Current(s)

Current Reading:
1) H_NGM_N #5 (www.h-ngm-n.com)
2) Ring of Bone: Collected Poems 1950-1971 by Lew Welch
3) Shake by Joshua Beckman
4) All Poets Welcome: The Lower east Side Poetry Scene in the 1960's by Daniel Kane

Current Listening:
1) Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2) Dub Housing by Pere Ubu
3) Last Date by Eric Dolphy

New Review of Who's Who Vivid by Keith Newton on the Verse site

Check it out here:

http://versemag.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-review-of-matt-hart.html

The Lake was lovely, but now it's back to work...

and what better way to get back in the swing of things than by reading the new issue of H_NGM_N. And in the interest of full disclosure, I've got my hands all over this one. Here's the official announcement from H_NGM_N's editor Nate Pritts:

Feeling a little sun-blasted? Then H_NGM_N #5 is exactly the kind of lemonade you need to get you through the rest of the summer!

http://www.h-ngm-n.com

POEMS: Brad Liening • Brett Price • Christopher Mulrooney • Clay Matthews •Corey Mesler • Daniel Becker • Daniel Nester • Dorothea Lasky • EricaBernheim • Erin Martin • Evan Commander • Gina Myers • Jason Bredle • JDSchraffenberger • Joshua Beckman • Julia Cohen • Matt Hart • MonicaFambrough • Pablo Peschiera • Peter Jay Shippy • Richard Fein • SamuelAmadon • Sheila Murphy • Steve Orlen • Thomas Hummel • Twilight Greenaway

FROM: Adam Clay • Bob Marcacci • Fred Schmalz • Jon Woodward • LancePhillips • Tyler Carter

EP POETRY: Jake Adam York • Joyelle McSweeney • Richard Meier

FICTION: Dorothy and the Revolution by Vincent Masterson

ESSAYS: Doing It With the R’s - on William Carlos Williams’ To Elsie byDaniel Nester • Reinscribing Event Truth and its Conditions in RobertDuncan, Alain Badiou, and Jean-Luc Nancy by Michael Cross

REVIEWS: Clay Matthews on Jake Adam York • Gina Myers on 5 chapbooks • JenTynes on 3 chapbooks • Marci Nelligan on Tim Earley • Matt Hart on JasonSchneiderman • Michael Broder on Ada Limon • Michael Broder on Matt Hart •Nate Pritts on 5 chapbooks • Pablo Peschiera on Sam Taylor • Richard Scheiweon CD Wright • Matt Dube on fiction chapbooks

ARTIST’S PORTFOLIO: Henry Samelson

COMIX: SOME GRAPHIC SENTENCES by Michael Donnelly.So stop dogging it. Get over & check out the only online poetry & poeticsjournal that Entertainment Weekly calls “glitzy & entirely essential.”

http://www.h-ngm-n.com/

ALSO: Click over to H_NGM_N B_ _KS for information on our chapbooksincluding some new releases – CHANCE by Daniel Becker : FLIP/CHAP #2 BradLiening / Gina Myers : SONNET by Matt Hart : BETWEEN THE ROOM AND THE CITYby Erica Bernheim.

yrs--Nate Pritts, EIC-for-life.

editor@h-ngm-n.com

http://www.h-ngm-n.com

VACATION VAVOOM!

I have gone in search of a great lake. That's me in the red (in this photograph by William Hutchinson), "...straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness..." (which is John Keats). Wish me luck. Back soon.

Coconut 5 has dropped!

Editor Bruce Covey writes:

"Coconut Five, now live on the web, features exciting new poetry by Lyn Hejinian, Mong-Lan, Ashley VanDoorn, Ada Limon, Scott Glassman, John Cotter, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Katie Degentesh, Gina Myers & Dustin Williamson, Johannes Goransson, Noah Eli Gordon, Kristen Hanlon, Matt Hart, Kirsten Kaschock, Jennifer Moxley, Sarah Mangold, Carly Sachs, Joshua Edwards, Michael Rerick, Jen Tynes, Albert Flynn DeSilver, Maureen Seaton & Neil de la Flor, Hal Sirowitz, and Robyn Art."

Check it out here: http://www.coconutpoetry.org .

Who's Who Vivid reviewed by David Sewell in Coldfront Mag

Check it out here:

http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/2006/07/whos_who_vivid_.html

As Many of You Already Know...

"I would like to make poems out of real objects. The lemon to be a lemon that the reader could cut or squeeze or taste -- a real lemon like a newspaper in a collage is real newspaper. I would like the moon in my poems to be a real moon, one which could be suddenly covered with a cloud that has nothing to do with the poem -- a moon utterly independent of images. The imagination pictures the real. I would like to point to the real, disclose it, to make a poem that has no sound in it but the pointing of a finger." -- Jack Spicer from his "Letter to Lorca"

Siren

Strap yourselves to the mast and check out the new online journal Siren at http://www.sirenlit.com/issue01/ .

I have a few new poems there, along with work from Amy King, AnneMarie Eldon, Daniel Nester, David Hernandez, Glenn Ingersoll, Jenny Boully, Katheryn Rantala, Laurel Dodge, Rachel Lodon, Ryan Laks, and Scott Odom. The issue also includes artwork from Jacob Kedzierski and Scott Odom.