I just got back from participating in a fantastic edition of Culture & Cocktails. My fellow readers, Whitney Hamrick, Jocelyn Bartkevicius, and Nick Brown, killed it in various ways (I booked Nick for There Will Be Words in the future). I opened the night up with a set of all poems. Here they are.
Ashley Inguanta did a tremendous job with the booking and it was a great, great event. If you’re in Orlando or will be in Orlando, go. The next one is on March 9.
Tomorrow, February 11, is my love poem workshop Our Hearts Are Power Ballads. Starts at 11 am. Bring your favorite love poem or lyrics to your favorite love song, paper, something to write with, and an open mind. It’s free. Hope to see you there, Orlando.
Tomorrow, February 10, I’ll be performing here at 6pm $5 gets you in the venue and a glass of wine or beer. Pretty sweet deal.
Saturday, February 11, I am teaching here. Make sure to bring your favorite love poem or lyrics to your favorite love song, something to write with and something to write on.
Here is where you can relive or finally experience the first of many 15 Views of Orlando release parties.
This is me reading “Enrolling In The Human League”, which is in the first issue of the Heavy Feather Review, which if you haven’t bought yet, you should. It’s a damn fine issue.
Ronald Stowers was nice enough to record my poem during the slam I was in this past Tuesday. You can watch “The Genealogy of Irvine Welsh” below.
I’ve been working on my longest project yet and I don’t really have a deadline for it, taking it 500 or so words at a time. The current word count for it is about 15,540. Unlike some of the fiction I’ve written, I’m not mining anything from my life and surrounding it with out there concepts. I’ll be glad when I get the first draft done and start combing through it.
The project I’m currently working on spun out of a flash piece called From Jesus Christ, Boy Detective: Everything Must Be Slashed and WordPlaySound was nice enough to pick up the audio version (while red lightblubspicked up the text version). You can listen to it here and then I recommend listening to the rest of this podcast.
I won’t even talk about the bullshit shut out of Drive. I enjoyed the book tremendously and am actually not mad how the movie revised the story to a degree. The movie is gorgeous and one of the few movies I have bought on the day it comes out on DVD. (There Will Be Blood is the other).
Next week starts a deluge of shows. Here they are, linked for your pleasure.
