The films I'll be screening in my upcoming Women in Film course. We have a lot to talk about in only three weeks.

 
Morocco (Josef Von Sternberg 1930), Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale 1931), King Kong (Merian Cooper 1933), Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming 1939), Dance, Girl, Dance (Robert Wise 1940), Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren 1943), Swing-Shift Cinderella (Tex Avery 1945), The Marrying Kind (George Cukor 1952), Children’s Hour (William Wyler 1961), Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda 1961), Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski 1968), Carrie (Brian De Palma 1975), Voyage En Douce (Michel Deville 1980), Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden 1983), A Girl’s Own Story (Jane Campion 1988), Go Fish (Rose Troche 1993)

Dear Kate and Clifton, Zach is taking good care of me. I like him. He smells good. He knows how to properly adjust my walk harness. We've been to the park everyday since you've been gone. I think I'm kinda constipated, but anyway, enough about me. Enjoy your trip. Love, Maybelle.

Some of my poems have been translated and featured in the 6th issue of the Belgian poetry magazine, Kluger Hans. Unfortunately, my Dutch is a little rusty, but surrounding my name are the words "wonderlijke" and "respectievelijk" and those seem pretty good.

The Avalon nickle arcade down the street.

The Masked Poet

Bring that $10 bill you found in the washing machine to the poetry reading next Tuesday to help support Portland Hearing Voices. Four of your favorite Portland poets are reading.

The 14th issue of my second favorite online poetry magazine, Typo, is up. 

Thank you for watching that reading last night I (and EKF) did on HTMLGiant. That was kind of cool huh? I was pretty nervous. When I get nervous, apparently, my forehead gets really big. Anyway, thanks for being good and quiet listeners.

Here is a place called Moving Poems  that has a trove of video-poems, if you're into that sort of thing. Here's the one they put up of mine from Born.

Tonight I'm reading some poems at Ampersand Vintage (2916 NE Alberta) at 7pm in support of the great Travis Nichols, who will read from his first novel Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder. I imagine if we demand it, if we really demand it, if we throw rocks, he may read a few poems from his poetry collections Iowa (Letter Machine Editions 2009) and See Me Improving (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press). 

If you don't live in Portland, don't panic. I will be reading again on the internet. A LiveGiant reading, live on the internet, for free, from my living room perhaps, or perhaps my kitchen or bathroom. Log in to HTMLGIANT on Wednesday night a few minutes before 9pm Eastern (that's 6 for you west coast knuckleheads). Have a LiveGiant poetry reading party. Don't watch alone, or without a snack or beverage.

It's official: there are only 63 better books than Scary, No Scary. 

I remember you, Portland, with joy. 11, 295 total miles.

My new apartment, where a new thing begins.

Some of those Viking poems I was talking about earlier have found themselves in RealPoetik.