23 SEPT 06
Wendell, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.5618
Longitude: -72.4041
Wendell is
18 miles from Amherst, MA
27 miles from Northampton, MA
34 miles from Brattleboro, VT
81 miles from Boston, MA
102 miles from Providence, RI
187 miles from New York City
251 miles from my house
How far is Wendell from where you are?
And what are you doing on Monday night around 7:15?
Amie Keddy (co-editor of FRAME) and I will be reading on Monday around 8 pm at the Deja Brew Pub in Wendell, home to the all small caps reading series hosted by Jess Mynes. We'll be preceded by an open mic. Come early and sign up or just come and listen. See you there!
I'm really looking forward to meeting Jess finally and to taping a conversation with him about various aspects of his work, including his press, Fewer & Further. (His latest, the beautiful Landscape Odes, can still be had for a mere 3 bucks.)
This interview with Jess is one of several I have in mind for the coming months (as the first-book series comes to a close) with poets who help other poets by publishing books or journals or by hosting readings. I'll also be talking with a few poets at various stages of their careers about the different publishing paths they've taken. The first of those will appear here day after tomorrow, an interview with Shin Yu Pai.
A number of people have asked me when I'm going to answer my own first-book questions, and some have offered to interview me at their blogs. Thank you, comrades!
I think that when the last first-book interview has appeared, I'll mark the conclusion by putting my name at the top of the stack of interviewees, leaving mine black (unlinked) until, at some point during "the case sensitive tour" (that's catchy, right?), I'm sitting in a motel room and feel ready to describe the ways that my first book has changed my life. Then I'll interview myself.
Michael Sikkema's Code Over Code, the newest Lame House Press release--have you seen it (ordered it) yet? (That's a detail of the great cover, by Dietmar Krumrey, above.) I loved Hazel McClure's Nothing Moving (now sold out)--interestingly, Michael Sikkema is her husband. What a team! I'm very behind on my reading, finally got to Code After Code last night.
"Had torn back a section of curtain revealing more curtain.
Where were the beasts we would love? Where was our speaking light?"
These things disappear, so don't wait too long. Same goes for CARVE 7, and the premier issue of string of small machines. Seriously.
One last thing, Saint Elizabeth Street #4 is just up, with new work from Rob McClennan, Joe Massey, Elizabeth Robinson, Bruce Covey, Catherine Daly, me, and a host of others. I'd like to say more but I have to stop typing now--lots to do before we head north tomorrow morning.
That's the Deja Brew, seen from space.
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