ADAM CLAY

DURING

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:28:00 +0000

NINTH LETTER

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:30:00 +0000

Contributors:

Fiction
Natalie Bakopoulos, Jason Napoli Brooks, Blake Butler, Dina Guidubaldi, Said Shirazi, Steve Tomasula, Tom Whalen

Nonfiction
Carolyn Alessio, Ron Carlson, Nick Kowalczyk, Susannah B. Mintz, Lia Purpura, Mark Sanders, Arthur Saltzman, Brandy T. Wilson

Poetry
Erinn Batykefer, Curtis Bauer, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Mary Biddinger, Brian Christian, Adam Clay, David J. Clisbee, Frankie Drayus, Camille Dungy, John Estes, Twilight Greenaway, Francine J. Harris, Leslie Harrison, Tung-Hui Hu, Tim Hurley, David Keplinger, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Daniel Khalastchi, Greg Koehler, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Susan Lewis, Bradford Gray Telford, Miles Waggener, Mark Yakich

Art Feature
Dave King

Get it here.

BEFORE

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:09:00 +0000

Harp & Altar: Issue 4

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:58:00 +0000

"Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster..."

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:30:00 +0000

Where are you sending poems this summer?

I'm listening to this right now:

It's perfect for right now. It should only be listened to on vinyl. I highly recommend the new album, too:

I don't have it on vinyl, though. I imagine it will be even better on vinyl. I just pre-ordered it. Yes, those are elephants.

I will be sending some poems out tomorrow--
Our house is changing colors.

LINEBREAK

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:06:00 +0000

Have you seen Linebreak? Much like Born Magazine, it's a web-based journal that is doing something interesting with the media. Each week they publish a text version of the poem, along with an audio recording of the poem as read by another poet.

This week they're featuring Heather Christle's "Onward and Onward" with an audio recording by Yours Truly. Check it out. Send them some poems. Volunteer to read for them.

On top of that, it's just plain nice to see a journal from Fayetteville. I miss Arkansas in a big way.

To work!

Onward (and Onward),

Chess Update:

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:01:00 +0000

AC 2 : ZS 2

Bob Hicok

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:35:00 +0000

A Primer

I remember Michigan fondly as the place I go
to be in Michigan. The right hand of America
waving from maps or the left
pressing into clay a mold to take home
from kindergarten to Mother. I lived in Michigan
forty-three years. The state bird
is a chained factory gate. The state flower
is Lake Superior, which sounds egotistical
though it is merely cold and deep as truth.
A Midwesterner can use the word “truth,”
can sincerely use the word “sincere.”
In truth the Midwest is not mid or west.
When I go back to Michigan I drive through Ohio.
There is off I-75 in Ohio a mosque, so life
goes corn corn corn mosque, I wave at Islam,
which we’re not getting along with
on account of the Towers as I pass.
Then Ohio goes corn corn corn
billboard, goodbye, Islam. You never forget
how to be from Michigan when you’re from Michigan.
It’s like riding a bike of ice and fly fishing.
The Upper Peninsula is a spare state
in case Michigan goes flat. I live now
in Virginia, which has no backup plan
but is named the same as my mother,
I live in my mother again, which is creepy
but so is what the skin under my chin is doing,
suddenly there’s a pouch like marsupials
are needed. The state joy is spring.
“Osiris, we beseech thee, rise and give us baseball”
is how we might sound were we Egyptian in April,
when February hasn’t ended. February
is thirteen months long in Michigan.
We are a people who by February
want to kill the sky for being so gray
and angry at us. “What did we do?”
is the state motto. There’s a day in May
when we’re all tumblers, gymnastics
is everywhere, and daffodils are asked
by young men to be their wives. When a man elopes
with a daffodil, you know where he’s from.
In this way I have given you a primer.
Let us all be from somewhere.
Let us tell each other everything we can.

Goose Up!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:34:00 +0000

You probably already know about this, but I wanted to tell you anyway.

