I almost forgot to post about this! I'm reading tomorrow night at Dangit I'm Thirsty, a reading series run by Brie Huling and Roof Alexander at d.b.a. on North 7th St between Berry and Wythe in Williamsburg. You should come along. It will be like the pit bulls in this photo. It will be happy and attentive.
Other readers include Mira Ptacin, Shelly Oria, Julie Porter and Roof Alexander. With musical guest Zeus! Seriously this series is super fun. Everyone reads for a shorty short time and nobody gets bored. How could you resist?
I think the fall and early winter are PRIME TIME for creativity. I always find myself amping up around October and not letting go the pressure until about January. Similarly, many people I know are doing some amazing, brilliant things around the web and world and world wide web. These are but a few examples.
Watch, for instance, this book trailer for Rohin Guha's short story collection Relief Work, out from the brilliant San Francisco-based Birds of Lace in December:
I had the good fortune to preview some work from this collection of "short shorts" about a month ago at Earshot. Rohin is both funny and heartbreaking as a writer, pop-savvy and thoughtful, self-deprecating and deeply observant. When this booklet comes out I'll doubtless harangue you about it again, but there it is, for now. The art for the cover (and for this trailer) was done by the awesome Paul K. Tunis, whose weblog you should read stat. He does a small comic called Laika & Qubit which has been going on for a few ... episodes ...? now. I think if you hurry you could still catch up.
Then! Next Saturday, October 30th, Typecast Publishing and the Letter Home Reading Series team up to bring together BARDS & BOURBON: A Kentucky Press comes to Brooklyn, at the Observatory. It's the press's first Brooklyn event, and also the book release party for Matthew Lippman's new book Monkey Bars.
Lippman's book also has a weird, awesome, short-filmy book trailer here. My dear friend S. showed it to me one day while we were sitting around her apartment listening to her baby boy babble from his seat. It was the tornado day.
Isn't the idea of the book trailer fascinating? I love the idea -- of course the relationship of book and film is not new, nor is the idea of advertising one via the other -- although generally, it is the other way around (as with literary writeups, criticisms, or reviews of films). But how perfectly (re-)vital the book trailer is, as an idea, to the continuity of publishing as an industry.
And finally - do you know how I am in a band called MINDTROLL? We are playing as a part of Rah! Rah! Replica, or the Kathleen Hanna tribute show on December 11th at the Knitting Factory. If you are a Kathleen Hanna fan, suck it up and attend -- the door charge is to fundraise for Sini Anderson's documentary about KH. It is going to be so awesome.
New issue of The Scrambler. I am in this issue, and it is a huge issue. Other poetry contributors are Luna Miguel, Cassandra Troyan, April Michelle Bratten, Howie Good, Stephen Tully Dierks, Eric David Lough, S. J. Bridgins, Nicola Scholes, Ben Kyler, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Nicholas Ravnikar, Duane Jackson, John Grochalski, and Mike Berger.
Please read this essay from Jen Woods. It is a wake up call to the Poet as Underdog. Jen is the editor for Typecast and a rad individual who sees that poetry has potential reaching far beyond the page and far beyond academia as a venue. This essay is a heartening call.
I write some poems and some prose and put together events. In 2009, Birds of Lace put out my chapbook, Fabulous Essential. In 2011, Hyacinth Girl published another chapbook, Book Four. I also yell and play the beep beeps in a band called mindtroll.
I almost forgot to post about this! I'm reading tomorrow night at Dangit I'm Thirsty, a reading series run by Brie Huling and Roof Alexander at d.b.a. on North 7th St between Berry and Wythe in Williamsburg. You should come along. It will be like the pit bulls in this photo. It will be happy and attentive.
