Who Made My Funky Monkey's Coat? Press

For the last few days I've been eyeing Gertrude Stein's Lectures in America. I was a little afraid of it, I felt like this:

Then I finally started reading it tonight. I like these lines in particular from the first lecture:

“...the choice the choice was the thing.”

“…when the confusion comes from the inside then it is a very confused confusion because it is a confusion inside the daily island life.”

“...and words had everything to do with it.”

“...the words have the liveliness of being constantly chosen.”

GS knows what's up.

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TYPO 14 is born:

http://www.typomag.com/issue14/

MAUREEN ALSOP
ANDREA BAKER
SOMMER BROWNING
J. BRAXTON COOPER
DANIEL COUDRIET
BRIAN FOLEY
MELANIE HUBBARD
CHRISTOPHER JANKE
ALEX LEMON
SHANE MCCRAE
ANTHONY MADRID
ERIN LYNDAL MARTIN
WILLIAM OLSEN
ANNE MARIE ROONEY
TOMA? ?ALAMUN
ANNE SHAW
MICHAEL SIKKEMA
LAURA SIMS
CATHERINE THEIS
BRENNEN WYSONG

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I'm excited that I'll be in town for this:

POPSICKLE 2010 unites Brooklyn’s literary curators for a two-day festival of readings, performances and screenings. The festival will take place on July 24th and 25th, from 3-8 PM on Saturday July 24th & 1-5 PM on Sunday July 25th.

POPSICKLE will take place at Bushwick’s beloved MARKET HOTEL at 1142 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn.

Readers for the Festival include:

Ben Fama, Brett Price & Dani Leventhal, Carter Edwards, Dan Magers, Eddie Hopely, Emily Pettit, Evan Burton, Gina Abelkop, James Copeland, Joshua Mehigan, Lauren, Russell, Leigh Stein, Marc Nasdor, Michael Barron, Natalie Lyalin, Nicole Trigg, Paige Taggart, Timothy Donnelly and more.

Curated by the series organizers of the following: Body Actualized Control, The Bushwick Reading Series, CROWD, POETRY Time at SPACE SPACE, STAIN, and SUPERMACHINE.

Show up on July 24th and 25 for Bushwick’s first monster literary festival, and visit http://popsicklefestival.blogspot.com/ for updates.

Morphology of Folktales Press

I like this poem by Emily Pettit at Open Letters Monthly.

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Can I put my words inside of you?

Have you met the mother vine?

What spoils?

Of Things That Try To Leave Press

The new issue of Trickhouse is up. So you must read/look at it:

visual artists: Saskia Jorda, Alexandra Eldridge, Julie Comnick
writers: Greg Howard, Cynthia Hogue, Merrill Cole
guest curator: Maggie Golston
sound: John Dennis of Tarbox
video: Kerri Rosenstein
correspondent: Iain Clark from Paddy's Market, Glasgow Scotland
interview: Unnamed with TC Tolbert
experiment: Danielle Vogel & Joan Dickinson

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I'm at Naropa right now taking a workshop with Laynie Brown called inFORMal excursions. Gunna write me some weird sonnets.