Volume III is out now. Read it here. Add it on Goodreads here. Share it wherever you do such things.
Featuring poems and prose from Ryan Bradley, Nick Sturm, Sean Lovelace, Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, Rob MacDonald, Matty Byloos, Scott Abels, Howie Good, Seth Oelbaum, and Gregory Sherl, as well as photography by Eleanor Leonne Bennett (including the cover photo).
What Are You Stoked About?
A review of Adam Robison and Other Poems by Adam Robinson (Reviewed by Ryan Rader)
An Interview with Nate Pritts (Interviewed by Joshua Helms)
Showing posts with label lit journals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lit journals. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
WAY BACK THEN THE FAMILIAR NOW
I mean like when you find out the dude you've seen at local shows for the past few years was best friends with your girlfriend's brother when they were little dudes. Or like when you find a 2003 issue of Indiana Review in the free box of a bookstore and you discover that it's got poems by some of your now favorite poets.
I'm a booksale stokedbro. Like if its a buck, why not? Sara and I always came out of booksales and thrift stories with at least a sack. Now what? I've got these two big boxes of never-gonna-read famous novels, poetry that didn't strike my heartgut, and anthologies or journals that I've devoured but can't find an excuse to keep. (Side note: I plan to sell these two boxes of books online for CHEAP soon, so eyes open.) After moving home and getting the GOTTA GO pile and the STAY HERE BUDDY pile figured out, I discovered this old copy of Indiana Review: Celebrating 25 Years.
I flipped to the back cover and man oh man what a list: Robin Behn, Nick Carbo, Michael Dickman (Listed as Michael Conrad Dickman), Denise Duhamel, Martin Espada, Mark Halliday, Terrance Hayes, Tony Hoagland, David Kirby, Michael Martone, Gary Soto, David Wagoner, and a bunch of others. I was like WOAH LET'S READ. And I did.
Reading these poems in a journal, eight years after they came out, was a strange process. I recognized the developing voice of Dickman, the earlier voice of Hoagland, the markings of the great beginning of Hayes, and so much more. It was reading beyond the page, but for one of the first times, reading with a significant contemporary gap. I mean I read online magazines and see like Mike Young poems and think about how they compare to the We Are All Good Enough... poems or how the Matt Bell's first ever published story (republished in Volume I of Stoked Journal) developed into the How They Were Found pieces, but never had I'd engaged with a collection nearly a decade old with a bunch of writers whose current work I'm digging now.
Michael Dickman's is probably the most interesting poem to me. A sectioned long poem with left-alignment and long stanza'ed sections, "How To Make Love" shows the poet with the startling images, the fearlessness of well-placed abstractions, the calm unleashing. But along with the listing as "Michael Conrad Dickman" (not sure why that's so weird to me), this poem stretches itself so far that it's actually thin in parts. One thing I've already loved about this Dickman is his ability to deliver so much emotion with such fluidity. As someone still finding his voice, it was cool for me to see someone so noticeable in his current voice trying to find his own early on.
I loved Lighthead by Terrance Hayes, and having seen him read after that book came out, I can say he's a oddly charismatic manpoet. Sometimes he still pushes it too far, too wild outside his comfort zone, like that one list poem about t-shirt ideas. But his poem in this issue "The Blue Etheridge" seems almost an introduction to Hayes as a poet, a strong voice in an interesting poetic climate. Here are two sweet parts of the poem:
AND
My favorite poem in the issue is "Sometimes It Takes A Long Time To Get Burned" by Gary Soto, a big-time poet I'm unfortunately not all that familiar with. Perhaps because of that fact, I was able to most engage with the poem itself, singularly. The poem basically talks about a dead guy in a Lincoln and the world revolving without him, not knowing he's dead--a dog barking, construction workers coming nearby. Because of the subject matter and story-telling style--very plain-spoken word choice and syntax and the use of sequence markers (First, Second...)--I marked that it reminded me of Stephen Dobyns. I think I love this poem because like Dobyns, Soto doesn't try to cram too much in there (content or language-wise), but rather illustrates this odd, sad, and deep image and situation without worry about how and why he died or what's gonna happen to him long-term. It's as if Soto is saying DUDE DIED AND THE WORLD KEPT GOING. Which is a harsh reality and I think the third person helps me see that and think about that. The title, however, is heavy-handed. Nonetheless, a sweet sweet poem.
