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a mother and her daughter came to visit. It was a university campus. We went to a building called Cunning linguist. The mother pointed to a ski lift. We rode… Read more.

Just accepted the offer to teach at METU/ODTU in Ankara. Will leave in September. New frontiers coming. Maybe one book per country. Almost finished with my London ms. Poland ms… Read more.

Google’s assault on writers’ copyright … Google and greed Read more.

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last year in Ireland. Read more.

I am interested in exploring the relationship between poetry/place. In particular, the attempt to strip down language to a documentary poetics (or perhaps an observational poetics) and a radical subjectivity.… Read more.

got good info from my friend Josh about METU in Turkey. He taught there for a few years. I met Josh in grad school 10 years ago. MA in English… Read more.

Friend and fellow poet Brian Howe’s Darkness Party Setting me right on this windy crazy London Monday! Read more.

Am I an anarchist trapped inside the body of a capitialist? Read more.

Spain is out. Never really felt in. Got job offer to teach at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Maybe for one year and then return to the UK.… Read more.

BlazeVOX 2k9 Late Spring 2009 Now online: BlazeVOX mag Read more.

do i use my intuition to justify my logic or my logic to justify my intuition? Read more.

so got a job offer to teach 9-14 year olds English in Murcia area of Spain. Near the coast. 1300 EUR a month. Awaiting possible interview with Middle East Technical… Read more.

http://www.motionbox.com/external/hd_player/type=hd,video_uid=0a9fdab41c1be2c087 Read more.

we were glad our skin had been broken the heads were cut from defenders 150 women of the castle over-whelmed by steaks of fire we were reduced to nature’s garb… Read more.

a lonesome hymnin perpetual motion suffering and solacein the praxis of living a paradise of blemishes what we said was notwhat we wantedwhat was waitingforever, undiscovered this is a spacerace Read more.

from Mr. Spicer: “I died again and was reborn last night / That is the way with we mirror people / Forgive me, I am a child of the mirror… Read more.

Some interesting readings on the blog and in the journal. Check it out: noo journal blog noo journal magazine Read more.

Unnecessary quotation marks Read more.

an ongoing project T H E D A I L Y F I L T H poets writing 1 poem a day for the month of April The Daily Filth Read more.

Acton Town (West London) to be seen rightto the shagged edge the action is leaving us craning for the corpsesthe college of good industrythe collage of what comeswhat may comma… Read more.

Shepherds Bush (West London) the biggest urban shopping blooms or bustsmay yr head not turn the other waymay your brain not be boxedmay the ass be asked before bumpingbefore being… Read more.

nor dust thouknow wherethou artto be in this world oh hair let downoh wet head you cannot go swimming andlook after yourclothes let us chilllike childrenin great disorderand much disdainfor… Read more.

A personal perspective on Bob Cobbing Read more.

I am revising Godzenie. 1st proofs from Blazevox came the other day. it is coming together. I am getting happier and happier with it. I’m having fun again and feeling… Read more.

new poem for Godzenie I’ll tell you about Godzenie the reconciling of marvelousmachines that stampour heads bricksfrom a blown-uppost-office flutteringletters a twistedmetal sculpture here’s the kick our tunefor the endless… Read more.

Skype interview is next Friday. Got the date wrong. Take off my shirt now. Do some writing :-) Read more.

10 min until the interview . . . in good news MY MANUSCRIPT GODZENIE, WRITTEN WHILE LIVING AND WORKING IN THE INDUSTRIAL CAPTIAL OF POLAND, HAS BEEN ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION… Read more.

Well, I am more sure now. Poetry and writing are number one. It is the one thing that can keep me whole, sane, mindful. Everything else falls away, eventually. What… Read more.

Signals magazine Read more.

what do you think oh think in yr mini Viennathrough any window piss is raining from the skysons and daughters ninety times out of a hundred piss on the streets… Read more.

37. I was raisedunder the stands under theimmovablestars forever alienon my brownow this eyetwitch this pastelnight what is is Read more.

38. Everything has gone white blindingwhite there is notunnelthere is onlythis the brain weaves a strange kind of music and our bodiesseem unable to forgetthe memory of what it feels… Read more.

Sounds Rite Read more.

Sent some poems from Alien Memory Machine over to The Beehive and they reshuffled them by some kind of algorithm or human hands? Must be read aloud to affect and… Read more.

