Yes, Starlings! Yes!

January 28-31, 2012 Listening & Reading Lists

2012-02-01T11:44:00.002-06:00

Jan 28, 2012

Records Listened To:

Elzhi: Elmatic
DJ Shadow: The Less You Know the Better
Drake: Take Care
Patricia Petibon: Amoureuses
Moon Duo: Mazes
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
The Rapture: How Deep is Your Love EP
Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
Patricia Petibon: Rosso - Italian Baroque Arias
Mount Eerie & Julie Doiron: Lost Wisdom

Books Read From:

Eduoard Glissant: Poetics of Relation

Jan 29, 2012

Records Listened To:

Patricia Petibon: Amoureuses
X3 Buffalo Philharmonic, c Lukas Foss: Xenakis & Penderecki
Ambarchi/Fennesz/Pimmon/Rehberg/Rowe: Afternoon Tea
Moon Duo: Mazes

Books Read From:
none

Jan 30, 2012

Records Listened To:

X2 Lungfish: Necrophones
v/a: Total Freakout Vol 3
Liturgy: Aesthetica
Lungfish: The Unanimous Hour
Ambarchi/Fennesz/Pimmon/Rehberg/Rowe: Afternoon Tea
Alexander Mosolov: Russian Futurism, Vol. 1: Piano Works [Daniele Lombardi]
Moon Due: Mazes
Wolves in the Throne Room: Malevolent Grain
Suthk Hexen: Luciform

Books Read From:

Maurice Blanchot: When the Time Comes
Gregory Sherl: The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail

Jan 31, 2012

Records Listened To:

Raksha Mancham: Chos Khor
Lungfish: Sound in Time
Urfaust: Drei Rituale Jenseits Des Kosmos
Oren Ambarchi: A Final Kiss On Poisoned Cheeks 12"
Atriarch: Forever the End
Weedeater: Jason the Dragon
Ghédalia Tazartès: Diasporas
Luc Ferrari: Tuchan-Chantal
Murcof: The Versailles Sessions
Andy Stott: We Stay Together
Lungfish: Necrophones
Lungfish: Talking Songs for Walking
Deepchord: Hash-Bar Loops

Books Read From:

Maurice Blanchot: When the Time Comes
Gertrude Stein: The World is Round
Catullus: Odi et Amo, trans Roy Arthur Swanson

January 26 & 27, 2012 Listening & Reading Lists

2012-01-28T16:28:00.003-06:00

Jan 25, 2012

Records Listened To:

Hell: I
Disma: Toward the Megalith
Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw: Night Gallery
The Fruit Bats: Tripper
Ofege: Try & Love
Deepchord: Hash-Bar Loops
Dead Can Dance: Aion

Books Read From:

Tomaz Salamun: The Four Questions of Melancholy
Jean-Patrick Manchette: Three to Kill
J. Krishnamurti: The First & Last Freedom

Jan 27, 2012

Records Listened To:

Wolves In The Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
Action Patrol: On Patrol
The Dufay Collective: Dance in the Garden of Mirth
King Midas Sound: Waiting for You
King Oliver: 1923
Cinquecento: Vaet: Missa Ego Flos Campi
Nadja: Autopergamene
Bernarda Fink: Bach - Kantaten für Alt
Belong: October Language
Ratas de Vaticano: Tiempos de Austeridad
Willie Wright: telling the truth
The Body: All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood
Googoosh: s/t
Bjork: Biophilia
Pandit Pran Nath: Earth Groove: The Voice of Cosmic India
Charanjit Singh: Ten Ragas To a Disco Beat
Charley Patton: The Complete Recorded Works

Books Read From:

Ed. Janet Brody Esser: Behind the Mask in Mexico

January 25, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-26T14:33:00.002-06:00

Jan 25, 2012

Records Listened To:

Weedeater: Jason the Dragon
Motor City Drum Ensemble : Love EP
KWJAZ: KWJAZ cassette [Brunch Groupe 01]
John Luther Adams: Red Arc / Blue Veil
Midnight: Satanic Royalty
Anne-Sophie Mutter; André Previn: Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Serenades, Etc.
Kronos Quartet & Wu Man: Terry Riley: The Cusp Of Magic
Pictureplan: Thee Physical
Weedeater: God Luck & Good Speed
Jim O'rourke-Akira Sakata-YOSHIMIO: Hagyou
Cough: Sigillum Luciferi
Troum: Sigqan
Fucked Up: Singles Collection

Books Read From:

Jennifer Moxley: Imagination Verses
Tomaz Salamun: The Four Questions of Melancholy
Jean-Patrick Manchette: Three to Kill

January 24, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-25T12:33:00.002-06:00

Jan 24, 2012

Records Listened To:

Weedeater: Jason the Dragon
v/a: Jess & Crabbe present Bazzerk: African Digital Dance
Engine Down: Demure
Black Vomit: Jungle Death
Nicolas Bernier: Les Arbres
Gérard Grisey: Les espaces acoustiques

Books Read From:

Maurice Blanchot: Madness of the Day
Fanny Howe: Come and See
Barbara Mauldin: Masks of Mexico

2012-01-24T14:10:00.003-06:00

Jan 22, 2012

Records Listened To:

Sutekh Hexen: Luciform
The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck
Deuter: Aum
International Contemporary Ensemble: Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony & String Quartet
Maria Minerva: Cabaret Cixous
Blues Control & Laraaji: FRKWYS Vol. 8
Myrmyr: Fire Star
Tragedy: Vengeance
Karen Dalton: It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best
willie wright: telling the truth
Bonnie Prince Billy: Wolfroy Goes to Town
Aethenor: Betimes Black Cloudmasses

Books Read From:

Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Kappa
Maurice Blanchot: Vicious Circles

Jan 23, 2012

Records Listened To:

Bastard Priest: Ghouls Of The Endless Night
Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me

Books Read From:

Maurice Blanchot: Vicious Circles
Nick Flynn: The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
Eduoard Glissant: Poetic Intention

January 19-21, 2012 Listening & Reading Lists

2012-01-22T14:44:00.002-06:00

Jan 19, 2012

Records Listened To:

X2 Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
Obsequiae: Suspended in the Brume of Eos
Winterfylleth: The Mercian Sphere
Yob: Atma
Yob: The Great Cessation
Ensemble Ordo Virtutum: Hildegard Von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum
Ingrid Fliter: Beethoven: Sonatas
Alina Ibragimova: Hartmann (KA): Concerto Funebre
Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips: Hindemith: The Complete Viola Music, Vol. 1 – Sonatas
Lady Gaga: Born This Way: The Remix
Dead Can Dance: Aion
Fruit Bats: The Ruminant Band
Karen Dalton: It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best
Islaja: Ulual Yyy
Devotchka: Una Volta
Withcraft: Firewood
Omar-S: It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It
Oren Ambarchi: Destinationless Desire
Patricia Petibon: Rosso - Italian Baroque Arias

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
WS Merwin: The Lice
Jennifer Moxley: Imagination Verses

Jan 20, 2012

Records Listened To:

Fucked Up: David Comes to Life
Fell Voices: s/t
Calvin Keys: Shawn-Neeq
Chris Watson: Cima Verde
Angela & Jennifer Chun: Bartók: 44 Violin Duos
Elzhi: Elmatic
Pictureplane: Dimensional Rip 7: Thee Physical Remixes
Weedeater: God Luck & Good Speed
Yob: The Great Cessation
Ingrid Fliter: Beethoven: Sonatas
v/a: Lagos Shake Up
The Original Modern Lovers: 1972 Tapes
Against Me: Reinventing Axl Rose
Lucero: Tennessee
The Flatlanders: More of Legend than a Band
John Coltrane: Lush Life
Skip James: Devil Got My Woman

Books Read From:

Jim Krusoe: Girl Factory
Willa Cather: April Twilights
Rikki Ducornet: Netsuke

Jan 21, 2012

Records Listened To:

Ride: Nowhere
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Jobim
Bjork: Biophilia
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Fanfare for the Warriors
Balam Acab: Wander / Wonder

Books Read From:

Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Kappa

January 18, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-19T10:57:00.001-06:00

Jan 18, 2012

Records Listened To:

Pentangle: Cruel Sister
Wolves in the Throne Room: Live at Roadburn 2008
X2 Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
My Brightest Diamond: All Things Will Unwind
Emeralds: What Just Happened
Chasing Voices: Acidbathory
The Body: All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Rizzoli Quadrofolio: Caravaggio
ed. Axelrod, et al: Reading Critically, Writing Well

January 17, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-18T19:21:00.001-06:00

Jan 17, 2012

Records Listened To:

Charley Patton: Volume 2 (1929)
Mountain Man: Made the Harbor
Mark Padmore & Paul Lewis: Schubert – Winterreise

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Ivan Doig, Richard Shiff & Catherine Lampert: Ivan Doig

January 16, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-17T10:28:00.002-06:00

Jan 16, 2012

Records Listened To:

X3 Julliard String Quartet: Bartok String Quartet 1
Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow
Sun Araw: Heavy Deeds
Ø: Heijastuva
Tim Hecker: Dropped Pianos
Elzhi: Elmatic
The Caretaker: An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

Books Read From:

Eliza Frye: Regalia
China Mieville: The Scar
Julie Doxsee: Objects for a Fog Death
Cynthia Arrieu-King: People are Tiny in Paintings of China

2012-01-16T12:22:00.002-06:00

Jan 15, 2012

Records Listened To:

Anne Briggs: Nottinghamshire Tales
Tom Ze: Tom Ze
Satwa: Satwa
Kaleidescope: Tangerine Dream
Bong: Beyond Ancient Space
Jana Winderen: Heated

Books Read From:

Nick Flynn: The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
China Mieville: The Scar
Julie Doxsee: Objects for a Fog Death
Noah Eli Gordon: The Area of Sound Called the Subtone
J. Krishnamurti: The First & Last Freedom

January 14, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-15T13:34:00.001-06:00

Jan 14, 2012

Records Listened To:

Krallice: Diotima
Konono No1: Live
Lync: These are Not Fall Colors
At the Drive In: In Casino Out
András Schiff: JS Bach – Partitas
Ryley Walker and Daniel Bachman: Of Deathly Premonitions

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Laura Kasischke: Space, In Chains
Les Murray: Killing the Black Dog – A Memoir of Depression
Michael Dickman: Flies
John Wieners: A Book of Prophecies
Thomas Merton: Figures for an Apocalypse

January 12 & 13, 2012 Listening & Reading Lists

2012-01-14T16:40:00.001-06:00

Jan 12, 2012

Records Listened To:

Midnight: Satanic Royalty
Pearls before Swine: Balaclava
Locrian: The Clearing
Jeff the Brotherhood: We Are the Champions & Heavy Days
Lifetime: Jersey’s Best Dancers
Balamoroah: All is Wild All is Silent
Avail: Dixie
Fisticuffs Bluff: s/t
Aluk Todoro: descension
EPMD: Strictly Business
pg. 99: Doc. #7
Damian Jurardo: Saint Bartlett
Jürgen Müller: Science of the Sea
v/a: Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts of Deep City
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Jobim
v/a: AC/DC Blues – Gay Jazz Reissues, vol. 1
Brewer & Shipley: Tarkio
The Police: Regatta de Blanc
X3 Fucked Up: Hidden World
Fucked Up: David Comes Alive

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar

Jan 13, 2012

Records Listened To:

Krallice: Diotima
Ga’an: Black Equus

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Hesiod: Theogony trans: Dorothea Wender

January 11, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-12T14:07:00.000-06:00

Jan 11, 2012

Records Listened To:

Tom Waits: Bad Like Me
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
Liturgy: Aesthetica
Dirty Beaches: Badlands
Group Doueh: Beatte Harab
Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi
Prince: Dirty Mind
Fucked Up: Hidden World

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar

January 10, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-11T10:52:00.002-06:00

Jan 10, 2012

Records Listened To:

Dad Can Dance: Aion
Sutkh Hexen: Luciform
Wolvserpent: Blooseed
ZZ Top: Fandango
Joni Mitchell: Blue
v/a: Groove Club vol 3: Cambodia Rock Intesified!
Matthew Dear: Black City
Pastor TL Barrett & the Youth for Christ Choir Sings!
Emmy Lou Harris: Blue Kentucky Girl
Ella Fitzgerald: le major de Ella Fitzgerald
Young People: War Prayers
Cocteau Twins: Treasure
v/a: Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts of Deep City
Noveller: Glacial Glow

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar

January 9, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-10T10:15:00.002-06:00

Jan 9, 2012

Records Listened To:

Midnight: Satanic Royalty
Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi
Satan’s Host: By the Hands of the Devil
X2 Locrian: The Clearing
Robert Johnson: Complete Recordings (disc 2)

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Dori Hadar: Mingering Mike: The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar
Dan Beachy Quick: This Nes, Swift Passerine
Gwendolyn Brooks: A Street in Bronzeville
Emily Dickinson (Franklin): The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, Vol 1
Hillary Gravendyk: Harm

January 8, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-09T12:03:00.002-06:00

Jan 8, 2012

Records Listened To:

Hawkwind: Hall of the Mountain Grill
Ty Segal: Goodbye Bread
Hallow: s/t
Krallice: Diotima
Susan Gritton; The Florestan Trio: Shostakovich: Piano Trios & Songs
Weedeater: God Luck & Good Speed
Weedeater: Jason the Dragon
Winterfylleth: The Mercian Sphere
Wolves of Avalon: Carrion Crows Over Camlan
Lake of Blood: As Time And Tide Erodes Stone
Fell Voices: Demo
Cathedral: Ethereal Mirror
Quiquecento: Vaet—Missa Ego flos campi
Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island
Kiila: Silmat Sulkaset
Motor City Drum Ensemble: DJ Kicks
Wet Hair: Dream

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Rene Char: Stone Lyre, trans. Naomi Carlson
Samuel Beckett: Poems in English
Eduard Glissant: Poetics of Relation
Uyen Hua: a/s/l

January 6, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-07T18:14:00.002-06:00

Jan 6, 2012

Records Listened To:

Iced Earth: Night of the Stormrider
Dark Sister: Swag Hag
Wolves of Avalon: Carrion Crows Over Camlan
Balaclava: Crimes of Faith
X2 Weedeater: Jason the Dragon
Jürgen Müller: Science of the Sea
Fruit Bats: Tripper
Joe Henderson: The State of the Tenor – Live at the Village Vanguard Vol 2
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Sibelius – Karelia Suite, Valse Triste, etc.
Tom Waits: Bad as Me
Tinariwan: Aman Iman: Water Is Life
Balam Acab: Wander / Wonder
Belong: Colorless Record
Widowspeak: Widowspeak
Yob: Atma

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Renee French: The Ticking
Reader’s Digest: Illustrated Reverse Dictionary

January 5, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-06T11:12:00.001-06:00

Jan 5, 2012

Records Listened To:

Midnight: Satanic Royalty
v/a: Music from Saharan Cellphones Vol.1
Greg Allman: Low Country Blues
Falls of Rauros: Hail Wind And Hewn Oak
Blut Aus Nord: MoRT
Dust: Hard Attack

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Renee French: The Ticking
John M Gottman: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Cid Corman: Livingdying

January 4, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-05T12:15:00.003-06:00

Jan 4, 2012

Records Listened To:

Midnight: Satanic Royalty
vidnaObmana: Crossing the Trail
Oxford Camerata: Gesualdo—Complete Sacred Music for Five Voices

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Emily Pettit: Goat in the Snow

January 3, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-04T11:27:00.002-06:00

Jan 3, 2012

Records Listened To:

Midnight: Satanic Royalty
Subrosa: No Help For The Mighty Ones
Teddy Pendergrass: The Essential Teddy Pendergrass
Wreck & Reference: Black Cassette
Woe: Quietly, Undramatically
William Basinski: The River

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Jai Arun Ravine: แล้ว and then entwine

January 2, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-02T14:32:00.003-06:00

Jan 2, 2012

Records Listened To:

Bernstein & the Philharmonic: Debussy — A Faun, Nocturnes & Joux
Igor Zhakov: Scriabin — 24 Preludes
Lady Gaga: Born This Way
Martin Best Consort: Forgotten Provance
DJ Shadow: Private Press
Stooges: Funhouse
Fucked Up: Hidden World
Dirty Beaches: Badlands
v/a: New Star — Original Style
Smart Went Crazy: Con Art
Pg 99: Document #7

Books Read From:

China Mieville: The Scar
Blake Butler: Nothing
Matt Beard: The 1000 Deaths of Matt Beard
Alexandra Fox: Towazagatari

January 1, 2012 Listening & Reading List

2012-01-02T14:31:00.002-06:00

I’ve decided to keep track of every album I listen to & every book that I open up & read from or look at in 2012.

