Paul Siegell's Blog, page 17

one year from today?

STEVEN KARL USED SOME VERY KIND AND THOUGHTFUL WORDS TO INTRODUCE ME

On Friday, November 18, I read for the great Stain of Poetry Reading Series at Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick, Brooklyn. (Bathroom wall's a chaotic collage of amazing things to photograph). Well-known poets Heather Christle, Jennifer Tamayo, Karen Weiser and Jared White also read. And were incredible. Learned so much that night.

Before I read, Steven Karl introduced me. But he didn't just read my bio. He introduced me-introduced me. Here's what he said:

"Upjump the jam boogie bootleg! How else to introduce Paul Siegell? Emily Kendal Frey (last month's reader) recently updated her status by saying, "FACT: All writers secretly want to be musicians." Whether this is a "fact" or not is arguable, but one needs look no further than Siegell to assert the correlation. However, he does more than just pen poems for the Phish faithful--He gets inside the music, extracts the energy and creates his own brand of melody, jazzing across the page and riffing away in assonance and we, in turn, are moved from passive spectator to music maker."

Done dropped my jaw. Can't thank you enough, Steven!

05.02.09 - The Dead - The Spectrum, PA

Set I: One More Saturday Night, Brown Eyed Women, Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl, Althea, He's Gone > Uncle John's Band > Mason's Children

Set II: Jam > Good Lovin' > Cumberland Blues > Cryptical Envelopment > The Other One > Drums > Space > Morning Dew, St. Stephen > Revolution, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower

Encore: Organ Donor Rap, Samson and Delilah

MAKE AN 'US' OUT OF 'YOU' AND 'ME' THIS FRIDAY NIGHT IN BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN

Stain of Poetry: 7PM Friday, November 18 @ Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick, Brooklyn (Heather Christle – Paul Siegell – Jennifer Tamayo – Karen Weiser – Jared White) facebook invite: here!

BEST OF THE NET 2011: TREMENDOUS THANKS to InDigest for nominating my poem *MY COMMA LOOKS LIKE YOUR FETUS* for the 2011 Best of the Net Anthology - My first nomination!

#OccupyPhilly with Jacques Lipchitz

"With the statue of William Penn standing guard, the protestors of Occupy Philadelphia are standing up. But there's also another rather large monument, just across the street in Thomas Paine Plaza, that is keeping a watchful eye as well..."

Two new in Shampoo: PHISH & shutter shades

Also in Shampoo #39: Ron Silliman, Dustin Luke Nelson, John Moore Williams, Spencer Selby, Aaron Belz and a great many others! Follow @paulsiegell

"This icon-making tactic continues..."

"Without a Net": Ernest Hilbert on Optic, Graphic, Acoustic, and Other Formations in Free Verse in the Contemporary Poetry Review! (...And, a HUGE thanks to Ernie for including my *acrobatic macaroni* in the discussion!)

Photos from the [09.18.11] and [09.19.11] readings: HERE!

The Whiskey Rebellion Book Tour: Put a little Pittsburgh into it!

New! Camiele White talks me up over at TheWriteGame :

One of the many nice things: "Paul Siegell is the epitome of someone who's always seeking forward motion, a means to move and expand."

4PM SUNDAY [09.18.11]: Moveable Beats Reading Series @ The Slingluff Gallery (Jim Cory & Paul Siegell; hosted by Jim Mancinelli; open reading to follow) ...facebook!

7PM MONDAY [09.19.11]: "The Whiskey Rebellion" Book Tour with Pittsburgh Poets Jerome Crooks & Jason Baldinger @ Moonstone Arts Center (plus, Michelle Taransky and hosted by The Apiary 's Lillian Dunn)

Some shaped meaning from Poemergency Room

IRLpoetrytour: AUGUST ATE PHILADELPHIA

New poems appearing in PHiSH lot's Surrender to the Flow, + broadside's in InDigest .

(facebook invite)

IRLpoetrytour // August 8 "Somewhere" in Philly with Poncho Peligroso, Steve Roggenbuck , Dianca Potts, Ras Mashramani & Ari Roth. Hosted by Lillian Dunn of The Apiary .