LIONTAMER'S BLUES

VIA the always far too kind Connotation-Press An Online-Artifact:

“It’s MONDAY and…well…meh. But to help you cope with the Monday blues we are proud as Punch to bring you new work from and an interview with the Rumbler of Racine. The Wild Man of Wisconsin. The Genius Beast from the East. The one, the only, David Tomaloff! Fresh off his “To Kill A Poet” tour, we have FIVE new pieces of flash fiction from David and Monday is saved. Saved! Connotation Press: Afraid Of Men In Hats.”

How anyone can be expected to live up to that, I have no idea. Come hang out anyway & see me passive aggressively complain about iced tea privilege in perennially warm climates.

Seriously. Go!

You know you want to.

Ok, don’t then.

Oh, come on.

Meg Tuite & the Connotation-Press An Online-Artifact were kind enough to make me their mid-month fiction feature with five pieces & an interview. I tell the whole internet things like,“In the winter, people look at me like I have just pulled down my pants & my dick is made of spiders because ‘iced tea in the winter?’” & “Mostly I poke the dirt with a stick & wait for it to move.” All true. Come hang!

See: CONNOTATION PRESS MID-MONTH FICTION FEATURE

A kind shout out to ESC zine, who listed both Kristine Ong Muslim & me as “Writers You Should Be Reading.” My man Swoon & the always excellent Connotation-Press are also recipients of the love.

Fun fact: Meg Tuite tells me that my work will once again find itself on Connotation Press pages soon. Happy, yes.

SEE: WRITERS YOU SHOULD BE READING at ESC

Everyone, I’m excited to be a part of this limited edition print project from Connotation Press. Details VIA Meg Tuite:

“Smoking Mirrors” is now available for pre-order and will be shipped out on March 10th. It is a limited signed edition so place your orders to ensure you will get a copy! The artist is Matthew Tuite and 17 writers wrote stories/poems inspired by the art. The writers are: Robert Vaughan, Len Kuntz, Ryan W. Bradley, Tara Laskowski, David Tomaloff, Michelle Messina Reale, Gregory Sherl, Kristine Ong Muslim, Eryk Wenziak, Nicolette Wong, Corey Zeller, Joseph Quintela, Frank Reardon, Nicelle Davis, Kona Morris, Mary Stone Dockery and Meg Tuite. It’s a beautiful hand-stitched book with the brilliant artwork of Matt and exceptional writing! Get your copy now!”

SEE: SMOKING MIRRORS at CONNOTATION PRESS

In which Connotation Press & Erica Goss share outstanding poetry films from the Zebra Poetry Film Festival, 2012, in Berlin. Swoon & I are represented with PROOF, which Erica describes as “an eerie trip through the mind of a disturbed person.”

SEE: ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL ROUND UP

Connotation Press has been kind in publishing the collaborative effort, PROOF, by Swoon and me along with a joint interview and the three poems included in the film (one of which is published for the first time here).

Thanks, Swoon, for being a fantastic partner in crime. And thank you so much, Ken, for your genuine support and interest in this and all work featured at Connotation Press.

see: SWOON & DAVID TOMALOFF AT CONNOTATION PRESS

Connotation Press was kind enough to publish 3 stories and an interview with me. Meg Tuite and I talked about process, electricity, Keith Richards, and the subversive nature of the prose poem. Also this month, you’ll find other great writers like Paul Scot August and Ryan W. Bradley, so check it out! Thanks, Meg and Ken! see: CONNOTATION PRESS 

Short, Fast & Deadly has released another fantastic issue as well, which happens to include my poem, #14. Thanks for including me, Joseph! see: SHORT, FAST & DEADLY 

Last but not least, Red Ceilings Press has posted 3 poems inspired by a call from Mark Cobley for work regarding “the edge of a sneeze.” Thanks, Mark! see: RED CEILINGS PRESS