If You Come I Will Be Here

I would like to see you at AWP, and you will be a lot of places.

Here are the places I know I will be.

 

Thursday 3/1 – An AWP Chicago Off-Site Reading! Hosted by iO: A Journal of New American Poetry / iO Books, Catch Up, & Lana Turner Journal.

I am reading 5:40 – 5:50 here:

Author’s Room / Harold Washington Library (5-9PM) /  4:00 South State Street.

W/Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Cole Swensen, Srikanth Reddy, Shane Book, Vanessa Place, Zachary Schomburg, Rebecca Hazelton, Jeff Hipsher, Adam Day, Kyle McCord, Wendy Xu, Cal Bedient, Cathy Wagner, Gary Jackson, Nick Sturm

 Friday 3/2

12:00 PM – Reading from The Container Store with Chad

Table Z @ the bookfair

1:00 PM – Book signing for Pigafetta Is My Wife

The Black Ocean Table @ the bookfair. I will sign anything, really.

 

The World Is Full of Things To Love

Here is my provisional sure to expand at your suggestion list of books I’ll be looking for on the floor of the book fair in Chicago. Will probably buy 3 or 4 more books based on what looks/reads pretty ambling around.

Janaka Stucky’s The World Will Deny It For You.

This is Ahsahta Press’ first chapbook (check). And there was a ferocious, torn up, compactness and directness to Janaka’s last chapbook (check). Plus, he is my editor (check).

Brandon Shimoda’s O Bon (Litmus Press).

I think the cover pretty much says it all.

Kim Hyesoon’s All The Garbage of the World, Unite! (Action Books)

Publisher of Killing Konoko + Author of With Deer = Yes.

Kyle McCord’sSympathy for The Devil(Gold Wake Press)

Ok, this doesn’t come out until 2013. But I read it in the future and it is great.

Debrah Morkun’s Ida Pingala (Blazevox, 2011)

Debrah believes in the spirits and I believe in her and all the shadows rounding.

 

Feng Sun Chen’s Butcher’s Tree (Black Ocean)

There is mushroom heavier than the Chrysler Building. There is an eating the size of desert. There is what end of the crucible. AND….

What the hell. There are not many books here. Correct me, world.

New Chapbook: Hey I Totally Didn’t Make the Ginsburg Reference That Was All Adam On His Own I Swear

I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time but wanted to wait until more details were clear. Adam Robinson and Publishing Genius/Chapbook Genius are bringing into the world my long poem Post Nativity. Here Adam talks about it in a way that makes my face burn. So does this cover by Stephanie Barber.

Also, Chris Toll edited the shit out of it. Thanks, Chris.

All this sudden attention to the poem made me really want to give it something too, so Cheryl and I are making book marks to go with every copy and rosaries to go with some of the first ones sold. Instructions: TOUCH BEADS, PRAY.

That type is from our newly repaired LC Smith & Corona “Silent” Typewriter. It is not silent.

I think Post Nativitywill be out for AWP? I don’t know, but I’ll probably have to bother you about it soon, ok?  Thanks to everyone involved to help make this real.