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TRY A CUP OF DEVIL’S INSTANT COFFEE

DEVIL’S INSTANT COFFEE
(Co-winner of the 2012 Right Hand Pointing chapbook contest. Read it!)


IDEA FOR A BUILDING IN ROANOKE, VIRGINIA

dearest Roanoke,
forgive me—

I am a man of falls,

but not of motion;

a man wrapped

in blankets

making plans

for a future city,

but never for sleep

DEVIL’S INSTANT COFFEE

My chapbook, DEVIL’S INSTANT COFFEE is now available free online from Right Hand Pointing. DEVIL’S INSTANT COFFEE is the co-winner of the 2012 Right Hand Pointing chapbook contest. I’m beyond pleased to share this with you. Thank you, Dale Wisely. And Special thanks to Keith Higginbotham, who provided early inspiration to many of these poems, as mentioned in the book. Pass it on!

SEE: DEVIL’S INSTANT COFFEE

 

ENTER THE SLOTH

Beach Sloth rocks the hardest lit reviews. Ever. Here’s what Beachy had to say about IN THOSE DAYS WE, which I am particularly thrilled to be a part of.

SEE: BEACH SLOTH TAKES ON EVERYBODY

 

MUSIC I HAVE DONE WILL SEE YOU NOW

So, I want you to hear some music I’ve done. I don’t want you to pay for it unless you want to. I want you to share it with your friends, but mostly I want you to enjoy it & hang out with while you wash your dog & make pudding.

Click the one with the horse if you like americana-type stuff; click the yellow ones if you don’t. Why are you still reading this?

SEE: MUSIC

 

TALKING BEACH SLOTH NAP LOG BLUES

“David Tomaloff crushes it into a complete and thorough ending. He follows a dragonfly. Death surrounds him.” –Beach Sloth on my piece in the NAP LOG anthology. I think.

SEE: TALKING BEACH SLOTH NAP LOG BLUES

 

ROUNDING UP WITH CONNOTATION PRESS

In which Connotation Press & Erica Goss share outstanding poetry films from the Zebra Poetry Film Festival, 2012, in Berlin. Swoon & I are represented with PROOF, which Erica describes as “an eerie trip through the mind of a disturbed person.”

SEE: ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL ROUND UP

 

1698 WAS A PRETTY GOOD YEAR FOR ME

A poem in which I am Ludolf Bakhuizen‘s drawing in the year 1698 as Ships on the Stormy Sea. If you aren’t familiar with the awesome FOR EVERY YEAR site, this might be a pretty good entry point.

SEE: SHIPS ON THE STORMY SEA

ARDENTER AT MOVING POEMS

“ARDENTER,” the collaborative videopoem I did with Swoon regarding gluttony, can now be viewed over at Dave Bonta’s excellent Moving Poems site. Thank, Dave. And special thanks to Swoon.

SEE: ARDENTER

 

THIS NEVER HAPPENED HAS HAPPENED

Today I am HOUSEFIRE with all of my tiny horses inside.

Via Robert Duncan Gray: “new jam by David Tomaloff up on Housefire today! Say goodbye to November with THIS NEVER HAPPENED.”

SEE: THIS NEVER HAPPENED

 

I REP THAT DRAGONFLY. GET AT ME LOG.

We are all NAP, & NAP is we. We are a collection of nature poems by a fine collection of writers. We are LOG, & I am THREE SISTERS///THE DRAGONFLY, wherein Neil Fallon is epigraph. In this nature, I am sitting next to Paige Taggart, Matt Rowan, Neal Kitterlin, Howie Good, & no really, please go look.

SEE: LOG at NAP