Hey, I’m doing some readings this week. Thursday, June 21 @ 7 | Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop | w/Jill Magi & Marty Cain. Driving w/Marty. Looking forward to talking w/Jill. Labor is an important book to me. FB Stuff. Info for the Detroit reading above. It’s a… Read More
Edric Mesmer flies under the radar online (by choice, I think) and is omnipresent in Buffalo as a poet, curator, archivist, and kind human. I was flush w/happyness to be part of his chapette series–the Buffalo Ochre Papers. I’d stuck around long enough to be… Read More
(Jake’s Book & Claire Donato’s Work) This leg of my readings for Someone’s Utopia is LOBSTER UTOPIA. I’ll be cavorting w/Jake Reber through the Northeast, hoping to hear Jake read as extensively as possible from the gospel of Lobster Genesis. TOUR LEG: LOBSTER UTOPIA Washington, DC May 20 |… Read More
Someone’s Utopia, my new book of poems released April 1st. This comes w/relief in finally seeing the end of a ten year long process and deep gratitude for all those in Buffalo and at Black Ocean who helped these poems get to where they could… Read More
Day 10: Portsmouth Where I woke. Jeremiah showed us his printing studio and the ocean. Carrie & I read for the fourth and last time in four days. Carrie gave a devastating reading of her short sequence “Pandora’s Star Box.” Word and voice, tenor and… Read More
Day 7: New York / Earshot I drove across New York. And parked at Mike & Loren’s. I did a reading that PBJ, Gregory, & Jillian graciously set up. Incredibly, I ran into Noah F on the street before the reading. Jen found us. I… Read More
Noah Falck set up a book release party for me at silo city in Buffalo. It will hopefully become something called The Silo City Reading Series.Silo City is a whole lot of brutalist industrial living decay on the Buffalo River. The care taker, Sewannee Jim… Read More
