I wrote a poemy thing for Shawn Misener & Ke$ha in hopes that the two will one day reconcile their differences & finally come together to record an album of Whitesnake & CCR songs in the key of Michigan major. It’s so cold in the D sometimes. It’s much warmer at Clutching at Straws.
May
16
BANANGO STREET HAS WHAT YOU NEED
Friends: Banango Street #4. Me. You. Monsters. Alligators. People in suitcases. The works. Come & see how all of this relates to people like Robert Kloss, John Vanderslice, & the Constantines.
Also, see new work by: Melissa Broder, Lisa Marie Basile, Brian Oliu, Rebecca Bornstein, F Daniel Rzicznek, James Tadd Adcox, Caroline Crew, Theadora Siranian, Joshua Amses, Leora Fridman, J.D. Sommer, Sarah Jean Alexander, Juliet Childers, Matthew Drew Williams, Alexander J. Allison, and Kat Dixon, with art by Andrew James Weatherhead.
SEE: BANANGO LIT #4
May
03
NOTHING BUT THE SHADE TO COMFORT US AND THEN
I have a storyish poemy thing up over at Aleathia Drehmer’s lovely Durable Goods/In Between Altered States [Episode 34] on the theme of manipulation, titled NOTHING BUT THE SHADE TO COMFORT US AND THEN. Media trouble much? Signs point to yes!
May
02
THE NAME IS SUGAR
NAP feels like home to me. I want to invite you to my home, where we can download, print, & assemble my newest micro chapbook, THE NAME IS SUGAR. I might be talked printing a few & sending to interested parties for free. Maybe I could draw funny things on them. Who knows? Who is with me?
Apr
23
I KNOW WHAT DUCKS LIKE
I have a poem in Issue #1 of 1/25. If you haven’t checked this new lit journal out, you should. It’s a print affair—lean, meticulously crafted, & limited to 25 copies per issue. I’m in Issue #0 (the preview issue) as well.Get them both & take them to the park. Read them to the ducks. The ducks know what’s good. Believe that.
SEE: 1/25
Apr
22
POEM IN THE PAPERY PRINTY THING
I have a piece titled IN MEDIAS RES No. 2 in issue #0 of Craig Sernotti’s new limited-run print zine, 1/25. (1 of 25, that is, because only 25 are printed.) You can purchase that if you would like, and don’t forget to drop a submission while you’re there.
SEE: 1/25 (issue #0)
Apr
22
OH JUST THE THINGS
Meg Tuite & the Connotation-Press An Online-Artifact were kind enough to make me their mid-month fiction feature with five pieces & an interview. I tell the whole internet things like, “In the winter, people look at me like I have just pulled down my pants & my dick is made of spiders because ‘iced tea in the winter?’” & “Mostly I poke the dirt with a stick & wait for it to move.” All true. Come hang!
Apr
22
BEEN CAUGHT STEALING?
I Poemed the News over at CBS Chicago again this week. Heartfelt thanks and platonic, baseball-style butt-smacks to the Mason Johnson. See also: Russ Woods, J. Bradley, Cassandra Gillig. Yes, yes.
SEE: FOOTNOTES TO A HOLDUP IN WHICH A MAN DEMANDS PIZZA BUT SETTLES FOR PAPA JOHN’S
Mar
20
elimae: Author’s Choice Anthology
Don’t you miss elimae ? Me too. Cooper was kind enough to include one of my pieces in his online anthology of elimae greats. Lots of excellent stuff lives here. Dig it. All of it. Dance to it when no one is looking.
Mar
13
SLEEPING TOGETHER IN FUTURE TENSE
Happy to share this VIA the kind folks at Plain Wrap:
“Plain Wrap Press will publish David Tomaloff’s ‘Sleep’ as part of its Gumdrop Chapbook Series. David’s ‘Sleep’ plays a game of multiple choice that uses simple, beautiful language to engage and surprise us.
Plain Wrap Press will provide a release date for David’s chapbook in the next two weeks.”
Stoked, I am. Very. And we will sleep together.
