New Poem by Ada Limón at Sawbuck

It's called "High Water." Check it out.

If you catch her read it, maybe you'll hear her sing the "loo-rye, loo-rye..." and forget where you are.

Xiantu: At It Again

Hey,
Patron Saint of Artistic Resolve, Max Xiantu, has put a sample reel of his sounds on his site.

He's available for scoring, production, DeeJay, weddings, funerals, and Mohel services.

New Ninth Letter .Com

Ninth Letter, the award winning lit mag I work/play/nap in the office for, just launched its new website. Click it there, or off to the side. They're also happy to know you if you want to be their myspace friend.

We'll be in Atlanta among the rest of the AWP festivities, February 28th to March 4th.

See you there?

Who Needs A Ride?

Old Carb:


New Carb:




We now return to our reading/writing routine...

Art Show in Williamsburg

Ms. Sunday Dawne-Marie, my beloved tattoo artist, and some of the other wonderful people from Lark Tattoo are featured this Saturday, the 27th. Details below:

1/27/07 - 8pm to the late-night
Free Keg Beer from 8 to 9.
Williamsberg White Room
235 Roebling St., corner of 3rd and Roebling
(near the Bedford Stop on the L train)


Sunday walks through the door at around 9:30 or 20ish.
Live Music and kick-ass tattoo talent.

If you can't make it, the exhibit will be up for a week.

And if you check out their site, my arm totally made Sunday's Gallery!

No Matter How The Day's Been

...I learned, just this morning, it's that much better if, as you walk to class with headphones in, Raspberry Beret comes on. Teaching a Business Writing class with that rattling around the head is fantastic.

Meanwhile, there's a new piece coming out from one of my favorite artists, Justin Bua. If you have some scratch around, he does some dope work.

Guess it's Winter

That's the view from my window. It's kinda nice in an I'm-Glad-I-Don't-Have-To-Leave-The-House-Unless-I-Wanna kinda way.
It's pleasant while listening to Quadrophenia for the first time in 10 years or so.

Good Morning.
How are you?

IT"S AAAH-LLLIVE!

The car is running, but lean (that means that the air-to-gas ratio is off in favor of the air) and the idle is too high to safely drive at high speed.

I promise, NaH! VOW! I will not drive this car until she is back in tip-top. So, now I"m learning all about the wonderful world of Weber Carbs, and so and so. If you wanna get in on this action, click.

E-mail if you're dying for worn/busted up pieces of the MG.

Thank my Pop. Love him lots.
Yeah.

It's Wild Card Weekend

My Picks:
1:00 pm est: Jets to beat New England--as always, they won't make it look easy, but they'll pull it off.
4:00 pm est: I want the Giants to win, but I think Eli Manning is going to wet himself just before the first half's two-minute warning.

Seriously. It's Football. No bullshit.

If you're around Brooklyn

Poetry Readings by Jason Schneiderman, Michael Broder and Priscilla Becker

Freebird Books & Goods

123 Columbia St., Brooklyn 11231 (Between Kane and Degraw)

Thursday, January 18th at 7pm

FREE

718-643-8484, www.freebirdbooks.com , Rachel@freebirdbooks.com


Bios:
Of Jason Schneiderman's first collection of poems, Sublimation Point, Tom Sleigh writes: "Grave, sweetly questioning, often irreverently funny, Jason Schneiderman's poems about love and death, the Holocaust and family history, self knowledge and self deception give this book a range and tonal variety that is extremely rare for any poet, let alone a first book." Schneiderman's poems have appeared in such magazines as Tin House, Grand Street, and American Poetry Review, and in such anthologies as The Penguin Book of the Sonnet and Best American Poetry 2005. For his work, he has received fellowships from Yaddo and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is currently a Chancellor's Fellow at CUNY and teaches literature at Hunter College.

Michael Broder received his MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University in 2005. His work has appeared in 42Opus, BLOOM, Brooklyn Review, Caffeine Destiny, Capilano Review, H_NGM_N, La Petite Zine, Painted Bride Quarterly, roger, Softblow, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and Word for/ Word, as well as in the anthology This New Breed. He is working on a doctorate in classical studies at the City University of New York and teaches in the classics department at Brooklyn College.

Priscilla Becker's book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book prize and was published in 2003. Her poems have appeared in Fence, Verse, Open City, The Paris Review, Raritan, and Small Spiral Notebook; her essays in Cabinet magazine, Open City, and Poets &
Writers (forthcoming); and her music reviews in The Nation and Filter magazine. She teaches writing at Columbia University, NYU, and Poets House, and conducts a poetry workshop from her home.

And the big dog

Rocket:

Resolution

In a quick conversation with the good man, Max, earlier today, we talked about the New Year and what to do and what not. We settled that we didn't need one day a year to decide to be better people; got on our kick about peace and non-duality; shedding these personas and all. I'm resolved to continue with the shedding of opinion.

He also suggested I post more. So, there ya go.
Still on vacation with my family and dogs. Spending lots of time with the little one.
Peace.