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LIT 17 Launch Party

Please come to this launch party. I am poetry editor of this magazine. It is going to be really good.

Friday, February 5, 2010
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street (between Jersey St & Prince St)
With readings by:

Sasha Fletcher
Phillip Gardner
Jennifer Knox
Anne Ray


Sasha Fletcher's novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS AND WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE SKY is due out from ml press in December in the year 2010. He is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Columbia University in the city of New York. [http://anicecoldcocacola.blogspot.com]

A three-time winner of The South Carolina Fiction Project, Phillip Gardner has recently appeared in The North American Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Potomac Review, and New Delta Review. He is the author of Someone To Crawl Back To, a collection of short stories. Two new collections, That Place Love Built and Freaks Out are forthcoming.

Jennifer L. Knox’s new book, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, is forthcoming from Bloof in fall 2010. Her first two books of poems, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me are also available from Bloof Books. Her work has appeared three times in the Best American Poetry series, as well as in the anthologies Best American Erotic Poems and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present.

Anne Ray was raised in suburban Maryland and has been an English teacher, a waitress, a gardener, and a fish monger. She attended the Brooklyn College MFA Program and the undergraduate writing program at Carnegie Mellon University. Her fiction appeared in Brooklyn Review, and her nonfiction has appeared in Washington City Paper and Baltimore City Paper. She lives in Brooklyn.

Kate Angus is rad and she wrote a review for I is to Vorticism on its Amazon page. Brandi Wells also wrote about I is to Vorticism on her blog.

If I already sent you a copy of I is to Vorticism, I'd be much obliged if you wrote something, too. It would be great if you wrote a blurb on its Amazon page, or on your blog, or on a napkin. Or, if you want a copy, I will send you one for free if you write something. Send your address to benmirov@gmail.com and I'll mail you a copy. Thanks for your time and consideration. I love you.



Thank you, Brandi Wells and Kate Angus

YOU CAN STILL BUY MY CHAPBOOK AND GENINE LENTINE'S AND BRENT ARMENDINGER'S FROM NEW MICHIGAN PRESS OR YOU CAN GO ON LIVING YOUR LIFE AS YOU DID BEFORE OR YOU CAN TEXT "HAITI" TO 90999 AND DONATE TO THE RED CROSS HAVE A GOOD DAY

Here is a poem from I is to Vorticism.

THANK YOU AMANDA RACZKOWSKI & JOSEPH REED AT CAKETRAIN I LOVE YOU GUYS AND YOUR MAGAZINE AND MICHAEL BURKARD.

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New Things

1.) Frank Giampietro put up a couple of my poems on his website La Fovea. It's pretty rad. Each contributor picks a subsequent poet who then picks a subsequent poet etc. etc. ad infinitum. You could read through La Fovea for days and still never finish. David Sewell, one of the editors of Fou, was kind enough to put me in contact with Frank. You can read my poems, HERE (I wrote them way back in 2006, but touched 'em up a bit, so now they're like new).


2.) My friend Jillian Weise wrote an article about being a cyborg for the nytimes.


3.) Also, the first Issue of Maggy came out. It is "shit your pants good." See for yourself:

Issue 1 | January 2010

Table of Contents

Featuring new poems by John Ashbery, Anselm Berrigan, Fanny Howe, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, David Shapiro, Mark Strand, Dara Wier, John Yau and Matthew Zapruder. Special features include new translations of Dante by Mary Jo Bang and Fernando Pessoa by Richard Zenith. Also included are four unpublished poems of James Schuyler.

It also contains a poem by me and a number of good friends like Bianca Stone and Taryn Andrews. I reccomend you buy one while supplies last.

Thanks Frank Giampietro, David Sewell, Allison Power, Adam Fitzgerald and Alina Gregorian.

Holy SHit

I Have a Chapbook for You

You can buy my chapbook I IS TO VORTICISM on this blog by clicking on the BUY button in the sidebar. I will sign your copy and write something inside, just for you.

You can also buy it from Amazon for $9.00 or for $1,165.53 (if you buy the more expensive one, I will sign it for you).

Or you can buy it from Ander at New Michigan Press.

Things I'd Like to Tell You About

1.) New Michigan Press released my chapbook, I is to Vorticism. They also released chapbooks from Genine Lentine and Brent Armendinger, which will surely be amazing.

1.2) You can also buy copies of I is to Vorticism from me, off this blog (when I return to NYC from CA).

2.) Some of the poems from I is to Vorticism can be read in the current issue of DIAGRAM, along with great work by Roxanne Gay and Lucy Anderton among others.






3.) Nate Pritts has created a page for all the H_NGM_N pdf chapbooks. I'm super happy to be a part of the H_NGM_N pdf series along with Amber Nelson, Lauren Levin, Nate Slawson, and Adam Fell.

4.) H_NGM_N has also begun to read for their first open reading period for a full-length book of poetry.

Happy New Year.