Definitely an old issue of a journal that's sticking around.
I'm a booksale stokedbro. Like if its a buck, why not? Sara and I always came out of booksales and thrift stories with at least a sack. Now what? I've got these two big boxes of never-gonna-read famous novels, poetry that didn't strike my heartgut, and anthologies or journals that I've devoured but can't find an excuse to keep. (Side note: I plan to sell these two boxes of books online for CHEAP soon, so eyes open.) After moving home and getting the GOTTA GO pile and the STAY HERE BUDDY pile figured out, I discovered this old copy of Indiana Review: Celebrating 25 Years.
I flipped to the back cover and man oh man what a list: Robin Behn, Nick Carbo, Michael Dickman (Listed as Michael Conrad Dickman), Denise Duhamel, Martin Espada, Mark Halliday, Terrance Hayes, Tony Hoagland, David Kirby, Michael Martone, Gary Soto, David Wagoner, and a bunch of others. I was like WOAH LET'S READ. And I did.
Reading these poems in a journal, eight years after they came out, was a strange process. I recognized the developing voice of Dickman, the earlier voice of Hoagland, the markings of the great beginning of Hayes, and so much more. It was reading beyond the page, but for one of the first times, reading with a significant contemporary gap. I mean I read online magazines and see like Mike Young poems and think about how they compare to the We Are All Good Enough... poems or how the Matt Bell's first ever published story (republished in Volume I of Stoked Journal) developed into the How They Were Found pieces, but never had I'd engaged with a collection nearly a decade old with a bunch of writers whose current work I'm digging now.
Michael Dickman's is probably the most interesting poem to me. A sectioned long poem with left-alignment and long stanza'ed sections, "How To Make Love" shows the poet with the startling images, the fearlessness of well-placed abstractions, the calm unleashing. But along with the listing as "Michael Conrad Dickman" (not sure why that's so weird to me), this poem stretches itself so far that it's actually thin in parts. One thing I've already loved about this Dickman is his ability to deliver so much emotion with such fluidity. As someone still finding his voice, it was cool for me to see someone so noticeable in his current voice trying to find his own early on.
I loved Lighthead by Terrance Hayes, and having seen him read after that book came out, I can say he's a oddly charismatic manpoet. Sometimes he still pushes it too far, too wild outside his comfort zone, like that one list poem about t-shirt ideas. But his poem in this issue "The Blue Etheridge" seems almost an introduction to Hayes as a poet, a strong voice in an interesting poetic climate. Here are two sweet parts of the poem:
Let's just say the parable
of the Negro who uses his dick for a cane
and the parable of the Negro who uses his cane
for a dick convey the same message to me.
AND
But I won't be telling you the story
of the forlorn Negro or the Negro cutthroat
or the Negro Hero or the Negro Tom.
I won't be telling you the story of the night
I died. I believe everything comes back
to music or money.
My favorite poem in the issue is "Sometimes It Takes A Long Time To Get Burned" by Gary Soto, a big-time poet I'm unfortunately not all that familiar with. Perhaps because of that fact, I was able to most engage with the poem itself, singularly. The poem basically talks about a dead guy in a Lincoln and the world revolving without him, not knowing he's dead--a dog barking, construction workers coming nearby. Because of the subject matter and story-telling style--very plain-spoken word choice and syntax and the use of sequence markers (First, Second...)--I marked that it reminded me of Stephen Dobyns. I think I love this poem because like Dobyns, Soto doesn't try to cram too much in there (content or language-wise), but rather illustrates this odd, sad, and deep image and situation without worry about how and why he died or what's gonna happen to him long-term. It's as if Soto is saying DUDE DIED AND THE WORLD KEPT GOING. Which is a harsh reality and I think the third person helps me see that and think about that. The title, however, is heavy-handed. Nonetheless, a sweet sweet poem.
Third, a dog barked. Fourth, a car stopped
And the driver took pictures, then pulled away.
The fog returned with the acids of an industrial laundry
Two miles from the dead man who, when alive, drove past it,
His own shirt starched, his pants done right.
Definitely an old issue of a journal that's sticking around.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Stoked Volume II
Hey writer pals,
In case you missed it, we at Stoked Press/Journal started taking submissions today for our second issue. You can find more guidelines in our call for submissions below or at our blog: stokedstokedstoked.blogspot.com. We'll be reading in June and July for this issue. Hope your writing is going well and hope we get to see some of your work in the inbox soon.