Jan 1, 2012

Records Listened To:

Lost Tribe: s/t
Ride: Nowhere
High Wolf: Atlas Nation
Marty Robbins: Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
The Impressions: Finally Got Myself Together
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Jobim
El Rego: El Rego et ses Commandos
Noveller: Glacial Glow
McCoy Tyner: Extensions
Mogollar: s/t
The Walkmen: Bows & Arrows
KWJAZ: s/t
Madlib: Shades of Blue
EMA: pastlifemartyredsaints
Solomon Burke: Electronic Magnetism
Elizabeth Cotton: Live!
Pastor TL Barrett & the Youth for Christ Choir: Sings!
Ascend: Ample Fire Within
Rolling Stones: Goat’s Head Soup
Brainiac: Hissing Prigs in the Static Couture
Salem: s/t
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part One – 4th World War
v/a: Lagos Shake – A Tony Allen Chop Up

Books Read From:

David B: The Armed Garden & Other Stories
China Mieville: The Scar
Douglas Kearney: The Black Automaton
Lorine Niedecker: Paean to Place
AR George: Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schoyen Collection v 10
Pieter Hugo: Permanent Error
Josef Koudelka: Gypsies

My New Book Is Out! I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur from Mud Luscious Press

2011-07-28T09:22:00.000-05:00

My second book, I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur, is available now from Mud Luscious Press.

You can, if you want, order it here: http://mudlusciouspress.com/books/svalina/i-am-a-very-productive-entrepreneur/.

The book is a series of absurdist business plans. And it's a novel(la).

You can read excerpts from the book here, & here.

Here's what some people said about the book:

In this joyful critique of a Randian, post-industrial society, Mathias Svalina comments on both the compulsive desire to make the inconsumable & the often intangible recalcitrance of our attempts to create something useful in a world increasingly characterized by a manufactured sense of lack, anomie & disaffection, where we are daily beset by ‘a kind of numbness, a shadow of desire or fear offset against a blank world.’ Svalina refuses this numbness & offers something else, something completely stunning, in its place.
Gabriel Gudding

This is a subversive & necessary book: the quixotic entrepreneurial spirit of individualist American capitalism is revealed as an inherently poetic construct, one that rests on theater, liminality, imaginative drive, contradiction, & failure. I AM A VERY PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEUR is poignant & brilliant; it’s worth the investment.
Christian Hawkey

If you buy this book & you don't like it I will give you one gram of my blood.

Bitchin Bajas

2011-07-10T11:26:00.000-05:00

Thanks to Nate for turning me on to these guys.

Me On Reading

2011-07-07T12:15:00.003-05:00

http://laughingyeti.blogspot.com/2011/07/mathias-svalina-on-reading.html

Thanks to Shome Dasgupta for asking me to contribute to this interesting blog.

"The Pregnant Couple" on Matchbook

2011-07-04T10:53:00.001-05:00

My story "The Pregnant Couple" is now up on Matchbook: http://www.matchbooklitmag.com.

Maybe you want to read it. I already read it, so I'm not going to.

Blackbird: A reading by me & Allison Titus

2011-07-04T10:49:00.002-05:00

If you like such things, you can listen to a reading that Allison & I gave at VCU in Dec of last year on Blackbird. Here's the link: http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v10n1/features/svalina_titus/reading_page.shtml.

Her reading is killer, of course. Mine is half from Destruction Myth & half from Hosanna Mansions, a mostly unpublished manuscript of poems that are about my dad & me during his struggle with the cancer that ended his life.

Thinking about Some Conversations with Bin & Looking at Julie Blackmon's Domestic Variations & Roger Ballen's Boarding House

2011-06-22T10:11:00.000-05:00

Julie Blackmon Domestic Vacations

Roger Ballen Boarding House

Childhood is not a reality. Only place-names on maps. A nostalgia or a regret. A pair of glasses. A single page of a picture book.

The everyday is a hallucination. Nail polish & bent wire hangers. Photographs of.

Identity is an acceptance. Childhood can be a demand. A narrow band of red ribbon. A drip from an unknown liquid source.

The interior of a house is a terror of presence. It has no relation to the outside of a house.

You Know Who's Great? Julian Brolaski is Great.

2011-06-21T17:49:00.004-05:00

I've been really loving gowanus atropolis from Ugly Duckling, which you can order here.

I love Brolaski's Hart Crane antique, clipped & clasping ear in the book. I love the way it's by turns all gender F-you & by other turns all gender-Fed comfy & by other turns not caring about gender. I love its lionization/pewterfication of Gowanus. I love reading the poems out loud.

Check out this one:

the pit of tutivillus

—julian brolaski

todo el tiemp quelque new atrocity
met w/ flies
the seer wit understanding
almost undercut hir prophecy

my muzzle will be made of moss
in the whinter
you think it’s music but it’s like lilies when they fester
all ovular moonlight tusking the apparatus

when I say lily I do mean the same
swete my sweteing
each arm asway on tender footing
who alone is burning plastic

That is so good! Read it again, with your mouth.

Didn't you love that? I knew you would. I know about these things.

Mel Kiper Jr., Michael Showalter & Gerard Manly Hopkins

2011-05-09T12:13:00.001-05:00

Crucial

2011-05-02T08:44:00.001-05:00

The Correspondence of Paul Celan and Ilana Shmueli
Paul Celan, Ilana Shmueli; Norman Manea, intro.; Norman Manea, contrib.; Susan H. Gillespie, trs.

In me is hellish emptiness, Ilana, but my bones say: we are thinking.

It can be assumed that I will live to be 100 – and why not?

Understand, please, that I have to speak this way too, at some time.

Be thanked, thanked

Much stillness, much truth, much understanding, much –

Paul

21.1.70

Sprung Formal

2011-04-28T11:28:00.003-05:00

Sprung Formal is now available for pre-order on their website: http://sprungformal.wordpress.com/

It has these peoples in it: Mary Jo Bang, Robert J. Baumann, Adam Beris, Daniel Borzutzky, Austin Buckingham, Shannon Burns, Nick Chan, Jack Christian, Bryan Coffelt, Cyrus Console, Linh Dinh, Marie Dougherty, Dustin Downey, Shawna Enyart, Ryan Feeney, Miles Fermin, Abbe Findley, Kathleen Furlong, Madeline Gallucci, Angela Genusa, Tyson Gough, Joshua T. Howell, Kristen Iskandrian, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Justin Kemp, Emily Kendal Frey, Mitchell Hugh Kirkwood, Mark Leidner, Christina Lenert, Richard Lucyshyn, Ryan MacDonald, Alice Miller, Sawako Nakayasu, Annie Raab, Osciel Ramos, Sophie Roessler, James Sanders, Jaclyn Senne, Sandra Simonds, Lauren Stookey, Mathias Svalina, Michelle Taransky, Dana Ward, Dara Wier, Teal Wilson, Dziadek Wydra Odjazdowy,Mike Young, & Joshua Zink

One of them is me. Some of my "Brain in a Vat" poems are in there. These are the first of that series to see publication.

Apparently there are only 65 copies still unaccounted for. So perhaps you'll want to do some accounting.

Also they will be having our reading/release party at Cara and Cabezas Contemporary on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 from 8pm-10pm. I won't be there. But I can think of how people will be there. With my mind.

Leadville, Co. Springs, Denver, Etc.

2011-04-18T16:11:00.003-05:00

2011-04-14T08:59:00.000-05:00

This morning as I was biking along the bike path, early morning humidity & cold, trying to ride as fast as I could around the curve over the bridge, I passed a guy against the wall, crumpled over & teetering.

I went about another hundred feet & then turned around. When I got back to him he was sprawled face down & kind of twitching & shaking. I asked him if he needed help & he didn’t respond.

I’m going to call you an ambulance, I told him.

No, he groaned. I just need to get across to the other side.

I tried to convince him to let me call him an ambulance & he begged me not to.

If you call an ambulance I’ll go back to jail, he finally said. He lower jaw was trembling, clear liquid snot collected in drops at the end of his nose. He smelled like booze, but his clothes were clean other than the thistles stuck in them from sleeping in the grass.

I held my hand out & he grabbed my hand & I lifted him up. His hands was cold. He was so light.

Gripping his coat so that he couldn’t fall, I walked him toward the bridge that crossed the creek. He was so light that I could hold his teetering body up without even flexing.

He told me his name was Tony. He lives at a group home two blocks from my house. It was clear from his state that there was no way he was going to make the mile & a half walk home. Occasionally he gripped his stomach in pain. But when I asked him he said it was just from being fucked up.

Messed up as he was, possibly near hypothermic from sleeping outside in just jeans & a medium-weight coat, he was adamant that he didn’t want me to call an ambulance. Then again, he was still blitzed—hardly in any state to make a rational decision.

After spending about thirty minutes with Tony, walking him up to the street, I set him down to sit on a concrete barrier in a patch of 7AM sunshine. I made him promise that he’d sit there, warm up & get his head together before trying to walk anywhere. I gave him my gloves (really Julia’s gloves that I borrowed from her). Then went to campus.

I’m not sure I did the right thing. The guy needed help. He’d slept through a 40 degree night with no covers. He was shaking constantly from both the booze & the cold. And yet I hate to send anyone to jail through my actions.

So I left him there.

Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra: “There is a Light,” from Kollaps Tradixionales

2011-04-01T12:31:00.002-05:00

Nine minutes & three seconds into this song, Efrim Menuck sings “And lay me down in a bed full of rain.” He sings it with a frantic, almost-beyond-his-range holler to the final note. It is, & I don’t say this lightly, a perfect vocal melody. His voice, the blown-out wheel & elation of the band, this one melody, it’s something I cling to.

But you can’t click to that moment. It doesn’t mean what it means outside the context of the song. “There is a Light,” all fifteen minutes & twenty seconds of it, is made necessary by this one line and the melody requires the entire song. Prior to it the song hints & feints & surges & falls to the floor in relief, then slowly surges back to life; in the five minutes after it the song picks itself up off the floor & shuffles on in the heavy-lidded splendor of those who have seen the truth. This one melody is a howl of ecstatic understanding, of clarity, amid a lifetime of weedy attempts. Outside of songs, of art, these perfect moments of clarity only visit us every few years, or decades, or only once, or never.

Each morning as I head to work I try to time the song so that I am cresting the hill just as he sings that line, in the distance the foothills swathing a layer of blue below the fantastically snow-white Rockies, the morning sky pallid & unrefined. It would be a horror to live in constant clarity. I can never keep my eyes open when he sings that line. I can never time it right.

The Best Final Two Minutes of Any Musical Track, Possibly

2011-03-07T10:44:00.003-06:00

It's actually one of the most fun early music albums I've heard. Goofiness mixing with precise & beautiful technique.

Download from this site

Readings in NYC & Baltimore: 3/11 & 3/12

2011-02-28T18:37:00.002-06:00

I'll be in NYC reading poems next Friday night, March 11th, at the Poetry Project along with the wonderful Sommer Browning.

http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/sommer-browning-mathias-svalina.html

They ask for a donation of some kind, I think. Maybe there are free drinks? Am I making that up?

The Poetry Project
at St. Marks Church
131 E. 10th Street
New York NY 10003

After NYC Somme & I will head to Baltimore to read some of the same poems & some different poems. Here are the details of that:

Saturday, March 12th, 7pm
with Mathias Svalina and Justin Sirois
at 1818 Gallery
1818 E Lafayette Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21217

If you live in one of those cities you should consider coming to this. If you don't then you should try a salad wrap. Take all your salad fixins & put them in a whole wheat wrap & then eat it with your mouth.

These Rocks Don't Care if I Live or Die

2011-02-24T12:56:00.001-06:00

Eula Biss Reading Tonight in Boulder!!!!

2011-02-24T07:47:00.001-06:00

Free & open to the public.

Eula Biss
Thursday, February 24 · 7:00pm
CU-Boulder campus
Eaton Humanities 150
http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/map.html?bldg=HUMN

Eula Biss is the winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism for Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays.She holds a BA in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Northwestern University, where she teaches nonfiction writing, and she is a founding editor of Essay Press, a new press dedicated to innovative nonfiction. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best Creative Nonfiction and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction as well as in The Believer, Gulf Coast, Columbia, Ninth Letter, the North American Review, the Bellingham Review, the Seneca Review, and Harper’s.

Everyone Has A New Book Out

2011-02-17T12:57:00.003-06:00

Do you have a new book out?

Yes you do.

Look at this list & love things as if they are bitten by snakes:

The Grief Performance by Emily Kendal Frey

The Gospel of Anarchy by Justin Taylor

Digital Macrame by Paige Taggart & On Happier Lawns by Justin Marks (double-chappy)

Either Way I'm Celebrating by Sommer Browning

California by Jennifer Denrow

The Source by Noah Eli Gordon

The Girl Without Arms by Brandon Shimoda

Ordinary Sun by Matthew Henriksen

Applies to Oranges by Maureen Thorson

gowanus atropolis by Julian T Brolaski

Spit by Esther Lee

Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms by Paul Foster Johnson

You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake by Anna Moschovakis

Smiles of the Unstoppable by Jason Bredle

This is a very good time for you to learn how to read.

the mild barometric awp

2011-02-01T21:54:00.006-06:00

If you're to be at the awp conference in DC this weekend then you have something in common with me. If weather is something you want to talk about then I am the man for you. You can talk about the weather with me at readings like this:

Thursday:

Cleveland State University Poetry Center Reading
Club Asylum 7-9pm
2471 18th Street NW

I read first & then the better writers read. Check out the lineup:

John Bradley -- Lily Brown -- Elyse Fenton -- Emily Kendal Frey -- Dora Malech -- Shane McCrae -- Helena Mesa -- Zach Savich -- Allison Titus -- Allison Benis White

Then I head to the Pank, Annalemma & Mud Luscious Reading
Also at 7-9pm

Ireland's Four Provinces
3412 Connecticut Ave NW

Every single one of these people are reading: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Molly Gaudry, Steve Himmer, Jesse Bradley, Matt Bell, Mel Bosworth, Sal Pane, Sasha Fletcher, Mary Miller, Ethel Rohan, Rob Roensch, Brian Oliu, Mathias Svalina, Matt Salesses, Amber Sparks

Friday:

The Octopus / 1913 / Action / Letter Machine Reading is going to be the best thing you ever did with you "life."

Comet Ping Pong 4-6pm
5037 Connecticut Avenue

All of these poets are your favorite poet(s)

Action:

Lara Glenum
Abe Smith

Letter Machine Editions:

Juliana Leslie
Farid Matuk
Sawako Nakayasu

Octopus:

Cynthia Arrieu-King
Claire Becker

1913:

Julie Carr
Joe Hall
Jeff T. Johnson
Kathleen Ossip
Ric Royer
Ronaldo Wilson

After that go to the Table X reading

Steve's Bar Room
1337 Connecticut Avenue NW # 2

Everyone in the history of humanity is reading. Me included.

I'll also be part of a panel on Thursday:

Thursday, February 3 · 9:00am - 10:30am
Virginia B Room, Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level
Hands On: A Conversation about DIY and Craft Culture in a Digital World. (Liz Ahl, Jennifer S. Flescher, Timothy Schaffert, Kathryn Bursick, Betsy Wheeler, Mathias Svalina)

Mostly, though, I'll be at the Octopus & Cupboard & Saltgrass table, part of the Table X resistance enclave.

Doesn't attending AWP sound like a terrible thing to do?

Reviews of Destruction Myth

2011-01-27T16:44:00.002-06:00

"His work reminds me of later James Tate, of the Mexican writer Hugo Hiriart, and of something I can’t quite put my finger on—a sign, I expect, of Svalina’s own imitability." I am, at best, endlessly imitable.

