I gave a talk at a university on reading before I did a reading (no pressure–a privilege to do (thank you, Lucy Biederman (author of Walmart Book of the Dead) for the invitation)). I spent most of my time on why reading out loud is important. Yr thoughts?… Read More
// been hoping to record more The Cowards but need to work some things further. in the meanwhile, Wendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction blew me away. The poem “From Santa Rita 128-131,” the transcription of being w/ppl in struggle. “Brazilian Is Not a Race” too–thinking through variegations, agons… Read More
Crude Intimacies, Gelare Khoshgozaran’s risograph of objects made from oil byproducts was commissioned by Hostile Books. Crude Intimacies is a companion to Khoshgozaran’s video installation, Crude. I’m part of Hostile Books but all the HB work on this one was done by Ryan Kaveh Sheldon. And… Read More
a year late
Got a new poem in a new zine–Dan McKeon & Emma Guilfoyle’s Pretty Cool Poetry Thing. It will cost you 26 dollars less than a print issue of McSweeney’s ($2). It is priced for the ppl. The poem is about love. What does it say about… Read More
Context: “The Conditions of Labor in China.“
The belts that shot boxes full of commodities into our gravitational fields have cooled down and hopefully the workers by those belts are getting a break and you are throwing away some boxes. On December 23rd, Poetry Daily reprinted my poem “Amnesia, 2007 / Nightshift,… Read More
