Reading Tuesday June 30 with Farrah Field, Ada Limon and Justin Marks
I'll be reading for the launch of the newest issue of Effing Magazine this coming Tuesday with Farrah Field and Ada Limon. Hope you can join us.Tues., June 30, 6:00 p.m. sharp, freeACA Galleries529 W....
View ArticleCUE Has Gone Online
Founded in 2004 as a print journal of prose poetry based in Tucson, Arizona, CUE is now exclusively an online journal of poetry and poetics, and we've just launched our first issue at...
View ArticleThe Kids
The twins are now 5 months old, and since they were about 4 months I can't stop thinking about death. Or I should say, death feels much more real to me. Palpable. The fact that I am going to die. Also...
View ArticleAugust 11, 2009
There is only so much reading and writing I can do before I fall asleep or run out of things to say.*I sometimes think that Silliman's insistance on hsi terms School of Quietude and Post-Avant is...
View ArticleAugust 11, 2009 - 10:15pm
I want to be famous. I have accepted that I will never be famous.
View ArticleFriday August 14, 2009
It still sometimes amazes me that anyone would interpret anything I say in any other way than I inted it to be interpreted. *I'm going to see District 9 this afternoon. I hope it's as good as I'm...
View ArticleHIT WAVE is reviewed in the new issue of NOÖ
Every moment you're alive, you're sort of not alive, because there is a more alive way you could be living
View ArticleThree Readings in Four Days
Thursday, September 10th at 7PM for the 7th Season Kickoff of d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade pressACA Galleries529 W. 20th St., 5th FloorNYCReadings from Mary Walker Graham, Justin Marks,...
View ArticleThe Bear Be Blowing Up
I'm interviewed about small presses and strippers at HTML Giant, and A Million in Prizes gets a sweet review at Barrelhouse. Yeah, life is good.
View ArticleSam Starkweather...
Names A Million in Prizes one of the best poetry books of 2009 on the No Tells blog. See who else is on his list.
View ArticleI Have No Aesthetic
My aesthetic is fun. I like saying things, though I often have nothing to say. No words. I like Capitalism, the language of marketing. A friend the other day over some really great bibimbap bulgogi in...
View ArticleLong Time...
It's been a long time since I blogged. There are multiple reasons for that, but none that would be interesting enough to go into here, though I feel as I write that sentence that I will indeed go into...
View ArticleBe Awesome and Do Dope Shit
In the interview I'm constantly having with myself in my head, one question I often ask is: What's my aesthetic? What the hell is it that my poetry does, that I try to do with it, that makes it...
View ArticleTen Years Later
I first started taking writing seriously—poetry particularly—about 10 years ago. I was 25 and wanted more than anything to be famous. Poetry was how I would achieve that goal. Possibly academia also....
View ArticleAlthough of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
"For us, it's gonna be that at, at a certain point, that we're either gonna have to put away childish things and discipline ourself about how much time do I spend being passively entertained? And how...
View ArticleYou Know You’re Right
There is this feeling I have, a desire or dream—though I would not call it a goal because I am doing next to nothing to pursue it—to just simply be. Perhaps that’s not it exactly. What I mean is to...
View ArticleNow That’s Satisfaction
Simple enjoyment. Why is it so difficult? I am sitting with a book, the whole stretching out before me. No job, the kids with the nanny. This should be the greatest of pleasures for me. But it’s not....
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