in the mail

yesterday, some goodies:
Jill Alexander Essbaum's Necropolis (thanks jill!).

Dan Beachy-Quick's This Nest Swift Passerine
Mark Yakich's The Making of Collateral Beauty

hmm...

denis leary reads bill knott???
(who, btw, has made ALL of his poetry available for free, here)

rediscovering charles dickens. pip's sister has just passed.

also, check out jonathan messinger's rave about kr in timeout chicago!! congrats kr!

got some new pobooks:

courtesy of reb livingston:
(i had to ride home with it in the back of my pants...sorry reb! nowhere else to put it!)
& then from the Switchback book release reading last weekend:

looking forward to getting into all three of these, as soon as i'm caught up on sawbuck subs...

a very good yeare

oi

did you hear?

nate pritts' chapbook cycle THE WONDERFUL YEARE has now been compleated!

check out part II: Endless Summer

hint: selections from part III

congrats nate!

a return...

so i've been out of blogland now for a while...

sorry...

i've finally finished my move (rocking in edgewater now) & finally gotten on the interweb in the apartment, so now i should be back to a more regular presence here...& also finally back to reading submissions for the summer sawbuck, so if you're waiting for a reply it should be coming soon, probably this weekend, but don't hold me to that...

in other poetry news, just finished up reading That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness by Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney. Which you should be able to buy at Otoliths before too long. anyhow, it's really awesome, a perfect mix of spry humor, mind-curdling verbal gymnastics, & dead-on seriousishness.

some of the poems first appeared in sawbuck 1.2, read them here. congrats to those two lovely ladies.

more congrats

to another sawbuckian, Clay Matthews, whose book, Superfecta, is now available.

read his poems in sawbuck here.


also, for those of you who might be wondering, baby squirrels pics & SWAN pics will be coming as soon as i have enough fucking time to deal with some pics...

cheers!

congrats

to sawbuck contributer paul siegell, whose book Poemergency Room has just been released by otoliths...

read his poems here & here

here it comes

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& now this:

hint: not nabokov or garcia marquez

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everybody i know is at awp

pub night

the atlantic

b pours her magners

harp, the first of many

curry chips

no curry chips

$5.95 all you can eat fish & chips

d for some reason looks angry

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reading
more on that later

just finished

soon to start this:

read this review by michael dirda

in other news: snows are off & on & we will drop 50 degrees by saturday

thank you notell books!

tonight i will read one of these