Since no one has shown up for class

I've spent the hour reading these online journals:

Drunken Boat
Jellyfish

SuperMachine on Friday & Brooklyn Bookfest on Sunday

SUPERMACHINE ISSUE #2 LAUNCH PARTY
7:30pm, Sept. 10, 2010
The Schoolhouse
330 Ellery St
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Readings! Music! Your Autumn Crush!

with:

Macgregor Card
Chris Cheney
Lonely Christopher
Corina Copp
Jon Cotner
Joanna Penn Cooper
Anne Cecelia Holmes
Lauren Ireland
Simone Kearney
Dorothea Lasky
Paul Legault
Emily Pettit
Christie Ann Reynolds
Matvei Yankelevich
Matthew Yeager

with music by Forma & Haussmann
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Brooklyn Bookfest info here.

Hot & Heavy Hitters All Round Everyone Say Batta Batta Batta Swing For The Bleechers

So I went to the Wooden Shjips show on Monday. They were amazing & the place was far from packed. What was equally amazing is that all drinks including top-shelf liquor was only $3. Somehow the place still was not packed & the best part of the night was when dude who could have order himself a nice Scotch or Whiskey orders PBR! Never did I think I'd repeat anything my parents taught me, but I have to admit that maybe they are right, "The world is upon its last days."

A new ish of Sink Review is up & it's pretty damn good! Sink Review featuring poems by Ariana Reines, Brian Teare, Jessica Baran,Dan Hoy, Lauren Ireland, Elisa Gabbert, Matt Hart, Jennifer H. Fortin, Nate Pritts, Peter Bogart-Johnson, Angela Veronica Wong, Dottie Lasky, Stephanie Burns, and Matthew Henrik...sen! Art by Andy Mister. Reviews of Don Mee Choi, Kim Gek Lin Short, Christopher Salerno & Gina Myers.

The Salerno review is mine- here's the review & here's the issue.

There's some good stuff in the new Jellyroll too.

Wooden Shjips | ATP Stage | Primavera Sound 2009

Autolux - Turnstile Blues

New Poems From Myself & Others

From the editors Amy King and Ana Bozicevic
a new online journal of p/oetry and man/ifesto:

ESQUE
http://www.esquemag.com
http://www.esque.eu

*note: esque is a flash site. wait a full minute while it loads. enjoy.*

In ISSUE 1:

OETRY is the kitchen sink.
Charles Bernstein. Bei Dao. Tamiko Beyer. Jackie Clark. Amy De'Ath. Lidija Dimkovska. Kate Durbin. Steven Karl. Natalie Lyalin. Filip Marinovich. Sharon Mesmer. Miguel Murphy. Ariana Reines. Saeed Jones. Tomaz Salamun. Evie Shockley. Heidi Lynn Staples. Leigh Stein. Cole Swensen. John Tranter. Matvei Yankelevich.

IFESTO is everything but.
Jennifer Bartlett. Jillian Brall. Ching-In Chen. Ken Chen. Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Jennifer H. Fortin. Molly Gaudry. Roxane Gay. Matt Hart. Brenda Hillman. Dan Hoy. Ron Padgett & Olivier Brossard. Lars Palm. Joan Retallack. Brandon Shimoda. Anne Waldman. Franz Wright. Carolyn Zaikowski.


I have two longish poems in the debut issue of Esque. I thrilled to share a space with so many great writers & also to find a place willing to take not one, but two long poems.

There's also a new ish of Diagram.