Full of Crow is pleased to announce its release of Ross Vassilev’s “Village Idiot.

For your free copy, please click here.

Full of Crow press…where the price is always right!

I was honored to participate in the first of Evan Karp and Rajshree Chauhan’s “Quiet Lightining, Whispers In The Dark” reading series.

(click here to see the video performances)

Also participating in the event were the super talented stylings of Eddie Wright, Meghan Thornton, Lauren Becker, Missy Church, Peg Alford Pursell, Tess Patalano, MG Martin, Anna Reed, Eugenia E. Gratto and a knockout story about Disney’s Red Queen from Alia Volz, in addition to the aforementioned hosts Ms. Chauhan and Mr. Karp adding their brilliance to the storytelling.

The inaugural reading took place at the Cantina on 580 Bush Street, one of those old SF hole in the wall watering houses that become much darker and more labyrinthine once you go inside. The next Quiet Lightning reading will take place Monday, January 25th at Elixir in SF’s Mission District.

Don’t know if I posted here, but here I will post again if so.

Thank you dear friends. Please find here the presentation of Triumph of the Self at my dearly beloved Crow.

Or find it here below:

THE TRIUMPH OF THE SELF

I can pinpoint the exact moment the campaign to destroy the word “no” was lost. The effort was doomed to the fate of a vagrant or imprisoned behind blood stained crystalline cages the moment it discovered its “self.”

Profoundest apologies; I am misleading you once again (though you already knew that.) What I mean to say is that the campaign to eradicate the word “no” was hung with this destiny around its neck as soon as it discovered the means by which the “self” is discovered.

A small expedition from the compound embarked into Albino Moonbeam to see if the segments of the preserve that had disappeared had perhaps relocated to the water’s edge or even perhaps across the shores.

All they found was a small cache’ of comically shaped eyepieces which, when fixed upon any one given object, revealed that object’s primal subatomic structure in the clearest detail.

We discovered very quickly that every object in the universe we could know was made out of tiny, submicroscopic mirrors. The ground we walk on, the air we breathe, the gruel we consume to sustain our skins…all of it is forever reflecting back at us whether we are aware of it or not.

Quite simply, this discovery was the end of us.

The comical eyepieces became an entertainment industry unto themselves which no one in any caste…not the Elohim; not the vested; not the unvested, not the stringers, nor the campaigners, sanctioned or otherwise, could resist their endless surprises & revelations. After a few cycles of our satellite there was not one citizen without several of these devices. The most amusing game certainly was “self reflecting”…looking through the comically shaped eyepieces at a macro-sized mirror back at one’s corporeal body. In essence: the infinite re-reflection of the self back into nothing but the device of reflection itself.

Great, bleeding slabs of the “no” eradication movement abandoned their posts to see the wonder of themselves exposed in ways they could have never seen themselves previously. Many crossed over from unvested to vested by selling these astounding devices, or at least by attaching themselves to the industry of caring & maintaining these eyepieces which quickly sprung up around the trade of this new, revolutionary commodity. Of course, most of the markets were targeted toward the Elohim themselves, for who else possessed more resources, nay who was more willing to part with their considerable resources in order to more fully worship at the altar of the “self?”

Not for one second do I believe any of this was an accident.

Just my opinion for what its worth, but the best new author for 2009 is Small Desk Press’ spectacular new prose poet Sara Fran Wisby. Her book Viva Loss is possibly the most imaginative release in the small press in the last ten years.

Please read my review of this book at Full of Crow

Katrina Jensen is one of my grad school comrades, and she is a super talented poet who gets her stuff out there when she’s not busy bustin’ it down South Norcal Way!

Please check out this fine poem of hers at the fine magazine “Literary Mama:”

UNTITLED by Katrina Mariah Jensen

A quick announcement for my forthcoming gig as e/print chap editor for Full of Crow Press:

http://www.fullofcrow.com/fall09updates.html

Many thanks to Lynn Alexander for this opportunity!

Brand spankin’ new work that spanks from the top underground poets in today’s small press:

Down This Crooked Road (Anthology)

Edited by: RD Armstrong & William Taylor, Jr.

Poets: Miles J. Bell, Christopher Robin, MK Chavez, William Taylor Jr., Father Luke, Christopher Cunningham and Hosho McCreesh

Lummox Press (PO Box 5301 San Pedro, CA 90733-5301) www.lummoxpress.com

Pages: 156
ISBN: 978-1-929878-03-1

USA Price: $15 + $3 Shipping (USA)
WORLD Price: $15 + $10 Shipping (World)
Publishing Date: September 2009

Paul Corman Roberts video reading performance of his title poem from his first book:

Memoir for the Coming World and a Preview of the Gone World

Brand new poem from my friend Maria Vasquez Boyd in Kansas City’s Present Magazine:

OVAL STORMS IN SEPTEMBER

And still they come.

Where land and sky converge
an original thinker
with eyes the color of olives

search cloud ravaged heavens
for dark stars

only to find a nocturnal ghost
who rolls and tumbles in a small bed.

Wary of 2 fisted heart agreements
yet admires what negative space surrounds

that other blankness
of the unknown takes form

like a watch with broken arms
that point to a significant event
occuring at a precise moment.

Here is the opening day schedule for Litquake 10:

LQ – X

Please contact 415 706-9128 for more information.