Some Things

New issue of Action Yes!
New issue of So and So Magazine!
Lily Ladewig dig a wonderful write-up of the CUNY chapbook festival & one of the off-site readings. Read it here.

I wrote this; Mathias wrote that

I have two poems in the new ish of So and So (and they're short too!) Here's the line-up:
Boehl, Henriksen, Starkweather, Taggart, East, Doxsee, Karl, Stein, Burns, Devereux and Jonas.

Mathias Svalina has an essay up on Pop.

Around the web in 60 or more seconds

The new ish of So & So is up and features poems by Nate Pritts, Tony Mancus, Michael Carr, Elisa Gabbert, Feng Sun Chen, Nicole Mauro, Lilly Ladewig, and Guillermo Parra. Check it out here.

There's also the debut of Paperbag. Featuring poems by Joanna Furman & Toni Simon, Matt Rohrer, Viktor Witkowski, Edwin Torres, Elisabeth Pancrazi, Rick Snyder, Anne Carson & Robert Currie, Solmaz Sharif, Brian Carey Chung, and Andrew Grace. Check it out here.

Thising & Thating

Today I'm off to MOMA. Tonight I'm heading over to Chin Music 7pm Pacific Standard to hear Graeme Bezanson, Matthew Rohrer, and Geoffrey Nutter. Tomorrow I leave for a few days to hang out in Boston.

If you get lonely how about you catch up on on yer reading:

So & So #3 featuring
Christie Ann Reynolds
Rob MacDonald
John Dermot Woods
Kate Schapira
kathryn l pringle
Jean-Paul Pecqueur

There's Octopus too!

Featuring poetry by

Sawako Nakayasu
Daniel Lin
Julie Carr
José Díaz
Chanel Clarke
Cherise Bacalski
Tim Van Dyke
Ayane Kawata
translated by Sawako Nakayasu

Kristin Sanders
Jenny Zhang
Cathy Linh Che
Justin Marks
Jon Leon
Christopher DeWeese
Natalie Lyalin
Alejandra Pizarnik
translated by Jason Stumpf

Bin Ramke
Bhanu Kapil
Lesley Yalen
Jonah Winter
Geoffrey Nutter
Claire Donato
Caroline Knox
Takako Arai
translated by Jeffrey Angles

Recovery Projects

Patrick Dunagan on John Clarke’s From Feathers to Iron: A Concourse of World Poetic
Harry Thorne on Carl Rakosi’s Ex-Cranium, Night
Nate Pritts on Larry Eigner’s Air the Trees
Jesse Lichtenstein on William Dickey’s Rivers of the Pacific Northwest
Nicholas Benson on Aldo Palazzeschi’s Arsonist
Robert Miltner on Haniel Long’s Pittsburgh Memoranda
Carlos Soto Román on George Perec
Joel Bettridge on Robert Service

Reviews

Seth Landman on Natalie Lyalin’s Pink and Hot Pink Habitat
Joshua Butts on Michael Rerick’s In Ways Impossible to Fold
Shane McCrae on Ish Klein’s Union!
Rebecca Farivar on Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip

Song-Reviews

Teal Gardner on Rene Char’s The Brittle Age & Returning Upland
Daniela Gesundheit on Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip
Anderson Reinkordt on Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal

& Word For/ Word:

Scott Abels
Elizabeth Winder
Donald Dunbar
Naomi Beth Tarle
Josef Kaplan
Cherise Bacalski
Emily Kendal Frey
Carlyle Baker
Crane Giamo
Steve Roggenbuck
erica lewis
Reed Altemus
Alexandra Mattraw
Stephanie Martz
Ashley VanDoorn
Karl Kempton
Breonna Krafft
James Capozzi
Sasha Steensen
Derek Pollard
Jackie Clark

Around the Internet & Saturday Real Time

New ish of SOandSO! Pretty Damn Good!

Also one of my fave poets, Christie Ann Reynolds over here

Vanitas Blog has Ceravolo's "Ho Ho Ho Caribou" with photos- check it out here

Ross Brighton has some great stuff on his blog about Ariana Reines which is over here

An interview with CA Conrand & Frank Sherlock here

SATURDAY LOOKS LIKE THIS:
THE ENCLAVE XXVIII

FEATURING: RENATO ROSALDO, ARACELIS GIRMAY & JARED HOHL

Saturday, February 27th @ 4 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street
New York City
Free
For info: www.myspace.com/enclavianmatter


RENATO ROSALDO started writing poetry in English and Spanish while
recovering from a stroke in 1996. His first book of poetry, Prayer to
Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña, received an American Book Award
(2004). Individual poems have won the El Andar poetry contest (2000)
and the Many Mountains Moving poetry contest (2005). He teaches at New
York University. As an anthropologist, he is the author of Culture and
Truth and Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974.

