NOMADIC TRAVEL WRITING

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Do we know what we feel? Behind the scenes playing all the time. In the social, political, and personal.  . . . . . . . . . . .… Read more.

What does it mean to deal with something? Another 20 min of breaking down after seeing more pictures of Aaron and Shantell when they were little. Remembering those times. Feeling… Read more.

day 3 of teaching my travel literature summer intensive course. Naps after class and all time collapses. North Carolina, Bellingham, Turkey, Utah. I can see I am not the same… Read more.

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Kozan Ichikyo, died February 12, 1360. After writing this poem on the morning of his death, he lay down his brush and died sitting upright. Empty-handed I enteredthe worldBarefoot I… Read more.

Ewa is under the kitchen windowwith a plastic bag on her haircleaning the kingdomof dead spidershiding behind the curtains Read more.

I cannot find you brother. How can I imagine you as nowhere. If I imagine you as somewhere where I can imagine you? On a cloud? Slipping back into the… Read more.

Dust motes and black mould. Stiff neck and sore back. Sipping green tea. People are mowing the grass and cutting the branches outside. after cleaning housestaring at the clouds movingcut… Read more.

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Went to High Street Kensington to look for the classroom I will be teaching in on Monday. For a large part of the time I was frustrated with all the… Read more.

Two hour nap. Fresh vegetable soup. Heading out to get fresh air. Aaron will be with me.  Love you brother!! Read more.

I try to think of Aaron as not suffering. As no longer feeling pain. When I see a picture of him I am flooded again. When I think of visiting… Read more.

My body went into shock. Then morning. Lots of morning. When do I stop morning? If I stop morning do I stop remembering Aaron? I have never cried this much.… Read more.

what is a vacuum? Why am I vacuuming? What is this round plate? Why I am eating off it? What is the mug? Why am I drinking from it? What… Read more.

Sleep is not easy. Last night I had a dream.  A friend was sitting alone on a chair. He said he was lonely. He said he last best friend was… Read more.

We pay money to have our attention grabbed We will engage it and give it something to do for hours We can’t fix everything so what will we do? What… Read more.

the dharma is the law of the heart which has no form but contains everything Read more.

I lost my brother Aaron yesterday. He was 29. Everything seemed petty and a bit worthless after the news. It was a shock. No warning. Just gone. I was with… Read more.

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it is a project. 88 edited pages into it . . . might publish it in three parts . . . check out unedited ones in progress here: http://nomadicpoetics.wordpress.com/ Read more.

    A Hut is Constructed of Loose Stones this is part the story of Genesis a human is being collected the book of things the book of bodies a… Read more.

trying out wordpress for the simple look . . feeling minimal . . . might migrate Never Mind the Beasts over there: NEVER MIND THE BEASTS AT WORDPRESS Read more.

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never mind the beasts has going on blogspot since 2004. Gonna see what word press can do . . . Read more.

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A Hut is Constructed of Loose Stones this is part the story of Genesis  a human is being collected  the book of things  the book of bodies  a pool of… Read more.

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reading at The Windmill. Brixton. London. 4th Feb 2012. Read more.

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covers project . . . Bernadette Mayer’s Maple Syrup sonnet . . . north London . .. near Horse Hospital . . Read more.

Steven Fowler reading the other night for his book release of Minimum Security Prison Dentisry at the Horse Hospital in North London. Great evening. Many fine readings !!! Read more.

Jeff Hilson 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.

Holly Pester 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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Onkel G by Grzegorz Wroblewski Read more.

Held at the rich mix arts centre in Brick Lane, London on June 18th 2011, Emilia Haugovà and Ivan Štrpka were joined by a half dozen London-based poets to celebrate… Read more.

A translated Korean folk poem . . for the anthology of plant poems at the Urban Physics Garden in South London last week . . yippie . . . . Read more.

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my poem play “Godzenie” in the latest issue of Stimulus/Respond . . . a fashion/architecture/art mag with some literature . . . visually centred mag  . . check it out… Read more.

Irish Ninja Somewhere around the age of 20 I had been looking to get my accent back that would have been 1995 when I first came back to Milton Keynes… Read more.

THE PRINCE OF MIST BY THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SHADOW OF THE WIND this version left blank due to rules regarding blog posted poems and submissions to mags… Read more.

THE PRINCE OF MIST BY THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SHADOW OF THE WIND I’m petite Asian and can handle any cock they fix everything here take your sandals… Read more.

(friday afternoon. Tasmac. Northwest London. 10 min break time . . . recollecting in tranquility the delights of living in Ankara and feeling that thing commonly called nostalgia but for… Read more.

