmGOHoxycVt3_CRpaNc-HkwrIXRYQuD2iQzajvR0DHIrh9ahoftrJlFPwbFnyS83JWLZdv7qRA_OrYoNTkxnr5DqTh3sc3IQCZkS8zViVRwikHI-kLEPc1s_SuIBIcpKwmhHjJOiVjwIJyGWZ0YNzuPEK5B2aMz_BreKp713OM1jA0N_nmwYjH05Bf3JIt65F0bDywmoZ9yS9D6R-i01RVR8RXdos1Jxzc3ZCHKzsZfIo6dx7pWa5rhvWzl6JG0yypSps0VODnNVzBZSw5_Wkmw-J2hf1frIGel6hhKMbi8ryMQPjE194s0lCDEZCWsUJNvE7xJDWgYhvvlRdumMNTpChsLDD53pSgfjeV_6x9e02ji0bdtFfgClY8ZDUSkhWWxwICHIE0xHSUbBo6-A7S3ROvNugUNueMk6uG3PWwVNPIKMm58WboIfNIU-mpuOE-74miat23JKZ1CxTn_WRQjJL0Kqoer4fnfIffQPCT6JrWfsz4hxkZ-vqS2bpc1i59a0BbBx5GtEsGDtxlMRCXHFG0TNaJi4b0meRgeih4-zCpn10T3Y9QlLizuhgFOV_4PErJ513hkkXL0ynyF7FssTg2C8qhEiL2Hq4g-534HPRH2bTV4xNM8iABs0SjfLvDZsA-Z1Y19IkJrzjMeJxIH60-AXWtOa1fXqVJ3iBzl-br8J17lls84fDG0Jckze5NrByUOBekKg5FBCRjqSDem6Ktd57BA==
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Some of my train poems now published in the Summerstock Magazine. Riding trains forwards and backwards around the U.K. Thank you Elizabeth Guthrie!!! It is part of my manuscript Rides. Many more train rides to come. Forwards and backwards around the U.K. Check it out: http://www.summerstockjournal.com/2013/09/marcus-slease.html Livestock Editions is pleased as huckleberry pie to…
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The new book of collaborations with SJ Fowler and British and European poets is out now from Penned in the Margins. It’s killar!! Must have!! I have a colloboration with SJ Fowler in there. It’s a poem play. In Kenneth Koch style. Staring Lisa Jarnot. check it out. http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2013/09/enemies-2/ SJ Fowler has Enemies. And the…
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Cities are for breaking you into several people at once.” — Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Lug Your Body out of the Careful Dusk
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excerpts by Victoria Selavy from ‘The First Book of Philosophical Sexts’ by Victoria Selavy and Stephen Michael McDowellhttp://neatomosquitoshow.tumblr.com/post/57826168255/excerpts-by-victoria-selavy-from-the-first-book
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by Crispin Best by Keep This Bag Away From Children “my ex-girlfriend came round tonight because she doesn’t want to poop at her new boyfriend’s house. hi, ex-girlfriend.” http://keepthisbagawayfromchildren.com/?p=3212
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Joan Didion creates for herself a kind of incubation period for ideas, articulated in this 1968 interview: I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I’ve done that day. I can’t do it late in the afternoon because I’m too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the…
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YOU WILL FIND A PACK OF UNOPENED CIGARETTES ON THE GROUND THE DAY AFTER YOU DECIDE TO QUIT SMOKING or EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED http://blog.gabbybess.com/post/60452749723/you-will-find-a-pack-of-unopened-cigarettes-on-the Gabby Bess has work appearing in [PANK] Magazine, 3AM Magazine, The Scrambler, Two Serious Ladies, Thought Catalog and various other publications. She is the author ofAlone with Other People gabbygabbypoetry@gmail.com
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directed by JOSEPHINE DECKER
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The new TENDERLOIN is here. With Nate Pritts. It is very good. There are poems, an interview, and sound. It makes me feel less lonely. Much less lonely. They are other people out there. check it out: http://www.tender-loin.com/pritts.html
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A cat is always more than a cat. This cat is named Cynthia. Read about Cynthia here. It’s a new story by Moon Temple and it moved me in all the ways I like to be moved: http://www.unrealityhouse.com/cynthia/