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HEY HEY. Stoked Journal wants to see your coolest work for Volume II between June 1st and July 31st. Please check out the first issue before submitting: here. Volume II, which will be out in September, will be a leap forward from this issue, increasing the amount of content and including reviews, interviews, and possibly other artwork, while maintaining the focus on stoke-worthy writing and crisp design.
To submit poetry, fiction, or nonfiction: send 3-5 poems, one essay, one short story, or 2-3 short shorts or flash fiction/nonfiction pieces to tylerisstoked@gmail.com.
To submit art: send a .JPG of your work to tylerisstoked@gmail.com
To submit an interview or book review: send an e-mail including either who you want to interview or the book you want to review, along with links to your writing, such as a blog or published pieces/interviews/reviews.
Sure you can do that: send submission in body of email or as a single Word Document, iinclude a bio (third person, short, etc.), send us simultaneous submissions, be nice.
We look forward to seeing your work.
In case you missed it, we at Stoked Press/Journal started taking submissions today for our second issue. You can find more guidelines in our call for submissions below or at our blog: stokedstokedstoked.blogspot.com. We'll be reading in June and July for this issue. Hope your writing is going well and hope we get to see some of your work in the inbox soon.
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HEY HEY. Stoked Journal wants to see your coolest work for Volume II between June 1st and July 31st. Please check out the first issue before submitting: here. Volume II, which will be out in September, will be a leap forward from this issue, increasing the amount of content and including reviews, interviews, and possibly other artwork, while maintaining the focus on stoke-worthy writing and crisp design.
To submit poetry, fiction, or nonfiction: send 3-5 poems, one essay, one short story, or 2-3 short shorts or flash fiction/nonfiction pieces to tylerisstoked@gmail.com.
To submit art: send a .JPG of your work to tylerisstoked@gmail.com
To submit an interview or book review: send an e-mail including either who you want to interview or the book you want to review, along with links to your writing, such as a blog or published pieces/interviews/reviews.
Sure you can do that: send submission in body of email or as a single Word Document, iinclude a bio (third person, short, etc.), send us simultaneous submissions, be nice.
We look forward to seeing your work.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
JOHN FREAKING BERRYMAN + Smalldoggies Magazine + BEARDZ
John Berryman's Dream Songs were at this dusty little bookstore in Colorado.
John Berryman's Dream Songs quickly found their way into my hands.
John Berryman's Dream Songs enraptured me for two weeks because IT WAS GREAT and IT WAS CONFUSING.
John Berryman's Dream Songs tuckered me out and were set aside around number 280.
John Berryman's Dream Songs snuck into my American Lit class.
John Berryman's Dream Songs should be in every American Lit/Poetry class ever.
John Berryman's Dream Songs make more "sense" now, I guess.
John Berryman's Dream Songs, more importantly, were picked back up by me yesterday.
John Berryman's Dream Songs were finished by me yesterday.
John Berryman's Dream Songs still make my head hurt, but OH YEAH THE PAIN IS GOOD.
Find more about my thoughts on The Dream Songs here.
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It's probably no secret that I think Smalldoggies Magazine is one of the hot things around the web right now. I mean, COME ON, I do contribute to a column there and yesterday, a group of my "On Poems" went up there. IF THAT'S NOT ENOUGH TO BE WICKED COOL I DON'T KNOW WHAT. That's a joke.
Smalldoggies Magazine main dude Matty Byloos keeps it real. There is a beautiful word buffet waiting FOR FREE. So much developing there and so much gonna happen. I'm so stoked to be a part of it (EVEN A TINY PART).
The Vouched/me/Smalldoggies connection came about after I posted this Vouch of Smalldoggies.
Since then, there has been a ton of cool stuff at Smalldoggies, like poems by J.A. Tyler and Adam Robinson, these interviews with old students by Mickey Hess and a bunch of cool reviews.
My favorite thing is probably this sweet interview with my bud Mel Bosworth. Full of knowledge and heart and cool.
