ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL

"The Blogger Who Stepped Into Book Publishing"

2012-02-06T14:07:00.005-05:00

PASTE ASKED ME TO WRITE
A BOOK REVIEW, BUT THEY WANTED THE REVIEW TO BE IN THE FORM OF A POEM!

I WAS LIKE, "MONUMENTAL."

Mr. Miner’s Phish Thoughts – An Anthology By A Fan For The Fans by David Calarco

Reviewed by Paul Siegell

"from “musical molasses” to a “funkified splash,” a “liquid-groove session” to “pure Phish crack,” this memorabilia of..."

STUPENDOUS amounts of THANKS to PhanArt's Pete Mason for reviewing jambandbootleg

2012-01-30T20:28:00.007-05:00

"Paul Siegell creates a concert in his book... this book is musical poetry... This is poetry for the music fan... It provides a flow that connects with the freeform improvisational structure of jamband music." -- PhanArt

Get your jambandbootleg here! Or, email me for a signed copy!

backstage at the submission apparition exhibition

2012-01-26T15:59:00.011-05:00

2006: 9 acceptances + 28 rejections received; 2007: 17 acceptances + 71 rejections received; 2008: 25 acceptances + 73 rejections received; 2009: 23 acceptances + 51 rejections received; 2010: 22 acceptances + 52 rejections received; 2011: 16 acceptances + 37 rejections received Sick Pic: "Bethel Woods" by Michael Messenbourg, via Mr. Miner's

"See the shocking new photos and find out how long they’ve been keeping their secret"

2012-01-17T08:00:00.002-05:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR, PHILLY: *TWO STREET, JANUARY FIRST* in Splinter Generation

PODCAST AUDIO: *AND THE ASTRONAUT IN THE AIRPORT PIANO BAR SINGS* Poem of the Day Podcast at InDigest

(YEMSG) if you scored STTF #33, turn to page 52

2011-12-29T15:00:00.003-05:00

one year from today?

2011-12-21T23:59:00.001-05:00

STEVEN KARL USED SOME VERY KIND AND THOUGHTFUL WORDS TO INTRODUCE ME

2011-12-02T10:44:00.003-05:00

On Friday, November 18, I read for the great Stain of Poetry Reading Series at Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick, Brooklyn. (Bathroom wall's a chaotic collage of amazing things to photograph). Well-known poets Heather Christle, Jennifer Tamayo, Karen Weiser and Jared White also read. And were incredible. Learned so much that night.

Before I read, Steven Karl introduced me. But he didn't just read my bio. He introduced me-introduced me. Here's what he said:

"Upjump the jam boogie bootleg! How else to introduce Paul Siegell? Emily Kendal Frey (last month's reader) recently updated her status by saying, "FACT: All writers secretly want to be musicians." Whether this is a "fact" or not is arguable, but one needs look no further than Siegell to assert the correlation. However, he does more than just pen poems for the Phish faithful--He gets inside the music, extracts the energy and creates his own brand of melody, jazzing across the page and riffing away in assonance and we, in turn, are moved from passive spectator to music maker."

Done dropped my jaw. Can't thank you enough, Steven!

05.02.09 - The Dead - The Spectrum, PA

2011-11-17T16:17:00.001-05:00

Set I: One More Saturday Night, Brown Eyed Women, Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl, Althea, He's Gone > Uncle John's Band > Mason's Children

Set II: Jam > Good Lovin' > Cumberland Blues > Cryptical Envelopment > The Other One > Drums > Space > Morning Dew, St. Stephen > Revolution, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower

Encore: Organ Donor Rap, Samson and Delilah

MAKE AN 'US' OUT OF 'YOU' AND 'ME' THIS FRIDAY NIGHT IN BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN

2011-11-15T16:02:00.002-05:00

Stain of Poetry: 7PM Friday, November 18 @ Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick, Brooklyn (Heather Christle – Paul Siegell – Jennifer Tamayo – Karen Weiser – Jared White) facebook invite: here!

BEST OF THE NET 2011: TREMENDOUS THANKS to InDigest for nominating my poem *MY COMMA LOOKS LIKE YOUR FETUS* for the 2011 Best of the Net Anthology - My first nomination!

#OccupyPhilly with Jacques Lipchitz

2011-11-03T08:54:00.012-04:00

"With the statue of William Penn standing guard,
the protestors of Occupy Philadelphia are standing
up. But there's also another rather large monument, just across the street in Thomas Paine Plaza, that is keeping a watchful eye as well..."

Two new in Shampoo: PHISH & shutter shades

2011-10-26T15:36:00.006-04:00

Also in Shampoo #39: Ron Silliman, Dustin Luke Nelson, John Moore Williams, Spencer Selby, Aaron Belz and a great many others!Follow @paulsiegell

"This icon-making tactic continues..."

2011-09-21T16:25:00.006-04:00

“Without a Net”: Ernest Hilbert on Optic, Graphic, Acoustic, and Other Formations in Free Verse in the Contemporary Poetry Review! (...And, a HUGE thanks to Ernie for including my *acrobatic macaroni* in the discussion!)

Photos from the [09.18.11] and [09.19.11] readings: HERE!

The Whiskey Rebellion Book Tour: Put a little Pittsburgh into it!

2011-09-08T20:00:00.001-04:00

New! Camiele White talks me up over at TheWriteGame:

One of the many nice things: "Paul Siegell is the epitome of someone who’s always seeking forward motion, a means to move and expand."

4PM SUNDAY [09.18.11]: Moveable Beats Reading Series @ The Slingluff Gallery (Jim Cory & Paul Siegell; hosted by Jim Mancinelli; open reading to follow) ...facebook!

