Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

His e-mail today ached, its few words contracting, squeezed, constricted, a quiet distress of which I debated: let it slide untouched, unturned, out of the digital spotlight, or should I query him, ask him to articulate, to amplify? Thus this.

Six Word Story

The desk got in the way.

Two Sentences from Dreams

"I don't have to die in person."

"She's a good hand with a bow."

Hmm, death and sex, the things dreams are made of...

Of the latter sentence, I will say nothing more. Of the former, these are the thoughts that accompanied that sentence as I drifted awake: I don't have to die in person. Someone can stand in for me. I can do it by text, e-mail, phone, or by mail...

Otoliths Up and Ready to Read!

Issue ten of Otoliths has just gone live. Once again, it's full of variety. Poems—visual, text, concrete & prose—essays, short stories, photography, an interview, paintings both digital & manual, plus a few things that defy categorization. Included is work by Barry Schwabsky, Geof Huth, joanne burns, nick-e melville, Robert Gauldie, Thomas Fink, Thomas Fink & Maya Diablo Mason, Bob Grumman, Bill Drennan, Kristen Orser, Obodadimma Oha, Reed Altemus, Raymond Farr, Christopher Major, Mary Ellen Derwis, Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy, Felino Soriano, Matthew Stolte, Anne Gorrick, Caleb Puckett, Philip Byron Oakes, David-Baptiste Chirot, Sandy McIntosh, Jeff Harrison, Robert Lee Brewer, Ashley Capes, Angela Genusa, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen & John M. Bennett, Baron & John M. Bennett, Sheila E. Murphy & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Clint Frakes, Charles Freeland, Randy Thurman, Alexander Jorgensen, Ryan B. Richey, Ray Craig, Julian Jason Haladyn, Jennifer Karmin, Rebecca Eddy, Martin Edmond, MTC Cronin & Peter Boyle, Alan Ramón Clinton, Manas Bhattacharya, Tom Hibbard, Bobbi Lurie, Cecelia Chapman, Andrew Topel, Matthew Klane, Mark DuCharme, Laura Goldstein, Michelle Detorie, Joe Balaz, Paul Siegell, Kate Schapira, Vincent Ponka, m.R. koppp', Tom Beckett, and Nico Vassilakis. The cover image is by Angela Genusa.

 

&, as a kind of "companion piece", Otoliths Books has just published From the Annual Records of the Cloud Appreciation Society, a chapbook "edited" by Márton Koppány & Nico Vassilakis. It's available in hardcopy at The Otoliths Storefront, & as a free downloadable pdf at the Otoliths Books Google site.

 

Probably only the fabled Prieure du Sion has guarded its secrets as closely as The Cloud Appreciation Society. Now some of its members, tired of the secrecy, have decided to open their texts and visions to the world.  In this slim volume, edited by Márton Koppány and Nico Vassilakis, we see for the first time what has previously been hidden in the clouds.

 

Mark Young

To Build! An Idea from Cid Corman's Nothing Doing:

When America

has made a black wall with all

the names of those of

the Vietnamese who died in

that war life will have grown up.

(p. 114, Nothing Doing, 1999, New Directions)

Sonnet #1

Three Visual Poems by Michael Basinski

at Anti-. Check 'em out.

New Book from Márton Koppány & Nico Vassilakis

From the Annual Records of the Cloud Appreciation Society

Márton Koppány & Nico Vassilakis

28 pages

ISBN: 978-0-9805096-7-0

Otoliths, 2008

$10.00 + p&h

URL: http://www.lulu.com/content/3152850

Probably only the fabled Prieure du Sionhas guarded its secrets as closely as The Cloud Appreciation Society. Now some of its members, tired of the secrecy, have decided to open their texts and visions to the world.  In this slim volume, edited by Márton Koppány and Nico Vassilakis, we see for the first time what has previously been hidden in the clouds.

The book has a downloadable PDF version available from here:

freedownload here

 

from The Hay(na)ku of Spiro Agnew

The Creative Process: Sometimes

you

feel like

a 3-pound hen

trying

to lay

a 4-pound egg.

Mar. 15, 1969

from The Hay(na)ku of Spiro Agnew

Show Biz

Nixon
is not
going to get

involved
with any
kind of sideshow.

Oct. 15, 1968