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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...

A Diary that nobody else will read

Hi. I'm going to write a quick-ish little message here that is probably mostly for myself to read (or re-read or understand or something; unfortunately, I have recently noticed that in addition to not speaking, spelling, or writing as well as I used to, I also can't remember things as well, for cripes sake {sp?}). Anyway basically here's my deal.

For years, I had a very long, weirdly personal blog online (CandyDishDoom). About a year ago, I switched over to this site, which is not so person...

Yum-o-Rama

Feel free to submit poems (or other odd little entities) to Thirteen Myna Birds, (the online piece I publish, of which you can visit the latest entry by clicking on it here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/ ). My reading is slow-ish lately, but I hope to update the site sometime this month, if I receive at least a few interestingly weird or delish stuff that I feel like accepting. If you visit and read some of the latest Thirteen Myna Birds, you may also see the guidelines appearing near the bott...

ActionYes Poetry

The Winter 2010 ActionYes online issue includes two poems by me, slurp!:

http://actionyes.org/index.htm

I really like ActionYes. I've read several of their deliciously wonderful poetry books, like 'My Kafka Century' by Arielle Greenburg, 'Remainland' by Aase Berg (translated by Johannes Gorransson)and two hideously excellent collections by Lara Glenum--'The Hounds of No' AND 'Maximum Gaga'.

I even wrote a longish review-like thingee of 'Max. Gag.' for an older issue of Gently Read Literature (ht...

I Have to Go Back to 1994...

Here's a review I wrote a few months back (published this month), of Karyna McGlynn's poetry book, 'I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl'.

I'm really glad I read that book and wrote a review a while ago, because I quite liked it (read it twice), but now my reading is much slower that even reading my own poems is tough (and I also had to let a few poets that I'd agreed to write reviews for now that I couldn't do it anymore right now, sigh).

I'll get better at some point, though--and then I'...