7PM MONDAY [09.19.11]: "The Whiskey Rebellion" Book Tour with Pittsburgh Poets Jerome Crooks & Jason Baldinger @ Moonstone Arts Center (plus, Michelle Taransky and hosted by The Apiary's Lillian Dunn) ...facebook!

Some shaped meaning from Poemergency Room

2011-09-01T08:00:00.001-04:00

IRLpoetrytour: AUGUST ATE PHILADELPHIA

2011-08-04T20:00:00.002-04:00

New poems appearing in PHiSH lot's Surrender to the Flow, + broadside's in InDigest.

(facebook invite)

IRLpoetrytour // August 8 "Somewhere" in Philly with Poncho Peligroso, Steve Roggenbuck, Dianca Potts, Ras Mashramani & Ari Roth. Hosted by Lillian Dunn of The Apiary.

EYES WITHOUT A FACE

2011-07-19T20:00:00.001-04:00

Just interview'd:
We Who Are About To Die: Getting to Know Paul Siegell

Just publish'd: Sixth Finch

Soon: PHiSH & hipster poems in Shampoo; broadsides in InDigest; three in Apiary...
Les yeux sans visage

EbEnEzEr Huge, eBeNeZeR Truth

2011-07-12T20:00:00.001-04:00

"Won't you step into the freezer? Tease her with a tweezer."

Carini, Back On The Train, Boogie On Reggae Woman>Waves>Prince Caspian>Cross-eyed & Painless> READ THE BOOK: jambandbootleg #phish #lot #book

2011-06-01T13:30:00.008-04:00

'Read the Book!! It documents a state of being at shows—both physically and emotionally... You often feel like you are at the show.' Surrender to the Flowheads up: jambandbootleg available!
"Paul Siegell is ecstasy in the present tense... Siegell’s poems bend the jamband scene into enthused reveries." —RELIX MagazineKIND /// Author Discount: Email for SIGNED copies: only $10
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“For centuries, people have tried to take words and turn them
into music. What Paul Siegell does in his collection of poetry,
jambandbootleg, is take music
and turn it back into words. And he
does it exceptionally well, capturing
both the excitement of concert-
going and the poetic essence of
the improvisational music scene.”
—Marc Brownstein, bass player
of The Disco Biscuits

“Timeliness pipeline livelihood timeframe”: HIGHLIGHTS of a LIFE WRITING POETRY

2011-05-24T22:30:00.021-04:00

08/04: PHiSH Coventry Festival, VT: in attendance

04/05: After three years, moved from Atlanta to Philadelphia
09/05: At B&N for Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, met CAConrad
10/05: Pre-Yonder Mountain String Band show, met future fiancée

10/06: Started working at The Inquirer & Daily News: copywriter
10/06: First acceptance to Otoliths (Australia)
At Bats: 9 acceptances + 28 rejections received in 2006

06/07: Jambands.com named my blog June "Fan Site of the Month"
05/07: New Orleans Jazz Fest, in attendance
07/07: First acceptance to Coconut
08/07: Philadelphia Folk Fest, in attendance for the first time
08/07: Invited to join editorial staff of Painted Bride Quarterly
At Bats: 17 acceptances + 71 rejections received in 2007

01/08: First book released: Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books)
02/08: First public reading since 2000
03/08: Featured in Philadelphia City Paper
04/08: Pooch and I head west: Grand Canyon, Sedona, love
04/08: Featured in PASTE Magazine (Gnarles Barkley cover)
04/08: Met/befriended poet Tamara Oakman
05/08: Invited to submit to American Poetry Review, accepted
05/08: Bookslut Indie Heart Throb, first appearance
07/08: Met/befriended poet Ernest Hilbert, e-verse radio
08/08: e-chap released: JAM> (ungovernable press)
10/08: Phillies win World Series, in attendance
11/08: Inspired by Phillies’ victory, wrote first sonnet
At Bats: 25 acceptances + 73 rejections received in 2008

02/09: Marc Brownstein (Disco Biscuits) blurbs jambandbootleg
03/09: Traveled to Italy for the first time: St. Catherine's head
03/09: Invited to read at University of Pittsburgh Poetry Club
07/09: Second book released: jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing)
07/09: Surrender to the Flow reviews jambandbootleg
08/09: Met/befriended poet/fiction writer Bojan Louis
10/09: Relix Magazine reviews jambandbootleg
10/09: Bookslut Indie Heart Throb, second appearance
10/09: PHiSH 8, California: in attendance
11/09: First appearance of poem-comic: hot pepper people
At Bats: 23 acceptances + 51 rejections received in 2009

02/10: Me and Pooch in Puerto Rico: the bioluminescent lagoon!
02/10: Third book released: wild life rifle fire (Otoliths Books)
05/10: Invited to read at the Poetry Lab in Vienna, VA
05/10: *BIG TIME* voted May Goodreads Poem of the Month
08/10: First submission of Trombone Bubble Bath, rejected
08/10: Splitleaves Press broadsides my NOLA Jazz Fest poems
09/10: Invited to read for Whose City? of the Philadelphia Fringe Fest
10/10: First appearance of fifth manuscript, Take Out Delivery
10/10: “THISAREA COUNTY FAIR” accepted by Black Warrior Review
12/10: First reading at Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY
12/10: wild life rifle fire nominated Goodreads Poetry of the Year
At Bats: 22 acceptances + 52 rejections received in 2010

02/11: First AWP Conference: didn't register, drunk for four days
03/11: First Tweet: "you make me want to"
05/11: First draft of sixth manuscript: Jacques Lipchitz

06/26: Fox Chase Reading Series (Paul Siegell and Ocean Vuong)
07/11: PHiSH Super Ball IX, Watkins Glen, NY: awww yeah!

