Thursday, July 09, 2009

MLKNG SCKLS contest (#2)

First of all, Brian Allen Carr received a second copy of MLKNG SCKLS and he's holding a contest. The prize includes his extra copy and PLUS

Amelia Gray's AM/PM
Larry Fondation's Unintended Consequences
and a year's subscription to Boulevard Magazine.


SECOND OF ALL, congratulations to Bret McCabe, who won the MLKNG SCKLS IS NOT A CALLOUS VIDEO GAME contest. He was selected by Justin Sirois in a blind reading. (There were two other entries.) Bret walks away with a copy of the book signed by Justin and his Iraqi editor, Haneen Alshujairy.

Everyday Genius



Today I moved Everyday Genius, the PGP online journal, to a Blogger format. I did this for two reasons: first, it was taking me about 25 minutes a day to update the website because of the way PGP's wonky, jury-rigged web infrastructure works. Second, and more importantly, now it can be easily integrated into Google Reader and other RSS aggregators. So take a moment to "reset your preset," and hook up your EDG feed so you don't miss a beat.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Human Foosball


Jamie pointed out this picture of me playing Human Foosball. I have my game face on.

Monday, July 06, 2009

This PDF Chapbook: Matthew Salesses


I'm pleased to introduce We Will Take What We Can Get by Matthew Salesses. It is a funny and personal story about a man’s relationship with his fiancée and with his writing.

Salesses calls this “up-to-the-minute nonfiction.”

Told in 65 short sections, the story is about the writing of a story about a spate of bad luck, and how the writing plays a role and helps the writer adjust.

Salesses’s work is published in Glimmer Train, Hobart and many other journals. He is the fiction editor for Redivider.

Read it and print it at PublishingGenius.com.

Friday, July 03, 2009

Somehow Reminds Me Of Zachary German

In this video, Alex Chilton (the singer) is 16.

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Everyday Genius

During the month of July, Stephanie Barber will be editing Everyday Genius. In one email she called it Everygay Genius, and I thought briefly about changing the name. Decided against it.

Barber has put together an amazing lineup. There is some really funny stuff and some really beautiful stuff. For the first time with PGP, there's even some vispo. Here are random lines from work that's coming out this month.


"Eat 'em, coprophilia."

"It is an antelope he is summoning!
But wait!
A sleeping bear is
summoned instead."

"I think I know where this is going -- this is so funny!"

"The effort to avoid omissions gives
emotional support to the
irresponsible
in the face of the sphinx."

Tune into Everyday Genius this month to see what's what, who's who, where's where.

Tune in and find out why's why.

Today's poem is by Cindy Loehr, and it's funny and kind of sweetly beautiful, here's a third of it:

The best way to collect these flowers is to fall into the shrub. You must fall into the shrub and collect the flowers from the street.

Read the rest.

Reviews

Matt Debenedictis reviewed Before I Moved to Nevada (by Jamie Iredell) at The Chapbook Review.

Claudia Smith reviewed Light Boxes (by Jane Shones) at Gently Read Literature. LB is back on the bestseller list at the Small Press Exchange. I'm actually getting low on copies of this book. Get one quick.

If anyone would like a review copy of MLKNG SCKLS, let me know.

I'm feeling slightly better about moving forward. For a while I got sick and then I got mayonaised.
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