Photos That Mean Something To This Whole Chapbook Thing or Maybe Not

Our book likes to learn!

Our book googles "peanut butter!"
Our book is an ace!
Our book hangs out with goats!
Here are some amazing drawings about the inspiration behind my poems!

STALE CHAMPAGNE for your New Year

Artistically Declined Press released my chapbook, Stale Champagne, as part of their PDF series. I'd love it if you read it. Big thanks to Ryan W. Bradley for his work on the thing and to State Champion for their rad album of the same title, which was such a mega inspiration for these poems. THANKS EVERYONE WHO EVER CARES EVER

TELL ME YOU'VE GOT GOOD NEWS

I'm so stoked to say what's up to my chapbook, TELL ME YOU'VE GOT GOOD NEWS, out from H_NGM_N online and free right now. HERE GO LOOK. MEGA THANKS to Nate Pritts for the editorial goodness, Layne Ransom for the nice cover and support, and Todd McKinney for guiding me through this weird journey of poetry.

I HOPE YOU DON'T HATE IT BUT IT'S OKAY IF YOU DO

The O Mission Repo: Time by Travis Macdonald

Stoked Press's next release, The O Mission Repo: Time by Travis Macdonald, is available for preorder at the Stoked site. It's an incredible erasure and I personally assembled these things, classified document style. Pictures and such up on the blog. It'd be neat if you bought one.

THREE OF MY THINGS I'M SO STOKED ABOUT

The rad dude Nick Sturm asked my buds Christopher Newgent and Layne Ransom to come read at the Big Big Mess Reading Series he does. WE SAID YES DUH.


This is the cover for my PDF chapbook from Artistically Declined Press, due out at the end of the month. It's this long poem thing that I wrote when I was going through my divorce and listening to State Champion's "Stale Champagne" album a lot.


This is the cover for my chapbook from H_NGM_N Books, due out mid-December. It's a bunch of poems that I did as an independent study with Todd McKinney my senior year at Ball State.

The Jackalope Wars: The E-book

I'm really happy to have said that the limited edition print run of Jeremy Bauer's The Jackalope Wars from Stoked Press has sold out, but I'm also stoked to announce that it is now available in a free e-book, hosted by Issuu. Jeremy did most of the design for this thing, so big thanks to him for that. Also, thanks to everyone who bought the chapbook. Be sure to add it on Goodreads.

Three Chapbooks Are Sitting Here Beside Me And I'm Gonna Write A Paragraph About Each One

This fun little thing is chapbook I did with my poems and my wife Sara's recipes. We are giving them to select friends and family for Christmas. I did the cover art. That dog is the only I can draw. Someone once called it "endearing." Someone else once called it "stupid." I think it's a dog drawn from a 25. For real though, it is a cool little thing with 8 poems and 6 recipes. You know what that means: you better hope you're on that list of friends and family.



This is one of the coolest final projects I've ever done, besides probably my manifesto project. Really stoked about this Writers Community chapbook, featuring work from Ryan Rader, Tyler Fields, Mead Jackson, Ben Rogers, Spencer McNelly, Cody Sean Davis, Layne Ransom, Jeremy Bauer, Elysia Smith, and myself. Also, the cool cover photo was taken by Rochelle Martin. These are some of my best friends, favorite student writers, and biggest supporters. They are $3, but I kinda wanna throw them at parents and friends and say look what we do. I'm seriously impressed by the writing in here. It’s been a great semester for the Community and this book is a testament to that.



This one is my pal Ryan's final for the manifesto class. I helped him with the formatting, so he was nice enough to give me a copy. I was also smiling big to see my name in the acknowledgments. That's our friend Joey Haney on the cover. He was a Jackon Pollock painting for H-ween. I danced with him when he was in that costume. That was funny. About this book though, seriously, it's an essay/manifesto called "The Millennial Hipster: Superficial Reflections," and it's one of the more thoughtful things I've read in a real long time. The book came out beautiful, but the words, man, the words shred hard.

