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Apr 07

altlitgossip: Jesus.  Darby Larson’s book is available and for a mere 20 dollars you get a whopping 900 pages of Irritant “It is a puzzle machine of engrossing order, deceptively simple in how it wakes and slips and snakes itself with mesmerizing syntax inside a single 900-page 1-paragraph-shaped monolith of colors and suns and prayers. The result is a relentless, terrifying spell, or book of spells, or library of books of spells, or worse, a multi-mega-leveled text-world the likes from which I or my ability to sleep may never find an exit.” - Blake Butler PRE ORDER AT BLUE SQUARE PRESS

altlitgossip:

Jesus. 

Darby Larson’s book is available and for a mere 20 dollars you get a whopping 900 pages of Irritant

“It is a puzzle machine of engrossing order, deceptively simple in how it wakes and slips and snakes itself with mesmerizing syntax inside a single 900-page 1-paragraph-shaped monolith of colors and suns and prayers. The result is a relentless, terrifying spell, or book of spells, or library of books of spells, or worse, a multi-mega-leveled text-world the likes from which I or my ability to sleep may never find an exit.” - Blake Butler

PRE ORDER AT BLUE SQUARE PRESS

Apr 03

I share the details of my first WWE experience over at Thought Catalog

I share the details of my first WWE experience over at Thought Catalog

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Mar 28

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Mar 21

Line Assembly: Line Assembly Is Go -

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Hello and Happy New Year from the poets of Line Assembly! As you can see from our mission statement above, we’re six poets with Pittsburgh roots determined to share our particular enthusiasm for poetry in two ways: by helming a tour and capturing it as a feature-length documentary. You’ll…

Mar 18

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radioactivemoat: “The floodwaters have risen!”The final issue of Radioactive Moat has gone live. The “Deluge” issue features fiction by Codi Suzanne Oliver, collaborative poems by Carrie Lorig & Russ Woods, and safety hazard materials from Gina Abelkop, J. Fossenbell, Shannon Hozinec, Jonathan Escoffery, M. Forajter, Tony Mancus, Matthew Harrison, Leif Haven, Alice Ladrick, James Capozzi, and Marcus Slease, a writer who was also featured in our debut issue back in 2009.The “Deluge” issue also features an editorial note from Paul Cunningham regarding the future of Radioactive Moat Press’s bi-annually published online journal: “Despite the seemingly infinite excess and despite canonical entanglements, many of us have refused passivity. Our multiplicities have been mistaken for naivete, but our reactions are never soft. We’ve all been quite noisy! Quite stubborn! Quite attractive (for, most importantly, the “wrong” reasons)! QUITE, BUT NEVER QUIET! Never fundamental, never polite, and no need for apologies.” Read more [here]

radioactivemoat:

“The floodwaters have risen!”

The final issue of Radioactive Moat has gone live. The “Deluge” issue features fiction by Codi Suzanne Oliver, collaborative poems by Carrie Lorig & Russ Woods, and safety hazard materials from Gina Abelkop, J. Fossenbell, Shannon Hozinec, Jonathan Escoffery, M. Forajter, Tony Mancus, Matthew Harrison, Leif Haven, Alice Ladrick, James Capozzi, and Marcus Slease, a writer who was also featured in our debut issue back in 2009.

The “Deluge” issue also features an editorial note from Paul Cunningham regarding the future of Radioactive Moat Press’s bi-annually published online journal:

“Despite the seemingly infinite excess and despite canonical entanglements, many of us have refused passivity. Our multiplicities have been mistaken for naivete, but our reactions are never soft. We’ve all been quite noisy! Quite stubborn! Quite attractive (for, most importantly, the “wrong” reasons)! QUITE, BUT NEVER QUIET! Never fundamental, never polite, and no need for apologies.”

Read more [here]

Mar 15

radioactivemoat: Amy Lawless discusses her book of poetry—My Dead—as well as her experience with Octopus Books in the latest issue of Interview Magazine:“Then one day my phone rang, and it was Zachary Schomburg from Octopus Books, he was like, ‘Hey, Amy. Is My Dead being published?’And, I was like [assumes a drab, pathetic voice], ‘No.’ Meanwhile, I was staring at dead flowers while I’m on the phone with him. And he asked if he could publish the book, and I was like, ‘Yeah! Of course!’ And, suddenly the fear of death was quieted by the idea of having a book come out. I mean, no one wants to die, it’s just one of those things that gets louder and quieter depending on what life is like.”

radioactivemoat:

Amy Lawless discusses her book of poetry—My Dead—as well as her experience with Octopus Books in the latest issue of Interview Magazine:

“Then one day my phone rang, and it was Zachary Schomburg from Octopus Books, he was like, ‘Hey, Amy. Is My Dead being published?’And, I was like [assumes a drab, pathetic voice], ‘No.’ Meanwhile, I was staring at dead flowers while I’m on the phone with him. And he asked if he could publish the book, and I was like, ‘Yeah! Of course!’ And, suddenly the fear of death was quieted by the idea of having a book come out. I mean, no one wants to die, it’s just one of those things that gets louder and quieter depending on what life is like.”

Mar 14

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Mar 05

Mar 04

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contact pietdaniel@gmail.com for more info and directions

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http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ellen-kennedy

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http:/parasolma.bandcamp.com

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Feb 26

It’s official—I’ll be attending the MFA program at the University of Notre Dame this August!! South Bend will never be the same…

It’s official—I’ll be attending the MFA program at the University of Notre Dame this August!! South Bend will never be the same…

Feb 19

radioactivemoat: Radioactive Moat asks Rauan Klassnik some questions about his latest book of poetry, The Moon’s Jaw (Black Ocean, 2013).“Holy Land, you see, is I think mostly a victim book. The universe is fucked up. Bad things happen. And in Holy Land I stand with a fist against that and this is something a lot of people can relate to and even champion. But in The Moon’s Jaw the vibe’s more decadent. More Bad Caesar. More perverse, self-indulgent and monstrous—”Read the full interview [here] Check out my interview with Rauan Klassnik

radioactivemoat:

Radioactive Moat asks Rauan Klassnik some questions about his latest book of poetry, The Moon’s Jaw (Black Ocean, 2013).

“Holy Land, you see, is I think mostly a victim book. The universe is fucked up. Bad things happen. And in Holy Land I stand with a fist against that and this is something a lot of people can relate to and even champion. But in The Moon’s Jaw the vibe’s more decadent. More Bad Caesar. More perverse, self-indulgent and monstrous—”

Read the full interview [here]


Check out my interview with Rauan Klassnik

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