Characteristics of teaching English in FE colleges The course is generally delivered by a very limited number of staff, including part-time and sometimes temporary staff. Staff in FE have heavy… Read more.

Of Our Cranial Love for the Lion we were reading toward Bethlehem suffice it to say we were tired elephants we were reading toward Bethlehem we were reading toward Bethlehem… Read more.

Revising manuscript Never Mind the Beasts. Quite a bit different than my current work. A lot of the poems were published in journals like Backwards City Review, Columbia Poetry Review,… Read more.

II. Castle without King after the leaving I shaved my headmy words squared off I shaved my headin dialogueI found the pure joy of plumbers V. Hotel of Lost Light… Read more.

From Who Sleeps with Who There is no deciding what breaks. My eyes take forever to adjust. The hard fish. A Bielsko Biala summer. Hand in hand. Immediate heartbreaking magical… Read more.

Excellent video here. Fascinating interview and performance of concrete poetry: Bob Cobbing Read more.

Sir magazine Read more.

A great mix of bands playing in the back of a London black cab. Just listened to My Morning Jacket and Death Cab for Cutie. many many bands!!! Black Cab… Read more.

From the North American section. This one takes found language from the serial Queer as Folk. Each poem takes its title from the main shooting location of the North American… Read more.

Moving Pictures has three sections: 1) Wonderland (A serial poem from South Korea) 2) London (poems written at or near tube stations since May 2008) 3) North America (poems moving… Read more.

Waterloo (South London) Some of the valves are working harder. Than. They should.Hold yr horses. Perk up. He leansnearer toying with his clips. the sexless life of childhood I needto… Read more.

I want more intimacy. More play. More direct contact with in the flesh humans. The dishes are staring at me. I am sticky and need to shower. Read more.

fascinating report on BBC radio: Another History of English Poetry Read more.

awareness Read more.

Hermit Kingdom (complete. renamed Wonderland. Revised and incorporated into Moving Pictures) Resident Alien (complete and renamed Alien Measures) Never Mind the Beasts (complete. partially abandoned. partially incorporated into Wonderland) Godzenie… Read more.

Waterloo (South London) Every night you do you puton a new costume I’d thinkyou’d really like the disciplineI’m trying to workthat out he mustbe quite gooddecide what levelyr at. Sauna.… Read more.

the stick of a blind human Read more.

anxiety does not equal passion Read more.

I am, and I know this is a cliche, happiest in the NOW!!! I am afraid of making some money and getting comfortable and turning into a middle class humpty… Read more.

Some interesting mags and readings coming from or energized by Naropa and her students: Monkey Puzzle In Stereo Press Read more.

apocryphal text Read more.

A performance at Nightlight, in Chapel Hill NC, as part of the 919 Noise showcase. Featuring Brian, Ashley, Wyatt, Wyatt, Ryan, Cameron, and Josh. The video was shot by Justine.… Read more.

23rd Feb (English as a foreign language, intermediate, 15 students, Ealing and West London College) REPORTED SPEECH & DIRECT SPEECH The reading for today thieves attempt to steal diamonds from… Read more.

A nice interview with some discussion of soft and hard surrealism: interview with Johannes Göransson Some visceral poetry and essays: Action Magazine Read more.

captain beefheart Lick my Decals Off Baby single malt whiskey cheap quiche Bergman’s the seventh seal to end the evening Read more.

22. transmission ahead the lipsmack of my Estruscan face scrappy connections and pacehalf blind in my Napoleonic hat eating skin bits pastels lick the starched shirtoverseered feminine elbows into you… Read more.

As Beehive Magazine ends its premiere week of publication, the tendency is to look forward rather than back. However, reflection is a necessary, and often difficult, process. During the past… Read more.

shaved off the beard. drinking single malt Glenfiddich. Read more.

The very passionate poet (and manager of the fabulous West End Lane Bookshop in London) Mr. Graham gave me a free bonus book yesterday: Seeking Air by Barbara Guest. Jacket’s… Read more.

27 June 2004 moving moving moving This has been a week of moving prep. Tomorrow is the big moving day. My normal reading/writing schedule is way off track. So, hopefully… Read more.