The Burning Chair Readings
present

Goose Up!
Poetry!
at East Coast Aliens

Saturday, May 17th, 3-8pm
Doors 2:30 pm, $6

Ana Božičević
John Coletti
Kate Greenstreet
Sarah Gridley
Katy Henriksen
Shannon Jonas
Jennifer Kronovet
Mark Lamoureux
Timothy Liu
Chris Martin
Jess Mynes
Cate Peebles
Christopher Rizzo
Matthew Rohrer
Frank Sherlock
Joanna Sondheim
Shanxing Wang
Rebecca Wolff

w/ projections by
Stephen Hilger

& music from
The Hadacol

Hosted by Cannibal, Harp & Altar, Saltgrass & Tight

East Coast Aliens
216 Franklin St
btwn. Green & Huron
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
G to Greenpoint Ave (exit at India St)
B61/B43/B42

eastcoastaliens.com
typomag.com/burningchair
flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com
harpandaltar.com
saltgrasscontents.blogspot.com
tightjournal.blogspot.com

Ana Božičević moved to NYC from Croatia in 1997. She’s the author of chapbooks Document (Octopus Books, 2007) and Morning News (Kitchen Press, 2006). Look for her recent work in Denver Quarterly, Saltgrass, Hotel Amerika, absent, The New York Quarterly, Bat City Review, MiPOesias, Octopus Magazine and The Portable Boog Reader 2: An Anthology of NYC Poetry. Ana co-edits RealPoetik.

John Coletti is the author of The New Normalcy (BoogLit 2002), Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs 2005), and Street Debris (Fell Swoop 2005), a collaboration with poet Greg Fuchs with whom he also co-edits Open 24 Hours Press. He currently is the editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.

Kate Greenstreet is the author of case sensitive (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and three chapbooks, Learning the Language (Etherdome Press, 2005), Rushes (above/ground press, 2007), and This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, April 2008). Her second book, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in 2009. Her poems can be found in journals like Cannibal, Fascicle, and Handsome. New work is forthcoming in Filling Station, Practice, and The Columbia Review.

Sarah Gridley is Poet in Residence and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana in 2000, where she was a Richard Hugo scholar and won the 1999 Merriam Frontier Award for excellence in creative writing. The University of California Press published her book Weather Eye Open in 2005. She has recently completed a new poetry manuscript, whose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, NEO, Harp & Altar, Crazy Horse, jubilat, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, and Chicago Review.

Katy Henriksen was born and raised in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the design editor of the poetry journal Cannibal, which she creates with her husband Matt Henriksen in their tiny railroad apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She also helps run The Burning Chair Readings. Her music and culture writing may be found in Venus Zine, The Brooklyn Rail, Paste, Publishers Weekly, Puremusic.com, Rust Buckle, and elsewhere. Four of her poems are forthcoming in Tight.

Shannon Jonas is the author of Compathy (Cannibal Books, 2007) and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Jennifer Kronovet is the author of Awayward (BOA Editions, 2009), selected by Jean Valentine as the winner of the Poulin Prize. Kronovet is the co-founder and co-editor of CIRCUMFERENCE, a journal of poetry in translation. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Harp & Altar, Ploughshares, A Public Space, and other journals. She was born and raised in New York City, and has lived in Chicago, St. Louis, and Beijing.

Mark Lamoureux is a poet, critic and translator who lives in Astoria, NY. His work has appeared in numerous publications, both in print and online. He is an associate editor for Fulcrum Annual. He is the author of three chapbooks: City/Temple (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003), 29 Cheeseburgers (Pressed Wafer, 2004) and Film Poems (Katalanche Press, 2005).

Timothy Liu is the author of six books of poems, most recently For Dust Thou Art. Two new books are forthcoming, Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse (Talisman House, 2008) and Polytheogamy (Saturnalia Press, 2009). His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. Liu is currently an Associate Professor at William Paterson University and on the Core Faculty at Bennington College’s Writing Seminars; he lives in Manhattan.

