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Meat Chorus (for Letizia)

Meat Chorus is another of my odd poems published in the Slash Pine Press chapbook, FONDANT PIG ANGST. Letizia Merello is a lovely fellow writer who digs this piece, so I'm reading it for her. She's a deliciousy darkly creative poet who has written her own strangely and scarily yummy work and also has taken the time to Translate quite a few of my poems into Italian, hurrah! The next Blood Pudding Press chapbook, created in several months (probably early June) will be a collection between th...

Slumber Party Scandal poetry

I have several different Slumber Party Scandal poems; this is #1. I will be reading #2 at an upcoming Slash Pine Press poetry reading event on April 24. Slumber Party Scandals 1, 2, & 3 are within a little chapbook of mine called Pink Leotard & Shock Collar published last year by Spooky Girlfriend Press (and recently sold out).

Twin Peaks & More!

More poetry reading coming soon.

For now, if you're interested in Twin Peaks and Poetry, check out my Blood Pudding Press blog for a little article complete with links and photos about Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary!

http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/

You also might want to consider submitting a Twin Peaks related or inspired poem to Thirteen Myna Birds, which will likely be updated later this month.

Fever

Here's me reading an older poem of mine called 'Fever'; it's from my full-length book 'HORRIFIC CONFECTION'. I've been trying to read a lot of my own poems lately in order to read them better and decide which few to read at the upcoming Slash Pine Press poetry reading (see my entry below for more info.).

I will not be reading this particular poem at that event, so here it is.

Not sure what's up with my weird-looking almost non-visible eyes covered by odd flashing light. That's probably an old c...

Poetry Delight in Tuscaloosa Alabama, April 23-24!

I will be reading a few of my poems as one part of many other fun-filled poetry readers participating in the Slash Pine Press Poetry Festival during the evening of Friday April 23 & pretty much all day and night on Saturday April 24. Wheee!

Several different poetry reading spots in Alabama take place throughout this event (Slash Pine Press lives at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa). The reading I am part of takes place on Saturday between 3 PM - 5:30 PM within a local bar called Little ...

Cat Scan Fever

Tomorrow I have a hospital appointment, during which I will be getting Cat Scanned, to see if my Stent area is healing properly after my stroke. I'm a little nervous about it, but hopefully it will go well. Then I'll be visitng the hospital a week later to find out the results and talk to one of the doctors who performed my surgery. I have a lot of things to talk to him about and ask him (copied above). Although I'm definitely feeling better and stronger in many ways, I am still experienc...

loverly womanly yum

I have an article about Feminist Poetry Publishing within the latest issue (seven) of make/shift magazine -- http://www.makeshiftmag.com/subscribe.htm

My article mentions various loverly womanly presses such as Blood Pudding Press (my own), Birds of Lace, Hex Presse, Dancing Girl Press, Switchback Books, & several more!

Slurp, blurb, flurt with yummy female poets![image error]

New Blue

Well, I finally wrote a new little article (finished a few days after writing my first new poem; see entry below) and published it on Associated Content, here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2807396/poststroke_survival_and_sad_little.html?cat=7

I just re-read it myself only to notice that I spelled a few little words wrong (which I did not notice the first few times I re-read it, sigh), which bugs me quite a bit, but alas. Feel free to read it if you'd like.

At least I'm still trying...

Post-Stroke my words are not over-ly obvious. Why on eart...

Post-Stroke my words are not over-
ly obvious. Why on earth should my
non overly obvious poetry be dead?


1. Telebloodied brain cadaver with pernicious red limp.
2. Telebloodied drain dagger with growing open limbs.

3. My carotid swirling, awaited a dangerous blow torch
from the crotch; clicked in, rose up, added platinum mesh
deep inside my odd head. In spite of my almost annihilation.

4. A vicious new voice will slowly seep out of my skull.
5. Will spill more pretty crooked plucked out wordage.[image error]

Soft Foam-ish

Soft Foam is my newest poetry chapbook, created for the Dusie Kollektiv 4. All Dusie 4 members have received a free copie in the mail, but I'm willing to create a few additional copies for any interested non-Dusie peeps.

It includes 16 poems about love, death, past lives, under water insects like Giant Squids and Haunted Sea Urchins, and more.

While the insides of all copies include the same poems, the outsides are different (see a few below).

If interested, a copy may be purchased at my Blood P...