SEP E t A l. Grazzis / + OCT E t A l. lineup announcement, Nashville

Saturday night came & punctuated in stride every of my reinstigated enthusiasm for poetry, community, fun. Again it was occurred before me and immersed, each of the poets better than I understood, a type of edge that is best. 

Joshua Moore, Bill Brown, & Kristi Maxwell were all astonishing, and the ricochet,  set of priorities each suited to each and crossfire, interrelated, among. To them, thanks, to those showed up, goodness, such immense time conjoined into us. It is that I was excited to be overwhelmed and probably biased but no less enthralled and made whole to be present then, astonishingly.




& Thanks to LOCATE Arts for showing us outward and join with. What a great resource for visual arts in Tennessee, don't forget them and their grand databases of events and openings in the Volunteer State. Lain York's contributions to the evening were apt, and focal, determined by an intentionally narrative conduit, opened to, and by the literary in the historical. To him, the thanks too. 


& then the Angel Olsen show, ran to with wine bladders, scooted in crowd stairwell slant and bump, therefore into new record for us, perhaps still amazing.



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Dear Trud, 
The weather is changing nicely.
Yrs, here.






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The very very next Et Al. Poetry Reading (FALL 2016) is set for OCT 2 (a Sunday), hold onto your bobby-caps, this night is going to be a sharp dagger in thine political mystical relevant heart:


Nashville poets Dan Hoy, & Tristen Gaspadarek 
& Alex Cruse (CA)

w/ Featured Artist Ann Catherine Carter

*Photo by Oct 2016 Et Al. artist Alexine Rioux (!)

'Tricky Wash' @ Thin Air (Northern Arizona U), SEP 10 - first Et Al. of Fall 2016

That poem from a while back driving through Arizona on our trip East 'Tricky Wash' is to be well among the University of Northern Arizona's lit mag, Thin Air (!).

Aligned well and related. Check their new online stuff, and a poem of mine, here.

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On the rise next September, SEP 10th, Et Al. Poetry Reading starring the veritable Bill Brown, the searing Joshua Moore, the wonderful Kristi Maxwell, and the awesome Lain York.

3 poems (from 'Eater, of mouths' at The Literateur & A preface to 'Note on Tundra' at Bombay Gin

Firstly, the new Bombay Gin online has one of the two prefaces from 'Note on Tundra'. And I'm floating out there a piece of a video that Todd Michael Rogers and Meagen Crawford made for it.






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& The Literateur put out three pieces from 'Eater, of mouths' this very day, being glad about that y'all. Thanks to Eleanor for having them be had.

July August region-arrowing toward Et. Al. Fall Lineups (!)

This being a scarce tablet onto which the inner dialogues confront external white space now. There've been many readings - Chance Chambers at Poet's Corner, most recently Ciona Rouse's Lyrical Brew ( last night ), a Gary McDowell reading, another Lyrical Brew back there in the past, but really working on this next 'Pider - 'Pider V ( The For Keeps Issue ) starring some amazing poets, keep your third eye out for it. Here we are on fbook.


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Also did a few readings in July, the latest being# 87 of Chuck Beard's Eastside Storytellin', which can be heard off Soundcloud here.

Most summer here spending on writing-editing placing together my own things that neglect my time here.


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Helping organize a reading-performance evening on SAT August 20 called Placebo Theater, which is going to be held at the universally charitable and genre defying all encompassing venue Sauvage, and is set to host alternative performative poetic dramatic executions by Meagen Crawford, Jacob Bernardi Stovall, and headliner Matt Christy. 


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The Fall E t A l. Lineups (!)



Sept. 10 (SAT) // Bill Brown, Joshua Moore, & Kristi Maxwell (KY) / 
Art by Lain York

Oct. 2 (SUN)* // Tristan Gaspadarek, Dan Hoy, & Alex Cruse (CA) / 
Art by Ann Catherine Carter

Nov. 5 (SAT)* // Destiny Birdsong, Nathan Spoon, & Lindsay Turner (SC) / 
Art by TBA



*Art Crawl involvement

Et Al. Shirt Birth (Tiana Clark's 'BNA to LAX') + June's Next Most-Vanquished-Upcoming Nash Readings

Tiana Clark heartily let me shirt her entire poem 'BNA to LAX' (which originally appeared in The Offing) for the Kickstarter Campaign that succeeded in raising just shy of a 1,000$ toward compensating visiting poets to Nashville, TN to read in the Et. Al. Poetry Readings, this past Fall and this coming Spring (2016).

