Category Archives: poetry

Reduction–a video with script

2009/07/06 – 09:03

another way for relay fling incensed
a hinge strangled over stray beds enough thrall is not manger
shift bereft might cup or owned device to obscure free rales
breath stalks mead in severed steppe

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the beginning of something

2009/06/11 – 17:44

I risk oversimplifying when I say that not only do I not really know what I am looking for but I have a fairly specific idea where I might find it either in the passage into agriculture of Anatolia and then bit by bit bits of Europe and then more of Europe and then most of Europe and or the imperial expansion of Rome into the Northern Mediterranean and its subsequently opening the killing floor to the bleeding hands of Christianity but I have not yet gotten through the question..

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my life in public restrooms

2009/03/23 – 16:36

This is me reading an excerpt from my autobiography, which is still in the making and will probably remain that way for at least a few more years.

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me, reading to you.

2009/01/25 – 03:07

Two-video blog of Erik reading “Tenth and Juniper”

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cryptorchid

2008/12/20 – 07:26

video post of short poem as youtubecast from the room of Erik, Jackson, and Santiago

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Mission Street poetry thursday, friday, saturday night

2008/12/18 – 08:18

I will be out on Mission Street reading at the spots indicated on the map in my venue post from last week.

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excerpt

2008/12/16 – 06:17

why should garishness get all the glory if making the bed is not its own courageous act what with danger beating softly across the loose weave of the very blanket which takes care of you at night.

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opening night review

2008/12/15 – 03:44

Here is a follow up on the threat to read out on Mission Street this weekend. The short story is I read out for about three and a half hours on Saturday night, made enough money to get ridiculously excited about but not enough to really buy anything, and had fun making a spectacle of myself.

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venue

2008/12/13 – 04:47

Today I slept through my own showtime but as I mentioned in LJ yesterday, I am going to try to start my Mission Street poetry series this weekend, weather permitting–meaning tomorrow night if it doesn’t rain so hard as to disintegrate the script. The map below shows where I’ve decided might be good place to [...]

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sag mir was das war

2008/12/13 – 04:33

sedimented against garroted mounts
iterate rheumatic warbirds although surely
defects are signal wishes
archaic riots

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