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2011-05-18T12:11:00.005-04:00

Lara Kettell writes: "This is my favorite book by Paul Siegell. I have them all, autographed 'cause I'm lucky enough to know the author. This collection of what I'd call word artwork, some almost puzzling, is so fun to read. I enjoy showing it to friends; it's one of my most popular coffee table books. I also highly recommend all of Paul Siegell's other works."THANKS SO MUCH, LARA!

SLAB: The Sound and Literary Art Book

2011-05-13T15:25:00.003-04:00

SLAB 6 is now available, featuring work from Thomas Patrick Levy, Heather Palmer, Brett Gallagher, Karla Linn Merrifield, Adam Moorad, Sally Derringer, Richard Chiem, myself, and several others. Thanks to Paul Cunningham & co. for all their tremendous work.

I'm a HUGE fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but The Last Airbender movie was just atrocious

2011-05-12T20:00:00.003-04:00

In addition to providing a bio, SLAB 6 contributors were also asked:

What's the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? Save my life.

If you could rewrite the ending to any movie, what would it be and how would you change it? I'd make it so I never actually saw it.

If you were forced into exile, where would you go? Capri, Italy.

If you were trapped in a storybook, which one would it be? Oh, The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

Who's you favorite tyrant/dictator? Evel Knievel.

What's the one piece of literature every writer should own? The photo albums of their ancestors.

What's the best thing you can buy for a dollar? Hershey's with almonds, large size. But only on Tuesdays.

'She wants to take our cars from out our garages.'

2011-05-11T08:00:00.001-04:00

*America stop honking I know what I’m doing*

upon yawning commute for the 9AM—the reluctance
of a realworldolescent—nearly a hundred birds: a species

small and gray, urban, name unknown to knowledge,
swooped about in unison above the still, accepted wait

at light of red: finally

something natural, worthwhile. introducing change
to my mundane: flight school, artwork in the open air.

swift, wheeling maneuvers behind each unidentifiable
and momentary leader, anonymous but for milliseconds:

the decision-maker switches every time direction does—
the useful beauty of anyone initiating a new acrobatic,

no matter how ephemeral.

in the sight of which, overwhelming the well, feeling
lately like I’ve been typing into a typewriter without paper,

never wanted a light to stay red so bad before in all my life.

—from Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008)

Steven Allen May: Kind words over at 32 Poems

2011-04-28T16:35:00.017-04:00

#5: jambandbootleg by Paul Siegell (A-Head Publishing, 2009) "Paul Siegell is a young gun poet in Philadelphia who has successfully fused his love of live music performance by, say, Phish, for example, with highly visual components. This is his initial book and it absolutely has launched him. Pay attention to this one!" Thank you, Steven!

Currently on sale for the lowest price I've ever seen it: Only $6.94!

Kathmandu Kitchen's "Dal bhat masu ra tarkari"

2011-04-26T08:00:00.000-04:00

I didn't submit to this, but Furniture Press Books and twentythreebooks used one of my poems for their Poem Walk - a great surprise!

Poem Walk: A Living Text is a walking tour of poetry in Towson, MD. Check out this map! My poem can be found at... B: Kathmandu Kitchen!

(How 'bout some new "hot pepper people" on the side? Also, thx, Anatol Knotek!)

Black Warrior Review 37.2

2011-03-29T10:35:00.016-04:00

Click pic to start sippin' from the straw. Many thanks to the editors!

Comic by Nicolai Troshinsky. Also in the issue: Roxanne Gay, Matt Cozart, a chapbook by Jen Tynes and Michael Sikkema, and more.

Someday a book will come out and it will be called "Take Out Delivery" and it may or may not have these poems in it, but either way

2011-03-11T08:00:00.000-05:00

"to where the shapes of the letters and characters situate themselves" --Greg Bem reviews...

2011-02-02T20:00:00.007-05:00

Click ^^^^ Click to read the review. Thanks so much, Greg!

Two very kind people recently posted some very kind words up on Goodreads--THANK YOU!!!

2011-01-28T09:39:00.019-05:00

Many thanks to the magnificent Tamara Oakman (Snatched) and the gut-busting Aaron Belz (Lovely, Raspberry)

Two very kind people recently asked me questions about poetry, Philadelphia, music, and suchlike:

2011-01-12T20:30:00.002-05:00

Paul Cunningham caught up with me for Radioactive Moat:
"If you'd asked about middle school, I'd have said 2 Live Crew
As Nasty As They Wanna Be."

& Maleka Fruean for Big Blue Marble Bookstore: "...and your jeans, yeah, they’re down around your ankles and you have to do that hilarious, wide-legged lurch over to the cabinet to get another roll."

this image is the title of the trippiest poem i think i've ever written. to read the poem, click the image.

2011-01-03T21:00:00.000-05:00

Thank you, E·ratio editor, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino! E·ratio!

Click that ^ to see
*ON THE PRECIPICE OF THE BLISS ABYSS* @ E·ratio 14!

My first submission (rejected) to E·ratio was back in November 2006! How's that for perseverance? Eleventh time's a charm!

PLUS... @ Gently Read Literature: The Jammin’ Wild Life Rocket Fire of Paul Siegell’s Poetry by Martha Engber:

"Every one of the 50+ pieces jumps with energy and spinning thought, not only due to word choice, but shape."

