If you're in NYC this weekend...

I kinda love Kazim Ali. He's a magnificent writer and has been incredibly kind on the few occasions I've been fortunate enough to hang out where he happens to be. I got to see him on a panel at AWP '08 where he read just a little bit and brought down Midtown. He's reading twice in NYC this weekend.

Details:

Friday, February 12th, 5:00pm:

Kazim Ali, Tao Lin, Maaza Mengiste

At the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House

58 W 10th St., New York, NY,

Sponsored by New York University Creative Writing Program.

Saturday, February 13th, 2:00pm:

Kazim at the Four-Faced Liar

165 W 4th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues)

He'll also be at Squaw Valley this summer, and hopes you think about applying.

Bookslut & The Wonderfull Yeare

Nate Pritts is interviewed over at Bookslut. Check out the whole piece where he gets into some nitty-gritty about The Wonderfull Yeare.

Cooper Dillon is taking orders for the book right this minute. They will ship by Feb. 16th, fo' sho'.

As if there wasn't enough to love...

Gary L. McDowell (of They Speak of Fruit fame, now available at Cooper Dillon Books) has won the Orphic Prize for his full-length collection, American Amen!

Full story over at his blog RIGHT HERE.

If you'd like a taste of what's to come from Dream Horse Press, head to Cooper Dillon and get your chap on!

If You're in St. Louis on January 23rd...

A good reading with some good people. Flyer's above, and more details are over at this lovely blog right here.

An Essay (& reading if you're in NYC on the 17th)

Ada Limón has a courageous essay of affirmation up at InDigest. It's called Listen. Give it a read.

She's also reading with a whole bunch of wonderful people in NYC on 1/17. The details:

Boog City presents

Launch Party for

The Portable Boog Reader 4

annual poetry anthology

with 72 NYC poets and now D.C. Metro area poets

all new to The Portable Boog Reader

Sun., Jan. 17, 7:00 p.m.

$5

Zinc Bar

82 W. 3rd St. (Sullivan/Thompson sts.)

NYC

WITH READINGS FROM PBR4 CONTRIBUTORS

N.Y.C. poets:

Ivy Johnson * Boni Joi

Steven Karl * Ada Limón

D.C. poets:

Lynne Dreyer * Phyllis Rosenzweig

Curated and hosted by Portable Boog Reader 4 N.Y.C. editors

Sommer Browning, Joanna Fuhrman, David Kirschenbaum, and Urayoán Noel,

and D.C. editors Cathy Eisenhower and Maureen Thorson.

Directions: A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W. 4th St.

For further information:
212-842-BOOG (2664), editor@boogcity.com

PBR4 (BC61) features the work of 48 New York City and 24 D.C. Metro area poets.

The physical issue will be available 12.30.09, and the online pdf that same day at:

http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc61.pdf

The Devastation by Jill Alexander Essbaum is Now Available

Cooper Dillon Books is happy to bring you Jill Alexander Essbaum's long-poem chapbook, The Devastation.

Head on over to the Cooper Dillon Bookstore and start 2010 off right!

PS - Expect this blog to have a name other than my own soon. Ms. Rachel Dacus was kind enough to plug it and link it up, and it seems goofy that I never named this space. More to come as it comes.

Peace, babies!

Welcome to the New Year

Kick it off by reading Jason Schneiderman over at the Best American Poetry Blog.

My brother asked me the other day what my resolutions were. He got annoyed when I told him I don't make them because I don't think we need to wait for a day-to-come to make our lives better. Why should our resolve be waivering until the new year?

Just saying.

As for this blog, the resolve is the same as it ever was: expect announcements regarding other artists around the entire community whom I'm excited to support. The links to the right bring you to people who are making magical stuff, and I hope you enjoy it.