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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zh_c9MvuJuY/ST95vHbdsGI/AAAAAAAAAsE/4c0Q7Wxo3HA/s400/Viewer-Mail.jpgOne of our regular commenters-in-good-standing, mimi, posed this question in a comment on this post of mine from a couple days ago.

>>I sometimes wonder how contributors feel about posts that don’t get any (or any serious) comments, because they _have_ gone to some effort. I for one am paying attention, even though most of my comments are kind of goofy.<<

I started to answer her in the thread, but then thought that maybe this was something more people would like to know about, so I’m posting it here. My longer-than-she-probably-wanted answer after the break.

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Behind the Scenes / 369 Comments
March 8th, 2010 / 2:10 pm

Wolf Parts by Matt Bell


Preorder Matt Bell’s limited edition Wolf Parts now, available only until March 21st. $8.
From Keyhole Press, in anticipation of his forthcoming How They Were Found.

Author News / 16 Comments
March 8th, 2010 / 1:56 pm
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Hey! New Yorkers: I just got word that there are still a few seats left for Stephen Elliott’s “Writing from Experience” lecture, which he will be delivering on 3/11 (ie THIS THURSDAY) at the LGBT Center on West 13th street. I’m going to be out of town on this particular day, but I have only and always heard the best things about Stephen’s classes and lectures, so if you’re around, and interested in the topic, you could do a lot worse than to give this thing a shot. Read the full description of the event here.  Buy a ticket here.

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Dennis Cooper | Mark Gluth | James Greer Tour

Good news for West Coast kids: Dennis Cooper, Mark Gluth and James Greer will be touring on the west coast in the next few weeks, in support of the Little House on The Bowery. Don’t miss these underground new-post-avant-narrative visionaries or you’ll be catching the rehashed versions of them in 5 years!

Mon., March 15, 7pm
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA
*Featuring Mark Gluth, James Greer, and Dennis Cooper.

Tues., March 16, 7pm
City Lights
261 Columbus Ave
San Francisco, CA
*Featuring Mark Gluth, James Greer, and Dennis Cooper.

Thurs., March 18, 7:30pm
Powell’s
1005 W. Burnside
PORTLAND, OR
*Featuring Mark Gluth and James Greer

Fri., March 19, 7pm
Richard Hugo House, Cabaret Space
1634 11th Ave.
SEATTLE, WA
*Featuring Mark Gluth and James Greer

Author News / 4 Comments
March 8th, 2010 / 1:07 pm

Flesh Eating Poems

Cannibal books is offering a chance to subscribe for 2010. If you were a subscriber this past year, you would’ve received chapbooks by Claire Donato, Shane Jones, Keith Newton, Carolyn Guinzio, Amish Trivedi, Patrick Morissey, Thomas Hummel, as well as the the mighty NARWAL ( A collection of 7 chapbooks by Kazim Ali, Maureen Alsop, Sommer Browning, Karla Kelsey, Laura Goode, Kate Schapira, and Jared White).

This year, for the low blow of $75, you will get

  • Allyssa Wolf’s second full-length collection, Sister.
  • Chapbooks by Kevin Holden, Ben Mazer, Tim Van Dyke, Dot Devota, Adam Roberts, and Tom Andes.
  • Mini-chapbooks from our Boundless Books Series.
  • Cannibal: Issue Five, featuring poems by Carrie Olivia Adams, Samuel Amadon, Susan Briante, Lily Brown, Adam Clay, CAConrad, Kate Dougherty, Farrah Field, Laura Goode, Kate Greenstreet, Jane Gregory, Whit Griffin, Melanie Hubbard, Andrew Hughes, M.C. Hyland, Grant Jenkins, Jeff T. Johnson, Jon Leon, Sam Lohmann, Sara Mumulo, Hoa Nguyen, Danielle Pafunda, Alison Palmer, Kyle Schlesinger, Cedar Sigo, Sandra Simonds, Nate Slawson, Tony Tost, Steven Toussaint, Amish Trivedi, G.C. Waldrep, & Joseph Wood.
  • Anything other books and broadsides we make before the New Year.
  • The unparalleled sense of supporting one of the most aggressively productive and self-sufficient book arts poetry presses around.

    • We can handle only a limited number of subscribers and will take this post down once we have enough money to help finance our busiest time of year (the next two months). Immense thanks to everyone who subscribed last year and in advance to our subscribers this year. We could not keep the press running without you.

Presses / 12 Comments
March 8th, 2010 / 11:45 am

Natalie Lyalin Week (1): A Poem, An Interview

This week, I along with other contributors will throw down with Natalie Lyalin, editor of GlitterPony and author of the next book of poems that you should buy: Pink & Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books). Buy it here. There will be opportunities to WIN Natalie’s book along with other books from the tremendous Coconut catalog, so stayed tuned for that. This will be like a party on the internet. A party that starts with a poem and follows that with an interview to which the poem is relevant. So, to begin.

GREAT SOPHIAS

There were two great Sophias
and a few good Dorothys. We enacted
inside the outside world of the mausoleum.

The mausoleum is by my house,
and I thought it was ordinary. I thought
it was all ordinary. I was Sophia,
but not so good at it. I loved Dorothy.

On the lake, the small swans stood on water.
I stood under a tree. Someone occupied the
peace pagoda. It is not always certain,
a safe exit from the forest.

I believe their show was the first
to address homosexuality. Dorothy
loved the way she dressed.
They were dressed impeccably.

Because Natalie’s book gave me lots to think about concerning gender and place, these were the starting points of the interview, after the jump. READ MORE >

Author Spotlight / 17 Comments
March 8th, 2010 / 10:19 am

Cannibalisms, from Mark Gluth

Thoughts today via our Giant friend Mark Gluth:

The pest control guy told me about rats that cannibalize dead rats. He’s seen cats that eat cats. Then I read about this cannibal star that’s eating a planet. It got me thinking about a ton of stuff, and as per usual I started to think about writing, about how I write, about how much the end results of my writing process are built upon cannibalization of the lesser results of previous processes. About thoughts that kill previous thoughts to give rise to new thoughts.

So here’s my question: When’s the last time you cannibalized a piece of your own writing? When’s the last time you revised a character out of a story but reassigned one of his/her lines to another character? When’s the last time you wrote a 30 page story then edited it down to 3 lines describing a story a character in one of your pieces of fiction wrote? When’s the last time you threw a story out, but reused the title because it was the best part of it?

Craft Notes / 33 Comments
March 7th, 2010 / 8:14 pm

DON’T EVER TALK TO THE POLICE

Never, ever, ever.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik

part 2 after the jump

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Random / 36 Comments
March 7th, 2010 / 1:47 pm
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Do it now.

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Jodorowsky minded music video for Yeasayers. A yes.

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