Chris Martin is the author of American Music. His new book, Becoming Weather, is trying to become published. His newer book, On Song, is an ongoing investigation of song’s ontological use from the Caveman Days until Tonight. He is the editor of Puppy Flowers, an online magazine of the arts, and resides near the Prospect Park Zoo with a beautiful lady and her cat.

Jess Mynes is the author of Birds for Example, Coltsfoot Insularity (a collaboration with Aaron Tieger), In(ex)teriors, and Full on Jabber (a collaboration with Christopher Rizzo). He is the editor of Fewer & Further Press. In 2008, his If and When (Katalanche Press), Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press), Recently Clouds, and a second edition of In(ex)teriors (Anchorite Press) will be published. He lives in Wendell, MA where he co curates a reading series, All Small Caps. His poems have appeared in numerous publications.
Cate Peebles lives in Brooklyn and works at the literary agency, Sobel Weber Associates, in Manhattan. Her poems have appeared in, or are forthcoming from, Tin House, Octopus, La Petite Zine, MiPOesias, Capgun, and others. She co-edits the on-line poetry magazine, Fou.

Christopher Rizzo is a writer and publisher who lives in New York. Over the years, his work has appeared in Art New England, The Cultural Society, Cannibal, Dusie, H_NGM_N, and Spell among other magazines. Christopher has also authored several chapbooks, such as Claire Obscure (Katalanche Press, 2005), Zing (Carve Editions, 2006), and The Breaks (Fewer & Further Press, 2006). Full on Jabber, a collaborative work written with poet Jess Mynes, was released by Martian Press in 2007. Christopher also edits Anchorite Press, an independent poetry publisher of innovative work. He is a doctoral candidate in English at the University at Albany.
Matthew Rohrer is the author of five books of poetry, most recently RISE UP, published by Wave Books. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.

Frank Sherlock is the co-author of the newly released Ready-to-Eat Individual with Brett Evans.
Joanna Sondheim’s chapbooks, The Fit and Thaumatrope, were published by Sona Books in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Recent work appears in Unsaid magazine.

Shanxing Wang was born in Jinzhong, Shanxi province, China, in 1965. He moved to the U.S. in 1991 to pursue a PhD in mechanical engineering at University of California at Berkeley. While an assistant professor of engineering at Rutgers University, he began taking writing courses at Rutgers and later the Poetry Project, and subsequently received a Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship to attend the summer writing program at Naropa University in Colorado in 2003. His first book Mad Science in Imperial City (Futurepoem Books, 2005) won the 2006 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. His current thinking and struggling focuses on intersections of poetry/poetics with physics/mathematics, history, visual arts, and continental philosophy. He is also a competitive table tennis player and a table tennis coach. He lives and writes in Queens and he has a blog: shanxingwang.blogspot.com.

Rebecca Wolff is the author of Manderley, Figment, and The King (forthcoming 2009). She is the publisher and editor of Fence, Fence Books, and The Constant Critic, and is a fellow of the New York State Writers Institute, with which Fence is affiliated. She lives in Athens, New York.

diode, v1n3, contents

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:29:00 +0000

diode, v1n3:

Gennady Aygi, trans. Sarah Valentine
Daniel Borzutzky
Blake Butler
Lauren Caldwell & Emily Rosko
Liz Canfield
Andrea Cohen
Julia Cohen
Rebecca Cook
J. P. Dancing Bear
Emily Kendal Frey & Zachary Schomburg
Richard Garcia
Brent Goodman
Noah Eli Gordon
Arpine Konyalian Grenier
Matthew Guenette
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Sandy Longhorn
Rebecca Loudon
Amjad Nasser, trans. Khaled Mattawa
Sea S. Perez
Jon Pineda
Emily Rosko
Jeffrey Thomson
Matthew Thorburn
Joe Wilkins

TYPO 11: http://www.typomag.com/issue11

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:21:00 +0000

http://www.typomag.com/issue11

Paige Ackerson-Kiely
Lucy Biederman
Christopher Deweese
Farrah Field
Andrew Grace
Jane Gregory
Kirsten Kaschock
Karla Kelsey
Dorothea Lasky
Kristi Maxwell
Karyna McGlynn
Patrick Morrissey
Michael Robins
Eleni Sikelianos
Matvei Yankelevich

Third Coast

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:51:00 +0000

The new issue of Third Coast is out. Details here.

