Swag & All That Noise

Some have inquired as to whether I went c-r-a-z-y at AWP & bought bags worth of books & journals, unfortunately I did not. I practiced the art of "restraint." I did pick up the following:

Run chapbook by Kim Gek Lin Short (Rope-a-Dope, 2010) * I've already read it twice!
Whatever You Love of Weapons You Love for Weapons. by Mathias Svalina (Brave Men Press, 2010)
My New Job by Catherine Wagner (Fence Books, 2009)
The Cow by Ariana Reines (Fence Books, 2006,2010)
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl by Karyna McGlynn (Sarabande Books, 2009)
No, Dear issues 3,4,5
Late Makeup Years & Decline (1979-1983) Dobby Gibson & Matt Hart (Hell Yes Press, 2010)
I go by Edgar Huntly now by Joshua Marie Wilkinson (Double Cross Press, 2009)
Cannibal Issue 5, Winter 2010
Sister by Alyssa Wolf (Cannibal Books, 2010)
Burnside Review Volume 5, Number 1
I Wonder If Balzac Had A Good Pianist Comics + Oneliners by Sommer Browning
2 Flying Guillotine Press T-shirts

2007 Round-up Tie a Bow on it

2007 is about to leave us nothing but wet footprints upon the skull- here are some of my favorites:

1) Paul Violi- Overnight, Hanging Loose Press

Unquestionably my favorite book of '07 and here's one of the better reviews I've read about his book in Jacket 33-

2) Sawako Nakayasu- Insect Country B, Chapbook- Dusie Press

fellow Coldfronter dishes the goods

3) Matthew Rohrer- Rise Up, Wave Books
BigCityLit did a fearless and excellent write up on Rohrer

4) Prageeta Sharma- Infamous Landscapes, Fence Books

This eased in just as the year was beginning to ease out- I hope you found it under your Xmas tree! Read some poems from it in the latest ish of Fence

5) Laura Mullen- Murmur, Future Poem Books

Why weren't more people talking about this gem? Here's a wee interview with Mullen

6) Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Book of Days, Sorcery, Chapbook Dusie Press

Read four prose poems

7) CA Conrad, The Frank Poems, Chapbook, ypolita press

Read CA's killer poem in Sink Review

8) Structure & Surprise, edited by Michael Theune, Teachers & Writers Collaborative

9) Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, I Love Artists, University of California Press

Interview in Jacket 27

Okay, okay this was technically 2006, but I read in early 2007 so don't hate!

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Journals that brought it

Conduit

Barrow Street

Denver Quarterly

Vanitas

Sink Review

Real Poetik

Coconut

H_ngm_n

LIT

Crazy Horse

Cold Front Magazine

Poets & Writers

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Journals that didn't bring it:

Open City- poetry almost a non-factor

New Yorker- whateva Mr. Muldoon- same boring insiders' club- so y-a-w-n

Poetry- Okay, I'm feeling the translation section but honestly Calque does it better and 90% of what I read in Poetry is just plain boring esp. the essays.

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Blogs

The Pines

Ron Silliman- Love or hate him it's the most consistent and link-filled blog concerning poetry! & i actually love reading his movie reviews.

Jennifer Lew- 'cause it's mad funny and generally filled with lots o pictures, videos, and writing that pops

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Music

Panda Bear, Radiohead, Aesop Rock, The Roots, MIA, Animal Collective, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, Common

Asobi Seksu & Blonde Redhead playing live

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Hopefully 2008 brings new work from Eric Baus, Sarah Gambito, Michele Glazer, Claudia Rankine, Mark Bibbins, and Li-Young Lee.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Americus, Book Two?)

Suji Kwok Kim- where you at?

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'07 Shout-outs:

David Lehman, Chris Stackhouse, Meghan Punschke, Prageeta Sharma, Coldfront, LIT

Joseph Lappie- get some sleep 'cause '08 is going to be a big year for you both as an artist & publisher!

Jared Hohl & Adam Wiedewitsch (Czar, Prime Minister, doctor - patients= pints for PSGS!)

Sandy Choi & Amyjoy Clark where are we eating in 2008?

Mina Cheong, Tara Mei Smith, Bichthu Cao Minh, Elliot Montgomery, Audrey Hawkins, Jason Napoli Brooks, Jared Hohl, Cara Wolinsky- thanks for the parties, get-togethers,hospitality, & assorted etc

Sandy Choi, Julia Li, Mina Cheong, Monica Kapoor, Audrey Hawkins, Shipra Misra, Dan Maegers, Nicole Pajor, Felisa Salvado-Keyes, James Stobie, Peter Moore and Mike thanks for coming out to the T&W readings

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Blog Shout-outs (Keep blogging- don't leave me lonely)

Sandy Choi

Julia Cohen

Angela Veronica Wong

Dime Magazine

Julia, Cara, Audrey