Current Issue
VOLUME 42 NUMBER 2, YEAR 2008
With such contributors as Sam Amadon, Mark Lamoureux, Janaka Stucky, Cole Swensen, Rosemarie Waldrop, Mark Yakich. They havent' posted the Table of Contents yet so that's all the energy I have to type up some names, but you can go to: http://www.denverquarterly.com/
I'm excited to read the essays & poetry this weekend.
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Shafer Hall. I have his grey hoodie and I'm holding it ransom unless he sings some bluegrass on Saturday, like his own rendition of Shady Grove. Joanna is aghast that I would threaten with ransom, she makes this face:
Actually, to get the hoodie back he can also sing either a Journey song or a The Band song. Of his choosing. I think this is a very doable ransom, I mean, if you want this hoodie back. Alive:
See you all at Pete's Candy Store this Saturday. Mr. Hall will be reading from "Never Cry Woof," his first collection. Billy Collins endorses it, "Doing great things with words, horizontally."
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So I went to that George Saunders, Zadie Smith, Miranda July reading on Wednesday. It was energized. I hardly go to fiction readings and all the money went to this children's literacy organization NYC826 http://www.826nyc.org/. Very cool.
I've never been to a large reading with such a young, hip, crowd. Everyone was sleek and slightly asymmetrical in that stunning sort of way. Anyways, the friend I went to the reading with is reading the same book I am so we talked about the article on face blindness in The 2007 Best Science Writing and took the subway home to Brooklyn:
What up, it's Friday:
You're such a punk. Yes, you.
Clovefield here I come.
6 comments:
Alex Battles is the captain of the mystery music ship. I can tell you that I will almost certainly sing a funny song about whisky, and I may well sing Ain't Got No Home. Woo ooh ooh woo ooh ooh ooh woo ooh.
hmm, i'm not sure if that counts as following the ransom note. maybe you will only get the hood of your hoodie this time.
that poster behind you in the photo on the subway is part ofmy handy work at work.
well, we hired an angency to do that. but i helped incorporate it onto the web site, damn it!
PB, I'm not sure if that's something you should brag about. Oh, now I feel bad and will go eat my weight in "points." Wait, let me start again:
Your presence is everywhere, Poetry Bear.
Thank you, Weight Watchers.
i'm offended that you included journey and the band in the same sentence.
very.
very.
offended.
Ubiquity is the bear
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