MARCUS SLEASE POETRY
Nomadic surrealist poetry by Marcus Slease
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from Rides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmm3xjknAc Blart Books. Available also via Amazon. Read more
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REVIEW OF MY POETRY IN POLISH
A nice review of nomadic life and poetry over at: http://www.biuroliterackie.pl/biblioteka/cykle/hello-tiny-tird-brain/ HELLO TINY BIRD BRAIN!! Thank you Grzegorz Wroblewski!!!! Read more
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TWO POEMS IN POTLUCK MAGAZINE
Two of my poems over at Potluck Magazine. Good journeys. http://www.potluckmag.com/may-2016/2016/5/5/two-poems Read more
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from Play Yr Kardz Right
Some hybrid fast fiction prose poems from immigrant and travel memoir: Play Yr Kardz Right. In new issue of magazine Past Simple 11: www.pastsimple.org/ps11.MSlease.html Read more
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ON A TRAIN TO EXETER SITTING BACKWARDS
A poem about David Cameron, Shoplifting at Whole Foods, Hyde Park, Jackals, KGB, Pussy Riot, The Raincoats, Hush Puppy, a homeless hamster, and a bathtub. From my book nomadic surrealist book Rides. Translated into Polish for Polish magazine Elewator. Thanks Adam Zdrodowski. Read more
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TIN HOUSE MAGAZINE
I was super happy to have two poems in the faith issue of Tin House Magazine. They were later published in my book The Green Monk (Boiler House Press). From my poem “Sacred Spring” in the faith issue of Tin House. A lost baby. Miscarriage. Travel. The great ships come and go. From my poem… Read more
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THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
New poem by JJ Mars (my side project) over at FOR EVERY YEAR. Thanks Crispin Best. http://www.foreveryyear.eu/2016/03/1806-co-jj-mars.html (Painting by Oliver Hibert) Read more
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CHUCK CHUCK CHEEZ
Made uh soundtrack to old cartoon of psychosexual tenshunz the sung is kalld chuck chuck cheez it iz about the sedukshun uv of the text https://vimeo.com/150527959 Read more
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Fog Machine Poems
My first published poems as JJ Mars. From manuscript called Play Yr Kardz Right. Published over at Fog Machine. http://fogmachine.life/blog/2015/12/1/seven-by-jj-mars Read more
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BEST BRITISH POETRY 2015
Have a poem in Best British Poetry 2015. Inspired by Alan Watts and the earth. It’s called “The Underground.” Originally published in Lighthouse magazine. Thanks Emily Berry. Read more
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BATHTUB 18
My poem “Bathtub 18” published in Juked magazine October 2015. (art by Marie Jonsson-Harrison) https://player.vimeo.com/video/141847565 bathtub 18 from marcus slease on Vimeo. Read more
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JUKED
I am happy to have a poem in Juked magazine. How we bounce from one thing to another. It is hard to choose between being beautiful or funny. The poem has many good couplets. There are very elastic. You can throw them at the wall. You can read the poem over here: http://www.juked.com/2015/10/marcus-slease-bathtub-18.asp Read more
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ENGLISH TRIFLES
I have long admired the trifle. It is the crown jewel of English sweets. I often remember it at Christmas. I felt a bit of nostalgia for the trifle when I lived in America. My memories are often connected with Milton Keynes since that’s where we moved when we “immigrated” from Northern Ireland. I put… Read more
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BATHTUB 50 IN MACKINAC MAGAZINE
A short narrative poem about vibration therapy. It takes place in Katowice, Poland. The poem was published in the fab journal The Mackinac: themackinacmagazine.com/marcus-slease.html Read more
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BATHTUB POEMS IN THE MACKINAC POETRY MAGAZINE
http://www.themackinacmagazine.com/marcus-slease.html Some poems in super new issue of the Mackinac. Super happy to be in there. Two poems from Katowice, Poland and one from London, England. Read more
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Mahu: celebrating Blart books – Marcus Slease
READING FROM RIDES (BLART BOOKS 2014) AT HARDY TREE GALLERY NEAR KINGS CROSS IN LONDON.RIDES WAS CUT UP SLASH WRITTEN ON TRAINS FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS ALL AROUND THE U.K.AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON IF YOU FANCYhttp://www.amazon.com/Rides-Marcus-Slease/dp/1291923381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433789534&sr=8-1&keywords=rides+marcus+slease Read more
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hardy tree gallery reading
FANTASTIC NIGHT OF READINGS WITH BLART PRESS AND HOME BAKED BOOKS AT HARDY TREE GALLERY FOR MAHU!!! SUNDAY 7TH JUNE 2015 Read more
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PLAYHOUSE64
Bathtub poems. Written in a bathtub in Katowice, Poland. Published at Playhouse64. Thank you Playhouse64. https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/bathtubs-for-playhouse64 http://www.playhouse64.co.uk/tagged/selectedwork/chrono Read more
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BATHTUB 28