These babies are a sweet black on soft cotton, with white text on the front and back.

There's S, M, L, XL, of unisex-male-partiarchy-default sizings. Mail me, txt me, fbook me, whatever. 20$ gets a shirt + poster of the night's event. I gotta a VENMO too, so if that's your thing, do that thing.







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Nashville happened/upcoming readings -


6/20 (MON) - Gary McDowell @ Parnassus, 6:30pm

6/21 (TUE) - Joshua Moore @ The Post, 7pm (East Side Storytellin')

6/22 (WED) - Naomi Bartlett, Jonothon Tigabu, Kate Bishop, Brian Smith @ Nostromo, 8pm (vow of silence [[[[poetry reading and networking social]]]])

6/23 (THU) - Kory Wells @ Scarritt Bennett Center, Vander, 7pm (Poet's Corner)



*6/28 (TUE) - Ciona Rouse, Me, Kristin LaTour, Donna Vorreyer @ EastSide Story, 7pm (Porch Collective & Sundress Press)

*7/2 (SAT) - Regenerates II - Revival Event @ Track One, 6-9pm (As part of the July Art Crawl in Wedgewood/Houston). Ft. readings (& 'readings') by Stephen Mage, Aaron Joel, Michelle Farro, Robyn Leigh Lear, Me, Barry Kitterman, Ericka Suhl, Austin Boling, Michael Brandon Stoddard, Lance Umenhofer, Stephanie Steed.






* Yrs Truly, truly

Last Et Al. Poetry Reading of Spring (!), plus 'Tricky Wash' to Thin Air Mag

Seems like only a month between the fixings here on this bottle in the ocean out to y'all. Whatever, still the things move. 

A poem, Tricky Wash, is soon over at Thin Air, the journal of Northern Arizona's MFA program, which is great because walking in a parking lot yesterday I recalled having written the thing in Arizona, or whilst passing through AZ, because 'Tricky Wash' is near Nogales, I believe on the US side, and signs indicated it thusly, as unreachable, but referenced. Thanks to ed. Eric Dovigi for the space.





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The last Et Al. Poetry Reading of Spring turned out not to be the last Et Al. Poetry Reading of Spring…(!)  

Having tried to get Clay Matthews, and Jan Laperle (husband wife team) out to Nashville for the better part of the year (first seen and heard at SoFest of Books a few years back), they've conceded to read alongside local, radass Vander poet Tiana Clark on June 4th (!) Also joining us that night is Nashville visual and substance artists Lindsy Davis, who just wrapped an amazing show + Artist Talk at Red Arrow Gallery. 

Does seem like I'm asking every Red Arrow Gallery Artist to join us for Sauvage times but I think it's maybe a testament to the quality of their artists, curators…? 


See y'all at the Art Crawl.

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Plus -

A good article re contemp (lit) things y'all… 

May's Et Al. Poetry Reading w/ Keegan Cook Finberg, Douglas Piccinnini, Chris Hosea (& Art by Daniel Holland)

Is the job? to witness and render, (meaning the mandatory things at the position doing the position), psh. Doing the job requires the peeling of the conduit from yourself and the placement upon that which is pushing through, to assume the hydra, to greet each of the hydra, like pool hall Fast Eddy to hold scale's heft without an exact *but considered and intuitively inclusive and dealt with the heft that is being hefted weighty figure. Dealt with in the heft that is being hefted. To be talking about the job at the job is inherent.

As a person doing some writing, each thing layers flaky like little biscuits with these incorporations, incorporations that place, and re-place these integrations upon the writing - others getting to the poem (not getting the poem), but their routes, possible routes, little cartographies to your things…

With projects that head on, even peripherally, really, go at/to contemporary issues, to speak for/about/with the varying degrees of the varying spectrum of varying people requires you're admission of the conduit's conducting.





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Anyway, build me a raft. TO: 

For which of which I made this little trailer from Jru's drone filmings…