Friday, September 16, 2005

 

The intarweb will be installed at my apartment tomorrow. Huzzah!

Editing work on Abecedarium procedes. Here is where I stand now--

Good poems: A, D, F, G, I, J, K, L, M, P, Q, R, W, X, Y
Bad poems: B, E, N, S, T, Z
Indifferent poems: C, H, O, U, V

I have but indifferent success with vowels.

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Thursday, September 15, 2005

 

Work is coming along on Abecedarium, my totally School-of-Quietude chapbook of alphabetized poems. In the meantime, here's

The Poetic Fragment of the Day

"the feathers they forfeit fall as snow in Minnesota."

--Judith Bishop, "The Birds reported from the South"

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

 

I am now a big ol' corporate lawyer. This means that I have money and very little else. In order to obtain some things other than money, I am willing to exchange the money for subscriptions to journals. Here is my just-off-the-top-of-my-head list of things to subscribe to . . . have you any suggested additions?

effing press
ugly duckling presse
The Canary
The Hat
The Tiny
Magazine Cypress
Lungfull!

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Since moving here, I read all my poetry on trains. And I write in in bed, just before the zzzzz sets in. And now, from this morning's trackbound homilies . . .

The Poetic Fragment of the Day:

I can smell your pancakes/and I will take them away from you.

--Joshua Beckman, "Leave New York"

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

 

Today, on my way to work, I stopped to talk to a huge slug that was placidly sliming its way over the brick walks of Capitol Hill.

"Oh, slug, you're AWESOME!"

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Reading . . .

Verse (The Second Decade)
John Coletti -- Physical Kind
Mark Lamoureux -- FilmPoems
Harry Matthews -- Twenty Lines a Day
Bryan Dietrich -- Krypton Nights

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Shafer Hall tells you things you cannot repeat at No Tell Motel this week.

And lookee here -- Kaplan Harris, the host of the Ruthless Grip series, has a blog!

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Monday, September 12, 2005

 

Thanks to everyone who came out to the tiny reading on Saturday night, and thanks to all the other readers -- it was great seeing all of you guys down here in DC! The Washington Printmaker's Gallery, where the reading was held, is a really lovely space looking out over Connecticut Ave, just north of Dupont Circle -- even though I've lived in DC before, I never knew it was there. The reading was very well attended and I got to meet some of the DC poetry people, including Reb Livingston, who until Saturday had been merely an internet phenomenon for me. The rest of my weekend was devoted to assembling (and in some cases destroying) cheap furniture from Target and trying out the restaurants in my new neighborhood. A good time all around. Viva la poetry and viva DC!

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