RIP 2023

I started this year with a little mini tour for SONGS FOR LEAVING, which is now out of print. This collection of poems was published in Nov. of 2022 by Gutter Snob Books (RIP). I have the last remaining copies, so hit me up if you want one.

Signed Paperback Copy of SONGS FOR LEAVING by A.S. Coomer

$15 includes US shipping.

$15.00

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The audio version of the collection is available wherever you stream your music (& on Bandcamp). I recorded myself reading the poems then added instrumentation and noise. 25 poems; 25 songs all for your listening pleasure.

The good folks over at The Grind Stone asked me for some poems. I came up with a little chapbook called SING WHILE YOU CAN. This was an extremely limited release and has since sold out.

We had a release reading to celebrate SING WHILE YOU CAN at Evansville, Indiana’s coolest bookstore Your Brother’s Bookstore. Here’s a video of my entire set.

I brought both books with me as I crisscrossed the world, reading poems from the Islands of Greece and the United Kingdom, ancient places of the Yucatan, the banks of the Nolin River, the woods of rural central Kentucky, public libraries & bookstores, bars and stages across the US, and a whole slew of places in between. I’m so thankful for the people and places I’ve gotten to know along this strange, twisting country backroad we call life.

I dabbled in video production this year. I made a couple of videos. Here’s one I made for my poem/song WINDSONG, which is included in SONGS FOR LEAVING.

I spent a little time in Tulum, Mexico earlier this year. I wrote two songs there: an aubade and a nocturne. You can pick up the tracks from my Bandcamp page. You can also stream the two songs wherever you normally do that.

In June I drove down to Byhalia, Mississippi, just south of Memphis, Tennessee, to hang out and make some music with my good friend Patrick McGee. If you’re not familiar with Patrick’s work, he’s an incredible painter (he painted the cover), excellent songwriter, & a mighty fine guitar picker. He put out two great records in the last couple of years: Midnight Choirs and Cabarets & Serenading the Muse (both of which are streaming on all the major services now). Anyway, I went down there & set up some microphones & we recorded four songs; two of Patrick’s (I Been A Miner & Memphis Bound) & two of mine (Ludlow Lullabies & Cumberland Gap). We made all the sounds you hear, from wailing on the electric guitar in trading solos to banging on a busted snare with paint brushes while dancing with Patrick’s mischievous doggo Dullahan (who bites). My brother Ethan Coomer (an amazing songwriter & multi-instrumentalist) mixed & mastered the songs for us. You can stream the EP everywhere. Pick up a copy on Bandcamp and get access to behind-the-scenes photos, lyrics, & more.

I moved back home to Hardin County. I’m currently living in Glendale, KY. I made a record to document my time here called THE GLENDALE TAPES. This collection of three aubades & three nocturnes was written & recorded in Glendale, KY 4/19/23 – 5/1/23 as the weather shifted & the days piled up like sun-cured kindling. This EP is arranged with the spin of the world: day to night & back again. You’ll start your day in Glendale with Glendale with Aubade #3: Fuzzy-Tongued Sun’s Song of Reprisal & stream on down the minutes until your time in Glendale ends with Glendale Nocturne #3: Slow Dance of Stars & Satellites. There are moments of joy and grief, quite a bit of the liminal too. There are tears here to hear, both varieties, often within in the same song (see: Glendale Nocturne #2: Light-Headed Night Exhales Breathless Dawn). My motto for this record was: Do More With Less. I did my best to keep it simple, like the way things often are here in Glendale. Thanks for stopping by. All six songs are now available to stream at all the usual places. The local paper THE NEWS-ENTERPRISE showed me a little kindness and ran a feature for the EP, which included my ugly mug on the front page.

The second edition of my collaborative haiku collection SWAY was published by the good folks at Laughing Ronin Press. This edition contains ten new poems from Michael Grover and ten from yours truly. Pick up a copy today!

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SWAY 2nd Edition Paperback Signed by A.S. Coomer

$11 gets you a signed (by A.S. Coomer only!) paperback copy of SWAY 2nd Edition. This new printing has twenty new haiku (ten from Grover; ten from Coomer).

$11.00

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I had two poems published in Rusty Truck: of a tuesday morning & future fires. You can read them here.

I did a lot of recording and music production in 2023. One of my releases is a 6-song EP called AIN’T IT HARD?. This rock record was a lot of fun to make. I made all the sounds you hear. You can download it from Bandcamp (which includes some extra goodies like a digital lyric booklet) and/or stream it at all the usual places.

Cam Chaney, an amazing artist/musician friend of mine (check out Mr. Morning), was kind enough to make a visualizer for ain’t it hard?. Check it out.

A.S. Coomer graphic made by Phil Chaney
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