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.

Prowling The Internet Like A Mountain Lion

I gave myself until 11 pm Kansas time then it's bedtime:

-I just sent Elimae a piece called "On Sex." It's a part of a series of little things I'm writing. Others include "On Clouds," "On Motion Sickness," and "On Marriage." If Elimae rejects it, I'll probably post it here.

-Looking through this online journal, We Are Champions Issue 3: Sasha Fletcher talking about birds, Gregory Sherl wrote a poem about Oregon Trail and Mel Gibson, Donora Hillard with three cool sections (though the "eating dust and vaginal yeast" part seemed out of place).

-Mike Young has been posting some pretty sweet little pieces on his blog. I love the bend of each piece, the layers piling and twisting together. Very enjoyable, quotable, thinkable.

-I started The Art of Recklessness by Dean Young today. Already 65 pages in. Really awesome so far. This guy smacks together words in a way that truly hits me.

-Just found out my buddies The Bonesetters officially signed with Mossback Records, home of the super cool Cowboy Angels.

-I'm definitely ready to be home. This trip has been cool, but I miss some people.

Some Online Things I Like

First, some stuff from the new JMWW.

Best opening line I've read in a long time award goes to Ryan Ridge: "When she opens her legs I listen." This dude is in all my favorite mags (Elimae, The Collagist, Diagram, etc.).

Honest thing: Kim Chinquee has always been a difficult read for me. I enjoy her pieces, but they take me sooooo long to read. They are so slick. Good example. This might be my favorite piece of hers.

An interesting discussion over at HTMLGIANT about a writing prof who made her students submit. My response: I think there is a difference between encouraging and assigning. If one, as an advocate and teacher of the creative writing world, think students should value the lit journal process, then by all means encourage it. But forcing them to submit for a grade, as several commenters pointed out, takes away the authenticity and integrity, it would seem, of the journal(s)/process/lit world. I've had several professors say that I should submit, explain publishing to me, and even suggest places that my work would be potentially suitable. However, never has a grade rested on this. I'm reminded of the way my parents treated sports. They let me be around it, gave me the gear to play the sports I tried out, and encouraged me to enjoy myself, but never did my dinner rest on whether or not I played. I want encouragement, but at twenty-one years old and a competent student, I don't want something as enjoyable as the literary process (especially publishing) to be brought down to an assignment level.

Ball State professor and Muncie disc golfer Sean Lovelace doing his nice things again. DIVE BARS TOO!

What's not to love about this story by Anthony Luebbert in the new issue of Quick Fiction? The flow (that first long sentence!), Robert Kennedy swimming with the sea lion, the story ending in RK cannonballing into the pool! I didn't "get" the family goose part: purpose?

NEW SUMMER FICTION ISSUE AT DIAGRAM! I CAN'T WAIT TO DEVOUR YOU!

Oh my goodness! David Peak rules in this poem at Dark Sky. The softness of this piece (laying in bed, the no caps, "we know" as its own line), the honest last line) just killed me. I'm dead now.

HEY LOOK! A NEW JOURNAL DEDICATED TO THE PROSE POEM! (Side note: The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poems and David Shumate's books are on my to-buy list for my Von's trip tomorrow.)