Where all my dragonflies at?
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TO KILL A POET, ENTRY No. 7: THE POET THINKS HE IS A GARDEN
April rolls on for National Poetry Month writers. I’m just trying to keep it honest—pruning, you might say.
THE POET THINKS HE IS A GARDEN
In a notebook wrinkled & ruffled with wear, the poet has scrawled across three of its pages in impossibly gigantic shapes, the words, No one ever tells us what we are. We tell ourselves, or we become, or we find out the hard way that what we are is dirt. The poet, he believes he is a garden. He thinks aloud & whisper-toned that digging himself is perhaps a righteous & most perfect pun. No one here need say that the poet is dead wrong. Six times one day of rain & seven days later, the poet is unearthed with little more blossoming from his carcass than the unpleasant stench of a metaphor having been taken too far. Somewhere else, there are dishes wallowing in a cast iron sink.
ENTER THE SLOTH
Beach Sloth rocks the hardest lit reviews. Ever. Here’s what Beachy had to say about IN THOSE DAYS WE, which I am particularly thrilled to be a part of.
donate for stories by Katie Moore, Nora Nadjarian, Thaddeus Rutkowski, and David Tomaloff.
GOODNIGHT BAD MORNING, A 53-WORD STORY
A short piece I wrote, GOODNIGHT BAD MORNING, which takes its title from a favorite song by the Kills, won the Press 53 53-Word Story contest this week. I’m certainly honored. Please head over and take a look. Thanks, Christine! And thanks, Meg Pokrass, for the prompt!
EXIT STRATEGIES {IV}: ASYLUM
Part IV of Swoon’s videopoem series based on my Gold Wake Press chapbook, EXIT STRATEGIES, is awake and ready to spend quality time with you. I read you scary stories because I care. I hope you know that.
see: EXIT STRATEGIES {IV}: ASYLUM
STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS, LIVE AT AWP CHICAGO
I had the pleasure of reading for Connotation Press at AWP in Chicago. Relive it with me; press play and let me read you a story about Ben Tanzer. Special thanks to Ken Robidoux, the Connotation Press crew, everyone who read and attended, and, of course, Ben Tanzer.
BEN TANZER EXPLODED ON IMPACT
The new DOGZPLOT Ben Tanzer issue is alive and sexy: alive because it’s up, sexy because it’s Tanzer. Read my story, STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS, along with stories from favorites such as Ben, BL Pawelek, Ryan Bradley, Dave Housley, and Tom Williams. Thanks, Barry Graham!
NAILPOLISH STORIES BEST OF
Nailpolish Stories did a little “Best of” roundup. I’m happy to say that one of my stories made that list. I’m in good company all around. Thanks, Nicole!
A WOMAN’S SHOE, AN EMPTY BOTTLE, A SEXTANT BOX
That non-fiction piece I wrote about the time the sky came down to resurrect the body of Amelia Earhart is now live at In Between Altered States. Ok, you got me; it’s (mostly) fiction. Thanks Aleathia!
see: A WOMAN’S SHOE, AN EMPTY BOTTLE, A SEXTANT BOX
Photo Credit: Amelia Earhart. Courtesy of Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections.
13: THIRTEEN
Happy Halloween, you boils and ghouls! I’m thrilled almost wordless to report that my latest e-chap, THIRTEEN, is available as a free download from Artistically Declined Press. Much gratitude to Ryan W. Bradley for throwing a right Halloween bash!
see: 13
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PROPOLIS: a videopoem triptych
Nic Sebastian, Kathy McTavish, and Marc Swoon Bildos Neys have released the latest videopoem triptych, PROPOLIS, featuring poems by Donna Vorreyer, Lisa Cihlar, and me. Some might recognize my piece, THE LIGHTS ARE ON IN THE MUSEUM, as part of a piece Mud Luscious was kind in publishing some months ago. Thank you to all involved in this. I am indeed honored.
see: PROPOLIS
further reading: Mud Luscious 15
EXIT STRATEGIES e-chap published by Gold Wake Press
Gold Wake Press has published some of my all-time favorite e-chaps, and I am thrilled beyond thrilled that they have added my title, EXIT STRATEGIES, to the list. It’s near criminal to be able to download these gems for free. Please read mine, make your way down the list if you haven’t already, and be sure to purchase some of their excellent print titles. Thank you, J. Michael Wahlgren, Eric Beeny & Caylin Capra-Thomas!
see: EXIT STRATEGIES
