Ibbetson 32 with a great cast and a poem of mine, "Far Away in Iowa"

 Ibbetson Street has been around in print for 16 years. It is a press run by Doug Holder, which produces a bi-annual magazine and many books of poetry. My poem "Far Away in Iowa" was originally written in a series intended to represent a cross-country drive. I was planning 48 poems for each state in the connected United States. It was a project I never finished, but there were a few which saw the light of day. "Howdy in Ohio" appeared in These Poems Are Not Pink Clouds published by Propaganda Press. "When I'm Drunk, I Think About Phoenix" appeared in the Endicott Review, "Sweet Cold Chicago" was published in Bagels With the Bards Anthology III and "Boston to Providence" was originally in Gutter Eloquence..

For the record I only poetically drove to four states but I versed my way from Boston to Arizona. 

New Ibbetson Street 32 with poems by

Afaa Michael Weaver, Daniel Langton, Ellaraine Lockie, Philip E. Burnham, Miriam Levine, Sandy McCord, Robert K. Johnson, Ben Mazer, Dennis Daly, Bert Stern, Bob Brooks, Irene Koronas, Amelia Wilbur Riggs, Simon Perchik, Wendell Smith, Ruth O'Callaghan, Jonaae DeSimone Reynolds, Joan Kimball, Helen Marie Casey, Tom Yuill, John P. Kristofco, Charles Sabukewicz, Lyn Lifshin, Judith Skillman, Adria Holmes, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Geeta Tewari, Elizabeth Eliz Hanson, Joyce Meyers, Carol Hamilton, Lainie Senechal, Lawrence Kessenich, Mark Pawlak, Teisha Dawn Twomey, Jesse Mavro Diamond, X.J. Kennedy, Linda M. Fisher, Nina Rubinstein Alonso, Sheryl White, Cynthia Duda, Marty Walsh, Jean Monahan, Deborah Finkelstein, Emily Pineau, Christine Kennedy, Chris Warner, Timothy Gager, Elizabeth Doran, Ed Gaitling, Peter Fulton, Harris Gardner and David R. DiSarro

As far as this video goes, Dar Williams was noted in the acknowledgement in my book Short Street, as I was listening to a lot of her  music while I was writing some very dark stuff. Iowa was on that playlist.

Stone Soup's Spoonful Journal releases some issues.

Credit Chad Parenteau, proprietor of Stone Soup Poetry in Cambridge for the release of Spoonful Journal, the on-line magazine for the Stone Soup poets. Stone Soup is one of the longest running weekly poetry series in the entire world, originally was run by the late Jack Powers (blogged about here) and then Chad successfully took the reins, when Jack became ill.

My poem "June" appears in Issue Five.  Spoonful also released  Issue Six today, A Tribute to Jack Powers.

Here's some poetry from Chad Parenteau






and here's Spoonful's  Press Release:


Issue Five Featuring:

A TRIBUTE SECTION TO BROTHER BLUE.

COLLABORATIONS BY

Valerie Loveland, Samantha Milowsky, Michael F. Gill and Chad Parenteau,

OTHER POEMS BY:

Beatriz Alba del Rio, Mike Amado, Maggie Cleveland, Nate Connors, Ry Frazier, Timothy Gager, Michael F. Gill, Marc D. Goldfinger, Paul Haypenny, Coleen T. Houlihan, Laurel Lambert, Valerie Loveland, Samantha Milowsky, Bridget Murphy, Joanna Nealon, Chad Parenteau, April Penn, Jack Powers, Dan Provost, Zvi A. Sesling, Patrick S., Luis Lazaro Tijerina, and Rafael Woolf.

ARTWORK BY:

James Conant, (The) Marshall, David Marshall Janice Raynor, and Su Red.

And of course there's...

