Exciting News on the Publication Front

My image "Ghost Window" is now the cover of Volume 11, Edition 4 of Stirring!!

GAR

arrived in the mail yesterday--such a wonderful collection of vispo. Thanks, Ross!

The Distinct Work of Jaie Miller (and friends)

Mixed media

Life After...21(?)

[still continues to use the Markov generator
to ward off angry spirits]

Tram Combs (the most underrated poet of the "beat" era)

ars poetica about ultimates

when you first rub up against God’s own skin
He turns out to be rougher than christ’s men most expect,
like a wood-rat, -rasp or ravenous
connoisseur with tender grapes a rough trade!
yet this seduction and adoration
of him we must get done, dangerous
though it go; poetry’s ways’re
strewn with the early-de railed, ridden, filed who
heard its sirens; and rose to go
singing, but couldn’t make it, hammered
and strove but with beats unsuccessful
to get on to come on with the real jazz
and sea for one’s
self, to reach follow , fellow ,
father ship with Him!

Black Robert Journal Interview

In Romanian!


(click on image to enlarge)

Translated by Carmen Racovitza


English version here: Black Robert Journal

Five Months After Departure...

... Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin

Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in

--Leonard Cohen

The Ghost Sonata

In a Manner of speaking I just want to say that I could never forget the way
you told me everything by saying nothing

In a manner of speaking I don't understand
How love in silence becomes reprimand
But the way that i feel about you
Is beyond words

Mon coeur reste toujours le meme...

losing sight of the bird as a bird
& not the bone-piercing sirens of my longing

bereaved,

thus expires then pines
for the spring in which it nurtured
with harrowed propagation

O' dystopic night--a bird of ill flight

from scattered light seismic where beat of blaring strobes
are otherwise fingers elongated

thin, thinner than rind-thin
thinner than the translation of skin

carve of demons
in ash

Forthcoming Publications

I find myself pecking away at Selby's List, and not really finding much to submit to that I haven't already submitted to before. There are a number of vispo/experimental mags, but the number is quite low. So what does one do when the pickings are slim? What can one do? Start a book, probably. I'm still in the process. It's an arduous process, to say the least. I am currently working on a small chapbook of theme-based poetry, and it is proving to be quite the project. I may be over-thinking it, or not thinking enough. I find myself stuck on the purpose of writing this work, stuck on making it "perfect" and intentional...maybe I should just say fuck it and do whatever. Eventually it will come out the way it is meant to be.

Aside from all of that drama, here are a couple magazines I will be in soon.

Siren (artwork)
Big Bridge (poetry)
Drunken Boat (artwork)
Pinstripe Fedora (poetry)
Indefinite Space (poetry)


2009 is turning into one exciting year. I look forward to the future.

Pressure Valve (a

Kill Me (Ce Soir)