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"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

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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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

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

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.'

*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

#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"

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

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

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

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!!!

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:

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.

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

"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
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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.

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