--Molossus

"[O]nce the premise is exhausted, devolve into banal violence." Good advice for anyone.

--Blackbird

AWP OFF-SITE: 1913 * Action * Letter Machine Editions * Octopus

2011-01-23T14:55:00.002-06:00

Friday, February 4 · 4:00pm - 6:00pm
at Comet Ping Pong
5037 Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC
www.cometpingpong.com

Please join us for a reading AWP OFF-SITE reading celebrating the release of new books from Action Books, Letter Machine Editions, and Octopus Books, as well as the new issue of 1913 a journal of forms.

Friday 4PM-6PM

Action:

Lara Glenum
Abe Smith

Letter Machine Editions:

Juliana Leslie
Farid Matuk
Sawako Nakayasu

Octopus:

Cynthia Arrieu-King
Claire Becker

1913:

Julie Carr
Joe Hall
Jeff T. Johnson
Kathleen Ossip
Ric Royer
Ronaldo Wilson

http://www.cometpingpong.com/

New Year's Day, by Genya Turovskaya

2010-12-30T13:24:00.001-06:00

Genya Turovskaya’s second chapbook with Octopus Books, New Year’s Day, is now available for purchase just in time for the first day of your new year. $8.

If you purchase New Year's Day by midnight at the end of New Year's Day, Octopus Books will you send any full-length title from our catalog for free (and, as always, with free shipping). Be sure to write which title you'd like in the paypal purchase comments field.

New Year's Day consists of poems of crisis & potential. The past washes away & the present is pure possibility, yet the speaker in the existential moment can only feint & jab at emotional grounding. Turovskaya’s crystalline lyricism conveys a fraught depth through both restraint & exclamation, remaining consistent in their heartrending exactitude.

Genya Turovskaya is a poet, translator and practicing psychotherapist. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine and grew up in New York City. She is the author of the chapbooks Calendar (UDP 2002), and The Tides (Octopus Books 2007). Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, A Public Space, Aufgabe, Octopus, jubilat, Supermachine, Gulf Coast and other publications. Her translation of Aleksandr Skidan’s Red Shifting was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2008. She is the co-translator (with Stephanie Sandler) of Elena Fanailova’s Russian Version (UDP 2010) which won the University of Rochester’s Three Percent 2010 award for Best Translated Book of Poetry. She has been the recipient of various awards and fellowships including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Montana Artist Refuge Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Translation Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, and a Fund for Poetry grant. She holds an MFA from Bard College and lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is the Associate Editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

Only Their Hard Fists

2010-12-28T09:12:00.002-06:00

I can see them now, exactly as they looked, working about the table in the lamplight: Jake with his heavy features, so rudely moulded that his face seemed, somehow, unfinished; Otto with his half-ear and the savage scar that made his upper lip curl so ferociously under his twisted mustache. As I remember them, what unprotected faces they were; their roughness and violence made them defenseless. These boys had no practiced manner behind which they could retreat and hold people at a distance. They had only their hard fists to batter at the world with. Otto was already one of those drifting, case-hardened labourers who never marry or have children of their own. Yet he was so fond of children!

--WC, My Antonia

ABCs of 2010 Music

2010-12-26T17:08:00.006-06:00

OK, this is self-indulgent, but, like, this is the internet. I made a mix of songs I like from 2010. The idea here is that you can download this, make a playlist of it on your itunes & put it in alphabetical order by artist & it will be the playlist below. Many of the releases were not from 2010 but I first heard all of this in 2010.

It is 104 songs & is nine & a half hours long.

So take your shoes off:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ST97XMPH

This is made up of songs that are on my computer, so it misses out on the music I’ve been listening to on vinyl, including Machaut, Ockechem, Bastard Noise, The Good Ones, Gehenna, Witch Hunt, Vomir, Expo 70, Envy, Salem, Damian Jurardo, Wolvserpent, High Wolf, Cloudland Canyons, Fruit Bats, Woodsman, Jemaa El Fna, Brahms string quartets & other crap.

I don’t think I bought a cd this year. I was given two cds this year & they’re both really good. You should look them up: Jacopo Andreini, Arrington de Dionyso & Scott Rosenberg’s Roamin’ & Tim Barry’s 28th & Stonewall.

Here’s Scott Pinkmountain (nee Rosenberg) playing some music:

Here’s Tim Barry playing “Prosser’s Gabriel":

Playlist

1. Aberlado Carbano: La Negra Kulende
2. Agalloch: Into the Painted Grey
3. Aidan Baker: Liminoid (Part III)
4. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers: Present Joys
5. Alpinist: A is for Army of Slaves
6. Amal Murkus: Bhallelak
7. Ancestors: II
8. Arcade Fire: Rococo
9. Aziza Brahim: Regreso
10. bad weather California: i dreamed
11. Baths: Maximalist
12. Black Milk: Deadly Medley (Feat. Royce Da 5'9, Elzhi)
13. Bohemian Grove: The Battering Ram Of Satan
14. Bonnie "Prince" Billy & The Cairo Gang: That's What Our Love Is
15. Ceremony: The Doldrums (Friendly City)
16. Chris Watson: mozambique
17. Church of God in Christ, Moorhead Plantation, Lula, Miss.: No Condemnation
18. Clifford Gibson: Brooklyn Blues
19. Clubroot: Waterways
20. Cough: Mind Collapse
21. Daniela Gesundheit: ANDREW S PROJECT 2
22. Darkthrone: Circle The Wagons
23. Date Palms: Psalm 4
24. Deathspell Omega: Phosphene
25. Demdike Stare: Forest Of Evil (Dawn)
26. Detritivore: Pakt
27. DJ Mujava: Mugwanti/ Sgwejegweje
28. Electric Wizard: Patterns Of Evil
29. Elizabeth Watts: Sei mir gegrüßt, D 741 (Op.20/1) Schubert Lieder
30. Esbjörn Svensson: Still
31. Faun Fables: Parade
32. Group Doueh: Nabi El Mohamed
33. Grupo Palma: Africana Tetero
34. Hallow: III
35. Heks Orkest: I've Been Waiting
36. The Human Quena Orchestra: aspiration
37. Impetuous Ritual: Ceremonial Disembowelment
38. Isaya Mwinamo: City Council
39. Jana Winderen: Aquaculture
40. The Jayhawks: Six Pack On The Dashboard
41. Joanna Newsom: In California
42. Jon Mueller: Hearts
43. Jonathan Vassar & The Speckled Bird: Black Canyon
44. Josephine Foster: In Falling Timbers Buried
45. Kamilya Jubran: Al Shatte' Al Akhar
46. Kanye West: Power (Feat. Dwele)
47. Kemialliset Ystävät: Näkymättömän Hipaisuja
48. Kría Brekkan: Place of You
49. Like a Ship: Like a Ship... (Without a Sail)
50. Lil Wayne: 6'7" (Feat. Cory Gunz)
51. Lionel Marchetti: Portrait d' un Glacier (Alpes, 2173m)
52. Locrian: Epicedium
53. Lower Dens: Holy Water
54. M.I.A.:Tell Me Why
55. Mark Padmore; Paul Lewis: HMU 907 484-20 Schubert: Winterreise (Der Wegweiser)
56. Mount Kimbie: Before I Move Off
57. Moussa Dombia: Yeye Mousso
58. Muinainen Ruhtinas: Henkien Helki
59. Murmuüre: Primo Vere
60. Nathaniel Rateliff: Whimper and Wail
61. Neil Young: Sign Of Love
62. Nico Muhly: Varied Carols
63. Nightbringer: Upturning the Seventh Chalice
64. Nite Jewel: Am I Real? (feat. Teen Inc.)
65. Noveller: Kites Calm Desert Fires
66. oOoOO: Seaww
67. Peste Noire: La mesniee mordrissoire
68. Philip Jeck: D4.48
69. Pigeons: Crucifix and Chain
70. Procer Veneficus: The Color Of Her Hair
71. Punch: White Noise
72. Quiet American: Communal Water Pump
73. Ruders, Poul: Thus Saw St.John ( Saaledes Saae Johannes)
74. The Secret: Antitalian
75. SIGH: The Soul Grave
76. Sleepwalker: Track 02
77. Slim Smith: blinded by love
78. Son Palenque: Palenque Palenque
79. Stile Antico Palestrina: Nigra Sum
80. Sufjan Stevens: All Delighted People (original)
81. T++: Anyi
82. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: There Is Light
83. Thou: Rats And Mice And Swarms Of Lice
84. Time: This is not an exit (Feat. Jason Horodyski)
85. Tiyiselani Vomaseve: Vanghoma
86. Townes Van Zandt: Colorado Girl
87. Tremè Brass Band: Food Stamp Blues
88. Tshetsha Boys: Nwampfundla
89. TwinSisterMoon: Sun Snaring
90. Ultralyd: Contaminated Man
91. Vegas Martyrs: Harlot Widow
92. Virgin Witch: Nail of Dicara
93. the walkmen: stranded
94. Walter Gross: 3rd Movement, A Kind of Blues
95. Warpaint: Elephants
96. Watain: Lawless Darkness
97. White Ring: Roses
98. Winterfylleth: Awakens He, Bereft of Kinsmen (The Wayfarer Pt II)
99. Woe: Quietly, Undramatically
100. Xasthur: Stream of Subconsciousness
101. Yâru Maliri: Two Qalandari Tunes
102. Zola Jesus: I Can't Stand
103. Zola Jesus: Lightsick
104. †‡†: gOth bb

Oh, also that Future Islands song “Tin Man” should be on here, but it wasn’t on my computer. Their show with Lower Dens at Rhinoceropolis was the best show I went to this year.

Here’s that Future Islands song:

Isn’t it good?

"O Scum All Ye Faithful"

2010-12-23T12:02:00.005-06:00

Josiah Hesse's article on crust-christian The Scum of the Earth Church is the coverstory in this week's Westword.

Also, Manute Bol was really tall.

Once my dad thought I was making a racist joke when I made a joke about him, but it was really a very-tall-bull joke. Totally unracist.

Varg Vikernes vs. Blake Butler

2010-12-19T14:24:00.004-06:00

I watched that crappy black metal documentary Until the Light Takes Us. Everyone said it was crappy & it was, but I still wanted to see it. I sort of liked all the boring-day hang-outs with Fenriz, but the interviews with Varg Vikernes were interminable & boring.

What did make it entertaining for me, though was imagining that it was Blake Butler playing the role of the murdering, church-burning, former Neo-Nazi nincompoop. I think the similarity is there. Check it:

Given the choice I choose Blake Butler every time. Though I do love a lot of Burzum records, even though he's a terrible person. What can I say? I'm a terrible human being.

Here's my list of favorite Burzum records & Blake Butler books in order of greatest affection to least affection:

1. Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
2. Burzum s/t
3. Blake Butler Scorch Atlas
4. Burzum Aske
5. Burzum Filosfem
6. Burzum Belus
7. Blake Butler Ever
8. Burzum Dauði Baldrs
9. Burzum Hliðskjálf

"Space Patrol" by Weegee

2010-12-14T13:07:00.000-06:00

Silly Illness

2010-12-08T23:52:00.000-06:00

Silly Illness

By Roger Green

Angry arsonist
Awesome allergist
Berry business
Busy buttress
Butted birdnest
Blurred buttress
Bilked bitterness
Careful callousness
Clunky crap-ass
Curried cutlass
Curdled Christmas
Crinkled carapace
Dainty dipshit
Dour dankness
Drunken dalliance
Elkhorn entrance
Eerie effluence
Ferried faintness
Fancy footrest
Gluten gut-mess
Glinted lint-face
Groped governess
Gummed gasmask
Hairy headdress
Happy happenstance
Hilted hindrance
Hindered headrest
Hiphop horniness
Irate arabesque
Itty utterance
Jewish Jewess
Jaunty jaundice
Kited Clearance
Kikey cocknest
Leveled Leanness
Limpid loveless
Lifelike license
Lobed obsolescence
Lovely languorous
Minted mistress
Moneyed monist
Neutral nihilist
Naughty necklace
Open opulence
Papal paleface
Penile princess
Poopy populist
Purple pestilence
Pappy’s plumpness
Quilted Kumquats
Quirky Quietist
Randy Ransacks
Ready rapist
Reedy roughness
Rheumy royalist
Seeping sweatpants
Sappy socialist
Sultry sundress
Stupid Sundance
Student slop-hands
Sudden solstice
Slinky slow-dance
Traded Trappist
Tranny Transients
Tinted temptress
Tainted chain-dress
Ticklish tigress
Tawdry trackmarks
Ugly Unguents
Unctuous euphemist
Vapid violist
Vaggy vocalist
Veggie vigilance
Violent Variance
Wheezing Wiseass
Whittled witness
Ex excrescence
Ex-girlfriend excrement
XXX existence
Yearning whole-yeast
Yodeling yell-fest
Zany xylophonist

I Like Andre Leon Gray, Yinka Shonibare & Carrie Levy

2010-11-27T10:07:00.008-06:00

I guess, now that I've looked around the web a bit, that this is the party line of people responding to the NC Museum of Art's new building, but what struck me most is how the curators mix the traditional & the current.

In the Renn. room they have a reification of the Mona Lisa smile done all in spools of thread & hung upside down. In the room of Colonial portraits they have a creepy painting of the founding father's in silhouette, posing almost like the cast of The Expendables. They hung some relatively precious American impressionist paintings beside a set of modernist color & geometry pieces, which added to both of them.

The curatorial agenda puts the work in relation to its history & its intertextuality, which is nice to see at the museum. The last time I went there, some years ago, it was more like a warehouse for third-rate paintings representing each important art history epoch.

I particularly liked the one work of NC-native
Andre Leon Gray. It is the one with the basketball below, but the curators hung it among a group of ceremonial masks & traditional arts. It both fit right in & stuck out.

A decent brief write up of him here.

A decent interview with him here.

Similarly, the post-colonialist work of Yinka Shonibare fit in well with the more traditional African textiles. If you don't know his stuff you can read all about him here.

Outside of the old/new curatorial mashups, there was a lot of forward-looking work at the museum. When I was there years ago I remember thinking that the trip was worth the visit for the incredible Richter they have there. It's still there, but it no longer stands alone as the representation of pomo art. There were a lot of works I liked, but I found myself haunted by Carrie Levy's simple photos of nudes with their faces turned away from the camera. Check her work out here, it is all pretty great.

Two Announcements from Octopus Books

2010-11-24T10:51:00.002-06:00

1. Octopus Books Announces the Release of Claire Becker’s Where We Think It Should Go & Cynthia Arrieu-King’s People are Tiny in Paintings of China

2. Octopus Subscription for 2011-2012

Octopus Books
www.octopusbooks.net

1. We are pleased to announce that Claire Becker’s Where We Think It Should Go & Cynthia Arrieu-King’s People are Tiny in Paintings of China are now available. You can purchase them at the Octopus Books website (www.octopusbooks.net), at Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org), & at other online book retailers & literary bookstores.

Advance praise for Where We Think It Should Go:

Here are elemental and sophisticated – splendid – poems making distinctions about how the body and mind might work, how the world or poem might work. With hyperbolic understatement, in a sinuous, harmonious manner, Claire Becker finds her purpose in clear, sometimes haunted, spaces of joy or desolation, but always in a place of desire.
—Norma Cole

Claire Becker’s poems … have a throb at which it’s hard not to wonder and, like more than one of us, an aching oddball soul.
—Graham Foust

Claire Becker is the author of the book Where We Think It Should Go (Octopus Books) and the chapbooks Untoward (Lame House Press), Get You (Duration Press), Young Adult (Boxwood Editions), We Know in 2010, We Survive (Mondo Bummer), and The Werld (Horse Less Press). She lives in Oakland, California.

Advance praise for People are Tiny in Paintings of China:

I can’t remember when a book of poems has invited such an attentive reading as Cindy Arrieu-King’s marvelous first volume People are Tiny in Paintings of China. … As I read I had the feeling of launching myself from an opening line and falling past gorgeous and complex surfaces, an intricate landscape of experience, until landing on the solid earth of the final lines of these extraordinary poems.
—Lynn Emanuel

People are Tiny in Paintings of China is an expert work of collage. … She draws the rushing of molecules in the still tide pool. She reminds us: any way of knowing the self or the world is at best instantaneous, as at best still a question.
—Kristin Naca

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College. Her work has appeared in Witness, Black Warrior Review, and Jacket. She lives on the East Coast.