SETLIST: jambandbootleg

2010-12-31T12:51:00.001-05:00

"Paul Siegell is ecstasy
in the present tense...
Siegell’s poems bend
the jamband scene
into enthused reveries."
--RELIX Magazine

CASSETTE
9: 08.12.04 – PHiSH – Tweeter Center, NJ
11: SET I

PLAY
19: The 18 Majors of Greg Hollowcost
20: the read wheelborrow
21: Pass/Fail
23: THE AFTERNOON SET of 12.31.99

SIDE B
29: 05.27.05 – Jam on the River – Great Plaza, PA
30: the wilderman mission hay(na)ku
31: E.T. POEM HOME
32: The Logic of Rock
33: Patchwork Acrobatics: Harlequin Period Typos
34: ALABAMA GETAWAY, 1962
35: N.I.C.U.
36: in order to get back to bed, you gotta go back to work
37: DAY OFF SHUTTLE LAUNCH
39: Tekiah Gedolaaaaahhhhh
41: LO SCROTO SOLOS
42: 10.15.05 – Keller Williams – Electric Factory, PA
44: 11.17.05 – Galactic – TLA, PA
45: 11.19.05 – Bright Eyes – Academy of Music, PA
47: TREMENDOUS
49: dense as city
50: anything to stay warm
51: cargo
52: 12.03.05 – Iron & Wine w/ Calexico – Electric Factory, PA
53: LARYNGITIS LIGHTS
54: 12.26.05 – Benevento/Russo Duo feat. Mike Gordon – Music Box, NJ
55: 12.28.05 – the Disco Biscuits – Tower Theater, PA
56: 12.29.05 – Phix – Grape Street, PA
57: NYE 2003 @ MSG in NYC

FLIP
61: JΔM>

SIDE A
65: MIDNIGHT to SUNRISE: N.Y.E. PHiSH 2000
67: Tattoo’d by Non-Hodgkin’s at 18
68: Parallelograms
71: RE: Cover Letter
72: EPIcureANS PAY FOR FeeLINGS
73: Care-Giving Apathy
74: tickets, please
75: 06.25.00 – PHiSH – Alltel Pavilion, NC
76: toast: is this a joke?
77: crammed-full classroom of little ns, one on left with hand raised
78: SCENE AT DUNG GATE
79: “it by watching”
80: 10.17.96 – PHiSH – Bryce Jordan Center, PA
81: LIT FROM PENN STATE TO PITT
82: 10.19.96 – PHiSH – Marine Midland Arena, NY
83: Meet Me at Will Call
87: SET II
94: FORT SKATEBOARD
95: SET III

REWIND
105: ENCORE to JΔM>

PLAY
109: The Winged Minute
110: GATE-CRASHER’S SONG
111: TEAM PLAYERS
112: ARCHiVE SKYSCRAPE MiCROPHONE
113: Requiem for a Festival

# Publisher: A-Head Publishing; 1st edition (July 1, 2009)
# ISBN-10: 098162832X / ISBN-13: 978-0981628325
# Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
# Paperback: 122 pages
# Cover design: Elisa Schmidt
# Author Discount: Email for SIGNED copies: only $10
# Amazon: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping

Poems arose in 5AM, BlazeVOX, E Pluribus Unum: An Anthology of Diverse Voices, Kulture Vulture, MiPOesias, Moria, New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology, Otoliths, PFS Post, Pinstripe Fedora, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Press 1, Rattle, Sawbuck, Shampoo, Siren, Softblow, Sous Rature, Surrender to the Flow, Three Rivers Review and Umbrella.

WHEN NATURE CALLS

2010-12-29T21:13:00.004-05:00

It’s a long shot, but with your help, maybe we can make a go at it. With incredible appreciation for your support, VOTE WILD: Goodreads 2010 Choice Awards - Poetry

WHAT! 2010 Choice Awards for Poetry: Goodreads nominates wild life rifle fire

2010-12-01T08:00:00.019-05:00

It’s a long shot, but with your help, maybe we can make a go at it. With incredible appreciation for your support, VOTE WILD: Goodreads 2010 Choice Awards - Poetry

WHAT A RELIEF

2010-11-22T17:55:00.049-05:00

.•:*¨¨*:•. ¨*:•. It's wild life rifle fire .•:*¨ .•:*¨¨*:•.

“The effect is shocking... An important book... The poem adds
to the conversation about what is poetry.” --A Bunch Books

Assume the throne with a signed, discounted copy: only $8.00. (+ $2~ for US post. International? Let’s talk! Paypal or check.)

“A stunningly beautiful work... Gorgeously clean… Imaginatively designed... Finding the tricks in the language that the language couldn't know it had.” --Geof Huth

No crap! Get your copies signed & with surprises thrown in. Email crowkeeper64 [at] gmail.com for details.
It's the perfect gift for every household with a bathroom on your list! Ha-Ha-Happy Holidays!

