Note on Tundra chosen by DoubleCross Press to be among their catalogue of chapbooks + 1st E t A l. Reading + next readings in town

Word just got in by DoubleCross Press that they intend, have intentions with, toward "Note On Tundra," a chapbook of mine sent during their open reading period. Writ during the 'ol Caldwell days, wrapped in musics, seasons, derived via socio-sensory immersion residence heyday + citizenship still new to this city's objective portraits, it's got two prefaces ( ! ).


One used to be able to read them free and clear by the link over on the right says "Likewise Folio" but they're off drinking tahiti shots or some such. They might have copies at AWP too ( Minnesota? ), baby's first things, so be looking good for 'em, no idea on costs yet.

Much thanks for their appraisal and enthusiasms, check out their catalogue already, they have radiant, handbound, unique, limited print run chapbooks from ultra tight poets like Paige Taggart, Jen Tynes, Brian Teare, Joshia Marie Wilkinson.








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So there went that, the initial E t A l. Poetry Reading was the other eve, and went, sound was issue, seating was issue, two things that can be fixed prior to and blameless can be adjusted for a community, still woulda been nice to get the dinosaurs not to eat the guests.

Amy Wright, Lisa Dordal, Ben Burr read their good stuff, Amy from her new 'Cracker' chap ("…fire that has drought…"), Lisa from her 'Commemoration' ("…passing warm coins to each other…") book, and Ben, well I'm not sure where he pulled his material from but he spit his strong beard song above the chatter, sounds and sounds, ("...the trouble, the trouble…"), his new book 'The in-between of Two Things,' also had a read aloud the very next night at his book release party.

Thanks to you is the newest thank you, and thanks to them all and continued and as well future ones.

Speaking of which, people are putting out words for the next E t A l. readings, Deborah Bernhardt in March, Sean Patrick Hill in April.



Check the E t A l. effbook group page for news and all that.

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The light blankets are coming on outside this place downtown hung, a few days left until INDIA.














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Next reading type stuff in town




2nd Annual Heartbreak Happy Hour, Porch Writers' Collective + Nashville Scene / Stone Fox, Sunday, Feb 8th, 5pm


Band of Poets, Nashville Review / Bobby's Idle Hour / Tuesday, Feb 10th, 9pm

The 2nd E t A l. Reading / Deborah Bernhardt, Meagen Crawford, Beth Bachmann / Dino's, Thursday, March 12th, 8pm

And and and, former ( ? ) poet laureate of the universe of the united states of us, Natasha Tretheway, Vanderbilt's Visiting Writers Series / March 19th.

E t A l. readings for Feb. (Dino's, Thursday), March, April + Bachmann's "wall" bootleg + musics + weather journals

We're doing this now. Feb, April, and March in the works, come on if yr gonna come on, let me know, don't build me up, buttercup. Dino's redone Dino's the event space the 3rd place, its not bad ( 411 Gallatin Ave. ).








First reading poster up there, hostings for Amy Wright, Lisa Dordal, Ben Burr. Then a march 'E t A l.' reading( with Deborah Bernhardt ), then one in April ( with Sean Patrick Hill ). Keep yr hands open.



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The Beth Bachmann reading was phenomenal, she read from new DO NOT RISE, an even fervor, breathy-related waits, toned to a texture of trauma her work insists forces language into fracture, sometimes child-repetitions, sometimes regular repetitions, the manner in which 'wall' ( long, sectioned poem ) is composed in bracketing prose blocks with interstices, gaps, breath-space, leaping syntactic space, rhythmic evolving space, formal ingenuity toward the compressions of including the penetrating violence of violence, into the poem, that which is traumatic is by its definition obscured by self, thus poetry, becomes vehicle, is become by, to be becoming by. Excerpts from the book here. Excerpts from 'wall' under this, bootleggered.

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I don't like anything at this place but this, with considerations of, authorial images, la sczhwags type american apparel nowness, but a quickness can be there, the highlander was wrong - there can be many, from all over. From new, & dark dark fucking wizard. 

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Plus since when did Harp & Altar close? I enjoyed their space very much, it was a classy joint.

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From Albert Saijo's concerned journal with the weather, private detective thereof, look at these meticulous jots, Hawaii -

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Readings soon -


- Gary McDowell reads from his new book: Weeping At A Stranger's Funeral / Belmont Event Curb Center, Vince Gill Room ( ! ) / Wednesday, Feb. 4th, 5pm 


-( A baby from me ) E t A l. Poetry Reading: Amy Wright, Lisa Dordal, Ben Burr / Dino's / Thursday, Feb, 5th, 8pm 

"I am being a way of being unmade…" / new Timber, + new nashville E t A l. poetry reading series, + upcoming nashpo readings

The new Timber is out and about, and a few "Dear Trud," pieces for your open, free, to be gotten faces, have 'em.



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Pal Russell Jaffe is head of a movement for spur poetries over at Queen Mobs Tea House, poetries that take place when they take place, 'live poeming,' very & hope, check em, do some, send some. Be stenographers, angry men, jurors (!)

Pshh: Beth Bachmann's APR pieces from "wall" ya'll, go pick up a copy, I'm gonna free-copy some of them and re-post them guerrilla, pirate, che manner to y'all next next.



Comma, poetry mag is a happening spot, and also is is is Justin Robinson thereat.

The Berkeley Review has a real real nice thing hanging off their front door with Ansley Clark's "Like Whales," I just found out 'ol Robbie Wilson started that rag way back when he was schooling there.

