October 6th, 2009 / 10:43 am
 Author Spotlight

Mark Leidner is funny

from his Trembyle blog:

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His chapbook Night of 1,000 Murders is really smart and good, too.

He also wrote this really good story ‘Snow‘. And these poems. And stuff.

I like Mark.

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14 Comments

  1. October 6th, 2009 / 5:38 pm mike young—

      he’s a beast!

  2. October 6th, 2009 / 1:38 pm mike young—

      he’s a beast!

  3. October 6th, 2009 / 6:55 pm jensen—

      a sexy beast!

  4. October 6th, 2009 / 2:55 pm jensen—

      a sexy beast!

  5. October 6th, 2009 / 9:58 pm rachel—

      Mark is a great sum of money. You will thank his poems when they dismantle the brakes in your car. Even when I was a silly baby he was happy to offer strong constructive critiques of my silly baby work. It’s an honor I think to be his friend on the internet.

  6. October 6th, 2009 / 5:58 pm rachel—

      Mark is a great sum of money. You will thank his poems when they dismantle the brakes in your car. Even when I was a silly baby he was happy to offer strong constructive critiques of my silly baby work. It’s an honor I think to be his friend on the internet.

  7. October 6th, 2009 / 10:35 pm sasha fletcher—

      night of 1,000 murders is so good. so so so so so so so so so good.

  8. October 6th, 2009 / 6:35 pm sasha fletcher—

      night of 1,000 murders is so good. so so so so so so so so so good.

  9. October 7th, 2009 / 1:51 am Jack Boettcher—

      Yeah, Mark is funny, and I think he does something different with funny (in poetry). His lines have a conman’s charisma, but by the end of the poem you’re convinced that what he’s showing you isn’t a scam, and is wonderful. Mark also has a chapbook online called The Empire, which is his foray into the political treatise/utopia. Here: http://issuu.com/andrewlundwall/docs/markleidner-theempire

      For anyone interested in looking further at humor in poetry, there is a great round table discussion from a few years ago at Jacket: http://jacketmagazine.com/33/humpo-discussion.shtml – it’s really long, but I just scanned through and found a lot of great points.

      I posted about it on my site, but I figure it will get more exposure in a comments stream on HTMLGIANT. So check it out if you laugh and read books, or vice versa.

  10. October 6th, 2009 / 9:51 pm Jack Boettcher—

      Yeah, Mark is funny, and I think he does something different with funny (in poetry). His lines have a conman’s charisma, but by the end of the poem you’re convinced that what he’s showing you isn’t a scam, and is wonderful. Mark also has a chapbook online called The Empire, which is his foray into the political treatise/utopia. Here: http://issuu.com/andrewlundwall/docs/markleidner-theempire

      For anyone interested in looking further at humor in poetry, there is a great round table discussion from a few years ago at Jacket: http://jacketmagazine.com/33/humpo-discussion.shtml – it’s really long, but I just scanned through and found a lot of great points.

      I posted about it on my site, but I figure it will get more exposure in a comments stream on HTMLGIANT. So check it out if you laugh and read books, or vice versa.

  11. October 7th, 2009 / 9:02 am Joseph Young—

      man, that lily pad one.

  12. October 7th, 2009 / 1:02 pm Joseph Young—

      man, that lily pad one.

  13. October 8th, 2009 / 5:24 pm John Dermot Woods—

      The best thing about Mark is that he got ELECTED Poet Laureate of California without even living there. First person ever to do that, I think.

  14. October 8th, 2009 / 1:24 pm John Dermot Woods—

      The best thing about Mark is that he got ELECTED Poet Laureate of California without even living there. First person ever to do that, I think.