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I'M WITH STUPID

MAINTENANT 12: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY DADA WRITING AND ART (Three Rooms Press, 2018), features work that explores the theme “We Are All A ‘Like.'” With the rise in social media use—and abuse—the concept of “like” has reached whole new levels. There’s the idea of an individual’s reaction to events, people, images, etc. as a reduction to “Like” or “Dislike” without need for deeper consideration. Then there is the status factor: that something which is “Liked” by the largest number of people is of value. The concept, while simple, has innumerable ways of looking at it.

Cover by MacArthur Fellow artist Nicole Eisenman. Inside, the work of nearly 200 artists and writers from six continents storms the pages.

VIDEO: "Stay quirky, my friends!"

*** speakers up / click to play *** Well, Friday’s book release was pretty much the most unreal night I’ve had in a long time. Thank you all – so much – for making it truly extraordinary. It was a total love fest and I'm still basking! Everyone’s support has been beyond incredible.

TAKE OUT DELIVERY: the book release party

Friends! You're invited! Take Out Delivery: Poems & Comics
was recently published and I’m throwing it a launch party.

Facebook: FRIDAY, JUNE 22 @ L’Etage (624 S 6th St)


Featuring thrills:
~ Kim Gek-Lin Short
~ Kevin Varrone
~ Quincy R. Lehr
~ Angel Hogan
~ Julia Bloch
~ Ernest Hilbert
~ Tamara Oakman
& Paul Siegell

Hosted by Painted Bride Quarterly’s Kathleen Volk Miller

Doors 7 / Readings 7:45ish / Love ∞

SONG: "The Next Dalai Lama" by Paul Siegell

speakers up / click to play:
“Extra extra: this affects ya. It’s comin’ atcha. Straight for you.
You betcha. To inform you. And protect you. And connect you.”

THE BOOK TRAILER

coming soon: Music: "Tim on the Spooky" by Loud Julia

inter|rupture: the final issue

poem: GROUND CONTROL to SELF-CONTROL : poem

Library of Congress'd

backstage at the submission apparition exhibition

2017: 10 acceptances + 50 rejections received; 1 book accepted !
2016: 11 acceptances + 53 rejections received;
2015: 12 acceptances + 88 (54/34) rejections received;
2014: 9 acceptances + 31 rejections received;
2013: 12 acceptances + 37 rejections received;
2012: 12 acceptances + 39 rejections received;
2011: 16 acceptances + 37 rejections received;
2010: 22 acceptances + 52 rejections received;
2009: 23 acceptances + 51 rejections received;
2008: 25 acceptances + 73 rejections received;
2007: 17 acceptances + 71 rejections received;
2006: 9 acceptances + 28 rejections received

*GABRIEL*

NEW POEM WITH AUDIO: * GABRIEL * in the CLEAVER: Philadelphia's International Literary Magazine. Issue No. 20.
Also featured on Cleaver Radio’s On The Edge. Many thanks
to the editors.

Spuyten Duyvil is a Bronx neighborhood. "Spuyten Duyvil" [Dutch] means "Spouting Devil." Spuyten Duyvil Press was born in 1982, near Columbia University, by poet/novelist M.G. Stephens. And then later expanded by T. Thilleman in the '90s.

Dear Paul,

Take Out Delivery plunges, playful, punful into the cheeky contem-poetics via poemics and plumbing the sonic underbelly of collective unconsciousness. "Lip locked to hip hop", "achingly rhythmic" scrawl about the base, the beat. Surreal submerge in subconscious cultural cream. Head-under-water bobbing for apples you know will taste juicy as solitary sudden revelations of communal hear, now: "hot pepper people performing the sitar ritual over the relic of self." Bits of true dialogue glimmer like flashes seen out of eye corner. Culture hoarder. "Dark matter scavenger hunt." Dumpster diving for treasure, truth. The image shakes itself out of the eaves, startling, unfurling: "Most of those being found are dead--" These poems writhe and meaning writes itself in a slip-slide as images bleed blend and build into hot chili peppered wonders we never thought possible till your musical body wrung them out for us, in comic color.

Needless to proclaim, the SD team utterly adores your work and would love to publish Take Out Delivery!

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Bright summer dregs,
Aurelia
Editor
Spuyten Duyvil Publishing