THE POLISH DONUT SPECIAL. WRITTEN ON POLISH NATIONAL DONUT DAY. IN THE BATHTUB. THEY ARE CALLED Pączki. THEY ARE VERY GOOD. Read more
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BATHTUB 42
More stories from the bathtub. This is about a man in a cow field, and cud, and balloons. But really it is about your thoughts. Read more
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The Enemies project: Marcus Slease & Tomas Mielcarek
Collaborative reading with the Polish British poet Tomas Mielcarek. We are both nomads. And also immigrants. Many times over. Maybe someday I will be classified as an Irish writer (since that is my citizenship and birthplace). But who knows. No one has classified me as Irish unless I classify myself as Irish. But I am… Read more
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circus on ice
Catania Sicily beach of debris. A frozen circus. Working on a prose poem for my manuscript The Green Monk about dolls from Saturn. Read more
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BATHTUB 68
MORE STORIES FROM THE BATHTUB. THIS IS BATHTUB 68. I AM ALMOST AT 100 PAGES. THIS MIGHT BE MY LIFE EPIC. Read more
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THE BIG EGG
THE BIG EGG “on the streets / of Spanish Fork / women/ come sailing / for the Chinese/ buffet” Read more
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THE BIG EGG
SOME POEMS FROM THE BIG EGG //player.vimeo.com/video/114644063 THE BIG EGG from marcus slease on Vimeo. Read more
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Small Press Publishing
A selection of some of my books from small presses in last couple of years. Sometimes it is good to stop and take a glance back. Thanks Blazevox, Poor Claudia, Deadwood Press, Blart Books, miPOeasias, and Deathless Press. Read more
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MAP LITERARY
Some poems from my ms MILK TOP MAGIC HAT over at Map Literary: http://www.mapliterary.org/marcus-slease.html little men in my bathtub, rainy Bukowski southwest train to Reading, E.T. and rocket ships in Milton Keynes. Some fantastic poetry and fiction over there. Like Anne Gorrick’s measurements to the sun for example. Stellar! It is part of my book… Read more
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Paddy’s Cure
My collaboration with Pascal O’Loughlin. Published in limited edition by Deadwood Press (October 2014). Nomadic Surrealism. A boundary hopping collection. Limited edition, but they have a copy in British Poetry Library. Read more
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RIDES LAUNCH
AT XING THE LINE. LONDON. 8TH OCTOBER 2014. A bit of flarf poetry. Of course part of the larger nomadic surrealist project as well. RIDES IS AVAILABLE FROM BLART BOOKS AND AMAZON: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rides-Marcus-Slease/dp/1291923381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412958522&sr=8-1&keywords=rides+marcus+slease Read more
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MY SPECIAL MISSION
MY SPECIAL MISSION. BASED ON A TRUE STORY. (from Rides. Blart Books 2014) http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/marcus-slease/rides/paperback/product-21702070.html //player.vimeo.com/video/103632337 MY SPECIAL MISSION from marcus slease on Vimeo. Read more
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THE CRANIUM IS A SPACE TRAVELER’S HELMET
READING FROM NEW BOOK RIDES IN MY FLAT IN EAST LONDON DOCKLANDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmm3xjknAc “There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate” There are mashups with train rides forwards and backwards all around the U.K. Rides is part of my nomadic surrealist project. AVAILABLE OVER HERE: RIDES … Read more
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RIDES
My new book is just out! YIPPPIEEE!! Started this in 2008 when I first came to London. Picked it up again in 2012 after coming back from living in Poland and Turkey. It was poems written at tube stops around London. Then poems written on the circle line in London. Finally it became poems written… Read more
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International Poetry and Fiction from Mexico City
Got some poems in the new issue of Ofi Press Magazine from Mexico City. Including one for my brother Aaron (“Piper Down”). Tomorrow he will have been gone for 2 years. It’s still hard!!! http://www.ofipress.com/sleasemarcus.htm Read more
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CABARET HRABAL
Reading a poem that engages with Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude and Closely Watched Trains. Part of my manuscript Play Yr Kardz Right. Next month at THE HORSE HOSPITAL. 3rd JULY. COME ON OUT!! GREAT LINE UP!! Read more
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MY BOOK RIDES (IN THE TRADITION OF TED BERRIGAN)
“I began writing train poems on the London tube in 2008-2009. I sat there scribbling into notebooks as the train went from one stop to the next.” I’m talkin about train poems & my process for writing Rides on H_ngm_n magazine today: http://h-ngm-n.tumblr.com/post/86997117895/this-poem-this-monster-marcus-slease It is partly inspired by Ted Berrigan’s Train Rides (picture below). Rides is… Read more
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POETRY RECEIPT SCROLL FROM BRITISH MUSEUM