2. Octopus Two-Year Subscriptions Available

Subscriptions to Octopus Books for the next two years can now be purchased. With this subscription you will receive everything we publish through 2012 for $64, free shipping.

Subscribe at the Octopus Books website: http://www.octopusbooks.net/main.html

Triggermoon Triggermoon

2010-11-16T15:26:00.003-06:00

You probably have already done this, but if you have not you should purchase Julia Cohen's debut collection, Triggermoon Triggermoon, which came out this week from Black Lawrence Press.

Go here & buy it.

Or go here to hear her read from it in two days:

November's Umbrella Factory Reading is Thursday, at the
Fluid Coffee Bar, from 7:30-9:30. Fluid is located on the corner of 19th and
Pennsylvania in Denver.

some bios:

Michele Battiste's first full-length collection, Ink for an Odd Cartography, was a
finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award and published by Black Lawrence Press
in 2009. She is also the author of three chapbooks, the most recent of which is
Slow the Appetite Down (Spire Press, 2009). Her poems have recently appeared
in Beloit Poetry Journal, Verse Daily, Poetry International, and the Mid-American
Review.

Julie Carr is the author of Mead: An Epithalamion (Univeristy of Georgia Press,
2004), Equivocal (Alice James Press, 2007), 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta
Press, 2010), and Sarah-Of Fragments and Lines (2010). She’s been the recipient
of numerous awards, including the Sawtooth Poetry Prize and the National
Poetry Series. She teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is the co-
publisher, with Tim Roberts, of Counterpath Press.

Julia Cohen is the author of 10 chapbooks. Her work has been published in 6x6,
Columbia Poetry Review, Octopus, and 1913 amongst others. She is the poetry
editor of Saltgrass and the Associate Editor of the Denver Quarterly. Her first
book, Triggermoon Triggermoon, is out this month from Black Lawrence Press.

Next Weekend: Laramie, WY

2010-11-06T15:30:00.002-05:00

The MFA program in Creative Writing program will host Kazim Ali, Eula Biss, Julia Cohen, Anna Moschovakis, Lynne Tillman, &, oddly enough, me. It'll be a writer/publisher symposium with readings & chats about publishing & as far as I can tell sushi will be involved.

The reading will be 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13 at Second Story Books, 105 E. Ivinson St.

Here's a link to the full set of informations.

2010-11-06T15:28:00.000-05:00

Body Count

2010-11-04T11:20:00.008-05:00

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Octopus 14 & Octopus Books Selections for 2011

2010-10-14T12:24:00.002-05:00

1. Octopus 14 is online. This issue features 16 long poems from 16 poets, reviews & recoveries.

http://www.octopusmagazine.com

Poems by

J. Michael Martinez :: Jeff Alessandrelli :: Brandon Downing
Katie Peterson :: Andy Fitch :: Jesse Lichtenstein
Amy King :: Samuel Amadon :: Julie Doxsee
Molly Gaudry :: Michael Rerick :: Eileen R. Tabios
Dot Devota :: Claire Becker :: Jennifer Denrow
Zvonko Karanović transl. by Ana Božičević

Reviews

Not Blessed by Harold Abramowitz, reviewed by Janice Lee
Under the Quick by Molly Bendall, reviewed by Suzette Bishop
Sum of Every Lost Ship by Allison Titus, reviewed by David Carillo
Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes, reviewed by Sommer Browning

Recoveries

Applesauce by June Arnold, recovered by Gina Abelkop
The Girl with the Stone in Her Lap by Irene McKinney, recovered by Nick Ripatrazone
Where the Weather Suits My Clothes by John Godfrey, recovered by Bryan Beck
Trench Town Rock by Kamau Brathwaite’s
& Standing Wave by John Taggart, recovered by Susan Scarlata
The Journals by Paul Blackburn, recovered by Joseph Hall
The Anathemata by David Jones, recovered by Sara Nicholson

2. Octopus Books Selections for 2011

We received hundreds of amazing manuscripts this year. Each was read thoroughly & considered carefully. We selected three that we will publish in 2011:

Dear Jenny, We Are All Find by Jenny Zhang
The Black Forest by Christopher DeWeese
Conception by Rebecca Farivar

These manuscripts were finalists:

Off to the Nervous Museum by Claire Donato
The Next Monster by Julie Doxsee
I Write to You from the Sea by Laura Eve Engel
Everything Here is Ok by Sasha Fletcher
Power Ballad by Dan Hoy
Early Linoleum by Brenda Iijima
Kingdom of Throat-stuck Luck, by George Kalamaras
The Dottery by Kirsten Kaschock
Sign You Were Mistaken by Seth Landman
Heart of Palm by Linnea Ogden
Emergency by Caryl Pagel
Lid to the Shadow by Alexandria Peary
The Abilene Paradox by Craig Rebele
Bloom by Rob Schlegel
Parties, by S.E. Smith
Common Birds & Their Songs by Melinda Wilson

Thanks to all who submitted & trusted us with your work. It was an honor to read these manuscripts.

2010-10-13T14:52:00.000-05:00

Upcoming Readings

2010-09-28T18:45:00.004-05:00

Thursday Octopus 14, 2010: Denver, CO 7pm w/ Josiah Hesse, Dan Landes @ Kilgore Books 624 E. 13th Ave
afterparty & DJs at City O City

Sunday October 24 2010: Boise, ID 8pm w/ Joshua Marie Wilkinson @ Pengilly's Saloon / 513 W. Main St.

Tuesday October 26 2010: San Francisco, CA tba w/ Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Claire Becker, Juliana Leslie

Wednesday October 27 2010: Ashland, OR tba w/ Joshua Marie Wilkinson @ Southern Oregon Univ.

Thursday October 28 2010: Portland, OR tba w/ Joshua Marie Wilkinson @ Bad Blood

Friday October 29 2010: Seattle, WA 7pm w/ Joshua Marie Wilkinson @ Pilot Books / 219 Broadway East

Thursday December 2, 2010: Richmond, VA 8pm w/Allison Titus @ Virginia Commonwealth Univ.

Photos of Good Things

2010-09-28T13:48:00.001-05:00

Book Proposal for Broadway Books

2010-09-23T11:37:00.002-05:00

Title: Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State & Garden State.

For one year I will watch the movie Garden State every day & write about my reactions to it & how my continuing & deepening relationship with the film reflects the depths of my emotional & spiritual being.

I have never seen the movie Garden State. I have only heard bad things about it. Is that dude from Scrubs in it? I think I've seen that show. Maybe not. I can't remember. I know I've seen a lot of ads for it & they have never once made me want to watch the tv show.

My inspiration for this book is Alain De Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life.

Book Proposal for Broadway Books

2010-09-21T19:00:00.002-05:00

Title: Never Surrender, Never Swallow

For one year I will refuse to swallow anything, but I will go about my daily life exactly like one who would swallow things. I will teach classes, bike, go out in public, do readings, eat dinner & go out for drinks, all the while never swallowing any of the things I put in my mouth or even my own saliva.

Additionally I will treat this as a highly charged political act, a revolutionary decision that strikes at the heart of the vapid conservatism of the Tea Party just as effectively as at the psuedo-science of the Obama administration. I will explain my position at great length to anyone who asks me why my shirt front is covered with my own saliva & the masticated remains of a sandwich. My position will make no sense whatsoever.

In a time when the current events & politics section of the bookstores are filled with such ridiculous books, I figure this one is bound to be successful.

Book Proposal for Broadway Books

2010-09-19T11:39:00.003-05:00

Title: Pomegranate Seeds Lines My Face Orifices for a Year

For one year I will genetically modify the linings of the orifices of facial parts harvested from willing donors so that the facial orifice linings will be able to grow rich, abundant pomegranate seeds. Then I will have those orifice lining pieces grafted onto me, so that when someone looks into my nose or ears she will see delicious, bright red pomegranate seeds lining the orifice. Similarly, the inner lining of my mouth will also be covered in pomegranate seeds, though my eyes & my gums will remain seed-free.

This idea came to me in a dream. In the dream I was at an airport, running late, when I decided I had to log onto one of those weird public computers & check my email from students. Then, in the dream, the perspective shifted & I was in the POV of someone putting a Q-Tip into my ear. The Q-Tip mysteriously was accompanied by a light source that illuminated the ear canal. Inside the ear canal was row upon row of beautiful, delectable pomegranate seeds. The Q-Tip jostled them slightly & they moved just a bit, squeaking slightly like real pomegranate seeds.

This book will trace the recent boom in pomegranates among the health conscious & grocery-elite. In this respect it will be a book that considers the fashion trends of grocery items. This will also be a book about the urges toward aesthetic hybridization. Therefore it will be at both the cutting edge of both economics books & pragmatic art theory.

But this is also a book about following one's dreams. Not in the Lance Armstrong sense, but in the truly deranged sense in which dreams are schizophrenic experiences. By following my dreams in such painful & inconvenient ways, I hope to demonstrate the depths of despair & disgust that can result from faith, especially faith in oneself.

At the end of the year I plan to be a changed man & to have learned many valuable life lessons.

You Need This

2010-09-16T15:51:00.002-05:00

Dear Friends,

Feelings Using Wolves, a third poetry chapbook collaboration between Emily Kendal Frey and Zachary Schomburg, is now available for purchase from Small Fires Press.

The chapbook is fully letterpressed and hand bound by Friedrich Kerksieck & currently available in a case bound limited edition of 26 lettered and signed copies. It costs $100, but it can be purchased through September 22 for $75.

A soft bound edition of 74 copies will be available in the coming weeks.

Please visit Small Fires press at http://www.smallfirespress.com.

We hope you'll enjoy it,

Emily Kendal Frey & Zachary Schomburg

If You Are In Toronto You Should Go to This: ENTHUSIASM New works by Abbas Akhavan, Kelly Jazvac, and Ron Tran

2010-09-16T13:16:00.003-05:00

A little poem of mine about a stick plays a very, very tiny, tiny part in this show.

ENTHUSIASM
New works by Abbas Akhavan, Kelly Jazvac, and Ron Tran

September 16 - October 9 2010
Opening reception Thursday September 16 6-9pm

Enthusiasm, when controlled by subtle repression, results in either élan, originality, magnetism, charm or “IT”, depending on the manner of its use. Uncontrolled enthusiasm results in blaring jazz, fanaticism and recklessness. A complete lack of enthusiasm produces the obsequious waiter and the uneducated street car conductor.

Addressing white collar workers in the 1920s, self-help writer William Henry Schoenau argued the importance of an enthusiastic comportment. Then, as now, enthusiasm was key to success in business and social realms. Deployed correctly, it could elevate the individual to respect and prestige; unchecked, it could lead to embarrassment and ridicule.

In this exhibition, Abbas Akhavan, Kelly Jazvac and Ron Tran embody enthusiasm at its limits. Their three new bodies of work shuttle between experiences of exuberance, reverence, earnestness, mania and exhaustion. At times, enthusiasm registers more literally, as with Tran, whose work constitutes a fan-obsessed tribute to an unlikely subject, implicating a staggering number of voices. Elsewhere, enthusiasm appears in its formal dimension through Jazvac’s accretions of vinyl, their sagging features embodying the hangover effects of an overly frantic application of the stuff of countless advertising campaigns. Akhavan’s architectural intervention reads more abstractly, overtaking the gallery’s already overzealous design with a subtle, yet pernicious intrusion.

Born in Tehran, Abbas Akhavan is currently a Toronto resident. His practice ranges in medium from site-specific installations to drawing and video, with recent focus on spaces just outside the home – the garden, the backyard, and other domesticated landscapes. His work has been exhibited across Canada in galleries including Vancouver Art Gallery, Artspeak (Vancouver), and the Darling Foundry (Montreal), and abroad, with exhibitions at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Le Printemps de septembre, France; The Third Line, Qatar and Dubai; Belvedere Museum, Austria. Akhavan is represented by The Third Line, Dubai.

Kelly Jazvac works primarily in sculpture and installation. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently including Diaz Contemporary in Toronto, Blackwood Gallery in Mississauga, the Khyber ICA in Halifax, Atelierhof Kreuzberg in Berlin and i8 Gallery in Reykjavik. Upcoming projects include WARP Coup de Ville in Sint Niklaas, Belgium. She is currently based in London where she teaches sculpture at the University of Western Ontario. Jazvac is represented by Diaz Contemporary.

Ron Tran is a Vancouver based artist whose practice explores the ways that chance and coincidence influence daily life. Tran studied at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Canada, United States, Europe, and China. Tran has exhibited in East International 2007 Norwich England, the 6th Berlin Biennale, and is currently working toward a solo show at the Charles H. Scott Gallery Vancouver in 2011.

This exhibition is accompanied by a free publication with an essay by Nicholas Brown

Special event:

Special Event: Weekend Leisure public presentation
Screening of Weekend Leisure Network cable access series and artist talk
Thursday, September 30, 7pm

Hours
Thursday and Friday: 5-9pm
Saturday: 12-5pm

Red Bull 381 Projects
381 Queen St. West, Suite 200
Toronto, ON

redbull381projects.com

Book Proposal for Broadway Books

2010-09-15T14:20:00.005-05:00

Title: Crankin' the Year Away

Over the course of one short year I will explore, research or enact every possible usage of the word crank.

I will build & use a portion of an axis bent at right angles to communicate motion, or to change reciprocal into rotary motion, or the converse. I will research how in early times the crank was chiefly used as a handle or treadle to turn a revolving axis by hand or foot. I will be amazed how later, the crank was used as a device for converting circular into reciprocal motion, and now chiefly (as in the steam engine) reciprocal into circular motion. I will kayak past every crook, bend, winding, meandering part of a river. I will find the oldest elbow-shaped device in bell-hanging, whereby the rectilineal motion communicated to a bell-wire is changed in its direction, usually at right angles, as from horizontal to vertical or the reverse. Conversely I will visit a laboratory to watch investigations into the latest elbow-shaped supports or brackets. I will spelunk into many a tortuous or somewhat inaccessible hole or crevice, a cranny, at which point I'll be brisk, merry, lively, & disposed to exult.

I will explore the dark side of cranks, such as the machines for the punishment of criminals sentenced to hard labour, consisting of a revolving disc to which a regulated pressure can be applied, and which the prisoner is required to turn a certain number of times each day. I will explore the lighter side of cranks with the contrivances for stripping the carded cotton from a carding-engine, the driving-axle of an engine or machine, the carriage axle with the ends bent twice at a right angle, so as to lower the carriage-body and yet allow the use of large wheels, the case or covering in which the crank-shaft of a motor engine is enclosed, crank-chambers, crank-hatches, crank-hooks, the rod which connects the treadle and the crank in a foot-lathe, crank-pins, crank-shafts, crank-wheels, & last but not least, a beautiful disc-crank.

I will make many twists or fanciful turns of speech, humorous turns & verbal tricks or conceits, all the while reporting on the hilarity that ensues. I will spend time with a person with a mental twist; one who is apt to take up eccentric notions or impracticable projects; esp. one who is enthusiastically possessed by a particular crotchet or hobby; an eccentric, a monomaniac.

I will sail a ship that was built too deep or narrow, or has not sufficient ballast to carry full sail. As I walk i will zigag, twist and turn about, moving with a sharply winding course. I will countenance my face so that it wrinkles minutely with parallel ridges and furrows. I will shackle a horse.

I will bend things in the shape of a crank, attach a crank to things or furnish things with a crank. I will lift things or draw things up by means of a crank. My writing will be twisted, crooked, tortuous, crinkled & wrinkled. I will crank Cupid lustily, briskly & boldly & then on other days I will crank Cupid irritably, fretfully & crankily. I will display my crank-side to strangers until I am sickly, in weak health, infirm in body, out of order, out of gear, working badly, shaky, crazy, of capricious or wayward temper, difficult to please; cross-tempered, awkward; 'cross,' mentally out of gear, crotchety, 'queer,' subject to whims or 'cranks,' eccentric or peculiar in notions or behavior, full of twists or windings, crooked, & full of corners or crannies.

