tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63107062010-03-23T21:09:13.645-04:00st*rnosedmolepoetry and poeticsReenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.comBlogger1750125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-72777617032745409572010-03-22T18:50:00.000-04:002010-03-22T18:51:26.410-04:00Fewer Than Ten Days Til NaPoWriMoSpring is here, which means that NaPoWriMo stalks the land, ready to bring poetry to all and sundry. Will you take part?Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-23500311633758874522010-03-18T08:45:00.001-04:002010-03-18T08:48:22.501-04:00Beware the Ides of NapowrimoLo, the Ides of March are past, and do you know where your poems are? If not, why not sign up for NaPoWriMo? Soon you will be awash in poetic splendor!And this weekend, poetry comes once more to the DC Arts Center:I N Y O U R E A R@ District of Columbia Arts Center3:00PM, March 21, 2010FARRAH FIELDCHRIS NEALON&SHAFER HALLPlease join the In Your Ear Reading Series Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-82213462936647984402010-03-10T23:02:00.006-05:002010-03-11T10:22:20.589-05:00Your Personal Theme SongSo, sometimes I associate songs with someone I know. Certain songs either (a) are sung/played in such a way so as to be instantly linked in my mind with a certain friend or relative's attitude toward the world (or, conversely, my attitude toward them), or (b) have substantive lyrics that describe (literally or figuratively) a certain person's situation so as to do one of Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-58201615231579787762010-03-10T22:59:00.002-05:002010-03-10T23:19:04.723-05:00FYIThe side-windows of the 1978 Ford Ranchero are trapezoidal in nature. To wit:Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-86324935754034869642010-03-10T10:27:00.002-05:002010-03-10T11:03:16.694-05:00Shot Through the Heart, and Thou'st to BlameOh, how I love Hark, A Vagrant. The continuing series of comics based on novels whose covers were designed by Edward Gorey pleases me. Also see: Tesla, the Celibate Scientist and Party Times With Richard III.Earworms of the Week: The Macarena, You Can't Hurry Love, Bungalow Bill (which I always thought was Buffalo Bill when I was a kid. I mean, BungalowReenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-57757778877486905632010-03-08T15:50:00.003-05:002010-03-08T15:55:47.699-05:00Newsy NewsA new installment of the hypothetical library invites you to learn what really happened.Birds LLC is live and offering a $20 pre-order special on its first two books, Elisa Gabbert's The French Exit and Chris Tonelli's The Trees Around.More people are signing up for NaPoWriMo. Will you be one?Also, as a reminder, Big Game Books is accepting queries regarding full-length poetry Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-45130467360410756292010-03-03T11:42:00.003-05:002010-03-03T20:46:56.114-05:00Come, All Ye FatefulToday was gray and soggy, like an unattended bowl of off-brand cereal. But I've had many poetry thoughts buzzing around. I actually stopped on my way to the subway today several times in order to take down my thoughts. I probably looked like a caricature of a poet, sans ostrich plume and flowing tunic. And Prince Valiant haircut. My hair is more "disheveled elderly person" Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-54571460418877397862010-03-02T19:54:00.004-05:002010-03-02T20:01:47.081-05:00Poems, Book Design and NaPoWriMoAllo! I have been hiding, reading books and scrawling things down on wee scraps of paper. In the meantime, there is some news!First, I have two poems in the new So And So.Second, designer-extraordinaire Charlie Orr has a new project, The Hypothetical Library, wherein he designs covers for books authors don't think they will write, but kind of wish they could. The Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-26254096481096683032010-02-20T12:57:00.003-05:002010-02-20T13:04:51.172-05:00Many thanks to Wade Fletcher and Joe Hall for inviting me to read at Cheryl's Gone, and to my co-readers, James Belflower and Laura Ellen Scott. I had a wonderful time -- the atmosphere at Big Bear Cafe was laid-back and friendly, the audience receptive, and I got to read some brand new poems. It's always a little frightening to try out something squeaky and untested, but it all went well. I had Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-5744751741041713812010-02-11T20:30:00.004-05:002010-02-11T21:23:53.452-05:00I Read You PoemsHey DC! I will read you and your snow some poems! Next Thursday, the 18th at the Big Bear Cafe. Happily, all these many snow days have allowed me to revise a bunch of poems. Whew! If all my work days were basically 4-5 hours each, I would be so much more prolific than I generally am.Anyway, come out and see me! There may be prizes. I enjoy motivating people to hear poems. Perhaps Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-43470239625930775192010-02-10T21:03:00.002-05:002010-02-10T21:20:03.042-05:00The View From My Home OfficeJeff just took this artsy long-exposure photo of the view from my home office window. Lo and behold the insanity of Snowverkill. Brick walls have blossomed with snow-lichens. All day the winds have blown like something out of a Laura Ingalls Wilder novel. I distinctly remember a passage in one of those books where they had to string a rope between the house and the Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-33953407219654030672010-02-09T19:56:00.003-05:002010-02-09T20:04:21.533-05:0024 HOURS IN HELL: New Sam Raimi movie, or my life?If you guessed (b), you're right! Last night, I choked on an onion, and Jeff had to give me the Heimlich maneuver. Fearsomely delicious! Then, this morning, I got up at 7 am, trundled my way over 2/3 of a mile of snowy/slushy crags, and promptly got on a metro train that caught on fire. Yes, my train ran over an electrical cable that had somehow Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-55271819260382285062010-02-08T12:31:00.002-05:002010-02-08T12:42:27.303-05:00From the frosty cradle of Snowmageddon comes...Big Game Books!Yes indeedy, our long hiatus is over. Big Game is back, with a new website, accessible either through the old URL (http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/biggame.html) or through a new and shiny URL (http://www.big-game-books.com). Either way, the press is now accepting queries for full-length manuscripts.Huzzah!Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-55049307519616835982010-02-08T10:16:00.000-05:002010-02-08T10:18:03.710-05:00Chicken Pot Pie With MooseIn honor of Snowmageddon. Speaking of which, the Federal Government is closed. Which means I get to work from home today. Yay!Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-4631105336285599822010-02-06T10:36:00.002-05:002010-02-06T10:41:40.137-05:00 This Week in MaureenI have a little piece up at Open Letters Monthly, as part of their "Bad Books, Good Hooks" feature. Takeaway: I didn't like Caroline Knox's Quaker Guns (actually, I wanted to throw it against the wall, repeatedly), but I find it weirdly compelling anyway.The fruits of the 3rd Dusie Kollektiv are now available online, including my chapbook Twenty Questions for the Drunken Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-44631421161502297072010-02-05T18:12:00.002-05:002010-02-05T18:15:03.670-05:00SNOWMAGEDDON!So the DC metro area is in the opening stages of the storm of the century. Snow rhetoric has reached apocalyptic levels -- the grocery stores resemble something out of an anti-communist film and the federal government closed at one o'clock, even though it was basically only raining at that point. Fueling all this?Weather reports like this. Seriously, I am just relieved this guy Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-84946338054972711752010-01-31T13:49:00.003-05:002010-01-31T13:50:37.750-05:00NaPoWriMo.netNaPoWriMo 2010 is a ways off yet, but given how large the project has gotten over the past few years, I thought I would try to set up a dedicated website for it, instead of just posting links and information on my blog. So, behold! -- NaPoWriMo.net!Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-19041916959940633002010-01-27T22:54:00.000-05:002010-01-27T22:58:12.665-05:00Titles: Before and AfterHere's a question for you, poet folk! Do you more commonly (a) come up with a title to your poem first, and write the poem using the title as a guide or sort of mascot, even though you may later change the title, or (b) write the poem, and only after it is finished, come up with a title?I used to always title first. I found my thoughts too disjointed unless I gave them a Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-87554163005453171332010-01-24T15:32:00.002-05:002010-01-24T15:48:00.623-05:00Poetic Odds and EndsThe Constant Critic is back! Huzzah, I have missed their reviews.Tarpaulin Sky did an interview with Jessica Smith about Foursquare, in which Jessica mentions Big Game Books. And what is happening with Big Game? Tweaking the new website...there should be a whole new look and announcements in February.Jessica also has an interesting post up about trying to get work from female Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-61267757978312027042010-01-22T14:39:00.003-05:002010-01-22T14:42:13.794-05:00InterwebopoemsDan Brady of Barrelhouse came by the In Your Ear reading on Sunday, and recorded the readings using his magical Flip camera. You, the internet-based public, can now experience readings by Chris Mason and Matvei Yankelevich, via that wondrous platform, YouTube. Dan hopes to record future In Your Ear readings, and make them available on YouTube as well. Huzzah!Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-80396984621393892452010-01-16T20:26:00.002-05:002010-01-16T20:27:44.858-05:00I N Y O U R E A R !Tomorrow! The In Your Ear reading series will proudly present:CHRIS MASON&MATVEI YANKELEVICH@ District of Columbia Arts Centerat 3 p.m. Admission is $5.00.District of Columbia Arts Center is located at 2438 18th Street NW in AdamsMorgan, Washington, DC, between the Dupont Circle and Woodley Park metrostations. For directions, see the DCAC web site athttp://Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-65998763465367607142010-01-16T20:20:00.002-05:002010-01-16T20:24:28.900-05:00Handsome Is as Handsome DoesThis is one of my grandmother's favorite phrases, and I found it nearly as confusing as a child as my dad's constant refrain of "You make a better door than a window." (Growing up in a home with sliding glass doors made that phrase perfectly incomprehensible...our doors were windows).But yesterday I received my contributor's copy of the second issue of Handsome, the Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-69811326026845566842010-01-15T10:41:00.005-05:002010-01-16T15:14:48.530-05:00Word to Your HusbandJeff's birthday is Sunday, and in his honor, I have fulfilled one of his lexicographical dreams: ownership of the 20-volume OED.Behold!The two-volume shorter OED just wasn't cutting it anymore. The new, bigger version arrived on Wednesday, and we spent that evening carefully prizing the volumes out of six separate boxes, freeing them from shinkwrap, and finding out that, say, Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-64861985408645150082010-01-14T17:25:00.002-05:002010-01-14T17:28:34.682-05:00Four Squares a DayFrom the Dep't of General Awesomeness, Jessica Smith and a collaborator, Jeannie Hoag, have created a digital archive of the first two volumes of Foursquare. This is something I need to do with the tinysides (first, I need a scanner. And maybe an intern).Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6310706.post-8792198362137522032010-01-13T10:56:00.002-05:002010-01-13T11:04:07.461-05:00More Food (I Think It's a Winter Thing)Last night I made fried rice using this recipe. I didn't use any chicken, I just upped the red pepper content. Still has an egg, though, so not quite vegan.It was pretty good, despite a lot of people in the comments arguing that the recipe isn't "authentic" enough. Authenticity is not something I hugely value in my food, except to the extent that all of the Reenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04960908915132825259noreply@blogger.com1