The Baltimore City Paper critically picked the Literary Death Match (pitting Jen Michalski against Mike Young and Dave Housley against Michael Hughes) as THE place to be Saturday night.
Go to the WindUp space at like 8pm and root for Mike Young. MIKE YOUNG MIKE YOUNG MIKE YOUNG.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Justin's Poem About Our Trip to AWP
DENVER
RAZOR SCOOTERS
DUST JACKETS
POEM FRATS
PIZZA
FLORENCE
iPADDY CAKES
CHAPBOOBS
MORE PIZZA
FREE SNEAKERS
I am omitting one.
Friday, January 22, 2010
My Life on a Postcard
Michael Kimball wrote my life story on a postcard a while ago. It's pretty good. I think he nailed all the important details. You can read it, again and again, here.
To clarify the porta potty thing, I went to a Christian rock festival to see Guardian and found out that DC Talk was playing the next day. I wanted to see them play but didn't have enough 14-year-old money to pay the admission fee twice, so I hid out overnight in a pretty new, pretty unused Johnny-on-the-Spot.
Hey, you should buy my book.
To clarify the porta potty thing, I went to a Christian rock festival to see Guardian and found out that DC Talk was playing the next day. I wanted to see them play but didn't have enough 14-year-old money to pay the admission fee twice, so I hid out overnight in a pretty new, pretty unused Johnny-on-the-Spot.
Hey, you should buy my book.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Ric Royer at Everyday Genius
The thing Ric Royer wrote for Everyday Genius is pretty funny.
http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010/01/ric-royer.html
http://www.everyday-genius.com/2010/01/ric-royer.html
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Eat When You Feel Sad by Zachary German
I'm very happy to have a 22-second video of me at http://www.eatwhenyoufeelsad.com/, which is the website Zachary German put together for his book, Eat When You Feel Sad.
In the video, I eat and sing "Desperado."
In the video, I eat and sing "Desperado."
Friday, January 08, 2010
MLKNG SCKLS by Justin Sirois -- Redux
MLKNG SCKLS sold out and Justin Sirois redesigned his book for a second printing:
The picture is by an artist named Connor Willumsen.
The picture is by an artist named Connor Willumsen.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Third printing of Jello Horse
The third printing of Matthew Simmons's novella, A Jello Horse, has been received and is now shipping from both PG and SPD.
To mark the occasion, the excellent Michael Kimball has re-posted Matthew's Postcard Life Story. It's worth a look!
To mark the occasion, the excellent Michael Kimball has re-posted Matthew's Postcard Life Story. It's worth a look!
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Interview with me and Mary Miller and Joe Young
Joe Young interviewed Mary Miller and me for JMWW. Read it here. It was a wild experience, because we used a web program called Etherpad, which is like chatting but you can see everyone else typing, and you can edit what they write as they are writing it. It's very similar to Google Wave, but I think better (it's faster and less buggy).
Anyway, we got a little crazy and changed words on each other and it was distracting. Which is to say it's not the most probing interview in the world, but it reads fast and is funny. I would like to do this kind of interview again. The best thing about the format is that you don't have time to be self-conscious.
If, after reading the interview, anyone should want a review copy of Adam Robison and Other Poems, let me know by email. adamrobinson at gmail.
Anyway, we got a little crazy and changed words on each other and it was distracting. Which is to say it's not the most probing interview in the world, but it reads fast and is funny. I would like to do this kind of interview again. The best thing about the format is that you don't have time to be self-conscious.
If, after reading the interview, anyone should want a review copy of Adam Robison and Other Poems, let me know by email. adamrobinson at gmail.
Monday, January 04, 2010
Everyday Genius, December into January
December is over and Sasha Fletcher put together an amazing month. That Daniel Bailey piece we ended with? Just fantastic. A perfect ending to the story and to the year, right? I even think of 2009 as the chewed off leg, wrapped bloody in a tee shirt, carried with love and a big, big song like "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." I'm just like, wow, what a thing to wrap up PG's fourth quarter.
Nice work, Bailey. Nice work, Fletcher.
Speaking of ghost legs, the Kathryn Regina poem -- short, with a striking simile (which is not, in this poem, a dream but an actuality) -- is another favorite. It resonates with me.
Plus, I was thrilled to get to publish people I've admired but not received submissions from before, like Carl Annarummo, whose name isn't too hard to spell once you figure it out. And Rozalia Jovanovic (likewise with the spelling). Those are both double duty submissions.
So much goodness. Sasha Fletcher created a month of uniform quality, and I'm sincerely grateful to him and the authors who lent us their work. I'm already looking forward to the archives.
It strikes me that have been many similarities from month to month, but still each editor has created a fairly distinctive flavor. Sometime I would like to pore over the archives and trace this out a bit. But for now let me diverge just to say that: whoa, January is going to MESSED UP.
Lauren Bender, who lives in Baltimore, is 1/3 of my publisher, and is AWESOME, has put together a collection of some really beautiful work. Take the first thing posted this year, for example: Adam Trowbridge's "The Goat Said" is a complicated and inviting combination of text and image. It's something to look at deeply and shallowly and widely and narrowly. (NOTE: because I was on a ski trip, Adam's piece didn't get posted until this morning. So please do take a look, as it's likely to have been missed. I'm sorry about that.) (But the skiing was fun.)
What the heck is the thing we have today? I don't know. It's a picture by Alex Epstein, and it looks great. I like Bender's image-centric literary eye. I find it very fitting for a literary publisher who's first book was a collection of drawings.
There is a lot more to come, a lot of it images, all of it awesome. Check in every day, genius.
Nice work, Bailey. Nice work, Fletcher.
Speaking of ghost legs, the Kathryn Regina poem -- short, with a striking simile (which is not, in this poem, a dream but an actuality) -- is another favorite. It resonates with me.
Plus, I was thrilled to get to publish people I've admired but not received submissions from before, like Carl Annarummo, whose name isn't too hard to spell once you figure it out. And Rozalia Jovanovic (likewise with the spelling). Those are both double duty submissions.
So much goodness. Sasha Fletcher created a month of uniform quality, and I'm sincerely grateful to him and the authors who lent us their work. I'm already looking forward to the archives.
It strikes me that have been many similarities from month to month, but still each editor has created a fairly distinctive flavor. Sometime I would like to pore over the archives and trace this out a bit. But for now let me diverge just to say that: whoa, January is going to MESSED UP.
Lauren Bender, who lives in Baltimore, is 1/3 of my publisher, and is AWESOME, has put together a collection of some really beautiful work. Take the first thing posted this year, for example: Adam Trowbridge's "The Goat Said" is a complicated and inviting combination of text and image. It's something to look at deeply and shallowly and widely and narrowly. (NOTE: because I was on a ski trip, Adam's piece didn't get posted until this morning. So please do take a look, as it's likely to have been missed. I'm sorry about that.) (But the skiing was fun.)
What the heck is the thing we have today? I don't know. It's a picture by Alex Epstein, and it looks great. I like Bender's image-centric literary eye. I find it very fitting for a literary publisher who's first book was a collection of drawings.
There is a lot more to come, a lot of it images, all of it awesome. Check in every day, genius.
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