"The most unique and unusual book of poems I have ever read." --Brian Degrechie

2010-11-21T08:00:00.001-05:00

philada blues (originally published in Philadelphia Stories)

2010-11-18T22:38:00.028-05:00

*philada blues*

pink nickel-Ziplocs
branded

“NEW LIFE”

litter the outskirts
of a high-

rise condo

construction site
dumpster

that’s been

tagged “DREAMS
GO HERE”

typical gchat with goose and/or ariel

2010-11-16T20:00:00.000-05:00

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TABLE of CONCEPTS: Poemergency Room

2010-11-15T07:47:00.018-05:00

I - poembark
9. text message
10. Poemblazonry
11. THE’S THEME PARK THESAURUS
12. the hyperventilating hyphen
13. THAT THAT JOY BENDER
14. thots during Hebrew school, or trans-obliteration of a few brachot
15. private magazines
16. ANTIBIOTICS

II - poembattle
19. to answer the new interview
20. Guarding the Unparkable
21. why I love art students
22. ZEPHYR KAYAK EMBRYO
24. America stop honking I know what I’m doing
25. The Cantilever Bridge
26. NAMETAG TIME LAGS
28. FROM PENNSYLVANIA STATION
29. for The Ticking
30. server error
31. toast: and if within
33. STACY TOLD ME A STORY
34. Poempathisizing with Winter

III - poemerge
37. Poembrace the Bloom
38. 04.06.06 – the Greyboy Allstars – TLA, PA
39. A Poembarrassing Display
40. Esmeralda Barracuda Seven-Dollar Semaphore
41. JUST A FEW BLOCKS
42. 05.28.06 – the Disco Biscuits – Electric Factory, PA
43. Hecanbe
44. City Blocks with Gift Shop Mug and Nude
45. SUICIDE IN THE SUBWAY
46. A meeting of messengers
47. corporate client to graphic designer
48. acrobatic macaroni, or at a music-boiled battle scene
49. Poemporium of Home
50. BLIND CARBON COPY TO GERTRUDE STEIN

IV - poembolden
57. Staff Teen Tourientation, or Poemancipations
58. ZION ON A ROCK, DEEPER IN, LISTENING
59. driving the center lane lines
60. HORSESHOE BEND LOOKOUT without Camera
61. EbEnEzEr Huge, eBeNeZeR Truth
62. the chill soar
64. Legend of 261 Corso Cristòforo Colombo, The
66. FIRST HIKE in the LAST FRONTIER
68. caustics
70. global warming

V - poemboss
73. Morning Outside C-205
74. all our aisles
76. Monotono! An “eGarage” of the InfoAge’s first vowel
77. 10.23.06 – Beck – Tower Theatre, PA
78. LISTLESS
79. 19th & Delancey
80. 11.08.06 – Michael Franti & Spearhead – Electric Factory, PA
81. 11.11.06 – Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood – Electric Factory, PA
83. Poembalmed
84. 11.17.06 – Roger McGuinn of The Byrds opening for Doc Watson – Keswick Theater, PA

VI - poemanate
87. The Double-o Poem, or All in a Woodpecker’s Afternoon
88. A Good-Surprise Experience Awaits
91. In the Elevator, Friday 5:30
92. 12.16.06 – the New Deal – TLA, PA
93. WINTER VINTAGE VINYL WINE
94. 12.30.06 – the Disco Biscuits – Electric Factory, PA
96. 12.31.06 – the Disco Biscuits – Tweeter Center, NJ

VII - poemphasize
101. Poemergency Room

VIII - poem
105. THE BROKEN BONES OF OCTOBER 27TH

# Publisher: Otoliths Books; 1st edition (January 18, 2008)
# ISBN-10: 0980454107 / ISBN-13: 978-0980454109
# Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
# Paperback: 116 pages
# Cover design: Reed Altemus
# Author Discount: Email for SIGNED copies: only $10
# Amazon: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping

Poems appeared in the American Poetry Review, Coconut, E Pluribus Unum: An Anthology of Diverse Voices, GHOTI, horse less review, Moria, Otoliths, Sawbuck, Shampoo, Siren, Softblow and Umbrella; featured in Paste Magazine.

and it's the wild life rifle fire "RAIN DANCE" -- what's crazy is if you have chromadepth glasses, these are in 3D

2010-11-08T08:00:00.008-05:00

Special thanks to Stefen W. for his ingenious execution of color theory.

thump thu-thump ah thump-thump, thwong

2010-11-03T08:00:00.004-04:00

Benjamin Winkler of Splitleaves Press writes:

"In April 2008, Paste had the good taste to interview Paul Siegell. “One can imagine Siegell’s shaped verses singing from posters … like Pop Art glyphs,” Jesse Jarnow wrote.

At the time, Paul said, “I’m hoping in the next couple months, a saxophone’s gonna come out in something I write, or a trumpet.” Well:

Splitleaves is thrilled to put out these poster-sized broadsides, thump thu-thump ah thump-thump, thwong. Read them, frame them. By the way, you can view that Paste article here.

Set of two broadsides. 11 x 17 each.
Textured paper in honey and concrete.
Offset printed.
Rolled and tied with linen thread.

Limited edition of 40. $7.00"

thump thu-thump ah thump-thump, thwong includes:
*05.04.07 – New Orleans Jazz Vipers – Spotted Cat, NOLA*
*05.05.07 – Jonathan Freilich, Skerik, Stanton Moore, Todd Sickafoose & Mike Dillon – Chickie Wah Wah, NOLA*

To order your set, please visit SPLITLEAVES PRESS. Thank you!