I LOVE CHAPBOOKS AND PROBABLY LOVE YOU TOO.

TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY

I played five games of basketball, including a game-winning three and a game-winning assist. YES YES CONFIDENCE.

I did a lengthy real-time interview with the wonderful Ryan Ridge for Smalldoggies about his American Homes project. YES YES GOOD WRITERS.

I took the Christmas Chapbook and the Writers Community Chapbook to the printer. Friday is pick-up day. YES YES EXCITING.

I went to a women's basketball game with Tyler Fields. YES YES NEW PAL.

Tyler cut my hair (pic below). YES YES FRESH.

I ordered tickets for Cody, Tyler, Sara, and I for the Stay Young Fest on December 11. YES YES LOCAL MUSIC.

I am gonna sleep now and that'll be good. YES YES SNOOZETIME.

I MISS HAVING PAINT ON MY COMPUTER

So Sara and I are making a chapbook to give to all of our pals and family members and those people that blur that distinction. 6 of my poems, 6 of her recipes. EXCITING.

Today, I made the cover on her computer in Paint. Here it is:


It's gonna be called "JUST WHAT YOU WANTED: POEMS AND RECIPES."

I used to make awful pictures in paint like one time for a chemistry lab cover page, I made a picture of Michael Jordan shooting a head of cabbage into a beaker. I think the assignment was something like that. SWISH

I am reminded now of my friend Kyle's old Paintings.

Does MAC have a similar program?

IT WASNT FOR ME EITHER

Two New Things Of My Words On The Web:
Review of Peter Davis' new book
Guest Blog Post About Chapbooks

The Jackalope Wars by Jeremy Bauer

I am stoked to announce the completion of a project I spent the summer working on: the debut chapbook of Jeremy Bauer.

This chapbook is the first release for Stoked Press. Jeremy Bauer has captured the words that were fighting their wars in space. Now, here they are in poem form, contained but still fighting, alive and kicking. CHECK IT OUT ON GOODREADS.

Some cool poet dudes wrote blurbs:

The poems in The Jackalope Wars are sort of violent, sort of sweet, and completely kick ass. I like Jermey Bauer’s words a lot. He presents a little corner of Hope in a big room of Hell. I want to quote a line from the book, but I keep getting distracted by other lines. Like how he writes: “Oh Baby, we are The Murder!” And I feel like, "Yeah, I hear you."

-Peter Davis, author of Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! and Hitler’s Mustache

In Jeremy Bauer's The Jackalope Wars, creation is an event that is still happening all over us. And as the Gods continue shifting our atoms, the only response is war. William Carlos Williams said that "a poem is a small (or large) machine made of words." Well, these poems are robots that have turned on the master in the sky. There is fire and blood and now my eyes contain lasers like swirling multitudes. These poems are large and they will eat you.

-Daniel Bailey, author of The Drunk Sonnets

Jeremy is a good friend of mine, and I'm real stoked to see his poems see the world on paper this way. I've been wanting to put out a chapbook for awhile, and to have Jeremy's be my first, DAG YES.

The official release is next Tuesday, and they will be selling for four bucks. If anyone is interested in purchasing one, let me know.

Here is a poem to convince you:

Divine Dog Heads

My hurricane is naked
dripping with birds
soggy with birds
Teaming with white-as-angel’s-blood
gulls

Crying ‘cause they’re hungry
Hungry for french-fried dreams
and salted maritime varietals

They’re dipshits
Their hobbled calls for the true gleam
that envelops with radiant, slobbering
energy but hovers beyond
any manner of vision or scope
or material real

They fly with the dog heads
Heads of wisdom and divine luminescence
But they’re all bleeding and old
Wrinkled, tired muzzles
Tinged with gray and white and lost love

Their beaks hardly open, they creak
like decrepit doors ready to
fall from the hinges