Three Months

...is a long time to go post-less. I will begin updating on Fridays. I've got to believe I have at least that much going on. I've got to.


Here's a placeholder in the meantime:

Form & Content Reading, June 12

Friday, June 12, 7 PM

Poems by
Paula Cisewski
Laressa Dickey
Sarah Fox
Rachel Moritz
Sun Yung Shin

Form and Content Gallery
210 N.2nd Street
Minneapolis

2 for 1 Black Ocean Fun!

Black Ocean is having a Spring Cleaning Sale!

We here at Black Ocean are firm believers in the old Bible saying that goes: “make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.” So in keeping with our inward ravening and wicked ways we’re having a Spring Cleaning Sale!

Beginning at 12:00 AM on Monday (5/11), through 11:59 PM on Sunday (5/17), any purchase of one of With Deer by Aase Berg (trans. by Johannes Göransson) will get a FREE COPY of Upon Arrival by Paula Cisewski. Paula’s second book, Ghost Fargo, was just chosen by Franz Wright for the 2008 Nightboat Poetry Prize and we thought this would be a good opportunity for those of you unfamiliar with her work to get better acquainted. Also, if you haven't checked out With Deer yet, then you're simply missing out on the best nightmare you never had. Think of this sale as a way for us to pair the grotesque with the unusual, and stick them both in your beach bag for summer reading. It's worth mentioning that, as always,all our orders automatically come with free shipping!

Beginning the week of 5/18 we’ll be pairing Joshua Harmon’s fantastic debut collection, Scape, with Carrie Olivia Adams’ A Useless Window. Stay atuned to the sublime blogosphere for those details next weekend.

Reading this very Saturday!

National Stripmall Month

I don't know... I have this series of existing things running through my mind that will never need to have a month dedicated to them.

National Animated Sitcom Month

It's not very smart or clever, it's just ongoing as I go about my business during National Poetry Month. Can't help it.

National American Idol Month

Do you think anybody who doesn't write poetry actually reads more poetry in April and likes it from then on?

National Professional Athlete Month
National Hair Highlights Month

Maybe somebody does. That would be cool. In any case, I am trying the NaPoWriMo excercise again this time. It didn't work for me the only other time I tried because I tried to use somebody else's writing prompts. I felt like a disappointment when they didn't work for me.

National Action Hero Month

And I won't subject anybody to the drafts as they come; that seems too much pressure, but hopefully I'll have something to report by month's end.

Pleeeease Can You Help Me Find A Book?

When I was a tot, a picture book I loved so dearly was The Witch Who Lived Next Door. I have looked high and low for a copy and cannot find this book anywhere. Have you seen it? Do you own it? If you run across a copy in a used bookstore, can you alert me immediately?

Two Museums

I'm excited about my new chapbook, Two Museums, which is freshly out from MaCaHu Press. The cover design by Ms. Mary Behm-Steinberg is exquisitely creepy and perfect for the project. When I have some links I will put them right here, yes I will. MaCaHu has published some other lovely chaps and I'm proud to be on board.