Disease Daycare Press

I was walking to the park & I passed a little boy holding a bag of Gold Fish and he said to the little girl that was sitting in the grass, "we can bury your scar." I swear to the heavens that is exactly what he said. The little girl looked happy about it, like they had a plan. But I kept walking & didn't catch the rest of the conversation.

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Sometimes when I am biking I think about what weird objects I'm biking over. I usually bike the same path to DU so I like to pay attention to how the objects shift depending on the week, season etc. One week, I mostly biked over plastic spoons. I think workmen had been eating lunch in the back of their trucks. One week I biked over so many baby toys, like pacifiers and teething rings. What do you bike over?

Sometimes when I bike by myself I ask myself questions:

What song is good?

Do I know the exact definition of sidereal (of or with respect to the distant stars)? Why can't I ever pronounce this word correctly? Isn't it nice how Ed Dorn uses the phrase 'outsidereal"?

How many ways can the same thing be sustained? When should it not be sustained at all?

Why do I like names that end in o? Like Otto and Bruno and eskimo?

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I had fake meatballs and real pasta last night for dinner. When I was cooking the faux meatballs, they really smelled like meat. I felt like I was cooking something that shouldn't be cooked in my house. But then M and I ate them and they were delicious.

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There are a lot of books and chapbooks that have just released. I will tell you about them tomorrow. Right now I need to take a shower and get to campus.

The Panic of My Wilderness Press

What's been going on with you? I've been busy losing money in poker.

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I'm writing some poems in Denver now. For a while I wasn't. I wasn't feeling bad about it, or that frustrated, or nervous about a loss of creativity or some bs. But I realized that until I actually started writing poems in Denver, I sort of felt like I wasn't immersed here as I should be. Well, that's not exactly what I mean. But I felt ungrounded, or without justification. Well, what I mean is: I look back on different parts of my life, like deciding to go to Wesleyan or deciding to move to NY or deciding to get a cursed MFA at New School and I don't regret these decisions usually for two main reasons: because of the friends I made (shut up, I'm not being corny) and because of the poems I wrote in those specific locations, which would not have been generated in any other place. I'm started to feel that here, in Denver, and at DU. That what I'm reading and the conversations I'm having/hearing, because I am here, is infused in the poems I'm writing. And it feels good. That's all. Because you can't regret writing.

Not that I want to undo anything here. Because today I proofread the new issue of the DQ, I baked brownies, napped with M, and I took the pup to the park.

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I will, however, be in NYC next week/end. I hope you can come to Ugly Duckling Presse's 6x6 event that I'm reading at Thurs, Nov 19th. I will even wear a dress, evem. For you.

I will have the pleasure of reading with: Maureen Thorson, Lee Norton, John Surowiecki, John High, & John Coletti.

Thursday, Nov 19, at 7:30pm
Presenting readings from 6X6 magazine
at Shelton Walsmith's Studio
267 Douglass St. (at Third Ave.), Brooklyn (map)
Free
(just take the 2/3/4/5/R/N to Atlantic Pacific in Brooklyn)

So come, okay? We can all hug each other.

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Yesterday I read a poem that referenced Cory Matthews from the TV show of the 90s Boy Meets World. And then I thought "Did my ex from college look like Cory?" This is Ben Savage (Fred Savage's younger brother), who played Cory:


Ok, this is the ex (middle person):


Do you see the resemblance?
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What movie stars DMX, NAS, and Method Man?

What movie starts with a robbery and an acapella version of "Back to Life" by Soul II Soul?

Oh yes, Belly.

Since I had questionable taste in friends my freshman year of college, I have seen the intro to Belly maybe 15 times:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCzgG_jTo4
Seriously, you should watch the intro.

Glass Stones, Glass House, Glass Boy Press

I Try To Grow Fur Over This Elasticity Press

Just a typical night in Denver, really:

Dancing Man Wearing Horse Mask Cooks Mushrooms Press

This might be the weirdest thing I've seen on youtube:

If Every Angel's Terrible Then Why Do You Welcome Them Press

This is so funny to me. Is it funny to you what these girls are doing to Cocorosie?:

I feel like I just won something.

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Here is a live song of Terrible Angel:

This song reminds me of Philly. It reminds me of getting my heart broken and watching it fall into my tea cup, and then swallowing it back down again, and then going to sleep knowing that the next day I would feel an inch better than the night before. It reminds of looking at little wooden toys and boxes before closing my eyes.

Of house plants getting dusty.

This Cocorosie song, too:

Although unlike the lyrics, I don't want to be anyone's housewife.

Candy Vs Candy Press

I've been trying to work on/expand what is potentially the 4th section of my new manuscript, in it's infant stages. So, I've been reading these books to water my brain-plants this afternoon, as the snow continues:

Kate Greenstreet, The Last 4 Things
Joshua Clover, The Totality for Kids
Graham Foust, As In Every Deafness
Jed Rasula, Syncopations

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So many new things exist now just for you!

You should let Dan Hoy tell you what's up with the world. His chapbook Glory Hole, out from Mal-O-Mar Press; it's vicious. This tight collection also comes with John Leon's The Hot Tub:


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Justin Marks is a featured poet on Tusculum Review and has an interview up at Rauan Klassnik's blog.

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CA Conrad is interviewed by Eileen Myles at the Poetry Foundation.

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On Nov 1st (tomorrow):

the launch of 2nd Avenue Poetry’s* Inaugural Print Chapbook Series**
The Filipino Exiled Poet Channels Montgomery Clift and Other Poems by R. ZAMORA LINMARK
Poetry Barn Barn! (That let it roll where you want it.) by JILL MAGI

5 pm @ Unnameable Books (in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)
600 Vanderbilt Ave (between Dean St & St Marks Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11238

the event is FREE & open to the public

R. ZAMORA "Zack" LINMARK is the author of the novel Rolling The R's, which he's adapted for the stage, and two collections of poetry, Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of a Sigh. He's also completed his second novel, Leche, and a new play, But, Beautiful. He currently lives in Manila, where he is at work on his third collection of poetry and a novel.

JILL MAGI works in text and image and is the author of SLOT (forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse), Threads (Futurepoem), Torchwood (Shearsman), and Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). She teaches at Eugene Lang, City, and Goddard Colleges, and runs Sona Books, a chapbook press, from her apartment in Brooklyn, New York.