2012 Independent Poetry Contest Reading

Tomorrow night at the Regulator in Durham, me, Chris Vitiello, Bridget Bell, and Laura Jaramillo help celebrate the winners of this year's Independent Weekly Poetry Contest. 7-9 pm.

New Poems in Esque Magazine

Got three poems from Wolf Intervals in the massive new "Revolution Issue" of Esque. Read those joints here. And read these John Colburn poems, which are really sick.

Busy Week at the Indy

I saw a Philip Glass opera, struggled through an historical novel by Lisa Alther, and attended a great Jeff Mangum show that would have literally killed me with joy a decade ago.

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics

I wrote an essay about Leonard Cohen's "The Stranger Song" for the Poetics of American Song Lyrics anthology (ed. Charlotte Pence), new from the University Press of Mississippi. More info here.

Arrange and Johnny Jewel

Two recent Pitchfork pieces I thought came out well: A review of Arrange, a young South Floridian whose music never ceases to bewitch me, and an interview with Johnny Jewel of Chromatics and Glass Candy, demystifying his phenomenal new record as Symmetry.

Keyboard Drumset Fucking Werewolf

My Kill Screen review of this cray cray game treats of Ryan Trecartin, the uneven proportions of gaming and cinema, and the burgeoning no-wave folk-game avant-garde. Download the game here, read the review here.

My New Place!!!

The Nintendo 4DS

The video gaming humor column--excuse me, humour column--which I've been writing for the U.K.'s Edge Magazine since last summer has only appeared in the print edition, until now. The first one, on some very curious new hardware from Nintendo, just went up on Edge's website. Read it here, as long as you are a huge nerd.

West End Poetry Festival

I'm excited to be a part of the West End Poetry Festival at the Carrboro Century Center on Saturday, October 15. I'll be reading at 8:25 p.m., and sharing the day with some good friends like Chris Vitiello, Dianne Timblin, and many others.

Hopscotch Panel documentation

Abby Nardo took some great pictures at the Hopscotch panel I moderated this year, a few of which you can see below. For those of you with interest, fortitude, and free-time, a video of the entire two-hour proceeding can be found here.

Me and Sam Herring from Future Islands

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