Then I will spend the rest of the year doing meth.

Book Proposal for Broadway Books

2010-09-14T11:36:00.004-05:00

Title: Vaguely History

For a year I will give guided tours of historic landmarks but I will not research any of the actual events of these landmarks prior to becoming a docent. I will, for instance, when leading a tour of Mt Rushmore tell my tour group something like this:

Mt. Rushmore features the presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, & Hamilton.

It was built in the 30s or 40s. It took one hundred workers one hundred days to build it. They popped benzedrine & stayed up all night for each of the hundred days, until by the end of it they were total drugged-out zombies. This work crew included Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Jean Dubuffet, Etta James, Joseph McCarthy, Rick Rubin & Margaret Thatcher.

The monument is one mile tall from top to bottom & is impervious to all forms of ruination, even erosion, because Theodore Roosevelt made a deal with the devil at a remote crossroads in Tioga, North Dakota.

Deep inside the mountain a live cat was walled into a room & abandoned to die, so that the monument would never lose its power.

If you touch Mt Rushmore at midnight on the feast of St. Thecla then you will be spared death one time in the coming year.

Mt. Rushmore includes a handful of delightful & affordable apartments that use the eyeholes of the presidents as windows.

I will spend the year setting up tour events at rock bottom prices, certain to fill the buses & then lead them. I will report on the reactions of my tour members as I mutilate history with an air of authority. Like a cross between Borat & a sassy Sarah Vowell book, this book will humiliate people needlessly & smugly present my own deep personal connection to history.

Book Proposal for Broadway Books

2010-09-13T11:50:00.002-05:00

Title: Chins for a Years

For one year I will trade in all of my body parts for chins. Instead of arms & legs, I will have chins. Instead of a head with ears, nose, mouth, eyes, hair & chin I'll have a chin with chins, a chin, a chin, chins & a whole head of chin. Instead of genitals, chins. Instead of a thorax, chin.

Throughout this year I will travel America interviewing famous chins, such as Jay Leno's & Sandra Bullock's. I will relate the surprisingly dramatic story of the invention of the chin. I will do a bit of investigative journalism into the black market chin trade in Mozambique & Denmark. A reader should walk away from this book with not only a comprehensive understanding of the make-up & nature of the chin, but not a few delectable anecdotes to drop at the next chin-friendly dinner party.

In addition to the informative nature of this book, my personal struggle living one year as a freakish amalgam of chins will be a consistent undercurrent. The book will out the underlying & insidious prejudices against people who elect to have comprehensive plastic surgery resulting in them becoming & huge glob of chins, in a country that purports to be "post-race." I think my story will, in the vein of Eat, Pray, Love, be an inspiration to a wide swath of the book-buying public.

A Book Proposal for Broadway Books

2010-09-09T15:49:00.003-05:00

Title: My Year of Absorption

For one year I will seek out the softest, most absorptive towels in the world. To accomplish this I plan to travel to most remote regions to sample the face-refreshing powers of towels made of Spring lemur fur, Siberian Tiger tail hairs & shredded post-it notes doodled upon by weary children standing on top of imprisoned political prisoners.

While there is an obvious pragmatic use for the book as a shopping guide for the most elite connoisseurs of linens, I also think there is a spiritual quest embedded in this search. According to my people, the spirit makes itself known in the effervescence of the shower water evaporating off the skin. The spirit is therefore containable if one has the finest towels.

If my year goes according to plan, at the end of my year I will have trapped the spirits of so many people that I will be considered a small god. Not a god like God but a god like MIllard Filmore.

Book Proposal for Broadway Books

2010-09-06T14:16:00.002-05:00

Title: A Year of Wonders

For a year I will travel the world wondering about things. I will wonder how they get that delicate glue on the end parts of toilet paper without making the whole roll stick together. I will wonder why people play board games. I will wonder whether a root beer float would taste good right about now.

I will keep track of the things I wonder about, but never follow up & find out why things happen the way they do. In fact, I will refrain from asking anyone anything that could answer, illuminate or in any other way quell my wonderings. By the end of the year I presume I will have sewn my mouth shut, soldered my eyes closed & filled my ear canals with the crushed skulls of fetal sparrows, in the interest of not ever stopping wondering.

I think this book will be popular among the poor, the sad & the pathetic, to whom I will also dedicate the book.

Book Proposal for Broadway Books

2010-09-03T06:05:00.002-05:00

My Year on a Moving Sidewalk

For one year I will live inside Denver International Airport & ride one pair of moving sidewalks forward the 30 feet or so & then back the same 30 feet. I will survive by living off of previously stored energy & Capri Suns. I will not talk to anyone. I will wear high-quality ear plugs & a thick black blindfold. I will never sleep.

For this memoir, I will describe in exacting detail the feeling of each trip on the moving sidewalks, documenting each ride by date & time. I will show the development & refinement of an aesthetic of moving sidewalk riding, the mental process I go through as I am moved by the moving sidewalk & the Sisyphean feeling of respite in the few steps between one moving sidewalk & its opposing-direction partner.

This book will be popular among readers who enjoyed such books at Mary Roach's Stiff, Mary Roach's Packing for Mars & the City of Portland, Oregon's downloadable pdf "SIDEWALK REPAIR MANUAL: How to Repair and Maintain a Sidewalk."

Book Proposal for Broadway Books

2010-09-01T08:11:00.002-05:00

My Year of Asking about Bullwhips

For one year I will travel the country, from big cities to small towns, wearing upper-middle-class-appropriate clothing fitted to each environ, stopping strangers in the middle of the street & asking politely & somewhat timidly "I'm sorry, do you perhaps have a bullwhip I could borrow for a moment?"

Over the course of my year I hope to learn about the current American character & zeitgeist, vis a vis asking to borrow a bullwhip. The book will contain many quirky & memorable characters whom I plan to meet along the way, along with tales of my hardships & self-actualization through my journey.

Additionally, my book will provide a layperson's history of the the process of stopping people int he street for reasons ranging from political campaigning & fundraising to delirium & pain. Similarly it will give the reader a quick & saucy history of the age-old tool the bullwhip & its evolution both in the workplace & human consciousness.

tourism tourists

2010-08-17T10:13:00.007-05:00

I Like Kevin Red Star & I'm Not Afraid to Say It

2010-08-06T11:52:00.003-05:00

When I was at the Denver Art Museum recently I was impressed by the interesting collection of contemporary Native American arts. Sure they had the antique pieces that you’d expect a multicultural museum to have & those were awesome, but the contemporary works had me most interested.

To be honest I’m not sure I could name a contemporary Native American painter before going there, which is pretty embarrassing & ridiculous. I saw a handful of artists whose work I liked, but I couldn’t find much information about them online.

Sonosilutoo is a print artist & she seems to have works in a few collections, but there are no images nor information about her online.

Reginald Peterson is a contemporary master carver & mask maker. His work at the museum is incredible, but again, I couldn’t find images of his work online, though I did find some references to him in a few books that I’m going to follow up on.

One artist who is pretty well represented online is the painter Kevin Red Star. Born in the Crow Indian Reservation in Lodge Grass, Montana, he’s something of an expressionist working in traditional Indian images of people. I love the way he takes these tropes of native American history & life & shifts them out of the precious realism into something more vibrant & evocative. The canvas I saw at the museum had a deep color to it, which was as much part of the meaning of it as the portrait of the woman in traditional dress.

Here’s a well meaning article about him for the non-artists crowd.

Here’s his website: www.kevinredstar.com

Review of Destruction Myth

2010-07-29T20:27:00.002-05:00

Phil Estes has a review of Destruction Myth in the latest issue of New Letters. You can download a pdf of it here or order the journal. The review is actually far better than the book, so if you don't want to waste your time reading my book, you can just read his review.

Pretty Good Thing for Ears

2010-07-26T23:17:00.003-05:00

So I was having lunch at this local place that has a tasty vegan Vietnamese sandwich, grading papers, minding my own. The guy sitting next to me was chatting with the bartender about his band & such, but happened to mention that he was doing shows with a band which one of my friends from high school is in. I said something stupid to him like "Hey my friend from high school is in that band." And then we talked for a while. I packed up my stuff & headed off to teach class. His name is Nathanial Rateliff & he's a Denver local who is signed with Rounder Records.

Sometimes it feels like everyone I meet is an artist, musician or writer. And while it would be kind to do so, I don't always track down their stuff, partially because I don't want to be disappointed. But after a bit I checked this guy's music out & I ended up really liking it. He does a kind of roughneck folk of the Guthrie via Springsteen tradition that someone like Greg brown trades in, but with an indie arrangement that would not be out of place on Saddle Creek Records in the mid 00s. Here's a couple of songs that are on his most recent record.

Then Saturday I just happened to run into a free show he was playing outside for a local music fest. While I thought his recordings were pretty strong, his live set was truly wonderful: emotional & sincere with strong supporting arrangements & a ton of heart. I felt pretty lucky to have run into the show like that.

You can hear more of his stuff here & he's touring from Illinois west, so go check him out.

Some Pretty Good Things for Eyes

2010-07-26T22:52:00.006-05:00

I just received Tada Chimako's selected poems, Forest of Eyes, translated by the always awesome Jeffrey Angles. You can learn a bit more about the book here.

The UC website says this: "One of Japan’s most important modern poets, Tada Chimako (1930–2003) gained prominence in her native country for her sensual, frequently surreal poetry and fantastic imagery. Although Tada’s writing is an essential part of postwar Japanese poetry, her use of themes and motifs from European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean history, mythology, and literature, as well as her sensitive explorations of women’s inner lives make her very much a poet of the world. Forest of Eyes offers English-language readers their first opportunity to read a wide selection from Tada’s extraordinary oeuvre, including nontraditional free verse, poems in the traditional forms of tanka and haiku, and prose poems. Translator Jeffrey Angles introduces this collection with an incisive essay that situates Tada as a poet, explores her unique style, and analyzes her contribution to the representation of women in postwar Japanese literature."

I say that it is somewhere in the space between Notley, Calvino & Ceravolo & that it is some of the best writing I have read this year. Check out this first section of her eleven-part poem "From a Woman of a Distant Land":

In this country, we do not bury the dead. We enclose them like dolls in glass cases and decorate our houses with them.

People, especially the cultivated one from old families, live surrounded by multitudes of dignified dead. Our living rooms and parlors, even our dining rooms and our bedrooms, are filled witt our ancestors in glass cases. When the rooms become too full, we use the glass cases for furniture.

On top of where my twenty-five-year-old great-grandmother lies, beautiful and buried in flowers, we line up the evening soup bowls.

It just gets better from there. I'm only part-ways through the book right now, but I already keep paging back to re-read previous poems. This is good.

Hey, remember this awesome recovery project essay by Matthew Henriksen about William Heyen's Lord Dragonfly: Five Sequences?

Well that book has now been reissued by H_ngm_n books & it is pretty wonderful. His longer lined poems I enjoy but his brief poems in series are spellbinding. You can fill in all the obvious reference points of Neidecker, Creeley, James Wright, haiku, but these poems happen more fully than almost anyone else i can think of doing these instantiated evocation poems. Check out the opening two sections of the title series:

1.

A friend dies.
Another,
forcing the lilac to flower.

2.

In a corner of the field, wild
grapevine climbs a lightning
groove in the ash trunk.
Where are the dead?

That's pretty badass. I recommend you read the whole series out loud as soon as possible.

Pretty Good Thing for Ears

2010-07-23T18:32:00.001-05:00

I Like David Schnell & I'm Not Afraid to Say It

2010-07-22T21:34:00.000-05:00

Want to read a weirdly small-minded article about a pretty cool contemporary artist?

Read this.

I think that article might be 4 or 5 years old, but it's age doesn't lessen the fact that it is mean & dumb. The Rauch comparison is apt in regards to palette & political origin, but to my mind it ends there. The David Schnell works below fit in far more evidently with the explosively architectural concerns of Julie Mehretu & Matthew Ritchie.

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These are paintings about the relationship between landscape space & architecture. They expand violently the perspective through order, making what is planned seem wild & exploratory, rather than controlled & restrictive.

Here's a link to a flickr set of, I presume, a gallery show of Schnell's.

Here's a link to a gallery that seems to represent him.

Here's a link to some more of his paintings, which seem to be of a different time or style.

Here's a more interesting discussion of Schnell's work from Wash Post critic Blake Gopnik. Again, though, it bangs away at one reference point a bit too much. Though in this case the reference point is a bit more entertaining.

My favorite part of Gopnik's discussion is this: "Schnell's perspective paintings convey the unnatural order that the German state once attempted to impose on things. And, in the very fact that Schnell's orderings fail, may act as a rebuttal to the state's attempts."

Yes, I know "unnatural order" means nothing, but i think you can get the idea he was going for. Mehretu's works architecturalize experience with the attempt to create a globalized canvas. Schnell's blasts open the potential of the order, sketching out the possibilities, the visions in a way that makes what could or will be orderly again chaotic. I'm hesitant to say that an artist must be in reaction to the political epistemology of his homeland, however, I kind of want to say that as well. Seeing Schnell's visions in relation to German orderliness is reductionist but kind of interesting as well in that it doesn't have that Germans-still-apologizing-for-WWII bullshit to it, but instead attempts to explore the functions of the relationship to space that are stereotypically indicative of German engineering & design. It's more of a way of re-invigorating the ideas of those who built the cavernous right-angle landscapes of the pomo urban world & its creative ontology.

But then again, check out the simple beauty of this print of Schnell's:

That's just really cool.

If you happen to care, that print is on sale here.

Best Stuff for Ears

2010-07-19T19:35:00.000-05:00

I Like Nicola López & I'm Not Afraid to Say It

2010-07-18T15:07:00.008-05:00

At the Denver Art Museum I saw an installation piece of Nicola López's that I enjoyed. I think I'd seen a similar installation of hers somewhere in NY, but I can't remember where. The piece, with its seemingly mad organization of roads along the floors, walls & ceilings of the room, fit especially well with the no-right-angles Libeskind architecture.

It's a pleasurable piece to sit & look at in the room, following the roads around the space & laughing at the ridiculousness of the design. But a lot of the work succeeds on its intelligence, the visual equation of the roads & veins is important to the work, but also the metastatic overgrowth of the roads is, to me, part of its effect.

Looking through her website, I was interested to see this theme explored in a number of directions, each with their own aesthetic & art history reference points. For instance this print seems to take Escher's whimsy of crowding repetition & darken it through the use of pomo industrial/urban images.

And this lovely print works its organic blend of order & biological chaos within the rhetoric of antique maps:

Here's a quote from her mission statement on her site: "As with the evolution of the human-built landscape, there are moments in the construction of my world where the building proceeds according to plans that have already been laid and there are moments when the building precedes its own planning, expanding unpredictably and organically towards an order of a very different sort. Our world is full of the tension between just this order and disorder and my work focuses on that tension, creating images of landscapes that struggle against themselves, that strive towards order and beauty as they verge on the edge of spinning beyond control or comprehension."

I think I interpret her work more cynically than she perhaps intends.

Check out her site here: www.nicolalopez.com

The Outbursts of Everett True

2010-07-13T10:52:00.001-05:00

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the lichen presents with intent

2010-07-02T20:23:00.003-05:00

Some poems of mine are part of this art show in Lincoln, Nebraska at the gallery The Lichen.

The focus of the show is on ways artists respond to politics. It was curated by Sam Rapien, who is an awesome designer & artist as well. (He did the web design for Octopus 11 & has done design for many of the Octopus Books chappies & full-lengths.

Sam took my poems & laid them out & designed them -- I think they look pretty cool.

Zola Jesus: "I Can't Stand"

2010-06-30T23:18:00.001-05:00

Some Stuff I've Been

2010-06-30T14:49:00.002-05:00

Julia Cohen's & my new collaborative chapbook, Sugar Means Yes, is available from Greying Ghost Press

There's a review of Destruction Myth in 360 Main Street.

The mysterious Loads of Learned Lumber blog also talks about the D-Myth.

Simone Muench's class at Northwestern did an email interview with me & it is posted on Shark Forum.