CHECK OUT SMALLDOGGIES MAGAZINE BEFORE IT CHECKS YOU OUT
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Professorpal Todd is growing a beard. He is blogging about it. He featured me and my beard on the blog today (ALONG WITH PETER FREAKING DAVIS). NICE.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
What I Read In 2010 (To The Best of My Memory and Goodreads)
Jelly Roll: A Blues by Kevin Young
Kisses: A Collection of Poems by Steven Orlen
Beloved Infidel: Poems by Dean Young
Connecting the Dots: Poems by Maxine Kumin
All My Poems by Nate Pritts
Keyhole Issue 9
The New Year of Yellow: Poems by Matthew Lippman
More Perfect Depictions of Noise by Justin Taylor
Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered ed. by Catherine Bowman
FEELINGS, Assoc. by Matt Hart and Nate Pritts
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
WE WERE ETERNAL AND GIGANTIC by Evelyn Hampton
45 Mercy Street by Anne Sexton
Words for Empty and Words for Full by Bob Hicok
Down Spooky: Poems by Shanna Compton
Wolf Face by Matt Hart
Orange Juice and Other Stories by Timothy Willis Sanders
Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970 by Pablo Neruda
The Widening Spell of the Leaves by Larry Levis
Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! by Peter Davis
We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough by Mike Young
Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson
The Jackalope Wars by Jeremy Bauer
Actual Air by David Berman
The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway by Jennifer L. Knox
Saying the World by Peter Periera
A Gringo Like Me: Poems by Jennifer L. Knox
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Short Stories Since 1970
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
Halls of Fame: Essays by John D'Agata
Embryoyo: New Poems by Dean Young
Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides by Stephen Dobyns
What We Carry by Dorianne Laux
Walking the Black Cat by Charles Simic
A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver
First Course In Turbulence by Dean Young
MC Oroville's Answering Machine by Mike Young
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Collected Poems of Marianne Moore
Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems by Durs Grünbein
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by DFW
The Feeling is Mutual by Washtenaw County Women's Poetry Collective and Casserole Society
31 Poems, 1988-2008, by Dean Young
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979, of Elizabeth Bishop
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young
The Available World: Poems by Ander Monson
Red Sauce, Whiskey & Snow: Poems by August Kleinzahler,
Various Issues of Poetry and American Poetry Review
The Back Country by Gary Snyder
High Water Mark: Prose Poems by David Shumate
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Homage to the Last Avant-Garde by Kent Johnson
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems by John Ashbery
The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven by Mairead Byrne
Poetry and the Age by Randall Jarrell
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
Sententia #1
How They Were Found by Matt Bell
Rapture by Susan Mitchell
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
What the Living Do: Poems by Marie Howe
Adam Robison and Other Poems by Adam Robinson
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Sweet Ruin by Tony Hoagland
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories ed. by Ben Marcus
Poemland by Chelsey Minnis
A Little White Shadow by Mary Ruefle
Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda
Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers, edited by Simic and Strand
Ararat by Louise Gluck
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley
Selected Poems of Czelaw Milosz
Lucky Life by Gerald Stern
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Say, Poem by Adam Robinson
Descriptive Sketches by Nate Pritts
Allegory of the Supermarket by Stephanie Brown
Then, Suddenly by Lynn Emanuel
Selected Poems of W.S. Merwin
Strike Anywhere by Dean Young
I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It by Sam Pink
Little Star: Poems by Mark Halliday
The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992 by Jack Gilbert
All-American Poem by Matthew Dickman
Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays by Amiri Baraka,
The Rocket's Red Glare by David Peak
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs,
Artifice 1 and 2
No Colony 01
Oh Baby by Kim Chinquee
How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones
Almost No Memory: Stories by Lydia Davis
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Haywire: Poems by George Bilgere
Vacationland by Ander Monson
Wolf Parts by Matt Bell
EVER by Blake Butler
What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland
typewriter by Jimmy Chen
think tank for human beings in general by Jordan Castro
I Am In The Air Right Now by Kathryn Regina
Inconceivable Wilson by J.A. Tyler
cooling board: a long playing poem by Mitchell Douglas, Mitchell
Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry by Stephen Dobyns
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft by Tony Hoagland
Troia: Mexican Memoirs by Bonnie Bremser
Velocities by Stephen Dobyns
Satan Says by Sharon Olds
Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web by Sarah Boxer
Queer: A Novel by William S. Burroughs
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland
Facts About the Moon: Poems by Dorianne Laux
Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing by Erika Lopez
During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present by Brandon Scott Gorrell
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins
The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems by Billy Collins
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters by Scott Rosenberg
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Best American Poetry 2007 by Heather McHugh
Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation by Ray Bradbury,
Overheard in New York UPDATED: Conversations from the Streets, Stores, and Subways by S. Morgan Friedman,
Casual Glory; or, Macaulay Culkin Does Nothing by Shaun Gannon
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Published & Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, & Rememberences of American Writers by Steven Cilbar
east central Indiana (ebook) by Daniel Bailey
The Drunk Sonnets by Daniel Bailey
What Nature: Poems by Steve Fay
Poetry In Person ed. by Alexander Neubauer
10 of Diagrams
Agriculture Reader Issue 3
Copper Nickel Issue 13
The Broken Plate 2010
Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 46
New Madrid Journal Summer 2007
Various issues of my favorite online journals like The Collagist, Lamination Colony, elimae, Diagram, Spooky Boyfriend, Metazen, Everyday Genius, decomP, Shampoo, H_NGM_N, Mad Swirl, No Tell Motel, Robot Melon, Smalldoggies Magazine
LETS TALK ABOUT THIS LIST.