Jeff Hilson’s In the Assarts (My fav Hilson yet!!!) Tim Atkins Petrarch (from Barque Press) (my fav Atkins yet!!) Hilson and Atkins Atkins and Hilson a cold drink of water in the desert of… Read more.

It is raining in London. I am in Kingsbury. At a business school teaching EFL. The job will end next Thursday. I am searching for jobs again. To survive (shelter… Read more.

interview at 3:AM magazine poems from smashing time at 3:AM magazine big thanks to Steven Fowler . . . Read more.

Publishing Genius has some interesting work . . . no reason poetry can’t connect like Indie music scenes in the 80’s and 90’s or punk music in the 70’s .… Read more.

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Trendy Club (Elblag, Poland) put a hole in your skullsays Rogerthe lidis openbut where are my eyesmy balcony opensdon’t let themkeep you herei am giving youa ride homeI have not… Read more.

Philip Whalen’s Collected Poems Kenneth Koch’s Collected Poems Kenneth Koch’s The Gold Standard Lew Welch’s Ring of Bone Read more.

what a city. What time. Grzegorz Wroblewski. Paintings. Books. Louise Rosengreen (another terrific Danish poet). A journey to a place called Christiana. A freetown. A town at the end of… Read more.

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poem plays from Smashing Time Read more.

on the third day I walked again to the rynek of Rybnik and met a girl who told me to come to the electricity plant and I asked her about… Read more.

Godzenie samples Read more.

Great reading series with interviews and poetry from European poets. Steven Fowler’s Maintenant Series (if you didn’t know). This Lithuanian poet rocked it a few weeks ago at Rich Mix… Read more.

this poet just keeps on keeping on and spurns out some seriously good language play Clark Coolidge chapbook Read more.

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what will and what won’t go. Books are coming in again. All those hundreds upon hundred of books let go in North Carolina to travel the world. On the way… Read more.

best and most interesting literary journal . . perhaps . . . full stop . . . with a new look . .. and layout . . . get your… Read more.

Bernstein against national poetry month Read more.

site specific . . . environment specific . . . time specific . . . music specific . . . and so on . . . first take no revisions… Read more.

quiet nostalgia . . . a bit of the old alternative sounds . . . Read more.

might change previous manuscript title to Gypsy Moth instead of Primitive Pianos. Still thinking of titles. Poems written in Spanish Fork, Ankara, Istanbul, Trieste, Elblag, London. Revision in progress from… Read more.

link from friend Grzegorz Wroblewski . . . legendary Polish punk . .. waiting for a signal from “central” Read more.

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S.B.’s Ghost Shit soap me sock me I got a table at the rainbow roombig ship approaching the dockI’ve got you heavy in this London sunshineWood Green March 4th 2011and… Read more.

Got my copy in the post today!!! Super super super good!!!! Ahhhh now this refreshes me big time!! Stuff is happening over here in the U.K.. I mean fresh fresh… Read more.

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1) Many Happy Returns by Ted Berrigan 2) Train Ride by Ted Berrigan 3) Tuned Droves by Eric Baus 4) Nothing to You by Ted Berrigan Finished those fine books… Read more.

some poems in progress taken off . . . . poems sent onward to magazines who count this humble blog as already publishing them . . . . yadda yadda… Read more.

I’m thinking of the human voice. Of speech. Of the subversion of communication. Of the pre-fabrication of meaning. Of Emotions language and meanings. What slips past. What infer requires of… Read more.

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perfect position to write. not sure if the heat from this laptop will decrease the potency of my sperm. I do not need potent sperm at this time, or perhaps… Read more.

some fascinating answers and questions . . . not the usual fluff: Interview with Sean Bonney some interesting new translations of the poet Grzegorz Wróblewski: Grzegorz Wróblewski Read more.

now after a very intense month in London of nothing but almost mindless work my mind is coming round again. memories. Turkey. Italy. poland. nights of flickers and shadows. revising… Read more.

Treetop Flyers “not common speech / a dead level / but the uncommon speech of paradise / tongue in which oracles/ speak to beggars and pilgrims.” — Denise Levertov “A… Read more.

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one month intense TESOL course. Two more weeks. Then I can think again. Got a gig for 10 weeks at a small college in Feb-April teaching students from Senegal and… Read more.

Karavan Amigos I’m crouching with the march of the penguins in a oversized parkaa world not yet deadI am not the erection of a eunuchthe buts and the knavesI’m dialing… Read more.