More Splitleaves buzz 'ere. And, here's the order form of awesomeness!

some vispo: first published in Otoliths

2010-11-01T20:00:00.000-04:00

OTOLITHS!!!

allow me to present the soundtrack to what I was feeling while I was writing my third book of poetry

2010-10-18T00:34:00.001-04:00

Book Notes – Paul Siegell (“wild life rifle fire”)
G.R.A.B. | Bisco | Radiohead | Jim James | Wilco | Bob Marley
Grateful Dead | Animal Collective | Portugal, The Man | PHiSH
In the largehearted boy "Book Notes" series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

Paul Siegell’s third book of poetry, wild life rifle fire, is
“a stunningly beautiful work… gorgeously clean… imaginatively designed… This is a book examining language, finding the tricks in the language that the language couldn't know it had.” - Geof Huth

Vladimir Slender-Hedge wrote of the book:

“Paul Siegell's wild life rifle fire proves, if proof were needed, that the electrifying art and legacy of Concrete Poetry is not dead! Here we find DaDa dynamite and typographical talismans freshened by a poet whose native gifts imbue this exciting work with a whole new sense of poetic object. Siegell’s haptic heroism compels the reader to re-examine the basic elements of a language that we too often take for granted, in the process creating an energetic and always surprising work of both visual art and poetry.”

In his own words, here is Paul Siegell’s Book Notes music playlist for his third book of poetry, wild life rifle fire:

Let’s get into the song!

“Play, Stop, Pause” by GRAB (Mike Gordon, Joe Russo, Trey Anastasio, Marco Benevento)

When I wanna get going, when I want something rocking triumphant, I put on the first song of 06/30/06 GRAB at the Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ, a show my friends and I went to on the cusp of a great summer of travel, and I’m on a T-minus count to “Heck yeah!” An epic 4:26. Adventurous, explosive and memorable, just like what wild life rifle fire hopes to be.

“Digital Buddha” by the Disco Biscuits

Here I am, sitting on this computer, seeking that wrestle and peace of writing something well, and I look up on a weirdness: I had “ZOOM IN” on my screen, a draft for some ad at my marketing department job. I increased the point size a bit but I went too far and it was too much for the margins and then Word broke the line to reveal: “ZOO / M IN.” Cue eureka. (Animals in captivity + zooming in makes something larger, but this says minimize.) I fell in love immediately and that, as if a meditation, would become the first page of the book. And Bisco’s “Digital Buddha” was playing when all that happened.

“Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” by RA D IOHE_AD

“Your eyes. They turn me.”

“Goin’ to Acapulco” by Jim James w/ Calexico

Originally from Bob Dylan and The Band’s The Basement Tapes but then redone for the “I’m Not There” soundtrack, this song’s chorus can be heard belting from outta my body at full blast any given moment that I’m not around anyone. I listened to this song at least once a day while I was writing this book. The idea of fleeing from “meh” and out to somewhere warm and sunny and fun, horns and all, it plays a huge part: “Goin’ to Acapulco. Goin’ on the run. Goin’ down to see some girl. Goin’ to have some fun, yeah. Going to have some fun.” It’s the “yeah” (which is really a “yeeeaaaahhh”) that does most of the work. It’s loud, drawn out and spectacular. It’s speaks the release, and Jim James’ voice owns it. Would only just one thing I do in this life be as good as that “yeah.”

Spiders/Kidsmoke: Wilco

“This recent rash of kidsmoke.
All these telescopic poems.
It’s good to be alone.”

“Bend Down Low” and “Acoustic Medley” by Bob Marley

There must be Marley. There must be “REG / GAE”. There must be the complete Acoustic Medley (Guava Jelly; This Train; Cornerstone; Comma Comma; Dewdrops; Stir It Up; I'm Hurting Inside). These songs mean Pooch and I are headed from Philly to Ocean City and we’ve got Appa with us and all we gotta do is get thru the shore traffic and then I could show her the latest printed-out draft of the book and we’d both know that it was becoming real.

SET II of 06/30/95, Grateful Dead at Three Rivers Stadium - Pittsburgh, PA

I don’t remember who I traded with to get this cassette tape, might have been Izzard, but I remember playing SET II of this show dozens of times back in college. Bootlegs. Goodness. Story went that it was an outdoor show and just as the set was about to begin, it started to rain. Thus: Rain (Beatles cover), Box Of Rain, Samba In The Rain, Looks Like Rain> Terrapin Station> Drums> Space> I Need A Miracle> Standing On the Moon, E: Gloria. You can listen to the show HERE, as I have many times. I have been told that “RAIN” makes a very big impact in wild life rifle fire.

“Also Frightened” by Animal Collective

But what if wild life started shooting back? (What if a “poem / could”?) What if the melt threat was more than a threat? What if our guilt for doing what we do to the planet was actually real and what some actually expect to happen, natural global devastation, actually happens? What if the Earth strikes back?

“People Say” by Portugal, The Man

This song, with some of the smartest, clearest lyrics dealing with what’s going on in the world today that I’ve ever heard, speaks to the elephants of wild life rifle fire and how they reoccur, which is fitting because of the double album’s two versions: the “The Majestic Majesty (acoustic)” version and the electric one on “The Satanic Satanist.”

“Squirming Coil > I Been Around” by PHiSH (11/27/09 Albany, NY)

“It got away, yeah. It got away.”

There’s that “yeah” again. But this time it’s not the “yeah,” it’s the “away.” The away is the extended, harmonized bridge to the yeah, and the yeah gets us to the solo. All the hope in the world arrives every time Trey, Mike and Fishman leave the stage and Page McConnell is left all by his beautiful self, alone with the crowd and his piano. When his bandmates leave, that’s the white space in the book. Lyrically, the sun set, Satan and Jimmy did their thing, Icarus took his taste, and now it’s time for Page to carry us all away on 88 keys. All the gentle turmoil of his “Squirming Coil” solo. Page’s decadent piano excellence—And don’t those piano black keys look like they’re typeset in Helvetica? In my first book, Poemergency Room, I’ve a line: “All I want if for my page to play the piano.” And when writing this third book, I felt like, in some strange, Helvetica-driven way, I was but one note closer.