Poems of mine are available in a bilingual Spanish anthology, La Familia Americana, along with such ninjas Joshua Beckman, Jen Bervin, Ted Mathys, Christian Hawkey, Matt Hart, Elizabeth Zuba, Donna Stonecipher, Anna Moschovakis, & Fred Schmalz.

Lil B

2010-06-23T14:02:00.002-05:00

"I got my cat / And I love my cat"

from an interview:

Complex: Is your unconscious mindset fascinated by homosexuality? You talk about lesbians a lot. You call girls faggots. You call yourself a pretty bitch. Is there interest in that lifestyle?

Lil B: It’s a touchy subject. I respect the hell out of gays and the gay community. I’m not a gay man. I don’t agree with sex with another man or fucking another man or giving blow jobs to another guy. That’s not my thing. I’d rather fuck a girl, fuck her in her ass, fuck her in the mouth or something. Sorry for cussing.

Complex: It’s fine.

Lil B: It’s a very touchy subject. People get scared when they hear the gay word, but when you truly know yourself, you gonna be good. Say for instance you’re watching a porno, right. And, you’re jacking off and shit, and some gay shit pops up. And you’re like, “Oh, shit!” Either you’re gonna look at that shit, or you’re not gonna look at it and you’re not gonna give a fuck about it. Like, some gay shit can pop up on me, and I don’t give a fuck about it. I’m like, “Oh, that’s that gay shit. Get that shit off. Back to the bitches.” But some muthafuckers are in denial. Some dudes are really in denial. They’re like, “What’s that? Ohhhh!” And they hate themselves for that. They’re like, “What’s wrong with me?” You feel me? And these are motherfuckers that’s around us. That’s not saying shit. So, it’s like, I’m a faggot because I’m so not a faggot. I can say I’m a faggot. I can say I’m the gayest bitch on Earth. And I’m so not gay, it’s obvious. I know from my deepest core that I’m very far from gay. So I can say I’m the bitch queen that fucks cows. I’m not.

Complex.com

Schomburg & Denrow in Denver: House Party Reading This Friday, June 18th

2010-06-16T11:57:00.002-05:00

A house reading & party featuring:

Jennifer Denrow & Zachary Schomburg

Friday, June 18th @ 8pm @ the NE corner of Marion & 10th Ave in Capitol Hill
(email for directions: mathias.svalina@gmail.com)

Bring drinks & snacks to share & food items to grill.

About the readers:

Jennifer Denrow is the author of the book California, forthcoming next year from Four Way Books, & two forthcoming chapbooks, A Knee for a Life & From California, On. She is currently pursuing a PhD at University of Denver, where she works on The Denver Quarterly.

Zachary Schomburg is the author of Scary, No Scary, The Man Suit and several chapbooks including, most recently, three chapbooks co-written with Emily Kendal Frey. A DVD of his poem-films, Little Blind Thing, is now available from Poor Claudia. With Mathias Svalina, he co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He lives in Portland, OR.

workshop wrapup

2010-06-15T10:03:00.004-05:00

I had a great time with the CSU Writing project workshop in Fort Collins. Great writers & really lovely people. I did a mini-lecture on mutilating non-literary forms, which I kind of wish I'd written out in full ahead of time so that I could post it here, but instead I can post my sparse notes & let you fill in the blanks:

Form & the Epistemology of Containment
cliche: leave out / include
rules -- sense -- exploration
The construction of a literary text is a construction of the Deleuzian new

Sonnet
rules of the sonnet
traditions of the sonnet: formal & cultural
implicit misogyny as the tradition
what is the average sonnet
Berryman's continuation & turn
Volkman's mutilation of the form through obedience to the form

King Sooper's Automated Teller receipts –
in medias res story –
the construction of the form frames the moment
the details that arrive via the form

netflix member reviews form
18th Century Novel Chapter summaries
How To Guides

formal poetry is poetry of forward motion, not individual inspiration

Got it? Good.

Here are the texts we discussed in the workshop:

Petrarch
Sonnet 90

She used to let her golden hair fly free.
For the wind to toy and tangle and molest;
Her eyes were brighter than the radiant west.
(Seldom they shine so now.) I used to see

Pity look out of those deep eyes on me.
("It was false pity," you would now protest.)
I had love's tinder heaped within my breast;
What wonder that the flame burnt furiously?

She did not walk in any mortal way,
But with angelic progress; when she spoke,
Unearthly voices sang in unison.

She seemed divine among the dreary folk
Of earth. You say she is not so today?
Well, though the bow's unbent, the wound bleeds on.

translated by Morris Bishop for Norton.

John Berryman
Sonnet 23

They may, because I would not cloy your ear—
If ever these songs by other ears are heard—
With 'love'; suppose I loved you not, but blurred
Lust with strange images, warm, not quite sincere,
To switch a bedroom black. O mutineer
Wíth me against these empty captains! gird
Your scorn again above all at this word
Pompous and vague on the stump of his career.

Also I fox 'heart', striking a modern breast
Hollow as a drum, and 'beauty' I taboo;
I want a verse fresh as a bubble breaks,
As little false... Blood of my sweet unrest
Runs all the same—I am in love with you—
Trapped in my rib-cage something throes and aches!

Karen Volkman
Sonnet

Blank bride of the hour, occluded thought
wed to waning like a sifting scent
of future flowers, retrograde intent
backwards blooming as a nascent naught
staining minutes, rumorous, uncaught.
You callow hollow of the efferent,
the apsis-axis of my implement,
ague body, unboundaried, portionless plot
no chart remarks. My paltry pretty, go
blanch your blossoms (the radix of a rot)
in some white wind some nightness stanches, stale
negative lumen of a spectral no.
What center cinches your orbit’s knot,
the far aphelion of a darkest veil?

Netflix Member Reviews of Blood of Beasts

Ok, I liked the movie. It was neat seeing a Norse verion of Beauty and the Beast. Yeah it was cheesy, most of the weapons did look fake, extremely so, and if you're expecting realistic Norse, well don't think you'll get that either. But most of the story was good. However I can't give it higher than three cause the ending, like everyone else said, sucks. But then again, when you read the original fairy tales, the ends did usually suck (read the original Little Mermaid to see my point). But still, it's modern times and we all like our happy endings when we're expecting them. Bad guy gets vanquished, good guy gets the girl, peace and harmony and happy ever after. There is a reason it ended like it did, and I understand that, but still, I would have rather turned the movie off and felt happy instead of depressed.

Okay, Beauty and the Beast is my all time favorite story, next to Peter Pan. And this version of the classic fairytale, put with Norse mythology, didn't cut it for me. The acting wasn't amazing and the beast was basically a man in a bear skin (the costume could have been made much better with the aid of some visual graphics) Sven's hair, what was up with that? He had some really bad extensions going on that were hard to overlook. Also, the camera kept moving back and forth across the scenery, which made me feel kind of nauseous. Also, there was a little more gore than I cared to see (lots of blood and corpses) ***Spoiler*** I have one more complaint about this movie. The ending sucked. While the beast did become a man again, like in the classic story, Sven and Freya die! This kind of ruin the movie for me, seeing as Beauty and the Beast are supposed to end up together! It doesn't work if Beauty dies trying to save Beast.

My husband and I rented this film, watched it, and it was awful. just terrible. We don't know why we put it in the player a second time. We can't explain why we watched the movie 4 times in that first 4 days of renting it. I can't explain why we can't seem to get enough of this horrible movie. I now own the film, and have given copies as gifts to my medievalist larper and gamer friends. We love this awful film.

Good movie, though a little bit of a letdown from BOUDICCA,BEOWULF & GRENDEL,and BRAVEHEART. A little more realism, especially with the props and makeup,would've made this vid a winner in its genre. I liked the plot. The monster, Agnar, struggles futilely to save this vid from lowering into just another S&S cuteypie flick, where the skinny women get all the perks(for once, I'd like to see the big-boned celtic/viking queens of lore who did more than just flash their makeup). This vid mimics the "soft T&A" Teevee Series, Charmed, and the wannabe acting is about the same. The arrow scene on the cover is an obvious steal from Bruckheimer's KING ARTHUR,where Guinevere (Keira Knightley)had a better handle on the archery work. The tiny little heroine in BLOOD BEAST (Jane March) could barely handle the bow prop much less shoot it, so the standard blonde stepped up to do the archery-work. Even with the usual bloopers,and idea thefts from better vids of this genre, this was a good entertaining flick. That's my spin.
Eighteenth Century Chapter Summaries

from Alexis de Toqueville’s Democracy in America

Chapter I: Exterior Form Of North America

North America divided into two vast regions, one inclining towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator--Valley of the Mississippi—Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe--Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded--Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery--Forests of North America--Prairies--Wandering Tribes of Natives--Their outward appearance, manners, and language--Traces of an unknown people.

Chapter VII: Political Jurisdiction In The United States

Definition of political jurisdiction--What is understood by political jurisdiction in France, in England, and in the United States--In America the political judge can only pass sentence on public officers—He more frequently passes a sentence of removal from office than a penalty--Political jurisdiction as it exists in the United States is, notwithstanding its mildness, and perhaps in consequence of that mildness, a most powerful instrument in the hands of the majority.

Chapter XVII: Principal Causes Maintaining The Democratic Republic--Part III

Principal Causes Which Render Religion Powerful In America Care taken by the Americans to separate the Church from the State--The laws, public opinion, and even the exertions of the clergy concur to promote this end--Influence of religion upon the mind in the United States attributable to this cause--Reason of this--What is the natural state of men with regard to religion at the present time--What are the peculiar and incidental causes which prevent men, in certain countries, from arriving at this state.

How To Make Chain Mail

#1 Choose a weave that you like. This article describes one method of weaving the European 4-in-1 weave, a common and widely used weave. The weave gets its name from the fact that each non-edge ring has four other rings connected to it. See the external links section (sources and citations) for many more ideas on weaving methods and weaves.
#2 Choose your material. Decide whether you will make your own rings from wire or purchase rings. Rings are available in a variety of combinations of inside diameters (distance between the inside edges of the ring (abbreviated ID)) and gauges (wire thickness, or wire diameter (abbreviated WD)). The relationship between these two numbers, using the formula ID/WD, is the aspect ratio (abbreviated AR). Bigger rings will cover an area with fewer rings and less weight, but the texture will be coarser, regardless of AR. Rings with a larger AR will not be as strong as smaller AR rings of the same material, regardless of the material. Wire of a thicker gauge will be more durable, but also weigh more and be harder to work with.
#3 Choose a design you like. If you are just beginning, start with something fairly small and simple until you get the hang of it. A full chainmail shirt has thousands of rings in it and can weigh more than 30 pounds. Instead, try a bracelet, belt, key chain, or other smaller, simpler design.
#4 Wind the wire (if you are starting with wire) firmly around a metal rod. Steel rods can be purchased from hardware stores, and most home improvement stores. You could also use a Phillips screwdriver shaft or any other long, round metal objects you might have laying around. Wooden dowels and pencils are not recommended as the forces applied while coiling your wire will compress the wood and give you rings of unequal dimensions. You may need to control one or both ends with pliers. Aim for even, consistent loops and try to avoid putting tight kinks in the wire. If the wire came in a coil or spool, wind with the curvature that the wire already has. Also try to keep the "spring" as tight together as possible. The more spaced the rings are, the longer the rings actually become.
#5 Cut the rings (if you started with wire). It's especially important to wear eye protection for this step, as the rings can go flying. Aim for full, 360º rings, evenly cut. Cutting on a slight diagonal will help to achieve a tight closure with no gap. If you want a flatter, cleaner cut, you can put the coil in a vice (preferably with the rod still inside) and cut it with a hacksaw. Doing this eliminates the sharp points in the ends of the ring that can get caught on clothes and skin.
#6 Close four rings, using pliers. Thread all four onto a fifth ring (shown here in red) and close the fifth ring.
#7 Arrange the five rings as shown, with two over and two under. This looks awkward right now because the rest of the pattern isn't around it to even things out.
#8 Close two more rings. Link both into another ring (also red), but do not close the red ring yet.
#9 Loop the red ring through both of the bottom two rings, as shown, from bottom to top. Arrange the two bottom-most rings so that they are in the pattern.
#10 Repeat steps 8 and 9 until you have a strip that is the length you want.
#11 Place two closed rings on a third ring (shown here in blue).
#12 Begin building the next row. Pass the blue ring through the top two gold rings from the first row. Be sure that it ends up oriented the same as the red ring adjacent to it.
#13 Place one closed ring on another ring (blue).
#14 Add it to the pattern, linking this blue ring through three other rings.
#15 Repeat steps 13 and 14 to build the rest of the row.
#16 Repeat steps 11 through 15 to add each new row until the piece is as large as you would like.
# 17 Now start making a second piece, repeating steps 11 through 15 to make the back.

How To Start a Conversation with Someone on the Train, Subway or Bus

#1 Understand the environment. Everyone is just trying to get from point A to point B, and they may get off the bus, train, or subway at the next stop. Thus you can't hesitate if you're going to talk to someone. Keep in mind that few people actually want to talk to strangers on their trip, but some will, especially if you seem nice and interesting. Be decisive, but don't be aggressive.
#2 Carry a prop. Bring some reading material that you can pretend to read. It will make you feel and appear more comfortable. Don't wear headphones unless you want to appear unapproachable. However you do not want to look like the guy in the picture. Every girl will probably run away and scream.
* If you know how to complete one, a Rubik's Cube is a great idea for a prop. At least on the first solve of it, someone will likely be watching you, which may be a good opportunity to say hello.
#3 Scope out the situation. OK, so someone has caught your eye. Before you try to initiate a conversation, make sure they're not with their significant other. If they're with anyone at all, proceed with caution, but remember, their companion may just be a friend or relative, or he or she may be a complete stranger who has the same idea that you do.
#4 Position yourself for success. If you see the person while at the bus stop or train station, wait until he or she gets on the bus or train before trying to converse. Follow them in discreetly and sit opposite them if possible. You'll have a good chance to make eye contact this way, and besides, you might appear somewhat invasive if you sit down next to them. If they're standing, stand near enough to them to be able to speak with them, but don't get too close for comfort.
#5 Try to make eye contact. Making brief eye contact can show the person that you're interested and help you gauge whether he or she is interested in you. Glance at the person (don't stare) and try to hold their gaze for just a second or two. Don't look away before she does! This shows confidence. Try to make eye contact again after about 30 seconds. If the person makes eye contact with you again, they probably find you attractive. Don't be too obvious, but make sure the person can see that you're looking at them. If they can't see you, you can't expect them to make eye contact.
#6 Smile when making eye contact the second time. A small, but genuine smile makes you appear interested, friendly, and approachable. If the other person smiles back, you're probably in luck.
#7 Use appropriate body language. Don't cross your arms or turn away from the person. Make yourself appear open and comfortable, and exhibit good (but not freakishly good) posture. Don't look at your watch or a clock constantly, as it will give the impression that you are in a hurry and the person might not talk to you, because they don't want to bother you.
#8 Read the person's body language. If he or she exhibits open body language toward you, that's a great sign. If the person turns away or buries his or her head in a book, that's not so good.
#9 Ask the person a question. A question is a great way to start a conversation, but not just any question will do. Ask an open-ended question that requires more than a "yes" or "no" answer. For example, ask, "How do you get to the Eiffel Tower?" instead of "Does this bus stop at the Eiffel Tower?" What you ask isn't really important, as long as it's not invasive, insulting or insane, e.g. the Eiffel Tower questions might seem dumb in New York.
#10 Keep conversing. Listen attentively to the person's response to your question and then just make small talk. If the person is interested in you, the conversation will probably flow fairly naturally (unless he or she is shy) and you may be able to get a phone number or email address. Then casually be the first to leave. This will establish a self confidence in both of your minds. If the person isn't interested, you'll probably be able to tell pretty quickly.

