All us sinners chummed like gulls a gaggle,
a scatter, cupping back Friday and Saturday
over stewed beef. Heady months-cum-years.
We struggled over our own motility and the
murphy bed, heavy and awkward. Where to
put our hands? Chimed the bereted snapper:
No oglers. Jump fists in. Shock and clobber. Slum-baked wood floors groaned, holding up ( Read more... )

Ottawa (AP) -- Ron Silliman, author and archiver, added Jee Leong Koh to his blogroll on Feb. 23, bringing the tally of poets he's listed to 800, according to his website. Silliman's blog is one of dozens of similar websites featuring an exhaustive list of poets-cum-bloggers. His list includes Ottawa's rob mclennan and angela rawlings, as well ( Read more... )

The Winter 2006 Yawp is at the presses, as of today. Yawp is the U of O's literary journal; as the "Director of Publishing", I do the layout and design -- it's a volunteer thing, but the title is snazzy, no? I also have three poems in the little mag, but you've already read them. There were a few copy corrections, but otherwise, it's nothing you ( Read more... )

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I think these are thematically linked; they make more sense together than apart. So, nothing new, just putting it all together.

5 months of winter
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Yawp's winter 2006 issue is coming out, and let me say I'm pretty stoked. They accepted 5 poems--the three below plus two others: "At an airport..." and "The Survivalist". I requested that just the three prose poems below be included. All three are tweaked, but first appeared here on the lj.

( And snatching the broad from the building )

So the snow races water out like a leaking
Orange, and with as much a plan as an orange’d
Have. A streaming game of What time is it, Mr Wolf,
And the February sunset waremoon answers

With its subway token eye: refreeze. How unfair to run ( Read more... )

Unseasonal; or, What makes us thankful for a high of minus 10 degrees Celsius

And if it weren't for the cold, how could we afford
the real estate? Yet this February like a Pulitzer
winner: astonishing, unpredictable, heartfelt,
a feat. We nearly forgot the mildness was accidental ( Read more... )

Face down in a lake there's more to see ( Read more... )

Having gleaned nothing from summer or fall ( Read more... )