Kisses: A Collection of Poems by Steven Orlen
Beloved Infidel: Poems by Dean Young
Connecting the Dots: Poems by Maxine Kumin
All My Poems by Nate Pritts
Keyhole Issue 9
The New Year of Yellow: Poems by Matthew Lippman
More Perfect Depictions of Noise by Justin Taylor
Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered ed. by Catherine Bowman
FEELINGS, Assoc. by Matt Hart and Nate Pritts
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
WE WERE ETERNAL AND GIGANTIC by Evelyn Hampton
45 Mercy Street by Anne Sexton
Words for Empty and Words for Full by Bob Hicok
Down Spooky: Poems by Shanna Compton
Wolf Face by Matt Hart
Orange Juice and Other Stories by Timothy Willis Sanders
Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970 by Pablo Neruda
The Widening Spell of the Leaves by Larry Levis
Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! by Peter Davis
We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough by Mike Young
Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson
The Jackalope Wars by Jeremy Bauer
Actual Air by David Berman
The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway by Jennifer L. Knox
Saying the World by Peter Periera
A Gringo Like Me: Poems by Jennifer L. Knox
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Short Stories Since 1970
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
Halls of Fame: Essays by John D'Agata
Embryoyo: New Poems by Dean Young
Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides by Stephen Dobyns
What We Carry by Dorianne Laux
Walking the Black Cat by Charles Simic
A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver
First Course In Turbulence by Dean Young
MC Oroville's Answering Machine by Mike Young
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Collected Poems of Marianne Moore
Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems by Durs Grünbein
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by DFW
The Feeling is Mutual by Washtenaw County Women's Poetry Collective and Casserole Society
31 Poems, 1988-2008, by Dean Young
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979, of Elizabeth Bishop
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young
The Available World: Poems by Ander Monson
Red Sauce, Whiskey & Snow: Poems by August Kleinzahler,
Various Issues of Poetry and American Poetry Review
The Back Country by Gary Snyder
High Water Mark: Prose Poems by David Shumate
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Homage to the Last Avant-Garde by Kent Johnson
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems by John Ashbery
The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven by Mairead Byrne
Poetry and the Age by Randall Jarrell
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson
Sententia #1
How They Were Found by Matt Bell
Rapture by Susan Mitchell
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
What the Living Do: Poems by Marie Howe
Adam Robison and Other Poems by Adam Robinson
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Sweet Ruin by Tony Hoagland
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories ed. by Ben Marcus
Poemland by Chelsey Minnis
A Little White Shadow by Mary Ruefle
Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda
Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers, edited by Simic and Strand
Ararat by Louise Gluck
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley
Selected Poems of Czelaw Milosz
Lucky Life by Gerald Stern
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Say, Poem by Adam Robinson
Descriptive Sketches by Nate Pritts
Allegory of the Supermarket by Stephanie Brown
Then, Suddenly by Lynn Emanuel
Selected Poems of W.S. Merwin
Strike Anywhere by Dean Young
I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It by Sam Pink
Little Star: Poems by Mark Halliday
The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992 by Jack Gilbert
All-American Poem by Matthew Dickman
Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays by Amiri Baraka,
The Rocket's Red Glare by David Peak
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs,
Artifice 1 and 2
No Colony 01
Oh Baby by Kim Chinquee
How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones
Almost No Memory: Stories by Lydia Davis
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Haywire: Poems by George Bilgere
Vacationland by Ander Monson
Wolf Parts by Matt Bell
EVER by Blake Butler
What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland
typewriter by Jimmy Chen
think tank for human beings in general by Jordan Castro
I Am In The Air Right Now by Kathryn Regina
Inconceivable Wilson by J.A. Tyler
cooling board: a long playing poem by Mitchell Douglas, Mitchell
Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry by Stephen Dobyns
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft by Tony Hoagland
Troia: Mexican Memoirs by Bonnie Bremser
Velocities by Stephen Dobyns
Satan Says by Sharon Olds
Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web by Sarah Boxer
Queer: A Novel by William S. Burroughs
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland
Facts About the Moon: Poems by Dorianne Laux
Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing by Erika Lopez
During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present by Brandon Scott Gorrell
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins
The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems by Billy Collins
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters by Scott Rosenberg
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Best American Poetry 2007 by Heather McHugh
Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation by Ray Bradbury,
Overheard in New York UPDATED: Conversations from the Streets, Stores, and Subways by S. Morgan Friedman,
Casual Glory; or, Macaulay Culkin Does Nothing by Shaun Gannon
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Published & Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, & Rememberences of American Writers by Steven Cilbar
east central Indiana (ebook) by Daniel Bailey
The Drunk Sonnets by Daniel Bailey
What Nature: Poems by Steve Fay
Poetry In Person ed. by Alexander Neubauer
10 of Diagrams
Agriculture Reader Issue 3
Copper Nickel Issue 13
The Broken Plate 2010
Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 46
New Madrid Journal Summer 2007
Various issues of my favorite online journals like The Collagist, Lamination Colony, elimae, Diagram, Spooky Boyfriend, Metazen, Everyday Genius, decomP, Shampoo, H_NGM_N, Mad Swirl, No Tell Motel, Robot Melon, Smalldoggies Magazine
LETS TALK ABOUT THIS LIST.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The Broken Plate Submissions End Soon And I Likely Haven't Read Your Poem
HEY OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE BROKEN PLATE
END ON HALLOWEEN, THAT IS SUNDAY, AND WE WANT NEED CRAVE MORE
SUBMISSIONS FROM GREAT WRITERS BUT ALSO GREAT PEOPLE.
IF YOU ARE READING THIS BLOG POST, I BET YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON.
GO TO BSU.EDU/BROKENPLATE AND CHECK OUT THE GUIDELINES
AND SEND SOMETHING THIS WAY.
MY POETRY PALS AND I WANNA READ YOUR COOL POEM.
I'M SURE ELYSIA AND HER FICTION FRIENDS WANNA READ YOUR STORY.
SO BEFORE YOU DRESS UP LIKE A HAT OR A PEACOCK OR IRONY
SEND US A POEM OR A STORY
I'M SO LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO WRITE THIS POST;
MAKE ME EVEN LUCKIER BY LETTING ME READ YOUR STUFF.
END ON HALLOWEEN, THAT IS SUNDAY, AND WE WANT NEED CRAVE MORE
SUBMISSIONS FROM GREAT WRITERS BUT ALSO GREAT PEOPLE.
IF YOU ARE READING THIS BLOG POST, I BET YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON.
GO TO BSU.EDU/BROKENPLATE AND CHECK OUT THE GUIDELINES
AND SEND SOMETHING THIS WAY.
MY POETRY PALS AND I WANNA READ YOUR COOL POEM.
I'M SURE ELYSIA AND HER FICTION FRIENDS WANNA READ YOUR STORY.
SO BEFORE YOU DRESS UP LIKE A HAT OR A PEACOCK OR IRONY
SEND US A POEM OR A STORY
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
SEE YOU THERE
I am excited for this event and really stoked about Vouched Books. I have the privilege now of being able to help out with that project. Blog posts to come.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
esque + my new pub
Hey, this flash site of "oetry" and "ifesto" is weird cool stuff.
Jackie Clark's "Fixing" is one big ole tumbleweed of goodness gracious lines. I'm still worried she is in my head or heart or computer. Lines like "My job a lot of the time is solely to figure out how to say I don't know how much I am supposed to value this existence without having to say that" and "This is either exciting or exhausting" and "Eventually all my thoughts about other people get dusty in my hands" shake my head for me.
What is Amy De'Anth doing in "Erec and Enide" you ask? She is tossing poetry around like it is just words and human relationships and sight-we-are-all-dominated-by-sight. AND THAT IS WHAT POETRY IS. Good job, Amy.