How To Treat Venomous Snakebites
#1 Get the victim away from the snake. Your first priority is to make sure that neither you nor the victim receive any additional snakebites.
#2 Remove clothing or constricting items. Bites from venomous snakes can cause rapid and severe swelling. Remove clothing or jewelry from the area.
#3 Minimize activity. Higher levels of activity will increase blood flow and increase the spread of poison through the body.
#4 Do not cut the bite site or use your mouth to suck out the poison. These are likely to be ineffective and can increase the likelihood of infection.
#5 Clean the bite site with soap and water. Cover the wound with a dressing. Do NOT clean the snakebite area if you will be taking the victim to a hospital, Hospital staff will sample the area to identify the snake and apply the correct anti-venom.
#6 Wrap the bite site with a tight elastic bandage. You can use something like an Ace bandage for this, or can fashion one from a stretchy shirt or other article of clothing. The intent of this step is to slow capillary and venous blood flow (flow back to the heart), but permit arterial blood flow (away from the heart). Check for a pulse below the overwrap. It should be present.
#7 Splint the bitten limb to prevent motion. Keep a the splinted extremity below the level of the heart.
#8 Keep the victim calm and protected from the environment. Let the victim rest until you can get him medical attention. If the victim is conscious, make him drink fluids.

CSU Writing Project Presents JUST WRITE: A One-Day Writing Workshop in Fort Collins: June 12th

2010-06-12T09:30:00.000-05:00

csu writing project presents
just write: a writing series
Please join us this year as we embark on a writing adventure. The CSU Writing Project is hosting amazing regional writers to lead participants through a series of writing workshops.

mathias svalina
saturday, june 12: 9:30-12:30
Mugs Coffee Lounge
261 South College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO

cost: $15 in advance, $20 at the door

The CSU Writing Project was established in November of 2002 and is a local affiliate of the National Writing Project (NWP).
Please RSVP to Jenny St. Romain at jstromai@psdschools.org.
Cost: $15 if you RSVP in advance, $20 at the door.

Payments may be made at the door or sent to CSUWP, c/o Director Cindy OʼDonnell-Allen,
Colorado State University, 359 Eddy Building, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1773.
Please make checks payable to CSUWP.

mathias svalina is a co-editor of Octopus Magazine and the
small press Octopus Books. He is the author of numerous
chapbooks and has developed many collaborative poetry and
multimedia projects. He was received awards and fellowships
from The Indiana Review, the Associated Writing Program,
Breadloaf, among others. His first book, Destruction Myth, was
recently published by The CSU Poetry Center. His second, I
Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur is forthcoming from Mud
Luscious Press in 2012. He teaches writing and literature in
Denver.

2010-06-12T01:27:00.000-05:00

I Like Denver

2010-06-09T21:42:00.004-05:00

Today I went for a hike in the mountains with an awesome friend & my dog. I bought freshly made soymilk from an Asian market & then went to a reading featuring Bin Ramke & Dan Beachy Quick.

I feel pretty good about Denver, even though I was kind of sundazed & ineloquent upon meeting Dan. When he told me that he & his wife had a 13 day old baby I meant to ask "And your wife is healthy?" but instead asked "And your wife is pregnant?"

Here's a damn good Bin Ramke poem with a bit of language confusion for you:

Cajun, a Corruption of "Arcadian," or of a Mi'Kmawi'Simk Term for "Fullness"

I am often confused by the words "equal" and "between." To say one thing is another thing is like saying... one thing. And what separates them. There were several major storms in my past, and then there were two, separately named, which killed three-fourths of the trees of New Orleans. The trees of the Gulf Coast will continue decaying into the atmosphere, little particles of tree dancing into the air, carbon mainly, and even my mother's body will be little particles in the earth and then air and there will be rains thus into earth again. The French who made a life with the help of the Mi'kmaq were dispersed into the colonies. Ethnic cleansing. Clean air. Clean water. Clean land.

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2010-06-09T17:48:00.003-05:00

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2010-06-08T18:34:00.002-05:00

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2010-06-05T23:45:00.003-05:00

I'm sick.

I have the following symptoms: aching, low-level fever, headache, heavy limb feelings.

I'm going to walk to Alaska.

It will take me 20 days & 4 hours.

Here are the directions Google Maps gave me.

See you there.

Walking directions to Juneau, AK
2,432 mi – about 20 days 4 hours
Suggested routes
Bellingham - Ketchikan
2,432 mi 20 days 4 hours

1110 Clarkson St
Denver, CO 80218
1. Head north on Clarkson St toward E 12th Ave
0.9 mi
2. Slight left at Park Ave
272 ft
3. Turn right at Washington St
0.5 mi
4. Slight right at Welton St
0.4 mi
5. Turn left at Downing St
0.8 mi
6. Turn right at Walnut St
446 ft
7. Turn left at 38th St
0.5 mi
8. Continue onto Washington St
331 ft
9. Turn right to stay on Washington St
5.0 mi
10. Slight right to stay on Washington St
8.4 mi
11. Turn left to stay on Washington St
1.2 mi
12. Slight right to stay on Washington St
0.9 mi
13. Turn left at CO-7 W
0.3 mi
14. Turn right at Co Rd 9/I-25 Frontage Rd
5.8 mi
15. Slight left to stay on Co Rd 9/I-25 Frontage Rd
Continue to follow I-25 Frontage Rd

22.5 mi
16. Turn left at E Co Rd 20E
1.5 mi
17. Turn right at N Boyd Lake Ave/N Co Rd 9
3.0 mi
18. Turn left at Valley Oak Dr
315 ft
19. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto Clearwater Dr
2.0 mi
20. Turn left at E Co Rd 30
0.2 mi
21. Turn right at S Co Rd 11/Timberline Rd
Continue to follow Timberline Rd

5.2 mi
22. Turn left at Danfield Ct
0.1 mi
23. Turn right at Eastbrook Dr
0.2 mi
24. Turn left toward Power Trail
0.1 mi
25. Turn right at Power Trail
1.3 mi
26. Turn right at Riverside Ave
2.4 mi
27. Continue onto Jefferson St
0.4 mi
28. Turn right at N College Ave
0.2 mi
29. Turn left
328 ft
30. Turn left
0.3 mi
31. Turn right
177 ft
32. Turn left toward Poudre Trail
0.9 mi
33. Continue straight onto Poudre Trail
1.0 mi
34. Turn right at Co Rd 19/N Taft Hill Rd
26 ft
35. Turn left at Poudre Trail
2.5 mi
36. Turn left toward Co Rd 54G/U.S. 287 B
36 ft
37. Turn left at Co Rd 54G/U.S. 287 B
2.3 mi
38. Turn left at CO-14 W/US-287 N
Continue to follow US-287 N

1.5 mi
39. Turn right to stay on US-287 N
Entering Wyoming

53.6 mi
40. Turn left at E Palmer Dr
374 ft
41. Turn right at S 2nd St
0.6 mi
42. Turn left at E Garfield St
305 ft
43. Slight left toward S Pine St
0.2 mi
44. Sharp left at S Pine St
46 ft
45. Turn right at W Garfield St
0.4 mi
46. Turn left at Snowy Range Rd
1.1 mi
47. Turn right at WY-130 W/S Hayes St/Snowy Range Rd
Continue to follow WY-130 W

4.8 mi
48. Turn right at WY-12 W/Herrick Ln
6.4 mi
49. Turn right at Co Rd 54/Sprague Ln
4.3 mi
50. Slight right
5.3 mi
51. Turn left toward Cooper Cove Rd/Co Rd 57
12.9 mi
52. Turn right at Cooper Cove Rd/Co Rd 57
3.3 mi
53. Slight left to stay on Cooper Cove Rd/Co Rd 57
Continue to follow Co Rd 57

0.7 mi
54. Continue onto Old State Hwy 13
0.9 mi
55. Turn left at WY-13 W
8.3 mi
56. Turn right at Elk Mountain Arlington Rd
5.7 mi
57. Turn right to stay on Elk Mountain Arlington Rd
5.4 mi
58. Continue onto Arlington Rd/Elk Mountain Rd
0.1 mi
59. Continue onto Co Rd 402/Elk Mountain Arlington Rd
2.2 mi
60. Turn left at Co Rd 402/Elk Mt Medicine Bow
0.2 mi
61. Turn right toward WY-72 N/Co Rd 3
440 ft
62. Turn right at WY-72 N/Co Rd 3
Continue to follow WY-72 N

0.5 mi
63. Turn right at WY-72 N/Bridge St
Continue to follow WY-72 N

3.5 mi
64. Turn left at Rattlesnake Pass Rd
16.9 mi
65. Turn right at Stock Dr Way
0.5 mi
66. Turn left
1.1 mi
67. Slight right toward WY-130 W
3.8 mi
68. Turn right at WY-130 W
1.3 mi
69. Continue onto US-287 N/US-30 E
0.5 mi
70. Turn left
0.3 mi
71. Turn left toward Old Hwy
1.8 mi
72. Continue straight onto Old Hwy
4.5 mi
73. Turn right at Co Rd 347
9.8 mi
74. Turn right at WY-76 N
1.1 mi
75. Turn right at N 5th St
0.1 mi
76. Turn left to stay on N 5th St
344 ft
77. Continue onto N 6th St
0.2 mi
78. Turn left at Washington Ave
135 ft
79. Washington Ave turns slightly right and becomes Landfill Rd
5.8 mi
80. Turn left toward US-287 N/WY-789 N
1.9 mi
81. Turn right at US-287 N/WY-789 N
12.2 mi
82. Turn left at Co Rd 63/Oil Rd to Mines
Continue to follow Co Rd 63

28.3 mi
83. Slight right toward Co Rd 23/Wamsutter-Crooks Gap Rd
4.7 mi
84. Sharp left at Co Rd 23/Wamsutter-Crooks Gap Rd
0.2 mi
85. Turn right toward BLM Rd 3217
118 ft
86. Turn right at BLM Rd 3217
4.4 mi
87. Turn left at BLM Rd 3210
1.2 mi
88. Turn right at BLM Rd 3237
187 ft
89. Continue onto BLM Rd 3210
8.3 mi
90. Slight right toward BLM Rd 3214
6.7 mi
91. Continue straight onto BLM Rd 3214
3.0 mi
92. Turn right at BLM Rd 3219
11.1 mi
93. Slight left
1.4 mi
94. Slight right
1.3 mi
95. Turn right
5.0 mi
96. Turn right
2.4 mi
97. Turn left
6.9 mi
98. Turn left
72 ft
99. Turn left
1.1 mi
100. Slight right toward Emigrant Trail
1.1 mi
101. Slight left at Emigrant Trail
9.6 mi
102. Continue onto Lander Pinedale Stage Rd
0.5 mi
103. Turn right to stay on Lander Pinedale Stage Rd
13.2 mi
104. Slight right to stay on Lander Pinedale Stage Rd
3.5 mi
105. Continue onto Elkhorn Cutoff Rd
0.9 mi
106. Slight right at Lander Pinedale Stage Rd
0.3 mi
107. Continue onto Big Sandy Elkhorn Rd
12.2 mi
108. Slight left toward Emigrant Trail/Oregon Trail
1.7 mi
109. Slight right at Emigrant Trail/Oregon Trail
4.3 mi
110. Turn right at Big Sandy South Rd/Mayo Rd
1.3 mi
111. Turn left at E Fork Big Sandy Rd
1.3 mi
112. Turn left at Speedway Rd
0.9 mi
113. Continue onto Emigrant Trail/Oregon Trail
7.0 mi
114. Turn right at US-191 N
312 ft
115. Turn left at Emigrant Trail/Oregon Trail
4.5 mi
116. Turn right
1.2 mi
117. Turn left toward Boulder South Rd
3.6 mi
118. Turn left at Boulder South Rd
1.3 mi
119. Turn right toward Paradise Rd
0.7 mi
120. Turn right at Paradise Rd
0.4 mi
121. Turn left
0.8 mi
122. Turn right
4.4 mi
123. Turn left toward The Mesa Rd
0.8 mi
124. Turn right at The Mesa Rd
0.5 mi
125. Turn left at BLM Rd 5105
3.4 mi
126. Continue onto Luman Rd
5.6 mi
127. Turn right at Co Rd 23-147/Luman Rd
0.9 mi
128. Turn left at US-189 S
0.4 mi
129. Turn right
1.1 mi
130. Turn left
0.3 mi
131. Turn left toward Cottonwood Ryegrass Rd
0.5 mi
132. Turn right at Cottonwood Ryegrass Rd
9.5 mi
133. Turn right at Co Rd 117/Cottonwood Ryegrass Rd
0.1 mi
134. Slight left at N Cottonwood Creek
2.6 mi
135. Turn right toward Fs 50
8.3 mi
136. Continue straight onto Fs 50
1.2 mi
137. Turn left at N Cottonwood Rd
16.2 mi
138. Turn right at Greys River Rd
32.2 mi
139. Turn right at US-89 N
0.6 mi
140. Continue straight onto US-26 W
Entering Idaho

50.4 mi
141. Turn right at N 175 E
0.7 mi
142. Turn left at E Ririe Hwy
5.0 mi
143. Turn left at E 145 N/E 145th Rd N/Co Rd A4/N County Line Rd
Continue to follow E 145th Rd N/Co Rd A4/N County Line Rd

14.4 mi
144. Continue onto W 145 N
0.6 mi
145. Continue straight onto N 26th W/Old Butte Rd
0.8 mi
146. Turn right at W 129 N/Osgood Rd
1.0 mi
147. Slight left at N 35th W/Osgood Rd
1.0 mi
148. Turn right at W 113 N
11.9 mi
149. Slight left at 155th Rd W
0.2 mi
150. Slight left
1.9 mi
151. Turn right
1.9 mi
152. Turn left
0.6 mi
153. Turn right toward US-20 W/W Arco Hwy
1.2 mi
154. Turn right at US-20 W/W Arco Hwy
Continue to follow US-20 W

24.5 mi
155. Slight right toward E Portland Ave
0.2 mi
156. Continue straight onto E Portland Ave
4.9 mi
157. Turn right at W Portland Ave
1.7 mi
158. Continue onto US-20 W/US-26 W
15.3 mi
159. Turn left at 2930 W/3100 N
69 ft
160. Turn right at 3100 N
1.2 mi
161. Turn left at US-20 W/US-26 W/US-93 S
43.2 mi
162. Turn right at US-20 W/Queen Crown Rd
Continue to follow US-20 W

5.7 mi
163. Turn left toward 1st
226 ft
164. Turn right at 1st
1.1 mi
165. Slight right at Picabo Ln
2.2 mi
166. Continue onto Sharps Canyon Rd
269 ft
167. Slight left toward US-20 W
0.5 mi
168. Turn right toward US-20 W
79 ft
169. Turn left at US-20 W
42.5 mi
170. Turn right at Harrison Rd
6.6 mi
171. Continue onto Cow Creek Rd/Wild Horse Rd
6.8 mi
172. Turn left at High Prarie Rd
0.2 mi
173. Turn right at Castle Rock Rd
7.5 mi
174. Turn right at US-20 W/Sun Valley Hwy
15.0 mi
175. Turn right at Immigrant Rd/Tollgate Rd
6.1 mi
176. Slight right toward Foothill Rd
0.4 mi
177. Continue straight onto Foothill Rd
0.3 mi
178. Turn left
5.7 mi
179. Turn left toward Faulkner Rd
0.7 mi
180. Turn left toward Faulkner Rd
0.1 mi
181. Slight right at Faulkner Rd
0.7 mi
182. Turn left at Hunter Rd
0.3 mi
183. Turn right toward Ditto Creek Rd
322 ft
184. Turn left at Ditto Creek Rd
0.2 mi
185. Turn right to stay on Ditto Creek Rd
157 ft
186. Turn right at Old Oregon Trail Hwy
0.3 mi
187. Turn left at Heisel Dr
0.5 mi
188. Continue onto Simco Cutoff Rd
5.5 mi
189. Slight left toward Simco Rd
0.5 mi
190. Turn right at Simco Rd
148 ft
191. Turn left toward E Monroe Rd
1.1 mi
192. Continue straight onto E Monroe Rd
3.1 mi
193. Turn left at S Orchard Access Rd
4.0 mi
194. Continue straight onto W Range Rd
390 ft
195. Turn right
6.4 mi
196. Turn right toward Pleasant Valley Rd
3.7 mi
197. Turn right toward Pleasant Valley Rd
0.3 mi
198. Slight right at Pleasant Valley Rd
3.4 mi
199. Turn left toward Barker Rd
2.6 mi
200. Continue straight onto Barker Rd
2.7 mi
201. Turn right at S Cloverdale Rd
0.6 mi
202. Turn left at E Kuna Mora Rd
1.0 mi
203. Continue onto S Eagle Rd
1.0 mi
204. Turn left at E King Rd
1.5 mi
205. Turn left at Stroebel Rd
217 ft
206. Turn right at E King Rd
1.0 mi
207. Turn right at S Luker Rd
0.7 mi
208. S Luker Rd turns left and becomes Stagecoach Way
0.5 mi
209. Turn right at Swan Falls Rd
0.1 mi
210. Turn left at Shortline St
0.4 mi
211. Continue straight onto W Avalon St
0.6 mi
212. Continue onto W Kuna Rd
1.0 mi
213. Turn right at N Black Cat Rd
1.7 mi
214. Continue onto N Greenhurst Rd
3.9 mi
215. Turn right at S Happy Valley Rd
0.2 mi
216. Turn left at E Railroad St
2.5 mi
217. Continue onto 1st St N
1.0 mi
218. Continue onto 1st St N Exd
0.7 mi
219. Turn left at W Railroad St
1.3 mi
220. Turn right at N Midland Blvd
0.1 mi
221. Turn left at W Karcher Rd
0.4 mi
222. Turn left toward Caldwell Blvd
157 ft
223. Sharp right at Caldwell Blvd
0.5 mi
224. Continue onto Nampa-Caldwell Blvd
1.0 mi
225. Continue onto I-84 BUS E/Cleveland Blvd
3.0 mi
226. Slight right at Cleveland Blvd
0.1 mi
227. Continue onto Blaine St
1.9 mi
228. Continue onto Centennial Way
0.4 mi
229. Turn left at W Chicago St
0.3 mi
230. Turn left toward Pond Ln
0.9 mi
231. Turn right at Pond Ln
0.7 mi
232. Turn left at US-20 W/US-26 W
11.6 mi
233. Slight right to stay on US-20 W/US-26 W
1.4 mi
234. Turn left at E Main St
1.4 mi
235. Continue onto Apple Valley Rd
1.3 mi
236. Turn left at Klahr Rd
282 ft
237. Slight right at Apple Valley Rd
4.6 mi
238. Turn left at US-20 W/US-26 W
Entering Oregon

