The first publication of the collaborations between myself and Emily Kendal Frey are in the new issue of Diode. They're from a manuscript of ours either titled Something Should Happen at Night Outside or Feelings Using Wolves. 

Zachary Schomburg Hip Dance

Thank you

The wonderful and talented Ben Estes is doing some drawings for a few selected poems to appear in Scary, No Scary. Here is one, just so you can get a taste. It will appear next to "The Fire Cycle." 

If you live in Brooklyn or have a reasonable way of getting there on Saturday, go do this.  

If you have at least one working eyeball and internet access, which I know for a fact you do, read the new Typo. 

Chess Update: AC 1 : ZS 2

What I've Been Listening to Lately

Vetiver : Thing of the Past

The Dodo's : Visiter

Hayden : In Field and Town

Grand Archives :  The Grand Archives

Finn Riggins : A Soldier, a Saint, an Ocean Explorer

DeVotchKa : A Mad and Faithful Retelling

Final Fantasy : He Poos Clouds

Micah P. Hinson : Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress

Galaxie 500 : Today

Lampchop : Jack's Tulips

O May, part 3

O May, part 2

O May

In which one is the heat on-er?

O Poets on Painters

This weekend is the opening weekend of the Poets on Painters exhibition at the Sheldon. The Clean Part is hosting a Poets on Painters reading and discussion on Saturday night at 7pm at the Sheldon in conjunction with the opening. Corina Copp and Paul Killebrew, two poets featured in the show, will read their work. 

1/3 of the mammals in the above photograph wrote 1/2 of the book below that photograph, collab-style. So get it. Jehz. The book.

Your boy got 2nd prize in this summer's SLS-Russia poetry contest. So if you're looking for me, I'll be in St. Petersburg during the second half of June and the first week of July. This will be my very first time off this continent. Ура!

O Portland

Cuban food. Mexican food. Indian food. Japanese food. Mark Kozelek show. Hipster haircut. Driftwood lounge. Used clothing store. Powell's. Rode the bus with crazy people who spilled Nillas everywhere. Chiropractor. Graveyard. Graveyard. Graveyard. Groceries. 

The Man Suit was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 Books to Remember for 2007. As far as poetry goes, it's just Robert Hass, Margaret Atwood and me. Eeeeeeek. So, if you forgot about it already, maybe you shouldn't. You should think about remembering it.

O Iowa City

Mathias is throwing two simultaneous birthday parties at 6 on Sunday. One is for me and one is for this guy named Robert. This is the poster for my party. Both parties will feature alcoholic drinks & cakes. You can only go to one of the parties. He knows that sounds stingy, but it is a rule.

Ben Estes is displaying his new artwork in Iowa City's Burford Gallery this week. He made some art, kind of a series of broadsheets, out of all 23 sections of my new long poem, The Pond. Ben Estes and I make a good team. I'm going to read The Pond at the gallery on Friday, April 11 at 8. The show opens at 7:30. Don't be a loser.  

Coldfront. Year in Review. Placed in the following categories: Best Book of New Poetry Published in 2007, Best First Book, Best Closer, Best "Thirteenth Poem." Yowzers.




Fou. Issue 1.

Redivider. Issue 5.2. My poem is making out with Billy Collins' poem.

O Ohio

Last night at Dave and Neil's.

Ohio! I'm going to be in you.

Monday, March 31. University of Akron Student Union room 335, 5:00 pm w/ Michael Dumanis & Mary Biddinger. Book signing to follow. This reading is co-sponsored by the UA Literary Guild, Barn Owl Review , and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.

Tuesday, April 1. Cleveland State University. Trinity Commons, 2230 Euclid Avenue Conference Room C/D. 7:30 pm w/ Nin Andrews.

Wednesday, April 2. University of Cincinnati. 840 Gallery.

Sometimes I feel like Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything. Sometimes I feel like Walter Gibson from The Sure Thing. So I've memorized these things and say them to myself, over and over again, on the floor, with all the lights off.

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed or buy anything sold or processed or process anything sold, bought, or processed.

And I'm standing there and I'm looking up at the sky and I'm thinking each one of these dots of light is another world. I didn't know the difference between the stars and the planets then, but it made me feel really small, lonely...do you know what I mean? But then I thought, maybe on each one of these other worlds, there's a little kid and he's just like me and he's in the shape of a sponge or a pinball machine or something but whatever. But he's up there. Maybe he's on a camping trip. Maybe he's looking up at the stars.

When you walk does the noise of a tree with all the dead leaves still attached

Full of Knives translated back to English on Google. I like this so much better than the original.

FULL OF KNIVES

1) His back is full of knives. The blades are engraved the writing.
2) On the night sleeping face down in his area of plaster.
3) have any problems with the metal detector.
4) At birthday parties there is always someone who asks politely excuse, I pass a knife to cut the chocolate cake?
5) He prefers to stay with their backs to the wall, the restaurant sits at the tables.
6) There is an investigator who called him to ask them questions about writing. And also: a biographer, a woman who wants to shoot a documentary, the curator of a museum, his mother. Can not read, respond, I ce on the back.
7) No one goes in mind that he wants to remove the knives back.
8) Almost all the writing is illegible. One, however, is written in French.
9) Every Halloween we traveste by victim of a brutal murder. Once tried to travestirsi from whale was a problem but justify knives.
10) always wears the same dress bloodied.
11) When you walk does the noise of a tree with all the dead leaves still attached.
12) His knives are safe for children, as long as we do not rise above.
13) At the park sees its shadow. Move your body so that the knives area llunghino on others. He began to do so every night. The shadows of its knives seem tènere open arms.
14) On his back no longer place.
15) During a trip to Paris and falls in love there remains some years. It performs on the street with the most famous mime.
16) I used the knives to stay whole. It's written that kills slowly.
17) It is difficult to embrace when cries.
18) She Will Die in old age and the doctor will say, it is clear, was brutally and repeatedly stabbed. I am sorry, then the doctor will say the person left out, but I fear that she will not.

Yesterday was opening day of MLB and my fantasy team, The Mendoza Lions, came out of the gate hard. 2nd out of 15. Behind Matt Henriksen.

Marco Simonelli's translations of "I've Since Folded this Poem into a Perfect Airplane" and "Full of Knives" from The Man Suit are up at Nazione Indiana. I can't read Italian, but they look really cool.

Anthony Robinson's "Dave Mustaine Changes Lives" as read by me for Linebreak.

Spring Break 08

Mocha