Erkembode (DAVID KELLY-MANCAUX) has created a saintly scroll of my poems (a minimalist version of Kerouac’s On the Road). Erkembode created the poetry scroll while working the gift shop at the British Museum. He said the till was going crazy spewing out poems instead of numbers for receipts. These poems are conversational vernacular poems. A… Read more
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Wrogowie Grzegorz Wroblewki and Marcus Slease
As part of the Enemies project (www.weareenemies.com) Wrogowie celebrated contemporary Polish poetry in collaboration with British poetry on February 8th 2014 at the Rich mix arts centre in London. Six pairs of poets premiered original collaborative works specifically for this event. Supported by the Polish Institute and SSEES. Me and Grzegorz presented our ongoing nomadic… Read more
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Tieryas Mini Reviews Spanish Fork by Marcus Slease
http://tieryas.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/tieryas-mini-reviews-spanish-fork-by-marcus-slease/ A NICE MINI REVIEW OF SPANISH FORK CHAPBOOK. THANK YOU TIERYAS!!! Read more
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WROGOWIE
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… Read more
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SPANISH FORK CHAPBOOK
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 Read more
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Marcus Slease Interview at The Volta
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 Read more
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saint mayer saint spit saint myles and saint tea
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… Read more
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THE ATLAS REVIEW
super excited for my poem “The Big Egg” to appear in issue three of http://theatlasreview.com/ THANK YOU NATALIE EIBER Read more
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THE WHALE BROUGHT TO SCALE
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… Read more
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romantic pornography
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 Read more
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Marcus Slease Interview
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 … Read more
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POLISH PROSE POEMS AT BRITISH LIBRARY
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… Read more
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good morning valencia
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 Read more
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a room of one’s own
last time I was in Katowice it was Christmas. I sat in a little room with a giant snowman and lots of Russian dolls and wrote a flash fiction about Polish beavers. It was a story about my impressions of Poland and globalization. The Poles can do Gangnam style like no other. The story is… Read more
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Mu So Dream Window (Matthew Dickman Marcus Slease and friends)
London. Centre for Creative Collaboration. 17th May 2013. Read more
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three from Radioactive Moat
Three poems in Radioactive Moat. Part of my ongoing manuscript Rides. It used to be called The Circle Line (for the poems written while riding the underground trains in London). But now Rides has poems written on trains all around the U.K. A nomadic surrealism written on trains. http://www.radioactivemoat.com/marcus-slease.html Read more
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THE OTHER ROOM MANCHESTER
READING A WEEK FROM TODAY WED 6TH FEB IN MANCHESTER. AT THE OTHER ROOM READING SERIES. READING FROM SOON TO BE RELEASED NEW BOOK FROM POOR CLAUDIA Mu (so) Dream (window) http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php COME ON OUT IF YOU ARE IN MANCHESTER!! Read more
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Grzegorz Wroblewski Remix
I did a reading of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s poems from A Marzipan Factory with some music. Also our performance together in London with some of my nomadic surrealist poems. The recordings are now available at PennSound A Marzipan Factory is available over here: Read more
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from Smashing Time
Influenced by NY School poetry. Bernadette Mayer and Kenneth Koch ALSO Philip Whalen (one of my favs) Part of my Nomadic Surrealist project. free pdf here: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/299099 cover painting: Grzegorz Wroblewski Read more
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freudian comics with my Polish girlfriend Ewa
over at Keep This Bag Away from Children: http://keepthisbagawayfromchildren.com/ Read more
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gonna do a Mu (so) Dream (Window) reading in Manchester in Feb
If you are in Manchester . . come on out . . . 6th Feb 2013 . . . Read more
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Mu (so) Dream (Window)
available for pre-order over here at Poor Claudia: http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php A informal reading of some of the poems: Read more
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smashing time!!!
thanks Steven Fowler . . . and thanks Poetry International . . and 3AM Magazine . . . smashing time Read more
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upcoming reading with some fab Croatian and British Poets . . come out if you around in London .