1.4 mi
239. Turn left at OR-201 S/Adrian Blvd (signs for Lake Owyhee)
0.6 mi
240. Turn left at Stringer Rd
0.5 mi
241. Slight left toward OR-201 S/Succor Creek Hwy
1.0 mi
242. Turn left at OR-201 S/Succor Creek Hwy
0.6 mi
243. Continue onto Enterprise Ave
4.0 mi
244. Turn right at Lytle Blvd
11.3 mi
245. Continue onto Glenn St S
0.3 mi
246. Continue onto US-26 W/12th St/John Day Hwy
Continue to follow US-26 W/John Day Hwy

24.4 mi
247. Turn right at Malheur Reservoir Rd
1.4 mi
248. Malheur Reservoir Rd turns slightly right and becomes Willow Creek Rd
7.3 mi
249. Slight left to stay on Willow Creek Rd
5.7 mi
250. Continue onto Malheur City Rd
2.4 mi
251. Continue onto Mormon Basin Rd
1.0 mi
252. Turn left to stay on Mormon Basin Rd
2.2 mi
253. Turn left to stay on Mormon Basin Rd
1.5 mi
254. Continue onto Malheur Reservoir Rd
0.3 mi
255. Turn right to stay on Malheur Reservoir Rd
2.8 mi
256. Slight right at Pioneer Ln
0.5 mi
257. Slight left at Bridgeport Ln
0.6 mi
258. Turn left to stay on Bridgeport Ln
3.4 mi
259. Turn right at NFD Rd 1118 Rd
1.7 mi
260. Continue onto NFD Road 020 Rd
2.6 mi
261. Continue onto NFD Rd 1118 Rd
1.9 mi
262. Turn right at OR-245 N
8.2 mi
263. Turn right at OR-7 N/Sumpter Stage Hwy
Continue to follow OR-7 N

8.8 mi
264. Turn left at 3rd St
0.5 mi
265. Turn left at Washington Ave
0.4 mi
266. Continue onto 10th St
1.3 mi
267. Continue onto US-30 W/La Grande-Baker Hwy
Continue to follow US-30 W

17.6 mi
268. Turn right at 2nd St/La Grande-Baker Hwy
Continue to follow La Grande-Baker Hwy

18.1 mi
269. Turn right at Godley Rd
4.8 mi
270. Turn left at Gekeler Ln
0.8 mi
271. Continue onto Red Pepper Rd
1.5 mi
272. Turn left at OR-237 N/Cove Hwy
0.3 mi
273. Turn right at Carter Rd/Carter Ln
2.2 mi
274. Turn left at Booth Ln
0.5 mi
275. Turn right at Ruckman Rd
4.0 mi
276. Turn left at Alicel Ln
0.5 mi
277. Turn right at Speckhart Rd
1.0 mi
278. Turn right at Imbler Rd
3.0 mi
279. Turn left at Hull Ln
0.1 mi
280. Turn right at Esther Ave
0.5 mi
281. Turn left at Summerville Rd
3.2 mi
282. Turn right at Courtney Ln
469 ft
283. Turn left at Myers-Burnaugh Rd/Pumpkin Ridge Rd
Continue to follow Pumpkin Ridge Rd

0.5 mi
284. Continue onto Myers Rd
243 ft
285. Continue onto Pumpkin Ridge Rd
0.5 mi
286. Turn left at Myers Rd
3.0 mi
287. Turn right at Summerville Rd
1.3 mi
288. Turn left at OR-204 W/Weston-Elgin Hwy
22.1 mi
289. Slight right at Co 603 Rd/Lincoln Mountain Rd
Continue to follow Co 603 Rd

7.4 mi
290. Continue onto Linton Mountain Rd
4.4 mi
291. Turn left at Walla Walla River Rd
0.3 mi
292. Turn right to stay on Walla Walla River Rd
3.0 mi
293. Continue onto SE 15th Ave
0.3 mi
294. Turn right at S Main St
0.1 mi
295. Continue onto Oregon-Washington Hwy/State Hwy 11
102 ft
296. Turn right at S Main St
1.1 mi
297. Turn left at E Broadway Ave
0.3 mi
298. Turn left at W Broadway Ave
0.2 mi
299. Turn right at Poplar St
0.1 mi
300. Continue onto Co 650 Rd/County Rd/NW Hodgen Rd
Continue to follow County Rd/NW Hodgen Rd

1.2 mi
301. Turn right at Co 517 Rd/County Rd
Continue to follow County Rd

1.8 mi
302. County Rd turns slightly right and becomes Barrett Rd/Edwards Rd/Hodgen Rd
1.0 mi
303. Continue onto Phillips Rd
2.2 mi
304. Turn right at Ringer Rd
0.3 mi
305. Turn left at Umapine Rd/Umapine-Stateline Rd
Continue to follow Umapine Rd

3.0 mi
306. Continue onto Stateline Rd
0.3 mi
307. Slight left at Co 700 Rd/Umapine
Continue to follow Umapine
Entering Washington

1.6 mi
308. Continue onto Co 700 Rd/Umapine-Stateline Rd
0.2 mi
309. Continue onto Stateline Rd
1.3 mi
310. Turn right at Burrows Rd
0.6 mi
311. Turn left at Gardena Rd
2.6 mi
312. Turn right at Jacobs Rd
0.6 mi
313. Turn left at Sand Pit Rd
0.6 mi
314. Turn right at Touchet-Gardena Rd
0.6 mi
315. Turn right at Mc Kay Rd
0.2 mi
316. Turn left at Walnut St
0.3 mi
317. Continue onto Touchet North Rd/Touchet River North Rd
1.1 mi
318. Turn left at Commins Rd
0.6 mi
319. Turn right at Ash Hollow Rd
5.9 mi
320. Slight right at Johnson Rd
0.4 mi
321. Continue onto Dodd Rd
0.8 mi
322. Turn left at Dodd Rd W
5.0 mi
323. Turn right toward E Humorist Rd
3.6 mi
324. Continue straight onto E Humorist Rd
5.9 mi
325. Slight right at US-12 E
2.9 mi
326. Turn left at E a St
4.0 mi
327. Turn left
2.0 mi
328. Turn left toward N Rd 88
2.5 mi
329. Turn right at N Rd 88
0.1 mi
330. Turn left at W Court St
2.1 mi
331. Turn right toward Columbia Point Dr
0.8 mi
332. Turn left toward Columbia Point Dr
56 ft
333. Turn left at Columbia Point Dr
0.6 mi
334. Turn right toward Bradley Blvd
0.2 mi
335. Continue straight onto Bradley Blvd
0.8 mi
336. Turn right at George Washington Way
0.5 mi
337. Turn left at Newton St
384 ft
338. Turn right at Jadwin Ave
2.2 mi
339. Continue straight onto WA-240 W
28.8 mi
340. Continue straight onto WA-24 E
5.4 mi
341. Continue onto WA-243 N
21.0 mi
342. Turn right at Rd 17 SW/Lower Crab Creek Rd SW
0.1 mi
343. Turn left at Main St
0.3 mi
344. Turn left at 1st Ave SW
125 ft
345. Turn left at John Wayne Pioneer Trail
2.7 mi
346. Turn left
459 ft
347. Turn right
0.6 mi
348. Turn right
0.4 mi
349. Slight left
0.3 mi
350. Slight left toward Iron Horse State Park/Iron Horse Trail/John Wayne Pioneer Trail/Old Milwaukee Rd Railroad Grde
1.0 mi
351. Turn right toward Iron Horse State Park/Iron Horse Trail/John Wayne Pioneer Trail/Old Milwaukee Rd Railroad Grde
272 ft
352. Turn left at Iron Horse State Park/Iron Horse Trail/John Wayne Pioneer Trail/Old Milwaukee Rd Railroad Grde
Continue to follow Iron Horse State Park

29.0 mi
353. Turn right at N Alder St
0.2 mi
354. Turn left at E 11th Ave
0.4 mi
355. Turn left at N Walnut St
223 ft
356. Turn right at Iron Horse Trail/John Wayne Pioneer Trail/Old Milwaukee Rd Railroad Grde
Continue to follow Old Milwaukee Rd Railroad Grde

25.4 mi
357. Turn right at 4th St/S Cle Elum Way/Lower Peoh Point Rd
59 ft
358. Turn left at Garfield Pl/Iron Horse State Park/Iron Horse Trail State Park/Old Milwaukee Rd Railroad Grde
Continue to follow Iron Horse State Park

32.4 mi
359. Continue onto John Wayne Pioneer Trail
10.1 mi
360. Turn right toward SE Homestead Valley Rd
1.0 mi
361. Turn left at SE Homestead Valley Rd
1.7 mi
362. Turn left
246 ft
363. Slight left toward John Wayne Pioneer Trail
0.3 mi
364. Continue straight onto John Wayne Pioneer Trail
5.1 mi
365. Continue onto Cedar Falls Rd SE
0.5 mi
366. Slight right toward Snoqualmie Valley Trail
0.3 mi
367. Turn right toward Snoqualmie Valley Trail
115 ft
368. Turn left at Snoqualmie Valley Trail
0.6 mi
369. Turn right at Cedar Falls Rd
4.0 mi
370. Turn right to stay on Cedar Falls Rd
1.3 mi
371. Turn left to stay on Cedar Falls Rd
3.1 mi
372. Continue onto SE 216th Way
1.9 mi
373. Turn left at 276th Ave SE
203 ft
374. Turn right at SE 216th St
3.0 mi
375. Turn right at Maxwell Rd SE
0.3 mi
376. Turn left toward WA-169 N/SE Renton Maple Valley Rd
141 ft
377. Turn right at WA-169 N/SE Renton Maple Valley Rd
Continue to follow WA-169 N

7.9 mi
378. Turn left at 131st Ave SE
52 ft
379. Turn right at Cedar River Trail
1.8 mi
380. Slight left toward S 3rd St
0.2 mi
381. Turn right at S 3rd St
72 ft
382. S 3rd St turns right and becomes Mill Ave S
0.1 mi
383. Turn left at S 2nd St
0.3 mi
384. Slight right to stay on S 2nd St
0.3 mi
385. Turn right at Rainier Ave
3.8 mi
386. Turn right at Seward Park Ave S
0.4 mi
387. Slight left at Wabash Ave S
0.4 mi
388. Slight right at Rainier Ave
4.2 mi
389. Slight left to stay on Rainier Ave
1.1 mi
390. Turn left at S Jackson St
0.7 mi
391. Turn right at 2nd Avenue Extended S
0.2 mi
392. Turn left at Yesler Way
0.2 mi
393. Turn right at Alaskan Way
1.1 mi
394. Turn left
180 ft
395. Take the Victoria B.C. - Seattle ferry to Victoria
Entering Canada (British Columbia)

82.0 mi
396. Take the Victoria, BC - Bellingham, WA ferry to Bellingham
Entering United States (Washington)

57.6 mi
397. Take the Bellingham - Ketchikan ferry to Ketchikan
Entering Alaska

662 mi
398. Take the Juneau - Ketchikan ferry to Juneau
282 mi
399. Continue straight
325 ft
400. Turn right toward Glacier Hwy
213 ft
401. Turn right at Glacier Hwy
3.9 mi
402. Slight right to stay on Glacier Hwy
472 ft
403. Continue onto AK-7/Egan Dr 8.0 mi
404. Turn left at Highland Dr 335 ft
405. Turn right at Glacier Ave 0.4 mi
406. Turn left at W 9th St 348 ft

Juneau, AK

May Mix

2010-05-26T12:00:00.003-05:00

1. Jesus Is My Everything: Rev. McGhee
2. Shimmy She Wobble: Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife And Drum Band
3. iii: Neokarma Jooklo Trio
4. Excitium (Litany of the Devouring Earth): Nightbringer
5. Reaping Death: Watain
6. I'm Happy: Hasil Adkins
7. Anyi: T++
8. Country Girl Blues: George Boldwin
9. Arkestry: Flying Lotus
10. The Great Medicine Dance: Love Cry Want
11. gOth bb: †‡†
12. The Inner Caligula: Coffinworm
13. Day Forty: Dead Fathers Wading In the Bodygrounds: Trap Them
14. Blues Without A Dime: Clifford Gibson
15. Colorado Girl: Townes Van Zandt

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2010-05-25T21:20:00.001-05:00

Saltgrass Saltgrass

2010-05-25T11:38:00.001-05:00

The new issue of Saltgrass is available:

Lisa Jarnot, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Natalie Lyalin, Sandra Simonds, Laura Eve Engel, Tristan Tzara (translated by Heather Green), Gabe Durham, Maged Zaher, Jennifer Denrow, Catherine Meng, J. Boyer and Mark Yakich.

You can order a print copy on the website: www.saltgrassjournal.blogspot.com
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This Wednesday in Downtown Denver: Support New Mexico Indigenous Leaders in Protesting the Expansion of Uranium Mining

2010-05-25T02:00:00.002-05:00

Support New Mexico Indigenous Leaders in Protesting the Expansion of Uranium Mining and the Nuclear Cycle of Destruction

Demand a Clean Up of This Toxic Legacy and Respect for Sacred Lands

Wednesday, May 26, Noon
Grand Hyatt Hotel
1750 Welton Street, Denver, Colorado

On May 25-27 a delegation of Navajo community leaders will come to Denver to protest US Government support for expanding the nuclear industry that has already had a devastating impact on Native American and Chicano communities in New Mexico.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the National Mining Association will host a “Uranium Recovery” conference designed to make it easier for mining companies to move forward with a new era of uranium mining.

When the uranium boom ended over thirty years ago, mining companies skipped town and left New Mexico with a devastating legacy of sick communities—including high rates of cancers, respiratory diseases, reproductive disorders and miscarriages. They also left contaminated water, soil, and air. There are still hundreds of abandoned uranium mines in New Mexico, largely located on Navajo land and Pueblo lands, and state and federal agencies are only now beginning to inventory those mines and begin the cleanup process.

The Wild World of Hasil "Haze" Adkins

2010-05-24T15:18:00.001-05:00

Madison

2010-05-24T03:26:00.004-05:00