Thank You, Mr. Postman

I like my postman because he brought my this cassette poetry anthology:

And he brought me the new issue of Twin Cities Metro...

...and that's good, even though he bent it a little, because I have a poem in this issue!

And then he also brought me this, which I'm excited to read.

Abraham Lincoln

This is me reading another "Abraham Lincoln" poem at the KGB Bar (where I read with teh awesome MC Hyland, Krystal Languell, and Rob Ostrom). This was published over at I Thought I Was New Here, in a slightly different form, back in June.

Speaking of I Thought I Was New Here, Brad Liening has four poems that just went up over there, and they are all quite excellent.

RADIO DISPATCHES FROM THE FUTURE

I forgot to post this last week, but Brad Liening, Jess Grover, and I all appeared on John & Molly Knefel's Radio Dispatch podcast and talked about InDigest Editions, Brad's new book - We Are Doomed: Dispatches From the City of the Future, and literariness at large. It was a good time. You can hear it here.

And if you happen to be reading this immediately and are able to run out the door right now then you might be able to head down to (Le) Poisson Rouge for the InDigest Issue 20 Launch Reading which starts at 7. Julia Bartz, Matthew Daddona, Dana Rossi, Monica Wendel, Matthew Savoca, Seth Fried, Natalie Eilbert, and Matthew Pennock will all be reading and it's going to be a good time. A real good time.

InDigest Editions!!!

We just launched InDigest Editions with the release of our first collection of poetry, Brad Liening's We Are Doomed: Dispatches From the City of the Future. It's pretty exciting. You can already get a copy on the internet. Or you can get one on the non-internet by coming to our launch reading Sunday night at LPR (158 Bleecker St.). Brad will be in town and reading along with Lily Ladewig, Gregory Lawless, and Kim Gek Lin Short. It's free. It will be fun. Drinks will be served. I heard a rumor that a certain InDigest editor is even going to be making cupcakes. No promises. Just a rumor I heard.

Brad Reads at Literary Death Match

LDM Twin Cities, Ep. 3: Brad Liening from Opium Magazine on Vimeo.

Ghost and Natural Wonders

Brad Liening was just interviewed about his new collection Ghosts and Doppelgängers.

The other poetry editor at InDigest, Jess Grover, just had a poem put up in Lily Ladewig's I Am A Natural Wonder blog, which spins off of her collaborative chapbook of the same name. Every poet on here has been asked to write a poem titled "I Am A Natural Wonder." Read these.

Ghosts and Doppelgangers

From InDigest HQ:



InDigest poetry editor Brad Liening's first full length collection of poetry was released yesterday through Low Brow Press. The collection is called Ghosts and Doppelgängers and you currently get it over at Amazon. That's the killer cover there to the right. I (in a lovingly biased way, I know) recommend you drop everything you're doing and e-mail your loved ones to let them know that this is at the top of your Christmas list.

I've Been Writing

Stuff I've written lately:

Art & Activism: An Interview with Ted Hearne
An Interview with John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats)
Tiny Mix Tapes Best Films of 2008
Review of Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid's NYC
Review of Cadillac Records

David and I just started InDigest 1207 at LPR
David and I also just had our One-Year Anniversary Party for InDigest in St. Paul. There will photos up on the blog soon. (It was also picked as a Rake Magazine Secret of the City/)


Friends:
Jess Grover, Brad Liening, Stephen Burt, Meakin Armstrong, Lech Harris, Meggie Elder, Ada Limon, Erica Wright, and J. Albin Larson all have new work up in InDigest.

Some Good Things Happening

It's the anniversary of InDigest, and there are all sorts of wonderful things going on. It was a beautiful day in Brooklyn. Brad Liening has a really great poem in the new issue of FOU. InDigest has a big announcement that will saturate the internet later in the week. I'm going to see El Guincho tomorrow, and Tim Hecker on Friday (@ LPR). I have a film screening in Minneapolis on December 12 & 13. We're giving away a whole bunch of free MP3's at Favorite 10 this week. The Wild have won two in a row (without trying to jinx the 2-2 tie they have going with Colorado right now after the 1st UPDATE: Bouchard just scored at the start of the 2nd to make in 3-2 Wild). I read some great new poetry this morning in the newest issue of Jubilat. I finally saw Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django this weekend (it was ok, about what I expected, an ok film, great aestheticaly, and Miike does some fascinating things commenting on the appropriation of culture in the modern world by recreating a film that Sergio Leone stole from Akira Kurosawa, and America subsequently claimed by way of Clint Eastwood).

More Business

Here is some cool stuff:

Guernica Mag has some new stuff up.
This is a little behind but there is a great live recording of Nico Muhly up on the WNYC website.
Brandon Scott Gorrell has a good story up on InDigest (Did I already post that?)
Michael Azerrad wrote a beautiful, glowing review of the Signal Performs Steve Reich at LPR this weekend. It was awesome, I was there, I've fallen in love with Music for 18 Musicians.
Brad Liening wrote a poem that I like.
Meggie Elder also wrote a poem that I like.
Meakin Armstrong thinks Esquire sucks now. I do too.

InDigest Issue 3

InDigest Issue 3 is live as of today. If you want the details check out the InDigest Blog. There is new fiction from Tao Lin, new poetry from Brad Liening and an art gallery from Kara Hendershot. I like it. That's all I've got - see it at Indigestmag.com or go to the blog, or do something else, whatever you'd like...

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Listening to: Murzik - "Buried"
Watching: Still Life
Reading: Donnie Darko Cultographies