Thursday, April 12, 2012

Number Five: J.D. Nelson

J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words and sound in his subterranean laboratory. More than 1,000 of his bizarre poems and experimental texts have appeared in many small press and underground publications. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Piso Mojado (Argotist Ebooks, 2012), When the Sea Dies (NAP, 2011), On the Toad (The Red Ceilings Press, 2011, and Red&Deadly, 2011), Roman Meal (Ten Pages Press, 2011), Noise Difficulty Flower (Argotist Ebooks, 2010), and The Frankendelphia Experiment (Tainted Coffee Press, 2010). Visit MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work. His audio experiments (recorded under the name Owl Brain Atlas) are online at OWLNoise.com. J. D. lives in Colorado, USA.

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Poetry in Community

Free Poetry For is one of many projects coordinated by Baltimore-based Poetry in Community. Join PiC on Facebook.

Poetry in Community also sponsors a month-long celebration of poetry in April for National Poetry Month called the Cruellest Month Poetry and Performance Festival.

Poetry in Community will create a more expansive tradition in which the whole of the community is invited to be present and represented. Poetry in Community will foster poetic practices as a collaborative effort to foster creative literacy and personal growth.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Number Three: rob mclennan

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011), grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2011), Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011), kate street (Moira, 2011) and 52 flowers (or, a perth edge) (Obvious Epiphanies, 2010), and a second novel, missing persons (2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review, seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics, and the Ottawa poetry PDF annual, ottawater. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

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Number Two: Adam Strauss

Instructions for printing:
1. Print page one (cover) first.
2. Print remaining pages double-sided.
3. Fold text pages vertically.
4. Use a paper cutter and cut in half (at 5.5 inches).
5. Keep one for yourself, and give the rest away.

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