Exacting Clam
I am pleased to announce I have some new poetry published in Exacting Clam. The fourth edition of the print publication is available to learn about online and available to order in print. I am also excited to see Thomas Walton’s work alongside.
New Music Video: “Feeling” by Young Jesus
The first time I heard this song, I was blown away. I’ve kept it in mind to do a music video for it for months now, and here it is at 60fps.
Winter Treatment, Part 2, in Video
A minimalist video with some not-so-minimalist auditory recording antics.
Live Recording: The Microphones in Olympia
I had the opportunity to see The Microphones play at the Capitol Theater in Olympia this past Sunday. I managed to capture the recording in full and it’s available here:
A review of John Keene’s Punks
The latest poetry collection by John Keene, and the first one I’ve ever read, is now out via the Song Cave, and I wrote extensively about it over at North of Oxford.
Recordings of The Jim O’Halloran Trio with Paul Nelson
Recorded at Kezira Cafe in Columbia City, Seattle on February 25, 2022. Featuring D’Vonne Lewis, Farko Dosumov, and Jim O’Halloran. With a special poetry reading by Paul Nelson for his book release of Haibun de la Serna. The full audio in one long YouTube video: Or the full video and audio in one long YouTube video: Note that with the latter, I left the auto refocus setting turned on, making for a far-from ideal viewing
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Stephen Collis’s A History of the Theories of Rain: small review
The latest publication from Stephen Collis, A History of the Theories of Rain, continues the poet’s commitment to a climate poetics capable of global and personal simultaneously. “each mouth a poem / we did not taste / shouting venom at the state / of the world” the poet writes mid-way through the volume (27). When Collis isn’t following a stream-of-consciousness mode that captures the distinct raw energy of observation, he’s rigidly and powerfully constructing form-intensive
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Sudden, a poem
The sparks that come off the welding wand. It’s a blade, no, it’s a unnamed device in this spire of memory. Memorial. Conscripts dotting a geography of hallways and nightmares. Around each blowing curtain in the breeze, and I remember when the water wasn’t bruised and green. Binaural affectation. The Greeks had it correctly transcendental. Tracers of pings, the audibly bluish kind. Blowfish of splinters of sound, and I am unable to escape playgrounds of
Winter Treatment Performed
“Winter Treatment, Part One” was performed last night with the Jim O’Halloran Trio at Kezira in Columbia City. Here is the recording, which I think turned out quite nicely:
Winter Treatment, a poem
Merged from Dirty Winter and Treatment. Part One I’m driving through rose-tinted mountains, a range flipped on the head, arranged their ruffles in blue painted lead, like silkscreen waves, like oceanic current, like temporal parallax, like sweet simmering paralysis, crucified stately, narcissist martyr, pressure cooker, liminal lands took her, they all dodge the bullet I’m coming home, a long blow through the tow’s line, 405 keeping bright, maniacal alive, arresting the guffaw ahh, lickety split