Bad Blood #6 is on its way, next Saturday, June 4. Graham Foust, Emily Kendal Frey, and John Niekrasz. Work/Sound. 820 SE Alder. 7pm mingle time. Come out from your awesome hiding spot.

Picked up my summer fiction reading list at Powell's today:

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

Some new books are coming your way, July 1. Everything is going to be ok.

Dear Portland, next Thursday: Joshua Beckman, Anthony McCann, and Jamalieh Haley at Bad Blood 5. It's kind of a big deal.

I'm telling a true story about my misfitness on the Back Fence PDX stage at the Mission Theater on Thursday, May 26. I'll be one of five story tellers for the evening. You can make reservations now, if you're into it.

A preview of the first issue of a new poetry journal, iO, has a poem of mine called "Tiny Castles" stuck in it.