Hidden Track:

“Float On” by Modest Mouse

“OK, don’t worry we’ll all float on / Even if things get heavy we’ll all float on / Alright already we’ll all float on / Don’t you worry we’ll all float on / All float on.”

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!

2010-10-05T13:24:00.009-04:00

10.05.10: wild life rifle fire:
* Steve Roggenbuck reviews: "paul siegell is probably a cool person"

09.30.10: jambandbootleg:
* Lynn Levin at Rattle reviews: "...countless wildly inventive descriptions of peak emotional states. Siegell’s sense of awe just keeps on coming." -Rattle

NEWLY PUBLISHED:
@ Everyday Genius: JCochran
@ ONandOnScreen: HE-MAN
@ WHEELHOUSE: *08.12.08 – RA D IOHE_AD – Susquehanna Bank Center, NJ*
@ Rattle: PHiSH "fire" poem, with /A\udio!
@ Philadelphia Stories: blues

Goodreads.com Winners! Dan Samorodnitsky (Buffalo, NY), Allyson Smith (Cleveland, GA), Landy Hsu (Gilroy, CA). Each receive a free, signed copy of wild life rifle fire, plus extra-special surprises. Many thanks to all who participated - all 671 of you!

"full-on filing into parking lots of jester-fest life:"

2010-08-11T10:31:00.012-04:00

Splitleaves Press: thump thu-thump ah thump-thump thwong

Benjamin Winkler says, "[Paul] has a style all his own... Splitleaves is pleased to be working with him to create two poster- sized broadsides, off-set printed, of his New Orleans jazz-inspired calligrams." Thanks Benjamin! (& Debrah Morkun!)

Winner Winner Seymour Skinner!

2010-05-05T09:00:00.032-04:00

*BIG TIME* = Winner of the Goodreads Poetry Contest, MAy 2010 (First published: American Poetry Review, Philly Edition)

T|R|E|M|E|N|D|O|U|S THANKS
TO ALL WHO VOTED!

¨¨*:•. Discounts on signed copies! Click for email .•:*¨¨

* Three ups @ Elective Affinities: Thank you, Carlos Soto-Roman!

* And, Poemergency Room's trailer

wild life rifle fire:
* Bill Allegrezza (p-ramblings) reviews: "pop language poems"
* Frank Sherlock (PhillySound): "21st Century concrete poetry"
* Reb Livingston (WWAATD): "thankfully contemporary"

* NEW: Geof Huth (dbqp) reviews: “a stunningly beautiful work… gorgeously clean… imaginatively designed… This is a book examining language, finding the tricks in the language that the language couldn't know it had.”
* SELECTIONS FROM THE BOOK: Thank you, Ernest Hilbert

jambandbootleg:
* E-Verse reposts: "E.T. POEM HOME" (First published: MiPO)

New Interview:
“04/20/99” @ stevenallenmay's Poetry Lab

Also, check out this great review of Greg Ippolito's forthcoming novel: "ZERO STATION"

Thank you, Ariel Rosemberg & Lori Sky Twohy!

2010-04-05T09:00:00.002-04:00

NEW @ JambandsOnline.com: Parking Lot Poetry: A Review of “jambandbootleg” by Paul Siegell

New Interview:
“Who’s Got My Extra?” @ I Thought I Was New Here

wild life rifle fire:
* Book Daily says, “The effect is shocking... an important book.”
* P. Edward Cunningham says, “An explosion of significance!”
* And a thinger up at Philly Book Geekjambandbootleg:
* Profile @ Dorothee Lang’s DAILY s-PRESS.
* Bobbi Lurie says, “PAUL SIEGELL HAS WOKEN ME UP.”

hot pepper people: Moria + Antique Children + Otoliths

IT'S ALIVE! wild life rifle fire from Otoliths Books! Care for a signed copy? EMAIL HERE!

2010-03-01T13:00:00.001-05:00

It's an EYEFUL for the MINDFUL!Publisher's Launch. Grady Harp's Review! Silliman's...nod?

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"Paul Siegell's wild life rifle fire proves, if proof were needed, that the electrifying art and legacy of Concrete Poetry is not dead!

Siegell's book-length carmen figuratum not only flashes the reader back to the heady first days of the Noigrandes Group in São Paulo and Eugen Gomringer's adventures in VisPo, but even further back to Medieval anagrams, Greek bucolic poems and Sumerian figure poems. Here we find DaDa dynamite and typographical talismans freshened by a poet whose native gifts imbue this exciting work with a whole new sense of poetic object.

Siegell's haptic heroism compels the reader to re-examine the basic elements of a language that we too often take for granted, in the process creating an energetic and always surprising work of both visual art and poetry. Not to be missed!" —Vladimir Slender-Hedge

+++++ Previews: GOV'T ISSUE, OTOLITHS & HERE +++++

+ Please email HERE for your signed copy. Thank you! +

Icculus-inspired promo for jambandbootleg in Surrender to the Flow #22; a risqué PHiSH poem in RATTLE #32!

2009-11-18T15:00:00.019-05:00

double click images to enlarge

"How could I look up for the W4 stop while reading about public-female masturbation?" --STTF #21 reviews jambandbootleg

NOV 17 reading w/ Charles Carr at the Green Line Cafe
NOV 21 reading w/ Tara Betts & Adam Meora at the Chapterhouse

PHi8H PHi7H PHi6H PHi5H PHi4H PHi3H PHi2H PHi1H

+ Preview the upcoming wild life rifle fire at Otoliths #15 +
+ PLUS, Rodger Lowenthal po-reviews jambandbootleg +

PHiSH lot & RELIX say, "YES!"

