Truck: Cheltenham

Though they happen not to be elegies, these two stalwart Apparition Poems, later conflated, appeared in the '12 Blazevox ed. of Cheltenham, and also in Halvard Johnson's Truck in the fall of '11.

The Helios MSS

The mid-Teens arrival of The Helios Mss was a quiet one. It issued from Raymond Farr, who'd founded, among other things, Blue & Yellow Dog Press, which by 2018 had published two editions of my Equations. My two entries from The Helios Mss consist of a late-era Apparition Poem, to be included in later editions of Apparition Poems, and a Chicago-themed sonnet from Something Solid.

Jacket 40 in the Library

A unique documentation of a unique page. 

At the Train Station

At the Train Station, by Vlad Pogorelov (seen here at a reading in Cali), now up on P.F.S. Post, is a poem I knew and enjoyed in the Nineties. Vlad released the poem as part of the chapbook collection Derelict, which was slanted towards a multi-media presentation, and which appeared in '98. 

There was a night in early 2000, when I got up and read the poem at an open mike reading at the Painted Bride in Philly. It was an homage to Vlad, who'd left Philly by then and migrated to San Fran (he's now based in Rocklin, near Sacramento). Genevieve Walsh, who I was with that night, congratulated me for having "balls of steel" for getting up in front of Kevin O'Neill and the rest and reading such a provocative piece. 

Vlad is now finally about to release a second edition of Derelict, and as I re-read it, remembering other old favorites like No. 105, all my memories of the 90s Philly poetry scene come rushing back.  

The Great Recession

The progression of my thirteenth book, Plymouth-Whitemarsh treatise, onto perma.cc.

Viaje Entre Las Luces: Avant-Jazz Pt. 2

Viaje Entre Las Luces, by Vince El Mejor, extends the avant-jazz range of Speck and Stone the Devil with some incantatory Sun Ra influence. The sample used this time is from Opera Bufa (Opera Bufa #38). 

From American Writing: A Magazine, Issue 19, page 37 (2001)