We are still doing the Live at LPR video series. This week we've got a video about Dana Rossi's The Soundtrack Series.

I like wearing masks

Steve Irwin

I have a poem titled "Steve Irwin." This poem, titled "Steve Irwin," is available as a Greying Ghost Press pamphlet. They have them up on their site right now. If you order one of their books you'll get a few pamphlets for free. Maybe it'll be "Steve Irwin." That's "Steve Irwin" below.

Books worth considering: Treesisters by Joseph Riippi, Sky Poems by Nate Pritts, or Polaroid Parade by Paige Taggert. I'm sure they're all good too. I can't confirm that with certainty, but the folks at Greying Ghost have good taste. I can tell from all of the really good things they've already put out.

Ok.

That's all.

Interview with the 3MB Collective

I interviewed Macaulay Culkin, Toby Goodshank, and Adam Green (the 3MB Collective) for their upcoming Leisure Inferno gallery opening at The Gallery at LPR. Fun times.

What Am I Doing?

Well, I'm not sure. I finished packaging a lot of Abraham Lincoln centos that are being mailed to people who supported our InDigest Kickstarter project. That's the return address in the picture below. Lincoln did that. He's personally signing each envelope, and each poem that goes in each envelope. Pretty cool, huh? Bet you wish you had a special personalized poem written by Abraham Lincoln, that's probably autographed by him, in an envelope that definitely autographed by him.

What am I doing on here? I'm not sure. I keep posting random stuff on Tumblr and I'm not entirely sure why I have a Tumblr and a blogspot page. It just means that neither of them really get updated very often.

Live at LPR: Macaulay Culkin's iPod

I've been helping produce a series of podcasts for LPR and this is the first episode.

InDigest presents An Evening of Flash Fiction

Calling something "an evening" of something makes it sound so damn fancy. This won't be that fancy. Though I might wear a tie. I'm going to be drinking whiskey, but not fancy whisky, cheap whiskey. I think there will be some laughs, not belly laughs, but subtle laughs that are really funnier when you think about it. Maybe some super serious people will, instead of laughing, just smile and nod knowingly. That happens at readings sometimes. I also think there will be at least one person there who teaches in some capacity. So if you're coming to learn and I fall short of your expectations (I most certainly will) you can always go talk to that person. So this will also be educational, probably, if you put out some effort. You can't expect to learn unless you put out some effort.

Look, I know you're not supposed to say it, but I like flash fiction, and you do too. It'll be our secret, we don't have to tell anyone that this reading was the best thing you've ever been to afterward, when people ask. People will say, "Who's at this reading right now? It's not as high brow as this super boring Joanthan Franzen reading I'm going to tonight." And I'll say, "[quietly] Everyone...shh...[then louder] No one in here but us chickens." And we'll all have a drink and laugh at the people who don't know how to have any fun.

Also, don't you think it's not really fair that I listed the readers in alphabetical order? Robb is always last then. You should clap extra hard for him if you come. I hope you come. I'll clap extra hard.

This is going to be super fun. All these readers are great, and fun, and there will be drinks and laughing and high fives and low fives and side fives and Five Alives. Come hang out and see some stuff.

InDigest presents an Evening of Flash Fiction
w/ Ann Dewitt, John Jodzio, Robert Lopez, Lincoln Michel, Shya Scanlon, and Robb Todd
7pm | FREE
at The Gallery at (Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St, NYC

And thanks to Zan Emerson for the flier design that I think is pretty great.

Geocachers Season 2 Trailer

We're almost ready to release season 2 of Geocachers. I'm pretty excited. We've got some really great guests for the second series, and some other surprises in store.

We've got a brand new look and a brand new issue over at InDigest.

The new issue features work from Justin Alt, Joseph Bates, Andrew Booth, Allen Edwin Butt, Lindsay D'Andrea, Molly Dorozenski, Sally Grossart (who made the TS Eliot paper person above), Matthew Guenette, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Gregory Lawless, Rebecca Porte, Sampson Starkweather, Amber Tamblyn, and Matt Wilkinson.

We're pretty happy with the new design and the new issue. What do you think? Let us know how it looks, how it reads, and how you've been.

And thanks if you supported our new site project on Kickstarter. It means a lot. You made it possible for us to get this new thing going.

InDigest Issue #24 Launch Party Tonight!

Tonight is the InDigest Issue #24 Launch Party. We'll have drinks and then readings from Dave Hill, Sampson Starkweather, Mitchell S. Jackson, Joseph Riippi, Lindsay D'Andrea, Molly Dorozenski, Allen Edwin Butt and Andrew Booth. It'll be better than an ear wig.

HOWL Festival Today

Today is the HOWL Festival in Tompkins Square Park from 1-4pm. I'm reading at 2:30pm. I'll be having beers at 2:40pm. Join me, please.

There are also lots of other great writers reading like Christie Ann Reynolds, Leah Umansky, T.M. De Vos, and others. Full schedule below.

1:00pm: Rachel Boyadjis
1:10pm: Lisa Marie Basile
1:20pm: T.M. De Vos
1:30pm: Liz Axelrod
1:40pm: Jennifer Williamson
1:50pm: Emily Linstrom
2:00pm: Erin Lynn
2:10pm: Meghann Plunkett
2:20pm: Carina Finn
2:30pm: Dustin Luke Nelson
2:40pm: TBA
2:50pm: Leah Umansky
3:00pm: Justin Sherwood
3:10pm: Michael Lala
3:20pm: Christie Ann Reynolds
3:30pm: Rachel Herman-Gross
3:40pm: Robert Cunningham
3:50pm: Lauren Hunter

Today I Will Be a Compensated Spokesperson

I've got a new poem up at Opium today called "Today I Will Be a Compensated Spokesperson." Which, I've discovered, will take you about two minutes to read.

Update: These kind of posts are most useful when I provide a link.

Last Day of Our Kickstarter Campaign

Today is the final day of our Kickstarter campaign for InDigest.

Dapper Abe

Hell Yes Press' "21 Love Poems"

Saturday! Saturday! Saturday!

Tonight a couple of my Abraham Lincoln poems will be read by actors for Emotive Fruition at the Bowery Poetry Club at 8pm. It's $5. Should be good times. Poems by Jen Knox, Monica Wendel, and Martin Rock will also be read.

Also, in Minneapolis tonight, Hell Yes Press is releasing the cassette anthology 21 Love Poems with a little shindig at Boneshaker Books. I'll be there in spirit, and they're playing a short video I made of the Abraham Lincoln poem on the cassette.

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.

New Poem at METRO

Got a new poem up at Twin Cities METRO. The poem is titled "The Argument is as to Whether or Not These Pages End," and it's from the manuscript I'm finishing up at the moment.

InDigest and Kickstarter

Geocachers: Chris Koza and Rogue Valley

Check out the newest episode of Geocachers where Sam interviews Chris Koza and Rogue Valley.