I Remain,

Hey peoples...

I continue my whirlwind tour! I hope some of you in the Ann Arbor, Detroit and NYC areas can come out to one of my readings. I'd love to see you and grab a drink!

Here's the lowdown:

I get into Detroit tomorrow (Friday) just after noon and I'll be free the rest of the afternoon/evening.

The next evening (Saturday the 28th) from 7-9 I'm giving a reading at MOCAD in Detroit: http://www.mocadetroit.org/upcomingevents.html.

Sunday the 29th: Alabama Steve reading @ Shaman Drum (311-315 South State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104). Reading starts at 5. Free. (http://www.shamandrum.com/bookshop/index.php?main_page=calendar&view=485),

will I see any of you there?



ohmygod I can taste the bookfair from here...

Huzzah! Tim Green just sent me a link to RATTLE's really, really rad review of Alabama Steve by Miss Rebecca Ellis, who shall receive many free bevvies should our paths ever cross!

linelinelineline is an online poetry journal devoted to the New American Epigram.

We publish poems that are four lines long: no more, no less. In this respect, the New American Epigram differs from traditional epigrams, which are usually no more than two lines, often consisting of a rhymed couplet.

We're currently looking for sequences of epigrams for our inaugural issue and submissions for our electronic chapbook series.

We prefer sequences/crowns/chapbooks

Adam & I are starting an online journal that's solely for the New American Epigram. The only reason we haven't launched already is because we cannot decide/agree on a sodding name. He ideally wants to name it something where the title of the journal can be the domain name without adding any additional modifiers like "mag" or "the" or "journal." In other words, he wants nameofthejournal.com. So we're limited to available domain names, which is an additional consideration. We want the name to be memorable, descriptive of the form or tone of what we're doing, and something hipster poets would want to submit to (since they are the initial target audience).

Here's a list of some of our ideas. Comments and other ideas welcome:

Condo, TX (condotx.com)

Wee Condo

Box of Condos

Fourtines (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tine_(structural))

Little Draw

Shallow Pockets

Short Socket (more of a tech blog?)

Forkpile

Fork Barrel (there were a lot of other fork variations, but these all sound like bad restaurants to me...)

Thisthenthisthenthisthenthis.com

linelinelineline.com

Pocket Merlin (to kill a mockingbird reference)



 

 

Argh. I'm working with a horrid anthology this semester. I feel like everything included is stuff that my kids would have already read in high school. This obviously isn't everything I have to work with, but these are ones that I don't know whether to teach or not b/c they all seem like things I read in high school (not that they don't deserve multiple reads, but I know the kids who have already read them won't re-read them!)

Would ya'll do me a favor and arrange the following texts from MOST LIKELY to be taught in high school these days to LEAST LIKELY to be taught in high school these days? Don't mix up the categories. Thanks!

DRAMA
Chekov - The Cherry Orchard
Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
MIller - Death of a Salesman
Sophocles- Antigone
Sophocles- Oedipus the King
Ibsen- A Doll's House
Shakespeare- Hamlet

FICTION
Poe- The Cask of Amontillado
Melville- Bartleby the Scrivener
Kafka- The Metamorphosis
Chopin- The Story of an Hour
Marquez- A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
O'Brien- The Things they Carried

First W!T of the year: the forgotten wonders of CHOPPED STEAK.

See what all the fuss is about.

Come see which fictional character is bringing bow-ties back in my final W!T of 2008.

whoatotally has returned from Christmas vacation to bring you the most awesome bits of the holiday season. #7 is now up, featuring a giant blow-up reindeer lawn ornament. Go see what all the fuss is about.

W!Ts on Ethiopiques and Some Kid's Hair! Also, you can feed whoa!totally straight into your LJ here: whoatotally 

Happy nut-roasting, y'all.