So Much Reading You'll Need A New Set Of Eyes

Besides there being new issues of Fence, LIT, & Effing Magazine (which I'll blog about once I read them- I'm still reading the latest Jubilat & Lungfull) here are some online journals to tempt your intellect:

The new issue of CUE is up (first on-line version), guest-edited by Mark Horosky with work from Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina in it, alongside work by Elizabeth Willis, Richard Siken, Matt Hart, Sarah Manguso, Tony Mancus, Dorothea Lasky, Tim Peterson, Reb Livingston, Chaz McCallahan, and Jason Labbe.

The 11th issue of pax americana is up, with such shining stars as: Paige Taggart, Christie Ann Reynolds, Nicole Santalucia, Sarah Feeley, Lauren Hunter, Jean Hartig, Amy LAwless, Matthew Yeager, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Kiely Sweatt, Patricia Smith, Aria Boutet, Rachel-Herman Gross, Taryn Andrew, Joseph Millar, Dorianne Laux, Teege Braune.

Rabbit Light Movies Episode #9
suzanne buffam | Joshua Beckman | Dorothea Lasky | Srikanth Reddy | Magdalena Zurawski |
Lauren Levin | Graham Foust | CAConrad | Aaron Kunin | brandon shimoda | Catherine Theis

Upcoming this week: An acoustic show and a reading- my oh my

A reading featuring Bruce Covey and my friend Kiely Sweatt on Thursday and an acoustic performance from Anjulie (on Wednesday)- she's pretty much an r&b type of singer/songwriter so i'm not sure what to expect from the show but I'm sure it'll be worth catching.

The show:

Hey
I'm playing an intimate acoustic show this wednesday in the west
village if you'd like to come.

kenny's castaway
157 Bleecker Street btw sullivan and thompson
@ 830pm
no cover charge

x
a

www.myspace.com/anjulie

As some of you may know I am no longer involved with Word of Mouth in any capacity so this will be the 1st one I've attended since my departure. Brian Kloppenberg read at the very last WoM I was a part of. He's pretty good and has a poem in the newly released issue 63 of The New York Quaterly which also features Matthew Yeager who was another reader (twice) at WoM.

The Reading:


Word of Mouth
August 9th at 7pm
@ Bluestockings Radical Books
172 Allen St. (Between Stanton and Rivington)

Readers will be:
Bruce Covey (poetry)
Paul Rome (fiction)
Brian Kloppenberg (poetry)
Kiely Sweat (poetry)


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Frequency
August 11th at 2pm
@ The Four Faced Liar
165 West 4th St. (at 6th Ave.)

Readers will be:
Bruce Covey
Meghan Punschke
Gina Myers


Visit www.megpunschke.com/wordofmouth.html for a complete list of 2007 events.

LIT launch party wrap- up and poem accepted

The LIT launch party was a good time. The funny thing about NS events is that the alcohol seems to either last forever or vanish in a blink- this party was one of them vanishing acts. First all the Brooklyn Lagers disappeared then all the cups and at one point I noticed a few people pouring white wine into empty soda cans. Wow! That's dedication or boredom at its best. Nonetheless it was good to catch Sampson Starkweather read and see so many people I don't know with copies of LIT in their hands. Have I told you how good ish 13 is going to be?

I saw Matthew Yeager (who I hadn't seen in ages) Malachi Black, Mark Bibbins, and met Peter Bogart Johnson's (current editor of LIT along with Nicole Steinberg, a good poet, and a very funny guy) wife, and then left the party with poets Daniel Meagers and Steve Roberts for a few more drinks. Both Steve and myself had work early the next morning so it ended up being a pleasant, yet early evening... sorry Dan!

Friday I got an acceptance email from Knock Journal (out of Seattle) that they will be publishing my "Birthday Poem" in their November issue- yeah for that! At sometime today I have to figure out where else I've submitted that poem so I can retract it- definitely my least favorite task- let's just say my submission spread sheet is a half-assed infrequently updated thing of a disaster!