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March 2, 2012February 28, 2012 - Uncategorized

Q and A: Writer Matthew Simmons, Seattle

In Q and A, I try to get at something valuable from my fellow writers, by asking just a single…

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January 8, 2011January 8, 2011 - Uncategorized

art and self-restraint: the work of david shrigley

I laughed a little when I found this drawing on the website for David Shrigley, a Glasgow-based artist. There’s not…

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July 5, 2010July 5, 2010 - Uncategorized

A Jello Horse and Your Rightful Home

Yesterday I read Matthew Simmons’s A Jello Horse (Publishing Genius, 2009), immediately after finishing Alyssa Knickerbocker’s Your Rightful Home (Flatmancrooked,…

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May 9, 2010May 9, 2010 - Uncategorized

The Varieties of Poetic Experience

A while ago I began to solicit videos of friends and associates reading/performing/interpreting poems from my collection, In This Alone…

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December 31, 2009December 31, 2009 - Uncategorized

My Favorite Books from 2009 (in alphabetical order):

I’ve read over 120 books in 2009, and by the time the year is up I’ll have reviewed over fifty.…

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December 23, 2009December 23, 2009 - Uncategorized

Powers of Attraction

The narrator of Matthew Simmons’s A Jello Horse takes detours to odd roadside attractions. This aspect of the book reminded…

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December 11, 2009December 12, 2009 - Uncategorized

Bradley Sands’s Best of 2009

Here’s a quick run-through of the books that I read this year and came out this year. Pretty much the…

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December 2, 2009December 9, 2009 - Uncategorized

Big Other Contributors’ News #6

Molly Gaudry and Kim Chinquee have been translated into Polish, alongside Matt Bell, Jamie Iredell, Claudia Smith, and a number…

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November 19, 2009November 19, 2009 - Uncategorized

Big Other Contributors’ News #4

Lily Hoang is now an editor at Tarpaulin Sky. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… I WILL SMASH YOU, the documentary film by Luca Dipierro…

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