Ecstatically honored to appear on the same list somewhere near JAPANDROIDS and Joyelle McSweeney and Guided By Voices and Melissa Broder.
Thank you so much, Dennis, for yr hypersupport and sickboyspirit!
I had the insane honor of being interview by Colorado Prize Winning Poetsaint Jack Christian for BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG re: that book I wrote that one time. I hope y’all like it. Yr all in it.
The [Aesthesia Balderdash]::[Victory] Sui-Southern Tour featuring this guy and Kim Vodicka slouches its way yr way this summer.
Here are the dates so far:
June 7th: Casa Azul (Grand Coteau, LA) 7:00pm
June 17th: Artmosphere (Lafayette, LA) 7:00pm
June 19th: Brazo’s Bookstore (Houston, TX) 7:00pm
June 20th: Book Woman (Austin, TX) 7:00pm
June 22nd: Lucky Dog Books (Dallas, TX) 7:00pm
June 23rd: Lightning Reading Series (Fayetteville, AK) 7:00pm
June 24th: Java Cabana (Memphis, TN) 7:00pm
June 26th: Lamplighter Lounge (Memphis, TN) 10:00pm
June 27th: Little Professor Book Center (Birmingham, AL) 6:00pm
June 28th: Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
June 29th: Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA) 6:30pm
If you’ll be in any of these areas on any of these days, come out and see us. If you have friends in any of these places, spread the word!
BEGONE SADNESS / BEGONE WOE / AND COME HITHER / MY FRIEND / HOPE
View Larger poetry for folks serving 25 to life in record stores, no parole, no conjugal visits - Ben Kopel’s “Victory” from H_NG_M_N BKS
AIN’T LOST YET / SO I GOTTA BE A WINNER
And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.
— Guillaume Apollinaire, from “Mirabeau Bridge” (translated from the French by William Meredith)
