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Dear Diary 2

Donna called, said the reading at her house was canceled. Nobody confirmed that they were coming to read. I said I confirmed. Donna said you were the only one.

Later Donna called. She said that she was going to show a movie and that Andy and Rose and Keith were going to come. I said Donna those are almost all the people who you invited to read. She said I know. 

I called Keith. We ordered pizza and took it over to Donna and Rick’s. Andy and Rose were there. Rick seemed surprised that I got drunk the night before. I told him it only took me two beers. Everybody laughed. Donna and Rick were making pizza. So, we all ate the pizza that Keith and I brought while making pizza to eat for dinner. Later we watched The Tree of Life.  

The Tree of Life was long. It brought to mind 2001: A Space Odyssey. There were lots of colors and images and all the characters whispered their lines. The part with the dinosaurs made me laugh. I talked to Bianca later and she said it was like a two hour Eternity perfume commercial. 

I read at Michelle Tea’s RADAR Reading Series at the San Francisco Main Library. I light sixteen poems put on colored origami paper on fire and let them drop. After that, I take a sledgehammer to the library floor as an experiment in concrete poetry.

Future readings: Small Press Distribution - SF (July 6); Bay Area Poetry Marathon - SF (TBD); AWP - Seattle, 2014 (TBD). 

Jarett Kobek writes to Mike Kitchell about my ‘poetry reading’ at Michelle Tea’s RADAR Reading Series, May 7, 2013, San Francisco Main Library. 

Hi, How Are You?

Books: 

Animals. The Snow Poems.

Anthologies:

Emergency Index 2011, Nouns of Assemblage, Small Press Traffic, Turtleneck Press

Stories & stuff: 

Aesthetix, Banango Lit, Big Other 1, Big Other 2, Big Other 3, Bright Stupid Confetti, Cityscapes, Cole World, Cutty Spot, Dinosaur Bees, DOGZPLOT, Everyday Genius, Everyday Genius 2, HAHA Clever, Happy Dog Mom Lit Journal, HTMLGIANT 1, HTMLGIANT 2, HTMLGIANT 3, HTMLGIANT 4, HOUSEFIRE 1, HOUSEFIRE 2, ILK Journal, Instant City 3, LAMINATION COLONY, LIES/ISLE, Metazen, Mud Luscious 17, My Name Is Mud, NAP 2.9, New Wave Vomit 224, New Wave Vomit 265, NOO 11,  [PANK] 1, [PANK] 2, Red Lightbulbs 5, SFWeekly, The Neato Mosquito Alt Lit Fireworks Show, Thousand Shades of Gray, UP, We Are Champion, West Wind Review 2013

[Drawing: 64 Ways to Show my Love by Craig Calderwood]

San Francisco Main Library: RADAR Reading Series: La Chica Boom, Naima Lowe, Rudy Lemcke, Janey Smith (cur. by Michelle Tea)

I’m reading at the Main Library. Janey Smith.

San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 6PM (PST)

The event for Valerie Solanas scheduled for April 25, 2013, at Viracocha in San Francisco has been canceled because of death threats made to host and participants. 

The End/Spring Break: Video Poetry Night Featuring: Cassandra Troyan, Gabby Gabby, Jordan Castro, Penny Goring, Janey Smith (cur. Cristine Brache)

Shelley Duvall. Janey Smith.

Video Poetry Night at The End/Spring Break, 176 NE 1 Street, Miami, FL

Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 8PM (EST)

Featuring a selection of video poetry from across the web: Warsan Shire (video by Christine Mehr), Molly Soda, Timothy David Stone, Dustin Luke Nelson, Seth Price, Grace Micell, Martha McCollough, Frank Moore, Jennifer Swann, Przemek Gliniecki (video by Piotr Bockowski), Fabrice Lubin, Antonia Wright & more.

Crap Portraits of Great Writers (Mykle Hansen)

I’d feel okay if Mykle Hansen called his blog Great Portraits of Crap Writers. Two portraits of my ‘reading’ at Powell’s Books by Mykle Hansen. 

Check out Mykle’s blog: http://crapportraits.tumblr.com/

Smallpressapalooza

Rhinoceros. Janey Smith.