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Marcus Slease sits down with Everest Magazine to talk craft, influences, Polish surrealism, Americana and THE HOUSE OF ZABKA, out now from Deathless Press. Just a few basic stats: Born: Portadown, N. Ireland Educated: Weber State Univeristy, Western Washington University, UNC Greensboro Favorite Author/voice: Richard Brautigan, Samuel Beckett Profession: Teacher of English as a foreign language http://everestonline.tumblr.com/post/53433193690/marcus-slease-interview …
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FRANK O’ HARA AND DRAKE, TOGETHER AT LAST! http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/09/10/frank_o_hara_and_drake_mashup_poetry_and_pop_music_beautifully_put_together.html?utm_source=Poetry+Sept+11%2C+2013&utm_campaign=Poetry+September+11&utm_medium=email
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On the Freedom to Offend an Imaginary God : Sam Harris
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LOVE ALAN WATTS. HERE IS SOUTH PARK DOING ALAN WATTS. ALAN WATTS IS IN THE MACHINE. HE HAS THE BEST TALKS ON YOUTUBE.
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Cut random images from a random film on my hard drive. The film turned out to be THX 1138 by George Lucas. I forwarded the movie nine times with the slidebar. I created a film still from each forward. Nine frames. Then flipped through the Book of Frank by CA Conrad. Copied seven random lines. Flipped…
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Gonna read some new Polish prose poems at the British library tomorrow. Maybe ones about vikings. The British library is a nice place. If you become a member they give you some white gloves and you handle some really really old books. Looks like an interesting line up. It’s called: Dear World: Editors, Poets and…
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Nice review of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s Kopenhaga over here by Chad W. Post: http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=8022
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1) Muzeum 1 Kolyska Cindy 2) Muzeum 2 Pomieszczenia i ogrody 3) Muzeum 4 Razem1) Cindy’s Cradle, 2) Rooms and Gardens 3)TogetherThese paintings are part of a Grzegorz Wroblewski’s exhibition at the Museum of Literature in Warsaw in 2014. His first Polish exhibition after 29 years of living in exile!!!
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Kopenhaga by Grzegorz Wroblewki is one of those touchstone books for me. I mean the kind of book that sits on my best shelf with my favourite books of all the ages.Surreal rooted in the everyday. Surreal rooted in the historical. Letters from a human being from the Milky Way but currently somewhere between Denmark…
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(A dream. Katowice, Poland. 25th August 2013)Marcus Slease
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I drank horchata and looked at the gargoyles for three days. On the fourth day I re-discovered my curly locks.Valencia is a very fine city with a park down the middle. The park used to be a river. There are many bridges. AUGUST 13TH 2013. VALENCIA, SPAIN.marcus slease
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In ING bank Katowice. Hoping to poo soon in Poland. There is a lot of pork in Poland . Some chicken. Very little beef. Sometimes fish. I am not really a meat man. I am fish man. A fish meat man. Ewa is trying to close her account from two years ago. They take over…
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In downtown Katowice, on Mariacka Street, we met a woman on stilts. We were in a pub called Kato. Kato had well designed street art inside its plywood walls. It was a make-shift pub. I drank my cold yellow beer. It was very fizzy and sweet and I held it by the handle. The Polish…
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Homeless as a fly you lactated on my tongue – — – ——— a pillow by night and a sack by day now my petals begin to fall (from Mu (so) Dream (window). Written while living in South Korea, 2006. Published by Poor Claudia in 2012: http://www.poorclaudia.org/print_slease.php
Never Mind the Beasts 