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Interview with Brenda Iijima at PhillySound

CARVE 6

Jess Mynes interviews CARVE editor Aaron Tieger and Chris Rizzo of Anchorite Press

Premiere issue of Fascicle

Issue 8 of Word For/Word

Sudden appearance of The Duplications

A few people have actually pre-ordered my chapbook. (Thanks to Scott Pierce for starting this landslide.) I should have copies in my possession by the 16th or so.

I really like it when after you lose a contest you get the winning book in the mail for free or for a pittance. New Michigan Press does this and so I've just received a chapbook by Rachel Moritz, which has me rapt. From the page I'm on, p. 21:

Dull inside the peeling walls
with a golden maze or the
tambor of my bed. This is the
place west of setting sun she
said

Can you see the little dusts
building by window? Just as I
would build up I would build
in the narrowest bed there
ever was I would make my
bed form a window and rest
there one night only Each
night is the same night
repeated                                   

(from The Winchester Monologues)



Did some painting yesterday. First time in a while. Thought of standing on the beach near where the ferry comes in, watching the fires across the bay. Days of breathing that smoke. I went back into the big black canvas, ruined it enough to give me something to work with.

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