No More Cheap Shots at Billy The Kid Collins Press

Ok, just one last one. Then, no more. Promise.

"I was moved by these poetic gems of death, devotion, and house renovation. Too bad God is lame."--Billy Collins

"Don't you really like my Billy Collins quotes?"--Billy Collins

"The thing about Billy Collins is you never really know what the fuck he's talking about- it's that complicated." --Billy Collins

"Actually, the thing about Billy Collins is that we know all too well."--Some Better Poet Currently Writing Better Poetry

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Ok, I'm done.

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Dear Readers & Friends,
The first paper edition of Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal is now available for
pre-orders and will ship in late November.
(Online issues will continueunabated--Spring '08 will be guest-edited by Bhanu Kapil.) T

ARPAULIN SKY JOURNAL Issue #13
$12 includes shipping in the US($6 for contributors to the issue)http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/index.html Featuring new work by 52 contributors: Rosa Alcalá / Samuel Amadon / Lucy Anderton / Claire Becker / Cara Benson / Ilya Bernstein / Joseph Bradshaw / Popahna Brandes / Daniel Brenner / Lily Brown / Julie Carr / Laura Carter / Jon Christensen / Heather Christle / John Cotter & Shafer Hall / Patrick Culliton / John Deming / Sean Thomas Dougherty / Danielle Dutton / Sandy Florian / Hillary Gravendyk / Annie Guthrie / Brent Hendricks / Anna Maria Hong / John Hyland / Lucy Ives / Karla Kelsey / Steve Langan / Barbara Maloutas / Sarah Mangold / Justin Marks / Teresa K. Miller / Jefferson Navicky / Bryson Newhart / Nadia Nurhussein / Thomas O'Connell / Caryl Pagel / Nate Pritts / Elizabeth Robinson / F. Daniel Rzicznek / Spencer Selby / Brandon Shimoda / Lytton Smith / Sampson Starkweather / Mathias Svalina / Jen Tynes / Prabhakar Vasan / Della Watson / Theodore Worozbyt / Bethany Wright / Kristen Yawitz

Pretty exciting. I bolded some of the poems I'm already excited to read. Prolly everyone else's work will blow my mind onto my wallpaper as well. Yay. I mean, Ew.

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This Saturday:

BATTLE HILL POETRY FESTIVAL AT THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13, 2007 7PM
Green-Wood Chapel
25th street Entrance of Green-Wood Cemetery (25th street/5th avenue in South Slope-Green Wood Hts)
R train to 25th Street, walk up the hill one block from subway
ADMISSISON: $5-10 SLIDING SCALE
RSVP at battlehillfestival@gmail.com

Over 20 poets will read & local blues musician Bennett Harris will play during the refreshment breaks.

bernadette mayer
brenda coultas
jennifer coleman
jim behrle
megan burns
jessica fiorini
julie reid
philip good
dave brinks
brett evans
karen weiser
ce putnam
lauren claire ireland
anna moschovakis
shafer hall
macgregor card
genya turovskaya
anselm berrigan
joe elliot
gina myers
brendan lorber
allison cobb
todd colby
edmund berrigan
etc etc

Cool. I'm going to go for an hour or two.

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I am totally wearing a dress.

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I got new sheets, as I said I would. Except they are green, not pink. The pink ones were completely lame and I couldn't justify buying them not to mention they made me feel a little pervy. So the green- which matches my blanket anyways. I swept my floor and put all my summer dresses away, which was sort of sad. I was sitting on my couch and said outloud, "Well, I guess summer's over" and MF stopped eating a brownie and said, "Dude, it's mid-October."

Self-observation: There are some seasons I am aesthetically made for but not thermally made for.

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Come to my reading tonight?

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Ok, I still am planning on posting Merrill excerpts I like. To Come.

When I used to get really stressed out as a kid about certain things I just wasn't getting done and I'd think back over the previous few days to see how I could have organized something differently in order to have accomplished what I wanted to, my Mom would say, "Sometimes life just gets in the way, Julesy." And sometimes that's true. I mean, we always have to be aware of our own culpability/responsibility- but sometimes unforseen things pop up that really do take priority over whatever you had slotted at the top of your To Do List.

Yep.