ARACELIS GIRMAY is the author of the collage-based picture book,
changing, changing (Braziller, 2005) & the collection of poems, Teeth
(Curbstone, 2007). Her work has been published in Ploughshares,
Callaloo, The Massachusetts Review, & MiPoesias, among other journals.
She has been awarded a Jerome Foundation Travel & Writing grant & a
GLCA New Writers Award for Teeth. A Cave Canem Fellow, Girmay also
serves on the board of the Acentos Foundation.

JARED HOHL is from Iowa. His fiction has appeared in The Apocalypse
Reader, The Agriculture Reader, The Washington Square Review, and
Torpedo, a literary journal based in Melbourne, Australia.
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Handsome Black Cold Ocean Front Reading & Party Saturday

Black Ocean and Coldfront Magazine are celebrating the release of the new HANDSOME by co-sponsoring a poetry reading slash dance party at COCO 66 in Greenpoint on Saturday, February 27.

Weather reports are inconclusive.

Featured poets will be: Brianna Colburn, Jordan Davis, DJ Dolack, Shafer Hall, and Justin Marks

The reading will be followed by a DANCE PARTY. DJs Tobychoo & J. Cannibal will spin funk, garage, freak 40 and 60s soul. Get down so you can get down. Or at least have a few...

As Richard Chamberlain once said: “Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.”

Oh Sigh Oh

Hey all, I'm without my computer for a bit so I probably won't update the blog or be able to respond to Facebook, emails, & etc until maybe Thursday or so. I'll check my emails once before 9am & again after 2, but once I leave work I am virtually no more so how about you read the following to keep you from being lonely:

So and So's debut issue here!

Feeling fickle and furry? La Petite Zine's new issue has what you need.

Karla Kelsey and crew are your new and improved Constant Critic.

"You Told Me You Wanted Eat Up My Sadness"

Hi, how are ya? I'm lost in a forest so thanks for asking. While I continue to be tongue-tied & absent-minded how about you check out the Winter Ish of Sixth Finch with poems by J.Mae Barizo, Dan Magers, Jack Christain, Lauren Ireland, Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney, Rauan Klassnik, Kristi Maxwell, Michael Morse, Emilia A. Phillips, Nate Pritts, Zach Savich, Jordan Stempleman.
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How about Svalina-Cohen up all week at No Tell Motel? Yep. Straight Heat for Winter Blues.

Speaking about M.J. you should definitely check out the new issue of
The Home Video Review of Books featuring:

If Not Metamorphic by Brenda Iijima
Catch Light by Sarah O'Brien
Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems of Hiromi Ito by Hiromi Ito
Texture Notes by Sawako Nakayasu
Stars of the Night Commute by Ana Božičević
Shot by Christine Hume
The Sri Lankan Loxodrome by Will Alexander
Sum of Every Lost Ship by Allison Titus
Little Red Girls by Angela Veronica Wong
A Mouth in California by Graham Foust
We Take Me Apart by Molly Gaudry

I'm thrilled to see so many books reviewed by writers who often grace this very blog like Sawako (whose book I can't wait to read) Veronica (who's my Flying Guillotine Label mate & frequent workshopper for like a zillion of my poems) Molly whose book I just finished & was completely rocked by, as was I with Ana's. Both Brenda & Hiromi's books are at the top of my wish list (in case you're feeling generous next month which happens to be the month I was born in- hint my birthday is the same day as Patti Smith's sister, Linda).
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Here's a repost from Foley's HTML GIANT posting:

Last Rally

The last issue (?) of The Raleigh Quarterly curated by Chris Tonelli and Chris Salerno has been updated today. RQ has has featured some great poets in their short tenure like Mark Yakich, Matt Henriksen, Emily Kendal Frey, Mathias Svalina, Sarah Bartlett, Joe Massey, Tony Tost, Kate Greenstreet, & Laura Sims. You’ll now be able to find the eyebrow raising tag team of Chris² at their new imprint So and So Magazine, who are currently taking submissions for their first issue. Congrats also to Chris Tonelli who just became a nasty dad. This man knows how to make things.