CRITICAL MASS: An Interview With Dinty W. Moore (yep, he's real)

CRITICAL MASS: An Interview With Dinty W. Moore (yep, he's real)

TINFISH 17! (out this week)

Tinfish 17: June, 2007: The Bowling Score-card Issue

Tinfish 17 is our largest, most bountiful issue yet, and includes work by R. Zamora Linmark, Shin Yu Pai, Kaia Sand, Sage U`ilani Takehiro, Tiare Picard, Afaa Michael Weaver, Ryan Oishi, Deborah Meadows, Kimo Armitage, Ann Inoshita, Jules Boykoff, Craig Perez, Clint Frakes, Jane Sprague, Paolo Javier, Truong Tran, Normie Salvador, and many others.

What are some things you will find in this issue?

--definitions to words like “skin,” “rock,” “bangungot,” “mynah litature,” “Guam”;
--American epics (undone)
--13 ways and 14 lines
--poems of exile and estrangement, a prayer
--politics and love, together and apart


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now available:
_A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry_, University of Alabama Press
http://www.uapress.ua.edu/NewSearch2.cfm?id=132788

http://tinfishpress.com

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/schultz/

Know the NOLA FUGEES?

You probably do know a lot of the writers on this online lit mag, but even if you're not there to morally support somebody, check out NOLAFugees.com for a few laughs you might feel guilty about. And maybe to see an honest, perhaps intrepid, and satirical view of the State of New Orleans. And let me know what you think.... PS - Bill Lavender's own Lavender Ink Press just colluded with the Fugees to produce their first book, Year Zero.

Saints & Sinners & Baby Steps

I've spent this wekeend working, as usual it seems, but wishing I were able to go to more of the Saints and Sinners panels. It seems a little twisted that I move down here to be closer to writers and events like Saints and Sinners, and then have to spend the whole time working. I could've done that in Virginia. I could've gone to bed early to get up early in VA. I could've done all that and not had to pay rent either! And I'm scared of cities! I'm scared of being lost in a city and ending up someplace BAD. So why am I here? Thats the question I get asked all the time by anyone who is FROM here, who finds out that I only moved down in August, one year after the catastrophe of Katrina. I hate that question. It encompasses so many things - being miserable with my mother, being afraid of ending up like my mother. Wanting to live soemplace where i can get a drink and not feel like I'm being condemned to eternal hellfire and damnation. Wanting to be around people I love and admire, and who's company I crave. Wanting to be around other writers. Wanting to be able to make mroe money than I could make in VA. Wanting to do mroe creative things. Wanting to feel young for the first time in my life. And what that boils down to is a whole lot of wanting. In a city that is wanting for a lot. It is this I feel guilty about. Because I like it here. Don't get me wrong. I am not immune to the poverty, the scarcity, the neglect, the sadness. But I am finding fuel in the light, the colors, the food, and the music. I am finding more and more that the image refelcted back in widnows and mirrors shows me as I see myself in my mind's eye. There is a congruency of reality and imagination, for me, here, that I don't think I've ever had before. I've had a rough semester. I don't mean to pretend that things have been golden for me either since I moved here. But somehow, all of that has made me grateful for everything. I hadn't really taken the time to love where I'm at right now until I thought I might have to leave it. And hey, now I know my way from my house to the Marigny and back again. I don't feel LOST in this city anymore. And soemhow, I don't feel scared of getting lost anymore. Maybe I'm still a little scared of BEING lost, but hey. Baby steps, right? Here's hoping I don't get smacked back to start just because I didn't say Mother May I.

Why We Protect Free Speech

Does this Story Scare Anyone Else?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301124.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

The Stuff Dreams (and philosophies) Should Be Made of

Reading the paper this morning - an ironic way of putting it, since I was actually reading my computer screen and the web - I read this:

Light moves at tremendous speed, but it is still a finite speed, and thus when we look into space we are seeing the past. Telescopes are time machines. The deeper we look, the farther back in time we see. The Hubble Space Telescope can see all the way back to about one billion years after the origin of the universe. The Webb will look even farther.

And am suddenly reminded why I wanted to be the first writer in residence on Mars.

Check out the whole article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051102061.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

A Widening Appreciation of Short Fiction?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/12/AR2007051201376.html?hpid=sec-artsliving

Find me (and maybe yourself) on MySpace and the Web

Greeting Ladies and Gents! Just so you know, I have a MySpace account where I occasionally post pictures and such from the things I do or see. I also have a webpage dedicated to that, which I've shared here before, and will again.

www.jennifernichol/myspace.com

http://homepage.mac.com/jnstewart/

I give of these addresses freely as I have not yet done anything interesting enough to warrant a hit on google. Or at least, nothing anybody's found out about yet. ;)

judge a book by its cover - from Mitch

Check this blog out:

http://www.judgeabook.blogspot.com/

revivifying!

So I've been on hiatus. I know, I know, for shame, for shame. Actually, for some reason I got blocked from entering my own blogger account, but have finally managed to get broed enough tot ake the time to resolve the issue. So I'm back babes, and with a brand new resolution to make the blog work. Which means, I plan on blogging. So beware. I may be posting whatever comes into my head from now on!

This blog is (almost) as fun as self castration

What a wonderful community we have fostered. I will expect replies by 2008.