Tin House and NYT

very proud to be on the faculty for this summer’s Tin House conference in July with a lot of amazing writers … as always to be at the Juniper Summer Institute in June, in Amherst.

And thanks to the New York Times!

That Other Fall

Upcoming things:

Thursday, October 13th, Flight of Poets, click here for more info

Litcrawl, Saturday, October 15th, reading for The Believer and McSweeney’s at Latin American Club, click here

Vancouver 125 Poetry Festival, October 19th-22nd, click here

Wave Books Translation Festival, Seattle, WA, November 4th-6th, click here

Seattle Arts and Lectures Panel on Translation, November 6th (with Peter Cole, Red Pine, Nikolai Popov), click here

And some other stuff:

an interview at the SF Chronicle website with my man Dean Rader, here

new poem in Tin House, now on-line

and an on-line chapbook of new poems, here

full video of reading with me and Matthew Dickman at SF Zen Center’s Nothing is Hidden Reading Series

interview of my brother about his amazing Pink Thunder project, you can listen to more tracks here

Go Giants!!

here is a poem for the San Francisco Giants (and for our busted political system in which Obama seems to be the only adult)

(and get well soon Buster Posey!!)

(fear the beard!!)

Juniper!

really looking forward as I do every year to being at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute … click here for a list of amazing readings, all of which are open to the public on the UMass campus. If you are in the Amherst area next week come say hi!

Going back to Amherst makes me miss the Valley, my friends, music, tragic harmless mistakes, School Street, the Bay State Hotel, R.I.P., cider donuts, benevolent graves.

And coming back home makes me glad. Back in SF, there’s going to be a party at Heart (a fantastic wine bar) in the Mission on July 18th for issue 3 of the great new magazine California Northern. I’ll be reading along with some other great people.

I didn’t put it up here but an electronic chapbook was just published of some recent work, it’s called The Odyssey and you can read it for free here.

Other things that seem good to me recently: The SF Giants and the Red Sox both in first place.

*Oh, and this is awesome, please send your photos of people reading poetry books to the Wave Poetry Summer Reading Project.

my favorite comment card ever

so true …

and …

in amazing company on NPR

Some New Lynx

Hi Friends!! I am working on new poems and some critical prose. If I come up with anything good I will let you know. Thanks and happy holidays to everyone, some news and reviews and poems and links to things:

• the first edition of the book is almost sold out, CCP is reprinting but you can still get it from Small Press Distribution here.

• Publishers Weekly sez the book is one of the top five of the year (scroll down as usual for poetry)

• what a nice review, he sighed, in a typically melancholy and grateful manner

• hoot! hoot!

• new poem that tells you what day it is

• taking care of business, every day

• I heart rhyme

• and the great writer Steve Almond’s bad poetry

• and the staff of the poetry foundation

• don’t paraphrase

• I love how you love me canada!

• audio pocket

• come on all you excerpts of longer poems

• some more audio of me talking crazy!

• Wordsworth slowly spinning in his grave

• I think this is a nice review even though it seems to be saying that I am old and tired

• and fixated

• the grey lady writes about people who write poetry!

• this is an incredibly nice and thoughtful review

• as is this one, probably the best

• sprechen zie deutsch?

• in this interview I talk about Coleridge, translation, and crying

• in this one I talk about Moneyball, windows, and ephemeral nature situations

• PBS Newsflash you stupid Fox news assfaces, global warming is real!

• surrealism is old so everybody should get some

• if after all this you have a desire to study poetry with me

• last but not least, listen to the Figments sing about this fleeting life

this is Larry Eigner’s royal typewriter, I have several very much like it but this is a beautiful one and he was truly a great poet:

I wrote an introduction for my pal Steve Almond’s final Bad Poetry Corner column, which appears on The Rumpus. Steve is an amazing writer and his columns about his own bad poems are brilliant and utterly worthwhile and generous and funny and truthful. Anyway click here and enjoy!

Come On All You Ghosts is here!

and can be pre-ordered from the following places: here directly from Copper Canyon, here from Small Press Distribution, and here from Powell’s.

See below for upcoming readings.

Upcoming Readings

Wednesday, September 29th: The Poet’s Voice Reading Series, (click on “Woodberry Poetry Room Events” for more information about location, etc.) Edison-Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 6pm (with Charles Simic and Valzhyna Mort)

Thursday, September 30th, The New Salon, Poets in Conversation, New York University, Lillian Vernon Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, 6pm.

Saturday, October 2nd, Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW Washington, DC, 1pm

Friday, October 8th, Open Books, 2414 N. 45th St. Seattle, WA, 7:30pm

Saturday, October 9th, Believer/McSweeney’s Litcrawl event, Heart Wine Bar, 1270 Valencia Street, San Francisco, 8:30pm

Sunday, October 24th, Poetry Flash Reading, Diesel Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, CA, 3pm (with Michael Earl Craig and Steve Healey)

Monday, October 25th, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St., Sacramento CA, 7:30pm (with Michael Earl Craig and Graham Foust)

Wednesday, November 3rd, Missouri Valley Reading Series, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Friday, December 3rd, Studio One Reading Series, 365 45th St, Oakland (between Broadway and Telegraph, MacArthur BART), 7pm (with Robert Hass)