Mark Nowak on KKFI in KCMO

Just wanted to call your attention to the interview with poet-organizer Mark Nowak on this week's Heartland Labor Forum, Thursday, August 13, on KKFI-FM, 90.1. His segment runs at 6:30 pm apparently (the show is 6-7) - it's a show on new labor lit (esp. related to coal mining, such as Mark's new book of poetry/mixed-genre writing and photos, Coal Mountain Elementary, Coffee House Press - which you should check out, if you haven't already). You can also listen on your computer - and apparently, they rebroadcast the show on Friday.

Le _P-QUEUE_ v. 6 est ariveé!

Well, P-Queue #6 is in the world now, apparently. It "premiered" at Boog City in NYC this past week. It contains work by David Brazil • Stephen Collis • Rob Halpern • JOSEPH HARRINGTON* • Geof Huth • Sueyeun Juliette Lee • Emily McVarish • Lauren Shufran • Stephanie Strickland • Roberto Tejada • Divya Victor • & Tyrone Williams. I haven't received my copy yet, so the anticipation is killing me.

But seriously, if you haven't encountered this journal, I highly recommend that you do. It's one of the few that presents truly trans- or non-genre work - and even graphically challenging non-vizpo work. And a lot of that work is, by the same token, really and truly innovative. I'm tickled and honored to have my work included.

*please see blog title, above.

_OTOLITHS_ 14 Is "Live"

Direct from the Southern Hemisphere, here is issue 14 of Otoliths, featuring work by Eileen R. Tabios, Tan Lin, Charles Freeland, JOSEPH HARRINGTON, and many other fine writers.

Myself, in _Hotel Amerika_ and _Fact-Simile_

I just got my copy of the "TransGenre" issue of Hotel Amerika, 7:2 (spring 2009), that contains an excerpt from my book, Things Come On (an amneoir). H.A. is big and glossy, like the magazines in the art library. I like it. I am looking forward to reading it, as it looks like there are a lot of innovative texts that make use of all the options for layout, typeface, pictures, etc. that god has given us. And all the literary and non-literary genres.

The most recent issue of Fact-Simile, 2:1 (spring/summer 2009), has a "diptych" ("What did you call me?!") that I wrote. But more importantly, it has a superb interview with Kristen Prevallet, on mourning and literature, that I highly commend to your attention. In fact, like her book I, Afterlife, the interview helps me to make sense of what I'm doing in Things Come On. Thanks, Kristen and JenMarie.

All of this, and the fact that Craig Santos Perez is reading in KC on the 17th (see above) makes me lit-happy.