29. Syntax is sadistic and first rate grass hardens. I’m sick of proficient regrets and ach so I’m texting my way into a pre-emptive heaven which indeed is most modern.————————————————————————————————————What… Read more.

awesome passionate chats with Steve Wiley (poet and co-organizer of Openned reading series) and Graham (manager of West End Lane Books). Picked up: 1) Seeking Air by Barbara Guest2) Loop… Read more.

the storynbc report Read more.

you are going to die Read more.

young hot pics of Tom Pickard and Susan Musgrave and Bill Griffiths and Gillian Clarke and Bob Cobbing and Geraldine Monk and Wendy Mulford and many more reading at the… Read more.

An interesting sexy interview with Ron Silliman over at the best american poetry blog: Ron Silliman loses his virginity Read more.

Wonderland (South Korea) Rumi and the fire chicken, circle dancing, mosh pits, meat on a stick, baskets, gangnam escorts, window shopping for women, barber poles with a surprise inside, plastic… Read more.

It is very hard to imagine not existing. To imagine nothingness. Today is Jan 6th 2008. Two days of snow shut down London. Every time I roll up the blinds… Read more.

1. performing childhood is something elsewhere light is a lonesome hymntouching commits to memoryrhetorical proof in perpetual motionlove’s unbroken compositionapproaching the furthest roomso tonight the gaps are gracedsuffering and solacein… Read more.

12 more hours of revisions of first and last sections of Godzenie. Getting really close now . . . getting close to happy with this manuscript that has picked up… Read more.

The first section of Godzenie is called Wonderland. I have found a new way in. Revised completely. Four years ago I started working on Wonderland in Korea and now bears… Read more.

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snow snow snow in London. Buses cannot handle it. College closed so no classes to teach today. Maybe tomorrow. Nice to have free time to write but mostly bad since… Read more.

issue 15 of Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics: Poetry: Peter Riley, Mark Irwin, Maurice Manning, G.C. Waldrep, Julia Hansen, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Vona Groarke and Molly… Read more.

Some great reading this morning. Alistair Noon’s Swamp Area hit me in all the right places. Cranking it up now. Thank you Alistair and Intercapillary Editions. Read more.

cutting thick slabs of Polish Christmas hameating prawn cocktail crispshanging laundryprinting official transcript requeststrying to ignore the dust moteslooking at the cover of Roberto Bolano’s The Savage Detectivesthinking of watching… Read more.

i’m cleaning up this blogthere is too much stuffperhaps it is also time to shave my headget it nice and simplea simple headgorgeousmarvelousa new head tripcommunity community communitywhat do we… Read more.

so much writing out there. In the good book they say to sort the wheat from the not-wheat. texts are multiplying at increasing rates. I have heard the distinction between… Read more.

next month my alien card for the United States of America will expire. my travel document expires along with it. Read more.

there is a lot of noise out there. cultural production and self promotion and so on. Sometimes I want to be somebody but when I put a foot forward I… Read more.

One of my favourite presses is having a book launch this Friday. Looks like a very interesting book. Here is the announcement: Paul Griffiths: LET ME TELL YOUSo: now I… Read more.

I changed my big coat for a rain jacket. The rain jacket is slim and fits nicely on my upper body. It is a bit warmer in London. Consequently this… Read more.

Tales to Tell Read more.

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Golden Handcuffs Review Read more.

It turns out Placebo is actually part of Alien Memory Machine. It is not a new manuscript. Spent 7 hours revising Alien Memory Machine. Line breaks, forms, rearranging lines and… Read more.

Found some interesting reviews and musings online by this British poet (who lives and teaches in China): Martin Stannard 1 Martin Stannard 2 Read more.

on their way to Smithfield’s market, -2, stuck shepherds, on the green, 5 minutiafrom the common land, cats will lick u raw, bottle cutting stuck lips, some really nice people,… Read more.

Gaza and the Ghetto In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland in what it termed initially a “defensive war”. The invasion was in part justified by the Nazi desire to… Read more.

the sun came out today in London. The blue skies smelt like North Carolina. I went looking for wooden porches but found red brick houses. Liverpool made it to the… Read more.

I have almost finished reading Gabe Gudding’s Rhode Island Notebook. Gabe’s book has opened up possibilities. Specifically place and history, including personal history. It is an expansive book with lots… Read more.

Sent off some of the section “Return to the city” to literary mags last night. They were revised. Took the rough drafts off the blog. I dreamed of North Carolina… Read more.