LIGHT-HEADED IN COLDFRONT'S TOP 30 POETRY BOOKS OF 2011 and ONandOnScreen WINTER 2012

Just a note to say that I'm so grateful that Coldfront Magazine placed LIGHT-HEADED at #19 on their list of the best poetry books of 2011.  You can see what they had to say about it and the other 29 amazing titles here: http://coldfrontmag.com/news/top-30-poetry-books-of-2011

Additionally, I have a new poem up in the Winter 2012 issue of ONandOnScreen.  The poem is juxtaposed with a video by poet and visual artist Matilda Gertrude Paulin.  To be clear, this wasn't a collaboration, but rather an attempt at making my poem and her video have a conversation with each other about things common and foreign to them both.  The issue also contains poetry/video pairings by the likes of Brendan Lorber, Catherine Wagner, Kevin Killian, Wayne Koestenbaum, david Lehman, and many others.

Please check these out!

LIGHT-HEADED REVIEW + AN INTERVIEW AT THE KENYON REVIEW BLOG

Just a quick post to point out an interview that the amazing Weston Cutter did with me for the Kenyon Review blog.  Find it here.

Also big thanks to Jeff Simpson at The Fiddleback for this new and very kind review of LIGHT-HEADED.

Happy New Year!

MORE SERMONS AND LECTURES NEWS + NEW VIDEO FROM TRAVEL

Friends, this is the first single from the new album, Blank Sermons...Relentless Lectures, by my Band Travel.  It will accompany my 2012 Typecast Publishing book Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless and uses cut-up versions of the poems from the book as lyrics.  The video for the track is by my Art Academy colleague and friend Ken Henson. You can download the track, or pre-order the book here: http://www.typecastpublishing.com/announcements/logic-in-the-trenches/ .  Hope you enjoy it!  Matt

SERMONS AND LECTURES BOTH BLANK AND RELENTLESS

Typecast Publishing is now taking pre-orders for my new book Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless, which will be out in March of 2012.   You can order the book at the link above.  You can also read blurbs about it from Jordan Dreyer of the post-hardcore band La Dispute and from poets by Mary Ruefle and Nate Pritts as well.  I hope some of you will take a second a pre-order the book.

THE POWER IS RIGHT

Hey Friends,  The amazing Nick Sturm posted a video of me reading a new poem called "The Power Is Wrong" in the BIG BIG MESS READING SERIES on Friday.  Hope you enjoy it.  Matt

LIGHT-HEADED REVIEW IN A CAPPELLA ZOO

Jeffrey Allen has written a really terrific review of my book LIGHT-HEADED in A Cappella Zoo. Please check it out.

Big thanks to Jeffrey for the really generous and thoughtful read of the book.

M

ANTHONY MCCANN REVIEW + STOKED VOL. II + ACCULORBER

I'm a little behind the curve here, but my review of Anthony McCann's I ♥ Your Fate went up at Coldfront Magazine this week, and STOKED Vol. II also appeared, including contributions from Daniela Olszewska, Carol Guess, Nate Pritts, Mike Young, Christopher Newgent and many others. There even a couple of my poems from Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless in the mix.

Also, if you aren't keeping up with poet and editor (of LUNGFULL!) Brendan Lorber's ACCULORBER Weather Forecast, then you're not keeping up. It's a lot more than weather. I've put a link to it under my In Awe links to the right, but you should subscribe. Here are some of the details from this week's report:

Hello from the acculorber team. Helping you plan the days and nights ahead according to what those days and nights are secretly planning for you. And man, do they have plans.

You know what the weather is going to be like?
Who cares. You think the weather cares what you're like?

The latest Acculorber Weekend Weather Forecast
is now available for you to brace yourself with...

www.acculorber.com

Highlights for this weekend:

• Escapism through foreclosed home-made ice-cream.
• I like to eat ice cream in the privacy of my home where I won't be judged.
• Out of chocolate chips for your ice cream? Use Xanax.
• Out of Xanax, use Promazine. Good for skittish livestock, great for ice cream.
• Replacing flood-damaged carpets with beautiful self-maintaining moss
• Spoiler Alert: muggy this weekend with chancy thunderstorms

From the episode: "I like how the stock market goes down because they're afraid the economy will tank and the economy tanks because the stock market goes down. Or that the economy falls apart because everyone’s laid off and the response is to lay everyone off. It's like drinking a lot of coffee to really get to the bottom of your anxiety disorder. You will get some answers — very very accurate answers — but they are not going to be the answers you were hoping for."

bonus: a new comment section on the site so you can chime in.

Coming this fall, if we make it that far: exciting poetry news.

Don't forget to set your clocks back this weekend,
Brendan Lorber

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