Rebecca Bates wrote a review of VORTEXTS at Guernica.

Matt L. Rorher interviewed me about VORTEXTS at We Who Are About to Die.

Thanks, Matt and Rebecca

Brooks Sterritt wrote a review of GHOST MACHINE at Vernacular, the Emerson College Writing Literature & Publishing Graduate Student Blog.

Thanks,
Brooks

Here is the new cover and author list for LIT #20. I was co-editor-in-chief of this issue. It's my final issue of LIT. I am writing this from Oakland, where I live now. You can read some sample poems by Aaron Kunin and Eric Amling at HTMLGIANT.  Purchase the issue HERE.

I interviewed Dan Boehl about his book KINGS OF THE F***KING SEA at the Best American Poetry Blog.

GHOST MACHINE BY BEN MIROV will be back in stock at Caketrain, shortly. I will have copies, too, in the coming weeks.

1.) Andrew James Weatherhead said some nice things about Vortexts on HTML Giant.

2.) A poem I wrote was published on Interrupture, a nice new mag.

thanks, Andrew and Curtis Perdue

Ben & Amy Read Chapbooks: Lazy Summer Video Review Edition (featuring chapbooks by Adam Day, Christopher Salerno, Brian Foley, Ben Kopel, Luke Bloomfield, and Micha Ballard & Sunnylyn Ballard Thibodeaux).

Ben Estes, Ben Fama, Ben Kopel, Ben Pease, Ben Winkler, and I collaborated on an heroic crown of sonnets and a group erasure of Yeats’ “Under Ben Bulben”. The collaborations are forthcoming as a chapbook. You can read 2 of the sonnets at The The Poetry Blog.

The next 4 people to buy a copy of VORTEXTS from me will receive a copy of COLLECTED GHOST. Not COLLECTED GHOST from H_NGM_N circa 2009, COLLECTED GHOST from F.M.P. (Fire Man Press) circa 2005 when I lived in the Mission in San Francisco and made chapbooks in my apartment. This book is filled with different poems then the H_NGM_N version. They are from a time when I was trying to teach myself "to write poems that other people could understand". COLLECTED GHOST was designed by me and released on my press, F.M.P. It was made in a Office Max on Geary and Arguello. It is constructed of 50% stolen materials, including the size and shape which are the same as J Magazine, Jack Spicer's journal. Here is one of the poems from the collection:

Fuck Your Magazine

I really think my poems

would look beautiful 

in your magazine

for this reason I've decided 

not to submit them 

to your care

instead I am going to 

fold them into tiny effigies 

of famous men

Dwight D. Eisenhower

comes to mind and

Harry S. Truman

they have such beautiful names

I just hope my poems 

can do them justice

Please come to this reading (5/18):
Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn

Alina Gregorian
Dorothea Lasky
Ben Mirov

Please come to this reading:
Cafe Orwell, 5/14/11 (7-9PM)

The Last CROWD w/:

Ish Klein
Greg Purcell
Matt Hart
Guy Petit
Ben Mirov

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