“I’m not sorry, it was the kind of year I would have raised all of hell to keep him around.” — raging hard as a hungry stomach noise on “How We Killed Whitney Houston” by Eric Tran at Hobart

“Besides: to learn to use her mind’s energy against itself, she would have to add new content. Even if it was content that might eventually ease the burden of having content, at this point, she is so overwhelmed with the content she already has, she thinks she cannot take on any new content even if it’s promised that the new content will help her.” — from Evelyn Hampton’s “The End of Content” over at The Collagist; no one does clever and sad at the same time like Evelyn Hampton

Sidebrow is reading! Send in your manuscripts of prose, poetry, cross-genre, and collaborative work from now until Sept 15. Details here.

J.D. Salinger drank his own urine–what do you think about that?

“I started a micropress, published my own chapbook, and got in a car to drive around the country promoting it at any place that will return my e-mails and phone calls not because I think the system is broken. I just think the system is bigger than it appears to be.” — from a really entertaining and no-lavender-aerosol take on DIY micropublishing and touring by Ryan Werner at Passages North 

What’s the weirdest thing you can think of?

A rare Kathy Acker text, “The gift of disease,” is up in both English and Spanish, courtesy of {outward from nothingness}’s August Guest Editor Gabriela Torres Olivares. Part 1 & Part 2 up now. Part 3 will be up tomorrow.

Once again—wait, I mean, fifth again—The Claudias App is smarter, cooler, and more densely and cleverly and surprisingly designed than most all of the other online poetry magazines I make ice cubes out of to cool the coffee in my MarxMauss-colored thermos.

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Practice Makes Perfect

Practicing for National Poetry Month

What are you NOT doing this weekend?

That, too, is important.