ISSUE #6

THE JACK POWERS TRIBUTE ISSUE

POEMS BY:

C.C. Arshagra, Christine Casner, Susie Davidson, Raffael De Gruttola, Edward S. Gault, Marc D. Goldfinger, Carolyn Gregory, Yuri (Riq) Hospodar, Doug Holder, Walter Howard, Lawrence Kessenich, Gordan Marshall, Felipe Victor Martinez, Ryk McIntyre, Bridget Murphy, Joanna Nealon, Chad Parenteau, Bill Perrault, Su Red, Ryan "Rat" Travis, Jame Van Looy, Carol Weston and Jack Powers.

Oddball Magazine publishes "Sometimes there are Things Which Come Out of the Darkness"

Sometimes things can get really dark. Sometimes I use the word sometimes a lot. Everything possible might possibly  happen sometimes. Sometimes things are perfect.

Here's the story from Oddball Magazine (which you can read if you click anywhere in this link, but you know how to use the internet) , Somerville, Massachusetts edited by Jason Wright.

It is paired with art from Allie "Good As" Gold.

Have a nice drive

Today at New Graffiti I discussed screw ups and their implications.

When journals slightly screw up...appeared in the New Graffiti Blog, but I've re-posted it below

by timothygageIn a world where titles scream out hooks, outrage and shock, this blog entry is rather passive. It is a bad title for today’s world.  Fox News or CNN might have come up with,  “Lummox Screws Up” or “Who is to Blame for Messing Up a Poem” . Given that,  today I’m going to write about the title of my poem which appears in The Lummox.

       

The Lummox Journal is 235 pages of lummox goodness. I’m always happy to appear in print, even though it is often less exposure than appearing on-line. Though happy, as stated, I’ve got a bitch about something.

When you do nothing to indicate a title, the way it appears below and in the journal,

walking out of the woods

there’s a condom and ten suboxone
in the inside jacket pocket
but I won’t use

instead of this, (title in bold)

walking out of the woods

there’s a condom and ten suboxone
in the inside jacket pocket
but I won’t use

or this, (title in quotes)

“walking out of the woods”

there’s a condom and ten suboxone
in the inside jacket pocket
but I won’t use

it ruins the clever tie-in of the title to the first line. The poem currently looks like it has no title and that the title is my first line. In the rest of the journal, the titles are in bold letters. Using “walking out of the woods” as the  opening line, it creates a rather weak entrance, where I felt what I had intended was rather strong. It also doesn’t help that there is a space after that line followed by a single word line “either” followed by another space.

What can be done about it? Nothing. Zilch. Zero. A proof PDF in advance would have solved this problem.  Unfortunately, it was not and since it’s my work it is overly magnified in my head and my head is a dangerous place to be.

To read the rest of my poem, plus the boldly titled poems from others whom you can find on THIS LIST ,  please purchase, Lummox Number One.  Besides my personal little bitch, the journal is  pretty awesome.

Gutter Eloquence Magazine publishes "You knew me before"

I've been in the gutter before. Not so eloquent. I've been in Gutter Eloquence Magazine four times before. I guess I'm still in the Gutter and this poem, You knew me before,  is about where I've come from.

A former girlfriend of mine (Maria McCarthy) and co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review, once pointed out that I held a knife and fork like a caveman. I never understood the subtleties of personal embarrassment, nor did I care back where I'd come from spiritually and emotionally. I found out it that it was important that people view you a certain way if you're using a steak knife the same way you cut a small branch of a tree.

For those that need help



Other contributors in this issue I've read are Misti Rainwater-Lites, Michaael D. Smith and Karl Koweski. Here's their full Table of Contents.

