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Someone Else to Someone Else
Someone Else to Someone Else
COLUMBIA POETRY REVIEW No. 26 is here!
The new issue of CPR features work by Traci Brimhall, Heather Christle, Matt Hart, Alexis Pope, Mathias Svalina, Nick Sturm, Carmen Gimenez-Smith, Adam Clay, and so many other terrific poets.
Beautiful cover art by Izziyana Suhaimi.
I AM IN HERE.
(via thestorythief)
RION AMILCAR SCOTT.
CASSANDRA GILLIG.
WOLVES.
BIRDS.
GET ON THAT LEVEL.
I have a new David Bowie poem on Everyday Genius today.
This one is called “David Bowie Takes A Commercial Space Flight.”
(features space)
TUMBLR! I have a story in Paper Darts called “Evacuees.”
IT IS ILLUSTRATED by Meghan Murphy, in the best possible way.
look at those guys up top! amazing!
MY FIRST DAVID BOWIE POEM HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE DOCTOR TJ ECKLEBURG REVIEW.
It’s called “David Bowie and Damien Hirst Collaborate to Build a Minotaur,” and that’s exactly what it’s about.
Every single one of you should read it, because it’s about David Bowie and this is the beginning of something very important.
you & me:
I have a story in Monkeybicycle this week, called “Villains.”
it has all of the usual terrible crimes.
<3
look at that lil guy.
Three Writers That Make Me Happy
on my wordy blog, you can watch! me! say! nice! things! about these people:
(these are just samplings, on the blog proper, shit gets crazy)
About a year ago, I first read Mike’s unparalleled story/game “Angband, or His 55 Desires.” It’s the biggest, achiest, hulkiest thing of longing I’ve ever read and, at least from my personal perspective, encompasses every emotion I ever felt as a very purposeful videogamer when I was a teenager. Every time I return to it, this story gives me chills. You’ve never seen anything like it. …
No one makes you feel quite as small and brutalized yet ferociously cared for as Brandi Wells. I think what originally snagged me was the tone, casually intimate, sort of brutally offhand, if that makes any sense. Here’s a place to start, but just get the book. It’s something you’ll want to carry with you. …
Generally when you see people praising Dave’s work it’s variations on “oh wow what a wild ride” or “it’ll knock your socks right off your feet - literally!” and while these praises are perfectly true, they do not even scrape the surface of what genius plays are going on in these stories. They are visceral, yes, but there are real human guts inside, and his stories slip against reality in the most marvelous, subtle way. He writes it enough like pulp to fool most people (white knuckles on black-and-blue skin and all that), but really, it’s the weirdness and fantasies we don’t want to admit where these stories are hitting hardest.
NAP HYPE: NAP BOOK GIVEAWAY - REBLOG to ENTER
NAP has too many books, chapbooks, and lit mags.
NAP thinks it is unhealthy for books to sit on a shelf and not be read.
NAP thinks maybe one of you will want to read these books.
NAP is going to give away a medium flat rate priority box full of books.
(Winner must live in the…
i think if you win this contest you will no doubt outclass all of your friends in terms of bookytaste.
let’s take a NAP together.
ahahahaha