Maintenant Croatia in association with the the Croatian Writers Association April Thursday 26th 2012 – 7pm – Entrance Free – at Europe House 32 Smith Square, London SW1P near Westminster / Pimlico tube stations from Croatia: Damir Sodan – Tomica Bajsic Ervin Jahic – Ivan Herceg not from Croatia: Tom Warner – Marcus Slease – Tim Atkins Mark Waldron… Read more
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poems from smashing time in issue 2 of La Granada
some of my poems from manuscript Smashing Time in new issue of the Norwegian magazine La Granada Read more
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Minimum Security Prison Poetry – Marcus Slease
reading the other night for Steven Fowler’s book release of Minimum Security Prison Dentisry at the Horse Hospital in North London. Great evening. Many fine readings !!! Read more
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from Smashing Time! (MIPOesias Chapbook Series)
My chapbook Smashing Time is now available for free (digital version). Thank you MIPOesias. This book was written shortly after returning to live in London. From 2010 to 2011. Influenced by NY School poets (Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer, and Ted Berrigan mostly). Also the buddhism and writing of Philip Whalen. Also my poet friends Tim… Read more
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my new book now available from MIPOesias Chapbook Series 2012
download for free . . . or buy print version if you so desire . . . art by Grzegorz Wroblewski poems by Marcus Slease from Smashing Time: poems from Smashing Time! Read more
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reading from Hello Tiny Bird Brain (Knives Forks Spoons Press)
Soho Curzon . .. Hello Tiny Bird Brain . . . new poetry collection from Knives Forks and Spoon Press . . . check it out here: Hello Tiny Bird Brain at Soho Curzon Read more
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Hello Tiny Bird Brain launch
hello tiny bird brain Poetry at the Soho Curzon Wednesday August 31st 2011~ 7pm ~ Entrance free Marcus Slease launches ‘hello tiny bird brain’ Wayne Clements launches ‘western philosophy’ collections published by Knives forks & Spoons press also readings by Tim Atkins – Elizabeth Guthrie- Michael Zand Linus Slug – Patrick Coyle & SJ Fowler the Soho Curzon cinema,… Read more
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first draft (for Smashing Time Manuscript)
Brief Bio in sloppy joes in ear-muffs dropping coins for Dr. Pepper in the city of trailer parks in the jerks of god in a gumball machine in the Hamburger Helper in the nerf inside the unobstructed science of free donuts in Vallejo California a rock hurled from a car window the lack of snow oh on the way to Rancho camel trucking partially submerged birds a shooting… Read more
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Hello Tiny Bird Brain
My new book with poems from Elblag, Poland; Trieste, Italy; and London (UK) out now with nice wee press from northern England. Check out Hello Tiny Brain here: http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/theknivesforksandspoonspress/HOME.html Read more
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lucifer poetics/ desert city reading series
The lucifer Poetics Group and the Desert City Reading Series (run by Ken Rumble) and the Blue Door (Todd and Laura Sandvik) and Carborro International Poetry Festival (organized by Patrick Heron) and lots of spontaneous events . . . this is where I was given wings . . . . so much generosity . .… Read more
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review of Godzenie
Nice review of Godzenie in Goodreads. Kept meaning to post it. Thanks Fish. Fish’s review Oct 13, 09 bookshelves: transculture Finally got a copy of this in Japan. Read it almost immediately! Here’s part of what I wrote in my journal immediately afterwards: Still processing but: A. It is full of truth moment coins, singular… Read more
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Prague Microfest 2010
Great time in Prague. What a city!!! Picked up some fab books and met some super cool folks. Louis Armand and David Vichnar, Holly Tavel, Jason Mashak, Richard Tippen, Ondrej Pilny, Joshua Mensch and others . . . . good readings . . . some interesting film screenings . . . great walks around the… Read more