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Nextern most readings determining Nashville punditry:

-Beth Bachmann: DO NOT RISE book release reading / Vander, Furman 114 / Thursday, Jan. 29th, 7pm


-Lyrical Brew: Margy Smith Roark, Tyler Friend, Allison Inman / Vander, Barnes & Noble / Friday, Jan. 30th, 7pm


- Gary McDowell reads from his new book: Weeping At A Stranger's Funeral / Belmont Event Curb Center, Vince Gill Room ( ! ) / Wednesday, Feb. 4th, 5pm 


-( A baby from me ) E t A l. Poetry Reading: Amy Wright, Lisa Dordal, Ben Burr / Dino's / Thursday, Feb, 5th, 8pm 

"Some / too, over a lack of capacities, / much / whom on where is put / the front of the face…" / Dear Truds to Timber Journal

Three of "Dear Trud," are soon over at Timber Journal. Found in a long lost journal from the ol' pay by the pound, "Dear Trud," was the repeating address outward for the entirety of it, to whomever Trud is, I know who my Trud's are but do you know who yr Trud's are, who's yr Trud? Not sure yet if they're headed to a print issue or an online one, you know when I know, eh.



Newer dissonant smear sound stuff from Dirty Beaches -

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Stephen Ratcliffe had t h e s e in one of eleveneleven's some time recently past and they smash everywhere onto everything. I remember finding Distances at Logo's in Santa Cruz and reading one piece for about an hour on the carpet ground. Now his Distance pieces were the prototypes of orbit, contstellated content, ringing augment, 'synchronic repetition,' serial, processual, working at syntax under yr eyes.

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Prasanta Ghosh 

 

"…Cavernous among // displacings…" / Gesture #4, xmas, burroughs, bjork

The new Gesture, #4, its Phenomenology Issue, is a classy affair with a few from my "o n e," gladness to them fit their space.


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Plus plus plus been on a Bjork kick,










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xmas xmas xmas, 

finally found this ( had been trying to place from the prologue portion - "...my earliest memories are colored by a fear of nightmares … because of dreams where a supernatural horror seemed aaaaalways on the point of taking shape..." ), which is purely smashing.

"...alteration's // figment / we cut the tree / to / move it, / image damp…" // Ohio Edit havings

Some "Tension Sketches" are over at Ohio Edit, they contract from themselves (wolf eating its foot from a trap) by a number of things, necessarily. Thanks to ceo Amy Fusselman for having them be done, and for "Marilyn" which had me do it.

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"I’m not being snide but womens world is a place where things can be said and somehow not get interpolated into “the larger culture.” Eileen Myles

Poet of world, that wrung tier, social layer dip,  original jazz, out ahead, dipped out, horizons that off, that off, refraction from commerce, poetry's inherent deniability, palimpsestic effigy. 


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That reading at that Tower 2 House, ft. traveling poets edwin r perry + Chelsea Tadeyeske:

Edwin, reading, performatives exploded out from words on a page that had been my only knowing until then, edwin's velocity was celestial, sociopolitical, ecological, propulsion, dense weave. Much impressed by the radius of facets of existence in his reading. Picked up his small erasure book Expotition: Where In.

Chelsea's more personal ( ruminating, fractured invisible enjambments splitting meanings as they went, started from transmission level core of intimate becoming public ), coltraineish in the use of seconds passing and silence filled admissions ( here is the use of space and acoustics tensioning the admissions, packing them ), nuanced, breathing, quietness wrapped around some silence in the room. Picked up her Heeldragger, which can be read entirely h e r e, and traded a ( Kiln ) for it.



Boy. Was I social. Cool spot too, free friendly box wine ( !? ) reminded me of the defunct Owl Farm, Zombie, as house shows liberate the forms, let's go to their next things.

'P i d e r III unto world / Poetry Sucks! reading / musics of late

Lads, fillies, folks amongst and bent, the ol' 'P i d e r strikes again, with our IIIrd installment, brevity and luxury of it with four ( 4 ) gems of contributors. A meal-sized sitting for y'all, we do not break you or your bank, its free and clear and entire for the having. Get it. Do it over yr lunch break or something.

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Recent readings missed - The Bill Brown book release over at Parnassus, sadly, this gent is pretty still cool in my book, having seen him many times around town, Lyrical Brew, Sofest o' Books. Also the A. Van Jordan reading, missed.

Recent unmissed - The Poetry Sucks! reading/event/hyperbolic funkfest over at Third Man Records. Taxidermy heads, rich drinks, fake grass, disoriented people, Chet organized, reading done by Kendra DeColo, Nashville #1 ace voted best in town by The Scene, from her Thieves In The Afterlife, did her set to a more reactive audience than ever in my estimations. Reading done by TJ Jarrett, engaging as always, ushering narrative and reflective storytelling paces into a constellation of intimate time. Janaka Stucky, post-beat voodoo chanting repetition lines conjured the spirits with his fervent crooning reading, charisma, had the energies to rival content on our brains and eyes and ears, took us to it with deft musicality and performance, radness.


Got my glimpse of Language Lessons, a nicely put, nicely bound book whose wide berth to have was 50 bucks, available over at Third Man Books.



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J. Frost. Again. This from Young Americans.

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(if yr into like St. Vincent, Beirut, Parenthetical Girls, June Madrona)

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Their recommendedness - The Subjects (if yr into like The Unicorns, The Breeders, Built To Spill, Neutral Milk)

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The White Review is ok in my book.



Plus the new thing, Prelude, a bit on the super sized side of life but to each its own, new stuff from Cole Swenson, John Ashbery, Adam Fitzgerald, Robert C.L. Crawford, Corina Copp, Lisa Jarnot, Chris Hosea. Big hitters.