"National Soul" by Lidija Dimkovska is risky like asking your spouse "to mix it up a little." This mixture is dangerous like "Since my brother hanged himself with the telephone wire/I can talk to him for hours on the phone." Oh man. It goes and goes and good.
"Jasper 1998" by the super nice Saeed Jones repeats the good stuff and flows the good images, echoing loud and clear.
"from SERMONS AND LECTURES BOTH BLANK AND RELENTLESS" by Matt Hart gets me all giddy like poetry is a sucker and I'm seven. This style is gorgeous, lines flapping together, a beautiful clap, whack.
NICE JOURNAL TO CHECK OUT
SPEAKING OF AWESOME JOURNALS, EVERYDAY GENIUS AND GUEST EDITOR PHUONG PHAM PUBLISHED MY POEM WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE OCEAN TODAY. THANKS COOL.
Jackie Clark's "Fixing" is one big ole tumbleweed of goodness gracious lines. I'm still worried she is in my head or heart or computer. Lines like "My job a lot of the time is solely to figure out how to say I don't know how much I am supposed to value this existence without having to say that" and "This is either exciting or exhausting" and "Eventually all my thoughts about other people get dusty in my hands" shake my head for me.
What is Amy De'Anth doing in "Erec and Enide" you ask? She is tossing poetry around like it is just words and human relationships and sight-we-are-all-dominated-by-sight. AND THAT IS WHAT POETRY IS. Good job, Amy.
"National Soul" by Lidija Dimkovska is risky like asking your spouse "to mix it up a little." This mixture is dangerous like "Since my brother hanged himself with the telephone wire/I can talk to him for hours on the phone." Oh man. It goes and goes and good.
"Jasper 1998" by the super nice Saeed Jones repeats the good stuff and flows the good images, echoing loud and clear.
"from SERMONS AND LECTURES BOTH BLANK AND RELENTLESS" by Matt Hart gets me all giddy like poetry is a sucker and I'm seven. This style is gorgeous, lines flapping together, a beautiful clap, whack.
NICE JOURNAL TO CHECK OUT
SPEAKING OF AWESOME JOURNALS, EVERYDAY GENIUS AND GUEST EDITOR PHUONG PHAM PUBLISHED MY POEM WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE OCEAN TODAY. THANKS COOL.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Thoughts On The August Issue of Elimae
Steve Stringer's "I Can Only Do Great Things If You Die" does heavy things. It's quirky, but it's so nice. It's an narrative, but it's really not. It's an elegy, but only kind of. Beautiful stuff.
J.A. Tyler seriously brings it with "You Sometimes Reverse Me." But really, the dude always bring it. I have no clue how to talk about my marriage. This little piece might help.
I really didn't like this poem. Cool epigraph though.
Amy Bergen's 181st and Cabrini rules. I love this speaker. Here are a few examples of why:
"I think I could stay and let the car shine right into me or go climb the gates of the George Washington Bridge or get my feet wet. I weigh too much to be a speedboat on the river"
"Human beings gum up the walkway with strollers and canes and bikes. Human beings are radiant."
"A gold spray-painted bicycle was chained to a Stop sign and I thought it was one of those bikes they put up where a cyclist has died, an angel bike, but probably it was a just a gold spray-painted bicycle."
Site Work by Scot Siegel paints a tiny picture and man it is tuff.
Woah just woah.
Remains by Jesus Castillo shouts "I am important AND beautiful."
HEY "This Is Not A Celebration of Our Fathers" WAS CHURNING SOME COOL BUTTER THEN BOOM THAT ENDING THING WANTED TO BE ALL DEEP AND TOUCHING AND I DIDN'T LIKE IT. THE REST THOUGH SERIOUSLY COOL.
Metropolitan Diary by Mike Topp is like a really good joke that somehow makes my head hurt. Ouch.
Ryan Ridge can talk about any part of the house any day.
Note to self: Write a poem using the word shtick. It won't be as cool as this one by Brian Beatty.
It's late and I can't really think of what to say about "Leaky Roof" by Philip Brooks, but I know I like this poem a lot a lot a lot and it uses exclamation points well. I don't know.
J.A. Tyler seriously brings it with "You Sometimes Reverse Me." But really, the dude always bring it. I have no clue how to talk about my marriage. This little piece might help.
