Play Yr Kardz Right
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Waking Life
Here is a little alien poem from my book Play Yr Kardz Right (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017). The poem is called “Waking Leif.” Read more.
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Play Yr Kardz Right Part Two
Collage was invented by the surrealists and Max Ernst took it to another level. Now, of course, collage is a common method, but it is still magical. There are so… Read more.
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The Endlus Summur
Image: Trilogy of the Desert, Salvador Dali, 1946. Dali painted The Trilogy of the Desert shortly after moving to the United States in 1946. The desert was new to me,… Read more.
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2018 Beachies
Super happy to have my book Play Yr Kardz in terrific list of books from Beach Sloth. Check ’em out over here Read more.
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Dostoyevsky Wannabe Spotlight
A nice spotlight on Dostoyevsky Wannabe over at The London Magazine by Robert Greer. Greer describes the presses radical approach to publishing, in both design, distribution, and content: “With their books retailing… Read more.
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WHAT IS PLAY YR KARDZ RIGHT?
Las Vegas had a show on the telly, it was exotic and foreign, hard to imagine, and we were going there, as immigrant pioneers, for a better life, like immigrants… Read more.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Las Vegas, 1985, maybe August. I am a newly arrived immigrant in the United States of America. First Vallejo in a trailer park and then Las Vegas. Also, from… Read more.
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Play Yr Kardz Right Book Launch
Nice book launch last night. Lots of folks scattered around the bookshop. Great chats with fab folks afterwards. Thanks for coming! Thank you Desperate Literature and Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Gud Tymz! Read more.
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PLAY YR KARDZ RIGHT
MY NEW BOOK, PLAY YR KARDZ RIGHT, IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE RAD DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE. ALMOST CHEAP AS CHIPS . . . BUY IT HERE: https://dostoyevskywannabe.com/original/play_yr_kardz_right HERE ARE SOME BLURBS… Read more.
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Swimmer’s Club Seven Up
Seven of my current loves over at Swimmer’s Club. It is hard to choose seven. They are only seven. But maybe a good seven. There is the Czech nomadic surrealism… Read more.
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MUSHEE PIEZ & FRIED PINEAPPULZ
AN INTERVIEW WITH POET MARCUS SLEASE IN CELEBRATION OF HIS UPCOMING BOOK FROM DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE OVER AT ENTROPY https://entropymag.org/mushee-piez-fried-pineappulz-an-interview-with-poet-marcus-slease/ Read more.
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SWIMMER’S CLUB SNEAKY PEEK
Sneaky peek slash preview of some poems from Play Yr Kardz Right coming soon from the fabulous indie press Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Over at Swimmer’s Club: https://www.swimmersclub.co.uk/treadingwater/play_yr_kardz_right Read more.
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SLOW CULTURE
I answered some questions about Why I Write over at Slow Culture. A series that continues what George Orwell started over 80 years ago. A wee promo for my upcoming… Read more.
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DESPERATE LITERATURE READING MADRID
A wee performance at Desperate Literature Bookshop. Madrid. 14th April 2017. Read more.
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCE AT DESPERATE LITERATURE BOOKSHOP IN MADRID
I am performing with London based poet Chris Gutkind at Desperate Literature bookshop in Madrid. April 14th. Tonight two poets (one local, one not) in a wham bam double thankya… Read more.
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SAINT TOM
https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/saint-tom Setting: A government housing estate called Coffee Hall in Milton Keynes, UK. Characters: David Bowie, Neil Diamond, the Milton Keynes Bowl, hot air balloon, a mars bar,a rocket ship,… Read more.
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THE CAKES
It is a saint day in East Madrid. The narrator learns Go Fish and King Alfred and peasants and burning cakes. The barbarians are at the gate. They learn to… 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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ALIEN LUV
https://soundcloud.com/jjmars/the-man-who-fell-to-earth 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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Kissing the lipless
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Buks & Beer
A wee reading for poems at Fog Machine 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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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… 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… 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… 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… 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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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… Read more.
Never Mind the Beasts 