2009-10-02T16:20:00.002-04:00

REVIEWS!

4 on AMAZON
32 Goodreads
STTF; B.Ocean
RELIX
MySpace; B&N Gypsy; R.L.

Turn to page 67
in RELIX magazine!

"Paul Siegell is ecstasy in the present tense...

Siegell’s poems bend the jamband scene into enthused reveries.”

Bookslut's Indie Heartthrob "Ever start an old tape on Side B?"

PLUS, on Gypsy Art Show, jbbl is "...........yours for the raging"

"PICK UP THE BOOK!" - Trey Anastasio

2009-08-24T10:01:00.000-04:00

NEW REVIEW on BLACK OCEAN: "jambandbootleg buzzes
with exuberance so huge the book can barely contain it." AH!!!

¨:•..•:¨ jambandbootleg by Paul Siegell ¨:•..•:¨

2009-07-01T00:01:00.048-04:00

Scott Medosis goes to Scott B. Davis, "Whooo's got my extraaa?"

LOT'S OPEN>

• click: A-HEAD
for publisher's site, description, blurbs
and where you can
place an order!

• click: AMAZON
to poke around and
place an order!

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~THANK YOU!~

(Poems arose in 5AM, BlazeVOX, MiPO, Moria, Otoliths, PFS Post, Press 1, RATTLE, Shampoo, Siren, Softblow, Sous Rature & 10 others)

<+> Care for a signed copy? My email address awaits!

Greg Ippolito on ZERO STATION / Grady Harp on Amazon!

Advance Praise: Brownstein'd

2009-06-28T13:00:00.015-04:00

“For centuries, people have tried to take words and turn them
into music. What Paul Siegell does in his collection of poetry,
jambandbootleg, is take music
and turn it back into words. And he
does it exceptionally well, capturing
both the excitement of concert-
going and the poetic essence of
the improvisational music scene.”
——Marc Brownstein,
bass player of The Disco Biscuits
and Younger Brother

HEADS UP/NOW ON SALE: You’re at your computer. Tickets are a tense, electrifying few seconds from going on sale. Eyeing the time, you’re hitting “Refresh,” and elsewhere, all your friends are doing the exact same thing. That’s Paul Siegell’s jambandbootleg. A widespread, high-spirited head rush. Desperation, fretfulness — all out life-leaping. “The party starts in the parking lot,” indeed. With poems shaped like a guitar, the American flag, even a Golgi apparatus, Paul’s monumental artworks could easily transform into posters. His is a poetry of exploration, heart and astonishment. Simply put: read Paul Siegell’s music. Read it as if listening to the bangingest bootleg.

COVER DESIGNED by ELISA SCHMIDT (camp bisco logos)

♫ animated poetry ♫ (aka, me being ridiculous)

2009-06-25T12:00:00.008-04:00

<+> E-Verse Radio: "An Animated Poem Video from Paul Siegell"

Many THANKS to the Editors of these Journals:

2009-06-10T10:00:00.027-04:00

cool... and so is timothy buckwalter

* Siren

* Press 1

* BlazeVOX

* PFS Post

* Turntable
+ Blue Light

* Otoliths

~ Grady Harp reviews Poemergency Room on Amazon ~

٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ to the (•̪●.)

Now up on Fiction Writers Review: The extremely talented
Matthew Hittinger rides the subway with Poemergency Room

Gently Read Literature reviews Poemergency Room:
"What a reader will find in Siegell’s work is a celebration of life, a celebration of performance and activity. His poems are devotions written to life."

From the Land of the World Champions!

*SONNET
FOR A STATUETTE*

new + FREE + e-chap = JAM>
(ungovernable press, 2008)

NEW PHiSH CALLIGRAMME: *NYE 2003 @ MSG in NYC*

PLUS, photos from the Head House Books reading: HERE

contem-
porary

contem-
poetry

this screen is bad for your eyes

"Digital Buddha's coming for you, with a big old belly and a Fu Manchu. Gone tomorrow, here today." -Disco Biscuits ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (•̪●.)

Click 'em: Calligrammes from Poemergency Room

2008-07-31T11:40:00.041-04:00

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Weave Magazine reviews Poemergency Room
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July/Aug: A.P.R.'s
Philly Edition: includes Poemergency Room's break dancer calligramme

~~~~ THE PARTY STARTS ~~~~~
~~~~ IN THE PARKING LOT ~~~~

Let's get into the song! JAMBANDS.COM
June 2007 FAN SITE OF THE MONTH

Bookslut's Indie Heartthrob "Have a touch and see how it reacts."

CITY PAPER: "A Philly poet writes up real life and rock shows in his debut collection."

CLICK THIS PIC

2008-03-25T12:34:00.000-04:00

* POEMERGENCY ROOM by Paul Siegell *

2008-01-18T08:00:00.015-05:00

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(Poems appeared in APR, Coconut, GHOTI, horse less review, Moria, Otoliths, Sawbuck, Shampoo, Siren, Softblow and Umbrella; f/ PASTE)

2008-01-01T11:11:00.000-05:00

*CROWKEEPER'S SONG*

the greatest festivities of our generation's roll
gather'd
hiking the peaks & releases alive
on tour
lyrically trancing for answers
potential
in venues on wild flights
tether'd by
gravitations
tickets to dionysian shows
kick'd down
to lift cheers & motivate the lighting of
glowstick
irresistibles for lion manes & o female shoulder
blades.

(--originally published in 5 AM)