I really didn't like this poem. Cool epigraph though.
Amy Bergen's 181st and Cabrini rules. I love this speaker. Here are a few examples of why:
"I think I could stay and let the car shine right into me or go climb the gates of the George Washington Bridge or get my feet wet. I weigh too much to be a speedboat on the river"
"Human beings gum up the walkway with strollers and canes and bikes. Human beings are radiant."
"A gold spray-painted bicycle was chained to a Stop sign and I thought it was one of those bikes they put up where a cyclist has died, an angel bike, but probably it was a just a gold spray-painted bicycle."
Site Work by Scot Siegel paints a tiny picture and man it is tuff.
Woah just woah.
Remains by Jesus Castillo shouts "I am important AND beautiful."
HEY "This Is Not A Celebration of Our Fathers" WAS CHURNING SOME COOL BUTTER THEN BOOM THAT ENDING THING WANTED TO BE ALL DEEP AND TOUCHING AND I DIDN'T LIKE IT. THE REST THOUGH SERIOUSLY COOL.
Metropolitan Diary by Mike Topp is like a really good joke that somehow makes my head hurt. Ouch.
Ryan Ridge can talk about any part of the house any day.
Note to self: Write a poem using the word shtick. It won't be as cool as this one by Brian Beatty.
It's late and I can't really think of what to say about "Leaky Roof" by Philip Brooks, but I know I like this poem a lot a lot a lot and it uses exclamation points well. I don't know.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Not quite the zing
Elimae is the journal that sends me the nicest rejection letters. In honor of that, I'm reading their July issue (and because they are one of my favorite places for wordz.)
15. by Rufo Quintavalle makes me feel smarter (doesn't every poem? no). And, I had no idea where it was going: the turn after "To be something less than dead" was killer.
My favorite things from each of these poems by Lysette Simmons:
1) "I lead a life that likes the fact that I lead it."
2) "I'm bent double, throwing/up into a box/I made myself."
Do I have to say it again how much I love Elysia's story? Okay, I love it like this -----80-8-8-8-8-8-0-08-8-7fogofgogf. That's symbolism.
Alex Cigale translated 9 poems by Velimir Khlebnikov and I was hooked when things spilled from the tote bag onto the floor.
Eugenia Leigh's poem "Portraits of Holy" does some cool things. One, it is a section poems, which are COOL. Two, it talks about saying "I love you" as a gift, and it's not lame at all! Three, this stanza: A real live tiger and teeth/studying a human who bends into its face/to read the dog tag, which says,/Yes, really.
Shapard and Thomas have done a flash/short short/sudden fiction collection of Latino writers? Cool.
Tension tastes good in Joseph Rippi's "I Am." What a heart stopping line here: "I stared down the barrel to Old Farmer Ed's open mouth and checked the safety." The ending tailed off a little for me though. I want something more than hearts and wet eyes.
This Brian Beatty character is something else. This tiny little poem is heavy like a coffin. I know Beatty can be funny too, like these jokes.
15. by Rufo Quintavalle makes me feel smarter (doesn't every poem? no). And, I had no idea where it was going: the turn after "To be something less than dead" was killer.
My favorite things from each of these poems by Lysette Simmons:
1) "I lead a life that likes the fact that I lead it."
2) "I'm bent double, throwing/up into a box/I made myself."
Do I have to say it again how much I love Elysia's story? Okay, I love it like this -----80-8-8-8-8-8-0-08-8-7fogofgogf. That's symbolism.
Alex Cigale translated 9 poems by Velimir Khlebnikov and I was hooked when things spilled from the tote bag onto the floor.
Eugenia Leigh's poem "Portraits of Holy" does some cool things. One, it is a section poems, which are COOL. Two, it talks about saying "I love you" as a gift, and it's not lame at all! Three, this stanza: A real live tiger and teeth/studying a human who bends into its face/to read the dog tag, which says,/Yes, really.
Shapard and Thomas have done a flash/short short/sudden fiction collection of Latino writers? Cool.
Tension tastes good in Joseph Rippi's "I Am." What a heart stopping line here: "I stared down the barrel to Old Farmer Ed's open mouth and checked the safety." The ending tailed off a little for me though. I want something more than hearts and wet eyes.
This Brian Beatty character is something else. This tiny little poem is heavy like a coffin. I know Beatty can be funny too, like these jokes.
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