Dear Readers,

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:50:00 +0000

I've been reading for my qualifying exams later this summer. I have the usual suspects as far as secondary texts go, but if you have some suggestions for critical works that might be helpful, let me know. I've linked to the reading lists below:

American Literature 1865-1945

Modern British Literature 1900 to 1950

Much obliged,

TYPO

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:56:00 +0000

The new issue of TYPO will be out this week. We're awfully proud of it.

Soon,

Update

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:52:00 +0000

It's been too long, I know. Cranked out an essay for my last class at Western, read at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Manchester College, visited some family in Cincinnati. All not necessarily in that order. Right now it's the summer semester, and I'm reading for my qualifying exams. What other news? Cannibal Books is publishing a chapbook of mine sometime in the near future. One of our dogs caught a squirrel and let it go. We're probably headed out west some this summer.

I should get back to the books.

To work,

UIUC Reading

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:26:00 +0000

I'm reading at Union Bookstore on Friday, April 18, 4:30 p.m at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Details are here.

PLACE

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:23:00 +0000

I'm putting together a list of poets who actively engage with place in their work.

Talk to me.

New Kate Greenstreet Chapbook

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:16:00 +0000

Available for pre-order at Lame House Press.

CLAY MATTHEWS

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:08:00 +0000

Forecast

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:05:00 +0000

Tonight: Periods of snow, mainly before 4am. Low around 26. East northeast wind between 13 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of around 4 inches.

POETRY MAGAZINE

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:14:00 +0000

I'm trying to find the Table of Contents for all of the issues of Poetry Magazine published in 1925. Anyone have some leads? Our library's collection doesn't go back that far, but I'm sure there's some info on the web somewhere.

Now Reading:

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:34:00 +0000

Get it here.

TOST--thanks for sharing this some time ago

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:12:00 +0000

Hank, Dylan, Chicago, Kansas City, Lincoln

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:14:00 +0000

I am listening to Bob Dylan cover Hank Williams' "I Can't Get you Off my Mind." It's perfect for today. The sun is out. We did not get five inches of snow as previously suggested that we might receive. In fact, we had none.

Do you live in Chicago? You should move there. Why? Because of this reading tonight.

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POETRY READING BY KATE GREENSTREET, AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, & MICHAEL ROBINS

What: A poetry reading by a diverse group of emerging poets--painter and poet, Kate Greenstreet; English professor, Aimee Nezhukumatathil; and Columbia College Chicago adjunct professor, Michael Robins.

These three poets vary in ethnicity, age, and writing style, but as intriguing, promising authors, they meld into the right mixture of dream, wit, and suspense for what is sure to be a captivating reading.

“Kate Greenstreet's first book, case sensitive, from Ahsahta Press, is a wonderful hypnotic interweaving of narrative, dialogue, science, and mystery. The book has garnered positive buzz in the blog world and many positive reviews from places like ForeWord Magazine, and case sensitive doesn't disappoint; as twisty and turning as any good mystery ought to be, it satisfies those looking for subtlety, intelligence, and a deeply embedded sense of speaker as reader.” --Eclectica Magazine

“Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poems are ripe, funny, and fresh as a precious friendship. They're the fullness of days, deliciously woven of heart and verve, rich with sources and elements--animals, insects, sugar, cardamom, legends, countries, relatives, soaps, fruits--taste and touch. I love the nubby layerings of lines, luscious textures and constructions. Aimee writes with a deep resonance of spirit and sight. She's scared of nothing. She knows that many worlds may live in one house. Poems like these revive our souls. Read them, then say her glorious name over and over again like a charm of syllables -- it's a poem of its own.” --Naomi Shihab Nye

“Michael Robins’ prismatic poems open windows, then close them, so we’re always getting glimpses of light that suggest a larger world. With never a syllable to spare, these poems are beautiful and haunting. I know of nothing like them.” --James Tate, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

WHEN: Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 S. Michigan Ave
HOW MUCH: Free and Open to the Public
MORE INFO: Becca Klaver, (312) 344-8819

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Kim and I will be there. We're flying out of Chicago later this evening and were lucky enough to schedule our flight for March 5th.

