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I'm reading...

Sunday, April 1, 2 pm
Alan Davies and Allen Bramhall
The Out of the Blue Gallery
106 Prospect Stree
Central Square, Cambridge

Sunday, April 1, 7 pm
Christina Strong & John Coletti
The Plough and Stars
912 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge

I was last in Cambridge in January so it's not like this is a homecoming. I should be in rare form.

So remember, I'm reading on April Fool's Day. Which is appropriate.

Remember also, my birthday is April 3 and I am now at the age that I would like to forget how old I am.

Remember this also, Frank Sherlock's birthday is also April 3. Same age, same year. I'm glad he made it.

I am an art critic

I've been meaning to post this for a while

Portraits of NOH one

Disclosure: Dan Irvine is a friend and a great artist I met in SF years ago.
He was the person who initially taught me photoshop, quark et al.
Without him, I'd be down a whole other career path...

Full disclosure: I didn't know what to write so
follow the links to "art" and it should speak for itself.

What have I been doing?

This, for starters:

Chuck Collins Online

Let me tell you, that MT, it's a pain and the forums aren't much help.
I am now uploading all CC's articles, then I have to show him how to post,
and then I am downloading a new version of MT,
and I am going to redesign this blog.
Maybe I will post more. Not that I don't have anything to say,
but I'm in "I'm keeping my mouth shut" mode.

Except of course when it comes to tomorrow.
I am going to have to find someone with a TV.
Let's hope the Democrats (of which I am not one)
don't fuck things up at the last minute like they usually do.

I am no longer unemployed

or under employed. I now have a job starting Tuesday.

So now I can work on other things, like poems!
Or complain about other things, like life.

My next three paychecks are already spent,
probably under the guise of buying you dinner.

I am quite pleased, in fact elated, bc living in NY is no fun with no $.

I might as well live in a yurt in the woods.

Which I have done.

Which is no fun, especially for someone like me
who likes electricity and running water
and heads for the coffee grinder first thing
in the morning.

I lasted 4 days in a yurt.

Which may have been 4 days too long
but there was a hot tub involved
and I knew I could bail on the whole
expedition with one phone call.

On a rotary phone, but still, a phone that worked.

On other matters, I spent a little bit of time
trying to figure out what the unemployment rate
translated to in numbers, as in, how many people
are unemployed. We are told that 43,000,000
people are uninsured. I read in the news that Ford
wants to give the golden handshake to 75,000 employees
but I guess an unemployment number
would be hard to tally.

Still, it would be nice to have a number and not a percentage.

And why should I care about all this?

Well, I don't have to flip back between media bistro
and monster.com and craigslist and whomever anymore
while at the same time listening to democracy.org
and reading lefty blogs and then getting depressed
and then going to youtube for the dailyshow just for cheap comic relief.

I'll have a monthly MTA pass, and I can find my cheap entertainment on the F train.

On the way to the interview today the bus broke down,
a few minutes later someone asked me if I was interested
in hearing about jesus, and I saw a not very happy woman
drinking a tall boy on the train.

I don't think any of those incidents are connected and
if you think so, connect the dots.
I on the other hand, am or will be celebrating.

Congratulations to the Cooks!

I can't help myself: I'm announcing it before I receive the digital pix...

Samuel James Finnegan Cook

born Wed 3:52 pm

Parents:

the ever and always beautiful
Amanda Cook
and
James Cook
of Gloucester MA.

If/when the next time I'm in an Irish pub (hell, any bar)
I'll order a shot of Powers and toast the new babe.

Lookee There...

CyPresspoetry #4 is out:

Brandon Brown
Michael Cross
Drew Gardner
K. Lorraine Graham
Brenda Iijima
Larry Kearney
Ange Mlinko
Kerri Sonnenberg
Chuck Stebelton
Christina Strong
Stephen Vincent
Matvei Yankelevich

I like the look of the web page,
and the **now what is deemed as subtle 2006** flash file.
I like, I like. Want more.
No comment on the mag at the moment,
other than I like the individual covers.

But what I love, love, is CA Conrad's book,
Deviant Propulsion, just received in the mail this afternoon.

For starters, I love it when poetry magazines
and books show up when I least expect it.
And I do like sitting on my front porch in
finally decent weather and having a chance to read said material.

A front porch I'm never going to have again. Or at least not this one...

Today's

my birthday, three more years and I can finally vote...who shall it be in three years time, a mediocre democrat, an armchair marxist green party member, or another mediocre democrat?

So today I am doing nothing but reading. Joris's A Nomad Poetics is finally finished, now on to the six books I cart around in my bag...

Reading in NYC March 5

March 5, 2006

Book Party for:
Physical Kind by John Coletti (boku books/ portable press at yo yo labs, 2005)
American Music by Chris Martin (boku books, 2005)

and

Cadastral Map by Jill Magi (portable press at yo yo labs, 2005)
[ ANTI-ERATO ] by Christina Strong (portable press at yo yo labs, 2005)

2PM @ the frequency reading series (hosted by shafer hall)
the four faced liar (4th street between 6th avenue and 7th avenue)

Be there. I might bring presents.

bush movie

a still from the movie I showed at the BPC which will be cleaned up and shown at the Demolicious reading series in June.

SEGUE READING SERIES

January 7th, 2006 4 - 6 pm Bowery Poetry Club

Jonas Mekas is a film maker, poet and has written extensively
about cinema. He is the artistic director of Anthology Film Archives.
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs published DAYBOOKS, a book of poems.

Christina Strong's [ANTI-ERATO] was published this year by
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She runs Openmouth.org and has a blog:
http://www.bookwhore.com/weblog/. She lives in Boston, MA.

Go! I will be playing short videos as well as reading.

Demolicious.net

Bc one of my jobs of web mistress is to promote web sites as well as create them...I should be promoting this one

Demolicious.net

Demolicious is a monthly poetry reading series in Cambridge MA which highlights, well, poets. Michael Basinski gave a great reading on Sunday. You missed it.

Not all the links on the links page are working yet but I'm getting to it, and since my time is getting more limited re. web surfing, I would highly appreciate it if you were to submit a link (to me obviously) to your reading series or magazine. I know I'm missing some reading series in Philly and NY and SF and for that matter, the big chunk of land that's in bt SF and NY.

Grazie.