EMILY BALLAS discusses our collaboration & her ***ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION*** of my poem

Check out the framed Poetry Comics from the show, on sale now. Many thanks to Hila Ratzabi! Plus, here's the review @ The Temple News: Poets meet visual artists at Indy Hall.

Behance: EMILY BALLAS DISCUSSES OUR COLLABORATION
AND HER ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION OF MY LOOPY POEM

\\\ FULL BLEED: A Poetry Comics Show /// Poetry Reading Thursday, November 6th 7pm

Curated by Hila RATZABI, "FULL BLEED celebrates the art of the poetry comic. In the same way that full bleed printing expands to the edge of the page, poetry comics dilate across genre lines. Poetry as bleeding heart mixes with the whimsy of comics to produce work that startles and ignites. Word and image hold hands, tell each other stories, console each other, party together."

Featuring: Emily BALLAS, Jon-Michael FRANK, Annie MOK, Bianca STONE, Sommer BROWNING, Matthea HARVEY, Sampson STARKWEATHER, and Paul SIEGELL.

Exhibit Preview & Poetry Reading: 7pm Thurs, Nov 6 @ INDY HALL

BEDFELLOWS @ PHILALALIA: Afternoon Delight Redux

Join us for an on-site reading at PHILALALIA, the 1st annual Philadelphia small press poetry & art fair: Philip Mittereder, Warren C. Longmire, Nicole Steinberg, Jackee Sadicario, Alina Pleskova, Paul Siegell and more. Showtime's 3pm at Tyler School of Art, on the main campus of Temple University.

2014 Benefit for BalletX | Bridgette Mayer Gallery

On view: Sept 5 - Oct 4, 2014
Opening Reception: Fri, Sept 5 (5 p.m. - 8 p.m.) Facebook page here.

In support of Philadelphia's Dance Company BalletX, this exhibition will feature work by over 250 artists - including me!

Deranged? Let me explain.

Many thanks! Everyday Genius! Adam Robinson!

"contemporary discussions of desire & intimacy"

Hosted by Alina Pleskova & Jackee Sadicario. June 12. L'etage. Release.

If you have questions about how, where and why to get publsihed... come (TUES, APR 8 - WIDENER)

How does a local literary publication work? What opportunities are available for emerging writers? Editorial and publishing processes seem complex — where to begin?

Get answers. TUES, APRIL 8th at 6PM. Widener University’s English Department hosts a round table discussion with three local lit mags! Featured speakers include Tamara Oakman, APIARY’s executive editor; Courtney K. Bambrick, poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories; and Paul Siegell, senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly.

*MY PROSTITUTE IS CHEATING ON ME*

West Wind Review 2014 now available! Featuring work by Shane Allison, Mark Cunningham, Boona Daroom, Carolyn DeCarlo & Jackson Nieuwland, Donald Dunbar, Raymond Farr, Timothy Furstnau, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jennifer L. Knox, Christopher Mulrooney, T.A. Noonan,
Paul Siegell, Jeff Tigchelaar, Ben Tripp, Maya Weeks, and many others. Many thanks to K. Silem Mohammad!

Found "by a man checking on crab pots."

Thanks to Jeff Newberry and Brent House for anthologizing my Jazz Fest-inspired poems:

*05.04.07 – New Orleans Jazz Vipers – Spotted Cat, NOLA* and *05.05.07 – Jonathan Freilich, Skerik, Stanton Moore, Todd Sickafoose & Mike Dillon – Chickie Wah Wah, NOLA* in The Gulf Stream: Poems of the Gulf Coast (Snake Nation Press, 2013). Other contributors include Rosebud Ben-Oni, Deborah Paredez, Ire'ne Lara Silva and so many more.

“If you’re good I’ll get you a Happy Meal. Would you like that?” “—What? Our cable bill is going up AGAIN next month?” But there’s just no time.

Many thanks to Apiary Magazine & Steve Burns for putting this poem up for all the world to see! (Beautiful artwork to go along with it, too!)

Watch me perform this poem at the Lakeside Stride Bluegrass Festival in Denver, CO. At (04:17) of this video I read "The Eagle" by Lord Alfred Tennyson, then shoot into the blindfold poem. And then, well, I do Walt Whitman's "O Me! O Life!"

"Alright, so, how 'bout public intoxication?"

At the start of my poem, "Poembrace the Bloom" (~11:20), I've a line that goes: "all that blossoms is blessed." Immediately after I said that, a man in the audience sneezed a wonderful sneeze. Great moments really do happen at poetry readings. Have a look...Many thanks to Kathy Volk-Miller, Painted Bride Quarterly and the rest of the PBQ at the Black Sheep Pub Fest audience and crew!

YES!!! I WANT TO COME!!!

PBQ is coming back to the fold! On Tuesday, February 11 at 7:30 pm, the PBQ reading series will return to the Black Sheep Pub at 247 S. 17th St. We will feature two of our very own family members, PBQ editors Jason Schneiderman and Paul Siegell. Facebook invite here!

Make some space in your head for HeadSpace Magazine

If you happen to kick around Philadelphia and thereabouts, and happen to land upon the Winter 2013 edition of a magazine called HEADSPACE, grrrrrrrrrrrab it! (There is a stack at Mineralistic on South Street, and elsewhere.)

After you devour features about Dark Star Orchestra, Yonder Mountain String Band, GMOs, and more, flip to pages 24-25 for show-inspired poems about The Dead, Roger Waters, Galactic, Jam on the River, and all-around ticket seeking.

Many thanks to Alessandro Satta and Becky Blumenthal for their most generous consideration.

“Not today,” bleep-blopped the little one.

Two NEW Poems! Many thanks to Amy McDaniel & Everyday Genius.