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.
My short story How We Lost the Children, One by One is included in Robert Vaughan’s excellent Flash Fiction Fridays anthology. The anthology recaps all of the stories read on WUWM’s Flash Fiction Fridays radio segment hosted by Robert Vaughan and Stephani Lecci. It’s a monster of a collection, and I’m just thrilled be a part of it. Thanks, Robert, for all of your support and everything you do.
VIA Housefire:
“Friends, we could not be more thrilled to bring you MAGGIE IS THE ONLY GIRL WHO LIVES WITH US NOW, a beautiful hybrid of poetry and prose by David Tomaloff. Creepy in all the right places.”
Thanks, Robert Duncan Gray & the whole HF crew!
See: HOUSEFIRE
Mud Luscious kingpin, JA Tyler, has assembled a firecracker of a special issue of [PANK] to coincide with the release of the Stamp Stories Anthology. Yes, fifty words or less by some of the most compelling word hustlers in the game. To say I’m honored to be included would be an understatement. You should probably get some!
“IT’S JUST ANOTHER DAY,” Harry told himself. The elevator continued its blinding descent.
THE TRAIN PULLED AWAY from the station; he hadn’t noticed he’d stopped breathing.
Issue 15 of >kill author includes my two very odd tales THESPIANIC MYTHOLOGY No. 4 and THE SURFACE OF GREENLAND for your viewing and listening pleasure. Also included are two great photographs by Jennifer Tomaloff to sweeten the deal. By all means, partake! Thanks, kind editors!
My words, SONGS NO ONE COLLECTS ARE SONGS FOR A FUTURE, are happy to be included among the many wonderful sets of words that have gathered to form Mud Luscious, Issue Seventeen. Do stop by and shake their hands; these words would like a chance to read you better. My undying gratitude as always to J. A. Tyler and Andrew Borgstrom, two of the finest editors any words can know.
PIPE DREAM: EVERYONE WHO KNOWS ME WILL DISAPPEAR IF IT’S THE LAST THING I DO
EVERYONE WHO KNOWS ME WILL DISAPPEAR IF IT’S THE LAST THING I DODAVID TOMALOFF
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The orange teeth of the concrete kicked in, I wound my way through the city’s maze until I found my weighted heart unchained &set free. I woke up in the arms of a meadow I once loved, where I’d slipped into sleep on a mouthful of blood. I woke up next to a mother’s ghost, tired &battered from the mornings of all the nights before. More than slightly, Miss Tucson, you fucked me up, &you left me there to wither. I reasoned that if I could get out for a couple of days, I might get to see the space where I’d lived—where I might have lived if everI had truly lived—to see who I might have been on the other end of the gun. The buildings at night with their shadowed plaster peepholes. My lungs, like a couple of pump organs, beating out natural flats until I wound up here with a fifth. She is the ragged specter within me; she is the child I never was. I BUILT HER A PLACE IN THE FOREST. I left her there &never returned.
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David Tomaloff is a writer, photographer, musician, and all around bad influence. His work has appeared in fine publications such as Mud Luscious, >kill author, Thunderclap!, HOUSEFIRE, Prick of the Spindle, DOGZPLOT, elimae, and many more. He is the author of the chapbooks, A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF (NAP) Olifaunt (The Red Ceilings Press), EXIT STRATEGIES (Gold Wake Press) and MESCAL NON-PALINDROME CINEMA (Ten Pages Press). He resides in the form of ones and zeros at: davidtomaloff.com
Thank you, Mr. Tomaloff, from your friends at PIPE DREAM.
(Source: pipedreamzine)
The beautiful videopoem triptych, PROPOLIS, which features some of my words, has been added to Dave Bonta’s MOVING POEMS website. MOVING POEMS prides itself on being “an on-going anthology of the best videopoems, filmpoems, animated poems, and other poetry videos from around the web.” It’s truly an honor to be part of this project.
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
My story, A BOX OF HOME, can be found in Episode 16 of the excellent In Between Altered States alongside the work of David Haase, Melanie Browne, Andrew J. Stone, James Kowalczyk, Kevin Ridgeway, Sherri Collins, and Editor Aleathea Drehmer. Check it out!
see: A BOX OF HOME
Prick of the Spindle, Vol. 5.2 is living and breathing! Among the many excellent features is a review of my Gold Wake Press chapbook, “EXIT STRATEGIES,” elegantly written by John Sibley Williams. In making a case for my work, John illustrates why you should be reading his. Thank you, John, and my thanks to Cynthia for providing such a fine venue.
see: EXIT STRATEGIES Review
see: John Sibley Williams Reading
I made up some words about some words made up by J. A. Tyler, and >Kill Author made up a post about them at the >KA blog. Thanks for reading all these words, which I am happy to be making up.
see: [dt] on J. A. at >KA
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