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There’s only about a week left to submit your 35- to 80-page chapbook to The Collagist‘s 2011 Chapbook Contest. The deadline for entry is midnight on April 15. Go here for more details. It’s National Poetry Month, and this is a great way to celebrate it.
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Check out Gently Read Literature this month in celebration of their third year of existence. They’re featuring a post-facto review of Charles Bukowski’s Love Is A Dog From Hell, one of my favorite titles of all time.
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We’ve renamed ourselves Chronocaravan, and we’re opening for Michale Graves (former Misfits singer) at Club Europa in Greenpoint on April Fool’s Day. That’s 98 Meserole Ave., between Manhattan and Lorimer. I believe the cover is $10 and we’re on at 10pm. Also, we’re playing a second show later that night at an undisclosed location. If…
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The Monkeybicycle Lightning Round! Reading Series This new quarterly reading series fuses quick, high energy readings with a broad range of voices–both established and emerging–into a seamless hour of literary brilliance. Each event will feature 20 readers, each of whom will read no longer than three minutes before introducing the next reader. No interruption from the…
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At The Faster Times Lincoln Michel talks about why devaluing novels published as eBooks makes it tougher for writers to produce quality work, which means everyone loses—the artist and the consumer. It’s pretty simple: If you can’t make money at writing, then you have to make money doing other things, which takes time away from…
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The new Poets/Artists (April 2011) is available in print and digital download, and I’m among the poets included. They plucked my poem “6 Thoughts on Love” off of Fictionaut. Preview and purchase the issue here.
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I’ve got an in-depth review of Shya Scanlon’s poetry collection In This Alone Impulse posted over at Gently Read Literature today. Check it out.
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From Monkeybicycle: With stories and poems from 22 groundbreaking authors, Monkeybicycle8 is sure to please. Featuring cinema stars, cave-dwelling hermits, imaginary monsters, Internet hookups, and so much more, this issue packs a mighty wallop. Contributors: Summer Block, Matt Briggs, Aaron Burch, E. Michael Desilets, Ori Fienberg, Jesús Ángel García, Scott Geiger, Michael Hickins, Steve Himmer, Blake…
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The documentary on Burroughs’ life that everyone’s been talking about for a while now just aired on PBS. I wish it was a little longer. With interviews from several of his former partners and friends, it painted the man as a real human being. I think it’s no secret that Burroughs was not overly emotional…
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Dean Rader over at the San Francisco Chronicle‘s site, SFGate.com, is taking suggestions in the next two weeks for history’s top-10 poets. He’ll post his own list after the two weeks is up. Here’s the article. I don’t know if I could name 10. I’m fickle—I like a lot of individual poems, but most poets’…
Joe Sullivan 