Then we're headed down to Kansas City for a few days before heading up to Lincoln for The Clean Part Reading Series. Come check it out. The Clean Part has all grown up since the last time I saw it. I can't wait to pinch its cheeks and say, "Look at how much you've grown, Clean Part!" Don't tell The Clean Part, but I have a shiny quarter in my coat pocket for The Clean Part too.

See you there.

Zach? Mathias?

noreply@blogger.com (Adam Clay) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:55:00 +0000

World's first six-legged octopus discovered

In other Octopus-related news:

Octopus #10. Please, pace yourselves.

80 Poets

Claire Hero
Jane Wong
CD Wright
Phil Cordelli
Demosthenes Agrafiotis
translated by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis
Paul Fattaruso
Cecily Parks
Laura Sims

Ada Limon
Anthony Hawley
Karyna Mcglynn
Jessica Bozek
David Goldstein
Hillary Gravendyk
Christopher Salerno
Martha Ronk

Lewis Warsh
Geoff Bouvier
Jeff Downey
Matvei Yankelevich
Juliet Cook
Dorothea Lasky
Linh Dinh
Julie Doxsee

Greta Wrolstad
GC Waldrep
Vincent Zompa
Cesar Vallejo
translated by Rachel Galvin
Jordan Davis
Sandra Simonds
Emily Kendal Frey
Will Oldham

Hiraide Takashi
translated by Sawako Nakayasu
Caroline Knox
Bronwen Tate
Allison Titus
Erica Ehrenberg
Cynthia Cruz
Lara Glenum
Brett Price

Karen Volkman
Laura Mullen
Rob Schlegel
Sara Veglahn
Adam Clay
Nathan Bartel
Sandra Miller
Brenda Hillman

Robyn Schiff
Tomaz Salamon
trans Brian Henry
Steve Langan
Cate Peebles
Chad Reynolds
Sandy Florian
Dave Carillo
DA Powell

Dan Hoy
Daniel Coudriet
Craig Foltz
Laura Solomon
Eugen Jebeleanu
translated by Matthew Zapruder & Radu Ioanid
Claire Becker
Jason Bredle
Jen Tynes

Cynthia Arrieu King
Peter Jay Shippy
KC Trommer
Stephanie Strickland
Susan Cronin
Stephanie Anderson
Michael Ives
Bethany Wright

Anne Marie Rooney
Shane MacRae
Michael Loughran
Karla Kelsey & Peter Yumi
Raymond Queneau
translated by Rachel Galvin
Heather Green
Grace Egbert
Brenda Iijima

Reviews of

Gabriel Gudding’s Rhode Island Notebook
Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis’ Intaglio
John Keene and Christopher Stackhouse’s Seismosis
Shin Yu Pai’s Sightings: Selected Works (2000-2005).
Max Winter’s The Pictures
Cate Marvin’s Fragment of the Head of a Queen
Richard Meier’s Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar
Matias Viegener and Christine Wertheim’s The noulipian Analects
Lisa Robertson’s The Men

By

Robbie Q. Telfer
Lesley Jenike
Karla Kelsey
Joshua Butts
Kathleen Rooney
Stan Apps
Michael Flatt
Lucy Ives

And an Interview
with Dorothea Lasky By Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Editors: Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina
Contributing Editor: Brandon Shimoda
Website Design: Denny Schmickle
Editorial Assistant: Alisa Heinzman
Intern: Chelsea Dappen