You knew me before by Timothy Gagertwo poems by Misti Rainwater-Lites Where Dreams Go by Michael Frias-May two poems by Kathy Burkett The Red Balloon by Michael D. Smith
		two poems by M.P. PowersMemorandum by Mark J. Andrews two poems by Karl Koweski driving by Anthony Liccione two poems by Alexis R. Fancher
two poems by Jason L. HuskeyIn the Garret... by Steven Gulvezan Adagio at Midnight by Brenton Booth Socks by Michael Estabrook Box Street Blues by James H. Duncan two poems by James Babbs
		Woman on the Edge by Darla McBrydeBiology Lab by Al Ortolani When Buzz Took... by Michael Ashley two poems by J.J. CampbellDad's Weekend... by J. Pharaoh Doss
War Veteran's Wife by Randy K. RalstonWhen Your Ex... by Zach N. Lopiccolo Blade Song by Valentina Cano To Remind Him... by Andrew Rihn Fire by Paul Tristram

Three Print Anthologies.Zig Zag Folios, Fuck Poems and Lummox Journal

 1. Zig Zag Folios 2 just released

The only Table of Contents I can find is in the jpeg. Great work by editors Scott Jacobs and Clay Ventre

Includes three of my poems:
 "No one really knows when it Happens"
""Ironing Under an Old Dusty Picture of a Wheat Field""
"Love Affair"

You want names? Here are some you can friend on Facebook  Timothy Mason, Timothy Gager, Jac-Lynn Stark, AnnMarie Catabia, Chad Parenteau, Danielle Jones-Pruett, Robin Beaudoin, Bridget Jourgensen, Nick A. Zaino III, Emily Rudofsky, J.D. Scrimgeour, Aura Valdes,Blaine Hebbel, Richard Kraus and Elizabeth Gordon Mckim.


2. Fuck Poems-soon to be released 

 Includes two of my poems

"My Heart in San Francisco"

"Quintessential Awkward Male Moment"

Find buying info here http://www.lavenderink.org/content/link-titles/131

Fuck Poems informs the carnal and vulgate with the poetic and creative agency they were born from, insisting that the art is as vital as procreation.  In the tradition of Sappho and Catullus, Henry Miller and Anais Nin, yet relentlessly contemporary, this collection will titillate and infuriate, arouse and denounce, appropriating the inappropriate until the normal dissipates.

Instead of being limited to representations of previously published work, this anthology presents original work and ends with an epic collaborative fuck poem (orgy poem?)—insisting that the emphasis remain on the creative act and not the individual contributor.  Fuck Poems, through the lens of its titular topic, addresses, subtly or overtly, the overarching issues of our day: technology and capitalism, academia and writing, the body and the text.

This exceptional poetry anthology boasts 50+ contributors, living legends among them, hailing from all over the globe.  Lavender Ink dares commit this anthology to paper and e-devices, but do you dare own it?

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Featuring poems by:

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram • J. Bradley • DeWitt Brinson • Peyton Burgess • Megan Burns • Peter Burzynksi • Doritt Carroll •Ruxandra Cesereanu • Benjamin Marion Cockfield • Rich Cooper• Mel Coyle • Koraly Dimitriadis • Beth Ann Fennelly • Skip Fox •Timothy Gager • Geoffrey Gatza • Frank Giampietro • Lara Glenum • Robert Gray • Sammy Greenspan • Brock Guthrie •John David Harding • Clarinda Harriss • Matt Hart • Sara Henning• Michael Hoerman • Anna Hurst • Benjamin Lowenkron • Victoria Mansberger • Leslie Anne Mcilroy • Virginia McLure • Laura Mullen • Jenn Marie Nunes • Maria R. Palacios • David Parker Jr.• Kristin Sanders • Christopher Shipman • Layth Sihan •Chancelier “Xero” Skidmore • Dustin Smith • Susan Kirby-Smith• Jordan Soyka • Mark Spitzer • Alex Stein • Chris Tonelli •Megan Volpert • Anne Waldman • Kik Williams • Chris Wise •Phillip Zimmerle

3. Lummox Journal-Out last month

 Includes my poem, 
"Walking Out of the Woods"


I already blogged about it 

1)HERE so go

2) THERE and

3) BUY IT EVERYWHERE?